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X-amining X-Men (vol. 2) #26
"Part Two of Bloodties: Civil Disobediance!"
Various outside factions arrive in Genosha amidst the civil war triggered by Cortez.
Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils: Andy Kubert
Inks: Matt Ryan
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Colorist: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
En route to Genosha, Quicksilver is enraged to learn from his broadcast that Cortez has his daughter. Meanwhile, Colossus tends to the comatose Magneto before being dismissed by Exodus in order to counsel with Magneto. In New York, a contingent of Avengers are able to fight their way past SHIELD and head for Genosha, while in Genosha, Beast & Xavier are kidnapped from their UN escort by a group of bipartisan rebels. The kidnapping turns out to have been orchestrated by Xavier in order to allow him & Beast to operate more freely, but US Agent is secretly tracking them. Elsewhere, the X-Men arrive in the country, and are quickly confronted by Cortez and a group of mutates called the Unforgiven, while the Avengers arrive in Hammer Bay and help stop an attack on mutates by a group of human soldiers, all of whom are then obliterated by Exodus, who declares Magneto's greatest disciple will now follow in his footsteps and save the Genoshan mutates, even if it means the death of every human on the island.
Firsts and Other Notables
This issue is the first appearance of Rene Majcomb, a biogeneticist and former associate of Xavier's who is now leading a bipartisan rebel force of humans and mutants in Genosha. She is one of those minor recurring characters, like Philip Moreau & Jenny Ransome, who will pop up whenever a story deals with Genosha in the future. And though she isn't explicitly cited as a member of the Mutant Underground, she fits in with the general idea being developed of late that Xavier has a bunch of heretofore unmentioned agents working on behalf of mutantkind around the world.
It's worth noting that only Beast & Xavier are "captured" by the rebels in this issue; US Agent is shown to be following them, and he'll have caught up by the next chapter. But over the course of the story, both Phillip Moreau & Jenny Ransome, and then Gyrich, will appear alongside Xavier & Beast without explanation.
This issue also introduces the Unforgiven, a specific group of mutates serving Cortez. Only two of the three get named (in the next chapter), and none of them have yet to appear outside this story. The promotional Marvel Age series described this group as being mutants cast out of Avalon by Magneto, but that never gets brought up in the story (promotional info like that not making it into/lining up with the actual published stories will become something of a repeat phenomenon over the next few years, culminating most egregiously with the version of "Onslaught" published and the one detailed in the Road to Onslaught oneshot).
Fighting their way free of SHIELD, this issue seems the formation of the Avengers contingent heading to Genosha, comprised of Crystal & Scarlet Witch (Luna's mother & aunt), Captain America, Black Knight, Sersi and War Machine, with Sersei essentially joining because she's the third side of a love triangle with Black Knight & Crystal at this point.
The X-Men's Blackbird jet is erroneously described as an "SR-70" instead of "SR-71".
In this issue, it's said that Cortez kidnapped Luna in order to use her as a human shield, to prevent Magneto from striking him directly.
The X-Men point out that this show's Cortez doesn't know about Magneto's current condition, which Gambit declares could be ace up the X-Men's sleeve (also, props to Gambit for another great card-related pun).
By the end of the issue, however, Cortez at least learns that Magneto is incapacitated (technically, this Cortez is actually a shapeshifter, but one with a psychic link to Cortez, so the point still stands).
Aboard Avalon, Colossus wonders if the situation in Genosha would be better if everyone knew about Magneto's condition.
Genosha is described once again as having been a "green and pleasant" land.
Rogue notes Wolverine's absence as the team arrives in Genosha, recalling their adventure together in the first Genosha story.
Austin's Analysis
The second part of "Bloodties", this issue is mostly more setup, getting the various groups of characters (the Avengers contigent, the X-Men, Xavier/Beast/US Agent, and Exodus) to Genosha and into position for the rest of the story, and as a result, the story overall continues to hum along fine, without too many narrative problems (of course, spending two chapters of a five issue story could be problematic; on the other hand, there's not all that much plot here, as we'll see). But putting aside "Bloodties" for the moment, its worth pointing out that this the first issue of this series since Wolverine lost his adamantium (and Magneto his mind).
Now, that seems pretty obvious to anyone looking at the issue numbers who knows that "26" usually follows "25". Yet the events of that issue already feel like they happened several issues ago (and not just because of my delayed posting schedule). At the very least, with the immediate ramifications of issue #25 handled in Wolverine #75 followed by the pivot to "Bloodties" in Avengers #368, two issues worth of narrative incidents featuring these characters occur between last issue and this one, and that's even before considering any of the other series, or annuals, etc. (if one was to read the narrative chronologically, including things like the final chapter of "Fatal Attractions", also on sale the same month as this issue, before "Bloodties", the gap would be even bigger). So when Rogue at one point in this issue comments on Wolverine's absence, it resonates, because it already feels like he's been gone awhile, even though this is the first issue of this series he hasn't appeared in.
Obviously, it's doubtful there were many people back in 1993 who were only reading X-Men, who weren't at least casually picking up Uncanny as well, or Wolverine, or grabbing the "Fatal Attractions" issues, etc. But regardless (and there probably were some people just reading this series of all the X-books), taking a step back to view the issues of this series just as issues of one self-contained title, the narrative whiplash between issues is huge, as several issues-worth of story passes between them. It's a reminder of just how deep - and accepted - the crossover and franchise mentally was in 1993 that nobody at Marvel blinked at cramming so much story between two issues of one series.
Tomorrow, X-Force battles the new MLF in X-Force #29. Friday, "Fatal Attractions" concludes in Excalibur #71. Next week, X-Men Unlimited #3.
Posted by Austin Gorton at 12:00 PM
Labels: "Bloodties", Blue/Gold Era, Comic Book reviews, comics, Nicieza/Kubert, X-aminations, X-Men, X-Men (vol. 2)
Mela January 12, 2018 at 7:08 AM
"...the narrative whiplash between issues is huge, as several issues-worth of story passes between them."
Color me as one of the confused readers. At the time, I was still reliant on going to a newsstand for my comics, and I'd usually pick up X-Men & Uncanny, since I didn't really care about Wolverine outside of the team. I remember feeling like I somehow missed a year of stories between this & 25 (it was a feeling I forgot until you mentioned it & I had a real "oh, yeah" moment). Now, though, they'd probably just make a new title & only belatedly let you know it's supposed to be a limited series if the X-Men & Avengers were teaming up.
Jack January 12, 2018 at 10:55 AM
I've frequently said that reading everything was just how 1993 rolled, but it was really true.
As we approach the end of the year in these posts, as my reading scaled back to a relative handful of titles, I am struck by how almost hysterical comics buying in 1992-1993 was. Cross-overs, gimmicks, "extreme" characters, massive status quo changes, all of it turned into some sort of narrative engine that just grabbed comics readers and dragged us into the stores to buy every damn thing we could get our hands on.
And it wasn't, in my circle of friends, because we thought we were going to get rich quick by selling boxes of Spawn #1; we were actually reading all of this crap! We wanted to know what was going to happen next. Marvel had broken out of the dull as hell art rut they were in during the mid to late 80s (say what you will about the Image guys, but the 'inked by Al Milgrom' period at the end of Shooter's tenure just looked awful) and Things Were Happening.
So, yeah, it made perfect sense to write the X-Books as a giant gestalt entity where you read everything and the narrative gap between X-Men #25 and #26 was a lot longer because you were reading half a dozen other books during that gap. Because we were. Or at least had been: I was the first of my crew to scale back, but eventually, before Phalanx Covenant, all of us were scaling back, and a few stopped reading.
There's been a lot of discourse on the comics of the boom period, but I would love to read more stories about how readers acted back then. I'm willing to bet I wasn't alone in falling into the near-hysteria that surrounded comics then.
Matt January 12, 2018 at 11:59 AM
Since you asked, Jack -- I was pretty good about holding out and only reading what I really wanted to read at this point. I was fourteen for most of 1993. I had no interest in Image or any publishers outside of Marvel and one solitary DC title. Looking at a list of comics cover dated November '93, I think I can tell you pretty much exactly what I read:
DOOM 2099
INFINITY CRUSADE
SPIDER-MAN 2099
WEB OF SPIDER-MAN
X-MEN 2099
And, for that month only, EXCALIBUR and WOLVERINE.
Plus my single montly purchase from DC, BATMAN ADVENTURES.
I was an X-Men fan, but only followed one X-book, plus crossover installments. I was a huge Spider-Man fan, but only followed two monthlies plus the quarterly. I loved the 2099 books, but only followed three of them. And so on.
Of course, as the decade moved along and my allowance increased, I branched out. Looking at comics cover dated one year later, November '94, I was reading all the above (except TRANSFORMERS, which was cancelled), plus the Clone Saga now had me reading every Spider-book, I had picked up UNCANNY, and I was reading GENERATION X, too. Within another year or so, I'd add EXCALIBUR to my X-list, as well.
Matt January 12, 2018 at 12:00 PM
Skip ahead five years to 1999 and I'm in college, I have a part-time job, and I'm reading most of the Marvel Universe (which wasn't hard to do thanks to their scaling back due to bankruptcy):
SPIDER-GIRL
WEBSPINNERS
...Plus a few just-canceled series like NOVA and SLINGERS, as well as assorted annuals, one-shots, and limited series (including maxi-series like AVENGERS FOREVER and EARTH-X) -- and still, from DC, good ol' BATMAN ADVENTURES (now called GOTHAM ADVENTURES).
Then Joe Quesada came along and ruined all my fun!
Seriously, it's no wonder I'm so unabashedly fond of Bob Harras's Marvel -- while a lot of readers were scaling back their Marvel purchases as the 90s progressed, my reading expanded, and that expansion can be pretty neatly charted alongside Harras' ascent to editor-in-chief. When he was fired and Quesada came in, dropping continuity and sending a lot of the books in "experimental"/indy-ish directions, I scaled back in a hurry, dropping a bunch of the stuff I had, up to that point, really been enjoying.
The Harras era for you sounds like my unabashed love for most of Jim Shooter's run, though even I will admit his EIC run jumped the shark around Secret Wars II and the art got safe and dull because that's how Shooter liked it. People criticize Shooter pre-1985 and I'll just go "Claremont/Byrne X-Men, Miller Daredevil, and Simonson's Thor" back at them. That was the era I grew up on.
Someday I need to go back and check out the Marvel I missed from 1994-2000, where I mostly read the X-Men (and even that ended in 1998 during the Kelly/Seagle era) because I wonder if my dislike of the general industry habits from that period caused me to miss good stuff.
cyke68 January 12, 2018 at 4:57 PM
I know that feeling when you describe the hysteria around the '90s comics boom. Even at the time, 1993 seemed like an especially packed year; looking back, I think I want to single it out as the peak.
Sure, you had the infamous Death of Superman in '92 but that was just the tip of the icebarg. The fallout - Reign of the Supermen - rolled right into '93. Consider also: the sprawling KnightFall/KnightQuest/KnightsEnd that tied up the Bat books for the entirety of the year. Marvel of course had Fatal Attractions, a mere six issues, but published over the course of six months. Bloodties right on its heels for another two months. Not to be outdone, the Spidey office unleashed its 14-part Maximum Carnage crossover in the spring/summer. We also got either Infinity War or Crusade, itself a six-issue mini but with a shitload of tie-ins across the entire line. No true annual crossover this year, but that thematic link in the form of a "hot new character find" in every installment heating up the hype machine. And what was the event for Marvel's "supernatural" imprint so highly touted by all those promotional inserts? Siege of Darkness? Pretty sure the Punisher was still doing crossovers across his three(!) regular series too. And these are just the ones I can pin down off the top of my head.
My financial resources to actually follow everything were limited by my age. I would've been all of 9, 10 years old. I certainly had my favorites, but there was a sense of stress and anxiety that I was missing out on something by not having access to ALL of it. Trips to the comic shop could be an overwhelming experience. But, the upshot of that was no shortage of material to interest me.
I almost didn't pay attention to the actual issue numbers once I started following books in real time. As long as I was sure I hadn't overlooked something - whether the plot from Uncanny X-Men continued in X-Men, Wolverine, or Avengers - I guess I didn't much think about it. Actually labeling individual chapters of a story (a la X-Cutioner's Song) is one thing, but this kind a semi-permanent event mode is more ingenious in a way. It instilled a vague expectation to grab up everything.
For these reasons, I didn't have a dedicated pull list. I started to hash out what a hypothetical one would have looked like, but it's just such an amorphous blob. A little of this, a little of that. My only "dedicated" title was X-Men, as I was actually subscribing to it, and I was fiercely loyal to Captain America and Avengers (albeit missing issues here and there).
So, suffice to say, the notion of cutting back would have been inconceivable to me. A lot of this has to do with the early '90s being formative years. As such, I was unfazed as a young Marvel Zombie by such factors as the collapse of the comics bubble. I don't think any true cynicism affecting my consumption had set in until about 1997. (Perhaps not coincidentally with the honing of critical faculties such that I could declare, "Holy shit Operation: Zero Tolerance is fucking garbage!")
Matt January 12, 2018 at 5:29 PM
I'm with you on the early Shooter era, Jack. I was pretty young and didn't really read it at the time, but during that period I definitely felt like Marvel was a bigger deal than DC. In addition to the acclaimed runs you mention, there was also Byrne on the Fantastic Four, plus Roger Stern on Spider-Man and the Avengers, Michelinie and Layton on Iron Man, and (in my opinion, at least) Mark Gruenwald on Captain America.
And like Shooter's final years, I tend to think Harras's last year or so at Marvel was marred by some misfires. "Revolution" in the X-books was (from my perspective) a bit of a disaster, and the Byrne/Mackie Spider-Man relaunch was pretty lame. But at the same time you had brilliant stuff going on in the Avengers' family of titles, so I guess overall it was a mixed bag.
Obviously I'm speaking heavily from nostalgia, and I don't know exactly how much of '94 - 2000 you skipped (and may have never gone back to check out), but at the very least I strongly recommend the "Heroes Return" Kurt Busiek/George Perez AVENGERS (issues 1 - 34 at least) and the Busiek/Mark Bagley/Fabian Nicieza THUNDERBOLTS (issues 1 - 50 at least). Both launched near the end of 1997, and for my money, they were the A-1, bar-none crown jewels of the Marvel Universe at the time. (I wrote a lengthy post on my blog about my love for that AVENGERS run a few months back which you may have seen.)
I also recall the Busiek/Sean Chen/Roger Stern IRON MAN being pretty good, though unlike those other two, I haven't read it since it originally came out. And I don't know how much Spider-Man you read during the Shooter era, but the HOBGOBLIN LIVES mini-series from 1996 was pretty good, though my appreciation of it is strongly, strongly influenced by my unconditional love of Roger Stern's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN run. Oh, and I really enjoyed a lot of Alan Davis's run as plotter of X-MEN and UNCANNY in 1999, but I've gathered that stuff isn't as beloved in retrospect as I like to imagine.
I've read the post on the Avengers, which I kept up with but didn't actually read. It's on my wishlist, though right now for some odd reason I want to go back and fill in the Harras stuff that Bloodlines falls into.
And my Marvel pull list, by 1994, had literally fallen to just X-Men and Uncanny, so I know of things like the Clone Saga by reputation but not by experience. I read the Warren Ellis run on Excalibur, and I owned a few issues of the Busiek Iron Man, but otherwise, that six years is a colossal blank.
Patrick January 12, 2018 at 11:14 PM
I'm late to the party, but I'd just like to fistbump Matt for reading DOOM 2099 back in the day. I only JUST read it (and just the Moore issues) two years ago, and now I regard it as one of the best and most fun series of the early/mid-1990s. I love that in 2099 the world is in such a sorry state that we're rooting for Dr. Doom to take it over because it'll pretty much HAVE to be an improvement.
Good analysis of the passage of time, and in doing so, you hit on something I really like in comics -- how much is crammed into relatively small periods in the characters' lives. Rogue says it's been two weeks since the battle on Avalon, and one week since Wolverine left, yet -- as you note -- a lot has happened in that short span! I love the idea that superheroes' lives are just constantly moving from one adventure to the next, with very little time to stop and catch thier breath. For one thing, it makes the ongoing saga feel more momentous when you get this impression that it's all one nonstop roller coaster, but on top of that, it makes "Marvel Time" a lot easier to swallow when the character are leaping from adventure to adventure within the span of days or even hours, rather than getting weeks or months off between fights.
(I noted it many times when I looked at Roger Stern's Spider-Man issues a few years back, but Stern was particularly great at this -- with rare exceptions, he would throw Spider-Man into fight after unrelated fight, against various villains and across multiple issues, but all of it would happen in the span of one or two busy days.)
Is it just me, or did Andy Kubert apparently never get the memo that Colossus now wars an Acolyte uniform? In X-MEN 25, he's still in his X-Men outfit, which is forgivable since he probably hadn't had time to be fitted by the Acolytes' tailor yet. But in EXCALIBUR 71 -- which I believe takes place prior to "Bloodties" even though it was released after -- he's in a proper Acolyte uniform. UNCANNY 315 also shows him in one. Then, when Cyclops and Jean visit Avalon just after "Age of Apocalypse", guest penciler Paul Smith draws him in one as well -- but Kubert's covers to those issues continue to show him in his X-Men outfit, and after Smith's two-issue run is finished, Kubert picks up from a cliffhanger, exactly where Smith left off with Colossus in the Acolyte outfit, and has him suddenly and inexplicably back in his X-Men costume.
That drove me N-U-T-S as a teenager, and I will never understand why Bob Harras didn't have Kubert (or the inkers) fix the mistake!
"This issue also introduces the Unforgiven..."
Maybe these are the silhouetted figures who kidnapped Luna as noted in your review of the prior chapter? Perhaps they were still in their Acyolyte uniforms at the time.
"The X-Men's Blackbird jet is erroneously described as an 'SR-70' instead of 'SR-71'."
Is it even still that at this point? I've always assumed, based on dialogue in X-MEN #1, that this Blackbird was built from scratch by Forge. I mean, it looks pretty much nothing like an SR-71!
"Obviously, it's doubtful there were many people back in 1993 who were only reading X-Men, who weren't at least casually picking up Uncanny as well, or Wolverine, or grabbing the 'Fatal Attractions' issues, etc."
I was getting ready to type "*raises hand*" until you got to "grabbing the 'Fatal Attractions' issues". At this point, and for close to another year, I really was reading exclusively X-MEN, with only occasional dips into UNCANNY, and nothing else! But I did pick up every chapter of "Fatal Attractions", at least.
I took a liking to that Acolytes uniform. Just sort of worked for Colossus, without looking like too much of an aesthetic departure (except on trading cards that added a long purple cape). You're right about that weirdness with Kubert. I'm not sure if he ever did draw the thing, and have no idea why.
It pissed me off that the X-Men's actual fight with the Unforgiven went down in Avengers: West Coast - the ONE chapter of the crossover I could never track down!
I'm pretty sure Kubert never, ever drew Cyclops in the Acolytes outfit. It's really weird when you consider that all the fill-in artists apparently got the memo, but he didn't.
Teemu January 13, 2018 at 12:19 AM
It really is the botched all-over-the-place plane trivia that makes me take the era as a betrayal of what the X-Men should be about.
Their "Blackbird" is a fantasy airplane and the X-Men shouldn't be caught anywhere near one. The Avengers can have quinjets and I don't care what the FF drives, but the X-Men should have standards, like they have an underground hangar at some distance from the school. The reboot X-Men always are like the airplane is in their upper cellar just off the main lobby, with everyone happening to pass by on their route to out of the house when someone is pretending to do some mechanics on it.
(We shall not concentrate on the visible absence of a runway and the utter lack of Salemians coming to ask unwelcome questions about airplanes frequently taking off from the Xavier estate lands right off a small town during the Claremont run.)
Blam January 15, 2018 at 10:15 PM
@Matt: // [D]id Andy Kubert apparently never get the memo that Colossus now wears an Acolyte uniform? //
I’m glad you mentioned this in conjunction with the fact that the events of Excalibur #71 apparently precede “Bloodties” — I was confused by how much Colossus’ portrayal in that issue seems to have backed away from the internal conflict expressed here but since it shows him in Acolyte dress I figured that he’d nonetheless become more entrenched in the group in the interim.
I can’t stop looking at Cap’s pose on that cover. Seriously. It’s hypnotically awful.
// and none of them have yet to appear outside this story //
You probably mean “all of them have yet to appear” — or “none of them have yet appeared” — “outside this story”. Although I’d like to keep what you wrote in my back pocket for a nice sarcastic jab at overexposure sometime. 8^)
Colossus has quite the soliloquy on his place in all this: “I am tired of using my mutant powers as a weapon. And I had foolishly hoped that here … I could use my skills as a soldier, a farmer, and a painter … to help create something — to help make something good flower, rather than be party to more destruction.” I’m aware that the writers have plans for him but, really, if he wants purpose and a shot at contentment after everything he’s been through he should be in the Savage Land.
Back then, I thought Kubert was awesome. These posts are making me regret that.
And I said in the comments for X-Men #304 that the obvious direction for Colossus was neither following Xavier OR Magneto, and going his own way. Given how little they really did with Colossus the Acolyte, one wonders why they bothered.
Scott Church January 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM
I was 12 when this came out and Stan Lee was signing at a local store. You had to buy whatever you wanted signed there up to 5 items. I bought 5 books including this issue, a Marvel Comics Presents (I think 79), a What if and X-Force. The signature looked really nice on this book.
My Mom also got 5 books signed including New Mutants 86. My friend was smart and got older Amazing Spider-Mans including the first Medusa and Rhino which look amazing.
Anyways, flash forward to this past year where he was supposed to be at Salt Lake Comic Con Fan X but had to back out because of health issues. I sold all the ones like this at $150 a pop and up. I still have 1 issue signed by him
I remember this issue was packed with an advertorial 'LOOK AT THESE OTHER MARVEL TITLES/CHARACTERS' section presented as Nick Fury's private notes. At the time I thought it was really cool and read it by itself almost as many times as I reread the actual comic. (Marvel did something similar to promote the Siege of Darkness crossover and launch of the Midnight Sons pseudo-line.) Did Marvel only start doing this sort of in-house part-story supplement/part marketing effort thing in the 1990s? If they stopped doing it, when did it taper off?
Jeff January 13, 2018 at 7:08 AM
This is a little off-topic, but X-Men: Grand Design is just outstanding. It’s basically a concentrated blast of the best of X-Men history and Ed Piskor is really a brilliant artist. I can’t imagine fans of this blog not liking it.
Comment. Please. Love it? Hate it? Are mildly indifferent to it? Let us know!
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Illinois Could Have Legal Sports Gambling by Next Super Bowl, Says State Rep
April 2, 2019 By paulmbanks 2 Comments
If everything goes as smoothly as possible, and there are no unexpected hiccups along the way, legal sports gambling will be in the state of Illinois by the next Super Bowl. That’s according to Illinois House Revenue and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Zalewksi, who late last month filed four separate amendments to House Bill 3308 to jumpstart the Land of Lincoln’s movement on sports betting.
“Enacted and up and running, I’ve set an ambitious goal for the Super Bowl, but I can’t say for sure that will happen,” Rep. Zalewski told The Sports Bank in an exclusive interview on Monday.
“It’s all up to the regulators, it’s up to the Governor when he signs the bill. There are many hurdles left to jump on that, but I’m hopeful and the sooner the better.”
Both online, at sites like www.liveesportsbetting.com and at bricks & mortar casinos, gaming is a massively booming industry, with sports and esports wagering the next markets that are set for expansion. Seven states (Nevada, Delaware, New Jersey, Mississippi, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island) have legal sports gambling industries regulated by state governments, with New Mexico and Arkansas up next.
Additionally, the legislative process is already in motion in 30 more states.
Zalewski, who represents the 23rd district of Illinois, is working with state Rep. Bob Rita to lead House discussions on traditional gaming expansion. The beginning of discussions coincided with March Madness, one of the biggest and most lucrative sports wagering events on the calendar.
Hopes are high that the Illinois state legislature will bring HB 3308 up for a vote next month.
“May is the end of the timeline- that’s when we have to get a budget on the governor’s desk,” he said.
Illinois will model their legalized sport betting legislation on one of four models, which are conveyed in the bill’s amendments:
1. Classical New Jersey Model, 2. Mississippi Model, 3. Professional Sports League Proposals 4. Lottery Oversight.
Right now, the New Jersey plan could be the early front-runner, and that’s certainly understandable, given how their legal sports gambling industry exploded in growth during the month that football season began.
“I think New Jersey makes a strong case,” Zalewski said.
“They’ve set the tax rate appropriately to derive a good amount of revenue, without driving down the market. They have a healthy mix of bricks and mortar, along with mobile platforms.”
Zalewski’s district includes one of the state’s professional sports franchises, Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire, who play their home games in suburban Bridgeview.
In a gerrymandering quirk, Seat Geek Stadium (formerly Toyota Park) and the parking lots to the south, west and east lie in district 23, while the north parking lot does not.
How might legal sports gambling affect sports in general?
“We’re going to try and make sure it doesn’t change sports a lot, I think there’s real integrity questions about (making sure) the productitself is protected,” Zalewski answered.
“Sports is an entertainment device, and in terms of people interacting with it, paying attention to it, it’ll be a new day, as more states have sports betting go live, I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.”
The Las Vegas Golden Knights were the first American sports franchise to officially partner with a sports book- might we see more go this route?
“I think that’s a real possibility,” Zalewski answered.
Paul M. Banks runs The Sports Bank.net, which is partnered with News Now. Banks, a former writer for NBC Chicago.com and Chicago Tribune.com, regularly appears as a guest pundit on WGN CLTV and co-hosts the “Let’s Get Weird, Sports” podcast on SB Nation.
He also contributes sociopolitical essays to Chicago Now. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram. The content of his cat’s Instagram account is unquestionably superior to his.
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WESTERN WOMEN WANTED
Escaped ISIS sex slave says ‘blonde, blue-eyed girls are particularly popular’ amongst jihadis
Nadia Murad, 21, was subjected to depraved brutality on a daily basis by militants and says they prefer Western women for human trafficking
A Yazidi woman who survived sexual abuse at the hands of evil ISIS thugs says that they prefer Western women for their human trafficking operation.
Nadia Murad, 21, was sold to a depraved jihadi after being abducted by the terrorist group from her home town of Sinjar in northern Iraq.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, was killed by evil ISIS brutes in November last yearCredit: Rex Features
She voluntarily joined the group but was trying to escape from sexual slaveryCredit: Rex Features
She joined the caliphate with her friend Sabina Selimovic who has also diedCredit: Rex Features
She was subjected to terrible horrors on a daily basis for but managed to escape after three months of being caged in a bedroom.
The Daily Express claims she said: “Blonde, blue-eyed and fair-skinned girls were particularly in demand.
“Fear is present in everyone. But it does not help.
“Death has lost its terrors. Death is harmless compared to the hell we all had to go through.”
Jihadi Tinder
Now ISIS savages are targeting DATING APPS in desperate bid to recruit woman as sex slaves
TOO SCARED TO ESCAPE
Bethnal Green school girl wanted to flee ISIS before being killed by Russian jets but was too terrified
BURNED FOR REFUSING SEX
ISIS monsters murder 19 caged women by torching them in front of bloodthirsty crowd
'BRIT JIHADI BRIDE DEAD'
London schoolgirl, 17, who fled Britain to join ISIS 'dies in Russian airstrike in Raqqa'
BURN THE BURKA
Civilians celebrate on the streets of Syrian city Manbij after city is liberated from ISIS
GET IN THE BUILD-HERS
More women urged to join the trade to help solve growing job crisis
The terror group’s human trafficking operation includes enslaving women who they consider to be ‘kafir’, non-Muslim people like Yazidis and Christians, before selling them for money.
The depraved thugs are also involved in the radicalisation of young women all over the world and try to tempt them to come to their caliphate with false promises of wealth, marriage and forgiveness of sin.
However, once they arrive they are nearly always kept as sex slaves and put in abhorrent conditions.
Nadia Murad, 21, survived three months of sexual abuse by ISIS brutesCredit: Getty Images
If they try and escape their punishments can include severe beatings, gang rape and even death.
Samra Kesinovic, a 17-year-old girl from Austria, was killed after she tried to escape from the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Iraq last November.
She had run away from home to join ISIS with her friend Sabina Selimovic and left a note for her family that read: “Don't look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.”
Danish teenager Lisa Borch was jailed after stabbing her own mother to deathCredit: Rex Features
The then 15-year-old was radicalised online and by her 29-year-old Iraqi boyfriendCredit: Rex Features
Local reports say that Samra, once considered a ‘poster girl’ for ISIS’ recruiters, was beaten to death with a hammer after trying to escape sexual slavery while Sabina is believed to have also died.
Blonde-haired Danish teenager Lisa Borch stabbed her own mother to death after being radicalised online and falling under the spell of her Muslim boyfriend.
It was revealed that the then 15-year-old murderer had binge watched sick videos of ISIS beheadings with her 29-year-old lover, an Iraqi refugee, before killing Tina Romer Holtegaard.
Brit blonde Sally Jones has been sanctioned by the UN for her work with ISISCredit: Tim Stewart
She will serve nine years for her crime while her boyfriend Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdulla will serve 13 years for the killing after which he will be deported from the Scandinavian country.
British-born blonde Sally Jones joined the murderous death cult after marrying a computer hacker who was then killed in an air-strike.
She has worked as a recruiter and propagandist for the jihadis with the United Nations even sanctioning her for operating on behalf of a terrorist organisation.
She has also claimed to have released classified information about US Navy Seals.
Jennifer Williams was encouraged to join ISIS after she converted to IslamCredit: Array
Jennifer Williams, a ‘blonde, tattooed girl from Texas’, was inundated with offers of marriage after she revealed that she had converted to Islam after reading the Koran.
The journalist’s tweet went viral amongst ISIS’ followers with several encouraging her to move to the caliphate but she didn’t and instead wrote about her bizarre experience.
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Saikumar is a famous dubbing artist turned actor and TV host. Saikumar’s father PJ Sarma was a noted story writer, dubbing artist and actor too. Sai Kumar is known for his stentorian voice and exceptional dialogue delivery and has dubbed for the leading actors Suman and Dr Rajasekhar during the 90s.
Having played supporting roles occasionally, Saikumar was not a full-fledged actor as he was very busy with dubbing works. But, the stupendous success of Kannada film “Police Story” that got dubbed into Telugu by same name made him the busiest actor and dubbing has taken a back seat.
Saikumar’s younger brother Ravishankar is a well-known dubbing artist and actor who dubbed for Sonu Sood in “Arundathi” and his dialogue “Bommali Ninnu Vodala” has become a huge rage which helped a lot in the movie’s success. His youngest brother Ayyappa P Sarma is a director and Sai Kumar’s son Aadi is a budding actor in Tollywood who has “Gaalipatam”, “Garam” and “Premakavali” to his credit.
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Schiff Says Impeachment Report Will Come Soon After Thanksgiving
November 26, 2019 by Dan McCue
WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced Monday that his committee’s impeachment report will be submitted to the House Judiciary Committee “soon after Congress returns from the Thanksgiving recess.”
In a lengthy “Dear Colleague” letter sent to members of the House Democratic Caucus, Schiff said evidence collected through 17 closed-door depositions and five open hearings “conclusively shows” President Donald Trump engaged in a months-long effort to encourage foreign interference in the 2020 elections.
“As the evidence conclusively shows,” Schiff continued, “President Trump conditioned official acts—a White House meeting desperately desired by the new Ukrainian president and critical U.S. military assistance—on Ukraine announcing sham, politically-motivated investigations that would help President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.”
The committee chairman went on to say “the corrupt intent made plain in the record of the July 25 call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky has been supplemented by significant evidence showing the extent of the President’s abuse of power both before and after the July 25 telephone call.
“This conduct directed by the President not only became more ‘insidious’ over time, but was known to the vice president, the president’s chief of staff, the Secretary of State, and others down the line,” Schiff said.
The chairman did not rule out the possibility of additional hearings or depositions, but he said investigators did not want to allow the administration to delay the probe through legal challenges.
He also noted at least a dozen witnesses defied subpoenas, the result, he said, of “an unprecedented campaign of obstruction” by the White House.
The probe will move to the House Judiciary Committee in December, where lawmakers will decide whether to write articles of impeachment.
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Impeachment Rules Encroach on Free Press
by Dan McCue
WASHINGTON - It has been a tough, some would say strange, few weeks for the press in Washington, D.C. Symbolically, it began with the shuttering of the Newseum, a museum dedicated to journalism and freedom of speech, which closed December 31 after increasing financial difficulties. For... Read More
House Formally Notifies Senate of Impeachment Articles Against Trump
by House Formally Notifies Senate of Impeachment Articles Against Trump
WASHINGTON — With a solemn procession through the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday, the House took the final, formal steps to pave the way for the third presidential impeachment trial in the nation’s history. But even before Thursday’s swearing-in ceremonies could get underway, freshly appointed House managers... Read More
Chief Justice, Senators Sworn in for Trump Impeachment
by Chief Justice, Senators Sworn in for Trump Impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in Thursday to preside over President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, then immediately administered the oath to the full Senate to ensure “impartial justice” as jurors for only the third such proceeding in American. history. Roberts made the short... Read More
McConnell Says Senate Impeachment Trial Will Start Next Tuesday
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced Tuesday that the Senate will begin taking a series of steps this week so that President Trump's impeachment trial can start immediately after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, McConnell said... Read More
Russian Hackers Attacked Burisma in Midst of Impeachment Inquiry, Security Firm Says
by Russian Hackers Attacked Burisma in Midst of Impeachment Inquiry, Security Firm Says
WASHINGTON — In the midst of the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, Russian hackers attacked the Ukrainian gas company linked to the inquiry, according to cybersecurity experts. Researchers at Area 1, a security company run by a former National Security Agency official, said Russian hackers... Read More
Legal Ruling on Withheld Ukraine Aid Could Shake Up Impeachment Trial
by Legal Ruling on Withheld Ukraine Aid Could Shake Up Impeachment Trial
WASHINGTON — Congress’ investigative arm may be about to add a new wrinkle into the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump sparked by the nearly two-month holdup of Ukraine security assistance last year, which Democrats charge Trump orchestrated to extract political favors. As early as... Read More
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Build your engagement engine: Part 2
David Mogensen November 2013
David Mogensen / November 2013 / Search, Technology
Once it was a straight line, but now the consumer decision journey is an evolving, circular path. It's made up of an ever-growing number of touchpoints between brand and consumer. In part two of a three-part series, David Mogensen, Head of Brand Engagement for YouTube and a former marketer for a Global Fortune 500 company, highlights some of the ways brands are engaging customers at every point by ensuring their brand is always there, reimagining owned media and giving the audience reasons to respond.
At any time of day, hundreds of customers can be found logging onto cosmetics retailer Sephora's Beauty Talk community site, browsing more than a quarter of a million conversations. These Sephora fans come not only to interact with the brand, but with each other. They come to get advice, share tips, and compare products in a category they're passionate about.
Sephora has been a digital pioneer since it launched its first e-commerce site in 1999. It has adapted to the fact that digital is part of every stage of consumers' decision journey. Whether it's on desktop, mobile or in-store, morning, noon or night, Sephora is always asking: "How do we make sure we're there for our customer wherever she wants to be?" Sephora Chief Marketing and Digital Officer Julie Bornstein told one of the Engagement Project's contributors, social media analyst Brian Solis in a YouTube interview.
To capture more of the conversations its fans were having across the web, Sephora gave itself a digital makeover last year. It invested in creating the Beauty Talk community on its website as a place to capture all those conversations and help newcomers and superusers find each other.
To keep conversations flowing and fans coming back, Sephora's moderators not only answer questions but also ask the community about their everyday lives to keep them engaged, making it one of the most popular sites in the US, with nearly 2 million visitors a month.
What makes the Sephora community work is the combination of three crucial elements that smart marketers are increasingly enlisting to build quality engagement: being "always there", reimagining owned media and giving the audience a reason to respond.
1. Be "always there"
The shift toward digital has accelerated the traditional purchase decision journey for many consumers. Today, when people decide to buy something, it may be only a matter of moments between that decision and the purchase online. Always-on content means your brand is ready to help and bridge the gap between business hours and customer behavior. No brand can afford to miss those moments. Consumers need information and they expect brands to supply it. If a brand doesn't, their competitors almost certainly will.
The web lets you be always-on and always there, but truly serving your customers means more than just having your brand show up when someone searches for it. It's about meeting people's needs. It's about being there when your brand is relevant, even if consumers don't know it.
Home Depot is an expert at being always there. Whether you're trying to figure out how to program your thermostat, repair a toilet, or tile a bathroom floor, Home Depot's how-to videos are easy to find when people are looking. Expedia does something similar for those seeking travel inspiration; its travel guides help you choose between Los Angeles, London or Lombok.
Make a list of the always-on media channels relevant for your brand. Where do your customers go to look for information, reviews, photos, video, or talk to others about what you do? How many do you use? How do people use these channels differently on different devices?
When consumers search, what comes up for your brand on those channels? Type your brand, category and related searches (like "dry-hair" for shampoos) into the top search engines. What do you see? Are you there in each case?
2. Reimagine "owned media"
For most brands, the first place to start when thinking about always being there is your owned media. Outside of a physical location, owned properties are usually the greatest opportunity to immerse people in your full brand experience.
Now, for most marketers, this isn't an especially new concept. But in order to be everywhere your consumer goes, you need to think about about it more broadly. Whereas once owned media was www.your-brand.com on the desktop, today it stretches across multiple screens and platforms.
Some of the most engaging brands are thinking about the interplay across their different owned channels and how each helps the customer at different stages in their journey. Coming from the auto industry, I love Nissan's "silent salesman" window stickers with QR codes that call up all kinds of content about the car on your mobile phone — even when it's the dealer's day off. That's technology improving the shopping experience. So is GoPro's immensely popular YouTube channel, which showcases the amazing videos customers produce with its cameras.
How do consumers use your owned media channels to learn about the brand? How does that change at different points in their decision journey? How can your owned media channels enhance that journey before, during and after purchase?
What does this experience look like on a phone, on a tablet, on a connected TV?
3. Give your audience a reason to respond
Being always there across screens and platforms is of little value if you don't give people a reason to respond. Remember when you were a kid and your parents asked you to do something? The typical response was: "Why?" If your experience was like mine, your parents would say, "Because we asked you to." That's how a lot of brands seem to think about getting people to their owned properties. "Follow us." "Subscribe." "Like us." Why? Because we asked you to.
It wasn't compelling as a child and it certainly isn't now as an adult. Consumers are eager to take part, but only if you offer them something that interests or benefits them: a moment of entertainment, helpful information, something shareable that makes them look cool, interesting or smart.
It could be a more tangible reward or just an opportunity to be heard. In the case of Starbucks, it's both. They regularly engage customers by offering them a free coffee or giving them a chance to invent entirely new drinks through owned sites like My Starbucks Idea. Marriott's Travel Brilliantly site similarly mixes the brand's ideas with innovations suggested by customers. Sometimes, it's just great content that drives brand recall and favourability. There are too many great examples to list here. Check out the YouTube Ads Leaderboard for each month's fan favourites.
What value do you offer consumers who visit your owned channels? Are you offering entertainment, education, peer recommendations and feedback?
Who can you partner with to create content that's authentic and interesting to your audience?
At a time when marketing is rapidly changing, focusing on the touchpoints in the new consumer journey is one of the keys to a strategy that won't be disrupted by next month's new platform or device upgrade. If you can always be there for your customers at the moments that matter, they will reward you. Looking at those touchpoints, like Sephora did, could also inspire you to reimagine your owned media so you can capitalise on change and offer customers new reasons to keep coming back.
Through the Engagement Project, we're sharing some thoughts on how engagement-based media planning is changing brand marketing. We hope this offers some food for thought as you prepare for next year.
Do you have an great example you would like to share? Engage with us at TheEngagementProject@google.com.
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Next step for Biggin Hill Airport’s "game changer" aviation college
By Lachlan Leeming @LeemingLachie Local Democracy Reporter - Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich
An artist's impression of how the new airport works could look.
The next step in the £11m expansion of Biggin Hill Airport, which includes the development of a new hotel and aviation college, is set to take place next week.
Members of Bromley Council’s executive are expected to provide a final green-light for the project by granting landlord’s consent at their January 15 meeting.
It’s the latest step toward work starting on the plan, which will see a hotel with 56 bedrooms, a restaurant, lounge, gymnasium and new car parking built at the airport.
The accompanying aerospace college will allow students to gain a range of aviation-focused engineering and mechanical qualifications, an area pin-pointed as a skills shortage in the UK.
The latest development comes after councillors backed the plans at a July 2019 meeting.
With planning permission secured, landlord’s consent is a formality required to allow work to begin.
The new college will provide space for up to 200 students and 25 teaching staff, and include a hangar and workshop for students.
At the time, David Winstanley, the chief executive officer at London Biggin Hill Airport, said the development would help plug a gap in an industry shortfall of aircraft engineers.
“If the UK aviation industry is serious about tackling the skills shortage, we must find new ways to grow our own talent,” he said.
“The London Aerospace and Technology College is a game changer that will create a new generation of skilled aircraft engineers to meet the needs of aviation today and for years to come.”
The £11m new facility is a collaboration between LoCate and London South East Colleges, with £6.2m of funding being stumped up by the Greater London Authority.
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Pennsylvania House tries anew to ban Down syndrome abortions
Published May 16. 2019 08:52AM
<p>By MARC LEVY</p><p>Associated Press</p>
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is launching another effort to outlaw abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, passing legislation Tuesday that faces a veto by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, if it even reaches his desk.
The vote comes amid a wave of abortion restrictions advancing in more conservative states, setting them on a course to virtually eliminate abortion access in parts of the Midwest and Deep South, in hopes that a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court will approve.
The Republican-controlled House passed the bill, 117-76, after two hours of sometimes emotional debate about pregnancies, children and relatives living with disabilities. The vote was well short of a veto-proof margin.
It goes to the GOP-controlled Senate. However, similar legislation died last year in the Senate, and its support remains uncertain there, particularly after Democrats who support abortion rights picked up seats.
The bill hews closely to legislation advanced by abortion-rights opponents in other states, and House debate broke down along the lines of those who support and oppose abortion rights.
Wolf’s office said he would veto the bill, calling it a “Trojan horse” and “another attempt to ban abortions and put politicians between a woman and her doctor.”
Wolf’s office went on to say that there is no evidence that the law is needed in Pennsylvania and that Wolf is eager to discuss how the state can better support individuals with disabilities and women facing complex pregnancies.
Senate Republican leadership offered only a brief, neutral statement, saying the bill will be referred to the appropriate committee and that the caucus has not discussed it.
Pennsylvania law allows abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy for any reason except to choose the gender. The bill would add to that prohibition a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
The bill carries exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Backers said it would protect a vulnerable population whose lives are productive.
“People with Down syndrome have contributed so much, so much to our daily lives and our society as a whole and they will all continue to do so when we finally recognize that each of their precious lives is worth living,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Kate Klunk, R-York, said during floor debate.
Opponents argued it violates the right of women to make their own decisions about abortion and cautioned against forcing parents to raise children with the genetic chromosomal disorder.
They called it ham-handed, unenforceable and an invasion of privacy that attempts to use children with disabilities to win a political battle over abortion rights. They pointed out that the chamber’s Republican leaders refused to allow votes on amendments seeking to boost help for children with disabilities.
“This bill is just another unconstitutional abortion ban from the same legislators who attempt to roll back the right to a safe, legal abortion every single legislative session,” Rep. Leanne Krueger, D-Delaware, said during floor debate.
A similar law is in effect in North Dakota, but laws in three other states have been blocked by federal courts. One of them, Indiana, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal. Meanwhile, a similar law in Arkansas will take effect in July and a Utah law is awaiting a positive court decision to take effect.
It’s not clear how many abortions in Pennsylvania are because of a Down syndrome diagnosis. The state Department of Health publishes an annual abortion statistics report, but does not collect such statistics about Down syndrome or genetic anomalies.
Wolf has previously rejected abortion legislation advanced by the Republican-controlled Legislature. He rejected a measure in 2017 that would have prohibited elective abortions after 20 weeks and, opponents say, banned the most common method of second-trimester abortion.
More big government intrusion on our rights to make decisions with our Dr. This type of big brother social legislating is why I left the GOP
This is a very sensitive subject. Perhaps we need to change our mindset, to where we are more accepting of people with cognitive disabilities. Society seems to accept those who self inflict cognitive damage (pot, heroin, psilocybin, alcohol, etc.) We've collectively changed in our attitude toward these people's self imposed stupidity.
But before we collectively change in this matter, parents of these babies needs to change. Collective acceptance by the community is scarcely possible without personal acceptance first into our families. Make Sense? That shift in mindset is less apt to happen when we as a society continue to recommend a "better way" (kill them off).
It's sad to see a man say he's for liberty of this, that, and everything else, and then deny liberty of life to one because God added a Chromosome here or there. It's interesting how one who champions for the right to impose bodily harm on self, your own body, your own choice, would not give same toleration and sympathy to those born into cognitive disabilities. Doesn't add up.
This is a decision based on a number of factors that cannot be covered in the context of a blanket law. I doubt any parent makes the decision to terminate without a great deal of sadness and emotion. It is also made with a tremendous amount of respect for life, and what is best for the fetus and family. Trying to suggest that a parent who terminates a fetus with chromosomal defects is doing so due to a lack of acceptance of cognitive disability is ignorant. Have you spoken to a family that made the decision to terminate? I have, more than once. It was not easy and in each case they chose to name their child and have a service. Unless you have lived it, keep you judgments to yourself.
I didn't expect you to slam me down like you just did Joe, but that's typical in this rags comment section. When your comment goes that direction, you come off more like a reprobate than who you are. I've been with families who've made the other choice Joe. I've been with people who are here because of the other option Joe. I'll just leave saying what I did coming in, it's a sensitive subject. And I'll admit, I am ignorant of much Joe. Good day.
What I said was mild compared to accusing bereaved parents of disregard for people with cognitive limitations. Every situation is different and the unfortunate thing about this abortion debate is there are those, like yourself, comfortable with painting all situations as the same, and then unleashing judgment on them.
No judgement here Joe, stop it. No accusations here Joe, stop it. Read my post carefully. I've spent time with those who would otherwise have been terminated, and many lead a productive life. Stop it Joe.
Oh please, you just judged in this post. Big government “social conservatives” want to believe that every downs syndrome child is like corky in life goes on but the reality is far more grim. And not every parent is equipped. How many Down syndrome kids have you adopted? How about every big government tea party member that supports this bill pledges to adopt at least 2 kids with Down syndrome? If you are not willing to adopt special needs kids than STFU.
Joe, you argue against what... you do not know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You don't know me, though you could, because I actually exist by the name I use here. I've got nothing to hide. I admit ignorance to much. I am far from perfect, but I strive to please God. My point is pretty easy to see, and the goal isn't to judge, or to chastise anyone. I think we pushed God to the side, and want to replace Him with self (We/me). I and many fellow Christians do much good for the local community. My church is growing Joe. Why don't you come join us for a men's breakfast, I'll pay. Let me know if you're interested. We'll put our differences to the side for that time.
Men’s breakfast? Adopt a special needs kid, that shows you are true to you views.
Again Joe... You have no clue what I do or those around me do. You appear to have been jilted by a church or something connected to religion. I'm not in to religion Joe, I'm in to relationship. I'm not telling anyone they should do this or that as much as that I speak for those who don't have a voice. So I'll take that as a no to breakfast? Maybe another time Joe.
I'm not jilted by faith, I'm disappointed by folks like yourself that have convenient lapses in your moral compass for the purpose of supporting a president that is the antithesis of christian values.
I'll be glad to attend,when and where?
No Politics at breakfast Joe.
Bowmanstown Diner First Saturday of the month.
Saturday June 1st at 7:00 AM
We'll break bread together. Politics to side.
Ask for me, we'll be in the event room to the back.
Wow... I hope between now and then I don't post anything to grind your gears...
oops, I may have already done that. No Politics, and it's on me.
You are right Meyers. Stick to your guns. Joe has rose colored glasses. Joe willfully ignores sources that are positive at the same time he digs around for any thing to ridicule President Trump. He is a hateful liberal that wasted time trying to dig up information on me. Luckily Liberals are easy to outsmart. The Great Rush Limbaugh- I can defeat a Liberal with half my brain tied behind my back. I led Joe on a wild goose chase. The “level of education” insult didn’t work. Isn’t that right Joe? You tried “a little opposition research.” How much time did you waste? I don’t even live in the area. You, Joe, show tremendous gaps in knowledge and understanding. Maybe, you waste time that would be better put to use developing your intellect.
I wasted as much time as it takes to click on your screen name.
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Pioneers Earn 2-1 Extra Time Result at CSF
FULLERTON, Calif. – Freshman Jocelyn Loomis (Sandy, Utah) converted from the spot in the 110th minute of her third collegiate game to give the University of Denver women’s soccer team a 2-1 victory over Cal State Fullerton on Friday night at Titan Stadium.
“So far this season, I think we’ve found ways to get ahead in games, we just haven’t found a way necessarily to hold that lead,” head coach Jeff Hooker said. “We showed some really, really good character today with a couple girls sucking it up, and going 90 minutes that hadn’t gone 90 minutes before. Brooke (Boothe) and Fran (Garzelloni) I thought were exceptional in the midfield today, probably the best combination that they’ve ever had. It was a great finish from Taylor, and to have a freshman step up and take the penalty kick, it was a nice way to end it.”
The Titans (0-2-1) and Pioneers (1-1-1) played a scoreless first half, as Fullerton outshot Denver 6-0 in the opening 45 minutes, forcing three saves from sophomore goalkeeper Cassidy Rey (Arcadia, Calif.) to keep the two teams level heading into the locker room.
Ivins found the breakthrough in the 72nd minute on a bouncing ball after a deflected original shot by redshirt senior Shannen Johnson (Golden, Colo.). Ivins took the bouncing ball, and from 12 yards out took the ball with the inside of her right foot and banked it off the far post and in. The Pioneers have scored the first goal in all five matches this season (two exhibitions).
Fullerton found the equalizer in the 81st minute, as redshirt freshman Connie Caliz took a one-time side volley, and put a paced strike past Rey from 12-yards out. CSF’s Jazzmin Mancilla was credited with the assist, as her pass beat the Denver offside trap to get Caliz past the backline.
Cal State Fullerton’s Sarah Fajnor had the best two opportunities in extra time, but both her strikes from inside the area were high.
It was a Loomis drawn free kick that setup the set play from just inside midfield that led to the penalty. Senior centerback Sam Harder (Centennial, Colo.) played that set piece into the box, and Boothe was climbed over and taken down in the area, forcing referee Jeremy Swan’s point to the spot. Freshman Loomis stepped up to the penalty spot, and put her pen into the back of the net.
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“We gave up a breakaway in the first 15 seconds, but that’s what great goalkeepers are for, to be calm and to save the game,” Hooker said. “That would have been tough going down 1-0 that early on the road. We just kept adjusting, and fighting, and adjusting, and fighting. I thought that we communicated very well tonight. For Sam to deal with a bunch of new players in the back, for everything that we are throwing out at her, I thought she did an exceptional job of being a leader today.”
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Big Flat township
Big Flat township Arkansas Education Attainment Charts
This section of charts contains Education data using using the latest 2018 American Community Survey data. In the first chart, Figure 1 shows the number of people age 25 years or older who have graduated from high school or completed the GED or equivalent credential. Big Flat township shows it has 47% percent high school graduates or better which is the 4th smallest percent high school graduates or better of all the other places in the area. The city with the highest percent high school graduates or better in the area is Farris township with a high school graduates of 81% is 73.3% larger.
The number of people aged 25 years or older who have graduated from college with a Bachelor's degree is shown in Figure 2. Big Flat township shows it has 8% percent with a bachelors degree or higher which is the 4th in percent with a bachelors degree or higher out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent with a bachelors degree or higher in the area is Matney township with a percent with a bachelors degree of 18% is approximately 2.3 times bigger.
Figure 4 shows the percentage of people aged 25 years or older who either have no schooling or dropped out of school before completing high school. Big Flat township shows it has 53% percent who dropped out of school which is the most of all placesin the area.
Figure 5 shows a pie chart that illustrates the proportion of educational attainment by large categories of achievement. Big Flat township has the largest proportion of percent of people with less than a high school education at 49% of the total and is ranked #1.
In terms of advanced education, Figure 6 shows the percentage breakdown of all people who have received a post secondary education, what is the highest level obtained. Big Flat township has percent of people with a Bachelors degree in the middle of other places in the area at 50% of the total and is ranked in the middle of the group.
The chart in Figure 7 shows a high level classification of people with a Bachelors degree and their field of study. Big Flat township has the largest proportion of percent of people with an Arts, Humanities, or other degree at 25.0% of the total and is ranked #1.
The next chart (Figure 8) shows a detailed frequency distribution of the bachelors degrees earned by residents aged 25 years and older. Big Flat township has the largest proportion of percent of people with a degree in Physical and Related Sciences at 15.0% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with a degree in Communications at 10.0% of the total and is ranked #1. Also, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with a degree in some other field of study at 15.0% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 9 provides a detailed comparison between places of educational attainment in large categories. Big Flat township has the largest proportion of percent of people with less than a high school degree at 49.2% of the total and is ranked #1.
A detailed frequency distribution of educational attainment is provided in Figure 10 and allows detailed comparison between different attainment categories. Big Flat township has the largest proportion of percent of people with less than High School at 49.2% of the total and is ranked #1.
Big Flat township Arkansas School Enrollment Charts
The next section of charts looks at school enrollment. Figure 14 shows the overall school enrollment by detailed grade groupings. Big Flat township has the largest proportion of percent of children in grade 1 to 4 at 50.0% of the total and is ranked #1.
Next comparison in Figure 16 shows Kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) students enrolled in public versus private schools. Big Flat township Arkansas has the largest proportion of percent of children enrolled in public K-8 grades at 100% of the total and is ranked #1.
The next chart in Figure 20 looks at the total number of students enrolled in each place shown. (Enrollment includes all students from preschool to graduate school.) Big Flat township indicates it has 4 Total population enrolled in school which is the 4th smallest Total population enrolled in school of all the other places in the area. The city with the highest Total population enrolled in school in the area is Rock Creek township with a Total population enrolled in school of 112 measures quite a bit bigger. Comparing Total population enrolled in school to the United States average of 81,751,797, Big Flat township is only about 0.0% the size. Also, in contrast to the state of Arkansas, Total population enrolled in school of 741,993, Big Flat township is only about 0.0% the size.
Big Flat township Arkansas Area Schools Charts
Figure 23 lists the schools in the area along with the school district and other information. Some of the Area Schools are: Timbo Elementary School, Timbo High School, Norfork High School, Arrie Goforth Elementary School, and Calico Rock Elementary School. The next illustration in Figure 24 shows the total school enrollment for all grades at the school using NCES Common Core data. Looking at Enrollment for Area Schools we find that Mtn Home High Career Academics ranks the largest with a value of 1,211 enrolled students. The next largest values are for: Mountain View Elem. School (652), Pinkston Middle School (628), Marshall High School (430), and Mountain View High School (376). The difference between the highest value (Mtn Home High Career Academics) and the next highest (Mountain View Elem. School) is that the enrolled students is about compares as about twice as large.
Figure 25 show the ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers. Good measures are lower because they indicate less students for any one teacher to educate. Looking at Student to Teacher Ratio for Area Schools we find that Rural Special High School ranks the largest with a value of 7.8 Student to Teacher Ratio. The next largest values are for: Timbo High School (8.0), Norfork High School (8.9), Calico Rock High School (9.5), and Cotter High School (9.9). The difference between the lowest value (Rural Special High School) and the next lowest (Timbo High School) is that the Student to Teacher Ratio is is only slightly larger.
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Education Attainment
Figure 1: Big Flat township, AR At least High School Education
Figure 2: Big Flat township, AR Bachelors Degree or Better Education
Figure 3: Advertisement
Figure 4: Big Flat township, AR School Dropout Rate
Figure 5: Big Flat township, AR Education Attainment Breakdown
Figure 6: Higher Education Attainment (100%=All People with Bachelor or better)
Figure 7: Big Flat township, AR Bachelors Degrees Field of Study
Figure 8: Big Flat township, AR Bachelors Degree Obtained
Figure 9: Big Flat township, AR Education Attainment by Level Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 10: Big Flat township, AR Education Attainment Detailed Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 11: Big Flat township, AR Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Age Group (Age 18+)
Figure 12: Big Flat township, AR Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Race (Age 25+)
Figure 13: Big Flat township, AR Detailed Male and Female breakdown of Educational Attainment
Figure 14: Big Flat township, AR School Enrollment by Aggregate Categories
Figure 15: Big Flat township, AR Overall Public vs. Private School Enrollment
Figure 16: Big Flat township, AR Public vs. Private K-8 School Enrollment
Figure 17: Big Flat township, AR Public vs. Private High School Enrollment
Figure 18: Big Flat township, AR Public vs. Private College Enrollment
Figure 19: Big Flat township, AR Public vs. Private Graduate or Professional School Enrollment
Figure 20: Big Flat township, AR Total Enrolled in Schools
Figure 21: Advertisement
Figure 22: Big Flat township, AR Public vs. Private Preschool
Figure 23: List of Schools in the Big Flat township, AR Area (2013)
Figure 24: Big Flat township, AR School Enrollment (2013)
Figure 25: Student to Teacher Ratios (2013) - Low Scores Are Better
Figure 26: Big Flat township, AR School Racial Mix (2013)
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In This Case the Mask is Way Better
June 22, 2015 by Kate Vitasek Leave a Comment
Congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks and their thrilling Stanley Cup victory last week, their third in six years.
It made me think of a great story that Robert Martichenko, CEO of LeanCor, told me recently about hockey masks and the history and evolution of the goalie mask.
Not so long ago it was considered a sign of cowardice to wear one. Coaches actually barred their goalies from wearing them during games. Not a smart move when you consider hockey is an amazingly fast-paced game where the goalie must face down a veritable army of opponents waving sticks and are highly compensated to fire hard hockey pucks past him at every opportunity.
So what changed? Who stood up against taking a puck in the face? The mask has been around in various forms since as far back as 1927, but their use was rare and usually limited to special cases, say to protect glasses.
It wasn’t until 1959 that the mask came on the scene full-time in professional hockey. In November that year Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante was struck in the face by a shot. He had previously worn a mask in practice, but coach Toe Blake refused to permit him to wear it in a game, fearing it would inhibit his vision. After being stitched up, Plante refused to return to the ice without the mask. Blake had to agree or else forfeit the game because teams did not have back-up goaltenders at the time.
Plante went on a long unbeaten streak wearing the mask, which stopped when he was asked to remove it for a game. He went on to don a mask for the remainder of his career.
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When Plante introduced the mask, purists at the time considered him a coward. But in response, Plante said not using the mask was analogous to a person skydiving without a parachute. Although Plante faced derision, the face-hugging fiberglass goaltender mask soon became the sport’s standard.
Sometimes a change seems so obviously necessary that it’s hard to understand the mindset of those who resist it. In business, I think of those roaming Junkyard Dogs who refuse give up turf and control when a new relationship framework comes on-stream, thus endangering the entire deal.
Besides that, where would our culture be without Jason Voorhees and his mask?
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Air Canada to Open Maple Leaf Lounge at Saskatoon's John G. Diefenbaker International Airport This Fall
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Air Canada today announced it will open a Maple Leaf Lounge at Saskatoon's John G. Diefenbaker International Airport this fall. It will be the airline's 17th Maple Leaf Lounge in Canada, and construction is currently underway.
Air Canada's Maple Leaf Lounge at Skyxe Saskatoon Airport will be located post security near gate 5. It will be 137 square meters (1,474 square feet) with seat capacity for 40 customers. Additional details will be announced when the lounge opens.
This summer, Air Canada will have up to 17 daily flights representing up to 1,320 seats departing Saskatoon, with six flights to Toronto, one to Ottawa, two to Winnipeg, four to Calgary, one to Edmonton, three to Vancouver. Since 2012, Air Canada has increased available seat capacity from Saskatoon by approximately 15%.
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Oct. 16, 2019 / 7:55 PM
Pompeo announces resumption of aid to Central America after asylum agreement
Danielle Haynes
Rafts made out of inflatable tires ferry people and goods across the Suchiate River separating Tecun Uman, Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on May 9 . File Photo by Ariana Drehsler/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department expects to resume financial assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras after the three Central American countries signed an asylum agreement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday.
He said the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development will resume some funding, though he declined to reveal how much.
President Donald Trump called on the State Department to cut the funding in March to punish the three countries for a migrant exodus that led to a number of so-called migrant caravans that headed north toward the United States.
"We're not paying them anymore because they haven't done a thing for us," Trump said at the time.
Trump tweeted Wednesday that the three countries each signed Asylum Cooperation Agreements and "are working to end the scourge of human smuggling."
Pompeo said the resumption of assistance will enable the countries' efforts in limiting migration.
"The United States commends the creative thinking and commitment of the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to reaching our shared goal of reduced outward migration from these countries to the United States," Pompeo said in a statement.
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UPM considers alternatives for long term development in Uruguay - Logistics infrastructure key challenge for the future
Press Release 14.7.2016 1:00 EEST
(UPM, Montevideo, 13 July 2016 at 18:45 GMT-3:00, 14 July at 00:45 EET) - UPM will commence discussions with the Government of Uruguay on the development of logistics infrastructure. Discussions will include railroad and roads, which currently are a critical challenge to establish large scale industrial operation in the Uruguayan inland and to connect it to a deep sea port.
"Uruguay could accommodate a third state-of-art pulp mill with proven environmental performance, if the logistics infrastructure would be rebuilt to support large scale export-oriented businesses. If these challenges can be solved in the coming few years, Uruguay could be a competitive alternative for addressing UPM's pulp market opportunities in the 2020's," says Jaakko Sarantola, UPM's Senior Vice President, Uruguay Development.
UPM estimates that healthy fibre demand growth will continue in the long term. By end of 2020's the world demand for chemical pulp is expected to grow by approximately 20 million tonnes. Some 24 million tonnes of capacity has been closed during the last 15 years and UPM expects the closures to continue at similar pace creating opportunity for new, more competitive capacity.
"In a short period of time Uruguay has created necessary conditions and successfully developed its pulp industry into an export business that has generated positive impacts to the country in many ways. UPM has been part of Uruguayan development for 25 years. We have consistently increased our plantation base in Uruguay and we are well-prepared to supply the wood for the third pulp mill in Uruguay."
"UPM has developed competencies both in plantation and industrial operations as well as in environmental and social responsibility. Our operations in Uruguay have been leading in environmental performance and sustainability. This will continue being UPM's focus and commitment in all future operations as well."
"We assess alternative growth prospects in different parts of the world. This prospective opportunity in Uruguay is well in line with our multifibre growth strategy. UPM is one of the few operators in the pulp market supplying both long and short fibre pulps for a broad range of customer sectors. The future capacity, along with UPM's current four world-class pulp mills, could serve customers in growing consumer and industrial end-uses like tissue, packaging and specialty papers and boards", concludes Sarantola.
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President Barack Obama Misspells “Respect” During Aretha Franklin Tribute: “R-S-P-E-C-T”
By Nicole Eggenberger
He’s going to need a little respect after that flub! President Barack Obama accidentally misspelled the word “respect” while paying tribute to Aretha Franklin during a Women of Soul concert at the White House on Thursday, March 6.
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“When Aretha first told us what . . . R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her,” Obama, 52, looking slightly confused, said at a podium. The audience immediately erupted with laughter, but the President continued. “She had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African Americans and women and anyone else who felt marginalized because of what they looked like, who they loved. They wanted some respect.”
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In Franklin’s 1967 classic “Respect,” of course, the singer famously spells out the word to a catchy tune, singing, “R-E-S-P-E-C-T/ Find out what it means to me/ R-E-S-P-E-C-T/ Take care, TCB.”
Watch President Barack Obama misspell the word “respect” during a tribute to Aretha Franklin at the Women of Soul concert at the White House on March 6. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
According to CBS News, Franklin, 71, performed twice during the Women of Soul concert, but not the song Obama mentioned. Other performers included Patti LaBelle, Ariana Grande, Melissa Etheridge, and Janelle Monae.
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The concert — and presumably Obama’s spelling snafu — airs on PBS April 7. For now, watch the POTUS’ flub in the video clip above!
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Tough night for Huskies
David L'Heureux
Unfortunately, it was lack of care for the ball that led to a 81-51 loss for the Battle Mountain boys’ basketball team Saturday night against Moffat County.
The Bulldogs came out with a vicious press, spearheaded by No. 23 Pablo Loya, and forced turnover after turnover against the Huskies.
On the other end, Loya converted those turnovers into numerous 3-point bombs to run away with the 4A Slope conference matchup.
“No. 23 hit his shots from the field and the free-throw line and forced a bunch of steals on defense,” observed Huskie’s coach Philip Tronsrue. “Good teams respond to that kind of thing and, tonight, we didn’t.”
The lone bright spot in the game was the play of senior forward Blake Gammon. He dropped in 18 points on the game, highlighted by a second half alley-oop pass from Eddie Irgens.
“We’ll just have to try and bounce back next Friday against Glenwood,” commented Tronsrue after the game.
That matchup is slated for 7:30 p.m. next Friday at Battle Mountain.
The Battle Mountain girls’ team suffered a similar fate as the boys against Moffat County Saturday, dropping a 67-39 decision.
The girls fell behind early and never rebounded from the initial 44-23 halftime deficit.
Like the boys, the Moffat County Lady Bulldogs applied early pressure forcing turnover after turnover and converting the easy baskets on the other end.
Erin Drumm led the Lady Huskies in scoring, pouring in 11 points against a very physical Moffat defense.
However, it was lack of execution on the offensive end that had girls coach David Hite concerned.
“The girls’ failure to run the offense really frustrated me,” said Hite. “We could have beat that team tonight.”
Asked for a player of the game Hite tabbed No.22 Kim White who had eight points and seven rebounds.
Up next for the Battle Mountain girls is Glenwood Springs. The home tip off is at 6 p.m. next Friday.
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The Crops Look Good: News from a Midwestern Family Farm (Paperback)
By Sara DeLuca
When Margaret Williamson left her family’s rural Wisconsin farm to work in Minneapolis in 1923, her mother, Olava, wrote regularly with updates about daily activities: laundry, bread baking, plowing, planting, and harvesting the crops. Sometimes she enclosed a note from seven- year- old Helen, who reported on school and shenanigans and how she longed to see Margaret again.
So begins decades of stories about a family at once singular— with personal joys and challenges— and broadly representative of the countless small farms that dotted the midwestern landscape in the early twentieth century. As Margaret’s niece Sara DeLuca weaves together family tales gleaned from letters and conversations, we learn of births and deaths, of innovations like the automobile, radio, and telephone that drew rural communities together, and of national and international events that brought home stone- hard truths. Depression- era farmers struggled to keep their land and feed their livestock; many failed. During wartime, this family made do just like everyone else.
The tale that emerges is one of fierce devotion to family and work, of a changing landscape as smaller farms became part of conglomerates, and of the comforting daily rhythms of life shared with those who know us best.
Poet and writer Sara DeLuca grew up on a dairy and sheep farm near the Williamson “homeplace” in Polk County, Wisconsin. She is the author of the memoir Dancing the Cows Home and the poetry collection Shearing Time.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication Date: March 1st, 2015
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UCU response to National Audit Office report on apprenticeships
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15 September 2016 | last updated: 8 July 2019
Staff at the University of Leicester will lobby the university's highest decision-making body - its Council - when it meets tomorrow afternoon to make a crunch decision about the future of a popular centre for lifelong learning at the institution.
The University of Leicester has already undertaken a 90-day consultation on the future of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning (VCLL). That ended with the university leadership team making a recommendation it is closed. But the final decision now rests with the Council.
Courses at the Vaughan Centre were suspended in June. Until then, the centre provided a range of high-quality lifelong learning opportunities, aimed primarily at those who have no, or limited, experience of higher education, or come from disadvantaged backgrounds. It also sought to inspire individuals at different stages of life, with different interests and career goals, to access learning.
The suspension of courses and review came despite previous assurances from the university that the facility was safe. Unions say drastic changes to the Vaughan Centre would also be at odds with the university's commitment to lifelong learning and reaching students that traditionally are underrepresented at university, as set out in its strategic plan*.
A petition to save the centre has collected more than 3,000 signatures. Leicester South MP Jon Ashworth has objected to the closure of the centre, and Leicester West MP Liz Kendall has written to the vice-chancellor expressing her concern about the plans.
The proposed closure comes at a time when the university has already announced 150 redundancies across the institution.
UCU regional support official Julie Cooper said: 'Universities cannot simply talk about reaching out to students without efforts to back those words up. The Vaughan Centre provides lifelong learning opportunities, aimed primarily at people who have no, or limited, experience of higher education, or come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
'The university talks proudly about its commitment to these underrepresented groups and we will be reminded council members of this as we lobby them ahead of the meeting and urging them to seriously consider the university's plans.'
