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At one point we thought that (the Knights)
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#1 | At one point we thought that (the Knights) 07.11.2019 04:12
Each week, Ill write about the sport I love: college basketball.Give Michigan coach John Beilein credit for a competitive nonconference schedule. Among the opponents are an improved UCLA squad, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Marquette and either SMU or Pittsburgh at Madison Square Garden.Ohio State coach Thad Matta made a great move by bringing in Alan Major to his staff. Major will serve in a non-coaching capacity as the director of recruiting and player development.George Washington will play in a summer tour of Japan later in August. That trip will make Japan native?Yuta Watanabe?happy. The Colonial will get to see friends and family on the trip.Nick Marshall, a 6-foot-11 center, has opted to leave the Memphis program, leaving a void in Tubby Smiths roster. Marshall was more about long-term potential, but he will try to reach it elsewhere.Sorry to learn of the passing of former University of Houston star Dwight Jones. He was a super player who was part of the 1972 USA Olympic team. RIP Dwight. Replica Air Max .C. -- When North Carolina freshman Ryan Switzer reported to training camp in August he was a little miffed to learn he was third on the depth chart at punt returner. Air Max From China . Andrew Luck lost his favourite target and the Indianapolis locker room lost one of its most revered leaders when Reggie Wayne was diagnosed Monday with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee that will cost him the rest of the season. https://www.airmaxchina.us/ . Ryan Garbutt had a goal and two assists as Dallas snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Air Max Sale . Jason Zucker and Matt Cooke also scored for Minnesota, which has won five of six. Kuemper made five saves in the first, nine in the second, and nine in the third. The rookies best save came with 2:17 left in the third period when he denied former Wild forward Matt Cullen from just outside of the crease on the right side. Cheap Authentic Air Max . -- Bryant McKinnie came out of his stance and lowered his shoulder into a practice squad player, causing a crisp thud to reverberate in the Miami Dolphins practice bubble.SASKATOON -- The Halifax Mooseheads are still searching for perfection. If they find it before the end of the MasterCard Memorial Cup, its hard to imagine them not lifting the trophy after Sundays final. Playing a nearly flawless game didnt look too bad either. Martin Frk had a hat trick and an assist and Darcy Ashley also scored twice and assisted on another goal Tuesday as Halifax dismantled the London Knights 9-2 in the final round-robin game at the tournament for both teams. "We want to bring that to the next game and strive to be even better next time," Mooseheads coach Dominique Ducharme said. "We were not perfect, we were close, we were not perfect. "Our goal is to be playing the perfect game. Our next game could be a good time to do it." That could come in the form of either Fridays semifinal or Sundays championship game, depending on what happens in Wednesdays final round-robin game between the Portland Winterhawks and the Saskatoon Blades. Stefan Fournier added a goal and an assist, while Brent Andrews, Ryan Falkenham and Luca Ciampini also scored for Halifax (2-1), which is looking for its first Memorial Cup. Top prospects Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin, who play on a line with Frk, each added three assists as the Mooseheads top three forwards combined for 10 points. "When you do the little things right, you get rewarded. Those guys skated hard and they were rewarded with opportunities," Ducharme said. "When youre sharp, when youre alive, when youre on your toes, you get those scoring chances and you put them in the net. "When you do good things, good things happen to you." Zachary Fucale made 26 saves for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champions, who led 5-0 after the first period and 8-2 after the second before taking their foot off the gas in the third. The focus of the tournament now turns to Wednesdays game between the Western Hockey League champion Winterhawks (1-1) and the host Blades (1-1). A victory for Portland puts the Mooseheads directly into Sundays championship game, while a Saskatoon win means the Blades will go right to the final, with Halifax having to settle for a spot in the semifinal. Ducharme had a message for his players after the Mooseheads dominated from start to finish after two so-so performances to begin the tournament that decides the Canadian Hockey League title. "The next time we play I want to see the same kind of urgency, energy, battle level and composure at the same time that we had tonight," he said. Seth Griffith and Matt Rupert had the goals for the overmatched Knights (1-2), who will take on the loser of Saskatoon-Portland in Thursdays tiebreaker. The winner of that one moves on to the semi. "Its one of those games where they jumped on us early," said Knights coach Dale Hunter, whose team lost 6-3 to Portland a night earlier and were also involved in gruelling seven-game Ontario Hockey League final. "It happens. Ive been on a bigger playing field than this and a few times this kind of game has happened." Jake Patterson, who was making his first start of the tournament, stopped 6 of 11 shots for London in a disastrous first period before being replaced by Anthony Stolarz at the start of second. Stolarz was pulled after giving up five goals on 31 shots in the loss to Portland. He finished with 22 saves on Tuesday. Coming off Sundays 5-2 upset loss to Saskatoon, the determined and fresher Mooseheads scored early and ofteen against the sluggish Knights.dddddddddddd "We wanted to bounce back. We dont like the taste of losing but its not too bad to have it once in a while," MacKinnon said. "I think it gives you a bit of a wake-up call and makes you a little more hungry to win." Frk stepped out of the corner and faked a shot before finding Fournier wide open on Pattersons doorstep for an easy tap-in to start the onslaught at 7:43 of the first period. Ashley made it 2-0 just 1:43 later, popping home a rebound from in close and added his second of the night at 12:02 on a nice deflection just as a Knights penalty expired. The rout was on at 17:31 when Andrews stripped the puck from Knights defenceman Nikita Zadorov at the Halifax blue-line and moved in on a 2-on-1 before beating Patterson with a quick shot to the stickside to make it 4-0. Frk, a second-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings in 2012, then stretched the lead to five just 29 seconds later by burying a one-timer from the slot off a pass from Drouin. The Mooseheads didnt let up against their wounded opponent in the second period. After Londons Max Domi fired wide on a partial breakaway, Frk finished off a pretty passing play with MacKinnon and Drouin for his second of the night at 1:45 past Stolarz, who came on in place of Patterson. Falkenham made it 7-0 at 9:51 with a shot that chimed in of the post on a 2-on-1 as Ducharme started to roll four lines. London showed a bit of life and got one back on a nice move by Griffith on Fucale at 16:02 and Rupert cut the deficit to five 1:18 later. But any threat of a miraculous comeback was put to rest when Frk finished off another passing play with MacKinnon and Drouin for his third of the night with 1:57 left in the period. "Everyone was playing very well and the boys made nice passes for me to score goals," Frk said. "I had a pretty easy job -- three open nets." Ciampini added Halifaxs ninth goal on a two-man advantage with less than a minute to play in the third period as both teams now look ahead to the knockout round. Ducharme kept his stars on the bench for large chunks of the final period, but put MacKinnon, Drouin and Frk back out with Halifax skating 5-on-3 after he thought there was too much stickwork from the Knights in the dying minutes. "There was many power players where we didnt put them (on the ice)," Ducharme said. "At one point we thought that (the Knights) were going pretty hard on the slash and everything else so we decided to go back with them." Notes: MacKenzie Weegar added two assists for the Mooseheads. ... The best that Portland can finish is to qualify for the semifinal with a win over Saskatoon on Wednesday. ... Hockey legend and local product Gordie Howe received a standing ovation from the crowd of 9,237 at the Credit Union Centre before dropping the puck for the ceremonial faceoff. ... Alexis Normand sang the national anthem. She needed the crowd to help her finish "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Saturday after she forgot the words. Normand got a nice round of applause after Tuesdays performance of "O Canada" went off without a hitch. ... The game featured at least six potential first-round picks for next months NHL draft -- MacKinnon (No. 2 ranked North American skater) and Drouin (No. 3) from Halifax, and Londons Bo Horvat (No. 15), Domi (No. 19) and Zadorov (No. 22). Fucale, meanwhile, is rated as the No. 1 draft-eligible goaltender by NHL Central Scouting. ' ' '
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Every child in our school is valued as an individual and is encouraged to develop at their own pace to meet their potential. The school, in line with the (DfE) Code of Practice, will identify the needs of each child and will provide an education plan by which to meet these. The new Houghton Conquest SEND Local Offer can be found on our policy page.
Values are principles, fundamental convictions, ideals, standards or life stances that act as general guides to behaviour or as reference points in decision making. With the cooperation and support of parents, teachers, support staff and governors we aim to cultivate our children as calm, happy, focused individuals who respect their world and are empowered to develop and nurture their inherent creativity.
Values education gives us a common vocabulary that we all understand, helping us to deal with behavioural and emotional situations in a positive and supportive manner. Our calm and reflective approach means issues are discussed in a logical manner and solutions are reached with mutual agreement and understanding.
We aim for strong social relationships and highly developed self-esteem resulting in the respect for others and the environment. Children are expected to display good manners, courtesy and thoughtfulness towards others at all times.
We have a positive Behaviour Policy which includes school values, discussed and agreed by staff and children, and endorsed by the governing body.
National and Local SEND Reforms
The Children and Families Act 2014 and SEN Code of Practice 2014
SEND reforms
In September 2014 changes to the law for children and young people with SEND have taken place. This is all supported by the new SEND Code of Practice 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014 and all this should mean improved coordination between local authorities, health, care and education providers: greater rights and protection for young people in further education and more control for families.
This will result in the way parents/carers and children and young people will receive support from the local council, health and social care services, nurseries, schools and colleges.
The changes focus on personal goals, increased family involvement and improved rights and protections for young people in further education and training. The changes should create a better system that puts parents and children/young people first. The changes will be introduced gradually over the next 3 ½ years and will involve:
Statements of SEN being replaced by an Education Health and Care Plan- these will allow young people with SEN to have an EHCP until they are 19 and in some cases 25 years old.
Some people having the option of a Personal Budget to purchase some elements of the SEN support needed.
A Local Offer from the local Authority stating what support they expect to provide for a child/young person with SEND.
New and specific requirements about the involvement of parents, carers young people and children in decisions about SEN provision.
A requirement for Education, Health and Social Care to work together to support SEN through ‘joint commissioning’ of services.
School action and School action Plus support becoming SEN support with the definition of SEN remaining unchanged – the transfer should happen by spring 2015.
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Ditch the Cast: Some Broken Ankles May Heal in Half the Time
THURSDAY, Jan. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Three weeks in a cast or brace may be just as effective in healing ankle fractures as the typical six weeks, a new study shows.
While six weeks in a cast is the usual treatment, there are risks associated with prolonged immobilization, including stiffness, skin damage and blocked blood vessels.
Finnish researchers decided to find out if three weeks of treatment would be as effective as six. Their study included 247 patients who were 16 and older with a common type of stable fracture that didn't require surgery.
Eighty-four patients wore a cast for six weeks; 83 spent three weeks in a cast; and 80 spent three weeks in an ankle brace. They were assessed at six, 12 and 52 weeks after their fracture.
The healing process for those who spent three weeks in a cast or brace was as successful as among those who spent six weeks in a cast, and shorter treatment brought no added harm, according to the study published Jan. 23 in the journal BMJ.
In addition, those who wore a brace for three weeks had slightly better ankle mobility than participants who wore a cast for six weeks.
The findings were similar after accounting for patient differences, according to the researchers led by Dr. Tero Kortekangas, from Oulu University Hospital in Finland.
His team used an external-rotation (ER) stress test to confirm stable fractures. Though the test is not used in all hospitals, the authors said in a journal news release that their findings "make a strong case for wider adoption of ER stress testing."
Because stable ankle fractures don't require surgery, shorter and more convenient treatment could provide successful healing, they concluded.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has more on ankle fractures.
SOURCE: BMJ, news release, Jan. 23, 2019
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Georgia Tech Students Brief Military on Disruptive Technology for National Security News Published Thu, May 18, 2017 - 4:02pm Thu, May 18, 2017 jpalacios9
Founder of Israel’s Islamic Movement dies at 69 External news Published Mon, May 15, 2017 - 1:34pm Sun, May 14, 2017 oadebola3
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Taylor and Schmid’s New Publication in the Review of Policy Research News Published Mon, May 8, 2017 - 2:30pm Mon, May 8, 2017 jpalacios9
Georgia Tech Team Places Fourth at 2017 American Mock Trial Association National Championship News Published Mon, May 8, 2017 - 2:13pm Mon, May 8, 2017 oadebola3
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Kosal Curates Journal Issue Illuminating Issues around Chemical Warfare Use in Syria and the U.S. Response News Published Mon, May 1, 2017 - 4:10pm Mon, May 1, 2017 Rebecca Keane
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Georgia Tech Researchers Show SGX Isn’t as Secure as It Seems
Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 28, 2017
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Intel's promising cloud security platform is vulnerable.
branchshadowing
When Intel introduced Software Guard Extension (SGX), cloud developers could breathe easy knowing their code was protected from malicious operating systems (OS) thanks to a hardware-protected enclave. But SGX is more vulnerable to attack than it initially appeared, according to Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, who discovered a new side-channel attack called branch shadowing.
“A lot of people consider SGX the most promising secure cloud environment, but this research demonstrates a pitfall,” said Assistant Professor Taesoo Kim, one of the six researchers. “This vulnerability allows an attacker to exploit the behavior of SGX and get confidential information.”
What makes SGX so secure is also its biggest vulnerability: the enclave. SGX creates a trusted execution environment for secure data by isolating and encrypting all of its sensitive memory contents in an enclave. What Tech researchers discovered, however, was that SGX does not clear branch history when switching to enclave mode. This leaves fine-grained traces of past data for anyone to observe, creating a branch-prediction side channel that could be exploited by an attacker.
For the most part, developers have not worried about this possible exploit because of the relative difficulty of this type of attack. However, using two new techniques, Tech researchers are now able to take advantage of the vulnerability.
The team has developed a history-inferring technique and an advanced programmable interrupt controller to control the execution of the enclave down to the smallest granularity. These two techniques create a new branch-prediction side-channel attack, branch shadowing.
“This new attack can identify each branch instruction’s execution history, the most fine-grained attack found so far,” lead researcher Sangho Lee, a Georgia Tech postdoctoral fellow, said. Essentially, any attacker using branch shadowing can find past data because traces remain in the system.
The implications of this could be detrimental for security if the cloud is used to store financial or health data. This is why the Tech researchers also proposed potential software and hardware solutions. One countermeasure against this type of attack is flushing the branches generated in the enclave by modifying the code.
However, changing code can be arduous and time-consuming, so they created a software-based countermeasure called Zigzagger that could be used more easily in the short term. Zigzagger turns a set of branch instructions into one indirect branch, which makes it harder to infer data in this branch.
Lee believes their findings also have larger implications for the security industry. Hardware vendors should provide hardware dedicated to trusted execution environments to avoid any resource overlap, like branches, an attacker could take advantage of. He also recommends that software developers write their code carefully when developing private data software. In the meantime, the researchers also reported their findings to Intel and are working with them to mitigate this vulnerability.
“Memory isolation is not enough because trusted and untrusted applications still share many processor-internal hardware components,” Lee said.
A paper titled, Inferring Fine-grained Control Flow Inside SGX Enclaves with Branch Shadowing, details this research and was presented at Usenix, the annual Advance Computing Systems Association conference, in Vancouver, Canada, earlier this month. It was one of seven papers from Georgia Tech researchers.
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Publisher delays US release of Naomi Wolf book 'Outrages'
Naomi Wolf's U.S. publisher is postponing the release of her new book, 'Outrages,' after a BBC interviewer challenged some of her findings
NEW YORK — Naomi Wolf's U.S. publisher is postponing the release of her new book, "Outrages," after a BBC interviewer challenged some of her findings. Wolf is openly objecting to the delay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that "new questions" had come up about "Outrages," originally scheduled to come out next week. It has already been published in the United Kingdom.
"As we have been working with Naomi Wolf to make corrections to 'Outrages,' new questions have arisen that require more time to explore, according to a statement from the publisher. "We are postponing publication and requesting that all copies be returned from retail accounts while we work to resolve those questions."
Wolf's promotional tour for the U.S. release also has been pushed back.
Last month, BBC interviewer Matthew Sweet questioned Wolf's research on the book, which centers on the mistreatment of gays in Victorian England. On Friday, Wolf tweeted that she made what she thought were the needed changes and that she believed her book's core findings remained valid. "I strongly objected to this decision," she wrote.
Wolf, known for such best-sellers "The Beauty Myth" and "Misconceptions," has often faced questions about accuracy in her work. In "The Beauty Myth," for instance, she wrote that anorexia was responsible for the deaths of 150,000 women a year, a number many experts disputed as highly inflated. A recent New York Times review was headlined "Naomi Wolf's Career of Blunders Continues in 'Outrages.'"
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His pregame tribute ended by a storm, Alex Rodriguez began his final game with the New York Yankees by hitting a tying first-inning double
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#HBSTORIES: SAM HODDER
Feb 8, 2018 | All, HB Participants, HB Team, Homepage
It’s been a year since our first Homeward Bound cohort of female scientists departed for Antarctica. Between the anniversary of the first voyage and the departure of the second on 18 February 2018, we’ll be sharing the stories of our inaugural participants and their journeys, in their own words, one year on. Their stories put faces to the facts about women in leadership, women in STEMM and what’s happening to our planet. Follow the stories on social media using #HBStories.
HOMEWARD BOUND STORIES: SAM HODDER
At this time last year, I was sitting at my desk, listening to a trove of audio captured by Carol Devine as research material on the first Homeward Bound expedition which she shared with me. Most of these hours were consumed by trying to understand the voyage and meet the people. But something happened as I dug into this tape: It gave me a magical feeling that I was virtually participating in this experience. This feeling stayed with me, and gave me the grist to turn what was meant to be a 20 minute story, into an almost four-hour serialized storytelling podcast.
I first learned of the expedition over coffee with participant Carol Devine early in the fall of 2016. She admitted that she and others were still figuring out what the expedition was going to be…and then I suggested that I should start at the beginning and interview co-founder Fabian Dattner.
From that point, rather quickly, I was connected one by one, to this small, random collection of incredible women. And then, something ignited in me as I was transported inside the experiences and conversations of these women. Immediately, I knew I had a collection of wonderful stories.
But finding how to turn these stories of many women, many voices, into a cohesive narrative, was a massive challenge. I knew my goal was to connect directly and intimately with the listeners, to make them feel “there.” And most importantly, for them to experience the material in a way that let them discover something about themselves.
As this process drove forward, I started to hit the rumble strips on the side of the road. I faced great challenges creatively, emotionally and practically. And at one point I almost quit.
As I stewarded stories from other people and faraway places I began to understand more of my own leadership journey and I found my way back onto the road. I talk about this in the second episode – about how knowing yourself is the first stop on a leadership journey. And how those parts where I knew myself, even when everything around me was wobbly, were golden.
And now, one year on, I sit at my desk writing packing lists and double checking my audio kit, so honoured and excited to be joining the second Homeward Bound expedition as Podcaster-in-Residence.
The task of how this happens and what will emerge at the other end is a fascinating alchemy I’m very excited to explore. Last year, I was able to use my imagination to create what I thought a virtual journey would be, and now it’s a bit like putting it under the microscope and working out howto pull the focal length back and share it with others.
I go there with an exciting range of themes and archetypes I will be looking to explore: From the one choice she made to land here; From the self-doubt that led her to decision; From the disbelievers to the ending moment. And to face the emotions of the reality of climate change in this rapidly changing environment. All of this following a classic adventure narrative.
I take my muses with me: Rebecca Solnit, Margaret Atwood, Jill Soloway and Alice Munro.
Working in the medium of podcasting, and studying the arenas that it occupies, I have come to a conclusion: Our collective voice seems to crave raw honesty. It’s like a collective voice rose up and said “Put your cards on your table. It’s time to get back down to just plain old talking. And listening.”
Something about podcasts has changed me: I’m drawn to its new format of discussion, to its new level of honesty and engagement. I think it gets back to something our collective psyche craves: Something that’s real, something that feels.
Subscribe to the 8-part podcast series here: https://apple.co/2BuBDkB
Watch a 2-minute overview here: https://youtu.be/0RZ5_55SU8w
You can read more of the #HBStories from the inaugural cohort on the HB Blog.
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Making our bold moves with tedxteen
When you are called in to work on a Saturday, it’s lovely when it doesn’t actually feel like work – luckily, TEDxTEEN can be depended upon for fun, excitement, and inspiration. So, Saturday June 24th, our scribes happily travelled down to the 02 – coffees in hand – to capture the rich, diverse and always impressive stories of TEDxTEEN London 2017 as an Infomural.
This year, the theme was “bold moves” and showcased the bold endeavours of a diverse group of teenagers. Promotion for the event read:
“We have never been more connected, more innovative, or more resourceful. We have also never felt the weight of the present and future more than right now.”
Accordingly, there was a serious but hopeful tone to the talks. We heard from youth grappling with prejudice, mental illness, isolation and death – sharing stories of what it means to be a teen, maturing and learning to cope with realities from which we are sheltered as children.
Each one of the speakers had a positive strategy for dealing with personal and global pain. We heard from a young Syrian refugee who, despite odds and parental hair-tearing, managed to carry her school books across borders to ensure her education. We heard from a young girl, mercilessly bullied and abused, who had channelled her experience into the creation of an app that allowed other isolated youth to find peers to sit with at lunchtime. We heard from a self-taught computer-scientist who’s personal experience in Afghanistan inspired him to create artificial intelligence for improved breast cancer detection.
The event opened with a reflection upon every participants place in a historical chain:
“We are here today, in this moment on this planet, as a result of decisions that humans have made every year, month, day, hour, minute and second that have come before.”
It was only fitting then the day should conclude with a voice from the past: Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremburg Tribunals, joined via skype to share his experiences, fears and hopes for the future. He addressed his audience directly and with respect, speaking to them not as children but as bourgeoning adults about to take on a world of responsibility. Ferencz metaphor of passing on the torch of humanity and progress to this new generation had a clear impact. From the speakers we had the pleasure of listening to that day, we can think of no better a group of young people to rise to the challenge Ferencz’s described.
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AUDIOBOOK SERIES TOUR --- London Saint James' ALWAYS!!
Author: London Saint James
Narrators: Tor Thom, Charley Ongel
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Series: Two Hearts, One Soul Duet, Book 1
Publisher: LSJ Romance
Released: Sep. 14, 2017
International best-selling author London Saint James' first installment from Two Hearts, One Soul Duet is the epic tale of abiding love, heart-wrenching loss, and an astonishing bond that will find a way to endure. Winter Perri never truly understood love until she met Austin Carlyle - the man who would rock her world to its foundations and give her something to believe in. But the night before they were to be married, the fairytale shattered. Thirteen years later Winter is pulled out of her seclusion only to have a painful past confront her, and when it does, she's left questioning reality, because the impossible is looking back at her with the face of a destroying angel, and piercing eyes in too familiar shades of blue.
London Saint James has lived in many places, but never felt “at home” until she met the real-life man of her dreams and settled down in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. London lives with her husband and their fat cat who thinks he owns them. As an award-winning, international bestselling author, London is living her childhood dream. She knew all the scribbling she did, that big imagination of hers, and all those clamoring characters running around in her head would pay off someday.
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Tor Thom and Charley Ongel are a happily married couple who have been narrating and producing audiobooks for the past year and a half.
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I received these audiobooks as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by London Saint James. The gifting of these audiobooks did not affect my opinion of them.
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Audible Overall Rating: 5/5 stars
Audible Performance Rating: 5/5 stars
Audible Story Rating: 5/5 stars
Goodreads Rating: 5/5 stars
In Patti's Imagination Rating: 10/10 stars
I finished listening to this book the other day and I’m still not sure how to write this review for such an extraordinary story. I love the narrating duo of Charley Ongel and Tor Thom. This is not the first book I have listened to by these two narrators, but it is the first book I have read by London Saint James. I’ve already started on book two as this is one author I want to read more from.
Winter Perri is not your usual female leading character and I can’t really say too much without giving spoilers away. Yes, the book is told completely in her point of view so the duel narration is really great to have both a female and male character talking within the same scene it helps with the mindset of the characters. It is awesome. It really enhances the listening experience and the way these narrators changed up their voices for different male or female characters made it very easy to follow the story. I love how there were even various sound effects in the audio. The emotions the narrators portrayed really made it feel as if I were in the story. Is this an emotional book, yes, yes, it is and will you want to have some tissues handy, yes, yes you do. There are a some dark moments as well as those tearful moments but there are plenty of fun times, too. There is so much I would love to say about this story, but I can’t without giving spoilers. I can say that I loved how the author really developed the characters and their relationships. This story takes place over many years and it is not a simple quick listen as there is so much meat packed in here. From the synopsis I wasn’t really sure about wanting to listen to the book, but when I saw who the narrators were, I couldn’t pass it up and I am so glad to have had the opportunity to have listened to it. There were many things I didn’t expect or see coming. I knew of one event that was going to happen from the synopsis and wondered about another which kept me guessing which just added to the enjoyment of the is story and it was so not what I expected. Yes, this story is very much about two hearts and one soul.
Q&A with Author London Saint James
Was a possible audiobook recording something you were conscious of while writing?
Yes. When I write I am very conscious of turning the story into an audiobook. In fact, I use specific software during my editing processes that actually reads the MS for me so I can hear how the story translates from written word to listening.
How did you select your narrator?
I worked with Tor and Charley on a past project and knew I wanted to work with them again. So, when it was time to turn my Two Hearts, One Soul Duet into audiobooks, it was a no-brainer for me. A quick, “Hey, you guys want to do this project with me?” e-mail and the selection process was done. *Smiles*
Were there any real life inspirations behind your writing?
When it comes to this duet, my inspiration came from a question to myself after seeing a documentary about kids who clearly remembered events, people, and places they shouldn’t have known about and the belief of past lives. What was the question(s) I asked myself?What if there was such a thing as soul mates? One person you were meant to love? From there came, what if we met our soul mate, lost them, and found them again years later? Is soul transfer or reincarnation a possibility? Can love conquer death? Now, it’s your turn to ponder. Is it possible? Do you believe in soul mates?
How do you manage to avoid burn-out? What do you do to maintain your enthusiasm for writing?
I take some ‘me’ time by doing relaxing things like taking a bubble bath, listen to music, read, listen to audiobooks, enjoy the outdoors and sunshine. Go for walks. Watch movies. Yoga. Take a drive.
Are you an audiobook listener? What about the audiobook format appeals to you?
Yes, very much so. There is just something special about listening to some of your favorite book characters come to life off the page and be given a voice. Or at least, in my opinion, there is, and I think that is what draws me to audiobooks.
If this title were being made into a TV series or movie, who would you cast to play the primary roles?
Henry Cavill as Austin/Cayden
Scarlett Johansson as Winter
Gerard Butler as Chandler
How did you celebrate after finishing this novel?
Did a fist-pump, had a glass of wine, went out for dinner with my very own sexy man, and then came home and started on the next writing project.
Have any of your characters ever appeared in your dreams?
Actually, yes, I have. For writers, our characters are very much real. And while writing, for me anyway, I ‘see’ my characters, how they look, their mannerisms and even ‘hear’ them, the way they talk and interact with each other.
What bits of advice would you give to aspiring authors?
For those aspiring writers, never, ever let anyone tell you, you can’t get published. Or that being a published writer is a pipedream. I’m here to tell you my ‘pipedream’ came true. Write what you love. Write what speaks to you. Be you. Don’t be afraid to break your heart open and let the feelings flow into your manuscripts. Great writers give blood, sweat, and tears to the craft. It takes a lot of guts to put yourself out there—to let the world get their hands on your book babies. And it takes a thick skin, too. Not everyone will love your work. Not everyone will hate it, either. Don’t go into writing thinking your very first book is going to hit the big time, be a New York Times bestseller, and you’re going to get a movie deal. If you do, you will be disappointed because that rarely happens right out of the gate. Instead, write because you have a passion to write, a voice to be heard, and don’t allow anyone to extinguish that fire.
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Conservative ad ‘misleads’ seniors that Liberals will scrap pension splitting
By BJ Siekierski. Published on Jul 8, 2015 9:04pm
A popular Conservative canard — that the Liberals would end income splitting for pensioners — seems to have made its way onto a number of Canadians’ TV screens in the last few weeks.
Anecdotally, and as reported by others, a Conservative ad making that claim has been seen on BNN, CTV, and Sportsnet 360.
Oddly, however, it can’t be found online.
The ad features an older man whom some might recognize from “The Interview” ad the party launched at the end of May.
That one is easy to find — on the party YouTube account and posted a few times on their Facebook page.
In it, the man responds to a younger woman noting that Trudeau plans to cancel income splitting for families by guessing “pension splitting for seniors is next.”
In this other ad, though, he isn’t guessing. He’s convinced.
“He’s (Justin Trudeau) against income splitting for families, but without pension splitting — my wife and I would be in a bit of trouble,” he says, implying Trudeau has made some sort of commitment to do that.
A note on the quality: iPolitics asked the Conservative Party for a copy on Monday, but never received an answer. And a spokesperson for BNN, which aired the ad Monday morning, told iPolitics they couldn’t provide a copy because it wasn’t their property. This version was recorded on a smartphone.
http://ipolitics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CPC-ad-Seniors-income-splitting.mp4
The Conservatives brought in pension income splitting in 2007 — allowing one spouse or common law partner over 65 to transfer up to 50 per cent of their pension income to the other in order to lower their tax burden.
It’s immensely popular with reliable older voters, and any party that committed to getting rid of it would likely take a hit at the polls, which is why planting the idea that the Liberals want to scrap it could pay dividends.
Except the Liberals have clearly committed to not do that.
Last October, before the Canadian Association of Retired Persons’ (CARP) annual general meeting, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau had this to say:
“Let’s get this on the record once and for all: as much as the Conservatives might wish they had the power to control every piece of policy that comes out of Ottawa, they won’t be writing the Liberal party’s platform. We will not end pension income splitting for seniors.”
The Liberals repeated that point in May when, during one question period, Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre made the pension income splitting assertion six times.
Susan Eng, vice president of advocacy at CARP, told iPolitics Wednesday that while their members are quite up to speed on where parties stand on the subject, many others aren’t.
“CARP members will know that the Liberals are not attacking pension income splitting because Trudeau made that commitment at our AGM, but others will be misled,” she wrote.
The majority of pensioners probably didn’t see that Trudeau speech, and probably don’t spend too much time watching question period.
They’re likely seeing this ad, though.
People using the #sawanad hashtag, an admittedly very limited way of keeping track of Canadian political ads, started reported seeing it in late June.
Below are a few tweets.
#sawanad CPC attack ad on @JustinTrudeau using the fake line cutting income splitting for seniors. and cuts from clips. #cdnpoli
— Polly Ticks (@PTicks) June 28, 2015
#sawanad Sportsnet Angels vs NYY 10:30pm CT. Conservatives want me to think Trudeau is against *pension* income splitting too… eye roll.
— Mike F (@MikeFriesen10) July 1, 2015
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HOW DEMOCRACY DIES: LESSONS FROM THE RISE OF STRONGMAN IN WEAK STATES / THE ECONOMIST
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How democracy dies
Lessons from the rise of strongmen in weak states
The greatest risk to pluralism is in young democracies where checks and balances are not yet robust
IS DEMOCRACY in trouble? Nearly 30 years after Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history and the triumph of liberal democracy, this question is no longer outlandish. America, long a beacon of democracy, has a president who tramples on its norms. Xi Jinping is steering authoritarian China towards one-man rule. And across the emerging world, strongmen stride tall. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, having locked up or purged more than 200,000 Turks for political reasons, will probably prevail in elections that start on June 24th and assume sultan-like powers. Nicaragua’s regime is pulling out protesters’ toenails. Vladimir Putin is about to reap a huge propaganda coup from the World Cup.
Indices of the health of democracy show alarming deterioration since the financial crisis of 2007-08. One published by The Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister firm, has 89 countries regressing in 2017, compared with only 27 improving. Some surveys find that less than a third of young Americans think it is “essential” to live in a democracy. Small wonder that this year has seen a boom in books with frightening titles such as “How Democracy Ends” and “The People vs. Democracy”.
This pessimism should be put in context. It is a recent reversal after remarkable progress in the second half of the 20th century. In 1941 there were only a dozen democracies; by 2000 only eight countries had never held an election. A broad poll of 38 countries shows that typically four out of five people prefer to live in a democracy. And not all threats to pluralism are of the same order. In mature democracies such as America, strong checks and balances constrain even the most power-hungry president. In immature democracies, such institutions are weaker, so a strongman can undermine them quickly, often without much fuss. That is why the most worrying deterioration, going by both the number of countries and the speed of retreat, is in the fragile, young democracies of the emerging world. From Venezuela to Hungary, these reversals reveal striking similarities (see International section). That suggests reasons for optimism—as well as lessons for the West.
How to undermine a democracy
Put crudely, newish democracies are typically dismantled in four stages. First comes a genuine popular grievance with the status quo and, often, with the liberal elites who are in charge. Hungarians were buffeted by the financial crisis and then terrified by hordes of Syrian refugees passing through en route to Germany. Turkey’s pious Muslim majority felt sidelined by secular elites. Second, would-be strongmen identify enemies for angry voters to blame. Mr Putin talks of a Western conspiracy to humiliate Russia. President Nicolás Maduro blames America for Venezuela’s troubles; Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, blames George Soros for his country’s. Third, having won power by exploiting fear or discontent, strongmen chisel away at a free press, an impartial justice system and other institutions that form the “liberal” part of liberal democracy—all in the name of thwarting the enemies of the people. They accuse honest judges of malfeasance and replace them with stooges, or unleash tax inspectors on independent television stations and force their owners to sell.
This is the stage of “illiberal democracy”, where individual rights and the rule of law are undermined, but strongmen can still pretend to be democrats since they win free-ish elections. Eventually, in stage four, the erosion of liberal institutions leads to the death of democracy in all but name. Neutral election monitors are muzzled; opposition candidates locked up; districts gerrymandered; constitutions altered; and, in extreme cases, legislatures emasculated.
The battle is not always to the strongman
This process is neither inevitable nor incurable. India has had a vibrant democracy for 70 years; Botswana for more than 50. Deteriorations can be stopped and even reversed. In recent weeks Malaysians voted out Najib Razak and the UMNO party that had ruled since independence; protesters in Armenia broke a decade of one-party rule. Last December South Africans forced out President Jacob Zuma, a would-be strongman who let his cronies loot the state. Even Turkey is not doomed: opposition parties have a good chance of winning control of parliament this month.
It is hard to say which democracies are at risk. Economic stagnation and surges in immigration are often precursors of trouble. But they are neither necessary nor sufficient. Few would have predicted that democracy would totter in Poland, a booming economy with few immigrants that has benefited hugely from European Union membership. More important than the underlying conditions is the degree to which would-be autocrats learn from each other—how to spread fake news, squash pesky journalists and play the populist card. Their weaknesses are remarkably similar, too. From Malaysia to South Africa, strongmen have eventually been felled by popular revulsion at the scale of their corruption.
These similarities hold some lessons. The main one is that institutions matter. Western democracy-promotion has often focused on the quality of elections. In fact, independent judges and noisy journalists are democracy’s first line of defence. Donors and NGOs should redouble their efforts to support the rule of law and a free press, though autocrats will inevitably accuse those whom they help of being foreign agents. The second is that the reversals have been driven by opportunistic strongmen rather than the voters’ embrace of illiberal ideology. That ultimately makes these regimes brittle. When autocrats steal too brazenly, no censor can stop people from knowing—and sometimes booting them out. The last, more uncomfortable lesson is that the example set by mature democracies matters. America’s powerful institutions will constrain President Donald Trump at home. But they do not stop his contempt for democratic norms—the serial lying, the cosying with dictators—from giving cover to would-be autocrats.
Reports of the death of democracy are greatly exaggerated. But the least-bad system of government ever devised is in trouble. It needs defenders.
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Icelandic game company CEO says he prepared for Korean market for 20 years
Hilmar Petursson ‘proud’ as he launches Eve Online in Korea
By Lim Jeong-yeo
Published : Nov 14, 2019 - 19:20 Updated : Nov 14, 2019 - 19:41
BUSAN -- Icelandic game company CCP’s CEO Hilmar Petursson said at G-Star 2019 on Thursday that the launch of the Korean-language version of Eve Online was a 20-year dream come true.
CCP, acquired in 2018 by South Korean game company Pearl Abyss, officially launched the game in Korea concurrently with the opening of the annual game exhibition here.
Icelandic game company CCP’s CEO Hilmar Petursson (center) attends G-Star 2019 in Busan. (Lim Jeong-yeo/The Korea Herald)
“It’s a proud moment for all of us and especially for me, because I have been preparing for this moment for 20 years,” Petursson said during a press conference.
Petursson’s first encounter with a Korean game was with Nexon’s Kingdom of the Winds in 1999.
Ever since then, he has been following what’s going on in Korea.
“I have come to the conclusion that Korea is usually five years ahead of the West,” said Petursson. “Usually what I do is I take a look at what’s going on in Korea -- thinking it would become the reality for us later.”
It had always been a mission for CCP to bring its game to Korea, but the company had been shy to do so, as it considered Korean players to be too advanced, Petursson said.
“We are glad to have Pearl Abyss as our ally,” said the Icelandic CEO, adding that the two companies are working together closely to come up with more MMO developments.
Eve Online is an MMORPG set in outer space that aims to “make virtual reality more meaningful than real life.”
Petursson said space-oriented MMORPGs are enjoying wide appeal globally right now.
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France and England will be the two European countries where italo disco don't have very big success.
Who is responsible ? Media ? radio ? to TV ? Who are content to know what works in the charts in the United States to the detriment of Italian and German productions (with the exception of Modern talking action in the famous french TOP 50). France sends producers in Italy to build sound and press in place (including in Rimini) french titles that will have success (Jean Pierre Mader, Images, Laroche Valmont, Rose Laurens, Jeanne Mas). Some DJ's obtain the latest imports and try to discover the new sounds they are getting from distributors specialized at the time (Number One DJ and discobole in Lyon, and Disco Box in Bordeaux, etc.). But it is very difficult to make people dance because they listen all day long pop songs, rock and new wave Anglo-Saxon that are broadcast in high rotation on our FM, and this prevents the Italo Disco to evolve in France. Labels Italian Disco Magic, Memory records, American Disco, Time records, etc. Moon ray records. are usually small structures with low budgets. The titles are pressed in small quantities and enthusiasm for this style is that everything is changing at lightning speed. Lot's of records are created and are immediately replaced by other similare. All of this production at a rate of four years followed between 1984 and 1988
Today, Italo Disco is collected with interest, both discs of this period are rare and unique in their sounds at once "atmospheric" and "melancholy". Mexicans, Finns or the Japanese love this music. Extended version of some Italo Disco records are mostly very rare. This is the style that wins one of the strongest success in auction-sales sites. Some discs extremely rare as Gatsby "Love sign" or Ghery M, Ocean D "Love emotion" trades between 600 and 700 euros each ! In recent years, we are seeing a "revival" of some Italian Dance, a multitude of tubes of the mid 80\'s has been remixed. Valerie Dore "The night in 2003", Modern Talking "Remixes 98 and 99", Ken laszlo "Hey hey guy REMIX", not counting the group emerges as Master Blaster who are working to provide the flavor of the day titles as "Hypnotic Tango" of My Mine, "How old are you" by Miko Mission. In Italy, last summer, an evening gathering of famous artists like Dyva, Koto, Swan, etc.. was held in Montova in a nightclub. The conclusion was as follows: success with fans from all over the world ! ..
Nowdays, records labels such Flashback or Iventi azzuro continue to produce masterpieces (the reprint of "models" not pressed because lack of financial resources) and disseminate in the world their products. The best productions of recent months are Dyva "Clap again" Swan "Shining star", etc.. Highly sought by amateurs. What took the turn Italo Disco? Up 1993.1994, artists as Savage, Rose, Aleph, Novecento are still present, particularly in time records. But the sound has little changed and evolved. New artists arrived, always in Italy, such as Mabel, Eiffel 65, Gigi D'Agostino, whose successive tubes inspired by Italo disco but it's a new style called "Eurodance", somewhat different . The Italo Disco seems to have disappeared since 20 years, but one thing is sure ! Some artists continue to perpetuate this wave as well as possible, while others do and will only continue to be inspired by Italo Disco. No one can deny then, in 10 or 20 years that this style combining great melodies with sad tempos more or less sustained, marked the slice 1983 to 1988, and this music has left it’s mark for ever
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We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the Image Access GmbH. The use of the Internet pages of the Image Access GmbH is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.
The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the Image Access GmbH. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.
As the controller, the Image Access GmbH has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.
The data protection declaration of the Image Access GmbH is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.
Image Access GmbH
Hatzfelder Straße 161-163
Tel: + 49 202 270 58-0
Fax: + 49 202 270 58-40
www.imageaccess.de
The Internet pages of the Image Access GmbH use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
Through the use of cookies, the Image Access GmbH can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.
The website of the Image Access GmbH collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using these general data and information, the Image Access GmbH does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the Image Access GmbH analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
6. Subscription to our newsletters
On the website of the Image Access GmbH, users are given the opportunity to subscribe to our enterprise's newsletter. The input mask used for this purpose determines what personal data are transmitted, as well as when the newsletter is ordered from the controller.
The Image Access GmbH informs its customers and business partners regularly by means of a newsletter about enterprise offers. The enterprise's newsletter may only be received by the data subject if (1) the data subject has a valid e-mail address and (2) the data subject registers for the newsletter shipping. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address registered by a data subject for the first time for newsletter shipping, for legal reasons, in the double opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail is used to prove whether the owner of the e-mail address as the data subject is authorized to receive the newsletter.
During the registration for the newsletter, we also store the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject at the time of the registration, as well as the date and time of the registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand the (possible) misuse of the e-mail address of a data subject at a later date, and it therefore serves the aim of the legal protection of the controller.Bei der Anmeldung zum Newsletter speichern wir ferner die vom Internet-Service-Provider (ISP) vergebene IP-Adresse des von der betroffenen Person zum Zeitpunkt der Anmeldung verwendeten Computersystems sowie das Datum und die Uhrzeit der Anmeldung. Die Erhebung dieser Daten ist erforderlich, um den(möglichen) Missbrauch der E-Mail-Adresse einer betroffenen Person zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt nachvollziehen zu können und dient deshalb der rechtlichen Absicherung des für die Verarbeitung Verantwortlichen.
The newsletter of the Image Access GmbH contains so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in such e-mails, which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the Image Access GmbH may see if and when an e-mail was opened by a data subject, and which links in the e-mail were called up by data subjects.
Such personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analyzed by the controller in order to optimize the shipping of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the controller. The Image Access GmbH automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.
The website of the Image Access GmbH contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties with the exception of partners who are responsible for the respective sales region.
9. Comments function in the blog on the website
The Image Access GmbH offers users the possibility to leave individual comments on individual blog contributions on a blog, which is on the website of the controller. A blog is a web-based, publicly-accessible portal, through which one or more people called bloggers or web-bloggers may post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts. Blogposts may usually be commented by third parties.
If a data subject leaves a comment on the blog published on this website, the comments made by the data subject are also stored and published, as well as information on the date of the commentary and on the user's (pseudonym) chosen by the data subject. In addition, the IP address assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) to the data subject is also logged. This storage of the IP address takes place for security reasons, and in case the data subject violates the rights of third parties, or posts illegal content through a given comment. The storage of these personal data is, therefore, in the own interest of the data controller, so that he can exculpate in the event of an infringement. This collected personal data will not be passed to third parties, unless such a transfer is required by law or serves the aim of the defense of the data controller.
10. Subscription to comments in the blog on the website
The comments made in the blog of the Image Access GmbH may be subscribed to by third parties. In particular, there is the possibility that a commenter subscribes to the comments following his comments on a particular blog post.
If a data subject decides to subscribe to the option, the controller will send an automatic confirmation e-mail to check the double opt-in procedure as to whether the owner of the specified e-mail address decided in favor of this option. The option to subscribe to comments may be terminated at any time.
11. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Image Access GmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Image Access GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Image Access GmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the Image Access GmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Image Access GmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the Image Access GmbH.
The Image Access GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If the Image Access GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the Image Access GmbH to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the Image Access GmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Image Access GmbH for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Image Access GmbH. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, the Image Access GmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Image Access GmbH.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Image Access GmbH.
13. Data protection for applications and the application procedures
The data controller shall collect and process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of the processing of the application procedure. The processing may also be carried out electronically. This is the case, in particular, if an applicant submits corresponding application documents by e-mail or by means of a web form on the website to the controller. If the data controller concludes an employment contract with an applicant, the submitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with legal requirements. If no employment contract is concluded with the applicant by the controller, the application documents shall be automatically erased two months after notification of the refusal decision, provided that no other legitimate interests of the controller are opposed to the erasure. Other legitimate interest in this relation is, e.g. a burden of proof in a procedure under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the External Data Protection Officers that was developed in cooperation with the Media Law Lawyers from WBS-LAW.
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Angela's Kiss
by Kate Hill
Kindle B07RPY67BB 2.99
Author Page: Kate Hill
Christmas Eve, 1967. Two strangers united by mutual loss find the love they’ve been searching for.
After surviving captivity in a Vietnam prison camp, Master Sergeant Abraham Marley Fiske longs more than ever for a loving family life, but he doesn’t believe it’s in his future. Then a promise to a deceased friend sends him to the woman who can make his dream come true.
Since her brother was killed in Vietnam, Angela Franco has been caring for her young niece. She never expected to fall in love with her brother’s best friend, but when she meets Abe, she can’t ignore her feelings for him. Having lost her brother, will she now risk her heart by planning a future with Abe?
Note: Angela's Kiss was previously published as His Sister's Kiss. This is a re-edited version and contains additional scenes.
Oh goodness.
Angela Christine Franco stared at the six-foot-three-inch hunk of Marine. Deep set blue eyes gazed at her from beneath an almost primitive brow. Broad shoulders, set straight and proud, filled her doorway. Beneath the uniform, his powerful chest tapered to a lean waist and the longest legs she’d ever seen. Her heart fluttered, desire coursed through her, and her mouth went dry.
“Miss Franco? I’m Abraham Marley Fiske.” His deep voice made her toes curl and her body tingle in all the right places.
Guilt washed over her. Lust should be the last thought inspired by this man.
Two months ago, Angela had learned her brother, Jim, a gunnery sergeant in the Corps who had been missing in action in Vietnam, had died in a prison camp. Abraham, Jim’s good friend, had been with him at the time.
In spite of his handsome looks, captivity shone in the thinness of his big-boned frame and the scar above his right eye. Maybe that was why she hadn’t recognized him from the photos in Jim’s album. He’d been heavier in those pictures and certainly good-looking, but the man in person was even more attractive. Maybe it was the way he held her gaze. She instantly knew he was a man of strength and integrity.
She grasped the hand he extended and shook it. Warmth spread up her arm and her temperature rose from his touch. “Please come in.”
With a slight nod, he stepped into the hallway and followed her to the parlor.
“It’s good of you to come by,” she said.
“I’d hoped you wouldn’t object. Jim spoke so much about you and Polly that I almost feel I know you.”
Angela smiled. “I understand. He mentioned you many times. Are you up here visiting someone? You’re kind of far from the base in North Carolina.”
“I came to talk to you and Polly. I wanted to see for myself that you’re both all right and let you know you can depend on me for anything you might need.”
Angela drew a deep breath, thinking she needed to know if his lips felt as soft as they looked.
Damn you, Angela. Get a hold of yourself. It’s certainly not the first time you’ve seen a man in uniform.
But she’d never seen one quite like this. Virility oozed from his every pore. He emanated such power and authority.
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Home » Local » GAM rolls out mobile app to ease Amman Bus commute
GAM rolls out mobile app to ease Amman Bus commute
By Maria Weldali - Nov 20,2019 - Last updated at Nov 20,2019
AMMAN — The Amman Vision Transport Company, owned by the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), on Tuesday announced the launch of the new mobile application for “Amman Bus”, with the aim of providing additional services to passengers.
The app, available on both Android and iOS devices, provides information on bus routes, helps in trip planning, shows the nearest stops based on the user's location and includes route and bus updates, CEO at Amman Vision for Transport Hamza Haj Hasan told The Jordan Times on Wednesday.
“By downloading the application from the Google Play Store or Apple's App Store, passengers will be able to track the 27 routes in Amman and see the start points, end zones and the stops for the ride,” the CEO said.
Via the online payment service eFAWATEERcom, users will be able to make payments with credit and debit cards within a month, he said, adding that a card operations service is available for tracking balance information and transactions by typing the number of the card used for electronic payments.
“The application functions in Arabic and English to ensure that all potential users can benefit from the trip planning services,” Haj Hasan said.
According to the CEO, the primary objectives of the app are to facilitate trip planning, improve the efficiency of Amman Bus and enable users to pay online using the app’s built-in payment system.
He also noted that the app's Points of Interest service offers information on various attractions in Amman, especially for tourists.
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A checklist on where to eat and what to shop for.Profile Write startVarun Agarwal, 25, is the city’s flavour of the month for more than one reason. He is not only the cofounder of Alma Mater, which is a million dollar venture, but he has also just published his debut,A checklist on where to eat and what to shop for.ProfileWrite startVarun Agarwal, 25, is the city’s flavour of the month for more than one reason. He is not only the cofounder of Alma Mater, which is a million dollar venture, but he has also just published his debut novel How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company. Alma Mater is an online store that sells T-shirts and accessories of various premier schools and colleges in India.Commencing his online venture in 2009, what had started as an idea, with a trial run in his former school in Bangalore has since expanded to over 500 schools and colleges not only in India but across the world. The book is the young entrepreneur’s story in which the reluctant engineering graduate chronicles his journey to success. Varun says he finished the manuscript in eight days while recovering from a brief illness which kept him at home, and gave him the time to fast track the writing process.The book is a breezy work of nonfiction meant to inspire young people to follow their hearts rather than succumb to familial and societal expectations. Released recently by Rupa Publications, the book which was launched with a modest number of printed copies has already gone into reprint.(Varun Agarwal is an engineering graduate. He didn’t want to get a conventional corporate job and had to fight several odds before setting up his own company. His personal experiences inspire his debut book).-Ayesha AleemRestaurantadvertisementTake it easyLe Cristaal is the new hip joint in town for great continental cuisine. This chic new restaurant that has just opened its doors on Vittal Mallya road brings forth the idea of ‘casual fine dining’ and the menu is a mix of French, Italian and Greek cuisines, with the dishes being reasonably priced as well as delicious.The all-day deli has been designed to look like a Parisian cafe with dramatic red floors, stark black high gloss furniture and decals of chandeliers on the walls. On a pleasant day you can also sit at one of the tables outside to enjoy some sun and fresh air. Stop by in the morning for a breakfast of sunny side up eggs or an omelette with asparagus and goat’s cheese. There’s also the more familiar mushroom and cheese omelette as well as pancakes and waffles with either maple syrup, honey, nutella and seasonal fresh fruits. For lunch or dinner, try the penne arrabbiata with spinach ricotta ravioli and black olive tapenade or seafood risotto with saffron and roasted bell peppers.Get your caffeine fix with an espresso, cappuccino or cafe latte and choose from exotic teas like cranberry raspberry and elderflower or Earl Grey. Also, the mixologist here makes a mean line of foam-based cocktails.Average meal for two: Rs 1,000 plus taxes (without alcohol).At: 36, Vittal Mallya.Tel: 41462747.-Ayesha AleemWhat’s upAugust 10-19: Collective art showThe third edition of the premier art and culture festival, ‘Art Bengaluru’ will be on at The Collection at UB city this month. All works on display will also be for sale. An annual forum which brings together various stakeholders in Indian art, this year’s show will feature artworks from 15 art galleries across India.At: The Collection, UB City, 24 Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalore.Tel: 25001169.All through this month: Italian indulgenceGet out this weekend for an Italian style Sunday brunch at Bene. On offer are dishes like risotto with sun dried tomatoes and shaved parmesan, molten provolone cheese with marinated capsicum and grilled polenta cake with rosemary and balsamic vinegar.Price: Rs 1,295 plus taxes per person.At: Sheraton Bangalore Hotel, Brigade Gateway, 26/1, Dr. Rajkumar Road.Tel: 42521000.Ongoing till August 31: All that glittersAmrapali has now opened a new silver jewellery store in the city, where the Treta Yuga collection is on display. The collection features eight unique pieces that include ethnic, tribal, contemporary and antique pieces.Price: Rs 500 to Rs 2 00,000.At: Horizon Building, Wood Street, Richmond Road.Tel: 25361130.GadgetsNokia Lumia 610Nokia has launched the Lumia 610 to take on the onslaught from affordable Android smartphones. Featuring a 3.7 inch capacitive touch display, it runs the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system. It has a 256MB RAM and 8 GB storage onboard, with no expandable memory card slots. Unlike other Windows phones, the 610 is powered by an 800 Mhz processor and has a 5 MP ca era.Price: Rs 1,299.Karbonn Smart Tab 1It is Karbonn’s turn to launch an affordable tablet. Its Smart Tab 1 is a 7 inch tablet with five capacitive touch points. Running the Android Ice-Cream Sandwich OS, this tablet has a 1.2Ghz single core X-Burst processor, 2 MP camera, 3700 mAh battery and Full HD video playback. It has Wi-Fi compatibility and will support 3G connectivity using a USB dongle. Karbonn is giving a Reliance NetConnect free with the tablet.Price: Rs 6,990.Canon Cinemaeos C300 and 650DCanon India has entered the cinematography imaging domain in India with the launch of its Cinema EOS range consisting EOS C300, EOS C500 and EOS 1D-C. The EOS C300, featuring cinematic 2K video recording with 50Mbps 4:2:2 XF codec, a compact body and a 35mm equivalent CMOS sensor, will be the first to be available in India. Canon has also announced the launch of its new flagship entry-level DSLR, the EOS 650D. The 18 megapixel camera stands out for its high-speed sensor-based hybrid AF system and 3 inch touchscreen viewfinder which can be used to focus as well as shoot. The speed needed for the camera comes from the DIGIC 5 processor, which is six times faster than its predecessor.Price: Rs 13,90,000 and Rs 55,995 (body only).Sandisk SuiteThe new SanDisk Extreme Pro micro SDHC UHS-I card is the world’s fastest memory card, ideal for smartphone and tablet users. The SanDisk Extreme USB Flash Drive is USB 3.0 enabled and can store and share large files up to 10 times faster with speeds of up to 190MB. It is available in 16GB to 64GB capacities. The 128GB Cruzer Glide USB Flash Drive is SanDisk’s highest-capacity USB drive ever, while the Cruzer Facet is a durable drive with stainless-steel casing designed with a variety of rich vibrant colors and a faceted texture. The Cruzer Pop, meanwhile, has a unique design that opens with a “pop” and conceals and protects the connector when not in use.Price: Rs 283 onwards.Mitashi Full HD TVsMitashi Edutainment Pvt. Ltd has launched Full HD LCD and LED TVs in 42 and 32 inch screen sizes. The new range of televisions offer dynamic contrast ratio of up to 500,000:1 and a viewing angle of 178/178 and can play multimedia files directly from USB storage devices. 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New Delhi: Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Wednesday directed authorities to expedite promotions of Delhi government employees to fill posts and also streamline direct recruitment through a time-bound action plan.Baijal asked Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Dev to amend the recruitment rules wherever required within a fortnight. Directions were issued as the Lieutenant Governor reviewed the status of vacancies of various cadres. “Reviewed status of vacancies in various cadres of Delhi Government like Health, FSL & Delhi Fire Services. Directed to expedite promotions to fill post & streamline direct recruitment through a time bound action plan,” the Lt Governor tweeted. “Advised CS to amend RRs wherever required within a fortnight (sic),” he said. It comes close on the heels of the LG directing authorities to identify “tainted” officers and “compulsorily retire them”. The move is aimed at weeding out “deadwood” and “dark sheep”, and eliminate corruption and improve functioning of the government. read more
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Radiohead Bon Jovi LL Cool J Among 2018 Rock Hall Nominees
News Depeche Mode, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, the Meters, Kate Bush, and Nina Simone also make the list of nominees for the class of 2018Tim McPhateGRAMMYs Oct 5, 2017 – 7:21 am The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its class of 2018 nominees, which includes GRAMMY winners Bon Jovi, Radiohead, Eurythmics, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Dire Straits, LL Cool J, Judas Priest, and Rage Against The Machine. Radiohead, Bon Jovi, LL Cool J Among 2018 Rock Hall Nominees NETWORK ERRORCannot Contact ServerRELOAD YOUR SCREEN OR TRY SELECTING A DIFFERENT VIDEO May 15, 2017 – 1:50 am Judas Priest Win Best Metal Performance Who’s Nominated For The Rock Hall For 2018? radiohead-bon-jovi-ll-cool-j-among-2018-rock-hall-nominees Email Twitter Facebook Also making the nominee cut are Depeche Mode, Kate Bush, the Cars, J. Geils Band, MC5, the Meters, the Moody Blues, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Link Wray, and the Zombies. To be eligible, a nominee’s first single or album had to have been released in 1992 or earlier. The artists making their first appearance on the ballot include Radiohead, Bush, Dire Straits, Judas Priest, Nina Simone, Radiohead, and Rage Against The Machine, with the latter two appearing in their first year of eligibility.The class of 2018 will be announced in December. The 2018 induction ceremony is scheduled for April 14, 2018, at Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. For the sixth year in a row, the public can cast votes for the nominees they believe deserve induction via the hall’s website until Dec. 5. The top five acts will comprise the “fan’s ballot,” counting as one of the ballots that determine the class of 2018.Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Announces Solo Tour, Album Reissue read more
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ATT is creating a 5G hospital
Comment Now playing: Watch this: Share your voice 2:25 AT&T is locked in a race with Verizon and other network operators to move to the next-gen wireless technology as quickly as possible. Its 5G network went live in a dozen US cities last month, but you need a 5G-compatible phone to use it. Manufacturers are expected to start releasing 5G phones this year.AT&T also said Tuesday it’s installing a 5G network at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas — home of the Dallas Cowboys. The network will deliver new types of connected entertainment at the stadium, AT&T said.”5G is expected to alter the in-stadium experience in dramatic, exciting ways by blurring the physical and digital experience in ways that are simply not possible on today’s networks,” Igal Elbaz, AT&T’s senior vice president for wireless technology, said in a statement.The stadium’s 5G network is expected to be up and running in the coming months.5G is your next big upgrade: Everything you need to know about the 5G revolution.CES 2019: See all of CNET’s coverage of the year’s biggest tech show. 5G 4G LTE AT&T Verizon 5G, the next-gen wireless tech, is making a lot of promises. Improving health care is one of them.AT&T is helping telemedicine take a step forward by partnering with Rush University Medical Center to create the first 5G-enabled hospital in the US. The technology is expected to speed up network communications and reduce latency to help improve care at the Chicago hospital, AT&T said Tuesday.”Imagine a hospital where rooms are intelligently scheduled, patient care is enhanced with artificial intelligence and augmented reality is used in training medical students,” Mo Katibeh, AT&T Business’ chief marketing officer, said in a statement. “It sounds like the future, but it’s not that far off.”In addition to better speeds, responsiveness and coverage, 5G is seen as the foundation for a vast swath of new tech such as self-driving cars and virtual reality. It promises to make data speeds 10 to 100 times faster than the typical 4G LTE networks today.”We strongly believe 5G is a game-changing technology that when fully implemented will help us support better hospital operations as well as provide the highest quality patient and staff experience,” Dr. Shafiq Rab, chief information officer at Rush University Medical Center and the Rush System for Health, said in a statement. “High-speed, low-latency 5G technology will help enable care to be delivered virtually anywhere at any time.” 1 Tags The Future of 5G: Empowering people with disabilities Mobile Tech Industry read more
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New exploration shows parts of North Atlantic seabed were once above sea
Extending for 3,861 square miles (10,000 square km) just north east of the Orkney-Shetland Islands, and about 1.2 miles (almost 2 kilometers) beneath the surface, the undersea terrain appears to have once existed above sea level, forming an island. By examining data from echo-sounding technology employed by contractors working for oil companies, maps of the ocean floor were able to be made. The maps constructed are 3-D in nature, and thus are able to show not just the ocean floor, but what lies beneath; hence its use in looking for oil. In looking at the maps, the researchers were able to see that beneath the layers of silt and other assorted debris, was a lost land of sorts, one that had been pushed up by the Icelandic Plume, or expansion of the mantle due to the hot magma below.The images constructed were sharp enough to allow the researchers to identify ancient rivers and mountain peaks and even some fossils, all from some 56 million years ago. The images also suggest that the ocean floor rose in three distinct stages of about 200-400 m each, creating the island which they believe lasted for about a million years, before once again disappearing beneath the cold waters of the North Atlantic Sea. White describes the seascape as appearing for all the world like that of a modern landscape.The echo-technology used by the contractors involved releasing highly pressurized air beneath the surface of the sea, which produced sound waves capable of passing through the ocean floor sediment. When the sound waves eventually bounced back, they were captured by microphones dragged behind a boat and fed into a computer to produce the 3-D images.The initial research team followed up on the 3-D imagery by taking core samples, some of which contained pollen and coal, suggesting land-dwelling life once existed there. The Cambridge team also found fossils indicating there was also a marine environment at one time.The research team thinks that the now sunken landscape is part of a much bigger region that at one time merged with modern Scotland and may have reached all the way to Norway. © 2010 PhysOrg.com Citation: New exploration shows parts of North Atlantic seabed were once above sea level (2011, July 12) retrieved 18 August 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2011-07-exploration-north-atlantic-seabed-sea.html Explore further This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. UNH-NOAA ocean mapping expedition yields new insights into arctic depths More information: Transient convective uplift of an ancient buried landscape, Nature Geoscience (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1191AbstractSedimentary basins in the North Atlantic Ocean preserve a record of intermittent uplift during Cenozoic times. These variations in elevation are thought to result from temperature changes within the underlying Icelandic mantle plume. When parts of the European continental shelf were episodically lifted above sea level, new landscapes were carved by erosion, but these landscapes then subsided and were buried beneath marine sediments. Here, we use three-dimensional seismic data to reconstruct one of these ancient landscapes that formed off the northwest coast of Europe during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. We identify a drainage network within the landscape and, by modelling the profiles of individual rivers within this network, we reconstruct the history of surface uplift. We show that the landscape was lifted above sea level in a series of three discrete steps of 200–400 m each. After about 1 million years of subaerial exposure, this landscape was reburied. We use the magnitude and duration of uplift to constrain the temperature and velocity of a mantle-plume anomaly that drove landscape formation. We conclude that pulses of hot, chemically depleted, mantle material spread out radially beneath the lithospheric plate at velocities of ~35 cm yr−1. Image (c) R A Hartley et al./Nature Geoscience (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1191 (PhysOrg.com) — Using data obtained from oil searching contractors, researchers have discovered that parts of what is now the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland, were at one time raised up enough by thermal expansion beneath to have jutted at least 1 kilometer above the sea. Nicky White, senior researcher from the University of Cambridge and his team explain what they’ve found in their paper published in Nature Geoscience. read more
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‘Female Dj’s are no dolly birds!’ says DJane July Loop. Before this beauty hits Zerzura on 4 May, she gets candid with Millennium Post. Read on…Tell us a bit about yourself. Where did you start from?I am from Ukraine and working as a DJ from past 4 and a half years and have travelled across the world for work. I have played in countries like Switzerland, Italy, Poland, China, Korea, Turkey, Egypt and many more. I started my career as a DJ from my own city – Ukraine. Also Read – ‘Playing Jojo was emotionally exhausting’Where did the interest in music come in and the plans to become a DJ and go behind the console?I love listening to music and doing mixing. I was crazy about rock music since I was in my teens. I used to party a lot with my friends. One of my DJ friends taught me how to play, but at that time it was just a hobby. But now music has become a part of my life and I can’t live without music and crazy people on the dance floor.Tell us about what made it for you. Also Read – Leslie doing new comedy special with NetflixMy never-ending love for music and the crazy grooving people on the dance floor. I mark a success for myself when I make the entire crowd in the venue dance like crazy on the beats I play. I will always remember the big artists I have worked with like Tara Mcdonald, Armin van Buuren, Dj Ralvero, Ottawan etc. They really helped me to reach where I have. Tell us about making it big – was it a long journey and a tough struggle?In the beginning of my career I used to play in small parties, usually a pre-party. It wasn’t a long journey for me because I got my first break to work with a well known DJ from London. It was my first assignment abroad in Istanbul. I played warm up for him. After the show we worked together for almost one month and I at that moment understood what is really to be a DJ. Is it harder to be a female DJ as compared to your male counterparts?Female DJ’s were largely regarded as a gimmick, a ‘dolly bird’ to gaze at and to be taken seriously, as someone who might actually know how to present music, was almost an impossibility. People in various countries have different mindsets. Some people don’t believe that a female DJ can play and take a party on a high. They look at me or my photo and think I am just a model standing near the console. I love facing the challenges and with these people I love breaking of that stereotype thoughts. Usually, after my party, people come to me and say: Wow you really can play!!! What are the essential ingredients needed to become a DJ?You should love music and have an ability of sensing the crowd’s music requirements. Sometimes the taste of the crowd is far different from yours, at that moment you need to change your preferences and need to adapt according to the crowd.Is this your first visit to India? What sort of reaction are you expecting from Delhi?It is my third trip to India. I have heard that the Delhi crowd is the most energetic crowd. I am expecting a lot from the Delhiites. I want to drive my crowd crazy with my beats. Earlier Delhi crowd was only open to Bollywood and commercial music. But now with the increase of music knowledge among Delhiites the preferences has been changed. People are better informed now and they also enjoy all the genres of music. Tell us what tops your playlist right now – the top tracks on it…The top tracks on my playlists are: Baauer – Harlem Shake; Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop; Pitbull and Christina Aguilera – Feel This Moment. read more
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Communities flee eruption at Guatemalas Volcano of Fire
<< Previous PostNext Post >> Tuesday, November 20, 2018 By: The Associated Press Communities flee eruption at Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire GUATEMALA CITY — About 4,000 residents fled Guatemala’s volcano of Fire Monday as red-hot rock and ash spewed into the sky and cascaded down the slopes toward an area devastated by a deadly eruption earlier this year.Guatemala’s volcanology unit said that explosions from the 12,300-foot (3,763-meter) high mountain shook homes with “constant sounds similar to a train locomotive.”Incandescent material burst as high as 1,000 metres (3,200 feet) above the crater and flows of hot rock and ash extended nearly 2 miles (3 kilometres) down one flank of the volcano. Hot blasts of pyroclastic material pushed down canyons on the slopes, while a column of ash rose nearly 23,000 feet (7,000 metres) above sea level and drifted toward Guatemala City to the east.Hundreds of families heeded the call of disaster co-ordination authorities to evacuate 10 communities, piling into yellow school buses for trips to shelters. The national disaster commission said 3,925 people had been evacuated by early Monday. As the hours passed, however, the intensity of the volcano’s activity decreased and many decided to return to their homes or seek shelter with friends or family.More news: A new low for no-frills flying: easyJet assigns backless seat to passengerThe Volcano of Fire is one of the most active in Central America and an eruption in June killed 194 people. Another 234 are officially missing, although organizations supporting the communities have insisted there are thousands of missing persons.It spewed more ash and hot rock in October, prompting warnings for the nearby communities.The biggest danger from the volcano are lahars, a mixture of ash, rock, mud and debris, that can bury entire towns. On Monday, there had been no reports of such flows reaching populated areas, though authorities were taking no chances; they were harshly criticized for not calling for evacuations earlier in June.Four shelters have been set up for evacuees. Dora Caal, 26, and five members of her family took refuge under a nylon tent at a sports stadium in the nearby town of Escuintla.“Last night we heard the volcano roar, you could see fire, we couldn’t sleep,” said Caal, whose town of El Rodeo was largely evacuated.More news: Virgin Voyages de-activates Quebec accounts at FirstMates agent portal“At dawn we said we’d better get out, we were afraid,” Caal said as the sun beat down fiercely at the improvised shelter. People like Caal are still reeling from the effects of the June eruption.“Back then I lost my job at a farm that was on the slopes of the volcano. They closed it and we can’t work there anymore,” she said.Enma Hernandez, 42, left her home in El Rodeo to evacuate, but her 20-year-old son stayed behind to protect the family home from looters. In fact, many men stayed behind in the town; there were mainly women and children at the shelter. Tags: Guatemala, Volcano Share read more
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Trafalgars 20202021 Asia Program includes nine new itineraries
<< Previous PostNext Post >> Tags: Asia, Trafalgar Posted by Thursday, July 25, 2019 TORONTO — Nine new trips have been unveiled as part of Trafalgar’s 2020/2021 Asia program, bringing its total offering in the region to 32 trips across nine countries.“We are so excited to be unlocking more of Asia in 2020/2021, with our nine new trips being a reflection of how much our clients love exploring Asia with Trafalgar,” said Janice Farnum, the brand’s Director of Product for Asia and Africa. “With four nights in each destination, one of my personal favourites, which I know clients will love, is our new Saigon and Bangkok Explorer. They can settle into the rhythms of these iconic cities and really feel like a local – which is what we’re all about.”New additions include the ‘Saigon and Bangkok Explorer’, which is part of the company’s ‘City Explorer’ series. Available as a nine-day standalone trip or with a three-day Phuket extension, this trip includes a ‘Be My Guest’ experience featuring a farm-to-table lunch on an organic farm outside Ho Chi Minh, and a factory visit to learn about the silk industry.More news: Sunwing offers ultimate package deal ahead of YXU flights to SNU, PUJAlso new is ‘Colourful India – Celebrate Holi’ featuring Diwali, the Festival of Light. Guests will don traditional attire and join a local family to take part in the ‘puja’, a sacred ritual and offering to Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth.Trafalgar is also extending its ‘Be My guest’ series to include a brand new Japanese Kaiseki and Tea Experience, during which clients will participate in a Yamato tea drinking ceremony with a local family.Moreover, the company continues to stay true to its commitment to using travel as a force for good by including at least one ‘JoinTrafalgar’ experience on every Asia itinerary. These experiences allow clients to make a meaningful difference in the places they visit, and include a performance by a group of blind youth musicians, which supports the Ho Chi Minh Blind Centre that provides training for the visually impaired.“With the colours of Holi, our incredible ‘Be My Guests,’ our wonderful Travel Directors and experiences that ignite the senses, Trafalgar Asia 2020/2021 offers more for clients than ever before. With JoinTrafalgar initiatives on all our Asia itineraries, I’m proud we can enable clients to make a positive impact in the places we visit. It’s a travel experience you cannot get elsewhere,” added Farnum. Travelweek Group Share Trafalgar’s 2020/2021 Asia Program includes nine new itineraries read more
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Woman with new coronavirus quarantined in Thailand, 1st case outside China
A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus, authorities said on Monday, the first time it has been detected outside China.
