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SOA management players partner up
Sonic's newly acquired Actional 6.0 adds business process visibility and security features, while SOA Software becomes "registry independent" and partners with Forum Systems.
Colleen Frye
Got a dance card? You'll need it to keep up with the ongoing partnering and consolidation in the SOA management and governance area space as vendors scramble to broaden their offerings, both in terms of capability and interoperability.
SOA is about heterogeneity. ... You can't put blinders on and assume everyone will build on one platform.
Dan Foody
Chief Technology OfficerSonic Software
This week Sonic Software Corp. is announcing Version 6.0 of the recently acquired Actional SOA management platform, and SOA Software Inc. is announcing its partnership with XML security vendor Forum Systems Inc., as well as declaring its products are now "registry independent."
"The market is maturing pretty significantly and vendors are trying to capitalize on this by bringing together a complete solution," said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Mass. "SOA is architecture. You need a lot of different things. Going to 12 different vendors to get those things is increasingly looking tenuous. The market is pushing toward consolidation and deeper partnerships."
Even though Actional is now part of Sonic Software, which is owned by Progress Software, the Actional and Sonic products will stay separate.
"We're continuing to partner other with vendors. We're not trying to do it alone," said Dan Foody, formerly CTO at Actional who was appointed CTO for Sonic Software, Bedford, Mass.
"That said, we will cross-pollinate [with Sonic]," Foody added. "While there is some level of functional overlap, the target audience and what people are looking at when they choose an ESB or SOA management system are different. There are customers that use both, but we're not mandating it. SOA is about heterogeneity. [Parent company] Progress [Software Corp.] and Sonic recognize that. You can't put blinders on and assume everyone will build on one platform."
But there are some clear advantages to being part of a larger company, he acknowledged. For one, it gives Actional a much larger footprint, with the potential to expand both the the reach and the capabilities of its products. "There are a lot of interesting opportunities in the Progress treasure trove," he said.
"If I were one of Sonic's competitors and I didn't have a set of capabilities comparable to Actional, I think I'd be calling someone to see if I could do a deal," said Mike Gilpin, a vice president at Forrester Research Inc.
"The issue is," Gilpin continued, "customers want some level of pluggability and replaceability, and the boundary between elements is increasingly defined by industry standards to enable replaceability, which is good for customers. Vendors want to offer more and more of a solution, but they don't want to preclude doing a deal with someone else."
For Sonic, Actional Version 6 extends its management capability to what the company is calling Business Process Visibility (BPV), which allows business and IT users to gain a consistent view of business processes and the underlying infrastructure supporting those processes and provides the ability to take action on those processes, Foody said. Version 6 also features automated runtime governance and new "trust zones" security, which prevents unauthorized, noncompliant usage of services.
While Actional's play is now as part of a larger company, competitor SOA Software has been bulking up, most recently with a mainframe Web services product acquired from Merrill Lynch. "SOA Software is building a suite," Schmelzer said. "They've moving well beyond management." And making itself "registry independent" even though the company has its own registry product is smart, he said, "because the market hasn't decided its buying behavior yet."
"What we're doing is separating the registry from our products," said Ian Goldsmith, vice president of product marketing at SOA Software. "You can use any of our products with any other registry. Our take on registry is that UDDI is the LDAP of SOA. As LDAP became commoditized and ubiquitous, the same thing is happening with registry now."
Goldsmith said this move is "more of a reaction to the big guys promising to ship a registry with their platforms. We could see the writing on the wall."
And with the announced partnership with Forum Systems, customers can now use the SOA Software Service Manager product to control and manage Forum Systems' policy enforcement products, Forum XWall Web Services Firewall and Forum Sentry SOA Gateway.
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"We're using WS-Policy and WSDM to control policies inside the firewall and monitor services exposed at the firewall," Goldsmith said. "We will do the interoperability testing of products and ensure they work together." The significance for joint customers, he said, "is that they can now ensure consistent enforcement of policy throughout the entire infrastructure."
SOA Software's partnering in the XML firewall area won't be limited to just Forum, Goldsmith said, and he said to expect other announcements.
For Forum's part, this deeper relationship is a first with what Forum's vice president of marketing Walid Negm terms "a younger or startup company" but the company has existing relationships with larger SOA management players such as CA Unicenter, Oracle/Oblix, and HP SOA Manager.
"It's clear there's some pressure out there to play nice," Negm said. "We've done that from day one. Our strategy is to work with the larger vendors, but doesn't exclude working with an AmberPoint or an Actional."
Get ready to update those dance cards.
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SF Insider > Featured > Where Can Visitors Find the Best Restaurants in Little Saigon?
Where Can Visitors Find the Best Restaurants in Little Saigon?
What Are the Best Restaurants in San Francisco’s Financial District South Area?
San Francisco is known for being the home of both a famed Chinatown neighborhood and a famed Japantown neighborhood but it wasn’t until 2004 that the city’s Little Saigon neighborhood received its recognition and corresponding signage the other two areas have had in place for many years. This is odd considering that 13,000 Vietnamese-Americans live in the city and more than 2,000 of them live in the two-block Tenderloin corridor of Larkin Street between Eddy and O’Farrell streets that is designated Little Saigon. Visitors to Little Saigon’s annual Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration and other events are encouraged to explore the area and enjoy one of its best features, delicious, authentic Vietnamese Cuisine. Read further to learn about some notable eateries in the area.
Dragoneats
Based on a number of online reviews, Dragoneats in one of the most popular eateries in the area to get a traditional Vietnamese sandwich. Like most eateries of this type, the space here is small but the concrete walls and floors, available stool seating at a community countertop, collections of memorabilia and art and colorful hanging light fixtures give it an almost trendy sort of vibe. The restaurant is popular with tourists and locals. For the best people-watching opportunities, sit on one the chairs on the sidewalk.
Pho 2000
For tasty of bowls of pho that are nearly big enough to swim in check out Pho 2000. Visitors can tell that they have arrived at the Larkin Street restaurant when the spot the bright yellow and red sign that hangs over the sidewalk. There is nothing fancy about this place but guests don’t visit to be wowed by its decor. The visit for steaming bowls of pho, spring rolls, curry and traditional Vietnamese teas that are all very inexpensive. Ignore the decor and try to score the table above the main dining room. It’s a cool perch from which to check out the surroundings.
Turtle Tower Restaurant
Regulars knew how good Turtle Tower Restaurant is and some high praise in local publications have the public aware of the eatery as well. Turtle Tower is one of the most spacious restaurants on this list and one of the best decorated. Guests like to take their time and look at the historical black and white images that line the walls of the space. Order an order of imperial rolls, a rice plate, curry dish or bowl of pho here and relax.
Bodega Bistro
The Zagat Guide used terms like, “phantastic Pho” and “consistently good” in their “Best Pho in San Francisco” review of this Tenderloin restaurant. The restaurant serves a unique mix of French-inspired Vietnamese dishes and a selection of Hanoi street food that is impossible to find anywhere else in the city. Think beyond pho here and enjoy something special made with black tiger prawns, lobster, or Dungeness crab. The pricing here is fair and the portions are a decent size.
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24 May 2019 / Arts & Entertainment / Jay Barmann
Go See This Thing: The Stunning New 100-Foot-Wide Digital Mural Of San Francisco At SFMOMA
French artist JR, in his first major San Francisco commission, has created a contemporary piece reflecting everyday San Francisco life that's moving, beautiful, and staggering on many levels.