* 'As we continue our efforts to widen participation and increase access, we are launching a campaign to develop an educational outreach centre and to support research into how universities can best contribute to social mobility. Through formal access programmes and a broad commitment to outreach, as well as a focus on lifelong learning, we will explore ways to encourage all talented students to consider and enter higher education.' University of Leicester Strategic Plan, 2015, p. 17
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Bagot, Theodosia, (Lady Bagot), (1865–21 Feb. 1940)
Born 1865; 3rd d of Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt; m 1st, 1885, Lt-Col Josceline FitzRoy Bagot, MP (d 1913); one s three d; son was Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, 1st Bt (...
Bell, Sir Stuart, (16 May 1938–13 Oct. 2012), MP (Lab) Middlesbrough, since 1983; Second Church Estates Commissioner, 1997–2010; barrister
Kt 2004
Born High Spen, Co. Durham, 16 May 1938; s of Ernest and Margaret Rose Bell; m 1st, 1960, Margaret (marr. diss.), d of Mary Bruce; one s one ...
Brodhurst, Henry William Frederick Cottingham, (26 Aug. 1856–21 Dec. 1943)
CMG 1911
Born 26 Aug. 1856; e s of late William Henry Brodhurst, BCS; m 1900, Lucy Helen Jane (d 1918), d of James Weir, Bedford; two s...
Campbell, Lady Archibald, (Janey Sevilla), (died 1923)
Born d of late James Callander of Ardkinglas and Craigforth, and of late Hon. Mrs Callander (whose portrait hangs in the King of Bavaria’s Gallery of Beauty at Munich); ward of George, 8th Duke of Argyll; ...
Cohen, Mrs Nathaniel Louis, (Julia Matilda), (6 Sept. 1853–17 Dec. 1917), President of the Union of Jewish Women
Born 6 Sept. 1853; d of Prof. Jacob Waley, MA, Conveyancing Council to the Court of Chancery; m 1873, Nathaniel Louis Cohen, LCC (d...
Cotes, Sara Jeannette, (Mrs Everard Cotes), (22 Dec. 1861–22 July 1922)
Born Brantford, Canada, 22 Dec. 1861; d of Charles Duncan, merchant; m 1890, Everard Cotes; died 22 July 1922
Elliott, Maud Howe, (Mrs John Elliott), (9 Nov. 1854–19 March 1948), author, lecturer, campaign speaker; Secretary, Art Association of Newport; Hon. Vice-President, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
Born Boston, 9 Nov. 1854; d of Dr Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward; m 1887, late John Elliott, painter; died 19 March 1948
author, lecturer, campaign speaker; Secretary, Art Association of Newport; Hon. Vice-President, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida...
Fuentes, Prof. Carlos, (11 Nov. 1928–15 May 2012), Professor at Large, Brown University, since 1995
Born 11 Nov. 1928; s of Ambassador Rafael Fuentes and Berta Fuentes; m 1st, 1957, Rita Macedo (marr. diss.); one d; 2nd, 1973, Sylvia Lemus; (one s one d decd); ...
Galletti di Cadilhac, Countess, (Hon. Margaret Isabella Collier) (1846–27 June 1928)
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Gilmour of Craigmillar, Baron, (Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour) (8 July 1926–21 Sept. 2007)
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Ingram, Hon. Mrs Meynell, (Emily Charlotte), (1840–21 Dec. 1904)
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Jekyll, Agnes, (Lady Jekyll), (12 Oct. 1861–28 Jan. 1937), JP
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Born 12 Oct. 1861; d of William Graham, MP, and Jane Catherine Lowndes; m 1881, Col Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG (d 1932...
Jobert, Michel, (11 Sept. 1921–25 May 2002), Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur; Croix de Guerre (1939–45); politician, writer and lawyer; Founder and Leader, Mouvement des Démocrates, since 1974
Born Meknès, Morocco, 11 Sept. 1921; s of Jules Jobert and Yvonne Babule; m Muriel Frances Green (decd); one s; died 25 May 2002
Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur; Croix de Guerre (...
Lawrence, Hon. Dame Maude Agnes, (16 April 1864–11 Jan. 1933), Director of Women’s Establishments at the Treasury since 1920; Chief Woman Inspector of the Board of Education, 1905–20
Born 16 April 1864; d of 1st Baron Lawrence, Viceroy of India, 1864–69; died 11 Jan. 1933
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Lloyd, Charles Ellis, (died 7 May 1939)
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Money, Ernle (David Drummond), (17 Feb. 1931–14 April 2013), Barrister-at-Law
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Montgomery, Kathleen, (died 22 Dec. 1960), wrote (with her sister, Letitia who d 1930), as K. L. Montgomery
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Nesbit, E(dith), (Mrs Hubert Bland), (19 Aug. 1858–4 May 1924), poet and novelist, and author of children’s books
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Noel, Lady Augusta, (26 April 1838–31 Jan. 1902)
Born 26 April 1838; d of 6th Earl of Albemarle and Susan, d of Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st Bt; m 1873, Ernest, JP, DL, s of Rev. Hon. B. W. Noel; ...
Owen, Lt-Col Sir Goronwy, (22 June 1881–26 Sept. 1963)
Kt 1944; DSO
Born 22 June 1881; m 1925, M. Gladwyn, widow of Owen Jones, JP, of Caernarvon, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1950–51; died 26 Sept. 1963
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2017 Annual Report for the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF
Over the past decade, child marriage has continued to decline. Globally, the proportion of young women who were married as children decreased from 1 in 4 to about 1 in 5. It is now estimated that a total of 650 million girls and women alive today were married as children.
However, the current rate of decline in child marriage is not sufficient to meet the SDG target of ending child marriage by 2030. What's more, the reduction in child marriage has been uneven. While South Asia has led the way on reducing child marriage, the global burden is shifting to sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of progress need to be accelerated dramatically to reduce the prevalence and offset population growth.
To achieve lasting change at significant scale, the Global Programme continued to build government ownership and commitment towards ending child marriage. The Global Programme currently works with 276 implementing partners and 92 other partners.
In Turkey, a safe haven for Syrian refugee survivors
Fatima endured brutal domestic violence, and she gave birth alone as war raged outside. But now she has a new life, and a new power: independence.
In war-torn Yemen, a devastating childbirth injury, then a glimpse of hope
On Wednesday, the world will observe the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula.
A young activist in Malawi campaigns to keep girls out of marriage and in school
At 21, Jenipher Sanni has already lived two lives: as a wife, and now again as a student. Now, she mentors other girls.
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Decoding the Lyrics From Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next”—Her New Song About Breakups
By Christian Allaire
It was just a few days ago that Ariana Grande subtweeted her ex Pete Davidson—the couple unexpectedly called off their engagement last month—in response to Davidson making light of their failed relationship during a promo clip for SNL. (In the video, Davidson asks musical guest Maggie Rogers to marry him, and when she denies him, he replies, “0 for 3.”) Now, the singer surprised fans by releasing a whole new single last night, 30 minutes or so before SNL, aptly named after her viral tweet (“thank u, next”)—and it pays homage to all her past failed relationships, and the lessons she has learned from them.
Though she seemed to be taking a note out of Taylor Swift’s songbook (and à la Reputation, used headlines about the story, including one from Vogue, as its cover) Grande’s song was not quite the petty breakup anthem many were anticipating, especially given the timing of its release. With lyrics such as, “One taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain,” the singer makes peace with her past, and her old flames: Davidson, Big Sean, and the late Mac Miller, who passed away in September.
Grande and Davidson were engaged after dating for only a few weeks. The couple had moved in together, and adopted a pet pig, named Piggy Smallz. Since the split, Davidson has been using comedy to cope with the breakup, while Grande has kept relatively mum—until now.
Below, see some of the standout lyrics from “Thank U, Next.”
“Thought I’d end up with Sean, but he wasn’t a match, wrote some songs about Ricky, now I listen and laugh.”
“Even almost got married, and for Pete I’m so thankful, wish I could say thank you to Malcolm, ’cause he was an angel.”
“One taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain, now I’m so amazing.”
“Thank you, next, I’m so fuckin’ grateful for my ex.”
“Plus I met someone else, we havin’ better discussions, I know they say I move on too fast, but this one gon’ last, ’cause her name is Ari, and I’m so good with that.”
“She taught me love, she taught me patience, and she handles pain, that shit’s amazing, I’ve loved and I’ve lost, but that’s not what I see, just look what I’ve found, ain’t no need for searching.”
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Vancouver Vaisakhi Annual Parade
Khalsa Diwan Society of Vancouver (Ross Street Gurdwara) is holding its Vaisakhi Annual Parade on Saturday, April 13. The parade will leave the gurdwara’s premises by 11 a.m. More than 100,000 people line up along the streets to watch and participate in the procession. This is the only Sikh parade sponsored by the City of Vancouver. gurdwara was built in 1970 and completely refurbished and extended in 2018.
Surrey’s Party for the Planet
In honour of Earth Day, the City of Surrey holds the ninth annual Party for the Planet. This free community event will feature the new under cover Live Green World, environmental workshops, a sustainable marketplace, an acoustic concert series and local vendors on Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Surrey City Hall: Civic Plaza, Atrium and City Centre Library, 13450 10th Avenue. For more information including the full schedule, visit surrey.ca/partyfortheplanet.
Boishaki Mela
Celebration of Boishaki Mela by GVBCA from 1 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 14 at Riverside Signature, 13030 76th Avenue, Surrey. Local community activists and leaders along with MLAs and MPs will be attending this public event and celebrating Bangla New Year with the community. It is going to be an action packed day with fun and entertainment.
Pakistan Canada Association
Annual General Body Meeting on Sunday, April 14 at 6 p.m. in Vancouver Jamia Masjid, 655 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver. Contact Election Chairman Mumtaz Rana at 604-218-0213 for details and to obtain a nomination form. You must be a member in good standing to vote in this election / AGM. General Secretary Hayat Soofi: [email protected]
South Asian Seniors: Filing Income Tax Returns Free
Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey informs South Asian seniors that during the tax filing period we can help you to file your income tax returns for the year 2018, free of cost, through the community volunteer program of Canada Revenue Agency, from now to April 30 if you are living in Surrey / Delta. The eligibility criteria: 1.Single individual with annual income limit up to $ 35,000. 2. Couples with annual income up to $ 45,000. 3. Three persons income $47,500, 4. Four persons income $50,000. 5. Five persons or more, add $ 2,500 for additional members. Interest income not over $ 1,000 and this income will be included as total eligibility. With no investment income, no rental income, no business or partnership income and no capital gain or loss. Sin# card and photo identity will be required as proof for documents. If you are eligible, contact Surendra Handa, Coordinator, at 604-507-9945 for further information.
Volunteers Needed To Help At Tax Time
The Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) is celebrating 48 years of helping individuals prepare their income tax and benefit returns. CVITP volunteers help complete over half a million tax returns every year for individuals who have a modest-income and a simple tax situation. CRA is once again seeking community organizations to host tax preparation clinics in communities throughout British Columbia (B.C.). It is also looking for volunteers to prepare tax returns. Individuals must be willing to work with their local community organization and have a basic understanding of income tax. Community organizations and their volunteers have offered free tax preparation clinics in various locations including schools, churches, seniors’ residences, and nursing homes. Community organizations find the CVITP an excellent way to reach out to seniors, students, and newcomers to Canada. Last year, over 2,600 volunteers and 420 community organizations in B.C. and Yukon helped over 99,280 individuals prepare their income tax and benefit returns. The CRA offers free training and tax preparation software to community organizations and their volunteers. For more information, call 1-888-805-6662, or visit website at canada.ca/taxes-volunteer. For those who have a modest income and a simple tax situation, volunteers may be able to prepare and file income tax and benefit returns—for free. These clinics are usually open from February to the end of April every year. To find a clinic, go to canada.ca/taxes-help.
South Asian Film Education Society
SAFES presents film screening and discussion with director: “My Arms Flew” (Iran, 86 min). Written and directed by Hossein Nuri. Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m. at SFU Goldcorp Centre (Room 4955), West 149 Hastings Street, Vancouver. The story of Hossein Nuri, who became a mouth-painter after suffering spinal cord injury from torture by SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police. Filmed by his son, Mahmud, the film focuses on Nuri’s painting for an exhibition in the US in order to visit his son who is pursuing an academic career there. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Nuri by teleconference / Skype from Tehran. This event is free and is open to the public.
International Dance Day in Richmond
People of all ages are invited to come out and enjoy Celebration: International Dance Day Richmond. On Sunday, April 28 the public can watch and engage in diverse dance styles, view a showcase of dance demonstrations and displays from 1-5 p.m. and watch a multicultural dance performance from 2-4 p.m. On Monday, April 29, join in for free dance workshops from 1-2:30 p.m. Both events are open to people of all ages and abilities and will take place in the Central Atrium at Aberdeen Centre. The events are presented by Clarkson Events, Sudnya Dance Academy and Aberdeen Centre, with support from Leading Go, My Gym Richmond, Panda Home Service, Wise Planning Co. and Tourism Richmond. For more information about the events, sponsors and performers visit http://iddrichmond.wixsite.com/iddrichmondbc.
Miniature Train Rides
From now until October 15 at 120 North Willingdon, North Burnaby. Open: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays / Sundays / Holidays. Come see / hear / ride 1/8″ scale live steam, diesel and electric trains in action. Over 2 km of tracks. Phone 604-291-0922 or more info.
On India’s Elections
“What’s at stake in india’s elections: Hypernationalism and its victims” on May 5, 2-4 p.m. at Room 7000 SFU Harbor Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. Main Speaker: Navsharan Singh, a women’s rights and human rights activist who works with the International Development Research Centre, Canada, in New Delhi. Panelists: Harsh Trivedi, a student of political science and philosophy, and Lubna Moosa, who teaches journalism at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Moderator: Dionne Bunsha, author and journalist. Supported by Hari Sharma Foundation and the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University.
Walk for Alzheimer
IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer on Sunday, May 5. The Alzheimer Society of B.C. invites the public to join us. Time: Registration 9:30 a.m. / Walk 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Eaglequest Golf at Coyote Creek, 7778 152nd Street, Surrey. Website: www.walkforalzheimers.ca
Indo-Canadian Business Association of BC
Indo-Canadian Business Association of British Columbia’s (ICBABC) 20th Annual Student Achievement Awards on Friday, May 10. Raise and distribute scholarship: 13-15 scholarships; 10 scholastic awards; one male athletic award and one female athletic award. One special needs award. ICBABC is working with SFU for Punjabi Language full credit course since 2016 and committed to contribute total of $30,000 to promote and expand the Punjabi Language and culture programs. Where: Dhaliwal Banquet Hall, #230 8166 128 Street, Surrey. When: Friday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. The gala will include a speech by keynote speaker, awards presentation, and performances. We will be also recognizing outstanding companies who have continued support for this cause. Tickets start at $50 single or a $350 for the table of 8, Program guide sponsors Full Page $1,000 + 4 event tickets, Half Page $600 + 2 event tickets and Students Sponsorships starts at $2500. More information can be obtained from www.icbabc.com For event information and reservations contact directors: Hardeep Shergill: 604.617.0076 or Rick Dhaliwal: 604.338.6999 or Amarjit Samra: 604.375.2220 or Lovepreet Sanghera: 778.319.4854 or Anoop Randhawa: 778.319.4639 or Gursharan Dhaliwal: 604.725.0134 or Jograj Randhawa: 778.829.2741 or Kanwalpreet (Kim) Trehan: 604.715.6773 or Jasvinder Singh (Jolly) Dhaliwal: 604.551.0014 or email [email protected].
Sixth Annual Mother’s Day Simran Event hosted by Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen on Friday, May 10, 6-7:30 p.m., at Gurdwara Sahib Sukh Sagar, 347 Wood Street, New Westminster. Mother’s Day is a special time of the year when we honor and give special recognition to all the mothers for their selfless love in raising and caring for children and families. This is a wonderful way for all communities to come together and show gratitude.
(For more events, visit the “Events” section of our website at voiceonline.com)
City shares proposed design for Granville Bridge Connector
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Tedeschi Trucks Band at Paramount Theatre on May 23, 2019
The long weekend and concerts I had been anticipating for months had finally come, as the Tedeschi Trucks Band took the stage for the first night of their two-night stay at Seattle’s majestic Paramount Theatre. Beginning with “Anyhow” and “Within You Without You/Just As Strange,” the first set fully blossomed as the band delivered a full-throttle “Do I Look Worried” showcasing Susan Tedeschi’s powerhouse vocal abilities and Derek Truck’s masterful slide playing. The second set began with Dylan’s “Down in the Flood” and included a great version of “Key to the Highway,” with Mike Mattison sharing vocal duties with Susan, a highlight moment of the set which ended with a stunning performance of “The Storm / Whipping Post.” For the encore, with the house on its feet, the band launched into “Hard Case” from their new album, Signs, which had everyone in the house dancing along. They closed the night with the emotional “Space Captain” as the crowd sang along, “learning to live together,” ending this night on a perfect note.
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Although plenty of big names took the TI stages after dark, some of the most impressive acts of the weekend made their appearances before the sun even went down. Photos by Madison McClintock
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Robinson Eaton - Oct 13, 2015
Thoughts from bassist Ben Stidworthy on the constant comparisons his band receives. Draw your own conclusions when you catch 'em live on October 16 at Bunk Bar.
Roadkill Ghost Choir with Balto and Neighbor Wave at the Doug Fir Lounge
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Life never seems to be fully in your own control and here’s your chance to sing about it. Take an introspective look within on December 9 with Florida's Roadkill Ghost Choir and two local openers.
Dead Meadow at Hawthorne Theatre
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This brand of unfiltered psychedelic rock from D.C. will hit PDX on April 8.
Tedeschi Trucks Band and Los Lobos at L. B. Day Amphitheatre on May 25, 2019
Saturday evening in Salem began with a wet but high-energy set by Los Lobos. Showcasing the versatility of a band with 45-plus years of experience behind them, not only did they have the crowd on...
Tedeschi Trucks Band and Hard Working Americans at the Keller Auditorium on Nov. 3, 2017
Scenes from Day 1 of the Waterfront Blues Festival featuring Tedeschi Trucks Band, Femi Kuti and Bobby Torres Ensemble at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on July 1, 2016
Tedeschi Trucks Band and Greyhounds in Portland and Spokane on Nov. 7-8, 2014
A Weekend with Tedeschi Trucks BandLast Friday and Saturday night, this photographer was privileged to attend back-to-back Tedeschi Trucks Band shows in Portland and Spokane (at the Schnitzer and...
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Ex-Trump aide: Trump ‘may very well have done something during the election with the Russians’
March 5, 2018 at 3:52 PM EST
There have been few more surreal moments in the Russia investigation — indeed, in the entire Trump era — than the one we just witnessed.
The Washington Post's Josh Dawsey broke the news Monday afternoon that former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg was shunning special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's grand jury subpoena, and in the article Nunberg supplied a series of colorful comments. Then he took to MSNBC and CNN for some even more unplugged interviews.
Here's a brief recap of what Nunberg said and what it means, ranging from the serious to the bizarre:
The serious:
He thinks Mueller has something on Trump
Nunberg said he was ignoring the subpoena in part because there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and that it would consume too much of his time. But weirdly, he also seemed to say he thinks Mueller has something else on President Trump.
When MSNBC's Katy Tur asked, “Do you think that they have something on the president?” Nunberg responded: “I think they may. I think that he may have done something during the election, but I don't know that for sure.”
In an interview airing later on CNN, Nunberg elaborated cryptically: “The way they asked about his business dealings, the way they asked if you had heard anything even while I was fired, it just made me think that they suspected something about him.”
Ultimately, Nunberg told CNN that Trump “may very well have done something during the election with the Russians.”
Nunberg said specifically that he believed former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page “was colluding with the Russians” but suggested Page might have been a lone wolf. Nunberg also said he believes that Mueller thinks that Roger Stone, his own political ally, colluded via contacts with WikiLeaks.
Nunberg seemed to admit he was speculating, but he has also been interviewed by Mueller's team already, and he worked on the Trump campaign until August 2015 and is close to Stone. That suggests he may not totally be freelancing.
He said/speculated that Trump was aware of the Trump Tower meeting beforehand
One of the big unanswered questions of the Russia investigation is whether the president had any knowledge of or involvement in that meeting Donald Trump Jr. set up at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veslnitskaya, who had promised compromising information about Hillary Clinton. The meeting seemed to be at the very least an attempt to solicit help from foreign sources.
Nunberg says he's convinced that Trump was.
“You know he knew about it,” Nunberg said. “He was talking about it a week before. ... I don't know why he went around trying to hide it.”
Ex-Trump aide Nunberg says he believes Trump knew about the Don Jr-Russian meeting at Trump Tower a week before it happened in June 2016, says he doesn't understand why Trump is trying to hide it. https://t.co/M3beEVW3Zo
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 5, 2018
It's not clear whether Nunberg is referring to Trump's private or public comments. We knew Trump was involved on the back end of the Trump Tower meeting, having crafted Trump Jr.'s misleading statement when the whole thing blew up. But the White House has denied Trump knew about the meeting.
Interestingly, former top Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon has also suggested Trump had to know about the meeting. “The chance that Don. Jr did not walk these [people] up to his father’s office on the 26th floor is zero,” Bannon told Michael Wolff.
Russian scion Emin Agalarov offered Trump women in his hotel room in Moscow
A central figure in both the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal controversies is Keith Schiller, the longtime Trump bodyguard who allegedly facilitated Trump's liaisons with the women. Nunberg says Schiller told him that Emin Agalarov, the pop-star son of a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin, offered to send women in Trump's hotel room during the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013.
Congressional investigators have asked Schiller about unverified claims in the Christopher Steele dossier that the Russians obtained compromising information about Trump during the 2013 trip.
Agalarov, you might recall, was involved in setting up that meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.
Nunberg said Trump was “too smart” to have the women come up to his room. (As you'll see later, though, in the same interview he referred to Trump as “an idiot.")
Sam Nunberg tells CNN that Trump’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller told him that Emin Agalarov offered to send women up to Trump’s hotel room during Miss Universe in 2013. “Trump is too smart to have women come up to his room,” Nunberg says.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 5, 2018
The interesting:
Nunberg dared Mueller to arrest him
Regarding the idea that Mueller would hold him in contempt for refusing to cooperate, Nunberg told Dawsey: “Let him arrest me. Mr. Mueller should understand I am not going in on Friday.”
Then he told Tur: “I think it would be funny if they arrested me.”
By the end of the Tur interview, Nunberg asked her what she thought would happen. “What do you think Mueller's going to do to me?” Tur, while specifying that she wasn't a lawyer, suggested he might be held in contempt. CNN's Jake Tapper would offer similar advice.
Bashing Trump
While it might seem as if Nunberg is trying to help Trump, he insists that's not the case. In fact, he told Dawsey that he “hates” Trump and later said that Trump is an “idiot.”
“Donald Trump won this election on his own,” Nunberg said. “He campaigned his a-- off. And there is nobody who hates him more than me.”
He later told CNN of Trump: “Granted, Donald Trump caused this, because he’s an idiot.” He cited Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James B. Comey and an Oval Office meeting Trump had with Russians.
The purely bizarre:
He referred to Bill Clinton's “illegitimate black child”
At one point, Nunberg stressed that he and the campaign weren't especially close toward the end and that it didn't take his advice. He even said that if he had been in charge, “we would have Bill Clinton's illegitimate black child there at the second debate.”
This refers to a specious rumor that dates back to the 1990s.
He threatened to rip up the subpoena on live TV
Dawsey reported that “Nunberg said he was planning to go on Bloomberg TV and tear up the subpoena.”
One might argue that the MSNBC and CNN interviews were the metaphorical equivalent of that. And even he seemed to recognize that, saying telling Tur, “By the way, I think my lawyer's going to dump me.”
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FACEBOOK/Alex Fras photo Sixteen purebred black lab puppies were born on an Errington farm on Sunday.
Sixteen purebred lab puppies born in one litter on Island farm
Birthing continued for close to seven hours
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A litter of 16 purebred black Lab puppies were born on Sunday on an Errington farm.
Alex Fras, owner of the puppies’ parents, said birthing continued all night long.
“It started at 10 p.m. and ended at like 4:45 a.m.,” he said.
Fras thought there were only going to be about four puppies, but they continued to come, each about 20 minutes apart.
Fras said he and his wife Kelly got the now three-year-old mother, Sophie, when she was a puppy – for their infant daughter Lily.
“I used to have a black lab cross that I had for 15 years. Everybody that knew me knew I was all about my dogs everyday,” Fras said. “When we had the child, she’s almost five now, when she was one we’re like let’s get a family dog again, so we found Sophie.”
The family, who live on a large farm in Errington, said they eventually decided to get another dog as a companion for Sophie. They decided on Louie, a male purebred black lab who is now a year-and-a-half old.
Neither Sophie or Louie were fixed, and the Frases, who aren’t breeders, decided to see what happened between the two and whether Sophie would get pregnant or not.
When she eventually did get pregnant, they took Sophie to the veterinarian who said she was most likely going to have a large litter, but they didn’t think it would be as many as 16.
Fras said he now plans to have both Sophie and Louie fixed.
“We don’t really want to do this again,” he said.
Since the birth, Sophie has been in good spirits, is healthy and still even gets out to play fetch when she isn’t feeding or cleaning her 16 newborns.
Of the 16, Fras said it’s pretty much 50/50 with half being male and half female. He says he’s already getting a lot of interest from potential new owners and that he wants to make sure the dogs go to good homes.
Many animals have been born on the family farm including cows, sheep, alpacas and even their daughter. He said Lily has had a helping hand in many of the animal’s births and that it’s all about a learning experience for her.
“These dogs (Sophie and Louie) have grown up with the cows, the alpacas, they run with them,” Fras said. “We have 10 acres, they run like crazy.”
Nanaimo Kennel Club president Sharon Medforth said she has been breeding for 40 years and has heard of a few dog litters this size but that it’s very uncommon.
According to the Guinness World Records, the largest number of puppies born in one litter was 24 in the United Kingdom in 2004 to a Neopolitan mastiff.
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Many stores to be closed on Thanksgiving
List grows as companies plan to give employees holiday off
Several stores have announced over the last few weeks that they will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day. The most recent announcement came from the Mall of America, which will be closed on Thanksgiving, but if stores want to open, the mall will provide security and services, officials said. Here’s a list of stores that will remain closed on Thanksgiving, according to theblackfriday.com (https://www.theblackfriday.com/stores-closed-on-thanksgiving-day.php) : BJ’s Burlington Cabela’s Costco Christopher & Banks Fred Meyer Game Stop Half Price Books Harbor Freight Home Depot Joann Lowes Menards Nordstrom Pier 1 Imports Petco Petsmart PepBoys REI Sam’s Club TJ Maxx Tractor Supply True Value Crate and Barrel Dillard’s DSW Marshalls Neiman Marcus Patagonia The list is growing because officials from many companies said they want to give employees a chance to be with their families during the holiday.
Several stores have announced over the last few weeks that they will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day.
The most recent announcement came from the Mall of America, which will be closed on Thanksgiving, but if stores want to open, the mall will provide security and services, officials said.
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The list is growing because officials from many companies said they want to give employees a chance to be with their families during the holiday.
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They went into an abandoned house to smoke weed. They found a tiger inside.
They thought they were hallucinating, but it was real: a tiger, alone in an abandoned house in Houston.
According to local news reports, a few people who went into a seemingly abandoned house in southeast Houston to smoke marijuana Monday night, and to their surprise, they found a 350-pound tiger in a "rinky-dink cage that could easily bust open," secured with nothing but a nylon strap and a screwdriver.
The tiger, which was dubbed "Tyson" inspired by the movie "The Hangover," was healthy and well-fed, and even had packages of meat nearby, according to officials. It was transported to an animal sanctuary, where it will have a five-acre habitat "pending a decision about permanent custody." There are three other tigers at the sanctuary along with 800 other animals.
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According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas is widely believed to have the world's second-largest tiger population behind India. Some estimates put the Texas tiger population around 2,000, though much of the tiger population is unreported. It's legal to own a tiger in Texas with the right permits, but Houston is among some of the state's larger metro areas where it's illegal to keep tigers as pets. According to a Texas lawyer, it's relatively easy to obtain the permit to keep a tiger: all you have to do is prove you can "properly cage and provide for" the animal.
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Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade has requested a court in New York to extend the deadline for charging her in a visa fraud case, saying the pressure of the impending deadline is interfering with the ability of the parties to have meaningful discussions on the issue.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office is required to file an indictment in the case within 30 days of Ms. Khobragade’s arrest and the deadline for that is January 13, 2014.
However, in a request submitted late Monday with Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Ms. Khobragade’s counsel sought postponement of the preliminary hearing date and extension of the indictment deadline by 30 days “to and including February 12, 2014”.
“Significant communications have been had between the prosecution and the defence and amongst other government officials and it is our strong view that the pressure of the impending deadline is counterproductive to continued communications,” Ms. Khobragade’s counsel Daniel Arshack said in the request.
He later told PTI that Ms. Khobragade, 39, is seeking extension of the indictment deadline, adding that a defendant can seek an extension.
“The deadline is designed to protect defendants from prosecutors who might drag out proceedings... In this case however, an indictment would further polarise the litigants. We would like to avoid that,” Mr. Arshack said.
The lawyer told the court that he has conferred with the prosecution concerning extending the deadline and has been informed that the prosecution will not seek an extension of the deadline.
“We therefore, wish to inform the court that we waive the 30 day time limit set by the court on December 12, 2013 because we believe that the time limit is interfering with the parties’ ability to continue to have meaningful discussions,” Mr. Arshack said in his request to the judge
“... We believe that making such a request under these circumstances constitutes good cause and is in ‘the public interest’ since it is in the interest of justice, not to mention judicial economy, to promote and encourage the very sort of discussions which have taken place to date,” he said.
Sources had last week said the U.S. is proceeding with the prosecution of Ms. Khobragade and has no intention to withdraw the case of visa fraud against her.
U.S. hopeful of resolving row
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has expressed hope of arriving at a resolution of the issue, which has resulted in “hiccups” in the India-U.S. bilateral ties.
“Absolutely” the State Department Deputy Spokesperson, Marie Harf, told reporters at her daily news conference on Monday, when asked if the U.S. was hopeful that the issue would be resolved.
This comes in the wake of strong Indian statement to the U.S. that it cannot be “business as usual” between the two sides till the issue is resolved.
Vikram Doraiswami, Joint Secretary (Americas), conveyed this to U.S. Ambassador Nancy Powell when she met him at South Block in New Delhi on Monday.
The U.S. and Indian officials are believed to be working on both the diplomatic and judicial front to arrive at an amicable resolution of the issue, with U.S. officials insisting that law would take its own course.
“As I’ve said, many, many times throughout this whole ordeal, that we don’t want this to define our relationship going forward and don’t think that it will,” Ms. Harf said noting that the U.S. does not want India-U.S. ties to be affected by the arrest of the Indian diplomat in New York last month on visa fraud charges.
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It's common to see ambulances on the scene following a car accident, but earlier this month an ambulance was involved in an accident that took the life of a 19-year old college student. Police allege the ambulance driver ran a red light at the intersection of Highway 17 and Frontage Drive in Brunswick County around 9:30 a.m. on October 3, hitting the vehicle driven by the young woman who was headed to a college class. The ambulance driver is currently facing misdemeanor charges of death by vehicle as a result of the car accident.
According to troopers, the ambulance's siren and flashing lights were not turned on at the time of the accident. Although it was transporting a patient at the time, officials say it was a non-emergency case. Emergency workers had to cut the college student from her vehicle, and although she was flown to a local hospital for treatment, her injuries were too severe and she died later that day.
The young woman's family is understandably distraught over her death, and although it may be little comfort, they could be entitled to monetary compensation. The ambulance driver is facing criminal charges, but he could also be sued in a civil wrongful death lawsuit for his part in the accident.
And while securing a criminal conviction will not bring the woman back, it could help bolster a civil case. Citizens should be able to expect that ambulances, many times funded with taxpayer money, should be operated responsibly. While there are many dangerous drivers out there, people should be able to expect better from rescue workers who are expected to help keep the public safe.
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The Deccan Thorn Scrub Forests [IM1301] harbor the last populations of the globally threatened Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus), rediscovered recently, eighty-six years since it was last recorded in 1900. Otherwise, the ecoregion is neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in endemism. Many ecologists believe that the thorn scrub vegetation represents a degraded stage of the tropical dry forests, modified by human and livestock use over hundreds of years (Puri et al. 1989).
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131,400 square miles
Critical/Endangered
Location and General Description
The ecoregion represents the thorn scrub vegetation in the arid parts of the Deccan Plateau. It sprawls across the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra and also includes part of northern Sri Lanka.
The Deccan Plateau itself was part of the ancient southern continent, Gondwanaland, that disintegrated during the Cretaceous to give rise to the Indian Subcontinent as well as Africa, Madagascar, Australia, South America, and New Guinea and some of the smaller islands such as New Caledonia and Tasmania. After the Deccan Plateau drifted northward to collide with the Eurasian continent about 50 million years ago, geological uplift gave rise to the Western Ghats Mountains along the western coast of the peninsula. This mountain range then intercepted the moisture-laden southwest monsoons and created a dry rainshadow in the vast plateau, affecting its vegetation. But in the more recent past, human influences have altered the vegetation to create vast areas of thorn scrub from what was believed to be tropical dry forests.
Annual rainfall in the ecoregion is less than 750 mm. All rain is received during the brief wet season, and there is practically no rainfall from November to April. Ambient temperatures can exceed a sweltering 40(C during the hotter months of the year.
The forest type in this ecoregion is mostly southern tropical thorn scrub, as defined by Champion and Seth (1968), but includes patches of tropical dry deciduous forests, which are believed to be the original vegetation. The former consists of open, low vegetation characterized by thorny trees with short trunks and low, branching crowns that rarely meet to form a closed canopy. The trees attain heights of 6-9 m. The second story is poorly developed and consists of spiny and xerophytic species, mostly shrubs. During the brief wet season an ill-defined lower story can be discerned. The dominant vegetation is Acacia species, with Balanites roxburghii, Cordia myxa, Capparis spp., Prosopis spp., Azadirachta indica, Cassia fistula, Diospyros chloroxylon, Carrisa carandas, and Phoenix sylvestris.
Champion and Seth (1968) have also identified several habitat types within this vast thorn scrub ecoregion. In areas of particularly low rainfall and rocky soils, the thorn scrub transitions into a Euphorbia-dominated scrub (i.e., the southern Euphorbia scrub). Here the soil usually is bare, although some grassy growth may appear during the short monsoon season.
In parts of Tamil Nadu, where rainfall is even less, the vegetation is made up of open thorny forests with scattered Acacia planifrons that are characterized by umbrella-shaped crowns. This vegetation is described as Carnatic umbrella thorn forests by Champion and Seth (1968).
Scattered amid the thorn scrub are patches of dry grasslands that provide habitat for the native fauna. For example, the grasslands of southern Andhra Pradesh support a good population of the Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). The typical grasses in this habitat include Chrysopogon fulvus, Heteropogon contortus, Eremopogon foveolatus, Aristida setacea, and Dactyloctenium spp. (Rawat and Babu 1995).
Patches of dry deciduous forests, especially along the Tirupathi Hill Ranges, are known for a large number of medicinal plants and various other species of botanical interest, among which are the rare endemic cycad (Cycas beddomei) and Psilotum nudum. The latter usually is found along steep escarpments. A small patch of the dipterocarp Shorea talura exists within the Chittoor forest division, part of which is being maintained as a preservation plot by the Forest Department of Andhra Pradesh.
The Srilankamalleswara Sanctuary between the Nallamalais and Sechachalam hill ranges is known for a rare, endemic tree species, red sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus). This area is also the southern distributional limit of the nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) in the Indian Peninsula.
Biodiversity Features
Until the recent past, this ecoregion provided important habitat for the tiger (Panthera tigris) (in the Indian sector) and Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). But over the years, their populations have dwindled and even become locally extinct because of the adverse influences from the dense human population.
The mammal fauna in the ecoregion includes ninety-six species, including two endemic rodents and an endemic bat (table 1).
Table 1. Endemic Mammal Species.
Family Species
Rhinolophidae Hipposideros schistaceus*
Muridae Millardia kondana*
Muridae Cremnomys elvira*
An asterisk signifies that the species' range is limited to this ecoregion.
The endemic rodents are threatened (IUCN 2000). Other threatened species in the ecoregion include tiger, gaur (Bos gaurus), wild dog (Cuon alpinus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) (IUCN 2000). The important elephant populations are now only marginally included within this ecoregion. Small wolf populations may still be left, although most have been eliminated by a combination of loss of prey and poisoning by people as retribution for livestock predation.
The ecoregion's bird fauna consists of almost 350 species, of which three are near-endemics (table 2).
Table 2. Endemic and Near-Endemic Bird Species.
Family Common Name Species
Glareolidae Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii
Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons
The Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus) is a globally threatened species that was rediscovered in this ecoregion in 1986, after the last record in 1900 (Grimmet et al. 1998). The known population of this species is limited to a small area in this and the neighboring Central Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests [IM0201]. The Ceylon junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii) is limited to the ecoregion's area in northern Sri Lanka. The globally threatened lesser florican (Eupodotis indica) and Indian bustard are other birds of conservation importance in this ecoregion.
More than 90 percent of the ecoregion's natural habitat has been degraded or cleared, but one large block of habitat remains in southern Andhra Pradesh. The eleven protected areas cover more than 4,000 km2, but this represents just about 1 percent of the ecoregion area (table 23.3). The Great Indian Bustard reserve accounts for most of the protected areas system.
Table 3. WCMC (1997) Protected Areas That Overlap with the Ecoregion.
Protected Area Area (km2) IUCN Category
Chandikulam 120 IV
Vettangudi [IM0204] 20 IV
Srivenkateswara 500 IV
Nandur Madmesh War 80 IV
Jaikwadi 230 IV
Great Indian Bustard 2,600 IV
Great Indian Bustart (extension) 250 PRO
Sagareshwar 50 IV
Ghataprapha 110 IV
Tungabadra 90 DE
Ranebennur 60 IV
Ecoregion numbers of protected areas that overlap with additional ecoregions are listed in brackets.
Types and Severity of Threats
The forests in this ecoregion have been degraded to thorn scrub solely as a result of these human activities (Puri et al. 1989). Among the more serious sources of degradation is pastoralism, both from heavy cattle grazing and from forest produce extracted by the pastoralists. Several village pastures have been taken over by an exotic thorny shrub, Prosopis juliflora, resulting in the loss of grazing areas for the cattle and encroachment into the reserved forests or protected areas for grazing (Rawat and Babu 1995). The conservation status of the ecoregion was changed from endangered to critical after the analysis of projected threats from the human population. There is a common perception that these dry forests are not important for conservation. Therefore, grazing and forest clearing, especially for fuelwood, are rampant.
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
In a previous analysis of conservation units, Rodgers and Panwar (1988), and subsequently MacKinnon (1997), divided the Deccan Peninsula into five biotic provinces.
This ecoregion includes Rodgers and Panwar's Central Plateau North (6B) biotic province and partially includes the Deccan Plateau South (6A) biotic province.
In keeping with our definition of an ecoregion (i.e., an ecosystem of regional extent) and following our rules for ecoregion delineation (represent distinct vegetation types of regional extent in separate ecoregions), we placed the thorn scrub, as mapped by MacKinnon (1997), that extends across these two biotic provinces within the Deccan Thorn Scrub Forests [IM1301].
References for this ecoregion are currently consolidated in one document for the entire Indo-Pacific realm.
Indo-Pacific Reference List
Prepared by: Gopal S. Rawat, Ajay Desai, Hema Somanathan, and Eric D. Wikramanayake
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Woman arrested in shoving death
Victim pushed off Mobile-area porch
Jeff Eliasoph
Police say a woman accused of shoving another woman off a front porch during an argument then killing her has been arrested in southeast Alabama.Mobile police said Friday that 27-year-old Britney Harris is charged with manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Katie Caulson on March 10.Harris was arrested Thursday.Caulson was found unresponsive in the front yard of the residence. Police say she died on the way to the hospital.Harris has been released from the Mobile County Metro Jail after posting bail.
MOBILE, Ala. —
Police say a woman accused of shoving another woman off a front porch during an argument then killing her has been arrested in southeast Alabama.
Mobile police said Friday that 27-year-old Britney Harris is charged with manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Katie Caulson on March 10.
Harris was arrested Thursday.
Caulson was found unresponsive in the front yard of the residence. Police say she died on the way to the hospital.
Harris has been released from the Mobile County Metro Jail after posting bail.
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The Lion King: Die Welt Ist So Ungerecht (German 30 Second Spot) (2019)
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Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads) for B2B enterprises: an alternative to Google Ads?
In Europe, Google has a huge market share of nearly 95 per cent. But particularly in the B2B sector, marketers should also have Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, in sight. All in all, 97 per cent of German companies currently use Microsoft Windows as their operating system – with Bing already installed in the Edge browser. But is Microsoft Advertising truly an alternative to Google Ads?
The power struggle between Google and Bing
Google remains the undisputed market leader in search engines. Online since 1997, Google today is the most-frequented website in the world and processes more than 3 billion search requests every day. In contrast, Bing is relatively young – the search engine from Microsoft went live in 2009.
The power struggle between Google and Bing is clearly divided. In March 2019, roughly 88.5 per cent of search requests via desktop computers worldwide went to Google (source: Statista). This was followed far behind by Bing in second place, with a worldwide market share of just 2.73 per cent.
How does Microsoft Advertising work?
Microsoft allows advertisers using Microsoft Advertising (or Bing Ads, as it is officially being called until the end of April 2019) to broadcast online advertising throughout the network of search engines comprising Bing, Yahoo! and MSN. The pricing for Microsoft Advertising is the same as for Google Ads: the customer pays per click of their ad.
At the heart of Microsoft Advertising campaigns is the Microsoft Advertising Editor. Similar to Google Ads Editor, this Editor enables the user to manage keywords and campaigns. While the optimisation of Google Ads usually takes place online, with Bing Ads Microsoft offers an additional desktop tool. Windows users will find the familiar user interface particularly easy to use.
Microsoft Advertising: benefits over Google Ads in the B2B sector
Microsoft Advertising are interesting for two reasons in particular:
Bing has a different target group than Google. The typical Bing user is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has a middle to high income. Of German Bing users, 23 per cent are even among the top earners, while this share is just 19 per cent for Google.
The click prices for Microsoft Advertising are in part far below those for Google Ads. When it comes to online shopping, the average cost per click (CPC) for mobile ads on Bing is 15 euro cents. Google asks for nearly double that (29 euro cents). For desktop ads, the difference is enormous: Bing at 23 euro cents compared to Google at 31 euro cents (as of April 2019).
Bings Ads offers yet another benefit – especially for enterprises in the B2B sector. As an own Microsoft product, Bing is pre-installed on most desktop computers as a standard search engine in the browser. Since Windows 10, Bing can even be called up directly via the search function. Advertisers using Microsoft Advertising can therefore reach B2B users at their workplace in a targeted manner.
Microsoft Advertising is not an alternative to Google Ads 100 per cent – Google’s reach is far too high. But leaving Bing out of the equation would be wasting potential. Thanks to the widely used Microsoft operating system Windows, and the more affordable costs per click, B2B enterprises above all should integrate the Microsoft Advertising channel into their search engine marketing.
What exactly is … search engine advertising for SMEs?
The key to success: a better ranking with keywords
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BCAB #1591 - Occupant Load, Sentence 3.1.16.1.(1)
Re: Occupant Load, Sentence 3.1.16.1.(1)
The subject is a licensed beverage establishment with a building area of 417 m2. The area of the building that patrons occupy, excluding kitchen, washrooms, storage and offices is 216 m2. Using the criteria of 1.2 m2 per person from Table 3.1.16.1., an occupant load of 218 persons would be established.
The appellant wishes to limit the occupant load of the building to 149 persons, by posting a permanent sign in conformance with Sentence 3.1.16.(2) of the BC Building Code and Article 2.7.1.4. of the BC Fire Code.
The building’s exit capacity and washroom facilities exceed the requirements for 149 persons.
Sentence 3.1.16.1.(1) states the occupant load of a floor area shall be based on the number of persons for which the area is designed, but not less than that determined from Table 3.1.16.1. for occupancies other than that described in Clauses (a) and (b), unless it can be shown the area will be occupied by fewer persons.
The appellant contends posting a sign indicating the occupant load in conspicuous locations near the principal entrances to the floor area in conformance with the Building and Fire Codes is adequate in showing the area will be occupied by fewer persons than derived from Table 3.1.16.1.
The appellant further contends the nature of non-fixed seating and tables permits flexibility in patron group sizes, and that it would be unrealistic to expect the seats remain in a “fixed” seating plan.
The Building Official contends that the floor plans submitted do not show how the floor area will be occupied by fewer persons than that determined by Table 3.1.16.1. The building official does not consider a statement made by the designer, nor signage indicated in Sentence 3.1.16.1.(2), adequate information to indicate the proposed occupant load in question.
It is the determination of the Board that the appellant must provide supportive information to demonstrate compliance with Clause 3.1.16.1.(1)(c) as well as providing signage as required by Sentence 3.1.16.1.(2).
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As between Zenaton and Subscriber, Subscriber is responsible for Subscriber Data and the provision of Subscriber Data to the Services according to the Agreement.
Subscriber will be responsible for the performance of its personnel (including employees and contractors) in compliance with the Agreement. Subscriber enters into the Agreement on behalf of its Affiliates that make use of the Services.
4.3 Non-Zenaton Services.
Subscriber may choose to use services not provided by Zenaton ( “Non-Zenaton Services”) with the Services and in doing so grants Zenaton permission to interoperate with the Non-Zenaton Services as directed by Subscriber or the Non-Zenaton Services. Unless specified in a Service Order: (a) Zenaton does not warrant or support Non-Zenaton Services, (b) as between Zenaton and Subscriber, Subscriber assumes all responsibility for the Non-Zenaton Services and any disclosure, modification or deletion of Subscriber Data by the Non-Zenaton Services and © Zenaton shall have no liability for, and Subscriber is not relieved of any obligations under the Agreement or entitled to any refund, credit, or other compensation due to any unavailability of the Non-Zenaton Services or any change in the ability of Zenaton to interoperate with the Non-Zenaton Services.
4.4 Third Party Reports.
As an intermediary, Zenaton may receive notices from third parties ( “Reporters”) regarding Subscriber Data or Subscriber’s use of the Services ( “Reports”). Zenaton will forward all Reports directly to an email address provided by Subscriber designated to receive Reports (the “Abuse Contact”). Upon receipt of a Report, Subscriber will (i) acknowledge receipt of such report to Zenaton within two (2) business days of receipt and (ii) address the Report promptly with the Reporter, including informing the Reporter that Subscriber (and not Zenaton) is the appropriate party to address the matter. Zenaton may provide the Abuse Contact to a Reporter inquiring about Subscriber Data or Subscriber’s use of the Services.
4.5 Responsibilities.
Subscriber (a) shall comply with the Zenaton Acceptable Use Policy available at https://zenaton.com/policies/acceptable-use (the “AUP”); (b) shall use the Services in accordance with the Agreement; © shall use the Services in accordance with the applicable Documentation; (d) shall be responsible for using commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the Services; (e) shall promptly notify Zenaton of any unauthorized access or use of the Services; (f) shall respond to Reports in accordance with Section 4.4 (Third Party Reports) and take reasonably appropriate action to resolve the reported matter; (g) shall not use the Services to store, transmit or display Subscriber Data for fraudulent purposes or in violation of applicable laws and governmental regulations; (h) shall not make the Services available to, or use the Services for the benefit of, anyone other than Subscriber’s own personnel or end users; (i) shall not use the Services to store, transmit or display Malicious Code; (j) shall not interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services or any third-party technology contained therein; (k) shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any of Zenaton’s datacenters, systems or networks; (l) shall not permit direct or indirect access to or use the Services in a way that circumvents a usage or capacity limit of the Services or use the Services to access or use any of Zenaton’s intellectual property except as permitted under the Agreement; (m) shall not sell, resell, license, sublicense, distribute, redistribute, rent, or lease the Services except as integrated with its own offerings that provide additional functionality to its end users; (n) subject to Section 9.2 (Zenaton Software), shall not copy, modify or create a derivative work of the Services or any part, feature, function, or user interface thereof; (o) shall not access the Services or use the Documentation to develop a competitive product or service; § subject to Section 9.2 (Zenaton Software), except as permitted by applicable laws or governmental regulations, shall not reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of the Services; (q) shall not alter, remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices or confidentiality legend on the Services; ® shall obtain and maintain appropriate equipment and ancillary services needed to connect to, access or otherwise use the Services, including modems, hardware, servers, software, operating systems and internet access; (s) obtain and maintain any required consents necessary to permit the processing of Subscriber Data by Zenaton under the Agreement; and (t) obtain and maintain any consents necessary to permit the processing by Zenaton of the personal information of Subscriber’s personnel that serve as Subscriber’s designated contact for purposes of the Services and the Agreement.
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If Zenaton becomes aware that Subscriber may violate Subscriber’s obligations under this Section 4 (Subscriber’s Obligations), Zenaton will notify the Abuse Contact by email (the “Service Notice”) and request Subscriber to take reasonably appropriate action, including ceasing problematic usage, changing a configuration, updating account credentials or removing applicable Subscriber Data. If Subscriber fails to comply with a Service Notice within the time period set forth in the Service Notice, Zenaton may block Subscriber’s access to the Services until the requested action is taken. If Subscriber fails to take the required action within ten (10) days or fails to comply with Subscriber’s obligations under this Section 4 (Subscriber’s Obligations) on two or more occasions during any rolling twelve (12) month period, Zenaton may terminate the Agreement immediately for cause. Zenaton also responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement and may block access to the applicable Service or terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. All limitations of access, suspensions, and terminations for cause shall be made in Zenaton’s sole discretion and Zenaton shall not be liable to Subscriber or any third party for any termination of Subscriber’s account or access to the Services.
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These Terms are effective during the term of any Service Order that incorporates the Agreement. The term of a Service Order shall be specified in the Service Order. Service Orders shall renew for successive terms, unless either party gives the other at least ninety (90) days’ notice of nonrenewal at the end of the applicable term.
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In addition to Zenaton’s right to terminate the entire Agreement under Section 4.6 (Service Notices), Subscriber or Zenaton may terminate the entire Agreement for cause (a) upon 30 days’ written notice to the other of a material breach if the breach remains uncured at the expiration of the notice period or (b) if the other party (i) becomes the subject of a proceeding relating to insolvency, receivership, liquidation or assignment for the benefit of creditors to the extent permitted by applicable laws or governmental regulations, (ii) goes out of business or (iii) ceases its operations.
5.3 Survival.
Any term or condition that by its nature is clearly intended to survive the expiration or termination of the Agreement, shall survive any expiration or termination of the Agreement, including Sections 4.5(j), (k), (n), (o) and § (Subscriber’s Obligations), Section 7.1 (Fees), Section 7.5 (Refund or Payment upon Termination), Section 8 (Confidentiality), Section 9 (Licenses and Proprietary Rights), Section 13 (Limitation of Liability), Section 14 (Exclusion of Consequential and Related Damages) and Section 16 (Indemnification).
6. Beta Services.
From time to time, Zenaton may offer services identified as beta, pilot, developer preview, non-production, evaluation or by a description of similar import ( “Beta Services”). Subscriber may accept or decline Beta Services. If accepted by Subscriber, Beta Services: (a) are provided only for evaluation purposes; (b) may not be relied on by Subscriber for production use; © may not be supported; and (d) may be subject to additional terms. Unless otherwise stated, any Beta Services trial period will expire on the date that a version of the Beta Services becomes generally available or is discontinued. Zenaton may discontinue Beta Services at any time in its sole discretion and may never make Beta Services generally available. ALL BETA SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. BETA SERVICES MAY BE TERMINATED AT ANY TIME. ZENATON DISCLAIMS ALL OBLIGATION AND LIABILITY UNDER THE AGREEMENT FOR ANY HARM OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH A BETA SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO SUBSCRIBER DATA. ANY CONFIGURATIONS OR SUBSCRIBER DATA ENTERED INTO BETA SERVICES, AND ANY CUSTOMIZATIONS MADE TO BETA SERVICES BY OR FOR SUBSCRIBER, MAY BE PERMANENTLY LOST IF THE BETA SERVICES ARE SUSPENDED, TERMINATED, OR DISCONTINUED.
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Subscriber will pay all fees specified in Service Orders and provide accurate and updated billing contact information. Except as set forth in a Service Order, all fees payable under the Agreement shall be made in U.S. Dollars. Minimum commitments in Service Orders are (a) based on Services purchased and not actual usage; (b) non-cancelable; and © cannot be decreased during the specified term. Fees paid for minimum commitments are not refundable. Subscriber’s payments of fees are neither (x) contingent on the delivery of any future functionality or features nor (y) dependent on statements not set forth in the Agreement or any Service Order.
7.2 Invoicing Terms.
If the Service Order specifies that payment will occur by a method other than a credit card, Subscriber will provide a purchase order number in the applicable amount (or reasonable alternative proof of Subscriber’s ability to pay the fees specified in a Service Order), and promptly notify Zenaton of any changes necessary for payment of an invoice. Zenaton will invoice Subscriber either monthly or according to the billing frequency stated in the Service Order. Invoices to be paid by credit card are due on the invoice date, all other invoices are due net 30 days from the invoice date. If any invoiced amount is not received by Zenaton by the due date, then without limiting Zenaton’s rights or remedies: (a) those charges may accrue late interest at the rate of 1.5% of the outstanding balance per month, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower and (b) Zenaton may condition future subscription renewals and Service Orders on shorter payment terms. If Subscriber is paying for Services by credit card, Subscriber will provide Zenaton’s authorized payment processer with valid credit card information and promptly notify Zenaton’s authorized payment processor of any changes necessary to charge the credit card. The provision of credit card information to Zenaton’s authorized payment processer authorizes Zenaton, through its authorized payment processer, to charge the credit card for all Services specified in a Service Order, and any renewal subscription. Subscriber acknowledges that Zenaton will not have access to Subscriber’s credit card information.
7.3 Suspension of Service and Acceleration.
If any amount owing by Subscriber is 30 or more days overdue (or 15 or more days overdue in the case of invoices to be paid by credit card), Zenaton may, without limiting any rights and remedies, accelerate Subscriber’s unpaid fee obligations to become immediately due and payable, and block the provision of Services to Subscriber until the overdue amounts are paid in full. Zenaton will give Subscriber at least 10 days’ prior notice that its account is overdue, in accordance with Section 19 (Manner of Giving Notice), before blocking Services to Subscriber.
7.4 Payment Disputes.
Zenaton will not exercise any rights to block Services, accelerate payments, impose late charges or change payment terms under Section 7.2 (Invoicing Terms) and Section 7.3 (Suspension of Service and Acceleration) with respect to an overdue amount for so long as Subscriber is disputing the overdue amount in good faith. The parties shall cooperate diligently to resolve the dispute.
7.5 Refund or Payment upon Termination.
If Subscriber terminates the Agreement in accordance with Section 5.2 (Termination for Cause), Zenaton will refund any prepaid fees covering the remainder of the term of all Service Orders after the effective date of termination. If the Agreement is terminated by Zenaton in accordance with Section 5.2 (Termination for Cause), Subscriber will pay any unpaid fees covering the remainder of the term of all Service Orders. In no event will termination relieve Subscriber of its obligation to pay any fees payable for the period prior to the effective date of termination. If Subscriber terminates without cause prior to the end of the then current term, Subscriber shall be immediately liable for the balance of the fees for the remainder of the term.
7.6 Taxes.
Fees for Services do not include any taxes, levies, duties, or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including, for example, value-added, sales, use, or withholding taxes assessable by any jurisdiction whatsoever (collectively, “Taxes”). Subscriber is responsible for paying all Taxes associated with its Service Orders. If Zenaton is obligated by law to pay or collect Taxes for which Subscriber is responsible, Zenaton will invoice Subscriber and Subscriber will pay that amount unless Subscriber can provide a valid tax exemption certificate authorized by the appropriate taxing authority. Subscriber will provide Zenaton any information Zenaton reasonably requests to determine whether Zenaton is obligated to collect Taxes. Zenaton is solely responsible for taxes assessable against its income, property, and employees.
8. Confidentiality.
8.1 Confidential Information.
“Confidential Information” means all information disclosed by a party ( “Disclosing Party”) to the other party ( “Receiving Party”), whether orally or in writing, that is designated as confidential or, given the nature of the information and the circumstances of disclosure, should be understood to be confidential. Subscriber’s Confidential Information includes the Subscriber Data; Zenaton’s Confidential Information includes the Services; and Confidential Information of each party includes but is not limited to the terms and conditions of the Agreement and all Service Orders, including pricing, business and marketing plans, technology and technical information, product plans and designs, and business processes disclosed by each party in connection with the Agreement. Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) is at the time of disclosure, or later becomes, generally known to the public through no fault of Receiving Party; (b) was known to the Receiving Party with no obligation of confidentiality prior to disclosure by Disclosing Party, as proven by records of Receiving Party; © is disclosed to Receiving Party by a third party who did not directly or indirectly obtain the information subject to any confidentiality obligation; or (d) is at any time independently developed by Receiving Party without use of Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information as proven by records of Receiving Party.
8.2 Protection of Confidential Information.
Except as provided in Section 8.3 (Compelled Disclosure) Receiving Party shall not disclose or otherwise make available any Confidential Information of Disclosing Party to anyone except those of its employees, directors, attorneys, agents and consultants who: (a) need to know the Confidential Information in connection with the purpose of the Agreement and (b) who have previously agreed to be bound by confidentiality obligations no less stringent than those in the Agreement. Each party shall (x) safeguard all Confidential Information of the other party with at least the same degree of care (but no less than reasonable care) as it uses to safeguard its own confidential information and (y) not use any Confidential Information of the other party for any purpose outside the scope of the Agreement.
8.3 Compelled Disclosure.
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Things I write while not writing
Tag Archives: Green Day
Songs of September
Motivated by my 6 year-olds recent statement that she… hates spring… because I love winter so much… I’ve had September songs on my mind.
While most of the 4 songs in my pocket come from a hemisphere where that month falls in autumn, signalling the approach of winter, I live in New Zealand where it means warmth and light, daffodils and lambs.
The September song foremost in my head is Here Comes September by Waikiki. I know it from the Triple J Hottest 100 collection my Australian sister sent me in 2003. They’re a great way to hear vaguely alt popular music that doesn’t necessarily get noticed in New Zealand. It was a great mix that year and I remember only ever needing to skip the odd track. While this wasn’t my initial fav I was soon skipping back to repeatedly sing along. Its hooky jangly pop seemed to exude the hope of September. Never having heard of them I assumed they were Australian (the singer tries to sing ‘American’ at times, as is the fashion/compunction for many vocalists, but broad Aussie vowels give her away).
The song is about an ended relationship, being positive and remembering the good stuff.
Though there were others, you never left me at all
Here comes September, and we both know what that means
Sometimes it’s out of our grasp, not everything is made to last
If that’s the way you wanna remember, then that’s the way you gotta remember
But I won’t cry now, here comes September
A Fender Jazz Bass, much like the beauty I once played
And although I was seduced by the lack of bitterness in her delivery, I didn’t focus on that when I sang along in 2003, being more captivated by the harmonic vocal hooks, the ringing of the Rickenbacker and the rich low rumble of the Fender bass; instruments I grew up knowing intimately.
Of course, 2003 was a weird time. Across the world we were repeatedly told that the world had changed forever (as if it doesn’t every day). I was actively angry and resistant to the warmongering narrative of fear. Refusing to march to that duplicitous beat, I was living a life infused with hope.
Paris 2000. The Japanese tourist said she couldn’t fit in the tip of the tower. Just relax tourist, san, and tilt up
In 2000 I had left my job in television to tour around Europe, embracing the roots of my immigrant parents before eventually realising that it was time to embrace my desire to write. So in 2001 I bit the bullet and attended a 6 month fiction writing course in Timaru. It was amazing, I literally felt like I was Harry Potter: that my life had gone from dark containment to light-filled expansion.
Of course, despite my first short story being accepted for publication within a week of sending it off, the world wasn’t waiting to be entertained by me and the pile of rejections I studiously kept (to remind me of my early struggle) got ever bigger. And bigger. And bigger.
So I headed back to Auckland to freelance in a TV industry pumped up with the phoney money of pre-Credit Crunch NZ. I didn’t need to find work, it found me. While I continued to compulsively write and submit fiction, certain in my abilities, I socialised in a heady media scene awash with the social lubricants of the day (booze, pot, P and E).
It was a fun time, but I wanted more out of life. Yes, I craved success as a writer but most of all I had begun to seriously yearn for a committed relationship. And to be a father.
My desire was so strong that on 3 of the 5 following Christmases (’03, ’05, ’07) I found myself ‘expecting’ with a different woman (which may indicate a very casual attitude, but I would say it illustrates a certain commitment).
Yes, I admit, my taste in women has been questioned by friends and family, but that’s only ever after things go pear-shaped (and isn’t everyone wise after the fact?)
Blending into a tight spot, Paris 2005
In heart and head I’m never-endingly fascinated by women, considering myself more of a woman’s man than a man’s man. I will choose their company (platonic or not) over men any day. It’s been that way since I was a child growing up surrounded by sisters and female cousins, the only boy in girl town.
And who really fully understands the drivers of their own desires? I can’t say I’m attracted to the same thing: it’s usually a certain strength of character, and something indefinable in the eye and mind.
However, given what’s gone on in my life in the 11 years since 2003, I have lost a lot of confidence in my desires, leading to the celibate phase of the last couple of years. At the start of this phase, in a reflective moment, I said to a good friend that I always like strong women, to which he replied… you like bossy women…When I mentioned this to a sister she said… you like bitches!
I thought that was rather harsh. But very funny.
Which leads to another song from my September playlist: Miss September by Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band.
They were a family favourite on the NZBC TV talent show ‘New Faces’ in 1973. Their bouncy feel and eccentric look featured tea-chest bass, washboard and kazoo and their song about a pinup picture (naughty!) got them into the finals. Yes, they were hugely derivative (Sgt. Pepper’s, anyone?…Pictures of Lily by The Who?), but as a 6 year old I found them far more entertaining than the syrupy/sombre crooners and balladeers, and frowning girls with acoustic guitars the show was lumbered with.
Now the article that came with your picture, says you hail from Illinois
Now I know Illinois-a-noise an oyster, but an oyster will only bring me joy
The lyrics were wonderfully silly (how is Illinois an oyster?) while still appealing to popular music’s reliable workhorse of unrequited romantic yearning.
Miss September, Miss September, I know I’m gonna meet you some day
Miss September, Miss September, though you’re 12,000 miles away-hay-hay-hay
The allusions to masturbation (of course) were lost on me.
Spot the Rickenbacker
Such things were more apparent in my (short) encounter with The Bangles’ cover of Big Star’s September Gurls in 1986. I never liked them as much as the Go-Gos (much more flaccid, musically). Maybe it’s unfair to compare them but both bands were sold directly to pubescent boys (for obvious reasons), and rock/pop is never shy of such subjects. I liked that Susanna Hoffs played a Rickenbacker (John Lennon played one!), and that the bass player sang this song (I was playing bass in a jangly-pop band by this stage).
By the 1990s I was much more familiar with the original version by Alex Chilton/Big Star. While his version has a lot more life to it (his delivery is heavily nuanced, maybe to counterpoint the bland lyrics: the Bangle delivers with dead-eyed ‘80’s coldness), the song is the least favourite of the September songs I know. I just don’t find much meaning in the lyrics. (What’s a September Gurl? A Virgo? I dunno). But maybe you don’t have to. Lyrical clarity is an overrated part of music, especially when compared to the open and inclusive reading of poetic imagery.
September gurls do so much…
December boy’s got it bad…
That said, it’s clearly got something going for it in that a female vocalist can sing it without feeling the need to change the respective genders of the lyrics (something that always irritates me, especially when the P.O.V of any song is all over the place).
Which leaves the September song that had the biggest impact on me. Wake Me Up, When September Ends by Green Day. A song that became intimately associated with both my very personal experience of September 2005, and an awful ‘Act of God’ that affected countless lives.
Catching up with a beloved ex-lover for coffee in 2003 had resulted in the first of the 3 Christmas pregnancies. That one ended on New Year’s Eve. I got the text while dancing with strangers, high on a mix of P and E. Although at the time I saw it as lucky escape, it was an incredibly lonely moment and I eventually came to grieve deeply for the unborn child and the unfulfilled relationship with his/her mother. But back then my heart was set on a come here/go away long term flame, and by 2004 I had moved in with her, happy in a relationship I imagined lasting forever.
Waiting for my partner to finish work, the first thing I visited in Paris was Diana’s tunnel. People still left tributes 8 years later
Which is why, at the end of August 2005, I flew to Paris to accompany her on a work trip she had left for the week before.
When you fly to Europe from NZ you tend to fly through the night so I arrived in Paris on a hot, sunny autumn morning. As I checked into our hotel, the first English I heard being spoken was two clearly shocked Americans, reading a newspaper at the check-in desk… They’re shooting each other… looting the place… Animals… Once I got up to my partner’s room and turned on the telly (this was before the internet became something you carried in your pocket) I realised who they were and that a hurricane had devastated New Orleans.
When September Ends by Green Day wasn’t my favourite track on American Idiot, an album I loved thinking it both entertaining and brave (especially in a time when there was little push back in popular culture against the proponents for war), and I played it many times before I headed to Europe in 2005.
The song didn’t fit my particular concept of September, speaking of rain/winter/loss. I was embracing the future, heading for a hot month in Europe with the woman I wanted to spend my life with. And we had decided to make a baby.
I now know the song is about the vocalist losing his father at the age of 7, which explains much of the lyrical imagery.
Ring out the bells again, like we did when spring began
Wake me up, when September ends
It’s testament to the strength of the very personal lyrics that the single, released August 2005, became the unofficial anthem for Hurricane Katrina, which hit as I arrived in Paris.
It has the poetic/fluid nature of good lyrics in that the video for the song ignores Billy Joe Armstrong’s intimate meaning to take on the blustering pomposity of sacrifice and war that many American videos were plastered with at the time.
A rainy night in Brussels and a very fine, boozy meal
But that song was not in my head as I flitted from Paris to Florence to Lucca to Pisa to Brussels to Maastricht to Amsterdam to London and back to Paris: exploring, being, loving.
And it wasn’t all fun and games. I was also doing some research for a historical novel I was writing about the founding of my hometown of Christchurch, which was set up after the formation of the Canterbury Association in London in 1848.
Place of the first meeting to found Canterbury. Spot the three lambs in the shield
Communards at the barricades
Due to the utopian ideals of a group of graduates of Christ Church College, Oxford (yip, Harry Potter’s school) who sent the ‘Canterbury Pilgrims’ to found Christchurch, I was making a study of the Paris Commune of 1871, established when the decadent, corrupt government of Napoleon III let the invading Prussian’s get within a humiliating cooee of Paris (WW1, 40 years later, was a replay of this schmozzle).
At the most famous bookstore in Paris, Shakespeare and Company, I bought a history of that incredible event which, when the city was retaken by government forces, saw the slaughter of more Parisians than the Great Terror of the Revolution and The German Occupation of WWII combined.
Dead Communards on the cover of the book I bought
Tomb of Oscar Wilde
I read that book throughout our travels around Europe, finishing it at the end of the trip when we returned to Paris, making a special pilgrimage to the famous Père Lachaise cemetery, pushing past the tourists at Jim Morrison’s grave, stopping to take a photo of my partner kissing the toes of the lip-stick covered Jacob Epstein statue on Oscar Wilde’s grave, making a beeline for the wall at the back of the graveyard where a great many Communards were lined up and shot.
Returning to NZ at the end of the month, and still in travel mode, I flew down to a good friend’s 40th.
Towards the end of that early spring party, standing on the threshold of his back door, my friend, who I had known since my early 20s, tapped the neck of his beer bottle to mine and said… to the barren knights… It took me a second to realise that he wasn’t talking about humorous British pop group, the Barron Knights, but about us having avoided parenthood. He was clearly wistful, having married 5 years before, just before I headed to Europe for the first time.
But that poignancy became ironic when 6 weeks later I was back, escaping an awful argument that erupted after my partner found out she had got pregnant on that last weekend in Paris. She was not happy with the situation (but we planned it?), and in her bitter reasoning she was carrying the spirit of a Communard murdered at that wall. I felt betrayed and used.
The photo we took at the wall in Pere Lachaise. 134 years later, people still leave flowers for the victims
A lot went on in the next few months; too much for here. Suffice to say that my partner eventually found her peace with the child growing inside her, and we announced it to her gathered family on Christmas Day 2005. Which underlined a greater and more painful irony when, late on Boxing Day, after a hurried and tortured helicopter flight off our island home she delivered a tiny, perfectly formed boy with eyelids closed. Fingernails, clearly forming on the hand resting across his chest.