Thai authorities are stepping up monitoring at airports ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, beginning on Jan. 25, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists are expected to visit.
A 61-year-old man died from pneumonia, a symptom of the disease, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of the yet to be identified virus.
In total, 41 cases of pneumonia have been reported in China, which preliminary lab tests cited by Chinese state media show could be from a new type of coronavirus.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infections ranging from the common cold to SARS. Some of the virus types cause less serious disease, while some like the one that causes MERS, are far more severe.
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said on Monday seven of the 41 had been discharged and six were in a serious condition.
The Thai Health Ministry said on Monday that of 12 passengers quarantined since Jan. 3, lab results show that a 61-year-old Chinese woman carried a strain of the coronavirus.
The woman, who was quarantined on Wednesday, had received treatment and was well enough to return home, the ministry said.
“Being able to identify a patient shows that there is efficiency in our monitoring system. We are confident that we can manage the situation,” Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters.
Officials in China and Thailand are working with the World Health Organization.
Members of emergency response staff leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market linked to the viral outbreak in the city of Wuhan on Jan. 11 (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty)
The Chinese outbreak appeared to be linked to a single seafood market in Wuhan and had not so far spread beyond there, the WHO said.
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Approximate characterization of the multiple description rate region
A multiple description (MD) source coder generates a set of binary streams or descriptions of a source sequence, each with its own rate constraint. It is important in applications requiring robust communication, as well as in distributed storage systems. For the former case, the transmission medium may deliver some or all of the descriptions to the decoder due to unacceptable congestion or channel failure. The design objective is to give distortion guarantees if only some of the descriptions are delivered. In the latter application, one user may have access to only some of the servers, and the quality of reconstruction will depend on how many and which servers the user can access.
The fundamental problem here is to characterize the tuple of admissible rates and distortions for each subset of descriptions. This problem has been open since the late 1970s and even the K-description Gaussian problem, for K>2, is unresolved. The only complete characterization is for the two-description Gaussian source with quadratic distortion constraints.
We make progress on the MD problem by giving an approximate characterization of the rate-distortion region for the Gaussian quadratic source. Given an arbitrary number of descriptions, we first focus on symmetric distortion constraints problem. We show that the rate region can be sandwiched between two polytopes with matching hyperplanes, between which the gap can be upper bounded by constants dependent on the number of descriptions, but independent of the exact distortion constraints. Underlying this result is an exact characterization of a lossless multi-level source coding problem: a lossless counterpart of MD problem. This connection helps by giving a polytopic template for the rate region, helping with both the inner and outer bounds. For the outer bound we introduce a new technique which requires a strategic expansion of the original probability space by more than one random variables. As a consequence of this result, for the symmetric rate case with any number of descriptions, it can be shown that the gap between upper bound and lower bound for the individual description rate is no larger than 0.92 bit.
The result also suggests that a very simple architecture is almost optimal (within approximately 1.5 bit per description) for the Gaussian quadratic case. The architecture is that one can cascade a standard layered (hierarchical) source coder with a lossless multi-level coder. Therefore, underlying this is the understanding of the lossless multi-level source coding problem. A more sophisticated scheme involving multi-layered quantization and binning (a slight generalization of the scheme proposed by Pradhan, Puri and Ramchandran, IT Trans., 2005) can improve this constant in the approximate characterization to the aforementioned 0.92 bit. For the gap is even smaller for smaller number of descriptions, for example, for K=3, the gaps are upper bounded by 0.7296 and 0.3821, respectively.
The symmetric lossless multi-level problem was introduced by Roche and Yeung (IEEE Trans. IT, 1997) and was completely solved by Yeung and Zhang (IEEE Trans. IT, 1999). The problem asks for exact (lossless) reconstruction of a set of sources depending on the available set of descriptions. The reconstruction depends only on the number of successful description and not on the actual subset. Therefore, this problem is closely matched to a symmetric version of the multiple description problem. We formulate the asymmetric multi-level problem, in which the reconstruction depends on the successful subset of descriptions and not just on the cardinality (number of descriptions). We have a complete characterization of the rate region for this problem for the three-description case. Interestingly, this result shows that, unlike the symmetric case, the optimal scheme requires us to strategically partition and combine independent sources. The combination of the specifically chosen parts of the independent sources, or “mixing” of them, is very much like “network coding”. Using this result we also have an approximate characterization of the entire rate region for the three-description Gaussian multiple description problem, where like the symmetric couterpart, we show that the entire rate region can be sandwiched between two polytopes with matching hyperplanes, between which the gap can be upper bounded by constant independent of the exact distortion constraints.
S. Mohajer, C. Tian, and S. N. Diggavi, "Asymmetric Multilevel Diversity Coding and Gaussian Multiple Descriptions," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 9, pp. 4367-4387, 2010.
Download: asymmd.pdf on Arxiv
This paper introduces the asymmetric multi-level lossless data compression problem and gives a complete characterization for the three-description version. It then uses insights from this characterization to provide an approximate characterization for the 3-description asymmetric multiple description problem.
C. Tian, S. Mohajer, and S. N. Diggavi, "Approximating the Gaussian Multiple Description Rate Region Under Symmetric Distortion," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, iss. 8, pp. 3869-3891, 2009.
Download: approximatemdregion.pdf on Arxiv
Approximately solves symmetric Gaussian multiple description problem to within a bit, by sandwiching the MD rate region between two polytopes separated by at most a fraction of a bit.
C. Tian, S. Mohajer, and S N. Diggavi, "Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, 2008, pp. 1413-1417.
S. Mohajer, C. Tian, and S. N. Diggavi, "Asymmetric Gaussian Multiple Descriptions and Asymmetric Multilevel Diversity Coding," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, 2008, pp. 1992-1996.
C. Tian, S. Mohajer, and S. N. Diggavi, "On the symmetric Gaussian multiple description rate-distortion function," in Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, 2008, pp. 412-421.
S. Mohajer, C. Tian, and S. N. Diggavi, "Asymmetric Multilevel Diversity Coding," in Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, 2008, pp. 402-411.
C. Tian, S. Mohajer, and S. N. Diggavi, "On the Gaussian $K$-description problem under symmetric distortion constraints," in Proc. Information Theory and Applications Workshop, UCSD, San Diego, California, 2008, pp. 401-406.
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Netflix and Nickelodeon collaborate on original programming
Netflix and Nickelodeon to produce original animated feature films and television series
Netflix and Nickelodeon today announced that they have formed a new, multi-year output deal to produce original animated feature films and television series - based both on the Nickelodeon library of characters as well as all-new IP - for kids and families around the world.
This marks an expansion of the existing relationship between the companies, which has already brought several popular titles to Netflix, including animated specials Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling and Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus. Also forthcoming are specials based on The Loud House and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
“Nickelodeon has generated scores of characters that kids love, and we look forward to telling wholly original stories that re-imagine and expand on the worlds they inhabit,” said Netflix vice president of original animation, Melissa Cobb. “We’re thrilled to continue collaborating with Brian Robbins, Ramsey Naito, and the creative team at Nickelodeon in new ways as we look to find fresh voices and bring bold stories to our global audience on Netflix.”
“Nickelodeon’s next step forward is to keep expanding beyond linear platforms, and our broader content partnership with Netflix is a key path toward that goal,” said Brian Robbins, President, Nickelodeon.
He added, “The Nickelodeon Animation Studio is home to the world-class artists and storytellers behind some of the most iconic characters and shows ever made, and our head of Animation, Ramsey Naito, has been building on that legacy over the past year by ramping up development and production exponentially. The ideas and work at our Studio are flowing, and we can’t wait to work with Melissa and the Netflix team on a premium slate of original animated content for kids and families around the world.”
Netflix Animation supports the global community of storytellers across all genres, tones, and techniques. The upcoming 2019 animated slate includes family animated feature film Klaus from Sergio Pablos (streaming November 15), kids animated series Dino Girl Gauko from Japan (streaming November 22), adult animated film I Lost My Body from Jérémy Clapin (streaming November 29), and Fast & Furious Spy Racers from DreamWorks (streaming December 26), among others.
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Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical Link Under Various Attenuation Effects
Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages: 43-47
Received: Dec. 17, 2017; Accepted: Jan. 8, 2018; Published: Mar. 27, 2018
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Gaurav Soni, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amritsar College of Engineering & Technology, Amritsar, India
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Free Space Optics (FSO) is useful where a fiber optic cable is impractical. It is similar to fiber optic communications in that data is transmitted by modulated laser light. Instead of containing the pulses of light with in a glass fiber, these are transmitted in a narrow beam through the atmosphere. This article discusses the main architectural details of the FSO communication system.. The major FSO Parameters discussed are wavelength selection, features of different wavelength windows and optical channel model. The article investigates the Performance of Free Space Optical Link under Various Attenuation Effects like rain, fog using Optiwave.
Free Space Optics (FSO), Attenuation, Rain Attenuation
Gaurav Soni, Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical Link Under Various Attenuation Effects, Science Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2018, pp. 43-47. doi: 10.11648/j.cssp.20180702.11
Anshul Vats, Hemani Kaushal “Analysis of free space optical link in turbulent atmosphere” Optik, Volume 125, 2014, Pages 2776–2779.
Mazin Ali A. Ali, “Analysis of Data Rate for Free Space Optical Communications System” International Journal of Electronics & Communication Technology (IJECT), Vol. 5, Issue Spl-1, Jan - March 2014, ISSN: 2230-7109 (Online) | ISSN: 2230-9543 (Print), Pages 20-23.
Mazin Ali Abd Ali, Miami Abdulatteef Mohammed, “Effect of Atmospheric Attenuation on Laser Communications for Visible and Infrared Wavelengths” Journal of Al-Nahrain University, Vol. 16 (3), September, 2013, Pages 133-140.
Mazin Ali Abd Ali, “Free Space Lasers Propagation at Different Weather Conditions” Al Mustansiriyah J. Sci, Vol. 23, No 2, 2012, Pages 81-90.
F. Nadeem, T. Javornik, E. Leitgeb, V. Kvicera, G. Kandus, “Continental Fog Attenuation Empirical Relationship from Measured Visibility Data” Radio engineering, Vol. 19, NO. 4, December 2010, Pages 596-600.
Martin Grabner, Vaclav Kvicera, “Experimental Study of Atmospheric Visibility and Optical Wave Attenuation for Free-Space Optics Communications” Pages 1-4.
M. Tatarko, Ľ. Ovseník and J. Turán, “Availability and Reliability of FSO Links Estimated from Visibility” Carpathian Journal of Electronic and Computer Engineering Vol. 5, 2012, ISSN 1844 – 9689, Pages 121-126.
Ghassemlooy, Z. and Popoola, W. O. “Terrestial Free Space Optical Communications” 2010, Pages 355-394, Salma Ait Fares and Fumiyuki Adachi (Ed.) “Mobile and Wireless Communications Network Layer and Circuit Level Design”, ISBN: 978-953-307-042-1, InTech, January, 2010, Pages 404.
N. Kaur, G. Soni, "Performance analysis of inter-satellite optical wireless communication (IsOWC) system at 980 nm and 1550 nm wavelengths", International Conference on Contemporary Computing & Informatics (IC3I), pp. 1245-1250, 2014.
Gaurav Soni, "A Performance Analysis of Free-Space Optical Link at 1550 nm 850 nm 650 nm and 532 nm Optical Wavelengths", Journal of Optical Communications, January 2017.
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Lesbians, Swords, Inspiration, YA SciFi, Little Steven
L Word: the complete third season starring Pam Grier. Revisit the tightly-knit circle of freinds in Los Angeles' lesbian community as they struggle to make sense of a world filled with love, children, tattoos, families, weddings, funerals, the 'c-word', and sometimes even men.
The first and second season of L-Word check out pretty well so I figure I'll end up getting all the seasons.
Little Steven's Underground Garage
Episode 399: Thanksgiving '09. I'm listening to last Saturday's show. Songs with "bird" are being featured, including Morris Day and The Beatles. You'll likely need to log in first to listen.
Eldest by Christopher Paolini. 20 CDs at 23 hours, 27 minutes. Maybe this is a replacement.
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Not sure where this came from, I thought we had it already.
Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. How do you steal lightning? Listen and let me know. No, don't let me know. I don't really care.
Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan. Oh. This is that series with Gods and demigods and other mythological stuff thrown into the present day with teenaged characters.
Feed by M.T. Anderson. I read this for the high school's book club. The next book club meeting is discussing something like Pride and Prejudice so I won't be there unless I read the zombie version.
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Dead author, Wisconsin author, Pickling
Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels. I misread this title at Deadly Seals. Now that would be a novel. Maybe the seals could fight crocodiles.
First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher. Part of a series. The guy on the cover is a Roman-legionnaire-looking-dude with a flaming sword.
Breathless by Dean Koontz. Koontz writes another novel with a dog in it. The dog silhouette on the cover looks like an Irish Wolfhound. The flyleaf says I am right.
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton. A tale of violence in 1665 in the Caribbean that, according to the flyleaf, was finished before Crichton keeled over.
Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh. I use to to read all of Wambaugh's Southern California cop novels. Then Wambaugh started to focus on non-fiction and I just never got back into his novels.
Against Medical Advice: one family's struggle with an agonizing medical mystery by James Patterson and Hal Friedman.
Imperial Cruise: a secret history of empire and war by James Bradley. Story of the ambassadorial cruise by Secretary of War William Howard Taft in 1905. The secret agreements of which helped start the trouble that led to World War Two.
Here's the Deal: don't touch me by Howie Mandel. I have never thought he was that funny.
Surviving a Layoff: a week-be-week guide to getting your life back together by Lita Epstein, MBA.
The Joy of Pickling: 250 flavor-packed recipes for vegetables and more from the garden or market, revised edition by Linda Ziedrich. Books on food preservation checkout pretty well here.
Knock'Em Dead Resumes, 8th edition by Martin Yate, C.P.C.
Advanced Home Wiring, 2nd edition by [corporate author]. Don't kill yourself.
Barbie, the First 50 Years:1959 through 1989 and beyond: identification and value guide, 3rd Edition by Stefanie Deutsch and Bettina Dorfmann. I flipped through this and saw the Barbie Ferrari. I'm not sure if I ever heard that John Hiatt song or not.
Cranberry Bread (for Me), Sarah Palin (for You)
Cranberry Bread
Carolyn made cranberry bread.
I made coffee.
I Told You I Was Freaky by Flight of the Conchords. Kiwis sings songs. I watched part of an episode of their show. It was boring. Stephanie the Library Assistant said she likes the show.
Southern Voice by Tim McGraw. Guy in hat and white t-shirt sings songs.
Kiss and Tell by Selena Gomez. Disney Channel "tweener" sings songs.
Ghost Written Fiction
The Wrecker by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Cussler is admirable in giving the other guy credit.
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson. Patterson is also good about giving ghost writers credit. But, no one else is listed on the cover or the LOC cataloging info so I suppose he did this one himself.
Ghost Written NonFiction
Going Rogue: an American life by Sarah Palin. What's the deal with her former son-in-law to-be? That guy's behavior has been sleazy. I thought about being "snarky" and listing this under Ghost Written Fiction. Hey, it is a political memoir after all.
Last Song by Nichols Sparks. 11 CDs at 12 hours. Yuch.
A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve. 8 CDs at 9 hours. My first reaction is "Yuch." Hhowever, the novel is set in Africa and Mount Kenya so my second reaction is, "Eh."
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. 14 Cds at 17.5 hours. I tell my kids, "If you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all." I should follow my own advice.
More people should try out Teddy Thompson. We have three of his CDs.
The like the full band version better but could not embed it.
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Voice for Pest, a provider of phone solutions for the pest management industry, announced that Raymond Kidwell, former vice president of administration for McCall Service, has joined the company’s business development team.
LabelSDS.com has appointed Chip Hughes as president and CEO. The pest control industry veteran has over 33 years of experience in the pest control industry from owning and managing a pest control company, to working in the sales management position at a pest product distribution firm, to working as a national product specialist for a pest product manufacturer.
Truly Nolen Pest Control promoted Chris Clemente to manager of the company’s new Venice, Fla., service office. Clemente joined Truly Nolen in 2005 and was most recently the company’s Fort Myers service office assistant manager. Truly Nolen also announced the promotion of Rochelle Daniels to manager of the company’s brand new Estero (Fla.) service office at 11680 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Unit 401.
Neighborly recently announced the appointment of Brian Best as the company’s senior vice president, digital, a new position on Neighborly’s executive marketing team. In his new role, Best will report directly to Neighborly Chief Marketing Officer Lisa Zoellner and will be responsible for overseeing the digital strategy and road map for Neighborly.
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Mural Guide
The Worldwide Online Museum for Mural Art
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Mural-Guide.com is the worldwide online museum for mural art. Murals are large-scale artworks that are directly painted on walls and become part of buildings and their architecture. Murals allow art to leave museums and galleries and to live in the public sphere. They are open for everyone and can be found on public buildings like schools, universities and hospitals. They are often expressing the individuality of a community, its concerns and hopes.
On the mural map you will find an overview of murals in your own city, in cities close by or far away in other countries. Each mural is described in detail, contains a photo gallery and a short biography of the artist. Our collection contains murals that are not completely open to the public because they are located in private areas like restaurants, hotels or business foyers. You will find permanent artworks as well as temporary projects. In our archive section you will also find murals that have been destroyed and therefore cannot be visited in the real world any more. They live on in the worldwide online museum for mural art.
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Michael Avenatti Makes Appearance on Tucker Carlson, And It Was Explosive! -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on September 14, 2018 and it was explosive, Avenatti, biggest dick on television, cable news, Carlson, chyron, crazy, creepy porn lawyer, creepy porn president, fox news, Fox's bat-shit-crazy primetime, I have no interest in name calling, liar, lied, lies, Michael Avenatti makes appearance on Tucker Carlson, Micheal Avenatti, morals, obnoxious, porn star, proved him wrong, rude, Stormy Daniels, Tucker, Tucker Carlson, Tucker lied, Tucker said that he was going to play nice, tv, video, would never have the balls to appear on his show Donald Trump, Entertainment, Fox News, great news, hypocrisy, Misogyny, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Resist, Right Wing Hatred, Right wing lies, Trump administration, Trump hatred, Trump lies, Trump supporters, Uncategorized, Videos
Avenatti definitely landed some big punches. But Tucker Carlson proved once again that he is the biggest dick on television. Seriously. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has been railing against Michael Avenatti for months. On his show, he only refers to Avenatti as the “creepy porn lawyer.” And he has repeatedly said that Avenatti would never […]
Watch This Stunning Video Of Tucker Carlson Repeating White Supremacist Talking Points -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on September 11, 2018 Bakari Sellers, Carlson, CNN, diversity, entertainment, fox news, hatred, how precisely is diversity our strength, major problem with diversity, Media Matters, racist, racists, same exact rhetoric, Sellers, share no common values, stunning, Tucker, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson is a racist, Tucker repeating the exact rhetoric of known white supremacists, twitter, video, watch this stunning video of Tucker Carlson repeating white supremacist talking points, white nationalists, white supremacists, widely criticized on social media Conservatives, Entertainment, Fox News, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, race relations, racism, Right Wing Hatred, Trump supporters, Uncategorized, Videos
I don’t think there’s any question that Fox’s Tucker Carlson is a racist. But seeing him side by side with white supremacists, repeating the same exact rhetoric is stunning. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has a major problem with diversity. He hates it. And he makes his feelings known about it in nearly every show. And […]
Tucker Carlson Completely Loses His Sh*t On Democratic Candidate ‘Interview Over!’ -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on May 16, 2018 being polite hasn't made our schools any safer, cable news, campaign ad, Carlson, Carlson completely lost his cool, Carlson just screaming at the Dem, critic of the NRA, Democrat, Democratic candidate, entertainment, F-bomb, F*ck the NRA, former cop, fox news, fuck the NRA, funny, gun control, gun violence, he couldn't handle the truth, humor, interview, Interview over, nastier and nastier, NRA, partisan politics, quickly devolved, Tucker, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson completely loses his sh*t on Democratic candidate, Tucker screaming, video, you don't know what you're talking about, your priorities are all wrong Conservatives, Democrats, Elections, Entertainment, Fox News, gun control, Humor, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Resist, Right Wing Hatred, Uncategorized, Videos
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson interviewed a Democratic candidate who ran an ad that said “F*ck the NRA.” And it quickly devolved into Tucker screaming at the Dem and abruptly cutting the interview off when he couldn’t handle the truth. “Interview over!” On Tuesday night, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson interviewed Democratic candidate from New Mexico Pat […]
Shepard Smith Slams Fox’s Primetime Lineup, ‘Opinion Hosts Have No Rules’
By Mindy Fischer on March 16, 2018 cable news, Carlson, Daniel D'Addario, entertainment, facts, fake news, Fox just renewed a multi-year contract with him, fox news, Hannity, he doesn't fit in at the network at all, I've never really liked politics, Ingraham, Laura Ingraham, network, news, opinion, opinion hosts have no rules, opinion programming is there strictly to be entertainment, people he works with are full of shit, real news, reports the truth, Sean Hannity, Shep Smith, Shepard Smith, Shepard Smith slams Fox's primetime lineup, Smith, they don't really have rules, Time Magazine, Tucker Carlson, tv, we serve different masters Entertainment, Fox News, GOP, great news, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Resist, Right wing lies, Trump lies, Trump supporters, Uncategorized
Fox News’ Shepard Smith slams fellow Fox hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham. “Some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining.” It’s still a mystery why Shepard Smith works at Fox News. He actually reports the truth. So he doesn’t fit in at the network at all. And Smith knows that […]
In Bizarre Segment Fox’s Tucker Carlson Says Wage Gap Doesn’t Exist And The Real Victims Are Men -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on March 8, 2018 an attack on masculinity, boys, Carlson, entertainment, equal rights, equal rights for women, equality, female, fox news, gender gap, honoring women, how tough it is to be a white male, in bizarre segment Fox's Tucker Carlson says wage gap doesn't exist and the real victims are men, insidious, Jordan Peterson, male, men, men are becoming less male, men are doing worse than women, misogyny, oppressors, paying them fairly, Peterson, radical left, recognizing the contributions women have made in our history, school, sexist, something ominous is happening to men in America, toxic masculinity, Tucker Carlson, video, war on women, women, Women's history month Conservative Logic, Conservatives, Entertainment, Fox News, history, Misogyny, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Republicans, Resist, Right Wing Hatred, Right wing lies, Uncategorized, Videos, Women's issues, women's rights
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Tucker Carlson is doing a new weekly segment about men in America. According to Tucker, men are the real victims and women are the oppressors in this country. On Wednesday night, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson interviewed Dr. Jordan Peterson. And the conversation was all about how tough it is in […]
Democratic Congressman Makes Tucker Carlson Look Like A Complete Fool On His Own Show -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on November 3, 2017 argument, cable news, Carlson, Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, Democratic Congressman makes Tucker Carlson look like a complete fool, Democrats, entertainment, foreign policy adviser, Fox, fox news, Fox News host, he just got owned, he's an obnoxious jackass would be a serious understatement, heated exchange, idiotic, interrupted, it was ugly to watch, Maloney, Paul Manafort, press, right-wing media, rude, Russia, talk about the indictments, the crazy den, Tucker, Tucker came unglued, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson's show on Fox, Tucker's lies and rudeness, tv, TV shows, video Congress, Democrats, Entertainment, Fox News, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Right Wing Hatred, Right wing lies, Videos
Watch this clip to the end. This is what Tucker Carlson does when he gets confronted with the truth. And it ain’t pretty. But it is kinda fun to see him come unglued because he just got owned. I can understand why not many Democrats want to go on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox. To […]
Tucker Carlson Loses It After Analyst Calls Him A ‘Nazi Sympathizer’ -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on July 12, 2017 Carlson, compared me to a Nazi, cozy up to Putin, defend Russia, defend Trump, far-right extremist, Fox, fox news, he also sounds insane, he assassinates dissidents and journalists, he's a killer, Hitler, insane, lost his shit, Nazi apologist, Nazi sympathizer, Peters, Putin, Ralph Peters, Russia, somebody who makes apologies for Hitler, trying to kill ISIS, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson loses it after analyst calls him a Nazi sympathizer, Vladimir Putin, you sound like Charles Lindbergh Conservatives, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Republican Logic, Right wing lies, Trump lies, Videos
“You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 saying, “Hitler hasn’t attacked us.”” Tucker Carlson is the new ratings star on Fox News. He’s a far-right extremist. And apparently there’s absolutely nothing that Trump could do that Carlson won’t defend. On Tuesday night Carlson had Conservative analyst Col. Ralph Peters on his show. And it didn’t […]
Bill Nye The Science Guy Humiliates Fox News Host Over Climate Change -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on March 1, 2017 Bill Nye, Bill Nye the science guy, Bill Nye the science guy humiliates Fox News host over climate change, Carlson, climate change, cognitive dissonance, fox news, Fox News host, he had an open mind, heated interview, human effect on climate, leaks, looked like a rude fool, Nye, obnoxious bully thing, raving lunatic, rude bully, Trump, Tucker Carlson climate change, Conservatives, Fox News, Right wing lies, Videos
Bill Nye the Science Guy schooled Tucker Carlson on climate change. And then the Fox News host lost his shit. On Monday night, Bill Nye appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News. And the two men talked climate change. But, as the heated interview went on, Carlson turned into a raving lunatic. Earlier on […]
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Mitchell News Blog
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Clinton Leads Sanders by 15%
Contact Steve Mitchell – (248) 891-2414
Clinton Leads Sanders by 15% – Lead Narrows to 7% With Biden in Three-way
(Clinton 35% – Biden 28% – Sanders 22%)
EAST LANSING, Michigan — Although former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (50%) has a majority of the vote in a two-way trial ballot test against Senator Bernie Sanders (35%), she has serious problems in Michigan if Vice President Joe Biden decides to enter the race according to a Mitchell-FOX 2 Detroit Poll of Michigan. The automated survey of 538 likely March 2016 Michigan Democratic Presidential Primary voters was conducted by Mitchell Research & Communications September 18, 2015, two nights after the CNN Republican debate featuring the top 11 GOP candidates. The poll has a Margin of Error of + or – 4.2%.
“Hillary Clinton has a comfortable lead over Bernie Sanders, but if Joe Biden gets into the race, and I think he will, it changes everything. Even though Biden has yet to announce, he only trails Clinton by 7%, a very small margin. The slow drip, drip, drip of negative publicity caused by the use of her own email system while secretary of state has clearly caused a steady erosion in her popularity. Looking at our Michigan polling as well as national polling, I now believe that Clinton will not be the Democratic nominee and that if Vice President Biden enters the race, he will win, ”Steve Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell Research & Communications said.
First, a look at the two-way contest between Clinton and Sanders:
By age:
Sanders leads with voters under 50 by 48%-33%
Clinton leads 65%-23% with voters over 50.
Mitchell/FOX 2 Detroit Poll of Democrats Page 2 of 3
Sanders leads with men 52%-40%.
Clinton leads with women 48%-30%.
By race:
The race is tied with white voters at 43%.
Clinton has a huge 71%-5% lead with African-Americans.
By area:
In Detroit, Clinton leads 69%-0%.
In Wayne County outside Detroit, Clinton leads 49%-42%.
In Oakland, Clinton leads 59%-28%.
In Macomb, Clinton leads 46%-32%.
In Saginaw, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Midland, the Thumb, Clinton leads 43%-21%.
In Washtenaw, Monroe, Mid-Michigan, Sanders leads 51%-41%.
In West Michigan, Clinton leads 50%-35%.
In Northern MI/Upper Peninsula, Clinton leads 55%-42%.
In a three-way contest between Clinton, Sanders and Biden:
Clinton and Sanders are tied at 31% with Biden at 21% among18-39 year olds.
Sanders (26%) has a slight lead over Biden (23%) and Clinton (22%) with 40-49 year olds.
Clinton leads Biden and Sanders (47%-29%-18%) with voters 50-59.
Clinton leads Biden and Sanders by a narrower margin with voter 60-69 (35%-28%-18%).
Biden leads Clinton and Sanders with 70+ voters (43%-42%-7%).
Sanders and Clinton are tied at 31% with Biden at 21% among men.
Clinton (33%) leads Biden (23%) and Sanders (19%) among women.
Clinton (31%) leads Sanders (27%) and Biden (25%) with whites.
Clinton (40%) leads Biden (36%) and Sanders (5%) with African-Americans.
In Detroit, Biden (54%) has a big lead over Clinton (29%) and Sanders (0%).
In Wayne County outside Detroit, Sanders (37%) leads Clinton (34%) and Biden (22%).
In Oakland, Clinton (52%) has a big lead over Biden (16%) and Sanders (10%).
In Macomb, Clinton (59%) has a big lead over Biden (14%) and Sanders (9%).
In Saginaw, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Midland, the Thumb, it is a statistical tie between Clinton (24%), Biden (22%) and Sanders (21%).
In Washtenaw, Monroe, Mid-Michigan, Sanders (33%) has a small lead over Clinton (31%) with Biden (22%) trailing in third.
In West Michigan, Biden (42%) has a 12 point lead over Clinton (30%) with Sanders (16%) trailing.
In Northern MI/Upper Peninsula, Biden (34%) leads Clinton (29%) and Sanders (29%).
“Each of the candidates has pockets of strength, but it has to be stressed that Biden makes the race very close despite the fact he has not announced,” Mitchell concluded.
(The survey must be referred to as a Mitchell/FOX 2 Detroit Poll)
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Trump Leads with GOP Primary Voters in MI
September 19, 2015 Contact: Steve Mitchell – (248) 891-2414
Trump Leads with GOP Primary Voters in Michigan
(Trump 26% – Carson 21% – Fiorina 12% – Rubio 11%)
EAST LANSING, Michigan — Donald Trump is leading his Republican challengers among those who would vote in the Michigan GOP Presidential Primary next year according to a Mitchell-FOX 2 Detroit Poll of Michigan conducted last night. Trump with 26% leads Carson at 21% with Carly Fiorina in third with 12% and Marco Rubio in fourth with 11%. Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz are tied for fifth at 6%. Mike Huckabee, Scott Walker, and John Kasich are all in the low single digits. 11% of likely Republican Primary Voters were undecided.
The automated survey of 700 likely March 2016 Michigan Republican Presidential Primary voters was conducted by Mitchell Research & Communications September 18, 2015, two nights after the CNN debate featuring the top 9 candidates. The Poll has a Margin of Error of + or – 3.7%.
“Trump has a solid lead in Michigan with likely voters in next year’s Republican Primary, but he does not have the overwhelming lead here that he has in other states. With so many candidates splitting up the vote now, the question remains as to whether or not Trump will gain support as the field eventually gets smaller, or whether those voters who support more traditional candidates will support anybody but Trump,” Steve Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell Research & Communications, Inc. said.
Fiorina was overwhelmingly regarded as the winner of the CNN debate last Wednesday with 36% calling her the winner of the 9 way debate. Trump at 17% was second followed by Ben Carson at 13%, Marco Rubio scored 8%, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz both came in at 3%, John Kasich got 2%, Mike Huckabee 1%, and finally 0% of those surveyed said Scott Walker was the winner. 18% of the GOP Primary voters were undecided. “Fiorina had a strong debate performance. However, that has not yet translated into a major uptick in her support amongst likely Michigan Republican Primary Voters. That could be due to the fact she is still a largely unknown candidate at this stage in the race,” concluded Mitchell.
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Aug 10 Sept 18
Trump 20% 26%
Carson 12% 21%
Fiorina 15% 12%
Rubio 10% 11%
Bush 12% 6%
Cruz 8% 6%
Kasich 8% 4%
Huckabee 4% 2%
Walker 4% 1%
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Fiorina N/A 36%
Rubio 14% 8%
Bush 5% 3%
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Rubio Leads Clinton by 9% in MI; Bush tied with Clinton
AUGUST 20, 2015 Contact: Steve Mitchell 248-891-2414
Rubio Leads Clinton by 9% in Michigan Trump and Bush tied with Clinton
EAST LANSING, Mich. —Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has opened up a 9 percent lead over presumptive Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (45%-36%) while both Jeb Bush (41%-40%) and Donald Trump (40%-39%) have a narrow 1 per cent lead, well within the margin of error of the latest Mitchell-FOX 2 Michigan Poll. The poll of N=1,310 likely voters in the 2016 General Election was conducted Monday night August 10, 2015, the night before Donald Trump spoke at a packed Republican Party rally in Birch Run, by Mitchell Research & Communications and has a Margin of Error of + or – 2.7% at the 95% level of confidence.
“There are several important pieces of information in this poll: First, Hillary Clinton’s negative publicity has hurt her with Democrats, independents, women and younger voters. Second, the new face of Marco Rubio is much stronger at this point than either the new face of Donald Trump or the old name of Jeb Bush. Third, Trump is for real as a presidential candidate, he is polling as well as Jeb Bush, the brother and son of a Republican president and clearly the establishment candidate in Michigan,” Steve Mitchell, president of Mitchell Research & Communications said. As is usually the case, the Republicans lead with white voters while Clinton leads with non-white voters, especially African-Americans who comprised 14% of the sample.
Some of the crosstabs are very interesting; By party: Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush both get 12% of the Democratic vote while Trump gets 15%. Rubio is strongest with Republicans getting 87% of the vote to Bush’s 81% and Trump’s 71%. However, the percentage of undecided Republicans is much higher with Trump (25%) than with Rubio (9%) and Bush (16%). Rubio leads with the key independent voters by 20% (48%-27%) while Bush leads by 11% (35%-24%) and Trump is tied (40%-40%).
“Clinton has a real problem with Democrats where she is giving up between 12%-15% of the vote to Republicans. Meanwhile, she is getting only 4% of the Republican vote against Rubio and Bush and 5% against Trump. She is also doing poorly among independents where she trails 11%-20% with Bush and Rubio and where she is tied with Trump,” Mitchell said.
By gender: Clinton is much weaker that one would think among women voters. She only leads by 4% against Bush and 5% against Rubio. Against Trump, she leads by 13%. With men, Rubio leads by 24%, Trump by 15%, and Bush by only 3%.
“With the most traditional candidate, Bush, there is very little difference by gender. However, there are much greater differences among Rubio and Trump voters. The appeal Rubio has is with men voters while holding the margin close with women. The percentage of undecided men, the voters most likely to vote for a Republican, is higher with men than women in all three trial ballot tests; with Bush, there are 6% more undecided men than women, with Rubio there are 8% more, and with Trump 9% more undecided men than women. Undecided men are far more likely to end up voting Republican than undecided women,” Mitchell continued.
There are huge differences by age: · While Rubio leads by 21% with 18-39 year olds, Bush is only up 1% and Trump trails by 20%. · However, with 40-49 year olds, Trump leads Clinton by 12%, Rubio by 9%, while Bush trails by 16%. · All three Republicans are strong with 50-59 year olds. Rubio and Trump are up by 27% and Bush by 21%. · All three trail with 60-69 year olds. Trump is down by 21%, Rubio by 9% and Bush by 8%. · All three GOP candidates are behind with 60-69 year olds. Again, Trump is behind by a bigger margin, 15%, while Bush trails by 6% and Rubio by just 2%.
“There is great volatility by age, especially with young voters. Rubio is strongest with young voters, especially 18-39 year olds, while Trump does well with 40-49 year olds. However, Trump has a long way to go with the youngest block of voters where he does 40% worse than Rubio. Normally, younger voters are more likely to support Democratic voters,” Mitchell said.
There are also differences by area: · Clinton leads by 90% in Detroit over all three Republicans. · In Wayne County outside Detroit, Rubio (+27%) and Trump (+25%) have strong leads while Bush trails Clinton (-7%). In Oakland, Rubio leads (+25%) by a wide margin, Trump (+6%) by a much narrower margin, while Bush (-6%) trails. In Macomb, all three GOP candidates lead by large margins; Rubio by 43%, Bush by 39%, and Trump by 30%. The big difference in Trump’s percentages is the much higher percentage of undecided voters, 26% for him as opposed to14% for Bush vs. Clinton and 7% for Rubio vs. Clinton. All three Republicans are strong in Lansing/Jackson/Mid-Michigan where Trump leads by 23%, Bush by 20%, and Rubio by 18%. In West Michigan, Rubio is up 18%, Bush 13%, and Trump and Clinton are tied. In Northern Michigan/Upper Peninsula, Rubio (+6%) and Bush (+4%) are ahead by small margins while Trump (-20%) is behind by a large margin.
“Just as we saw with gender, party affiliation, and age, there are big differences in the path Republicans can take to try to win Michigan. One thing is very clear; at this time Hillary Clinton is a weakened candidate,” Mitchell concluded. [The poll was conducted by Mitchell Research for FOX 2 Detroit and was not commissioned or paid for by any of the candidates or by any organizations supporting any of the candidates.]
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Patience. Trust. Context. Three easy words to say (and write) but which are elusive after days like yesterday
20th August 2017 By Connor Southwell 15 Comments
I love Norwich City.
Like countless others, I travel countless miles away from home to witness thumping upon thumping. I haven’t seen Norwich win on the road since Nottingham Forest in 2016.
The humiliations test your devotion; sometimes they even make you question your sanity. My sister’s ears take a bashing regularly as I rant over the disparity of what I have witnessed. When we drew at Rotherham, it took me two hours before I spoke.
This love is often disregarded and rubbished by non-footballing fans who suggest a more cultured hobby, but nothing gives me a thrill like boarding a bright orange coach to visit to obscure places of the country.
What I adore so much about this club is the breadth and depth of its demographic. Generations grace the terraces, all with individual stories, but with one overriding similarity: an unconditional love for Norwich City.
Another similarity is the need to buy into this new regime.
I’m proud to associate with a club that is fan owned and has arguably the most inclusive, supportive and switched-on fan base around. However, like every club, there are a few who seem dead set on changing that image by spouting nonsense.
Not everybody is a football expert, and I definitely don’t claim to be, but calling for the head of a manager (or coach) four games in is quite frankly ridiculous. Fortunately, this is a minute minority.
When we win we’re going to win the league; when we don’t we’re going down. There is no middle ground and that’s incredibly frustrating yet predictable – and understandable.
Nothing beats that elation of winning. The pure pandemonium of when the ball hits the back of the net. And nothing hurts more than the deflation of a defeat.
Following the mauling received by a winless Aston Villa, fans have let forth anger, frustration and criticism on all corners of the playing and management, and quite rightly too.
I could type 800+ words about the need for patience and time, but quite simply if the players aren’t going to turn up for 45 minutes, then those aforementioned qualities aren’t going to be in evidence. This entire football club needs an education but also a reality check.
This is a new team, a new era consisting of several new and unrehearsed components. Players who have entered a new country and culture. Adaptation is going to happen. Norwich have all the ingredients for a Mary Berry cake, but are yet to produce that final product. And do you know what? That’s okay.
People seem keen to criticise. Again, that’s fine. People are permissible to respond to games, results and decisions in whichever way they perceive right, but context is still needed.
Cast your minds back to last season. Norwich sprinted out of the blocks like Usain Bolt, destroying all competition in their path, maybe not in an attractive or destructive manner, but they were winning games. But much like Bolt they pulled up early.
Prior to that infamous self-implosion at St James Park, Norwich sat top of this division. We finished eighth. This slow start is a side effect of a high turnover of squad and a team still gelling with each other.
Expectation is good, and dreaming is imperative; it’s all part of the make-up of being a football supporter. But no team have ever adjusted to a new philosophy effortlessly, and teething problems were inevitable. David Wagner had half a season to implement his philosophy on Huddersfield.
But what comes with expectation is pressure and impatience. I understand the desire for this club to thrive and prosper, believe me – nobody wants this club in the Premier League more than myself. However, the reality is, this is a marathon, and one which will almost definitely continue beyond this campaign. Dream yes, but contextualise too. Four games in, there are ten months to go.
You may wish to rationalise or theorise about why Norwich haven’t entered top gear sooner but the fact is there have been reasons to be cheerful, and that in itself is a positive. Trust is needed, along with the obvious calls for patience and time. There must be a genuine belief that the hierarchy of the club have a clear plan of how to get Norwich back to the rags and riches of the Premier League. You only have to read Mick Dennis’ article on the owners to know there is a plan.
I’m not criticising supporters, nor am I ‘happy clapping’.
I’m simply asking for calm and a shift of thinking. Vendettas against the same players have continued, message-boards are flooded with negativity following a defeat and radio phone-ins seem as disillusioned as ever. We are all better as one, and whilst I accept this is an impossible task, we have to attempt to create an overriding feeling of positivity.
Yet booing at home in the debut game of the campaign is moronic and belittling chances of victory on release of a team-sheet is equally depressing. This was supposed to be a brand new era, wasn’t it?
Yet the fractures are still evident, and that’s also true of City’s fragmented defence.
Supporters can dream but this frenetic league will see Norwich defeat impressive opponents and fall on the sword to teams that less adroit. This is a project and, whilst I understand watching a team grow and develop is time consuming and difficult to grasp, it can be rewarding.
Lambert’s teams of 2009 through to 2012 powered through the leagues and were my greatest years of supporting this club. What was achieved was something we won’t see for a while, if ever. But this gelling period is natural and expected. I know it’s uncomfortable and perplexing but go with it, give it 15-20 games and revaluate.
’m sure it’ll all be okay. The ingredients are on the table.
I understand as a fan base we’ve felt disconnect and are sceptical of change is natural, but this could be a prosperous period. Criticism of defeat is justified but time is required. This is the beginning of a very gruelling and harsh journey, but once you’ve boarded the rollercoaster, you might as well ride it.
Part of me wishes we’d of received a setback in pre-season.
Contextualise. Patience. Trust.
Filed Under: Column, Connor Southwell
Alex B says
I full agree with all that is written in the above article and as I said in a previous comment patient is a virtue and some city supporters are already proving that they have no patients.
I also mentioned that some commenters in the EDP yesterday (Phil) had already given the season up and stated that he wouldn’t be buying his season ticket next season, if that is his thoughts sell it now to someone that is on the waiting list who might have more constructive comments.
Living in Lancashire I only get to see games local to this area and when I travel to Gt Yarmouth am never able to get tickets to home games, I have to hope that the bbc and EDP online reports during game are faithful to whats happening in the game.
With all the games so close together Farke and his backroom team must be having a nightmare trying to sort out the defensive problems along with injuries and adjusting to a new country/league so all the impatient and embittered supporters think how long it took you to settle into a new job then think of all the other difficulties they face.
David Bowers says
The biggest issue I have is that we’re being asked for patience, but we’re not being offered anything in return.
With McNally we had a 5 year plan with very specific goals, culminating in us in the Prem. From Webber/the board I’ve only heard “we need 3-4 windows to sort out the squad”.
Okay. In the meantime, what? We’re just aiming to stay in the league? Go up this year? What’s the goal? Throw us a line.
Because if Webber is saying that we won’t have a legitimate run at promotion for 24 months, I’m not sure I can get behind that. There’s not many jobs you can walk into not commit to any improvement for two years. Maybe he has, behind closed doors. But I think the fans deserve to be told how good does Webber really think this team is and have we really gone backwards?
Stewart Lewis says
20th August 2017 at 10:40 pm
Dave: I thought you’d read the interviews Steve Stone and Stuart Webber gave us back in May. Apparently, though, you either missed them or have forgotten. The good news: they’re still there to look at, and discover many of the answers to your questions. Stuart Webber has most definitely said more than “we need 3-4 windows to sort out the squad”.
21st August 2017 at 7:21 am
I read both interviews. I don’t remember any goals being set as to when we will be promoted and I remember specifically looking for that. Happy to be corrected.
Daniel Smith says
21st August 2017 at 12:58 pm
It’s important to remember that McNally’s “7 year” plan didn’t exactly get off to a flyer. We lost 7-1 to Colchester, drew 1-1 with Exeter, lost 2-1 to Brentford, won 5-2 over Wycombe, won 2-0 over Hartlepool, drew 0-0 with Walsall, lost 2-1 to MK Dons, drew 2-2 to Charlton, drew 1-1 with Gillingham and won 4-0 over Leyton Orient. 13 points from 30. Funnily enough, that was another overhaul of players etc.
Why the farke did he change a winning team and leave nelson out farke seems to me to be like neil fishing all season and not knowing his best team,our defence is no better than last season,i really fear for the worst and by the way sign 2 more players and try not to loan them out again
Sorry Paul, but if you read the reports, Nelson was injured, Wes is NOT able to play 2 games in 4 days and I guess Maddison was also being rested. Pinto missed a lot of pre season and Klose is still coming back from injury.
I’m happy to give the new regime time.
Paul: As revealed after the game, Nelson had a groin injury. On Saturday morning they didn’t think he could be involved at all, but after treatment he said he could be on the bench and come on if required.
Most message boards and social media sites (especially Twitter) are pure echo chambers. A lot of the users will spout the same vitriol they know their followers will adhere to, whether it’s justified or not. They seem more content with people liking their comment, than the substance of what they’ve said.
All of us were frustrated with the result. However, we all need to understand that this project will take time before it clicks. I fully believe it will.
There’s a real lack of balance in our support base. It’s quite refreshing to see someone someone young offering it. Well done, Connor.
Dave H says
Daniel’s written my thoughts exactly. For those reasons I more or less keep away from reading fan comments on Social Media & I’ve never listened to Canary Call. I find this site generally reliable for a balanced view.
Cyprus canary says
21st August 2017 at 10:19 am
Often in life we aim high and don’t quite achieve the goals we set, but please remember if you don’t aim high you achieve even less. The rebuilding of this club to its full potential will take time but the aim for the season has to be promotion because the financial consequences of less will make the task even harder in future. I agree that slating individuals is the wrong way which is why I prefer this site to the local press. However, if the criticism is fair and reasonably accurate then that should be acceptable. So far the defending has been poor and if people think the cure is a change of personnel then that is a reasonable comment. I would be in that category and would like to see some new, preferably experienced and British, signings in that area. I also believe we need a similar addition to the backroom staff. I continue to support the changes and although I hate roller coasters I am enjoying some parts of the ride.
Nick. N. says
Where exactly, are these ‘obscure places of the country’, that the Canaries visit?
Just a thought?????
MGW says
Norfolk!
Connor Southwell says
21st August 2017 at 8:36 pm
I meant obscure as, I wouldn’t visit them, the Wigan’s and Hull’s of this world?.
Surely we must rank as the most preached at supporters in the country. Never a day goes by without somebody telling us we must be patient, or criticising in some or way. After two miserable years of failure is it really any wonder to anyone why patience is in short supply?
Change, we are told, is what we were all clamouring for. Yes, we got change. However not the change a good number of us were hoping for,
A wily German coach is our last hope it seems, can he make silk purses out of cheap sows ears?
Since January we have flogged off Olsson, Brady, Canos, Rudd, Murphy, Dorrans, Howson, raking in. Cool 30 million pounds sterling plus. In addition many high earners have been dispensed with, sell out crowds hVe continued, new sponsorship deals have been announced, parachute payments hVe been received. That’s since JANUARY!
Very little expenditure has gone the other way, in fact, we still aren’t comfortable that the asset stripping has finished. Early signs are that we have got precisely what we paid for in terms of the new intake. It would seem that next years wage bill is the most pressing concern for the board and stockpiling money to accommodate the ordinary running of the club the objective.
Having seen Farke in the flesh, he comes across as a thinker, a skilled technician, a decent man. I would hate to see him carry the can for any failures this season.
You be as patient as you like, you justify every sale and tell yourself the team has benefitted from the removal of a Howson or a Murphy, that’s your prerogative. The right of every supporter is to make his or her mind up and while most still hold fire on venturing opinions be in no doubt the clock is ticking and an immediate improvement is necessary.
Failure this season will bring into sharp focus the role of the ownership and board in the clubs decline and the pressure will start to mount. It simply has to.
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Bellamy Road's All Squared Away comes into his own
All Squared Away was all alone at the wire of the Lexington
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If ever there was a bargain basement horse gone right, it’s All Squared Away. The three-year-old Bellamy Road gelding, who cost a mere $1000 as a yearling, came from behind to blow away a cast of 10 other high-priced contenders to win today’s Coolmore Lexington Stakes-G3 at Keeneland at odds of 70-1. Beaten in his wake were the highly regarded Southwest Stakes winner Castaway (9th) as well as the previously undefeated Summer Front, who finished second.
All Squared Away’s victory in the prestigious mile-and-a-sixteenth contest was only his second in nine starts, but it was his first effort under the tutelage of red-hot Keeneland trainer Wesley Ward, who took over the reins from West Coast conditioner Peter Miller, part-owner of the gelding in partnership with Altamira Racing Stable and Wire to Wire Racing. With his winner’s take from the Lexington, All Squared Away more than tripled his previous earnings, and has now amassed a bank account of $164,180.
All Squared Away raced in California until mid-March, when he was shipped east to compete in the Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park, in which he finished sixth to Went The Day Well. As a two-year-old, he had failed to break his maiden in $30,000 to $40,000 claiming company, at distances from four-and-a-half to six furlongs, but stepped up to win in wire-to-wire fashion in his first start at three, a mile-and-a-sixteenth maiden special weight contest over the synthetic track at Golden Gate Field.
Based on both his race and sales record, it would appear that All Squared Away is a bit of a late bloomer. The first foal from his unraced dam, Squared, by Posse, he was a $3000 weanling at Keeneland November, but brought but a third of that when he was pinhooked at the following year’s Fasig-Tipton October venue. Squared herself was sold for $2000 at the 2009 Keeneland November sale, in foal to Eurosilver, and subsequently exported to South Korea.
All Squared Away becomes the first graded stakes winner in the first three generations of his female family, and the fifth graded stakes winner for Bellamy Road, a son of the Kinsman Stud bred and raced Concerto, a multiple graded stakes winner by Intermediate/Solid Chef-de-Race Chief’s Crown.
Bellamy Road had a short but sparkling career on the track, and is perhaps best known for his dominating 17-length victory in the Wood Memorial, in which he equaled the Aqueduct track record for a mile and an eighth (1:47.16). Favored in the Kentucky Derby, he finished a tiring seventh, some 18 lengths behind Giacomo, and was subsequently found to have sustained a splint injury. In what would be his final race, Bellamy Road was a courageous second to Flower Alley in the Travers, but that effort aggravated his prior injuries, and after an unsuccessful comeback attempt at four, he was retired to stud. All Squared Away is a member of his second crop.
Bellamy Road sired seven stakes winners from his first crop, including his top earner Toby’s Corner (out of Brandons Ride, by Mr. Frisky), who emulated his sire by winning the Wood Memorial; he has also placed in two stakes so far this year. His other graded stakes winners are both fillies who excelled at Saratoga: Adirondack winner Position Limit and last year’s Schuylerville heroine, Georgie’s Angel.
There seems to be a common thread in the pedigrees of All Squared Away, Toby’s Corner, and Position Limit in that all three have at least one cross of Intermediate/Classic Chef-de-Race Damascus in their first four generations. All Squared Away’s second dam, Second Degree, is by Time for A Change (by Damascus), while Toby’s Corner’s dam, Brandons Ride, is a granddaughter of Marsayas (by Damascus). Interestingly, Position Limit is inbred to Arabian Dancer (by Damascus), the dam of her maternal grandsire, Out of Place, and also the fourth dam of Bellamy Road himself.
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Silver Max runs to his pedigree
Silver Max winning the Transylvania-G3 at Keeneland
Photo: Coady Photography, Courtesy of Keeneland
Silver Max burst out of the gate in the Grade III grassy Transylvania yesterday, and never looked back until he cleared the finish line. His six rivals seemed content to let the three-year-old Badge of Silver colt gallop loose on the lead in the early part of the mile-and-a-sixteenth contest, apparently believing either that they would catch him on the turn or that he’d falter in the stretch.
By the time they figured out that Silver Max wouldn’t easily relinquish his advantage, there wasn’t enough time to reach him. He won by five and a half lengths in 1:41.80 and earned $60,000 for the effort, capturing his first stakes race and the first added-money event of the Keeneland spring meet on a beautiful opening day.
Silver Max could have been claimed for $50,000 in his career debut: a five-and-a-half furlong maiden race on Saratoga’s main track last July, when he was piloted by Robby Albarado, the jockey who rode him to victory yesterday. He finished second that day, as he did in his next four attempts in maiden special weight company at varying distances on the grass, finally breaking his maiden in a one-mile maiden special weight race over firm turf at Gulfstream Park in January.
Two weeks later, Silver Max ambitiously encountered some of the best colts of his crop in the Grade III Holy Bull, where he finished a tiring fifth over a sloppy mile to Bernardini’s Algorithms, who decisively defeated last year’s Two-Year-Old Champion, Hansen.
Trainer Dale Romans wisely regrouped and ran Silver Max back to his strength six weeks later in a grassy allowance/optional claimer at the Transylvania distance, and he ran as he did yesterday, winning in wire-to-wire style by three widening lengths at Gulfstream. The bay colt has now won or placed in eight of his nine starts, and bankrolled $169,475.
That’s a nice return on the $20,000 that Dale Romans paid for him at the 2010 Fasig-Tipton July sale. Silver Max is the fifth foal and third winner from the winning Kissin Kris mare, Kissin Rene, a half-sister to graded stakes-winning Prince of the Mt. and to the dams of Canadian Champion Kiss a Native and Grade I stakes winner and sire Yes It’s True. Kissin Rene has also produced the stakes-winning filly, True Kiss, by Yes It’s True’s sire, Is It True.
