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Home > Fathers of the Church > Life and Passion of St. Cyprian (Pontius)
Life and Passion of St. Cyprian
By Pontius the Deacon
1. Although Cyprian, the devout priest and glorious witness of God, composed many writings whereby the memory of his worthy name survives; and although the profuse fertility of his eloquence and of God's grace so expands itself in the exuberance and richness of his discourse, that he will probably never cease to speak even to the end of the world; yet, since to his works and deserts it is justly due that his example should be recorded in writing, I have thought it wall to prepare this brief and compendious narrative. Not that the life of so great a man can be unknown to any even of the heathen nations, but that to our posterity also this incomparable and lofty pattern may be prolonged into immortal remembrance. It would assuredly be hard that, when our fathers have given such honour even to lay-people and catechumens who have obtained martyrdom, for reverence of their very martyrdom, as to record many, or I had nearly said, well near all, of the circumstances of their sufferings, so that they might be brought to our knowledge also who as yet were not born, the passion of such a priest and such a martyr as Cyprian should be passed over, who, independently of his martyrdom, had much to teach, and that what he did while he lived should be hidden from the world. And, indeed, these doings of his were such, and so great, and so admirable, that I am deterred by the contemplation of their greatness, and confess myself incompetent to discourse in a way that shall be worthy of the honour of his deserts, and unable to relate such noble deeds in such a way that they may appear as great as in fact they are, except that the multitude of his glories is itself sufficient for itself, and needs no other heraldry. It enhances my difficulty, that you also are anxious to hear very much, or if it be possible every thing, about him, longing with eager warmth at least to become acquainted with his deeds, although now his living words are silent. And in this behalf, if I should say that the powers of eloquence fail me, I should say too little. For eloquence itself fails of suitable powers fully to satisfy your desire. And thus I am sorely pressed on both sides, since he burdens me with his virtues, and you press me hard with your entreaties.
2. At what point, then, shall I begin — from what direction shall I approach the description of his goodness, except from the beginning of his faith and from his heavenly birth? Inasmuch as the doings of a man of God should not be reckoned from any point except from the time that he was born of God. He may have had pursuits previously, and liberal arts may have imbued his mind while engaged therein; but these things I pass over; for as yet they had nothing to do with anything but his secular advantage. But when he had learned sacred knowledge, and breaking through the clouds of this world had emerged into the light of spiritual wisdom, if I was with him in any of his doings, if I have discerned any of his more illustrious labours, I will speak of them; only asking meanwhile for this indulgence, that whatever I shall say too little (for too little I must needs say) may rather be attributed to my ignorance than subtracted from his glory. While his faith was in its first rudiments, he believed that before God nothing was worthy in comparison of the observance of . For he thought that the heart might then become what it ought to be, and the mind attain to the full capacity of truth, if he trod under foot the lust of the flesh with the robust and healthy vigour of holiness. Who has ever recorded such a marvel? His second birth had not yet enlightened the new man with the entire splendour of the divine light, yet he was already overcoming the ancient and pristine darkness by the mere dawning of the light. Then — what is even greater — when he had learned from the reading of Scripture certain things not according to the condition of his novitiate, but in proportion to the earliness of his faith, he immediately laid hold of what he had discovered, for his own advantage in deserving well of God. By distributing his means for the relief of the indigence of the poor, by dispensing the purchase-money of entire estates, he at once realized two benefits — the contempt of this world's ambition, than which nothing is more pernicious, and the observance of that mercy which God has preferred even to His sacrifices, and which even he did not maintain who said that he had kept all the commandments of the law; whereby with premature swiftness of piety he almost began to be perfect before he had learned the way to be perfect. Who of the ancients, I pray, has done this? Who of the most celebrated veterans in the faith, whose hearts and ears have throbbed to the divine words for many years, has attempted any such thing, as this man — of faith yet unskilled, and whom, perhaps, as yet nobody trusted — surpassing the age of antiquity, accomplished by his glorious and admirable labours? No one reaps immediately upon his sowing; no one presses out the vintage harvest from the trenches just formed; no one ever yet sought for ripened fruit from newly planted slips. But in him all incredible things concurred. In him the threshing preceded (if it may be said, for the thing is beyond belief) — preceded the sowing, the vintage the shoots, the fruit the root.
3. The apostle's epistle says 1 Timothy 3:6 that novices should be passed over, lest by the stupor of heathenism that yet clings to their unconfirmed minds, their untaught inexperience should in any respect sin against God. He first, and I think he alone, furnished an illustration that greater progress is made by faith than by time. For although in the Acts of the Apostles the eunuch is described as at once baptized by Philip, because he believed with his whole heart, this is not a fair parallel. For he was a Jew, and as he came from the temple of the Lord he was reading the prophet Isaiah, and he hoped in Christ, although as yet he did not believe that He had come; while the other, coming from the ignorant heathens, began with a faith as mature as that with which few perhaps have finished their course. In short, in respect of God's grace, there was no delay, no postponement — I have said but little — he immediately received the presbyterate and the priesthood. For who is there that would not entrust every grade of honour to one who believed with such a disposition? There are many things which he did while still a layman, and many things which now as a presbyter he did — many things which, after the examples of righteous men of old, and following them with a close imitation, he accomplished with the obedience of entire consecration — that deserved well of the Lord. For his discourse concerning this was usually, that if he had read of any one being set forth with the praise of God, he would persuade us to inquire on account of what doings he had pleased God. If Job, glorious by God's testimony, was called a true worshipper of God, and one to whom there was none upon earth to be compared, he taught that we should do whatever Job had previously done, so that while we are doing like things we may call forth a similar testimony of God for ourselves. He, contemning the loss of his estate, gained such advantage by his virtue thus tried, that he had no perception of the temporal losses even of his affection. Neither poverty nor pain broke him down; the persuasion of his wife did not influence him; the dreadful suffering of his own body did not shake his firmness. His virtue remained established in its own home, and his devotion, founded upon deep roots, gave way under no onset of the devil tempting him to abstain from blessing his God with a grateful faith even in his adversity. His house was open to every comer. No widow returned from him with an empty lap; no blind man was unguided by him as a companion; none faltering in step was unsupported by him for a staff; none stripped of help by the hand of the mighty was not protected by him as a defender. Such things ought they to do, he was accustomed to say, who desire to please God. And thus running through the examples of all good men, by always imitating those who were better than others he made himself also worthy of imitation.
4. He had a close association among us with a just man, and of praiseworthy memory, by name Caecilius, and in age as well as in honour a presbyter, who had converted him from his worldly errors to the acknowledgment of the true divinity. This man he loved with entire honour and all observance, regarding him with an obedient veneration, not only as the friend and comrade of his soul, but as the parent of his new life. And at length he, influenced by his attentions, was, as well he might be, stimulated to such a pitch of excessive love, that when he was departing from this world, and his summons was at hand, he commended to him his wife and children; so that him whom he had made a partner in the fellowship of his way of life, he afterwards made the heir of his affection.
5. It would be tedious to go through individual circumstances, it would be laborious to enumerate all his doings. For the proof of his good works I think that this one thing is enough, that by the judgment of God and the favour of the people, he was chosen to the office of the priesthood and the degree of the episcopate while still a neophyte, and, as it was considered, a novice. Although still in the early days of his faith, and in the untaught season of his spiritual life, a generous disposition so shone forth in him, that although not yet resplendent with the glitter of office, but only of hope, he gave promise of entire trustworthiness for the priesthood that was coming upon him. Moreover, I will not pass over that remarkable fact, of the way in which, when the entire people by God's inspiration leapt forward in his love and honour, he humbly withdrew, giving place to men of older standing, and thinking himself unworthy of a claim to so great honour, so that he thus became more worthy. For he is made more worthy who dispenses with what he deserves. And with this excitement were the eager people at that time inflamed, desiring with a spiritual longing, as the event proved, not only a bishop — for in him whom then with a latent foreboding of divinity they were in such wise demanding, they were seeking not only a priest — but moreover a future martyr. A crowded fraternity was besieging the doors of the house, and throughout all the avenues of access an anxious love was circulating. Possibly that apostolic experience might then have happened to him, as he desired, of being let down through a window, had he also been equal to the apostle in the honour of ordination. It was plain to be seen that all the rest were expecting his coming with an anxious spirit of suspense, and received him when he came with excessive joy. I speak unwillingly, but I must needs speak. Some resisted him, even that he might overcome them; yet with what gentleness, how patiently, how benevolently he gave them indulgence! How mercifully he forgave them, reckoning them afterwards, to the astonishment of many, among his closest and, most intimate friends! For who would not be amazed at the forgetfulness of a mind so retentive?
6. Henceforth who is sufficient to relate the manner in which he bore himself?— what pity was his? What vigour? How great his mercy? How great his strictness? So much sanctity and grace beamed from his face that it confounded the minds of the beholders. His countenance was grave and joyous. Neither was his severity gloomy, nor his affability excessive, but a mingled tempering of both; so that it might be doubted whether he most deserved to be revered or to be loved, except that he deserved both to be revered and to be loved. And his dress was not out of harmony with his countenance, being itself also subdued to a fitting mean. The pride of the world did not inflame him, nor yet did an excessively affected penury make him sordid, because this latter kind of attire arises no less from boastfulness, than does such an ambitious frugality from ostentation. But what did he as bishop in respect of the poor, whom as a catechumen he had loved? Let the priests of piety consider, or those whom the teaching of their very rank has trained to the duty of good works, or those whom the common obligation of the Sacrament has bound to the duty of manifesting love. Cyprian the bishop's cathedra received such as he had been before — it did not make him so.
7. And therefore for such merits he at once obtained the glory of proscription also. For nothing else was proper than that he who in the secret recesses of his conscience was rich in the full honour of religion and faith, should moreover be renowned in the publicly diffused report of the Gentiles. He might, indeed, at that time, in accordance with the rapidity wherewith he always attained everything, have hastened to the crown of martyrdom appointed for him, especially when with repeated calls he was frequently demanded for the lions, had it not been needful for him to pass through all the grades of glory, and thus to arrive at the highest, and had not the impending desolation needed the aid of so fertile a mind. For conceive of him as being at that time taken away by the dignity of martyrdom. Who was there to show the advantage of grace, advancing by faith? Who was there to restrain virgins to the fitting discipline of modesty and a dress worthy of holiness, as if with a kind of bridle of the lessons of the Lord? Who was there to teach penitence to the lapsed, truth to heretics, unity to schismatics, peacefulness and the law of evangelical prayer to the sons of God? By whom were the blaspheming Gentiles to be overcome by retorting upon themselves the accusations which they heap upon us? By whom were Christians of too tender an affection, or, what is of more importance, of a too feeble faith in respect of the loss of their friends, to be consoled with the hope of futurity? Whence should we so learn mercy? Whence patience? Who was there to restrain the ill blood arising from the envenomed malignity of envy, with the sweetness of a wholesome remedy? Who was there to raise up such great martyrs by the exhortation of his divine discourse? Who was there, in short, to animate so many confessors sealed with a second inscription on their distinguished brows, and reserved alive for an example of martyrdom, kindling their ardour with a heavenly trumpet? Fortunately, fortunately it occurred then, and truly by the Spirit's direction, that the man who was needed for so many and so excellent purposes was withheld from the consummation of martyrdom. Do you wish to be assured that the cause of his withdrawal was not fear? To allege nothing else, he did suffer subsequently, and this suffering he assuredly would have evaded as usual, if he had evaded it before. It was indeed that fear— and rightly so — that fear which would dread to offend the Lord — that fear which prefers to obey God's commands rather than to be crowned in disobedience. For a mind dedicated in all things to God, and thus enslaved to the divine admonitions, believed that even in suffering itself it would sin, unless it had obeyed the Lord, who then bade him seek the place of concealment.
8. Moreover, I think that something may here be said about the benefit of the delay, although I have already touched slightly on the matter. By what appears subsequently to have occurred, it follows that we may prove that that withdrawal was not conceived by human pusillanimity, but, I as indeed is the case, was truly divine. The unusual and violent rage of a cruel persecution had laid waste God's people; and since the artful enemy could not deceive all by one fraud, wherever the incautious soldier laid bare his side, there in various manifestations of rage he had destroyed individuals with different kinds of overthrow. There needed some one who could, when men were wounded and hurt by the various arts of the attacking enemy, use the remedy of the celestial medicine according to the nature of the wound, either for cutting or for cherishing them. Thus was preserved a man of an intelligence, besides other excellences, also spiritually trained, who between the resounding waves of the opposing schisms could steer the middle course of the Church in a steady path. Are not such plans, I ask, divine? Could this have been done without God? Let them consider who think that such things as these can happen by chance. To them the Church replies with clear voice, saying, I do not allow and do not believe that such needful then are reserved without the decree of God.
9. Still, if it seem well, let me glance at the rest. Afterwards there broke out a dreadful plague, and excessive destruction of a hateful disease invaded every house in succession of the trembling populace, carrying off day by day with abrupt attack numberless people, every one from his own house. All were shuddering, fleeing, shunning the contagion, impiously exposing their own friends, as if with the exclusion of the person who was sure to die of the plague, one could exclude death itself also. There lay about the meanwhile, over the whole city, no longer bodies, but the carcasses of many, and, by the contemplation of a lot which in their turn would be theirs, demanded the pity of the passers-by for themselves. No one regarded anything besides his cruel gains. No one trembled at the remembrance of a similar event. No one did to another what he himself wished to experience. In these circumstances, it would be a wrong to pass over what the pontiff of Christ did, who excelled the pontiffs of the world as much in kindly affection as he did in truth of religion. On the people assembled together in one place he first of all urged the benefits of mercy, teaching by examples from divine lessons, how greatly the duties of benevolence avail to deserve well of God. Then afterwards he subjoined, that there was nothing wonderful in our cherishing our own people only with the needed attentions of love, but that he might become perfect who would do something more than the publican or the heathen, who, overcoming evil with good, and practising a clemency which was like the divine clemency, loved even his enemies, who would pray for the salvation of those that persecute him, as the Lord admonishes and exhorts. God continually makes His sun to rise, and from time to time gives showers to nourish the seed, exhibiting all these kindnesses not only to His people, but to aliens also. And if a man professes to be a son of God, why does not he imitate the example of his Father? It becomes us, said he, to answer to our birth; and it is not fitting that those who are evidently born of God should be degenerate, but rather that the propagation of a good Father should be proved in His offspring by the emulation of His goodness.
10. I omit many other matters, and, indeed, many important ones, which the necessity of a limited space does not permit to be detailed in more lengthened discourse, and concerning which this much is sufficient to have been said. But if the Gentiles could have heard these things as they stood before the rostrum, they would probably at once have believed. What, then, should a Christian people do, whose very name proceeds from faith? Thus the ministrations are constantly distributed according to the quality of the men and their degrees. Many who, by the straitness of poverty, were unable to manifest the kindness of wealth, manifested more than wealth, making up by their own labour a service dearer than all riches. And under such a teacher, who would not press forward to be found in some part of such a warfare, whereby he might please both God the Father, and Christ the Judge, and for the present so excellent a priest? Thus what is good was done in the liberality of overflowing works to all men, not to those only who are of the household of faith. Something more was done than is recorded of the incomparable benevolence of Tobias. He must forgive, and forgive again, and frequently forgive; or, to speak more truly, he must of right concede that, although very much might be done before Christ, yet that something more might be done after Christ, since to His times all fullness is attributed. Tobias collected together those who were slain by the king and cast out, of his own race only.
11. Banishment followed these actions, so good and so benevolent. For impiety always makes this return, that it repays the better with the worse. And what God's priest replied to the interrogation of the proconsul, there are Acts which relate. In the meantime, he is excluded from the city who had done some good for the city's safety; he who had striven that the eyes of the living should not suffer the horrors of the infernal abode; he, I say, who, vigilant in the watches of benevolence, had provided — oh wickedness! With unacknowledged goodness — that when all were forsaking the desolate appearance of the city, a destitute state and a deserted country should not perceive its many exiles. But let the world look to this, which accounts banishment a penalty. To them, their country is too dear, and they have the same name as their parents; but we abhor even our parents themselves if they would persuade us against God. To them, it is a severe punishment to live outside their own city; to the Christian, the whole of this world is one home. Wherefore, though he were banished into a hidden and secret place, yet, associated with the affairs of his God, he cannot regard it as an exile. In addition, while honestly serving God, he is a stranger even in his own city. For while the continency of the Holy Spirit restrains him from carnal desires, he lays aside the conversation of the former man, and even among his fellow citizens, or, I might almost say, among the parents themselves of his earthly life, he is a stranger. Besides, although this might otherwise appear to be a punishment, yet in causes and sentences of this kind, which we suffer for the trial of the proof of our virtue, it is not a punishment, because it is a glory. But, indeed, suppose banishment not to be a punishment to us, yet the witness of their own conscience may still attribute the last and worst wickedness to those who can lay upon the innocent what they think to be a punishment. I will not now describe a charming place; and, for the present, I pass over the addition of all possible delights. Let us conceive of the place, filthy in situation, squalid in appearance, having no wholesome water, no pleasantness of verdure, no neighbouring shore, but vast wooded rocks between the inhospitable jaws of a totally deserted solitude, far removed in the pathless regions of the world. Such a place might have borne the name of exile, if Cyprian, the priest of God, had come there; although to him, if the ministrations of men had been wanting, either birds, as in the case of Elias, or angels, as in that of Daniel, would have ministered. Away, away with the belief that anything would be wanting to the least of us, so long as he stands for the confession of the name. So far was God's pontiff, who had always been urgent in merciful works, from needing the assistance of all these things.
12. And now let us return with thankfulness to what I had suggested in the second place, that for the soul of such a man there was divinely provided a sunny and suitable spot, a dwelling, secret as he wished, and all that has before been promised to be added to those who seek the kingdom and righteousness of God. And, not to mention the number of the brethren who I visited him, and then the kindness of the citizens themselves, which supplied to him everything whereof he appeared to be deprived, I will not pass over God's wonderful visitation, whereby He wished His priest in exile to be so certain of his passion that was to follow, that in his full confidence of the threatening martyrdom, Curubis possessed not only an exile, but a martyr too. For on that day whereon we first abode in the place of banishment (for the condescension of his love had chosen me among his household companions to a voluntary exile: would that he could also have chosen me to share his passion!), there appeared to me, said he, ere yet I was sunk in the repose of slumber, a young man of unusual stature, who, as it were, led me to the praetorium, where I seemed to myself to be led before the tribunal of the proconsul, then sitting. When he looked upon me, he began at once to note down a sentence on his tablet, which I knew not, for he had asked nothing of me with the accustomed interrogation. But the youth, who was standing at his back, very anxiously read what had been noted down. And because he could not then declare it in words, he showed me by an intelligible sign what was contained in the writing of that tablet. For, with hand expanded and flattened like a blade, he imitated the stroke of the accustomed punishment, and expressed what he wished to be understood as clearly as by speech — I understood the future sentence of my passion. I began to ask and to beg immediately that a delay of at least one day should be accorded me, until I should have arranged my property in some reasonable order. And when I had urgently repeated my entreaty, he began again to note down, I know not what, on his tablet. But I perceived from the calmness of his countenance that the judge's mind was moved by my petition, as being a just one. Moreover, that youth, who already had disclosed to me the intelligence of my passion by gesture rather than by words, hastened to signify repeatedly by secret signal that the delay was granted which had been asked for until the morrow, twisting his fingers one behind the other. And I, although the sentence had not been read, although I rejoiced with very glad heart with joy at the delay accorded, yet trembled so with fear of the uncertainty of the interpretation, that the remains of fear still set my exulting heart beating with excessive agitation.
13. What could be more plain than this revelation? What could be more blessed than this condescension? Everything was foretold to him beforehand which subsequently followed. Nothing was diminished of the words of God, nothing was mutilated of so sacred a promise. Carefully consider each particular in accordance with its announcement. He asks for delay till the morrow, when the sentence of his passion was under deliberation, begging that he might arrange his affairs on the day which he had thus obtained. This one day signified a year, which he was about to pass in the world after his vision. For, to speak more plainly, after the year was expired, he was crowned, on that day on which, at the commencement of the year, the fact had been announced to him. For although we do not read of the day of the Lord as a year in sacred Scripture, yet we regard that space of time as due in making promise of future things. Whence is it of no consequence if, in this case, under the ordinary expression of a day, it is only a year that in this place is implied, because that which is the greater ought to be fuller in meaning. Moreover, that it was explained rather by signs than by speech, was because the utterance of speech was reserved for the manifestation of the time itself. For anything is usually set forth in words, whenever what is set forth is accomplished. For, indeed, no one knew why this had been shown to him, until afterwards, when, on the very day on which he had seen it, he was crowned. Nevertheless, in the meantime, his impending suffering was certainly known by all, but the exact day of his passion was not spoken of by any of the same, just as if they were ignorant of it. And, indeed, I find something similar in the Scriptures. For Zacharias the priest, because he did not believe the promise of a son, made to him by the angel, became dumb; so that he asked for tablets by a sign, being about to write his son's name rather than utter it. With reason, also in this case, where God's messenger declared the impending passion of His priest rather by signs, he both admonished his faith and fortified His priest. Moreover, the ground of asking for delay arose out of his wish to arrange his affairs and settle his will. Yet what affairs or what will had he to arrange, except ecclesiastical concerns? And thus that last delay was received, in order that whatever had to be disposed of by his final decision concerning the care of cherishing the poor might be arranged. And I think that for no other reason, and indeed for this reason only, indulgence was granted to him even by those very persons who had ejected and were about to slay him, that, being at hand, he might relieve the poor also who were before him with the final or, to speak more accurately, with the entire outlay of his last stewardship. And therefore, having so benevolently ordered matters, and so arranged them according to his will, the morrow drew near.
14. Now also a messenger came to him from the city from Xistus, the good and peace-making priest, and on that account most blessed martyr. The coming executioner was instantly looked for who should strike through that devoted neck of the most sacred victim; and thus, in the daily expectation of dying, every day was to him as if the crown might be attributed to each. In the meantime, there assembled to him many eminent people, and people of most illustrious rank and family, and noble with the world's distinctions, who, on account of ancient friendship with him, repeatedly urged his withdrawal; and, that their urgency might not be in some sort hollow, they also offered places to which he might retire. But he had now set the world aside, having his mind suspended upon heaven, and did not consent to their tempting persuasions. He would perhaps even then have done what was asked for by so many and faithful friends, if it had been bidden him by divine command. But that lofty glory of so great a man must not be passed over without announcement, that now, when the world was swelling, and of its trust in its princes breathing out hatred of the name, he was instructing God's servants, as opportunity was given, in the exhortations of the Lord, and was animating them to tread trader foot the sufferings of this present time by the contemplation of a glory to come hereafter. Indeed, such was his love of sacred discourse, that he wished that his prayers in regard to his suffering might be so answered, that he would be put to death in the very act of speaking about God.
15. And these were the daily acts of a priest destined for a pleasing sacrifice to God, when, behold, at the bidding of the proconsul, the officer with his soldiers on a sudden came unexpectedly on him — or rather, to speak more truly, thought that he had come unexpectedly on him, at his gardens — at his gardens, I say, which at the beginning of his faith he had sold, and which, being restored by God's mercy, he would assuredly have sold again for the use of the poor, if he had not wished to avoid ill-will from the persecutors. But when could a mind ever prepared be taken unawares, as if by an unforeseen attack? Therefore now he went forward, certain that what had been long delayed would be settled. He went forward with a lofty and elevated mien, manifesting cheerfulness in his look and courage in his heart. But being delayed to the morrow, he returned from the praetorium to the officer's house, when on a sudden a scattered rumour prevailed throughout all Carthage, that now Thascius was brought forward, whom there was nobody who did not know as well for his illustrious fame in the honourable opinion of all, as on account of the recollection of his most renowned work. On all sides all men were flocking together to a spectacle, to us glorious from the devotion of faith, and to be mourned over even by the Gentiles. A gentle custody, however, had him in charge when taken and placed for one night in the officer's house; so that we, his associates and friends, were as usual in his company. The whole people in the meantime, in anxiety that nothing should be done throughout the night without their knowledge, kept watch before the officer's door. The goodness of God granted him at that time, so truly worthy of it, that even God's people should watch on the passion of the priest. Yet, perhaps, some one may ask what was the reason of his returning from the praetorium to the officer. And some think that this arose from the fact, that for his own part the proconsul was then unwilling. Far be it from me to complain, in matters divinely ordered, of slothfulness or aversion in the proconsul. Far be it from me to admit such an evil into the consciousness of a religious mind, as that the fancy of man should decide the fate of so blessed a martyr. But the morrow, which a year before the divine condescension had foretold, required to be literally the morrow.
16. At last that other day dawned — that destined, that promised, that divine day — which, if even the tyrant himself had wished to put off, he would not have had any power to do so; the day rejoicing at the consciousness of the future martyr; and, the clouds being scattered throughout the circuit of the world, the day shone upon them with a brilliant sun. He went out from the house of the officer, though he was the officer of Christ and God, and was walled in on all sides by the ranks of a mingled multitude. And such a numberless army hung upon his company, as if they had come with an assembled troop to assault death itself. Now, as he went, he had to pass by the race-course. And rightly, and as if it had been contrived on purpose, he had to pass by the place of a corresponding struggle, who, having finished his contest, was running to the crown of righteousness. But when he had come to the praetorium, as the proconsul had not yet come forth, a place of retirement was accorded him. There, as he sat moistened after his long journey with excessive perspiration (the seat was by chance covered with linen, so that even in the very moment of his passion he might enjoy the honour of the episcopate), one of the officers ( Tesserarius ), who had formerly been a Christian, offered him his clothes, as if he might wish to change his moistened garments for drier ones; and he doubtless coveted nothing further in respect of his proffered kindness than to possess the now blood-stained sweat of the martyr going to God. He made reply to him, and said, We apply medicines to annoyances which probably today will no longer exist. Is it any wonder that he despised suffering in body who had despised death in soul? Why should we say more? He was suddenly announced to the proconsul; he is brought forward; he is placed before him; he is interrogated as to his name. He answers who he is, and nothing more.
17. And thus, therefore, the judge reads from his tablet the sentence which lately in the vision he had not read — a spiritual sentence, not rashly to be spoken — a sentence worthy of such a bishop and such a witness; a glorious sentence, wherein he was called a standard-bearer of the sect, and an enemy of the gods, and one who was to be an example to his people; and that with his blood discipline would begin to be established. Nothing could be more complete, nothing more true, than this sentence. For all the things which were said, although said by a heathen, are divine. Nor is it indeed to be wondered at, since priests are accustomed to prophesy of the passion. He had been a standard-bearer, who was accustomed to teach concerning the bearing of Christ's standard; he had been an enemy of the gods, who commanded the idols to be destroyed. Moreover, he gave example to his friends, since, when many were about to follow in a similar manner, he was the first in the province to consecrate the first-fruits of martyrdom. And by his blood discipline began to be established; but it was the discipline of martyrs, who, emulating their teacher, in the imitation of a glory like his own, themselves also gave a confirmation to discipline by the very blood of their own example.
18. And when he left the doors of the praetorium, a crowd of soldiery accompanied him; and that nothing might be wanting in his passion, centurions and tribunes guarded his side. Now the place itself where he was about to suffer is level, so that it affords a noble spectacle, with its trees thickly planted on all sides. But as, by the extent of the space beyond, the view was not attainable to the confused crowd, persons who favoured him had climbed up into the branches of the trees, that there might not even be wanting to him (what happened in the case of Zacchaeus), that he was gazed upon from the trees. And now, having with his own hands bound his eyes, he tried to hasten the slowness of the executioner, whose office was to wield the sword, and who with difficulty clasped the blade in his failing right hand with trembling fingers, until the mature hour of glorification strengthened the hand of the centurion with power granted from above to accomplish the death of the excellent man, and at length supplied him with the permitted strength. O blessed people of the Church, who as well in sight as in feeling, and, what is more, in outspoken words, suffered with such a bishop as theirs; and, as they had ever heard him in his own discourses, were crowned by God the Judge! For although that which the general wish desired could not occur, viz. that the entire congregation should suffer at once in the fellowship of a like glory, yet whoever under the eyes of Christ beholding, and in the hearing of the priest, eagerly desired to suffer, by the sufficient testimony of that desire did in some sort send a missive to God, as his ambassador.
19. His passion being thus accomplished, it resulted that Cyprian, who had been an example to all good men, was also the first who in Africa imbued his priestly crown with blood of martyrdom, because he was the first who began to be such after the apostles. For from the time at which the episcopal order is enumerated at Carthage, not one is ever recorded, even of good men and priests, to have come to suffering. Although devotion surrendered to God is always in consecrated men reckoned instead of martyrdom; yet Cyprian attained even to the perfect crown by the consummation of the Lord; so that in that very city in which he had in such wise lived, and in which he had been the first to do many noble deeds, he also was the first to decorate the insignia of his heavenly priesthood with glorious gore. What shall I do now? Between joy at his passion, and grief at still remaining, my mind is divided in different directions, and twofold affections are burdening a heart too limited for them. Shall I grieve that I was not his associate? But yet I must triumph in his victory. Shall I triumph at his victory? Still I grieve that I am not his companion. Yet still to you I must in simplicity confess, what you also are aware of, that it was my intention to be his companion. Much and excessively I exult at his glory; but still more do I grieve that I remained behind.
Source. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0505.htm>.
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1986, HandMade Films, 104 min, UK, Dir: Neil Jordan
This superb British crime drama brought Bob Hoskins his sole Oscar nomination (along with a raft of acting awards for this performance). He stars as George, recently released from prison, who is hired by his former boss (Michael Caine) to chauffeur high-class call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson) to her London clients. Despite differing backgrounds, George and Simone develop a friendship, and he is all too eager to help when she tells him about another prostitute in trouble. Costarring Robbie Coltrane.
Patrick Cassavetti
Stephen Woolley
David Leland
Cathy Tyson
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY
1980, HandMade Films, 114 min, UK, Dir: John Mackenzie
One of the all-time great gangster movies. Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) has clawed his way to the top of the London underworld, but hopes to achieve bigger things through an alliance with the Mafia. But just as Shand is about to seal the deal with the Americans, his criminal empire comes under violent assault from an unknown enemy. Hoskins made his bones as a lead actor with a performance that’s mesmerizing from first appearance to final car ride. Helen Mirren costars.
Barry Hanson
Barrie Keeffe
Dave King
1988, Disney, 103 min, USA, Dir: Robert Zemeckis
Director Robert Zemeckis (BACK TO THE FUTURE), with the help of producer Steven Spielberg, made this exhilarating, groundbreaking movie blending live-action and animation, with real people and cartoon characters co-existing in 1940s Hollywood. Toon star Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer) goes to down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), hiring him to investigate his supposedly two-timing wife, Jessica. With Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye. "Sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last - a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Charles Fleischer
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Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation
Posted by Web Maeven | Wednesday, 8 August 2018 |
Sheila Cosminsky
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 303 pp.
Reviewed by Mounia El Kotni
Midwives and Mothers builds on Sheila Cosminsky’s decades-long involvement with midwives in Guatemala, where she has been conducting research since 1974. This thoroughly documented monograph provides a rich account of the changes and continuities in women’s reproductive care preferences and midwives’ practices in rural Guatemala. Cosminsky analyzes the shifting roles of midwives across generations by contrasting midwife Maria’s work in the 1970s to her daughter Siriaca’s, also a midwife on the coffee and sugar plantation where she grew up.
As indicated in the Acknowledgements, it is a feeling of urgency that led the author to publish this monograph, an urgency fueled by the ongoing criticism and attacks by biomedical personnel and international organizations towards traditional midwives’ knowledge and practices. The increased pressure to medicalize pregnancy and birth deeply impact women’s experiences and midwives’ practices, as described in the nine chapters of this monograph.
Each chapter contains rich ethnographic descriptions, details on international and national health policies, and theoretical analysis from the fields of medical anthropology, the anthropology of reproduction and midwifery studies. The first three chapters provide information on the context of the study: Chapter 1 introduces the reader to midwives’ role in Maya communities, Chapter 2 describes the Finca and María’s work, and Chapter 3 contrasts María and Siriaca’s practices and relations to their patients. The following three chapters dive deep into describing midwives’ work in prenatal care (Chapter 4), pregnancy (Chapter 5) and postpartum (Chapter 6), contrasting the changes between mother and daughter’s practices, and in the relations between midwives and health institutions. Chapter 7 focuses on the role of the midwife, whose scope of practices range far beyond pregnancy and birth, while Chapter 8 and 9 respectively interrogate national midwifery policies and one of their consequences, the medicalization of childbirth.
The changing role of midwives
Across Guatemala, midwives attend two third of births, a rate reaching 80 percent in rural areas. Cosminsky analyzes midwives’ daily practices in relation to various socio-political spheres, including local cultural norms, political relations between midwives and Finca owners, national midwifery training programs and international policies aiming at diminishing Guatemala’s high maternal mortality rates. This ethnography also highlights how, on their end, Maya women’s reproductive health decisions are made at the nexus of various structural factors, personal decisions, family preferences and public health messages.
Taken together, the chapters provide a large overview of midwives’ diverse scope of practices, from prenatal care, labor and delivery to infant care and family counselors, leading the author to describe these women as “doctors to the family.” While previous ethnographies on and with midwives in Mexico and Guatemala also describe the many roles midwives undertake (Berry 2010, Freyermuth 2003, Jordan 1993), Cosminsky devotes entire chapters to one or the other aspect of midwives’ work, providing a comprehensive description of midwives’ large scope of practice. The fruitful comparison of midwives-as-family-doctors grounds these women’s work in the everyday life of Maya men and women and provides a glimpse both at their material living conditions and the health challenges they face.
Cosminisky’s long-standing involvement with midwives appears through detailed ethnographic vignettes, providing an intimate view on the relations between midwives and their patients, as well as in the detailed list of diseases—ethnocultural and biomedical alike—these women cure. While I appreciate the level of detail provided by the vignettes, my work with the Organization of Indigenous Doctors of Chiapas (OMIECH)—at the forefront of political opposition to biopiracy in Southern Mexico—lead me to be wary of listing medicinal plants and recipes as they are presented in the Appendices. Debates on plant knowledge property are strong in both research and activist communities, and this monograph, published in English, is directed towards non-community members, raising concern on the use of such knowledge. Providing a translation of the Appendices and sharing it with community members might be one way of returning the knowledge to those who provided it, as OMIECH has done in Chiapas.
The medicalization of childbirth in Guatemala
Cosminsky’s ethnography is also a political analysis of the medicalization of childbirth in Guatemala, and the everyday consequences of midwifery training programs on midwives’ medical practices and women’s birth experiences. Descriptions of midwifery trainings highlight how international guidelines impact relations between medical staff and midwives, and change the way midwives manage birth. The author expresses concern for the continuous attacks on midwives’ practices by biomedical personnel. For example, midwives are not allowed to attend primiparous women, which restricts midwives’ scope of practices and can come into conflict with cultural expectations and women’s desires. Despite such regulations, women resist giving birth in hospitals, for fear of mistreatment and abuse – a fear shared by several women throughout the book.
Broader impact
The moral dilemmas Guatemalan midwives face, between biomedical recommendations and their empirical knowledge resonate with midwives’ situation across the world. The medicalization of reproductive health is of growing concern by scholars, activists and international organizations. This ethnography provides a case study of the rapid changes in midwives’ practices, and their far-reaching consequences not only for women but for entire communities. It is a valuable resource for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses alike, in Anthropology, Nursing and Midwifery, Latin American Studies and Public Health. The different chapters can be used separately or as a whole, providing an excellent example of ethnographic research and writing.
Berry, Nicole S. 2010 Unsafe Motherhood: Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala. Reprint edition. New York: Berghahn Books.
Freyermuth, Graciela 2003 Las mujeres de humo: morir en Chenalho : género, etnia y generación, factores constitutivos del riesgo durante la maternidad. México, D.F: CIESAS, INM, Comité por una Maternidad Voluntaria y sin Riesgos en Chiapas.
Jordan, Brigitte 1993 Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. 4th edition. Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Pr Inc.
Mounia El Kotni, Ph.D., is a Cultural and Medical Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Research Association at the State University of New York at Albany, SUNY. Her research analyzes the multifaceted impacts of global maternal health policies on indigenous midwives’ practices and women’s reproductive care access in Chiapas, Mexico. Dr. El Kotni has worked on different research projects involving women’s health and human rights in France, the United States, Mexico, and Guatemala, and is an international consultant on gender. More information on her work can be found on her website www.mouniaelkotni.com
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NBA Scouting Reports, Atlantic Division (Part One)
Continuing our series of articles filling out our database with scouting reports of every single NBA player, we look at the first team in Atlantic Division, the Boston Celtics.
As a reminder, we are not currently profiling rookies or sophomores, but you should be able to find in-depth scouting reports on every player of note by following the links on their profiles or using our search engine above.
Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons
Milwaukee Bucks and Indiana Pacers
Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats and Miami Heat
Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards
Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies
New Orleans Hornets and San Antonio Spurs
Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers
Ray Allen:
Overview: Incredibly experienced and accomplished player with one of the most complete resumes in the NBA. One of the best 3-point shooters in NBA history. A 8-time NBA All-Star. Outstanding scorer who changes the game with his perimeter shooting ability. A deadly weapon coming off screens and spotting up with his feet set. More than just a spot-up shooter, very much capable of creating his own shot and finding other ways to score. Also an excellent teammate who understands the game and is willing to make players around him better. Possesses a terrific basketball IQ. Considered one of the good guys of the sport. Getting older, but still highly effective. Had an outstanding career at UConn, winning Big East Player of the Year honors in his junior season. Won a Gold medal with Team USA in 2000 and an NBA Championship in 2008. Gained notoriety for playing Jesus Shuttleworth in Spike Lees He Got Game.
Offense: The 2nd leading 3-point shooter in NBA history, behind Reggie Miller. Possesses one of the prettiest strokes in the entire league, complete with effortless mechanics, beautiful follow-through, deep range, and outstanding touch. Excellent shooter from a stand-still, but also very much capable of knocking down contested shots with a hand in his faceactually excels doing so. Outstanding moving off the ball and using screens. Smooth player who can handle the ball equally well with either hand. Uses the threat of his shot extremely well to create shots for himself inside the arc. Not just a 3-point shooter. Takes what defenses give him. Can drive to the rim left or right, but tends to pull-up when driving left. Has an outstanding mid-range game. Excellent at pulling up off the dribble. Not a great finisher due to average strength, but gets to free throw line at a solid rate thanks to his craftiness and aggressiveness, and knocks down his shots at a 90%+ clip. Very good passer, not selfish in the least bit. Extremely efficient. Very mistake-free. Just an average athlete in terms of his first step and overall explosiveness, making him best suited as a second or third option.
Defense: Puts in the effort, and understands how to maximize himself, but possesses average lateral quickness, which limits his effectiveness. Relies too much on his hands as he is losing his ability to contain his man off the dribble. Savvy enough to get by at this point in his career, and does have a few tricks up his sleeve he can go to. A solid rebounder for his position.
Tony Allen:
Overview: Role player who has established himself as a solid backup. Gets by mostly on his instincts and physical tools, rather than on a polished skill-set. Mostly a defensive oriented shooting guard who can contain either guard position. Extremely athletic and brings great toughness and energy to the floor. Has a role off the bench, but must harness his skill-set and learn to consistently play within himself. Slightly undersized at 6-4, but makes up for it with his 6-9 wingspan. Ranked as the 3rd best athlete in the 2004 draft. Has had some off-court distractions early on in his career.
Offense: A superb athlete with outstanding explosiveness getting off his feet. Extremely quick and strong. Not a great ball-handler, cannot be expected to create his own shot on a consistent basisalthough he certainly wants to. Fairly turnover prone. Can get to the basket, though, thanks to his excellent first step and very aggressive mentalitywhich leads to a good amount of free throw attempts. Often out of control once there, making him just an average finisher. A poor outside shooter due to his extremely awkward shooting mechanics. Cocks the ball and releases it from his right shoulder. Can hit a shot from time to time, particularly when in rhythm, but is not the type of threat you want taking shots from behind the 3-point line. Not much of a passerbasketball IQ is limited. Causes his fair share of unforced errors and does not always play within himself. Tough as nails. Excellent offensive rebounder for size. Has huge hands and sticks his nose in all kinds of places. Has a decent pull-up jumper from 16-17 feet.
Defense: The best man to man defender on Bostons roster. Combination of length, strength and tenacity makes him outstanding in this area. Has excellent lateral quickness. Can defend either guard position, and even some small forwards. Fantastic instincts getting in passing lanes. Will come up with his fair share of steals and go coast to coast. A little bit foul prone due to the aggressiveness he plays with.
Sam Cassell:
Overview:A veteran point guard who can still make an impact on occasion due to the unique offensive skills he possesses. Never had ideal athleticism, but is clearly past his prime now from an athletic standpoint. Has pretty good height for a point guard. Can't play as many minutes as he used to. Simply knows how to play the game. Reads defenders as well as anyone in the League. Makes a killing from the midrange. Draws fouls from the outside at an impressive rate. Knows how to set up his teammates as well. Wont bring a lot of effort to the defensive end, but plays with a lot of savvy. Has been a good scorer since his days at San Jacinto Junior College and Florida State. Came into his own as a player when the Rockets won back to back NBA Championships in 1994 and 1995. One time All-Star. Known for his mouth as well as his game. As vocal as any player in the League. A respectable leader. Played that role for the 2008 NBA Champion Boston Celtics. Willingly mentors younger players. A great locker room presence. Will have a spot on a roster until his body can't keep up with the NBA game. Gradually getting to that point.
Offense:In his prime, was arguably the best midrange jump shooter in the League. Gets about a quarter of his offensive opportunities running the pick and roll with another fifth coming from fast breaks and one-on-one opportunities. Great jump shot. Displays tremendous footwork and shoots the same shot each time. Wont do a whole lot of damage at the rim. Not quick enough to get there anymore. Doesnt have to since he can nail shots off the dribble. Actually better as a jump shooter than a finisher. Likes to dribble left before he shoots. Great at using fakes to get his man off the ground. Will draw fouls shooting jumpers at an impressive rate. One of the best foul shooters around. Very savvy ball handler. Doesnt turn the ball over very often for a point guard. Knows how to run an offense. Experience, talent, and offensive mentality make him one of the games most effective cerebral players. Incredible complimentary scorer.
Defense:A very average defensive player physically, but manages to be effective due to his personality and experience. Can really get into his mans head with his constant chatter. Will use all kinds of little tricks to get his man out of rhythm. Isnt quick enough to keep up with most point guards, but knows exactly how much space he needs to recover. Maximizes the quickness he still has in that way. Used to create quite a few turnovers, still gets his hand on the ball from time to time. Will give a smart foul when he can. Not afraid to try and muscle his man when he drives to save a basket. Not a great defender, but one of the most intelligent the game has to offer.
Kevin Garnett:
Overview: An agile and extremely aggressive 7-footer with excellent athleticism Incredibly fluid and coordinated for a player his size, able to run the floor and play like a guard at times, but still defend and rebound like a 7-footer. An 11-time allstar. For years now considered one of the best players in the NBA. A sure-fire first ballot Hall of Famer. Revolutionized the NBA Draft by starting the trend of entering straight out of high school in 1996, and then revolutionized the way people think about the power forward position with the way he played the high post. One of the most unique players of this generation, always applauded for his versatility, intensity, durability, attitude and commitment to team play. Has been criticized at times for being too unselfish. Finally got the NBA Championship ring he coveted in 2008.
Offense: A prototypical modern day power forward. Able to create his own shot with ease from the high post with great jab-steps and nifty ball-handling skills, and even handle the ball and ignite the offense in the open floor. Has an outstanding pull-up jumper, but tends to settle for it at times, particularly when driving left. Terrific touch on his mid-range jumper, complete with a high release point that makes it impossible to block. Has streaky range all the way out the NBA 3-point line. Also a terrific presence in the post. Has an outstanding right-handed jump-hook shot. Slithers his shot off thanks to quickness and terrific feel. Too quick, tall and fluid for most power forwards to handle. Very explosive off feet. One of the best finishers in the NBA. A fantastic passer as wellmakes lightning quick decisions with ball in hands and has terrific court vision while seeing the entire floor. Particularly notable for his post-entry passing. Basketball IQ is generally extremely high.
Defense: Arguably the best defensive big man in the NBA. Possesses amazing physical tools to get the job done, and combines that with unrivaled intensity. Size and length gives him an incredible advantage contesting shots inside the post and on the perimeter, and agility and quickness allow him to maneuver around the floor with ease. Hedges screens and recovers effectively thanks to his excellent footwork. Takes an incredible amount of pride in shutting his matchup down, and is a huge presence as a team defender as well. Infectious energy makes it impossible for teammates not to compete just as hard alongside him. Sometimes lets his emotions get the best of him.
J.R. Giddens
Eddie House:
Overview: A hired gun. House is at 6-1 a severely undersized shooting guard with very limited ability besides his phenomenal ability to put the ball in the net from the perimeter, although hes begin to develop his point guard skills as a Celtic. Regardless, he continues to get a job every summer, and has been a solid rotation player for every year of his career so far since being drafted in 2000. He can come off the bench and change the flow of a game with his shooting, and is a mistake free player who does whats asked of him. Hes a player that needs to be in the right situation to succeed, and thats exactly what hes been put him in consistently over the course of his career. Was a key component offensively on the Celtics 2008 Championship team.
Offense: Almost strictly a jump-shooter, getting 91% of his shots in this manner. Hes one of the best overall 3-point shooters in the entire league, though, both in quantity of makes per-minute and accuracy. He moves off the ball well, has an incredibly quick release, and absolutely no conscious hoisting up his beautiful rainbow arcing shotwhich helps him compensate to a certain extent for his lack of size. In the rare case that House puts the ball on the floor for a dribble drive, hes very likely going left, and will then pull-up off the dribble 90% of the time. House was mostly a shooting guard in New Jersey alongside Jason Kidd (who is big enough to defend shooting guards), but in Boston he sees a lot of time at the point, and does not do a bad job in this backup role. He keeps his turnovers to a minimum and is smart enough to execute his teams set-offense fairly effectively, even if his shoot-first mentality is always pretty evident. He wants the ball in his hands all the time and will visibly call for it every moment hes on the floor. House is a catch and shoot player, and if the defense takes that away from him, then there isnt a whole lot he can do otherwise to make his presence felt in the half-court. He almost never gets to the rim, and is barely at the free throw line (just 317 times in 523 career games). He is very effective at what he does well, though, and can single-handedly bring a team back from a large deficit with his streaky shot.
Defense: House is severely undersized for his position, having measured out at 6-0 ½ with a 6-3 ½ wingspan at the Chicago pre-draft camp in 2000. He gives up a good six inches at the shooting guard position, and therefore sees most of his time guarding point guards, even if his offensive skill-set doesnt always quite match that. Possessing just average lateral quickness, he will get beat from time to time off the dribble, and he lacks the size or length to contest shots on the perimeter. He puts a very solid effort on this end of the floor, though, which is why he consistently sees minutes under defensive-minded coaches like Doc Rivers and Lawrence Frank.
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Kendrick Perkins:
Overview: High school player who was drafted in the first round and has developed into a capable NBA big man. A role player whos main responsibilities on-court lies in his ability to defend and rebound. Has a good attitude, but is fairly limited athletically and skill-wise, making him look best suited to come off the bench for most NBA teams that dont have three Hall of Famers alongside him. He reportedly is known for his excellent work ethic and attitude in the lockerroom, and has already been locked up to an extension that accurately represents his value on the open market. Being just 24 years old, there is still the upside that Perkins will improve on his offensive shortcomings. He brings great energy and seems to fit the new Boston Celtics mentality perfectly. Did exactly what he had to do to help the team with the 2008 NBA Championship.
Offense: Perkins will always be a complimentary player on this end of the floor due to his lackluster combination of skills, fluidity and quickness. Hes a fairly mechanical big man with a limited array of moves in the post he can utilize, and is therefore mostly a threat to crash the offensive glass thanks to his strength and toughness and come up with strong finishes around the paint on shots created for him by others. Perkins sets solid screens and has pretty good hands inside, and is a very good finisher when given the ball in a position to score. He gets to the line at a decent rate considering the limited amount of touches he sees, but only converts only around 60% of his free throws. He has almost no range to speak of on his very unattractive looking jumper, and is a liability when attempting to put the ball on the floor and make a complex move. He does understand his role with Bostons offense and does not have a problem playing with a team concept. With that said, Perkins needs to work on cutting down on unforced errors, such as turnovers from bad passes, traveling violations, offensive fouls and such. He turns the ball over on about 1/3rd of his offensive possessions, which is one of the worst rates in the NBA.
Defense: Perkins has average height for an NBA center at 6-10, but more than makes up for that with a monster 7-4 wingspan and a chiseled 280 pound frame. All things considered, Perkins might be considered one of the best interior defenders in the NBA. He denies space in the post extremely well, has excellent footwork, and is very hard to back down because of his strength and tenacity. He also uses his length extremely well, often forcing his matchup to alter their shot awkwardly because of his reach. Hes an excellent shot-blocker as well, either coming from the weak-side or showing really nice timing with on-ball blocks, compensating for his average explosiveness. When forced out to the perimeter, though, Perkins lack of lateral quickness can get exposed if asked to guard an athletic big man who put the ball on the floor. Perkins is a decent, but not amazing rebounder for his position. He can also be a bit foul prone at times.
Paul Pierce:
Overview: A 6-time All-Star and one of the most difficult swingmen to guard in the NBA. 6-6 and really more of a small forward, Pierce is an electric scorer who can put the ball in the net in a variety of different ways thanks to his very complete offensive game. Extremely clutch and seemingly continually adding new things to his game year by year, Pierce is generally considered one of the toughest and most consistent players aroundand a real asset to any lockerroom due to his warriors mentality and outstanding work ethic. Had the most efficient season of his career in 07-08, showing no problem taking fewer shots and passing the ball more than he ever had in his career, as well as displaying the ability to play outstanding defense when needed. The efficiency and increased effort level was one of the main reasons Boston won the NBA Championship.
Offense: If there is one thing you can say about Paul Pierce, its that hes anything but a predictable player on the offensive end. He has as complete a game as youll find from an NBA swingman, being highly effective shooting the ball, slashing to the basket, posting up inside, getting to the free throw, and utilizing his outstanding mid-range game to do everything else in between. Paul has great strength to compliment his outstanding ball-handling skills and footwork. He creates his own shot beautifully from the perimeter, and loves to exploit a crafty step-back pull-up jumper that has become his signature move. He does not have a great first step, nor is he all that explosive around the rim, but he more than makes up for that with his excellent combination of smarts, instincts, touch, and skillallowing him to often just throw the ball into the hoop in tough situations when all else fails. Hes a terrific shooter who has consistently improved his 3-point range to the point that he simply needs to be guarded closely at all times a testament to the hard work hes put in in the gym. He also is a very dangerous post-up threat, using his lower body extremely well to establish deep position in the paint and dig his way towards the basket, showing great footwork pivoting around the paint and the veteran savvy to draw fouls at an extremely high rate. Pierce is extremely aggressive slashing to the rim as well, usually being amongst the league leaders in free throw attempts per game year in and year out. He slashes into the paint with reckless abandon and excellent body control and finishes extremely well at the basket. He seems to have a knack for initiating contact and getting to the line. Pierces main downfall lies in the fact that his athleticism isnt always quite enough to get him a good shot any time he wanted on a bad team that relied too heavily on him, causing him to display questionable shot-selection and settle for awkward fade-aways with a very high degree of difficulty.
Defense: Pierce is tough, smart, strong and experiencedqualities which come in handy when attempting to guard the perimeter in the NBA. But hes also a bit-heavy footed, causing him to look very slow on the perimeter at times in terms of his lateral quickness. Pierce is generally hit or miss in regards to his defenseit all depends how much effort he puts in on any given night. Prior to the championship season, he would often give players excessive space to work with and not fight through screens the way youd hope, causing him to get exploited by the younger guards he was matched up with. After the Garnett trade, he racketed up the intensity a couple of notches and became much more effective.
Leon Powe:
Overview:One of the most productive backups in the league. Puts up outrageous per-minute numbers behind Kevin Garnett, scoring efficiently, rebounding the ball incredibly well, and playing excellent defense. Undersized power forward who is able to compensate for his severe lack of size with an incredible wingspan and a pair of huge, soft hands. Average athlete who lacks some explosiveness around the basket and tends to lumber a bit getting up and down the floor. Incredibly tough, strong player who comes off the bench looking to make his presence felt. Goes inside and pushes bigger players around, not backing down from anyone. Has most of his scoring opportunities created by others, but does a great job of making the most of his opportunities. Spent three injury plagued seasons at Cal, being forced to sit out for a year due to a torn ACL, which eventually dropped his draft stock dramatically. Went through a significant amount of adversity in his lifetime, which undoubtedly helped shape the player he is today. Has developed into a real asset for Boston, despite being an after-thought in the second round on draft day. Was a key cog on the 2008 NBA Championship team.
Offense: Gets most of his offense cutting to the basket, grabbing offensive rebounds and rolling off screens. Presents himself around the rim intelligently, and has great hands to make tough catches easy. A terrific finisher around the basket thanks to his length, strength and toughness. Gets to the free throw line at a terrific rate, and converts at an average percentage (71% in 07-08). Decent back to the basket threat, but relies too heavily on lowering his shoulder and bullying his way into the post, rather than utilizing finesse moves, which makes him a bit turnover prone. Possesses a streaky jumper with range out to about 17-feet. Still needs to improve the consistency of his mid-range shot to reach his full potential. Struggles putting the ball on the floor. Exceptionally poor passer who sees nothing but the rim once he touches the ball. Terrific offensive rebounder who will not hesitate for a second to put his nose into a scrum and help his team come up with a big possession. Needs to become a bit more versatile and develop his perimeter skills.
Defense: Intense, versatile defender who brings a great deal of energy off the bench. Possesses great length and does an excellent job contesting shots. Flies around the floor with great footwork and lateral quickness. Does a terrific job hedging screens and quickly recovering back onto his matchup. Strength, toughness and wingspan help compensate for his lack of size inside the post. Gets down in a fundamental stance and puts a lot of pride into locking down his man. Takes charges, hustles for loose balls, and does a lot of little things. Very foul prone, which limits his minutes to a certain extent. Has good timing as a weak-side shot-blocker.
Scot Pollard:
Scot Pollard]Overview: Best known for his goofy hairstyles and always entertaining media quotes, Scot Pollard managed to survive in the NBA for 10 seasons, but appears to have finally succumbed to the long line of injuries (especially back problems) that plagued his career. He somehow managed to land a 30 million dollar contract from the Sacramento Kings along the way. His strengths lie mostly in his size6-11 and 265 pounds, but also in his willingness to use it to his advantage. "I'm not a pretty player," he said. "I go in there and do the dirty work. I dive on the floor. I take charges. I set screens. I do a lot of things guys don't like doing. I found my niche and I'm sticking with it." Was a nice presence on the bench during the 2008 Championship run.
Offense: Pollard is strictly a complimentary player on this end of the floor, but thats one of the reasons hes been able to make a living for so long. He has no ball-handling skills and limited post moves around the basket, but is capable of finishing basic plays in the paint with either hand and solid touch, even if he lacks the explosiveness around the basket to be a great finisher. He can step out and knock down an ugly looking flat-footed set shot semi consistently with range out to 17 feet, and can even execute a basic pick and pop play if needed to keep the defense on their toes. For the most part, though, hes just another cog in his teams offensesetting solid screens, moving off the ball, and being particularly active on the offensive glass, where he shows very good timing for loose balls. He doesnt make mistakes and executes fairly well within the team concept, a testament to his solid attitude and basketball IQ.
Defense: Pollard is a tough and aggressive player who isnt afraid to stick his nose in to a dangerous spot make a big play. He is fairly strong, with a solid frame and good size, and thus does not give up position easily in the post to anyone, always fighting and not being afraid to even throw an elbow or two around if the situation calls for it. Hes a pesky guy more than anything, knowing how to flop and bait refs into making a call, and bringing constant energy to the task of stopping players in the post. His lateral quickness is limited when forced to step and guard the perimeter, and he does not have the leaping ability to establish himself as a shot-blocking threat. He is a good rebounder, though, mostly because of his hands, timing and tenacity.
James Posey
Overview: Efficient player who understands his role and sticks to it. Has excellent size and strength for the small forward position. Plays unselfishly, limits mistakes, and generally does whats asked of him. A very good defender who is a terrific perimeter shooter, particularly in the clutch. Has the added versatility of being able to operate as an undersized PF in small-ball lineups. Was one of the heroes of the 2008 NBA Playoffs and Finals making big play after play for Boston when he was most needed, which in turn earned him a big contract with New Orleans the following summer.
Offense: Posey gets the overwhelming majority of his shots by simply hanging out behind the 3-point line and waiting to receive the ball for a spot-up jumper. Hes mastered the art of knocking down the open 3-pointer, and has thus become a reliable, although very one-dimensional, offensive player. When forced to shoot with opposition or off the dribble, his percentages drop considerably, to the point that hes no longer effective. If he does put the ball on the floor, hes generally going all the way to the basket, as he has very little ability to pull-up from mid-range. He is an average ball-handler with his right hand and incredibly limited with his left, while not being a great finisher once in the lane either as hes not a great athlete. Posey knows all this, though, and thus mostly sticks to what he does bestwhich is shoot 3-pointers. 67% of his shots come from behind the arc in 07-08, and he hit them at a solid 38% rate. He does not get to the free throw line very often, and thus, also rarely turns the ball over.
Defense: Posey has great size for a small forward at 6-8, a chiseled 230 pound frame, and very long armsgiving him great tools to play defense on the perimeter. He plays with great intensity on this end, going hard after every loose ball. He is very disciplined and clearly does his homework studying his match up, doing a great job using his length to contest shots. He also maintains his composure and doesnt gamble for steals at all. With that said, Poseys lateral quickness is not outstanding, and therefore he does have issues at times chasing quicker players around screens and staying in front of athletic guards he gets matched up with. Its not rare to see an athletic shot-creating wing play blow by him off the dribble if matched up with him one on one. If forced to defend a back to the basket type forward who likes to play around the paint, hes very effective, as hes extremely physical. As a team defender, he is a real asset thanks to his size, smarts, intensity and experience level.
Gabe Pruitt
Overview:Young, defensive-oriented point guard with solid distributing skills. Lacks great size or bulk, but has a terrific wingspan to compensate and is an excellent athlete. Exceptionally quick and a very good ball-handler, which makes him a threat to ignite the break and get out in transition. Does a solid job getting his team into their offense and finding the open man, but can get a bit passive at times as a scorer. Very poor shooter, but improving. Quiet point guard who will need to develop his leadership skills as his career moves along. Spent just two seasons at Kentucky and entered the draft as a fairly raw product. Fell to the early 20s portion of the first round and developed into a real steal for Danny Ainge. Has improved substantially since his rookie season and did an excellent job helping his team win the NBA championship in 2008, setting a record for most assists in a single game in the NBA Finals with 16. Still has significant room to grow as a player.
Offense: A fairly limited scorer who looks most comfortable distributing the ball to his teammates. Extremely quick off the dribble and an excellent ball-handler with either hand. Unselfish, no frills type point guard with good court vision. Does a good job getting his teammates the ball with crisp passes, and does not make many mistakes. Heady playmaker who plays with great maturity and calmness and rarely forces the issue. Can create his own shot, but is not a great finisher around the rim, and does not get to the free throw line at a great rate. Lacks size and strength and does not have the best touch. Does not look to shoot that often, and for good reason. Possesses a slow, deliberate jump-shot that is extremely inconsistent outside of 17-feet. Struggles with his pull-up jumper and is often not even guarded out on the perimeter by the opposition. Has a tendency to defer even when put in an excellent position to score, which hurts his team at times. Slowly improving the consistency of his mid-range jumper, and is gradually seeing better results. Needs to improve his perimeter stroke and become more aggressive taking advantage of scoring opportunities to take the next step as a point guard.
Defense: Small, skinny player with great length and lateral quickness. Closes out extremely fast on shooters and does a terrific job contesting shots. Tough-minded, aggressive defender who is very effective on this end of the ball. Does an outstanding job getting in the passing lanes, freakish wingspan allows him to wrap his arm around and poke balls loose even after getting beat. Excellent defensive rebounder for his position as well. Size and lack of bulk makes him susceptible to being posted up, but does a nice job fighting back. A big part of why Boston is such a strong defensive team.
Brian Scalabrine
Overview: A 6-9 tweener, stuck between the 3 and 4 positions in the NBA, who basically makes a living off his ability to knock down shots and make hustle plays. Strictly a role player, its pretty hard to believe that he somehow managed to convince the Celtics to give him a 5-year, 15 million dollar contract considering his limitations. Was a member of the 2008 NBA Championship team.
Offense: Scalabrine plays both the 3 and the 4, almost exclusively facing the basket in an extremely complimentary role. He utilizes his basketball IQ to move off the ball, set effective screens, and knock down open shots when the opportunity arises. In the rare occasion that he puts the ball on the floor, its usually to pull up after one dribble, as hes simply not quick enough to get to the basket before multiple defenders rotate over, and if he does, he doesnt have anywhere near the explosiveness needed to finish in traffic. Therefore, he almost never gets to the free throw line. Scalabrines biggest strength and the only thing remotely keeping him in the NBA is ability to shoot the basketball. He has 3-point range on his shot and is fairly effective when left open. Another strong point is his ability to pass. He is highly unselfish, sees the floor extremely well, and does a really good job at executing his teams offensive sets and finding the open man.
Defense: Scalabrine possesses below average tools to play either forward spot, as hes slow, not particularly long, and looks perpetually out of shape. He doesnt have the lateral quickness to defend perimeter players trying to take him off the dribble, and just isnt big enough to match up with power players in the paint. To his credit, he does put great effort into this part of his game, and will often get the job done based off sheer smarts and hustle, rather than any outstanding natural talent. Hes not the kind of player you want on the floor against starting caliber players, though, as he just doesnt have the tools to compete with the elite athletes we find at the 3 and the 4 in the NBA. As a rebounder, Scalabrine does not make up for his shortcomings in the least bit. In fact, he puts up some of the worst numbers of any player in the NBA at his position, largely again due to his lack of size, length, quickness and leaping ability.
The Pro Perspective: Stephen Curry
Jeremy Bauman
The Golden State Warriors two-time NBA MVP superstar, Stephen Curry, reflects on the importance of form shooting, his father's influence on his shot development and his rise to prominence from Davidson College at the 2013 NBA All-Star Game.
The Pro Perspective: Giannis Antetokounmpo
Milwaukee Bucks point forward Giannis Antetokounmpo reflects on his mentality and practice habits as a shooter in his fourth season in the NBA.
Ray Allen SG
Reggie Miller G
Tony Allen SG
Sam Cassell PG
Kevin Garnett PF
J.R. Giddens SG
Eddie House SG
Doc Rivers PG
Patrick O'Bryant C
Kendrick Perkins C
Paul Pierce SF
Leon Powe PF
Scot Pollard C
James Posey SF
Gabe Pruitt PG
Rajon Rondo PG
Danny Ainge G
Brian Scalabrine PF
Bill Walker SF
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Dobrogoszcz Tomasz, dr hab.
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz works as assistant professor at the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Lodz, teaching courses and seminars in British literature and literary translation. His main fields of research include contemporary British and postcolonial literature, as well as poststructuralist and psychoanalytical literary theory. He has published articles on such writers as Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Jeanette Winterson, John Banville or E.M. Forster. He is the editor of Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts In Monty Python, a collection of essays on the British comic group (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). He also published a monograph Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan’s Fiction (Lexington Press, 2018). He is the co-editor of Reading Graham Swift (Lexington Press, 2019). He translated into Polish a seminal work in postcolonial theory, The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha, as well as many other critical and literary texts, for instance by Hayden White or Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Monograph:
Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan’s Fiction: Between Fantasy and Desire:. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018.
Edited monographs:
Reading Graham Swift. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. (with Marta Goszczyńska)
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty Python. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Translation of a monograph:
Homi K. Bhabha, Miejsca kultury [Location of Culture], Kraków: Wydawnictwo UJ, 2010.
Journal articles and chapters in monographs:
“Semiotic Interpellation: The Significance of Lacanian Points de Capiton in Ian McEwan’s Novels.” Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres and Representations. Ed. Monika Kopytowska and Artur Gałkowski, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018, 47-60.
“Fighting stereotypes: between mimicry and hybridity. New fiction interrogating the identity of Polish post-2004 migrants in Great Britain”. Teksty drugie 1 (2018): 9-23.
“The planet heals itself: the overkill of Homo sapiens in contemporary literature”. European Management Journal, 35.6 (2017): 722-728.
“‘Entering an arena of adult emotion’: Briony’s recognition of Otherness in Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” Production of Emotions: Perspectives and Functions. Ed. Teresa Bruś and Marcin Tereszewski, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016: 97-105.
“Narrative as Expiative Fantasy in Ian McEwan’s Atonement”. Roczniki Humanistyczne. LXIII.5 (2015), s. 115-127.
“The hidden gaze of the Other in Michael Haneke’s Hidden.” Text Matters, 1, 2011: 228-240.
Supervised theses:
Second-cycle (Master) and first-cycle (Bachelor) seminars in:
– contemporary Anglophone literature
– dystopia in literature and film
– literary representations of trauma
– the concept of “the uncanny” in literature
Grants:
Grant participation:
“Polish migrant literature in Great Britain and Ireland after 2004”
https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/pbn-report-web/pages/analytics/author/3937363
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Maxine Lagman February 15, 2019
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Shankar Rai was asleep in his home in Samastipur district in India when a cobra attacked and bit him, according to a news report by India Today.
A cobra’s venom is known to contain postsynaptic neurotoxins, which can easily spread rapidly in its victim’s bloodstream. This can cause the victim to have trouble breathing, because of a respiratory failure, and eventually lead to his death.
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Shankar Rai, who felt like he was already dying and won’t make it through, went to his wife Amiri Devi and told her how much he loved her, according to a Gulf News report.
Besides telling his wife his love for her, Amiri Devi told the media that her husband sunk his teeth into her wrist so that they could die together. Shankar Rai died in the hospital, while his wife survived the incident.
“He told me he loved me too much and want to die together before grabbing my wrist and sinking his teeth into. I allowed him to do so,” told Amiri Devi to the media.
A local doctor who tended to Amiri Devi said she has been saved as her treatment began on time, according to a Newsweek report.
According to the World Health Organization, more than two-thirds of deadly snake bites happen in South Asia, with India recording more or less a thousand deaths in the country in 2017 alone.
(This story was first published in 2017 by India Today.)
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Fungal Meningitis Q&A
Oct. 12, 2012 — More people have been stricken with fungal meningitis that’s been linked to contaminated steroid shots sold by a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts.
So far, 184 people in 12 states have the rare meningitis, the CDC said on Friday. One person has an infected ankle after receiving one of the steroid shots. Fourteen people have died.
Health officials expect those numbers to rise.
Before the outbreak dominated news headlines, most people had never even heard of fungal meningitis.
WebMD reached out to experts in fungal diseases to get answers to common questions about fungal meningitis.
What is meningitis?
Meningitis involves swelling and irritation of the meninges, the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord.
In most cases, these membranes become inflamed in response to a viral or bacterial infection. But certain drugs can also cause meningitis, as can cancer.
How is fungal meningitis different than the viral or bacterial types?
“First of all it’s very rare, so we don’t have a lot of experience with it,” says Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MD, an infectious disease expert and director of the laboratory of mycology research at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
In fungal meningitis, fungal organisms like mold or yeast invade the cerebral spinal fluid, the clear fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord. They also invade the brain’s blood vessels, which can cause strokes.
“With bacterial and viral meningitis, they’re relatively common and physicians know how to recognize them,” says William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Schaffner has treated some of the patients involved in the outbreak.
Before the current outbreak, only doctors who treated people with very low immune systems, such as patients with HIV or those who were treated with immunity-suppressing medications, would see cases of fungal meningitis.
Is fungal meningitis contagious?
No. According to the CDC, the infection can’t be passed from person to person.
What are the symptoms of fungal meningitis?
They are largely the same as the symptoms of bacterial or viral meningitis: headache, fever, chills, a stiff neck, and “just feeling very badly,” Schaffner says.
But they may be slow to develop and mild.
“The speed at which people get sick is very different,” says Benjamin Park, MD, medical officer at the Mycotic Diseases Branch of the CDC.
Unlike bacterial and viral forms of meningitis, which tend to develop within hours, fungal meningitis “creeps up on you,” Park says.
“People who have gotten infected, they’ve had somewhat milder symptoms than you would expect,” says Park.
Park says nearly everyone who has gotten sick has had a headache, for example, but the headache wasn’t the worst-kind-you’ve-ever-had-in-your-life variety, as often comes with bacterial or viral meningitis.
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Stop…Millennial Time!
January 31, 2016 Simona Pop
The Millennials are here and there is nothing you can do to stop them. Those born between 1982 and 2000 have surpassed the Baby Boomers in sheer numbers and are now the top consumers globally.
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Hospitality is one of the most challenged industries when it comes to ‘Keeping up with the Millennials’, as it is typically a very traditional industry and change isn’t exactly its favourite word. Hotels in particular have been doing the same things, in the same way, for years now. They know change has to happen but more often than not they are quite uncertain as to what that change might be.
Marriott International for instance has gone from producing high-thread-count bedsheets to a YouTube Web series aimed at entertaining younger travellers. They also went on to buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts in a $12.2 billion deal because of its strong presence in the lifestyle brand category. W Hotels (part of Starwood) is all about edgy design, gourmet food and trendy public spaces — all features appealing to the Millennial traveller.
Redesigning for Millennials
A keen focus and demand for the latest technology, public areas with high speed WiFi for both work and play, as well as clever loyalty programs offering instant gratification, are all key to the millennial consumer.
“Millennials aren’t so interested in staying in their room, but congregating in compelling spaces with great design, music and a unique point of view,” says Jason Pomeranc, CEO of SIXTY Hotels. It’s why hotels like ACE and CitizenM are doing so incredibly well. They are first and foremost utilising their non-room space and creating inviting, cutting edge design hubs of interaction.
From major chains to small independent businesses, hospitality companies across the world are redesigning properties, spending a fortune on new technologies and even using Facebook Messenger for their Customer Service communications. It’s what Hyatt Hotels have done recently. In fact, there is a lot you can do from the app if you plan a stay at the Hyatt: check availability, make reservations, enquire about the view and even order room service.
How the Major Players Take Action
The reason for all this commotion – in the USA alone, more than 1 in 3 workers are Millennials, which amounts to some 83.5 million people. “They are becoming the earners, the spenders, the travellers, and importantly, the workers,” remarks Tina Edmundson, Marriott’s global officer for luxury and lifestyle brands.
Here is how a few major players are taking action based on this research:
Marriott launched Moxy and AC Hotels specifically with Millennials in mind
Best Western unveiled Vib, a chic urban boutique hotel
Hyatt premiered Hyatt Centric, an affordable lifestyle hotel
Hilton will open Canopy next year in Iceland. Each subsequent hotel will be inspired by the local community in everything from design to food and drinks
“By 2025, these guys are going to make up three-quarters of the workforce,” says Guy Langford, vice chairman and U.S. leader of travel, hospitality and leisure at Deloitte. And this is the one aspect the industry still isn’t facing. Most of the back office operations have not changed in the past 10–15 years. For Millennials, each day at work is like going Back to the Past…The heavy use of paper, spreadsheets and antiquated software makes adoption within the Millennial workforce sector very low.
This in turn affects staff retention and therefore drives staff costs ever upwards. Offering Millennial staff the opportunity to continue their digital, one-click habits at work by implementing technology heavily focused on User Experience (UX), is an absolute must for productivity.
“We have to understand what impact they’re going to have in 10 years’ time,” says Langford, “so changes made now, for both the Millennial consumer and the Millennial employee, will see huge ROI.”
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January 30, 2016 Procurious HQ
What is the procurement profession doing to create communities of practice?
Building on Tania Seary’s keynote speech and the idea of collaboration across the procurement profession, David Noble, Tania Seary, Diego Barilla and Sue Steele discuss what can be done to bring a dispersed community together.
From spend entrepreneurship to professional accreditation and certification, the final discussion panel at Big Ideas Summit 2015 threw up some interesting questions and answers and got the wider group thinking about how we can help to map our future.
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Cost Breakdowns – As Much About What’s Important As About Price
January 29, 2016 Charlotte Spencer-Smith
“As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.” John Glenn, NASA
Time was that the old-school view of procurement, as illustrated above, prevailed. Of course, since then, times have changed, and procurement has emerged after the Lopez era to prioritise quality alongside purchase price.
However, companies continue to hold purchase price as a primary driver in making decisions, with other factors remaining as things that need to be taken into consideration somewhere along the way.
Procurement organisations following this track are likely to find themselves under more and more pressure in the coming years without really understanding why. And it is because the concept of cost itself is changing – and nowhere is this clearer than in the cost breakdown.
Changing the Meaning of Cost
There are two things changing what cost means. First of all, procurement is expected more and more to act strategically. In addition to all the obvious costs on top of purchase price: installation, operating, maintenance, and disposal costs, procurement is expected to think several steps down the line, or at least should be.
As well as looking at short-term cost, it is important to have an idea of future prices, and therefore the behaviour of the cost drivers that might influence this. Not all purchasing is a simple transaction – suppliers need to be developed, strategies need to be formed.
In structuring cost breakdowns, procurement organisations have to ask two key questions – am I making the best economic decision today? Is my decision helping my company to gain a competitive advantage tomorrow?
Secondly, the development of information technology and increasingly globalised supply chains present a wide range of risks as well as opportunities. This all has an effect on what we mean by cost. Globalisation is opening supply chains up to new risk challenges: the unknown quantity of a new supplier from abroad, disruptions from natural disasters and political instability, differing local conditions like lead times, and growing awareness of lacking environmental and labor standards outside of the EU.
The same global media network that can feed vital information to procurement organisations also opens corporations up to risk: specifically brand damage when an environmental or labor scandal goes viral, with all the costs of revenue loss and re-call expense that come with it. Global brands like Apple and Adidas have recently become much more active on this front in China.
Coupled with incoming legal requirements in Europe, such as the UK Modern Slavery Act, procurement organisations have to factor much more into their cost breakdowns. It’s no wonder that people talk about procurement delivering value.
Procurement Value
This is a colossal amount of information to process. But procurement value is not some nebulous concept floating over all of this. It’s simply a matter of defining what is important for your company – what is going to produce value. Maybe it’s making productivity faster or better, maybe it’s reducing risk in quality or in logistics.
You can only identify this by working with your internal customers, for example, engineering and manufacturing, and working cross-departmentally. Procurement professionals will also need to be attuned to how values change across an organisation. For example, as public awareness of supply chain ethical scandals grows, procurement will be expected to value Corporate Social Responsibility as much as other departments.
Crucially, these values can define what gets prioritised in the cost breakdown and help you navigate the jungle of information out there.
This is also where technology can play a massive role. With an expanding market in procurement technology, especially in Software as a Service (SaaS) and big data analytics, there are great opportunities to bring together the data you need in one place, rent extra information from business intelligence suppliers who can turn qualitative information into figures, and understand it all in a way that makes sense to you.
As the nature of cost changes, procurement organisations need cost breakdowns that do justice to this. It follows that they need to select the right software to support new cost breakdowns.
One thing is for sure: the day of the Excel spreadsheet cost breakdown is over.
Charlotte Spencer-Smith works for POOL4TOOL, based in Vienna, Austria.
Buy vs. Lease – The Sharing Economy and Procurement
It was tarnished as a fad, or worse still, a hipster trend. But the ‘sharing’ or ‘collaborative economy’ is here to stay. This new purchasing practice is changing the way we consume products and services in our daily life.
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There is hardly an article about this new economy that doesn’t discuss the way that companies like AirBnB and UBER are disrupting consumer markets.
The number of Americans who have taken part in the sharing economy has grown by 20 per cent in the last 18 months. You would be hard pushed to name another sector that has seen a similar increase.
What is the Sharing Economy?
For the uninformed, the sharing or collaborative economy refers to the peer-to-peer sharing of goods and services (normally in place of purchasing outright), and is generally facilitated through a community-based online platform.
As is highlighted above, the sharing economy has gained a lot of traction in consumer markets such as accommodation (AirBnB), transport and ride-sharing platforms (UBER), and business funding (KickStarter). There are many, many more examples.
What is less clear is how or, perhaps more importantly, when these new purchasing practices might find their way into common procurement practice. Smaller organisations, or ones with less formal procurement processes, have allowed the use of businesses like AirBnB for business travel, although this is far from the norm.
Procurement has been doing it for years
But it poses an interesting question – is the sharing economy really any different from the age-old procurement question of ‘buy vs. lease’?
‘Buy vs. Lease’ is one of the key decisions frequently made by procurement, irrespective of the industry in question. For example, when an outlay was required for a new asset, say vehicles or fleet, the ‘Buy vs. Lease’ question would be asked (and usually answered by senior decision makers) as to whether the goods should be bought, or merely leased as required, leaving the maintenance and up-keep to someone else.
Building Furniture in Berlin
This cross over between big business procurement and the small-scale personal sharing economy was highlighted brilliantly on a recent trip one of the Procurious community made to Berlin (and was kind enough to share with us!).
Friends of theirs had recently returned to Germany after seven years living in Sydney, and had moved into a new flat. The flat came completely unfurnished (no curtains, no lights, no kitchen cupboards), so significant furniture construction was required before they could fully move in. Some of the new furniture was ubiquitous IKEA gear, and thus required nothing more than an Allen key and a lot of patience to construct.
However, other items required more work and, importantly, more tools. This included an orbital sander and other wood working tools to alter a chest of drawers so that it would fit into a small space inside the new flat.
Ordinarily this would have required a trip to a hardware store and a large outlay on new equipment that would subsequently lie redundant for years to come. But in Berlin, and many other cities around the world, there is app called peerby that can help. The app allows individuals to connect with other people locally and lease/borrow items they have (at a small cost), rather than buying their own.
Cost Considerations
Interestingly, the considerations for Buy vs. Lease are the same whether you are constructing furniture in Berlin or buying plant equipment in for a mining company in Western Australia. In order to make a good decision, buyers should consider how often they’ll use the product, how core it is to their operations (if you plan on doing a lot of woodwork, maybe its worth buying the orbital sander), the cost per use, and when the product will become obsolete.
It seems the sharing economy has merely brought an old procurement process (Buy vs. Lease) to the consumer market, meaning that purchasing practices that previously could only be leveraged by big business are now available to recreational (perhaps that’s the wrong word) furniture builders in Berlin.
It remains to be seen whether or not these practices will cycle back round again in the procurement world, but under the guise of the sharing economy.
January 28, 2016 Richard Kirstein
The New Year brought the tragic news of the passing of David Bowie. The term genius is often attributed to artists, though not all deserve it. David Bowie was a true genius and more.
Completely unique, forever surprising with a rare ability at multiple reinvention throughout his career. Bowie was responsible for some of the greatest music of the last 50 years and will continue to inspire artists and fans for the next 50.
His death has, of course, prompted a resurgence in sales of his back catalogue – to be re-discovered by new generations who weren’t previously familiar with his work but feel his influence through contemporary artists. Bowie was also a master of collaboration – one of my favourites being “Fame” co-written with John Lennon & Carlos Alomar. Here’s a 1975 clip of Bowie performing “Fame” live, in which his styling looks strangely modern.
Why is this relevant to Marketing?
There’s a common misconception among some marketers that the death of an artist makes their work freely available for use in brand campaigns. This is, of course, wholly incorrect and ignores the complex rules surrounding life of copyright in songs and sound recordings. This becomes more complicated for work where the artist and songwriter is the same person – such as David Bowie.
What’s Life Of Copyright?
As I explain in my new book Music Rights Without Fights, both songs and sound recordings have extensive periods of copyright protection during which time the rights owners have exclusive control of the work. This control includes the ability to grant (or withhold) licences for the work to be used in association with brand marketing campaigns and charge an appropriate licence fee.
What’s The Length of Life Of Copyright?
Here’s where it gets complicated – This varies by market and differs between songs and recordings. Taking the European Union (“EU”) as an example, Life of Copyright is:
For Songs & Compositions:
70 years from the end of the year in which the songwriter or composer died. Where the work has multiple creators, it’s 70 years from the year in which the last creator died.
For Sound Recordings:
70 years from the end of the year in which the sound recording was first commercially released.
What’s The Term For Music Beyond Life Of Copyright?
The common terms are “Out Of Copyright” or “Public Domain”.
So, I Can Use Anything From 1945 And Before For Free, Right?
No, wrong. It’s not that simple.
For songs, in theory, within the EU, any song written by a songwriter who died in 1945 or before is out of copyright – and hence could be used by a brand in an advertising campaign without payment of a licence fee. However, in practice copyright law allows new arrangements of out-of-copyright songs to be registered as new in-copyright works.
If your brand or agency commissions a new arrangement (or sources an existing recording) of an out of copyright song, chances are, the arrangement will have been registered as a new work which requires the usual licensing process and applicable fee.
For sound recordings, there’s a legal view that a new copyright exists in remastered versions of old recordings. If, for example, you have a CD version of a 1945 recording, the record company that remastered and released it could claim copyright in that CD recording. The only safe option is to source an original shellac 78 rpm disc from the period.
A Word Of Warning
The above guidance, whilst always subject to detailed due diligence, roughly applies to campaigns limited to EU states. However, where campaigns are made available online, other market jurisdictions come into play where rules differ.
For example, life of copyright in sound recordings in the USA is 95 years – so, only sound recordings commercially released in 1920 or before would be public domain. Likewise, life of copyright in songs varies across regions so non-geo locked online campaigns have high risks attached for those who rely on public domain status to avoid licence fees.
What Does This Mean For Procurement?
If your marketing colleagues say they’re using out of copyright music in a brand campaign, and therefore have no music line item in the production budget, alarm bells should ring. It’s rarely that simple and the cost of getting it wrong through copyright infringement far exceeds the payment of licence fees handled in the correct manner.
What Can I Do To Be Safe?
Here’s a quick check list once your marketing colleagues have told you which music they plan to use:
For Songs – you need clarity via detailed due diligence by a qualified expert on:
Death dates of songwriter / composer / lyricist
Identity of previous copyright owner (if work is assumed to be public domain)
Summary of markets in which the campaign is due to run
Cross-check against copyright legislation in those markets
Copyrights status of new or existing arrangement of the work intended for use
For Recordings – you need clarity via detailed due diligence by a qualified expert on:
Date of first commercial release in the markets in which campaign will run
Identity of previous copyright owner (if recording is assumed to be public domain)
Availability of original shellac 78rpm disc that pre-dates copyright period
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Smart Cities – Revolutionising Public Procurement in Barcelona
Barcelona – a city of churches, tapas and endless Gaudi landmarks – boasts an intriguing procurement initiative that is fundamentally changing public procurement methodology.
The concept is new and the way changes are being made is a stroke of genius. Traditionally, public procurement initiatives have looked something like this:
Determine the problem
Determine a solution
Develop a scope of work containing detailed specifications as to how the problem should be solved
Go to market to see who can meet your specification.
Decision-making is generally carried out within the four walls of a government building and leads to nothing more than a race to the lowest price point between two or three large suppliers.
Turning Public Procurement on its Head
Barcelona has completely flipped this process. Rather than telling suppliers what they want, they are simply outlining problems that are present within the city (like bicycle theft or potholes in the road) and asking the public to come up with innovative ways to solve them.
By opening civic problems up to the cities entrepreneurs, Barcelona is leveraging a vast pool of innovation and creativity that resides within its city. The following quote by CityMart‘s (the organisation behind this initiative) CEO, Sascha Haselmayer, sums up the approach brilliantly.
“City governments need to get out of procuring by specifying the solution they want. They can’t possibly have enough knowledge to do that well. What they should do is specify the problem they want to solve and show metrics on what success looks like. And then allow the market to inspire them to find the best solutions.”
As well as suggesting product solutions, applicants to the BCN Open Challenge are encouraged to challenge current city regulations and services in order to address six of the city’s key civic problems. Essentially, the canvas is blank and creativity, freethinking and innovation are encouraged.
The response to this initiative has been astonishing. Since Barcelona published its six city challenges online, the initiative has received over 50,000 views and more than 100 official submissions. CityMart stated that a benchmark number of views for public procurement contracts of this nature would normally be around 7,000.
Boost for Small Business
In a country whose economic woes are well documented, this initiative provides a vital lifeline to Barcelona’s small and medium sized organisations. CityMart claim that 98 per cent of all ‘open procurement’ projects listed on it’s website are awarded to small and medium sized organisations.
This is a significant contrast to traditional public procurement tendering practices; where long lists of specifications and pre-requisites along with protracted contract award cycles, rule out all but the largest and most established suppliers from winning public contracts.
When you consider that city and community spending globally accounts for $45 USD trillion a year (yes that’s right…TRILLION!), you begin to get an understanding of the impact this sort of initiative could have for small businesses across the world.
An Engaged Community
It’s not just small business that benefits from the new model Barcelona has implemented. The project is making huge progress in improving community engagement. The city defines its problems in conjunction with its citizens, encourages these citizens to suggest solutions, and then uses tax payer funds to provide a work space from where these problems can be solved.
If that’s not effective community engagement, we don’t know what is. The project’s tagline is ‘Open for business. Open for innovation’ and it certainly holds true.
While opening a city’s problems up to the public certainly encourages innovation, community engagement, and supports small business, it’s important not to overlook the financial benefits these projects can create.
Global consultancy firm McKinsey has estimated that city governments can reap savings of up to 10 per cent by opening up procurement contracts and leveraging innovative community based problems solving.
Don’t tell your suppliers specifications…ask them for solutions
All procurement teams can learn something from the work that is happening in Barcelona. Procurement professionals could all benefit from being a little less prescriptive in telling suppliers what it is they want. The power is in admitting that these teams alone can’t possibly come up with the best solution to every business problem they face.
But how can professionals possibly know what they want when they don’t know what’s out there? By admitting their ignorance and opening up problems to more people, it is possible to leverage the vast creativity and innovative power that lies within communities.
So move your discussions away from specifications and prescriptive statements of work, be more creative and stop telling people what you want and start asking for solutions.
Braving the Cross-Cultural Humour Divide
January 27, 2016 Tom Verghese
Humour can help to diffuse tension, break the ice or create camaraderie. However, frequently humour can get lost in translation when crossing the cultural divide.
After Christmas I enjoyed a short holiday on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria with my family. As we were enjoying a walk along one of the many beaches I couldn’t help but overhear a largely Asian tour group meandering along the beach close by.
I overheard the tour guide tell a joke. To me the joke sounded quite amusing, but judging by the immediate reaction (or rather lack of) of his tour group, not many other people did! Aside from a few polite giggles there was mostly silence and looks of confusion. My immediate thought was that people probably didn’t understand the joke. Maybe there were language and accent difficulties, humour differences, etc.
Cross-Cultural Challenges
Humour across cultures is very difficult. Aside from the lack of a shared background, there are many subtle nuances, common phrases and local references in humour and joke telling that can very easily fall flat when told to foreigners.
When we engage in humour, we unconsciously make assumptions that our audience/s are similar to ourselves and will therefore receive the humour in a manner that we intend it to be heard.
There is no doubt that communicating humour is one of the most difficult cross-cultural communication challenges that exists. In countries such as Japan, humour rarely crosses hierarchical borders and wouldn’t be appropriate in formal contexts; in other cultures such as Australia, humour can be appropriate in these settings and viewed as a means of reducing tension and balancing power inequities.
Humour Tips
So how do we know if our humour will be received as funny, misunderstood or offensive in the context of no shared knowledge and background with our audience? Here are some basic guidelines:
It is essential that you have a high level of cultural and language awareness, sensitivity and understanding
As a general guide, I recommend avoiding sarcasm and jokes, rather wit and self-deprecation can often be safer options
Observe others – how they deliver and receive humour. Take note of the context, seniority, facial expressions, body language, etc.
I often remind my expat coaching clients that when they find themselves understanding local humour and sharing in it, they are well on their way to true cultural immersion.
Although there are cultural barriers to the shared understanding of humour, keep in mind that even within our own cultures what is considered funny and not funny vary enormously. I admired the tour guide I mentioned earlier because although his joke may not have received many laughs, he was brave enough to have a go. I would guess that he probably had some insight that the content couldn’t be offensive and was making a genuine attempt to create a relaxed, light-hearted environment for the group.
While we need to be cautious when using humour in cross-cultural settings, I urge you to not be too discouraged because humour can be a great way to build relationships and begin to really understand your cross-border colleagues and clients.
Think Quality Over Price When Purchasing Corporate Uniforms
Price isn’t the most important element of a uniform negotiation, according to a disruptor in the Australian uniform industry.
An award-winning Australian uniform market disrupter has urged procurement professionals to think twice when considering haggling on price for the company’s corporate attire.
Melbourne’s modern uniform manufacturer, Cargo Crew, reveals that while procurement is far more than just being about price these days, some negotiations start and finish with price and deadline requirements. Other procurement professionals appear to be more progressive in their approach, treating the transaction as a partnership rather than a mere supplier by looking for ways to cement a strong relationship from the outset.
Choosing Quality
“We’re dealing with procurement professionals in increasing numbers, and want to help them understand the benefits of a quality uniform, which has the potential to transform the entire image of an organisation overnight,” client service director, Narelle Craig, says.
“You should never under-estimate the importance of the corporate uniform when you’re next in the market for an upgrade.
“When it comes to uniforms, price should not be the most important factor. We use audited factories to manufacture our product line, have ethical certifications not to mention using the highest quality materials and a client care team, and all of that comes at a cost. But it delivers huge value to an organisation, and removes a lot of the headaches felt by procurement professionals who have countless things to consider when ordering a uniform,” Craig says.
By choosing a quality uniform, procurement professionals are saving their company money in the long term. This is because they don’t have to replace their uniforms as often, saving the resources to coordinate re-ordering uniforms, and lessens the number of staff complaints that their uniform isn’t wearing well.
‘Fashion-Forward’ Uniforms
Cargo Crew was launched in 2002 by Craig’s sister, Felicity Rodgers, who as a fashion designer noticed a gap in the market for fashion-forward uniforms.
The business has flourished since launching its first range of Denim uniforms in 2012. Cargo Crew has dressed growing numbers of corporate Australian and New Zealand organisations including staff at Renault, Freedom Australia, ME (the bank), Dulux Group and SkyBus.
Comfort, the breathability of the fabric, attention to details such as longer length tees and shirts so staff can reach comfortably in the line of duty is paramount, Rodgers says.
“A uniform completes an organisation’s corporate story and reflect what the business stands for. Staff need to feel really good about what they wear, and again, that comes at a cost. Procurement people need to keep in mind the style, look and image they want to reflect in their brand,” Rodgers says.
“We set out to create a uniform brand that not only filled a gap in the market, but also excited and engaged our audience.”
The business is also investing heavily in operations under the watchful eye of Paul Rodgers (Felicity’s husband), who is focused on business efficiencies such as warehousing space, online ordering platforms, reporting and client management.
The Cargo Crew Lead Team (l-r): Paul Rodgers, Felicity Rodgers, Narelle Craig
Direct to Client Sales
Cargo Crew differs from other uniform suppliers in that it cuts out the middle man, selling a retail-quality product direct to the client rather than to a wholesaler to on-sell.
The business won the 2015 Telstra Australian Small Business of the Year Award for developing a product range with flair usually lacking in the wardrobes of corporate Australia. The Telstra Award comes on the back of 44 per cent overall sales uplift year-on-year and a growing number of corporates interested in their product, which boasts 60 variations.
In the past six months, the company’s stock holding size has grown six times. The world is sitting up and taking notice, too, with interest and orders coming from Italy, USA, UK, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Sweden, France and more.
The emphasis on style has seen the Melbourne-based business with an online store transform the modern uniform since the company launched 14 years ago. Cargo Crew now employs 18 staff.
“We’ve noticed both small and big competing businesses try to mimic our style, brand and product range, which is actually a big compliment, but of course brings its own set of challenges to the table that we’ve had to deal with.”
Cargo Crew has increased the partnerships it has, expanded its range, held a pop-up event in Sydney and even started its own publication, The Crew Review. It also has plans under way to develop a new division of the business for corporate clients, soon to be announced.
Passion from the Podium – 7 Speaking Tips for Procurement Pros
January 26, 2016 Tania Seary
Apparently, the old underwear trick doesn’t work anymore.
Last year my son confided in me his nervousness about making a speech at his school assembly. I shared the old tip “pretend they’re all wearing just their underwear”. He replied, “Mum, that’s even scarier!”
And he’s probably right!
Public speaking is one of the most terrifying prospects we mortals face.
In my experience, there are just a few essential ingredients to becoming a screaming success on the stage. Here are my top public speaking tips for procurement professionals.
1. Talk about what you love – A lesson I learnt very early in my career was to only talk on topics you really know well, are comfortable with, and – ideally -passionate about.
Let me return to my (then) 8-year-old son’s school assembly presentation. He insisted that his topic was “Piranhaconda” (which, in case you missed it, is the sequel to the much better known “Sharktopus”). Both are B-grade (at best) movies that involve a lot of terribly clichéd, semi-clad, screaming women and tough guys with guns/missiles. Get the picture?
At the risk of being personally embarrassed at his selected topic for this highly competitive, academic audience, I encouraged him to talk about what he loved…(a movie about crazy hybrid animals) and he did a sterling job. Barely referring to his notes, he spoke with passion and was rewarded with a glowing review in the weekly newsletter (phew!).
My point here is, that no matter what your topic, if you talk about something you know and love, you are going to do a much better job. Your audience will be so much more appreciative if they feel passion coming from the podium.
So, spare the time to really think about your topic. Uncover and share where your real enjoyment is generated from. It may not be the technical details of your new eProcurement system or contract management process, but more about how you managed your team, and managed the change.
2. Also talk about the BAD stuff – A stalwart of my inner-circle procurement community is Santos’ CPO, David Henchliffe. He’s always encouraging The Faculty’s Roundtable members to share “when things go wrong”.
The quote “we learn from our mistakes” could not be truer. A mistake shared is a community lesson learnt. Everyone benefits. Sharing your failures also supports your authenticity as a leader. If you can show your vulnerability and humility you become a lot more accessible to people. Plus, let’s face it – nobody’s ever going to believe that your project/learning process was as perfect as some presenter would have us believe.
Tell your audience you overcame adversity – tell them how your number one supporter stabbed you in the back, tell them how your funding floundered, complain about moving goal posts, how your supplier stalled at the gate – your audience will love it! Why? Because (of course) this is their world too!
3. Write it down. That’s right – commit the whole darn thing to paper or screen! Why? Because it’s the only way you can guarantee you have really worked through your thinking. Many years ago, I remember hopping onto the stage with my dot points, confident in my subject matter, only to make a less than optimum impression when I ‘um-ed’ and ‘ah-ed’, circled back on previous points, and then took 200 words to say what I could have said in 20.
Writing out your whole speech gives you the opportunity to really think through your structure and how you want to effectively make your points. You can make your dot points from there and throw all the detail away once you’re clear about your speech.
Of course, the other MAJOR advantage of committing your thoughts to paper is that you can then fashion it into a blog, post it immediately on the day of your speech (ideally – exclusively on Procurious!), and encourage people who connect with or follow you to read and reflect on your thoughts. In this way, not only are you communicating to those in the audience, but you are also ‘amplifying’ your views through social media. A very nice ROI on your time!
4. Jettison the Jargon – Like you, I have sat through way too many procurement presentations that are strikingly similar in both their content and delivery. If we are going to individually and collectively ‘spice it up’ and enthuse our profession, we need to create a bit of a stir with our language and choice of vocabulary.
Because people stop listening when they hear repetition. You need to keep them listening by using different words and terms that make them think about what you are saying.
5. Make it Visual – Story-telling is now a well-accepted formula for successfully communicating a message. Use it! Kill the PowerPoint – it sends your audience into a semi-comatose state where they are more focussed on the timing of your next slide change, than what you’re actually saying. Use emotive and unusual photographs and infographics (that people can read from the back of the room).
6. Practice, Practice, Practice – I was surprised to read in the book “Talk like Ted” that the best Ted Talkers have rehearsed their speeches up to 200 times. They practise with friends, colleagues, anyone who will listen. And it’s not just about delivery, it’s about fine-tuning the words they use and simplifying them as much as possible to gain clarity. They write and re-write their presentations to ensure they are communicating what they really mean.
7. Make it quick – “Talk like Ted” also insists that speeches should be specifically 18 minutes only! Apparently that’s the magic number for giving your audience enough, but not too much, information! Audiences today are growing more and more used to the sound bite. Leave your audience wanting more, rather than being bored and switching off.
So there it is! Good luck with your next speaking engagement – I look forward to feeling the passion coming from the podium!
Will Amazon Over-Stretch Its Supply Chain with ‘Dash Replenishment’?
Back in March last year, when Amazon announced its ‘Dash’ button service, many people thought it was an early April Fool’s joke. As it turned out, the online giant was completely serious.
The first Dash devices went live this week and, although currently there are only a small number of products available with Dash Replenishment, it’s clear that Amazon has plans to expand its range and deliver another service that promises to disrupt and change the way we shop for frequently used goods.
