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Robert Lyle Bowen passed on November 29, 2005 of heart failure. Born in Los Angeles, CA on September 8, 1943, raised in the Pacific Northwest he graduated in 1961, from Castle Rock High School. After a brief turn at college, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving with distinction for four years. In Texas he worked for Raytheon for thirty-five years. His Top Secret clearance prevented him from discussing his work in detail, but it was generally known that our nation’s most sophisticated weapons were required to pass Mr. Bowen’s extreme and rigorous protocol before being allowed to be used in the field. After his retirement his focus became the support of the American Legion Post 96 in McKinney, Texas, their membership electing him to various officer positions time and again. Somewhat a Renaissance Man, Mr. Bowen, was all at once, an authority on all manner of firearms-from ancient to modern, a computer genius, a self taught gourmet chef and of course, an ardent fan of the Fine Arts of Curling. Mr. Bowen was delightfully controversial, almost a daily fixture at his post, blessed with a dry wit, outrageous charm and to these days, a patient and sympathetic ear for those who needed to spill their troubles. In his last years he was compelled by a quite justifiable pride in his children; his love for them was more and more each day, incandescently palpable. Everyone who knew him well loved him. On November 29, 2005 this Earth lost a fine, fine man. He is survived by his brother, Larry Bowen and wife, Pam of Ben Wheeler, Texas; his daughter, Kimberly Haq and husband, Shahed of Atlanta, GA; his son, Scott Bowen of Dallas, Texas; and the mother of his children, Donna Bowen Cowan of Garland, Texas. The services will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, December 6, 2005 in the Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home in Allen, Texas. Following the service the wake will be held at the American Legion Post 96 in McKinney, Texas.
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Bob's humor and conversations will be greatly missed. Love you BOB! Prayers to his family - take care. Love, Mary Parker Plano Mary Parker, December 5, 2005 I worked with Bob @ T.I./Raytheon. He was a joy to be around and could always make me smile. After his retirement, I would visit with him @ the Legion. Bob will be missed by many. My deepest Condolence to his Family. Linda Barker (Spohn), December 5, 2005 I am so sorry for your loss. I enjoyed talking to Bob at the legion. My husband thought a lot of him.He will be missed. SHIRLEY Burnside, December 4, 2005
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B.C. murder suspects may have torched, ditched vehicle in northern Manitoba
Mounties were on an all-night patrol in an area of northern Manitoba as the search intensifies for two suspects wanted in connection to three deaths on Northern B.C. highways.
Jul 24, 2019 9:55 AM By: Glacier Media
Kam McLeod & Bryer Schmelgesky are connected to the Dease Lake and Alaska Highway homicides in northern B.C. Photo courtesy BC RCMP
Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky were last seen in Gillam, Manitoba, RCMP have confirmed. A burned out vehicle was found on the nearby Bird reserve, according to Fox Lake Cree First Nation Chief Walter Spence. He could not immediately confirm whether it’s connected to the wanted teens, though photos starting to be shared across social media show a grey SUV matching the description the pair were last seen driving.
“An all night patrol for the community has been prepared as a caution,” Spence said in a statement Tuesday evening.
“The RCMP are carefully conducting their work with a large presence and I would like to ask all community members to report anything of concern directly to RCMP.”
Gillam is roughly 730 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, as the crow flies, with only one highway in and out of the community. After Gillam, the highway continues north through Fox Lake and to the abandoned town of Sundance, a former Manitoba Hydro camp.
PUBLIC SAFETY - Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky MAY be in Manitoba and are considered dangerous. We have reasons to believe they were recently in the Gillam area. If you spot them - take no actions – do not approach – call 911 or your local police immediately. #rcmpmb pic.twitter.com/yh2yV78oZd
— RCMP Manitoba (@rcmpmb) July 23, 2019
McLeod, 19, and Schmegelsky, 18, are suspects in the killings of Australian Lucas Fowler, his American girlfriend Chynna Deese on the Alaska Highway on July 15. They are also suspects in the death of an unidentified man found a few kilometres from the teens' burned-out pickup truck on Highway 37 near Dease Lake on July 19.
They were seen in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, on July 21, driving a grey 2011 Toyota RAV 4 before moving east to Manitoba.
“We now have a more recent confirmed sighting in Gillam, Manitoba,” RCMP Sgt. Janelle Shoihet said late Tuesday.
"Our investigators are sharing information with investigators in Manitoba but confirms our belief that they were continuing to travel and the renewed importance of not focussing on one particular area but instead our efforts to locate them.”
Shoihet said Manitoba RCMP issued a social media post to ensure that Manitobans were aware and could take proper precautions.
The two were also reportedly seen at a gas station in Split Lake, Manitoba, about a two hour drive west of Gillam.
"The guy who paid for the gas — he was quiet, he didn't say anything, he was just looking down. They seemed like, I don't know, normal," Mychelle Keeper told CBC News. "I'm just so nervous right now thinking about it."
Both McLeod and Schmegelsky both stand 6-foot-4 inches tall and weigh around 169 pounds. Police said earlier Tuesday they may now be driving a different vehicle and may have changed their appearances and clothing.
On Monday, police said the teenagers were missing, but after making a public appeal for help in finding them, investigators received new information that led them to believe the two are suspects in all three killings, said Shoihet.
This vehicle was reportedly found nearby Gillam, Manitoba. – Submitted Photo
Anyone with information on their whereabouts is urged to call 9-1-1 immediately. Police are warning the public to not approach the pair, who are considered dangerous.
McLeod and Schmegelsky, best friends since elementary school, had left Port Alberni on Vancouver Island for Whitehorse on July 12 to find work, according to family.
Bryer Schmegelsky’s father said he can’t square the allegations against his son with the “good kid” he knows. “I don’t know what to think anymore,” said Alan Schmegelsky. “I’m in disbelief. I didn’t see any signs of violence.”
He said he found out his son was a suspect in the homicides via a text from a reporter in Ontario while at work as a carpenter. Schmegelsky said he was trying to keep busy and distract himself from his son’s disappearance when he heard the news.
Although his son was interested in airsoft guns — an imitation firearm that shoots small pellets at much slower speeds than real guns — Schmegelsky believes his son had never shot a real gun.
He said Bryer would go into the woods with friends to play strategy games and simulate combat. Schmegelsky bought him a camouflage outfit for the game. He was glad his son was getting outside and spending time with friends.
“His buddies all had them and that was their outdoor video game. You know, a real-life video game,” he said.
The investigation in northern B.C. began on July 15 after the bodies of 24-year-old Chynna Deese of Charlotte, North Carolina and 23-year-old Lucas Fowler of Sydney, Australia, were discovered by a road worker on the side of the Alaska Highway, about 20 kilometres south of Liard Hot Springs.
RCMP said the two had been shot and killed on July 14 or 15. The couple, who met in Croatia two years ago, had been travelling through B.C. in a van that belonged to Fowler.
Speaking at an RCMP press conference in Surrey on Monday, Lucas’s father, Stephen Fowler, called the couple “a great pair.”
“It’s a love story that’s ended tragically. It’s the worst-ever love story,” said Fowler, a police officer in Australia.
Four days after Fowler and Deese’s bodies were found, and 470 kilometres away, Dease Lake RCMP discovered a burning truck and camper belonging to McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, and the body of an unidentified man two kilometres away.
Shoihet said she could not disclose how the unidentified man found near the burned-out truck died. Police have released a composite drawing of the heavy-set, middle-aged man with a beard and are hoping he will be recognized.
Photo courtesy BC RCMP
Claudia Bunce, owner of the Cassiar Mountain Jade Store in the northern B.C. community of Jade City, said the pair stopped at the store last Thursday, the day before their burned-out truck and the body of the unidentified man was found about 115 kilometres away.
The staff member who saw the two was too shaken to speak to a reporter, but Bunce said they arrived in the truck and visited the store for free coffee. She said they were on their own and she doesn’t believe they had a conversation with the employee.
“I don’t think they stood out any more than any other teenage boys who were just on the road,” she said.
“We’re a very busy store.”
She said the situation is very frightening for everyone who lives in the remote area.
“As you can imagine, the community is very upset about this,” Bunce said. “It’s very rural — beyond rural. We’re on a highway with no cell service. Most of us don’t have power. So it’s unnerving.”
RCMP were at the store on Tuesday gathering hours of surveillance video and interviewing staff members. Bunce said she didn’t know exactly what time last Thursday the young men were in the store.
The RCMP has been in contact with both teens’ families to ask for help finding them, Shoihet said.
Someone who answered the phone at the McLeod family home on Tuesday said they were not ready to speak publicly.
Alan Schmegelsky said he had a good relationship with his son in the last two years, after not seeing him for many years following a separation from Bryer’s mother. He said he was in contact with his son nearly every day.
Schmegelsky has been trying to contact him since discovering he was missing, but the messages have not been delivered.
Bryer Schmegelsky via Facebook
Schmegelsky said he travelled to Port Alberni every other weekend to visit his son.
He had already reached Nanaimo on the afternoon of Friday, July 12, when he saw a text from his son that said the two friends were heading to Alberta. He said the message was sent about 8:40 a.m. that day.
Bryer Schmegelsky had been talking about leaving Port Alberni in a few months, but his father said he wasn’t expecting him to go so soon. McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky had only been working at a Port Alberni Walmart for about five weeks when they left.
Alan Schmegelsky said it was his son’s first job and he had just gotten his second paycheque. He spent his first cheque on a new suit.
Schmegelsky said he has no idea where the teenagers might be heading. Bryer doesn’t have a driver’s licence, his father said.
“I’m worried to death about my kid. He’s not even a man,” Alan Schmegelsky said. “This is not the kid I know.”
— with files from the Times Colonist, Canadian Press
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Venice Sustainable Tourism is a complex issue. Among the most controversial matters Venice is currently facing, there is the unsolved problem of how its main economic source, tourism, is causing the city a series of side effects that have reached such a level of criticality to represent the true antithesis of “sustainable tourism”.
Although Venice is commonly one of the most important art cities in the world, a large part of its visitors don’t come to the city to visit its cultural attractions. One cannot fail to acknowledge how the tourism industry has grown in the last few years, so that Venice has become the synonym for “city overwhelmed by tourism”.
Based on recent studies, one of the crucial elements of Venice is that most visitors do not come to the city to discover its historical heritage, but they are attracted exclusively by its peculiar atmosphere and its environment: for the majority of them it’s enough admiring Venice from the outside, perhaps from a gondola or a vaporetto, without taking the time to deepen aspects and places related to her history, art and culture.
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Global equities were nearly unchanged on the week as the market grappled with the possibility of a rate hike from the US Federal Reserve in the coming months. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) rose slightly, while the yield on the 10-year US Treasury note Increased to 1.86% from 1.75%. West Texas Intermediate crude prices rose to $48.30 from $46.31 last week. Middle market credit market conditions remain robust.
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On May 11, 2016, PitchBook published an article regarding the decline in private equity-backed exits across the whole market in the first quarter. The U.S. middle market also had low exits with only 170 sales for approximately $13 billion transaction value. The inventory firms have left on their books from the buyout boom era, which is the median hold times is longer than historical record. Read the full article.
On May 18, PitchBook published another interesting article regarding pull-back in U.S. and other foreign investment in the Canadian middle market. What's driving the decline? Will it last? Read the full article.
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U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has agreed to buy Quickplay Media Inc., a Toronto-based managed video platform that powers premium video over all networks and devices. No financial terms were disclosed for the acquisition. "Our strategy is to deliver video content however, whenever and wherever," said John Stankey, CEO, AT&T Entertainment Group. "Quickplay's multitenant IP distribution infrastructure, combined with AT&T's leading scale in IP connected end points, will allow us to host and distribute all forms of video traffic. We intend to scale and operate an industry-leading video distribution platform, and viewers will get the high-quality online video viewing experience they desire."
Siem Offshore buys Birch Hill's 50 percent stake in Secunda Canada
Norway's Siem Offshore AS has acquired the 50 percent interest in Secunda Canada LP held by Birch Hill Equity Partners, a Canadian mid-market private equity firm. No financial terms were released for the deal, which resulted from a recapitalization of Secunda, an operator of harsh-weather offshore support vessels servicing the oil and gas industry. With this transaction, Siem Offshore becomes the 100% owner of Secunda Canada and supports the long term commitment to the Canadian market.
Quad-C sells InterWrap to Owens Corning for $450 million
U.S. private equity firm Quad-C Management has wrapped up its sale of InterWrap Inc., a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of synthetic roofing underlayment and packaging materials. The deal, announced earlier this year, saw Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), a U.S. producer of insulation, roofing and fiberglass composites, acquire the company for US$450 million. "The entire InterWrap team is very proud of all we accomplished during our multi-year partnership with Quad-C," said InterWrap CEO, Eduardo Lozano. "Quad-C's investing experience, industry expertise and support were invaluable in driving the strategic vision for our company and getting us to where we are today."
AMP and Northleaf close $370 million buy of Chicago's Millennium Garages
AMP Capital and Northleaf Capital Partners have closed their buy of Chicago Downtown Public Parking System (Millennium Garages), the largest underground parking system in the United States. The deal, announced earlier this year, saw LMG2 LLC sell the system to MPG LLC, a joint venture established by AMP and Northleaf, for US$370 million. AMP Capital Head of Americas Infrastructure Dylan Foo said: "Millennium Garages is the first North American asset for AMP Capital's global infrastructure platform and fits perfectly with the platform's mandate to invest in sectors offering the best relative value such as transport. Millennium Garages offers exciting growth potential for our investors due to the strength of Chicago's economic and demographic factors, stable and predictable cash flows and strong protections through the concession agreement."
Providence-backed Blue Star Sports acquires Goalline
Blue Star Sports has acquired Goalline, a Halifax-based provider of sports management software that currently services over 10 million users. No financial terms were released. Rob Wechsler, Founder and CEO of Blue Star Sports commented on the transaction, "From the beginning, the vision for Blue Star Sports has been to professionalize the experience of youth sports organizations and to simultaneously make it easier for anyone involved to manage the sport. With Goalline's leading customer service and performance capabilities, we can now provide a seamless customer experience and a more unified offering."
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Self-taught Vancouver pumpkin carver scares up 3D thrills for Halloween (PHOTOS)
Vancouverite Clive Cooper takes carving a little further than the average jack-o-lantern you’d usually see at somebody’s front doorstep on Halloween, bringing the pumpkins to life in a unique way.
Oct 30, 2019 2:41 PM By: Elisia Seeber
Self-taught 3D carver Clive Cooper turns pumpkins into all sorts of things, including cyborgs. Photo courtesy Clive Cooper
Last week East Vancouver artist Clive Cooper decided he wanted to carve a cyborg out of a pumpkin.
It’s not unusual for an idea like this to pop into the self-taught fruit and vegetable sculptor’s mind. Like all of Cooper’s three-dimensional carvings – the result was extraordinary and detailed.
He takes carving a little further than the average jack-o-lantern you’d usually see at somebody’s front doorstep on Halloween, bringing the pumpkins to life in a unique way.
“That’s one of the most enjoyable parts about carving, getting a thrill from trying to see what kind of crazy stuff I can come up with and then seeing the reaction I get from people,” the 61-year-old told Vancouver Is Awesome.
“It’s just wonderful to see people get a kick out of a simple carved fruit of vegetable.
“People are so interested in how I create it.”
Harry and the Hendersons. Photo by Clive Cooper
A man of many artsy hobbies, Cooper said his talent for carving simply grew out of curiosity.
He calls it his “part-time passion.”
“I’m completely self-taught and it grew out of interest mainly,” Cooper said humbly. “I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I like to top myself every time.”
From scary faces to cute animals (and everything in-between) there’s isn’t much Cooper hasn’t carved.
A former government worker, Cooper’s interest in pumpkin carving stems back to an annual workplace carving contest that supports local charities.
It was back in 1996 when Cooper was tasked with carving his first pumpkin for his department.
“I didn’t want to put in a boring old pumpkin...so I tried to come up with something more inventive,” Cooper said.
“Although it was pretty crude and a jack-o-lantern style, I won the contest.”
A panda pumpkin. Photo courtesy Clive Cooper
And he continued to win year after year, until his co-workers became a little fed-up with the same-old routine. He laughed as he recalled his co-workers bringing in a carving master to give him a little more competition.
“People got tired of me winning all the time,” he chuckled.
“Someone at work knew somebody, who knew somebody that was a professional sand sculptor and he also did pumpkins,” Cooper said. “So, they asked him (Bruce Waugh) to carve a pumpkin for that department to stop me from winning.”
At the time, Cooper had only been carving jack-o-lanterns once a year for the contest, but Bruce Waugh was sculpting on a whole new level.
“What he did was he skinned the pumpkin. When [the competing department] brought [the pumpkin] in I said, ‘oh, I’ve never actually seen someone skin a pumpkin and carve into it like that,’” Cooper said.
An adult lion pumpkin carving. Photo courtesy Clive Cooper
“Then ‘bing’ the light bulb went off and that’s what started off my real interest and my passion for pumpkin carving.”
After the contest Cooper contacted Waugh to learn more about three-dimensional carving. That was over eight years ago now. The two artists later became friends and have worked together on a number of local projects.
Over the years, Cooper’s remarkable sculptures have garnered world-wide attention – he’s been hired to carve pumpkins and water melons for movie promotions, TV advertisements and locally for the VanDusen Botanical Garden’s annual Glow in the Garden event.
Some of his well-known creations include a “Hollowgast” watermelon carving for Fox Entertainment, promoting the Tim Burton film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (which was awesome), a crocodile watermelon for ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not’, and pandas for a Telus advertisement. Another proud moment was competing on the U.S. reality TV show Halloween Wars.
Clive Cooper did this “Hollowgast” watermelon carving for Fox Entertainment, promoting the Tim Burton film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Photo courtesy Clive Cooper
While he’s got a long list of achievements under his belt, he isn’t done learning or experimenting in the field just yet.
“I’ve never taken any formal art classes, so I’d really like to learn more about sculpting and do a class to see if I can get my sill level even higher.”
He said it was never too late to learn a new skill and hoped his work would inspire others to grab a pumpkin and get carving this Halloween.
“People should not be afraid to carve, even if they say they can’t draw, because it doesn’t have the same skill set as drawing,” Cooper explained.
“Even if you’re not artistic. Just get in there, take the skin off and scrape or carve away.”
Looking to the future Cooper said he would most likely move on to working with more permanent mediums.
A witch carving. Photo courtesy Clive Cooper
“I say to my friends ‘as soon as I get bored with doing fruit and vegetable carving, I’ll move on to another medium.’
“I haven’t seemed to get bored of it yet.”
Find some tips for 3D pumpkin carving from masters Cooper and Waugh here.
A Shaman pumpkin. Photo courtesy Clive Cooper
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Gary Farrell Winery
For over 37 years, Gary Farrell Winery has crafted small-lot artisan wines capturing balance and stylistic elegance from some of the finest vineyard sites in the Russian River Valley. In 1985, Winemaker Gary Farrell released his 55 cases of 1982 Rochioli-Allen Pinot Noir to widespread critical acclaim. Since that release, the team at Gary Farrell Winery has consistently focused on rigorous vineyard selection, outstanding grower relationships, and superior quality fruit. For the past 8 years, the current owners have been dedicated to enhancing Gary Farrell’s legacy with a single-minded focus on quality.
Moving North
Willamette Valley, Oregon
Once thought to be too far north to grow Pinot Noir, the Willamette Valley has proven to be an ideal location for over the past 50 years. Diligent farming, gentle handling, and the perfect location are essentials when producing Pinot Noir. Moving North is an ode to defying the status quo while demanding perfection.
Calistoga, Napa Valley, California
In 1976 Chateau Montelena put California at the forefront of the wine world. That year a who's-who of the French wine establishment gathered in Paris for a blind tasting of French and American wines. When the scores were tallied, the top-ranking white wine was Chateau Montelena's 1973 Chardonnay. Montelena today continues to be a quality benchmark in Napa Valley, producing some of the finest Cabernet and Chardonnay in California.
Ferren Wines
Sonoma Coast, California
Matt Courtney is probably better known for his day job making the show stopping wines at Arista or for his 8 year stint training under Helen Turley at Marcassin. He has been raising eyebrows for a few years now with the start of his own label, Ferren. As a philosophy student-turned-sommelier, he fell in love with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and has spent the last 16 years finding his voice in winemaking. In 2013, Matt partnered with his longtime friend David Wherritt and the late grower Ulises Valdez to produce a small handful of wines from the Sonoma Coast that focus on small quantities at the highest possible quality level. Native yeasts, high acid, and minimal oak belie the gorgeous ripeness and lush texture of his wines.
Wilde Farm
Sonoma, Mendocino and Anderson Valley
Wilde Farm makes wines from old vines and exceptional vineyards. Quantities are very small. Our wines are bright, balanced and made by hand. They emphasize a balance of acid and fruit. As an added bonus they age great. Pax Mahle makes Wilde Farm wines. He has a light touch and a craftsman’s approach. They source grapes from old vine, low yield sites, where soil, climate and honest farming practices allow for a full expression of the type of grape and the place the grapes come from. They only offer vineyard designated wines (so far). They pick when the grapes are ripe and ready. Yeasts are ambient, oak is neutral and fermentation happens at its own pace. They sometimes include stems in the primary fermentation, when it makes sense. They bottle wines unfined and unfiltered, and sell them when they think they are delicious.
Halcyon Wines
Santa Barbara-bred Tyler and Napa Valley-native Kim launched Halcyon Wines in 2013 after Tyler discovered an intriguing Cabernet Franc vineyard along the Central Coast—a varietal he always dreamed of working with.
Tilth - Driscoll Wine Co.
Cobb Wines
In 1989, David Cobb planted the Coastlands vineyard that became well known through wines made by Hirsch and Williams Selyem. Though the original plan for Coastlands was simply to sell grapes to a few artisan vintners, David's son Ross had a different vision for the exceptional fruit. In 2001, David and Ross crafted 130 cases of Cobb Wines’ inaugural Coastlands Vineyard pinot noir. Since then, Ross has taken the helm and Cobb Wines has evolved to include four other hand-tended, independently owned vineyards on the Sonoma Coast. Though these vineyards share certain essential Sonoma Coast characteristics, they each have individual soil types, subtly different microclimates, and unique combinations of pinot noir selections. Ross's wines have become heralded the country over as benchmarks for elegance and nuance from the Sonoma Coast.
Lynmar Estate
Since 1980, Lynn and Anisya Fritz have built Lynmar Estate from it's original plantings, which were some of the oldest in the Russian River Valley, to now include three contiguous vineyards along the Laguna de Santa Rosa Watershed. Their sustainably farmed vines encompass a wide array of clone and rootstock selections that are perfectly suited to their soil types, while wines are made in a state-of-the-art gravity fed winery after the classic Russian River style.
Ponzi Vineyards
Chehalem Mountain AVA, Willamette Valley, Oregon
Dick and Nancy Ponzi helped put Oregon on the map in the United States and the world. The mantle has been picked up by daughters Maria and Luisa Ponzi, who continue the family history of leadership and innovation in the region and, in the case of Pinot Noir, across the country.
Rhône Valley, France
The more you learn about the Guigal family, the more astounding becomes their story. Their wines are the benchmarks for every Rhone appellation, and over the last thirty years they have become arguably the most lauded producer in the world. Year after year the Guigal family produces wines of exceptional quality that in all classes offer exceptional value.
Château de Nalys
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France
Since its creation in 1946 by Etienne Guigal, the Guigal family has produced a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The terroirs of Nalys realize a dream spanning three generations to join this leading prestigious and historic appellation. Marcel and Philippe Guigal will bring passion and rigour, their family quality philosophy, and the ambition of waving the flag of Châteauneuf-du-Pape at the very highest level.
Bollinger is one of the rare Grande Marques that’s still family owned. Known for its rich, elegant and polished style of Champagne, their outstanding wines are the result of rigorous attention to detail and incredibly labor-intensive practices that few houses are willing to undertake. Underscoring its excellence, Bollinger has remained British secret agent James Bond's Champagne of choice since 1973.
Champagne Ayala
Ayala is one of the most exciting stories in Champagne today, almost the definition of a boutique Champagne producer. Independently owned, a small, young and dynamic team handles every step of production from grape reception to labeling in their jewel of a facility with incredible precision, crafting Chardonnay-focused wines that deliver immense pleasure, freshness, and elegance.
Château La Fleur-Pétrus
Pomerol, Bordeaux, France
Over the last 15 years La Fleur-Pétrus has become one of the most fascinating and, from a quality standpoint, extraordinary stories in Bordeaux. A wine borne of a great historic terroir, that through nurture and creativity has become something greater than perhaps could have been imagined, and a bright shining light of Pomerol.
Margaux, Bordeaux, France
It is difficult to sum up in a few lines the long and splendid history of the estate. It was already known in the 12th century but there were not yet any vines. In the 16th century the estate anticipated the future development of the Médoc which was to start abandoning the cultivation of cereal crops in favor of vines, and Château Margaux became a high place in the art of growing and making wine.
Château La Serre
Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux, France
La Serre is one of the absolute little gems of Saint-Emilion, a property right at the top of the village, surrounded by many illustrious estates, and year after year producing fabulous under-the-radar wines.
Château Recougne - Boutisse - Tour Bayard
These 3 estates are run by an extended family and represent in both the past and future an extraordinarily exciting story: estates on the right bank of Bordeaux making utterly authentic, soulful wines, led by a dynamic young generation eager to bring its own perspective and energy.
Château Lyonnat - Tour d'Auron - Damase
A passionate family together running these 3 high quality estates on the right bank of Bordeaux, each producing individual and charming wines.
Chanson is a true mid-size Domaine. Unlike many of their competitors, their wines are produced using the grower model rather than the négociant model. They have extensive holdings of over 111 acres of exclusively Premier and Grand Cru vineyards in the heart of Burgundy. Chanson is obsessed with maintaining a consistent quality level across the entire range. The wines have a seductive and distinctive style due to the rigorous approach to viticulture and vinification.
In two decades of work, Lucien Le Moine has become one of the most talked about Burgundy producers, making some of the most sought after wines from the region. The approach is extreme – two people, together doing everything by hand, working with a dazzling array of Burgundy’s great terroirs.
Domaine Talmard
Mâcon, Burgundy, France
This father and son estate produces one utterly perfect wine: a pure and refreshing Chardonnay, from the birthplace of the Chardonnay grape.
Rotem and Mounir Saouma
Burgundy meets the Rhone. An utter respect for tradition, and in some ways a total break. We've watched as Mounir and Rotem Saouma, of Burgundy producer Lucien Le Moine, slowly developed their estate and wines in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, and the results today are too extraordinary and distinct to ignore.
Domaine des Baumard
Domaine des Baumard has been planted with vines since 1634, and has remained in the same family since then. In the mid-20th century, however, is when the estate started to build a reputation as one of the greatest white wine producers in the Loire Valley, and the world.
Langlois-Chateau
Langlois-Chateau is the "Tête de Crémant." The Crémants are the focus of the estate, accounting for 62% of the estate's production, making Langlois-Chateau the leader of Loire sparkling wine. It’s a case of quantity and quality with the production standards far beyond the appellation requirements and even beyond Champagne AOC standards. The result is Méthode Champenoise wines of incredible finesse. The still Sancerres are equally notable and are benchmarks for the appellation, with brightness, intensity, depth and minerality.
Bolgheri, Italy
Ornellaia has established itself as one of the most iconic producers in Italy (and beyond). The estate is dedicated to producing charming and opulent wines, full of Mediterranean character and finesse, reflecting the estate's unique terroir in Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast.
Masseto is one of the world's iconic wines. Coveted by international collectors and fine wine connoisseurs across the globe, Masseto constantly receives the highest accolades from the most prestigious wine critics in the world, and is a fixture in the international fine wine trade indexes.
Le Macchiole can best be defined as the “Boutique Bolgheri.” The winery is known for its spectacular single-varietal wines, and their signature grape varieties are Syrah, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc and work is always conducted with the priority being "the expression of the land." The winery continues to evolve in both the vineyards and in the cellar to allow the soil characteristics from this estate property to be the defining identity in the wines.
Tenuta Luce
Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy
Today, Luce goes so much further than was originally envisioned when started as a project over 20 years ago. The estate now has some of the most exceptional vineyards in Montalcino and, as of 2018, a state of the art winery to nurture every step of the winemaking process. The original vision, however, remains the same: to produce a bold and ambitious Super Tuscan that reflects the culture of Montalcino.
Casisano
The Casisano estate is located in the southeastern part of Montalcino between the St. Antimo Abbey and the Val d'Orcia, arguably the most quintessentially picturesque area in all of Tuscany. Casisano wines are the result of 100 years of passion and a deep understanding of Montalcino, its terroir, and the spectacular wines produced there.
Val d'Arno di Sopra, Tuscany. Italy
Petrolo is the definition of a cult winery, with an owner and a story that have helped create its legendary status. While the estate's benchmark wine, the Merlot cru Galatrona, deservedly receives fireworks in the press and is part of the history of Tuscany’s quality revolution in the late 1980s and 1990s, the winery's two other standouts, Torrione and Boggina, are an equally thrilling success - Sangiovese from a special and virtually unknown appellation bordering Chianti Classico that today produces wines of distinct regional identity.
Poggio al Tufo
Poggio al Tufo is located in Tuscany's coastal Maremma region near Pitigliano, an historical Etruscan city known for its volcanic soils rich in tufo, a specific type of volcanic rock. Poggio al Tufo encompasses 3 estates in different areas of the Maremma, each with its own unique microclimate, but all sharing the influence of volcanic soil and Mediterranean breezes.
Sandrone
Luciano Sandrone is one of the most iconic producers in Barolo, and his story is an extraordinary one. In the bottle, Sandrone’s wines straddle the modern and traditional styles of the region: elegant, attractive and easy to appreciate right from their first years in bottle, but with no less power and structure over time than traditional Barolos.
Friuli, Italy
Attems is one of the most historic producers in the northern Italian region of Friuli, with a winemaking heritage dating back nearly a millennium. Attems wines have a decidedly Friulian character: fresh, full of flavor and elegant, they respect the singularity of the unique terroir of a region ripe for discovery.
Tommasi has always been a standard bearer of the Amarone appellation. Established in 1902 around the family home in Pedemonte in Valpolicella, the winery has grown and expanded into the choicest areas of the region under the guidance of the many generations of the Tommasi family. The winery is known above all for its classic approach to winemaking in Valpolicella, favoring elegance and balance, and paying homage to the winemaking tradition of their home region.
Abruzzo, Italy
Founded by Abruzzo native Gianni Masciarelli in 1981, Masciarelli and its wines have become the standard-bearer for the Abruzzo region, and an inspiration to all emerging Italian wine regions. After a summer in Champagne, Gianni Masciarelli became convinced that world-class wines could be produced in Abruzzo, and through tremendous vision and non-stop innovation, Masciarelli became one of the most admired wineries in Italy.
Masseria Surani
Puglia, Italy
Masseria Surani is located in Manduria, one of the most renowned areas in Puglia for the cultivation of the native Primitivo grape. Manduria was first colonized in 700 BC by the ancient Greeks, and Masseria Surani pays homage to the winemaking heritage of the area by producing high quality wines that respect the terroir and tradition of the land on which they are cultivated.
Basilicata, Italy
Volcanic wines are currently a hot topic among wine critics and enthusiasts worldwide, and Paternoster is very much of the moment: it is a volcanic wine in the literal sense of the term and stands on an extinct volcano. Paternoster is located in the relatively unknown southern Italian region of Basilicata, on the slopes surrounding Mount Vulture, and has long been considered one of the region’s most important wineries.
Telmo Rodríguez
Rioja, Valdeorras, Toro, Spain
Telmo Rodriguez is one of Spain’s pioneer winemakers, advocating native grape varietals tied to the climates and conditions of their sites, and making world-class wines from undiscovered as well as known regions. While Telmo makes rare and limited wines of astonishing character and quality, his everyday wines have been equally praised, and widely recognized for the tremendous value they offer.
Priorat, Spain
Ferrer Bobet is about respect. Firstly, the mutual respect of two friends, Sergi Ferrer-Salat and Raül Bobet and their passion for the world and culture of wine. Secondly, the respect for the long traditions of viticulture and vinification in Priorat and a commitment to the economic and social development of the region. Thirdly, and above all, the respect for the terroir and a dedication to producing wines that reflect the distinctive mineral essence from the land.
Douro Valley, Portugal
One of the oldest port houses, Quinta do Noval is also arguably the greatest. It is unique among top port houses in that most of the ports are made from estate-grown fruit and, notably, all of the vintage Noval wines are from the single Quinta do Noval vineyard.
Aconcagua Valley, Chile
Errázuriz is recognized as perhaps the single top quality producer of Chilean wines, within recent years alone Eduardo Chadwick, President, named Decanter Man of the Year 2018, and the winery awarded Best Chilean Winery 2017 by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.
Finca Decero
Agrelo, Mendoza, Argentina
Finca Decero has become recognized not only for having one of the highest quality vineyards in all of Mendoza, but also for catapulting into an elite group of the most highly regarded producers in Argentina. The wines all come from the single Finca Decero vineyard, and the winery’s focus is entirely quality focused.
Dog Point Vineyard
Almost since its inception, Dog Point has been recognized as among the very top (arguably the very top) wine producers in New Zealand. Their two very different Sauvignon Blancs, their Pinot Noir, and their Chardonnay are all wines of astounding quality and complexity not just in the context of New Zealand wines, but globally.
McLaren Vale, Australia
Founder Frank Mitolo drew inspiration from his Italian heritage and especially his horticultural background - he is the 4th generation of a family of agriculturists – in starting the company in 1999. In 2001 acclaimed winemaker Ben Glaetzer became a partner, and together Frank and Ben have shared an uncompromising dedication to producing wines that express purity of flavor, show elegance of structure, and maintain a rich, powerful complexity. In a short period of time, Mitolo has become recognized as one of the finest producers in McLaren Vale.
Langhorne Creek, Australia
Owner and winemaker Ben Glaetzer’s work in Langhorne Creek is one of the most exciting stories in Australia today. Ben found and grew excited at older, high quality vineyards he had seen in the cool-climate Langhorne Creek area, Australia’s oldest settled wine region, one hour south of Adelaide and southeast of McLaren Vale.
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The Virunga Mountains
The Virunga Mountains are the key points one should know about the areas surrounding the mountains and what you should expect to find on a trip. The Virunga Mountains are 8 famously known mountain ranges that lie on the northern border of Rwanda and Congo and south western part of Uganda. The Virunga Mountains are all volcanic mountains but most of them are dormant. Only one mountain of the 8 is an active volcano that is Mount Nyiragongo found in DRCongo. These mountains lie within the left hand of the Albertine Rift, a western branch of the East African Rift valley. The eight Virunga mountains include Mount Karisimbi, Mount Mikeno, Mount Muhabura, Mount Bisoke, Mount Sabinyo, Mount Gahinga, Mount Nyiragongo, and Mount Nyamulagira.
Within these mountain ranges is also where the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas are found and have made home over the years. These Virunga mountains are shared by the 3 countries and some are even found in all the three countries while some are found in just 2. Mount Karisimbi, also the highest of the 8 Virunga mountains, is shared by Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is at an elevation of 4,507 meters. A hike to Karisimbi is a 2-day activity as you will overnight at one of the shelters then complete the hike the following day. You will need to be well prepared and equipped for such a hike, have a change of clothes both warm and protective also make sure to prepare your meals but you can hire a chef from the park headquarters. Karismibi hike is offered by the Volcanoes national park at a charge of 400 USD for the hiking permit per person. This fee, however, does not include meals, walking stick, and camping equipment generally so check in with your tour organizer to arrange these as well. This mountain experiences snow on its highest peak thus the name Karisimbi which was derived from a local word “amasimbi” which means snow in Kinyarwanda. The months of June, July and August are when you can see the snow on the top of this dormant volcano.
Mount Mikeno is the second-highest of the 8 virunga mountains at an elevation of 4,437 meters and is only found in the DRCongo. The Mikeno mountain is home to the mountain gorillas of Virunga national park which stay at the slopes of this mountain. You may not be offered a hike up this mountain but it can be seen from a distance while at the Bukima police patrol post where most gorilla treks start from. Mount Mikeno is a dormant volcanic mountain and is also the 13th highest mountain of Africa. Mikeno mountain derived its name from the local people around there who believed the region was poor because of the tough slopes of the mountain that prevented the people from settling around there. This Mikeno mountain totally falls in the Virunga National park.
Mount Muhabura, at an elevation of 4,127 meters, is another of the virunga mountains and is found in Rwanda and Uganda. Hikes to Mount Muhabura start from Mgahinga gorilla national park of Uganda and a hiking permit goes for 75 USD for the foreigners who are interested in this one day hike. This fee is hike fee along with guide fee however does not include porter or any refreshment fee so ensure to book a porter in case you have heavy luggage. This is most visible of the volcanoes from both Uganda and Rwanda because of its high slopes. Muhabura is also an extinct volcano as no activity has been seen from this mountain in many years. At the top of this mountain is a swamp at the caldera but the views are rewarding as you are able to see Rwanda, Uganda, and Congo if you are standing at the exact spot for that view.
Mount Bisoke, one of the most commonly hiked volcanoes of Rwanda is the fourth highest of the Virunga mountains at an elevation of 3,711 meters. Bisoke is shared by both Rwanda and the DRCongo but the hikes on this volcano are done on the Rwanda side from Volcanoes National Park as that is where the summit if the volcano is located. A permit to hike Bisoke goes for 75 USD per person inclusive of hiking fees and guide fees. If you need extras like hiking stick, you may hire from the park headquarters before you set off for the hike. Also if you have heavy luggage, it is advisable to hire a porter to carry for you and this porter can also double as a company and a morale booster as they keep next to you until you get back to the foothill of the mountain. The Bisoke summit has rewarding views with a crater lake at the top with a lot of birdlife. This is a one day hike so you do it and connect back to Kigali or opt for a cultural tour in the evening.
Another of the 8 virunga volcanic mountains is Mount Sabinyo, located in all the three countries that is; the DRCongo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Mount Sabyinyo is at an elevation of 3,674 meters. This is the oldest of all the ranges and its name was given by the locals who would relate the mountain ranges of Sabyinyo to an old man’s teeth because of their serration form and in Kinyarwanda, teeth are known as “Irinyo”. Mount Sabyinyo is exactly at the intersection of the three countries’ borders and is also the join between the three national gorilla parks that is Volcanoes National park of Rwanda, Virunga national park of DRCongo and Mgahinga gorilla national park of Uganda. This mountain carries a lot of cultural value and importance to the people living around its slopes. A permit to hike Sabinyo also goes for 75 USD and can be hiked from the Ugandan side offered by Mgahinga gorilla national park.
The sixth Virunga volcano is mount Gahinga which is one of the smallest but spreads out in both Uganda and Rwanda. It is at an elevation of 3,474 meters. The name Gahinga was derived from its physical appearances like a pile of stones which are known as Gahinga in the native language of the area that is Kinyarwanda and Rufumbira. The permit to hike Gahinga is 75 USD and can be obtained from Mgahinga gorilla national park that was also named after this mountain. This is a one day hike that is done on the Ugandan side. The summit has rewarding views and you may have a barbeque lunch at the top beside the 180 meters wide swampy caldera. You may encounter the golden monkeys on your hike to the Gahinga summit along with other bird and animal species.
Mount Nyiragongo, one active volcano of the 8 Virunga volcanoes stands at an elevation of 3,470 meters in the borders of the DRCongo. Mount Nyiragongo is located within the Virunga National park borders. The Nyiragongo mountain is a favorite of the hikers as the reward at the top after conquering the hike is the most rewarding as you get to see boiling lava at all times of the year with the last eruption being recently in 2002. This hike is offered by Virunga national park and a permit goes for about 300 USD per person inclusive of hike and guide fee only. You can hire meals and camping equipment, known as the Virunga backpack at 100 USD from a trusted operator or directly from the park. This is a two-day hike where you will be expected to spend a night at the summit in the shelters so be well packed for this experience. The temperatures at the top of the volcano can go as low as 0 degrees so be sure to have warm clothes to avoid hypothermia. We have over the years been organizing trips to Mount Nyiragongo so get in touch and let us give you a deeper insight into planning your visit to Mount Nyiragongo.
Mount Nyamulagira is one of the forgotten volcanoes but has shown some activity over the years with about 40 previous eruptions in the past years with the last one being in 2011. Nyamulagira is also in the boundaries of the DRCongo just neighboring the Nyiragongo. Mount Nyamulagira is elevated at 3,058 USD meters. You may not be able to book a hiking trip to Mount Nyamulagira because of the underdevelopment of the region but you may book a helicopter for the above views.
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USA: New Merit-based Immigration Plan May Escalate Highly-Skilled Workers
A merit-based immigration plan being put together by Jared Kushner, White House senior adviser it could lead to an escalation in US visas for extremely skilled workers, sources revealed on 24 Apr 2019.
Merit-based Immigration Proposal
Kushner is assumed to present the whole plan next week to US President Trump, who will finalize whether to choose it as his official place or send it back for modifications, the sources revealed.
The plan does not recommend ways to approach young people who came to the USA illegally as children who were defended by President Obama in the 2014 programme recognized as Deferred Action for Childhood Immigrants (D.A.C.A), or those individuals who have the Status of Temporary Protected, the sources said.
Democrats, whose aid the White House would require to improve any kind of immigration law through Congress, have asked that the recipients of D.A.C.A to be protected.
It's difficult to see how Kushner could drive an issue this freighted with central and history to the re-election strategy of the president in a way that would move the ball ahead," Fitz told.
Republicans have supported mainly his proposals on immigration, but the recent White House proposal aims to get them collectively on a broader basis.
Some in the U.S business community has demanded that the highly skilled visas number to be raised to bring more workers from overseas for specialized jobs amid a booming economy of the US. Trump himself has spoken about the necessity to bring a high number of skilled workers.
The immigration proposal would either cut the number of highly skilled visas every year at the equivalent level or increase it slightly, the sources said.
The ultimate purpose is to reform the visa programme into a greater merit-based system, a fundamental Trump goal. Administrators working on the proposal have been examining the systems utilized by Canada and Australia as potential models for the Trump effort.
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Great St. Mary's Church
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Great St Mary’s has been at the heart of Cambridge for at least 800 years, welcoming people from many backgrounds and nationalities. It is the University Church and has played a significant part in the history of the City and University of Cambridge.
● Great St. Mary’s was the first home of the University when scholars came from Oxford in 1209. Here lectures were given, degrees conferred and celebrations held.
● Great St. Mary’s played a leading part in the history of the Reformation. Erasmus, Bucer and other influential figures preached here.
● Royal patrons included King John, Edward III, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth I visited the Church in 1564.
● There has been bell-ringing since 1516 and the ‘Cambridge Quarters’ were the model for the ‘Westminster chimes’ of Big Ben which ring out worldwide.
● The Church has fine stone tracery by John Wastell, master mason for King’s College Chapel,
● It is unusual for parish churches to have two organs. At the West end of the Church is the ‘university organ’, purchased from St James’s Church, Piccadilly in 1698. This was used by both the parish and university. In 1869, a ‘parish’ organ was installed in the chancel and subsequently replaced in 1991. Both are used on a regular basis. Great St. Mary’s is one of the few churches were a double organ concerto can be performed.
● Oak beams for the roof, with carved bosses were donated by Henry VII in 1505. The oaks came from Chesterford Park in South Cambridgeshire which actually belonged to the Abbott of Westminster. In the British Library, There is an abject letter of apology from Henry VII to the Abbott for cutting down his oaks! When the roof showed signs of decay in 1783, a supplementary one was built a few feet above the original and the two tied together.
● A 17th century font,
● The datum point from which the first English milestones were measured in 1732.
● After the Reformation,
Great St Mary’s became a place for preaching. A three- decker pulpit was set up in the centre of the Church with galleries on all four sides to accommodate members of the university who were required to listen to formal sermons.
● The interior was re-arranged in the 1860s with a new main altar, carved choir stalls and fixed pews.
● Each of the clerestory windows is based on a verse from the Te Deum and inserted between 1902 and 1904. Sixty figures are portrayed, running east to west along the north side of the Church and then west to east along the south. They depict the ‘glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of prophets and the noble army of martyrs’.
● We are a centre for University and civic events such as the University sermons held each term, and services which the Mayor of Cambridge and councillors attend.
● We arrange sermons, talks and discussions on a range of subjects.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York conducted a joint teaching session in the church, which attracted people from a wide range of backgrounds.
● We hold regular concerts as well as other events arranged by the Church and community groups.
● Other events, such as the annual candlelit carol service at Christmas, attract over a thousand people.
● In addition, we work with partners at home and abroad in social and mission projects.
● Our mission includes the Michaelhouse Centre and Chaplaincy in Trinity Street and the Chaplaincy to the non-collegiate members of the University. Both Chaplains are Associate Vicars of Great St Mary’s.
Bank Holiday 10:00 17:30
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Child midweek £5.00 per ticket
Everyone midweek £5.00 per ticket
Everyone Saturday & Sunday £5.00 per ticket
Family midweek £15.00 per ticket
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Everyone £5
Pre-booked Group rates for 10 or more people available: contact Shop Supervisor, Lorraine Walton on lw606@cam.co.uk
Last Admission to the tower is 30 minutes before closing time.
Opening times may change subject to weddings, funerals and bad weather.
Wednesday, 1st January 2020 - Thursday, 31st December 2020
Panoramic views of Cambridge - Tower - Great St. Mary's Church
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24 Hours in New York With Sofia Carson
By Janelle Okwodu
How do you spend a perfect day in Manhattan? If you’re Sofia Carson, there will be fashion, philanthropy, and a few visits to Instagram hot spots for good measure. In town last week to host UNICEF’s 15th annual Snowflake Ball, the Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists star enjoyed the best the city has to offer. It doesn’t get more quintessentially New York than a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge or enjoying winter ice skating, but Carson managed to make these classic outings feel special. With a little help from friendly New Yorkers, she turned touristy moments into pure magic.
Of course, it wasn’t all skating and dancing in the streets. The Snowflake Ball, which benefits UNICEF’s humanitarian work providing health care and education to vulnerable children in 190 countries, holds special meaning for Carson. Inspired by the philanthropy of her mother and grandmother, who instilled the importance of social responsibility into her and her sister, Paulina, she seeks to follow their example.
“I was 12 when my mom took [my sister and me] to a home in Colombia that fostered young teenage girls who had babies,” she said. “We met an 11-year-old-girl named Maria who had just given birth [and] I think that marked a time in our lives for my sister and me. We realized then that we had to dedicate our lives to giving [back] as much as we could.”
Carson’s spot as host is part of that charitable commitment and a way to use her star power for good. “It’s such a beautiful cause that we’re all united for this evening,” she said before the ball. “I wanted to go into tonight feeling very elegant and giving the evening the respect that it deserves.” To channel that energy Carson chose a regal couture look from one of her favorite designers, Giambattista Valli. “I think he has such a beautiful way of celebrating femininity and what it means to be a woman,” she said. “[It] empowers you in a way whenever you wear his dresses.”
After getting ready and selecting jewels with her stylist, Nicolas Bru, Carson was prepared to take on the red carpet, but even with all the glamour, she stayed focused on the night’s real purpose—raising funds for children in need. Here, she brings Vogue along for the 24-hour ride — from starting her morning with a cup of tea to posing for the paparazzi at Cipriani Wall Street.
Director: Amanda Brooks
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Sound: Iris Liu
Editor: Molly Holtzinger
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Carmen Electra, From “Worst Dressed” to Fashion Pioneer
Carmen Electra at the MTV Awards, 1998Photo: Getty Images
Carmen Electra is synonymous with the glitzed-up skimpy looks of the late ’90s and 2000s. While perhaps best known today for her roles in Baywatch and blockbuster hits like Scary Movie (2000), the perpetually smoky-eyed bombshell left her hometown in Ohio for Los Angeles with few expectations. “I just came here to be a dancer,” says Electra via phone. “Not even in front, just a backup dancer.” She went on to meet Prince, who promoted her solo singing career, leading to her 1993 self-titled album. A television and film career, along with celebrity, followed quickly behind. While she had legions of fans, Electra’s bold, barely-there clothes made her a perennial presence on “Worst Dressed” lists.
Twenty years later, Electra’s style has come full circle. Celebrities ranging from Nicki Minaj to Kendall Jenner are delving into the glammed-out noughties barely-there looks. “I once wore a dress that had little metal pieces going all they way down the side so you couldn’t really wear panties underneath but it would show the entire side of your body. I remember that I wore that to the MTV Awards and that was kind of made into a big deal,” says Electra. “People just thought it was too much but it is crazy because I just saw an article of Kylie Jenner and they [the publication] had a picture of me in that dress that I got so much flak for!” Turns out, Electra has paved a bit of the way for celebrity red carpet dressing today.
Her television debut on the show Soul Train in the early ’90s was head-turning
“I remember exactly what I was wearing [to Soul Train]: a white bolero jacket with shoulder pads and sort of like a bustier top. I would always put clips on the jacket to make it tighter in the back and use that to hold up everything,” says Electra. “I had white stockings and white hot pants and a little clip holding the stocking up to the hot pants and these white leather boots that went over the knee.”
Carmen Electra at the American Music Awards, 2000Photo: Getty Images
According to Electra, Prince loved hot pants
“When I ended up meeting Prince and coming to Minneapolis and started recording my self-titled album with him, he loved the clothes I had, which were hot pants. He just thought that was a cool look. In all my videos, from the very first video, I had red hot pants, a red bra top, red matching gloves and cat glasses—not with real diamonds—but little fake diamonds, cubic zirconias,” says Electra. “The looks that really inspired me from Prince which became my sort of signature were combat boots. I would always dance and perform in combat boots with hot pants and little bra tops or something like that.”
She didn’t always have the cash to spend on clothes when she first came to Los Angeles
“I didn’t have a lot of money so I would just go to the ATM and go to this store on Melrose and they would custom-make anything,” she says. “I would just go in there and buy an outfit and that would kind of be my outfit for a minute to go out in.”
Electra’s wild looks gave her a leg up in Hollywood
“I wouldn’t be invited to a premiere but because of a crazy outfit, photographers would just start shooting. So they’d walk me down the red carpet and I’d just walk right in. I started getting press on being on the ‘Worst Dressed’ list,” says Electra. “Then we turned it all around and then I started getting on the ‘Best Dressed’ list. It was kind of smart.”
Carmen Electra, 2000Photo: Getty Images
The most precious pieces of clothing in her wardrobe have sentimental meaning
“[I would take something] from Prince and Dave [Navarro], probably two of the most meaningful relationships I’ve had. We [Dave and I] had the same Duarte rocker pants with lace-up in the front,” she says. “I also have a coat from Prince that I love that says ’91 on the back.”
On the epic naked dress that she wore to the MTV Awards in 1998
“I think Stephen Sprouse designed it. The dress was long and white and the top was really, really small with the sides cut out and it was very low in the back. It had a clear strap holding [it] on. It was a mystery as to how this dress stayed on. My boobs were kind of pouring out of the dress and I literally was on every ‘Worst Dressed’ list in that dress,” she says. “But I was looking at it [recently] and I was like, ‘It’s so covered today.’ In the ’90s, it was really hard [if] you wanted to wear sexy clothes. Of course you do in your twenties and thirties.”
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Officers create winter wonderland by hauling 5 tons of snow for sick 2-year-old girl in Arizona
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A mother is elated that a police department created a winter wonderland -- in Arizona -- for her 2-year-old daughter, who was born with a heart condition.Sandee Walker told KNXV-TV that they planned to travel to see recent snowfall, but doctors said traveling to high altitudes would be too much for her daughter Quinn.So instead, officers from Casa Grande Police Department brought the snow to them -- five tons of the white stuff was trucked to their Gilbert, Arizona home."I've been tearing up all morning, just watching her and her brothers happy," Walker told the TV station.Quinn was born missing the left side of her heart, and she had her first open-heart surgery when she was six days old. In April, she'll have her third surgery.While Walker said she looks normal, Quinn needs to be on oxygen most of the time, making travel difficult.Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
GILBERT, Ariz. (Video from KNXV via CNN) —
A mother is elated that a police department created a winter wonderland -- in Arizona -- for her 2-year-old daughter, who was born with a heart condition.
Sandee Walker told KNXV-TV that they planned to travel to see recent snowfall, but doctors said traveling to high altitudes would be too much for her daughter Quinn.
So instead, officers from Casa Grande Police Department brought the snow to them -- five tons of the white stuff was trucked to their Gilbert, Arizona home.
"I've been tearing up all morning, just watching her and her brothers happy," Walker told the TV station.
Quinn was born missing the left side of her heart, and she had her first open-heart surgery when she was six days old. In April, she'll have her third surgery.
While Walker said she looks normal, Quinn needs to be on oxygen most of the time, making travel difficult.
Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
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Halatau ready for heavyweight Roosters
Dan Talintyre (Twitter: @dantalintyre)
Mon 4 May 2015, 11:50 AM
Wests Tigers utility Dene Halatau says a recent dip in form doesn't make the Sydney Roosters any less tougher to play this Friday night at Allianz Stadium.
Despite losing their last four matches coming into Friday's Round 9 match, Halatau says he expected the home side to come out firing after the representative break, and indicated that those results weren't a true indication of how tough Trent Robinson's side really is.
"I think they're [still] one of the competition heavyweights," said Halatau.
"It's a close competition, and within two weeks, it could all turn upside down.
"We're very wary of that and of the threats they possess, so there's no doubt that this week presents a big challenge for us to deal with.
"Most of them had the week off... [so] having those losses and a bit of time off to think about it, I’m sure they’ll be keen to get out there this Friday and get their season back on track.
"We definitely want to get the two points against them, and we’ve got one of their former Assistant Coaches with us now, so there’s a bit of insight into how they want about beating us in the past and how we can rectify that ourselves.
See what Halatau had to say in full about this week's match in the video above.
Be there at ANY four home games at ANY stadium for just $80! Select your four today!
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Marijuana: Charity raffle of $4,200 per ounce Green Gold nuggets halted by state
Michael Roberts | March 23, 2012 | 10:50am
As part of his post about medical marijuana for 1 percenters, William Breathes touted an unusual fundraiser conceived by The Clinic. Each of its centers would raffle off a nugget of Green Gold valued at an astonishing $4,200 per ounce to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Winners were supposed to be announced today, but there was a problem. As soon as the State of Colorado heard about the raffle, officials shut it down.
Here's how Breathes described Green Gold in his March 7 post:
While other shops simply dip their mid-grade buds in oil made from other midgrade buds to make a harsh, mid-grade caviar, the folks at The Clinic took their most exclusive products and blended them together into something worthy of the name. Twelve grams of hand-picked, top-shelf Kosher Kush buds were dipped in fifteen grams of cured, high-potency nectar distilled from 150 grams of Rascall OG, then rolled in refined Kosher and Rascall Kief. The result comes out to around $150 a gram at cost.
That means an ounce of this green gold would run you $4,200 at the least. By comparison to high end liquor, the most expensive bottle of champagne at Argonaut liquor on Colfax -- a 1999 bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal Brut -- will set you back a mere $2,000.
Each Clinic location had a two-gram chunk of Green Gold to raffle, with tickets going for $10 apiece and no limit on the number an individual could purchase. Given that this exclusive creation had originally been conceived for Clinic employees, the contest seemed like a way of letting patients sample the best of the best while helping a worthy cause at the same time.
What went wrong? According to Clinic general manager Ryan Cook, "I got contacted by the state -- someone from the division that deals with the lottery. He told me they'd received an anonymous tip that we were conducting an unlicensed lottery."
The official "was a very nice guy," Cook notes -- and he doesn't feel as if The Clinic was targeted because the raffle involved medical marijuana. "As far as I understand, you're not permitted to do this if you're a T-shirt shop or a barber shop or a dispensary. You need to be a nonprofit organization for a minimum of five years, and there's a fee you have to pay to conduct a lottery-type event."
The Clinic isn't facing punishment for this transgression. "They were gentle on us," Cook allows. "They understood some rules were broken, but they just said, 'Stop.'"
After doing so, Cook goes on, The Clinic immediately refunded 100 percent of the money spent on raffle tickets up until that point. But staffers still wanted to come up with a way to benefit the MS Society. So they came up with what he refers to as "a silent auction. It's not a lottery. Everything is in the open, which I think is where the issues came in."
The nuggets will remain in each Clinic location for an extra week. Then, on Friday, March 30, at 4:20 p.m., the auction will be closed and the high bidders will receive their chunk of Green Gold. Then The Clinic will donate the sale price minus taxes to the MS Society.
Cook concedes that "we probably won't raise as much money" using this method as the raffle would have generated. But The Clinic has come up with another way to help make up the difference -- by creating a team of people to participate in the MS Walk scheduled to take place on May 5 in City Park. "Anyone can join," Cook stresses.
The shutdown of the raffle is helping, too, Cook believes, since it's raising awareness of the cause. "We feel like we've already accomplished a lot," he says -- but he'd like to achieve even more, albeit without getting on the wrong side of anyone in state government.
"We pride ourselves on always following the rules," he says.
Get more information about The Clinic's locations by clicking here.
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More from our Marijuana archive: "Medical marijuana: Opening of The Clinic's Highlands location delayed over zoning issues."
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A place to follow your passions
New England is well-known for its charm, and going to a boarding school in New Hampshire is as inspiring as it gets. With a setting that includes mountain views and a campus full of incredible people, students at The White Mountain School have the opportunity to focus on finding their passions and excelling academically through programs like LASR, Field Course and individualized college counseling. Find out why White Mountain was recently named one of eight superb small boarding schools!
Learn more! Contact us or visit campus.
Historic Admission Open House
The White Mountain School Open House
On Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, The White Mountain School set a new record for attendance at its Fall Open House event for prospective students and families. Over 80 total guests were in attendance, making this White Mountain’s most well-attended admissions event to date.
John Drew Formally Installed as Head of The White Mountain School
John Drew, Head of School
On Saturday, Oct. 19, during Fall Family and Alumnae/i Weekend, over 200 members of The White Mountain School community gathered at the foot of Hood’s Hill for the formal installation of John Drew as the 20th head of school, a position he has served in since July 1, 2019.
Student Spotlight: Johanna '20
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Does Farting Burn Calories?
A popular internet rumor claims each toot torches 67 calories.
By Gabrielle Kassel
There's no denying the fact that unleashing a fart can make you feel a thousand times lighter—especially when you're bloated as hell.
But does farting actually burn calories?
After one 2012 Facebook post on a page called called "F A C T,” announced that one fart burns 67 calories (which is the same number of calories you’d burn going for a 15-minute stroll or doing burpees for six minutes straight), thousands of people hit up Google and Reddit to fact check the claim. Does farting burn calories? They all wanted to know.
Sorry, web-surfers, but contrary to what you may have read, farting does not burn calories, says board-certified family and bariatric physician, Spencer Nadolsky, D.O., diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and author of The Fat Loss Prescription.
The average person has about 0.5 to 1.5 liters of gas hanging out in their digestive tract per day, says Nadolsky. “People can toot up to 20 times per day and still be considered in the 'normal' range for farts-per-day,” he adds. So if each fart actually burned 67 calories, then one day of gas-passing would burn up to 1,340 calories.
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To put it in perspective, if farting burned that many calories, you'd drop about a pound of weight every two to three days.
“That’s just ridiculous,” says Matthew R. Pittman, M.D., medical director of the weight management and bariatric surgery program at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital. “You cannot fart yourself thin. No, farting is not a practical weight-loss tool. And no, it can not be used in place of regular exercise,” he adds.
And in case you’re wondering: the sound it makes doesn’t make a difference in number calories burned, either. “Silent or loud, farts are made up of the same stuff: nitrogen, hydrogen, methane, oxygen, and water,” says Nadolsky. The loudness is determined by the volume of gas being passed and the velocity of the expulsion, and neither factor will result in greater calorie burn, Pittman adds.
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So Why Doesn’t Farting Burn Calories?
“Passing gas is usually a very passive bodily function,” says Nadolsky. When you pass gas, your muscles relax and the gas pressure in your bowels do all the work in expelling the gas, Pittman explains, and calorie burn comes from muscle activity, not inactivity.
Since the muscles aren’t doing any work in expelling the gas, straining yourself to the limit while farting would really be the only way to possibly burn calories… but if you’re straining hard enough to burn a calorie or two it will likely result in a poop-in-your-pants accident. (BTW: If you’re straining that much to force a fart out, you need to see your healthcare provider, says Nadolsky.)
“Even if you experienced the most violent, explosive fart you can imagine, it would be pretty difficult to burn calories during it,” says Pittman. Now, if you were in a HIIT-class or yoga-flow and happened to let one go, you’d be burning calories, but that would be a result of the exercise taking place not the expulsion of gas, he adds. (Can’t stop farting during workouts? Here’s what to do.)
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Why You Might Feel Like You're Farting Yourself Thin
You may not be able to toot your way to thin, but the good news is that farting can make you feel lighter (and even look it) if you’ve been especially bloated.
We get gassy in one of two ways. “Swallowing air through bubbly beverages, chewing gum, or using a straw can create extra air in the GI tract,” explains Pittman. “But the most common reason your body produces extra gas is because you’ve eaten things you can’t absorb or digest,” he says.
If too much gas gets stuck in your GI tract, it can cause uncomfortable bloat that distends the abdomen, Pittman explains. That’s why sometimes a good toot can make all the difference. “If you’re bloated and need to fart, do it,” he says, “it may not burn calories, but it sure will make you feel better.”
Gabrielle Kassel Gabrielle Kassel is a New York-based sex and wellness writer and CrossFit Level 1 Trainer.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (3 1/2 Stars)
By David Wildman
It’s hard to believe that a silly Saturday morning cartoon that was in itself a blatant shill for a line of toys could morph into a series of multimillion dollar mother-of-all product placement movies as it has, but I guess there is truly no force in the cosmos more powerful than that of marketing. To these ends, the second Transformers offering does everything a good commercial should do: it’s fun and exhilarating, the images are stridently memorable, and it manages to distract you from its pure corporate functionality.