Silver Max’s female family had been a relatively quiet one until his third dam, the Colorado-bred Party Date (by the obscure Speedy Frank) was bred to Prince of Ascot, and then it exploded. The resulting foal was Silver Max’s second dam, Monique Rene, a tough Louisiana-bred stakes-winning sprint specialist who notched 29 races in 45 starts while earning $456,250. Her descendants appear to have inherited her speed, and perhaps, her distance limitations.
With his victory in the Transylvania, Silver Max became the second North American graded stakes winner for his sire, the fourth-crop Silver Deputy stallion Badge of Silver, a fast, versatile performer who was effective in elite company on both dirt and turf at middle distances up to nine furlongs, capturing the Grade II New Orleans (dirt) and San Gabriel (turf) Handicaps in the colors of Ken and Sarah Ramsey. At four, and again at six, he placed in the Cigar Mile-G1, and in his penultimate start, he was third to Turf Champion Miesque’s Approval in the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Mile. He stands at Airdrie for a published fee of $6,000.
Like Badge of Silver’s son, Fly Lexis Fly, a two-time Grade I winner in Peru who is currently being pointed to the Belmont, Silver Max is inbred to Classic Chef-de-Race Roberto, 4 x 4. Badge of Silver’s dam, Silveroo, is a daughter of Roberto’s son, Silver Hawk, while Silver Max’s broodmare sire, Kissin Kris, is also by Roberto.
True Nicks rates the match that produced Silver Max as an A++, and indeed, there is precedent for the cross. Among the other stakes winners that have been bred on a similar pattern are the stakes-winning fillies Beso Grande (by Mass Media) and Devonspaintedlady (by Devon Deputy), both out of Kissin Kris mares. When bred to daughters or granddaughters of Roberto, Deputy Minister’s son, Touch Gold, has sired stakes winners Sharp Susan (out of Winter’s Gone, by Dynaformer), Flaming Heart (out of Hot Lear, by Lear Fan), and Adobe Gold (out of Urus, by Kris S.).
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The Life and Legacy of Grand Slam
Grand Slam's daughter Millionreasonswhy winning The Matron-G2
Photo: Adam Coglianese, Courtesy of NYRA
Grand Slam, a regally bred son of champion sire Gone West who demonstrated brilliance and tenacity on the track, and as a sire, passed those attributes on to his progeny, died suddenly yesterday, felled by heart failure. The 17-year-old stallion, who has thus far sired 73 stakes winners from 11 crops of racing age, was standing at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky at the time of his death, for a published fee of $12,000.
Grand Slam’s unexpected passing came just two days after the untimely demise of Coolmore’s world-class sire, Montjeu, a 16-year-old champion son of Chef-de-Race Sadler’s Wells who stood at the group’s main farm in Ireland.
Bred by Overbrook Farm, Grand Slam was a $300,000 Keeneland yearling, purchased by the partnership of Robert and Christina Baker, William Mack, and David Cornstein, who raced him under the tutelage of Wayne Lukas.
Grand Slam signaled from the outset that he was something special, breaking his maiden by 11 lengths in his first start while equaling the Belmont track record (1:03.06) for five and a half furlongs. He went on to triumph in the Grade I Futurity and Champagne, and seemed invincible until the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, when he suffered a gash to his hind leg that not only took him out of the race, but almost ended his career.
He was never quite the same again, though his sheer courage and ability shone through again at three, when he captured the nine-furlong Peter Pan at Belmont and ignited hopes that he was good as new. Alas, that wasn’t true. But Grand Slam acquitted himself with honor for the rest of that season, gutting out second-place finishes in the six-furlong Breeders’ Cup Sprint-G1, the one-mile Jerome-G2, and the nine-furlong Swaps-G2, as well as a third-place effort in the Haskell.
Visionaire winning the King's Bishop-G1 at Saratoga
At stud, Grand Slam has sired 26 graded stakes winners, many of whom were produced from mares who, like his own dam, Bright Candles (by El Gran Senor), descend from Northern Dancer. They include Jim Dandy-G2 winner Strong Hope (out of Shining Through, by Deputy Minister), King’s Bishop-G1 victor Visionaire (out of Scarlet Tango, by French Deputy), Brooklyn Handicap-G2 winner Limehouse (out of Dixieland Blues, by Dixieland Band), Mr. Prospector-G3 winner Apriority (out of Midway Squall, by Storm Bird), Daytona-G3 turf specialist Dilemma (out of Heavenly Cat, by Tabasco Cat), and Kentucky Cup Classic-G2 hero and recent Old Friends retiree, Ball Four (out of Making Faces, by Lyphard).
Malibu Prayer winning the Ruffian-G1 at Saratoga
Grand Slam has also shown an affinity with A. P. Indy, having sired the current Kentucky Oaks hopeful Millionreasonswhy (out of In Secure, by A. P. Indy), winner of the Matron-G2 at two and of the Wide Country Stakes at Laurel last month. Grand Slam’s stakes-winning daughter, Grand Prayer, who brought $1 million at last November’s Edward P. Evans dispersal at Keeneland (in foal to Medaglia D’Oro), produced the highly regarded Grade I winner Malibu Prayer (by A. P. Indy), who sold for $2 million (in foal to Smart Strike) at the same dispersal. Both mares were purchased by Besilu Stables.
In the sales ring, Grand Slam’s individuals seem to get better as they mature. His 137 weanlings sold at auction have averaged $88,613, his 719 yearlings, $110,281, and his 191 two-year-olds, $127,412. Grand Slam’s colts have typically brought significantly more than his fillies, and for the most part, they have outshone his fillies on the racetrack, too. He will have one of each sex in next week’s Keeneland April Two-Year-Olds-in-Training Sale. A dark bay or brown colt out of the Awesome Again mare, Tyne, will be offered as Hip #81, and a chestnut filly named, “Work for a Living,” out of the Tiznow mare, Tiz Maya, is catalogued as Hip #77; she was a $4500 Keeneland September yearling.
Through March 25th, Grand Slam had sired 798 winners, with average earnings per starter of over $60,000. At the time of the stallion’s death, Coolmore’s website sported a banner broadcasting his achievement in siring four three-year-old stakes winners in just the last three weeks: Tribune (Fr) (out of Tanguista, by War Chant); Slamit (out of Excedius, by Seattle Dancer), Millionreasonswhy, and The Lumber Guy (out of Boltono, by Unbridled’s Song). He will be missed.
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Common Name Joseph and Bertha Kellner House
Address 1617 W. Pacific Avenue See Map
Date Built 1903
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Historic District Browne's Addition National Register Historic District
National Register Date 07/30/1976
Spokane Register Date 12/14/1992
This apartment building was built in 1903 as a four-plex for Joseph and Bertha Kellner and their son Sidney, a salesman for M. Seller and Company (importers of wholesale and retail crockery, glassware, cutlery, willowware, stoves, and ranges). Joseph Kellner was a pioneer businessman and merchant who arrived in Spokane before the Great Fire of 1889. He operated a dry goods store downtown, developed real estate interests in Browne’s Addition, and was involved in the establishment of Spokane’s first Jewish temple. Other prominent Spokane figures, E. L. Richey, and later, William M. Day, were successive owners of the building. Kellner lived in the building for only two years before returning to his earlier home down the street. He later built and lived in the Marlboro Apartments. In 1943, the Kellner House was altered to accommodate apartments. A $13,600 war time housing lease was awarded by the United States Federal Government for the construction work, which was completed by Central Construction Company of Spokane. The building continues to serve as an apartment building today. In addition to its association with Kellner and other prominent figures from the city’s early history, it is also architecturally significant as an example of the Colonial Revival style, and historically significant as an early indicator of the trend toward multiple family living units that characterized the development of Browne’s Addition after 1905.
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Petanque in Burlington, VT
Hot news from Vermont:
The Burlington Bocce and Petanque Club, newly formed, is working actively with the City to develop bocce/petanque courts at Calahan Park.
Burlington Free Press - 30 Oct
Seven Days - Oct 4
Burlington Boules Club (one of the founders)
Although we all know that there are more differences between pétanque and bocce than what the casual onlooker will notice, I think it's a laudable development. As long as the courts are wide enough both can well be played on the same surface and it is probably a lot easier to convince a Parks Department to cater to both games than to one exclusively.
Calahan Park on Google
(The resolution of this map is awesome. A good thing they're not playing poker).
Questions about Canada
Let me start off by stressing that I am very grateful to the Canadian tourists in the US, because they have been instrumental in teaching pétanque to lots of Americans.
But I have a problem with them all the same:
somehow they are convinced that only the heaviest boules are good enough. We are getting more and more calls from folks, mainly in Florida, who want 750 grams and up (preferably 800 grams!) because that's what their Canadian teachers recommend.
Knowing that most champions play with 690 to 730 I wonder where this idea comes from.
Secondly they are suggesting that you should not buy more than two boules, because you will never use the third one. Canada being the only country in the world - as far as I know - where (some) competition boules are sold in pairs.
So what do you do in doubles?
Thirdly: that plain boules are no good.
Yet one out of two boules in France is plain.
Needless to say, this is becoming a headache from an inventory point of view. We love to please everyone and will soon have close to 500 different weight/diameter/pattern/alloy combinations on hand and yet...
Can anyone explain why these misconceptions - in my humble opinion - exist in Canada?
Anyone in Casa Grande AZ?
Wade & Gail in Casa Grande, Arizona are looking for other players.
They used to play a lot in Sebring, Florida.
Call 520-876-5270 or e-mail BUCKO6@aol.com.
There is certainly no shortage of compacted sand and dust!
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Petanque in Winston-Salem (2)
Bright sunshine, snacks and cool drinks, and 10 eager players: just what we needed for another enjoyable afternoon.
The City Parks Department finished up the courts this past week - now 6 in all.
Gary, the ideal tournament director, had brought his magic dice to compose the teams.
Sue performed intense dance steps after each good throw, thus quite frequently!
Bob provided excellent background music, from blues to country, to 80's rock. Who knows what else he has in his vintage VW van!
An airport cab delivered Josh direct from GSO so he wouldn't miss out.
Todd & Jenn who happened to pass by joined in and did extremely well from the first throw. Actually if not for Todd yours truly would have been creamed.
Lovely to see Adrian (10) teaming up with Gary (..) - average team age 29!
Weather permitting we're all on again for Sunday Nov 5, at 1:30pm, at the same place.
Update on Salt Like City
A message from Michael:
Thanks again for getting me in touch with Rory, we played our first few games yesterday. We had 10 people at our first event and will continue playing until the snow starts falling.
Eventually , we would like to start a club here in Salt Lake City.
This shows again that there is no lack of players in our country. They just don't know each other -- yet. Long live the internet.
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Petanque in Winston-Salem
Last week Bob had told us about some nice bocce courts at Miller Park. He did not exaggerate one bit. Wide enough and a good surface.
In a convenient location, with lots of trees and a couple of benches. They are sometimes used during weekdays but on weekends there's hardly anyone.
The city is actually redoing the side boards and revamping the 4 courts.
Even the area around the bocce courts is adequate for pétanque and - if ever there's a crowd - provides enough room for 8 concurrent games or 48 players in total.
The adjacent 24 horsehoe pits even have bleachers and floodlights!
On Sunday Oct 29 at 1:30 pm we will continue where we left off in Lexington last week.
The more, the merrier! It's the first day of Standard Time so it will be dark by 5pm.
For easy directions here's the Google Maps link.
Boules for smaller hands
We will soon be stocking an even wider variety of competition boules, including JB Boules.
A first shipment has already arrived, specifically for players with smaller hands - 70.5 mm diameter.
JB "compét junior"
Old boules
Herbert Wegner has the most interesting, complete ànd multilingual site about "boules cloutées" (nail studded boules), the forefathers of todays' pétanque boules.
The wooden core made them relatively light, but the nails gave them a hard shell and prevented them from breaking up.
He describes the history, different makes and varieties.
An online museum so to speak.
Boules cloutées (click on the British flag)
Petanque online game
France's TV station TF1 has a nice online petanque game.
When it opens, just click on "ZOU". Then pull the boule on the players' back.
César (your computer opponent) plays as if he's been commuting to the table on the left...
Fun for a rainy evening!
Play the game (you need to have Flash installed).
WC Thailand 2007
And here's the link to the brand new website of the Pattaya Championships, in Thai and in English.
Some pages are still under construction, but it already looks good!
www.pattaya-petanque2007.com
Remember that with aroound 26,000 registered players Thailand is listed as the third largest petanque country, after France and Spain. Thanks a.o. to HRH Princess Srinagarindra, who popularized the game and played herself until well in her nineties.
World Championship Qualifiers in FL
The next World Championships will be held in Pattaya, Thailand from Nov 19 to 23 2007.
The annual tournament to decide which team will represent the USA will take place at the Boca Petanque 2000 Club in Delray Beach, Florida this coming Nov 11 & 12.
If you are in the area, come and watch some of the top class players in our country!
Junior tournament in Portland, OR
La Boule Rose in Portland organized their first competition for juniors on October 1st.
Certainly a good example to be followed!
John Prince wrote this full report with more pictures.
Petanque in Alaska
An interesting story from Mary in Anchorage. Thanks for sharing it!
Bonjour! I’m attaching a few photos from our petanque game from earlier this summer in Anchorage, Alaska. For several of us it was our first time playing. We were introduced to the game by Michel, a transplanted Francais. What makes these photos unusual is that we were playing in a field on the periphery of which were two baby moose; twins, presumably. We never did see their mother and assume she must’ve have been killed or died. They seemed to enjoy staying a certain distance from us because they went away for awhile, then returned and stayed the same distance from us no matter where we moved. When we packed up to leave they also took leave!
Mary Langdon
Salt Lake City, anyone?
Michael Kronenberg is looking for other players in the Salt Lake City, Utah area.
E-mail: mikekrobe@msn.com
or call him at (801)360-6207
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Petanque in Chicago
An excellent article about the Midwest Tournament on Sept 23.
This will certainly help Dan and his friends hook up with other players.
Way to go Chicago Petanque Club!
(for the insiders: did you notice the tournament winners are from Antwerp :-) !!
Petanque in Lexington, NC
Gary & Shirley discovered pétanque while RV'ing in Florida two years ago, got hooked and built one of the most beautiful courts I have ever seen, just outside Lexington. They heard of our move and - surprise! - invited me for a get together with others we have been corresponding with on the internet.
What a way to spend my first Sunday in NC!!
Excellent surface (with a touch of crushed oyster shell), a gorgeous setting overlooking rolling hills, scoreboard, the right amount of shade, flood lights, an antique galvanized tub to cool drinks, ball racks, you name it - it's there.
Not to mention the other friendly folks: Christine, Judy, David, Bob & Josh.
We were 8 enthusiasts today, and are hoping for a couple more on a next round in Winston-Salem on Sunday Oct 29.
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Petanque at McCormick Place
At the end of September, a week before the move, we animated a 'mini-boulodrome' in Chicago, for Maison de la France, the French Government Tourist Office.
Thousands of travel professionals visit the ITME Fair every year, and our booth attracted many curious visitors. Such as the dance groups from Fiji and New Zealand, as well as a certain Jim from Iowa whose skills were unbelievable for a first timer.
Of course we made everyone give it a try and stressed the potential of pétanque as an ice breaker for groups and meetings.
Many thanks go to Anouk, our graceful and friendly host, and Joe and Denise from the Michigan Petanque Club who came to assist.
We've moved !
Finally... blogging again.
After weeks of packing, logistics planning, flying around, and sleepless nights, we have arrived at our new location: Greensboro, North Carolina.
18 hours in the U-Haul truck with desks, computers, files and the remaining inventory. And a new load of boules from France in a container via Marseille and Charleston.
A lot of unpacking and tidying up remains to be done, but we have started shipping out and catching up.
Those are the moments I wish we were in the ping-pong ball business.
All is well that ends well, and now we are ready for a new beginning.
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Population centers
Some thoughts on Population centers within the game, I think this should be considered to make more options for the players to deal with.
Population centers:
- Village: No annex within the pop, but can have population of under 1,000, as well as (1) Edu Bldg, (1) Cul Bldg, (1) Armory, (1) Guild Hall, it has No defenses. Dedicatd to just one faction that controls it.
- Fort: (1-5) Annexs within the pop, but can have population of between 1-5000 as well as (1) Edu Bldg, (1) Cul Bldg, (1) Armory, (1) Guild Hall, up to the number of each equal to the number of annexes. The pop center usually has Towers, walls, and Hedge Hogs. Dedicated to just one faction that controls it. Can have one office/temple of what ever faction that controls the pop center.
- City: (6+) Annexes within the pop, but can have population 6000+ within the pop, but can have population 6000 plus equal to the number of annexes. The city is open to have up to one city buildings per annex the city has. They can also have factional offices/temples of any faction that is allowed.
-Perserv: These pop centers are usually a supper structure that encircles (9) hexes square. One hex inside the cube is the city and the others can be developed as desired. Usually there are 25+ annexes with population of 25k+ pop. Usually these are dedicated to just one faction, and only they can enter that protected pop center. These should not just Imperials, but open to all factions.
Note you could built a city from scratch, and this way you can start with a village, then a fort, and then a city, then to a perserv.
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I have no problems with your designs, though I don't see any particular need to be terribly stringent about it.
For instance, the old version strictly coordinated population with annexes but the new version doesn't need to do that unless we artificially constrain it. Is there some particular game reason why annexes must be tied to population? Conceivably, for a city of a given population, you could built its walls to contain roughly that population. Then if more population was added later, a new annex could be created for that number of additional citizens. So you could still have a protected population and a number of annex walls to deal with, but I see no particular reason why those need to be tied together. We might even be able to allow variable levels and relationships between annexes (e.g. a central core with high walls for the privileged and a large area with lower walls completely enclosing it for the general population).
Can you think of any reason we need to maintain the old restrictions?
Hmm ok I was sticking with what Zan had been using within the game.
That ancient Clipper code had lots of restrictions that I no longer have to follow. If you think it's a good idea, would you like to propose any particular method of handling these things?
Personally, I think of all these "permanent dwelling areas" generically as "cities", regardless of their size. We can call them hamlets, villages, towns, cities, etc. as we wish, roughly based on population size, but I wouldn't bother putting fixed restrictions or requirements on their structure. I'd be fine with allowing any size city to have any city defenses (that they can afford), whatever city buildings they want to put in, offices/temples as needs arise, etc. If a small town builds good, strong walls, I don't see any reason they can't call themselves a fort. And a much-enlarged and -protected city could be a "preserve" of any faction that wanted to foot the bills. Effectively, I'd put all cities of all sizes and factions effectively on equal footing, to be developed as city managers desire, and I see no reason why any particular city or faction (e.g. Imperials) should start off with any special advantages over all the others.
Have you any comments on this sort of a vision? Is there anything you'd like to propose yourself or change on this idea?
Ok a very good start then.
I think the first choice you need to choose is what Mapping symbols you are going to use? Do you have multiple symbols for the different pop centers?
I was thinking that since "village' is a land upgrade, that it should be the smallest pop center symbol that shows up on the map. So maybe we should list the pop centers as:
- Fort
- Village
- Town
- Preserv
The next issue is how do you define what each of these pop centers is? Do you agree with using these(5) population centers as the types we could find?
I don't see a problem using new/different map symbols for different types. I'm sure we can come up with something similar to the symbols we have now.
BTW, I got this definition of a "village" from National Geographic:
Quote: A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a "hamlet" but smaller than a "town". Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants.
In most parts of the world, villages are settlements of people clustered around a central point. A central point is most often a church, marketplace, or public space. A public space can be a open space (sometimes called a village green), or developed square (sometimes called a plaza or piazza). This type of village organization is called a nucleated settlement.
Some villages are linear settlements. They are not clustered around a central public space, but around a line. This line can be natural, such as a river bank or seashore. (Fishing villages are often linear settlements.) Linear settlements can also develop around a transportation route, such as a railroad line.
So perhaps we can have Hamlets, Villages, Towns, and Cities (and perhaps even a Metropolis, such as ancient Rome, for something extra-large like the Preserve-class settlement?) as our base sizes (increasing from left to right), and we can define population size ranges for each of them?
And here's another nice feature of the new system... the new mapper allows me to combine symbols together, so we can create symbols for light, medium, and heavy defensive structures and overlay them on (surrounding) the settlement type symbol, so any settlement type can end up with any type of defensive structure, directly on the map. What do you think about that idea?
For those of you interested in the technical aspects of map-drawing...
If anyone would like to try their hand at building us some new mapping icons for this sort of thing, or simply improving our existing icons, then please be aware of our current definitions... Our existing mapping icons are 36x36 pixels and are stored in separate .BMP files. You can specify "transparent" portions of the images by using the exact color Magenta [RGB(255,0,255)]. In the future, I expect to be able to increase the number of pixels available to produce cleaner icons, but I have to balance that with what they look like when zoomed out to a very small scale (for large-area maps). I haven't tested the new code with different pixel sizes yet either, and every icon in the map will need to be consistently-sized, and larger sizes will make maps a bit slower to display and take more on-line bandwidth and memory, just in case you were getting any grand ideas.
Good luck, and show off your ideas to all of us here so we can all comment on them.
Ok lets do the following, lets define what population centers will appear in the game.
I believe that we should do away with the Persurvs all together.
List of possible Population centers:
If we can agree on these then lets define what makes up each of these pop centers. I believe they should use in-game structures that define them.
Fort :
Defenses: Walls, Tower, Pits, Hedgehogs, Ditches, and Pits (No greater that 3.0 in size for any of them)
Annexes: 1-3 would give barrecks of 1000/ retainers per Annex
Populalation: 500
City buidgings: (1-3) Armory, (1) Guild Halls, (1) Education Building, (1) Cultural Building, (1-3) Granaries
Note: They tend to be military staging areas
Defenses: any type but no greater than 3.0 in size
Annex; None
Population: under 1000
City Buildings: 0-1 of any
Note: I believe that to build a Village it should require more than just mancycles but other resources as well
Annex; 1 to 6
Population: 1000 to 6000 pop within the Town and any amount outside the Town
City Buildings: any number of any city buildings, can also have any number of any Factional office/Temples
Note: Will have a real market, but not as large as a city, can have land upgrades, can have a shipyard
Defenses: any type but no greater than 10.0 in size
Annex: 7+
Population: 1000 per annex pop within the City and any amount outside the City
Note: Will have a real market, can have land upgrades, can have a shipyard
So you didn't like my idea of making the different population center definitions flexible, so they could contain pretty much anything? I was proposing to determine the "type" strictly on population and letting all the additional features (including defenses) be defined entirely independently of what they're called. So, for instance, you could define size ranges such as:
1-500 = Hamlet
500-1000 = Village
1000-7500 = Town
7500+ = City
My way wouldn't define a Fort as a separate entity, for instance, but it would instead be a relatively-well-defended Hamlet-size population which could be called a Fort and used primarily for military purposes.
I'm not particularly fond of saying things like "a village must be X, Y, & Z and nothing else." I'd like to at least have a migration path for cities to grow from smaller groups, and limiting the definitions seems like it won't allow such changes.
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Howard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,789.[1] The county seat is Nashville.[2] Howard County is Arkansas's 74th county, formed on April 17, 1873, and named for James Howard,[3] a state senator. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county.
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Polk County (north)
Pike County (east)
Hempstead County (southeast)
Little River County (southwest)
Sevier County (west)
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Age pyramid Howard County[9]
As of the 2000 United States Census,[10] there were 14,300 people, 5,471 households, and 3,922 families residing in the county. The population density was 24 people per square mile (9/km²). There were 6,297 housing units at an average density of 11 per square mile (4/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 73.60% White, 21.86% Black or African American, 0.41% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 2.76% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races. 5.08% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 4.75% reported speaking Spanish at home, while 1.73% speak German.[11]
There were 5,471 households out of which 34.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.20% were married couples living together, 12.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.30% were non-families. 25.70% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.04.
In the county the population was spread out with 26.90% under the age of 18, 8.60% from 18 to 24, 27.80% from 25 to 44, 21.60% from 45 to 64, and 15.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 95.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.20 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $28,699, and the median income for a family was $34,510. Males had a median income of $28,086 versus $17,266 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,586. About 11.90% of families and 15.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.10% of those under age 18 and 17.00% of those age 65 or over.
Mineral Springs
Tollette
Townships in Arkansas are the divisions of a county. Each township includes unincorporated areas; some may have incorporated cities or towns within part of their boundaries. Arkansas townships have limited purposes in modern times. However, the United States Census does list Arkansas population based on townships (sometimes referred to as "county subdivisions" or "minor civil divisions"). Townships are also of value for historical purposes in terms of genealogical research. Each town or city is within one or more townships in an Arkansas county based on census maps and publications. The townships of Howard County are listed below; listed in parentheses are the cities, towns, and/or census-designated places that are fully or partially inside the township. [12][13]
Blackland
Buck Range
Holly Creek
Madison (Dierks)
Mineral Springs (Mineral Springs)
Muddy Fork
Nashville (Nashville)
Tollette (Tollette) --- township completely inside Blackland Township
National Register of Historic Places listings in Howard County, Arkansas
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^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 162.
^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
^ "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
^ Based on 2000 census data
^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
^ http://www.mla.org/map_data_results&state_id=5&county_id=61&mode=geographic&order=r
^ 2011 Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS): Howard County, AR (PDF) (Map). U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
^ "Arkansas: 2010 Census Block Maps - County Subdivision". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
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At a recent meeting of OBHAG one member was overheard to say that ours was the best local history society in the area, owing to the quality of our talks, and this has been borne out by increasing attendances, by both members and non-members alike, with the most popular talks attracting audiences of over eighty. The Group’s finances have also remained healthy, enabling us to respond positively to several funding requests.
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As is customary OBHAG staged two evening visits in May and June, both of which proved to be extremely popular. The first, which took place during a deluge of almost Biblical proportions, was to the pilgrimage church of Pennant Melangell, where we were given a very informative talk on the history of the church by John Hainsworth, and this was followed by one to the Quinta Chapel and Sunday School at Weston Rhyn, where Dr. Digby James, the Minister of the church, talked to us on the life of Thomas Barnes (1812-1897), the Bolton cotton master, whose vision led to the founding of both the chapel and the school; the latter, in particular, is a hidden treasure of the Arts and Crafts Movement, designed by Thomas Raffles Davison, which deserves to be better known.
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The Richard Pryor Estate For Sale
in Real Estate February 21, 2017 0
The Los Angeles neighborhood of Northridge was a far cry from the celebrity lifestyles of most film stars who wanted to live where the action or prestige was. But for some members of the film industry, both yesterday and today, it provides a respite in which to unwind and a safe place to raise their children. However, when Richard Pryor arrived, he set the neighbors and the formerly peaceful community on their ear. Even with his children in the house, there was a long stream of visitors with loud parties where drugs and alcohol took the place of the sedate dinner parties and cocktail hours favored by other Northridge residents. The event that ended it all was the night in 1980 when Pryor doused himself in rum, then started freebasing cocaine catching the alcohol aflame.
Looking at the luxurious property today, it is hard to imagine its unusual history. Hacienda de los Sueños, is comprised of a lushly landscaped gated and walled very private 2.2 acres with 9,000 square feet of living space divided between six buildings. Many of the amenities enjoyed by Pryor are still there except the boxing ring, the tortoise named Myrtle and a pony named Ginger, which was a gift from producer Burt Sugarman. But the ones that remain or have been added create a magical enclave, such as the main house with four bedrooms, four baths, gourmet kitchen, library, game room and billiard room. Other features include a guest house, pool house with kitchen, 65-foot pool with spa, waterfall and slide, a professional-grade dance studio, a fitness center, children’s playhouse, five-car garage, a barbecue pavilion, north-south tennis court, putting green, citrus grove, vegetable garden and a sauna.
A huge influence to many of today’s comedians, Richard Pryor’s comedy style inspired the likes of George Lopez, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock. Comedy Central voted him #1 on their list of 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time in 2004, and he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
Richard Pryor’s former private estate is now for sale. Priced at $2.549 million.
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Kano Attack: Death Toll Rises To 19
The Director of the Search and Rescue Department of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Air Commodore Charles Otegbede, disclosed that 19 people lost their lives following the gory GSM market blast in Kano.
by Sahara Reporters, New York Nov 19, 2015
Commodore Otegbede made the disclosure on Thursday at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano while presenting drugs and other material to the hospitals treating victims of the blast. Numerous people sustained various degrees of injury in the blast.
According to him, NEMA function is to quickly respond to emergency situations, adding that the Federal Government considered the Kano blast to be a serious attack.
The commodore, who represented the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani Sidi, stated that the success recorded in rescuing victims of the blast was a result of effective collaboration between NEMA officials on the ground and other helpers.
He stressed that the rescue operation would not have been successful without the government's commitment.
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Recently, I was asked if I would return to the Terrestrial airwaves if I had the chance.
My answer.
It would depend.
No weekends.
Middays would be best and of course I would have to enjoy the music I am playing.
Hey, I am not asking for much.
It would be fun being at an FM station again but it would also take away a lot of freedom I currently enjoy both with my free time and with my own online stations Swisssh and Starlite. I would also expect that a Terrestrial company wouldn’t be too happy with me operating two stations- even though my stations are technically quite different from AM/FM stations, as well as the fact they reach a world-wide audience.
It would be something to think about.
Of course, I would have to have a bunch of fun too.
However, I don’t see that day arriving or me even being asked to return to FM Radio.
For one thing, I think I am past my date of expiration.
I wouldn’t get paid enough. Probably just minimum wage and I could find myself filling in for vacationing full-timers.
Been there.
Done that.
Again, it would be something to think about.
Radio Broadcasting has changed so much. Consultants and greedy managers have done that. Few stations care about the listener anymore- although they would say they still do. Consultants- for the big Broadcasting Companies tell stations what audiences want and in turn tell a station what to play and how to go about it. Sure, there are still small stations in small markets that do the job that radio started doing decades ago. Today that seems to be the domain of community stations.
We could use a community station here in Central Ontario- Orillia specifically.
The Holier-than-Thou CRTC up in Ottawa usually grants Community operations licences when everything on the application is in order- or so I’ve heard. An online operation in Huntsville was recently granted a spot on the FM dial. They hope to be on-air come the spring.
A friend of mine- Don Andrews, does a morning radio show from his home studio in Scarborough Monday through Friday mornings and it is currently picked up by two stations- no not Swisssh or Starlite. He had hoped to have a network of stations pick up his show but that hasn’t happened- yet. Don’s on air from 9 to noon (ET) and his programme on “Studio B” (Google Studio B) is very entertaining- even though he currently gears it towards an American audience since the station in California that picks his show up has a larger audience that it’s Canadian Counterpart.
I don’t know but maybe it's because Canadians lag behind both the UK and the US when it comes to listening to Online Radio stations. As well, there are thousands to choose from. Maybe that’s a problem- too much choice.
I did a survey recently. One of the questions asked if Data plan usage was a concern. The Radio Survey found that data plans are not a Canadian concern.
I guess I’d also like to know why and how a broadcaster such as John Tesh gets his mediocre radio show on so many stations both here in Canada and abroad. A team of writers script his breaks- which for the most part are all survey-based. It’s true, bringing in this red-blooded American to pretend he’s actually a part of a Canadian radio station is cost-effective however, Don Andrews and his Studio B would present a better radio programme and live too- not voice tracked (meaning previously recorded), like Mr. Tesh. Don’s mid-morning show is competitively priced too meaning he won’t get rich soon- unless he has thousand stations picking up the Studio B feed. I’m sure he’d do an evening feed- if the money was right.
If you’re a radio person reading this, please consider Mr. Andrews and his show. It’s an eclectic mix of tunes strung together with Don’s engaging, down to earth, on-air personality.
Maybe too, one fine day Don will be able to be a Broadcaster who can speak of world-wide events instead of pandering to the Yanks who- we are told, get confused if topics are “off American” and of little concern to the day to day lives of Americans. That being said, I can tell you right now Swisssh Radio has more Americans listening that any other country in the world and I don’t change Swisssh- or Starlite to sound more American. Listeners tell me they just like the sound of a radio station providing music and entertainment to its listeners.
I have never had an e-mail from a listener south of the border asking for Swisssh to be more American. I’ve never had a German listener asking Swisssh to be more German either. Swisssh and Starlite are an entity onto themselves and I for one applaud them for that wholeheartedly.
And that Dear Readers is what it’s all about.
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‘It’s Over’: Iran’s Economic Turmoil Ravages Its Middle Class
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Mr. Taymouri, saying it was best to let his money — or lack of it — do the talking, sat down and calculated the financial calamity that had befallen the family in the past year. Their monthly income fell from 50 million rials, or about $1,400, a year ago to 10 million rials, or $90, at the current heavily devalued rate.
“If someone had ever told me I would one day live like this, I would’ve laughed,” Mr. Taymouri said bitterly, before falling silent. Finally, his wife spoke.
“I’m not really that sad, because we are not alone,” she said. “It’s happening to so many people.”
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Politically quite influential, Iran’s middle class has consistently favored candidates like the current president, Hassan Rouhani, who support better relations with the West. But seldom have they been under as much economic pressure as they are today. Recently at least two people have been hanged after they were convicted in highly publicized trials for manipulating markets.
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Malta Population: 449,043
With a civilization that dates back thousands of years, Malta boasts some of the oldest megalithic sites in the world. Situated in the center of the Mediterranean, Malta’s islands have long served as a strategic military asset, with the islands at various times having come under control of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans,Byzantines, Moors, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St. John, and the French. Most recently a British colony (since 1814), Malta gained its independence in 1964 and declared itself a republic ten years later. While under British rule, the island staunchly supported the UK through both world wars. Since about the mid-1980s, the island has transformed itself into a freight transshipment point, a financial center, and a tourist destination while its key industries moved toward more service-oriented activities. Malta became an EU member in May 2004 and began using the euro as currency in 2008.
The country comprises an archipelago, with only the three largest islands (Malta, Ghawdex or Gozo, and Kemmuna or Comino) inhabited; numerous bays provide good harbors; Malta and Tunisia are discussing oil exploration on the continental shelf between their countries, although no commercially viable reserves have been found as of 2017
Location: Southern Europe, islands in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily (Italy)
Size comparison: slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC
Coastline: 196.8 km (excludes 56 km for the island of Gozo)
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 25 nm
Climate: Mediterranean; mild, rainy winters; hot, dry summers
Terrain: mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
Natural resources: limestone, salt, arable land
permanent crops: 3.9% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 0% (2011 est.) forest: 0.9% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 35 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: occasional droughts
Current Environment Issues: limited natural freshwater resources; increasing reliance on desalination; deforestation; wildlife preservation
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Maltese (singular and plural)
adjective: Maltese
Ethnic groups: Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock)
Languages: Maltese (official) 90.1%, English (official) 6%, multilingual 3%, other 0.9% (2005 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic (official) more than 90% (2006 est.)
Population: 449,043 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.29% (male 33,156 /female 31,012)
15-24 years: 11.03% (male 25,713 /female 23,815)
65 years and over: 20.51% (male 41,900 /female 50,193) (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 213,000 VALLETTA (capital) (2018)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 26.9 years (2010 est.) note: data refer to the average of the different childbearing ages of first-order births
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: <500 (2016 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Malta
conventional short form: Malta
local long form: Repubblika ta' Malta
local short form: Malta
etymology: the ancient Greeks called the island "Melite" meaning "honey-sweet" from the Greek word "meli" meaning "honey" and referring to the island's honey production
Capital: name: Valletta
etymology: named in honor of Jean de Valette, the Grand Master of the Order of Saint John (crusader knights), who successfully led a defense of the island from an Ottoman invasion in 1565
Administrative divisions: 68 localities (Il-lokalita); Attard, Balzan, Birgu, Birkirkara, Birzebbuga, Bormla, Dingli, Fgura, Floriana, Fontana, Ghajnsielem, Gharb, Gharghur, Ghasri, Ghaxaq, Gudja, Gzira, Hamrun, Iklin, Imdina, Imgarr, Imqabba, Imsida, Imtarfa, Isla, Kalkara, Kercem, Kirkop, Lija, Luqa, Marsa, Marsaskala, Marsaxlokk, Mellieha, Mosta, Munxar, Nadur, Naxxar, Paola, Pembroke, Pieta, Qala, Qormi, Qrendi, Rabat, Rabat (Ghawdex), Safi, San Giljan/Saint Julian, San Gwann/Saint John, San Lawrenz/Saint Lawrence, Sannat, San Pawl il-Bahar/Saint Paul's Bay, Santa Lucija/Saint Lucia, Santa Venera/Saint Venera, Siggiewi, Sliema, Swieqi, Tarxien, Ta' Xbiex, Valletta, Xaghra, Xewkija, Xghajra, Zabbar, Zebbug, Zebbug (Ghawdex), Zejtun, Zurrieq
Independence: 21 September 1964 (from the UK)
National holiday: Independence Day, 21 September (1964); Republic Day, 13 December (1974)
Constitution: history: many previous; latest adopted 21 September 1964 amendments: proposals (Acts of Parliament) require at least two-thirds majority vote by the House of Representatives; passage of "Acts" requires majority vote by referendum, followed by final majority vote by the House and assent by the president of the republic; amended many times, last in 2016 (2017)
Legal system: mixed legal system of English common law and civil law based on the Roman and Napoleonic civil codes; subject to European Union law
Suffrage: 18 years of age (16 in local council elections); universal
Executive branch: chief of state: President George VELLA (since 4 April 2019)
head of government: Prime Minister Joseph MUSCAT (since 11 March 2013)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by the House of Representatives for a single 5-year term; election last held on 2 April 2019 (next to be held by April 2024); following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or majority coalition usually appointed prime minister by the president for a 5-year term; deputy prime minister appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister
election results: George VELLA (PL) elected president; House of Representatives vote - unanimous; Joseph MUSCAT (PL) reappointed prime minister
Legislative branch: description: unicameral House of Representatives or Il-Kamra Tad-Deputati, a component of the Parliament of Malta (normally 65 seats but can include at-large members; members directly elected in 5 multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms); note - the parliament elected in 2013 had 69 seats; an additional two seats were added in 2016 by the Constitutional Court to correct for mistakes made in the 2013 vote-counting process
elections: last held on 3 June 2017 (next to be held in 2022); note - Prime Minister MUSCAT called for early elections amid corruption allegations
election results: percent of vote by party - PL 55%, PN 43.7%, other 1.3%; seats by party - PL 37 PN 30; note - PN was awarded two additional seats for a total of 30 in accordance with the proportionality provisions specified in the constitution; PD candidates ran under the PN list; composition - men 57, women 10, percent of women 14.9%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Court of Appeal (consists of either 1 or 3 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of 3 judges); Court of Criminal Appeal (consists of either 1 or 3 judges) judge selection and term of office: Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court judges appointed by the president, usually upon the advice of the prime minister; judges of both courts serve until age 65
subordinate courts: Civil Court (divided into the General Jurisdiction Section, Family Section, and Voluntary Section); Criminal Court; Court of Magistrates; Gozo Courts (for the islands of Gozo and Comino)
Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party (Partit Demokratiku) or PD [Godfrey FARRUGIA] Labor Party (Partit Laburista) or PL [Joseph MUSCAT] Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista) or PN [Adrian DELIA]
International organization participation: Australia Group, C, CD, CE, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EMU, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NSG, OAS (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): Maltese eight-pointed cross;
National anthem: name: "L-Innu Malti" (The Maltese Anthem)
lyrics/music: Dun Karm PSAILA/Robert SAMMUT
note: adopted 1945; written in the form of a prayer
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Keith AZZOPARDI (since 17 September 2018)
chancery: 2017 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Keith AZZOPARDI (since 29 September 2018)
embassy: Ta' Qali National Park, Attard, ATD 4000
mailing address: 5800 Valletta Place, Dulles, VA 20189
telephone: [356] 2561-4000
FAX: [356] 2561-4183
Malta’s free market economy – the smallest economy in the euro-zone – relies heavily on trade in both goods and services, principally with Europe. Malta produces less than a quarter of its food needs, has limited fresh water supplies, and has few domestic energy sources. Malta's economy is dependent on foreign trade, manufacturing, and tourism. Malta joined the EU in 2004 and adopted the euro on 1 January 2008. Malta has weathered the euro-zone crisis better than most EU member states due to a low debt-to-GDP ratio and financially sound banking sector. It maintains one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, and growth has fully recovered since the 2009 recession. In 2014 through 2016, Malta led the euro zone in growth, expanding more than 4.5% per year. Malta’s services sector continues to grow, with sustained growth in the financial services and online gaming sectors. Advantageous tax schemes remained attractive to foreign investors, though EU discussions of anti-tax avoidance measures have raised concerns among Malta’s financial services and insurance providers, as the measures could have a significant impact on those sectors. The tourism sector also continued to grow, with 2016 showing record-breaking numbers of both air and cruise passenger arrivals. Malta’s GDP growth remains strong and is supported by a strong labor market. The government has implemented new programs, including free childcare, to encourage increased labor participation. The high cost of borrowing and small labor market remain potential constraints to future economic growth. Increasingly, other EU and European migrants are relocating to Malta for employment, though wages have remained low compared to other European countries. Inflation remains low.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $19.26 billion (2017 est.) $18.05 billion (2016 est.) $17.16 billion (2015 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $12.58 billion (2017 est.)
Gross national saving: 33.5% of GDP (2017 est.) 31.8% of GDP (2016 est.) 31.2% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 45.2% (2017 est.) government consumption: 15.3% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 21.1% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 0.3% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 136.1% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -117.9% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 1.1% (2017 est.) industry: 10.2% (2017 est.) services: 88.7% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: potatoes, cauliflower, grapes, wheat, barley, tomatoes, citrus, cut flowers, green peppers; pork, milk, poultry, eggs
Industries: tourism, electronics, ship building and repair, construction, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, footwear, clothing, tobacco, aviation services, financial services, information technology services
Industrial production growth rate: -3.3% (2016 est.)
Labor force: 206,300 (2017 est.)
Budget: revenues: 5.076 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 4.583 billion (2017 est.)
note: Malta reports public debt at nominal value outstanding at the end of the year, according to guidelines set out in the Maastricht Treaty for general government gross debt; the data include the following categories of government liabilities (as defined in ESA95): currency and deposits (AF.2), securities other than shares excluding financial derivatives (AF.3, excluding AF.34), and loans (AF.4); general government comprises the central, state, and local governments, and social security funds
Current account balance: $1.712 billion (2017 est.) $788 million (2016 est.)
Exports: $3.272 billion (2017 est.) $2.493 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery and mechanical appliances; mineral fuels, oils and petroleum products; pharmaceutical products; books and newspapers; aircraft/spacecraft and parts; toys, games, and sports equipment
Exports - partners: Germany 17.3%, France 10.2%, Italy 9.4%, Singapore 5.9%, Hong Kong 5.8%, US 5.7%, Japan 4.9%, Libya 4.5% (2017)
Imports: $4.996 billion (2017 est.) $4.965 billion (2016 est.)
Imports - commodities: mineral fuels, oils and products; electrical machinery; aircraft/spacecraft and parts thereof; machinery and mechanical appliances; plastic and other semi-manufactured goods; vehicles and parts
Imports - partners: Italy 23%, Germany 7.9%, UK 7.7%, Spain 5%, Canada 4.5%, US 4.3%, France 4.2% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $833 million (31 December 2017 est.) $677.1 million (31 December 2016 est.)
Debt - external: $90.98 billion (September 2016 est.) $99.02 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $166.1 million (1 June 2016 est.) $155.5 million (1 June 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $65.49 million (June 2015 est.) $64.77 million (31 June 2014 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $4.632 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $4.468 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $3.353 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
Exchange rates: euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.885 (2017 est.) 0.903 (2016 est.) 0.9214 (2015 est.) 0.885 (2014 est.) 0.7634 (2013 est.)
Electricity - production: 813 million kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 2.122 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports: 1.525 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 575,100 kW (2016 est.)
Crude oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 45,000 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 283.2 million cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 311.5 million cu m (2017 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 8.141 million Mt (2017 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 560,010
Telephone system: general assessment: automatic system featuring submarine cable and microwave radio relay between islands; one of the most advanced telecoms in Europe, high penetration of mobile and broadband, and a way forward to expand e-commerce opportunities; '5G ready' and LTE network; regulatory system that encourages investors (2018)
domestic: fixed-line 58 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular subscribership 135 per 100 persons (2018)
international: country code - 356; submarine cable connects to Italy; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Broadcast media: 2 publicly owned TV stations, Television Malta broadcasting nationally plus an educational channel; several privately owned national television stations, 2 of which are owned by political parties; Italian and British broadcast programs are available; multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available; publicly owned radio broadcaster operates 3 stations; roughly 20 commercial radio stations (2019)
Internet country code: .mt
Internet users: total: 320,902
Roadways: total 2,254 km
(2001) paved: 1,973 km (2001)
unpaved: 281 km (2001) urban: 1,422 km (2001) non-urban: 832 km (2001)
by type: bulk carrier 645, container ship 283, general cargo 288, oil tanker 391, other 598 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Marsaxlokk (Malta Freeport), Valletta container port(s) (TEUs): Marsaxlokk (3,150,000) (2017)
Military branches: Armed Forces of Malta (AFM, includes land, maritime, and air elements) (2017)
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2017)
Military expenditures: 0.53% of GDP (2017) 0.54% of GDP (2016) 0.5% of GDP (2015) 0.5% of GDP (2014) 0.53% of GDP (2013)
stateless persons: 11 (2018)
Illicit drugs: minor transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Western Europe
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SHU students spend spring break in Philadelphia on service trip
Chelsi Havko, Contributor
Seven Seton Hill students pose for a photo during their service trip in Philadelphia in March, which occurred over spring break. The students worked with the St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Center and a variety of community organizations. Photo courtesy of M.Haynes.
“Doing service projects gets you into a different environment, helps you meet people with similar interests and allows you to help people who might not have the same opportunities as you,” said Anna McClain, who was one of seven students who went to Philadelphia over spring break as part of Seton Hill University’s Alternative Break Program.
The students worked with the St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Center and a variety of community organizations, including PAR, Face to Face, Mercy After School Program, SPARK, Habitat for Humanity, Breaking Bread and a few others to help meet needs in the community.
Seton Hill students smile for a photo as they organize the food pantry while working at Face to Face ministries in Philadelphia, where the students spent their spring break on a service trip. Photo courtesy of M.Haynes.
“The main objective of the trip was to deal with homelessness and hunger insecurities,” McClain said.
The student volunteers broke up into two groups: one sorted old electronics and cleaned an area to get formerly incarcerated men into a working environment, and the other worked with Face to Face in their soup kitchen and emergency housing. The students also worked with kids in the children’s center and on other projects.
“It is critically important to me that students go out of their comfort zone and learn about the community they are surrounded by to work with others to transform the world,” said Marissa Haynes, the coordinator of service outreach who plans and orchestrates these trips.
The student volunteers came from all different majors including business, art therapy and biology.
“I would never have met the people that I spent spring break with if I hadn’t gone on this trip,” said McClain, who hopes to do the Alternative Break Program again in the future.
“Seton Hill Alternative Breaks are designed to empower students to understand their role in the greater community through service,” said Haynes, who chaperones the trips. “Each Alternative Break trip addresses a unique and pressing social issue. Students are encouraged to gain an increased understanding of these issues through pre-trip education, service activities and purposeful reflection.”
Pictured above are Seton Hill students with their supervisor for the day at PAR in Philadelphia as they sorted old electronics, where they volunteered during their spring break. Photo courtesy of M.Haynes.
This year SHU offered three different service trips through this program: Habitat for Humanity (J-Term), Philadelphia (spring break) and New Orleans House of Charity (summer). Interested students filled out an application and then were assigned to a service trip based off of interest and personal strengths.
“The Alternative Break Program allows students to engage in direct service experiences that promote personal growth, issue awareness and active citizenship in the global community while embracing the mission of Seton Hill and the Catholic Social Teachings,” Haynes said.
The cost of the trips vary based on location and need, but fundraising helps to lower the expense. This trip was initially $500 a person.
The Alternative Break Program works with Habitat for Humanity and the Vincentian Family to determine the location of their service projects. The locations change every year, and the Alternative Break Program is always looking for more student volunteers.
“Get out of your comfort zone and try something new. If you’re interested feel free to reach out to me. We will be announcing our trips for next year soon,” Haynes said.
Published By: Stephen Dumnich
April 4, 2019 in April 2019 Magazine, News. Tags: April 2019 Magazine, Chelsi Havko, Seton Hill University, SHU
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William Fix
It's fun to pretend
Fails from the crypt
Darryl Anka
Electronic voice phenomenon
Ghost box
Kai Muegge
Molybdomancy
William Fix is a paranormal author and disciple of Edgar Cayce.
2.1 Fix and creationists
Fix has an M.A. degree in behavioral science from Simon Fraser University and is the author of several books promoting the paranormal. He has also written books about Edgar Cayce and has translated some of his works.
Evolution[edit]
Fix is most well known for his book The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution (1984) in which he proposed the concept of "psychogenesis," which posits that humans started off as spirits but slowly descended into matter. This occult idea was first put forward by the psychic Edgar Cayce.[1]
Fix described the theory as a form of spiritual evolution; however, it is actually a creationist idea as it rejects evolution and naturalistic processes. The first half of Bone Peddlers rejected common descent and evolution based on the fossil record and the back half discussed psychogenesis from paranormal and parapsychology studies. Fix believed that humans obtained their material bodies through psychokinesis. He also claimed that humans can cause objects to materialise just by thinking about them.
Fix and creationists[edit]
Bone Peddlers has been quote mined and lied about by hundreds of creationists, who have tried to use Fix to prove that evolution is a "theory in crisis" that even secular non-Christian scientists are turning away from. Fix, however, is not a scientist nor a secularist, but an occultist, and the back half of his book discusses reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, psychokinesis, spirits, and extrasensory perception. All of these are things that are deemed "heretical" by orthodox Christianity and "woo" by scientists and secularists, yet Fix believes that all of them are real.[2] The fact that creationists quote from Fix and use him as a "secular" ally, while remaining silent on the paranormal and occult ideas that actually informed his rejection of evolution, speaks volumes about their total lack of scientific and moral integrity.
In an article titled The Evolution Deceit, Muslim creationist Harun Yahya quote mined Fix's book, lying about Fix by calling him an "evolutionist biologist".[3] Yahya might want to look up the definition of deceit, as he fits it very well.
Interestingly, Fix's ideas about human origins are exactly the same as those found in Hare Krishna creationism.[4]
Star Maps: Astonishing New Evidence from Ancient Civilizations and Modern Scientific Research of Man's Origins and Return to the Stars (1979)
Pyramid Odyssey (1984)
The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution (1984)
Lake of Memory Rising: Return of the Five Ancient Truths at the Heart of Religion (2000)
Edgar Cayce (2006)
↑ Psychogenesis — Edgar Cayce's Cosmology
↑ Review: The Bone Peddlers
↑ Creationist lying about Fix
↑ Michael Cremo (2003). Human Devolution: A Vedic alternative to Darwin's theory. Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing.
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Karen O’Hare introducing a screening of The Bridge Rising, May 2014 (during Cinemap)
Southside Film Festival was started in 2011 by freelance Film & TV Producer and Project Manager Karen O’Hare. Karen was inspired to create the festival as the Southside of Glasgow did not have a cinema or any regular film events and Karen felt that Southsiders would really respond to a local film festival.
“I am keen to make the festival work as I love film and I love the Southside and I feel that there are so few opportunities for Southsiders to get together socially as a community to celebrate and share all that is great about film, filmmaking and the Southside! Southside Glasgow is not only the most ethnically diverse place in Scotland, it is also a vibrant place, rich in culture and creativity. But the Southside has no cinema so Southsiders cannot easily and locally access quality, independent and international films outside of what is screened in the city centre cinema chains.” Karen, April, 2011
The original reasons and aims for starting the film festival remain-the Southside still doesn’t have a local cinema and there is a continuing need to provide access to affordable and diverse film screenings and events in the area.
“The pop-up cinema is a very trendy thing at the moment, but for me it came out of a sense of necessity: if I want to go to a local cinema, I can’t. So if I want to cycle or walk down the road to go to the cinema, where can I go. Most of this stuff on the Southside is DIY, most of it is not funded by the council or any official body, it’s just people in the area with energy and enthusiasm wanting to improve the space we live in. And that’s the drive.” -Karen O’Hare, The List, May 2014
As well as an annual festival Southside Film also put ons screenings and events throughout the year. For info on current screenings click here
Past festivals 2011-2018
The first film festival in 2011 put on films and events in venues where you would least expect it – from Queen’s Park Boat Shed to Govanhill Baths; from artists’ studios to community halls; from a community garden to a local school; from a working mens’ club to local nightclub. The film programme was intentionally varied to cater for a diverse Southside audience- there were music videos, artists’ films, short films, family friendly films, films for kids, animation, archive films, Scottish features and shorts, local Southside filmmakers’ work and a silent film screening with live Wurlitzer Cinema Organ accompaniment (the Southside holds the only Wurlitzer in Scotland). You can see the first programme here
Exterior boat shed in Queens Park where the 2011 film festival screened Seawards The Great Ships and some local film archive
Interior boat shed in Queens Park-can you spot the miniature ships built by Glasgow South Ship Modellers? May 2011
The mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ, Pollokshaws Burgh HallThe first film festival proved that there was support for a local film festival with with over 750 people attending 21 screenings, events, talks and workshops and with great audience feedback supporting the idea of regular film screenings as everyone missed a local cinema. So the festival came back for Halloween in 2011 with a screening of the silent classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari with live Wurlitzer Cinema Organ which 125 attended and the first ever zombie walk in Shawlands which preceded a sold out screening of Night of the Living Dead in The Shed, 130 people attended the zombie walk and event. The festival returned at Christmas 2011 with a screening of the Muppets Christmas Carol again in The Shed with an audience of 75 people, some of whom came along dressed as their favourite muppet!
Southside Film Festival collaborated with Glasgow Film Festival in Feb 2012 with 200 people attending a sold out screening of Phantom of the Opera with live Wurlitzer at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall and with Glasgow Short Film Festival with a special Southside screening of Scottish Shorts which 155 people attended.
The festival returned in May 2012 with another successful film festival with 850 people attending 27 events. You can view the programme here
And in October 2012 Southside Film started a monthly film club at The Glad Cafe that is still currently running with regular audiences of 50 people each month. For more info on past screenings click here.
In May 2013 the festival returned with 1, 125 attending over 25 screenings, talks, workshops and events. You can view the programme here
In 2013 Southside Film also continued to put on one off screenings such as Carl Dreyer’s Vampr with live Wurlitzer Cinema Organ accompaniment at Halloween.
In May 2014 Southside Film Festival presented Cinemap, mapping the Southside through film The Cinemap screenings were all free and 260 people attended 7 screenings over the weekend. Cinemap also featured new screenings venues such as the allotments at New Victoria Gardens and Tramway. View the programme here
In 2014 the festival continued to host one off ‘pop up’ screenings such as dinner and a movie at Pollok House (Don’t Look Now with Italian food) or silent film with live Wurlitzer (Hitchcock’s The Lodger).
In 2015 the film festival moved 8-11 October, 2015. For more info on the 2015 festival click here
In 2016 the festival moved again to July with Wee Green Cinema event over 2-3 July. For more info on the 2016 click here
In 2017 the festival took place in various venues in the southside of Glasgow 2-4 June. For more info on the 2017 festival click here
The 2018 festival took place 1-3 June. For more info on the 2018 click here
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Adam Fishman
Thematic Expert for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (US)
SDG Knowledge Weekly: Networked Goals and Networks for Transformation
The 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report finds that movement in the wrong direction on climate, inequalities, biodiversity and waste is pushing global society towards a tipping point, but concerted efforts that leverage interactions between the SDGs and their targets can have cascading effects that alter current trajectories.
A paper in 'Sustainability' describes a new approach to partnerships, identifying a potential mismatch between the types of partnerships requisite to achieving transformations and those that are arising under current approaches and trends.
A third paper, published in 'Sustainable Development,' uses a network analysis developed by the International Council for Science to show that direct efforts focused on SDGs 14 (life below water), 15 (life on land) and 5 (gender equality) would best leverage interconnections across the Goal framework.a
This knowledge brief reviews three publications that touch on the need to transform current development pathways and paradigms to meet the ambition of the SDGs. It identifies key nexus points in the 2030 Agenda that leverage synergistic relationships between goals and thematic areas, which can accelerate progress.
The central piece of literature in the spotlight is the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), released on 11 September 2019. The report finds that society’s current development model is not sustainable, and that progress made in the last two decades is in danger of being negated by worsening social inequalities and potentially irreversible degradation of the natural environment. Titled, ‘The Future is Now: Science for Achieving Sustainable Development,’ the report stresses that governments, business, communities and civil society need to transform a number of human activity areas, including food, energy, consumption and cities. The transformations, a media advisory notes, are predicated on increased investment in science for sustainability and in natural and social science institutions based in developing countries.
The 2019 GDSR is divided into four chapters:
‘The transformative power of sustainable development,’ which outlines progress to date provides context on the potential of the 2030 Agenda;
‘Transformations,’ noting four levers of change and six entry points through which change can be catalyzed;
‘Science for sustainable development,’ highlighting the role and potential of harnessing science in society, and how science partners can enable transformation; and
‘Call to action,’ outlining 20 interventions to accelerate progress towards the SDGs in the coming decade.
The analysis suggests that movement in the wrong direction on climate, inequalities, biodiversity and waste is pushing global society towards a tipping point, but that concerted efforts that leverage interactions between the SDGs and their targets (some of which are outlined below), can have cascading effects that alter current trajectories. Through four levers—governance, economy and finance, individual and collective action, and science and technology—the report identifies the following entry points, on which it offers specific calls to action:
Human well-being and capabilities
Sustainable and just economies
Food systems and nutrition patterns
Energy decarbonization with universal access
Urban and peri-urban development
Global environmental commons
Driving home the need for action, a foreword by UN Secretary-General António Guterres underscores that “the future is determined by what we do now and the window of opportunity is closing fast.” This edition of the quadrennial GSDR is not only the first of its kind since the adoption of the SDGs, but is also the first to be authored by the Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The report will inform the upcoming SDG Summit which takes place on 24 and 25 September 2019. A short video on the GSDR is also available, here. Additional GSDR coverage on the SDG Knowledge Hub is also available, here.
A paper published in Sustainability on 10 September 2019 describes a new approach to driving SDG transformations through partnerships. Author David Horan identifies a potential mismatch between the types of partnerships requisite to achieving transformations and those that are arising under current approaches and trends. Horan argues that, while a bottom-up approach can deliver some of the partnerships needed, there are five specific problems with this model: 1) compensation for “losers,” 2) partnering capacity, 3) short time horizons, 4) inadequate coordination mechanisms, and 5) misaligned incentives.
The paper outlines the history of means of implementation for sustainable development, noting that efforts to implement Agenda 21 in the 1990s centered on a narrow base of government stakeholders “who primarily sought to address transnational environmental problems through policy coherence and international development through trade.” It notes that, while these efforts resulted in several UN conventions, it was the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 that “paved the way for a different approach based on voluntary transnational partnerships involving UN agencies, international organizations, donors and international non-governmental organizations.”
The paper argues that the challenge with the SDGs’ seven means of implementation—finance, technology, trade, capacity building, policy coherence, partnerships and data—is working across sectors and mitigating trade-offs whereby progress on one development Goal is achieved at the expense of another. Through the case of energy decarbonization, Horan cites examples of partnerships that have overcome these challenges, such as the Just Transition Fund, which creates economic opportunities for coal mining communities affected by decarbonization initiatives. The partnership, Horan describes, not only brings together potentially conflicting stakeholder groups, but also works across several areas of the 2030 Agenda, including SDGs 4 and 9, to facilitate transformation in these communities.
The paper also highlights policy tools such as transfers, regulation and public investment, which governments can use to strengthen the current framework and orchestrate missing partnerships. Horan’s analysis suggests that implementation of missing partnerships should be government-led, but involve other stakeholders identified as relevant for transition partnerships.
A third knowledge piece, published in Sustainable Development, shows that direct efforts focused on Goals 14 (life below water), 15 (life on land) and 5 (gender equality) “would reinforce the virtuous circles” and trigger transformative progress. The paper is written by researchers at the University of Bath, and uses a network analysis developed by the International Council for Science (ICSU) to conduct “a quantitative theoretical analysis of the SDGs from a systems perspective.”
The paper’s analysis uses a model that examines the outcomes of efforts aimed at tackling each Goal directly, and the indirect effects on progress due to network effects and interrelationships between the Goals and targets. The findings suggest that these “network effects could be used to secure better outcomes on every Goal than would be possible if linkages between Goals did not exist at all.” The implication, the authors highlight, is that the optimal outcomes on the SDGs would be achieved through an unequal, targeted allocation of efforts toward specific Goals and targets.
Several of the paper’s findings are presented via heatmaps and graphics, highlighting the relationships between the Goals. Of note, the discussion notes a “distinct asymmetry between Goals 1, 2 and 3 and the remaining Goals. Progress on Goals 4-16 generally promotes progress on Goals 1, 2 and 3, but there are far fewer links in the other direction.” Similar to other analyses conducted on the relationships between the SDGs as a network, the paper omits SDG 17, noting that the Goal “provides mechanisms that are intended to enable each of the more specific Goals 1-16.” A summary write-up of the paper on Science Daily is also available, here.
Additional issues of the SDG Knowledge Weekly can be found here.
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SEGA in the Media: Saints Row IV’s homage to Streets of Rage
March 20, 2014 by Barry
This just might be a first for SEGA in the Media, a SEGA inspired video game within another video game! Released last year, Saints Row IV was a tongue-in-cheek action-adventure game from Illinois based developer Volition. Given the self-referential nature of the series, it only makes sense that they’d eventually reference crazy action games of the past, and what game is more fitting to pay tribute to than SEGA’s Streets of Rage? Dubbed “Saints of Rage”, this 2D beat ’em up appears at around 75-80% of the way into Saints Row IV. In-game, “Saints of Rage” is an enemy created nightmare simulation. Kicking off with a “Winners Don’t Use Drugs” message, the player is taken to a title screen which is a direct reference to the original Streets of Rage title screen.