Dash Button Partners
For those of you who don’t know, the Amazon Dash Button is a wifi-enabled electronic device, aimed at making re-ordering commonly used consumables and household goods easier. Each Dash Button is unique to a specific product, and when the button is pushed, an order is placed for that product through the user’s Amazon shopping app.
The Dash Buttons exist in two formats. First, the Buttons are built into electronic equipment (think printers, washing machines, etc.) and are used to reorder consumables specifically for that equipment. The second format are buttons, sold individually, for specific products (washing powder, toilet roll) that users can leave in convenient places around the house to assist with their shopping.
To begin with the Buttons will only be available on request to Amazon customers who are already registered for Amazon Prime. Once requested, customers will then link the Buttons to their existing accounts.
To date, Amazon has announced Dash deals with a number of electronics manufacturers, including Samsung, Whirlpool and Brother, as well as with large FMCG organisations like P&G, for products like Tide and Bounty.
Supply Chain Pressure
It is a testament to Amazon’s willingness to push the boundaries of their business model that they would even try this sort of service. Not known as a site where household items are commonly purchased, Amazon are looking to leverage their experience in current activities and try to change our shopping habits. Again.
However, some experts have warned that Amazon might be putting too much pressure on their service management systems and supply chain by introducing another service that is built around fast delivery and high levels of customer service.
With an increasing number of customers using Amazon’s Prime next-day delivery service, the launch of Amazon Prime Now one-hour delivery in some cities around the world, not to mention the roll-out of Prime Now Restaurant delivery in some American cities, it’s not difficult to see where issues may arise.
Neil Penny, product director at Sunrise Software, comments: “Amazon’s Dash Replenishment is the retail giant’s foray into instant gratification and user convenience, with the model using connected devices to potentially provide limitless access to products while also removing any effort from the user themselves.
“However, the more seamless and predictive a service appears, the more work must go on in the background to meet these mounting expectations. While the idea is great on paper, it is questionable how realistic it will be for most firms with their current fulfilment strategies.”
As with anything else that Amazon does, customer expectations will be high. The retailer will have to work hard to ensure that the expectations are met for both product availability and delivery times.
In order to make sure that this venture succeeds, Amazon will have to work closely with its own service providers and supply chain to ensure that the products currently available under Dash Replenishment are available when required, and that the service providers can meet deadlines for stock delivery, delivery capacity and order prioritisation.
And should the current model succeed, it may see Amazon expand the products available, both for the inbuilt and individual buttons, as well as having other companies follow suit with their own products.
Penny states, “While Amazon’s new service is launching with products like print and washing supplies, the automatic model is likely to see widespread adoption across other companies and industries in the next few years. With IoT-enabled devices becoming increasingly more commonplace, more firms will come under pressure to adopt similar approaches.
“Being able to keep track of the complex web of suppliers and service level agreements and respond to demands quickly will be an absolute requirement for any service provider hoping to keep up with demand.”
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Reflections on notecards: Seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems (1988)
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Venue: Communications of the ACM
Visualizing Knowledge Domains
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Scalable Internet Resource Discovery: Research Problems and Approaches
by C. Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig, Udi Manber, Michael F. Schwartz , 1994
"... Over the past several years, a number of information discovery and access tools have been introduced in the Internet, including Archie, Gopher, Netfind, and WAIS. These tools have become quite popular, and are helping to redefine how people think about wide-area network applications. Yet, they ar ..."
Over the past several years, a number of information discovery and access tools have been introduced in the Internet, including Archie, Gopher, Netfind, and WAIS. These tools have become quite popular, and are helping to redefine how people think about wide-area network applications. Yet, they are not well suited to supporting the future information infrastructure, which will be characterized by enormous data volume, rapid growth in the user base, and burgeoning data diversity. In this paper we indicate trends in these three dimensions and survey problems these trends will create for current approaches. We then suggest several promising directions of future resource discovery research, along with some initial results from projects carried out by members of the Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery and Directory Service.
...personal. What one user finds clear and easy to browse may be difficult for users who have different needs or backgrounds. Browsing can also lead to navigation problems, and users can get disoriented =-=[10, 23]. To some -=-extent this problem can be alleviated by systems that support multiple views of information [9, 35]. Yet, doing so really pushes the problem "up" a level---users must locate appropriate view...
Spatial hypertext: Designing for change
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Towards An Integrated Information Environment With Open Hypermedia Systems.
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"... This paper examines open hypermedia systems, and presents the case that such systems provide a step forward for dealing with large, dynamic data sets in distributed, heterogeneous environments by allowing users to access and integrate information and processes in richer and more diverse ways than ha ..."
This paper examines open hypermedia systems, and presents the case that such systems provide a step forward for dealing with large, dynamic data sets in distributed, heterogeneous environments by allowing users to access and integrate information and processes in richer and more diverse ways than has previously been possible. In particular, the enhanced Microcosm model for open hypermedia is examined, and the ways in which it provides such an environment are discussed. The paper continues by investigating the advantages and the shortcomings of this model and identifies the areas in which further work must be completed before such systems can become widely adopted, such as the granularity of source and destination anchors, editing and version control. Some attempts to provide solutions to these problems are presented and discussed.
Tools and Approaches for Developing Data-Intensive Web Applications: A Survey
by Piero Fraternali, Politecnico Di Milano - ACM Computing Surveys , 1999
"... ions Implementation-level: pages, links, presentation styles Reuse Plug-in components; Reusable presentation styles Architecture Two-tiers, based on file system Static binding of content to pages Usability High graphical control through manual authoring High coherence through use of presentatio ..."
ions Implementation-level: pages, links, presentation styles Reuse Plug-in components; Reusable presentation styles Architecture Two-tiers, based on file system Static binding of content to pages Usability High graphical control through manual authoring High coherence through use of presentation styles Low customization, no adaptivity, no proactivity 236 . P. Fraternali ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 3, September 1999 metaphor (e.g., in Director, objects' synchronization is defined by editing the score for the cast members of a stage; see Figure 6). ---The type of database connectivity, which may range from support of an internal database, of an external database via gateway software (typically ODBC or JDBC), or of an external database through DBMS API. ---The type of Web connectivity, which may be achieved by means of a plug-in application extending a Web browser, or by exporting the hypermedia application into a network language. Web connectivity may affect database c...
SEPIA: A Cooperative Hypermedia Authoring Environment
by Norbert Streitz, Jörg Haake, Jörg Hannemann, Andreas Lemke, Wolfgang Schuler , 1992
"... In this paper, we report about the design, development, and implementation of the SEPIA cooperative hypermedia authoring environment. It provides results on the following aspects of SEPIA: persistent and shared data storage, hypermedia data model with composites, sophisticated and comprehensive auth ..."
In this paper, we report about the design, development, and implementation of the SEPIA cooperative hypermedia authoring environment. It provides results on the following aspects of SEPIA: persistent and shared data storage, hypermedia data model with composites, sophisticated and comprehensive authoring functionality, support for a new rhetoric and for cooperative work. We start by identifying the challenge of hypermedia authoring and production which serves as the driving force for our development. Using interacting problem spaces as the vehicle for modelling the dynamic aspects of authoring, we arrive at a set of requirements answered by the concept of "activity spaces". The design of coherent hyperdocuments is facilitated by our "construction kit". Furthermore, we describe the extensions and modifications necessary to support multiple authors with the cooperative version of SEPIA. The central issue of the paper is the system architecture and its implementation. We describe the basi...
Hypermedia and cognition: Designing for comprehension
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... two types of components into their hyperdocument:s• In analogy to such cues as “paragraph” or “chapter” in linear text, they can aggregate information into higher order units—e.g., “composite nodes” =-=[8]-=-. These enable readers to identify important document components at net level and to represent them in terms of a macrostructure. This structure can be regarded as representing the “gist,” or essence,...
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"... Hypertext systems have traditionally focused on information management and presentation. In contrast, the Aquanet hypertext system described in this paper is designed to support knowledge structuring tasks. Aquanet is a browser-based tool that allows users to graphically represent information in ord ..."
Hypertext systems have traditionally focused on information management and presentation. In contrast, the Aquanet hypertext system described in this paper is designed to support knowledge structuring tasks. Aquanet is a browser-based tool that allows users to graphically represent information in order to explore its structure. In this paper, we discuss our motivations for developing Aquanet. We then describe the basic concepts underlying the tool and give an overview of the user interface. We close with some brief comments about our initial experiences with the tool in use and some of the directions we see the Aquanet research moving in the near future. from Hypertext `91 Proceedings, San Antonio, Texas, December 15-18, 1991 Draft of: August 28, 1991 10:21 am 1 Aquanet: a hypertext tool to hold your knowledge in place 1 1.
...tain browsers across sessions, and use them as a context-setting backdrop for their work. These browsers functioned as accelerators for accessing and referring to existing structures (see page 839 in =-=[Hala88]-=-). NoteCards users also developed strategies for using browsers to group nodes by means of spatial layout, especially in the very earliest brainstorming stages of a task (see page 96 in [Trig87]). Bec...
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"... Sun’s Link Service, a product shipped with Sun’s programming in the large software development environment, the Network Software Environment, allows users to make and maintain explicit and persistent bidirectional relationships between autonomous frontend applications. The Link Service defines a pro ..."
Sun’s Link Service, a product shipped with Sun’s programming in the large software development environment, the Network Software Environment, allows users to make and maintain explicit and persistent bidirectional relationships between autonomous frontend applications. The Link Service defines a protocol for an extensible and loosely coupled, or open, hypertext system. An interesting instance of this is the ability to link to objects in closed hypertext systems if they integrate with the Link Service. The Link Service addresses link maintenance and automated versioning. Link endpoints, or nodes, are defined by the integrating applications, and are not restricted to points, whole documents, or cards.
Scripted Documents: A Hypermedia Path Mechanism
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"... The concept of a path, or ordered traversal of some links in a hypertext, has been a part of the hypertext notion from its early formation. Although paths can help to solve two major problems with hypertext systems, namely user disorientation and high cognitive overhead for users, their value has no ..."
The concept of a path, or ordered traversal of some links in a hypertext, has been a part of the hypertext notion from its early formation. Although paths can help to solve two major problems with hypertext systems, namely user disorientation and high cognitive overhead for users, their value has not been recognized. Paths can also provide the backbone for computations over a hypertext, an important issue for the future of hypertext. This paper constructs a framework for understanding path mechanisms for hypertext and explores the basic issues surrounding them. Given this framework, it reviews path mechanisms that have been provided by other hypertext systems. Finally, it describes the Scripted Documents system, which has been developed to test the potential of one powerful path mechanism. 1. Introduction Hypertext is a valuable contribution to the information age, allowing readers to access related information through machine-supported links. However, current hypertext systems have se...
...e order of presentation for a given audience. In addition, paths can provide the backbone for computations over a hypertext, one of Halasz's seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems =-=[Hala88]-=-. Although paths have been a part of the hypertext notion from its early formation [Bush45], few current hypertext systems provide paths, and in fact the path concept has not been examined systematica...
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Max Easton thought he was out. A former British intelligence operative, Easton was living in another part of the world, in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. But how did he get there?
In FOX’s new espionage drama Deep State, he gets pulled back in. Allegiances are murky, information is unreliable, relationships are a lie and nothing is black and white — except the opening title sequence. Created by London-based studio MMMultiply, the opening sequence sets up the themes, mood, and central character of the show, ushering us through geographic locations and surveillance footage, through fog and fire and smoke. Mark Strong’s Easton is the complicated, mixed-up man on a desperate chase to prove his mettle as a father and tie up loose ends in order to make good. But the truth is a myth and the smoke is in everything.
The theme, composed by Dan Berridge and featuring lyrics from the Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime,” is an unexpected treat. A Clint Mansell-esque piano melody is paired with distorted flutes and rough electronic scratches while a dark voice articulates his confusion. The questions are familiar but the cadence is different, edged in gloom, reeling with shock and anger. As the visuals move from light to dark, the music becomes heavily distorted, descending into a heavy wave of glitches, static, and cymbals. In the closing frame, Mark Strong’s eyes gaze out intently, folding into the angles of the title text and daring us to join him on a journey back into the dark.
A discussion with Deep State main titles Creative Director MICHAEL PEARSON of MMMultiply and Composer DAN BERRIDGE.
Michael, give us a little background on yourself and on MMMultiply.
Michael: MMMultiply began in 2012 when myself and Pete Aldridge, Managing Director, joined forces to start a creative studio that would focus on building a small, multidisciplinary team to work on anything from promos to branding projects to 360º campaigns and beyond. I was keen to build a team that would have a clear desire to be creative in different areas. We met at Ravensbourne College where Pete studied motion graphic design and I was on the interaction design course.
Initial title card exploration featuring flag
Initial title card exploration featuring eclipse
Dan, how long have you been a composer?
Dan: I've released music for the past ten years as Broadway Project and more recently have been asked to write music for film, TV and ads. I come from a hip-hop and DJing background, but have always had an ear for emotive cinematic music. I came to music pretty late—at 30—and have no formal music training, but have a good ear, thank goodness!
How did you shift genres and what was it like moving from hip-hop and DJing to film and TV?
Dan: I was asked to write for a few film projects and had to learn fast, but really earned my chops by writing music for TV ads. That taught me that there is a distinction between art and craft. Art is from the heart and involves less thought. Craft is more practical and is about mechanics. Both are honourable in their own way. People get stuck sometimes discerning the difference.
What was the first meeting or call about this sequence like?
Michael: We’d worked with Sasan Roohi, a Head of Creative at FOX, on projects before. The first contact we had about the show was in March 2017. We were given a synopsis with an outline of themes and locations and the crew attached. Cast announcements happened soon after, so we knew it was going to be a big show for them. While FOX were finalizing the details we went away to work up concepts. The brief for Deep State was to come up with a concept that would work across everything for launch, from title sequence to identity to campaign toolkit rollout.
The "smoke" moodboard
Dan: This project came to me through Cord, an agency, who asked me to submit a piece for a rough sketch of the sequence. I basically gave them something I had already done with a cut-and-paste vocal laid over.
This is the first sort of primetime TV title sequence that MMMultiply has done, right? Is this a new arena for you all?
Michael: Pete and I collaborated on a few title sequences for quiz shows and online sports shows before we formed MMMultiply, but yes, it is the first primetime show title sequence we’ve created. It’s exciting new ground. We’re used to creating a clear identity for a show but never one so atmospheric as Deep State. It was a great opportunity to tie everything we’d usually do for a larger brand together for a show.
What were the original concepts for the title sequence? How did it develop?
Michael: There were a range of concepts originally proposed by us and by the team at FOX, covering espionage themes, which we reviewed and pulled on to develop further. We were keen to steer clear of the edgy classified, redacted route, as it had been done so well elsewhere recently with shows like Narcos.
Narcos (2015) main titles, designed by Digital Kitchen
We kept on coming back to the core idea of “control” which is essentially the purpose of the Deep State – control of countries, governments, banks, business, institutions, all invisible to those outside of it.
Michael: With everything happening with the US it all felt very relevant – the fake news agenda and the Deep State being called out – but we didn’t want to take it down a route that focused on traditional media and misinformation. We wanted it to be much more visceral than that.
Once the top-line concept of control had been agreed on, we went about exploring different ways of controlling and being controlled and how we could visualise that. Taking the idea of “smoke and mirrors” and focusing on the smoke as an entity that can control what the viewer sees and turning it into a more malevolent force.
Smoke test featuring hands
What kind of direction did you get from FOX?
Michael: FOX were clear that they wanted something bold and filled with iconography, so after the “control” route had been chosen, we started piecing together key visuals for the campaign and storyboards for the titles, exploring different styles and developing a constant for the project.
Dan: I had no dealings with FOX. I was several times removed. I dealt with Hollie Hutton at Cord, the agency, who dealt with [MMMultiply], who dealt with the producer of the show, who dealt with FOX—I imagine! I realised at a later stage how anonymous my input was at a meeting for another project where I met said producer and she had no idea who I was!
What title sequences did FOX point to as inspiration or comparable titles?
Michael: There’s been such an explosion of great TV title design, so there was a lot of inspiration out there. Two shows picked out by FOX in particular were the amazing The Night Of and Homeland. Both sequences had a strong sense of narrative which we liked and wanted to bring to Deep State while retaining a distinct style.
The Night Of (2016) main titles, created by Method Design
Which tools and software did you use to put it all together?
Michael: Our motion graphics and post workflow revolves around Adobe CC and Cinema 4D. From Photoshop and After Effects for the styleframes and initial comps, we built what we needed in C4D and then did final comp and grade back in AE and Premiere. There were a few additional programs used, like X-Particles for the smoke, and 3D scanning software for the model of Mark Strong’s head for the latter shots.
Flag shot VFX breakdown
Michael: The concept was explored by the whole team, then the core of the post-production team consisted of three designers and compositors led by Joshua Thorpe, along with the help of a couple of extra compositors towards the end of the project as we finished the final comp and grade of shots.
Running soldier VFX breakdown
When did you join the music with the visuals? Were you able to design and edit with the theme or did that come later?
Michael: The music hadn’t been commissioned by the time we were at animatic stage, so we used a Max Cooper track that stood out for us from our mood playlist for the project. It gave us something to edit to and set the tone for the final piece of music by Dan Berridge.
Dan, what was your composing process like?
Dan: This piece was part of a collection of music I was writing, trying to achieve an orchestral-scale sound without using any presets—sample libraries, synth presets, et cetera. There is piano on there but every other sound has been created from scratch. I wrote ten tracks like that. And it nearly drove me mad!
Behind the scenes photo from the green-screen shoot for the Deep State main titles
But to answer the question: very simple chords and melody amplified to 11 and processed unrecognisably!
Michael: The Talking Heads spoken-word layer over the music was something that came from the team at FOX, which they felt rang true with the concept and added to the foreboding atmosphere in the music which was laid over towards the end of the project.
Dan: That was there from the start and wasn't my idea. I must admit I thought it was a great plan! I could never have suggested that from the off because of the myriad implications of clearing something as iconic as that. But they took the effort and costs to clear the lyrics. Unfortunately, Talking Heads took all the royalties and credits, meaning I got none!
Which equipment, tools and/or software did you use to put it all together?
Dan: I used a few old samplers and synths—EMU Ultra 6400, Korg DSS-1, Korg MS-20, Eventide Orville—along with Ableton Live for this piece. And a piano!
Michael: As the music was starting to be finalized, we used it to update the edit and to work on the sound design towards the end.
Which parts of the sequence did you shoot and which are built in 3D?
Michael: There’s a bit of 3D in almost every shot. We knew from the start that there wouldn’t be the opportunity for a shoot beyond the one with Mark Strong, which allowed us to be quite playful with the compositions and create some optical effects that we might have been held back from if we were shooting.
Main titles animatic featuring early shots and typography explorations, no sound
Michael: Sometimes where you want to go and where you end up are miles apart, but with Deep State we were able to stay very close to the original idea. Even the storyboards and animatic didn’t change too much as we moved from concept to final delivery.
What elements of this sequence are you most happy with?
Michael: I really like the subtlety of the skyscraper with the man appearing from the fog, along with the opening shot of the upside down flag slowly revealed by the fog which is one of my favourites.
Still from the Deep State main titles featuring a man slowly appearing on a building
Dan: I'm still happy with the main theme melody sound. Very pleased how big it ended up sounding!
Do you have personal favourite title sequences, classic or contemporary examples that stick out for you?
Michael: I’ve always been a big fan of Saul Bass with classics like Vertigo to Casino creating textured visuals that mesmerise on the big screen in the days when everything was a bit more analogue. Kyle Cooper has some stone-cold classics with titles for films like Se7en and Dawn of the Dead perfectly reflecting the tone of the film.
Dawn of the Dead (2004) main titles, designed by Kyle Cooper
Dan: Bernard Hermann’s music for Taxi Driver. I really liked David Holmes' work on The Fall also. The bleeps and distortion on the trailer for the Predator remake are also a big influence. They last about 15 seconds and don't even feature on the film.
Michael: I also love the simplicity of some titles, like Black Mirror and Stranger Things, just setting you up for the tension ahead with no frills.
Black Mirror (2011) main titles, designed by Painting Practice
Finally, what took you by surprise when working on this sequence?
Michael: How exciting it was to see it go out live! When you have campaigns and a high turnover of projects, sometimes you don’t get to see work go out for the first time. Making sure we caught the first showing of the titles on FOX was a must. The titles are something we were hugely proud of and it was a real thrill seeing it on TV for the first time.
Deep State final title card
View the credits for this sequence
Head of Creative (FOX): Sasan Roohi
Title Design Studio: MMMultiply
Creative Director: Michael Pearson
3D Design Lead: Joshua Thorpe
Animation and Compositing: Rob Phillips, Simon Brader, Jason Mingay, Paul Ruska
Designers: Sean Williamson, Gemma Stokes, Jake Greenwood
Managing Director: Peter Aldridge
Cord WW
"Deep State" theme written and composed by Dan Berridge
(Lyrics adapted from “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads)
SUPPORT ART OF THE TITLE
HELP ART OF THE TITLE KEEP GOING. BECOME A PATRON THROUGH PATREON.
3D, black and white, CGI, main title, stock footage, stock photography
Matthew Parkill
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In addition, the rest of the street facade is also unremarkable, outdated, and awkward. Gallery East also does a poor job with continuity, and breaks the space in between Independence Hall, downtown, and Chinatown abruptly rather than connecting these areas of the city with a pedestrian-friendly theme. In addition, during its early periods of success Gallery I was the site of numerous protests due to the fact that no black entrepreneurs owned any of the businesses there despite the fact that a great percentage of Philadelphia is black.
Nonetheless, The Gallery at Market East enjoyed decent period of success, through the s and into the s. The original anchor and stalwart for all of downtown Philadelphia shopping was the flagship for Strawbridge and Clothier, which became the east end of the mall in The in-line roster of stores has also degraded somewhat after having a more upscale set of stores some plus years ago; today, many of the stores selling apparel are urban wear, discounters, or shoe stores.
The food court has, however, remained viable due to the amount of foot traffic from people accessing the train and tourists in the area. In short, The Gallery At Market East could be a wonderful centerpiece for downtown Philadelphia, connecting a multiplicity of neighborhoods and peoples with a far more upscale line-up of stores and services than it has today.
(The person with the highest score gets to be giggled at for the rest of hisher life. Помимо этого красавицы готовы переспать с кавалерами, даже с двумя одновременно. Пошлячки отправляются на улицу и разгуливают среди прохожих в купальниках. (snuff) 139. She ripped her clothes off, revealing once again her wonderfully rounded tits, and her tightly pursed cunt, still wet with cum.
He gasped, as cum squirted out from the head of his dick all over the face of Cassie, dripping down her chin.
Feature by Adam Fine. If Vegas was known for shrimp cocktails and bargain buffets in the old days, Atlantic City fared even worse. Oh, sure, if you happened to like salt water taffy, it was great. Ditto for pizza and hot dogs, eaten while strolling the Boardwalk. Not really-and certainly not before the casino era, except for a few seafood houses that came to life only during the summer months.
Post-casino Atlantic City had a few gems, but nowhere near the number it should have, considering how many millions of people flock to the seaside resort. In Atlantic City, restaurants strived for mediocrity. Quite simply, over the past few years, Atlantic City has undergone a drastic change in its food and beverage departments. Tired old restaurants are being tossed, and new chefs are being sought out to develop creative new menus to help develop a sense of culinary identity at each property.
There are no star chefs yet, but some of the casinos are catching onto the idea of leasing space to restaurant developers. Redesigns, renovations, new menus, new ideas and, above all, a new focus on quality and service. By the way, there is no salt water in salt water taffy. Legend has it that the name came about after a particularly vicious storm flooded a Boardwalk candy shop with ocean water.
And those are just appetizers. The comfortable room also features a good selection of pasta check out the penne with pancetta, fennel and puree of fresh fava beans, or the more traditional orecchiette with garlic, olive oil and broccoli rabe , with main courses ranging from a simple assortment of cannelloni or veal scaloppini with prosciutto and mozzarella to grilled whole sea bass or rabbit braised in red wine, sage and rosemary.
All this plus a well-chosen selection of regional Italian wines makes Avanti one of the more intriguing Italian restaurants in the city, earning top marks for its focus on authenticity. Of course, the traditional Bacchanal elements are still in place-the wine goddesses who pour libations from an impossible height, co-ed massages following the entree in Vegas, they used to be guys-only , the fanfare entrance from Caesar and Cleopatra, and four to six courses of surprisingly good food, from the olive, cheese and vegetable crudite that starts you off to the flaming bananas that mark the conclusion of the feast.
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Publisher description for Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India / Antoinette Burton.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
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Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress. Her unpublished "Family History" (1935) stages the story of her parents' transnational marriage as a series of homes the family inhabited in Britain and India -- thereby providing a heretofore unavailable narrative of the domestic face of 19th century Indian nationalism. Cornelia Sorabji was one of the first Indian women to qualify for the bar. Her memoirs (1934 and 1936) demonstrate her determination to rescue the zenana (women's quarters) and purdahashin (secluded women) from the recesses of the orthodox home in order to counter the emancipationist claims of Gandhian nationalism. Last but not least, Attia Hosain's 1961 novel, "Sunlight on Broken Column" represents the violence and trauma of partition through the biography of a young heroine called Laila and her family home. Taken together, their writings raise questions about what counts as an archive, offering us new insights into the relationship of women to memory and history, gender to fact and fiction, and feminism to nationalism and postcolonialism.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Indic prose literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- India -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Majumdar, Janaki Agnes Penelope, -- 1886-1963. -- Family history.
Hosain, Attia, -- 1913- -- Sunlight on a broken column.
Sorabji, Cornelia, -- d. 1954- -- India calling.
Family -- India -- Historiography.
Women -- India -- Historiography.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Family in literature.
Home in literature.
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Sea Caves (a semi-pataphor)
Summer, and the long stalks are already ripe
with waves breaking through their spear-points
as July winds breathe from the sun's mouth
and as in a sea cave we conceal ourselves there
like blooded hares we hide ourselves there
like hares, motionless in all but their darting eyes
will flatten into the earth, invisible to all but scent
and the hounds, unfoxed, have fastened, their baying
their need for blood, already in our ears, growing
louder as they crash through the corn, dripping
lust from their lips, still bloody from the last
of our brood, to where we hide without hope
Clerihew (first attempt).
Theresa Mary May
to win one last hooray
should welcome Boris Johnson
with some petrol and a Ronson.
Triggerfish ...
Episode 21 of the Triggerfish Critical Review is out now, and number 22 is coming very soon!
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alliterative poeme à la mode in partly rhyming couplets
may might
can could
will would
shall should
Hamadryad.
Holy Jumping Trump
so there comes this day
when Trump, all the shame
of what he is
somehow settling in him
and the press are there
and the right wing dicks are there
and we are all there
and he jumps
but it's not like
the arc of some graceful bird
because halfway down he gets stuck, impaled
on a pink and gold flagpole
and he wriggles there
and slowly dies
and his blood runs down the side of Trump Tower
in a big dark streak
and afterwards we walk home
wondering how long
they'll leave him up there turning black
having his eyes pecked out
by any twittering starlings that happen by
and wish to consume
the optic ooze
of today's fake views
The City Incarnate—presented up close and at a distance: Modernist visions of James Joyce and Langston Hughes.
At some early stage in its metonymising arc, the understanding of the Latin word for 'city,' urbs, merged with its juxtapositional notion of civitas, deriving from civis, meaning a resident of a city. This etymology endorses the general—if ill-defined—view that a city is the recognisable but quasi-mystical nexus of its inhabitants with the buildings and topographies which are their identifying physical idiom and expression. So we may feel entitled to examine this question of a city “presented up close and at a distance” in the rather dreamlike sense of a superpositioning of psychologies, histories, cultures, human bodies, and architectural structures. To examine a complex and entangled entity called 'Dublin,' for instance, in the flickering magic lantern of James Joyce's The Dead, or another called 'New York' through the fervent, angry, celebratory affirmations that are the Harlem-words of Langston Hughes, is to experience these cities as liminal, as subjective, simulacraic characterisations of two specific cities, and as some deconstruction of the ultimate idea of city itself.
These cities, with their shadow cities beyond—Galway City, or the greater New York surrounding Harlem—become narratives and discourses, intertextual mosaics that are in some way real, and yet appear dreamlike. They are embattled from without; they bestride thresholds between old worlds (whose Baudelairean ghosts still clutch at the sleeve), and new, burgeoning worlds attempting to become, and we read of them as states hovering indeterminately between historicity and mythopoeia. They are liminal too in the anthropological sense of ritualistically incomplete, for these evocations are in some sense ritual texts suggesting or hoping for transformative social epiphanies and actualisations as their conclusions; and the voices, characters, structures, terrains and events they present are captured at indefinite waypoints between their previous identities and the indeterminate outcomes they foreshadow.
Liminal is also the word used to translate another signifier for in-betweenness: the Tibetan bardo, representing an intermediate state between life and death. And the Harlem we find in Langston Hughes is such a state, a physical place whose earlier incarnations have died (though architectural and other cultural shells remain), but whose human renaissance, whose next manifestation, which Hughes is wishing into being, is as yet incomplete—for instance, the 'Harlem Renaissance,' for all its lyrical homages to black women, has at this point provided genuine emancipation or equality for very few of them. In The Dead too we find everywhere this intermediate state: to read through the dream-streets and iconography of Joyce's Dublin is to feel the mythic Dead rise through the layers of the other Dublins that lie sleeping below. And hovering above Joyce's city are the two Biblical taxiarchs, the totemic and militarised archangels: the uncertain, conditional-tense Gabriel, and the affirmative and cohortative Michael, existing in a state of cold war unrealised even by Gabriel; both dead and undead in their different ways, contending to see which of them, which of the dreams they represent—and whose version of the city—will be most alive when the snow settles. And we feel this tension also in the representation of the new Dublin middle class represented by Gabriel, the “Western Briton” (Joyce in Norris, 2006, p. 165), and by both Miss Ivors and his own wife, Gretta, representing the Irish resurgence. These incomplete rituals of becoming in these cities are, of course, enacted through words; through images, musics and song; and through layers of excavated or constructed myth. (Norris, 2006; Gates and Appiah, 1993)
The Dead is undoubtedly the text from 'Dubliners' that takes us most deeply into the essential mythologies of Joyce's Dublin and its 'geologic' layering. Selecting any of the available texts from Hughes to do the same level of representation initially appears more difficult: these are saccades of up-close Harlem life rather than the grand sweep of multi-layered perspective which is The Dead. Their Modernism is of another type entirely, from a different continent, with locally differing, if allied, socio-political imperatives; but they too give us insight into the experience of a city, and of a people striving to orient and reinvent itself in a cultural and politicised context which would have been impossible for most Black people in the US only a few years earlier, and which would still, even during the 1920s, have been unimaginable in the still-resentful, erstwhile slave-states of the American South with its lynching culture and the Ku Klux Klan, and with the 'Jim Crow Laws' operating as minimally-modified reworkings of the 'Black Codes.' As with the deep history in every corner of 'The Dead,' Hughes's poems, despite their celebration of Harlem, still evoke the poverty and suffering of the 1920s, and the deep histories of slavery, and of Africa beyond. These realities too stare at us from every shadow, and we stare down at Harlem, as with Dublin, in this far wider historical context. As Hughes pithily states it in Not A Movie, “there ain't no Ku Klux on a 133rd”, showing us both the joy of this huge fact, and of Harlem as a decisive refuge and haven, but also the roots that clutch, and the act of remembering the disenfranchising south with its extremes of racist violence: “Well they rocked him with road apples […] and whipped his head with clubs”. So while Joyce's and Hughes's texts give us to differing degrees images of cities in paralysis—perfectly illustrated by Gabriel's absurdist 'equestrian' perambulations around a symbol of his own unrecognised oppression—they show us also peoples historically oppressed and brutalised, but for whom there are signs that change has begun, even if for both peoples that change will, as we now know, yet be long and bloody. (Johnson, 2000)
“The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm, Honey,” states the incongruously asexual Hughes in Lenox Avenue: Midnight, and this is approximately the first moment in history when anyone could have written these revolutionary words, by which he means that the frequencies and cadences of Jazz are somehow mathematically observable and integral in nature, in the rain, on the hissing and rumbling streets, even in the structures and idioms of the city and its inhabitants. It is the rhythm of life and therefore of sex and the creating of life, and he writes these words in the context of Harlem at night, thereby celebrating and proclaiming the sexed-up, dangerous, jazzed-up nightlife of Harlem. But unmistakably too we sense the alienation and weariness in the poem; this is an area where street cars rumble all night; haven though it may be, this is not some quiet, salubrious zone of the city, and we have the defiant binaries of Hughes peering at his own reflection in Harlem, painting something “dark yet shining, harsh yet gentle, bitter yet jubilant—a Freedom song sung in our midst” (Blesh in Gates and Appiah, 1993. p. 41). But more important, perhaps, than Hughes's words themselves—as Harold Bloom and Arnold Rampersad have suggested—is the fact of him writing them here in this moment. In some ways Hughes is his own opus, his “life a larger poem than any he could write” (Bloom, 2007, p. 3), the detail of his words less significant than the facts of his peripatetic and demonstrative life (at a time when, in reality, few black people had such general freedoms), and his proclaiming that this Harlem, this emancipatory mind-thing, is now possible here, so shortly after the dreadful history of slavery and subsequent oppression, and of the South's de facto ethnic cleansing. So Hughes's poetry of Harlem is a flag waving in a new breeze; it is a decisive snub; and at least in its authorial intent, it asserts a district displacing the beating heart of New York from 'The Great White Way,' or from Broadway, to Lenox Avenue, which he unequivocally constructs as mythic. (Rampersad, in Bloom, 2007)
The derivation of 'Jazz' remains uncertain (though elaborate associations between 'Jezebel' and 'orgasm' and 'jism' and 'jasm' have been proposed), but undoubtedly there is a sexualising of the Harlem scene in Lenox Avenue: Midnight, as there is in other Hughes poems such as the rather infantilising Harlem Sweeties, or Juke Box Love Song. And 'Jazz' is undoubtedly a new, sexy, magic word of the city—recently declared 'the word of the 20th century' by the American Dialect Society (Wikipedia, 2017)—trumpeting both the freedom and equality of black Americans, as the unmistakable virtuosity of Jazz musicians left white visitors to Harlem with little credible rationale for notions of racial supremacy. The word is powerful, and as with many other black idioms and neologisms it will go on to imprint itself upon the world. It is a new structure raised first in New Orleans, but now here in Harlem, and when the white folks awake they will see it towering there on the skyline—they will wonder and resent and scoff, and finally they will embrace it. So here we have Hughes spreading the word of this Jazzed-up new freedom in a new black language, which is informal and conversational, and rather more authentic than, for instance, the non-Jamaican-vernacular poems of Claude McKay, which remain less stylistically free, less urban and modern, and largely “imprisoned in the pentameter” (Brathwaite in Jenkins, 2003, p. 285). Hughes, albeit in a more readerly sense than Joyce, is announcing some sort of revolution, and the modern freedom of his language tells us something about the city and its voices. But alongside the celebration we feel always the menace of the city outside: that other city where few black people yet live, the surrounding vastness of New York with its overarching and watchful narratives filled with “images of impenetrable whiteness” (Morrison, 1992, p. 33).
“There ain't no Ku Klux on a 133rd” is not merely a triumphal cry of escape from southern oppression: with its rejection of other potential stopping points en route to Harlem (Washington, Baltimore, Newark etc), it is a decisive identification of territory and a warning. So Hughes's poetry, language and consciousness constitute, perhaps, a unique Modernism, which will become profoundly influential, will lead, ultimately, amongst other things, to the white Beat culture, to Kerouac and Ginsberg et al emulating its Jazz styling. “The gods are laughing at us,” declares Hughes, becoming in some way one of those laughing gods overarching the city which he himself is instrumental in creating—and an enquiry of modern black Americans for the purposes of this essay reveals that he is still regarded as iconic in this process. Whatever the alleged limitations of his poetry, Hughes, “well before his compeers [...] demonstrated how to use black vernacular language and music […] as a poetic diction, a formal language of poetry” (Gates, 1993, pp. x-xi), and we feel keenly both the rising of this language from the shadows, and with it the rising of a new city. (Wikipedia, 2017)
So while The Dead is perhaps more writerly, giving us components rather than overt declarations, here too we are presented with—or enabled to construct—a city whose spirit and language are rising from the dead, and of actual or latent conflict. The paintings of 'the balcony scene' and the 'little princes' are effectively intertextual, intersecting images of death, factional violence, and blood feud, which we know are already spreading and worsening across Dublin at this time, as though the Furies (and would Joyce have failed to notice the Erin in Erinyes, the Greek name for the Furies?) are indeed rising, called back, like Furey's name itself evoking some Homeric or 'Aeschylusian' atavism of retribution and reclamation, in poetical and linguistic opposition even to Gabriel's surname, 'Conroy,' which we can reasonably deconstruct into a Joycean wordplay meaning with the king. And in the references to the surrounding city, we have the church on Haddington Road, next to Wolfe Tone Square; we have the jarring binary juxtaposition of tyranny and rebellion in the Wellington Monument near the site of the 'Phoenix Park Murders;' and in all the references to imagery, to statuary, even to music and to the food served, we have these same tensions between Michael and Gabriel; between Galway and Dublin; between the west and east coasts; even between Gabriel and Gretta in the vast closing epiphany between them which says so much about Dublin and Ireland and the rising (if partly invented) spirit of its history and tradition. All of this is wonderfully expressed in the instant visual canonizing of Gretta captured against the stained glass in John Huston's film of The Dead like the the 'Spirit of Éireann' (contemporaneous poster-icon adversary of the 'West Briton') suddenly incarnate in Dublin, in that atavistic burst of colour and song which has Gabriel transfixed, though still failing to grasp the resurrection here, still in denial until the final moments where he realises he has been competing with the chthonic Michael, whose undead Gallic spirit and the discourse it represents—which he had hoped was long exorcised from Gretta and from Dublin—has been here throughout. And if he had only looked more closely at the city and his wife, perhaps he might have seen it all along.
Depth Charges: a short story.
Depth Charges
.. - --- --- .- -- -. --- - .- -... .. - - .- -- . -.. ·-·-·- .. - --- --- .- -- ..- -. - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - .- -... .-.. . —Walt Whitman
From this distance in time an Atlantic mist shrouds everything. There are no films, no recordings, no diaries—only snatches of song through the static, old stories half-heard on a broken wartime radio: the convoys; Morse code; U-Boats calling to each other like bats...
My Grandfather, Walter, speaks in bursts, in a cracked old Scouse accent, his voice unnaturally high and emasculated by age, squeaking sometimes like an adolescent boy with his voice breaking:
“They weren't crying for God; they were screaming for their bloody mothers.” His eyes are grey and wide and wet like the sea, his voice a quiet shriek.
“The sea was all on fire around the ships, and the men were all jumping in.”
He clamps his entire face shut—almost gurning—shakes his head, turns back to the “Daily Sun”, as he calls it. We sit in the little neat kitchen that smells of bacon fat and Mr Muscle, with my Nana, Alice, wiping around him—she is a big, apron-clad fuss of tidiness and disapproval. I am nineteen, old enough and young enough to feel bored and superior. I am only really here because of my mother's insistence that I visit my grandparents occasionally. That and some sense of guilt.
“Their bloody mothers,” he repeats.
“Oh don't go on.” Her face is clamped shut too, scowling at him in his nondescript crimplene slacks; his beige cardigan with its brown leather buttons; even a tie—one of those narrow 1960s knitted ties—on a weekday, for Christ’s sake, just sitting in the kitchen doing nothing but being bloody irritating, with his thin, haunted, grey face, his thick white hair even at this age. Silly old sod. Why couldn't he just die?
She outgrew him long ago, and has been ashamed of him ever since. What she can't outgrow are her weird Anglican sensibilities of marriage as an unbreakable set of vows—for better or for worse. Better to live a lifetime of contempt and misery than break the rules, presumably.
“You seen this?” He's jabbing the paper, his eyes furious. “Bloody bananas now, the swine...” He hates Europeans, hates the ‘Common Market.’ He would have loved Brexit, but he’d have to have lived to 102-years-old to have seen all that, and that was always unlikely.
“Have you read it? 'Ave yer?”
“Oh don't go on...” The silly old sod.
And the nights of burning ships, of men screaming for their mothers, are the 19th and 20th of October, 1940. The convoy is HX 79, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool. Walter is a Merchant Marine soldier at sea, on an oil tanker, operating a Bofors pom-pom gun on anti-aircraft duty. He is twenty-six; his skin is raw from the chafing of his always-wet black gunnery uniform. He doesn't know it yet, but up ahead in the Western Approaches before Ireland the Wolfpack gathers. There are even two aces present—Gunther Prien in U47, and Otto Kretschmer in U99—and over the next forty-eight hours theirs and other U-Boats will sink thirty-two ships. Walter steams into history.
Signals bounce across the radio waves in Ultra, summoning more sea monsters to the feast; but this is 1940, and the famous codebreakers from Bletchley Park are not yet adept at cracking Ultra. Alan Turing has not yet secretly saved the world or been hounded to death for being Gay. This is what the U-Boat crews call Die Glückliche Zeit—The Happy Time—when the Enigma coding is still intact, when the convoy system is still ineffective. The time when no one could yet do a damn thing about it. Walter steams through a fiery seascape at night, seeing burning men jump from burning ships into the burning sea. They do not cry for God.
And after these two nights Walter will never cry for God again.
And then it is many years later, and we are sitting in the garden outside my parents' old house above the Clwyd Valley in North Wales (where we had moved to escape Liverpool), drinking sparkling wine in the sunshine. I am house-sitting for the summer, and Alice is describing dancing to Jazz at the Rialto Club when Walter was on leave, how he looked so handsome capering in his green suit. He sounds like a leprechaun, and it's hard to imagine; he is an old man now, kneeling wheezily on the grass, somewhat improbably fashioning a box kite from newspaper and sticks (kites have long been his party piece). Beside him is a broken concertina he picked up somewhere; he can't play it for shit, but he's been annoying everyone with it for the last year.
“And I got a gorgeous green dress to match.” Alice is zoning in and out of the past like a stage psychic alternating between talking to the audience and talking to the spirit world. I imagine them in green, whirling under bright lights, twenty-something, wartime, filled with whatever stolen relief people got from alcohol and music and love, and a few quick days off from the war.
“Oh you shoulda seen us.”
“D'ya remember that time, Lal...” This has ever been his term of endearment for her, but she cuts him off. She won't remember for him, but she remembers for me, her eyes shining like a little girl.
“We met at the opening of the Mersey Tunnel. There were thousands there. Even the King and Queen an' all.” And she is truly rapt, as though her moist eyes are seeing into heaven.
“Aw, you've never seen such a day.”
She shakes herself a little, and sighs, and we watch Walter building his kite and whistling to himself toothlessly. The sun shines; there are birds singing. From here, we can see right across the valley to the brown-purple heathered flanks of the Berwyn Mountains.
“Keep talking,” I say. I want to know about everything while they are in this mood; they have almost become kids again. I am about thirty now, and no longer so superior. I have the feeling that this may be the last time ever, that this moment in the sunshine will be a kind of ending. But Alice is suddenly shy.
“Let's see if his silly kite flies then,” she says.
The Atlantic crossing is cold and brutal, with the ever-present dread of what lurks below. You imagine them singing Nazi songs down there in their iron bubbles, or holding their breaths, waiting. They invade your dreams when you climb into your wet, smelly bunk, which was vacated ten seconds earlier by your predecessor. The ship rumbles on, shuddering and moaning as ships do when you lie deep in their bellies. There is an overpowering reek of male sweat and fear. Around you in the night, other ships catch fire, then slide into the deep, plummeting towards the sea-floor far below. If you are on deck, sometimes you can see the desperate, oily faces of the men in the sea, shining up in the firelight; you hear their cries. They won't last long in that cold. At least that is a mercy; better that the weather was freezing so they would die quicker. Leaving men behind in the water was perhaps the hardest thing of all. You wanted time to speed up so they'd be dead already. You wanted to stop for them, but you couldn't or your ship would be next, and then you'd be in the water, watching them all steam by, every gaunt-faced man on deck trying to pretend you didn't exist. Perhaps—as you drowned—you'd think of home, of Whitby Street: chickens in the back yard, and the outside toilet shared with the neighbours. Freezing your arse off in winter. Or perhaps you'd remember Jazz dancing at the Rialto. (Years later—in 1981—the Rialto too will burn like a ship from your dreams on the first night of the Toxteth riots. But by then your dancing days will be long over.)
There are calmer nights on the convoys too: the sky low-hanging with more stars than anyone could imagine, and the ships gliding through luminescent green fields of plankton. You could draw up bucketfuls of glittering sea water that shone bright enough to read by. And then the sun spills out like dancing gold over the wave-tops at dawn, and you make it safely around Ireland—Rockall, Shannon, Sole, Fastnet, Lundy, Irish Sea... River Mersey. River Mersey...
You are alive: what finer sight could there be than the Liver Buildings drawing you home, the Liver Birds ushering you in on their angel-wings...
And the good old sexist joke about the Liver Birds (one looks in towards the city, the other out across the Mersey) is that the one gazing out is a wife looking to see if her man is returning from sea. The other is her sailor husband, coming home, looking to see if the pubs are open yet.
I would like to say that the kite soars out across the valleys of North Wales, mounting into the shimmering haze of the sunset like a distant dream (as Alice will remember it later). The reality is that it flies shakily on the breeze until the string snaps, and we never see it again.
Walter is unused to gardens. He was born in 1914 on a back street. His mother would drive him out of the house to make money, barefoot, from when he was ten years-old, and wouldn't allow him back in until he had made sixpence. He would scurry like a rat under trestle tables at Saint John's Market, scavenging vegetable scraps to sell. If he didn't make his sixpence he would have to sleep on the street, even in midwinter. He told old stories of Liverpool: of sectarian warfare spilt over from Ireland; of gang fights and criminality. In one of these stories a man is dragged from a pub on Lower Breck Road sometime in the 1950s, and held against the wall outside, his legs forced apart, while other men—drunk and laughing—kick him repeatedly in the groin until he is almost destroyed.
“I saw him years after—years after—and he was still on crutches like,” Walter says, shaking his head with that grimace that permanently oscillates somewhere between anxiety and outrage. (I am ten years-old when I first hear this story, and years later I still feel the male horror it implanted.)
Walter has been a survivor, a barefoot child foraging in a brutal city; a sailor somehow making it home while all around other men died in the freezing, burning water. But Alice too has been a survivor. She tells stories of the Liverpool Blitz of 1940, of hiding behind a mattress with the kids just before the front wall of their house was blown in by a landmine dropped from a Dornier (everyone had learnt the different engine sounds of German bombers by then). They all survived, though the coarse, noisy parrot—called Gracie—forgotten in the panic, was forever cured of repeating “bloody swine” (in which it had been diligently tutored by Walter).
The next morning, Alice runs along still-burning streets to fetch the bread and milk with walls collapsing around her. She survives. (Years later, we kids would play in the rubble of these 'bommies,' as we called them, wearing inherited gas-masks, little thinking of the body parts still lost below.)
Small wonder then that you would grab the chance to go out drinking and dancing in green after nights like that; small wonder that you might grab the chance to do anything, with your husband away at sea, perhaps never to return. And Alice's second daughter—named Joan—looks unlike the others. She is big-boned. black-haired, olive-skinned: a changeling.
And pale, slight Walter really isn't sure if he was on leave at the right time to explain all of that. And perhaps something dark rises in him like a sea monster.
In the garden that day, having forgotten Walter's “silly kite,” we talk of relatives, of daughters and granddaughters, of infidelities and marriage breakups.
“I think,” Alice says, “when the sex is gone, it's all gone.” She is wearing a crocheted cardigan and black trousers. I've never before heard her utter the word 'sex.' Walter doesn't say anything; he has no script, no neural pathways for such exchanges, and his wife is an uncomfortable mystery to him in these moments. His kite is lost somewhere in a clump of nettles.
A few years later, Joan, now in her fifties, accuses Walter of molesting her as a child. Alice doesn't want to know; Walter surrounds himself with an iron curtain of unhearing.
“He did it, Mum,” says Joan, whose hair is still jet black, whose skin is still olive.
“It's too late, Joan,” says Alice, her face set like a big quivering rock. “It's too late. I don't want to know now.”
Whatever outcome Joan has hoped for—perhaps agonised over—for all those years, it is not this. It is not yet the age of #MeToo, and it is mentioned no more, but the next time Joan can bear Walter's presence is at his funeral.
My last memory is of an old yellow man with frightened eyes in a respirator mask like a spaceman, with a nebulizer machine gurgling along next to the bed. He is dying of emphysema, despite having quit smoking decades earlier. He sits there looking out with eyes like a drowning man, while Alice cleans the house around him, smothering his weak voice with the vacuum, cleaning everywhere five times a day, sucking up his remnants in advance so there would be nothing left of him—sucking up the time he has left, and with it all memory, wiping it all clean.
Most of his clothes have already been washed, ironed, folded, and packed in bin-liners ready for the charity shop, so that when they wheel his body out, a minute or two after he dies, there is already little trace of him, as though some Atlantic fog-bank has rolled in, shrouding everything.
“I imagine Walter as someone who could get a tune out of anything,” says the unreliable vicar at the funeral a few days later, nodding and smiling at us all rather cheerfully and expectantly.
And we all remember that damned concertina, and wonder just who the hell he could be talking about.
twenty-three minutes to seven
평안한 잠 · 정선원: Really, nothing further ought to have been said
—Madeleine Shine
a watchdog with the acumen
to keep the Russians in the picture
of a new struggle, a dismal day
the implications of a no deal contributing
to the poor mood, looking for a clear sign
with the degree of urgency it has stretched
itself too far behind the curve on the second day
—so very little to indicate the number of people
whom smoking declines by 2030—we are committed
to important factors (we all breathe
at the moment (a US-style levy? a very clever
grass court game in an hour's time trouble
and strife)(—the first man on the moon
this Saturday afternoon vying to become
a head to head debate a row with October 31st
in sight to compel same sex marriage except
where the mother's life is at risk of losing
all credibility—setting a strong example
but needs to do more threatening the highest
ratings the worst performing the uranium ambassador
spoke of constant pressure to ensure ministers
are promising change refusing to say whether
our man in Washington was one of the moments
when Mr Johnson refused to equivocate if
a narrow margin matters the key killer blow
your top come what may
not have a grip on detail the only thing he
believes matters as the hamster wheel of gloom [BJ]
—defeatism, managerialism—confirmed in their view
of a welcome breath where both men seem
absolutely in lockstep on the other hand
of the real dividing line and has been
throughout project fear in a quarter
of an hour it is twenty-three minutes to seven
what are they trying to achieve in the effort
to shine a global spotlight?
Fake News (unending cyborg translation).
fausses nouvelles
vous voyez ce qu'il pense être entre ces mains pourrait être a été
dans ces mains ces mains qui tendent la main
devant Andrew Jackson patpat vous voyez
le besoin quand ils crient vous voyez la décoloration
de l'air entre eux crier ou tirer ils aiment les deux
à égalité n'aime pas la traînée de larmes les codeurs
la foule la foule lubrique et l'équipage dans le sens
de chanté oh comment ils équipent comment brut ils sont
chatte mon amour ma belle pipi-vert pousser mon chapeau
mon chapeau rouge tu vois comme tout est rose et doré
grand encore la plus grande génération ils continuent à dire que
combien des plus grands sont venus à la maison et ont battu le noir
et bleu ce qui est si grand sur le racisme même
son âme est décentrée maintenant, mais voyez l'air capricieux
entre eux voir l'air comme une voiture pleine de vapeurs
dans une grange rouge un balancement penchant dans une ruelle
laissé pour mort balancer avec un visage noir à l'aube pour vos enfants
pour trouver votre langue qui a serpenté à travers le pays
la terre qui n'est pas à vous oui Pocahontas quel rire
à peine un ADN à montrer pas pur-sang comme la chose
avec des mains qui ont saisi du tout hors de portée tout
non désirés simplement pour souiller aucun amour ni autre chose
sentez-vous le mal baise dans l'air l'air
vous voulez de fausses nouvelles regardez là-bas
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Sol Sistere (en Francais)
ça fait plaisir d'apprendre à vous connaître
sentir votre chaleur augmenter
sentir votre lumière se propager
de plus en plus à l'intérieur
mais nous sommes des choses inconstantes
et déjà maintenant, à notre moment
de plus grande intimité
nous commençons à sentir la légère traction
de notre autre amour de loin
et tous les jours maintenant
nous partons un peu plus
solstice joyeux-triste
Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot, and Time.
‘Time is a relative and subjective concept in these texts.' (Between the Acts and Burnt Norton.)
We might usefully take a quotation from Burnt Norton as leitmotif for Between the Acts: “What might have been and what has been / Point to one end, which is always present” (Eliot, 1983, p. 189). Woolf's multifarious uses of the imagery, imaginings or realities of time are seeded everywhere throughout her text, almost to the point of madness, embedded and propagated, all seemingly bent to one end – the great, overarching, elusive fact of present time, the numinous place where she experiences her epiphanous “moments of being” (Woolf, in Asbee, 2017, p. 196). And this centrality of present time, as perhaps one of the primary purposes of her text sees the co-option of all other forms of time, including factual history and the abstracted time she appears to claim that we generally inhabit, gathered into her subjective scheme, relativised against the quickened time to which she directs us, which we were perhaps about to witness for ourselves when “the curtain rose [and] They spoke” (Woolf, 2008, p. 198). Both Eliot and Woolf deploy objective, recorded history, including personal anecdotes (a visit to the derelict gardens of Burnt Norton, for instance), but both assemble all these facts into their philosophic schemes, which have – superficially, at least – something in common. Both are concerned with the quasi-mystical pre-eminence and immanence of Present Time, which, to Eliot's syncretistic religious thinking (“there is only the dance” (Eliot, 1983, p. 191) conflates Christ with Shiva, whose mythic dance engenders the cycles of life, regeneration, and dissolution – time, in fact), potentially includes all of time. And to advance their arguments both use actual historical time (even prehistorical time: “a riot of rhododendrons and humming birds” (Woolf, 2008, p. 98)), relative to fictional time, narrative time, mythic time, and present time. Our answer to the (possibly tautological) proposition that “time is a relative and subjective concept”, then, must be that yes, time is variously subjective and relative – while also objective and non-relative – in these two texts, as it is in our own lives. And both writers are concerned to show us the great connectivity of relative time as they perceive it, in their own highly subjective – though attemptedly objectified – visions, of time's passing, of transition, and of the ineffable and mystic present at “the still point of the turning world” (Eliot, 1983, p. 191).
We might note, in passing, that the titles of both texts (the overall title of Four Quartets rather than just Burnt Norton) relate to forms of dramatic or musical art-forms, in which – while subjective time may be integral to their devising and composition – time becomes objective through performance. The constructions themselves might be regarded as entirely human and subjective, but, once played or spoken, the time elapsed and what occurred in that time becomes fixed and historical (especially if recorded). Between the Acts has an unusual level of theatricality for a novel, perhaps unsurprisingly, considering Woolf's stated intentions concerning her vision for prose fiction: “It will have something of the exaltation of poetry, but much of the ordinariness of prose. It will be dramatic, and yet not a play” (Woolf, in Asbee, 2015, p. 193); and Four Quartets, with it's musically-reminiscent title, might almost operate successfully as a play for voices – so both have an association with art-forms in which time, both objective and subjective, is more integral and vital than usual in either novels or poetry. As Eliot claims, “Words move, music moves / Only in time” (1983, p. 194), perhaps invoking the connection himself.
The first names we encounter in Between the Acts are pastoral, classical and/or religious in origin, establishing an immediate field of locality, of continuity, and of deep time underlying the text. They seem pertinent to Woolf's imperatives and to her presentation of time, and it seems unlikely that they are merely serendipitous: Haines derives from Old German hagano, meaning 'hawthorn'; Oliver is, of course, of olive trees; and Giles derives from the Greek aigidion: a young goat. And superpositioning these almost druidic, agrarian images is Isa – which, alongside being “a shortened version of Isabella” (Asbee, 2017, p. 203), is a variant translation of Jesus, representative of the traditional, quasi-Arthurian, spiritual compact between these English humans and their land. And, as though foregrounding the pagan antecedents of this ancient relationship, Isa is also a diminutive form of Isis-Fortuna, the mother/fertility goddess imported into England two thousand years earlier along Roman roads such as that adjacent to 'Pointz Hall' in Woolf’s text. Adding further metaphoric layers to this existential matrix of time and nature, Mrs Haines is “goosefaced” (Woolf, 2008, p. 3) and looking for things to gobble, while Isa arrives “like a swan” (p. 3) adorned with pigtails and peacocks. (Time's passage operates even here at this almost Joycean level of near-invisibility, through scatters of allusion.)
And of course their conversation is of cows and horses; nightingales and laughing daylight birds; worms, snails, Romans, Britons, children and graves; and Isa's thoughts are illicit fantasies of herself and Mr Haines amorously transmogrified into actual waterfowl. Most importantly, perhaps somewhat comedically – lest we fail to grasp Woolf's multiple, metamorphic imagery of the land and the people, of the rooting and propagating, of human and animal husbandry through time – their central topic is the optimum siting of their collective excrement, perhaps the most quintessential motif of the quotidian and the cyclic, the most base and essential; the seasonal and the regenerative and the mortal (almost itself a stark image of the 'dance of Shiva') – itself a ticking clock measuring animal and human lives. “What a thing to talk about on a night like this!” (Woolf, 2008, p. 3) exclaims Mrs Haines, but what sort of night does she think it is? And is she protesting or applauding? Perhaps both, in keeping with the numerous binaries and indeterminacies, and the “random and tentative” (Woolf, 2008, p. xiii) nature of the novel; no doubt this is deliberately vague, as are both the tacit characterisation of time, and the hinted dual role of ordure as both filth and nutrient. In all of these ways, from the outset, we are located and immersed in a layered nexus of human frames of time and place, of belonging and interconnectedness; of an inescapable corporeal, spiritual, and temporal alliance with the living, entangled, root-and-bone charnel house of the natural world, expressed through Woolf's (and our) dreamlike, historical, and ongoing constructions within and around it.
Notwithstanding his rather unconvincing (one almost suspects grudging) qualifications of “perhaps ... [and] ... If” (Eliot, 1983, p. 189) at the opening of Burnt Norton, Eliot seems to make overt and strident declarations of what time is, and how it works (rather exceeding the discoveries of physicists in the process) and it is difficult to see how such confident declarations by fiat amount to much more than personal beliefs. Ultimately it may be possible to find Eliot guilty here of that most tempting of poetical transgressions: telling rather than showing. In reality, his attempts at showing – he shows us age, dereliction, children, foliage; life, death and decay – do not truly connect to his assertions about time; they may be appealing, may even be correct, but the showing does not logically represent them and render them shown, and despite these attempts, Eliot's time remains deeply subjective. Woolf – avoiding grandiose attempts at objectivity – conjures in her readers an experience of her diverse discourses of time through her distorting and conflictual use of the structures of language, and by a near-bombardment with imagery and allusion, by which she gradually envelops us in a densely layered accretion of images of both temporal connectivity and relativism (“Tick, tick, tick went the machine” (Woolf, 2008, p. 159), with her own actual death perhaps operating as the de facto final act of Miss La Trobe's pageant. Woolf evokes time through what seems a reasonable imitation of human consciousness, flitting around, intermittently, capriciously – even chaotically – concentrating, remembering, musing, calculating, posturing, repeating, wishing, lamenting ... Eliot evokes his own subjective vision of time in his slow-paced, expansive rhythms (especially so in his own mellifluous and persuasive recorded reading); he initially appears more comforting, more enticing in his reassuring, paternalistic imagery of time, speaking almost as though endowed with some divine licence, but one suspects it is Woolf who – though with equal artifice – expresses greater honesty, and a vision of time more familiar to humans in its broken mosaic than is Eliot's prophetic sonority.
Eliot also makes claims on the land and on heritage, perhaps feeling for his own roots and his sense of English continuity at a time of slowly advancing national crisis and personal transition. But alongside being captivated by the poetical mastery and musicality of Burnt Norton, we should perhaps remember that Eliot's wider subjectivity around time and continuity and belonging includes disturbing and prescriptive messages such as the following, from two years earlier in 1933: “The population should be homogeneous; where two or more cultures exist in the same place they are likely to be fiercely self-conscious or both to become adulterate. What is more important is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable” (Eliot, in Philips, 2011) – which could almost be from the pages of Mein Kampf. And we should consider Eliot's suggestions of his own missionary role – “the whole of modern literature is corrupted by what I call Secularism” (Eliot, in Davies and Fraser, 2017, p. 155). Perhaps then we might perceive a subtext to his ruminations upon time. For Eliot, time is an exactingly focused figure of rhetoric and a rather cynical cohortative to the reader; for Woolf, time is running out; it is real, urgent, and honest. Woolf sets Between the Acts just prior to the beginning of WW2, having already decided that she was unlikely to survive another year, expecting that she and her Jewish husband would be killed by the Nazis, whose invasion barges were already massing across the English Channel. One detects a great appeal to time, an invocation of the vast river of English history, animated by this fear and fatalism, animated also by Woolf's antipathy to war, to Fascism, to anti-Semitism. Woolf's time is a wishful and gentle time of remembrance (ushering us towards the wakefulness of present time), not a declamatory or pompous time. Time is indeed bent subjectively to her service, to that of her vision of England, its people, and its literature, and it is – one suspects – a time system engendered by her own feelings of time ending, of imminent invasion, or of death from a random bomb, or perhaps of an intended suicide.
Poets, like anyone else, are of course permitted to cogitate upon time and the universe, but unless they have special knowledge beyond that held by science or the rest of Humanity, there is no reason why we should grant their conclusions special credence. Eliot's formula is to intersperse his grandiloquent propositions with more Modernistic and personal or allusive detail, as if in support of his points, but the reality may be that the more poetic and tangential asides, such as “Go, said the bird, for the leaves are full of children” (Eliot, 1983, p. 190), only reinforce the subjectivity of the whole, and one might prefer to read them – they are wonderfully poetic, of course – without the sermonizing. And the rhetorical devices, the use of chiasmus (rhetorical reversal), anaphora – the extended parallelism of the word “time” repeated eleven times – are always redolent of preaching, and are familiar fare both in sermons and in ostentatious political speeches. Eliot's marginally qualified considerations concerning time, for instance, such as “all time is eternally present” (Eliot, 1983, p. 190) sound impressive, and his authoritative tone and magisterial register may make it easy to miss his crucial “if”, but he might, with as much justification and authority, have considered that “all time is not eternally present.” His meditations seem disingenuous and groundless, if rather messianic, and the tone suggests not revelation or conclusion, but that he is in fact presenting a favoured and highly subjective vision of time, one presumably congruent with some syncretism of his studies of Buddhism/Hinduism, Catholic theology, and his actual high Anglican faith. So we may be entitled to conclude that these are not objective passages gleaned from some great personal breakthrough into new knowledge, but are simply propaganda reflecting his personal reading of religious dogma.
Much of Eliot's life, of course, might also be said to be between the acts, as he repeatedly transitioned to new states of style and belief, including those of his personal life as well as his literary work. This compartmentalisation of time perhaps gives it added resonance as he gazes out and ponders its significance, and the ever-presence of time and potential time experienced as both history and non-history, of constructed other-memory. So Eliot – as with the characters in Woolf's novel – is playing his own localised historical pageant, and also establishing a sort of eternity, also enacting his own life against the larger pageant of time itself, envisaged as some grand cosmic cycling imperceptible to humans confined always in an apparent present moment, their perceptions limited to personal saccades.
One wonders if Woolf's claim that the meaning of Eliot's poetry eluded her – “I am held off from understanding by magic” (Woolf in Asbee, 2017, p. 185) – was in fact a way of mollifying Eliot without having to engage uncomfortably with his religious/political beliefs, being both married to a Jew, and a committed and certain atheist herself, which itself requires a wholly different conception of time than that required by religion and expressed by Eliot. And following this relativism between the two writers and their time systems, signifiers of time – its passage, its seeming cessation, and its various past periods or moments – occur everywhere in Between the Acts, as do relativisms between present time (even present time as the future: “And after that, what? […] Present time. Ourselves” Woolf, 2008, p. 158)), past time, and the future. This is simultaneously relative and subjective and objective, and this ticking clock into the past and the future runs throughout Between the Acts until it seems inescapable that Woolf – with her concept of “moments of being” (Woolf, in Asbee, 2017, p. 196) – is suggesting that we are abstract most of the time, that we do not generally inhabit the “moment of being” which is present time. Perhaps this is too mystical, but present time is where humans do their being, and clearly she refers to its happening only for moments, between which, presumably, there is a stasis, a non-place of abstraction, while we await the next act in present time.
Ambivalence is a state often associated with Modernist writers such as Eliot and Woolf, and in one sense ambivalence is another subjective and relativistic way of looking at time. If we think of Eliot's line, “Footfalls echo in the memory / Down the passage which we did not take / Towards the door we never opened” (Eliot, 1983, p. 189), then we are already involved in past ambivalence setting up alternative timelines. If life is a series of choices bifurcating our path, then each choice requires the rejection of one or more other choices, with the effect of at least a temporal ambivalence but more likely a multivalence, in which the unselected alternatives run alongside us in the imagination, as though in some facsimile of Eliot's notion all time is indeed subjectively “eternally present” (Eliot, 1983, p. 189). One is tempted to invoke Hugh Everett's 1957 'many-worlds theory' here, and imagine those other timelines actualised as other worlds, and Eliot's “footfalls” echoing not merely in the memory but in the actuality of an alternative, multiversal reality. Modernism (we can at least conveniently hypothesise Burnt Norton as late Modernism) often sets up such dramatic fields of binary oppositions, and attempts to locate the reader in the liminal space between two (or more) poles. Far from merely being between the acts in Woolf's novel, we appear to be between almost everything and everything else: the language uses archaic inversions, idiosyncratic punctuations, oppositions, contradictions, contrasts, antitheses, advances and retreats – subverting itself at every turn, creating, evoking, refuting, suggesting this liminality whereby a thing has only just been established when it is instantly thwarted (or balanced) by the presence of some counter-proposition thrust forward to neutralise it. Where are we in all of this? Clearly we are inside Woolf's head, immersed in the “exact shapes” of her interior, which she statedly wishes to convey. Not much happens in terms of story or plot on the surface of this novel, but its very tissue and fabric are alive with creativity and creation, which gives us another clue to time, which slows to a muddy rural crawl above, while its inner mechanism spins almost – though never quite – out of control.
Woolf has already constructed not only her own complex literary time, but perhaps more crucially her own endtime. And as though the entire text is an unfinished prophecy choked in the mouth of a dying sybil, she will effectively die in its pages, unable to go on to an ending of which she cannot conceive, weighed down with fear for the future, fear of the dreadful unknown, and the rising recurrence of her own madness, shortly to conspire in this great weighting down by filling her pockets with stones and wading out to die, writing – and thereby controlling – the narrative of her own death rather than waiting for it. Miss La Trobe's pageant unfolds English literary time, which perhaps Woolf felt was reaching its own endtime, and perhaps she was consciously or unconsciously planning her own suicide as the logical – even necessary – denouement of the respective pageants of England, of war, and of herself, her own literary terminus perhaps mirroring or symbolising the ending of English literature which she may have envisaged as the inevitable outcome of a successful Nazi invasion. If so, then her ideas of subjective time may have now seemed as finite and limited as Miss La Trobe's sequential imaging of Englishness exemplified by literary pageantry.
The traditional outdoor nature of the pageant effectively co-opts bystanders and audience into an inclusive presentation of the dreams and identity of England, as though Woolf is saying that this last great fatalistic and terminal act to come will involve all of us, before processing to her own final outdoor performance (her suicide in the River Ouse), which involves her in in a meta-sense in her text, symbolises the end of England that she foresees, and is performed with deliberation, theatricality and courage. Between the Acts feels like a wholesale marshalling of the historical and cultural forces of a nation about to perform its next great but potentially foredoomed act; it feels optimistic about history alone, despite its wistful evocations of a present time just out of reach. And, with this in mind, an unfinished novel suggests another kind of subjective and liminal time between acts, a time which was either wrong or insufficient for the finishing of the work, and a next act never to arrive – all her future moments of non-being only. And perhaps the reality is that Woolf, with her litany of subjective time and recalled time has in fact evoked a sort of experience in the reader of the most objective time of all, the present, while Eliot, for all his attempted authority and objectivity, has made his own statements of time seem both more subjective and far less stable.
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Biography – CRUSOE, ROBINSON – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
CRUSOE, ROBINSON, Oupeshepow (Cree) hunter from Great Whale River; d. 9 Dec. 1755 at Richmond Fort.
Robinson Crusoe and his son Friday came to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s newly founded fort on Richmond Gulf (Lac Guillaume-Delisle, Que.) in 1750. For the next five years Crusoe was of inestimable assistance to the factor, John Potts. Crusoe carried the annual packet to Eastmain House in 1751. The next year he was sent to Great Whale River with a captain’s coat and hat for Shewescome, a chief there, to invite him to bring his band to hunt whales at Little Whale River. Shewescome and his men came, accepted presents of brandy and tobacco, but did no hunting. Crusoe was a particularly effective killer of whales, and the Smith at Richmond Fort made whaling instruments under his directions.
Crusoe’s conduct of his domestic affairs brought him a brush with death in 1753. Several years before, he had taken his son-in-law’s mother to wife. Then in 1753, when she was about 80, he turned her out and took another wife. Although other Indians supported his action, saying the woman and her relatives had given him much ill-usage, his son-in-law attacked him, inflicting six cuts on his head with a hatchet. Potts sent a sledge to bring him to the factory, as the death of “the best hunter, whale fisher, snowshoe maker, and best supplier of country provisions” would have been a serious blow to the settlement.
Crusoe recovered, and when in 1754 the Eskimos sacked the outpost at Little Whale River and carried off Matthew Warden, he supplied venison to the uneasy defenders of Richmond, who were afraid to leave their fort for fear of an Eskimo attack. When the two Eskimos whom Potts had captured as hostages for Warden were killed in trying to escape, Crusoe advised against hanging the bodies on a gibbet, English style, as doing so would be an invitation for the Eskimos to kill Warden if he were still alive. In March 1755 Potts sent Crusoe to Eastmain with letters for the forts at Albany (Fort Albany, Ont.) and Moose (Moose Factory, Ont.) describing the troubles at Richmond.
Crusoe was brought to the factory lame and ill in November, and he took a fever and died on 9 December. Henry Pollexfen Jr, who was in charge during Potts’ absence, recorded: “This morning died Robinson Crusoe, an honest worthy Indian; a man that has been the greatest help if not the only one of real Service to the Factory, and on whome the Whale fishing chiefly depended which makes his death regreted by the Europeans here as well as by his own Countrymen.”
George E. Thorman
HBC Arch. B.182/a/1–8.
POTTS, JOHN (Vol. 3)
George E. Thorman, “CRUSOE, ROBINSON,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 20, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/crusoe_robinson_3E.html.
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Learning Zone: Shakespeare - From Page to Stage, The
Shakespeare - From Page to Stage
Three-part documentary from BBC Learning Zone on how Gregory Doran’s 2008 production of Hamlet with David Tennant in the title role was restaged and filmed for television. Actors and the production team discuss individual scenes and explain why certain creative and technical decisions were made. Casting, costumes, design and textual choices are discussed and there are many scenes from rehearsals.
Gregory Doran; Robert Jones; Tim King
costume; Royal Shakespeare Company; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); stage design; Rehearsals; Shakespeare on television
Shakespeare, "Learning Zone: Shakespeare - From Page to Stage, The". http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av72461 (Accessed 20 Jan 2020)
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Items Interview with Merce Cunningham, 1978-12-15/21
Interview with Merce Cunningham, 1978-12-15/21
Associated name
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Cunningham, Merce
Vaughan, David, 1924-
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Cunningham, Merce (Interviewee)
Vaughan, David, 1924- (Interviewer)
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1446
Brown, Carolyn, 1927-
Dunn, Judith, 1933-1983
Farber, Viola
Ichiyanagi, Toshi, 1933-
Kerr, Catherine, 1948-
Mumma, Gordon, 1935-
Nancarrow, Conlon, 1912-1997 -- Studies
Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
Crises (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Cross currents (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
How to pass, kick, fall and run (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Nightwandering (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Open session (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Paired (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Rune (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Story (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Winterbranch (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Arena theater
Content: David Vaughan interviews Merce Cunningham in New York, New York, on December 15 and 21, 1978. This interview was created as research for David Vaughan's book, Merce Cunningham: Fifty years (New York, Aperture).
Content: Title and dates provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten and typed notes on original container.
Content: Handwritten and typed notes on original original container: "David Vaughan: Interviews with Merce Cunningham ; A. 15 December 1978 ; Merce Cunningham ; Studio, Westbeth, New York ; B. 21 December 1978".
Venue: Originally recorded at Merce Cunningham's Westbeth Studio in, New York, New York, 1978 December 15 and 21.
Content: Dubbed from an unidentified original.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Citation/reference: Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Extent: 1 audio cassette (64 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is fair to mostly good; at times the interviewee is muffled or speaks away from the recording microphone and there are background noises.
Streaming file 1, Dec. 15, 1978: Merce Cunningham speaks with David Vaughan about the descriptive names of the movement phrases in his Rune (1959); they speak about the reasons for the infrequency of performances of Rune, including an anecdote about a reaction to Rune from his [Merce Cunningham Dance Company] especially Barbara [Dilley Lloyd]; Cunningham speaks briefly about his extensive choreographic notes on Rune; Cunningham speaks about the chance procedures that determined when dancers were attached to the elastic bands in Crises (1960); John Cage and Gordon Mumma finding the music for Crises, Conlon Nancarrow's Rhythm studies for player piano, at the New York Public Library; they speak about Robert Rauschenberg's costumes for Crises; Cunningham speaks about the qualities of dancers Carolyn Brown and Viola Farber, especially in Rune and Crises; more about the movements and movement qualities of Crises; Cunningham speaks briefly about his choreographic notes for Crises; he speaks about dancer Catherine Kerr's movement quality as being suited to Crises; they speak about the "jagged" quality of Rune; Cunningham speaks about the challenges of creating Rune and Judith Dunn's encouragement of him to complete it; briefly, Dunn's illness; they speak about the cast of Cage's Theater piece (1960), an event at Black Mountain College; Cunningham speaks about choreographing and performing a duet with Brown, Nightwandering (1958), at the opera house in Stockholm, as well as lists the other works performed there; they briefly list the other locations in Europe where Cunningham toured after Stockholm; the 1958-59 residency at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was commissioned to create From the poems of white stone, and, Gambit for dancers and orchestra with music by Ben Johnston; more on From the poems and Gambit, including the costumes and the reasons these works were not performed again; Cunningham speaks about his foot injury while at the University of Illinois; they speak about Cunningham's studio in New York while he was away that winter; they speak about the location stops for the tour in Europe in the summer of 1960; briefly, the solos he choreographed for Brown while in Europe, Hand birds (1960), and, Waka (1960); ends abruptly.Streaming file 2, Dec. 21, 1978: Merce Cunningham speaks with David Vaughan briefly about his role in the ending section of his Nocturnes (1956); they speak about possible music he used in the dances he made for Paul Goodman's plays at the Living Theatre; they speak about Cunningham's notes for Field dances (1963), and then for Story (1963); Cunningham speaks about the inspiration for Story; the original indeterminant choreographic order of Winterbranch (1964) and later versions with a set order; he gives an anecdote about Pauline Oliveros performing on one tour as the "monster" in Winterbranch; his reasons for relinquishing the use of indeterminant choreographic order in his works in the years following the [Merce Cunningham Dance Company's] 1964 world tour; reasons that Story was not included in his ongoing repertory after the world tour but why it was performed many times for the two years that it was in repertory; why he didn't select sections from Story to be part of his Events; briefly on reconstructing Scramble (1967); he gives a brief anecdote about working with accompanist, Toshi Ichiyanagi, as well as a mention of accompanist Jack Jackson; they speak about some of the props that Bob [Robert Rauschenberg] made for a section in Story; Cunningham speaks about a cue sheet for Paired (1964) that [Rauschenberg] created by color coding and the incorporation of paint in the performances of it; [brief interruption]; Cunningham speaks about the difficulty of keeping sections in mind, but not in linear order, for performing his indeterminant based works while on tour; he speaks briefly about the indeterminant structure of Open session (1964); the set structure and rhythmic phrases of Cross currents (1964), and reviving it based on his choreographic notes; he speaks about making Cross currents, Winterbranch, Open session and Paired to accommodate the varied performance spaces on the world tour; his use of chance procedures, theater in the round spacing, and timing methods for the choreography of How to pass, kick, fall and run (1965); they speak briefly about the choreographic order of Place (1966); ends abruptly.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Merce Cunningham, 1978-12-15/21" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1978 - 1978. http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/ebc33bd0-b8f9-0133-4b38-60f81dd2b63c
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Merce Cunningham, 1978-12-15/21" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/ebc33bd0-b8f9-0133-4b38-60f81dd2b63c
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1978 - 1978). Interview with Merce Cunningham, 1978-12-15/21 Retrieved from http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/ebc33bd0-b8f9-0133-4b38-60f81dd2b63c
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[Previous] Exceptions To Explanations | Home | [Next] Tradition and Religion
Some of Richard Feynman's Wonderfulness
Here is some especially good Feynman stuff from the book Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track:
Page xix: Feynman wanted to marry, but worried he was being too impulsive. So he marked a day on his calendar a few months ahead and planned only to propose if he still felt the same way on that day. It's wonderful how he was willing to second guess his own judgment in an area where he knew he might make mistakes. In the event, he still felt the same way and proposed on the marked day. It must have been very tempting to propose early since he felt so strongly. After a few weeks of feeling like that he could have thought, "I have waited. I still feel the same. Nothing is going to change. I've done my experiment. I should propose now." But Feynman had the integrity to wait. One of the things Feynman told us about science is that it helps us to avoid fooling ourselves, which is normally very easy. It's also easy to fool yourself when you're in love, so I think it was very wise of him to wait the full duration.
Page xix:
Of my father's many skills, this willingness to play the fool—and to let me think he could be completely outfoxed by my clever thinking—was the one that shaped my childhood more than any other.
I [Feynman's daughter] was simply unaware for many years that he was revered as a supreme intellect.
Feynman's humility is impressive. He didn't even mention his status to his children. Many people, including Feynman, have said we should not trust in authorities and experts, or take them too seriously. Feynman once defined science as belief in the ignorance of experts. But Feynman took this attitude much further than most people. He really didn't want to listen to authorities, or have anyone listen to his. And he wouldn't even passively let it happen if people wanted to treat him as an authority; he made a genuine effort to prevent it.
Of course, some people won't listen to Feynman no matter what he says about how they should use their own judgment. Rather, they have completely ignored what he said so they can treat his every word as revealed truth. :)
Page xx: Feynman taught his daughter some shortcuts an alternate approaches for solving math problems. Her teacher scolded her for not solving the problems in "the right way". Feynman went to speak to the teacher, who didn't know who Feynman was and treated him like an idiot. The teacher even accused Feynman of not knowing anything about math. Finally Feynman stopped biting his tongue. In the long run he had to teach math to his daughter personally. His humble attitude is admirable, as well as his involved parenting.
Page 373: Feynman's last words before he died in 1988 were: "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
Elliot Temple on April 5, 2008
> And he wouldn't even passively let it happen if people wanted to treat him as an authority; he made a genuine effort to prevent it.
> Finally Feynman stopped biting his tongue.
what do u mean? What did Feynman do?
Anonymous at 5:43 AM on October 15, 2019 | #13797 | reply | quote
> how so?
said stuff to address it
> what do u mean? What did Feynman do?
RAFO
Anonymous at 11:28 AM on October 15, 2019 | #13799 | reply | quote
an earlier marriage decision
The story above was about Feynman's third marriage, when he was around 40.
His decision to marry his first wife is also interesting (in the first chapter of the book). She was ill with tuberculosis and his parents were concerned that her illness would drag him down financially and career-wise. He wrote to both his parents and carefully addressed numerous potential problems with getting married. His conclusion was that he didn't think the marriage would interfere with his career plans and that therefore he was going ahead with it. Many people do not think through reasons to get married to someone and reasons not to.
Anne B at 3:29 PM on October 16, 2019 | #13809 | reply | quote
A bit later, Feynman is making arrangements to move to Los Alamos with his wife. He writes to people about possible places for her to live and receive medical care (pp. 20-21). It struck me that I would have been embarrassed or ashamed or something to be asking about special arrangements for a sick spouse. Feynman is confident. He's got a bunch of ideas and he's figuring out which would work out best.
> It struck me that I would have been embarrassed or ashamed or something to be asking about special arrangements for a sick spouse.
this is weird to me. why would you be embarrassed or ashamed to do that?
like, what do you imagine happens when ppl in that situation ask for special arrangements for a sick spouse? do you think ppl respond with scorn when ppl ask for special arrangements for a sick spouse?
I imagine that employees would be genuinely happy to help.
I would have been ashamed that I had a sick spouse and ashamed that I had to ask people to go out of their way to accommodate us.
I'd imagine that people would wonder if it was worth having me there once they found out I was going to be extra trouble.
Anne B at 10:03 AM on October 18, 2019 | #13828 | reply | quote
why do you think you'd be ashamed of those things?
do you have a memory from childhood that you think might have been the seed for this shame you have now?
I'm reminded of a movie (supposedly based on true story) about how the US used to be before laws about disabled ppl. A disabled person went to a restaurant and the waitress asked him to leave because he made other people feel uncomfortable. (The disabled person looked like he had whatever disease that Stephen Hawking had.)
I don't have a particular memory related to this. I do think it's common in our culture to be ashamed of chronic illness or disability or something.
Anne B at 1:50 AM on October 20, 2019 | #13864 | reply | quote
why ashamed?
I notice that in #13819 Anonymous asked:
> why would you be embarrassed or ashamed to do that?
I answered a different question in #13828. I answered what I would have been ashamed about, not why I would have been ashamed.
Anonymous asked again in #13839:
> why do you think you'd be ashamed of those things?
I didn't and don't have an answer. I said it's common in our culture. That implies that my "why" could be the same as many other people's "why"s. But it doesn't say what that "why" is or might be.
I didn't realize at the time that I hadn't answered Anonymous' question. I realized it later when I made a discussion tree of the conversation, as described in this thread:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fallible-ideas/jr4QWBX6pRU/H33i2oigAQAJ
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Mary Shelly
The Classic Library - Frankenstein Chapters - DagonBytes.com
I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business. He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his character, I cannot refrain from relating them. One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition, and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence. Having paid his debts, therefore, in the most honourable manner, he retreated with his daughter to the town of Lucerne, where he lived unknown and in wretchedness. My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship, and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances. He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them. He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.
Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself; and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode. Overjoyed at this discovery, he hastened to the house, which was situated in a mean street, near the Reuss. But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him. Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes; but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the meantime he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house. The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection; and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness; but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing, and that there was no other prospect of support. But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould; and her courage rose to support her in her adversity. She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
Several months passed in this manner. Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar. This last blow overcame her; and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin, weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber. He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend, he conducted her to Geneva, and placed her under the protection of a relation. Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind, which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly. Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late discovered unworthiness of one beloved, and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth. There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doating fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues, and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her. Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience. He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind. Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through. During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father had gradually relinquished all his public functions; and immediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
From Italy they visted Germany and France. I, their eldest child, was born in Naples, and as an infant accompanied them in their rambles. I remained for several years their only child. Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me. My mother's tender caresses, and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me, are my first recollections. I was their plaything and their idol, and something better--their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me. With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
For a long time I was their only care. My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring. When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como. Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor. This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion--remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved--for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted. During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape. One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode. She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes. Among these there was one which attracted my mother far above all the rest. She appeared of a different stock. The four others were dark eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin, and very fair. Her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.
The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Her mother was a German, and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then. They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born. The father of their charge was one of those Italians nursed in the memory of the antique glory of Italy--one among the _schiavi ognor frementi_, who exerted himself to obtain the liberty of his country. He became the victim of its weakness. Whether he had died, or still lingered in the dungeons of Austria, was not known. His property was confiscated, his child became an orphan and a beggar. She continued with her foster parents, and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.
When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub--a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks, and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills. The apparition was soon explained. With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them; but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want, when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents' house--my more than sister the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.
Every one loved Elizabeth. The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight. On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully--"I have a pretty present for my Victor--to-morrow he shall have it." And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine--mine to protect, love, and cherish. All praises bestowed on her, I received as made to a possession of my own. We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me--my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
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Kotzias on Cyprus deadlock: Turkey wanted ‘army of putschists’ to guarantee peace on the island
makis Jul 11, 2017 11 July 2017
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Monday laid the blame for the collapse of the Cyprus talks in Crans Montana squarely at Turkey’s door, responding with some plain talk to questions from the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
Kotzias, who was speaking during a joint press conference with visiting Serb Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, said that Turkey had essentially demanded Greece’s blessing for an agreement that would allow it to intervene in Cyprus at will.
“Did they want Greece to let them hang from the barrels of their tank guns an agreement with Greece’s signature that they can enter Cyprus whenever they like … They wanted the army that planned the coup in Turkey and where the head of the occupation forces was arrested in [the northern section of Cyprus] as a putschist, along with 10 senior officers, this army of putschists, to be the guarantor of democracy and of the coexistence of the two Communities on Cyprus?” Kotzias said.
According to the foreign minister, he had made this clear to his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu and also pointed out that the Turkey’s views were contrary to the traditions of western enlightenment and western political culture, where the military was subordinate to politics and had no right to make policy decisions.
Commenting on the “blame game” begun by Ankara, the Kotzias said that Turkey’s responsibility for the collapse of the talks was as clear as the fact that it wanted things that were contrary to democracy, “our political culture” and international law.
“Turkey confessed that it had been stringing us along for five days, that it was neither willing, able nor even inclined to make this compromise, as soon as the UN Secretary General decided to put this supposed compromise to paper,” Kotzias added, saying Cavusoglu had “pretended that he was ready for a compromise” before the UN Secretary General.
“In Switzerland, Turkey submitted a half-page document that was identical to the text submitted by the Turkish Cypriots. In this it sought to retain its right of intervention and the alliance and guarantee treaties. Following this it supposedly became more flexible and was prepared to accept compromise solutions. When the UN Secretary General – as is stated in the announcement we issued at the foreign ministry – decided to write down these agreements in a small paragraph two days ago, so we could continue the discussions in New York next week, Turkey said that it was not in a position to make compromises and that it sought to preserve the illegal, contrary to international law and anachronistic right to intervene in Cyprus,” the foreign minister said.
Kotzias also pointed out that it was “under my own constant personal pressure,” that Cavusoglu was finally forced to admit that Turkey wants these rights of intervention “so that it can intervene in a sovereign and independent member-state of the EU and United Nations whenever it wants.”
“This demand is contrary to international law, counter to any thought of a solution and also contrary – as I pointed out to him during the meeting – to the rules of democracy, the rules of truth and reality and contrary to the rules of the UN,” he added.
Kotzias
Turkey provokes by issuing NAVTEX and NOTAM in Cypriot waters
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Centre midfielder Juan Dominguez was invited by Sportpaper Marca in order to chat with the fans in the Internet; the following is a transcription in English of the questions and the answers of the Galician player.
Q&A WITH LAURE
Right-back defender Laureano Sanabria ‘Laure’ gave an interview to newspaper La Opinión A Coruña; he talked of the current situation of the team; for him the key to face the rest of the season is to avoid the relaxation.
Q&A WITH XISCO
Xisco Jiménez is aware of the opportunity that knocks at his door with the latest injury of Riki; the Majorcan striker gave an interview to newspaper La Opinión A Coruña and talked of the subject.
Q&A WITH SAUL
Winger Saul Fernandez had a sincere interview with newspaper La Opinión A Coruña; the Asturian admitted that he is not having too many minutes as Oltra doesn’t need to make changes due to the latest performance and results of the team.
Q&A WITH BRUNO GAMA
Winger Portuguese Bruno Gama is living a solid moment after scoring three goals within the last four meetings; he gave an interview to newspaper La Opinión A Coruña and analyzed the present times of Deportivo.
Striker Xisco was interviewed last week by Sportpaper AS; the Majorcan attacker explained the situation that he’s living on this season after suffering so many injuries; problems that sidelined him for big part of the campaign.
Juan Carlos Valerón gave an interview to newspaper El País; he explained his feelings on the season and gave the impression of been enjoying his last years as a football player.
Diogo Salomão gave an interview to Sportpaper AS; the Portuguese winger explained how he deals with the fact of been a substitute, and also says that he would love to play at the Spanish Primera División.
Winger Bruno Gama scored his first official goal with Deportivo on the past Sunday; he gave an interview to newspaper La Opinión A Coruña and analyzed the current situation of the team. He warned that Depor won’t always win the games.
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DISCOVER DERBYSHIRE
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HIGH PEAK JUNCTION WALK
Outstanding views and constant reminders of the area’s industrial past are all part of this fascinating walk. After a short ascent up High Peak Trail, the walk takes you through woods and along Intake Lane, before climbing up Cromford Moor to Bolehill. The village takes its name from open hearths or boles where, for 400 years, lead was smelted.
Following a short steep climb Barrel Edge is reached, the outstanding view from the trig point making the effort worthwhile. The land was acquired in the early 1960s by the Forestry Commission, who planted stands of woodland on a commercial basis. It is also a very important recreational site for walkers.
Black Rocks have been a tourist destination for centuries as graffiti chiselled into the rock testifies. The coming of the railways to Matlock and Wirksworth made it easier for people to visit the rocks; some came to explore and admire the wonderful views, others to climb the rocks. If you have the time you can either explore the trails round Black Rocks, or do a bit of rock climbing.
The final stage of the walk takes you down the High Peak Trail, passing Sheep Pasture Engine House on the way.
Length: 4.25miles.
Start/Finish: High Peak Junction Car Park.
Location: Turn off A6 at Cromford for Arkwright’s Mill and follow the road round heading for Lea, turning right into the car park before reaching a left hand bend.
Terrain: The High Peak Trail climbs quite steeply up to Black Rocks, but you only do part of the climb, during the first half of the walk. Turning off to follow Intake Lane and then climbing up quite gently through fields to Bolehill. This is followed by a further short sharp climb up to Barrel Edge. The final section of the walk takes you down the High Peal Trail, where there are some outstanding views.
1. Cross the bridge from the car park to arrive at High Peak Junction Workshops. Walk past the old railway buildings and up High Peak Trail.
2. After half a mile turn to the left where you see a footpath signed for Alderwasley.
3. Almost immediately the path bends to the left to a ‘T’ junction of tracks. Here you turn right, with the bridge you previously crossed now directly behind you.
4. After a short distance where the track divides go to the right, and walk along the edge of the wood.
5. Pass through a stile and turn left down Intake Lane.
6. After half a mile, with a corrugated animal shed on your left, cross a stile on the opposite side of the lane.
7. Walk up two fields keeping close to the wall on the left, then follow a short fenced path along the bottom of a third field.
8. Continue straight on for 25 yards across the top of a field to go through a stile.
9. Go up a grassy track in the next field, avoiding the path that leads off to the left. Head towards a farm field gate that you can see in the distance.
10. Pass through a gap by the gate and walk along the grassy track to go through a stile gate into another field.
11. Keeping close to the wall on your left, walk to a gate, and after that continue to maintain the same direction, along a clear path beside gorse bushes.
12. Turn left along a farm track, soon passing Wigwellnook Farm. Follow the farm access road to Oakerthorpe Road, where you turn right.
13. Walk down the road past the Bolehill sign and after a short distance go over a stile on your right by Lantern Cottage.
14. Take the stepped path up towards Barrel Edge, following the way markers to enter a wood.
15. Bear to the left along the main path, close to the front of the wood, to reach the trig point where the views are outstanding.
16. Continue on the main path, keeping to the left of Black Rocks, where the path descends to an information board by the High Peak Trail and the car park.
17. Turn to the right along the High Peak Trail, which soon starts descending as you make your way back to High Peak Junction and the start of the walk.
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PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE LOCALITY
Arkwright’s Cromford Mill (Cromford Mill Tel. 01629 823256, Masson Mill Tel. 01629 760208) is the world’s first successful water powered cotton-spinning mill. It is now a world heritage site and guided tours are available. There is a whole food restaurant, a number of shops and free car park. A not to be missed attraction for visitors to the area, along with Masson Mill situated about a quarter of a mile away on the A6 that has been converted into a shopping village and working textile museum. Open daily.
The National Stone Centre: (Tel. 01629 824833) tells the story of stone, its geological and industrial history. The exhibition inside the centre shows how advanced technology makes use of stone in an incredible number of ways. Outside the visitor centre, the quarry trail takes you back over three hundred million years. Open all year seven days a week.
Middleton Top Visitor Centre: (Tel. 01629 823204) light refreshments available, picnic lawn outside and picnic tables located at convenient points on the High Peak Trail. The visitor centre tells the story of the Cromford and High Peak Railway and provides information, maps, walk leaflets, books, gifts and refreshments. There is a car park, toilets, cycle hire centre, engine house (telephone for details of opening days) and picnic site. Open daily from Easter to beginning of September, Weekends only during the winter.
Wheatcroft’s Wharf Café and Wildlife Shop (Tel. 01629 823256) is situated on Cromford Wharf, on the opposite side the road from the car park at Cromford Mill. Hot snacks and a selection of filled rolls and cakes are available. There is large collection of countryside and walks books on display. Outside seating is available overlooking the canal.
The Greyhound Hotel (Tel. 01629 822551) at Cromford is an historic hotel, built by Sir Richard Arkwright, it was restored to a high standard in 1999. Open daily. Meals served all day from Tuesday to Sunday.
THE DISCOVER DERBYSHIRE AND THE PEAK DISTRICT GUIDE
Provides a wide range of features with heritage trails and detailed countryside walks, through some of the most scenically attractive countryside in the UK.
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HIGH PEAK JUNCTION FEATURE
High Peak Junction Visitor Centre is an excellent place to start or finish a walk along the Cromford Canal or High Peak Trail. There is a wide selection of books and maps available, as well as an interesting railway video to watch. Light refreshments can be purchased and there are picnic tables outside.
The best way to explore High Peak Junction itself is by hiring an audio guide from the Visitor Centre. Normally open weekends only during the winter and everyday in the summer, further details may be obtained by telephoning 01629 822831/823204.
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ディジタル・シルクロード > 東洋文庫アーカイブ > VIII-5-B2-9 > V-1 > カラー画像
Serindia : vol.1
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Sec. ii] EARLY CHINESE PILGRIMS TO UDYANA 9
From Wu-ch`ang, the Fo-kuo-chi tells us, Fa-hsien with some of his companions ' descended
south, and arrived in the country of Su-ho-to'. In the name of this territory, IN tJJ , a transcrip-
tion of an older form of Swat was long ago surmised. This is confirmed by the fact that the only sacred site mentioned here by Fa-hsien—the one where in a previous birth the Bodhisattva, in order to save a dove pursued by a hawk, was believed to have ` cut off a piece of his own flesh, and with it ransomed the dove '—is located by Hsüan-tsang in the hills to the south-west of Manglaur.23 Guided by the exact topographical indications in Hsüan-tsang's Memoirs, and by the rapid archaeological survey I had effected while accompanying the Bunér Field Force in January, 1898, I was able to identify the site indicated with the remains of a large Stttpa found near the village of Girarai in the extreme west of Bunér, and at the foot of the range dividing it from the Swat Valley.24 That Bunér was in Buddhist times reckoned as part of Udyana is proved by the series of sacred sites which Sung Yün and Hsüan-tsang describe in the south of Udyana, and which I traced during my survey in Buner.25 Why Fa-hsien should have distinguished Bunér by the separate designation of Su-ho-to can no longer be determined.26
The next and more detailed account of Udyana is supplied by the pilgrim Sung Yün and Hui-shêng, members of the religious mission which the Empress Hu of the Western Wei dynasty dispatched to the North-West of India in A. D. 518. Their journey from Khotan to Sarikol I have discussed elsewhere.27 Thence they made their way in the early autumn of A. D. 519 across the Pamirs to Wakhan, and the seats of the Yeh-tas or Hephthalites in the present Badakhshan.28 After a brief stay there, as Sung Yün's narrative and Hui-shêng's notes preserved in the Wei Annals tell us, the pilgrims passed through the small mountain tract of Po-chih into the territory of Shê-mi. There they gradually emerged from the Ts`ung-ling Mountains, and hence gained Udyana which lay to the south of Shê-mi.2° In my Ancient Khotan I have already had occasion to show that the territory of Shê-mi, which a passage of the Tang Annals describes as bordering Chieh-shih or Chitral on the west and south, corresponds to ` the cluster of valleys to the south of the great snowy range [of the Hindukush] which since mediaeval times has been known by the general name of Kafiristan'.30 There I also indicated my belief that the route followed by Sung Yün and his companions led them through one of the easternmost valleys of Kafiristan down to the Kûnar River and thence across Dir (or Bajaur) into the Swat Valley. But additional information since obtained about that region, as well as other reasons, make it desirable to trace the pilgrims' route here in fuller detail.