Unveiled during Wednesday night's Art Bash and officially debuted to the public on Thursday, "The Chronicles of San Francisco" is the second such epic digital mural project undertaken by JR, who created something similar depicting the Paris suburb Les Bosquets, where he lived for many years. Inspired in part by the murals of Diego Rivera — whom SFMOMA's founding director Grace McCann Morley first brought to San Francisco for mural commissions in 1930 — JR decided to create a composite video image depicting the plurality of San Francisco, in all of its glory.
JR’s new digital #mural ‘The Chronicles of San Francisco’ . ... ... ... #photography #sf #sfmoma #digitalart
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In this moment of general grumpiness and malaise, both locally and nationally, as writers from the East Coast continue to shit on our general situation and declare the city's soul lost, "The Chronicles of San Francisco" feels like some kind of balm, and an unexpected celebration of this place. It came out of interviews and photographs the artist took over two months, in January and February of 2018. JR used a trailer-sized mobile photographic studio at 22 different, pre-determined locations, and took still and video portraits of 1,200 people, primarily ordinary San Franciscans but also including local celebrities and dignitaries like Gov. Gavin Newsom, Cleve Jones, Warriors player Draymond Green, and local drag queen Donna Sachet. There are other drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual indulgence, as well as homeless people, doctors, firefighters, protesters, and more.
It's a joyous and stunning piece of art, first and foremost, and a powerful expression of the notions of collective consciousness, urban life, and the tensions and serendipities of crowded city life. It's sheer size and scale is also awesome and makes you want to stare for hours and watch it change. (The mural comes with several kiosks in the lobby where you can click on individuals and hear narration from their interviews.)
I spy Cleve Jones, and... Photo: JR-art.net
The entire piece spans a curved, 100-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall, seamless set of LED screens, and it's a dizzying but electric composite of portraits that slides, slowly, from left to right in a reel. Included are a stage where the curtain comes up on multiple groups, including drag performers, and a garage that opens to reveal a group of senior citizen swimmers, magically floating through the air. At one point, smoke from a fire spills out of a Victorian, and you can see a prostrate homeless person being tended to by EMTs. Also the Castro Theatre marquee plays a central roll, as do several hilly streets.
It's an idealistic depiction of San Francisco in a particularly fraught moment for the city, culturally and otherwise — it's also, arguably, more diverse than the reality, given that city is reportedly only 5% African American these days. It's a movie-set depiction — Central Casting's best attempt to show us ourselves. But these are in fact real people who live and work here, so no matter how curated it may seem, it's not that far from reality either.
"The Chronicles of San Francisco" is a messy collage that reflects the messy nature of the place, not shying away from ugliness or sadness, but also reminding us that this remains a city of many kinds of human beings — the narratives about the tech-employee tsunami notwithstanding.
The piece will live in the museum's Howard Street lobby — officially the Roberts Family Gallery, where Richard Serra's Sequence has live since the museum's reopening — until the fall of 2020, when it will be replaced by an actual Diego Rivera mural as part of an upcoming retrospective. And that gallery off the street is free to enter for the public during museum hours.
Previously: SFMOMA Debuts New Animated, Digital Mural In Lobby That Housed Serra Piece
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Two Men Shot At 6th and Mission, SFPD Seeks Suspect
Two men were shot and critically injured Friday afternoon at the intersection of 6th and Mission streets. The incident happened just after 1:30 p.m. and the entire area has been shut down for the investigation, impacting traffic on Market Street and in SoMa.
Valencia Room Spiffs Up Former Elbo Room Spot, Officially Reopens Saturday
Take a peek inside the new Valencia Room, with its restored dance floor and sweet new upstairs bathrooms.
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Mobile Resources
Nursing: Mobile Resources
Connect directly to a wide variety of resources to support your clinical and research needs.
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The graduate and undergraduate nursing programs at Simmons encourage their students to use mobile devices and resources. Start by exploring and downloading these point-of-care resources that Simmons subscribes to for you.
Simmons Point-of-Care Resources
Contact a librarian if you have questions about how to set up one of these mobile apps on your smartphone.
Created for nurses, this easy-to-use resource is full of evidence-based info on diseases, procedures, drugs, and more, all written to be easy to use at the point-of-care. (Available to Simmons students as an iPhone/iPod touch app.)
Download the app from the iTunes Store or Google Play
Go to NRC Plus database (linked above) then scroll to the bottom of the page and click "NRC Plus Mobile App Access". Enter your email, view the reply on your mobile device, then tap the authentication key link. We recommend that you connect your mobile device to a wireless connection because the initial installation process over a cellular connection may take from 20-30 minutes.
Access Medicine
Set up a MyAccess account in AccessMedicine and bookmark this resource on your mobile device. Download the app from the iTunes Store or Google Play
Set up a personal account in STAT!Ref, and follow these instructions to set up the app on your mobile device.
Includes the Merck Manual, DSM-IV, AAFP Conditions, Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care, Therapeutics Exercise and the ICD-9-CM. Also provides a medical calculator, Stedman's Medical Dictionary and links to practice guidelines.
Other Point of Care Apps
These Point of Care apps are not available through Simmons Library, but you might have access through your workplace.
Some of these apps also have free versions (though free content might be limited).
Epocrates
Epocrates is a medical reference app that includes information about drugs, diseases, evidence-based guidelines, and more. Some of the content is available for free, and some requires an annual subscription.
Dynamed is a clinical reference tool that includes drug information, overviews & recommendations, specialty content, and more. Dynamed requires a subscription, but offers a free trial and a student discount.
UptoDate is an evidence-based clinical resource that includes drug information, medical calculators, patient education information, and more. UptoDate requires an annual subscription.
Free Clinical Apps
These clinical apps are available for free (or at a very low cost). They may include a nominal download fee or offer in-app purchases, but do not require an annual subscription.
Includes multiple drug references guides, disease & condition references, medical news, CE activities, offline access to clinical resources and more. You must create a free MedScape account to use the app.
Diagnosaurus
Use Diagnosaurus to see some basic differential diagnoses (DDx). You can browse by symptom, disease or organ system and easily search all of Access Medicine with the etiology you find.
MedCalX
MedCalX is a medical calculator app for iOS that gives you easy access to complicated medical formulas, scores, scales and classifications.
mobilePDR
mobilePDR® is the official drug information app from Prescriber's Digital Reference. Fast and easy to use, mobilePDR employs a simple, but powerful, search tool with access to thousands of drug summaries continually updated by PDR within a week of manufacturers' updates.
MediBabble
MediBabble is a robust history-taking and examination application designed to improve the safety, efficiency, and overall quality of care for non-English speaking patients.
These free or low-cost resources make it easy to educate patients about their healthcare options.
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's website for patients and their families and friends. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up-to-date. (MedlinePlus is a mobile-friendly website, not an app).
Visual Anatomy Lite
Visual Anatomy is an interactive reference and learning tool. It is designed to teach those with no medical knowledge about anatomy and physiology.
Plain Language Medical Dictionary
This free basic app converts medical language into everyday English. It is based on the award-winning Plain Language Medical Dictionary widget designed by Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan.