The mini-game’s plot is inspired by Double Dragon, as the game opens with a short cutscene featuring the female character Aisha being kidnapped by Vice Kings lieutenant Warren Williams, complete with a punch to the gut. The player and Johnny Gat pursue Williams, as they walk to the right, frequently stopping to battle enemies and prompted to continue onwards with a Streets of Rage style flashing “GO!”. Other Streets of Rage inspired gameplay elements include the ability to pick up and use dropped weapons, battling your way though an office building complete with working elevators, and oversized stage ending bosses. Kudos to Volition for such a fun homage to SEGA’s classic franchise. You can view the full stage below, or better yet pick up Saints Row IV and play it yourself!
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2 responses to “SEGA in the Media: Saints Row IV’s homage to Streets of Rage”
Freezestar says:
Um… you guys may not know this, but this is kind of spoilers for Saints Row 4.
Anybody still being spoiled? Game was out for 8 months when we posted this, and now it is 2 years later. Still too soon? 😛
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Shenmue I & II HD
SEGA Europe teases that they have “exciting projects coming up”, sharing details in 2018
December 6, 2017 by George
SEGA Europe has been teasing new video game projects announcements via twitter the other day. So what could these mysterious projects be? We do have some past news articles that can hint at what they have up their sleeves. For example we reported back in 2015 that The Creative Assembly was working on a “multi-platform AAA blockbuster”, which would mean their return to the console space since they released Alien Isolation back in 2014. We also know that Two Point Studios (ex-Lionhead and Bullfrog) is working with SEGA Europe on a new simulation game, which is set to be announced on January 16th. There’s also that big rumor about the Shenmue HD collection is right around the corner, one of the rumors points at the port being done by UK developer Just Add Water. If that is true, then that would mean that SEGA Europe would probably be involved in handling the project. I also hear that SEGA Europe will be in charge of handling PC ports of upcoming SEGA Japan games, so I can also see them announcing a Valkyria Chronicles 4 port for the West, considering their port of the first game has almost sold a million copies. Of course, this is just my speculation based on past news articles and rumors.
But let me hand the mic over to you, what do you want to see SEGA Europe work on? SEGA Europe has been handling most of the PC stuff, including ports of last generation games like Bayonetta, Vanquish, and even created The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Is there any other games you want to see them port? Maybe extend their porting program to modern consoles? Sound off in the comments below.
SEGA News Bits: Shenmue I & II HD & Bayonetta / Vanquish Double Pack Leaked Reaction
September 11, 2017 by George
This weekend we had a couple of big retail leaks that we reported on, including the Bayonetta and Vanquish double pack and the Shenmue I & II HD; both are set to be coming out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. On this episode of the SEGA News Bits we discuss both these leaks as we discuss if we think they are real, thoughts on the ports not being announced for Nintendo Switch and what other SEGA games we want to get double pack releases on modern consoles. Listen in and let us know what you think of the retail leaks in the comments below!
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Rumor: Shenmue I & II HD coming to PlayStation 4 & Xbox One According to Retailer Leaks
We just reported a previous rumor that Vanquish and Bayonetta is getting a double pack release for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but it seems that Shenmue I & II HD might be joining the rumor party as it has also been leaked by multiple retailers. The double pack has been leaked by Alza (same one that leaked the Bayonetta and Vanquish ones), Heureka, GetGame, and MadeGamer! Earlier this year, it was rumored that Shenmue I & II HD where suppose to be coming out by the end of the year, according to Rice Digital, then we had the CEO of Just Add Water say that these ports have been in works earlier this year. We had so much information about these ports being possible that we even did a whole video on it.
It would make sense considering that SEGA Europe has stated in the past that Shenmue I & II HD have had their full attention and then right after they registered Shenmue Remaster related domains. I will say this is highly probable. What is your opinion? Will you pick up Shenmue I & II HD on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? Are you excited to dip back into the world of Shenmue?
[Via: Dualshockers]
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Definitions Series: Risk
A conversation with Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Stephen Phillips, and Eva Franch
Definitions Series: Risk. April 8, 2014. Copyright Trevor Finn Larsen.
Definitions Series: Risk with Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Stephen Phillips and Eva Franch i Gilabert presented a discussion on the “institutionalization” of “experimentation” and cultural politics and power of TAKING RISKS.
This event was open to all with reserved seats available to Storefront members. If you are interested in becoming a Storefront member, click here.
About the participants
Thom Mayne founded Morphosis as an interdisciplinary, collective practice involved in experimental design and research in 1972. He is co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. Mayne’s distinguished honors include the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the AIA Gold Medal (2013).
Eric Moss, FAIA, received a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in 1965, his Masters of Architecture from UC Berkeley in 1968 and a second Masters of Architecture from Harvard in 1972. EOMA has been the recipient of over 100 local, national, and international design awards. Eric Owen Moss has held teaching positions at major universities around the world including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Moss has been a longtime professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and has served as its director since 2003.
Stephen Phillips
Stephen Phillips, AIA, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design, and Visiting Faculty at SCI-Arc. He is Principal in the award-wining firm Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS). As a graduate of Yale, Penn, and Princeton, he has received fellowships, grants, and awards from the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Graham Foundation, the Bruno Zevi Foundation, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the AIA, and the ACSA, among many others.
LA [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture, 1970s-1990s
Published by Lars Müller, 2013
With contributions by Neil Denari, Thom Mayne, Franklin Israel, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, Craig Hodgetts, Wes Jones, Frederick Fisher, Coy Howard, Hsinming Fung
Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affiliated cadre of experimental architects, the so-called L.A. Ten, emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture.
In the new book L.A. [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture 1970s-1990s by author/editor Stephen Phillips of the Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program—architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L.A. architecture as they remember it.
The Definitions Series invites a series of individuals to construct, propose and articulate definitions of a specified term.
Special thanks to Cal Poly, HMC Architects and Morphosis Architects for sponsoring this event.
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Open Source, Social Collaboration Tools – Next State of Play Seminar
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LAMP ‘STATE OF PLAY’ SEMINARS
Profiling successful case studies, people and the latest techniques across multi platform social media.
FREE themed seminars running on the last Wednesday of every month at 6pm – 7pm.
No need to register just turn up to the main Theatre at AFTRS, Sydney (directions)
Next FREE seminar:
Wed April 29 – FREE AND EASY: Open Source Creative Tools
There are a vast range of new free to use tools that enable rich and efficient collaboration for audiences and professionals alike. What are the best tools for online communities, project development, video distribution and marketing. A survey of free to use tools and services including Mogulus, Twitter, Joomla, Ning, Blogger, Ustream, Drupal, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Virtual World Gatherings, WordPress and many others.
Presented by Australia’s foremost Social Network strategist Laurel Papworth will give a clear overview of the best tools to collaborate from a creative, marketing and social angle. She will show the how the previous audience are now TV channel producers, publishers, news agencies, film makers, music producers and how professionals can re-engage by becoming learning the ‘tricks of the community’. Laurel will also cover the basics of how generic social media tools like Ning, UStream and Blogger can be used to quickly create your own networks.
Speakers: Laurel Papworth‚ Social Media Strategist & CEO World Communities
others to be announced
Introduction by Gary Hayes – AFTRS LAMP
Laurel is a senior consultant, strategist, writer and workshop facilitator on online communities and social networks in Australia, Asia and Middle East. She features regularly on ABC Radio, Public and Commercial TV, serious newspapers and major global blogs. Laurel consults at executive level and facilitates strategic workshops on the impact of social networks on industry sectors, teaches marketing, blogging and social media courses for companies and runs workshops for small and home business on behalf of the Australian Government. Laurel taught the first Australian public social media courses in 2005 at University of Sydney and in addition, develops and teaches Insights Masterclasses for LAMP at Australian Film Television and Radio School on innovation and cross media. When not consulting with companies building online community strategies, Laurel is a global Power150 Media and Marketing blogger (Advertising Age) placing her as #5 blogger in Australia.
Upcoming FREE seminars:
Wed May 27 – MASSIVELY MULTI-STORYTELLER WORLDS: The Drama of Game Worlds
Virtual worlds are now populated by 900 million players globally with many spending more time in them than their real lives. This ‘State of Play’ seminars looks at the range of stories being created in these social and game worlds. It will focus on the drama being created by these full time role players and the opportunities for traditional writers to engage in this popular medium. Speakers: Gary Hayes (AFTRS LAMP) and others to be announced
Wed Jun 29 – CINEMA 2.0: Big Screen Participatory Futures
Stereoscopic 3D, interactive cinema, games in cinema. Where does the future lie for cinemas and other public screen spaces? Speakers: Tim Baier (Animal Logic) and others to be announced
Previous seminar/s
Wed March 25 – TELEVISION 2.0: latest innovations in online video
TV is in major transition. Where are the opportunities across on-demand platforms? Is the old advertising model broken? Will broadband to set top box comfortably co-exist with video on the web? A pre MIP TV session to help prepare you for big changes just on the horizon.
Arul Baskaran (Executive Producer ABC TV Multiplatform)
William Cooper (Informitv – live from UK),
Chris Winter (ABC Innovation)
Gary Hayes (LAMP)
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LAMP Project: Award Winning Surreal Dance Film extends into a 3D Virtual World
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The project, Thursday’s Fictions, that went through the last LAMP: Story of the Future residential is currently being produced & designed by Gary Hayes in Second Life in collaboration with its creators Dr Richard James Allen and Karen Perlman, with story support from LAMP mentor Jackie Turnure, as a tie in with a transmission of the film of the same name. ABC TV Sunday Arts covers it here
The creators of the award-winning and surreal dance film, Thursday’s Fictions, will launch an online 3D immersive experience in Second Life. In this virtual world quest audiences can experience what it’s like to be one of the characters in the story while sharing the experience with their friends.
Thursday’s Fictions is the story of a woman who tries to cheat the cycle of reincarnation to get eternal life. Adapted from the book, Thursday’s Fictions, by Dr Richard James Allen (short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry at the 2000 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards), the film deals with themes of reincarnation and the nature of our universe.
The initiative is supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council through its The Story of the Future project, the Australian Film Television and Radio School through LAMP, the ABC through its Innovation and Arts Departments, and The Project Factory. Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life will be launched on the AFTRS Island on Sunday July 29.
Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life is a collaboration by leading Australian dance filmmakers Dr Richard James Allen and Dr Karen Pearlman of The Physical TV Company and Gary Hayes, Director of LAMP at AFTRS and The Project Factory.
Meet the creative artists, Dr Richard James Allen and Dr Karen Pearlman, for a Q & A at the ABC Amphitheatre on the ABC Island in Second Life at 4pm directly following the broadcast.
The work is currently in progress but here are a series of shots of the Second Life build as it currently stands about 50% into the build phase.
Images © LAMP, Physical TV and Gary Hayes
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Producing Multi-platform TV
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LAMP is involved in a one-day special event to be held at AFTRS on the 5th May called “Producing Multi-Platform TV”. A comprehensive look at cross-media and the current transformation of television in a multi-device and global multi-distribution world.
A line-up of top-level guest speakers will provide insights into producing interactive content for next generation television in Australia and overseas at a seminar at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) on Friday, 5 May 2006.
Keynote speaker, David Jensen is a recognised leader of the interactive television industry, having won two Primetime Emmy’s for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television (Viacom 2005 and ABC 2004) and seven Emmy nominations over the past four years.
Geof Heydon, Director, Innovation and Market Development for Alcatel Asia Pacific, will explore IPTV, explain what it really is and the strategic importance of this new capability that will transform TV based services. He will demonstrate some of the future converged entertainment options that combine TV, broadband and telecommunications elements.
A range of other Australian leading industry practitioners will provide valuable insights into how to plan for the revolution of digital television and explore opportunities it will present. For more details and to register online: click here
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home/news/ Premiere: Death Qualia on Portals Editions
Premiere: Death Qualia on Portals Editions
“Individual instances of subjective, conscious experience” reads the Wiki definition of qualia. In Latin, the term translates as something like “what sort” or “of what kind”, tying into the idea that we could all have different experiences of what we refer to as the same thing. For example, what you perceive as blue, might be the same as what I experience as red even though we refer to them with the same language. Pop-philosophy aside, the latest release from Jonathan Baruc, aka ‘Death Qualia’ plays on themes we can probably all recognise as related to the eternal abyss.
The ‘Intention Versus’ 12” sees it’s release on Berlin-based Portals Editions, a label run by Yair Elazar Glotman, Marijn Degenaar and Brandon Rosenbluth. Since their debut offering in 2014, Portals Editions have straddled the line between razor-blade techno, tectonic drone and doom metal. Little wonder is it then that Baruc finds such a good fit on the label, turning in a release which meets these criteria with deft ability.
The record clangs and scrapes forth, skin-crawling resonances and grinding thrusts of low-end. Moments of outright horror characterised by bone-shattering percussion, tension-doused harmonics and pressure-blasted ambience are offset by timid, headtorch-lit explorations into the unknown, endless chasms appearing every other footstep.
In advance of the record’s release on March 17, we are very pleased to be able to share a premiere of the opening track, ‘Circe Offering The Cup To Ulysses’. Pre-order available here.
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Dynamic Air Shelters
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The Structure of Safety is a complimentary half-day program for operators and their staff.
Petrochemical, chemical, and refining
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Hear in-depth presentations from industry experts
Stay up-to-date on key industry issues and challenges
Build valuable professional networks
Get a rare inside look and tour a Dynamic Air Shelter
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Ryan Terry
PSRG
Mr. Ryan Terry of PSRG Inc. received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Texas A&M University and has 8 years of experience consulting in the process safety industry. He is the lead quantitative analyst at PSRG and serves as the lead technical specialist and principle contact in all QRA, Facility Siting, and Consequence Analysis projects. During his time with PSRG he has performed facility siting and QRA projects for clients all over the world. Additionally, he has experience in auditing all elements of PSM and has certifications in PSM, HAZOP, LOPA, and Bow-Tie Facilitation, Incident Investigation, and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Dave Ritzel
Senior Analyst, Dyn-FX Consulting Ltd
Dave Ritzel runs Dyn-FX Consulting, a research firm focused on blast protection technologies especially studies of personal vulnerability to blast and the biomechanics of blast injury. In his 39-year career, Dave has authored or co-authored over 70 papers on blast/shock research. He was co-editor of NATO AEP-25 “Nuclear Blast and Thermal Test Methods and Procedures” and has received numerous international awards and distinctions and continues to present short-courses and lectures on blast physics, damage, and injury.
Dave holds a B.Sc (With Distinction) in Mechanical Engineering and M.A.Sc. in Aerospace Sciences.
Harold Warner
Founder, Dynamic Air Shelters
As a creative product innovator, entrepreneur, and holder of world hot air balloon flying records, Harold founded Dynamic Air Shelters in 2000. During 25 years of ballooning, he was an International competitive ballooning champion once holding nine world records. After founding and successfully operating AeroDynamics, Aerostats and Promotions, Inc. for almost 20 years, Harold saw the potential to employ similar technology to create air shelters.
Harold is entirely passionate about his work and his involvement in the community. Over many years he has been a presenter at schools and universities emphasizing entrepreneurship initiatives of greater present day commercial relevance.
PSRG is a full service, integrated HSSE consulting and training firm who specialize in process safety, risk management, occupational health and safety, fire protection, emergency and crisis management, and security risk management. PSRG was founded in Houston in 1997 with offices and strategic partners around the globe.
Aggreko is the global leader in rental power (diesel & natural gas) generation, cooling (HVACs, chillers, cooling towers & heat exchangers) and 100% oil-free compressed air solutions. Over the past 30 years, Aggreko has developed a strong track record of performing work in refineries, chemical plants and with industrial contractors in North America.
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Turnaround Logistics is your go-to source for all things logistics. With over five decades of combined experience, our team has a proven track record of providing successful on-site solutions for the Petrochem industry and beyond: API 756-compliant Blast Shelters, Trams and other Transportation Vehicles, Kubotas, Industrial Blinds, Generators, PA Sound System Reinforcement, Catering, and more.
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8:30 am Breakfast Presentation
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9:00 am Shelter tour with Harold Warner
Take an up-close and personal tour of a Dynamic Air Shelter with founder Harold Warner.
9:45 am Facility Siting Challenges and Blast-Resistant Design with Ryan Terry
10:30 am Coffee break
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12:15 pm BBQ Lunch and networking
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They don’t count EDITORIAL 09/06/2010
They don’t count
Noticeable in the ongoing testimonies to the fact-finding body formed to make heads or tails of the botched hostage rescue that took away the lives of eight Hong Kong tourists and the hostage taker, are the many should haves and could haves coming from the police officials, all of which are usually given through the coaxing of the members of the probe body.
National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Leocadio Santiago said had it had been his decision, the police assault on the bus where dismissed Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza held the hostages would have been carried out by the elite Special Action Force (SAF) instead of the ill-equipped Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) force of the Manila Police District. Also negotiator Chief Insp. Romeo Salvador said had he been allowed, he could have grabbed Mendoza and ended the crisis with likely less trouble.
The members of the fact-finding body were obviously taking the path of getting a crystal-clear view on who really was to blame for the ugly turnout of the incident. And from testimonies given thus far, it seems that the group supposedly managing the crisis unfortunately was a mixed bag of spineless police officials, a politician who seems to believe that the crisis was a movie production and a former police general who can’t get past the temptation of taking over ground command during crisis situations.
Santiago’s and Salvador’s statements were giveaway proof that most of the police involved in ground operations on the hostage-taking incident were either not consulted or largely ignored by the so-called crisis management committee (CMC) that appeared to have disintegrated when it was most needed..... MORE
Biggest ‘porker’ ever FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 09/06/2010
Biggest ‘porker’ ever
Guess who is the biggest “porker” in the government?
It’s Noynoy Aquino, President of the Republic, who spoke of the need for reforms and austerity, and slammed away at those officials in government-owned and controlled corporations, and government financial institutions for giving themselves tens of millions in allowances, fat pays and bonuses.
But hey, what’s a few hundred millions when compared to Noynoy’s increased pork barrel — amounting to a staggering P1 billion, just for himself — and unaccountable too, as these are confidential funds.
And this is apart from his presidential social fund, which also amounts in the billions yearly.
It has been pointed out by congressmen that the 2011 budget Congress is now reviewing, shows that not only has Noynoy bloated his pork barrel to P1 billion but also did not provide a single centavo to the National Food Authority (NFA) for rice subsidy in the proposed P1.64-trillion budget submitted to the House.
All for him and nothing for the poor people who have to buy cheap rice?
But not only did Noynoy give himself P1 billion for his pork barrel. He even retained his P500-million intelligence funds!.... MORE
Into the Atlantic — Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion focus 09/06/2010
Into the Atlantic — Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion
BUCHANAN — A home right on the beach has proved anything but a dream for Frances Kwessi, 35, who has watched sea erosion destroy her house room by room, as the Atlantic washed up on her doorstep.
“As you can see only one room has not yet been touched by the sea,” said Kwessi, who lives in Liberia’s port town of Buchanan.
Dressed in a dirty blue dress with a baby strapped to her back, she now sleeps there with her three children, after rising tides claimed three quarters of the brick house, with its cement floor and zinc roof.
Coastal erosion in the west African nation has eaten up many beaches, but more seriously has endangered the many unplanned and densely populated communities who built their houses too close to the shore.
“I don’t really know what to do now,” she said.
“This was the only shelter I had. I sleep here with my children because I have no choice.”... MORE
The buck stops where? C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 09/06/2010
The buck stops where?
So, who decided against giving in to hostage taker Rolando Mendoza’s demand that he be reinstated even temporarily in exchange for the release of the hostages that fateful Monday two weeks ago?
This question is being asked after the deputy negotiator, Chief Insp. Romeo Salvador, revealed on the second day of the clarificatory hearings of the five man investigating panel headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima that Mendoza confided to him as much. On questioning by panel member IBP Governor Roan Libarios, Salvador narrated that as early as lunchtime that Monday Mendoza told him he just needed a temporary reinstatement order to release the hostages since he also realized that he would be charged and detained anyway for the hostage taking. Unfortunately, as Salvador sadly narrated, the “higher ups” failed to act on the information at that time only to find out that a reinstatement order was issued later on when the crisis has turned into a carnage.
So, why did the crisis committee not take the offer right there and then and resolved the crisis pronto? That is the sixty four dollar question which the panel is now obligated to prove to spare us all the wailing and self flagellation which have been attending this tragedy for sometime now. P-Noy need not own up to the mistakes of his bumbling and finger pointing subordinates and lesser officials who should know better than hide behind his back propping him up as their apologist instead of the other way around.
Who disregarded the Mendoza offer and why? This is the one question which needs to be answered now before the De Lima panel and, yes, the eager beaver Palace subordinates lead the public through another round of psycho-babbling and self flagellation. Was it Colonel Yebra, the chief negotiator? As a trained negotiator, did he think Mendoza’s offer a ploy to buy time and gain advantage? Or, did he keep the information to himself hoping that he can spring it and gain clearance for its implementation at a more appropriate time?.... MORE
PeNoy: P8B for the poor, P35B for bankers DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 09/06/2010
PeNoy: P8B for the poor, P35B for bankers
Dinky Soliman, PeNoy Aquino’s Social Welfare secretary, trumpets her P8-billion cash dole-out for the poor. That’s measly compared to the P35 billion Soliman’s CodeNGO is handing out to the bankers this year through the payback to her group’s so-called PeaceBonds.
Just think: The bankers are going to get four times more than the poor. And we don’t even know if all of this P8-billion dole-out will really go to the intended recipients, given the notoriety of the PeNoy administration’s utter lack of control. Stated simply, this is my way of telling Soliman to cut the crap about her and her government’s fictitious “pro-poor” claims. Her NGO work had always been masked subversion projects of the Western funding agencies — thus, explaining why her NGO comrades are so well taken care of by such bodies as the Kennedy School of Government and the Cory Aquino foundations of the oligarchs.
As we speak, PeNoy is already increasing the number of financial rip-offs to benefit Big Business through new projects such as the MRT and the new South Expressway extensions, water privatization, power privatization (which has given us the highest power rates in Asia), plus giving tollway operators more leeway to exact exorbitant fees. All these are being contracted under PeNoy’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme, which will have P15 billion in funding cum dole-out for the big, favored corporations — again outstripping the dole-out for the poor.
Already, under this PPP arrangement, three new tollways are being planned, as well as, tourism infrastructure to be mapped out by Ayala man and Tourism Secretary Bertie Lim. In all, the P35-billion CodeNGO pay-off and the P15-billion PPP projects total to an astounding P50-billion “social welfare” for Big Business!
But even as PeNoy gives this P50-billion subsidy to the bankers and Big Business, his government’s pencil-pushers under Butch Abad, such as the Treasury boss, did not allocate a single centavo for the National Food Authority (NFA), under the Department of Agriculture’s budget. Without this, the NFA will not be able to purchase rice from our millions of farmers. In short, there will be no subsidy at all, which will place them at the mercy of unscrupulous traders and middle men, thus, drowning us in the deluge of imports from countries such as Vietnam, India, and China that subsidize their own farmers. I really wonder if NFA chief Lito Banayo will be able to stomach this as he claims to be pro-poor and a nationalist ever since his college and activist days.
In the meantime, behind the veneer of brooking “no corruption” is this reality: PeNoy now bloats the President’s pork barrel from P800 million to P1 billion and keeps his P500-million intelligence fund, which he earlier vowed to forego. PeNoy also did not reduce his travel budget as he said he would.
Following his lead, Malacañang has now increased its contingent fund under the new budget and listed this under the Special Purpose Fund which only the President can draw from. In turn, budgets for Environment and Health were reduced. Funds such as the P18.5 billion for water resources development and flood control and P40 billion for health services were slashed to P14.5 billion and P38.6 billion respectively.
Yet the palakasan in favor of the Ateneo-UP Student Catholic Action (UPSCA) club, nurtured by the Jesuits Delaney and Intengan, is ever present. Why, the Atenean Butch Abad has already allocated P34.3 billion (up from the previous year’s P15.4 billion) to UPSCAn Dinky Soliman.
All this should be lessons to the wide-eyed believers of PeNoy and the Yellow movement to snap out of their trance. This call is made to such Yellow supporters as Reyn Barnido, who has issued an open letter to PeNoy on the Internet that takes off from the hostage fiasco, saying in part: “This is not anymore about failing to handle the hostage-taking as much as this is about fulfilling the promises of your oath-taking… This is not about a singular madman shooting bullets up and down; this is about an orgy of fools shooting lies left and right... not anymore about the negotiators’ inefficiency to convince a police officer to surrender, but the government’s incapacity to comfort a nation… We don’t deserve this, Sir. This is not the covenant we entered into during your oath-taking… I grew up in the shadows of the Abads, Soliman, Deles… Do not take their analysis of society at face value for theirs is a construct designed to fuel a protest movement, not manage a large bureaucracy… Believe it or not, your cheerers may have become cynics, but they are still your companions in this journey. I, for one, will not abandon you Mr. President.”
Apparently, Barnido still thinks that the crisis bedeviling his former mentors and PeNoy himself is just a crisis of incompetence, where one is sentimentally loyal even to the failed and foolish, hoping they will learn. Well, he and his youngish ilk are the ones who have a lot to learn!
PeNoy’s budget and programs, foisted unto us by the evil powers that Barnido has been taught in the Ateneo not to see, are the best eye openers. These evil powers, the money masters to whom the Jesuits genuflect, are anti-poor and anti-human, on top of being pro-Big Business. Only when he awakens to how he was inveigled to help install a puppet that has brought us to the deepest nadir which the Yellow movement is capable of can he truly help this nation as a “Man for Others,” and not as a “Man for the Money Masters.”... MORE
A tired soul HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 09/06/2010
A tired soul
Aldrin Cardon
I’m a good two decades away from being called a senior citizen, if 60 years is the yardstick for age and possession of a senior’s citizen’s card’s confirmation. But at 40, I can already feel that I have lost my youthful immortality. I’m no longer invincible that I once thought I was.
It’s only rock and roll which keep me alive, but my songs, like those of my father’s, have grown old, too. Yet I learned to step back, catching up with the music of my pre-teen daughter, the eldest of three, who introduced me to B.O.B and Train and Jay Sean and Jay-Z.
If I stay away from radio quite a bit longer, I could take Justin Bieber for a time, but repetition has its cost, and the young singing sensation of good, ol’ America drives me back to New Wave, Blues and good, ol’ rock and roll.
Recently, my friends and I celebrated the 15th year of Back to the Edge, it’s the monthly series of gigs I’ve helped found with Sazi Cozino, owner of Sazi’s Bar, the former Mayric’s in front of UST where tired souls converged to refresh for the new day ahead. But our numbers have been overtaken by the younger souls, those who were once us, until gray hair and arthritis caught up with many of us.... MORE
Honoring the elderly SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 09/06/2010
Honoring the elderly
Dinah S. Ventura
There may have been a time you thought 40 was ancient, but if you have reached this age “category” yourself, you would probably love to bandy the thought that it is “the new 20.”
Regardless of how you feel about age, aging and the so-called elderly, there is no denying that we will reach “that certain age” sometime in our lives — if we’re lucky.
Looking at the elderly in your family, are you filled with wonder at how they manage to remain so strong and healthy even after all these years? Are you proud of their active minds and dependable wisdom, or amused by their propensity to learn new things, such as the Internet and those gadgets that even you have yet to master? Do they inspire you to live as fully as they are living, or do you worry about them?
In the world, according to the United Nations (UN), “one of every 10 persons is now 60 years or older. By the year 2050, one of five will be 60 years or older; by 2150, it will be one of three persons.”
Recognizing the needs of the elderly in the world, the UN General Assembly in 1990 designated Oct. 1 as the International Day for the Elderly. This holiday encourages everyone to pay their respects to the older people in their families and communities and tend to their special needs..... MORE
Verzosa admits low morale in PNP By DEXTER SEE September 5, 2010, 5:00pm
Verzosa admits low morale in PNP
By DEXTER SEE
September 5, 2010, 5:00pm
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City – No less than Director General Jesus A. Verzosa admitted over the weekend that a low morale pervades in the 120,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP) organization, following the monumental blunders of the police in the Manila hostage-taking incident last August 23.
Speaking before Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets on Saturday afternoon, Verzosa acknowledged that the lapses of the police, which failed to avert a bloody end to the hostage drama, earned the ire of the international community.
The death of eight tourists from Hong Kong and hostage-taker, dismissed police Senior Inspector Rolando R. Mendoza, consequently portrayed a weak ability of the police to handle such sensitive incidents.
While Verzosa offered no concrete evidence of demoralization in the country’s police force, he said he can feel the low morale of the men and women in uniform..... MORE
Source: Mb.com.ph
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/275719/verzosa-admits-low-morale-pnp
Joker: Palace moves ‘cheapen’ presidency By Angie M. Rosales 09/06/2010
AQUINO TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY ‘AMOUNTS TO NOTHING’
Joker: Palace moves ‘cheapen’ presidency
By Angie M. Rosales
President Aquino’s taking full responsibility for the botched hostage rescue operations amounts to nothing and the Palace efforts to drum it up cheapened the presidency, Sen. Joker Arroyo, a former executive secretary of Aquino’s mother former President Corazon Aquino, said yesterday.
“It cheapens the presidency,” Arroyo said in criticizing what he described as the apparent publicity stunt executed by Aquino’s advisers to defuse public outrage over the authorities’ mishandling of the Aug. 23 hostage incident.
Arroyo said Palace officials’ pronouncements that Aquino “is not resigning because he received a clear mandate” made matters worse.
“It’s a good sound bite. It’s good to the image of the President but it amounts to nothing,” Arroyo said adding that such statement made by Presidential Communications Sec. Herminio Coloma, was unnecessary.
“When he said that he’s accepting full responsibility, it doesn’t mean that those subject to investigation are already exonerated. The probe continues. So what’s the effect of that statement?” he asked.... MORE
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Retiring Verzosa mimics Aquino in taking crisis rap By Mario J. Mallari and Marie A. Surbano 09/06/2010
Retiring Verzosa mimics Aquino in taking crisis rap
By Mario J. Mallari and Marie A. Surbano
Taking cue from his commander in chief, President Aquino who earlier had said he is assuming responsibility on the botched rescue operation during the Aug. 23 hostage-taking of more than 20 Hong Kongers at the Quirino Grandstand, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Jesus Verzosa, who is scheduled for retirement, also said he is taking responsibility for the tragic incident.
Verzosa, however, said his decision to retire ahead of schedule has nothing to do with the bungled police assault on Hong Thai bus, which was held by former Manila Police District (MPD) member Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza, that ended in the killing of eight Hong Kong tourists and the hostage-taker.
“My decision to render an early retirement has been announced more than a month ago. More than ever, it is imperative to take responsibility especially with regards to what has transpired in the past week,” Verzosa said.
It was gathered that Verzosa has already informed his superiors as early as July about his plan to retire on Sept. 14, or three months earlier than his scheduled retirement on Dec. 25 this year upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.... MORE
afp takes new tack on leftists By Mario J. Mallari 09/06/2010
AFP takes new tack on leftists
By Mario J. Mallari
The Armed Forces
of the Philippines (AFP) has opened its doors to militant organizations such as Bayan Muna and Karapatan that were previously linked by the military to the communist movement, in crafting a new anti-insurgency campaign plan to come up with one that is acceptable to all stakeholders.
During a recent forum in Fort Bonifacio, Army spokesman Col. Antonio Parlade said all major stakeholders — from the religious groups to the academe and even some militant groups – were invited by the military in crafting a new anti-insurgency campaign plan.
“We had a three-day symposium with other stakeholders in this insurgency campaign, from the interfaith, from the academe, the Commission on Human Rights and there were people also invited from Karapatan and even Bayan Muna, even these left organizations were invited to participate in the symposium in order to craft a campaign plan that’s really responsible, acceptable to all sectors,” he added.
With this move, Parlade said the military expects a new campaignplan that’s really responsible, acceptable to all sectors,” he added.
With this move, Parlade said the military expects a new campaign plan that is “non-traditional.”... MORE
Abu sub-leader, 2 others killed in Sulu clash 09/06/2010
Abu sub-leader, 2 others killed in Sulu clash
Government security forces clashed with al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province yesterday, killing at least three and wounding several others, a ranking police official said.
Acording to Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Senior Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., Special Action Force (SAF) commandos caught up with an Abu Sayyaf unit believed to be aiding foreign militants from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group in Maimbung town on Jolo Island, triggering the fighting.
He said intelligence reports suggested that the Abu Sayyaf gunmen were protecting Marwan, a Malaysian-born member of the JI believed to be responsible for honing the Abu Sayyaf’s bombing techniques.
“They were able to neutralize (kill) Gafur and two other unidentified (Abu Sayyaf) members,” Cruz said, referring to Gafur Jumdail..... MORE
US trip to proceed; Noy plans to meet China execs 09/06/2010
US trip to proceed; Noy plans to meet China execs
While President Aquino is bidding for a more “propitious time” to visit two Asean neighbors after the inter-national outrage from the botched hostage rescue attempt that resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong tourists, the Palace said yesterday Aquino’s US trip will proceed this month.
Aquino has started preparing for his working visit to the United States, Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma said.
Aquino has been scheduled to visit Indonesia and Vietnam which are both its co-members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ) group, in mid-September.
Coloma added Aquino is hoping to meet with Chinese leaders during the official visit where the President will join other world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 20..... MORE
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Episode 0087 – Onyx Ashanti (Part 2) on Open Source P2P Concrescence vs The Realm of Loud Dumb…
This week we continue the ecstatically futural mind-jazz duet with cyborg performance artist and body-machine interface master hacker Onyx Ashanti, exploring the frontiers of new meta-languages emerging at the intersection of the born and manufactured, and creative possibilities thereof.
0087_-_Onyx_Ashanti_Part_2_on_Open_Source_P2P_Concresence_vs._The_Realm_of_Loud_Dumb_Sh_t.mp3
Onyx Online:
http://onyx-ashanti.com
http://youtube.com/onyxashanti
http://twitter.com/onyxashanti
Anyone who enjoys this episode will also like these essays from my upcoming book:
“The Future is More of Everything”
https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/how-to-live-in-the-future-part-2-the-future-is-entropic-2faa4aa6f433
“The Future Is Disgusting”
https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-future-is-disgusting-911379af30fe
“Being Every Drone: The Future of XR & Robotic Telepresence”
https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/being-every-drone-the-future-of-xr-robotic-telepresence-19f12889da78
In this episode, we discuss:
Fractal Sonocybernetics & The Future of Language
The neurological and experiential differences between speaking and singing, between continuous movement and discontinuous speech.
“The English alphabet is created of embedded Fibonacci relationships…there are five vowels; all five of those vowels are odd numbers…between A and E is three letters; between E and I is three letters; between I and O is five; O and U is five; and between U and the end of the alphabet, wrapping around to the A, is five letters…two 3s and three 5s is also one of these relationships. There are twenty-one consonants in the alphabet, and twenty-one is one of these Fibonacci values.”
Book: Darwin’s Pharmacy by Richard Doyle
Reaching beyond language to communicate the ineffable psychedelic experience…only to create new (insufficient) languages.
Violent counter-reactions to the sudden is-ness of black swan events (like the election of Barack Obama OR Donald Trump).
“Those of us that get it and CAN talk about it, it is necessary for us to talk about it. But then to reinforce what we’re talking about with action.”
The moral imperative of people with a vision to communicate it. The ethical necessity of artists to create and share.
Music as an irreplaceable core module of an n-plus-one-dimensional future language.
“We’re like some kind of ant, or bee, and our honey is technology.”
With respect to the Singularity: The end of the world? The end of WHAT world? WHAT DOES “END” EVEN MEAN?
What happens to identity politics in an age of exponential change and its metamorphosis of “baseline” human identity into something plural, mutable, and ineffably always-evolving?
“We have to burst out of identity politics in a way such that it is BORING, that it is MUNDANE, that our perception of identity politics is that it is no longer [the house-sized thing that I am within], it is [identity politics, this thing I am holding in my hand and I can examine like I would examine a grapefruit].”
“One’s reality is limited by their ability to comprehend complexity.”
If we act from the understanding that our brains are harmonically organized, our thoughts and actions can begin to take on that harmonic organization…
Gamma brainwaves as the lubricating medium of harmonically coherent brain activity, just as blockchain-enabled microtransactions enables a fluid economy and liquid democracy in the global brain…
How to become resilient in a networked society by using failure to inform the design of new evolutionary systems.
“Bitcoin…it’s unstoppable. Right now. And when it IS stoppable, we will have a new version that is vastly less stoppable than this one. And then it will get attacked mercilessly…and then maybe someone brings the quantum chain down. And then we create something we can’t even imagine at this point…”
“I feel that Bit Torrent begat Bitcoin.”
“The interesting thing with the Bitcoin community is that we’re all working for a company that…there’s nobody working for that company!”
Is crypto the cathedral of planetary culture we’ve been waiting for?
Onyx waxes rhapsodic about the blockchain.
Open-source space program.
Book: Project Hieroglyph (containing Cory Doctorow’s short story, “The Man Who Sold The Moon”)
Onyx uses Sun Ra and the afro-futurist mythology that he created repeatedly to make a point about legendary creative badassery.
“You have to share it in such a way that each person feels that they are absorbing it. And want to. ‘How can I get involved?’”
Pay No Attention to The Realm of Loud Dumb Shit
What a bad example of a good future cyberpunk is… (Tyrell Corporation in Blade Runner, etc.)
Story/Film: Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson
Imagining a Crypto Pride Parade with everyone wearing reflective Face ID spoofing masks
What it takes to turn a work of art into a movement: resonance.
“If you [lawmakers and IP holding companies] can’t stop a five megabyte file [mp3s], good luck stopping crypto.”
And more for those with time to listen!
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Mark Hehir on making Small Maldives Island Co different
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By Lauren Hill for Elite Traveler
Encompassing three distinctly unique island resorts—romantic Huvafen Fushi, family-oriented Amilla Fushi and the lively retro-chic resort Finolhu—Small Maldives Island Co places the focus firmly on giving each place a clear identity and curating the experiences you have there. With the recent relaunch of Huvafen Fushi, we talk to the CEO, Mark Hehir, to find out what it is that makes Small Maldives Island Co so different.
What drew you to join Small Maldives Island Co?
The founders and owner have been known to me for years. They invited me to join them and I took over as CEO in 2015. Since then I’ve led the company’s entire direction and focus, from the design and interiors of the 2016-opened resort Finolhu, to a villa’s styling and defining who the target guest is. The group started with Amilla Fushi, then Finolhu opened, then the family behind Huvafen Fushi asked if I could take it over and bring it into our group. I had been the GM of that resort before, so I could bring it back to life in the right way and with the right spirit.
The three islands are very different. How would you define each of them?
We define them by key experiences people can move between. Amilla Fushi speaks to a family who wants a chic high-quality experience. It’s got great water and land sports and ticks the box of the spa in a beautiful way, but in a broad stroke it’s a family resort with a series of multi-room residences. The Maldives has always had that base honeymoon market but the honeymoon market doesn’t repeat – families do. So, Amilla lives that life. Finolhu then celebrates multi-generational travel. It’s a very fun five-star retro resort, with 60s and 70s influence, and emotional connections through the music, architecture and design. Different generations have a different take on it, and it’s bigger so there’s a lot of movement and vibrancy. Every night there’s live entertainment and a lot of quirky twists, so we host a lot of celebrations.
For Huvafen Fushi, when I worked there before we were always thinking about that beautiful couple who wants to escape and indulge, eat and spa, do some diving and slow down for a bit. We thought about that a lot, but with new operators coming and going, the idea got lost. When I went in, I had to clean it out and think about who our guests are. In this most beautiful immaculate place with dolphins coming past, you don’t want kids running through throwing sand as you’re having a croissant and coffee. It’s supposed to be this zen place. So I made it adults only. And Huvafen Fushi is a grande dame of the Maldives. It’s timeless. So, with the re-imagination, it was all refreshed and brought back to life. Huvafen is built in a way that has integrity so I wanted to honor that.
That’s how the islands define themselves, but the same people do go to all three. I don’t think it’s a different guest. It’s more the mind-set. When you define a concept that well, it stands out and that eventually gives you the longevity. If you try to be everything to everybody, you inevitably become nobody. It’s been great for us to make that decision. Overarching though is our people who have been on the journey for many years. Without them, none of this works.
What are the biggest differences at Huvafen Fushi since its relaunch?
We now have the overwater Japanese restaurant, Feeling Koi. That’s been a huge success. We have a Japanese chef in Hokkaido who acts as consultant chef. He comes to the Maldives throughout the year and we send our chefs over there to train with him. That defines the authenticity of it, then we put a twist on it with our Peruvian-Brazilian chef. We had a healthy eating restaurant there before but we’ve moved that to the relaxation area of the spa, and we’ve worked on the spa facilities, establishing new partnerships with people like Teresa Tarmey the facialist and Pure Massage by Beata Aleksandrowicz. We then reworked our two-story villa, The Playpen, to make it feel like a London penthouse. It’s not something that’s been done before in the Maldives – it has a burgundy pool, steam room and sauna, and a raised bed so you see more of the ocean view.
How do you think luxury travelers’ expectations are changing?
Over the last six or seven years it’s been on my mind that it’s the person’s experiences and stories that matter most. The product isn’t the most important part – it’s what you do in it. It’s really important that we keep ahead of that by creating stories, curating those experiences and showcasing them in a way that makes people want to engage. Now more than ever, people want to know who’s there, what the culture is like and how it’s going to make them feel.
Do you have any other islands planned?
I do – in detail. We want to eventually have five resorts and alongside that work on other experiences within the Maldives and ways to champion all of that. I created a club to speak to our customer through called Maldives Aficionado, with a rewards program and experiences threaded through it. We want to grow our loyalty through gifting experiences and also engaging people in their own country with events.That’s critical for our growth. I also want to develop another island that’s close to my heart and how I feel about the environment, while relating to mind, body and spirit in a creative way through design and installations. It will be 100 percent solar powered and free from first- and single-use plastic, but we’ll still give you that luxury, design-led experience. I’ve created the concept and I’m now working on making it happen. Another island would focus on a different customer profile, and we’d like to have boats people can stay on that also connect the islands. These are the things we can do as a small company, which is the dream.
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Purpose of Review: This informative article provides an summary of the
August 22, 2018 by Leo Gilbert·0 Comments
Purpose of Review: This informative article provides an summary of the clinical features, neuropathologic results, diagnostic requirements, and administration of dementia with Lewy physiques (DLB) and Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), together referred to as the Lewy body dementias. features and also weigh evidence for dopamine cell loss measured with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging and for rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder, a risk factor for the synucleinopathies. The timing of dementia relative to parkinsonism is the major clinical distinction between DLB and PDD, with dementia arising in the setting of well-established idiopathic Parkinson disease (after at least 1 year of motor symptoms) denoting PDD, while earlier cognitive impairment relative to parkinsonism denotes DLB. The distinction EGT1442 between these syndromes continues to be an active research question. Treatment for these illnesses remains symptomatic and relies on both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies. Summary: DLB and PDD are important and common dementia syndromes that overlap in their clinical features, neuropathology, and management. They are believed to exist on a spectrum of Lewy body disease, and some controversy persists in their differentiation. Given the need to optimize cognition, extrapyramidal function, and psychiatric health, management can be complex and should be systematic. INTRODUCTION In 1912, Frederick Lewy first described the cytoplasmic inclusions now known as Lewy bodies in the substantia nigra in Parkinson disease (PD).1 Cortical Lewy bodies were first reported in association with dementia in 1961,2 but they were felt to be a relatively rare finding until the 1980s, when first ubiquitin and later -synuclein immunostains made it easier to see them3 and demonstrated that Lewy EGT1442 bodies were a common neuropathologic finding in dementia, second only to Alzheimer disease (AD). Lewy bodyCrelated pathology is observed in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), idiopathic PD, and multiple system atrophy (MSA), and DLB and the dementia that arises in PD (ie, Parkinson disease dementia [PDD]) together comprise the Lewy body dementias. The clinical features of DLB and PDD are similar and include hallucinations, cognitive fluctuations, and dementia in the setting of the extrapyramidal motor impairments known as parkinsonism. The cognitive domains that are impacted in DLB and PDD overlap EGT1442 substantially, with prominent executive dysfunction and visual-spatial abnormalities and variable impairment in memory capacities.4 In DLB, dementia often heralds the onset of illness in advance of parkinsonian motor signs, but by consensus may follow their development up to 1 1 year from their onset.5 In contrast, a diagnosis of PDD is made when cognitive impairments develop in the setting of well-established PD.6 Despite the different temporal sequences of motor and cognitive deficits, PDD and DLB show remarkably convergent neuropathologic changes at autopsy. These changes include widespread limbic and cortical Lewy bodies7 and Lewy neurites composed of aggregates of -synuclein that involve the brainstem as well as limbic and neocortical regions (referred to as Lewy body disease), loss of midbrain dopamine cells,8 and loss of cholinergic neurons in ventral forebrain nuclei.9 Neuritic plaques that contain amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles are found in the majority of cases of DLB and are common in PD.10 Current neuropathologic criteria of Lewy body disease weigh -synuclein pathology against AD neurofibrillary tangle pathology to estimate the BZS probability that Lewy body disease caused the clinical syndrome in life.5 It is notable that Lewy body disease at autopsy does not successfully predict whether patients got DLB or PDD syndromes in life. The overlap of medical, neuropsychological, and neuropathologic features offers resulted in the hypothesis that PDD and DLB could be different phenotypic expressions of the same root procedure.11,12 This hypothesis means that long term disease-modifying therapies will succeed in both illnesses. CLINICAL FEATURES AND DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF DEMENTIA WITH LEWY Physiques DLB is connected with a stereotyped group of medical features. Cognitive Symptoms The normal individual with DLB presents with early dementia, frequently in colaboration with visible hallucinations. Extrapyramidal engine symptoms and indications quality of PD frequently develop concurrently or quickly thereafter. Intensifying cognitive decline starts early, typically after age group 55. It really is useful.
iota-toxin (Ia) mono-ADP ribosylates Arg177 of actin, leading to cytoskeletal disorganization
June 5, 2017 by Leo Gilbert·0 Comments
iota-toxin (Ia) mono-ADP ribosylates Arg177 of actin, leading to cytoskeletal disorganization and cell death. Ia but also to other ADP ribosyltransferases. heat-labile enterotoxin (6) target the cysteine or arginine residues of heteromeric GTP-binding protein. As type EGT1442 EGT1442 II toxins, diphtheria toxin (7) and exotoxin A alter elongation element 2 diphthamide. As type III poisons, C3 exotoxin ADP-ribosylates little GTP-binding proteins asparagine (8). As type IV poisons, C2 (9) and iota toxin (10) ADP-ribosylate arginine 177 of actin. Lately, a non-typical ADP-ribosylating toxin was found out: TccC3 modifies actin threonine 148 (11). C2 toxin can be an actin-specific Artwork, and iota-toxin (Ia) offers been proven to have stunning commonalities in both its enzymatic element (C2I or Ia) and binding/translocation element (C2II or Ib). Therefore, both Ia and C2I ADP-ribosylate G-actin Arg177, that leads to cytoskeletal disorganization and cell loss of life (12, 13). Oddly enough, C2I and Ia recognize subtle variations in the actin molecule; as a result, Ia modifies both -actin and -actin, whereas C2I modifies just -actin. The constructions of catalytic parts or domains from different ARTs have been determined with and without NAD+ [VIP2 (14), Ia (15), C2I (16), and CDTa (17) as two-component toxin and SpvB (18) as single-component toxins]. In usual two-component toxin, the catalytic component has two similar domains whose C domains and domains possess ADP ribosyltransferase activity and membrane-binding/translocation activity, respectively. The C domains have a highly similar area of strong electrostatic potential (15). The C-terminal domain shares a conserved -sandwich core structure consisting of eight -strands. Around the -sandwich core, two helices and a loop form the NAD+-binding site. In not only type IV but also type III toxin, the similar structure of the catalytic domain was kept, but differs in the target protein and residue to be modified [C3bot (19, 20), C3stau (21), and C3lim (22)]. Furthermore, the structure of ectoART has revealed strong structural similarity with ART toxins (23). These structural and biochemical studies of ARTs have given us detailed structural information about the NAD+ binding. A particularly important point is that the nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) portion is highly folded into a strained conformation within all ARTs (15, 24). Ia is known to contain three conserved regions: an aromatic residue-R/H, an Glu-X-Glu (EXE) motif, and an STS motif. The EXE motif, which is on the ADP-ribosylating turn-turn (ARTT) loop, is particularly important for the enzyme activity and has been investigated in point mutation and crystallography studies (15). Still, the available information on the structural basis of the catalytic mechanism of ARTs remains limited and incomplete because of the limited information on the ARTCsubstrate protein complex. To understand the mechanism underlying molecular recognition and arginine ADP ribosylation by ART, we recently reported the crystal structure of the IaCactin complex using a nonhydrolyzable NAD+ analog, TAD (thiazole-4-carboxamide adenine dinucleotide) (25). The structure of the complex revealed the mechanism of IaCactin recognition and suggested a possible reaction mechanism. Here we report high-resolution structures of NAD+-Ia-actin (prereaction state) and Ia-ADP ribosylated (ADPR)-actin (postreaction state), as well as apo-Ia-actin and NAD+-Ia (mutant)-actin. Based on these structures from each reaction EGT1442 EGT1442 step, the strain and alleviation mechanism, which we proposed previous, was experimentally verified EGT1442 and improved (25). Outcomes Constructions of Apo-Ia-Actin, NAD+-Ia-Actin, and Ia-ADPR-Actin. To research the response system root ART-catalyzed arginine ADP ribosylation, our purpose was to examine structural snapshots acquired during the response from NAD+ to ADPR-arginine. Sadly, cocrystallization from the NAD+-Ia-actin complicated failed because ADP ribosylation proceeded in the crystallization buffer. Nevertheless, we could actually produce little apo-Ia-actin crystals, and we Rabbit polyclonal to ZBTB6. sophisticated the crystallization circumstances to grow bigger crystals. The framework of apo-Ia-actin was resolved by molecular alternative using TAD-Ia-actin like a model. Even though the comparative orientation of apo-Ia-actin differs from TAD-Ia-actin somewhat, the essential structural framework of the complex was retained, which is necessary for the ADP ribosyltransferase reaction. This suggests that the unique apo-Ia-actin complex crystal can be thought of as a reaction chamber with which to examine the ADP ribosylation reaction and the structural changes that occur.
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Four Seasons to the Frontier
As worn and dreary as the Frontier was, it'll always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first hotel Frank and I stayed when we first visited Vegas in 1997. It's bittersweet to see the doors close. We went by the Frontier the Friday before it closed to say good-bye. It was pretty busy, the lines for Gilley's were quite long. The crowd around the Sigma Derby was 20 people deep. The high limit room, a few banks of slots, and tables were already shut down. We dropped a couple quarters in slots here and there, it ended up being a profitable endeavor. We hit two small quarter jackpots totalling $70.
After our farewell tour we sat on a bench outside the main entrance, and watched folks come and go. Let me tell you, it was an incredibly entertaining way to spend 30 minutes. Here's my Farewell Frontier Album. The first set, taken in daylight, are from the first week of April. The rest are from Friday night.
On our way to the Frontier we noticed that there's a new restaurant at Fashion Show Mall, called Stripburger. Menu looks good and prices are pretty reasonable. We'll give it a try sometime soon.
Review: Charlie Palmer Steak
Friday the 13th, we dined at Charlie Palmer Steak inside the Four Seasons. We had no trouble making eight o'clock reservations, only two hours beforehand. When we arrived we were offered the choice of dining at traditional table or a couch table. We opted for the latter. Ambiance was relaxed and cozy due in part to the subdued lighting. There were only two other tables of diners when we had arrived. We found it somewhat odd for it to be so quiet on a Friday evening. However, additional patrons arrived toward the end of our meal.
Despite the lack of guests, service was remarkably slow to start. A visit from the Sommelier helped to pass the time while we waited on our menus. We chose not to have any wine, but his presence sparked several etiquette questions. A variety of breads were delivered to our table and our drink order was finally taken, but we still had not seen a menu. We grew impatient so I dug into the bread, sure enough that’s when our waiter appeared with menus in hand.
We opted to start with citrus prawn cocktail and Caesar bib salad. We selected Filet Mignon and Veal Delmonico as our entrees and chose to share a side of Parmesan potato gratin. We devoured the basket of delicious breads while we waited. The corn bread was particularly notable.
Our appetizers were excellent. My filet was prepared with roasted shallot jus. Frank’s Delmonico was served with peppercorn sauce. Both were flavorful and tender. Although, as a matter of personal preference, we rather have sauces served on the side. The potatoes were outstanding; a crisp crust formed across the top and the inside was rich and creamy.
Our bill came to $146. I will note that I was a bit surprised to see that my two diet cokes cost $10; seemed excessive to me. In the end, service was sufficient, but I’d expect a higher caliber from Charlie Palmer and the Four Seasons. Nonetheless, it was a fine meal.
Review: Nora's Italian Cuisine
Nora's is only a few blocks away, despite all the rave reviews, I've had trouble swaying Frank to try it. However, after two great meals in Lake Las Vegas, I earned some credibility and he agreed to go. We had garlic bread and caesar salad to start. Followed up with Veal Parm and Chicken Erbe Fini. Total bill was $40. Food was good and it's a decent value compared to other Italian joints in town. Although, I didn't feel it was special enough to earn a return visit.
Where does time go?
Life has been full throttle lately and I have lots to share. Frank is finally feeling great, which is a huge relief. He returned to work June 17, it took him a week to get into the swing of things, but he's pleased to be back.
Over the past few weeks, Frank's been negotiating with HET for a job transfer to a strip property. As of last Tuesday, the deal is official. Frank will be the Specialty Games Manager, he will oversee Poker, Race and Sports, and Keno. The catch is that he will continue to run Laughlin until a suitable replacement is found and trained. So, he'll likely be managing both properties until October. We intend to sell the Laughlin condo and we anticipate sharing the same address full-time, once again. Hopefully, next year, we will sell our Vegas condo, as well, and move up to a house.
We've been busy gallivanting around town, I guess you could say we've made up for our down time in April-June, this month. We've said farewell to the Frontier. We've tried a few restaurants like Charlie Palmer Steak, Nora's Italian Cuisine, Canter's Deli and hit a couple old favorites such as the Buffet at TI and Lawry's. We also stayed at the Platinum Hotel this past weekend and we have the Signature reserved for this upcoming Sunday. Pictures and details to come.
7.7.7 Getting lucky in Lake Las Vegas (conclusion)
We woke Sunday at 8am, showered, and prepared for the day. We decided that we'd have brunch at MiraLago, but it isn't available until 10:30 so we had time to kill. I brewed a pot of coffee and we nestled outside on our patio. Frank check email on the laptop while I read a magazine, such a lovely way to start the day.
We weren't sure how far away MiraLago was so we hopped in the car and drove up the mountainside. If it wasn't for the heat it would be an easy walk. MiraLago is the cafe at Reflection Bay Golf Club. They offer Sunday brunch from 10:30-2:30 and it is $34.95. We had the choice of dining indoors or on the terrace; we opted for the latter since the views were spectacular.
Reflection Bay:
We began with some bubbly, they served LeDomaine champagne:
Then we looked to see what foods were available. Eggs made to order were available from the kitchen. The buffet was divided by salads; cheese and crackers, fruits; breakfast items: eggs benedict, biscuits and gravy, sausage, bacon, potatoes; lunch items: orange pork tenderloin, miralago steak, harvest veggies, turkey pot pie, stuffed shells, salmon, halibut; cold seafood: shrimp, crab claws, oysters, sushi; carving station offered lamb chops and prime rib. There was also a plethora of pastries and desserts to choose from.
We sampled a bit of everything. I didn't think to take a picture of our first helping, but I remembered on our second.
My sampling of fruits, cheese, claws and shrimp:
All in all, it was a really nice spread. We enjoyed it immensely. We felt it was worth every penny and thought it was better than all the top buffets we've had in Vegas. Our server's name was Jeff and he provided us with superb service throughout our meal. He was well-informed and answered all our Lake Las Vegas questions. Needless to say, brunch was excellent!
Reluctantly, it was time to go; we had to check out of the room. We packed up our belongings and then head home. We'll certainly return, we found Lake Las Vegas to be a tranquil escape from the craziness of the Las Vegas strip. It seemed liked we were hundreds of miles from home, but in reality it was only 30 miles away. As luck would have it, a stay at the oasis in desert is just what we needed.
7.7.7 Getting lucky in Lake Las Vegas (cont.)
Refreshed, we headed over to Como's for dinner. Patio seating is available, but not offered tonight due the heat. Therefore, the indoor dining area was quite crowded, but tables were arranged in a way that allowed privacy from other diners. It took only minute to decide on our order. We started with onion soup and caesar salad, I selected filet mignon and Frank chose the rib eye for his entree. He also requested a side of au gratin potatoes.
We snacked on a variety of breads while waiting for our meal to arrive. Olive tapinade was served alongside the fresh and delicious breads. We shared our starters; both were nicely prepared, although the romaine hearts were dressed too heavily for tastes. The entrees were delivered in ample time, and each had a lovely presentation. Sautéed spring vegetables and mashed potatoes accompanied my filet. Everything on my plate was excellent and prepared to perfection. The filet had a peppered crust that sealed in the juices and the meat itself was tender. I savored every bite. Frank's rib eye was served with roasted fingerling potatoes and spinach; those were the low-lights of the meal. The rib eye, however, was outstanding. The au gratin potatoes were layered with care and they were delicious, as well.
We were quite full when our plates were cleared away, but we found it too hard to resist the dessert menu. We couldn't settle on one selection so we ordered two: chocolate bread pudding and molten cake.
Again, the presentation was delightful. My molten cake was beside an expresso cup filled with espresso flavored gelato; garnished with mixed berries. The bread pudding had several layers and was served with chocolate gelato. Unfortunately, the desserts were all show and no substance. They were the weakest links of the meal.
Service was great and our bill came to $140. We'll definitely return, but next time we'll forego the dessert.
The sun had set when we left Como's. We walked the lakefront and listened to the Jazz band. We planned to walk around the village and check out a few shops, but all the events of the day were taking a toll on Frank (he’s recovering from surgery he had last month). His back was achy and his legs were tight so we felt it was best to return to our room.
Looking toward the Pontevecchio Bridge:
Before retiring to the room, we snuck a peek at the pool, but it was too crowded to swim. Instead, we called it a night and enjoyed the rest of our evening in our "suite".
After we got situated we walked across the Pontevecchio Bridge to the village where the shops, restaurants and casino are located. I snapped a few pictures along the way.
Lake Las Vegas and Luna Di Lusso to the left:
Marina and village to the right:
Opposite side of bridge looking toward Ritz-Carlton:
We walked through the village shops, but it was hard to see what each was selling because of the scorching sun. Not many people walking about probably had something to do with the 115 degree temperature.
We were getting pretty hot from our walk so we sought relief from the hot sun inside Casino Monte Lago. Sweet A/C, can't live in the desert without it. We made a stop at Club Uno for player's cards. We played once there before shortly after it opened, surprisingly Frank was still in their system after four years. I didn't have an account so I was entitled to $5 of free slot play.
First stop was $1 Crystal 7's with my free play, nada won there. We moved on to Blazing 7's, no luck there, either. Next we found full pay double bonus VP and made ourselves comfortable. Played for a bit, but no notable jackpots were won. Frank decided to play some blackjack and I hit the penny slots. Finally we each had some luck. We doubled our money and killed a decent amount of time. We met up and played misc slots. Said and done, we lost $20 between the two of us, that's not a win, but we felt pretty lucky.
We had time before our dinner reservations at Como's so we decided to return to our room and lounge a bit beforehand.
7.7.7 Getting lucky in Lake Las Vegas
Last Thursday afternoon, Frank suggested we book a hotel for the weekend. Finding a reasonable weekend rate last minute on one of the busiest wedding days of the year in Las Vegas in no easy task. However, I managed to find a room available at Montelago Village on Lake Las Vegas for $160 on Saturday night.
After a couple days of anticipation Saturday had arrived. We packed and headed out around 2pm, traffic was a little heavy, and it ended up being about a 30 minute drive via 215. Upon check-in we requested a lakeview room in Luna Di Lusso. No lakeview was available, but we were assigned a studio "suite" in the west portion of Luna Di Lusso.
The room was very nice, everything you could possibly need was provided. The view was nothing special since it overlooked the parking lot. But we’ll know next time it'll be worth an extra $20/night for the lakeview upgrade.
It's been hectic for the past few months, but thankfully things are beginning to settle down. Frank is still recovering from his surgery last month, but he’s on his way to return to normal every day activities. He’ll meet with his doctor on Thursday; he’s hopeful that he’ll be given permission to return to work. Frank is anxious to get back and his presence is needed in Laughlin.
In other news, Frank’s return to Las Vegas is in sight. He has an interview for a Specialty Games Manager position at a strip property on Friday.
7.7.7 Getting lucky in Lake Las Vegas (conclusion)...
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Variations of Robinson Crusoe
George P. Landow, Professor of English and the History of Art, Brown University
[Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Painting —> Literary Technique]
One. Images Situations, and Structures
Into the Moment of Crisis
Equivalent Structures
John Martin and the Religious Sublime
Pompeii Destroyed
Bulwer-Lytton Punishes Pompeii
Images of Crisis and Interarts Criticism
Images of Crisis as Cultural Code
Pre-Modern Images of Crisis; or Shipwrecked in the Sight of God
The Shipwreck Image and Situation as Paradigm
Static versus Kinetic Images of Crisis
Crises of Christianity and Images of Crisis
Ambiguous Images and Crisis
Shipwrecks Literary, Literal, and Opaque
Two. Shipwrecks and Castaways
A typology of shipwrecks and imperilled mariners
The reality of shipwreck
The destination disappears
The pole-star vanishes
Drifting on the waste ocean
The mind a wandering bark
William Falconer and the meaning of shipwreck
Recognitions of the swimmer
Shipwrecked and cast away in the sea of time
Political and social shipwrecks and castaways
The advantages of the castaway
Three. Related Paradigms
Related Paradigms: Introduction
The Deluge transformed (1) : The Christrian Tradition, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature
The Deluge transformed (2) : Romanticism and the Massacre of the Innocents
Versions of Odysseus
Rainbows: problematic images of problematic nature
Four. Iconology and Technique
Paradigm, point of view, and narrative distance in verbal and visual arts
Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror
Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Géricault's The Raft of the 'Medusa'
J.M.W.Turner's Slave Ship
Some brief observations on paradigms and literary structure
The Lessons of In Memoriam for Students of Imagery and iconology
A brief conclusion on paradigms and literary structure
The original print edition was published in 1982 by Routledge & Kegan Paul. The WWW version of the first two chapters, about two-thirds of the text, was created during summer 1997 by Marisa Castagno of the University of Turin, Italy, with minor assistance from Landow, who created html version of the last two chapters, and in July 2007 translated the entire book into CSS.