Paris, beneath the rewarewa we planted
In a strange way, the experience brought us closer, and we were happy for most of the next year. I listened to Green Day a lot as I worked in the wild, extensive garden, clearing and landscaping the area where we buried the boy we called Paris on New Year’s Eve. I loved the album; it was a journey, more than its constituent parts.
But When September Ends took on a new meaning for me, as did the month. It became a personal anthem of loss and each year I was anxious for the month to pass.
Which gets at the reason I have written this blog.
Because when my daughter said that she hated spring, my first thought wasn’t of Green Day, it was Waikiki.
Two months after I shifted out in Dec 2006, following my erstwhile partner announcing… actually, I do want a baby. But not with you… I met my daughter’s mother. Four months later she was (unexpectedly) pregnant.
Exiting the apartment in Paris
My friend and his wife, who had provided refuge in that awful time in 2005, did so again (along with his baby boy, born earlier that year) in 2007 when we shifted down to his town just before Christmas.
I ended up buying the house next door and our children grew up as brother and sister. My friends moved far away just before last Christmas but I continue to live next door to that threshold where we toasted the barren knights. I have my daughter every other week as her mother and I are no longer together (having a child with someone is not the best way to establish a relationship).
The dining hall at Christ Church, Oxford, where the founders of Christchurch (and Harry Potter) went to school.
There’s been a shit-load of loss in my life over the last few years (I have referred to aspects of it in past blogs). Paris, and the woman I was convinced I loved. My vibrant life in the media. My home town, smashed (and the novel I was writing with it). Both parents, straight afterwards. My sister, briefly here, now back to Australia. My other sister and family now following.
It seems like I’m on a beach watching an ever-receding tide, wondering if it will ever flow back.
But it is September, and I am full of hope. My girl is the greatest joy. I try not to cling but she is growing so fast. There is increasing warmth in the air, greater light in the days, the garden is growing and in 2 months it will be a year since the surgery on my ankle so I will be able to start running (gently) once more.
Like songs and seasons, we are filled with memories and meanings both personal and shared: as immutable as the ever-changing seasons, nothing is certain except for change.
I do not seek an encounter with any woman pinned above my bed. I do not hanker for the lost, or yearn for the future (well, not too much).
But I have a confession. There are boxes of baby toys and paraphernalia under the house I am struggling to let go of. It may seem a trifle sad but I would counter they are a guard against the unexpected.
I am no longer a young man, but if I pass these things on to charity do I not invite Murphy’s Law to inject a mischievous twinkle into my eye? To put a song in my heart, a spring in my step, to turn my mind to… ?
Well, it is September.
And we both know what that means…
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Kristy Esch
Matt Weirich devised the concept of a video leasing platform after a painful apartment hunting experience when he graduated from Purdue University and moved more than two hours away to Chicago. Weirich says he made the drive six weekends in a row to tour more than 40 properties in person before settling on where to live and signing a lease.
“How can we streamline this process?” he wondered.
“I knew it was a pain point for me, as a consumer. What I saw online on the apartment websites was never what I actually wanted to see at the property itself,” says Weirich, co-founder and CEO of Realync, a multifamily video leasing and engagement platform that enables apartments to host their own custom live video tours and create personalized pre-recorded videos for prospective residents.
“If I’d been able to see what I wanted to see and narrow that down to about 20 properties, I could have cut out half of my trips to Chicago and really honed in on where I wanted to live and what kind of property features mattered most to me,” he says.
Tap into technology to help renters research online
Prospects prefer to do most of their research online and don’t want to waste time visiting more than a few properties, so why not give renters what they want and assist them in the leasing process by providing helpful content in as many formats as possible?
“We make so many buying decisions using research tools online, and consumers are starting to appreciate the convenience of not having to come in to the office and fill out forms,” says Katrina Greene, Senior Regional Manager at Sheehan Property Management.
As part of their lead follow-up process, Sheehan property managers email prospects personalized Realync videos to highlight property features like the fitness center and pool, and to do walk-throughs of individual units a prospect shows interest in.
“Our tour numbers are starting to decrease, but leasing velocity has stayed the same,” Greene says. “We still have to put in the effort to get the lease, but we are doing it with the help from multiple software platforms.”
Why add video tours to apartment websites?
Video content is projected to account for more than 80 percent of all web traffic by next year, continuously increasing the value of video content marketing.
“I think, from the sales team’s standpoint, video tours are hugely beneficial,” says Marcella Eppsteiner, Vice President of Marketing at Mission Rock Residential, which oversees more than 105 apartment communities across the U.S.
“In today’s climate, it doesn’t even matter which market, it’s all about eCommerce for consumers—and that even includes finding a home,” Eppsteiner adds. “Especially the millennial generation, they’re more mobile and move from market to market, be it for a job or they just want a change in lifestyle and will move if they think it’s an enhancement.”
While physically showing up at a property used to be the only way to sign a lease, much of that process has migrated to a digital platform. Prospects can pre-qualify and apply for a lease on many property websites after using online technologies to gather all of the details they need to make a decision.
“Right now, we have online leasing happening, where people can and sometimes do lease sight-unseen—if they have access to all of the right information,” Weirich says. “Residents are on a spectrum. On one end is the prospect who is going to have to come back 20 times before they make a decision, and on the other end there’s the person who will sign a lease based on one photo posted on Craigslist.
“Realync is helping onsite teams capture more of that spectrum that’s currently underserved, or at least the experience is below the level they’d like when it comes to doing research online and truly experiencing a property,” he says.
Embedding video on website presents challenge
When property managers send a prospect a Realync video, it’s a unique link that delivers data back to the property on how that prospective resident engaged with the video content. In that scenario, the property has already made contact with the lead and is following up with personalized videos based on what they know about that person’s buying needs and priorities.
Videos simply embedded on a website, while incredibly powerful for driving traffic and engagement, don’t deliver to multifamily professionals the same in-depth analytics possible with other kinds of content. To overcome this digital challenge, Realync recently partnered with PERQ to integrate tour videos into the AI-driven website conversion software. In the first four months of initial testing on two property websites with PERQ, the videos ranked second for online lead-to-lease conversions and second for overall engagement on the sites.
“Historically, when embedded videos were put on a website, we had no way of tracking anything about the person who watched them. We could tell how many views and unique visitors, but nothing beyond a macro view,” says Realync Director of Operations Jordan Easley. “Now, PERQ is able to carry that through to an actual conversion point and then tell us exactly who watched the video and other important details about that person.”
PERQ’s technology identifies and tracks individual leads who engage with the videos and other interactive website experiences like a budget planning tool and neighborhood assessment. The in-depth prospect data gathered on the website helps property managers create more specific personalized videos to email prospects after they visit the website, increasing the effectiveness of the lead follow-up.
Equip your strongest sale team members to leverage live videos
Eppsteiner calls the virtual tours on Mission Rock’s property websites “a game changer” for the on-site leasing teams, because consultants can digitally provide the highest quality customer service; however, she advises it takes a top-notch leasing agent to maximize the marketing impact of the videos.
“When you utilize and leverage a virtual tour in the sales process, you have to have a strong sales person who is incredibly dedicated to customer service,” Eppsteiner says. “They can walk the prospect through where their new home would be. From a prospect standpoint, virtual tours are equally important by aiding in their search. They can actually see the community, and then engage with a higher caliber sales team.”
For leasing specialists worried AI technology and virtual tours will put them out of a job someday, Easley says only underperforming agents who don’t look at multifamily leasing as a long-term career path will be eliminated by the efficiencies that technologies grant overburdened leasing offices.
“Instead of eight leasing agents at a property with a couple of underperformers, maybe you have six and reinvest in those best six, equipping them with technologies to help them perform even better,” Easley says. “It delivers a better experience for leasing agents and prospects alike.”
Easley points out multifamily property owners and regional managers win by saving money with increased efficiency and likely making more money by improving online lead conversion rates. Your best leasing agents win with bigger commissions split between fewer people and will be more satisfied with their job when given tech tools that improve their results.
Give prospects intimate access without resorting to self-guided tours
In the residential housing market, there’s a growing demand for self-guided tours, where homebuyers can access and see a property at any time without an agent present.
“The real estate industry in general, starting with the single-family home industry, is moving very quickly to 24/7 open houses where the prospect tours the house by themselves,” says Bob Romine, owner of R.C. Romine & Associates, a marketing and advertising firm that primarily serves multifamily property clients. “Yes, there’s a lot of hesitation on it within the multifamily industry.”
With the trend of self-guided tours making waves in the housing market, several multifamily leasing experts we spoke to say they fear renters may start demanding similar access to available apartments.
“It’s certainly a buzzword phrase in multifamily lately,” Weirich says. “The hesitation is really two-fold. For one, there’s a security concern, particularly if the community isn’t tech-enabled and set up for self-guided tours. That’s a really big issue. Secondly, are we going to get rid of leasing consultants as we know them today? The answer is no. The leasing agent is still an important part of the process no matter what technology they use.”
Live video tours hosted and personalized by a property’s own leasing staff may offer the perfect solution to the multifamily industry’s conundrum of self-guided touring that raises questions about security and safety of the other residents or lack of insight from the leasing team. Self-guided tours also eliminate the opportunity to build the relationship between the leasing agent and prospect that’s critical to instilling trust in a property they may call home. And, in reality, self-guided tours would likely be hosted in a model unit and not the actual apartment available to lease, Weirich points out.
“Realync videos are unit-specific tours and connected to a leasing agent who can answer your questions, and instill trust and transparency into the process,” Weirich says. “We feel like we’re the marriage between streamlining the leasing process to be able to experience it from anywhere, but also enhancing it with a physical leasing agent still being involved.”
Nurture out-of-market leads with virtual tours
Renters moving from afar and seeking an apartment outside of their current market are the most obvious target for apartment tour videos, although they’re also helpful to prospects who live in town but want to eliminate several properties from their list of potential apartment communities before booking tours to see their top few choices in person.
“We have a lot of student housing growing on the platform because of international students,” Weirich says. “It’s incredibly helpful, whether moving two hours away, or to another state or even another country.”
Sheehan leasing consultants often utilize the videos to reach out-of-market prospects, sending separate customized videos of the amenities, neighborhood, specific units available, and sometimes even videos of the staff welcoming them to the community.
“Virtual tours, or rather actual video footage of the unit, have allowed us to be more effective salespeople to prospects who are out of state or live outside of the U.S.,” Greene says. “They are able to make a confident buying decision without physically being here.”
Author Kristy Esch, PERQ
November December 2019
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Fossgate – Green Councillors called in the plans for pre- decision scrutiny. You can watch the recording of the meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2of_P7ihbQ&feature=youtu.be&t=01m08s
The final version of this scheme was decided at a council meeting on Nov 15th 2018 : http://democracy.york.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=738&MId=10861 Cllr Denise Craghill, Guildhall ward councillor said: “This scheme as it stands is a small improvement on what we have now but is a hugely missed opportunity on a number of counts.”
The street is crying out to be a fully pedestrianised part of the footstreets. This proposal fails to do this but now has a commitment to ‘further consultation’ on this further step at a future date.
Traffic, including deliveries, will still be allowed in the street during the the main shopping hours and the layout of the street with raised pavements and a central carriageway still prioritises motor vehicles over pedestrians in the street.
The scheme will still have relatively narrow footways at the Pavement end of the street (outside the Nepalese restaurant, Connolly’s and Alterations Express and outside part of Sutlers and the Bluebell on the other side). The widening of the pavements near the junction itself is very limited in terms of improving accessibility. The bollards on the Connolly’s side of the street need to remain in place to protect the overhanging buildings from large vehicles
The lack of a level surface across the top part of the street (from Pavement down to Franklin’s Yard) means that improvements for the cafes in the street in terms of the capacity to put out tables and promote a street café environment are limited. It seems that the narrowing between the Hairy Fig and the Fossgate Social is intended to allow some street tables whilst maintaining a reasonable pavement width for accessibility – and this is an improvement on the current situation. However, as far as I can see this will still be a very limited space and will still see customers sitting right next to passing vehicles and inhaling their exhaust fumes.
I have asked but I am still not clear about the reasons for not having a level surface from the junction with Pavement down to Franklin’s Yard.
In relation to funding issues, I have had no clear answer as to whether or not there is sufficient funding to make the street a level surface between Pavement and Franklin’s Yard? I can’t help getting the impression that the funding could be sufficient to make this stretch level as some of the work providing buildouts wouldn’t be necessary?
In relation to the moratorium requested by the Government on new shared spaces Iam still unclear as to whether officers have asked the Department of Transportfor clarification on how long this will last before new guidelines arepublished and if they can provide further clarification as to what they regardas ‘shared space’ in the meantime.
respect to the concerns of blind and partially sighted people I naturally
believe this is a very important consideration. But I would like to see what
options have been considered in terms of delineating level surfacing and ‘safe
spaces’ in ways that do not have to involve kerbs and varying levels, which
must in themselves be challenging for some blind and partially sighted people.
I have also asked and had no clear answer as to why the
option of pedestrianisation (ie, bringing Fossgate into the footstreets as
proposed many times in the past) wasn’t considered as part of this
My preferred option would be pedestrianisation of the
street during footstreets hours between Pavement and just before Franklin’s
Yard and a level surface along this same stretch.
a level surface and pedestrianisation there would no question of shared space
during the footstreets hours as vehicles would not be admitted. There would be
shared space outside the footstreets hours but at much less busy times of day.
In this option, there would be a need for clarification from the Department of
Transport regarding its current advice to local authorities and close working
with blind and partially sighted groups on how to delineate the space.
If only this stretch of the street were pedestrianised it would provide the pleasant pedestrian priority environment that is being sought and prevent any through traffic during the day, but also allow for two-way traffic between Franklin’s Yard and Walmgate. The latter would maintain access to the parking bays at that end of the street, allow vehicle movements in and out of Franklin’s Yard, in and out of Fossgate House and in and out of the close vicinity of the Merchant Adventurer’s Hall entrance. The Green Group has suggested this option a number of times, but it appears not to have been considered so far.
A further option that doesn’t seem to have been considered
would be pedestrianisation but without the level surface. In this
case there would no shared space so this would not be an issue. This would, in
my view be a less satisfactory solution but would be an improvement on the
current proposals.
If the area to be pedestrianised were as suggested (between Pavement and Franklin’s Yard) it would be a question of adding a TRO or TROs (Traffic Regulation Orders) to a version of the current proposals. It may need one TRO to implement the pedestrianisation and one TRO to reinstate two way traffic between Franklin’s Yard and Walmgate. It would also need further consideration of the proposed build outs at the southern end of Fossgate.
There seems to be a conviction amongst officers that vehicle access is needed by asmall number of residents and traders during footstreets hours. I would like tosee far more evidence of how many residents and how many traders hold this view, what exactly these access needs are, whether they could be met in otherways and to what extent limiting the pedestrianisation to the stretch between Pavement and Franklin’s Yard would allay concerns.
Limiting the length of the pedestrianisation could potentially tackle some specific problems whilst the prevention of through traffic would bring benefits to the whole street, not only the pedestrianised section.
I would also like to see clear numbers in the report indicating the views of street residents, street traders and the wider community in the surrounding area and York as a whole, who value Fossgate as part of our shared city centre.
It seems that many reasons are being found as to why we cannot properly pedestrianise this street, rather than focussing on the transport hierarchy which puts pedestrians and people with disabilities at the top and grasping the opportunity to give this vibrant little street the environment it is crying out for – fully pedestrianised with street cafes, planters, seats and maybe sometrees.
As mentioned above I also have some concerns about the proposals for Pavement atthe junction with Fossgate. Speed tables that currently slow down buses and anyother traffic on Pavement are being removed, which means traffic could befaster – not prioritising pedestrians. At the same time, pedestrians arevisually directed towards informal ‘crossings’ at the same locations as theprevious speed tables – far away from the natural place for pedestrians tocross into Fossgate. A large proportion of pedestrians going (or likely to go)down Fossgate are surely coming from Colliergate and the natural line for themto take is straight across – and yet there is no facility provided for this –simply a resurfaced highway. This doesn’t seem like a good use of this money. Alayout which actively encourages pedestrians to cross from Colliergate intoFossgate would be more appropriate. The proposed layout is presumably aconsequence of the lack of pedestrianisation and the prioritisation of vehicletraffic still turning out of Fossgate into the flow of pedestrians.
The junction with Walmgate. If the street is to be pedestrianised, say as far as Franklin’s Yard, there may well be a need for two way traffic (as above) between the junction with Walmgate and Franklins’s Yard giving access to Franklin’s Yard itself, to the back of the Merchant Adventurer’s Hall and to the flats by Foss Bridge. The entrance treatment proposed would then need to be altered again to provide for two-way vehicle flow. Whilst I appreciate that the proposed build outs do offer a gateway treatment, with the option to provide better signage, this is again something of a ‘halfway house’ solution. The latest report shows that a safety audit actually suggested this solution to facilitate residents of Merchant House being allowed to drive out onto Walmgate rather than having to drive all the way through the street but the scheme designers have rejected this!
Andy D'Agorne
One of first two Green Party elected representatives gaining seats on City of York in 2003 and the city's longest serving Green councillor, representing Fishergate ward since that date. Partner Denise Craghill joined the Green Party group as councillor for Guildhall ward in 2015. Interests include singing in a world music choir, cycle and transport campaigning, photography. Our daughter Amy is 26 year old Photography graduate of Edinburgh College of Art.
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Sweet smell of survival for rescue kitten found in skip
Twoflower in his foster home
Twoflower was just a few weeks old when he was discovered dumped in a skip in and brought to Calder Vets in Dewsbury. They immediately called Yorkshire Cat Rescue where staff decided to see if recent mum-of-four, Magic would agree to adopt the tiny orphan.
Magic had been handed in at Yorkshire Cat Rescue as a pregnant stray, and gave birth to four kittens on 3 October in the care of Yorkshire Cat Rescue fosterer, Sheila Pepper in Skipton.
Sheila says: “Magic is a natural mum and she was doing a sterling job raising her own kittens so I was fairly optimistic that she would take on another.”
About Twoflower’s narrow escape, Sam Davies, Centre Manager of Yorkshire Cat Rescue, says: “There is no way Twoflower could have ventured or fallen into the skip by himself; sadly it is more likely that he was thrown in on purpose. Luckily for him he has a big voice for a little guy so someone heard him crying, fished him out and took him to the vet.
“We estimated that Twoflower was roughly the same age as Magic’s foursome, three weeks old at the time, and we have previously had great success integrating orphan kittens into other healthy litters, so it made sense to see if Magic would adopt him. Cats are far better at nursing and raising kittens that we humans are so we always prefer that as an option where possible.”
Magic’s own kittens were named after characters in Terry Pratchett’s comic fantasy book series, Discworld: Ponder Sibbons, Mustrum Ridcully, Eskarina and Rincewind. So Sheila decided to dub the newcomer ‘Twoflower’ as part of the gang of characters.
About the initial introduction, Sheila says: “I just showed tiny Twoflower to Magic and she instantly began washing him. I have introduced orphan kittens to nursing mother before, but this one was the fastest. I put him down with her straight away and she quickly guided him to the food bowl and encouraged him to eat. When I went to check on them later that evening, he was feeding from her amongst the other kittens. It was a beautiful sight. We’re just a few days in now and she already treats him like one of her own.”
This isn’t Magic’s first litter. Pregnant at just six months old, she was taken in by a stranger and allowed to give birth inside. But cats come into season remarkably soon after giving birth, and she became pregnant again before her own kittens were fully weaned. Her carer then asked Yorkshire Cat Rescue for help and the charity placed her with Sheila where she can enjoy the outside in an enclosed garden.
She says: “This will most definitely be Magic’s last litter. She has done enough and will be neutered when the kittens are weaned, before they are all put up for adoption. She is such a friendly and remarkable cat; I hope she gets the home she deserves.”
About Twoflower, Sheila says: “He is a real character – into absolutely everything and trotting around as if he owns the place. He always stands in the middle of the plate of food and eats outwards which makes a right mess but it’s adorable all the same. He doesn’t know how lucky he is, but whoever decides to offer him a home will know just how close he came to a fate it doesn’t even bear thinking about.”
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Ill-informed du Fresne attack on Drug Foundation’s Bell over cannabis referendum
Karl du Fresne (Stuff) has taken a swipe at Ross bell of the NZ Drug Foundation, claiming “Ross Bell is not worried about decriminalisation of cannabis but by the thought of the drugs trade being contaminated by the profit motive”: If corporates are best-placed to deliver a safe cannabis market, is that so wrong?
Oh, dear. Ross Bell of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, after years of agitating for relaxation of the drug laws, is fretting that liberalisation might open the way to corporate domination of the cannabis trade.
Hmmm. Perhaps he should heed the old saying about being careful what you wish for.
Bell has long advocated a permissive approach to so-called recreational drugs.
His argument is that drug use should be treated as a health issue rather than criminalised. So you’d expect him to be thrilled that the Government has promised a binding referendum on decriminalisation of cannabis.
You can take it as read that the activists’ ultimate goal is decriminalisation of the drug altogether, and perhaps other drugs too. That’s how advocates of “progressive” social change advance their agenda: incrementally.
That’s a big step from the cannabis referendum, and a major ‘assumption’ based on nothing.
It’s a strategy that relies on a gradual softening-up process. No single step along the way, taken in isolation, is radical enough to alarm the public. Change is often justified on grounds of common sense or compassion, as the legalisation of medicinal cannabis for terminally ill people can be.
But each victory serves as a platform for the next. Once change has bedded in and the public has accepted it as the new normal, the activists advance to the next stage. The full agenda is never laid out, because that might frighten the horses.
That sounds like nothing more than general scare mongering based on nothing.
Now, back to Bell’s misgivings about where the cannabis referendum might lead.
It’s not decriminalisation that worries him. Why would it, when for years he’s been using his taxpayer-subsidised job to lobby for exactly that outcome?
No, what upsets him is the thought of the drugs trade being contaminated by the profit motive. A liberal drugs regime is all very well, just as long as the trade doesn’t fall into the hands of wicked corporate capitalists.
A stupid way to put things. there are legitimate and I think fairly widely held concerns over the commercialisation of cannabis. Alcohol is a good example of how an intoxicating substance can be legally pushed for profit.
Bell’s vision, obviously, is of something much purer and more noble, although it’s not entirely clear what model he has in mind. A People’s Collective, perhaps.
Another baseless assertion.
The parallels with alcohol are obvious. Both can cause great harm to a minority of users, although activists like to play down the adverse consequences of drugs other than alcohol. We don’t hear much, for example, about the devastating effects cannabis can have on the young or the mentally unstable.
I’ve seen and heard quite a lot about that. It’s a primary reason for suggestions that there be an R18 on cannabis – similar to alcohol age restrictions, where even 18 has been controversial.
But if we’re going to have an honest national debate about cannabis, the important thing, surely, is that it should focus on social wellbeing rather than being distorted by covert ideological agendas.
No evidence of ‘covert ideological agendas’, just an assertion targeting someone who has been quite responsible in promoting drug law reform.
Karl du Fresne's shitty and apparently unresearched hit piece on @nzdrug's Ross Bell (https://t.co/FGZcDj3hd4) is chock full of wrongness (probably unnecessary spoiler alert). A thread to try and restore some reality to the world. /begins
— Andrew Geddis (@acgeddis) January 9, 2019
Why such a model? KdF makes the claim below that it's because Bell is a filthy commie (as well as the bizarre claim that he's somehow less worried about cannabis than alcohol). Maybe Bell is. I don't know. But if KDF bothered to read the publication he's printed in, then … /3 pic.twitter.com/ZuIhaYbZAK
Which leads to this jaw-dropping bit of question begging from KdF. Without having bothered to actually look at any evidence, he simply stipulates that large-scale corporate production and sale can deliver a "safe" market in cannabis … because capitalism, of course. /5 pic.twitter.com/zz66ms3ugQ
So, in my opinion (of course), KdF evidences the same basic inability to see beyond the conventional status quo as when he dismisses the Velvet Underground as "essentially anti-music" … as well as an unforgivable laziness in approach to what is an important societal issue. /end
Stephen Franks responds:
I thought I'd done a reasonable job of indicating why I felt the piece was lazily researched and generally misleading in its claims, complete with sources to substantiate my objections. Do you require more?
Russell Brown, one of the best informed advocates of drug law reform in the media joins in.
As Andrew notes, KdF's claim that "it's not entirely clear what model he has in mind" is somewhat undone by the fact the the Drug Foundation has published a model policy outlining just that. But there are, of course, other good models, including Europe's cannabis social clubs.
— Russell Brown (@publicaddress) January 10, 2019
Going by this (and other ill informed people with their own agendas like Bob McCoskrie (Families First), I think we can expect a fairly knarly debate on the cannabis referendum.
We should welcome robust arguments against too much liberalisation of drug laws, but I hope we get a lot better attempts than this by du Fresne.
by Pete George on 11th January 2019 • Permalink
Tagged Andrew Geddis, cannabis, Karl du Fresne, referendum, Ross Bell, Russell Brown, Stephen Franks
Posted by Pete George on 11th January 2019
https://yournz.org/2019/01/11/ill-informed-du-fresne-attack-on-drug-foundations-bell-over-cannabis-referendum/
A weakness of parties, not of MMP
Karl du Fresne claims that the way coalition negotiations were conducted (with Winston Peters in charge) is a problem with MMP, but I think he has the wrong target. Peters was allowed to run the post election process because National, Labour and the Greens let him.
All political systems have weaknesses. It largely comes down to how much politicians try to exploit them or allow them to be exploited.
Stuff: Winston Peters top of the political pops with willingness to exploit wonky system
For the first time since New Zealand adopted the MMP system in 1993, the party that won the biggest share of the vote didn’t form the government. How we arrived at this outcome was down to one man: Winston Raymond Peters.
Nope. There were four parties and four party leaders responsible for the procedure and the outcome.
The Peters party, aka New Zealand First, won 7 per cent of the vote. It lost three of its electorate seats in Parliament, including Peters’ own.
That’s incorrect. NZ First only had one electorate seat, won by Peters in a by-election in Northland early last term. They lost that plus reduced their list seat allocation.
Despite this less than resounding endorsement by the people of New Zealand, Peters ended up determining the makeup of the new government.
Many insist, bizarrely, that this is an example of MMP working exactly as intended, but I would argue that it points to a gaping void in our constitutional arrangements – one that allows a politician whose party commanded an almost negligible share of the vote to decide who will govern us.
7% is not ‘almost negligible’ in this situation.
The MMP system allowed for a wide variety of ways for negotiations to be conducted and for a Government to be formed.
The National, Labour and Green parties al played a part along with NZ First, as did three party leaders as well as Peters.
Nonetheless, for his willingness to exploit this wonky system to his advantage, and for the sheer audacity of the way he went about it, Peters is a hands-down winner of my award for Politician of the Year in 2017.
It isn’t ‘a wonky system’.
It’s in the nature of politics for leaders and parties to work a political system to their advantage as best they can, it would be ludicrous if they didn’t.
Peters was allowed to run the negotiation process simply because the other parties and leaders allowed him to. That isn’t a fault in the MMP system. It was how all parties and leaders and MPs allowed it to happen.
And, so far at least, the end result has worked ok, with a secure majority in Parliament.
Tagged Greens, Karl du Fresne, Labour, MMP, National, NZ First, Winston Peters
https://yournz.org/2018/01/14/a-weakness-of-parties-not-of-mmp/
RNZ, te reo Māori and Brash
Ki te tangata?
An increased use of te reo Māori on Radio NZ has been a talking point for some time.
It doesn’t bother me, but I think it is overdone at times.
But it has bothered Don Brash. Late last month:
There was a response by Emma Espiner at Newsroom: The threat of Te Reo
It’s become a running joke among friends and family that my husband, vampire-like, feeds on and grows stronger with each criticism of his use of Te Reo in his role as co-presenter of RNZ’s Morning Report. What’s less of a joke is the sustained attempts by some, who agree with Brash, who are fighting against the use of Te Reo and against Guyon and RNZ in the form of BSA complaints and letters to RNZ’s managers, CEO and Board.
I dislike the ‘old white men’ argument where one simply says those three words and the offending viewpoint is rejected because of its provenance without any further need for debate.
It’s good to see her saying this.
What’s interesting to me as a Māori woman, is the way that my Pākēhā husband has been able to champion Te Reo into the mainstream in a way that it would be impossible for me to do, were I in his position. As a Pākēhā man with a powerful role in the New Zealand media he has a position of extraordinary privilege from which to challenge the status quo. He has strong support in this endeavour among the leadership of RNZ, most importantly from other noted Pākeha man, CEO Paul Thompson.
Over at TVNZ Jack Tame is cutting a similarly admirable path on the flagship Breakfast show.
The complaints about Te Reo being used in mainstream media give me great heart looking to the future. This positive response might surprise some, but I believe we can view these people (and they’re always the same people) as the rearguard of progress.
As society shifts, they will continue to yap at our heels and protest, but the trend for Aotearoa is against bland mono-culturalism and fearful mono-lingualism.
A decade ago it was Māori Television. Today, it’s using Te Reo on Morning Report and Breakfast TV and putting macrons in newspapers.
In ten years time these things will be completely normal and there will be another battle, which the rearguard will again resist and lose.
There is definitely a trend. In the main I am fine with this. But not so Brash – and Kim Hill wasn’t fine with Brash over it.
She interviewed him on 2 December, if ‘it can be called an ‘interview’: Don Brash – Ragging on Te Reo
He has weighed into the debate about the use of Te Reo in the past few weeks, saying he’s “utterly sick” of the use of the language by RNZ reporters and presenters.
I haven’t listened to that, but I saw a lot of comment about it. It is still being talked about.
Karl du Fresne: Don Brash didn’t stand a chance against Kim Hill
The first was to think he could criticise a high-profile Radio New Zealand presenter on Facebook and get away with it. The second and much bigger mistake was to accept an invitation to explain himself on Kim Hill’s Saturday morning radio show.
Inevitably, Brash was savaged. It was as close as RNZ will ever get to blood sport as entertainment.
Brash described Espiner’s flaunting of his fluency in te reo as “virtue signalling” – in other words, displaying one’s superior moral values.
For this offence against the spirit of biculturalism, the former National and ACT leader was summoned for a discipline session with Radio NZ’s resident dominatrix.
The result was entirely predictable. Hill was acerbic and sneering from the outset.
She didn’t bother to conceal her contempt for Brash and neither did she bother to maintain any pretence that this was a routine interview, conducted for the purpose of eliciting information or expanding public understanding of the issue.
It was a demolition job, pure and simple – utu, if you prefer – and I doubt that it was ever intended to be anything else. Its purpose was to expose Brash as a political and cultural dinosaur and to punish him for criticising Hill’s colleague.
Perhaps, but it could have been more than that. Hill may have also thought that Brash was a political and cultural dinosaur.
Then du Fresne gets to the crux of his complaint.
Here’s where we get down to the real issue. RNZ is a public institution. It belongs to us.
The public who fund the organisation are entitled to criticise it. But can we now expect that anyone who has the temerity to do so will be subjected to a mauling by RNZ’s in-house attack dog? Or is this treatment reserved for despised white conservative males such as Brash, to make an example of them and deter others from similar foolishness?
Either way, Hill’s dismemberment of Brash was a brazen abuse of the state broadcaster’s power and showed contemptuous disregard for RNZ’s charter obligation to be impartial and balanced.
I presume Brash was given some sort of right of reply in the interview. I don’t know if he was given a decent chance to defend himself.
This is nothing new, of course. The quaint notion that RNZ exists for all New Zealanders was quietly jettisoned years ago. Without any mandate, the state broadcaster has refashioned itself as a platform for the promotion of favoured causes.
I often listen to Morning Report, it looks at a wide range of topical issues in far more depth than most other media, and generally seems reasonably fair and balanced.
Interviewers do sometimes push their guests hard – but this is essential, in politics in particular. It is a sign of a healthy democracy.
But Brash has a perfectly valid point. Whatever the benefits of learning te reo, it is not the function of the state broadcaster to engage in social engineering projects for our collective betterment – for example, by implying we should all emulate RNZ reporters and start referring to Auckland as Tāmaki Makaurau and Christchurch as Ōtautahi.
Social engineering? That seems over the top. RNZ is not making me use te reo Māori, and I generally don’t. Also, I learn something from their use if it. That’s a good thing.
There’s quite a bit on RNZ I don’t want to listen to. If so I turn it off (increasingly frequently when John Campbell gushes over the top in another crusade).
RNZ does many things very well and my quality of life would be greatly diminished without it, but no one will ever die wondering about the political leanings of many of its presenters and producers.
RNZ is often referred to as ‘Red Radio’.
Some of the RNZ presenters have fairly obvious political leanings, to varying degrees. That’s normal in any media. I can make no judgement of their producers, I don’t listen to them.
But te reo Māori is cultural, not political, so du Fresne seems to be confused.
Brash criticised Guyon Espiner in particular, someone who seems more balanced and non-politically leaning than most journalists in politics.
Du Fresne’s article has morphed from a grizzle about the use of te reo Māori, to a grizzle about Kim Hill doing a tough interview on the poor Don Brash, to a grizzle about some radio presenters appearing to favour one side of the political spectrum.
I could go to The Daily Blog or The Standard and find plenty of claims that media is far too right wing. This is just lame ad hominum from them, and that is what du Fresne resorted to in trying to conclude his argument against the use of te reo Māori on RNZ.
Perhaps that should be ad hominum/ad feminum (Latin seems to be a sexist language).
Or should it be ki te tangata? What about ki te wahine? (Māori seems to be a sexist language)
But at least du Fresne is talking about it. RNZ successfully getting a point across. You will inevitably annoy some people when you try and make cultural progress.
by Pete George on 17th December 2017 • Permalink
Tagged Don Brash, Emma Espiner, Guyon Espiner, Karl du Fresne, Kim Hill, RNZ, te reo Māori
Posted by Pete George on 17th December 2017
https://yournz.org/2017/12/17/rnz-te-reo-maori-and-brash/
Is MMP too badly flawed?
Inevitably after an election, especially an election with an uncertain outcome, those who probably never wanted MMP say how flawed it is.
Any democratic system involving more than one person has flaws.
It’s fair to keep questioning whether New Zealand’s system of MMP is too badly flawed, or whether a few tweaks will make it a bit less flawed than it is now and less flawed than most if not all alternatives.
But now, while we wait for the formation of our next government, is not an ideal time to jump to any conclusions.
Karl du Fresne writes: Voters lose control when the coalition negotiations begin
Voters hardly ever have much if any control over our politicians.
Anyone having second thoughts about MMP?
I’ve argued for years that we swapped one set of flaws for another when we voted in 1993 to change the electoral system. The events of the past 10 days have done nothing to reverse that perception.
So he seems to have never wanted MMP. Why should the events of the past 10 days change anyone’s mind about MMP? There may be a bit of limbo but there is no crisis, there is no urgency, there is nothing particularly abnormal or alarming about waiting for the final results in a close election.
The theory was that by denying absolute power to any one party – in effect, requiring parties to negotiate and compromise on key policies – the MMP system would force governments to become more accountable and consensus-driven.
A bonus was that by giving greater power to minor parties, MMP would deliver more diverse representation in Parliament.
At least that was the theory, and to some extent it has been proved right.
Under MMP, we have certainly had far more diverse parliaments. The two-party duopoly has been broken, opening the way for a much wider range of ideological positions and agendas to be represented in Parliament, from the old-style populist Muldoonism of NZ First through to the environmentally-driven Greens and the race-based sectional interests of the Maori Party.
There have been definite improvements.
But has MMP delivered greater accountability, as its idealistic (and mostly Left-wing) promoters promised? Hmmm. That’s another matter entirely.
Here we encounter two problems. The first is that under MMP, 49 of the 120 MPs in Parliament are not directly accountable to voters. They are elected on the all-important party lists and have no constituents to answer to.
Rather, they owe their loyalty to the party organisation, on which they depend for their ranking on the lists and therefore for their career prospects.
In other words, it’s a system that prioritises loyalty to the party over any obligations to voters.
That’s a potential weakness, but the old FPP system also prioritised loyalty to the party, as does the electorate part of MMP. Sure things go to the public for a vote every now and again but the influence of parties dominates.
But arguably an even bigger flaw is the one that we again see in play following the recent election.
Not for the first time, New Zealand finds itself at the mercy of NZ First and its vain and fractious leader, Winston Peters. A man whose party won only 7.5 per cent of the vote on election day will determine who governs us for the next three years.
Whatever this is, it’s not democracy. It’s a travesty, and it’s made worse by Peters’ egotistical posturing.
Peters is posturing, but is it a real problem? If the media just left him alone until the final results are announced we would see no posturing.
New Zealand is not at the mercy of anyone. We are waiting for an election result, and Peters is sensible to wait for the result too.
But even without a rogue politician like Peters in the mix…
There is no evidence of peters being a rogue politician, yet at least. Grump and secretive, but he has not done anything undemocratic. Claims if using disproportionate power are unproven – power is currently on hold, it is not being abused or overused. We may or may not have reason to complain in a week or two, but for now things are very benign.
… the system is deeply – perhaps fatally – flawed. Because regardless of the result on election day, all bets are off once the votes are in.
So what? That’s what happened after every election in the past. We have a system of representative democracy, that’s how it was under FPP and that’s how it is under MMP. We vote, then we largely leave it to the politicians for three years. Changing back to FPP won’t change that markedly if at all.
At that stage the public cedes total control to the politicians, who disappear behind closed doors to decide which of the policies they campaigned on can be jettisoned and which bottom lines no longer matter. We, the voters, have no power to influence what concessions will be made in coalition negotiations.
We have no power to influence policies developed by parties either, unless we belong to one party, and even then an individual’s power is minute.
Whatever this is, it’s not democracy.
It is democracy as we have it.
What would be more democratic – allowing us all to vote on what parties should form a government? Allowing us to vote on what policies are decided on? Allowing us to vote on who will be Prime Minister and who will be deputy? Vote for every minister?
That may take two years to work things out rather than two weeks or two months.
Should all of us be able to vole for every bit of legislation?
A good case can be made for more public say in what legislation passes through Parliament, but most people don’t care most of the time what our politicians do. We vote, then we largely leave it to them, apart from having the occasional grizzle.
The almost comical paradox is that the MMP system, which supposedly returned power to the people, is virtually guaranteed to produce a result where one or more minor parties end up wielding influence grossly disproportionate to their public support.
This is often claimed. We have had seven governments formed under MMP and there is little or no evidence it is true. I don’t think we have ever came anywhere close to grossly disproportionate influence.
The politicians have become thoroughly acclimatised to it too and either fail to see, or don’t want to see, its fatal flaws. But I reckon we were sold a crock in 1993, and I want my money back.
If du Fresne wanted to take things back to ‘the good old days’ he should have voted for NZ First.
MMP has obvious flaws, but not as du Fresne claims.
Large parties have disproportionate power by hobbling MMP with a high threshold. MMP is flawed by design.
If small parties, especially new parties, weren’t kept out of Parliament by a ridiculous barrier then MMP would be less flawed.
It would still have it’s flaws, because flawed humans use it, often to their own advantage more than for the good of all people. But there is no democratic system that does any better for the people.
The biggest problem with post-election limbo is not MMP, it’s the impatience of journalists and opinion writers, who concoct unsubstantiated gripes to fill their columns and attract a few clicks.
by Pete George on 4th October 2017 • Permalink
Tagged flawed, Karl du Fresne, MMP
Posted by Pete George on 4th October 2017
https://yournz.org/2017/10/04/is-mmp-too-badly-flawed/
Hager response to Soper article
There has been a lot of discussion today about the Barry Soper article in the Herald – Another shadow over Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s book (some things in the article may have changed through the day) – especially over the the photo from Hager’s book
Originally that was shown with the bottles mostly cropped, as i had taken a copy of the original picture here Cartridge challenge to ‘Hit & Run’ claims.
Update: See letter from Hager to the Herald below.
The article also now has a response from Hager:
Nicky Hager responds:
“The book does not claim that those weapon cartridges came from the SAS and indeed in another illustration (on page 49) the authors explain that they are Apache helicopter weapons.
The illustration in the book shows objects collected by the villagers after the raid and the caption refers only to two drink bottles pictured, which the villagers thought were left by snipers. There was no suggestion that the weapon cartridges were from the SAS.
But the photo caption implies by association that if the bottles were left by snipers the cartridges would also have been left by the same sniper/s. I think it is reasonable to assume the two went together.
Hager clarifies that the objects were gathered (are claimed to have been gathered) after the raid with no proof of them being associated with the raid, or any or all of them having been left by the attacking forces – “which the villagers thought were left” is all that is claimed.
I wonder why snipers would leave rubbish like that behind.
If we had been asked before the story was printed, we could have cleared up this misunderstanding.”
This is somewhat ironic given that Hager is renowned for publishing books having made no attempt to seek input from those he makes serious accusations about.
This is pointed out by journalist Martin van Beyen in Can we trust claims by Hager and Stephenson about SAS raid?
Another issue is that Hager’s method is not to seek comment or reaction from the people he is accusing before publishing. There are sometimes good reasons for that but if he worked for a newspaper his stories would not run without the allegations being put to the authorities.
Karl du Fresne also covers this in Let truth and falsehood grapple over the Hager-SAS stink
Hager doesn’t bother with balance. He and co-author Jon Stephenson didn’t approach the Defence Force for its side of the story before publishing Hit and Run.
This is consistent with Hager’s previous modus operandi. I don’t think he gave Cameron Slater a chance to respond to the claims made in Dirty Politics either, or Don Brash when he published The Hollow Men.
Cameron Slater has frequently complained about not being given a chance to put his side of the Dirty story.
Hager would probably argue that the reason he doesn’t approach the subjects of his books is that it would give them an opportunity to obstruct publication, possibly with legal action.
But newspapers take that risk every time they run a potentially damaging story about someone. It doesn’t stop them seeking comment from the people or organisation they’re about to take a whack at.
One thing certainly seems different to how Hager handled the aftermath of Dirty Politics – this time both he and Stephenson are getting involved with a lot of defending and trying to justify what they wrote.
Hager in particular seems sensitive to people making assumptions about debatable and less than solid evidence.
UPDATE: the letter from Hager to the Herald (not sure why Stephen price’s name is in it) that prompted the added response from Hager:
——– Forwarded Message ——–
Subject: complaint against Herald story
From: Nicky Hager
To: Steven Price
Hi Shayne,
I am writing to complain about a story and associated comment by Barry Soper relating to our book Hit and Run. The story says that we were wrong about a type of weapon cartridges pictured in a
photo in the book and that this casts a shadow over the accuracy of the the book.
However the basis for the criticism is something that the story says is suggested and inferred by the book when neither of these is what we actually said in the book. It was just someone jumping to conclusions on the basis of an illustration caption. We have been advised there are grounds for a complaint to the press council, however we would much rather sort this out by you adding a comment to the story there and then a follow up story that presents our position on these claims.
Can you please add the following words near the top of the current news story and Barry Soper may like to amend his opinion piece accordingly?
“The book does not claim that those weapon cartridges came from the SAS and indeed in another illustration (on page 49) the authors explain that they are Apache helicopter weapons. The illustration in the book shows objects collected by the villagers after the raid and the caption refers only to two drink bottles pictured, which the villagers thought were left by snipers. There was no suggestion that the weapon cartridges were from the SAS. If we had been asked before the story was printed, we could have cleared up this misunderstanding.”
Then a follow up story could present the same points.
The obvious thing to do was to check the story with us, which was after all based on assumption, not anything we wrote in the book. The story says that a reporter tried unsuccessfully to contact Jon Stephenson, but they could have contacted me. Also, the point I make here is obvious and so even without contacting us should have made a reporter wonder whether the story was correct.
We have no problem with critical comment about the book, of course, but it needs to be based on accurate information and be balanced and fair.
I’m kind of gobsmacked by this from Hager. He is demanding a different standard regarding rights of reply than he gives people he writes about in his books – he gives them no chance of any fact checking or contesting prior to publishing, and arranges his launch PR to give him a considerable advantage over his targets.
And balance is absent – in his latest book as past books he has a fairly strong agenda against one side of the story.
by Pete George on 31st March 2017 • Permalink
Tagged Barry Soper, Karl du Fresne, Martin van Beyen, Nicky Hager
Posted by Pete George on 31st March 2017
https://yournz.org/2017/03/31/hager-response-to-soper-article/
Protests about TPPA protests
In his daily political roundup Bryce Edwards includes a few criticisms of TPPA protests.
TPP protests under attack
Criticisms have been made of other protests lately – especially the anti-TPP protests in Auckland. Heather du Plessis-Allan complained that protestors were ignorant and inarticulate in her column, infuriating protest. She also suggested their tactics would backfire.
A number of media had interviews with protesters who, if they were representative samples, suggest a widespread lack of knowledge about what they were actually protesting about.
And Karl du Fresne argued “When idealism morphs into acts of violence, protesters relinquish any right to be heard” – see: The arrogance of the self-righteous. He also thought Josie Butler’s protest would be counterproductive: “No doubt she will have become an overnight hero of the Left, who are too absorbed in their own sanctimonious bubble to realise that offensive protest gestures ultimately boost support for the National government and play into the hands of the law-and-order lobby.”
I think Butler may fade away quite quickly – there were reports that other protesters were quite dismayed that her lunacy attracted most of the media attention they were seeking.
Paul Buchanan had some similar points to make in his blog post, Too Clever. On the TPP protests, he said, “Unfortunately, it has activists who seemingly are more interested in establishing and maintaining their street credentials as ‘radicals’ or ‘militants’ than using protest and civil disobedience as an effective counter-hegemonic tool.”
There are certainly indications that the TPPA is just the current in a line of excuses for protesting and trying to beat up on the Government.
Also from Buchanan’s post:
That is why things got too clever. As a tactical response to the police thwarting of the initial action, the move to rolling blockades was ingenious. But that bit of tactical ingenuity superseded the strategic objective, which was to draw attention to the extent of TPPA opposition.
In fact, it appeared that the Sky City activists were trying to outdo each other in their attempts to make a point, but in doing so lost sight of the original point they were trying to make. After all, blocking people from leaving the city after the signing ceremony was over was not going to win over hearts and minds when it comes to opposing the TPPA.
And praise and disagreement with Jane Kelsey:
On a more positive note, Jane Kelsey has to be congratulated for almost single-handedly re-defnining the terms of the debate about TPPA and keeping it in the public eye. As someone who walks the walk as well as talk the talk, she was one of the leaders of the Queen Street march and has comported herself with grace and dignity in the face of vicious smears by government officials and right wing pundits lacking half the integrity she has.
I disagree about the concerns she and others have raised about secrecy during the negotiations, in part because I know from my reading and practical experience while working for the US government that all diplomatic negotiations, especially those that are complex and multi-state in nature, are conducted privately and only revealed (if at all) to the public upon completion of negotiations (if and when they are).
Last term sustained anti-asset sales protests failed to awaken the sleeping giant missing million – most of whom are perpetually dozing politically.
by Pete George on 24th February 2016 • Permalink
Tagged Heather du Plessis-Allan, Karl du Fresne, Paul Buchanan, TPPA, Trans Pacific Partnership
Posted by Pete George on 24th February 2016
https://yournz.org/2016/02/24/protests-about-tppa-protests/
Dealing with dud beneficiaries
Karl du Fresne blogs about David Shearer’s rooftop dole bludger:
Labour leader David Shearer was pilloried in the left-wing blogosphere for making a speech in which he made it clear he disapproved of people claiming a benefit when they were fit to work.
Yet his attitude is entirely in line with the views of the Labour politicians who created the social welfare system in the 1930s. They were harshly intolerant of welfare “loafers”. The colourful public works minister Bob Semple, a former union leader, is said to have once thundered in biblical tones: “He who shall not work, neither shall he eat.”
That Mr Shearer was condemned within his own party shows how the entitlement mindset has distorted attitudes to the point where dependency on the taxpayer is viewed as a valid lifestyle choice.
Dim-Post discusses this and disagrees with the government approach to reduce job avoidance in The Big Lie:
National doesn’t want to intervene in the economy and create jobs – for a variety of reasons, some ideological, some related to their own hubris: they’ve been convinced for four years now that the economy is about to experience ‘robust growth’, due to the sheer awesomeness of John Key being in power.
Bennett’s welfare reform is an interim response; a very successful propaganda campaign designed to distract the public from National’s jaw-dropping policy failures by pretending that the people most affected by the economic downturn are actually its causes.
Which brings us back to David Shearer and his roof-painting sickness beneficiary: it would be nice if the leader of the opposition didn’t help the government out when they’re waging a dishonest scaremongering campaign to try and conceal their own impotence.
If National – or Labour, or whoever – can get unemployment back down to 3% then they can crack down on benefit fraud and drug test beneficiaries and suspend payments to dole-bludgers with outstanding arrest warrants as much as they like (although they probably won’t bother because all those measures will cost far more money than they ever save.)
Until then, the only welfare reform I want to hear about is job creation.
I agree that job creation is important – but not so much Government creating jobs, I agree with Natikonal’s theory of creating good economic conditions that enable businesses to create jobs.
But this ‘don’t worry about “dole-bludgers” and druggies until the unemployment rate comes down is nonsense. Danyl seems to be saying that job avoidance at 6% unemployment is ok but at 3% it isn’t is odd. What about 5%? 4%?
What if unemployment fluctuates above and below 3%? Can beneficiaries keep switching between work readiness and avoidance?
When the world economy finally regains strength the out of work force needs to be ready to step into newly created jobs.Trying to get beneficiaries to suddenly acquire a work ethic and work readiness is stupid. Preparing them now makes far more sense.
Even if unemployment deteriorates those on the dole should be ready and willing to work. Just because the economy is in an extended slump doesn’t justify active avoidance of work.
I know for a fact that even now there would be more people employed if there was more willingness to work. And if they had realistic expectations about what sort of work they are suitable for.
by Pete George on 8th September 2012 • Permalink
Posted in Issues
Tagged beneficiaries, Dim-Post, dole bludgers, Karl du Fresne, Labour, National
Posted by Pete George on 8th September 2012
https://yournz.org/2012/09/08/dealing-with-dud-beneficiaries/
Gower’s Dirty Deal
Patrick Gower seems to be obsessed by electorate “dirty deals”. He has been campaigning strongly against them in Epsom and Ohariu.
His statements have been contrary to the Electoral Act as they don’t include promoter statements – he doesn’t even reveal what party he is representing. TV3 is not a registered party.
His latest campaign strategy has been retweeting anyone who will promote his policy.
This doesn’t seem to be impartial or balanced journalism, more like targeted extended political campaigning.
There’s no denyying quite a bit of voter disatisfaction the way parties make arrangements in electorates. Some of these arrangements are open, some of them less obvious, but they happen to varying degrees all over the place. Labour are complicit in Epsom and Ohariu, and Greens are openly complicit in Ohariu – Gareth Hughes wears two faces there, one that says it’s up to the voters to decide, the other promoting Chauvel as much as he can while he smears Dunne.
And Hughes is standing for a seat he doesn’t want to win, it’s presumably for his campaigning convenience. He doesn’t even live in the electorate, so he is using the system for his own ambitions as much as anyone.
Notably in a recent item on TV3 Gower gave Hughes an extended opportunity to promote a party other than his own.
The media are complicit in the Epsom arrangements in particular, they hassled and harried until Key and Banks had their cup of tea. It’s impossible to know if the cafe rendevous would have happened at all without media pressure, but it certainly wouldn’t have happened as an election event without media attention.
Obviously the media have a right to highlight issues that may be of interest to voters, but surely it is then up to the voters to make their own judgement at the ballot box.
Why is Gower obsessed with just the one type of electorate arrangement? There are a number of practices that could be questioned, like
parties standing candidates in electorates with no intention of contesting the electorates (eg Greens)
candidates standing for electorates knowing they have much greater priorities than the electorate (eg Key, English, Goff)
party head offices installing their own choice of candidate overriding local candidate choices
Karl du Fresne writes on this in today’s Dominion:
Claiming political scalps for sport
Comment: Media scavenging is bad news
The election campaign has brought to the fore a new style of television journalism.
It is aggressive, confrontational, highly opinionated and designed to provoke a reaction. Its chief practitioners are Patrick Gower and Duncan Garner of 3 News.
… there’s something disconcerting about Gower’s approach. You get the feeling that its purpose is to claim political scalps for the sheer sport of it.
He is a journalistic picker of scabs, a scavenger who swoops on the wounded. He scans the political landscape looking for any story that, with judicious editing and sneering voice-over, can be manipulated for maximum effect.
The Gower approach illustrates two trends in modern political journalism. One is to strive at all costs for what former British prime minister Tony Blair called “impact” something to excite the public’s blood lust.
The other is to put the journalist at the centre of the story.
The modern political reporter is no longer content to be a passive observer, but wants to be a player a maker and breaker of careers.
Gower made an interesting comment on Radio Live last night – he didn’t watch the closing statements of the debate last night because he feels uncomfortable looking into politician’s eyes.
by Pete George on 22nd November 2011 • Permalink
Tagged Dominion, Duncan Garner, Gareth Hughes, Karl du Fresne, Patrick Gower, TV3
Posted by Pete George on 22nd November 2011
https://yournz.org/2011/11/22/gowers-dirty-deal/
Duker on Shane Jones diverts to copious meat eating as further questions raised about company links
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Erin Cahill in "Storm War" (2011)
Erin Cahill (Jen, Time Force) played a starring role in the 2011 television movie, "Storm War." Cahill stars as Samantha Winter, a young scientist who fears the worst when strange environmental storms begin to pop in isolated areas around Washington. Fearing that her missing mentor, Marcus Grange is behind the weather disasters because of revenge, Samantha tracks down his estranged sons, David and Jacob, hoping their scientific minds can help track down Marcus and stop his devastating wrath from destroying an entire city. After Marcus publicly threatens the city, the trio become targets of the government looking to track him down as well. Cahill appears throughout the film and her character soon becomes the object of attraction for both brothers (played by Jason London & Wes Brown). While Jacob shows feelings for Samantha, she becomes interested in his older brother, David. In the end, Samantha and David discover a way to contain the force of Marcus' storms, by triggering one of their own. When Jacob goes out on his own after discovering their father's location, he is present when the storm hits their location, leading David & Samantha to believe both have perished. A full zip of Erin Cahill's screencaps are available to download below.
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Modern English - It's Ok Lyrics
You've said a lot, believe me.
You've said too much again.
Don't cost a lot of money -
I'm gonna count to ten.
But it's OK (It's OK);
I've been here before (It's OK).
And I'll come again (It's OK).
You have to give me more (It's OK).
There's such a lot of tension,
It's almost everywhere.
A sharp increase in volume -
It fills the air.
(I'm not thinking).
(I'm not listening).
But it's OK (It's OK, it's OK)
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DVD Review – Into the Grizzly Maze
Category : DVD Review
Director: David Hackl
Starring: James Marsden, Thomas Jane, Piper Perabo, Billy Bob Thornton
Into the Grizzly Maze could have been subtitled ‘drop an attractive foursome into the woods and see what happens’. And whatever first guesses come to your mind will probably be exactly accurate. Fall in love? Sure. Fall down and injure your leg? Of course. Jump off a cliff into a mountain stream? Why not. Run around in nonsensical fashion and reveal plot details with painful slowness? Definitely. And if this sounds like the set up for a dozen movies, all done much better than this one, that’s because there are and they are. Take The Edge for example, a wonderful & underrated survival film that pits deep characters against each other & mother nature, revealing humanity at its purest while avoiding the pitfalls of animal action movies. This isn’t that, although it attempts to be, becoming more a rip off than an idea, but failing to copy any of the positive aspects of a film that’s approximately four times better.
Estranged brothers Rowan & Beckett couldn’t be more dissimilar. Rowan is an ex-con, a man who uses his fists before his wits, a pariah around his home town, and an all-around loser. Beckett is a local sheriff’s deputy, an ex-hunter turned conservationist, a married man who takes his responsibilities seriously. When Rowan returns to town to check up on a missing friend, someone who went to bat for him years ago, the brothers reunite, though not in the way either might have liked. Beckett takes Rowan into custody after the latter gets into a fist-fight, starting the old routine all over again, causing problems in a town that doesn’t like trouble. But Rowan will soon be gone, off into the woods where his father used to take him before his parents both died, on a mission to find his friend and perhaps redeem himself, if that’s even possible.
So Rowan enters the Grizzly Maze, a death valley of bears & traps & blind alleys, searching for something that he most likely won’t find. And at the same time, Beckett’s new wife Michelle traipses the forest taking pictures and protecting wildlife. Neither know that terrible murders are being committed all around them, loggers & cops & hunters dying by the dozen, all killed by what couldn’t possibly be a bear, let alone the same bear, could it? Beckett & a friend named Kaley head into the hills to find Rowan & Michelle, only to find themselves smack dab in the middle of a kill or be killed situation. The bears have gone wild, the police don’t know what to do, hunters want to go after the protected wildlife, and all action leads to the Grizzly Maze, a place that is sure to catch you, keep you, and not let you go alive.
I reference The Edge because of the similar set up; a killer bear, the middle of the woods, a desperate attempt to escape, two men with animosity toward each other forced to work together, a love story undercurrent, survival against all odds. But that’s pretty much where the similarities end. Where The Edge is part psychological thriller, part man vs wild, Into the Grizzly Maze quickly becomes something new & strange; high-brow horror. It’s as if some slasher buff watched a thousand campy creature features and SyFy original Bigfoot movies and decided that a combination of the two styles could be brought together, given a legitimate cast, and succeed as a stand-alone drama. Well, breaking news, it can’t. This film starts beautifully & intriguingly, but quickly becomes no more than a gore-fest with a raging bear turning everything into a bloody pulp. Story details are tossed in like garbage, the plot becomes ridiculous, and the point becomes to show off CGI bear effects and horror makeup until our eyes & tastes force us to turn our heads.
What a disappointing film. Not that I had extremely high expectations, but what I wanted was a cool survival movie, not a b-movie bloodbath that both grosses out and makes no sense. Imagine a killer who chases bumbling fools and seems to be in a million places at once. That’s how this bear is portrayed, up until he confronts the heroes, when suddenly he’s stupid again and can’t seem to kill anyone properly. I wish this superbear would have won, getting rid of all the terrible characters that littered this film and made it even sillier than it was already. Marsden the brother with baggage, Jane the brother with resentment; a pair of mediocre actors making bad decisions in the woods. Perabo playing a deaf girl terribly, Thornton playing a psycho hunter even worse; too bad one of them survives. The cast was terrible as a whole, the film was convoluted with too many dumb plot lines, and it was ultimately no different & no better than a cheap horror film with shaky cam. That was the most surprising aspect, how amateur & typical & poor the movie became by the end, failing to become anything more than just another made-for-TV spoof; too bad it wasn’t actually made-for-TV nor meant to be a spoof.
The DVD
Video – With an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, the video quality of the film is both excellent and unmentionable, rising and falling with every scene change. The film was shot using an Arri Alexa camera, and at times looks beautiful, especially during the pans scattered throughout. Shot in Vancouver, the landscape is stunning, and given to us with crisp clarity, except for what seemed to be a bug on the lens during a few shots. But other than the transitional high pans, the picture quality was low and/or normal, nothing to get excited about at the very least.
Audio – The audio was done in Dolby Digital 5.1, with a choice between English and French (dubbed). Also, subtitles are available in English, English SDH, and French. The sound quality of the film is fine, with intense background music and a good dialogue balance. The movie soundtrack won’t wow you, and the quality won’t blow you away, but the audio is passable.
Extras – The only extras on the disc are six previews: Lake Placid vs Anaconda, Air, Insidious: Chapter 3, Home Sweet Hell, Broken Horses, Bad Country.
Skip It. Into the Grizzly Maze is startlingly bad. What begins as a cool survival flick quickly turns into a terrible creature feature, something you’d see late night, not prime time. And with a cast like this, you expect much better, making their failure to deliver that much more disappointing. The whole project missed the mark, missing an opportunity to commit to a genre and becoming a muddle in the process. Bad acting, bad writing, bad action, bad effects, bad blood; there’s almost nothing here to hold on to, other than the attractive people who aren’t even that by the end of the feature. The video is very nice at times, mediocre at others, the audio is fine but not great, and the extras are few. Watch The Edge or watch Abominable, but don’t watch a movie that tries to be both.
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B'nai B'rith, Tacoma Lodge No. 741 records, 1913-1937
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Minutes journal, ledger containing membership list and accounts ledger of a Jewish service organization
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ArtsArenaPLUS is the membership program for the Arts Arena. It is the members’ generosity that allows The Arts Arena to maintain a policy of offering quality cultural events that are free and open to the pubic. As a way of recognizing this contribution, we initiated in 2010-11 ArtsArenaPLUS, offering a number of special events organized exclusively for Arts Arena members at different levels.
For more information on Arts Arena memberships, click here.
SELECTED ArtsArenaPLUS EVENTS
William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Banque de France, Galerie dorée
Location: 3 rue de La Vrillière, Paris, 1er
William Christie and Les Arts Florissants perform "L'air français, un art intime" in a by-invitation-only concert in the magnificent and recently restored Galerie dorée of the Banque de France, followed by a reception. This private event is the Closing Concert of the Farewell Symposium for Chrisitan Noyer, the outgoing Governor… View More
ArtsArenaPLUS meets artist Alexa Meade
Location: 90 rue de la Folie Méricourt, Paris, 11e
Galerie SISSO invites ArtsArenaPLUS members to a private viewing and encounter with Alexa Meade during her major show at the gallery. Known for her portraits painted on the human body, Ms. Meade takes the classical concept of trompe-l'oeil in the opposite direction, collapsing depth to make her living models into… View More
ArtsArenaPLUS Private Tour of Musée Picasso
Location: 5 rue de Thorigny, Paris, 3e
In advance of the March 10 appearance of Laurent Le Bon, Président du Musée Picasso, at the Arts Arena, ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to a private guided tour of the museum. The Musée Picasso Paris collection comprises over 5,000 works and tens of thousands of archived pieces. For its quality… View More
ArtsArenaPLUS at l'Opéra Comique
Location: 1 Place Boieldieu, Paris, 2e
The Arts Arena is pleased to be able to offer its members tickets to the sold-out production of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants’s performance of the opera-dance Les Fêtes vénitiennes at the Opéra Comique. Members will be invited to greet Mr. Christie and the performers.View More
ArtsArenaPLUS at Théâtre de la Ville
Pirandello's Six personnages en quête d'auteur
Location: Place du Châtelet, Paris
We are pleased to offer ArtsArenaPLUS members complementary tickets to the dress rehearsal of Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota's production of Pirandello's play Six personnages en quête d'auteur on January 13, the eve of its official opening. This is in anticipation of our January 25 joint event with the theater when, following the… View More
ArtsArenaPLUS at Lucinda Childs's "Dance"
As part of the Festival d'Automne, the Théâtre de la Ville presents a revival of Lucinda Childs's landmark work Dance, with sets and video by artist Sol LeWitt. Caitlan Scranton, who appreared with Ms. Childs at the Arts Arena in January 2014, will be performing. We have a limited number… View More
ArtsArenaPLUS and Robert Wilson
Location: Place de l'Odéon, Paris
ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to a preview of Robert Wilson's production of Jean Genet's Les Nègres at the Théâtre de l'Odéon.View More
Balanchine at the Paris Opéra Ballet
Location: 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Immediately prior to the opening performance of the Paris Opéra Ballet's production of Balanchine works, ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to meet in close conversation with Ellen Sorrin, Director fo the George Balanchine Trust and of the New York Choreographic Institute (New York City Ballet), and Colleen Neary, who sets the… View More
Georges Helft: Pourquoi Duchamp
ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to hear Georges Helft speak about this provocative artist at the home of Arts Arena director Margery Arent Safir, followed by a cocktail dînatoire. Marcel Duchamp, French and American, was one of the giants who revolutionized 20th-century art, questioning even what constitutes a work of art.… View More
Midnight Champagne at the Comédie-Française
Meeting Dan Jemmett After HAMLET
On the eve of British director Dan Jemmett's October 15 talk at the Arts Arena, ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to join him for a coupe de champagne and conversation, immediately following the performance of his production of Hamlet at the Comédie-Française. Address details will be sent to members by email.… View More
ArtsArenaPLUS at the Centre Pompidou-Metz
Special Tour and Lunch
Location: Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris
ArtsArenaPLUS members will travel by train to Metz for a private visit of this spectacular museum. Lunch will follow before returning to Paris. RSVP: artsarena@aup.eduView More
ArtsArenaPLUS at the Opéra Comique
William Christie and Les Arts Florissants perform "David et Jonathas"
Location: 1 Place Boieldieu, Paris
On the eve of William Christie's talk at the Arts Arena, ArtsArenaPLUS members will have the opportunity to attend the performance of Mr. Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's opera David et Jonathas. Photograph: P.Victor/artcomartView More
Rufus Wainwright Backstage at the Folies Bergere
Location: 32, rue Richer, Paris
ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited backstage after the show to meet and greet composer, musician, singer, and international star Rufus Wainwright. Called the greatest songwriter of his generation, Wainwright has starred at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Convent Garden Royal Opera House, the London Palladium, the Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert… View More
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Kim Ravaillion
Debuted for the Australian Diamonds in 2013 before she had recorded a single cap for her national Netball league club side. A World Champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
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Kim Ravaillion is widely acknowledged as the fittest player in world netball. It was 2013 when Ravaillion first earned selection for the Australian Netball Diamonds, playing against the England National team. Astoundingly, she made her Diamonds debut before recording a single cap for the Queensland Firebirds. Ravaillion’s recruitment to the Firebirds coincided with the teams’ return to Finals action. She played in all 15 matches in her inaugural season, and over the ensuing four years, made four grand final appearances for two Championship wins.
Ravaillion made her Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow. A starting berth in a hotly contested final against arch-rivals the New Zealand Silver Ferns delivered Ravaillion and her Diamonds teammates a gold medal – the team’s first at the Games’ since 2002. Ravaillion bagged more silverware at international level in 2015 when the Diamonds successfully defended their World Cup title in Sydney.
The agile midcourter had a brilliant campaign as the Diamonds first choice centre. Ravaillion was announced as a marquee signing for the Collingwood Magpies back in 2017 with the launch of the Suncorp Super Netball league. She signed a two-year extension at the end of 2018 to remain with the Melbourne-based franchise. In September, Ravaillion and her partner, Collingwood footballer Adam Treloar announced they are expecting a child together which will temporarily sideline Kim for the 2020 season.</p.
Silver – 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
Winner – Queensland Firebirds, 2016 ANZ Championship
Gold – Australian Diamonds, 2015 Netball World Cup Sydney
Gold – Australian Diamonds, 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
DOB: 26 July 1993
Sport: Netball
Resides: Melbourne, Hometown: Sydney
Partners: Nike, Gilbert, Almond Breeze
Queensland Firebirds – MVP, 2015 ANZ Championship
All-Star Team – Centre, 2015 ANZ Championship
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Vintage Vacation: Road Trips from Hell with Blast-Off Burlesque, Part 1: Blizzard in North Carolina
Posted on: Sep 8th, 2011 By: Anya99
With Blast-Off Burlesque’s World Tour about to take off this weekend at 7 Stages (if you haven’t bought tickets yet, book ‘em here,! Fri at 9 p.m., and Sat at 7:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.), we asked those gorgeous gals and guys about their craziest real-life travel experiences. And did they have some stories to tell—from wicked weather to dodgy directions.
In the first of this three-part series, the entire Blast-Off gang braves a blizzard but our intrepid entertainers know the show must go on…
In January 2009, Blast-Off was heading to Asheville to put on two nights of a “best of” show at North Carolina Stage Company. We were psyched about it, because it was the first time we’d really taken the show on the road, rather than traveling to guest in other folks’ shows.
As the date approached, we kept an eye on the weather. It was January, after all. And as luck would have it, a snow – and ice – storm synched up with our travel plans. We were planning on heading up in two groups, one on Thursday evening and one Friday. The storm had a similar plan of attack.
Sadie Hawkins. Photo courtesy of Sadie Hawkins.
Barbilicious and Dickie Van Dyke were first to make the journey from Atlanta to North Carolina. They made it just ahead of the storm. Sadie Hawkins had been in Washington, DC for her day job. It was snowing there, too, and she was playing the weather delay game with Delta. Finally, a flight got through, and she made it home just as Atlanta’s weather started to get exciting. She was scheduled to drive up to Asheville with her partner – and Blast-Off’s sound man – Bryant. The goings were slow, but they made it up there in the wee hours.
Now, when team Blast-Off goes to Asheville, we stay in a cabin in the woods. Seriously. Disastrid’s mother has a rustic place at the base of a mountain, off of a curvy road and next to a babbling creek. It’s remote enough that there’s no cell service. It has power and water – and a landline phone.