This sophomore film in the franchise has the advantage of much of the heavy lifting having already been taken care of. We’ve had the dubious explanation of these massive walking junkyards that inexplicably fold themselves into gleaming new products from Chevrolet, as well as the tiresome boy-gets-girl story that sucked up so much screen time. Now we just accept that Shia LaBeouf’s nerdy but tough Sam is dating super hot Megan Fox’s Mikaela, the same way we accept the existence of talking car behemoths from space, or whatever. Now it’s time to blow lots of things up.
Producer and director Michael Bay has brought back two screenplay writers from the first flick, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (who between projects were responsible for the well-crafted Star Trek) and added Ehren Kruger, who’s mind-bending The Brothers Bloom I liked a lot. The result is a screenplay that, although anchored in the usual coming-of-age story and the necessary robot fights, is also spiced up with some nifty plot gimmicks.
We still get the obligatory swirling camera romantic shots of the two stars battling over who is going to say “I love you” as Sam heads off to the East Coast to attend college, and the expected horny teenager action when he arrives. But we also get a hot chick that is really a destructive robot with a snaking metallic tongue, and Sam channeling Jerry Lewis as the nutty-professor as he starts regurgitating information that has somehow been stored in him. There’s also a bizarre backstory in which the Transformers have been hanging around Earth since Egyptian times, and a device that can obliterate the sun has been stashed inside the Great Pyramid. Not a microsecond of any of this is believable, or even makes any sense, but it is wisely served up with an appropriate amount of geeky tongue-in-cheek, as the film openly riffs on pop-culture sci-fi fare like The Terminator, Close Encounters and Battlestar Galactica.
Bay does an impressive job of depicting the hardware, especially the gleaming-steeled Decepticons, and the scenes on their full-metal home planet are splendid eye-candy. He even does a half-decent job with the human side of things, too, keeping the emphasis on the schmaltzy love story to a minimum. Throw in a re-appearance by the always-dependable John Turturro as the wacky government guy from the first film who now works in a deli, and a funny cameo by Rainn Wilson as an egomaniacal teacher, and you get lots of stuff to hold your interest while everything is going boom.
But blowing things up is, of course, ultimately what Bay does best, and there is a surfeit of sinking aircraft carriers, robot attacks around the world, and a finale that involves the wanton destruction of half the historical landmarks in Egypt.
It’s a rousing crowd-pleaser to be sure, and unusually palatable for a Bay film. But in the end it is still just an epic exercise in corporate product placement, and I couldn’t shake that same unsettling feeling of having been manipulated that I get when I find myself entertained by a really well-done Verizon ad on television. o
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Zebra herds are comprised of a harem of females and their foals, each led by a stallion. Females form their own hierarchy, with the stallion’s first mate at the top and newly-inducted females at the bottom. Stallions may bite, kick and circle their competitors to fight for females in their first estrus. To persuade these young females to join their harems, males may shower them with affection by grooming them. The winning male obtains mating opportunities for life.
The purpose of stripes
Though none have been proven conclusively, several theories attempt to explain the zebra’s stripes. The first states that stripes have an anti-predatory function by creating an “optical illusion”. The second points to a social role – each zebra is identifiable by its stripes and zebras with broader stripes receive more grooming. The third suggests the stripes help in thermoregulation and work as natural sunscreen. The last says they may protect against tsetse flies.
Black On White or White On Black?
Zebras are thought to have white coats and black stripes, drawn from observations that the underside of their belly and the inside of their legs are white. However, some zebras with genetic variations have a black coat with white stripes. Beneath their striped coat, zebras have black skin.
Role in the ecosystem
Zebras are the first to move in during grass succession. By clipping away old growth and stems, they encourage the growth of young shoots. This opens up grazing opportunities for other animals like the wildebeests and gazelles, which are more picky about their food. Zebra herds leave the grazing area during the dry season. Their trampling of the land stimulates grass growth and increases the quantity and quality of vegetation for animal herds coming after them.
Worrying signs
While their meat is more often a last resort than a preferred choice, zebras are threatened by hunting through much of their range, especially when they move out of protected areas. Their population has reduced by 24% since 2002, which is worrying for a species considered common and widespread.
The IUCN Status
LC Least Concern
NT Near Threatened
EX Extinct
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species.
Least Concern
At relatively low risk of extinction
Near Threatened
Likely to become vulnerable in the near future
At high risk of extinction in the wild
At very high risk of extinction in the wild
Critically Endangered
At extremely high risk of extinction in the wild
Extinct in the Wild
Survives only in captivity
No surviving individuals in the wild or in captivity
Fragile Forest
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Planet Moby
Author: Reena JanaReena Jana
Pink Floyd used to be your escort to the dark side of the moon. Now it's Moby. The electropop star scored SonicVision, the new multimedia show at the Hayden Planetarium in New York. "I'm a geek who grew up obsessed with outer space," says Moby. "The only problem was, I wasn't bright enough to be a scientist." His hit "We Are All Made of Stars," along with tunes by Radiohead, Stereolab, the Flaming Lips, and others, accompany the 35-minute animated movie that takes visitors through an observatory's ceiling and into an alien dance party. Seven projectors beam the film onto the Hayden's 68-foot-tall dome while 23 speakers provide a visceral kick. Strap on the jet boosters - it's time to get your groove on.
Boards of Canada / "Julie and Candy"
David Bowie / "Heroes"
The Flaming Lips / "Do You Realize?"
Moby / "Into the Blue" and "We Are All Made of Stars"
Queens of the Stone Age / "First It Giveth"
Radiohead / "Everything in Its Right Place"
Stereolab / "Metronomic Underground"
U2 / "Elevation"
Scratch-n-Sketch
What's On Your iPod?
You Chill, You Score
The Michael Crichton School of Science
The Big Tease
Life After Star Wars
Atlas of the Mind
Artists in Wonderland
Spray-On Silk Stockings
Happiness Is … a Highrise Museum
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Crews work to clean up diesel spill after train derailment
Derailment happened Sunday afternoon
Updated: 12:04 PM EST Nov 19, 2018
WBTV SOURCE: WBTV
A Norfolk Southern freight train was stuck on the tracks Sunday afternoon in Salisbury, North Carolina after two or three of its engines began to lean on the track due to their weight.A soft spot had developed beneath the track in an area behind the 1100 block of West Innes Street. Diesel fuel began leaking from the engines while the train was stopped. An environmental company was on-site to help with cleanup.
A Norfolk Southern freight train was stuck on the tracks Sunday afternoon in Salisbury, North Carolina after two or three of its engines began to lean on the track due to their weight.
A soft spot had developed beneath the track in an area behind the 1100 block of West Innes Street. Diesel fuel began leaking from the engines while the train was stopped. An environmental company was on-site to help with cleanup.
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Downtown Victoria: Your Place to Be
Kaleidoscope Theatre Reimagines the Story of Pinocchio This March
Kaleidoscope Theatre’s production of Pinocchio is less Disney, more Indigenous.
By David Lennam
Kaleidoscope Artistic Director Roderick Glanville with Kaska/Tlingit artist Dean Heron, whose images define the show’s design. PHOTO: JOSHUA LAWRENCE
Kaleidoscope Theatre’s Pinocchio runs March 9 and 10 at the McPherson Playhouse.
There’s a fine line to tread when adapting well-travelled stories into theatre for young audiences. When it clicks, the dividends are tangible, resulting in entertainment that satisfies kids and adults, theatre that informs and a show that passes along some allegorical wisdom.
Kaleidoscope Theatre has been tip-toeing that high-wire for 44 years, since founding artistic director Elizabeth Gorrie and her husband, Colin, let kids’ theatre be a powerful experience that transcended age barriers with productions that challenged and, at times, enraged parents.
In fact, adhering to that sharp edge was almost Kaleidoscope’s undoing. In 1996, area schools boycotted Stiletto, its controversial cabaret exploring sexism and racism among youth.
Concerns that Stiletto was too graphic and provocative for young kids came at a time when the fully professional company was under extreme financial duress. It had already laid off half its staff and creditors were barking at the doors. Soon Kaleidoscope would lose its Herald Street theatre. And Gorrie, in 2000. She died 11 years later from lung cancer.
It took time for Kaleidoscope to recover and shift, financially and artistically, and it’s only in the last few years that it feels like Gorrie’s legacy is being honoured.
Theatre’s Truth … and Reconcilation
Roderick Glanville, who took over as artistic director in 2011, hasn’t shied away from presenting Gorrie-worthy theatre. The latest is Pinocchio, but more Carlo Collodi’s late-19th-century fable than Walt Disney’s iconic 1940 animated treatment.
Collodi’s book, which first appeared in serial form in a Rome newspaper from 1881 to 1882, is fairly dark and serious, and is considered a tragic work. In an early version, the puppet dies in the noose as punishment for his naughtiness.
Hardly the stuff of Disney. And not quite where Glanville wants his adaptation going.
Kaleidoscope’s Pinocchio will not be tortured, hung by his skinny wooden neck or have his feet burnt off.
“We’re targeting elementary and middle schools,” says Glanville, who will be directing. “I’m trying to grow our audience, not terrify them [but] I will not shy away from some difficult topics.”
Originally hired by Gorrie as an actor, Glanville has a 25-year association with Kaleidoscope. He understands success in kids’ theatre means choosing recognizable titles to glean school system support, but, he emphasizes, “recognizable safe titles that we can put a unique Kaleidoscope twist on.”
In this case, it’s less Jiminy Cricket and more of the original book about a wild boy led to temptation and then back to redemption. The story is filled with strong messaging around responsibility “because every single chapter is a moral tale.”
And though he admits he doesn’t want to be heavy handed about it, Glanville is aligning Pinocchio with the struggles of First Nations. It’s a fresh, propitious take in the time of truth and reconciliation.
A Real Boy
For those who have forgotten the story of what is, surprisingly, the most translated non-religious book in history, Pinocchio is a puppet who, through his actions, saves himself and his father and is granted forgiveness and acceptance. Ultimately, he’s transformed into a real boy. Glanville has the idea that this is what reconciliation might be about (minus, of course, the magical metamorphosis into humanity). And he goes further, suggesting that Pinocchio’s journey, in which he emerges through layers of cultural oppression and history, parallels the story of Canada’s Indigenous people.
Holding his premise firmly in place is a collaboration with the Kaska/Tlingit artist Dean Heron, whose images will become the show’s design, placing this Pinocchio geographically and culturally in the Pacific Northwest.
“I’ve been looking for a project to work with Dean on and then immediately, it was like this is the show to do,” says Glanville. “It’s all Trickster. Every single one of the characters that Pinocchio encounters is teaching us a very hard lesson about responsibility and community. It’s got Indigenous interpretation all over it.”
Heron agrees that Pinocchio’s journey of transformation isn’t so different from First Nation lore. “Transformation, that’s a common story throughout most of the [Indigenous] groups on the coast. Most of the stories on the coast are exactly that — moral stories that teach lessons.”
He says placing this story in a West Coast environment (which his art will emphasize in the play’s set) harnesses a geographic connection that ties the land to the people.
The addition of two Indigenous cast members solidifies this local take on a classic and ensures it won’t be the sanitized, assimilationist fable that taught children to live with American middle-class values. That’s been the criticism of Disney’s version.
Disney was peddling escapism, says Glanville. “You used to go to an arts event to escape reality. I think now you go to an arts event to explore reality.”
Elizabeth Gorrie would have liked to have heard that.
This article is from the January/February 2018 issue of YAM.
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Police: Shrewsbury woman lied about rent money being stolen to avoid eviction
A Shrewsbury woman was charged with false reports to police after she said her rent money had been stolen to avoid...
Police: Shrewsbury woman lied about rent money being stolen to avoid eviction A Shrewsbury woman was charged with false reports to police after she said her rent money had been stolen to avoid... Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/blogs/ydr-911/2014/01/31/police-shrewsbury-woman-lied-about-rent-money-being-stolen-to-avoid-eviction/31608347/
YorkDailyRecord Published 5:32 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2014
A Shrewsbury woman was charged with false reports to police after she said her rent money had been stolen to avoid eviction, according to state police.
Michelle Lee McBride, 32, of the 16000 block of Susquehanna Trail South reported on Dec. 8 that she had been robbed of $400 while walking to drop off her rent money, police said.
After no suspects were found, McBride confessed that she made a false report because she didn’t have the money to pay her rent and was afraid she’d be evicted.
She was charged with unsworn falsification to authorities and false reports to law enforcement.
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Running in Bath
Bath's architecture, beautiful parks and small city feel make it the perfect spot for you to stretch your legs on a run. Pull on your trainers and head out and about on two feet, a great way to see the best of the city.
Distance: 6 miles/9km
Start/finish: Bathwick Hill, BA2 6JZ
Terrain: Track, trail, grassland, road
Toughness: Moderate
Ascent: 215 metres
Navigation: Easy (waymarked)
Good for: Families, urban escape
Route info: http://wildrunning.net/bath-skyline/
The Bath Skyline is a National Trust-maintained, well-waymarked route through the hilly, green spaces above the Heritage city of Bath. There are outstanding views over the city and surrounding countryside from many places on the route, which also passes an 18th-centuary landscape garden and the impressive frontage of Sham Castle. To access the run, stand on Bathwick Hill with your back to Cleveland Walk, take the path opposite that goes between the houses, through a kissing gate and diagonally across the field. From this point follow the regular waymarkers until emerging from Cleveland Walk, back onto Bathwick Hill.
Download your Wild Running guide here.
Bath Skyline run
Outstanding city views
YHA Bath
En suite rooms available
OS Grid Ref: ST 76321 64607
Lat/Lng: 51.375801, -2.3599039
Visit one of the finest thermal spas of the ancient world here in Bath. The bathing complex still flows with natural hot water.
The exhibition tells the story of Jane Austen's Bath experience and the effect that living here had on her and her writing.
Bath Abbey
Whether you want to join in with a service or just take in the breathtaking architecture, the abbey is a must see!
Bath Thermal Spa
Enjoy a spa experience in Britain's only natural thermal waters as the Celts and Romans did over 2000 years ago.
The Makery runs a wide range of hen party activities, from garter making to life drawing, hosted from their beautiful Georgian building in the centre of the city.
The Museum of East Asian Art
One of the most unique art collections in the UK housing ceramics, jades and bronzes from China, Korea and Japan.
Fashion Museum
If you love fashion, you will love this world class collection of contemporary and historical dress.
Sally Lunn's
This world famous tea and eating house, home of the famous bun, is open all day to eat in or take away your treat.
Brimming with history, the Theatre Royal is one of the oldest theatres in Britain offering entertainment all year round.
This centre is an exciting extension to the shops in Milsom Street and down the numerous back lanes of Bath.
Walking and Rambling in Bath
Very close to the Avon & Kennet Canal, there is a walking track through National Trust grounds.
At-Bristol
With over 300 hands-on exhibits to explore, live shows and a planetarium, this is one of the most exciting interactive science centres in the country.
Explore the wonders of the underwater world at Bristol Aquarium with thousands of natural creatures to view in over 40 naturally themed displays.
From its tragedies to triumphs to the extraordinary lives of ordinary people, Bristol has incredible stories to tell and you'll find plenty of them here. M Shed is a museum all about Bristol.
Undercover Rock
Learn the thrills and challenges of this exciting sport. Undercover Rock provides everything from indoor taster sessions to major rock climbing adventures.
St Nicholas indoor markets
St Nicholas indoor market is one of the city's best kept secrets. As well as great places to eat, there are loads of independent retailers selling books, clothes, art and music.
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The troops
American paratroopers train with IDF's Egoz unit in Israel
A large scale training exercise held in Israel this week saw 173 American paratroopers and hundreds of fighters from the IDF's elite Egoz unit, participating in joint invasion drills and getting to know each other.
Yoav Zitun |Published: 12.03.15 , 16:50
This week marked the end of a large scale joint infantry training exercise between the IDF and US military: The Israeli participants included hundreds of warriors from the Egoz guerilla warfare unit in the Golani Brigade, while the Americans sent 173 paratroops from the US European Command.
The forces trained together for more than a week, shoulder to shoulder, in various scenarios which drilled the troops' basic skills. The troops also took part in joint training invasions against an urban warfare training center near the Tze'elim base in the south, which is meant to simulate a village with dozens of armed enemy militants.
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The troops also practiced taking over enemy controlled territory in one of the villages in the north, which was meant to simulate the transition from fighting in mountainous terrain to an urban setting. The troops also performed joint shooting drills and physical fitness training.
The US troops (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)
160 camouflage-clad American paratroopers landed at Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of the exercise, and immediately boarded buses which took them to the southern training grounds to meet their counterparts from Egoz. The orders on the radio channels during the exercises were in English only, and the safety guidelines for the drill were those used by the Israeli hosts - which tend to be more strict. Due to the differences in safety protocols between the militaries, the soldiers fired only blanks when training outside of the shooting range.
The American military is considered lenient in its safety protocols in comparison to the IDF. American troops, for example, are allowed to: Count their hits at the shooting range while their friends continue to fire, check their own rifles after a range without the range commander's verification, and often walk around with a round in the chamber.
In order to still maintain the live fire effect during the drills, the IDF used several pyrotechnic effects. "It was an interesting exercise," an officer from the Egoz unit told Ynet, "We learned alot from the drills."
The American force came to Israel with its guns, including assault rifles, 7.62 mm machine guns, sniper rifles, and personal combat gear.
At the height of the exercise, on the road to one of the simulated objectives, the forces split into two groups: The attack force, which included dozens of Golani fights and American soldiers, attacked the second force which simulated enemy militants in the target village. The forces switched places the next day in order to complete the exercise.
The soldiers from both militaries also conducted training ambushes of different types, and trained in different elements of camouflage, and fighting in thicket.
"We never identified the enemy we were training against as Hamas or Hezbollah. For us and them terror is terror," an IDF officer said. "In contrast to us, the American infantry is based more on larger troop numbers and more fire power. We are more creative and flexible with our smaller forces. This difference results in them getting 'stuck' in the entrance to a target position. Another difference that we noticed was the approach: We teach our solders to be independent and creative on the battlefield, while they work according to set orders and protocol, No one moves until everyone is in place."
An additional and not surprising difference came about in the technologies used: Egoz fighters noticed that the Americans relied on computer and GPS during every navigation, while the IDF's infantry commanders are required to learn their paths ahead of time from a map, memorizing the topography in the classic manner - using a compass. Only using a GPS as a backup.
"Like us, the American infantry forces are also divided into regiments, mortars, snipers, UAV operators etc," the officer said. "They said they left the exercise saying a big 'wow.' They didn't expect to encounter such a high level of training. They learned alot of elements and techniques like camouflage from us. They were also excited by our varied use of Oketz dogs."
The officer added that the forces avoided holding shooting or fitness competitions between the sides. The American solders "did Shabbat" at Nevatim Airbase, visited Masada and Jerusalem, and held a running competition in a Druze village in the north. After the exercise, the troops returned to their home base in Italy.
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Pundit makes brutal dig after Leeds United win, £20m-rated winger rips Preston to pieces, QPR boss blasts red card decision - Championship winners and losers
The 2019/20 Championship campaign is continuing to storm along at a rate of knots, with a midweek set of fixtures providing another dose of high-octane footballing drama. Leeds United and Hull City both picked up wins, Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield Town had to settle for a point in their respective games, while Barnsley suffered a 1-0 loss to Middlesbrough.
Thursday 28 November 2019 12:36
Richie Boon
Meanwhile, West Bromwich Albion continued their progress towards the title, while Derby County and Nottingham Forest suffered demoralising losses. Here's our round-up of the clubs and footballing figures who emerged as either winners or losers in the latest round of matches.
5. W: Patrick Bamford
He gave Reading fans a taste of their own medicine with an ear-cupping gesture after the Whites scored the winner. He won't win over everyone, but the dressing room are said to "love him", according to Football Insider.
6. L: Queens Park Rangers
These are dark, dark times for the Hoops. After Lee Wallace was sent off in the second half - a decision which enraged his manager - Nottingham Forest went to town, and ran out 4-0 winners at Loftus Road.
7. W: Luton Town
My word, they were due a win! The Hatters fans were simply delighted to end their five-game losing streak, with a vital 2-1 victory over the rapidly sinking Charlton Athletic.
8. W: Jarrod Bowen
Hull City are surely resigned to losing their talismanic forward in the near future, as he put in another stellar performance for the Tigers on Wednesday, scoring twice and making an assist in a 4-0 win over Preston.
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Police: High school coach lifted $40 from player’s wallet
Posted: Oct 9, 2019 / 06:39 PM MDT / Updated: Oct 9, 2019 / 06:39 PM MDT
In this Aug. 7, 2019 photo, then-Miyamura High School Patriots football head coach John Roanhaus huddles with the team in their first week of practice to open the football season in Gallup, N.M. Roanhaus was arrested Saturday, Oct. 5, 2018, after authorities say a student used cell video to catch their coach taking money from a player’s wallet. (Alma E. Hernandez/Gallup Independent via AP)
CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico football coach has been fired and faces criminal charges after authorities said a student used a cellphone video to capture the coach on video taking money from a player’s wallet.
State Police arrested Miyamura High School coach John D. Roanhaus on Saturday following a review of the footage showing Roanhaus going into the school’s locker room and taking $40 from the wallet, court documents said.
According to an arrest warrant, a police officer was contacted by a student’s mother who showed the officer the cellphone video. The video showed Roanhaus walking into the school’s locker area, taking two $20 bills from a black wallet and stuffing the money in his sock, Officer Nathaniel Renteria wrote in the arrest warrant.
Roanhaus had been the head football coach at the high school in the small, New Mexico western city of Gallup since 2018. He is the youngest son of New Mexico Hall of Fame coach Eric Roanhaus, who retired in 2016 as head football coach at Clovis High School after recording 343 wins, the most in state history.
The mother told Renteria it wasn’t the first time that players had experienced thefts in the locker room.
Gallup-McKinley County Schools Superintendent Mike Hyatt told the Gallup Independent newspaper that Roanhaus was fired.
Roanhaus, 42, was charged with larceny and non-residential burglary and ordered held on $2,000 bail. Roanhaus did not immediately respond to a telephone message left Wednesday seeking comment.
No attorney was listed for Roanhaus and he has not been assigned a public defender, court records said. A preliminary court hearing on the case was scheduled for Wednesday.
Miyamura High School’s football team has a 1-6 record this season after a 55-14 loss last Friday.
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Favorite Report
Director: Simon West
Actors: Ardy Brent Carlson, Ben Foster, Christa Campbell, Creed Bratton, David Dahlgren, Donald Sutherland, Eddie J. Fernandez, James Logan, Jason Statham, Jeff Chase, Joel Davis, John McConnell, Joshua Bridgewater, Katarzyna Wolejnio, Lara Grice, Mark Nutter, Mini Anden, Tony Goldwyn
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Sung-Bum (Uhm Tae-Woong) is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a police…
Demonia Undertaker
An alien from another planet with great super powers comes to earth to destroy the whole human race by possessing their bodies. Alien bounty hunters Staleth (Molina) is sent with…
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu’s boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford…
Genre: Action, Best 2002, Drama, Thriller
Space Sheriff Gavan vs. Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
Space Sheriff Gavan vs Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger features the return of Yuma Ishigaki from 2012’s Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie and the 2015 Space Sheriff Next Generation films. The first…
Mission Impossible II
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from…
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After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best 2014, Marvel, Science Fiction
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009:
The cost of always arresting the wrong people on racist grounds inspired by Bibi's 'war on terror' - both Bibi and Rudy were on hand in London on 7/7 to see the conspiracy first-hand - is not only the costs of the legal proceedings and the cost to the innocents involved and the costs to many others who face the same Zionist racism, but the biggest cost of all: the real perpetrators go free, and are able to do the same thing again. One wonders how much of this bullshit the British people will put up with before they decide to do something about it.
The chain of custody problem would be sufficient in itself to sink the latest 'truther' effort. I love this Danish moron, who seems to think that the problem of secretly moving 10 to 100 tons of explosives into buildings which were in full operation 24/7/365 without one person noticing anything isn't his problem.
Part of the secret war against the Jews. Godspeed. As a mind experiment, contemplate how much better the world would be if the Jews didn't run the United States and much of Europe.
CIA clown scared away from a speech by fear of embarrassment.
The guy who phoned Harman probably knew he was being wiretapped (“We know that we are closely watched, that people might be listening to our phone calls. This is our working premise.”), which means he was setting her up to control her for even worse crimes, possibly when she became CIA director. The story is accomplishing the impossible by making Dennis Hastert look like some kind of hero, despite the fact that some people are never going to love him (the aides typing the letter themselves has an 'All the President's Men' feel to it!).
A peak behind the curtain, no doubt intended to make it seem normal and un-frightening. I too "detest the accusation of dual loyalty and find it a despicable canard." The only loyalty of anyone who still self-identifies as Jewish is to Anti-Assimilation-Land. End of story. Start self-identifying as Palestinian and I'll start to give you some respect.
More funny stuff:
"Former FBI counterintelligence official David Szady, who led the investigation that targeted the AIPAC figures, told the New York Times in an interview last week that he was confident Harman had never sought to intervene in the case. "In all my dealings with her, she was always professional and never tried to intervene or get in the way of any investigation," Szady told the Times. The remark, while exonerating, is still perhaps puzzling. Why would an official who had been involved in a sensitive counterintelligence investigation yet to go to trial comment about the actions of someone who the government has not acknowledged was a subject of investigation in the case? How would he know who Harman had or had not lobbied on the matter? The Justice Department, for its part, denied comment. Szady could not be reached."
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Training steps lead to the next generation of engineering talent at MTC
Feb 8, 2017 | Customer Success Stories
As you would expect from the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) Coventry, with its stated aim of ‘inspiring Great British manufacturing, on the global stage’; when it created its Lloyds Bank Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre (AMTC) it wanted to deliver the best in terms of skills development. It is achieving this through the development of a high technology training programme, directly employing apprentices and, of course, investment in the correct machine tools to enhance skills. The most recent investment being nine machines from XYZ Machine Tools, which are being used to provide the steps from basic manual machines through to CNC.
“We currently have 120 apprentices spread over three cohorts, all of which are directly employed by the MTC. The aim is to develop their skills to a level that will add value to SME companies in our area and, be ambassadors of the AMTC with their future employers after their initial two-years of training,” says Neil Fowkes, Head of Training at AMTC’s Training Services. “In their first year our apprentices attend a local college to work towards their EAL Extended Diploma. They then return to the AMTC where they will work on various individual and team projects as undertaking training on three core subjects of Metrology, CNC and Intelligent Automation. After this we feel they are developing in to well-rounded and knowledgeable trainees and we work with local SMEs to make them aware of the available skills, this is enhanced by a series of work placements for the apprentices. That isn’t the end of their training, though, as they have the option of extending their education and going on to study for a Higher Education Programme if their grades and future employer allow.”
It is when these apprentices return from their time at college that they need to start making the transition to becoming knowledgeable about machine tools and the application of CNC. In order to achieve this, a range of machines that would make those transitional steps straightforward were required and, with its range of manual machines and ProtoTRAK controlled mills and lathes, XYZ Machine Tools became the obvious choice. It wasn’t just the machines that swung the decision for the MTC as they were also looking for a partner that understood the training environment and could work with the staff running the Lloyds Bank Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre.
“We needed a broad range of suppliers that we could develop a valued relationship with and with the potential for natural growth as we develop our training activities. When we met with XYZ it quickly became obvious that they understood the training environment, and they worked with us to ensure we acquired the machines that were needed, not what they wanted to sell. This willingness of XYZ Machine Tools to work with us, along with its extensive experience in the education and training sector, gave us the confidence that we needed. In turn this will lead to a good working relationship in years to come,” says Neil Fowkes.
The combination of the XYZ machines, the experience of our sector and the ongoing support provided by XYZ has created an environment that is conducive to quality technical learning. XYZ has provided us with a complete package that included staff training and ongoing support
The XYZ machines installed at the Lloyds Bank Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre include five manual machines consisting of two XYZ trainer 1330 lathes, two SLV manual mills, all fitted with Newall digital readouts, along with an XYZ 1020 surface grinder. These manual machines are complemented by four ProtoTRAK controlled machines, two XYZ SLX 1630 ProTURN lathes and two XYZ SMX 2000 ProtoTRAK mills. The machines are used to machine both standard test pieces and individual parts that students (both apprentices and those on graduate programmes) have designed as part of their design for manufacture studies. The AMTC also hosts many tours for students looking to take up an apprenticeship and the machines play an important role in these, with existing apprentices demonstrating the machine capabilities, or, in some cases, under strict supervision, students being able to machine simple parts for themselves.
“The combination of the XYZ machines, the experience of our sector and the ongoing support provided by XYZ has created an environment that is conducive to quality technical learning. XYZ has provided us with a complete package that included staff training and ongoing support,” says Neil Fowkes. “An example of this is an upcoming four-day advanced course for 12 of our trainees, where they will undergo intensive tuition on programming, not only on the XYZ ProtoTRAK control system, but also on Siemens controls, which will prepare them for the next step up in machine tool technology. This training came about through a discussion with John Aspinall, XYZ Machine Tools’ Education Sales Director. We identified that we had a need and within 24 hours of our discussion the training had been organised and scheduled.”
(Above and Below) Trainees with the XYZ SLV Manual mill.
(Above) The next step of training is the XYZ SMX 2000 ProtoTRAK turret mill.
(Above) Grinding is covered with the XYZ 1020 surface grinder.
(Above) The MTC chose a mix of XYZ trainer lathes and the XYZ ProTURN 1630.
(Above) An overview of the XYZ machines installed at the MTC’s Lloyds Bank Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre.
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Kung Fu Nuns
The nuns at the Druk Gawa Khilwa Nunnery in Nepal train kung fu each day in the early morning. A few years ago, several Vietnamese nuns were asked to visit the nunnery in Nepal to teach Kung Fu there. Another Drukpa nunnery in northern India has expressed interest, and the Vietnamese nuns will go there to teach as well.
Martial arts training is making a comeback as a part of daily life for monks and nuns around the world.
For most nunneries, the initial interest in kung fu comes from the need for nuns to know self-defense when they travel from the nunnery. The training allows the nuns to be self-sufficient and discourages violence toward women in general. Martial arts practice strengthens the mind and body, making it easier to sit in meditation for 6 - 8 hours a day. Their quality of life is improved, as they become happier and healthier.
In addition, the women in modern-day nunneries are empowered and more equal to the male practitioners than in ancient times.
There are very few existing formal historical documents about nunneries and their martial training. However, you can find more information from martial arts novels written in ancient times. We can trust the novels to be historically correct to some degree, and they give us an idea of life at that time.
Martial arts training for women is very common in the traditional Chinese martial arts society. I would suppose that in ancient times, about 30% of martial artists were women. Martial arts training in Chinese nunneries were not uncommon though they were not as widespread as in monasteries. From martial history and legends we know that the levels of martial art skill that nuns had reached were similar to that of monks. Famous nunneries which had martial arts training were located in Qingcheng Mountain (青城山) and Emei Mountain (峨嵋山) in Sichuan Province (四川省).
One of the most well-known nuns who reached a very high level was Wumei (五枚) during Chinese Qing Dynasty (清朝). Wumei's original laymen name was Lu, Siliang (呂四娘) and she was from a famous nunnery called White Cloud Nunnery (白雲觀) in Yunnan Province (雲南省). Wumei was known for her White Crane martial arts and was also known to be the teacher of Yan, Yongchun (嚴詠春) another famous female martial artist. Yongchun has been one of the most popular styles spreading around Canton (廣東) and Hong Kong (香港) and was the style learned by the famous martial arts movie star, Bruce Lee. Most of the styles taught in Chinese nunneries were either from Shaolin or Wudang. For example, Wumei's martial arts were of Shaolin linkage.
The Drukpa nuns in Nepal may now be practicing martial arts related to the Yongchun style.Yongchun was developed specifically to be practiced by females in the ancient times.
YMAA author Zhou, Xuan-Yun, is a present-day Daoist monk who recently relocated from Wudang mountain to Boston, MA. He says ,"Women at Wudang mountain traditionally trained the internal practices. Maybe it's part of the yin nature, which tends to contract inward and produce stillness. There are some now at Wudang who are proficient in tai chi. Daoists wander, so it's hard to keep track of who does what and where."
It may confuse people that martial arts often are studied in a monastery. There are a few reasons for this martial arts training:
For self-defense. When nuns travel around the country, they need to be able to defend themselves.
For spiritual cultivation. Martial arts training is difficult. One of the main reasons that many Chinese monasteries and nunneries trained martial arts was for self-cultivation. This way they would be able to reach a higher spiritual level. This is because to reach a high level of martial arts, a lot of self-discipline and training is needed. The mind and body are trained simultaneously.
From training martial arts, they can maintain their health, both physically and mentally. In order to reach high level of martial arts training, you must know Qigong. From Qigong training, you learn how to condition your body, to regulate your breathing, to regulate your mind, to learn how to build up the Qi to an abundant level, and to lead the Qi to circulate in your body to maintain your health. Through these four requirements, you learn how to lead the Qi to the brain to re-open the third eye for spiritual enlightenment.
I believe there is a revival of classical martial arts today in nunneries out of necessity. People need to be able to protect themselves and stand up for others. It is excellent to see the traditional martial self-discipline in the modern nunneries. Through these disciplines, all nuns will be better able to understand the meaning of life.
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Women allowed to work at Bell even when hideous
Fired women file suit, human rights claim, say retreat with martial arts theme 'over the top'.
Here's the story: a couple of female executives (who have been run over by the ugly truck) did well at Bell Express-Vu.
Then they went to an executive retreat.
In documents filed in a civil lawsuit alleging gender discrimination in the workplace by their former employers, the women say they had to put up with a macho corporate culture that included sexist, vulgar language and being frozen out of drinking sessions with the "boys' club."
The company denies the women were subjected to discrimination.
A July 2005 "off-site" retreat, organized around a martial arts theme, was "over the top," Green said in an interview.
They were assigned The Art of War to read. "War music" was playing. "We had to wear war paraphernalia ... bandannas, costumes and props," Boutilier said in an interview. And they were expected to participate in a judo class.
"I'm from New York," says Green. "I'm used to crazy things. What shocked me was Fran and I were both in business attire. We were both wearing high heels, stockings and skirts."
Boutilier paired off with a third woman who was there from a different arm of Bell Canada. Green says she refused to pair off with a man to practise kicks, punches and chokeholds.
"It was full body contact," she says. "There was no way. ... I kind of feigned an injury and said that I couldn't do it. I mean that's rule 101. No bodily contact between male and female employees."
"No bodily contact between male and female employees" implies that male-male and male-female body contact is allowed. Isn't that rule (that these crazy bitches have quoted) the real discrimination? Shouldn't they have been upset if they were excluded from the judo bit because they were fragile little half-human homo acerbii? With one breath they complain that they were "excluded from the drinking sessions", and then get upset because they were permitted to participate in the same team-building rituals that the men were. In fact, this entire claim seems rooted in the firm belief that only men are capable at war, perform stylized martial arts, or read books of historical interest. Not sure exactly whose case is being strengthened here...
She points to Bell's own website, based on Statistics Canada data, which shows the percentage of women working at Bell ExpressVu – 38.3 per cent of its workforce – is well below the numbers for women available in the workforce – 59.3 per cent – for the jobs. That's surprising, given the majority are call-centre positions, traditionally "pink ghetto" jobs, says Boutilier.
So...Bell needs to... hire more tea ladies?
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Official Opening of Peel Youth Village Gives Youth a Place to Call Home
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, October 14, 2005 — The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario and the Region of Peel celebrated the official opening of Peel Youth Village today. Peel Youth Village provides transitional housing and supports for homeless youth, as well as programs and recreational activities for the surrounding Acorn Place community.
Attending today's ceremony were the Honourable Joe Fontana, Minister of Labour and Housing; the Honourable Navdeep Singh Bains, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and MP for Mississauga–Brampton South; the Honourable Harinder Takhar, Ontario Minister of Transportation and MPP for Mississauga Centre, on behalf of the Honourable John Gerretsen, Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing; and Frank Dale, Regional Councillor of the Region of Peel.
Through the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative (SCPI), a component of the National Homelessness Initiative (NHI), the Government of Canada previously announced Phase I SCPI funding of $2,474,818 for this project. By the end of March 2006, under SCPI Phase II, it will have provided a further contribution of $1,197,559. In addition, the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario have contributed $658,000 under the Canada–Ontario Affordable Housing Program.
The Region of Peel provided $426,024 through grants in lieu of property taxes and land donations.
"No Canadian, especially our vulnerable youth, should ever be subjected to homelessness," said Minister Fontana. "Shelter is one of the foundations upon which healthy communities and individual dignity are built, and the Government of Canada is committed to providing all Canadians with the support they need to thrive and prosper in the workplace and our community."
"The McGuinty government knows that safe and affordable shelter is crucial to youths in this province who are trying to gain independence," said Minister Takhar. "Peel Youth Village is a tangible proof of this government's commitment to providing affordable housing to those who need it most. By investing together in affordable housing, we are investing in the people of Ontario and strengthening our families and our communities."
Peel Youth Village is a four-storey residential project designed to house and assist 48 youths aged 16 to 30. It is a comprehensive transitional housing and community development facility. Peel Youth Village will provide young people with the appropriate supports they need to move from the street to stability.
"In partnership with the federal and provincial governments, the Region of Peel built this exciting new facility for the benefit of our youth and the Acorn community alike," said Mr. Emil Kolb, Regional Chair of the Region of Peel. "Operated by the YMCA of Greater Toronto, Peel Youth Village will provide its residents and members of the community with a place to participate in recreational and educational programming, as well as other community activities."
"Peel Youth Village is a unique approach to housing local youths in transition who are motivated to help themselves," said David Szwarc, Commissioner of Social Services, Region of Peel. "This facility will not only provide a safe living environment for its residents, but the programs offered within these walls will also empower them to regain independence and ultimately work toward becoming happy, healthy and contributing members of the community."
The Government of Canada launched the NHI in December 1999 to support communities' efforts to help Canadians out of homelessness. By working in partnership with community organizations, the private and voluntary sectors, and other levels of government, the NHI is bringing all stakeholders together to develop local solutions that work to address the particular needs and challenges that homeless people face. Since the launch, the Government of Canada has contributed over $8.9 million to alleviate homelessness in the regions of Peel and Halton and in Dufferin County.
In Peel Region, the Government of Canada, through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, has contributed $6.2 million through the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program Agreement to date. The new federal-provincial agreement, signed on April 29, 2005, comprises a commitment of $301 million from each of the two levels of government. With this commitment, the federal, provincial and municipal governments will have invested $734 million through the Canada–Ontario Affordable Housing Program. In total, the program will help 20,000 Ontario households by 2010.
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Arvind Kejriwal leaves his first Janata Darbar midway due to 'stampede-like' situation
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Even as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has opened the doors of his office for common men, there was chaos at his Janata Darbar on Saturday morning as thousands of people arrived at the venue with their grievances.
Despite adequate security measures, the situation became so uncontrollable that the Chief Minister himself had to appeal to the crowd to cooperate with the authorities. This even as all the roads leading to the secretariat were barricaded and only pedestrians were allowed.
Following the incident, Kejriwal had to leave the venue. Speaking to reporter, Kejriwal said that there was a 'stampede-like' situation. He, however, thanked people for support and assured that would resume his Janata Darbar in a couple of days after ensuring adequate arrangements.
"We will have to improve the arrangements.If I had not left the place then there was a possibility of a stampede.
Everybody wanted to meet me. We will streamline the system so that a similar situation does not recur," he said.
"We will improve the system. I will sit with the officers and make necessary arrangements," he told reporters.
On Friday, the Chief Minister had announced that the entire cabinet would sit in front of the Delhi Secretariat on Saturdays to receive grievances from people and efforts would be made to solve them immediately. On weekdays, one minister will receive grievances from the public.
"Public grievance is another major issue. It is a major issue for any government. It is the duty of every government to resolve those grievances. Public grievance is just a symptom, the disease lies somewhere else," Kejriwal had said.
Grievances will be segregated into five categories depending upon their urgencies.
"The urgent cases related to school admission or admission to a hospital will be resolved on the spot. In the next category, ministers will mention the time frame to resolve the grievance.
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Aftershocks of the Blockade
Nepal and India both need to learn their lessons, and move on to improve bilateral ties
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Last week’s air dash to Kathmandu by Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj can be analysed at two levels: what was officially stated as the purpose of the visit, and its probable real purpose.
“We have come to meet our friends. We don’t have any agenda,” Swaraj stressed upon arrival in Kathmandu on 1 February. But in conspiracy-minded Kathmandu, the rumour mills were on overdrive about what the southern neighbour was up to, or to be more specific, what her boss Prime Minister Narendra Modi had up his sleeves.
There is only one word to describe Modi’s strategy: being unpredictable. And that has more significance for its consequences on India itself, than for us in Nepal.
Swaraj was here a few days after Modi had called up Prime Minister-in-waiting KP Oli, his second call since Nepal’s elections. This is interesting because Oli was prime minister when India imposed a border blockade on Nepal for nearly six months in 2015 – wrecking the economy and delaying delivery of earthquake relief.
Modi had visited Nepal immediately after assuming office in 2014. He won hearts and minds here by his sweepingly benevolent speech to Parliament. A year later, when the earthquake struck, Modi was the first to rush Air Force helicopters to deliver relief supplies to remote areas. But soon, the Nepal handlers at South Block decided to punish Nepal with a Blockade for rushing a constitution which they were not happy about.
Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishanker’s ill timed visit to Kathmandu in September 2015 and its unfortunate consequences led to the third blockade of Nepal by independent India.
Internationally, perception management was carried out effectively. New Delhi had learnt from the 1990 blockade how to control the messaging, and leveraged its geopolitical clout to force the whole world to look the other way. All this was completely counterproductive because on the ground, where it mattered the most, the arm-twisting just made Nepalis angrier.
As prime minister, Oli gave that fight a face, character and spirit. He magnified the significance of his outreach to China to spook the Indian media. Alarmed by self-amplified coverage that Nepal was being pushed into the Chinese fold, New Delhi lifted the blockade in January 2016. Nepalis celebrated not just the end of the shortages, but also the belief that we had stood our ground. Modi lost more in Nepal than he had gained for India.
In the love-hate feelings for India, the Blockade pushed the balance more towards hate, and undoing that is going to take decades. Modi is now on fence-mending mode, and is aiming to start from where he left off with the cancelled visit to Janakpur in 2015. There are many lessons for India’s foreign policy establishment as it now tackles similar crises with its other neighbours.
‘At the beginning of the era of independence, by way of a foreign policy establishment, India had only Jawaharlal Nehru,” writes M K Rasgotra in his book, A Life in Diplomacy, “The world listened to him with attention because his ideas was the voice of an India which the modern world had not heard of for two hundred years.”
For Nehru, India’s foreign policy was a means of making India’s presence felt in the world. Not only had Nehru claimed the grandiose role of an idealist global leader committed to non-alignment, he had also imagined an India that provided an all encompassing guardianship to its neighbours.
Nirad C Chaudhary wrote in 1952 that it was because of Nehru that India, a country without ‘material, men or money’ had gained a position of credibility. ‘India’s word was listened to with respect in the councils of the great.’
While Nehru was aggressively championing Asia’s resurgence, China invaded and annexed Tibet. In Parliament Nehru expressed his hope that the matter would be ‘resolved peacefully’. He felt India had ‘to be careful not to overdo’ criticism of a neighbouring country that was also emerging from domination.
Under Nehru’s leadership, a commitment to idealism, restraint, ‘avoiding a flashy role in international affairs’, and ‘sincerity of purpose’ were the keys to early India’s grandstanding, and that worked.
Modi has made no secret that his aim is to wipe out the Gandhi-Nehru legacy in almost everything in India. But some settling of scores can go too far, the lessons can become too costly and the damage irreparable. A rising and belligerent China aggressively rearranging the global balance of power should precisely be the reason to make Modi’s India more cautious in selecting the tools to deal with its neighbours.
And Nepal’s leaders also need to be mature enough to understand that in real politik there can be no permanent enemies or friends.
We're together, Om Astha Rai
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Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed (JS) along with its extended global Theatre of the Oppressed family is stepping into a new initiative – Jana Sanskriti International Research and Resource Institute (JSIRRI).
WEB: www.jsirri.org
With JSIRRI we are hosting a space in which artists and non-artists can shape and reshape their world and work. An arena where learning is a process of exchange and sharing, where knowledge is achieved through action and where change is documented and made accessible to communities around the world.
JSIRRI’s vision to use the arts to recognize and bring together different ways of knowing and of knowledge identifies bodies, participants and their contexts as landscapes of investigation.
As that research grows it will chart, explore, activate and archive the human potential for self-creation, co-creation and transformation.
JSIRRI’s open space extends an invitation to all those who want to propose projects, research into practice and/or offer resources in line with these goals, creating interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange to frame new challenges and nurture embodied and productive knowledge.
We are a non-profit organization, with a strong basis in emancipator theatre (Theatre of the Oppressed), pedagogy and activism.
JSIRRI ‘s intention is to explore how Theatre of the Oppressed and related theatre and art forms can foster a culture of dialogue, strengthen participation and stimulate liberation by engaging with a wide range of disciplines and fields of work.
As a globally active arts hub JSIRRI connects artists and activists, practitioners and researchers both south to south and south to north, virtually and physically.
International connectivity, inclusion of all sections of society and interdisciplinary of approaches are fundamental to us.
Quelle: www.jsirri.org
Why JSIRRI?
“JSIRRI proposes to build “Connections” among all artists, especially the international theatre community engaged in the construction of a humane society……not just networks or platforms or knowledge sharing which might be temporary, but to build permanent connections…JSIRRI proposes to establish a dialogue for upholding the culture of dialogue in the community through all art forms”
What are these connections?
How will this dialogue operate?
Many other questions follow from this –
What does JSIRRI want to do?
What examples of these activities are already planned?
How will the plans and JSIRRI be funded?
Who will decide the kinds of things to take place?
Dear friends –first of all, JSIRRI is everyone’s operation. Her shape will evolve based on what each of you contributes.One of the fundamental principles is that ‘connections’ and ‘dialogue’ have to be part of the way JSIRRI makes decisions.
Secondly, JSIRRI aims to be a space for critical interaction among artists and activists. A real or virtual circle where they can rehearse collectively, share and develop their practice, ideas and methods; a platform where they can initiate and encourage projects which bring together people from different kinds of practice, different disciplines; a stage on which to explore and create work, to intervene and explore solutions for the burning questions of today.
JSIRRI begins her journey from the Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed at Girish Bhavan, named after the theatre legend of 19th century Bengal. This facility is equipped to provide food, accommodation and other necessaryfacilities at a very reasonable cost. The Augusto Boal Auditorium dedicated to workshops and performances will be inaugurated very soon.
All present activities will be carried out via individual/collective fund-raising. For the future we seek permanent economic stability. The aim is for JSIRRI to create her own physical and imaginary body as she grows. The aim is not to accumulate funds but to stimulate artistic activity for lasting, meaningful social change and to unite the forces of those who share a similar vision.
A team of directors and advisors representing all continents have come together to contribute to this; they are people who have valuable experience and expertise in making theatre for change. Nevertheless, everyone is invited to propose ideas and activities and “be” JSIRRI. There are a variety of channels which JSIRRI has set up to enable everyone inventing our future now! With these postings, we invite you to share this invitation and enable many others to participate!
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Rethinking Everything
Hey everyone! The latest build is up for people to try out. The changes in this build are pretty dramatic because I decided to take a step back and objectively evaluate if the game mechanics were working out we had hoped. After doing this, there were a couple of design choices that I decided to change. You can grab the build at the link below...
The most major design changes were the following...
We are removing the action controls and only keeping the strategy controls. They were making the game too chaotic and preventing us from really reaching the tactical depth we wanted
We changed items to be procedurally generated instead of hand crafted. The loot game just wasn't interesting enough and this has helped to spice it up.
There are a bunch of other changes involving how abilities work and a ton of new abilities. They are all directed to make the game more tactical and cerebral. Check you the play through that I recorded below or just try it yourself by downloading!
Here is the more complete change list...
- Reworked controls to remove direct control and focus on the tactical element of the game
- Abilities now have a cast time associate with them which can be interrupted
- Enemy humans now use abilities against you based on their class
- Class abilities are now randomly selected from a small set
- New channeling type of abilities
- Items are now procedurally generated with various rarities
- Tons of bug fixes from playtesting
- Added Summon Fishmen Ability
- Added Rock wall Ability
- Added Wild growth Ability
- Added Heal Ability
- Added Channel Heal Ability
- Added Burst Shot Ability
- Added Cripple Ability
- Added Silence Ability
- Added Mass Silence Ability
Open Sourced Games
Hey Everyone! This is just a short post to let anyone interested know that I have open sourced all of my previous games (not including Privateers) onto GitHub. This includes Legends of Descent which is one of the most popular RPG games on the Windows Phone platform still today. If you are interested in game development then feel free to go and check them out.
Hey Guys! We have a new build ready and this time we are trying something new. Instead of a web build we are putting the PC build up on indieDB. You can check it out here...
We continue to focus on adding fun content to the game with this release. One of the biggest additions is that we have put in a dungeon generator which we are using to create various crypts and tombs which you can take your crew in to explore. They are dangerous places to venture, but the rewards could be great!
Exploring tombs is perfectly safe!
Beyond this, we have put together a bunch of quest chains using the new system from the last release. These give more of a sense of direction while you are playing the game. Stay tuned for us to add a lot more of these in future releases. Another important addition to the event content is that we are working to make reputation have a bigger impact in the game. A example of this is that if you have bad reputation, navy ships will now chase you instead of pirate ships. So, be careful about your choices.
Be careful about running into this guy!
Another thing to look forward to is the new demon enemy type. Kurt recently put this guy together an he looks awesome. They can be pretty hard to handle as well :-).
Demon casting a spell
On a less exciting note, we also had to do a big refactor to change out the plugin we were using for sound effect and music. The one we were using was buggy and we couldn't tolerate it any more. The good news is that with this we add a bunch of new sound effects which really help to crisp up the feel of the game.
As always, enjoy the build and please give us your feedback!
- New dungeon generator
- Lots of new dungeon events
- Several new quest chains
- Many bug fixes
- New demon enemy type
- Lots of new sound effects
- Navy ships now chase you if you have bad reputation
- Refactoring of event saving to be more stable
- Refactored sound and music to use a new pluggin
After crunching furiously for the past few weeks, we have finally submitted Privateers to the "Level Up" contest put on by Intel. If you are interested, you can check out the contest page here...
https://software.intel.com/sites/campaigns/levelup2016/
The main focus over the past few weeks has been polishing things up and working out as many of the bugs as we can. Also, we added touch controls since that was a focus for the intel contest. However, there was a lot of other work as well including adding a new threat system to the AI as well as completely reworking how quests are written into the game. You can play the build that we submitted for the contest here...
Build v0.19
(Best with Internet Explorer)
If you are interested in how quests are now written, I made an instructional video here...
As always, thanks for playing and let us know what you think of the new build!
Attack of the Kraken!
Hey everyone! I am super excited about showing off this new build. There has been a ton of progress in the game over the last month and I think you guys are going to like it. The main focus has been on combat improvements, UI improvements and rendering improvements. You can check out the build here (there are special buttons to try out some of the boss combat mechanics)...
Build 0.18
The most obvious changes are the improvements in the battle mechanics. The enemies now use area of effect attacks which give a warning before they fire. This allows the player take more tactical actions by positioning their crew to reduce the impact of the attacks. Both the Minotaur and the Kraken bosses make heavy use of this. The Kraken also has some new custom AI which allows it to be an interesting fight on your ship as it attacks from different areas.
Another major portion of work was focused on improving the UI. There were several goals that we wanted to achieve with this work...
Create a custom theme which helps tie the games visuals together
Improve usability by adding some additional features for controlling your crew's AI actions and selecting crew effectively
Reduce the amount of chrome on the screen to prevent it from getting into the way.
This work is still in progress, but you can get a feel for the changes in the latest build. We should mostly finalize on it by the next build.
Example of new UI
Lastly but not least, there was a major effort around rendering optimization. This was a bit more technical, but basically what happened is that we were using a custom sprite rendering system due to the large number of sprites on the screen. However, we refactored this to unity sprites which make it much more efficient. Furthermore, we now have much more control over sorting order of the sprites which is great because it allow us to layer the various particle effects in with the sprites which we couldn't do before.
As always, thanks for your support and let us know what you think in the comments!
More Content!
Hey everyone! Today we are back with a new build which has a bunch of new content in it for you to enjoy. There are two main themes to the work that happened over the last month. The first is putting our new event editor to good use and building a whole bunch of new interesting events. The second is to do a fairly large overhaul of the sailing experience in the game. You can try out the new build here...
(Runs best on Internet Explorer)
With regards to new events there is are a ton of more interesting ones that we are dumping into the game (and will continue to add). You will notice a lot more branching in the event choices then we used to have since it is much easier to manage in the new tools. Furthermore, we put int he basics of a reputation system which adds a new dimension to how events can play out.
Arena fight event (with dev art still)
The other major focus was how sailing takes place in the game. We have changed it from the turn based system that we had to a semi-real time system that is more similiar to how the action gameplay works. Also, there has been a significant improvement in the AI for the various ships and ports. They no longer just wander around aimlessly. Merchants will go from port to port and Pirates will hunt you down. There are also Navy and Fishing ships which have their own AI patterns. We will continue to expand on this to make the island map seem much more alive.
As always, let us know what you think about the new build in the comments!
Event Editor
We are finally back with some new stuff to show. Most of the past few months has been spent recuperating. But, we have now picked the pace back up and have something to show for it, which is our new event editor.
Event in the making
Previously, all of our events were written in a custom XML format which was hard to read and easy to make mistakes in. As a result, I (Sam) was the only person who had ever successfully written one. So, it was clear that we needed to spend the time to make a tool to streamline the process. Below is a video that I made which teaches how to use the new tool if you are interested.
As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below. If you are interested in getting a copy of this tool and creating some events yourself then let me know and I will pass it along to you. Hopefully the next game update will have lots of new content to play around with now that this is ready!
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WeWork Labs’ Elizabeth Scallon is ready to tackle world’s big, scary challenges: ‘It’s up to us’
By adminJan 14, 2020, 05:19 am0
A family portrait with Scallon, her wife Shena Lee and daughter Dylan. (Kristopher Shinn Photo)
Elizabeth Scallon sees potential and opportunity everywhere.
Now the head of WeWork Labs for Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, Scallon’s curiosity was sparked in middle and high school by a science teacher who brought biotechnology to her classroom, instructing students in DNA analysis and unraveling genetics. That enthusiasm carried into college with a double major in biochemistry and humanities from Seattle University.
“I kept falling more in love with how the natural world works,” Scallon said.
She held health sciences jobs at Seattle’s Amgen, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Viral Logic Systems Technology (VLST), the latter founded by a creator of Enbrel, a treatment for autoimmune diseases. Her initial interest in laboratory bench work quickly pivoted to a joy for directing lab operations, setting up innovative spaces and empowering scientists to bring their discoveries to life.
“I realized that I’m too distracted and curious to do the same tasks day in and day out,” Scallon said, as lab work can require.
We are the global leaders in technology, in thinking about sustainability, in thinking about ethics, and if we don’t get it right, who else will?
While running operations at VLST, the high-energy Scallon picked up a global executive MBA from Georgetown University. As the economy slowed, VLST downsized and turned to an incubator role, renting out space to companies including Adaptive Biotechnologies and Juno Therapeutics that later became biotech stars. Scallon loved seeing how strategically leveraging resources could help everyone prosper.
In 2013, she took those skills and experience to the University of Washington, running its CoMotion Labs for five years, helping grow the program that fosters entrepreneurship.
In September 2018, she took the job at WeWork Labs, nurturing startups in Washington, California and Oregon. In this role, the potential and opportunities that Scallon sees just keep expanding, particularly for the Puget Sound region.
“We are the global leaders in technology, in thinking about sustainability, in thinking about ethics, and if we don’t get it right, who else will?” she said. She’s interested in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges: income disparity, homelessness and climate change among them.
Scallon is eager to bring entrepreneurs and the tech workforce together with civic leaders to make changes with even broader reach. One example is a recent launch of the Maritime Accelerator, a partnership with Washington state’s Maritime Blue Initiative and the Port of Seattle to increase innovation and environmentally friendly businesses in the field.
While her focus is multi-state, she cops to a hometown pride for her native Washington.
Elizabeth Scallon, WeWork Labs Northern California and Northwest. (WeWork Labs Photo)
“I just believe that we are exceptional citizens in our state. We have the knowledge and power and brilliance to find these huge bold solutions that are needed. Everyone is required to do that,” Scallon said.
She points to other efforts that she thinks are making a difference, including the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Ion Collaborators, the Sea.citi network, and homelessness efforts led by Microsoft, Amazon and others in the tech sector.
“We own the future,” she said. “It’s up to us.”
We caught up with Scallon for this Working Geek, a regular GeekWire feature. Continue reading for her answers to our questionnaire.
Current location: I live in Seattle, I’m from Seattle, and I work in: Seattle, Portland and Silicon Valley.
Computer types: It’s an Apple MacBook Pro for work, but I will use anything for personal use. Grew up on Commodore 64, I’m always interested in the latest and greatest tech.
Mobile devices: iPhone 11
Favorite apps, cloud services and software tools:
Apps: Apple Mail, LinkedIn, Alaska Airlines, Mobile Passport, Pandora, Libby, SolarEdge
Cloud Services: As I said, I live in Seattle and I’m from Seattle which means I’ve got buddies at Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud is opening up a campus in South Lake Union…so I’ll pass on this question!
Software tools: You can’t beat Tableau for data visualization.
Scallon experimenting with virtual reality at WeWork Labs. (WeWork Labs Photo)
Describe your workspace. Why does it work for you? I work in the best office space in the world (thank you, brilliant WeWork designers — love those green velvet couches on a gloomy Seattle day), and thanks to the WeWork community, my work space is literally all over the world. I most often work from Seattle, Portland, Silicon Valley and New York.
I keep a physical desk in WeWork Labs Seattle, which is always a mess, scattered with notes, business cards from previous days, and cords for electronics. I’m always well caffeinated at work, thanks to amazing WeWork Labs members: we have a few food-and-beverage startups on tap downstairs, like Haiti Coffee Company and Yerbana.
Our approach to sustainability also inspires me. WeWork Labs members Cloud Paper are on a mission to end deforestation through tree-free office products, and right now, every WeWork bathroom in the Northwest uses their tree-free toilet paper. I love how they put it: “You won’t notice the difference… but the planet will.”
Your best advice for managing everyday work and life? If every day you wake up following your purpose, there is no distinction between work vs. life. It is all one big adventure.
Your preferred social network? How do you use it for business/work? LinkedIn! It’s great for identifying new founders, investors and resources. I love to stay current on industry news/trends so I follow content creators like Laura Clise so I can be intentional on how I spend my money and Nichol Bradford to learn about transformative technology. I’m an inspiration sponge.
Current number of unanswered emails in your inbox?
41K, but those include spam messages, etc. So probably about 100 that need answering from the last few days.
20 unanswered phone calls
Zero unanswered texts
5 unanswered slack messages
7 unanswered WhatsApps
1 unanswered Twitter DM
10 unanswered Facebook Messages
13 unanswered LinkedIn Messages
Number of appointments/meetings on your calendar this week? 32, but the average is about 45
Scallon, far left, with some of the Cloud Paper team, a startup developing bamboo-based toilet paper and a member of WeWork Labs. (WeWork Labs Photo)
How do you run meetings? Depends on the meeting. For an information-based meeting: I’ll share what I know, what I don’t know, and then ask other(s) for the same until we have a solid picture of what is known and what is still unknown.
If the meeting is new idea development or iterating: I’ll set a goal upfront, then round robin about ideas, constantly getting feedback from each person. If a plan is forming, I’ll have the team create small experiments to test the newly developed approaches to see what is best. If not, I’ll ask them to find the logical next best step.
Meetings are all about respecting those who are in the room, finding shared purpose, and enhancing value add for the mission. If there are roadblocks and barriers, don’t be afraid of saying what they are, even if it is uncomfortable to hear or recognize.
Everyday work uniform? TomboyX, then generic jeans, shirt and sweater. Even better if it’s a Labs member’s company tee, like Game Jolt or TF Labs!
How do you make time for family? My weekends are only for family — phone gets put on airplane mode (symbolically speaking). I limit after hours/external events to two or three times a week to ensure I have time with my wife and daughter, my loves.
Scallon family showing some Pride. (Photo courtesy of Scallon)
Best stress reliever? How do you unplug? Walks around the block with my toddler, playing dice or backgammon with my wife, and reading.
What are you listening to? Sigur Rós
Daily reads? Favorite sites and newsletters? GeekWire, of course! ScienceNews, Harvard Business Review (HBR) and LaunchTicker. I also like to read news close to the grassroots level so I stay up to speed with the Nature and American Chemical Society.
Book on your nightstand (or e-reader)? “Loonshots” by Safi Bahcall
Night owl or early riser? Night owl. Asleep by 1 a.m. and up by 7 a.m. if its a West Coast day or by 5 a.m. if I have East Coast meetings to join.
Where do you get your best ideas? Walking
Whose work style would you want to learn more about or emulate? MacKenzie Bezos, Melinda Gates, Jody Allen (philanthropist and entrepreneur who is the sister of deceased Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen). They’re values-forward and champions for social-impact innovation. I’d love to learn more about them, and ask them these same questions you’ve asked me! They’re always welcome to grab coffee or tea at Labs — consider the invite official!
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Air Quality, Carbon emissions, Climate Change, Federal Regulation (U.S.), Land, Oil exports, Public Health, Solar energy, Tax credits, Water quality, Wildlife, Wind energy
Federal spending deal falls short on environment
December 18, 2015 Roger Straw
Repost from the San Francisco Chronicle
Spending deal falls short on environment
By Annie Notthoff, December 17, 2015 | Annie Notthoff is director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s California advocacy program.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press
The spending and tax policy agreement Congress and the White House have reached to keep the government funded and running includes important wins for health and the environment.
But there’s good news to report, only because of the Herculean efforts of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the White House, who worked tirelessly to block nearly all of the dozens and dozens of proposals Republican leaders were pushing.