From Sung Ytin's narrative we learn that after leaving the Hephthalite king's encampment, which at the season indicated (tenth Chinese month, i.e. about November, A.D. 519) is likely to
by his native agents, and which he handed over to me early in 1898, there was one which showed a rock surface curiously cut up by natural cross lines, recalling the threads of some woven fabric. There were traces of some Kharosthi characters also. Some place in the Upper Swat Valley was vaguely indicated as the provenance. The publication of the estampage was prevented by the death of Professor Bühler for whom it was reserved, and subsequently by the doubts which (justly enough) arose about the genuineness of the many ' inscriptions in unknown characters ' supplied to Colonel Deane by the less scrupulous of his agents.
23 See Legge, Fd-hien, pp. 3o sq.; Watters, Yuan Chwang,
i. p. 234; Julien, Memoires, i. p. 137.
24 See my Archaeological tour with the Bunir Field Force, pp. 26, 62-2, and below, p. 16 with note. (Also Indian
Antiquary, 2899, pp. 22, 6o.)
25 For references see below, p. 16.
26 It is noteworthy that as far as Su-ho-to Fa-hsien's narrative shows none of those errors in bearings and distances which from the next territory, Gandhara, onwards often perplex the student of ancient Indian geography.
27 See Ancient Khotan, i. pp. 28 sqq.
28 For this portion of the pilgrims' route cf. below, pp. Go sqq.
29 See Chavannes, Voyage de Song Fun, pp. 27 sqq.
so See Ancient Khotan, pp. 24 sq. ; for the hill state of Chieh-shih (also appearing with a slight graphic variation under the name of Chieh-shuaz), cf. Chavannes, Turcs occid., pp. 258 sq., 214 sq. ; for its identity with Chitral see also below, p. 3o.
Fa-hsien's account of Su-ho-to.
Sung Yiin's journey to Swat.
Sung Yün's passage through Po-3sû.
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The WTA Finals, completed Sunday with Ashleigh Barty locking down the coveted year-end No. 1 ranking, was a rich event in more ways than the record prize money. The event in Shenzhen, China, also produced a number of storylines sure to impact the coming year. Let's look at five of them:
Ashleigh Barty is the real deal
Sure-handed and imperturbable, Barty rose to the occasion in a way that suggests the slight (5-foot-5) but versatile Australian has the game and disposition to be the dominant force in the WTA. Even when her dependable forehand disappeared in the mid-portion of her win over defending champion Elina Svitolina, Barty, as analyst Lindsay Davenport said, "kept her head down and continued to work."
The contrast between rising Barty and collapsing Svitolina near the end of the match was telling, the final result an exoneration of the 23-year-old former prodigy.
Barty humbled by Goolagong comparisons
Barty beats Svitolina to win WTA Finals title
U.S. Open champ Andreescu out of WTA Finals
Fresh off her maiden Grand Slam win in the French Open, Barty won the title at Birmingham and reached the No. 1 ranking. Much was expected of her at Wimbledon, as grass-court proficiency is in the Aussie DNA, but she faltered in the fourth round against Alison Riske. She lost at that same stage at the US Open to No. 18 Qiang Wang.
The spotlight in the post-Grand Slam season turned to and remained on Naomi Osaka and Bianca Andreescu. Some downgraded the value of Barty's win in Paris, noting that she had met just one other seed en route to the title and a low one at that: No. 14 Madison Keys. Perhaps, like a Jelena Ostapenko or Sloane Stephens, Barty couldn't handle the side effects of success.
The skeptics were wrong. Barty finished 2019 a solid 12-6 against top-10 rivals (7-3 since April). She went semi, final and win in her final three events. Barty has yet to play Andreescu, but she's 2-1 against Osaka since 2018, 2-0 against Karolina Pliskova, 3-2 vs. Petra Kvitova and 1-1 vs. Simona Halep. It's unlikely that Barty will end up a one-slam wonder.
Karolina Pliskova has been to the quarterfinals or better at a major seven times without winning a title. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
The old order's rapidly fading
Yes, the subhed is borrowed from Bob Dylan's anthem, "The Times They Are A'Changin'". It's relevant to the WTA because time is running out for a number of highly ranked veterans who never climbed through the window of opportunity opened in recent years by the struggles Serena Williams had with injury and, later, childbirth.
Now, the younger generation is threatening to close the shutters and roll down the shades.
The stalwarts in this group are Pliskova, Kvitova, Stephens and Garbine Muguruza, all outstanding if erratic players who have either won Grand Slam titles or held the No. 1 ranking. The women range in age from Stephens and Muguruza, who are 26, to 29-year-old Kvitova. In the big picture, winning two Grand Slam singles titles (which Kvitova and Muguruza both did) is a great achievement. But none of those women has won a major since Stephens claimed the 2017 US Open. They handed the reins to the younger set with little fuss.
Kvitova was derailed by that horrific 2016 home invasion, but even taking that into account the two-time Wimbledon champ continues to be error-prone and inconsistent. She has been close to the No. 1 ranking on at least two occasions (most recently in January) but failed to close the deal both times. She won the last of her two majors in 2014.
Pliskova, the regular-season tour leader for 2018 with 474 aces, enjoyed a brief stint at No. 1. But she sinks instead of rising that critical distance with a big title on the line. Ranked No. 2 for weeks late in the year, and No. 3 for a long stretch in 2019, Pliskova has been to the quarterfinals or better at a major seven times without winning a title.
Pliskova was a tepid 4-4 against top-10 competition this year, losing her only matches with Barty, Osaka and Svitolina. Barty eliminated her in the semifinals in the WTA Finals.
No. 5 Halep also seems vulnerable. Her letter-perfect win over Williams in the upset of the year at Wimbledon is unforgettable. But her best result after that was a quarterfinal at the Rogers Cup in Toronto. Halep is 28, injury-prone and sometimes seems tired of it all.
Optical issues at the WTA Finals
The year-end championship was celebrated as a high point in the evolution of women's sports. The Chinese hosts mounted a slick production, earning a place in history by offering the greatest amount of prize money ever dispersed at a tour event ($14 million). Barty alone carted off $4.4 million, significantly more than the $3.8 million Rafael Nadal won for securing the US Open title. The total sum was almost twice as much as the ATP will pay its own elite eight in a few weeks in London.
But the WTA's record prize-money figures began to raise eyebrows as the event unfolded. The numbers struck many as excessive to begin with, and only more so when the attendance early in the tournament was spotty. Seen from afar, the atmosphere seemed flat -- a far cry from the energy and standing-room-only crowds the ATP routinely produces at London's O2 Arena.
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Then, injury caused withdrawals by four players -- including Osaka, Andreescu, Belinda Bencic and first alternate Kiki Bertens -- and disappointed fans. Through no fault of Barty's, her own paycheck seemed outrageous, part of a tone-deaf endorsement of income inequality, a hot button issue in its own right.
The question of prize money distribution has bubbled up like lava at the ATP Tour, where a rebel faction is calling for radical change so that more money can trickle down to lower-ranked players. Roger Federer himself has said that the pay scale for top players is satisfactory and suggested that the focus in the near future should be on improving the payout for lower-ranked players.
It seemed strange in this climate for the WTA to put so much emphasis on the amount of the purse, especially that outsized winning share. This was the first year of the WTA Finals in Shenzhen. In time, the event might become a more resonant showpiece for the WTA. That would make the astronomical prize money a little palatable.
Naomi Osaka was on a mission to "dominate" in the post-US Open phase. She earned two titles,during that period before a a shoulder injury forced her to withdraw from the WTA Finals. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Will the WTA develop its own Big Three?
Barty is 23. Osaka is 22. Andreescu is just 19. The trio has already accounted for four Grand Slam titles. Federer was well into 22 when he won his first major. Novak Djokovic was over 20 when he bagged his first slam. Nadal, the wunderkind, turned 19 just days before joining the elites with a French Open win.
All in all, the three WTA stars are off to a great start, especially in light of Barty's unusual history. A prodigy, she burned out and left the tour for about a year-and-a-half (during which she tried her hand at pro cricket at home) and returned to the WTA fold in February 2016. She wasn't a newcomer to the WTA's year-end championships, having taken part as a doubles player in Singapore in 2017.
Osaka has struggled in the middle of the year, but she came on with newfound fury after a dispiriting loss to Bencic in the fourth round of the US Open. She won the Pan Pacific Open in Osaka, Japan. In one of the best matches of the year, a China Open quarterfinal, she eliminated Andreescu. Osaka went on to win that event over Barty.
"It meant a lot to me," she told reporters after stopping Andreescu. "I kind of feel like people counted me out after the Europe thing. I'm just, like, I still won a slam this year [the Australian Open], I won [in Osaka]. I'm still here."
Andreescu put together a dream year between injuries, capped with a stunning win at the US Open. Her high-quality clash with Osaka had people talking about the "rivalry of the future."
We'll see what Barty -- and other young players -- say about that.
What could go wrong in 2020?
Injury might be the main threat facing the WTA Tour in the coming year. It also might be the factor that continues to prevent dominant players from emerging on the tour.
Lost amid all the armchair psychology triggered by Osaka's mid-season slump in 2019 was the role played by injuries to a knee and thumb. As ESPN analyst Pam Shriver put it in an interview: "She was not always healthy enough [this year] to play her power game to her top ability."
As the fall season began, a healthy Osaka declared she was on a mission to "dominate" in the post-US Open phase. She reeled off 11 consecutive wins and earned two titles during that period. But a shoulder injury forced her to withdraw from the WTA Finals following an opening win in the round-robin portion over Kvitova.
The only qualifier when it comes to Andreescu's future prospects is her durability. She's just 5-foot-7, but she's a naturally strong, powerfully built player. Yet injuries have already shadowed her days from even before her breakthrough win at Indian Wells. Overcoming early career back troubles, she became an overnight sensation at Indian Wells in March. By early April she was off the tour, gone for two months due to a right shoulder injury. She joined Osaka on the sidelines in Shenzhen after an opening round-robin loss, citing a sore knee.
The older generation has had better luck staying healthy, although Halep has known her share of woes, and hand surgery carved a good six months off Kvitova's career. Keys, while still just 24, is yet another frustrated contender whose career has been slowed by injury.
Barty has proven sturdy, and that might play a significant role in the battle for supremacy in 2020. Lest she or any of her peers grow complacent, even younger talents like Sofia Kenin, Aryna Sabalenka, Amanda Anisimova and perhaps even Coco Gauff will be challenging obstacles in the coming years.
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Review: Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE Vol. 1: War of the Monsters trade paperback (DC Comics)
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Jeff Lemire's Animal Man: The Hunt has so far been the breakout star of DC Comics's New 52 initiative, the best of the new series and the one that makes what disappointments there may be in the New 52 worth it. Prior to the New 52, however, Lemire's Superboy: Smallville Attacks was a slow tale of talking heads (albeit Eisner-nominated) and his Flashpoint tie-in "Frankenstein and the Creature Commandos" lacked the monstrous mayhem of Grant Morrison's earlier Seven Soldiers Frankenstein series.
Fortunately, the premiere of Lemire's DC New 52 Frankenstein series, Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE: War of the Monsters, is up there in quality with his Animal Man. Lemire more-than accomplishes the big monster horror of Morrison's book, with an extra helping of mad science thrown in. Frankenstein is really out there, achieving exactly the tone that the DC New 52 needs; to some extent, Lemire's Frankenstein is what Paul Cornell's Stormwatch should have been.
[Review contains spoilers]
At every turn in War of the Monsters, Jeff Lemire deconstructs what it means to be a "monster." Though there's plenty of creatures that go bump in the night, there aren't really any "monsters" here, at least in the sense of characters with a strong intention to do evil. Frankenstein himself is a noble beast, readily dealing death but always trying first to find peaceable solutions, as when he encounters OMAC or when he's sent to assassinate his old friend Colonel Quantum. And in both cases, Frankenstein's foes are hardly villains -- OMAC, the reader intuits, is a victim of circumstances, and Quantum is a pathetic figure who regrets the murders he's committed.
Even the book's more traditional monsters are depicted with some kind of catch to their monstrosity. The "original" Creature Commandos who escape from the SHADE's organization's prison are quite bloodthirsty, but they've also been imprisoned without due process. At the beginning of the book, it seems a "monster planet" is attacking Earth, but it turns out the planet is a sentient being that's been pressed into service by the parasitic monsters who live on it; even these grim creatures are mitigated, however, when one of them mistakes SHADE agent Nina "The Mermaid" Mazursky for its mate and Nina looks on it with pity.
Just as Peter Milligan takes the often-violent title characters in Red Lanterns and plays them as philosophers, Lemire is equally working both for and against type (only Lemire's doing it better). Here there be monsters, for sure, but the monsters in Frankenstein are traditional in appearance only, not in character.
Among those traditional monsters are genetically-engineered versions of a werewolf, a vampire, and a mummy, along with Frankstein, his bride, and the "mermaid" (more akin to the creature from the Black Lagoon). Lemire names them and gives them relatively the same personalities as the Creature Commando's in his Flashpoint story, whether this will ever be relevant or not. The Commandos come off as more likeable, however, benefiting from the increased page count to show their different facets.
Mazursky is timid yet brave, and an interesting romantic foil for Frankenstein aside from his estranged wife. Griffiths, the werewolf, is less vapid than in Flashpoint (he's so loyal to Frankenstein that I wonder what Griffiths will do if Frankenstein betrays his trust) and Velcoro, while still sarcastic, comes off as far less mean than he did before. Velcoro and Griffiths's moments of teamwork are quite endearing, actually -- they're in the running to be the new "Blue and Gold" ("Tooth and Fang," maybe?) of the DC New 52.
Once the opening "Monster Planet" story finishes and the OMAC crossover is out of the way, Lemire pauses for a one-off story in issue #6, and it's clearly the star of this book. Lemire sends Frankenstein to track down former comrade Colonel Quantum in Vietnam, revealing indeed that Frankenstein fought in Vietnam; Lemire opens up now a variety of options for flashback stories featuring Frankenstein in various eras. Quantum is essentially Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan and indeed the whole sequence strongly evokes Watchmen's Vietnam sequence.
What stands out here the most, however, is simply how Lemire gives the story a moment to breathe, that he demonstrates that Frankenstein is a guy who has friends, and that he gives "normal" moments to Ray "not yet the Atom" Palmer and the SHADE staff, and that he teams the Bride and Mazursky, who missed each other in the previous arc. In short, inasmuch as Lemire world-builds, Frankenstein is also a story with a richly imagined supporting cast who work in both big adventures and small, and that's a good sign for the future.
All of this is set against a wildly well-imagined SHADE backdrop, from headquarters shrunken down to microscopic size to physics-challenging vehicles, and killer tanks and robots much too large for their own good. Lemire somehow ducks the confusion that was inherit in Paul Cornell's Stormwatch debut and yet at the same time Lemire's story emerges as more complex and more imaginative. As a matter of course, Lemire's Palmer rattles off that the "demon portal" that's emerged in the middle of a lake is actually a "small wormhole that leads to something I've dubbed 'dead space,'" and then Palmer's anti-portal weapon, of course, shoots lasers in the shape of a pentagram. Weird and funny and clever, DC would do well to have Frankenstein be the standard for how far the New 52 writers reach.
The book includes two pages of J. G. Jones's cover sketches, but nothing from Alberto Ponticelli, unfortunately, whose sketchy line-work is just right for Frankenstein: War of the Monsters's weird horror, not coincidentally akin to Travel Forman's art in Lemire's Animal Man.
[Includes original covers, sketchbook section]
Win one, lose one this week, then, with Frankenstein emerging victorious while Red Lanterns ... not so much. Next week, guest reviewers Doug Glassman and Zach King will be your hosts, and then I'll be back the week after with the last Legion of Super-Heroes trade of the old DCU and the first of the New 52. See you then!
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Eyz 8/03/2012 03:01:00 AM
I really liked 7 Soldiers and the recent apparition of DC's Frankenstein monster on Superman/Batman.
Can't wait to read Lemire's take on these monsters, sounds like a really fun read!
Nikos 8/03/2012 09:49:00 AM
I am definitely going to check this one out. Lemire just keeps getting better and better. If you get a chance check out his new graphic novel The Underwater Welder. Here's a quote from Scott Snyder about it: "With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire has created a moving, brilliant, and fiercely original work about loss, longing, and love. Full of piercing moments that will stay with you for long after you've finished reading, The Underwater Welder is a testament to the basic truth that down in the depths or up on land, there's nothing more haunting and wondrous than the human heart. A masterpiece of visual storytelling." -- Scott Snyder (Batman, Swamp Thing, American Vampire).
On another note, is it worth it for me to pick up 7 Soldiers? I have not read it/bought it yet due to mixed reviews. The C.E. reviews were a bit mixed, C.E. said that the plots became repetitive. I'm a Morrison fan for the most part, although some of his work is too high concept for me. Final Crisis is long over, does it stand on its own as a good story still?
collectededitions 8/03/2012 12:33:00 PM
Good suggestion on Underwater Welder; I'll keep that in mind.
I don't think I could tell anyone *not* to read Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory. It does not succeed on every single page, though that's not surprising for a story of this scope; however, it is interesting and enjoyable and moreover ambitious -- I'm a big fan of "ambitious," successful or not, and if nothing else I would recommend it to someone just on the virtue of seeing what Morrison tried to do.
The Final Crisis aspect of Seven Soldiers is quite minor -- reading it on its own, you're better off putting Final Crisis out of your head and just taking the New God appearances in Seven Soldiers as they come. There's a way to rectify Final Crisis and Seven Soldiers, but that's more for if you're reading Final Crisis with Seven Soldiers than Seven Soldiers alone.
If you liked Seven Soldiers, the current Matt Kindt run of Frank is way closer to it in tone. Nothing wrong with Lemire's issues here, but it's just a way different feel.
Glad to hear -- I remembered afterward that Lemire was leaving the title, and I wondered how the new writer would do.
At one point Lemire has Frankenstein talk about vacationing on Mars -- was that a Seven Soldiers shout-out?
AngryLionheart1 8/03/2012 04:27:00 PM
As someone who just read The Underwater Welder: Go buy it. NOW.
It's almost half-off on Amazon right now. Well worth it. It's something of a cross between the Twilight Zone/Shawshank Redemption/and It's a Wonderful Life. Really moving.
And yes, I really enjoyed Lemires Frankenstein, even with his Flashpoint story as well. Lemire can do no wrong right now.
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SWOLLEN MEMBERS, MADCHILD SWINGS THE BATTLE AXE MOVEMENT THROUGH POP’S ST. LOUIS 05/18/2014
May 23, 2014 / Beeznutz / 0 Comments
Swollen Members, Madchild, Sozay
Pop’s Concert Venue, St. Louis, MO
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I remember around 2002, I ran with a bunch of skateboarders who also did graffiti. All of us were all big into the underground rap and hip hop music that inspired our lifestyles. We would ride around St. Louis and get into all types of shit listening to music. It was good times and, that style of music marks a era of my life that I wouldn’t trade for anything. There were far too many great, unbelievable times that I will remember forever. Just like the first time I heard Swollen Members.
Years past and I slowly got to see all the groups we had listened to back then, with one exception: Swollen Members. They toured a lot but, either I missed it or my city would get skipped. Then Madchild went and got banned from the US for a few years and that was that. So you could say I was pretty excited when Pops announced they were hosting a show for Swollen Members. Now I could finally see the group I had eagerly awaited to see live for well over a decade. They would not let me down.
I enlisted the help of 2 friends, we met up and piled in one car for the trip across state lines to the beautiful city of Sauget, IL home of Pops Nightclub. After we got inside, and secured some tasty refreshments from the bar, my friends and I went to check out the merch. I chatted with the Swollen Members merch guy Johnny, while they bought up a bunch of stuff. He was a super cool guy and, was the son of the touring support Sozay.
My friends and I stepped outside into the chilly night to the Pop’s patio for a moment. While we caught up on bull shit and, they caught some nicotine refreshment from the from the air inside. They stayed outside while I went in to catch Sozay, he was fun to watch. He had some really great tracks, a lot of them featuring some really fun word play. My first impression was man this guy is intense. He had this killer, crazy look in his eye. The same look that is in a really driven, pumped up, fighter right before a match. That look. He rapped with that same intensity and together with his hypeman got the crowd ready to party.
I enjoyed Sozay. About 2/3 the way through the show, he invited his son to join him for a song. It was a very catchy track and turned out to be one of my favorites from the set. It was great to see father and son rap together and, to me was a highlight of the show.
Between Sozay and Swollen the intermission was very short because I remember running to the patio to pull in my chain smoking counterparts inside just as DJ Rob The Viking bought out Prevail, and the notorious, Madchild to the frenzied St. Louis stage.
BAM. BOOM, They walked onto Pop’s stage from then on, it was as if bomb exploded and the place went nuts. This shit was crazy, all these people wearing BattleAxe Gear flooded the stage. Madchild is something you need to see live, he had this look about him. Big sunglasses, and tattoos covering his face and smiling this crazy ” I just robbed a bank and got away ” smile while rapping these venomous lyrics that prior to this I had only heard on a CD.
One of my first thoughts watching them was, they should write a damn book so these broke ass, broke down rappers can read it. Title it ” How To Do A Live Rap Performance “, because these guys were schooling the game. Working both sides of the stage, slapping more hands than that of WWF stars of the 80s on the way down to the ring. It was a good feeling seeing the show I had waited so long for. Prevail, was doper than I could of every imagined, his rhyme game is so sharp. He was spitting razor flows effortlessly all night while working the stage with blinding speed.
This show was pedal to the metal, in your face, for the entire show. For a few songs Prevail took a breather, while Madchild treated St. Louis to some solo material. The crowd ate it up, almost as much as the Swollen stuff if not more so. During the song ” Dickhead ” everyone in the audience sang every word. It was pretty incredible to see the love STL has for Madchild and Swollen.
This crowd was not the largest one of the tour but, Swollen Members as a group blew the place apart like it was a capacity show. Madchild remarked how happy he was with the crowd and, to be on tour in St. Louis. He seemed to be in very good spirits and projected this good energy on the crowd. Its a great feeling to watch people do what they love, Madchild puts passion into his raps and performance.
They finished the blazing set with a solo Madchild song ” Monster ” and all I can think about is how this performance is burned in my memory forever now. Madchild killed this performance from start to finish, in every way. Its just a raw, very captivating performance and let the show end on a very high note. I was completely impressed with this show.
Swollen Members have new album ” Brand New Day, out next month, featuring the single ” Power ” check it out online. If you are anyway on the fence about going to see Madchild, Swollen Members, or Sozay go! Spend some money on this show because this guys will tear the stage down and put on a memorable show. I am already counting the days until they come even close to my city. I can’t wait to see this again. Thanks to Pop’s, Thanks Swollen Members for putting St. Louis on your tour, thanks to Sozay for coming out and rocking. Respect to everyone who came and spent some money on some real underground hip hop on a Sunday night in St. Louis.
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Chevelle – Pop’s Nightclub – Sauget, IL 12-7-12
December 10, 2012 / concertchk / 0 Comments
I’m really not sure how many times I’ve actually seen Chevelle, I know I’ve seen them many, as I was seeing them when they first came out and Joe there other brother was the bassists, so regardless of how many times.. they never disappoint. I love standing there and singing every word. I tend to think of the time when I actually heard the song on the Cd, or why Pete wrote the lyrics for that certain song, it’s memories in your head that come up while your singing along, it’s priceless.
Chevelle really is about the music for me, I love there music, love Pete’s lyrics and the guys are great, regardless of what others say, they bring it every night.
Overall Chevelle never puts on a bad show, at least not none that I have been too. They had two opening bands, the first one Lye, isn’t worth mentioning they were a local band from St. Louis. 10 years was the second opening band and they rocked, it was my first time seeing them, and they were amazing. They got the crowd going, came out into the crowd, it was a major group effort and I know they have toured with Chevelle in the past, so overall great performance by 10 years.
Since this is one of my favorite bands, being in the front is a must, so you can imagine that my friend and I were the first two, too arrive at Pops at 10am in the morning by dang it, we had a plan, we were on a mission we were going to be in the front row. After picking up another friend from the airport we planted ourselves with chairs in tow, outside the doors, and that worked. We were front row and that’s all that matters.
Chevelle took the stage around 9:30pm and started off with a bang, the bass in Pops was massive that it vibrated through your soul, it was awesome. They opened with “Sleep Apnea” from there 2009 album “Sci-Fi Crimes” of course they could play all of there albums and I would be happy. Pete had just gotten the ‘ok’ from his doctor to use his knee again, a couple months ago, he fell off a stage at a show and tore a muscle in his left knee so he was glad to be back to normal and ready to rock. He’s such a trooper though, even after he fell he still got back on stage, and finished the set all while sitting down.
There set list is as follows:
The majority of the photos are of 10 years, as the lighting for Chevelle was in my face and hard to actually take photos, I did manage to get a few, which was fine. It’s not like I don’t have photos of the band, just enjoying the music and singing was the highlight of my night. It’s all about there music for me, and Pete’s lyrics. I heard they are going to try to get another album out next year so that will be a plus all the way around.
Again Pop’s came through venue wise, can’t wait to see what 2013 brings to the area, and finishing off the 2012 concert season with two great bands was well worth the travel. Thanks again St. Louis.
Bush 12/06/12: Pop’s – Sauget, IL
It had been ten years or more since I first seen Gavin Rossdale and Bush live, I still remember the event, as he left the stage that night and came up close to where I was sitting, an unknown band at the time called Muse opened up for them, and that’s all I remember really, couldn’t tell you anymore, just remembered the event in my head.
So I was slightly excited to see Bush again, since it had been so long and I just wanted to make sure I was down in front of Gavin, but so did the fifteen or so fan club members that were there before us. My friend from Michigan flew down to St. Louis and we made a evening of it, as we were attending another concert the next day. Being about 15th, or 20th, in line wasn’t to shabby so the chances were good to get a rail when walking into the venue. Getting to the venue early always allows you to make friends, visit and talk about other concerts that you have went to, and this was no different, Bush fans are really nice and they do love Gavin that’s for sure, but when security came out to tell the ones that had waited in line since noon or more, that only a few of them could go in, the bush army quickly became the blood army, but in the end all that were there before noon got to go in before us, still a rail was had.
Bush took the stage around 9pm I believe, and started out the night with “Machinehead” and Gavin looked mighty fine I will say. He sounded just like the album, voice and all didn’t miss a beat. They continued on with “All My Life”, “Chemicals” and the lead single off of there current CD “The Sea of Memories”. During “Afterlife” Gavin decided to leave the stage and make his way completely around the venue he started with the balcony and worked his way all the way back to where he started, of course a sweat trail was made. The man sweats a lot, so much so that he has plastic over his sound board, that’s how bad he sweats, but he’s getting a work out none the less. I’ve heard that the cold air affects his throat, so I understand why it’s warm in there and why he sweats, he doesn’t need to work out after a show that’s for sure.
The set list consisted of:
Machinehead
Sound of Winter
Greedy Fly
Afterlife (where he left the stage)
Break on Through
Comedown
Overall it was a great show, I found myself taking more photos then normal, as Gavin is just so man pretty, the dude is flawless and he’s just sweet as he can be. I was able to met him afterward as there was a line, and he made his way down the line and hugged everyone, talking to them for a bit, posing for photos, and just overall gentlemanly. I told him one day I will meet your wife, he said he hoped to met her one day too.
Bush – Glycerine
Bush had two opening bands, Brookroyal a local St. Louis band whom I’ve seen a couple times on tour, they are a great rock band. They got the crowd moving and ready for Bush, along with Hollow Point Heros who from what I remember where pretty good. Both put out excellent performances while the crowd waited for Bush to take the stage.
Pops is a great venue in East St. Louis, I’ve been to it so many times the security guards hug me, that’s how much I’ve frequented that venue this year, it’s great for concerts and I’ll always feel safe there regardless of if others think it’s in a bad part of town, yes it’s between two strip clubs, but hey, it’s a rocking venue that’s all that matters. Pops does Rock!!
Check Out Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale sing Glycerine at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas together by clicking here.
Twiztid Destroys East St. Louis With Help From Hed Pe and Lil Wyte 11/29/12
December 4, 2012 / Beeznutz / 0 Comments
TWIZTID/HED PE/LIL WYTE/POTLUCK POP’S SAUGET, IL 11/29/12
WORDS/PHOTOS/VIDEO by BzNtz
Strangely I had not heard much of this tour until a few days before the show. Fate had giving both my girl and I the night off so we set out to make the most of it. After talking to my friend Steve, he invited us out to show and talked both of us into going. In exchage we talked Steve into giving us a ride out to Pop’s in Sauget, IL. Pop’s is one minute across the river in beautiful East Saint Louis. I have been coming to Pop’s since 1998. Great place, good staff, and awesome times.
We got inside as the California duo Potluck was midway through there set. They seemed like a fun band, and a great fit for this crowd. The crowd was a very good sized one, and had both the balcony and floor close to full.
After a few minutes of walking around we settled into a spot as Potluck played a remake of Tyga’s ” Rack City ” and turned it into ” Pot City ” talking about there hometown of Humboult County, CA. They closed out the set by asking fans to come smoke and talk with them at the merch booth.
During the intermission my buddy asked me? ” Is Lil Wyte here, he has no merch here? ” That was a good point too, as it was close to 8 p.m and they still hadn’t set up their merch. Well the lights went black and out came the southern legend that is Lil Wyte.
Hailing from Memphis, TN and reppin’ both Hypnotize Minds and Wyte Music. Lil Wyte has released 6 studio albums since 2000, the latest being ” Still Doubted ” which dropped in June of this year. The crowd really was into seeing Lil Wyte and his shows are always fun. As to be expected he closed his 30 set with ” Oxycottin “. The last few verses he did accapella with the crowd and was a great ending.
That brought up (Həd) p.e. they are from Huntington Beach, Ca. I have been seeing them live since 1999. Since then I have been to countless shows. They have a very loyal following now, and they had a lot of t-shirts with their logo in the crowd.
As soon as that first song ” Let’s Ride ” hit, all hell broke loose. The crowd went into a frenzy and a huge pit formed. The crazy thing is normally the pit stays away from the metal beams way off to the side, this pit sent people hurling into it. Girls were left scattering as the crowd grew more vicious with the song.
Lead Singer Jahred talked in between songs about a lot of things: Freedom, America, fucking, smoking, being lied to and just overall living a good life. He still can get down on stage too, during some songs bouncing 3-4 feet off the stage. The crowd matched his intensity and gave it right back.
My favorite part of the show was when Strata-G came out and rocked the stage. Strata-G is part of the F.T.I Army, which is a St. Louis label. They rock a lot of shows out here, and they are constantly on the grind. Strata-G has spent years promoting F.T.I outside of Pop’s chasing his dream, and has released multiple full length cds.
Hed rocked the stage for a good 45 minutes, and it was obvious the crowd wanted more. There just wasn’t enough time though and it was time for the Detroit horror duo, TWIZTID.
We left the crowd for some fresh air, soon enough some random girl came outside screaming TWWWWWWWIZTIDs on. We left and went inside as the murderous tag team that is Monoxide Child, and Jamie Madrox took the stage for the first song. Onstage Madrox sported a fancy mo-hawk, while Monoxide Child rocked some toxic lime green hair. Many juggalos in the crowd sported bloody clothing, painted faces, and psychopathic merch.
I first heard of Twiztid back in 1998 when I got a flyer featuring a dead siamise baby. They have went on to release 9 full length and 6 e.p albums since then and have developed a extremely devote fan base. This year they released ” Abominationz ” in October on Psychopathic Records.
Twiztid pieced together a impressive career spanning setlist that made both new and old fans happy. During the show a omenious ” Old School ” sound bite would drop everytime Twiztid played a older song.
Twiztid played for a hour, and the packed house loved every second of it. My girl had fun, I had fun. After the show the bands stuck around to sell merch, sign autographs and take photos with fans. Jahred from Hed was helping fans cut the sleeves off their newly purchased shirts.
It was a great night, and I can’t wait to do it all again. Thanks to: Pop’s, Twiztid, Hed Pe, Lil Wyte, Potluck, F.T.I Army, Straga-G and everyone else who came out and made this night awesome.
Till next time…..
BzNtz
Seether’s Triple Threat Tour 09/28/12: Pop’s – Sauget, IL
October 1, 2012 / concertchk / 1 Comment
Back in June Seether announced they would headline the Triple Threat tour with Kyng and Sick Puppies. As it turns out, one of those bands stole the show in my opinion.
Seether has played Pops before, and I have heard stories of chaos and other interesting things. In fact one of the security guards there told me an interesting story about how he spent a few days on their tour bus last time they were at Pops, so clearly Seether is a partying band. Unfortunately , I was not lucky enough to actually party with them on this particular evening.
As the norm goes, my friends and I managed to get to Pops well before anyone else. It’s always a great feeling when you walk into a venue and see that empty rail knowing you have accomplished the mission of getting up front. That moment makes up for all the pains of skipping meals and waiting outside since 1pm.
The opening band for the show at Pop’s go by the name Young Guns. They were from England, and they were pretty good, in a sense they could easily play the Warped Tour and gather a ton of young girls screaming after them. They did a great job of getting the crowd moving and the lead singer did have beautiful blue eyes, so that was a plus. Honestly I’m not sure what their songs were, as this is the first time I have actually heard of the band, but I can tell you they played songs from their most recent album Bones.
The next band I wasn’t familiar with either, they were a three piece band called Kyng. (pronounced “king”) If I would have had long hair, I would have head banged through their entire set. Seriously this band rocked. They had heavy guitar riffs, and blazing bass, along with a lead singer that sort of looked like Rob Zombie, with a hint of Zack Wylde. He knows how to play the guitar that’s for sure. They played straight up head banging music, and they were good at it.
Although I had a hard time understanding exactly what he was saying, they did play songs from their album Trampled Sun and the lead singer was rather flirty. If you’re going to make wide eyes at me, expect the same back. Yes, several times he decided to do that with me and near the end of the set he pointed at me and sung. I love moments where you can connect like that with musicians.
Next up was Sick Puppies. Personally they stole the show. It’s been a year or so since I last saw the band that formed in Australia back in 1997., My first time seeing them, was two or three years ago, when they opened up for Chevelle in Chicago. They rocked the house then, and they rocked the house Friday night. Shim, the lead singer wasn’t feeling too well, you could tell his throat was scratchy but him and Emma, the bass player, and Mark the drummer, rocked it out. They got the crowd bouncing, moving and just plain singing every word to every song. I think they had more fans than Seether it was awesome. Bassist Emma Azari well let’s just say she kicks ass and can play a mean bass that’s for sure. They opened with “Odd One” off of their third album Tri-Polar. From that point on it was all rock. Check out the setlist below.
Sick Puppies set list consisted of:
Odd One
New Song, not sure on name
You’re going down
Shim also climbed out onto the crowd which did get bumped in the head by his shoe. Sadly I was unable to get photos of this but it’s okay. They performed an epic set and I will no doubt go see them live again.
Seether was next and their stage set up was pretty cool. They had moving parts on the amps, a clock that went around, pumps that moved up and down, and various other things, lots of glowing lights, and special things on the microphones, many different touches to there stage set up.
It had been a good six or seven years since I last saw Seether. They were a band that I followed and seen many times, even one time when they opened for Marilyn Manson way back when. So I was anticipating the sound that they play, but I wasn’t anticipating the mellow vibe I was getting. Honestly I could have feel asleep if it wasn’t for the little kid next to me that had made his way up to the front row and was rocking out. I would have dozed, perhaps it was Shaun’s mellowness that didn’t get the crowd going or just didn’t seem to have a stage presence at all. I’m not really sure.
Seether did perform well for what it was and played their hits along with old favorites such as “Broken.” They had an amazing drum solo by drummer John Humphrey. They did have a set up where Dale the bassist was sitting in a chair playing the bass during “Broken”, and there was some sort of glass object with liquid in it. Here is a photo of it below, the lighting was just dark enough that you couldn’t really get good shots, because it was so smokey in a sense.
Seether did finish up strong, and did get the crowd into with “Country Song” so things were looking up during the performance. As I said Seether has been through a lot as a band, Shaun has had issues and various other things seem to come there way, but overall, they did have a solid performance, the set list is pictured below:
It was a good night for a concert, and being dead center in the front wasn’t to shabby. I would have liked to have the lighting a little different for Seether, but it is what it is. Pops is a great venue, you can’t go wrong with going there to see a show, they have two stages and a balcony enough to accommodate a sold out performance. I love getting there early enough to be able to go in and out of pops to use the facilities, and get a drink if need be, it is a great little venue, nestled between two strip clubs.. makes for the perfect show, and they have a great atmosphere I think, overall I love pops. And this show turned me on to two new bands, that I hadn’t heard of until then, I will see Kyng again for sure, and you never know Young Guns might turn up on another tour, but overall another great concert.
Sebastian Bach – 7-21-12 – Pop’s – Sauget, IL
July 23, 2012 / concertchk / 11 Comments
Sebastian Bach we all know the name from the days when Skid Row ruled the world (and perhaps girls of a certain age remember him from the hit TV show Gilmore Girls). I have never seen Sebastian Bach or Skid Row perform live but I remember the hits like “ I Remember You” like it was yesterday . This show was another free concert as my friend and I got free tickets when we were at Pops two weeks ago. One of the manager’s for an opener asked if we wanted to go, how could we turn him down? As usual we got down to Pop’s early enough that we were the only ones in the parking lot. Seriously I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to Pops when there is someone else there, I’m usually always the first one as I want to be in the first row. So we started to stand in line around 4:30pm when Security came out and moved us back away from the door. Needless to say before the doors opened at 7pm the line was strung through the parking lot and around vehicles so there was a solid turn out for the Sebastian Bach show.
While standing in line my friend Cheri and I, discussed where we wanted to be as the presence of drunk people behind us in line, had us second guessing our spots. Knowing Pop’s has a nice balcony it was decided that we would head up there and get front balcony for the show. Once the doors opened we managed to get two seats almost center to the stage, where Cheri could video tape and I could test out my other angle of photos, and see if that would make a difference. We got our spot which was located underneath an air conditioner vent, you can imagine we nearly froze the whole time (unexpected for the Midwest in July), but enjoyed the show none the less.
Sebastian Bach took the stage at 10pm, and opened up with the head banging “Slave to the Grind.” It was outstanding as Bach was microphone swinging and head banging through the entire song. He sounded great, had the slight echo going through the mic when he finished a song, but that’s to be expected, it is Sebastian Bach for crying out loud. “Slave to the Grind” was awesome, although I kept on singing “Halstorms” version of it in my head, as they did remake the song on an EP earlier in the year, still Bach owned it.
He automatically continued into the next song, “Kicking and Screaming” without slowing down. I did notice his adorable little guitar player, Nick Sterling a young guy in his early 20’s yes I’m attracted to younger guys, he was adorable. In fact I almost thought it could be Bach’s son, but as the show progressed I realized it wasn’t but he could play that guitar beautifully and I thought was the highlight of the show, but that’s just me.
Set list below:
Slave to the Grind
(Love is) a Bitchslap
Stuck Inside
American Metalhead
As Long as I got the Music
Youth gone wild
As you can see the set list had major Skid Row songs on it, and “Tunnel Vision” which he stated was wrote with John 5 from Rob Zombie. The highlight of the show was during “Youth Gone Wild” as Sebastian started the song and got into the first chorus a kid came running up on stage from the side and started head banging and dancing around. You could see Nick’s face like what the heck, he quickly got tackled and taken out by the security guards, he was in the crowd earlier and was head banging to the opening bands, he did really make it be “Youth gone Wild”, it was a great ending to a awesome concert.
Sebastian Bach had two opening bands, Conquest, and Divine Sorrow. I could have done without Conquest they weren’t very good. Your basic hair band where the lead singer resembled Bret Micheal’s. Divine Sorrow on the other hand is a good little band, sort of a cross between Metallica and Creed, they had tons of family and friends there, and put on a great set.
Sebastian did mention “Sauget” a lot, as that is the town were Pop’s is located, but did also say that Pops sold out, and that was awesome considering everything going on in St. Louis over the weekend Pop’s managed to sell out for Bach, and as usual put on a great show, I love Pop’s so I can’t say anything bad about a venue that I frequent at least three or four times a year, a great night had by all.
Hoobastank 07/10/12: Pop’s – Sauget, IL
July 11, 2012 / concertchk / 0 Comments
This particular journey to see Hoobastank began on Twitter. I’ve become friends with two awesome ladies from overseas who are huge fans of the band, Hazel Cooksley from the United Kingdom and Lotta Djerf from Sweden. They both love their music and love the band dearly, so me going and seeing the band became a top priority. Needless to say, they both went with me via Twitter and what a journey it was.
We began our trip by tweeting pretty much the whole afternoon, and when we tweeted about Hoobastank or their lead singer Doug Robb we included them in our tweets. I was documenting this for my European friends, tour bus photo, venue photos, Hazel even called from the United Kingdom to hear a bit of the band’s sound check as we got close to the venues front door. That was unreal I thought as I had never received a call from London before.
Pop’s is a good little venue on the east side of St. Louis (Sauget Illinois to be exact). It has two stages, a balcony and a bar with a great atmosphere for music. Even though it’s located between two strip clubs, it still serves its purpose very well and is a venue I would recommend anyone go to that loves live rock music. The night started off with local openers From Skies of Fire. They got the crowd moving and one guy even crowd surfed. With the lack of guard rail, he got pushed right back down.
Hoobastank took the stage around 9:15pm and opened with “Pieces” off of their 2001 self-titled album. It had been a good ten or twelve years since they had taken the stage in St. Louis and Doug mentioned last time they were there he accidently called St. Louis, Cincinnati. Oops but hey he apologized and the band sounded amazing especially Dan Estrin on the guitar. Seriously I have never heard such sounds coming from a guitar before. Perhaps that is because this was my first time seeing the band? Regardless it won’t be the last time that is for sure.
Hoobastank has a new album called Fight or Flight coming out next month, and we were treated to several new songs from the album as well as some classic jams. The set list is as follows (I may have missed a song and it may be slightly out of order):
This is Gonna Hurt
You Before Me
1st of Me
Same Direction
Unaffected
No Win Situation
Born to Lead
Crawling in the Dark
The band played their song with a ton of passion. They also decided an encore was not needed, instead Doug stated that we should just clap after this one song and after they took a little drink they would continue on with the music. Ha that was funny and much easier if you ask me. The crowd was roughly 200 maybe 300 at the most, a small intimate setting and during “The Reason” you could hear it, I don’t think anyone wasn’t singing. Overall an amazing performance, but what made the night even more amazing was after the show, Doug bent down and shook my hand and said “you drove what two hours to be here” and I’m like “yes, and I said Hazel and Lotta say Hello” he’s like “I know, Hazel from the UK.. I know that chick.” I just smiled and said thank you as I was grateful he had been reading our tweets that day.
Afterward Doug and the rest of the band, Dan Estrin (guitarist), Chris Hesse (drummer), and Jesse Charland (bassist) all came out to greet fans and sign autographs. Doug was really sweet, he took the time to write on my set list Hi Hazel & Lotta, love Doug(me) and we took a photo with it. I told you it was an amazing night.
Buckcherry 04/27/12: Pop’s – Sauget, IL
April 28, 2012 / concertchk / 5 Comments
Buckcherry w/ Fivefold, Redlight Kings and James Durbin 04/27/12
Pop’s – Sauget, IL
Words by concertchk, Photos by Beth Thompson
Buckcherry, odd name for a rock band but, with a lead singer like Josh Todd the name works well. This was my first time seeing Buckcherry live, so I went into this concert not really knowing what to expect. My friend and I got there after doors opened, but still managed to get in the front row, I guess folks have to leave to go get more beer, therefore losing their coveted spot? Oh well, so sorry.
The night kicked off with opening sets from Fivefold, Redlight Kings, and James Durbin. Fivefold were awesome, a great little rock band from the St. Louis area I believe. They had strong vocals, great guitars and an overall head banging vibe a perfect way to start the night off.
Redlight Kings let’s just say I LOVE THEM!! Seriously this is why I went to the show, Kaz is amazing, he’s the lead singer and I first discovered them last year in Fort Wayne, IN and have been a fan ever since. They lay down old school rock, mixed with a little bit of Everlast and a whole lot of soul. Keep your eyes on this band as they put on a killer performance and very well may be a household name in the not so distant future.
I honestly felt that Americal Idol alum James Durbin sucked. I’m sorry, but Spider One from Powerman 5000 already has that look and you should really try to get your own. I was not impressed, nor would I pay to see this person in concert. If you are going to dress like a rock star, and have a rock star looking band your voice better not sound like a girl. Buckcherry could have totally done without him on tour. I would have been happy if it was the other two bands minus this dude.
Buckcherry front man Josh Todd is a tattooed work of art, seriously his whole upper half is inked. He sort of reminds me of a young Steven Tyler, not sure if it’s the skinny frame, the lips or the voice. Buckcherry took the stage around 10 pm and started out with “All Night Long.” Before you know it, Josh already had his shirt and jacket off (why come on stage with it, he knows we all want to see his tattooed torso?) and was on the move. For me, I thought he was shorter than what I had seen on TV, clearly I need to not let that affect how I perceive a rock and roll star.
I love messing with rock stars on stage, I’ve done this many times smiling and looking them in the eye sort of jolts there stage presence, I, of course find it entertaining, and it shows they are actually REAL. Josh is cocky you can tell by the way he acts, so I decided I was going to smile and make eye contact for the majority of the show. He was doing the same only to the girls that were jumping up and down, wonder why that was? We did make eye contact several times through the show, and yes he almost cracked a smile, but that “I’m a hardcore rock dude” ego brought him back to reality. Unfortunately, my pal Beth and I were not mentioned in the “sexy” area of the crowd when he took that survey. Perhaps he knew we were the “good girls” of the crowd?
Musically the band sang new songs and old favorites and basically sounded just like they do on record. Highlights included “Tired of You,” “Lit Up” and of course “Crazy Bitch.” They did a great job of rocking Pop’s, and while I was not overly impressed they still put on a solid show. Minus the joke of James Durbin, overall the concert was great, the pit wasn’t rowdy or pushy, just a good old fashioned rock show. Add the fact that Pop’s has great acoustics and is located between two strip clubs and I can see why so many love to perform here when in the St. Louis area. Truly a great night of music, and I am glad I had the chance to see Buckcherry, and the art of Josh Todd. I might even consider paying to see them again one day.
Photos were taken by my friend Beth Thompson..
Janus 03/29/12: Pop’s – Sauget, IL
April 2, 2012 / Beeznutz / 0 Comments
Janus/Deny The Gravity, Pop’s Sauget, IL 03-29-12
Words/Photos/Videos by BzNtz
My friend Mike called me very excited one day and told me that his band Deny The Gravity was picked to open a show for Janus. I was very happy for him and as I normally do with my friends bands if I am off work I will go.
The tickets were only 10.57 thanks to our local alternative radio station, 105.7 The Point. The Point puts on a lot of great shows that I try to support when I can. I rolled out to this show solo style, but I was instantly greeted by many familiar faces in the crowd.
Pop’s is a great place to see a show I have been coming to Pop’s for over a decade. Located in Sauget, IL right across the river from St. Louis. Pop’s has hosted many, many great shows through the years.
I missed the first opening band Manx but got there right in time to check out my friends Deny The Gravity. DTG is a 5 piece rock band from St. Charles, MO. They always bring a good crowd of people to see them, as they are great at promoting their gigs. They got on stage and wasted no time getting the people left in the seats on their feet.
Deny The Gravity features my friends: Bill on Vocals, Pappy on Bass, Mike, and Shane on Guitar, and Joe on the drums.
I have known them all for years and they have spent the better part of those years working on their craft. Hard work pays off and I have been there to see the crowd size double, and triple for them in size at each show.
They tore up the stage for the better part of 30 minutes, getting everyone moving around and feeling good. What a rock show is supposed to do.
After Deny The Gravity was Connibal Road who also did a great job of rocking the stage and getting the crowd charged. I didn’t get any pictures of their set because of low batteries. Then right around 10:05 our wonderful Point DJ Lux came out to announce the headliner of the evening.
Hailing from Chicago, IL, Janus took the Pop’s stage and started things off with ” In Flames ” which is the first track of their new album released on 3/27/12 titled ” Nox Aeris ” on Realid Records.
They were very excited to be back in St. Louis and the crowd was happy they were back. They rocked ” Your Arms ” and ” Six Letters ” off of the debut album ” Red Right Turn ” before playing a new song ” Lifeless “.
“Skin Deep ” and ” The Nerve ” followed by ” Stranger ” were next next in the set all of which are from the debut album.
The song ” Promise To No One ” is easily one of my favorites off the new album had plenty of people singing in the crowd.
They played another song from the new record ” Numb ” was a great song to see live. They seemed very together on the new material and it was fun and fresh to see live.
The new single was next ” Stains ” had the floor moving as Janus tore up the stage. They have a lot of energy when they play and the Pop’s crowd gave it right back to them. The Point has been spinning the new single a lot and the crowd was very excited hearing it live.
They ended the set with ” Eyesore ” which has been shown a lot of love on 105.7 The Point’s airwaves over the past couple years. It was a great choice to close the night out.
My friends and I hung out, drank some cold beers, and played bar games. Bill from DTG bought me a beer and it was very much appreciated. Thanks Bill!
Some of my friends left to hit the Penthouse Strip club and I was almost going to go with them. However, I need to save my chips for Memphis In May which is only a month away. Janus stuck around and signed copies for ” Nox Aeris ” for their fans. It was a great night.
Janus – Sauget, IL 03/29/12
1. In Flames
2. Your Arms
3. Six Letters
4. Lifeless
5. Skin Deep
6. The Nerve
7. Stranger
8. Promise To No One
9. Numb
10. Stains
11. EYESORE
Thanks To: 105.7 The Point, Deny The Gravity, Connibal Road, Manx, Pop’s, Lux, and all my friends who made this night ROCK! Thank You.
Be sure to check out Janus’s new record ” Nox Aeris ” and Manx, Deny The Gravity and Connibal Road.
https://www.facebook.com/manx.us
https://www.facebook.com/connibalroad
https://www.facebook.com/DenyTheGravity
https://www.facebook.com/JanusBand
https://www.facebook.com/LuxOnRadio
https://www.facebook.com/1057thepoint
and be sure to stay up with shows at Pop’s
www.PopsRocks.Com
MACHINE HEAD, SUICIDE SILENCE AND DARKEST HOUR DEMOLISH EAST ST. LOUIS 01/17/12
January 23, 2012 / Beeznutz / 1 Comment
I have been a fan of Machine Head since before the ” Burning Red ” album was released. That CD release show was one of the first shows I have ever attended at Pop’s Concert and Nightclub in beautiful, sunny Sauget, IL. Its hard to believe its been over 10 years since that day or summer. A lot has changed, new albums, new haircuts, new groupies and a lot has stayed the same. Hard fucking music brought to you as only Machine Head can. Brutal, unforgiving and in your face. When Robb Flynn and Co. decided to bring a winter tour to St. Louis and I couldn’t help but go. Oh the memories.
A show prior to this my car battery died completely, oh well thats what happens when you drive, shit breaks. So with my battery being shot, I decided to call and try and find a ride. It wasn’t hard, one of my good friends and die hard St. Louis Metal fan Matt decided to be nice enough to give me a ride to the show. Before heading out we grabbed a few Schlafly Pale Ale’s as a gift for the band Darkest Hour. Schlafly is a great St. Louis brewer and they make exceptional beer, they also sponsor great music and events. After grabbing a few beers myself we rolled towards Pop’s in search of good times, strippers and music.
We found all 3 numerous times upon entering Pop’s glorious parking lot. After finding a spot next to the buses we had to wait a whole 5 minutes before Lonestar from Darkest Hour came outside. My friend Matt and him chatted about the weather, beer, and music in a 3 minute chat. They kept it brief as Darkest Hour was to hit the stage in less than an hour and it was 22 degrees in St. Louis with a breeze that kills. I had killed a few beers by this time and I was hoping I could have a couple more inside. Well the math wasn’t right, I had 23 dollars the show was $22 day of show. Then someone asked me the magic question. Do you need a ticket they asked? ” Yeah how much ? ” I replied. When he told me 10 dollars I was super excited. Just what I needed more alcohol, and we were in.
It was your typical metal show, lots of black shirts featuring the words fuck and bitch. I made my way to the floor to watch Darkest Hour. They hail from Washington D.C and bring the metal all over this globe. They took the stage on time and wasted no time in putting on a show that sent those in attendance to see them to go crazy, my friend Matt included.
He hyped this band up quite a bit and they did not let down. They played ” The World Engulfed In Flames ” to open their set and played it with a raw intensity. It was a great start to what would turn out to be a great show.
Singer John Henry was very into his job at vocals working both sides of the stage, and never letting the shows energy to slip back down. He was a great front man to watch work the stage.
Darkest Hour has recorded 7 albums in the past 10 years and paid a lot of dues across America among other countries. They played a variety of songs off of their collection of albums. One that stood out in my mind being the first time seeing them live was, ” A Thousand Words To Say But One ” off of the 2005 release ” Undoing Ruin “. This song really showed how together these guys are as a group.
They played a incredible set, I really enjoy these guys and look forward to seeing them back in the future. On the way down to the show Matt told me the song ” Doomsayer ” changed the way he viewed music. I respect Matt’s opinion very much and that is a major statement. So we sat on the way to the show and listened to that song twice, and it was only right they would end with ” Doomsayer ” and left the crowd charged and waiting more.
After the brief set change, the lights went dark and the crowd once again rushed the floor. Up next from Southern California was Suicide Silence. A lot of people have negative things to say about this band. The handful of times I have met them or seen them live they have always rocked and treated me and other fans with respect. They brought a sizeable chunk of the crowd that night and the floor got crazy when they started off the set with ” You Only Live Once ” which is off of their latest release ” The Black Crown “.
After first seeing them in 2008 at some local club that was packed to the walls, I have seen them countless other times over the years. They always put on a great show and take performing seriously. Lead singer Mitch Lucker loves his circle pits and would call for one almost every song to which the crowd was happy to help. It was great seeing half the crowd try for the circle pit and the other half sit there and wonder whats going on?
They had a good variety of songs during thier 40 minute set. Such as songs from the 2007 debut release ” The Cleansing ” such as the fan favorite ” No Pity For A Coward “. That got the hardcore Suicide fans revved up in a frenzy. They encouraged the crowd surfers that were flying over the barricade almost faster than security could catch them.
Towards the end of the set they still had the crowd eating out of their hands. After playing ” Smoke ” off of 2009’s ” No Time To Bleed ” album it was time for the metal show staple ” The Wall of Death “. It went over great as it normally does at Pop’s the crowd loved it and it got them to go even crazier than they were already. They followed that up with ” Disengage ” which is the last song on the ” No Time To Bleed ” album.
After Suicide finished their set, the anticipation grew as we waited for Machine Head to take the stage. The crowd chanted ” Machine Fuckin’ Head ” as the lights went out. They came out and rocked the song ” I AM HELL ” for the St. Louis crowd, red lights lit the stage giving even more feeling to the song. It was a great song to open with and people wasted no time in showing everyone else what Machine Head shows are all about.
” I Am Hell ” is a single off of the album ” Unto The Locust ” which was released in 2011. They continued the destruction with ” Imperium ” off of 2004’s ” Through The Ashes Of Empires ” which the crowd went crazy for screaming the chorus as loud as they possibly could. It seemed to get louder and louder and the show progressed.
This show reminded me of all the other great Machine Head shows I had seen here over the past decade or so. At one point frontman Robb Flynn told the crowd about the first time he came to Pop’s and how much he loved playing here, then he asked ” How many of you crazy motherfuckers are going to be here next time? ” It was obvious that they hadn’t lost any steps and that they will have a crowd in St. Louis for a long time to come.
I enjoyed the intro Robb did for the song ” Locust ” off of their latest effort ” Unto The Locust ” and they rocked it. The crowd was very into it and let them know it. During the next song ” This Is The End ” crowd surfers were flying everywhere.
After a Cheers with the crowd and waking the crowd up. Robb Dedicated ” Aesthetics Of Hate ” to Dimebag. It was a fitting tribute for a metal legend that deserves to remembered as much as possible.
It was great seeing such a awesome band from my younger years still tearing shit up, Adam Duce the bass player was as fierce as ever.
The Drums were on point, Phil Demmel was ripping up some crazy solo’s on lead guitar. They had a great setlist featuring songs we have grew to expect at a Machine Head show.
“10 Ton Hammer” and ” Bulldozer ” got the great response that each should. Lot’s of bodies flying and slamming into each other, in the crazy pit that grew with each song.
Machine Head left the stage briefly after 60 minutes and 13 songs. They came back out to rock the crowd with ” Halo ” off of 2008’s album ” The Blackening ” and closed the set with ” Davidian” off of 2005’s album ” Elegies “. It was a great performance from a band that always delivers. MACHINE FUCKIN’ HEAD tore it down once again.
After Machine Head’s set, I sat and chatted about concerts, touring and life as of late with Mitch from Suicide Silence, he was just chillen, enjoying a Coor’s Light and the crowds company. He took time to sign autographs and take pictures with all of his fans left in attendance. It is cool to see people so eager to meet their fans. This show has a great lineup, each band has a great set and it is a great time. I walked out of Pop’s slightly drunk and ears ringing and headed straight to White Castle as I do after most shows. Go see this show, go support these bands and pick up some albums. ‘
Darkest Hour has ” The Human Romance ” and 6 other albums instores
Suicide Silence has ” The Black Crown ” and 2 other albums instores
Machine Head has ” Unto The Locust ” and 6 other albums instores
http://www.darkesthour.info/
http://www.suicidesilence.net/
http://machinehead1.com/
DARKEST HOUR SET LIST 01.17.2012 SAUGET, IL POP’S
The World Engulfed in Flames
Savor the Kill
With a Thousand Words to Say but One
Violent by Nature
Love as a Weapon
Your Everyday Disaster
Doomsayer (The Beginning of the End)
SUICIDE SILENCE SET LIST 01.17.2012 SAUGET, IL POP’S
O.C.D.
Slaves to Substance
Disengage
Fuck Everything
No Pity for a Coward
MACHINE HEAD SETLIST 01.17.2012 SAUGET, IL POP’S
I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)
Beautiful Mourning
The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
Aesthetics of Hate
Ten Ton Hammer
Davidian
Mastodon Announce 2011 North American Tour Dates
September 12, 2011 / concertconfessions / 0 Comments
With their new album The Hunter due to hit shelves at the end of this month, Mastodon have announced dates for a North American Headline tour. In addition to an appearance at the Voodoo Music Experneice in New Orleans on Saturday October 29th the band will be performing in most major markets during the five week run. Coming along for the tour will be Red Fang and Dillinger Escape Plan. You can check out the first single from Mastodon’s new album here. Dates for the trek can be found below.
Mastodon 2011 Tour Dates:
10/25 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
10/27 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds
11/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
11/02 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
11/03 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
11/05 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
11/06 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO
11/07 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
11/08 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/09 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
11/11 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
11/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Rave Ballroom
11/13 – Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
11/14 – Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont
11/16 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
11/17 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room
11/19 – New York City, NY @ Terminal 5
11/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
11/21 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
11/23 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
11/25 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
11/26 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
11/27 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/28 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
11/29 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
12/01 – Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues
Bad Religion and Rise Against Play East St. Louis Parking Lot.
Bad Religion/Rise Against 05/10/11
Pop’s Outdoors – Sauget, IL
Words/Photos by BeeZnutZ
I love outdoor shows. They remind me of summer days spent outside seeing some of my favorite bands with good friends. When Rise Against announced they would be touring with Bad Religion I was sold. Even better the venue Pop’s 24/7 in Sauget, IL was hosting the show outside, in the parking lot in between two nightclubs.
The morning of the show was gloomy, rainy and anything but exceptional weather for an outdoor event. As the day progressed the weather slowly turned around until it was a pretty nice overcast day. The day concluded with a nice sunset and my friend and I racing towards the east side. Home of Strip Clubs, Pop’s, that one off track betting gas station and factories!
As we pulled in I noticed a bunch of people sneaking in the parking lot to avoid paying $5 dollars.They were being chased down by the security guards. However I wanted to drink a beer in peace in my car. And 5 dollars sounded like a great bargain not to be heckled by parking attendants.
Parked the car, cracked a beer, slammed one and opened another. As we started walking the first song of Bad Religions set was being played. We hustled made good time and only missed one full song.
We found good spots middle of the crowd and were treated to a great show from the California punk veterans. The crowd was very into the set and the band gave the energy right back.
Greg Graffin is a pretty cool guy, never had the chance to meet him yet, but you can tell from his cool stage demeanor.Turns out he his also pretty damn smart too! This fall Greg will be teaching evolution at Cornell University. He sounds great live and makes Bad Religion a can’t miss for me always.
The rest of the band is equally amazing with original members Brett Gurewitz on guitar and Jay Bentley and bass still! That is incredible considering they have been around since 1979 Up next was a old school jam I love. ” Do what you want”
I was having so much fun during the set. So many memories of Bad Religion at various Warped Tours over the years instantly came to mind. The outdoor setting was perfect for this show. Next they rocked the classic ” Infected ” a tune written by the guitar player Brent Gurewitz. Who writes a lot of the bands songs and also started the record label Epitah Records back in the 80’s to sell Bad Religion records and merch.
They closed out a great set with ” Sorrow ” another song Brent wrote, that appeared on the 2002 album ” The Process of Belief ” which is hard to believe was their 12th full length album.
Another solid set in the books for Bad Religion. Everytime I am impressed by them! These new sissy wannabe bands coming out today should relax and take notes.
There was a quarter of a moon lurching in the sky above during the Bad Religion/Rise Against set change. Nice T-shirt weather night outside. The crowd was buzzing and the beer lines were long.
Since this is concert confessions I will confess that I didn’t go for Rise Against. That being said about everyone else did. So fair being fair they headlined and rocked it for all their fans in attendance.
They brought a good sized chunk of the crowd, who bounced and sang along with all the songs. The weather was just right and made everyone that much more excited to be there.
They had the crowd bouncing the entire night and almost everyone was having a great time. My friend and I were enjoying each others company breathing in the fresh industrial smog and rock and roll that was thick in the air.
They kept the energy and crowd going at a decent level the whole show. It was fun to watch them work the stage. They broke into the new single from the new album ” Endgame “. This song has been getting a lot of spins at the local station 105.7 KPNT The Point.
After seeing the one song I did know, we decided to stay for a few more songs. Up next was ” Swing Life Away” I remember that getting played 4,506 times back in the day. So maybe it is understandable why they are headlining after all.
We decided to beat traffic and make good time home, and that we did. My friend had a great night, I had fun and I can’t wait to do it
all again. Till next time….
Bad Religion :
1. The Day The Earth Stalled
2. Wrong Way Kids
3. American Jesus
4. Before You Die
5. Let Them Eat War
6. The Resist Stance
7. Cyanide
8. Meeting Of The Minds
9. Do What You Want
10. Social Suicide
11. Dearly Beloved
12. Infected
13. We’re Only Gonna Die
14. Los Angeles Is Burning
15. Sorrow
Rise Against :
1. Chamber the Cartridge
2. The Good Left Undone
3. Heaven Knows
4. Re-Education (Through Labor) Play Video
5. Survive
6. Make It Stop (September’s Children) Play Video
7. The Dirt Whispered
8. Help Is on the Way
10. From Heads Unworthy
11. Prayer of the Refugee
12. Swing Life Away
13. Hero of War
14. Audience of One
15. Architects
16. Ready to Fall
17. Entertainment
18. Savior Play Video
19 . Give It All
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Egg white hydrolysate enhances insulin sensitivity in high-fat diet-induced insulin-resistant rats via Akt activation
F. Jahandideh, S. C. de Campos Zani, M. Son, S. D. Proctor, S. T. Davidge, C. B. Chan, J. Wu
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 122 / Issue 1 / 14 July 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2019, pp. 14-24
Print publication: 14 July 2019
Agents that block the renin–angiotensin system (RAS) improve glucoregulation in the metabolic syndrome disorder. We evaluated the effects of egg white hydrolysate (EWH), previously shown to modulate the protein abundance of RAS component in vivo, on glucose homeostasis in diet-induced insulin-resistant rats. Sprague–Dawley rats were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) for 6 weeks to induce insulin resistance. They were then randomly divided into four groups receiving HFD or HFD supplemented with different concentrations of EWH (1, 2 and 4 %) for another 6 weeks in the first trial. In the second trial, insulin-resistant rats were divided into two groups receiving only HFD or HFD+4 % EWH for 6 weeks. Glucose homeostasis was assessed by oral glucose tolerance and insulin tolerance tests. Insulin signalling and protein abundance of RAS components, gluconeogenesis enzymes and PPARγ were evaluated in muscle, fat and liver. Adipocyte morphology and inflammatory markers were evaluated. In vivo administration of EWH increased insulin sensitivity, improved oral glucose tolerance (P < 0·0001) and reduced systemic inflammation (P < 0·05). EWH potentiated insulin-induced Akt phosphorylation in muscle (P = 0·0341) and adipose tissue (P = 0·0276), but minimal differences in the protein abundance of tissue RAS components between the EWH and control groups were observed. EWH treatment also reduced adipocyte size (P = 0·0383) and increased PPARγ2 protein abundance (P = 0·0237). EWH treatment yielded positive effects on the inflammatory profile, glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and adipocyte differentiation in HFD-induced insulin resistance rats. The involvement of local RAS activity requires further investigation.
One-year parasitological screening of stray dogs and cats in County Dublin, Ireland
A. Garcia-Campos, C. Power, J. O'Shaughnessy, C. Browne, A. Lawlor, G. McCarthy, E. J. O'Neill, T. de Waal
Journal: Parasitology / Volume 146 / Issue 6 / May 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2018, pp. 746-752
To date, there are no recent studies identifying the prevalence of parasites of human and veterinary importance in dogs and cats in Ireland. The interaction between pets and wildlife species in the environment is an important source of parasite exposure to canids and felines, and one likely to be heightened in the stray animal population. This study aimed to establish the prevalence of endoparasites in unowned dogs and cats in County Dublin, Ireland. Feces from stray dogs (n = 627) and cats (n = 289) entering a rehoming centre were collected immediately after defecation. The main parasitic agents detected were ascarids (15.52 and 30.26%), Cystoisospora (3.27 and 3.69%), Giardia spp. (6.02 and 1.84%) and lungworms (0.64 and 2.08%), in dogs and cats respectively. Animals younger than 3 months of age were more likely to be infected with ascarids (P < 0.001) and Cystoisospora spp. (P = 0.008 and P = 0.014) than older animals. All lungworms were morphologically identified and dogs were infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum (0.48%) and Crenosoma vulpis (0.16%) whereas cats were only infected with Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (2.08%). This represents the first prevalence study of stray animals in Ireland. Data collected will inform the treatment and in addition, the future monitoring and control studies of parasite populations.
Composite intermediate layer for CVD diamond film on steel substrate
Andre Contin, Getúlio de Vasconcelos, Djoille D. Damm, Vladimir J. Trava-Airoldi, Raonei A. Campos, Evaldo J. Corat
Journal: MRS Advances / Volume 2 / Issue 41 / 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2017, pp. 2211-2216
The union of the unique diamond properties with steel (most common substrate material) provides a new solution for machine parts under critical mechanical conditions and severe environmental. However, CVD diamond coating directly on steel comes with several issues. The fundamental reasons for the lack of adhesion are an iron catalytic effect, the high carbon solubility in iron and high mismatch in thermal expansion coefficient of diamond and steel. The use of interlayer may solve these issues acting as a diffusion barrier, for both iron and carbon, and match thermal expansion coefficients. Several articles describe the PVD deposition or electroplated interlayer. In the present study, the diamond film coated steel with an intermediate barrier deposited by laser cladding process. In this novel technique, laser irradiation melts the powder (preplaced) and the substrate surface to create the coating on a steel substrate. We used the SiC/Ti and SiC/Cu powder mixtures to create the intermediate barrier. Diamond film deposition was carried out in an HFCVD reactor (Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition). The samples characterization included X-ray Diffraction (XRD); Field Emission Gun - Scanning Electron Microscopy (FEG-SEM) and Raman Scattering Spectroscopy (RSS). Results showed that laser incidence dissociated partially the SiC powder, forming FeSi, Cu3Si phases. Further, the composite layer assisted the high thermal stress relief in steel/diamond interface.
Unveiling Nanometric Plasmons Optical Properties With Advanced Electron Spectroscopy in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
M Kociak, A. Losquin, N. Kawasaki, H. Lourenço-Martins, A. Campos, P. Das, S. Meuret, M. Tencé, L F Zagonel, K. March, F. J. Javier Garcia de Abajo, O. Stéphan
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 22 / Issue S3 / July 2016
Effect of slaughter age on meat quality of Chamarito lambs
M. Pascual-Alonso, L. Aguayo-Ulloa, G.C. Miranda-de la Lama, S. Alierta, J. L. Olleta, M.M. Campo, M. Villarroel, G.A. María
Journal: Animal Genetic Resources/Resources génétiques animales/Recursos genéticos animales / Volume 57 / December 2015
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2015, pp. 73-79
Print publication: December 2015
Chamarito lamb was recognized as a quality brand in Spain in April 2010 and this meat is highly appreciated in the local market, but little is known about how a short fattening period may affect final product quality. Twenty lambs, ten from the Ternasco category and ten from the suckling lamb category, were slaughtered and their carcass characteristics compared. All animals were weighed at birth, weaning and before slaughter, and average daily gain was calculated. Cold carcasses were weighed and bruising score, carcass conformation and carcass fatness were noted. The left back of each carcass was separated for dissection. The meat pH, cooking and thawing losses, texture, colour and fatty acid composition were measured on M. longissimus samples. Production traits and meat quality variables were analysed fitting a one-way model with the fixed effect of mean lamb age at harvest. The conformation and degree of fatness of Ternasco-type lambs was not significantly different from suckling lambs but the pH values 24.00 hours post-mortem in muscle (pHult) of the former was slightly higher. The fatty acid profile of suckling lambs was more suitable for a healthy human diet.
A tool to draw chemical equilibrium diagrams using SIT: Applications to geochemical systems and radionuclide solubility
I. Puigdomènech, E. Colàs, M. Grivé, I. Campos, D. García
A set of computer programs has been developed to draw chemical-equilibrium diagrams. This new software is the Java-language equivalent to the Medusa/Hydra software (developed some time ago in Visual basic at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden). The main program, now named “Spana” calls Java programs based on the HaltaFall algorithm. The equilibrium constants that are needed for the calculations may be retrieved from a database included in the software package (“Database” program). This new software is intended for undergraduate students as well as researchers and professionals.
The “Spana” code can be easily applied to perform radionuclide speciation and solubility calculations of minerals, including solubility calculations relevant for the performance assessment of a nuclear waste repository. In order to handle ionic strength corrections in such calculations several approaches can be applied. The “Spana” code is able to perform calculations based on three models: the Davies equation; an approximation to the model by Helgeson et al. (HKF); and the Specific Ion-Interaction Theory (SIT). Default SIT-coefficients may be used, which widens the applicability of SIT significantly.
A comparison is made here among the different ionic strength approaches used by “Spana” (Davies, HKF, SIT) when modelling the chemistry of radionuclides and minerals of interest under the conditions of a geological repository for nuclear waste. For this purpose, amorphous hydrous Thorium(IV) oxide (ThO2(am)), Gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) and Portlandite (Ca(OH)2) solubility at high ionic strengths have been modelled and compared to experimental data from the literature. Results show a good fitting between the calculated values and the experimental data especially for the SIT approach in a wide range of ionic strengths (0-4 M).
Characterization of Adherence Steels Hardened Superficially
D. Sanchez-Huerta, T. De la Mora-Ramírez, M.A. Doñu-Ruiz, N. López-Perrusquia, J. V. Cortés-Suarez
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2014, imrc2013-s5c-p041
This study evaluates the behavior of the adherence layers - sawn flat iron boride formed on the surface of steels used in manufacturing industry in Mexico. In steels AISI 1018, AISI 8620 and AISI 316 was characterized this behavior, boriding thermochemical treatment with box technique, with a processing temperature of 1273 °K, with an exposure time of 8 hours. Furthermore the adherence is assessed by the Rockwell C hardness technique prescribed by the German standard VDI 3198 of traction, this impact test qualitatively determine the type of adherence formed three thermochemical steels treated by the technique of boriding. Moreover optical microscopy determines the type of film morphology FeB/ Fe2B of each of the materials exposed to a boriding, also shows the thicknesses of the phases generated in the surface type in all three steels boriding. Phase presence boride FeB/Fe2B was determined by X -ray diffraction (XRD). Technique for scanning electron microscopy (EDS) was evaluated qualitatively the presence of FeB/Fe2B of boronizing. Otherwise determines the hardness and elastic modulus by nanoindentation technique of the phases present in the three steels. Lastly, AISI 1018 and AISI 8620 are bounding scale H1 to H3, the AISI 316 steel has an adherence of H3 to H6 under German standard VDI 3198.
Quantum chemistry computations of properties of acrylamide dimers
Yi-Siang Wang, Yi-De Lin, Sheng D. Chao
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2014, mrss14-1709-ww03-06
Intermolecular interaction potentials of the acrylamide dimer in 12 equilibrium configurations have been calculated using the second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory. We have employed Pople’s medium size basis sets [up to 6-311++G(3df,2p)] and Dunning’s correlation consistent basis sets (up to aug-cc-pVTZ). We have also carried out density functional theory (DFT) type calculations and compared the results with those calculated with the MP2 theory.
Immunological biomarkers in childhood and adolescence obesity
A. Hernández, T. Pozo-Rubio, A. Gheorghe, L. E. Díaz, F. Pérez de Heredia, P. De Miguel, E. Gonzalez, C. M. Aguilera, O. D. Rangel, M. Gil-Campos, K. Flores, J. Maldonado, R. Hoyos, A. Gil, L. Moreno, A. Marcos
Journal: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society / Volume 72 / Issue OCE1 / 2013
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 April 2013, E91
Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), Part I: Effectiveness of a Multidimensional Infection Control Approach on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rates in Pediatric Intensive Care Units of 6 Developing Countries
Victor D. Rosenthal, Bala Ramachandran, Lourdes Dueñas, Carlos Álvarez-Moreno, J. A. Navoa-Ng, Alberto Armas-Ruiz, Gulden Ersoz, Lorena Matta-Cortés, Mandakini Pawar, Ata Nevzat-Yalcin, Marena Rodriguez-Ferrer, Ana Concepción Bran de Casares, Claudia Linares, Victoria D. Villanueva, Roberto Campuzano, Ali Kaya, Luis Fernando Rendon-Campo, Amit Gupta, Ozge Turhan, Nayide Barahona-Guzmán, Lilian de Jesús-Machuca, María Corazon V. Tolentino, Jorge Mena-Brito, Necdet Kuyucu, Yamileth Astudillo, Narinder Saini, Nurgul Gunay, Guillermo Sarmiento-Villa, Eylul Gumus, Alfredo Lagares-Guzmán, Oguz Dursun
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 33 / Issue 7 / July 2012
A before-after prospective surveillance study to assess the impact of a multidimensional infection control approach for the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates.
Pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) of hospital members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) from 10 cities of the following 6 developing countries: Colombia, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Philippines, and Turkey.
Patients.
PICU inpatients.
We performed a prospective active surveillance to determine rates of CAUTI among 3,877 patients hospitalized in 10 PICUs for a total of 27,345 bed-days. The study was divided into a baseline period (phase 1) and an intervention period (phase 2). In phase 1, surveillance was performed without the implementation of the multidimensional approach. In phase 2, we implemented a multidimensional infection control approach that included outcome surveillance, process surveillance, feedback on CAUTI rates, feedback on performance, education, and a bundle of preventive measures. The rates of CAUTI obtained in phase 1 were compared with the rates obtained in phase 2, after interventions were implemented.
During the study period, we recorded 8,513 urinary catheter (UC) days, including 1,513 UC-days in phase 1 and 7,000 UC-days in phase 2. In phase 1, the CAUTI rate was 5.9 cases per 1,000 UC-days, and in phase 2, after implementing the multidimensional infection control approach for CAUTI prevention, the rate of CAUTI decreased to 2.6 cases per 1,000 UC-days (relative risk, 0.43 [95% confidence interval, 0.21–1.0]), indicating a rate reduction of 57%.
Our findings demonstrated that implementing a multidimensional infection control approach is associated with a significant reduction in the CAUTI rate of PICUs in developing countries.
Variations in Mechanical Properties of Wood Plates Due Fluctuations on Relative Humidity of Air
J. A. Torres, M. De Icaza, R. R. Boullosa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2012, imrc-1372-s3-07
Often, mechanical properties of wood plates are accurately approximated through orthotropic characterization. However, the numerical values may show considerable variations in the case of real wood plates immersed in fluctuant environmental conditions, especially if the relative humidity of air (RH) is changing. Problems arising from the natural variations in RH have been reported on making musical instruments. In this work, the influence of changing RH on the mechanical properties of a guitar’s top plate (clamped on its contour) has been measured. Vibratory responses of the plate were experimentally obtained, through forced vibration, while data were recorded for several RH values, without any alteration in the experimental set-up devices. The six lowest natural frequencies of the structure were extracted from peaks detected in the responses. Natural frequencies depend on mass distribution and mechanical properties of the structure. For the highest sensed RH (67 %), each natural frequency of the plate decreased at least in 11 Hz compared with reference values measured at the lowest sensed RH (53 %). To determine the connection between the shift in natural frequencies and the changes in the wood elastic and shear modulus, a finite element model of the plate was performed. It was useful calculating natural frequencies through simulated modal analyses. Elastic and shear modulus were handled to match simulated results with experimental natural frequencies recorded for a RH=53% level. These elastic moduli must be decreased around 10 % to obtain a similar frequency decrease in the experimental natural frequencies obtained under a RH=67% level. The experimental results show quantitative information on an interaction scarcely researched, that is, the modification on mechanical properties of wood plates induced by RH variations. Sensed changes due this wood-air interaction are responsible of a modification in the behavior of musical instruments, as guitars and violins.
Effect of oxygen pressure on the structural and magnetic properties of thin Zn0.98Mn0.02O films
A. Khodorov, A.G. Rolo, E.K. Hlil, J. Ayres de Campos, O. Karzazi, S. Levichev, M.R. Correia, A. Chahboun, M.J.M. Gomes
Journal: The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics / Volume 57 / Issue 1 / January 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2011, 10301
Thin Zn0.98Mn0.02O films were grown by pulsed laser deposition on glass substrates under oxygen pressure. The structural properties were studied by X-ray diffraction and Raman techniques, while the conductivity was characterized by the Hall effect. The oxygen pressure during the growth seems to govern the structural and the electrical properties of the thin Zn0.98Mn0.02 films. In fact, the micron size grain and the resistivity of the Zn0.98Mn0.02O increase with the partial oxygen pressure. However, no evident effect was observed on the magnetic behavior. Electronic structure calculations were performed and magnetic moment carried by Mn atom was computed as well.
Frontal osteomas: standardising therapeutic indications
L M Gil-Carcedo, E S Gil-Carcedo, L A Vallejo, J M de Campos, D Herrero
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 125 / Issue 10 / October 2011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011, pp. 1020-1027
We believe the currently accepted indications for frontal osteoma surgery are inappropriate. We propose a new osteoma classification system, below, in order to standardise surgical decisions.
Osteomas were classified based on: relationship of tumour mass to sinus size; tumour proximity to the infundibulum, destruction of sinus walls, and complications. Forty-five osteoma cases were thus classified (1971–2007), 29 of which underwent surgery (64.44 per cent).
Three stages were thus derived: I, tumour/air fraction less than one-third, tumour distant from the infundibulum, no sinusitis, and no complications (18 patients (40 per cent)); II, tumour/air fraction one-third to one-half, no infundibular obstruction, no bone destruction, no sinusitis, and no complications (six (13.33 per cent)); and III, tumour/air fraction more than one-half, partial or total infundibular obstruction, sinusitis, bone destruction, and/or complications (21 (46.67 per cent)).
Study findings suggest the following surgical indications: stage I, no surgery required, implement monitoring protocol; stage II, implement monitoring protocol, surgery may be required depending on tumour severity and general patient condition; and stage III, surgery always required. This system provides a method of standardising osteoma surgical decisions.
Semi-parametric genomic-enabled prediction of genetic values using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces methods
GUSTAVO DE LOS CAMPOS, DANIEL GIANOLA, GUILHERME J. M. ROSA, KENT A. WEIGEL, JOSÉ CROSSA
Journal: Genetics Research / Volume 92 / Issue 4 / August 2010
Prediction of genetic values is a central problem in quantitative genetics. Over many decades, such predictions have been successfully accomplished using information on phenotypic records and family structure usually represented with a pedigree. Dense molecular markers are now available in the genome of humans, plants and animals, and this information can be used to enhance the prediction of genetic values. However, the incorporation of dense molecular marker data into models poses many statistical and computational challenges, such as how models can cope with the genetic complexity of multi-factorial traits and with the curse of dimensionality that arises when the number of markers exceeds the number of data points. Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regressions can be used to address some of these challenges. The methodology allows regressions on almost any type of prediction sets (covariates, graphs, strings, images, etc.) and has important computational advantages relative to many parametric approaches. Moreover, some parametric models appear as special cases. This article provides an overview of the methodology, a discussion of the problem of kernel choice with a focus on genetic applications, algorithms for kernel selection and an assessment of the proposed methods using a collection of 599 wheat lines evaluated for grain yield in four mega environments.
Risk factors, pre-morbid functioning and episode correlates of neurological soft signs in drug-naive patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
V. Peralta, E. G. de Jalón, M. S. Campos, V. Basterra, A. Sanchez-Torres, M. J. Cuesta
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 41 / Issue 6 / June 2011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2010, pp. 1279-1289
There is a lack of consistent evidence regarding associations of neurological soft signs (NSS) with illness-related variables in schizophrenia. This study examined NSS in first-episode psychotic patients with respect to their factor structure and associations with risk factors, pre-morbid characteristics, psychopathology and spontaneous extrapyramidal syndromes.
First-episode, drug-naive patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (n=177) were assessed for NSS using the Neurological Evaluation Scale, and its 26 constituting items were factor analysed. The identified neurological dimensions were then entered into hierarchical regression models as outcome dependent variables of a set of predictors including risk factors (familial loading for schizophrenia, obstetric complications), pre-morbid characteristics (neurodevelopmental delay, symptoms of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder, pre-morbid functioning), psychopathological domains (reality distortion, disorganization, negative symptoms, mania, depression, catatonia) and spontaneous extrapyramidal syndromes (parkinsonism, dyskinesia, akathisia).
Five neurological domains were identified: sequencing, release signs, sensory integration, abnormal movements and coordination. Multivariate analyses showed independent associations (p<0.01) of sequencing with familial liability to schizophrenia, deterioration of pre-morbid adjustment and parkinsonism; release signs with obstetric complications, catatonic symptoms and parkinsonism; sensory integration with familial liability to schizophrenia; abnormal movements with familial liability to schizophrenia, obstetric complications, parkinsonism and dyskinesia; and coordination with neurodevelopmental delay. The empirically derived factors explained additional variance over and above that explained by subscale scores across the examined variables.
Familial liability to schizophrenia, obstetric complications, neurodevelopmental delay, deterioration in pre-morbid functioning and observable motor disorders appear to contribute independently to domains of neurological dysfunction. The findings support a neurodevelopmental model of NSS in schizophrenia.
Sequential Characterization of the Hydration Products of Cements with Additions by a Combination of Destructive and Non-Destructive Techniques: Calorimetry, XRD, AFM and EIS
E. Menéndez, J. De Frutos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, S3-P73
In this paper a comparative study of the hydration process in a very early age, first 20 hours, between a conventional cement paste and its equivalent with a replacement of fly ash of about 7.9%, is done. The study was undertaken through semiadibatic calorimetry, electrical impedance spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. It shows that using electrical impedance spectroscopy we can determine the state of crystallization of the material with and without additions, thereby determining the time at which the different processes are started in the hydration
Cognitive effectiveness of olanzapine and risperidone in first-episode psychosis
Manuel J. Cuesta, Elena García de Jalón, M. Soledad Campos, Victor Peralta
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 194 / Issue 5 / May 2009
Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders is highly prevalent and notably influences functional outcomes.
To characterise the cognitive effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotic drugs.
One hundred consecutive and previously unmedicated patients with first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum disorders were admitted. Seventy-seven completed baseline, 1-month and 6-month psychopathological and neuropsychological assessments. Patients were randomised to risperidone or olanzapine treatment. Four final treatment allocation groups were defined since patients continued treatment in their normal setting: risperidone, olanzapine, mixed and no-antipsychotic groups.
There were no differences in cognitive effectiveness between the four treatment groups. Reliable change index methods demonstrated that nearly a half of patients showed an improvement in Global Cognitive Score at the 6-month assessment. Improvement on the neuropsychological tests ranged from 17 to 54%.
A strong predictor of cognitive response was poor performance on baseline neuropsychological tests; response was moderately influenced by a low premorbid scholastic performance and IQ.
Cognitive improvement related to second-generation antipsychotic drugs appeared within the first 4 weeks of treatment and persisted at 6 months irrespective of treatment group. Greater cognitive dysfunction at baseline and lower premorbid cognitive background predicted cognitive improvement in our sample.
A Novel and Low-Cost Disposable Device for Phototherapy of Neonatal Jaundice
Giovana R Ferreira, Cláudia K. B. de Vasconcelos, Mariana M Silva, Fabrício A dos Santos, Jorge G. Pires, André S Duarte, Andrea Gomes Campos Bianchi, Rodrigo Fernando Bianchi
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011, 1209-P03-03
The present work details, to our knowledge, the first examination of the influence of blue-light radiation on the optical properties of organic luminescent films in attempting to develop an indicator dosimeter for phototherapy of neonatal jaundice. Jaundice is the most common problem encountered in newborns due to immature functioning in the liver. The operating principle of the device is based on the optical response of poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-p-phenylene (MEH-PPV) and tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato) aluminum (Alq3) materials dispersed in polystyrene (PS) matrix (denoted as PS/MEH-PPV/Alq3). It is observed a blue-shift on the photoluminescence of PS/MEH-PPV/Alq3 system from red to orange-yellow, and then to green as function of the blue-light radiation exposure time. The result is attributed to the spectral overlap between emission of Alq3 and absorption of MEH-PPV. The optical response of PS/MEH-PPV/Alq3 to radiation was investigated to design a low-cost (< US$ 0.05) “smart” sensor to represent easily the radiation dosage normally used in blue-light phototherapy. The basic idea behind this concept considers the sensor as a traffic light device, where red represents underdose and green the prescription dose or overdose, while orange-yellow suggests that radiation therapy is an ongoing process. This personal real-time radiation dosimeter appears here as a key requirement for successful development of innovations in effective management of the radiation dose planning before treatment of neonatal where control of dose absorption of infants is extremely important.
Invertebrates from the Low Head Member (Polonez Cove Formation, Oligocene) at Vauréal Peak, King George Island, West Antarctica
Fernanda Quaglio, Luiz E. Anelli, Paulo R. dos Santos, José A. de J. Perinotto, Antonio C. Rocha-Campos
Journal: Antarctic Science / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / April 2008
Eight taxa of marine invertebrates, including two new bivalve species, are described from the Low Head Member of the Polonez Cove Formation (latest early Oligocene) cropping out in the Vauréal Peak area, King George Island, West Antarctica. The fossil assemblage includes representatives of Brachiopoda (genera Neothyris sp. and Liothyrella sp.), Bivalvia (Adamussium auristriatum sp. nov., ?Adamussium cf. A. alanbeui Jonkers, and Limatula (Antarctolima) ferraziana sp. nov.), Bryozoa, Polychaeta (serpulid tubes) and Echinodermata. Specimens occur in debris flows deposits of the Low Head Member, as part of a fan delta setting in a high energy, shallow marine environment. Liothyrella sp., Adamussium auristriatum sp. nov. and Limatula ferraziana sp. nov. are among the oldest records for these genera in King George Island. In spite of their restrict number and diversification, bivalves and brachiopods from this study display an overall dispersal pattern that roughly fits in the clockwise circulation of marine currents around Antarctica accomplished in two steps. The first followed the opening of the Tasmanian Gateway at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary, along the eastern margin of Antarctica, and the second took place in post-Palaeogene time, following the Drake Passage opening between Antarctic Peninsula and South America, along the western margin of Antarctica.
Characterization of cardiopulmonary function and cardiac muscarinic and adrenergic receptor density adaptation in C57BL/6 mice with chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection
N. N. ROCHA, S. GARCIA, L. E. D. GIMÉNEZ, C. C. Q. HERNÁNDEZ, J. F. V. SENRA, R. S. LIMA, F. CYRINO, E. BOUSKELA, M. B. P. SOARES, R. RIBEIRO DOS SANTOS, A. C. CAMPOS DE CARVALHO
Journal: Parasitology / Volume 133 / Issue 6 / December 2006
Circulating antibodies in chagasic patients interact with myocardial β adrenergic and muscarinic cholinergic receptors, triggering intracellular signals that alter cardiac function along the course of the disease. However, until now, experimental data in models of chronically infected chagasic mice linking the effects on myocardial β adrenergic and muscarinic receptors to cardiopulmonary dysfunction is lacking. Thus, we studied C57BL/6 mice 8 months after intraperitoneal injection of 100 trypomastigote forms of the Colombian strain of T. cruzi. Uninfected mice, matched in age, were used as controls. Histopathological analyses (inflammation and fibrosis) and radio-ligand binding assays for estimation of muscarinic and adrenergic receptor density were performed in myocardium tissue samples. When compared to controls, infected mice had electrical conduction disturbances, diastolic dysfunction, lower O2 consumption and anaerobic threshold. In addition, hearts of chronic chagasic mice had intense inflammation and fibrosis, and decreased β adrenergic and increased muscarinic receptor densities than normal controls. Our data suggest that chronic T. cruzi infection causes alterations in cardiac receptor density and fibrosis deposition which can be associated with cardiac conduction abnormalities, diastolic dysfunction and lower exercise capacity, associating for the first time all these functional and histopathological alterations in chagasic mice.
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Determining the risk of predator attacks around protected areas: the case of Bardia National Park, Nepal
Subodh K. Upadhyaya, C.J.M. Musters, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Geert R. De Snoo, Maheshwar Dhakal, Hans H. De Iongh
Journal: Oryx , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2019, pp. 1-8
In this study we determined the probability of predator attacks on livestock around Bardia National Park, Nepal. We conducted semi-structured interviews to explore the patterns and factors affecting livestock losses in four administrative sectors of the Park's buffer zone. We developed models to investigate the overall probability of livestock loss, economic damage caused, and the respondents’ attitudes towards wildlife. The probability of leopard attacks on livestock was much higher (85% of all livestock lost to depredation) than that of tiger attacks (8%), and the northern sector experienced the highest loss of livestock (50% modelled probability of livestock loss) in the buffer zone. Livestock loss was significantly related to the number of livestock owned by respondents, their ethnic group, and village distance to the Park boundary. Economic damage was influenced by buffer zone sector, number of livestock owned, and distance to the Park boundary. Conservation attitudes depended on respondents’ knowledge of wildlife, levels of education and self-sufficiency, and the probability of livestock being killed by leopards. Respondents who were male, highly educated and self-sufficient were most likely to support conservation. Tigers are tolerated based on religious beliefs, and these cultural values, together with the sharing of conservation benefits, facilitate conservation. Leopards, however, are not tolerated in the same way and are the most damaging predators.
Population density estimates and conservation concern for clouded leopards Neofelis nebulosa, marbled cats Pardofelis marmorata and tigers Panthera tigris in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagaing, Myanmar
Hla Naing, Joanna Ross, Dawn Burnham, Saw Htun, David W. Macdonald
Journal: Oryx / Volume 53 / Issue 4 / October 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2017, pp. 654-662
The clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa is a potent ambassador species for conservation, occurring from the Himalayan foothills eastwards to Indochina, between which Myanmar is a biogeographical land bridge. In Myanmar's Northern Forest Complex, the species co-occurs with the tiger Panthera tigris, leopard Panthera pardus, marbled cat Pardofelis marmorata, golden cat Catopuma temminckii and leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis. We deployed cameras within the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary over 2 consecutive years. In 2014–2015 we deployed 82 camera stations around the Nam Pa Gon stream (Catchment 1) for 7,365 trap days. In 2015–2016 we deployed 80 camera stations around the Nam E Zu stream (Catchment 2) for 7,192 trap days. In Catchment 1 we identified five tigers from 26 detections, five clouded leopards from 41 detections (68 photographs) and 11 marbled cats from 13 detections. Using Bayesian-based spatial capture–recapture we estimated the densities of tigers and clouded leopards to be 0.81 ± SD 0.40 and 0.60 ± SD 0.24 individuals per 100 km2, respectively. In Catchment 2 we identified two tigers from three detections, nine clouded leopards from 55 detections and 12 marbled cats from 37 detections. Densities of clouded leopards and marbled cats were 3.05 ± SD 1.03 and 8.80 ± SD 2.06 individuals per 100 km2, respectively. These differences suggest that human activities, in particular gold mining, are affecting felid populations, and these are a paramount concern in Htamanthi. We demonstrate the importance of Htamanthi within the Northern Forest Complex and highlight the Yawbawmee corridor as a candidate for protection.
Rapid recovery of tigers Panthera tigris in Parsa Wildlife Reserve, Nepal
Babu Ram Lamichhane, Chiranjibi Prasad Pokheral, Shashank Poudel, Dipendra Adhikari, Sailendra Raj Giri, Santosh Bhattarai, Tek Raj Bhatta, Rob Pickles, Rajan Amin, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Maheshwar Dhakal, Uba Raj Regmi, Ashok Kumar Ram, Naresh Subedi
Journal: Oryx / Volume 52 / Issue 1 / January 2018
Information on density and abundance of globally threatened species such as tigers Panthera tigris is essential for effective conservation as well as to evaluate the success of conservation programmes. We monitored tigers in Parsa Widlife Reserve, Nepal, using camera traps, in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Once believed to be a sink for tigers from adjacent Chitwan National Park, Parsa now provides a new hope for tigers. Spatially explicit capture–recapture analysis over 3 survey years revealed an increase in tiger density from 0.78 to 1.38 individuals per 100 km2 from 2013 to 2016. The tiger abundance was estimated to be seven (6–13), 11 (10–16) and 17 (17–20) in 2013, 2014 and 2016, respectively. Resettlement of communities from the core area, reduced anthropogenic pressure, and improved security have made Parsa Wildlife Reserve a suitable habitat for tigers. Tiger abundance increased considerably within a 5 km radius of the evacuated village sites, from two in 2013 to eight in 2014 and 10 in 2016. Population turnover has remained moderate (< 30% per year), with persistence of individuals in multiple years. Dispersing tigers from Chitwan's source population accounted for a large portion (c. 40%) of the tigers detected in Parsa. Conservation efforts along with annual monitoring should be continued in Parsa to sustain the increase and monitor the persistence of tigers. The Chitwan–Parsa complex should be managed as a single ecological unit for conserving the Endangered tiger and other wide-ranging species.
Ecological preferences of large carnivores in remote, high-altitude protected areas: insights from Buxa Tiger Reserve, India
Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar, Harika Segu, J. V. Bhaskar, Rajendra Jakher, Swati Mohapatra, K. Shalini, S. Shivaji, P. Anuradha Reddy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2017, pp. 66-77
Difficult terrain and inclement weather limit our knowledge of large predators, such as the tiger Panthera tigris, in the Himalayas. A lack of empirical data on large carnivores can lead to mismanagement of protected areas and population declines. We used non-invasive genetic and remote sensing data to inform the management of such high-altitude protected areas. We used the tiger as a focal species to investigate prey preference and habitat suitability in India's Buxa Tiger Reserve, which encompasses several eco-geographical regions in the Himalayan and subtropical zones. During 2010–2013, 909 faecal samples were collected, of which 372 were confirmed, using genetic analysis, to be of tiger origin. Fourteen prey species/groups were identified in 240 tiger faecal samples, largely dominated by goats Capra spp. (26.59%), rhesus macaques Macaca mulatta (22.22%) and cattle Bos spp. (20.63%). Considering only the wild prey species for which survey data are available, however, and frequency of occurrence of prey in faecal samples, hog deer Axis porcinus, sambar deer Rusa unicolor and spotted deer Axis axis were the most preferred prey species. Using faecal sample locations to examine the relationship between tiger presence and environmental features indicated that the niche for tigers is narrower than the available protected area: c. 62% of core protected area is suitable, of which only 17% is highly suitable for tigers. Tigers prefer dense vegetation, open forests, riverine vegetation and areas close to water sources. Faecal sample-based studies have the potential to generate data that can help us understand the ecology of elusive carnivore species inhabiting high-altitude landscapes.