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From the opening pre-credit scene, Antitrust sets out to display a rivalry between "corporate ideology" and "independent thinking" (let's face it... it's Microsoft versus open source). Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), is obviously set up to be the Bill Gates of the story (even though Gates is referred to as "Bill Who?" early in the movie), while Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) is the hard-working programmer trying his best to advance his career by getting a spot with a world-leading software producer, NURV. In the first three minutes, a Gates/Ballmer-like presentation and congressional hearings are shown. Then, when Milo receives "that call" from Winston, the plot thickens. You don't have to wait... you're not even five minutes into the movie yet.
Milo disappoints his friends by joining Winston's team. Early on, Winston actually seems to want to take his new protege under his wing, but also exploits Milo's inexperience and willingness for his own corporate needs. One of Milo's "open source" friends is murdered, and Milo eventually learns of Winston's unethical and illegal actions. Off Milo goes to investigate his friend's death and how Milo "got into this mess".
Side note: Rachael Leigh Cook = UNF!
Without giving away too many spoilers, Milo digs deeper and learns that he can trust nobody on the NURV team (or his own girlfriend) and has to solve the mystery of his friend's death either on his own or with the help of the very few people he can trust, which of course are his other open source friends. Winston continues to lurk in the background as the "root" of all evil (pun intended) , and how Milo finally exposes him is the entire point of the movie.
Tech points to ponder (from 2001):
* On the white-board during Winston's rally speech, the corporate firewall splits off into two internal interfaces: "translator/adaptor" and "authenticating agent". Interesting design... I think?
* "Teddy always had the most paranoid firewalls to protect his data". That didn't exactly protect Teddy's head from a baseball bat, now did it?
* Perhaps the most ironic of all things in the movie: the company (NURV) itself is almost certainly based on Microsoft, the computers used are all almost certainly Apples/Macs, and all command-line screens are Linux. While the DVD is paused, one line shows:
874 873 0 Date ? 00:22:08 /etc/X11/X :0 -auth / (truncated)
Poor bastard is using a C shell as well. Errrr...
Overall, average acting, average story, average action. Nothing special, but nothing that sends it down to the flaming depths of hell. Worth a rental if you're interested or a $9.99 (US) buy if you're a collector of computer/tech/security movies, and certainly nothing to get excited about.
Lyger's Rating: 2.5
Lyger's Guide:
1 = mafiaboy (raw ass)
2 = Pauly Shore (hey, I liked Encino Man..)
3 = Japanese wrestling (fun to watch for a couple hours)
4 = Mitnick's nipples (whoo-hoo)
5 = OMFG RAWR (you buy it, watch it repeatedly, and sleep with it under your pillow)
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Definition of top spin
Also topspin, top-spin, top. Same as follow. Contrast bottom spin, back spin.
8-BALL EMBROIDERED IRON-ON PATCH POOL BILLIARDS EIGHT EMBROIDERED BIKER EMBLEM
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Object ball
Any ball that may be legally struck by the cue ball.
Key ball
The object ball involved in a key shot.
Throw shot
A combination shot, where hitting the first ball rubs it against the center connecting line of two frozen object balls throwing the second out.
Beating (your opponent) to the shot
This when you receive the first legitimate shot on the next "ball on" after there had been a series of safeties to try and hurt the other players chances. This term is often used in one pocket pool.
Long double
Chiefly British: bank shot played up and down the longer length of the table off a short rail and into a corner pocket, as opposed to the more common bank across the short length into a center pocket or corner.
Umbrella shot
A three cushion billiards shot in which the cue ball first strikes two cushions before hitting the first object ball then hits a third cushion before hitting the second object ball. So called because the shot opens up like an umbrella after hitting the third rail. Umbrella shots may be classified as inside or outside depending on which side of the first object ball the cue ball contacts.
This is an instance when the person not taking their turn interferes with the game play, this is recorded as a foul.
Ring game
A style of game play in which as many players are allowed to join as the participants choose, and anyone can quit at any time. The term, most often used in the context of gambling, is borrowed from poker. The folk games three-ball and killer are usually played as open ring games, as is Kelly pool.
By extension, a multi-player game that anyone may initially join, but which has a fixed roster of competitors once it begins, is sometimes also called a ring game. Cutthroat is, by its nature, such a game. A famous regular ring game event of this sort is the Grady Mathews-hosted six-player, $3000-buy-in ring ten-ball competition at the annual Derby City Classic.
A nine-ball ring game is played by more than two players. Safeties are not allowed.
A (principally American) term in eight-ball for either of the set of seven balls (stripes or solids) that must be cleared before sinking the 8 ball. Borrowed from card games. Generally used in the generic, especially in rulesets or articles, rather than colloquially by players. See also group for the British equivalent.
Slang term for the cue ball.
Pocket apiece
This is another name for One Pocket pool.
Dart stroke
A short and loose stroke performed in a manner similar to the way one throws a dart; usually employed for a jump shot. See also nip draw.
Shape shot
This is a shot that shows great control and positioning in where the cue will be when all the balls stop rolling.
Russian Billiards
This is a unique game played on a table with smaller pockets. The balls are racked in a typical pyramid, but after the break any ball can be the cue ball, and you can score by hitting a ball in or by putting the ball in after bouncing it from another object ball.
Also yellow(s).
In snooker, the lowest-value colour ball on the table, being worth two points. It is one of the baulk colours.
In blackball, one of two groups of seven object balls that must be potted before the eight ball; compare stripes; contrast red ball.
Head cushion
Chiefly American: The cushion on the head rail. Compare bottom cushion; contrast foot cushion.
An exhibition shot designed to impress either by a player's skill or knowledge of how to set the balls up and take advantage of the angles of the table; usually a combination of both. A trick shot may involve items otherwise never seen during the course of a game, such as bottles, baskets, etc., and even members of the audience being placed on or around the table.
Aiming line
An imaginary line drawn from the desired path an object ball is to be sent (usually the center of a pocket) and the center of the object ball.
To contact the chosen object ball in such a way to make it bank off a rail before being pocketed.
Flat Draw
A low hit on the cue ball (but not as low as normal draw), often used to change the cue ball's angle of deflection off the object ball.
Principally British: In snooker, if a player wins all of the required frames in a match without conceding a frame to their opponent - for example, if a player wins a best-of-nine-frame match with a score of 5-0 - this is referred to as a "whitewash". This term is based on a similar term used in the card game of "patience" in the UK. However, it is not used in the context of a 1-0 winning scoreline in a match consisting of a single frame.
The angle at which a ball approaches a rail, as measured from the perpendicular to the rail.
Tip Tapper
1- A tip tool with fine, sharp points used to roughen the cue tip to better hold chalk after it has become hardened and smooth from repeated impacts with the cue ball. Tappers are firmly tapped on or pressed against the tip. Scuffers serve the same purpose, but are used differently.
2- Describes a shot where one has a chance to miscue. Usually heard in reference to long draw shots. As in, "It's a tip-tapper!".
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Former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks have a new album out now via Domino and Matador Records, titled Sparkle Hard. They are currently in the middle of the first leg of their North American Tour with Kill Rock Stars's Lithics, who are also touring in support of their new LP Mating Surfaces, and will be making a stop in Philly this Saturday, June 16 at the TLA. To enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets, just send an email to thedelimagazinephiladelphia@gmail.com with the subject line: "Let Them Eat Vowels". Please also include your cell number in the body of the message (in case of an emergency). Good luck!
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B(I)8/B.2/6 - WT327
WT327 (Photo : Damien Burke)
Arriving at Kemble (Photo : Glen Moreman)
Built in 1955 as a B(I)8 airframe, this Canberra did not see military service with the RAF. In the year it was built it was delivered to Boulton Paul's works at Seighford where AI Mk23 radar was installed. It flew trials with this radar whilst the system was under development for use in the TSR.2.
In 1956, WT327 was transferred to Ferranti's charge, at Turnhouse, for further development and flight trials. It stayed with Ferranti for eight years before returning to BP Seighford in 1963 where an FLR system was installed for development for the TSR.2. This was a Forward Looking Radar system according to a Mr Glen Surtees who is an ex-PR Manager for BAe (Edinburgh). A year later in 1964, WT327 was back with Ferranti again. In 1966, it was transferred to Radar Research Establishment, Pershore, for research and flight trials with Synthetic Aperture Radar
WT327 underwent a radical change to its appearance in 1969 when the B(I)8 nose was removed to be replaced by a B.2 nose from WK135. This itself was replaced in 1971 with the nose from WK163 which incorporated a Laser Ranger and Marked Target Seeker system (LRMTS). Five years of flight trials and development with this system were ended when WT327 was moved to A&AEE in 1976 and finally to RAE Bedford (Thurleigh) in 1977.
Delta Jets of Kemble were contracted to make WT327 ready for a ferry flight to Kemble and then to do the relevant work to enable the aircraft to depart for the USA. WT327 (G-BXMO) arrived in October 1997 and needed much less work than XH567 to get ready, so work commenced immediately. While all this was going on Delta Jets gained CAA approval to add the Canberra to their exposition, which added another string to their bow.
After completion of the work on WT327, Delta Jets obtained the necessary paperwork from the CAA and the Canberra departed Kemble for the USA on Saturday 6th December 1997. This was the first Canberra ever to be ferried across the Atlantic on the British civil register. After its departure and after the break over Christmas, Delta Jets returned to re-commence work on XH567.
Currently, WT327 is still owned byAir Platforms Inc in Lakeport in California. This company hires out this, and their other Canberra XH567, for upper atmosphere work above 50,000 feet.
AirPlatform's two Canberras at the NASA Ames Research Centre
XH567 on the left, WT327 on the right (Photo : Ross Falconer, Program Manager)
I find it heartening to know that this 46 year old Canberra is still in commercial service and, by all accounts, still capable of doing the job efficiently.
On a personal note, it was this photo by Damien Burke that re-awakened my interest in the Canberra. I had worked on Canberras, (B(I)8s, T.4s, PR.9s, T.17s) in the 60s/70s when I was in the RAF and when Damien initially posted this photo as a B(I)8 Canberra on his excellent Thunder & Lightnings Web site, I mailed him to say that it wasn't a B(I)8. From those discussions my memory was stirred . . . . resulting in this "Tribute" Web site. [ I've since found out that WT327 was subject to a "nose job" - as were several Canberras! Just proves the verstility of this fine aircraft. ]
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Tougher DUI Laws Coming Your Way
Washington lawmakers advanced a plan Wednesday to more closely monitor motorists who repeatedly drive under the influence, but the Legislature backed away from a costly proposal that would have increased minimum jail times for such offenders. Under the revised bill, drivers charged with a second impaired driving offense would face mandatory booking in jail and have an interlock device installed on their vehicles within five days of being charged. The state would also begin a pilot program in three counties and two states to conduct daily alcohol monitoring on a person convicted twice under the DUI law. "We're going to save lives," said Democratic Rep. Roger Goodman, one of the lawmakers working on the measure. Goodman said lawmakers have decided not to increase the mandatory minimum jail time for repeat offenders. Goodman said that proposal was expensive, although he says it may get more consideration in the future. The Senate voted Wednesday evening to approve the plan by a 46-0 margin, while the House is expected to vote on the bill as early as Thursday. The amended bill is the latest iteration in the debate over how to crack down on drunken driving. The legislation was sparked by some recent fatal accidents in the state, including a March case in which a suspected drunken driver crashed into a family crossing the street in a residential Seattle neighborhood. That accident critically injured a 10-day-old child and his mother and killed his grandparents. Republican Sen. Don Benton called the bill one of the most important measures the Legislature will pass this year. He said it's important for the state to hold people accountable for their own actions. "If you drink and drive in this state, you are going to pay a heavy penalty for putting your fellow citizens and your family members at risk," Benton said. Democratic Sen. Nathan Schlicher said he was encouraged by the bill but also said he hoped lawmakers would return next year to talk more about what they can do to focus on treatment in order to prevent alcohol abuse from happening. Getting a DUI has never been more serious. Now more than ever it is imperative that a person charged with DUI in Washington State retain a qualified Seattle DUI attorney or a qualified Seattle DUI lawyer in order to best minimize potential legal consequences and protect their rights and interests. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified Seattle DUI lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those charged with DUI in Western Washington. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the DUI allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible.
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Broken Redneck Pride
In a cute town, on a cute street, is a cute tea shop with cute benches outside. My girlfriend owns it. Once a month, she thought it would be fun to have a metal-themed Monday night, "Brewtalitea." Last night was "Brewtalitea."
For some reason, the state of Virginia makes you babysit people who are drinking on patios. That duty fell on me. I went out and watched them drink. Some people talked to me, some people argued with me about California, and some people just looked at me.
Metal Monday was really fun. The bands who played were Rebirthing Candace and Iodic. They were good, and everyone was happy. There was one fat guy in an orange shirt, who seemed to be a little too into the music, but other than that, "Brewtalitea" seemed to be a success.
When the second band stopped, people started leaving, and some gathered outside to finish their beers. I went back out into the cold Autumn air of Virginia to babysit them as the drank.
The fat guy in the orange shirt, Matt, yelled a lot. Neighbors peeked out their windows. He screamed "fuck you" at them" Fat Matt had a very offensive mouth. But I'm not a bouncer, so I didn't say anything. I just waited for everyone to leave the patio.
More people left, but fat redneck Matt stayed with his big, hideous mouth. Then, for no apparent reason, he reached down, picked up one of the benches, and threw it over.
Incredulous, I approached, "What the fuck are you doing?"
"Hey I don't mean no disrespect."
"You've been raising your voice, and now you're breaking things; you're disrespecting the establishment; you're disrespecting our neighbors."
One of his friends stepped close to me while White Trash Matt picked up the bench. He said,
"We don't mean no disrespect!"
I asked him not to raise his voice at me.
Fat Matt must have misheard me and turned around, yelling "You BETTER not raise your voice at me. Fuck YOU!"
Softly, I said, "You need to get out of here."
Unctuous Matt said something about respect and put his hand out to shake mine. I told him he should take his respect and his hand and please leave. Then he said if he ever saw me, he would kill me. I started laughing because I laugh when idiots say idiotic things. That freaked him the hell out. He started screaming and yelling, calling me a fagot and saying he would stick his dick in my ass.
Pungent Matt went to the parking area behind the shop. His friends stayed out front in their car. There were no more people on the patio, so I went inside. Moments later, a woman came in and said that a fat, disgusting-looking slob wearing an orange shirt was in back screaming offensive things. One minute later, one of the band members came in and said that a greasy man wearing an orange shirt broke two windows.
I felt like it was my fault. But what should I have done? I didn't curse, and I didn't raise my voice at the pathetic man. I didn't mean to break his pride, and I didn't mean to mess up his night. But you can't just come to the Darjeeling Cafe and and start breaking shit and expect me to just stand there and not say anything.
I've been feeling guilty about it, like it was my fault, but I think someone like redneck Matt would have broken something eventually anyway. People like him need to be loud and destructive in order to get noticed and feel good about themselves. I kind of feel sorry for him. Kinda. But he was bent on breaking something. If not the bench or the windows, something; if not last night, some night.
Last night was the last Metal Monday Brewtalitea at the Darjeeling Cafe. That's too bad, but necessary. It only takes one redneck to ruin a night.
Labels: Adventure, drinking, Dusty Roads Veteto, Jack Morgan
Welcome to the South...
This is what I was afraid would happen in the south. It's good to experience these kinds of things, though.
Candice P. Harrington said...
Curagea said...
Try South Carolina or Georgia. Now that's really "South".
On the other hand, a metal night sounds awesome.
Though to be fair, the "you're a faggot, I'm going to put my dick in your ass" taunt is still popular in California
Justin Botros said...
Brewtalitea sounds like a hit. I'm sad to hear a late night lunatic ruined the fun. However, I'm glad you didn't have to further destroy his "self respect" and his fat face.
I am sorry to see something cool end, especially like this.
He did give us some money to repair the windows. I don't know if it's enough, but it's something.
It's all just unfortunate.
Alphonse Berber Gallery said...
you should give him Dusty's phone number, maybe they can go test drive some chevrolets for their first date.
Holes In Plot Bigger Than Plot Itself said...
please delete my comment
Mr. Horton said...
I lived almost a decade in the Deep South (Georgia, not my native land), and Fat Redneck Matt is the irritating physical manifestation of a sexist, homophobic (and possibly racist) trope.
It sounds like Matt is living up to his sterotype. I'm glad he paid the place some cash for damages. Take it for what it is, and move along.
Matt is hardly representative the entire South; although, he seems an ignorant fuck.
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Denver Big Air not returning in 2012
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The Denver Big Air competition January 26, 2011 at Civic Center Park
Denver’s Big Air event in Civic Center Park is not coming back.
Fitting the January contest in the International Ski Federation’s international Big Air calendar — which runs from October through December across Europe and Asia — proved too difficult, said the Metro Denver Sports Commission’s Sue Baldwin, the principal organizer of last January’s $1.2 million festive spectacle of live music and flying snowboarders.
“If we wanted to do it again, they (the FIS) were looking at October through December, which doesn’t work because we could easily have a day like this,” Baldwin said Thursday, with temperatures hovering in the mid 50s.
The FIS made an exception last year when it had an opening in its calendar and it meshed with the Colorado gathering of snowy athletes and industry players for Denver’s SnowSports Industries America annual Snow Show trade show and Aspen’s Winter X Games. This year proved too difficult to schedule, so Denver Sports is taking a year off.
But watch for something snowy in Civic Center Park in January 2013. An urban biathlon maybe, or an urban half-pipe contest or even a curling competition, Baldwin said.
“With an Olympic bid potentially in the future, we are looking for opportunities to do something different and big every year,” she said, noting Colorado’s interest in a possible bid for the 2022 Winter Games.
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BLOG MELAKA: 04 <b>di tanjung tuan</b> - Google Blog Search
iGossip by Rizal: --> Jom Tengok Pusaran <b>di Tanjung Tuan</b>!
It was the a program held my Administration of Students Affair of IPG-International Languages Campus. The main program was kayaking and we had to pay RM35 each. Unfortunately I couldn't find any photo during kayaking activity.
Early in the morning...our journey took more than an hour from KL to Port Dickson. We stopped for a while at petrol station to withdraw money and buy snacks.
At time we arrived, the shore was empty, surut habis...haha, so we had to wait for the sea level to rise. I hate tide lol. Only then, we were able to do kayaking.
Srikandi...All of them are now teaching; Kajian Sosial and French.
The Otai...The guy in blue is Mr. Thahir Kamaruzzaman. He was once the officer at the administration and he retired last year. Such a great, humble and friendly man.
Me...Muhamad Rizal bin Sadiman.
We were on our way heading towards Tanjung Tuan or Cape Rachado (the name was given by the Portuguese) to see the famous legendary 'pusaran' or whirlpool.
The front gate of Tanjung Tuan. We were supposed to pay RM1 each but we were lucky that day for not needing to pay the entrance fee. Alhamdulillah...
This is the lighthouse of Tanjung Tuan.
We were very happy after 20 minutes of walking. The weather was totally hot! The sun was very mean that day but we were meaner lol. By making this far was an achievement of a lifetime haha.
Can you see the whirlpools? I couldn't, so unfortunate. According to myth, there was a fisherman managed to get through the brutal whirlpools. He was the only one who survived while the others were nowhere to be found. They all went messing. The whirlpoosl is said to be brutally rotate during fool moon. Hair-raising ha?
Some of us were posing like models of the magazine.
While some were just sitting overthere, doing nothing; we were actually hiding for the sunlight.
Heading back to the shore.
The final blow is the photo of us together. There we 40 of us actually but some couldn't make here. Anyway, thanks to Aman Rasidi for the photos. It was a splendid experience indeed.
Wanna know more about Port Dickson and this awesome spot, do visit this travel blog; Travelog air & sha.
Hope you get it...till then, that is how
My Birding field trips: Raptor Census at <b>Tanjung Tuan</b>, Malaysia
The company that I work required us to utilise our previous year carried forward leave before 31st of March. It has being a few years already I use a big portion of my carried forward leave as field trips to participate in conservation of raptors through monitoring.
Raptor comes from a Latin word rapere that means to seize, to grap by force. Raptor is a term use for birds that have good eyesight for accurate judgement of distance for landing and hunting. They also have strong talons, strong curved beak, strong legs for catching, holding food and to tear flesh.
The purpose of research on migrating raptors through monitoring this long term migratory raptor census project is collate information on migratory raptor populations, species, it's flight strategies on weather conditions. Over the years of data information collated will then able to make a better analysis does it's flight patterns behaviour, populations are affected by the environmental factors. The intresting part is others countries who are in the migratory raptors flyway are also doing this type of survey and monitoring. The data collated by each country will then be combine and compile for a better information and knowledge necessary for conservation of raptors and their habitats.
Raptors migratory patterns and it's populations is a good yardstick of the health of our ecosystem environment. A healthy ecosystem is a good indicator availabilities of adequate food source and fresh water for all.
Where is the best site for Raptor migratory monitoring in Malaysia for spring migration?
At present we able to indentify that Tg Tuan or formally known as Cape Rachado.
The meaning of Spring migration.
Spring migration is bird in big population migrate long distance flying north bound in the spring to breed. Food source is the primary motivation for migration. The longer days of the northen hemispher sumner provide extended time for breeding birds to feed their young.
As migration is energy intensive the fly route are normally shaped by geographical, ecological, and even meteorological factors. Flyways normally is along mountain ranges or coastlines this is due the birds could have the advantage of updrafts and other wind patterns. If possible they will avoid large stretches of open water (sea).
What is the Best time to watch the raptors at Tanjung Tuan.
In order to conserve energy to cross the open sea the raptors will use the fly path of Pulau Rupat, Indonesia that is about 38km distance from Tg Tuan. As raptors are large they require thermals to assist them to glide without using much energy to continous flapping their wings, the timeframe windows on a good condusive weather for migration is between 11am till 4pm.
The waiting time for migratory raptors, you could observe the others residence birds and wildlife that residece in that small green lung.
This year the 42 days counting starts from Feb bring a final score of 57,128 raptors fly past Tg Tuan.
Oriental Honey Buzzard- 53,040
Japanese Sparrowhawk - 152
Does the raptors migratory patterns and it's population impacted by the changes on global weather conditions and natural dissaster? If you are a birder based in Malaysia do spare some days as a volunteering basis to assist Raptor Census at Tg Tuan.
Your small contribution and effort will leads us the answers for the above. The census are carry out yearly from Mid February till April.
Dig deep: 10 - 13th March 2012: Raptor Watch, <b>Tanjung Tuan</b>
Compared to last year, this year's pilgrimage was a decidedly low key affair. The weather conditions conspired against getting many good photos, so, for a better idea of the event and its birds, have a browse through 12-13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th March 2011.
On the 10th, the entire day produced only 17 Grey-faced Buzzards, including this juvenile.
We were glad of the opportunity to watch any bird that would show itself, such as this immature Black-naped Oriole...
...and a Blue-throated Bee-eater.
After a while, even these disappeared, so we resorted to looking at pictures of raptors...
...And people HOPING to get pictures of raptors!
Thankfully, the 11th was a lot better! We counted over 5,300 Oriental Honey-buzzards, though wind and lighting conditions were still not in favour of the photographers!
The best of a bad bunch - a male, two females and a juv. I got much better pics last year!
The star of the day was a dark morph Booted Eagle.
The pictures would have been a lot better if I hadn't had the camera on the wrong settings! Still - it happens, and there will be others...
This Barn Swallow seemed to think it was hilarious!
The 12th was a new low - just one OHB all day, but fortunately, we had made the decision not to sit at the lighthouse. Instead we had a lazy day in the garden and by the beach, when I trained my camera on some of the common birds I usually overlook.
Asian Glossy Starling, Brown Shrike, Spotted Dove and Yellow-vented Bulbul, all taken with coffee in John and Ting Howes' front garden!
A pair of Oriental Magpie-robins coming to take scraps as we lunched at the Yacht Club!
At dusk we went to check out a green-pigeon roost hoping for Orange-breasted. No luck, but we did observe this male Pink-necked apparently eating mud from the foreshore - can anyone explain it? Perhaps taking mineral supplements?
A female Pink-necked Green-pigeon preparing to roost in Rhizophora.
So that was it for Raptor Watch this year. We were fortunate to have one 'big day', and it made us realize what exceptional fortune we'd had last year!
Raptor Watch 2012 by MNS
RW, organised by the Malaysian Nature Society, is a festival to celebrate the return of the migratory birds of prey or better known as raptors on their journey back to their breeding grounds in the northern hemisphere. RW is a public event meant to raise awareness on the conservation of raptors and their habitats.
RW is held annually on the first weekend of March. For the year 2012 the event is held on March 10 & 11 (Saturday & Sunday).
However, the spring raptor migration actually begins in mid February and lasts till mid April. For those who are not able to come to the RW, you can still come anytime within this period to see the birds. Over the years of monitoring, MNS has discovered that the peak period to watch the most number of birds is the first weekend of March.
An opportunity for all
RW is an opportunity for the general public to witness one of nature's most exquisite offerings. Raptors migrate southward to escape the bitter cold of the northern winters and make the same venturous journey back during spring to their breeding grounds in temperate Asia.
Visit their Website at HERE for more information.
For Tanjung Tuan
One of the main objectives of RW is to ensure the continued conservation of Tanjung Tuan Forest Reserve by promoting RW as a national eco-tourism event.
During the spring migration, thousands of raptors can be seen flying across the Straits of Malacca. Having to use massive amount of energy flying across the Straits of Malacca, the raptors will be flying low at the event site making it possible to have a good view of these magnificent birds.
Tanjung Tuan has been listed as an important raptor site by BirdLife International, National Geographic Society and Hawkmountain.
But for many years Tanjung Tuan has been facing a development threat. The sea front of Tanjung Tuan is expensive real estate. As Tanjung Tuan is an extension of the Port Dickson holidaying coasts, its value as a vacation spot is high. For many years plans after plans were drawn by local authorities to develop Tanjung Tuan. And throughout these years, Malaysian Nature Society has been striving to keep Tanjung Tuan intact.
The need to conserve Tanjung Tuan was mainly for the migratory raptors. Tanjung Tuan is an important stop over site for migratory raptors after crossing the Straits of Malacca. It provides food for the raptors as well as a resting spot. For raptors arriving late in the evening, it provides shelter for the night before they take off for flight the next day. Without Tanjung Tuan, many raptors may never make it back, due to exhaustion and lack of food.
The conservation of Tanjung Tuan is also important for its surrounding marine life and its forest growth. The trees in Tanjung Tuan acts a gene bank for tropical timber trees and the waters of Tanjung Tuan is rich with coral and sea-grass, both important for green turtles that lay eggs in secluded beaches of Tanjung Tuan.
RW is organized by Malaysia Nature Society
Malaysian Nature Society
JKR 641 Jalan Kelantan, Bukit Persekutuan
Tel: +603 – 2287 9422
Fax: +603 – 2287 8773
URL: www.mns.my
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Sayang Melaka: Nature Attraction: <b>Tanjung Tuan</b> Recreational Forest
Tanjung Tuan Recreational Forest is located in the administrative area of Alor Gajah Municipal Council (MPAG) and is bordered with Port Dickson in Negeri Sembilan. It is about 20 minutes by bus from Melaka Town. The beach is a newly established recreational area for the whole family.
Various activities can be done here such as picnicking, boat riding, kite flying and swimming. There are services like horse riding but it is chargeable.
Every morning, local residence from the vicinity come to the beach to catch 'geragau shrimp' (a very tiny shrimp), which is in abundance from August to October. This activity is seasonal according to the monsoon wind.
'Geragau' shrimp is very popular among local people in Melaka. They are made into 'belacan' (shrimp paste) and 'cencalok' (shrimp sauce).
Every Sunday from 4.30pm to 6.30pm, there is a free "Dondang Sayang" performance. There is also a lot of food and fruits stall along the beach. This beach promises serenity and tranquility to relieve stress after a hard week of work.
The star attraction here in Tanjung Tuan, the light house was built by the British in the 18th century on the highest point of the cape. The site of the light house is said to be the same site where an old light house was built by the Portuguese during their occupation of Melaka in the 16th century which was later destroyed in a war. It is the oldest lighthouse in the country and is still in use today.
In the 1990s, a radar for monitoring purposes of crossings by large ships was installed in the light house. On a bright and clear day, one can see Sumatra Island across the Straits of Melaka.
The lighthouse is not open to visitors, nevertheless the keeper is more than willing to bring visitors for a tour if one were to request. There are 66 flight of steps leading to the lighthouse. To reach the peak of the lighthouse, one has to climb 72 flight of steps. The lighthouse is controlled by the Shahbandar of Melaka as Tanjung Tuan is a territory of Melaka even though it is located in Port Dickson (Negeri Sembilan).
Enjoy the good view from the top of the hill overlooking the Straits of Melaka where the light house is located. From this vantage point, one can see the town of Port Dickson and the outline of Indonesia's Sumatra across the Straits of Melaka.
While you are here, try to use your imagination skill to create the numerous fighting scenes between the Portuguese and Dutch armadas in the sea below that took place over 500 years ago.
Tanjung Tuan Forest Reserve
The entrance to Tanjung Tuan Forest Reserve is right at the mouth of PNB Ilham Resort. The forest is worth checking out since it's chockful of forest birds and there's a lighthouse at the very end of the trail.
During March every year, birders from all over Asia and world would descend upon Tanjung Tuan to watch thousands of raptors fly overhead from the Straits of Melaka.
Red-Eyed Bulbuls (Pycnonotus brunneus)
Birding spots around PNB Ilham Resort :
1) Observatory Tower at PNB Iham Resort - You can watch raptors glide on warm thermals during the hot noon hour. Bird's eye view of tanjung Tuan from here.
2) Tanjung Tuan Lighthouse - Lots of Olive-Winged Bulbuls over here. There is a guide to raptors right at the top over here. Visitors can spot the usual sparrowhawks during migratory season. Or, if you're not into birds, you can see the narrowest point of the Straits over here.
3) Jungle Trails in the Nature Reserve - Lots of forest birds species.
Tanjung Tuan Wildlife Santuary
The Tanjung Tuan Wildlife Santuary is located half way between the main entrance of the Tanjung Tuan Recreational Forest and the peak of the hill where the lighthouse is located.
Dusky Langurs or Dusky Leaf-Monkeys (Trachypithecus obscurus)
The local Long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
Here, you'll find monkeys in group along the way but if you venture further in the jungle trail, you'll be able to sample some of the coastal hilly rainforests' flora and fauna. For easy navigation, the jungle trails are clearly marked.
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Aaronson attempts a more honest sell
Computer scientist Scott Aaronson previously urged telling the truth when selling quantum computing to the public, and he has posted an attempt on PBS:
A quantum computer is a device that could exploit the weirdness of the quantum world to solve certain specific problems much faster than we know how to solve them using a conventional computer. Alas, although scientists have been working toward the goal for 20 years, we don’t yet have useful quantum computers. While the theory is now well-developed, and there’s also been spectacular progress on the experimental side, we don’t have any computers that uncontroversially use quantum mechanics to solve a problem faster than we know how to solve the same problem using a conventional computer.
It is funny how he can claim "spectacular progress" and yet no speedup whatsoever. It is as if the Wright brothers claims spectacular progress in heavier-than-air flight, but had never left the ground. Or progress in perpetual motion machines.
But is there anything that could support such a hope? Well, quantum gravity might force us to reckon with breakdowns of causality itself, if closed timelike curves (i.e., time machines to the past) are possible. A time machine is definitely the sort of thing that might let us tackle problems too hard even for a quantum computer, as David Deutsch, John Watrous and I have pointed out. To see why, consider the “Shakespeare paradox,” in which you go back in time and dictate Shakespeare’s plays to him, to save Shakespeare the trouble of writing them. Unlike with the better-known “grandfather paradox,” in which you go back in time and kill your grandfather, here there’s no logical contradiction. The only “paradox,” if you like, is one of “computational effort”: somehow Shakespeare’s plays pop into existence without anyone going to the trouble to write them!
Now this is science fiction.
But cooling takes energy. So, is there some fundamental limit here? It turns out that there is. Suppose you wanted to cool your computer so completely that it could perform about 1043 operations per second — that is, one about operation per Planck time (where a Planck time, ~10-43 seconds, is the smallest measurable unit of time in quantum gravity). To run your computer that fast, you’d need so much energy concentrated in so small a space that, according to general relativity, your computer would collapse into a black hole!
Okay, if my computer ever runs that fast, I'll worry about being sucked into a black hole.
He also claims that if they can ever make true qubits, then they could simulate some dumbed-down models of quantum mechanics. And maybe the qubits could help with quantum gravity, if anyone can figure out what that is.
I guess this is why quantum computing is usually hyped with dubious claims about breaking internet security systems.
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you have to be aware of your own culture and its specific phenomena
you have to be aware that your culture is not known all over the world
you have to understand that there is always a possibility of cultural misunderstandings when you are dealing with other cultures
you have to be open-minded
you have to be willing to adapt and adjust
Take time to think about your qualities. Is it easy for you to interact with people from different cultures or do you need to develop your intercultural skills?
How differences and similarities between your own and other people’s cultural behavior may change or affect attitudes, expectations, communication and working practices?
conception of time
decision-making process
perceptions of status and role
attitudes to men and women
communication style
attitudes to emotion
levels of hierarchy and formality
A migrant employee comes late for work. You are a supervisor. What is your reaction when he is late for:
a) two minutes
b) five minutes
c) fifteen minutes
d) an hour
And how would the employee respond? What might be his excuse? What kind of excuses would be acceptable?
You are a supervisor. An employee new to the UK agrees with everything you say and it looks like he has understood your instructions but after a while he is doing everything in his own way. What do you do? What may cause this kind of behavior? How will you proceed?
You work closely with a new migrant but you are not friends with her. You don’t tell her anything about your private life because you want to separate work and socializing. Your migrant colleague asks frequently about the well-being of your parents and your children. You don’t like her questions because they seem too private to you. What do you do? Why do you think she is asking?
You are a cleaner and you are working with a migrant as a pair. You have finished your work for today when the supervisor comes to see you. Your migrant colleague starts working again even though everything has been done already. What do you think is the reason for her reaction? What should you do?
You are a teacher in vocational education. You know that there has been a misunderstanding between a migrant student and some other students. The migrant student has often been absent after the incident. When you talk to the migrant student, he just smiles and says that everything is okay. You don’t think this is true. What do you do? What do you think might cause his behavior?
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Hoshea’s Reign over Israel
17:1 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 1 for nine years. 17:2 He did evil in the sight of 2 the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him. 17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened 3 him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute. 17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 4 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 5 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 6 17:5 The king of Assyria marched through 7 the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel 8 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History
17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 9 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 10 other gods; 17:8 they observed the practices 11 of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. 12 17:9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. 13 They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. 14 17:10 They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 15 17:12 They worshiped 16 the disgusting idols 17 in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. 18
17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 19 17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, 20 who had not trusted the Lord their God. 17:15 They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. 21 They paid allegiance to 22 worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. 23 They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. 24 17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 25 and worshiped 26 Baal. 17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 27 and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 28
17:18 So the Lord was furious 29 with Israel and rejected them; 30 only the tribe of Judah was left. 17:19 Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example. 31 17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 32 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. 17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. 33 Jeroboam drove Israel away 34 from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. 35 17:22 The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate 36 them. 17:23 Finally 37 the Lord rejected Israel 38 just as he had warned he would do 39 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners
17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners 40 from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria 41 in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. 17:25 When they first moved in, 42 they did not worship 43 the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them. 17:26 The king of Assyria was told, 44 “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people 45 because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.” 17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you 46 deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 47 17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 48 He taught them how to worship 49 the Lord.
17:29 But each of these nations made 50 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 51 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived. 17:30 The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, 52 the people from Cuth made Nergal, 53 the people from Hamath made Ashima, 54 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 55 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 56 the gods of Sepharvaim. 17:32 At the same time they worshiped 57 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 58 17:33 They were worshiping 59 the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 60 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 61 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. 17:35 The Lord made an agreement 62 with them 63 and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. 17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; 64 bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him. 17:37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods. 17:38 You must never forget the agreement I made with you, and you must not worship other gods. 17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.” 17:40 But they 65 pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices. 17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.
1 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
2 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
3 tn Heb “went up against.”
4 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
5 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
6 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
8 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
9 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.
10 tn Heb “feared.”
11 tn Heb “walked in the customs.”
12 tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”
13 tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayÿkhappÿ’u), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the Lord authorized their pagan practices.
14 sn That is, from the city’s perimeter to the central citadel.
15 tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the Lord.”
16 tn Or “served.”
17 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
18 tn Heb “about which the Lord had said to them, ‘You must not do this thing.’”
19 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
20 tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”
21 tn Or “and his warnings he had given them.”
22 tn Heb “They went [or, ‘followed’] after.” This idiom probably does not mean much if translated literally. It is found most often in Deuteronomy or in literature related to the covenant. It refers in the first instance to loyalty to God and to His covenant or His commandments (1 Kgs 14:8; 2 Chr 34:31) with the metaphor of a path or way underlying it (Deut 11:28; 28:14). To “follow other gods” was to abandon this way and this loyalty (to “abandon” or “forget” God, Judg 2:12; Hos 2:13) and to follow the customs or religious traditions of the pagan nations (2 Kgs 17:15). The classic text on “following” God or another god is 1 Kgs 18:18, 21 where Elijah taunts the people with “halting between two opinions” whether the Lord was the true God or Baal was. The idiom is often found followed by “to serve and to worship” or “they served and worshiped” such and such a god or entity (Jer 8:2; 11:10; 13:10; 16:11; 25:6; 35:15).
23 tn Heb “they followed after the worthless thing/things and became worthless.” The words “to the Lord” are not in the Hebrew text but are implicit from the context. There is an obvious wordplay on the verb “became worthless” and the noun “worthless thing”, which is probably to be understood collectively and to refer to idols as it does in Jer 8:19; 10:8; 14:22; Jonah 2:8.
24 tn Heb “and [they walked] after the nations which were around them, concerning which the Lord commanded them not to do like them.”
25 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
27 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.
28 tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”
29 tn Heb “very angry.”
30 tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”
31 tn Heb “they walked in the practices of Israel which they did.”
32 tn Or “afflicted.”
33 tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”
34 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”
35 tn Heb “a great sin.”
36 tn Heb “turn away from.”
37 tn Heb “until.”
38 tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”
39 tn Heb “just as he said.”
40 tn The object is supplied in the translation.
41 sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.
42 tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”
43 tn Heb “fear.”
44 tn Heb “and they said to the king of Assyria, saying.” The plural subject of the verb is indefinite.
45 tn Heb “Look they are killing them.”
46 tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.
47 tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.
48 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
50 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
51 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
52 sn No deity is known by the name Succoth Benoth in extant Mesopotamian literature. For speculation as to the identity of this deity, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211.
53 sn Nergal was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld.
54 sn This deity is unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211-12.
55 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
56 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
58 tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”
59 tn Heb “fearing.”
61 tn Heb “commanded.”
62 tn Or “covenant.”
63 sn That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).
64 tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”
65 sn This refers to the foreigners whom the king of Assyria settled in the land (see v. 35a).
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J.B.'s Official Set Scores
By jblewis, April 16, 2016 in High Scores
j.b. lewis
jblewis
cclp2
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I'm starting a new thread for all my official set score reports. These first three posts - one per ruleset - are a complete score list that will be updated as new reports are added. Bolds are marked as green, while non-bolds are marked as red.
Edit: I've decided to remove this part of the post, since the high score site now has scorecards.
CCLP2 (MS)
#140 (Keep Trying): 483 (+2, nr)
#94 (DECISIONS): 281 | 50710 (+30, bc)
#141 (LOGIC PRISON): 657 (+6, nr) | 77070 (+60, nr)
Total seconds: 37,604
Total score: 14,535,751
CCLP1 (Lynx)
#101 (Time Suspension): [849] (+3, nr)
#92 (The Shifting Maze): 836 (+1)
#120 (Metal Harbor): [801] (+3, b)
#141 (Flush): 256 (+1, nr)
#38 (Wireframe): 308 (+1, bc)
#60 (Red, Green and Blue): 220 (nr)
#103 (Prison Break): 300 (nr)
#110 (Floating Plaza): 310 (nr)
CC1 (MS)
#24 (OORTO GELD): 426 (+1, b+1)
#93 (ROADSIGN): 651 (+1, bc)
#63 (Jungle): 130 (+2, bc)
CC1 (Lynx)
#24 (OORTO GELD): 428 (+1, bc)
5,897,900 (b)
#92 (Abandoned Mines *): 453 (+2, b+1)
#131 (Time Bomb LX): 249 (+1, bc)
#139 (Frostbite LX): 367 (+1, bc)
Total original level score: 2,993,620 (b)
Total modified level score: 3,049,410
Total score: 6,043,030
#45 (Block Head): 409 (+1, bc)
CC1 (CC2)
Total seconds: 38,439 (b)
Total score: 5,971,890 (b)
#92 (The Shifting Maze): 837 (+1, b)
#110 (Badlands): [837]: (+1, bc)
#127 (BOMBER MAZE): 289 (+8, bc) | 66390 (+80, bc)
Total score: 14,535,831 (b)
#93 (Flame War): 326 (+3, bc)
#119 (Teeth *): 278 (+1, b+1)
#82 (Launch): 96 (+1, b)
#105 (Caves): 205 (+1, bc)
#118 (Obstacle Course): 394 (+2, bc)
#130 (Dynamite): [869] (+13, b+13)
#130 (Dynamite): [865] (+14, b+5)
#118 (Obstacle Course): 391 (b+10)
#130 (Dynamite): [870] (+1, b+1)
#116 (Turn Turn Turn LX): 412 (+3, bc)
#140 (Keep Trying): 462 (+3, bc)
Total modified level score: 3,049,480 (b)
#128 (Divide and Conquer): 431 (b+2)
#60 (Red, Green and Blue): 258 (+12, bc) typgftr
6,093,450 (1 unreported second)
#54 (Killer Rooms): 303 (+1, b)
#123 (Investment): 739 (+1, bc)
#128 (Divide and Conquer): 433 (+1, b)
#24 (OORTO GELD): 428 (+2)
#76 (Complex): 494 (b+1)
#82 (Mediterranean): 483 (b+8)
#85 (Maginot Line): 507 (b+6)
#117 (Mice Are Good for Something): 618 (b+2)
#128 (Divide and Conquer): 432 (+1, b+1)
#129 (Everybody Get Dangerous): 514 (b+5)
#130 (Four by Four): 309 (b+5)
#135 (Color Wheel): 699 (bc)
#139 (Rotation): 518 (b+2)
#140 (Yet Another Yet Another Puzzle): [341] (b+1)
#144 (You Can’t Teach an Old Frog New Tricks): [617] (b+41)
#102 (Triple Alarm): 360 (b+1)
#111 (Bustin’ Out): 602 (b+10)
#125 (Water Trap): 652 (b+18)
#136 (Grand Prix): 510 (b+4)
#137 (Vulcan): 807 (b+37)
#146 (Suspended Animation): [681] (b+69)
#149 (Mr. McCallahan Presents): 759 (bc)
#1 (Molecule): 169
#3 (Fossilized Snow): 220
#6 (Proving Grounds): 310
#7 (In the Pool): 93
#12 (Rivets): 226
#15 (Cross Back): 260
#19 (Conservation of Keys): 187
#66 (Anaconda): 264
#124 (Air Bubble): 112
#127 (Wrong Exit): 225
#2 (Pixelated Fire): 251
#4 (Oasis): 226
#18 (Inferno Dynamics): 221
#23 (Western Standards of Living): 349
#29 (Flipper Departments): 313
#40 (Periodic Lasers): 130
#46 (Exclusive Or): 251
#109 (Shemozzle): 22
#139 (Unravel): [977]
#142 (Strategem): 42
#10 (Stuck in Emerald): 75
#21 (Glacial Palace): 303
#22 (Bodyguards): 238
#30 (Hoodwinked): 61
#71 (Puuf): 177
#110 (Keyrithmetic): [946]
#111 (Water Bottle): 174
#115 (Overlap): [916]
#129 (Undefined Fantastic Object): 219
#142 (Strategem): 43 (+1, b)
#9 (Pinball): 246
#11 (Keyboard Malfunction): 350
#33 (Tool Shed): 215
#34 (Frozen Waffle): 179
#41 (Ghetto Piranha): 310
#47 (Antidisruptive Caves): 353
#48 (Key Insight): 296
#61 (Blue Tooth): 536
#106 (Gridlock): 232
#145 (Hacked Save File): 512
#5 (Non-Dimensional Layer): 277
#8 (The Fourth Dimension): 333
#13 (Encased in Carbonite): 211
#16 (Reservoir Frogs): 283
#17 (The Three Trials): 253
#24 (It’s Easy Being Green): 386
#26 (Shrub): 250
#54 (Split Path): 209
#60 (Flippant): 210
#64 (Excuse Me): 320
#14 (Poly-Gone): 335
#20 (It’s No Skin Off My Teeth): 341
#27 (Suburban Legend): 398
#55 (If I Ran the Zoo): 546
#97 (Lockdown): 263
#102 (The Key Issue): 326
#104 (Dual): 196
#113 (Half of You, Half of Me): 341
#126 (Bind Mender): 146
#130 (Bam Thwok): 529
#31 (Big Boulder Alley): 396
#32 (Blended Brussels Sprouts): 321
#36 (One Who Raids Tombs): 471
#42 (Nova Prospect): 246
#44 (Blobfield): 413
#51 (Ice in a Blender): 392
#86 (Cyprus): 320
#88 (Empty Rooms): 278
#105 (Living Things): 415
#135 (Propaganda): 387
#37 (Tropical Hibiscus): 388
#38 (Detonation Station): 208
#43 (Coral Reef): 427
#49 (Block Parking): [901]
#52 (It Suits the Purpose): 103
#63 (Pneumatic Diversity Vents): 511
#67 (Nuclear Energy for Dummies): 317
#72 (Sewerway): 363
#80 (Monster Swapper): 292
#81 (Estranged for a Season): 313
#25 (Difficulty Switch): 415
#39 (In the Walls of Gravel Castle): 454
#45 (Seven-Layer Salad): 369
#68 (Cold Fusion Reactor): [976]
#82 (Puzzle Box): [937]
#84 (Forsythia): 397
#96 (Lean Thinking): ---
#99 (Ice Cavern): 301
#133 (Monochrome): 634
#137 (The Longest Track): [865]
#57 (Bisection): 459
#62 (Block Unpuzzle): 356
#69 (Ball in an Awkward Place): 398
#75 (Unmitigated Hint Factory Disaster): 427
#79 (Spring): 379
#85 (Nectar Meadow): 445
#87 (And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down): 524
#89 (Diametric Opposition): 403
#92 (Fire Is My Enemy): 430
#95 (Ravaged): 514
#98 (Clay Tunnel): 470
#100 (One Tank’s Adventure): 891
#101 (Condo Management): 423
#107 (Combinations): [883]
#112 (Triple Mint Slurpee): 550
#117 (Greenian Motion): 269
#119 (Strandquist): 520
#125 (Beautiful Struggle): 535
#138 (Zipper): 470
#149 (Mental Marvel Monastery): 507
#50 (Secret Underground Society): 343
#56 (Fireworks Factory): 554
#73 (Sealed Doors in the Spacecraft): 266
#116 (They’re Not Called Blocks for Nothing): 316
#128 (Mindless Self-Indulgence): 506
#132 (Monorail): 513
#134 (Pushover): 418
#140 (Repair the (Automatic) Caution Doors): 833
#141 (World of a Thousand Flames): 712
#146 (Japanese Game Show): ---
#4 (Oasis): 227 (+1, b)
#20 (It’s No Skin Off My Teeth): 342 (+1, bc)
#31 (Big Boulder Alley): 397 (+1, bc)
#55 (If I Ran the Zoo): 547 (+1, b+1)
#81 (Estranged for a Season): 316 (+3, bc)
#130 (Bam Thwok): 561 (+32, bc)
#70 (Science Museum): 378
#74 (Technopathic): 336
#76 (Flow State): 395
#77 (Brick Block Facility): 498
#83 (Frozen Over): 456
#93 (Bombs Are a Beautiful Thing): 384
#108 (Scatterbrained): 528
#118 (Chip Controls): 435
#120 (Construct-a-Sokoban): 655
#148 (Gravity Well): 431
#17 (The Three Trials): 254 (+1, b)
#35 (Chasing Chips): 355 (b+5)
#59 (Blockpick): 355 (b+9)
#63 (Pneumatic Diversity Vents): 512 (+1, bc)
#91 (How to Retune Your Harp): 404 (b+35)
#144 (Paradigm Shift): 730 (b+55)
#147 (Gimmick Isle): 764 (b+40)
#28 (Zephyr Heights): 402 (b+11)
#77 (Brick Block Facility): 499 (+1, b+1)
#78 (Aquatic Ruins): 520 (b+71)
#94 (Ditchdigger): 510 (b+27)
#106 (Gridlock): 240 (+8, b)
#120 (Construct-a-Sokoban): 661 (+6, b+6) joint record with Tyler S.
#122 (Jigsee): 767 (b+52)
#143 (Color Coordination): 641 (b+44)
#53 (Protect Your Fortress): 327 (b+20)
#58 (Ruinous Plaza): 346 (b+16)
#114 (Repugnant Nonsense): 515 (b+49)
#131 (Jigsaw): 762 (b+77)
#136 (Seeing Red): 344 (b+20)
#1 (Molecule): 163 (b)
#2 (Pixelated Fire): 249 (b+1)
#3 (Fossilized Snow): 207 (b)
#4 (Oasis): 221 (b+2)
#5 (Non-Dimensional Layer): 277 (b+4)
#6 (Proving Grounds): 304 (b+1)
#7 (In the Pool): 91 (b+1)
#8 (The Fourth Dimension): 333 (bc)
#9 (Pinball): 240 (b+1)
#10 (Stuck in Emerald): 71 (bc)
#11 (Keyboard Malfunction): 350 (bc)
#12 (Rivets): 217 (b+3)
#13 (Encased in Carbonite): 211 (b+2)
#15 (Cross Back): 258 (b+1)
#18 (Inferno Dynamics): 219 (bc)
#19 (Conservation of Keys): 186 (b)
#21 (Glacial Palace): 298 (b+1)
#22 (Bodyguards): 238 (b+1)
#27 (Suburban Legend): 395 (b+11)
#33 (Tool Shed): 213 (b+4)
#46 (Exclusive Or): 250 (b)
#51 (Ice in a Blender): 380 (b)
#66 (Anaconda): 264 (b)
#67 (Nuclear Energy for Dummies): 310 (b+9)
#71 (Puuf): 175 (b)
#111 (Water Bottle): 170 (b)
#127 (Wrong Exit): 217 (bc)
#136 (Seeing Red): 344 (b+148)
#137 (The Longest Track): [860] (b+1)
#139 (Unravel): [958] (b+2)
#34 (Frozen Waffle): 158 (bc)
#40 (Periodic Lasers): 130 (b)
#59 (Blockpick): 349 (b+11)
#60 (Flippant): 207 (b+3)
#61 (Blue Tooth): 528 (bc)
#97 (Lockdown): 259 (b+1)
#102 (The Key Issue): 324 (b+8)
#105 (Living Things): 407 (bc)
#106 (Gridlock): 233 (b+10)
#142 (Strategem): 44 (bc)
#14 (Poly-Gone): 330 (bc)
#30 (Hoodwinked): 58 (b+3)
#32 (Blended Brussels Sprouts): 307 (b+4)
#47 (Antidisruptive Caves): 356 (b+5)
#88 (Empty Rooms): 278 (b+1) joint bold with Tyler S.
#109 (Shemozzle): 19 (b+1)
#110 (Keyrithmetic): [945] (b+5)
#115 (Overlap): [906] (bc)
#118 (Chip Controls): 435 (b+12)
#145 (Hacked Save File): 505 (bc)
#48 (Key Insight): 298 (+2, bc)
#49 (Block Parking): [902] (+1, bc)
#65 (Duplex): 622 (b+55)
#90 (Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy): 396 (b+15)
#103 (Malachite): 598 (b+56)
#121 (Death and Destruction): 433 (b+38)
#123 (Life Is Not a Puzzle): 661 (b+29)
#96 (Lean Thinking): [886] (b+37)
#146 (Japanese Game Show): [843] (b+46)
#24 (It’s Easy Being Green): 387 (+1, b)
#113 (Half of You, Half of Me): 346 (+5, bc)
#47 (Antidisruptive Caves): 357 (+1, b+1)
#129 (Undefined Fantastic Object): 220 (+1, b+1)
#28 (Zephyr Heights): 403 (+1, b+1)
#149 (Mental Marvel Monastery): 514 (+7, b)
#17 (The Three Trials): 254 (bc)
#23 (Western Standards of Living): 349 (b)
#41 (Ghetto Piranha): 307 (b+5)
#44 (Blobfield): 412 (b+1)
#47 (Antidisruptive Caves): 358 (+1, bc)
#48 (Key Insight): 291 (b+1)
#49 (Block Parking): [897] (b+9)
#54 (Split Path): 195 (b+1)
#80 (Monster Swapper): 287 (bc)
#104 (Dual): 184 (bc)
#124 (Air Bubble): 109 (b)
#26 (Shrub): 250 (bc)
#31 (Big Boulder Alley): 388 (b+3)
#37 (Tropical Hibuscus): 370 (b+6)
#56 (Fireworks Factory): 546 (b+9)
#72 (Sewerway): 343 (b+2)
#83 (Frozen Over): 456 (b+3)
#84 (Forsythia): 391 (b+10)
#87 (And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down): 515 (b+5)
#98 (Clay Tunnel): 457 (b)
#129 (Undefined Fantastic Object): 217 (b+2)
#20 (It’s No Skin Off My Teeth): 341 (b+3)
#24 (It’s Easy Being Green): 379 (b+1)
#29 (Flipper Departments): 307 (b+1)
#42 (Nova Prospect): 243 (b+14)
#52 (It Suits the Purpose): 92 (b+7)
#62 (Block Unpuzzle): 357 (b+8)
#73 (Sealed Doors in the Spacecraft): 265 (bc)
#95 (Ravaged): 502 (bc)
#126 (Bind Mender): 132 (b)
#130 (Bam Thwok): 549 (b+29)
#16 (Reservoir Frogs): 285 (+2, bc)
#16 (Reservoir Frogs): 282 (bc)
#36 (One Who Raids Tombs): 466 (b+11)
#50 (Secret Underground Society): 335 (b+13)
#58 (Ruinous Plaza): 336 (b+9)
#63 (Pneumatic Diversity Vents): 504 (bc)
#78 (Aquatic Ruins): 507 (b+9)
#82 (Puzzle Box): [931] (b+56)
#92 (Fire Is My Enemy): 426 (bc)
#99 (Ice Cavern): 287 (b+3)
#148 (Gravity Well): 421 (bc)
#53 (Protect Your Fortress): 332 (+5, b+5)
#69 (Ball in an Awkward Place): 399 (+1, bc)
#70 (Science Museum): 379 (+1, bc)
#83 (Frozen Over): 457 (+1, b+1)
#137 (The Longest Track): [868] (+3, b+1)
#57 (Bisection): 454 (b+1)
#69 (Ball in an Awkward Place): 392 (b+1)
#75 (Unmitigated Hint Factory Disaster): 412 (bc)
#79 (Spring): 362 (b+13)
#85 (Nectar Meadow): 433 (b+3)
#93 (Bombs Are a Beautiful Thing): 379 (b+2)
#101 (Condo Management): 421 (b+8)
#117 (Greenian Motion): 268 (b+1)
#135 (Propaganda): 384 (bc)
#137 (The Longest Track): [862] (+2, bc)
#55 (If I Ran the Zoo): 557 (b+4)
#77 (Brick Block Facility): 495 (bc)
#81 (Estranged for a Season): 305 (b+7)
#113 (Half of You, Half of Me): 345 (b+3)
#119 (Strandquist): 515 (bc)
#125 (Beautiful Struggle): 524 (b+3)
#129 (Undefined Fantastic Object): 218 (+1, b)
#134 (Pushover): 410 (b+4)
#138 (Zipper): 456 (b+8)
#149 (Mental Marvel Monastery): 506 (b+15)
#25 (Difficulty Switch): 409 (bc)
#39 (In the Walls of Gravel Castle): 434 (b+1)
#45 (Seven-Layer Salad): 354 (bc)
#74 (Technopathic): 327 (bc)
#76 (Flow State): 384 (b+4)
#86 (Cyprus): 308 (b+6)
#91 (How to Retune Your Harp): 364 (bc)
#93 (Bombs Are a Beautiful Thing): 380 (+1, bc)
#96 (Lean Thinking): 880 (b+47)
#112 (Triple Mint Slurpee): 532 (bc)
#141 (World of a Thousand Flames): 698 (b+6)
#134 (Pushover): 429 (+11, b+11)
#134 (Pushover): 423 (+13, b+6)
#86 (Cyprus): 327 (+7, b+7)
#76 (Flow State): 397 (+2, b+2)
#34 (Frozen Waffle): 180 (+1, bc)
#89 (Diametric Opposition): 405 (+2, b+1)
#89 (Diametric Opposition): 407 (b+6)
#143 (Color Coordination): 642 (+1, b+1)
#146 (Japanese Game Show): [856] (+13, b+1)
#87 (And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down): 526 (+2, bc)
#83 (Frozen Over): 457 (+1, bc)
#87 (And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down): 517 (+2, b+1)
#100 (One Tank's Adventure): 893 (+2, b+2) joint record with Jeffrey B.
#121 (Death and Destruction): 434 (+1, bc)
#120 (Construct-a-Sokoban): 664 (+3, b+3)
#143 (Color Coordination): 640 (b+1)
#122 (Jigsee): 769 (+2, b+2)
#120 (Construct-a-Sokoban): 657 (b+30)
#133 (Monochrome): 623 (b+5)
#128 (Mindless Self-Indulgence): 495 (b+11)
#132 (Monorail): 505 (b+14)
#140 (Repair the Automatic (Caution) Doors): 818 (bc)
#147 (Gimmick Isle): 751 (b+9)
#50 (Secret Underground Society): 345 (+2, bc)
#64 (Excuse Me): 321 (+1, bc)
#53 (Protect Your Fortress): 333 (+1, bc)
#116 (They’re Not Called Blocks for Nothing): 313 (b+6)
#64 (Excuse Me): 311 (b+2)
#90 (Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy): 393 (bc)
#107 (Combinations): [877] (b+10)
#131 (Jigsaw): 779 (+17, b+17)
#108 (Scatterbrained): 531 (+3, b+3)
#94 (Ditchdigger): 502 (b+4)
#68 (Cold Fusion Reactor): [960] (b+63)
#70 (Science Museum): 361 (b+4)
#108 (Scatterbrained): 515 (b+1)
#100 (One Tank's Adventure): 915 (+22, b+4)
#128 (Mindless Self-Indulgence): 517 (+11, bc)
#107 (Combinations): [889] (+6, b+4)
#114 (Repugnant Nonsense): 517 (+2, b+2)
#103 (Malachite): 600 (+2, b+2)
#103 (Malachite): 584 (b+8)
#114 (Repugnant Nonsense): 514 (b+2)
#104 (PIECES OF EIGHT): 289 (+1, bc) | 54890 (+10, bc)
#114 (IN THE LONG RUN): 79 (+1, bc) | 58790 (+10, bc)
#163 (BLOX): 328 (+1, bc) | 84780 (+10, bc)
#188 (CLONE): 320 (+3, bc) | 97200 (+30, bc)
#143 (Color Coordination): 648 (+3, bc)
#63 (BLOCK FACTORY): 473 (+2, b)
#43 (Coral Reef): 422 (b+4)
#38 (Detonation Station): 189 (b+3)
#62 (Block Unpuzzle): 358 (+1)
#65 (Duplex): 615 (b+6)
#100 (One Tank’s Adventure): 898 (b+25)
#121 (Death and Destruction): 425 (b+4)
#123 (Life Is Not a Puzzle): 656 (b+2)
#65 (Duplex): 620 (+5, b+5)
#117 (Greenian Motion): 269 (+1, b+1)
#128 (Mindless Self-Indulgence): 505 (+10, b+10)
#50 (Secret Underground Society): 336 (+1, b+1)
#9 (Pinball): 241 (+1, b+1)
#9 (Pinball): 242 (+1, bc)
6,109.480 (b)
#91 (How to Retune Your Harp): 406 (+2, b+2)
#39 (In the Walls of Gravel Castle): 438 (+4, b+4)
#48 (Key Insight): 292 (+1, b+1)
#84 (Forsythia): 396 (+5, b+5)
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#118 (Chip Controls): 438 (+2, b+2) joint record with Kacper L.
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#92 (Fire Is My Enemy): 430 (+4, b+4)
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CWD was first identified
CWD was first identified as a clinical disease in captive mule deer at the Colorado Division of Wildlife Foothills Wildlife Research Facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Classified as a TSE
CWD was officially classified as a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE). TSE’s include scrapie in sheep and goats, Mad Cow disease in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
First recognized in captive mule & black-tailed deer
CWD was first recognized in captive mule deer and black-tailed deer at the Wyoming Fish and Game Department’s Sybille wildlife research facility. CWD was diagnosed in captive elk for the first time.
The first diagnosis of CWD in Canada
The first diagnosis of CWD in Canada was in 1981 in mule deer at the Toronto Zoo.
First documented case of CWD in a wild cervid
The Colorado Division of Wildlife identified CWD in a wild elk, marking the first documented case of CWD in a wild cervid.
First confirmed case of CWD in a wild mule deer
The Colorado Division of Wildlife confirmed the presence of CWD in a wild mule deer for the first time. The Colorado Division of Wildlife attempted to eliminate CWD from the Fort Collins Foothills Wildlife Research Facility by treating the soil with chlorine, removing the treated soil, and applying an additional…
First CWD case outside “endemic zone”
CWD was found for the first time outside of the Colorado/Wyoming CWD “endemic zone” in a captive elk farm in Saskatchewan.
First documented cases of CWD in South Dakota
CWD is identified on several captive elk facilities in South Dakota, marking the first documented cases of CWD in the state.
Infected Elk Found in Philipsburg
June 1998 and again in June 1999, elk shipped to Oklahoma from an alternative livestock facility near Philipsburg were confirmed to have CWD.
First Documented Case in Nebraska
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission discovered CWD in a wild mule deer, the state’s first documented case of the disease. CWD is detected in a captive elk facility in Oklahoma, marking the first time the disease was found in the state. In November and December 1999, all 83 elk…
First Case in Saskatchewan
CWD was found in a Saskatchewan mule deer, marking the first time the disease was found in the province’s wild cervids.
First case in South Korea
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recognized as an important prion disease in native North American deer and Rocky Mountain elk. The disease is a unique member of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which naturally affects only a few species. CWD had been limited to USA and Canada until 2000….
First Cases in Nebraska and South Dakota
South Dakota discovered CWD in wild white-tailed deer for the first time. Nebraska discovered CWD in a captive white-tailed deer facility for the first time
First Documented Case in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources detected CWD in wild white-tailed deer, the state’s first documented case of CWD.
First Case in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. – A mule deer collected from the White Sands Missile Range has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease and the director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish declared an Animal Health Emergency Tuesday, closing the state to any importation of deer or elk. Director…
The 1st International CWD Symposium was held in Denver, Colorado.
The Colorado Division of Wildlife helped host the Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium on August 6-7, 2002 in Denver. Nearly 500 people attended to hear a variety of presentations on all aspects of CWD. Read more.
First Case in Minnesota
Chronic Wasting Disease found in a farmed elk from Aitkin County. Case marks the first time this disease has been detected in Minnesota ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that a single animal from an Aitkin County domestic elk herd has tested positive for…
Chronic Wasting Disease Found in Portage County
A white-tailed buck shot on a game farm in Portage County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first time the fatal brain disorder has been found in Wisconsin outside the original outbreak area southwest of Madison. Read more.
Saskatchewan detected CWD in a mule deer outside of the province’s previously delineated CWD containment area
Saskatchewan has its fourth confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in the wild deer population, but this one is different from the previous three. “It showed up in an area outside of what we thought was the containment area,” said Kevin Callele, manager of resource allocation with Saskatchewan Environment’s fish…
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources discovered CWD in a wild white-tailed deer, the state’s first documented case of CWD.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected in a sample from a wild deer near Roscoe in Winnebago County, the Department of Natural Resources announced today. CWD is not known to be contagious to livestock or humans. Read more.
First case of CWD in Alberta
EDMONTON (CP) – The first case of chronic wasting disease at a whitetail deer farm in Canada has been confirmed near Edmonton, the Canadian Cervid Council said Wednesday. Two whitetail deer farms have been quarantined and a two-week moratorium on the movement of farmed whitetail deer and mule deer has…
First Case in Wyoming
A deer harvested in Deer Hunt Area 78, on the western slope of the Snowy Range, south of Saratoga and one harvested in Deer Hunt Area 82 on the western slope of the Sierra Madres tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Read more.
First Case in South Dakota
HOT SPRINGS — Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in an elk in Wind Cave National Park, superintendent Linda L. Stoll announced Monday. Park staff recently discovered a 5-year-old elk exhibiting symptoms of the contagious brain disease. The elk was killed and brain tissue samples were analyzed at the…
First Case in Utah
Salt Lake City — A buck deer taken by a hunter in northeastern Utah has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), the Division of Wildlife Resources has announced. Read more.
A dot blot ELISA test for CWD, developed by VMRD, Inc., was licensed for CWD testing.
A dot blot ELISA test for CWD, developed by VMRD, Inc., has been licensed for CWD testing. The test uses the retropharyngeal lymph nodes and has a turnaround time of approximately 24 hours. Cost for a test kit that will run approximately 960 samples is $4,300. However, the sensitivity of…
United States Department of Agriculture licensed a CWD dot plot (ELISA) test developed by VMRD, Inc.
U.S. Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO) introduced a comprehensive bi-partisan bill targeted at coordinating and increasing federal response to CWD management.
ALLARD INTRODUCES CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE BILL LEGISLATION COORDINATES RESPONSE, INCREASES FUNDING Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO) on Friday introduced a comprehensive bi-partisan Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) bill that coordinates and increases the federal response to the disease, which has impacted Colorado and nine other states, as well…
Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced two bills created to assist states in combating the spread of CWD
the National Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force Establishment Act and the Chronic Wasting Disease Research, Monitoring, and Education Enhancement Act. Read more.
The United States Department of Agriculture approved a second-generation CWD test
developed by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Read more.
Congress approved a bill that includes $4.2 million to expand research on CWD in wild deer and elk populations.
Congress gave final approval Monday to a bill that includes $4.2 million to expand research on chronic wasting disease on wild deer and elk populations. Read more.
Tommy Thompson announced creation of a federal interagency working group
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced creation of a federal interagency working group to identify gaps in scientific knowledge about abnormal prion proteins and promote coordination of prion research projects by federal agencies. Read more.
CWD was set as a national priority
CWD was set as a national priority for piloting a Wildlife Disease Action Plan by the Canadian Councils of Resource Ministers. Read more.
Strange case found in Nebraska
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission confirmed a case of CWD in a white-tailed deer near the town of Grand Island. This is approximately 250 miles east of the Panhandle where all previous cases of CWD had been documented. Read more.
Case of Interest in Colorado
The Colorado Division of Wildlife identified a case of CWD in a mule deer south of Colorado Springs. This is the farthest south on the Front Range that CWD has been detected.
First Case in New York
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets confirmed the presence of CWD in a captive white-tailed deer, marking the state’s first documented case of CWD. Read more
First Wild Case in New York
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation discovered CWD in a wild white-tailed deer from Oneida County. This documented the first case of CWD found in the state’s wild deer populations.
The 2nd International CWD Symposium was held in Madison, Wisconsin.
2nd International CWD SymposiumJuly 12-14, 2005 Monona Terrace Convention Center Madison, WisconsinSponsors:Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources USGS National Wildlife Health Center USDA-APHIS Veterinary Services USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services US Fish & Wildlife Service CWD Alliance Sessions:Biology of Prions TSE Diagnostics Environmental Contamination, Disposal & Disinfection Management and Control of CWD Regulatory…
First Case in West Virginia
The first documented case of CWD in West Virginia is identified in a wild white-tailed deer.
First Case in Colorado found in a Moose
The Colorado Division of Wildlife confirmed the first documented case of CWD in a wild moose.
First Case in New Mexico’s Wild Elk
The New Mexico Department of Fish and Game discovered CWD in two wild elk from the Sacramento Mountains, documenting the first cases of CWD found in the state’s wild elk populations.
First Case in Kansas
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks discovered CWD in a white-tailed deer from Cheyenne County. This is the first time CWD was found in the state.
Discovery: CWD prions are present in the leg muscles of infected deer.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that CWD prions are present in the leg muscles of infected deer.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed that a captive white-tailed deer from Lac Qui Parle County tested positive for CWD. This is the state’s first case of CWD in captive white-tailed deer.
Discovery: infectious prions adhere to specific soil minerals where they remain infective.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers discovered that infectious prions adhere to specific soil minerals where they remain infective.