Notes to this WWW edition
Clicking on superscript numbers brings you to a note by the editor, which will appear at the top of the left column; hitting the back button on your browser returns you to your place in the body of the main text.
Links without superscript numbers take you to materials in The Victorian Web.
1. Recent scholarship has demonstrated the great degree to which Defoe's fiction draws upon traditional Christian symbolism. See, for example, Maximillian E. Novak, "Robinson Crusoe." "Original Sin," Studies in English Literature, I (1961): 19-29; Edwin P. Benjamin, "Symbolic Elements in Robinson Crusoe," Philological Quarterly, 30 (1951): 206-11; and Robert W. Ayers, "Robinson Crusoe: "Allusive Allegorick History,"PMLA, 82 (1967): 399-407.
I am no mere sickened leaf on a dead tide. . . . All of us [werel wrecked together in a Chinatown cafe and waiting for the rising tide, another dark whim of the sea. . . . For a moment I saw them, these bloated shapes ... that marked the long wild curve of our reckless detour into the dark and milky night. Abandoned. As we were abandoned.... I fell back and found myself staring up at a gray sky, gray scudding clouds, a thick palpable reality of air in which only the barometer and a few weak signals of distress could survive. An inhuman daytime sky.... I was alone, abandoned, left behind.... And then my heart was floating in a dark sea, in my stomach the waves were commencing their dark action.... I was tossed up spent and half-naked on the invisible shore of our wandering island — old Ariel in sneakers, sprite surviving in bald-headed man of fair complexion . . . I was done with the water, the uncomfortable drift of a destructive ocean, done trying to make myself acceptable to the Old Man of the Sea. — John Hawkes, Second Skin
fter escaping the surf that has battered and nearly drowned him, Robinson Crusoe manages to drag himself ashore; and looking back at the hostile sea, he is at first carried away by joy at his good luck in escaping the fate of his shipmates. But when he turns his gaze from the sea to examine his new surroundings, he suddenly realizes that he has had, after all, "a dreadful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything else either to eat or drink to comfort me, neither did I see any prospect before me, but that of perishing with hunger, or being devoures by wild beasts." Crusoe's first reaction reminds us of Dante. when, in the twentieth line of the Inferno, he likens himself to one "who with labouring breath has escaped from the waters to the shore." Dante, however, does not find himself perishing in a waste desert, for Vergil, having been sent by Beatrice, soon arrives to save him from the isolation of sin. Crusoe, too, is saved when the ship remains wedged among the rocks that had destroyed it — for his tale, like Dante's, is also one of spiritual education and consequent spiritual deliverance.1
An author, a nation, an age all define themselves by what they understand and misunderstand about their predecessors, and almost all nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers who allude to this most famous of castaways completely disregard Defoe's obvious theological emphasis, choosing instead to see Crusoe as an example of man's essential isolation. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls uses the words of John Donne to assert the existence of communitas, but far more characteristic of Romantic and post-Romantic literature has been the assertion that life is both metaphysically and humanly islanded.
This interpretation of reality appears with particular clarity in literary allusions to Robinson Crusoe. For instance, the opening lines of Daryl Hine's "Among Islands" tells how
We are exiles everywhere we go,
Stranded upon the veranda, castaways
In the family living room, like Crusoe,
Or like Philoctetes, festering,
Having given away the Herculean bow,
With nothing to call our own except the wound.
And when Hank, the main characterof Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, realizes his situation, he concludes that he "was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals" (ch. 7). Even those who still have faith, like Mrs Gaskell, the author of North and South, see Robinson Crusoe only as an exemplar of human isolation. When Mrs Gaskell's political novel presents the industrialist Henry Thornton defining the nature of man, he naturally happens upon the image of Crusoe. According to Thornton, who in the earlier part of the novel represents unreconstructed laissez-faire capitalism in its harshest form, "gentleman" is a term that describes the human being only in relation to others,
but when we speak of him as "a man,."we consider him . . . in relation to himself — to life — to time — to eternity. A castaway, lonely as Robinson Crusoe . . . has his endurance, his strength, his faith best described by his being spoken of as "a man." [ch. 20]
Thus Thornton, who at this popint in the novel assumes that all men exist in basic isolation as social atoms, can hold that a man's social relations are trivial in comparison to the basic nature of humanity in industrial society. Characteristically, he does not seem frightened by the implications of his image of the human condition. One may add that it is no coincidence that when Georg Lukacs comes to describe man in capitalist society, he chooses the same image as the wife of the Victorian minister. For according to his "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" the kind of human being who emerges in the industrial age "must be the individual, egotistic bourgeois isolated aritificially by capitalism . . . [with] an individual isolated consciousness à la Robinson Crusoe." The degree to which Defoe's character has become the embodiment of human isolation appears most strongly, perhaps, in the fact that when the philosopher Gilbert Ryle comes to attack what he terms the "official theory of epistemology since Descartes, he points out how mistakenly it urges the view that "the mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe" (The Concept of Mind, ch. 1).
Closely related to this characteristically modern reinterpretation of Defoe's story is the image of the island, or more properly, of an island existence. In what we may term its metaphysical form, this image conveys the belief — to use the words of Wallace Stevens's "Sunday Morning" — that we exist in an "island solitude, unsponsored, free,/ Of that wide water, inescapable." On the other hand, in its second major form this image emphasizes that every man is an island; or as Matthew Arnold put it:
Yes! in the sea of life enisled.
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
["Switzerland, no. 5. To Marguerite Continued"]
Both versions of the basic image achieve more than the rhetorical force of any good analogy. Both, in fact, are capable of generating an entire imaginative world, an entire metaphysic brought into being by their appearance. Although observing the existence of the image of islanded man is a worthy enough contribution to a study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century iconsography, I am far more interested in this image's essential capacity to create an imaginative universe.
One reason, surely, that this literary commonplace can thus function is that it centres on a moment of recognition and is commonly employed to convey the experience of such a moment which marks a break with one's past experience. A new life, however perilous and lonely, begins at the moment of recognition. Sometimes, as in Conrad,' Nostromo, the recognition is too much to be borne. In that novel, Decoud
found himself solitary on the beach, like a man in a dream . . . [amid] the black wastes of sky and sea around the islet. . . . He died from solitude, the enemy known to but few on this earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to with stand. . . . Solitude from mere outward condition of existence becomes very swiftly a state of soul. . . . After three days of waiting for the sight of some human face, Decoud caught himself entertaining a doubt of his own individuality. . . . The brilliant Martin Decoud . . . disappeared without a trace, swallowed up in the immense indifference of things. [pt 3, ch. 10]
Some like Decoud perish; others, like Stevens, Ruskin, and Arnold, try to make an accommodation.
The way nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors have chosen to interpret Defoe's character reveals the great extent to which the situation of the castaway has impressed itself upon the modern imagination. Clearly, there have been many like Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym whose "visions were of shipwreck and famine . . . of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown" (ch.2). Baudelaire, for insunce, ends "Le Cygne" thinking "aux matelots oublies dans une ile" while the hero of Tennyson's Maud compares himself to a "Shipwrecked man on a coast/ Of ancient fable and fear." George Eliot's Felix Holt describes Annette, Esther Lyon." mother, as such a castaway "on a remote island where she had been saved from wreck."(ch. 6), while Dickens describes Arthur Clenham in Little Dorrit in much the same terms with his love "like Roblnson Crusoe's money; exchangeable with no one, lying idle in the dark to rust, until he poured it out for Little Dorrit" (bk II, ch. 13). And Raskolnikov from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is seen wlth Sonia "mournful and dejected, as though they had been cast up by the tempest all alone on some deserted shore" (Pt V, Ch. 4).]
Thomas Stothard. Robinson Crusoe discovers Friday's footprint — evidence of another human presence. Note the implications of discovering the presence of another human being on an island or territory that a European believed uninhabited.
What has this to do with British theories of colonization and empire, particularly in New Zealand and Australia?]
A twentieth-century writer who has made his poetic accommodation with this sense of being in the world is the contemporary Australian poet A. D. Hope, who rings many changes on the image — or rather situation — of islanded man. This recognition of one's existence as a castaway occurs in "Man Friday," Hope's continuation of Robinson Crusoe. According to his version, Crusoe, saved by his God, "Took into exile Friday and the bird."
Friday, the dark Caribbean man,
Picture his situation if you can:
The gentle savage, taught to speak and pray,
On England's Desert Island cast away,
No godlike Crusoe issuing from his cave,
Comes with his thunderstick to slay and save;
Instead from caves to stone, as thick as trees,
More dreadful than ten thousand savages, . . .
The pale-eyed English swarm to joke and stare,
With endless questions round him crowd and press
Curious to see and touch his loneliness.
In this new situation "mere ingenuity," such as had saved Crusoe, is useless, and "As Crusoe made his clothes, so he no less,/ Must labour to invent his nakedness." But memories and imagination cannot prevail, and when he and Crusoe visit the shore, Friday follows the prints made by an unshod foot into the surf. When Crusoe comes upon the body later he "never guessed" that "Friday had been rescued and gone home."
Hope himself makes his own human accommodation to Australia,
. . . a vast parasite robber-state
Where second-hand Europeans pullulate
Timidly on the edge of alien shores.
For turning from "the lush jungle of modern thought" the poet prefers "the Arabian desert of the human mind." since from "that waste" springs a "scarlet" more intense than in supposedly more habitable situations. Hope, as poet, likes his particular island.
The image of the island existence, and its related image of the shipwreck, runs all through Hope's fine poetry, appearing variously in "Heldensagen," Observation Car," "The Death of the Bird," and, of course, "The Wandering Islands." In this last poem Hope develops the poetic commonplace that we are all islands which Matthew Arnold employed with such conspicuous mediocrity. He tells us in the opening lines that
You cannot build bridges between the wandering islands;
The Mind has no neighbours, and the unteachable heart
Announces its armistice time after time, but spends
Its love to draw them closer and closer apart.
These islands are not on the charts, they wander "A refuge only for the shipwrecked sailor." At times two islands — two human beings come together in an instant of love:
. . . the castaway hails the castaway,
But the sounds perish in that earthquake shock.
And then, in the crash of ruined cliffs, the smother
And swirl of foam, the wandering islands part.
But all that one mind ever knows of another,
Or breaks the long isolation of the heart,
Was in that instant.
The shipwrecked sailor senses
His own despair in a retreating face.
Around him he hears in the huge monotonous voices
Of wave and wind: "The Rescue will not take place."
The grimness of the recognition may momentarily obscure one of the most important qualities of Hope's poetry — his sense of comedy, his sharp wit, his laugh whenever things get too grim to be taken any other way. In fact, what makes Hope's poetry so successful, particularly in his use of this image of islanded human existence, is that it simultaneously creates this imaginative universe and comments upon it ironically. One thing that such a recognition about Hope's verse serves to emphasize is that any one image must be taken in context, for only when we perceive how it functions in its own poetic setting, thus generating a rhetoric, tone, and imaginative world, can we hope to make a truly useful iconology.
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Henry Moore Works in Public
This is a guide to Moore's sculptures on public display throughout the world. We strive to ensure that all information is accurate, however we recommend that you contact each venue before making a visit. Please also contact us if you spot any mistakes. In some instances it has not been possible to source an image of the actual sculpture in-situ, and on such occasions an alternative image has been used.
ArtworkLocation
Skeleton Figure 1984 (LH 912)
City Centre Park Plaza
Three Forms Vertebrae 1978-79 (LH 580a)
Girl 1932 (LH 112)
Stringed Figure 1937 (LH 186e)
Family Group 1944 (LH 230)
Wall Relief Maquette No.1 1955 (LH 365)
Seated Figure on Square Steps 1957 (LH 436)
Two Piece Reclining Figure: Maquette No.1 1960 (LH 473)
Two Piece Reclining Figure No.3 1961 (LH 478)
Maquette for Double Oval 1966 (LH 558)
Maquette for Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 1967 (LH 575a)
Mother and Child: Hands 1980 (LH 785)
Small Animal 1980 (LH 799)
Point and Oval 1981 (LH 819)
Small Mother and Child 1982-85 (LH 871)
Seated and Standing Figures 1983 (LH 895)
Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae 1968 (LH 579)
Time-Life Screen: Maquette No.2 1952 (LH 340)
Maquette for Large Torso: Arch 1962 (LH 503a)
Reclining Figure: Angles 1979 (LH 675)
Working Model for Oval with Points 1968-69 (LH 595)
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The Colour of Our Future
Does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa?
Editor(s): Xolela Mangcu
Contributor(s): Crain Soudien, Hlonipha Mokoena, Joel Netshitenzhe, Lawrence Blum, Mark Swilling, Nina G Jablonski, Steven Friedman, Suren Pillay, Vusi Gumede, Xolela Mangcu
Dimensions and Pages: 215 x 130mm; 256pp
eBook EAN: 978-1-86814-910-0 (North and South America, China); 978-1-86814-911-7 (Rest of world)
PDF EAN: 978-1-86814-623-9
The Colour of Our Future is a timely book. The individual chapters clearly show that questions of race have not withered away with the installation of a progressive constitution intended to create a nonracial society. That there might be good reason for understanding and accepting racial identities that are not only imposed or accepted for the purpose of resistance, but can, properly understood, be part of a positive future, is to be welcomed.
Paul Graham, former executive director of IDASA
The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a post-racial society and the persistence of racialised identities in South Africa, which has historically played itself out in debates between the ‘I don’t see race’ of non-racialism and the ‘I’m proud to be black’ of black consciousness. What the chapters in this volume highlight is the need for a race-transcendent vision that moves beyond ‘the festival of negatives’ embodied in concepts such as non-racialism, non-sexism, anti-colonialism and anti-apartheid. Steve Biko’s notion of a ‘joint culture’ is the scaffold on which this vision rests; it recognises that a race-transcendent society can only be built by acknowledging the constituent elements of South Africa’s EuroAfricanAsian heritage.
The distinguished authors in this volume have, over the past two decades, used the democratic space to insert into the public domain new conversations around the intersections of race and the economy, race and the state, race and the environment, race and ethnic difference, and race and higher education. Presented here is some of their most trenchant and yet still evolving thinking.
South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary of national consciousness that simultaneously recognises racialised identities while affirming that as human beings we are much more than our racial, sexual, class, religious or national identities.
Foreword by David Scott
Acknowledgements and Preface
1 What moving beyond race can actually mean: Towards a joint culture Xolela Mangcu
2 The colour of our past and present: The evolution of human skin pigmentation Nina G. Jablonski
3 Races, racialised groups and racial identity: Perspectives from South Africa and the United States Larry Blum
4 The Janus face of the past: Preserving and resisting South African path dependence Steven Friedman
5 How black is the future of green in South Africa’s urban future? Mark Swilling
6 Inequality in democratic South Africa Vusi Gumede
7 Interrogating the concept and dynamics of race in public policy Joel Netshitenzhe
8 Why I am no longer a non-racialist: Identity, and difference Suren Pillay
9 Interrogating transformation in South African higher education Crain Soudien
10 The black interpreters and the arch of history Hlonipha Mokoena
Xolela Mangcu is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. He is the editor of Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, Public Deliberation and Identity in South Africa (Wits University Press: 2011).
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We put them side-by-side here to discover their common features and differences. Alternative Programming Languages for LEGO MINDSTORMS. 1) EV3 Puppy. Projects for EV3. "3" refers to the fact that it is the third generation of computer modules - first was the RCX and the second is the NXT. Blending the versatile LEGO building system with the most advanced technology LEGO have ever developed, the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is a ready to build robot that can walk, talk, think and basically do anything you can think of. In this article I'm sharing Building instructions for making a vertical plotter with a single retail kit of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3! The plotter is hung by two threads to a wall or door. LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robots, LEGO projects, building instructions and A blog reader asked if I had created building instructions for my Lego EV3 Space Invaders model. NOTE: See the updated version of this quick build here. Miloš Sedláček Play next, Play now. @ Easy To Follow Lego Ev3 Building Instructions For Beginners And Advanced From Experts | Made Easy Free Download PDF Get Free Woodworking Pans. Create and command amazing LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robots with touch sensor, color sensor, infrared sensor and 550+ LEGO Technic elements. Just like all the instructions, I recommend building them at least once. 00 shipping. Unleash the creative powers of LEGO® MINDSTORMS®! Browse high-tech sets to build robots that walk, talk and even think. December 2013: After having designed this creepy animatronic head using the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 core set 45544, I adapted it to be built also with […] January 29, 2014 The Education version of The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory. It uses very few parts, and its central Worm Gear produces a surprising amount of torque. 40 results for lego mindstorms ev3 31313 Save lego mindstorms ev3 31313 to get e-mail alerts and updates on your eBay Feed. These are the instructions for building the LEGO Mindstorms LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 that was released in 2013. Follow the step-by-s. Create and command robots that do what you want with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3! Combining the versatility of the LEGO building system with the most advanced technology we've ever developed, unleash the creative powers of the new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set to create and command robots that walk, talk, think and do anything you can imagine. With the Lego Mindstorms EV3 Home Edition, you will be able to build more than 12 super fun robots, like an electronic guitar, a giant scorpio or a dinosaur!. 0 printer, originally published by David Purdue in his book Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2. The Lego Mindstorms EV3 Idea Book is the latest in a series of new Lego Mindstorms-themed books released by No Starch Press. Beginning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 shows you how to create new fun and fantastic creations with the new EV3 programmable brick along with other new EV3 pieces and features. The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit is LEGO's newest member of the MINDSTORMS series. This guide is applicable whether you are using the PC, Mac or Chromebook version of the Lego Mindstorms EV3 software. The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory It seems like yesterday when I started building LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots! Yet, according to my personal archive, this is the. We have been providing free LEGO MindStorms tutorials since 2007, and have just made available our. Video Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic Set 31313 - Robot Arm H25 You are able to build the I found build instructions for this little arm while I was was looking for our new LEGO Mindstorms EV3, set 31313, with ev3rstorm mode, in 3 rounds. The goal of the helper wheels is to make it easier for the robot to turn. ItemName: Lego Mindstorms EV3, ItemType: Set, ItemNo: 31313-1, Buy and sell LEGO parts, Minifigs and sets, both new or used from the world's largest online LEGO marketplace. Instructions - Lego Mindstorms EV3 31313 Assembled Robot. It is a modular construction, with medium motor for additional attachments and two light or colour sensors for orientating on the field. LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 does not provide building instructions or program descriptions for these robots. MindCub3r is a robot that can be built from a single LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 home set (31313) or from EV3 Education Core and Expansion sets (45544+45560) to solve the well known Rubik's Cube puzzle. Substituting LEGO Mindstorms EV3 for NXT: The instructions for this project were written for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2. There are two editions of LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO's Robotics Invention System (RIS), the EV3 Home Edition and the Education Edition. Sometimes, building a robot and downloading an existing program to it is all people want to do. ) 1x Gyroscopic Sensor. LEGO Digital Designer Programs. 238 results for ev3 lego LEGO Mindstorms EV3 31313 Robotics Contstruction System BlueTooth Robot Set NEW. jpg, Resolution : 640 x 480 pixel. These are the instructions for building the LEGO Mindstorms LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 that was released in 2013. This is the official LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Programmer app for use with the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 (31313) robotics construction set. Lifetime Access Free Download PDF Step By Step Guide Learn the Basics of Woodworking. One of the greatest features to the medium strength motor is its weight. We purchased "The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book" and my son is already excited to take apart the Rubik's Cube Robot we built and start working on the workbook. The SNATCH3R is one of the most advanced robots in the EV3 Discovery Book. The Caterpillar is a unique combination of the LEGO Technic Forest Machine (42080) and LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 31313 set. Right Arm. Simply think of your robot and build it. These robots have an educational dimension (robotic arm, colours sorter, gyro robot). LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 has arrived! Combining the versatility of the LEGO building system with the most advanced technology we’ve ever developed, unleash the creative powers of the new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set to create and command robots that walk, talk, think and do anything you can imagine. Here are some of our favorite Lego Mindstorms EV3 projects from around the web. To build PONG3R you need a LEGO Mindstorms set (Home Edition, 31313) plus only three additional parts you will easily find at www. In very good used condition. 49 at Amazon. The long wait is finally over - at last - the building instructions for all 4 amazing robot remix from this summer's MCP RobotRemix#1 challenge! Again, all of these great models can be build using only parts from the LEGO MINDSTORMS (31313) set and the LEGO TECHNIC Fire plane (42040). See how to install the latest 0. The perfect solution to teach students how to program, build and test their models. I named my plotter after the famous Belgian painter James Ensor, who was famous for drawing. It latest version of MINDSTORMS line comes fully equipped with many new features such as an infrared sensor, a new Linux. 00 Quick View. Blending the versatile LEGO building system with the most advanced technology LEGO have ever developed, the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is a ready to build robot that can walk, talk, think and basically do anything you can think of. So I decided that it was time to play again with Mindstorms EV3. Call today about our immersive learning programs with tutoring VEX® in Richmond. Prijs vergelijking @ BrickwatchGoedkoopste Elders 266. pdf View which pieces you need to build this set. Sometimes, building a robot and downloading an existing program to it is all people want to do. LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 31313 Robot Kit for Kids $ 349. Building instructions for 5 robots included. ) 1x Gyroscopic Sensor. Video Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic Set 31313 - Robot Arm H25 You are able to build the I found build instructions for this little arm while I was was looking for our new LEGO Mindstorms EV3, set 31313, with ev3rstorm mode, in 3 rounds. Design Idea: Anika and Nard have a background in building LEGO animals. Lego Mindstorms EV3: Build, program a robot in 20 minutes. It contains 519 TECHNIC elements, an NXT Intelligent Brick, 3 Interactive Servo Motors, 1 Touch Sensor, 1 Ultrasonic Sensor, 1 Light Sensor, 1 Sound Sensor, 7 cables, NXT-G a programming software for PC or Mac platforms, a Quickstart Guide, and building instructions. The Core Set is ideally suitable for classroom use and contains everything that you need for a lesson with the fascinating MINDSTORMS system. Use this app to build and program your EV3 robots in the fastest. Instructions For LEGO 31313 LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3. item 2 Lego Mindstorms EV3 31313 build robots - great for kids. LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 does not provide building instructions or program descriptions for these robots. Or, be a library participating in the Gaining STEAM Lego Mindstorms Circulation Kits provided by the Washington State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. LEGO Mindstorms EV3 (31313) - Compare Prices in Real-time, Set a Price Alert, and see the Price History Graph to find the cheapest price with GoSale - America's Largest Price Comparison Website!. Robokids teaches problem solving with robots and creative building with LEGO®. The EVB is a replace for LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 Brick, which uses a BeagleBone The Building Instructions and Program used is from mindcuber. MindCub3r is a robot that can be built from a single LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit (item 31313, home edition) that can solve the well known Rubik's Cube puzzle. The perfect solution to teach students how to program, build and test their models. LEGO have produced at least three different MINDSTORMS NXT sets: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2. In very good used condition. Lego Mindstorms NXT in excellent condition. Kyle Markland introduces readers to the robotics found in everyday life. with a minicomputer at its heart, this robot can be crafted into many forms which comprise the classic ev3rstorm along with its variations track3r, r3ptar, spik3r, and gripp3r. These are the instructions for building the LEGO Mindstorms LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 that was released in 2013. hi… MY SON HAS 7 YEARS AND DO IT IN 2 HOURS. Begin with the basics as you build and program a simple robot to experiment with motors, sensors, and. This Hotrod uses parts from the Lego Mindstorms 31313 retail set. Lego Mindstorms Nxt 9797 Building Instructions icon-based LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Software is built on the building instructions for the same robot the Base Set #9797 and in the Robot. This auction is for 1 x LEGO MINDSTORMS 31313 EV3 Create and command robots that do what you want with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3! Combining the versatility of the LEGO building system with the most advanced technology we've ever developed, unleash the creative powers of the new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set to create and command robots that walk, talk, think. This guide is applicable whether you are using the PC, Mac or Chromebook version of the Lego Mindstorms EV3 software. A:LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 uses the same LEGO Technic elements and RJ12 connector cables as the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT, so all your existing sensors, motors and building elements will work with the new platform. LEGO Mindstorms EV3 (31313) - Compare Prices in Real-time, Set a Price Alert, and see the Price History Graph to find the cheapest price with GoSale - America's Largest Price Comparison Website!. Blending the versatile LEGO building system with the most advanced technology LEGO have ever developed, the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is a ready to build robot that can walk, talk, think and basically do anything you can think of. Complete a series of challenging missions using the intuitive icon-based EV3 Programmer A. Use this app to build and program your EV3 robots in the fastest, smartest and most fun way possible - directly from. Lego Ev3 Gyro Boy Building Instructions Use one of the following sensors: EV3 Gyro by LEGO (pictured below) NXT. Browse our daily deals for even more savings! Free shipping on many items!. Find your set number Enter a 4-7 digit set number or key word to see all building instructions. Alternative Programming Languages for LEGO MINDSTORMS. 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Music in the Castle of Heaven
by John Eliot Gardiner
One of the modern world's leading conductor delivers an assessment of the life and achievements of the 18th-century master composer. The book shares scholarly insights into how Bach worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects — and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Bach Unwigged: The Man Behind The Music
by Robert Hilburn
In cooperation with the Johnny Cash estate, a music critic who knew the icon tells the unvarnished truth about Cash, whose personal life was far more troubled and his artistry much more profound than even his most devoted fans have realized.
Biography Doesn't Hold Back On Darkest Years Of 'The Man In Black'
40 Chances
Finding Hope in a Hungry World
by Howard G. Buffett
When investor Warren Buffett announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy, his son, Howard G. Buffett, set out to help a billion individuals who lack basic food security. Howard has given himself 40 years to put more than $3 billion to work on this challenge. All farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. This lesson applies to all of us, however, because we all have about 40 productive years to do the best job we can, whatever our passions may be.
Buffett Family Puts Money Where Their Mouth Is: Food Security
Lives of the Caesars
by Suetonius
The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Translated by Catharine Edwards.
You Came, You Saw, You Did WHAT?: A Ribald Roman History
by Leonard Bernstein and Nigel Simeone
Nigel Simeone presents an extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music.
Energetic, Intimate 'Letters' Reveal Private Leonard Bernstein
A Double Life
by J. Michael Lennon
Drawing on extensive interviews and unpublished letters, as well as Lennon's own encounters with Mailer, this authorized biography of the eminent novelist, journalist and controversial public figure chronicles the Mailer's entire career.
Norman Mailer, Warts And All, In 'A Double Life'
High Moon Over The Amazon
My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night
by Patricia Chapple Wright
Hardcover, 320
A Brooklyn housewife becomes a scientist after traveling to South America to find a mate for her pet monkey.
A Life In Science: From Housewife To Amazon Trailblazer
by Piper Kerman
Piper Kerman's memoir explores her time at a women's prison in Connecticut, where she was incarcerated for drug trafficking.
Not My Job: We Quiz 'Orange Is The New Black' Author On Laundering (Clothes)
Piper Kerman: Recipes For Survival
Behind 'The New Black': The Real Piper's Prison Story
Running Ransom Road
Confronting The Past, One Marathon At A Time
by Caleb Daniloff
A now-sober alcoholic documents his 18-month effort to run marathons in the cities where he lived during his self-destructive days. Reflecting on the redemptive benefits of running, he shares his own journey and learns the stories of fellow addicts who pursued similar dreams.
Oct. 21-27: Movies, Marathons And A Shrinking Middle Class
Running Toward Redemption On 'Ransom Road'
Wheelmen
Lance Armstrong, The Tour De France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'connell
An in-depth assessment of the record-breaking Tour de France athlete's doping scandal and fraud-based business successes exposes the support network of money, power and cutting-edge science that enabled his achievements.Wheelmen discusses such topics as Armstrong's lucrative sponsor contracts and the accepted practices of illegal medicating.
'Wheelmen' Exposes Doping Culture And The Armstrong 'Conspiracy'
Murdoch's World
The Last of the Old Media Empires
by David Folkenflik
NPR's media correspondent describes how media magnate Rupert Murdoch was humbled and humiliated by the News of the World telephone hacking scandal and had to split his self-built company in two in order for his business to survive.
'Murdoch's World': Inside One Of The Last Old Media Empires
Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
by Dave Isay
The founder of StoryCorps analyzes the project's first decade to celebrate the power of the human bond as demonstrated by poignant examples, from two brothers who reconnect after parent rejection to a veteran who remembers his poignant relationship with two Iraqi children.
Air The StoryCorps Theme, Cue The Tears
Kansas City Lightning
The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
by Stanley Crouch
Kansas City Lightning is the first of two volumes tracing the life of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Crouch draws on interviews with family, peers and collaborators to reveal Charlie Parker's Depression-era childhood and his early career in Kansas City and New York.
The Birth Of Bird: Young Charlie Parker Found Focus, Faith In Music
Sax, Drugs And Jazz: Charlie Parker's 'Lightning'-Fast Rise
Still Foolin' 'Em
Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, And Where the Hell Are My Keys?
One of America's most successful comedians looks back at his extraordinary career, highlighting the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life and outlining the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old.
Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)
Billy Crystal's 'Foolin', Full Of Fun — And Feeling
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What's the best way to connect patients to dialysis machines? iStockphoto hide caption
Caveats About Favored Access Method For Dialysis
June 30, 2015 • Not all doctors are convinced that the preferred point of connection for patients to blood-cleaning dialysis machines is always the best.
Supreme Court Rules To Keep Texas Abortion Clinics Open
June 29, 2015 • The Supreme Court also ruled 10 clinics that perform abortion can stay open in Texas thereby giving the clinics a chance to appeal the federal court decision ordering them to close in early June.
The crowd reacts as the ruling on same-sex marriage was announced outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Friday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Supreme Court's Decision On Same-Sex Marriage Expected To Boost Health Coverage
June 29, 2015 • Many companies are expected to expand coverage to same-sex spouses if they already offer benefits to opposite-sex spouses. But the recent Supreme Court decision doesn't require them to do so.
Arturo Martinez watches his wife, Aurora Martinez, put on makeup in their San Rafael, Calif., home. She has Alzheimer's. Lynne Shallcross for NPR hide caption
Lynne Shallcross for NPR
Can Technology Ease The Burden Of Caring For People With Dementia?
June 29, 2015 • Things like activity trackers and sensors might make it easier to keep people with dementia safe and help caregivers. Researchers are going to test that idea in the real world.
Stuart Kinlough/Getty Images/Ikon Images
Vaccine Against Meningitis B Gets A Boost From CDC
June 29, 2015 • A federal health advisory committee now says everyone aged 16 to 23 should talk to a doctor about whether they need to get immunized against a rare but dangerous strain of meningitis.
Melissa Mathis holds a container of freeze-dried placenta capsules. Carrie Feibel/Houston Public Media hide caption
Carrie Feibel/Houston Public Media
Texas Defends A Woman's Right To Take Her Placenta Home
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June 28, 2015 • Texas now explicitly allows the placenta to be taken home after giving birth in a hospital. It came about at the urging of people who feel consuming dried and encapsulated placenta helps new mothers.
Nephrologist Mitchell Lunn (left) and OB-GYN Juno Obedin-Maliver want to hear about the health issues on the minds of members the LGBTQ community. Susan Merrell/Courtesy of UCSF hide caption
Susan Merrell/Courtesy of UCSF
San Francisco Doctors Tap App For Nationwide LGBT Health Study
June 26, 2015 • Researchers at University of California, San Francisco, are looking to an app for help in collecting health information from people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.
President Obama and Vice President Biden shake hands after the president spoke in the White House's Rose Garden Thursday about the Supreme Court decision in favor of Obamacare. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
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5 Challenges Still Facing Obamacare
June 26, 2015 • The Supreme Court ruling affirming the legality of insurance subsidies for all eligible low-income Americans regardless of where they live clears up one big question. But there are others.
GOP Presidential Candidates Vow To Continue Fight Against Obamacare
June 26, 2015 • The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. When it comes to Republican presidential candidates, they say the political fight over Obamacare isn't going anywhere.
Supreme Court Vindicates President; Upholds Obamacare Subsidies
June 26, 2015 • The high court preserved a key provision in Obama's signature health care law. Chief Justice John Roberts' written opinion seems to shut the door on further legal challenges to the law.
Obamacare Ruling Moves Debate To Presidential Race, Rep. Tom Price Says
June 25, 2015 • NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Rep. Tom Price, who has led efforts to undo the Affordable Care Act. Price, a doctor, has introduced alternatives that he says would cover more people.
Supreme Court Upholds Subsidies In Affordable Care Act
June 25, 2015 • President Obama's signature health care law survived another challenge in the Supreme Court Thursday. NPR reports on the practical and political consequences, as Obama's agenda twists its way forward.
A box of vaccine vials sits on a table during a Solano County health fair in 2010 in Vallejo, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
California Law To Curtail Vaccine Exemptions Clears Hurdle
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June 25, 2015 • If the bill passes out of the Legislature, the bill would then move to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. He hasn't indicated whether he'll sign the bill.
Leukemia survivor Rhett Krawitt, 7, carries a box of petitions representing more than 30,000 people supporting a measure requiring nearly all California schoolchildren to be vaccinated. He took them to the governor's office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday. The state Assembly voted Thursday to remove so-called "personal belief exemptions" for immunizations. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
Rich Pedroncelli/AP
California Lawmakers Vote To Remove Vaccine Exemptions For Schoolchildren
June 25, 2015 • A similar bill, which eliminates all but medical exemptions, has already passed the state Senate. Gov. Jerry Brown has not said whether he will sign it.
E-cigarettes are marketed as a safer way to inhale nicotine, but the evidence remains unclear on benefits and harms. Nam Y. Huh/AP hide caption
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With More People Quitting Smoking, Do We Need E-Cigarettes?
June 25, 2015 • It's easy to think that hardcore smokers will never quit, and thus e-cigarettes without the smoke is a better alternative. The changing demographics of smoking suggests otherwise, a study finds.
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ABOUT ESO ESTO
‘Quiet can speak volumes” says Shannon Holt about her ceramic forms, “If you take a moment to look, there is a lot of story in a quiet piece.” A designer and creative director by trade, she discovered that clay was a perfect medium to experiment with form and texture – a new way to investigate ideas and to get her hands satisfyingly dirty.
In 2013, she left her design office to explore ceramics full time at Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. After completing the yearlong program she rented a small studio space and continued to work intensely for over a year, making small batches of elegantly shaped vessels that reflect her personal aesthetic. Her desire is that they be appreciated first and foremost as aesthetic objects. “Most of my forms function as vessels or vases, but to me, their real strength is in simply being appealing design pieces.” says Holt.
Eso Esto – “that-this” in Spanish – suggests the small-scale design enquiries that Holt undertakes with her work, and reflects the humbleness of the materials she uses: “Raw materials transforming into something sophisticated and beautiful is rather magical.” It is this transformation, accomplished by hand, that appeals to Holt.
Though the designs are deliberately spare, they are not speedily produced; Holt hopes that the people who see her work will appreciate that each piece is actually quite time-intensive, meticulous in line, yet rich in texture and detail. A “high touch product,” that is best experienced in person (she sells her work mostly through a few specialty retail shops, and also on her online site).
One thing that Holt is committed to in her work, is to keep the batches small; explore and refine one form, then move on to discover the next one that captures her imagination. While she appreciates the amount of grit and hard work required for larger production work, she simply knows that it isn’t her style of working. “The most important question is ‘what is the path that feels right?’”
Looking forward, Holt is eager to introduce collaborative thought into her ceramic work, connecting with metal smiths, woodworkers and glassblowers. Her long-term goals are to keep discovering and refining forms and techniques; grow the business slowly and sustainably, and build her brand via consistent quality of work.
“Where I’m at now is the perfect place,” Holt says, “Eso Esto is so rich with potential.”
Eso Esto By Hand
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Charm Me Again by Tena Stetler
Charm Me Again
by Tena Stetler
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Mystery
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Daylan, a warlock, is being haunted, but what the ghost wants is a mystery. His magical powers bring him no closer to an answer—until he encounters Josie, a Yoga instructor.
But when she is kidnapped by an ancient Fae Warrior set on revenge, Daylan must rescue her before the rogue claims her as his own. During his quest, his world spirals out of control, and a devastating curse comes to light. Could the ghost hold the answers he needs?
Can he break the age-old curse to save Josie and their future, or will Daylan lose her forever?
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With the majestic Rocky Mountains just outside the window, I sit at my computer with vampires,demons, witches, faeries, and a variety of paranormal creatures gathered around telling me their stories! That makes me an author of paranormal romance novels and cozy mysteries with magic spark. The everyday world is mundane, but sprinkle a little magic and you have fantastic!
Colorado is home. I share my life with a wonderful husband of many moons, our brilliant Chow Chow, a terribly spoiled companion parrot, and a forty-year-old
box turtle. We enjoy hiking, biking, and camping, also love water sports including kayaking and whitewater
rafting, especially on the Arkansas River through the Royal Gorge.
Another passion of mine is reading a good novel. You can find me any winter evening curled up in front
of a crackling fire with a good book, a mug of hot chocolate, and a big bowl of popcorn. While growing up, if I didn’t like the ending of a book, I’d rewrite it, which led to writing my own books.
Reluctantly, I discovered that in real life it’s tough to rewrite an ending.
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In Mistletoe by Tammy L Bailey
In Mistletoe
by Tammy L. Bailey
At twenty-five, Grace Evans is steadily picking up the pieces of everyone else’s life. So, when her younger sister decides to turn into a runaway bride just four weeks before the wedding, Grace, drops everything to chase after her and bring her back home. Only, when the trail leads to Mistletoe, Washington, she finds herself at the mercy of the town’s most handsome and emotionally unavailable bachelor.
Ex-Army officer, Ayden McCabe, has three creeds in life: never make the first move, never fall in love, and never take anyone to Mistletoe’s Christmas Dance. Wanting nothing more than to keep his matchmaking sister from meddling in his personal life, he agrees to help Grace if she agrees to play his girlfriend. Too brunette and meek for his taste, Ayden believes Grace can’t tempt him enough to break any of his creeds. He could not be more wrong.
A LEO wife, mother, and military veteran, Tammy began writing when the shows and movies she watched didn't end the way she wanted them to end. Whether it's historical or contemporary, for her, there must always be a happy ending.
When she's not writing, she's spending time with her husband and two boys near Cleveland, Ohio. Without their sacrifice and understanding, she believes she would have never been able to pursue her passion of writing or her accomplishment of becoming a published author.
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Guardian Domination
by Breanna Hayse
Celeste Bronston once again faces the law and the only way to avoid incarceration is to submit herself to a man she’s never met—her godfather, Jace Jordon. The judge’s condition is that the 18-year-old will be under Jace’s authority until she turns twenty-one. Having no other choice except for jail, she accepts the court’s offer.
Her legal guardian is not at all what she imagined him to be! Besides being young, quite wealthy and exceedingly handsome, the man has a unique way in dealing with obstinate and naughty young woman. Failure to follow his strict rules and exercising poor behavior promptly earns the young lady and trip over his knee for a memorable bare-bottom spanking!
Jace also offers her the love and respect that she had not experienced in the past. Together with his best friend, Mark, the men help Celeste learn about her value and worth as a human being. As she thrives in the environment of domestic discipline, Celeste’s feelings toward Jace begin to change—along with her desire to learn more about his lifestyle as a dominant. She accepts his challenge to learn about dominance and submission, themselves facing a crossroads. Do they dare step over the line and experiment with romance?
Guardian Domination was written to share my actual training as a submissive in a fictional background. All the scenes are recreations of actual events. This work includes spanking of adult women. If you liked Fifty Shades of Grey, then this book is certainly for you.
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BDSM/AP lifestyler Breanna Hayse strives to give her readers truth and reality of the BDSM/Age-Play/Total Power and Erotic Exchange lifestyle.
I'm a native Californian gone 'wild', and had the opportunity to travel the globe and discover the world through the eyes of both a Marine Intelligence specialist and a BDSM lifestyler. I left the service to go into hospice nursing and grief counseling, eventually working as a marriage and family therapist for those involved in alternative lifestyle development. This experience has allowed me to gain unique inspiration for my books and offer realistic plots and relatable characters.
In 2004, my husband, John, and I joined forces to work with both submissives and dominants- teaching, training, listening and loving. Our goal was to take the mystery and fear out of the lifestyle and mentor people in safe, consensual and healthy relationships.
My first book, The Game Plan, was published in 2012 and opened the door to the now-booming world of Age-Play literature. Since that time, I've devoted my 'spare' time to writing, researching, community involvement, and private and group pro bono counseling in deviant behavior, alternative lifestyle, and addiction recovery.
I was formally 'dungeon trained' as a Domme before discovering my submissive side when I joined the service. My scenarios are pulled primarily from either personal experience or observation, including spending time in BDSM clubs as...
Desire Me by Ayden K. Morgen
Desire Me
Her Best Friend's Father #4
by Ayden K. Morgen
Roman is back…and this time he brought backup.
Roman Gregory and Mila Lawson thought the clouds hanging over their heads had vanished with the death of Jose Guerrero four months ago, but after Tristan Riley blew into town to take on el Demonio, their world imploded all over again.
With Mila pregnant and the gang war slowly fizzling, all Roman wants to do is focus on the future...but he can't do that when a man he worked beside for years betrayed him and their team in a major way. Now all Roman wants to do is find Remi Pledger and end the threat from Pedro Francisco once and for all.
Being back in Los Angeles after so long is exactly like coming home for Mila...except Roman is stressed out and ready to snap. All Mila wants to do is get on with the future they planned, but it's hard to do that when Roman's being pulled in a thousand different directions.
To ease his mind and soothe the pain of betrayal, she'll do whatever it takes. Even if she has to take on Remi Pledger by herself.
Desire Me is the explosive final chapter in the Her Best Friend's Father Saga! Desire Me takes place after the events in Rapture (The Teplo Trilogy #3). Reading that book first is recommended.
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Defend Me
Forget the rules.
Forget right or wrong.
Forget letting go.
When Roman Gregory's daughter caught him and Mila Lawson together in Santa Cruz, he swore he would face whatever he had to face to keep Mila by his side and win back his daughter. But now Talia isn't speaking to either of them, and their relationship has gotten a whole lot more complicated thanks to the violent gang gunning for the ATF agent.
Mila knows nothing good comes easy, but she never imagined being the reason Talia stopped speaking to her father. All Mila wants to do is fix what she broke before the man she loves loses his daughter for good…even if that means she has to break her own heart to do it.
For Roman, bringing Mila to Los Angeles with a gang war looming on the horizon is the most terrifying thing he's ever done. But now that he's fallen in love with the gorgeous blonde, he can't let her go. He will do whatever it takes to keep her safe and regain his daughter's trust…even if he has to walk away from his career to do it.
But neither Roman nor Mila could have foreseen the news that will change their lives forever.
When his worst fear becomes a...
Realm of the Unknown by James McPike
Realm of the Unknown
by James McPike
After a mass murder in Israel, a renowned investigator from the Ministry—Vince Ramsey—is called in. Some experts at the scene believe only something supernatural could be responsible for such an atrocity. Ramsey finds an artifact which leads him to the Antiquities Authority. There, he teams up with historical specialist April Fulton. Together they learn the artifact is linked to an ancient secret society founded by a famous Greek philosopher. Only it's much more sinister than they could have ever imagined. Being hunted down at every turn of their journey by ruthless assassins, they race to discover the truth—and finally encounter the diabolical villain controlling a powerful force only spoken about in the Book of Revelation.
"A riveting thriller exploring the end of the world..."
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McPike's 6th action/adventure blockbuster TREASURE FEVER: The Hunt for El Dorado will be released in 2020.
His last adventure SHIPWRECK ISLAND was based on a real 19th century New Zealand shipwreck that mysteriously crashed and went missing--along with its legendary gold cargo. Readers' Favorite gave it 5-stars, calling it, "a grand adventure with outstanding characters . . . filled with action and more action."
McPike's previous mystery/thriller THE EMERALD CAVE was the grand finale in the acclaimed Ramsey trilogy six years in the making. The book reveals hidden secrets about the Grail and where it might be hidden today. The prior book in the series THE LOST PROPHET was the winner of multiple literary awards, including the Pacific Book Award for Christian Mystery/Thrillers and the Beverly Hills Book Award for Religion fiction. His 700-page debut smash-hit FINAL OUTCOME won the silver medal from Readers' Favorite for the Christian/fantasy genre and was nominated by the publisher (50 out of a 1,000 books) for the 17th EVVY Awards.
McPike's favorite authors growing up were Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, and David Morrell. He's traveled the world; from Switzerland to Aruba to New Zealand. In 1997 he won the Ponderosa Lion's Club Spelling Bee Championship and a year later was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the William Saroyan San Joaquin Valley Writing Contest. He lives near Yosemite where he enjoys the great outdoors and wonderful local cuisine. Readers can reach him at mcpike@gmx.com
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The Wheels of Cady Grey by Paul L Arvidson
The Wheels of Cady Grey
Cady Grey Mysteries Book 1
by Paul L. Arvidson
Get in the way of ruthless people and it's gonna get you killed.
"Forget all you know about disabled people. This novel will blow everything you knew out of the window. A story of strength, intelligence, love and disability".
Cady Grey is invisible. One of the 'perks' of being in a wheelchair. Sometimes it's better that way, 'specially when you're a sweary, spitty teenage girl who's main aim is getting through high-school in one piece.
But then a sinister shell company wants to knock their school down and is prepared to stop at nothing. She and her friends are the only ones invested enough to care and smart enough to investigate.
Regardless of the danger, Cady finally gives up being invisible to fight. And she discovers that getting in the way of politicians and their schemes might just get her killed.
"Cady, with spark, snark and enthusiasm will capture your heart in such a way you will want her to be your best friend. She is a voice, hero and visibility for a young disabled generation, a guide for us all and a mystery to solve".
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PAUL ARVIDSON is a forty-something ex lighting designer who lives in rural Somerset. He juggles his non-author time bringing up his children and fighting against being sucked into his wife’s chicken breeding business.
The Dark Trilogy is his first series. He is also working on a thriller.
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50 Shades of Worf
by Christopher D. Schmitz
A back-alley brawl between the furries and the bronies.
Deadpool cosplayer keeps stealing all the erotic pegasus artwork.
Someone used a necronomicon to open a tentacle portal in the men’s room.
Two cops must go undercover at a local comicbook convention to stop Wil Wheaton’s murder.
Is this a buddy cop story or a crime-comedy? Neither. This is comic con... er, comicomedy?
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Christopher D. Schmitz is an author of fiction and nonfiction books. Before throwing himself into book writing he had published short fiction in more than twenty outlets. In addition to a day-job working with teenagers, he also writes for a local newspaper, speaks/sells books at comic-cons and other festivals, runs a blog for authors, and makes an insanely tiny amount of money playing the bagpipes.
He grew up as a product of the 1980s and thinks Stranger Things is "basically my biography." He lives in rural Minnesota where he drinks unsafe amounts of coffee with his family and three rambunctious dogs. The caffeine shakes keeps the cold from killing him.
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Gorgon's Price by Claire Davon
Gorgon's Price
Redemption of the Gorgons Book 1
by Claire Davon
Euryale will never forget the day the gods turned her into a monster. After millennia, her heart beats faster at the idea of regaining her normal form. For the feel of skin and not scales, hair and not snakes. But the price could be too high.
Knowing full well the gods can’t be trusted, Euryale agrees to take on a reluctant partner to track down whoever is murdering a growing number of gods. A murderer no one cared about until the killings edged uncomfortably close to bigger and bigger pantheons. Tracking the murderers down is the price she has to pay for her newly restored form—and that of her two equally cursed sisters.
Asher’s unusual gift for eerily horrific sound effects make him a highly sought-after voiceover artist. While he keeps a low profile, there has always been a ticking time bomb in the form of the bargain between his banshee mother and his father, the god Ares. It’s time to pay up—or pay with his life.
As Euryale and Asher dance around their mutual mistrust, the friction ignites a fire of unexpected attraction. But love is almost as impossible as the dangerous task ahead. Because even if the murderers don’t stab them in the back, the fickle gods certainly will.
Claire can’t remember a time when writing wasn’t part of her life. Growing up, she used to write stories with her friends. As a teenager she started out reading fantasy and science fiction, but her diet quickly changed to romance and happily-ever-after’s. A native of Massachusetts and cold weather, she left all that behind to move to the sun and fun of California, but has always lived no more than twenty miles from the ocean.
In college she studied acting with a minor in creative writing. In hindsight she should have flipped course studies. Before she was published, she sold books on eBay and discovered some of her favorite authors by sampling the goods, which was the perfect solution. Claire has many book-irons in the fire, most notably her urban fantasy series, The Elementals’ Challenge series, but writes contemporary and shifter romances as well as.
While she’s not a movie mogul or actor, she does work in the film industry with her office firmly situated in the 90210 district of Hollywood. Prone to break out into song, she is quick on feet and just as quick with snappy dialogue. In addition to writing she does animal rescue, reads, and goes to movies. She loves to hear from fans, so feel free to drop her a line.
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An MM Holiday Romance Anthology
with stories by
H Q Kingsley, Meredith Spies, Angelo Diaz, Denise Wells,
Megs Pritchard, J.P. Sayle, Colette Davison, Alie Nolan
An MM holiday romance anthology. A collection of sweet, sexy, fun holiday stories from MM authors.
Fix Me Up by H.Q. Kingsley
Nettles Small and Ian Montgomery were best friends once upon a time…
Nettles Small has retreated to his old family cabin, isolated in the woods for the peace and quiet he needs to write his dissertation. He expects a full two weeks of absolutely no disruptions as he buries himself in research and lab experiments. But when an outdoor experiment goes haywire and his equipment explodes across the mountain, knocking an unsanctioned snowboarder off his board, his plans quickly change.
Ian Montgomery is on his way to the winter olympics. he’s trained his ass off for years and finally made it. But
on his way to shred down one of his secret slopes, Ian is unexpectedly knocked off his board by an unknown object and the person who rushes to nurse him back to his feet is someone he had never expected to see again.
Jingle My Bells by Meredith Spies
Less than two weeks till the winter solstice and somehow it's my fault the witches have misplaced their damned bells. If they weren't such jerks about demon-borns being part of the Grand Council and their plans, maybe they wouldn't need to use the stupid things anyway. But until they're ready to admit that without us, there'd be no them, I guess they're out of luck. It's just dirty pool to send Whitaker Frost, scion of the Frost witch clan and sexiest man alive ohmygods to my shop when I've been accused of hiding those damned bells and endangering the witches' annual winter solstice ritual to maintain their powers.
No matter what Rowan thinks, I haven't forgotten our encounter at the summer solstice, and I know for a fact he hasn't. The way he looks at me when he sees me in his shop just before the winter solstice is enough to set me on fire without the help of any of his demon magic. I don't blame him for being hesitant with me—I am a witch, after all, and witches have been doing their damnedest for centuries to keep demon-born out of magical communities and gatherings. I wish he'd understand that I not only want him in the council, but in my bed, my life...
Jake's Heart for Christmas by Angelo Diaz
Two online friends meeting up for an unforgettable Christmas vacation.
After facing some trouble back home, Declan was more than eager to spend Christmas with his online best friend, Jake, in his hometown of Winterwood. It was everything he’d hoped it would be. The town was friendly, Jake was a ray of sunshine, and the spirit of Christmas was in...
Hadley by Breanna Hayse
The Gentlemen's Club Book 1
Publisher: Twisted Hearts Productions
After being rescued from her abusive master at TGC, Hadley finds herself in the loving arms of Dorian and Meredith Graye. They discover that she's a 'Twilighter,' a term used to describe a submissive that requires both an element of age-play combined with hard-edge masochism. These needs conflict with the standard dynamics in the age-play community, so which side do they focus on to ensure the girl's happiness?
Irish noblemen, William and Edward FitzGerald, have been searching for a wife whose desire's they can awaken. Sadistic, yet nurturing, these men are believed to be the ones who will bring Hadley's fantasies to life. But, as William warns the young woman- Fantasy and Reality are two different elements. Can she both mentally and physically handle the delicious torment they have in store for her?
She insists that she can.
During this journey of pain, pleasure, and passion, mysterious beginnings are uncovered, and the questions of the past are revealed. But Hadley and her two new husbands aren't the only ones affected. The world of the BDSM community is small, and not even Dorian Gray can escape the ugly clutches of The Gentlemen's Club.
Founded centuries ago by European nobles, TGC (also known as The Club) caters to the whims of the wealthy, upper-class members of elite society. Generation after generation has partaken in the secrets hidden behind the elegant walls of the founding fathers, yet few who walk behind the doors of The Club know what, and why, TGC exists.
The Gentlemen's Club is the oldest formal training facility for Dominants and Submissives in the old-school world of BDSM. The rules are unambiguous—once part of TGC, always part of TGC. There is no escape. The cost of exposing this secret society can cost more than millions of dollars and the destruction of everything one would hold dear; it could also cost the transgressor his/her life. But the modern world has changed, as have the needs of many TGC members and submissives recruited to join the facility.
During the course of events, Dorian Graye, TGC legal counsel and Master of Graye Manor, has uncovered abuse and neglect of certain submissives within The Club. Taking advantage of the rules of non-disclosure, several members have violated SSC conduct, knowing that the silenced submissives have nowhere to hide. True to form, the Whip Master has the solution that will save their lives and meet their needs while he administers justice to those who have harmed the innocents. He brings these women into his Guardian Program, but they aren't like the others- they require something darker and more sinister- something that teeters on the edge of Safe, Sane, and Consensual.
TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains areas of possible triggers to include edge-play, piercing, hard impact, violence and other...
Gen Alpha-Z
by Various Authors
Genre: Mixed Short Stories
Gen Alpha-Z is a powerful little book that packs a massive literary punch. The sequel to the successful debut, The Originals, Gen Alpha-Z is a breath-taking collection of 25 original stories written by talented young writers aged between six and 21 years around the world. These hugely talented authors entered The little BIG Book Competition run by The Lil' Author Skool in 2018-2019. Judged by an independent panel, eight stories selected to be in this new anthology won and a further 16 were chosen as stand-out stories that merited publication. Launching on Universal Children’s Day – 20th November 2019 - #GenAlphaZ is set to be a huge success that showcases the astoundingly high quality of writing by today’s children and teenagers – the next generation of authors are already showing what they’re capable of and it’s incredibly excited for the future of literature! Introducing the freshest voices in original fiction.
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The Lil' Author Skool is a not for profit organisation. It was founded in 2016 by London born author A. Bello, who wrote her debut novel 'Emily Knight I am...' at aged 12! .We are passionate about encouraging young people to read and write and want to give them as many free and affordable opportunities. The Lil' Author Skool is part of The Author School (GB Entrepreneur Awards Finalists 2016) and we help young writers aged 5-21 years old. The little BIG Book Comp started in 2016 and The Originals is our first book.
Black Velvet Seductions
by Starla Kaye
Limited edition of these two fabulous stories in one book!
Cowboys in Charge includes seven stories of strong, loving cowboys and the women who try their patience.
Snowed in with Her Cowboy
James wants Kelly to quit work and start a family, but she resists the idea. Will he give up the idea of a family or will he give up Kelly?
Too Much Red at Christmas Time
Lizzie has a bizarre addiction to Christmas shopping and she can’t help herself, even knowing she will face the wrath of her husband who believes in domestic discipline.
For the Love of His Cowgirl
Amber misses the fun little games she and Adam used to play. There never seems to be time for steamy sex, or even the spankings he’d occasionally given her for various infractions of rules or for misbehavior.
Can she entice him back; get the dwindling fires of their love going again?
Cowboys and Their Toys
Jennifer loves Jason and she’d trusted him as he’d led her into the BDSM lifestyle. But now he wants to take things to a more intense level and she’s balking at it. Will she lose him if she doesn’t agree to go 24/7?
Plus three more equally hot stories of cowboys and the women they love.
Holly's Big Bad Santa
Jared had left Danville, Kansas thirteen years ago determined to never look back. He’d hurt too many people and believed he couldn’t go home again. He’s a much harder man now and at a turning point in his life, filled with uncertainty.
Holly has decided to let go of the past and begin a new life in California. She’d loved Jared most of her life, but she was finally giving up hope of him returning home. Even if he did, neither of them were the same people who’d been in love all those years back. He’d made his decision to leave his family and her behind. She was making hers now. Another man wants her to be with him and she aches to be loved again.
As he is recovering from nearly dying, Jared he receives a message from his parents. They want him to come home for the holidays. And they tell him the young woman he’d once loved is preparing to leave town forever. Right or wrong, he can’t continue to stay away. He has to make peace with Holly and with his family.
But is it too late?
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Shoulda, woulda, coulda...words from a song on the radio. Words that get right to a writer's heart, to her imagination. They certainly get to Starla Kaye's imagination. She's a full-time, bestselling writer and always observing life and the world around her, searching for new story ideas.
Starla has published 86 romance titles, including contemporary, historical...
The Princeton Allegiant Series
Drawing Bloodlines
The Princeton Allegiant Series Book 1
by Deborah Garland
Award-Winning Author Deborah Garland presents a new paranormal series starting with Drawing Bloodlines about a vampire who takes a chance on love after a lonely century, only to be forcibly mated with a ruthless vamp from his dark past.
The TBR Pile said, it's "sure to heat your blood," and The Romance Reviews was "drawn into this new paranormal vampire world."
Dr. Alexander Manning's vampire allegiant demands loyalty and secrecy. Keeping their existence hidden from humans is the Prime Directive. So when he accidentally reveals himself to a woman, a beautiful woman he can't resist, he's forced to make a choice: report her to his commander or 'deal' with her himself.
Both Alex's loyalty and secrecy are tested.
Elizabeth should be afraid of tall, handsome, god-like Alexander, who she's figured out is a vampire. Knowing he'll come for her, she prepares for the worst and even considers sending her daughter away to live with her ex.
Alexander shows up, not to harm her though. To seduce her. Nights of unending pleasure however take a very serious turn, neither was expecting.
Until Alex's past catches up to him and threatens to destroy his precious secretive world with Elizabeth and loyalty to her and her adorable seven-year-old daughter.
Will Alex obey his allegiant commander and submit to a woman he hates, or fight?
Never force a vampire to mate...
The Princeton Allegiant Series features a recurring cast of hot and sexy vampires, but each book can be read as a stand-alone. No cheating. No cliffhanger.
Guarding Bloodlines
Never steal a vampire's mate.
What's the world's most dangerous vampire to do when the only woman he's ever loved is about to be abducted? He strikes a devil's bargain, but Loren Tagaris is done playing nice.
Loren's gifts for destruction have made him the most feared vampire on the planet. To bargain for his progeny's freedom, he's forced to bend the knee to the precious New York Vampire Lords and find their missing commander in thirty days. Or hand Julianna, who's part witch, over forever.
Julianna's powers are more dangerous than Loren ever imaged. When their hunt for the missing commander unearths a buried secret that terrifies even Loren, all bets are off, and it's every vampire for himself. Suddenly the Lords abducting Julianna is the least of their problems.
Will Loren give up his own freedom once and for all to protect the allegiant world even if it means losing Julianna forever?
"Guarding Bloodlines and The Princeton Allegiant series is a refreshing twist on a vampire world which delivers on action-packed, deliciously sexy, fun reading that will have you turning the pages." - Jennifer Bray-Weber, Award-Winning Author
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A Werewolf Kind of Christmas by A L Kessler
A Werewolf Kind of Christmas
by A.L. Kessler
With war hanging in the balance, Erin has one chance to stop it: Find her fated mate with the alpha of the rival pack, Tristen Kerr. But when the mating mark doesn't appear Erin has to stall while trying not to fall for the alpha she can't have. Meanwhile, her father has his own plans to take over Tristen's pack. While romance blooms between the two they fight to keep the war away and hope for a Christmas miracle.
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A.L. Kessler is a paranormal romance and steampunk author residing in Colorado Springs. Since she was a teenager she's loved weaving stories and spinning tales. When she's not at the beck-and-call of the Lord and Lady of the House, two black cats by the names of Jynx and Sophie, playing with her daughter, or killing creepers and mining all the things with her husband, she's either reading, participating in NaNoWriMo, or writing in her Blog Writing Rambles.
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Dare to Defy by Breanna Hayse
Dare to Defy
Princess Daynel of the Northern Kingdom has never been the type to meekly submit to anyone—not her father, her brothers or any spoiled, pasty-faced Southern Kingdom prince who proclaims his right to her hand in marriage. The arranged marriage to the man is the least of her worries after the high priestess of the Dragon Gods warned her of her betrothed evil intent for her and her beloved kingdom.
Daring to defy her father’s command to marry, she flees into the dense woods where she is faced with her future—to save her people. During her flight, she comes face to face with the enormous warrior-priest named Draiken. He introduces her to the powerful magic that she holds within her will and also teaches her that defying the commands of the gods result in painful and humiliating consequences. A severe bare bottom spanking fails to change the attitude of the feisty little princess, forcing Draiken to take matters a little deeper and her body is awakened to a sexual journey that leaves her soaring.
With the growing power of darkness multiplying with each passing day, the dragon priest is pressed to do whatever is necessary to teach Daynel how to properly wield her powers—even if it means being unable to sit. She also becomes the driving force behind his heart as he finds love in the midst of the battle between good and evil.