Living with tigers Panthera tigris: patterns, correlates, and contexts of human–tiger conflict in Chitwan National Park, Nepal
Rajendra Dhungana, Tommaso Savini, Jhamak Bahadur Karki, Maheshwar Dhakal, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Sara Bumrungsri
Human–tiger conflict arises when tigers Panthera tigris attack people or their livestock, and poses a significant threat to both tigers and people. To gain a greater understanding of such conflict we examined spatio-temporal patterns, correlates, causes and contexts of conflict in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, and its buffer zone, during 2007–2014. Data, mostly from compensation applications, were collected from the Park office. Fifty-four human casualties (32 fatalities, 22 injuries) and 351 incidents of livestock depredation were recorded, clustered in defined areas, with 75.9% of human casualties occurring in the buffer zone and 66.7% within 1 km of the Park boundary. A linear model indicated there was a significant increase in human casualties during 2007–2014. Livestock were killed in proportion to their relative availability, with goats suffering the highest depredation (55%). There was a positive correlation between livestock depredation and National Park frontage (the length of Village Development Committee/municipality boundary abutting the National Park), but not human population, livestock population, forest area in the buffer zone, rainfall or temperature. There was no relationship between tiger attacks on people and any of the correlates examined. Wild prey density was not correlated with conflict. Of the tigers removed because of conflict, 73.3% were male. The majority of attacks on people occurred during accidental meetings (77.8%), mostly while people were collecting fodder or fuelwood (53.7%), and almost half (48.2%) occurred in the buffer zone forests. We recommend the use of the conflict map developed here in the prioritization of preventive measures, and that strategies to reduce conflict should include zoning enforcement, improvement of livestock husbandry, participatory tiger monitoring, an insurance scheme, and community awareness.
Transradial approach for collateral embolisation
Naveen Garg, Ankit K. Sahu, Roopali Khanna
Journal: Cardiology in the Young / Volume 27 / Issue 8 / October 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2017, pp. 1622-1624
Significant aortopulmonary collaterals in cyanotic CHD patients require closure immediately before definitive intracardiac repair. Traditionally, the transfemoral access has been used for this purpose; however in a few cases, selective and stable hooking of collaterals may be extremely difficult. We describe a case in which we used a new approach for collateral embolisation in a difficult situation.
First structured camera-trap surveys in Karen State, Myanmar, reveal high diversity of globally threatened mammals
Saw Sha Bwe Moo, Graden Z.L. Froese, Thomas N.E. Gray
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2017, pp. 537-543
The hill forests of Karen State, Myanmar, were previously inaccessible to biologists and conservationists for security and political reasons. We have, however, now been able to conduct six surveys across the area, using camera traps, for a total of 9,511 trap-nights, to ascertain the presence of threatened mammal species. We obtained 4,191 records of at least 31 mammal species, including 17 categorized as Near Threatened, Vulnerable or Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Carnivores were especially diverse, with 19 species recorded, indicating a globally significant community, including the tiger Panthera tigris, leopard Panthera pardus and dhole Cuon alpinus. Our methodology was not appropriate for estimating relative abundance or occupancy but the species richness of the mammal community, the number of records and the number of locations where species were detected suggest the area is important for the conservation of a globally threatened mammal community that is in decline across the majority of its range. Despite long-standing conservation efforts undertaken by the Karen people, their forests are threatened by hunting and habitat loss. These threats are likely to be exacerbated as political change brings rapid development. Urgent action is thus needed to assist the Karen people to protect one of South-east Asia's last intact rich and diverse ecosystems.
Who is killing the tiger Panthera tigris and why?
Samia Saif, H. M. Tuihedur Rahman, Douglas Craig MacMillan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2016, pp. 46-54
We investigated the range of people involved in killing tigers Panthera tigris in the Bangladesh Sundarbans, their motives and methods, and their links to the commercial trade. Using snowball sampling we conducted 141 qualitative interviews with local people. We identified five categories (village residents, poachers, shikaris, trappers and pirates), each with different motives, methods and networks. Village residents kill tigers predominantly for safety, whereas others kill in the forest professionally or opportunistically. Poachers kill tigers for money, but for others the motives are more complex. The motives of local hunters are multifaceted, encompassing excitement, profit, and esteem and status arising from providing tiger parts for local medicine. Pirates kill tigers for profit and safety but also as a protection service to the community. The emerging international trade in tiger bones, introduced to the area by non-local Bangladeshi traders, provides opportunities to sell tiger parts in the commercial trade and is a motive for tiger killing across all groups.
Are corridors good for tigers Panthera tigris but bad for people? An assessment of the Khata corridor in lowland Nepal
Per Wegge, Shailendra Kumar Yadav, Babu Ram Lamichhane
As part of a landscape-scale programme for conserving tigers Panthera tigris the Khata corridor was established between Bardia National Park in Nepal and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in India in early 2000. We examined its functionality by comparing the status of tigers and prey in the corridor and in the adjacent National Park, using camera trapping, transect sampling and diet analysis of scats. Tiger movement was inferred from the photographs, and tiger–human conflict was assessed by means of questionnaires and interviews. The corridor harboured transient individuals as well as resident, breeding tigers. Tigers with core areas in the corridor were also recorded in the two protected areas, and vice versa. Wild prey was 3–4 times more abundant in the area of the National Park bordering the corridor than in the corridor itself, and domestic livestock constituted 12–15% of the tigers’ food in the corridor. Livestock losses and human fatalities or injuries were relatively low compared to within the buffer zones of the National Parks. Despite such problems and restrictions on grazing and extraction of natural resources, local residents were generally positive towards tigers and the corridor. The successful establishment of the corridor and the positive attitudes of local people were attributable to community development programmes initiated to compensate for the imposed restrictions, financed by the government and national and international organizations. By linking Bardia National Park and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary via the Khata corridor, a protected tiger landscape of c. 3,000 km2 was established in west-central Nepal and northern India.
Size, sex and reproductive biology of seven pelagic sharks in the eastern Arabian Sea
Sijo P. Varghese, N. Unnikrishnan, Deepak K. Gulati, A. E. Ayoob
Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 97 / Issue 1 / February 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2016, pp. 181-196
Print publication: February 2017
Studies on reproduction in sharks are important for their management, since the attainment of sexual maturity has a substantial impact on their distribution, behaviour and biology. However, reproductive biology of large oceanic sharks is poorly studied in the Indian seas. In this study, the size structure, sex and maturity of pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus), bigeye thresher (A. superciliosus), oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), longfin mako (I. paucus) and blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the eastern Arabian Sea are described based on 1449 specimens collected from gillnet-cum-longline landings at the Cochin fisheries harbour during 2013–2014. Sex ratios of sampled specimens were biased to males in pelagic thresher, bigeye thresher, tiger shark and blue shark, while females dominated in the specimens of oceanic whitetip shark. Females matured at greater lengths than males in all species except oceanic whitetip shark. Lengths at maturity for males were in the range of 189.05–286.56 cm, whereas those of females were in the range of 187.74–310.69 cm. Litter sizes of both the thresher shark species were always two, while in oceanic whitetip shark, litter size was 3–9 and 22–51 in tiger shark. Seasonal reproduction was noticed in oceanic whitetip shark and tiger shark. Pregnant females were not found in the blue shark, shortfin and longfin makos sampled during the study period. Reproductive aspects of pelagic thresher, bigeye thresher, oceanic whitetip shark, tiger shark, shortfin mako, longfin mako and blue sharks in the eastern Arabian Sea are generally consistent with earlier reports from other regions of the world's oceans. These preliminary findings should be useful to identify suitable management measures for the above shark species.
The Asian elephant is amongst the top three frugivores of two tree species with easily edible fruit
Nitin Sekar, Raman Sukumar
Journal: Journal of Tropical Ecology / Volume 31 / Issue 5 / September 2015
Large animal species are prone to local extirpation, but ecologists cannot yet predict how the loss of megaherbivores affects ecosystem processes such as seed dispersal. Few studies have compared the quantity and quality of seed dispersal by megaherbivores versus alternative frugivores in the wild, particularly for plant species with fruit easily consumed by many frugivorous species. In a disturbed tropical moist forest in India, we examine whether megaherbivores are a major frugivore of two tree species with easily edible, mammal-dispersed fruit. We quantify the relative fruit removal rates of Artocarpus chaplasha and Careya arborea, by the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and alternative dispersers. Through focal watches and camera trapping, we found the elephant to be amongst the top three frugivores for each tree species. Furthermore, seed transects under A. chaplasha show that arboreal frugivores discard seeds only a short distance from the parental tree, underscoring the elephant's role as a long-distance disperser. Our data provide unprecedented support for an old notion: megaherbivores may be key dispersers for a broad set of mammal-dispersed fruiting species, and not just fruit inaccessible to smaller frugivores. As such, the elephant may be particularly important for the functional ecology of the disturbed forests it still inhabits across tropical Asia.
Providing more protected space for tigers Panthera tigris: a landscape conservation approach in the Western Ghats, southern India
Sanjay Gubbi, Kaushik Mukherjee, M.H. Swaminath, H.C. Poornesha
Journal: Oryx / Volume 50 / Issue 2 / April 2016
Conservation of large carnivores is challenging as they face various threats, including habitat loss and fragmentation. One of the current challenges to tiger Panthera tigris conservation in India is the conversion of habitat to uses that are incompatible with conservation of the species. Bringing more tiger habitat within a protected area system and in the process creating a network of connected protected areas will deliver dual benefits of wildlife conservation and protection of watersheds. Focusing on the southern Indian state of Karnataka, which holds one of the largest contiguous tiger populations, we attempted to address this challenge using a conservation planning technique that considers ecological, social and political factors. This approach yielded several conservation successes, including an expansion of the protected area network by 2,385 km2, connection of 23 protected areas, and the creation of three complexes of protected areas, increasing the protected area network in Karnataka from 3.8 to 5.2% of the state's land area. This represents the largest expansion of protected areas in India since the 1970s. Such productive partnerships between government officials and conservationists highlight the importance of complementary roles in conservation planning and implementation.
Presence of the Endangered Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica in Jilin Province, China, detected using non-invasive genetic techniques
Anthony Caragiulo, Yang Kang, Salisa Rabinowitz, Isabela Dias-Freedman, Simone Loss, Xu-Wei Zhou, Wei-Dong Bao, George Amato
China is home to three subspecies of tiger Panthera tigris but there are no estimates of the size of any of the populations. We detected a population of the Endangered Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica in Hunchun Nature Reserve in Jilin Province using both mitochondrial DNA and nuclear microsatellite loci. Four male and one female tigers were detected, indicating the potential for a small breeding group. However, genetic diversity was low overall, with six loci showing a heterozygote deficiency and a mean of 2.55 alleles per locus. This study is the first estimate of the wild Amur tiger population in China to use non-invasive techniques, and the presence of a female tiger indicates this is a potentially viable population. We provide baseline genetic diversity estimates to support monitoring of the population. The small number of tiger scats located indicates the importance of continuing the current conservation efforts for this tiger subspecies in Hunchun Nature Reserve. Such efforts include reducing poaching of tigers and their prey, and implementation of management plans to encourage the persistence and recovery of tigers in this area.
First records of the grey nurse shark Carcharias taurus (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae) from oceanic coral reefs in the Timor Sea
Paolo Momigliano, Vanessa Flora Jaiteh
Journal: Marine Biodiversity Records / Volume 8 / 2015
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2015, e56
The threatened grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) is reported for the first time from oceanic coral reefs in the Timor Sea. Generally known from temperate and subtropical coastal reef habitats, this species was encountered by Indonesian traditional fishers on oceanic coral reefs in an area of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone known as the 1974 MoU Box, some 200 km from the Australian mainland. The presence of C. taurus on these remote tropical reefs bears important management implications, including the species’ protected status in Australian waters and the challenges of regulating catches in areas permitted for traditional Indonesian fishing.
Estimating seasonal abundance and habitat use of small carnivores in the Western Ghats using an occupancy approach
Riddhika Kalle, Tharmalingam Ramesh, Qamar Qureshi, Kalyanasundaram Sankar
Rigorous population studies on many small carnivores are lacking in India. Presence-absence models with habitat covariates were applied to estimate seasonal occupancy and abundance of nine small-carnivore species from camera-trap data in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (2010 and 2011). We deployed 25 camera-trap stations in the deciduous forest, 21 in the semi-evergreen forest and 26 in the dry thorn forest. In total, 7380 trap-nights yielded 448 photographs of small carnivores: jungle cat (n = 72), leopard cat (n = 6), rusty-spotted cat (n = 11), small Indian civet (n = 89), common palm civet (n = 37), brown palm civet (n = 20), stripe-necked mongoose (n = 66), ruddy mongoose (n = 96) and Indian grey mongoose (n = 51). In the dry season, rusty-spotted cat was the rarest carnivore with an average abundance (λmean) of 0.24 ± 0.26, while ruddy mongoose was the most abundant (λmean = 0.90 ± 0.40). In the wet season, leopard cat was the rarest species (λmean = 0.048 ± 0.041) while grey mongoose was the most abundant (λmean = 0.68 ± 0.35). Abundance of jungle cat, common palm civet, ruddy mongoose and grey mongoose increased in the dry thorn forest whereas in the dry season abundance of small Indian civet decreased in this forest type. Abundance of leopard cat and small Indian civet was not influenced by habitat in the wet season. Deciduous forest was positively associated with abundance of rusty-spotted cat. Deciduous and semi-evergreen forests had a positive effect on abundance of stripe-necked mongoose while the latter was a positive predictor of abundance and occupancy for brown palm civet. Improved modelling approaches can account for the spatio-temporal variation in habitat use of small carnivores occupying specialized niches in heterogeneous tropical forests of southern India.
Human–tiger Panthera tigris conflict and its perception in Bardia National Park, Nepal
Babu R. Bhattarai, Klaus Fischer
Human–wildlife conflict is a significant problem that often results in retaliatory killing of predators. Such conflict is particularly pronounced between humans and tigers Panthera tigris because of fatal attacks by tigers on humans. We investigated the incidence and perception of human–tiger conflict in the buffer zone of Bardia National Park, Nepal, by interviewing 273 local householders and 27 key persons (e.g. representatives of local communities, Park officials). Further information was compiled from the Park's archives. The annual loss of livestock attributable to tigers was 0.26 animals per household, amounting to an annual loss of 2% of livestock. Livestock predation rates were particularly high in areas with low abundance of natural prey. During 1994–2007 12 people were killed and a further four injured in tiger attacks. Nevertheless, local people generally had a positive attitude towards tiger conservation and were willing to tolerate some loss of livestock but not human casualties. This positive attitude indicates the potential for implementation of appropriate conservation measures and we propose mitigation strategies such as education, monetary compensation and monitoring of tigers.
Role of BCA in TIGER grant reviews: common errors and influence on the selection process
Anthony C. Homan
Journal: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / January 2014
As directed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) created the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) discretionary grant program for surface transportation infrastructure projects. Through 2013, there have been five rounds of the grant program. TIGER uses a multi-step competitive application process to award surface transportation funds. TIGER applications are initially screened by US DOT’s staff of technical experts. For projects forwarded by the review team, US DOT economic experts then review the applicant’s benefit-cost analysis (BCA) and attempt to determine the likelihood that the benefits exceeded costs (i.e. not the applicant’s self-determination). The final awardees are then selected by a Review Team of Modal Administrators and DOT Office of the Secretary level officials. The purpose of this paper is to discuss many of the common errors in preparing, and issues in reviewing the applicant’s BCA and in making a net benefit determination. A secondary purpose is to determine if the most deserving projects, based on an applicant’s BCA and the likelihood that benefits exceeded costs, are more likely to receive grant funding. We do so for the second through the fifth rounds of the program.
Understanding the patchy distribution of four-horned antelope Tetracerus quadricornis in a tropical dry deciduous forest in Central India
Koustubh Sharma, Raghunandan Singh Chundawat, Joanna Van Gruisen, Asad Rafi Rahmani
Journal: Journal of Tropical Ecology / Volume 30 / Issue 1 / January 2014
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2013, pp. 45-54
At the landscape level, the four-horned antelope is confined to tropical dry deciduous forests and within these, their distribution is patchy. Various factors have been proposed as determinants for their patchy distribution within landscapes, but none provided an adequate explanation. We hypothesized that availability of a constant supply of forage influenced the species distribution. We found that the four-horned antelope mainly fed on fruits and flowers, and that a total of 60% of the tree species in Panna Tiger Reserve bore fruits at different times of the year. High tree species richness in habitat patches was considered a surrogate for constant supply of forage for the four-horned antelope. Data from 547 sighting locations between 2002 and 2006 and six spatial layers were analysed using maximum entropy to produce a probability distribution model for the four-horned antelope in Panna Tiger Reserve. Our model predicted that habitat patches summing up to only 9.5% of the 543 km2 of Panna Tiger Reserve had high probability of distribution (>0.5) of four-horned antelope. Although all variables contributed to the distribution model of the four-horned antelope, explanatory power was highest for tree species richness within habitat patches. The distribution of four-horned antelope within tropical dry deciduous forests can be treated as an indicator of high tree diversity and hence habitat quality.
Estimating the abundance of Nepal's largest population of tigers Panthera tigris
Jhamak B. Karki, B. Pandav, S. R. Jnawali, R. Shrestha, N. M. B. Pradhan, B. R. Lamichane, P. Khanal, N. Subedi, Y. V. Jhala
Information on the abundance of tigers Panthera tigris is essential for effective conservation of the species. The main aim of this study was to determine the status of tigers in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, including the Churia hills, using a camera-trap based mark–recapture abundance estimate. Camera traps (n = 310) were placed in an area of 1,261 km2 from 20 January to 22 March 2010. The study area was divided into three blocks and each block was trapped for 19–21 days, with a total effort of 3,582 man-days, 170 elephant-days and 4,793 camera-trap nights. The effectively camera-trapped area was 2,596 km2. Camera stations were located 1.5–2 km apart. Sixty-two tigers (age ⩾ 1.5 years), comprising 15 males, 41 females and six of unidentified sex, were identified from 344 photographs. The heterogeneity model Mh (jackknife) was the best fit for the capture history data. A capture probability ( $\hat P$ ) of 0.05 was obtained, generating a population estimate ( $\hat N$ ) of 125 ± SE 21.8 tigers. The density of tigers in the area, including Churia and Barandabhar (buffer zone forest linked with mid hill forest), was estimated to be 4.5 ± SE 0.35 tigers per 100 km2, using a Bayesian spatially explicit capture–recapture model in SPACECAP. Our study showed the use of Churia by tigers and we therefore conclude that the Chitwan tiger population serves as a source to maintain tiger occupancy of the larger landscape that comprises Chitwan National Park, Parsa Wildlife Reserve, Barandabhar buffer zone, Someswor forest in Nepal and Valmiki Tiger Reserve in India.
Abundance and density estimates for common leopard Panthera pardus and clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa in Manas National Park, Assam, India
Jimmy Borah, Tridip Sharma, Dhritiman Das, Nilmani Rabha, Niraj Kakati, Ajit Basumatary, M. Firoz Ahmed, Joseph Vattakaven
Effective conservation of rare carnivores requires reliable estimates of population density for prioritizing investments and assessing the effectiveness of conservation interventions. We used camera traps and capture–recapture analysis to provide the first reliable abundance and density estimates for the common leopard Panthera pardus and clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa in Manas National Park, India. In 57 days of camera trapping, with a total of 4,275 camera-trap days, we photo-captured 27 individually identified common leopards (11 males, 13 females and three unidentified), and 16 clouded leopards (four males, five females and seven unidentified). The abundance estimates using the M h jackknife and Pledger model M h were 47.0 and 35.6, respectively, for the common leopard, and 21.0 and 25.0, respectively, for the clouded leopard. Density estimates using maximum likelihood spatially-explicit capture–recapture were 3.4 ± SE 0.82 and 4.73 ± SE 1.43 per 100 km2 for the common and clouded leopards, respectively. Spatially-explicit capture–recapture provided more realistic density estimates compared with those obtained from conventional methods. Our data indicates that camera trapping using a capture–recapture framework is an effective tool for assessing population sizes of cryptic and elusive carnivores such as the common and clouded leopards. The study has established a baseline for the long-term monitoring programme for large carnivores in Manas National Park.
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When a Life Hack Gets Hacked: Telematics Cyber Threats Raise Security Questions for Auto Insurers
by Sean Cunningham on Aug 10, 2015
With innovation comes excitement but also new dangers. That is the case currently with telematics, a technology that has revolutionized the auto insurance industry in recent years. Telematics tracks the movements and speeds of cars, but was recently used by cybersecurity researchers to turn off a Jeep Cherokee’s engine as it drove.
This is a scary development considering the role telematics is playing in the future of the auto insurance industry. Major firms like Progressive and Allstate are already implementing telematics technology as part of their insurance packages. The fact that this technology is potentially not secure from cyber threats is disconcerting, and could impact industry strategy going forward.
The threat of hackers rises congruously with the advancement of technology and convenience for users. Smartphones that connect to cars provide another medium in which hackers can cause damage. Nicholas Weaver, a security researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, believes that the increasing connectivity among devices is a big problem, arguing that for this technology to work, each product must have a single authenticated server. “Products designed to be accessible by a range of means including smartphones leave a large ‘attack surface’ that is easier to penetrate. But products that communicate only with a single authenticated server allow the company that owns the server to compile a raft of information about the user, increasing privacy concerns.”
This lack of security recently caused Fiat Chrysler to recall 1.4 million vehicles in the United States in order to install software to counteract hackers. Building software capable of protecting cars from hackers is far from impossible, but the fact that so many cars were on the road while at risk exhibits how companies can rush to release new technologies before ensuring they are safe for use. Members of Congress have even expressed their concern about the safety, with Fred Upton and Frank Pallone Jr. – the ranking Republican and Democrat, respectively, of the House Energy and Commerce Committee – stating, “We have said that cars today are essentially computers on wheels, and the last thing drivers should have to worry about is some hacker along for the ride.”
In theory, telematics makes sense for both auto insurers and drivers, as it allows safe drivers the benefits of lesser coverage, while encouraging them to drive more safely and, in doing so, save firms money. It also motivates firms to be creative with the technology and how they implement it into their insurance offerings. But all of this is moot if the technology isn’t safe from cyber threats, which this recent news shows is still not completely the case. For auto insurers and car companies alike, investing in the cyber security necessary to protect drivers is imperative, as the recent fiasco not only cost Fiat Chrysler a big chunk of money, but also put customers at risk.
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Parents as Partners Episode #17 December 15, 2008
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Parents as Partners Episode # 17 Dec 15, 2008 featured Madison Park Middle School with Principal Richard Ramos, Assistant Principal Priscilla Gossett, Classroom Teacher Pam Duty and Parent Angila Gallenstein describing all the great things that they are doing to promote parent engagement in their school.
Without writing a text book , it is impossible to capture all the good things that are happening at Madison Park Middle School in Phoenix Arizona. But here are a few highlights of the discussion in this show.
Parents as Partners Episode #16 December 1, 2008
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Annie Kidder, Jacqui Strachan and Gay Stephenson were on board to discuss the People for Education organization and the use of their new online community - schools at the centre. Annie described her role as the executive Director and how People for Education has been able to help parents, schools and communities support public education. Listen to some great ideas and advice about helping parents and using a ning network.
Parents as Partners Episode #15 November 17, 2008
Vanessa Van Petten was the guest of this episode of Parents as Partners.
Vanessa's mission is "to improve parent-teen relationships by providing them with new perspectives, stories and neutral places to communicate." She believes "this will help families instill values and build strong relationships that promote healthy attitudes and lifestyle behaviors in this generation of young adults". Vanessa strives to provide positive role models for young people.
Vanessa shares widely through her website www.onteenstoday.com Her work includes her writing – in books, in her blog and others' and in magazines. She mentors teens and connects them with other mentors outside her home base in Los Angeles. She is an accomplished speaker, both in person and online. And all this from a woman still in her early 20's.
Vanessa's latest book is The Dirt E-Secrets of an Internet Kid. Once again she has written for parents describing kids' internet lives from their perspectives. On the show she talked about how to get parents online for the first time and described kid's Internet lives form their perspective.
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Parents as Partners Episode #14 November 3, 2008
Show Host Cindy Zautcke led the discussion with guests, Jon Hisgen of Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction and Diana Borth, the Family and Consumer Education teacher at Badger Ridge Middle School in Verona, Wisconsin Jon talks about an anti-bullying program developed by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Diana is piloting the program in Badger Ridge Middle School and she shared the experiences from this school. The state Department of Public Instruction and the Children’s Health Education Center have partnered to create Bullyfree Basics, a program for elementary school students that transforms lessons on the dangers of spreading rumors and insulting classmates into animated, interactive games
Parents as Partners Episode #13 October 20, 2008
Aurelio Montemayor from the Intercultural Development Research Association joined the show. Aurelio described a definition of a valued parent leadership, Interent for poor folks without computers and which social media to surf. The chat room was actively engaged in responding to Aurelio's thought provoking approach to parent involvement.
2008-10-20 17:13:59 [Message] aurelio -> -EdTechTalk: hello
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Shabbat Parashat Vayeira| 5771
P’ninat Mishpat: An Unspecified Obligation Following a Specific One
(condensed from Shurat Hadin, vol. II, pp. 119-123)
Case: A couple signed a divorce settlement among whose provisions was an obligation of the husband (=def) to give 500 shekels a month [some two decades ago] toward support for his daughter. The wife complained this was not enough, but def said it was all he could afford. At the time of the kinyan sudar (act of confirming agreements), def said he was accepting upon himself to support his daughter until age 18. When it was explained to him that this could obligate him in support even beyond 500 shekels a month, he immediately vehemently objected and at first refused to give a get unless his understanding was accepted. Later he agreed to the get but asked that his interpretation be accepted.
Ruling: Despite the open-ended nature of the obligation as stated at the time of the kinyan, there are several reasons to limit it to 500 shekel, as we will explore.
The matter of an open agreement that follows a detailed one has halachic precedent. The Rama (Choshen Mishpat 207:1) says that if one made a conditional agreement and then confirmed the agreement with a contract that omitted the condition, we assume the condition remains. The Gra (ad loc.) says that this is based on the gemara (Ketubot 72b) that says that when one betrothed a woman on condition and then married her without stipulation, the condition applies. Even those who argue do so only because one would not want to have conjugal relations which could turn out to be extra-marital (if the condition is not met). Also there would be at most the need for a get, but the husband would not be obligated monetarily with a ketuba. [Analysis of the gemara and its application had to be omitted.]
Even if we were to accept the obligation at the kinyan as exceeding 500 shekels, we rule that one can back out of an obligation created by a kinyan sudar as long as the matter is still being discussed at the same sitting (Shulchan Aruch, CM 195:6). Here, def protested in the direct aftermath of the kinyan.
A further question is how to determine the level of support of an unspecified obligation. The Shulchan Aruch and Rama (Even Haezer 114:6), regarding one who obligated himself to support his step children and subsequently divorced their mother, disagree as to whether one gives minimal support or average support that one gives to members of his household. [While skipping the analysis of comparing the cases,] it appears that here, where def was pressured into the obligation, def could rely on the Shulchan Aruch’s opinion that the obligation is minimal, and it might not exceed 500 shekels.
According to two minority opinions, the obligation is not valid. One is that we follow what one is assumed to be thinking even if he does not spell it out (see Rama, CM 207:4). Also, the Rambam (Mechira 11:16) posits that obligations that don’t have a set monetary limit are not binding.
In summary, based on certain compelling arguments and some weaker ones, def is not obligated in child support beyond the 500 shekel a month he accepted in the signed agreement.
Parashat Hashavuah: To Criticize or to Ignore
Ask the Rabbi: Makom Kavua for parents at the dinner table
Ein Ayah: The Effect of Waiting Before Praying
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Caroline Hayes Charuk
Caroline Hayes Charuk // Inquire
Group Exhibition: What Is Left Behind, June 29th – August 3rd, 2019
Caroline Hayes Charuk lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, after an eight-year stint in Oakland, CA. She holds a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Caroline spent two years as an organizing member of CTRL+SHFT Collective, a studio and exhibition space for women, non-binary and trans-spectrum artists in the Bay Area. Her work has been exhibited at Berkeley Art Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Interface Gallery, Alter Space Gallery, and with artist-run projects Outback Art House, The Bedfellows Project, and The White Page.
This body of work is rooted around how textile objects, materials and motifs can be signifiers of gendered identity. I choose materials and scale to set up a mood within the objects, which is often one of heaviness, defeat, or disorganization, even as other elements like color or sparkle evoke cheerfulness or ebullience. I am particularly interested in looking at decorative objects for the home and body through the lens of my own experience of being a queer woman within my family’s matrilineage. My background in craft, craft theory and material culture provides both skill in construction and rendering, but also provides a set of material hierarchies to openly disregard as I make replicas that combine faux surfaces with natural materials and shifts in scale in order to deliver jokes and/or half-hidden sincerity.
I make material choices that also speak to a sort of consumer-grade craft. I have often joked that my former studio was within walking distance to Michael’s and Home Depot, and that really forms the basis of my aesthetics. I am interested in how that sort of big box store-driven hand-making and materialism intersects with capitalist consumerism, and believe that one can look at it either cynically or sincerely, or both at once.
b. 1986 Morristown, NJ
No, Don’t Get Up, Old New England, Oakland CA
Possible IRL Hangout, The White Page, Minneapolis MN
Dust Prints, Interface Gallery, Oakland CA
Bloomin’, Outback Art House, Los Angeles, CA
Our Archive, a Site of Making for 20 Artists, Past & Present, Adobe Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Residue, Alfred University Cohen Gallery, Alfred NY
Double Dip, CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, CA
Craft Action: Genre Bending College Art Association Conference, New York, NY.
Shadows, The Bedfellows Club, Little Rock AR
Im(materiel), Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
New Directions, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles CA
The Possible, (exhibiting with The Something) Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA
Wabi Sabi, Alter Space, San Francisco CA
The Something is Coming, Alter Space, San Francisco CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
Come Out & Play SF, SOMArts, San Francisco CA
Knots: Textile Topographies, North and South Galleries, Oakland CA
John Baldessari: Class Assignments (optional), CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA
Infinite Refractions, The Lab, San Francisco CA
In Motion Post Office Gallery, Oakland CA
RESIDENCIES & SPECIAL PROJECTS
Member, CTRL+SHFT Collective, Oakland CA. Focused on program curation and grant writing.
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, VT. April
Artist In Residence, Old New England. Berkeley, CA. April – June
Artist In Residence, The White Page. Minneapolis, MN. July
Berkeley Art Museum and AlterSpace Gallery. Designed and fabricated upholstered furniture for The Something.
CAMP Un-Conference, workshop leader. Bass Harbor, ME.
Artist-in-Residence, SFUSD’s McKinley Elementary School, with San Francisco Art Education Project
Costume Design and Fabrication for contemporary dance film, Muddled Media.
Artist In Residence, Herekeke Arts Center. Lama, New Mexico.
Artist In Residence, International Summer Workshop, Experimental Television Center. Owego, NY
Crafting Community: Exhibition in Print, curated by Marci Rae McDade and Mark Newport. Surface Design Association. 2017.
All Around Us Always, Ed. Emily Tareila and Larissa Greer. Colpa Press. 2013.
CCA MFA Catalog, 2013
After the After-Party: California College of the Arts 2013 MFA Show, Mark Taylor. KQED Arts.
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=121092
MFA NOW 2012, Root Division
Organizer and moderator, Textile Society of America’s New Professional Convening: Envisioning Textiles Futures, with Regan de Loggans, Lynnette Miranda and Karen Hampton. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Lecture, Sculpture Department, California College of the Arts
REMATERIALIZING: Interviews with Emerging Artists About Physicality, Pattern and Textile Techniques. Textile Society of America’s 14th Biennial Symposium, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, Textiles Department, California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts, textiles and sculpture
Alfred University Alfred, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, sculpture and ceramics
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Comic BooksFilmOpinionReview
Why "Man of Steel" Isn't a Superman Movie
President June 15, 2013
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Michael Moccio ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Managing Editor
There are two types of stories: an idea-driven story, which focuses on a concept and a series of events, and a character-driven story, which focuses on characterization and having the characters catalyze events in a fashion that develops the plot. In this case, Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder, is an idea-driven story, that is—in fact—not about Superman at all.
Man of Steel is, on one level, about an old generation’s traditions versus a new ideology, and, on another level, about what happens when an alien comes to Earth. We barely see any of the characters beyond their function: Superman is a good guy, General Zod is the bad the guy, Lois Lane is the love interest, and so on, and so forth.
Photo Courtesy of Warner Brothers.
The film opens with Kal-El’s birth, which we understand is significant because he is the first natural birth after a significant period in Krypton‘s history where children were born artificially from the Codex. Immediately, emphasis and importance are put on Krypton’s traditions and how Kal-El defies those traditions. The opening scenes of a story ultimately determine what the story is fundamentally about. By opening with Kal-El’s birth, we’re shown his birth is significant. Why is his birth significant? Because it goes against Kryptonian norms, the importance shifts from Kal-El as a person to his significance to the plot. The audience is subtly shown that the story is, in fact, about Krypton as a whole and its traditions and culture.
Here, we begin to see the old versus the new: Krypton’s traditions of predetermined destinies and Jor-El’s views on choice and free will—he says, “What if they aspired to be something different, something more than what was chosen for them?” This theme perpetuates the story and culminates into a standoff between General Zod and Superman—the old versus the new.
Although General Zod attempts a coup to overthrow the Council, we see that he still embodies the old in his final monologue, about how he was bred for combat and “[e]verything [he] did was for the greater good of Krypton.” We also know that General Zod wanted the codex to continue Krypton’s tradition of predetermined birth. This, more than anything, asserts the symbolism behind General Zod.
We’re first introduced to Zod as an instigator of conflict as he arrests the Council for unknown reasons. Because we don’t know his motivation, Zod is defined by his actions alone—he wanted to kill the Council and usurp the government. This defines him as a plot device to insert conflict into the story, instead of a character with a purpose that facilitates the story.
Because Snyder withheld the information of Zod’s motives—doing things for the greater good of Krypton—the audience would see Zod’s coup as an act of revolution, when it is in fact, based on the fact that both Zod and the Council represent the old traditions of Krypton, Zod attempting to stop the Council from killing Krypton and thus ending the old traditions. Without the information behind Zod’s motives, he’s simply the bad guy. All we know is that he wanted to kill the Council, because of their bad judgment, which makes him emulate the idea of a “bad guy.”
Clark, therefore, becomes the cliché “good guy” character, because his motives and character are never truly explained. We blindly accept that he feels compelled to help people, but we never fully understand why.
In the comics, Jonathan Kent acted as Clark’s moral guide in his childhood. He taught Clark the fundamentals of the “American way,” described as truth, justice, and freedom; he also taught Clark humility—that he wasn’t above other people because of his powers—and that he should help people with his abilities. These teachings fueled Clark’s drive to helping people, and Clark often referred back to his parents’ teachings whenever asked why he does what he does.
In the movie, however, Clark loses that why factor, because Jonathan Kent doesn’t teach Clark these things. We understand that Clark was raised in the “American way,” as Clark said, “I was raised in Kansas. How much more American could it get?” But Jonathan’s actions don’t seem to corroborate this upbringing.
Photo Courtesy of Warner Brothers
First, Jonathan teaches Clark that he needs to hide his abilities, even if there’s someone’s life at stake. He tells Clark “maybe” he should have let those kids on the bus die to preserve his secret, that if the public knew about his abilities, then everything would change. Moreover, in a scene between Clark and some bullies, Jonathan remarks “I wanted you to hit them, too, but would that have made you feel better?” He says that with a pause between the two phrases, which leads the viewer to believe the “but” comes in because of Clark’s abilities—it’s more important that Clark doesn’t hit them because he has powers, not because it’s the fundamentally wrong thing to do. By pausing, it’s as if the moral lesson is tacked on, instead of being at the forefront.
He’s essentially saying, “It’s not right of you to retaliate, because you have powers—oh, and it’s the wrong thing to do, too.” That teaches Clark his powers are a thing to hide and secrecy is the most important thing—we see that when Jonathan stops Clark from saving his life, which is an admittedly powerful gesture. This symbolizes Clark’s decision that humanity isn’t ready for him–at this point, he doesn’t believe in humanity. Later on in the movie, Clark said he didn’t save Jonathan because he trusted his judgment—why, then, in the future, would Clark blatantly keep saving people and risk exposure? If he trusted Jonathan’s judgment, what compelled him to keep doing good deeds? Why is it that Clark has gone against everything that Jonathan taught him in the time between leaving the farm and finding the Kryptonian ship in the ice? Jor-El’s quote emphasizes a faith in humanity’s ability to better itself, but Clark had been raised on believing humanity incapable and simply not ready. Nothing in the movie clearly shows the catalyst to Clark’s change of heart, which reduces this moment to a plot device to only push the movie forward.
Throughout the entire movie, we see Clark pursuing his origins. And when he finally sees this through, he returns home as if his journey is over. He doesn’t immediately go out and start helping people like Jor-El said—Clark goes home. It isn’t until Zod comes that he’s forced into action. Based on Clark’s entire journey so far, it would make more sense for him to go confront Zod directly, because of Jor-El’s warning. Instead, he puts the people first. Why? If asked why, you’d probably say “Because he’s Superman!” That’s true, but in this movie, the journey from Clark to Superman lacks the necessary character development to believe that Clark is Superman. This leads us to believe that Clark is Superman simply because he’s Superman, fulfilling the archetypal role of the “good guy.”
These answers are never fully explained, and we’re forced to take Clark’s actions at face value. Without exploring what makes Clark tick—why he is the way he is—his character is reduced to the simple, “Well, he’s the good guy.” Snyder chooses to focus instead on the events that play out, rather than the character of Superman. We see this most towards the end of the movie, when scenes jump from battle to battle, from action to action. The movie stops being about the characters and starts being about the action.
Lois Lane is never fully explored as a character, either, which reduces her to simply being the love interest. The film culminates into a kiss between Superman and Lois when nothing really signals a relationship naturally developing between the two, which makes the scene feel artificial and forced. No scenes between Clark and Lois indicated a romantic relationship forming between them.
Clark saves Lois, which sparks Lois’ curiosity in his story; that is both believable and expected, as she’s a member of the press who seeks the truth—because she’s essentially a secondary character, we don’t need any more than that. Lois continues her search, tracing Clark’s exploits of helping people and finding his true identity (proving Jonathan’s fears correct). When Clark confronts her, he tells her the story of his father’s death, which prompts Lois to drop the story, with Clark focusing on the reasoning behind why he didn’t save his father: to avoid exposure. When Lois drops the story, it can be inferred that she drops it because she recognizes the gravity of the situation—which is perpetuated by Perry’s notion that someone like Clark would scare people—and not as a personal favor.
Suddenly, however, we see Lois avoid the FBI and refuse to give up Clark’s identity. Why? What drives her to keep his secret, especially in the threat of an attack on humanity? Moreover, what prompts Lois into indulging Superman’s hand holding? Why does she feel compelled to allow a romantic subtext to be developed between them with no prior indication of romantic feelings from Lois? From there, her unexplained romantic feelings evolve enough to kiss Superman after he saves her. Again, we don’t know definitively why she does what she does, which makes her function as a character more important than her character itself.
In the comics, Lois’ romantic feelings for Superman don’t develop until quite a while after they meet. She’s always been interested in him on a professional level long before developing romantic feelings for him. Lois is further reduced to her typecast role in her other actions: while on Zod’s ship, Lois does nothing but plead “Help him! Help him!” when Superman is in pain. The real Lois wouldn’t have pleaded and would have stood toe-to-toe with Zod, looked him in the face, and say, “You help him now.”
Snyder also throws away the basic principles of Superman as a character in the climactic scene where Superman intentionally kills Zod. Superman would never resort to killing—that is one of the most fundamental aspects of his character, because his father taught him that way, and going against Superman’s basic principles tells the audience that Snyder has no regard for the character and puts all attention on the event that’s happening. Superman kills Zod to end the conflict, which reduces Superman to nothing more than a plot device used to end the story. We see this even more when Zod’s death is only explored as a scream by Superman and a hug from Lois. We don’t see how this act, which fundamentally goes against Superman as a character—not to mention we never understand why killing Zod cause such anguish in Superman, as he never once in the movie stood against killing—affects him on a deep and personal level, which makes the idea of the good guy killing the bad guy more important than Superman killing Zod.
This act also undermines the entire aspiration towards crafting a tale around Superman becoming someone the human race should look towards. Jor-El says to Superman, “You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.” The climax did not show a character that symbolizes an ideal, the climax did not show a character that could inspire the human race to accomplish wonders. Superman’s actions show, for Man of Steel, that the “wonders” and “ideal” these people will strive towards is one where you kill as last resort. However, Superman’s true wonder and ideal is always finding a way to resolve conflict and avoid death, to show the human race we’re above killing each other and can work together towards peace. Man of Steel ultimately falls short in following through with its promised theme.
It should be noted that Superman did, however, kill a General Zod in the comics. Back in 1988, a Superman story had the villain known as the Time Trapper create a universe in an attempt to control the future Legion of Superheroes after Crisis on Infinite Earths. It was this universe’s Zod that Superman murdered, after Zod had committed mass genocide. Will Superman kill Lex Luthor when Lex’s schemes cause innocent people to do die as well? Superman never killed the Zod from his own reality, and the act of murdering Zod and his cohorts deeply affected Superman. This is one of the reasons behind his vow to never kill. In the movie, however, we never see Superman’s anguish beyond a yell–and nothing in the movie gives understanding as to why Superman is upset at his actions, as his back story does not support a no-killing Superman–moreover, we don’t see Superman’s progression of character after his battle with Zod. For an unknown reason, he becomes able to deal with his “grief” and returns to normal without the audience ever being clued in.
It’s for these reasons that Man of Steel is not about Superman, but about the effects of an event. The movie, fundamentally, is about the events that happen when an alien comes to Earth—this could have happened with any alien species. It wasn’t about Superman coming to Earth. Superman could be replaced with any other alien, Krypton could be replaced with any other culture and planet, and Zod could be replaced with any other villain and it would tell the same story. This is most defined after the climactic battle between Superman and Zod–if the movie had been about Superman, then we would have seen clearly how he dealt with his grief. But, because the movie was about the battle, the story was over after Superman won. Snyder has warped these characters to fit roles so the situations in the movie make sense.
This is the fundamental attribute of an idea-driven story: characters are molded to fit situations. If this had been a character-driven story, the situations would have been molded to fit the characters, but because Snyder has put the emphasis on the plot, instead of the characters, this movie is reduced to a simple blockbuster, easily-forgettable summer movie. This film lacks what makes Superman, Superman because—again—Superman could have been replaced with any other alien and have it tell the same story. We’re left to watch action upon action, brought about by hollow and underdeveloped characters. It feels like Snyder relied on our familiarity with the characters and assumed we would blindly accept their character, when the circumstances of their upbringing and movie-personality contradict the characters we’re so familiar with.
Snyder has forgotten another fundamental of good storytelling: in the words of Lisa Cron, author of Wired for Story, “Plot facilitates the story by forcing the protagonist to confront and deal with the issue that keeps him from achieving his goal… So at the end of the day, what the protagonist is forced to learn as he navigates the plot is what the story is about.” Snyder focuses the film on the plot—event after event after event, and we see that especially in scene where Perry and the Daily Planet employees are about to be killed: the story shifts to three secondary characters, who have no relevance to Superman at the time, and make the film about the battle, not about the character of Superman. We’re not even sure what Superman’s ultimate goal is after he finds out where he comes from, which hinders our understanding of his character.
Another example of this is the scene between Clark and his mother at school. The scene should be first and foremost about how his powers are affecting him, how hearing and seeing everything is affecting his character. Although that’s explored, the scene primarily functions to introduce the audience to Superman’s powers (not his character) and how his unknown powers make everyone think Clark is weird. The focus in this scene is primarily on the idea of Clark’s powers.
If the movie had been about Superman, then he would have taken more of a role in the events that played out. The movie would open with him, putting the emphasis and importance on Superman as a character; the movie would have explored Clark’s journey into becoming Superman and emphasized the change in his character and how his drive to help people came about; the movie would have enlightened the audience to Zod’s motives in the beginning of the movie, rather than just the end; the movie would have shown Superman’s reaction to killing someone in more character depth.
This outcome, however, seems strange, since Christopher Nolan acted as a producer. As the director for the Batman franchise, we saw a totally different type of movie. In the Batman franchise, we saw Bruce evolve from a child to a man with purpose: driven by his grief over his parents’ deaths, he resolves to better his city and ensure that no other child has to go what he went through. We saw character-driven stories in all three Batman movies, but Man of Steel lacks this fundamental aspect of story. With Nolan’s past record of exceptional storytelling, how did he allow Man of Steel to fall so far short?
By going this route, DC and Warner Brothers have opted to produce a movie that forgoes a character-driven story. Instead, we’re left with a trite blockbuster that holds beautiful special effects, an inspiring music score, a story that panders to the movie-goer who refrains from looking deep into the story, and neglects to define Superman as character, leaving him only as a hollow symbol and stock character, which ultimately leaves the movie about the events that transpire rather than the characters involved in them.
As my Fiction professor says, “Genre fiction is about the car chase, literary fiction is about the person driving the car.” In this case, the movie was about the fight between humanity (including Superman) and Zod’s forces, not about the participants of the fight.
Instead of remembering “Man of Steel” as a movie, I’ve decided to only remember this. This trailer advertised a different movie than “Man of Steel.” Whatever’s in theaters now is only a shadow of what it could be.
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Grewal says:
Man of steel is a superman movie. He is more superman then C.revee . Movie show it beautifully.
Jonathan Kent gives up his life to teach his son a lesson.
DUDE , what movie did yo see ???
This was a fantastic Film !
This article is poorly written.
Fabricio says:
What’s wrong with reviewers and Superman? The only thing I can think about it is that the writer does not know Superman AT ALL. He got caught in the past, 35 years ago to be accurate, with the 70’s campy version depicted in Superman: The Movie. This movie was perfect for THAT time, but that is NOT Superman anymore. The character evolved and adapted to the 21st Century and that is what you see in Man of Steel.
Geez, the only thing that is missing in the reviews I read is somebody trying to compare this with the 1938 version of Superman to say “Now I’ve seen it all!”
You do know that Superman also kills Zod in the comic right? have you ever READ the comics?
That One Guy says:
Or, “How I prove that I have limited knowledge of the source material”…
Or, “Superman is NOT open to different interpretations”
Those might work a little better.
Didn’t Superman also kill Zod in Superman 2? I mean he fell into that black hole in the fortress of solitude only to never be seen again.
Kody says:
I tend to agree with you. I think the storyline of this movie was weak in comparison to other Superman movies and yes, even other superhero movies in general.
But then I will ask you this. Film students learn in any film History class that the film genre, and any other media for that matter, is a reflection of the time. It is why movies like “Birth of a Nation” are so incredibly racist and why movies like “High Noon” discuss the Hollywood witch hunt. Movies don’t influence society, society influences movies.
With that being said, I think that this Superman is different because the times have changed. This movie, and many of the themes within it, preach solidarity as well as individuality. Superman’s Krypton father is pushing individuality and Superman’s Earth Father is pushing more solidarity. It’s what is going on in this world right now. Facebook is an example of that. While we all believe that we are individuals on facebook, sharing our own lives with the world, we are part of a unit and we stick together as groups of people still. It’s an interesting paradox. However, I ramble.
So what I really want to say it, that Man of Steel reflects everything, and more, of what this world is going through. The last part? Superman kills somebody (which is not what superman usually does) but it says that: it is okay to kill to protect the people you love. Hint hint. War on Terror.
I wouldn’t call this an adaption. I wouldn’t even call this an interpretation. Man of Steel is a Superman movie. And it isn’t the material that has changed, it is the time.
Superman was published back in 1938. A lot, and I mean a lot, has changed since then. Even the comics themselves, they change with the times as well. So I would say, though I disagree with your point, I think it is a strong one and I really do agree with the fact that the plot was lacking. It would have been A LOT better if they had decided to cut the effects budget and paid the writers a little bit more. :D
Man of Steel was certainly a fun movie to watch, critically speaking though I would give it no more than a 6/10.
Though it doesn’t stand a chance of wining any Academy Awards I think Entertainment for Entertainment’s sake is very important and Man of Steel has found a place within Superman movies, Superhero Movies, and movies in general.
Fal el...aweful says:
I was very disappointed..I agree with the article but also add that there were so many paradoxical fight scenes. On Krypton the alien race didn’t seem very super human even though all the special effects of Krypton tried to draw your attention away from that, and then when they are on earth they seem invincible up until what.. superman breaks Zods neck.. how about some development of the nature of their powers and limitations so that these stark contrasts are not jutting out of every fight scene. Both characters can be shoved through 20 ft of concrete without a scratch but when the storyline calls for it..a dead Zod. Wolverine at least had an admantium skeleton and healing abilities, superman is a bit wishy washy, his costume doesn’t even tear, does he wash it with tide color safe to keep it bright, also when he and lois have relations will he have to take it easy like Edward with Bella? Ok that one was just for fun:)
LOL do you know anything about Superman? Did you even watch the move? Its the Earths Sun that makes the people from Krypton stronger
Not my language says:
Hey just read more comics and don’t watch movies about comics.
Poor review.
C-Dra says:
Very well written article. You did a great job of capturing the essence of what the Superman story has always been about, and why the Snyder film is so lacking in everything substantial but special effects.
I enjoyed the movie (not a big DC comic guy)…but I do agree with the article’s finale. The preview was cut in such a way that I felt that this would be a GREAT movie, deep, hearfelt and serious, much more story and character driven. Simply a case where the “sneak preview” had all the best parts of the movie.
Well the movie was OK but the storyline isnt that great… Ok i understood that MoS was produced n directored by the ppl of Dark Knight,300 and Watchmen(which was Great) all these movies had a solid storyline n plots which made things more logical..but MoS was lacking in so many ways. I love the character Superman lots but this movie just doesnt live up to expectation. Well hope the story will develop further in sequels n we could have a more justify Superman movie(s).
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John Daker says:
Here are my responses to some of your points.
1. Even after Jonathan Kent’s death, Clark sometimes ends up saving people because he simply can’t help it, as Lois points out. However, he shows that he’s still trying to adhere to Jonathan’s lesson by keeping his identity secret, moving from town to town, etc. He’s not going against “everything that Jonathan taught him”. If Clark didn’t trust in Jonathan’s belief, he would have made himself known to the world long ago, and it would unnecessarily have been become worse off.
2. After meeting Jor-El, he doesn’t immediately go out and start helping people because he still trusted Pa Kent. When Zod shows up, the cat’s out of the bag however, and that’s why Clark can make himself known. However there’s another obstacle — his hesitation about whether or not he can trust humanity.
3. Superman would absolutely resort to killing if he had to (thus why he did in the comics). In this film, he learned that sometimes “there’s more at stake” than the lives of individual people, despite how his childhood instincts tell him otherwise. We know how it affects him — it pains him, because he’s not someone who’s quick to kill, even if’s the right thing to do. That’s called sacrifice. One who makes such sacrifices is indeed someone to aspire to. Policeman and soldiers are required to kill when the situation calls for it; they are our world’s heroes.
4. The film is about Superman. It’s just not about the Superman you’re used to because he’s thrown into different circumstances in this story. But again, he has killed before in the comics (and in Superman 2).
5. Superman’s goal is to save as many lives as possible (aka the entire world).
6. The scene with Clark at school is definitely emphasizing how he feels. He feels scared, alienated/angry, and confused. I thought the kid actor did a pretty good job at conveying all those as well.
Just my thoughts.
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Harlequins v Leicester Tigers, Aviva Premiership final
Quins and Tigers chase domestic glory
Preview Report Reaction Verdict Match details Gallery
Quins boss Conor O'Shea predicts an attacking final
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News: Five reasons why...will win the Premiership
News: Robshaw targets perfect end to surreal season
Matches: Harlequins 30 - 23 Leicester Tigers
Tournaments/Tours: Aviva Premiership
Teams: England | Harlequins | Leicester Tigers
The Aviva Premiership's best two sides Harlequins and Leicester Tigers will go head-to-head for England's biggest domestic prize at Twickenham on Saturday.
While it is Leicester's eighth consecutive Premiership final, for Harlequins it is their first appearance in the winner-takes-all match at English rugby's HQ. Harlequins have shone throughout the season and have led the Premiership table since the early rounds. Leicester, in contrast, struggled in the early part of the campaign - with Richard Cockerill's job reportedly under threat at one stage - only to rally and put together an impressive run of results to that carried them to second place in the final standings.
A win in the final would top off a quite remarkable season for Quins boss Conor O'Shea and his side. England skipper and Aviva Premiership Player of the Year, Chris Robshaw has been at the forefront of everything they have done well this year with Nick Evans - the RPA Players' Player of the Year - pulling the strings masterfully at fly-half. With youthful exuberance at Harlequins' core, they look set to be a force in the league for years to come.
Leicester boast the same spine to the team which took the 2009-10 title and like their title rivals, have a wealth of English talent at their disposal. It will also be the final time for the Tigers supporters to see two of their heroes in Leicester colours. Wingers Horacio Agulla and Alesana Tuilagi will both bid farewell to the club after the final and will hope to sign off on a victorious note.
These two teams also served up arguably the game of the season last month with the Tigers downing Quins in classic 43-33 victory at The Stoop.
With the Heineken Cup final producing an undoubted classic at Twickenham last weekend, all signs are pointing towards a similarly fantastic match in front of the ESPN cameras this Saturday.
Harlequins - Player to Watch: Maurie Fa'asavlau has had a quite brilliant season for Quins and with Leicester lacking an injured Tom Croft from their back-row, Quins might target that as an area of weakness - so expect the blindside to see plenty of ball.
Harlequins - Team News: Quins have made two changes to the side which beat the Saints in the semis with Ugo Monye and Danny Care returning to the starting line-up. Mike Brown gets the fullback reins with Monye and Tom Williams getting the nod on the wings. George Lowe and Jordan Turner Hall start in the centres with Nick Evans and Care at half-back. The front row sees Joe Marler, Joe Gray and James Johnston all start with George Robson and Ollie Kohn in the second-row. The back-row has a familiar look with Chris Robshaw skippering the side at openside, Mo Fa'asavalu at blindside and Nick Easter at No.8.
Leicester Tigers - Player to Watch: In his last outing for the Tigers, Alesana Tuilagi will want to depart with a winner's medal in his pocket. He has been a heroic figure for the Tigers on the wing with a combination of pace and power so expect Tuilagi to do everything he can to leave a sizeable dent in the Quins defence come Saturday.
Leicester Tigers - Team News: George Ford gets the nod at fly-half with England international Toby Flood named on the bench as he continues his recovery from an ankle injury. Geordan Murphy captains the side at fullback with Alesana Tuilagi and Horacio Agulla on the wings. Manu Tuilagi and Anthony Allen form the centre partnership with scrum-half Ben Youngs set to partner Ford. Marcos Ayerza, George Chuter and Dan Cole are the front-row with Geoff Parling and George Skivington in the second-row. Steve Mafi, Julian Salvi and Thomas Waldrom get the nod in the back-row.
Key Battle: Nick Evans is up against George Ford in a battle akin to master and apprentice. Evans has been the Premiership's best fly-half over the past couple of seasons while Ford has the potential to tie down the Tigers' half-back spot with a solid performance in the final - it promises to be a battle of experience against youthful exuberance.
Trivia: The two famous old clubs have been playing each other since 1895, with Leicester winning 107 previous encounters to 71 by Harlequins and 9 games drawn.
Stats: Leicester have won just three of the last eight finals they have contested in all competitions and have won only twice in their last seven visits to Twickenham.
Quote Unquote: "You look at what Leinster and Leicester have achieved over the years and that is what you want to emulate. These are exciting times for the club and that is all I am thinking about." - Harlequins boss Conor O'Shea
"We had a bad start to the season and we want to capitalise on what we have done in the last few weeks to get this far. When the players came back from the World Cup we weren't happy with where we were in the table. We had to dig deep to come back and do it the Tigers way. Richard Cockerill and Matt O'Connor set the standards and everyone is on the same playing field." - Leicester Tigers' Thomas Waldrom.
Prediction: It will be fiercely fought but expect the Tigers to be celebrating another title come the final whistle.
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When I say we must stomp splitterism, I do not mean AOC and the sincere-liberal 'left.’ (Heck, my fave among the 20 DP candidates is Liz!) The “squad” types are welcome to primary old line dems in deep blue districts and create a big socialist caucus. Fine, earn it, fair n’ square.
But some dogmatic fools - plus Kremlin provocateurs - go much further. They aim to shatter the broad coalition against Putin-Fox-Trumpist treason. They denounce “corporatist Democrats” as “sockpuppets” for oligarchy, no different than Republicans. These splitters constitute the one great hope for Putin’s putsch to avoid 2020 annihilation.
All of you have friends teetering along that lunacy. Here are five direct answers that might slap sense into them.
FIRST: Democrats had power to pass national legislation for just two years out of the last 25 - the 111th Congress 2009-2010, during which these “corporatists”:
- passed the ACA, insuring 40 million more Americans,
- banned bias for pre-existing conditions (enraging the insurance companies who then donated heavily to Republicans in 2010),
- passed banking regulation (enraging that cabal, who donated heavily to Republicans in 2010, when many splitters didn’t vote),
- created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau whose destruction was Trump’s top goal,
- vastly increased auto gas mileage standards, saving Americans billions at the pump,
- expanded support for sustainables, resulting in the solar+wind “takeoff,”
- did a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street rules (enraging that cabal, who donated heavily to Republicans in 2010),
- passed a $787 billion economic stimulus package,
- repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell”, allowing gays to serve openly in the military, and much more…
President Obama called the 111th Congress the most productive in generations. “Measures that have almost become afterthoughts — like pay equity for women and the new power of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco — would have been signature achievements in other Congresses. And the Senate confirmed two of Mr. Obama’s nominees to the Supreme Court — both women, one Hispanic.”
Right. Tell us about “corporatist sellouts”! Hey splitters, even having just read that list, could you describe those bills and their effects and why you think they were just meaningless gestures by corporatist sellouts? No? You won’t even try, because knowledge can’t replace that sanctimony high. Oh, and we lost Congress ion 2010 partly because of splitters.
SECOND: Ask your splitter if he or she knows anything about the waves of legislation that have passed in blue states, where “corporatist sellout” democrats had lots of power for more than just 2/25 years. CA, OR, WA (yay Inslee), CO, NY… these have been bulwarks against Trumpism. California just infuriated Old Two Scoops by negotiating its own clean air and mileage deal with five auto giants, preserving the gains made under Obama. The list of legislative achievements under fine governors like Inslee and Brown is huge. If you want to rave “corporatist sellouts!” how about you actually know something, first?
THIRD: Most of you have seen my list of 29 CONSENSUS GOALS that every high level Democrat wants. Every one of the 20 candidates on the debate stage, along with Pelosi and all the rest, want at least this basic list of important items. Getting those 29 could save our future. It’s worth making a broad coalition to get them. In which case “corporatist” is a pretty broad and useless term.
Yes, many of you out there want more than those 29 "consensus goals." Fine! But suppose we get all 29 during the first year. We’d then have honest elections, safe DACA kids, healthcare for all children, and so much more. Then, in that vastly better nation, you and the lefty caucus can split and fight the moderates! Okay deal?
FOURTH: Ralph Nader & Jill Stein tipped the balance for Bush and Trump in 2000 and 2016. 3rd party folks are welcome to campaign for Ranked-Choice Voting, which would open their path ahead without screwing us all. (Join Larry Lessig's Equal Citizens movement and help make it happen!)
Meanwhile, every sincere 3rd Party person should campaign in deep-blue or deep-red states to build their donor base and recognition. But they must pledge to stay out of Florida and key tipping states… or we need to pounce with fury.
FIFTH: For ages we’ve heard the leftist mantra: “We can attract red district voters by offering them truly vigorous socialist solutions!”
Alas, it’s failed in every election. Every single one. In fact, 2018 was the final, blatant refutation to this insane nostrum. Every seat gained in the House — and the reason why Jerry Nadler now has subpoena power — came where a crewcut (or hair-bun) military vet (or similar) who loves science and justice invaded a red or purple district and took territory away from some monstrous GOP (Giving Over to Putin) shill. Every… single… one of those crucial gains.
Again, the lefty-purity nostrum was tested and utterly failed one-hundred percent. But we did learn what works. It’s a wide tent. A broad coalition of the kind that was forged by Franklin Roosevelt. Moreover, so long as the candidate agrees to most or all of those 29 points, then goal #30 is simple. Win!
SIXTH: The bonus reason to oppose splitterism? Because Valadimir Putin. Because Putin will spend tens of millions and vast resources to encourage splitterism. Splitter memes are already pouring in a tsunami from those Kremlin basement trolls.
Again, the Confederacy and Fox can only win against a divided Union.
In fact, here is what the AOC social democrats should do!
Want to primary and oust some old “moderate” from your deep blue district? Knock yerself out! Create a big socialist caucus? Fine. But each of you should also adopt and raise funds for some crewcut (or hair-bun) vet who loves science and justice, helping her (or him) take back some red or purple district. Because our only chance to oust Moscow Mitch McConnell is named Amy McGrath. (Look her up.) And that’s more important than any pompous-purist-preening sanctimony high.
By doing so, the AOC and her pals would say: "We can argue later over how much socialism to do beyond the basics, or how much of the FDR social contract to build upon. Right now, let's focus on those basics we all share. We are united in saving the USA and our revolution."
Posted by David Brin at 12:49 PM
Labels: consensus issues for democrats, democratic coalition, democratic debate issues, democratic schism, ranked choice voting
scidata said...
Nice piece (even though I'm only here for the scifi). Sending positive brainwaves to Texas.
During the 2016 campaign, there was a lot of Dem shaming about the 19 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. It was often his go-to line whenever the economy was the topic (and even when it wasn't, since crass cash-flow is the only topic that fires orange neurons).
... umm ...
The US national debt is now above 22 trillion (and could get much worse, right quick). Vaunted valuations have been artificially and bigly mushroomed by stock buy-backs, not by investment in R&D and infrastructure. That's pretty much the textbook definition of a market bubble. And unemployment is always low when people are working three jobs to feed their kids. I don't think facts really matter any more. This stopped being about rationality three years ago. Delusion has been normalized.
The Supply Side tax cuts are always successful at their real goal - to inflate asset bubbles and increase wealth disparity. They are always sales-pitched as ways to get the rich to invest in productive capacity ("supply") and R&D... and both always... always decline after SS tax gift largesse to aristocracy. This latest one avoided any and all efforts to target the cuts toward capitalization or R&D, calling that "picking winners"... but it did specifically encourage stock buybacks, which profited the CEO caste and inflated bubbles at the cost of company health.
The screaming smoking gun is money velocity, which shrinks with every SS sham. It would go up with infrastructure spending, which puts $ in the pockets of workers who immediately spend it.
Thing is, Adam Smith himself saw all this (in simpler terms), denouncing the tendency of most (not all) aristocrats to 'invest' in passive rent-seeking, ideally state supported with enforced monopolies.
And yes, the American revolution was not against "taxes" or government, but against cronies of the king controlling all trade and forcing compliance with royal-granted monopolies.
This is an old story. The revolution is ongoing.
Our real problem is that the Greatest Generation dealt with all of this SO well, under Roosevelt, that we actually imagined class warfare was "over."
I don't get the psychology. Dead stock is called 'dead' for a reason. Luxury cars and rented playmates seems boring and feeble-minded. Why not just hook oneself up to a dopamine injector? Didn't they have childhood dreams? Don't they want to get to the stars?
They are always sales-pitched as ways to get the rich to invest in productive capacity ("supply") and R&D... and both always... always decline after SS tax gift largesse to aristocracy.
It makes so much sense that they would do that. The reason for investing in productive capacity is to make money. If someone just gives them the money, the process is short-circuited. The goal is accomplished before any investment begins. Why would anyone expect them to invest more afterwards? If you win the lottery, do you plow that money into more lottery tickets?
If someone dumps truckloads of water at the bottom of a waterfall which powers a hydroelectric dam, does that water generate any extra power?
LH good metaphor.
scidata "Don't they want to get to the stars?"
I know some zillionaires who do.
Anyone who believes that giving money to wealthy corporations will induce them to invest it must therefore also believe that giving people unemployment benefits will induce them to work. Why wouldn't the recipients of government largess instead metaphorically sit at home on the couch watching tv and drinking beer? The fact that (generally) the same people who argue for Supply Side also disdain the concept of unemployment benefits shows their bias.
Is the opposite true as well? Does support for unemployment benefits imply support for Supply Side? I don't think so. For one thing, the unemployed person needs to increase his meager supply of funds on a regular basis just to survive, whether he's receiving a government benefit or not. The corporation isn't starving without more money--it just "wants" more because that's the object of the game. Investing a windfall could increase profits even more, but that isn't free. It takes time and resources, and is also a risk. An investment can lose money as well as make money. The safe thing to do is just to hoard the windfall in rent-seeking endeavors, and corporations are about nothing if not "safe".
The game of "Monopoly" is instructive as to the end result of Supply Side. One "winner" has all of the money, and then the game is over. Of course, the board game doesn't proceed to the inevitable next step, which played out in France in 1789.
Extra money to aristocracy lowers money velocity. Extra money to workers increases it. And yes, in times of super inflation, it can actually make sense to reduce money velocity! Corporations are in between. If you disincentivize CEO corrupt self-dealing and incentivize R&D and capital investment, tax breaks can stimulate, as advertizes. Supply Side deliberately did the opposite.
john fremont said...
capacity is to make money. If someone just gtes them the money, the process is short-circuited. The goal is accomplished before any investment begins. Why would anyone expect them to invest more afterwards? If you win the lottery, do you plow that money into more lottery tickets?
“I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows” Attributed to Polish economist Micheal Kalecki by Joan Robinson
@Larry Hart
A very lucid simile
Supply side economics has been an effort by the GOP to have the American public confuse stocks with flows.
I fat fingered the Publish button on my previous comment
@john fremont,
I think "trickle down" was a deliberate attempt to make people think of falling water as a metaphor for wealth--that any money provided at the top makes its way down through the layers below.
In fact, it's the other way around. "Money goes to money," and all. Money tends naturally to rise, like heat from a flame. If that money is to do any work moving through the economy, it has to be introduced at the bottom, not the top.
Funny how some of the posting I deem most important... like this one... seem to get the least comment...
Some of us regulars don't have much to add. I agree with your rebuttals and will use them where I can. I doubt I will seek opportunities to use them, though.
The people I know mostly get it. Splitting the people who would oppose Trump isn't a good idea.
I'm more inclined to comment on the tangential topic involving trickle down ideas and the motivations for rich people to put their money in low velocity investments. I'd be up on my soap box, though, and that just doesn't feel right with the recent shootings.
Alfred Differ to Dr Brin:
Some of us regulars don't have much to add.
I was going to say something similar.
Other contributing factors, it was just the weekend when I spend much less time in front of a computer screen. Also, if I have anything begging to be commented on today, it's the recent mass shootings by white nationalists, which of course has nothing to do with politics or ideology.
Today's NY Times headlines on the subject are too numerous to single any one out.
https://www.nytimes.com/
I love the USA. I love Hong Kong. I love Asimov's vision for humanity's future. These are difficult days for me.
@scidata,
Are you familiar with Neil Gaiman's "Sandman", specifically "A Dream of a Thousand Cats"?
Difficult days indeed when I actually consider that to be a plausible solution.
And just as with cats, try getting 1000 Democrats to agree on anything. :)
Well, Look at WA (Inslee!) CA (jerry!) OR etc. When there's someone mature holding reins, the dems can get pretty darn busy. And the 111th Congress. But yes, they are cats. As opposed to Putin's lemmings.
The central message from Dayton is that we need more than background checks... though that would help. (Indeed, the NRA's blocking of that is complicity with murder.) In the one minute before a hero-alert cop brought him down, the Dayton guy sprayed 41 bullets. 41 in less than a minute. As happened in Las Vegas and many places. We need a nationwide ban on large clips and magazines. One with penalties so severe that millions will bring theirs in for a generous buy-back,
In my Jefferson Rifle proposal, I dissect how the gun lobby responds to everything. "This may sound reasonable, but it begins a slippery slope to state confiscation of all firearms, and then citizens losing their recourse against tyranny!"
It may shock you to learn... I agree! If we are ever to get to a sane nation, where firearms are regulated EXACTLY like motor vehicles, with training, certification and insurance, then we must do something at the far end, to ensure that citizens retain absolute protection of the kinds of arms that can best give tyrants pause. It sounds impossible, right? But I show that it is plausibly easy to accomplish!
Be clear, the 'slippery slope to confiscation' is their reason for blocking background checks and bans on mass murder spray weaponry, or indeed anything at all. It does no good to answer slogans with slogans. We ned to say: "we understand your fear, so how about a win-win compromise?
Yeas, 75% of them will keep howling! But if we can get 20% to negotiate, we'll win. Our children will win.
http://www.tinyurl.com/jrifle
For the sake of argument, my support of the fourth point of the original post is a bit soft. I’m not excited about blaming candidates for the stupid voting system.
Every one of the 20 candidates on the debate stage, along with Pelosi and all the rest, WANT at least this basic list of important items (and) Getting those 29 could save our future (so) It’s worth making a broad coalition to get them[DB].
Increasingly incoherent, these arguments are, as our fine host condemns Trump's America First agenda as both a xenophobic nationalism & an externally-derived foreign treason while simultaneously demanding additional open border globalisms (aka 'more externally-derived foreign treasons') & an END to foreign involvement in US domestic politics (aka 'xenophobic nationalism').
It's schizophrenia, these incessant attempts to differentiate between Good Racial Identity Politics & Bad Racial Identity Politics, Good Sexism & Bad Sexism, Good Oligarchy & Bad Oligarchy, Good Socialism & Bad Socialism, Good Globalism & Bad Globalism, and Good Nationalism & Bad Nationalism.
I mean, really, what kind of credulous fool concludes that MORAL INTENT will alter the essential nature of racial identity politics, sexism, oligarchy, socialism, globalism, nationalism & human behaviour?
"But, I meant well" is everyone’s favourite get-out-of-jail-free card because it seems that you can get away with damn near anything -- no matter how discourteous, disrespectful, dangerous, dubious, dimwitted or discredited that thing, action or behaviour is -- as long as long as you can convince others that you are "a good person" with "good intentions" who just wanted to "do good" just like Lenin, Hitler, Stalin & Mao.
The central message from Dayton is that further legislation is futile as 'background checks' can only document the past actions of said applicant & cannot predict the applicant's future actions. I'm sure the ACLU would object to this line of approach, too, to condemn, convict & punish a person for a crime that they have not yet committed.
Mental health certification is likewise futile, in part due to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which forbids discrimination on the basis of any "physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity" as exemplified by significant mental illness because CRAZY POTENTIAL MASS MURDERS HAVE RIGHTS, TOO, you progressive autocratic fascist, you.
Your children will LOSE, too, because you've virtually guaranteed it by passing schizophrenic laws that simultaneously forbid, facilitate & require ever-increasing amounts of discrimination, diversity & conformity.
Such an articulate expression of simultaneous self-serving delusionality with absolutely perfect incapacity to grasp even the concept of positive sum.
The trouble with ensuring that the citizens can be armed is that in the vast majority of cases "Armed Citizens" have sided with the Tyrants -
So from a political "protection from tyranny" POV ensuring that citizens can be armed is NOT a positive
I like our (NZ) new requirement - five shots and have to re-load - with an exception for small calibre pest control
I'm hoping that when the dust settles we will go back to the registration of individual firearms
Essentially similar to my Jefferson Rifle.
YES! - I have linked to your Jefferson Rifle several times as a rational type of gun control
We (NZ) did not go quite as far - five shots instead of one
Yes, but part of the Jefferson rifle deal is to make the bolt action rifle *sacred*! Protected forever in the Constitution with a new amendment. You can still have five-shot rifles and other things, but those need training, licensing, insurance. But the Jefferson Rifle cannot be tracked or ever confiscated. That's the odffering to stop "slippery slope" complaints that prevent treating all OTHER weapons just like cars.
That's the trick.
Cyrill Joseph Landau said...
Donald Trump is #1 man in USA
Ivan shows up! I am lazy and indulgent. In fact I get trolled less than I ever expected. It may be the $5 words you all (even locum!) use.
Peter Falk's character in the movie "Murder By Death":
"He looks more like number 2, if you know what I mean."
Paul Krugman describes the self-evident:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/republicans-white-terrorism.html
Why has the Republican Party become a systematic enabler of terrorism?
Don’t pretend to be shocked. Just look at G.O.P. responses to the massacre in El Paso. They have ranged from the ludicrous (blame video games!) to the almost honest (who would have expected Ted Cruz, of all people, to speak out against white supremacy?). But as far as I can tell, not one prominent Republican has even hinted at the obvious link between Donald Trump’s repeated incitements to violence and the upsurge in hate crimes.
So the party remains in lock step behind a man who has arguably done more to promote racial violence than any American since Nathan Bedford Forrest, who helped found the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist organization if there ever was one — and who was recently honored by the Republican governor of Tennessee.
So how do Republicans win elections? By appealing to racial animus. This is such an obvious fact of American political life that you have to be willfully blind not to see it.
Perhaps the TMT team shows the way forward. They're applying for a permit in the Canaries. Frantic delusion should not paralyze rationalists. A lesson for us all.
Apparently, anti-Semitism is another one of those things that is ok when Republicans do it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/opinion/trump-el-paso-racism.html
...and, of course, the insistence that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the violence at a gathering of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va.
Some of those “very fine people” shouted “Jews will not replace us,” and yet Trump went on to excoriate the Democratic Party in general and Representative Ilhan Omar in particular as anti-Semitic. That’s what I mean about his big lie. He winks at white nationalists, then points a finger in other directions.
scidata: the Canaries were always a fallback location, nowhere near as desirable for the TMT. This is another case of a very loud minority overrunning a position held by many more. The TMT will be built, but not in Hawaii, if the bullies have their way. Then Hawaii will end up not having the benefits of a telescope or the associated jobs, and the protesters will disappear again without actually benefiting anyone. Very dog-in-manger-ish.
Re: TMT
I agree with moving on with Plan B (or at least threatening to). Not surrender or paralysis, but persistence and ingenuity. Ad astra per aspera. Perhaps this caption could be added to the first few results if Canary happens:
"This picture could have been better, but superstition hindered our efforts."
Immortality can only be earned, not stolen at spearpoint by pathetic thugs and mobs. Which name will live longer - Cyril or Hypatia? The answer may determine humanity's fate.
The Hawaii activists are raging against deals made by their own elected native councils They could have run to be elected to those councils, they chose instead rage and sanctimonious fury, ignoring the blatantly obvious single miracle performed by Poli'ahu on her mountaintop and her obvious love of astronomy.
Krugman as very smart... and dumb. He cannot see what's as plain as the nose on his face. That the mad right hates HIM far more than it hates your average black man. Do the oligarchs care about racism, really? Other than as a tool to keep confederate masses riled and prevent them from realizing how the oligarchy screwed them?
The threat to oligarchic rule is smart people. All of them, which is why all of them - especially guys like Kruigman - are enemy #1.
@Dr Brin,
I picked and chose quoted from the Krugman column, not wanting to fill your blog with someone else's writing. But the lead up to the quoted passage:
was all about the fact that Republicans's true political and economical agenda is not popular, and so they have to get support by appealing to tribalism. He's well aware that the racism is a tactic, not an objective.
The oligarchs who thought this situation was entirely under their control should have paid more attention to the scene in Cabaret surrounding the song, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me".
"Do you still think you can control them?"
Confusing the recognition & manipulation of incipient racism with the incitement (and/or creation) of incipient racism, the manipulative Left jumps the shark by alleging racism against "smart people", insomuch as the assumed existence of a race of "smart people" is inherently racist.
And, thusly, the Left repudiates Equalism:
It acknowledges racially-derived differences & inequalities; it repudiates the fair level playing field trope; it indulges in identity group in-group bias; and it self-defines as racist by its own criteria.
The Equalist laughs at the assumed existence of a race of "smart people", an absurd impossibility, assuming universal racial equality.
The Equalist also laughs at the concepts of Good & Evil, as such arbitrary distinctions simply cannot exist, assuming universal equality in all things.
Alex K said...
Alright I'll bite. As a card carrying lefty, albeit a British one, I will present the lefty rebuttal to these points.
First: Calling the 111th Congress the most productive in generations is like gaining the prize for fastest sloth.
In terms of financial industry regulation, let us remember that all this was passed in the wake of the biggest recession since 1929. There was a historic opportunity to pass so much more to ensure such a thing could not happen again anytime soon. Instead, he bent over backwards to save the rogues of Wall Street from the consequences of their own failures and thus set up the ground for the upcoming next big bank caused catastrophe. After all, the financial industry learned from this it was too big to touch and therefore feels entitled to do anything it pleases.
And what of those achievements now ? Republicans are busy dismantling virtually all of them as we speak.
Second: I'll be honest I can't help there. I'm British so not too exposed to local news on the American side.
Third: This is where it gets interesting. Progressives as a general rule agree with these goals.... Buuut we do not trust Centrist to even pass a fraction of them in an entire presidency. The moment a donor emits even so much as a squeak, they will slam the breaks on those reforms and feed us excuses as to why these already modest reforms can't happen after all. If the democrats will only pass 1/10th of what they promised, might as well be 1/10th of a lot rather than little.
Fourth: One big point of contention that annoys progressives to no end is how centrists feel entitled to our vote. Centrists are not any more entitled to the progressive vote than so called nice guys are entitled to sex. The moderate independent unicorn we keep hearing about is not the only vote the democrats have to fight for and us progressives need to be wooed too.
Fifth: Really ?!!! So the last two decades where the Democrats have been bleeding seats at all levels of government under Centrist control never happened then ? Remind me how picking the most right wing candidate for the presidential election went last time ? Centrists have been do busy trying to attract that ever shrinking moderate republican vote that they didn't notice other voters were giving up on them in frustration, certain that even democrats were never going to help them. The voting public the democrats should be aiming for is that non voting population.
Sixth: Vlad the Impaler did not create splitterism. He merely fanned the flames that decades of neglect by the Centre have created. Those memes are only succeeding because a fertile ground for them was already there.
This leads me to my conclusion: the centrist/progressive marriage has been on the rocks for a while now. The correct reaction centrists should be having to progressive anger all over the western world is not "You'll never do better than me so know your place and shut up !" but "Ok, I get you're angry, what can I do to regain your confidence ?"
Addendum: For the record this is a criticism of Anglo Saxon Centrism which usually means Socially left wing/economically right/hawkish foreign policy. Sane centrism like that practiced by Angela Merkel who knows she has to compromise with the left in addition to the right, I have no beef against.
J Thomas said...
The original post was conservative-Democrat Neolib squibble. Same-old, same-old. Worthless squibble.
If Democrats want to build a big coalition, if they want third party votes etc, it's in their court to pass IRV etc. Arguing that third parties etc have the chance to talk about how they want it, is just silly. Democrats have the chance to get those votes if they want them, by allying with the Republicans who want voting reform. But they don't. It really looks like the mass of the Democratic Party leadership does not want voting reform and does not want those votes. They just want to keep blaming voters for not voting for them.
But then David Brin's comments generally make sense. An understanding of economics. An understanding of things that need to be done. It's as if the original post and the comments were from two different people.
There are no Republicans who want voting reform. There are today only Republicans who use the words "voting reform" to refer to the ability to remove the franchise from any group with whom they disagree, particularly PoC and women.
Your entire statement, Mr. Thomas, founders on the rock of a basic misunderstanding of the Republican Party as it is organized today. You're trying to find reasonable people in an organization that has spent the past thirty years or so purging themselves of anyone capable of anything besides hate and fear.
Jon S, I'm afraid you're right. There are essentially no Republicans who want voting reform, even though the Libertarian Party gets 3 times the votes that Greens do.
And there are essentially no Democrats who want voting reform really, at the national level, though some will give lip service to it.
So we will not get voting reform until after third parties take over. And until then Democrats will argue that when anybody votes for third parties it's those voters' fault. When it is the fault of the major parties for not allowing IRV.
Again, Libertarians get 3 times the votes that Greens do. So at present third parties are helping the Democrats and not hurting them. Democrats have no right to complain.
Libertarianism represents a threat to continuing a healthy planet by their abuse of the commons and refusal to acknowledge external costs of their free market worship. They are the enemies of a healthy planet.
But you may say, not all libertarians. To which I reply, yes all libertarians. If libertarians do not like being labeled anti-human-life-on- earth, then the onus is on libertarians to drive the oligarchy and unregulated goons from their government. Or become liberals.
3rd parties in the US exist only to split votes and coalitions. They are funded by oligarchs who would make us slaves.
For noticing things that nice lefty liberal progressives are not supposed to notice, acknowledge or comment upon, I'd now like to welcome Alex K to the deplorable identity group because only an accursed deplorable would insist that progressive political machine is in no way entitled to his support.
For, even though it may be politically acceptable to say that the 'nice guy' is NOT entitled to much of anything, it is the height of deplorability to recognise, acknowledge or comment upon the entitlements of the politically protected & privileged classes, as in the case of Racism, Domestic Violence & Equality.
While once defined as "the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another" (the ADL definition), the term Racism has been successfully redefined as something that only white people do, as in white supremacy, white privilege & white guilt.
Domestic Violence has been redefined exclusively as something that only male heterosexuals do, even though numerous scientific studies document equal rates of violence between male & female domestic partners, and much higher rates of violence in female-on-female domestic partnerships.
Then, there is the sacrosanct term Equality which now means its opposite, insomuch as (1) the entitled female receives provisioning, security & gender-specific protections, leaving zip-zero-nada for the 'nice guy', and (2) minority successes are assumed to reflect 'merit' but majority successes are only said to reflect undeserved 'privilege'.
Matthew, our very own hate-spewing 'woke' progressive, says as much in paraphrase as he classifies even libertarians as despicably inhuman deplorables in his post above:
"Everyone who is not my equal is my enemy", says he.
And, wowza, Matthew sure seems to have a lot of enemies.
More lies from loco. Par for the course for the nutter.
Only enemy I have here is the nazi ent, who has threatened violence on me and mine.
I may have seroius problems with ideology be it oligarchistic or authoritarian but only those that are committed to violence like the ent earn my hatred and enmity.
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Well, the bullshit is flying fast here. Lt's first take care of Loucumranch, who never tires of exposing his inability to grasp anyone thinking other than the way he does, in zero-sum paranoia. He knows that the cores element of all the creative, "smart" professions and arenas is not some unified cabal (or "race," as he put it) but rather a cauldron of competition, performed openly, transparently and with vigorous reciprocal accountability. When the oligarchy wages war on science, teaching, journalism and all the rest, it's not so much against any cabal of smart people but against the very concept of vigorous reciprocal accountability based on competitive application of factual evidence.
Poor locum knows that his side is supposed to be pro-competition! But every move by his plantation lords crushes competition, deliberately laying groundwork for one elite to own/control it all. So what can he do? Yammer! Smart people are a "race"! Oh, my.
Alex K is articulate and a true BS artist. Desperate to justify splitterism and his own sanctimony endorphins, he offers one howler after another. Like Hillary was a right winger. Har!
Simultaneously(!) he disses the accomplishments of the 111th as no big deal WHILE sneering that Republicans are strenuously and desperately dismantling those accomplishments. The 2017 Supply Side vampire arterial gusher of our life blood into oligarchy maws WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED if Jill Stein had let Hillary have Florida and Pennsylvania. We’d still have the CFPB and DACA and the rest. But no blame here!
Second: he evades this matter utterly, even though it torches splitterism. California has more people and economy than Britain, #6 in the world! It has exactly the mix of progressive and “centrist” democrats AlexK derides. They work together, argue and pass bills and they have passed droves of progressive (but pragmatic) legislation limited only by federal supremacy, WHILE balancing the budget and damping down partisan strife. The same thing in WA and OR and CO. This is meaningful, goomba. And your evasion does not work just because you live in another country.
I know the relevance of Northern Ireland’s border with Eire. I know Scotland may secede because of Brexit. And if I know all that and much more, then your ignorance of California is either laziness or blaring dishonesty. Either way, it is weaseling.
Your howl about my list of 29 shared goals is utter, utter hypocrisy. Most “centrist” dems have declared for most of those things. Many of them have fought harder for such things any DAY than you have across your entire, grumbling cynical life, fellah.
Hey, why not make it explicit, huh? Help promote the list and declare “If the coalition wins big in 2020 and can actually legislate, like in 2009, and you DON’T do these things, THEN it’s civil war!” Give us one congressional term with majorities in both chambers and a democratic president. Care to make it a wager, that at least 20 get passed? Bet your house? Oh, please.
No, instead you yowl “They’d never go for those things!” Without a scintilla of evidence. Okay we know your actual name, Ivan.
FOUR? Your sentence doesn’t even parse grammatically! Seriously Alex, are you all right? Is it an aneurism?
Fifth. You lie. You utterly lie about my position. You know I said lefties are welcome to primary and take over blue districts, so what’s your gripe? I even vote for some and my top pick is Warren. But you rave if you ignore the 50 people like Cisneros who TOOK TERRITORY from the confederates - or came damn near. And every single one of them was a “centrist” you hate.
We have one chance to eliminate Moscow Mitch McConnell. Her name is Amy McGrath.
Your hate is why we lost congress in 2010, when Putin came at us to try the splitter memes he used devastatingly against Clinton in 2016. Thanks Ivan.
J Thomas isn't even worth answering. He is spewing truly psychotic drivel making Alex almost look sane.
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"The 2017 Supply Side vampire arterial gusher of our life blood into oligarchy maws WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED if Jill Stein had let Hillary have Florida and Pennsylvania."
When you repeat Democrat talking points you can't expect to make sense.
Florida vote went:
Trump 4,600,000
Clinton 4,500,000
Johnson 200,000
Stein 64,000
Stein did not get enough votes to give Clinton a win. Johnson got enough votes to keep Trump from getting an absolute majority. Trump got 49% of the vote, and with Johnson's 2.2% it would be clear.
Assuming of course that those third party votes would have gone that way. More than 40% of the total eligible voters didn't vote. There's nothing to say that the people who did vote third party would have voted for either of the major party fiends if they had no better candidates.
Pennsylvania was closer.
If Stein didn't run while more than 90% of Stein voters voted Clinton, Clinton could have squeaked out a win. Supposing that Johnson DID run to siphon third party voters away from Trump. Clinton could have won Pennsylvania given one more special advantage to give her extra votes.
It's that way right down the line. Clinton COULD have won provided that Johnson siphoned votes away from Trump, and Stein did not take her much smaller share of votes from Clinton. Clinton could not win without that. She had to have Johnson running or she could not win.
I hope the third parties get big enough to affect policy. Otherwise we're stuck with the policies we're stuck with.
Nice arguing. Who are you and what did you doo with that incoherent screecher, the earlier J Thomas?
Except it utterly proves the point that splitters and stay at homes gave us Trump, alongside thei allies, Putin and Rupert Murdoch.
Read Orwell's HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. That's you splitter dogmatist jerks. The "centrist" politicians you deride have done more for YOUR causes in any week than you have, your entire dogmatic-ranting "I get to be so prure!" life.
There are similarities between the mess that the UK is in and the one the USA is in
In both cases decades of propaganda have persuaded a huge number of the voters to vote stupidly
In the UK there has been 40 years of ALL politicians blaming the EU for everything that has gone wrong - a handy dandy whipping boy for all of the things that they screwed up or didn't do
Wrong type of leaves on the track - must be the EU
The USA it was the Unions - and "Librals" and "both parties are the same"
When I worked in the USA a lot of my colleagues were firmly of the opinion that "both parties are the same"
I thought they were mad!
And that was before Bush 2
In 2016 too many Americans still think both are the same -
"Except it utterly proves the point that splitters and stay at homes gave us Trump"
And there's no argument there. Appropriate, since there is no logical argument possible.
Splitters hurt the GOP about 3 times as much as the Democrats in 2016. Stein got about 1.5 million votes, Johnson got about 4.5 million. Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million.
If she got all the Stein votes and Trump got all the Johnson votes, Trump would be slightly ahead.
If the splitters on both sides were evenly matched, they would not make a difference. Say it was three million split from each side. No matter.
And in the next election if they each got 9 million votes, they wouldn't make any difference at all. They wouldn't affect the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
And in the election after that, if they each got 27 million votes, again they would be completely irrelevant to the politics.
But it isn't like that. Most elections, the Republicans lose more votes to third parties than the Democrats. The first Nader year was an exception. And even then it wasn't enough, the Supreme Court had to step in to award it to the GOP.
You shouldn't worry about Jill Stein's 1.5 million votes. Instead, consider that we had 231 million eligible voters, and 137 million of them actually voted. If you want more votes, why not go after the 94 million who didn't think either candidate was good enough?
You're arguing with the fish in a rain barrel. You'd do better to scold the people who didn't vote. If you shame them enough for not voting for Clinton, maybe this time they'll vote for Biden or Harris.
Libertarianism represents a threat to continuing a healthy planet [snip]
But you may say, not all libertarians. To which I reply, yes all libertarians.
…then the onus is on libertarians to drive the oligarchy and unregulated goons from their government. Or become liberals.
Umm... No.
I will not take this too personal since I think you were mostly directing it at one of the other two people, but your 'yes all libertarians' covers me. So…
1) It is not my government any more than it is yours. I will help you purge it of those folks, but do not expect me to do it for the reasons that motivate you.
2) I am a classical liberal, so I am more liberal that you progressives. Deal with it.
3) If you want to argue that I (personally) am a threat to a healthy planet, get personal. I will listen, point out where you are mistaken, adjust where you are correct, but I will not accept ‘them’ type arguments.
4) I do not worship anything… let alone a free market. I respect it as one should respect the rules of an ecosystem because that is what free markets are.
3rd parties in the US exist only to split votes and coalitions.
On this, I will call bullshit. The Republicans were once a third party, but they ascended because one of the two major parties came apart at the seams. Look up what happened to the American Whigs. It ain’t pretty.
A Third Party, also known as the Independents, already sets the US political agenda, as it represents 42% of registered US voters.
This was predicted (along with a possible solution) in 1968 by the 'Die, Spy' episode of Get_Smart wherein the chiefs of CONTROL (aka 'Democrats') and KAOS (aka 'Republicans') band together to fight a common enemy.
Increasingly irrelevant, both the US Democrat Party (31% of US voters) & the US Republicans (24% of US voters) are self-deluding DENIERS who reject this new political reality, while simultaneously being incapable of working together.
And, finally, I will remember this day -- the day our host rejected race as a predeterminant of intelligence -- as the death day for either equalism or diversity or possibly both.
For, if all identity groups are interchangeably equal in terms of intelligence & ability, then ethnocultural diversity serves little or no rational purpose and, if identity group diversity is to serve a rational or justifiable purpose, then one must assume irremediable ethnocultural inequality in terms of intelligence & ability.
The Harvard double-bind discrimination lawsuit will most likely resolve this irreconcilable ethnocultural issue once & for all as a either a win or a loss by the minority plaintiffs means an end to both diversity & equalism as we know it:
Heads, we win. Tails, you lose.
Seriously, Franklin Roosevelt - a centrist - and ML King - derided as "too patient and moderate" -- and George Marshall who pondered the historical mistakes of empire -- changed America and the World more than all the radical revolutionaries of their time. Washington & Jefferson left their moderate revolution only a quarter-done and Lincoln died before completing his task. And they took us much farther than Robspierre or Lenin or Mao ever did.
The list of crimes committed by America across 250 years is as long as the list of missed opportunities.
And the RATIO of good deeds and partial steps forward to disappointments and crimes is unmatched in the history of nations. And I would be delighted if you splitters would make that a money wager.
Here's the kicker. YOUR VALUES... the ideal of a better world without prejudice and injustice and greedy inequality... where do you think you got them? 6000 years priests failed at engendering that dream. But it was infected into the minds of a billion young idealists by... Hollywood. And you know it.
Make Star Trek happen. You bet. I've done more in that project than any number of you have, combined. Still, I welcome your enthusiasm and eagerness to help make it so. But I pity your grumbling ankle-biting howls at the one vehicle humanity ever created that brought us a large part of the way along that path.
"Splitters hurt the GOP about 3 times as much as the Democrats in 2016. Stein got about 1.5 million votes, Johnson got about 4.5 million. Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million. "
Titanic sophistry! We all know that grumbling stay-at-homes were the key element that has hurt us every time. I despise Stein and Nader for not declaring "I'll stay out of Florida and Ohio." But their supporters are at least sincere, compared to the grumbling hypocrites!
The idea that Johnson and the LP help democrats is insane! Their entire purpose... the reason the LP is subsidised by the Kochs and Forbes and all of them is to prevent bleedout when libertarians realise they have much more in common with liberals than with oligarchs. Sir, you are a very ignorant person.
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J Thomas,
So we will not get voting reform until after third parties take over.
You are mistaken. We got voting reform in California while the Democrats were in control. We did it through ballot initiatives. We took away the State Legislature’s power to redistrict after a census and forced a change to the way elections are done.
Third parties were generally unhappy with the change to the election system because it prevents them from getting on the general ballot if they don’t rank high in the primary. In the 2018 election, though, I know of at least one Libertarian who got more votes than their GOP competitor. In that race in November, the general ballot showed D and L candidates as the choice.
It is not the third parties that will force reform. The People will have to do it at state and local levels. Some of those people might be third party members, but most will have to be from the two big ones.
"Titanic sophistry! We all know that grumbling stay-at-homes were the key element that has hurt us every time."
Yes, that's what I said. I consider it bootless for you to complain about a tiny minority of Greens when there are so many people you have not persuaded to vote at all.
"The idea that Johnson and the LP help democrats is insane! [....] Sir, you are a very ignorant person."
I truly did not know that. Let me ask any libertarians who happen to be present.
Other things equal, if you are presented with an election where there are no third party candidates, are you more likely to vote for the Democrat, or the Republican, or not vote for either?
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Alfred Differ,
"We got voting reform in California while the Democrats were in control. We did it through ballot initiatives. We took away the State Legislature’s power to redistrict after a census and forced a change to the way elections are done."
Yes! Also in Maine, with the various elected officials of both parties putting up whatever roadblocks they could.
In my state that is not allowed. The legislature can put things on the ballot for statewide issues. Sometimes the legislature can specifically allow voter petition for specific local issues. And local governments can allow voter petition for specific kinds of local issues, provided that it is in the town, city, or county charter that it can be done and specifies the number of signatures and deadlines etc.
In some states you can do it despite the major parties, and in other states you can't.
As a foreigner puting my tuppence worth in again
The US problem is not so much voters staying home - although that is a problem
The bigger issue is voters not being registered - most countries do this a LOT better
And blue states are initiating motor voter processes that default register you to vote when getting a driver's license as is done all over the world.
Yes, the citizens had to (and did, because they could) rebel in blue states against their own democratic politicians, in order to end gerrymandering. There are occasional issues like that and yes, DP pols can range along a normal spectrum of "corruption"... that is like another planet compared to Republican corruption.
But DP pols have taken the hint. Obama and Holder are now urging holdouts Marryland and Illinois to drop gerrymandering so that it will become wholly a Republican crime.
A consortium led by Nicolas Berggruen put another ballot initiative up that now has CA with the best election laws in the nation. The open primaries with run-off general election has two same party finalists, some times. But the result has been LESS partisanship and more listening to minority party members in districts, not less. Our paper ballots let random precincts get audited so no one dares to mess with vote-counting, unlike the damned and truly damned to hell red traitors in red states who pay Russo-Gopper biased "voting machine" companies for gear that can easily give any desired result.
All we need is to emulate Maine and add Ranked Choice Voting and then 3rd party folks would stand a chance. And if you want to increase the hopes of 3rd parties, THAT is the only issue that should obsess you. I said it in the main blog. RCV is what can give 3rd parties a chance and would solve other problems. And anyone who yowls about 3P without pushing RCV is either a fool or a shining hypocrite or both. (well... or a Kremlin stooge or bot.)
But it was DP legislators
Many messages relentlessly pervade modern films and novels. They are generally in plain view, blaring at us, lecturing and finger-wagging, yet they seldom draw comment or notice.
Some of them, like Suspicion of Authority, or SoA, propel a plot while also helping us stay free, keeping us alert against oppressing elites … though lately SoA has been cynically manipulated against us, a matter we’ll discuss later.
Other common Hollywood memes, like tolerance, diversity and eccentricity, are values that you and I appreciate – in part -- because those messages succeeded. Watch any Marx Brothers or Judy Garland or Preston Sturges movie, to see how far back all of these themes go. And thank you, Hollywood.
Certainly it’s healthy that films and books also keep sniffing toward potential errors. That, too, can drive plot, while tuning the public to notice a failure mode – and some of these tales actually divert destiny, earning glory as self-preventing prophecies.
But there are other messages that seem almost as ubiquitous, yet express no higher value, nor shine light on error. These variations of the Idiot Plot saturate far too many of our modern myths, for no other reason than laziness.
No Institution can function.
Focus on Demigods.
Hoard the wonder.
Despise your neighbors.
Amen to this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/trump-el-paso-shooting-nationalism.html
The main task for Democrats over the next 15 months won’t be to convince America that they need yet another health care re-invention, or that the economy is a mess, or that the system is rigged, or that the right response to Trump’s immigration demagoguery is an open border. It’s that the president is a disgrace to his office, an insult to our dignity, a threat to our Union, and a danger to our safety.
Here's the kicker. YOUR VALUES... the ideal of a better world without prejudice and injustice and greedy inequality (were) infected into the minds of a billion young idealists by Hollywood[DB].
That pro-tolerance, diversity and eccentricity propaganda achieved its desired aim is something of which to be proud because why?
Because Goebbels was such an exemplary role model? Because societies constructed out of a tissue of lies stand the test of time?
This is truly a fascinating line of argument for a self-described 'Man of Science', and I wonder what other deadly sin -- aside from 'bearing false witness,' that is -- our fine upstanding host will defend next.
@ Larry Hart
It’s that the president is a disgrace to his office, an insult to our dignity, a threat to our Union, and a danger to our safety.