Strange Case in New Mexico
The New Mexico Game and Fish Department identified CWD in a mule deer on the Stallion site of White Sands Missile Range, 75 miles further north of the state’s northernmost infection area.
Discovery: infectious prions are capable of transmitting CWD through saliva and blood.
Colorado State University researchers found that infectious prions are capable of transmitting CWD through saliva and blood.
First Case in Alberta
The first white-tailed deer to test positive for CWD in Alberta was identified by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
E-Book Published
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources published an e-book addressing various modeling approaches to describe the spatial epidemiology of CWD.
Discovery: the infectivity of prions significantly increases when they are bound to certain soil minerals.
Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison revealed that the infectivity of prions significantly increases when they are bound to certain soil minerals.
The first cases of CWD in Saskatchewan’s wild elk population are found in the province’s east-central region.
New pre-mortem CWD test for elk Developed
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Colorado State University developed a new pre-mortem CWD test for elk.
First Case in Michigan
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources detected CWD in a captive white-tailed deer from Kent County. This is state’s first documented case of CWD.
First infected moose found outside of Colorado
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department discovered CWD in a wild moose. This is the first time a moose infected with CWD is found outside of Colorado.
Infected meat found at a farmers market
Elk meat sold at a Longmont, Colorado farmers market was found to come from a captive elk infected with CWD.
Researchers found that prions are shed in the feces of early-stage CWD-infected deer.
Grant Given to CWD Researchers
Colorado State University researchers were granted $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation to study transmission of CWD.
First Case in Virginia
The first documented case of CWD in Virginia is identified in a wild white-tailed deer.
First Case in Missouri
The Missouri Department of Agriculture discovers the state’s first case of CWD in a captive white-tailed deer.
First Case in North Dakota
The first documented case of CWD in North Dakota is identified in a wild mule deer.
First Wild Case in Minnesota
Minnesota’s first documented case of CWD in a wild cervid is identified in a white-tailed deer.
First Case in Maryland
The first documented case of CWD in Maryland is identified in a wild white-tailed deer.
First Free Range Case in Missouri
The first cases of CWD in Missouri’s free-ranging cervids are found in two white-tailed deer.
First Case in Texas
CWD detected in far west Texas
First Case in Pennsylvania
First case of CWD found in captive Pennsylvania deer.
First Case in Iowa
Chronic wasting disease detected for first time in wild Iowa deer.
First Free Ranging Case in Michigan
Michigan confirms state’s first case of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging white-tailed deer.
First Case of CWD found in Arkansas
An elk harvested near Pruitt on the Buffalo National River during the October 2015 hunting season tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. This is the first time an animal in Arkansas has tested positive for the disease, which is fatal to elk…
First case of CWD in Norway
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was diagnosed in March 2016 in a wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) from the Nordfjella mountain area in Norway. This was the first documented case of CWD in Europe.
First Case in Montana
A second test on a tissue sample from a buck harvested in hunting district 510, south of Billings, has come back positive for chronic wasting disease. This buck was harvested Oct. 22 about 10 miles southeast of Bridger. Initial testing received by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks last week showed…
Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed in a Mississippi White-tailed Deer
First time an animal in Mississippi tested positive for CWD. A white-tailed deer collected on January 25, 2018, in Issaquena County, Mississippi. Read more
First case in Finland of CWD for Moose
The chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in a moose or European elk (Alces alces) for the first time ever in Finland.
IL – First known case of a reindeer being confirmed positive in North America
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been identified in one reindeer in a captive herd in northern Illinois. he affected reindeer was sampled on April 23 during a necropsy after the animal died unexpectedly. Tissues for CWD testing were submitted to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for analysis and the diagnosis…
First case of chronic debilitating disease (CWD) of cervids in Quebec
Québec, September 14, 2018 – On September 10, a case of chronic debilitating disease (CWD) of cervids was confirmed in the Laurentides region. This is the first case in Quebec.
TN – First CWD cases in white-tailed deer in Hardeman and Fayette counties
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) is enacting the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Response plan, following a preliminary positive detection of CWD in white-tailed deer in Hardeman and Fayette counties. The response plan involves a coordinated effort between TWRA, Tennessee Department of Agriculture, and other partners. Seven deer…
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cloudsong
Location: Arlington VA
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:58 am�� �Post subject: Names
I will name names of people I have seen hurt black people in the workplace.
The workplace is one of the most serious places WS/R is practiced.
I will name a boss I had who was a white supremacist/racist in at least one action I observed - he would not let my black boyfriend at the time come in the office, even though he let the white 'significant others' of other employees come in.
His name is Kenneth Laurent, at USDA. I don't know if he's even still alive - that was in 1979-1980, and he was maybe 55 at the time.
I respected him in so many ways - until that incident.
Perhaps I am misinterpreting. Perhaps he was turned off by our too public displays of affection. I am willing to name him though.
It's very hard to name him in a global way -- he may NOT have been a white supremacist/racist except in that one action. But I am willing to name any one who does any ACTION that HURTS BLACK PEOPLE. I know I have to do that, even though with him it's very very difficult - he was like a father/mentor to me.
And my boss at Gifford's Ice Cream parlor when I was eighteen, who didn't hire black people, blatantly - except I don't remember his name. But I feel the Gifford's company, if they're even still in business, held some liability also. At the time I didn't know what to do, which I regret.
I don't mind naming names of white people whom I have seen hurt black people. I will do that in a second.
I just felt doubts about Highhouse. Highhouse might even label him SELF a white supremacist/racist, and I still woudn't be sure. I need to ask him questions, get better answers... Highhouse, are you willing to answer my questions?
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:11 am�� �Post subject:
I do not work now, and I don't even go out that much, so I do not have the opportunity to give more current examples.
I will ask white friends what they see, and I am more than willing to report them here.
Sometimes I think it's more important to name someone for "going along with white supremacy" than for "being a white supremacist".
I don't know what's in someone's soul. But they have to be held responsible for their actions.
Any action that hurts black people should be prosecuted. I would go so far as to say that the white anchors of our mainstream media should all be fired and worse -- they have blatantly let George Bush advance a white supremacy agenda in the WORLD without serious questions. It's shameful.
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:43 am�� �Post subject: Re:
cloudsong wrote:
Now that's interesting! We all go along with white supremacy (racism). I don't think you can name everybody in the entire universe.
But V-God, either way you're naming everybody in the entire universe. We're all conditioned by this system.
I am saying that it's easier for me to see what someone DOES -- like Tom Brokaw, being an absolulte patsy for the status quo, not standing up to blatant white supremacist actions and questioning them.
I would name him in a minute as a white supremacist. But Highhouse was at least questioning, there was something that rang sincere to me in his tone, maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm making a meaningless distinction. I'm just saying it's easier to see someone going along with white supremacy, which is an action, that see someone BEING a whit supremacist. What does "BEING" mean? I can't see a soul, I CAN see an action.
I don't know if I'm contradicting myself or not. Let me think more. I am trying to express something.
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:39 am�� �Post subject: Re:
Are "blatant white supremacist actions" actions by white supremacists (racists) that non-white people can identify as white supremacist (racist) actions? Please answer "yes" or "no".
When I say "being a white supremacist (racist) I mean saying and/or doing.
You have already stated that "yes" HighHouse is a white supremacist (racist) and HighHouse has stated that he, by his own admission, is a racist (white supremacist).
So why are you continuing this conversation? Please stop this conversation right now or I'll hafta suspect you are attemtping to confuse me. I only have one question for you that is posted above:
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:20 pm�� �Post subject:
Yes. And they are actions that we all can see blatantly.
By the way, I don't remember calling Highhouse a white supremacist/racist. And I don't know if he knows what he is. That is my perception.
Please forgive me for continuing a topic which you requested I not continue.
I was concerned about being misquoted. If you can show me the quote where I said he was racist, I would be interested. I don't remember saying that definitively.
Or we can just leave it. I don't mean to keep on with something that was very upsetting to me; I will name names, but I'm not ready to name his. If I've named him already, please show me -- or just leave it.
HelixHair
Location: Everywhere that is nowhere
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:55 am�� �Post subject: Re:
Sometimes I think it's more important to name someone for "going along with white supremacy" than for "being a white supremacist"....
Any action that hurts black people should be prosecuted. cloudsong
Cloudsong, I think this may be a MAJOR advancement in counter-racist methodology. What can you do to make this an operative and enforceable policy? Also, what would be the criteria for determining what hurts non-white people?
Death of the lower body is certain. Now what?
Dan Freeman
Location: Wherever I'm sent.
Cloudsong, there is already a title for a white person who choses "going along with white supremacy":
That would be a racist/white supremacist.
Are you attempting to devise another classifacation for white people who "choose to go along with white supremacy"?
smallz
Understanding is honoring the truth beneath the surface.
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smallz, given that definition, what criteri(a)(on) differentiates a white person from a white supremacist?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:58 am�� �Post subject:
[Non-White People: Everybody on this planet either practices white supremacy (racism), goes along with white supremacy (racism), or are victims of white supremacy (racism). the only victims of white supremacy (racism) are non-white people. What does this mean?
White people are either practicing white supremacy (racism) or they go along with white supremacy (racism). White people practicing white supremacy (racism) and going along with white supremacy (racism) is the same thing.
THE LOGIC is that if a white person is not practicing counter-racism they are practicing white supremacy (racism). There is no in-between.
No white person can prove they are practicing counter-racism under a SYSTEM of white supremacy (racism) and this is the practical value of white people under the SYSTEM of white supremacy (racism) being viewed as racist suspects by non-white people taking a logical approach to replacing white supremacy (racism) with justice.
I suspect the logical outcome for cloudsong making the following quote...
...is to keep from naming people she observes with racist (white supremacist) behavior...because she can't name every white person who practices white supremacy (racism)...but she could name every white person she observes. Non-white people go along with white supremacy (racism). as well..but as victims of it.]
HelixHair wrote:
A white supremacist/racist is a white person who belives in and practices racsim/white supremacy.
A racist/white supremacist suspect is a white person who has the ability to practice racsim/white supremacy if he/she chooses to do so.
As a victim, I suspect a white person who has chooses to "go along with" a system of mistreatment based on COLOR that's already in place, I gotta suspect that white person to be a racist/whtie supremacist.
A racist suspect is a racist suspect.
An actuall racist/white supremist is a different ball game alltogether. No rason to suspect if racsim/white supremacy is being practiced.
That's a good question HelixHair. Unfortunately, I have no mechanism for determining which white person practices white supremacy (racism) and white people have shown me that they will not tell me, in any large number, which white people practice white supremacy (racism).
I can observe some behavior and attempt to list criteria but I could be incorrect about that. In an effort to minimize my victimization of the white people that practice white supremacy (racism) it is safer for me to follow THE LOGIC and view every white person who I observe as having the ability to practice white supremacy (racism) as a racist suspect.
This way I don't have to do a lot of head-scratching trying to figure out which white person is or is not a white supremacist (racist). In order to know for sure if a white person is a white supremacist (racist) you gotta be a white person.
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Helixhair,
I am so glad you commented because I think this is a very important point of discussion, especially as a white person who wants to name names but does differentiate. But yes, it is confusing and I am confused, I am so confused! I wish you had a smarter white person here but this is what I think, but also I want to read your posts more thoroughly and then answer more.
But what I observe is a lot of white people who live their lives and if you analyzed a random white person's life from the bowl of corn flakes in the morning to hugging the teddy bear or the mate at night and saying the prayers and falling asleep, you could not state any definite thing they had done all day that was white supremacist/racist.
So should they be named? What you COULD state was how almost everything they accepted or did or even ate fell into the category of going along with white supremacy, not questioning the institutional white supremacy, not OBJECTING, not protesting.
Even corn flakes -- it brings up the whole issue of black farmers and the discrimination they have experienced.
The teddy bear - almost undoubtedly the pollution from its manufacture was dumped in a community of color.
Their job -- if they work for General Electric, for example, they are supporting the prison-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.
Should there be a differential in white people naming people in the one category -- the category of people who live their lives amidst the system of white supremacy and don't object to it, maybe aren't even consciously AWARE of it, who honestly think they are good non-racists --
-- versus a person who is deliberately and actively practicing racism, by things like not hiring black people, ordering the dumping of his company's waste in a black community -- etc., in other words, sabotaging black people directly and knowingly?
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Not that we were hearing these words for the first time. What was noteworthy though was that these issues have moved from the realm of being philanthropic do-gooding to a business imperative.
The sustainability that was taught, spoke of the so-called triple bottom line, meaning that organizations have to focus on more than just making Profit. People and Planet are just as important, if not more so.
For sustainable growth above an industry average, organisations have to single-mindedly focus on key sustainability principles. Opportunities will come exponentially from a mindset that stresses the ‘4Rs’ of renew, reduce, reuse and recycle.
Hence enter the Corporate Citizen. Nothing really academic. Simply put, this means that organizations ensure (irrespective of the business they are in) that they operate sustainably.
Addressing the MBA Class, under the title “Integrated Reporting – A Sustainability Journey”, Andrew Johnston, Group Company Secretary of Altron, emphasised “sustainability is the primary moral and economic imperative of the 21st Century”.
Altron have made such a commitment to operating sustainably, being one of the first companies in South Africa to produce an integrated report, prior to it in fact it becoming a listing requirement (the JSE has made it a listing requirements that all companies with a year-end starting on or after 1 March 2010 are required to abide by the King III Code of Corporate Governance, which means producing an Annual Integrated Report).
In relating Altron’s own experience, Johnston stressed:
There is no right or wrong integrated report;
One size does not fit all;
Bigger isn’t necessarily better;
Frameworks and guidelines are exactly what they say they are;
Integrated reporting is not a process, but rather a way of thinking;
You need adequate board governance and sustainable development structures in place before you can produce an integrated report;
Integrated reports flow from integrated reporting – not the other way round.
Teamwork counts!
Integrated reporting is not a one-day wonder!
In explaining the journey to us, it was clear from Johnston’s presentation that the last two points above were probably the most important in terms of getting it done, but fundamentally, it is the emphasis of it being a way of thinking which we saw as the ‘game breaker’ for many companies.
As a consequence we were struck by the similarity of Altron’s journey to Hayes and Wheelwright’s four stages of operations model as described in Pycraft [1], and which we have taken the liberty of adapting to have a sustainability focus:
Stage 1 – Stop doing harm: In the first stage the organisations seek to remove the worst of their impact AND report these improvements.
Stage 2 – Be among the best: The second stage would be adopting the BEST practice in the industry insofar as sustainability improvements and integrated reporting requirements are concerned.
Stage 3 – Be the best: Sustainability principles are driven through the core of ALL the operations of the firm.
Stage 4 – Achieve strategic advantage: Organizations, who achieve true sustainability and show absolute commitment to integrated reporting, will be the industry leaders in EVERY aspect of their mission.
Two other points stressed by Johnston emphasized were the importance of risk management and that Altron sees sustainability as a business imperative. Our interpretation of this is that the company has made a full commitment to get to Stage 4.
Whether our model means that companies move sequentially from one stage to the next is a point to be argued. In the case of Altron, our assessment is that they are well into Stage 2, with evidence of Stage 3 emerging.
Whilst stressing the importance of Integrated Reporting from a risk management perspective, Johnston also made it clear that it has the potential to bring huge opportunities.
Without an effective risk management discipline, the company lacks the ability to:
enhance business performance, competitive advantage and service delivery;
establish business priorities;
manage changing business complexities;
understand the changing effects of technology and its impacts;
co-ordinate business efforts and optimise workforce; and
improve bottom line (triple bottom line) performance.
Get this right and he believes that the opportunities will avail themselves!
Stakeholder engagement has played an important role in the company’s journey.
Johnston was very candid in stressing that the journey to date had not been easy, not least of which was grappling with what strategic themes were to be pursued (they settled on 11 in the end), what the right degree of disclosure means, how this disclosure is made, discussing and addressing threats and what this journey actually means to the investor community.
From a practical point of view, it has also been extremely difficult to produce a short report (the recommended guide is that it should not exceed fifty pages). Altron are working very hard to ensure that the next integrated report is closer to recommended length (2010 and 2011 have already been published).
In conclusion, he stressed that whatever difficulties companies may have in producing an integrated report, at the end of the day the right approach is to go the ‘whole hog’, no more and no less. We certainly second that!
Article written by MBA2010 Class students: Herbert Batidzirai, Masi Mfabane, Ndumie Mfenyana, Ofentse Mokitlane, Sydney Nkatsha and Sindiswa Tywabi
[1] Pycraft, M., (2000) Operations Management, Pearson Education
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Title General Army Office.
Abstract Study prepared in 1947-1948 by a group of former German Army Officers, headed by Generalmajor Hellmuth Reinhardt, who was a branch chief in the Organizational Division of the Army General Staff and deputy chief of the General Army Office, with which this study is concerned. Before World War II the General Army Office planned for the procurement and mobilization of all human, animal and material resources necessary to build the Wehrmacht After the war started it concerned itself principally with the replacement of such resources in the Army.
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TheCSO and I weren't as nice to each other last night as we like to be. This morning, he wrote me a snuggly make-up email. I wrote him one right back.
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Goodness, it was just a little argument. Let's not be drastic here!
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Pout. CC feels yucky.
I'm having a weird allergy thing. It's been bugging me for a couple of days. I cough a lot, sneeze some and feel exhausted and cranky. Whatever productivity I have today is solely the result of spicy pad thai* and sugar-free Red Bull.
Oh, and the murder mystery dinner theater rocked mightily and raised big money for those kids in El Salvador. I will have a more complete account later.
I'm going to take another slurp of Red Bull and go back to drafting the complaint I was working on. But before I do, shall we practice the traditional Chalicechick self-care exercise and watch the "Alan Rickman 'I'm too Sexy" YouTube video?
Ah. Feeling better already.
*Spicy pad thai cleans out my sinuses. LinguistFriend told me last night that his father, a veteran of many 1950s-era civil rights marches, reported much the same effect from tear gas. The Chalicerelative, a veteran of many protest marches of the same sort, gave me strict orders as a kid to walk calmly and directly away from any police officers and/or violence I ever saw at a protest march. So far so good, I've never been gassed.
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CC discovers a new kind of sleaze on the internets
I'm making props for the murder mystery play tomorrow night, and I needed a fake paycheck stub.
So I blithely googled "Sample paycheck stub," not once considering that 99.99 percent of the people who want that are commiting fraud. Boy, there are some skeezy websites offering this.
I know, duh.
Clinton derangement syndrome
I've been interested in Hillary Clinton and the seemingly irrational hatred people have toward her for a long time.
It has been interesting to watch the Democratic claws come out this election season. Given the actual evidence, I don't really understand the whole "eight years of Hillary would be like eight more years of Bill, and that would be a terrible thing" argument coming from liberals. But I've read it over and over.
I owe y'all some more issue breakdowns, but one thing that has struck me in preparing for them is how truly similar Obama's ideas are to Clinton's. I don't really get where his claims of "new ideas" are coming from. My impression is that his supporters don't know either. In fact, every time an Obama supporter tells me in a breathless tone that Hillary believes in some awful thing, I've checked Obama's website. So far Obama supporters have a perfect record of being against Hillary for supporting things Obama also supports. (There's a small sample size here, but still...)
That said, I may well vote for Obama myself. But I don't get Democrats who hate Hillary, and I wonder if sexism is behind it.
Now with Repulicans who wear Citizens United Not Timid shirts, I don't have to wonder.
This is where even I concede that Clinton had a point with "Welfare-to-Work"
Fans of "News of the Weird" got to read recently about the girl who got kicked off a bus because her boyfriend had her on a leash.
She's 19, her owner is 25. I can assure you that a 25-year-old* guy who thinks keeping a female "pet" is the thing to do is not MY idea of great dating material. And I'm channelling Ogden Nash+ a bit and wondering what will happen in 15 years or so when this 19-year-old kitten has become a 34-year-old cat with no job skills and an owner who decides he wants a kitten.
But what mostly cheeses me off is the lede buried in the following paragraphs:
Maltby -- who lives on state benefits and got engaged in November -- said her choice of lifestyle might seem unusual but was harmless.
"I am a pet," she told the Daily Mail. "I generally act animal-like and I lead a really easy life. I don't cook or clean and I don't go anywhere without Dani. It might seem strange but it makes us both happy. It's my culture and my choice. It isn't hurting anyone."
Yep. She's a pet on state benefits, a.k.a. welfare.
But don't worry, it's not hurting anyone.
*When will teenage girls learn that when a guy in his twenties/thirties wants to date them, it's because the women that are his age won't have anything to do with him?
+"The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT" -Ogden Nash
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2007 Chaliceblog Restrospective
Ahem, The UU Blog Awards Nominations are up.
I do my best to write about my own church as rarely as humanly possible. But sometimes my YRUUers are so awesome I do it anyway. That was the case with When a YRUU overnight and a meeting of the region transgender group happen on the same night at the same church
Again, I don’t like to write posts about my church, but I’m really glad I wrote that one. In fact, I liked it so much that I read it at the blogging workshop at GA.
Also, I really liked this picture Weird Stuff You See at the Post Office
Ms. Kitty seemed depressed one day in February, so I decided to cheer her up by telling her about how my friend’s kid was married to a skunk. That kid is ZombieKid, btw, I just hadn’t started calling him that at that point.
And I don’t know that The most beautiful words in the English language was all that well-written per se, but I have to say it’s a sentimental favorite of my own.
I served up some well-earned snarkage in Oooh Crappy Starr King Youtube Ad, but otherwise March wasn’t such a great month.
The Don Imus controversy had me writing about offensive humor, and where we should draw the lines in CC’s Complex feelings on Don Imus
Throughout April, I participated extensively in UU-blogosphere-wide discussions of little kids in church, Michael Moore’s trip to Cuba and the Brown-Bag-lunch issue.
I did a little series that began with the Founding Fathers as Asshat Humanists and went on from there.
RevSparker and I decided to talk to rather than at each other over the Brown Bag lunch issue CC and RevSparker say a quick ‘hello'
I wrote about GA 2007 quite a bit of course, both snarkily and thoughtfully.
I like to think I did both with: Things that didn’t speak to me, things that did.
This was a good month. I also wrote my favorite narrative post of the year Lunchtime.
A massage of words found me rethinking my own introversion and the benefits of having dinner with an extrovert every now and again.
I like this short post: All people should be like this
And I also liveblogged Harry Potter and the Dealthly Hallows over two days and wrote a little something after every chapter.
I also wrote a lot about swinging and polyamory. It was a sexy month.
Even cat pee couldn’t keep me from talking to Jana-who-creates in Lying in Cat Pee Friendship
The fall brought a big slowdown in blogging as I started law school. But I still took time to write about the Independent Affiliates situation. I also commented on the the New UUA Commercial.
I wrote Symbolic Outrage as an answer to the question “Well CC, if you don’t approve of protest marches, what sort of political action DO you like?”
Much snarkage about the movie Across the Universe can be found here.
I haven’t written many really personal posts this year. But I wrote A Response to Peacebag’s depression thread and it was pretty good.
And I wrote a silly post about my love of MyCokeRewards points called CC the Coke Fiend.
Most of my better posts aren’t about law school, but So, CC, how’s law school going? was pretty good.
And I finished out the year with If you simply must protest a look at why I think the gay marriage issue is far more worthy of protest than the
checking-IDs-at-the-door-of-GA issue.
"God hates Fags" people to protest Heath Ledger's funeral
Protesters who are delusional enough to think that their protests make people care about their causes are plenty annoying enough. Protesters who KNOW they are just doing it to be hurtful really get me.
The one tiny bright spot is that I was reading the comments on an article about the Westboro Church's actions
and somebody linked to this.
I should clarify that people who dedicate large chunks of time to maintaining parody Christian sites mostly scare me and remind me very much of the people they are parodying. But this one is small enough and silly enough to not bug me.
Best picture of W ever.
By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty.
Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.
Pout.
This bar/cinema/restaurant I like but never quite go to is having an event where a band I like is opening for the movie Office Space.
Naturally this will occur while I'm sitting in Torts class. (Actually, I could probably make the movie, but I'd miss the band.)
Luckily, the same establishment is having a "Fiddler on the Roof Singalong" on a Saturday afternoon a couple of weeks later. It sounds like major fun and it's a benefit for a women's shelter. But that's a different kind of awesome.
UUA Politics
Someone I know from church knows a guy who knows a guy who says that there is a secret coterie of older UU ministers who more or less handpick the UUA president and they've handpicked Laurel Hallman.
Is this true? To what degree is it true?
The worst pies in London
"So what are you doing with a weekend all to yourself, Miss Sue?" TheChalicerelative asked, a reference to theCSO being out of town until Tuesday.
"Dunno. I'll help you pack some, and I'll spend some time at work, I expect," I said into the phone, keeping my eyes carefully on the road.
"What about this evening? If I'd thought about it, we could have gone out to supper."
"It's OK," I said. "I have class anyway, and afterwards I thought I might see Sweeney Todd."
"Again?"
Damn. I'd already told her I'd seen it. "I like it," I said lamely. The Chalicerelative is the sort of person who might well draw negative conclusions about the mental health of someone who willingly saw Sweeney Todd multiple times.
Instead, she sighed. "Your father loved that show."
While it's not accurate in the strictest biological sense to talk about my father in the past tense, for all intents and purposes, one might as well. Still, the Chalicerelative's words set off a chain of memories.
I don't know how young I was. Young enough to be comfortably held. And my father was saying, his voice that of someone delighting in telling a dreadful secret,
"Do you know what happens next? His friend Mrs. Lovett makes MEAT PIES!" I can remember my own childish squeal, then my father would roll out the words with Hestonesque vigor, "Meat pies made of PEOPLE."
When theCSO says that all my snuggly childhood memories sound like child abuse to him, this is probably what he's talking about.
Something in that movie really reaches out to me. Tim Burton often does. I saw the Corpse Bride three times and I love how his adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory really evoked the spirit of the book*.
My father doesn't leave his house when he can avoid it. But I'm still tempted to call up my parents and see if they'd like to catch a matinee.
So that's what I'm thinking about tonight.
*Yes, I know you love the 1971 version. Roald Dahl and I disagree.
Labels: CC reviews stuff, Little CC, LiveJournal-Esque, TheCSO
This makes me laugh
And "Snopes" reminds me of me.
Bummer. This place looks like so much fun...
I normally portray my childhood in the suburbs of DC as having been fairly multicultural. That's the way I remember it. I hung out with the daughter of the ambassador to Nigeria. Being Jewish was, if anything, more normal than being Catholic. There was a Muslim girl from Iraq who wore a headscarf in the sixth grade and I recall thinking she must wear a headscarf because she's from Iraq and thinking of it like a French girl wearing a beret.
But now there's a Muslim girl who has special uniform requirements and the National Federation of State High School Associations won't let her compete.
So I guess the rest of the nation still has some catching up to do.
World shrinks a tad
9:21: CC gets an email from the office administrator at her firm who has e-mailed the entire firm to ask if anybody knows somebody who speaks Ukranian.
9:23: CC emails LinguistFriend.
9:33: CC emails office manager, saying "I know someone who probably speaks Ukranian. Lemme check"
9:35: CC calls LinguistFriend at home. LF says his Ukranian speech isn't that great, though he can read it when he has to. CC says "Ok" and rings off.
9:37: LinguistFriend calls CC back to point out that every Ukranian LF has ever met is bilingual in Russian*. CC thanks LF, rings off again.
9:41: CC calls office manager, explains about the Russian. Office manager says she has just heard from another attorney who used to work with a guy who speaks Ukranian. She thanks CC, but says she will probably go with the other translator, who is an attorney.
An email to a medium-sized law firm yields two Ukranian translators in twenty minutes.
I heart globalization.
*Russian is LF's favorite language. LF is AWESOME in Russian.
Labels: Linguist Friend, Stuff that rocks
CC so has friends like this
Observe.
CC is all about the peacemaking
I really approve of the Democratic candidates making nice at the Nevada debate last night. I don't understand why we have to spend so much time tearing the candidates that we don't like up at the PRIMARIES. It seems like the definition of counterproductive.
Romney's win in Michigan leaves the Republican race more wide open than ever. I hope we can pick a candidate and get behind them.
This very moment, I'm leaning toward Obama. But at the same time, I'm really appalled by the sexism in the way people are treating Clinton. That Edwards has in the past painted himself as a "woman's candidate" seems pretty laughable at this point.
TheCSO and I were talking about this the other night, and I brought up the incident a few months ago where somebody asked McCain "How do we beat the bitch?" and he launched right into his response without even mentioning that he didn't see her that way or that "bitch" was not a proper way to describe one's female opponents.
At that time, I was making the point that if the supporter had been talking about Obama and asked "How do we beat the (insert racial invective here)," I'm quite certain McCain would have commented on the terminology.
TheCSO pointed out that the right has had sixteen years to paint Clinton as a bitch, so at this point lots of right-wing people are used to thinking of her this way.
I'm still confused on that one. Don't bitches leave cheating husbands and embarrass them rather than sticking by them? Do bitches raise daughters like Chelsea, who is easily the most well-adjusted and successful presidential child in decades?
And besides, if for sixteen years, the Republican party had been painting Obama as a "lazy (insert racial invective here)" then I would think somebody would have called racism on it and made them cool it.
Ps. I'm rethinking the "Midlife Crisis" issue. I don't think I expressed what I meant well, and what I meant might have been wrong, too. Thanks for keeping me honest.
Labels: Politics-General, TheCSO
Another thing CC doesn't get: Midlife Crises
Maybe this is just because I'm still pretty young, but I don't get the whole "Mid-Life Crisis" thing.
First off, it just seems like such a lame middle-class-American thing to have. Nobody cool has a mid-life crisis. Imagine, say, Patrick Stewart having a midlife crisis. Hard to do, huh? How about Emma Thompson? Don't see it. Now try imagining, say, Donny Osmond having a midlife crisis. Easy, huh? Hell, the last few decades of Donald Trumps life are arguably one big midlfe crisis.
Why do people mourn the fact that they aren't cool anymore by suffering the least-cool malady ever?
Secondly, why do men have mid-life crises at not women? Women are the ones who are expected to do everything men do, and be sexy.
Anway, a psychiatry professor is with me on this one and has written an article about it in the NYTimes.
Ps. Oh, and Diane Keaton? No mid-life crisis around here.
Six word stories.
A friend of mine just joined a facebook group called "Six word stories" that challenges people to write true stories in six words.
Hemingway was asked to write a story in six words (though I don't think the truth requirement was there) and came up with: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never used."
Margaret Atwood's response was "Longed for him. Got him. Shit."
So far this A.M. the stories I've come up with are:
True of me:
"Incompetant as secretary; lawyer results pending."
"How 'bout it?" + "ok" = Gen-X Engagement
Junior High Memories make Universalism difficult.
ChaliceMom's accident sees life as lagniappe.
Kindergartner campaigns for younger siblings; regrets.
Functional adulthood is the best revenge.
Six word challenge reveals latent OCD.
Fictional, but interesting:
In Case of Emergency, contact: Nobody
I will add more as think of them.
who got
"Jump into the bathtub,"
Dumb kid.
Down to seven words, but no fewer.
Ps. More on the candidates tonight.
Pps. Please see the comments, where Jeff W. compares what I wrote to what Margaret Atwood and Ernest Hemingway wrote. True, I come up lacking, but that's still the nicest compliment my writing has gotten in awhile.
CC picks a Candidate Chapter Two: Education
TheCSO thought I shouldn't bother with Paul, so I decided to compare Romney and McCain instead.
I am using the candidates' websites and only their websites to write this. Also, I'm going to tell you how easy it is to find each topic on the website as I assume there's a rough correlation between the percieved importance of the issue by the campaign and how easy to find it is.
Lots of the below is word-for-word, sometimes I've paraphrased for space.
I'm going to throw in a bonus question for each subject. For education, it's "What do they think about No Child Left Behind?"
Edwards on Education:
How easy is it to find on the website: Not very. Go to issues and it is in the third group of issues over halfway down the page.
Ideas:-Fund Universal pre-school
-$5,000+ bonuses for teachers that teach in “bad” schools
-A teachers university “West Point for teachers,” that will train high-quality teachers for “bad” schools
On “No child left behind”: Edwards will radically overhaul No Child Left Behind to live up to its goal of helping all children learn at high levels. The law today judges children based on cheap standardized tests, forces schools to narrow the curriculum, fails to accurately identify struggling schools, and imposes unproven cookie-cutter reforms. Edwards supports better tests, broader measures of school success such as measuring students' progress, and giving states more resources and flexibility to identify and reform underperforming schools.
Obama on Education:
How easy is it to find on the website: Very easy. It’s third on a drop-down menu on the front page leads to a page with a bunch of interesting but somewhat vague ideas. From there you can get a PDF with a 15-page education plan
Ideas:
-Create Early Learning Challenge Grants to stimulate and help fund state “zero to five” efforts.
-Quadruple the number of eligible children for Early Head Start, increase Head Start funding and improve quality for both. Barack Obama will provide $250
million in dedicated funds to create or expand regional training centers designed to help Head Start centers implement successful models.
-Provide affordable and high-quality child care that will promote child development and ease the burden on working families. The Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program provides critical support to low-income families to pay for child care. However, the Bush administration has funded this program at a constant level, while costs per child have increased...Barack Obama will
reverse this policy and ensure that CCDBG remains adequately funded every year.
-Create a Presidential Early Learning Council to increase collaboration and program coordination across federal, state, and local levels. (I’d be amazed if something like this doesn’t already exist. -CC)
-Encourage All States to Adopt Voluntary, Universal Pre-School
-Teacher scholarships
-A national teacher assessment that is much more holistic than the current exams that are used for licensure. (I’m not sure about this goal, even if it were possible.)
- Barack Obama will provide $100 million to stimulate teacher education reforms built on school-university partnerships. (Sort of a teaching-hospitals model.)
- Obama will provide $1 billion in funding for grants to create mentoring programs and reward veteran teaches for becoming mentors.
-A bunch of stuff about science education, how important it is and how the above-mentioned plans will be good for it.
-Obama believes that the secret to lowering the dropout rate is to improve Jr. High.
To wit,
-Requiring states to develop a detailed plan to improve middle school student achievement.
-Developing and utilizing early identification data systems to identify those students most atrisk of dropping out.
-Investing in proven strategies such as: (1) providing professional development and coaching to school leaders, teachers and other school personnel in addressing the needs of diverse learners and in using challenging and relevant research-based best practices and curriculum; and (2) developing and implementing comprehensive, school-wide improvement efforts and implementing student supports such as personal academic plans, teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction and extended learning time that enables all students to stay on the path to graduation.
-Double the amount of money used for research into what actually works and actually helps students learn.
On No Child Left Behind: Obama will reform NCLB, which starts by funding the law. Obama believes teachers should not be forced to spend the academic year preparing students to fill in bubbles on standardized tests. He will improve the assessments used to track student progress to measure readiness for college and the workplace and improve student learning in a timely, individualized manner. Obama will also improve NCLB's accountability system so that we are supporting schools that need improvement, rather than punishing them.
Clinton on Education
How easy is it to find on the website: It’s not intuitive. It's mixed in with daycare, senior care and a bunch of other "family" type issues.
-Hillary Clinton is proposing a national Pre-K initiative that would provide funding to states to establish high-quality pre-K programs. States would have to devise a plan for making voluntary pre-K services universally available for all four year olds in the state in order to participate. In addition, they would provide pre-K at no cost to children from low-income children and/or limited English homes. As states increase participation and growth their programs, the federal government will be their partner, scaling up its investment in concert with states. Hillary Clinton is committed to achieving big goals while maintaining a commitment to fiscal discipline. She will invest in providing pre-k for all children without increasing the deficit by ending the abuse of no-bid contracts and cutting the number of contractors working for the federal government by 500,000 over the next ten years through an Executive Order, saving $10 to $18 billion a year
-Early College High Schools - As President, Hillary will support early college high schools, which are small schools designed to give students - especially those who are under-represented in higher education today - the opportunity to earn both a high school diploma and an associate's degree or up to two years of credit toward a bachelor's degree. Early college high school creates a smooth transition from high school to college by integrating students' high school and college experiences. When students complete early college high school, they not only have a diploma but also have enough college credits - or even an associate's degree – to go to a two- or four-year college or university, making higher education more accessible and affordable.
There’s also a bunch of stuff aimed at at-risk youth that isn’t exactly education.
No Child Left Behind: Doesn’t mention it in any obvious place.
Currently no position paper on education
Romney on Education:
How easy is it to find on the website: Not bad. Go to “on the issues” It’s at the bottom.
-Lots of support for vouchers
-Homeschooling tax credit.
On No Child Left Behind: Governor Romney Will Improve Upon And Enhance No Child Left Behind (NCLB). He believes that No Child Left Behind has played an important role in stressing the role of accountability and high standards in improving our schools. Governor Romney will improve NCLB by giving states that meet or exceed testing requirements additional flexibility in measuring student performance. He will also improve the law by focusing more attention on individual student progress, rather than the overall progress of schools.
Analysis: Obama absolutely has the most ideas, but Clinton's seem a litter better thought out in places and she seems to have considered how she would pay for things, which is always a plus. I like Obama's idea that preventing dropouts starts in Junior High. I'm not sure about the "teaching hospitals" model of teacher training. But it's interesting.
Advantage: Obama
Honorable mention: Clinton
* The rules: I’m looking for ideas, not ideals. “Recruit more math and science professionals to be teachers” is a nice goal, but unless there is a method for doing so, I’m not adding it to the list. If something seems like a newish idea, I might still include it. Don’t like the way I’m making this distinction? Start your own list.
A very bad picture of a very good jazz band
TheCSO and I are having an evening out.
Labels: TheCSO
So, can I park here or not?
There once was a guy who ran for president
who was very physically attractive, with a deep, compelling voice. He talked about getting American life back to normal after a war and inspired the people. He won his election handily. He was presidential in appearance, popular and...
...a complete failure as a president, because I'm talking about Warren G. Harding, who ran possibly the most corrupt administration ever, had a girlfriend who extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the Republicans and probably him, and didn't do much else. He died in office and historians still argue about whether he was murdered because his possibly imminent impeachment would have done lots of damage to the Republican party.
Sorry, I'm a little tired of "I *like* this guy. I don't know what he stands for, and he doesn't have much experience, but I *like* him."
Seems to me that's what got us President Bush. (OK, maybe you didn't like him. But a lot of people did.)
So that's why I'm doing the side-by-side issue comparision. Because a candidate's ideas are supposed to matter more than his/her soundbites.
Anyway, will look at the candidates stands on education in a bit. Am also planning to do foreign policy and the economy. If there's a comparision you'd like to see, please feel free to comment about it.
How to narrowly avoid looking like a dumbass at Georgetown law.
1. Be talking about Hillary Clinton with a professor at a party.
2. Find out mid-conversation that said professor worked for the Office of the Independent Counsel investigating the Rose Law Firm during the Whitewater scandal.
Luckily, I hadn't said anything I wouldn't have said if I'd known this information at the beginning of the coversation. But I've vowed to keep closer tabs on my professors' backgrounds.
CC Picks a Candidate, Chapter One: Images and First Impressions
First off, Sniffle.
Goodbye, Richardson, candidate that I loved, Candidate who thought globally, Candidate who wanted to scrap "No Child Left Behind*," four-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, the man who had SAT ACROSS A NEGOTIATION TABLE FROM SADDAM HUSSEIN AND GOTTEN THE RELEASE OF TWO AMERICAN PRISONERS FOR CRYIN'OUT LOUD, not that anybody cared.**
Anyway, I am candidateless for the moment, so I'm going to start a series where I compare where the candidates stand on the issues. If I help myself figure out where I stand, great. If I help you, that's even better.
But first, my initial impressions of the candidates going in:
Edwards:
Honestly, I've never liked the man. His understanding of economics doesn't impress me. His assholishness about Hillary's crying (particularly given his own frequent use of his wife's cancer and his son's death) was a helpful reminder that sexism still does very much exist on the campaign trail. Seriously, he may not want an emotional woman's hand on the nuclear button, but I don't want the hand of a guy who proves his masculinity by being a bully either.
For the record, I do NOT think that an Edwards supporter should refrain from voting for him because he's not black and he's not a woman. But I think there are a lot of better reasons not to. And in fairness, I also don't believe in voting FOR Edwards because you think that Americans are too sexist and racist for a Democrat to win the white house any other way.
I get an asshole vibe from the guy. At the same time, I don't know that I want a man whose wife is dying running the country. Maybe I'm a bitch for that, but I'd rather not be speculating which role is getting short shrift, president or husband/father. And I'm going to be speculating that everytime there's a fuckup in the Edwards presidency while his first lady is dying. Again, maybe I'm a bitch for that.
He's really young. My inclination right now is to say "Go home, dude. Take care of your wife and get some experience and some class and I'll reconsider my position in four years."
But I still basically think he'd do a good job.
Obama:
I'm not sure that Morgan Freeman has done the world a service by playing seemingly a billion "mystical and wise African-American man" roles. I think Obama has both profited and suffered from that stereotype. But at least people aren't making fun of him for crying and making a fuss over the fact that he has wrinkles and calling his laugh a "cackle"***.
I don't know about this guy, y'all. He has vision, but so did a Clinton circa 1996 and while Clinton did a good job, none of his visions came true and his experience sure came in handy. And honestly, Richardson's foreign policy creditials make Obama look like a Junior High School math club president by comparison. ((I know, I know, I need to let it go. But give me a freaking break, Obama cast some (admittedly) good votes on Darfur, while Richardson went to Darfur to negotiate for peace. He WENT TO DARFUR and got them talking. Didn't work that time, but still... I know, I know. Let it go.))
What I know about Obama seems fine, but that I know so much less about the substance of his views than I know the other candidates bugs me.
Clinton:
I do think LBJ doesn't get the credit he deserves for the good he did. But that was still a stupid thing to say.
Moving on, the Clinton years were awesome ones in many respects. Again, people, largest peacetime economic expansion in the nation's history. I'm pretty sure we would STILL be electing Bill if it weren't for term limits.
My impression is that she's the only remaining candidate to have a truly global foreign policy, but I hate that much of her domestic policy has a populist "there oughta be a law" ring and I think she's way wrong on criminal justice issues.
As a former aspiring First Woman President candidate myself (age 4-8), I have to say that having the first Woman president be someone who more or less got the job because of her marriage annoys me. Because if she wins, she will have.
But I still basically think she'd do a good job.
Yep, the racist articles in his newsletter really sucked and show poor judgment. It was awesome to have someone out there getting people excited about the constitution. I hated some of his views, but I really liked other ones.
For the record, I don't think Paul was a racist and I still think the argument "Well, a guy whose probably lying said something bad about someone I don't like, so it must be true" is bizarre and crappy coming from liberals who are quick to accuse Republicans of believing in "truthiness."
Paul and I have similar taste in political enemies.
And I get that the man doesn't have a chance in hell. I'm going to look into his ideas anyway, if only to emphasize how similar the other three candidates really are.
And I don't know if he would have done a good job. But he would have been fun to watch.
I will continue the candidate comparison later/tomorrow with my first four-way examination of the issues.
*The remaining candidates want to overhaul it in similar-sounding ways. A comparison will probably be Chapter two in this series.
** I'm still mad at the American public for not watching Veronica Mars, and now they pull this?
***Having the most annoying laugh of anyone in history hasn't held George W. Bush back much.
Winter blahs
We have a week-long winter term here at GULC, and I'm in the middle of a superspeedy class on international law that is focused on deportation/rendition/extradition and related issues. For the last few days, we've been doing a simulation exercise and I played a judge in the European Court of Human Rights. It was fun, but exhausting. My questioning was hard enough on my peers that my TAs didn't think I was a wuss, but nobody hates me either as far as I know. I also emailed my Con law professor from last semester and asked him if he wanted to submit an amicus brief. (He didn't.)
It's weird to hear the professor referring to people from other countries as "aliens." As a Chick who was raised on ET and Star Trek, I've never had the negative connotations some people have for the word. But I'm not used to hearing it at this point as UUs tend to regard it as non-PC.
It's raining a lot here, which is a good thing as it follows the drought from this fall. I hate to drive in the snow, and I'm not very good at it, so I'm pleased that at least we haven't had snow.
I'm looking forward to seeing the YRUUs put on the play I've been writing. Admission is $20 a head and the profits go for University Education in El Salvador. I'm humbled by the idea that I'm writing something that will help even a few folks in El Salvador go to school and live better lives. Kim wrote in the comments that I should let other churches perform it. I had been kicking around something like that for awhile. I'm going to look into the proper language to license it so that YRUU groups may perform it as long as at least 50 percent of the profits go to a non-political charity.
But yeah, if you have a charitably-oriented youth group, shoot me an email and we can talk about it.
I'm also working on an RE curriculum on Christianity in the Culture, though I haven't field tested that one as much as I wanted to this year. I don't suppose anybody reading this knows the proper person in the UUA to send those when I finish them?
Anyway, life is actually pretty good. Probably the reason I'm so bummed is that the ChaliceRelative is moving to the Presbyterian Home in a month. (No, smartass, not Scotland, it's an old folks home in DC that is run by the Presbyterian church.)
When I was a child, the Chalicerelative lived in our basement. She was the RE person at a large Presby church in DC. Once, her car was broken into while it was parked in front of our house, but all that was stolen was a volume of The Interpreter's Bible.
Upon hearing of the crime, my five-year-old self, a Nancy Drew devotee, ran to her room, grabbed her notepad and started looking for clues. After a bit, I came into the house and proudly announced
"Well, we know one thing. The thief loves God, but he hates Justice!"
This is probably the most told-and-retold family story about CC, especially since I got into law school.
Some years ago, the Chalicerelative asked me what I wanted in her will. The first (and really only) thing I asked for was the remaining volumes of that Interpreter's bible.
Now the Chalicerelative's Interpreter's bible is boxed and in the backseat of my car. When I was helping her pack on Sunday, the Chalicerelative reported that the Presbyterian home has an excellent library and she gave it to me. She won't need it and she knows I want it.
Well, I thought I did.
Labels: Law and such, Little CC, LiveJournal-Esque, Padawans Enlightened
Ummm...Actually, this is for us
When I talk about how I feel like UUs don't do as much charitable work as they should, I am NEVER talking about my youth group.
My YRUU kids collect canned food and sort it at the All Souls Food Drive, they recycle printer cartridges, they assemble medical kits for migrant workers. They pretty regularly serve at soup kitchens and leftovers from our events invariably go to a food bank. A dozen of them go to El Salvador every year to do community development projects.
And they hold fundraisers.
Ye gods do they hold fundraisers. They do a coffeehouse for "Save the Music," they sponsor kids in developing countries, last year's Monopoly Tournament was for La Clínica del Pueblo and they did a Murder Mystery Dinner for Beacon house. They went on a help-the-homeless walkathon. They do Unicef Boxes.
On the 26th, they are having this year's "Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre," which will be for secondary education in El Salvador. Or something like that.
Naturally, we're broke. Our youth director announced this on Sunday.
"Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." One of the youth said, then went back to talking about doing some sort of environmental project.
"No, seriously. We're at the bridge. We don't get much from the congregation and the re-usable shopping bags we were selling didn't sell well. We need money."
Yep, the fundraising-est youth group I've ever seen needs to do some fundraising for itself.
And it is really odd for us/them/me.
We have a plan to fix it, of course.
We're going to have a "Parents' night out" when we will offer babysitting services at the church for several hours on a Friday or Saturday night. Parents can park their kids with us, then go have dinner and a movie. The nice thing is, our youth will probably be willing to repeat the trick as many times as is necessary to ease our budget crunch.
But as the youth are selling tickets for it, I wonder how it will be for them to be asked "what's it for?"
I'm hoping that instead of worrying that they aren't answering "homeless kids," they will confidently look the questioner in the eye and say "We're going on a retreat."
While I'm talking about it, if anybody in the DC area would like to come to a murder mystery dinner, it is coming up. I'm writing the script. It should be awesome.
And it's for a good cause...
Labels: Padawans Enlightened
Betcha didn't know that
The head of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture is a UU.
Note that I said "National Campaign" not "UU Campaign." It's an awesome, inclusive organization that helped put together "Evangelicals for Human Rights" and is reaching out to religious people of lots of creeds and trying work for human rights together.
It's interfaith and awesome and it received an award from NYU's Program for Survivors of Torture for NRCAT’s “extraordinary work” in seeking to abolish torture. In making the award, the NYU noted that NRCAT’s “moral leadership brings the light of hope to this dark time in our nation’s history.”
This is doing it right, kids. I'm so proud of this woman, and to our faith for supporting her.
Labels: Stuff that rocks, UUism-general
The saddest blog post ever
This guy was just killed in Iraq.
Whoa, that's awesome
Ironically, we had a sermon about the Parable of the Talents in my church last week.
It wasn't like this.
Are we talking about the same "Bill Clinton" here?
I'm going to pick on Iminister here, though she's only the most recent person I've seen make this argument*.
Iminister writes about Hillary Clinton: Her husband's behavior in the White House was not her fault, and I honor her for apparently forgiving him for it and continuing with the marriage, but in making him such a prominent part of her campaign she's forgotten something that nobody else has, which is what a miserable episode that was and how it laid an important part of the goundwork for the even more miserable time we're having now.
Maybe, in order to forgive Bill she had to tell herself it was all no big deal, but it was a big deal. So while I admire Hillary the wife, Hillary the politician has made a terrible mistake.
The man was a tremendously popular president. Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history and left office with the highest approval rating of any president leaving office in modern history. They have a five-story mural of him in Kosovo.
He's also a brilliant campaigner.
Hell, even I like the guy. I was furious at him for welfare reform, but that welfare reform has been so successful that it is being copied all over Europe. Even the CHALICEMOM likes welfare reform now**. My bad.
IMHO, Gore's fussy refusal to use Clinton on the campaign trail (again, despite Clinton's huge popularity rating and Gore's lack of charisma) only made Clinton's actions seem more unforgivable. Given how close Gore came to winning and how the people who were truly anti-Clinton weren't going to vote for Gore anyway, I'd say Gore made a huge mistake in not getting Clinton to campaign to moderates, who love him. Clinton reaching out to moderates would have allowed Gore to shore up his base and keep more of it from going to Nader. Need I remind you how a tiny amount of energizing of the base could have changed that election?
THAT laid the groundwork for where we are now, not Clinton's personal weaknesses.
Good for Hillary for not repeating Gore's mistake. (Though Hillary is a moderate like Bill, so he can't do quite as much for her. Gore's liberal credentials were better.)
who has the weirdest urge to go watch "Primary Colors" again.
*The fastest way to get criticized on the Chaliceblog is write on your UU blog about something that has bugged CC when she has seen it other places.
**The Chalicemom works in low-income housing and has for decades. She deals with poor people on a daily basis and knows a lot about this stuff, both in theory and how it has effected the people she's around all the time.
CC on theConsumerist.com
CC witnessed a bad customer service experience on her Jetblue flight back to DC from Vegas, and sent The Consumerist.com a copy of the letter she wrote to Jet Blue.
They posted it.
As of this writing, 95,649 people have read the letter, 1462 have "digged" it and 108have left comments.
So anyway, I'm hoping this means JetBlue will have a talk with their stewardesses about only using warning cards for people who are actually being disruptive.
Labels: Self Promotion beyond the usual
We need more cops
like this guy.
But it's pretty clear he's getting punished for not perjuring himself.
In happier news, this prosecutor has given CC someone new to admire.
Response to PG
PG asked: CC, as a Virginian you should know better than to think it's totally wild that a prominent politician would meet with white supremacists. That said, I agree that the NYTimes made a huge mistake here, and one that they made only because Paul is a fairly marginal candidate -- this sort of thing would not happen with any of the top 8 or so candidates.
Meet with white Supremacists once or twice? Sure. It's stupid given that White Supremacists at this point pretty much have negative political influence*, but people do it.
That said, there's a difference between meeting once or twice and "Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays"
Meeting a few times is believeable. What I don't get is why people reading the story about him meeting REGULARLY with white supremacists while RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT don't find it fishy.
You really don't think the press would catch on to that? Really?
Also, I don't get why people keep talking about the evolution debate and abstinance-only sex ed, in both cases assuming that Paul plans to impose his views on both when he's been pretty straightforward in saying that the Federal Government has no business doing so.
If these are examples of the reality-based critical thinking I keep hearing about, color me unimpressed.
But don't worry, even though Paul is beating Giuliani and tied with Fred Thompson in Iowa. Fox News isn't going to let him debate the other Republican candidates in their New Hampshire debate.
So the liberals are lying about him and the conservatives are keeping him out of the debate.
If this man is so awful, why is everyone so afraid to hear him talk?
who is, again, a Richardson supporter.
*When addressing my concerns about the fact that the New York Times had corrected the story before she was even spreading it, the lady who wrote the blog post I was sent said:
Of course I'll admit Bill White was probably lying through his teeth. In fact, I admitted it right there in the piece. Remember that bit about how "Bill White is hardly the most reliable reporter on any subject"? That's a nice way of saying he's probably lying.
Which, as others have pointed out, is beside the point anyway. The point, of course, was that the white nationalist crowd recognizes Paul as one of their own -- and, as I've noted here quite recently, there are times when we do well to take right-wingers at their word on stuff like this.
So, yeah, the sheer fact that the Nazi likes him discounts him completely.
And the recovery begins...
Someone smarter/less hungover than I am could probably come up with several apt metaphors for my party last night.
At the height of the party, ZombieKid and theGnome watched a movie upstairs, the engineer contingent (four of them, including theCSO) watched a different movie in a different room, while Big Gorilla played his guitar downstairs next to the bar and everybody else talked and drank. We had over a dozen people and everybody seemed to have a good time. We polished off lots of gin and champagne.
My brother Jason had showed up and made a drunken ass of himself in front of our friends and theCSO and I had to devote lots of energy at 2am to trying to figure out how to get him home while he insisted that nobody should drive him.
Finally, we disabled his vehicle and locked him out. That sounds really harsh, but he only lives a mile or so away, so we figured he'd find his way home or call himself the cab we'd been trying to get him to let us call for him.
So my past was evident enough. That said, even as a kid, I dreamed about throwing parties where smart people came to hang out with me and talk about important things. And brother or no, smart people do hang out at my parties and discuss important things. (And watch movies, and talk politics, play geeky card games and in Big Gorilla's case explain how Warren Zevon was a misunderstood genius.)
May we all spend 2008 getting closer to becoming the people we want to be.
Labels: LiveJournal-Esque, TheCSO, ZombieKid et al
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BLADE/SAR – A Bronx Tale
BLADE/SAR collaboration between the King of Graffiti and SAR on canvas 2017 – signed by both artists
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Free collection from our Urmston Gallery.
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BLADE – map 3
PROVENANCE: Hand signed by the artist.
DIMENSIONS: 23" (width) x 32" (Length)
KEON – The Hulk
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KEON – One Aquaman
T-KID 170 – “What’s your Flavor”
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Raised in the Bronx by first generation Latino immigrants, Julius Cavero received his artistic training in the streets when he started in the 1970's, tagging the name "King 13" every time he'd win a challenge, performing daredevil tricks on swings in local parks. His art on trains had a take-no-prisoners attitude and he quickly gained a reputation as a style master for creating exciting and innovative whole cars. He later became the president of TNB (The Nasty Boyz) and ex-president of TVS (The Vamp Squad), one of the most notorious New York graffiti crews. T-KID is still active and his work can be seen in the Bronx as well as around the world. He is also a member of MAC crew from Paris. T-Kid was originally asked to be the narrator for the Hip-Hop documentary Style Wars but he declined. By the early 1980's his trains were the ones to watch out for and were photographed by photographer Henry Chalfant and included in the book, "Subway Art." Today Julius, travels around the world collaborating with other style masters and influencing new generations with his paintings. More recently T-Kid has appeared in Marc Ecko's 2006 video game, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Also in the book "The Terrible Nasty T-Kid 170," which chronicles the artist's life from childhood to the present and features pictures of his work by graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant. He also appeared in the Graffiti Documentary 'Bomb it' - directed by Jon Reiss and more recently a film biography directed about his life as a graffiti artist. Directed by Carly Starr Brullo Niles called ‘The Nasty Terrible T-KID 170’
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China Unveils World’s Largest Shipbuilding Group November 28 2019
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Pakistan Increases Naval Capabilities November 28 2019
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US and Korean Alliance Get Stronger August 10 2019
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Surprise Solution in the F-35B Question August 9 2019
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New Termal Eyes for Turkish Submarines August 8 2019
Turkey has signed an agreement, which is worth 45 million US Dollar, with Hensoldt. Under the agreement, the Turkish Navy will supply eight SERO 400 periscopes with thermal imaging capabilities. Periscopes will be integrated into Preveze Class (Type 209/1400) submarines. Preveze Class (Type 209/1400) submarines are named after the Type 209 steel, which is the construction material of the submarine, and weight of the submarine, which is 1400 tons. The platform, which has a displ...
Maintenance Support for Typhoon August 6 2019
UK Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with Rolls-Royce. Under the agreement, which is worth around 426 million US Dollars, Rolls-Royce will continue to provide support to the engines that power the Royal Air Force’s Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft and undertake a number of services including the maintenance and repair. For five years, Rolls-Royce will be responsible for the maintenance and repair of the Typhoon engines of the Royal Air Force, as well as the supply of modul...
Veto by-passed August 1 2019
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Scientific American: The Banality of Evil (ution)
Katherine Pollard's Scientific American article from last year, about what makes humans different from chimpanzees, is an unfortunate example of the banality of evolution. Charles Darwin's theory, updated to account for a variety of surprise evidences, is taken as fact and this leads to a remarkable level of credulity. Whatever we find in biology, it must be the product of evolution. This leads evolutionists away from a whole range of possible investigations and interesting questions. Instead, they drone on with the same, tired, evolutionary explanations that are so predictable. Here are a few passages of note from Pollard's article:
Six years ago I jumped at an opportunity to join the international team that was identifying the sequence of DNA bases, or “letters,” in the genome of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). As a biostatistician with a long-standing interest in human origins, I was eager to line up the human DNA sequence next to that of our closest living relative and take stock. A humbling truth emerged: our DNA blueprints are nearly 99 percent identical to theirs. That is, of the three billion letters that make up the human genome, only 15 million of them—less than 1 percent—have changed in the six million years or so since the human and chimp lineages diverged.
Humbling? Why is Pollard humbled? Did the brain evolve the feeling of humility to be activated upon learning of similarities with other species? If you think this is sarcasm check out what evolutionists have had to do to explain human behavior. It isn't your Daddy's evolution anymore. It seemed that evolution was as silly as could be. It was story telling on steroids. But then came the updated version of the theory, and evolutionists became their own best parody.
Evolutionary theory holds that the vast majority of these changes had little or no effect on our biology. But somewhere among those roughly 15 million bases lay the differences that made us human. I was determined to find them. Since then, I and others have made tantalizing progress in identifying a number of DNA sequences that set us apart from chimps.
Tantalizing progress? You've got to be kidding me. This "progress" is based on yet another evolutionary fumble; namely, an extreme over emphasis on DNA. In evolution-dom, DNA is king. Long ago evolutionists latched onto DNA as a Hail Mary explanation of how the information for macro evolution could be stored and passed on. Ever since then DNA has been viewed as the blueprint for biological design. Like a computer program, DNA was forced into the role of the biological "program" that determines the nature of an organism. The other parts of the organism, as with the computer, are viewed as merely mechanically performing tasks and following instructions.
Evolutionists need DNA to fulfill this role because they need unguided change to be heritable. Such change was viewed as created by DNA mutations, which could then be passed on to offspring. Scientific problems with this dogma are mounting, but evolutionists will be slow to adjust and reconcile such a fundamental failure.
Until recently the DNA dogma was even more narrow, as evolutionists viewed only the genes within the DNA as important. The remainder of the DNA (the vast majority) was often thought of as useless junk. Now that science, no thanks to evolution, is discovering that "junk" DNA can actually be important, evolutionists changed their view to include more of the DNA.
Now science is taking the next step, again no thanks to evolution, in finding that the nature of an organism may be influenced by players outside the exalted DNA. One obvious suggestion for this comes from precisely the data Pollard analyzes: the human and chimp DNA which are so similar. But Pollard's story is firmly rooted in the DNA dogma. Evolutionists make the absurd claim that a handful of genes, which stand out in humans, are the source of so much of the human-chimp difference.
Because most random genetic mutations neither benefit nor harm an organism, they accumulate at a steady rate that reflects the amount of time that has passed since two living species had a common forebear (this rate of change is often
spoken of as the “ticking of the molecular clock”).
Except that the "molecular clock" doesn't actually work. It is yet another false prediction that goes unmentioned.
Acceleration in that rate of change in some part of the genome, in contrast, is a hallmark of positive selection, in which mutations that help an organism survive and reproduce are more likely to be passed on to future generations. In other words, those parts of the code that have undergone the most modification since the chimp-human split are the sequences that most likely shaped humankind.
Do we really need evolution to tell us that the DNA segments with the most differences between the human and chimp are more important in understanding the sources of the human-chimp difference? Here we see the banality of evolution.
The fact that HAR1 was essentially frozen in time through hundreds of millions of years indicates that it does something very important; that it then underwent abrupt revision in humans suggests that this function was significantly modified in our lineage.
More banality. The gene is significantly different in humans as compared to a wide range of other species. So yes, this suggests its function is significantly different in humans. This conclusion is obvious and we don't need evolution to figure it out. The evolutionary wrapping is superfluous. The talk of how the gene is "frozen in time" and that it "underwent abrupt revision in humans" is gratuitous story telling. Science gives the important findings and evolution gives the meaningless extras.
In fact, what evolutionists do not mention is that HAR1 is yet another example of genome differences between species that are larger than evolution predicted. The human-chimp differences are more than an order of magnitude greater than what evolution predicts. Fortunately, this freak barrage of typos just happened to hit the mark, providing quantum leaps in design improvement leading to the human brain.
Furthermore, these typos simultaneously must have altered two other genes which overlap with HAR1. That's right, HAR1 lies in a region of overlapping genes. Imagine typing a paragraph which contains one message when read normally and a different message when read backward. Not only must evolution have created all of biology's genetic information, but it composed the information in overlapping prose. Someday evolutionists will figure out how.
It might seem surprising that no one paid attention to these amazing 118 bases of the human genome earlier. But in the absence of technology for readily comparing whole genomes, researchers had no way of knowing that HAR1 was more than just another piece of junk DNA.
It was technology, not evolution, that was needed.
The way to evolve a human from a chimp-human ancestor is not to speed the ticking of the molecular clock as a whole. Rather the secret is to have rapid change occur in sites where those changes make an important difference in an organism’s functioning. HAR1 is certainly such a place. So, too, is the FOXP2 gene, which contains another of the fast-changing sequences I identified and is known to be involved in speech.
I wish Charles Darwin could see the new levels of banality he has given us. The "fact" of his theory now underwrites the ascribing anything and everything to evolution, no matter how ludicrous. Evolution has become a tautology. Whatever we find in biology is simply chalked up to evolution's amazing powers. A core tenet of evolution is that the biological variation, upon which natural selection operates, is independent of need. This view has been falsified so many times that evolutionists such as Pollard no longer skip a beat when reporting on evolution's "secret" miracles. In this case, evolution's secret is to focus the multiple mutations where they are needed to construct jaw-dropping designs.
Posted by Cornelius Hunter at Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Labels: DNA, Just-so stories
Shubee March 30, 2010 at 6:25 AM
This leads evolutionists away from a whole range of possible investigations and interesting questions. Instead, they drone on with the same, tired, evolutionary explanations that are so predictable.
And what excuse do creationists have for not pursuing scientific research?
Darren March 30, 2010 at 7:35 AM
Shubee,
Who said creationists were not doing scientific research?
Ritchie March 30, 2010 at 7:48 AM
Darren -
Where are the articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals which corroborate Creationism? This is a reasonable measure of the the output of scientists. You perform experiments and your write them up in scientific articles for your peers to pull apart to make sure you did everything right, etc. That's basically what scientists do.
Yet scientific articles supporting Creationism are practically non-existant.
Could this because Creationism is totally untestable - and therefore cannot possibly be the subject of scientific research? Could it be anything to do with the fact that once you've declared 'God did it', then you have simply declared a mystery to be a miracle? Ta-dah. Mystery explained. Problem solved, and we can all pack up and go home without actually having to bother trying to UNDERSTAND the mystery at all...
But that's just me speculating. The point is that if you're doing scientific research, you write it up in articles for scientific journals.
MrT March 30, 2010 at 7:55 AM
Here's one for ya'll ta 'discuss'
Congratulations Cornelius,
your anti-logic reaches new heights here. You highlight exciting work done by evolutionary biologists, motivated by evolutionary questions and done using evolutionary (and non-evolutionary, of course) techniques and then use it to argue that evolutionary biology hinders science. all the while you argue that evolutionary thinking prevents scientists from testing more interesting ideas, of which you provide exactly zero examples. bravissima!
Gary H. March 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM
Ritchie:
"scientific articles supporting Creationism are practically non-existant."
This is yet another of the incredibly hypocritical accusations of inane Darwinians against both ID and creationism.
So once again, for the benefit of trying to get your mind off hold, here's how it works.
1) You are very wrong in the first place as any research into peer-reviewed literature reveals
2) Where there really is a lack of ID-based or creationism-based peer reviewed material is precisely where fanatical Darwinists, run the peer reviewed journals.
3) This means that anything written by an ID supporting scientist (there are many thousands) and even more for any creationist scientist cannot get an article through by default!
4) This of course means that the Darwinian dupes that run the journals are cowards, hypocrites and anti-science.
Take a look in the mirror you Darwinian dupes and hypocrites.
You are the real anti-science bozos of the world.
Ritchie,
Once you've wiped the spittle off your monitor from you last vacuous screed, please provide some examples of the high quality papers supporting Intelligent Design Creationism that have been unfairly rejected by the peer reviewed journals. Surely with "thousands" of IDC "scientists" doing this research it should be a simple matter for you to document your claims.
My apologies, that last message should have been directed at Hitch who was quoting Ritchie.
While I'm here, I'd be interested in seeing Cornelius' response to nanobot74.
nano:
Its always a revelation when any Darwinian dupe starts talking about logic.
They really mean pseudo-logic because Darweens ubiquitously demonstrate their own mental incapacity to do logic all while trying to expose what they erroneously think is fallacy, by using fallacious reasoning.
Again, Oh the irony!
"You highlight exciting work done by evolutionary biologists"
A biostatistician is not an evolutionary biologist.
"motivated by evolutionary questions"
evolution has nothing to do with the questions
"and done using evolutionary (and non-evolutionary, of course) techniques"
Evolution has nothing to do with technique.
"and then use it to argue that evolutionary biology hinders science."
Not even what he is saying.
"all the while you argue that evolutionary thinking prevents scientists from testing more interesting ideas"
Absolutely true.
"of which you provide exactly zero examples."
You're very dim in the gray cells if you fail to see the that this very post is an example as well as most of this blog!
Why am I not surprised by this revelation of this backwards comprehension? Its everywhere in the Darwino literature.
"Because the old believers said that God came out of the sky, thereby connecting the Earth with events outside it, the new believers were obliged to say the opposite and to do so, as always, with intense conviction. Although the new believers had not a particle of evidence to support their statements on the matter, they asserted that the rabbit producing sludge (called soup to make it sound more palatable) was terrestrially located and that all chemical and biochemical transmogrifications of the sludge were terrestrially inspired. Because there was not a particle of evidence to support this view, new believers had to swallow it as an article of faith, otherwise they could not pass their examinations or secure a job or avoid the ridicule of their colleagues. So it came about from 1860 onward that new believers became in a sense mentally ill, or, more precisely, either you became mentally ill or you quitted the subject of biology, as I had done in my early teens. The trouble for young biologists was that, with everyone around them ill, it became impossible for them to think they were well unless they were ill, which again is a situation you can read all about in the columns of Nature [magazine]." -Hoyle, F., Mathematics of Evolution
Poor Patrick,
Your own "vacuous screed" and spittle is laughable denial of reality.
Your demands for examples of rejected material etc. are ludicrous and highly revealing of your own ignorance and foolish imaginations.
Ask Behe, ask Meyer, or Richard Sternberg, or ... ask all the other ID supporters whose articles have been rejected before even being read -by Darwinos like yourself.
By implication all your spittle reveals is your own glaring denial of reality and unscientific prejudice.
Darwinians live in an imaginary world wherein they resemble black holes - no light ever escapes and even worse, none ever enters.
That is because your minds are on hold as Hoyle implied.
Hint: Hoyle was a lot smarter than you, not to mention far more honest.
Hitch,
"A biostatistician is not an evolutionary biologist."
see her website: http://docpollard.com/
here's a spoiler: the main words on the front page are "Evolutionary Genomics"
"evolution has nothing to do with the questions"
so I guess her interest in "human origins" was based on something other than evolution?
"Evolution has nothing to do with technique"
Examining genomes for signs of positive selection (as was done here) is an explicitly evolutionary technique.