Game of Thrones fans- BEWARE! If Khaleesi and her dragons got you hot and bothered, then this book will demand that you plunge into an ice bath just to cool down. Dare to Defy includes spanking of adult women, tasteful sexual scenes, poetic justice, and elements of BDSM.
My first book, The Game Plan, was published in 2012 and opened the door to the now-booming world of Age-Play literature. Since that time, I've devoted my 'spare' time to writing, researching, community involvement, and private and group pro bono counseling in deviant behavior, alternative lifestyle, and...
Red Snowflakes by Kristal Dawn Harris
Red Snowflakes
By Kristal Dawn Harris
Does a vampire deserve a Christmas miracle?
Forensic photographer, Dena Williams, has spent her life trained to see what others cannot. Vampire, Dimitri Kovac, has waited every Christmas for a miracle that does not come. In the Oregon wilderness, during a snowstorm, these two destined souls collide. Dena's only hope of survival rests in a vampire with the heart of a poet. Dimitri only has five days to win a skeptical woman's heart. As the Christmas tree lights burn brightly and the snow continues to fall, will Dena succumb to a vampire's charms? With so little time, can Dimitri win her love?
Kristal Dawn Harris is an award-winning, American romance author. She has been married for 27 years and has two children. Kristal finished her Associate degree from Miami University in Accounting Technology. She is an avid reader and, in particular, loves paranormal romance. Her hobbies include coin collecting, physical fitness, spending time with family and song writing.
Kristal primarily writes for her publisher, The Wild Rose Press, although it should be noted she self-released Hand-Carved Wolf and Thief of Hearts. She writes paranormal, erotic as well as contemporary romance. Kristal has several releases coming in 2020!
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Captured by the Viscount by Wareeze Woodson
Captured by the Viscount
by Wareeze Woodson
Under cover of night and with the best of intentions, Lady Isabel Carlyle breaks into the viscount’s residence to restore his stolen property and retrieve her own. She understood the viscount was out of town for at least a sennight. When she entered the mansion, she never once considered facing a pistol aimed directly at her heart.
The Viscount Matthew Paul Rutherford has need of a bride before the month’s end. Previously, he had selected two different damsels from the marriage mart—Almack’s. However, both ladies met with a fatal accident before the wedding. Now, presented with an unexpected solution to his problem in the form of the lovely thief, he gives Isabel a choice, marriage or gaol.
I write historical romance fiction novels set in the 1800s forward with a twist of suspense. All of my characters and stories that are portrayed in my books are fictitious. I am a native of Texas, but I have traveled throughout America and beyond. As a dreamer, I love to visit new places where I can imagine a heroine meeting a hero in a special way. I'm an avid reader of (all sorts) and I love to write.
I married my high school sweat-heart and after having raised three sons and one daughter, our love for each other remains unshaken. Now we enjoy our eight grandchildren. We can send them home, but we're always happy for their return.
Outside of my family activities, I sing with the Silver Belles at my church and hate to miss even one practice. The local chapter of RWA is also at the top of my list of pleasures. It keeps me grounded with craft and connected with other writers.
Most of all, I enjoy going fishing with my husband. Give me a pole and leave me alone to bask in the sun, listening to water gurgle along the riverbanks while allowing my mind to float away to some distant place. Ah! Perfect.
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Hail and Hurricanes!
The Hurricanes were promised at Duxford. But, not the high winds that dominated Saturday at Duxford! But they didn't deter the British public or pilots from the first Duxford show of the season. As a fighter station, Duxford was very much at the forefront of the aerial battle which raged over Europe playing a pivotal part in the defence of Britain and the projection of the war to Germany. Where better to be to celebrate the end of the war in Europe - Paul Johnson/Flightline UK reports. All photograhy is copyright of Author.
Duxford's VE Day celebrations followed much of the rest of the UK's celebrations in being rather low key despite quite a bit of build up in the local and national press - most notably about the EU regulations which have temporarily (we hope!) B-17G Sally-B. Away from the flying Duxford provided re-enactments of VE Day radio broadcasts, dancing and RAF mission breifings in the hanger while there were also a number of veterans present. A major plus of this show was a policy of those aged 60 or over so anyone who lived and remembers the war got in for free. Much of the showground was adorned with Union Jack bunting and there was a light hearted feel to the day alonged with the rememberance of those who didn't come back.
Victory Salute
Sadly, the weather didn't play ball with the party atmosphere and chucked a complete mixed bag at the event with hail, rain and bright sunshine all making appearances at various points during the weekend. High winds dominated the Saturday show creating even more headache for the flying display participants. In the end many items failed to make it to Duxford all together on Saturday while others stayed on the ground at Duxford.
Friends Reunited! - R4118 and Wing Commander Bob Foster
The star of the show for many was Hawker Hurricane I R4118 owned by Peter Vacher. The aircraft itself has been fully restored by Hawker Restorations after being found by Peter at an Indian University. It is perhaps the most historic warbird still flying having served on operations during the Battle of Britain. It was delivered new to 607 sqn at Drem on 17th August 1940. From there it fought in the Battle until being damaged on the 22nd October 1940. It was rebuilt and moved to 111 sqn at Dyce in 1941 before being transferred to training units before finally being crated off to India from Cardiff for use as a training aircraft, a role it never fufillid. It was then donated to the University as an instructional air frame.
At Duxford the Hurricane was reunited with one of it's pilots during the Battle of Britain, Wing Commander Bob Foster. Bob damaged tow Junkers Ju88s and claimed a share of a kill of another Ju88 in this very aircraft.
R4118 took part in the flying display in company with another rare Hurricane restored by Hawker Restorations, TFC's Hurricane IV.
Massive praise therefore had to got to those who did perform on Saturday, particular those in the slower aircraft. The Utterly Butterly Barnstormers put on an excellent display of airmanship (and Bravery from the girls) in very trying conditions.
There was of course, a strong warbird presence at the show. The Fighter Collection provided many of the displays in what proved to be a busy weekend for the operator. No less than six of their aircraft took part in a salute over Southampton on the Sunday as well as participating in the Duxford flying programme. Leading the way for TFC was their P-47D Thunderbolt No Guts No Glory which teamed up with OFMC's P-51D Mustang. On Sunday Rob Davies joined in with Big Beatitful Doll for a mixture of solo and formation flying. More big radials came in the form of TFC's FG-1D Corsair, F6F Hellcat and FM-2 Wildcat all providing solo and formation displays. TFC's P-40E Kittyhawk provided a powerful demonstration of it's abilities over duxford as part of a combine with the two Hurricanes in clear blue skies.
As well as the Stearman of the Utterly Butterly Barnstomers, further aircrew training from the 1940's was represented by TFC's and ARCo's pair of T-6 Texan/Harvards. The TFC example put on an impressive solo display of aerobatics in the Harvard, something which has been greatly missed from airshows of late perhaps because to the great influx of Yaks from Eastern Europe. Of course, Russia and Eastern Europe was heavily involved in the fall of the Third Reich and their input into the final victory was represented by two Yak-11/C-11 lead in fighter trainers. Rob Davies provided his own familiar example on the Saturday while Angie Soper flew a less familiar example in grey/green camoflage on Sunday.
Something of a breather from the bigger more powerful warbirds was provided by the Fiesler Stroch and L4 Cub proving not all the aircraft essential to victory was as famous as the fighters and bombers, but nevertheless had important roles. The strong winds provided ample opportunity for the Storch to show off it's slow speed flying and STOL (nearly VSTOL!) attributes.
With the unfortunate grounding of Sally-B, there were no real heavies from world war two in the flying programme apart from the BBMF's Lancaster in formation with a Spitfire PR19 and Hurricane IIc. Sadly even this was cancelled on Saturday due to the crosswinds at Coningsby and reduced to a fly through on Sunday due to the rain. This meant the only real heavies left in the programme were a couple of lighter transport types and Plane Sailing's PBY Catalina perhaps making one it's last appearances in the colours it has worn since being a Canadian fire bomber.. Displaying on both days was the newly restored Dragon Rapide G-AGJG while winds restricted the C-45 Expeditor to just Sunday.
The final act of each days flying by the warbirds was a formation on Spitfires. On Sunday, another highlight was the airshow debut of the latest restoration from the Propshop hangers - Spitfire T9 161 in full Irish Air Corps markings and it's original blister rear canopy. It was joined by Charlie Brown in HAC's Spitfire Vb, Carolyn Grace's Spitfire T9 and OFMC's Spitfire IX MH434.
Historic types weren't restricted to those which took park in the second world war. Performing on both days despite being caught by the rain prior to each performance was Mark Linney in Golden Apple's CT-133A Silver Star, the dayglo tip tanks showing up to great effect in the dark skies over Duxford. The Royal Navy Historic Flight also sent it's Sea Fury on the Sunday for a welcome appearance, perhaps it's first public appearance for 2005.
Being the only airshow held over the VE day weekend, it was pleasing to see such a strong line up from the current armed services. The Army Air Corps provided a temporary two ship demonstration from the Blue Eagles with a solo Lynx AH7 and Gazelle AH1. The Royal Navy also provided a solo Sea Harrier FA2 in full weapons fit although it went unserviceable for Sundays display. The Royal Air Force too provided the 100sqn Hawk T1 solo, the ever impressive Merlin HC3. But there was no doubt that the new Tornado GR4 demonstration was another major highlight of the show with some impressive new manoeuvres during it display. Sunday even saw some foreign military participation in the form of RAF Lakenheath based F-15E Eagles opening the show with a single flypast .
Duxford's VE Show was a very successful one despite the mixed weather and all the difficulties it presented. All the display pilots should be congratulated on some fine flying in conditions which were marginal at times. The flying participants may have all been familiar Duxford favourites although the inclusion of the "new" Hurricane and Spitfire T9 were obvious highlights. However, there is little doubt it was still a fine display to mark such an occasion.
Thanks to Tracey Woods, her team and all the media escorts for their hospitality over the weekend.
A Selection of A4 and A3 Prints, as well as Calendars, Placemat and Mousemat featuring photographs from this show can be purchased from the Flightline UK Shop.
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By Imam Amin Ahsan Islahi on February 01, 2013
Qur'anic Exegesis
وَأَنْ لَّا تَعْلُوا عَلَى اللهِ إِنِّي آتِيكُم بِسُلْطَانٍ مُّبِينٍ (19)[1]
These words constitute the message which Moses (sws) was required to deliver to the Israelites: they should plainly accept this directive of God. If they adopt a tyrannical attitude, then this tyranny will not be merely against Moses (sws); it will primarily be against God because Moses (sws) is merely an envoy of God.
The words إِنِّي آتِيكُم بِسُلْطَانٍ مُّبِينٍ refer to the miracles of the staff and the white hand given to Moses (sws). In other words, he holds a very clear sanction that he is God's envoy and shows these miracles to the Israelites so that they are left with no doubt about his veracity. Since Moses (sws) was sent to a very tyrannical and oppressive king, the Almighty from the very beginning armed him with such miracles which could convey his veracity to his opponents.
وَإِنِّي عُذْتُ بِرَبِّي وَرَبِّكُمْ أَن تَرْجُمُونِ (20)[2]
These words were uttered by Moses (sws) when his demand to let the Israelites go with him had caused great commotion among the Copts. At that time, his life had also been threatened, and there was a chance that his nation might lose its mind and stone him to death. At that time, he proclaimed to the people that if they intended to stone him, he would seek refuge with his Lord Who was also their Lord. The words وَرَبِّكُمْ (and also your Lord) have a very effective appeal in them, a very subtle call to the truth and a very austere warning; concealed in these words is also the sarcasm that while being led away by the big devil who poses himself as their "great Lord" they should not do something which dooms the whole nation.
وَإِنْ لَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا لِي فَاعْتَزِلُونِ (21)[3]
The words imply that if these people are not ready to believe that Moses (sws) is God's envoy, then at least they should not besmear themselves with the sin of killing or stoning him to death and that they should leave him to himself. They should let him take along the Israelites to wherever he wants to take them; it would have been better if they believed in what he said and professed faith in him; this act would have ensured their success in both this world and the next. If they cannot do this, then at least they should not cause hindrance to his mission.
فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنَّ هَؤُلَاء قَوْمٌ مُّجْرِمُونَ (22)[4]
The Copts were not the least moved by this appeal made by Moses (sws). They continued to conspire and plan against him. At last, Moses (sws) pleaded to his Lord thus: "Lord! These people will not listen to and accept my call; they are chronic criminals; only you can save me from their grasp."
فَأَسْرِ بِعِبَادِي لَيْلًا إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ (23)[5]
Moses (sws) made this invocation at the right time, and hence it was accepted forthwith. It was not even deemed necessary to say a few words of immediate acceptance of this invocation which showed that Moses (sws) was as a result directed to do what this verse states. He was directed to take along with him the servants of God during the night, and he was also warned that he would be followed. This warning was given because though the Pharaoh was frustrated at the calamities which befell Egypt because of Moses' invocation to God and therefore allowed Moses (sws) to take them away for a few days. When Moses (sws) embarked upon the journey with the whole nation, the Pharaoh changed his mind. He realized that he had made a mistake in giving him this permission. He immediately went in pursuit of them, with all his regional leaders, so that he could force them to come back. The Almighty had already informed Moses (sws) of this so that there was no delay in his march with his people and they would be able to cross the sea at the appointed time.
وَاتْرُكْ الْبَحْرَ رَهْوًا إِنَّهُمْ جُندٌ مُّغْرَقُونَ (24)[6]
The word رَهْوmeans "standing still". The implication is that Moses (sws) should leave the sea before the dying down of the wind which God would use to part the sea and make way for them. As soon as they left the sea, it would become calm and the displaced water would come back to its position. During this time the Egyptians while pursuing them would be within the sea and water would engulf them in a manner that they would neither be able to move backward nor forward.
كَمْ تَرَكُوا مِن جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ (25) وَزُرُوعٍ وَمَقَامٍ كَرِيمٍ (26) وَنَعْمَةٍ كَانُوا فِيهَا فَاكِهِينَ (27)[7]
The verse implies that they would become prey to the waves of the sea while being deprived of the orchards, fountains, crop fields, grand mansions and luxury items which had made them arrogant. They reckoned that these things were a guarantee of their success and development, and those who threatened them with destruction were absolutely insane. However, it was proven on the contrary that without the fear of God these things were a prelude to destruction and when destruction came none of these things were of any benefit.
كَذَلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَاهَا قَوْمًا آخَرِينَ (28)[8]
The words نفْعَلُ بِالْمُجْرِمِيْن are suppressed after كَذَلِكَ because of textual indication. The meaning would be: "We did with them what we do with sinners and thus shall We do in the future." The next part of the verse means that the Almighty made others the owners of these things. "Others" do not refer to the Israelites. It is not established that once the Israelites left Egypt, they returned later. It is possible that "others" refer to neighbouring nations which the Pharaoh and his companions constantly feared would join hands with the Israelites and occupy Egypt. It is evident from the Torah that the motive of the campaign of killing the male members of the Israelites had been launched for fear that if the Israelites increased in number they might join hands with the enemies and pose a threat for the Pharaoh and his people.
فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا مُنظَرِينَ (29)[9]
The verse refers to the fact that as long as the Pharaoh and his nation remained in power, they thought that they were the pioneers of a great civilization and culture and that the whole world would remain under the burden of their favour, but neither did the heavens nor the earth shed a tear on their destruction; in fact, they heaved a sigh of relief at the extirpation of their filthy existence from this world.
Here it needs to be kept in mind that the heavens and the earth do cry at the death of an innocent being who has been the target of oppression. It is stated in the Torah (Genesis, 4:10) that the blood of Abel cries out to the Lord from the earth.[10] However, at the death and destruction of the oppressed and the defiant both the heavens and the earth rejoice – especially at the destruction of the defiant to whom the Almighty has conclusively conveyed the truth through His messengers.
وَلَقَدْ نَجَّيْنَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ الْمُهِينِ (30) مِن فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ عَالِيًا مِّنَ الْمُسْرِفِينَ (31)[11]
The words مِن فِرْعَوْنَ are a permutative (badal) from الْعَذَابِ الْمُهِينِ. In other words, the Almighty has dubbed the Pharaoh as humiliating punishment. The Pharaoh regarded Moses (sws) and all his people to be lowly; however, to God it was the Pharaoh who was not only lowly but a humiliating punishment.
The words إِنَّهُ كَانَ عَالِيًا مِّنَ الْمُسْرِفِينَ express why the Pharaoh is regarded as a humiliating punishment. The Qur'ān says that this is because he was very rebellious and among those who transgress the bounds set by God. People who rebel against God are a punishment for the oppressed and shall stand humiliated before God.
وَلَقَدِ اخْتَرْنَاهُمْ عَلَى عِلْمٍ عَلَى الْعَالَمِينَ (32)[12]
The verse implies that while the Almighty had the Pharaoh and his people drowned, He chose the Israelites – who had been trampled upon by them – for the guidance of the world. It may be kept in mind that a nation who is made the recipient of God's sharī'ah is naturally the most capable and worthy of guiding people. However, this position is conditional on the fact that it will discharge with full honesty the responsibility imposed on it by virtue of this position. If it does not discharge this responsibility, the Almighty confiscates this position and consigns it to others. In a particular period of time, the Israelites were given this position but when they did not remain worthy of it they were deposed and the responsibility of guiding people was entrusted to the Muslim ummah.
The words عَلَى عِلْمٍ allude to the philosophy of history: the rise and fall of nations in this world does not occur by chance; it is the Almighty Who selects a nation which meets His standards and those who do not are rejected by Him. The message which can be gauged from this is that those who have been deposed of this position should censure themselves on their own inability instead of blaming others, and those who are sovereign should show gratitude to God instead of being overcome by pride and arrogance and should discharge their responsibilities. The rise and fall of nations which takes place in this world is according to a divine design and its basis depends on the moral conduct of nations. God's knowledge is inerrant and His wisdom is unbiased.
These verses very sternly warn the Israelites who during the time of their revelation were opposing the Qur'ān and Muhammad (sws). This warning does not require any explanation. If they had only understood that the Almighty chose them on the basis of His knowledge, and now on the basis of that very knowledge had decided that they were no longer worthy of it, they would have saved themselves from the evil fate that they faced as a consequence of their opposition to Islam.
وَآتَيْنَاهُم مِّنَ الْآيَاتِ مَا فِيهِ بَلَاء مُّبِينٌ (33)[13]
The real meaning of the word بَلَاءis "trial" and "test"; however, this trial can come through blessings and favours as well as through calamities and hardships. The former trial is to test whether people remain grateful or not and the latter trial is to test whether people remain patient or not. Contextual indications show that in this verse this word is used in the first of these meanings just as in verse seventeen of Sūrah Anfāl it has been mentioned with the adjective حَسَناً. The reference is to the favours which the Almighty granted them in a variety of ways while they were crossing the desert and later in the life they spent in the desert and in the conquest of Palestine as well as in later phases. Their details are mentioned in Sūrah Baqarah.
Section III: Verses (34-57)
In the succeeding verses, the real reason for the rebelliousness of the Quraysh is highlighted: they do not imagine that there is life after this worldly existence; for this reason they are engrossed in the present and unmindful of the future. In order to remove this misconception of theirs, first the intellectual and natural arguments which substantiate the law of reward and punishment are cited. After this, the fate of both the believers and the disbelievers is depicted.
Readers may now proceed to recite these verses.
إِنَّ هَؤُلَاء لَيَقُولُونَ (34) إِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا مَوْتَتُنَا الْأُولَى وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُنشَرِينَ (35) فَأْتُوا بِآبَائِنَا إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ (36) أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ وَالَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ (37) وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَاعِبِينَ (38) مَا خَلَقْنَاهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ (39) إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْفَصْلِ مِيقَاتُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ (40) يَوْمَ لَا يُغْنِي مَوْلًى عَن مَّوْلًى شَيْئًا وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ (41) إِلَّا مَن رَّحِمَ اللهُ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ (42) إِنَّ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُّومِ (43) طَعَامُ الْأَثِيمِ (44) كَالْمُهْلِ يَغْلِي فِي الْبُطُونِ (45) كَغَلْيِ الْحَمِيمِ (46) خُذُوهُ فَاعْتِلُوهُ إِلَى سَوَاء الْجَحِيمِ (47) ثُمَّ صُبُّوا فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِ مِنْ عَذَابِ الْحَمِيمِ (48) ذُقْ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْكَرِيمُ (49) إِنَّ هَذَا مَا كُنتُم بِهِ تَمْتَرُونَ (50) إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي مَقَامٍ أَمِينٍ (51) فِي جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ (52) يَلْبَسُونَ مِن سُندُسٍ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍ مُّتَقَابِلِينَ (53) كَذَلِكَ وَزَوَّجْنَاهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍ (54) يَدْعُونَ فِيهَا بِكُلِّ فَاكِهَةٍ آمِنِينَ (55) لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا الْمَوْتَةَ الْأُولَى وَوَقَاهُمْ عَذَابَ الْجَحِيمِ (56) فَضْلًا مِّن رَّبِّكَ ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ (57) فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَاهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ (58) فَارْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ (59)
These people emphatically say: "We shall die only this first death and after this we shall not be raised to life; so bring back to us our fathers, if you are truthful." (34-36)
Are they better or the people of Tubba' and those who were before them? We destroyed them. Indeed, they were a defiant people. (37)
And We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them for amusement. We did not create them but for a purpose, but most of them are not aware of this fact. Indeed, the Day of Judgement is the appointed time for all. On that Day, no relative shall be of any benefit to a relative nor shall they be helped. Except those to whom God shows mercy. Indeed, He alone is the Mighty One, the Merciful. (38-42)
The tree of the Zaqqūm shall be the food of the sinners. Like dregs of oil; it will sizzle in the belly the way hot water sizzles. Seize him and drag him into the depths of Hell; then pour out the punishment of hot water over his head. Taste this! You posed to be very powerful and honourable. This is the very thing about which you remained doubtful. (43-50)
As for the righteous, they shall dwell in a peaceful place amid gardens and fountains. They will be dressed in sundus andistabraq sitting opposite one another. Thus shall be the God-fearing treated. And We shall wed them to large-eyed houris. They shall ask for every kind of fruit, with peace. Here, after their first death, they shall not taste death again and God protected them from the torment of Hell. This will be specially because of your God's grace. This indeed is great success. (51-57)
إِنَّ هَؤُلَاء لَيَقُولُونَ (34) إِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا مَوْتَتُنَا الْأُولَى وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُنشَرِينَ (35)[14]
The verse states that these people very emphatically claim that the threat of the Day of judgement is mere bluff. Death is only faced once – and that is in this world. There is no other death or life after this.
فَأْتُوا بِآبَائِنَا إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ (36)[15]
In order to substantiate their claim stated earlier, they would demand of the believers to bring back any of their forefathers to life if they were truthful in saying that there is life after death; if the believers met their demand, they would regard life after death to be a reality. This subject is discussed in Sūrah Jāthiyah in the following words:وَإِذَا تُتْلَى عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ مَّا كَانَ حُجَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا ائْتُوا بِآبَائِنَا إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ (45: 25) (and when Our clear verses about life after death are recited to them, their only argument is: "if you are true in your claim, bring back to us our fathers!"(45:25)). The Qur'ān has regarded this to be their only argument, and after referring to it has just ignored it and not even refuted it. This is an allusion to the fact that such is the nonsensical nature of their only argument in which they take pride that it does not even need to be commented upon.
أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ وَالَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ (37)[16]
The nation of Tubba' refers to the Tabābi'ah of Yemen who were very famous in Arabia because of their material might and advancement as well as for their intellectual abilities. Arab poets have eulogized them a lot.
In response to the previously mentioned claim of the Quraysh, the Qur'ān has asked them to speak up if they are superior to the nation of the Tubba'viz a viz material might and advancement and intellectual abilities, and if in spite of the superiority of the nation of the Tubba' the Almighty destroyed them – neither did their material might benefit them nor their intellectual prowess; so what is the reason for the arrogance of the Quraysh thinking that no one will be able to seize them? When the Almighty destroyed people more powerful than them, why can't He destroy them? Earlier nations too met with a similar fate. The people of the 'Ād, the Thamūd and some other nations were superior to the Quraysh in every respect; but when they became rebellious against God, the Almighty destroyed them. So what superiority and eminence do the Quraysh have that they will always remain in favour with God even though they are more rebellious than these ancient nations? What counts for God is character and morality and not material wealth and riches nor grand mansions nor atom bombs and missiles. When nations become morally corrupt, the Almighty destroys them with the very same bombs they made to destroy other nations, and thus they are forced to commit suicide with their own weapons.
Examples of God's law of retribution are found in this world and are found so abundantly that they are uncountable. So why should such a Day of reward and punishment be doubted on which the Almighty shall reward and punish individuals the way He rewarded and punished nations in this world.
وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَاعِبِينَ (38) مَا خَلَقْنَاهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ (39)[17]
In the afore-mentioned paragraphs, historical evidence as well as evidence from the world around man was presented to substantiate reward and punishment. In these verses, argument for the same is drawn from the attributes of God and from what they morally and intellectually entail. The verse states that the Almighty has not created the heavens and the earth and what is between them for amusement; on the contrary, He has created them for a higher purpose and a true objective. It is an essential requirement of this true objective that one day this world cease to exist and after that a day come when the Creator rewards those who spent their lives in accordance with God's will, and punishes those who remained disobedient. If such a day does not come and this world continues without end or ends abruptly such that neither its pious inhabitants are rewarded nor the evil ones punished, then this means that its Creator, God forbid, is a merry-maker who while sitting in the heavens is witnessing a drama of the oppression and the oppressed, and when gets bored from watching this drama, He will dismantle this world or perhaps this drama will continue unabated forever. Obviously, this notion is such a wrong estimation about the merciful and wise creator of this world that cannot even be imagined. It is strange however that the majority is inflicted with this notion and is absolutely unaware of its consequences.
The fact that this is a deviant notion has been explained in detail in the exegesis of the previous sūrahs. Hence, I will content myself here with this brief comment.
إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْفَصْلِ مِيقَاتُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ (40)[18]
Stated in this verse is the essential outcome of the fact that this world has been created with a true objective: it is against the knowledge, justice, wisdom and mercy of God that this world continues the way it is or ends abruptly; it is essential that a day come in which the Almighty sits in His chair of justice and decides the affairs of all. As a result, those who spent their lives in an upright manner will be rewarded and those who spent their lives in transgression and usurpation will be bear punishment. That day will be the day on which perfect justice manifests itself and no one will escape from it. The small and the big, the rulers and the ruled, the beggar and the king – all will be called to justice and such will be this justice that neither will any reality remain hidden nor will anyone be able to cause hindrance to the justice being dispensed. The word أَجْمَعِيْنَ should be specially paid attention to.
يَوْمَ لَا يُغْنِي مَوْلًى عَنْ مَّوْلًى شَيْئًا وَلَا هُمْ يُنْصَرُونَ (41)[19]
The word مَوْلًى is used for members of a family and tribe who are related to a person through his blood and lineage and who have mutual feelings of support and unity. The verse states that that day will be of such selfishness that no relative will be of any benefit to another relative.
The expression وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ points to the fact that there will be no other source of help either. It is evident from contextual indication that this help refers to the help which the Idolaters of Arabia expected from their deities.
إِلَّا مَنْ رَّحِمَ اللهُ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ (42)[20]
The verse says that on that day only those who are blessed with God's grace will succeed and only those receive His grace who are worthy of it. God is powerful and at the same time He is also merciful. No one will be able to bail out people seized by Him. And no one will be able to deprive people who are worthy of His mercy. In other words, people should fear Him alone and expect mercy from Him alone as well.
إِنَّ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُّومِ (43) طَعَامُ الْأَثِيمِ (44) كَالْمُهْلِ يَغْلِي فِي الْبُطُونِ (45) كَغَلْيِ الْحَمِيمِ (46)[21]
Earlier, the Day of Judgment was mentioned. Here what will befall the sinners as a result of the verdicts delivered therein is depicted. It is stated that the tree of cactus will provide subsistence to the sinners. This cactus is the cactus of Hell; hence, only God knows what it actually is. We can only vaguely imagine it by drawing an analogy from the cactus of this world. We cannot grasp what it actually is.
People have translated the word مُهْل variously. By giving preference to its etymological construction, I have translated it as the sediment of oil. The verses say that it will seethe in the bellies of the sinners the way the sediment of oil does, and shall sizzle the way water sizzles.
In other words, this food will boil the way the sediment of sour oil boils viz a viz its intensity, heat and bitterness and will sizzle like sizzling water. When oil is heated, it gets very hot but it does not sizzle; when water is heated it sizzles as well. Here in this simile both facets of heating are combined.
خُذُوهُ فَاعْتِلُوهُ إِلَى سَوَاء الْجَحِيمِ (47) ثُمَّ صُبُّوا فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِ مِنْ عَذَابِ الْحَمِيمِ (48)[22]
Giving due consideration to eloquence, it is suppressed that the above words will be proclaimed to these people from God. The source of this proclamation is not mentioned; only the proclamation itself is cited. In other words, the wardens of Hell will be directed to seize these people and drag them to the depth of Hell and spill buckets of boiling water on them as a sizzling punishment.
ذُقْ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْكَرِيمُ (49) إِنَّ هَذَا مَا كُنتُم بِهِ تَمْتَرُونَ (50)[23]
This statement can be an expression of the situation that will befall these people and it can also be interpreted to be made by the wardens. Each one of them will be told that they posed to be very powerful and honourable in the previous world and as a result arrogantly denied this Day; today they should taste its torment; this is the same thing about which they created all sorts of doubts.
إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي مَقَامٍ أَمِينٍ (51) فِي جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ (52)[24]
After depicting of the fate of the sinners, the verses portray the fate of the God-fearing: they will reside in a peaceful place; they will neither have any fear there nor any sorrow. They will be amidst orchards and fountains, and they will have no fear that anyone snatch away these blessings from them or that the blessings cease or that they be regarded accountable for any of them.
يَلْبَسُونَ مِن سُندُسٍ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍ مُّتَقَابِلِينَ (53)[25]
Sundus (سُندُس) and istbaraq (إِسْتَبْرَق) are the names of silk cloth. Some people have distinguished between them with regard to their thickness. However, since these fabrics belong to Paradise, such a distinction is unimportant. Only God knows what actually they will be like.
The word مُّتَقَابِلِينَ here refers to the fact that these people will face one another. As per the linguistic construction of the verses, verbs like يَجْلِسُوْنَ (sitting) or يَتَّكِئُوْنَ (sitting while being supported by cushions etc) will be considered as understood to be present here. In other words, they will be sitting face to face wearing attires of sundus and istabraq. Sitting facing one another shows that they will be dear to one another and will enjoy the confidence of one another. Since they gave noble advice to one another in the previous world, its noble recompense will be evident to them. For this reason, they will sit with one another whole heartedly. On the other hand, the disbelievers and their leaders will hurl insults at each other.
كَذَلِكَ وَزَوَّجْنَاهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍ (54) يَدْعُونَ فِيهَا بِكُلِّ فَاكِهَةٍ آمِنِينَ (55)[26]
The verse states that as culmination of their bliss, the Almighty will have them wedded to large-eyed houris, In Arabic literature, this epithet signifies the pinnacle of beauty of a woman.
The subsequent verse says that for them will be all kinds of fruit in abundance. Whatever fruit they want, they will demand from dutiful attendants. Neither will they have any fear of reduction in fruits nor any fear of being deprived of this bliss nor will they have any fear of death. They will be shielded from all fears and enjoy eternal bliss.
لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا الْمَوْتَةَ الْأُولَى وَوَقَاهُمْ عَذَابَ الْجَحِيمِ (56) فَضْلًا مِّن رَّبِّكَ ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ (57)[27]
The first implies that after the death they tasted in this world, they will never taste it again. Both their life and its pleasure will be abiding. They are rid of death and their Lord shielded them from Hell. This is a special favour to them by the Prophet's Lord, and this, in reality, is the supreme triumph and not the one which the slaves of this world have given their hearts to and have been so infatuated with their love that they think that the life of this world is all that there is; after this, there is no life or death.
Section IV: Verses (58-59)
Readers may recall that this sūrah began with the mention of the Qur'ān's exaltedness: it is indeed a great favour which the Almighty has blessed the Arabs with. If they duly honour and value it, they will be blessed with great success both in this world and in that to come. However, if out of arrogance they do not duly value it, they should remember that this great favour can become an equally great torment for them, and they will only hasten their own destruction both in this world and in that to come. After this introductory topic, the sūrah went on to state arguments which substantiate the veracity of the Qur'ān. Now at the end, the same subject discussed in the introduction is recalled from a new aspect. It is as if the sūrah ends on the same subject on which it began. Several examples of this style of similarity between the opening and the closing verses of a sūrah can be seen in earlier sūrahs. In the speeches of eloquent orators as well, subtle example of this style can be seen. An orator generally ends his speech by reminding the audience of the topic with which he began it. This is because a complete reminder is sounded to them in the end.
Readers may now proceed to recite the verses.
فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَاهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ (58) فَارْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ (59)
Thus We have efficiently adorned this Qur'ān in your own tongue so that they may receive reminder. Wait you then; they too are waiting. (59)
فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَاهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ (58)[28]
The letter فَ indicates the affinity with the subject of the previous sections of the sūrah. The aspect in which this affinity exists is already referred to above.
The word تِيْسِيْر means to make something appropriate and suitable for a purpose and to make it firm and sound in all aspects. The expression يَسَّرَ الفَرَسَ لِلرٌّكُوْب would mean to make a horse ready for riding by adorning it with a bridle, saddle, stirrups and other relevant things. The expression يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ would mean to adorn the Qur'ān with all that is necessary to make it appropriate for education and reminding. People who have interpreted this verse to mean that the Qur'ān is a very easy and bland book have not been able to grasp the essence of the word. No doubt that the Qur'ān is also an easy book; however, this ease is a reference to its higher objective of teaching and reminding people for which the Almighty has revealed it. This objective has multifarious aspects, and since the Qur'ān comprehensively covers all these aspects as well as their essential consequences, it contains many difficult and intricate aspects. However, to effectively communicate these aspects to the hearts of people, it has adopted such majestic styles which cannot be emulated by anyone. However, these things themselves require deep deliberation because they relate to wisdom, and wisdom requires deep deliberation. I have alluded to some aspects of this issue in the explanation of verse ninety seven of Sūrah Maryam and God willing, I will attempt to shed more light on this issue in the exegesis of Sūrah Qamar.
The word بِلِسَانِكَ refers to the pure and unadulterated language of the Quraysh which was best archetype of eloquent Arabic, and the Prophet (sws) was best exemplar of this eloquent Arabic. This is a reference to a very important aspect of the taysīr of the Qur'ān: to conclusively communicate the truth to the Quraysh, the Almighty has revealed this Book in the language of the Prophet (sws) which is the best exemplar of the language of the Quraysh. If they do not understand the Qur'ān even in this language, then this is no fault of the Book; rather, it is their own fault for which the Prophet (sws) is not responsible.
The words لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ express the purpose of the revelation of the Qur'ān in a very elaborate and thorough manner: to receive reminder. This means that they be reminded of whatever the Almighty has inherently granted their intellect and nature, learn a lesson from the signs which are found within man and in the world outside him and bear in mind the guidance received from the previous prophets, in particular their great ancestor Abraham (sws). The Qur'ān is reminding them of all these things in the best of languages and in the best of styles. Concealed in these words is also the warning that if they are not prepared to be reminded, then they should get ready to meet the fate destined by God for such rebellious people. Moreover, their own history also reminds them of this fate.
فَارْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ (59)[29]
This verse clearly expresses the hidden warning that was concealed in the previous verse. In other words, if these people are not prepared to benefit from this Book and insist that they will only believe after observing the punishment they are being threatened with, then like them, the Prophet (sws) too should wait for this punishment. On this punishment hinges the judgement. Readers may take a look at the explanation of verse ten.
By the grace of God, with these lines, I come to the end of the tafsīr of this sūrah. فالحمد لله على إحسانه (so gratitude be to God for His favour)
Rahmānābād,
22nd May 1976 AD
22nd Jumādī al-Thanī 1396 AH
(Tr. by Dr Shehzad Saleem)
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Latest Library Links
by megan · November 26, 2016
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to those of you in the US. November has been quite the month to say the least, but I’ve found a lot of comfort, hope, and guidance from the response to the crisis in the library circles. Here’s a roundup of the latest links, news, and library resources to recover and cope after the election and the tumultuous political season.
Check out the winners of the National Book Awards. The November 16 awards ceremony came right on the heels of the election, however, Lisa Lucas, head of the National Book Foundation, offers a suggestion for starting to bridge a divided country. [via NPR’s Morning Edition]
Talking to children about the election results has been a challenge for educators and parents alike. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) created and shared the Unity. Kindness. Peace. Booklist as a helpful resource and opened up the discussion for further reading suggestions.
Post-election, many have taken to wearing safety pins to demonstrate safety and support for the vulnerable, following an earlier movement among Brexit protesters. Taking a page from the larger safety pin campaign,a outpouring of children’s literature authors rallied together to show solidarity against bullying. BookRiot shares some of their favorite author images and words of heart. You may want a box of Kleenex handy.
The #LibrariesRespond hashtag captures a host of media documenting the artwork, displays, articles, and other responses from libraries post-election.
We may need librarians more than ever. NPR reports on a Stanford research study finding that students have trouble telling the difference between real and fake news. Librarians have a big role to play when it comes to educating kids (and adults) about information evaluation.
While there’s a lot of uncertainty about the future, Library Journal’s 2016 Placements and Salaries report provides some clues about what the library profession looks like in the coming year. Infonista shares career takeaways from the report, including the promising outlook for LIS skills in the job market.
Meanwhile, teacher librarian, Karen Hoppis, built a solution to cultivate a culture of reading at Coal Ridge Middle School. Her slideshow explains how she did it and how librarians can create similar efforts at their own libraries.
Looking for STEM programming ideas or Makerspace activities? Little Bins for Little Hands is chock-full of science and other STEM-related activities, ideas, and resources, plus enough Legos and slime for hours of creation. There’s an even an ongoing holiday activity list. Crystal candy canes, anyone?
If you’re in need of an uplift, the New York Times has you covered with their story of a Bronx librarian bringing the joy of books to homeless children. Further proof that one person can and does make a difference.
Tags: holidaylibrarylink rounduppost-election
Nonprofit techie turned MLIS student, community builder, yoga geek, and penguin enthusiast.
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Crave the Heat Book Spotlight and Book Tour Giveaway
By Angela Thompson on 1/19/2019 02:32:00 PM
Today, we have a new romantic suspense novel in our book spotlight! Check out Crave the Heat, learn about the Smokejumpers series and author Marnee Blake--and be sure to enter the book tour giveaway at the end of this post.
Crave the Heat
The Smokejumpers #2
by Marnee Blake
Pub Date: 1/15/2019
Smokejumper Dak Parrish has come home to Oregon to fight fires—and to mend fences with his family. He left the Warm Springs Tribal Reservation after feuding with his father. Now, with tribal lands threatened by an arsonist, Dak gets a chance to make amends by acting as a liaison between the reservation and the forest service criminal investigator—a woman who sparks a surprising and hungry flame in him.
After a trauma on the east coast, Heidi Sinclair left DC to start fresh as a criminal investigator in Oregon. But her first serious investigation provides one stubborn obstacle after another—including an arrogant firefighter she suspects knows more than he's saying. Though she tries to battle her attraction to Dak, it’s too late. As they track down the arsonist, someone will do whatever it takes to keep old secrets buried, even if it turns everything Heidi and Dak have fought for to ashes . . .
Tempt the Flames
Meg Buchanan is determined to prove she didn’t get the trainer job in Redmond, Oregon’s rookie smokejumper class because of her family’s long history as firefighters there—or out of pity. But if teaching one of her own brothers isn’t challenging enough, Lance Roberts is in the new class of recruits. Once her brother’s best friend, and her first, unrequited crush, he’s also the son of the man responsible for her dad’s death.
Lance is stunned to realize that this confident redhead is the stubborn girl he once dreamed about. There’s no way he can fall for her now. He needs to focus all his attention on his training—and discovering the truth about the long-ago fire that killed both of their fathers. But as the undeniable heat between them threatens to ignite, someone attempts to put an end to Lance’s amateur sleuthing—and his life…
Award-winning author and RITA® finalist Marnee Blake used to teach high school students but these days she only has to wrangle her own children. Originally from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, she now battles traffic in southern New Jersey where she lives with her hero husband and their happily-ever-after: two very energetic boys. When she isn't writing, she can be found refereeing disputes between her children, cooking up something sweet, or hiding from encroaching dust bunnies with a book.
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Home Football EDITORIAL: THE WEEKEND REVIEW
THE WEEKEND REVIEW
Whisper it slowly, Manchester City is top of the League..
Over the last couple of weeks, all the attention has been from whether Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool can finally win the elusive Premier League (or even go the whole season unbeaten) to whether Maurizio Sarri’s “Sarri-ball” will take a long while for the Chelsea players to adapt to (it clearly hasn’t) to whether Eden Hazard is the best player in the Premier League and if he can score 40 goals this season to the Manchester United-Jose Mourinho-Paul Pogba fiasco and obviously their recent defeat to West Ham. Nobody has paid much attention to Manchester City recently (and that is a great plus for them) considering the fact that they won the League last season, breaking a number of records along the way. Over the weekend, they went about their business and are currently top of the League, easily beating Brighton and Hove Albion and not conceding in their last two games. The question now is, will they come back down now that they are up?
Manchester United, oh Manchester
The signs were there before today. Nobody seemed confident that they would win this game, considering that West Ham were picking up steam after being on the losing end of their first four premier league games. Alexis Sanchez did not make the 18-man squad. Manchester United did not disappoint, and were unsurprisingly beaten 3-1. Manchester United cannot slip up anymore this season. No more errors.
The Chelsea-Liverpool rematch still does not disappoint.
After the mid-week Carabao cup where these two teams met, we wanted more of the same as the likes of Hazard, Salah, Firmino and Giroud started. They did not disappoint. There was some sub-par finishing (I’m looking at you Hazard and Salah) but the score-line was even based on the balance of play. Liverpool (and Daniel Sturridge) had to pull a rabbit out of a hat to snatch a point after some poor finishing. Both sides have lots of quality players and play some quality football but their forwards need to be more clinical in order to be in contention in the long run. Hazard alone cannot score all the goals as Giroud and Morata have a combined one goal (Granit Xhaka has the same number alone), the Liverpool front three have not been sharp as well.
Juventus cannot be stopped.
In their biggest Serie A game of the season, Juventus made a very resounding statement. Ronaldo, their most influential player, had a hand in all three goals but did not score. He was still the best player on the pitch. Napoli on the other hand, put themselves about but you just get the feeling that they can only push Juventus so far. After seven games, Juventus is currently six points ahead. Who is stopping them now?
Bayern Munich slip up and Dortmund take full advantage..
If you thought that the Bundesliga was done and dusted before the season started, think again. Bayern Munich was shockingly poor on Friday against Hertha Berlin and were duly beaten. Dortmund were set up to take advantage but were two goals down in no time. They had to dig deep and score four goals. Dortmund is quite poor defensively but know how to score goals, but how long can they keep that up for. Still, credit should go to Lucien Favre for blooding these young players. Dortmund is top of the League.
Draws in the Madrid Derby and for Barcelona..
The Madrid derby was a bit disappointing over the weekend. Atletico Madrid would be the happier of the two sides and this still leaves the La Liga wide open. At the Nou Camp, Barcelona had to come from behind to snatch a draw, with Lionel Messi having to come from the bench to register an assist. Sevilla is the only team to have taken full advantage over the last weekend.
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Between Books - Seven Summits
As I have read through books about the Eisner Era one impression that I felt solid about was that Frank Wells was a world class mountain climber. The late Disney President had passion and skill in this high risk sport. Well, this is wrong. Because in Wells “own” words one can find an excellent account of his mountain climbing adventures that shows that Wells was an amateur and inept mountain climber. But what he did have was determination.
Seven Summits by Dick Bass, Frank Wells, and Rick Ridgeway outlines the 1983 attempt by Bass and Wells to climb the highest peak on every continent within a year. The logistical and physical feat is impressive itself, but would also set records like the oldest man to climb Mount Everest. The book discusses how the two men both came to the idea to climb all seven peaks, how they met and the unlikely partnership that formed between Bass the commercial property developer and Wells the Hollywood executive. The book follows the attempts they made on each mountain, including failed attempts on Everest. In the end, only one of the two climbers would complete the challenge, but both men would be changed forever.
I do not typically read books about mountain climbing or even adventures set in nature. But regardless, Seven Summits was highly entertaining and gripping to read. The book itself was written by Ridgeway, who joined Bass and Wells on some of the climbs. Ridgeway does an excellent job of putting together a detailed story about the efforts of these two men. And with Ridgeway being a mountain climber who understands that pastime, the book is highly accurate and informative. A comment I made to the Between Wife throughout the read was mountain climbing is not for me, it is too much work. One thinks of climbs as being quick, not realizing the work needed to get to the peak. In 1983, Wells and Bass spent most of their year in tents and huts, not comfy beds, as they moved their gear from camp to camp. A climb on Everest or Mount Vinson in Antarctica takes weeks as one must establish bases before the assent to the peak can begin.
This story is an adventure. Not everyone survives these climbs. And some climbers come away with amputations. It only makes it more remarkable that Wells survived 1983 when you realize his low skill level compared to the world class climbers he worked with. Knowing that Wells had not yet taken his position at Disney did not lower my stress level as I worried his actions would cost the lives of other climbers.
It is because of Frank Wells that I wanted to read this book, in fact the only reason I picked it up. And this is a very different version of Wells than I have read in Disney business histories. This Wells is the main who gave up leadership of Warner Brothers to climb mountains. And he is a climber who is highly inexperienced, not really in shape, cannot care for himself, and at times reckless. He is also a man who proved to be relentless in completing a task he was not qualified for. And a man who found satisfaction in the attempt alone. He would not make it to the top of Everest, but one gets the feeling that the knowledge that he had his shot was satisfying in its own way. You have to give respect to a man whose determination was what kept him pushing to the top if each mountain. We also get to see the Wells who is between jobs. He is a man who needs work, hopefully in 1984. That job would be Disney. And as we watch Wells work the phone to complete the impossible logistics of setting up climbs in places like Antarctica, well his operational skills rise to the top.
Seven Summits is a great adventure story. The adventure will keep you glued to the pages, especially if like me you were riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds with its Wells’ tribute on the same days you read this text. And for a fan of Disney history this is a very different take on Frank Wells than we expect of the man who excelled in the Board room.
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Labels: Between Books, Dick Bass, Eisner Era, Frank Wells, Mount Everest, Mountain Climbing, Rick Ridgeway, The Matterhorn
Between Books - The Keys to the Kingdom
The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip by Kim Masters outlines the show business career of Michael Eisner including how his tenure at Disney began to disintegrate. Written while Eisner was still entrenched in Disney leadership, the book does not chronicle the complete fall of the CEO/President but does show the missteps he took that eventually led to his fall. The book is not a complete story but a highly dense and dispassionate description of Eisner’s leadership.
Masters focuses on the career of Michael Eisner. So compared to other books on the Eisner Era there is less information about the Board decisions that led to Eisner’s rise to leadership. Instead more space is given to his roles at ABC, where he developed Happy Days, and Paramount Pictures, which like his time at Disney did not end on good terms. Masters then goes into great detail on Eisner’s time at Disney especially the film slates that he developed with Jeffrey Katzenberg. The book concludes with a lengthy discussion of the Katzenberg-Eisner breakup and the compensation dispute that emerged.
With a subtitle that includes, “Lost His Grip” I expected the book to be extremely slanted against Eisner. Instead I found it to be dispassionate and factual. Yes there are a lot of failures detailed but they seem to be more fact and figures than the judgment expected from the title. It really is the Katzenberg-Eisner relationship that the book does document in great depth, including narrations of compensation trial proceedings. One cannot help but feel confused and saddened as the discussion breaks into he said/he said recollections with the one man who may have been able to end this issue, Frank Wells, deceased. And of course no one wanted to disparage Wells’ character. One cannot ignore the irony that Eisner who made sure to get his payout from Paramount immediately in a check that cleared the bank while he waited, blocked Katzenberg from receiving his contractually guaranteed bonus.
Detail is really the strong point of this very dense book. From the compensation trial to the fatal helicopter crash that took Frank Wells’ life there is lots of depth in this book. It does have a smaller focus than a book like Disney War. But what it does cover is done in great great detail and adds to books that discuss wider timeframes.
Labels: Between Books, Eisner Era, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kim Masters, Michael Eisner
Between Books - Prince of the Magic Kingdom
Joe Flower in Prince of the Magic Kingdom: Michael Eisner and the Re-Making of Disney provides a positive account of Eisner’s early Disney tenure. However, the book does not add much to the story of Michael Eisner at Disney. And as a text filled with factual errors and fallacies, this book is my least favorite account of the Eisner Era!
Prince of the Magic Kingdom is a pretty straightforward book. In 300 pages, Flower provides a background chapter on Walt Disney and his formation and expansion of his company. He provides a short biography of Eisner from childhood to Paramount. This is followed by the story of how Eisner and Frank Wells came into Disney leadership. The Flower discusses in several chapters Eisner’s first seven years at Disney. This is followed by a discussion of problems during the Eisner Era. He concludes with a prediction that the Eisner/Disney story will have a happy ending!
There are two things I find really difficult to deal with in this book. They are facts and assumptions. Erroneous facts include but are not limited to that there is no forced perspective in Walt Disney World, that the movie Howard the Duck was animated in the same way as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and that the Hollywood focused theme park in Florida is the Disney-MGM Studio Tour (shortened in the index to Studio Tour). Flower is the only author that I have read who has shortened Stanley Gold’s name to Stan Gold. And on page 12 he states that Roy O. Disney was 13 years older than Walt, and 8 years on page 51 (the correct age gap). The second issue is assumptions. These include that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen, that Roy O. Disney served as an obstacle to all of Walt Disney’s endeavors, that Michael Eisner revived Julia Roberts’ career in Pretty Woman (her 6th film released in her first 3 years of big screen stardom), and so many more that just put my teeth on edge.
Additionally troubling to me is that this book at times feels like a title about Imagineer Randy Bright and not Eisner. Flower uses numerous Bright quotes, who was likely one of the few insiders to speak to him. These quotes begin to make it feel like this book is not about Eisner but about edifying Bright. More sources could really have been helpful. There are enough factual errors and bad interpretation that some of his statements really require a source to back his facts that I have not seen elsewhere. He does cite Storming the Magic Kingdom as his source for chapter six, which is great because the chapter reads like a summary of that better researched and written book.
Flower’s biography is written seven years into the Eisner/Wells era. So none of the “bad” choices have happened yet and Eisner was still the hit of Hollywood. And Wells was still in the leadership partnership. With this being said, Flower’s writing comes off as the writing of a fan, not a journalist or impartial historian. I think the use of the word Prince in the title says it all. Flower writes as someone who is a fan and his attempt at the end of the book to be more critical of Eisner fails. This is especially true since some of the warts he provides were not directly related to Eisner. While other books written later in Eisner’s career are highly critical, following the wave of the day. Flower is on the other end of the criticism spectrum and at times it feels like Eisner could do no wrong. And as noted he does incorrectly predict that Eisner would have a happy ending at Disney!
Of all the Michael Eisner related books that I have read recently, Prince of the Magic Kingdom is honestly the one I would avoid. There are factual errors and author assumptions that one should simply steer clear of. When I think of those quickly written biographies of Disney stars of the moment, much like we saw with the Jonas Brothers, I see Prince of the Magic Kingdom as the Eisner equivalent!
Labels: Between Books, Eisner Era, Frank Wells, Joe Flower, Michael Eisner, Randy Bright
Between Books - Camp
Former Disney Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner recounts his nostalgia for a key portion of his childhood in Camp. Eisner’s family has a long standing relationship with Camp Keeywaydin in Vermont, a camp for boys that teaches canoeing, sports and other lifetime skills. Eisner tells the story of Camp Keeywaydin through the lens of several people. First, he tells his story with the camp from the first day his father introduced the camp to him and invited him to follow his footsteps as a camper. Second, he tells the story of two Orange County, California, youth who travel across country to leave their urban home for the wilds of Vermont. Third he tells the story of Alfred “Waboos” Hare, the late co-owner and camp director of Camp Keeywaydin who spent the majority of his life from childhood to his death at age 96 in 2011 investing in young people through his support of the camp. Eisner weaves between these stories in trying to provide a picture of the importance of camp experiences in the development of young people.
Camp is a love letter. Eisner was greatly impacted by his years at Camp Keeywaydin as both a camper and staff and believes that Waboos helped shape Eisner into the man that he became. Additionally, Camp was written as a distraction as it was composed during a time in which Eisner was under fire as the leader of the Walt Disney Company. So Eisner’s focus is firmly on Camp Keeywaydin with only a few glancing references to Disney properties. Eisner does succeed in sharing his love of the camp experience and his belief that it helped shape him and others into becoming men. For the Disney fan who is looking to understand Michael Eisner better, one will be satisfied. But for the Disney fan wanting more of the inside story of Disney leadership, one will be greatly disappointed.
The story itself is somewhat uneven. Eisner weaves between the story of several campers including himself. The chapters are not exactly in parallel throughout the book and each camper does not receive equal time in Eisner’s presentation. The writing however is very clear and easy to read. Eisner uses stories from camp to help demonstrate how adult values, such as honor, were taught through experiences at Camp Keeywaydin.
In the final analysis Camp helps readers to better understand the passions of author Michael Eisner. However, it does not provide great insight into the entertainment industry or Disney history. My most shocking revelation in the book was that Eisner’s son Breck directed the move Sahara, which I love! Those interested in the outdoors and the camp experience will likely enjoy this book. As a former camp counselor I honestly found it shocking that I never related any of my own experiences with Eisner’s. But those wanting to dig into the Disney experience will likely be disappointed.
Labels: Between Books, Breck Eisner, Camp Keeywaydin, Eisner Era, Michael Eisner
Between Books - Work in Progress
Work in Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success by Michael Eisner with Tony Schwartz covers the life and career of the former Disney CEO and President up until 1998 when Eisner was still under Disney employment. The book covers Eisner’s family and childhood, college years, and his early days in the entertainment business. The text outlines Eisner’s career at ABC and how he rose to a place of prominence where he caught the eye of key Disney stakeholders who proposed the partnership of Eisner as CEO and Frank Wells as President to help revive the Walt Disney Company in 1984. The authors then detail the key decisions that Eisner and Wells made in film, television, and theme parks to spark a renaissance of Disney creative content. Eisner describes his reaction to Wells’ death in 1994 and the interpersonal problems that emerged with head of Disney film production Jeffrey Katzenberg and Wells’ replacement Michael Ovitz. The book closes with Disney acquiring its own television network ABC and a statement by Eisner that he was entering a period of remaking Disney again. Ironically, one of the executives mentioned in those final pages Bob Iger would have a key role in this revisioning and leadership after Eisner’s departure.
The first question as one looks at the cover is what does “with” mean for the authorship of this book. The book is written from Eisner’s point of view. And Eisner recorded tapes of himself speaking on his life for Schwartz to use when crafting the book. Additionally, Schwartz both interviewed Eisner and Eisner associates, even following Eisner around as he went through his daily Disney duties. The heavy lifting of crafting the paragraphs and sentences was completed by Schwartz. But this is still Eisner’s book. The book contains his opinions, his memories and his perspective. And it is Eisner who had final approval.
Work in Progress is a very straight forward narrative that is shaped by Eisner’s opinions. So as a historian, one must note that pro-Eisner bias the book contains. The book was relatively slow reading for me as it moved from event to event. But I think a big part of the pacing was the formatting. The type is relatively small and each page is packed with words. So, I would warn you do not expect to go racing through this book.
Yes, this is Eisner’s book. So in those disagreements that he had with Katzenberg and Ovitz, it is his side of the story that makes the pages. I have my own opinions with both circumstances whom was more to blame in each of these dysfunctional relationships. But I think almost everyone would have to agree all parties had some blame. The sad thing is Eisner makes it clear throughout the book that his partnership with Katzenberg and his friendship with Ovitz were relationships he valued. Yet they were shattered. I do believe from my reading that Eisner did have a roll in these relationships moving into a downward spiral, but Eisner presents himself as relatively blameless. For example, I would find it difficult to present Katzenberg as the good guy in their disagreement due to his prickly and driven personality. But perhaps Eisner did not clearly communicate, which is not found in these pages. Additionally, Eisner clearly in Katzenberg’s settlement after leaving the company exhibited resentment. But these interchanges are not found in Work in Progress.
I do find that one figure that Eisner provides full praise for is the late Frank Wells. As a kid, I had no idea who Frank Wells was. Unlike Eisner, Wells did not enter my home on a weekly basis. He truly was the silent partner of a vibrant partnership, one that left a lasting mark on Disney’s legacy. If Eisner was attempting to fill the role of Walt Disney as a creative voice, Wells was filling the shoes of Roy O. Disney providing the financial and business expertise. Eisner makes it clear that he relied on Wells and was devastated by his death. And the neutral reader can wonder if Eisner was able to react professionally appropriate to his death as he attempted to balance stock holder needs with his own personal grieving. Readers must wonder if the negative picture of Eisner that some have today would have been different if the Eisner/Wells team had continued into the future as the two planned.
Another figure who receives praise through the book is Roy E. Disney. Eisner and Wells would have looked to Disney as one of the figures who helped land them the jobs of a lifetime. And professionally, he was a figure who helped link their leadership team to the Disney brothers. Eisner argues throughout the book that Roy E. Disney was a key figure in understanding both the Disney culture and animation. But one must wonder if the praise would be tempered by Eisner due to Disney’s role in pushing him out of Disney management after the publication of this book.
There are two projects that Eisner provides deep detail on that were failures. First, Eisner discusses in depth, often justifying, the development of Euro Disneyland. While Eisner’s early Disney career may have been marked by successes, Euro Disneyland was clearly an early financial failure due to cost overruns. Eisner makes the case for why Disney needed to pursue the European Park and notes some of the obstacles like French thoughts on the American park that they had to overcome. Though many of us Disney fans may dream of visiting this park and its take on classic Disney attractions, we must remember that it was a huge financial risk. Probably more interesting for me is his discussion of Disney’s America. For a park that was never built, Eisner shares much of the planning of this failed park. Eisner clearly believed in the concept and wished to see the Virginia park make it past the blue sky stage. The reaction from the affluent community and historians to Disney’s potential treatment of history is a fascinating tale for those who have immersed themselves in this discipline.
Work in Progress is not a quick read. It is a biased read. And regardless of the marketing blurbs on the book cover, it’s not a business how to book. For fans of biography and Disney, this is probably a must read. And those who were kids during Eisner’s years as Disney CEO may find this interesting. But it is probably not something that the general public would find great interest in. It cannot stand alone as the definitive work of the Eisner regime, though it does an excellent job of representing the Eisner viewpoint of these vibrant years.
Labels: Between Books, Eisner Era, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Eisner, Michael Ovitz, Roy E. Disney, Tony Schwartz
Between Books - Disney War
I think it is pretty safe to say that I enjoy the book Disney War by James B. Stewart. Disney War was my gateway book that opened the door to all my Disney book craziness. And it is one of my top five Disney books, one that recommend to even non-Disney fans on a constant basis.
Disney War tells the story of the rise and fall of the Eisner era at the Walt Disney Company. Stewart details the roll of Roy E. Disney in rebelling against Disney leadership which had been under his cousin by marriage, Ron Miller, and advocated for new leadership in Michael Eisner and Frank Wells. Stewart then details the rise of Disney under the new leadership team. With the death of Frank Wells and the disruption of the relationship between Eisner and Katzenberg and the legal proceedings that followed, Eisner began to lose his shine with Disney stockholders including Roy E. Disney. Stewart then outlines Roy E. Disney’s Save Disney campaign which would eventually lead to Eisner stepping down. Ironically the man who helped orchestrate the Eisner Era would also help to close it.
Disney War is one of my top five Disney history books. One of the biggest reasons for this is Stewart does an excellent job of weaving a story. It is as story that involves both the artistic nature of the company, including Howard Ashman’s impact, building of a movie slate, acquisition of ABC, tales of board meetings and the fight between Eisner and Katzenberg. Stewart draws you into the story and I found it difficult to put it down! And it is a book that I have recommended several times and have found even casual Disney fans to enjoy!
I read this book before I was Between Disney. So for me it was an eye opener. I had an impression of Eisner in my mind that this book rocked. I had heard on podcasts some criticizing Eisner but did not understand that potshots they sent his direction. While I did not come to share their opinion, I did begin to understand why Eisner’s decision –making was being criticized. And it introduced me to the silent partner of Frank Wells, who I found attractive to me in the same way I was attracted to the personality of Roy O. Disney when reading books about Walt Disney. And the story of how the relationship between Eisner and Katzenberg disintegrated into chaos is fascinating.
The hero of this book to me in many ways is Roy E. Disney. It is he who would “save” the company his father helped found. And with the rise of a new leadership hierarchy, it is his voice that helped preserve animation. I think that fans are not aware of how close Eisner was of shuttering that unit. And in the end it was Disney again whose voice led to the end of the Eisner era. Though he never held the top post himself within the company, Roy E. Disney’s voice was one that could not be ignored.
Disney War continues to remain one of my favorite Disney books. And I will continue to recommend this text which can be purchased at a Between Books friendly price on the secondary market. If you are a Disney fan, you need to read this book!
Labels: Between Books, Eisner Era, Frank Wells, James B. Stewart, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Eisner, Roy E. Disney
Between Books - Storming the Magic Kingdom
Storming the Magic Kingdom: Wall Street, the Raiders, and the Battle for Disney by John Taylor outlines a time when Disney’s fortunes did not look as bright as they do today. The long-term future of Walt Disney Productions in 1984 was in fact very much in doubt with questions of leadership and even if the company could be held together. And at the center of it all was the struggle between the heirs of Walt and Roy O. Disney and the future of their creation.