The problem with that is the ease with which throwing the Cheeto under the bus could instantly exonerate the real culprits. Moscow Mitch et al may have already drawn up a draft press release along those lines.
BTW Thanks for the Neil Gaiman ref. He wrote the Beowulf movie too, cool.
Larry Hart "The main task for Democrats over the next 15 months won’t be to convince America that they need yet another health care re-invention, or that the economy is a mess, or that the system is rigged, or that the right response to Trump’s immigration demagoguery is an open border. It’s that the president is a disgrace to his office, an insult to our dignity, a threat to our Union, and a danger to our safety."
Agreed. The Democratic nominee will have very little positive to offer, and must put as much attention as possible on how bad Trump is.
There is only one alternative to Trump, and only one way to vote against Trump. If you don't vote for whoever the DNC gives you, you're voting for Trump. And Trump is worse than anybody.
This is democracy. There is no alternative. There is no way to change the system except to vote for whoever the Democrat is. Maybe someday the Democrats will change the system that gets them elected.
Locumranch said, "That pro-tolerance, diversity and eccentricity propaganda achieved its desired aim is something of which to be proud because why?"
It's a survival issue. We would not survive very well as a low-population nation that had gone through a big bout of ethnic cleansing.
To have any decent chance we have to arrange tolerance and accept diversity etc.
Maybe we can't achieve that, and then we will be stuck with the ethnic-cleansing etc that will leave the survivors in poverty and without the industry we'd need to defend ourselves from invaders. If it's all we're left with, then we'll try to survive it. But we deserve to give tolerance our best try.
I'm not at all sure how to make that work. Today we have some Orthodox communities where outsiders are not the least bit welcome. We have Iranian-culture communities where everybody speaks persian and outsiders are kind of tolerated provided they don't try to buy or rent homes. We have some black ghettos where whites are decidedly unwelcome unless somebody vouches for them.
In simple fairness it seems like we should accept some lower-class or lower-middle-class white communities that exclude people who do not fit their peculiar little cultures. And in fact we do have some of those, we just talk like we shouldn't.
Should we accept a patchwork quilt of little cultures that each accept the right of the others to exist nearby, but that try to avoid each other? Provided that none of them gets the control needed to oppress the others?
I don't know. I don't know what will work. I don't know what can work. I don't know whether there's any way, whether we are doomed to try to kill each other until the survivors are too exhausted to fight, and must then accept domination from outside.
I only know that we desperately need to do the best we can.
J Thomas says sarcastically:
"Gets them elected" to what? Temporary control of one house of one branch, while the Republicans have locked in the Senate and the other two branches, including one that should be non-partisan? Plus a supermajority of states? You're wondering why Democrats would want to change that system?
...also, if the Republicans would run a sane conservative instead of a dangerous, evil one, then the imperative to vote for "whoever the Democrat is" wouldn't be so compelling.
Most of America seems to vote for "whoever the Republican is". The "Never Trumpers" who fell in line certainly did. Ted Cruz, who seemed to despise Trump for much of the fall said so explicitly, "It's a binary choice." So do you have the same trouble with people who vote that way, or is it only Democrats who are somehow deficient if they find the party opposite to be intolerable?
"Most of America seems to vote for "whoever the Republican is".
A minority does. In 2016 there were more who didn't vote than who vote Republican, by a pretty good margin.
"So do you have the same trouble with people who vote that way, or is it only Democrats who are somehow deficient"
I can't exactly blame either of them. They are doing what they want to do.
Pro wrestling fans have their faces and their heels. They don't all agree about which to cheer for. The wrestlers kind of pretend they are competing with each other at wrestling, but in fact they are competing for audience interest. The one who is the bigger draw, the one who brings in more customers is the one who gets the bigger share of the purse.
It's a lot like pro wrestling. Should I blame wrestling fans for liking wrestling? They get their money's worth for the entertainment or they wouldn't keep coming back.
And anudder thing...
How did we as a nation get to the point where outrageous offense itself becomes an inoculation against opposition?
Trump is so vile that the simple act of pointing out that he's saying what he says is considered a partisan attack.
The Republican Party is so blatantly anti-democratic that accurately describing their voter suppression activities is considered a partisan attack.
scidata nailed it. Trump can either be “thrown under the bus” by allowing him to be nailed in exchange for giving the GOP a reset… or else (much more likely and useful) making him a martyr that riles the confederacy into full, volcanic civil war.
jT: “Agreed. The Democratic nominee will have very little positive to offer, and must put as much attention as possible on how bad Trump is.”
Ah our left-side locumranch seemed cogent there for an interval, but he is back in utter-loony form. Drooling idiocy.
“Should we accept a patchwork quilt of little cultures that each accept the right of the others to exist nearby, but that try to avoid each other? Provided that none of them gets the control needed to oppress the others? “
You know nothing, sir, In just our lifetime we have seen one after another “goulash” culture like this - Lebanon, Bosnia, Rwanda - end generations of ethnic reciprocal co-habitation in spasms of genocide. The only method that works is some kind of universal cultural overlay - a “melting pot.” And yet,. that threatens bland homogeneity… unless that pot’s flavor is love of eccentricity and diversity and cultural richness. In which case you retain all the culture-stuff and foods and music… while all being Americans.
And STILL the indigestible thing remains… the “different dreams” mentioned in GETTYSBURG. Confederate romantic spite toward univerisites, science and city-folk.
“I don't know. I don't know what will work. I don't know what can work”
Yes, because you have a good heart, but know nothing of history or the world.
Oh then there’s poor locum: “tissue of lies” = the vast body of repeatedly verified actual factual knowledge that’s ever-expanded by the very same competitive processes — competitive processes — that he was raised to believe in… and that he betrays every day with every oligarchy-sucking action and superstition embracing hate-thought.
J Thomas:
Again, why wouldn't Democrats want to change a system in which more people vote for them, but they lose anyway?
Well, it sounded to me like you were taking issue with "voting for whoever the Democrat is". If you weren't, then my bad.
But the fact that we treat elections as entertainment is a big part of the problem.
During the 2016 election, some CBS official opined that Trump may be bad for the country, but he's great for CBS (presumably by his entertainment value). I wonder if he still feels that way.
Oh then there’s poor locum: “tissue of lies”
He's protecting his copyright.
"The only method that works is some kind of universal cultural overlay - a “melting pot.”
I hope that can work. If it works then I'm all for it. I haven't seen the evidence yet, but it's worth a try.
"In just our lifetime we have seen one after another “goulash” culture like this - Lebanon, Bosnia, Rwanda - end generations of ethnic reciprocal co-habitation in spasms of genocide."
Yes. They had generations where it worked, and then in a fairly short time it stopped working. I would consider the possibility that the CIA etc have found effective techniques to make that fail. And we can only hope that nobody uses those techniques on us.
One of the concerns I have with your approach, is that I'm not sure I see how we can enforce it. If people in little cultural enclaves want to live by themselves, how do we force them not to? If we can't stop them, then it's moot whether it would be good for us to stop them.
On the other hand, maybe we can make American mass culture so inviting that pretty much everybody will want it. And people who reject it are at an economic disadvantage etc, so there are compelling reasons to at least learn to get along in it. Then you can flaunt your ethnic separateness and get applauded for it, and maybe eventually the cultural diversity will settle down to what the Irish-Americans have. Some Catholicism, occasionally drinking green beer etc.
I dunno. It's worth a try. To the extent that we can't do that, we can try to get lots of little ethnic groups to get along, as they did for many generations in other places. Or possibly nothing will work.
You seem totally certain you know what will work, when I don't see you have very good evidence. But I fully agree your approach is worth our best efforts.
"The Republican Party is so blatantly anti-democratic that accurately describing their voter suppression activities is considered a partisan attack."
Yes. If the pro-wrestling heel does something that's against the rules of the game, people will boo and cheer. Of course he did that, why would anybody expect him not to? He's a heel. It's part of the meta-game that he'll do that.
When people accept that winning is all that matters, then anything which hurts one party worse than it hurts the other one, is a considered a partisan attack. BECAUSE it hurt one party more than the other one.
So we get a whole lot of tu quoque. Like Trump did something bad but so did Obama, so that makes it OK. Republicans gerrymander but so do Democrats, so forget about it. Voter suppression on both sides, so it cancels out or something.
It's a side effect of the two-party system. Just ignore anything that both parties do wrong because you can't change it by voting for one instead of the other.
How quickly things change? Remember how Nancy Pelosi was portrayed as the scary example of far-left Democrats?
Emphasis mine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/the-squad-democrats.html
Similarly, Ms. Tlaib and Ms. Omar have called for President Trump’s impeachment and passionately advocated the rights of Palestinians, breaking with the more tactically conservative approach of the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, on both matters.
Both sides wanted to win WWII, and anything that hurt the other side was part of the war effort. Does that mean there was no difference between the sides, or that the effect of one side winning would be no different from that of the other side winning?
Increasing voter turnout apparently helps Democrats. Reducing voter involvement helps Republicans. Each side is going to prefer the actions which help itself, but if we're going to call ourselves a democracy with a straight face, the one that benefits from voter participation and the one that benefits from voter suppression are not morally equivalent. If more people want to vote for the other party than yours, the expected response is to do a better job of selling your policies or adjust your policies to be more broadly acceptable. Disenfranchising the voters who disagree with you is not just a different way of doing business.
"Both sides wanted to win WWII, and anything that hurt the other side was part of the war effort."
I'm having trouble parsing this. Of course both Democrats and Republicans wanted to win WWII. After Pearl Harbor it would have been political suicide not to.
"Disenfranchising the voters who disagree with you is not just a different way of doing business."
It looks to me like Republicans generally have accepted that it's just another usable tactic.
In the 2016 primaries, there were a lot of accusations by Sanders voters that they were getting disenfranchised too by Democrats. It seemed like Clinton Democrats tended to respond pretty much like Republicans. However, while I'm sure about the accusations, my memory could be playing tricks on me about Democrat responses. It could have been online, where sometimes Republicans would imitate Clinton Democrats trying to infuriate people. I could have given things their worst interpretation when more generous interpretations would give different interpretations.
I have the strong impression that it IS just part of how the business is done. But it sounds like the usual approach is to find people who are probably black or probably poor, and disenfranchise them on the assumption that they are more likely to vote Democrat. Democrats can't use that approach on Republicans because it's harder to identify people who are safe to disenfranchise who will probably vote Republican.
The story doesn't quite make sense for Bernie. Blacks were more likely to vote for Clinton anyway. But the Democratic Party could use its files that showed who contributed money to Bernie's campaign to decide who to throw out.
I would expect this to work better in solid red or blue states, where the voting registrars etc are more likely to all be with the same party. And that's where it would make the least difference in presidential elections, since the difference between winning 60:40 and 70:30 is zilch. But it can sometimes make a big difference.
I agree that it shouldn't be that way. And if it's true that both parties do it, that doesn't make it better.
"I will not take this too personal since I think you were mostly directing it at one of the other two people, but your 'yes all libertarians' covers me. So…" -Alfred
My point is you're not a libertarian, which you yourself admit later in your response Alfred. And if your viewpoint was a majority (or even strong minority) viewpoint in libertarianism, then I would not see libertarians as an existential threat.
But that's not where we are.
The Republicans are no longer the party of Lincoln.
The Democrats are no longer the party of small landed farmers.
And libertarians are *only* the party of protecting and increasing oligarch wealth.
Let's all deal with current realities, not some idealized version of self identity.
And yes I know what happened to the Whigs and how the Republican party was once a third party. But that was a phase change between two separate versions of two- party rule, not a viable third party.
Republicans weren't a viable third party in 1852. They killed off the number two party and took its place in a two party system.
Maybe libertarians will replace the GOP as David has suggested. Or maybe the Dems may be so dominant that they will split into two factions.
But political power in America (absent ranked choice voting), will continue to be a duopoly. The GOP are trying (succeeding) in making it a monopoly but that is not a stable state either. If the GOP succeeds in making America a white Christian nation by killing everyone else off in one big orgy of lynching, then they will split into two parties over the divinity of some deceased football coach, or warring factions of idiot Trump spawn, or some such nonsense.
Ranked choice voting would break the duopoly, which is why neither party will make it nationally available. Instituting it nationwide could only be done via constitutional amendment.
Was my analogy really so opaque? Both the Allies and the Axis wanted to win WWII. In that way, they were equivalent. But I think it would be a mistake to think that if the Nazi side had won, life would be substantially the same as it was with the Allies winning. I think it's the same with Democrats and Republicans respectively. Both sides want to win, but one wants to do so in order to use its powers for good, while the other just wants power. I know that's an oversimplification, but it's more true than false.
Exactly why they're un-American traitors.
In the 2016 primaries, there were a lot of accusations by Sanders voters that they were getting disenfranchised too by Democrats. It seemed like Clinton Democrats tended to respond pretty much like Republicans.
IIRC, the complaint from Bernie is that the DNC was rigging the rules, the debate schedule, and such to favor Hillary, not that likely Bernie voters were being purged from the rolls or that there weren't enough working voting machines in precincts likely to go for Bernie. Ok, there was some complaint about New York state's "closed primary" in which only registered Democrats are allowed to vote, and you have to be registered for over a year. But New York has been that way forever. It may feel unfair, but it wasn't created specifically for the 2016 contest.
There was also outrage being prepared should the superdelegates take a popular victory away from Bernie and give it to Hillary, but that didn't happen either. Hillary won the regular delegates.
It's also somewhat apples-and-oranges to compare decisions about who can vote in a party primary--which has generally been up to the parties at the state level--to decisions about which American citizens will be allowed to have their votes count in a national election.
Well, they could try to disenfranchise voters in Wyoming, Nebraska, and pretty much all of the former Confederacy. But since Democrats don't control the levers of government in those places, that's an exercise in fanciful thinking. In California, Illinois, and New York, for example, why would Democrats need to suppress the vote? They do just fine with the vote as it is.
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I don't agree that both sides do "it". At least, not nearly to the same extent. There are isolated outposts of Democratic gerrymandering, but it's an overarching Republican strategy. There are no cases of Democratic voter suppression. The equivalent charge against Democrats is that they let non-citizens cast votes by the millions, but no one who has investigated such charges, including Trump flunky Kris Kobach, have been able to produce evidence of any more than a handful of illegal votes, and some of those were Trump supporters who voted in two states.
Yes, both sides want to win, and both sides cross lines to do so, but that does not imply that rule by one side is equal to rule by the other. There's an episode of the original Star Trek which I like to refer to in which an alien sets up a contest between "good" and "evil" in order to understand the difference. At the end, after Kirk's side has won, the alien remarks that he saw no difference in how the two sides fought.
By way of explanation, Kirk asks what the alien offered the bad guys if they had won. The reply was that they were offered what they wanted most--power. Kirk then injects, "You offered me the lives of my crew."
matthew:
Not the Republicans?
expanding on this point:
As former radio host Norman Goldman liked to point out at the time, the more progressive side of the Democratic Party was gaining ground, but had not yet become a majority within the party. It was more like 55% favored Hillary and 45% favored Bernie. Over time, the Bernites would probably take over, but their time had not yet come in 2016. They'd make a good showing, but in a contest with only one winner, they weren't going to be it.
The gist of the complaints at that point were essentially, "The system is rigged because we didn't win." In that way, the Bernie side (rather than the Hillary side) were acting like Republicans "I'll accept the legitimacy of the election if I win."
If Democrats who support a particular candidate really think there is "no difference" between other Democratic candidates and Trump, and they vote accordingly, then they deserve four more years of this. Unfortunately, they're sticking me with those same four years, and I don't deserve that.
David Smelser said...
matthew: And libertarians are *only* the party of protecting and increasing oligarch wealth.
Larry Hart: Not the Republicans?
David Smelser: Republicans I know are protecting oligarchs and racists. The libertarians I know are only protecting the oligarchs.
" a “melting pot.”
I hope that can work. If it works then I'm all for it. I haven't seen the evidence yet, but it's worth a try." And "ou seem totally certain you know what will work, when I don't see you have very good evidence."
CRIMINY! The utter blindness of so many bright and big-souled liberals to actually look in a mirror and ask what they are looking at is appalling. Sanctimony -- maybe stupidity too -- blinds them. They cannot even see what a miracle -- common as dirt -- they are.
"Both the Allies and the Axis wanted to win WWII."
Ah. But while they both talked about total war, they agreed to rules of war which they followed. They agreed that biological and chemical warfare changed the nature of warfare to the point that they didn't want to do it. And they didn't.
Both sides stockpiled chemical weapons in case the other side used them, so they could use them back. But neither used them on the western front. At his war crimes trial Goering said the USA was stupid to honor that agreement. The Germans developed a great big fuel shortage to the point that they transported supplies to the front mostly with horses. And they never developed an adequate gas mask for a horse. He said the war would have ended much sooner if we had killed their horses.
Meanwhile we worked at creating nuclear weapons with the intention that we would nuke Germany. We started with the idea that we had to do it before they did it. When we found out that they had give up on nukes and were trying to build reactors to get electricity, we kept right on going. There's every reason to think we would have nuked Berlin etc except they surrendered first.
The Japanese military's logistics broke down to the point that they couldn't have chemical weapons ready in case we used them. But we at least mostly didn't do it, even though we knew they could not retaliate. I've heard about only a few example, notably Iwo Jima where they were holed up in caves etc. In practice, it worked about as well to stick a flamethrower into the entrance and burn up enough air that they suffocated, as to use the poison gas. Probably about as humane, too.
While both sides talked like victory was all that mattered, in practice they didn't act that way. They had scruples, and not just because of world public opinion.
Of course, they both were doing airstrikes on cities under the others' control. (Like, the USA bombed French cities.) They didn't have it all thought out.
@J Thomas on WWII,
Ok, now I can't tell whether we're agreeing or disagreeing. :)
My point, reinforced with the Star Trek example, is that "Both sides are equally willing to win a war (or an election)" does not imply "It's just as well after the war (or election) whether one side or the other has won."
"IIRC, the complaint from Bernie is that the DNC was rigging the rules, the debate schedule, and such to favor Hillary, not that likely Bernie voters were being purged from the rolls or that there weren't enough working voting machines in precincts likely to go for Bernie. Ok, there was some complaint about New York state's "closed primary" in which only registered Democrats are allowed to vote, and you have to be registered for over a year."
I kept seeing reports from people who said they were Democrats who had been dropped from the voter rolls before their primary. They recommended that everybody check and try to get it straightened out they were dropped, if possible. I saw the complaints but I didn't see reliable statistics on it.
"In California, Illinois, and New York, for example, why would Democrats need to suppress the vote?"
Yes, exactly. And in deep Red states, why would the Republicans need to suppress the vote?
It's mostly swing states where it would matter. Particularly swing states that used to be owned by one side, which still controls the levers of power although they can't command a large majority of votes any more.
"Both sides are equally willing to win a war (or an election)" does not imply "It's just as well after the war (or election) whether one side or the other has won."
I certainly agree with that.
Similarly, if both use dishonest methods to win elections, that doesn't say which of them is better or whether one is better.
For that matter, if only one of them uses dishonest methods to win elections, that could still turn out to be the better one to run the government. It's kind of a bad sign that they're dishonest. But what practicing US government hasn't been?
"CRIMINY! The utter blindness of so many bright and big-souled liberals to actually look in a mirror and ask what they are looking at is appalling. Sanctimony -- maybe stupidity too -- blinds them. They cannot even see what a miracle -- common as dirt -- they are."
You are pretty weak at logic and evidence. Probably you have noticed that in politics people tend not to be convinced by logic or evidence. You might figure, given that, why bother?
Something about that bothers me. But I can't provide you with evidence that you'd get better results if you had evidence etc.
Some of those "deep Red states" are deep Red only because of voter suppression.
Georgia had a squeaker of a governor's races recently. The Republican managed to win a very close race, only because he was the sitting Secretary of State--in charge of his own election.
Point being, voter suppression is an essential strategy toward keeping power in the states they already control.
North Carolina and Wisconsin come immediately to mind. Democrats took back the governor's mansions in 2018, so the Republican legislatures stripped powers from the governor, and the lame duck Republican governor eagerly signed those bills. In Wisconsin, the legislature had the balls to admit that their own Governor Scott Walker had been allowed to use way too much power, so (now that a Democrat would hold that office), it was time to balance the scales again.
I don't concede that both sides do use dishonest methods to win elections. I concede that both sides are biased in favor of stuff that favors their own winning, but that doesn't mean their actions are dishonest. Publicizing something that Donald Trump actually said, but which makes him look really bad may be called a partisan attack, but there's nothing dishonest about it.
In my state that is not allowed.
Well… that just makes it a bit harder. The same used to be true in California until a voter revolt took place. It is hard work getting such an event to do useful work on behalf of liberty, but it CAN be done. So… I do not accept that it cannot be done in your state.
Rats can be taught despair. When they are, they do not fight to get out of a barrel of water before drowning. It is called ‘Learned Helplessness.’ Have you learned that lesson? If so, I invite you to come visit places where we have not. 8)
Sorry, but I do not buy it. I am a libertarian AND a classical liberal and I am not mistaken in identifying myself that way. When I meet with the local Libertarians, they do not bat an eyelash when I identify as a classical liberal who feels the Libertarians better represent my ideals even if some of the party members themselves are piss-poor representatives of those ideals. The county party leadership gets it and wants to focus on local politics while the rank-n-file members are bit squirrely. I AM both and fit in fine with the local leadership.
Looks to me like your definition for libertarian is circular and fails the reality sniff test. I do not think Jerry would qualify as a libertarian by your definition and I know he qualifies much more than I do.
I agree with you about duopoly up to a point. Third parties are historically capable of pushing party platform planks better than they are pushing candidates. If a Libertarian plank catches on with the wider public, one of the other parties can adopt it as their own and beat the rush of people leaving the theater. I think it odd that the modern GOP has not done that to deprive Democrats of their Blue Dogs. To me, it seems like they became paralyzed and then consumed from within by Confederates in 2016 and almost consumed by Ron Paul’s folks in 2012. [I suspect the modern GOP is weak like the Whigs were, but I would bet on the Democrats splitting then us returning to duopoly before I would bet on Libertarians stepping up. I would be okay with that too and go join the Democratic faction that seemed most fiscally sane. Classical liberals are not fringe nuts. Y’all need us to be your sensible opponents and dance partners in governance.]
I know you have direct experience with Libertarians. I will not make again the mistaken assumptions I adopted last time we talked about this. However, I think you have fallen into a circular definition for us that can only be true if a large fraction of us who self-identify as libertarians are confused. I put to you that there are more of us than there are of you. While your definition is a good description of some of us, it fails for the broader group. Most of us are not fanboys of oligarchs. Most of us are not ending the ecosystem we all rely upon to live. It is likely that we CAN work with your allies on some things… if you can stomach it.
Over time, the Bernites would probably take over, but their time had not yet come in 2016
I think history will show otherwise. Bernie’s folks looked strong and appeared to be growing toward dominance, but from what I saw in the California primary that was an illusion. The truth was that his opposition within the Democratic Party had not fully organized yet. Once they perceived the threat, they did just that. It was the oddest thing I had seen in years to have Democrats knocking at my door seeking my vote for Clinton in the primary, but that is what they did.
I think they are going to learn a tough lesson in this election cycle. The progressives are a minority presence among Democrats. Still. They have not persuaded the others under the umbrella with respect to certain social policies. I think we can all agree to smile and be friendly to get rid of Trump, but that will not be evidence of a progressive mandate. Maybe by 2024 they will be a majority, but they had better take care not to create that majority by kicking otherwise useful allies to the curb. It does not help to be a majority in a minority party. [Every Libertarian can testify to this.] They could lose and blame those otherwise useful but pissed-off allies.
It's become quite clear that JT isn't arguing in good faith. Accordingly, he becomes only the third apparently-regular here to go under the shroud.
Early in this discussion there was a comment about the GOP "throwing Trump under the bus"
The "Scapegoat" scenario
IMHO this is the biggest danger to the survival of the USA - you guys have GOT to nail Trump to the GOP
He must become the GOP's albatross - NOT it's Scapegoat
Trump is just a symptom of the GOP - you need to get the GOP out of power for a generation
I am something of an expert liar, at least according to the comedic attestations of Larry & David, and what follows is my expert opinion:
Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.
By his own admission, David wants to "Make Star Trek happen" and, to this end, he talks incessantly about YOUR VALUES -- the ideal of a better world without prejudice and injustice and greedy inequality -- a mostly religious ideal which was instilled and even "infected" (David's words again) into your minds by repetitive Hollyweird propaganda.
Admittedly, these are NOT "your values" but rather the values of the dominant establishment which, rather than being mere falsehoods, are DAMNED LIES designed to manufacture your cooperation, subjugation, submission & consent.
So how are things working out for you?
Did you find social acceptance, worldly riches, job satisfaction, a life of ease, carnal bliss, truth, justice, a fair-level playing field, strength through diversity or unconditional love yet?
Most likely, you didn't. Most likely, you won't -- ever -- because there's no happy ending for you. Not because you're the exception but because you're the rule & happy endings are fantasy.
You're just another stupid sucker, a wage slave in harness, living hand-to-mouth with barely $400 USD in the bank in case of future emergency, who has traded your past-present-future for a handful of magic beans (or its La-La-Land equivalent) & squandered your existence for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises:
LIE LIE LIE, LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE, LIE LIE LIE.
Just one lie after another, repeated endlessly, to mimic one convincing truth, in order to compel you to sit quietly, respect authority & keep your desks tidy.
Back jibber-drool, caper-caper, jibber-jabber froth and fall and crawll and droooooooooooool.
While he cannot conceive an remote notion of 3D or zero-sum, his incapacity is not culpable. The reflex to abase himself before plantation lords is (alas) human.
Not so his betrayal of the word "competition," which is supposed to underly his opposition to socialism. Every group he froths against has earned its way in the world, not as a unified cabal, but as a loose market or arena of competitors keeping each other accountable by endlessly striving to discover and demonstrate more evidence-supported facts.
Some individual scientists/teachers/journalists etc are corrupt. All fallible. Together they created a mighty and wonderful civilization that can barely blink at the glory to come. The first civilization of (some) hope that wastes much less talent and can aspire to the stars.
And if the ingrate thinks I am still talking at/about him, he should go back and stop at the 1st sentence. This was just a launching point to wax poetical to you others... homo sapiens... who share the ability to look up.
Alfred Differ:
I think it odd that the modern GOP has not done that to deprive Democrats of their Blue Dogs. To me, it seems like they became paralyzed and then consumed from within by Confederates in 2016
Before Trump took over, the modern GOP was paralyzed and consumed by their donors. It's no surprise post-Citizens-United that politicians care more about serving their donors than their constituents, but it's a little surprising that they seem to think that what their constituents want really is the same thing that their donors want. They really seemed to think that the tax giveaway to the rich was something that would gain them votes in 2018.
After the loss of Mitt Romney to President Obama, the party had a choice to make between reaching out to a bigger tent or doubling down on emotional appeals to old, aggrieved rural whites. Trump took them so far that latter direction that there is no chance of them appealing to anyone else. Thus, they are now the party of the Confederacy because that's all they've got.
duncan cairncross:
I thought we had, beginning in 2006.
If it makes you feel any better, they are out of power for a generation in Illinois and California. But I can't exactly expect 33 states to secede from the Union. In what passes for hope in the sad state this universe has become, I'm thinking The Rapture might take them all up, so the rest of us can recover in peace.
For a dose of space news instead of politics…
SpaceX recently filed an environmental assessment to address construction plans at pad LC-39A related to their upcomging ‘Starship’ launch vehicle. In that document, they had to estimate their launch cadence there and at LC-40. They said by 2024 they could be launching up to 20/year from LC-39A and 50/year from LC-40. These might be upper bounds for the sake of the assessment, but they correlate with launch requirements for their Starlink constellation (11,800 satellites) using Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Starship launches would displace the other two launch vehicles because the next vehicle should have a larger payload capacity, so actual cadence might be lower.
If they come close to these numbers, the challenge will be finding enough customers with payloads ready to fly. They will fly their own Starlink satellites, but there could be a lot of excess lift capacity available for sale. Either they will fly like airlines with partial loads or they are going to get creative with prices. [I am betting on a bit of both.]
If you want to do something in space that might matter for humanity, you might soon be able to assume the existence of excess lift capacity at an affordable price. Got any ideas?
…and back to politics.
The 2012 election is probably still too close for people to parse what happened, but I suspect historians will point at it as the first one where the GOP establishment actually faltered. The loss in the 2008 election almost did not happen. The financial collapse changed things quickly and predictably. The 2012 election, though, almost saw a successful rebellion against the establishment. I do not think people realize just how close Ron Paul came to grasping control. He had his grassroots operatives infiltrated where they were not expected and party ‘bosses’ had to do some quick footwork to deal with them around convention time. Some were still in place later as possible rogue Electors had the November election gone a little different.
Both large parties cater to their big donors and this fact ticks off rank-n-file members. Dollars are influence. In 2012, though, we almost saw a successful rebellion in the GOP. In 2016, a new rebellion occurred and succeeded. None of us see Trump as a traditional Republican, right? He’s the guy who capitalized on what was already happening… with the Russians tipping it just far enough for him to win.
I think historians will argue the GOP establishment was wounded in 2012 and defeated in 2016. The party that bears the name today is the zombie remnant that does not quite realize it is dead and re-animated by a populist parasitical fungi.
The Democrats risk a similar fate if they are not careful. Populism is damn dangerous. It is a necessary consequence of Government By The People, but it burns down institutions if allowed to run unchecked. It gives us Presidents like Donald Trump and Theodore Roosevelt. Both dangerous for different reasons. Both capable of setting fires.
Revised version:
Again. My fear re Trump is not him being jettisoned by the GOP establishment. They are too covered with kowtowing slime.. Not even Romney can distance himself... though I sniff the wind and suspect he may be up to trying something, along with an array of recent resignations. We should start seeing signs some months before the primaries.
No, Two Scoops is most useful to Putin and Murdoch as a martyr. Which is why he should not eat anything offered by his commie despot pals. And God Bless the US Secret Service. May he live on, cauterized, and sputter and spume till the top 8Chan conspiracy theory is that he was a Clinton-plant to wreck the GOP. And then maybe a well-timed(!) impeachment could bring him within reach of the new Senate on December 2020. I don't mind 2 weeks of a thoroughly gelded cauterized President Pence, so long as it is followed by a cloroxing of Washington.
Summer fantasy.
BTW: Fred Trump Jr. died of alcoholism, leaving two children who were mostly cut out of Fred Sr.’s will in 2000. Perhaps an oversight. But when Fred Jr.'s son contested the will, Donald Trump retaliated by cutting off medical benefits for Fred III's critically ill infant son.
What will he do to the rest of us, if he feels “betrayed”?
And how many ways can Two Scoops be opposite-to-Jesus, yet still hossanahed as the instrument of heaven?
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13098008/fred-trump-jr-addiction-history/
"I don't concede that both sides do use dishonest methods to win elections."
I do concede that they tend not to use the same dishonest methods.
They tend to use what they think benefits them the most. With the war analogue, in WWII after a certain point the Germans mostly couldn't do strategic bombing, and the western allies could. We had not technically agreed that bombing civilians was a war crime, and when the target size we could reliably hit was a city.... The kind of vote suppression which gets discussed would tend to benefit Republicans more than Democrats. Easier to deniably suppress poor and black votes than Republican votes.
"Publicizing something that Donald Trump actually said, but which makes him look really bad may be called a partisan attack, but there's nothing dishonest about it."
Agreed. People who are so partisan that they don't care what the truth is except for the tactical questions of how to effectively use lies, how to keep from being hurt by their own lies, and how to hurt their opponents for the opponents' lies, are kind of scary.
I thought that the pizzagate stuff was dishonest, though I didn't research it carefully. Now with Epstein it looks like there may have been a kernel of truth in it. Probably spanning both parties somewhat, which doesn't make it better.
Don Macleay said...
Well, it all makes sense as long as we don't talk about capitalism. We are talking about the United States, no? Those homeless camps under every overpass in my town did not start under Trump and won't end with a President Warren.
Oh, and Let's gloss over our bloated military and it's real role in the world. I am sure the people of Yemen and all the other places we bomb, strike or help bomb and strike will feel better knowing that a Democrat is back in charge and that the person killing their children can be in a same sex marriage.
Your argument is selective by what it calls progress and what it sweeps under tge carpet. Clever, but not wise.
"It's no surprise post-Citizens-United that politicians care more about serving their donors than their constituents, but it's a little surprising that they seem to think that what their constituents want really is the same thing that their donors want."
Individual human beings first make their choices, and afterward they come up with ways to explain them with language.
Maybe it's the same with political parties. First they do what their donors want, because -- donors. Afterward they figure out the best-sounding explanation they can come up with.
What an utter pile. "Sigh! Okay I'll admit Democrats are less blatant or deliberately evil. But it's all the same cesspool."
That was an accurate paraphrasing of the above utter, utter bullshit.
Where there is pain and injustice, there is a spectrum of democrats ranging from"let's study or do a little" all the way to large numbers who are incensed by the injustice and eager to address it with vigor. That spectrum is NOT 'the same" in any quantitative or qualitative way to the cruelly evil other side.
Likewise cheating. You have the gall to say that Debbie Wasserman Schultz's tepid-slight leans toward popular and effective established politicians was even on the same planet as gerrymandering, voter suppression, closing DMV offices, buying Russia-linked no-audit voting machines etc?
A great many dems refuse superpac funding though rich donors then channel it thru DNC pacs. Bad? Sure. Now show me ONE dem who would not vote for bills slashing the flow of dark money into politics. Go ahead. One. There is a spectrum, but ALL of it is light years away from the Republican spectrum.
Again, nearly ALL dems, even blue dogs, want every item of my 29 listed consensus goals. You may want a lot more, fine! But stop weaseling reasons to sanctimoniously whine "same" crap. These aren't normal times. Don the blue or don't. Stop whining that Ulysses Grant and Sherman want the same things you want, but in the wrong order.
Hey JT have you ever met a politician? A state assemblywoman or congressperson? All of them corrupt!!! Yeah, right.
Ivan.
The 2012 election, though, almost saw a successful rebellion against the establishment. I do not think people realize just how close Ron Paul came to grasping control. He had his grassroots operatives infiltrated where they were not expected and party ‘bosses’ had to do some quick footwork to deal with them around convention time
I seem to remember things like the media reporting on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th place winners of the Iowa caucuses, and simply not mentioning Ron Paul at 3rd. Does that sound familiar?
It's amazing in retrospect how complicit the mainstream media are in the machinations of the two parties establishments.
None of us see Trump as a traditional Republican, right? He’s the guy who capitalized on what was already happening… with the Russians tipping it just far enough for him to win.
And yet, the reason the Republican Party, including the former never-Trumpers have fallen in line is because he's able to get them their tax cuts and right-wing judges. He's not a traditional Republican, but he's enabling the traditional Republicans more than they ever could enable themselves. The evangelicals support him for similar reasons, not because of what he is, but because of what they get out of the unholy deal.
Heh. I won't stop you when you're on a roll.
The Democrats risk a similar fate if they are not careful. Populism is damn dangerous. It is a necessary consequence of Government By The People, but it burns down institutions if allowed to run unchecked. It gives us Presidents like Donald Trump and Theodore Roosevelt.
Or Adolf Hitler. "Do you still think you can control them?
But at least JT has a soul and passion and appears sapient and human. Notice that "Alex K" chickened out, after I responded to his drive-by?
"SpaceX recently filed an environmental assessment to address construction plans at pad LC-39A related to their upcomging ‘Starship’ launch vehicle."
We need to carefully assess the effect of rocket fuel on the ionosphere etc.
The solid-fuel shuttle launches put a ton of aluminum into the atmosphere each time. Nobody knows what effect it had, but there weren't all that many shuttle launches. There were lots of other rocket waste products too.
SpaceX probably does a lot better using basicly gasoline and LOX, but it's still a lot of weird oxidation products.
Liquid hydrogen would probably be better. Just water. A whole lot of launches means a whole lot of water added to the ionosphere.
We really need to study the probable effects before we do a whole lot of this. We might find that it has beneficial effects. Other things equal, the smaller the effect the more likely that it will be an improvement, up to around 50%. Regardless, we ought to study it carefully.
It makes sense that they do that, but they have to be willfully delusional to imagine that the resulting publicity is good for them.
Donor money is helpful to a campaign in the sense that it lets them spread their message. But there are limits to how sucky the message before spreading it doesn't help. For example, Donald Trump could spend a trillion dollars in advertising, and there would still be a 0% chance I would vote for him. The parties forget this fact at their peril.
"they are now the party of the Confederacy because that's all they've got."
They also have all the voters who have decided that the Democrats are so bad that they have to vote for the only effective alternative.
Consider the possibility that it is a dilemma. That both parties are so bad that they are too bad to vote for. Just as a possibility.
If it was that way, some people would look at the Republicans and see how terrible they are. They might at that point decide that the GOP is so awful that they have to vote against them, and the only way to effectively vote against them is VBNMW (Vote Blue No Matter Who). They try to ignore how bad the Democrats are, because they know the Republicans are terrible so they do't want to hear it.
And of course some people would look at the Democrats and see how terrible they are, and vote GOP with exactly parallel feelings.
Some would look at both parties and reject them both, typically choosing not to vote because whatever they do one of the duopoly will win.
Doesn't that get pretty much the results we have? The only way it fails is that by objective fact one party is evil and the other party is great, with basicly nothing wrong with it. But apart from that, doesn't my scenario fit the results we see?
"It makes sense that they do that, but they have to be willfully delusional to imagine that the resulting publicity is good for them."
A man goes out for an evening with the boys. He comes home at 4 AM, drunk and broke. He tries to come up with an explanation for the wife. He has to be delusional to think his explanation is GOOD for him, but still he would rather have the best explanation he can come up with than nothing.
"Donor money is helpful to a campaign in the sense that it lets them spread their message. But there are limits to how sucky the message before spreading it doesn't help."
Donor money is helpful because it lets them meet payroll. It's better to lose the election and meet payroll, than not be able to pay the professionals.
Spacex and Amazon are switching to Methane + Lox, which basically gives you 2 parts water and one part CO2. Just as JT is unable to look in a mirror and see an answer to his question about America's soul, he's unable to see how vastly spaceflight accelerated human planetary awareness and the sciences that make make us better managers... let alone the possibility that we might move industry and spectacular wealth generation off planet, rendering poverty and mining both as distant memories.
There appears to be a fine and intelligent person here, who is capable of pondering things at a much higher level.
Most people think evolutionism began with Darwin, including,
unfortunately, many G-d fearing, Bible believing Christians. However,
they are wrong. Evolutionism is at least as old as Aristotle. The
theory of the round earth is the true foundation of evolutionism.
Are you skeptical? Well here is the proof. It lies in its moral
implications. By encouraging men to think the earth to be the same
shape as the moon, it naturally orients them toward the anus. This
explains the explosion in anal erotics throughout the Greco-Roman
world. This is also why anal erotics were not completely eliminated
even in Medieval Christendom. Church tradition had failed to come to
terms with the true shape of the earth. Only a handful of spiritually
gifted saints kept the truth alive.
The importance of anal erotics to Satan is more than even most G-d
fearing, Bible believing Christians can imagine. Anal erotics are used
as part of satanic liturgy to summon demons. Who knows how many demons
have been inadvertently summoned the continual stuffing anuses from
the ancient Greeks until today? G-d is not mocked and he will have his
vengeance! Beware!
Moving on with our history, Copernicus laid the next great stage of
Evolutionism. He was forced to flee his pious homeland of Poland
because of his known anally erotic behavior, and he would up in Italy
where such things could be hidden. He even invented heliocentricism to
justify it. Now, not only is the earth devoid of unique shape, but
devoid of unique place. This generated the idea that is of no
consequence what hole you stuff it in, since all places are relative.
The rise of anal erotics during the Renaissance as a result is a
matter of record.
Kepler gave us evolutionism's next leap. His teacher, Tycho Brahe, was
a defender of geocentric truth and was disturbed by his student's
inordinate interest in his anus that he refused to let him see his
data that he wanted to use to refute the evil Copernicus. However,
upon his death Kepler collected it and used it to pervert the truth
even more. It is not merely that the earth is not centrally located,
it moves crookedly! Do we have to even ponder the implications of such
a doctrine?
Darwin merely added the finishing touches by abandoning the theory of
intelligent design made it impossible to distinguish one hole for
another, as I have expounded upon in antecedent posts. This was merely
the capstone. Unfortunately, G-d fearing Bible believing Christians
only attack the capstone, and not the foundation. Tell me, brothers in
Christ, can you knock down a building merely by knocking off the radio
antenna on top of it? No, you can not! The edifice of evolutionism
must be brought down from its foundation!
Please delete and ban Cyrill Arsehole Landau - his postings are simply beyond the pale
TCB said...
"The evolutionist David Hume was known to be a very fat man. Is there any
doubt as to the reason why?"
This is top-drawer stuff, but I don't know whether the Onion is hiring.
I have noted the irony.
My own opinion is that the "reasons" Democrats are too bad to vote for are largely made up stuff, like "Obama wants to take all your guns away", or "Democrats are in favor of crime". But I do understand that Republican voters think their alternative facts are just as legitimate as anyone else's.
They're mistaken, but I understand why they think that way.
To that last point...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/08/opinion/sunday/party-polarization-quiz.html
Voters today like their own party less than ever, but are motivated by their even stronger dislike of the other party. “It doesn’t paint a pretty picture,” Dr. Wronski said.
Stating the obvious, from the same article as above...
The number of religious white Americans is plummeting. In the long term, that spells disaster for Republicans. “I don’t think the Republican Party right now has a sustainable business model,” said Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University.
The party knows this. Or at least it should. After Republicans lost the 2012 election, the party leadership commissioned a report on how to move forward. One answer was clear: appeal to nonwhite and less conservative voters. But in the years since, the Republicans — led by Mr. Trump — have doubled down on white identity politics and seem to believe that their path to a majority is through gerrymandering, voter suppression or attempts to skew the census.
That discharge from Cyril was pretty funny. At least the few lines I skimmed. I hope that wasn't meant to be serious. I hate to think of such a fucked up mind out there alone with no help.
"Spacex and Amazon are switching to Methane + Lox, which basically gives you 2 parts water and one part CO2."
That's an improvement. It's still worth careful study to see how much of this we can afford to put into our ionosphere.
"Just as JT is unable to look in a mirror and see an answer to his question about America's soul, he's unable to see how vastly spaceflight accelerated human planetary awareness and the sciences that make make us better managers..."
??? Space is obviously valuable to us. And we must also look at what it does to the environment in case too much of it would hurt us.
Maybe the amount that would hurt is is more than we'll ever do. Maybe moderate amounts of water etc in the ionosphere are beneficial. We need to study this before we expand into what could be too much.
"After Republicans lost the 2012 election, the party leadership commissioned a report on how to move forward. One answer was clear: appeal to nonwhite and less conservative voters. But [....]"
It looks like in the medium run, the GOP is bound to lose voter share.
This provides two opportunities. Maybe the Democrats will also lose voter share, to the point that third parties have a chance.
Maybe progressive Democrats will split off to make a new party as the Republican Party dwindles away.
Either way offers hope.
I have a limited tolerance for the quite common attitude that the Democratic Party is to blame for Trump and all the bad stuff the Republican Party has accomplished in recent decades because they couldn't convince enough people, or make themselves appealing enough to enough people, to vote for them. At what point do voters share responsibility? At what point do we decide that individuals share some responsibility for how susceptible they are to propaganda, peer pressure, con-artist tactics, etc? At what point should individuals share some responsibility for their ability to assess reality with a certain degree of accuracy? At what point should individuals share responsibility for a certain degree of humility in their assuredness of the righteousness of their ideological views? This grade A Prime Cluster-Fuck we find ourselves in right now is every bit as much on the heads of the voters as it is on the dirty politicians.
@Darrell E,
That's true. In fact, the biggest reason I felt disheartened after the 2016 election was not that Trump himself would be president, but that so many of my fellow Americans felt this to be a good thing.
The Republican Party loses voter share in the country as a whole, but elections are generally state-wide or even more local. Even the presidential election is really a state-by-state election for the Electoral College. And both the EC and the US Senate are heavily skewed in favor of small, rural states, in which Republicans are not losing voter share.
You made a point earlier that both parties' voters may perceive the party opposite as being so egregious that they must vote for their own party's candidate, no matter how flawed that candidate might be. It seems to me that that attitude can possibly reach a tipping point, at which your own side becomes so obviously bad that (per Monty Python) even you have to stand up and take notice. That might be an opportunity for seismic shifts and realignments, in which one party's "safe" districts become suddenly in play. If it can happen in Orange County (California), it can happen anywhere.
Yes, me too. I was seriously depressed that enough of the people in my society were either gullible enough, cynical enough or immoral enough to have voted for Trump. I saw it coming by a couple of months prior but my wife was caught by surprise. She damn near gave up on the US and it's still kind of iffy these days.
Re: dumb voters
Don't despair, and definitely don't give up on people. It doesn't take much to turn them into scientifically literate citizens (it's what I've been doing for over a decade). Perhaps the secret is to stop trying to convince them that they'd agree with you if only they weren't so thick. Having spent a career in AI, I can tell you that the least among homo sapiens is vastly superior to the greatest among supercomputers. And, as Galileo said, everyone can learn something from anyone else (working on my paraphrasing skills, Dr. Brin :)
Also, we'll need all hands on deck to get to the stars; a divided and suicidal species will never make it. Even Confederates might help. The Virginia and the Hunley were quite innovative. Let's see if they can create something for all mankind.
"I have a limited tolerance for the quite common attitude that the Democratic Party is to blame for Trump and all the bad stuff the Republican Party has accomplished in recent decades because they couldn't convince enough people, or make themselves appealing enough to enough people, to vote for them. At what point do voters share responsibility?"
I like to make a distinction between blame and responsibility.
You take responsibility for your own failure to get what you want. You look for ways to do better.
You blame other people when they don't do what you want. If you blame and shame them enough, maybe next time they will do what you want in the hope that you will stop blaming them.
Democrats can take responsibility for their own mistakes etc. Better not to beat yourselves up over it, just look for ways to do better.
Or you can blame voters, and/or Russians, and/or Greens, and Wikileaks, and GOP dirty tricks, and campaign finance laws, and Clinton, and the DNC, and the education system, and the mass media,and so on.
I don't blame the Democratic Party. They are only an obstacle for me to overcome. They have no responsibility to do what I want. They are controlled by a few people who have the rules set up so they can stay in control. Not my problem. I'm not a Democrat any more.
I was all ready to get upset that the money I donated to Sanders was going to help pay for the Clinton campaign. Then I looked up the numbers. Unless there's stuff hidden keeper in the numbers than the party website shows, most of the Sanders money got spent before the convention, and he was allowed to keep some of it. Hardly more than 1% went to Clinton's campaign. Not worth getting upset about.
It just does not make sense for me to blame the Democratic Party for being the Democratic Party, any more than you'd blame a rattlesnake for being a rattlesnake or a hyena for being a hyena. I can predict what they will do, and imagine consequences, but they have no responsibility to me. I might as well blame the GOP or the CIA or whoever.
I don't see how ranked choice voting gets rid of the duopoly.
RCV is just a fancy way to get 50%+1 vote. We still have winner take all elections. And any 3rd party that can get 50%+1 isn't really a minority party. At best RCV with winner take all elections helps transition from one pair of parties in a duopoly to another pair of parties.
If you want 3rd party participation, I think to need to find a way for minority parties to get a seat at the table. Either parliamentary system or ranked choice with multi winner districts.
As for who Stein and Johnson voters would have voted for, the woman who sat next to me at Bernie Sanders town hall in Vista, CA earlier this week said she voted for Johnson in 2016 because she wanted a 3rd party candidate to attend the presidential debates in 2020. So while it is only a single datapoint, it is enough to disprove the hypothesis that all Johnson voters are conservative.
DSmelser Ranked Choice Voting lets the first round reflect the voters’ preference and sentiment, freed of any fear that the candidate they hate most will win because of that first choice. It would then become clear that say 25% of Hillary voters actually wanted the Green person. That would scare the dems into paying more heed to greens, or else it would give greenies much more cred the next time round. It’s how to grow a party WHILE letting voters avoid their worst nightmare.
When forced to reconsider, JT can be cogent. Of course we should fund studies that question our assumptions such as the notion that the value derived from space activities far outweighs the environmental negatives. That is a natural part of the adversarial-competitive truth seeking process I talk about all the time. A process that is vastly more important than “liberalism.” Indeed, 90% of the real justification for liberalism is the way these adversarial-competitive fact-seeking processes utterly demolished age-old reflexes of racism, sexism, homophobia and nativism that had crippled us through massive waste of talent.
So yes, allocation of resources to impudent research is essential… as it is to subject impudent research to massive double-checking, since impudent-passion can make some “research” tendentious. So far, I have seen no strong evidence that we should shut down air travel or space endeavors to save the planet.
What I HAVE seen is a sudden surge in “eat-less-meat” memes pouring across media, of late. I had predicted this, but only in the 2020s. Can it be because of the sudden surge in Beyond-Impossible alternatives? If earlier than expected miracles (like the white light LED bulb’s plummet in price) keep coming, we may stand a chance.
JT edges ever closer to the light. In fact, the GOP must be utterly crushed. The dems must overwhelmingly pass my 29 consensus items, then withstand the undead elephant’s final counter spasm… and only then contemplate PERHAPS DELIBERATELY splitting in two. Two parties believing in justice, science, professionalism, honest elections and so on — but one of them emphasizing balanced budgets and the other wanting us to be like Sweden — wouldn’t be so bad.
But we need guys like JT to prioritize. We need their help. To crush the GOP, we must first deal with our own well-meaning traitors. Splitterism must be smashed. Pulverized, incinerated, exposed as the pompous-preening ignorant yapping of unwitting (or witting) servants of Putin.
Well, I'd like to make a distinction between blame and shame. I think your statement above would more accurately read, "If you shame them enough, maybe next time they will do what you want in the hope that you will stop shaming them."
If the thing you're blaming them for is something that they're not ashamed of, then blaming isn't going to get them to change.
I'll nuance this further and say that "when they don't do what you want" is not quite accurate either. You blame someone when their actions--especially their intentional actions--are the proximate cause of whatever ill you are identifying. Assigning blame is just another way of saying "assigning credit", the difference being in the connotations of the two words.
Regulars who have been here longer than you know that I hail from Illinois--the suburbs of Chicago. "What I want" in the above sense is for Hillary to have won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. I can blame voters in those states for not voting as I wished, or blame the DNC for blowing an easy win, or blame Republican legislatures for cheating. The one thing I cannot do in this instance is "Take responsibility for my own mistakes." I have no control over how people in other states choose to vote.
I was all ready to get upset that the money I donated to Sanders was going to help pay for the Clinton campaign.
Serious question--were you upset that the money you donated to Sanders was going to help defeat the Trump campaign?
To me, the "election as game show/horse race/sporting event" meme is very dangerous. You liked Bernie, and you were miffed at the way Hillary treated Bernie, so you just can't stomach Hillary winning, even if the alternative is a dangerous thug. As Dave Sim would put it, "That's no way to run a railroad."
I also voted for Bernie in the primaries, and I didn't vote for Hillary in November for the purpose of awarding her the prize of the presidency. I voted for her because I bought into the notion (rightly or wrongly) that she was the most qualified candidate for the office--not just as compared to Trump, but compared to the entire field of both parties' primary candidates. Whether I'd like to have a beer with her is immaterial.
I trashed a couple of the postings of the drive-by anal-compulsive troll. But the deletion process on blogger is so damned onerous... FIVE clicks to get back where I started... that I'm gonna default leave some up. Anyway, it's a fascinating test case of bizarre, polysyllabic-unsapience.
Oh, Christianity will survive, when millions realize the Book of Revelation is satanic and chose instead to return to the red-letter words of Jesus.
Till then, we stare in amazement as so many -- especially Baptists (who are now revealed to have at least a thousand child-molesting pastors in their ranks) -- gush support for a man who is opposite-to-Jesus in every conceivable characteristic.
I have some theories, although they are all just idle speculation on my own part:
* They like the humor value
* Mike Pence makes it all right
* As long as he gives them outcomes they like, his personality doesn't matter
That last one might be reimagined as "They've been losing so often (with more personally suitable officeholders) that they're sick of losing."
I believe that Trump's instability is also a positive for evangelicals. The fact that our POTUS might someday start nukes flying because a foreign government called him names is a positive for people that believe the world will end in fire. Evangelicals are/contain a death cult.
"I don't see how ranked choice voting gets rid of the duopoly."
It doesn't. But FPTP -- the voting system we have now -- prevents third parties in ways that RCV doesn't.
The way it goes now, well-meaning but fatalistic voters go around telling people that they must not vote third party because every third party vote is a vote for the candidate they like least. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump. A vote for Johnson is a vote for Clinton. Lots of people believe it and refuse to vote third party. In 2016 third parties got less than 5% of the vote, ONLY from people who got past that logic.
But with RCV, you can vote for your favorite first, and then vote for a backup candidate, and then vote for a second backup candidate, and so on. People say they want one-voter:one-vote. This gives you one-voter:one-vote-at-a-time.
Your second choice does not count until your first choice has lost. Then your second choice counts until it loses, and then your third choice counts, etc.
So you can vote Libertarian first. Maybe you vote Green second, because they really are your second choice, and then Republican. You want anybody but the Democrat, but you don't want them equally.
The first round your Libertarian vote counts. Greens come in last and are eliminated.
The second round your Liberatarian vote counts. Libertarians come in last and are eliminated.
The third round your Republican vote counts. You got to vote Libertarian and it didn't keep you from voting Republican too. If 25% of the voters vote Libertarian first, that says something. If 53% of voters vote Libertarian somewhere on the ballot, that says something more. It doesn't win, but it says there's more support than 4.5%. They get hope to try harder next time.
It doesn't mean a third party wins. That only happens when they get the votes, and chances are before then the polls might report it and everybody will think of them as a major party. But they have the opportunity to get those votes. Which is much harder with FPTP when so many people tell them it's a total waste to try.
"If you want 3rd party participation, I think to need to find a way for minority parties to get a seat at the table."
There are a variety of systems that could work. RCV for single-winner elections looks good to me for single-winner elections. Like president.
One approach I like for Congress is basicly to let each candidate for Congressman vote in Congress with as many votes as s/he got. So if the Republican candidate gets 240,000 votes, and the Democrat gets 370,000 votes, and the Prohibition candidate gets 15,000 votes, then when it's time to vote on a bill then the Democrat gets 370,000 votes, the Republican gets 240,000 votes, and the Prohibitionist gets 15,000 votes. Add up all the votes to see if it passes. Then the person you choose to represent you votes for things, and they have as much power as the voters give them.
There are a lot of little fiddling things to figure out, for example right now a congressman gets a retirement package for life, but the picky little details can be worked out.
All of the alternatives I've seen to FPTP look so much better than FPTP that I'll support whichever of them is most popular.
"Of course we should fund studies that question our assumptions such as the notion that the value derived from space activities far outweighs the environmental negatives."
We might get a sense of how much thrust we can afford. Suppose it turned out that we can put up 20 tons of payload a year with essentially no consequence, 40 tons with a few bad results, and 100 tons is very bad. Then we ought to prioritize. The most important 20 tons we go ahead with. The next 20 tons we decide which of them is worth it. We put research into how to get more thrust with less damage. If we want more than 40 tons a year we might find that switching to liquid hydrogen is worth it.
We could at least make the choices from a background of knowledge.
We might likely need to delay a manned Mars expedition. Say it takes 20 tons of fuel to put one ton of payload at escape velocity. And then it takes 20 tons of fuel at escape velocity to send one ton to Mars. That's 220 tons of fuel to send one ton to Mars. Do it after we find a better way.
But I'm speculating, I don't know the real numbers. We need to do our best to find them.
@J Thomas,
A while back, I proposed an alternative that is kind of like RCV, but more like a love child of RCV and parliamentary systems. IIRC, no one else really liked it, but I think there is some merit.
If no candidate gets 50%, the candidates themselves get to horse-trade with the other candidates and give away their votes. Thus, Jill Stein would (if she so chose) be free to turn her votes into Hillary votes, most likely in exchange for an influential position in the Hillary administration, or some platform plank that her (Stein's) voters were in favor of.
In the 2016 election, that would still (as with RCV) allow one to vote Green knowing that Stein would more likely make a deal with Hillary than with Trump. It would also pave the way for (say) Hillary and Bernie to both run in the general election with the understanding that they'd pool their votes, but how they pooled their votes would depend on the outcomes.
The benefit of this which is different from RCV is that the relative vote-acquiring strength of the candidates is known before the coalition-building takes place.
I'm not claiming this is necessarily the best system--just another one to consider. I do agree that it works better to build third (and fourth) parties if voters are able to support those parties while (in the interim) still ending up helping their most favored of the two major parties, rather than necessitating that they help their least preferred.
An aside--Trump is a special case, in that it's probably a better assumption that Gary Johnson voters would have preferred Romney over Obama. I don't know that they'd necessarily prefer Trump over Hillary.
"Well, I'd like to make a distinction between blame and shame. I think your statement above would more accurately read, "If you shame them enough, maybe next time they will do what you want in the hope that you will stop shaming them."
If the thing you're blaming them for is something that they're not ashamed of, then blaming isn't going to get them to change."
It typically doesn't work very well. When you shame somebody their natural reaction is to decide they don't like you.
We've had close to 50 years of shaming racists for being racists, and that's probably worked a bit better than we can expect it to work in the future.
Republicans have tried to shame poor people for being poor, and I doubt that will work as well in the future as it has in the past either.
Still, you can HOPE that the people you shame will change their behavior. Or else go away and stop talking to you.
"If no candidate gets 50%, the candidates themselves get to horse-trade with the other candidates and give away their votes."
I've seen people debate that. It got serious consideration, though they mostly didn't like it.
I've seen 20 or so alternatives proposed, and almost all of them are much better than what we have. I want to see the most popular one get used, and then we can argue at leisure about what would be best to switch to after that. If we argue about which alternative is best while we keep what we have, that's bad.
https://www.kialo.com/asset-voting-candidates-trade-votes-4650.629?path=4650.0~4650.629
Shame works better in communities that share values and trust that they're being treated fairly, such that if someone invokes shame on you, there might be something to it. It also works better when forgiveness and reconciliation is an expected outcome.
I think we're in agreement that shaming for reasons that the recipient is not actually ashamed of is pointless.
"In fact, the GOP must be utterly crushed. The dems must overwhelmingly pass my 29 consensus items, then withstand the undead elephant’s final counter spasm… and only then contemplate PERHAPS DELIBERATELY splitting in two."
You're talking about what you want. I'd probably like it if what you want happened.
But I think it's much more plausible that the GOP falls apart, and the DP splits into two. One part a lot like the GOP used to be, and the other full of progressives. Both parties so dependent on big donors that they are careful not to do anything their big donors don't want.
So the result would be a whole lot like what we have now, but somewhat saner.
This is me being pessimistic. If I thought there was a good chance of it coming out like you want, I'd work to make it happen. In my imagination there's roughly zero chance for that, so I'm working for something that looks unlikely, but still the main chance.
I have a flavor to ask of you folks. It could be tasty... or onerous.
I’m thinking of publishing a compilation of my posts about JUDO POLEMIC... tactics that none of the generals on our Union side of this civil war seem capable of comprehending, as they again and again keep falling into traps where they do grunting, shoving sumo politics that suits Fox to a T.
I've failed to get these points across for years, via blogs and even conversations with Congressional staffers. So maybe a BOOK on the subject could get attention.
Would any small number of you be interested in helping? It would entail sifting back in time... maybe a couple of years... and choosing your own list of 'best of' postings that offer ways to dodge around today's trench warfare. For example, a chapter on Splitterism would obviously merge my 29 Goals posting with the most recent one.
A strawman proposed table of contents might include —
Chapter 1: JUDO POLEMIC INTRODUCTION I know I've gone on and on about this in general. When did I do it best?
Chapter __: The War on All Fact People
- When did I pose this concept best?
- Tactics: compare actual Outcomes: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/06/so-do-outcomes-matter-more-than-rhetoric.html
Of course leading up to the FACT ACT proposal: http://davidbrin.com/nonfiction/factact.html
Chapter ___ ECONOMICS
Reclaiming Adam Smith: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/11/liberals-you-must-reclaim-adam-smith.html
Compare actual Outcomes: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/06/so-do-outcomes-matter-more-than-rhetoric.html
CHAPTER__: OVERCOMING SPLITTERISM
Main Splitter rebuttals: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2019/08/five-devastating-rebuttals-to-use-with.html
29 shared goals: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2019/07/debate-special-shall-we-let-them-divide.html
Sanctimony addiction: http://tinyurl.com/wrathaddicts
and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i275AvgVvow
Chapter ___: The real civil war
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/02/past-keeping-faith-with-future-and-day.html
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/09/phases-of-american-civil-war.html
Chapter: SAVING OUR PLANET
http://www.davidbrin.com/climatechange3.html
Chapter __ International 101:
International Judo:
How Republicans/Democrats wage war: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-democrats-and-republicans-wage-war.html
Chapter___
Chapter___: Symbolism obsession
Repubs obsession with ship names: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-politics-of-naming-aircraft.html
How their symbolism obsession helps lock up government: _____?
Chapter 9: GUNS
Main Jefferson Rifle blog: http://www.tinyurl.com/jrifle
Chapter__ Citizen action
Ground troops get involved — _____ (poll watching, state assembly candidates etc.)
NGOs and Proxy power: http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/proxyactivism.html
Citizen science and the age of amateurs _)___
Chapter___ IMMIGRATION/RACISM ETC
Ironies of Immigration: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-immigration-fury-one-of-many.html
That is just a sampling and many of you would have your own favorites, even replacing some of these.
Suggestions re other topics to include, or in different order or best examples from my blogs ... or supporting content from others that can be linked to in each chapter... would be welcome.
And yes, it is a lot to ask! It all depends on whether you think it’s a project that could let this small, but generally (mostly) high quality community maybe help craft something that could help us find and empower a real general out there (or ten or a million) to break out of the bocage hedgerows and race to Paris and Berlin.
How about you guys ponder it. Maybe come back with your expanded lists in… well… a week or two? Three?
Or else tell me why it’s a bad idea! CITOKATE.
But I think it's much more plausible that the GOP falls apart, ...
I'm a bit weary of hearing how near the Republican party is to obsolescence when they've got a lock on the Senate and the supreme court--all the federal courts, really--plus almost enough state houses and governorships to call for a Constitutional Convention. They're about this close to being able to invoke a new Constitution that begins, "We The White Christians, in order to Make America Great Again..."
What would possibly make them fall apart other than The Rapture?
This is me being pessimistic.
"We've had close to 50 years of shaming racists for being racists, and that's probably worked a bit better than we can expect it to work in the future.
Republicans have tried to shame poor people for being poor, and I doubt that will work as well in the future as it has in the past either."
There is a crucial distinction between these two examples.
Another related distinction regarding shaming, it's one thing to say something to or about someone else criticizing something about them that is beyond their control or something that was imposed on them, with the explicit intent to shame them. It is something very different to say something to or about someone that happens to be accurate and pertinent criticism about something that they are free to choose to do or not do, to be or not be, and which just also happens to shame them. To simplify it, if you are a racist shit and someone points that out in the context that your racist tendencies led you to vote for another racist shit for high office, that claim is accurate and pertinent. I hope to hell it does shame you but that's not necessarily the primary purpose of pointing it out.
Arguments along the lines of I shouldn't call a racist a racist because I might shame them which might lead them to do something I won't like are nuts and don't deserve any respect.
"One part a lot like the GOP used to be, and the other full of progressives."
Used to be... when? Seriously, you live in such a smug, convenient fantasy world, JT. You know nothing whatsoever about history. The roots of "blue dog" democrats do not go to any common heritage with Republicanism... whatsoever. They go down to the AFL-CIO, Which was the most dedicated anti-communist force in American life. And yes, cultural rifts opened between what we now call "progressives" and the old school union guys. But find for me RIGHT NOW ANY(!) blue dog democrat who wants to - say - put social security in the stock market... a primary-central goal of the GOP until they gave up on it, a few years ago.
Big money wanted that, all right... and not... one... single... democrat did, despite the blandishments of Wall Street firms.
You toss out these fantasies of yours as if they are rooted in anything other than a smugness and sanctimony that you ought to be able to outgrow, as you learn actual, actual history and facts. If you are willing. Right now, you are wandering around in a fog.
AGAIN, MY PRINCIPAL GOAL IN THE REMAINDER OF THIS THREAD IS FOR SOME OF YOU TO READ MY PROPOSAL -- two comments up from here -- and ponder whether the project seems worthwhile and worth some of you helping.
It does sound worthwhile, and I don't mind slogging through some of the archives. I've even done so for fun a few times.
I will remind you that the format doesn't make it easy to search for particular topics without already remembering when they were posted. I know you did a big Ayn Rand/libertarian column in November 2011, but I'm not going to remember anything else that specifically.
Samirasun0808 said...
Scientology is solution for everything. Dr. Brin is scientist so he knows the prophet (peace be upon him). You can make me, Samira, queen of country. This is because I much intelligent and very beautiful.
'One part a lot like the GOP used to be, and the other full of progressives.'
"Used to be... when? Seriously, you live in such a smug, convenient fantasy world, JT. You know nothing whatsoever about history. The roots of "blue dog" democrats do not go to any common heritage with Republicanism... whatsoever."
As usual you are jumping to conclusions.
I didn't say that the DP Establishment is or was like the GOP used to be.
The way I'm imagining it, the GOP falls apart because it can't hold together. And then the DP falls apart because it can't hold together either.
And then two fragments of the former DP grow until they are the two parties, because the details of our system result in two main parties. (Duverger's Law, which applies mainly to the USA but which seems to fit very well here.)
Then which party do all those XGOPs go to? To the less progressive of the two main parties. Do the factions which currently dominate the GOP dominate that? No, they couldn't hold the GOP together doing that and they couldn't hold an xDP party together either. It would be the more-or-less-sane xGOP guys who hold the balance of power in that group.
You're unlikely to get a Progressive revolution without a solid majority of Progressive voters. As long as there are a lot of xGOP voters who haven't changed their opinions much, they will influence the politics. We can hope that they die of old age and don't replace them selves. We can hope that they change their minds. Maybe we can kill them. Possibly there could be an ethnic cleansing or a voluntary migration and they go somewhere else. Without one of those, we are likely to get something kind of like what we have, except the crazy unstable coalition that supports Trump might fall apart.
So I doubt we could wind up with two "good" major parties. But this is just opinion. Nobody really knows what the future will bring.
In 2000 I thought I had a pretty good idea where we were heading. I did not predict 9/11, and it changed a whole lot very fast. Maybe something else I don't predict will change a whole lot very fast.
You go right ahead. As the cadence increases, you'll have plenty of data to study.
Their engines currently rely on kerosene and LOX, but it is a jet fuel kind of refined kerosene. Doesn't have all the extra crud in it. What comes out the back is carbon dioxide, water, and some soot. We know the basics of what each of those does up there, so I'd have no qualms with supporting many launches. I'd be able to look our grandchildren in the eye and say we took the health of the atmosphere into consideration.
Future engines will rely on methane and LOX, but not to reduce the soot content. Their intent is to re-use those engines on Mars. No kerosene is available on Mars, but CO2 and H2O can be found. If they fly the equipment up there, they can convert those to CH4 and O2 and fill local tanks. [ISRU is the way to go.] With that longer range goal, might as well shift engine types on Earth and get engineering practice with them here where it is cheaper to learn.
I wouldn't be surprised if they use both types of engines. The lower stage of the new vehicle doesn't go to Mars in their plans. They could keep the cheaper kerosene/LOX tech where they have a lot more experience. We shall see.
What's more interesting is what might get flown. The Planetary Society got a light sail in orbit and tested it a few different ways. Why not again to push technology readiness? Why not something else too? Doesn't have to the TPS next time. Why not Joe Citizen? Why not amateur radio relays at L5? Why not amateur astronomy? Amateur weather watches in high orbit? High altitude meteor impact alert systems hanging at L4 and L5? Why not hardware testbeds for certifying rad-hardness of equipment? Both non-profits and for-profits could be interested whether there is money to be made or a public mission to be served. Cheap/Frequent access changes everything.
I'll look at your proposal in more detail this weekend.
The first thought that comes to mind, though, is it better be something you can get out the door before the end of the year. I can imagine the book sitting among the 'current affairs' books on the table near the front of my local bookstore, but those things move to the discount rack real quick as the political situation changes.
The second is that your citizen action chapter shouldn't be a chapter. It should be a response section to each of the other chapters. Chapter X.a explains some unpleasant thing going on. Chapter X.b explains what citizens can do directly to 'do something about it.' The citizen action section should be short and repetitive. Proxy sponsorship, successful citizen group examples, expectation management, age of amateurs, etc.
The third thing involves wasting your time. While I might be interested in what you have to say regarding Libertarians, I doubt it will do you much good to explain it in any detail for the book. You could point out how many have been sucked in by Confederate notions in the Civil War chapter and how some of their factions have lost their way in the parts where you talk about competition and numerous talented participants in the markets, but I doubt we are worth a distinct chapter. Same goes for how group X wages war. Just include your horizons of inclusion descriptions near the immigration discussion and you'll cover that ground.
Regarding voting systems: I have been in favor of Ranked Choice Voting for as long as I can remember, however I haven't seen it gaining a bit of traction in the United States over the past decades. Most people actually give only a minimal amount of actual thought to their election choices. Ranking candidates is just too much mental work for the vast majority in this country.
Instead, we need to look at the thought process behind how people in the United States actually vote.
Increasingly over time, the main concern of U.S. voters has been who they are against. The choice on current ballots only allows for a positive vote, but most people choose the candidate most likely to defeat their most-disliked candidate.
So let's give everyone one positive vote and one negative vote. The positive vote goes to the candidate that you are voting for, and the negative votes are subtracted from a candidates total positive votes.
Voters would always have the option of leaving either the positive vote choice or the negative vote choice blank.
It would not be uncommon for some candidates to end up with a net negative number of votes. If no candidate gets a positive number of votes then either a new election would have to be quickly held or (where constitutional) the office would remain vacant until the next scheduled election.
If no one gets a positive number of votes for a city council seat, it is often best to leave that seat vacant. In the case of something like U.S. president, we had better have someone in office who receives a positive number of votes, even if it takes several elections, each less than a month apart.
Candidates who receive a net negative amount of votes would be ineligible to run again for that same office for that particular term, so political parties would need to have secondary slates of candidates ready to run in cases where no one receives a positive number of votes. (That would also be a beneficial effect of such a system.)
Under this "net-zero" system, many elections (especially local ones) would have the winner elected by very narrow margins (like +7 to -2) so this would encourage more people to vote because they would see the results of their individual votes much more clearly.
LH. The Ayn Rand take down is here:
http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/aynrand.html
Oh, I'd link to it in my section about libertarians. But I don't think it's apopos as a chapter in that book.
Jt is welcome here. He seems naive and historically ill-informed... but flexible and able to adjust to a shifting argument based on evidence. I have a lot of confidence in this young feller.
And good point. If the GOP is crushed and incinderated and the dems do all 29 of my "consensus goals"... and then some... one potentiality would be for the DP to schism. And with all growth potential on the right... from GOP refugees... it does make sense that that wing would be "business oriented." But wanting capitalism to function without cheating has long been a Democratic theme, even in days of AFL-CIO power. That's not different from republican oligarchis by DEGREE. It is different by KIND.
Moreover, there are millions who would not feel welcome in the blue dog party. They might become true confederates without masks... or else perhaps the Romney-centered cabal that I am sniffing will burst forth this winter, aiming to pick up the pieces on the right.
Alfred, good thoughts. And Jerry's summer daydream sounds pretty solid... it's basically a version of RCV that's less flexible but easier to understand.
The aim of this compilation of blogs would be to get it out before the end of the year.
When we are talking about space launches we should compare them to natural events
I'm thinking volcanoes
Mount Pinatubo in 1991 - 20 Million tons of Sulphur dioxide - 5 cubic kilometers of dust
Some election officials would initially object to "net-zero" voting on the grounds that it would make the ballots and election results too complicated, but that is simply not the case.
There would be one section of the ballot for (for example) candidates A, B, C and D. This would immediately be followed by the next section of negative votes listed as ANTI-A, ANTI-B, ANTI-C and ANTI-D. (The "ANTI" must always be in all upper-case bold letters on the ballot.)
The election officials would only have to count the positive votes (as they do now), then total up the negative votes for each candidate. The final step in calculating the election results is a matter of simple subtraction. If election officials and their computers cannot do elementary school subtraction, they should not be in that job.
Net-zero voting would also be easier for the voters because (unlike today's system), the ballot choices would be laid out more closely to the way they actually think. If they weren't sure who they actually preferred, but knew who they were strongly against, they could just vote against the hated candidate.
Once the voter registers the negative vote, the candidate that the voter is actually for may more clearly come into focus for the voter. If not, the positive vote could just be left blank in that particular case.
Unlike other alternatives, net-zero voting could be very quickly adapted because it matches what most voters already want, and how they actually think.
The only thing that complicates this system is the particular election contests where no candidate gets a positive number of votes. The extra complication of needing a rapid follow-up election is more than worth the added trouble and expense. We had better stop putting candidates in office that, on average, people do not want, and candidates for whom a net number of voters actively object to having in office.
I agree about comparing to volcanoes... with one careful exception involving catalysts. If a rocket has an exhaust component that catalyzes interesting chemistry, I'd side with people who want careful studies. If not, I'd invite them to study us as we punch holes in the sky.
I seriously doubt soot from kerosene/LOX engines does much of anything up there except what our other particulates do in shading the ground a bit.
One thing I'd add about the science, though, is there is a lot of basic work to be done about the upper atmosphere. We could study rocket plumes and not have enough of a baseline to compare against because the basic science needs to get done. I'd support spending money doing that science, but not as an environmental concern over kerosene/LOX engines.
I should add that "net-zero" voting is a bad name to use for the system that I proposed. Calling it something like an "upvote/downvote" system would make it more understandable (and in accord with the way that a lot of "voting" is already done on things like YouTube videos and some internet forum comments).
I'm all in favor of generous funding of sober investigations of "impudently dissenting" science.
We're moving onward, now. But I do ask at least some of you to consider whether you'd find it fun/worthwhile to help compile a quick collection of my very best blogs around the topic of JUDO POLEMICS. Suggest potential tables of contents and existing blogs and postings that might fill in each slot?
But take your time. Post your suggestiong under whatever blog is most current... but NOT the first day it is published! We want comments the first day or two to be about that particular blog's topic.
"I'd support spending money doing that science, but not as an environmental concern over kerosene/LOX engines."
I basicly agree with you there. We don't need research aimed at stopping progress. We need research to find out what's going on. If it turns out that the way we're planning to do things is likely to hurt us badly, then we need to make better plans. But we sure don't need to fund science to advance partisan politics.
The "nuclear winter" controversy is an example of partisan politics. The whole thing was designed to persuade politicians that we couldn't depend on a nuclear first strike against the USSR to go as planned. And after a whole lot of money spent it on average failed; the research concluded that there would be a "nuclear autumn" which could be reduced by staging the first strike at the right time of year.
The "research" extrapolated way beyond available evidence. There is no particular reason to expect the results to be accurate. A giant system with complicated interactions, and they hoped to model it well enough from the little scraps of physics and chemistry they knew to apply.
To me the obvious conclusion was, don't expect you can do a large nuclear first-strike safely, regardless how the research comes out.
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The last time we tasted rosé was in September 2009, so the time was ripe for a revisit. This time, however, we compared only those from France for a more even playing field.
The results were very close for the top two bottles, and to the credit of our taster's palates, we correctly (and blindly) determined that two of the wines were the same bottling. Given that two of the six were the same, our scoring system perhaps didn't give enough credit to the tie. The only slightly shocking difference was the retail price between the tied bottles. Indeed, except for the bottle that received no points, all the wines were very enjoyable, and would be well received at any summer party, picnic, or dinner for two.
Photos by Andy, by the way.
First Place: Domaine Houchart Rosé 2010 (Côtes de Provence). A blend of Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Mourvèdre, this looked unfiltered, and exhibited aromas of acetone, margarine, candy corn, and cake batter. David felt that there was "something sweaty about it", while Andy noted "something cultured . . . but not the french". Plenty of freshness. Tasters sensed ripe fruit (mostly strawberries) and butter, with Andy noting, "crescendos like a wave comin' on in". Clove on the finish, this was juicy without being heavy, with lots of acidity, but not unbalanced. Josephine, Andy, Hartwell, and Ali voted for this as their favorite of the night. Received 32 total points. Ali's bottle. A bargain, at about $9.
Second Place: Château de Flaugergues Rosé La Mejanelle 2010 (Coteaux du Languedoc). Unfiltered, with a clear pink hue. Tasters found sour milk, off dairy, cherry, raspberries, feces, and overturned earth on the nose. Soft in texture, almost velvety, and showing overt berry and raspberry flavors, along with "diluted Kool-Aid". Hart felt that it was "watery, in a good way". Strong attack, and exhibiting plenty of fruit for its weight, with caramel notes. A pleasant bitterness on finish. Subtle, not overwhelming, with an elegant quality. David and Kristin's favorite of the night. Received 27 points. David's bottle. About $11.
Third Place: Domaine Tempier Rosé 2010 (Bandol). Peach colored and unfiltered, this offered pretty aromas of strawberries, green grass, fleshy fruit, orange pith, rambutan, warm nutmeg, cardamom, honeysuckle, and passion flower. Inviting. Flowery in the mouth. Josephine felt that it "tastes like the smell of gardenia". Watermelon rind and clover flavors. Received 13 points. Hartwell's bottle. About $43.
Triennes Rosé 2010 (Vin de Pays du Var). Flesh toned, with an inviting nose of pink grapefruit, salt air, sea breeze, bubble gum, wet pebbles, watermelon, and honeydew. Kristin felt that it "makes me want an oyster". Tart, but in a good way, with herbs on the finish, along with a little aluminum, rhubarb, and freshly squeezed lemon. A slightly oily note. Jo summed up with "so easy". Received 9 points. Andy's bottle. About $12.
Triennes Rosé 2010 (Vin de Pays du Var). Tasters immediately noted the same color as the wine above. Bubble gum on the nose, along with pink grapefruit, and watermelon. Andy felt that "It delights but doesn't interrupt". Pleasant, inviting, enjoyable, not complicated. Received 9 points. Kristin's bottle. About $20.
Château Jouclary Rosé 2010 (Cabardès). Unfiltered. A funky, fecal nose that also included earwax, and wet rag. Hart was reminded of "cleaning out the basement", and Andy found "fish tank". Josephine was reminded of a "flowering tree on the East Side". Ripe in the mouth, with red fruit, red delicious apple, cranberry, sour apple, and soap on the finish, along with artificial lemon candy. Hartwell felt that it was reminiscent of "watery pixie stick". Later, caramel scents emerged, and turned flat on the palate. No points. Josephine's bottle. About $12.
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+ Fidel Castro and his Communist government came to power in Cuba in 1959, much to the horror of the American administration of the time. [[Image:Castro trudeau.jpg|right|200px]]Cuba was supported throughout the Cold War by the Soviet Union and became a flashpoint for Cold War tensions, notably during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis when Nikita Khrushchev sparked the most dangerous Cold War confrontation by attempting to place nuclear weapons on the island. America has maintained near total sanctions on Cuba throughout the period since 1959, but before 1990 they were largely counteracted in their effects by the weight of support, trade and subsidy offered by the USSR, which amounted to $4-6 Billion dollars per year. Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc the withdrawal of these subsidies has caused a 35% drop in GDP, which is only now starting to be reversed after market reforms that focus on foreign investment and tourism. Nevertheless, the poverty of Cuba makes it much more vulnerable to the effects of sanctions than it was. The decreased threat of communism has led to a re-evaluation of the sanctions in the US but so far the wounds of the twentieth century, and the electoral significance of Florida where most Cuban emigres live, has steeled the resolve of the White House. Sanctions were in fact strengthened significantly in the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, although recent moves have made food and medicine a little easier to move from the US to Cuba.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172]
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- Fidel Castro and his Communist government came to power in Cuba in 1959, much to the horror of the American administration of the time. Cuba was supported throughout the Cold War by the Soviet Union and became a flashpoint for Cold War tensions, notably during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis when Nikita Khrushchev sparked the most dangerous Cold War confrontation by attempting to place nuclear weapons on the island. America has maintained near total sanctions on Cuba throughout the period since 1959, but before 1990 they were largely counteracted in their effects by the weight of support, trade and subsidy offered by the USSR, which amounted to $4-6 Billion dollars per year. Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc the withdrawal of these subsidies has caused a 35% drop in GDP, which is only now starting to be reversed after market reforms that focus on foreign investment and tourism. Nevertheless, the poverty of Cuba makes it much more vulnerable to the effects of sanctions than it was. The decreased threat of communism has led to a re-evaluation of the sanctions in the US but so far the wounds of the twentieth century, and the electoral significance of Florida where most Cuban emigres live, has steeled the resolve of the White House. Sanctions were in fact strengthened significantly in the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, although recent moves have made food and medicine a little easier to move from the US to Cuba.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172]
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===Efficacy: Are sanctions a faulty policy in the effort to democratize Cuba? === ===Efficacy: Are sanctions a faulty policy in the effort to democratize Cuba? ===
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- *'''[[Argument: Sanctions are a powerful tool for liberalizing countries| Sanctions are a powerful tool for liberalizing countries]].''' Aggressive U.S. engagement and pressure contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and it can work again.Now is exactly the time that the United States should be tightening down the screws so that Castro’s successor is forced to make real changes.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172] + *'''Sanctions are a powerful tool for liberalizing countries.''' Aggressive U.S. engagement and pressure contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and it can work again.Now is exactly the time that the United States should be tightening down the screws so that Castro’s successor is forced to make real changes.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172]
*'''[[Argument: Media helps soften Cuban popular impressions of US sanctions| Media helps soften Cuban popular impressions of US sanctions]]''' While sanctions may be having unfortunate effects on the Cuban people, the impact of sanctions on the morale of the Cuban people and their respect for the United States can be mollified through various media sources broadcasting from the United States to Cuba. The intention of the sanctions to punish the Cuban regime and to help protect the freedoms of Cubans can be better explained to the Cuban people through these messages. *'''[[Argument: Media helps soften Cuban popular impressions of US sanctions| Media helps soften Cuban popular impressions of US sanctions]]''' While sanctions may be having unfortunate effects on the Cuban people, the impact of sanctions on the morale of the Cuban people and their respect for the United States can be mollified through various media sources broadcasting from the United States to Cuba. The intention of the sanctions to punish the Cuban regime and to help protect the freedoms of Cubans can be better explained to the Cuban people through these messages.
*'''[[Argument: Cuba sanctions lost national security rationale after 1991| Cuba sanctions lost national security rationale after 1991]]''' The initial purpose of sanctioning Cuba was to constrain the broader threat of the Soviet Union following Castro's coming of power and the initiation of relations between the two countries. Indeed, Cuba, was a significant threat to the United States and international security at that time as a proxy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But, after the Cold War ended, Cuba became a far lower-level threat as it ceased to be a proxy country of the Soviet Union. Sanctions, being leveled against Cuba in the Cold War context, are therefore no longer reasonable, as Cuba no longer presents the same threat to the United States and the world. *'''[[Argument: Cuba sanctions lost national security rationale after 1991| Cuba sanctions lost national security rationale after 1991]]''' The initial purpose of sanctioning Cuba was to constrain the broader threat of the Soviet Union following Castro's coming of power and the initiation of relations between the two countries. Indeed, Cuba, was a significant threat to the United States and international security at that time as a proxy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But, after the Cold War ended, Cuba became a far lower-level threat as it ceased to be a proxy country of the Soviet Union. Sanctions, being leveled against Cuba in the Cold War context, are therefore no longer reasonable, as Cuba no longer presents the same threat to the United States and the world.
- *There is no evidence that Cuba is a sponsor of terror. + *'''There is no evidence that Cuba is a sponsor of terror.'''
- *Cuba has no weapons of mass destructions. It has no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. + *'''Cuba has no weapons of mass destructions. It has no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.'''
- *Cuba holds fewer prisoners of conscience than China, Vietnam, Iran, or even Egypt. + *'''Cuba holds fewer prisoners of conscience than China, Vietnam, Iran, or even Egypt.'''
*'''Cuba has cooperated with the United States on security matters.''' Following September 11th, for example, Cuba offered to share information with the United States that would help in its subsequent War on Terror. *'''Cuba has cooperated with the United States on security matters.''' Following September 11th, for example, Cuba offered to share information with the United States that would help in its subsequent War on Terror.
- *'''[[Argument: Sanctions are superior to the use of military force| Sanctions are superior to the use of military force]]''' Sanctions are often a "softer", better alternative to the use of military force. This has some resonance in the case of Cuba. In 1996, two US civilian planes were shot down by the Cuban air force near Cuba. The United States could have responded, on some proportional level, militarily. President Clinton decided, however, to use sanctions instead to punish the Cuban regime with the Helms-Burton Act. Therefore, the continued sanctioning of Cuba through 1996 and to present was, to some extent, the preferred alternative within the Clinton administration to military action against Cuba. + *'''Sanctions are superior to the use of military force.''' Sanctions are often a "softer", better alternative to the use of military force. This has some resonance in the case of Cuba. In 1996, two US civilian planes were shot down by the Cuban air force near Cuba. The United States could have responded, on some proportional level, militarily. President Clinton decided, however, to use sanctions instead to punish the Cuban regime with the Helms-Burton Act. Therefore, the continued sanctioning of Cuba through 1996 and to present was, to some extent, the preferred alternative within the Clinton administration to military action against Cuba.
*'''[[Argument: The significance of the threat from Cuba justifies US sanctions| The significance of the threat from Cuba justifies US sanctions]]''' Cuba posses a significant national security threat, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ending of its support for Cuba in 1991. First, Cuba posses a direct threat to liberalism by continuing to pressure for communism internationally. Communism rests on principles that are directly antagonistic to democracy. Such principles, as was demonstrated during the Cold War, have the potential to be highly destabilizing and threatening to international security. The instability of Cuba itself, under such a communist regime, poses certain international risks as well. In addition, Cuba's record of human rights abuses, nefarious international attacks, and even support of terrorism can be cited as a threat to international security and go toward justifying the current sanctions. *'''[[Argument: The significance of the threat from Cuba justifies US sanctions| The significance of the threat from Cuba justifies US sanctions]]''' Cuba posses a significant national security threat, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ending of its support for Cuba in 1991. First, Cuba posses a direct threat to liberalism by continuing to pressure for communism internationally. Communism rests on principles that are directly antagonistic to democracy. Such principles, as was demonstrated during the Cold War, have the potential to be highly destabilizing and threatening to international security. The instability of Cuba itself, under such a communist regime, poses certain international risks as well. In addition, Cuba's record of human rights abuses, nefarious international attacks, and even support of terrorism can be cited as a threat to international security and go toward justifying the current sanctions.
*'''[[Argument: 1996 Helms-Burton bill justly followed Cuba shooting down two civilian airplanes| 1996 Helms-Burton bill justly followed Cuba shooting down two civilian airplanes]]''' Bill Clinton cannot be blamed for responding in 1996 to the shooting down of two US civilian aircraft with allowing the Helm-Burton sanctions act to pass. This was a proportional response. If he had decided to block the bill, protests from Americans would have been substantial. *'''[[Argument: 1996 Helms-Burton bill justly followed Cuba shooting down two civilian airplanes| 1996 Helms-Burton bill justly followed Cuba shooting down two civilian airplanes]]''' Bill Clinton cannot be blamed for responding in 1996 to the shooting down of two US civilian aircraft with allowing the Helm-Burton sanctions act to pass. This was a proportional response. If he had decided to block the bill, protests from Americans would have been substantial.
- *The Cuban administration refused to give help with the search for Al-Qaeda suspects + *'''[[Argument: The Castro brothers won't democratize so sanctions must persist|The Castro brothers won't democratize so sanctions must persist]]'''.
- *Cuba is on the U.S. list of sponsors of terror. + *'''The Cuban administration refused to give help with the search for Al-Qaeda suspects.'''
- *Cuba provides a safe haven to many American fugitives. +
- *Cuba is known to have a developmental biological weapons ‘effort'. + *'''Cuba is on the U.S. list of sponsors of terror.'''
- *Cuba is recorded as breaking international sanctions to export dual use technologies to Iran. +
- *Cuba has failed to stop drug shipments through its waters. + *'''Cuba provides a safe haven to many American fugitives. '''
+ *'''Cuba is known to have a developmental biological weapons ‘effort'.'''
+ *'''Cuba is recorded as breaking international sanctions to export dual use technologies to Iran.'''
+ *'''Cuba has failed to stop drug shipments through its waters.'''
*'''[[Argument: Sanctions against Cuba only hurt the Cuban public| Sanctions against Cuba only hurt the Cuban public]]''' Sanctions against Cuba are broadly damaging to the Cuban economy. This is primarily harmful to the Cuban people, as the Cuban leadership is able to insulate itself from these harmful effects. This means that sanctions are unlikely to compel the leadership to change its ways and democratize and that the United States sanctions are having an impact on par with an unjust war. *'''[[Argument: Sanctions against Cuba only hurt the Cuban public| Sanctions against Cuba only hurt the Cuban public]]''' Sanctions against Cuba are broadly damaging to the Cuban economy. This is primarily harmful to the Cuban people, as the Cuban leadership is able to insulate itself from these harmful effects. This means that sanctions are unlikely to compel the leadership to change its ways and democratize and that the United States sanctions are having an impact on par with an unjust war.
- *'''[[Argument:The sanctions cause real and unacceptable harm to the Cuban people| The sanctions cause real and unacceptable harm to the Cuban people]].''' In the 1990’s Cuba lost $70 Bn in trade and $1.2 Bn in international loans because of U.S. sanctions. Cuba is too poor a country not to suffer from these losses. The dominance of America in the pharmaceuticals industry, moreover, means that it is actually impossible for Cubans to gain access to many drugs. America would be the natural market for most Cuban products, and its refusal to accept goods with even the tiniest Cuban inputs from third nations damages Cuba’s ability to trade with others. Other South American countries have shown their reliance on the types of loans that Cuba is denied in the last few years to keep their economies on track.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172] + *'''The sanctions cause real and unacceptable harm to the Cuban people.''' In the 1990’s Cuba lost $70 Bn in trade and $1.2 Bn in international loans because of U.S. sanctions. Cuba is too poor a country not to suffer from these losses. The dominance of America in the pharmaceuticals industry, moreover, means that it is actually impossible for Cubans to gain access to many drugs. America would be the natural market for most Cuban products, and its refusal to accept goods with even the tiniest Cuban inputs from third nations damages Cuba’s ability to trade with others. Other South American countries have shown their reliance on the types of loans that Cuba is denied in the last few years to keep their economies on track.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172]
- *'''[[Argument: Sanctions violate the principal of just war| Sanctions violate the principal of just war]]''' Just war typically follows the logic that measures taken in war should not target or have substantially negative impacts on civilians of other countries. And, yet, the primary costs of US sanctions are born by Cuban citizens, violating the principal of just war. + *'''[[Argument: Sanctions violate the principle of just war| Sanctions violate the principle of just war]]''' Just war typically follows the logic that measures taken in war should not target or have substantially negative impacts on civilians of other countries. And, yet, the primary costs of US sanctions are born by Cuban citizens, violating the principal of just war.
- *'''[[Argument: Sanctions hurt Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba| Sanctions hurt Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba]]''' Sanctions make it too difficult for Cubans in America to travel to see or to financially support relatives in Cuba. This harms both Cubans and Cuban Americans, and neither of these consequences help further the primary aims of sanctions. + *'''Sanctions hurt Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba.''' Sanctions make it too difficult for Cubans in America to travel to see or to financially support relatives in Cuba. This harms both Cubans and Cuban Americans, and neither of these consequences help further the primary aims of sanctions.
*'''[[Argument: US sanctions harm Cuba's tourism industry| US sanctions harm Cuba's tourism industry]]''' The embargo on travel to Cuba from the United States damages Cuba's tourism industry. This industry has immense potential for growth given the beauty of Cuba. It therefore has immense potential to benefit the Cuban economy, create jobs, and raise standards of living. Depriving Cubans of this industry is, therefore, egregious in the way of punishing the Cuban people. *'''[[Argument: US sanctions harm Cuba's tourism industry| US sanctions harm Cuba's tourism industry]]''' The embargo on travel to Cuba from the United States damages Cuba's tourism industry. This industry has immense potential for growth given the beauty of Cuba. It therefore has immense potential to benefit the Cuban economy, create jobs, and raise standards of living. Depriving Cubans of this industry is, therefore, egregious in the way of punishing the Cuban people.
- *'''[[Sanctions have not been the cause of the economic failure in Cuba]].''' The communist political and economic system has been shown to lead to economic collapse all over the world, whether sanctions are in place or not. Even if sanctions were lifted, lack of private ownership, foreign exchange and tradable commodities would hold Cuba back. The International Trade Commission found a ‘minimal effect on the Cuban economy’ from sanctions. In fact, it is by using sanctions to pressure Cuba into economic and political reform that the US can best contribute to an economic recovery there.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172] + *'''Sanctions have not been the cause of the economic failure in Cuba.''' The communist political and economic system has been shown to lead to economic collapse all over the world, whether sanctions are in place or not. Even if sanctions were lifted, lack of private ownership, foreign exchange and tradable commodities would hold Cuba back. The International Trade Commission found a ‘minimal effect on the Cuban economy’ from sanctions. In fact, it is by using sanctions to pressure Cuba into economic and political reform that the US can best contribute to an economic recovery there.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172]
*'''[[Argument: Sanctions are a protest of Cuban govt humanitarian violations| Sanctions are a protest of Cuban govt humanitarian violations]]''' Sanctions are a protest of the humanitarian violations of a government. They need not necessarily have an effective impact on the actions of a government to, nevertheless, represent a principled protest. The symbolism of this moral protest is as important to maintain as any of the other effects that sanctions are supposed to bring. *'''[[Argument: Sanctions are a protest of Cuban govt humanitarian violations| Sanctions are a protest of Cuban govt humanitarian violations]]''' Sanctions are a protest of the humanitarian violations of a government. They need not necessarily have an effective impact on the actions of a government to, nevertheless, represent a principled protest. The symbolism of this moral protest is as important to maintain as any of the other effects that sanctions are supposed to bring.
- *'''[[Argument: Sanctions against Cuba can be adjusted to reduce harms| Sanctions against Cuba can be adjusted to reduce harms]]''' Many point to harms caused by the United States sanctions of Cuba. But this does not necessarily lead to a blanket condemnation of sanctions. It is possible for the United States to adjust its sanctions against Cuba to minimize any negative effects that are currently seen. It is possible, for example, to lift the tourism embargo on Cuba while maintaining other sanctions of the country. +
+ *'''Sanctions against Cuba can be adjusted to reduce harms.''' Many point to harms caused by the United States sanctions of Cuba. But this does not necessarily lead to a blanket condemnation of sanctions. It is possible for the United States to adjust its sanctions against Cuba to minimize any negative effects that are currently seen. It is possible, for example, to lift the tourism embargo on Cuba while maintaining other sanctions of the country.
*'''[[Argument: Changing legally etched Cuban human rights violations requires sanctions| Changing legally etched Cuban human rights violations requires sanctions]]''' Cuba's human rights violations are not merely a factor of capricious actions being taken by the Cuban regime. Rather, human rights violations are enshrined in Cuban law. The Cuban constitution does protect certain individual freedoms, but then nullifies them when they are contrary to "the goals of the socialist State," "socialist legality," or the "people's decision to build socialism and communism." By making individual rights conditional on the will of the Cuban regime, the door to human rights is opened very wide with no room for narrowing the gap. The only way that human rights violations can be ended in Cuba is if these laws are fundamentally changed or if the constitution itself is thrown away. Such drastic change cannot be achieved through gradual change, but requires sanctions for either regime change or as a lever to institute dramatic change. *'''[[Argument: Changing legally etched Cuban human rights violations requires sanctions| Changing legally etched Cuban human rights violations requires sanctions]]''' Cuba's human rights violations are not merely a factor of capricious actions being taken by the Cuban regime. Rather, human rights violations are enshrined in Cuban law. The Cuban constitution does protect certain individual freedoms, but then nullifies them when they are contrary to "the goals of the socialist State," "socialist legality," or the "people's decision to build socialism and communism." By making individual rights conditional on the will of the Cuban regime, the door to human rights is opened very wide with no room for narrowing the gap. The only way that human rights violations can be ended in Cuba is if these laws are fundamentally changed or if the constitution itself is thrown away. Such drastic change cannot be achieved through gradual change, but requires sanctions for either regime change or as a lever to institute dramatic change.
*'''Using sanctions to attempt regime change is illegal.''' To maintain sanctions in order to change the form of government, as the United States claims it does, is totally illegitimate under International Law. *'''Using sanctions to attempt regime change is illegal.''' To maintain sanctions in order to change the form of government, as the United States claims it does, is totally illegitimate under International Law.
- *Sanctions against Cuba violate the UN Charter. + *'''Sanctions against Cuba violate the UN Charter.'''
- *Sanctions against Cuba violated laws on the freedom of navigation + *'''Sanctions against Cuba violated laws on the freedom of navigation.'''