Fooducate is a free app that helps people understand and compare the nutritional content of different foods. Includes a food tracker, a database of brand name foods graded for nutritional content, recipes, and suggestions for healthy eating.
Additional Health Sciences Apps
These are a few of the many free mobile apps that maybe helpful to you.
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No words: Dairy Milk removes text from packaging for sweetest reason
Date: 23/09/2019 Written by: Sophie 5 minutes to read.
Cadbury's latest campaign with Age UK is using words, or rather, the lack of them, to raise awareness of loneliness amongst older people in the UK. But is it encouraging people to share their words as well as their chocolate?
They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but what if we take words out of the equation altogether? What story does that tell?
In the case of Cadbury’s new campaign with Age UK, it’s loneliness. The maker of the Dairy Milk - aka Britain’s favourite chocolate bar - has joined up with the charity to raise awareness of the issue amongst older people and to encourage us to “Donate our Words."
We're thrilled to be working with @CadburyUK on #DonateYourWords, a campaign to help tackle #loneliness.
Cadbury has donated the words from their Dairy Milk bars and will donate 30p from every sale to @age_uk to help us provide vital services & support: https://t.co/qfgI4BMryw pic.twitter.com/2PZv9DpZd1
— Age UK (@age_uk) September 4, 2019
What's the message?
For the campaign, Cadbury has removed the text from the Dairy Milk packaging and is instead “donating them” to isolated older people throughout the country. The project is accompanied by a touching video featuring the real stories of older people who are struggling with loneliness.
According to Age UK, 1.4 million older people in the UK are battling loneliness. This includes 225,000 who regularly go a whole week without speaking to anyone. The heartfelt campaign hopes to get people talking – literally – and to dedicate some time to an older person who’s alone.
But the campaign is about more than just encouraging people to reach out, Cadbury is also donating 30p from every bar sold to the charity (like we need an excuse to eat more chocolate) to support services that alleviate loneliness.
The project is not only striking up conversations with older people, but its powerful message is being sent to millions across the country. The video that accompanies the campaign has been making people emotional, with viewers describing the short film as “thoughtful” and “moving.” The video has since been followed up with a separate instalment, dubbed “Fence,” which shows how a small gesture can make a big difference to a lonely older person’s day.
Laura Gray, Brand Manager for Mondelez International (Cadbury’s parent company), said that Age UK “is an important charity that is really tackling the issue of loneliness,” and highlighted the importance of “small gestures in changing the lives of older people.”
They say the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach, and this sweet partnership is the perfect delivery system for such a message. Supplied on an iconic British treat, people of all ages are bound to pick it up and get their heart strings tugged, raising awareness far and wide. If words are cheap, then from a behavioural aspect this campaign is genius. To take part, all us Brits have to do is give our time and words, something we can all do, but just as importantly, Dairy Milk’s 360g share bars were made for, well, sharing. This gives people the perfect excuse to pop ‘round to the neighbour’s’ and split a bar with a cup of tea and a catch up – so what are you waiting for?
If you'd like to get involved, find out more about volunteering with Age UK here.
Do you want to create your own heartfelt, purpose driven campaign? Get in touch with our expert team to create a cause marketing project that changes both lives and behaviour.
“The advert spoke to me!”. No you’re not crazy, it’s just the future of advertising
Currently, we as consumers, are served up adverts - over 300 a day on average. Usually these adverts, sometimes targeted to appeal to our interests and lifestyle, will largely be aimed at a large segment of people. Not very personal. But all that is about to change. Advertising is about to get very personal.
North/ south divide, IVF, drugs, loneliness, social media and sin taxes
A quick summary of the news articles that have got us talking this week including the north/South divide, IVF, drugs, loneliness, sin taxes and how much time children are spending on social media.
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On 8 FebruaryRudel was badly wounded in the right foot, and crash landed inside German lines. Rudel flew 17 sorties, stopping the last tank himself just a few yards short of his own runway. Though Rudel would have preferred to lead his wing on a glorious suicide mission against a Soviet headquarters, instead he sent his men to flee overland, west toward the American lines, on May 8.
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Sunk in shallow water, Marat was refloated in a few months and used as a stationary gun battery. Absolutely amazing account of the air war, mostly on the Eastern Front, from the Nazi perspective.
Not many people can make this claim, considering that the Fatherland lost a good 5 to 6 million people in the war, so it needs to be mentioned when discussing Rudel’s survivability. Both men were wounded, and both were immediately back in the air.
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None of the others stranded with him made it back. Retrieved 27 November He went through basic training uulrich the newly created German Luftwaffe in the late s and as the date of passing out approached, all the trainees in his year began to wonder to which arm of the air force they would be posted.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung in German. Four mourners were photographed giving Nazi salutes at the funeral, and were investigated under a law banning the display of Nazi symbols.
By the time he rejoined StG. He also became involved in politics and business.
Stuka Pilot by Hans-Ulrich Rudel
If you are even slightly interested in WWII history this is a must read book! Eagle of the Eastern Front. The Marat would never go to sea again. On the morning of September 23,a reconnaissance plane spotted the dreadnought undergoing repairs in Kronstadt Harbor, the largest naval base in the Soviet Union, with more than 1, shipboard and land-based guns. The things that happened to Rudel, as well as his feats, defy belief.
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IBM, LG Chem, Ford Motors Form Partnership To Track Cobalt Mining In Congo Using Blockchain.
Asia Blockchain Review
IBM, LG Chem, Ford Motors and others have partnered to use blockchain technology to prevent illegally mined cobalt from entering the market. Cobalt is used in the production of batteries for electric cars and smartphones.
Technology Giant IBM, South Korean battery maker LG Chem, US automaker Ford Motors and several others have come together to form a blockchain-based partnership. This partnership aims to improve transparency in the supply chain of natural minerals used in producing batteries for smartphones and electric vehicles.
The project will focus mainly on cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt is a major resource used in the production of lithium-ion batteries. The surge in battery-powered cars and smartphones has led to an increase in demand for the element, causing a rapid increase in its price.
An estimated two-thirds of global cobalt supplies originate in DR Congo
Partnership To Support Environmental Sustainability And Human Rights Protection
The main aim of the partnership is to encourage environmentally safe activities as well as to protect human rights. Several customers and investors are interested in knowing whether the natural resources they are procuring violated any human rights or impacted the environment during mining.
According to IBM, these health and environmental standards are rarely met in DR Congo. The pilot phase of this partnership will be completed by mid-2019. The project entails creating an audit trail starting at Huayou Cobalt industrial mine. The mined cobalt will be packed in secure bags and then recorded on the blockchain. The cobalt can then be easily traced from LG Chem’s plant in South Korea or Ford Motors’ Plant in the US.
OECD STANDARDS
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental economic organisation comprising 36 member countries, has put together standards that will help monitor key participants in the sourcing process. The pilot project will not completely take over the auditing process, with human personnel continuing to play a role.
After the successful completion of the pilot project, this initiative will be used in the sourcing of other minerals.
This project is not the first of its kind in Africa. UK diamond corporation De Beers initiated Tracr, a blockchain-based tracking solution, to monitor its diamond supply.