The majority of the action takes place in the board and conference rooms of 1984. With an undervalued stock and questions of leadership, corporate raider Saul Steinberg saw an opportunity in Disney stock. Steinberg potentially could have considered purchasing the company and liquidating the component parts for a massive profit. In an effort to defend the Disney legacy the company leadership explored a number of options including increasing the amount of stock available, a stock purchase of the land development company Arvida and the eventual paying of Greenmail (purchasing stock at above the market price) to Steinberg to eliminate his desires to purchase Disney. With the threat of a takeover eliminated however the company became embroiled in a leadership tug of war between the supportors of Walt’s corporate heir and son-in –law Ron Miller and Roy’s heir Roy E. Disney. In the end, the Roy side of the family would win out with the removal of Miller as Disney’s CEO and the hiring of Michael Eisner as CEO and Frank Wells as President.
This is a really enjoyable book. Now, it’s a book filled with behind the scenes details about stock purchases, proxy votes and board meetings. But Taylor does a good job in making those of us who do not discuss corporate finance on a daily basis educated to the realities of this world. And despite the fact that Storming the Magic Kingdom is an institutional history, Taylor helps bring the personalities of those in his pages alive. I could not help but feel saddened as Ron Miller faced the harsh reality that a company that he had spent his entire adult life at, that was his family’s legacy, no longer wished him to lead them into the future. Any Disney fan, regardless of business background, can pick up this volume, understand it, and might even find themselves learning better how the stock market works!
Really a big lesson for me in this book is that business is about people and personalities. I think that Roy E. Disney, who I do admire, is a good example of this fact. Throughout his Disney career he was marginalized by others. Some spoke of him as the idiot nephew. And I believe some may have forgotten that his father was a co-found of Disney. The fact that Roy E. Disney had a long history of being around and working in entertainment did make him comfortable with forming his own ideas for the company. These ideas were largely ignored! The fact that he was soft-spoken also led some to think that he was unintelligent. Instead he, and I, believed himself to be an intelligent man and a guardian of the Disney tradition. And Roy E. Disney believed change was part of his Uncle’s legacy. What one wonders is what could have happened if Roy E. Disney’s voice had been heard instead of mocked in the 1970s. Additionally, his cousin by marriage was seen by some as the handsome and entitled heir. Instead, in these pages he comes off as a man who has not been fully prepared for the role he has, but also another man who saw innovation as part of the Disney tradition and was concerned with expanding the business of his late father-in-law’s creation. Again, one can play what if’s if the Walt and Ron sides of the family could have come together. Disney history shows that the company runs best with two leaders with clear roles (Walt and Roy, Michael and Frank), could Ron and Roy E have led the company into a new renaissance together instead of waiting for the Eisner Era? Instead we now study a bad situation where all sides honestly must take a share of the blame.
Another proof of personality winning out or at least equaling is Roy E. Disney’s lawyer Stanley Gold and Arvida owner Sid Bass. With the purchase of Arvida, Bass became a substantial Disney stockholder. The fact that the two men found common interests allowed the two to build a friendship. That friendship would be a key to the alliance lead by Roy E. Disney to remove Miller and put their chosen management team into place.
Storming the Magic Kingdom is a fascinating story of the evolution of the Walt Disney Company. At the beginning of the tale the company was firmly in the hands of the intellectual heirs of Walt Disney. After attempts to raid the company and then placing through stockholder pressure a new leadership team was put into place with outsiders Eisner and Wells. That change led to a new peak of Disney entertainment and financial gains. But most of all Storming the Kingdom is a story about how business is really about people.
Labels: Between Books, Eisner Era, Frank Wells, Michael Eisner, Ron Miller, Roy E. Disney, Saul Steinberg, Stanley Gold
Oswald Opines - Eisner Era Prelude
Eisner and His Kingdom
I have said this a few times, I am too young for Uncle Walt and what I remember is Uncle Mike. One of the things that shocked me when I took my first steps into the Disney community was the strong opinions around Michael Eisner. The often harsh things I heard about this former Disney CEO and President did not align with my memory. And I was not paying attention during the unpleasantness that surrounded his departure. Why I kept asking was "everyone" so mean to Michael?
Then I read Disney War! We will talk about this book later, but what I will mention now is it made it clear to me that the Eisner Era was not all puppies and unicorns. There were real issues, and these issues both lead to Eisner's departure and the negative feelings directed at him. I will not say that I agree with those opinions. But I will say I understand better now what happened to make fans so polarized around him.
Betweenland over the next few weeks is going to experience an Eisner takeover. Here we will explore a number of books that chronicle the Eisner era. And at the conclusion I will share my opinions that have been formed with spending months within these books.
I hope you enjoy this journey with me and will share your opinions or changing opinions on this important Disney figure.
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Labels: Eisner Era, Michael Eisner, Oswald Opines
Dreaming Disney - Welcome to Level Seven
As many of you know, I am now podcasting about one specific Disney property, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I have not posted about all of our episodes, but episode 5, "I Am Iron Man, Too" is packed with Disney goodness! I at one point joke that we recorded 4 hours on Walt Disney!
Okay, it was not quite that much. And we did not about things other than Walt Disney, like the actual action in Iron Man 2. But in this episode I make it clear....Howard Stark is Walt Disney.
I hope you enjoy it.
And if you want to stay up to date about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. you can follow us at https://www.facebook.com/WelcometoLevelSeven.
Labels: Dreaming Disney, Iron Man 2, Podcast, Welcome to Level Seven
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A circle of life
By Kati Schardl, Tallahassee Democrat, Nov 13, 2005
Tallahassee, FL (USA) -- Start with a circle, that most basic of shapes. It's the essence of geometric simplicity, a seamless form with no beginning or end. It's a paradox - a boundary encompassing infinity.
Fill that circle with substance, color and shapes that square the arcs and subdivide the space into intricate patterns and symbols.
The empty orb becomes both a map of the cosmos and a chart of the soul's topography. It becomes a mandala, loosely translated from the Sanskrit as "world in harmony."
Mandalas are most closely associated with Buddhism, particularly the image-and-ritual-rich Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Tibetan monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery in Kanartaka, India, visit Tallahassee this week to bring an exhibit of sacred art to the Mary Brogan Museum. While here, the monks will spend several days making a many-hued sand mandala in the museum's atrium.
They will essentially recreate the universe in millions of grains of colored sand that has been ground from stone. And when they're done, they'll sweep up the whole magnificent creation in a ritual symbolizing the impermanence of existence. The sand will be transported to Lake Ella and poured into the water so the mandala's healing energy can spread to benefit the world at large.
If you stop by the Brogan to watch the monks at work, you might find the concept of a mandala more familiar than you think.
You need look no further than the natural world to find plenty of examples. The galaxy orders itself in the shape of a mandala. Contemplate the cross-section of a tree - the concentric rings form a mandala. The exquisite pearlescent interior spirals of a nautilus shell - a mandala.
The unfurling bud of a rose, snowflakes glimpsed under a microscope, rock crystals, even crop circles - all can be considered mandalas.
Humans have created visual representations of the mandala since the ancestor of all artists picked up a piece of charcoal and sketched a spiral on the wall of a cave by the flickering, smoky light of a prehistoric fire.
From teepees to yurts to Buddhist stupas to the minarets of Muslim mosques to the domes and rose windows of magnificent cathedrals such as Paris' Notre Dame, the mandala has influenced architecture. Engineer, inventor and philosopher Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes utilize the geometric principles of mandalas.
Native American medicine wheels - particularly ritual Navajo sand paintings - are freighted with the same cosmological energy as Buddhist mandalas.
Labyrinths are mandalas you can experience with your body as well as with your spirit. Ask anyone who has paced the spiral path of the labyrinth at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church.
Mandalas have inspired artists, mystics, scholars and lay folk alike.
Benedictine nun, composer and theologian Hildegard of Bingen sprinkled mandalas throughout her manuscripts to punctuate and illustrate her visions. And modern mage of dreams Carl Jung experienced such a powerful epiphany while trying to decipher the mysteries of a mandala's construction that it changed the direction of his intellectual journey.
"I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point," he wrote. "It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. ... I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate."
Compassionate cosmos
In Tibetan Buddhist practice, mandalas can be extremely elaborate and loaded with symbols exotic and strange to the Western eye. Like the maps of inner and outer worlds they represent, they can require a legend to decipher meanings and pick out the paths. They're meant to be contemplated as three-dimensional forms representing imaginary palaces in which the rooms contain objects of spiritual significance.
That means a quick glance will yield only a superficial appreciation of form and color. You'll have to ponder longer and more thoughtfully if you want to begin to approximate the level of understanding achieved by Jung. In fact, you might just want to stage a little meditation session with the mandala as your focus point.
At the Brogan Museum, the visiting monks will make a mandala invoking Chenrezig, or Avalakiteshvara, the supreme embodiment of compassion. The deity is a bodhisattva - a being who has chosen to defer his own Buddha-hood to help others achieve enlightenment. Chenrezig is the patron saint of Tibet, and the 14th Dalai Lama is considered the current incarnation of the beloved saint. The mandala of Chenrezig is meant to disperse compassion and peace into the world.
On Monday, the monks will consecrate the spot where they'll work in the museum's atrium with an opening ceremony that features chanting, music and movement. Then they'll get down to business by drawing the mandala's line design. After that, it's time to get out the chak-pur, or traditional metal funnels used to pour the colored sand.
The monks don't mind being watched as they go about the painstaking art of making the mandala, although it's considered bad form to interrupt their focus by talking to them or commenting loudly on their work. With surgical masks over their mouths, they'll be concentrating on making the mandala come to life and silently chanting prayers as they work. If you want to contribute your own energy to the creative endeavor, mentally - and noiselessly - summon the syllables of the mandala's mantra. It's one of the most familiar chants in the Buddhist tradition - "Om mani padme hum."
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A New Exposition of the First Principles of Metaphysical Knowledge 1755
A Brief Outline of Some Meditations on Fire 1755
Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens 1755
Early work in which Kant predicted the existence of the planet Uranus, later discovered by Herschel in 1881.
The True Measure of Forces 1755
Doctoral thesis.
The Use of Metaphysics in Combination with Geometry in Natural Philosophy 1756
History and Natural Description of the Earthquake of 1755 1756
Consideration of Recently Perceived Earth-tremors 1756
Some Remarks towards Elucidation of the Theory of the Winds 1756
A New Doctrine of Rest and Motion and its Implications for Natural Science 1758
Reflections on Optimism 1759
The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures 1762
An Attempt to Introduce Negative Quantities into Philosophy 1763
The Only Possible Foundation for a Proof of the Existence of God 1763
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Enquiry into Diseases of the Head 1764
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime 1764
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Learning How to Think 1786
Critique of Practical Reason (2nd edition) 1787
“Two things move the mind with ever increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.” (An identical formula is found in St John Chrysostom and derives from the 19th Psalm).
Concerning a Discovery by which any Fresh Critique of Pure Reason May be Rendered Superfluous by the Use of an Older One 1790
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Critique of Judgement 1790
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On the Proverbial Saying: "All is Very Well in Theory, but No Good in Practice" 1792
On the Radical Evil in Human Nature in Religion 1792
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone 1793
A work which caused problems with the repressive religious censorship of Fredrick William II of Prussia.
Something Concerning the Moon's Influence on the Weather 1794
The End of All Things 1794
Perpetual Peace 1795
Die Metaphysik der Sitten 1797
Translated as The Metaphysics of Morals, but often in two different parts, The Metaphysical Principles of Right, and The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue).
On a Supposed Philanthropic Justification for Lying 1797
The Conflict of the Faculties, together with a Treatise On the Power of the Mind to Master Morbid Feelings by Resolution Alone 1798
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The Handbook was edited by Jäsche.
Physical Geography 1802
What Real Progress Has Been Made by Metaphysics in Germany Since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff? 1804
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BUFF1: I am the Buff1 of Detroit, the Buff1 of the world!
16. 3. 2009 26. 8. 2015 Cream.cz Interviews
Both “Pure” and “Theres Only One” are so great records that I cant even decide which one I like more. Many artists have failed to live up to expectations after a successful debut album. You have, however, succeeded in this field. What is your recipe for success?
I dont know, I guess just love for the art form. I take this seriously and I want to get better every day. Also, I know most peoples second album doesnt live up to the first so I wanted to dispel that myth.
Is “Beat The Speakers Up” based on your own experience? How much airplay did it receive in both Detroit and American radio stations?
It is somewhat based on my own experience. I get a little love from a small section of Detroit DJs on the radio, my man DDT looks out. But for the most part I dont get a lot of love on mainstream radio. But it’s partly my fault because I dont really go all out to get my stuff played by them. If they dont want to play [my stuff], Ill find someone who does.
Do you prefer writing stories based on reality or using your imagination?
Ummm, I like doing both, but I think imagination is more fun. A lot of times people think everything a rapper says is true, and they take it literally. So I try to write stories that sound real to test my ability.
Do you think that there is a natural compromise between reality and fiction in writing? Or should rappers concentrate on one of these to maintain their artistic integrity?
Rap is art just like everything else. For some reason rap gets judged differently from other forms of music because were always saying “keep it real” and “stay true” and stuff, but I think rappers should be free to use fiction as much as a country singer singing about a man who kills his wife.
What do you think about the fact that your fans call you Talib Kweli of Detroit?
Ive never heard that! Haha! It’s cool, I guess, because I respect Kwelis work, but Im the Buff1 of Detroit, the Buff1 of the world, haha!
Can the current sound of Detroit, which is mostly defined by Black Milk, compare to the old Detroit sound reigned by Jay Dee?
Yes, it’s very comparable. And I dont think the Jay Dee sound is old. It’s still very relevant. Black Milk would tell you that he was influenced by Jay Dee and Jay Dee sound is still ahead of its time even though he passed 3 years ago.
I wouldnt expect independent Detroit rapper to like Lil Wayne a lot. Which other rappers are your favorites and is someone a role model for you?
I used to like Lil Wayne a lot more, around the Carter II and the Dedication Mixtape. Hes still alright though. But some artists that I was influenced by when I first started were Outkast, Nas, Common, The Roots, Ice Cube, Biggie, Goodie Mob, Hieroglyphics, just to name a few.
Im close to being done with my Crown Royale album with DJ Rhettmatic of the World Famous Beat Junkies.
A lot of your tracks were produced by The Lab Techs. What is your relationship with them?
Theyre my brothers. Were all a part of the Athletic Mic League.
Is working with them any different than working with other producers?
Not really, believe it or not, the only difference is I like their beats a lot more than other peoples beats. For the most part though, no matter who it is, I just pick beats I like. They only create things specifically for me about 10% of the time. That’s going to change in the future though, haha!
What is the current situation of Athletic Mic League? Can we expect any group release?
Were about to start working on a new AML album very very very soon. Get ready!
Its been 10 years since the first record of AML was released. In such a long time in the game, you must have learned a lot. How would you summarize those 10 years in one sentence?
Woooo!!!! Good question. This past 10 years would have caused a lot of rappers to quit, but were still at it and loving every minute of it!
Buff1, Detroit, interview, Jamall Bufford
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KEYS N KRATES: We love what we do
29. 12. 2009 26. 8. 2015 Cream.cz Interviews
I won´t be far from the truth if I say that many of our readers are seeing your name for the first time now, so let´s start with the obligatory question – who are Keys N Krates?
Matisse: Keys N Krates are Adam Tune on the drums Jr Flo on the turntables and Matisse on the keys.
Your name alone suggests what your music is mainly about. What is the process of creating your tracks like?
Tune: Up until now it´s been starting sample and building around that, but now that we are writing original music it can start with anything now really, whether it be a keyboard riff Matisse has played, a drum groove tune played, or just a general idea that one of us has for a track.
Matisse: Usually Flo comes in with a sample that hes cut up and we all decided if it’s a direction we want to go in. If so I´ll usually start meddling away on my keys to find a way to put some chords underneath it. At the same time Tune usually tries to groove along with me until we find an arrangement that we’re all feeling.
How do you choose the music that you decide to remix? Do you consider the fact that most listeners start paying attention when they hear motives from classic or popular songs, or do you remix anything you like, no matter how popular the song is?
Flo: We´ll pretty much sample anything we think we can do something cool with that we´ll be excited about. Until now we´ve been sampling a lot of pop music, which is super fun because it presents the challenge of really flipping something people already know and are in some cases bored of, into something new and fresh. Wer´e starting to venture off the beaten path though more now in terms of samples.
Matisse: A little bit of all of the above man. I personally just go with if the sample gets me excited as a fan first. Whatever the sample is – wether popular or not. If I get an idea for it, I’ll run with it.
Was it your goal from the beginning, to make remixes and not only edited versions like i.e. J. Rawls & The Liquid Crystal Project?
Flo: Yes in the beginning it was about creating these really nutty compositions/remixes that you could only hear by coming to see us live. Eventually people started wanting to take those home with them and listen to them so we put out a little Live Re-Mix ep with some live off the floor remixes, and just recently we put out “Live Re-Mixing 101” which is a live off the floor 30 minute mix. All that stuff has been really great for listening and live, but now we are starting to create live remixes with a bigger sound so that we can not only perform them live, but also record them and have them be DJ playable in clubs. This our stuff is starting to sound a little less live, and more produced, however, we are still doing it all live in analog which makes the whole thing cool. In the new year you´ll see djs playing our remixes in clubs that have no idea we perform those completely live. We´re super excited about that.
Matisse: Yeah pretty much. Edited versions like what J Rawls did with Dilla is a different approach that we don’t really think about. We wanted to create live remixes from the get go and be known for “live remixing“.
Do you plan to evolve into a project that will eventually start producing new tracks, apart from remixes?
Tune: The funny thing is our remixes are really starting to almost become tracks in their own right that just contain samples.
The MGMT and FEIST remixes we´re performing pretty much sound like original music with very recognizable samples. However, we are also working on music right now that is 100 percent original. We´re super excited about it. That will be coming out in the new year in the form of a single or EP. Not sure yet.
Matisse: Yes definitely. We have already started down that path. We haven’t limited ourselves to just the remixes at all. That was just really the first step. We’re always going to grow and try to step out of our boundaries.
You have already toured the whole Canada and now you are doing shows in the States. How would you describe your show and what are the reactions? Why would you recommend people to visit your show?
Matisse: Our show blends turntablism, sampling, live drumming, synth production, live performing and party rocking all into one. The reactions at our shows have always been high energy and enthusiasm. People move and like to sing along to our remixes. I would reccommend our shows to anyone who has ever been dissapointed seeing one of their favorite bands play live and been dissapoint that they are lacking energy or the passion on stage. All of 3 of us go pretty hard on stage every single night. You can also tell that we love what we do.
Any chance to see you in Europe anytime soon?
Flo: We rocked in Berlin and some other German cities last June which was amazing! We want to make it back to Europe asap!
Matisse: We’ve already played in Germany and are looking to get our feet into Europe either by the end of the year or for sure next year.
What are some of the last albums that you liked and would recommend?
Flo, Tune: Drake Mixtape, Friendly Fires, Phoenix, Flying Lotus Essential Mix, Little Dragon, anything Breakbot is doing, Passion Pit, Francis and The Lights (both albums), MGMT (one of the better albums in the last few years). Really feeling Heralds Of Change, Blunt Speakers right now. Classix are killin it, Fred Falke, Lifelike… We know we strayed from the albums, but just had to name some good music. Not even sure about the album format anymore really.
Matisse: Radioheads in Rainbows. Frances and the lights last EP. I love Drakes so far gone mixtape.
Jr Flo – You are a well known Canadian DJ and you have performed around the whole world. What do you – an ITF and DMC champion – think about today’s DJing? Is DJing still evolving and are DJ’s getting better?
Flo: I think djs are getting better and worse. The ones taking advantage of the new technologies to be creative are killing it. The one relying on technology to be lazy are lame.
Jr Flo – We live in an era when young DJ’s only need Serato and don´t go through the path of buying vinyls, collecting rarities and crate diggin‘. What advice would you give to people who decide to start DJing?
Flo: I think Serato is a great thing, and to some extent I wish I had it when I started. I do think there´s a certain level of appreciation of music that gets lost in downloading 200 mp3s in a day off Beatport and a bunch of blogs, but I think for the most part it´s positive. I remember being so excited to go to the record store. I used to take the bus and the subway down there after school and spend all the money I had and was stoked to get 3 or 4 records. You appreciate music differently in that context, when your paying for it, you actually physically holding it, and it´s still kinda scarce. It crazy how much stuff has changed, but overall I would say this kind of access to music is a great thing.
How often and what records do you buy?
Flo: I still buy old vinyl probably once a month, mostly 70 funk and soul, 80s disco stuff. I sometimes buy cds from other music or Turntable lab, but more times I´ll just download from Beatport, iTunes, or blogs.
interview, KEYS N KRATES
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By Kblake on December 10, 2014 in Podcast 0
Virginia Hart spent much of her childhood drawing and creating, but after graduating from college she got a job working at a hedge fund in New York City. While the job provided her with security and a way to pay her rent, she always felt like there was something she was missing. She started taking classes at night and on weekends at Parsons, School of Visual Arts, and online. The classes ranged from calligraphy to … CONTINUE READING
Side Project vs. Not Side Project
By Kblake on September 19, 2014 in Being Blog 0
Last night, as part of Denver Startup Week, I attended an AIGA Speaker Series event that featured Randy Hunt, the Creative Director of Etsy. He spoke a bit about his work at Etsy, but mostly highlighted the idea of side projects, with a focus on his book, Product Design for the Web. He listed the various side projects he has worked on over the years and categorized Etsy as his “not … CONTINUE READING
Nasozi Kakembo
By Kblake on July 16, 2014 in Podcast 2
Nasozi Kakembo and I met at the Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair last fall. I was drawn to her table by her beautiful designs and as soon as we started talking I loved them even more due to the story behind their creation. Nasozi received her master’s degree in Architecture, Planning and Preservation and for a better part of a decade she worked in international human rights and social justice. She was passionate about the issues … CONTINUE READING
Pamela Foeckler
By Kblake on May 8, 2014 in Podcast 0
If I had to choose three words to describe Pamela Foeckler it would be delightful, talented and grounded. I left our conversation feeling as though we had been friends for years, even though we had only just met. As she sipped on Bellocq Tea (another tasty gem I learned about during our conversation), she openly and honestly talked with me about her experiences of going out on her own and following her creative desires. Her … CONTINUE READING
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Championship Conundrums
10 Reactions from the NCAA Final...
(In no particular order except that which I ponder).
Dome Shooting -- For all the talk of misfiring from long range in an expansive venue, Michigan and Louisville made one wonder, "What's the big fuss?" ... They shot .444 and .500 from 3-point range, respectively, and canned a combined 53 of 109 field goals (49 percent). Free throws? 36 for 48 (75 percent). The 3-point makes were mustered in large part by the Spike and Hancock Show whose dazzling display resulted in 9 of 10 conversions. The semi-final games saw no team shoot better than 36 percent from 3. Looks like it just took a game to get used to the background.
The Double Dribble -- With 9:41 in the first half, Gorgui Dieng jumped as he tried to catch a hard-to-handle pass on the right wing. As he attempted to control the ball -- and his body -- he took one dribble to regain balance. He paused and surveyed the court, then continued to attack with another dribble. The whistle actually blew and the official made the right call: Double Dribble. Why was that significant? Because it's often a blown call, as if a long pause between a perceived "gather" dribble and a "control" dribble forces a ref to omit the initial dribble from his memory. If a player is able to effectively steer the ball enough to dribble and gather, then, in effect, he's in control of the ball, and in the same effect, it's not a gather anyway, but a controlled substance. Correct.
The Elevated Court -- I don't like it because it's potentially dangerous. I like it because it portrays a stage. I don't like it because it forces the head coach to sit with bad posture on a poorly placed stool. I like it because it provides the players and coaches on the bench an extra few feet to jump up and down (if they choose to rise onto the court). I don't like it because the head coach is quite far from his staff. I like it because the head coach is quite from from his staff.
Add Another Official Official -- There are three officials in the crew. They work hard. The refs who get the championship game are presumably the best the NCAA has to offer. However, fans, analysts, and viewers are often disgruntled by what they deem as poor officiating. Cases in point on Monday: The missed goal tend, the clean Burke block, McGary being undercut, the muggings in the paint. Refs do miss calls. All the time. The game is fast and physical and the players for whom they are responsible for keeping in line are better athletes in better shape, and they are often bigger and taller -- officials can get lost in the action. Bottom line: It's really hard to ref. Fine. So make it a little easier by adding a fourth ref to the crew who isn't obligated to run back and forth while trying to stay off the playing surface, avoid tripping over fans or coaches, and still working to get an angle for everything his eyes should see. Television offers another (often superior) view and one that (often) makes calls quite obvious even during live action. Put a ref in a protective bubble on the sideline with a monitor and miked whistle.
The Crowd -- Unbelievable. I didn't have my television's sound blasting nor was I using the surround sound. Either the dome made it seem louder in there, the audio broadcast was better than years' past, or that was the most cacophonous crowd I can recall in a championship game (played in a dome). Exhilarating.
Two Fouls -- To play or not to play? That is the question. And the gamble. And the most talked about dilemma. Burke picked up two in the first half. He sat for 12 minutes. Beilein was blasted for sitting him. Blasphemy. There are three types of people: Those who have coached, those who haven't, and those who think they should because they think they can do it better. Cool for the first two. Playing a key guy with two fouls in a close game when it's quite obvious he'll be needed for most of the second half is dependent on a) who the player is b) his position c) the game situation d) the rest of the team e) the scout f) the dome, the court, the officials, the crowd ... ARGH! Too many factors, and easy to contest one way or the other in hindsight. Do you want him to be there in the end or not? Burke ended the game with four fouls.
Shot Fakes -- Learn them, and learn how to defend them. Luke Hancock has a terrific one. Defenders that close out on him don't. If they did, they'd know to fly at his right side so he is forced to dribble with his left hand. He loves to bounce off the right dribble and stabilize from his right. Push him the other way so he can't release his shot and so he is persuaded to pass with his left hand. He made two key plays after shot fakes. One was an assist to Russ Smith (who nailed a 3) after he was able to pound dribble right into the paint. The other was the foul he drew on McGary. Meanwhile, with 1:20 remaining in the game, Robinson III missed an opportunity to draw a foul on a 3-point attempt because he took a backstep with his right foot on the kickout catch -- he lost a precious second and critical stability. Rather than taking the shot with his defender flying at him, he wasted time with additional movement and brought Michigan within four points rather than three with just two free throws in one possession.
The Game is Won in the Paint -- That's why there is a 3-second rule (credit Kenny Smith for the reminder). Louisville shot 45 2-pointers (versus 30). The Cards grabbed 15 offensive rebounds (versus 8). The winners blocked 3 shots (versus 2).
Resiliency -- Teams who win have this.
Pitino is a Hall of Famer -- No matter what you say, it's hard to have a better week in his profession. Besides the HOF induction Monday morning, he won his second NCAA Championship that night only after taking the Cardinals to the Final Four for the second year in a row. He's now won as many games as John Wooden. His horse, Goldencents, won the Santa Anita Derby (down the street from Caltech) on Saturday and qualified for the Kentucky Derby; his son, Richard, won the University of Minnesota job (northwest of Florida) on Friday and qualified for the Big Ten.
BONUS -- Dan Dakich talked about how impressed and mesmerized he was by Pitino at Five Star Basketball Camp when Dakich was a camper, some three decades ago. Pitino was like nothing anyone had ever seen -- he beat Chris Mullin and other high school studs 1 on 1, again and again. I heard a similar story years ago at a camp in Boston. Pitino challenged the best kids in camp ... the coach on defense, the camper at the top of the key with the ball. Pitino ordered the kid: "Go by me!" The kid started to move and Pitino ripped him of the ball. Again and again.
BONUS BONUS -- Tim Hardaway, Jr. commented in the post-game presser about the ways in which Beilein provides "overlooked" kids opportunities to play for Michigan: "He really recruits guys that wanted to go to those big-time schools and never had a chance to get looked at by those big-time schools."
Labels: basketball, cerebral matter, coaching, Final Four, NCAA
The Final Four: What's to Like
We become fans of sports franchises and programs for a variety of reasons, and most of the time, either logically or illogically, the symbiosis has to do with how we identify with the team. Basic reasons: Our hometown; a role model; our father’s team. More psychologically complex reasons: Aesthetics, like uniform color or shoe contract; playing style and tempo; or the team is playing against one we (logically or illogically) despise. Any and all reasons seem enough impetus to rationalize rooting for a particular franchise. Whether or not our friends support the fandom, well, that’s ultimately up in the explanation. Typically, if one can support a claim (in 7-degrees or less fashion) then peers will outwardly accept accompanying fan behavior. In sum, a solid argument dissuades the accusation: “You jumped on the bandwagon.” I’m not on any team’s bandwagon -- though the last one I saw rolling down the street had a big FGCU on it en route to USC -- but there are reasons to like every team in the Final Four.
I moved to Boston to pursue graduate degrees in 1998, just a year after Rick Pitino became the head coach of the Celtics. I bought his book and I watched his talk show every weekend. My grad school advisor became the team’s consulting sport psychologist. And to top it off, I was at BU, where Pitino started his career as a head coach. It was more so that I became a Pitino fan (via his convincing), I suppose, than a Celtics fan. (Antoine shook a lot, Pierce was not yet mature, and McCarty was a great guy.) Pitino yearned for the Celtics to play like his Kentucky Wildcats. They tried. But Pitino spoke of advanced stats, needing 30 deflections a game to win, explaining in fine detail the ins and outs of every possession, and emitted an all-out tone that said this, my friends and fans, is the new breed. Accept it because certain people aren’t walking through that (figurative) door. He has since honed his craft back in the college ranks. (Can it really be true he’s been at Louisville since 2001?!)
The Cardinals have lightning quick guards, an intrepid mojo, and they were just here last year. Russ Smith is as fearless as they come -- and he finishes plays. According to kenpom.com analytics, he is the player of the year. Louisville is No. 1 in adjusted defensive efficiency -- No. 2 in opponent TO% and No. 2 in steals. Though only No. 6 -- ha, only! -- in offensive efficiency, it’s No. 16 in O-board%. Opponents O-board%? A laughable 33.2 percent (No. 236). And 3-pointers, considering how much emphasis Pitino has put on the long ball during his career? Not a factor. 32.8% (No. 223). But it doesn’t matter. The Cardinals thrive with their defense: A full-court, uptempo orchestration of controlled havoc that results in easy points created by defensive efforts.
Veteran coach. Experience and energy galore.
My great friend I met at BU left Boston after completion of his master’s degree. He went back to his hometown, Minneapolis, to pursue a doctorate in psychology. From there, he went to Memphis for a postdoc, then to Dallas for a related job. And after several years there, to Wichita where he was involved in sport psych and family consulting. Strong connection? Not necessarily, but when coupled with the fact that one of my assistant coaches has a cousin who is a Shocker -- Malcolm Armstead -- it makes it all the more substantial. How can I not root for the underdog, upstart squad that has a family member I know? America’s team!
The Shockers rebound, defend, and block shots. 38 percent O-board rate (No. 18) vs. 26.3% (No. 11) for opponents. They have a block percentage of 13.7 (No. 18). Most importantly, they also play with no fear. Armstead play-makes and loves to shoot. For every questionable shot, he’ll make you pay with a few conversions in a row. And Carl Hall may as well be Carl Wall -- you’re not going to score with him in the vicinity.
They’re coming after you and don’t care how many teams you’ve coached.
Ah, finally, a John Beilein Final Four. I’ve been rooting for him since I started studying his offense. And that began when he was at West Virginia -- yes, my father’s alma mater! -- and coached the heck out of a Pittsnogled group. Lots of 3’s, exciting spurts of scoring, a solid man defense and an opposition-frustrating 1-3-1 zone. Plus, he was at LeMoyne prior to that, up there in New York State. I wasn’t that far, down in Albany. It just all makes sense. My question had been: Can this offense make it all the way? It’s quite spread out and had been easy to guard at times. Inconsistent offensive rebounding and shooters camped out around the perimeter didn’t necessarily put undeniable pressure on the defense. But it helps when you have players and the named player of the year. Trey Burke is surrounded by a horde of NBA sons. (How does that happen?) Recruiting, belief, and some luck.
The Wolverines have the No. 1 offense in the nation; it’s cushioned by their reliability to not turn the ball over. When they do, it’s just 14.5 percent of the time (No. 1). They shoot the lights out from the field (54.6 eFG% No. 11). Who cares if they don’t get to the free throw line (No. 338) and let their opponents live there (22.3 FT rate, No. 1)?! They value their possessions and makes them count, plus create stops with a high steal rate of 8.1% (No. 24). Burke is as good as advertised and can take over a game. Beilein isn’t afraid -- rather, he wants -- to keep the ball in Burke’s hands and continue to run the offense through him. With strong performances from big man Mitch McGary and superb shooting from Nick Stauskas, it’s been working out.
They’re just fun to watch.
“The ‘Cuse.” When I moved to Albany in 1989 that’s what I kept hearing; after all, everyone was an Orangemen fan. With that Sherm, Seikaly, Coleman combination, it was ingrained in the upstate NY culture. Everyone in the area went to Siena basketball camp but the few who could make it to Syracuse did. So, big identification and the talk of the town.
What do they do now? It’s been similar throughout; something referred to as a 2-3 zone, but that’s just a default name because nobody has a better one -- it’s much more than that. It’s an octopus on steroids. Too many arms to count. With Syracuse players’ length (the second tallest team in the nation) and athleticism, it’ll suffocate you. It’s scary good.
Teams in the postseason just can’t score against it. A critical part of the problem is they can’t prepare for it either. The Orange boast the No. 6 defense by being No. 4 in eFG%, No. 3 in 3-pt%, and No. 1 in block%, defensively. Keep in mind that Syracuse lost to Georgetown twice in the regular season and another team it could end up facing on Monday: Louisville. But the Orange are clicking. Boeheim even admitted he hasn’t had a better defensive team than this one. Despite a lower eFG% (just 49.1, No. 139), the team makes up for misses with a 39.0 O-board rate (No. 8).
Scary good. Plus, the senior Brandon Triche, whose uncle Howard was on the ‘Cuse team with the trio mentioned above, has played in every single game of his collegiate career. That’s 146 games.
I’m a fan.
Labels: basketball, fan behavior, Final Four, NCAA
Anatomy of an Implosion: How Michigan Rock-Knocked Kansas (And Paved the Way for a Final Four Run)
On Streaks and Such
As sports enthusiasts, it’s in our nature to get hyped about what we witness -- and believe contemporary events of triumph trump those parallel in history. “I saw the Blake over Kendrick dunk in person.” “I was there to see Terry get Knigthed by LeBron.” “I witnessed the greatest team ever.” Our drive to compete is embedded in how we watch sport unfold. How quickly we forget the past, and (sometimes) how quick we are to dismiss the now.
During the current Heat streak, LeBron has been performing in the clutch with unfathomable numbers. He has had the opportunity to showcase his scoring and playmaking skills to the tune of a cumulative triple-double over 48 minutes in crunchtime. Miami’s drive for the NBA all-time record (the 1971-72 Lakers won 33 in a row) is, of course, much dependent on the rest of the team and James’ partner in streak-setting, Dwyane Wade. While (leading up to Wednesday night's game) LeBron is shooting 57 percent from the field and averaging 26.9 points, 7.7 rebounds, and 7.9 assists over these 23 games, Wade (35.8 mpg, .546 FG, 23.5 ppg, 4 rpg, 5.9 apg) isn’t far behind. It’s safe to say they are a hot duo.
A fair comparison, of course, is the 1996-97 Chicago Bulls team who holds the best regular season record with 72 wins and just 10 losses, a mark that barely overtook those aforementioned Lakers. In all this talk of greatest players ever and what (may) become the best team of all time, we recount what those Bulls did (two separate streaks of 13 and 18 in a row) and how they did it.
Perhaps it’s not how many in a row that really matters, but the significance of the wins during the streak. People say that in order to be mentally focused and physically ready for the grueling playoff run it’s important to have critical rest. The NBA schedule doesn’t help matters -- it’s an uncontrollable part of the process. But coaches and players can help themselves by earning valuable recovery periods, albeit slim, during games. The memory I have of that Bulls team is Jordan and Pippen and other starters being able to take some time off during the fourth quarters because they were blowing teams out. Chicago won four games in a row by 24-plus points that saw Jordan and Pippen average just 68.5 minutes together (96 is max in regulation). The best Heat streak so far is a 4-game stretch of win margins by 10, 13, 19, and 24. Despite Miami’s widest point margin being Chicago’s lowest in those big wins, the tandem of LeBron and Wade still only played 69.8 minutes.
Though the Bulls bullied through another 3-game mini streak with wins of 20, 20, and 22, it didn’t alter the overall brunt of minutes Jordan and Pippen endured during the 18 game excitement. Coincidentally, Jordan’s average minutes during this time were the exact same as LeBron’s (through 23 games): 37.5 mpg. MJ shot 51 percent and averaged 31.2 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists during the stretch. Pippen? You guessed it -- practically on par with Wade at 35.9 minutes per game to go along with 21.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 5.7 assists.
The dilemma of when to rest and how to do it is much of a coaching staff’s dialogue. Being able to keep players fresh while helping them stay engaged is crucial, while forecasting for the long term (postseason run) digs deep in their minds. Much discourse can also be consumed in HOW teams play. Do players take plays off to rest? If so, does the offensive system limit pounding on the lower extremities? The Bulls triangle offense was a passing game, quite different than what Miami does. The latter consists of lots of dribble drives, pick and roll action, and isolations. It takes more energy to explode to the paint with the ball than it does to cut without it -- mental pace varies. Those Bulls were a tremendous passing team and Jordan, despite a stigma of shooting too much, was a fabulous set up guy (just go back and watch some of those late 90’s games). More energy consumption may lie in how a team collaborates, whether on the floor or not.
One would think it beneficial -- the more blowouts, the better -- so that the prime players can rest, but (for example) is an 8-minute differential (the difference between a 32-minute night and 40) really all that helpful? Perhaps more mentally than physically. LeBron has been willing his team to win in several close games, comebacks and overtime to boot. Jordan, however, didn’t regularly have to play in the closing minutes (the Bulls had only three single-digit wins of their 18; the Heat have had nine thus far). MJ could sit and smile and oversee his mastery, one that passed him by in many fourth quarters and left evidence of his (and Pippen’s) dominance. He, in effect, let himself out of work early. LeBron, however, has to muster the (mental) stamina to close these games out. Though playing time is similar it’s WHERE the minutes occur that really matter. Stats are harder to come by when the game is close, when teams are structuring every possession to get stops. It’s a grind, and in that scenario, LeBron is performing at one of the highest levels we’ve ever seen -- it’s also enabling him to produce those stats. (Haters will insert selfish stat production theory here, a broader scheme of missing bunnies intentionally to gather more boards.)
The intention here is not to compare players or even teams for the sake of winning an argument -- it’s just too difficult even with NBA2K simulations and all the advanced statistics available. (Though, do note, that Bulls squad was No. 1 in the League in both offensive and defensive efficiency in ‘95-’96.) It’s not even worth going into how those ‘71-’72 Lakers dominated in a completely different era. (They had only 11 single digit wins of their 33, and tallied three 30-plus victories, two 40 or more.) What’s significant is watching Miami dominate with dynamic teamwork and skills.
Let’s just sit back and enjoy the evolution.
Labels: basketball, Chicago Bulls, Dwyane Wade, Jordan, Lebron James, mental game, Miami Heat, Scottie Pippen, streaks
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TV Report Card: the "Smash" Pilot
Smash is finally here! After what feels like months on end of buzz about a new musical television show, we are finally treated to the pilot - on free preview, no less! (Watch on YouTube here - it's available until February 6th.) The network, the critics, the internet: everyone seems to want you to watch Smash.
And, I must say, I think I will! Overall, the pilot was fresh and unique, with interesting conflicts to mine and character relationships I'm looking forward to seeing as they develop every week.
It begins, naturally, with a song: Katharine McPhee, as the protagonist Karen, takes on "Over the Rainbow" before a dreamy starlit background, with a matching twinkle in her eye. Turns out she's just at a dreary audition, and a cell phone ring yanks us from the reverie and back to cold reality. Karen is dismissed. It's a charming hook to start the whole show, and if anything I'd say they could actually put more weight behind this construct. I wanted to indulge in the fantasy a little more, to see Karen close up and really get a sense of her talent before we were slammed with reality. This is our main character! Introduce her like she's the star!
Nevertheless, we start out with a wannabe Broadway star. Then, we meet two Broadway producers who want to make a show. Aha! Julia and Tom are pitch-perfect partners, who have a successful career on Broadway - but who are also taking a break so that Julia can focus on her growing family. (She's looking to adopt.) But a seed is planted in their head by Tom's new assistant Ellis - why not do a musical about Marilyn Monroe?
And, here's our show. This season of Smash will be treating us to the process of putting on a Broadway musical, from concept to curtain. As such, I wanted a little more magic in the birth of the idea. The pilot strung everything together like it was almost mundane - the random assistant sees a book, gives the idea, and then all of the creative process happens quickly and offscreen. Next thing we know, Tom's written songs and they're recording demos!
Truthfully, for me, I love that Smash is a show driven by the process. We are being witness to the creative process, to the development of something larger than these characters, that most people watching at home couldn't even fathom putting together - and dammit, I actually want to witness that! The pilot missed an opportunity to assemble these character's participation in the process as something more than just business decisions. And it's all there - the original numbers being penned for this vehicle are phenomenal, both by song and dance perspective, which indicates that everyone involved is massively talented and therefore extremely winsome. There's magic in the making, but the pilot didn't quite make the most of it.
For instance, we got a chance to see Ivy Lynn, an underappreciated Broadway performer and Tom's top choice for Marilyn, sing the musical's demo online, where Karen found it and sang along. But these two scenes were independent of one another, where they could have been cross-cut to visually suggest these two's impending competition. Not only that, but we saw no part of the creation of the song, or Tom and Julia's active creative participation in the project. We were given a glimpse into the debate of original musicals (like Marilyn) versus revivals (like My Fair Lady) and how the former is definitely a risk - but commentary on that wasn't present beyond a few throwaway lines. And ultimately, I still can't quite get past the fact that the Marilyn idea came from the writers planting a book on the coffee table and having a character say, "Oh, look at that." I get that Broadway's a business and a workplace just like anyplace else, and amping up the fanciful aspects too much could get overblown and exhausting, however - I think a teeny tiny step in that direction could put a little more wind in Smash's sails.
The character work, so far, is solid. Katharine McPhee, somewhat surprisingly, is just as beguiling in her non-musical scenes as she is under the spotlight. While I think that's certainly a compliment to her ability to make staid scenes charming without being cloying, I also wonder if the show is trying too hard to make Karen the underdog. Intellectually, I understand that she's special, because she's not like everyone else who auditioned for Marilyn. But at the same time, it's hard not to want Ivy to land the role of Marilyn simply because we've watched her earn it, onscreen. "Beautiful" is supposedly the moment that we sit up and take note of Karen, but I'm not quite buying it yet.
I get that this is a girl from Iowa, who appears to be a bit naive about what to expect when a producer calls you to his apartment late at night. And I don't doubt that part of Karen's character arc will be about toughening up and coming into her own. I just want to see stronger hints that she's had it in her all along, that's all. The scene with Derek in his apartment was incredibly difficult for me to read because I couldn't figure out if he was indeed propositioning her, and how aware of that she was - until she made it clear at scene's end. Either make it apparent to the audience what each character's stance is in at every point in that scene, or really play up the cat-and-mouse aspect and pair it with a reveal, to raise questions about Derek, and then root for Karen.
I'm curious as well to see what the writers are going to do with Julia. Firstly, I must say that I am loving Debra Messing in this role. She's not without personality, but her part in the narrative is not to be a certain "type" of character, which often happens to female roles. They shuffle into the story under a label, and that's their shtick until the writers get around to dimensionalizing them. I like that Julia is not that. She is kind of an Everywoman, but without falling into the traps that make a lot of female characters stereotypes or cliches (and not Everywomans, at least not in the same way that there is an Everyman).
That being said, I'm not sure what the writers want me to feel about Julia's family. Because every scene with her husband in the pilot made me want to punch the guy in the face. Forget Ivy or Derek, the real antagonist in this show is the man who says, "I hate the theater, I really do." Julia's husband Frank is in turns grumpy, guilt-throwing, patronizing, and borderline unsupportive of Julia's work - and I can't figure if he's supposed to be so unlikeable, or if the writing and direction just laid it on a little too thick to emphasize that there will be growing conflict for Julia between her home life and her work. Only time will tell.
Of course, I'm also already prepping myself for the Tom and Derek antagonism to materialize fully (consider me curious as to why Tom hates him so much) as well as the competition between Ivy and Karen for the part of Marilyn. I'm unsure what to make of that second one, because while it is refreshing to see a thus-far bitch-fight-free lady competition, I'm not entirely clear on what the writers want me to be feeling for each character. At this point, I'm firmly Team Ivy, and crossing my fingers that Smash gets renewed another season so that Karen can take the lead in their next endeavor.
In all, though, caring about these characters and the future of their relationships and happiness is a sign that Smash delivered a solid pilot. While there are certainly some aspects of their show that could be tweaked to be even stronger yet, there's a lot of potential here for good drama, interesting character development, and a damn spectacular musical number. I'll be watching.
The Report Card:
Dialogue: B
Plot: B
Character: A
Musical Numbers: A
Episode MVP: Ivy
Posted by DR SHE BLOGGO at 11:44 AM
Labels: TV recap, TV: Smash
Beauty February 16, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Seems like everyone loves the show Smash and everyone that wanted to hate it loves it as well. I haven't seen the show Smash nor have I seen the show Glee but I was told both were good. My co-worker from DISH is obsessed with theater so when they started previewing this show it is all she talked about. Now that it is on it's still all she talks about. I really don't want to be out the loop in anything she is saying so I'm reading on some reviews to see how I will like the show. So far it seems like I would love it for the Marilyn Monroe part but hate it for the musical part. I'm not sure what to do but I think I will give it a chance and watch it online at DISHonline.com. I hope it really is as good as everyone says!
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When children encounter difficulties in their lives, they are more likely to feel helpless than adults do.
The main reason is that they lack experience in coping with stress, which is very understandable. When they have problems in their studies or with their social lives, they will naturally be so frustrated.
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Who will these children with emotional problems or suicidal thoughts turn to and talk to? The decision is theirs, but they do not make the decision at the time they need help.
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Parents and teachers can also take the initiative to share their own childhood stories or put themselves in children’s shoes and give advice. This can make the children feel more at ease. Many problems could be handled and solved by strengthening this kind of effective communication.
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Exploring the extent to which agroecology could be used for crop protection on European farms was the task set for the fourth ENDURE Summer School, which brought together 12 PhD students and five expert teachers for a five-day course in Italy.
The focus was on the application of agroecological principles to cropping systems and how the management of weeds, pests and diseases can be jointly addressed to exploit synergies and avoid negative interactions among management practices. The idea underlying this approach is that successful Integrated Pest Management (IPM) should not merely be based on ‘substitution’, in other words simply replacing chemical pest control with single mechanical or biological tactics.
In this report:
Lecturer presentations
Cropping system 1: Genetically modified (GM) maize in IPM: Intercropped maize-common beans
Cropping system 2: An organic farm in Italy
Cropping system 3: An agroecological approach to organic conversion
Historically, the organisers noted, there has been a wealth of work at the level of agroecological principles and the observation of agroecosystemic processes at work in family farms in the developing world. In contrast, the applicability of agroecology in average European-style farms is still in its infancy and the course sought to explore the extent to which agroecology can be exploited in this context.
This was achieved through a programme alternating classical lectures with teamwork and exercises in which students were stimulated to apply knowledge in an interdisciplinary way.
Lectures provided an overview of agroecology and IPM. Copyright: ENDURE.
The lectures provided an overview of agroecology and IPM as well as more focused agroecological avenues relative to the management of plant diseases, weed communities, and insect pests. Marco Barzman (INRA) and Alain Ratnadass (CIRAD) covered the North and South American origins of agroecology, how it has been introduced to Europe, and the numerous forms it has taken - ranging from a social movement to a scientific discipline - and the relationship between IPM and agroecology.
Stefan Kühne (JKI) provided some clues for the management of insect pests drawing on plant protection in organic farming, the special case of predatory flies used in greenhouses, and also reported on a long-term work on hedges and field margins to increase biodiversity. Alain Ratnadass provided detailed reports of tropical experiences with direct-seeding mulch-based conservation agriculture against striga and white grubs in rice, push-pull strategies against insect pests in Niger, and agroforestry against the plant bug and brown pod rot in cocoa in Cameroon, and against the coffee berry borer and orange rust in coffee in Costa Rica.
Paolo Barberi (SSSA) explained how Integrated Weed Management based on diversifying cropping systems and weed control strategies offered agroecological solutions to control weeds in both conventional and organic systems and pointed to a better understanding of how multi-trophic interactions affect weed communities as the next research frontier in this area. Sabine Ravnskov (AU) explored the range of tactics available and our growing understanding of the importance of mycorrhizae for non-chemical disease control.
The pdf files of these presentations are available below.
Author(s) Title Download pdf
Marco Barzman (INRA, France) and Alain Ratnadass (CIRAD, France) Overview of IPM
Barzman & Ratnadass_Overview of IPM [pdf - 1,49 MB]
Marco Barzman (INRA, France) and Alain Ratnadass (CIRAD, France) Introduction to agroecology
Barzman & Ratnadass_Introduction to agroecology [pdf - 2,17 MB]
Paolo Barberi (SSSA, Italy) Agroecology for IPM (1): Weed management
Barberi_Agroecology for IPM - Weed management [pdf - 1,59 MB]
Stefan Kühne (JKI, Germany) Agroecology for IPM (2): Insect pests
Kuhne_Agroecology for IPM - Insect pests [pdf - 2,18 MB]
Sabine Ravnskov (AU) Agroecology for IPM (3): Diseases
Ravnskov_Agroecology for IPM - Diseases [pdf - 6,10 MB]
Team work comprised three parts: field work on insect monitoring and landscape observation, and the design of virtual cropping systems using agroecological principles for IPM.
For the latter task, three teams were assembled to build imaginary systems taking into account agronomic and biophysical factors as well as a few social and economic questions beyond the farm. One team built the systems around genetically modified maize intercropped with common bean in Spain and with particular regard to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis . A second team designed a 20-hectare organic farm in northern Italy and in their SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) compared it to a farm in Kenya. A third team took an agroecological approach to converting a cropping system typical of the Burgundy region of France (a succession of oilseed rape, barley and winter wheat) to an organic production system integrating livestock. You can read summaries of these case studies below:
Authors: Emese Baloc (Gödöllö University (SZIE), Hungary), Noémie Chervet (Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil Research Station (Agroscope ACW), Switzerland), Gaëlle Marliac (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France), Nevena Nol (Scuola Superiore Sant'anna (SSSA), Italy).
The billion dollar bug, the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis ), is a serious problem in maize farming in the European Union, especially in Spain (Meissle et al ., 2010). Pest infestation can lead to harvest losses of up to 30 % (ENDURE Summer School 2010, ENDURE Maize Case Study Guide No.1). IPM is being requested from all EU farmers by 2014 (Framework Directive 2009/128/EU) and therefore alternative control methods should be explored in parallel to their agroecological fitness.
In our case study we would observe the agronomic and environmental effects of integrating Bt maize (Zea mays L.) in an intercropped system with common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L) ( Gepts & Bliss, 1988). Focusing on host plant resistance, we are addressing one of the basic principles of an IPM strategy. Bt maize provides almost 100% protection against all generations of corn borer, but also 15 lepidopteran pest species (Hellmich et al ., 2008; Hellmich & Hellmich, 2012).
Cultivation of GM crops has been increasing worldwide since the first release of GM Bt maize in 1996 in the USA and had reached 134 million hectares by 2009 (James, 2010), while insect-resistant maize production had expanded to more than 35 million hectares (James, 2009). Bt maize (transformation event MON 810, only authorised variety), contains genes from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium species and expresses Cry1Ab protein, which is toxic to larvae of lepidoptera species such as European corn borer.
Figure 1: Crop rotation for cropping system 1 over three years (click image to enlarge).
Our trial would be located in northern Spain. Experimental fields would be surrounded by apple trees (field margin) and used as a buffer zone. In three years of crop rotation, alfalfa would be sown as a preceding cover crop and used the following year as a green manure. The use of coated seeds for this cash crop is a preventive measure against fungi (such as Fusarium spp., Ustilago maydis, Puccinia sorghi ) and common alfalfa pests (such as weevils, wireworms, grubs, Psalidium sp., Tanymecus sp .). Winter wheat would be included after two years of continuous intercrops (maize and beans). Field management after maize harvesting would be based on reduced tillage, but sufficient for grinding of plant tissue residues and efficient incorporation into the surface layer of the soil (mulch effect).
Weed management in the following year would be based on the false seedbed technique for spring and summer-emerging weeds. Finally, after the second year of intercropping, ploughing would be used to prepare the wheat seedbed. Figure 1 shows our crop rotation over the three years.
High efficacy of control of key pests (below economic injury level)
Economic benefits (e.g. high yield and quality)
No/less direct control measures needed (e.g. insecticides)
GM crops have broadened opportunities for other IPM tactics such as biological control
No adverse effects on natural enemies (biological control)
No negative landscape effects (e.g. ecological functions preserved)
Human health (e.g. low toxicological risks)
Social benefits/awareness
Common bean is a host plant for ECB (Bt maize trap plant)
Gene flow (apple trees, buffer zones)
Dependence on seed companies (monopolistic approach)
How to integrate GM plants in sustainable agricultural systems including organic agriculture?
How can new technologies in agriculture become trusted by the public (not only GM plants)?
Social sciences have to play a stronger role
Limitations of the markets and marketing channels (consumers, requirements of the chain supermarkets etc.)
Educational approach - through the media, publicity
Intelligent resistance management could be a key for sustainable use of GM crops in IPM
Pest resistant GM plants could be seen as an IPM component that can be optimised
More research in this area related to the long-term effects
Risk on non-target organisms - potential effect
Development of resistance
Public rejection of the trial (e.g. UK, GMO wheat)
Additional security costs (geese, dogs)
Political use and manipulation of GMO concept (both directions)
Gepts, P., and F. A. Bliss, 1988: Dissemination pathways of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris , Fabaceae) deduced from phaseolin electrophoretic variability. II. Europe and Africa. Econ. Bot. 42, 86—104.
Hellmich, R. L. & Hellmich, K. A. (2012) Use and Impact of Bt Maize. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):4.
James, C. (2009): Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2008. ISAAA Brief No. 39. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 275 pp.
James, C. (2010): Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops: 2009. ISAAA Briefs No. 41. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY.
Meissle, M., Mouron,P., Musa, T., Bigler, F., Pons, X., Vasileiadis, V.P., Otto, S., Antichi, D., Kiss, J., Palinkas, Z., Doner, Z., Van Der Weide, R., Groten, J., Czembor, E., Adamczyk, J., Thibord, J-B., Melander, B., Cordsen Nielsen, G., Poulsen, R. T., Zimmermann, O., Verschwele, A. And Oldenburg, E. (2010): Pests, pesticide use and alternative options in European maize production: Current status and future prospects. Journal of Applied Entomology , 134: 357-375.
Authors: Tim O’Donovan (Agriculture and Food Development Authority (TEAGASC), Ireland), Jovanka Saltzmann (Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Germany), Ezekiel Mugendi (SSSA, Kenya) and Béatrice Rhino (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), France).
This exercise focuses on an organic farm located in northern Italy. The farming area is 20 hectares of good soil which has a four-year rotation: two years of good quality pasture with ryegrass and clover, and maize and barley grown for malting. The rotation has evolved to allow the farmer to complete the workload with limited labour input. Contractors are used for maize and barley drilling and harvesting. Cultivation and mechanical weed control are carried out by the farmer with his own machinery. A cover crop (see below) is cultivated between the maize and the spring cereal. Maize and malting barley are the main cash crops of the farm. Besides arable farming the farm has beef cattle for meat production. The animals are sold to local organic butchers who supply busy eco-tourist restaurants in the region.
Perennial ryegrass/clover ley
Maize for grain/animal silage
Barley for malting
In northern Italy, the western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and the European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) are the most significant maize (Zea mays) pests. The rotation of maize with two years of pasture with ryegrass (Lolium multi?orum ) is a first step to having clean soil because ryegrass is not a host plant for WCR (Wilson and Hibbard, 2004). To control pests, organic farmers use biopesticides containing Bacillus thuringiensis but they are not sufficient. Farmers could use cultural controls such as flowers strips around or within maize fields in order to optimise biological control because flower strips provide nectar and pollen that are food for natural enemies and enhance the fitness of natural enemies (Zehnder et al., 2007; Rodriguez-Saona et al. 2012). Thus, flower strips could increase the populations of predators such as lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Anthocorid bugs. (Heteroptera, Anthocoridae) that attack lepidopteran eggs and larvae. For example, flowers strips with dill and coriander could increase the predation of O. nubilasis (Bickerton and Hamilton, 2012). Moreover, if the farmer were to use the parasitoid Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) to promote parasitism of WCR and ECB, the efficacy of this method should be increased by the presence of flowers because nectar enhances the survival of adult parasitoids, therefore their retention and the fecundity of female parasitoids. Another agroecological method of pest management is the spraying of entomophagous nematodes on corn leaves and soil to control WCR and ECB (Ben-Yakir, 1998; Kuhlmann and Burgt, 1998, Pilz et al., 2007).
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Two years of pasture will, over time, reduce the weed seedbank on the farm as grass will not allow annual weeds to establish, especially in year two. It is critical that the pasture is very well established and high seed rates are employed as this will ‘smother’ any annual weeds germinating at the time of pasture establishment. This equally applies to perennial weed management as the weakest time in their lifecycle is when they are establishing.
A stale seedbed will be necessary to establish the maize as it is a crop that suffers up to 50% yield loss from weed competition especially in the first 50-80 days after drilling. The farmer should precision drill animal manure (from the cattle housing) close to the maize seed to help the crop grow rapidly during establishment. Mechanical weeding will also need to be carried out as required. After the maize is harvested, a cover crop (see below) will be established. For barley, this cover crop should reduce weed competition, carrying over from the maize and autumn-germinating weeds that might occur in the maize stubble. Mechanical weeding will also be needed in the barley crop, but as barley is ‘sink’ limited, the farmer needs to ensure the seeding rate is as high as possible (with respect to disease/lodging risks) and is established well to overcome weeds and therefore reducing yield losses.
A Vicia villosa Roth (Hairy vetch) cover crop is sown in October at the rate of 100 kg/ha-1 and incorporated into the soil in April the following year. The cover crop provides an effective ground cover, controlling surface run-off over the winter period. It controls most weeds and also provides a home for beneficial organisms, especially arbuscular mycorrhiza and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. After incorporation into the soil as a green manure, the cover crop readily releases nitrogen which enhances growth of the following crop, making it more competitive to any prevalent weeds and more resistant to pests and diseases.
SWOT analysis of the northern Italy farm compared to a farm in Kenya
Labour availability - cheap family labour is available in Kenya, expensive in Italy
Cheaper cost of materials in Kenya
More traditional knowledge, e.g. intercropping and pest control in Kenya
Biodiversity with more heterogeneity in different scale e.g. more beneficial arthropods
Poor infrastructure, e.g. poorly developed road networks and markets
Inaccessibility of inputs and farm machinery in Kenya
More aggressive pests and diseases, e.g. the Osama maize storage weevil and striga weed in Kenya
Unpredicted climate change and weather patterns and poor weather forecasts
P fixation, aluminium toxicity and low soil pH
Increased market due to rapid population growth and development, there is a likelihood of increased markets for commodities
Space for more innovative cropping systems
Cheaper access to some organic inputs, e.g. organic manure
Expansion is possible, especially due to the availability of land at cheap prices
New pests, weeds and diseases etc. may develop, e.g. maize lethal necrosis (maize chlorotic mottle virus and sugarcane mosaic virus) in Kenya
Insecurity, political instability and natural catastrophes
Lack of clear regulations and registration
D. Ben-Yakir, D. Efron, M. ChenetI. Glazer.1998. Evaluation of entomopathogenic nematodes for biocontrol of the European corn borer,Ostrinia nubilalis, on sweet corn in Israel. Evaluation of entomopathogenic nematodes for biocontrol of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, on sweetcorn in Israel.
Geoff Zehnder, Geoff M. Gurr, Stefan Kühne, Mark R. Wade, Steve D. Wratten, and Eric Wyss. 2007. Arthropod Pest Management in Organic Crops. Annual Review of Entomology, Vol. 52: 57 -80.
Kuhlmann, U., and W. A. C. M. Burgt. 1998. Possibilitiesfor biological control of the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, in Central Europe. Biocont. News Inform. 19: 59 - 68.
M. W. Bickerton and G. C. Hamilton. 2012. Effects of Intercropping with Flowering Plants on Predation of Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Eggs by Generalist Predators in Bell Peppers. Environmental Entomology 41 (3), 612-620.
Pilz, C., Wegensteiner, R. and Keller, S. (2007), Selection of entomopathogenic fungi for the control of the western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera virgifera . Journal of Applied Entomology, 131: 426–431
Rodriguez-Saona Cesar, Brett R. Blaauw and Rufus Isaacs (2012). Manipulation of Natural Enemies in Agroecosystems: Habitat and Semiochemicals for Sustainable Insect Pest Control, Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control - Current and Future Tactics, Marcelo L. Larramendy and Sonia Soloneski (Ed).
Wilson Ted A. and Hibbard Bruce E. Host Suitability of Nonmaize Agroecosystem Grasses for the Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Environmental Entomology 2004 33 (4), 1102-1108.