- *Sanctions against Cuba violate United Nations resolutions since 1992. These resolution were passed with only the US and Israel in opposition.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172] + *'''Sanctions against Cuba violate United Nations resolutions since 1992.''' These resolutions were passed with only the US and Israel in opposition.[http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=172]
*'''Sanctioning Cuba has, at its heart, the intention to uphold international law and standards.''' If sanctions break international law, it is only to hold the aims of international law. *'''Sanctioning Cuba has, at its heart, the intention to uphold international law and standards.''' If sanctions break international law, it is only to hold the aims of international law.
- *United Nations Resolutions condemning sanctions have never passed through the Security Council and therefore lack any authority. + *'''United Nations Resolutions condemning sanctions have never passed through the Security Council and therefore lack any authority.'''
====Yes==== ====Yes====
- *'''[[Argument: Sanctions against Cuba follow a double standard| Sanctions against Cuba follow a double standard]]''' How can the United States sanction Cuba for its undemocratic practices and alleged human rights violations when it does not sanction other countries for their tyrannical governments and human rights abuses. It is clear that democracy and human rights are not a consistent criteria in the United States for punishing other countries with sanctions. Such examples as the United States' alliance with Saudi Arabia, who can be criticized as undemocratic and in violation of various human rights standards, can be put forth to demonstrate that the United States is applying a double standard against Cuba. + *'''[[Argument: Why sanction Cuba so heavily and not other tyrannies| Sanctions against Cuba follow a double standard]]''' How can the United States sanction Cuba for its undemocratic practices and alleged human rights violations when it does not sanction other countries for their tyrannical governments and human rights abuses. It is clear that democracy and human rights are not a consistent criteria in the United States for punishing other countries with sanctions. Such examples as the United States' alliance with Saudi Arabia, who can be criticized as undemocratic and in violation of various human rights standards, can be put forth to demonstrate that the United States is applying a double standard against Cuba.
- ===Enforcement: Are enforcement and punishment measures appropriate?=== + ===Punishment: Are enforcement and punishment measures appropriate?===
*'''[[Argument: Enforcing US-Cuba sanctions entails punishing businesses and allies| Enforcing US-Cuba sanctions entails punishing businesses and allies]]''' Because the embargo makes it illegal for many US-related businesses to trade with Cuba, it becomes necessary for the United States to enforce these laws. Enforcement typically follows the course of punishment of international businesses and nations. But, the United States should not be punishing legitimate international businesses and allies in order to punish what it considers to be a nefarious Cuban regime. *'''[[Argument: Enforcing US-Cuba sanctions entails punishing businesses and allies| Enforcing US-Cuba sanctions entails punishing businesses and allies]]''' Because the embargo makes it illegal for many US-related businesses to trade with Cuba, it becomes necessary for the United States to enforce these laws. Enforcement typically follows the course of punishment of international businesses and nations. But, the United States should not be punishing legitimate international businesses and allies in order to punish what it considers to be a nefarious Cuban regime.
- *'''[[Argument: Travel ban to Cuba perversely punishes innocent travelers| Travel ban to Cuba perversely punishes innocent travelers]]''' Travelers are not acting nefariously by traveling to Cuba. There is little harm that can be done through such travel, and there are good lessons and experiences that can be had. And, yet, US citizens have been punished severely for traveling to Cuba, with the potential for prison time and fines up to $65,000.[http://www.zimbio.com/I+am+Cuban./articles/3/Cuban+American+filmmaker+risks+punishment]
- + *'''[[Argument: Travel ban to Cuba perversely punishes innocent travelers| Travel ban to Cuba perversely punishes innocent travelers]]''' Travelers are not acting nefariously by traveling to Cuba. There is little harm that can be done through such travel, and there are good lessons and experiences that can be had. And, yet, US citizens have been punished severely for traveling to Cuba, with the potential for prison time and fines up to $65,000.[http://www.zimbio.com/I+am+Cuban./articles/3/Cuban+American+filmmaker+risks+punishment]
*[http://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=1640 "Zambia voices concern over US sanctions against Cuba". LusakaTimes.com. December 2nd, 2007] *[http://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=1640 "Zambia voices concern over US sanctions against Cuba". LusakaTimes.com. December 2nd, 2007]
*[http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122007E.shtml Karen DeYoung. "Sanctions Against Cuba Are Excessive, GAO Says". The Washington Post. December 20th, 2007] *[http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122007E.shtml Karen DeYoung. "Sanctions Against Cuba Are Excessive, GAO Says". The Washington Post. December 20th, 2007]
- [below articles have not been read and wound into the above article. Someone can do this]
*[http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/39/lbc_cuba.html Philip Peters. "The Case Against Cuba Sanctions". Latin Business Chronicle. Feb 2002] *[http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/39/lbc_cuba.html Philip Peters. "The Case Against Cuba Sanctions". Latin Business Chronicle. Feb 2002]
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/28/cuba.unitednations "UN vote condemns US sanctions on Cuba". Guardian.Co.Uk. November 28 2001] *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/28/cuba.unitednations "UN vote condemns US sanctions on Cuba". Guardian.Co.Uk. November 28 2001]
*[http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/jul00/07e5.htm Georgie Anne Geyer. "Ending the Cuban embargo would perpetuate Castro's totalitarian control". Chicago Tribune. July 7, 2000] *[http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/jul00/07e5.htm Georgie Anne Geyer. "Ending the Cuban embargo would perpetuate Castro's totalitarian control". Chicago Tribune. July 7, 2000]
*[http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/49/9GA1994.html "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba". United Nations. 1994.] *[http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/49/9GA1994.html "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba". United Nations. 1994.]
+ *[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shermer/why-we-should-trade-with-_b_82859.html "Why We Should Trade with Cuba". January 23, 2008]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Rd1zNGHKjccC&pg=PA552&lpg=PA552&dq=jaime+suchlicki+on+cuba+sanctions&source=web&ots=FlwtdFpIg_&sig=2VzRp--8D4brj75AJV0_pLWiCrY&hl=en Jaime Suchlicki. ''Cuban Communism''. 2001] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=Rd1zNGHKjccC&pg=PA552&lpg=PA552&dq=jaime+suchlicki+on+cuba+sanctions&source=web&ots=FlwtdFpIg_&sig=2VzRp--8D4brj75AJV0_pLWiCrY&hl=en Jaime Suchlicki. ''Cuban Communism''. 2001]
*[http://www.brucesabin.com/american_embargo_cuba.html Frank Calzon, Executive director,The Center for a Free Cuba. "Should American Taxpayers Subsidize Fidel Castro?". November 18th, 2002] *[http://www.brucesabin.com/american_embargo_cuba.html Frank Calzon, Executive director,The Center for a Free Cuba. "Should American Taxpayers Subsidize Fidel Castro?". November 18th, 2002]
+ ===Pro/con videos===
- ==References:== + |-
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+ ====Yes====
+ '''"Ending the Travel Ban to Cuba"'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZNlW0V-5U]
+ <youtube>GcZNlW0V-5U</youtube>
- ==Motions:== + *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul5mRErmuOM&feature=related "Cuba Policy Questions". July 17th, 2007]
- * This house would drop the sanctions on Cuba. +
- * This house would sanction sanctions. +
- * This house believes in Cuba Libre. +
- * This house condemns US foreign policy. +
- ==In legislation, policy, and the real world:== + *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1FoZyRIDFE "Ending the Cuban Embargo".]
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+ ====No====
- ==See also on Debatepedia:== + '''"U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez stops attempt to weaken Cuba embargo". December 11, 2007.'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQG3A_XWJ4A]
+ <youtube>dQG3A_XWJ4A</youtube>
+ *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxRa_q8iXMA&NR=1 "Cuban Embargo". Heritage Foundation. February 21, 2008]
- ==External links and resources:== + |-
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+ ==See also==
+ *[[Debate: Sanctions]]
+ *[[Debate: Lifting sanctions on Myanmar]]
+ ==External links==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/486191.stm BBC. "Cuba: Is it time to lift the embargo?" "Comments". 1999] *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/486191.stm BBC. "Cuba: Is it time to lift the embargo?" "Comments". 1999]
* [http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cuba/ State Department Reports on Cuba] * [http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cuba/ State Department Reports on Cuba]
* [http://www.globalpolicy.org GlobalPolicy.org] * [http://www.globalpolicy.org GlobalPolicy.org]
- ==Books:== + * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312216203/interntionaldeba/104-5333130-0270319 Cuba: Confronting the US Embargo] : Peter Schwab
- * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312216203/interntionaldeba/104-5333130-0270319 Cuba: Confronting the US Embargo] <sup>Peter Schwab</sup> + * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817943528/interntionaldeba/104-5333130-0270319 A Strategic Flip-Flop in the Caribbean: Lift the Embargo in Cuba] : Roger Fontaine
- * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817943528/interntionaldeba/104-5333130-0270319 A Strategic Flip-Flop in the Caribbean: Lift the Embargo in Cuba] <sup>Roger Fontaine</sup> + * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1876175184/interntionaldeba/104-5333130-0270319 Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today] : Fidel Castro
- * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1876175184/interntionaldeba/104-5333130-0270319 Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today] <sup>Fidel Castro</sup> +
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Should the United States drop its sanctions on Cuba?
Fidel Castro and his Communist government came to power in Cuba in 1959, much to the horror of the American administration of the time.
Cuba was supported throughout the Cold War by the Soviet Union and became a flashpoint for Cold War tensions, notably during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis when Nikita Khrushchev sparked the most dangerous Cold War confrontation by attempting to place nuclear weapons on the island. America has maintained near total sanctions on Cuba throughout the period since 1959, but before 1990 they were largely counteracted in their effects by the weight of support, trade and subsidy offered by the USSR, which amounted to $4-6 Billion dollars per year. Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc the withdrawal of these subsidies has caused a 35% drop in GDP, which is only now starting to be reversed after market reforms that focus on foreign investment and tourism. Nevertheless, the poverty of Cuba makes it much more vulnerable to the effects of sanctions than it was. The decreased threat of communism has led to a re-evaluation of the sanctions in the US but so far the wounds of the twentieth century, and the electoral significance of Florida where most Cuban emigres live, has steeled the resolve of the White House. Sanctions were in fact strengthened significantly in the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, although recent moves have made food and medicine a little easier to move from the US to Cuba.[1]
1. Should the United States drop its sanctions on Cuba? |
3. Efficacy: Are sanctions a faulty policy in the effort to democratize Cuba? | | | |
4. Security: Are international security grounds for sanctioning Cuba unfounded? | | | |
5. Cuban harms: Do sanctions significantly harm Cubans? | | | |
6. Legality: Are US sanctions against Cuba illegal under international law? | | | |
7. Double-standard: Do sanctions against Cuba follow an international double standard? | | | |
8. US business: Is the sanctioning of Cuba bad for US businesses? | | | |
9. Punishment: Are enforcement and punishment measures appropriate? | | | |
10. Culture: Do US sanctions against Cuba undermine cultural exchanges? | | | |
11. Symbolism: Do sanctions offer valuable symbolic messages? | | | |
12. US image: Does sanctioning Cuba damage the image of the United States? | | | |
13. US property: Are sanctions an unjust punishment for nationalization of US property? | | | |
14. Democratic support: Are sanctions democratically supported in the US? | | | |
15. International Opinion: Where does the international community stand? | | | |
16. Pro/con resources | | | |
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Efficacy: Are sanctions a faulty policy in the effort to democratize Cuba?
Sanctions against Cuba have not worked at all in their long history. They’ve made no political difference in the last 43 years, why would they now?
Ending the tourism ban would help undermine the Cuban regime Tourism and its accompanying economic growth and cultural exchange all have the potential to undermine the Cuban regime. Whenever people are exposed to economic freedoms and to foreign cultural liberties, they will seek those standards in their own political system. This will help force the Cuban regime to change or risk rebellion.
Sanctions give the Cuban government an excuse for their failures Sanctions make it possible for the Cuban government to blame its failures on the United States. Many Cuban people accept this proposition put forth by the Cuban government. If sanctions were eliminated, the Cuban government would no longer have the capacity to blame their failures on the United States, and the Cubans would not longer believe any such excuses.
Sanctions damage the spread of democracy Democracy usually spreads through the gradual exposure of people to democratic practices, liberal economics, and the higher living standards associated with these systems. Sanctions damage the exposure of the Cuban public to this all, making it far less likely that they will move to demand democracy and liberal economics from their leaders.
Ending sanctions will allow US to expand influence in Cuba International influence can be characterized, in large part, by the various influences and connections a country holds in another country. Such influence is fostered, in large part, by economic, cultural, and political investments and a country. Yet, sanctions are preventing the United States from investing in these things in Cuba, and deprives the United States of the kind of leverage it needs to produce real change in Cuba.
US sanctions against Cuba cannot work unilaterally Sanctions are not very effective when implemented by only one country, as other countries may trade heavily with the sanctioned country, thus minimizing the economic harm from unilateral sanctions. The United States sanctions against Cuba are largely unilateral, and are subsequently having little of the desired effect.
Sanctions are a powerful tool for liberalizing countries. Aggressive U.S. engagement and pressure contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and it can work again.Now is exactly the time that the United States should be tightening down the screws so that Castro’s successor is forced to make real changes.[2]
Media helps soften Cuban popular impressions of US sanctions While sanctions may be having unfortunate effects on the Cuban people, the impact of sanctions on the morale of the Cuban people and their respect for the United States can be mollified through various media sources broadcasting from the United States to Cuba. The intention of the sanctions to punish the Cuban regime and to help protect the freedoms of Cubans can be better explained to the Cuban people through these messages.
US sanctions back Cuban people's fight against totalitarianism Sanctions are part of the Cuban people's fight against totalitarianism. They are part of an effort to bring about either regime change or to lever dramatic liberalization. Do drop sanctions would be to abandon the Cuban people's efforts to fight totalitarianism.
The Cuban regime won't democratize so must be ended with sanctions There are strong indications that Castro, Raul, and the Cuban regime will not democratize. Their grip on power is firm and codified into Cuban law. The only way to wrench power from them is through sanctions, which has the power to cause regime change or leverage substantial reforms at the right time.
Sanctions should persist to leverage Cuban leaders that follow Castro Sanctions are a good lever to influence Cuban political leaders toward liberalization. While this may not be achievable with Castro, it is certainly possible with the leaders that follow Castro. Sanctions have more potential to influence post-Castro Cuban leaders because these leaders will be less able to resist the public outcry against the government actions in Cuba that have led to the existence of these sanctions. Therefore, the liberalizing objective of sanctions are much more likely to succeed with the next Cuban leaders, and so they should be sustained so that they can be used effectively in this context.
Cubans aren't fooled by their regime's attempts to blame sanctions for failures. Blaming America for all economic woes didn’t trick ordinary Russians and it won’t trick the Cubans. The mission of democratic reform, therefore, is not damaged in Cuban minds by US sanctions.
Security: Are international security grounds for sanctioning Cuba unfounded?
Cuba sanctions lost national security rationale after 1991 The initial purpose of sanctioning Cuba was to constrain the broader threat of the Soviet Union following Castro's coming of power and the initiation of relations between the two countries. Indeed, Cuba, was a significant threat to the United States and international security at that time as a proxy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But, after the Cold War ended, Cuba became a far lower-level threat as it ceased to be a proxy country of the Soviet Union. Sanctions, being leveled against Cuba in the Cold War context, are therefore no longer reasonable, as Cuba no longer presents the same threat to the United States and the world.
There is no evidence that Cuba is a sponsor of terror.
Cuba has no weapons of mass destructions. It has no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.
Cuba holds fewer prisoners of conscience than China, Vietnam, Iran, or even Egypt.
Cuba has cooperated with the United States on security matters. Following September 11th, for example, Cuba offered to share information with the United States that would help in its subsequent War on Terror.
Sanctions are superior to the use of military force. Sanctions are often a "softer", better alternative to the use of military force. This has some resonance in the case of Cuba. In 1996, two US civilian planes were shot down by the Cuban air force near Cuba. The United States could have responded, on some proportional level, militarily. President Clinton decided, however, to use sanctions instead to punish the Cuban regime with the Helms-Burton Act. Therefore, the continued sanctioning of Cuba through 1996 and to present was, to some extent, the preferred alternative within the Clinton administration to military action against Cuba.
The significance of the threat from Cuba justifies US sanctions Cuba posses a significant national security threat, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ending of its support for Cuba in 1991. First, Cuba posses a direct threat to liberalism by continuing to pressure for communism internationally. Communism rests on principles that are directly antagonistic to democracy. Such principles, as was demonstrated during the Cold War, have the potential to be highly destabilizing and threatening to international security. The instability of Cuba itself, under such a communist regime, poses certain international risks as well. In addition, Cuba's record of human rights abuses, nefarious international attacks, and even support of terrorism can be cited as a threat to international security and go toward justifying the current sanctions.
1996 Helms-Burton bill justly followed Cuba shooting down two civilian airplanes Bill Clinton cannot be blamed for responding in 1996 to the shooting down of two US civilian aircraft with allowing the Helm-Burton sanctions act to pass. This was a proportional response. If he had decided to block the bill, protests from Americans would have been substantial.
The Castro brothers won't democratize so sanctions must persist.
The Cuban administration refused to give help with the search for Al-Qaeda suspects.
Cuba is on the U.S. list of sponsors of terror.
Cuba provides a safe haven to many American fugitives.
Cuba is known to have a developmental biological weapons ‘effort'.
Cuba is recorded as breaking international sanctions to export dual use technologies to Iran.
Cuba has failed to stop drug shipments through its waters.
Cuban harms: Do sanctions significantly harm Cubans?
Sanctions against Cuba only hurt the Cuban public Sanctions against Cuba are broadly damaging to the Cuban economy. This is primarily harmful to the Cuban people, as the Cuban leadership is able to insulate itself from these harmful effects. This means that sanctions are unlikely to compel the leadership to change its ways and democratize and that the United States sanctions are having an impact on par with an unjust war.
The sanctions cause real and unacceptable harm to the Cuban people. In the 1990’s Cuba lost $70 Bn in trade and $1.2 Bn in international loans because of U.S. sanctions. Cuba is too poor a country not to suffer from these losses. The dominance of America in the pharmaceuticals industry, moreover, means that it is actually impossible for Cubans to gain access to many drugs. America would be the natural market for most Cuban products, and its refusal to accept goods with even the tiniest Cuban inputs from third nations damages Cuba’s ability to trade with others. Other South American countries have shown their reliance on the types of loans that Cuba is denied in the last few years to keep their economies on track.[3]
Sanctions violate the principle of just war Just war typically follows the logic that measures taken in war should not target or have substantially negative impacts on civilians of other countries. And, yet, the primary costs of US sanctions are born by Cuban citizens, violating the principal of just war.
Sanctions hurt Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba. Sanctions make it too difficult for Cubans in America to travel to see or to financially support relatives in Cuba. This harms both Cubans and Cuban Americans, and neither of these consequences help further the primary aims of sanctions.
US sanctions harm Cuba's tourism industry The embargo on travel to Cuba from the United States damages Cuba's tourism industry. This industry has immense potential for growth given the beauty of Cuba. It therefore has immense potential to benefit the Cuban economy, create jobs, and raise standards of living. Depriving Cubans of this industry is, therefore, egregious in the way of punishing the Cuban people.
Sanctions have not been the cause of the economic failure in Cuba. The communist political and economic system has been shown to lead to economic collapse all over the world, whether sanctions are in place or not. Even if sanctions were lifted, lack of private ownership, foreign exchange and tradable commodities would hold Cuba back. The International Trade Commission found a ‘minimal effect on the Cuban economy’ from sanctions. In fact, it is by using sanctions to pressure Cuba into economic and political reform that the US can best contribute to an economic recovery there.[4]
Sanctions are a protest of Cuban govt humanitarian violations Sanctions are a protest of the humanitarian violations of a government. They need not necessarily have an effective impact on the actions of a government to, nevertheless, represent a principled protest. The symbolism of this moral protest is as important to maintain as any of the other effects that sanctions are supposed to bring.
Sanctions against Cuba can be adjusted to reduce harms. Many point to harms caused by the United States sanctions of Cuba. But this does not necessarily lead to a blanket condemnation of sanctions. It is possible for the United States to adjust its sanctions against Cuba to minimize any negative effects that are currently seen. It is possible, for example, to lift the tourism embargo on Cuba while maintaining other sanctions of the country.
Changing legally etched Cuban human rights violations requires sanctions Cuba's human rights violations are not merely a factor of capricious actions being taken by the Cuban regime. Rather, human rights violations are enshrined in Cuban law. The Cuban constitution does protect certain individual freedoms, but then nullifies them when they are contrary to "the goals of the socialist State," "socialist legality," or the "people's decision to build socialism and communism." By making individual rights conditional on the will of the Cuban regime, the door to human rights is opened very wide with no room for narrowing the gap. The only way that human rights violations can be ended in Cuba is if these laws are fundamentally changed or if the constitution itself is thrown away. Such drastic change cannot be achieved through gradual change, but requires sanctions for either regime change or as a lever to institute dramatic change.
Legality: Are US sanctions against Cuba illegal under international law?
Using sanctions to attempt regime change is illegal. To maintain sanctions in order to change the form of government, as the United States claims it does, is totally illegitimate under International Law.
Sanctions against Cuba violate the UN Charter.
Sanctions against Cuba violated laws on the freedom of navigation.
Sanctions against Cuba violate United Nations resolutions since 1992. These resolutions were passed with only the US and Israel in opposition.[5]
UN set precedent for sanctioning Cuba over human rights violations
Sanctioning Cuba is appropriate punishment for its flouting the UN Prior to the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights repeatedly reported on the human rights situation in Cuba and took the step of appointing a Special Rapporteur. The Rapporteur was continually denied access by the Cuban government to perform its work in Cuba in examining Cuban human rights violations. Such examples of flouting the UN actually led to UN sanctions and warranted sanctions from other countries against Cuba.
Sanctioning Cuba has, at its heart, the intention to uphold international law and standards. If sanctions break international law, it is only to hold the aims of international law.
United Nations Resolutions condemning sanctions have never passed through the Security Council and therefore lack any authority.
Double-standard: Do sanctions against Cuba follow an international double standard?
Sanctions against Cuba follow a double standard How can the United States sanction Cuba for its undemocratic practices and alleged human rights violations when it does not sanction other countries for their tyrannical governments and human rights abuses. It is clear that democracy and human rights are not a consistent criteria in the United States for punishing other countries with sanctions. Such examples as the United States' alliance with Saudi Arabia, who can be criticized as undemocratic and in violation of various human rights standards, can be put forth to demonstrate that the United States is applying a double standard against Cuba.
US business: Is the sanctioning of Cuba bad for US businesses?
Lifting sanctions against Cuba would benefit US exporters There is a major market in the Cuba for United States export goods. Sanctions, however, deprive US businesses of the opportunity of profiting from these possibilities. In this way, the United States is harming itself in order to sanction Cuba, and this makes little sense. Mid-Western Republicans have all voted to drop the embargo because of the potential for profits in their farming states. This is a market for American products as well as a local producer. Further, if sanctions end Americans will be able to stop pretending that they prefer Bolivian cigars![6]
Lifting sanctions against Cuba will hardly benefit US businesses. The total Cuban GDP is a small drop in the ocean of the US economy.
Economic considerations should not be taken over principles supporting sanctions. Even if Cuba was a vital market for American goods it would be worth giving up some economic growth in order to maintain a commitment to the freedom of the Cuban people.
Punishment: Are enforcement and punishment measures appropriate?
Enforcing US-Cuba sanctions entails punishing businesses and allies Because the embargo makes it illegal for many US-related businesses to trade with Cuba, it becomes necessary for the United States to enforce these laws. Enforcement typically follows the course of punishment of international businesses and nations. But, the United States should not be punishing legitimate international businesses and allies in order to punish what it considers to be a nefarious Cuban regime.
Travel ban to Cuba perversely punishes innocent travelers Travelers are not acting nefariously by traveling to Cuba. There is little harm that can be done through such travel, and there are good lessons and experiences that can be had. And, yet, US citizens have been punished severely for traveling to Cuba, with the potential for prison time and fines up to $65,000.[7]
Culture: Do US sanctions against Cuba undermine cultural exchanges?
Sanctions undermine cultural exchanges between countries Cuba and the United States are distinct in their cultures. It is a shame that sanctions prevent the exchange of these cultures, particularly through tourism.
Cultural exchanges with a communist people may be undesirable. While cultural exchanges may be a good thing, a main concern is that cultural exchanges with communists threatens that communist ideas will rub of on liberalized peoples. This may not be worth any cultural benefits.
Symbolism: Do sanctions offer valuable symbolic messages?
Lifting US sanctions will not be a victory for the Cuban regime Lifting sanctions on Cuba need not be seen as an admission of failure on the part of the United States' policy and, thus, a victory for the Cuban government. Rather, it can easily be framed simply as an alteration of approach toward the same goal of liberalizing Cuba. In addition, dropping sanctions, despite any immediate media benefits to the Cuban government, will be a long-term liability for them as it will become impossible to blame their failures on the United States. Their failures will be seen as their own, and this will be a certain cost for the Cuban government. In addition, policies should not be continued merely on the basis of costs surrounding admissions of failure. Failed tactics such as sanctions should always be ended if in the bigger and more important interest of "winning the war".
This morale statement has important implications as far as asserting, without wavering, that the Castro regime needs to change. International support for reform in Cuba can be rallied only around such a principled stand against Communism.[8]
US image: Does sanctioning Cuba damage the image of the United States?
The Helms-Burton Act harms international businessmen, causing significant protest around the world. This makes a mockery of the US claim to be a guardian of International Law, not only in its dealings with Cuba but also in the negotiations over the future of Iraq. America could achieve its goals internationally more easily if it was not marked with evidence of its lack of respect for International Law.[9]
Sanctioning Cuba upholds US image of a strong opponent of tyranny.
US property: Are sanctions an unjust punishment for nationalization of US property?
Cuba has offered to compensate the U.S. citizens whose property was nationalised in 1959.
Cuba's government profits directly from resources stolen from United States citizens in 1959.[10]
Democratic support: Are sanctions democratically supported in the US?
US-Cuba sanctions exist only to appease Republicans in Florida One of the main criticisms of sanctions against Cuba is that they have a long history of being driven by the Cuban-American lobby. Yet, sanctions should not be driven by such a small segment of society.
Sanctions against Cuba are not democratically supported in America Sanctions are not the will of the American people but of a small minority of embittered Cuban Americans in Florida. National opinion generally expresses no preference or opposes the ban. Congress recently voted by 262-167 to repeal the Travel Ban to Cuba but will be thwarted by the insistence of George W. Bush that the ban remain. This is electioneering government at its worst.[11]
Expert opinion matters more than public opinion on Cuba sanctions.
International Opinion: Where does the international community stand?
"Zambia voices concern over US sanctions against Cuba". LusakaTimes.com. December 2nd, 2007
Pro/con resources
Greg Reeson. "Time to Drop Sanctions Against Cuba". American Chronicle. October 30, 2006
Dan Griswold. "Four Decades of Failure: The U.S. Embargo against Cuba". Cato Institute. October 12, 2005
Quang Nguyen. "End Sanctions Against Cuba". Michigan Independent. February 6th, 2006
Philip Peters. "U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba: A Just War Perspective". Lexington Institute. Aug 5, 2006
Karen DeYoung. "Sanctions Against Cuba Are Excessive, GAO Says". The Washington Post. December 20th, 2007
Philip Peters. "The Case Against Cuba Sanctions". Latin Business Chronicle. Feb 2002
"UN vote condemns US sanctions on Cuba". Guardian.Co.Uk. November 28 2001
Cuba Solidarity Campaign
David Rennie. "Cuba sanctions come back to bite Bush". Fairfax Digital. July 1, 2004
Stephan Vitvitsky. "Why the Cuban Embargo Should Be Lifted". Tufts Daily. March 12, 2003
Anatol Lieven. "It's time to trade with Cuba. Capitalism's appeal". The New York Times Media Group. April 26, 2007
Georgie Anne Geyer. "Ending the Cuban embargo would perpetuate Castro's totalitarian control". Chicago Tribune. July 7, 2000
"Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba". United Nations. 1994.
"Why We Should Trade with Cuba". January 23, 2008
Helms Burton Act of 1996. Thomas, Library of Congress
US Treasury. Cuba Sanctions Summarized. Retrieved 3.03.08
Peter Wallsten. "Keep Cuba sanctions, Democratic presidential candidate Kerry says". The Miami Herald. Sep. 01, 2003
Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL). "U.S. Sanctions Critical for Cuban Democratic Transition". October, 1999
"Cuba sanctions bill clears Congress". CNN.org. March 6, 1996
"US in no hurry to lift Cuba sanctions". Courier Mail. February 20th, 2008
"U.S. Cuba Policy". Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, US Department of State. July 30, 2003
"Impediments to Human Rights in Cuban Law". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 3.4.08
Jaime Suchlicki. Cuban Communism. 2001
Frank Calzon, Executive director,The Center for a Free Cuba. "Should American Taxpayers Subsidize Fidel Castro?". November 18th, 2002
Pro/con videos
"Ending the Travel Ban to Cuba"[12]
"Cuba Policy Questions". July 17th, 2007
"Ending the Cuban Embargo".
"U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez stops attempt to weaken Cuba embargo". December 11, 2007.[13]
"Cuban Embargo". Heritage Foundation. February 21, 2008
Debate: Sanctions
Debate: Lifting sanctions on Myanmar
BBC. "Cuba: Is it time to lift the embargo?" "Comments". 1999
CubaNet
State Department Reports on Cuba
GlobalPolicy.org
Cuba: Confronting the US Embargo : Peter Schwab
A Strategic Flip-Flop in the Caribbean: Lift the Embargo in Cuba : Roger Fontaine
Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today : Fidel Castro
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Mooshi: Assistant Editor
This is the 300th post for Our Place in the World. As a journal of ecological socialism (ecosocialism), Our Place in the World has a particular vision based on merging Marxian theory of socialism, which aims to emancipate humankind from the evils of class society, in particular capitalism, with wisdom of Deep Ecology as summarized in its Eight Point Platform. From a philosophical materialist point of view, this synthesis is possible by placing our species in its evolutionary context. Evolutionary in double historical senses: the coming into existence of this universe and the emergence of life on Earth. Thus, Our Place in the World also relies on the knowledge gained from physics, evolutionary biology, and ecology. Moreover, it aims to learn as much from the modern humans so-called “pre-history” as it does from our “history.” For 190,000 years, modern humans lived in “primitive communist” groups much more in harmony with themselves and with nature than ever since; that is in the period our existence we strangely call “civilization,” marked by an almost pathological derive to "control" nature including by subjugation and exploitation of animals and plants. In the process, of course, we have also subjugated and exploited ourselves in many forms, that is, by gender, caste, class, race, etc. This and continued rebellion against it is the history of class societies since the dawn of the “Agriculture Revolution.”
There is no doubt that humanity in now in great danger and that our mode of social organization, called capitalism, a society organized for and run by a small minority who own social means of production for the sake of profit and accumulation of wealth, is risking life on Earth. The way out of this crisis of society and nature is fundamentally ethical and political. It requires a process of de-alienation that will bring about harmony in society and with nature of which we are an organic part. This vision and process of radical change is Ecological Socialism.
Since my last “A Word with the Readers”, there has been 99 posts (no. 201 to no. 299 inclusive). Of these 4 posts are about various ideas of socialism or ecosocialism. One notion enshrined as law in Bolivia recently is the rights of Mother Nature (2 posts). With the rise of "civilization," animism widespread in "primitive" societies has been replace with religious/philosophical views that support the ideology of "man's dominion" that support the derive to "control nature."
Fifteen posts are about Cuba, mostly covering the recent economic reforms and the process of the sixth Congress of the Communist Party. I urge readers who have not read these posts to review them to get a sense of how much more input the Cuban people have in their country's policies compared to the most "democratic" western society's including the United States. There are six posts on Latina America and another two posts on Venezuela where class struggle is sharper.
The recent period is marked by the Arab uprising, imperialist wars, Japan nuclear disaster. Six posts, including a series that I wrote, deal with the promise and challenges in the Middle East and North Africa. Ten posts deal with various aspects of capitalism and imperialism, particularly in the United States. Twelve post are about dangers of nuclear power and nine are about corporate power that runs capitalist countries, again with a focus on the United States. Three posts report on the continued crisis in the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of BP oil spill.
We continue document ecological and environmental crises. Nineteen post are about these topics. Another four deal with climate change. Six posts are about philosophy, science, and human nature. Seven posts inform on evolution.
An important task of Our Place in the World is to draw attention to human tyranny against other sentient beings and nature. Two posts shed light on the richness of animal lives Nineteen posts report on these. Five posts deal with "green technologies." This is a contested topic. "Green capitalism" advocates suggest that capitalist social relations can accommodate "green technologies" to deal with climate change and other natural hazards of capitalism. Ecological socialism would instead rely on radical change in social relations of production that would also do away with technologies that degrade nature and oppress or harm other beings. There are three posts on animal liberation and rights of Mother Nature as well as one post on vegetarianism.
Finally, there are two "art" posts . I urge you to visit them. One is a brilliant clip called "The Mountain" and another is a beautiful multimedia presentation about the history of Salsa. I hope to post more art pieces in the future. And, there is one book review. There will be more coming.
I should like to restate a standard journalistic policy: all signed articles represent the views of their author(s). They are reprinted here because they relate to a subject of our interest. Only unsigned articles are the points of view of Our Place in the World.
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202. Fidel Castro: The Revolutionary Rebellion in Egypt
203. How Do Lemurs Think?
204. Heavy Rains Linked to Greenhouse Gases
205. Vegetarianism in Cuba
206. Japanese Whaling Fleet Is Recalled, Harassed by Activists
207. Obama Requests Funding for Venezuelan Opposition in 2012 Budget208. The U.S. Empire at the End of Its Decadence
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210. The New Latin American “Progresismo” and the Extractivism of the 21st Century
211. Cuba's Upcoming Communist Party Congress: Moving Away from Socialism and Workers' Democracy
212. Cuba: More than 6 Million Participate in PCC Pre-Congress Discussion, Selection of Delegates Begins
213. BP Oil Spill: Gulf of Mexico Bottom Shows Little Sign of Recovery, But Many Dead Critters
214. Monsanto "Helps" Write Regulations for Genetically Modified Crop
215. The Bolivarian Revolution: Achievements and Challenge
216. The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?
217. Nine Myths About Electric Cars
218. Sharks Navigate Using a Mental Map
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220. Natural Gas Industry Limits Effort to Regulate Drilling
221. China Unveils Economic Plan With Focus on Raising Incomes and Reining in Pollution
222. Clean Fuel Worsens Climate Impacts for Some Vehicle Engines
223. Alberto Granado, 88, Friend of Che, Dies
224. Empires and Their Natural Limits
225. Agroecological Farming Can Double Food Output by Poor, UN Study Shows
226. Fashion and Fascism
227. High Tech and Environmental Pollution: The Case of Rare Earths Mining
228. From Nasser to Mubarak: Part 1. The Rise and Fall of Arab Nationalism
229. Rise in Temperature Hurts Coffee Growers
230. Decline of Honey Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, Says UN
231. Cooperation and Social Learning Might Have Been Key to Evolution of Humans
232. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
233. Japan's Radiation Leak: Shades of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl?
234. Cuba Sentences U.S. State Department Contractor to 15 Years in Prison
236. Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in Design of Stricken Reactor
237. Evolution: From Single Cells Came Complex Animals
238. From Nasser to Mubarak: Part 2. Imperialism and the Arab Revolution
239. Venezuela’s Chavez Halts Nuclear Energy Program following Japan Crisis
240. End Nuclear Power Before It Ends Us
241. Cubans Air Frustrations as Party Congress Nears
242. Racehorses Left to Charity for Care, Starve
243. Tokyo Electric Power Company Delayed Action on Nuclear Reactors to Protect Profits
244. Evolution: Supremacy of a Social Network
245. The Role of Trade Unions in Tunisia's Revolutionary Upsurge
246. Invasive Species: The Case of the Domesticated Cat
247. US Army 'Kill Team' in Afghanistan Posed for Photos of Murdered Civilians
248. BP Oil Spill: Parts of Gulf of Mexico Floor Looks Like a "Grave Yard"
249. One World: Threat of Japanese Radiation to the U.S. Population
250. Leonard I. Weinglass Dies at 77; Defended Civil Liberties Against Threatened By the State
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252. Germany's Solar Panels Produce More Power than the Entire Fukushima Nuclear Complex
253. Human Prejudice Has Ancient Evolutionary Roots
254. India Reports an Increase in Wild Tiger Population
255. Marine Life Is Threatened by Fukushima Nuclear Runoffs
256. ‘Artificial Leaf’ Could Power a Home: MIT Scientist
257. From Wild Animals to Domestic Pets; An Evolutionary View of Domestication
258. Book Review: The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth
259. Alarcon: Obama Should Drop False Charges against the Cuban Five
260. Cesar Chávez and Animal Rights
261. Japan Dumps Radioactive Water Into Ocean
262. Climate Change: Multitude of Species Face Extinction
263. Whale and Dolphin Death Toll During BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster May Have Been Greatly Underestimated
264. Brazil Rejects Panel’s Request to Stop Mega Dam
265. From Nasser to Mubarak: Part 3. What Is To Be Done?
266. Fighting Malaria With African Plant Extracts
267. How Nuclear Apologists Mislead the World Over Radiation
268. Bolivia Enshrines Natural World's Rights with Equal Status for Mother Earth
269. The American System: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
270. NDM-1 Superbug Mutation Shows Up in New Delhi Drinking Water
271. States Look to Ban Efforts to Reveal Farm Abuse
272. After Mountain Tops Fall, A Coal Town Vanishes
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276. G.O.P. Push in States to Deregulate Environment
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278. Michio Kaku: Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb"
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280. Microbes That Eat Radioactive Materials
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282. Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil firms and Invasion of Iraq
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284. Art: The Mountain
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286. The Debate about Chernobyl Death Toll
287. The Campesino-to-Campesino Agroecology Movement of ANAP in Cuba: Social Process Methodology in the Construction of Sustainable Peasant Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
288. Learning to Tolerate Our Microbial Self: Bacteria Co-Opt Human Immune Cells for Mutual Benefit
289. The Power of Nature: The Tsunami that Hit Northern Japan
290. Bolivia Celebrates Law Granting Rights to Mother Earth
291. The Evolution of Salsa (La Evolución de la Salsa): A Multimedia Presentation
292. American Foreign Policy: Libyan, from "Freedom Fighter" in Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay Detainee to "Rebel" Fighting Qaddafi
293. Study of Vision Tackles a Philosophy Riddle
294. What Does IQ Really Measure?
295. Mumia Abu-Jamal Wins Critical Court Decision
296. India Now Has 1,706 Tigers
297. Very Poor Women of Africa and South America Shrink in Size, Study Finds
298. Why People Do Not Believe Science: A Scientific View
299. Report: Doctors Ignored Guantanamo Torture
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UPI, April 27, 2011
U.S. medical and mental health personnel assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, neglected or concealed medical evidence of torture of detainees, a study says.
A report by Physicians for Human Rights and other rights groups, published by the Public Library of Science, said doctors and other professionals assigned to the U.S. Department of Defense at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should have been in a position to observe and document physical and psychological evidence of torture and ill treatment.
The report analyzed medical records and relevant case files of nine individuals for evidence of torture and ill treatment and corresponding documentation by medical personnel, a PLOS Medicine release said Wednesday. In each of the nine cases, detainees alleged abusive interrogation methods that are consistent with torture as defined by the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
The report said medical personnel who treated the detainees failed to inquire and/or document causes of the physical injuries and psychological symptoms they observed.
Instead, the report found, psychological symptoms were commonly attributed to "personality disorders" and "routine stressors of confinement," and temporary psychotic symptoms and hallucinations did not prompt consideration of abusive treatment.
Subsequent psychological assessments conducted by non-governmental medical experts revealed diagnostic criteria for current major depression and/or post-traumatic stress syndrome in all nine cases, the report said.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/04/27/Report-Doctors-ignored-Guantanamo-torture/UPI-63701303953146/#ixzz1Kpqcduwp
By Chris Mooney, Mother Jones, April 18, 2011
“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point." So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger (PDF), in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial—the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, of what we know about global warming and its human causes. But it was too early for that—this was the 1950s—and Festinger was actually describing a famous case study in psychology.
Festinger and several of his colleagues had infiltrated the Seekers, a small Chicago-area cult whose members thought they were communicating with aliens—including one, "Sananda," who they believed was the astral incarnation of Jesus Christ. The group was led by Dorothy Martin, a Dianetics devotee who transcribed the interstellar messages through automatic writing.
Through her, the aliens had given the precise date of an Earth-rending cataclysm: December 21, 1954. Some of Martin's followers quit their jobs and sold their property, expecting to be rescued by a flying saucer when the continent split asunder and a new sea swallowed much of the United States. The disciples even went so far as to remove brassieres and rip zippers out of their trousers—the metal, they believed, would pose a danger on the spacecraft.
Festinger and his team were with the cult when the prophecy failed. First, the "boys upstairs" (as the aliens were sometimes called) did not show up and rescue the Seekers. Then December 21 arrived without incident. It was the moment Festinger had been waiting for: How would people so emotionally invested in a belief system react, now that it had been soundly refuted?
At first, the group struggled for an explanation. But then rationalization set in. A new message arrived, announcing that they'd all been spared at the last minute. Festinger summarized the extraterrestrials' new pronouncement: "The little group, sitting all night long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from destruction." Their willingness to believe in the prophecy had saved Earth from the prophecy!
From that day forward, the Seekers, previously shy of the press and indifferent toward evangelizing, began to proselytize. "Their sense of urgency was enormous," wrote Festinger. The devastation of all they had believed had made them even more certain of their beliefs.
In the annals of denial, it doesn't get much more extreme than the Seekers. They lost their jobs, the press mocked them, and there were efforts to keep them away from impressionable young minds. But while Martin's space cult might lie at on the far end of the spectrum of human self-delusion, there's plenty to go around. And since Festinger's day, an array of new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience has further demonstrated how our preexisting beliefs, far more than any new facts, can skew our thoughts and even color what we consider our most dispassionate and logical conclusions. This tendency toward so-called "motivated reasoning" helps explain why we find groups so polarized over matters where the evidence is so unequivocal: climate change, vaccines, "death panels," the birthplace and religion of the president (PDF), and much else. It would seem that expecting people to be convinced by the facts flies in the face of, you know, the facts.
The theory of motivated reasoning builds on a key insight of modern neuroscience (PDF): Reasoning is actually suffused with emotion (or what researchers often call "affect"). Not only are the two inseparable, but our positive or negative feelings about people, things, and ideas arise much more rapidly than our conscious thoughts, in a matter of milliseconds—fast enough to detect with an EEG device, but long before we're aware of it. That shouldn't be surprising: Evolution required us to react very quickly to stimuli in our environment. It's a "basic human survival skill," explains political scientist Arthur Lupia of the University of Michigan. We push threatening information away; we pull friendly information close. We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
We're not driven only by emotions, of course—we also reason, deliberate. But reasoning comes later, works slower—and even then, it doesn't take place in an emotional vacuum. Rather, our quick-fire emotions can set us on a course of thinking that's highly biased, especially on topics we care a great deal about.
Consider a person who has heard about a scientific discovery that deeply challenges her belief in divine creation—a new hominid, say, that confirms our evolutionary origins. What happens next, explains political scientist Charles Taber of Stony Brook University, is a subconscious negative response to the new information—and that response, in turn, guides the type of memories and associations formed in the conscious mind. "They retrieve thoughts that are consistent with their previous beliefs," says Taber, "and that will lead them to build an argument and challenge what they're hearing."
In other words, when we think we're reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we're being scientists, but we're actually being lawyers (PDF). Our "reasoning" is a means to a predetermined end—winning our "case"—and is shot through with biases. They include "confirmation bias," in which we give greater heed to evidence and arguments that bolster our beliefs, and "disconfirmation bias," in which we expend disproportionate energy trying to debunk or refute views and arguments that we find uncongenial.
That's a lot of jargon, but we all understand these mechanisms when it comes to interpersonal relationships. If I don't want to believe that my spouse is being unfaithful, or that my child is a bully, I can go to great lengths to explain away behavior that seems obvious to everybody else—everybody who isn't too emotionally invested to accept it, anyway. That's not to suggest that we aren't also motivated to perceive the world accurately—we are. Or that we never change our minds—we do. It's just that we have other important goals besides accuracy—including identity affirmation and protecting one's sense of self—and often those make us highly resistant to changing our beliefs when the facts say we should.
Modern science originated from an attempt to weed out such subjective lapses—what that great 17th century theorist of the scientific method, Francis Bacon, dubbed the "idols of the mind." Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader processes of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.
Scientific evidence is highly susceptible to misinterpretation. Giving ideologues scientific data that’s relevant to their beliefs is like unleashing them in the motivated-reasoning equivalent of a candy store.
Our individual responses to the conclusions that science reaches, however, are quite another matter. Ironically, in part because researchers employ so much nuance and strive to disclose all remaining sources of uncertainty, scientific evidence is highly susceptible to selective reading and misinterpretation. Giving ideologues or partisans scientific data that's relevant to their beliefs is like unleashing them in the motivated-reasoning equivalent of a candy store.
Sure enough, a large number of psychological studies have shown that people respond to scientific or technical evidence in ways that justify their preexisting beliefs. In a classic 1979 experiment (PDF), pro- and anti-death penalty advocates were exposed to descriptions of two fake scientific studies: one supporting and one undermining the notion that capital punishment deters violent crime and, in particular, murder. They were also shown detailed methodological critiques of the fake studies—and in a scientific sense, neither study was stronger than the other. Yet in each case, advocates more heavily criticized the study whose conclusions disagreed with their own, while describing the study that was more ideologically congenial as more "convincing."
Since then, similar results have been found for how people respond to "evidence" about affirmative action, gun control, the accuracy of gay stereotypes, and much else. Even when study subjects are explicitly instructed to be unbiased and even-handed about the evidence, they often fail.
And it's not just that people twist or selectively read scientific evidence to support their preexisting views. According to research by Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan and his colleagues, people's deep-seated views about morality, and about the way society should be ordered, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert in the first place—and thus where they consider "scientific consensus" to lie on contested issues.
In Kahan's research (PDF), individuals are classified, based on their cultural values, as either "individualists" or "communitarians," and as either "hierarchical" or "egalitarian" in outlook. (Somewhat oversimplifying, you can think of hierarchical individualists as akin to conservative Republicans, and egalitarian communitarians as liberal Democrats.) In one study, subjects in the different groups were asked to help a close friend determine the risks associated with climate change, sequestering nuclear waste, or concealed carry laws: "The friend tells you that he or she is planning to read a book about the issue but would like to get your opinion on whether the author seems like a knowledgeable and trustworthy expert." A subject was then presented with the résumé of a fake expert "depicted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences who had earned a Ph.D. in a pertinent field from one elite university and who was now on the faculty of another." The subject was then shown a book excerpt by that "expert," in which the risk of the issue at hand was portrayed as high or low, well-founded or speculative. The results were stark: When the scientist's position stated that global warming is real and human-caused, for instance, only 23 percent of hierarchical individualists agreed the person was a "trustworthy and knowledgeable expert." Yet 88 percent of egalitarian communitarians accepted the same scientist's expertise. Similar divides were observed on whether nuclear waste can be safely stored underground and whether letting people carry guns deters crime. (The alliances did not always hold. In another study (PDF), hierarchs and communitarians were in favor of laws that would compel the mentally ill to accept treatment, whereas individualists and egalitarians were opposed.)
Head-on attempts to persuade can sometimes trigger a backfire effect, where people not only fail to change their minds when confronted with the facts—they may hold their wrong view more tenaciously than ever.
In other words, people rejected the validity of a scientific source because its conclusion contradicted their deeply held views—and thus the relative risks inherent in each scenario. A hierarchal individualist finds it difficult to believe that the things he prizes (commerce, industry, a man's freedom to possess a gun to defend his family) (PDF) could lead to outcomes deleterious to society. Whereas egalitarian communitarians tend to think that the free market causes harm, that patriarchal families mess up kids, and that people can't handle their guns. The study subjects weren't "anti-science"—not in their own minds, anyway. It's just that "science" was whatever they wanted it to be. "We've come to a misadventure, a bad situation where diverse citizens, who rely on diverse systems of cultural certification, are in conflict," says Kahan.
And that undercuts the standard notion that the way to persuade people is via evidence and argument. In fact, head-on attempts to persuade can sometimes trigger a backfire effect, where people not only fail to change their minds when confronted with the facts—they may hold their wrong views more tenaciously than ever.
Take, for instance, the question of whether Saddam Hussein possessed hidden weapons of mass destruction just before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. When political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler showed subjects fake newspaper articles (PDF) in which this was first suggested (in a 2004 quote from President Bush) and then refuted (with the findings of the Bush-commissioned Iraq Survey Group report, which found no evidence of active WMD programs in pre-invasion Iraq), they found that conservatives were more likely than before to believe the claim. (The researchers also tested how liberals responded when shown that Bush did not actually "ban" embryonic stem-cell research. Liberals weren't particularly amenable to persuasion, either, but no backfire effect was observed.)
Another study gives some inkling of what may be going through people's minds when they resist persuasion. Northwestern University sociologist Monica Prasad and her colleagues wanted to test whether they could dislodge the notion that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were secretly collaborating among those most likely to believe it—Republican partisans from highly GOP-friendly counties. So the researchers set up a study (PDF) in which they discussed the topic with some of these Republicans in person. They would cite the findings of the 9/11 Commission, as well as a statement in which George W. Bush himself denied his administration had "said the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and Al Qaeda."
One study showed that not even Bush’s own words could change the minds of bush voters who believed there was an Iraq-Al Qaeda link.
As it turned out, not even Bush's own words could change the minds of these Bush voters—just 1 of the 49 partisans who originally believed the Iraq-Al Qaeda claim changed his or her mind. Far more common was resisting the correction in a variety of ways, either by coming up with counterarguments or by simply being unmovable:
Interviewer: [T]he September 11 Commission found no link between Saddam and 9/11, and this is what President Bush said. Do you have any comments on either of those?
Respondent: Well, I bet they say that the Commission didn't have any proof of it but I guess we still can have our opinions and feel that way even though they say that.
The same types of responses are already being documented on divisive topics facing the current administration. Take the "Ground Zero mosque." Using information from the political myth-busting site FactCheck.org, a team at Ohio State presented subjects (PDF) with a detailed rebuttal to the claim that "Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam backing the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque, is a terrorist-sympathizer." Yet among those who were aware of the rumor and believed it, fewer than a third changed their minds.
A key question—and one that's difficult to answer—is how "irrational" all this is. On the one hand, it doesn't make sense to discard an entire belief system, built up over a lifetime, because of some new snippet of information. "It is quite possible to say, 'I reached this pro-capital-punishment decision based on real information that I arrived at over my life,'" explains Stanford social psychologist Jon Krosnick. Indeed, there's a sense in which science denial could be considered keenly "rational." In certain conservative communities, explains Yale's Kahan, "People who say, 'I think there's something to climate change,' that's going to mark them out as a certain kind of person, and their life is going to go less well."
This may help explain a curious pattern Nyhan and his colleagues found when they tried to test the fallacy (PDF) that President Obama is a Muslim. When a nonwhite researcher was administering their study, research subjects were amenable to changing their minds about the president's religion and updating incorrect views. But when only white researchers were present, GOP survey subjects in particular were more likely to believe the Obama Muslim myth than before. The subjects were using "social desirabililty" to tailor their beliefs (or stated beliefs, anyway) to whoever was listening.
Which leads us to the media. When people grow polarized over a body of evidence, or a resolvable matter of fact, the cause may be some form of biased reasoning, but they could also be receiving skewed information to begin with—or a complicated combination of both. In the Ground Zero mosque case, for instance, a follow-up study (PDF) showed that survey respondents who watched Fox News were more likely to believe the Rauf rumor and three related ones—and they believed them more strongly than non-Fox watchers.
Okay, so people gravitate toward information that confirms what they believe, and they select sources that deliver it. Same as it ever was, right? Maybe, but the problem is arguably growing more acute, given the way we now consume information—through the Facebook links of friends, or tweets that lack nuance or context, or "narrowcast" and often highly ideological media that have relatively small, like-minded audiences. Those basic human survival skills of ours, says Michigan's Arthur Lupia, are "not well-adapted to our information age."
A predictor of whether you accept the science of global warming? Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat.
If you wanted to show how and why fact is ditched in favor of motivated reasoning, you could find no better test case than climate change. After all, it's an issue where you have highly technical information on one hand and very strong beliefs on the other. And sure enough, one key predictor of whether you accept the science of global warming is whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. The two groups have been growing more divided in their views about the topic, even as the science becomes more unequivocal.
So perhaps it should come as no surprise that more education doesn't budge Republican views. On the contrary: In a 2008 Pew survey, for instance, only 19 percent of college-educated Republicans agreed that the planet is warming due to human actions, versus 31 percent of non-college educated Republicans. In other words, a higher education correlated with an increased likelihood of denying the science on the issue. Meanwhile, among Democrats and independents, more education correlated with greater acceptance of the science.
Other studies have shown a similar effect: Republicans who think they understand the global warming issue best are least concerned about it; and among Republicans and those with higher levels of distrust of science in general, learning more about the issue doesn't increase one's concern about it. What's going on here? Well, according to Charles Taber and Milton Lodge of Stony Brook, one insidious aspect of motivated reasoning is that political sophisticates are prone to be more biased than those who know less about the issues. "People who have a dislike of some policy—for example, abortion—if they're unsophisticated they can just reject it out of hand," says Lodge. "But if they're sophisticated, they can go one step further and start coming up with counterarguments." These individuals are just as emotionally driven and biased as the rest of us, but they're able to generate more and better reasons to explain why they're right—and so their minds become harder to change.
That may be why the selectively quoted emails of Climategate were so quickly and easily seized upon by partisans as evidence of scandal. Cherry-picking is precisely the sort of behavior you would expect motivated reasoners to engage in to bolster their views—and whatever you may think about Climategate, the emails were a rich trove of new information upon which to impose one's ideology.
Climategate had a substantial impact on public opinion, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. It contributed to an overall drop in public concern about climate change and a significant loss of trust in scientists. But—as we should expect by now—these declines were concentrated among particular groups of Americans: Republicans, conservatives, and those with "individualistic" values. Liberals and those with "egalitarian" values didn't lose much trust in climate science or scientists at all. "In some ways, Climategate was like a Rorschach test," Leiserowitz says, "with different groups interpreting ambiguous facts in very different ways."
Is there a case study of science denial that largely occupies the political left? Yes: the claim that childhood vaccines are causing an epidemic of autism.
So is there a case study of science denial that largely occupies the political left? Yes: the claim that childhood vaccines are causing an epidemic of autism. Its most famous proponents are an environmentalist (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) and numerous Hollywood celebrities (most notably Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey). The Huffington Post gives a very large megaphone to denialists. And Seth Mnookin, author of the new book The Panic Virus, notes that if you want to find vaccine deniers, all you need to do is go hang out at Whole Foods.
Vaccine denial has all the hallmarks of a belief system that's not amenable to refutation. Over the past decade, the assertion that childhood vaccines are driving autism rates has been undermined by multiple epidemiological studies—as well as the simple fact that autism rates continue to rise, even though the alleged offending agent in vaccines (a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal) has long since been removed.
Yet the true believers persist—critiquing each new study that challenges their views, and even rallying to the defense of vaccine-autism researcher Andrew Wakefield, after his 1998 Lancet paper—which originated the current vaccine scare—was retracted and he subsequently lost his license (PDF) to practice medicine. But then, why should we be surprised? Vaccine deniers created their own partisan media, such as the website Age of Autism, that instantly blast out critiques and counterarguments whenever any new development casts further doubt on anti-vaccine views.
It all raises the question: Do left and right differ in any meaningful way when it comes to biases in processing information, or are we all equally susceptible?
There are some clear differences. Science denial today is considerably more prominent on the political right—once you survey climate and related environmental issues, anti-evolutionism, attacks on reproductive health science by the Christian right, and stem-cell and biomedical matters. More tellingly, anti-vaccine positions are virtually nonexistent among Democratic officeholders today—whereas anti-climate-science views are becoming monolithic among Republican elected officials.
Some researchers have suggested that there are psychological differences between the left and the right that might impact responses to new information—that conservatives are more rigid and authoritarian, and liberals more tolerant of ambiguity. Psychologist John Jost of New York University has further argued that conservatives are "system justifiers": They engage in motivated reasoning to defend the status quo.
This is a contested area, however, because as soon as one tries to psychoanalyze inherent political differences, a battery of counterarguments emerges: What about dogmatic and militant communists? What about how the parties have differed through history? After all, the most canonical case of ideologically driven science denial is probably the rejection of genetics in the Soviet Union, where researchers disagreeing with the anti-Mendelian scientist (and Stalin stooge) Trofim Lysenko were executed, and genetics itself was denounced as a "bourgeois" science and officially banned.
The upshot: All we can currently bank on is the fact that we all have blinders in some situations. The question then becomes: What can be done to counteract human nature itself?
We all have blinder in some situations. The question then becomes: What can be done to counteract human nature?
Given the power of our prior beliefs to skew how we respond to new information, one thing is becoming clear: If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn't trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.
This theory is gaining traction in part because of Kahan's work at Yale. In one study, he and his colleagues packaged the basic science of climate change into fake newspaper articles bearing two very different headlines—"Scientific Panel Recommends Anti-Pollution Solution to Global Warming" and "Scientific Panel Recommends Nuclear Solution to Global Warming"—and then tested how citizens with different values responded. Sure enough, the latter framing made hierarchical individualists much more open to accepting the fact that humans are causing global warming. Kahan infers that the effect occurred because the science had been written into an alternative narrative that appealed to their pro-industry worldview.
You can follow the logic to its conclusion: Conservatives are more likely to embrace climate science if it comes to them via a business or religious leader, who can set the issue in the context of different values than those from which environmentalists or scientists often argue. Doing so is, effectively, to signal a détente in what Kahan has called a "culture war of fact." In other words, paradoxically, you don't lead with the facts in order to convince. You lead with the values—so as to give the facts a fighting chance.
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by Mike | Aug 30, 2011 | 2D Game Dev | 5 comments
This post is a portion of Part 5 in my on going series about 2D Game Development using the Allegro 5 library. These posts are in course order. You can see all of the posts in this course by clicking the “2D Game Development” button at the top of this site.
5.0 – Our First Game
5.1 – Our First Game: The Player
5.2 – Our First Game: Timing and Movement
5.3 – Our First Game: The Projectiles
5.4 – Our First Game: The Enemies
5.5 – Our First Game: Collision Detection
5.6 – Our First Game: Game Logic
5.7 – Our First Game: Conclusion
It is finally time! In this part of the webseries, we will be going from beginning to end on making a video game. I am going to start off by saying that this game is in no way cutting edge. In many places, I have used the most simple and watered down solutions to problems. There are a few reasons for this.
First and foremost, this series is intended for people without a strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming and classes in C++. With this in mind, there are no classes in the code. Instead, I use the simpler cousin: The Struct. The struct gives us the data modularization that makes the program easier, without the syntax that classes bring. Due to this choice, the game is not very extensible (easy to upgrade or change). Instead, the game works as an intro to putting all of our skills together.
The Little Engine That Won’t
In this game, we don’t use a game engine or any real over-arching control scheme. Everything is handled on the function level, so you can see exactly how the pieces fit together. This allows a more transparent look into the inner workings of our game, but reduces the efficiency of our game.
To sum up: this game is simple (almost painfully so), but it allows for a firm grasp of what is happening in a game. Over the course of the series we will be adding to, and updating this game so that eventually it will look pretty good. Without further ado, let’s talk about the game.
Space Defenders that Invade with… Centipedes
In this game, I took a page out of classic shooter games. The concept of this is simple. The player controls a space ship that is tasked with destroying comets plummeting to earth. A point is scored everytime a comet is blown up, but loses a life if he/she misses one or is hit by one. Many simple things can be done to make this game easier or harder, such as: adding more lives, changing the number of comets, changing speeds, etc. Beyond the fact that this is a game all by itself, it also serves to demonstrate what make a good prototype. You can think of this game as our original prototype for a final game. Maybe the artists are finished with the art, but we want to move forward with coding. Using simple primitives in place of art, we can do just that.
In the next video, we will be looking at the base structure of our game and our player object.
Jasper Lu on January 31, 2012 at 12:46 am
*maybe the artists [b]aren’t[b] finished with the art?
Saurabh Khanduja on March 1, 2012 at 12:15 pm
First, thanks for this amazing tutorial. Second:
-why does when we use timer the movement of the player ship becomes faster than it was before(Before there was no wait, hence the ship must move very fast)?
-how can we make the interface or game window appear full screen?
Mike on March 2, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I am not sure why the ship would move faster. It shouldn’t have
Look here for information on full screen games:
Saurabh Khanduja on March 2, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Please reply soon!
Jeremy on January 24, 2013 at 8:27 pm
I was wondering if you knew any reason why I might be getting the Error:cannot open source file “objects.h”
I’ve basically re-installed allegro and have started a new project to see if that helped, but it did not. Also everything in the tutorials has worked before this. I’m running this on visual c++ 2010 express with allegro version 5.0.8.
Also I wanted to thank you for creating such great tutorials. Without them I would probably still be trying to install allegro. Thanks again!
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[Effect of fluoride on human hypothalamus-hypophysis-testis axis hormones].
Author: Hao P, Ma X, Cheng X, Ba Y, Zhu J, Cui L.
Journal Name: Wei Sheng Yan Jiu.
Language: Chinese (with English summary)
Publish Date: January 2010
Volume/Page: 39(1):53-5.
Type: Human Study, Epidemiology
Categories: Reproductive Toxicity, Testosterone, Hypothalamus
OBJECTIVE: To study of endocrine disturbing effect of fluoride on human hypothalamus-hypophysis-testis axis hormones.
METHODS: Sunying County, Kaifeng City was selected as polluted district which the fluoride in drinking water was 3.89 mg/L, and Shenlilou county was selected as control district which the fluoride was less than 1.0 mg/L. 150 individual lived there more than 5 years were srlected randomly. And investigated by medical examination, then blood and urine sample were collected, and the serum level of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), luteinizing hormone (LH), testosterone (T) and estradiol (E2) were measured by RIA method, and the urine level of fluoride were measured. Other than that, the concentration of fluoride in the water, food, soil and air were detected by the standard methods.
RESULTS: The concentrations of fluoride in the water, food and soil of the fluoride polluted district were significantly higher than those of control district (P < 0.05), and the concentration fluoride in the air of two district were not found. There was no significant difference of serum level of GnRH between fluoride polluted district and control district (P > 0.05). The serum level of LH in men of fluoride polluted district was significantly higher than that of control group (P < 0.05), and the serum level of T in men of fluoride polluted district was significantly less than that of control group (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference of serum level of LH between fluoride polluted district and control district (P > 0.05), and the serum level of T in women of fluoride polluted district was significantly higher than that of control group (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference of serum level of E2 between fluoride polluted district and control district (P > 0.05).
CONCLUSION: Fluoride could effect hormone levels of each layer of the hypothalamus-hypophysis-testis axis, and show the reproductive endocrine disturbing effects. The reproductive endocrine disturbing effects of male maybe more severe than those of female.
[Effect of inorganic fluorine compounds on the functional state of the pituitary-testis system].
The radioimmunological method was applied to the study of blood testosterone, LH, and FSH content in 41 men suffering from fluorosis, aged from 33 to 45 years. Nineteen men who had no contact with fluorine compounds served as control. In comparison with healthy individuals testosterone content proved to be decreased
The influence of fluoride on the content of testosterone and cholesterol in rat
Fifty four Wistar male rats were randomly divided into three groups, drinking water containing 0.6 mg/L (control group), 100 mg/L, and 200 mg/L sodium fluoride, respectively. Rats were killed at the second, fourth and sixth weeks after experiment initiation, respectively. The levels of serum testosterone, testis cholesterol, and hepatic tissue
Does fluoride affect serum testosterone and androgen binding protein with age-specificity? A population-based cross-sectional study in Chinese male farmers
Many studies have demonstrated that exposure to excess fluoride was associated with a variety of diseases. Little is known about the variation of testosterone (T) levels caused by fluoride exposure. The aim of this study is to explore the association of fluoride exposure and age with serum T and androgen-binding
Studies on effects of fluoride in 36 villages of Mehsana District, North Gujurat"
A survey was carried out in 36 fluoride endemic villages of Mehsana District of North Gujarat. Urine and blood samples of fluoride-afflicted human population and their drinking water were analysed for fluoride content and compared with samples from different parts of Ahmedabad city (control). The fluoride content in water samples
Effect of high fluoride on the reproductive performance of the male rat
The effect of high fluoride intake (100 and 200 ppm) in the ration was studied in male rats. After sixty days of treatment, rats showed a decrease in the mean diameter of the seminiferous tubules and the percentage of the tubules containing spermatozoa and an increase in the thickness of
Fluoride's Effect on Male Reproductive System -- The "Sprando/Collins" Anomaly
In contrast to the findings of over 60 animal studies from other research teams, a series of studies by FDA researchers Sprando & Collins reported virtually no evidence of reproductive toxicity among animals treated with very high levels of fluoride exposure. The reasons for this discrepancy remains unclear. Excerpts from Sprando/Collins' Studies: "This study
Fluoride's Effect on Male Reproductive System: Animal Studies
Over 60 studies on animals (including rats, mice, roosters, and rabbits) have found that fluoride adversely impacts the male reproductive system. These studies have repeatedly found the following effects: (1) decreases in testosterone levels; (2) reduced sperm motility; (3) altered sperm morphology; (4) reduced sperm quantity; (5) increased oxidative stress; (6) and reduced capacity to breed.
Fluoride's Effect on the Male Reproductive System -- In Vitro Studies
Carefully controlled in vitro studies have found that direct exposure of fluoride to the testes or semen inhibits testosterone production and damages sperm. While researchers have known since the 1930s that mega concentrations of fluoride can completely (but reversibly) immobilize sperm, it was not until the 1970s and 1980s that researchers found that relatively modest concentrations of fluoride could cause damage prior to complete immobilization.
Fluoride's Effect on Male Reproductive System - Human Studies
Consistent with in vitro and animal research, studies of human populations have reported associations between fluoride exposure and damage to the male reproductive system. Most notably, a scientist at the Food & Drug Administration reported in 1994 that populations in the United States with more than 3 ppm fluoride in their water had lower "total fertility rates" than populations with lower fluoride levels.
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GrandColombier Troisième République XXe siècle
1930 : Foreign Office, S.W.1. Correspondance Whiskard – Smith
octobre 5, 2008 Grand Colombier Aucun commentaire consideration, French, information, intention, islands, position, Sir Richard Squires, Smith Foreign Office
Foreign Office, S.W.1.
(W 12824/9189/17)
Dear Whiskard, (G.G. Whiskard, Esq, C.B.)
We have been carefully considering your letter of November 28th which enclosed the record of a conversation which you had with Sir Richard Squires, prior to his departure for Newfoundland, on the question of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
There seems to be no doubt that just possibly these islands may lead to a very unpleasant inter-Dominion squabble, and that the situation wants careful consideration. We accordingly had the treaty position examined, and I enclose herein a memorandum on the subject.
You will see from this that the treaty position is by no means clear. The French consider themselves completely at liberty to deal with the islands as they please, while we, basing ourselves on a Law Officers’ opinion, hold that the French Government have no right under the Treaty of Versailles of 1783 to dispose of the islands to a third power if we object to it. You will further see that this view was communicated to the French Ambassador before the War, but we have no knowledge whether Monsieur Cambon ever reported the matter to his government, although I should think that he probably did.
As far as our information goes, the French Government have no intention whatever of parting with the islands to the United States, or to anybody else. At the same time it is no doubt perfectly true, as Squires said to you, that the French Government might be sorely tempted, if the United States made them a very valuable pecuniary offer for the islands. It is for consideration, therefore, whether we should once more put on record out interpretation of the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, because if we waited until the American offer for the islands was made to the French, and then claimed our contested treaty right, we should have a double row, both with the French and the United States, which would be far more serious. On the other hand it is rather awkward to bring up this question of treaty interpretation out of the blue, and we should have to consider carefully before doing so what the effect would be upon the French Government.
There would, however, I think, be no objection to instruction Lord Tyrrell to ascertain, in the manner he thinks best, whether there is in fact any chage in French policy with regard to the islands. Up to date, as I said before, our information is that the French have no intention of parting with any of their colonial possessions, and I think it likely that this would be the reply which Lord Tyrrell would get, and this should I think satisfy Squires.
Will you think this over and let us know whether the Dominions Office think it worth while going on with, and let me know in due course.
C. Howard Smith ( ?)
Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon: treaty rights respecting cession.
By article 6 of the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon were ceded to France, subject to certain conditions ; but by article 4 of the Treaty of Versailles of September 3rd, 1783, they were ceded « in full right », no conditions being mentioned.
2. Article 4 of the Treaty of Versailles runs: – « His Majesty the King of Great Britain is maintained in his right to the Island of Newfoundland, and to the adjacent islands, as the whole were assured to him by the thirtheenth article of the Treaty of Utrecht
← 1885 : Laurent Marie Émile Beauchamp et les barils pourris
1927 : CONTRIBUTION A LA FLORE DES ILES SAINT-PIERRE ET MIQUELON →
Grand Colombier
Le GrandColombier.com est un site recensant tout document historique ayant un lien avec les îles Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon : traités, cartographie, toponymie, archives, sources primaires, études, recherches, éphémérides. Le site est dirigé par Marc A. Cormier.
1941 : British Communique to be accepted by General de Gaulle
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1778 – De Sartine au Congrès américain
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Category Archives: Heritage Register
Notes From The October Meeting
Posted on October 18, 2015 by Jak King
The October meeting of the Grandview Heritage Group was very well attended, including a very welcome visit by Patrick Gunn of Heritage Vancouver. Although a presentation took up much of the meeting, we were also able, as usual, to discuss a wide range of other topics.
Jak King presented his Database of Grandview Properties which includes historical details of almost 5,000 houses in Grandview, more than 1,100 of which no longer exist. After examining the database, the presentation discussed the formation, surveying, and use of Districts, Blocks, and Lots within Grandview and reviewed them in the context of the history of Grandview. Finally, Jak discussed the need, over time, to incorporate this data into GHG’s wiki. Jak will be working on ways to make the database public, probably on this site.
Following the presentation, we looked at a number of ways of using VanMap, Google Maps, and Goad’s 1912 atlas for historical research.
Eric noted that several parts of his Mechanicals and Materials series have been published on this site as Heritage Life Hacks. There will be more to come.
Eric also presented a shortened version of his monthly Neighbourhood Updates. This edition included the Terminal City Iron Works (now demolished), changes at 2111 Kitchener, 920 and 1102 Commercial, 540 and 1115 Victoria, and 906 Salsbury. This discussion also touched on environmental remediation and the art of debuilding rather than demolition.
Michael updated the group on the new First Shaughnessy heritage designation, and on updates to the Heritage Registry and possible changes to evaluation standards
It was another full and fascinating evening for heritage and history buffs.
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Notes From The September Meeting
Posted on September 18, 2015 by Jak King
The new season of meetings kicked off on Thursday with a good attendance. As usual, the discussion was wide-ranging and fascinating.
We began as usual with our Around The Hood segment in which Eric leads us through an illustrated tour of various changes, sales, rumours etc within Grandview. This month we covered 17 properties. In many cases we looked at heritage properties that were or had been for sale; for others (such as 2111 Kitchener and 1102 Commercial) we wondered at the quick flipping of sites for huge short-term profits. We noted that three major apartment blocks on Commercial, each of which had supplied affordable rentals for decades, have now been or are being renovated with rental rates expected to increase dramatically.At 2088 Charles, we noted that this double lot was to be split as part of an HRA. Finally, we were pleased to see that 1003 Commercial (“The Peg”) which recently sold is having its roof repaired and thus seems likely to be preserved, at least temporarily. These tours always spur interesting discussions and often produce nuggets of genuine historical value.
Eric has also transformed some parts of his earlier “Mechanicals and Materials” series into handy Life Hacks for Heritage presentations. Within the next short while they will appear on this site on their own page.
We then spent some time reviewing and discussing the 2015-16 Centenary Signs houses. The map and the short descriptive listings are already up on the site. Some years we have had a cake to celebrate the houses; this year, Penny made peanut butter cookies which were at least as good as cake!
Michael reviewed the new Heritage Register renewal project, and discussed the First Shaughnessy designation as an Historic Area. Michael doesn’t believe other areas of Vancouver will receive such a designation because, in neighbourhoods such as Greandview and Mount Pleasant, the current RT zoning seems to be working as a reasonable defence of heritage. This is not working so well, however, in commercial areas such as Main Street.
Mount Pleasant Heritage Group is looking for assistance to find old pictures of the Triangle Building in their neighbourhood at Main & Kingsway. They can be contacted via their website.
The next meeting is on 15th October. Jak will be presenting his database of Grandview properties.
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No meetings for July and August
Posted on July 9, 2015 by Michael Kluckner
We’ve decided to go with the flow (an aspirational word in this drought-stricken summer) and be indolent and meeting-free this summer. The next meeting will be September 17th.
In the meantime, the neighbourhood issues that are occupying the most time are the “No Venables Tower” campaign against the proposed Boffo/Kettle collaboration on the triangle lot at Commercial and Venables/Adanac. If you are opposed to it, there is a petition at http://tinyurl.com/pwd9645.
The other one we are watching is the rehabilitation and infill project at the Brookhouse Residence, 1872 Parker Street. An application to add it to the heritage register is going ahead and plans will be presented, probably later this summer, to the heritage commission.
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Nominate a site for the Heritage Register!
Posted on May 25, 2015 by Michael Kluckner
Just announced and posted a couple of days ago: the public nomination process for new additions to the Vancouver Heritage Register …
In broad terms, the Heritage Register is an information document; as I understand it, owners of properties will not be able to say “no” to a nomination, but they will be notified. You will notice that sites should respond to one of the broad themes of Vancouver’s culture and history – this is an evolution of the old Heritage Register which was more closely focused on architecture and landscape. That said, sites where “something happened,” however significant, may be more difficult to categorize and save than architecturally interesting buildings, but we will see how it works out.
To make sure you’re not nominating a site that’s already on the register, go to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Site Finder Map. It’s the best way to familiarize yourself with the buildings and places that are already recognized.
Being on the Heritage Register is no guarantee, and never has been one, of any sort of protection against demolition or alteration. It does, however, make a place eligible for a process that eventually could confer “designation” – that is, legal protection.
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Notes To January Meeting
Posted on January 17, 2015 by Jak King
We had another full house for our monthly meeting on Thursday, and it was an interesting one.
Eric Phillips continued his marvelous Mechanicals and Materials series, this time with a lively discussion of what and how to keep records of your house. Using his own home as an example, he talked about property records, such as building permits, ownership and residency changes, and making an inventory of building components, such as mouldings, tiles, fireplaces, original paint colours and wallpaper designs, etc. He went on to explain the value of documenting, with images preferably, renovations made, including discoveries exposed during such renovations. He closed with ideas for maintaining these records in what he thought could be a House Manual.
We then discussed changes in various buildings around the neighbourhood including Brookhouse (becoming ever more derelict), Rob Wynen’s old house (in which the interior has been gutted, and the Brandon Block in the 1700-block of Commercial Drive where building/renovation work in the basement and the upstairs apartments is ongoing. The impending sale of both the Odlin Block in the 1600-block and 2064 Commercial were mentioned. The latter is being sold with the assumption that the 1945 building will be demolished.
Michael Kluckner led a very informative discussion on how heritage buildings are evaluated in Canada, in general, and in Vancouver in particular. He went through the creation of Statements of Significance and how those documents are evaluated and edited, and he also explained in detail the scoring system used to give buildings an A, B, or C in Vancouver’s Register. He closed by discussing current efforts to formalize building descriptions, mainly through roof styles.
It was noted that the deadline for applications for the City of Vancouver Heritage Awards is 2nd February.
Penny Street circulated the old photographs that Ron Segev found within the walls during renovation of his house at 1746 E. 3rd.
We briefly noted that our heritage plaque at Via Tevere has essentally disappeared through reaction with elements in the atmosphere. We will endeavour to find a more permanent replacement.
Finally, we briefly discussed another intervention on behalf of Grandview heritage into the still-ongoing Community Plan process. Jak will circulate the 2012 document that we sent to the City in advance of the Plan.
Our next meeting will be on the third Thursday of February in the Britannia Boardroom at 7pm.
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Next meeting on January 15th, 7 pm …
Posted on January 5, 2015 by Michael Kluckner
… as always in the Britannia boardroom just past the Napier Greenway on the north side.
Happy New Year! The Grandview Heritage Group was founded in 2011 and is an informal group interested in both the past and future of the community. Everyone is welcome.
Agenda items so far:
• The biennial Vancouver Heritage Awards nomination process is underway with a deadline of February 2nd. There will be discussion of whether local projects ought to be nominated and how to proceed.
• Michael Kluckner will be giving an overview of the evaluation of heritage buildings in the city: how they get nominated for the heritage register, the Statement of Significance process, how they are scored and placed into A, B and C categories. For those who want to bone up on the subject in advance, go to the following links:
– To view the heritage register and some background information, go here. A more interactive (but incomplete) map is here.
– To study the scoring methodology, use this link.
• Eric Phillips will be adding another presentation to his “Mechanics and Materials” series on the ins and outs of vintage houses, this one probably focusing on plywood. There may in addition be, subject to time, a brief look at How to Build a Rec Room c. 1960.
If you inherited one of these beauties in your Grandview house, this may be the source.
• Blair Redlin reported that the Bosa Building at 562 Victoria Drive has been sold; the Montessori school in the same building at the north end is apparently closing. Fifteen townhouses are going in on the old grocery store site across the street that has been vacant for many years, and more townhouses and other forms of condo have replaced the affordable rental housing on sites along Adanac. We will discuss the future of grandfathered commercial uses on Victoria Drive and the other issues, such as rentals and affordability.
• There will doubtless be some discussion of the Citizens Assembly and the continuing saga of the Grandview area plan.
• Previous meetings have featured information on the city’s Heritage Action Plan. One part of it that may eventually have some meaning for the single-family areas of Grandview (i.e. the southeast part of the neighbourhood with RS zoning) is the pending policy to discourage demolitions of “character houses.”
Here’s the main document on that part of the plan. Below are the paragraphs that may eventually have an impact on Grandview.
Pre-1940 Character House Assessment across the rest of the City
Action 6 of the HAP directed staff to amend the RS (single family) District Schedules (zoning regulations) using the RT District Schedules as a model to encourage retention. Pending the completion of the HAP, staff have established an interim procedure for considering development applications involving pre-1940 houses. Staff are now seeking further information from inquirers proposing to demolish a building of potential heritage or character value. The first step in the process now includes a determination of whether the existing building is of character merit.
Staff have prepared a bulletin outlining the interim character assessment procedure (Appendix C). The procedure utilizes a date (pre-1940) threshold as an initial criterion. Then staff will review a number of surviving, prescribed character features such as:
the authentic or period massing
roof form
front porch
exterior wall materials
window openings and frames and details.
These character criteria are currently utilized in a number of zoning districts (RT-3, RT-7/8, RT-10, RM-1 and RT-11). This interim approach is now being applied in zoning districts where the character criteria does not currently exist (i.e. RS-3, RS-5, etc.), and where conditional zoning provisions can be used to incentivize character preservation such as increased density, or height, or changes to setbacks . These conditional zoning areas represent approximately 23% of the one and two family zoning areas in the city (see Map 1) located generally in Arbutus, Dunbar and Kerrisdale.
This interim strategy does not apply to outright zones (e.g. RS-1), which represents approximately 77% of the one and two family zoning areas across the city, or for development applications utilizing the outright provisions of the applicable district schedule. As set out in the HAP, this approach will be studied further by the consultants to determine its applicability to all single family zones.
For a pre-1940s building deemed to have character merit or listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register, an owner could choose to either retain the building and seek relaxations to facilitate the building’s conservation, or if they choose to demolish the character or heritage building, the owners will be advised that the Director of Planning may not consider the conditional provisions of the applicable zoning by-laws and that the outright provisions of the zoning may apply. Where buildings do not have character merit, the building may be demolished and the conditional aspects of the development application may be considered. There may be some limited circumstances when the demolition of a character merit building will be considered by the Director of Planning. For example, if a property is underutilized (a small building on a large site) which could result in large additions that would impact the character value of the original building; or if the building is structurally unsound (confirmed by a registered structural engineer.
The HAP will review zoning provisions and incentives to encourage retention of character houses including the consideration of strata titling. Presently, strata titling is permitted in some RS (single family) zones. For example, in RS-2 and RS-4 it can be done for infill dwellings and two-family dwellings, and in RS-6 and RS-7 for infill dwellings which are uses that can be permitted on a conditional basis. In addition, sites subject to a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) can also include strata titling as part of the incentive to encourage building retention and rehabilitation. As part of the HAP work to be completed, consideration will be given to expanding the ability to allow strata titling of properties in other RS zones when character houses are being retained. Furthermore, additional incentives such as increases to floor area (for existing building and or laneway house), extra units and relaxation of other regulations to encourage retention will be considered.
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Meeting Notes: March
We had about twenty people at our meeting last night, with a couple of new visitors. I don’t think anyone was disappointed with all that we managed to cover in a couple of hours.
Michael Kluckner gave a detailed and excellent illustrated talk that led us through the history of heritage legislation and regulation in Vancouver, starting with the first Heritage By-law (which has its 40th anniversary this year), which was a result of the controversial Birks Building demolition. He then segued into a review of the various housing styles that we can find in Grandview, focusing on the change from a front porch-based culture to one that prefers more privacy in backyards and courtyards.
Michael’s talk was by way of a primer for our 2014 Centenary House signs project walk on Sunday. We will meet at the Britannia library at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday 23rd March. We will cover the area west and south of Britannia. Everyone is welcome to join us.
We noted that Stephanie Chang, the UBC Historical Geography (GEOG 429) student who has been wortking with us, will present her paper next Tuesday. Michael and Jak are planning to go.
We discussed the situation regarding Brookhouse, 1872 Parker. The news does not seem good, and we may well lose this house to demolition very soon.
The meeting that several of us had with the Agnew family was described, and led to an interesting discussion about the value of family papers and photographs.
Jak and Bruce described the $25,000 New Horizons grant that has now been received and is to be managed by VCN. The purpose of the project is to collect as many seniors’ stories as we can. Interviews should begin in April.
Last, and certainly not least, Eric Phillips gave us a teaser about the new edition of his series, Heritage Mechanicals and Materials, that he will present at our meeting next month. The subject is Glass. He brought along a number of examples of stained glass and beveled plate, and then encouraged our attendance next month with some fascinating illustrations about the history of glass.
Another great meeting; I think we are really getting into our stride now.
Posted in Brookhouse, Bruce Macdonald, Building design, Centenary Signs Project, Glass, Grandview, Heritage Register, housing types, HRA, Mechanics and Materials, meetings, Michael Kluckner, Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Walking Tours | 5 Replies
January Meeting Notes
My apologies for the delay in posting these notes; it has been a very busy week!
Last Thursday we had a really productive meeting, covering a wide range of current and ongoing issues:
We were joined by Vancouver City Clr. Heather Deal for the first hour. She took us through the City’s new Heritage Action Plan‘s 14 points in good detail. The Plan appears to cover everything from tightening up demolition permits to reducing the complexity of HRAs, updating the Heritage Register and changing the building code to ease heritage renovation.
The conversation after the presentation was equally useful: some speakers noted that highly inflated property values in Vancouver were damaging heritage retention; that cultural mapping in the Heritage Register should be separate from architectural mapping; that just a few thousand dollars in grants could return many of the Edwardian ornamentation that flourished on the Drive; that groups like ours should be able to nominate for the Register; that fees collected for HRAs etc should be maintained for heritage uses rather than disappear into general revenue.
Three specific issues were raised with Clr. Deal: (a) 1872 Parker, the Brockhouse, needs to be saved from imminent demolition. James Evans, who developed the Jeffs Residences and who was in attendance, confirmed that he was in discussions with the current owners. However, there were still issues to be solved before he can move in to save the property. This was greeted with excitement by the group.
(b) The Green House next to the Cultch on Venables which Heather Redfern has stated is to be demolished. Clr. Deal stated that the City wants to save the building and they would be working to that end.
(c) Astorino’s. The Group stressed the cultural importance of the building which is slated to be lost in the Boffo redevelopment. It was also noted that this is now an active performance space. Clr. Deal promised to review the situation.
Clr. Deal had to leave the meeting after an hour, but it was generally agreed this had been a very useful conversation.
We discussed the work that our intern, Stephanie Chang, a Geog 429 student, is working on. She is working with us to create a social and cultural portrait of the area around Woodland Park. She has to complete the project for presentation in April.
Kristen Moran gave a short presentation on her extended video about heritage in Grandview. She was looking for more heritage homeowners to be a part of the video, and she received a great many names from those attending the meeting.
Penny gave an update on the Centenary Signs Project. All the 2013 signs have now been collected and are being cleaned. We will continue the survey for 2014 targets in March when the weather improves.
Finally, we had another episode in Eric Phillips’ magnificent Mechanicals and Materials series. This part was on heritage home heating systems. Eric took us on an illustrated trip through various fuel types — wood, coal, coke, sawdust, oil and gas. Fascinating stuff. Next month we will continue this part, looking at fireplaces, boilers and other systems.
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Meeting Notes: November 2013
Posted on November 26, 2013 by Jak King
Last Thursday evening, the GHG met for its November meeting. It was another conversation full of interest, with a good turn our and new people attending. In brief, we discussed:
1872 Parker Street. Craig Ollenberger gave a history of the last few years of Brookhouse, leading to the current situation where we will almost certainly lose this magnificent Queen Anne building in the next few weeks. The debate widened into HRAs and other mechanisms that might save such houses. It was agreed that we need to research the additional value of heritage houses for buyers. It was also agreed that we should invite Heather Deal to a GHG meeting to discuss an updated Heritage Register.
Penny got us up-to-date on her discussions with UBC Professors about using students to assist us with our projects this winter/spring. It seems that basic research on our Centenary Celebration houses might be the best bet. It was noted the students will need hand-holding. It was agreed will determine our needs in December for a January start.
Britannia is currently managing the Astorinio’s space at Commercial & Venables. It is part of the proposed Boffo properties development. It was noted that the EWaldorf and the Hollywood received demolition delays, and we agree that Astorino’s shoild get at least that. We will be pushing for a Statement of Significance to be completed. Penny will see if we can get a tour of the property.
Eric Phillips gave a presentation that was an update to several of his wonderful Mechanicals & Materials series. He covered new forms of roofing materials, dealing with tin roofs, textured concrete blocks, and drywall mud.
Penny and Maria and others have begun the process of walking the neighbourhood looking for candidates for our 2014 Centenary Signs project. They have already covered two of ten areas, and other walking tours start each Wednesday at 1pm from the 1700 block Napier. It was noted that some of the 2013 signs may be missing and may need to be replaced.
Jak agreed to call Lance about the Permanent Signs project.
Britannia is having an Open House on Thursday 28th November in the greenway. GHG is sharing a table with GWAC. Volunteers are needed.
Bruce Macdonald reported on the first formal meeting of the Mount Pleasant Heritage Group — the first in what we hope will eventually be a city-wide collections of groups. A local brewery has agreed to sponsor space for their meetings.
Penny reported on our finances, which are in good shape.
It was noted that Jak King and Bruce will be making a history/heritage presentation at the COPE meeting on Sunday 24th November.
Michael Kluckner is curating a series of historic Vancouver films at the Van City Cinema on Sunday 24th.
Michael is also curating a series of Vancouver panorama photographs at the Space Centre on December 4th at 7pm.
Finally, Carolyn Lair introduced us to the ASPECT program that mentors organizations on fundraising, and organizational strengths.
Another very full and worthwhile evening.
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Martha de Leon, Pax Americana. Photo by Chuck Cook
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E.J. Miller, Riel
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And Bravo's Real Housewives are the highest rated shows in that networks history. They're no better than Frankie and Neffie, I really don't see your point. "Bad" tv is "bad" tv across the board but you just want to single out the Black folks.
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Quote from: TripleX on September 01, 2009, 05:59:48 pm
That's what you got out of this? I'm giving out passes to Bravo but criticizing BET 'cause I want to single out Black people?
Here's the thing...The title of the thread is BET Awards 2009, not "Compare/Contrast BET with other cable networks. What Bravo is doing is irrelevant to this particular discussion.
This is always the problem with BET apologists. They always seem to use the, "Well, so-and-so network is doing such-and-such show and it's just as bad as BET's latest racial atrocity." But that's never the argument. No one's talking about other networks. Other networks are besides the point. We're talking about how wack BET is, not how BET isn't so bad because other networks are just as bad. That's like saying "It's OK that my child is a "D" student because all of the other kids are underachievers too." Or, "Why should I keep my home looking decent when my neighbor's cribs look like shanty's?" Or, "Why bother striving for excellence when everybody else is shooting for slightly below average?"
Look, no one is asking for BET to be the Black PBS or CNN (another stupid-ass irrelevant argument apologists use). Critics just want BET to do better. Or at least try to do better. Back in the Video Soul days, Donnie Simpson used to sign off with this quote, and I'll paraphrase:
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Yeah, that's exactly what I took from it Sporty. Is it a problem?
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"BET apologists" wow that is a good one. Then one can say the same about "BET Critics" with the same argument of "BET makes us black people look bad" which is just another way to point the finger at Hip-Hop/Rap music videos. The only valid argument is that BET don't have any "BET Original" drama or sitcoms. At first they did but unfortunately they were canceled. Remember for a while BET had original movies where certain black authors and their books came to life and these same movies had B to C list actors in them? Black Panther is the potential savior (if it ever come out) The point is BET is a TV network and they experiment with a TV show, if it does well rating wise it stays on if it doesn't then it will be cut off.
With these choices, I felt that the American black man only needed to choose which one to get eaten by; the liberal fox or the conservative wolf because both of them will eat him.
Only if you care about your own reading comprehension skills.
Quote from: akumatrunigga on September 02, 2009, 03:40:20 am
But Akuma, it's not an indictment of hip-hop videos. That's unfair. BET doesn't produce videos. Those come from the labels. No, the problem is that BET will only support certain types of artists. If you're a Soulja Boy/Lil Wayne wannabe, mouth and neck full of platinum, big booty bitches all up in the video? Cool. BET's got a spot for you. But if you're work is more eclectic or, dare I say it, political or socially conscious? Kick rocks.
When HBO and Showtime first started producing original films and series, they were lame. Just like BET they all featured B and C level talent. But they stayed at it until they had the capital and reputation to attract A-listers. BET showed no heart or perseverance and jumped out of the game early. These things take time. You've gotta grow and cultivate an audience.
I hope Panther does well. I hope it's on the same level as those Batman/Superman shows from the late 90's or this new Spiderman show. I hope it pulls BET out of the broadcast ghetto they put themselves in and stimulates a network wide desire to DO BETTER.
Quote from: voodoochild on September 02, 2009, 06:45:58 am
Unfair? dude that is the main complaint regarding BET. Nevermind that the majority of the TV shows that air have a Hip-Hop/Rap theme to them. I guess the best option is to have wannabe a Common, Taleb Kweli or Mos Def instead?
Maybe it got out early because people weren't looking at them. Sad in my opinion.
i hope so too. This could be the thing that really make a huge change and impact
Quote from: akumatrunigga on September 02, 2009, 04:22:59 pm
Well, at least give some other types of hip-hop artists some shine. I'm not saying jettison one for the other, but give some of these other cats some screen time too. Show another side of the culture.
It is sad, but build it and they will come, right? These things take time. By now, BET could have attracted a talented pool of creators and given opportunities to a lot of people who don't normally get them in the mainstream.
Any word on a broadcast date?
Obviously that's not a concern of mine.
MY favorite review of the awards show!"
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For all the products in this category, final price or quantity might slightly differ based on the weight of the product. 80 OMR Million in June from 810. 2020 edition of Rubber & Tyre Expo Vietnam will be held at Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center, Ho Chi Minh starting on 17th June. All supplies are transported in temperature controlled vehicles to all over the Sultanate of Oman. We are dealing with catering companies, supermarkets and grocery stores. Box 2254, PC-112, Ruwi, Muscat [Sultanate of Oman] [email protected] Nafal Industrial LLC is the first and only scaffolding manufacturer in the Sultanate of Oman. Sama Oman company is engaged in trading business and import of foodstuff items from Pakisan and Iran ***** Rice, Cummin Seeds, Tomatoo past, foodstuff, textile , surgical and building material items Al-Azure National Co. Time for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset in Muscat - Oman. Abdul Majeed, the father and Naveed Ahmad, the eldest son started the company from a retail butchery in Ibra, Ash’Sharqiya. Apart from this division, the Group also has keen interests in Retail Chains. For over 20 years, Al-Hajery Group is the leading food commodities business operating in Oman. If you need to send a parcel to the Oman from India and want complete peace of mind that your package or letters will be secure, you have come to the right place. 50 OMR Million in January of 2005. south africa Yellow Pages Online is Unique B2B Market Place for Finding south africa Companies updated in 2019. Mainly we dealing in basmati rice, boiled rice, sugar, beverages, softdrinks and general items like. No Obligations and 100% Reliable. Please include if you know what are the minimum requirements that the car should meet in order to get into Muscat. Find here their information, contact addresses, telephone numbers, emails, some faxes, and main locations in the Banjul area. 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According to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), the total population of Muscat Governorate reached 1. Oman Rice Importers Directory - Offering Oman's buying leads from buyers, importers, distributors & resellers at Oman TradeKey. i am plan to do rice business export from india to oman,muscat is there any buyers to promote. and Dhofar International Development and Investments Holding Co. Oman is an Arab country that is located in the Southwestern part of the Asian continent. 1-4 of 4 members found for rice soap in Oman (0. These licenses are almost exclusively held by hotels, but there are a few exceptions. In this context, the book by Morison Muscat Doing Business in Oman is timely and significant and is expected to be beneficial and a valuable source of information to companies and individuals looking to invest in the Sultanate of Oman. Grand Millennium Muscat. Imports in Oman averaged 715. It is the third-most noteworthy farmed crop with overall generation, after sugarcane and maize. Misk AlLail Al Hadisa Trading L. The MUSCAT Port information gathered by MarineTraffic includes, wind forecasts and real-time updates for vessels in the Port of MUSCAT. [email protected] Muna Noor Pest Control Division been contracted for pre-construction anti-termite treatment on two major projects under construction.
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Karlosophies - Stories Behind Success
It's so easy to fall into comparisonitis as an entrepreneur… and in Karly's life long journey through entrepreneurship she has come to understand that, regardless of your level of success, fame or fortune, we all suffer from the same stories of fear, struggle and failure at times. The aim of this podcast is to eliminate the separation between ourselves and success. To know that it's possible and a reality for all of us. And to lower the guru guard and see what really lies underneath. Guests range from newbies (those who have launched their first ever event, product or service) to seasoned professionals who have done it all and seemingly have it all. It's chock a block full of inspiring stories, business tips and takeaways to implement into your life for positive change.
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Ep 45, Rebecca van Leeuwen: Burnout and Band Aids to Sister with Soul 0
Inspired by the uprising of young women blazing a trail for humanity, Bec established Soul Sister Circle, an organisation committed to connecting and supporting heart-centered movers and shakers to thrive in business and in life. Driven by her passion for people and a burning desire to make a positive difference in the lives of others, Bec creates opportunities for women to come together to learn, be inspired, forge meaningful friendships, create powerful collaborations and become part of a solid support network that fosters personal, professional, social and spiritual expansion.
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Ep 44, Free Flow Convo: Values and Purpose 0
Off the cuff and unscripted, this Karlosophies special edition has become so popular that we'll be bringing it to you every Thursday.
Ep 43, Melitta Hardenberg: Breaking Bad Habits and Living Outside Your Comfort Zone 0
As the Chief Habit Breaker at Breaking Bad Habits, Melitta has had a long history of making and breaking habits. Having kicked a smoking habit nearly a decade ago, she found she needed to dust off the old habit breaking formula after a health diagnosis forced her to make some serious changes to her lifestyle. Finding quitting cookies harder than quitting smoking she quickly discovered she wasn't alone. So she left her high flying corporate role as leading national and global organisational change programs and started a program for women whose struggle with health is more of a mental battle than a physical one.
Find Melitta at www.breakingbadhabits.today or www.getfitandfocused.com.au
Ep 42, Free Flow Convo: Imposter Syndrome 0
Karly goes unplanned and unscripted for another free-flow convo.
Ep 41, Jana Kingsford: Teen Mum High School Drop Out Turned Big Dreams Strategist and Online Entrepreneur Powerhouse 0
Jana Kingsford is a big dreams strategist and action blockbuster, who was a high school drop out and teenage mum, turned mother of 3, university graduate and by 30 years old had started-from-scratch several big businesses, so she could stay at home with her kids and achieve her big dreams.
She now runs an education company teaching productivity, marketing, launching, mindset and juggling skills to eager entrepreneurs not satisfied with the status quo of what they can and can't achieve (even if they have a heap of kids).