Those proposals would have blocked action on climate, clean air, clean water, land preservation and wildlife protection and stripped key programs of needed resources. The Republican leaders’ proposals were the clearest expression yet of their “just say no” approach to environmental policy. They literally have no plan, except to block every movement forward on problems that threaten our health and our planet.
The worst aspect of the budget agreement is another clear indication of Republican leaders’ misplaced priorities — they exacted an end to the decades-long ban on sending U.S. crude oil overseas in this bill, in return for giving up on key elements of their antienvironment agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made that give-away to the oil industry one of his top priorities. It will mean increased oil drilling in the U.S., with all the attendant dangers, with the benefits going to oil companies and overseas purchasers. That won’t help the American public, or the climate. It’s simply an undeserved gift to Big Oil.
In good news, the agreement extends tax credits for wind and solar energy for five years, which will give those industries long-sought certainty about their financing.
Wind and solar will continue to grow by leaps and bounds, helping domestic industry, reducing carbon pollution and making the U.S. less vulnerable to the ups and downs of fossil fuel prices.
Democratic leaders deserve all our thanks for what they were able to keep out of the budget deal. Gone are the vast majority of obstacles Republican leaders tried to throw in the way of environmental protection. Recall for a moment the 100 or more antienvironmental provisions Republican leaders tried to attach to these spending bills. Those included efforts to:
• Block the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which sets the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants — our best available tool to combat dangerous climate change.
• Roll back the Obama Administration’s Clean Water Rule, which would restore protections for the potential drinking water supplies of 1 in 3 Americans.
• Repeal the EPA’s newly issued health standards to protect us from smog.
• Bar the Interior Department from protecting our streams from the pollution generated by mountaintop removal during coal mining.
• Strip Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves, the greater sage grouse, elephants, the Sonoran Desert tortoise, and other threatened animals.
• Force approval of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, which President Obama already has rejected.
There’s more work ahead to protect the environment, starting with eliminating the threat of oil drilling in the Arctic and off the Atlantic Coast.
But despite the efforts of Republican congressional leaders to hold the public hostage and bring us to the brink of another government shutdown, a budget deal has emerged that protects environmental progress.
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Bakken Crude, CPC-1232, Crude By Rail, Derailment, DOT-111, Explosion, Federal Regulation (U.S.), Insurance and liability, Massive increase in crude-by-rail, Oil industry lobby, Oil stabilization, Pipeline transport, Rail industry lobby, Rail routing, Tank car design, Tank car retirement, Tar sands crude, Train speed, Volatile gases
Why more pipelines won’t solve the problem of oil-train explosions
April 6, 2015 Roger Straw
Repost from Grist
By Ben Adler on 6 Apr 2015
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In the last few years, the grassroots environmental movement has energetically opposed constructing big new oil pipelines in North America. Their opposition is understandable, since, on a global level, fossil fuel infrastructure encourages fossil fuel consumption, contributing to climate change, and, on a local level, oil pipelines leak and explode. But conservatives have been delighted to argue that greens are endangering the public and being short-sighted. Oil that comes out of the ground has to get to market somehow, and currently a huge amount of it is being shipped on freight trains. The result? An epidemic of oil train derailments, causing spills and even deadly explosions.
Is it fair to blame activists for this? Should climate hawks throw in the towel and accept Keystone XL as the lesser evil?
No and no — and I’ll explain two key reasons why.
First: Much of the oil criss-crossing the U.S. on trains is coming from North Dakota and traveling out along east/west routes where there aren’t even any proposals for big new pipelines. You can’t blame activists for that. Keystone would connect the Alberta tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, but wouldn’t do anything to help move North Dakota’s fracked bounty. Right now rail is the main option for that. “Keystone XL would enable tar-sands expansion projects, but is unlikely to reduce crude-by-rail,” says Anthony Swift, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. But don’t just take his word for it. Oil-loving, Keystone-supporting North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) makes the same point: “I am not someone who has ever said that the Keystone pipeline will take crude off the rails. It won’t,” Heitkamp said in November. “Our markets are east and west and it would be extraordinarily difficult to build pipelines east and west.”
Second: Climate activists are supporting something that actually would go a long way toward solving the problem of dangerous oil trains: strict regulation of those trains.
In the long term, of course, climate hawks want to keep the oil in the soil, and they are pushing for structural changes — like an end to federal leases for oil drilling offshore and on federal land — that would reduce the amount of oil we produce in the U.S. But in the short term, they’re not just being unrealistic and saying “no” to all oil transport — they’re pushing to make that transport safer.
The Department of Transportation has the authority to impose rules on oil trains’ design and speed, which would reduce the risk of them leaking and exploding when they derail or crash. DOT made an initial proposal in July of last year and is expected to finalize it in May. Green groups have been disappointed by the proposal, though — both the weakness of the rules and the slowness of the timetable. If all goes according to plan, the rules would be implemented later this year, but their requirements would still take years to phase in.
Fortunately there’s now a stronger proposal that climate hawks can get behind: a new Senate bill that would impose stiffer requirements than those being proposed by the Obama administration. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced the Crude-By-Rail Safety Act late last month, along with three Democratic cosponsors: Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Patty Murray (Wash.), and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.). It got immediate backing from big green groups.
Here are four critical things that need to be done to make oil trains safer, three of which are included in Cantwell’s bill:
Stop the transport of oil in an old model of rail car, called the DOT-111, that was designed back in the ‘60s. DOT-111s “have a number of manufacturing defects that make them much more likely to rupture in a derailment,” says Swift. So environmentalists want to get 111s off the rails immediately. That’s exactly what Cantwell’s Senate bill would do. DOT, in contrast, proposes to delay that transition. “DOT only slowly phases out 111s by 2017 and the rest of fleet by 2020, and we think the industry is pushing to move the phaseout to 2025,” says Devorah Ancel, an attorney at the Sierra Club. “It’s very concerning.”
Require steel jackets around vulnerable rail cars that carry oil. DOT would require freight companies to transition to a newer, sturdier model of car called the CPC-1232, but even those cars aren’t sturdy enough — they have already been involved some fiery accidents, including one in West Virginia in February and one in Illinois in March. Cantwell’s bill would go further, requiring CPC-1232s to be jacketed, and then calling for “new tank car design standards that include 9/16th inch shells, thermal protection, pressure relief valves and electronically-controlled pneumatic brakes.”
Clamp down on the amount of flammable gases permitted in the oil on train cars. Oil fracked in North Dakota’s Bakken shale carries more volatile gases with it than your average crude, making explosions more common. DOT’s proposed rules do nothing to curb that. Cantwell et al would limit the volatility of the oil being transported and increase fines for violations.
Reduce train speeds. Currently, the speed limit for crude-by-rail is 50 mph, and that’s voluntary. DOT would make a speed limit mandatory, but would only lower it to 40 mph, and even that may only apply in “high threat urban areas” with more than 100,000 people. “The question of speed limits is crucial,” says Swift. “You need to dramatically reduce the speed at which these trains are moving.” Swift notes that CPC-1232s may puncture when going above 18 mph, but environmental groups stop short of explicitly calling for that speed limit. NRDC says, “Crude oil unit trains must adhere to speed limits that significantly reduce the possibility of an explosion in the event of a derailment.” That would presumably fall somewhere between 18 mph and 40 mph. Stricter speed limits is the one major needed reform that the Senate bill doesn’t address.
Cantwell’s bill also doesn’t compensate communities when accidents happen (the DOT proposal doesn’t either). But the bill’s sponsors intend to introduce future legislation to establish an oil spill liability trust fund paid for by fees from the companies moving crude oil. “Taxpayers should not be on the hook to bail out communities after a disaster caused by private companies,” said Cantwell.
It’s hard to imagine this bill passing both houses of an intensely pro-business, pro–fossil fuel Republican Congress. But Senate Democrats hope that by raising the issue they can build public awareness and support for stronger rules.
The bill could put pressure on the Obama administration to adopt the strongest possible version of its proposal. During the public comment period on DOT’s draft rules, the oil and rail industries argued for the weakest rules under consideration. Now the plans are being reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, which tends to scale rules back in order to reduce their cost to business. Representatives from the oil and rail industries have been meeting with OMB to lobby for weaker rules.
Late last month, Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who will take over as Senate Democratic leader after Harry Reid (Nev.) retires next year, announced that he and six colleagues — including Baldwin and Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) — had sent a letter to OMB Director Shaun Donovan asking him to ensure “the rule is strong and comprehensive and that it is finalized as quickly as possible.” If nothing else, Schumer’s push and Cantwell’s bill will set up a countervailing force to the industry voices that the Obama administration is listening to.
The administration should protect public safety without being pushed by fellow Democrats — in this case, it has the power to do so without congressional approval. There is definitely a clear alternative to the false choice between pipelines and dangerous oil trains.
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Brian Bandell
Matt Kane held an ice-cold beer in one hand, and leaned on the throttle with the other. The salty waters of the Indian River Lagoon parted before his twelve-foot skiff as sure as a herd of deer scattered from a shotgun blast, but he wouldn’t go hunting deer while his wife and kids attended Sunday church. No, Kane had a fix’n this fine morning for some fish; say a nice juicy sheepshead or a mangrove snapper. Good eats.
The blue-green waters of the estuary contained a wealth of tasty critters, especially in the stretch between north Melbourne and Satellite Beach. Kane steered his skiff along a forest of mangroves on the mainland side. The fish often hid between the roots of those waterlogged plants, but they’d pop their scaly heads out for a morsel of frozen shrimp. As he sped past a “Slow Zone” sign with a picture of a lumbering manatee, Kane tossed his empty beer can at it. He missed.
“Hey! Stop that!” an all-too-familiar voice shouted over a megaphone.
Most boaters called him the Lagoon Watcher, but Kane called him a huge pain in the ass. Kane slowed down and tipped his NASCAR hat to the kook in the center console boat with the goofy, smiling dolphins, sea turtles and manatees painted on the side. He guarded the animals in the lagoon like a stubborn toddler hoarding candy bars.
“Didn’t you see that sign?” asked the Watcher, who had the shock of puffy faded blond hair of a past-his- prime eighties rock star. He wore a custom tropical shirt and nut-hugging khaki shorts. The Lagoon Watcher had been a scientist once, or so Kane had heard, but he ambled about like a deadbeat now.
“Yeah, I saw it,” Kane said. “And I’m sorry… Sorry my aim wasn’t better.”
The flustered old man shook his head in short spurts. Kane thought for a second that it might have been a seizure. No such luck. “This lagoon is nature’s treasure and you’re not only polluting it, you’re putting its gentle citizens in danger with your reckless boating.” The Watcher scooped the beer can out of the water with a net.
“As far as I see it, I live here and pay my taxes, so I don’t need nobody tell’n me I can’t have my day fer fish’n,” Kane said. “So git on out my way.”
Kane swerved his skiff around the Lagoon Watcher’s floating fruit cup of a boat, and continued along the mangroves. He knew the wimpy Watcher, even after being punked out, wouldn’t give chase, but he got behind his megaphone for one last whine.
“The lagoon doesn’t belong to you, or any of us,” the Lagoon Watcher shouted. “Nature has a way of pushing us back.”
Kane chuckled as he thought of that screw job’s cartoonish view of the world, where fish would jump out of the water and turn their hooks on him and drunken manatees would drive pickup trucks through petrified neighborhoods. In reality, he wouldn’t bet on nature doing shit.
And sure enough, Kane struck first. Not fifteen minutes after sinking the first line in, something gave it a nice firm tug. It must have been a big one, because he couldn’t reel it in. The gill head was strong, he thought. Worried about the line snapping, Kane figured he’d wear the bastard out. He let the engine sputter along at low speed and he followed the fish as it swam parallel to the mangroves. He couldn’t see his catch through the murky waters so Kane kept one eye out ahead in case any rocks cropped up in his path. As he passed a county park with a small pier, he glanced over toward it hoping he’d have an audience that could witness him landing a fat one.
He had an audience all right. They were on their bellies with their bodies splayed out on the rocky shore and their heads and shoulders submerged underwater. The man and woman weren’t coming up for air. Their hands were as stiff and pale as a mannequin’s. Kane felt a chill in his heart as he realized living limbs didn’t look like that.
“Holy Lord,” Kane said as he cut the line and turned his boat ashore. As much as he hated letting his prized catch free with only a lip piercing, he figured he deserved as much for fishing on a Sunday morning. He wondered how those two sorry fellas had crossed God and made the good Lord come down on them so harshly.
Getting a better look at the bodies when he stepped ashore, Kane saw that they were two brown-skinned people lying beside each other in a partial embrace. They had wrapped their nearest arms around their waists. The man, a chunky fellow with a carpet of back hair sticking out from underneath the tail of his shirt, had his other arm posted on the ground as if he had been trying desperately to pull his head out of the water at the moment of his death. The short woman wore low-cut jeans that framed an ass that must have been mighty sweet when it had blood pumping through it. She had her other arm outstretched across the ground. He saw a deep bruise on her palm.
This didn’t look like a suicide pact. Someone had drowned them-maybe one of those Mexican cartels wasting their own people. That’s what they get for coming to his country illegally, Kane thought. Either way, he couldn’t let their heads stay underwater or they were likely to become gator chow.
Kane started kneeling down. He abruptly stood back up. He took a few deep breaths. The knots in his stomach didn’t subside. He had seen plenty of dead game, from deer to boars. He had gutted them, roasted them and eaten them up. But the only time he had seen a dead person was when he stood before the open casket at his grandma’s funeral. She had looked peaceful, yet so artificial with the bright makeup smeared all over her wrinkly face. He had never seen the old gal color her lips with anything besides cigarette ashes. That had been a hollow shell of his grandmother, yet he couldn’t have let her go without seeing it. The sight had hammered home her absence.
Wondering what kind of expression the woman’s lifeless face would show absent of any funeral parlor magic, Kane summoned up his gumption. He grabbed her around the shoulders and yanked her upper body out of the water. Kane stared into the empty crevice between her collarbones where her head should have been. Her skin had been sliced as precisely as a slab of pork on a cutting board. He peered into the hollow trachea where her breath once flowed. Fused between her shoulder blades, her exposed vertebra appeared in perfect condition-minus the neck and head that should have been above it. Yet, the gaping wound bled only a trickle. The dirty ground had so few droplets of blood that it didn’t make a lick of sense. Kane had taken the noggin’ off more than a few deer and boars and he had never seen a beheading so clean. He coughed a cup of stomach acid into his mouth.
Kane dropped the body back into the water and sprang away from it. His heart pounded so hard that he covered it with his hand so it wouldn’t leap out of his chest. Beheading never looked so… so damn surgical. Somebody had held that woman down and removed her head as delicately as a mechanic disassembling an antique engine. Kane didn’t dare touch the man’s corpse for fear of burdening his mind forever with another haunting image. Serial killers work in a pattern, he had been told.
He played poker with Tom Sneed, the top detective for the county sheriff. He had told Kane about a couple of unsolved murders along the lagoon-bodies they had recently found without heads and missing some internal organs. Even after a few six packs, Sneed wouldn’t tell the poker club the grisly details, but he had said he didn’t want to create a media circus around it-not that the Orlando-dominated media gave a shit what happened in Brevard County when the space shuttle wasn’t blasting off.
Those looked like murders three and four, by Kane’s count. Scanning the mangroves and the boardwalk paths as he grasped his fishing knife, Kane reckoned he’d rather not wind up as number five. As he backed toward his boat, which had his cell phone in a zip lock bag, Kane spotted something low in the mangroves. He stopped in his tracks. It was a shoe-a girl’s shoe with a unicorn on it. He should have known by the stretch marks on the dead woman’s lower back that she had a child. Kane hurried over and scooped up the empty shoe. By the looks of it, it hadn’t been out there for more than a day. He saw a pair of tracks, with one matching shoeprint and one sock print, leading deeper into the mangrove bushes.
Chewing on his bottom lip, Kane thought about high-tailing it for his boat before the surgical butcher came back. He could call in Sneed’s boys to handle this one. But that would leave the girl as fresh meat for the killer, if he hadn’t already sliced and diced her like salami. As the father of a young girl, Kane simply couldn’t walk away. He followed the tracks with his knife in hand.
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Average American expects to be debt free by age 53
But 1 in 10 expects to die in debt
By Fred O. Williams
When will you be debt free?
Independence from debt will come at age 53, say Americans in a new poll commissioned by CreditCards.com. But at each age group, expectations for a clean slate remain in the future, just out of reach.
"We see lots of people with fairly high incomes -- they should be comfortable," said Sandy Shore, a consumer finance expert with the credit counselor Novadebt. "But their spending is just somewhat more (than income), and they're falling further behind."
The poll asked people to predict when they will win independence from all their debts, including mortgages and credit card debt. Among the key findings:
When asked, "When do you expect to be debt free?," 9 percent of Americans answered "never."
The age of predicted debt freedom was 53 on average.
People 18-24 are the most optimistic, predicting debt freedom at about age 33; but the prediction keeps advancing, as 25-34 year olds predict age 38; 35-49 year olds predict age 56; 50-64 year olds predict age 62; and at age 65-plus, debt freedom is expected at age 77.
"We, especially Americans, tend to be an optimistic crowd," said Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University. "We generally tend to overestimate how quickly we'll lose weight or get out of debt."
Not-so-great expectations
The telephone survey of 1,007 adults fielded by GfK Roper May 31 through June 2, 2013, includes a mix of responses from singles and couples, as well as people with mortgage debt and those without.
The results show traces of the housing boom and bust, as people heading into their sunset years expect to drag a load of payments along with them. Among people age 65 and up, nearly 23 percent expect their debts to outlive them.
That prediction jibes with research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, which found that large mortgage debts are following seniors into old age. EBRI's February 2013 study found that more than half of people now age 55 to 64 still face substantial debts.
"The group from 55 to 64 have been taking on more debt," said Craig Copeland, senior research associate at EBRI and author of the study "Debt of the Elderly and Near Elderly, 1992-2010." "If people in that group were in better (financial) condition, it would help them be better prepared -- because when they hit 65, they'll probably be on a fixed income."
How long do you think it will take you to pay off ALL of your credit card debt?
Debt? What debt?
Less than a year. I pay way more than the minimum.
1 to 2 years. Worry not; I have a plan.
2 to 5 years. I am whittling away at it.
5 to 10 years. I am a slave to debt.
Never. Debt is drowning me.
Retirees in debt
How do expectations about future debt measure up to the reality? Many people facing retirement soon have sizeable debt burdens, and few traditional working years to pay it down, according to EBRI's study.
About 63 percent of families headed by someone over age 55 are still shouldering debt payments, EBRI found. Their average burden was $75,082 in 2010 -- up about $1,400 since 2007. Housing is the main culprit, as the house price bubble and home equity borrowing binge of past years saddled people with outsize costs that take many years to pay off.
Not surprisingly, the size of a debt load weighs down hopes of paying it off. Of people with $50,000 to $100,000 of debt, 48 percent expected to still be making payments after age 60, the CreditCards.com survey found. By comparison, just 39 percent of people with $10,000 to $50,000 in liabilities expect payments to last that long.
People with the least debt were not the most optimistic, however; 41 percent of people with less than $1,000 in debt expect to be making payments after age 60. The gaps in people's expectations may reflect differences in income and education as well as sheer debt levels. People with more than $250,000 in debt were more optimistic about paying it off by 60 than those with less than $1,000.
The difficulty of getting out of debt is not just a matter of how deep the hole is, Yarrow of Golden Gate University noted. "It's kind of like the Olympics -- you have to factor in the difficulty of the project in order to give it a rating," she said. Income and expenses -- which in turn are heavily influenced by family size and region of the country -- contribute to debt gaps between households.
The problem with a lot of things people work toward is they have to be not doing something -- not eating to lose weight or not spending money. In the abstract, not doing something seems easy -- but it's not.
-- Kit Yarrow
Making a plan, then following it are keys to eliminating debt, but it is a heavy lift for many. A financial education survey released in May found that 40 percent of adults lacked any savings, even a rainy-day fund for emergencies.
"The problem with a lot of things people work toward is they have to be not doing something -- not eating to lose weight or not spending money (to reduce debt)," Yarrow said. "In the abstract, not doing something seems easy -- but it's not."
Poll methodology
The survey of 1,007 U.S. residents 18 and up was conducted May 31 through June 2, 2013, via random dialing of a blend of landline and cellphone numbers. The results were weighted by age, sex, education, race and geographic region. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the full sample, with a confidence interval of 95 percent.
The results are based on responses to these questions:
Thinking now about personal debt -- that is the amount of debt you have when you think about your credit card bills, car loans, student loans or any other types of loans, mortgages, etc., -- about how much personal debt would you say you have today?
By what age do you expect to be debt-free? If you're not sure, your best guess will do.
Read more: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/debt-free-age-53-1276.php#ixzz2cQJzo56I
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Obituaries 04-07-2011
by Record Staff • April 7, 2011 • 0 Comments
Louis Colombo
Of Florida, formerly of Chelsea
Louis Colombo of Naples, FL, formerly of Chelsea, died on March 27. He was 59 years old.
He served in the US Army and was a veteran of the Vietnam War and the recipient of a National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Medal.
He was the son of the late Guy Anthony Colombo and Anita and Angelo Boccuzzi; father of Erica Colombo of Boston, brother of Mareann (George) Kaddaras of Wakefield, the late Anthony (Georgette) Colombo of Melrose, Robert (Meryl) Boccuzzi of Naples, FL, Vito Boccuzzi of Revere, Lucy Lally of Swampscott and Anthony (Annette) Boccuzzi of Peabody; nephew of Madeline Cardinale of New York, uncle of several nieces and nephews in the Boston area, and former husband of Deborah Clayman of Revere and Kathy Colombo of Maine.
A Memorial Service will be held at a future date; notification to follow. Donations in his memory may be made to the Chelsea Soldiers Home, 91 Crest Ave., Chelsea, MA 02150.
Erica Lynn Grover
Chelsea resident
Erica Lynn Grover of Chelsea died unexpectedly on Friday afternoon, April 1. She was 28 years old.
Born in Melrose and a resident of Chelsea for most of her life, she worked for a number of years at S&L, Floramo’s and at the Olive Garden in Boston
She was the devoted mother of James P. McKinnon, III; beloved daughter of Linda Grover of Revere and Frederick L. Grover, III of Florida; loving sister of Frederick L. Grover, IV of Revere, Christopher Grover of Somerville and Paul Grover of Florida; cherished granddaughter of Lester Erickson of Florida and Irene Holstine of Chelsea and is also lovingly survived by aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Family and friends are kindly invited to attend visiting hours in the Smith Funeral Home, 125 Washington Avenue, Chelsea today, Thursday, April 7 from 4 to 8 p.m. with a Prayer Service at 7:30 PM. Committal Services will be private. To send a message of condolence to her family please visit www.smithfuneralhomes.com
Anne Mazer
Anne (Shapiro) Mazer of Chelsea died on April 4.
The beloved wife of the late Abraham Mazer, she was the devoted mother of Sheila Grossman and her husband, Joel, and Karen Mazer; dear sister of the late Sylvia Cohen; loving grandmother of Samara Grossman; loving aunt of Michael Cohen and his wife, Laura, and great-nieces Sarah and Holly.
Funeral arrangements were by the Torf Funeral Chapel, Chelsea. Burial was in Staro Konstantinov Cemetery, West Roxbury. Contributions in her memory may be made to the charity of one’s choice. For online guestbook: www.torffuneralservice.com
US Postal Service retiree
Louis Cohen of Chelsea died on April 4. He was 87 years old.
Born and raised in Chelsea, he attended the Chelsea Schools and was a graduate of Chelsea High School. He was a clerk for the United States Postal Service branch in Bellingham Square, Chelsea.
He was the beloved husband of the late Audrey Cohen; devoted father of Errol Cohen and Alan Cohen.
Graveside services were held at the Mishna Cemetery, Everett. Donations in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 9 Riverside Rd., Weston, MA 02493. For online guestbook, please visit the funeral home website: www.torffuneralservice.com
Leslie Herdt
Retired travel agent
Leslie A. Herdt of Chelsea, formerly of Winthrop, died at the Boston Medical Center on March 28. She was 65 years old.
Prior to her retirement, she worked as a travel agent for various travel agencies.
Born in Winthrop, she was the cherished daughter of Dorothy L. (Wood) Herdt and the late Robert G. Herdt of Winthrop; devoted mother of Michelle Lopes of Florida, Robert Lopes of California and Joseph Lopes of Washington; dear sister of Paula F. (Herdt) Wrenn and her husband, Sy, of New Hampshire, R. Peter Herdt and his wife, Janna, of Idaho, and Randall C. Herdt and his wife, Michelle, of Winthrop; adored grandmother of Mason, Jason, Kaeli, and Giovanni Anthony Lopes. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews.
A visiting hour will be held today, April 7, beginning at 12 p.m. at the Maurice W. Kirby Funeral Home, 210 Winthrop St., Winthrop followed by a Funeral Service in the Funeral Home, in conjunction with that of her father, Robert, at 1 p.m. Relatives and friends are invited. For guestbook, go to www.mauricekirbyfh.com.
Richard Cesareo
Aboard ship that survived World War II
Kamikaze attack
Richard J. Cesareo of East Boston died on April 1.
He served proudly aboard the aircraft carrier USS Randolph during World War II, seeing combat in the pacific including a kamikaze attack on his ship. After the war, he worked for more than 20 years as an MBTA employee. He enjoyed ballroom dancing, Big Band music and spending time with family and friends.
He was the beloved husband of the late Raffella “Ella” (Amato) Cesareo and son of the late Stellario and Vincenza (Triffiletti) Cesareo; beloved father of Richard Cesareo and his wife, Elaine, of Winthrop, Linda Reeves and her husband, Maurice, of Winthrop, Paula Montagano and her husband, Peter, of Wakefield, and Anthony Cesareo and his wife, Melissa, of Hazlet, NJ; loving grandfather of Richard, Joseph, Christopher and Stephanie and cherished great-grandfather of Krystiana. He was the dear brother of Josephine Cesareo of Revere, Anthony Cesareo of Peabody, Eleanor Pupolo and her husband, Frank, of Revere and the late Joan, Leo, Larry, Nancy Cesareo, Katherine Stokes, and Lena Caissie. He is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.
His Funeral will be held from The Kirby-Rapino Memorial Home, 917 Bennington St. (Orient Heights) East Boston today, Thursday, at 9 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass to be celebrated in St. John the Evangelist Church, 320 Winthrop St., Winthrop at 10 a.m. Services will conclude with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be sent to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, PO Box, 849168, Boston, MA 02284-9168. To leave online condolences please visit www.kirby-rapino.com.
Monica Trapp
Monica M. Trapp of Chelsea died on Friday evening, April 1 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers. She was 58 years old.
Born in Santiago, Chile, she has lived in Chelsea since June of 1996. For over eight years she was a private childcare provider and for a short time worked in real estate.
She was the devoted mother of Ricardo Lyon Trapp of Pleasantville, New York, Carolina Lyon Trapp of Houston, Texas and Felipe G. Lyon Trapp of Chelsea; beloved daughter of Luz E. Munoz of Villa Alemana, Chile and the late Guillermo F. Trapp; loving sister of Patricia Trapp Munoz of Santa Catalina, Brazil, Francisco Trapp Munoz, Ricardo Trapp Munoz and Marcelo Trapp Munoz, all of Villa Alemana, Chile; cherished grandmother of Vincente, Natalia and Tomas Lyon.
Family and friends are kindly invited to attend a Memorial Service on Friday evening at 7:30 in the Iglesia Cristiana Renacer, 65 Munroe Street, Lynn. To send a message of condolence to her family, please visit www.smithfuneralhomes.com
Mary McKenna
Former resident of Chelsea
Mary A. (Milliken) McKenna, formerly of Chelsea and Everett, a resident of Stoughton for the past 50 years, died on April 2 at the Oak Hill Golden Living Center in Middleboro. She was 83 years old.
She was the beloved wife of the late John L. McKenna, Jr. and is survived by her daughter, Janice McKenna, of Stoughton and her son John L. McKenna, III and his wife, Sally McKenna, of Middleboro. Other survivors include her grandchildren, Carl McKenna, Sarah McKenna and Jack McKenna. She was also a sister of the late Doris DeMattia and Thomas Milliken.
Funeral arrangements are by the Sheehan Funeral Home, Stoughton. Burial will be at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Stoughton. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation @ http://www.alzfdn.org/telethon/donate.html. To send on-line condolences,pleasevisit www.sheehanfuneralhome.com.
Simone ‘Sonny’ Grato
Simone J. “Sonny” Grato of East Boston died on March 30.
A US Air Force veteran and a US Postal Service retiree, he was the beloved son of the late Antonio and Julia (Kozlowski) Grato; loving husband of Gladys “Tootsie” (Armstrong) Grato; loving father of Ellen, Barbara, Patricia, Simone, and Robert Mellone of East Boston, Anthony and his wife, Karol, of Falmouth, Charles of Weymouth, and Danielle and her husband, Richard Schell, of Chelsea; cherished grandfather of Robyn, Jonathan, Michael, Anthony Jr., Gabrielle, Brandon, and the late Robert Jr.; great-grandfather of Kayla and Koshin. He is also survived by many brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews.
Funeral arrangements were by The Rapino Memorial Home, East Boston. For online condolences, please visit: www.rapinomemorialhome.com
Antoinette ‘Toni’ Cea
Active in Several Organizations
Antoinette “Toni” (Uva) Cea of Winthrop, formerly of East Boston, died on April 2. She was 88 years old.
She joined the Winthrop Ladies Lodge of the Sons of Italy in 1978 and held many offices before serving as Lodge president. She was elected and served on the State OSIA Benefit Insurance Commission as secretary for a number of years. She presently holds the office of immediate Past President to the Winthrop Ladies Lodge 2071. “Toni” was a longstanding member of St. John’s Womens’ Catholic Club for many years.
She was the beloved wife of the late Paul P. Cea with whom she shared 63 years of marriage; loving mother of Nancy Cea of Saugus, Maria Cea Lentine and her husband, Mark, of Methuen, and Paula Corkhum and her husband, Philip, of Chelsea; dear sister of the late Angelina Pisano and Stanley Uva; cherished grandmother of Kristine Marie of Saugus, Kimberly Ann of Winchester, Tanya Thorpe of Amsbury, and Michael Rotigliano of Salem, and great-grandchildren, Victoria Thorpe and Tanya Thorpe of Amesbury, and Addison Rotigliano of Salem. She was the cherished daughter of the late Rocco and Nunziata (Vitale) Uva, former proprietors of Rocco and Nunziata’s grocery and cold cut store for over 60 years, on Cottage Street in East Boston.
Funeral arrangements were by Vazza’s “Beechwood” Funeral Home, Revere. Entombment was in the Uva Family Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. Memorial donations may be made in “Toni’s” name to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, ATT Tribute Gifts, Church Street Station, P.O. Box 780, New York, NY 10008-0780. For guest book: www.vazzafunerals.com
Leonard Ross
Of Peabody, formerly of Chelsea
Leonard Ross of Peabody, formerly of Chelsea and Stoneham, died on March 31. He was 80 years old.
He was the beloved husband of Arlene (Halperin) Ross; devoted father of Neil Ross and his wife, Alicia, of Peabody and Karen Rivers of Florida; cherished grandfather of Angela, Justin, Caitlin, and Stephanie and great-grandfather of Emma and Jacob.
Graveside Services were held at Sharon Memorial Park, Sharon. In lieu of flowers, memorial expressions of sympathy may be made to the Shriners Burn Institute of Boston, 51 Blossom St. Boston MA 02114. Arrangements were by Stanetsky-Hymanson Memorial Chapel 781-581-2300 www.stanetskyhymansonsalem.com
Anna Rose DeCain
Anna Rose DeCain, a lifelong resident of Chelsea, died on April 1 at the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home. She was 98 years old.
Ms. DeCain retired as a Registered Nurse from the Massachusetts Eye an Ear Infirmary in Boston.
She was born in Somerville, the daughter of the late William M. and Laura (Zarlli) DeCain; dear sister of William M. DeCain and his wife, Paula, of Revere, Bernice L. Hudson of Chelsea, Laura B. Smith and her husband, Gene, of Chelsea nd the late Dante, Frederick and Vincent DeCain; sister in law of Josephine, Edna and the late Lewis G. “Butch” Hudson and Mary DeCain. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
Private funeral services were entrusted to the William R. Carafa & Son Home for Funerals. Burial was in the family lot at Woodlawn Cemetery n Everett. Memorial donations may be made to the Our Lady of Grace Church Maintenance Fund, 59 Nichols st., Chelsea, MA 02150.
Earl Reddick
Touraine Paint retiree
Earl D. Reddick of Swampscott, formerly of Lynn and Chelsea, died on March 31 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers after a short illness. He was 85 years old.
A US Navy veteran of World War II, he was a graduate of Chelsea schools and a dedicated employee of Touraine paints in Everett, retiring after 40 years of service. He was a member of the Cary Square Associates, a former member of the Bellingham Bowling League and a member of the Swampscott Senior Citizens.
The beloved husband of Myrtle B. (Smith) Reddick, he was the devoted father of Gail Benton and her husband, Michael, of Swampsctt and Robert Reddick and his wife, Kimberly ,of Lynn; dear brother of Flora Hall and her husband, Richard, of Eastham, Beverly Ege and her husband, James, of Revere and the late Evelyn Corbett and Wiliam W. Reddick. He is also lovingly survived by seven granchilren, Jill, Adam, Lindsey, Aaron, Caleb, Evan and Daniel.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the William R. Carafa & Son Home for Funerals, Chelsea. Burial was in the Mass. National Cemetery in Bourne. Memorial donations may be made to a charity of one’s choice.
Carmen Crespo
Worked at Sweetheart Paper and Smithcraft
Carmen Crespo died at her Chelsea home after a courageous 13 month battle with colon cancer on March 31. She was 56 years old.
Born in Fajardo, Puerto, she lived in Chelsea for 38 years and worked as an assembler at both Sweetheart Paper and Smithcraft.
She was the devoted wife of Jose Vaga; beloved mother of Milagros Vega and Jose Vega, Jr, both of Lynn, Carmen Vega of Chelsea and Yolanda Vega of Lynn; sister of Domingo Crespo of Chelsea, Tereza Crespo of Florida, Dominga Crespo of Chelsea, Andres Crespo of Lynn and Josefina Crespo, Ernesto Crespo and Fano Crespo, all of Puerto Rico. She was the cherished grandmother of Cynthia and German Bonilla, Yailene Rodas, Mathew Henao and Jose A. Vega.
Funeral arrangements were by the Smith Funeral Home, Chelsea. Burial was at Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn. To send a message of condolence to her family, please visit www.smithfuneralhomes.com
Neal Harvey Young
Member of JWV and Walnut Avenue Synagogue
Neal Harvey Young, a lifelong resident of Chelsea, died on March 29. He was 67 years old.
He attended the Chelsea schools, was a graduate of Chelsea High School, a US Army Vietnam Veteran and a proud member of the Jewish War Veterans Prince-Strauss/Gorman Post 161 in Revere. He was also a member of Walnut Street Synagogue. He enjoyed traveling and visited numerous countries during his life.
The loving son of Norman and Sarah Young, he was the dear brother of Sheldon Young, Elaine Young, Carol Bell and her husband John, Sandra Padulsky and her husband Morton, Carl Young and his companion, Nancy Dyer, Barbara Nair and her husband, Howard, Jordan Young, and the late Norton Young. He is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.
Funeral arrangements were by the Torf Funeral Service, Chelsea. Burial was in Everett. Contributions in his memory may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 330 Congress St., 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02210; The Kidney Foundation, 11 Vanderbilt Ave., Norwood, MA 02062 or to a charity of your choice. For online guestbook, please visit the funeral home website, www.torffuneralservice.com.
Rita Livingston
Portia Law School graduate
Rita S. (Covitz) Livingston of Swampscott died on March 29.
A graduate of Portia Law School, Boston, she was the loving wife of the late William M. Livingston; devoted mother of Stephen Goldberg and his wife, Lois, of Marblehead and Myrna Davis and her husband, Barry, of Swampscott; dear sister of the late Esther Bloom and Sally Epstein; cherished grandmother known as “Gram” of Scott Davis, Pamela Davis Richman, Marc Davis and his wife, Jennifer K., Andrea Poritzky and her husband, David, Lauren Goldberg and her fiancé, Jeffrey Schleicher, and the late Stefanie Goldberg; great grandmother known as “GG” to Samantha and Shayna Richman. Jennifer, Jacqueline, and Carly Davis, and Isaac, Natasha and Gabriel Poritzky. She is also survived by her dear friend and caregiver Terry Furnari.
Funeral arrangements were by the Torf Funeral Service, Chelsea. Burial was in Everett. Contributions in her memory may be made to Temple B’Nai Israel, 1 Wave Avenue, Revere, MA 02151. For online guestbook please visit the funeral home website www.torffuneralservice.com
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Francesca Prihasti + Steve Barry : Jazz Piano Master Series V
Steve Barry came second in the Wangaratta Jazz Award last year. Francesca didn't make the final. They are both great local players, delicate and pure and simple, abounding with skill but never playing for show.
88x8 solo piano masters : Steven Barry + Aaron Blakey
Steve Barry and Aaron Blakey, two New Zealand-ish pianists we have taken for our own. Both are composers of beautiful tunes from personal experience. Both are versatile technical players with a great feel for the keyboard. And both know how to tell a story through a tune, to leave an image of the composition which lasts after the specifics have been forgotten.
Steve has played for us a dozen times, but never solo. Aaron and Steve jam together all the time. Come and hear the new generation of great jazz players.
Steven Barry Trio
Winner of the 2013 Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year, Steve Barry returns to Colbourne Ave with his trio to celebrate the end of a national tour. Joined by Tim Firth and Tom Botting, the trio have been on the road over the past month promoting Steve’s debut album and exploring a range of original material and unconventional standards with a unique fluidity and rapport. Check out Jessica Nicholas’ review of their recent gig at Bennetts Lane in Melbourne.
Steve’s debut self-titled album was released in December 2012 through Jazzgroove Records and has quickly gained high critical acclaim.
Steve Barry – piano
Tom Botting – bass
Tim Firth – drums
www.stevebarrymusic.com
www.stevebarrymusic.bandcamp.com
Jackson’s quartet does everything well, and most importantly, they do it well together... These are tunes that know how to serve up a melody as the main course, then cast out lines throughout the song so that the melody lingers long after the quartet has developed it into something quite different... These are tunes that have two feet in the present, but can draw their lineage in direct thick lines to the past. And, best of all, these are tunes that are so easy to enjoy, even when the music isn’t simple. A sense of the effortless, from a quartet that plays seamlessly as one...
NY Blog -birdistheworm-
...a highly melodic flow - a hallmark of the album - stated in piano and alto unison with, again, the alto solo flowing into a phasic solo, rising and falling in silvery cycles.
John McBeath - The Australian
...Jackson displays an attractive bright tone and confident attack, and builds his solos with admirable fluency...
Adrian Jackson - Rhythms Magazine.
It's great to hear Dave and Sean playing so well with such a good NY rhythm section. The music is very impressive in the best way... It’s another step up for Australian Jazz.
Mike Nock.
The album is a hugely promising debut and sees Dave quickly establishing himself as one of the most exciting young jazz musicians on the Sydney scene.
Eastside Radio.
http://www.davejacksonmusic.com/
Steve Barry / Eamon Dilworth
One of those perfect, rare duets that work so well in the Cafe Church space and are almost impossible anywhere else. Following on from Spike and Matt's sax/piano duet, this piano /trumpet duet will provide the perfect environment for these two best mates to bring everything they have to the music. Original, improvised, new Sydney jazz.
Steven Barry
Eamon Dilworth
“Steven Barry, a young New Zealander, has brought his dazzling skills as a pianist and composer to Sydney. He shrugged aside cliche, deployed scintillating articulation, and gave his colleagues such ingenious raw material as the Bartok-inspired Clusters. Boneham's solos were a lesson in how vigour may be harnessed to sensitivity, while Firth layered rhythmic puzzles into the grooves without rendering them academic, and soloed with panache...” John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald
Steve Barry crossed the ditch in early 2009 and has quickly become one of Sydney’s most sought-after pianists, having worked with many prominent Australasian and international artists including John Hollenbeck (USA), Theo Bleckmann (USA), George Coleman Jr. (USA), Arun Luthra (USA), Tricia Evy (FRA) and the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra.
Joined by the heavyweight rhythm section of Alex Boneham on bass and the incredibly sympathetic Cam Reid on drums, the Steve Barry Trio focuses on lyrical melodies, deep grooves and group interaction, and demonstrates a unique collective rapport.
Steve Barry (piano) Alex Boneham (bass) Cameron Reid (drums)
Judy Bailey & Steven Barry
Judy Bailey, possibly Australia's most influential living jazz musician. Steven Barry, possibly her most promising student. We will have two grand pianos and Judy and Steve will trade the solo and duet piano pieces they have prepared for a concert at the conservatorium next month.
Eamon Dilworth / Steven Barry
Eamon sat in for the last song of Steven Barry's set last December. I had hoped for a year to hear his trumpet at Colbourne Ave, and it didn't let me down. He's moving to Europe in March, so this concert - a set by the Steven Barry trio + Eamon, followed by a whole set of duets between Eamon and Steven - will be his last for a long time. I love it already.
with Cam Reid (drums) and Alex Boneham (bass)
Steven arrived at the Sydney Con from Auckland last year, with nothing but the shirt on his back and the blessing of Roger Manins. he's travelled far though, winning awards including Most Outstanding Musician, Best Pianist and Best Composition at the Tauranga International Jazz Festival, and being fawned over by the likes of us.
this is the best young jazz trio in sydney.
let's call it a christmas party.
Steven barry piano trio
The best young piano trio money can't buy. But you're welcome to make a bid...
cnr Colbourne Ave and St Johns Road, Glebe ( google map )
Thursdays from 8pm
anything you like - dinner, snacks, beverages, friends (glasses provided).
$20 / $10 concession for all concerts
Comfortable lounges, candlelight, all ages welcome.
Please join our mailing list.
live@colbourneave.com
Barney Wakeford
Brendan Clarke
Cameron Reid
Gavin Ahearn
James Waples
Mark Lau
matt mcmahon
Nic Cecire
Spike Mason
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CACSSA
Cotswold Area Civil Service Sports Association
Posted on 25th April 2017 10th October 2017 by julie
I hope you found the http://cacssa.co.uk/2017/08/09/february-newsletter/ useful, and that you are making the most of your CSSC membership?
This newsletter will cover the following:
Daytrips and taster days that have recently taken place or are due to take place;
CACSSA AGM and nominations for the Management Committee;
CACSSA staff changes;
CSSC Merit Award for Charlie Mills;
Further information on CACSSA Sports clubs.
Daytrips and taster days
I hope you will have seen the following daytrips and taster days advertised via the CSSC newsletter, or on the CSSC website or the CACSSA what’s on page:
Events that have recently taken place from the Gloucestershire area/ or dates for entries that have now closed:
Daytrip to London on 12th April (this trip gave individuals the opportunity to use their CSSC membership to gain free entry to London attractions such as the Tower of London – future dates to London will be scheduled).
Warner Bros Studio Tour (the making of Harry Potter) – 10 June 2017 (date for entries has now closed).
Future events in/from the Gloucestershire area:
Intro to wine, lunch and champagne – Cheltenham (13th May 2017)
Go Ape Forest Segway – Forest of Dean (14th May 2017)
Go Ape Tree Top Adventure – Forest of Dean (15th July 2017)
Horse Racing Stable Tour – Cheltenham (4th November 2017)
Yo Sushi School – Cheltenham (date to be confirmed).
These trips can be booked with the Taster Day Events Team. Also, If you are interested in trying out a new sport, fancy a day out with the family you may wish to look at the national taster day programme.
CACSSA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and nominations for the Management Committee
The date of the next CACSSA AGM will be Monday 12th June. The meeting start at 7.30pm at the clubhouse, and it would be lovely to see as many members as possible attending.
We are also looking for nominations for positions on the Management Committee. If you are interested in joining the Management Committee, please email Alan Brown (skepcott1@gmail.com).
CACSSA Staff Changes
Neville Thomas has recently taken over the role of Manager of CACSSA from Hugh Barton. We would like to welcome Neville to the role, and to thank Hugh for the service he provided over the years. We would also like to wish Hugh all the best in his retirement.
CACSSA Award
We would like to extend our congratulations to Charlie Mills on receipt of his CSSC merit award. The award will be presented to Charlie by a member of the CSSC Head Office Team at the AGM, so come along and give Charlie support.
Further information on CACSSA sporting activities
Cheltenham Civil Service Ladies Football team are looking for players for the 2017-18 season. They play in the South West Women’s Football League Eastern division on Sunday afternoons. The home pitch is at the Civil Service Club on Tewkesbury Road. Training for the ladies football team will start in July/August. If you are interested in joining the team, or require further information, please contact Ian Churchley on 07723 544355 or Alan Wakefield on 07428 116326.
Cotswold Civil Service Sailing Club
The Cotswold Civil Service Sailing Club organises participation in two races per year (June and September). The Inter Departmental Offshore Regatta(IDOR) which is organised by the Civil Service Sailing Association (CSSA) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) invitational regatta.
Each year, there has also been a combined taster day for people that want to try big boat sailing and training for the racing crew (the event usually consists of collecting the yachts from the Hamble at 1600. Then a short sail/motor to Cowes on the first evening where dinner is organised in one of the Cowes yacht clubs. The next day (depending on the weather) a sail in the Solent and anchor for lunch returning to the Hamble by 1600).
Costs are £170/person for five days racing or £70/person long weekend in Hamble
If you are interested in joining the sailing club or require further information, please email Paul Yabsley (sailing@cacssa.co.uk).
Rugby at CACSSA – Cheltenham Civil Service RFC
The club currently runs four sides, first team competing in the South West Gloucester two division, second team competing in the Gloucester Merit League, the third side is for Vets (over 35) who play about four-five games per season currently. Our fourth side is a ladies team.
The second team is more of a social rugby level and gives opportunity for all levels of playing ability to participate. We have an age range from 18 up to nearly 70 (three guys over 60 currently still playing regularly). first and second teams play most Saturday’s through the season which runs from September to April. The ladies team play on Sunday’s throughout the season. We train twice a week Tuesday/Thursday 7pm till 8:30pm at CACSSA.
Last season our first team won the Cheltenham Combination Minor Cup, the South West Gloucester Division three league cup and promotion to Division two having come second in our league.
Cost for annual membership of the rugby club is £25 for CSSC members, match day subs which contribute to food costs at home games and pitch rent at away games is £5 per match. Social membership is also available but at the same membership cost.
New players whether, experienced, returning to the game or new to rugby are all welcome. If you are interested in joining the team or require further information, please email the CCS RFC – Vice Chairman Alex Richardson (alexrichardson1@btconnect.com).
Cheltenham Area Civil Service Bowls Club
Cheltenham Area Civil Service Bowls Club has around 20 active members who take part in a variety of events. There’s competition for those who like that sort of thing ranging from our own area events right up to National and Civil Service “International” level. In fact two of our members, Bill Notman & Campbell McColl (both Scots!), represented England at last year’s Civil Service Bowls International at Eastbourne and together with a colleague from Winchester won the British Isles Triples. It isn’t all about competition however and for those who just prefer the social aspect of bowls there is a really good friendly match programme which takes place May through September arranged by the English Civil Service Bowling Association (ECSBA). ECSBA games are generally against other like-minded Associations including Gloucestershire and the Welsh & Scottish Civil Service.
If the idea of playing bowls tickles your fancy but you don’t know where to start, or you’d like to know a bit more about the game, then please either attend come along to the open day on 6th May or get in touch email Campbell McColl (bowls@cacssa.co.uk).
We have three Saturday League sides which play league cricket between May & August inclusive. We also enter a T20 competition on Tuesday Evenings as well as a County Cup competition on Sundays. We have friendly cricket as well as youth sides who play matches on a Friday evening and Sunday morning and play Indoor cricket during the winter, and enter three sides into the local Indoor leagues.
Annual Subscriptions are £30.00 for adults and £10.00 for Juniors/Students. All our members are registered with CSSC . Match fees are £7 per game, but that includes a tea fee which is eaten after the first innings.
On Sunday 19 February the cricket club played Bridgwater in the national indoor competition. We won the cup in 2016 which enabled us to represent Gloucestershire at the national stage.
In terms of success last season;
1st XI – Retained their status in the West of England Premier League in only their 2nd season at this level.
2nd XI – Won promotion into Division four of the Gloucestershire County Cricket League
T20 Competition – We were runners up to Cheltenham CC in a two day final.
Curtis Bennett Competition – We won the national civil service cricket competition for the 3rd year out of four, after scoring a club record score in competitive matches of 330-4 in 40 overs.
Indoor Cricket – Runners up in the cup competition, losing to Stroud in the final off the final ball.
If you are interested in joining the Cricket Club please contact Craig Baker at: 07837344702 or crogins@hotmail.co.uk.
The squash section is open to all standards from beginner to elite. We currently have three teams in the Glos County Squash league and run a monthly box league system where members compete against each other. There are currently six leagues each with four players.
Three tournaments are held throughout the year; the main club championships, a handicap knockout and a doubles tournament. There are also ‘club nights’, where any member can turn up and play in a round robin style format.
Every year in February we arrange a trip to Manchester to watch the professionals show us how it’s done in the National Championships at the squash arena.
It’s £50 per annum to join the squash section and the lights for a 50 minute court session cost £2.
Courts are booked electronically via an interactive website.
If you’d like to join please email duncanbrownlie@sky.com.
The Skittles Club is always interested to see new teams entering the league. Each team comprises 9 players, plus reserves, and matches are played at the clubhouse on Tuesdays & Wednesdays with occasional Mondays & Thursdays.
Teams play in two League competitions (Winter & Summer) and, following the Winter League, in a Knock-out competition for the President’s Shield. On Finals Night trophies are presented to various Winners for both Team and Individual achievements. The Summer League also has its Finals Night. Both are enjoyed immensely.
In addition, we hold competitions for Individuals, one to decide the Player of the Year, another for the Tony Clay Memorial Shield and a competition for Mixed Pairs (Lady and Gent play alternately for a combined score).
For more information about joining a team or entering a new team in the league, contact Reg Rowley at regrowley@yahoo.com or 01242 692200.
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June 27th, 2013 Steve Czarnecki
Stephen Clark over at BTTF.com passed this onto us to share with our readers and we just love this concept. Back in Time is an ambitious Back to the Future documentary film project with a unique vision and is happy to announce that the crowdfunding phase of their development has opened up with a Kickstarter project. For the next 40+ days, the filmmakers will be seeking backers for their unique film, to the tune of $33,000. Director Jason Aron and his production partners are set to steal the show at the 30th anniversary “We’re Going Back” celebration of the Back to the Future with their Back in Time documentary project, which focuses on the DeLorean Time Machine. The cultural impact of the movie franchise is the main element Aron and his partners want to examine. With regular references to phrases like “88 miles per hour,” “1.21 gigawatts,” “flux capacitor,” and many, many more having crept into the vernacular, the films have clearly had a lasting impact on modern pop culture. The documentary crew is determined to examine the depth and breadth of the ripples caused by the films. Click ahead for details on what looks to be quite an amazing film!
With major DeLorean “Time Machine” players like Joe Walser and Ken Kapalowski having signed off on the project—meaning the documentary is already slated to premier at the October 2015 “We’re Going Back” celebration—and others in the Back to the Future community ready to take active part in telling the unique story of this worldwide hit series, the film has already made huge strides in pre-production.
In order to build on this solid foundation, the team is turning to fans of the Back to the Future franchise for their support. The Kickstarter project page for the film lists a wide variety of attractive pledge levels perfect for fans of all types.
With such iconic subject matter, a truly compelling star (the DeLorean, including one of the original props from Back to the Future), and the talent of the production team, Back in Time is sure to be a success. Yet getting the film made is going to take the help of the fans. The larger the success of the Kickstarter campaign, the bigger (more interviews, more participants) the film will be in the end. Aron and the team hope that backers will give generous support and—of course—let all their friends know about this unique proposition.
The Back in Time Kickstarter page is available here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1193589543/back-in-time and will run through Sunday, August 11th.
About Back in Time and the Filmmakers
Back in Time is a Northeast-based Back to the Future documentary film project as seen from the perspective of the Time Machine itself, the Delorean. The film is set to capitalize on the excitement behind the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future in 2015. The 25th anniversary “We’re Going Back” festivities were spectacular, and the film’s crew are eager to add this documentary’s premier to what already promises to be a truly phenomenal event. With 2015 the setting of Back to the Future Part II, and the number 30 being prominent in the series’ time travel, expectations are higher than ever for this event, and Back in Time promises to be a keystone of the festivities.
New York-based Director Jason Aron has been active in filmmaking for the past decade, and his work has been seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers. He has a background in the professional sports sector, having interviewed everyone from team owners down through players across diverse organizations. With an interest in the film series which dates back to recording the first Back to the Future film—line by line—on a tape recorder, Jason’s commitment to the material of this documentary is second to none.
Lead Cinematographer Greg Lassik’s New Jersey-based Endless Wave Studios has been in the business of telling stories for more than ten years. His unique specialty is in telling the story of couples embarking on the next phase of their lives by creating moving wedding stories. The veteran eye he brings to the project will no doubt prove invaluable during our various Back in Time’s travels. (…time travels. *rimshot*)
Executive Producer Louis Krubich spent half a decade working in production for various companies—primarily MTV Networks—before becoming one of the principals at Hoboken-based production startup Malka Media Group. The company provides production services for a broad range of industries, including sports, music, education, charity, and more. While at Viacom he worked with a small team dedicated to creating custom promotional content for upcoming blockbuster films, an experience he plans to put to good use on this project.
For more information on the Back In Time film, visit the official site at http://www.backintimefilm.com/, and check in on social media sites twitter http://twitter.com/backintimefilm/ and http://facebook.com/backintimefilm/. The Kickstarter page for the Back In Time film is accessible at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1193589543/back-in-time
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1986 Coors Classic
By Owen Mulholland
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After following the 1986 Tour de France and reporting the contentious drama of Greg LeMond's attempt to win while his teammate Bernard Hinault constantly undermined him, Owen Mulholland followed the 1986 Coors Classic. There, it turned out that without pause LeMond and Hinault had continued their rivalry. Owen also followed the Women's Coors and found just as much friction between the French champion and the Americans.
1986 Coors Classic Men's Race
As perhaps befits a nation caught in a state of perpetual self-examination, the Coors Classic, America's premier bike race, is ever in revision. This search for identity may or may not be a crises.
On the positive side is a comparison with, say, particle accelerators. Moscow's is massive, powerful and crude; Geneva's is constructed with typical Swiss meticulousness; and Chicago's Fermi is never quite complete. If the Coors is like Fermi then the endless tinkering can be viewed as a natural restlessness and perpetual search for something better.
Less optimistic is the fear that the Coors is desperately groping for a formula which will make it a desired entity in itself. The Coors grew up with the bike boom of the seventies. To ride a good Coors (or Red Zinger as it was called then) just about made an American bikie's career. Problems arose in 1984 when our best amateurs used the Coors as a preparation race for the Olympics. This year, 1986, was analogous. Home and foreign riders viewed the Coors as a stepping stone to the succeeding World Championships in Colorado Springs.
By positioning his race just before a bigger event, director Michael Aisner has been able to draw together some very classy fields. However, several of the name riders have not ridden with much inspiration, making their inclusion a dubious matter. More threatening is what happens when the "bigger event" disappears. Olympics and Worlds are not frequently on the domestic cycling menu, the former having a gap of 52 years and the latter 74 years!
Obviously, Aisner wants to create a race which will bring the hottest honchos from around the world. Competitors must be attracted to the Coors by its own virtues, and not those of the next event.
This year support for Aisner's pioneering efforts came from the best source possible, Bernard Hinault. That five-time winner of the Tour de France would choose the Coors as his career ending stage race victory gave status to the race which no hype could have ever achieved.
From the first pedal stroke in the San Francisco prologue time trial, Americans got to see the "Badger" of renown. Last year he cruised through the race on autopilot, content to support Greg LeMond and only show his real self on rare occasions. This year, as anyone who followed the Tour de France knew, Hinault was in the best form he's enjoyed for years. As he said on several occasions, "When I have form like this, I don't have the right not to try to win."
But this was no demo run. Hinault's victory meant something because it came at the expense of some very worthy opposition.
As usual, number one on that list was 7-Eleven. The familiarity of such names as Ron Kiefel, Eric Heiden, Davis Phinney, and Doug Shapiro is based in large part on their annual memorable performances in this most prestigious of domestic races.
Ron Kiefel claimed he was tired from the Tour de France, but it's hard to imagine how he could have won much more convincingly on the 18 percent slopes of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill in the prologue time trial. Nearly six seconds separated him from second place, Piotr Ugrumov of the Soviet Union. Six seconds in an even that lasted just over three minutes is enough to make one doubt the timing system. Just consider…six seconds covered the finishers in second through eleventh places!
The fact that this was Ron's fourth consecutive prologue win wasn't lost on the knowledgeable San Francisco crowd. Estimates ranged up to 40,000 in attendance. Whatever the numbers, the upper limit seemed to be sidewalk space rather than attempts to attend. Every side street was clogged with craning necks while those lucky enough to be on the rope barricades pushed into the streets creating a human canyon up which the pounding riders got the best "treatment" this side of Italy. Between the fans with programs and the race marshals with their bullhorns, the crowds were "prepped" for each rider. Politics and modest reputations evaporated. The sporting ribbon up the hill responded vociferously to every racer. It seemed hardly possible, but an extra decibel was kept in store for the likes of Hinault, Phinney, LeMond and Kiefel.
The name "Telegraph Hill" harkens back to the clipper ship days when a lookout using a spyglass could identify a ship entering the bay and then "telegraph" (using semaphores) that information to the docks below. On this day, the telegraph was very much in use, only the direction was opposite and the medium was sound. Despite the anemic coverage by the local media which concentrated almost exclusively on the Gay Olympics being run in another part of town, this was the happening event in San Francisco. Name your criteria: attendance; money; international prestige…the Coors had it all.
Bernard Hinault in the 1986 Tour de France
The buildings seemed to sway to Bernard's rocking big gear style and the rhythmic chants of "E-no! E-no!" It's hard to understand after all the problems with the local hero, LeMond, but American fans obviously respect and admire the Frenchman for his career record and attacking style; petty rivalries can't be allowed to intrude on serious hero worship.
"Bernie," as Aisner likes to call him, improved 40 places on his '85 prologue ride, but it was still a ways from a winning time. Although absolute times were impossible to take along the course, relative splits gave a sense of the standings. When the time of 7-Eleven's super hot Mexican discovery, Raul Alcala, stood up to the onslaughts of such legends as Steve Bauer, Andy Hampsten, Davis Phinney and Moreno Argentin, the crowd knew this was the standard to measure the few remaining rides. Piotr Ugrumov (USSR) was obviously onto a good one, but attention was focused most closely on Ron Kiefel and Greg LeMond, the last two starters. The watch confirmed appearances when the 26 year old Kiefel lunged past. This man was in another dimension!
When another minute went by and Greg wasn't in sight everyone knew Ron must be the winner. What people didn't know, except for those standing where it happened, was that Greg's chain had derailed on the steepest section and he'd had to get off and restart.
The excitement continued unabated into day two where an expanded Fisherman's Wharf circuit showed off one of the things the Coors does best, super hot criterium racing. Riders started dribbling off the back almost immediately when the intense pace just wouldn't let up. Alan McCormack, the 29 year old leader of the Killians' Irish Red Team, capped a scintillating 1 1/2 hours with a death dive move in the final corner. He emerged reincarnated as the winner.
The show moved on, but San Francisco, perhaps America's most European-style city, still reverberates to those two days of bike racing, August 9th and 10th. Old time fans still speak in hushed tones of seeing those so-famous pros on their familiar streets. It still doesn't seem true. But anyone who heard those chants of "E-no! E-no!" can be assured it was the real thing. Michael Aisner and his staff have done the heretofore virtually impossible, planted the Coors in the center of a major city and seen it grow as though the urban landscape were virgin topsoil for racing.
Exciting as the first two days were, those close to the race knew it was just fluff. The next three days to Reno, three long, classic mountainous point-to-point races would be the real weights on the scale of overall race leadership.
The mighty Red Zinger team (La Vie Claire for the rest of the year…Hinault, LeMond and company) decided it was time to assert itself. One look at the 102-mile profile from Sonoma to Sacramento showed there was plenty of opportunity to make a first selection. Trinity Mountain Road rears up outside Glen Ellen, the town Jack London made famous. An average gradient of ten percent for two miles guaranteed major gaps.
The road connects the viticultural regions of the Valley of the Moon and Napa Valley, but the insatiable fans had eyes only for their heroes. They didn't have to look very hard. LeMond and Hampsten were right up front putting on the big hurt. Thirteen could stand the pain.
Across Napa Valley and LeMond floored it on the next climb. Four others latched on. Their names were important: Andy Hampsten (Levi's), Bruno Cronillet (Peugeot), Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) and Janus Kuum (Schwinn-Icy Hot). When their lead built to ten minutes at the 60 mile mark and diminished slightly to 7 minutes and 53 seconds in Sacramento, the race appeared to be over for everyone else, which is just what the Zinger boys had intended.
Greg LeMond in the 1986 Tour de France
This was professional racing. With the five strongest teams represented in the break, their teammates back in the bunch locked the vault. Only two teams had the power to chase, Bianchi and the Soviets. There were fewer than ten of them in the leading chase group, against over twenty of the assembled opposition. Every time a Bianchi rider, say, would take a long, hard pull at the front of the chase group, he would see his efforts neutralized by the next man in line. Very discouraging stuff, and the enormous gaps showed it.
Such clinical precision in the peloton was not matched by the organization. Some year Michael Aisner will put on a flawless race, and certainly the '86 edition was a quantum improvement on the snafu-plagued '85 Coors, but as long as he had to rely on volunteers, however enthusiastic, there will always be the risk of the kind of problem Bruno Cornillet encountered practically within sight of the finish line.