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Jiahe New Village 嘉禾新村
Places / June 15, 2016 / Updated: November 21, 2018 / V1.2 / 1 Comment
Jiahe New Village 嘉禾新村 is one of more than 800 military dependents’ villages (Chinese: juàncūn 眷村) built in Taiwan in the late 1940s and 1950s to provide provisional housing for KMT soldiers and their families fleeing from the Chinese Civil War. Around two million people crossed the Taiwan Strait from China from 1945 to 1949, bolstering an existing population of approximately seven million. More than 600,000 of these Chinese immigrants ended up in military villages like this one in Zhōngzhèng District 中正區, Taipei 台北, which was forcibly abandoned only a couple of years ago as part of a wave of urban renewal projects sweeping the nation.
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My first look inside the abandoned village.
Newer high-rises can be seen just outside the old village to the north.
Prior to the end of World War II the vast majority of modern Taiwan had been under Japanese rule for half a century—and despite their often shared ancestry a stark division soon emerged between the běnshěngrén 本省人 (literally “people from this province”, the Taiwanese) and the wàishěngrén 外省人 (“extra-provincial people”, the Mainlanders), many of whom lived in gated enclaves like Jiahe New Village developed to accommodate the huge influx of newcomers. Segregated from Taiwanese society for decades, military communities became cultural incubators for language and cuisine influenced by immigrants from all over China.
In the heart of Jiahe New Village.
Military dependents’ villages were not built for long-term occupancy on the scale of decades; the KMT planned to rapidly regroup and retake what they called Mainland China 中國大陸1 from the so-called communist bandits 共匪, a pipe dream that never came close to realization. Some military villages like Jiahe New Village accreted around existing Japanese infrastructure (an artillery compound in this case) while others sprung up along the margins of urban areas. Temporary structures made out of bamboo, straw, and mud were the norm at first, but these first generation homes were soon dismantled and rebuilt with wood and brick where available—and again in the late 1950s with concrete as the reality settled in that the soldiers might not be rushing back into battle anytime soon. Retaking the Mainland was such a pivotal part of the ruling KMT ideology that it was next to impossible to plan for any other eventuality.
Windows within windows, worlds within worlds.
Taiwan rapidly developed during the economic miracle of the 1960s and 70s but the quality of life in the shoddily-built and poorly-planned military villages did not keep up. By the mid-1980s, in the twilight of the authoritarian era, there were 888 registered military dependents’ villages containing approximately 100,000 households2 scattered all around the country. After democratization in the mid-1990s the government formulated ambitious plans to dismantle the military village system and integrate residents into Taiwanese civil society. This plan was aggressively implemented in the late 1990s and by 2008 only 148 military villages and a few thousand households remained.
Immediately outside the main gate to Jiahe New Village.
Inside one of the homes on the edge of the old military community.
Residents of doomed military communities are typically given a choice after being served with an eviction notice: move into nearby government-subsidized housing or accept an offer financial compensation to move elsewhere. Despite poor living conditions not everyone is willing to leave. Some demand more money, knowing the land they occupy has become highly lucrative real estate3. Many more simply don’t want to be uprooted at such an advanced age. Elderly residents of these villages have typically spent the vast majority of their lives there—and even a dilapidated home is still home. Individual opposition is seldom successful; from what I know only the famous Rainbow Grandpa of Taichung 台中 has won his bid to keep the bulldozers at bay.
A Muslim’s house in Jiahe New Village. Residents of these communities came from all over China, which has a sizable Muslim minority.
Hundreds of military villages were emptied out and demolished around the turn of the millennium before elements of civic society realized that a vital part of post-war Taiwanese history was vanishing almost overnight. By the mid-2000s some element of cultural preservation had entered into government plans and activist groups formed to raise awareness of specific military dependents’ villages deemed to have unusual historic value, Jiahe New Village among them. An organization by the name of Hǎojìndào Studio 好勁稻工作室 has been petitioning the city government to preserve more of Jiahe New Village, which they argue has the unique potential to act as a kind of “living museum” of military villages. Indeed, Jiahe is home to a variety of structures reflecting the evolution of military village building practices from transient to more orderly and centrally-planned to the more slapdash, ramshackle approach that emerged as residents took maintenance, renovation, and expansion into their own hands.
Fading remnants of the Republic of China can be seen scattered around the old village.
Looking back over much of the village from the west side.
One of hundreds of abandoned homes in Jiahe New Village.
An ornate banister inside a home in Jiahe New Village.
These drapes withstood two typhoons the previous summer.
A room with a map near the western side of the village.
Places you have been? Places you want to go?
Paper door guardians.
Going back to January 2011.
An empty space inside Jiahe New Village.
A classic tiled bathtub.
One of the few homes broken open by the elements.
This particular village was depopulated sometime in the last couple of years4 but no final decisions have been made about what to do with the structures that remain. Back in 2004 the city government planned to convert the entire area into a disaster prevention park 防災公園 much like nearby Da’an Forest Park 大安森林公園, an effort complicated by the patchwork of public and private land ownership in the village. There is also the important question of what, if anything, should be preserved of the community after its conversation into parkland. Thus far the city government has only identified a handful of unconnected buildings for preservation. Activists have responded that sparing only a few buildings will not maintain the feeling of the community in any meaningful sense. While the issue continues to be debated the village itself remains at the mercy of the elements.
Faint traces of the Japanese colonial era remain in the old village.
Inside the Japanese dormitory.
The rotten wooden floors are falling apart.
A Japanese-style dormitory in the old military community.
One building sure to be saved is an old Japanese-style dormitory in the heart of Jiahe New Village. Whether it actually dates back to the Japanese colonial era or if it was merely constructed in a Japanese style common in the immediate aftermath of the war is unclear to me—but the building is certainly distinct from the others in the community. A few other properties have already been designated as historic—an air raid shelter among them. However the rest of this drama plays out it is almost certain that these buildings will be part of a new riverside park at some point in the next few years.
One of the few homes with personal belongings left behind.
Duck light at a desk in an old veteran’s home in Taipei.
Military publications in Jiahe New Village.
A small planning room deep in the labyrinth of abandoned buildings.
Hundreds of homes abandoned and left to the mercy of the elements.
One of the nicer homes in Jiahe New Village. This is typically where the officers lived.
Now to provide some geographic context: Jiahe New Village, which Google translates as “Golden Harvest”, is located in the southern tip of Zhōngzhèng District 中正區 just inside the wall that runs along the floodplains of the Xindian River. Immediately outside the gates one will find Fùshuǐ Village 富水里, an illegal settlement also slated for destruction and renewal at some point in the near future. Head upriver a short distance and you will arrive at the picturesque Treasure Hill 寶藏巖, a former illegal settlement converted into an artist’s village after a successful protest campaign in the early 2000s. Cross Roosevelt Road (known to locals as Luósīfú Road 羅斯福路) and you will find yourself at Toad Mountain 蟾蜍山 (officially: Huànmín Village 煥民新村), a military village depopulated in 2013 and later spared from destruction. Continue northeast toward Taipei 101 and you’ll arrive at South Village #44 四四南村, the first official military community in Taiwan and also the first to be turned into a cultural park. Although now embedded within the matrix of the nation’s largest city this ribbon of military villages were once on the margins, a testament to Taipei’s explosive growth over the many decades since the arrival of the KMT.
Nature reclaims a recently abandoned military dependents’ village in Taipei.