"Not even what he is saying"
I guess I must have misinterpreted "This leads evolutionists away from a whole range of possible investigations and interesting questions."
"You're very dim in the gray cells if you fail to see the that this very post is an example as well as most of this blog"
so could you enlighten my dim brain cells with a one or two sentence summary of one of these interesting, testable ideas?
Doublee March 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Could this [be] because Creationism is totally untestable - and therefore cannot possibly be the subject of scientific research? Could it be anything to do with the fact that once you've declared 'God did it', then you have simply declared a mystery to be a miracle? Ta-dah. Mystery explained. Problem solved, and we can all pack up and go home without actually having to bother trying to UNDERSTAND the mystery at all...
In a previous post on this blog, I "confessed" to a predilection to paraphrasing agruments from evolutionists and using the paraphrase to rebut their argument:
Could this be because evolutionism is totally untestable - and therefore cannot possibly be the subject of scientific research? Could it be anything to do with the fact that once you've declared evolution did it, then you have simply declared a mystery to be a fact? Ta-dah. Mystery explained. Problem solved, and we can all pack up and go home without actually having to bother trying to UNDERSTAND the mystery at all...
I had to change only three words to make the counter argument. Some further explanation of "my" rebuttal is required.
Evolution is not totally untestable. So-called micro-evolution can be tested in the lab and in the field.
In the literature I have read, it seems that the definition of "testable" implies performing lab experiments. Apparently that is your definition as well: You perform experiments and you write them up in scientific articles...
Eugenie Scott criticizes ID as not being testable, because you "can't put God in a test tube." The analagous criticism is valid for evolution: Evolution is not testable because you can't put 100 thousand years of evolution in a test tube.
The greatest mysteries of evolution lie in the deep, deep past. The mysteries of evolution can only be solved by the methods of historical science, and, even then, we cannot have the same level of confidence in a historical explanation as we do in an explanation derived from a direct experiment.
[W]e can all pack up and go home without actually having to bother trying to UNDERSTAND the mystery at all...
I have made this point before as well. Does science really understand the mystery of how evoluton actually takes place? If not, then how can science have any confidence that their theory is true? That confidence must arise from somewhere else.
mynym March 30, 2010 at 10:08 AM
A humbling truth emerged: our DNA blueprints are nearly 99 percent identical to theirs.
The guiding philosophy behind statements like this have clearly distorted science. It's a philosophy that arose almost wholly out of the rejection of another. Indeed, that seems to be it's only defining characteristic. It leads to claims which are the material of satire in light of facts, logic and evidence.
…to say that humans are over one-third daffodil [based on their DNA] is more ludicrous than profound. There are hardly any comparisons you can make to a daffodil in which humans are 33% similar. DNA comparisons thus overestimate similarity at the low end of the scale (because 25% is actually the zero-mark of a DNA comparison) and underestimate comparisons at the high end.
The problem is that in being told about these data without a context in which to interpret them, we are left to our own cultural devices. Here, we are generally expected to infer that genetic comparisons reflect deep biological structure, and that 98% is an overwhelming amount of similarity. Thus “the DNA of a human is 98% identical to the DNA of a chimpanzee” becomes casually interpreted as “deep down inside, humans are overwhelmingly chimpanzee. Like 98% chimpanzee.” ….
…whatever the number is, it shouldn’t be any more impressive than the anatomical similarity; all we need to do is to put that old-fashioned comparison into a zoological context.
(What It Means to be 98% Chimpanzee by Johnathan Marks :28-31)
Another commenter quotes Hoyle saying:
Because the old believers said that God came out of the sky, thereby connecting the Earth with events outside it, the new believers were obliged to say the opposite...
Note how a philosophy that seems to be defined only as the methodical rejection of God happens to fit the psychological dynamics typical to those who want to do away with the Father in order to crawl back into the womb of their Mother Nature anyway. The irony being that they actually hate Nature and so consider it humbling to be linked to it. Many Christians agree that God should not get his hands dirty or tinker and so on.
Ken Miller writes: The big emotional issue among creationists is human evolution. It might be safe to say that all their previous arguments exist only to support the notion that humans are in no way linked to the other animals. The whole Christian ethos is centered around a carnal incarnation and the Lamb of God, yet supposedly God cannot "tinker" and we cannot get dirty?
Dawkins on the same topic:
The rise of Darwinism in the nineteenth century polarised attitudes towards the apes. Opponents who might have stomached evolution itself balked with visceral horror at cousinship with what they perceived as low and revolting brutes, and desperately tried to inflate our differences from them. This was nowhere more true than with gorillas. Apes were ‘animals’; we were set apart. (The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins :108)
In another section he argues rather ignorantly:
Many of our legal and ethical principles depend on the separation between Homo Sapiens and all other species. Of the people who regard abortion as a sin, including the minority who go to the lengths of assassinating doctors and blowing up abortion clinics, many are unthinking meat-eaters, and have no worries about chimpanzees being imprisoned in zoos and sacrificed in laboratories. Would they think again, if we could lay out a living continuum of intermediates between ourselves and chimpanzees, linked in an unbroken chain of interbreeders like the California salamanders? Surely they would. Yet it is the merest accident that the intermediates all happen to be dead. It is only because of this accident that we can comfortably and easily imagine a huge gulf between our two species-or between any two species, for that matter.
(Ib. :303)
Note the way that the Darwinian mind constantly works towards citing imaginary evidence, so by the end of his paragraph he’s treating his imaginary ancestors and imaginary events in the past as if they are a reality which must be “imagined” away by others. And note his ignorance, he should know that if even if his imaginary ancestors were real wouldn’t make a huge difference. Does genocide happen among humans? Of course. Did it happen among people like the Nazis who virtually all believed in evolutionary creation myths? Of course. Do people who know that they have the same ancestors still kill each other? Of course. Is common ancestry among humans or chimps any safeguard if the Darwinian creation myth is true? Of course not, Jews were experimented on by Nazis who firmly believed in Darwinism and the Nazis advanced "animal rights" and anti-vivisection laws and then went on to experiment on Jews. (I.e. perhaps the best people to understand the nature of animal sacrifice.) There is no reason to become a vegetarian or to stop experiments on animals if the Darwinian creation myth is true. Dawkins seems to be playing pretend again and merely imagining that doing away with monotheism and the Jewish tradition will lead to heaven on earth. It's already been tried and it didn't. If he wasn't an ignorant buffoon when it comes to history and philosophy he would know that.
Lars March 30, 2010 at 10:18 AM
@Ritchie,
Here is an example of quality, reproducible, primary research aimed at testing the claims of evolution and design in a specific case:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i1/beetle.asp
Preliminary observations of the pygidial gland of the Bombardier Beetle, Brachinus sp.
The paper appears in the peer-reviewed Journal of Creation, which closed-minded evolution proponents will likely disqualify on ideological grounds; but upon reading the paper itself, the quality of the research is evident. Armitage and Mullisen have given a careful review of the existing literature on the subject, then have expanded the area of what is known by publishing new SEM/TEM micrographs and photographs. They conclude that irreducible complexity has yet to be experimentally established for the "artillery" of the bombardier beetle, and describe the criteria by which it could be established or disproven.
Is this an article which "corroborates Creationism"? It doesn't reach that far with its conclusions, leaving them "beyond the scope of this study." Instead it lays solid morphological groundwork where it was lacking, so that future arguments regarding the bombardier beetle can be better grounded on the facts.
This paper is a good example of how Creationist scientists "perform experiments and you write them up in scientific articles for your peers to pull apart to make sure you did everything right, etc. That's basically what scientists do."
Not leaping to conclusions beyond the reach of the data is an example that evolutionists should follow... particularly those who claim evolution is "as much a fact as gravity."
Once you've wiped the spittle off your monitor from you last vacuous screed, please provide some examples of the high quality papers supporting Intelligent Design Creationism that have been unfairly rejected by the peer reviewed journals.
Don't you agree that ID should be censored from peer reviewed journals because it is not science?
With respect to the consensus that those who can't think for themselves tend to latch on to like their last and dying friend, if Darwinian mythologies of progress are granted then evolution will do away with the current consensus, naturally enough. So why cling to it and cite it as the be all end all? It may be as meaningless as the consensus of established science about eugenics a short time ago. If a group of imbeciles agrees among themselves that they are not imbeciles the fact remains that they are imbeciles. Even if all biologists agree that imaginary evidence can be treated as the equivalent of empirical evidence it's still imaginary.
Could it be anything to do with the fact that once you've declared 'God did it', then you have simply declared a mystery to be a miracle?
This is false. As Doublee has pointed out the same exact criticisms could be advanced against unfalsifiable notions of "Evolution did it." which are quite common. The truth is that both can be advanced in an unfalsifiable way or specified further, even to the point of being a more rigorous science. I would not say that a miracle or any singularity is open to science but even miracles ("Let this be a sign to you.") are not the equivalent of mere power or magic and science may isolate or lead to a knowledge of singularities, naturally.
TrevorD March 30, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Cornelius: "This leads evolutionists away from a whole range of possible investigations and interesting questions. Instead, they drone on with the same, tired, evolutionary explanations that are so predictable."
I agree with others here that it is unfortunate that Cornelius does not seem to think that he should be one of the people asking these "interesting questions" or what "possible investigations" could be carried out. He is repeatedly asked this time and time again, and prefers not to answer, under the guise that he is somehow "neutral".
Although criticizing evolution may have some value, and it can be thought-provoking, ultimately unless alternative hypotheses are proposed, it simply leaves everybody at an impasse.
I've been reading this blog for a while now. It's illuminating in the fact that it shows how much more is to be known. But has it really shaken my acceptance of evolution? No, not really - or at least I have yet to see any solid evidence that evolutionary processes are anything but natural. It's possible scientists may be wrong on some matters, but it still looks very much like a natural process. Of course Hunter is never quite straightforward enough to admit that he thinks there is some "supernatural" element at work, but of course we all realize that's where he's coming from (and frankly all of the stuff he espouses about being metaphysically neutral is really just plain old BS).
I doubt if my views change until somebody (and it obviously won't be Hunter) offers a different/better explanatory framework than evolution currently offers. This is how science progresses - one paradigm replaces another - and it's a fundamental concept that Hunter completely fails to understand.
I guess his legacy will be "The man who hated evolution" and unfortunately little more.
Joe G March 30, 2010 at 1:05 PM
Well Tim,
If you could just provide positive evidence for your position perhaps Dr Hunter wouldn't "hate" it.
TrevorD March 30, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Joe G: "If you could just provide positive evidence for your position perhaps Dr Hunter wouldn't "hate" it."
I'm not the one suggesting that evolution is completely wrong. I think overall it is a sound framework. Dr. Hunter is the one who has issues with it, but seemingly is unable to suggest any viable alternative (one assumes "ID" in some form of other, but even here he seems reluctant to promote it - even though he is a fellow of the DI!)
Cornelius Hunter March 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM
Timcol:
Of course Hunter is never quite straightforward enough to admit that he thinks there is some "supernatural" element at work, but of course we all realize that's where he's coming from (and frankly all of the stuff he espouses about being metaphysically neutral is really just plain old BS).
Some people say "we all know what those evolutionists really think -- they're atheists," but that is problematic, for several reasons. For instance, some are atheists *because* they believe evolution is true. And in any case, their arguments are not from atheism. They don't argue that god doesn't exist, and so evolution must be true. I suspect the majority are atheists because they've bought the religious arguments for naturalism--at least the vocal ones are clear about that.
Also, the atheism charge can be an argument of convenience, allowing one to avoid the strong metaphysical arguments for evolution. So just imputing the motive of atheism can be problematic.
The bottom line is that arguments based on imputed motives are typically weak, usually wrong, and probably say more about the person making the argument. It is always safer simply to address the claims that actually are made rather than attempt to divine ulterior motives. In fact, if you listen and engage you find most people are quite up front and honest about their arguments. Evolutionists, for instance, are right up front with their religious beliefs. (not so when you place their arguments under scrutiny--they then go into denial).
Now your argument here is similar. Your statement is off base on several counts. In fact I do discuss what I believe, and why I believe it. Of course I think supernatural causation played a role, because of the science. Evolutionists, OTH, bring in their metaphysics on the front end, where religious arguments are used to mandate that evolution is a fact. But they then deny it when confronted.
I suggest if you are on the lookout for cases of denial, you look closer to home.
Cornelius: "Of course I think supernatural causation played a role, because of the science. "
OK then. What kind of role did this supernatural role play and why is it suggested by the science? I think it's also clear you think that this supernatural entity is the Christian God (otherwise one would assume it would be at odds with your personal faith). But why? Why the Christian God? And why does ID not jive with the origins accounts in the Bible which explicitly points to a spontaneous creation event?
OK then. What kind of role did this supernatural role play
and why is it suggested by the science?
Because the world does not appear to be a result of the natural laws and processes we deduce from observing nature.
I think it's also clear you think that this supernatural entity is the Christian God
But why? Why the Christian God?
Well there are several reasons. So we have the massive failure of evolution which raises the question of how we got here. Then there is evil which is difficult to account for without the Christian God. Then there is my own personal sin, and my own situation, which the Bible describes so well. And then there is the man Jesus of Nazareth, and the evidence of his life, work, and atonement.
And why does ID not jive with the origins accounts in the Bible which explicitly points to a spontaneous creation event?
Well I'm not sure about ID, but as for the Bible, it is more underdetermined than you think. Christians hold a spectrum of views and interpretations, of which the spontaneous creation event is merely one.
nanobot74 said...
"see her website: http://docpollard.com/
here's a spoiler: the main words on the front page are "Evolutionary Genomics""
And here's the foiler - that you did not read:
http://docpollard.com/katie.html
BIOSTATISTICS - is not evolutionary biology
"so I guess her interest in "human origins" was based on something other than evolution?"
Her interest and motives are not even the subject at hand. You're debating a strawman.
"Examining genomes for signs of positive selection (as was done here) is an explicitly evolutionary technique."
Wrong, the technique is "technology" and math - the goal is "for signs of".
Evolution is not a technique.
" I guess I must have misinterpreted"
Yes. You misinterpret a lot and change the subject a lot. Is this to avoid real debate? Apparently.
"your anti-logic reaches new heights here. You highlight exciting work done by evolutionary biologists, motivated by evolutionary questions and done using evolutionary (and non-evolutionary, of course) techniques and then use it to argue that evolutionary biology hinders science. all the while you argue that evolutionary thinking prevents scientists from testing more interesting ideas, of which you provide exactly zero examples. bravissima!"
Your first paragraph is full of errors that I pointed out.
Your request for examples of interesting questions is irrelevant to the post as this blog and dozens like it point out such questions all the time.
Ask R. Sternberg what he is currently researching. Or D. Axe, or Wells or Behe or ...
This entry is geared at revealing why and how evolutionary pseudo-logic, being based on the assumption of evolution (Darwinism) as FACT, hinders scientists from looking into other things.
One such thing evolutionary researchers avoided for years is the mis-named "junk DNA" - abundance of examples of lost research exist in that area alone. As we are now seeing more and more as Darwinists finally are just beginning to wake up to the fact that there is no junk DNA worth speaking of - as ID predicts (another failed prediction of Darwinism).
I think you already know that.
RobertC March 31, 2010 at 9:57 AM
"In evolution-dom, DNA is king. Long ago evolutionists latched onto DNA as a Hail Mary explanation of how the information for macro evolution could be stored and passed on. Ever since then DNA has been viewed as the blueprint for biological design."
Just to clarify, do you NOT believe DNA carries inheritable genetic information?
TrevorD March 31, 2010 at 11:06 AM
Timcol: "OK then. What kind of role did this supernatural role play"
Cornelius: I don't know.
How could we know? And why does this supernatural entity not want to reveal its methods? Given that you think this supernatural entity is the Christian God, it seems then that this God would prefer we remain in the dark about it, right?
Cornelius: Because the world does not appear to be a result of the natural laws and processes we deduce from observing nature.
That is an inference of your choosing. Others draw a different inference that the world is entirely the result of natural processes only. Without the benefit of positive evidence of a supernatural entity, my money is on the natural processes too. Apparently this supernatural entity, despite being super-intelligent has chosen not to reveal its methods (and in fact has obfuscated matters by providing an entirely contradictory account in the Bible).
Cornelius: Well there are several reasons. So we have the massive failure of evolution which raises the question of how we got here. Then there is evil which is difficult to account for without the Christian God. Then there is my own personal sin, and my own situation, which the Bible describes so well. And then there is the man Jesus of Nazareth, and the evidence of his life, work, and atonement.
This sounds suspiciously like metaphysical arguments to me, particularly when you start introducing concepts and suppositions such as sin and atonement. And of course the historical evidence for the life of Jesus is by no means settled or resolved (e.g., no accounts were written down for at least 25-30 years). If Cornelius took the same rigorous and skeptical approach that he does to evolution to the historicity of Jesus, it could be a very interesting result. And of course had Cornelius been born in Saudi Arabia I suspect he would have a very different viewpoint.
Cornelius: Well I'm not sure about ID, but as for the Bible, it is more underdetermined than you think. Christians hold a spectrum of views and interpretations, of which the spontaneous creation event is merely one.
I wasn't thinking so much of the views of Christians, but the very explicit account in Genesis 1-2. Unless this is interpreted solely as a mythical/allergorical account, it does not appear to jive with scientific accounts. The problem is the text does not give us any real indication on how to interpret it (and at what point in Genesis does it switch from mythology-making to historical accounts?).
Cornelius Hunter April 1, 2010 at 3:32 PM
Patrick:
Evolutionists use religious arguments to prove their theory which otherwise makes little sense a plethora of false predictions. When you point it out, evolutionists retort with a variety of canards, such as this one. Evolutionists will use practically any argument to justify their position.
mynym April 1, 2010 at 4:06 PM
How could we know? And why does this supernatural entity not want to reveal its methods?
Perhaps because if men had a better knowledge of biology they would kill whole groups of people. This is what history indicates among those arrogant and stupid enough to believe that they had knowledge of Darwin's "tree of life."
This is merely a reasonable suggestion based on the evidence. The truth is, I do not know.
Given that you think this supernatural entity is the Christian God, it seems then that this God would prefer we remain in the dark about it, right?
It would seem so. You know that power is linked to knowledge and the more power we have the more capacity we have to destroy ourselves, correct? Even given our relatively limited knowledge of physics we are already at risk of destroying life as we know it. Perhaps instead of focusing on moral teachings and being so cryptic about things the Jewish God should have rigorously specified the nature of nature and biology in the Bible. We probably wouldn't be here to study or know of anything given man's propensity to destroy but at least someone would have had their lust for knowledge satiated, huh?
It seems to me that it's more important to desire to know that you do not know given that a lust for knowledge seems to lead toward vast ignorance.
Timcol62:
And why does this supernatural entity not want to reveal its methods?
The more relevant question is: Why do evolutionists make religious claims that drive their science?
That is an inference of your choosing. Others draw a different inference that the world is entirely the result of natural processes only.
But those inferences are not scientific. Remember, unlike you I'm coming at this from an empiricist angle.
Apparently this supernatural entity, despite being super-intelligent has chosen not to reveal its methods
Again, religious claims carry little weight from an empirical perspective. Of course evolutionists have strong religious beliefs about what god should and should not do, and this world does not meet with their expectations so they need their evolution to be true, no matter how silly it is.
This sounds suspiciously like metaphysical arguments to me, particularly when you start introducing concepts and suppositions such as sin and atonement.
But this is entirely different from evoltuion's metaphysics. I'm not using silly metaphysical claims; I'm not using metaphysics to drive my science; I'm not using metaphysics to make scientific truth claims; I'm not ruining the careers of people who disagree with my metaphysics, and I'm not lying about my metaphysics.
TrevorD April 1, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Cornelius: "Again, religious claims carry little weight from an empirical perspective. Of course evolutionists have strong religious beliefs about what god should and should not do, and this world does not meet with their expectations so they need their evolution to be true, no matter how silly it is."
It is not about having a need for evolution to be true. It is about evaluating evidence and making a judgment on which hypothesis/theory is the best explanation for that evidence.
Given that you believe that the designer is the Christian God, it is not unreasonable to ask whether what we see in nature concurs with the character of said God. After all we supposedly have information about this God from the Bible. We know quite a lot about this entity in fact. That is not making a religious claim but merely responding to the religious ideas proposed by IDers and creationists.
This has been explained to you thousands of times but you refuse to hear or understand it. I think your preoccupation with this idea is bordering on an obsession, particularly that even within your own circle you seem quite alone in promoting this "religion drives science" idea. It would be one thing if it even made the slightest bit of sense - but it honestly doesn't. It's truly the definition of a crackpot theory.
TrevorD April 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Cornelius: "I'm not using metaphysics to drive my science"
So you would have us believe that your religious views have in no way whatsoever influenced your science (even though you admit that "supernatural causation" has played a role and that the designer is the Christian God - would you still have that view had you not first been a Christian?).
In the same way that you are incredulous about evolution, I am utterly incredulous that your own personal religious views have not influenced your scientific stance.
"So you would have us believe that your religious views have in no way whatsoever influenced your science"
My religious views do influence my science, as I have explained here:
http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2010/03/religion-behind-skepticism-of-evolution.html
My religious belief that is relevant here is that we ought not to lie or otherwise misrepresent science.
Otherwise, I fall in line behind a long history of Christian thinkers (including Darwin), going back thousands of years, who favor naturalistic explanations. But I don't place that preference over honesty.
Cornelius: "My religious views do influence my science, as I have explained here:"
Sure, you can assert this. Do I believe it? Not for a minute. As a former evangelical Christian I know only too well how religious beliefs pervades one's entire worldview. Perhaps you think you are an exception (after all you are world's Only True Scientist)...but I simply don't buy your story. After all - isn't it true that some 95% or more (I'm estimating) of ID proponents are Christians? That isn't a coincidence...
Your religion drives your science and it matters....
Sure, you can assert this. Do I believe it? Not for a minute.
Yeah, just as some evangelicals can't believe that evolutionists are Christians. I suspect they want to avoid the hard metaphysical problems while you want to avoid the hard scientific problems. It's all so simple--just brand people as liars to satisfy your parochial view.
As a former evangelical Christian I know only too well how religious beliefs pervades one's entire worldview. Perhaps you think you are an exception (after all you are world's Only True Scientist)...but I simply don't buy your story.
That's quite a theory you have. So I'm a creationist even though I've never written or spoken anything about it. I've argued that creationism and evolutionism come from the same brand of rationalistic thought, but that was really just a ruse. And as a consequence I come up with all kinds of ridiculous arguments against evolution. Only one problem--those ridiculous arguments come from science. Hmmm
After all - isn't it true that some 95% or more (I'm estimating) of ID proponents are Christians? That isn't a coincidence...
That's right, is isn't a coincidence. Christians are all over the map on the origins question because their tradition and beliefs support a wide variety of perspectives. Others, and particularly materialists, have no such resource. They are evolutionists regardless of the evidence. No, it isn't a coincidence that there are no atheist IDers.
Yes, I certainly agree that evolutionists are evaluating the evidence they find important and making a judgment. My point is not that their need for evolution comes out of nowhere. They definitely have their evidence and arguments. In fact, their arguments that evolution is a fact are perfectly valid! But their premises are metaphysical and that is where the heavy lifting takes place. If god would not create the mosquito, then yes, evolution is true. And given such premises, evolution *must* be true, no matter how much the science contradicts it.
Yes, indeed. But that doesn't get us very far does it. When you're done demolishing the religious claims of IDers and creationists then all you can conclude is that religious claims of IDers and creationists are no good. You can't say evolution is a fact unless, that is, you are not merely responding to religious claims but you are buying those religious claims.
This has been explained to you thousands of times but you refuse to hear or understand it.
Actually it is the evolutionists who refuse to understand.
I think your preoccupation with this idea is bordering on an obsession,
Everytime I hear the word "evolution" it drives me deeper into my crazed state. I can't bear the thought of god using such cruel methods, and I must do whatever I can to fight such religious heresy.
particularly that even within your own circle you seem quite alone in promoting this "religion drives science" idea. It would be one thing if it even made the slightest bit of sense - but it honestly doesn't. It's truly the definition of a crackpot theory.
So you mean evolution really isn't religious after all? You mean Coyne, Miller, Mayr, Dawkins, ... all the way to Darwin and Wallace didn't really mean it? When Darwin said the species are inexplicable on divine creation he actually meant they are explicable? You mean there really isn't any metaphysics here? And do you mean there really is scientific evidence proving evolution to be a fact, which they just haven't told us about?
In the end it is very simple.
Cornelius claims that there has been supernatural causation in the origin and/or development of species.
He claims that science backs this up. Yet, when pushed, this science turns out to be little more than an inference based on an argument from incredulity.
What is utterly lacking is any real *positive* evidence of this supernatural causation (and it's quite apparent that this supernatural agent has no intention of helping out here). Sure, there are mathematical musings on how evolution could not have evolved etc, but there is NO POSITIVE evidence.
Provide this (and not just a negative argument) and then there may be something worthwhile talking about.
"Cornelius claims that there has been supernatural causation in the origin and/or development of species."
No, you're projecting as evolutionists often do. The species may have arisen via natural law. Darwin may be correct. What I "claim" (and what is not even controversial), is that science does not indicate this, and that the claim that evolution is a fact or is compelling is not based merely on science, but is metaphysically laden, and that such claims go back centuries, long before Darwin.
I make no claim as to the supernatural versus natural composition of causes involved the origins of species -- I wasn't there.
Certainly, because I'm biased towards empiricism, I would hypothesize some degree of supernatural causation, but I make no claim of certainty. That's my opinion, based on empirical evidence, and open to revision. My opinion is not dogmatic and based on religion, as with you evolutionists. Again, that's not controversial.
"turns out to be little more than an inference based on an argument from incredulity. ... What is utterly lacking is any real *positive* evidence of this supernatural causation."
Right, this is the usual "have it both ways" argument evolutionists make. When it comes to evolution, the inferences and incredulity are everywhere. The empirical evidence is turned upside down or ignored altogether. And then the Big Bang (only the beginning of the universe out of nothing), cannot be used to infer supernatural causation, because that would be too much of an inference.
Cornelius said: "I make no claim as to the supernatural versus natural composition of causes involved the origins of species -- I wasn't there."
Cornelius also said (in comments) on 3/30:
"In fact I do discuss what I believe, and why I believe it. Of course I think supernatural causation played a role, because of the science. "
So, what kind of role do was supernatural causation involved and why - or is this just a vague hunch that you have? And what exactly is the empirical (non-inference) evidence that supports it?
So evolution fails on empirical science over and over, and is motivated by metaphysical interpretations of the evidence, yet you can't imagine how one could think natural causes are insufficient? Fundamental predictions of evolution constantly turn out to be false, and yet we aren't allowed to conclude that naturalism has failed?
This is a good example of how naturalism is unfalsifiable. According to the evolutionist's own critierion of testability, naturalism is unscientific. It has failed scientifically, and yet it must be true.
TrevorD April 4, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Cornelius: "So evolution fails on empirical science over and over, and is motivated by metaphysical interpretations of the evidence, yet you can't imagine how one could think natural causes are insufficient?"
My imagination can run rife if necessary. The question though was what evidence do YOU think exists for supernatural causation.
Cornelius: "This is a good example of how naturalism is unfalsifiable. According to the evolutionist's own critierion of testability, naturalism is unscientific. It has failed scientifically, and yet it must be true."
Actually, all I did was ask a simple question about how/when/where you think supernatural causation played a role (which you have admitted to). I'll take your obfuscations as a refusal and/or inability to answer (as usual).
To summarize
1) Cornelius admitted (on 3/30) that supernatural causation plays a role
2) I asked what the positive evidence for that causation is (rather than just inference)
3) Cornelius responded with the usual metaphysical mumblings (which only make sense to him) and refused to answer the question (again),.
I guess I have my answer. And in the meantime, despite flaws in evolutionary theory, I still maintain there is NO reason to think that there is a non-natural explanation. But Cornelius is welcome to offer that non-natural evidence anytime he wants...
mynym April 5, 2010 at 8:06 AM
There can be no direct, positive or physical evidence for metaphysical realities and their impact on the physical world.
3) Cornelius responded with the usual metaphysical mumblings...
I guess I have my answer.
In your own mind you always did, thanks to your metaphysics.
And in the meantime, despite flaws in evolutionary theory, I still maintain there is NO reason to think that there is a non-natural explanation.
Yet I maintain that there is no reason to think that your brain event happened across an accurate understanding of anything, let alone metaphysics.
But Cornelius is welcome to offer that non-natural evidence anytime he wants...
But all that counts in the brain events of imbeciles is physical evidence in which there can never be evidence of the metaphysical. And even "counting" of that sort is just an illusion of blind processes and events which have no metaphysical metric or measure of themselves.
TrevorD April 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM
mynmm: "There can be no direct, positive or physical evidence for metaphysical realities and their impact on the physical world."
Says who? Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead - isn't this an example of a metaphysical reality impinging on the physical world in a measurable way? In fact without the physical and historical evidence that this event occurred, then Christians would have a very shaky foundation to their faith (of course we can argue whether this event really happened, but that's for a different time...)
If supernatural causation occurred in the origin/development of species, why on earth should it also not be postively observed and/or measured? (and not just inferred...)
Continued...imagine if the only evidence for the resurrection of Jesus was simply the fact that no body had been found. Instead of a resurrection story and apparent eye-witnesses, there was simply an account that Jesus had died, and that his body had never been found. Sure, people could "infer" that the lack of a body could mean he was resurrected. But honestly, it wouldn't be a very compelling story would it? It feels to me that ID and non-natural explanations for evolution are the same - all they have is a "missing body" (in this case issues with theory of evolution - which of course in turn could quite easily resovle themself). There is no positive story, no positive evidence of the ID "resurrection" event.
Says who?
The same type of scientists from which you've derived your methodology of building a view that seems natural to you. This is the way you're "counting" what counts as evidence, naturally. It's actually quite subjective, what seems "natural" and so on. For example, it seems natural to me that your claims about non-natural evidence actually reduce to your brain events and the illusion of a mind of synaptic gaps that mainly has to do with natural selection operating on an ancient group of worm like creatures. Naturally I'd imagine that science is inevitably and methodically building such an explanation or one similar to it.
Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead...
Ironically the main reason that singularities and miracles have significance is a background of regularity. If people were known to rise from the dead every so often or went through a chain of events like a caterpillar morphing into a different kind of organism entirely then it would not be significant. "Let this be a sign to you."
There is no positive story, no positive evidence of the ID "resurrection" event.
Many are simply beginning at the beginning due to the unfathomable stupidity typical to Darwinists who would reduce their own idiotic brain events to blind processes. It's important to realize or have some knowledge that a body is in fact dead or alive before claiming that it came back to life. Take a process like natural selection which is based on the death of the unfit. It creates nothing and it is based on death, yet Darwinists often act as if it generally created life as we know it. Realizing that it is a blind process which can only destroy or preserve and that there is no sentient being "selecting," designing or creating anything is actually quite important.
Sorry mynym but I haven't the faintest clue as to what you are trying to say. My point was simple - where is the positive non-inference evidence for ID. You did a nice job of dancing all over the place, but completely failed to actually address any of my questions! "Beginning at the beginning"? WTF?
My point was simple - where is the positive non-inference evidence for ID.
What in the world would that supposedly look like to you? What would you supposedly "count" as positive, non-inference evidence for design?
You did a nice job of dancing all over the place, but completely failed to actually address any of my questions!
Your questions seem questionable.
mynym: "What in the world would that supposedly look like to you? What would you supposedly "count" as positive, non-inference evidence for design?"
The question was primarily directed at Cornelius - he was the one making a claim of "supernatural causation", not me. What do you think?
I think the challenge here is that the "designer" isn't talking and hasn't been talking. It/he/she could have - it could have, for example, revealed the nature of DNA (maybe in a holy book perhaps) centuries prior to it being discovered. The lack of willingness to communicate on the designers part is to me rather telling (particularly if you believe, as Cornelius does, that it is the Christian God - it seems out of character doesn't it?)
mynym: "Your questions seem questionable."
Why is it questionable when somebody makes a claim to ask them to back it up?
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Final Days (A+) has all the characteristics that have made Gary Gibson such a favorite writer of mine: great style, flowing narration that keeps one turning pages, compelling characters and enough twists to keep me guessing - even though here the general picture became reasonably clear after a while, there is a lot going on and the fate of the main characters plays out to the end so to speak. While a loose sequel titled Thousand Emperors is scheduled for next year, Final Days is a standalone novel in all ways that matter and it is another very strong showing for the author.
Bets Davies said...
I love any puzzle piece plot I can get. The convergences and the delicate interweaving fascinate me. You review almost has me picking up the book, but despite the grade you gave it, I am still going: NOOOOOOOO!!! No wormholes! No time travel
!! Argh! Shades of too much Star Trek!
Plus, this is bratty, but like a fair sampling of science fiction, you named three main characters, and none of them were female. This may be why I sway towards fantasy, generally.
There are several female characters but it is true that the accent is on the three named; the one notable woman here is Olivia a scientist who is both former and current wife of Jeff and in-between that lover of Saul - so the "complicated" part in the relationship between the two
The world itself is not particularly male - there are several high ranking women, another sort of blue collar spacer who runs an independent flight business with her husband etc
As for time travel I am not particularly fond of that either but I just love the author's writing
His Shoal trilogy has Dakota Merrick as main character btw, as cool a woman lead in sf as it gets
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Cody Garbrandt & TJ Dillashaw Named Coaches For TUF 25
Cody Garbrandt (photo via UFC)
By FCF Staff
Cody Garbrandt’s first opponent as the UFC’s new bantamweight champ will be former teammate and champ, TJ Dillashaw.
The promotion has announced that Garbrandt and Dillashaw will be the coaches for the 25th Season of “The Ultimate Fighter”, which will premiere on April 19th. The season will feature welterweight fighters who have competed on TUF before, and the cast will reportedly include one current roster member.
The announcement also states that Dillashaw will face Garbrandt after the season finishes, but no official date was included.
Garbrandt won the 135 title at UFC 207 in December by scoring a decision win over Dominick Cruz. Dillashaw also fought at the event and earned a decision win over contender John Lineker.
Tags: Cody Garbrandt, TJ Dillashaw, TUF, TUF 25, UFC
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Figure 2-37.--Mk 87 Mod 1 kit on M14 rifle.
Table 2-1.--Range Data
You should load only one cartridge into the rifle at a
time, and should not load it until you are at the rail, just
before firing, with the rifle pointing outboard in a safe
direction. Never use any cartridge other than one
designated to fire a line-throwing projectile.
Degrees of Elevation
SHOT LINE
The nylon shot line comes in spools (fig. 2-39). The
line is approximately 550 feet long and has a tensile
strength of 125 pounds. It is wound around a wooden
spindle in a way that prevents the line from fouling
when the projectile is fired. The line is colored
international orange and is treated with a water-
repellent solution to make it buoyant enough to float on
the surface for at least 24 hours.
NOTE: 0° (degrees) is when the rifle is parallel to the
PREPARATION FOR FIRING
On the M14 rifle, the spindle valve must be in the
If you experience a misfire or hangfire, wait 10
CLOSED (slot parallel to the barrel) position (See
seconds before you eject the grenade cartridge. Report
figure 2-37.) before the line-throwing projectile is
the malfunction according to OPNAVINST 5102.1.
fired.
The maximum reliable range of the line-throwing
projectile is approximately 90 yards when fired from
the M14 rifle. This range depends upon having a dry
This position of the spindle valve is
shot line. You can use a wet line if a dry line is not
described as being in the OFF (horizontal)
available, but it will reduce the range. Table 2-1
position in the first part of this chapter and in
provides the approximate range data for firing from the
the TM9-1005-223-10.
M14 rifle.
Before you fire the line-throwing projectile from
the M14 rifle, elevate and aim the rifle over and across
Maintenance and operation of the Mk 87 Mod 1
the designated target. Although the projectile is made of
line-throwing rifle adapter kit is covered in NAVSEA
rubber, it has enough velocity to cause injury. Keep the
SW350-A1-MMO-010. Kit maintenance is also
rifle elevated until the projectile reaches its target to
covered by a 3-M Systems MRC.
prevent line entanglement.
The Navy currently uses the Browning .50-caliber
machine gun and the 7.62-MM M60 machine gun. We
discuss both of these weapons below.
THE .50-CALIBER BROWNING
Browning machine guns (abbreviated BMGs) are
Figure 2-39.--Shot line.
standard Army weapons used by the Navy. The .50-cal.
BMG now used by the Navy and the Army is the M2.
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On motion of Mr. St. John, the amendment was laid on the
Mr. Rice moved to amend by striking out lines 20 and 21,
subdivision 8, section 1.
Mr. Stallworth moved to amend the amendment, by strik-
ing out the words “realty and,” in line 20. Adopted.
And the amendment, as amended, was adopted.
Mr. Stallworth moved to amend subdivision 8, line 20,
section 1, by striking out the whole line and substituting the
following : “ household and kitchen furniture, where it does
not exceed fifty dollars in value.”
On motion of Mr. Brown, the amendment was laid on the
Mr. Price moved to amend line 20, subdivision 8, section 1,
by striking out the words “ not to exceed in value,” and in-
serting in their place the following words, “ to the value of.”
And further amend said line by inserting immediately after
the word “furniture,” the following words, “ and real prop-
erty, if a homestead.”
Mr. Stallworth moved to lay the amendment on the table.
Lost—yeas 36, nays 39.
Messrs. Speaker, Barron, Beirne, Bell, Billups, Bonner,
Brewer, Brown, Chambers, Clements, Davis, Dillon, Edwards,
Espy, Fielder, Gibson, Grant, Gulledge, Harris of Perry, Hig-
gins, Holloway, Huey, Kirkland, Mitchell, Nelson, Prowell,
Purcell, Rice, Ross, Rousseau, Smith of Franklin, Stallworth,
Straughn, Tate, Wharton and Wilson—36.
Messrs. Allen Aldridge, Baldwin, Barnett, Bennett, Betts,
Bliss, Brantley, Cashin, Cook, Coon, Cockrell, Fagan, Far-
riss, Franklin, Greene of Jefferson, Greene of Lee, Hamilton,
Harris of Chambers, Harris of Dallas, Heaton, Jones of Rus-
sell, Kimmey, Lee, Lewis, Locke, Martin, Matthews, Price,
Reese, Reid, Smith of Bullock, St. John, Townsend, Troup,
Witherspoon, Wood of Marengo, Woolf and Wynne—39.
And the amendment was lost.
Mr. Woolf moved to amend by striking out the whole of
subdivision 8, section 1, except lines 27, 28 and 29.
Pending the consideration of which, on motion of Mr.
Chambers, the house adjourned until to-morrow morning, ten
o’clock.
Transcript 309 On motion of Mr. St. John, the amendment was laid on the table. Mr. Rice moved to amend by striking out lines 20 and 21, subdivision 8, section 1. Mr. Stallworth moved to amend the amendment, by strik- ing out the words “realty and,” in line 20. Adopted. And the amendment, as amended, was adopted. Mr. Stallworth moved to amend subdivision 8, line 20, section 1, by striking out the whole line and substituting the following : “ household and kitchen furniture, where it does not exceed fifty dollars in value.” On motion of Mr. Brown, the amendment was laid on the table. Mr. Price moved to amend line 20, subdivision 8, section 1, by striking out the words “ not to exceed in value,” and in- serting in their place the following words, “ to the value of.” And further amend said line by inserting immediately after the word “furniture,” the following words, “ and real prop- erty, if a homestead.” Mr. Stallworth moved to lay the amendment on the table. Lost—yeas 36, nays 39. Those who voted yea are— Messrs. Speaker, Barron, Beirne, Bell, Billups, Bonner, Brewer, Brown, Chambers, Clements, Davis, Dillon, Edwards, Espy, Fielder, Gibson, Grant, Gulledge, Harris of Perry, Hig- gins, Holloway, Huey, Kirkland, Mitchell, Nelson, Prowell, Purcell, Rice, Ross, Rousseau, Smith of Franklin, Stallworth, Straughn, Tate, Wharton and Wilson—36. Those who voted nay are— Messrs. Allen Aldridge, Baldwin, Barnett, Bennett, Betts, Bliss, Brantley, Cashin, Cook, Coon, Cockrell, Fagan, Far- riss, Franklin, Greene of Jefferson, Greene of Lee, Hamilton, Harris of Chambers, Harris of Dallas, Heaton, Jones of Rus- sell, Kimmey, Lee, Lewis, Locke, Martin, Matthews, Price, Reese, Reid, Smith of Bullock, St. John, Townsend, Troup, Witherspoon, Wood of Marengo, Woolf and Wynne—39. And the amendment was lost. Mr. Woolf moved to amend by striking out the whole of subdivision 8, section 1, except lines 27, 28 and 29. Pending the consideration of which, on motion of Mr. Chambers, the house adjourned until to-morrow morning, ten o’clock.
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HowToHack
Trace: • dataleakage
faq:dataleakage
DJI Data Leakage
Hot Patching - Back-door found in DJI GO
Android Tinker
IOS JSPatch
The Response
DJI Forum - Disclosure of DJI sales history
Dji Forum - Disclosure of Kilometers flown
Skypixel - Public upload of private content
Unusual findings
Network Chatter
This page will contain examples of where information “leaks” in ways that is unexpected to DJI consumers. Note also another page that will contain information on the terms of service that are accepted as part of using the DJI ecosystem.
One of the big no-go areas in an app development is the capability for an app to modify its code after deployment. If an app is able to modify itself, it will be able to bypass the rules that govern acceptance into an App Store. For example, Apple has recently warned developers that hot patch capabilities are grounds for apps getting banned. The Google policy says that an app“may not modify, replace, or update itself using any method other than Google Play’s update mechanism”.
Security Researchers have uncovered the use of "tinker" within the DJI GO application. “Tinker is a hot-fix solution library for Android, it supports dex, library and resources update without reinstalling apk.” Again, the Google policy states: “Likewise, an app may not download executable code (e.g. dex, JAR, .so files) from a source other than Google Play”
Before IOS users start to feel confident about their choice, the news on IOS is not much better. IOS APK's have been found to contain JSPatch as an alternative to Tinker. According to fireeye research on the topic, the use of this technique can “expose a similar attack vector that allows patching scripts to alter the app behavior at runtime, without the constraints imposed by the App Store’s vetting process.” The research also states, “malicious behavior can be temporary, dynamic, stealthy, and evasive. Such an attack, when in place, will pose a big risk to all stakeholders involved.”
As stated above, using hot patching frameworks that doing so violates its rules.
DJI representatives initially claimed that hot patching “has never been used in production”. DJI acknowledge this functionality is not permitted, and they would not use this in a public setting.
Regardless of the denial by DJI, you don't put a back door in your code for no good reason.
DJI have subsequently advised that the issue: “The is being addressed. We have never used it as a company. It should be removed with the next revision.”
These findings do paint a sinister story. The capability to dynamically change the software on your device to do anything you likeis like opening up Aladdin's cave. Apps could be dynamically modified to allow access to anything that the DJI go app has permission to access. That would include all access to all vision, all telemetry, and all flight logs. At its worst, this could include a command to “bring down” a drone being used for military purposes. This is the whole pandora's box, and explains why the US Army have ordered the removal of all DJI software from Army devices.
Imagine you are an Amazon customer… and you purchased all sorts of things over an extended period. Imagine you then posted something in an amazon support forum… and when your forum post is published, anyone reading it could see your amazon purchase history. Would that be a concern?
Not according to DJI. Any user who posts in the DJI forum will have their past sales history disclosed against their forum posts. There is an icon for each product owned, that is displayed against the user profile in each post. Disclosing sales records is to be blunt a serious concern, and not permitted under the terms of the DJI privacy policy.
A user posting on the DJI forum has the distance flown with their linked DJI profile displayed against every forum post. The DJI privacy policy for the DJI GO app does not permit this disclosure. Flight logs being uploaded to the “cloud” are done so with the intent being PRIVATE data synchronisation to allow multiple devices to have the same data.
Any information that you voluntarily choose to upload to a publicly accessible site or venue using DJI Products and Services (including sharing information on SkyPixel, DJI+ Discover App or on DJI’s online community forum, the “DJI Forum”), or that you elect to make public, will be available to anyone who has access to that content, including other users.
This policy is the closest one that relates to this provided data. The sharing of kilometres traveled from sync'd flight logs breaches DJI's privacy policy
A user who shares content to say a private Facebook page also has their content uploaded to skypixel. There is no way to turn this off if you press the share to Facebook logo in DJI go. DJI Forum Report and this DJI Forum Report
More research is in progress on of the item(s) below
Data upload analysis.
Details on some network analysis can be found here
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Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures…
I hate having to be the heavy…
Posted on 2012-10-21 by esr
I nearly issued a forking threat a few minutes ago. Only the second time I’ve felt a need to do that and the first was in 1993, so this is not something I do casually. And I drew back from the brink.
But I may have to if the maintainer I’m dealing with doesn’t clean up his act. His library is critical to one of my projects, but his behavior has been increasingly sloppy and erratic lately. He made a serious design mistake which he’s been trying to paper over with kluges; the kluges have made the code unstable and the latest shipped version is actually broken to the point of unusability without a patch.
Some standards have to be maintained, and this guy is breaching most of them. I told him by email “you have set yourself up for serious public embarrassment, which I will (reluctantly) deliver if you don’t resume behaving like a responsible maintainer.”
I hope he gets the message…because I don’t want to threaten him with a hostile fork, but he’s backing me into a position where I think it may be my duty to aim that nuke at him. His library has other users, after all; he’s not just failing me but that whole community.
I’ll do what’s necessary…but I hate having to be the heavy. *Grumble.*
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98 thoughts on “I hate having to be the heavy…”
TomM on 2012-10-21 at 06:54:53 said:
esr on 2012-10-21 at 07:03:28 said:
>kludge
Different word. You are excused for not knowing this: they became confused in the early 1960s.
“Kluge” is originally American, probably from Yiddish/German kluge (clever), and can be backhandedly positive. “Kludge” is originally British, probably from Scots “kludgie” for a toilet, and is always negative. I have a report of at least one U.S. military tech who used both words with distinct meanings, and it appears they became confused by a long-ago Datamation article that imported British “kludge” to the U.S., whereupon it became confounded with native “kluge”.
However, you are correct in a sense different than you intended. The code I’m thinking of is indeed a kludge – I didn’t misspell “kluge”, but I probably should have used the other word.
>I don’t suppose this is the Python IRC library you were talking about in the last post?
Since I do not yet wish to embarass the maintainer in question and still hope to avoid doing so, I’m not going to utter any clues at all about this.
Dallas on 2012-10-21 at 08:12:50 said:
I don’t suppose this is the Python IRC library you were talking about in the last post?
Jay Maynard on 2012-10-21 at 08:23:32 said:
I should find a QST article I recall from one April issue in the 1960s or 1970s…the purported author’s callsign was KL0OGE.
I swore up and down I wouldn’t bring the Second Amendment into other discussions on here, but I feel compelled to, because there’s an important similarity to be drawn here.
Just as the right to keep and bear arms in defense of oneself and one’s country carries with it a duty to think about when one will take up arms, so, too, does the right to fork carry with it a duty to decide when to fork. In both cases, the right is meaningless without the thought process and the willingness and ability to exercise it.
As with taking up arms in defense of one’s country, the cases where a fork becomes a duty are, or at least should be, very few and far between, the consequences harmful to one or more, and even to oneself, and yet the benefits outweigh the harm.
It seems you’ve found one such case.
W Scott Lockwood III on 2012-10-21 at 08:55:52 said:
Hmmm. As an admin who is responsible for security, I really would like to know more. As a human being, I applaud your restraint.
Dan Haggard on 2012-10-21 at 09:53:52 said:
Is it really that bad a thing to have your library forked? Not that my own coding skills are such that I’ll be releasing a library any time soon , but I can’t say I would be all that offended. If their fork was better I would probably start using it myself.
hari on 2012-10-21 at 09:59:18 said:
This is not about the Open Source licensing, but about human feelings of possessiveness. Basically it boils down to ego issues. Hostile forks are not productive to Open Source in general as it divides the community and creates ill feelings between developers and users, so I can understand why ESR is hesitant about it.
Sometimes it is inevitable, but mostly those kinds of forks are taken up from dead or nearly dead projects. Forking an active project is always a sensitive issue.
Greg on 2012-10-21 at 10:00:52 said:
I think everyone hates being the heavy, with the exception of sadists and adrenaline junkies. But sometimes you need to do it.
For some reason this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1lof5Ho1Jw keeps popping into my head and making me laugh.
Yes, it’s very serious indeed.
A form of an active project is a serious attack that calls into question the technical competence of the original maintainer, and can do critical damage to the maintainers prestige and reputation/standing in the community. Which is also a crushing ego blow. And when you consider that the heart of open source is talented programmers voluntarily working on projects, with their reward being largely prestige among their peers and ego gratification….
Performing a hostile fork of someone’s active project could wind up essentially ruining that person for open source development, driving them out of the community. So no, not a step to be taken lightly.
jed on 2012-10-21 at 10:18:11 said:
> Different word. You are excused for not knowing this
Ooooph. While I have an appreciation for both subtlety and precision in language, I have no hope for this distinction returning to general comprehension. Nonetheless, I appreciate being aware of it.
Paul Brinkley on 2012-10-21 at 10:38:23 said:
It can also impact the original owner’s ability to find paying work. The way I see it, in an open-source world, your code is your reputation is your livelihood. If I were in ESR’s shoes, I’d be weighing my concern over the stability of my own code against my concern over doing this person real monetary damage. It’s his money, not mine, but part of me also sees benefit in a larger supply of productive coders in the system.
Patrick Maupin on 2012-10-21 at 11:47:14 said:
@Paul Brinkley:
The way I see it, in an open-source world, your code is your reputation is your livelihood.
Meh. I’ve written some great code, and I’ve written some terrible code. Very little of my open source code is actually in the “great” bucket — most of that is internal proprietary stuff. OTOH, most people perusing my OSS projects would come to the conclusion I can code, and that with a bit of training, I could probably even code to suit them.
Personally, I prefer Linus’s approach: forks happen.
In general, “not forking” shouldn’t happen because of a threat. “not forking” happens because of a shared vision, and threats are usually counterproductive to developing such.
There are at least four good responses to “fix it or I’ll fork it”, the first one being, of course, to fix it, if you have the time and agree it’s a problem and can see a clear way to fix it without causing issues for other library users. But another response is equally valid — “fix it yourself, and when I’m less busy, I’ll look over your changes and decide whether and how to incorporate this functionality.” And of course “I’m busy right now, would you like to maintain the project for awhile” is a valid response as well, but that only works if you’re convinced the potential new maintainer won’t do more damage than good as far as your other users are concerned.
And, esr, I know that when people are blindly, willfully ignorant of your needs, and release code that breaks things that were previously working, after the third or fourth time of explaining the issues to them, it becomes very difficult to explain the facts in a non-hostile way, but (especially given who you are), I think you should try.
I really don’t see the message “I appreciate the great codebase you wrote, but the direction you are taking it will not work for me, so I will need to fork it and give it a new name to reduce the likelihood of confusion, and btw, I am sure there are several others out there with the same needs as me, so I will be advertising the project to attempt to attract other users and developers” as a threat.
Unless, of course, it’s combined with “and I will write mercilessly about how stupid your decisions were on my blog.” Which just isn’t a nice thing to do to somebody who gave you some code that (at some point) was worth using.
Lars Viklund on 2012-10-21 at 12:56:40 said:
It’s a bit saddening that there’s a whole bunch of developers raised on DVCS that do not know the origins and implications of what forking really means.
I’ve seen several times on mailing lists where people use the word carelessly and attract major flak from the project owner. In their world, a fork is simply a temporary alternate development stream, likely to be merged back through new-fangled pull-requests or some other fancy-pants terminology.
Back in the days, a fork was a declaration of war, leading to proper hostilities between the two groups.
ffmpeg vs. libav; NetBSD vs. OpenBSD; X.org vs. whatever-was-before. Those kinds of world-shattering events.
@Lars:
No, what’s saddening is old developers who haven’t come to terms with the reality that forking no longer has to be all or nothing.
Winter on 2012-10-21 at 13:24:39 said:
A project’s capital is its developer and user community. A fork that divides these communities is very bad. Due to network effects, the sum of the divided communities is much smaller than the value of the undivided community.
Linux’ forks do not divide the community. The proposed fork will.
My personal feeling is that a dividing fork is only required if the current maintainers themselves dammage the developer and user communities.
@Winter:
Assumes facts (deliberately) not currently in evidence. For example, if the project currently has but a single maintainer, and if esr’s needs are different than those of the majority of the current users, there is not necessarily any reason for a fork to be other than a temporary development branch with a different focus.
A hostile fork is more a glove across the cheek than anything else. It need not necessarily have the destructive effects others have described, though it certainly can. It’s all in the reasons given for why the fork was done.
In this case, if Eric’s assessment is correct and the library is indeed broken (as defined by the standards it claims to adhere to), then a fork would be damaging, though not insurmountably so, if the original maintainer adopts a pose of “I see your point, here, let me take those fixes” or “I disagree with your assessment, but here’s how we can make it work” or something else reasonable.
Of course, if he was inclined to be reasonable, there wouldn’t be a need for a fork in the first place…
@Patrick
I simply got the impression from Eric that more (many) people might be affected by the fork. But if not, then other considerations obviously apply.
Michael Deutschmann on 2012-10-21 at 19:05:19 said:
I’m curious what the design mistake actually was.
While it is tempting to take ESR’s refusal to deny as confirmation that this is the IRC/Unicode issue discussed in the preceding journal, I don’t think so. That issue should be quite simple to fix now that it has been identified (especially since irker would be satisfied with a simple discard of unicode-unclean lines). This sounds like something more insidious.
Jakub Narebski on 2012-10-21 at 20:00:08 said:
> Back in the days, a fork was a declaration of war, leading to proper hostilities between the two
> groups.
> ffmpeg vs. libav; NetBSD vs. OpenBSD; X.org vs. whatever-was-before. Those kinds of
> world-shattering events.
gcc vs egcs… sometimes forking either result in merge, or in fork taking over the original project.
That sometimes war is necessary makes it no less painful.
Everyone’s remarks here seem pretty consistent with “some forks are amicable and some are casus belli; the difference is intent”.
I consider it common sense that a fork may cause hard feelings if it came from “fix it or I’ll fork it”; that “don’t fork it; just take it over as I’m too busy” is a fine way to avoid that problem; and that “yes, fork it, as we have different visions on future direction” is also amicable. It’s also apparent that a fork should be a culturally formal thing, like a contract, not to be undertaken lightly. (In other words, it’s definitely possible to be both justified and a jerk about it.)
I’m of the opinion that ego shouldn’t cause anger over someone needing some improvement to someone else’s code, but that’s a somewhat weak opinion. I wrote a jigsaw puzzle implementation years ago, and I know how it can feel to let that turn over to someone else. (I never did, but someone decided to fix a memory leak and host that version on their own site, and gave credit where due and was overall quite nice about it, and it still feels like I lost some custody rights to a kid.) I imagine this would feel most acute with entertainment software where you’ve created the initial story, but I can see it with strictly utilitarian software, too.
Justin Andrusk on 2012-10-22 at 09:51:10 said:
Did you set a TTL for resolution?
Morgan Greywolf on 2012-10-22 at 10:42:48 said:
Or not. Emacs vs. XEmacs. We all know who won that one. (*ahem*Vim*ahem*) ;)
I wrote a jigsaw puzzle implementation years ago, and I know how it can feel to let that turn over to someone else. (I never did, but someone decided to fix a memory leak and host that version on their own site, and gave credit where due and was overall quite nice about it, and it still feels like I lost some custody rights to a kid.)
This seems exactly the sort of situation that github was designed for. It’s hard to imagine that someone who gave credit and was quite nice about it wouldn’t, these days, give you a pull request so that the bugfixes could easily wind up back in your main branch.
(Having said that, the cost of using github vs. say, googlecode and subversion, seems fairly high for a small project with a single developer. DVCS is certainly more powerful than VCS, but with that power comes additional steps that need to be taken.)
I feel no project should be forked except for major changes*. Minor code changes should be merged with the original via patches.**
* meaning different features not planned in the original, a major rework/restructure of the codebase etc.
** provided of course, the project is alive and the maintainer is willing to accept patches.
However, hari, it would seem from Eric’s original posting that the maintainer is not willing to accept Eric’s fixes…where does that leave the desirability of a fork in your view?
@Morgan Greywolf:
No wonder you don’t like emacs — you’re not very good at balancing your parentheses, are you?
Cathy on 2012-10-22 at 12:29:53 said:
“However, hari, it would seem from Eric’s original posting that the maintainer is not willing to accept Eric’s fixes.”
That seems to be implied, but nowhere did Eric state that outright. If that’s the case, I’d like to hear ESR confirm it, and if there was a justification given for rejecting fixes, I’d like to hear that as well.
The fact that Eric talks of a flawed design decision (he used the phrase “serious design mistake”) implies that there’s more going on here than just buggy code that needs a few patches. Different design decisions implies different visions of where the project is going.
Jay Maynard:
I thought I’d missed that… but reading the post again, Cathy is right. It’s implied, but not specifically mentioned.
Inkstain on 2012-10-22 at 12:41:04 said:
I have to disagree with the people claiming that forks are necessarily bad. If a person feels that I’m driving one of my projects in the wrong direction, it is right and proper for him to fork it and remake it in his own image, so to speak. And if it turns out that his version becomes the de-facto standard, I’ll view it as a net win; it means I was probably bottlenecking the user community and it’s an opportunity for me to learn. Should it turn out that my version is still the standard, good. At the very least he got code better suited to his needs.
Random832 on 2012-10-22 at 12:43:41 said:
Without either A) more information about the specific case or B) using this as a jumping-off point for a broader discussion of the ethics of forking and project maintainer responsibilities, I don’t see where this post is going.
Dan on 2012-10-22 at 13:07:28 said:
Forking code is for pussies – trident it like a man.
Baylink on 2012-10-22 at 13:19:25 said:
There is an important point that I’m a little surprised I didn’t see anyone mention here in the comments — this is a *library*. It’s not end-user code or an app.
That has several semantic implications, the most important of which has to do with packaging and naming: how do distribution repository managers deal with a fork in a library. It’s somewhere between difficult and impossible to Just Rename the library proper without screwing up a billion and six makefiles,
so some cooperation from repo maintainers would seem to be essential in making a fork like that without making life difficult for both developers and those packagers themselves.
Also: which version do you fork?
I would assume esr would fork an older, cleaner version, and make whatever changes he felt necessary to sort out the mess… but that itself limits who’s old code will link to the library properly.
No, libraries, like languages (a point I wish language maintainers would learn; how many versions of C have there been since 1979? What’s most of the code (or its interpreters :-) in the world written in?), are *tools for other people to get work done*; a much stricter set of workflow semantics must apply thereto, if you want people to actually, y’know, use them.
SPQR on 2012-10-22 at 13:52:47 said:
” Or not. Emacs vs. XEmacs. We all know who won that one. (*ahem*Vim*ahem*) ;) ”
Oooooo, that was a telling blow.
Baylink’s point about libraries reminds me of an important actual example of library forking, which was similar except that it was 100% politics and 0% maintainer competence: libpng.
Mozilla really wanted support for its APNG animated png format, which was formally rejected by the PNG standards authorities. This required some patching of the libpng library. But libpng’s maintainers refused to act as enablers for Mozilla’s fork of the /standard/, and so brickwalled any APNG patches. Refusing to surrender, Mozilla then forked the library as well.
@Baylink:
Probably nobody mentioned it because it was a given.
That has several semantic implications, the most important of which has to do with packaging and naming: how do distribution repository managers deal with a fork in a library.
I did mention the necessity of a rename on a fork.
It’s somewhere between difficult and impossible to Just Rename the library proper without screwing up a billion and six makefiles,
Not necessarily true, e.g. if it’s a pure Python package. Which, for the given problem domain and program, is entirely likely.
Obviously, that’s up to the forker.
If I read between the lines, esr is saying (a) the broken changes are _recent_, which means that very few, if any clients would depend on the new behavior, and (b) the new behavior will adversely affect other clients than his (presumably, that’s one of the major reasons for the fork). Assuming those two conditions are true, the correct answer should actually be pretty obvious.
Emanuel Rylke on 2012-10-22 at 14:52:18 said:
@Patrick Maupin
I don’t think that the more power of an DVCS translates automatically into more work. I have put some code on GitHub and i can’t imagine it to be any easier with svn.
TJIC on 2012-10-22 at 16:03:56 said:
I find it amusing that this discussion of forking is basically the old “Exit, Voice and Loyalty” discussion in the context of software.
…which shouldn’t really be amusing, I suppose, because what is the community of software developers other than a community of human beings, with that same old human nature?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
@Patrick Maupin “Which, for the given problem domain and program, is entirely likely.”
Do you have information the rest of us do not, or are you jumping to the same conclusion some other people have?
Sigivald on 2012-10-22 at 18:01:51 said:
Patrick Maupin said: No wonder you don’t like emacs — you’re not very good at balancing your parentheses, are you?
How much is Big Parenthesis paying you? HUH?
@Emanuel Rylke:
Ah, but it is. IMO, of course. (I’ve put some code on github, and I have a few svn projects on googlecode.)
@Random832 :
You’re absolutely right — I’m speculating. But I know several of esr’s recent projects involve python, and many of them (I believe) have significant functionality that can be (and probably is) implemented in python. So it wouldn’t _have_ to be the exact same project that others are speculating about…
@Sigivald:
Not enough for me to actually endorse emacs, that’s for sure.
Peter Donis on 2012-10-23 at 01:34:43 said:
@Patrick Maupin:
> the cost of using github vs. say, googlecode and subversion, seems fairly high for a small project with a single developer.
Somewhat off topic, but having fairly recently moved a number of personal projects from subversion to mercurial, I would have to disagree. (I have a few small projects on github as well, but I have never used any other VCS for those.) Just the fact that I can branch, merge, commit, etc. without having to talk to a server is enough to make mercurial a big win for me over subversion; not just the fact that with svn you need a connection to the server, but the fact that you have to wait for the server for *every* operation, instead of being able to batch up a bunch of changes into one push. Not to mention the fact that it’s dirt simple to keep clones of my repos in various places so I always have plenty of backups of the project state; setting up mirroring of an svn repository, while certainly doable, is nowhere near as simple as “hg clone”.
William O. B'Livion on 2012-10-23 at 04:26:48 said:
> I suppose, because what is the community of software developers other
> than a community of human beings
Having dealt with lots of humans, and more than a few software developers, check your assumptions.
James A. Donald on 2012-10-23 at 04:50:03 said:
I am seeing a lot of pain caused by python libraries, and changes therein. People are getting cross, and struggling with versioning.
I don’t use python enough to have a competent opinion as to what the problem is, but there is a problem.
A on 2012-10-23 at 08:10:47 said:
@JAD:
Any examples? Practical interest: I submitted a backwards-compatibility-breaking patch to the python standard library a year or two ago, and while the maintainer told me it was OK I have no idea if it caused anyone else trouble.
I sometimes get the impression that some “free software” types (though not the FSF themselves, judging by the addition of symbol versioning in glibc 2) think that maintaining backwards compatibility is a bad thing because it is mainly seen as a tool to help proprietary software [which you can’t edit/recompile to conform to the new version of the library] to be on an even playing field with free software. This translates to a more widespread ‘apparently’ less extreme view, that backwards compatibility is _not important_, because breaking changes only “really” affect proprietary software, so if there’s some perceived ugliness in the current API you should just change it and let everyone break.
If there’s a python thing at all, it’s in the fact that python doesn’t provide as easy a way to bump a major version number and make it _obvious_ that something’s not compatible. But I really don’t see any legitimate reason why we’re on, say, version 3 of GTK (and I don’t know how many incompatible non-major versions there were along the way to 3.6 – I think 1.2 was incompatible with 1.0 [i.e. some programs using 1.0 could not be compiled against 1.2 without modifications]), and it takes effort to make it possible to install two versions of a library (especially with development headers) side by side. And no-one wants to make it _easy_ to use the earlier versions – since in practice that’ll mean that programs that _could_ benefit from newer features (and security!) in the later versions will stay on the earlier version longer.
Random832: The problem with the approaches to backward compatibility you point out is that not all binary software packages are proprietary. Much out there is shipped as proprietary simply because it’s a royal pain in the ass to compile. See, for example, what it takes to build the Firestorm viewer for Second LIfe on Linux, and note that it’s completely open source – 1.13 MLOC of it.
It’s simply not possible to deliver one package that works across a wide range of distributions and Linux versions. The utter lack of standardization of the API is one major reason that people simply refuse to enter the Linux space.
@Jay: “It’s simply not possible to deliver one package that works across a wide range of distributions and Linux versions. The utter lack of standardization of the API is one major reason that people simply refuse to enter the Linux space.”
@esr (from “The long past of C”):
“The autotools suite began life because the combinatorial explosion of feature tests and #ifdefs back in the day was too difficult to manage by hand. Over the years autoconf and friends got hairer and hairier (to the point where I got utterly fed up with it), but at the same time increasingly good standards conformance in C and Unix implementations attacked the problem from the other end. So, during the last couple of days, I’ve found that the sort of platform #ifdefs that used to be autotools’s raison-d’etre can all be yanked out – what’s left is feature switches, and only two of those. That whole standardization thing…actually worked.”
Interestingly different points of view. Perhaps the next phase for Linux needs to be additional standardization across distributions regarding directory structure, locations where key files (e.g., headers, libraries) are stored, and so forth. Is there really a fundamental reason why distributions need to be so incompatible?
Main issues I see: (1) rpm vs. deb vs. tarballs; (2) window management (Gnome, KDE) that are more integrated into the distro than they should be; (3) different directory structures.
(1) doesn’t strike me as likely to change, because too much has been invested by each group. However, if each type of store is sufficiently standardized, it should be possible to write a program to automatically translate one to another.
(2) is just poor design decisions.
(3) seems like the easiest one to solve.
Now if only open source projects would standardize their build process! I tried to build xgammon the other day, as it has some glaring bugs that would probably be pretty easy to fix. But I can’t even get it to build, as it wants to dump me into emacs when I start a build and make some strange path changes. I could probably figure it out, but it’s not worth the effort. If you need to do this sort of thing, ./configure is your friend. If I need to edit a file myself (with my own choice of editor) and it’s sufficiently well documented, I’m not happy about that but I can live with it.
Cathy, you missed 4), and what makes the question relevant to this discussion: library versioning and API incompatibilities. Library maintainers feel no need to use the existing mechanisms to mark their libraries incompatible with earlier versions, and even when they do, distribution maintainers don’t use that to permit both versions to remain on the system. The result is that an application builder can’t depend on writing to one API and actually have it work.
“Is there really a fundamental reason why distributions need to be so incompatible?”
No-one wants the someone else’s crappy design decisions to become the standard.
John D. Bell on 2012-10-23 at 12:30:01 said:
@Random832
s / crappy / idiosyncratic, often ego-driven /
I _did_ mean “crappy” as how each person/group/company thinks of their rival’s idea of how to do things, rather than anything objective about how things actually are.
@Jay:
“Cathy, you missed 4), and what makes the question relevant to this discussion: library versioning and API incompatibilities. Library maintainers feel no need to use the existing mechanisms to mark their libraries incompatible with earlier versions, and even when they do, distribution maintainers don’t use that to permit both versions to remain on the system.”
Duh, yes, I should have included libraries. Of course, this is nothing unique to Linux; ask any Windows power user or developer about DLL hell.
Which raises the question of why none of the distros have put in place a formal mechanism to support multiple versions of the same library installed simultaneously via the standard (for each distro) packaging system.
And related to that, the fact that distro maintainers are slow to get recent library releases into the stable branch (I use Ubuntu, so that’s where my recent experience lies, though at different times I’ve run Red Hat, Caldera, and Slackware).
For quite some time, I have been building FlightGear, which requires plib 1.8.5. Distros were so slow to move beyond 1.8.4 that even the FlightGear “how to build” page had a note indicating that you’d probably have to compile and install it outside the normal packaging system. Now that I’m running oneiric I actually have 1.8.5 in the standard package system, so at least that’s one less problem to deal with.
@James A. Donald:
I would be interested in knowing what context you are discussing.
One thing happening right now is that version 3 is becoming more popular. It was originally envisioned as a “clean break” but in reality that never happens, and more people are maintaining v2 and v3 compatible stuff from a single codebase now, and recent changes to v3 make it more, not less, compatible with v2. There has been some considerable angst over this.
One other possibility is that Python makes it _extremely_ easy for rank amateurs to develop code that is useful for other people. Obviously when this happens, it is unsurprising if APIs aren’t stable.
Also, the recommended installer way (pip vs. easy_install, etc.) is in a state of flux, and not all tools do the right thing with beta vs. released selection. This is somewhat ongoing — what does it mean to get the “latest” version?