While Hampsten and LeMond eyed each other, Bruno got away within the Sacramento city limits. Up the capitol mall he roared before beginning the loop around the capitol building which preceded the finish back on the mall. This entailed six corners. All it took was for one to be unmarked and unmarshaled and the poor Frenchman got an unexpected tour of the capitol neighborhood.
Greg won the group sprint for second and was surprised to learn he was first.
Greg admitted he didn't make the same mistake as Bruno because, "I knew I had to turn left because I rode the course last year, but it was a poorly marked corner." Greg, always honorable, went on to refuse the first place prize. "It's not my race. Give it to Bruno," he insisted, and eventually the judges agreed.
That night's Old Sacramento criterium once again drew huge crowds and also showed that Davis Phinney never goes so well as when wounded. His still healing wrist, wrapped in a brace, took a terrific pounding on the notorious riverside cobbles, but come the sprint he was in his accustomed spot, first. Second was his old nemesis, Steve Bauer, the omnipresent Canadian rival from amateur days.
Two hard stages in one day meant most of the riders were looking forward to a quiet start of the longest stage with the most climbing which came the following morning in Nevada City.
The stage opened with five laps of its notorious criterium course. The 82-man field was content to roll around the severe undulations as best it could. Even going slowly those hill hurt. One man was prepared, however. Phil Anderson, the fiery Australian, had every reason to be aggressive. He'd missed the break the day before and lost almost three minutes due to a flat in the Sacramento criterium That put him 10 minutes 49 seconds down on the race leader, or six from last, well below the expectations he's had for himself in this race.
On the climbs out of town others jumped on board. Again, names to remember: Dag-Otto Lauritzen (Peugeot), Doug Shapiro (7-Eleven), Jeff Pierce (Schwinn-Icy Hot), Theo DeRooy (Holland Pro), and Moreno Argentin and Valerio Piva (Bianchi). The best-placed was Argentin in 20th in General Classification at 8 minutes 27 seconds. The top five on G.C. felt there was nothing to fear.
Once again, though, those behind were paralyzed by tactical considerations. While the break worked in harmony, the field dawdled along playing a gentlemanly game of "after you". Only after the news came through that they were over fourteen minutes down did they get inspired. They pulled back almost six minutes in the last few miles, but it still left a 9 minute 6 second gap, the largest in Coors history.
Lauritzen, the Norwegian on the Peugeot team, became race leader, but his grip was obviously tenuous. Eleven others were within 2 minutes 3 seconds. There would be no more "gift" breakaways. Each team would be calculating how to whittle down this elite group.
The Hinault-LeMond rivalry was obviously back on full boil. Bernard was now in fourth overall, almost a minute ahead of Greg. Mixed signals and shrouded intentions once again made La Vie Claire anything but.
The rest of the Coors became a squeeze play. Anyone who cracked would never get a chance to recover. So while LeMond got a sentimental victory into his hometown of Reno, and Davis Phinney and Ron Kiefel did their usual scintillating criterium show that night, it remained for the "Tour of the Moon" at Grand Junction, Colorado to make the first big changes.
The good news for the organizers and their transfer of the race entourage to Colorado was that Continental Airlines did the flight for free. The bad news was that the riders had to get up at 4 a.m. to catch it. Such disruptions in riders' schedules affect the differently.
This time (last year is was Steve Bauer) it was Doug Shapiro. Starting the second lap Shapiro knew his legs were going. He tried to stay on the front and bluff by setting a good tempo. But he just couldn't match the acceleration for the climbers' prime sprint. The only other 7-Eleven rider in the group, Raul Alcala, dropped back to help Doug.
Like sharks tearing at a wounded brother, the lead pack instantly united to capitalize on 7-Eleven's weakness. By the finish line Shapiro and Alcala were four minutes adrift, very much dismembered from the G.C. picture.
Thanks to the play of time bonuses, Lauritzen had been succeeded as race leader by Shapiro in Reno. That glory passed all too quickly and now Jeff Pierce was in the coveted race leader's jersey. But looming just five seconds behind him, like a king cobra in strike position, was the Badger himself. Forty-eight hours later, the Vail Pass time trial promised to be, indeed, the "race of truth".
In 26 minutes and 56.4 seconds, Hinault demonstrated a truth known to cyclists around the world for nearly a decade, he is the strongest. At the start Greg had real hopes of winning the uphill time trial, which, at over 8,000 feet is a real exercise in oxygen deprivation. But the 31 year old Frenchman is still awesome. Greg did get second, but at 50 seconds! LeMond had no excuses. "He killed me," he admitted. Pierce, down in thirteenth place suffered even more.
With Bernard and Greg one-two it was a rerun of an old story. Both swore they wouldn't hinder each other and both said a win for the team was their primary concern.
The detente lasted just a day until Hinault rolled off the front half-way through the Vail - Copper Mountain stage. In the move too were Pierece, Phinney, Shapiro, Anderson, and a few others with every incentive to go fast. Just as interesting was the list of absentees: Lemond, Hampsten, Alcala, Lauritzen and Kuum.
While Bernard beamed at his job well done, Greg fumed at his own lapse to fourth on G.C.. Paul Koechli, the Red Zinger coach, had even driven up to Hinault and asked him not to pull. Hinault refused and later explained, "Paul and I have different perspectives on the race. But since it's I who pushes the pedals, it's I who will make the decisions." Spoken like a true badger.
Hinault now owned the 1986 Coors Classic. Supported by the strongest team in the race and in super form, he appeared invulnerable. His biggest scare came in the Estes Park circuit race. It's a difficult course with a nasty hill and many turns. A storm blew in, drastically dropping the temperature, and through the sheets of freezing rain Greg attacked with Raul Alcala. Once Phil Anderson got up to them, Greg stopped working as Phil was a direct threat to Hinault.
But Bernard, suspecting treachery, went on the warpath. Then a spoke broke and Bernard was forced to make a wheel change. He stopped at the pits, threw his bike on the ground, and screamed at Koechli for not restraining LeMond. Almost a minute passed before he was back in the saddle.
Assisted by teammates Steve Bauer and Jean-François Bernard, the deficit was slowly eliminated. Also eliminated was Jeff Pierce who couldn't hold onto this express train in the rain. Once together at the front, Moreno Argentin went away in the closing laps to win one of the most dramatic stages in Coors history.
But the drama didn't end at the finish line. Right out in front of God, the public, and everybody, Greg and Bernard exploded in a shower of French epithets. Greg concluded matters by giving Bernard the bent elbow.
LeMond felt the whole incident was one more example of injustice. "Hinault overreacted, " Greg explained. "I didn't do anything wrong. He doesn't talk to me now, and I don't talk to him, in any language. I'll be looking for another team if things don't change."
Later things calmed down. Hinault compared the situation to family life where everyone knows there are good days and bad days. Greg, in turn, said he had been Bernard's friend for six years and hoped to end their racing days on that note. (Bernard promises to retire at the end of the season.)
With peace restored the mighty Red Zinger juggernaut rolled on. LeMond got up to second place overall in the last time trial; Bernard Hinault rode serenely to victory; and Michael Aisner could take satisfaction from having seen his race won by the most famous man in cycling. He could not have wished for a better omen.
1986 Coors Classic - Women
Jeannie Longo has become the Marcus Allen of women's cycling. The Raider strategy of Allen to the left, Allen up the middle, Allen to the right, pretty well fits the French Lady's dominance of this year's Coors.
Last year she won five stages on a series of mostly flat and much criticized courses. A more hilly layout this year was suppose to give Longo's opponents more opportunities, but they came up short. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
At the end of the first day Jeannie had the red race leader's jersey firmly on her back and all but two rivals at a comfortable distance. The biggest loser of the "Tour of the Moon" was Inga Benedict (Inga Thompson until the Monday before the race). After the Tour de France where Inga climbed very well, she was expected to give Longo a serious challenge. Losing a minute and a half on the first stage was a major handicap. For every stage win Jeannie would get an extra 30-second bonus. The only way to beat her was to drop her on the hills or beat her in the time trials, and then by enough margin to make up for those bonuses.
The truth of this was demonstrated on stage two, three, and four. Inga showed her real self in the stage three Vail Pass time trial by taking 50 seconds out of Longo. Jeannie, however, won stages two and four. Net benefit to Longo: ten seconds.
Of course there were more than just the lady with the waist length braid (Benedict) and the French woman in the race, and by stage five they began to show themselves. Both had come to the Coors sick or wounded and it had taken most of the week to adapt.
Opportunity stood out in the profile of the Copper Mountain stage which crossed the 11,316-foot Fremont Pass twice. Mighty Maria Canins, Italian winner of the Coors in 1984, twice winner of the Tour de France, and winner of everything else with big climbs, showed there was plenty of life left in the 37-year old body by taking the prime the first time over the top of Fremont. Maria admitted to having an unusually difficult time adapting to the altitude this year, so she didn't try to capitalize on her slight advantage.
At the turn-around point in Leadville, Katrin Tobin, recently crowned U.S. Women's Road Champion, jumped for the prime and kept on motoring. The former Stanford student would like to do in cycling something akin to what her Stanford compatriot, John McEnroe, has done in tennis.
Her initiative was matched by only one other racer, Madonna Harris, last year's Coors discovery. Madonna, a New Zealander by birth, and formerly a Utah triathlete by choice, took off after Katrin when the gap got to 50 seconds.
Incredibly, no one chased. Clearly, the former third-place finisher in the Coors was a serious threat to all sorts of people. The mostly American field seemed to feel the onus was on Jeannie to chase, and she felt just as strongly they had more to lose.
It's true that Jeannie was rather isolated, being in a thrown-together Red Zinger team with two weak teammates (Neil of Canada and Top of Holland) and Boulderite Leslie Schenck. Leslie could be of help on the flat, but heading back up the pass, the natural strength of the top riders saw them ride away from the field.
Longo, Canins, Benedict, and another emerging face, Susan Ehlers (Centurion team) scarfed up a dropped Tobin near the summit. Katrin gritted her teeth to hang on, and then the former downhill skier had the temerity to attack again.
While Ehlers thought of the sprint and Inga refused to pull really hard, Canins and Longo were left to do the real chasing. They tried to strike a balance between losing too much time and overtiring themselves. The result was that Harris won, Tobin finished at 38 seconds, and Jeannie took the sprint for third (ten-second bonus) at 52 seconds.
Longo was clearly upset by what she considered open collusion between Americans of different teams. All parties agreed on the fact, for example, that Inga had led out Katrin for the Leadville prime. But where Longo took offense, Tobin saw it as a natural outcome of Americans wanting to do well in their own race. "It's nothing personal against Jeannie," Katrin said assuringly. These semantic niceties remained lost on the foreign lady.
As with the men, the Estes Park circuit made for a volatile combative race. You know that 3,000 feet of climbing in 27 miles is bound to shake things up.
The kindling point was reached at the midpoint when Harris crashed and delayed all but Longo. Jeannie didn't wait and Inga set out in lone pursuit. With two laps to go Longo was caught. The crowd roared Inga on and she obliged by going up a gear. Only the strongest can get away with such a bold move. If you crack in a big gear it's like your legs are frozen in cement. But Inga wasn't cracking. She was flying away to a momentous victory that gave her many fans cause to hope that the Grenoblois might be vulnerable yet. In all she pulled back 39 seconds to close within 1 minute 16 seconds.
Their dual continued right on into the press room where Jeannie openly accused Inga of illicit cooperation and Inga just as hotly denied the charge. "I've been to the Tour of Norway and the Tour de France, and I'm sick of the Europeans always winning. I want to see an American win and if an American is off the front I'm not going to chase. There's a difference between working together and not wanting to work. As far as I'm concerned blood is thicker than water. All we get here are cheers. The crowds push the Europeans in the Tour." The shouting match ended with Jeannie walking out.
There was no chance of shady riding two days later when Benedict pulled back 25 seconds in an 8.4-mile time trial. That left Inga only 35 seconds down on G.C., but once again Jeannie worked the bonus game by winning the Denver criterium that night. Inga was back to a 1 minute 5 seconds deficit.
The renowned Morgul - Bismark stage gave Canins and Harris the chance to move up to third and fifth respectively, but between the top two there was a stalemate. Everywhere that Inga went, Jeannie was sure to follow.
The final day's North Boulder Park circuit race promised to do little more than entertain the crowd. But the inclusion of a hill every lap makes this a demanding race. Where most were thinking survival, the dominant U.S. team, Centurion, was thinking possibilities. Just 18 seconds separated their Susan Ehlers from third-place Canins. Just maybe Maria was vulnerable.
In turn the Centurion riders attacked, showing the kind of coordinated aggression little seen in the Coors since Connie Carpenter's retirement. Finally, they sprang Susan with a daunting 15 laps to go. Blown on by the crowd she couldn't even think "hurt".
When her lead climbed to over a minute Inga became vulnerable. Susan needed 1 minute 9 seconds plus the 30-second bonus to do it. At three laps to go the margin was 1 minute 4 seconds. Inga, having a bad day, and relatively unsupported by her even weaker teammates, was helpless.
At the finish line Ehlers had 1 minute 17 seconds on Benedict and a courageously won second place overall. On the last lap Longo powered away from the pack to solo in, demonstrating that she was indeed the strongest, no matter how the math made things look.
Jeannie smiled for the first time in a week. On the podium with Bernard Hinault she purred, "an all-French win. I think it is beautiful."
Coors Classic Race Notes
Jean-Michel Forest, L'Équipe's reporter at the Coors (L'Équipe is France's biggest sporting paper and sponsor of the Tour de France) was frequently frustrated at the Coors. Due to the time difference between the U.S. and France he was under a lot of pressure to get results as soon as possible. The up to three hour delay in obtaining results was a source of constant annoyance. On the final day he made his own calculations and then discovered the press room with its telephones was clear across town. Undaunted, he knocked on the door of a nearby resident's home and begged permission to use the phone. Permission granted. Mission accomplished.
After the Sacramento criterium, someone invaded the Red Zinger van and stole Christian Jordan's bike. Some local kids observed the crime and noted the escape car had a custom license plate reading "Bad Rat". The police claimed there was nothing they could do (!) so the kids tracked down "Bad Rat" and got the bike. They then drove to Squaw Valley to return it and were rewarded by a dinner with Greg LeMond.
The Coors is getting its own version of the Bermuda Triangle. At least the French think so. Last year the French amateur team van broke down near the Utah-Colorado border en route from Reno to Grand Junction. Somehow the oil drained out, the warning light didn't come on (or so the driver said) and the engine fried. This year the French pro van didn't get near so far. Just outside of Reno the van got a flat. There was no spare tire and the van had to be towed. A day and a night is all the time allotted for the 800-mile drive, so delays can be critical. Continental Airlines offered to reroute its Reno-Denver flight just to drop the bikes off in Grand Junction, but translator Justin Palotta couldn't rouse the mechanic. It must have been a good snooze because the bikes were delivered in time by the van, a feat which required 16 hours of nonstop driving.
The post office of Grand Junction issued a special one day only "Tour of the Moon" hand cancellation depicting a bike rider on wheels saying "Tour of the Moon Station" and "Grand Junction, Colorado". The philatelist society of Grand Junction was responsible to arranging this unique tribute to the Coors Classic. A date to remember, August 15, 1986. The Tour of the Moon also marked the 100th stage since this race began back in 1975 as the Red Zinger.
Amazing Davis Phinney is still trying to crawl out form under the shadow of his wife, Connie Carpenter. She has record of 18 stage wins and 27 top three finishes. Entering the '86 Coors, Davis' tallies were 13 golds and 23 top three placings. Two and a half weeks later he had 16 golds and 28 top three placings. One down, one to go.
Crashes are an unfortunate part of bike racing. This year's Coors had its share. Alan McCormack, the fiery sprinter from Dublin and leader of the Kilian's Red team tried to repeat his winning move of San Francisco the next day in the Old Town Sacramento criterium. This time there really was no room to squeeze through in the last turn. He caught a pedal in the fencing, did a spectacular flip, and fractured his arm in two places. He was on the start line the next morning and each of the first three times he was dropped, he battled back to the field. The fourth time he finally had to give up.
Lech Piasecki, last year's Amateur World Road Champion from Poland, touched a wheel and crashed awkwardly on the Nevada City to Squaw Valley stage. He suffered a deep gash in his left elbow, so deep it punctured an artery. After medical attention, he climbed off the stretcher and finished the stage, dripping blood the whole way. He was understandably last, 42 minutes 15 seconds down on the winner. That he finished at all was a miracle. His blood pressure was 70/0, or so it was reported.
Eric Heiden has had a tough summer. After bending a French guard rail with his head in the Tour, he crashed twice in the Coors. The first time was in the stage to Squaw Valley. His biggest indignity was to be fined for drafting when a judge spotted him using a race vehicle to help him chase. He lost only a modest 9 minutes 6 seconds. Three days later he had a more serious tumble, catching a pedal on a turn and going over the bars. Even Mr. Bionic has his limits. He soldiered on for two days but finally had to quit in Vail.
No one is safe. "Winning" editor John Wilcockson, and Coors race director Michael Aisner, decided to sprint from the parking lot to the view point on the summit of 12,095 foot Independence Pass. Coming over the abrupt rise, they encountered a tourist. Both took evasive action, but John slipped on the gravel and went flying, suffering numerous abrasions around his body. John shrugged off the injuries. He is well-known for his ability to identify with the racers about whom he writes and this was the next logical step!
The Löwenbräu sponsored U.S. amateur team defied national coach Eddy B.'s admonition to avoid the Coors. He stated that it was too strenuous before the Worlds. The riders risked elimination from the World's team, but they felt the benefits of the Coors were worth it. Todd Gugulski, Löwenbräu's best rider, improved every day, and on the copper mountain stage he made a sterling effort to grab third. After the stage prizes were awarded he didn't leave the blocks to make way for the presentation of overall race leader, Bernard Hinault. When Bernard mounted to the top sport, Todd's motivation became clear. He reached up and shook Hinault's hand. "I wanted to feel the energy," he said.
Bike racing can be all things. On the same day she won stage seven, the Foothills Road Race, Leslee Schenk discovered she was out of the Coors for doping. Her dope test from the previous day had proved positive. The rules are very clear in these matters, but in this case all parties sympathized. Leslee freely admitted that that she had taken Nyquil, a standard over-the-counter cough medication. Unbeknownst to her it contained a banned substance, pseudo-ephedrine. Like many racers competing at altitude in the dry air, Leslee had had trouble sleeping at night due to persistent coughing. The second-year competitor from Boulder never thought to look for banned substances at the grocery store pharmacy section. Her suspension lasted thirty days, which precluded inclusion in the World Championship team. This was an obvious instance of misguided justice.
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Critical Mass Book Award winners were announced last week. While I won't say that you have to document a small Northern outpost to win this contest, based on results from the past few years it certainly can't hurt your chances. In 2006 it was Donald Weber:
Followed in 2008 by Céline Clanet:
2009's co-winner, announced last week, was Birthe Piontek:
I don't want to homogenize these projects too much since each photographer has his/her own distinctive, strong approach. But the similarities are too glaring to ignore.
The recipe seems to call for spending several months living among a snowy people, examining their inner life by photographing a mix of rural social landscape, portraits, and poetically unkempt interiors, with perhaps a few hunting photos thrown in for grisly impact. I mention the hunting photos because for me they raise an interesting question: How much do these photographs rely on exoticism for their power?
For example, presumably most Critical Mass reviewers don't hunt for their sustenance. How does that effect their perception of freshly skinned meat? If the Critical Mass reviewers happened to live in a simple, Arctic culture like those in the photos, would these same projects win on the strength of their vision alone? Or would the winners depict what we think of as mundane, perhaps manicured lawns and Starbucks outlets? I don't know the answer but I think these are questions worth asking.
Whatever the answers, one thing is for sure. Next year's submissions are sure to contain many photographs --perhaps even a critical mass-- of Northern outposts.
What To Do? #61
181. SE 34th and Belmont, Portland, 2003
182. SW Barbur Burger King, Portland, 2005
183. SW 4th and Salmon, Portland, 2003
(WTD? is a weekly installment of old unseen b/w photos)
Questions without answers
This past week I've been enjoying the book Visions and Images by Barbaralee Diamonstein. If the name rings a bell, it's probably from Diamonstein's Interview with Garry Winogrand which circulated on various photoblogs last year.
It turns out that was only one in a series of interviews with American photographers conducted by Diamonstein in 1981. Visions and Images compiles transcriptions of fifteen interviews, all of them heavyweights. In addition to Winogrand, there's Kertesz, Metzker, Meyerowitz, Siskind, Callahan... the list goes on. They are all available on YouTube, but I almost prefer reading the transcription to the video. I can go at my own pace, and I find here's something almost photographic about a transcribed interview. Like the capture of a scene through a lens, the conversion of video to writing mediates directly without altering the essence.
The interview I found most intriguing was with the elusive Elliott Erwitt. Talk about a reluctant guest. His answers are so evasive you'd think he was running for office. Time and again Diamonstein lobs probing questions at him, but he refuses to field any of them. It must've driven her crazy.
At first it put me off. I thought, why won't he just answer the question? But the more I read, the more refreshing Erwitt's attitude was. Here was a photographer who wasn't afraid to say "I don't know". It seems the perfect counter to today's culture of specificity, in which photographers are expected to plan out their projects top to bottom and be ready to explain them in a concise three paragraph spiel. For many photo projects nowadays the explanation often takes precedence over the images. You read the artist's statement and you don't even need to see the photos.
Erwitt is the antithesis. Photographs before theory. Can you imagine any of today's hot young photo stars being brave enough to give answers like this?
Diamonstein: What are really saying [in your photos] about the whole question of personal identity?
Erwitt: Gosh. Nothing, I guess…
D: Humor is a very central part of your work. I've often wondered how you're managed to skirt that very difficult line between humor and sarcasm.
E: I wish I could answer you. I don't worry too much about things like that. I just do what I do, without thinking too much.
D: What are the strategies you use to achieve the results we see in your work?
E: Well, let's see, strategy….I do take pictures of dogs and I bark at them sometimes. But that's really to attract their attention more than to convey a message to them.
D: When did this "humanist" wit begin to emerge in your work?
E: Oh gosh, I don't know…
D: [John Szarkowski] has said that you're known for almost confusing understatement in your photographs; that they deal with the empty spaces between happenings, and with anti-climactic non-events. [He] callsl them anti-photographs. What do you mean by that, and what do you think he means?
E: Well, I don't know what he means, but it sounds good to me. As for anti-photographs, I was looking for a catchy title for my book, and a copywriter friend suggested it. He explained what he thought it meant, but I've forgotten.
D: What advice would you give to a you or beginning photographer? Is there any special schooling, or any special technique that you would suggest?
E: No, my only suggestion would be to develop interests and pursue them -- nothing more.
D: There are certain recurring themes ini your work. We've talked about dogs, but we haven't talked much about beaches. What is the constant attraction to the beach?
E: I'm very often by the sea or the waterfront, and I find that's a good place to take pictures. Like with dogs, I find the beach is in most places.
D: What do we reveal about ourselves at the beach that you find particularly engaging?
E: I don't know. I just go there and take pictures, and I hope if there's anything to be revealed it'll be in the pictures.
D: I read that during [your father's] long travels away from home, he encouraged you to document the everyday circumstances of your life in his absence. Did that discipline and your diaries have any effect on the way your document the rest of the world now?
E: Perhaps. I have no idea. I really don't try to look for reasons for everything. I think it's a mistake to look for a motivation for everything. You just go out and do what you do. Don't think too much about it, because it takes the spontaneity out of everything.
D: Did you ever expect your life to unfold as it has?
E: I don't know that I had any particular expectations. I don't look too far forward. I just live as it comes. I don't have any particular projections. Actually, you got me to talk about my projections for books. I don't think I've ever thought that far in advance.
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Definite article of interest?
This is a publicity photo accompanying a recent email alert about an upcoming class called Digital Perfection with Photoshop:
I have not altered the photo in any way.
I don't mean to poke fun at Mark Fitzgerald. I've taken classes with him and he is a total pro. But this doesn't seem like the photo to use when advertising perfection. Just saying.
It Ain't Me Babe
I've known for a while that I share a name with various Googlegangers, including a stage hypnotist, a gay porn star, a playboy slash beer distributor, and several white collar professionals. Now it turns out there's another photographer named Blake Andrews. If you want to order photos from your wedding last September, or from any other wedding, it ain't me you're looking for.
Potter Bathtub Telephone
When it comes to sequencing photographs, I follow Potter Stewart's doctrine. I can't define what makes a good sequence but I know it when I see it. The latest La Pura Vida show curated by Greg Flanders certainly qualifies, one of those rare sequences in which the order of the photos makes each one stronger.
Photo by Steven Beckly from January La Pura Vida show
Some will criticize the photo to photo connections for their lack of subtlety. In my book that directness is exactly why the order works. When you play telephone you don't have to mangle the message on purpose. You can trust that mistranslations will occur on their own.
Flickr is a tower of Babel. The photos pull in a billion directions and it's hard to make visual connections. To choose sixteen and make them flow nicely is impressive, and perhaps a prescription for curating in the digital age. So where can I get me some more of that?
What To Do #60
178. Mt. Washington, NH, 2001
179. Pacific City, OR, 2003
180. Portland, 2006
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Filmy bubble
I realize I live in a film bubble. I shoot film and most photographers I know shoot film, but I realize we are a small minority. I know that most photographers shoot digital and they will never go back to film. So while I'm content in my bubble, I hold no illusion my world is like the outer world.
Eugene Saturday Market, 2000
Maybe it's my imagination but it seems that in recent weeks my bubble has expanded slightly. Are people returning to film? Or maybe they never left? I noticed Mark Tucker first, then Jake Stangel. This morning it was Mike Johnston of all people. I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe this is nothing, just a few outliers. Or maybe it's a sign of some wider backlash. I don't know, just wondering out loud, realizing that all bubbles face the same fate eventually.
Hidalgo County, Texas, 1939, Russell Lee
My favorite thing about this image is that it looks so different from other Russell Lee photos. Nothing against his work. In fact I'm a big fan. But virtually all of his photos --what I've seen anyway-- are more humanist than this. He was one of the original "concerned photographers" even before that was a term. Ramshackle towns, creased cheeks, that sort of thing.
In the context of his other work, this image looks like an alien spaceship. All those hinges! So chic, so modern, so factual. I'd be less surprised to see this photo in Sultan/Mandel's Evidence rather than Russell Lee: Photographer, which is where I did find it. Doesn't it look like some premonition? Evidence of the future?
Sometimes photos will do that. Kid photos mostly. You look at a snapshot of your 7-year old and you can instantly see what he'll look like as an adult, but when you look straight at him you can't tell. The photo serves as crystal ball.
I think that for Russell Lee this was that sort of photo. I'm not sure he knew what he had but he must've known that it looked different, and that was enough.
Moments of levity
If you happen to like this photograph,
Ballycotton, Eire, 1968, Elliott Erwitt
it doesn't necessarily mean you'll like this one.
Here's why not. Thanks to Lisa G. for the tip.
Highlights in disguise
Below are various quotes I highlighted this week while reading Richard Benson's The Printed Picture. The book purports to be a comprehensive survey of printing, but I think it is actually a history of photography in disguise.
"All photography is fictional, by which I mean that any photograph is a picture, not the world from which is was generated. But these little bits of early photography [tintypes] pull that fiction closer to the world than any other pictures known. Many other photographic techniques make pictures that 'look' more like the world, but the early direct-positive photographs on glass and metal bear the actual stain of light from the past."
"A great platinum or palladium print is a wonder, and can convey photographic description in a manner unlike any other process. The secret here is not to judge these prints by comparison to other processes but to view them by themselves. Comparison drags things being judged down to their common denominators, and clouds our eyes to the special qualities of each one."
"We simply have to mention sepia toning. It is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to photographs but, like neckties and hair dye, it's out there and has long been around to make things look silly."
"In some ways we can say that the history of photography has been one of steadily shortening focal lengths. From the classical, distanced view of the painter, photographic description shifted to encompass wider and wider angles of view. Both Eugene Atget, the great French photographer who so often worked in cramped spaces, and George Eastman, the American entrepreneur, moved photography a huge step in this direction through their adoption of radically descriptive wide-angle lenses."
"Woodblocks printing, engraving, etching, lithography, and even the more basic picture-making practices of drawing and painting —all of these technologies were tremendously influential in their day, but each has moved away from the broad cultural forefront and shifted over into the narrower realm of art. This is happening now with photography: the new digital methods convey a great deal of photographic description, but they don't look quite like chemical photography, and they will look less and less like the chemical forms as digital photography evolves. There will always be artists using the earlier technology in vital and effective ways, to make pictures that simply can't be produced with the new methods. Art is like some sort of backward country where old cars are sent to be kept running indefinitely, while modern times and new models race on ahead elsewhere."
"We must be very clearheaded about this. There is absolutely nothing wrong with altering or otherwise doctoring a photograph in the computer. Photographs cannot be relied upon to render any sort of truth about the world from which they have been made..."
Proposed Olympic Events for Photographers
Opening Ceremony. With much pomp and circumstance, photographers are formally introduced to the public. Special one-time only clothes are worn by participants as they make the obligatory circle through the gallery smiling, waving, and gladhanding, only to arrive afterward exactly where they started. The crowd ranges from high-ranking dignitaries to common gawkers. This is a powerful moment because at this point the future is unwritten and anything is possible! If the opening is successful, the artist's torch is lit and shines brightly for the next four years.
400 Meter Darkroom Door Hurdles. Photographers race around an oval track with revolving darkroom doors placed at 20 meter intervals. Contestants must run through the doors as quickly as possible without knocking them over.
400 Meter Darkroom Door Hurdles
Slow Synchronized Swimming. Photographers compete as eight-member teams. Team members swim choreographed routines of four-minute duration while carrying waterproof cameras and shooting slow-synch flash photos. Points awarded for creativity in choreography and photography, as well as synchronicity.
Biathlon. Photographers travel through a series of stations using cross-country skis and carrying an SLR mounted with 500 mm lens. At each station, photographers stop to shoot at a distant target. Points awarded for time and shooting accuracy.
Photographer's Biathlon
Technology Jumping. Photographers on skis attempt to jump as far as possible over a pile of obsolete gadgets from last year.
Weightlifting. Photographers place all their camera gear in a pile, including both working and broken equipment, then attempt to lift it above their heads. Unlike normal weightlifting, contestants are not allowed to throw down the weight after lifting. Gear must be set down gently, and points are deducted for dropping or damaging any equipment.
Camera Gear Weightlifting
File Prep Medley Relay. Teams consisting of 4 members work to convert images as rapidly as possible from RAW format to exhibition print. The first team member converts RAW to properly sized and leveled working file, second member fine tunes spotting, noise, and sharpening, third member masters adjustments and color management, and fourth member makes print after print until a satisfactory exhibition proof is produced. Points awarded for time and final print quality.
Monopod Javelin Throw. Photographers throw a monopod mounted with continuously shooting camera as far as possible. Points awarded for distance and for best shot taken by the camera while airborne.
Monopod Javelin Throw
Portfolio Review Gymnastics. Photographers compete in a series of floor exercises including jumping through various hoops, reaching for brass rings, and swinging on bars which are set progressively higher. Competition is judged by a panel of inscrutable and seemingly capricious officials.
Marathon. Contestants devote themselves to a shadowy, misunderstood, financially draining craft. They pursue it like an addiction day after day, year after year for the bulk of their adult lives. Points awarded for sheer endurance.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Optic Parable, 1931, Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo, 1986, Hiroh Kikai
In a recent interview with Marc Feustel, Hiroh Kikai says that he never looks at the work of other photographers, worried that "I will be destabilised by the fact that some of them are much better than I am." Assuming that is true, the pair of photographs above seems remarkable. How could two photographers working 55 years apart come up with such similar images independently?
Of course there is the possibility that Kikai knew of Bravo's image, in which case his pays homage. Who knows which explanation is right? Perhaps it's better not to know, since wonder tends to be a stabilizing effect.
Addendum 2/15: Reo Speedwagon guitarist Bruce Hall, who is an avid amateur photographer, sent me the following photo today which I think goes nicely with the first two:
175. The Fifteen, Portland, 2003
176. Oregon Zoo, 2004
177. Santa Cruz, CA, 2003
Prevailing sentiment
I don't get it.
When Zoriah advertises post-earthquake photojournalism workshops in Haiti he is excoriated. "You are a parasitical opportunist--plain and simple, and a disgrace to the profession," writes JM on Zoriah's blog, in a comment typical of the prevailing sentiment. And properly so. To charge folks $4000 to glamorize someone else's misery is disgusting.
A man cries after is wife is shot dead by police during looting in downtown Port au Prince, 2010, Zoriah
So why is it that when Peter Turnley shows post-earthquake photojournalism from Haiti, he is treated as a hero? Mike Johnston can hardly contain his excitement as he posts the "world exclusive" shots. The praise is universal. "Eloquent story telling!" writes a typical commenter. Is it?
A food distribution near the Champs de Mars in central Port-au-Prince. Feb.1, 2010, Peter Turnley
If there is much difference between Zoriah and Turnley, I don't see it. Yes, Turnley shot on his own rather than selling the thing as an adventure. But basically it amounts to the same thing. Human suffering makes for great photographic subject matter. I won't deny that fact, but to capitalize on it in any way is pathological. Both men do so, and to treat them so differently seems hypocritical.
Improv Everywhere
In the grand tradition of subway photography comes this stunt.
6 Train, Car 9 — September 6, 2009 — 3:30 PM
Apple's Photo Booth has become the latest favorite toy of my kids. Our version (3.0.1) has all sorts of entertaining effects from funhouse mirrors to moving backgrounds to Lichtenstein halftones. My kids sit on my lap or stand nearby. Sometimes we don't even take photos. We just put ourselves on the roller coaster set and roll tape. Other times we snap away. It's a source of endless amusement and a fun way to introduce young ones to photography.
Blake, Zane, Emmett in Apple Photo Booth
Apple's Photo Booth is of course a digital version of the real thing. Although there are pockets of revival, Photo booths are slowly fading into the past. Most people below a certain age —my kids, for example— have never seen a physical machine. Soon those little four-photo strips will be as rare as cartes de visites, a small nugget of the photographic past to be shown in a scrapbook or museum. The site Photobooth.net, which does a pretty decent job of describing every single photobooth location in America, has taken on the feeling (albeit upbeat) of an obituary page. The stream of photo booth decomissionings is constant.
From the Gallery at Photobooth.net
I suppose that by using Apple's version I am part of the problem. I realize that fact but it doesn't change the basic equation: Why go to a special location and pay money to do something that I can do comfortably for free in my own home? With kids especially, the computer is liberating. Kids burn through film like wildfire, but a computer? Shoot away. And no need to make costly prints. The results can be seen instantly on a monitor.
All of which is just a microcosm of the broader photography world. It's never been cheaper or more convenient to make images. Billions of new ones are made each day, a small fraction of which are ever printed. Most exist on monitors like the hundreds of Photobooth shots my kids have taken. I've never printed any of them.
In the computer age, the vertical strip gives way to the four-square
I know this isn't news to anyone, and there's certainly no turning back the clock, but when I think of photo booths the situation seems somehow more tragic. Photo booths aren't really about making photos as much as they're about ritual. There are easier ways to make portraits, but you choose the photo booth to mark an occasion. You step inside the private space, almost always with another person or two or three. You close the curtain like a confessional and you're in your own world, visible to outsiders only as legs. You press the button and 4 photos (why always 4?) are made in succession. It's like being in a snippet of a movie strip, with slight changes frame to frame but not enough to disrupt the essential character of the act. A few minutes later out comes the vertical strip. From that point on, that strip is the reference. Every time you look at it you remember the whole ritual.
Always ahead of his time, Andy Warhol treated photo booths with digital nonchalance
Apple's Photo Booth isn't like that. There's certainly no curtain. No confessional. When I look at the shots later they all blend together. I have about 500 of them and I can't remember what I was doing in any particular one. Messing around mostly. They're like cheap songs on an iPod shuffling by, not tied to any event or moment, not "Live" in any sense of the word. When I turn the device off they stop existing.
I just wish making them wasn't so much fun.
I've been preparing for a show in March and I have an extra print of the photo below. I'll send it to the first person who requests it. (Update: Sorry, no longer available)
Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, 2009
174. Eugene, 2005
The shit hit the fan this week over at the formerly hilarious Awkward Stock Photos, where all photographs have been removed at the request of copyright overlords, replaced instead with this generic label:
I don't know. To me it seems slightly less funny than the actual photos, but that's just me. In any case I'm glad they removed the images. Whoever took the time to capture them and put them on the web, I'm sure the last thing they'd want is for anyone to see them. So, mission accomplished.
Bizarrest Czarist Russia
I discovered these photos a few weeks ago thanks to Bruce Hall, and they've been great fun to look through. I think this must be the oldest color photo series I've ever seen. They were made by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in pre-Revolution Russia by exposing three sets of glass plate negatives through red, green, and blue filters. A brief description of the process is here.
Self Portrait by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Log buildings in the Ural Mountain Region; c. 1905 - 1915, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
I find these pictures mesmerizing. Some of them look like they could've been made yesterday. Others have unmistakable traces of their age like old artifacts or wooden buildings or strange dress codes.
I've seen many similar photographs of this time period, but always in black and white. To see them in color is surreal. It's like a Calvin and Hobbes strip:
We are so used to seeing photos from that era in black and white that we imagine the world was black and white. Try a mental test and imagine your great-grandparents in their living room, or a sidewalk scene from 1900. I'm guessing your mental image is in black and white. It's been conditioned by seeing photos. The past looked somewhat like this, right?
New Jersey circa 1905, Detroit Publishing Co. via Shorpy
Now imagine a scene from 1500, before photography. I'm guessing it's in color. Or imagine any contemporary scene now that color photos dominate every media. Photography has a huge effect on perception and on imagination. I think that's why these old Russian photos seem so jarring.
Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva), c. 1910 - 1915, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
They look imagined, and in fact one reaction is to suspect they must be doctored. The comments field below the Denver Post's article is full of accusations back and forth about the veracity of the photographs. The fringing looks Photoshopped or the colors look too bizarre or orange didn't exist back then or whatever.
Trust me, they're real. Those scenes existed in color and so do the images depicting them.
Ten years of Monthly Fallout
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The National Specialist Contractors Council (NSCC) has reacted with dismay to reports that Carillion is extending its maximum payment terms for suppliers to 120 days.
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Carillion is believed to have moved its payment limit from 65 days to 120 days as part of its Early Payment Facility which, the contractor says, supports the Government’s Supply Chain Finance Initiative, announced by Prime Minister David Cameron in October. Under Carillion’s new terms, subcontractors who want to be paid before the four month deadline will have to pay a charge, set out on a sliding scale, depending on how quickly they would like the cash. However, the new Late Payment of Commercial Debts Regulations 2013, which came into force on 16 March, require businesses to pay their suppliers within 60 days, with interest being charged on any late payments. The NSCC believes that the implementation of the 120 day payment terms by tier one contractors is “grossly unfair” and has written to the Government as part of its ongoing Fair Payment campaign. A spokesperson said: “Given the bargaining position of tier one contractors compared with the majority of business in their supply chains, it is difficult for specialist contractors to negotiate on payment terms and they have little or no practical choice other than to accept what is proposed or they risk losing the work. “Cash flow is of vital importance to the specialist sector and a payment cycle of 120 days is very onerous even with the opportunity, but no guarantee, of earlier payment.”
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Home » News » IBM and Salesforce Announce Landmark Global Strategic Partnership
IBM and Salesforce Announce Landmark Global Strategic Partnership
Posted in News By Chawm Ganguly On March 7, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced a global strategic partnership to deliver joint solutions designed to leverage artificial intelligence and enable companies to make smarter decisions, faster than ever before. With the partnership, IBM Watson, the leading AI platform for business, and Salesforce Einstein, AI that powers the world’s #1 CRM, will seamlessly connect to enable an entirely new level of intelligent customer engagement across sales, service, marketing, commerce and more. IBM is also strategically investing in its Global Business Services capabilities for Salesforce with a new practice to help clients rapidly deploy the combined IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein capabilities.
The partnership will bring new insights from Watson directly into the Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success Platform, combining deep customer insights from Salesforce Einstein with Watson’s structured and unstructured data across many sources and industries including weather, healthcare, financial services and retail. Together, Watson and Einstein will ingest, reason over and derive recommendations to accelerate decision making and drive greater customer success.
“Within a few years, every major decision—personal or business—will be made with the help of AI and cognitive technologies,” said Ginni Rometty , chairman, president and chief executive officer, IBM. “This year we expect Watson will touch one billion people—through everything from oncology and retail to tax preparation and cars. Now, with today’s announcement, the power of Watson will serve the millions of Salesforce and Einstein customers and developers to provide an unprecedented understanding of customers.”
“The combination of Einstein and Watson will make businesses smarter and our customers more successful,” said Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO, Salesforce. “I’m thrilled to form an alliance with IBM—no company’s core values are as close to Salesforce’s as IBM’s. It’s the best of both worlds.”
Salesforce and IBM will initially deliver the following:
IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein Integration: Integrating IBM Watson APIs into Salesforce will bring predictive insights from unstructured data, inside or outside an enterprise, together with predictive insights from customer data delivered by Salesforce Einstein to enable smarter, faster decisions across sales, service, marketing, commerce and more. For example, by combining local shopping patterns, weather and retail industry data from Watson with customer-specific shopping data and preferences from Salesforce Einstein, a retailer will be able to automatically send highly personalized and localized email campaigns to shoppers.
IBM Weather Insights for Salesforce: The Weather Company, an IBM business, will power a new Lightning component on the Salesforce AppExchange to provide weather insights that inform customer interactions and business performance. For example, an insurance company will be able to pull local forecast data from IBM Weather into Salesforce, and automatically send safety and policy information to customers who are at risk of being impacted by severe weather events.
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As part of the partnership, IBM will deploy Salesforce Service Cloud across the company to transform its global product support services and gain a single, unified view of every IBM customer.
The IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein integration is expected to be available in the second half of 2017. Pricing will be announced at the time of general availability.
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IBM Application Integration Suite for Salesforce is expected to be available by the end of March 2017. Pricing will be announced at the time of general availability.
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As part of IBM’s strategy to accelerate the growth of cognitive computing, Watson is open to the world, allowing a growing community of developers, students, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts to easily tap into the most advanced and diverse cognitive computing platform available today. Watson solutions are being built, used and deployed in more than 45 countries and across 20 different industries.
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Saracens are the Champions Cup holders after winning their third European title against Leinster at St James' Park in May. Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images
Holders Saracens will play Munster, Racing 92 and the Ospreys in the 2019-20 Champions Cup after the pool stage draw was made on Wednesday.
The Gallagher Premiership champions are looking to defend the title that they have won in three of the previous four years, but face a tough group alongside Irish club Munster, who they beat in the semifinals last campaign, and French side Racing 92, who reached the quarterfinals.
Last season's runners-up Leinster will face Lyon, Northampton Saints, and Benetton while fellow top seeds Toulouse will play Gloucester, Connacht and Montpellier.
Exeter Chiefs have been drawn alongside Sale Sharks, La Rochelle and Glasgow Warriors, which will see new Chiefs signing Stuart Hogg return to face his former team.
Elsewhere, Bath and Harlequins will meet Ulster and Clermont Auvergne.
This season's final will be held at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, France. Saracens won last season's Champions Cup final at St.James' Park, Newcastle, where they beat Leinster 20-10 for their third Champions Cup trophy.
The Champions Cup pool stage will take place later than usual due to the Rugby World Cup, with the first games scheduled for just two weeks after the final in Japan on the weekend of Nov. 15.
This season marks the 25th year of the European competition, and the sixth of its current Champions Cup format. The final will be held on May 23, 2020.
Meanwhile in the Challenge Cup, Cardiff Blues and Leicester Tigers will face each other in a repeat of the 2009 European Cup semifinal, with the draw also being held on Wednesday.
Champions Cup Pool Draw
Pool 1: Leinster Rugby, Lyon, Northampton Saints, Benetton Rugby
Pool 2: Exeter Chiefs, Glasgow Warriors, La Rochelle, Sale Sharks
Pool 3: ASM Clermont Auvergne, Ulster Rugby, Harlequins, Bath Rugby
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Pool 5: Toulouse, Gloucester Rugby, Connacht Rugby, Montpellier
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Citizen Kane Quotes
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Mr. Bernstein: A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.
Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud...
Charles Foster Kane: You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
Walter Parks Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
Charles Foster Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.
Walter Parks Thatcher: What would you like to have been?
Charles Foster Kane: Everything you hate.
Mr. Bernstein: Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
Charles Foster Kane: I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life.
Charles Foster Kane: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.
Female reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
Jerry Thompson: No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.
Susan Alexander Kane: I don't know many people.
Charles Foster Kane: I know too many people. I guess we're both lonely.
Jedediah Leland: I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.
Charles Foster Kane: I always gagged on the silver spoon.
Mr. Bernstein: There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet.
Charles Foster Kane: You can't blame me. They've been making statues for some two thousand years, and I've only been collecting for five.
Rawlson: It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was.
Jerry Thompson: He made an awful lot of money.
Mr. Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you want to do is make a lot of money.
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Really Charles, people will think-...
Charles Foster Kane: -what I tell them to think.
Jedediah Leland: You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules.
[On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing]
Mr. Bernstein: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that?
Jedediah Leland: You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the quotes off the singer.
Jedediah Leland: That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to give.
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: He happens to be the president, Charles, not you.
Charles Foster Kane: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days.
Charles Foster Kane: Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.
Boss Jim Gettys: You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Kane. If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.
[Susan is leaving Kane]
Charles Foster Kane: [pleading] Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me.
Susan Alexander Kane: I see. So it's YOU who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me.
Susan Alexander Kane: I can't do this to you?
[odd smile]
Susan Alexander Kane: Oh, yes I can.
Mr. Bernstein: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.
Charles Foster Kane: You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you.
Charles Foster Kane: [His answer to being blackmailed] There's only one person in the world who's going to decide what I'm going to do and that's me...
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, here's a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Herbert Carter: The news wasn't big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
Mr. Bernstein: That's right, Mr. Kane.
Charles Foster Kane: Read the cable.
Mr. Bernstein: "Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery, but don't feel right spending your money. Stop. There is no war in Cuba, signed Wheeler." Any answer?
Charles Foster Kane: Yes. "Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war."
Charles Foster Kane: [to Thatcher] The trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who has 82,634 shares of Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1,000 dollars. On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer! As such, it's my duty - and I'll let you in on a little secret, it's also my pleasure - to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just because - they haven't anybody to look after their interests.
Charles Foster Kane: Don't worry about me, Gettys! Don't worry about me! I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes!
[screams louder]
Charles Foster Kane: Gettys! I'm going to send you to Sing Sing! Sing Sing, Gettys! Sing Sing!
Charles Foster Kane: This gentleman was saying...
Boss Jim Gettys: I am not a gentleman. I don't even know what a gentleman is.
Walter Parks Thatcher: You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles.
Charles Foster Kane: You're too old to be called anything else.
Charles Foster Kane: We have no secrets from our readers. Mr. Thatcher is one of our most devoted readers, Mr. Bernstein. He knows what's wrong with every issue since I've taken charge.
Walter Parks Thatcher: [Quoting from Kane's letter] I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
Charles Foster Kane: The news goes on for 24 hours a day.
Charles Foster Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?
Jedediah Leland: The Inquirer already has.
Charles Foster Kane: [jokingly] You long-faced, overdressed anarchist!
Jedediah Leland: I am NOT overdressed!
Charles Foster Kane: You are too! Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie!
Charles Foster Kane: Hello, Jedediah.
Jedediah Leland: Hello, Charlie. I didn't know we were speaking...
Charles Foster Kane: Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah: you're fired.
Mr. Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.
Susan Alexander Kane: Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome.
Jedediah Leland: You still eating?
Charles Foster Kane: I'm still hungry.
[last lines]
Raymond: Throw that junk in.
Charles Foster Kane: I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of.
Matiste: [to Susan] Some people can sing, some people cannot. Impossible! Impossible!
Mr. Bernstein: Who's the busiest man? Me? I've got nothing but time! What do you wanna know?
Reporter: Mr. Kane, how did you find business conditions in Europe?
Charles Foster Kane: How did I find business conditions in Europe? With great difficulty.
Charles Foster Kane: A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms.
Jedediah Leland: [about Kane's "Declaration of Principles"] I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. A document...
Mr. Bernstein: Sure!
Jedediah Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.
Reporter 1: What's that?
Reporter 2: Another Venus.
Reporter 1: Twenty-five thousand bucks. That's a lot of money to pay for a dame without a head.
Mr. Bernstein: Sentimental fellow, aren't you?
Raymond: Hmmm... yes and no.
Charles Foster Kane III: Mother, is Pop governor yet?
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Not yet, Junior.
Kane's Father: A good whuppin's all the kid really needs.
Mary Kane: That's why I'm sending him where you can't get at him.
Susan Alexander Kane: Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect me to love you!
Charles Foster Kane: As Charles Foster Kane who owns eighty-two thousand, six hundred and thirty-four shares of public transit - you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings - I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars.
Mr. Bernstein: [to Leland] Mr. Kane is finishing the review you started - he's writing a bad notice. I guess that'll show you.
Kane, age eight: [talking about snowman] Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers...
Charles Foster Kane: I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
Jedediah Leland: Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
Mr. Bernstein: Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than what Mr. Kane tells you...
Stagecoach Driver / Hauler: There ain't no bedrooms in this joint, that's a newspaper building!
Mr. Bernstein: You're getting paid, Mister, for opinions or for hauling?
Mr. Bernstein: Isn't it wonderful? Such a party.
Jedediah Leland: Yeah
Mr. Bernstein: What's the matter?
Jedediah Leland: Bernstein, these men who are now with the Inquirer, who were with the Chronicle until yesterday...
[... ]
Jedediah Leland: Bernstein, Bernstein, these men who were with the Chronicle, weren't they just as devoted to the Chronicle policies as they are now to our policies?
Mr. Bernstein: Sure they are just like anybody else. They got work to do, they do it. Only they happen to be the best men in the business.
Jedediah Leland: Do we stand for the same things the Chronicle stands for, Mr. Bernstein?
Mr. Bernstein: Certainly not. Listen, Mr. Kane will change them to his kind of newspapermen in a week.
Jedediah Leland: There's always a chance, of course, that they will change Mr. Kane without his knowing it.
Mr. Bernstein: We never lost as much as we made.
Reporter: [at beginning of news reel on Charles Foster Kane's death] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.
Jedediah Leland: I suppose he had a private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself.
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by Laura Wainman
There is such beauty in a historic home -- imagining what life was like for its previous occupants, knowing exactly what floorboard creaks even when you tiptoe, and even reveling in the semi-disheveledness because it tells a story. But there is definitely something to be said for creating something beautiful and new from a previously loved piece of land. And for the home standing on 2355 Nebraska Ave., this is one of those stories.
Originally built in 1961, the structure remained exactly as it was until 2003 when the current owners bought the home with a clear vision in mind. They brought in locally renowned modern architect David Jameson to help them completely transform the property into the modern marvel we see today. Original finishes and fixtures were gutted and replaced by modern staples, such as floor-to-ceiling glass pane windows, floating stairs and even an aquatic garden. One of the current owners is an avid horticulturalist, and spent the past 10-15 years cultivating the property’s immaculate gardens. As if that wasn't enough to make this home a horticulturist's absolute dream, the property sits on the southern tip of Battery-Kemble Park, providing gorgeous lush green views in spring and summer and autumnal foliage in the fall.
We cannot get enough of the gorgeous lighting throughout the home, particularly in the sun-filled foyer and breakfast nook where we want to spend all of our Sundays reading the paper and sipping coffee. The kitchen is outfitted with top-of-the-line everything, including unique features like a high-powered gas burner for wok cooking and an indoor wood-burning grill.
HOUSE SPECS:
Neighborhood: Palisades
Bathrooms: 3 full, 1 partial
Size: 3,703 square feet
Extra Goodies: Beautiful view of Battery Kemble Park; majestic lily pond in he aquatic garden; floating stairs; floor-to-ceiling glass pane windows; high-powered gas burner for wok cooking; indoor wood-burning grill; unfinished absemen for storage; two fireplaces;
In case you were one of the few folks who didn't hop into the photo gallery straight away, scroll back to the top and take a tour through this stunning home! For more information, please see the full listing here, offered by Jesse Grimste and Ron Mangas of the Contemporary Listings Group at TTR Sotheby's International Realty.
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Applied Ecology and Remote Sensing (Dr. Castello)
Research Strand:
Terrestrial ecology (Environmental Biology)
Dr. Miris Castello
Email: castello@units.it
Miris Castello is a researcher in Systematic Botany at the University of Trieste (Italy) since 1998; she is currently Aggregate Professor in Plant Ecology since 2003.
She has a MS degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Trieste and a Ph.D. in Geobotany from the University of Pavia (Italy).
Her research interests include flora and vegetation of vascular plants and cryptogams (bryophytes and lichens), environmental monitoring, biodiversity of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems and conservation biology. Among her research activities, she has been working for several years on air quality biomonitoring using cryptogams (lichens and bryophytes) and on lichen flora and vegetation of Antarctica within the Italian National Programme for Antarctic Research (PNRA).
She is currently working on monitoring and conservation of plant diversity, conservation of grassland and inland wetlands, forest ecosystems, IUCN Red Lists of plants, bryology and cave flora.
The research group of Miris Castello and Alfredo Altobelli conducts experimental research in the field of ecology and conservation biology, including analyses, monitoring, conservation and management of ecosystems and plant and animal populations, monitoring of alien species, analyses of land use and land cover dynamics.
Biodiversity is threatened by many processes, including habitat loss, global climate changes, invasive alien species, diseases, over-exploitation. However, species and habitats of conservation interest may be also threatened by abandonment of land management and traditional agricultural and grazing practices. Modern approaches to biodiversity conservation are strongly based on in-situ strategies of conservation of species in their natural habitats; in Europe, conservation of natural habitats and threatened species is a priority, recognized also by international law.
The research program of the group strongly focuses on the vegetation component of ecosystems, as vegetation represents the key element to identify and analyse habitats, to assess their conservation status, to study spatial patterns and ecological processes at landscape scale, to provide fundamental information for land-use planning and management.
Research activities are based on field work and advanced GIS methods and remote sensing
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) represent a considerable change in environmental data management, as they connect territorial information to different databases, allowing for the “integration” of the territory, adding and producing new information. The use of remote sensing tools, either aerial or based on satellite, multi and hyper spectral, permits the gathering of many kinds of territorial information and the investigation of aspects that are difficult to monitor. The effectiveness of GIS is optimized by the combination of GIS and statistical analysis and in particular by the application of multivariate methods. In this case GIS is not an isolated technology but part of integrated methodology of analysis. Multivariate analysis renders legible and decipherable amounts of data sets which are difficult to understand at a glance.
In this context vegetation mapping is an important tool for natural resources management and land use planning, since vegetation acts as a base for all living organisms, and plays an essential role in global dynamics.
The research activities of the Applied Ecology & Remote Sensing group are organized in two main lines:
- plant ecology and conservation (ref. M. Castello; email: castello@units.it)
- GIS and Remote Sensing (ref. A. Altobelli; email: altobelli@units.it)
Our goal is to investigate ecological and natural resource conservation questions through integrated field work and remote sensing, from the population to the landscape scale.
Conservation of karst grasslands by the reintroducing of grazing and High Nature Value Farming areas
The dry grasslands of the North Adriatic Karst are habitats very rich in species and characterized by a high occurrence of rare and endemic species: they are recognized by the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) as habitats of conservation interest at European level. Karst grasslands are semi-natural habitats created through time as the result of low-intensity human activities; abandonment of traditional agricultural and grazing practices and the consequent natural process of development of scrubland and woodland are leading to a strong reduction of these habitats.
Our group conducts extensive researches on the dry grasslands of the Italian Karst, on the effects on plant communities of deforestation and grazing as means of conservation, and on the impacts of alien plant species on these fragile habitats.
Plant diversity of inland wetlands
Inland wetlands are habitats with high ecological value dramatically declining as consequence of land-use changes, human alteration, global warming and natural dynamic processes. The degradation or the loss of these habitats are a major threat to many species.
In karstic areas, characterized by the lack of a superficial hydrographic system, aquatic habitats are often man-made bodies of water, artificially created for the needs of the humans, animals and agriculture. The abandonment of traditional economic activities after World War II and the lack of management led to the disappearance of many ponds, precious habitats for biodiversity conservation.
Moreover, the karst lakes system of the Isonzo Karst is one of the most important examples of karstic hydrology in Italy and Europe.
Our group carries out a research program on the flora, vegetation and the conservation status of aquatic habitats of karstic areas: researches are focused on the classic Karst area, particularly on Lake Doberdò, and on mires and ponds of the Cansiglio montane area (Veneto region).
Cave habitats
The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region has an impressive number of caves (over 7700 known caves according to the Regional Cave System Archive); caves are one of the most distinctive notes of the Italian Karst landscape (over 3100 known caves).
Caves are very peculiar and fragile habitats, yet not well known, but of great value for biodiversity. In biospeleology, the knowledge on the plant component is still incomplete: in particular bryophytes, representing a fundamental element of cave habitats, have been long neglected.
Green plants usually grow at the entrances of caves, but are not present in the inner parts due to the lack of sunlight. In natural caves opened to the public and in artificial caves or mines, the electrical lighting enables phototrophic organisms to grow in the underground: a vegetation of cyanobacteria and algae, bryophytes and ferns, called “lampenflora” can be found around lamps. These communities represent an alteration of the underground environment and may cause damages both to speleothems and cave fauna. The development of lampenflora is a typical problem for show cave management.
Our activities involve different aspects of cave ecosystems, including plant communities of wild and show caves and the problem of lampenflora.
The Red List of the Italian flora
The group is involved in a national project for a new Red List of the Italian Flora carried out by the Italian Botanical Society (SBI) and Italian Ministry of Environment for the Protection of Land and Sea (MATTM) within the Italian national strategy for the conservation of biodiversity of MATTM.
Micro-UAVs (drones) for the study of vegetational lanscape
The recent advent of proximal or low altitude remote sensing using small drones (UAV/RPAS) opens up new perspectives for the study of the vegetational landscape. The advantage of these aircraft lies mainly in the high spatial resolution and their operativity which is significantly simple compared to traditional aerial and satellite platforms.
On the basis of the photographs acquired by drones and as a result of the partial overlap of the frames it is possible to create very detailed vegetation maps, including unreachable or unsafe areas, and a three-dimensional model of the ground surface (DSM) of the area of interest. The DSM (Digital Surface Model) represents, in digital form, the level of the land with all the objects found on a given plot including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation.
Immagine da Micro-SAPR (drone) di una zona del Lago di Doberò (Gorizia, Italia), fornita dalla società AIRMAP di Trieste (estate 2014) con una risoluzione spaziale di 3 cm per pixel
Temporal GIS and Climate Change
In order to describe and predict the effects of climate change on the functioning of ecosystems it is possible to monitor continuously them by means of satellite parameters such as: green vegetation indices, surface temperature and moisture.
In the past the handling of spatial-temporal data in the GIS environment was difficult. Now, thanks to the new GRASS GIS Temporal Framework (TGRASS) processing capacity is significantly increased.
Trend (linear regression slope) of summer mean temperature (Land Surface Temperature from MODIS satellites) in the Karst (Kras, Carso) area, from 2005 to 2014, with superimposed the Italian Karst area (Trieste and Gorizia, Italy). Red color indicates rising temperature values, blue indicates falling temperature.
Trend (linear regression slope) of summer mean NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index from MODIS satellites) in the Karst (Kras, Carso) area, from 2005 to 2014, with superimposed the Italian Karst area (Trieste and Gorizia, Italy). Red color indicates rising NDVI values, blue indicates falling NDVI.
Dr. Alfredo Altobelli
Email: altobelli@units.it
Alfredo Altobelli is a researcher in Ecology at the University of Trieste since 1998; he has a M.S. degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Trieste.
He was a lecturer of the courses of Ecology, Applied Computer Science of Ecology and currently teaches Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in the Master of Science in Ecology of Global Changes at the University of Trieste.
He deals with the study of ecosystems through GIS (Geographic Information System) and Remote Sensing techniques.
In the computer industry he is committed to promoting the use of software “Open Source” for GIS analysis and is a member of the Scientific Committee of Italian GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) GIS Users.
Prof. Enrico Feoli
University of Trieste (DSV), Contract professor - Eminent scholar
Email: feoli@units.it
Prof. Altobelli Alfredo (Research Group - Member)
altobell@units.it
Borsato Veronica (Research Group - Member)
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Prof. Castello Miris (Research Group - Member)
castello@units.it
Mrs. Uboni Costanza (Research Group - Member)
Zanatta Katia (Research Group - Member)
s36057@stud.units.it
Poldini L., Ganis P., Vidali M., Altobelli A., Bader F., Cantele S., 2018. Inclusion of phytosociological data in an index of vegetation fire danger: application and mapping on the Karst area around Trieste (Italy), Plant Biosystems, 152 (4): 810-817.
Tordoni E., Napolitano R., Nimis P., Castello M., Altobelli A., Da Re D., Zago S., Chines A., Martellos S., Maccherini S., Bacaro G., 2017. Diversity patterns of alien and native plant species in Trieste port area: exploring the role of urban habitats in biodiversity conservation. Urban Ecosystems, 20(5), 1151-1160.
Rossi G., Orsenigo S., Montagnani C., Fenu G., Gargano D., Peruzzi L., Wagensommer R. P., Foggi B., Bacchetta G., Domina G., Conti F., Bartolucci F., Gennai M., Ravera S., Cogoni A., Magrini S., Gentili R., Castello M., Blasi C., Abeli, T., 2016. Is legal protection sufficient to ensure plant conservation? The Italian Red List of policy species as a case study. Oryx, 50 (3): 431-436.
Castello M., Vidali M., Erben M., Bolzan F., 2015. Viola jordanii Hanry (Violaceae), a species of conservation interest occurring in Friuli Venezia Giulia (northeast Italy). Webbia, 70 (1):139-149.
Castello M., 2014. Species diversity of bryophytes and ferns of lampenflora in Grotta Gigante (NE Italy). Acta Carsologica 43/1: 185-193.