Having dispensed with the backstory I now turn to my personal experience of exploring the ruins of Jiahe New Village. I had not heard of this village before stumbling upon it entirely by accident one afternoon in the summer of 2015. I was on my way to the riverside park when I felt the impulse to venture down an unfamiliar laneway. Following my intuition I soon found myself at the village gates—and before I knew it I was on the other side, wandering the cramped and overgrown streets of an entire community abandoned to the whims of nature.
Street lights still come on after dark. No wonder the streets are covered with weeds.
I knew from previous experience exactly what I was looking at: a military village in that liminal state between eviction and destruction. Jiahe New Village was not abandoned so long ago but it already looked wild and overgrown. A pair of strong typhoons had battered the city that summer and several trees in the old village had been knocked down and left where they fell. I found the famous old Japanese-style dormitory and poked my nose into many other buildings. It seemed like the sort of place that would reward further expeditions—and so I returned several times, taking care to document more of what I saw. On my last visit, as dusk approached the streets lights came on, illuminating the stark emptiness of the community with an eerie glow.
Dusk settles on the abandoned streets of Jiahe New Village.
There are times where I feel fortunate to have discovered a place when I did. Here I speak more to the future, for I certainly would have enjoyed walking around Jiahe New Village before it was abandoned. Taipei is in desperate need of parkland but something essential is certain to be lost in the conversion. South Village #44, for example, is a pleasant place to take a stroll, shop, and eat, but it is difficult to imagine what life was like for residents of the community. There is none of the gritty realness that I experienced while wandering around the ruins of Jiahe New Village over the course of the last year. I feel fortunate to have seen something of this place before it is irrevocably transformed. And now in words and photographs I share something of my experiences with you.
One last look at the abandoned military community of Jiahe New Village.
It won’t be long before the very last military dependents’ villages in Taiwan have all been demolished or converted into parks and museums. Ultimately no more than 20 villages will be preserved in some form or another. Now is the time to venture forth and explore what remains. In only a few short years it might be too late.
Fú, the character for luck and good fortune, emblazons a door in the abandoned village. (Original post.)
If you’re curious to find out more about Jiahe New Village the best resource (in Chinese, of course) is Hǎojìndào Studio 好勁稻工作室. For more general information about military dependents’ villages in English try these articles here and here. Finally, check out this drone footage for a broad overview of the entire village.
The debris field surrounding remnants of the condemned village in early 2018.
Update: many structures surrounding the village (and probably some on the inside) have been demolished as of early 2018.
In KMT ideology the counterpart to Mainland China 中國大陸 is the Free Area of the Republic of China 中華民國自由地區, nowadays referred to simply as Taiwan, although the two are not strictly coterminous. The island of Taiwan is about 99% of the territory of the modern state of Zhōnghuá Mínguó 中華民國, the Republic of China, but it also includes outlying islands not historically a part of Taiwan such as Kinmen and Matsu. ↩
Apart from the legally registered military villages there were many more illegal settlements occupied by veterans and their families. Actually, the village immediately outside the gates to Jiahe New Village is one such settlement. ↩
Land speculation by corrupt officials is a major social issue in Taiwan and many activist groups have formed in response to some of the more egregious instances of injustice. I previously wrote about a famous case in the village of Dapu and plan to some day write about the now-vanished Huaguang Community. Several of these activist groups played a major role in the Sunflower Student Movement in early 2014. ↩
I would hazard a guess that evictions took place from 2011 to 2013 with only a few residents holding out until 2014. ↩
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Thank you so much for this article. I’ve become very interested in old places like that and have been researching their history to pass it on to my kids. Thank you again.
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December 22, 2013 by lieutenantham Leave a comment
The finals are upon us and good luck to all. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all as well! Here come the picks!
Dolphins @ Bills – MONEY LINE: Dolphins — SPREAD: Bills (+3.0)
Saints @ Panthers – MONEY LINE: Panthers — SPREAD: Saints (+3.0)
Cowboys @ Redskins – MONEY LINE: Cowboys — SPREAD: Redskins (+3.0)
Buccaneers @ Rams – MONEY LINE: Rams — SPREAD: Buccaneers (+4.0)
Bears @ Eagles – MONEY LINE: Eagles — SPREAD: Bears (+3.5)
Browns @ Jets – MONEY LINE: Browns — SPREAD: Browns (+2.5)
Colts @ Chiefs – MONEY LINE: Chiefs — SPREAD: Chiefs (-5.0)
Vikings @ Bengals – MONEY LINE: Bengals — SPREAD: Bengals (-8.5)
Broncos @ Texans – MONEY LINE: Broncos — SPREAD: Broncos (-10.5)
Titans @ Jaguars – MONEY LINE: Titans — SPREAD: Jaguars (+5.0)
Cardinals @ Seahawks – MONEY LINE: Seahawks — SPREAD: Cardinals (+10.0)
Giants @ Lions – MONEY LINE: Lions — SPREAD: Giants (+9.5)
Raiders @ Chargers – MONEY LINE: Chargers — SPREAD: Raiders (+10.0)
Steelers @ Packers – MONEY LINE: Steelers — SPREAD: Steelers (+1.5)
Patriots @ Ravens – MONEY LINE: Ravens — SPREAD: Ravens (-1.5)
Falcons @ 49ers – MONEY LINE: 49ers — SPREAD: Falcons (+13.0)
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Week 7: Unlucky Sevens?
October 17, 2013 by lieutenantham 1 Comment
The Broncos didn’t blow out the Jaguars and didn’t beat the spread. John Fox probably had money on that game, I mean honestly Peyton throws a pick-6 to the Jaguars? Don’t even get me started on the New York Football (but not really) Giants. Another above .500 week for the Money Line picks at 9-6, but this was my worst week for picks Against the Spread going 2-13. I don’t want to talk about it, but hey it happens.
Seahawks @ Cardinals – MONEY LINE: Seahawks — SPREAD: Cardinals (+4.5)
The Seahawks didn’t look that great against the Titans and that was at home, that’s the second week in a row the Seahawks haven’t looked like the top dog, but this could be a bounce back week. I never really like them on the road to beat the spread. Percy Harvin may be only a couple of weeks away from contributing to this team, which would make them even more dangerous. The Cardinals turned the ball over too much to compete against the Niners and Carson Palmer has not excelled as many expected in Bruce Arians’ offense.
Patriots @ Jets – MONEY LINE: Patriots — SPREAD: Jets (+4.0)
The Patriots pulled off a stunner with five seconds left in regulation at home against the Saints. Rob Ryan was disgusted when his defense gave up the last second touchdown to Brady & Co. Aqib Talib, Rob Gronkowski and Danny Amendola (SHOCKER!) won’t be playing Sunday most likely. The biggest hit is Talib, and as you may remember he intercepted Geno Smith twice when they played in Week Two. The Jets stayed at home after losing an ugly one to the Steelers. Smith seems to play better every other game and he won’t have to face Talib, Wilfork and Mayo now. I like the Jets with the points at home.
Chargers @ Jaguars – MONEY LINE: Chargers — SPREAD: Jaguars (+7.5)
The Chargers stopped Andrew Luck from scoring a touchdown on Monday Night and the defense looked great, or was it the Colts’ play calling? No matter Philip Rivers looks like he’s refined himself and although he might not be the quarterback he used to be he has definitely matured into a leader and he has a new play-toy in Keenan Allen. The Jags are awful, but played up to the Broncos on Sunday in Denver. They will win a game at some point, but I don’t know when, but be warned. Call me crazy but the Chargers played on Monday Night and it’s a West Coast team coming to the East Coast, I smell a loss.