Authors: Nawel Aouadi (INRA, France), Rim Baccar (INRA, France), Orsolya Császár (SZIE, Hungary), Malaika Herbst (JKI, Germany)
Our team chose as the initial cropping system a succession of oilseed rape, barley and winter wheat, a commonly used cropping system in the Burgundy region of central France. This system is characterised by a clay-loamy soil and no irrigation is used. We propose to adopt an agroecological approach for converting this conventional system to organic production.
The first step consists of identifying weaknesses in the current crop rotation and proposing adequate solutions. First, we note that the system is characterised by a succession of only winter cereals and that the frequency of oilseed rape is high (every three years). This is likely to increase weed, disease and pest specialisation and to enhance the risk of disease persistence.
To avoid these problems, it is preferable to diversify sowing periods, to introduce other crop families such as leguminous plants, which also increase the soil’s nitrogen content, and to lengthen the crop succession. The following succession is thus proposed: oilseed rape-winter barley-pea-maize-clover-winter wheat. Some of these crops, such as wheat and oilseed rape, are commercial crops and others will be used for animal feed (for example, pea, clover, maize).
Students present the results of their teamwork at the 2012 Summer School. Copyright: ENDURE.
One of the major problems in organic farming is crop protection, as the use of synthetic chemicals is forbidden. To manage pests, we advise installing semi-natural habitats (for example, flower strips, hedgerows etc.) which provide shelter and food for beneficial organisms such as hoverflies, ladybirds and parasitoids that naturally destroy crop pests. It is also of major interest to spread mashed nettle, which is both a fertiliser and a plant strengthener.
The use of trap crops has proved to be very efficient against some oilseed pests. Thus planting early flowering oilseed plants or Brassica rapa plants among or around oilseed rape field helps reduce, for example, attacks from pollen beetles. Concerning maize pests, we can use Trichogramma sp. to control the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis ), as well as Bacillus thuringiensis , an entomopathogenic nematode, to control western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera ). It is also important to destroy crop volunteers to address other pests such as wheat nematodes and wheat wireworms (Agriotes sp .). Another biological control against take-all in cereals (Gaeumannomyces graminis ) consists of using Cerall, a biological product based on bacteria which avoids the build-up of mycotoxins in the soil.
The management of agronomic practices makes it possible to control crop diseases. It is therefore possible to reduce take-all attacks by reducing nitrogen fertilisation or to control septoria (Septoria tritici ) diseases by delaying the sowing date and reducing plant density. In addition, to protect wheat and barley against foliar diseases, the use of a mixture of resistant and sensitive cultivars can be of major benefit as resistant cultivars will act as barriers and therefore reduce disease severity.
Furthermore, we should not forget that the choice of crop succession is a very important factor in disease management. For this reason, we should avoid planting cereals on the same plot in two successive years and also avoid planting oilseed rape after maize to circumvent the development of sclerotinia (Scelrotinia sclerotiorum ).
Concerning weed management, we advise the use of preventive or direct measures depending on the crop, the type of weeds and the soil state. Preventive measures such as the creation of false seedbeds to enhance weed emergence before crop emergence, ploughing before seeding to bury weed seeds and the management of the date and density of sowing are techniques used before the establishment of the crop which aim to both decrease weed biomass and increase crop competitiveness. Conversely, direct measures such as mechanical weeding are used during crop development.
Although the type of soil and climate in this system offer good opportunities for high yields thanks to the good capacity for water storage, they can represent a high risk of compaction and soil erosion, and difficulties in soil tillage when there is high rainfall.
The diversification of crop succession, the introduction of livestock in the system and the absence of synthetic chemicals drastically increases biodiversity. However, we should pay attention to not increase nitrate volatility by excessive use of livestock manure.
Concerning organisational aspects, the location of the farm can present both advantages and drawbacks. For example, the existence of organic farming communities around the farm, which is the case in this region of France, will help initiate the farmer into this new sector, and the exchange of knowledge and the experiences of others will help the farmer promote his project. Also, the proximity of the farm to the cooperatives will facilitate the collection and transport of products such as wheat and milk. However, if the farm is too close to conventional farms this can be a threat. Indeed, chemicals (pesticides, fungicides, herbicides) used by the surrounding conventional farms can be dispersed by the wind and contaminate the organic farm.
Organic farms need a high number of qualified workers, which are not easily found. At the same time, this makes it possible to hire a higher number of workers and thus provide more employment in the region.
From an economic point of view, one of the difficulties of this kind of farming is the high investment cost and the risk of banks refusing to give loans because of the instability of farm yields, at least at the start of the project. However, these difficulties can be counterbalanced by the existence of government policies which encourage organic farming and offer help during the conversion period through, for example, subsidies. But this kind of help does not exclude the difficulty and length of the conversion process, which lasts at least two years and during which farm products are not considered organic and are therefore sold at low prices. But, once this procedure is completed and certification obtained, the products are recognised as organic and have a higher selling value.
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The Government of Malaysia and the EU met for the fifth Joint Experts Meeting (JEM 5) in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, from 12 to 14 March to discuss technical details of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement.
The main focus of the meeting was Sabah's revised timber legality assurance (TLAS) tables. Sabah revised its TLAS tables to incorporate comments made at the fourth JEM, held 22–24 January, and feedback received from stakeholder consultation on 27 February. This version was further revised during JEM 5. Also at JEM 5, Sabah presented a draft of its Annex on Information for Public Disclosure (Annex 7). This annex, which will form part of the VPA between the EU and Malaysia, sets out what information will be available to the public and the means by which the information can be accessed. Peninsular Malaysia presented its Annex on Information for Public Disclosure during JEM 4.
The revised TLAS tables for Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and the public disclosure document for Sabah were also presented at the 11th National Stakeholder Consultation in Kuala Lumpur on 28 March.
All stakeholder consultation reports and TLAS documents are available online at the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities' dedicated FLEGT-VPA website for Peninsular Malaysia. Similar documents for Sabah will be made available on Sabah's FLEGT website when it has been launched.
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Fallen In Love – Red Rose Chain Ipswich
A young girl falls in love with a Royal and gets married. No, not Kate Middleton but Anne Boleyn.
Her doomed love affair with Henry VIII is well known but, in Joanna Carrick’s new play for Red Rose Chain, Fallen In Love, we get to see the more personal side of Anne and her close relationship with brother George. It’s a relationship that would ultimately seal the fate of both as Henry uses an accusation of incest to free himself of Anne.
The 16th Century is a time when love is a powerful currency, affections can win titles, land and wealth and, in an echo of modern times, the cult of celebrity centres on Henry. Anne is ambitious and, although initially wary of the advancement her romance can provide, eventually falls deeply in love with the Monarch. It’s an innocent love, but one that is portrayed with touching innocence. Once first wife Catherine of Aragon has been dispatched and Anne installed as Queen, though the political machinations of Court life take their toll on Anne and she begins to fear for her future. Her brother, George, becomes her only real trusted confidant but even he has plans for his sister.
Red Rose Chain has created a unique and evocative setting for the production. Staged in the round in a yurt tent, it makes for an intimate and atmospheric atmosphere for this en-chambre tale. The simple staging is contrasted with beautifully detailed and lavish period costumes that hint at the glamour of court life.
Making an impressive and assured professional stage debut, Fleur Keith makes her Anne a believable mix of innocence and inner steel and determination. Over the course of the play we watch as that innocence slowly lost and Anne becomes more aware of the forces of Court at work and the potential threat to both her and her daughter, Elizabeth.
There is real chemistry between Keith and Joseph Pitcher, providing a strong performance as Boleyn’s brother, George. The relationship between the two grips throughout and makes it compulsive viewing.
There is of course local interest to Ipswich audiences with references to Cardinal Wolsey, who Anne calls ‘the butchers son from Ipswich’, but there surely is a much longer life for Fallen In Love beyond its Ipswich run. The show has a showcase performance at Camden’s Roundhouse but one suspects we will see more of the Boleyn’s than these runs.
A combination of a unique and atmospheric staging, a well researched and well written script and powerful performance means this is one show you will fall in love with.
Previous Incoming – HighTide Festival Halesworth
Next Corrie – Ipswich Regent
Review: Roaring Voices(part2): Hotbed Festival – The Junction, Cambridge
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Southwest Airlines' pilot sends cabin into panic
Photo courtesy of Reuters
A pilot caused momentary panic on board a flight after wishing happy birthday to the mother of an air traffic controller.
The problem was he said there was a "mom on board" and many people on the flight thought he said there was a "bomb on board."
According to the New York Daily News, many of the passengers on the Southwest flight between Baltimore and Long Island went into a panic when they heard
the word "bomb".
Airline staff rushed to reassure passengers that there was indeed no bomb and the pilot got back on the loud speaker to clarify.
"He did clarify with the passengers that he was wishing the mother on board a happy birthday," said Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandi King.
Even though it all seems to be a miscommunication, two passengers were upset by the message and complained to security officials after the flight landed in Long Island. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
This isn't the first time a Southwest pilot has had trouble with the announcement system. Last summer a pilot didn't know his microphone was turned on and went on rant criticizing homosexuals, overweight people and the elderly.
According to CBS, making personal announcements isn't grounds for firing an employee, but officials say staff may need a reminder of what is considered an appropriate announcement.
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Jordan Chittley
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March 2, 2011 /in Adventure & Radiation, All News /by Phil B
Today, we’re going to take a little excursion away from the realm of coffee and cold beer. I’m going to share one of the accidents I’ll be discussing with my students tonight. This is partially a matter of my marshaling my thoughts together for them. Ignoring Chernoybl & Fukushima, this remains the worst accident with radioactive materials in history.
NB: Yes, I am well aware that we killed plenty of people with Fat Man & Little Boy and that we have contaminated vast tracts of land with nuclear weapons testing. But one must remember, those were done intentionally. To a first approximation, we knew what we were doing and had taken appropriate precautions. Or, as one notable former Nevada Test Site employee said, “We never made the same mistake twice. Can’t think of many other institutions that can claim that.”
This story all began when a private cancer clinic with a nuclear medicine center shut down in Goiania, Brazil. By 1987, much of the clinic was demolished but as derelict buildings in increasingly bad parts of town tend to go, it got a bad case of squatters. Squatters are poor folk looking for any way to scrape by; one of those more popular ways is scavenging. And what do most people scavenge: Metal. Just ask your local homeless person with bags full of cans if you doubt me. Why everything wasn’t gone when they shut down is a good question, but easy to answer: it wasn’t worth the effort. What could easily be removed and/or be sold had been, what couldn’t they left, like the radiotherapy unit. Add in a side order of legal dispute about who was responsible for the unit and minimal regulatory oversight authority, and there you go.
Two hearty scavenging lads found this thing with lots of steel and aluminum in the clinic and thought they’d hit the jackpot. The thought was doubly confirmed as they started tearing it apart and found this heavy metal bar with a goldish black window. It felt much heavier that steel, and judging by the window, wow, that must mean gold. So, they broke the window. Within was a bluish glowing powder. It wasn’t gold but they figured they could still get a couple bucks at the junkyard and that they did.
The owner of the junkyard thought it was beautiful and strange. He thought it would make a great ring for his wife, Maria, so he set his workmen to task cracking the bar open and getting the pretty blue stuff out. It was no easy task. The found that inside the steel sheath was lead shielding containing an ampule filled with this metallic powder.
One yard worker died, the other lost an arm. Despite taking what would otherwise be considered a very lethal dose, the owner lived.
After the workers got it free, they brought it back to their boss who then took it home. His six year old daughter thought it was pretty and asked to play with it. Being a doting father, how could he deny her?
Of all the people exposed in this incident, the daughter took the highest dose as she tended to eat her sandwiches on the same floor where she’d been playing with the source. When she finally died a month later, she had to be buried in a lead lined concrete coffin.
Being social people, friends and family came over for a good extended family dinner. The owner showed the blue powder to his brother who thought it was a miracle. He asked for some, which his brother gave to him. The brother went home and painted himself with the powder in the shape of cross, much like at Carnival, and then went out to work with the animals.
Everyone at the dinner party trailed contamination home with them and then to their families. This is how the count of exposed people needing treatment rose to the hundreds. Needless to say, the brother lost his arm…and all the contaminated livestock were slaughtered. Luckily, none had gone to market before discovery of the incident.
When people started getting sick all at the same time, at first Maria started to think that she’d served some bad meat or juice. She asked a local doctor if that made sense. He said maybe. Then she realized people who hadn’t been at the party were getting sick. It occurred to her that it might be the blue stuff. After the doctor sent her back home, she got progressively sicker. Her mother moved in to care for her.
Both Maria and her mother died.
By the time Maria had brought the remains of the radiotherapy source to doctor, contaminating the bus she rode on in the process, 90% of the powdered metal had already been lost, spreading contamination through out the community. According to Brookhaven National Laboratory, who originally made the Cs-137 cesium chloride source in 1971, it had an activity of approximately 1400 curies. Just for reference, the americium-241 source in your smoke detector contains less than 1 microcurie. This radiotherapy source was, professionally speaking, motherfucking screaming hot.
This is not to say that comparing Cs-137 to Am-241 is apples to apples when discussing activity. At that point it becomes a matter of chemical characteristics and biological/environmental fate to determine exactly how dangerous a given isotope is for a given activity. However, I’ll have you know that this is a brown trousers time so hard your pants shoot across the room quantity of activity of Cs-137 from the safety point of view when there’s a loss of control. From a medical point of view, it was weak enough they probably couldn’t sell it off as a proper radiotherapy source anymore so they abandoned it.
Authorities learned of the loose source about a month after the scavengers first bust it open. It took several more days for them to follow the trail back to community in Goiania and start getting people medical treatment; a couple more weeks to discover the full horrible extent of the contamination. Only four people died, 54 people had exposures serious enough to merit hospitalization out of the 249 people found to be contaminated. This is of the 112,000 people that mobbed the public health officials & hospitals fearing they were going to have a horrible Hiroshima worthy death. It was wisely decided to move triage evaluation to the Olympic Stadium so that they could accommodate everyone, but it was still a nightmare processing everyone that was afraid. Several buildings were demolished and the top several feet of soil were removed as a part of the clean up, with an estimated 3500cu.yd. of contaminated material getting buried in a hole somewhere in Brazil.
As yet another a deeply tarnished silver lining, a lot of good health physics lessons were learned at Chernobyl (once international aid was invited to help with containment and cleanup) which, depending on your point of view, were fortunately/unfortunately put to excellent use at here.
I took a different lesson home when I first learned about this accident in detail several years ago: You Cannot Take ANY Knowledge For Granted. The radioactive source from the radiotherapy machine was prominently marked with the radiation trefoil but in this instance (and many, many others) it didn’t register with the victims in question that this denoted a hazard. This caused the IAEA to create a new ionizing radiation hazard symbol, a mishmash of somewhat familiar international symbols in hopes of scaring people off (skull & crossbones for “poison” and running guy with an arrow for “leave”) that has been called cluttered and confusing. My willfully obtuse reading of the new symbol to my old department chair was “Propeller wind causes pirates, go starboard”.
I think the root cause can be laid at a general lack of awareness/education about ionizing radiation. In First World countries, education has been lax though awareness is quite high, not necessarily in a good way as it is rather paranoid and poorly informed. Hell, I have a hard time getting nuclear engineering students to handle their rather benign sealed check sources. When items made in the First World end up lost downstream in the Third, a heavy price gets paid by the most vulnerable and least knowledgeable when control is weak or non-existent. There are dozens of reports of lost radiography sources at mines in the hinterlands all over the world being picked up because they were shiny and looked like silver (and thus valuable), taken home, and injuring the discoverer and/or their families. There are also far too many incidents of scrap yards like this one in Goiania receiving radioactive materials as metal salvage, reselling them and then tossing them into a smelter for recycling.
If I have any good news to share, it’s that the rate of incidents like this has decreased dramatically despite the increased use of materials worldwide. We’re getting better at playing with this particularly special kind of fire.
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Scripture Text(s): Exodus 17:8-16Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand." So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi} He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'" (Exodus 17:8-16, World English Bible [WEB])
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A squad of ten players (Jessica Li, Kimberly Clague, Cristen Marritt, Laura Beggs, Abigail Li, Adam Colley, Jonny Callow, Neil Harding, Baillie Watterson and Matthew Nicholson) represented the Isle of Man at the 2015 Island Games, supported by team manager Phil Ardern and coach Benjamin Li. Caroline Whitehead also attended the games as an umpire for the first time.
Team Event – The Manx team lived up to their third seeding in the team event securing a bronze medal on the second day of competition. Successive 4-1 wins over the Shetland Islands and 2013 semi finalists Bermuda ensured a spot in the semi finals against second seeded Faroe Islands. The Isle of Man’s two young singles players Colley and J.Li were unphased by their experienced opposition and played exceptionally to take an end each and force a third end. Unfortunately the Faroes took both deciding ends and took a 2-0 lead. The Faroe victory was completed when they clinched a tight men’s doubles against Callow/Harding. Despite the loss, pleasing performances all round lead to optimism for the bronze medal play-off against Guernsey, who had beaten the Manx side in the final at the previous two games.
Colley and J. Li both lost the first end against their respective Guernsey opponents, but fought back and each clinched the second. In two nail biting third ends which could easily have gone either way, the two Manx players held their nerve and came out victorious. In the men’s doubles, Callow/Harding dominated throughout, not giving the Guernsey pair a chance of a comeback, and won in two ends securing the bronze medal (and large stuffed “Indigo” gorillas). All members of the squad played and won games, demonstrating the depth of the Isle of Man team which many other teams were missing.
Tuesday (Women’s Singles and Men’s Doubles) – Playing at her first Island Games, A. Li was the first player to step on court in the individual events. Understandably nervous she lost the first end of singles heavily, but showed great determination to battle back and claim the second end in setting, losing the third in a very respectable performance. Marritt, J. Li and Clague (seeded 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively) made it safely through to the quarter finals, battling both their opposition and the ever increasing temperatures as the day went on. Clague fought hard but fell to Coombes-Goodfellow of Jersey in three tough ends, and J. Li, visibly fatigued from her strenuous games over the previous three days was forced to retire following a fall which aggravated a recurring injury. Marritt, the only remaining representative in the women’s singles, won both her quarter and semi final, to ensure that she would battle rival R. Carlsson for the gold medal later in the week.
Meanwhile in the men’s doubles, an unfortunate draw for Callow/Harding saw them face the second seeds in the round of 16, the Faroese pair who had beaten them in the team event. Yet another strong performance by Callow/Harding resulted in them coming back from a first end loss to claim the second. In a competitive final end, it was the second seeds who came out on top. Nicholson/Watterson came through their matches against Orkney and Falkland Islands to confirm a spot in the quarter finals against the number 1 seeds from Greenland. Scrapping for every point, Nicholson/Watterson also lost in three ends (this turned out to be the only end the number one seeds dropped on the way to the gold medal) after a slow start in the third.
Wednesday (Men’s Singles and Women’s Doubles) – Nicholson and Watterson both faced opposition from the Shetland Islands in the first round of the men’s singles, but had mixed fortunes as Nicholson fell to their top singles player. Watterson faced Bror Madsen (a previous winner of the men’s singles event) in the next round. A stubborn performance in the first end finally ended with the Greenland player winning 30-28, followed by a more routine second end. In the same round, Colley paid the price for not closing out the first end against his opponent from Guernsey and although he took the second end, the third was just out of his reach after several days of competition.
Top seeds and heavy favourites Marritt/Clague had little trouble against pairs from Ynys Mons, Bermuda and Guernsey and secured their place in the final. Beggs/J. Li faced the third seeds from Gotland in the round of 16. After losing the first end, the Manx pair turned the tables to take the second. Neither pair deserved to go out at this stage of the competition, however and hopes of more Manx women’s doubles medals ended as Gotland clinched a close decider 21-18.
Thursday (Mixed Doubles) – Beggs/Watterson were first on court facing against an experienced Shetland pair, and after taking the first end in setting were disappointed lose in three. A. Li/Nicholson were next up and confident performances saw them past pairs from Orkney and Gibraltar. Their winning run came to an end against the fifth seeds from Faroes in the last sixteen. Clague/Callow (6th seeds) twice came through three end battles in the round of 32 and 16, both times holding keeping their composure at crucial points in close deciding ends. Marritt/Harding became another of the top seeds to drop out of the competition by the quarter finals against an unseeded, but relatively fresh, Greenland pair. Clague/Callow were desperately close to a place in the semi finals, losing 19 and 18 to the third seeded Gotland pair. Very few would have predicted the resulting semi final line up of Shetland vs. Greenland and Gotland vs Guernsey, making it all the more frustrating how close all of the Manx pairs could have been to a medal.
Friday (Finals and Bronze Medal Play Offs) – In the first final of the day Marritt/Clague faced off against third seeds Caroline Gate/Viktoria Olsson Meimermondt from Gotland, who had narrowly edged Beggs/J. Li earlier in the competition and seen off the second seeded Carlsson sisters. Marrit/Clague were always in control and comfortably defenced the women’s doubles title they first won in Bermuda. Marritt was back in action for the women’s singles final, but was forced to settle for silver as old enemy Rannvá battled her way to gold.
The team would in particular like to thank Phil Ardern and Ben Li for their time and support in Jersey and in the build up to the games, the IOMBA without which sending a team would not be possible, and to our sponsors and fundraisers.
Full results can be found at http://www.iiga.org/results.html
Men’s Singles
Gold – Mark Constable (Jersey), Silver – Niclas H. Eysturoy (Faroes), Bronze – Benjamin Gunnarstein (Faroes)
Women’s Singles
Gold – Rannvá Carlsson (Faroes), Silver – Cristen Marritt (Isle of Man), Bronze – Chloe LeTissier (Guernsey)
Men’s Doubles
Gold – Madsen/Nielsen (Greenland), Silver – Navarro Comes/Navarro Comes (Menorca), Bronze – Constable/Hutchings (Jersey)
Women’s Doubles
Gold – Marritt/Clague (Isle of Man), Silver – Gate/Olsson Meimermondt (Gotland), Bronze – Carlsson/Carlsson (Faroes)
Gold – Gate/Eriksson (Gotland), Silver – Mackay/Keith (Shetlands), Bronze – Barnes/Haynes (Guernsey)
Team Event
Gold – Jersey, Silver – Faroes, Bronze – Isle of Man
Two years and counting until Gotland 2017…
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Mesmerism - The Origins of Hypnosis
By: Mike Watson - Updated: 21 Oct 2012 | *Discuss
The origins of hypnosis as a practice is hard to place precisely as the mechanism that underlies hypnosis as we best understand it has existed in essence as far back as the earliest recorded practice of Yoga and other Eastern Mystic spiritual and healing devices.
Hypnotism essentially relies on the power of the subconscious mind in its response to ‘suggestion’ and for this reason is similar to forms of meditation which involve the repetition of a fixed mantra or the focus upon a positive symbol. It is also similar for the use of a ‘trance state’ in which the subconscious mind is more open to suggestion – this state being the one engendered by meditation when the mind has been fully cleared.
Though hypnotic practices vary greatly, with some favouring a more ‘automatic’ or instant hypnosis rather than one involving a slow descent into trance, all practices can find parallels in other practices such as mystic spirituality, organised prayer or other worship, New Age spiritualism, , Yoga, Taoism, Buddhism, Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Positive Affirmation, to name but a few examples.
Hypnosis historically came into its own as a means of separating out the positive benefit of trance, repetition and suggestion, from its spiritual links, essentially as a move away from what was seen as false and misleading ways of thinking (namely spiritual and religious thought) and towards a more empowering rational form of treatment for patients with a wide range of physical and mental ailments.
The Progression From ‘Mesmerism’ to Hypnosis
The first person credited with shaking off the arguably negative spiritual associations associated with the benefits of trance states was ‘Franz Anton Mesmer’ who was himself a student of a Christian spiritual healer who worked in the tradition of ‘magnet’ healing, Father Maximillian Hell. In the late 18th Century Mesmer rejected Hell’s notion that magnetic healing was a gift from God, and in fact attributed the power of healing to the presence of an intrinsic capacity to heal within all ‘creatures’ both human and animal, later conceding that it wasn’t even necessary to use magnets in order to induce a trance, but that one need only the ‘magnetic’ power transmitted from healer to healed.
The next major figure in the progression towards ‘hypnotism’ was James Braid who did away with the notion of ‘magnetism’ altogether and attributed the positive effects of ‘mesmerism’ top the physiological states induced by a mental ‘trance’. Debunking the idea that Mesmer’s healing operated by may if the transference of energy from one person to another was the last revolutionary act in breaking ‘hypnosis’ –as Braid termed it – away from its previous religious, spiritual and cultic associations.
From here the main figures have been Emile Coue (1857-1926) and Milton Erickson (1901-1980) who both noted the possibility of bringing about hypnotic states and changes in the patient’s attitude merely by the power of suggestion. Erickson has employed a wide range of methods which now are utilised by psychologist’s, counsellors and healers of all descriptions, pioneering the ‘indirect technique’ which recognises the power of inducing trance when the patient is not expecting it, and the importance of everyday language in affecting the sub conscious. The indirect technique is not used to control the patient but simply utilises the way in which everyday diversions in routine can cause a person to go into ‘trance’ state that may only last seconds.
Overall the history of hypnosis has been one centred around debunking ‘myths’ and taking the power away from the practitioner whilst giving it to the patient. The overall emphasis has always been on the power of positive suggestion when the mind is most susceptible to it, but the change in emphasis is away from mysticism and towards a simple understanding of the mechanism by which the brain stores and acts upon information. However, it is noted that Yogic practices ad meditation, in their use of the trance state can be as valuable as hypnosis and their is not reason to be wary of these disciplines so long as truly outlandish spiritual claims are not made to the detriment of a persons wellbeing.
Hypnosis has become as much a part of debunking certain outmoded and unusual hypnosis practices as those associated with the spiritual. A contemporary hypnotist is less likely to swing a watch to and fro in front of you, putting you into a deep state of trance whilst suggesting to you courses of action that you will automatically act upon later, and more likely to talk to you naturally using techniques of encouragement and suggestion.
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Chiune Sugihara, 1941. This year’s Raoul Wallenberg Day event includes the screening of Persona Non Grata: The Story of Chiune Sugihara. (photo from Vilnius-Green House exhibit)
On Sunday, Jan. 19, the 15th annual Raoul Wallenberg Day event pays tribute to courageous actions by diplomats Raoul Wallenberg of Sweden and Chiune Sugihara of Japan. During the Second World War, they engaged in selfless acts of civil courage, at grave risk to themselves and their families, to rescue many tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
This year, the Vancouver-based Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society focuses on the story of Sugihara. The event features a showing of the biographical film drama Persona Non Grata: The Story of Chiune Sugihara. As a consular official for Japan in eastern Europe during the Second World War, Sugihara saved thousands of refugees by issuing transit visas that allowed people to escape Nazi German forces. Once reviled in Japan, today Sugihara is considered a hero, with museums and a memorial site.
The keynote speaker on Jan. 19 is George Bluman, a local descendent of Sugihara visa recipients and an international expert on Sugihara’s life. Some of those saved by his visas ended up in Vancouver and other parts of Canada.
When possible, the Civil Courage Society also presents an award to an individual associated with British Columbia who, at significant personal risk, helped improve the lives of others while defying unjust laws or norms, past or present. Past recipients include Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh, Chief Robert Joseph and Mary Kitagawa. Their stories inspire Canadians to act with courage and live by their moral values.
This year’s event – sponsored by the estate of Frank and Rosie Nelson, and supported by several organizations and volunteers – is being held at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, and it begins at 1 p.m. Admission is free; donations are appreciated. A reception follows. For more information, visit wsccs.ca. New volunteers and nominations for the Civil Courage Award are always welcomed.
Format ImagePosted on December 20, 2019 December 18, 2019 Author Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage SocietyCategories LocalTags Chiune Sugihara, courage, George Bluman, Holocaust, Righteous Among the Nations, Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society
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Relaxing without a Canary is living on the edge.
The road from Ponce led us through a series of terrifying twists and blind curves, as we headed south-west along the coastal highway. Much of the coastline is pockmarked with sprawling industrial plants and factories, and every so often the vista is disrupted by the incongruity of a rusted smokestack or a radio tower. The road is wide enough for precisely one and a half cars, which is problematic when passing. Over bad stretches of road, dogs will chase the car snarling.
Guanica houses one of the main wildlife preserves in Puerto Rico, a highly diverse forest system beginning at the ocean shore and ascending through the "dry forest" from salty wetlands to a deciduous fringe and into a thick jungle. Views from surrounding hilltops reveal undulating, verdant expanses framed by tall palm trees and punctuated with highly inappropriate and frankly dampening plant life.
The ocean here is flat and indolent, and the sharp curves are often accompanied by a blinding glare from the still surface of the water. At high noon it looks like an igneous mirror, and the only oceanic property it exudes is the heavy infusion of salt in the air, which parches you. There is no shoulder to the narrow road, and the abrupt descent is a dusty jag of baked, scorched rock.
The Copamarina beach resort lies languidly at the end of a precarious, scorched highway, on a poorly marked and dilatory debouchement. The parking lot is arid and silent. Once inside, however, the shaded stone floors lead to tall pitchers of lemon water slick with condensation, and the long stretch of lawn gives way to a white sand beach that shimmers like an oasis in the sun.
a damn sight better than playa salinas.
The rooms are dark and simple, the blinds controlled by pins that fit into worn grooves holding the slats open.
I did not mean to include that guy.
This is a place to go when you want to do absolutely nothing but sit on a beach and drink overpriced mojitos.
There is no nightlife apart from the hotel cantina, no restaurants apart from the hotel dining rooms. There is a small beachside bungalow owned by the hotel which will loan out expansive, worn towels in a surprising shade of turquoise, and sells a depressing and exorbitant assortment of ghastly trinkets, plastic sunshades, candy, cigarettes and coke.
This was the first time we had actually made it to the beach, and it was perfect. We anticipated at least two days of glorious nothing before we became stir crazy, but by the end of the first afternoon I was highlighting the end notes to Dombey and Son and Mike was sitting in the dormant shallows, resolutely carving an immense crater into the sand of the placid ocean floor with crazed dedication.
This was not a venue that was fraught with excitement. We had some bad drinks, some good drinks, and I got half of the worst pedicure of my life. None of this is worth recording here, since if you are the kind of asshole who wants to read some other asshole's bad review of a pedicure that you will probably never get then this is not the blog for you. Sorry.
On Monday we headed due North to the mountainous center of the island. We stopped first for a brief hike in the national reserve, which is a quiet, stifling haven for small flowers and songbirds. We managed a close look at a few prismatic hummingbirds, and caught brief glimpses of huge wings and talons circling high above us.
We anticipated a drive of about an hour and a half to the center of the island, which turned out to be not only unreasonably sanguine but profoundly foolish. To assume that a place in which the second most common form of transportation is bareback on a feral horse, on roads that would feel confined in a clown car, through pockets of such minimal population that the roadside stands still sell cans of coke emblazoned with characters from Space Jam, for chrissake, to even briefly entertain the prospect that a people who can countenance a restaurant called "MR POLLO" will live in a region that will be accurately represented on a map is fatuous. We got lost.
We got SO lost.
Even using a map and a GPS, we found ourselves looking for roads that didn't exist, roads that had probably never existed, roads in such ignominious straits of disrepair that the title was a misnomer, roads that led off cliffs, roads that stubbornly refused to intersect with larger arteries portrayed on the map but instead meandered blindly upwards, ever ascending, until they sputtered out in a mud filled rut, or a gravel pit, or once, to our mortification, at the front door of a decrepit hacienda bringing the entire household racing to the edge of the porch in wonder. It was getting dark by the time we finally arrived, irritable and cramped, at the town of Jayuya. At this point, directions to our hotel became slightly more comprehensible, as the Spanish was less heavily accented and some people spoke a little English. Also, there seemed to be less potential for error. ("Now joo gonn go toward the gas station. It's the onny one joo gonna find.") Grumpy and persecuted by stray dogs, we finally reached the Hacienda Gripinas.
This place might as well exist in an alternate dimension, for all the trouble we had getting here.
A moribund coffee plantation, the restored mansion has small, dark rooms and massive, spacious balconies that look out over the mountains. The air is heavy and fragrant, the coffee rich and deeply satisfying, the food a revolting viscous mass of deep fried carbohydrates in unclarified animal fat. (Dinner and breakfast are included!) The town is small and unpredictable, bursting into patches of thickly grouped homes and businesses and then just as swiftly retreating into wild stretches of sparsely populated woodland. The main street is crowded with parked pickups, and traffic is a mess. But for all the people trapped in the congestion, nothing is open, and on the flyblown counters of dark restaurants, scrofulous pieces of fried chicken become dessicated and shrivelled under the strange red glare of the heat lamps.
The hacienda is a small paradise far outside the town. In the evenings when the light fades the hoarse and interminable bitching of the chickens is succeeded by the mechanical trills of night birds and nocturnal frogs. You can smell the honeysuckle and the jasmine, and when night settles, tiny lights blink greenly in the brush.
Some of the springs have rocks that contain archaic petroglyphs which would be of great interest to historians and anthropologists were they not perpetually obscured by maladjusted Puerto Rican teenagers chain smoking and wearing Yankees hats and high-waist elastic underpants.
At the spring fed pool, we made some nice new friends.
This dog was such a spaz that when she saw a person, she wagged her tail so hard she fell over. Awwwww.
On the way out of town we stopped at the famed Heladria de Lares, nefarious for its preposterous flavors such as "garlic," "casserole" and "corn." I had the "sweet rice," Mike tried the "plantains." both were delicious.
North of Jayuya are the Camuy caves, a vast underground system of tunnels and the favorite lurking spot of about 9 billion bats, and several trollish species of crickets and spiders.
Mike won't even look at this picture.
The caves are mostly comprehended by a 268 acre park, which offers guided tours through the larger caverns. The afternoon tour focuses primarily on the enormous Cava Clara, a misty, spectacular chasm 200 feet underground. Light breaks through at surprising intervals illuminating the glistening formations sporadically, and over the heavy sound of your own breathing can be heard the rhythmic dripping that startles the blind fish. In their own way, the Camuy caverns are as peaceful and calming as the comatose beaches. Unless you're claustrophobic. Or hate spiders.
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Es un malentendido -Donde me lleva? Estoy Arrestada?
I learned all kinds of Spanish phrases for this trip so that for once I could just buy a damn soda without feeling like a jerk. From my past experiences in foreign environments, I have come to appreciate the value of short sentences like "Is this really where I take a bath?" and "I've never had a massage in a trunk before." Since this vacation is nearly two thirds of the way complete, and I have not yet had any run-ins with the authorities, it might be safe to say that all that Spanish I practiced was a waste of time. In all honesty, everyone who speaks even a little English is so ecstatic to use it on a real live person who sucks at speaking Spanish that you don't even have an opportunity to embarrass yourself. People get really excited to talk to tourists.
Today, we stopped at a tiny store on the side of a mountain road to buy a drink. a man covered in paint swung himself bodily off his bright yellow motorcycle and howled, "Hey, LADY! How ARE YA?!!?" And then stood there, grinning, brimming with pride. (N.B. He did not really care how I was.) Everyone wants to talk to you. The first thing that struck me about Puerto Rico was how truly anxious everyone is that we like Puerto Rico. The man sharing our row on the flight in drew us maps, and gave us his home phone number. Our first night in San Juan, a couple approached us in a restaurant to tell us about all their favorite places on the island, and to give us tips about rental cars and the best places to eat and drink. We later ran into them at a bar, and they invited us to a birthday party and gave us their cell numbers. "Call if you need help! Call if you have questions!" Most strangers that have exchanged even a "good morning" with us have later handed us a slip of paper or a business card with a number, a map, an invitation to dinner. What astonishes me is that in the hundreds of interpersonal exchanges we've had over the past week and a half, we have yet to encounter a single person who has been rude, or disingenuous, or unkind. This is saying something on a tiny island housing over 4 million people. Holy Frijoles.
We started our trip when we flew into San Juan, the largest city on the island. We spent the first few days wandering around Old San Juan, a sector so lovely, exciting and delicious that it deserves its own post. I am looking forward to our last few days on the island, which will give us a chance to explore the city a little better. My ultimate goal is the botanical gardens, 75 acres comprehending a lotus lagoon and a wide variety of orchids.
This trip didn't get off to a particularly auspicious start, since within a few hours of touching down I developed a high fever and a sinus infection. We rented a car and drove East, pursuant to our original intention of driving around the island on the coastal highways. Mike drove, and I slumped over in the front seat, muttering. In case you are considering developing a malady and then depending on Mike for a tour of anything, here I will include some actual dialogue as a testimonial to his eminent qualifications in that capacity.
Me: Wow, that looks really pretty! What is that?
Mike: That's the public Gallows.
(Later) Me: Hey, did you see that building? It was beautiful! What did that sign say?
Mike: It's the Guayama meat packing plant. The dome is where they slaughter the chickens, because it's more space efficient.
We made it to the middle of the south coast before stopping for the night. After the gorgeous hotel rooms in Old San Juan, the Marina hotel we found was dispiriting in its ugliness, and the short walk we took around the neighborhood around sunset did very little to dispel the gloom inspired by the dark rooms and stagnant pools of water in the parking lot. Playa Salinas, which means "saltworks beach" is not a misnomer. This place is all salinas and no playa. In point of fact, the only beach visible was a dank spit of unwholesome silt barricaded by a thorny entanglement of dead branches, housing a rotting skiff and a nation of gigantic centipedes. The night is shattered by the shrieks of drunken maniacs and the soprano squeal of the same drunken maniacs peeling out in what sound like power wheels. Salinas is a place to go if you want to relax in a damp hotel room with rubber sheets (P.S. what the fuck) wondering what a ferreteria sells. (hint: not exciting.)
From this veritable beachfront gem we drove North into the central mountain range to the village of stalls and kiosks that comprise the town of Guavate. Guavate is considered the authoritative epicenter of true Puerto Rican cuisine, which as far as I can tell is mainly blood sausage and Coca Cola. But one thing they do often, and do to perfection, is suckling pig. Every weekend, people flock here in droves to experience the punishing heat, the billions of cheap plastic toys, the accelerated speeches of the hawkers, and the adolescents rapping awkwardly into low quality microphones over canned beats cribbed from Salsa standards. They come for the pig. I would do it all again for the fruit shakes.
yo quiero sprinkles.
After we had experienced the pig, we drove southwest through small, erratic mountain roads to reach the town of Ponce, which lacks the distinction of being Puerto Rico's second biggest city.
Ponce is a ghost town surrounding a bustling city block. The center of town is a highly manicured plaza sporting the Parque de Bombas, a severely wacky structure in variegated blocks of black and red;
you can’t touch the car.
the Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe, basically a tasteful wedding factory;
In the time it took you to read this caption, four tasteful weddings were performed.
and the Fuente de Leones, which sends jets of water shooting blithely into the thick air. The buildings immediately surrounding the plaza are immaculate and breathtaking,
and our hotel (Melia) was exquisitely maintained and beautifully decorated. However, nearly all the restaurants reviewed in our travel guide (published about a year an a half ago) had gone out of business, leaving empty storefronts or dimly lit interiors filled with soggy boxes. The farther away from the center you venture, the more obvious and aggressive the dissolution.
The French colonial style buildings are all in various stages of disrepair and decay, some of the most striking examples falling into rubble right next to freshly painted bright houses, the gaunt faces of squatters peering with jaundiced squints through the uniform blinds of the newly remodeled Ramada Inn. If you pursue the maze of infuriating one way streets and the snarl of decrepitude and poverty, you will (hopefully) arrive at Ponce's most significant tourist attraction: an enormous, hollow cross made of concrete and fiberglass perched stolidly at the peak of the hill overlooking the town. Directly below the cross is the Castillo Serralles, a lavish mansion built by early proceeds of Puerto Rican Rum. Slightly above the cross is the mouldering wreckage of the once splendid Grand International Hotel. We drove up to the rusted gates for a better look. Inside the torn barbed wire, beyond the fragmentary fence, things rustle. As charming as the pictures would have been , we did not stick around to be murdered by the kind of desperate vagabond who would smoke the product of oven cleaner sprayed through the carburetor of an overheated Camero. Tacoma has made us wise.
Ponce is a series of provoking contradictions that leaves the visitor unnerved and unsatisfied; a town that is in all its partially refurbished glory boasts a monument to the splendors of the past, yet many of the region's most historically significant buildings are crumbling to dust, housing the cities' burgeoning drug crisis and breeding vermin in its ruins. Of all the metaphors encountered so far on this trip, Ponce is the most unsubtle and the least profound.
All pseudo Victorian harbingers of disaster aside, we're having a wonderful time. Puerto Rico is beautiful, the people are marvelous, and the views are breathtaking. The drivers are the worst in the world, and people tend to be surprisingly lackadaisical about answering phones, staying in lanes, and moving their livestock out of your way. In a way, it's kind of a relief to worry less about time, and speed, and efficiency, even if it means we have to sit at a stop sign and wait while a guy named Nelson teaches his horse not to shy at stray dogs. Maybe even then. At least he asked us to dinner.
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ND's electoral bill put before MPs as PM mulls options for president
PoliticsGreek Politics 15/01/2020 - 12:04
MPs are due to begin debating on Wednesday the government’s proposed change to the electoral law, which is highly unlikely to gain the necessary level of support to avoid Greece’s next general election being held under the proportional representation system.
PM gets no change out of opposition leaders on US trip, electoral law
Fresh from his trip to Washington, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with opposition leaders on Friday and was reminded that he would not have an easy ride from his political rivals over plans for closer defence cooperation with the US and his bid to change the electoral law.
ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law
The year ends with the government considering how it will use any available fiscal space in 2020 to reduce taxes further.
Govt delivers diaspora vote, leads polls but receives Hellinikon complaint
A rare moment of consensus has led to Greek Parliament allowing Greeks living abroad to vote in national elections from their country of residence as a new wide-ranging opinion poll indicates New Democracy is still dominating its rivals.
Speculation about snap elections in 2020 refuses to die down
There has been persistent speculation in Greece over the last few weeks about possible snap elections next year, although the government has denied this is a possibility.
ND on cusp of brokering deal over diaspora vote as Novartis battle heats up
Although MPs have started to debate the 2020 draft budget, which encapsulates the government’s economic policy going forward, the focus of Greek politics is currently on an apparent rare moment of compromise between the parties over allowing Greeks living abroad to vote in the national elections from their country of residence.
Mitsotakis promotes constructive role as talks over electoral process continue
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has highlighted his willingness to compromise with the opposition parties over voting rights for diaspora Greeks in a bid to advertise his moderate style as well as to settle the longstanding electoral loose end.
What brought down Golden Dawn?
By: Georgia Nakou
Society 27/08/2019 - 10:33
The Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn burst onto the parliamentary scene overnight in 2012, to the alarm of democratic forces across Europe. Seven years later, the party finds itself out of the national and the European Parliament after losing more than half its voters.
Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
Kyriakos Mitsotakis set about appointing the team to carry out his mandate to transform Greece after New Democracy’s landslide election victory on Sunday.
Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
Sunday’s elections delivered a big win for Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy, which will have a very workable majority in the next Parliament, but did not led to the crushing defeat that many expected for SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras.
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Former Porn Actress Leaves Business After Finding God
Porn viewers knew her as Jenna Presley, but today she's Brittni De La Mora after giving her life over to God. She spent nearly a decade in the porn industry but has now shed that identity to spread the Gospel of Christ.
In an interview with Fox News, De La Mora said that she began her descent into the adult film world by dancing at strip clubs to pay for college, which stemmed from her lack of self-worth due to her broken home life.
"I grew up in a broken household so I really didn't know my value or my worth," she said. "I discovered early on that if I was naked in the presence of men that I was going to get what I didn't get at home — and that was affirmation."
De La Mora switched over to acting in porn at age 18 when two Los Angeles producers approached her at the strip club. "You're beautiful, you're destined to be a star," they allegedly told her.
"From that point forward, I was picked up by a premier agency and I was in the [porn] industry for seven years," she said.
De La Mora enjoyed acting in porn "for about a month" until she contracted a sexually-transmitted disease.
"I'd never gotten an STD in my life so I thought from that point on, 'What am I doing in this business?'" she said. "I didn't want to admit that I made a mistake so I kept pressing forward."
Eventually, De La Mora turned to heroin and cocaine to cope with her dissatisfaction. After three years, she hit her "breaking point" and returned to church with her grandfather where she "met Jesus as my Lord and Savior." Things took a dark turn, however, when "another man" came into De La Mora's life "who turned out to be a pimp." This would lead her back to porn for another three and a half years until she experienced another spiritual awakening.
"I went to go film a porn scene in Las Vegas and brought my Bible with me on the airplane and I was reading scripture," De La Mora told Fox News. "At which point I really felt that [God was telling me], 'Brittni, this isn't the life that I have for you...know that I have something so much greater in store for you but I need you to give me a step of faith today. I need you to quit the industry and I promise you, your life is going to turn around.'"
"So I quit the industry that day and I've been out since December 2012."
Over six years later, De La Mora is now a proud wife of a pastor named Richard. The two most recently penned a two-part book called "Fire and Fresh" to address couples who have "lost the excitement" in their relationship.
"My husband and I believe the greatest relationship is the relationship with God and with each other," she shared. "If those relationships are on fire, everything else will be on fire."
For other young women considering the adult film industry, De La Mora has a message for them: "I would just really encourage them to not think about the now because I always lived by what was going to make me happy in the moment and I never ever considered the future. And if you really think about the future, do you want to deal with the repercussions of having your sexual acts all over the Internet for the rest of your life?"
To illustrate the repercussions of the porn industry, De La Mora noted that she will never be able to remove the videos of her past on the Internet and worries about how to explain that to her future children. That should be enough of a scare for women contemplating that lifestyle.
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Glass Cello Concerto
Penguin CD Guide 2009
Philip Glass Cello Concerto
GLASS, Philip (bon 1937) (I) Cello Concerto; (ii) Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra
Dunvagen Music (ASCAP) 0014. (i)Julian Lloyd Webber; (ii) Glennie, Hass; RLPO, Schwarz
Glass’s Cello Concerto opens darkly and atmospherically; but the work’s warmly lyrical strain is immediately apparent, and Glass’s writing is genuinely melodic, hauntingly so, especially In the central movement, which brings what the soloist describes as ‘an almost trance-like serenity’. A remarkable work, marvellously played.
The Concerto Fantasy is in four movements, all dominated by thundering timpani, with the third a cadenza duet for the two soloists. It is very noisy and invigorating. You will find it either thrilling or sonically overwhelming. Both performances here are surely definitive.
The Scotsman 11th April 2006
EDINBURGH YOUTH ORCHESTRA
USHER HALL, EDINBURGH
THE Edinburgh Youth Orchestra’s ambitious programme for their Scottish spring tour was delivered with such panache that mainsiream ensembles should watch their backs. These talented players are also fortunate to have two of the most inspiring musicians in the UK — conductor Garry Walker and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber – guiding them though this demanding repertoire.
Philip Glass’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is deceptive in that it is more difficult than it appears. In this vibrant work — which received its Scottish premiere on Saturday night — rhythm is key. Once the classic Glass arpeggios get started, there are few opportunities to stop for breath. Much of the load rests on the soloist who has a long virtuosic cadenza at the start and plays throughout the piece. Technically, Lloyd Webber made it look easy, performing with compelling urgency and dynamism. The first and last movements were the most successful, but the exquisite lyrical slow movement almost ground to a halt due to a sluggish pace, a string section that didn’t quite deliver on the rich textures needed to support the soloist, and perhaps some indecision by Glass himself, who seemed unsure of where to at take his main theme.
Malcolm Arnold’s quirky Overture: Tam O’Shanter and Brahms’ Symphony No 4 were also given committed performances by tile EYO, with the wind and brass sections in particular showing off their strength.
SUSAN NICKALLS
Mail On Sunday June 5th 2005
UK Premiere, Julian Lloyd Webber, The Dome, Brighton
When you think how many uningratiating new works are given high-profile premieres in London, it is both a surprise and a sadness that Philip Glass’s Cello Concerto had to wait several years for its first UK outing, at the Brighton Festival last week.
Julian Lloyd Webber introduced the attractive piece in Peking in October 2001 and, apart from a performance in New Zealand, this is the first opportunity he has had to repeat it live. Maybe it’s because Glass is an unashamed melodist, or that he is regarded by some these days as just a film composer.
Whatever, such an accomplished work should not have to struggle for a hearing, especially since, although accessible, it is never facile. Indeed, it is very difficult to perform, making extreme demands on the soloist who plays almost throughout its 30-minute duration.
The first movement begins with a tricky extended cadenza, lasting about three minutes, which sets the mood for the earnest ruminations to come.
The 14-minute slow movement is the core of the work, with some attractive, long-breathed melodies that continually draw the listener into the heart of the argument. The finale is more obviously extrovert, with notable writing for the brass. Lloyd Webber’s technique was fully equal to the work’s many challenges, but what emerged best from a well applauded performance at The Dome, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Charles Abell, was the quality of his musicianship. He played throughout with a chamber-music-like intensity, ensuring the cello was always part of the orchestral tapestry without losing any of the detail of Glass’s complex solo writing. Julian has recorded this concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on an Orange Mountain CD, a label owned by the composer, and it’s well worth getting.
The Strad December 2004
The Concerto Project vol.1
Philip Glass Cello Concerto, Concerto Fantasy
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Jonathan Haas (timpani), Evelyn Glennie (timpani),
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
ORANGE MOUNTAIN 0014
Ever since the 1970s Philip Glass has consistently proved himself to be one of the great composers of our time. Along with the other American minimalists, he led the way back to tonal, accessible music in the symphonic setting. Without him, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley, one wonders exactly what modern symphonic music would be. Their exploration into the music of the Indian subcontinent resulted in the definitive symphonic compositions of the past thirty years. Glass himself has written several operas and film scores in addition to his concertos for various instruments.
However, even given the importance of his writing, his music cannot be considered to be flawless. By his own admission, much of his early music was repetitive to an extreme. While this was intentional, it was far too easy for it to be burdensome to the listener. As Glass has continued to write he learned to make his works more melodic and emotive. The works here, both written since 2001, are illustrative of the music he has created since he consciously reapplied himself to melodic invention to truly flesh out his minimalist style, making it accessible to almost everyone.
The first work is for his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, originally debuted at the Beijing Music Festival in 2001. The soloist here is Julian Lloyd-Webber, the same man who first played the work when it debuted in Beijing. The work is performed wonderfully, and displays the fully mature Glass as a master composer capable of melding the radical minimalism of his youth with the impassioned music of the neo-Romantics. The work has all the earmarks of a true masterpiece. It feels innovative and free while finding a place rooted among the great works of the past.
The opening theme sounds much like the movement of a murky river. It is dark, churning, powerful and irresistible. This alternates with a much more hopeful and energetic, yet mechanistic, theme that seems to allude to an optimistic view of technology in civilization. The second movement opens with a statement of majesty and statesmanship, with less underlying tension and a more distinguished tempo. It also could be interpreted as a love theme of sorts, with the cello emoting hope, dignity and pensiveness in turns. The third movement recalls the influence of his film scores written by Glass and his contemporaries, perhaps with an ear towards Danny Elfman while voicing the orchestra. While Glass has always definitively used ostinato as a construct, many of the lines he uses hark back to the Elfman film scores. There is a sense of dark humor in this movement, and a feeling of joy being taken from the dark modes and minor tonalities. At several points one hears echoes of Glass as a young man. Yet he never loses sight of his melodic and thematic composition.
The second work, Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, leans more towards Steve Reich as it is for two timpanists and orchestra. It was commissioned nearly ten years before its debut Written for virtuoso timpanist Jonathan Haas, who has nearly single-handedly raised the status of the timpani to that of a solo instrument, the piece features both he and Evelyn Glennie playing a total of 14 timpani through three movements and a cadenza. The initial movement is heroic and energetic and would easily feel at home in any adventure movie of the past fifty years. The repetition of the orchestra drives the work along in a nearly mechanical groove. However the 14 timpani are given the lead and melody, giving a melodic center matching the astounding pace of chordal planing and tireless tonal shifting. The second movement bows to Holst’s The Planets with its heroic scope and foreboding feel. Eventually though, the standard Philip Glass harmonies and melodic lines allow us to recognize the composer. At the end, Glass’s distinctive and nearly primal use of chimes in conjunction with the timpani drive the work forward. This leads into the cadenza for the two timpanists and interspersed percussion. Much of the material quotes from the earlier movements, but is wholly distinctive by standing alone from the symphonic instruments. Finally the finale is a mixed meter work that alternates between 4/4 and 7/8. ‘World music’ has influenced much of Glass’s mature work and is a presence here, though through a distinctly dramatic synthesis. This is the music of a fantastic world that straddles mythic shaman and adventure hero.
In general the Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra is a terrifically fun piece. It brings together all that Glass has learned in symphonic, operatic, and cinematic work. Truly this must be considered a masterpiece in Glass’s repertoire. It simultaneously seems both wholly new in instrumentation and wholly familiar.
Both works are performed impeccably. One could hardly wish for a better rendering of the music. Glass should be infinitely pleased with these recordings.
The liner notes are historically informative, explaining how the works themselves were conceived and commissioned. Julian Lloyd-Webber contributes a few paragraphs detailing the nature of their collaboration when Glass was writing the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. Jonathan Haas’s contribution is a bit longer and more technical, as he discusses the metrical construction of the Timpani Fantasy in addition to the history of his commissioning of the work. As the composition was created over the course of a decade, and was preceded by another work entitled Prelude to Endgame for timpani and double bass, the story is quite interesting. Additionally Evelyn Glennie contributes her notes on the Concerto Fantasy in addition to the standard fare that one expects detailing the composer, conductor, and orchestra. The soloists’ additions make the music more intelligible and add enjoyment to their performances.
There is little fault that one could find in these recordings. The soloists are among the greatest players of their generation. Additionally they have the advantage of performing works written expressly for them. As for myself, I have listened to this album at least a dozen times since it was given to me for this review. Each time I am struck by how powerful Glass’s music has become and how innovative he truly is. The current plan is for Glass and Orange Mountain Music to deliver four volumes of concertos. They have set the standard very high for the four albums to come. Anyone who enjoys the work of Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, or especially Philip Glass will enjoy this album.
Patrick Gary
It’s tempting to say Philip Glass is no Schumann, Elgar or Shostakovich. His ideas seem limited, unexploring. even paltry. The repetitive mantras can prove wearisome. It seems short on content, untaxing. A case of the emperor’s new clothes?
Yet why can Glass’s music — witness his operas Satyagraha and The Fall of the House of Usher — seem so haunting? The first movement of this new cello concerto certainly goes on a journey, if only because of the tiny patterning adjustments, which at their best (not always) create a real sense of build-up from what looks like unpromising material.
Julian Lloyd Webber advocates the piece marvelously. He’s ideally placed on this recording, so the cello line comes through prominently without overbalancing the orchestral forces. There’s a lot of amiable chugging involved, more arpeggios than I’d care to calculate, a lovely Tannhauser-like brass opening to the slow movement and some effective orchestral detail. A fellow string soloist might have helped the cello part, though: it’s a bit like Don Quixote shorn of Sancho Panza — and of the comedy, too.
The accompanying double-timpani concerto feels a far better piece. Glass’s idiom seems to suit the instruments better and there’s a lot more creative invention, inspired by these two fine, animated performers. I enjoyed some joyous Copland and Bernstein-like rhythms. a sense of Scandinavian wasteland in the second movement, and an almost Mahlerian militaristic march section. The Orange Mountain recording is splendidly mastered.
RODERIC DUNNETT
Los Angeles TImes December 2004
Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol.1
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Evelyn Glennie, Jonathan Haas (timpani);
Royal Liverpool P0/Gerard Schwarz
Orange Mountain Music 0MM 0014
(distr. New Note) 55:14 mins
“The Cello Concerto, written for and sumptuously played by Lloyd Webber, and the Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists are first rate works given first-rate readings.”
BBC Music Magazine December 2004
Jjulian Lloyd Webber (cello), Evelyn Glennie, Jonathan Haas (timpani);
Here’s a welcome antidote to the blandness that seems to be clogging up so much American music at present. Both of these exciting pieces are sure-fire crowd-pleasers, yet both are also uncompromisingly rigorous in compositional terms. It’s always pleasing to see Julian Lloyd Webber doing what he does best, which is playing demanding music very well indeed. ‘His’ concerto (it was a 50th birthday present) is also a near-perfect mixture of what Glass does best when writing for such forces, being thoroughly mindful of orchestral texture, the sheer power of harmony and metrical vigour and indeed the expressive abilities of a good soloist. Lloyd Webber rakes all of this on board, gliding seamlessly from yearning lyricism to a jackhammer-like assertiveness with apparent ease but with no trace of complacency. This is most apparent in the opening of the third movement, which I won’t spoil for you by describing any further.
The thunderous second piece, requiring two soloists playing a total of 14 timpani, is cheerfully bombastic but expertly controlled by Jonathan Haas and Evelyn Glennie. Sonically the disc is less than ideal, often sounding congested and rather gritty, but the music transcends this so effortlessly that I’m delighted to recommend it anyway. Roger Thomas
PERFORMANCE * * * * *
SOUND **
The New York Times 5th December 2004
By Allan Kozinn
Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist; Evelyn Glennie and Jonathan Haas, timpanists; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz.
Orange Mountain MUSiC 0014; CD
IN theory, the concerto should be an entirely unsuitable form for Philip Glass. By its nature, it requires a showy virtuosity; Mr. Glass’s music, even in his postMinimalist, neo-Romantic phase, has been about the power of the ensemble rather than the glorification of the soloist.
But because they are so alien to his style, concertos challenge Mr. Glass to look beyond his customary gestures, and in recent years he has poured some of his best music into them. This pairing of concertos for cello and for timpani is the first in a projected four-disc series.
The opening bars of the Cello Concerto throw the soloist fully into the spotlight with a twisted Bachian theme, and even as it cycles into repeating melodic cells, its chromaticism is so dense that the music is hardly recognizable as Mr. Glass’s. That novel tee soon vanishes: when the orchestra kicks in, it is with a patch of Mr. Glass’s chugging boilerplate, mid indeed, in both works, whenever the soloists take a break, Mr. Glass reprises old hits: pensive minor-key music from the Satyagraha”-”Akhnaten” era in the slow movement of the Cello Concerto, brassy “Koyaanisqatsi”-style passages in the second movement of the work for timpani.
Still, the solo lines push into new ground. Julian Lloyd Webber, who commissioned the Cello Concerto, plays its quasi-Bachian passages with suitable vigor, but he is really in his element when Mr. Glass gives him a haunting, lyrical line. These are plentiful, and Mr. Lloyd Webber makes them sing.
In the Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists, Jonathan Haas and Evelyn Glennie create an intricate but hard-driven percussion layer around and within the orchestral fabric. But where they really shine is in a lengthy cadenza that lets them play with their instruments’ tuning, creating outlandish timbres (including one that sounds like whale song played at half speed).
Mail on Sunday 3rd October 2004
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
with Julian Lloyd Webber
(Orange Mountain)
Another who straddles the divide between popular and serious music is the American minimalist Philip Glass, whose score or the movie The Hours earned him an Oscar nomination.
He has formed his own label to record some of his concertos. The first offering, recorded earlier this year in Liverpool, couples the lightweight Concerto For Two Percussionists and Orchestra with the altogether more substantive Cello Concerto, commissioned by Julian Lloyd Webber and beautifully played by him.
Lasting more than half an hour, this makes great demands on the soloist, not least in the absorbing three-minute partially accompanied cadenza that begins the work. It is blessed with a rich tapestry of engaging musical ideas that belies the reputation of minimalism as just an excuse to endlessly repeat the same melodic cell.
The first movement has some delightful interplay between soloist and woodwind, while in the slow movement the strings introduce some of the melodic ideas, with the cello ruminating h and around the. theme to often magical effect. This concerto was premiered by Lloyd Webber n Beijing in 2001 and has yet to receive its British premiere. Until then this excellent CD will certainly suffice.
Gramophone September 2004
The Concerto Project Volume 1
Cello Concerto. Concerto Fantasy for two Timpanists and Orchestras
Julian Lloyd Webber (vc), Evelyn Glennie, Jonathan Haas perc,
Royal Liverpool Philhamonic Orchestra/ Gerard Schwarz.
Orange Mountain Music OMMOO14 (45 minutes DDD)
Music both engaging and exciting as Glass puts his top soloists through their paces
The Cello Concerto was conceived when Julian Lloyd Webber asked Glass to compose a work for the cellist’s 50th birthday. Lloyd Webber says the piece, premiered in October 2001, contains technical hurdles he had not seen before in particularly in the opening cadenza, but for the listener it’s not a difficult work. That cadenza, underpinned by muffled, percussive figures from the orchestra, is dramatic, with an undercurrent of ambiguos emotion. but it is also lithe aid attractive, evocative of the classics of cello literature— tore, nor least Bach and Elgar. After about. 320” the orchestra introduces brighter textures and typical Glass motifs.
There are passages where the debate between orchestra and soloist seems to contrast those often—copied, easily parodied Glass mannerisms with his more melodically arid harmonically expansive work of recent years. The result is one of the most engaging, impressive and beautiful things Glass has done. The slow movement, lyrical and graceful, sets us up perfectly for the shock of the opening of the finale, which bursts in with one of those ‘accelerating train’ episodes Glass does so effectively.
The gestation of the timpani concerto was more problematic. I can sympathise with Glass’s hesitations. Despite its tuneful capabilities, I associate timpani primarily with melodrama and bombast and, while Class has never been averse to those characteristics, timpani still isn’t an ideal choice for a concerto solo instrument. There are 14 of them here, presumably due to the need to negotiate fairly rapid movement through different keys.
It all works remarkably well in the event. The fast first movement has exciting, ritualistic solo par, perhaps influenced by South-East Asian and Japanese traditions The slow movement manages to make the drums sound lyrical embedded in settings of regal brass and pastoral woodwind. the cadenza preceding the third movement, highly athletic as it is, proves to be a warm-up for Evelyn Glen me and Jonathan Haas before the technical tour dc-force of the finale.
Barry Witherden
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