Almeida P., Altobelli A., D'Aietti L., Napolitano R., Simonetti C., 2014. The role of vegetation analysis by remote sensing and GIS technology for planning sustainable development: A case study for the Santos estuary drainage basin (Brazil). Plant Biosystems:148 (3), pp. 540-546.
Altobelli A., Ganis P., Zanatta K., Zanetti M., 2014. Processing of images obtained using UAV/RPAS to assess the degree of scrubbing over of dry grasslands in the Gorizian Karst. In: Buzan E. V., Pallavicini A. (eds.), Biodiversity and Conservation of karst ecosystems. Padova University Press, Koper: 155-164.
Poldini L., Vidali M., Castello M., Francescato C., Ganis P., 2014. Conservation of plant diversity of Karst dry grasslands by the reintroduction of grazing. The case study of Basovizza/Bazovica in the Italian Karst. In: Buzan E. V., Pallavicini A. (eds.), Biodiversity and Conservation of karst ecosystems. Padova University Press, Koper: 165-180.
Søchting U., Garrido-Benavent I., Seppelt R., Castello M., Pérez-Ortega S., De Los Ríos Murillo A., Sancho L. G., Frödén P., Arup U., 2014. Charcotiana and Amundsenia, two new genera in Teloschistaceae (lichenized Ascomycota, subfamily Xanthorioideae) hosting two new species from continental Antarctica, and Austroplaca frigida, a new name for a continental Antarctic species. Lichenologist, 46(6): 763–782.
Malatesta L., Attorre F., Altobelli A., Scholte P.T., Vitale M., 2013. Vegetation mapping from high-resolution satellite images in the heterogeneous arid environments of Socotra Island (Yemen). Journal of Applied Remote Sensing: 7 (1) 073527.
Altobelli A., Boemo B., Mignozzi K., Menardi G., Cinco M., 2008. Spatial Lyme borreliosis risk assessment in north-eastern Italy. International Journal of Medical Microbiology: 298 SUPPL 1. pp. 125-128.
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BAFTA FILM AWARDS COVERAGE 08
BBC Films Gets An 'Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema Award'
BBC Films was honoured by BAFTA at the 2015 awards, becoming the latest recipient of the Michael Balcon award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.
The award was presented to Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films, by actors Julie Walters and Ralph Fiennes.
In collaboration with Bafta, we Produced this feature capturing the red carpet arrivals and Award Presentation on-stage.
Over the last five years Digital Boulevard have Produced and Directed coverage of the Bafta Film Awards, focusing on BBC Films nominations and awards. We are responsible for Directing coverage of the red carpet arrivals, conducting interviews and editing official BBC One Awards Ceremony and Press Room footage into our features.
© Clips and Images courtesy of Bafta, BBC, BBC Films.
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Garda awarded €18,000 for post-traumatic stress after colleague’s death
A garda who saw her close friend and colleague knocked down by a car thief in Co Donegal and was in hospital with him a fortnight later when he died, has been awarded €18,000 damages for post-traumatic stress injuries.
Garda Joanne Doherty (37), of Bundoran Road, Kinlough, Co Leitrim, told the High Court that she would never forget the night Garda Robbie McCallion was struck by the car as the driver attempted to escape on March 26th, 2009.
Garda Doherty said she saw the stolen car become airborne as she ducked behind a patrol car. Another colleague, Garda Shane Lavelle, told her Garda McCallion had been hit and she started shouting for him in the dark.
“Then I saw what I thought was a black bag of rubbish in a garden and realised it was Garda McCallion lying against a fence,” she told her barrister Fiona Crawford. “I ran to him and he squeezed my hand as I soaked up his blood.”
Garda Doherty told Ms Crawford, who appeared with Letterkenny-based solicitors Gallagher and Brennan, that she went to Letterkenny Hospital in the ambulance with her colleague, holding his hands.
She was in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on April 7th, 2009 when his life support machine was switched off.
‘Friendship’
“Garda McCallion and I were very close. We started together in February 2005 in Templemore and had been together on the same student garda placements in Letterkenny, to which we later became attached. We worked together in the same unit and formed a firm lifelong friendship,” she said.
Garda Doherty said she had suffered panic attacks, nightmares and sleeplessness following the loss of her friend and had been treated by a psychiatrist and a psychologist.
“I kept re-living the incident over and over in my head,” she said. “I felt guilty and blamed myself that Robbie was dead and I didn’t have a scratch on me.”
Afterwards she was transferred to Donegal town and went back to live with her parents, travelling to and from work.
Garda Doherty said she had to re-live the incident while giving evidence about her colleague’s death in court and there was a re-trial as the jury failed to agree on a manslaughter charge.
‘Enormity’
“These events changed my life and I do not believe that I will ever truly come to terms with the enormity of what happened,” she told the garda compensation hearing.
Under cross-examination by counsel for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Garda Doherty said she had been living a happy and carefree life prior to Garda McCallion’s death but that this changed afterwards. She was now doing her best to get on with life.
Awarding €18,000 damages, Mr Justice Michael Twomey said it had been a very sad case for the McCallion family and for Garda Doherty, who suffered severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for four months after the incident and to a lesser extent for up to two years afterwards. He said she had substantially, if not fully, recovered from her injuries.
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Planned Addiction
Four hundred thousand people will die from smoking-related illnesses this year as a result of smoking cigarettes. Three hundred millions dollars will be spent on over-the-counter smoking deterrents. Another $100 million will be spent on nicotine gum (to break the nic habit).
Between one and three billion dollars will be spent on smoking cessation programs, hypnosis, acupressure, acupuncture, psychotherapy, aversion therapy and a host of other treatment programs for smoking -- programs, incidentally that usually don't work. Between 75 to 85 per cent of the participants in these programs return to smoking within a year.
The taxpayer pays, too, even if he or she does not smoke: $100 billion dollars will be spent on health care, property damage and lost wages due to smoking and hundreds of millions will be spent on public education to warn smokers of the health consequences.
Real Offenders
Nicotine is the major psychoactive alkaloid in tobacco, but researchers claim it is not the primary cause of damage to the body, nor is it the primary cause of secondary illnesses, such as cancer. The actual smoke from burning tobacco is the prime offender. Cigarette smoke contains dozens of chemicals other than nicotine, including acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, acetone, heavy metals and other compounds which may be addictive in their own right.
Smoking has a predictable, quantifiable, effect on blood chemistry, 02 intake, levels of catecholamines, response time, night vision and many other parameters, most of which are not the function of nicotine ingestion. Virtually all smokers have diminished lung volume capacity.
In his 1970s book Sugar Blues, author William Dufty claims that the poisons of tobacco are actually in the curing process -- not in the tobacco leaves themselves.
Four hundred years ago the nicotinia plant was thought to possess healing medical powers and became the miracle drug of its time. During the 17th century, tobacco addiction spread like wildfire in European countries. It was eventually cultivated all over the world, but the prime growers were in the United States.
Dufty says that in the beginning tobacco leaves were cured the way the Native North Americans had done from time immemorial: wilted tobacco leaves were suspended on racks in the sun. And no one got sick. Eventually barns and sheds were built to protect crops from rain, and in cold weather artificial heat was used to speed up the curing process.
The Sweet Treatment
Air curing takes about three months and only traces of natural sugars are left in the leaves after that time. Today the heat used in the curing can reach up to 170 F. This intense heat destroys natural enzymes which would otherwise cause the natural sugars to ferment. The result is that flue-cured tobacco can contain as much as 20 per cent sugar. Sucrose is also added to tobacco leaves during the blending process. According to British studies in the 1970s, high-sugar content, flue-dried tobacco increased the risk of serious lung disease (cancer) even though the tar and nicotine ratings were relatively low.
Dr Richard Passey of London's Chester Beatty Research Institute stated that high sugar content tobacco produces strongly acid smoke while low sugar tobacco produces smoke that is alkaline. And British cigarettes had the highest sugar content in the world as well as the highest rate of lung cancer.
Dufty quotes Sakurazawa Ohsawa as saying, "Avoid (commercial cigarettes) which contain unnatural chemicals and sugars and roll your own from naturally grown tobacco. It is more important to cut out drugs and sugar...than to stop smoking completely."
The United Nations is calling for a "united global effort to control tobacco use" and commemorates this with World No Tobacco Day "to focus public attention on the tobacco epidemic around the world."
Strange that the World Health Organization, which calls for mandatory immunization of all children and mandatory drugs for TB patients, does not use its global clout to investigate another killer, the sugar-curing of tobacco leaves by multi-national companies. Instead, WHO piously states, "When all sectors of society join forces with WHO and are united for a tobacco-free world, the tobacco epidemic will be beaten."
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When Callings Become Burdensome
by Rob Tribken | Jul 4, 2017 | Finding Purpose | 0 comments
An acquaintance in his late 20s made a very interesting observation a few days ago. He said that finding a calling has become a serious problem for people his age – – but not in the way that I had expected.
His contention was that there has been so much emphasis, especially among his peer group, to find your calling, or to follow your passion, that the concept has become burdensome. Rather than finding a job that pays some money and seems to have a future, many people feel they are under a great deal of pressure to find not only a job but a calling. This has made it more difficult for them to get on with life.
Part of the problem, of course, is that it can take a long time to find or develop a calling, as Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy point out in their book Make Your Job a Calling: How the Psychology of Vocation Can Change Your Life at Work. This can lead to a great deal of frustration if we try to rush the process.
But I think there might be more going on here.
If finding your calling becomes a requirement for a worthwhile life, then it really can become burdensome. Rather than getting a job and starting to build a life, we can become preoccupied with a philosophical ideal. The idea of a calling can cease to be life-giving and exciting and can become oppressive. I have argued elsewhere that for a calling to be life-giving, and I would say valid, it needs to flow from a deep, intrinsic motivation to become who we are meant to be. Connecting with this intrinsic motivation requires some freedom to try things and to experiment, without being unduly pressured.
When finding a calling becomes a requirement, however, it sounds to me like it has become driven by an extrinsic motivation; the culture or social setting has convinced us that a calling, or a passion to be followed, is necessary for us to have a valid and admirable life.
This sounds oppressive to me and very far removed from the joy and freedom we should be moving towards, and very much contrary to the spirit of following a calling.
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Kitty's Greatest Hits
Publié par Patrick on Thursday, October 20, 2011
I've been a Carrie Vaughn fan ever since I read Kitty and the Midnight Hour a few years back. At the time, no one really knew the author and her endearing protagonist, Kitty Norville, the werewolf talk radio host. Fast forward a couple of years and Vaughn is now a New York Times bestselling author and Kitty is more popular than ever.
It's no secret that I'm not too keen on urban fantasy, but I have a sweet spot for Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden and Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville. Both series are written in first-person POVs, which is one of the main reasons why they're so interesting and entertaining. And yet, what made this collection of short fiction so appealing was the fact that Carrie Vaughn uses short stories to explore Kitty's world via different POVs. Hence, readers would finally get the opportunity to learn more about popular characters such as Cormac and Rick the vampire. Needless to say, I relished the chance to read more about Kitty's misadventures, but also experience various narrative voices as the author allows us to witness events through the eyes of those who habitually comprise the supporting cast of the novels.
The first-ever story collection from the New York Times bestselling author, including two all-new works!
Kitty Norville, star of a New York Times bestselling series, is everybody’s favorite werewolf DJ and out-of-the-closet supernatural creature. Over the course of eight books she’s fought evil vampires, were-creatures, and some serious black magic. She’s done it all with a sharp wit and the help of a memorable cast of werewolf hunters, psychics, and if-notgood- then-neutral vampires by her side. Kitty’s Greatest Hits not only gives readers some of Kitty’s further adventures, it offers longtime fans a window into the origins of some of their favorite characters.
In “Conquistador de la Noche,” we learn the origin story of Denver’s Master vampire, Rick; with “Wild Ride,” we find out how Kitty’s friend T.J. became a werewolf; and in “Life is the Teacher,” we revisit Emma, the human-turned-unwilling-vampire who serves the aloof vampire Master of Washington, D.C.
This entertaining collection includes two brand-new works: “You’re On the Air,” about one of Kitty’s callers after he hangs up the phone; and the eagerly awaited “Long Time Waiting,” the novella that finally reveals just what happened to Cormac in prison, something every Kitty fan wants to know.
I made short work of Kitty's Greatest Hits. Carrie Vaughn's books are always fast-paced affairs, but that's not what makes this one a page-turner. It has more to do with the vast array of points of view, which allow Vaughn to flesh out both her world and its protagonists. Disparate in style and tone, I'd say that each and everyone one of the pieces of short fiction contained in this collection has something to offer.
You would think that being stuck at a Waffle House for Christmas would sort of prevent Kitty from getting into supernatural trouble, right? Wrong. In "Il Est Né", she demonstrates yet again how she has the uncanny ability to find trouble anywhere.
"A Princess of Spain" is a paranormal historical piece featuring Catherine of Aragon.
"Conquistador de la Noche" reveals Rick's past and how he became a vampire. As one of the most fascinating secondary characters in the series, it was a pleasure to discover how it all began for him.
"The Book of Daniel" is Vaughn's own twist on the Biblical tale of Daniel and Lion's Den.
An older Rick shows up in "The Temptation of Robin Green." The short story features a lab studying supernatural creatures. One of the best pieces in this collection.
"Looking After Family" fills in a lot of blanks regarding Ben and Cormac's past.
It's just another day on the job for Cormac in "God's Creatures."
Another origin story, this time T. J.'s, is "Wild Ride." We haven't seen much of T. J., but his impact on Kitty early on is undisputed. So it was nice to learn how he became what he became prior to meeting Kitty.
"Winnowing the Herd" is a funny piece about Kitty's inner monologue as she attends a KNOB staff party.
"Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" features a new intriguing character named Jax. It's all about selling your soul to the devil. All in the name of rock and roll, of course!
"Kitty's Zombie New Year." The title says it all!
In "Life is a Teacher" Carrie Vaughn explores how vampires approach sex and survival by following the first steps of newly-created vampire Emma.
Ever wondered what kind of life Kitty's callers actually lived? "You're on the Air" features a down-on-his-luck vampire working the night shift at Speedy Mart.
And the collection's pièce de résistance is "Long Time Waiting." The novella tells the tale of what happened to Cormac while he was doing time and how it changed him. With our favorite supernatural bounty hunter in the slammer for a number of novels, most Carrie Vaughn fans were wondering what he was doing and when he'd be returning. Turns out Cormac did a bit more than fashion license plates. . .
Simply put, Kitty's Greatest Hits is the perfect Kitty Norville companion book. A must for all Carrie Vaughn fans.
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Get your kit on: football pundits get a World Cup makeover
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When Adrian Chiles walks into the studio dressing room, Manish Bhasin is wearing a three-piece Thom Sweeney suit in a striking windowpane check, artfully layered over a luxurious, charcoal roll-neck sweater. Three sides of the room are lined with racks of suits and shirts, with pair upon pair of designer shoes arranged beneath. The fourth wall is taken over by a huge mirror above a table set with hairbrushes and makeup.
Zero chance, though, of anything diverting ITV’s football frontman and the presenter of the BBC Football League Show from their favourite subject. “All right, mate,” Chiles kicks off. “What happened to so-and-so last night then, eh?” Bhasin shakes his head: “Tell me about it. Strange decision, though, playing such-and-such instead of…” etc.
Here’s something I learned about football pundits from spending a day in their company: put two or more of them in a room together, and they talk about football, even if there’s 100 grand’s worth of clothes nearby. (The exception to this is if one of the men is David Ginola, in which case the rule is: if David Ginola is in the room, you talk about David Ginola.)
And yet here they all are – Chiles, Bhasin, Ginola and his BT Sport colleague Jake Humphrey – game for modelling the new season’s menswear. This shoot would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. The evolution of the football pundit – from a man who talks about football and does not engage with fashion at all, to a man who talks about football while working a bit of a look – reflects the evolution of the British male in general. Football is the national game, and while the players and managers operate on a different plane, the pundits have always represented the bloke next door. An ITV source recently said, in praise of Chiles: “He often voices what a lot of punters at home are thinking.”
This deliberate ordinariness is reflected in their on-screen clothes. As stylist (and Liverpool fan) Elgar Johnson puts it, the classic pundit look is “a dad going for a Sunday roast with the family. This isn’t a bad thing. I like the fact that there is nothing too fancy going on.” But with the World Cup looming, and competition between broadcasters intensified by BT Sport having seized Champions League coverage from Sky from next year, looking the part matters more and more. “Things have changed,” says Humphrey. “A lot of the ex-pros who have moved into punditry in recent years take it for granted that looking stylish is important. There was a time when to be concerned with what you wore just wasn’t done, but the bar has been raised. Every time I sit next to David Ginola, I feel intensely jealous, because he is the most incredible clotheshorse and always looks gorgeous.”
The moment I raise the subject of fashion with Chiles, he protests his innocence: “I know nothing. Literally nothing. I haven’t got a clue.” Which isn’t quite true, because he’s wearing a very nice blue suit, but when I ask where it’s from, he looks blank and has to check the label (it’s Austin Reed). Bhasin, on the other hand, is wearing an unstructured, unlined but shapely blazer of a type that only a confident shopper would alight upon and, opening with, “I quite like my fashion”, sits down for a good chat about silhouette and shirt detailing and collar width.
Three-piece suit, £1,225, by Paul Smith, and shirt, £129, by Richard James, both from harrods.com. Tie, from £90, and pocket square, £55, both marwoodlondon.co.uk. Styling: Helen Seamons. Photograph: Paul Farrell for the Guardian
Humphrey is more straightforwardly clean-cut, model-handsome in his Moncler jacket, which he bought at the Matches boutique in Richmond, close to his home, although he blokeishly lays the blame on his wife for their frequent visits.
Ginola, meanwhile, is in a league of his own, albeit not quite in the way he thinks. His look – leather jacket, jeans, enormous watch, habit of taking his sunglasses off with a flourish and holding your gaze a little too long – is Euro-suave meets comedy French charmer, but he has undeniable star quality.
All – except Ginola, who I think we’ve established is a special case – are in agreement that fashion is not exactly at the heart of the culture of punditry. Bhasin tells me that “the closest we’ll come to talking about it at work is on a Saturday night before the show. I’ll ask, ‘What are you guys wearing in terms of shirt colour?’ so we don’t clash. Then we leave it at that.” Chiles says that if he had any confidence, he would “try to brighten things up with a different-coloured shirt or tie, but any time I try, I get it hopelessly wrong. From the moment I walk out of my house, the driver will say, ‘What on Earth are you wearing?’, then I get to work and I get the piss taken out of me mercilessly, and then I’ll get a load of emails afterwards saying, ‘What the fuck were you wearing?’ So you know what? I just stick to a straightforward shirt and tie.”
Television viewers have strong opinions. “If I wear anything other than a white shirt and a dark jacket, I will get hundreds and hundreds of comments on social media,” Humphrey agrees. “Not all of them positive.”
And then there is Ginola. “Does fashion come into the conversation? Yes. It comes into the conversation when I walk into the room. The other guys, they want to see what I am wearing. They will say, ‘I love your jacket, I love your shirt, that suits you…’ This kind of thing.”
Everyone agrees that Gary Lineker was the game-changer in raising the style bar among pundits. Dan May, style director of Mr Porter (and Liverpool fan), recalls, “When Lineker started doing Match Of The Day, I remember thinking, ‘He actually looks good.’ He was the first who was vain enough to care how he looked, whereas [with] those old pundits, there was just no vanity there.” Lineker, with his streamlined suits and sharp tailoring, broke out of what Susie Lau, author of the Style Bubble fashion blog (and Arsenal fan), calls “that dad look they had going on”.
The generational reference is significant, because this story is in part about how the notion of the “personal brand” has validated vanity for a generation of young men. Humphrey tells a great story about Cristiano Ronaldo. “I was at the Euros in 2012 and, just before the game, a close-up of him came up on the huge screen in the stadium. And he looks up at it, and” – he mimes Ronaldo sucking in his cheekbones, pouting and patting his hair – “and this is moments before kick-off at a really important match for Portugal, and he’s using that screen as a mirror. In front of 80,000 people. Because even at that moment he’s aware that, if he scores a goal, how he looks will be important for his brand. That’s the way the world is now, and I think we as pundits can’t be left behind.”
A decade ago, the dominant sartorial message from Match Of The Day was of meaty thighs bulging out of shiny suits, a sense of thwarted action. Now the look is decidedly more urbane. “It’s the same with the players themselves,” Bhasin says. “They used to have a boot bag, with boots and shinpads. With my show, we’re all over the country – Tranmere, Stevenage, wherever – and wherever we go, the players get off the coach with their Louis Vuitton washbags and their ridiculously large headphones. These have become must-have accessories, even for the lower-league footballers, because that’s what the top players have.”
Grey Albemarle three-piece suit, £1,650, by Thom Sweeney, from mrporter.com. Cashmere roll-neck, £295, harrods.com. Styling: Helen Seamons. Photograph: Paul Farrell for the Guardian
“It was David Beckham who first put pressure on the other guys,” Ginola says. “He has great taste, and he likes to dress.”
Humphrey adds: “You can’t ignore the fact that the player who has been the most talked-about figure of his and my and probably any footballing generation is David Beckham. His football was impressive, but what made him stand out was the way he carried himself. When he wore a sarong, when he cut his hair into a mohican, it got people looking at footballers in a totally different way.”
There is a way of dressing that is specific to the modern game. “Footballers,” Chiles says, “are very natty dressers.” Bhasin also works in cricket, which “is very different, because it’s a sport with a public school background, and that shows in the look. For example, there are no corduroys in football.”
As Chiles points out, most footballers “are pretty dainty – even Roy Keane. He’s one of the toughest men alive, and I probably wouldn’t call him dainty to his face, but he’s quite slightly built.” And the modern footballer is also, of course, extremely rich. “These young turks who are just out of the game, they’ve been earning 100 grand a week for the past few years,” Chiles says. “And that’s had an impact on how they dress, as it would. So we’ve now got a new era of footballer’s wardrobe moving into the punditry chair.”
“I’ve got mad love for Jamie Redknapp,” Chiles declares. Everyone has: Redknapp is the poster boy for pundits, named by all as the best dressed. (“The proportions are right: he’s thin, he’s elegant, he cares,” May says.) Lau thinks Alan Hansen looks sharp. (Another style experts feels Hansen’s go-to dark shirts are “a bit of a dad’s party shirt”, but declined to go on record, citing due reverence.) Chiles praises Gareth Southgate (“Poised and neat, can’t imagine him ever looking scruffy”) and Lee Dixon (“Natty. Very much of the pointy-shoe brigade”). Everyone agrees Robbie Savage is a one-off, but really should do up a couple more shirt buttons.
I ask Ginola about other pundits he thinks dress well. He looks slightly wounded at my bringing other men into the conversation. The subject returns to David Ginola.
Suit, £1,095, and shirt, £145, both gievesandhawkes.com. Tie, £120, marwoodlondon.co.uk. Lapel pin, £120, by Lanvin, from matchesfashion.com. Styling: Helen Seamons. Photograph: Paul Farrell for the Guardian
Football may be a less macho world than it was, but the sartorial topics on which the pundits are most comfortable are still the least frilly parts of fashion: tailoring, made-to-measure, watches. (Chunky watches are a pundit cliche that shows no sign of dying out.) Even though, as May points out, “the movement of a suit is all wrong when you sit, so it’s a hard thing to look good in sat down”, Chiles feels they offer the safest option: “I’ve got terrible posture, and you can’t slouch in a suit, so for me a suit is the answer.”
Chiles swears by Chris Kerr, the Soho tailor who also makes suits for Vic Reeves and Chris Moyles, among others. Ginola and Humphrey both have bespoke shirts made, Humphrey at Pogson Davis of Mayfair (“To this day, the best thing I’ve ever bought, fashion-wise”).
Ginola, meanwhile, becomes almost Cantona-esque on the subject of shoes. “When you build a house, you plant a grass lawn in the front, and that makes the house look better. Shoes have the same effect on your outfit. This is true for men and women.”
“It’s not really that sports journalism has changed,” Humphrey says. “It’s that the world has changed. I don’t know how much time Barack Obama spends with stylists and makeup artists, but I’m pretty sure it’s a lot more than Abraham Lincoln ever did.”
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Gerald Chukwuma visits Gallery 1957
As one of Nigeria’s fastest rising artists, Gerald Chukwuma’s work explores migration as a constant process of transformation. Considering the implications of globalisation on his immediate environment, Chukwuma manipulates common materials to render new stories of Nigeria’s social and political history. We were lucky enough to have Gerald join us at the gallery for an informal presentation of his work with Gallery 1957 founder Marwan Zakhem. The event was streamed this on our Facebook page, click here to watch it back.
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The new issue of Signatures will allow an insightful look into the minds of young Gallery 1957 artists Jeremiah Quarshie and Yaw Owusu, alongside the founder and director of ANO Ghana, Nana Oforiatta Ayim. Signatures is a new bi-annual magazine, offering a platform for the exploration of the cultural pursuits and passions coming from Africa. The magazine will feature interviews and photography that will reveal the creative processes of artists, musicians, writers and designers.
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Gallery 1957 goes to Art X Lagos
Gallery 1957 is proud to announce it will be taking part in Art X Lagos from Friday 4 - 6 November 2016. West Africa's first International Art Fair is founded and directed by Tokini Peterside with Bisi Silva as artistic director. The fair will feature 50 artists, 10 countries and 30 exhibitions. From Gallery 1957 Jeremiah Quarshie will be exhibiting works from his Yellow is the Colour of Water series.
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Serge Attukwei Clottey meets Under the Influence
In the latest edition of Under the Influence, Serge Attukwei Clottey talks with founder and director of ANO Ghana, Nana Oforiatta Ayim. In it, Serge discusses his artistic techniques in consideration of modern Africa’s wider concerns. Serge explains that his artistic endeavours cannot be detached from his rich cultural heritage, his use of the yellow gallons for example is both influenced by his childhood memory of carrying water to his family and the symbolic importance of the gallon in face of the water crises. Serge and Nana go on to explore the importance of tradition and the local philosophies which are at the heart of their communities.
You can order this issue here.
ANO Ghana presents Agbako at 1:54 contemporary Art Fair, London
Young architect and artist Latifah Idriss has designed the latest edition of ANO Ghana’s Books on Arts and Culture. The Agbako Book & Film Launch will be on Sunday 9 October from 3-4.30pm at 1:54Contemporary Art Fair, Somerset House, London. The book is the first in a series of publications by ANO, proposing new architectural museum models which emphasise the importance and impact of historical and contemporary cultural production and its capacity to transform and enhance our social realities.
Find out more about ANO’s past and present projects here.
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n a recent article, Forbes.com explores Accra’s new status as an arts hub. Jermeiah Quarshie explains how his portraits deal with the economic and social pressures on woman in Accra, pressures which aren’t so different to those found in other parts of the world which could explain how people relate to them. Another Gallery 1957 artist, Yaw Owusu, and Hannah O’Leary the head of Modern and Contemporary African Art at Sotheby’s, are in agreement that it is an exciting time for emerging contemporary African artists.
To read the full article, please click here.
Serge Attukwei Clottey appears on the BBC
Serge Attukwei Clottey has recently been featured in two seperate BBC broadcasts. Serge was interviewed for the World Service’s ‘BBC Cultural Frontline’ where the hosts asked ‘Can Art change the World?’ ahead of the Turner Prize exhibition opening. Other guests included Tania Bruguera and Maria Alyokhina. In another broadcast on BBC News, Serge is interviewed as part of 1:54Contemporary African Art Fair alongside founder Touria El Glaoui, the segment looked at the increased popularity of African Art buying in London.
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Gallery 1957 featured in Gestalten’s Africa Rising: Fashion, Design and Lifestyle from Africa
Africa Rising explores an overview of the social and cultural movements spurring on some of Africa’s most progressive creative scenes. Published by Gestalten, Africa Rising also charts the continent’s increasing international influence –looking at the full spectrum of design, fashion and lifestyle. Ghana is featured as one of five emerging art markets to take notice of within the continent; Gallery 1957 is praised for its launch as one of the very first commercial galleries in Ghana dedicated to contemporary art. Africa Rising is published by Gestalten and will be released on September 15, 2016.
Congratulations to the Chale Wote festival team
Gallery 1957 was a proud partner of this year’s edition of Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Spirit Robot. Founded by Mantse Aryeequaye and Sionne Neely of ACCRA [dot] ALT, the festival creates life for art, music, dance and performance on the streets of James Town, Accra’s oldest urban fishing community. Free and open to the public, Chale Wote helps create a wider audience for the arts, breaking boundaries to provide access to culture for people from all walks of life. Spirit Robot included a performance by Serge Attukwei Clottey and GoLokal entitled Practical Common Sense, as well as a new installation by Yaw Owusu and a performance by Elisabeth Efua Sutherland. For the first time, the festival included a full week of activities and Gallery 1957 hosted screenings of Blitz the Ambassador’sDiasporadical Trilogìa and Sandra Krampelhuber’s Accra Power. Keep updated on ACCRA [dot] ALT’s activities by visiting accradotaltradio.com, and following ACCRA [dot] ALT on twitter. Photo: Kobe Subramaniam
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Ahead of the opening of Jeremiah Quarshie’s first solo exhibition, Yellow is the Colour of Water - opening at Gallery 1957 on Friday 19 August – Artsy spoke with Quarshie, and the shows curator Robin Riskin to discuss the works and their collaboration. Quarshie elaborates on his relationship with other local artists, and the importance of the dialogue he has with the community as a whole on his practise. This interest in the community is expressed in the multi-site installations that form Yellow is the Colour of Water; Quarshie has installed sculptures at Tema Station Lorry Park and Kotoka International Airport, locations which mark the movement of people in a bid to parallel the flow of water across a city. To read the full article, please click here.
Gallery 1957 was partner of the sixth edition of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Chale Wote Street Art Festival, produced by ACCRA [dot] ALT, celebrated this year’s festival with a full week of activities in collaboration with six Accra galleries, alongside the annual performances on the streets of James Town, Accra, which took place from 15 – 21 August 2016. Gallery 1957 was a proud partner of this year’s festival. On Wednesday 17 August, 6 – 9pm, Gallery 1957 hosted a screening of Blitz Ambassador’s series of music films entitled Diasporadical Trilogìa, followed by an informal Q+A with Kobby Graham, Blitz and the audience. Later that night saw the premiere screening of ACCRA POWER, featuring Gallery 1957 artist Serge Attukwei Clottey. Sandra Krampelhuber, the director of the film, was also in attendance to answer the audiences’ questions. The week also included the opening reception for Jeremiah Quarshie’s exhibition, Yellow Is The Colour Of Water, at the gallery on 19 August.
You can keep up-to-date on future projects, and find out more about the festival by visiting accradotaltradio.com, and following ACCRA [dot] ALT on twitter.
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Keep an eye on forthcoming projects by checking this page for the news, and see upcoming exhibitions here.
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Jagna Anderson
JAGNA ANDERSON lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist and art historian/curator in Berlin. Her artistic practice opens up new spaces in-between vocal performance art, choreography, installation and performative interventions into the urban environment.
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Klaudia Rogowicz
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Andrea PASS
Andrea PASS is a playwright and director. She graduated as a theatre historian from the University of Veszprém, Hungary and spent time in Nancy and London on scholarships during her studies. She worked as an assistant to Béla Pintér and Viktor Bodó while she studied scriptwriting and earned a degree in theatre pedagogy.
Ayça Ceylan
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Małgorzata Mostek
Anton Ovchinnikov
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Katarzyna Chmielewska
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Viktor Sobiianskyi
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Alexander Tebenkov
He currenly works at the Grodno Regional Drama Theatre. He graduated from the Choreography Department at the Institute of Culture and Art (Oryol, Russia) in1996 and worked as dancer in the Grodno Regional Philharmonic. Since 1996, he has been a dancer and choreographer at the Grodno Regional Drama Theatre.
Alina Abdullayeva
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Ana Bateva
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Andelka Janković
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Cleveland Police and Crime Panel Minutes
Thursday, 2nd February, 2017
First Floor Committee Room, Town Hall, High Street, Stockton-on-Tees
Please note: all Minutes are subject to approval at the next Meeting
Cllr Norma Stephenson O.B.E(Chair), Cllr Charles Rooney(Vice-Chairman), Cllr Billy Ayre, Cllr Alec Brown, Cllr David Coupe, Cllr Ken Dixon, Tracey Harvey, Cllr Dave Hunter, Councillor Chris Jones, Cllr Jim Lindridge, , Cllr Matthew Vickers, Cllr David Wilburn, Mr Paul McGrath and Mr Andrew Dyne
David Bond, Peter Bell (SBC).
In Attendance:
Barry Coppinger (Commissioner), Michael Porter, Simon Dennis, Joanne Hodgkinson (Commissioner's Office), Simon Nickless (Cleveland Police).
Apologies for absence:
Cllr Dave Hunter, Cllr David Coupe, Cllr Billy Ayre and Cllr Ken Dixon,
42/16 EVACUATION PROCEDURE/MOBILE PHONES
The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and outlined the evacuation procedure.
43/16 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
There were no interests declared.
44/16 MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 10 NOVEMBER 2016
(Attachment: 1)Minutes (23K/bytes)
Preamble for item PCP 44/16
RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 10 November 2016 be agreed and signed by the Chair as a correct record.
45/16 APPOINTMENT OF NON POLITICAL INDEPENDENT MEMBERS
(Attachment: 2)Report (26K/bytes)
RESOLVED that Paul McGrath and Andrew Dyne be appointed as Non-Political Independent Members to the Panel, with effect from 2 February 2017, and the Home Secretary be notified accordingly.
46/16 TASK AND FINISH GROUP - OVERALL BUDGET STRATEGY
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RESOLVED that the report be noted.
47/16 PRECEPT PROPOSALS FOR 2017/18 - TO FOLLOW
RESOLVED that the Panel supports the Commissioner's proposed precept of Band D Police Element of the Council Tax within Cleveland for 2017/18 at �214.54. This was an increase of �4.18, or 1.99% over the 2016/17 level.
48/16 20 MPH ZONES - CHAIR OF CLEVELAND ROAD SAFETY PARTNERSHIP - PRESENTATION
RESOLVED that the presentation be received.
49/16 MEMBERS' QUESTIONS TO THE POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER
There were no Member questions.
50/16 COMMISSIONER'S UPDATE - TO FOLLOW
51/16 POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER - PERFORMANCE REPORT - TO FOLLOW
52/16 PROGRAMME OF ENGAGEMENT FOR THE POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER
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53/16 DECISION OF THE POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER
54/16 POTENTIAL FORMATION OF AN ASSOCIATION OF POLICE AND CRIME PANELS
RESOLVED that the Chairman and an appropriate officer attend the meeting described in the report to further investigate this matter and report back to the Panel.
55/16 FORWARD PLAN
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RESOLVED that the Forward Plan be noted.
56/16 PUBLIC QUESTIONS
There were no public questions.
4.30 pm to 6.00 pm
44/16 Consideration was given to the minutes of the meeting held on 10 November 2016.
45/16 Consideration was given to a report that related to the appointment of two Non-Political Independent co-opted members to the Cleveland Police and Crime Panel ("the Panel), under provisions within the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
At its meeting on 21 July 2016 the Panel agreed arrangements for the appointment of two Non-Political Independent Members (NPIM), following the expiry of the terms of office of the two existing NPIMs on 6 December 2016.
As part of the arrangements the Panel appointed five members to serve on a Sub Panel, which would consider applications, undertake interviews and make recommendations with regard to the appointments.
The positions were widely advertised throughout the Cleveland Police area and 11 completed application forms were returned.
The Sub-Panel met on 1 November 2016 to consider the applications received and agreed to ask five applicants to attend for interview. Four interviews were conducted on 25 November 2016 (the fifth candidate withdrew from the process) and the Sub Panel unanimously agreed to recommend that Paul McGrath and Andrew Dyne be appointed.
The proposed NPIMs had been invited to the meeting and it was envisaged that, should the Panel agree to their appointment, they would take up their position with effect from 2 February 2017.
The terms of office of the NPIMs would be for the period beginning 2 February 2017 and expiring on 1 February 2021.
46/16 Consideration was given to a report that provided detail of the work undertaken by the annual Scrutiny Task and Finish Group to consider the financial strategy of the Police and Crime Commissioner for 2017/18 and the level of precept required to provide a balanced budget.
The report provided the Cleveland Police and Crime Panel with assurances from the PCP Task and Finish Group of evidence from, and discussion with, the Police and Crime Commissioner's Chief Finance Officer when considering the proposed precept.
In terms of financial planning, assumptions were undertaken in the same way as in previous years to increase the precept by 1.99%.
Members were informed that the Government had changed its method of calculation having looked at the fact that across the country there had been an increase in the underlying tax bases. As a result it was suggested that as more funding was coming from precepts as a result of the tax base increase there was capacity to reduce the amount of funding from the Government. Flat cash was still given but the local tax base was supporting that now. Higher reductions had resulted and the capital grant had been reduced by a further 15% this time.
The Task and Finish Group included consideration of the total funding projections and the PCC's priorities to determine the level of precept required for Cleveland.
The Task and Finish Group supported the increase to the PCC precept of 1.99%.
47/16 Consideration was given to a report on Precept proposals for 2017/18.
Legislation required that the Commissioner must agree his budget and associated precept and basic council tax for the forthcoming year before 1st March each year. However before doing so the Commissioner must notify the Panel of the precept which he proposed to issue for the following year.
The balance of the cost of the police service not paid for by central government was met by local taxpayers through a precept on their council tax. In Cleveland this would equate to just below 25% of the overall income that the Commissioner would receive in 2017/18. It was the responsibility of the four local billing authorities to collect this.
The Commissioner in making his proposal on the Police precept had taken into account the following:
• The views of the public of Cleveland
• The financial impact on the people of Cleveland.
• The financial needs of the organisation as currently projected both for 2017/18 and in the future.
• The limits imposed by the Government on a precept increase before a referendum would be triggered in Cleveland.
• The Commissioner had also discussed his proposals with both the Chief Constable and engaged and consulted with the public on the options available to him.
The report further highlighted:
• The Overall Financial Context
• Financial Impact of a 1.99% Increase
In conclusion the Commissioner had considered various options and various factors in deliberating on his proposal for precept in 2017/18. The Commissioner had taken into account the need for the continued delivery of Policing and Crime services within Cleveland. The Commissioner had spoken with the Chief Constable and had consulted with the public. Based on these views and the financial needs of the organisation over the medium term the Commissioner formally proposed a precept increase of 1.99% for 2017/18 and asked the Panel to consider the proposal.
To aid the Panel in considering the proposal on the Precept, the Commissioner had attached to the report:
• A draft Budget based on a 1.99 Precept Increase
• A draft Capital Budget
48/16 Members received a presentation by Richard McGuckin, the Chair of Cleveland strategic Road Safety Partnership on 20 mph zones. The presentation covered the following keys areas:
• 20 mph limit or zones?
• Government Guidance
• The public view on 20 mph Zones
• The evidence
• The regional picture
• Cleveland Police Policy
• Next steps
50/16 Consideration was given to a report on the Commissioner's Update.
The Police and Crime Commissioner had set a clear strategic direction for the force in relation to standards matters. He had put in place a Police and Crime Plan with the objective of Investing in Cleveland Police. His commitment to the public included working with the Chief Constable to establish a new approach to the way complaints and professional standards matters were handled. This included expanding the role of the Police and Crime Commissioner's office in handling complaints, ensuring that they had the best possible model.
The Commissioner had a robust long term financial plan, which was detailed in his Police and Crime Plan. The Commissioner had made a commitment to securing value for money, promoting a sustainable and effective operating model and a progressive change programme, which would be scrutinised by auditors. Securing the future of the area's communities was also a key objective in his plan. Government cuts had taken �36m from Cleveland Police, resulting in the loss of over 400 policing posts and 30 Police Community Support Officers. The Commissioner was committed to continuing to lobby government for the introduction of the revised funding formula. The Commissioner wanted to ensure that those most at risk of harm and living in deprivation had a fair level of funding spent on them.
The report provided Members with an update in relation to key matters including:
• A ministerial briefing on a review of the police funding formula
• The National Police Air Service
• The reformation of Cleveland Police Professional Standards Department
• Review and scrutiny of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
With regard to the Funding Formula - Ministerial Briefing, on 16th January the Commissioner and the Chief Constable gave a briefing to the Minister for Policing and Fire. The details of the submission to the Minister on the funding formula review were attached to the report.
Also attached to the report were the statements that the Commissioner and the Chief Constable had made on 5th January to bring about immediate change to the Professional Standards department involving external support in order to underpin trust and confidence in Cleveland Police.
A summary of the collaborative arrangements and the Commissioner's press statements were also attached to the report.
51/16 Consideration was given to a report that provided a summary of performance of the Police and Crime Plan.
In May 2017, the Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Cleveland was re-elected for a second term. The Police and Crime Plan was issued and launched in December 2016. Progress reports on implementation of the Plan would be given to the panel in future meetings.
The PCC's objectives set out in the plan were:
• Investing in our Police
• A Better Deal for Victims
• Tackling Re-offending
• Working Together to Make Cleveland Safer
• Securing the Future of our Communities
The report provided an update on scrutiny activities associated with the delivery of PCC objectives, the wider aspects of the Police and Crime Plan and statutory responsibilities.
The PCC new performance framework was under development and would build on the strengths from the Commissioner's first term of office. It would focus on evidence-based practices and evaluation of the impact of activities and initiatives in delivering the outcomes set out in the Plan. A diagram within the report showed areas influencing performance and delivery of the Police and Crime Plan, which would form the basis for future reports.
The report provided Members with an update in relation to key areas:
• Crime and Anti-social Behaviour
• Driving out greater benefits from the scrutiny programme
• Commissioned Services
52/16 Consideration was given to a report that gave a brief update on the meetings attended by the PCC from November 2016 to January 2017. Future meetings of the PCC were also summarised.
The PCCs consultation and engagement activities focused on increasing understanding of the communities of Cleveland, ensuring clear and consistent communication with the public and ensuring effective consultation and community engagement.
The PCC attended a number of meetings on a regular basis with key partners, stakeholders and residents from across the Cleveland area. In addition to this the PCC had attended many regional and national meetings representing Cleveland.
The ‘Your Force Your Voice' engagement initiative continued to take place with community meetings in all of Cleveland's 79 ward areas being revisited on an annual basis. Since coming into office in November 2012 the PCC had attended around 417 community meetings allowing the PCC to better understand the needs of local communities across Cleveland.
At meetings recently attended issues were raised around response times when contacting the 101 non-emergency number. The Commissioner monitored response times on a daily basis and alterations to the Control Room had led to a significant reduction in waiting times.
All of the issues raised at community meetings were raised with the local Integrated Neighbourhood Teams for action where necessary.
The report included a summary of key other meetings attended by the PCC. The full diary was published on the PCC website.
Meetings of note over the next few weeks would include:
• Breaking the Silence on Sexual Violence; Support, Safeguarding and Protection event - 7 February
• Regional PCCs meeting - 10 February
• Hartlepool Chinese New Year celebrations - 19 February
• Tees Rural Crime Forum - 27 February
53/16 Consideration was given to a report on the decisions made by the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and the Forward Plan.
The Police and Crime Commissioner made all decisions unless specifically delegated within the Scheme of Consent / Delegation. All decisions had to demonstrate that they were soundly based on relevant information and that the decision making process was open and transparent.
In addition, a forward plan was included and published on the PCC website which included items requiring a decision in the future. This was attached to the report.
Each decision made by the PCC was recorded on a decision record form with supporting background information appended. Once a decision had been approved it was published on the PCC website. Decisions relating to private / confidential matters would be recorded; although, it might be appropriate not to publish the full details.
Decisions made since the last meeting of the Police and Crime Panel were attached to the report.
54/16 Consideration was given to a report on the potential formation of a National Association of Police and Crime Panels and suggested that this Panel was represented at a meeting arranged to discuss this.
There had been discussions at the Police and Crime Panels' Conference Regional Networks and individual Panels about the potential formation of a Police and Crime Panel National Association.
Further to the discussions described above, an exploratory meeting had been arranged to consider this in more detail and the Chair of this Panel had been invited to attend, on 17th February 2017, in London.
Following the exploratory meeting, it was suggested that a report back to Members be provided, so that the Panel could consider any proposals.
55/16 Consideration was given to the Forward Plan
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Making sense of ‘Sense of Place’
At the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes the phrase ‘Sense of Place’ will be shared repeatedly, but The Design Solution Director Nick Taylor is not sure we’re all talking about the same thing. Here’s why.
As a retail designer, I’m delighted that my specialism has become established in the travel retail landscape, writes Nick Taylor. The design of stores and terminal space are now recognised for their critical contribution and value both to the traveller experience and to the commercial performance of airport floorspace.
‘Sense of Place’ has been a distinct factor in numerous developments over the past few years, from individual stores such as my own team’s work for Dufry’s Tequileria at Cancun Airport, to the amazing scale and innovation created by Safdie Architects for Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport. Safdie re-imagined the centre of the airport as a major public realm attraction, echoing Singapore’s reputation as ‘The City in the Garden’.
I fully appreciate the progress made on the role of design in the airport experience. Where store design once barely registered as a travel retail industry issue, it is now firmly established as a critical element in the drive to optimise the shopper experience and grow revenue for retailers, brands and airports.
Central focus: The Tequiliera at Dufry’s store at Cancún International reflects the spirit’s importance both to Mexico’s heritage and its role as a key sales driver
However, there is a problem. At the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes the phrase ‘Sense of Place’ will be shared repeatedly, but I’m not sure we’re all talking about the same thing. Here’s why.
At The Design Solution we blend our design work with our complementary expertise in airport commercial planning. By understanding the whole holistic space we ensure that the beautiful looking stores are also optimally planned to work coherently alongside essential issues such as passenger paths and exposure to the retail offer. We work with like-minded, innovative retailers, such as Dufry, ARI and Baltona, to create unique experiences at each location and, right from the start of every project, we are seeking to inject a distinct sense of the geographical location.
Unfortunately, the prevalence of the phrase ‘Sense of Place’ has diluted its strength; shifting from a positive signal of a dynamic, original approach to airport retail design to becoming a shield that often masks half-hearted strategies. At its worst, ‘Sense of Place’ might comprise little more than a gondola in a corner of the store, stacked with clichéd local souvenirs, tinned biscuits and a drooping flag.
Part of the problem is that, as an industry, we’ve never defined ‘Sense of Place’; it’s simply become embedded as a catch-all term that everyone thinks they understand.
Shades and tastes: Nick Taylor advocates a holistic approach to ‘Sense of Place’ and a proper understanding of how it relates to customer experience
‘Sense of Place’ has become a phrase that everyone feels they instantly understand and share. I’m also pleased that the travel retail media has picked up the issue so strongly (not least through the specialist ‘Design and Development’ section on The Moodie Davitt Report website), further driving awareness and raising standards and establishing ‘Sense of Place’ as an essential tool for the industry.
However, that phrase has become, almost single-handedly, the industry’s common descriptor for what is actually a very complex and constantly evolving issue – incorporating everything from passenger psychology and walk-through stores to regional heritage and local cheeses. I’m concerned that the concept of ‘Sense of Place’ has become over-used, confused and devalued.
As competition for the traveller’s wallet increases, it’s crucial that retail design presents a deeper expression of each unique airport, sharing the unique story of each location. However, there is sometimes a misconception in travel retail that ‘Sense of Place’ is dominant over the overall design concept when, in fact, it is actually simply a component of the concept (albeit a very important one).
So, whether we are assessing a single shop unit or a whole airport, my view is that we are aiming to create a contemporary and unique interior design that shares an element or vein of locally-inspired design references. In a shop, these local references are carefully married with the product being sold, so you are at the same time enhancing the whole ‘feel the category’ mood of the space to engage the shopper.
To illustrate that point, here’s a deeper example we can all share. Most of the delegates heading to Cannes this weekend will arrive through Nice Côte d’Azur Airport, winner of last year’s Frontier Award for ‘Best Airport Operator’. In 2015, Nice set out on a radical four-year development programme across both terminals, including support from my team at The Design Solution on commercial planning and design.
Planning and execution: Nice Côte d’Azur Airport offers a clarity of vision, ambition and commitment when it comes to Sense of Place
Last year, Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur Chief Commercial Director Filip Soete stated that the airport was achieving significant growth, well above expectations, and was on track to achieve its ambition to double its commercial revenue in four years. How did they do that?
Filip and his team worked incredibly hard to achieve that transformation, opening almost 80 new stores and restaurants (totalling around 8,000sq m), but this was not simply a case of extra commercial space driving performance. The key factor was their commitment to create a unique airport experience as their vision for “the most surprising commercial experience in a European airport”.
Nice Côte d’Azur Airport carried out a major transformation across the terminals, both in commercial planning and in design, reaching every square metre of terminal space. This included the repositioning of security in each terminal to enable smoother passenger flow, allowing for more dwell time and a larger boarding area to present the new, broader and more varied commercial offer.
By blending commercial planning and design the airport created the space and ensured that passengers would reach it easily and would be fully exposed to the offer. And they did all that with a unique local spirit that begins with the airport’s name and has been embedded across the whole airport through an interior design that celebrates the Côte D’Azur and its coastline and an offer that expresses the very best of the extended summer season of the region.
For example, the food & beverage offer was hugely expanded with a distinctly local flavour, ranging from L’Estivale by Michelin-starred chef Mauro Colagreco and La Plage by Thierry Marx to the world’s coolest hot dogs at Monsieur Albert.
French flair: The food & beverage offer at Nice Airport has a distinctly local flavour, including L’Estivale (above) by Michelin-starred chef Mauro Colagreco
The powerful retail range includes the first Versace store on the Riviera and the first airport store from Fragonard and The Kooples. The commercial spaces, including La Promenade (3,500sq m, 40 stores), are designed and co-ordinated to share a true spirit of the Riviera, including a strong emphasis on natural light and the lifestyle, flavours and colours of the Côte d’Azur.
The Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur team was fully committed to sharing the local story right across the passenger, shopper and diner experiences, embedding a ‘Sense of Place’ into absolutely every aspect of the airport. This detailed, comprehensive approach goes well beyond the simplistic, tokenistic offerings seen at some airports whereby a supposed ‘Sense of Place’ is actually just a designated space in a store with a basic display of local products and no design cohesion with the holistic retail space or the terminal.
Soete comments: “Right from our initial planning phase, over four years ago, our core vision was to deliver the most surprising commercial experience at a European airport. The expression of an engaging and authentic Sense of Place was absolutely central to that ambition to help drive differentiation by creating a memorable airport experience that was unmistakably Nice Côte d’Azur.
“To achieve this we chose to work with partners, including The Design Solution, who shared our passion to create something totally new and original. We wanted to express the spirit of the French Riviera through the strong presence of exciting local brands and also across the whole airport journey, creating a distinctly ‘local’ experience that was shared in everything from the design of the space and the welcome from staff to the menus in the restaurants and the product ranges in the stores.
“The airport industry faces rising pressure for airports to differentiate their passenger experience and I believe an authentic and comprehensive expression of a local ‘Sense of Place’ is not only the key strategy to delivering that ambition but is also the fundamental driver of non-aeronautical revenue performance.”
To my mind, the measure of success comes from the local reference points being clear enough that the traveller instantly understands and enjoys them, but they then also discover something deeper, something beyond that immediate familiarity.
Further illustrating the range of factors in play, it’s pertinent that Nice also focused strongly on driving its service levels higher too; achieving a significant rise in its Airports Council International Airport Service Quality (ACI ASQ) scores. The airport understood that its staff and the quality of service provided to the customer are actually key factors in expressing a ‘Sense of Place’.
When this sort of holistic approach to ‘Sense of Place’ is properly understood and ingrained across the airport experience, then ‘Sense of Place’ works for any airport, of any size, at any location.
As designers, we’re always aiming to engage the traveller by sharing a unique sense of local character and identity. When an airport has the quality and clarity of vision, ambition and commitment shown by the Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur team, then we have the opportunity to create something that is deeply local, engagingly original and commercially effective. It’s an approach that demands that airports and retailers develop a much deeper understanding of the myriad elements that combine to create a unique and effective ‘Sense of Place’ – but you know it makes sense.
The Moodie Davitt eZine
Issue 268 | 26 September 2019
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DJ Bus Replacement Service
The genre-tempo-decade-shifting master, DJ Bus Replacement Service, graces us with her unique skillset of for our latest mix installment of extravagance and beautiful confusion. Check out mix Q&A below:
Photo/Photoshop credit: DJBRS
Tell us about this mix:
This is a recording my set from at Tempio del Futuro Perduto in Milan last November. It’s a good representattion of the essentials in my current gigs: a base layer of harder techno; donk; whatever else feels right from yodelling trap to Cantonese hip-hop. Finally, I always like to add something to shamelessly pander to the local crowd, in this case a handful of Italian/Italo/Italy-adjacent tracks to keep the crowd dancing and confused at the same time.
I had a radio show at my university’s radio station in rural Indiana in the US. It was one of the few ways my small group of techno/drum & bass/hardcore-loving friends and I could share this hobby, in between going to Chicago for the occasional mega-rave and flyers to match.
I remember DJing at a Theta Xi frat party when I was in uni. I was quite possibly playing The Mighty Dub Katz’ “Magic Carpet Ride” when one of the speakers spontaneously combusted. No charges were filed.
My first gigs as DJ BRS happened between 2011-2012 in Hakodate, Japan, Brighton for one of Henry [ex-ex-Shitmat]’s Wrong Music shindigs, and Bang Face Weekender in Newquay. At Bang Face Weekender, I DJed in an impossibly oversized shark costume. There were no eyeholes, so I had to see through the red semi-opaque mouth area. My arms stuck out through a pair of pant legs sewn into the mouth. I played on Ableton back then, so I could always use one arm to keep the shark head from drooping over my face.
Here I am (with Shitmat) at that gig: https://bit.ly/2S18rdf
This is a tough question—several gigs come to mind with special memories from each one. Playing at festivals like Sonár and Unsound are definitely highlights that any DJ would be happy to have in their portfolio.
But my favourite for personal and juvenile reasons is the first Chin Stroke Soundclash I did with MC Queerhawk vs. DJ Detweiler & MC Dadmagnet. In between the DJ battle rounds, Queerhawk said something to the crowd that had me laughing in tears. However, what he said is totally unsuitable for repeating in this interview.
It has to be Surgeon, and not just because he happens to be my husband of 17 years. We are chalk & cheese in many ways, but I’d be surprised if I haven’t been influenced by the way he puts together a set and performs to an audience, as well as how to cope with the travel and crazy hours. The musicality of a set is the most important thing I’ve learned from him; it’s never been about being loyal to one piece of equipment or how well you can mix a set consisting of music from an identical sound palette. Another important thing I learned from him is having conviction in what you do, no matter what is in fashion at the moment. But it’s helpful to be open to discovering something that adds a new dimension to what I already do, and broaden my artistic range without compromising my personality.
Honourable mentions for DJs who I feel embody those things I mentioned, and seeing them play is always like attending a masterclass: Artwork, Eye-D, Jane Fitz, Justin Aulis Long, Jeff Mills, DJ Pete, Shyboi
Yasutaka Nataka—circa 2007-2013—singlehandedly made J-Pop a tit-rushing joy to listen to when he was the producer for Perfume, Capsule and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu during that imperial period. He still produces albums for them, but his current formula of sparser, mainstream-friendly EDM musical arrangements is more hit-or-miss for me. That said, he gave the world a couple of lovely Kylie Minogue remixes, so (almost) all is forgiven.
If I had my way, I would love for Nakata to have a go at making progressive EDM (think Rick Wakeman & Rush levels of musical indulgence), and go nuts with those pumping countermelodies and middle 8s like he used to make. He also seems like the type of guy who could jump around the studio in a cape befitting a progressive rock god.
Turning up to a gig where the promoter and/or sound technicians clearly haven’t checked my technical rider. Basically, I’m a short and almost-blind DJ who doesn’t perform at my best playing while standing on tiptoes and having to compromise & cut back on material to play on under-spec CDJs & mixer. Revising my technical rider is a never-ending quest to draft an idiot-proof document. Along these lines, something that will haunt me forever is when Regis did a live show in the US where he asked for a mixing desk, but was given a guitar amp head instead.
Someone who saw me play at Nowadays last month said on Twitter: “I laughed so hard I thought I was going to throw up.”
Hong Kong (my birthplace)
The Berlin S7 ersatzverkehr mit bussen
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I will be donating half of my gig fees from my upcoming US tour in April to buy cat houses and other essential supplies for their latest site expansion, which will increase their feline capacity to around 1,100 cats. If you’re interested in helping out, you can purchase items from their wishlist at https://smile.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3R35WJ7V1WP7N and ship the items to the sanctuary via their designated Gift Registry Address.
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Volume 22, Number 11/12
Intake of Digital Content: Survey Results From the Field
Jody L. DeRidder and Alissa Matheny Helms
University of Alabama Libraries
{jlderidder, amhelms}@ua.edu
DOI: 10.1045/november2016-deridder
The authors developed and administered a survey to collect information on how cultural heritage institutions are currently managing the incoming flood of digital materials. The focus of the survey was the selection of tools, workflows, policies, and recommendations from identification and selection of content through processing and providing access. Results are compared with similar surveys, and a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in the field is provided, with links to helpful resources. It appears that processes, workflows, and policies are still very much in development across multiple institutions, and the development of best practices for intake and management is still in its infancy. In order to build upon the guidance collected in the survey, the authors are seeking to engage the community in developing an evolving community resource of guidelines to assist professionals in the field in facing the challenges of intake and management of incoming digital content.
Digital materials pouring into special collections and archives present new and complex challenges for archivists, librarians, and records managers. As new records of our unfolding history are almost completely in digital form at this point, many cultural heritage institutions are struggling to develop and institute practical policies and procedures for the intake, selection, processing, and access of digital content. Particularly when faced with intake of multi-terabyte hard drives of mixed content, archivists may be overwhelmed with how to even begin to sort, identify, and select content from a device. Even the choice of tools can be overwhelming; for example, the Community Owned Digital Preservation Tool Registry currently lists 415 tools.1 In order to sift through the possible options more effectively before setting up local policies and procedures, we developed a survey (see Appendix I) to uncover what experienced digital archivists would recommend. The focus of the survey was on the selection of practical tools, the development of productive workflows, and recommendations.
The continual change in the field virtually precludes the inclusion of detailed recommendations in published books, which instead usually focus on overviews and thematic approaches. In 2001, Lazinger provided an excellent overview of many of the issues involved in selection and preservation of electronic documents, supplemented by a then extensive compilation of existing archives and digitization centers for more information.2 While providing a useful overview of the current field of digital preservation and known standards, the recent tome by Corrado and Moulaison fails to cover practical tools and workflows for those in the field.3 Sabharwal's 2015 publication4 extends the overview to include various forms of social media, and builds on the DCC Curation LifeCycle,5 which provides a more complete overview of all aspects of digital preservation. While these books provide an excellent review of issues and sometimes recommendations for what should be done, they do not try to address how to actually perform the work. More useful from an implementation perspective is the somewhat dated 2010 manual by Ross Harvey, which recommends specific tools, websites and tutorials.6 Also in 2010, a CLIR publication provided an in-depth review of the challenges and issues in intake and management of born-digital content, with a clear focus on the digital forensics aspects and rights issues.7 For current information about tools and resources, the online Digital Preservation Coalition Handbook8 is an excellent reference, which closely aligns with the purpose of our study, as it includes some information about what other institutions are doing (as case studies, primarily conducted in Europe). Many of the resources referenced by this handbook are best maintained online, such as a crowdsourcing effort which seeks to document all existing file formats,9 and an active site for questions and answers on digital preservation.10
2.2 Articles, White Papers and Reports
Articles published in the past few years range from specific tool coverage and case studies to broad reviews of the challenges faced by librarians, archivists and records managers.