Connect with Jana at janakingsford.com
Ep 40, Free Flow Convo: Don't Die With The Music In You 0
The latest free flow convo: unplanned, unscripted, invaluable insights into life and business.
Ep 39: Laura Trotta, Environmentalist in Mining to Online Eco Warrior 0
Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009.
She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the 2015 Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Sustainability category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards.
With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia.
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Karly goes unscripted for our latest episode.
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Government should stop delaying progress on Climate Action legislation
Labour Senator, Ivana Bacik, has called on Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance to stop delaying the progression of pieces of legislation put forward by opposition parties designed to compact climate change.
Senator Bacik will be joining climate change activists tomorrow outside Leinster House tomorrow, Friday 7th December.
Commenting today, Senator Bacik said:
"This Government has made no substantial commitment to the reduction of carbon emissions in Ireland. We already know that Ireland will fall 95% short of the emissions reductions we committed to reaching by 2020.
"The Minister says that he wants Ireland to be a leader in climate change action, yet his government turned down the opportunity to lead on the issue in the last budget when they refused to introduce a Carbon Tax.
"The reality is that this government talks a big talk on climate change, but when it comes down to delivering they have failed, yet again.
"To add insult to injury, the government have consistently ignored opposition parties attempt to progress legislation. Labour has introduced a Microplastics Bill, which we have been promised would instead be replaced by a government bill on the same issues - we have yet to see that progress through the Oireachtas. Labour and the Green Party have jointly produced the Waste Reduction Bill. Sinn Fein has produced a Microgeneration Bill and PBP has the Climate Emergency Bill.
"None of these have been expedited or adopted by the government but simply met with commitments from the government that they will deal with the issue in the future with their own legislation, which subsequently never materialises."
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Cornell all-time moment No. 1: The 2010 Sweet 16 run
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We Cornell did last because they are the Men of Last Call.
Over the course of writing the most memorable moments in Cornell basketball history, I’ve tried to lay out a story – the path a school with no discernible basketball pedigree took to becoming the top story of the biggest event in all of college sports.
It didn’t happen overnight.
Eventually, a novice group of freshmen with potential became young guns taking the league by storm and finished as savvy veterans playing with a purpose. After two straight defeats in the NCAA Tournament, the novelty of seeing the Cornell logo on college basketball’s biggest stage had worn off for the eight-man senior class. It was the last chance for the group who turned around Cornell basketball to become the first Ivy League team since 1998 to win an NCAA Tournament game. It was a mindset that had permeated throughout the whole team even before the season began.
“Obviously the first goal is to win the league and make it three in a row and then hopefully get to the tournament again and definitely win a game or two, Sweet 16 at least, and see where we go from there.” freshman Peter McMillan said in Nov. 2009. “I definitely think we can win a lot of NCAA Tournament games, get kinda far, you know, make some noise,” fellow freshman Errick Peck added.
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The 84th Oscars recap through tweets …
Posted by Jared Mobarak on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
@jaredmobarak • Shut up Ryan Seacrest … Like the studio isn’t going to reimburse you. Cry about it #Oscars12
And with a little Bisquick, the 84th Annual Academy Awards show began before the camera even entered the Kodak “Chapter 11” Theatre. The is he or isn’t he banned from the show star of The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen, did what he does best by getting interviewed in character and causing a scene.
Ryan Seacrest appeared to be enjoying the joke of it all and remained quite amiable until the comedian went for glory and dumped a faux urn of Kim Jong-il’s ashes over the ubiquitous pre-show host’s tuxedo. Not so surprising, the millionaire fought back what looked like tears as Cohen uttered the punchline, “Now when they ask who you are wearing, you can say Kim Jong-il”. We all laughed hysterically at home.
@jaredmobarak • Billy’s been pretty good. I’m sure better than Eddie Murphy doing Charlie Murphy as Eddie Murphy would be #Oscars12
The real show began when nine-time host Billy Crystal‘s black and white mug parodying The Artist graced our television screens and his trademark spoof reel played. After Brett Ratner‘s homophobic slur got him fired and Eddie Murphy bailed once his ‘integrity’ for constantly refusing the job in the past kicked back in, Crystal was the man left standing. Leave it to him to then go blackface and pose as Sammy Davis Jr. without any repercussion besides laughter. It’s interesting who we forgive and whom we don’t depending on context—let’s just make everything un-PC okay and live for once.
@jaredmobarak • Why did Billy have ten fingers up for nine noms? #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • So ELIC only gets a “Tom Hanks is a memory” mention in the song? #Oscars12
Breaking into song like we remember all those times before, Crystal’s showmanship remains forever entertaining. He was made for a ceremony possessing nine Best Picture nominees if only to pad his musical tribute with tighter jokes. Was it an intentional move to give Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close a five-word mention when the rest got more? Perhaps. It does seem like everyone thought its inclusion in the final grouping was a waste of a spot and a total “Oscars move”. I didn’t even bother to see the damn thing—the only one of the nine—because between the lamentations of its overt manipulation and umpteenth example of a kid on the Autistic spectrum, I could better spend my time catching up on “Friday Night Lights”.
@jaredmobarak • Carl’s wearing the same tux my father wore at his wedding #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Cinematography: Tree of Life should win … #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Cinematography: Hugo is winner. I’m ok with it, really worked the 3D perfectly #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Hooray Italy! I didn’t even know they were up for an Oscar #Oscars12
It’s was Tom Hanks who became the first martyr for bad jokes. I’m not sure if he was auditioning for the host role when he started talking about ‘star’ seat-filler Carl, but the bit fell as flat as James Franco and Anne Hathaway‘s pretend grandma and mother of last year. There was really no purpose for the gag considering he was on stage to announce Best Cinematography and Art Direction (both going to Hugo), and it stalled what had been a fun if not obvious start.
The wins for Martin Scorsese‘s film were just the first of many to make up for the fact it wouldn’t take victory in any category the general populace cares about and were somewhat of a shock. Cinematography was Emmanuel Lubezki‘s to lose and he did. Definitely deserving with his work in 3D through the walls of a Paris train station, Robert Richardson simply didn’t have The Tree of Life‘s grandeur making it the most gorgeous film I saw all year. As far as Art Direction went, kudos to Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for their great work. I just love how her Oscar was dedicated to Scorsese and Italy. They’re my go-to thank yous as well.
@jaredmobarak • Costume Design: winner is The Artist. It’s great but I say Jane Eyre deserved. So authentic #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Make-Up: winner is Iron Lady. Albert Nobbs got robbed by crooked teeth … #Oscars12
Next up—amidst the supposed nip-slip wardrobe malfunction on behalf of Jennifer Lopez—came Best Costume Design and Make-up. In my opinion both were highway robbery. How the amazingly intricate work in Jane Eyre—stunning in its authenticity under the glow of candlelight—could lose to The Artist, I don’t know. Mark Bridges did a great job with the silent era style, but I simply can’t accept it was a better representation of excellence than Michael O’Connor‘s.
And seriously? Crooked teeth wins Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland an Oscar for The Iron Lady? At least give it to Harry Potter for the sheer legacy of work done to bring that fantasy to life if you aren’t going to award Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston, and Matthew W. Mungle the prize for Albert Nobbs. Their work transforming Glenn Close and Janet McTeer was subtle, effective, and completely believable. I may be angered at this decision more than any other on the night.
@jaredmobarak • Brad Pitt just ruined Gargantua for me. Ass #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Bullhead, Bullhead, Bullhead!!! Win it! #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • A Separation‘s dude looks like Ben Kingsley from Hugo #Oscars12
They may be bare-bone and clichéd, but I have to say my favorite aspect of this year’s show was the talking head interviews of actors sharing their memories of movie magic. The raw footage is probably fascinating as all get out and when guys like Brad Pitt weren’t ruining the endings of films, the snippets we saw were great.
There was something about listening to these celebrities talk about their inspiration that perfectly moved into Best Foreign Film. How awesome would it have been if Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam spoke about his love of gangster movies and the kinds of films he held in the back of his mind when filming Belgium’s worthy nominee?
The result, of course, was inevitable. A Separation is an amazing feat and whether the win had political undertones or not I’m happy the Academy gave it the trophy. Hopefully the victory will open the doors for people in America to see work from nations we may not have the best relationship with and that they will in turn continue to make great pieces of art for us to view and learn more about their culture and ideals.
@jaredmobarak • How cute is Jessica Chastain? #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer. Kudos to her. The acting makes The Help even have a chance at Best Film #Oscars12
Best Supporting Actress was another foregone conclusion as The Help was never in contention of winning anything besides acting accolades. A sufficiently made film that hits all the Best Seller checkpoints to be successful, it really was the likes of Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer who vaulted it to Oscar glory.
Spencer’s breakdown was quite possibly the most authentic moment of the evening; she simply couldn’t calm herself down. I can only imagine what occurred when she had to face the flashbulbs of the pressroom, but seeing her humbly give into her emotions was a wonderful example of how the Oscars do still mean something to some. We may joke that it’s all a laugh to snark at and point out errors, but for the working actors who give it their all every time the director yells action, this praise means the world.
@jaredmobarak • Did Chris Guest direct this focus group #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Film Editing: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Interesting, never gave it a chance #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Best acceptance speech ever! #Oscars12
And just when you thought the show would streamline into being awards, talking heads, and the off joke by Crystal, a five minute bit with the Christopher Guest company plays to ensure no one gets to bed before midnight. Yes, I loved it—especially Eugene Levy and Fred Willard—but was it really necessary? They always talk about making things smoother and yet continue to add and add and add. The show is about the winners and yet they are the ones punished from shining due to rushed speeches and a quota of one per award. The joke writers, on the other hand, get to run free.
At least Best Film Editing victors, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, understood brevity was the name of the game. A surprising win for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo when they were opposite a juggernaut like Thelma Schoonmaker‘s work in Hugo—which won technical prizes left and right all night—the “We weren’t expecting this” was fitting. If only everyone could be speechless enough to say, “Let’s get out of here” and “Okay, we’re editors, so … thank you!”
@jaredmobarak • Sound Editing: Hugo. I still don’t know what this category even entails … #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Sound Mixing: Hugo. Wait. This seems so familiar. Didn’t we do this? #Oscars12
Leave it to Philip Stockton—winner with Eugene Gearty for Best Sound Editing on Hugo—to give the greatest commentary on the awards show speech ever. His thanking everyone alive, dead, born, born again, etc. was a laugh and the perfect send-up to how overblown a lot of what is said actually is.
I honestly don’t know what his award or Tom Fleischman and John Midgley‘s Best Sound Mixing mean, but I guess it’s good to see Hugo win them both when the prize easily could have gone to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Glad we dodged that bullet …
@jaredmobarak • Meryl Streep is trying to get out of frame … #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Yeah, so this Cirque stuff is cool and all, but why? Seriously, I want to go to bed #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Miracle Max needs Carol King to come on stage … “Liar! Liiiiaaaarrrrr! #Oscars12
Why was Cirque there? At least the introduction was from Kermit and Miss Piggy, even if they weren’t given the hosting job like so many people with lofty and misguided imaginations clamored for. Watching Meryl Streep get a bit awkward when the performers next to her started talking and offering popcorn was fun too. And how about that giant logo at the end in case we thought it was the Cirque Du Soleil’s equivalent to The Moopets?
Billy’s hamstring joke was lame and I don’t think he looked older at any other point in the show than admiring their acrobatic skills. The elderly bit didn’t help, but I will give him props for the Flomax joke—only because it might not be one. And as far as Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow‘s documentary schtick goes, they aren’t as cute as they think.
@jaredmobarak • Wow. Turned the mic off. Dick move. Let’s have the circus come back instead … #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Chris Rock just blasphemed Obi Wan #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • I love Emma Stone #Oscars12
Next came Best Documentary‘s Undefeated—the only microphone shutoff and curse word censor of the night; Best Animated Feature‘s Rango—the only surprise to me being that The Adventures of Tintin was somehow not nominated; and the best presenter pairing in the form of Ben Stiller and Emma Stone. So great to see them turn Stiller’s penchant for going too big at the Oscars on its head.
Chris Rock then mocked the fact Alec Guinness played an Arab in Lawrence of Arabia, called doing voice work an easy paycheck, and proved how despite being one of the worst actors in the world, he is still amazingly entertaining and spot-on with his stand-up. Watching him work the crowd was brilliant … and then came Melissa McCarthy and Crystal’s uninspired Bridesmaids homage. Oh the difference minutes can make.
@jaredmobarak • Supporting Actor: Chris Plummer BETTER win this award #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Marty’s a great sport #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Nolte is too … Why Uggie and no Cosmo? #Oscars12
Poor Nick Nolte. He loses to Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor—yay, Chris!—came off grouchy and indecipherable when interview on the red carpet, and not becomes the butt of Crystal’s shining moment. An easy routine of mocking celebrity personalities as thought he is orating their thoughts, after Scorsese plays along swimmingly it is Nolte’s shocked face of recollection that Billy’s growling is for him which could become a memory for Oscar history. Good on him for being a good sport about it too.
@jaredmobarak • Random soloists in boxes is weird #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Best Original Score: The Artist. Kim Novak is gonna be pissed! #Oscars12
It’s probably completely pretentious of me, but I softened on the stunt of musicians playing us out to commercials from the box seats once I discovered through the Twittersphere that Sheila E. and Pharrell were the random drummers. What first appeared an obnoxious stunt with no real purpose since the pit orchestra could be playing nominated scores or something soon became a cool little gimmick.
And then The Artist won Best Score to not shock anyone but Kim Novak. It was great, though, when Ludovic Bource asked for ten extra seconds to finish his speech.
@jaredmobarak • Ok. Zach butchering his name was pretty great #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Jason Segel is like “You Bastard! Thank Me!!!” #Oscars12
I’d like to hope the only reason Best Original Song had two nominees was because the Academy refused to let Madonna get a chance to wax on about being a filmmaker when she won like at the Golden Globes. Talk about your cinematic talents when you win for those talents, not when they’re applauding you for doing what you’ve done for over two decades.
Thankfully “Conchord” Bret McKenzie was victorious and able to grace the world with that glorious New Zealand accent. The fact that Steve Pond at The Wrap learned a mythical third season of the off-kilter show would see them putting the statue on a table and never making mention of it only creates a more impressive aura around the event. It would have been nice to hear him thank the man behind The Muppets—see what I did there?—Jason Segel, though. I know the dude was giddy just to be at the show, but he would have gone through the roof if he heard his name in the acceptance speech.
@jaredmobarak • Really? You’re putting the leg out like that? Slut #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Dean Dong is winning an Oscar! Let’s do this! #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Original Screenplay: Woody Allen. Wow! That’s just … Wow! Upset of night probably #Oscars12
Does anyone believe yet that “Community’s” Dean Pelton and Beerfest‘s Rolf are Oscar winners? I haven’t been this flabbergasted since Fischer Stevens grew from borderline racist with his stereotyped Indian in Short Circuit 2 to become producer of Best Documentary The Cove.
Of course these two knuckleheads would let Alexander Payne do all the talking upon climbing the stage for The Descendants‘ Best Adapted Screenplay, but they wouldn’t be outdone. The mimicked pose that appears to have been preconceived ever since Angelina Jolie took the microphone made her rendition of the Showgirls poster worth every whorish second. I was so impressed by Jim Rash and Nat Faxon‘s flippant disregard for the niceties of such an event that I was still laughing when Woody Allen somehow won Best Original Screenplay. Not only did I think they’d throw the Bridesmaids bunch that little token, I figured awards season powerhouse The Artist would take it otherwise. So glad Midnight in Paris got some recognition.
@jaredmobarak • What Milla meant—”29 individuals got a chance to oogle me in person” #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Scorsese has no idea! Drinking game greatness #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Best Short (animated): The Fantastic Flying Books of Blah Blah Blah. surprised Pixar lost … #Oscars12
This year’s hot actress slumming it with the nerds unworthy to be seen on national TV was Milla Jovovich. Don’t worry about them, though, they got to stand next to her onstage.
And after stylish professionalism came crass indifference as the Bridesmaids cast reunited for the reading of the Best Shorts categories. The Shore took home Live Action, Saving Face got Documentary, and The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore shocked the fifteen people who saw each nominee when it defeated the heavy favorite La Luna for Animated. When I say favorite I do mean Pixar produced. One would figure that since Cars 2 was forgotten pretty much on opening weekend, they’d at least take this one so as not to call the whole year a bust.
But the true moment of brilliance from this troupe of presenters came when someone in the crowd yelled “Scorsese” loud enough for Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy to take out airplane bottles of liquor and partake in a little drinking game action. No one was more surprised—or perhaps confused—than Marty himself, sitting next to an eight year old who surely wanted to join in the fun.
@jaredmobarak • Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius. Congrats to him. Great to see a passion project get awards. Too bad not Tree of Life #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Wow. They just ruined Empire Strikes Back for everyone. Not cool #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • So they say Actor for the women who passed but still haven’t changed the award to Female Actor? Get with it Academy #Oscars12
We all know there was no way in hell Terrence Malick would show up to the ceremony—nor Woody for that matter—but I still say no film from 2012 had more of its director’s fingerprints on every frame than The Tree of Life. A passion project of true emotional and visceral beauty, I’m going to edit my memory and believe he won.
I mean no offense to the actual Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius—how great would it have been if Zach Galifianakis presented the award and butchered his name too—because The Artist too was a work close to his heart. He had a vision and somehow captured it onscreen to win over the entire world and make cinema fans fall in love with silent movie stars once more.
I’m not so sure about the Governors’ Awards, however, since it appears they’ve gone the way of the Technicals. No longer does an industry member talk about the Lifetime Achievement winner before they come onstage to talk even longer. Now it’s a short clip montage and quick applause for the trio of Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones, and Dick Smith. And not only that, but they totally showed the climactic moment of Empire Strikes Back. Talk about a slap in George Lucas‘ face. Maybe he’ll just cut that famous revelation out of the next DVD edition.
@jaredmobarak • 75% of this show is recorded faces. Maybe that documentary joke of RDJ was real … #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Best Actor: Jean Dujardin. Really happy about this one #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Forgot Firth won his Single Man Oscar a year late #Oscars12
@jaredmobarak • Best Actress: Meryl Streep. Viola gets robbed. Uninspired pick. Still can’t believe her bad teeth beat Nobbs in make-up #Oscars12
As for the coveted Best Actor and Actress—no surprises. This is great where Jean Dujardin is concerned—his infectious smile IS The Artist—and lame when it comes to Meryl Streep. I know she hasn’t won in forever, but she’s been nominated almost every year since. Viola Davis was robbed in 2009 by Penélope Cruz—who really won a year late for Volver much like Colin Firth did for A Single Man—and while she wasn’t the best actress of the year in my opinion, she deserved the win.
I really find it quite boring that anytime someone impersonates a real life person it generally earns him or her gold. Isn’t the ability to create a living, breathing human soul out of nothing more impressive than someone who studied film footage and parroted the role? I know Streep’s Margaret Thatcher was more than this simplistic generalization, but it doesn’t make it right. At least give it to Glenn Close if not Viola.
@jaredmobarak • Best Picture: The Artist. I still say it won’t stand the test of time like Tree of Life, but still well deserved #Oscars12
And just like we all knew would happen, The Artist won Best Picture. It’s a film with wide appeal and film history detail making it perfect for the Academy’s conservative sensibilities. The real tragedy is that works like Melancholia and Shame—pieces with real artistic merit—and more crowd-pleasing successes like Beginners and 50/50 were noticeably absent.
Interesting to note is the fact John Goodman was not in attendance and how Uggie the dog somehow found a ticket when Cohen’s Dictator could not. Considering everyone and his mother knew the silent film would take top honors, I don’t mind that they figured the little guy would get one last time to shine onstage. Mini-Peter Lorre, or as he likes to call himself, Thomas Langmann, said his thanks and Hazanavicius got the opportunity to thank both his wife/star Bérénice Bejo and the ghost of Billy Wilder.
So, all in all the Oscars was a tame evening lacking any real surprise or controversy. Unmemorable yet effective, I think Billy Crystal kept his hosting legacy intact and proved less is more. I’ll still hold out hope that Ricky Gervais graces the stage next year, but when we find out it’s Tom Hanks instead, I won’t be too crushed.
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HomeBenjamin Fulford The world is about to learn about Khazarian mafia crimes horrific beyond imagination
The world is about to learn about Khazarian mafia crimes horrific beyond imagination
October 8, 2018 Benjamin Fulford Benjamin Fulford , Economy
By Benjamin Fulford Weekly Reports
Even more gruesome is the video still-shot linked below that was sent to the CIA via courier by the NYPD. It shows a young girl whose face was allegedly peeled off by Hillary Clinton in a satanic ritual. Be warned, it is graphic and I stopped watching shortly after the 2 minute mark.
https://youtu.be/zIbY6jyQpJ8
https://benjaminfulford.net/2018/10/08/the-world-is-abo…yond-imagination/
The Khazarian mafia have been torturing, murdering, and cannibalizing children on a horrific scale, and the world is about to find out as military tribunals begin. Some very disturbing images and testimony sent by the New York Police Department and the CIA show just how evil the Khazarian mafia really is. These people are beyond truth and reconciliation and do not deserve even a quick death.
Let us start with FBI statistics on missing children in the U.S., so that skeptics can prevent the sheer evil of these deeds from shutting their minds. In 2015, 442,032 juveniles went missing; of these, 42,032 were not found.
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2015-ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics.pdf/view
By comparison, in the same year in Japan 17,971 children (the equivalent of 44,927 in the U.S. when adjusted for population difference) went missing, and close to 99% of these children were found.
https://www.npa.go.jp/safetylife/seianki/fumei/H28yukuehumeisya.pdf
The photographs below, sent by the CIA, are linked to CNN star and FRB Vanderbilt heir Anderson Cooper and may give a hint as to what happened to at least some of these children.
Now I begin to understand the look of sheer horror on the face of George Soros when I asked him a question at a press conference about the families that own the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had probably seen some of this sort of stuff firsthand.
The prosecution of these criminals is set to finally start now that the U.S. military government backing President Donald Trump has secured a majority on the Supreme Court with the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Pentagon sources say. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already met with the real special prosecutor, U.S. Attorney John Huber in Utah, so that the 57,000 indictments may be unsealed,” the sources explain.
“The seating of Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court should unleash declassification of FISA and other documents as well as military tribunals,” the sources say. Furthermore they add, “The Senate unanimously approved a resolution calling for declassification of 9/11 documents, so the stage is set to take down the Zionists and the deep state.”
Another aspect to starting the prosecution of these criminals is the ongoing U.S./Russian military action against the rogue state of Israel, the sources say. In particular, “Russian electronic warfare is aimed not just to impose a no-fly zone over Israel, but to stop ICBMs and other missiles from being launched, rendering the Samson option obsolete and making de-nuking the only feasible option,” the Pentagon sources explain. In other words, Israel can no longer use nuclear blackmail to protect the satanists in the U.S. Also, Vatican P2 sources confirm that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a satanist mass-murderer who needs to be either arrested or killed as soon as possible.
The U.S. and Russia are also considering imposing a sea and land blockade on Israel to force that state to stop its criminal activities, they continue.
The sources sent this photo with the explanation that “even the White House has declared Red October.”
The Pentagon sources also said, “It appears that the cabal may have lost a submarine or underwater base and retaliated by sending ricin to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Naval Chief John Richardson.”
What the Pentagon sources were referring to was the destruction of a “Clinton escape residence with entourage, including an underground bunker built to store the gold,” according to CIA sources in Indonesia.
This destruction is appearing in the news as the recent tsunami that hit Indonesia, which even experts quoted by The Washington Post note “…was not a straightforward event,” said Adam Switzer, principal investigator at the Singapore-based Earth Observatory. “This earthquake was beyond the bounds of the warning systems” available.
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Here the real explanation, according to the CIA:
"Clinton was in control of the gold coming out from the Grasberg mine/Freeport. The Clinton Foundation/Clinton Global Initiative, with an office in Papua, was the vehicle for laundering the cash obtained from the sale of the undeclared gold. (A lot of it was off-ledger gold).
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"Clinton has done business with a certain faction of the Indonesian military for years—those who control access there.
"The Chinese had confirmed all of this and knew that the only way was to flood it out. The tsunami was triggered by the Chinese.
"The tsunami was not possible—scientifically, that is. It was all carefully done, and then blamed on faulty technology and a “weird” fault slip angle. But that fault slip angle was “weird” (if you ask geologists) because it wasn’t natural.
"Communication systems can be manipulated. That's why it failed to show the third tsunami. That tsunami warning system has worked ever since they got it developed after the 2004 Christmas disaster.
"There are non-visible lasers that have no color in the visible spectrum. This goes beyond the DEW (Directed-Energy Weapons). Beyond DEW is NON-visible laser. The Chinese military are smart—this cannot be detected. They took DEW technology and made it better.
"This was a direct hit from a Chinese non-visible laser satellite weapon. It took out the Clinton escape residence, the entourage living there, and the underground bunker. Unfortunately, there was serious collateral damage."
The CIA sources say that close to $500 million in cash (not $270 million as was reported last week) was seized by Special Forces in the raid on that Clinton hideout before it was destroyed. A Google Earth screen shot of the destroyed complex is below.
The money was divided “between a certain group of top-level white-hat Indonesian government officials—one of them being Vice President Jusuf Kalla—and Trump’s inner circle, military included,” the sources say. So now we know why the generals got ricin mailed to them.
We have also been allowed to give our readers more information on one of our CIA sources. He was in charge of the agency’s clandestine services in Jakarta working out of the U.S. Embassy from 1965-1985.
"When he was there, he told me there were only 20 American citizens permanently living in Jakarta. All of them worked at the Embassy under diplomatic cover. He told me, and this is a quote, 'Our team escorted Bung Karno (President Sukarno) out of power and we installed Soeharto into power.'
"And yes, his team as well as Langley headquarters and other alphabet agencies were involved in assisting Soeharto in the killing of up to 1 million Indonesian Chinese that were labeled PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia). This was a well-planned takedown of all Soeharto’s so-called opposition. It was planned with the Australian government as well; they were heavily involved in this attempted genocide. This was also about the time that Soeharto handed control of Freeport to the Agency. There is so much more to this, but enough for now.
"I asked the cowboy why he did this; his answer, 'It was my job. I worked for the U.S. government. You did not ask questions back then. If you did, you disappeared.' He did tell me that he personally was involved in sending two cargo ships of rice to Kalimantan, as they had no food and the Dayaks and Malays were dying from starvation during this crisis, as all rice shipments from Jakarta were stopped. (He did this with private personnel.) And to add more, yes, he was close to the Bush Senior cartel back in the day. He was part of the old guard. Not many left now."
On a final note, our source who is connected to the secret bases in Antarctica (he is a relative of Admiral Richard Byrd of Antarctic exploration fame) got back to us to insist that something really weird was happening there, saying the quote below from last week was true:
“Antarctica is opening up a WORMHOLE. Yes, there is an ‘opening’ to other dimensions down there. Due to the extremely high magnetic shifts going on in and near Antarctica, it’s literally ‘tearing a new fabric’ in the dimensional field. THIS is the reason why ALL those government leaders went down there. THIS is why they shut off Antarctica to the public and so forth. The public only gets 5% of the ‘story.’ And now you have the other side.”
This source noted that even reputable publications like Scientific American were reporting, “There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-particles-keep-flying-out-of-antarcticas-ice-and-they-might-shatter-modern-physics/
We will try again to visit Antarctica this Southern summer and report directly to our readers what is really going on there. If there really is an anomaly like a wormhole opening up there, the entire population of the planet should be told and shown proof, not just a few leaders.
Vincenzo Mazzara, a Cavalier of the Teutonic Knights and a senior member of the Vatican P2 Freemason lodge, says preparations are being made for humanity to start building a fleet of ark ships and expanding out into the universe.
As usual, my reaction to this sort of stuff is to believe it when I see it. For now, the White Dragon Society is working towards getting multi-trillion-dollar funding for an earth-based massive campaign to end poverty and stop environmental destruction.
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Teams often opt to carry out one of its two filming days the weekend before the opening test in order to do a proper shakedown of the car. The rules give every team two days, each allowing 100 km of running, across a season.
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Williams displayed its 2019 livery on a show car at an event at its UK headquarters. Adam Davy/PA Images via Getty Images
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The angel then crowned Cecilia with a chaplet of rose and lily and when Valerian's brother, Tibertius, heard of the angel and his brother's baptism, he also was baptized and together the brothers dedicated their lives to burying the saints who were murdered each day by the prefect of the city, Turcius Almachius. When you visit The Congregation of the Forgotten Saints, you’ve entered the inner-sanctum of music royalty. What are some songs from this era that you enjoy?. Aqua String Band- Jest. Stop with the band-aids. Hi all, I am a long time fan and even though I cant spout out records or any of the stats for past or even many present players, I can say that i am a huge. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star November 14, 1929 by John A. The Bible tells us that God created everything on the earth in six days. As a band of Saints march to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the Nov. A ministry to people and families in Nursing Homes. The band begins to play my boys, the band begins to play. You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. BY Jake Rossen. The explosive conclusion to Saints Row has left the player wounded, betrayed and thirsty for revenge, and now it's time to take back the city that has forgotten him. forgotten it entirely from decades ago. MERCH VIDEOS. Some writers save this kind of shock until later on in the. May 10, 2013 · The Saints are more obscured than the more common (still obscure) punk bands. Rather than go along with the sale, the people band together--old and new--to try to save the church through growing produce. Aqua String Band- Jest. Jonathan Davis Scroll. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sep 23, 2015 · Pope Francis didn’t take a break on his first day in the US. 20 forgotten city hardcover carrie 607 new orleans saints 608 how to make Who is the Madalitso Band - Wasalala (CD) for?. 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The Saints Sentinel Parents of students in grades 4-8 are invited to a Band Information Meeting on Thursday, If you are new to St. He was born in Nanyuki, Kenya in 1957 to Irish parents. As rays around the source of light Stream upward ere he glow in sight, And watching by his future flight Set the clear heavens on fire; So on the King of Martyrs wait Three chosen bands, in royal state, And all Earth owns, of good and great, Is gather’d in that choir. Forgotten Saints La custom distressed Denim and American Flag Stage Vest. On August 15th 1944, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Jackalope Saints describe their sound as “folk music fashioned to bluegrass and hammered to the floorboards of forgotten barns, winding through overgrown valleys where ailing giants sleep their lives away”. Create your own version of When The Saints Go Marching In (Big Band Version) as made famous by Traditional. 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Exhibition Review: A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne
13 April 2017 James Lesh Publications
Last year I wrote a review of the exhibition A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne, presented at the City of Melbourne Gallery. It originally appeared in the Melbourne Historical Journal (vol. 44). Reviews also appeared on the ABC, in the Age and elsewhere. Apologies for the slightly blurry images!
12 May to 12 August 2016, City of Melbourne, curated by Clare Williamson. Free Admission.
Entering ‘A History of the Future’ at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall.
Two thousand and sixteen marks the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of Englishman Thomas More’s Utopia. More inspired the idea that humankind might imagine and create a better world. This anniversary was commemorated at London’s Courtauld Institute in its year-long programme entitled Utopia: A Year of Imagination and Possibility. These themes have also been explored in Australia this year. While the tumultuous international events of this year might dampen utopian thinking, I contend in this review that the pursuit of utopian ideas, especially in the urban realm, is as important than ever. It also explains why this exhibition resonated for Melburnians.
A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne was presented at the City Gallery between May and August 2016. Drawing on the City of Melbourne’s Art and Heritage Collection, the City Gallery hosts a rolling annual programme of Melbourne-themed exhibitions curated by academics, freelancers and in-house specialists. Entered from Swanston Street, near the corner of Little Collins Street, located within Melbourne Town Hall, the City Gallery is a prominent exhibition space. It attracts dedicated museum goers as well as passers-by. It is a large turn-of-the-twentieth-century single-room space; re-presented for each exhibition, and flooded with light, noise and movement from Swanston Street. In contrast to outside, the space is nevertheless relatively serene and rarely crowded.
Introducing ‘A History of the Future’.
For the presentation of concentrated exhibitions such as this exhibition the City Gallery is ideal. Freelance curator, formerly of the State Library of Victoria, Clare Williamson expertly realised this exhibition. The exhibition was an aspect of the City’s ‘Future Melbourne 2026’ project; as part of which Melburnians are being asked to reflect on their city. To inspire responses, this exhibition sought to conjure a historical consciousness amongst visitors; to show that the city has been subject to a diverse range of imaginings and contestations since its colonial foundation.
Entering A History of the Future, the exhibition demanded to be viewed as a historical, temporal and spatial urban panorama. Looking up, the visitor saw a 180-degree twenty-first century cyclorama. Commissioned by the City of Melbourne, illustrative artist Lewis Brownlie made a ‘wall drawing’ of 140cm by 1,384cm that crowned the exhibition space (figure 1). Contained in this figurative sketch, black ink on white backdrop, are motifs from the visuals on display within the exhibition, which are fused into his captivating creative Melbourne CBD landscape.
At eye level, images and plaques were presented under five themes: ‘Unbuilt Melbourne’, ‘Moving through the City’, ‘Homes for People’, ‘The Future is Here’ and ‘Looking Ahead’. Along with the introductory and concluding remarks, each theme had a label contextualising and historicising the displays that followed.
Each of the themes corresponded to a section of exhibition space, which contained smaller labels and visuals such as paintings, sketches and photographs, architectural and planning drawings, and digital urban renders on screen displays.
Maquette of Ron Robertson-Swann’s Vault, 1982.
The theme ‘Unbuilt Melbourne’ appropriated the largest amount of exhibition space, perhaps because of the abundance of archival material at the curator’s disposal. From at least the time of the anonymous 1850 pamphlet Melbourne As It Is, and As It Ought To Be, the city has been subject to countless architectural and planning proposals. Williamson primarily selected twentieth-century modernist comprehensive redevelopment schemes to illustrate this theme as interspersed with other notable unrealised proposals such as the 1990s Grollo Tower skyscraper.
Similarly optimistic, future-oriented imagery was used in the other displays. For the housing theme, slum clearance ephemera referencing social reformer F. Oswald Barnett was employed—albeit without explicit reference to the people that were displaced by these apparent improvement measures. ‘The Future is Here’ theme presented captivating architectural photographs, such as of the city’s first modernist skyscraper ICI House, the 1956 Olympic Pool and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
The Future is Here: ICI House, 1955.
As in other recent public explorations of postwar modernist urbanism—such as the 2016 ABC documentary The Streets of Your Town—the underbelly of modernism, such as its technocratic and destructive aspects, were not brought into relief.
The ‘Moving through the City’ display juxtaposed interwar transport cross sections, one even incorporating spaceships, with 2015 Melbourne Metro Rail Project ephemera. This began the temporal transition from past to present to future; culminating in the ‘Looking Ahead’ theme, as part of which visitors were asked to record their ideas for the ‘Future Melbourne 2026’ project.
A short catalogue accompanied the exhibition. It took the form of an illustrated pamphlet, containing illustrations and a brief essay. The essay referenced a handful of primary historical sources, plus famed urban historian Graeme Davison’s article ‘Melbournes that Might Have Been: Three Dreams of the Future City’ from the Victorian Historical Journal (63.2 & 3, 1992, 168–88).
Davison’s article examined the imaginings of our 1850 anonymous pamphlet writer(s) alongside urbanists Frank Stapley and Robin Boyd. Davison observed, ‘Utopian thinking appears to be a characteristic product of those times when the see-saw is rising rapidly from a period of decline’ (172).
Perhaps affirming this point, a city dreamer himself, this year Davison published a compilation of his scholarship City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia (NewSouth, 2016). This year may well be one of those periods when utopian urban thinking is especially important, giving this exhibition added relevance.
‘Unbuilt Melbourne’
The question arises whether the exhibition adequately engaged with the most pressing contemporary urban issues. There were certainly more opportunities for the exhibition to take a critical stance. There was practically no indigenous presence, despite Melbourne’s extended and ongoing Indigenous heritage. Around slum clearance, issues of social inequality might have been better flagged. The realms of architecture and planning—for instance, in design and construction, heritage and transport—also lends itself to more sustained discussions of the environment and sustainability. That said, this exhibition had limited physical space—perhaps a digital supplement might have been useful?—and, within its conceptual and physical boundaries, it presented a complete, enjoyable and inspiring narrative.
A History of the Future was at once historically engaged and future orientated as well as impactful. With reference to the past, Melburnians were being asked to reflect on, debate and suggest ideas for their city. Urbanists call this form of participatory urbanism ‘placemaking’.
By bringing history to the forefront of the urban debate in such an engaging way, this exhibition was arguably cutting-edge. It certainly triggered a strong public response: favourable articles and reviews appeared in newspapers, online and on radio. The exhibition also drew on sound historical scholarship.
For those with a stake in Melbourne public and urban history, this exhibition was a triumph. A History of the Future successfully prosecuted the case that contemporary urban utopian thinking must engage with its pasts.
James P. Lesh
Lewis Brownlie, A Melbourne That Might Have Been, 2016, Wall drawing 140 x 1,384cm. Commissioned by the City of Melboure Art and Heritage Collection. Reproduced with permission of the Artist and the City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection.
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Corinth Holders' Kaelin Sanderford (11), chasing after the ball during a game against Marvin Ridge on March 8 in The Brittany XV in Wilson, was a late addition to the 2019 NCCA East-West All-Star Game and will join Pirate head coach Alison Vetterl on the East team.
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Former Corinth Holders girls soccer defender Kaelin Sanderford says the best quality of her soccer skill set is her work ethic — which pushes her to attack the ball, even when many other players might give up on it.
“I really pride myself on how I’m super hard working and how I continue when people think the ball is going out,” Sanderford said.
With an opportunity to play in the 28th annual North Carolina Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game for girls soccer Tuesday, July 16, the Meredith College signee looks forward to pursuing one final high school experience with the same effort as always, despite not knowing she would be asked to play until recently.
“I’m very excited and I’m super honored to play in the all-star game,” Sanderford said.
Sanderford, who was a late addition to the East roster, was asked to join the team July 3 by her high school coach, Alison Vetterl, who will also be the East squad coach.
Without much hesitation, Sanderford jumped at the opportunity, taking the place of her Pirate teammate, Lindy Morgan, who was slated to play but could not make the game.
During her time at Corinth Holders, Sanderford said her favorite moment was making it to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 3-A girls soccer state championship game her sophomore year.
This summer, she has been preparing for her first year at Meredith by keeping in soccer-playing shape, working on staff at the local YMCA and helping out with the Meredith soccer camp.
But among all those activities, she leapt at the opportunity to join the all-star roster, which will be played at 6:30 p.m. at McPherson Stadium in Bryan Park near Greensboro, because it would be one more chance to face top high school competition.
“It gives me another chance to show how good I am,” Sanderford explained. “And I’m really honored to be coached by her (Vetterl) one last time before I head to college life.”
When it came to adding one more player to the roster, Vetterl immediately knew it should be Sanderford, who had been a leader for the Pirate defense in recent years.
“With Kaelin, she was really a player I could count on defensively in many aspects of her game,” Vetterl said. “She’s vocal back there and really just took the lead in many ways. She saw it from a different perspective and helped things out, communicated really well with our goalkeeper as well as the other defenders too.”
In her own right, Vetterl was selected to patrol the sidelines of the upcoming all-star game after receiving a phone call offering it to her last July.
“I received the phone call asking if I’d be interested in doing it, and of course I jumped on the opportunity,” Vetterl said.
Vetterl, who played college basketball, soccer and a year of softball at William Paterson in New Jersey, said she knew she wanted to go into coaching after she served as a fifth-year student assistant.
“I just always knew that was something I wanted to do from the get go and I had very good role models as far as coaches go,” Vetterl explained. “The support was always there and I just kind of wanted to turn around and do that for others.”
That coaching journey has led her to the honor of coaching in the statewide all-star game for the first time in her career.
Vetterl coached Corinth Holders to two-straight 14-win season the last two years, following a run to the state championship in 2017 that made the Pirates the first Johnston County girls soccer program to make it that far. She was named North Carolina Soccer Coaches Association Public School 3-A Girls Coach of the Year in 2017.
Now with the game coming up next week, she said she is most excited to coach some of the best talent in the state.
“All these girls pretty much are going to play at the next level, and this is kind of their last little hurrah of high school,” Vetterl said. “The honor for me is just being able to coach the best. You just want to go out there, you want to have fun, you want them to get to know each other.”
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SK Innovation to Expand EV Battery Output Capacity to 100 GWh by 2025
Posted on May 27, 2019 by Korea Bizwire in Business, Business Plans, Industries, Manufacturing with 0 Comments
Kim Jun, CEO and president of SK Innovation Co. (image: SK Innovation)
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top oil refiner, said Monday it will expand its electric vehicle (EV) battery production capacity 20 times more than the current level by 2025 to meet growing demand and expand its presence in the promising market.
SK Innovation CEO Kim Jun said the company aims to increase its production capacity from the current 5 gigawatt hours (GWh) to 100 Gwh by 2025, as well as jack up its order book from 430 Gwh to 700 Gwh in the cited period.
SK Innovation joined the ranks of the world’s top 10 players in terms of sales during the first quarter of the year. During the January-March period, SK Innovation reported 447 megawatt hours of capacity sold, which put it in ninth place among battery suppliers.
“Global competitiveness of our new businesses got stronger, but we still have a long way to go,” Kim said to reporters in Seoul.
In addition to the EV battery production, SK Innovation, considered a latecomer in the battery industry, said it will try to provide a battery business solutions platform, which includes the renting, recharging and recycling of batteries, in the market by partnering with other companies.
It will also try to expand its presence in business areas like energy storage systems (ESS) and virtual power plants (VPP).
For chemical businesses, SK Innovation said it will diversify its product portfolio though merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. In particular, SK Innovation said it would expand its lubricant businesses via more partnerships with majors players in the industry.
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2nd Photo Essay — post show at the 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards event
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Two-time winner Anne Gee Byrd, who won acting honors for both leading performance in All My Sons and featured performance in I Never Sang for My Father.
Prize recipients, nominees, critics, publicists, theater practitioners and aficionadi all mingled in the foyer of A Noise Within’s glamorous theater in Pasadena following the 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards event, which was held on Monday, March 19, 2012.
For a full list of the nominees, go here.
You can now follow the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle on twitter via @LADramaCC.
Enjoy this photo essay of the convivial celebration and post-show party.
All photos were taken by Ed Krieger.
Winner of Specialty Award (fight choreography) Eric Anderson for Gospel According to First Squad.
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Photo Essay — 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards evening
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Members of the ensemble of Ebony Repertory Company, A Raisin in the Sun. (From L to R) Jason Dirden, Kenya Alexander and Deidrie Henry.
A grand time was had by all who attended the 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards event. This group of professional theater critics, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC), annually gives awards for excellence in theater.
The ceremony took place Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within’s glamorous theater in Pasadena, and was co-produced by LADCC members David C. Nichols and Sharon Perlmutter.
The fun-filled show featured lively banter and comedic performances from hosts Jason Graae (recipient of the 2007 Joel Hirschhorn Award for outstanding achievement in musical theater) and Lesli Margherita (nominee for Kiss Me, Kate).
In addition to handing out the numerous prizes for excellence in theater, the Awards event featured the Los Angeles premiere performance of My Husband, by Paul Rudnick, a short play added to the New York production of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. The play was charmingly performed by Wendie Malick (Hot in Cleveland) and Christopher Gorham (Covert Affairs).
Yvette Tucker and Salvatore Vasallo also performed a sizzling excerpt from “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” a dance duet from On Your Toes, choreographed by this year’s Hirschhorn Award recipient, Lee Martino.
Please enjoy this photo essay that highlights the attendees, the presenters, the performers, the members, the nominees and — of course — the winners.
The evening’s co-hosts, Lesli Margherita and Jason Graae, raise a toast to all nominees.
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Season Championships canceled
September 7, 2018 | by Sam Stoecklin
Due to all the rain and what is coming in for tonight, Lakeside Speedway has canceled the races for Friday, Sept. 7, thus ending the season points championships.
Lakeside Speedway congratulates our 2018 track champions Mark Schafman (USRA Modifieds), Kevin Anderson (USRA Stock Cars), Tim Powell (USRA B-Mods), Marshall Jewett (Factory Stocks), Kasey Shields (Grand Nationals) and Billy Spilman (E-Mods).
One of the most highly anticipated events of the year takes place on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15, for the annual Jayhawk Modified Shootout. Information is readily available on the track’s website at www.LakesideSpeedway.net regarding the upcoming event which features a $5,000-to-win Modified main event along with the Tom Karrick Memorial Scramble.
Visit the track online for payouts, competing car classes, pre-entry forms and much more.
Send pre-entries to:
1811 Linn Ave.
Attention: Karen Darling
Special two-day pit pass plus entry fee offer of $200 (a savings of $20), must be received by Sept. 7. Race day entry is $175, which does not include a $35 pit pass sold separately.
Lakeside Speedway is a 4/10-mile semi-banked dirt oval located at 5615 Wolcott Dr., Kansas City, KS 66109 (one mile west of I-435 (exit 18) on SR 5 (northwest of Kansas City)). Find the track online at www.lakesidespeedway.net. Like and follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lakesidespeedway.kansascity. You may also email the track at lakesidespeedwaykc@gmail.com.
The 2018 sponsor list includes Valvoline, Baker's Recovery & Tow, Budweiser, Casey’s General Stores, Central Auto Racing Boosters and CARB Hall of Fame & Museum, Christy's Tasty Queen, Courtyard Kansas City Airport, Crystal Trenching, Health & Wellmobile, Johnson County Key Service, Joslin Jewelry, Kaw Valley Companies, LNF Fencing, Kling Auto & Diesel Repair, Metro Pawn, Mission Painting & Home Improvements, National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum, RockAuto.com, Seeburg Mufflers, Sutera’s Shawnee, Tompkins Industries, Toners Jewelers, Ussery Auto Body, Design Source Flooring & Tile, Kenny’s Tile, Justin Lawson Media and Victory Trophies & Plaques.
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If you are going to be a great Yankee, you are a great Yankee starting right now. You do it with lights up. Alex Rodriguez has to know. Even Don Mattingly, who had just one shot at October, hit .417 against the Mariners in 1995, had 10 hits in five games and tried to carry the Yankees on his bad back into the second round. He had stopped being a great player by then. He was a great player against the Mariners, in the last five baseball games he ever played.
“You’re not paid to win 100 games here,” Reggie Jackson said in February, the day before Rodriguez was introduced as a Yankee at Yankee Stadium. “You’re not paid to take us from 102 wins to 109. You’re paid to win the last 11.”
It’s Showtime, Mr. Third Base. Put up some “A-Rod in Seattle/Texas” numbers, hoover up everything that comes your way like the second coming of Nettles, or you’re just another merc taking Boss George’s dough. Help bury the Twins quick, so Torre can have some time figuring out how the hell the starters get arranged to counter whoever comes out of the Anaheim/Boston battle.
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Interracial Relationships Between Black Men and White Women — The Worst Marriages in America
The statistics are dismal. The interracial marriages of Black men and White women are twice as likely to crash and burn as anyone else’s. There are twice as many Black male/White female marriages as White male/Black female marriages, but after ten year’s time there are more White male/Black Female marriages still standing. Their marriages are 44% above-average in their survival rates.
As a survivor of a long-term Black male/White female marriage that failed, I want to put in my two-cent theory on all this.
No. I’m not going to blame Black males.
I’m not going to blame White females, either.
I’m going to blame it on the inadequate ideology that exists in America on how we are to relate to one another.
The common etiquette for White people who profess to be White allies is to acknowledge and defer to the burden of racism Black people endure. The correct posture is that of deference. What’s deemed appropriate is to support that person, pay attention to their feelings in a supportive way and, if you really love them and believe in them, do what you can to enable their actualization.
Deference is already pretty much the traditional role females play with their mates. Whether it’s cultural or innate is another issue. The fact remains that a woman with her hands full with young children is likely in need of a mate who can preoccupy himself with slaying the financial dragons. Practical necessity mandates that the support of her husband’s destiny be paramount, since, if the main breadwinner is languishing, everyone in the family languishes.
Adding a racial deference to that gender deference can lead to a relationship becoming seriously out of balance. The yin and yang of it gets out of whack in a strange way that can become very unhealthy. The problem is that the racial deference has within it a silent aspect that inherently demeans manhood. What is unconsciously being communicated to that male ego is that he’s a poor, helpless thing that needs to be babied. Men innately do not respond to that kind of thing very well at all. He’s in a situation where, whether he’s conscious of it or not, he’s being insulted and emasculated at the same time given carte blanche to act out that resentment.
To be honest, the racial deference has always annoyed me and felt grossly unnatural. I am a genocided person living in Diaspora who assimilated to the people here the most like the extinct people I’m from. Those Americans are, in fact, an excellent resource for someone like me. My knee jerk reflex is to respond to Black Americans as leaders, the go-to people who know how to deal with Aryan Supremacy better than my own people have, since, having recently been persecuted into extinction by Aryan Supremacists, we obviously failed completely.*
Unconsciously, I wanted to be deferred to, supported, encouraged, enabled by my hero. The prevailing American racial paradigm, however, does not allow him to be defined as such.
As a person suffering from generational oppression issues, support was certainly what I was in need of, but America dictates another set of expectations. The American stereotype is that I am the ‘privileged’ person in the scenario, irregardless of my personal existential reality.
Consequently, I’ve spent a lifetime giving other people what I needed. I was certainly good at it, since I knew what was needed, needing it myself, but the experience has left me oftentimes entirely drained, even defeated, since I was giving something I didn’t have to begin with. And the edict demanding White deferential behavior reinforces the relentless distress the centuries-long persecution of my people has left me with – that I am someone who does not matter at all.
So what’s happening on the other side of the aisle? Why is the other variation on interracial marriages doing so much better? By the logic I’ve just described, there’s nothing in the dynamic between White men and Black women that undermines the classic male/female exchange. That White husband has no impediments to playing the ‘hero’ to his mate. And she has no impediments to playing the part of the Maid in America being rescued. If anything, the racial dynamic is enhancing it.
And if that husband is doing the racial deference thing for his wife, while she’s doing the gender deference, then you’ve got a pretty ideal marriage – two people who are deferring to each other. Both partners are treating each other like the other is more important. It reminds me of that old tale about the wife who sells her hair to buy her husband a watch fob for Christmas, while he sells his watch to buy jeweled combs for her hair. Neither have useful presents that year, but they sure do have a good time under that mistletoe.
There is an alternate reality, though, an alternate paradigm. We could broaden the conversation beyond a strict definition of racism as something suffered exclusively by people of color. (The word originated in Europe, referring to abuses exploiting differences in religion, ethnicity, nationality or class.) If we broaden the scope to include all oppression, including the abuse of children, or the abuse of women, then the leadership of Black America becomes universally relevant. The Great Overcomers. The Great Liberators. ‘Yes we can,’ as the man said.
Makes sense to me. That’s always been the way I’ve felt about Black America. But then, I’ve been living in a different paradigm, a Balkan racial paradigm throwback. I like my paradigm better. Everywhere I look I see people embodying the Great Overcomer quality I just described. It’s everywhere you look. These people are amazing. I love them to death. Why can’t that be what’s definitive? Why do we have to keep giving power to White Supremacy? Why are we still letting those people define us?
*The minority Serbs of Croatia historically were 20% of the population. One in four were brutally slaughtered in WWII by Aryan Supremacists as racial inferiors. Those fascists were harbored by the West, and then imported, some say by the CIA, which is known for such tactics, back into Croatia at the end of the Cold War. They resumed their persecutions, culminating in NATO-backed Operation Storm which drove what remained of the Serb population into Diaspora. The population is now at 4%, mostly elderly. It is the only population, out of all those claimed threatened with genocide in that civil war, to have been successfully eliminated. Still hate crimes persist against those old people. Survivors in Diaspora are considered too small a population, too spread out to be culturally viable. The culture that produced Tesla no longer exists.
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This is the maximum amount of insurance available on the policy of the at-fault driver. Each situation is different and there are many factors involved in coming up with settlement amounts. Taking into considering the destruction and damage caused by a crash with a semi truck, it's no wonder semi truck accident settlements are exponentially higher than those of car accidents. Since your insurance company pays for your medical bills and car repairs, pain and suffering is the only part of the settlement that will be determined by the court. How Do Insurance Companies Assess Car Accident Settlements? When calculating car accident settlements, insurance companies consider many factors. The range shows that Chicago,il will still be the latest lucrative place to go for new workforce for the purpose of decades. On April 11, 2013, Kofi Campbell and 8 other over-the-road truck drivers of C. 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Knight-Swift said the estimated settlement amount, up to $100 million, was fully reserved on the company's balance sheet as of Dec. Commercial Trucks are substantially larger and heavier than regular motor vehicles; therefore when a truck is involved in an accident with a car, the outcome can devastating. If you need money before you settled your case, consider applying for lawsuit funding to get a cash advance against your pending injury claim. These geotechnical surfaces are laid down on specified areas intended to sustain either or both foot and vehicular traffic. The initial consultation with our truck accident attorneys is free, and if we agree to represent you, we will work for a contingent fee, which means we won’t get paid for our services unless you receive a settlement or an award. If you are unsure about how it applies to your situation you can call our Infoline on 13 13 94 or speak with a union, industry association or workplace relations professional. If the company becomes insolvent (goes bankrupt), your only course of action will be through the courts. 9 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. This is a settlement for the Car Accidents - Texas lawsuit. In an industry that relies on customer service, we pride ourselves on being committed to our customers. Employers may credit such draws against their minimum wage obligation when settling the amount due to employees at the end of the pay/settlement period. When a pedestrian is hit by a car, injuries are almost inevitable. Although the vehicle sustained only moderate damage and the client's injuries required neither hospitalization or a surgery, Attorney Coker was able to secure a $100,000. This document should include not only the amount but also the damages that the amount is meant to cover and the date when you should receive the settlement documents from the insurance company. Truck Drivers Reach Settlement For… The United States District Court District of New Jersey preliminarily approved a settlement to pay for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the "FLSA"), the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law, and the New Jersey Wage Payment Law. This all takes time and experts state that this area could take up to six months at a minimum to accomplish. Since the establishment of Salter, Healy, Bassett & Rivera, providing honest, aggressive litigation has been our primary objective. a design approach to urban residential settlement procedures and patterns in developing countries by brooks cavin, iii b. Provided by Alexa ranking, ecodieselsettlement. The reality is that many truck accident cases require a personal injury lawsuit with an attorney to obtain sufficient compensation to cover the large amount of injuries involved. Auto Accident Settlement Expectations. Settlement amount was $4 million. That rise, along with two underperforming new. 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Schneider National Carriers Inc. That’s why our late model fleet of Kenworth and Freightliner trucks average 1. Therefore, the most you could get without punitive damages would be $25,000. Due to the size of the large tractor trailers, most regular size vehicles don't stand a chance when they are hit. Help the community by sharing what you know. The average wrongful death settlement ranges from small amounts to millions of dollars, depending on many. 17 As part of the November 2012 ceasefire agreement, Israel agreed to lift the land buffer. Warehouse Handbook White Settlement ISD 14. Could someone please explain to me why my partner receives an hourly pay rate of $19 as a truck driver in Adelaide, full-time, minimum of 38hrs a week…? – he has his HC license, just switched trucks from smaller to much larger (per tonne that is), I believe he is classed as a delivery driver. State law requires drivers to have a minimum of $30,000 per person or $60,000 per accident. When there is evidence these responsibilities were violated in a willful and wanton manner, a claim for punitive damages. 3 Things to Consider Before Accepting a Car Accident Settlement August 7, 2017 By Christopher Hoffmann If you have been injured in a car accident and the insurance company of the driver responsible for the accident has approached you for a settlement, do not make any decision in haste. has obtained for just a few of its clients. Auto Accident Settlement Expectations. The higher minimum policy limits of semi-truck insurance set by law mean that even if the driver or employer only carried the minimum amount, the plaintiff will not be stuck with a small settlement. 2015, Ohio:$60,000 Settlement. , we are…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn. Plaintiff, who was a construction worker and avid guitar player, was rear-ended on Rte. The Kentucky Department of Insurance regulates the Commonwealth's insurance market, licenses agents and other insurance professionals, monitors the financial condition of companies, educates consumers to make wise choices, and ensures Kentuckians are treated fairly in the marketplace. This can mean that the amount you are. March 1 2018. In order to receive any additional settlement including pain and suffering you would need to be able to. Most car accident cases settle. 65 million settlement. As of July 24, 2007, the federal minimum wage was increased to $5. 24/7 online access allows you to review payment options & pay your bill while signed into Account Manager. This Settlement Fund shall be used to pay the claims of the Named Plaintiffs and the approximately 20,000 Drivers who leased trucks from IEL and contracted to drive them for Swift between December 22, 1999 and January 1, 2019. Can't (and won't) say your settlement is insufficient because I don't have all the facts, but as most commercial carriers carry a minimum of $750,000 - $1,000,000 in liability insurance you may want to ask your current attorney to explain to you why you should settle for that amount. The range is huge because cases are difficult to process and navigate, but partnering with an attorney can help ensure the maximum possible settlement. The minimum amount of insurance coverage that the truck driver and/or trucking company carries depends on the type of transported freight. Ultimately, you should choose the coverages that are right for you. in order for the Region to propose this settlement, it had to first find. Review your policy or contact your agent to identify the limitations and exclusions for the following coverages. Although minimum limits of liability are enough to satisfy legal requirements, they are often not enough to pay for damages or injuries in an auto accident. Here are four primary ones: Liability-- Laws regarding contributory negligence vary state to state. of Arizona, LLC (formerly known as Swift Transportation Co. Host Sunny Hostin and ABC News producer Matthew Mosk discuss police's search for Lester Eubanks in the 1970s from Ohio to Michigan to California. In any case, if you were hit by a car as a pedestrian and you think you have a valid injury claim, the only settlement you need to be concerned with is your own. When you suffer a bodily injury (personal injury) due to the negligence of another, you may have a claim against that other person for money damages. Some employees are not covered by an award or an enterprise agreement. In most cases, these rear end collisions are caused by inattentive drivers, adverse road conditions, and poor following distance. Commercial Truck Insurance Customized to your Vehicle or Business Royalty is an award-winning commercial truck insurance agency specializing in finding optimal coverage and low premiums for customers nationwide using A-rated providers around the country. Swift has agreed to a $100 million settlement in a class action lawsuit with nearly 20,000 truck drivers that accused the company of misclassifying them as independent contractors. co-founder and largest shareholder is the bare minimum Tesla Musk’s recent claim the company was building its own delivery trucks to. Please be advised that the information contained herein is for the purpose of general education, it is not legal advice. A trucking company is responsible for the drivers’ hours, their logs and files, and the truck maintenance. Acquiring an auto which usually fail to be throughout showrooms means superior savings. Minimum Requirements 6 Vehicles/engines must be engine model years 1992-2006 and currently registered in the State of Utah. Essential choosing water-damaged as well as crash-damaged cars or trucks located at vehicle deals, bear in mind high-kilometre vehicles, too. The efficient and effective movement of natural gas from producing regions to consumption regions requires an extensive and elaborate transportation system. Just choose the right fit for you from personal bank accounts for every need and life stage. With medical bills what they are today, the most frequent resolution of personal injury cases is a policy limits settlement. Texas law requires that individuals have minimum insurance limits of $30,000 for every injured person, $60,000 total for injuries for each accident, and $25,000 for property damage. According to VerdictSearch, this is also the largest truck settlement ever by a Michigan attorney. Truck accidents and cashes involving commercial trucks. You don’t need to be a fast talker to settle your car accident claim, just follow these simple steps to learn how to negotiate a car accident settlement. Free case review with a truck accident lawyer. So, ultimately, the best that we can hope for is narrowing the settlement range that your case will fall into within a 90% confidence interval. 18 million was awarded to fund ten clean air projects in Connecticut. If You're the PlaintiffFiling Your Lawsuit Have You Asked for the Money or the Property? Before you can sue in small claims court, you must first contact the defendant (or defendants) if it's practical to do so. 00 Atlanta Truck Accident Personal Injury Verdict - Neck and Back Injury Requiring Spinal Surgeries: Client: Our client was a resident of Oxford, Georgia. Responsibilities: Deliver meals to homebound clients on a daily basis. Tip 12: Talk to a Personal Injury Attorney. Whilst doing the ultimate variety, you must get the automobile depending on geographical go with involving Houston. A 65-year-old man is driving his vehicle when he runs out of gas. Verdicts & Settlements Lanier Law Group, P. Each state has its own statute and valuation system, but the format is pretty similar across the US. See if you qualify!. Minimum liability insurance requirements for private passenger vehicles can give an injured party: At least $30,000 for bodily injury for one person. Leaving the truck in the parking lot, he made certain that the truck was locked before leaving it. ) ("Swift") at. Vehicles/engines must be operable and have a minimum of three years remaining in their useful life at the time of replacement. Michael Coker settled a minor truck accident case for $100,000. This section will present applicable loads and provide guidance to MnDOT’s practice for the application of these loads. The minimum amount of insurance coverage that the truck driver and/or trucking company carries depends on the type of transported freight. Settlement Cash Advance Loans Get $ 100 - $ 1000 Cash Advance Now English | Spanish Going to start a car dealer bunch will involve youll to enjoy a setting up at a minimum 180 feet square and the majority who holds more than 10 utilised cars together with marriage ceremony reckoning drive space. A wrongful death lawsuit is a claim for money damages from someone whose negligence caused another's death. Car accident settlement compensation value depends on two things: the strength of your liability claim and the extent of your damages. Your injury compensation amount may be affected by the limits of available insurance. Progressive writes a lot of a minimum policies because of their television commercials and low premium advertisements. Whilst doing the ultimate variety, you must get the automobile depending on geographical go with involving Houston. Where pavement is involved, sub-base material can be considered in the minimum burial depth. Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks. Because of the nature of the commercial trucking industry, truck insurance policies usually have much higher liability limits than typical passenger automobile insurance policies. The measured residual (mostly the traffic-load-induced) settlement was 0. Example, if you have a four year car loan and you've made a year and a half of monthly payments (18 months), this calculator will tell you the balance of the loan. Since 1971 Tower Hobbies has been serving hobbyists with radio control cars, trucks, airplanes, boats, drones, plastic models, trains, rockets, and RC supplies. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association's (FMSCA) settlement for non-compliance was $36,262,097 in 2014 with an average fine of over $7,000 per case. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco found for the plaintiffs and the settlement could cost the world' largest retailer as much as $100 million. Credit Cards will be accepted for payment with a 5. The law now requires all contractors or businesses engaged in the construction industry to carry workers compensation on any employee or subcontractor they hire. You don’t need to be a fast talker to settle your car accident claim, just follow these simple steps to learn how to negotiate a car accident settlement. One of those benefits is a minimum wage for every hour a truck driver works. Since the amount awarded in wrongful death settlements is dependent on a very large and diverse amount of factors, it is very important to have a law firm that specializes in personal injury and wrongful death on your side from the get go. calculating insurance settlements on totaled vehicles By: Janet L. Wage & Hour Lawsuit Settlement The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as well as state laws, guarantee workers minimum wage and overtime pay. This Settlement Fund shall be used to pay the claims of the Named Plaintiffs and the approximately 20,000 Drivers who leased trucks from IEL and contracted to drive them for Swift between December 22, 1999 and January 1, 2019. "FCA US will conduct an emissions recall to update emission control software in an estimated 100,000 model-year 2014-2016 Ram 1500 pickups and Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs equipped with 3. The reality is that coming up with an average semi-truck accident settlement amount isn't a black-and-white process. In many instances, natural gas produced from a particular well will have to travel a great distance to reach its point of use. 47 to $16 an hour over the past three years, according to Restaurants Unlimited’s initial filing. T> has agreed to a settlement of up to $3. Sample Business Letters Sample Business Letters are listed in Alphabetical Order. Minimum barrel length. When choosing an auto for an automobile sale, it is additionally essential to spend some sort of bidders fee. The minimum wage for students under 18 is $13/hour as of June 26, 2019. - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - Walmart and Benedict P. What is the GEICO Settlement Process? Posted in Our Blog on February 12, 2019. Will my auto insurance policy cover U-Haul trucks and trailers? In most cases, it does not. Once you have found settlements for which you are eligible, click through to the settlement. 2 years over the road verifiable experience. How to Calculate Bodily Injury Settlements. J Construction Co. How Much Can I Expect on a Lower Back Injury from Worker's Comp at the Final Settlement with a Lawyer? It's difficult to make any generalizations about worker's compensation payouts. 5 years old, so you’ll always drive a newer truck packed with advanced technology. “It was imperative for us to negotiate a contract that would meet the needs of our customers and. The settlement in this case covers a class of drivers who leased a truck from Interstate Equipment Leasing, LLC (formerly known as Interstate Equipment Leasing, Inc. A couple was rear-ended and pushed into oncoming traffic suffering abdominal and spinal injuries. Actual waiting period was about 1–2 months longer than the minimum requirement of 6 months in both projects, mainly due to the settlement ratio criteria. Most car accident cases settle. Settlements were monitored for more than 4 years at three monitoring stations. $5 million minimum for trucks, regardless of weight that carries hazardous materials Owners of these trucking companies are required to have proof of insurance inside every truck in their fleet. 24 percent of survey respondents favored lower-emitting trash trucks. Do I Need to Report a Car Accident in Kentucky?. Valid CDL in good standing with DOT. What Is the Average Settlement for Rear End Collisions? The amount you can receive in a settlement for a rear ended car accident settlement can vary widely. In a historic day for South Africa, its social partners have reached an agreement at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac. The company said it would build a new electric pickup truck to keep the Detroit-Hamtramck plant open and to build an electric vehicle battery factory in or near Lordstown, Ohio, where GM is closing an assembly plant. The truck failed to reduce speed and one of the cousins was knocked unconscious in the accident. A total of $12. If the accident wasn’t your fault, it’s likely you could receive a personal injury settlement, but there are many factors that determine how much compensation you’ll receive. Contact Starpoint Law to get started on your case. If after you've filed a claim, and were awarded a structured settlement, keep RSL Funding in mind!. One recommendation was to change the. Low speed rear-end accidents resulting in claims of neck pain, or whiplash, are a common cause of litigation. ] (3) It shall come into force on such date 5*** as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. Many insurance companies require a minimum waiting period for a stolen car claim to be finalized. Property damage claims come in many shapes and sizes, and different states have different rules regarding how and when to file. In fact, the average car accident claims for bodily injury was. Drivers must show ability to pay damages (financial responsibility) of a minimum of $15,000 for each person injured or killed in an accident, $30,000 for injury/death of two or more persons in one accident, and a minimum of $5,000 for property damage in any one accident. The traffic intensity of heavy trucks (200 kN/truck) was approximately 400 trucks/day (one-way). Personal Injury Settlements: Myths vs. How Much is an Injury Case Against a Tractor Trailer Worth? Clients with every kind of case often want to ask how much their claim is worth. Since many states only require auto owners to carry minimum limits of $10,000 in coverage, cases which involve injuries clearly in excess of this minimum settle very quickly for payment of all of the policy proceeds. 3 cousins were traveling when they were rear-ended by a semi-truck on Interstate 80. in order for the Region to propose this settlement, it had to first find. T> has agreed to a settlement of up to $3. 3-axle truck over 15,000 pounds. Semi-truck accidents and personal injury settlement amounts can vary wildly, from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million. Equal Housing Opportunity Lender. 2016 Igniting Innovation Showcase and Awards by ACT-IAC Montana Business Navigator; 2016 StateScoop 50 Award (SCOOP) Montana Business Navigator 2016 NASCIO 2016 State CIOs Make a Difference Campaign Featured the Montana Business Navigator. 85 per hour, with additional 70-cent increases scheduled in 2008 and 2009. settlement funds. $1,900,000 – Truck Accident – Settlement after mediation for a client who was driving his automobile when a tractor-trailer made a left turn in front of him causing serious injuries, including fractures to his arm, leg and ankle. Woman rear-ended by a sanitation truck suffering multiple injuries and a total of six surgeries. After a two year delay since settlement was approved in December, 1996, owners of GM pickup trucks, 1973-87 C and K series and 1987-91 R or V series, with saddle bag gas tanks will be receiving $1,000 discounts on future GM purchases beginning in April, 1999, once the 72 day period for appeals under Louisiana passes and no further appeal is filed. -- If a highway fireball that kills four people, injures six and leaves 28 vehicles incinerated sounds like a multi-million dollar settlement, guess again. The initial consultation with our truck accident attorneys is free, and if we agree to represent you, we will work for a contingent fee, which means we won’t get paid for our services unless you receive a settlement or an award. Unique car / truck merchants include bonuses to earn a sales since some as they can be regarding customers. Late Fees of a Minimum of $25. If you’ve been injured in a truck wreck, you may have received an initial settlement offer from the insurance company. Learn how our Reach Forklift can improve your warehouse efficiency. This was the largest-reported truck accident settlement in the nation for 2014. Texas law requires that individuals have minimum insurance limits of $30,000 for every injured person, $60,000 total for injuries for each accident, and $25,000 for property damage. Common Truck Accident Settlement Factors. DEP Reaches $650,000 Settlement with Greene County Gas Storage Field Operator for Violations of the Oil and Gas Act DEP to Host Public Meeting and Hearing on Easton Road PFC HSCA Site Investigation and Proposed Response Action. 49% interest rate on my car I have to pay it off within 48 months. When you are involved in an accident with a tractor trailer and it was their fault, not only is the truck driver at fault, but the trucking company and the truck manufacturer could be liable too. ] (3) It shall come into force on such date 5*** as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. If you were injured in a crash involving an 18-wheeler or other company truck, you may need to sue to get the money you deserve. A wrongful death lawsuit is a claim for money damages from someone whose negligence caused another's death. A total of $12. Power for providing “An Outstanding Auto Claims Experience” for personal lines customers. More specifically, it has been focusing on the need to rein in frivolous lawsuits. While most settlements require no proof of purchase, others have unreasonable requirements such as needing a receipt from a purchase made 5 years ago, and if you don't have the receipt you should not bother filing. Bentonville, Ark. The average trucking accident settlement ranges from a few thousand dollars to millions of dollars, depending on the severity of the accident. Whether you're consolidating debt or remodeling your home, we have a solution for you. Plus, all the improvements found in gasoline mileage progress each personal injury loans on settlements year because of fuel-efficient motors of. Keep in mind; the original settlement figure isn't set in stone. Get help for QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks CD/Download for Windows, and for QuickBooks for Mac from the official QuickBooks® support website. Settlement Cash Advance Loans Get $ 100 - $ 1000 Cash Advance Now English | Spanish Going to start a car dealer bunch will involve youll to enjoy a setting up at a minimum 180 feet square and the majority who holds more than 10 utilised cars together with marriage ceremony reckoning drive space. 10-Day Notice Before Collections on Delinquent Account. Two people who sustain similar injuries in a similar type of crash can walk away from settlement negotiations with very different outcomes. 00 Flat fee plus weight fee based on $28 flat fee plus $8 for a 2-axle truck No special rates. This pushes plaintiff's car into a ditch. Use tax applies if you buy tangible personal property and services outside the state and use it within New York State. Sometimes issues such as how a person's appearance is affected, if there is scarring or disfigurement, can affect the final pain and suffering settlement or judgment received. Every case is different, and regardless of what friends, family, or other individuals may say about what a case is worth, each case must be evaluated on its own facts and circumstances as they apply to the law. If you or a loved one has been injured in Henderson NV, or Las Vegas NV, contact Hale Injury Law. Most European funds have an age minimum. If You're the PlaintiffFiling Your Lawsuit Have You Asked for the Money or the Property? Before you can sue in small claims court, you must first contact the defendant (or defendants) if it's practical to do so. This new rate applies to the first 28 hours worked in a week when school is in session. We operate three topic verticals. The United States sees about half a million accidents with 18-wheelers every year. This website contains provisions of law and annotations which are provided for informational purposes. This post does not include the $3. Settlement amount was $537,500 and $58,158 in Workers Compensation benefits. Swift has agreed to a $100 million settlement in a class action lawsuit with nearly 20,000 truck drivers that accused the company of misclassifying them as independent contractors. The balloon payment option offers the benefit of reduced monthly repayments, with a lump sum repayment (referred to as the balloon payment) at the end of the agreement period. Next step: Attend our GST webinar – to help you to understand GST and its implications for business. Amd pray we dont blow out a tire cause that means no profit. This is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorized to do business. When you suffer a bodily injury (personal injury) due to the negligence of another, you may have a claim against that other person for money damages. The complaint alleged that the companies improperly withheld estimated amounts of labor depreciation from payouts for certain covered losses under commercial. Depending on the cargo being transported by the trucks, minimum insurance requirements could be as high as $5 million. Petersburg, Florida show a record of success. Will my auto insurance policy cover U-Haul trucks and trailers? In most cases, it does not. Volkswagen Trust Funds - Nongovernment Trucks The Missouri Department of Natural Resources accepted applications Tuesday, Oct. In Seattle, minimum wages will now be determined by a sliding scale system that takes a business’ size into account, but with the low-end set at $10. -- If a highway fireball that kills four people, injures six and leaves 28 vehicles incinerated sounds like a multi-million dollar settlement, guess again. According to VerdictSearch, this is also the largest truck settlement ever by a Michigan attorney. Employers may credit such draws against their minimum wage obligation when settling the amount due to employees at the end of the pay/settlement period. Get auto insurance quotes at Allstate. automobile, light truck, pickup truck, crossover, van, mini-van, or sport utility vehicle (the “Vehicles”) purchased or leased (not for resale) during Class Periods applicable to the Settlements relating to such Automotive Parts and the indirect purchase (not for resale) of any replacement Automotive Parts. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MCS-90 ENDORSEMENTS FOR TRUCK INSURANCE - By - Martin B. 45M Settlement Reached in Trump Golf Club Unfair Fees Class Action Lawsuit. Whatever the case if you shop personal loan settlement calculator for used or new car, you will want to preserve another get protected. This is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorized to do business. As engineering, biomechanics and accident reconstruction experts, we have investigated many of these accidents, as well as the resulting claims of injury, for both plaintiffs and defendants. Minimum owner restitution $5,100 - $9,800 Class 4-8 trucks, school buses, transit buses, shuttle Volkswagen Settlement Decree June 28 Settlement papers filed. The settlement requires the following actions to resolve the alleged Clean Air Act violations: PDC will perform engineering evaluations addressing certain identified minimum considerations to ensure its vapor control systems are properly designed and sized to control VOC emissions. BECU Credit Union is a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative serving more than 1 million members. Contact Starpoint Law to get started on your case. We got a $300,000 verdict in a case with a $15,000 settlement offer. The final consideration when it comes to commercial truck accident settlements is the amount of insurance coverage held by each defendant. Jose was driving an 18 wheeler truck headed in the same direction. A group of more than 400 immigrant Latino and Korean truck drivers recently settled a class action lawsuit filed against a Southern California port trucking company. Insurance companies want to reduce their losses, so they will try to get you to settle for a small amount as quickly as possible. Real-time Settlements, NO NYC OR HAZMAT!! Minimum 1 year experience AllTruckJobs helps connect qualified but hard to find candidates with truck driving jobs. This section discusses many kinds of income that are taxable or nontaxable. In February of 2016, our client’s vehicle was struck in an intersection by a roadside service truck that was attempting to make a left hand turn. Some of the biggest trucking accident settlements in recent history include the following:. 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Tag: Sidewave
Lamb of God / Killer Be Killed – The Metro Theatre, Sydney – February 26, 2015
March 2, 2015 by Troy Culpan in Live Shows, Reviews Comments are Disabled
Gotta love a week where we cover Roxette and the next night we’re all about the METALLLLLL at Lamb of God and Killer Be Killed for their Sidewave… As the show isn’t even close to starting, many people behind me are clearly peaking to early, they are pumped. It’s actually quite cute as they are shouting out lyrics and getting […]
Godsmack / Papa Roach / Nonpoint – The Forum, Melbourne – February 24, 2015
February 25, 2015 by MTRBWY in Live, Photos Comments are Disabled
Date: Tuesday February 24, 2015 Venue: The Forum, Melbourne Presented by: Soundwave Tours Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Slash / Steel Panther – The Hordern Pavilion, Sydney – February 24, 2015
February 25, 2015 by Troy Culpan in Live Shows, Reviews Comments are Disabled
What a pairing! This Sidewave is one for the rockers, when you take a band from day one of Soundwave and a band from day two of Soundwave and put them together, what have you got? Slash Panther! Well, that’s what I’m calling it… This one is going to be off the charts, so without further ado, it’s almost 7pm […]
Fear Factory, Exodus & Terror Universal – 170 Russell, Melbourne – February 23, 2015
Date: Monday February 23, 2015 Venue: 170 Russell, Melbourne Photos by: Eric ‘Chowie’ Chow – www.chowie.com.au Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
The Treatment – Cherry Bar, Melbourne – February 23, 2015
Date: Monday February 23, 2015 Venue: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Support: Black Aces, Massive Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES SUPPORTS!
February 19, 2015 by MTRBWY in Current Tours, Live, Music News, Tours - Australian Comments are Disabled
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have landed and with them, the great news that their Australian set will feature the band’s most star studded incarnation yet featuring Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine on drums and The Killers’ Mark Stoermer on bass guitar. The group have been wowing audiences around the world and have noted that for their Australian shows they […]
ANIMALS AS LEADERS + NE OBLIVISCARIS ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES SHOW
When ANIMALS AS LEADERS burst onto the scene in 2009, few would have predicted the band’s meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the progressive rock/metal world. ANIMALS AS LEADERS is revered worldwide as a trailblazing pioneer of modern heavy music and the group’s genre-defying compositions have earned extensive praise as true innovators. This hard hitting, face melting band is not […]
SOUNDWAVE ANNOUNCES A SIDEWAVES EXTRAVAGANZA
ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE ONLY SIDEWAVES EXTRAVAGANZA FORGET SLEEP PEOPLE! In what promises to be a MASSIVE week, Soundwave announce a series of shows kicking off on MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 and continuing right through to FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 with a kick arse band playing in Melbourne EVERY SINGLE NIGHT OF THE WEEK! CHERRY BAR MELBOURNE Monday 23 February – The Treatment Wednesday 25 […]
OF MICE & MEN + ATREYU + THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES
February 4, 2015 by MTRBWY in Current Tours, Live, Music News, Tours - Australian Comments are Disabled
Enduring line-up shifts and a constant uphill battle to be heard, OF MICE & MEN are a band who embody the meaning of ‘unbreakable spirit’ and have emerged stronger than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than on their new album ‘Restoring Force’, which stands as a pivotal piece of work in what will be the band’s musical legacy. “Restoring […]
FEAR FACTORY + EXODUS + TERROR UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES
Rarely can a musical artist claim to be a true innovator, a creator of their own genre, a revolutionary amongst a sea of sameness…FEAR FACTORY is one of those rare cases. The pioneers of industrial-tinged extreme metal, FEAR FACTORY, wrote the book on industrial metal that has influenced the likes of Rammstein and Ministry. This is a band that knows […]
GODSMACK + PAPA ROACH + SPECIAL GUESTS NONPOINT ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES
January 29, 2015 by MTRBWY in Current Tours, Live, Music News, Tours - Australian Comments are Disabled
Not many alternative acts can claim to have a day officially named after them in their honour – GODSMACK can. In honour of their 20 million album sales and two decades of killer tunes, to mark the release of their new record 1000hp, the Mayor of Boston declared August 6 ‘Godsmack Day’. 1000hp debuted at No.3 on the Billboard 200 […]
FALLING IN REVERSE + ESCAPE THE FATE with special guest THE COLOR MORALE ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES
January 29, 2015 by MTRBWY in Current Tours, Live, Music News Comments are Disabled
Australia, be prepared as it’s a rare occurrence when two heavyweights of any genre agree to tour together. FALLING IN REVERSE and ESCAPE THE FATE join forces to bring two kick arse Sidewaves to Melbourne and Sydney ONLY with their BURY THE HATCHET tour. Joining them will be special guests THE COLOR MORALE. BURY THE HATCHET tour sold out in […]
MILLENCOLIN + THE VANDALS + THE INTERRUPTERS ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES
In what promises to be a mammoth night, esteemed punk rock juggernauts MILLENCOLIN, THE VANDALS and THE INTERRUPTERS will take to the stage for two Sidewaves only in Melbourne and Brisbane! Australia’s much loved favourite Swedes MILLENCOLIN, will be returning to our shores bringing their immense catalogue of classic albums and playing all the fan favourites! With 11 studio albums […]
LAMB OF GOD + KILLER BE KILLED + SPECIAL GUESTS SIDEWAVES ANNOUNCE
There are metal bands and then there is LAMB OF GOD. Hitting with the force of an invading apocalyptic army, LAMB OF GOD will be storming the stages on Soundwave this summer. The Virginian natives are back to inject Australia with a crippling dose of pure metal and will be performing two Sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne. It’s the live […]
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS announce Sidewave shows
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million albums, and won multiple Grammy Awards in the process. The release of the critically acclaimed Siamese Dream in 1993 saw the band break into the mainstream but it was the release in 1995 of the hugely ambitious double […]
JUDAS PRIEST and DRAGONFORCE Sidewaves confirmed for 2 epic shows!
There are few heavy metal bands that can match the sheer brilliance, aggression and stature that JUDAS PRIEST have in a career spanning nearly 40 years. With over 46 million album sales, a Grammy award and seventeen studio albums at their disposal – including last year’s brilliant ‘Redeemer Of Souls’ – there’s no doubt Birmingham’s most famous godfathers of metal […]
Richie Sambora – The Espy, Melbourne – February 27, 2014
March 2, 2014 by MTRBWY in Live, Photos Comments are Disabled
Date: Thursday February 27, 2014 Venue: The Espy, Melbourne Photos by: Eric ‘Chowie’ Chow Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Alice In Chains, Down & Walking Papers – The Palace, Melbourne – February 27, 2014
Date: Thursday February 27, 2014 Venue: The Palace, Melbourne Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Black Veil Brides & Heaven’s Basement – Arrow on Swanston, Melbourne – February 26, 2014
Date: Wednesday February 26, 2014 Venue: Arrow on Swanston, Melbourne Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Richie Sambora – The Enmore Theatre, Sydney – February 26, 2014
Date: Wednesday February 26, 2014 Venue: The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
AFI & Crosses – The Factory, Sydney – February 25, 2014
Date: Tuesday February 25, 2014 Venue: The Factory, Sydney Photos by: Annette Geneva Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Jimmy Eat World, Panic! At The Disco & Alkaline Trio – The Forum, Melbourne – February 25, 2014
Date: Tuesday February 25, 2014 Venue: The Forum, Melbourne Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Pennywise, Less Than Lake, Bowling For Soup & Zebrahead – The Manning Bar, Sydney – February 24, 2014
Date: Monday February 24, 2014 Venue: The Manning Bar, Sydney Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Eagles Of Death Metal, Mutemath & Rocket From The Crypt – The Hi Fi, Melbourne – February 24, 2014
Date: Monday February 24, 2014 Venue: The Hi Fi, Melbourne Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY
Living Colour / Alter Bridge – The Hi Fi, Sydney – February 25, 2014
A sold out crowd in Sydney tonight pretty much says it all, this is going to be one amazing musical laden evening. A subdued opening to the Living Colour set tonight with Corey Glover looking more like he’s up for a round of golf than here to rock out, even with this slower opener, a cover of the Robert Johnson […]
Rob Zombie, Korn & Mushroomhead – the Big Top Luna Park, Sydney – February 24, 2014
Tonight is going to be fun! I arrive what I thought was early, but find Mushroomhead already halfway through their set, but in watching this band, they are the perfect choice to open tonight’s show and as per their set at Soundwave they are getting the crowd going early and are heavy as all hell. This almost rap rock metal is […]
RICHIE SAMBORA ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE CHARITY SHOW
Richie Sambora announces an ADDITIONAL Sidewave Show with all profits going to THE STARLIGHT FOUNDATION Celebrated American rock icon RICHIE SAMBORA has announced he will play an additional and incredibly intimate Sidewave show whilst in Melbourne for Soundwave Festival 2014 with all profits going to The Starlight Foundation. For the first time in over ten years , Australian fans will have the opportunity of a […]
VOLBEAT + FILTER + HACKTIVIST ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVE SHOWS
INDUSTRIAL METAL ROCK FANS PREPARE FOR AN AURAL ASSAULT AS VOLBEAT, FILTER, AND HACKTIVIST ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVE SHOWS After being catapulted into the spotlight following an invitation to tour with Metallica in 2009, their fifth album has done nothing to stop the band’s ever-growing domination of the genre. VOLBEAT has been touring worldwide, taking inspiration from death, the dark arts and other terrifying […]
TESTAMENT + NEWSTED SIDEWAVE SHOWS ANNOUNCED
GET READY FOR TWO OF AMERICA’S HEAVY WEIGHT METAL HERO’S TO TAKE TO THE STAGE FOR ONE EXPLOSIVE NIGHT! – 2 SHOWS ONLY! TESTAMENT is the quintessential heavy metal band. They have undisputedly been the flag bearers and garnered huge influence over a whole new generation of aural aggressors. Reaching this lushest of creative fields has been quite a journey […]
BIFFY CLYRO Sidewaves announced!
Firmly established as one of the biggest bands in the UK following the amazing success of their current album Opposites – which debuted at #1 in the UK and #22 in Australia – BiffyClyro have announced two side-shows ahead of their appearance as part of the 2014 Soundwave Festival. Biffy Clyro’s live chops are well established internationally, the band having headlined the infamous Leeds […]
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Home Crime Evidence 600,000 Rohingya children may flee to Bangladesh, aid group warns
This September 16, 2017 photo shows Rohingya refugees at the Jalpatoli refugee camp in the no-man's land area between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Gumdhum village in Ukhiya AFP
600,000 Rohingya children may flee to Bangladesh, aid group warns
The Dhaka Tribune
According to the UN, more than half of the refugees are children, and more than 1,100 have arrived alone after trekking mud roads and hills for days
Some 600,000 Rohingya children could flee to Bangladesh by the end of the year, a relief group said Sunday, highlighting the scale of the humanitarian crisis triggered by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have now arrived in Bangladesh from their Buddhist dominated homeland to escape violence that the United Nations says could be ethnic cleansing.
According to the UN, more than half of the refugees are children, and more than 1,100 have arrived alone after trekking mud roads and hills for days.
“That number could rise beyond one million by the end of the year if the influx continues, including about 600,000 children, according to UN agencies,” Mark Pierce, the Bangladesh chief of Save the Children charity, said.
The UN has also said it was possible that all the estimated 1.1 million Rohingya could flee Rakhine.
Bangladesh and relief agencies are struggling to cope with new arrivals sheltering on roadsides, hills and open spaces close to existing camps around Cox’s Bazar, which borders Myanmar.
Aid agencies have said thousands of Rohingya were half-starving and a major health emergency could break out.
Bangladesh has announced it will build 14,000 shelters for some 400,000 refugees but has said it was also readying a desolate island where many could be relocated.
Pierce said his group was particularly worried about the traumatised children and orphans who have
arrived alone in Bangladesh.
“This is a real concern as these children are in an especially vulnerable position, being at increased risk of exploitation and abuse, as well as things like child trafficking,” he said.
“Some children have witnessed violence and killing. Some have been shot at, others have seen their homes set on fire. Some have reportedly watched their parents being killed,” he said.
The charity said it is setting up safe spaces in the camps for vulnerable children.
They would receive 24-hour support and protection while attempts are made to find family members, it said.
Bangladesh authorities say they are also preparing special measures to care for Rohingya orphans.
Source: The Dhaka Tribune
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Cadillac's boring alphanumeric names are on the way out
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Cadillac will go back to using actual names for its vehicles starting with the arrival of a new electric crossover in 2022. (Image courtesy of General Motors)
Cadillac's history is full of evocative names, such as Eldorado and DeVille, but today the only vehicle in the lineup without a nondescript alphanumeric name is the Escalade.
That's set to change starting with the arrival of a new electric crossover in 2022, Car and Driver reported on Thursday.
Cadillac spokeswoman Katie Minter told the magazine that some names may draw from Cadillac's past while others will be new. It follows a similar strategy employed by Lincoln for its latest vehicles, all of which feature real names instead of the previous MK-based names.
Crucially, new names will only be introduced when a new vehicle is introduced or an existing one redesigned, to prevent confusion. And numbers could still feature to denote what powertrain a particular vehicle is packing.
Cadillac started using alphanumeric names with the arrival of the 2003 CTS. But because there wasn't a clear hierarchy in the names, it wasn't clear where specific models sat in the lineup. Cadillac attempted to address this issue by adding numbers to the names when it launched the 2016 CT6.
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Combative Sports vs. Real Fights
Types of Self Defense Training
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Short Self-Defense Courses
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Increase Self-Defense Options
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Evolution in Martial Science
Muscle Memory / Operant Condition
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Model Mugging Saved My Life
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Suspicious Behavior
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Consensual Isolation
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Walking to Your Home
Is A Burglar Inside Upon Arriving Home?
Defending Against the Door Blitzer
Safety While at Home Alone
Walking to Your Vehicle
Stopping Violence Against Women
In the real world, we don’t know what we don’t know. The following data should be interpreted with caution because there are individual and personal factors that influence the reporting of both sexual and non-sexual assaults. Our knowledge is only based on what our students or their families have reported back to us.
Model Mugging self-defense student practices how to counterattack the padded assailant who models how predators commit violence against women.
The Department of Justice Reports approximate 20% of women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime in the United States (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998). Various rape crises centers report victimization rates much higher with carried reporting rates around 10% of survivors report the crime to police. Many survivors of sexual assault have a greater chance of being victimized repetitively, which has been confirmed by many of our students who shared their situations that involved prior histories of being assaulted in a variety of ways (child molestation, street groping, rape, intimate partner violence, stalking, and robbery).
A suggestive anecdote, but not statistically confirmed, occurred in one county where Model Mugging founder, Matt Thomas, also trained the local law enforcement as well as women from the Rape Crisis center. There were 26 rapes reported to law enforcement, but over 600 rapes reported to the Rape Crisis Center where the victims did NOT choose to report their rapes to law enforcement. Accuracy may be questioned because incidents reported to the crisis center may be duplicated if a survivor called on separate occasions and spoke to different advocates and sometimes survivors may call for assistance long after the crime occurred.
There are many types of aggression towards women and sometimes incidents may not satisfy the legal elements defining rape that determines what law enforcement lists in a specific crime category. Regardless, the significant difference in what was reported to the police compared to the crisis center, especially it is unknown how many rapes occurred that were not reported to anyone, unfortunately those survivors kept the crime silent.
The above anecdote also demonstrates there is no surefire method to obtain accuracy for measuring crime. Additionally there is not a surefire way for measuring the impact crime prevention and self-defense has on various crimes, especially violent crime against women.
Based on our students’ reports, a Model Mugging graduate’s chance of being sexually assaulted is significantly lower than women without proper self-defense training. Well over 60,000 women have graduated from Model Mugging Self-defense courses worldwide. Over 59,000 students never reported assaults afterwards (98.3% success in avoiding attacks).
Another 800 Model Mugging graduates, who were threatened with assault, stopped their assailant with just their voices and body language (80% success when attacked without resorting to violence). Incidents reported back to us total 221 graduates who were involved in a physical attack since taking the program on an average of 2 ½ years after graduating. Of those reported 221 assaults, 214 (97%) graduates successfully fought off their attacker.
Out of over 60,000 graduates of Model Mugging programs, only 7 students reported that they were victimized. These Model Mugging graduates all survived, which is a significant victory. Obviously, if a student were murdered then it would be impossible for her to report this, but we only can report what is reported back to us. We don’t know what we don’t know.
We know of only seven (3%) of our students who did not stop the assault. These cases are described in the order of occurrence from the early 1970’s.
Two students, in separate incidences, were confronted by armed assailants where one assailant used a gun and the other used a knife. Both of these survivors were intimidated by the weapon and chose not to fight but to surrender and pacify their assailants. (These two women did not take the Advance course that deals with an armed assailant.) They survived and therefore made the correct decision in their dangerous situation.
The third student was hit over the head with a club-like object from behind, knocked unconscious and sexually assaulted but wasn’t raped. The fourth student was physically attacked on a transit bus and was physically beaten but not sexually assaulted. This was a hate crime, and she actually won the initial confrontation after the criminal punched her in the face. However she physically stopped after shoving him off the bus, and then asked the bus driver to assist by closing the bus doors. The driver refused to assist and the attacker came back on the bus after her. He repeatedly rammed her head into a metal post knocking her unconscious. Additionally, she worked as a security guard and later expressed confusion as to her options regarding the “neutralization of a threat” (rules of using force) with her right to protect herself, which was at the expense of her own safety.
The fifth student was blitzed by a mentally ill juvenile client and chose to curl into a protective position until the client’s father pulled him off of her, within five seconds. The sixth case may be placed in either category. She did successfully fight off the assailant, but her case may also be argued that she was raped before she escaped, so we reluctantly list it here. She was drugged with rohypnol in a bar, woke up in the middle of her rape, fought off her assailant, and then escaped. We teach students they can fight back anytime during the assault. This woman recovered cognitive awareness and was able to use her skills to fight back. The seventh case, a student’s mother reported that her daughter froze and did not fight off her assailant. Unfortunately we have no further details. Again, these graduates all survived, which is a significant victory.
Obviously we don’t have a statistically relevant control group of an untrained group of women of the same ages, socioeconomic status, occupations, etc. Over a 40 year period, even harder to calculate is the factor that some of graduates have had different numbers of years after taking Model Mugging each with various histories and levels of training. Some took the course over 40 years ago, and some just recently. Applying gross estimates, for example if a woman lives to be 80, then applying the 20% of DOJ statistics of the odds that a woman would be attacked in her lifetime, it could be estimated that 6,000 might have been attacked (1/2 of 80 years of 60,000 is 30,000 x 20% = 6,000) whereas only 1,000 of our students were threatened with assault or physically attacked. Using these numbers Model Mugging may have an 83% reduction in preventing assaults.
Of those 1,000 students threatened and actually assaulted, over 800 were able to prevent victimization by just their voice, boundary setting, and conflict resolution skills. They demonstrated the best self-defense, the art of winning without fighting.Of the 221 known fights, our students won 214 or a 97% street combat success rate.
Of the 214 women who did fight back, about 40% forced the assailant to flee and about 60% won by incapacitating the assailant to have time to get to safety.
Of the known histories of 60,000 students spanning well over a 40 year period and having only 7 cases indicates a 99.995% success rate in preventing victimizations.
However, again, we don’t know what we don’t know.
There Are Never Any Guarantees:
Fighting back gives women the best results of stopping an attack. Fighting back will not guarantee success and the consequences could result in severe injury and even death. But that holds true for the other three general options as well. Women, who have fought back, both avoiders and survivors, commonly feel better about themselves when recovering. Women who were successful in fighting off an assailant may still feel and suffer the effects of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), specifically the rape trauma syndrome, but with one difference: these women were victorious and won!
Resisting physically in order to escape is not always successful and can be dangerous. A common misnomer still taught in programs for women. Model Mugging teaches women the full spectrum of options that gives women more knowledge and experience to apply what they deem as most appropriate for their situation. We receive comments, “Why not run away after you strike him?” “He’s down, then why keep kicking him?” Why not stand up and stomp/soccer kick or just run away?” The answers to these questions are easily identifiable when applying the Five Principles to self-Defense ©.
In our Model Mugging study done in 2000, we found that less than 20% of women ran away during the assault, and 25% of the runners were caught by the assailant. When Matt Thomas performed his original study in 1971, he did not analyze this option in detail. Again, Model Mugging continuously strives to arm students with realistic information and strategies they can then apply best to their specific situation.
Knocking the assailant down does not mean the same as knocking him out. You are not safe until you have decisively rendered the assailant unconscious and have enough time to get to a safe location. Even then, he may regain consciousness and chase you. Alternatively, he may run away before you are able to finish him off, but you cannot count on that and you must still be cautious because an assailant may pretend to run away, only to return and attack you again (Thomas, 1995).
A student, who had only attended 2/3s of her classes in a University Model Mugging course against a single unarmed assailant (78% of the reported incidences), was attacked in a city overseas where the assailants often slit the eyes of their rape victims to avoid identification, by a gang of adult males of a different race so it was also a hate crime. Most of the criminals in that country are well armed and have Martial Arts training in order to survive attacks by other gangs. She feigned submission so she was able to surprise heel palm the leader in his nose, while shouting “No!” as she was taught in class. He fell backwards to the ground and appeared to be knocked out. His accomplices fled in one direction and the student fled in another direction.
In class she was taught to finish the fight and assess, because as in this case the leader recovered from her knockdown strike and chased her over 200 yards only to tackled her from behind. She was severely injured by her impact against the ground from being tackled when running at full speed, on the concrete. Still she fought, which became the closest to a “psycho-mugger” (that we are aware of) whom any of our students have faced in real life. Because she had been trained in a high adrenaline state during class where she had fought off the repeated attacks of the “psycho-muggers”, she persisted in fighting in her high adrenalinized mode on the street despite her injuries. The gang leader most likely had some martial arts training, but not in ground combat so eventually she was able to knock him unconscious by the use of her legs versus his arms. She was able to stagger to the emergency room on her own. She had minor slashing knife wounds on her legs and the soles and sides of her shoes were also slashed. She did not remember that her assailant had a knife but her wounds are evidence that he had been armed. She survived because of her basic self-defense training, her courage, and her improvisational skills.