Texans @ Chiefs – MONEY LINE: Chiefs — SPREAD: Chiefs (-4.5)
The Texans have now lost Matt Schaub to a gruesome ankle injury, and the Houston fans cheered. Seriously??? The Texans were embarrassed by the Rams 38-13 and another pick-6 was thrown by a Texans’ quarterback. Arian Foster looks rejuvenated, but he will have a tough test against the Chiefs’ defense allowing only 10.8 points per game. Alex Smith is showing why he has the label of a game manager, but Jamaal Charles looks like a typical Andy Reid running back and that defense is fierce coming off a ten sack game against the Raiders. Chiefs at home against the lowly T.J. Yates.
Bengals @ Lions – MONEY LINE: Lions — SPREAD: Lions (-2.5)
The Bengals were up on the Bills and turned off the heat leading to a Bills comeback, but took it in overtime. The Bengals have been great on the road the past few years, but teams always seem to have trouble in Buffalo. The Lions exploded as Brandon Weeden handed away the game. The offense is getting better as Calvin Johnson is getting healthy and Stafford found himself a tight end in Joseph Fauria (WHO????!!!). I want to like the Bengals because of their away success, but it’s hard with Calvin Johnson and Reggie Bush healthy.
Bills @ Dolphins – MONEY LINE: Dolphins — SPREAD: Bills (+10.5)
The Bills almost pulled off a stunner at home against a good Bengals team. Now they head to warmer weather to play the Dolphins coming off their bye. The Dolphins are getting Cameron Wake back, but might not have Dannell Ellerbe. Ten points is a lot to give a 3-2 team in a division game. I know the Dolphins will win and I would play their defense in fantasy leagues. Dolphins here but I don’t know about that spread.
Bears @ Redskins – MONEY LINE: Bears— SPREAD: Bears (E)
The Bears took advantage of more Giants’ turnovers on Thursday night and have had eleven days off to prepare for the ‘Skins. The bears defense is opportunistic and the offense is clicking. The Redskins defense is miserable, but played up to the Cowboys’ offense on Sunday Night on the big stage, but I expect Cutler and Brandon Marshall to have a field day. RGIII had more runs that made him look like himself as he is starting to heal even more, but the play calling and the clock management is simply horrendous. Bears here, but I smell an upset.
Cowboys @ Eagles – MONEY LINE: Cowboys— SPREAD: Cowboys (E)
I don’t know why I picked them. Probably because of the talent on offense and how Nick Foles fell back to earth last year after a couple of good games, but this one’s a toss-up between the top two teams in the NFC East. Dez Bryant will feast on this bad Eagles’ secondary this weekend.
Rams @ Panthers – MONEY LINE: Panthers — SPREAD: Rams (+6.0)
The Rams took it to the Texans as Sam Bradford only had to throw for 116 yards last week, but tossed three touchdowns. The Rams were the beneficiaries of bad Matt Schaub play. The Panthers took it to the Vikings as Matt Cassel kept turning the ball over. The Panthers are bipolar so don’t be surprised if they lose this one easily.
Bucs @ Falcons – MONEY LINE: Falcons — SPREAD: Bucs (+7.0)
The Bucs have yet to win a game. Are they due? Maybe. Mike Glennon has begun his tenure as the Bucs starting quarterback and he looked decent against the Eagles and things won’t get harder against the Falcons bad defense. Matt Ryan comes out of his bye and will not have Julio Jones, Roddy White and Steven Jackson. His offensive line is banged up and he can’t rely on his defense to keep opponents from scoring, so he is going to lean heavily on Tony Gonzalez, who came back for one last run at a title. So much for that!
49ers @ Titans – MONEY LINE: 49ers — SPREAD: 49ers (-4.5)
The 49ers housed the Cardinals last week at Arrowhead as Colin Kaepernick realized who his best receiver is, his tight end, Vernon Davis. They connected for 180 yards and two touchdowns as Vernon Davis showed us why everyone is always so high on him. The defense will enjoy this game against Ryan Fitzpatrick. When will the Kenny Britt saga end? Nobody knows, but what could they get in return for a guy who will be a free agent next year anyway?
Browns @ Packers – MONEY LINE: Packers — SPREAD: Packers (-10.5)
The Browns look a lot different and more turnover-prone with Weeden under center. They will probably be playing from behind most of the time so Josh Gordon and Jordan Cameron will keep producing numbers. The Packers lost Randall Cobb (out for 6-8 weeks) and James Jones both to injury, even though Jones might play this week. The Packers are going to rely more on Eddie Lacy now with those injuries, but he looks more than capable. Also one of the more underrated plays I have ever seen was Eddie Lacy going down before the end zone against the Ravens to waste the clock last week.
Ravens @ Steelers – MONEY LINE: Ravens — SPREAD: Ravens (+1.5)
The Ravens looked ugly against the Packers last week, but are the better team here and are getting points. They need to get the ball in Ray Rices hands 20-25 times a game and we all know that. Their defensive front will be feasting on Big Ben all day. The Steelers got their first win against the bipolar Jets in MetLife Stadium. Big Ben needs to be kept upright and Leveon Bell needs to keep pushing the pile. This is the best rivalry in football right now even with the Steelers being 1-4.
Broncos @ Colts – MONEY LINE: Broncos — SPREAD: Colts (+7.0)
Bad win for the Broncos as they failed to embarrass the Jaguars at home. But Peyton Manning is coming back to Indy this week and Jim Irsay’s quotes have just made this more memorable. Andrew Luck is coming off one of his worst performances of his young career. Trent Richardson is not living up to that first round pick price they paid. This will be a great game to watch but a more memorable one for Peyton coming back “home”. Also Von Miller comes back, and his workouts were ridiculous while he waited for his suspension to end.
Vikings @ Giants – MONEY LINE: Vikings — SPREAD: Vikings (+4.0)
Josh Freeman is starting after a week to get the playbook. Adrian Peterson will probably be running a muck in MetLife. The Giants are in shambles even coming off one of their best games of the year, a loss to the Bears. Brandon Jacobs looked like Jacobs circa 2007, but he hurt his hammy and they signed Peyton Hillis. Desperation moves. Reuben Randle and Eli Manning need to get on the same page otherwise the interceptions will keep mounting.
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5 Things We Learned: The Seattle Screwjob Edition
September 26, 2012 by 2lips1comb Leave a comment
1) If players can be flagged for throwing the ball at fellow players, then coaches should be reprimanded for throwing the game. Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, you should be ashamed of yourself. Schwartz took full blame for the loss after the game (which he should), but that doesn’t change the fact that it was arguably one of the dumbest play-calls on fourth down since Belichick went for it deep in his own territory versus the Colts.
“I was getting ready to call timeout,” said Schwartz after the game, who said the play was an attempt to draw the Titans offside. Jim, we are still waiting for you to call that timeout. Quarterback Shaun Hill telegraphed that QB Sneak the moment he broke the huddle.
It was fourth-and-1. All Schwartz had to do was send Jason Hanson, who was 4/4 on the day, out for the 24-yard field goal, thus displaying trust in his defense to get one more stop. Sounds too easy right?! It’s a move like that which makes a player on the defense start to question the coach’s play-calling on the offensive side of the ball.