Christopher Smith on 2012-10-23 at 14:35:02 said:
I can’t speak for the majority of the distributions, but Gentoo has long supported “slots” for side-by-side versioning; Python, for instance, is slotted by minor version (I currently have a 2.7 and a 3.1 installed), while KDE is slotted by major (4) and the kernel sources by micro (3.5.7).
Cathy said: Of course, this is nothing unique to Linux; ask any Windows power user or developer about DLL hell.
Well, if their memory goes back that long – it’s been (for practical purposes) not a problem since Windows XP let you have local DLLs for each binary.
(And I say this as a professional Windows developer; I can’t remember the last time we had a DLL problem like the old “DLL hell” days. Ditto as a user.
Microsoft seems to have pretty much solved that problem. Which is nice.
Hopefully Linux people will figure out Some Way To Do The Equivalent, but my low-level Unix-fu is not remotely strong enough to even imagine where one would start…)
Jeff Read on 2012-10-23 at 15:54:18 said:
You’re about 10 years too late. Since Windows XP, all versions of Windows have included SxS, a feature which lets you match DLL versions to specific executables, eliminating the DLL hell problem entirely.
As usual, Linux has yet to catch up.
I haven’t done professional Windows development since 2000 (and not much then, as I lived mostly in Unixland), so no surprise that I’m out of date.
@Jeff Read:
> As usual, Linux has yet to catch up.
WTF? With linux preload, you can override _a few_ functions in a shared library. You don’t even need to replace the whole thing.
As usual, Microsoft has yet to catch up.
That’s not really equivalent. The equivalent would be if there were a copy of /usr/lib for every single executable in /usr/bin, maintained with hardlinks. Which you can _do_, sure but it doesn’t exist yet, nor is it built into the loader.
@Random832:
The literal question was “ask any Windows power user or developer about DLL hell.”
So the equivalent would be any Linux power user or developer. Who can easily arrange their .so libraries to suit themselves, and/or their customers.
People who _really_ remember DLL hell on Windows will, if they clear the cobwebs, realize that the true DLL hell involved not being able to have two simultaneously running programs use two different DLL files that shared the same name. This is not an issue on Linux, and while there are some inconveniences (probably more properly called RPM hell), there is no true current Linux equivalent to what is properly termed DLL hell.
Yes, old DLL hell referred to the fact that you couldn’t map two DLLs with the same name into the global address space that all Win16 programs shared.
But in later years — like, since 1995 — DLL hell came to refer to the fact that the DLL you linked against when you built the program may not be the same version as what’s on the user’s machine when it runs. Another program may have clobbered the user’s machine with a different version of the same DLL.
With SxS under Windows, own versions of different DLLs are managed automatically, transparently. No similar automatic and transparent functionality is extant on major Linux distributions.
The fact that it be automatic, transparent, and EASY is critical. Remember, if technology doesn’t work for people, it doesn’t work.
There is a .so versioning standard in place. It’s just that nobody actually follows it. Library maintainers don’t bump the number when they make incompatible changes, and distribution maintainers don’t look at it when replacing library packages with incompatible versions.
>There is a .so versioning standard in place. It’s just that nobody actually follows it. Library maintainers don’t bump the number when they make incompatible changes, and distribution maintainers don’t look at it when replacing library packages with incompatible versions.
Huh? In my experience, neither of these things is true.
Most Linux distributions can and do carry multiple versions of system libraries, differentiated by x.y.z version specifications. Thus distribution makers don’t have to “replace” libraries at all. Compiled applications (in effect) look for a matching major number among the options.
Yeah, there’s something to be said for fucking up things so badly that you have to go fix them. Microsoft’s good at this.
> Most Linux distributions can and do carry multiple versions of system libraries, differentiated by x.y.z version specifications. Thus distribution makers don’t have to “replace” libraries at all. Compiled applications (in effect) look for a matching major number among the options.
And this is completly automatic (thanks in part to tools like libtool / libtoolize used during installation time)…
…with the caveat that: a) library maintainers must use semantic versioning correctly (usually they do); b) program maintainers must link against correct version of library (mostly automatically); c) packages need to have correct version information (though I think it happens mostly automatically)
For example I have on one of Linux systems two versions of readline library and two version of standard C++ library.
ls /usr/lib/*.so.* | grep “[0-9]” | sed -e ‘s/\.so\..*$/.so/’ | sort | uniq -c | grep -v “2 “
There can still be problems even then. I remember how fast the “standard C++ library” version turnover used to be – download a binary package and odds are the libstdc++ it links against is too old to be packaged in your distro anymore.
I just downloaded a binary blob of Skype. Despite being their “static version” it still depended on libtiff.so.4. I had libtiff.so.5.
I was able to cruft up a symlink to get it to work, but the average user can’t do that.
And this is why library management on Linux is an unholy mess. This doesn’t happen on Windows and it doesn’t happen on Mac. It is UNACCEPTABLE for this to happen in any environment.
jsk on 2012-10-24 at 14:23:34 said:
> And this is why library management on Linux is an unholy mess. This doesn’t
> happen on Windows and it doesn’t happen on Mac. It is UNACCEPTABLE for
> this to happen in any environment.
Doesn’t happen on Mac cause applications package their own libraries, unless they are pre-existing system libraries. There is little stopping Linux packages from doing this as well.
Windows uses the cruftiest, ad-hoc-iest solution I’ve seen to solve it. How many copies of the same version of DX9 do I have installed on my gaming box? At least 20 or 30 at this point, maybe more. That’s ridiculous.
Really, you want to bitch about libraries for specific packages on Linux, you should bitch at the developers of the software, not at Linux. Bitch at them for making stupid assumptions that break years-long expectations (like assuming everyone runs crappy Ubuntu), or that every system has 32-bit libraries installed. Bitch at them for calling a dynamic-linked exec a “static” executable when it clearly isn’t, and for not including the requisite libraries in the install package if it actually matters.
Developers get severely dinged in the Mac world for not following the conventions, instead of Apple getting dinged for having a weird architecture. Why the fuck does that not also apply to Linux? Blame the shitty developers first.
Hm, this rant gives me an idea for a “power” end-user utility that might be handy. Need to make a note…
dtsund on 2012-10-24 at 14:29:21 said:
“but the average user can’t do that.”
Good thing the “average user” doesn’t need to. The “average user” installs Skype from a .deb file (either from Skype’s website or their distro’s repository), and things Just Work.
Yes, it’s possible for someone to call something a “static version” when it really isn’t. It’s also possible for Windows developers to not use SxS.
j. random sysadmin on 2012-10-24 at 15:49:15 said:
> I just downloaded a binary blob of Skype. Despite being their “static version” it still depended on libtiff.so.4. I had libtiff.so.5.
>I was able to cruft up a symlink to get it to work, but the average user can’t do that.
You have directly downloaded (bypassing the package manager) a blob that is dynamically linked with some_library version x. You have some_library version y != x, but, fortunately, the changes between x and y versions’ ABI do not matter in _this_particular_case_. What should the OS do?
1) Track your downloads and automagically fetch and install some_library version x when you download a binary that is dependent on it;
2) As soon as the binary is being run, the OS should assess the degree of compatibility between x and y and decide if that binary can be run with some_library of the existing version;
3) Just try to run the binary with the existing some_library.
4) Complain that there is no some_library version x in the system and bail out when the binary is being run.
There is only one realistic case above. Guess which.
On the other hand, modern package managers track dependencies not only from packages, but also from specific library versions. For example, if you use rpmbuild to create a package foo that contains /path/to/some_library.so.x, it automatically remarks that this package provides /path/to/some_library.so.x. And, alternatively, if you use rpmbuild to create a package bar that contains a binary that depends on /path/to/some_library.so.x, it will add a corresponding requirement. Therefore, when you will try to install such a package, the package manager (e.g. yum) will automatically consider that package bar requires some package that provides /path/to/some_library.so.x to be installed, for example, package foo.
The real problems begin when one bypasses the regular mechanisms of package management. But this is certainly the thing that average_users(tm) should not do.
jsk said: Windows uses the cruftiest, ad-hoc-iest solution I’ve seen to solve it. How many copies of the same version of DX9 do I have installed on my gaming box? At least 20 or 30 at this point, maybe more. That’s ridiculous.
It’s “ridiculous”… but it always works, and the first time*.
That’s better than any “elegant” competing solution that fails that same test or has any fragility to it.
Both as an end user and as a (thank god it’s just my one home server) system administrator, “just works” beats “waily, I have 20 copies of some stupid library on my gigantic disk” every day, a million times.
(* Maybe not literally, but close enough that I can’t remember the last time it didn’t.)
You do realize that the copies of identical files in the WinSXS directory are hardlinks, right?
Yeah, MS finally added symbolic links to Windows under protest, but they’re still garbage.
*shakes head*
I have just as much trouble trying to keep my Windows desktop at the office going as I do my home Linux box. The reality is that both can be a real pain. To get FlightGear to work last night I had to create a symlink from libOpenThreads.so.12 to libOpenThreads.so.14, as the program wants 12 and I have 14 installed. It turns out to run fine with 14-masquerading-as-12.
Then Outlook 2010 refused to let me see my contact list. When I tried to run scanpst on the ost file, Windows complained that another application was using the ost file even when I did this immediately following a reboot. I finally erased the ost file and let Outlook re-create it, which fixed the problem. Of course, this all required fiddling with files in an obscure folder that is declared “hidden” by default on most system.
No casual user would have been able to fix either one of those problems. The reality is that in 2012, dealing with computers is still hard. You can shift the hard part to someone else (IT support, Geek Squad, techie friend), or learn it yourself, but you cannot make that part just go away.
Smartphones don’t automatically solve the problem either. I’ve sometimes had to do a reset of all application data, or just reinstall the app, to get an app working again. (This happened today with Yahoo mail.) At least those are steps the average user could perform.
jsk, what is an application developer to do when a library’s behavior changes incompatibly? I’ve personally run into this twice in the past month, once with libjsoncpp (I’m the one who found that bit about the system libraries breaking Firestorm), and once with libunwind on Gentoo for Itanium (and they refused to slot the library version I needed). You either wind up living with breakage on one version of the OS, or else code around the problem once you discover it – which may well be nontrivial – or shipping every library your code depends on. Look at the list of libraries for Firestorm again. There are 40 of them aside from the ones you have to manually build. Is it reasonable to have an application developer ship his own version of libc6?!
@Jay Maynard:
> Is it reasonable to have an application developer ship his own version of libc6?!
Depends on the app. When I install one and a half DVDs of Xilinx cruft, I doubt I would notice if they did that. In fact, I’ve had to do the dance that Cathy described on a couple of .so files in the past, so at the point I’m installing a few gig, the pain point shifts — I’m annoyed if I have to do my own symlinks, and I couldn’t possibly notice another few tens of megabytes.
Good gravy that is a lot of deps! I can hardly imagine building ANYTHING that massive without running into snafus, on any system.
Something like that, I’d imagine it would be difficult for the maintainers to even pick a specific distro version to build against as a baseline. What I would optimally expect in that case is for them to go ahead and pick a reasonable target, declare it as such, and then package any library version differences with the software.
For the code, I’d list out explicitly every library and version required to build it, and preferably be proactive enough to provide the sources for any versions that are no longer available. Probably, like above, I would also list out what distro versions the code was written against, if it can be narrowed down to a few. It really should be up to the maintainers to ensure their software can be built.
Of course, none of the above solves the problem of taking a precompiled binary from upstream and shipping it. However, if a user downloads a binary that is qual’d against a specific distro, but the user is running something different, then at that point it does finally fall to the user to resolve the issues. (An aside: this is why having the code available is so important, so that distro folks can do the legwork.) Let’s be clear: if the user is attempting to run a binary outside of the specified requirements as set forth by the packager, it is the user who is responsible. Not the OS, not the distro (unless it’s Ubuntu ; )
That’s no different than someone running a hacked up version of OSX and finding out that some software doesn’t run properly due to some bizarre difference from stock Apple OSX. You don’t blame OSX at that point.
Hm. Long post, and your question is pretty can-of-worms, so I think I’m being a little soft. I’ve got my asbestos on; flambe me and I’ll try to shake out something a little clearer from the ashes.
@jsk:
How do you feel about ubuntu?
JonCB on 2012-10-24 at 21:31:08 said:
Ok so i see two points here :-
* Unless Skype means something different by “Static Version” than i would technically expect, the static version should not be linking to dynamic libraries. So that is their bad.
* Assuming they did mean to dynamically link a tiff library… why would you automatically assume your version 5 library is compatible with version 4? That seems like a really dangerous assumption.
The “proper” way to deal with this would be to install the latest “version 4” of the library, assuming installations work for users (if they don’t you have deeper issues) then either
a) the user asks for the “version 4” install
b) (preferrably) the skype installer should rely on “version 4” of the library.
This does require that your package tree isn’t a tangled mess and things that can coexist happily (e.g. tiff libraries) don’t rely on things which can’t coexist happily (e.g. the kernel), which is why i stopped using Debian.
jsk: I’ll look at your post in depth in a bit when I’m not trying to clean up a mess, but I’ll just point out that you don’t get hacked up versions of OS X because Apple maintains them in such a way that things work even with maintenance, something Linux distribution makers don’t understand.
” I’ll just point out that you don’t get hacked up versions of OS X because…”
Tell that to the “hackintosh” lion install on my tower that wouldn’t let me link software cause of a kernel version issue. : )
Each app having its own version of libraries mean that to update a library to fix a bug you would need to replace / upgrade said library for each app.
Or just, you know, “upgrade” the apps with the new versions of the shared libs. Yes, this places the burden back on the packager/maintainer/developer. As it should be.
>> “Each app having its own version of libraries mean that to update a library to fix a bug you would need to replace / upgrade said library for each app.”
> Or just, you know, “upgrade” the apps with the new versions of the shared libs. Yes, this places the burden back on the packager/maintainer/developer. As it should be.
And delay fixing the vulnerability…
You have strayed outside the Holy Ecosystem and deserve what you got, heathen!
It’s statically linked against a specific version of Qt. You’re right though, why the hell not static link all the way down? Fewer headaches…
I’m assuming that Skype — a bloody chat app — doesn’t actually need libtiff at all, and that is a dependency of whatever Qt they linked against.
You might be right. However it wouldn’t surprise me if skype sends profile images as tiffs thus explaining the tiff link. Still should have been statically linked in a “static version” but we agree there.
> Since I do not yet wish to embarass the maintainer in question and still hope to avoid doing so, I’m not going to utter any clues at all about this.
So, did the Problem Ever Get Resolved?
>So, did the Problem Ever Get Resolved?
Not yet. The showdown may have to wait until I don’t have surviving Hurricane Sandy uppermost in my mind.
So, did the problem ever get resolved? Sandy is long gone.
So did this ever get resolved? Three years on, you don’t appear to have taken on any major new projects around this time, but just thought I’d ask.
>So did this ever get resolved?
I ended up stripping down the library until it only did what I needed, noting that was a very small amount of code, reimplementing it in a cleaner way, and inlining it.
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Re: - D:OS2 GM Mode - Ideas! [Re: norD] #570341
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Madscientist
Many peope talk about persistent worlds with up to 50 players.
D:OS2 is a game that is designed for up to 4 players.
So I guess DM mode will be 4 players plus 1DM.
Somewhere else Raze said that Larian does not have multiplayer servers. (Not sure if he referred to D:OS EE or D:OS2).
Most importent: D:OS2 has turn based combat (unlike NWN1+2). If there were 50 people in a fight, each one had to wait several minutes until he could act for a few seconds. Battles could last for hours. Only very few people would be able or willing to do this. I think DM mode should focus on 4players + DM.
my idea: There are 4 players plus the DM. The DM can influence the environment in some ways the players can not (like controlling or creating enemies). If one players succeeds in performing a certain task, he becomes the new DM and the old DM becomes a player. There may be several options what this task may be.
Of course the normal case is that somebody is the DM all the time and he controls the environment the give players the best game experience.
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To Caerbanog...
"The more problematic in your post is more the turn by turn thing. We are not very familiar with Divinity and i think we didn't even considerate that. If a pseudo real time mode like in nwn2 or pillar of eternity can't be implemented for the multiplayer, a large number of player can't happen. What would happen if a player enter in combat (and switch to turn by turn) and a player in an other map doesn't?"
It will not be real-time combat in any manner, I think that is in total stone. BUT the system was brilliantly designed to where you can have two groups in different combats at the same time and they don't interfere with one another. Or someone can be in battle and the another can be in town moving around doing their own thing. You only become part of the TB action when you are like within 30 yards or so of the conflict. So it could still work in way you allude towards.
That said, I'm not seeing the persistent world for D:OS 2. It's just too much of a difference.
I'm also in agreement that it has to come out with the game in a very solid state, if we don't like it within the first weeks, it will die in terms of people caring to use it. I'd take a strong look at how mods happen with the leading game and assume that trend to continue.
I think they should just chip away at the stone. Lets hope there is a D:OS 5 for example. Each one expands on all aspects. So we had in D:OS a mod tool, now we'll have a better mod tool and a GM Mode for D:OS 2. In D:OS 3, I suspect we'll have better Mod Tools and DM Mode yet and maybe that is when persistent servers kick in.
I'd be happy with a nice bar raise for each and every release. We've been idle for 10 years in this area, a reasonable approach per release seems realistic to me.
Some mention doing things like modifying the world live, well that has to affect everyone without reloads. They really would need to create a Standalone Server engine that feeds clients. I think that is a major change to how the engine works today.
Last edited by Horrorscope; 01/10/15 09:32 PM.
ablawande
I had posted this in the backer lounge, bur it seems like it's more appropriate here:
Hey guys, first time backer here and I'm glad my first Kickstarter had such as awesome community. Props to you guys (and Larian of course).
I'm really, really psyched for GM mode. Ever since I started DMing for my playgroup, I've wanted a system to automate things for me. That way I can spend more time crafting the story and lore, than speding brain power on minutiae like rules enforcement.
I can see why people think it would be difficult to DM online/in real time but I think it's comparable to tabletop RPGs. You would still spend a week beforehand crafting storylines and alternative scenarios for the characters, and during the game you just drop them into play and occasionally deal with curveballs the players throw at you. I agree with MechSoldier that narrative can be handled most easily through chat and voice.
In all, you would lose a bit of the interplay and socialization from tabletop gaming, but you gain a lot more in terms of rules automation, art assets, fewer chances for metagaming, and most important to me, the ability to play with people anywhere in the worlds.
A couple of things that I would like to see implemented in GM mode (let me know what you think) which would be really cool:
1) Procedural generation: You could generate everything from whole worlds to the layout and furnishings of a single room (I have the hardest time deciding what to put in dungeon rooms), maybe even NPCs, loot, and monsters
2) Session replay: Speaking from personal experience, my playgroup and I have a hard time remembering the details of things that happened a few sessions ago (especially when dealing with those curveballs I mentioned). It would be great to just be able to replay the pertinent parts for the group or an individual (less metagaming again)
Can't wait!
In general, I'm visualizing the GM mode as an online extension of the tabletop RPGs I know and love. 4 players and a DM seems ideal to me but the option to have more players/spectators is always welcome (50 is a bit much though). I'm not a big fan of letting the DM control monsters (unless it's like an endgame boss or special encounter).
In a tabletop RPG, monsters have rules to govern their behavior and to keep the game free from bias (one of the reasons dice rolling features heavily). These are systems that can easily be automated to free up the players and GM to focus on their main goals: The GM builds the world, and the players write the story.
Tiggerdyret
@Kerrida - You're right and who's is gonna play GM-mode on their first playthrough anyway? Might as well release it a few weeks later like they did with GTA online.. Only working this time... The important thing is that there is a community that supports the tools and that the message gets out there.
Last edited by Tiggerdyret; 02/10/15 07:53 AM.
I think the devs are hoping for a lot of total conversions. I think it was Swen who said he'd love to see a moba in this engine. So it is definitively possible to make a real time mod, though it might take quite a lot of work.
Re: - D:OS2 GM Mode - Ideas! [Re: Tiggerdyret] #570431
Dr Koin
Originally Posted By: Tiggerdyret
Well I know people that got Mass Effect 3 and never went through the actual game, only focusing on the MP. Yes, Mass Effect Multiplayer, which ca be fun, true, but clearly not a fully-fledged MultiPlayer game in its own right =)
I could totally imagine people getting DOS2 only for the GM mode myself. I even think some people here said they were successfull in convincing their otherwise uninterested friends to get the game just for the GM mode, or something like that. This is a serious feature and selling point if done right.
Although I agree it could be released a few weeks later as part of a DLC or something, I'm not sure it should. It's best for such a feature to be a part of the game right from the start, rather than be "the DLC feature", which is quite pejorative =)
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Hi everyone. My first post on this forum.
As a GM of P&P games since 1984, I thought I would share some thoughts:
Every good GM knows that you spend litterally thousands of hours preparing the setting for the players. Hence, the option to preplan and save an area in D:OS2 should be implemented.
It is also highly unlikely that you will be able to insert intelligent NPCs in such areas, and let the player communicate with them. Merchants and such, yes. However, inserting hints, tips and clues should be no problem. Parchments in chests, writing on walls, etc. I guess this is already in the plans.
One of the flawed but extremely useful systems in AD&D, was the Random Encounter chart. A similar system could be easily adapted in D:OS2. Let the game decide if there should be any encounters in an area whenever the players decide to go walkabout, and let the GM launch it with a single click. Of course this should be adapted to the player's current level. One of the flaws in the AD&D system was that the DM could roll up a Red Dragon for the first-level players, killing the party in one turn.
This also launched the term "Random Encounter Quest," where the players just walked into the wilds with hopes of finding monsters to raise their XP. The P&P version of grinding, and a huge headache for any GM who wanted to move the campaign forwards. You plan every major encounter in advance, and then the players just swat them aside because they've spent a week massacring Kobolds. No fun at all.
Exploration, riddles and traps is the backbone of any decent P&P campaign IMHO. The problem with crossing a river, or opening a door. This is much more important to me as a GM than slaying monsters. Implementing a system for this will be vital. Ballance is also important.
On the question of how to adapt this system to the main game, it's actually quite simple. The GM creates a side quest/campaign, and at some point in the main game, played in GM-modus, the players get sucked into it. Look in the wrong mirror, open the wrong door, move a barrel to find a trapdoor to the Underdark. Playing the main game in D:OS2 in GM mode just as easily do this as it's done in P&P games. It's basically a question of letting a GM create their own micro-campaigns.
This also creates an absolutely brilliant possibility for community interaction, but that's something my head hasn't quite gotten around yet.
Hassat Hunter
Well, I think people going for persistant big multiplayers worlds are going to be really dissapointed.
Aside from that I do share a lot of the sceptisism towards GM-mode. Considering the difficulty and time-consuming effort of level-creation I seriously doubt that any level editing on the fly will also be part of the package.
Some things I would image:
* Hiding player stats from the GM, so they cannot with 100% guarantee know what skills the crew they GM have and can put up on traps and riddles (as also in above post) on the fly with the need to react if they can or cannot resolve it, adding more reactivity to both sides.
* A dialogue tool for GM mode that isn't a preset-dialogue file like used in the game. It'll allow the GM to type in real time and the 'pets' to reply in real time. The players then amongst themselves pick which of the responses they gave to rely to the GM to continue. This way the GM doesn't need to pre-dialogue edit files with a lot of potential branches that'll never be met (that's for mods) but can keep things active on the fly. The created dialog however can still be saved (along with all proposed player lines, not just the picked) for actual use in modding later, in order to create more 'organic' dialogue options with players for example. This should also allow the GM if desired to make their event more easily into a mod if it proved to be a lot of fun.
But seriously, Larian should look at their ideas and think if allowing good modding and custom maps and quests is not enough, since those are required for GM, and cannot be done 'on the fly' at all. And if a custom campaign is created, what actual worth it is to make someone master it rather than people run through it as they do the campaign the game ships with. If there's no added worth, it should really just be dropped. Then again, with the schedules idea in mind, I do expect you guys to make the right decision even with it being a pledge goal that's reached...
I would find it fun to play through the campaign with a friend controlling the enemies, or the other way around. It would also be a good way for a someone to drop in in middle a game and just have fun for a couple of hours, while the one controlling the characters can still focus on the story that they might already have invested 50 hours in. It's pretty hard to find the time to play through an 80 hour game with a friend.
Stabbey
I really don't think that will happen. A GM messing with the main quest scripts and triggers might break them.
Honestly the idea of dropping into a random game in this kind of game does not make sense, much less dropping into someone's random game and becoming a GM.
Barry Wom
So, what would your dream DM-mode look like?
Requests for live DM mode and a public or private 4 w/1 session, assuming a capable player/game tagging system -from Role Play to Just Come At Me Bro:
1. Live GM able to possess and place any creature or object including a player character. w/accompanying permission toggles. Friends can set GM permissions to full, strangers can look for games with GM permission toggles set to what they are comfortable with. Full control to very little control.
In my opinion, if maximum live GM control is the goal, everything else will fall into place and provide for a pleasant gaming experience.
I'm a frequenter of the Sword Coast Legends forums. SCL's approach of "ease of use" regarding a GM (DM) throwing together a quick module and stocking on the fly is pretty cool, unfortunately they have sacrificed DM/GM control for balance by going after the pick-up-game-with-strangers crowd -a type of game play that screams "Balance this!"
This seems to have created more balance questions than it answers and pretty much indicates to me that giving folks the options of joining games they like or agree with the permission settings, is the very best way to proceed with a live GM mode.
Re: - D:OS2 GM Mode - Ideas! [Re: Horrorscope] #570639
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Originally Posted By: Horrorscope
2. Move around the map at will.
Could you develop on this? I'm not sure to understand.
Originally Posted By: Madscientist
It says what it says. There's no "server" at Larian. Every coop or multiplayer is host by one player.
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Originally Posted By: norD
Probably something that is a given, but the GM simply has to be able to easily move around the loaded map easily to go to where the players are to do something and be able to go to a place they might be in a little bit to do something. Eye in the sky.
Something meaning, place, remove, modify things a DM has control of.
Not Related: Earlier I mentioned that D:OS2 is TB and that is in stone, really I cannot say that. All I know is that it is, but someone has mentioned Larian could see a moba mode for the game, now would that be TB or real-time? If they are thinking real-time, then it would seem that could perceivably come back into the main part of the game.
Don't try to do too much with this mode. That doesn't mean don't put effort into it, but I have seen requests for:
Online 64+ player persistent worlds. This isn't NWN, and it shouldn't be.
Competitive GMing, with switching GMs (Sword Cost Legends Style)
GMs that can magically make major edits on the fly, including building a module while players are playing through it.
Ability to GM the main game, including rewriting it (also on the fly?)
Obviously, most of these are incompatible, and questionable even by themselves. What I would like to see:
Multiple levels of GMing, based on the map played. 'Locked' maps (such as the main campaign) might allow limited GMing, such as controlling enemies, adding / changing traps, and just generally tweaking the difficulty of the experience. Levels specifically designed for GMing would allow many more features.
GMs should be limited to a reasonable number of players. The standard would be up to 5 (4 players and 1 GM), but if the game could support a few more (no reason it can't, if it seems to be able to do up to 5 when 4 is standard), then up to 9 would be nice.
GM should be able to:
Add/remove monters/traps
Control monsters
Add buffs/debuffs to parties/monsters
Edit monsters (add abilities, stats, levels, XP, drop table, etc)
Add remove path blockers (eg a wall that dissapears when quest progress is made).
Create on the fly dialogue with NPCs.
Place loot
Ideally, this could all be done in realtime while in game, although probably some work would have to be done beforehand in the editor. Actually creating maps, adding areas, etc should all be done in editor, not in game.
Re: - D:OS2 GM Mode - Ideas! [Re: Wraith367] #570701
Originally Posted By: Wraith367
That would the most basic things the GM mode MUST be able to do, I completely agree.
However it's also the most basic and potentially uninteresting way of playing a RPG - well in my opinion. The dreaded Door-monster-treasure type of game. It would also kinda limit the options for a more enterprising GM with more enterprising players.
I agree that full editing on-the-fly of modules sound a bit too complex, and no human player could possibly be fast enough to do that. However I still stick to the "pre-made assets" function, so that a GM can add new premade rooms on the fly if their players turn out to be innovative.
HolmstN
I'd love the capability to make Persistent Worlds, but it does seem out of scope. Perhaps, just maybe, they'll have enough editable functionality to allow modders to try for this. But it would be unwise to focus too much attention on these for an admittedly low-population game type.
And I agree with Horrorscope. VERY important that a GM does not have to be where the players are. This would inherently mean that combat (and some dialogue) can be automated. BUT, I really believe a GM can take over any NPC. Generic monster, enemy boss, random NPC villager. They should be able to chat as that person. Additionally, there should be some robust 'rolling' mechanics for non-combat skills (or, at least, some basic functionality that a GM can extrapolate and implement with other game features).
dblade
I like allot of the ideas so far and also agree that persistent worlds, large player counts, major on the fly changes, etc. are most likely "out of scope".
I feel that even dedicated servers are out of scope (never intended), but I still hope they are considered. Think of the issues you face if the host crashes mid game, they suddenly need to leave, or the machine they are on has trouble hosting. I think some people would like to be able to GM and/or be a player on their own server as they see fit. Maybe even switch roles during the same play session.
Also most people these days don't seem to want to stick around for very long play sessions so a friendly drop in/drop out system is a must. I think that dedicated servers would certainly enhance this.
Just took a look at the Editor/GM mode stream (took me long enough). Absolutely LOVE the idea of modder-created templates for GM functionality. Think that's a really wise way to go that adds tons of flexibility, but also allows a GM's life to be easy (or hard).
The only consideration in this is how an END-USER will grab these mods. This might be something we, as a community, have to develop. We need a robust website/game UI that automagically downloads all necessary mods. BUT, this also shouldn't bloat a player's game, which means some templates should be shared and not re-downloaded. It will be very difficult for anyone to create a functional pre-programmed system for this. Instead, we should focus on putting together 'community packs' of useful functionality that can be easily shared as a single download. Enhancing UX. Maybe Larian could curate the most popular mods and put them into endorsed/approved packs. A great mod community will only form if we have great user experience. Part of the responsibility rests on Larian to develop great systems. But part of that responsibility also falls on us, as a community, to develop great culture.
Raith
Look, if they are going to do a shitty GM mode like in Sword Coast Legends then don't even waste the money, that DM mode, like the rest of the game, is fucking terrible. Not to mention that whoever came up with the idea to make it a competitive thing is an imbecile that clearly never played a PNP game. A DM is omnipotent in the game, it is genuinely no contest if he is against the players, hence to make it "fair" they drastically, and completely pointlessly, limit the DM to a bad version of Dungeon Keeper.
A proper GM mode needs to have access to full editor capabilities in game, in other words NWN1 or 2 tier. Personally I don't care if you make it possible to do a big open persistent world or not but it needs to have the same level of power to be worth it otherwise it's probably too restrictive.
Last edited by Raith; 05/10/15 01:55 AM.
Raith, we all have our opinions. First it would be different than SC, because the mod tool in this will do more, that is the A1# complaint over there and that is the cookie cutter map creator.
IMO these all can come come in different shapes and sizes. It may not be how you like, it may do things different than what a table top GM would do. But I'm up for doing something here and I'm not locked into something has to be a certain way. This has been done so little that a starting point anywhere is moving it forward.
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Dugaw, Isaac P. (active) Western Washington 10 10 (2016) 08/22/2016 08/21/2016
Dye, Abigail (active) Connecticut 10 10 (2016) 06/17/2016 06/11/2016
Holloway, Patrick (active) Kentucky 10 10 (2008) 09/01/2008 05/14/2005
Masunaga, Jarrett (active) Hawaii 10 10 (2007) 10 (2007) 09/01/2007 07/05/2007
Handen, Brian (active) New Jersey 10 10 (2015) 10 (2015) 10 (2015) 04/21/2015 04/05/2015
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JPMorgan Faces Criminal Probe as Bank Says U.S. Faults MBS Sales
daily business report
& Co. (JPM), the biggest U.S. bank, said
it’s under federal criminal investigation for practices tied to sales of
mortgage-backed bonds that the Justice
Department has already concluded broke civil laws.
The department’s civil division
told the bank in May of its preliminary finding after examining securities tied
to subprime and Alt-A loans, which were sold to investors from 2005 through
2007, JPMorgan said yesterday. The office of U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in Sacramento, California,
has been conducting civil and criminal inquiries, the bank said.
“It would be a major decision
for them to indict a major U.S. bank, and frankly I would not predict it,” said
Coffee, a professor at Columbia
Law School in New York. “You can often bring dual investigations, civil and
criminal, in order to maximize pressure for a global civil resolution.”
Investigators are seeking to
wrap up years-long probes of abuses that fueled the housing collapse and led
global credit markets to freeze in 2008. This week, the Justice Department and
Securities and Exchange Commission sued Bank of America Corp., the nation’s
second-biggest lender, accusing it of misleading investors in an $850 million
mortgage-backed bond.
“Whether they are waking up belatedly to the public’s need for retribution or
looking at the expiration of the statute of limitations, they are reaching
similar decisions about Bank of America and JPMorgan,” Coffee said in an
interview.
Subpoenas, Requests
The U.S. is investigating JPMorgan under the Financial Institutions Reform,
Recovery and Enforcement Act, according to a person briefed on the matter,
requesting anonymity because details of the inquiry aren’t public.
The 1989 law, known as FIRREA, allows the government to seek civil penalties
for losses to federally insured financial firms. The Bank of America case cited
the same statute.
Lauren Horwood, a spokeswoman for Wagner in Sacramento, declined to comment
on the bank’s disclosures.
JPMorgan “continues to respond to other MBS-related regulatory inquiries,”
the New York-based company wrote in a regulatory filing listing investigations.
Federal and state authorities have sent subpoenas and requests for information
about its origination and purchase of mortgages, and the packaging of debts into
bonds, the bank said.
Investigators asked about the “treatment of early payment defaults, potential
breaches of securitization representations and warranties, reserves and due
diligence in connection with securitizations,” it said.
Prosecutors’ Reluctance
Evangelisti, a company spokesman, declined to comment. Charlotte,
North Carolina-based Bank of America has said buyers of its mortgage bonds were
sophisticated investors with ample access to underlying data.
Federal prosecutors are reluctant to bring criminal charges against a large
bank that’s tightly interconnected with other firms because it could endanger
national or global economies, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing in March.
“It has an inhibiting impact on our ability to bring resolutions that I think
would be more appropriate,” he told lawmakers.
JPMorgan, led by Chief Executive
Officer Jamie
Dimon, 57, had $2.44 trillion in assets and $1.2 trillion in deposits at the
end of June, the filing shows. The company also held derivative contracts with a
notional value of $73.5 trillion.
‘Extremely Cautious’
“The Department of Justice is likely to be extremely cautious”
in the criminal probe, Coffee said. “If they did anything, they might indict a
subsidiary” or individual executives, he said.
The Justice Department also
cited FIRREA while suing McGraw Hill Financial Inc.’s Standard & Poor’s unit this year and Bank of New York
Mellon Corp. in 2011. The act has a 10-year statute of limitations, giving
investigators more time to file a complaint than other securities laws, which
can have limits half that length.
The U.S. has said it may seek as
much as $5 billion in penalties against S&P for losses to banks and credit
unions that relied on its credit ratings to invest in instruments including
mortgage-backed securities. The government alleges the ratings weren’t objective
and independent as promised. S&P has said the claims are without merit and
that other raters placed the same grades on products.
Authorities accused BNY Mellon of misleading clients of its foreign-exchange
services by concealing the way it was pricing trades. A federal judge in New
York in April rejected the firm’s argument that it couldn’t be sued under the
law.
JPMorgan said it’s also cooperating with the Justice Department’s
four-year-old antitrust probe of the credit-default-swaps market.
The firm is among more than a
dozen financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley (MS)
and Citigroup Inc., accused by the European Commission last month of colluding
to curb competition in credit derivatives. JPMorgan said yesterday that it’s
cooperating with that inquiry, among others.
Separately, the bank received
subpoenas and other requests for information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
Connecticut and the SEC regarding its discussions with other
firms about mortgage-bond transactions, the filing shows. New York state bank
regulators are examining JPMorgan’s handling of home loans for properties
affected by superstorm Sandy last year.
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Other bands/artists
Vote Up1Vote Down Laura September 2013
We've hijacked the gigs thread for most of the last 24 hours, so ill put her over here.
Myself and Hells_Bells witnessed the most exciting, brilliant, beautiful and intimate gig last night and I think Anna deserves a great deal of love! Guitar player of ultimate talent, voice so powerful my ears are still ringing, an amazing band, (& she's incredibly beautiful)
New album out 7th October, in the mean time, I'm still on 'love won't be leaving' and 'desire' from album one, and eagerly awaiting album 2.
5* review in the independent today for last nights gig, with a mention of the track 'piece by piece', which on reflection was really very awesome.
Bit love for Anna. Right here.
Post edited by Halloween_Jack at 2014-08-04 15:49:37
Vote Up0Vote Down wild_corgi September 2013
Totally agree Laura - she's very good indeed and I'm cursing I couldn't get a ticket for the gig but that's the way it worked out.
Did she ever properly release Wolf Like Me?
Really looking forward to her new album.
Vote Up0Vote Down subrussian September 2013
i hope 2nd album will be as good as debut. and lucky you to be able to see her live!
It's weird - she's somebody I should love based on her style and her music but something has never quite clicked for me. I have no idea why - there's nothing that feels like it's getting in the way and I always like what I hear but I never get the urge to listen much or see what she's doing?
I guess it's like any other artist - I just need to hit that one track that acts as a real route in for me and I'll be away!
^ have you seen her live carpy? thats what did it for me ;;)
No, but it's a catch 22 - I'm not really a fan enough to buy tickets to see her. I'd have to catch her supporting somebody else.
There could be a new fan ?. Me. Had a few listens. Verdict= Good.
I concur with Laura's comments. Nothing else I can add but I was blown away by her performance. The second album is going to be a blinder.
Love to bits Eliza the current single and the video for it is fairly average to start with until a "wet" Anna appears that could totally make you wobble slightly at the knees. Go see what I mean. She really is a little gem of a talent. :-*
wild_corgi said:
You have picked my most favourite of her B-sides. I don't think it was released as an official single but should have been in my opinion. Turn it up loud and let those guitars blow your ear drums ^:)^
I give Anna Calvi a big thumbs up, she's a talented musician and singer/song-writer, I hope I get to see her live one of these days and I aim to pick up her forthcoming new album at least :)
It's an old piccie on this, but it's a CRACKING review from Thursday night :D
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/gig-review-anna-calvi-wiltons-music-hall-london-8814646.html
Hells_Bells said:
And then the whispery vocal. mmmm.
it's turned into one of my favourite songs, more than some of the songs that made it on to the first album.
It's even better live - or it was on the Somerset House gig last year in the rain. Really looking forward to the second, and many thanks to Laura for finding the review of the show even if it rams home what I missed! Lucky Laura.
I'm afraid I'm with Carpy on this one.
Even seeing her live didn't do the 'trick' for me.
Don't hate her, but just not impressed. Sorry.
Fair enough Dreeke. She certainly wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea!
(now back off out of the appreciation thread... ;) :D )
Lovely picture of Anna
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151657415705954&set=a.117970785953.100646.28486005953&type=1&theater
Vote Up0Vote Down iuventus September 2013
Is this a lesbian phenomenon?
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### Sites web - Pages web / Web sites - Web pages ###
Posté le: 23 Mai 2006 01:06 am Sujet du message: Sites web - Pages web / Web sites - Web pages
Fr Dans cette section, vous pouvez poster tout les sites web ou pages intéressantes concernant le film Largo Winch
En In this section, you can post all the interesting web pages or web sites concerning the Largo Winch film.
Posté le: 23 Mai 2006 01:31 am Sujet du message:
Korean and French Comic Books
http://www.cinematical.com/2006/05/20/korean-and-french-comic-books/
Largo Winch se dévoile...
http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18407389.html
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo_Winch_(film)
http://www.wildbunch-distribution.com/fichefilm.php?id=63
http://www.cinemotions.com/modules/Films/fiche/28252/Largo-Winch.html (photos miniatures des acteurs)
http://www.tele-loisirs.fr/contenu_editorial/pages/actu-tele/649-largo-winch-les-premieres-images-du-film
http://www.pan-europeenne.com/fichefilm.php?id=20
http://cyrille-chaudoit.blogspot.com/2007/12/largo-winch-apres-la-bd-le-film-et-le.html
http://www.mysacamain.com/tomer+sisley+sera+largo+winch+au+cinema-155
http://mordusdecine.forumactif.com/les-films-a-venir-f31/largo-winch-jerome-salle-2008-t4018.htm (affiche Largo Winch à voir dans un des posts)
http://www.baywin.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=14755
English article about the Largo Winch film: http://the-grynne.livejournal.com/556031.html
Largo Winch - Poster, Trailer
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/05/09/085304.php
Posté le: 23 Sep 2008 12:57 pm Sujet du message:
L'adaptation de «Largo Winch» plaît à son créateur
Article à lire au:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2008/09/18/03002-20080918ARTFIG00371-l-adaptation-de-largo-winch-plait-a-son-createur-.php
En exclusivité pour Le Figaro Philippe Francq dessine son héros de papier Largo Winch qui transmet le flambeau à son alter ego de cinéma Tomer Sisley. (à gauche)
Posté le: 01 Oct 2008 01:44 pm Sujet du message:
The adaptation of "Largo Winch" like its creator
http://this-is-a-false-error.blogspot.com/2008/09/adaptation-of-winch-like-its-creator.html
Largo Winch sur Notre Cinéma
Photos à voir au http://www.notrecinema.com/communaute/v1_detail_film.php3?lefilm=16591
Bojana Panic et Tomer Sisley
D'autres images du film Largo Winch ici: http://www.allocine.fr/personne/galerievignette_gen_cpersonne=91890&cmediafichier=18899529.html (peser sur le lien en haut de la page à droite pour passer par-dessus la page publicitaire)
More pictures of the Largo Winch film here: http://www.allocine.fr/personne/galerievignette_gen_cpersonne=91890&cmediafichier=18899529.html (Press on the link on the top of the page on the right side to jump over the advertising)
Tomer Sisley : son nom est Winch, Largo Winch
article à lire ici: http://www.bodoi.info/a-la-une/2008-10-22/tomer-sisley-son-nom-est-winch-largo-winc/4755
by Lisa Nesselson in Paris
Dir: Jerome Salle. France/Belgium. 2008. 109mins.
A fun slice of escapism, neatly packaged for international consumption, Large Winch falls just a sliver short of creating a new action-adventure franchise, although a sequel is apparently at script stage. Lanky French stand-up comic Tomer Sisley isn't conventionally movie-hero rugged as the titular protagonist but, playing a rebellious Yugoslav orphan adopted as a baby by a billionaire tycoon, he's appealing enough to keep this comic book-inspired romp rolling.
Director Jerome Salle (Anthony Zimmer) tells his complicated tale energetically in a logical blend of French and English dialogue and gives the seemingly-ubiquitous Kristin Scott Thomas a particularly juicy role as well. Local returns should be encouraging on Dec 17 release for this all-action story, which is based on the first four instalments of the 16 hard-back comic books to date about a casually-cool young man who isn't sure he wants the headaches of bottomless wealth thrust upon him.
When self-made billionaire Nerio Winch (Manojlovic) dies unexpectedly in Hong Kong, his empire appears to be up for grabs and his board of directors is frantic. But there's a secret heir in the wings - so secret that even temporary acting director Ann Ferguson (Scott Thomas), Nerio's close collaborator of 20 years, knew nothing of his existence until her boss's sudden death.
But Largo (Sisley), who will be the fifth wealthiest person on earth if and when he successfully takes possession of his late father's 65 percent stake in Winch International, is being held prisoner in a cockroach-infested jail in Brazil on trumped up drugs charges.
As an emergency shareholders' meeting looms, antics set in the present and well-integrated flashbacks introduce a range of characters from loyal to mercenary. Freddy (Melki, with an impressive facial scar) works as Nerio's chauffeur and aide-de-camp. Marcus (Waddington) is in charge of security. Korsky (Roden), a wealthy Georgian arms dealer, is planning a hostile takeover bid on Nerio's holdings. Naomi (Thierry) is Korsky's nubile mistress.
Korsky actually says "I am the story's bad guy"-- but there just may be a worse baddie out there.
Enigmatic control freak Nerio - whose presence is so strong he even speaks to Largo once from the grave – has set up a challenging labyrinth for Largo and his enemies to navigate, building to multiple twists throughout.
Anthough Largo Winch offers nearly non-stop action across a pleasing range of exotic locations, it's an almost restful, emotionally coherent alternative to the pumped-up likes of Quantum of Solace and Transporter 3. In a National Treasure – but not quite so silly – way, there's no futuristic technology or weaponry on display here, just brains, guts, cars, boats, planes and cell phones, intelligently employed. And that's refreshing.
Pan-Europeenne
TF1 Films Production
Casa Productions
from: http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=42206
'Largo Winch' Paris Premiere
(L-R) Tomer Sisley, Melanie Thierry and Karel Roden attend the 'Largo Winch' Paris premiere at the Gaumont Opera cinema on December 9, 2008 in Paris, France. (Photo by Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Tomer Sisley;Melanie Thierry;Karel Roden
(Photo by Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images Europe)
Beaucoup de photos à voir ici: http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/suM3AMdUEfb/Largo+Winch+Paris+Premiere/RcKzDdfBmIG/Tomer+Sisley
Juste cliquer sur les noms à droite de l'écran.
Lots of picture to see here: http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/suM3AMdUEfb/Largo+Winch+Paris+Premiere/RcKzDdfBmIG/Tomer+Sisley
Just click on the names on the right side of the screen.
Largo Winch Own Identity
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/December/theuae_December226.xml§ion=theuae&col=
He’s tall, dark, handsome, has French nationality, and an inheritance of 20 billion dollars. Unfortunately, he’s a fictional character. Largo Winch, the hero from the eponymous comic book-turned-film, is pretty much the perfect guy (minus the fact that he has lots of people always trying to kill him.) He’s sexy and charming, almost invincible (he managed to escape gunshot wounds, his car flipping over numerous times, and being shot at by men from a helicopter) and he can give a great massage (see: the scene in the hotel spa with Mélanie Thierry). More to read here: http://lafleurdeparis.blogspot.com/2008/12/things-i-love-this-weekthings-i-do-not.html
Largo Winch en avant-première: la critique
http://www.obiwi.fr/ecrans/cine/73988-largo-winch-en-avant-premiere-la-critique
Largo Winch Ciné / Critique
http://www.filmsactu.com/critique-cine-largo-winch-4063.htm
Largo Winch : le film événement sort aujourd’hui
http://www.news-de-stars.com/largo-winch/largo-winch-le-film-evenement-sort-aujourd-hui_art12121.html
http://www.wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?igi=346081&nbc1=1
Largo Winch, un Bond à la française
Tomer Sisley et Jérôme Salle lors de leur passage à Toulouse. Photo DDM, Frédéric Charmeux
Publié le 17/12/2008 11:52 | Jean-Marc Le Scouarnec
Avec « Largo Winch », Jérôme Salle a plutôt réussi son coup : réaliser un film d'aventures à la manière de James Bond sans singer totalement les produits américains. D'ailleurs quand on évoque les gros moyens (25 millions d'euros), les nombreux lieux de tournage (Hong Kong, Brésil, Croatie…), les fusillades et les poursuites, le metteur en scène met en avant une seule référence : « L'homme de Rio » de Philippe de Broca, avec Jean-Paul Belmondo (1964).
« Je me bats contre l'expression à l'américaine, insiste Jérôme Salle. Quand on me présente un film ainsi, je me méfie, je n'y vais pas. Largo Winch, je l'ai fait avec ce que je suis : ma culture, ma sincérité, sans chercher à copier. J'adore le cinéma américain mais ici je voulais mélanger l'action, le thriller avec des éléments plus personnels, de l'ordre de l'intime, par exemple sur la recherche du père ».
Révélé à la télé par la Stand Up Comedy, Tomer Sisley joue ce « Largo Winch » de BD, fils adoptif d'un milliardaire d'origine yougoslave. Adepte de Base Jump (saut en parapente depuis des falaises) ou de ski extrême, le comédien avait la carrure pour incarner le personnage imaginé par Jean Van Hamme. Mais il a dû le prouver, derrière sa fraîche image de comique.
« Pendant des années, j'ai multiplié les castings, raconte l'acteur. Il fallait que je me batte pour jouer un sale type dans Navarro. Etre choisi pour jouer Largo Winch, c'était donc une sacrée victoire. Et puis, ce film-là, c'est typiquement ce que j'allais voir avec mon père quand j'avais 12 ans. J'étais fan d'Indiana Jones, Belmondo m'a inspiré, fait rêver, donné des frissons. A la sortie du ciné, je mimais les scènes avec mes copains, je me prenais vraiment pour. Sur le tournage, on me demandait de me jeter dans les airs, de passer à travers les fenêtres. J'ai réalisé toutes les cascades comme un gamin, au milieu d'un énorme jouet ».
Rondement mené, « Largo Winch » doit beaucoup au charme de son acteur vedette, à son abattage, à son énergie. Le film n'en reste pas moins plombé, parfois, par des scènes d'amour bien cucul, par une musique omniprésente à la limite du plagiat Bondien. Scories qui ne devraient pas freiner l'enthousiasme des très nombreux lecteurs de la bande dessinée.
De: http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2008/12/17/509184-Largo-Winch-un-Bond-a-la-francaise.html
Tomer Sisley, convaincant en Largo Winch dans un film qui l'est moins
http://www.femmeactuelle.fr/actu/culture/tomer-sisley-convaincant-en-largo-winch-dans-un-film-qui-l-est-moins-13023
Largo Winch Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Largo-Winch/24406226400
"Largo Winch"
Written by Jordan Mintzer
In a surefire sign of current economic woes, the titular hero of transnational thriller "Largo Winch" seems less concerned with fighting for justice than with preserving his own multibillion-dollar inheritance.
Adapted by Gallic writer-director Jerome Salle ("Anthony Zimmer") from the popular Belgian comicbook series, Euro-financed production throws large chunks of change at a corporate espionage saga spanning several continents, yet most of the money seems to have landed in locations, with too little allocated to the script and stunt departments. Pic should yield steady dividends from Francophone fanboys, but its overseas IPO may prove less profitable.
Based primarily on the first two volumes of illustrator Philippe Francq's and writer Jean Van Hamme's 16-part series -- itself based on Van Hamme's serial novels from the '70s -- the film depicts the unlikely origins of orphan Largo Winch (Tomer Sisley), sole heir of billionaire mogul Nerio Winch (Miki Manojlovic), whose mysterious Winch Intl. Group is one of the world's most powerful conglomerates.
Scenario, co-written with scribe Julien Rappeneau ("Paris 36," "36 Quai des Orfevres"), departs occasionally from the source material, mostly updating various details to reflect contemporary realities. The company's headquarters, originally in New York, have been transplanted to a highly photogenic Hong Kong, while a Turkish prison a la "Midnight Express" has now become a Brazilian one a la "Elite Squad." And Winch's vast fortune has also been boosted, from $10 billion to $20 billion (although in today's market, such an amount may no longer be worth dying for).
Less action-heavy than other comicbook adaptations, the narrative flashes back and forth between episodes of the young Largo's (played by Benjamin Siksou) troubled childhood, when he was plucked from a Croatian orphanage by rising business star Nerio, and present-day sequences in which, following Nerio's murder, Largo battles to protect his fortune from a corrupt board of directors, headed by the nefarious Ann Ferguson (Kristin Scott Thomas, menacing despite an overdone "helmet" haircut).
Indeed, most of the fighting seems to take place in the boardroom: Never has a teen-targeted pic relied so heavily on terms like "minority shareholding," "hostile takeover" or "Liechtenstein Anstalt" to fuel its momentum. A major scene between Largo and his lover/nemesis Lea (Melanie Thierry) has the latter forcing the billionaire to sign a debt assumption agreement, whose dramatic significance may be lost on audience members without an MBA.
Other setpieces pack a mightier punch, including an island-based pursuit where helmer Salle and d.p. Denis Rouden ("MR 73," "Anthony Zimmer") stage the action in impressive widescreen and helicopter panoramas to showcase the eye-catching location (the island of Malta). Brazil and Hong Kong locations are less captivating, and many H.K. street sequences feel rushed and poorly mastered.
Pic does benefit from a certain offbeat, relaxed humor, which German-born Sisley, whose background is in standup and TV sketch comedy, delivers comfortably in both English and French. The financial mumbo-jumbo is handled with less proficiency by the film's cast of unlikely managers, including a not very scary security chief-turned-traitor (Steven Waddington) and a sinister VP (British-born Asian actor Benedict Wong) who sounds like he's been dubbed by a plumber from Newark.
Alexandre Desplat's score smooths out the transitions between locations and time periods, and the flashback-sequence melodies blend well with all the sepia-toned landscapes.
Violence, beyond a few gory closeups, is underwhelming compared to recent Hollywood superhero fare. But a PG-13 rating Stateside would have to stand the test of a lengthy sex sequence in which a closeup of the actress' buttocks actually becomes a clue to one of the narrative's many puzzles. Call it the French touch.
from: http://varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/7750/53/
Tomer Sisley: a baby and a cardboard movie ... 2008 is the year of successes!
by Adam Ikx
Thus, on October 3, the one you can now call Largo Winch, became father for the first time since his wife Julie gave birth to a baby girl named Liv Shaya.
And on December 17, all on French screens landed the much anticipated Largo Winch (see trailer). Surrounded for the opportunity to Kristin Scott Thomas (4 weddings and 1 funeral, The English Patient), Melanie Thierry (Babylon AD), Gilbert Melki (The truth if I lie), Anne Consigny (Mesrine) and Benjamin Siksou (New Star) , Tomer totally explodes in the role of the young heir, billionaire and rebellious.
As a reminder, this feature adapted from the cult comic Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, produced by Philippe Godeau and Nathalie Gastaldo, and directed by Jerome Salle, we tells the following story: The billionaire businessman is Nerio Winch found drowned. It is a suspicious death necessarily know when he is the founder and principal shareholder of one of the largest industrial groups in the world, the famous Group W. Who will inherit billions of dollars and the power of this empire? Officially, the billionaire had no descendants, but Nerio kept a secret: a son, Largo, adopted three decades earlier in a Bosnian orphanage. Today, the young brand and heir, who loves the action and women languishing in a prison in the depths of the Amazon, wrongly accused of drug trafficking. Nerio murdered. Largo imprisoned. And if these two cases were not part of a single conspiracy to get his hands on the immense empire W?
After a week of operation, Largo Winch had already garnered 556 147 entries, ranking second in the weekly box office, just behind the ind¨¦trônable Madagascar 2. A success in its second week, since after 15 days of operation, the adventures of LW totals over one million spectators.
In Le Parisien, Tomer confides: "It is a real reward after a hard work for over a year. I was very happy to interpret this role, but it was not won in advance, because we wore for the first time this character on the big screen. "
For its part, the producer Philippe Godeau said: "Our ambition was to find what was the charm and success of the great films of adventure and quality that turned Belmondo Philippe de Broca and Henri Verneuil. There was a totally niche forgotten by the French cinema. And then we wanted to do 'Largo Winch' a real go home for the holidays. That is why we have not hesitated to put a lot of money in this epic starring as Americans know it. And frankly it shows on screen. "Largo Winch has an international dimension. And he adds: Besides' LW2 ', the following scenario, is practically writing. It will run in August 2009 in Switzerland and Thailand. Of course, with Jerome Salle and Tomer Sisley. It does not change a winning team!
And on its lead actor, producer continues: "Since the beginning of the project, Tomer Sisley alone that we have chosen to play the role. Admittedly, Tomer does not physically resemble the heroes of the comics, but it is different, beautiful, charismatic. For his first major film role, it is extremely convincing. "
For his part, Philippe Francq, the designer of the BD, very pleased with the outcome film, said to choose Tomer: "At first I was a little skeptical, but when I saw the movie, it didn has not at all embarrassed that he is not looking. He has the stature of Largo, his nonchalance, his eyes and his smile a little quizzical. We embark on fiction. "
Largo Winch, a success that you can always see in cinemas, it is still projected in no fewer than 490 screens across France! Then run it!
More info and see pictures on Purepeople.com
from http://www.zhangjunning.net/NEWS/HOTNEWS/200812/49320.html
Box-Office : Largo Winch a séduit les spectateurs... heureusement pour le cinéma français !
http://www.purepeople.com/article/box-office-largo-winch-a-seduit-les-spectateurs-heureusement-pour-le-cinema-francais_a22004/1
VIDEO + PHOTOS : Largo Winch va tout faire péter !
http://www.purepeople.com/article/video-photos-largo-winch-va-tout-faire-peter_a17624/1
French films turn to comic books 'Largo Winch,' others aim for global success
By ELSA KESLASSY
PARIS -- Call it another kind of French paradox: The French love their graphic novels, but the films based on them usually don't leave much impression.
In Hollywood, on the other hand, both superhero-themed tentpoles and films based on more complex graphic novels like "300" and "Wanted" are among the most successful pics at the box office.
Now, a new crop of Gallic projects hopes to break the country's middling record for comics-based movies.
Gallic filmmakers have been plowing into comicbook adaptations since 2004, hoping to lure young audiences back into theaters.
But apart from family-friendly "Asterix," starring Gerard Depardieu, and its two sequels, French pics based on comicbooks have failed to make a wide impact at the European B.O., in spite of large budgets by Gallic standards.
Budgeted at more than $50 million, "Renegade," starring Vincent Cassel grossed just $3.9 million, while the $30 million "Immortal" (Ad Vidam), helmed by Enki Bilal, grossed only $4.3 million. Even previous films adapted from wildly popular comicbooks such as Lucky Luke and Iznogood didn't translate to theatrical success.
French industryites agree that previous comicbook-based pics missed their target audiences not merely because marketing was often ineffective but because they weren't mainstream enough to compete with their American counterparts.
"These projects seemed more like big-budget arthouse fare aimed at niche audiences and fans, " says Franck Ribiere, co-founder and CEO of production and distribution shingle La Fabrique du Film, along with Verane Frediani. "The most enduring challenges are to keep the elements that make the comicbook successful while updating the plot and transposing the universe."
Former topper at Glenat, Laurent Muller, who's launched his own comicbook and Manga publishing house, 12 Bis adds, "Even if they're based on popular franchises, these films are sometimes too ambitious for French producers, partly because they can't raise the financing."
But "Largo Winch" producer Nathalie Gastaldo was up to the challenge.
Paris-based shingle Pan-Europeene released the high-voltage action pic Dec. 17 in Gaul, grossing $10.8 million through Jan. 4.
Distribbed by Wild Bunch and helmed by Jerome Salle, the $33 million budget pic has earned critical support in Gaul.
"Our goal was to make 'Largo Winch' an international blockbuster," says producer Gastaldo. The pic stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Tomer Sisley and was shot partly in English and on location in Hong Kong. "We really poured a lot of money into it to avoid the look of cheap French TV films," Gastaldo says.
Based on the Belgian graphic novel by artists Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, "Largo Winch" follows a free-spirited man who struggles to maintain ownership of his billionaire father's empire. Scott-Thomas is a cunning businesswoman who hides her greed behind a veil of maternal affection toward Winch.
Gallic shingle Overlook Films, recently launched by Ribiere and Frediani, is developing "La Marque Jaune," based on the comic "Blake and Mortimer" by Belgian artist Edgar P. Jacobs, to be helmed by Alex de la Iglesia. "Our film should travel well, since it's very British," says Ribiere, who adds that the film will be shot in English.
Other projects include "Lucky Luke," produced by UGC and helmed by James Huth ("Brice de Nice"), set for an October release.
French movie mogul Luc Besson and publishing exec Jaques Glenat are also developing a pic based on the Belgian detective comicbook "Les Enchaines," created by Joel Callede et Gihef.
The pic will be Glenat and Besson's first project together. They've recently teamed up and launched the company Europa Glenat to acquire rights from other publishers as well as adapt and sell rights from Glenat's 5,000-title catalogue of Franco-Belgian graphic novels. Besson says he hopes to produce one film a year via EuropaGlenat.
As Glenat sums it up, "France prides itself for having topnotch animation schools, and Belgium has a prolific comicbook industry, so there is no reason we couldn't make successful theatrical adaptations in Europe."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998281.html?categoryId=1350&cs=1
http://www.ouest-france.fr/sortir/cinema_film_-Largo-Winch_filmcomplet-8094688-accueil_cine.Htm
Soirée Largo winch à l’Olympia
http://www.dijonews.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=480:soiree-largo-winch-a-lolympia&catid=42:le-petit-cine&Itemid=42
Akció francia módra
http://www.origo.hu/filmklub/blog/hir/20090219-nezd-meg-a-largo-winch-cimu-filmet-premier-elott-az.html
TF1: défi sur glace 100% people à Automoto le 1er mars
Dimanche 1er mars 2009, AUTOMOTO diffusera un sujet inédit 100% people et 100 % sport !
Réuni à Val d'Isère à l'occasion du Défi Audi Driving Experience, AUTOMOTO a suivi, en exclusivité, les exploits de Barbara Schulz, Nathalie Vincent, Jean-Marc Barr, Tomer Sisley, Bixente Lizarazu et David Hallyday !
Au volant d'une Audi TTS, ces cinq personnalités du monde du cinéma, de la télévision et du sport ont essayé de réaliser le meilleur chrono ... sur une piste glacée !
Retour en images sur un sujet rempli de bonne humeur et de sportivité ! Qui a remporté ce Défi ?
AUTOMOTO est une émission présentée par Marion Jollès, Jérôme Chont et Jean-Pierre Gagick, tous les dimanches, en direct sur TF1 à 10h15.
de: http://jeanmarcmorandini.tele7.fr/article-23896-tf1-defi-sur-glace-100-people-a-automoto-le-1er-mars.html
Étoiles d’Or 2009
http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/etoiles-dor-2009/
2009 French Film Critics’ Étoiles d’Or winners: Feb. 9, 2009
Best Male Newcomer / Etoile d’Or de la Révélation Masculine française
Tomer Sisley for Largo Winch by Jérome Salle
Les Etoiles d'Or du Cinéma Français
http://www.paperblog.fr/1574450/les-etoiles-d-or-du-cinema-francais/
Winch. Largo Winch
by Valeria Paikova, RT
An action adventure starring a French stand-up comic of Russian origin has hit the Russian screens. Largo Winch is based on one of the world’s most popular comic book series.
Tomer Sisley who speaks 4 languages including Russian and Serbo-Croat, said “shooting was a challenge. It gave me great opportunities. Largo Winch is a wonderful character, there’s a lot to do for an actor, like in a Shakespearian play.”
Sisley portrays a Yugoslav orphan Largo, adopted as a baby by the world’s wealthiest man. After the billionaire father suddenly dies, the 26 year-old Largo inherits his corporation, estimated at 20 billion dollars. He becomes the fifth wealthiest person in the world, but money is not the be-all and end-all for the naughty heir. He wants to find out who killed his adoptive father and keep his fortune away from his father’s corrupt business partners.
The shooting of the film lasted 6 months. “I was very involved in it. My onscreen characters were often shaped by my character. We all have different aspects of ourselves. We know what it is to be shy, angry, fearless. When you have to play a character who is, for instance, mean, you just show your mean part. But I don’t want people to know what I’m like in real life. It’s not their business.”
Half Jewish, half Arab, Tomer Sisley was born in 1974 in Berlin and moved to France when he was 9 years old. At 18, he wrote his first one-man show. Sisley took acting lessons from Jack Waltzer who worked with such actors as Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman and John Voight. His debut role was in “Highlander”.
Jerome Salle, director of Largo Winch, says “making this movie was like playing with a toy. It was a dream come true.”
The French thriller had a budget of 70 million dollars and is sometimes compared to the James Bond saga. Tomer Sisley says, “it’s a compliment. It will be great if Largo Winch has the longevity of James Bond around the world.”
However, according to Jerome Salle, Largo Winch and James Bond have little in common. “Bond is a spy, a super hero with guns and secret weapons. Largo is a normal guy who has weaknesses and makes mistakes. Besides, there’s something childish in Largo which the macho Bond doesn’t have.”
Although Tomer Sisley says he most enjoyed playing dramatic and love scenes in the movie, he also had to exercise day and night to play in extreme action scenes.
The director recalls that Sisley was so carried away by his character, Largo Winch, that he had an accident two days after the end of shooting. “He went skiing, made a 20-meter jump and fell like a pancake. He broke 10 bones!” Sisley probably thought he was still playing Largo Winch.
from: http://www.russiatoday.com/Art_and_Fun/2009-03-21/Winch._Largo_Winch.html
Monaco Forum ends on high note
from: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i2ded48a3101e540bb021ea3b21d0db35
.....Jerome Salle's action-adventure story "Largo Winch" took home a Special Forum of Cinema and Literature Prize. The film, which stars Sisley alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, is an adaptation of the popular Belgian comic book series.....
Posté le: 17 Juil 2009 12:31 am Sujet du message:
Largo Winch: Interview Tomer Sisley
Trois pages d'interview à voir avec Tomer Sisley au http://www.dvdrama.com/news-34894-largo-winch-interview-tomer-sisley.php sur son rôle dans le film Largo Winch.
Posté le: 17 Aoû 2009 03:49 pm Sujet du message:
Largo Winch: de La BD au Film
http://largo-winch-officiel.spaces.live.com/
blog, très belles photos à voir
http://www.largowinch.co.kr/index.htm
Site web coréen sur le film.
Largo Winch New York Premiere Event
March 9 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Directed by Jérôme Salle. 2008. Color. 108 min.
With Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic and Mélanie Thierry.
A hugely successful Belgian comic book, Largo Winch now brings its trademark tales of international espionage to the screen. Sisley stars as the unjustly jailed son of a murdered billionaire who now must crawl out of prison to prevent those who attacked his family from stealing a fortune.
“Epic and well directed, Largo Winch is a true good popular French-y entertainment. Why ask for more?”— Gaël Golhen, Première
from: http://www.fiaf.org/pressroom/releases/2010/2010-03-Belgium-CinemaTuesdays-PR.pdf
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Who’s Who in the DC Universe #10
It’s the tenth titanic issue of WHO’S WHO IN THE DC UNIVERSE featuring Angel and the Ape, Firestorm, The Flash, Hippolyte, The Patchwork Man, Robin, Thorn, Waverider!, Wild Dog, and more! Plus YOUR Listener Feedback!
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72 responses to “Who’s Who in the DC Universe #10”
Gothosmansion says:
Thanks for the listen. I hate to be “that guy” but FYI Denny O’Neil created I-Ching and Robert Kanigher killed him off. I-Ching was occasionally referred to as “incredible” on some of the covers, so good on Xum for incorporating it into his logo. Xum is a really talented guy and should be working for DC.
Siskoid says:
Rough start from Shagg, bashing Angel and the Ape and Dial H for Hero (as you may know, I’ve covered every single Dial H story ever on my blog, except for the newest series that’s running now, but it will come, trust me. Things pick up with the proto-Vertigo stuff and of course his beloved Firestorm. Phew!
So glad “Nimbus” didn’t take. The Mist is so great in the Jack Knight stories.
And that’s where I’m at. Dinner is ready. Will finish the rest later. Thanks for the company!
JoeX says:
If DOOM PATROL gets renewed, we should see Dorothy next season. (End plug)
Connie ended up with Chunk, and they lived in Wally’s old mansion.
Did Shag skip the Contruct/JLI/Maxwell Lord connection? (Plug JLI podcast here)
The Swamp Thing cancellation is likely due to the new management at DC getting rid of whatever the old regime put in motion. It’s a time-honored tradition in entertainment.
I like the Simonson-style background on Waverider, but not the rest so much.
Shag says:
Hi JoeX – Help me out. Construct/JLI/Maxwell Lord with this issue? Kilg%ore?
Sorry, Construct was involved with Max Lord creating the new JL, that was retconned in JLA Annual 9 to be Kilg%re, plus I always get the two of them confused.
Michael Bailey says:
Hey! A few Superman characters. Hazaah!
Draaga: This character first appeared at the tail end of the Exile storyline and thus he will always mean something to me. I have grown to like the idea that he was one of the champions that Mongul had in place on Warworld, but also had a sense of honor, so when Superman didn’t kill him he just couldn’t deal with it. His next big appearance was during the Krypton Man storyline that Shag mentioned and because Superman was under the thrall of the Eradicator he was pretty much willing to honor Draaga’s desire to die in battle. His final appearance in Panic in the Sky is actually touching, though Supergirl did not mourn for very long despite a few panels making it seem like she would.
Thorn: I love the idea that Metropolis has street level heroes to deal with stuff Superman can’t because he’s so big picture. Her showing up in the summer of ’91 was a lot of fun and she stayed around long enough to be in the Legacy of Superman one shot. Jeff and I covered an issue of Adventures of Superman awhile back where Karl Kesel kind of brought her back, which was a fun issue. Bendis recently brought her back in the pages of ACTION COMICS, so apparently the character has some life in her yet.
(I would also recommend the mini-series Gail Simone wrote back in 2004ish. It was good.)