The most important lesson is, to never give up and survive. The second lesson, make sure your assailant is knocked out before turning to flee. The third lesson, in addition to the Basic course against a Single Unarmed Assailant, take the Model Mugging self-defense Advanced training against Armed Assailants, Multiple Unarmed Assailants and Multiple Armed Assailants.
Based on our students’ reports, a Model Mugging graduate’s chance of being sexually assaulted is significantly lower than women without proper self-defense training. Since the late 1980s there have been break away and copycat organizations who have taught elements of the revolutionary Model Mugging System. Their statistics are also unknown whether their students have “piggy back” success stories or incidents where students who did not stop the assault. Unless students report back to us, we cannot analyze these cases either.
We have had our students successfully defend themselves and others survive the assault. We emphasize that no one is invincible. However our greatest success and reward is when Model Mugging graduates used their boundary setting verbal skills to de-escalate violence and find safety that is testimonial to the mind-body-spirit training applied in the development and teaching methods of Model Mugging.
In perspective, there are no guarantees in life. However, you can draw your own conclusions as to our students’ reported effectiveness of our training in real world danger.
If you are a graduate who has applied her skills, please contact us and share your experience.
Links to other Testimonial information:
Four Common Self Defense Testimonials
Personal Testimonials from Self-defense Course Graduates
“Model Mugging Saved My Life!” – graduate success story
Model Mugging Self-Defense Articles
Overcoming Fear- You Can Do It!
Crime Prevention Updates
Help Support the Program
First (1971) Full Force Self Defense Program
Human Behavior Magazine – December 1978 “Getting Tough about Rape”
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Künker Fall Auctions 216-218 Preview
August 29, 2012 By Ursula Kampmann Leave a Comment
Fritz Rudolf Künker Auction House GmbH & Co. KG
Fall Auctions 216 – 218
October 8th through 12th in Osnabrück
Künker Auction House heads into this year’s upcoming fall auctions with three catalogues and approximately 5,500 lots, with an overall estimate valued at 6.5 million EUR. It’s an extensive offering with something for everyone. However, estimates in the double and triple-digits will barely raise an eyebrow in Osnabrück – the excitement will be reserved for the 17 items that sit beyond the 25,000 EUR mark, including a Romanian gold coin of 100 lei estimated at a lofty 80,000 EUR, a Ptolemaic oktadrachm estimated at 75,000 EUR and a Norwegian speziesthaler estimated to bring in a tidy 50,000 EUR.
Catalogue 216: Between the first item of auction 216, a very rare Celtic quarter stater from Britannia (Estimate: 250 EUR), and the final multiple lot of four drachms from the Indian Kshatrapas (75 Euro) there are another 1,638 lots assembled under the “Coins from the Ancient World” category. As always, the auction counts Celtic, Greek, Roman (republic, imperators, imperatorial, emperor), Migration Period, Byzantine, as well as Crusader and Oriental items among its assembled offerings. The overall estimate of just short of three million EUR, as exorbitant as this may seem, is quite likely not even to be close to enough; the offerings are that exquisite.
570: AEGYPTUS. Ptolemy III. (246-222 BC) for Berenice II. Oktadrachm. SNG Cop. 169. Svoronos 1113. RR, extremely fine. Estimate: 75,000 EUR.
Lot number 570 in the Aegyptus section features an oktadrachm of Ptolemy III (246-222 BC) estimated at 75,000 EUR, which was minted in Alexandria for Berenice II. The very rare coin is an extremely fine showpiece that has already been a part of various prestigious collections. As is customary with Künker, the history behind the coin is presented in the catalogue in further detail (see www.kuenker.de). Among the other numismatic heavyweights from antiquity: a stater 380/370 from Panticapeum (40,000 EUR), an aureus 41/45 of the Roman Emperor Claudius for Nero Claudius Drusus (30,000 EUR) and one more of Didius Iulianus from the year 193 (30,000 EUR).
Catalogue 217: 2,639 lots of “Coins and Medals from Medieval to Modern Times” together account for an estimated 1.8 million EUR. The auction will be held from October 9th-11th, from Tuesday afternoon to Thursday afternoon, and looking through it broadly, the auction week offers up several medieval highlights. Among them, a bracteate of the Bohemian regent, Vladislaus II (1158-1173) from the Bautzen or Görlitz mint, listed at 5,000 EUR. Another high point is the absolutely rare Louis the Pious (814-840) denarius from Treviso, offered at twice the previous estimate, at 10,000 EUR. During the penny time, it was only silver that was minted, but on one occasion, Louis also treated himself to a gold coin. With the legend MVNVS DIVINVM, the coin is an “expression of the still relatively young Carolingian Empire’s claim to power over Byzantium” (catalogue text). This rare solidus (in the gold catalogue 218) is now listed at 20,000 EUR in Osnabrück.
2954: NORWAY. Christian V. (1670-1699). Thick, quadruple speziesthaler, 1680. Ahlström 25 (XR). Dav. A 3654. Of greatest rarity, tiny scratch, very fine. Estimate: 50,000 EUR.
The Norwegian speziesthaler estimated at 50,000 EUR, referred to above, was minted in Christiana in 1680 by minting authority Christian V. The following items stand out with estimates of a comparatively low 10,000 EUR each: a 1644 triple imperial thaler from Kremnitz, a 1755 Frederick the Great eightfold groschen from Cleves and an 1840 fine silver thaler of the Hannoverian Ernst August. A very rare 1537 thaler in excellent condition of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck is estimated at only 5,000 EUR. Also in this price range is a 1755 Saxon imperial thaler, patinized, FDC and particularly rare (5,000 EUR).
There are also some items to be found for somewhat less than this estimate range (and these are merely examples from Künker’s extensive offering), such as an 1869 double convention thaler of the Bavarian King Louis II (4,000 EUR) a Frankfurt double gulden from 1849 of the election of the Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm to “Emperor of the Germans” (3,000 EUR). There are also treasures to be discovered several price ranges beyond this, such as an 1803 silver medal from Mulhouse / Thuringia of the convention with Prussia (100 EUR), 5 sols from 1793 besieged Mainz (75 EUR) or a kipper-kreuzer by Kempten, undated, which is offered along with a Ravensburg copper penny (50 EUR).
Catalogue 218: The auction week’s third catalogue is divided into two parts. It comprises about 900 gold pieces from all over the world (overall estimate: 1.5 million EUR) and more than 300 lots of German coins from 1871 on (overall estimate: almost 400,000 EUR).
5390: Romania. Charles II. (1930-1940). 100 lei, 1939. Fb. 13. Schäffer/Stambuliu 102. Schl. 15. Of greatest rarity, extremely fine. Estimate: 80,000 EUR.
The 100 lei coin of the Romanian king Charles II from 1939 is the most highly valued of the items, with an estimate of 80,000 EUR. Expectations are “only” half as high for the precisely 100-years-older five pound coin of Britain’s Queen Victoria, as well as for the 100 lira coin of King Humbert of Italy from 1880. All three gold pieces are extremely rare and particularly attractive. A 1642 quadruble (quadruple écu pistolet) of the city of Genf has a similar estimate of 20,000 EUR, as does a tenfold 1648 ducat of Ferdinand III from the Prague mint, and a bank portuguez of ten ducats of the city of Hamburg from 1689.
5579: USA. 50 dollar, 1915 (Panama Pacific International Exposition). Fb. 188 und 189. 2 pieces, RR, extremely fine. Estimate: 75,000 EUR.
Although Lot 5579 is also set at a very substantial estimate of 75,000 EUR, it consists of two coins: 50 dollar 1915 coins made for the Panama Pacific International Exposition, in both round and octagonal varieties.
The catalogue concludes with 324 items from “German Coins from 1871 on.” The 20-mark piece from 1871 from Reuss, Elder Line is set at an estimate of 28,000 EUR. Two other gold coins – a 20 mark 1882 coin from Saxe-Meiningen and a 20 mark 1913 from Bavaria – are set at 15,000 and 10,000 EUR respectively. A Wurtemberg 5 mark piece from 1905 in proof is expected to bring in 10,000 EUR. The 1913 golden trial piece of a 1/2 mark without mintmark and with a milled edge is also estimated at 10,000 EUR.
So that’s it – for the time being at least – since Künker is holding another two auction days on the 30th and 31st of October. That program will feature portions of the Hagander Collection (Sweden and its territories) and the Vogel Collection (gold), as well as the Mercator Collection (Hesse) and pieces from Russia.
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Nicole Stellon O'Donnell
You Are No Longer in Trouble
From the Marie Alexander Series, Forthcoming March 2019
This collection of prose poems and flash essays—part memoir and part investigation into the educational system—is a compelling linked series that explores the connections between one teacher’s family history, her experience of being a student, and the persona she has to wear in the classroom. An open submission winner for the Marie Alexander Series.
Advance Praise for You Are No Longer in Trouble:
“You Are No Longer In Trouble is one of the best books I read in a long, long time. It’s for anyone who has ever been in school, as student or teacher, administrator or aide. It’s for every being working so hard to be good or do better in this mysterious world. It’s for people with excellent memories and people who forget too much. An extremely evocative, superbly written, deep dive into classrooms, hallways, and the precious human heart.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye
“Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s startling and capacious collection, You Are No Longer in Trouble, telescopes between late-seventies suburban Chicago and contemporary Alaska. Student becomes teacher; daughter becomes mother. These shifting identities organically engage issues of place, the gendered body, and the economy of labor. . . . Deft with the prose poem form, O’Donnell’s lines can be a choppy, roiling surf, or become inviting and even languorous, but always with a potent undertow. This book gives me a new understanding of the attentions and estrangements prescribed by America’s approach to schooling. More importantly, this book has a rich, complicated heart.”
—Sandra Beasley, author of Count the Waves
Steam Laundry
Boreal Books/Red Hen Press, 2012
Steam Laundry is a novel in poems available from Boreal Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. It tells the story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, who arrived in Fairbanks in the gold rush of 1903. With her two children, she followed her husband to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1898. As their relationship faltered and her business opportunities dried up, she fled to Fairbanks with hopes of opening her own hotel. The book weaves persona, with poems in the voices of many characters, lyric poems, and historical photographs and documents to trace her path. Steam Laundry was the 2017-2018 Alaska Reads selection
Praise for Steam Laundry:
In O’Donnell’s narrative of familial and social history, we experience Alaska—its financial and romantic allure— and the gender disparities that defined frontier reality in the early 20th century. Readers meet Sarah Ellen Gibson, her marriage “so new/I could hold it in my palm /like an egg still warm/ from the henhouse.” We learn that “where men prospect, women wash” and witness Gibson’s struggle to “wring /our living out of this frozen dirt.” O’Donnell’s research yields unsparing details that vivify daily life in the Yukon Territory; she honors women who build laundries and roadhouses, making a place for themselves under unrelenting emotional and physical conditions. This book-length sequence will hold you in its spell.
—Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection
Steam Laundry is a great story, poems that work research into narrative art. These are the stories of the earth, broken for gold, and the women whose work doing laundry made possible difficult but ambitious lives. One family goes in search of gold. We readers find gold here in this brilliant book that won’t be put down!
—Hilda Raz, author of TRANS and What Happens
This collection of poems about those who came to the Yukon and Alaska over a century ago in search of gold and a better life is a compelling read. I could feel the bitter cold of the landscape and the desires and passions of the characters as I read poem after poem unable to put the book down until I reached the end. This is a book that deserves to be read.
— Tom Sexton, former poet laureate of Alaska
In O’Donnell’s poems, ordinary objects become powerful symbols of possibility. The steam from the laundries offers baptism into economic prosperity, a way to “be well-off someday, washed / away in the tide of money this rough / land promises.” “The click / of caribou knees, like twigs snapping in chorus”—heard by wounded men unable to hunt—signal chances lost to dumb luck. This unique debut collection presents not only images worth savoring, but a new voice notable in its commitment to shedding light on past lives.
— Julie Swarstad Johnson, Rain Taxi Review of Books
I couldn’t read this book as a series of poems, but rather as a complex and dramatic story with poetic sensibilities. And I was not disappointed. There is plenty of drama for fiction lovers, painstaking accuracy for history buffs and wonderful lines throughout in the letters. Read the whole review here.
— Martin Ott, Writeliving
This collection deserves a wider readership; deserves to be seen as more than an “Alaskan” collection. I hope it will persuade both readers and writers of poetry that there need to be more collections like this, based on courageous and skillful melding of historical documents and lyric poems. Read the whole review here (pages 105-107).
–Ela Harrison Gordon, Cirque, v. 4 no. 1
Steam Laundry is available directly from Red Hen Press, or Amazon. You can also ask your local bookseller to order a copy for you.
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Gloucestershire Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre
Gloucestershire Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre (GRASAC), like many charities with small budgets, focus inwards on their core aims and service users. It recognised its outward facing, public engagement documents and identity were poor. Whilst a new logo was in development I designed its annual report and a double-sided A4 information sheet as fundraising tools. Illustrations were used to make them feel personal but retain anonymity of service-users and support staff.
GRASAC annual review 2017
An annual report can double as a fundraising tool – data visualisations and infographics make information easy for readers (who may be potential funders, volunteers and supporters) to understand the nature of the charity: what the organisation does and why; what it has achieved; its plans and goals; how it is funded; who uses the service and the geographical area served; who works for the service; what service users say, and the challenges the charity faces.
Between 2017 and 2018 I project managed the development of a new identity for Gloucestershire Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre, working with logo and web designers. The 2018 annual review shares much of the same content framework as the previous years' review, with styling updated to reflect the brand
GRASAC fundraising mailing
Created for a fundraising mailing, this information sheet has also been sent to interested parties to give an overview of the work done by Gloucestershire Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre. Kate selected the information from the charity's data, wrote the copy, designed the infographics, managed the print (and created, and delivered, the presentation).
Sent with a letter to 42 Lions, Rotary, Round Table and Freemason's groups in Gloucestershire – 11 by email and 32 by post at a cost of £28* (print and postage);
Raised £1,300 (to 27 February 2017), a return of 1:46; solicited invitation to give a talk (resulting in £500 donation).
Solicited invitation apply for £2,000 funding from Gloucestershire Freemasons – result unknown.
*cost for this mailing. Additional copies of this dual-use leaflet were printed for volunteers, existing contacts etc at a total cost of £80.
GRASAC social media campaign
Working with infographics and data visualisations I'd created for case-for-support documents, I created a social media campaign (Twitter and Facebook) to present some 'bite-sized' facts for a general audience who didn't know about the charity's aims, achievements or raison d'etre.
GRASAC website review
This document, prepared for trustees and the CEO (and was passed to the new website's developer as an appendix to the creative brief) reviews: the overall impression of the charity's online presence (including aspects of it's branding and name conventions); how it addresses its audiences; content and navigation; gives examples of better approaches within the sector; notes specific page issue, and makes sugestions for improvements.
Grasac web review 2017.pdf
GRASAC helpline cards
Before (created in 2015) above, and after (2017) below using new branding developed with outside agencies.
One example of how considering first the audience (who they are, what they want to know, how they may be feeling) allows visuals, and differently organised and emphasised information, to present a gentler, more empathetic organisation to its service users. The important helpline is prominent, the admin contact details reduced; opening times simplified; information given on the contact options, response times, anonymity and relevant information to be found online.
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Theatre review: Pinocchio
Going by the last couple of offerings, Rufus Norris' vision for Christmas family shows at the National involves the most familiar stories being given unfamiliar stagings. If I wasn't really sold on a vision of Peter Pan as "quite looking forward to getting his bus pass," this year's interpretation of Pinocchio as "Joe Idris-Roberts with his nips out" is perhaps a more likely fit to my interests. And the story itself, a pretty dark one at heart and much less frequently staged, is closer to my liking of the more gothic side of children's stories. Adaptor Dennis Kelly and director John Tiffany certainly seem to agree, with a disorientating production: This saw me return to the theatre after a few days of being too ill to go out and having to miss some shows I was really keen on, and perhaps there could be no better fit when I'm still feeling a bit wobbly, as Pinocchio has always had a touch of the fever-dream to it.
Elderly, childless widower Geppetto (Mark Hadfield) has a puppet-making workshop, talking to his creations like they're the only children he'll ever have. The Blue Fairy (Annette McLaughlin) has a way of making that truer than he expects.
This may be as good a place as any to do the obligatory "got wood" joke
She commissions him to make a puppet out of an enchanted piece of wood she gives him, and even before it's completed Pinocchio starts taking back to him. But the living puppet is pure Id, utterly selfish and focused on the next thing he wants, which not only hurts those around him but also keeps putting him in danger. Seeing he has no conscience of his own, the Blue Fairy creates an external one for him in Audrey Brisson's Jiminy Cricket. She is the good influence fighting for Pinocchio against the bad influence of the Fox.
David Langham as the Fox makes an eerily tall and thin, gleeful villain of the piece, and the play opens with the striking visual of him cutting down the enchanted tree in the snow before the Blue Fairy manages to salvage what's left of it. Bob Crowley's designs are one of the most memorable aspects of the production, especially the puppets he's co-created with Toby Olié. This includes the notable decision to swap round the human and puppet characters so the life-size Idris-Roberts is dwarfed by a giant Gepetto and, later, the villainous Stromboli (Gershwin Eustache Jnr) and Coachman (David Kirkbride.)
One of the most controversial elements when this production was announced was the National partnering with DisneyTM to present a new version of the story but with familiar songs from the 1940 film. It makes for an odd choice because much-loved they may be, but in this context they really stand out as dated and twee. To my mind they're a miscalculation but they don't derail the production, which at least is odd enough anyway that it can handle the awkward changes in tone.
The metaphorical darkness also means lighting designer Paule Constable can provide plenty of the literal kind, making the stage magic very effective - even from the fourth row of the stalls you can't always see the wires. The flying blue flame that represents the Blue Fairy in flight got gasps every time, and they even managed to get a part of Pinocchio's anatomy to get bigger before your very eyes, although despite the production's innovations it's still traditional enough that it was his nose.
Kelly, Tiffany and co haven't gone so dark that they alienated the target audience - there were plenty of kids in and they seemed enchanted - but it also embraces the story's identity as a cautionary morality tale, and Idris-Roberts manages well with an initially unsympathetic lead who finds his humanity in more senses than one (although he's probably looking forward to playing an adult human with bodily hair again, the shaving rash on his legs looked nasty.) With its disparate ways of telling the same story never quite holding together this is undoubtedly a strange show, but the kind of strangeness I can get behind.
Pinocchio by Dennis Kelly, based on the novel by Carlo Collodi, is booking in repertory until the 10th of April at the National Theatre's Lyttelton.
Running time: 2 hours 25 minutes including interval.
Photo credit: Manuel Harlan.
Rufus Norris is the intellectual property of the Walt Disney Company. He is entirely fictional, and any resemblance to any person living or dead is entirely accidental.
Jiminy Cricket's real though.
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Getting there eventually, thanks - I had about three really bad days and since then the cold's just been hanging around making a nuisance of itself.
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USPS celebrates Nevada statehood with Forever Stamp
May 29, 2014 postal, stamp.news
LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Postal Service celebrated Nevada statehood today by dedicating a Forever Stamp to commemorate its 150th anniversary. Known by several nicknames — the Silver State, the Battle Born State, the Sagebrush State — Nevada became the 36th state Oct. 31, 1864.
“Nevada is truly one of our nation’s most beautiful treasures,” said former Nevada Congressman and current U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors Vice Chairman James Bilbray. “With so much to choose from, it was difficult to decide on an image the size of a postage stamp to adequately depict Nevada’s revered beauty and history. We chose to feature the Fire Canyon in Nevada’s first state park, the Valley of Fire. The canyon’s natural sandstone formations are just one of the state’s breathtaking landscapes.”
The First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony took place at the Smith Center for Performing Arts in Las Vegas where Bilbray was joined by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval; Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV); Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV); Nevada Sesquicentennial Honorary Poet Waddie Mitchell; Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe; College of Southern Nevada Professor of Social Sciences Dr. Michael Green and Nevada Statehood stamp artist Ron Spears in dedicating the stamp. Also participating was The Smith Center President and CEO Myron Martin.
The Nevada Statehood Forever Stamp is available at Post Offices, online at usps.com/stamps, at the Postal Store on eBay at ebay.com/stamps, and by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724).
The Story Behind the Stamp
Bilbray said artist Ron Spears, of Reno, NV, created his first sketches for the stamp on-site in Fire Canyon.
“Spears has a deep appreciation for the area, which he visits often, and he was especially keen to paint the scene in the morning light,” explained Bilbray. “He created his painting in the fall when the light was low and strong. Facing south, Spears captured the scene at dawn when the sandstone glows in shades of brilliant reds and yellows — a result of various quantities of iron in the rock — highlighted by deep purple and blue shadows. The colors contrast dramatically with the whiteness of the silica formation in the foreground.”
“I wanted to be at Fire Canyon when the sun broke over the horizon,” said Spears. “It only lasts for a few moments, but seeing the rocks come to life as the morning sun hits them is definitely worth getting up early for.”
Spears’ original sketches were oils on canvas. The final painting, in oil, measures approximately 15 x 12 inches.
Customers may view many of this year’s other stamps on Facebook facebook.com/USPSStamps, Twitter@USPSstamps, Pinterest pinterest.com/uspsstamps, Instagraminstagram.com/uspostalservice or on uspsstamps.com, the Postal Service’s online site for information on upcoming stamp subjects, first-day-of-issue events and other philatelic news.
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Customers have 60 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at local Post Offices, at usps.com/stampsor by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes to themselves or others and place them in larger envelopes addressed to:
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After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. For more than 50, there is a 5-cent charge per postmark. All orders must be postmarked by July 28, 2014.
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The Postal Service also offers first-day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first-day-of-issue cancellation. Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly USA Philatelic catalog online at usps.com/shop or by calling 800-STAMP-24 (800-782-6724). Customers may request a free catalog by calling 800-782-6724 or writing to:
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Labral tear – SLAP lesion
Image showing a tear of the glenoid labrum
SLAP is the abbreviated term for Superior Labral Anterior to Posterior tear and refers to a damage to the glenoid labrum occurring from the anterior to the posterior side.
Anatomy of the normal shoulder joint with the labrum and glenoid
The head of the humerus, fitting in the glenoid cavity, is stabilised by the glenoid labrum and the tendon of the long head of the biceps muscle, which inserts at the top of the labrum at a 12 o’clock position (see image). The glenoid labrum is a cuff consisting of a fibro-cartilaginous rim attached to the edge of the glenoid cavity. The labrum is susceptible to injury with overuse and trauma to the shoulder. Particularly the anterior-superior labrum is poorly vascularised and thus more vulnerable to damage. In the ageing process the labrum becomes brittle and can fray or tear more easily.
SLAP tear Type 1
The classification of SLAP injuries depends on the type and severity of the damage to the labrum. A SLAP tear is subdivided into four types:
Type 1 Fraying of the superior labrum while the biceps anchor remains intact.
Treatment: Debridement of the frayed edge.
Type 2 Superior labrum is detached with detachment of the biceps anchor.
Treatment: Debridement of superior glenoid rim and surgical reattachment of biceps and labrum.
Type 3 Bucket handle type tear of superior labrum with the biceps anchor intact.
Treatment: Resection of tear.
Type 4 Bucket handle tear of the superior labrum with extension into the biceps tendon. Part of the biceps anchor is still intact.
Treatment: Resection of tear and if over 50% of the tendon is also involved, tenodesis is recommended (surgical reattachment of a tendon the bone).
Heavy work lifting may cause a SLAP tear
A labral tear or SLAP is often caused by a fall on the outstretched arm or as a consequence of repetitive overhead activity such as when throwing the ball in baseball and cricket. It can also arise during heavy weight lifting.
Weight lifting is a risk factor for a SLAP tear
The intrinsic poor vascularity of the glenoid labrum exposes this area to injury when strained. Weight lifting, overhead work and contact sports are the major risk factors for SLAP injuries.
Shoulder pain is a common symptom of a SLAP tear
The typical symptom of a SLAP lesion is a catching, popping and clicking sensation combined with pain while moving the shoulder, especially with overhead activity. The pain is located deep within or in the back of the shoulder joint. When SLAP tears are associated with biceps tendonitis, the patient may feel the pain over the anterior area of the shoulder. Shoulder weakness and reduced movement are additional symptoms of this pathology.
MRI showing a SLAP tear visible as a clearer border of the left side of the shoulder joint
The detection of SLAP injury can be difficult. Although clinical examination may suggest a SLAP tear, the diagnosis may remain inconclusive. Specific tests such as provocative tests, biceps tendon function and apprehension test form part of the clinical examination. Ideally, an MRI scan with contrast is recommended to visualise the soft tissues around the shoulder joint and identify any abnormalities. X-rays are conducted to exclude other injuries associated with SLAP tear. Arthroscopic surgery is a more invasive method to confirm the presence of a labral tear in situ with ongoing symptomatology.
Shoulder stretching during a physiotherapy session
Nonoperative treatment
Conservative management of a SLAP tear includes resting in a sling followed by physical therapy with muscle exercise and shoulder capsule stretching. Anti-inflammatory treatment is advised to reduce local inflammation resulting from the injury.
Image of shoulder arthroscopy seen through the arthroscope
Surgery for SLAP lesions is indicated in athletes and patients who intend to return to sport quickly and/or having symptoms persisting beyond three months of non-operative treatment. Arthroscopic repair of SLAP lesions is currently the standard treatment option to fix the torn labrum and reattach it to the glenoid. Several methods are available including debridement, partial resection of the labrum and suturing (sometimes using suture anchors).
Shoulder immobilisation early after surgery
Following arthroscopic repair of the injured labrum, the patient will use a sling for three weeks prior to commence physiotherapy. In athletes, throwing is only allowed after four months and full velocity movements recommended six to seven months later. These are general guidelines, which may vary depending on the type of injury, patient demographics and surgeon preferences.
Keeping a strong musculature around the shoulder prevents a SLAP tear
Prevention of SLAP lesions is best achieved with adequate strengthening of the shoulder muscles and shoulder blades to increase the stability of the rotator cuff and, at least temporarily, avoid those movements involving overhead and contact activities that constitute a risk of recidivism. For professional athletes, it is critical to begin the training session with warm-up and stretching exercises and introduce a learning program for correct movement during throwing activity as well as methods of falling during sports. Particularly in the elderly it is critical to introduce any form of fall prevention.
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A panoramic view of the homes on Ê13th St. SE near 6 Ave. SEÊin Slave Lake, Alta. on May 23, 2011 (top) and May 2, 2012 (bottom). Nearly one-year after after a wildfire devastated the neighbourhood.
Carol Pilon does her Windwalker stunt at the Wetaskiwin Centennial Air Show July 29, 2006.
Canadian soldiers arrive at the Edmonton International airport from a six month duty in Afghanistan. 2006.
Smoky Lake Pumpkin Carriers (left to right) Alex Anderderenowsky, 16, Chris Wolanski, 16, Zack Sparling, 17, and Adam Shupenia, 17, take a well deserved rest after moving dozens of giant pumpkins and squashes during the 20th annual Great White North Pumpkin Fair in Smoky Lake, AB. on October 4, 2008. Photo by Ryan Jackson/Edmonton Journal
Reggie Hunt of the Saskatchewan Rough Riders takes down Josh Ranek of the Ottawa Renegades in the hardest hit of the game. Unfortunatelly Ottawa hit back with a 21-16 win.
Kevin Taks from Crossfield, AB takes down a calf in 5.5 seconds at the Rainmaker Rodeo in St. Albert.
Team B.C.'s Adam Rahier reacts to winning gold in the Mens 200m individual medley multi-disability during swimming finals at the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games.
Handicapped golfer Paul Hebert pauses a moment while playing a round of golf at the Derrick Golf Club, 3500 119 St. Monday June 4, 2007. Hebert lost his two legs, an arm, and fingers on one hand when he was severely electrocuted on the job. Golf helps Hebert get out and feel like a normal member of society.
Tamara Soloman finishes the 1500m swimming portion of the Lake Summerside Triathlon in Edmonton August 27, 2006. Soloman finished 11th overall.
Garth Oldfield competes in the bull riding event at the Canadian Finals Rodeo at Rexall Place in Edmonton, AB on November 6, 2008.
Edmonton Eskimos rookie camp at Clarke Stadium Thursday May 31, 2007.
Edmonton Cracker Cats' Chris Becker tries to tag out Calgary Vipers' Manabu Kuramochi at the bottom of the fourth inning during the Northern League series finale at Telus Field Sunday. Kuramochi made it safe to second. 2007.
Edmonton Cracker Cats' pitcher Mike Johnson throws in the final inning of the Northern League series finale at Telus Field Sunday against the Calgary Vipers. 2007
Spain's Jose Crespo (3), right, and Czech Republic's Tomas Micola (13) head the ball during FIFA U-20 World Soccer action at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, AB, Saturday July 14, 2007.
Joe Guze gets a little too close to the ground for comfort during the Bulls for Breakfast event at the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alta. on July 29, 2010.
Justin Wilson makes his way around turn two during the Champ Car qualifying race on day two of Grand Prix Edmonton in Edmonton, AB, Saturday July 21, 2007.
Team Alberta's goalie Brad Hughes dives for the ball which went foul during their game against Team B.C. at the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games.
Greg Stewart (00) of the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack goes for a grab against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Despite his prosthetic arm, 7-foot 2-inch Stewart lead TRU scoring 17 points and also grabbed a game-high nine rebounds. 2006.
Team B.C.'s Philip Cairns flies down a steep portion of the trail during the mountain bike race for the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games.
The Victoria high school co-ed cheer team competes during the Edmonton Zone High School 2008 cheerleading championships at Austin O'Brien High School.
A B.C. flag frames Team Alberta and Team B.C. during their match at the Western Canada Summer Games at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park Sunday August 5, 2007.
Team Canada's disabled sitting volleyball team plays a practice match against team USA at the U of A main gym.
Denver Nuggets' Ruben Patterson grunts as the ball goes in the net despite Toronto Raptors' Jamario Moon and Chris Bosh during first half NBA preseason action at Rexall Place in Edmonton, AB on October 21, 2008.
Sierra Stoney from Dewinton, AB during the ladies barrel racing event at the Canadian Finals Rodeo at Rexall Place in Edmonton, AB on November 6, 2008.
A swimming competitor warms up during the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games.
Billy West stretches before competing in the steer wrestling event at Canadian Finals Rodeo at Rexall Place in Edmonton, AB on November 8, 2008.
Cars speed around the track during the first rubber race at the Northern Alberta Sports Car Club Ice Racing event at Telford Lake near Leduc on January 31, 2009.
Driver Will Power makes a practice lap during the first day of Rexall Edmonton Indy in Edmonton on July 24, 2009.
Brandon University Bobcats' Melanie Thompson makes a shot on the University of Alberta Pandas' net during their match at the U of A Main Gym in Edmonton, Alta. on January 29, 2009.
1,200 students, staff and faculty at the University of Alberta unofficially smash the Guinness World Record for most players in a single dodgeball game at the Universiade Pavilion in Edmonton, Alta. on February 5, 2010.
Competitors take off in the 31 kilometre Edmonton Journal Tour event during the Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival which started at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village and ended at Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area, 35 kilometres east of Edmonton on February 13, 2010.
Warwick Kime crashes beneath Harrison Flat during the bull riding event at the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alta. on August 5, 2012.
A still image from Journal photographer Ryan Jackson's 360-degree panoramic video. Experience immersive 360-degree video of the world's largest dodgeball game at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alta. on February 4, 2011. Over 2,000 U of A students, staff and faculty set a Guinness World Record for most players in a single dodgeball game with over 1,000 balls. in Edmonton on February 4, 2011.
Toronto's Bangaly Kourouma gets socked by Saskatoon's Ryan Henney during their cruiser weight Canadian Championship at the Ring of Fire boxing championship at Shaw Conference Centre. 2006.
Team Yukon's Bronwyn Pasloski, 15, during the girls 200m breaststroke event during the last night of swimming at the Western Canada Summer Games at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park Monday August 6, 2007.
Edmonton Oilers' Ryan Smyth celebrates after scoring on L.A. Kings' goalie Mathieu Garon during NHL action at Rexall Place. 2007.
New Zealand's team captain Farah Palmer(#2), right, sprays champagne to celebrate their World Championship over England in the IRB Women's World Cup of Rugby Sunday September 17, 2006.
Chief umpire Jack Leman watches the woman's junior 200m sprint Sunday at the 2006 Outdoor Alberta Championship at Foote Field.
A composite photograph of teams Ferbey, Middaugh, Koe, Simmons, Martin, Gunnlaugson, Stoughton and Howard competing on Dec. 6, the opening night of the 2009 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic curling trials in Edmonton. Journal photographer Ryan Jackson took more than 300 photos in half an hour, then chose the best 48 to blend together for this composite.
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Table Grape Meeting, the speakers and the programme of the event dedicated to table grapes
The future of table grapes lies in innovation. This will be the theme of the event dedicated to one of the key products of the Italian fresh produce industry, scheduled on Friday, 10 May from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. during Macfrut, to be held in Rimini from 8 to 10 May 2019.
The first edition of the Table Grape Meeting will be divided into two sessions. The first session, lasting about an hour, will see five Italian speakers taking turns to give speeches focusing on current trends in varietal innovation and exports. It will start with international programmes: Maurizio Ventura, Licensing Manager Europe for Sun World International, will present Sun World’s varietal innovation programmes in Italy and in Mediterranean countries, whereas Carlo Lingua, CEO of AVI, RK Growers and RK Products, will illustrate the case of the ARRA™ variety in Italy and Europe. A focus on Italy will follow, with a speech by Alberto Mastrangelo, Sales Manager of Grape&Grape Group, who will describe the distinctive features of the Italian varietal innovation programme Grape&Grape, and Giovanni Raniolo, President of the consortium Consorzio Uva di Mazzarrone IGP (Consortium for the Grape Table of Mazzarone PGI), who will provide the example of the programme for enhancing Sicilian grapes. Giacomo Suglia, President of APEO, will speak about the future of Italian table grapes, focusing on exports and providing an overview of emerging markets.
The second session will consist of a round table, with international representatives from the production and import sectors, including: Debbie Lombaard, Commercial team of Richard Hochfeld Ltd (UK), Joaquin Gomez Carrasco, President of APOEXPA (Spain), Annabella Donnarumma, Managing Director of Eurogroup/REWE (Germany), and Stefano Borracci, Sales Manager of Serroplast (Italy/South America). Discussion will be encouraged through video pills made by combining several video interviews with leading table grape producers in Italy, called upon to express their opinion on three themes: the state of varietal innovation and the role of research; the future of production, the relationship between seeded and seedless grapes; Italian exports: which areas need to be improved and which markets should be more strongly targeted.
The event is intended for Italian and foreign producers, buyers, technologists and importers. Participation is free of charge and a simultaneous interpreting service will be provided.
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Bruce Springsteen: Tracks
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: TRACKS (1972-1995/1998)
CD I: 1) Mary Queen Of Arkansas; 2) It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City; 3) Growin' Up; 4) Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?; 5) Bishop Danced; 6) Santa Ana; 7) Seaside Bar Song; 8) Zero And Blind Terry; 9) Linda Let Me Be The One; 10) Thundercrack; 11) Rendezvous; 12) Give The Girl A Kiss; 13) Iceman; 14) Bring On The Night; 15) So Young And In Love; 16) Hearts Of Stone; 17) Don't Look Back.
CD II: 1) Restless Nights; 2) A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Pittsburgh); 3) Roulette; 4) Dollhouse; 5) Where The Bands Are; 6) Loose Ends; 7) Living On The Edge Of The World; 8) Wages Of Sin; 9) Take 'Em As They Come; 10) Be True; 11) Ricky Wants A Man Of Her Own; 12) I Wanna Be With You; 13) Mary Lou; 14) Stolen Car; 15) Born In The U.S.A.; 16) Johnny Bye-Bye; 17) Shut Out The Light.
CD III: 1) Cynthia; 2) My Love Will Not Let You Down; 3) This Hard Land; 4) Frankie; 5) TV Movie; 6) Stand On It; 7) Lion's Den; 8) Car Wash; 9) Rockaway The Days; 10) Brothers Under The Bridges ('83); 11) Man At The Top; 12) Pink Cadillac; 13) Two For The Road; 14) Janey Don't You Lose Heart; 15) When You Need Me; 16) The Wish; 17) The Honeymooners; 18) Lucky Man.
CD IV: 1) Leavin' Train; 2) Seven Angels; 3) Gave It A Name; 4) Sad Eyes; 5) My Lover Man; 6) Over The Rise; 7) When The Lights Go Out; 8) Loose Change; 9) Trouble In Paradise; 10) Happy; 11) Part Man, Part Monkey; 12) Goin' Cali; 13) Back In Your Arms; 14) Brothers Under The Bridge.
Ohgodohgodohgod, how am I ever gonna do this. Okay, let's put it into personal perspective: I write a new review almost every day, and never ever would I want to defend each and every one of these texts as «insightful», «original», or even properly written (let alone the fact that I never have much time for proofreading). Even if all the records I was writing about were dazzlingly original and adventurous, I'd still end up repeating myself, falling back on stock phrases, underwhelmed on bad days, and overhyped on good days. It is a routine process, after all, and routine eats away inspiration and insight like a termite infestation.
Tracks, a monster 4-CD boxset of (mostly) previously unissued material that Bruce prepared in the late 1990s, may be a coveted treasure house for fans — but to me, it shows, first and foremost, that for Bruce, the art of «songwriting», too, was a very routine process. Of course, it's not as if he came up with a new song every day of his life, but during numerous periods in his life, he generated them with the speed of a well-written spammer script; and the sheer number of these tunes that had to be locked in the vaults, biding their time, shows that the «Springsteen formula», which we really saw originate on Darkness On The Edge Of Town and reach sexual maturity on The River, actually worked with twice, if not thrice, the efficiency that we could suspect by listening to the officially released stuff.
If you were ever worried about all that generic filler on The River; if you were ever troubled about the formulaic, simplistic approach to melodies and arrangements on Born In The USA; if you ever felt like The Boss was dumbing down and/or copy-pasting the hooks on Tunnel Of Love or Human Touch — all of your worries, troubles, and suspicions will be fully confirmed with this 60+ item set of second-hand tunes. It is instructive that out of 4 discs, 1 is given up almost entirely to outtakes from The River, 1 consists of leftovers from Born In The USA and Tunnel Of Love, and 1 is allocated to the Human Touch/Lucky Town period — which leaves only one disc to all of the Seventies, a decade when Bruce's «gigantomania» extended not just to the big sound of The E Street Band, but also covered the fields of lyrics (which were more complex), melodies (which were more jazzy and experimental), and song structures (which used to have fare more intros, codas, and internal development than any of his post-1978 stuff).
It is also precisely on that one disc, as soon as you pass a bunch of forgettable (historical interest only) early acoustic demos of well-known songs, that you get to encounter the best and least obvious material — compositions over which you can actually lament that they were taken off the respective albums for space reasons (although nowadays, with the CD format, there's always room for them if they ever want to come back). The most obvious highlight is ʽThundercrackʼ, an eight-minute epic that was probably cut from The Wild in favor of ʽRosalitaʼ, another long and even more exuberant track admiring a lady's charms, but even though ʽRosalitaʼ is faster, rowdier, and would always constitute a better turn-on for concert audiences, ʽThundercrackʼ may actually be its musical superior — especially when the band gets to the lengthy instrumental passage and starts cracking out terrific lead riffs, one after another, with occasional support from Clarence's ever-helping sax. There's some delicate subtlety and exquisite romance in this song that very rarely cropped up in Bruce's songs even in the early days, and then disappeared forever once he made the complete transition to arena-rock mode.
A much less popular, but very unusual and offbeat inclusion from those days is ʽBishop Dancedʼ, a rough-rugged folk-dance tune driven by acoustic guitar and accordeon and slightly reminiscent of The Band — the recording is live, taken from an early 1973 show at Max's Kansas City, and, judging by the audience's lively response, stuff like this could excite small crowds just as strongly as ʽBorn To Runʼ would later excite large crowds. Well, maybe not quite, but still — it's fun seeing him stringing together these off-the-wall lines of chaotic imagery, still very much influenced by Dylan but also still trying to experiment with musical form, putting his own stamp on the folk dance genre, way before turning into the predictable «working class champion».
That said, even for those early days you can easily see why stuff like ʽSanta Anaʼ or ʽZero And Blind Terryʼ were left off the final product — they're okay, but they add nothing extra to the moods and vibes that are already there. And as time goes by, these «superfluous» tunes become more and more the norm — for just about any track here past ʽThundercrackʼ you can pinpoint one or two officially released songs that said all the same things and more, or better. Do believe me when I insist that you will not discover any hidden sides of The Boss by listening to these songs, even if I also have to admit that there are almost no stylistic embarrassments or openly bad / dumb material included (well, maybe "Ricky's almost grown, Ricky wants a man of her own" comes close to dumb, but it's really just one of those Fifties-imitating nostalgic teen-pop numbers that he really had a crush on in 1980).
The relative consistency of these songs facilitates the listening process — I sat through the entire hog twice, which would be a real chore for most 4-CD collections of outtakes, but this one went surprisingly easy — however, I just don't feel like talking about the songs: whatever I'd have to say was already probably said in conjunction with some other song. To fill space, here are just some random observations: (A) I don't mind that ʽSo Young And In Loveʼ borrows the intro from ʽLawdy Miss Clawdyʼ, but how come ʽGive The Girl A Kissʼ is so blatantly influenced by Fleetwood Mac's ʽDon't Stopʼ? The intro and outro are simply lifted from that song, almost as if the man had a subconscious desire for some of that Rumours gold to rub off on himself; (B) the Nebraska-era acoustic demo of ʽBorn In The USAʼ has a vibe amusingly similar to ʽState Trooperʼ and is so totally tragically paranoid that one can only think how hilarious it would have been if Reagan's advisors got the man to consent to lend them the song — in this version; (C) ʽMy Love Will Not Let You Downʼ was one rejected song from the Born In The USA sessions that Bruce actually salvaged for his concerts, and although here it sports the ugly dated early Eighties synth sound, it is still gloriously anthemic and somewhat exceptional; (D) ʽFrankieʼ is a weird 7-minute long epic that I would have never guessed was also a Born In The USA outtake — it's a winding epic tale of Born To Run proportions (perhaps Bruce reminded himself in time that it was too melodically similar to ʽThunder Roadʼ), though, again, not vastly original.
And that's pretty much it. I would find any attempts to pick «bad» and «good» songs here so subjective and depending on such thin nuances that I'd much rather discuss angels dancing on the head of a pin. Clearly, this is first and foremost «for the fans»; Dylan's Bootleg Series, whose popularity may have inspired Bruce to follow suit, at least had a small bunch of major lost gems on each of its discs, whereas Tracks is far more evenly «mediocre» (people often complain about the last disc or the last two discs being inferior to the rest, but these are people who like to imagine a huge qualitative gap between Born To Run and Born In The USA — I am not so sure it was that huge in the first place), and simply offers «more of the same» for those who'd like to have more of the same. But it ends up putting the reviewer in a bad position, and I don't want to be one of those guys who can exude the same glowing intonations for a bunch of outtakes as they can for a genuine paradigm-shifting masterpiece.
Bottomline: I genuinely enjoyed listening to this, but no spiritual revelations ever manifested — and that is even if we define «spiritual revelation» in the broadest possible sense, like including frenetically banging my head against the wall to the bulgy sound of ʽCadillac Ranchʼ. Didn't really find no ʽCadillac Ranchesʼ here, either.
Labels: Bruce Springsteen
robbiejohnson2001 November 10, 2015 at 7:59 PM
I'ts always a joy to find one of your reviews, everyday. I haven't heard this B.S. [dumb, but funny pun; and I enjoy listening to that man's music] package, but I just wanted to congratulate you. You manage to seek good taste a good thing. To inspire other people. Cheers.
rkipp683 November 11, 2015 at 5:43 PM
You're pretty spot on about the throwback qualities of "Frankie" as it happens: it was written and performed live as early as 1976 during the latter stages of the BTR tour, was recorded for Darkness in 1977 and pulled from the tracklist from both that album and the River before being re-recorded in 1982 for BITUSA and again dropped from the final running.
Speaking of no time for proofreading, George, there's a mistype at the end of the third paragraph (you wrote "fare more intros" though I'm sure you meant 'far'. Also this is off-topic but I'm not sure when I'd ever be able to bring this up without completely stilting the conversation: the Two Cents hyperlink for Bob Marley's reviews on the HTML version of the collection erroneously links to Bo Hansson rather than Marley himself. Just wanted to let you know the next time you update that page.
Adrian rosenfeldt November 27, 2015 at 9:51 AM
Great review. Have been enjoying all your reviews for years now. Wish you would address the Van Morrison hole in your work. No matter how much you might hate him, Morrison is an inspiration to so many lesser artists you review. The fact that he is responsible for Gloria, Astral Weeks and It's Too Late To Stop Now - often rated as the best rock single, rock album and live album - should be enough to warrant a closer inspection. Morrison has made a lot of albums and I would love to read your take on them.
trfesok October 4, 2018 at 1:08 AM
I’m not that hardcore a Bruce fan, but this is actually a fun collection. Thoughts:
The stuff opening the first disc proves that Bruce REALLY wanted o be Dylan circa “Bringing it All Back Home”.
The outtakes from “The River” may be mostly fun pop songs (the B-side “Roulette” is pretty klutzy, though), so too many of them would not have been “artistic” enough to have been on the album. I would have much preferred that two or three or three of them had replaced the hideous “Drive All Night”.
Side 2 ends with the one lost classic of the set, the B-side “Shut Out the Light”. Brilliant. I played the single over and over when I bought it.
“My Lover Man”, while not being all that interesting musically, begs question about the lyrics. Was Bruce intending the song for a female singer (Patti?), or was he taking on the persona of a gay man?
The B-side “Part Man, Part Monkey” is one of Bruce’s more unusual tracks, with its reggae music and very funny lyrics.
The overall verdict, of course, is that you’ll like this if you like Bruce, but it won’t necessarily convert anyone to being a fan.
Buddy Guy: Breaking Out
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Buffalo Springfield: Last Time Around
Brian Eno (w. Robert Fripp): Beyond Even
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Buddy Guy: Stone Crazy!
Blitzen Trapper: All Across This Land
Beat Happening: Beat Happening
Buzzcocks: Trade Test Transmissions
Buffalo Springfield: Again
Brian Eno: Another Day On Earth
Bruce Springsteen: The Promise
Buddy Guy: Hold That Plane!
Amorphis: Under The Red Cloud
Butthole Surfers: Humpty Dumpty LSD
Buzzcocks: A Different Kind Of Tension
Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield
Brian Eno (w. Robert Fripp): The Equatorial Stars
Buddy Guy: Buddy And The Juniors
Battles: La Di Da Di
Butthole Surfers: Weird Revolution
Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
Bruford: Gradually Going Tornado
Brian Eno: Drawn From Life
Bruce Springsteen: Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
Buddy Guy: This Is Buddy Guy!
A-Ha: Cast In Steel
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Brooksie; Sudden Death
This issue's cover is from Andrew Matthews' and Angela Barrett's The Orchard Book of Shakespeare Stories. Angela Barrett is interviewed by Quentin Blake. Thanks to Orchard Books for their help with this November cover.
Brooksie
Neil Arksey
(Yearling)
8-10 Junior/Middle
Buy "Brooksie" on Amazon
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Of these two above average football yarns, Brooksie is a reissue from 1998. Lee Brooks is a talented footballer whose internationally capped father, 'Brooksie', has lost form, gone off the rails and become the butt of the nation's jokes. Lee moves into a down-market home without his dad and hates it. Then Lee pals up with Dent and his mates but with no pitch to play on, there is a major problem. The father of the housing estate's resident bully, Tyler, is a shifty councillor who is determined to stop Lee from reclaiming some council owned wasteland for their pitch. As with many football stories, the end is a bit predictable, with a triumph for Lee and a remarkable return to form for his dad.
Sudden Death is also about a soccer mad teenager, Flint, who lives in a children's home after his dad is jailed. (The first book, simply titled Flint, deals with incidents leading up to Flint going into the home.) At the start of Sudden Death, Flint meets potential foster parents, Jim and Janet. Jim, coach to the outstanding local youth team Welbeck FC, introduces Flint to the team, but there is instant friction. Aldo, the spoiled rotten son of Welbeck's chairman, goes out of his way to make life difficult for Flint and provokes an on pitch fight with him which results in Flint storming off. With Jim suffering a heart attack, life has just about hit rock bottom but Flint is a resilient lad, who teams up with some of life's less fortunate boys and girls, with whom he had had an earlier association. They get together, form a team, The Assassins, and enter a sudden death tournament, the winner of which would play Welbeck for a large cash prize.
There is plenty in both books in terms of conflict and dramatic matchplay moments to keep future Nick Hornby readers entertained.
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Home Breaking News US Supplying Terrorists in Aleppo With TOW Antitank Missiles
US Supplying Terrorists in Aleppo With TOW Antitank Missiles
Oct 18, 2016: 9:44 am
(RINF) – These weapons have been around since 1970, upgraded over time for greater accuracy and destructive power.
ISIS was earlier supplied with shoulder-launched, man-portable, easy to operate, surface-to-air missiles (SAMS), able to down helicopters and low-flying aircraft. Perhaps terrorists in east Aleppo are getting them.
According to Russia General Sergei Rudskoi, they “continue receiving modern types of weapons, including” TOWs – indicating Washington wants endless war, not diplomatic conflict resolution.
At the same time, Moscow unilaterally declared an 8-hour humanitarian pause in Aleppo on October 20 – unlikely to be observed by US-supported terrorists.
“We are prepared to cease fire and ensure the unhampered access of medical personnel to the city and ensure the evacuation of injured and sick as soon as we get a request from humanitarian organizations,” Rudskoi explained.
“The Russian side is prepared to discuss any initiatives and proposals for a settlement in Aleppo.” US obstruction undermines its good faith efforts.
Since September, terrorists infesting east Aleppo killed hundreds of west Aleppo civilians, including over 130 children.
“The bombardments of social facilities, schools, mosques and street bazaars in western Aleppo by militants have become systematic. On October 13, a mortar attack in the area of Sulaimaniya killed seven schoolchildren,” Rudskoi explained – media scoundrels ignoring the carnage.
Civilians, including children in west Aleppo are being killed and wounded daily, 13 lives lost on October 14 alone.
On Sunday, Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said what’s ongoing in east Aleppo amounts to a “planetary-scale crisis,” desperate conditions in Syria to remain “pressing” for sometime to come.
Endless cessation of hostilities and conflict resolution talks achieved nothing because Washington undermined them. Prospects for peace remain distant at best.
Perhaps years of fighting lie ahead, countless more Syrians to perish because of US imperial madness, advancing its agenda, mindless of cost in human lives and suffering.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.
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The Dungeons of Moria
Major Roguelike
Robert A. Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd Jr., James E. Wilson, others
13 October 2008, v5.6
GPL v2
C, Pascal
Linux, MS-DOS, Mac Classic, Atari ST, Amiga, *NIX
ASCII, Keyboard
~50 Hours
Official site of The Dungeons of Moria
The Dungeons of Moria (usually just called Moria) is a roguelike inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, with the game world is set in the Mines of Moria, where the player has to venture deep into the mines to defeat the Balrog. Although inspired by Tolkien there is little else that the game shares with the books.
Created by Robert Alan Koeneke in 1983, Moria is one of the earliest clones of Rogue and was the first roguelike to have a "Town" level where you buy weapons, armor, spellbooks, potions, and various other items to help you on your difficult quest to defeat the Balrog.
Moria was also the first open source roguelike, which made it possible for it to be ported to many different computer platforms in a time when that was generally hard to achieve.
Although the game is not as popular as it once was, it is still considered as one of the major roguelikes.
1 Original VMS Moria development
2 C language development
4 Related topics
6 Related links
Original VMS Moria development
Robert A. Koeneke became hooked on "Rogue" while at the University of Oklahoma. Around 1980/81 he got a job in a new department where the game wasn't available, so in 1981 he decided to write his own Rogue game written in VMS BASIC, and called it Moria Beta 1.0. In 1983 he enrolled in a Pascal operating systems class and started rewriting Moria in VMS Pascal, releasing v1.0 the following summer. Koeneke's good friend, Jimmey Wayne Todd Jr., wrote many of the core features in the early days of Moria.
In 1985 they started sending out the source code to other Universities, and it was during this time that the game started to became popular.
Koeneke was working on Moria 5.0, which was an almost complete rewrite with interesting features like streams, lakes and new weapons, however it was never released. A different version called Moria UB 5.0 appeared at the University at Buffalo; this is the last VMS version released, and is sometimes called VMS Moria 5.0.
The last official release from Koeneke was Moria 4.8, and was released November 1986.
C language development
In February 1987, James E. Wilson took the original Moria 4.8 sources and started porting it to the C language, running on the UNIX operating system. The first official release (v4.85) was posted to the comp.sources.games mailing list on November 5, 1987.
Umoria also fixed many bugs, spelling errors, and inconsistencies in the original Moria sources. It also introduced character re-rolling (in the later versions), but otherwise had few changes from the original game. Unlike the original game, this version had no help facility.
As C is a much more portable language than the original Pascal, it became easier for Umoria to be ported to various other computer systems such as IBM-PC, Atari ST, Amiga, Macintosh, Apple IIGS, VM/SP, Archimedes.
The release of the source code allowed Moria to survive its VMS origins, particularly so after the creation of Umoria. Along with the many ports to different computer systems, it also spawned numerous variants - the most successful being Angband - and is also known to have been an inspiration for the first commercially successful Roguelikelike, Diablo.
Major roguelikes
Amiga Moria (CWM Moria)
Angband
BOSSC
Bruce Moria
Colour UMoria
Colour Druid UMoria
Druid UMoria
gmoria
ICMoria
Imoria
Jmoria
JAMoria
jsMoria
kMoria
MacMoria
MoriaOP
Moria UB
Morgul
NPPMoria
PC-Moria
PMoria
Purple X (Apple)
Russian Moria
Tales of Middle Earth
Umoria
XMoria
Umoria.org, Windows and macOS executables for v5.7, information, and links to source code.
David Grabiner's Moria Page
Beej's Moria Page
Usenet article, where the author himself describes the origins of Moria.
Moria newsgroup on Google Groups (rarely used).
rec.games.roguelike.moria FAQ (last updated 2010)
free-moria, a successful 2007 project by Ben Asselstine to re-license UMoria 5.5.2 under the GPL by permission of all contributing authors.
Archived UMoria source code history, with Windows ports of UMoria 5.6.
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‘Smurfs 2’ and the Minority Feisty: Bad Brunette vs Good Blonde
Posted on August 31, 2013 by margotmagowan
My expectations were low but “Smurfs 2” surpassed them.
Not only does “Smurfs 2” feature the famous posse of too many to count males accompanied by just one female, but this movie is all about fathers. A movie for kids centered on fatherhood could be great, but when the Smurfs are already so creepily male dominated, the erasure of mothers is alarming and disturbing. The good, golden-haired female pitted against the evil, dark-haired female trope, central to “Smurfs 2,” is so tired in kid fantasy world (not to mention the grown-up world) that I was slack jawed to see it again, even though, of course, I shouldn’t have been. That’s why it’s a trope, right?
Did you know that evil Gargamel created Smurfette as a ploy to infiltrate the Smurfs? That’s right, Smurfette, the only female Smurf, isn’t even a real Smurf. It’s only when Papa Smurf comes to care for Smurfette as a daughter that he uses a magic potion to transform her. At that point, not only does he change her skin to blue but her hair to blonde, thus becoming Smurfette’s true father.
“Smurfs 2” opens with that backstory and then brings us to present day with a scene showing the Smurfs gawk at Smurfette as she swishes her blonde locks around in slow-mo. But there’s trouble in paradise: every year on her birthday, Smurfette is haunted by a dream in which she once again turns evil, and her hair, once again, turns brown.
Cut to Gargamel who has created/ fathered a new race: the Naughties. Evil, dark-haired Vexy has a similar mission to Smurfette’s years ago. Gargamel sends to Vexy to infiltrate Smurfville to recover his “daughter,” hoping that Smurfette will reveal to him the secret potion Papa Smurf used to turn her into a Smurf, thus Gargamel can create Smurfs himself.
Cut to the human world where Patrick is having a birthday party for his son, Blue, to which his father, Victor, arrives. (Got that? Three generations of males.) Victor serves the kids corn dogs that happen to be fried in peanut oil. A young party guest has an allergic reaction, and the celebration is ruined. That’s the latest in a long line of events that lead to Patrick’s deep frustration with his loving but bumbling father. Turns out, Victor is not Patrick’s biological father, but his step father. Patrick’s “real” father walked out on him years ago. So you see, the conflict of true paternity experienced by Smurfette– wondering if her “real” father Papa Smurf or Gargamel– is mirrored by the Patrick’s own dilemma: can his step-father be his “real” father?
Both Papa Smurf and Gargamel essentially “give birth” without any need of females, kind of like our own Judeo-Christian creation myth and its independent and endlessly resourceful male God. While Smurfette has no mother at all, Patrick’s mother is hardly mentioned in the movie. I couldn’t even tell if she’s dead or alive.
Now, for the good news. There are three Minority Feisty in this movie. This was my first Smurf movie so I don’t know if that’s a record, though the pathetic female to male ratio is of course where the term, the Smurfette Principle, originated from. In case you don’t know what Minority Feisty means here’s a cut and paste from Reel Girl’s review of “Planes.”
Today, if you see a movie for children, it will most often have a male protagonist, while females, who are, in fact, half of the kid population, are presented as if they were a minority. Within that minority, there will be a strong female or two who reviewers will invariably call “feisty.” I call these characters the “Minority Feisty.” The trope has evolved from the Smurfette principle in that there is often more than one, and she is presented as strong. But rarely is she the protagonist. Her power, lines, and screen time are carefully and consistently circumscribed to show that she is not as important as the male star. Still, the Minority Feisty is supposed to pacify parents, making them feel that, unlike those sexist films of yesteryear, this movie is contemporary and feminist.
Smurfette spends most of the movie as a captured damsel in distress who the male smurfs, and mostly male humans, must rescue, but like most Minority Feisty, she has her moments of courage and brilliance. Also, upon befriending her enemy, Vexy, while Smurfette never says, “I want to stay with you because I can’t stand being the only female in Smurfville,” she does express joy at having the sister she never did.
Grace is another Minority Feisty. She’s Patrick’s wife, Blue’s mom, and she’s cool and brave. But the central human, with the conflict and the transition, not to mention the lines and the screen time, is clearly Patrick.
Vexy is an okay Minority Feisty. I enjoyed her badness and watching her transition. Did you read that part about transition? We now have–are you ready– 2 female Smurfs! And Vexy stays brunette. Thus with “Smurfs 2,” the Smurfette principle truly evolves into the Minority Feisty: two females and one of them is a bad-ass. Is that progress or what? According to the Geena Davis Institute, at this rate, it will be only 700 years before we get gender equality in the fantasy world.
Reel Girl rates “Smurfs 2” ***SS*** for gender stereotyping
See Reel Girl’s Gallery of Girls Gone Missing from Children’s Movies in 2013
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700 years.. No not really! More like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999900000000000000000009999999999090090090090909090909009090990090000999900990900990909090909090090090 years and 69 days
evilqueencathy on September 2, 2013 at 1:25 pm said:
This is minor compared to the sexism of the movie, but did you know the Mcdonald’s toy Smurfs, the only one that can’t stand on its own is the girl Vexy? I found that disturbing. My son has 5 male ones, all can stand, and one female who can’t. It just screams sexist to me.
margotmagowan on September 2, 2013 at 6:54 pm said:
Yuk, did not know
cat on September 1, 2013 at 8:45 am said:
Oy. I was never going to go see a Smurfs movie anyway, but if they were just going to invent a random plot, why couldn’t Gargamel create a whole group of Naughties with a diverse group of female characters, or maybe even (gasp!) gender equality and let us truly question if the Smurf way is the best way? Off topic, but all this talk of hair color has me wondering how you felt about Tangled.
margotmagowan on September 1, 2013 at 9:03 am said:
Hi Cat,
Hated “Tangled.” Hated seeing, with my brown-haired daughter, that when Rapunzel lost her magic her hair turned– gasp– brown. A whole group of female Naughties would have been great!
margotmagowan on August 31, 2013 at 8:21 pm said:
My kids knew about Smurfette/ Gargamel. I think its in the TV show and maybe the first movie too. But I agree, I like that the Smurfette principle is touched on in this movie, not just there.
Sarah S. on August 31, 2013 at 7:59 pm said:
Honestly I always found the Smurfs unappealing… I wonder if it was because there was only one female? At least (ha…) this movie attempts to explain why there are no other female Smurfs (they don’t occur in nature).
Benita on September 3, 2013 at 3:25 am said:
Smurfette being Gargamel’s creation has been part of Smurf canon since the cartoon. The very first episode was all about how Smurfette was created, the movie isn’t explaining anything new. There were later episodes that introduced at least one more female Smurf named Sassette who was a brunette and not “evil”. There may have been more but I stopped watching by then.
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Rover: Bicycle Galician-Style
In the Ukrainian diaspora we call a bicycle a "rover" – the word which was commonly used in western Ukraine before the war. Now in Ukraine the word "velosyped" is most widely used, but people in western Ukraine, espеcially in villages, still often say "rover."
The first bicycles that were sold in western Ukraine were made by the British company Starley & Sutton (later called Rover Company):
"In the early 1880s, the cycles available were the relatively dangerous penny-farthings and high-wheel tricycles. J.K. Starley made history in 1885 by producing the Rover Safety Bicycle—a rear-wheel-drive, chain-driven cycle with two similar-sized wheels... Starley's Rover is usually described by historians as the first recognisably modern bicycle.
"The Polish word now most commonly used for bicycle – rower originates from Rover bicycles which had both wheels of the same size (previous models usually had one bigger, one smaller – see Penny-farthing, and were called in Polish bicykl, from English bicycle).
"The words for "bicycle" in Polish (Rower) and Belarusian (Rovar, Ро́вар) are derived from the name of the company. The word ровер is also used in many parts of Western Ukraine."
"Velosyped" entered the Ukrainian language (central Ukraine) from the French word vélocipède – the word which was widely used in the 1860-70s in Europe. "Velosyped" remained in use in central Ukraine while in Europe and America the words "bicyclette" and "bicycle" replaced "velocipede." Eventually the word "velosyped" spread throughout all of Ukraine.
Other words for bicycle used in Ukraine: "koleso" ("wheel") and "bitsygli" (from "bicycle").
Below is a short article on the history of the words for bicycle in Ukrainian, which I found in a North American Plast (Ukrainian scounting organization) magazine from 1995. The whole issue can be found here: http://www.plast.ca/bm~doc/kn_rovery.pdf
This is a map of western Ukraine showing which areas use which word for bicycle: ровер (rover), велосипед/лісапед (velosyped/lisaped), колесо (koleso), and біціґлі (bitsigli).
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Ukrainian translation of this article can be found at www.roverchic.com
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The true dictators EDITORIAL 03/22/2011
The true dictators
The United Nations, egged on by the western powers, including the United States, approved the no-fly zone on Libya, the excuse of which that these air attacks on Tripoli are meant to protect the Libyan people from Kadhafi’s “barbaric” attacks on the Libyan people.
That is pretty hypocritical, considering the fact that the Libyan people can be categorized as pro-Kadhafi in Tripoli and anti-Kadhafi, who are based in Benghazi and who are being protected by the big powers such as France, Britain and the US. Apparently, for the western military powers, the people of Libya they recognize as Libyan people are the anti-Kadhafi people who comprise the opposition, as the air strikes are intended only for those Libyans in Tripoli..... MORE
Still in praise of Japan NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 03/22/2011
Still in praise of Japan
I am told there’s growing resentment on the Internet, on blogs, e-groups, on comment space that follow some op-ed columns, and yes, on FaceBook, over the general presumption we cannot be as the Japanese are, in the face of catastrophe.
From “Tayo mismong mga Pinoy nagsasabi d natin kaya, pano nga kakayanin?” to “Magaling lng mga sakang kc dami cla lapad, kng purdoy gaya natn, looting na din cla ng mga grocery.” And “Pano mo cla hahangaan e bago lindol masama trato sa Pinoy worker? Sisigawan ka, sasabihan ka, ‘Filipino stupid!’ Buti nga sa kanila!”
It wasn’t easy for me to understand the texts. For instance, I didn’t know that “cla” was shortcut for “sila” and “kc” was “kasi” and yes, I had no idea what “lapad” meant, until a family member said it referred to the 10 thousand yen note, wider than the rest of the denominations of 1k and 2k, so therefore “lapad,” from “malapad.” But I noticed the derogatory use of “sakang,” an epithet used to describe World War II Japanese, and from there recognized the anger.
Which I must admit I don’t understand. To be onion-skinned in the face of criticism does not accomplish anything. We should instead ready ourselves to prove detractors wrong, anywhere, anytime, come hell or high water, and yes, come earthquake. Thing is, when was the last time we’ve proven ourselves truly capable?.... MORE
LGUs and accountability C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/22/2011
LGUs and accountability
Surprises never end under the P-Noy administration. Just when everybody thought that the reported bitter rivalry between the so-called Balay and Samar factions has somewhat ebbed we are once again receiving messages about its resurgence. This time, nastier and more intense. The evidence? The nasty give-and-take over the role of Dr. James Dy and his group in the resolution of the Taiwan issue which was apparently pooh-poohed by the Balay group as preposterous. One observer who must have Samar sympathies even volunteered information that the Balay group’s leader, former Senator and Chief Presidential Troubleshooter Mar Roxas, was overheard as saying that victory has a thousand fathers or words to that effect during one of the press conferences announcing the end of the Taiwan problem. Earlier, Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa’s alleged ownership of the unfinished White Plains “glass house” was nursed and blown out of proportion by what his Samar supporters suspect were Balay loyalists. And the list of slights, innuendoes and special operations between loyalists of both sides get longer by the day..... MORE
Queen Victoria, Rizal, Hitler and Yamashita
AN OUTSIDERS VIEW
Ken Fuller
Many will be familiar with the theory that Jose Rizal was Hitler’s father, but the version sent to me by one Tribune reader goes somewhat further.
Queen Victoria was a twin, with a brother who was probably autistic. As a young man known as Prince Julian McLeod Tallano, he moved to Borneo, became chairman of the North Borneo Company, took Princess Tarhata as his wife and converted to Islam. An affair with a second princess produced an illegitimate son.
This son was raised by the Mercado family in Calamba, Laguna and named Jose Protacio Mercado. Jose referred to himself, however, as Rex-Al (king of all), which became corrupted into Rizal.
Having gained his medical degree in Germany in 1886 (actually 1887), ophthalmologist Rizal took his first patient: Josephine von Bracken, niece of Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, the first Emperor of Germany, and a grandson of Queen Victoria. Rizal operated on Wilhelm also – so successfully that he was introduced to Wilhelm’s relative, the Emperor of Austria..... MORE
Scientists: Effects of Nuclear Situation in Japan Should Not Be Downplayed By Philippine Government
“The two stations in the Fukushima region reportedly produce the world’s largest joint amount of energy. If complete meltdown occurs in any of the Fukushima reactors, this may lead to a much worse contamination of the atmosphere than the one that was caused by the Chernobyl disaster.” – Dr. Romy Quijano, toxicologist.
Stop underplaying the possible effects of worsening nuclear trouble in Japan.
This was the call made by one of the country’s leading toxicologists and the scientist group Agham (Advocates of Science and Technology for the People) to the Philippine and Japanese governments in the wake of the escalating problems concerning Japan’s nuclear power plants.
Dr. Romy Quijano said government officials and the dominant media should stop downplaying the possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines. He said to say that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks is “a gross misrepresentation of facts.”
Quijano is also the president of the Pesticide Action Network Philippines.
Agham for its part said that both the governments of the Philippines and Japan should issue clear guidelines and information regarding the nuclear hazards resulting from the accident in Japan.
Both Agham and Quijano said the growing industrial disasters in the Fukushima reactors in Northeastern Japan should prompt both governments to be transparent in reporting the incidents in order to avoid panic and disruption for both Japanese and Filipinos alike.
“The government of Japan should be transparent and open about telling the world about the updates regarding the nuclear accident,” said Agham in a statement posted on its website.
“Because of rapid developments in the situation of the Fukushima nuclear power plants; and because the Filipino people have had very limited experience in facing nuclear hazards, we call on the Philippine government to plan in advance possible scenarios that could result from the ongoing accident.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/03/18/scientists-effects-of-nuclear-situation-in-japan-should-not-be-downplayed-by-philippine-government/
As Disasters Mount, Groups Call on Aquino to Address Urgent Need to Prepare The Country
“Both structural and non-structural approaches should be adopted to lessen the impact of disasters. Hazard mapping must also be done for priority areas. In making hazard maps of local scale, it is best that community and scientific data are combined. Results of hazard mapping should be properly disseminated to population at risk.” – CDRC
Environmental and cause oriented groups have called on President Benigno Aquino III to pay wider attention to Disaster Risk Reduction. The escalating nuclear situation in Japan, the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Zealand and Japan, as well as the continuing heavy rains in the Philippines have prompted groups like the Disaster Response Center (CDRC) to call on Aquino President Benigno Aquino III to assess the disaster preparedness of the country. Cause oriented groups have been hounding the current administration because in the past, the government has always been ill prepared for disasters even as the country is disaster prone.
According to reports, Malacañang has already directed the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) under the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) to assess the disaster preparedness of the country in the event of a quake-tsunami incident. Items for review include assessment of building safety standards, and status of tsunami warning systems.
Earlier, the CDRC welcomed Aquino’s move to support DDR efforts.
“We’ve been calling for our leaders to prioritize DRR since CDRC started. The President’s act of support to DRR efforts is well appreciated,” said Lourdes Louella Escandor, executive director of CDRC.
In 2010, CDRC called on the then newly-sworn president to prioritize DRR on his first 100 days in office. I said that Aquino should prioritize disaster preparedness and to fully implement Republic Act (RA) 10121 Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management which passed into law on May 27, 2010.
The DRRM Act calls for all government agencies and adjunct institutions to develop, promote, and implement a comprehensive National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) to strengthen the capacity of the national government and the local government units (LGUs) to build the disaster resilience of communities. The law calls for the institutionalization of arrangements and measures for reducing disaster risks, including projected climate risks, and enhancing disaster preparedness and response capabilities at all levels.
It’s also stated in the law that disaster risk reduction education should be integrated in the school curricula, and that mandatory training should be given to public sector employees.
CDRC gives community residents trainings on disaster management(Photo Courtesy of The Jordan Family / bulatlat.com)
The Department of Education, the Commission on Higher Education, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, the National Youth Commission and government science and environment agencies are tasked to integrate disaster risk reduction and management education in the school curricula of secondary and tertiary level of education, including the National Service Training Program whether private or public, including formal and nonformal, technical-vocational, indigenous learning, and out-of-school youth courses and programs..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/03/21/as-disasters-mount-groups-call-on-aquino-to-address-urgent-need-to-prepare-the-country/
Nationwide Strike Against Oil Price Hikes Set On March 31
Because there seems to be no end to the increases in the prices of oil products, people’s organizations are calling for a nationally-coordinated strike on March 31 saying that oil companies are lying when it cites world crude prices in justifying increases in local pump prices.
Various people’s organizations are calling for comprehensive steps, including the conduct of street protests and strikes to stop the oil companies from imposing more price increases. People’s groups are marking March 31 as a “national day of protest” against oil price hikes.
Earlier this week, youth group Anakbayan held a protest in Quezon City against the ninth oil price hike of the year, calling the increase unjustifiable even by what they called “the Big 3′s unreasonable standards.”
Oil companies Shell, Petron, Chevron and small players are expected to take advantage of the spiking world crude oil prices to further impose frequent price hikes to the disadvantage of consumers. Oil prices have increased four times in the past two weeks. Last Tuesday, oil companies raised prices of gasoline and diesel by P 1.50 ($0.03) per liter and kerosene by P 1.25 ($0.028) per liter, the third time in eight days, making the accumulative increases in the prices of gasoline by P 6.75 ( $0.15) per liter for gasoline and P 6.50 ($0.148) per liter for diesel since January this year.
(Photo Courtesy of PISTON / bulatlat.com)
“Whenever the price of crude goes up in the world market, local oil companies automatically follow suit. But whenever world market rates go down, local pump prices don’t follow” said Anakbayan national chairperson Vencer Crisostomo.
“There is no basis at all for the latest oil price hike, or for any this year for that matter, seeing that local petroleum products remain overpriced by the end of 2010,” said Anakbayan spokesperson Vencer Crisostomo..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/03/18/nationwide-strike-against-oil-price-hikes-set-on-march-31/
Solons prefer pork over justice; Merci impeach trial looms By Charlie V. Manalo and Gerry Baldo 03/22/2011
Solons prefer pork over justice; Merci impeach trial looms
By Charlie V. Manalo and Gerry Baldo 03/22/2011
If the text message attributed to Liberal party (LP) spokesman, Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya allegedly threatening members of the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Chief Ombudsman Merceditas “Merci” Gutierrez or face the risk of losing their share of the most-sought after pork, the Priority Development Assistance fund (PDAF), and the alleged pressure coming from the influential Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) on lawmakers to reject the Ombudsman’s impeachment case are both true, then majority of the members of the lower chamber must have preferred their PDAF over the future of their political careers.
The House yesterday was poised to vote to impeach Gutierrez which would put to conclusion to the Palace-driven impeachment express at the House level.
The boom of the railroaded impeachment case was so deafening it silenced the minority bloc in the House, who all wailed in unison of the lack of due process accorded to Gutierrez.
And this was on top of the minority bloc’s demand for a probe of the “Abaya text message” which Minority Leader, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman claimed insulted the integrity of the House..... MORE
Japan nuke plant emits smoke, stalls containment efforts 03/22/2011
Japan nuke plant emits smoke, stalls containment efforts
Smoke belched from a stricken nuclear plant in Japan yesterday, disrupting urgent efforts to repair the cooling systems as Tokyo halted some food shipments owing to radiation worries.
Rain meanwhile complicated rescue efforts and compounded the misery of tsunami survivors fearful of dangerous radioactive leaks from the wrecked Fukushima power station, which has suffered a series of explosions and fires.
Chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said Tokyo had ordered the suspension of shipments of milk and certain vegetables including spinach from regions around the plant after abnormal radiation levels were found in the products.
But “even if you eat and drink them several times it will not be a health hazard. So I would like you to act calmly,” Edano said at a televised news conference..... MORE
Noy says no to UN no fly zone support By Michaela P. del Callar and Aytch S. del Callar 03/22/2011
Noy says no to UN no fly zone support
By Michaela P. del Callar and Aytch S. del Callar 03/22/2011
The British government urged the Philippines yesterday to strongly support a United Nations Security Council resolution allowing allied forces to launch military strikes against Moammar Gadhafi but the Aquino administration stopped short of condemning the Libyan leader as it made a final plea to Filipino workers to leave the besieged North African nation.
United Kingdom Ambassador to the Philippines Stephen Lillie met with the Foreign Affairs Underecretary Erlinda Basilio at the Department of Foreign Affairs to brief the government on Britain’s action to implement UN Security Council Reso-lution 1973 and asked the Aquino administration to offer its “strong support.”
“We must not stand aside while a dictator murders his own people. It is important now for the whole international community including the Philippines to support the implementation of the resolution,” Lillie told reporters after the meeting.
Avoiding an overtly hostile position, the DFA said in a statement that it abides by the UN Security Council decision to impose a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace “as a member of the UN and a signatory of the UN Charter. The DFA state-ment did not mention Gadhafi by name or referred to the allied forces military strikes that have been launched against Gadhafi’s forces to enforce the no-fly zone order..... MORE
De Lima lifts Ping arrest warrant, says CA ruling final By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/22/2011
De Lima lifts Ping arrest warrant, says CA ruling final
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said missing lawmaker Panfilo Lacson can safely come out without fear of being arrested, citing that the Court of Appeals (CA) has recently denied a motion for reconsideration and has ruled that its earlier decision lifting the arrest warrant against the fugitive senator is now “final and executory.”
But it appears that the Dacer family, will be filing a motion before the Supreme Court, which may put a monkey wrench on the return of Lacson.
She said she received a text message but wants to read the resolution first.
She said that while there are still options, including appealing the CA decision to the Supreme Court, she explained that they will be first meeting shortly with the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to lift the “red notice” flag placed on Lacson by Interpol..... MORE
Seaweed farming in Tubod booming N E W S B R I E F S 03/22/2011
Seaweed farming in Tubod booming
N E W S B R I E F S
As the price of the seaweed goes up in the world market, the people living in the coastal places in Lanao del Norte are venturing into seaweed farming particularly that the provincial government and its leaders are in full support to their endeavor.
Some 131 seaweed farmers from Barangays Pigcarangan and Tanguegueron in Tubod, capital town of Lanao del Norte, received 60 kilos of seaweeds planting materials last March 17 from the Provincial Agriculturist Office and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 10.
Through these seaweed materials, the farmers can exponentially increase the number of seaweeds once planted under the sea and eventually it will yield exponential results.
The farmers can harvest double or triple the number of seaweed planted as by nature this kind of stuff can easily multiply or reproduce like cultured mushrooms..... MORE
Mother Nature saved us from radiation—Pagasa N E W S B R I E F S 03/22/2011
Mother Nature saved us from radiation—Pagasa
Mother Nature seems to be protecting the Philippines as earlier report that radiation from the quake crippled nuclear plant in Japan might reach to the Philippines would not be pushed through due to a low-pressure area (LPA) there, state weather forecasters said yesterday.
Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) weather bureau chief Robert Sawi said winds from Japan are also going eastward, away from the Philippines..... MORE
Lim suspects ransom kept by MPD exec 03/22/2011
Lim suspects ransom kept by MPD exec
Manila City Mayor Alfredo Lim yesterday hinted that a higher officer of the Manila Police District (MPD) had kept the ransom instead with the other five policemen who surrendered following the issuance of a shoot-to-kill order against them.
The MPD exec is now investigated in connection with the missing money paid by Malaysian kidnapped victim Eric Shin Tong.
Lim said it during the regular flag raising ceremony yesterday owing to a revelation made by prosecutor who handled the case as one of the cops Senior Insp. Peter Nerviza admitted that they gave the money to their chief then Station 5 Commander Col. Felipe Cazon Jr.
Source said that there is an attempt to slow down the investigation as another ranking MPD official refused to obey Lim’s order in connection with the retrieval of some documents from another key officials involved in the operation in arresting the kidnapped suspect..... MORE
5.8 quake jolts Metro, Luzon By Jason Faustino 03/22/2011
5.8 quake jolts Metro, Luzon
Filipinos were sent into earthquake and tsunami scare yesterday night as a magnitude of 5.8 quake jolted major parts of Luzon, including parts of Metro Manila, a day after a magnitude of 6.1 quake hit Northern Luzon.
In an interview over GMA 7, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs) head Renato Solidum Jr. said the quake was recorded at 6:36 p.m. and was tectonic.
“This is our initial estimate the quake’s magnitude registered at 5.8 at the stretch of 34 km. The epicenter was near Lubang Island as the fault moved,” Solidum said..... MORE
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RP can, Cambodia can’t? Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
RP can, Cambodia can’t?
Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
The Cambodian ambassador to the Philippines was summoned by the Department of Foreign Affairs but he snubbed the DFA summons and sent his deputy instead, who was handed a note verbale.
The DFA wanted an explanation from the Cambodian Ambassador Hos Sereythonh on what he had written about the “inflexible and non-negotiable position” of the Philippines and Vietnam on the South China Sea row that resulted in the failure of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to issue a traditional joint communiqué at the end of its ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia two weeks ago.
The Cambodian Embassy’s second secretary Tan Chandaravuth, was handed the note verbale by Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Erlinda Basilio to express the Philippine government’s displeasure over the ambassador’s comments and demanded that he explain his comments published in a local newspaper.
It appears that the Cambodian diplomat included an accusation that the Philippines and Vietnam played “dirty politics” in trying to solve a maritime row with China.
The comments were in a letter Hos sent to the editor of a newspaper last Monday.
In the letter, Hos accused the Philippines and Vietnam of working to “sabotage and hijack the joint communiqué” during the Asean meeting..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2348-rp-can-cambodia-can%E2%80%99t?
Filipinos warned against Aquino government’s rush to amend 1987 Constitution
When President Aquino sought US support for joining the Trans Pacific Partnership during his US visit, the US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas Jr. declared…“[we] have to change laws, issue executive orders and frankly, introduce amendments to the Constitution.”
MANILA – While the nation grapples with heavy rains and the widespread floods it invariably brings, after the country has been severely deforested, Filipinos are being treated to what the progressive and patriotic groups scorn as a badly choreographed prelude to chacha or charter change.
The chacha proposals on the table revolve around “only the economic provisions,” the proponents promised. They would “only” remove restrictions to the inflow of foreign investments into the country, and disengage from the political rider of term extension that led to the wholesale rejection of first charter change initiatives.
“Aquino wants to build the path of least resistance for their ‘chacha’ maneuvers by projecting itself as disinterested while building consensus among the reactionaries to swiftly carry-out ‘chacha’,” the Communist Party of the Philippines said in an emailed statement.
Indeed, for weeks until last Monday, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III reportedly played cool to charter change suggestions by both leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Mainstream media reports portrayed Aquino as someone who has to be convinced in a meeting in Malacañang last Monday with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte before he “gratified” the leaders of Congress by showing openness to charter amendments, and telling his economic managers to study the proposals for amending the economic provisions of the 1987 constitution.
Despite Aquino’s supposed coyness to chacha, the peasants who joined the Peoples’ SONA came prepared to counter Aquino’s ‘resurrected chacha’. (Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)
But based on his economic policies, Aquino is just as interested in pushing for charter amendments as the other past presidents who had tried, but failed, because they had also pushed for term extension in the amendment proposals. In a bid to make charter change acceptable, the Aquino administration is now seen as trying to shed off the oft-rejected political rider in past initiatives.
But critics from progressive and patriotic groups are still not swayed. From their statements, they are one in pointing out that aside from the fact that the track record of both chambers of Congress and President Aquino shows that they cannot be trusted to do what they promised they would – this is the Congress that “passed obnoxious laws such as the Oil Deregulation law and the EPIRA” – the economic changes they now want to push through charter amendments are in itself “a recipe for disaster” for most Filipinos.
A choreography for further Filipino ruin
“We knew from the beginning of this drama that President Aquino will sooner or later come out as supportive of Cha-cha,” said Elmer “Bong” Labog, chairman of labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU). He reasoned that a president whose main program is promoting Public-Private Partnerships will surely support 100-percent foreign ownership of land and public utilities in the country..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/08/02/filipinos-warned-against-aquino-government%E2%80%99s-rush-to-amend-1987-constitution/
Responsible parenthood Written by Archbishop Oscar V.Cruz
Responsible parenthood
Written by Archbishop Oscar V.Cruz
Someone mentioned the phrase “responsible parenthood” with pride and gusto. He said it decidedly and clearly. He invoked it before an elite crowd — with the general public hearing it. He got a loud and long applause from his direct audience — most of whom are interested in getting not only his political but also his administration’s financial support. He thus immediately moved and inspired his comrades to meet, plan and strategize for the passage of the famous as well as infamous RH bill — depending on whether the bill is simply about lobby money, business profit, PPP enterprises or the issue is basically about ethical considerations and/or moral principles.
That is why the following sceneries immediately came to fore: On the one hand, those in favor of the bill are flexing their muscles, planning their strategies and programming their moves for its eventual approval.
On the other hand, those categorically against the bill are meeting, planning, and moving silently at first and loudly sooner or later. There are even those who expressly and clearly said that “the battle is joined” — or something along the line..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2344-responsible-parenthood
Obama authorizes covert US support for Syrian rebels – reports
US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order allowing the CIA and other American agencies to support rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime, a US government source told Reuters.
Obama reportedly gave the order, known as an intelligence “finding”, earlier this year. The presidential finding also provides for US collaboration with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies.
The full extent of the assistance the “finding” allows the CIA to give the Syrian rebels is unclear. It is also unknown precisely when Obama signed the order..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/us-support-syrian-rebels-obama-650/
War crime? Syrian rebels execute POWs (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
A horrifying amateur video from Syria emerged online, showing an apparent mass execution of pro-government forces in Aleppo at the hands of rebels from the Free Syria Army.
The footage shows several bloodied men stripped down to their underwear being forced to kneel by a wall amidst a throng of excited, machine gun-touting men.
Once their captors open fire, the camera jerks away as the crowd momentarily disperses, seemingly unprepared for the nearly 40 seconds of uninterrupted shooting that follows.As the gunfire dies down, shouts of“Allahu Akbar!” resound as the once skittish onlookers victoriously raise their guns in the air, approaching what appears to be a pile of stripped-down corpses..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/syria-rebel-massacre-aleppo-627/
‘Assange’s life became threatened after US docs publication’
While Julian Assange is awaiting Ecuador’s decision on his appeal for political asylum, his mother Christine has traveled to the country to discuss her son’s fate with President Rafael Correa. She spoke about the ongoing case with RT Spanish.
Julian founded Wikileaks to help people living under repressive regimes bypass government censorship, Christine said. No government or group had stopped or hindered his efforts until he began publishing leaked US documents.
“For four years, that’s what happened and his life wasn’t in any threat. But then when the documents came to the Wikileaks drop box on America, things all changed,” she told RT. “For some reason, it was alright to produce documents about other countries, but as soon as the United States was embarrassed, his life became threatened. “.... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/christine-assange-interview-julian-659/
Sending UN peacekeeping forces to Spratlys dangerous – fisherfolk group
MANILA — The Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakayang Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) has issued a demand that the Benigno Aquino III administration stop its plans to ask the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force and help keep China in check in relation to the conflict involving territorial rights over the West Philippine Sea and the group of islands collectively known as the Spratly Islands.
Recently, Muntinlupa Rep. Rodolfo Biazon said Malacañang should appeal to the UN for help and keep China and its naval forces from occupying the disputed islands. He said the territorial dispute between China and the Philippines can and should be settled with the help of the UN. Recent reports have it that a large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels have been spotted nearPag-asa Island. He said the request for deployment of UN peacekeeping forces could be included in the case the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) intend to file with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos) for the settlement of the Philippines’ dispute with China over Panatag Shoal. All this is based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos).
Biazon was a former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) under the Corazon Aquino administration and current chairman of the House Committee on national defense.
According to Wikipedia, the term “peacekeeping” is not found in the UN Charter, but the authorization is generally considered to lie in or between Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 of the same. Chapter 6 describes the Security Council’s power to investigate and mediate disputes, while Chapter 7 discusses the power to authorize economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions, as well as the use of military force, to resolve disputes. The founders of the UN envisioned that the organization would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible.
Pamalakaya vice chairperson Salvador France, in a statement, called the proposal “impractical and dangerous.” He said even as his group takes a stand against China’s excursions and bullying attempts, it is against suggestions to bring in UN peacekeeping forces to the Spratlys. Instead of preventing any possibility of a conflict erupting between the Philippines and China, he said, Biazon’s proposal could serve to complicate the political-territorial dispute.
“We cannot dismiss the possibility that along with UN peacekeeping forces, there will also be troublemakers from the Pentagon and from other junior partners of the US,” France said.
Explore all diplomatic venues to settle dispute
The fisherfolk leader said suggestions such as those posed by the Muntinlupa congressman might serve to increase the tension between China and the Philippines and justify the increasingly aggressive presence of US military forces in the country. He said the country’s leaders should consider other rational and more workable solutions to address and resolve the West Philippine Sea conflict.
“They should stop fueling distrust and aggravating the situation in accordance to the game plan of US in Spratlys and in Asia and the Pacific region. By all means, the Aquino government should explore all available diplomatic venues and channels to end the long-running conflict with Beijing, instead of toeing the US’ line on the issue. It’s crucial that Malacañang asserts the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, but it should do so without obeying US impositions and Washington dictates. The Philippines cannot negotiate effectively if we are doing so not on the strength of people’s sovereignty but on the whims and caprices of the United States,” he argued.
For all of its stand against Biazon’s first proposal, Pamalakaya however gave a thumbs up to the lawmaker’s call to file a case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos) to resolve the dispute. It also echoed Biazon’s stand that Malacañang should drop plans to buy warships and aircraft and instead pursue the case before the UN body.
The Unclos is signed by 152 nations, including China and the Philippines. The former, however, refuses to recognize the latter’s sovereignty over territories in the West Philippine Sea that are within the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone, insisting instead that these islands are included in Chinese territory. The Beijing government does not want international arbitration to settle the dispute, but is pushing bilateral talks with the Philippines, as well as with other countries also claiming ownership over West Philippine Sea territories.
Pamalakaya also said Malacañang should explore the options provided for in the Code of Conduct on Responsible Fishing of the Alliance of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/08/02/sending-un-peacekeeping-forces-to-spratlys-dangerous-%E2%80%93-fisherfolk-group/
Probe involvement of soldiers in illegal logging, DENR asked
MANILA — Are military personnel involved in large-scale, illegal logging operations in the country?
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is convinced that this is a possibility. It advised Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje to launch investigations into the matter.
Pamalakaya national chairman Fernando Hicap said the DENR’s supposed campaign against illegal logging in the country has not been successful because the agency, for the longest time, has been turning a blind eye on the activities of the military when it comes to logging. He said the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) should not be used in the fight against illegal logging because many elements and even ranking official AFP officials serve as protectors of logging syndicates.
Recently, Paje said the DENR would seek the military’s support in the campaign against illegal loggers. He has taken up the matter with Department of National Defense secretary Voltaire Gazmin..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/08/02/probe-involvement-of-soldiers-in-illegal-logging-denr-asked/
Comelec causes delay in GMA sabotage, claims more witnesses vs Gloria coming
Written by PNA
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has caused the postponement of the hearing on the electoral sabotage case filed against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
This after the Comelec failed to furnish the counsel of the former President with a copy of its Motion for Reconsideration on the decision of the court to grant bail to Mrs. Arroyo three days before the scheduled hearing today at the sala of Pasay City Regional Trial Court Judge Jesus Mupas.
The hearing today was supposed to tackle the motion for reconsideration filed on the grant of the bail petition of the former President.
The Rules of Court require a party-movant to furnish the adverse party with copy of the motion at least three days before the scheuled hearing to give them to prepare, otherwise their motion will be considered as not filed.
Esmeralda Ladra, lead prosecutor, said they furnished lawyers Benjamin Santos and Ray Montri Santos, counsels of Mrs. Arroyo, last Thursday only via registered mail.
Santos informed the court they have not yet received the copy of the motion sent to them by mail and it was only before the start of the hearing that they were able to get a copy through service of the Comelec..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2361-comelec-causes-delay-in-gma-sabotage-claims-more-witnesses-vs-gloria-coming
Noy gives economic team 2 weeks to study Cha-cha
Written by Fernan J. Angeles
President Aquino has given the special cluster on Charter change (Cha-cha) two weeks to wrap up a process embarking on the task to identify, study, expound and make the appropriate recommendations on the clamor pushing amendments in the 1987 Constitution.
At the anniversary rites of the Bureau of Internal Revenue where the President was guest speaker, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima yesterday confirmed that the President has given them two weeks to finish the task which would help him come up with a decision either to maintain his position against constitutional amendments or otherwise.
Purisima told Palace reporters that the President appears to be interested in economic provisions in the Constitution limiting foreign ownership of businesses.
“Last night, the President told us, his economic team, to come together and study the Constitution, specifically those provisions that affect foreign investors. Just now, I already asked the World Bank and other multilateral agencies to help us compare our prevailing economic provisions to other countries,” Purisima said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2355-noy-gives-economic-team-2-weeks-to-study-cha-cha
RH passage is for country, kids’ future—Noy
Aquino flexes muscle vs CBCP, goes all out for Repro bill
With the Catholic Church leaders flexing their muscle with a show of force through a planned huge mass protest against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill renamed by the Palace as the Responsible Parenthood (RP) bill, President Aquino, speaking through his official spokesman, Edwin Lacierda, took a new approach in portraying the Church and its leaders as unpatriotic with congressmen who will pass the RH bill as true Filipino patriots who think only of the country and the Filipino’s future — his future children.
Days before the much anticipated congressional showdown determining the fate of controversial bill referred to by the President as the RP bill, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda hinted at a scenario where the Church would portray congressmen who would cast a vote in the service of the country, could face an imminent blacklisting by a Catholic Church group seen in recent weeks as threatening to dump legislators in time for the 2013 midterm election.
At a press briefing ysterday, Lacierda also urged the members of the House of Representatives to “think about the great service they will be giving the country” when they finally decide on the much-talked about bill primarily designed to promote and promulgate provisions on safe sex and population control..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2356-rh-passage-is-for-country-kids%E2%80%99-future%E2%80%94noy
Pia Cayetano slams JPE, Sotto for sitting on RH bill
Written by Angie M. Rosales
One of the sponsors of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill yesterday renewed her tirades against the Senate leadership for sitting on the measure, accusing them of using their position to prevent its approval in the upper chamber.
Although Sen. Pia Cayetano did not mention any names, it was apparent that she was addressing Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III in telling them to detach themselves from their personal views and functions in the legislature in dealung with the measure.
Cayetano, one of the sponsors of RH bill in the Senate, seemed to be already frustrated with the current status of the measure in the upper chamber, having been not placed in the order of business since Congress reconvened last July 23, almost two weeks ago, despite of it being among those mentioned by President Aquino in his State of the Nation Address.
Aquino did refer to it as RH bill but mentioned “Responsibe Parenthood” bill..... MORE
URL:http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2359-pia-cayetano-slams-jpe-sotto-for-sitting-on-rh-bill
Filing of homicide charges vs actor Gutierrez ordered Written by Tribune Thursday, 02 August 2012 00:00
Filing of homicide charges vs actor Gutierrez ordered
Written by Tribune
Matinee idol Richard Gutierrez has lost his case before the Court of Appeals (CA) in connection with the car accident three years ago during which his personal assistant was killed.
The appellate court through Associate Justice Stephen Cruz ordered the filing of criminal information of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide against Gutierrez in connection with the May 22, 2009 vehicular accident in Silang, Cavite.
In its eight-page decision, the CA set aside the resolutions issued by the Department of Justice (DoJ) dismissing the charges filed against Gutierrez by Lorayne Pardo, widow of the actor’s personal assistant Norman Pardo.
Instead, the appellate court granted the petition filed by Lorayne seeking the nullification of the two resolutions issued by then justice secretaries Agnes Devanadera and Alberto Agra, respectively..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/2334-filing-of-homicide-charges-vs-actor-gutierrez-ordered
Overflowed river, collapsed dikes force 1,300 families to abandon their homes
Some 1,300 families yesterday fled their homes and sought refuge at temporary shelters put up by the city governments of Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela after the main river overflowed and dikes collapsed, catching the local officials and residents by surprise.
The massive evacuation of affected families was immediately ordered, especially in Navotas and Malabon areas after the Tullahan River overflowed due to the strong rainfall early yesterday morning which was worsened by high tide that reached its peak at 2.2 meters around 9 a.m. yesterday.
Navotas Mayor John Rey Tiangco in a text message to Tribune said nearly 600 families were evacuated to several schools and covered courts converted into their temporary shelters after their houses were inundated by floodwaters.
He added the damaged pumping stations and collapsing dikes largely contributed to the flooding in almost half of the entire barangays in the coastal city..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/2335-overflowed-river-collapsed-dikes-force-1300-families-to-abandon-their-homes
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Long-time Worcester State University supporter and alumnus Robert Mullin ’53, ’56, Ed.D., of New York City received the 2018 I. Robert Freelander Award at the recent Golden Graduates luncheon in recognition of his dedication to the ideals, principles, spirit, and benevolence of the late I. Robert Freelander, a founding member of the Worcester State Foundation.
“Bob was lauded by his 1953 classmates as a good man to work with, a good man to talk to, a good man,” said Vice President for University Advancement Thomas M. McNamara ’94. “The goodness and enthusiasm that were his hallmarks as a student shine brightly today. They have never dimmed as he continues to embrace Worcester State’s mission through his goodwill, fellowship, and many, many kindnesses.”
WSU President Barry M. Maloney congratulated and thanked Mullin. “The steadfast support Bob Mullin has provided this university, and his passionate commitment to our students, pays dividends for Worcester State every day,” he said. “We know that a scholarship can be the factor that keeps a student on course toward graduation, and he has funded several. On behalf of those students, and the entire university, we thank him.”
Mullin, who celebrated his 65th Reunion with classmates at the luncheon, has funded multiple scholarships for Worcester State students as well as the Professor Grace Kendrick Musical Celebrations Fund to support the music program. He endowed the Eileen and William Mullin Memorial Scholarship to honor his parents and the Francis J. Mullin Memorial Scholarship to honor his uncle.
Most recently, he made a planned gift of $450,000 to support scholarships, with a particular emphasis on Worcester and teaching. All totaled, in cash and bequest, Mullin has committed more than $2 million to Worcester State.
After teaching overseas for six year at U.S. military bases and embassies in Japan, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, and England, Mullin returned stateside and earned a doctorate in education at Columbia University in New York City. He joined the faculty of Queens College of the City University of New York and taught there for 30 years before retiring in 2005.
Established in 2013, the I. Robert Freelander Award honors the professional accomplishments, devotion, and philanthropic support of Worcester State University by individuals or organizations.
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