Then there is Miami Dolphins first-year head coach Joe Philbin. Joe, is there any conclusive evidence to suggest that icing the kicker actually works? Because if there is, I am dying to get my hands on that data. It’s bad enough coach Philbin believes if a coach calls for time the moment before the place-holder asks for the ball to be snapped, the kicker will miss the ensuing field goal. What makes this even more of a face-palm moment is the Dolphins were able to successfully block the kick!
Coach Philbin, I get it. You’re a superstitious individual. I am too. When the Giants were getting steam-rolled in the first half of their week 2 game vs Tampa Bay, I found myself scratching my head a lot. Then, at half time, my friend’s sister texted me and implored that the four of us switch seats for the second half. Nothing else seemed to be working at the time, so we did switch. And what do you know, the Giants came roaring back to win on the shoulders of a career-day from quarterback Eli Manning.
Did I actually believe I had any impact on the Giants performance in the second half? In the moment, of course I did, but in reality the answer is no. Did Philbin really believe his timeout call was going to ice Nick Folk? As Timbaland and Nelly Furtado would say, “Nope. Didn’t think so.”
2) Panic should ensue in New Orleans right about…NOW!
You’re the New Orleans Saints and you’re 0-2 going into week 3. You’re down on yourselves for the disappointing start to the season (as you should be.) But then the football gods hear your sorrows, and they give you the gift of the Kansas City Chiefs at home. What more could you ask for?! To the credit of the Saints, it has taken monster performances from their 3 previous opponents to keep them winless:
-Robert Griffin, III threw for 320 yards and 2 scores, with the addition of 42 rushing yards on the side for good measure.
-Cam Newton’s Carolina Panthers, as a team, rushed for 219 total yards on 41 carries.
-Jamaal Charles gutted the Saints defense for 233 rushing yards and a touchdown.
Needless to say, to beat the Saints, a team needs to have at least one player with a breakout game. They’re not getting blown out. The Saints simply aren’t closing out games, as this past Sunday’s overtime performance displayed. Blame the lack of coach Sean Payton’s missing presence on the sidelines all you want, but the reality is the Saints look flat, and even more so, beatable. If anything, the absence of Payton should inspire them and bring out more passion in their game, and yet, the opposite is occurring. More often than not, when something/someone is taken from you, you will do whatever it takes to retrieve it. Maybe the Saints don’t want it bad enough.
Now, the Saints have to travel up north to take on the very pissed off Green Bay Packers. This game may very well determine if the Saints can make one final push to turn their season around, or if they should start scouting for their top 10 pick in next season’s NFL draft. According to nfl.com, since 1990, only 5 NFL teams have started the season 0-3 and still made the playoffs. With the depth that is in the NFC this season, the Saints would need to play near perfect football, and need a lot of teams to fall off immediately.
3) It is time to cut ties with Chris Johnson on your fantasy team. I take this learned lesson especially personal because I was one of those fantasy players who felt Chris Johnson’s holdout two season’s ago would not stop him from being a 1500-yard rusher in 2011, at the minimum. Boy was I wrong. Fast forward to this past August and there I was, like many of you, sitting there with a second round pick and thinking, “I have to take him here.” Now together, we are all face-palming the decision to have drafted him at all.
Through three games, Chris Johnson is averaging a mere 1.4 yards per carry. Per espn.com and the Elias Sports Bureau, among those who have the minimum 6.25 per game to qualify, Johnson ranks dead last at number 51. As I have stated in previous weeks, this is the year of the backup running back, and there are plenty of players out there who can amass the measly eight fantasy points he has put up thus far. Drop him now, while there are still valuable players on the waiver wire, because he is done.
4) Goodell Logic. I certainly can’t take credit for the name of this (shout-out to WFAN’s Evan Roberts), but I definitely subscribe to this theory that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell approves moves that make you scratch your head. In this case, the weekly Thursday night football game, which every team plays in at some point during the regular season.
Goodell Logic allowed the Baltimore Ravens to play in the prime-time game on Sunday night, only to have them play once again this Thursday evening vs the Cleveland Browns. That makes no sense whatsoever. Regardless of who they are playing, teams should not have to play a football game on 3 days rest. Nothing good can come of that, except the NFL making more money by having people tune into its network channel every Thursday.
Sadly, nothing will be brought to the table to end this until players start to get injured because of these short turn-around weeks. Be on the lookout though, because Goodell Logic is bound to punish your favorite team at some point this season.
5) The Sunday night game featuring the Ravens and Patriots may have been the worst officiated game this season…until we all witnessed the screwjob that was Seattle vs. Green Bay.
No need to rehash what has already been beaten into the ground over the last 48 hours. The officiating of those two nationally televised games was abysmal! The final play should not have been ruled a touchdown at all. It was clear as day (apparently not if you were on the field and wearing stripes it wasn’t) that Golden Tate did not have possession, simultaneous possession, anything, and yet the refs still ruled in favor of the Seahawks.
I really want to believe professional sports are never rigged, Tim Donaghy aside, but then officials blow calls like that and it makes me wonder if Roger Goodell runs the NFL, or if Vince McMahon and the writers at WWE are the ones calling the shots. The ending to the football game delivered from a ratings perspective, something Vince McMahon has seen the WWE excel at. Fact is, when the conclusion of Monday Night Raw seems less fixed than the outcome of a professional football, we as a fan base, and as a culture, have failed ourselves.
#BookIt
-The New York Jets are done. You know the rest of your season is bleak when one of the backup running backs is being converted into cornerback.
-Michael Vick will be the starting quarterback in Philly as long as he healthy. Head coach Andy Reid wasn’t fooling anyone when he told reporters that Vick was their quarterback for now. What are his other options?
-The blown call in Monday night’s game changed the landscape of the NFC playoff picture. Just wait.
-If the Saints lose on Sunday, they are not making the playoffs. If the Saints win on Sunday, they are not making the playoffs.
-Rob Gronkowski will not be as effective as last season until: A) Aaron Hernandez returns B) Josh McDaniels actually figures out what he is doing with that offense…whichever happens first.
In Week 3, McKayla is certainly not impressed with the Green Bay Packers. This is truly meant for guard T.J. Lang and cornerback M.D. Jennings. Had the two of you done your jobs just a tiny bit better, your team would not have been on the wrong side of a horrendous call.
Mr. Lang, had your offensive line had a pulse in the first half, the game would not have had to come down to the final Hail Mary. Mr. Jennings, all you had to do was swat the football down, up, to the left; any direction your heart so desired. That is football 101. Instead you chose to go for your individual defensive player fantasy points and be a hero to your own team. McKayla is not impressed, and neither is anyone that witnessed you selfishly catch the ball on that last play.
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The Imperial Family of Qian Zhou Appears
On the afternoon of the 29th of the end of the year, snow filled the air of Song Zhou. The clouds were dark and were very low. It was as though they were pressing down the people’s heads. Everyone could feel a bit of the oppression.
Three inns had been filled with officials from Da Shun, but after that large fire, at least three-tenths had run away. As for the remaining people, they were all ordered out of the inn by the bearded man. They were all brought out of the inn and gathered in the central plaza of Song Zhou.