Specific tools covered in depth by articles include BitCurator,11 a custom Word plug-in for substituting fonts,12 a custom Python script for transferring digital content across NTFS systems and collecting some data,13 AutoHotkey (automation in Windows) and Selenium IDE (for metadata work in Firefox),14 and guidance for small-scale web archiving (on Macs) with SiteSucker, TimeMachine and FileMerge.15 One fascinating case study on the use of Forensic Toolkit software for capture and processing of floppy disks, Zip disks, and CDs may be very useful for archivists faced with such media.16 Another case study described a low-cost exploration into building access to old media on newer equipment, for the digital forensics and extraction of obsolete formats.17 In 2013, the IMLS-funded Digital POWRR group organized almost seventy tools into categories based on the digital curation lifecycle and documented their functionality.18 A full discussion of their findings, and recommendations based on level of financial resources, are available online in a white paper.19
Some articles focus on case studies for collecting and archiving specific types of content, such as tweets,20 digital images,21 a Web collection of fugitive literature,22 catalogues raisonnés,23 videos from DVDs,24 and institutional records.25 26 Other case studies focus in depth on particular issues, such as the risks of data migration for certain formats27, or appraisal of electronic records in national archives.28 One unusual approach to developing a framework for appraisal and selection of digital content was based on statistical sampling, risk analysis and appraisal;29 unfortunately the effectiveness of this approach is not evaluated. However, the criteria for selection are quite useful as guidelines: mission alignment, value of the resources, cost and feasibility.30
In 2015, the University of Minnesota Electronic Task Force published a public report of their initial efforts to develop capacity in the Libraries to preserve and provide access to electronic resources.31 In their effort to develop initial policies and procedures for ingest, they realized that tools often worked differently with different file types, and "each collection brings with it the possibility of a new ingest scenario".32 Because of the inconsistencies in how various tools worked, they developed step-by-step guides for over 20 tools or processes; while they did not include these in the report, they did provide an overview and general guidelines. An interesting note from a survey of the University of Minnesota library staff is that email attachments were increasingly a source of concern for collections content.33
After developing initial guidelines, roles, documentation and steps for ingest, the Minnesota task force summarized:
"A sound ingest process requires understanding the original storage media, determining the method of transfer best suited to the media and file types, having a secure storage location within the Libraries, and running multiple programs against source and destination records for quality control and to establish a preservation baseline."34
Prior to the final report, staff managed to ingest 13 accessions (over 24 GB), but the problem of determining what to keep created a bottleneck in the workflows, to be addressed in the future.35 Based on their limited experiences, they estimate an average time of 12 GB/hour for initial ingest only, with an additional seven hours per collection.36
In contrast to the University of Minnesota case study, a recent article by a lone arranger outlines her explorations in ingest of small quantities of digital content; she highlights the critical importance of appraisal, and notes that outsourcing these efforts requires funding that simply isn't available.37
Focusing on access methodology, one article offered up a method of providing web browse access to disk images, to simplify the questions of selection, management of collected content, and access, putting the burden on the user of whether to seek emulation or migration for improved usability.38 An extensive comparison of several repository systems in terms of suitability for visual research data (extendable to other data) was published in 2013.39 A more recent article combined three case studies about how to emulate and a brief discussion of the pros and cons of emulation as a service delivered over the web.40
Theoretical discussions also abound, such as Xie's analysis of the concept "reproducibility" as used in digital forensics for the purpose of digital records management.41
In 2011, Goldman urged archivists and records managers to begin to take initial steps towards appropriate management of digital content, regardless of limitations and seemingly insurmountable odds.42 In 2012 and 2013, OCLC Research provided a series of useful reports echoing Goldman's article, in an effort to assist archivists in taking the difficult first steps to effectively manage born digital content.43 In the widely acclaimed initial report, Erway provided basic principles and instructions for surveying and inventorying born-digital content, as well as basic steps for extracting digital content from readable media.44 A following report expanded on these basic steps and provided links to suggested tools, software, and resources that could provide in-depth discussions and further options.45
In 2012, the AIMS Project report stated that "the development of best practices within born-digital stewardship was not yet possible," so they sought to define good practices instead.46 Their inter-institutional framework was organized into four "Functions of Stewardship" (each with objectives, outcomes, decision points and tasks): collection development, accessioning, arrangement and description, and discovery and access.47 Critical considerations were clearly stated, such as "A determination is made as to whether the collection can be reasonably acquired, managed, and preserved within the constraints of the institution's resources."48 One of the points made in this report is perhaps key to developing best practices: each type of born digital content transfer has different implications that will likely lead to different workflows.49 The AIMS report was intentionally software-agnostic, though it included appendices with detailed case studies50 and tool reviews.51 A major outcome of this project was the draft of functional requirements for a tool to support arrangement and description of born-digital materials,52 though the resulting Hypatia project shows no signs of activity since 2013.53
Challenges faced by under-resourced institutions are eloquently described in a 2013 OCLC article.54 A recent broad overview of the current challenges of digital preservation observes that the field is developing swiftly, and that a danger to be avoided is being drawn into a preservation path that may not be critical, such as file format migration for open formats.55 Disturbingly, in the results of a survey of faculty at five Digital POWRR56 project partner institutions, 55.3% of respondents have lost irreplaceable work-related digital content, and 62.5% have obsolete digital content they likely can no longer access.57 The need for effective digital curation is pressing.
2.3 Surveys
A 2009 OCLC survey identified born-digital materials as one of the top three "most challenging issues" in managing special collections (the others were digitization and space), and stated that "management of born digital archival materials is still in its infancy."58 Yet 79% of respondents had collected born-digital materials.59 This survey covered a variety of aspects of special collections and archives content and management, but did not attempt to identify tools and workflows, target formats or useful methods and recommendations for born digital materials.
In 2012, an extensive survey of 64 of the 126 ARL libraries captured a snapshot of the tools, workflows, and policies used by special collections and archives to process, manage and provide access to born digital materials.60 This survey covered staffing, storage solutions, influences, and training as well as several of the areas covered in the survey described in this article. As the results of the current survey differed in several respects for some very similar questions, a comparison of these results will be included in the results discussion.
Also in 2012, a survey of training needs in digital preservation found that the three most needed topics were "Methods of preservation metadata extraction, creation and storage" (70.3%), "Determining what metadata to capture and store" (68%), and "Planning for provision of access over time" (65.4%).61 The current survey may provide some guidance with regard to each of these.
In 2013, the Smithsonian Institute surveyed seven of their archival units about their born digital holdings.62 They counted over 12,000 pieces of physical media, the majority of which were CDs,63 but their survey did not ask whether the holders were capable of extracting content from their media. Their holdings also may or may not be representative of those in other cultural heritage institutions.
Mayer has performed a survey annually to assess the status of born-digital preservation only in Canadian archives;64 the results of the 2013 and 2014 surveys indicate a great deal of confusion about what holdings actually existed in each repository, and a good bit of uncertainty as to how they were actually managed.65 At this writing, the 2015 results are not yet available.66
At the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, another survey by UNESCO67 gathered information from members of 27 organizations (seven archives, twelve libraries, two museums, and six heritage organizations) to determine world-wide trends in selection of born digital heritage collections. The results of this survey were very general and varied, indicating that determining significance of content is key to selection, and clarifying that the field was still in its infancy.68
2.4 In Context
Despite the excellent coverage of the issues and an expansive range of possible tools, none of the existing publications provide a clear and current overview of what a broad selection of cultural heritage peers are doing in the field: what works, what doesn't, and the choices they have made. When faced with almost any decision on setting policy in the field of digital librarianship, a review of what peers have implemented and an understanding of the pros and cons of their approaches can provide invaluable guidance. No one wants to repeat others' errors, and building upon existing practical experience is always ideal. While several institutions do provide some of this information either in reports, articles, or on their websites, our survey was intended as an approach that would gather information in a form which would allow us to compare responses across a targeted set of questions. Where the other surveys noted address similar issues, a comparison will be made in the results discussion.
3 Approach
We reviewed the questions used by the surveys mentioned above, and adapted some of them for our survey while adding others that would provide us with detailed clarification about format selection, tools and workflows. The 20-question survey (see Appendix I) was divided into six sections: Materials & Content, Workflows, Content Management, Preservation Metadata, Access, and Recommendations. The Workflows section, which contained primarily open ended questions, was divided by stages: Identification, Analysis, Selection, and Processing. To allow participants to review the questions prior to taking the survey, the survey was saved to PDF form and posted online, and a link to this PDF was included in the announcements.
The month-long survey was announced in mid-May (and again in early June) 2016 to four Society of American Archivist listserves: Metadata and Digital Objects Roundtable, Electronic Records Section, Research Libraries and Archives & Archivists. Other listserves included Code4Lib, Digital-curation Google group, Digital Library Federation, Diglib and the American Library Association Library Information Technology Association (LITA).
4.1 Participants
Half of the 62 respondents were from academic libraries (31); 12.9% (8) were from archives and the same number from government organizations; 4.84% (3) from museums, 3.23% (2) from public libraries, 1.61% (1 each) from a historical library and a special library. Eight respondents (12.9%) identified their institution as "other": institutional religious archives, national library, public media organization, radio and television, museum and library, technical company, academic archives and arts & education.
Our survey allowed for free-text description of roles, but over half (58.07%) self-identified as some sort of archivist or curator (36 of 62), 43% (27) of them as having a digital role. 22.58% (14) identified as having a managerial role. Additionally, 17.74% (11) self-identified as a type of librarian, 11.29% (7) of which mentioned digital in the title, one who was also an archivist (not counted above) and one metadata librarian. One respondent did not identify a role.
4.2 Types of Media
Of the 50 who responded to the question about what obsolete media they could effectively manage, 90% (45) are prepared to obtain content from 3.5 inch floppy discs, 84% (42) from PC hard drives, and 72% (37) from Mac hard drives. Over half (52%, 26) can extract content from 5.25 inch floppy disks, but only 10% (6) can work with 8-inch floppy disks. Varieties of Unix/Linux hard drives are only manageable by 28% (14) of the respondents, and hard disk drives that are not 2.5 or 3.5 inches can only be managed effectively by 34% (17) respondents. Furthermore, 74% (37) can extract from zip discs, and 22% (11) of the respondents are prepared to extract content form mini discs.
Of the other types of media that respondents can extract content from, 3 respondents mentioned media that is not yet obsolete: CDs/DVDs and thumb drives (1 mention). Of those which are becoming obsolete, 2 mention video cassettes, computer magnetic tapes/LTO, and flash media (SD cards). Two respondents also mention Jaz disks; and 1 each mention audio cassettes, reels, Syquest cartridges, DAT (Digital Audio Tape) and DDS (Digital Data Storage).
By comparison, the types of physical media (over 12,000 pieces) identified in the Smithsonian survey included:
33% CD
17% DATs
16% 3.5" diskette
14% 5.25" floppy diskette
12% DVD
7% other (excluding other data cartridges)
1% ZIP data cartridge69
There was no indication in the Smithsonian survey as to whether access to the media was yet supported. At the time of the survey, the expectation was that future Smithsonian acquisitions would likely include a large percentage of digital images, digital video, and computer aided design (CAD) files.70 Floppy disks, hard drives and zip disks were far more prevalent in our current survey than in the Smithsonian one.
4.3 Types of Content
Of our 62 respondents, all of them are collecting digital text documents, and 95% (59) are collecting still images; 92% (57) are collecting audio recordings and 90% (56) are collecting moving images/videos. Over half are collecting websites (55%, or 34) and databases (53%, or 33); 42% (26) are collecting email; 27% (17) are collecting Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data, and 26% (16) are collecting executable files (software). Other types of content mentioned include data sets (2 respondents), 3D models and computer-aided design, research data in all formats, books and ephemera, and other project files. In addition, academic libraries collect the most types of content: 75% (9 of 12) institutions collect 8-10 types of media.
By comparison, in the 2012 ARL survey (which also had 62 respondents), all the percentages except GIS were lower, indicating a likely increase over the years; and the relative ranking among them was very similar. Only 69% (43) were collecting digital text; 85% (53) still images; 79% (49) audio, 68% (42) moving images and 77% (48) videos.71 Institutional websites were collected by 39% (24), other websites by 29% (18); databases by 34% (21), email by 37% (23); GIS by 31% (19); and executables by 23% (14).72
In the 2009 OCLC survey, the percentages were even lower:
55% photographs
47% audio
46% institutional archival records
45% video
44% other archives and manuscripts
36% publications and reports
27% web sites
15% serials
11% data sets73
Some of these categories differ from those gathered in our survey, but digital text has clearly increased in importance, and every corresponding category was gathered by a much larger percentage of our respondents.
We also asked what types of content respondent institutions did not collect. Email was the type least collected (48%, or 13 of 27 respondents), followed by executable files (30%, or 8). Websites and GIS data followed at 19% (5) and then databases at 15% (4). The highest numbers in this category correspond to the lowest numbers for the previous types of content collected question. Interestingly, social media content was avoided by only 1 respondent (4%), though it was not mentioned in the comments of the earlier question by any respondents as a genre commonly collected.
4.4 Target Formats
Of our total survey participants, 38.7% (24) answered the question about target file formats. Of those, 95.83% (23) provided information about text documents, 83.33% (20) about still images, 70.83% (17) about audio and spreadsheets, 58.33% (14) about video/moving images and only 29.17% (7) about databases. This may indicate that few in the field are tackling this difficult task.
Some comments clarified that certain formats were preferred, and other comments indicated that some target formats were for access only. One respondent qualified each entry by stating that their collection policies do not allow them to request specific formats, but then went on to identify which formats they strive to collect. In the "other" comments were an entry about MBOX for email and another about WordPress blog files for which appropriate formats had not yet been selected. A third "other" comment was: "We don't have target formats, we would only migrate through a rigorous format migration process inside our preservation system."
PDF/A was the clear leader for text documents, selected by 60.87% (14 of 23) as a target format. PDF and DOCX each came in at 39.13% (9), TXT at 34.78%, DOC at 26.09% (6), RTF and ODT at 13.04% (3), XML at 8.7% (2), and each of the following formats were selected by 1 respondent (4.35%): PPTX, ODP, TCT (TurboCAD drawings), FILE (openable with Microsoft Word in compatibility mode), and the original.
For still images, TIFF took the lead at 95% (19 of 20), followed by JPEG (45%, 9; 1 of these specified this is for access only); 20% (4) selected JPEG 2000; 15% (3) selected PNG; SVG and GIF were each selected by 10% (2), and JFIF, DNG and the original format were selected by 5% (1 person each).
WAV files are still the predominant archival target format for audio, selected by 70.59% (12 of 17); MP3 follows at 47.06% (8, though 2 respondents clarified these were just for access). AIFF and the original were each selected by 11.76% (2), and the following were selected by 5.88% (1): MIDI, WMA, MPEG-4 audio, FLAC, OGG, and RealAudio.
CSV is the preferred target format for spreadsheets (70.59%, 12 of 17 responses); only 29.41% (5) selected XLSX, 23.53% (4) selected TXT (1 specified ASCII); 17.65% (3) selected ODS, 11.76% (2) each selected PDF/A and the original, and XLS, TSV, and XML came in last at 5.88% each (1).
Of the 14 responders on moving images/video target file types, 57.14% (8) selected MPEG-4 encoding; 21.43% (3) selected MPEG-2 encoding and AVI and MOV containers; 14.29% (2) selected FFV1 encoding with Matroska containers (1 of these specified LPCM audio encoding); 14.29% also selected Motion JPEG 2000 (1 with MXF), MPEG encoding, and whatever form the original is in; and 7.14% (1 each) identified OGG, MFX wrapper, Digital Video file, and WMV.
Very few seem to be tackling databases. Of the 7 useful responses, 42.86% (3) selected CSV, TXT (1 ASCII), or the original format; 14.29% (1 each) selected SIARD text with DDL, ACCDB (Access Database 2007), DBF, MDB (Access Database 2003 and earlier), MS Access (unspecified years), XML, PDF/A and EBCDIC.
4.5 Content Identification
One of the first tasks when faced with incoming digital content is to examine what is there in order to build an inventory, identify duplicate files, and assess what types of material are present.
A wide range of tools were specified by 31 respondents as useful in identification of content, with Forensic Toolkit and BitCurator in the lead (29%, 9 and 26%, 8 respectively). In-house scripts and TreeSize were recommended by 16% (5); spreadsheets and DROID by 13% (4); QuickView Plus and Karen's Directory Printer by 10% (3); and 6% (2 each) recommended FITS, Data Accessioner, JHOVE, Exiftool and WinDirStat. Mentioned by 3% (1) were Total Commander, Vireo and Siegfried & Brunnhilde.
In describing workflows used for the identification of content, 24 of 34 participants (70.6%) indicated that they image disks of physical media, 2 specifying that they assess the image to determine if the entire image or only individual files are necessary for preservation. Creation of a file inventory was detailed by 35.3% (12); creation of an accession record or some other kind of reference record using metadata by 29.4% (10); extraction and transfer of files by 26.5% (9); and recognizing duplicate files by 14.7% (5). Surprisingly, few respondents described security and validation procedures in this stage of ingest: only 4 respondents mentioned write blocking media, only 2 said they generate file checksums or establish fixity, and just 1 mentioned performing a virus check of files. Of the total answers, 41.2% (14) indicated specific tools used to perform steps in the workflow — FTK (7), BitCurator (3), Data Accessioner (3), FITS (2) — and 11.8% (4) referenced in-house scripts.
In the 2013 Digital POWRR white paper, Data Accessioner was recommended for triage, to be used by institutions with no funding support.74 Three of our respondents found Data Accessioner to be useful in the identification workflows.
4.6 Content Analysis
After identification and building an inventory, some analysis of the content usually must precede selection by curators. This may include locating (and associating) all the versions of any particular file, documentation of where groups of file types are found, documenting sets of files and file structures that together comprise a single item (such as a database or software system), documenting which files are system files or known common software, documenting which files contain social security numbers, phone numbers and other potential privacy issues, how many of which file types are found, and more.
For analysis, spreadsheets and BitCurator were considered useful tools by 25% of the 24 respondents who answered this question. DROID and Forensic Toolkit were specified by 21% (5); bulk_extractor by 17% (4), and the following tools were listed as useful by 8% (2) each: IdentityFinder, Siegfried, TreeSize and Karen's Directory Printer.
Workflows for content analysis were explained by 16 participants, 7 (43.8%) of which include manual content analysis of some sort, while 2 stipulated that an archivist or specialist reviews content. Twenty-five percent (4) pinpointed personally identifiable information (PII) and used report and/or analysis functions of tools in this stage. Determining file type or format and the identification of normalization or migration targets each account for 18.8% (3) of answers. Checksum generation or fixity establishment, backup copying of files, and generating a directory tree or structure each appear in 12.5% (2) of responses. Additionally, 3 respondents stated that their workflow for content analysis is still in development.
4.7 Content Selection
Once initial analysis takes place, the difficult task of selection begins. This may include determining which of multiple versions of a file are the one(s) of interest; it may include isolating files of particular types which the donor has specified; and it may require sorting through many types of files in many directories. It's a daunting task for a large set of incoming content. Often during this stage some descriptive metadata is generated or collected to specify why particular files or directories should be retained.
When asked for the most useful tools for selection of digital content, 27% (4 of 15 respondents) used manual review. Collection policy and Forensic Toolkit (FTK) were listed by 20% each (3). Retention schedules, tools to locate personally identifiable information, and simple knowledge of collections were each specified as useful by 13% (2).
When asked whether collection policies at the host institution allow the respondent to select content to be preserved, 45.16% (28) of the 62 respondents did not answer. Of the remainder, 29.03% (18) answered "yes," 14.52% (9) selected "sometimes/under certain circumstances" and 11.29% (7) answered "no".
Details on workflows for content selection were provided by 14 respondents, and 35.7% (5) stated that selection was guided by donor agreements. Another 35.7% (5) indicated that selection is manual at their institutions (with 2 remarking that archivists perform selection), and policy and collection needs guided 21.4% (3) of respondents' selection activities. Content restrictions and excluding personally identifiable information (PII), creating a records schedule, and file transfer to external storage each account for 14.3% (2) of the answers for this workflow. It is worth noting that workflows for the middle two phases of ingest, content analysis and selection, require the most manual analysis work (both representing the greatest percentage of answers as opposed to less than 10% of answers for identification and processing), making these workflows the most subjective and least likely to be automated.
4.8 Content Extraction
When asked "do you preserve the original files (not on the original media)?" over half (51.61%, 32) of the 62 participants did not respond. Of those who did respond, 83.33% (25) said "yes;" and 16.67% (5) selected "sometimes/under certain circumstances." There were no negative responses. By comparison, in the 2012 ARL survey, only 77% (49) were ingesting records from legacy media.75 However, of our total number of survey participants, only 40% answered yes to this question, and only half of our survey respondents were from academic libraries. We contend that it is likely that academic research libraries are better equipped to ingest born digital content from a variety of legacy media.
When asked "do you migrate (or normalize) files?" again, over half (53.23%, 33) of our participants failed to respond. Of those who did answer the question, 48.28% (14) said "yes;" 41.38% (12) selected "sometimes/under certain circumstances;" and 10.34% (3) said "no." Only 2 respondents support emulation (1 in house); 36 respondents failed to answer this question, and 24 said "no." In the 2012 ARL survey, 8 of 57 respondents (14%) were actively building emulation systems, but only 1 out of 64 were providing access via emulation.76 Of our respondents, the only one who supports emulation in house qualified the response with: "Currently only in selective cases and mostly just for staff use, but we would like to expand use of emulation as an access method for end users (particularly for obsolete CAD and 3D modeling formats for which migration strategies are not particularly effective)."
The ultimate goal of processing is to make digital content accessible for both current and future users. A number of processing activities may occur to provide access points with current technology and to preserve digital content across generations of technology, including content migration, data normalization, and emulation implementation.
For processing, Archivematica was identified as useful by 23% (5) of the 22 respondents; Forensic Toolkit and Acrobat Pro followed at 18% (4). Spreadsheets, in-house software/scripts and Handbrake came in at 14% (3); Bulk Rename Utility, Microsoft Word and ffmeg at 9% (2). One respondent (5%) said Preservica is useful for processing.
Of the 16 participants who described their workflows for processing, the most (43.8%, or 7) stated that they transfer files to a repository or external storage in this phase. Normalization or migration of files takes place for 37.5% (6) respondents; creation of access copies 25% (4); and 18.8% (3) said the workflow for processing is still in development. Metadata generation or creation were specified by 31.3% (5). It is notable that this function only occurs in the first and last of our specified workflow phases: content identification and processing.
The 2013 Digital POWRR white paper recommended that institutions with some resources but no ability to add technical personnel use Preservica for processing; for institutions with technical staff who are able to take on extra work, Archivematica was recommended.77 Interestingly, only 1 of our respondents used Preservica, but 5 used Archivematica. This may indicate that the respondents to our survey had technical staff available for the additional work.
4.10 Metadata
Only 43.55% (27) of the 62 respondents answered the question about what types of technical metadata they capture. Of these, 92.59% (25) collect file date(s) and types, 88.89% (24) collect file sizes, and 85.19% (23) collect checksums. Original directory locations and file type versions were collected by 70.37% (19), creating software (and version) by 55.56% (15), associated files and structure of document by 40.74% (11), and only 29.63% (8) document the operating system type from which the files come. Endianness and appropriate technical standards based on file type (such as MIX and AES57) are only documented by 14.81% (4) of the respondents who answered this question.
Of the 23 responders to the question about what rights information they collect, 95.65% (22) collect access and use restrictions, 73.91% (17) collect copyright information, and 65.22% (15) collect intellectual property rights information. Over half document the rights to make copies and derivatives (56.52%, 13) and to obtain the rights to preserve and migrate content (52.17%, 12); 39.13% (9) obtain digitization permissions, and 34.78% (8) collect the rights to make representations and metadata. One of the respondents qualified the above by stating that "These questions are addressed at a high level for accessions as a whole, but rarely at a more granular level." Three of the participants who did not collect any of this information added explanations:
None [is collected] as the content belongs to the archives' mother organization
All of our content is in the public domain (government publications)
All our records are internal/institutional records so we own copyright
By comparison, the ARL survey did not specifically ask about what rights information is collected; instead their survey asked about whether a variety of rights-related issues was addressed by ingest policies or procedures. The most commonly addressed issue when setting policies was whether to retain or destroy personally identifiable information (PII), 71% (30 of 42 respondents); second was whether to preserve copyrighted content (48%, or 20 of 42).78
Other types of administrative metadata that our respondents collected included repository-generated information, provenance and donor information, acquisition/accession information, disposition, and notes of actions taken.
4.11 Organizing/Tracking
It is notable that 53% (10 of 19) of our respondents use spreadsheets as one of their primary tools to organize and track content; this seems to indicate that the processes are not advanced and embedded enough to have been transferred to databases or systems. Content management systems were listed by 26% (5) of the respondents, including ArchivesSpace (2), DSpace(1) and Omeka (1); 16% (3) used accession records, labels, databases or organization by collection and date to track content. Labeling tools mentioned included Forensic Toolkit and ePadd. Other tools mentioned included Bagit, Photo Mechanic, TreeSize Professional Reports, and Archivematica.
4.12 Providing Access
By far, the most common method of tracking rights information among our participants (77%, or 10 of 13 respondents) is to embed it in the metadata, whether that is the finding aid, an item-level description, or a catalog record. A single respondent tracks rights information only in a spreadsheet, and another only in an in-house database, and a third only in the deed of gift. Some respondents selected multiple tracking mechanisms, as was the case with the 2 respondents who mentioned accession records.
Of the 16 respondents who shared how they use rights information to control access, 44% (7) use manual processes, 31% (5) control access via the delivery system; 13% (2) simply do not, though 1 of them openly shares the rights metadata; 1 respondent just limits all access to in-house use, and 1 determines access based on user group (student or faculty member).
In the ARL survey, only 13% (8 of 63) provided open access of all born-digital materials; 83% (52) restricted some of the content, and 5% (3) restricted use to certain categories of users.79
Less than half the survey participants answered the questions about the granularity with which access is provided to incoming digital content in-house (26 out of 62). Of those, 65.38% (17) provide access at the item level, 46.15% (12) at the folder level, 23.08% (6) at the hard drive level, and 7.69% (2) provide access to the disk image. One of the respondents adds that they are currently building capacity to provide access to disk images; a second respondent states they are only receiving single files from departments across campus, so they've not needed disk images. Two respondents clarify that in-house access is only available to staff, who then try to fulfill patron requests. A fifth respondent clarified that some database records are available for content search online; some can be identified and downloaded from an online catalog; and other records can be ordered on removable media. Another respondent added that for them, a folder is usually considered a "collection."
Online access to incoming digital content has very similar picture. Of the 62 respondents, only 24 answered this question. Of those, 70.83% (17) provide online access at the item level, 50% (12) at the folder level, 41.67% (10) provide the directory structure; 20.83% (5) provide online access to the hard drive, and 8.33% (2) provide online access to disk images. Six of the respondents do not provide online access to incoming digital (though 1 makes exceptions for web archives), and a seventh states that most are under copyright, and thus are not available online. Another respondent clarifies that some records are available for download, but others are only available for record-level search and retrieval. One very helpful comment was this one: "In both reading room and online, access is given based on rights determined. We have four levels: online, three concurrent users online (for published material only), reading room only, or by permission only. Items are arranged to various levels of specificity and then delivered based on those arrangement and descriptive levels."
By comparison, in the 2009 OCLC survey, 40% of the born-digital holdings are described in archival collections, 29% are cataloged, and 34% have no records80; yet 40% of respondents provide access to their born-digital content even if unprocessed.81 How that access is provided (online, in house, or by request) was not included in that survey.
In the 2012 ARL survey, 66% (42 of 64) provided online access to born-digital content via a digital repository system; 28% (18) via a third-party access & delivery system; 23% (15) via a file space; only 2% (1 respondent) provided online access via emulation.82 In-library access via a dedicated computer workstation was provided by 48% (31); 34% (22) using portable media and the user's personal computer; 2% (1) via emulation; and fully 20% (13) did not provide any access to born digital materials, either in-house or online.83
4.13 Participant Recommendations
When asked for general recommendations for other institutions that are just beginning to collect digital content, 25% (5 of 20) suggested developing policies and procedures first; 20% stated that planning, identifying target formats, selecting metadata and learning tools were critical. Documentation, connecting with professional communities, determining what works in your situation, and "just do it!" were mentioned by 15% (3); and 10% (2) focused on training & learning, making copies, using open source and starting small before attempting larger challenges.
5 Conclusions
This survey has clarified that processes, workflows, and policies are still very much in development across multiple institutions. Variations in the levels of resources and technical expertise may be accountable for much of the range exposed by this survey. The drop in respondents from the beginning of the survey (62) to the end (20) may indicate survey fatigue, but likely also reflects that many respondents may not yet have developed more than initial steps in content intake. While all 62 answered the question about what types of content they collect, only 24 answered the next question about target formats. The tools used for content identification were specified by 31 respondents; 24 answered questions about content analysis; but only 15 answered questions about selection. The number of respondents jumped to 22 for processing questions and 23 for rights information collected; however, only 13 answered how rights information is tracked, and of those, the primary method is to embed it in metadata. Only 26 of the 62 respondents spoke to granularity of in-house access, and 24 to online access. It is quite possible that over half of the survey respondents have not yet developed any policies or procedures for access to the collected digital content.
Still, some highlights are clear: the amount of digital content being collected is increasing, and the top target formats are TIFF, WAV, PDF/A, MPEG-4 and CSV or TXT. Few are able to extract content from older and more obscure media, and email and executable programs are the least collected content types. The top technical metadata collected are file dates, file type, size, and checksums. Analysis and selection are primarily manual processes, and spreadsheets are widely used to organize and track content. Forensic Toolkit and BitCurator are the lead tools for identification; and Archivematica, Forensic Toolkit and Adobe Acrobat Pro are most useful for processing.
Notably, most of the tools identified in our survey are open source. Similarly, in the 2012 ARL survey, 74% (31 of 42 respondents) use open source tools; 50% (21) stated they use commercial tools for digital processing; 43% (18) use home-grown tools, and 29% (12) use outsourced services such as Archive-It.84
Use of database calls to restrict online access based on rights and permissions is thus far a rarity. Access methods are still focused primarily on the item level, and few are engaged in emulation. It will be interesting to see how this changes as the flood of incoming digital content continues to grow, and the possibilities of emulation as an online service85 expand.
It seems clear that the development of best practices for the intake and management of digital content is still in its infancy. In the hopes that the information gathered will begin to lay the groundwork for the development of best practices and guidelines for others in the field, we are sharing the results of this survey widely, engaging practitioners in the field in multiple conference venues.86 Results from this survey have been used to seed a framework built on the AIMS87 methodology, and practitioners across archives, libraries, and special collections are invited to assist in building upon this online resource88, which was announced at the Digital Library Federation forum in November 2016. By sharing our experiences across the community, we can develop a living online resource of what works with what materials, and how best to manage the difficult challenges of the intake and curation of digital content.
1 Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR), "Category:Tools". Last modified October 24, 2013.
2 Susan Lazinger, Digital Preservation and Metadata: History, Theory and Practice (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001).
3 Edward M. Corrado and Heather Lea Moulaison, Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives & Museums (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
4 Arjun Sabharwal, Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities: Preserving and promoting archival and special collections, Chandos Information Professional Series (Waltham, MA: Elsevier, 2015).
5 Digital Curation Centre, "DCC Curation Lifecycle Model". Last modified 2016.
6 Ross Harvey, Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual, How-To-Do-It Manuals: Number 170 (New York: Neal Schuman, 2010).
7 Matthey G. Kirschenbaum, Richard Ovenden, Gabriella Redwine and Rachel Donahue, Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, December 2010).
8 Digital Preservation Coalition, "Digital Preservation Handbook" 2nd Edition. Last modified 2015.
9 "Let's Solve the File Format Problem!". Last modified July 14, 2016.
10 "Digital Preservation Q&A". Last modified June 23, 2016.
11 Christopher A. Lee, Kam Woods, Matthew Kirschenbaum and Alexandra Cassanoff, "From Bitstreams to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics into Practice in Collecting Institutions". BitCurator Project, September 30, 2013.
12 Geoffrey Brown and Kam Woods, "Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents", The International Journal of Digital Curation,1:6 (2011). http://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i1.168
13 Gregory Wiedeman, "Practical Digital Forensics at Accession for Born-Digital Institutional Records", Code4Lib Journal 31 (2016-01-28).
14 Andrew James Weidner and Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, "Workflow Tools for Digital Curation", Code4Lib Journal 20 (2013-04-17),
15 Katharine Dunn and Nick Szydlowski, "Web Archiving for the Rest of Us: How to Collect and Manage Websites Using Free and Easy Software," Computers In Libraries 29:8 (September 2009), 12-18.
16 Laura Wilsey, Rebecca Skirvin, Peter Chan and Glynn Edwards, "Capturing and Processing Born-Digital Files in the STOP AIDS Project Records: A Case Study", Journal of Western Archives 4:1 (2013), 1-22.
17 John Durno and Jerry Trofimchuk, "Digital forensics on a shoestring: a case study from the University of Victoria", Code4Lib Journal 27 (2015-01-21).
18 Digital POWRR, "Tool Grid". Last modified April 9, 2013.
19 Jaime Schumacher, Lynne M. Thomas, and Drew VandeCreek, "From Theory to Action: 'Good Enough' Digital Preservation Solutions for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions", August 2014.
20 Timothy Arnold and Walker Sampson, "Preserving the Voices of Revolution: Examining the Creation and Preservation of a Subject-Centered Collection of Tweets from the Eighteen Days in Egypt", The American Archivist, 77:2 (Fall/Winter 2014), 510-533. http://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.77.2.794404552m67024n
21 Amanda A. Hurford and Carolyn F. Runyon, "New Workflows for Born-Digital Assets", Computers in Libraries (January/February 2011), 6-40.
22 Karen Schmidt, Wendy Allen Shelburne and David Steven Vess, "Approaches to Selection, Access, and Collection Development in the Web World: A Case Study with Fugitive Literature", Library Resources & Technical Services 52:3 (2008), 184-191.
23 Sumitra Duncan, "Preserving born-digital catalogues raisonnés: Web archiving at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)", Art Libraries Journal, 40:2 (2015), 50-55.
24 Laura Capell, "Building the Foundation: Creating an Electronic-Records Program at the University of Miami", Computers In Libraries (November 2015), 28-32.
25 Joseph A. Williams and Elizabeth M. Berilla, "Minutes, Migration, and Migraines: Establishing a Digital Archives at a Small Institution", The American Archivist 78:1 (Spring/Summer2015), 84-95. http://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081.78.1.84
26 Daniel Noonan and Tamar Chute, "Data Curation and the University Archives", The American Archivist 77:1 (Spring/Summer 2014), 201-240. http://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.77.1.m49r46526847g587
27 Chris Frisz, Geoffrey Brown and Samuel Waggoner, "Assessing Migration Risk for Scientific Data Formats", The International Journal of Digital Curation, 7:1 (2012), 27-38. http://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v7i1.212
28 Jinfang Niu, "Appraisal and Custody of Electronic Records: Findings from Four National Archives", Archival Issues 34:2 (2012).
29 Jinfang Niu, "Appraisal and Selection for Digital Curation", International Journal of Digital Curation 9:2 (2014), 65-82. http://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i2.272
30 Ibid, 71-73.
31 University of Minnesota Libraries, "Electronic Records Task Force Final Report". Last modified September 11, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11299/174097
32 Ibid, 19.
34 Ibid, 4.
37 Elizabeth Charlton, "Working with legacy media: A lone arranger's first steps", Practical Technology for Archives, 6 (June 2016).
38 Sunitha Misra, Christopher A. Lee and Kam Woods, "A Web Service for File-Level Access to Disk Images", Code4Lib Journal 25 (2014-07-21).
39 Leigh Garrett, Marie-Therese Gramstadt and Carlos Silva, "Here, KAPTUR This! Identifying and Selecting the Infrastructure Required to Support the Curation and Preservation of Visual Arts Research Data", The International Journal of Digital Curation 8:2 (2013), 68-88. http://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v8i2.273
40 Dianne Dietrich, Julia Kim, Morgan McKeehan, and Alison Rhonemus, "How to Party Like it's 1999: Emulation for Everyone", Code4Lib Journal 32 (2016-04-25).
41 Sherry L. Xie, "Building Foundations for Digital Records Forensics: A Comparative Study of the Concept of Reproduction in Digital Records Management and Digital Forensics", The American Archivist, 74 (Fall/Winter 2011), 576-599. http://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.74.2.e088666710692t3k
42 Ben Goldman, "Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories", RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 12:8 (2011), 11-24.
43 OCLC Research, "Demystifying Born Digital Reports". Last modified 2016.
44 Ricky Erway, "You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media", OCLC Research (2012).
45 Julianna Barrera-Gomez and Ricky Erway, "Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house", OCLC Research (2013).
46 AIMS Work Group, "AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship", (2012).
50 Ibid, 120-136.
53 DuraSpace Project, "Hypatia". Last modified August 15, 2013.
54 Amanda Kay Rinehart and Patrice-Andre Prud'homme, "Overwhelmed to action: digital preservation challenges at the under-resourced institution", OCLC Systems and Services 30:1 (2014), 28-42. http://doi.org/10.1108/OCLC-06-2013-0019
55 Bernadette Houghton, "Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age", D-Lib Magazine, 22:7/8 (July/August 2016). http://doi.org/10.1045/july2016-houghton
56 Digital POWRR, "Preserving Digital Objects With Restricted Resources," last modified January 6, 2016.
57 Jaime Schumacher and Drew VandeCreek, "Intellectual Capital at Risk: Data Management Practices and Data Loss by Faculty Members at Five American Universities", International Journal of Digital Curation, 10:2 (2015), 96-109. http://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v10i2.321
58 Jackie M. Dooley and Katherine Luce, "Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives", OCLC Research. Last modified January 28, 2011.
60 Naomi Nelson, Seth Shaw, Nancy Deromedi, Michael Shallcross, Cynthia Ghering, Lisa Schmidt, Michelle Belden, Jacki R. Esposito, Ben Goldman, and Tim Pyatt, "SPEC Kit 329: Managing Born-Digital Special Collections and Archival Materials" (Washington DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2012).
61 Jody DeRidder, "First Aid Training for Those on the Front Lines: Digital Preservation Needs Survey Results 2012", Information Technology and Libraries (June 2013), 18-28. http://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v32i2.3123
62 Greg Palumbo, Smithsonian Institution Archives, "Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian", The Bigger Picture: Exploring Archives and Smithsonian History Blog, September 13, 2012.
63 Greg Palumbo, Smithsonian Institution Archives, "The End of the Beginning: A Born Digital Survey at the Smithsonian Institution," The Bigger Picture: Exploring Archives and Smithsonian History Blog, April 30, 2013.
64 Allana Mayer, "Survey about Born-Digital Collections in Canadian archives", Librarianship.ca Blog, November 3, 2015.
65 Allana Mayer, "An Annual Survey Towards a Collaborative Digital Preservation Strategy for Canada" (paper presented at the 2015 Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan, June 11-13, 2015).
66 Allana Mayer, email correspondence with author, July 12, 2016.
67 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), "Share your digital heritage strategy with the UNESCO-PERSIST project", Communication & Information Blog, January 20, 2015.
68 Wilbert Helmus, UNESCO-PERSIST Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information Society Transglobally, "Survey on selection and collecting strategies of born digital heritage — best practices and guidelines". Final version March 30, 2015.
69 Greg Palumbo, "The End of the Beginning."
71 Naomi Nelson et al., "SPEC Kit 329," 29.
73 Dooley and Luce, "Taking Our Pulse", 59.
74 Digital POWRR, "From Theory to Action", p.13.
75 Naomi Nelson et al., "SPEC Kit 329", 34.
76 Ibid, 35, 71.
77 Schumacher et al., "From Theory to Action", 13.
85 bwFLA, "Legacy Environments at Your Fingertips: Emulation as a Service". Last modified date unknown.
86 Jody DeRidder and Alissa Helms, "Practical Options for Incoming Digital Content" (paper presented at the COSA/SAA Archives * Records 2016 Conference in Atlanta, GA, August 2-7, 2016); "Practical Options for Incoming Digital Content (paper presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Milwaukee, WI, November 7-9, 2016); "What Works and What Doesn't? Developing Guidelines for Incoming Digital Content" (paper presented at the Digital Preservation 2016 Conference in Milwaukee, WI, November 9-10, 2016).
87 AIMS Work Group, "AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship".
88 Jody DeRidder and Alissa Matheny Helms, "Incoming Digital Content Management". (Open Science Framework project). Last modified November 3, 2016.
Digital Content Intake Survey
Survey by Alissa Helms and Jody DeRidder, University of Alabama Libraries, Spring 2016
MATERIALS & CONTENT
Which of the following types of digital content does organization currently collect?
Audio recordings (including podcasts)
Moving images, videos
Texts (such as unstructured office documents)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Data
Executable files (software)
What kinds of digital content do you NOT collect, and why?
What forms of obsolete media are you prepared to obtain content from?
Floppy discs (3.5 inch)
Floppy discs (5.25 inch)
Floppy discs (8 inch)
Zip discs
Old hard drives (Mac)
Old hard drives (Windows)
Old hard drives (*nix)
Hard disk drives (sizes other than 2.5 or 3.5 inch)
Identification. One of the first tasks when faced with incoming digital content is to examine what is there in order to build an inventory, identify duplicate files, and assess what types of material are present. We consider this the "identification" stage.
What tools do you find useful for this process?
What tools have you tried that were not useful, and why?
What is your process or workflow for this aspect of digital content intake?
Analysis. After identification and building an inventory, some analysis of the content usually must precede selection by curators. This may include locating (and associating) all the versions of any particular file, documentation of where groups of file types are found, documenting sets of files and file structures that together comprise a single item (such as a database or software system), documenting which files are system files or known common software, documenting which files contain social security numbers, phone numbers and other potential privacy issues, how many of which file types are found, and more.
Selection. Once initial analysis takes place, the difficult task of selection begins. This may include determining which of multiple versions of a file are the one(s) of interest; it may include isolating files of particular types which the donor has specified; and it may require sorting through many types of files in many directories. It's a daunting task for a large set of incoming content. Often during this stage some descriptive metadata is generated or collected to specify why particular files or directories should be retained.
Processing. The ultimate goal of processing is to make digital content accessible for both current and future users. A number of processing activities may occur to provide access points with current technology and to preserve digital content across generations of technology, including content migration, data normalization, and emulation implementation.
Do you preserve the original files (not on the original media)?
Do you migrate (or normalize) files?
If so, what are your target archival formats for the following types of materials:
Text?
Images?
Audio?
Moving images/video?
Databases?
Spreadsheets?
Other?
How do you track and organize content? Please share information about your workflows and any tools you have found helpful.
PRESERVATION METADATA
What types of technical metadata do you capture?
Checksums
File sizes
File date(s)
Structure of document
File type version
Creating software (and version)
Appropriate standards based on file type (such as MIX, AES57, etc.)
What types of rights information do you collect for your incoming digital content?
Access and use restrictions
Digitization permissions
Rights to make copies and derivatives
Rights to preserve and migrate
Rights to make representations and metadata
How do you track rights information? (Example: Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), METS rights language, etc.)
What other types of administrative metadata do you collect?
How is your rights metadata used to control access? (Example: database entries queried upon clicking on item link, content organized according to access restrictions, etc.)
At what level of granularity do you provide in-house access? (at the disk image, hard drive, directory structure, folder, or item level?)
At what level of granularity do you provide online access? (at the disk image, hard drive, directory structure, folder, or item level?)
Do you provide emulation of the original access method?
Yes: in house
Yes: via online emulation services such as https://olivearchive.org or http://bw-fla.uni-freiburg.de/
Yes: other _____________
What recommendations do you have for other institutions that are just beginning to collect digital content?
Do you have other suggestions or comments about what has worked for you, and what has not? If you are willing to be contacted with follow-up questions, please provide your email address. This information is confidential and will not be published or associated with your responses in any publication or presentation.
Jody L. DeRidder is the Head of Metadata & Digital Services at the University of Alabama Libraries and a co-founder of the DLF Assessment Interest Group. She holds an MSIS and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee.
Alissa Matheny Helms is the Digital Access Coordinator at the University of Alabama Libraries, where she works to improve access to digitized materials from the University's Special Collections and enhance policies and procedures regarding the intake of born digital content. She received her MLIS from the University of Alabama.
(On February 22, 2017, the spelling of the author's name in references 64, 65 and 66 was changed from Alana Mayer to Allana Mayer. Additionally, reference 65 was corrected to state that the paper was presented at the 2015 Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference, not the 2016 Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference.)
(On January 4, 2017, the sentence, "Very few seem to be tackling databases. Of the 7 useful responses, 28.57% (2) selected CSV, TXT (1 ASCII), or the original format; 14.29% (1 each) selected SIARD text with DDL, ACCDB (Access Database 2007), DBF, MDB (Access Database 2003 and earlier), MS Access (unspecified years), XML, CSV, PDF/A and EBCDIC." was corrected to say, "Very few seem to be tackling databases. Of the 7 useful responses, 42.86% (3) selected CSV, TXT (1 ASCII), or the original format; 14.29% (1 each) selected SIARD text with DDL, ACCDB (Access Database 2007), DBF, MDB (Access Database 2003 and earlier), MS Access (unspecified years), XML, PDF/A and EBCDIC.")
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Regular Cast
Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor), Richard Eifyn (SPUDS Officer), Maria McClurg (Motion Capture Performance)
Written by Victoria Asare-Archer
Directed by Mathias Chelebour
Produced by Matthew Rogers, Alex Mercer
sypnosis
the Thirteenth Doctor takes you, the Player, on an adventure to return an alien creature named Volta back to his home planet and parents..
The Player wakes up inside the TARDIS and is greeted by the Thirteenth Doctor, who scans you with her sonic screwdriver, saying you got caught in a “flying alien versus space vehicle accident” and twisted your ankle, knee and got a bruised hip, and proceeds to tell you to stay calm and still.
Saying that, in fact, they should ALL stay calm and turns on some music[statement unclear], but quickly turns it off as it is rock music. She does acknowledge she generally “love[s] the track, [as it’s] great for cardio”. She next tries another track, but finds out it’s pop music. Finally, The Doctor tries a third one. This time, it’s relaxing mood music, and The Doctor says she can feel both hearts slowing down.
She then introduce you to Volta, and Engarian entity made of pure energy that can explode when stressed and turn into a black hole, unless he is back in his own galaxy. She has built a machine to help it stay calm. She then gives Volta a very mild tell-off for running away from home to discover and tells him that his parents are worried sick, until they are attacked by the Special Positron Undercover Death Squad, a unit who specializes in hunting down and destroying whatever threatens the very stability of the universe.
They start searching the TARDIS for instabilities and clears The Doctor and you but finds Volta volatile and announce a strict violation of Code 27592KJGD9 and ask nicely to hand over all explosive items onboard or else the TARDIS and all its content would be destroyed, giving her 30 seconds to comply.
As the seconds go, The Doctor tells you they need to get away and gives you her sonic, connecting it to a steering map so you can fly the TARDIS while she tries to calm down Volta.
As you steer the TARDIS through a junk field the SPUD Squad tries to stop you from escaping and calls for assistance.
As the TARDIS continues to hurtle through space, the Squad offers you a final chance. However, they end up having to use stasis clamps to stop you, so close to the Engarian home planet. As the emergency power in the TARDIS turns on, the Squad prepares for destruction as The Doctor finds a headlight. She tries to start the TARDIS to no avail as the Squad counts down.
She then finds a box of puppetry from an old acquaintance that you can try calming Volta with. As you do that, The Doctor tries to fix the circuits of the TARDIS. She then sends out an electro-magnetic pulse and starts up the TARDIS to find them in the Engarians’ galaxy, next to the planet.
However, she realises that the EMP has triggered Volta’s stress instability and he grows bigger, then miniaturizes into a bright ball and explodes into a black hole that sucks everything in.
As The Doctor holds on to the console she tells you to transfer the electro-magnetic energy into the time rotor by using the sonic. As it doesn’t work, The Doctor slams the machine holding Volta, which eventually sends Volta hurtling towards the wall and returning to his own form.
He then flies around the TARDIS, thanking The Doctor and you for helping as his parents turns up to pick him up.
The Doctor then congratulates you and prepares to send you back to Earth, but stops and ask you if you are ready for another trip.
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And so it all comes to a close
The storm calls..
Anyone else slightly devastated to be partly responsible for the coming total closure of GR? I kinda miss all the old crew right now ._.
...even Shadar
Rythgen says:
"arg! i would defend myself but my massive schlong prevents me from moving!"
The current rune bearer is Jinn the Hydra, who is located very far away to the northeast at a hot shaft.
For twenty years now we're run Skotos as a single game service, but Christopher and I are both moving on to other things. As a result, we have decided to split up the Skotos game service, to allow the individual games to truly be controlled by the players.
To be precise: we plan to split off Castle Marrach, Ironclaw Online, The Eternal City, and probably The Lazarus Project in this way. We will unfortunately be shutting down Lovecraft Country and Monsters! Monsters!: Grendel's Revenge, as they've fizzled out over time. We expect to shutdown those two games in the next month or so, while the more comprehensive split will happen in the next 5-9 months: perhaps as early as November, but definitely no later than the end of March.
From Shannon in the main Skotos forum
Catobelpas
Live to win.
Really unfortunate, but I knew it was coming. Also, I wouldn't hold any of the people who just stopped playing due to boredom or a busy life responsible.
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CornFed
I regularly check in to the forums to see if anything is going on. I am going to miss the game... in it's prime, the game was amazing. Mostly due to the people!
“Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead.” Twitter @tyrantbain
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It really was! I 100% owe my mad typing skills to this game it’s pretty sad that it fell by the wayside like it did
Zetsu
Lol. Lolol. Lololol.
Decided to check up on the forums like I always do and found this sad news. Although I already expected this to happen.
I want to thank everyone who I played with almost 20 years ago. (Didn't realize it was that long).
Toasty, ColdFire, Usuichii, Lurekus, Bane, Chasm, Exodias, Kaoslace, Annu, Hecate, Netze, Malice, Slardar, Cedextra, Dvea, Rythgen, Kitiy, AND many more that I can't remember at this time!
Thanks for the fun memories!
- Zetsu
- Remember(The Lich)
Keep in touch guys!
<Usuichii the Vampire grumbles: [Still there, or be ye a ghost?]>
<Usuichii the Vampire grumbles: [Or worse, Zetsu?]>
fiendish_thingy
Ethically Challenged
I was 15 when I stumbled upon GR. Things were not okay at home. The game and community has provided an escape for which I will be forever grateful.
Thank you to all who knew me through some of the cringiest years of my adolescence and still like me for some reason, lol.
I'm sure we've all gone through a lot of changes since GR's peak. It would be nice to catch up and reintroduce ourselves somehow.
Originally posted by Rythgen
Fiendy could witstomp you into oblivion.
<Vyshka the Wyvern grumbles: {Hecate wins the internet. Forever.}>
Anuu
The Archivist
I'm really going to miss this game. It was fun while it lasted. hopefully they can archive some of the forums so we can go back and remember the good times.
Really going to miss playing Anuu My website will be still be up I guess, https://uthgolarchives.webs.com .
Originally posted by Usuichii
Anuu, Master of Scrolls. All of them.
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Originally posted by fiendish_thingy View Post
Keep in touch, guys. You can find me on steam
https://steamcommunity.com/id/axtian
We have a steam group too, https://steamcommunity.com/groups/uthgol. Several of us are already in it.
Originally posted by Zetsu View Post
I just now changed my name on Steam to make the account easier to recognize for anyone that wants to add me/those that were already added and maybe forgot who the account belonged to https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198076209705/
Feels like a very "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" kind of shutdown, but hey. Good times and good memories. Glad I came back for a little bit before everything went away, but will be weird not to have the ability to fire up GR every so often when I feel like killing some time/uglies. Surreal to think this game has been of some significance in my life for over a decade. Thanks for all the memories, y'all.
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Smarmy
The Sneak!
I loved playing Smarmy. She was an expression of my alter-ego merged with some lunacy and an infantile outlook. I also played Korky, Scoundrel, Saffire, Yelpi, and a few other lesser characters. I tried. And tried, and tried. Then the game finally collapsed. I played for the interactions with other players, and my love of creating things (Korky, Yelpi, Saffire, and Scoundrel). I will miss so many of you players who have crossed my path in this game, especially Kava, Levidium and Cedextra. I sit not knowing what to do with my GR gametime. Sad, but expected. This could have been an epic game, if only the powers that controlled it would have invested some attention in it.
Originally posted by Fangor View Post
Feels like a very "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" kind of shutdown
Rest in Pieces of game-code, GR.
SMARMY the GIANT
I will be playing until the end, if anyone wants to come cause mayhem with Smarmy. Also, if anyone in Scoundrel's lair has anything in their personal room (magical items) that they want retrieved before the lair collapses, let me know and I can have Korky go get it with you, to disarm the traps along the way. No judgement on getting items before the game goes down. It's nostalgic.
DrakeWurrum
Yeah... it's been a long time since I really played the game, though there was regularly that thought in my head: "Maybe I should log back in on Nads again?"
Nadriel the Hydra, Coranth the Wyvern... a couple dozen other lesser characters that never really panned out. It's where I picked up my love of actual roleplaying, though I don't really seriously roleplay that hard these days. Too busy working!
I don't think I really played the game in its prime, because I remember hearing about events that had happened from before I'd played, but still... GR was a big part of my life, and I hate to see it go.
Because it's where I met my wife. For those curious, Kitiy and I live together now. TECHNICALLY not married, but might remedy that next year...
Maybe I really will log in, just wander around for a bit... Shame I never did put in the effort to reach T7, but by the time it was even possible for me to reach it, the game was already fizzling out. At some point I remember Artair was wanting to offer me Rakshasa, but by then I'd stopped playing and wasn't particularly interested in returning since nobody really played the game anymore.
And it would mean de-tiering and re-tiering over to Basilisk, when I already needed so much grinding to hit the level requirement for T7 (assuming I had it right back then, but I don't remember what it is now).
I think I'll just say I was happy as a Hydra. It was fun to RP, and if I'd really put effort into it, I could have mastered having three attacks and Haste to spam all three of them for the themed fun of being a Hydra. If I had changed to any other WM tier, I would have missed the extra heads.
I'd love to see GR rebooted with a fresh game world, supported by a dev to keep events and stories going. Maybe revamped game systems, or at least robust help files...
Hell, if 20-40 people were committed to playing GR, I'd totally try to play it at least on weekends again!
Because what really killed it for me was that nobody was around. It's hard to care about being a better Hydra when there's nobody around to fight.
Current Monster: Nadriel the Hydra
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Last night we saw worlds collide at the Rio Paralympic Summer Games opening ceremony as U.S. paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy performed an amazing dance wearing a stunning 3D printed dress designed by none other than Danit Peleg, one of our favorite 3D printed fashion designers. The dance, which Purdy performed with an industrial robot named KUKA, was meant to explore the relationship between humans and technology, a fitting theme, especially for the Paralympic Games.
36-year-old Purdy, who won second place on ABC’s 18th season of Dancing with the Stars, contracted a form of bacterial meningitis at the age of 19, which resulted in the loss of both her legs. The disability did not stop her, however, as she began snowboarding again just 7 months after receiving her prosthetic legs. Now, nearly two decades later, the athlete has achieved more than most and even took home a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games. It is no wonder then, that she was enlisted to help ring in the 2016 Rio games with an unforgettable performance.
Israeli fashion designer Danit Peleg, for her part, was touched by Purdy’s life story and drew inspiration from it for her dress design, which was entirely made using a desktop 3D printer. As the designer explains, Purdy’s story recalled that of rebirth and so took her aesthetic inspiration for the dress from Botticelli’s famous The Birth of Venus painting. That is, the dress’ diamond patterns evoke the painting’s composition (seen below), and the nude color is meant to reflect Venus’ own naked body.
“I loved the idea of creating a dress for Amy Purdy, a beautifully strong woman who is also a double-leg amputee,” says Peleg on her blog. “With an incredibly strong character and the help of technology Amy can walk, become a Paralympic medalist, dance with the stars, and now dance at this incredibly moving ceremony!”
The dress itself was 3D printed out of the soft and almost lacelike FilaFlex filament, which Peleg hoped would allow for the athlete to move around freely on the stage, flowing with her graceful dance moves. Like Peleg’s other garments, the dress was printed using a desktop 3D printer and took about 120 hours to print. The 3D printer Peleg used was the latest version of the Witbox 3D printer, and the dress itself was modeled using Accumark and Blender.
Purdy said of dancing with the 3D printed dress: “For being such an architectural piece, it actually has a lot of movement. After this it should hang in a museum.” The athlete also mentioned that she thinks the potentials for 3D printed fashion are vast, especially as materials continue to be developed and improved. “I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3D printed clothing. I’ve been telling Danit it would be perfect on a red carpet or for the Met Ball—but I would beed an invite first,” she added.
Danit Peleg, who we wrote about last year for her stunning and fully 3D printed ready-to-wear collection, said that the dress is part of her latest collection. As she says on her blog, “As I was working on [Purdy’s] dress, I was so inspired by this segment that I decided to expand on the dress to a full collection of 5 looks.” This new collection will reportedly be unveiled within the next few weeks.
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No Rest for the Weary - Hawks Enter Final Week
By Jim Crago
With the Western Conference all wrapped up, and the President's Trophy (award given for best overall record in the league; includes home-ice advantage in Cup Final) within grasp, the Hawks find themselves looking back on a season in which pretty much everything went right. It's hard to believe that nearly three months ago to the day, Joel Quenneville's squad was taking to the ice for the first time in what otherwise appeared to be another lost season due to a lockout.
Cooler heads prevailed, and now the Hawks have the most points (73), the second most goals scored (146) and the least amount of goals against (94) in the entire league. The awards and accolades are all great, and obtaining the President's Trophy would be a great honor, but one question arises in this and every sport: is it best to rest your top players, or do you keep riding into the playoffs with momentum?
"We put ourselves in good position, but at the same time I think all of us still love competing," Hart Memorial Trophy candidate Patrick Kane said. "We're just trying to get better as a team and feel as best as we can going into the playoff run."
And who would know better than Kane, who, coming into this season, played overseas for EHC Biel of the Swiss league, and has looked as fresh and sharp as anyone in the NHL. So fatigue isn't an issue, at least yet, for the younger legs, but current injuries remain a question.
It's possible that Patrick Sharp (upper-body injury) might make an appearance before the playoffs begin. Not to mention, Ray Emery (lower-body injury) could make a start between the pipes before the season comes to an end this coming Saturday in St. Louis, but it's too early to tell. It's fortunate, however, that neither have the severity of what ails the Bulls' Derrick Rose (inside-his-head injury).
It's safe to say that injured players will take their time before coming back; it's a luxury for Quenneville and staff by being the best regular-season team through 44 of 48 games. The rest of the team will look to finish out the final four games of the season, with the potential of shaved minutes to preserve energy and limit freak injuries en route to the playoffs.
And while the President's Trophy would look nice in the United Center collection of hardware, Hawks' fans remember all too well the last and only time the team captured the league's best record: the 1990-91 season with 106 points and a first-round loss to the hated Minnesota North Stars. Not to mention last year's President's Trophy winner, and tonight's opponent for the Hawks, the Vancouver Canucks, took home the hardware only to lose to the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Kings.
"It's a cool thing that people talk about, but they won't talk about it very long," Captain Jonathan Toews said of the trophy. "It's not that important."
This from a guy who stuck with tradition (rather, superstition) and refused to hold the Clarence Campbell Bowl after smoking the Sharks in the 2010 Western Conference Finals.
If all pistons are firing, this team should cruise through to at least the Western Conference Finals, and then, hopefully, to bring the Stanley Cup home again. As long as focus isn't lost, weary legs shouldn't be an issue.
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What follows is an essay by a commenter on Gates of Vienna named Kierkegaard. He submitted it originally in a somewhat different form. After several exchanges, perhaps this final collaboration will serve to convey the meaning he intended. If it does not he is, of course, free to excoriate this editor in the comments. At any rate, it grows late and Hallowe'en will soon be over so this has to be posted in its present state.
Tonight marks the culmination of the celebration of Ramadan in the 'Night of Power', the holiest night of the year in the Muslim calendar. It also happens to fall on the same night as Hallowe'en. For Muslims, it is a sacred commemoration of the moment when Allah first spoke to the Prophet Muhammed. For Westerners, secular and Christian alike, it is 'All Hallows' (or Sainted Souls') Eve', when the dead walked the earth, before all the Saints rose to rout them with the dawn. This, of course, was originally a pagan autumnal festival, called 'Samhain' in Celtic tradition, long since co-opted by the Christian Church--just as Ramadan has its roots in a similar neolithic past.
If there actually are any traditional, old-fashioned Christians with a sense of history still practicing today, what significance might they attach to this confluence of holidays?
Let us consider for a moment the humble church-tower bell, so beloved by Lord Peter Wimsey in The Nine Tailors. In the Tolkien-like village life of our ancestors these bells served as a warning siren, a time-piece, a reassurance that all was well in the world, and a reminder to pray. To fear or flee the bells was in itself considered a sure sign of possession by a demon. Bell-ringing began as a church-approved technique of driving evil spirits away -- human voices, raised in song, were considered insufficiently noisy for the task.
And that brings us to the recent attacks on Christian Coptic churches in Egypt. The mobs with their rocks were following the ancient Muslim tradition which hatred of church bells.
The origins of Islam are enshrouded, to some degree, in a mystery enforced by Islam itself. Over the centuries, the version of the sacred texts or 'suras' on which the Quran is based has become limited, in the Sunni world, to a paltry few based on the work of 'approved' scribes. This approval has come about, not through scholarship or debate, but rather through violent enforcement (the codification of the Christian New Testament was not a process of polite disagreement either. However, it has some been centuries since any scholar — i.e., “heretic” — was murdered by the state or the Church for debating, analyzing or studying the Gospels).
Muslims believe that their prophet Muhammed received their sacred texts (suras) directly from God. Or rather, they believe that Allah received them, whole and intact, through the agency of the Archangel Gabriel. Armed with the sacred word, Mohammed then set out to convert the polytheistic tribesmen of the desert, later bringing his received truth to cities such as Mecca and Medina, where some received it gratefully and others, as the result of their 'apostasy', had to be put to the sword.
The historical problems with this sequence of events, of course, are manifold, and explains in part why the Saudi government immediately bulldozes over any new archaeological sites discovered in those cities. Here are some of the obstacles history places in front of present-day Muslims:
Problem One: Allah (the Hebrew 'El') was the chief god of this pagan pantheon, not a monotheistic new-comer (neither was Yahweh to the Jews).
Problem Two: many of the citizens of the areas conquered by Muhammed were not pagans, but were either Jewish or Greek Orthodox Christians.
Problem Three: to become an apostate, there must first exist a religion that can be betrayed and Islam is by far the youngest of the world's 'major' religions.
Problem Four: recent scholarship in Germany suggests that some of these original suras of Islam, far from 'bypassing' versions of 'pro-Semitic' myth (as for example in the Muslim version of Genesis), were in fact taken from Syriac Christian scripture. Islam has a way of obliterating other histories. Thus, long buried is the fact that Islam’s first invasion of the Byzantine Christian world did not receive a warm welcome. Mohammed's received religion was viewed by the Church not merely as a fresh heresy akin to the Manicheans, Arians, or Pelagians. Instead, Islam was viewed as something altogether new and more alarming: a heresy qualitatively worse than those arising out of internecine Christian conflict. Thus, Islam must have been inspired directly by Satan.
This possession of Islam (the literal meaning of which, in Arabic, is 'submission') by an evil entity could be plainly seen, Christians thought, in the public behavior of Muslims, such as,
· the rituals of sanctified slaughter (particularly the public sacrifice of goats),
· the strange physical prostrations Muslims used during prayer,
· Muslim intolerance of beloved saints and higher divinities such as Christ,
· and the violent desecration of churches and synagogues.
The very name of Islam's founder, Muhammed, Mahound, or 'Mahomet', was transformed syncretically by Christians into the name for the major demon, Baphomet. Through this transformation, Christians thus believed the Muslims worshipped a demon.