Waverider: Yes, I consider him a Superman character. Jurgens had a hand in creating him and brought him into the Superman books soon after the Armageddon 2001 event was over, and that epilogue happened in an issue of ACTION COMICS.
Die mad.
Armageddon 2001 may result in mixed feelings from readers of the time, but I loved the storyline. I didn’t buy all of the annuals, but that first 80 page issue will always mean a lot to me. I was still in the wilderness in 1991, which meant I knew nothing of this event outside of a house ad. I found the first issue not really knowing what it was about and just became enthralled with the despotic future and the fact that outside of flashbacks and the odd panel, there are no main heroes in this book. It’s all about Matthew Ryder. This made me connect to him more and I’ll always love this character because of that.
Martin Gray says:
There was also a New 52 Rose and the Thorn in National Comics #1, written by Tom Taylor. It was a Rose Canton ‘namealike’ and pretty distasteful.
Anj says:
Perhaps after the super-nova of the Legion issue, the next Who’s Who issue was doomed to be a letdown. And, I have to say, this sounded like even you guys weren’t into it as much as usual! And this issue included frickin’ Firestorm.
Usually there is some character that I feel passionate about but nobody really bubbled to the surface. The closest was Lady Shiva who I loved in O’Neill’s Question. I always wondered who would win in an Elektra/Shiva fight. I suppose the two ladies would first sais each other up. In this entry, Shiva’s weapons are ludicrously long. Doesn’t she know that sais doesn’t matter?
I like the Starfire page because there is something almost wholesome in her expression. This is sort of the ‘girl next door’ cheesecake hotness. That’s a win.
Otherwise not much to say here. I am intrigued with all the Cinemax-cinema discussion here lately. Between the Shannon Tweed talk and the Laura Gemser talk, it sounds like another show is about to be slated. How about naming it ‘Late Night Steam’? Maybe it’s time we talked about Krista Allen (at the height of her power) being perfect to play Firehawk?
Let the record show that this time I didn’t bring up *sigh* Laura Gemser* sigh. BTW, I’ve already mentioned it, but L’Alcova is an in-depth examination of class struggle, and if a viewer can’t see that because Laura kept taking off her clothes…is that on Laura or the viewer? After all, Laura can’t help it that she’s physically perfect! She was born that way.
I don’t know about Krista Allen as Firehawk, but I always thought Brinke Stevens would have been a great Poison Ivy. As for Laura Gemser, well, she can play anyone that she wants! Circe, maybe, since she’s so bewitching? Can you imagine an episode of the 70s Wonder Woman show with Lynda Carter vs Laura Gemser? The mind boggles!
David Ace Gutiérrez says:
I’ve always felt of the late night actresses, Monique Parent would have a made a great Rose & Thorn. And Julie K Smith as Black Canary.
Since Laura Gemser is magical, maybe Laura as Zatanna?
Lynda Carter has a B-movie (Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw) on her resume, so no recasting of Wonder Woman needed.
Pam Grier as Vixen.
Chris Franklin says:
Okay, Shag…FIGHT!!!
Tim Drake, I love him, but not the best Robin. Dick was BORN to be Robin. Tim had to work at it, and that’s what made his character great. When he and young Dick met in that great Zero Hour crossover issue, Tim acknowledged he wasn’t the natural Dick was at super heroics. Tim working at something he so desperately wanted to be was part of his character, so he can’t be THE best, because part of his journey is TRYING to be that. He may be the best developed Robin, character-wise, at least during his Robin years, I’ll give you that. Having said that, he should still be Robin, because Damian is a horrible addition to the canon. I just read Tim is to get a new identity this week in Young Justice. Hopefully he’s not named after a burger chain this time. RED ROBIN….YUM!
Also, I loved the “Barry is his own lightning” angle from that Secret Origins annual. It definitely laid the groundwork for Waid’s Speed Force. It’s so poetic, and it should have been left that way, and Barry should have stayed dead. I do love this Flash entry, and agree Kesel was Infantino’s best inker in decades.
Shag the Prude was an interesting way to start the issue, but I must admit, I was surprised by the amount of skin seen in the Angel & The Ape entry then and now. I had no idea Foglio did dirty comics! Shame!
I hate to keep bagging on everything you said, Shag, but I have to agree with Rob on the elemental Firestorm. If sales were that bad, just cancel the book. Changing a character to where they are unrecognizable seems silly to me. Plus, Ostrander and Mandrake could have made some creator participation coin had they went and made their own Fire Elemental. I just don’t understand that thinking.
More later! Thanks for helping me ease back into work after a long holiday weekend!
Dick was born to be Nightwing.
I’m with Shag on this.
Sure, but he was also a great Robin, and a damn fine Batman. Dick Grayson is just a great character no matter what costume he wears.
Very true! in fact, he’s my favorite Batman!
Tom Panarese says:
Keep it up Bailey, and you’re out of the will. No Toy Biz DC figures for you!
Oh, and while I think Dick was BORN to be Robin, he was also meant to GROW into Nightwing. I like it when he fills in as Batman, but it can’t last. DC will never let it, even though maybe they should.
All of this is thrown out if you’re on Earth-Two, and Dick gets to be Robin in that boss costume. The second adult one, of course!
Mark Baker-Wright says:
FWIW, even if I grant the stipulation that “Dick was born to be Robin” and “Tim had to work for it, “ that’s just another reason to say Tim’s better, IMHO.
Good points on Tim as Robin.
Starfire: What I read of the post-New52 series (SERIES, not her appearances in the Red Hood/Arsenal comic!) really saved her. Lovely stuff. You should check it out if you can, Shagg.
Rob, if you don’t care for the Waverider/Monarch temporal anomaly stuff, you’re gonna suffer when you listen to Zero Hour Strikes! We have to talk about that a LOT.
Wild Dog: Greg Arujo recently tweeted an old trade article about the series where the character was still called Red Dog. I guess someone argued the character looked mostly blue.
Keith G! Baker says:
The elemental Firestorm (like every other non-Ronnie/Prof incarnation) was an interesting side story that lasted way too long and is best forgotten.
I don’t like waffles.
Great show in all, fellas!
Slobberknocker says:
I remember the elemental Firestorm being an extremely fun run. If I remember correctly I didn’t think it was long enough. I would have liked to have seen it transition back to the original firestorm but…. Damn now I want to go back and read that series too. Thank goodness I have DC Universe where can read my comics on the 72 in TV screen.
Jeff R. says:
Did the entry for the Shark not mention what lets him be a Green Lantern villain at all, possibly the most comic book physics thing only, his invisible yellow force field?
Titans talk time: Starfire was my favorite New Teen Titan, alien pun names and uncanny pupils and all. But she hasn’t been served well since the good part of the Wolfman run. Like most of those characters so far, it’s someone else’s fault. In this case, it’s bad decisions regarding Nightwing. See, Nightwing should stay a Titan. Going back to Gotham (or Bludhaven) is a regression. Nightwing is a leader, not a follower. Should only show up in the same state as Gotham wearing the Batsuit. And making that boneheaded decision ruins Starfire. I don’t know if the deeply awful Mirage plotline came out of the writer’s block or a mandate from the Bat office…
But Starfire is a character defined by divided loyalties. She has responsibilities as a Princess or as a rebel back home that she is avoiding, and she needs a reason for that. She needs a strong connection to Earth for that to work, and there’s nobody who can replace Dick (I will never call him Ric) Grayson in that role.
Supplemental Titans Talk: Vikki was the more interesting H-dialer and following her back from the heel turn would have been a better choice than focusing on Chris.
I have mentioned before how I have always liked Starfire. Okay part of that was burgeoning hormones and the fact that she was Robin’s girlfriend, but I liked the dichotomy of the innocent, naive character who was also a fierce warrior. Walking passion in a lot of ways…but LOYAL. Later writers didn’t get that and made her into a tramp, in my opinion. Starfire was not that way, until lesser hands who only half-remembered their old comics cast her in that light. This is a great entry, and after Perez, Grummet was the best at drawing her. But that goes for most Titans.
Joe Potato…yeah, I’m not sure why they thought he warranted an entry. Harold (Batman’s huncbacked tech assistant created around the same time) doesn’t get one, but Joe does? He was a fun gimmick character, but not entry-worthy. I guess they couldn’t do half-pages in this format.
I loved it when Tom Taggart did his mixed media stuff. I think Patchwork Man definitely made it in based on his visual alone, and if you can get Taggart to produce something like this…why not?
The visual similarities between Elemental Firestorm and Waverider seemed odd at the time, partially due to them both being in this issue. Waverider has the better visual though. Sorry Shag. Plus, he made it onto JLU…sorry Shag.
Draaga’s shirt SHOULD be blue, I believe. I liked the comic version much more than his Doomsday-lite appearance on the worst episode of Justice League Season One.
The stinger at the end? I’d axe that guy.
Snapper apologist!
Snapper is Miles Davis compared to the Super Friends’ Marvin.
Marvin is the Marvin Berry of series.
Rudy G says:
How would you rank the following Justice League support staff ?
Snapper Carr
Dale Gunn
Sue Dibney
Catherine Cobert
You know i love these Who’s Who shows! And opening with an argument was a master stroke!
Speaking of master strokes, I’m 1000% behind any Emmanuelle talk! Did you guys ever catch that series where Sylvia Kristel returned to the role in a weekly series? She would recount the adventures of her younger days to one-time Bond George Lazenby (young Emmanuelle played by actress Marcela Walerstein).
I quite liked Monique Gabrielle’s brief stint in the role. She’s more my type. But I do love me some Gemser. As for Krista Allen – now we’re talking! A guy I know worked on her Emmanuelle movies/series and says she’s just the nicest lady. ALways great to hear.
I think I had Kevin Dooley sign my Joe Potato entry. Easily one of the best WW entries in the series.
Dick Grayson is the best Robin. As I’ve said before, I like Tim, but he just smacks of Robin by committee. He’s too much of a reaction against Jason Todd Mark 2 for my tastes. But in the spirit of full disclosure, I’m a Todd fan.
Regarding the one co-host’s penchant for murdering teenage characters, I ask him this: Better to kill off a character that might not be working out too well OR remove them from books for a bit and try a new take or rehabilitation?
What I’m saying is Jason Todd’s murder was a lame stunt and something that cheapens the integrity of the Batbooks’ characters. What if they just killed Aquaman off because they didn’t know what to do with him and replaced him with a younger, “more exciting” version only to bring him back?? Oh, wait…
golddragon71 says:
Hey guys, great podcast as always …
I always liked the cartoony look of the Angel and the Ape entry. It’s funny, but despite Angel being topless and everyone being maimed or killed in the background, I actually thought it could sell the characters as a concept for an animated series.. My roommate in college took one look at this and said DC was gonna get sued out of their socks by marvel for including Wolverine’s Clawed hand in the upper left corner!
Flash. At the time this issue came out, Barry was long gone and aside from the TV show I hadn’t really become a full-time Flash fan as yet. I was glad that despite being Dead for what? five, six years now?) Barry still did get his own entry and I really enjoyed the art on it as I was collecting the Trial of Barry Allen at that point and I the look was almost identical. On the other hand it’s funny to me that Barry is drawn as being so super-muscular, I always picture Flashes as being lean. yes they have muscles…but they don’t usually come off looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger! ( I had an argument with another comic buyer in a shop on that subject when Grant Gustin’s first promo for the Flash aired right after the end of Arrow’s second season)
Still this entry made me more interested in Barry’s run as the Flash and I started reading through the Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told to get to know him better.
Now as much as I was starting to like Barry Allen, Wally West was/is/will always be my FLASH and I love that his supporting cast gets their own page. I really miss these characters and I hope that when all the dust settles from DC’s current mish-mash, that we get to see some of them again.
(btw…I also want to see a comic heavy Flash podcast come out Shag….It seems like every time I try a new Flash podcast it only focuses on the TV show. )
Joe Potato was a riot when I read his entry because I I had just read the most recent issue he had appeared in. I figured he was going to be used more frequently but then with the New Robin being introduced, it’s not really hard to see why he wasn’t. (the funny part about his potato peeler knife is that it’s just a bluff-gag. the Potato peeler is actually made out of rubber and it’s meant to scare people into talking rather than be used as an actual instrument of torture.
Now I have to say, I wonder if DC and/or Comixology follows your podcast because only this past Thursday they start releasing the Jonni Thunder series right before you cover her in Who’s Who! I never had much interest in the character herself, although I half-expected her to at least get a mention during the Straziewski/Parobek run on Justice Society a few years later.
Kilg%re
I actually missed the issues when Kilg%re first appeared and I didn’t get around to buying them until much later. Interestingly, I first heard the name when Wally was shot by Vandal Savage in issue 50 and the Kilg%re saved Wally’s life with an implant that he had left in Flash during their first encounter.
The thing that always stood out to me about Lady Shiva’s entry was that she was holding the two sais, she had three thugs down on the ground but neither the thugs, nor the sais had so much of a drop of blood on them.
With Robin I actually didn’t read the entry too closely as I had been following Tim’s progress to becoming the third Boy Wonder. I knew every step he took already so I never really saw the need to read it. That being said I never cared for the way writers called Alfred Batman’s manservant. I would have much preferred it if they used a term like Confindant or at the very least, Butler.
Waverider. I was always a big fan of this character and a lot of it has to do with the fact that Armageddon 2001 was the first major event I followed after my return to the DC Universe after a Death in the Family. Waverider’s biggest and best claim to fame would come about a year or so later when they used him to facilitate the return of the Justice Society from Ragnarok (aka editorial limbo….a place they seem to keep finding themselves in)
Well, that’s pretty much all I have to say this time out. See you again next time guys!
Barry has complete control of his molecules (except when a villainous transformation demands he forget this), I’m sure I saw him artificially bulk up at least once.
Doug Vandiver says:
There’s no doubt that we’re living in an age with a wealth of comics characters in media: just among DC properties on CW shows alone, there’s a wealth of characters in live-action, including (as you point out) Wild Dog. Other shows have brought on Draaga and Kilg%re, and Mason (Troll)bridge even, but then … you have Waverider. “We like how the name Waverider sounds, but we don’t care particularly about anything else having to do with him,” is what I imagine the Arrowverse creators saying, and that’s a shame if you do like the comics character. Since the name’s been used, and repurposed as the name of the ship on Legends, shucks, I guess we won’t be seeing Waverider the CHARACTER anytime soon on ANY Arrowverse show. Oh well, Can’t have everything, I guess. But you can have Wild Dog.
I was going to say…It would be cool if they introduced the character Waverider as well as Monarch in a future Arrowverse crossover called Armageddon. On the other hand the “Hero comes to the present from the future to find a way to prevent a future villain from coming to power” plot is pretty much what season 1 of Legends was all about to begin with.
Robert Ward says:
(I should of clarified that I was disappointed in myself. When I saw the artwork for Vicki Vale and didn’t like it, I assumed you two would zip where you zapped. It was a painful reminder that I should sit back and just allow myself to enjoy the coverage by you two free from expectations.)
michael ridge says:
I fell in love with Angel in the 100th issue special. I thought Lois and Angel proved they were heroes despite being ordinary people. They got all their skills and abilities from their own work and study (without Batman’s super power).
If only Joe Potato had been created with some sort of motif, a distinctive or playful hook about him to make the character stand out, maybe he could have caught on.
Congratulations on another great show.
That Angel and the Ape pic is disgraceful. A fully grown monkey man drawing a nude of a young woman he first knew when she was a kid? Skeevy, thy name is Sam.
I don’t get the love for the Draaga illo, it’s just a guy who looks more comical than scary. And I’ve never gone along with the idea that a murderer is suddenly OK because he has an ‘honour code’. Still a murderer. And the logo is a bit rubbish, and badly placed – it looks like the D has been filled-in in a slapdash manner, even though it’s actually fine.
Joe Potato. Well, he had legs. Not.
Firestorm is nicely drawn. And he doesn’t look too skinny to me. But I absolutely hate the design and this version of Firestorm. It’s Firestorm for teenagers who like the poems by Goth girls printed in Sandman letter columns. Rob is right, ‘destined’ is rubbish. I cannot stand the ‘always meant to be a fire elemental’ bit, the usually inspired Ostrander should have left Swamp Thing tropes alone. Gerry Conway hit on gold with Martin and Ronnie, and this replacement version was much less appealing, visually and conceptually. Ostrander should have kept the classic set-up and told new stories with that. As Anj says, if you’re going to change things that much, just cancel and let the readers miss the character.
Shagg is right, Infantino has become madly stylised by this point (though I still loved his work). But look at him inked by Bob Oksner on the Daring New Adventures of Supergirl series and Superman #404 (written by Paul Kupperberg) – Lana Lang there will take Shagg’s breath away. Seriously, pop over to the DC app and at least check out page four, I’ll wait…
I’m another who misses Wally’s supporting cast, they were really well developed and useful story engines. Thanks for the namecheck, by the way! Mary West is sitting with me now, she says hi.
The striking Jonni Thunder and starchy Joe Potato should have shared a page, as minor DC detectives. They could form an agency with dull-as-dishwater Jason Bard and skeevy Sam Simeon.
I could never figure out which Legionnaire Garynn Bek was standing in for. OK, he had Timber Wolf hair, but no powers.
That Patchwork Man illo is amazing.
Shagg try the DC You Starfire series by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Emmanuela Lupacchino and Ray McCarthy, it’s delightful. Starfire is compassionate, courageous, brave, naive, smart, loyal… for once her personality is more rounded than her boobs. Oh, and it’s set in Key West (no relation to Mary).
I really like the Hippolyte drawing, she looks wonderfully regal – put this brunette version in a fighting pose and it’s just Diana, but in robes it can only be Hippo. And dig the fantastic way Cynthia Martin draws those folds.
I’ve never liked Lady Shiva, she’s just one of too many interchangeable DC femme fatales.
The Shark was one of the first DC villains I came across, in his debut appearance. I’ve always found him scary – a shark that can chase you on land and blast you with mental powers before nicking your steak dinner? >eep< I loved Shagg’s logic that comic book atomic rays wouldn’t evolve a shark because sharks are so slow to evolve… that’s the point! It’s a shame that Karl Kesel’s less interesting King Shark means Karshon is never used these days.
I like Tim loads, but Dick is the original and best Robin, every other one is a take on him.
Xum’s I Ching entry is truly marvellous, well done matey!
Mike Deines says:
Great show, guys! Once again, you guys created a fantastic episode regardless of the content within *cough*Shark*cough*. Since I never bought the loose leaf Who’s Who, I enjoy seeing all these entries I never would have come across. My favourite being Waverider(!) as I remember buying a couple of those Armageddon 2001 annuals. I remember Superman Annual 3 the most as I thought it had a neat cover. And without reading all the annuals (or even being that interested in Armageddon 2001), EVEN I KNEW that Captain Atom was supposed to be Monarch. It must have been a very badly kept secret which prompted the change.
As far the the Legion Omnibuses, I’m only about 200 pages in and, even though I enjoy the stories, there is a lot, A LOT, of plot contrivances and deus ex machina. I feel perhaps these Silver Age stories aren’t meant to be binge-read. Also, thanks for asking how to pronounce my name. It’s pronounced “Dye-ness”. Kind of sounds like “dynasty” without the “ty”. Don’t worry about it as almost everyone gets it wrong. The worst being a written (not pronounced , mind you, but written) letter labeled Mark Penes. I spelled that correctly. It was too close for comfort.
Finally, the end recording of Chris Franklin reading his Who’s Who letter was great. I would hate to hear myself read the letter I wrote to Groo when I was 13. That would not age well. Anyways, thanks for another great show and keep up the great work!
Liz Anne Oswalt says:
Impressive pod cast. Most impressive. Hey cool Chris got a letter published. Grats. Wow I agree with Rob Kelly. The Angel and Ape image is fine. I mean mostly like any life studies class. Artist have nude models all the time. In fact she’s waring more cloths than most. And she’s being B.A. She’s kicking butt and taking names. Is it the evil Emil guy cos playing as Robin the problem? And hey they predicted Dues Ex Machina comic. Look it has a cover on the wall of the Mayor Super hero. I’ve seen James Bond coves showing more.
As for Ape meh. I’ve dated worse than Angel has. Ok they were human. but still. Though I did dated this one woman who kind of looked like him. None of the guys I have dated looked like him…some were worse, but still. And it’s Her posing for the Fury page from Who’s who 10 cool. Dragga looks cool. Oh did I mention I have a U tube page? That’s Liz Anne Oswalt. The Fire Storm looks cool. I didn’t read this one, but liked them on the Specter. Awsome Joe Potato! He’s awesome. Ah you are wrong sir. I picked his issues of Bats off the shelf. Liked the one ware he threatened a guy with the Potato peeler. It worked till Bats took it and found out the peeler was rubber.
Patchwork Man was pretty cool. I always liked him…well mostly from Who’s Who. Save his weird appearance in the Vertigo Swamp thing. Robin I picked up his too mini sears. And they were good. The whistle was used well to distract Shiva and the King Snake. A cool enough villain. That was a blind M. Artist. He worked well. And he later even gives Bats a good fight. I always liked Star Fire. And the 90s Teen Titans comic made her work well. Ah the Velvet Tiger. Sorry only know her from Hearing Shagg on Bat Girl to Orical . When Shagg and Stella talked about her lol. Wave Rider was fine.
Yeah sad we never got Supes as pres, but we now kind of have Bats. 😀
I-Chang having picked up the trade of these issues cause I’m old but not that old. He was pretty cool as was awsomre to see him train WW. The white Ema Peal jump suit was cool too. Though Jeez O’Neal . Really how many times can you have her buy shoes? Most of What Dany wrote in those issues were fine and homes as WWs new love interest kind of worked. Though he was a Lee Marven rip. Time Trench. Such a 70s P.I. And it got worse when Danny left…..uggh the cringe. But, I-Chang was not the problem. As a yoda to WWs Skywalker he was great.
Sadly he never came back. With the Crisis well multiple ones you’d think he could come back. He could have trained the Huntress or Cannery. Or Bats. Bats has trained with 1000s of Masters why couldn’t I-Chang be one? Oh Shagg sorry you were wrong Dorthey Spinner does appear in the Doom Patrol TV show. In fact she’s the Chief’s daughter. She’s the reason the Chief manipulated every one. Because her powers are that him and he was trying to find away to control them. And she removes the bad guy. And kept the Doom Patrol in the Panting ware she’s living that is a pocket dimension she created to stop a bomb that would destroy the universe as we know it.
But, she is in fact TV star Dorthy Spinner. We never see her face though. I’m guessing Metomorph girl is waring a real Bra. Modesty and what not. I mean Rex wares cloths some times. Though he could probly just create them with his powers, but he gets real cloths…when he wants too. Any Way can’t wait to hear the next pod cast. And when ya’ll get to Impact and the Jaguar listing. She was my fav of those her and Black Hood. Though the Shield is Waids first shot at doing a cap like character.
Hmm the Hypalotia image is pretty bland ya’ll are right. To Bad Odway couldn’t draw her again. He was great on her. And Supes. I think he drew her first listing. Not sure. It’s been years. I was 14 the last time I saw it. and Now I’m 45 sooo.
I Ching did come back, was a supporting character in The New Super-Man.
Oh one more thing. Sorry for the political joke. Couldn’t help it lol. Hey look Guy Garder will be in the next issue Awesome!
I don’t know what Shagg does not like about the Angel and the Ape who’s who entry. I looked at it for a long time, very hard and often and I found it quite good.
JAWesome1 says:
“The new Who’s Who blog is here! The new Who’s Who blog is here! I’m somebody now! Millions of people listen to this blog every day! Things are going to start happening to me now!”
Thanks for the shout out guys! I played it over and over for my wife and kids – you could actually hear their eyes roll – it was great!
I don’t have the memory to critique your shows, but I want you to know how much fun I’m having. I’m currently up to the original Who’s Who episode 12, and since the originals are currently on the DCU service. I’m able to look them up and enjoy them even more! The only thing I wish you would have done was to do the feedback at the start of the shows rather than the ends. Since I’m basically binge listening, I would have rather heard the comments about what I just heard before listening to another episode. Makes my addled old brain strain to remember what happened in the previous episode.
I also noted that it seems that Rob’s audio quality has improved tremendously from the early days… did he get new equipment at some point or is this just my imagination?
BTW Shag, you had said that you had done the math and figured you guys would complete the entire run sometime around 2017 and you both laughed at that. Guess your math skills are no better than your pronunciation skills!
I do have 1 real request… I love the theme song from the Bad Mamma Jammas, but no matter how many times I’ve listened to it I can’t seem to make out all the names (I’m hard of hearing). Does anyone have the lyrics posted anywhere?
Again, thanks for the hours of entertainment you’ve given me! You guys keep talking and I’ll keep listening.
Phylemon says:
Rob and Shag,
I guess I’m still living in Bizarro world (which, if Shag is to be believed, is my usual state). I don’t get the lack of enthusiasm from both of you for an issue that has a ton of great entries! Let’s launch into my random musings:
1. Angel and the Ape- I wanted to gush about this entry, but Shag’s sudden bout of conscience would make it seem that I’m the pervert. I will simply say that it is one of those singular panels that tells a complete story in a single image, rewards deep observation with its myriad Easter eggs, and is equal parts funny and sexy.
2. Dial H for Hero- I will freely admit that the entry itself, while competently executed, is somewhat less than exhilarating. The Dial H concept, however, is the perfect crystallization of Silver Age DC’s wildly imaginative and silly ethos and I will support it everytime I am given the opportunity. It is, as a side note, also the perfect example of how these sorts of concepts don’t survive when you subject them to critical analysis and deconstruction, which has unfortunately been the case the last few times modern writers have gotten ahold of the H-Dial. I don’t need to know where the heroes come from or what psychological effects the people who use the dial suffer from due to its use. It’s childhood wish fulfillment fantasy and should remain so. Time will tell, I guess, if Mr. Bendis makes a similar mistake with the property. I do like the screw head hero on the right.
3. Dorothy Spinner- As others have mentioned, Dorothy being rescued by the team was the final scene of the Doom Patrol series. One would assume that she will play a large role in season two if the show is granted one. Shag, here again we are oil and water. I LOVED the Doom Patrol show, but felt Swamp Thing was okay at best (the writing and acting in the pilot in particular was excruciating). I wonder if you were turned off by DP because of your fondness for the source material? I’ve mentioned that I’ve never read Doom Patrol other than the original Drake / Premiani run, so I spent very little energy with the usual, “that character would never act that way” nerdboy concerns. The Titans show, however, nearly gave me an aneurysm because I adore the Wolfman / Perez stuff and no one was in character on the TV version.
4. Jonni Thunder- I like the idea of this character more than the character itself probably. As a child of the 80s, this is my version of the Thunder legacy and I will always prefer her over either of the JSA affiliated “average guy with magic genie” offerings. The irony in this is that I didn’t read the miniseries until my adulthood. P.I. Thunder is one of a handful of characters who seem super familiar thanks largely to the ubiquitous house ads that were run constantly during this mid to late 80s (Fellow Gumshoe Nathaniel Dusk and “I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-J’onn-J’onzz” Jemm, Son of Saturn are also in that list). As far as the art on the entry itself, it’s Dick Giordano, so there are no negative comments to be made about the art. I like the Dutch Angle Camera shot and the subject matter itself establishes a nice narrative hook that compels the reader to learn more about the character and her story.
5. Nimbus- We’re back to Bizarro world. I think this is one of the finest art pieces in this issue. There is virtually no dead space, the expression on the character’s face denotes a mad glee that is appropriate for Nimbus, and the piece as a whole creates an atmosphere of foreboding. Of course, we also disagreed about Weather Wizard a few issue back, so maybe I’m just a sucker for images showing stormy weather occurrences.
6. Robin- I disagree with Shag about Drake being the best Robin, but not enough to argue about it. The truth is, I kind of like all the Robins in their own way, even Damien. Where I will take my stand is in saying that I will always hate this costume change. My Robin will always have the short pants and pixie boots. I’m really working up a compelling argument for why (My best three arguments so far are: 1. It harkens back to Dick’s circus days more than this paramilitary pseudoarmor and helps remind the Robins of why the lineage was created in the first place, 2. A character whose primary offensive ability is acrobatics needs to not be encumbered by excessive clothing, and 3. well, there are female super-villians as well, so Robin is employing the same tactical advantage against them that Power Girl, Black Canary, and Starfire enjoy over male opponents), but the fact of the matter is that it is pure nostalgia, and I’m okay with that. George Perez drawn college age Dick Grayson still in the Robin costume always makes me smile for some reason.
7. Starfire- Tom Grummett is criminally underrated. I don’t think there is anyone who wouldn’t choose George Perez as THE Titans artist, but Grummett is a fantastic runner up. His Starfire here is a great example of this in that it is classic, clean, and, yes, sexy. Shag, I understand your criticism of Kori even if I disagree with it. Where we can’t see eye to eye is your favorable feelings about Anna Diop’s performance in the Titans TV show. I already mentioned I didn’t love anybody’s characterizations in the series, but I could almost see the heroes I loved in the performances of every other actor except her. She had none of Kori’s heart, passion, “otherness”, or grace. In my opinion, she was the lowest point in a show that was kind of filled with low points.
8. Velvet Tiger- True Story: In my binder, Velvet Tiger is filed away with the Impact characters because she looks like the sort of generic character that a 90s Indy comic would create. Like all the rest of the Impact characters, I’ve never read any story with her in it or been bothered to actually read this entry.
9. Waverider- I really love Dan Jurgens art. That being said, if you had given me a dozen guesses, I would not have been able to actually predict that Jurgens had drawn this entry. It might have been in the inking or the coloring, but it looks muddled and less than Dan’s best effort. The character itself was a useful plot device to tell a new generation of imaginary stories, but he is another one of those characters like Pariah, Bloodwynd, or The Batman Who Laughes that is so tied to the time period he was created that he is almost instantly outdated and useless for future stories.
Well, I enjoyed this episode even if the hosts didn’t. Onward, gentlemen, to issue#11!!
In the midst of my anti-Anna Diop rant, I forgot a comment I was going to make. The green aliens that Starfire is fighting in that inset picture are the Gordanians, basically the muscle to the Psions brains. The fact that no one has brought that up in forty-something comments seriously makes me worry about the company I’m keeping.
It was too obvious to mention!
Kevin fron New Orleans says:
the little girl lords of chaos is from Sandman in the Seasons of Mist storyline
Symbol Pending says:
“You can keep the balloon.”
RicG says:
Apart from the 2 or 3 big names this is issue more than any other is like a giant black hole that characters entered into and were never heard of again.
Mike Gillis says:
I’m a bit surprised that you guys couldn’t think of a “costume update that stuck” other than the Robin/Tim Drake redesign by Neal Adams.
Adams’ most famous redesign is Green Arrow’s 1970s costume, which has stuck around as his default classic look ever since!
They’re drinking on the job
Mike Atchison says:
Another fantabulous episode! I was only half way through when I realized I needed to send in some comments. While I love the occasional debates between Rob and Shagg, and find that my opinion on any given topic usually falls somewhere in the middle, I can’t disagree with Shagg more on his opinion of Starfire. I certainly respect and value your opinion, Shagg, and agree that Koriand’r has been mishandled many times post 80s Wolfman/Perez. However, in the original canon (which is what sticks with me), she was a much more complex character. Yes, she was scantily clad, but she was oblivious to her projected sexiness. She was naive to earth ways and customs, but what alien wouldn’t be? She was fierce, fearless and combat savvy, yet what people tend to remember first is the sexiness! Maybe it is understandable based on other renditions of her character, but I choose to remember the original portrayal. She certainly deserves better than being considered a “vapid, airhead, cheesecake girl”. And unfortunately, she is not the only female character to be reduced to her physical attributes only…think Fire and Big Barda. Both have at times been depicted much more one-dimensional than what they are. Not to veer off too far, but Fire was really done right in Rucka’s Checkmate!
The other topic I wanted to comment on is Rose and Thorn. I can see Rob’s confusion with the listing only having half of her name…I felt the same way. The character has always been Rose OR Thorn, depending on who is in control at the time during the story, but when she has been headlined in a team-up book like Brave and the Bold, in a backup story in Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane or in Who’s Who, the title has been Rose and the Thorn…up until now, it seems. To me it is important to see her as two parts of a whole…two personalities in the same body. Having a listing with just the name Thorn sort of diminishes the importance of what makes the character interesting, and that is the split personality. It would be like referring to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” only as “Mr. Hyde”.
Rob, be glad you did not read Armageddon 2001. The confusion that was Armageddon 2001 is well represented in Mike and Paul’s DC OCD rankings of DC events at 19 out of 28, currently. Waverider = eye roll, in my opinion, but I did like the listing, as well.
You guys are great and I love the work you do!
Damien Whiter says:
It’s time once again for my brief (ha ha) response to the latest Who’s Who podcast. I feel that I should start by thanking Rob and Shag for their thoughtful responses to me getting political last time. I’ll try to keep it lighter this issue.
You can call me a Whoster but I am not and have never been hip.
Interesting that Todd McFarlane is suggested for Firestorm and Eury says Angel hopes Todd draws something for Who’s Who. Am I misremembering or do they announce that Todd would draw Catwoman and then they have to apologise when he blows the deadline?
Angel and the Ape – I love this but you’re right that it is verging on the misogynistic. The Foglio mini is fantastic and this entry is a great representation of it. I particularly love the IS Wilson logo created for the mini. As a recent gym recruit I could believe that Darkseid is responsible for all gyms as they are a well of despair. You mention that Angel is only wearing a thing on the front but Sam is completely naked on the back and you don’t seem concerned. Double standards.
Dial H – I always quite liked the idea of Dial H but not so much the stories. I had enjoyed the recent Hawk and Dove annual with Chris as part of Titans West. I am also the only person who liked Hero from Superboy and the Ravers. Famously the first gay teen hero I remember seeing in the mainstream and he gets a boyfriend and adopts Rex the Wonder Dog.
Dorothy Spinner – I love the Doom Patrol t-shirt and converse. I’m glad they didn’t pretend she was a superhero even though she often saved the day. Richard Case does a fantastic job of continuing the DP entries. I’m wondering if he lettered her logo. I’m surprised that the fact she was created by Paul Kupperberg and Erik Larsen wasn’t listed. That first appearance was a weird issue where she defeats a chaos demon by throwing rocks at it. She’s clearly part of an Oz parallel (Gale and Spinner are both types of wind) but why the monkey face? Paul was having an odd mood.
Draaga – I don’t recall this being one of the reprinted pages in issue 16 but this colouring error is far worse than Max Lord’s border. Cullins and Janke are a great team. I’d recommend everyone pick up the Superman fill in they did with Luthor and Mr Mxy (I can’t be bothered to research how to spell that). My favourite Draaga story is when he, K’Raamdyn, Bibbo and Lobo get drunk and attack Superman.
Element Girl – beautiful evocation of the Sandman issue. This is why Colleen Doran is one of my favourites.
Firestorm – I love the elemental Firestorm. Mandrake is fantastic. I agree with Shag that the light from within should be bolder. I am upset that it is one of the entries where the face shot is repeated. It’s interesting that John Ostrander still wrote the entry even though he has left the book. He obviously couldn’t let go. Shag is also right that Rob needs to read this run. It’s amazing. Shag is also right to describe it as mature. It’s interesting how many mature comics could be passed by the comics code but a number of intensely immature comics need to be released as adults only. On the other hand Rob is right that it can be frustrating to have a character changed for a new direction that could be a new character. Having said that, I think part of the success of the elemental Firestorm (artistic success, I don’t know how well it sold) was down to the reaction of the supporting cast to the change. This worked because we knew Lorraine and Martin and the others.
Flash – I’m a Wally fan but I like this maintain image batter than the Wally image from this series. I like the use of different logos for the different Flashes. Kesel does a great job of modernising Infantino. I love the Secret Origins annual story by Robert Loren Fleming that makes Barry the lightning bolt that struck him. It really makes the Crisis story a significant part of the Flash legacy.
Flash Supporting Cast – this is my Flash. William Messner-Loebs really did a great job of developing these characters. I know you don’t remember much about Connie but she was always smart and funny in the Loebs run. I particularly liked the Rogues Reunion story when she tricks Dr Alchemy into turning her Platinum plated bracelet into a pure platinum one. Also the scene in my favourite issue of the run when all Wally’s friends team up to rescue him from the Turtle and Turtleman when she subdues a villain by removing her Mac to reveal her superhero costume which is so sexy he’s awestruck.
Gareth Bek – I remember being intensely irritated when I realised his wife was called Marij’n (marijuana) and her father was called Kaniz -Biz (cannabis). I think I made that connection reading this entry in 1991 and I thought it was a childish joke that shouldn’t be sullying my serious comics. I’ve lightened up a bit since then (I quite like a silly pun) but this still annoys me. Particularly as Marij’n was one of my favourite characters in LEGION. It’s quite odd to see Garryn listed as a hero as he really was a bit of a sick in the stories. By LEGION 91 he really should be listed as a supporting character.
Hippolyte – you are wrong. This is a beautiful entry. Cynthia Martin does a great job of drawing the group of Amazon’s all having different faces.
Joe Potato – really love this entry. I never read any of his appearances but I enjoyed this so much that I always thought Grant and Breyfogle should do a Joe Potato series. I would still buy it with a different artist. But I would but it sadly.
Jonni Thunder – let’s start with the creator credits. Issue 1 of Jonny Thunder features a behind the scenes feature by Roy about the creation of Jonni and includes early sketches by Ernie Colon which look very like the face that Giordano draws her with. I’m surprised that she is only credited to Roy, Ernie and Dick as I’m sure that article mentions Gerry Conway and Dann Thomas as vital in her development. I would love to read an interview with Ernie that specifically references Jonni as Roy states that Dickk drew it because Ernie had to leave the project but in the Comic Book Artist interview that Ernie have in their Seaboard Atlas issue Ernie is really disparaging about Dick Giordano. At one point he refers to him as “a very bad inker” . Obviously I disagree but it makes me wonder if Dick took over Jonni Thunder from Ernie against his wishes. It’s definitely a book that plays to Dick’s strengths and interests.This entry is amazing. Dick was born to draw a female PI series. If you love this entry and haven’t read them I would recommend the issues of Birds of Prey that Dick drew. He really was made for that book. This entry makes up for Black Canary.
Kilg%re – regarding the pronunciation I remember a letter in a Baron -era Flash where a fan suggested it should be Kilgolore taking % as olo. This obviously doesn’t fit with Kilg%re using Seamus O’Kelrig as an anagramatical alias. I’d go with Kilgore. I know what Shag means about the television screens. They do look like repurposed panels but I think they’re redrawn as the inking doesn’t look like Marzan who inked the originals.
Lady Shiva – I can’t remember where I read it but I’m sure I read around 1991 that there were plans for a Lady Shiva series written by Dennis O’Neil. I remember thinking they should get Randy DuBurke to draw that. I’m surprised that never happened.
Lords of Order and Chaos – I remember being very excited seeing Shawn McManus drawing Dr Fate again after leaving the book. Interesting that two of the there back images from Sandman. The Lord of Order as a cardboard box and the Lords of Chaos as a child. It speaks of how big Sandman was.
Nimbus – love this cover image. Weird to think of a time when the Mist was renamed and then returns to the original name. It’s odd how you get snapshots of time when changes that didn’t stick happened.
Patchwork Man – great, creepy image. I loved the issue written by Steve Bissette about him where Abby finds all of him apart from his head. The hug is one of the most beautiful horror images I’ve ever seen.
Robin – Tim is the best Robin. I can understand why they used Tom Lyle but I wish they had used Breyfogle or Aparo. Interesting fashion choice to get Tim to flash his crotch at his mother’s grave. By the way, Chris O’Donnell was very hot in the 90s.
The Shark – how do you make such a dull image out of such a dumb character? Hal Jordan ruins everything.
Starfire – this pose feels better now that it’s Megan Rapinoe’s signature move. I’m not a particularly but Starfire fan but I love this. Tom Grummett really is doing some great work. I don’t know if I can agree with Phylemon that he is the second best Titans artist. Regular Titans artists include Nick Cardy, Bruno Premiani, Jose Luis Garcia -Lopez, Eduardo Barreto, Barry Kitson, Nicola Scott and Mike McKone. Second best is highly contested.
Thorn – I agree with Rob that this should be Rose and Thorn just like we should have had Jonni Thunder: Thunderbolt. Love the clean, graphic quality of this image. It’s no surprise that one of the graffiti names is Nagel. Pearson is channelling that 80s fashiony illustration. This image made me so excited when I heard that Jason Pearson was taking over Legion. Fantastic. Shag refers to this art style as the Ultraverse art style. Jason Pearson was one of Gaijin studios which has a changing roster over the years including Cully Hamner, Brian Stelfreeze, Joe Phillips, Karl Story, Adam Hughes, Chris Sprouse, Karl Story etc. They also linked to Cranial Impact Studios which featured Mike Wieringo, Richard Case, Chuck Wojtkiewicz, Chris Wozniak etc. These two studios between them feature almost every artist who became a huge star immediately post Image and it’s no surprise that many of their shared styles were aped by the Malibu crowd.
Velvet Tiger – I loved the Hawk and Dove story featuring VT and Oracle. I would recommend them.
Waverider – very rare to see Dan Jurgens inking his own work. In this era Dan was inked primarily by very clean inked so it’s nice to see a slightly edgier finish. Didn’t Monarch get changed specifically because there was a phone line you could phone for rumours about comics and they revealed the secret. Supposedly the people involved believe the story was leaked by a DC employee who had a beef with one of them (Archie Goodwin, Dan Jurgens, Dennis O’Neil and Jonathan Peterson) but I’ve never read who their main suspect was. I’d love to know.
Wild Dog – amazing image by Beatty. Surely he was featured because he was going to be in Ms Tree Quarterly.
Anyway, best entry of the issue goes to Thorn from me.
You’re not the only fan of Hero from the Ravers. I stand with you! Easily my favorite member. Sorry, Superboy!
Damien Drouet-Whiter says:
I’m hoping this comment gets in before you record the next show. In light of Ernie Colon’s passing I was thinking that my comments about Jonni Thunder might be seen as disrespectful. I want to emphasise that Ernie was a favourite of mine. I first discovered his work on Damage Control, but my favourite work of his is Amethyst which I discovered in back issues. That alone would Mark him out as a genius. He also edited the Mike W Barr and Keith Pollard Green Lantern run which I found in a charity shop and really enjoyed. His letter columns really had a distinct identity and showed his enthusiasm for comics. He’ll be missed.
Wolfgang Hartz says:
The scene in Crisis on Infinite Earths with Jonni Thunder and other detectives finding the dead body of Angle Man was from the eleventh issue not the first.
You know I’m seriously preoccupied with plans for stuff like the upcoming Boston Fan Expo (which will apparently now involve fistfighting with Shag over Dick Grayson’s objective superiority as Robin) when a Who’s Who Podcast drops on a Sunday, I don’t even notice until Thursday, and haven’t begun commenting until a full week later.
A) Angel & the Ape is one of those premises that I used to have an interest in because of my greater concern for the DCU as a whole, but as that has waned, they just don’t matter anymore. It’s the good-looking passing acquaintance of a friend that I’m not friends with anymore. Also, I read at least one issue of the Foglio mini-series and remember next to nothing.
B) As much as I love the Who’s Who Podcast, the Dial “H” for Ho-Hum entry is a perfect example of why the show maybe doesn’t have to go on. Is this the second or third pass as these kids, who haven’t really progressed since the first and are presumably only here because a Mark Waid type (checks credit: Mark Waid) campaigned for them on a slow month.
C) Dorothy Spinner is one of those blind spots where she’s almost exclusively presented in a noted run of books that I don’t particularly care to ever read. I know her from references to Doom Patrol in reference materials like this, and I’m fine with leaving it that way.
D) Draaga is a sparse collection of consonants and vowels that I can unfortunately recall in their correct number and order by association with lame Superman comics that waste space in my memory. Typical alien warrior who can’t accept defeat and pursues our hero out of a mix of rage and respect. Made a decent appearance in a Justice League cartoon. Died (I think?) in “Panic in the Sky,” the kind of crossover people who liked the Triangle Number Era remember fondly yet doesn’t rate an episode of DCOCD is spite of their having deigned to cover Salvation Run. Passable art; ugly coloring.
E) Having never read any of the ’60s Metamorpho issues, and her Sandman appearance fell into the small area I didn’t own (I had most of “Season of Mists” and several teen issues in floppy and bought the first two trades, so “Dream Country?”) I can’t say for certain that I know any Element Girl stories. Nice entry, though.
F) My brain always sees Elemental Firestorm as fur-lined, like Black Cat or Voodoo. Don’t recall if that’s Mandrake-specific or overall. He looks like Lion-O. I have no use for anything after the Blank Slate/Pozhar period of that run. Way too far afield from the original concept, far too derivative of Swamp Thing, and clearly afterward nobody wanted to write the character for the five years it took someone to bother handwaving this incarnation away. Have to disagree with Chris Franklin’s suggestion that Ostrander & Mandrake could have just taken their take elsewhere for a creator owned book because nobody would have read it without the Firestorm logo on the cover. Sometimes, trademarks are a form of welfare.
G) I like this Infantino/Kesel entry art for a version of the Flash that was no less dead here than he was in the previous entry. Why’s Why in ’90? And no, Infantino sucked after the Silver Age. I will suffer no apologies for his sloppy, ugly non-efforts when guys like Don Heck, George Tuska, and Curt Swan were doing comparatively superior work. I’m sure if they’d been given a Dennis Janke or Karl Kesel, they’d have cleaned up nicely as well. The Flash Support Cast continues the pattern of reminding everyone why 1990 was a fallow creative period for most of the heroes who rated cast entries.
H) Garryn Bek was the whiny straight (every)man of L.E.G.I.O.N. and served that role fine. I forget he exists when I’m not reading an issue of that book. Nice perspective from Jim Fern.
I) Hippolyte is drawn by Cynthia Martin because she did the dreadful War of the Gods, but I think she’s lovely here without Romeo Tanghal’s oppressive inks. I would have vastly preferred a Martin run over Jill Thompson, who I found a terrible fit for the book, and especially over Chris Marrinan. Hippolyte was a major figure throughout the Perez run, and had a spotlight run of issues within a year of this entry. Let us not forget that she actually served as Wonder Woman extensively and that Connie Nielsen’s portrayal in the DCEU is more substantial than most anyone not considered a lead.
J) I know most people who listen to this podcast are very affectionate toward the Grant/Breyfogle Batman material, but to me it’s mostly all Joe Potato. I liked the first arc of Shadow of the Bat and some of the Anarky stuff, but the rest turns me off so much that it was part of my exit strategy from listening to Knightcast before Knightcast employed it’s exit strategy against my listening to it.
K) I always like looking at Dick Giordano’s spotlight renditions of Jonni Thunder because she’s got a Lauren Bacall meets Veronica Lake vibe, but never want to actual read the book. One of those weird ’80s DC pulp throwback mini-series like Nathaniel Dusk and Silverblade probably subsidized because the aging talent wanted to do them rather than for an older mainstream audience that was no longer there.
L) Piggybacking on JoeX, Kilg%re the Password Requiring a Special Character saved Maxwell Lord from death around J.L.A. #100 and struck a deal that turned him into the new Lord Havok. Then some White Martians sent those plans crashing to Earth alongside Metamorpho, Nuklon, et al.
M) I’m pretty sure Rob just confused Lady Shiva with Cheshire? Anyway, I was vaguely aware of Shiva through her appearances in the “Fables” annuals crossover of 1988 that I inexplicably collected as back issues in 1989. I didn’t make the connection between that and her turning up in “Death In The Family” on account of the short hair and radical art departure, but Starlin got my attention with Batman’s fear of a fair fight with her. I got the Detective Comics issue where Batwoman was murdered, which helped raise my awareness of Bronze Tiger, which eventually elevated Shiva by association. In retrospect, I guess it was KnightsEnd and her exceptionally high martial arts stats in the Mayfair RPG that finally broke her out with me, followed by “Brotherhood of the Fist” and Chuck Dixon’s insistence of her being right near the top of all DC hand-to-hand combatants. Anyway, long story short, she’s one of my favorite “benchmark” characters who define the skill/power hierarchy of their particular discipline, plus she’s just a fun mixer in any given story. When she shows up, you now Kilg%re just got real. One of my favorites at DC, and the coolest entry of the issue.
Did I just agree with Frank? Thank you for putting a finger on the Johnni Thunder thing!
Michael Wagner says:
This as my first Loose leaf issue. All because of Tim Drake Robin.
I really enjoy this podcast! I’m a new listener and cannot get enough of your network!
Your personal insights and opinions create an enjoyable discussion of what are basically encyclopedia entries.
Rob: I share your indifference and/or boredom with Legion Five Years Later. Not only does deconstructed, grim and gritty, angst ridden Legion not interest me, but the Keith Giffen art was overly stylized and unappealing. Maybe Zack Snyder was a Legion 5YL fan.
Shag: I agree with you regarding Starfire. I always thought everything about her was kinda shallow and only wish fulfillment for young men. Don’t get me wrong, the visuals are always appreciated (especially by George Perez), but her character was never that interesting or original. And yes, I acknowledge that almost everything about comics is wish fulfillment for young men.
Concerning the “secret” identity of Monarch:
Many of the house ads for this Armageddon crossover showed a list of all of the annuals in order of release.
I assumed that this showed the order in which Waverider would interact with each character.
The Captain Atom annual was listed last.
To me, this was always the obvious clue to the Monarch identity.
BTW with all of this discussion I looked up Laura Gemser. Wow! I’m sorry that I’ve never been exposed to her in until now!
N) The Lords of Order and Chaos was a thing that I spent too much time thinking about when I was very preoccupied with the workings of the DC Universe and the story potential of all the Kali Yuga stuff. Divorced as I am from that prior preoccupation and having never particularly liked the Dr. Fate material I’ve tried (the first Jared Stevens Fate series is underrated, he noted in an ankh-shaped dagger to Shag’s heart) I find this all terribly dull now. Amorphous shapes speaking obliquely in a nine-panel grid is not one of my preferred flavors of Giffen or DeMatteis. I adore the 9-panel grid when properly applied, but it most definitely does not belong in a book about magic and literal forces of chaos.
O) Nimbus is one of those science words that you can look up in an encyclopedia and maybe sounds cool enough for Rob Liefeld to add to his list of nouns that publishers would pay him to produce, but to anyone who has an inkling of science awareness sounds dumb as hell. And I mostly slept in science class, but still. “Welcome to the reign of Evapotranspiration! Watch the reverse-Frasier trajectory of my receded hairstyle!”
P) All I can think of while looking at Tom Taggart’s Patchwork Man entry is how bad I want to up the darkness & contrast to remove those matte lines.
Q) Finally getting to a Tim Drake Robin entry is one of the joys of a new edition of Who’s Who. I mean talking about a significant but previously uncovered concept, not the actual character. Tim Drake fever passed me by. I remember it being a big deal when he was introduced and the mini-series was selling out, but that was when I was still under the sway of the X-Men. I wasn’t even buying New Titans yet, I don’t think. I did preorder Robin II #1 to see what the fuss was about, and even the hologram sticker underwhelmed. Robin III’s lenticular covers looked like a nightmare to operate and were hideous looking on the stands, so I skipped it. I read some other Chuck Dixon/Tom Lyle Robin material, like the first chapter of a multi-parter in Detective involving Lynx and, was it Ghost Tiger? The martial arts Fabio guy? Whatever, they never grabbed me.
My next extended exposure was Knightfall/Quest/End, and I picked up a bunch of the earlier issues of the spin-off ongoing because of Tom Grummett, Phil Jimenez fill-ins, and Dick Grayson appearances. They were… okay. Tim was inoffensive. I liked that he was more proactive and bookish than the other Robins to set him apart. The costume changes made sense. Given that I was leaving the period where Batman was a character I wanted to read about, I was glad that he had a functional Robin that did not compel me to buy more Batman comics. I love Dick Grayson, but I resented his return to the Bat-Family because it made me keep buying Bat-titles after I no longer wanted to. Tim Drake never created that problem for me.
Dick Grayson is one of my lifelong favorites who I enjoy more as Nightwing. Jason Todd was probably my favorite Robin, since it’s a role I struggle with and he was a nasty twist on the premise, but I don’t care a lot about him past that role. Tim was tailor made to be the kid who was good enough to be Batman’s sidekick for and never progress past that point, which is perfect if you don’t want Batman to look like an aging absentee father surrounded by generations of little bastard Robins. Sadly, Grant Morrison thought otherwise, or at least Dan Didio was too stupid to leave him dead and restore Tim Drake, which seemed to be Morrison’s long game.
R) The Shark! Drawn by a dude who did decent likenesses for licensed comics! I got nothin’!
S) The New Teen Titans was a canny X-Men knock-off produced by a prime Marv Wolfman and an ascendant George Perez at a time when the original appeared to be waning under an uninspired creative team that were overstaying their welcome. It’s a testament to their affection for the characters and their craft that the rather mercenary filling of a perceived market need was received so well by fandom. That said, Robin = Cyclops, Wonder Girl = Invisible Girl/Marvel Girl, Cyborg = The Thing, Changeling = Human Torch, Kid Flash = Quicksilver, Raven = Scarlet Witch, Speedy = Hawkeye, and Terra was Kitty Pryde with a twist. I’m not usually uncomfortable with race-swapping, but part of the reason Anna Diop’s casting in Titans didn’t sit well with me is that she was always a Storm rip-off with coded Latina features and a bucket of related stereotypes. Hot-tempered, passionate, overtly religious, plus the very ’70s “What’s wrong with going nude in this strange society?” Emmanuelle Arsan libertine foreigner opportunism*. The cartoon went a long way toward stripping out the more unsavory aspects of the character, but she still “read” as a space-Latina, and quite frankly super-heroes are in dire need of Latinx representation. Several dozen movies and TV shows in, between the MCU and DCEU, we’ve got, what, Yo-Yo, Vibe, Gert, Gypsy, and one alternate each for Ghost Rider and Spider-Man? Take all the white characters you want, but don’t take from one minority representation to give to another, especially when African-descent characters are already vastly more prevalent and visible.
All that having been said, I still haven’t ever read a Starfire story that did anything for me. Like Claremont did with Storm, Wolfman tried to progress past the traumatic childhood backstory and “stranger in a strange land” tropes to make a more complex, mature heroine. Ororo suffered through an identity crisis, PTSD, a long term disability, the struggle to prove her continued worth in the face of it, her first adult romantic relationship, and a pilgrimage to her native culture drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith. Starfire got temporarily impregnated with a demon soul via a forced lesbian encounter during her wedding ceremony with onlookers in a prismatic foil-covered anniversary issue before “aborting” the seed by going Super Saiyan as part of some rarely/never-referenced Tamaranian warrior heritage. New Titans #100 traveled to the planet of the sharks and Silver Surfer jumped the entire thing. And that’s why I’m still waiting to like Starfire.
*This one’s for Shag! Admittedly, there was a lot of Pacific Islander stuff i there too, but someone else (probably someone not from Texas) will have to throw down for their representation.
2) The sad thing is that thanks to my old blog entries, I probably could throw together a GemserCast pretty easily, but it loses a lot without the visuals. Boy, you could sure earn the explicit tag with sound clips, though. I tried to do a tongue-in-cheek-and-elsewhere hyper-detailed satirical analysis (huh-huh, “analysis”) of Emanuelle in America that burned me out on covering the material anymore after an entry (huh-huh) or two. By the way, I first saw Gemser in Black Cobra “starring” a slumming Jack Palance in a glorified supporting role, which my father recommended to me in part because it ends (spolier) with a guy dying via rectal insertion of the titular snake. She also co-starred in a Michael Landon movie called Love Is Forever that was all over discount stores in the dollar DVD days. Okay, I’m officially putting this extended (huh-huh) tangent to bed. #BetterThan5YL
Honest query. Did anyone else ever read Starfire as ‘coded Latina’? It’s the first time I’ve heard this theory and I just don’t see it. And maybe I just don’t know enough about Latina stereotypes to recognise them… Princess? Evil sister? Big hair (that seems more Jewish stereotype).
3) Not only will I stake Phylemon’s bet on Tom Grummett being the second best Titans artist, but I’d argue that the quality of his run was overall the best. I’m not especially fond of the first year-&-a-half when Perez was dividing his attention and heavily embellished by Romeo Tanghal, and most of his Tales of the Teen Titans run was a tug-of-war with Dick Giordano over whose style would dominate. Perez’s best inker will always be Perez, and his sweet spot was in the 30s and his handful of early Baxter run issues. Grummett started off on better footing, even with oppressive Bob McLeod inks, and then Al Vey turned New Titans #62-100 into the best work of either of their careers. I’m still amazed that Grummett could turn in work of such high caliber while doing two books a month (Doug Hazelwood’s superlative inks on Adventures of Superman surely helped) but it also “broke” him. He switched to a looser, less detailed style for Superboy and Robin that was nice but simply no match for his earlier accomplishment. Revered as Perez’s run was, he did better work for longer periods elsewhere. Much of Perez’s NTT stuff is lackluster by comparison, both to his other efforts and to Grummett’s run. My sole reservation is that at least Perez drew more issues than not, while Grummett’s absenteeism was epidemic, especially after “Titans Hunt” began its wrap-up. The nearest competition to either is Nicola Scott, another immense talent deserving of greater recognition.
T) Since Rose & the Thorn were in one of the earlier comics I read, and drawn by Jim Aparo, I held onto a nostalgia for them for a while before he recurring appearances in Triangle Number Superman comics killed my interest. Her National Comics revision wasn’t bad. Jason Pearson should have had a better career, and should get a revitalization like Stelfreeze enjoyed after Black Panther.
4) Again referencing Damien Whiter, Cully Hamner of course did Firearm, Adam Hughes’ clone Terry Dodson did Mantra, plus several of the lesser known Ultraverse artists drew in a Gaijin-y style, so that’s probably were Shag was coming from.
U) Your Velvet Tiger talk got lyrics from The Cure’s “Lovecats” stuck in my head this morning. Way too many cat-women around for me to waste time reading about the Arisia of Hawk & Dove comics. Nuts, now I’ve got Sue Thompson in my head. ♪”Quit messin’ and testin’ ’cause this ain’t at all impressin’ to me…”♫
5) Blame it on Ace, but since he went there, my favorite of the later Emmanuelles was Natalie Uher from the, ahem, “formative” 6 and Allie Haze from the Emmanuelle Through Time series. I like to pretend Emmanuelle is a parallel series to the James Bond movies because of the Lazenby TV rendezvous. What other woman could possibly keep up with 007? Krista Allen is my Timothy Dalton of Emmanuelles; I can see why you’d tap them, but I personally couldn’t get into them.
V) I never could get past Waverider’s obviously being Silver Surfer + Nova II in appearance, but Armageddon 2001 was a great excuse to spend a summer doing extended What If…? stories instead of the more ludicrous and ponderous Elseworlds. I recognize Dan Jurgens’ ability but his work never makes me feel anything emotionally.
6) Though I reckon Anj was just in it for the puns, I think Elektra would beat Shiva in a fight, but I’d rather read about the latter. Marvel’s martial artists just operate on a higher level than DC’s, in the same way Batman could never compete with Captain America in a straight fight. I very much preferred this issue of Who’s Who to the last specifically because it’s more far ranging and obscure than average.
W) I think this was the one where I put Wild Dog down: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-wild-pod-a-wild-dog-podcas-43051305/episode/09-moral-stand-chapters-7-8-43710820/
Tim Price says:
I know Joe Potato’s ridiculous, but that’s why I like him. He’s a Silver Age Batman/Dick Tracy style character, and I dig his entry. So much fun.
Ward Hill Terry says:
I waited too long to comment, and now all my brilliant, pithy, hilarious thoughts are gone. Or already stated by Frank.
What I do remember from this episode, was the great number of characters I HAD NEVER even HEARD of! Or read about. Or anything! Granted, I wasn’t reading comics when this came out, but I’ve been listening to you lot natter on about myriad comics and none of those F&W podcasts mentioned Joe Potato, or the cat-lady.
(new)Firestorm. After talking about an character, Element Girl, whose powers are based on the elements, you kept saying (new)Firestorm is a “fire elemental.” Fire is not an element. Fire doesn’t burn in outer space, or on the sun. Oh, sure, two guys can get fused into one being and re-arrange molecules of inorganic material, but my suspension snaps when fire is called an element. I only accept that when Philip Bailey and Maurice White are singing.
And then Xum once again brilliantly shows DC that they already had characters that needed exploration.
Nicholas Ahlhelm says:
A few random thoughts…
I really don’t get the hate on Angel and the Ape. Is it cheesecake? Sure. But it’s intentional and played as a gag, so I’m not really sure what the problem is. Am I irredeemable now?
I really don’t care for this Firestorm incarnation at all, but Tom Mandrake draws the heck out of it.
Garryn Bek has one of the worst haircuts in the history of comics, although the post-first mini series pre-Grummett Robin is trying to challenge him.
The Hippolyte entry has me wondering why Cynthia Martin wasn’t regularly penciling Wonder Woman if she could get that dead on with aping Perez.
Jonni Thunder is one of the best designed characters of the 80s in my opinion, but she never amounted to anything at all in the thirty years she’s existed. I feel like someone could still pull her out and utilize her really well, but doubt anyone ever will.
Randy DuBurke’s sequential art never worked for me, but he was an amazing pin-up artist, with this Lady Shiva as a prime example. But I really don’t get her Hero tag especially after her recent appearance in Robin. She’s an assassin, even if she does target villains.
Never has a story at DC petered out worse than that of the Lords of Order and Chaos. It would have been great to have some resolution of their conflict, but instead all the series they were featured in were canceled and they were pretty much never mentioned again. Well, maybe the post-Zero Hour Fate used them, but everyone involved with that book should be ashamed with themselves, so…
No one draws Starfire as well as Tom Grummett in my opinion… and that includes George Perez. Something about his art just makes her look sing.
Interesting to see the Jason Pearson art on Thorn, as this was before he was pretty much known for anything at all. He’s gone on to become pretty famous for his hyper-kinetic cheesecake-friendly style, but this shows little of what would come.
Greg Guler drew the hell out of the Velvet Tiger piece, much as he did out of the Hawk & Dove series no matter your opinion of the title. He was an amazingly talented comics artist but pretty much left the industry after the book ended. He moved into animation and has been working at Disney for two and a half decades now, clearly as a key character designer in animation. He was instrumental in designing the look of the Gargoyles cartoon, so comics loss was certainly everyone’s gain.
Conceptually, Wild Dog was an amazing idea for an 80s comic book, smack dab in the middle of the action movie boom. But he’s an odd duck as part of the DCU. I’m glad to see both Arrow and the recent Cave Carson comic realized eh could have his uses however and have finally integrated him into their respective universes.
Oh! Nicholas reminded me of what I wanted to say about the Angel and the Ape piece. Why does Sam face his drawing board away from the model?!!? He has to keep looking over his shoulder to draw her!
Sontaron says:
With the Angel and the Ape one the real problem is the pedestal Angle is standing on. I know O Day is her but if you didn’t know anything before this entry you are seeing a sem-inaked female on a pedestal that says property of. If they had just left that off it would have drastically changed the feel of the picture.
When I heard they were going to bring Robin back I was rather annoyed. I liked Batman without Robin (of which we barely got a year) and that Grayson was Nightwing by himself. And was not really sad to see Jason go. So if they had gone a different way from showing Tim Drake as going more of the detective route in the role and that he only wanted to be Robin and nothing more in that position than I think I would have had much more problems. And he definitely wouldn’t have become my favorite Robin.
the 108th Sage [Ynza] says:
Hope this isn’t too late to make it into a comment section. I love these shows for many reasons, but one of them is definitely how long they are! I thus tend to save them for times I need to go on a road trip, even short ones, so sometimes it takes a while to listen to.
Anywho, I agree with Shag on multiple points here, like:
*) Tim Drake is the Best Robin!
*) Starfire was a pretty meh character for me till Titans, and Anna Diop’s excellent portrayal was a big reason why I like her in the comics now more as well. While the Show is def my least fave of the 4 shows on it so far (T, YJ, DP, ST), it’s still one of the better Super Hero shows (TBH, the cliffhanger ending to the season is a large reason I rank it way lower than all 3 other shows on the network). 3 out of the 4 MC’s + Hawk and 1st Dove’s portrayals on this show are the first times I really connected/jived with these characters (Dick Grayson and Dawn Granger were already great characters in my opinion, and Dawn is one of my fave DC females!).
*)Swamp Thing (the show) is Soooo Gooood! I am not even a fan of most horror, and this show is a lot closer to horror than I usually like, but My Goddess is Crystal Reed Great as Abby Arcane! The Entire Sunderland Family’s storylines have been great, if disturbing, and Wow do I love Maria Sten as Liz Tremaine!
*) Krypton season 1 was Way Better than I Expected!! I’m looking forward to Finally Having Time to catch up on S2, soon enough…
*) Mark Hempel is Awesome! I used Gregory I – IV as ‘evangelical tracts’ on how awesome comics were to quite a few friends and acquaintances in High School!
…though I was sad to hear he didn’t love Doom Patrol, because “My very favorite Comic- to live-action adaptation” is a dead-ass tie between Legion and Doom Patrol. I was So Worried, till recently, that despite the near universal praise for DP, the executives were sleeping on this show and not gonna renew it! So glad it’s getting another season!
And I need Everyone to Understand how awesome Young Justice is! The first two seasons already had it as my favorite non-comics version of the DC Universe, but Season Three is upping that show’s game considerably, and I’m so glad we’ve already got a 4th season assured!
And, lastly, I often find myself listening to Frank’s comments with either a fist raised in solidarity or at least a bemused chuckle of partial agreement, but he can sit down with that Firehawk Hate. Over a Decade before I actually became a DC Fan, Lorraine Reilly was one of the first things that really interested me about the DC Universe, and my Random Newstand Browsing was on a constant trawl for issues with her in them, but to no avail so often. And Thus I almost exclusively stayed in my Marvel stable until the early 90’s…
Captain Entropy says:
Don’t worry, 108th Sage, there’s a comment even later than yours. My thoughts on this episode are not as erudite as many of the more timely comments, but here goes:
Chris, great letter. I’ll take “whoster” as a fandom name.
Rob, I’m with you. Jonni Thunder was great. Giordano or whoever had the idea that noir would work again in the shiny-on-top, seedy-on-the-bottom L.A. of the 1980s was spot on.
Shag, I agree with you 100% regarding both Tim Drake and Year 3, but even I noticed your failure to mention Siskoid’s fine work on the highly questionable topic of Dial H for Hero. Man, after all these years, it still sounds really dumb.
Also, your assessment of Starfire has always been off-base, but it’s forgivable, since DC’s completely changed her character for no reason once or twice. Starfire, as originally imagined, was a passionate woman who fought, played, and loved hard – a “no better friend, no worse enemy” kind of girl. She was plenty bright, but never an academic or intellectual, because she believed in deeds, not words. She was generally optimistic and sunny despite some horrific experiences that occasionally haunted her, just because she was that darned resilient. I don’t know if she’s still around anywhere, but I hope she is.
In a related story, Shag, a few episodes ago, you asked an admirably direct question: “Captain Entropy, WHO ARE YOU?” Please select one of the following media-sourced responses:
1) A friend.
2) Long time listener, first-time caller.
3) Your worst nightmare.
4) I’m Batman.
On second thought, ignore the last three. Seriously, Shag, you’re not supposed to know who I am. That’s what secret identities are for. I know modern Marvel and the Arrowverse have muddied the water on this, but think back to the Bronze Age. My secrets protect my loved ones – from poverty, in this case. My employers in the military-industrial complex can be a tad controlling when it comes to public statements, so I shall maintain my anonymity for now. But, like Superman in his rooftop interview with Lois, I will tell the public a little bit about myself.
My secret origin: My mutant power of sowing chaos and disorder in my wake manifested at an early age. Despite this, I attended a military college, where my x-factor was even more conspicuous than in other settings. My ability to completely trash an inspection-ready room within five minutes of the inspection being over sparked amazement, occasional outrage, and finally begrudging admiration. One night, while a group of us were shining our shoes to prepare for a long day of training new cadets, the topic of entropy came up. My friend Paul, a fellow comics nerd, said “[Real name redacted], that’s your superpower! You’re Captain Entropy!” And thus I remain to this day, my secret known only to…well, a lot of people, really – especially after my roommate had the name tag on our door changed. Maybe this story does fit better in the MCU.
My Who’s Who origin: When I was a kid, my local supermarket began stocking Who’s Who among their monthly comics. I bought them. I enjoyed them.
Now wasn’t that thrilling?
A final, even-more-belated comment: Philemon, I genuinely appreciate your recommendation on the Butcher, despite your love of Jericho. However, I still want to wait for the inevitable team-up series with the Baker and the Candlestick Maker.
Captain Entropy,
I came here to berate our hosts for their now four month tardiness with a new episode, but I’d rather spend the time thanking you for the laughs, both for your secret origin story and the ” . . . Baker, and Candlestick maker” crack.
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