Later on, this perception of Islam would be important when evidence of Baphomet's worship was a major charge in the persecution of the Order of the Knights Templar by the Pope and King Philip of France. The Knights Templar (Knights of the Temple of Solomon) alone among the Crusaders had conducted scholarly studies and performed what would be seen today as cultural exchanges with Islam.
Through these exchanges an alliance sprang up between the Templars and the Shiite Ismalien sect of Islam called the "Assassins' (because of their addiction to hashish; it was they who invented the suicide assassin 'martyr'). The Assassins were headquartered in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon and also had a base at the castle of Al-Alamut in northern Iran (Marco Polo witnessed the later destruction of the castle --The Eagle's Lair -- by the invading Mongols in the 13th Century; he wrote a detailed description of the sect in his 'Travels'.).
During the early 1200’s this alliance between the Templars and Assassins helped to maintain stability in the Crusader kingdoms until the fall of Acre (Biblical Akko). After that the Templars' usefulness to the West was ended and this alliance with Muslims was used against them.
The Ismaliens, however, continued as a geopolitical force long after the Mongols had attempted to exterminate them. Their modern titular leader, the Aga Khan, continues to derive his title and a portion of his wealth from the sect even today from his ancestral home in Pakistan. Now the Iranian Shiite descendants of the Assassin Order still command by proxy the assassinations of Western and Israeli soldiers and civilians across the Middle East exactly as they did nearly a thousand years ago, using much the same combination of drugs and money to train their emissaries. They have a different name in the West now--they are called 'suicide bombers'.
By and large, these profound historical continuities are resolutely ignored in our society, even on the occasions that they are recalled and discussed. Many theologians, especially those within the Anglican Church, have come to reject the physical existence of Satan. Interestingly, they do respect the belief in Satan that is inherent in Islam. This, my- condescending-respect-for-your-belief, is after all, tolerant, Anglican multicultural diversity.
Many modern Westerners, in fact, accept as their gospel the idea that "the Great Satan" is indeed the West and its cultural horrors. In this convoluted self-hatred mainstream American churches merely reflect the views of their ever-shrinking liberal constituencies. Thus, when the mullahs who rule Iran hold 'terrorist conventions' complete with 'martyrdom booths', or 'Death to Zionism' conferences, or even export the publications published for them to the Frankfurt Book Fair few voices are raised in protest within Western religious ranks.
The use of the term Satan (more properly 'Shaitan') in Islamic theology continues to be misunderstood in the West, despite its "respect" for Muslim belief. For Islam, the name, Satan, does not refer to an actual entity but is a concept embracing all evil. The Shaitan in the Muslim version of Genesis is specifically named 'Iblis' and is an 'ifrit' ('afreet') or demon. This term, Shaitan, seems to have evolved from a word meaning 'astray' or 'misled.' Eventually, this idea came to be the metaphorical interpretation of Satan's primary role in the Christian Bible as well. So when the President of Iran names the United States as the "Great Satan" he does not mean to say we are literally the body of Iblis. Instead, he is calling us the chief source of evil in the word.
Salman Rushdie's conflict with the mullahs illustrates this point. In his novel The Satanic Verses, Rushdie dared to suggest allegorically that perhaps parts of the Quran were "misled," inspired alternately by a 'good' angel and an 'evil' one. Such "literary criticism" of the Holy Book, which may never be altered or mocked even allegorically, is an automatic death sentence for whomever utters it. Rushdie’s heresy led even the Sunni Egyptian Nobel prize-winner Naghib Mahfouz to back the murderous 'fatwa' pronounced against Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini. As V. S. Naipaul observed, the Iranians were merely exercising literary criticism of their own. Naipaul and Mahfouz are sophisticated, Western-educated writers who represent the face of 'moderate Islam', yet this is how they speak and think on this single, inflammably irrational subject.
A further irony is that Rushdie was merely echoing the Greek New Testament chapters in which a voice whispered temptations to Jesus, as he wandered during his fast in the desert. Jesus rejected this voice out of hand, recognizing it as that of the Devil. Small wonder then, that in the view of Christian theologians for nearly a millennium, when this same experience befell Mohammed (as it did so many Christian saints), he did not order the voice to depart. Instead he heeded it, and proclaimed that what he heard was the voice of God speaking through an angel. Once Christianity understood the origins of the Koran, Papal Bulls were explicit on this matter: Mohammed was mistaken about the source of the voice he heard in the cave. Much later, Jeanne d'Arc was to burn at the stake for following her voices.
So where do things stand now? Is it that the West, and Christianity on which it was founded, has been the one to change while Islam has remained exactly the same? Is this the root of the "clash of civilizations"?
Obviously, Christianity has changed, but so has Islam; over the centuries it has fractured, divided, and adapted to the various cultures where it has taken root. What has not changed is the Koran and the fundamentalist tenets of its followers. Thus, even "moderate" Islam becomes baffled and contemptuous for what it sees as the West's lack of belief, and particularly our treasonous rejection of our heritage.
Thus, Islam continues to encroach simply because it can: since we appear to them to have neither pride nor hatred to fall back on, they can continue to push us back. It seems to be working, doesn’t it?
Cultures, like human beings, have their demons. Islam has repeatedly revealed its demons to us while we continue in a state of denial: demons? Us? Beneath the West’s sanitized tolerance and sophistication lies a terrible reluctance; we are afraid to even admit our demonic side, much less to confront it.
In recent years, what passes for theological debate between Islam and Christianity evidences a one-sided respect. Is this because where there is not fear there is also no respect?
The West long ago ceased viewing Satan in an immediate and anthropomorphic way. While this is a tribute to our sophistication and modernity, such a perspective fails to impress those for whom Evil remains a palpable presence. It has been reported on Al-Jazeera that Saddam Hussein himself is a longtime Satanist and wears an amulet to prove his loyalty. And the voice at the ears of Bin Laden, Zarqawi, and Ahmadinejad, whispering exhortations to kill and kill again? No, that is not God.
These are terrible, cynical people who exist in a world straddling a brutal past and a nihilistic future; they are equally at home in the symbolism of both. Our hubris and our ignorance allows us to imagine that we can talk such men out of creating and using nuclear (or any other) weapons. They see talk itself as weakness and continue their pursuit of nuclear technology so that they can manipulate the doctrines of their religion and 'eradicate evil' for their own personal gain. “Eradicate,” as the President of Iran just proclaimed again, not just Israel, not just the United States, but “the whole evil Anglo-Saxon devil.”
The Shaitan.
This Halloween we might do well to ponder what we really know about those who plan to destroy us. We would be wiser if we understood what inspires their ambitions.
It is also the right time — a good and proper time — to examine our own demons, to uncover them and to name them. In this the ancient Church was correct: the first step in conquering evil is to name it.
To read further about the Crusades go here. This is an online edition of the most definitive works ever published on the Crusades.
For more information on the Assassins, go here.
Information on Iranian anti-Semitism at the Frankfurt Fair.
Posted by Dymphna at 10/31/2005 11:59:00 PM 19 comments
Vanity Unfair
One judges the cut of a man’s jib by the quality of his enemies.
Therefore, I reckon we’re doing pretty well.
Just yesterday Dymphna and I were talking about Pajamas Media (which, as you may know, we have joined).
I said, “They’re mostly going to cover the center-right, you know.”
“But what about Drezner, and that guy from the Nation?” she responded.
“Well, Roger and Charles are trying to balance things out. The thing is, we right-wingers are willing to share a forum with the lefties, but not vice versa. Their comrades won’t allow it; it’s considered treason.”
It turns out that my words were prophetic. Take a look at this cute little post by the renowned James Wolcott, entitled Pajama Bottoms:
I recognize that it is not always easy to be fastidious about the company one keeps. You can find yourself being introduced to the most awful ogre at a party, someone who may regard you with equal disdain, forced to shake hands and grimace a smile because refusing to do so would provoke a “scene” that could wend its way into Page Six. Or you may find yourself at a dinner party adjacent to someone you vowed you’d never be trapped indoors with again, all because the host or hostess conveniently “forgot” to tell you Satan’s playmate had been invited.
Those things happen.
But I don’t understand why someone as politically keen as The Nation’s David Corn would lend his name to the editorial board of Pajamas Media, the greatest assembly of conservative deadbeats since Jonah Goldberg’s last fondue party. What an illustrious roster of ideological utensils make up Pajamas’ masthead: Michael Barone...John Podhoretz...Tim Blair...and this inveterate stirpot, whose presence all decent men and women should shun until proper disinfectant can be found. By allowing his name to be slated on the editorial board, Corn is letting himself be used as a figleaf enabling Pajamas to pretend that it’s a bipartisan effort instead of what it so flagrantly is, a neocon popstand.
Does Corn really want to be associated with fun blogs like Little Green Footballs and Gates of Vienna (“At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war”)? I guess he does, because he’ll be appearing on a panel at Pajamas’ gala conference in November in Manhattan, where Roger L. Simon and company will break out the ginger ale and announce their new monicker. Then everybody will adjourn to invade Syria, if they can arrange transportation.
We’ve arrived! James Wolcott despises us! O, frabjous day!
You can’t tell from my snip of his screed, but there was a hot link on our name in there — he’s sending us traffic!
I was so tickled by this that I danced with glee. I tell you, I ambled up and down with shallow jesters and rash bavin wits!
It’s too much.
James, my dear fellow, the freight train is coming full speed down the track at you, but you’ve got your back to it.
Choo choo!
Posted by Baron Bodissey at 10/31/2005 08:07:00 PM 12 comments
Rock and Roll at the Watcher of Weasels
The man has a superb writing style. Sometimes I’m surprised that he doesn’t walk off with first place every week. That being said, Rick Moran takes it away with Syria and the Hariri Conspiracy:
The assassination of Rafiq Hariri was a Syrian blunder of monumental proportions. It has isolated Syria from most of the international community. It has placed Syria in a much weaker military position in the Middle East. And it has placed the rule of Bashar Assad himself in danger. On top of all that, the act of assassinating Hariri failed to achieve the desired result, and indeed had the opposite effect: it united the Lebanese opposition who, with the courage of and determination of the Lebanese people, kicked the Syrians out of Lebanon for good.
Umm…they were maybe stuck on stupid? Probably still are — with a difference: stupid and dangerous.
And I must put in a good word for the second place winner, just for his snarky response to a whiner. Lawrence Wilkerson, who used to hold Colin Powell’s coat in the halcyon days of the first round of Bush ’43, isn’t taking his forced retirement gracefully. For Wilkerson’s very unstatesmanlike behavior, Sundries Shack whacks a roundhouse, richly deserved:
I know this will come as a shock to Wilkerson, but it is not the job of the Secretary of State to make national security decisions. In fact, a President is not obligated to even consult his Secretary of State on matters of national security. The Secretary of State is our chief diplomat and the public face of the President of the United States to the world.
The reason Colin Powell isn’t still the Secretary of State (and that Wilkerson doesn’t have that super-important office anymore) is because at some point he decided not to be the steadfast representative of the President he was hired to be. He didn’t do his job and worse, let his people backstab the President at every turn, and so the President cut him loose.
Wilkerson isn’t stuck you understand — the man never left stupid in the first place. It's where he lives.
In the non-council posts, my guy didn’t win. But the person who did get it, Shrinkwrapped, is — like Rick Moran — a thoughtful writer. He’s also a brilliant cultural analyst and this week’s choice has given me much to ponder in Race and the Unconscious:
In the late 1970's, I spent some time working in the VA Hospital system. At that time, the primary Psychiatric population we treated were those whose psychiatric problems fell under the category of "service-connected disability." Patients with SC disabilities received a significantly higher monthly disability payment, as long as their psychiatric problem persisted. A subset of patients, mostly young, Vietnam era vets, was created who were hospitalized for short stays every 6 months. According to VA rules, if you were hospitalized every 6 months, that was considered a priori evidence that you were still disabled.
Go over there to see how he contrasts this governmental Frankenstein with the race cartel as it currently exists in our culture. I love it when people say things the mandarins don’t permit.
Read it —you’ll have more than you want to think about.
The usual brilliance and derring-do can be found at the usual spot, His Grace, the Watcher.
Posted by Dymphna at 10/31/2005 05:11:00 PM 0 comments
Map? What Map?
Somebody better stone that speechwriter, huh?
What's the Yiddish for "Jihad"?
Is there a Yiddish word for “jihad”? If not, we need a neologism for this new turn of events. It sure looks like the Israelis are taking the gloves off:
Israel’s defense minister vowed Sunday to wage war on the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad until its capabilities are wiped out.
The threat by Shaul Mofaz follows a suicide bombing by the group last week that killed five Israelis in the coastal city of Hadera.
Israel responded Thursday with an airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip targeting Islamic Jihad militants, but it also killed people standing nearby in crowded streets.
"We are carrying out a broad operation against terrorism, a broad operation against the Islamic Jihad infrastructure in light of Islamic Jihad's intention to continue with suicide bombings," Mofaz said ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting.
"We are making huge efforts to prevent these attacks ... and this activity will continue until we can say that the Islamic Jihad infrastructure can no longer carry out suicide bombings," he added.
Oh. Wait a minute. This looks familiar.
But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said unto Judah: 'What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? ...' And Judah said: 'It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few, and there is no difference in the sight of Heaven to save by many or by few; for victory in battle standeth not in the multitude of an host, but strength is from Heaven. They come unto us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to spoil us; but we fight for our lives and our laws. And He Himself will discomfort them before our face; but as for you, be yet not afraid of them." (The First Book of Maccabees)
Wouldn’t you know it? Judah Macabee’s fight all over again. A little early for Hanukkah, but in this case, better early than late.
Sometimes history can be a damned comfort, especially when it repeats itself like this.
Hat tip: Tigerhawk
Posted by Dymphna at 10/31/2005 11:44:00 AM 7 comments
The Carnival of the Armchair Generals
Last Friday’s open-forum post, Confronting the Enemy, provoked a lot of interesting commentary. People argued and disagreed, yet remained civil, which is always a prerequisite for a good discussion.
The theme questions of the topic were “Does violent jihad represent the essence of the religion of Islam?” and the corollary “Is the existence of the ‘moderate Muslim’ possible?
We’re all on the same team, but different people are proposing different strategies for the game. Some favor a Hail-Mary play (peggy); some want to throw a bomb into the end zone (El Jefe Maximo); others want to hand off to the fullback and bust a hole straight down the middle (Bill and Heloise).
I’ve divided the different strategies into three broad groups: Moral High Ground, Divide and Conquer, and Fierce Guard Dogs. Cato, who inspired the thread but didn’t contribute, is most definitely a Moral High Ground person. Some of the commenters didn’t seem to fit in any of the groups, but those I could classify are listed below:
Moral High Ground Divide and Conquer Fierce Guard Dogs
a4g bordergal Bill
Clouse Jesse Clark El Jefe Maximo
Jason_Pappas PD111 Gryffilion
Old School Heloise
Papa Bear JoeC
peggy Papa Ray
quark2
And now for some samples from the three groups.
Moral High Ground
Peggy:
The truth is our greatest weapon. We should only resort to other means if our free speech to protest against islam were threatened by the powers that be and then it is our right as citizens to fight those powers. The average muslim person should never have to worry about our intentions towards their persons or families or property or businesses or prayer centers as long they abide by the laws of our land.
If we keep to the high ground, we should with time be able to turn things around. The first idea we must get across with meticulous care is this: It is possible to oppose islam without bearing hatred towards all those who believe it and everyone should be able to freely and openly dispute the ideas and beliefs of others by right as long as they dont call for violence against the other group in an indiscriminate way that would hurt peaceable folks.
A big problem with islam and muslims is that they do not understand this. They equate open rejection of their beliefs as hatred and bigotry mainly because their own leaders encourage them to do so by their example. But coming as they do from their original environment which is devoid of the hurly-burly of true democracy and liberty, they are easily mislead to shut their ears to the “bigots” who dislike all muslims and are encouraged to dismiss all criticism of their religion as ignorant. If we happen to think that islam is the worst idea for a religion there ever was but have no inclination to hate those who believe in it then we have to distinguish ourselves from the true haters by our conduct, by our charity and hospitality towards all.
I have no fear of islam being able to win the battle of ideas once it ceases its current childish and violent tactics. It is easy to see which side has formed a successful civilization from its internal resources and which side will have to be forced by pressure from without to behave in a civilized manner.
a4g:
If Islam is inherently bloodthirsty, and Christianity not— so what? Whether the distributions of killers and lovers among adherents are titled “devout” or “lax” matters little, because the distribution curves will remain largely the same despite the titles.
So the answer to Islam is not peculiar to Islam— and probably not particularly profound.
What has worked in the past to allow man to crawl out of his filthy hole for a few fleeting moments? We are fortunately living in the greatest example in history.
Work to create environments where people can take charge of their own lives. Free markets. Political participation.
Will this “reform” Islam? Or will it merely precipitate the conversion of quite a few muslims to the more sanity-friendly Christianity?
Either way, I think it doesn’t matter. For the outcome will be the same.
quark2:
There are peaceful moslims. In the main, they are peaceful, secularist and law abiding where ever they live. Among them live the enemy, using these peace folks as a shield and cover. They are usually careful to not expose themselves even to their neighbours. The problem with islam is being able to discern the friend from the enemy. Here is where it is the responsiblity of the moslims to police themselves and be law abiding by turning in those among them with the intent of breaking our laws. This should already be in place, and sadly I don’t think much of this is happening yet. It is with apprehension that I see our moslims being taken down in this country whether they are innocent or complicit if we suffer another bad attack. As posted above, telling the truth, shining the light in dark places and straight line communications should be our first line weapons of choice against those who use islam as their reason for total control globally.
Jesse Clark:
I think it’s also important to understand all of Islam. This is not just some great monolithic religion in which all its believers adhere to the same tenets. It is as divided as Chrisitanity or Judaism.
There is more division than just Sunni and Shi’a, and there is more than just the Qur’an. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of Hadith out there. Moderate Muslims accept only a few (by comparison) to the more radical and fundamentalist groups, who accept great numbers of Hadith as accurate.
There is not just one Sahri’a. There are four. Four seperate schools of thought on how to apply Islamic Law. They range from the moderate and quite liberal Hanafi to the radical Hanbali, which states that the Qur’an must be applied without interpretation or question. There is no reason, or ‘ijtihad’ to be made in discerning the law, as there is in the other three schools. Hanbali is the source of the Wahhabism the so often makes headlines. Yet Hanbali is followed by less than 5% of all Muslims worldwide.
And I haven’t even begun to talk about Sufism.
It is important to not see Muslims as homogenous. Yes, there is an extremely violent sect of Islam. Yes, we need to completely annihilate them before they annihilate us. But the moderate Muslims should not be viewed as accessories to their crimes. If we are to defeat our true enemy within Islam, we will need their help.
PD111:
Now it is true that some muslims are peacable enough. Yet it has to borne in mind that some very peaceful muslims, to the utter surprise and shock of their friends and family, have become shaheeds. There is also demographics to consider. Muslim representatives will always use muslim numbers to extract further dhimmification.
There is no need to think of a “war of civilisatations”. A separation is far better and humane then considering Three Conjecture scenarios, just so to prove that all cultures can live together. It is a recognition that all cultures cannot live under the tent of multiculturalism. It is a recognition that some cultures, islam in this case, is not yet ready to embrace plurality and tolerance.In the future that may come about, but in the meantime, the whole excercise is getting fraught with danger for all mankind.
Fierce Guard Dogs
El Jefe Maximo:
Given that what you say is correct, I don’t see much alternative to the reimposition of a species of at least indirect colonial control over much of the Muslim world, coupled with mass expulsions or detention of dangerous persons within the west.
The main feature would be a type of interdiction or blockade in the form of bans on the movement of persons out of the interdicted countries (i.e. prohibition of passenger air and sea travel), and denial of access to employment, residence and education in the west. Traffic back and forth would be solely financial and commerical. The Muslim world is afforded access to the imports it may need from the west in exchange for access to oil and raw materials, without major movements of population.
Some mechanism would need to be in place to adjudicate requests for individualized exceptions/waivers of the ban.
Allied to this would need to be a propaganda and education effort -- essentially a promise to remove the interdiction/blockade when the Muslim world espouses “civilized values.”
All of this administered not by the UN or anything like it, but by a commission directly answerable to the governments of the great powers (i.e. US, Japan, China, India, Europe/(UK seperate?) and probably Brazil).
This whole scheme would permit a substantial degree of liberty to exist outside the interdicted area, and for trade and commerce to go on, but would doubtless take a traumatic shock to the west before imposition of any such thing would be considered. Unfortunately, I suspect that our enemies will in time supply the necessary shock. Establishment of this system would require a major war.
Essentially, it turns the Muslim world, involuntarily, into pre-Meiji Japan, to enter its Meiji stage, probably on a regional basis, as it shows it can.
We need to wake up to the fact that going to war means suspending our “civil rights” and that the constitution is going to be “shredded.” We can comfort ourselves that our citizen volunteers and elected citizens will restore those rights and “tape” the constitution back as good as new after we’ve kicked the enemy’s ass.
For all the hand-wringing about profiling and deportations and internment camps, try reading a solid analysis of the Reconstruction after the Civil War. Then come back and tell me that deporting is so horrible comapred to the absolute tyranny, abrogation of the Bill of Rights, and nullity of the constitution that the people of the South suffered under for YEARS. Being forced to vote a certain way or not being admitted back into the union as citizens? Doesn’t that sound like one of the most horrifying crimes that can be perpetrated on a supposedly “free” citizenry?
I’ll take internment camps any day. FDR was an ass, but he was right to be cautious with the camps.
Heloise:
The icons of islam, beside the koran, are the shrines in mecca of the black metorite and the magic well, zamzam, where believers go on pilgrimage. Their belief is that allah will always protect these shrines. Just today, a muslim said this on Jihad/DhimmiWatch.
If the icons are destroyed, then allah is not omniscient and islam has no god. The shock to the mind of the muslim would be so great as to render them inactice or at the least confused and extremely disillusioned, for what is there to fight for now?
I tend towards the “Moral High Ground” camp, but the “Divide and Conquer” people make sense. Also, my emotions make me root for the “Fierce Guard Dogs.” In fact, looking at them from the Freudian viewpoint, the three categories could be matched up with the Superego, Ego, and Id.
But I’d like to look at what’s politically feasible, and not just at what we wish would happen. Jefe and Bill, I could be with you 100%, but what you’re talking about can’t happen in our current political context.
And the current political context does matter. If we’re going to backseat-drive the auto politic, we have to take into account the road conditions, how bald our tires are, and how many horses we have under the hood. If we have a major terrorist attack next week that kills 100,000 people, the political context changes dramatically. Then the system becomes chaotic, mathematically speaking, and hence unpredictable. All bets are off.
So, if we want to argue, let’s assume the political context stays more or less the same for the next couple of years, i.e.:
1. Terrorist attacks that kill American civilians remain sporadic and minor.
2. The situation in Iraq stays the same, with security improving slowly but steadily.
3. Musharraf manages to stay in power.
4. Boy Assad remains damaged but hangs on in Damascus. The mullahs don’t get any openly revealed nukes. North Korea continues to heel for the Chinese.
5. The lily-livered craven gonadally-challenged cowards in Congress continue their pork-driven profligate ways at least through the 2006 elections.
6. The EU and the UN continue to undermine, anklebite, obstruct, and otherwise interfere with the Coalition.
7. The price of oil doesn’t fluctuate more than 25% in either direction.
8. But the mujahideen continue planning jihad, amassing firepower, and indoctrinating in the madrassas, all funded by the Saudis.
So those are the ground rules. You’re in the Administration making policy, and those are your political constraints. No fair invoking any deus ex machina. What course would you attempt to follow in an attempt to deal with the Great Islamic Jihad?
If you post on this in your own blog, let me know and I’ll link here.
On your marks… Get set… Argue!
ONGOING UPDATES
JoeC is glad to be a Fierce Guard Dog, and has weighed in on his blog at The Gates of Vienna, Redux.
Thunder Pig has joined the task force with Introducing...Armchair General Thunder Pig?!?
Jesse Clark has his take up at Armchair Generals Conference - WWIV Edition.
Always on Watch recommends a new anti-jihad British blog called A New Dark Age Is Dawning. He takes on Prince Charles, aka Prince Dhimmi, which is good enough for me.
I borrowed the graphic at the top of this post from The Virtual Armchair General, which is a site that you’ll want to visit, because Patrick Wilson is the “Exclusive Provider of Unique Wargames and Collectible Miniatures & Accessories.” Right up Jefe’s alley.
Posted by Baron Bodissey at 10/31/2005 12:06:00 AM 53 comments
A Pod... What?
All right, everyone, we need your assistance. We did something yesterday and we don’t understand what it is. Or rather, we partly understand it, but not entirely. It woud be most helpful if some of our more technically inclined commenters could drop by and tell us more about it.
We were interviewed yesterday morning by Tom Paine of Silent Running for a podcast. Now, being old fogeys, we we don’t really know what a “podcast” is, and we’re not likely to learn anytime soon, because it includes a 3MB mp3 file, and we have a 28kb dialup here in Backofthebeyondville.
But, whatever it is, it involved having a pleasant telephone conversation with someone from the Southern Anglo-Hemisphere, at a time which was the middle of the night for him. A most interesting fellow, this Aussie. Actually, he lives in Australia, but he’s a Kiwi — that is, he’s from New Zealand, which stands in relationship to Australia roughly as Canada does to the USA. You know — tree-huggers and peace activists vs. beer-drinkers and gun nuts.
Tom is very much part of the Anglosphere, and well-informed about events here, as well as in Canada and India. You could call his prognosis for our continued existence “guarded.” Like the rest of us, he finds the Islamofascist threat one to be reckoned with.
And I do mean “reckoned with,” which does not mean “talked to firmly.” Come to think of it, “negotiations” aren’t a part of reckoning either. Think of it as you might think of “ a day of reckoning.”
According to Tom, the Australian blogosphere is a foulmouthed and anarchic sort of place — the motto of Silent Running is “If you are offended by strong right wing views and bad language, you should probably…” Whoops. I can’t put the rest of it here; this is a family website.
But go on over to Silent Running and see for yourself. While you’re there, you can listen to us cast a pod.
It’s Not Just Zionism
Dr. Zin at Regime Change Iran has a request to make of the blogosphere. He wants us to get the word out about what “The World Without Zionism” envisions in its entirety.
It’s not just the destruction of Israel. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is quite explicit that the United States in particular and the Anglosphere in general are very much in the crosshairs of the Great Islamic Jihad as orchestrated from Teheran. Just look at the complete graphic the mullahs produced for the week of jihadist zeal: both Israel and America are falling to the bottom of the hourglass.
Read the words of Ahmadinejad’s chief strategist, Hassan Abbassi:
We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization... we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them.
But it is not only the US that Abbasi wants to take on and humiliate. He has described Britain as “the mother of all evils”. In his lecture he claimed that the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and the Gulf states were all “children of the same mother: the British Empire.” As for France and Germany, they are “countries in terminal decline”, according to Abbasi.
“Once we have defeated the Anglo-Saxons the rest will run for cover,” he told his audience.
Given the predilection of the craven appeasers now dominant in the media, academia, and the upper levels of the diplomatic corps, it’s understandable that Mr. Abbassi might come to this conclusion.
Those of us who form the backbone of the Anglosphere know that he is wrong, tragically wrong, but there is no way to communicate that to him. Our only hope of avoiding massive carnage is regime change in Iran.
So we’ll let Dr. Zin have the last word:
The vast majority of the people of Iran do not share [Ahmadinejad’s] views and long for real democracy in Iran. How long will we wait to support the people of Iran in their struggle to free themselves from these dangerous mad men?
Posted by Baron Bodissey at 10/30/2005 02:22:00 PM 9 comments
The Congress Party Cashes In
India has not escaped the tentacles of the Oil-For-Food scandal. According to Ashish’s Niti, K. Natwar Singh, India’s External Affairs Minister, and the Congress Party are listed in the Volcker Report as “non-contractual beneficiaries” of Iraqi oil sales in 2001, through an intermediary company named as Masefield AG.
So much for No War for Oil! Remember it was considered bad for a company to lobby for Iraq Reconstruction contract and to profit from the war. Many of us knew that much of the opposition to liberation of Iraq was rifed with hypocrisy but the extent of corruption is coming to light only now. Looks like the removal of Saddam Hussein destroyed a whole ecosystem.
I’m not so sure that the ecosystem is entirely destroyed. The Saudi branch of it seems to be flourishing even now.
Hat tip: Desipundit.
Posted by Baron Bodissey at 10/30/2005 08:46:00 AM 0 comments
Well, I waited up all night for the announcement that Hindu extremists had taken credit for yesterday’s blasts in New Delhi. But early this morning I read the following item in AsiaNews:
The Islami Inqilabi Mahaz (Islamic Revolutionary Group), an obscure Kashmiri militant group, claimed responsibility on Sunday for yesterday bomb blasts in India's capital which killed at least 61 people. However, security officers see the hand of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Force of the Pure), a Pakistan outlaw group, in a new attempt to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan.
On Sunday, Islami Inqilabi Mahaz phoned local newspapers in Indian Kashmir, claiming responsibility for the blasts and warning of more to come.
Yesterday’s speculation by commenters turns out to have been accurate: the mujahiddeen are not happy when the infidel Hindus move into Kashmir to help with earthquake relief, and otherwise promote a “peace process.” For the Great Islamic Jihad, it has to be All War, All the Time.
It’s a good thing nobody took me up on my bet.
Peggy Noonan Comes to Gates of Vienna
Well, not really. But it sure sounds like she’s been sitting in on the dinner table discussions with Dymphna and me:
Do you have confidence in the CIA? The FBI? I didn’t think so.
…people sense when an institution is overwhelmed. Citizens know. If we had a major terrorist event tomorrow half the country — more than half — would not trust the federal government to do what it has to do, would not trust it to tell the truth, would not trust it, period.
You go, girl. Speak truth to power!
One of the most dangerous threats we face is the erosion of public confidence in the institutions charged with protecting us. When government officials plainly lie to the public — see Annie Jacobsen’s story or the Able Danger fiasco — even law-abiding, dedicated, and public-spirted citizens begin to doubt all statements coming from the government. It doesn’t matter if only one percent, or one hundredth of one percent, of official pronouncements are lies. The tiny bit of leaven is in the dough, and the loaf rises.
And then, down the road, when the next big attack comes — and almost all of us believe it’s coming — then… Well, what will happen then?
Fast-forward:
A spokesman for the president told reporters that he was confident that the Department of Homeland Security had the situation under control, and that the investigation was continuing. As of this point, no connection between any known terrorist group and the attackers could be established.
Meanwhile, Manhattan authorities report that the death toll has risen past 150,000, and that the cloud of radiation has moved across the East River to…
It’s a dangerous and depressing when you have a government that’s stuck on “Trust Us.”
Viking Observer
There is hope yet for those of us who have been thrown into despair by the imminent closure of Fjordman’s blog.
A new Danish blog in English has arrived on the scene, reporting on the Great Islamic Jihad from the front lines in Scandinavia. Go and pay a visit to Viking Observer.
The Religion That Dare Not Speak Its Name
If you read all the way through any of the current versions of the
Associated Press story about today’s bombing in New Delhi, two words are notably absent: “Islam” and “Muslim”.
While [Prime Minister Manmohan Singh] did not say who was suspected in the explosions, the Indian government faces opposition from dozens of militant organizations, from tiny fringe groups to well-armed Kashmiri insurgents who have previously attacked New Delhi, including a bloody 2001 assault on parliament. Some of those groups fiercely oppose the India-Pakistan peace process, which began early last year.
Pakistan condemned the multiple attacks in New Delhi.
Eventually some group will claim responsibility for this atrocity, forcing the MSM to mention the forbidden words for a brief moment before they return our attention to more important matters — such as the contents of Scooter Libby’s garbage can, or the drop of President Bush’s numbers in the most recent polls.
So let me state it for the record: Islamic terrorist groups have a long and bloody history of attacking Hindus and Sikhs in India, and Muslims carry out these attacks, ostensibly because of what India does in Kashmir. Pakistan is mentioned prominently in the above quote because Pakistan, officially or otherwise, has a habit of aiding and abetting these terrorists.
There. I’ve said it. Now the sky will fall.
Update — From The Counterterrorism Blog:
Walid Phares reports: “My monitoring of the chat rooms over the past few hours indicate that the Jihadists-Salafists are celebrating. High possibility that a Jihadi (either local Cashemire or al Qaida like) group will take responsibility in 24-48 hours… This note is sent with caution, as other leads are also followed. The Jihadi theory is the highest, but we do not rule out mafia related causes.”
(Hat tip: Andrew Scotia)
Hey, Minh Duc! Here’s a Real Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is a sham, a scam and a shame. It’s become so truly banal that I actively avoid reading any news about it, sure that it will be one more New York Times Moment — i.e., a skewed, off-kilter version of reality both unpleasant and untrue.
Turns out I was right. This year’s winner joins the ranks of Yasser Arafat, et al. Long may he reign. And no, I’m not going to link to the story; on principle I don’t link to sites which promote a New York Times state of mind.
Back when the nominees were being considered, Minh Duc emailed me his choice: Mukhtar Mai. He had a post up giving his reasons for nominating her, and suggested that I might want to do the same. I meant to follow him since she is a woman whose courage deeply affects me. But with one distraction after another, I never did write the post.
Probably the real reason for my distraction was the certainty that yet another inconsequential person would have the Peace Prize undeservedly bestowed upon him and it would be depressing… I’m a real avoider of the “news” for that reason.
Nonetheless, I did go over to State of Flux to read his thoughts about the subject. I often go over there, because of one thing you can be sure: Minh Duc will inevitably have his own original, intelligent, and enjoyable take on any given situation. His introductory anecdote about the 2004 awards was worth the read. In fact, I remain amazed that State of Flux is not up there in the big blogs. His version of English is in itself entertaining! That’s not making fun, either: he uses language well while I do not speak a word of Vietnamese. So anyone who sees condescension in my remarks about Minh Duc’s writing is seriously not getting my point. One of the nice things about native English speakers — as opposed, let’s say, to the French — is that we genuinely like to read people whose native language is not English. They give it a certain “je ne sais quoi” which provides its own charm. Kind of like when Texans speak English, or Cajuns. It’s their own version of a rich and varied tongue.
But now, Minh Duc and I can share our pleasure at the announcement of a real Peace Prize:
Damas de Blanco, the Ladies in White, have won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for 2005.
These women banded together in 2003 to protest the detention of their husbands and sons, political dissidents jailed by Castro. Every Sunday, the Ladies in White march in solidarity with their men incarcerated without due process or any knowledge of when — if ever — they will be released. Damas de Blanco’s walk through the streets of Havana serves as a voice united for their loved ones — those whom the Castro regime has silenced.
The Sakharov Prize was established in 1988 by the European Parliament. Here, from their website, is some background explanation of the award:
Since 1988, to honor the spirit of Andrei Sakharov, the European Parliament has awarded an annual prize in his name, singling out those individuals or organizations who best exemplify Sakharov’s fight for fundamental human freedoms. From their website
From Gorky, where he was living in exile, Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), the renowned physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences, dissident and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner, sent a message to the European Parliament saying how moved he was that it intended to create a prize for freedom of thought which would bear his name. He rightly saw this as an encouragement to all those who, like him, had committed themselves to championing human rights.
Coming from a background in nuclear physics and ending as a dissident, he not only sought the release of dissenters in his country but also drew attention to the relationship between science and society and to the issues of peaceful coexistence and intellectual freedom, which he analysed in his writings. In the eyes of the world, Sakharov came to embody the crusade against the denial of fundamental rights. Neither intimidation nor exile could break his resistance.
As the website Net for Cuba International puts it:
- It is fantastic good news that Damas de Blanco gets the Sakharov Prize. The publicity that this prize is bringing is invaluable for these brave, peaceful ladies supporting their imprisoned husbands. In their situation they need all the support from the outside world they can get. This again shows that the situation on Cuba is extremely serious and that the EU has to take action.
Yes, they are “brave, peaceful ladies.” Just as Mukhtar Mai is. And their recognition cheers the soul. It is always cheering when the occasional experience of justice occurs.
I would say “long may they march” except… as long as they have to march, it means that freedom of speech in Cuba still has a gag over her mouth.
Long may their courage reign.
Hat Tip: Free Thoughts
The Fate of Ozymandias
There’s a new exclusive club, succinctly named Zionot. It has the elegance and brevity of a mathematical term. Its aim is as lethal as sniper’s bullet.
Consider it a celebration by the Religion of Peace in Ramadan. What are they celebrating? A world finally made Judenrein. According to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it is imperative that Islam “wipe this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world.”
This effort, dubbed “The World Without Zionism,” is being co-ordinated during a week of special events in thousands of mosques, schools, factories, etc. It is designed to create a critical mass of jihadist zeal. Syria and Lebanon and even Afghanistan are holding simultaneous activities for the same purpose.
In a speech Wednesday, Ahmadinejad described Israel as “a stain of shame that has sullied the purity of Islam,” and promised that it would be “cleansed very soon.” All nations that establish ties with Israel, he warned, would burn “in the fires of our Islamic rage.”
Ahmadinejad’s vision is apocalyptic. This is not about politics; this is about religion. It’s important to remember that religion and politics are one and the same for Islam. That’s why there can be no negotiation, only holding patterns.
Of course the “world community” has reacted predictably with stern notes, lectures to Iranian ambassadors, and announcements by governmental leaders regarding their grave concerns. Always on the brink of hell, we have pronouncements about grave concerns. It is the mass graves that should concern us.
Back in 2002, Lee Harris explained the fatal consequences of Islam’s “fantasy ideology.”
To an outside observer, the fantasist is clearly attempting to compensate by means of his fantasy for the shortcomings of his own present reality — and thus it is tempting to think of the fantasist as a kind of Don Quixote impotently tilting at windmills. But this is an illusion. Make no mistake about it: The fantasist often exercises great and terrible power precisely by virtue of his fantasy. The father who demands his son grow up and become a professional football player will clearly exercise much more control over his son’s life than a father who is content to permit his child to pursue his own goals in life.
This power of the fantasist is entirely traceable to the fact that, for him, the other is always an object and never a subject. A subject, after all, has a will of his own, his own desires and his own agenda; he might rather play the flute instead of football. And anyone who is aware of this fact is automatically put at a disadvantage in comparison with the fantasist — the disadvantage of knowing that other people have minds of their own and are not merely props to be pushed around.
For the Arabs and their fellow travelers, anti-Semitism is the air they breathe. Jews are not real; they are evil “props to be pushed around,” even eradicated.
Why now? Why, at this juncture, did the president of Iran pick up that old discredited 20th century banner? Why the New Holocaust?
Let’s look at the lay of the land.
Iraq, despite the efforts of the global appeasers, is on its way to becoming a functioning democracy. The nationwide vote on the constitution reverberated throughout the unfree Islamic states. With the Coalition’s support, Iraqis are on the road to the 21st century. Syria, humiliated by its forced relinquishment of the golden goose on the Mediterranean littoral, now faces the imminent collapse of the Baathist Party and the Assad dynasty. Egypt is holding elections of a sort. Jordan has its head down, hoping to avoid the shrapnel, while the wicked House of Saud is frantically shoring the walls of its house of cards. Meanwhile there is that Wall in Gaza, a monumental insult and reminder of failure to the Palestinians in particular and the Islamic world in general.
Things are unsettled, to put it mildly. The only bright spot, from the point of view of the Great Islamic Jihad, is those Iranian nuclear weapons. For a long time the mullahs waltzed with the French, marking time and making faces until they could finish the plan that has been so long a-borning. The ultimate fantasy, about to become a murderous reality.
Here’s one analyst’s breakout of Iran’s incentives for what appears to be a suicidal enterprise:
…there remains the question of why the Iranian government is doing this. Iran has a reasonable intelligence apparatus, and the information I have set out is all in the public domain (see Global Security.org or the International Institute of Strategic Studies’ publications for more). All I can come up with is that a domestic crackdown on enemies of the current mullah regime is imminent, (particularly those in the universities), and the targets are being set up as Zionist agents. There is some kind of Iranian website (see the photo on the Real Clear Politics Blog)which is apparently part of the campaign.
The Mullah regime is in serious economic trouble: the Shah’s reign was a golden age in terms of wealth and liberty by comparison with this government.
Another possibility is to justify deeper Iranian involvement in Iraq -- the forward outpost of Zionists and Crusaders. But I think the other possibility (the domestic crackdown) is far more likely. Most Iranians require no justification for intervention in Iraq.
Given the pre-emptive and lethal nature of Zionot, the possibility of a general Middle Eastern conflagration has escalated into the red zone.
Is this the Big One, the one in which the boiler finally explodes?
History has never been Islam’s strong point. Nonetheless, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would do well to ponder the fate of Ozymandias:
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said— “two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
And on the pedestal, this legend clear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing remains beside. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
Perhaps some kind soul will send him a copy of Shelley’s poem. Gates of Vienna suggests that a Farsi translation be slipped into Condoleezza Rice’s briefcase for her next trip to Teheran.
NB: This post was a Baron-Dymphna collaboration. They are still speaking to each other.
I Am the Very Model of a Secretary General
Dr. Sanity is writing songs again, this time mixing Oil-for-Food with Gilbert and Sullivan. Everyone should go read (and sing along to) I Am the Very Model of a Secretary General.
A Permanent Outcast
Well, at least it’s now out in the open, and even the Europeans will have to admit it: Iran wants to completely destroy Israel. We always knew it was true, but now it’s clearly stated Iranian government policy.
The Daily Telegraph outlines Israel’s options:
Although Israel is widely believed to have its own nuclear arsenal, it fears such weapons falling into the hands of hostile states.
In 1981, when Saddam Hussein threatened to develop a nuclear capability, Israel launched a pre-emptive air strike to destroy Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor.
Unilateral military action by Israel would be much harder against Iran’s nuclear capability.
Military jets would have to fly much greater distances, and the Iranians have spread their nuclear programmes across a number of sites - some located under mountains.
However, Israeli military planners are believed to have a number of options including air strikes using American-designed bunker-busting munitions and commando raids.
Don’t expect the Europeans to support any action that Israel might take, and don’t expect them to do anything but condemn it afterwards. And, if the State Department and the Arabists and the Old Guard Republicans in this country have their way, the Jewish state will get no support from the USA, either.
There was a time when the Jews stood meekly on the railway platforms amid their meager belongings, boarded the freight cars, and departed docilely for their unspeakable destination. But the state of Israel is unwilling to go gentle into that not-so-good night. If necessary, the Jews will fight their enemies alone, since the alternative is national extermination.
Richard Baehr, in a recent speech in Los Angeles, said that
Israel has never lived without a threat to its existence. The truth of the matter is that Israel has never been accepted as a permanent nation within the Middle East by the 22 Arab nations, and much of the broader Muslim world. First the Arabs fought to prevent Jewish settlement within Palestine, and then fought the UN partition plan to create two states within the British mandate territory. After the British left, and Israel declared its statehood in 1948, the war against it resumed. The history of Zionism is a history of terrorism and war, but through it all, the tenacity of a people building and defending their new state.
Western Europe’s governments have already effectively abandoned Israel, much as they did Czechoslovakia in 1938. It is too much of a burden for them to defend Israel, what with their surging Muslim immigrant populations to appease with the bone of hostility to Israel. And of course since Israel is a close ally of the United States, Europe’s envy of America and its power and world leadership works its way to the surface by confronting the US in the Middle East conflict, through support of the Palestinian side in international organizations, such as the UN.
If the United States abandons Israel, then the Israelis will have face the Iranian threat alone. But face it they will.
If I were one of the mullahs, I wouldn’t be sleeping well at night.
Update: From the Daily Telegraph again:
Tony Blair delivered his strongest warning to Iran last night, saying Teheran would not be allowed to become a “threat to our world security”.
He hinted that the West might have to resort to force.
Well, good for him. Are we sure he’s a European?
Hat tip: Cuanas.
President Bush made an excellent speech on Tuesday at Bolling Air Force Base, outlining the scope and rationale of the war on terror — which he once again identified as a struggle against “Islamo-fascism:”
Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever it is called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam.
Mr. President, are you sure that’s true?
There is, of course, no way of knowing whether Mr. Bush believes this. Given the political exigencies, it is necessary for him to say it. His statement does, however, beg the central question of our time:
Does violent jihad represent the essence of the religion of Islam?
And the corollary:
Is the existence of the “moderate Muslim” possible?
I don’t pretend to be able to answer these questions, nor do I think it is possible to answer them yet. But they should be uppermost in our minds as we watch current political events unfolding across the world, and especially those unfolding across the bloody littorals of Islam.
The central problem is that Islam is more than a religion. It is a blueprint for political action, one whose core text requires the adherent to be violent in the pursuit of political goals. In this respect Muslims bear more resemblance to Communists than they do to Presbyterians.
But there are peaceable Muslims. The ones I know personally look and act like ordinary Americans. The women don’t wear the hijab, and the girls go to school and act like any other American kids.
But these Muslims are also not particularly observant; they don’t pray five times a day or visit the mosque very often. They are roughly equivalent to “lapsed Catholics.”
So I am still left with the open question:
Will the truly observant Muslim always engage in or support violent jihad?
A lively discussion emerged in the comments section of my post yesterday (I recommend the entire thread, which is full of thoughtful and vehement argument by a variety of people). In response to some of the more bellicose commenters, Cato said this:
Do you really think all billion muslims hate the west that implacably? Do you think there is any practical program that will lead to the elimination (or forcible conversion) of all the planet’s muslims?
I often wonder where the logic of “all Islam is out to get us so we had better do something about it” leads.
So where does it lead? If the enemy is in our midst, but not actively pursuing violence at the moment, what do we do? And are all Muslims our enemies?
We know that some of them are, and it is a reasonable assumption there are some among us who are even now planning to harm us. But is the proper response to declare that all Muslims are our enemies?
If all Muslims are in fact our enemies, then we will have to take concrete action. The first step would be to require them all to register with the government so that they could be monitored. Next they would have to be disarmed. Then we would need to require them to display some sign so that we could recognize them as the enemy, say a yellow crescent and star sewn onto their outer clothing. The next step would be to gather them all together in secure camps removed from the rest of the populace, so that they could do us no harm. Then…
Wait a minute. We’ve seen that road before, and we’re not going to follow it.
The civil liberties accorded citizens of this country protect people from being targeted simply for their beliefs or membership in a particular group. Yet members of a particular group are plotting to do the country harm by murder, mayhem, and levying insurrection. If they succeed in their diabolical plans and unleash a devastating attack within our borders, people may well take the law into their own hands and civil liberties will be thrown out the window.
I don’t buy the idea that we should just be quiet and let domestic law enforcement do its job. I’m certain that it has indeed interdicted many terrorist attacks since 9/11, but Able Danger and Annie Jacobsen’s experience on Flight 327 and the Jamaat ul-Fuqra compounds and the farce that masquerades as airport security have all convinced me that incompetence rages throughout the system.
So what can be done?
First and foremost is to propagate as much information as possible. Turn over every rock. Open all the closet doors and turn on the lights. Bust open all the rotten stumps so we can see the termites inside. Spread the word, because that is what the blogosphere is for.
But let’s be sure we distinguish fact from speculation and rumor. And above all, remember that incitement to violence is the enemy’s specialty, not ours.
The second tactic is political. We are not going to be able to control the mujahideen in our midst if we don’t shrug off all the politically correct nonsense that hobbles us, and also control our borders. The current administration seems to have no will to do either of these things, and the next administration, no matter which party takes office, is unlikely to do any better.
Therefore we’re going to have to throw out an awful lot of rascals, and elect people who will shake the entrenched bureaucracy until its back teeth rattle.
Any other ideas out there? This is an open forum. Somewhere between the extremes of “Islam is a religion of peace” and “nuke the ragheads” is a course of action which will protect American citizens and also secure their liberties. I invite you to help me find it.
Calling all armchair generals! Gather at the Gates and make yourselves heard!
UPDATE: Best comment so far, by peggy:
I have been saying for a long time that the solution to the problem that islam poses is a simple one if we only have the courage and vision to pursue it relentlessly.
Just tell the truth about it.
A big problem with islam and muslims is that they do not understand this. They equate open rejection of their beliefs as hatred and bigotry mainly because their own leaders encourage them to do so by their example. But coming as they do from their original environment which is devoid of the hurly-burly of true democracy and liberty, they are easily mislead to shut their ears to the "bigots" who dislike all muslims and are encouraged to dismiss all criticism of their religion as ignorant. If we happen to think that islam is the worst idea for a religion there ever was but have no inclination to hate those who believe in it then we have to distinguish ourselves from the true haters by our conduct, by our charity and hospitality towards all.
The Valiant and the Victims
What’s the difference between a victim, a fatality, and a dead hero? Let us consider some lives and some deaths. Let us see if there may be a thread that connects them.
Over on The Neighborhood of God I described the bloody death of a 7th century young woman who’d valiantly fought off and escaped her incestuous father, only to die by his sword anyway, far from home. In my view because she refused to submit, Dymphna therefore was not a victim. However, one of my commenters disagreed. Did the simple fact that she failed ultimately to escape her father's sword seal the meaning of her life? I can understand why someone might see it that way, though her death is not how I choose to characterize Saint Dymphna; to me she is defined in her refusal to submit the core of her integrity to another person. Yes, her refusal contained her death warrant, but it was that very defiance which ultimately trumped her father’s rage. Dymphna’s courage and determination resonate down the centuries, bearing a signficance she could never have imagined.
And yesterday, I heard about the long awaited, the hoped-for, the tipping point death of the war in Iraq: Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr. was # 2,000 in the line of soldiers who have fallen in Iraq while serving their country and liberating the Iraqis. The meaning of his life was dumped into the total “body count” cauldron that the unscrupulous keep on the fire in aid of an enemy who would see us vanquished and the Iraqis returned to hell. As one commenter said of him:
I’ve been thinking about the cries that he is being victimized by the left-- and how ignoble a title “Victim” to bestow upon a warrior.
Instead, he is, with his family, a warrior whose service goes beyond merely his life, and includes bearing the weight of fools.
My commenter is exactly right: the sergeant is a Warrior and the burden of fools who latch onto his death desecrate his life and do themselves dishonor.
Last year, there was another death in Iraq, one which stood out from the thousands of victims of this ugly war. Remember Fabrizio Quattrocchi? Remember his defiance? Mr. Quattrocchi didn’t choose death. But when it showed up wearing the visage of evil, he turned and faced valiantly what he could not escape. Attempting to tear off his mask, he yelled his last words: "Now I'll show you how an Italian dies." Was Quattrocchi a victim or did he choose valor in his moment of dying? Whichever you choose, his defiance ruined his captors’ plans to show the video of his death; his bravery was dangerous and had to be hidden from view. If anyone in recent times can be said to have taught us how to die, it is this Italian contractor, lifted out of his anonymity for the purposes of an evil propaganda machine which he then broke, at least for the moment.
Just three examples: the girl, the sergeant, the contract worker. None of them chose to die, but all of them chose how to face death. One in defense of her integrity, another in the defense of his country, and the last because, like the first, he refused to submit to evil.
Meanwhile, back here at home, in 2003 — the year the war began in Iraq — forty two thousand people victims died in traffic accidents. They died for no reason. 42,643 people are gone and from none of their deaths can we salvage some small shred of consolation. These horrible deaths are merely wasted lives, cut off without reason.
So where is the hue and cry? Where are the headlines? Where are the protestors demanding that something be done about this on-going annual carnage right here in our country? Extrapolating from the figures for 2003, we can reliably estimate a death toll from traffic accidents (in the United States alone) of at least 125,000 men, women, and children dead since the start of the war in Iraq. Where are the Cindy Sheehans to carry on about this ignoble carnage? Where are the placards blaming…blaming whom, precisely? The car manufacturers? The highway engineers? The government for not setting a lower speed limit? The people who exercise their freedom to drive?
In our rural county, the annual death toll of inexperienced adolescent drivers is high. Or so it seems, given that our population is small and mostly we already know those kids who don’t make it around the curve. Their deaths fell their families; we weep for youth and potential cut off so suddenly and if we have teenagers, we wonder if our child will soon lie among the others. But our tragedy has no edge of valor to soften it. There is only the ugly specter carrying his scythe, reminding us how indiscriminate and cruel is his harvest.
I leave it to you to sort out and assign the labels and their meanings. The valiant and the victims already know who they are.
Reverse-Engineered Taqiyyah
Earlier today I wrote and posted a bitter satire which several readers (and at least one spouse) considered somewhat — um — intemperate. Wiser heads prevailed, so I took it down.
Deleting my post left me feeling dissatisfied and stifled. After mulling it over, I decided to revisit the same topic, this time without the irony. This post will be serious. Dead serious.
One of the advantages of a site meter is the ability to monitor visitors’ searches. Presumably most bloggers are familiar with the disgusting and perverted things that people are trying to find on the internet — if a few of the keywords match, sure enough, they show up at your site. We get our share of these visitors, mainly because of Dympha’s concerns regarding the treatment of Muslim women.
However, Gates of Vienna has its own special class of search engine referrals. It started back in July, and for some reason the same search string often recurs verbatim: “how to make a bomb — jihad.” Once we mentioned it in our posts, of course, our search-engine profile on the topic went up, and we got more and more of them. There are variations:
· make a bomb
· how to make bomb
· make bomb islam
· how to make a simple bomb at home
· make bomb kill jews
· etc.
But they all boil down to the same thing.
What gives one pause is this: the certainty that somewhere out in the world, at the other end of those searches, are people who want to do us harm, evil, twisted minds that long to attain paradise by killing as many infidels as possible. Every day more searchers arrive here, a steady drip… drip… drip of rancid malevolence.
And those who appear here are just the searchers in English — what about those in Arabic? Or Pashtun, or Urdu, or Swahili, or Turkish, or Farsi, or Tagalog, or…
Moreover, those who wash up at the Gates of Vienna are but a sample. Instead of this nest of kaffirs in the heart of Dar-al-Harb, the more intelligent and adept jihadis have long since found their way to the real bomb-making instructions. Think of the thousands upon thousands who must be out there searching. Some of them are in the West. Some are in America. And some are right down the road.
After a while, it does weigh a body down.
My fantasy is to draw in these deadly Islamists and prepare an ingenious trap designed solely for the unwary mujahid, and — like a genetically-tailored virus which will infect only one host — cause them to self-destruct.
Call it reverse-engineered taqiyyah.
Dymphna, Patron Saint of the Insane
Over at The Neighborhood of God the post requested by Erico is up.
NB This is my version of Dymphna, drawn from various accounts read over the last few years -- ever since I discovered her when a bookmark with her likeness and a prayer to her fell out of a used book I'd ordered through the mail.
Proceed over there at your own risk.
The blogosphere increases geometrically, spawning sites into the ethernet at a prodigious rate. If not up yet to the speed of light, no doubt it will be shortly.
Recently there tottered onto the stage, dragging the modest banner of Insignificant Microbe behind its small self, and blinking in the light of sudden blogdom, another such effort: Yet Another Really Great Blog. It is this stage to which I recommend that you repair and take your seat for the show.
On the marquee (not the html “marquee,” but the old fashioned one which displayed film titles and the movie stars appearing therein) you will find talent, that were it displayed in some economic form, would surely be a heap of gold coins high enough to bring Scrooge McDuck running. Just look at this list of contributors!
· vnjagvet
· offworld
· Rick Ballard
· ambisinistral
· chuck
· Jamie Irons
· truepeers
· terrye
· flenser
· Knucklehead
· MeaninglessHotAir
· RogerA
· SneakyFeet
· Seneca the Younger
· David Thomson
· ContraryPelican
· Syl
· smart parrot
To paraphrase President Kennedy, there hasn’t been this much brain power in one place since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. I would add John Quincy Adams and James Madison to mix, with a dash of Benjamin Franklin to add some reality to President Kennedy’s quip. Commonwealth of Virginia heresy alert: Jefferson wasn’t that smart, but he was immensely curious. Curiosity, the energy that fuels desire, is its own brilliance.
YARGB’s subtitle is “Flares Into Darkness,” a statement both hopeful and sad. It evokes Plato’s Cave, with contributors occasionally providing bursts of light to illuminate the place.
I bring this conglomerate to your attention not only because of the breadth and depth of its contributors but because the notion of bringing together seasoned commenters, intelligent and probably simpatico voices in the cave, is the future wave of blogging. As anyone who blogs frequently knows, posting with any regularity on your ownsome chews up brain cells and spits them out at a great pace. Not a pretty sight when a post goes three ways wrong and then Blogger melts down, leaving your essay forever in Limbo instead of on the screen (yes, I do indeed know and often follow the wisdom of the cut and paste before finally attempting to put a post to bed, but sometimes, when the pile around my chair of chewed and discarded neurons has begun to slide and topple, I forgets). That’s probably why there are so many started-and-abandoned blogs floating around out there. The strain was simply too much.
Besides the limits of working alone, I intuit there is a synergy created when the blog is spread across a group such as this. The notion of Koinonia comes to mind here. There are religious uses for this word from koine Greek, but in this case, koinonia appears to have been an idea which grew from Wilfrid Bion’s seminal work with groups in England following World War II. His ideas and their applications grew from his initial interactions with “shell-shocked” soldiers in veterans’ hospitals and his subsequent observation of “regular folks” in the civilian world in post-World War II London.
Dr. Bion’s meta-view of the kinds of small groups and their purposes led to Patrick deMare’s (et al) hope of creating true dialogue through Koinonic groups that would work through and past the petty, defensive hatreds we bring to our encounters with one another. His underlying philosophy was that by meeting in groups larger than a family-of-origin setting but small enough so that people knew one another (a village, perhaps?) perhaps change in our internal relationships would be possible. These beneficent changes would perforce spill over into our relationships with one another, decreasing reactivity and paranoia. Thus, the book describes the authors’ hopes:
A study of the larger group, focusing on the processes and dynamics whereby the group micro-culture emerges. As the initial frustrations of the group find expression in hate, this is transformed through dialogue to what the Greeks knew as ‘koinonia’, or the state of impersonal fellowship.
Even though the book was written in the ’90s it seems already dated to some extent. Perhaps because the England in which it was written is fast disappearing into a chunk of Islamicized EU, losing its identity in the process.
Happily, to some extent Demare’s hope is being lived out in the blogosphere (thank you, Mr. Quick), though it is far too early to even guess what forms will metamorphose from this process. Whatever they may be, Yet Another Really Great Blog, shooting off its flares into darkness, may be a forerunner.
Yes, there are other group bloggers and aggregates out there. But these people, who seem to have emerged full blown from the world of commenters, may be in a different category. Whether or not this accurately represents who they are, YARGB is nonetheless a sensational aggregation. May they flourish beyond their original dreams.
Meanwhile, over there among a rich variety of posts on Godel’s theorem and ol’ Harriet’s nomination and disquisitions on the bird flu, discover what happened to The Girl from Ipanema. Yes, she was a real person. Given my predilection for sadness over lost dreams and how others’ hatred can trip us up, this post left me in tears. Late at night, over a glass of Jameson’s this is to be expected. However, on a lovely October morning, tears for the slings and arrows directed at another simply because she existed are more disquieting; they are a hot blade and cut more deeply than late-night lachrymosia (yes, it is my own neologism). Perhaps it is the threat of the destruction of beauty, simply because it was beautiful and therefore aroused curiosity and desire. WARNING: reading the post may undercut any cherished ideas of “fair” you may have secreted away, waiting for better times.
Disclaimer: No, this is not a case of mutual back-scratching. Gates of Vienna is not blogrolled at YARGB. Maybe if we work real hard to improve, attaining The List is possible. It’s an illustrious but select group — I intuit we aren’t there. Yet.
Weird Quirks from the Turks
According to this “Oddly Enough” Reuters story,
A Turkish court fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law banning characters not used in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said on Tuesday.
The court in the southeastern city of Siirt fined each of the 20 people 100 new lira for holding up the placards, written in Kurdish, at the event last year. The letters Q and W do not exist in the Turkish alphabet, but are used in Kurdish.
Quick, Walid! Bring the eraser and whiteout!
Apparently, however, the law is not uniformly enforced:
Many shops and companies in Turkey have names, signs and advertising using the letters Q, W and X which are not used in Turkish, in apparent violation of the 1928 law, but have not been prosecuted.
So if you’re Kurdish, you’d better watch your P’s W’s and Q’s.
Kiss Them Goodbye, Your Highness
“You Do It, Too, and Besides, You Can’t Spell”
Egypt and the Copts: “Kith and Kin”
More on Jamaat-ul Fuqra in New York
“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”
No Terrorist Attack on US Soil Since 9/11?
We Have a Guest-Blogger
Another Watchers' Council, A Little More Wisdom
The Bad Bloggers Meet the Wall Street Journal
Gates of Vienna Talks!
Jamaat ul-Fuqra Headquarters
Counterterrorism is Not a Government Responsibilit...
Defiance Is More Than an Attitude
Jamaat ul-Fuqra in South Carolina
A Matter of Trust
Watcher of Weasels for October 14th
Even Al Jazeera Calls It "Suicide"
Turning on the Light
The Counterterrorism Blog Looks Into the Face of E...
Sarbanes-Oxley Sucks
Iraqi Triumph vs MSM Trivia
Terror in Nalchik
The Politics of CP takes on Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Just Say No to RINOs
Dhimmi Doublethink
The North Caucasus Front
Jamaat ul-Fuqra in California
Update: Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Dhimmocracy in America
England Begins to Fight Back
USMC Vet Has Some Important Links
Terrorism at Georgia Tech?
Jamaat ul-Fuqra in Virginia, Part 1
God Willing and the Gates Still Hold
Did He or Didn’t He?
Remember Lepanto
Fjordman Sounds Off
The Council Votes and Moves On
What He Said
Uh-uh, Nope, No Jihad Here
More on Joel Hinrichs
Not a Suicide?
The Dreaded Backlash Against Muslims
The Pakistani Roommate
The “Mother of Satan” Appears in America
So Where’s the Fire?
Jihad at the University of Oklahoma?
That Pesky Public Opinion
Turkey, the EU, and Public Opinion
The Heart of the Revolution
Maps and Make-Up
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From earth2tech:
Apple has developed a reputation for sleek, hip and user-friendly computers and electronics. Now, Veranda Solar, a startup based in Portland, Ore. and Oakland, Calif., developing small, easy-to-install solar-power systems, says it wants to become the Apple of consumer solar products. (Updated to reflect that the company works out of both cities.)
How so? Instead of focusing on a new solar chemistry or production technology, the company hopes to differentiate itself with its aesthetics, appeal and ease of use, CEO Capra J’neva says. “We interact with real people to create our products, so we are reducing market risk by understanding the real needs of people who will buy [them],” she told us last week.
Founded in December, the startup is designing solar-power systems, made up of small (about 24-inch and 60- to 70-watt) panels with rounded corners, that onsumers can install themselves. Veranda’s systems, based on prototypes that were developed at Stanford University with SunPower Corp., will fold flat — making them easy to ship — and snap together. The systems will include the panels, inverter and everything else needed to deliver power into a home, and will be certified to plug right into a standard wall outlet, J’neva said. The idea is that customers will be able to install them with only a screwdriver, mounting them on roofs, windowsills, balconies or walls.
Veranda expects its systems, which include a panel, an inverter and cables, will start at $600 — or about $400 for just the panels, J’neva said. Veranda expects to sell systems at home-decor and home-improvement stores such as Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware and Home Depot, as well as through utilities, direct sales and solar-specialty businesses. The company forecasts it will net $140,355 in sales from 300 customers this year and turn a profit in 2011.
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I-BTEC News
IBTEC at the Innovation Excellence Awards - Stationers Hall
Ian Beardsall, MD of IBTEC, was at the Innovation Excellence Awards held at the Stationers Hall next to St Pauls Cathedral in London, to witness one of our product developments take an award for Excellence in Innovation.
IBTEC have been instrumental in taking an original patented concept of a formable protective packaging solution into a whole suite of options including recyclable and compostable products.
Aimed specifically at the mass protective packaging sector, my client is currently in talks with the main world players and IBTEC is currently designing machinery to manufacture these in vast volumes.
Also, IBTEC are working on derivatives of this solution for other industries in the industrial sector which also has significant market growth potential.
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IBTEC at the UK Packaging Awards 2015
Ian Beardsall, MD of IBTEC, was at the UK Packaging Awards held at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane London, as one of its recent innovative packaging developments was shortlisted for an award.
A conceptual prototype that has been in existence for a little while, has been transformed into a whole range of products by the IBTEC product development team for our client. This has also included the design and manufacture of the machinery to produce them resulting in a significant contract for IBTEC into 2016 and beyond.
Following on from last year, IBTEC has continued to develop further products and one in particular will be displayed at the Packaging Innovations show in Birmingham this year. Ian Beardsall said “2014, my first full year after selling Sirane was an interesting one. There is clearly an appetite for innovation on a scale I have never seen before and fortunately for us, this excites us very much. The challenges facing packaging in particular is getting greater by the day, and complex solutions can only be achieved with the right people with the right skills and this is where we fit nicely."
IBTEC will be at the show for both days so hopefully, we will see you there..
IBTEC will be visiting the Packaging Innovations show to support some of its customers that it has helped develop products for this year, 2 of which are up for awards. Ian Beardsall said “It is an exciting time to be developing new products as there is such a thirst for innovation like I have never seen before. The ideas that are coming forward are really pushing the limits on design-to-manufacture and fortunately, this is a key strength of my company. I am happy to have been able to offer comprehensive solutions to technical manufacturing and design problems encountered at the prototype stage to ensure the product can be produced"
One of the other key factors has been minimising the cost. In every case thus far, IBTEC have managed to reduce the product cost considerably by material selection and processing methods without hindering the products performance. In both instances, IBTEC have designed the machinery to manufacture these products.
In a market where iterations of existing design concepts ( bags, boxes, pouches. thermoformed) seems to be prevalent, being able to offer the market an option of saying, “lets design a product and we will figure how to make it”, has excited our customers immensely.
Ian went on to say.”It is quite interesting when people look at the things we make and wonder how it is made. My customers are passionate about their product concepts and it excites me to help turn that passion into the product that they envisaged”
IBTEC - Absorbent Material Engineering
Over the last 4 months, IBTEC have been working on a new concept in absorbent material manufacture which it anticipates will revolutionise the industry. The small prototype machine has recently been commissioned and the initial trials produced. After fully testing its performance, the results look very promising.
Ian Beardsall said “I have been working with absorbent materials for many years now. Firstly with wet-laid technologies then air-laid technologies and I have often wondered if there is a better way to produce an absorbent material which has a greater absorbent-to-weight ratio than is currently available at a competitive price. After working on another material development in the medical & industrial sector, I came up with this idea and thought it would work. So after seeing the product this week I feel very happy at this stage, although there is a long way to go”
The target absorbency of the initial material produced was to aim for 3 litres /m2 and this was produced with a material weighing 78.8g/m2 on the first attempt.With more refinement, this is expected to be improved,
The important thing is that the components to manufacture this material will cost no more than current materials. They are fully food contact and FDA approved and therefore IBTEC expect to see the material being very competitive in the market. It is just a smart way of putting the materials together which is the key.
IBTEC are now looking to take the trials further to a pilot line which it is anticipated will take approximately 9-12 months to design,build & commission. At the end of this, IBTEC will be working with potential investors to put together a program to build a full size production machine and facility to take the material to market.
The best start to the new year ... Ever !
Well what a start to the new year! As we start to get the word out that I am no longer developing products at Sirane, but developing products within my new company, I am receiving a large amount of interest on a global scale. Currently, besides the UK, we are looking at projects in the USA, France, Germany, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. These vary from Medical applications to Industrial packaging to engineering solutions and machinery.
We have received our first order from Spain of which we will be producing with one of our trading partners in their factory which has ISO:9001:2008 & BS 13485. We expect to do more in this area as we develop more products for the medical markets of the world.
In the industrial packaging sector, we have recently developed a dual compartment pouch to be used in a unique way. As this is a big development, we have partnered with a European leader in chemical formulations to do a joint patent and then bring this to market. With interest from a world renowed company, we hope this to be a big product for us. IBTEC will be also designing and developing the machinery to manufacture the product in two separate locations around the world.
Sandra Evans, Sales Director, has recently visited the USA to discuss some medical applications and some industrial packaging applications using super absorbent/adsorbent materials in a very clever way. We hope to see this develop into another new area for us and supercede some of the existing packaging already out there.
We have also recently designed and manufactured 2 machines for the processing of a special thin laminate structure to be inserted into a bag for a medical application. These have just been delivered and installed and working perfectly. The customer is very happy with the installation and we expect to see further orders from this company for other projects.
All this and its only January ….
IBTEC inivted to Atlanta FoodService Expo
IBTEC were recently invited to the Atlanta Food Service Expo by a potential customer to discuss the design, development and manufacture of a brand new concept that has never been done before. This customer, who is a market leader in their field, has been working for sometime on a variety of options with other companies but were impressed with IBTEC's design capabilities and speed of response.
After just one discussion in which IBTEC fully understood the brief, IBTEC designed and produced a prototype which the customer commented that he was ' blown away' with its functionality, aesthetics and performance.
IBTEC's ability to provide an unrivaled design with the above attributes at the lowest cost and best delivery times has impressed our client to the extent that they are looking for IBTEC to produce this product and manufacture it in the USA on machinery designed, developed and built here at IBTEC. The range of products will be produced in their hundreds of millions growing to an expected 0.8 billion/year and above.
IBTEC Welcomes Jason Mead
"Would you like to be a dot on our map?"
Jason Mead is our first USA representative to join IBTEC. He is our first dot on the IBTEC map outside the UK and we welcome Jason to our dynamic and fast growing team.
Jason has been working for many years in the pharmaceutical markets of the West Coast USA developing new products and sales for a large pharmaceutical company. He recently agreed to join IBTEC due to its capability of designing niche products through to manufacture in the US markets.
He will head up the West Coast USA and we want to wish him every success.
Jason will shortly be joined by our first European agent to be announced soon.
So like Jason, if you would like to be a dot on the IBTEC map as part of our sales team, or can offer IBTEC other buisness partnerships, please contact myself at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ex-Sirane Owner launches Product Design Firm
Press Release - http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/ex-sirane-owner-launches-new-product-design-firm/
Press Release - http://www.packagingeurope.com/Packaging-Europe-News/55347/IBTEC-Formed-by-Former-Sirane-Executive.html
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IFTN Talks with Charleigh Bailey, Writer and Star of new RTÉ Comedy Pilot 'Headcases'
06 Sep 2019 : Nathan Griffin
The cast of 'Headcases'
IFTN caught up with Charleigh ('A Date for Mad Mary') ahead of Headcases’ release on RTÉ to talk about the inspiration behind the pilot, working as a debut writer, and the Screen Ireland /RTÉ Scripted Comedy series initiative.
Headcases Hair and Beauty is about to go through some changes. Long-time BFFs, Michelle and Cheryl, are ready to take their business to the next level by purchasing the building. All they need is loan approval. With its misfit congregation of staff and clients, can this Northside Dublin salon hold it together through conflicting management styles, a mean green situation and an errant blow-dry when the lending manager visits the salon? Or will internal drama cut their ambitions short?
Produced by Treasure Entertainment, the Irish production company has announced that the new comedy pilot, created, written and starring Charleigh Bailey alongside Seána Kerslake (Hole in the Ground), will air on RTÉ One this Sunday, 8th September at 22.30 as part of their new drama and comedy season.
Headcases is directed by Hugh O’Connor, whose debut feature film Metal Heart was also produced by Treasure and was released in Irish cinemas this summer. In addition to Charleigh Bailey, Headcases features an all-star Irish cast that includes Seána Kerslake, Shaun Dunne, Hilda Fay, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Sarah Morris, and Shauna Higgins. It is produced by Claire McCaughley for Treasure Entertainment, in association with RTÉ and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. Headcases is a comedy pilot funded by RTÉ under their partnership with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland to support new Irish scripted comedy projects with export potential.
Charleigh first came to prominence for her performance in the IFTA-award winning, A Date for Mad Mary opposite long-time friend and fellow Bow Street graduate, Seána Kerslake. Charleigh also collected the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in the film at the 2017 IFTA Film and Drama Awards.
IFTN journalist Nathan Griffin spoke with Charleigh ahead of the Headcases broadcast on RTÉ this Sunday.
IFTN: Where did the inspiration for Headcases come from?
Charleigh: “The inspiration for Headcases came from my own experience of working in a hairdressers. Every day felt like an event, the clients and staff always had a story to tell and there was never a dull moment. I also have close friends who are hairdressers and beauticians and listening to their stories for years, I knew if I was ever going to write something it would be set in a hairdressers. There is something so intimate about the relationship between a hairdresser and their client, you find yourself telling your hairdresser things you might not have told your best friend. The hair and beauty world is so rich and characterful making it perfect for TV.”
IFTN: The show marks your first venture into comedic writing, how did you approach the project?
Charleigh: “When I first approached the project I really hadn't a clue of how I was going to do it, all I knew was I wanted to make a show set in a hair and beauty salon on the Northside of Dublin and I wanted it to reflect the world I grew up in and the characters I know so well. I wrote two episodes without thinking about structure or where it might lead to, I let myself just have free reign to discover as I went along. I felt I knew how the characters sounded so well but needed to work on their journeys.”
“Once Treasure came on board they brought on Barbara Deignan to help me with structure and we did a lot of development work. Sarah Gunn and Claire McCaughley really made me dig deep into the characters’ arcs and back stories which really helped to give each character depth. Although at times, I couldn't understand why everything had to tie in with the plot and had to have a payoff, I'm so glad Rachel O'Flanagan (our script editor) made sure I paid attention to it because I can see now why that is so important. After that it was just redrafting and redrafting until we had our shooting script.”
IFTN: You feature as creator, writer and actor on the show, how did you strike a balance between these commitments?
Charleigh: “I started writing the pilot in October 2017 and we didn't shoot it until February 2018 so I was able to just focus on writing for most of that time. A director pal of mine had to remind me to switch off from being the writer and focus on playing Cheryl. I had lived in Cheryl's world for so long during the writing process so I felt like she was embedded in me already. I wanted to let all the prep go and just enjoy playing her. Myself and Seána Kerslake are great pals anyway and most of our scenes are just two friends working alongside each other. We didn't have to work on our chemistry because we already get each other so well. After I've done my prep work on my characters I really enjoy working on what they look like, once I had my acrylic nails and tan on, my hair in space buns and the beauticians uniform on I felt like Cheryl instantly.”
IFTN: You mentioned with Seana Kerslake on the series, did you have particular actors in mind for each part when writing the script?
Charleigh: “I still can't believe the cast we have, some of my favourite actors. I saw Hilda Fay play Paula Spencer in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" when I was a teenager and she blew me away and I've been a fan ever since, so I feel very lucky to have her playing Trish. I had a fair idea of who I wanted for each character but there was a nice surprise with casting Sarah Morris as Aimee and Hilda as Trish. I had never met Sarah before, we got her on tape and she was fantastic. I asked Hilda to read Trish in the read through as we hadn't cast Trish yet and Hilda was just doing it as a favour for me. In the original script, Trish was in her 60's but at the read through Hilda had us all in stitches and really lit up the script, she always gives it her all. I went to Treasure straight after and said, "Please can we change Trish's age and cast Hilda!" They all agreed at how wonderful Hilda was and we cast her shortly after. We also have Shaun Dunne, Shauna Higgins, Neilí Conroy, Caroline Harvey, Andrew Bennett, Ian Lloyd Anderson and the brilliant Ruby Dunne as well. The cast brought more than I could have hoped for, actors really are so special in what they bring to their characters.”
IFTN: The show is directed by Hugh O’Conor and produced by Claire McCaughley of Treasure Entertainment - How did you find working with them and what did they bring to the show?
Charleigh: “As with every development process, it can be tricky at times to really get your vision across accurately. We struggled for a while to find references and tone as we all felt Headcases was a unique world that we couldn't compare to other shows. I knew I wanted to write a comedy but I wanted it to feel very real and never farcical. I wanted the comedy to come from the characters own natural funniness rather than it being slap stick and played just for laughs. I believe the funniest people are those who don't know they're funny - it's in the characters’ dry wit that we find the comedy.”
“Everyone at Treasure and Claire were very conscious of making sure my voice was clear and the show always reflected my own vision. They told me from the get go if I ever felt something wasn't right or what they were suggesting clashed with my vision I was to let them know. Hugh was very supportive and excited about the project. He respected the world and the choices we all made for our characters, he let us be and just play with our characters. Hugh was very eager to protect my vision and I always felt I could go to him if something didn't sit right with me. He has a fantastic eye and a great instinct.”
IFTN: Can you walk me through your experience of developing this project through the Screen Ireland /RTÉ Scripted Comedy series initiative?
Charleigh: “My experience has been very positive with RTÉ/Screen Ireland. I first applied to the comedy initiative with Treasure back in November 2017. We were then shortlisted along with 10 other projects and given development funding to pitch to RTÉ /Screen Ireland with our pilot scripts, shortly after that 4 projects were funded to have their pilots made. I had never written anything before so to be given the chance to make a pilot and have it air on RTÉ this coming Sunday is incredible. RTÉ really wanted to support me and the world I have created and I think the comedy series initiative is a really great platform to discover new comedy talent and long may it last.”
Headcases will air on Sunday 8th September at 22.30 on RTÉ ONE.
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MailScan
MailScan Templates
MailScan Templates are used by HowNow to automatically detect the type of form being imported and to supply information about the layout of the form. Like forms do not have to be 'batched'; HowNow can import a mixture of different types of forms in one operation. At least one MailScan Template must exist before forms can be imported.
See Setting up MailScan.
A MailScan Template consists of a sample form document stored in the Knowledge database along with details about areas on the form (zones) that contain form identification, contact identification and other information.
The information stored about each zone on a template document consists of the dimensions of the zone in relation to the edges of the document, the name of the template document, the name of the form, the type of data contained in the zone and the merge document to print after the import, if applicable. More than one zone can be specified.
There are four types of recognition zones: Document, Contact, Value and Other.
Document Recognition Zone - contains information that identifies the type of form. For example, a Notice of Assessment has an area containing the words 'NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT'.
Contact Recognition Zone - contains information that identifies the contact. For example, a Notice of Assessment had an area containing the contact's tax file number.
Value Recognition Zone - contains a balance value. For example, a Notice of Assessment had an area containing the various tax balances.
Form Year Recognition Zone - contains the year of the form. For example, a Notice of Assessment had an area containing the words '30 June YYYY' that specifies the year of the form.
Payment Date Recognition Zone - contains the payment due date. For example, on Notice of Assessments when payment is due, an area contains the words 'This amount is/was' followed by the date the payment is due.
Other Recognition Zone - contains any other text information to be read from the form.
During import, the MailScan template document is used to identify the type of form and the corresponding zone information is used to read the contact identifying data and other information from the form using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). A suitable merge document can also be created.
To maintain MailScan Templates, go to File > Administration > Records > MailScan Templates.
This dialog allows MailScan Templates to be created or edited.
Template Document - Select the image document that best matches the type of form this MailScan Template describes.
Note: the form image must first be stored in HowNow's Knowledge database as a TIF file and be made current before it can be attached to a MailScan Template. If the forms to be imported are .PDF files, the ones to be used as MailScan templates must first be converted to a TIF file before they can be used. See Convert PDF to TIF.
Document Name - The name of the document type this template specifies. For example, 'Notice of Assessment'. This value is used to identify the type of form during import and must match the name exactly.
Title - the title of this MailScan Template. The default is the same name as the MailScan template document.
Note: the title can have the contact field values or dates automatically embedded, but not the record ID. See Standard Record Titles for more details.
Merge Document - optional. The merge document to create when importing forms of this type. If the next two fields have a value after importing a form and they are equal to within 5 cents, this merge document is created.
If the following fields have no values, the merge document is always created.
Estimate Field - optional. The name of the contact field used to hold an estimated value. For example, the amount of tax calculated to be payable or refundable. If this and the next field have a value after importing a form and they are equal and a merge document is specified above, it is created.
Actual Field - optional. The name of the contact field used to hold an actual value extracted from an imported form. For example, the amount of tax the ATO specifies as payable or refundable. If this and the above field have a value after importing a form and they are equal and a merge document is specified above, it is created.
Zones - a list of zones defined for this MailScan Template. A typical template contains at least 3 zones.
To add, edit or delete zones, click Add Zone, Edit Zone or Delete Zone respectively.
See MailScan Template Zones below.
Note: at least one zone must be defined.
Is Active - use this field to activate or de-activate templates. They can be temporarily reactivated on the MailScan Import dialog.
Note: To improve processing speed, rarely used templates should be deactivated and only reactivated on the import dialog when needed.
MailScan Zones
MailScan Template Zones are definitions of areas of an image document that HowNow uses to extract information about the document.
Title - the title of the zone. Automatically created by HowNow but it can be changed.
Contact Field Name - the name of the contact field containing the contact identification data. For example, with ATO forms, the usual contact identification field is Tax File Number.
Zone Type - There are three types of recognition zones:
Document Zone - contains information that identifies the type of form. For example, a Notice of Assessment has an area containing the words 'NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT'.
Contact Zone - contains information that identifies the contact. For example, a Notice of Assessment had an area containing the contact's tax file number.
Value Zone - contains a balance value. For example, a Notice of Assessment had an area containing the various tax balances.
Form Year Zone - contains the form year and is used to create the correct record location. For example, a Notice of Assessment has an area containing the words '30 June YYYY' that specifies the year of the form.
Payment Date Zone - contains the date payment is due. For example, on Notice of Assessment forms where payment is due, an area contains the words 'This amount is/was' followed by the date the payment is due.
Sign Type - specifies the type of sign to expect when reading balances from an imported form. The options are:
None - not a balance field or no sign specified,
Trailing CR/DR - the trailing debit/credit sign typically used on ATO documents,
Brackets - balances with brackets are assumed to be negative, no brackets, positive, or +- Sign.
OCR Filter - optional.
Text used to help HowNow's optical character recognition system recognise values on the imported form and to reject possibly spurious characters. Any characters entered here restrict recognition of characters on the imported form to just those characters specified. For example, when the field is numeric like a tax file number, use '0123456789'. This forces HowNow to read only the digits between 0 and 9 and to ignore all other, possibly spurious characters.
Another example is to use '0123456789.CDR' when reading balances from ATO forms. This restricts recognition to the digits 0 through 9, a decimal point and DR or CR. Note that 'R' only needs to be specified once.
Pattern - optional.
Text entered here is used to help HowNow recognise text that matches a pattern. A pattern (or mask) consists of a string of the numbers 0 and 9 and the # character. The length of the pattern matches the text to be recognised. The number 0 represents a number if a character in that position exists; a 9 represents a number and it must exist; a # represents an alphabetic character if a character in that position exists.
For example a pattern for a tax file number would be '099999999', or '099 999 999', 8 or 9 numbers only, with or without spaces. A pattern for an assessment amount would be '0000000009.00##', up to 10 significant digits, a decimal point, two decimal places and optionally, two alphabetic characters.
Note that the latest assessment notices use commas as thousands separators. In that case the pattern would be '0,000,000,009.00##'.
Text Before - optional.
Text entered here is used to find the specific location of a field within a recognition zone. HowNow then reads the value immediately following the Text Before text. For example, to read the form year from the line containing 30 June 2009, the Text Before would be '30 JUNE'.
Text Length - optional.
If a Text Before value is used above, this field can be used to specify how many characters should be read after the text before. In the example above, the text length should be 4 to read the characters '2009'.
If the value is negative, this field specifies how many characters should be read from the end of the line, ignoring the full stop, if any. For example if the text was either 'This amount is/was due on 05 JUN 09' or 'This amount is/was payable by 05 JUN 09' then the text before would be 'This amount is/was' and the text length should be -9 to read the '05 JUN 09' from the end of the text.
Note: any spaces before or after the text are ignored.
Remove Spaces - removes any spaces found in the recognised text. Used to help prevent misreading characters on forms that have been scanned with very low resolution.
Read Last Line Only - used to help recognise the last value in a list of balances or other values where the height of the list varies with each form. For example, an ATO Notice of Assessment.
Fill Filter - optional. Attempts to fill 'holes' in characters to make them easier to recognise. Only use when normal reading fails or the text is shaded.
Despeckle Filter - optional. Removes any scattered black pixels surrounding characters to make them easier to recognise. Only use when normal reading fails.
Bold Filter - optional. Increases the width of characters to make them easier to recognise. Only use when normal reading fails.
Document Image - shows the document image and allows the recognition area to be defined by drawing a frame around it.
To draw a frame, click the mouse at the top left of the area to be read and drag the cursor to the bottom right of the area. The frame will expand and follow the mouse.
Make the frame relatively large so that if form registration is poor the required text will still be within the zone. For example, draw the frame to include the line above and below and a suitable margin on each side of the required text.
In the case of a balance at the bottom of a column of balances, draw the frame to include all possible balances and tick the Last Line field above.
To move an existing frame, click anywhere in the frame and drag the mouse to the new location.
To resize the frame, click on any side and drag the side to the new location.
To delete a frame, click anywhere outside of the existing frame.
Only one frame can be created per zone.
Use the Zoom Control to zoom the image to where the recognition zone can be easily seen and manipulated.
What is MailScan
Setting up MailScan
MailScan Diagnostics
Using MailScan
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Wild Neighbors: Perceptions of Megarian Ethnic Identity in Fifth-Century Athenian Comedy
in Greece / by alexander / on November 24, 2009 at 3:37 am /
By Monica Florence
Source: Apaclassics.org
The characterization of barbarians in fifth-century drama as wild, untrustworthy, effeminate, and childish has been well-documented (T. Long, Barbarians in Greek Comedy, 1986; E. Hall, Inventing the Barbarian, 1989). On the other hand, the presentation of the various Greek groups in Old Comedy has received little scholarly attention. In this paper, I focus specifically upon the stereotype of the Megarians in the Athenian comedies produced during the Peloponnesian War.
In the first part of the paper, I explore the differences between the Athenians and the Megarians portrayed in Old Comedy and show that the stereotype of the Dorian Megarians shares certain characteristics with both barbarian groups and the (mostly Ionian) subjects/allies of Athens. In addition to the lengthy scene with the Megarian merchant in the Akharnians, fourteen other references create a vivid and consistent stereotype of Megara: the comic poets repeatedly characterize the Megarians, like the barbarians and the Athenian subjects/allies, as inferior, vulgar, childlike, and conniving. In the Prospaltioi for example, one of Eupolis’ characters criticizes a joke as “Megarian”; it is also vulgar (aselges) and excessively frigid or silly (sphodra psuxron). The character next finds fault with the audience for laughing at childish things (ta paidia, frag. 2). In the Akharnians of Aristophanes, the Megarian merchant characterizes his own daughters as clearly worthless (phaneran zamian); he must resort to a “Megarian trick” (Megarika machana) and disguise them as pigs in order to sell them to the Athenian comic hero Dikaiopolis.
Why do the Megarians not conform to the comic stereotypes of other Dorian groups? I suggest in the second part of the paper that the stereotype of the Megarians is inextricably linked to Athenian imperial ideology. By attributing characteristics typically associated with barbarians and subjects/allies to their Megarian neighbors, the comic poets suggest that the local Greek landscape requires Athenian control and, thereby, sanction Athenian mastery over it.
In Inventing the Barbarian (1989), Edith Hall has suggested that tragedy’s articulation of ethnicity reflects “a move towards a simpler, binary articulation of the Hellenocentric world” (p. 161). As this paper will show however, Attic comedy can present even its own neighbors as different, inferior, and in need of Athenian control. The Athenian stereotyping of the Megarians thus reveals the strength of ethnic prejudice within Hellas itself, and the canonical antithesis of Greeks and barbarians is undermined by a more complicated vision in Old Comedy of intra-Hellenic conflict.
Greek tribes being labeled "Barbarians"
Nigel Guy wilson , Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece (2006)
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Prehistoric Salaries
Grant Fuhr
NHL Fortune: $15,191,700
Grant Fuhr’s net worth / earnings / salary history. He made US $15,191,678 (US $25,270,722 in today's dollars), ranking #742 in NHL / hockey career earnings.
Season Salary
($US) In today's
$ NHL
Rank +/-
($) +/-
1988-89 $276,420 $597,469
Source: The Hockey News 1990 Yearbook
1989-90 $261,950 $540,166 87
Source: Canadian Press
1990-91 $265,670 $519,754 131 $3,720 1%
One-way contract. (According to the Canadian Press, he made $C 418,000)
Source: The Hockey News
1991-92 $370,152 $694,918 112 $104,482 39%
1992-93 $1,323,200 $2,411,563 15 $953,048 257%
Amount includes salary and any signing bonus paid in 1992-93.
1993-94 $1,600,000 $2,831,280 20 $276,800 21%
1994-95 $994,286 $1,715,512 44 -$605,714 -38%
Lockout: NHL salary prorated for 48-game season.
Source: Guide Hockey 1995-1996
1995-96 $975,000 $1,635,876 144 -$19,286 -2%
Source: La Presse
1996-97 $1,025,000 $1,670,443 167 $50,000 5%
Source: La Presse / Guide Hockey RDS
1998-99 $3,100,000 $4,863,006 47 $1,100,000 55%
1999-00 $3,000,000 $4,604,442 61 -$100,000 -3%
US $15,191,678
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“I don't belong to any of this. I belong to You.
Yasmin Mogahed
“The same test repeats itself over and over in different forms...until you pass it, until you learn the lesson it was sent to teach.
“If you want to know where you stand with God, ask where God stands with you.
“When you are free inside, you will never allow anyone to take away your freedom. And when you have inner freedom, you can look through tyrants and thugs to the Lord of the tyrants and thugs. When you are free inside, you become unenslaveable, because you can only enslave a person with attachments. You can only threaten a person who is afraid of loss. You only have power over someone when they need or want something that you have the ability to take away. But there is only one thing which no person has the power to take away from you: God.
“We must first conquer greed, selfishness, shirk, ultimate fear, love, hope and dependence on anything other than Allah. We must conquer hubb ad-dunya (love of dunya)—the root of all our diseases, and all our oppression. Before we can defeat the Pharaohs in our lives, we must defeat the Pharaoh inside ourselves.
“To understand the concept of tadaru, imagine yourself in the middle of an ocean. Imagine that you are all alone on a boat. Imagine that a huge storm comes and the waves become mountains surrounding you. Now imagine turning to God at that point and asking for His help. In what state of need, awe, dependency and utter humility would you be in? That is tadaru. Allah says that He creates conditions of hardship in order to grant us that gift. God does not need to make things hard for us. He creates those situations in order to allow us to reach a state of closeness to Him, which otherwise we’d be unlikely to reach.
“When I looked into history I found a small number of individuals whose lives mirrored the life-cycle of a grain of wheat. They were torn from their roots, then crushed, then ground in mills, then kneaded with fists, then rolled out and baked in ovens at high temperatures… just so they could provide food for others.
Mostafa Saadeq Ar-Rafe'ie
“Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to life in the process. No hardship lasts forever. There is always an end.
Babar Ahmad
“Muadh ibn Jabal (ra) was undergoing the pangs and agonies of death, he cried out, “O Allah! Bear witness that I love You, so do with me whatsoever You wish!”
Mu'adh ibn Jabal
“When an innocent man is kidnapped from his home by bearded Arab gunmen and locked indefinitely in a room he is a “hostage.” But when an innocent man is kidnapped from his home by uniformed white gunmen and locked indefinitely in a room he is a “terrorist.” The world causes uproar over the former but is silent over the latter. “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” observed Martin Luther King.
“The Quran is not just a book that mentions stories which are centuries old: it is a book that mentions the present. “We have certainly sent down to you a Book in which is your mention. Will you then not reason?” (Quran 21:10)
“Whosoever reads the Quran and reflects on it will find himself and his situation mentioned therein. This is only one of its many miracles.
Bishr al-Hafi
“Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.
“When you reach the stage where you are content with your destiny you have defeated your captors and become the most powerful prisoner in the world. This is what belief in Divine Destiny is all about. It is to be happy with whatever Allah has decreed for you: to be happy with your life, to be happy whether you are rich, poor, tall, short, dark or fair. When you are satisfied with your lot in life, you have won.
“Every hardship is like being in prison. People feel imprisoned by ill-health, marital discord, financial insecurity, family disputes and other problems. To anyone who feels imprisoned by life’s problems I would say: be content with what you already have and never lose hope of things getting better. Be happy with your share because this is a quality of someone who truly loves Allah. When the Companion Muadh ibn Jabal (ra) was undergoing the pangs and agonies of death, he cried out, “O Allah! Bear witness that I love You, so do with me whatsoever You wish!”
“Fear is a disease that consumes the soul of the one who embraces it. Man’s total capacity to fear is fixed: the more he fears one thing the less he fears another. People fear standing up to a tyrant because they are afraid of some harm that he ‘may’ cause them, even though that harm is limited to the life of this world. Such people have little or no fear for any harm that Allah will cause them in the Hereafter. However, if these same people were to fear the Day when they shall return to stand before the Lord of the Worlds, they would not fear any tyrant on the face of the Earth. “Do they fear them? Allah is more worthy for you to fear if you are indeed believers.” (Quran 9:13)
“We survive in life by wearing a variety of faces that disguise our true inner selves. We have one face for our families, a face for our friends, a face for our colleagues, and a face for strangers. Since we are always switching between faces others hardly get to see who we really are. Sometimes we ourselves forget who we are. The harsh reality of prison life relentlessly files away at your external faces and personae to reveal the true you. There are no secrets in prison. Sincerity, hypocrisy, bravery, cowardice, good, evil – all are laid bare. Prison brings out the best, and worst, in people.
“Prisoners undergo such a concentrated experience that they develop intensely deep personalities. We interact with each other heart-to-heart, not face-to-face. Our conversations frequently revolve around hope. No man, let alone a prisoner, can live without hope: hope that there is indeed a dawn at the end of this long, dark night. What else do you say to a man facing life in prison?
“During the last four years I have personally witnessed the worst of men turn into the best of men. I have seen gangsters, drug barons, armed robbers and murderers, of all faiths and races, convert to Islam in prison. I have always been inspired by converts since every conversion is a miracle, but seeing a hardened criminal accept Islam is something else. Only the true religion is able to cause genuine, lasting change in an individual in a short space of time.
“...the one book that has helped me through my ordeal the most: the Glorious Quran. It is my breakfast, lunch and dinner. If I do not read my daily portion at dawn, my heart feels heavy by mid-morning.
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An Archive of Incendiary Magazine 2002 – 2017
Posted on 22nd January 2014 by inmusic123
Hobocombo – Moondog Mask
Hobocombo have used the ethos of Moondog for their own compositions. What we have then is a mixture of Moondog and new work and the result is an intriguing one.
http://trovarobato.bandcamp.com/album/moondog-mask
The appeal of Moondog is obvious: everything about his music, appearance and lifestyle is fascinating. It is no surprise that artists, beguiled by him, have sought to take his music in different directions. Classical, jazz, folk, minimalist, outsider: Moondog’s music can be reinterpreted over and over again and in wildly different ways. The trouble is that these reinterpretations are rarely successful. Cover versions in general always run the risk of either diverting so far from the original that there is little point in advertising it as a cover version at all, or creating a slavish and therefore futile copy. Whilst Moondog’s catalogue opens itself up to being re-thought and re-configured the real issue is keeping the original spirit of the music. It’s this that is the crux of re-imagining Moondog and it where most people fail.
Hobocombo are on to their second Moondog inspired album. Sensibly, I think, they have taken the opportunity to move away from simply re-imagining his music and instead have used the ethos of Moondog for their own compositions too. What we have then is a mixture of Moondog and new work and the result is an intriguing one.
They start off simply with Moondog’s Theme and Variations, a synthesiser drone with what sounds like bagpipes on helium playing a repetitious refrain. They then quickly up the ante, and demonstrate their new direction with Desert Boogaloo. An original composition, this is where the album really begins. It feels as though it could have come from a Moondog track but the song itself is a more muscular beast than anything Moondog could have created. The beat is tribal and has elements of both Mariachi music and ‘Caravan’, the Duke Ellington staple. There is a degree of menace but also the sense of a journey and the menace gives way at points to a carnival atmosphere. Atmospheric and catchy as hell it is probably the highpoint of the album.
That sense of a journey makes sense: thematically the album is about exploration: as they explore the directions Moondog’s music has taken them, so they have allied that to geographical directions, even imagined directions. East Timor is a wistful cover of the Robert Wyatt song. Utsu is back to Moondog, but Moondog with Steel drums, ghostly moans and a drum breakdown. There is something of the ‘exotica’ about it but nothing of the easy listening. We’re a long way from Bert Kaempfert’s Swinging Safari.
Canon #6 is more recognisable as Moondog but this is Moondog as played on a Casio for a wholly inadvisable Pensioner’s Night. Baltic Dance is another Hobocombo number. One doesn’t immediately think of Nordic folk music when hearing it; rather it starts off sounding quite post-rock, reminiscent of Tortoise. Then we have a rather charming chorus and the song keeps up an almost pop-like sense of joviality.
Response, which uses snippets of Moondog lyrics but is otherwise another Hobocombo original, is a bluesy number, starting with a wandering electric guitar before being fleshed out with voices, drums and trumpet. It continually threatens to break loose but never actually manages it, remaining taut and controlled all the way through. The album finished on a high-note with Five Reasons, the lyrics taken from an old English drinking song. The song bounces and lollops along before the song is sung old-school monk style. The track then continues to build and fade until its conclusion.
If there is a criticism to be made of the music it is that there is something slightly elusive about it: whilst it is enjoyable to listen to it doesn’t hang around for long in the memory. But this is a minor quibble, and hopefully one that will become redundant on future listens. What is certain is that, even when they are creating their own music Hobocombo manage to evince a greater understanding of what made Moondog great than almost any other interpreter. Their own compositions also show that should they ever want to cast off the Viking cloak they will very successful in their own right.
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India places
Top 10 popular touristic destinations in India
India, being one of the most mysterious and ancient countries in the world has always been attractive for tourists. Earlier people visited this country to buy gold, spices and seersucker, and nowadays millions of tourists come here to discover the secrets of millennial history of this country and to see the magnificent wealth of Indian culture. India is one of the most popular destinations among tourists as it has a lot of sights to offer. Speaking about top 10 places to visit in India we cannot but mention the following:
City Palace Complex in Jaipur which represents a huge part of the city consisting of gardens, mansions and other buildings. Mubarak Mahala which is also known as the Palace of Welcome, has a gallery of musical instruments, textiles and national costumes. Silek Khana or the Hall of Arms which is situated behind Mubarak Mahala, offers to see inlaid with diamonds golden guns, poniards and Indian clubs. In other buildings of this complex tourists can see statues of elephants, ancient scrolls, silver urns etc.
Palace of Winds or Hava Mahala is a unique example of architecture. This Palace, built in 1799, reminds a treasure casket. Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh asked the architect to build an unbelievably beautiful Palace for the harem of his wives. As a result, there appeared a building with 953 small windows (in each room) and winds wandering inside due to unique ventilation system.
Agra Fort build of red sandstone in 1565 seems uninviting, but in the inside it treasures up verily paradisiac corners of far ben. The most impressive inside buildings include Jihangir Palace, Khaas Mahal, Shiish Mahal or Palace of Mirrors, a mosque, halls for public and private audience, etc.
Mecca Masjid Mosque – one of the biggest and oldest mosques in India that was built in XIV -XV centuries by Mohammed Kuli Kutab. It has a huge pool in the yard and huge columns and arches made of black granite. The history of this mosque is full of old legends and mysterious stories.
Rajput, also known as “The way of Kings”, is a boulevard in New-Delhi that ends at the National Stadium. On the other end of Rajput the Palace of President is located. This Palace is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in Delhi as its style is a combination of European and Mogul architectural thought. Every winter Rajput holds parades on 26 of January.
Amber Fort which stands on the hill and admires its reflection in the waters of Moata lake is considered to be one of the best forts in India. Tourists are offered to ride an elephant to get to this fort inside of which they can find lots of souvenir-shops, visit Shila Devi Temple, beautiful palaces or the Hall of Pleasure and see a lot of wild monkeys.
Lotus Temple in Bahai reminds a real white lotus. It is one of the newest Temples in Bahai which is situated in wide picturesque park and is surrounded by 9 pools. Lotus Temple is made of white concrete and white Greek marble.
Taj Mahal – the Mausoleum of Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of Shah Jihan. The mausoleum made of white marble is a true masterpiece of architecture. Its impressive interiors with dreamy decorations remind of touching love story with a tragic end.
India Gate – a stone arch-memorial with a quenchless flame built in honor of Indian warriors who died during World War I. Over 90000 names are carved on the surface of the arch.
Sarkhej Roza – one of most picturesque places in Ahmedabad. It represents a huge complex with a mosque, kings’ graves, ecclesiastics’ memorial and Summer Palace. It is believed that the beauty of the sundown met here will be never forgotten.
India welcomes all tourists to see its beauty and touch its treasures.
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Great article, Alex!
YaKaBoo
It is very interesting to learn about my native India!
http://www.youbihar.com/ Shalu Sharma
Good list of destinations in India. Agra fort was one my favourites.
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Minn. police denials not surprising to some
American Indian Movement activist Clyde Bellecourt said he wasn't surprised that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police union official was denying claims of police brutality.
Bellecourt and other community leaders raised the allegations on Wednesday. They cited witness accounts of a beating of an Indian man and woman.
Bellecourt and others are planning a rally next Thursday against police brutality.
Police union: Indians' allegations of brutality untrue (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 1/31)
MINNEAPOLIS: Officers denying witness charges (The St. Paul Pioneer Press 1/31)
Today on Indianz.Com:
Police brutality accusations denied (1/31)
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Police in Minn. accused of brutality (1/30)
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April 2008-The Cobbler (Ben Arthur) Southern Highlands Argyll Scotland. Very much "Glasgow's peak…
April 2008-The Cobbler (Ben Arthur) Southern Highlands Argyll Scotland. Very much "Glasgow's peak" the tolkienesque Cobbler dominates the view from the village of Arrochar at the head of Loch Long and yields nothing to its neighbours despite i...
April 2008 - The Cobbler (Ben Arthur), Southern Highlands, Argyll, Scotland.
Very much "Glasgow's peak", the tolkienesque Cobbler dominates the view from the village of Arrochar at the head of Loch Long and yields nothing to its neighbours despite its more diminutive stature.
Seen here over one of the many cataracts on the Butter Burn.
Camera : Canon EOS-1DS Mark 3
Lens : Zeiss ZF 25mm Distagon f2.8
Title: April 2008-The Cobbler (Ben Arthur) Southern Highlands Argyll Scotland. Very much "Glasgow's peak" the tolkienesque Cobbler dominates the view from the village of Arrochar at the head of Loch Long and yields nothing to its neighbours despite i...
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The place where Egypt began?
In Ancient Egyptian Religion, sacred site being the cultic centre of Osiris. For nearly 5000 years, Abydos remained a central religious site to Egypt, remaining important to the religion's understanding of death.
Abydos is located in the middle of the Ancient Egyptian territories, about 50 km south of modern Sohag.
The oldest recorded temple at Abydos was devoted to the canine god, Osiris-Khentimentiu.
Today, two temples remain in fine shape. Especially, the Temple of Seti 1 is impressive, unusual with its L-shape and noted for its smooth and discrete appearance in front, its impressively dark and beautiful chambers, most keeping their roofings intact.
Behind the dominating temple structure, the Osireion is located. Despite its apparent old building technique with huge granite blocks, it is believed to belong to the era of Seti 1 and Merneptah, attempting to recreate an old temple.
Around the two central temples, many important sites are found. Among which, Egypt proper's southernmost pyramid, built for Ahmose, though not with a tomb inside.
Abydos also has a tomb to the 1st Dynasty king Djer, a tomb which more than 1000 years later would be claimed to be the tomb of Osiris. This tomb would be central in making Abydos the favourite burial place for rich people.
Abydos has been suggested as one of the earliest places for the development of the death cult in Egyptian religion, having predynastic mortuary complexes and early dynastic boat graves.
Around 4000 BCE: A cult centre is established here, representing the beginning of almost 5000 years of continuous religious history.
Late 4th millennium: Self-sacrifice is performed here.
Around 3100: Rulers of the Protodynastic period are buried here.
13th century: Temple of Seti 1 is begun constructed, later finished by his son, Ramses 2.
641 CE: The arrival of Islam leads to the end of the cults at Abydos.
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TelServ Group, a data and telecommunications solutions company based in Ridgewood, New Jersey, announced the launch of an updated range of VoIP, SIP, PRI and other customized business communication services for clients throughout New Jersey and in New York City. The company leverages cutting-edge technology to provide its clients with high-quality voice and video solutions at highly competitive prices.
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Interested parties can find more information by visiting the above-mentioned website.
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Address: 201 E Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450, United States
Website: https://telservgroup.com/
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Lusitânia Primary School (LPS) takes the matter of child protection seriously.
This document outlines the guidelines and procedures of relevance to child protection.
Every pupil should feel safe and protected from any form of abuse. Lusitânia is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and care of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Lusitânia will take all reasonable measures to:
ensure that suitable staff and volunteers are recruited to work with pupils;
be alert to signs of abuse both at Lusitânia and elsewhere;
do all that is possible to protect each pupil from any form of abuse, whether from an adult or another pupil;
deal appropriately with every suspicion or complaint of abuse;
support pupils who have been abused;
design and operate procedures which ensure that teachers and others, who are innocent, are not prejudiced by false allegations;
be alert to the needs of pupils with medical conditions;
operate clear policies on drugs, alcohol and substance abuse;
teach pupils about safeguarding through the curriculum and specifically via Life Skills lessons;
take all practicable steps to ensure that Lusitânia premises are as secure as possible.
The school has its own security guards and CCTV system. All visitors to Lusitânia are checked in and out.
Designated Child Protection Officer (CPO)
The Designated CPO at Lusitânia is the Deputy Head.
The CPO has overall responsibility for matters relating to pupil protection and welfare. The CPO will be given the time, funding, training and resources to enable him/her to support/train other staff on safeguarding matters.
Parents are welcome to approach the CPO if they have any concerns about the welfare of any pupil in the school.
The main responsibilities of the CPO are:
to be the first point of contact for parents, pupils, teaching and non-teaching staff and external agencies in all matters relating to Child Protection and to provide support, advice and expertise on all matters concerning safeguarding;
to co-ordinate the pupil protection procedures at Lusitânia and to review and update regularly the procedures and implementation of the procedures working with the Headmaster, as necessary;
to ensure that all members of staff and volunteers receive the appropriate training on Child Protection;
to advise and act upon all suspicion, belief and evidence of abuse reported to him/her;
to keep the Headmaster informed of all actions unless the Headmaster is the subject of a complaint; and
to ensure the Lusitânia Child Protection Policy is available publicly to parents and pupils.
Duty of employees and volunteers
Every employee who assists at Lusitânia is under a general duty to
protect pupils from abuse;
be aware of the Lusitânia Child Protection Procedures and to follow them;
know how to access and implement the Lusitânia Child Protection procedures, independently if necessary;
keep a sufficient record of any significant complaint, conversation or event in accordance with this policy; and
report any matters of concern to the relevant CPO.
All staff will be provided with Child Protection training as part of their induction to Lusitânia and will have update training from time to time.
Complaints of abuse
Every complaint or suspicion of abuse from within or outside Lusitânia will be taken seriously and action will be taken in accordance with this policy.
Please refer to the Procedures that follow.
Types and signs of abuse
Abuse may include:
a) Physical abuse: a form of abuse which may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding or otherwise causing physical harm to a pupil. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a pupil.
b) Emotional abuse: the persistent emotional maltreatment of a pupil such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the pupil’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to a pupil that he/she is worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs the other person. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on pupils. These may include interactions that are beyond a pupil’s developmental capability as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the pupil participating in normal social interaction. It may involve serious bullying (including cyber bullying), causing the pupil to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of pupils. Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a pupil, although it may occur alone.
c) Sexual abuse: involves forcing or enticing a pupil or young person to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving a high level of violence, whether or not the pupil is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including assault by penetration (for example rape or oral sex) or non-penetrative acts such as kissing, rubbing and inappropriate touching outside of clothing. It may also include non-contact activities, such as involving pupils in looking at, or in the production of, sexual images, watching sexual activities, encouraging pupils to behave in sexually inappropriate ways, or grooming a pupil in preparation for abuse (including via the internet). Sexual abuse is not solely perpetrated by adult males. Women can also commit acts of sexual abuse, as can other pupils.
d) Neglect: the persistent failure to meet a pupil’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the pupil’s health or development. Once a pupil is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); failing to ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); or failing to ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment.
e) Pupil sexual exploitation: involves exploitative situations, contexts and relationships where young people receive something (for example food, accommodation, drugs, alcohol, gifts, money or in some cases simply affection) for engaging in sexual activities. Sexual exploitation can take many forms ranging from the seemingly ‘consensual’ relationship where sex is exchanged for affection or gifts, to serious organised crime by gangs and groups. What marks out exploitation is an imbalance of power in the relationship. The perpetrator always holds some kind of power over the victim which increases as the exploitative relationship develops. Sexual exploitation involves varying degrees of coercion, intimidation or enticement, including unwanted pressure from peers to have sex, sexual bullying including cyber bullying and grooming. It is also important to recognise that some young people who are being sexually exploited do not exhibit any external signs of this abuse.
f) Cyber abuse: involves children being abused via the internet or social media through the various forms of communication.
Possible signs of abuse include:
a) the pupil says he/she has been abused or asks a question or makes a comment which gives rise to that inference;
b) injury where there is no reasonable or consistent explanation for a pupil's injury; the injury is unusual in kind or location or there have been a number of injuries and there is a pattern to those injuries;
c) the pupil's behaviour stands out from the group as either being extreme model behaviour or extremely challenging behaviour, or there is a sudden or significant change in the pupil's behaviour;
d) the pupil asks to drop subjects with a particular teacher and seems reluctant to discuss the reason;
e) the pupil's development is delayed, the pupil loses or gains weight or there is deterioration in the pupil's general wellbeing;
f) the pupil appears neglected, i.e. dirty, hungry, inadequately clothed;
g) the pupil is reluctant to go home, or has been openly rejected by his/her parents ; and
h) Inappropriate behaviour displayed by other members of staff or any other person working with pupils; for example the use of inappropriate sexual comments, excessive one to one attention or inappropriate sharing of images.
Guidance for staff on suspecting or hearing a complaint of abuse from a pupil
Action staff must take
A member of staff suspecting or hearing a complaint of abuse must:
i. listen carefully to the pupil and keep an open mind. The member of staff should not take a decision as to whether or not the abuse has taken place
ii. not ask leading questions, i.e. a question which suggests its own answer;
iii. reassure the pupil but not give a guarantee of confidentiality. The member of staff should explain that they need to pass the information to the relevant CPO who will ensure that the correct action is taken; and
iv. keep a sufficient written record of the conversation, which should include:
a. the date and time;
b. the place of the conversation; and
c. the essence of what was said and done by whom and in whose presence.
The record should be signed by the person making it and should use names, not initials. The record must be kept securely and handed to the relevant CPO as soon as possible.
v. keep any evidence, for example, scribbled notes, mobile phones containing text messages, clothing, computers, of relevance and pass it on to the relevant CPO.|
All suspicions or complaints of abuse must be reported to the relevant CPO as soon as possible, unless it is an allegation against a member of staff in which case the procedures set out under the heading “Dealing with allegations against staff”.
Dealing with allegations against staff (i.e. adults)
The procedures for dealing with allegations made against staff will be used when the member of staff or volunteer has
i. behaved in a way that has harmed a pupil, or may have harmed a pupil;
ii. possibly committed a criminal offence against or related to a pupil; or
iii. behaved towards a pupil or pupils in a way that indicates he/she would pose a risk of harm if he/she work regularly or closely with pupils.
All such allegations must be dealt with as a priority so as to avoid any delay.
Reporting an allegation against staff or volunteer
When an allegation or complaint is made against any member of staff or volunteer, the matter should be reported immediately to the relevant CPO. The CPO will raise the matter will the Headmaster as a matter of urgency.
When an allegation or complaint is made against the Headmaster or CPO it should be reported directly to the Chairman of Board of Governors.
The Headmaster will inform the accused person having met with the relevant CPO. Lusitânia has a duty of care for its employees and will therefore ensure that effective support is provided for anyone facing an allegation. In addition to being informed of the allegation individuals will be given an explanation of the likely course of action and offered appropriate support.
The Parents of the pupil involved will be informed of the allegation as soon as possible. They will also be kept informed of the progress of the case, including the outcome of any disciplinary process.
The identification of a teacher who is the subject of such an allegation will not be disclosed to the press or in public by the School.
Suspension will not be an automatic response to an allegation and will only be considered to facilitate an investigation in a case when:
i. there is reason to believe that a pupil is at risk of significant harm; or
ii. the allegation is so serious that it might be grounds for dismissal.
A member of staff will only be suspended if there is no reasonable alternative. If suspension is deemed appropriate, the reasons and justification will be recorded, and the member of staff notified of those reasons in writing.
If it is decided that the person who has been suspended should return to work, Lusitânia will consider how best to facilitate this e.g. arranging a phased return and/or the provision of a mentor to provide assistance and support in the short term. Lusitânia will also consider how best to manage the contact with the pupil who made the allegation.
Ceasing to use staff
If Lusitânia ceases to use the services of a member of staff or volunteer because he/she is unsuitable to work with pupils the matter will be reported to CHISZ/ATS and, if necessary and following legal advice, to the Ministry and/or police.
If a member of staff or volunteer tenders his/her resignation, or ceases to provide his/her services, any pupil protection allegations may still be followed up by Lusitânia, depending on the circumstances and the nature of the allegation, in accordance with this policy.
All allegations will be dealt with as a priority and within the timescales detailed in the Code of Conduct for Salaried Staff or according to the NEC Regulations for non-salaried staff.
If a disciplinary hearing is required it will also be dealt with in accordance with the Lusitânia Code of Conduct for Salaried Staff or according to the NEC Regulations for non-salaried staff.
Unsubstantiated or malicious allegations
i. When an allegation by a pupil is shown to have been deliberately invented or malicious, the Headmaster will discipline the pupil concerned; it is likely that the disciplinary sanction will be exclusion from Lusitânia.
ii. When a parent has made a deliberately invented or malicious allegation it is highly likely that the Headmaster will require the parent to withdraw his/her son/daughter from Lusitânia.
iii. Whether or not the person making the allegation is a pupil or a parent (or other member of the public), the school reserves the right to contact the police to determine whether any action might be appropriate.
iv. Details of allegations found to be malicious will be removed from personnel records.
v. An allegation proven to be false, unsubstantiated or malicious will not be referred to in employer references.
Dealing with allegations against pupils
Lusitânia recognises that pupils can negatively affect the learning and wellbeing of others and under such circumstances it may be necessary to deal with them under the school’s disciplinary policies. Occasionally allegations may be made against pupils by other pupils, which related to child protection e.g. physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. Under such circumstances it is likely that the allegation:
i. is made against an older pupil and refers to their behaviour towards a younger pupil or a more vulnerable pupil;
ii. is of a serious nature, possibly including a criminal offence;
iii. indicates that other pupils may have been affected by this pupil; and/or
iv. indicates that young people outside the school may be affected by this pupil.
Examples of safeguarding issues against a pupil could include:
a) Physical abuse
• violence, particularly pre-planned; and
• forcing others to use drugs or alcohol.
b) Emotional abuse
• blackmail or extortion; and
• threats and intimidation.
c) Sexual abuse
• indecent exposure, indecent touching or serious sexual assaults; and
• forcing others to watch pornography or take part in sexting.
d) Sexual exploitation
• photographing or videoing other pupils performing indecent acts; and
• young people suffering from sexual exploitation themselves may be forced to recruit other young people under threat of violence.
When an allegation is made by a pupil against another pupil, members of staff should consider whether the complaint raises a safeguarding concern.
If there is a safeguarding concern the relevant CPO should be informed. A factual record should be made of the allegation, but no attempt should be made to investigate the circumstances without first referring the matter to the relevant CPO.
If the allegation indicates that a potential criminal offence may have taken place once an initial investigation has been completed the matter will be reported, following legal advice, to the PED and/or police together with the parents of the alleged victim and the alleged perpetrator.
It may be appropriate to suspend the accused pupil, whilst the matter is being investigated; under such circumstances the PED will be informed in the usual way.
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He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Group of friends hugging.
After all, our natural state is how we evolved to live, before we invented government… the way that feels the most right… that just naturally works.
And as it happens, we evolved for a life that was intensely social, not solitary! One that was richly fulfilling, pleasant, loving…
…and oh yeah — long!
Hourglass.
If they survived childhood, people apparently lived just as long as you or me.
Prehistoric people camping by a river.
Hobbes and Locke (and other philosophers like Marx) were trying to reason what life must have been like. But their conclusions tell us more about them and their own times.
Nowadays, evidence from a variety of scientific disciplines lets us say with confidence that the state of nature was actually kinda…
y’know…
Oh. My god.
Could you be any more touchy-feely?
You’re the sappy one, remember?
Anyway, as I was saying…
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Muzer says
Well, I wouldn’t go as far as “sweet”. Being very vulnerable to predators, disease, and (as you alluded to) infant mortality are not exactly what I call “sweet”. And it’s not like resources were plentiful all across the world, either (in some places, sure). Just because you evolved to fit circumstances doesn’t mean those circumstances can’t still be harsh and difficult to endure. I don’t know, I’ve always been sceptical of the whole “idyllic rural simplicity” thing. As bad as modern life can be, there is, of course, a reason humans invented most of the things we invented.
in reply to Muzer
Overcrowding and urbanization really did a number on us, though. The spike in disease that came with that particular advancement was rather nuts. Some cultures had ways around that, and their life expectancy shot up even MORE, but for places that didn’t have coping mechanisms like raising floors and storing food separately…
Gregory Bogosian says
Where are you getting this stuff about them living as long as you or me?
A paper from 2007 said that the average life-span for traditional hunter-gatherers is 21 to 37 years. “Longevity Among
Hunter-Gatherers:
A Cross-Cultural
MICHAEL GURVEN
HILLARD KAPLAN. page 326.”
in reply to Gregory Bogosian
Here is the URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.737.7899&rep=rep1&type=pdf
frithrikr says
Is that an average, typical, or extreme number. Since science keeps one-upping itself with new discoveries and findings rolling in all of the time, one really can’t take any single study to be definitive.
in reply to frithrikr
That is an average number. Granted, the study is over 10 years old at this point. So new data could emerge that contradicts it. However, collecting data on non-urban populations is almost by definition more costly than collecting it on urban populations because they don’t have as much population density or a built-in bureaucracy to collect the data. So you would think that our understanding of them really wouldn’t change that much from decade to decade.
Moxxmix says
That paper does say that average life expectancy from birth is 21 to 37 years, but it also notes that there’s notable differences in death rates based on age.
Roughly 2/3 of children born survived to 15.
Roughly 2/3 of those who reached 15 survived to 45. (And the accultured group had 4/5 survive to 45, if they reached 15.)
Average additional life expectancy for those that reached 45 was 2 decades (to age 65).
If you go to the charts (page 8 of the PDF, page 328 of the paper), you can see that the vast majority of deaths happen in the first year of life, with about 20%-30% of all deaths happening by year 1. Generally another 10% die by age 5. The paper does further calculations assuming an individual lived to age 15, but the death rate from 5 to 15 is actually pretty low, and closer to that of the overall slope. And age 45 is another reference point (primarily for menopause), but the death rate doesn’t have much of an inflection for almost any studied population before the age of 60, so that’s a data point only for fertility, not for death rates.
Overall, from the age of 5, the decline of almost all populations is roughly 35-40% over 50 years, so about 0.7-0.8% per year. The overall average life expectancy variance is almost entirely predicated on the death rate between birth and age 5, which varied between 20% and 50% among the various populations, but had an overall average in the 25%-35% range.
If you exclude the deaths prior to age 5, the average life expectancy is between 50 and 65 years.
So yes, the comic’s statement is reasonably accurate.
in reply to Moxxmix
This comic is about American law. So American life expectancy is what we should be using. the Life expectancy at birth in America is 78.74 years. It would only be higher if you excluded deaths before age 5. That amounts to a difference of about 14 years, rounding to the nearest year. Even going by the upper limit of the range that you established, 65 years of life. It is still misleading to say that they lived as long as the intended audience for this web comic is likely to live.
Amendment: If I’m a bit more careful about how I measure the graphs, it looks like it would be more accurate to give the average life expectancy (for survivors past age 5) at between 57 and 67 years. Risk of death seems to hit a minimum at about age 10, and then slowly climbs back up as you age. As a mild curiosity, it would seem to also align with cultures that have special “coming of age” ceremonies for children between the ages of around 5 and 10.
Anyway, the comic is about American law, however the current topic is also explicitly about non-American world views, to allow comparison to the American view. Further, it’s related to Thomas Hobbes’ (an English philosopher, not American) assertion about the natural state being “nasty, brutish, and short”. The point is that research shows that that is very clearly not the case, aside from the earliest years of childhood, which even today holds the highest chance of mortality.
While America has a higher life expectancy than other parts of the world, overall worldwide average life expectancy today is 68-72 years for men/women. Further, average life expectancy in the more developed nations of the world (if you want to exclude the lower half of the average) in the early 60’s was also about 68 years. And most of the advances in the last century that improved the average have been reducing childhood mortality rates.
There’s definitely biased improvements from the last few decades, but you can find similar results after excluding childhood years in numerous other locations and time periods. For example, Europe between 1000 and 1500 (aside from the bubonic plague period), with the expected lifespan of adults in the 65-70 year range.
The point is that, aside from childhood deaths, pandemics, and the miracles of the last few decades of medicine, average life expectancy has really not varied very much, ever. It was not “nasty, brutish, and short” when in the “natural state”; it was pretty much the same as modern day. “Short”, in this context, would at least be under 50, and probably under 40, which corresponds with the biased average that includes childhood deaths. In this case, the mathematical average isn’t really telling you the full story, and is a distraction from the point that the comic is trying to cover.
Those are all good points. But consider this: the quote is “Solitary, nasty, brutish and short.” not “Solitary, nasty, brutish, and short, even excluding deaths prior to age 5.” Unless there is a good reason to exclude deaths before the age of 5, the “short” part in that quote was still correct.
The Barefoot Bum says
The reason to compare adult mortality rates separately from infant/child mortality rates is that adult mortality rates matter also. Hobbes imagines an utterly dystopian existence before (Western) civilization, but infant mortality, while definitely bad, is not the only measure of the quality of a society.
I think y’all are overthinking this a little. Hobbes et al. are selling (Western) civilization as a response to an existential crisis: “Holy moly, guys, our lives really suck, so we’d better invent civilization.” But Nathan is correct: judging from the available evidence, it’s reasonable to conclude that most pre-agricultural people lived pretty good lives, especially by their own standards but even by ours. A lot of the evidence shows that after the invention of agriculture, people worked harder, were less healthy, and died younger.
I’m guessing that Nathan is heading towards something like Kent Flannery’s The Creation of Inequality, where civilization, like beer, is the cause of, and solution to, all the world’s problems.
Edward Haag says
in reply to The Barefoot Bum
I think the key phrase you’re glossing over is “if they survived childhood.” Infant morality was quite high up until about 100 years ago, and that brings the average down quite a bit.
Indeed. Settled agriculture has its advantages, but it comes with downsides like warfare, patriarchy, and slavery.
in reply to B.J.
Those things all emerged in non-agricultural peoples as well. Just look at the Cossacks, Mongols, and any other nomadic society of warrior horsemen.
mikecody0318 says
But those tribes of warrior horsemen only arose once there were settled agricultural societies for them to prey upon.
in reply to mikecody0318
The Mongols got on just fine preying on each other until Ghengis Khan unified them into one kingdom. warrior horsemen in general don’t like living near agricultural peoples because agriculture uses up land that could be used for grazing.
You might enjoy Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
I did! It was one of many books I read back when I was prepping this section, and I enjoyed it immensely. (It isn’t always as accurate as I could have wished, especially when he gets into details. And of course a lot of what Harari discusses is still the subject of active research. Google Scholar is my friend. But I’d still recommend Sapiens to anyone who’s interested.)
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