Feng Yu Heng and Ban Zou were already mingling with the crowd. Feng Yu Heng even put on a maidservant’s disguise, and she was not too far away from magistrate Lu. There were a large number of people tied up in the middle of this plaza. One portion was tied to totems, and another portion was kneeling in the snow. There were men, women and children.
Someone recognized the people tied there, blurting out: “Isn’t that lord Sun from Dan Zhou? And his daughter!”
At the same time, more and more people were recognized. They finally understood that the people tied up in the middle of the plaza were all people that had tried to run after the fire at the palace. Unfortunately, in just a short span of time, they were all caught.
The people began to discuss, guessing at how these people would be taken care of. At this time, they saw the bearded man wave his hand and loudly say: “Everyone, quiet!” When it finally quieted down, he finally pointed at the people in the middle of the plaza and said: “Since you have already committed yourselves to leader Duan Mu, yet you made use of the fire at the palace to try and escape. Through this, it can be seen that you cannot work with the great leader to handle the trials and tribulations. What use are people like this? Today, this general has received an order from the great leader. Propagate the might of the northern provinces and behead all of the deserters!”
An uproar broke out from the crowd once more.
“There are so many people. He said that they will be beheaded?”
“Impossible. At most, one or two will be killed to keep up appearances. Three will be killed at most. Look, there are at least 50 people that tried to escape. How could they all be killed?”
“That’s right! I heard that there were at least 60 officials that came North to celebrate Duan Mu An Guo’s birthday. Adding in their families, that is at least 200 people!”
“Guys, say, if these people really are killed, what sort of outcome will we suffer?”
This sort of discussion was omnipresent. The bearded man heard it very clearly; however, he did not care. He just continued in a loud voice: “If this general said behead, that means behead. Not a single one will be left alive! Lord Duan Mu said that the people that had come to seek help from him, the North definitely will not mistreat you. But if you are lacking in resolution and want to run away some panic, do not blame the North for lacking in mercy!”
After he finished speaking, he gestured to the executioners that had already arrived in the plaza long ago. The fiends carrying swords immediately started walking toward the middle of the plaza in large strides.
All of the observing officials inhaled sharply. The cold light radiating off of the blades held by the executioners told them that this was all real.
The madams and young misses had already closed their eyes. Some of the more frightened ones were paralyzed on the ground, while a man muttered: “This is practically just a slaughtering ground.”
These words had given voice to what everyone was thinking, including Feng Yu Heng.
She and Ban Zou were standing in the crowd. In this crowd, there were officials and normal civilians, but they did not pay attention to the two. Ban Zou lowered his head and quietly said to Feng Yu Heng: “Duan Mu An Guo is doing this for real. Do we save them?”
Feng Yu Heng frowned, “How can they be saved? Two fists will struggle to beat four hands. Even a hero will struggle when there are many people. Based on the two of us, will we get these 40-odd people out from under the noses of the North’s generals and soldiers? Moreover, even if they are brought away, where can they be brought to?” She felt an irritation surface in her heart. Looking again at the middle of the plaza, the executioner had already put the necks of the officials in place. The sounds of their cries and pleas filled the air. This sort of feeling was far more frightening than when she was in the palace and setting fires.
When she had started those fires, she had chosen buildings with nobody in them. Even if someone was burned to death, they were Duan Mu An Guo’s guards or retainers that helped him mistreat others. But now, even if these officials were guilty, their family members were innocent. For her to watch on as these people were executed, that was something that she could not do.
But if she did not watch on, what else could she do at this time?
Feng Yu Heng was thinking rapidly. She knew that the best method of delaying or stopping this execution was to cause another mess at this location.
The bearded general seemed to greatly enjoy the looks of horror. He even smiled at a girl that was about to faint. Feng Yu Heng asked Ban Zou: “Say, if I killed the bearded guy, will this matter slow down?” While she spoke, she moved her right hand into her space, and she was in the middle of deciding between a handgun and a tranquilizer gun.
But at this time, a gong suddenly rang out from behind. It shook the skies and caused everyone’s heart to tremble. Even Feng Yu Heng and Ban Zou were shocked.
She was extremely shocked and subconsciously turned back to look; however, her wrist was grabbed by Ban Zou, who then quietly said: “Don’t look back. That gong just now was clearly struck by someone using internal strength. Look at everyone else.”
Only then did Feng Yu Heng notice that everyone at her side had frozen in place following that gong. All of them looked to be suffering; however, their eyes were a little dazed. It was as though their bodies had become rigid and incapable of movement.
“If we look back now, we will stand out too much.” Ban Zou said quietly: “Watch the crowd. Whenever they can move, we will also begin moving.”
Fortunately, this sort of situation did not continue for too long. Feng Yu Heng counted, and it was no more than eight seconds before people slowly began to recover. Everyone then looked back with horror in their faces. This included the executioner and the bearded man, who also turned toward the back, delaying the execution for the time being.
Only then did Feng Yu Heng and Ban Zou turn back to see an extremely large carriage slowly coming in their direction. Perhaps it was because it traveled on the road, but the driver of the carriage controlled the speed of the horses. They were practically strolling over, but even if they were strolling over, the steps were filled with power. A crunching sound came with each step in the snow.
This large carriage was pulled by five horses and needed two more horses than Xuan Tian Ming’s imperial carriage. The body of the carriage was very unique. It was not made of wood, as it was clear. It seemed to be made of crystal, but after closer inspection, it was not crystal. Rather, it was a type of extremely hard ice.
Outside the carriage, there were two girls in white robes. With bamboo hats on their heads, they each held lotus flower ice lanterns. The curtains of the carriage would occasionally shift slightly with the blowing wind. The person sitting inside could faintly be seen wearing red robes.
“The horses look strange.” Feng Yu Heng squinted her eyes and looked over. No matter how she thought, she could not think it through. Why did this horse not look like a horse? Rather, it seemed to have the eyes of a wolf?
Ban Zou told her: “That is a species unique to Qian Zhou. Apparently, it’s the result of a child between a hunting horse and a white wolf. It is very suited to surviving in the icy North. In fact, it can even bring someone over a mountain and will not slide down.”
Her desire for knowledge was renewed once more, “A horse can be bred with a wolf? And this thing will be the result?” Feng Yu Heng’s mind was in disorder.
Ban Zou, however, told her the reality: “Qian Zhou relies on these horses and their ice-cold world to remain in power without collapsing for so many years. That’s why Da Shun has not wanted to try and touch them for so long. I heard that back when the ancestral emperor was alive, after conquering the three northern provinces, taking over Qian Zhou would not have been a problem at all, based on military strategies. But once they passed through Jiang Zhou, it was already so cold that the people of Da Shun could not survive at all. Not to mention the soldiers, even the warhorses were frozen solid. The ancestral emperor also led his people to push forward, but in the end, they were chased away by the people of Qian Zhou riding their wolf horses.”
Feng Yu Heng took a deep breath and was feeling uncertain. She had never been to Qian Zhou. Based on her impression, if it was based on a map, Qian Zhou should be within Russia’s border. But in reality, it might not be that far. After all, the countries of this era could not compare tot he countries of the modern world. It was not that large. In fact, the people of Qian Zhou spoke the same language as the people of Da Shun. Xuan Tian Ming once said that on this content, everyone spoke the same language. Many years ago, he had once met someone that was not from this continent. Thus what that person said was not something that anyone could understand. In the end, they needed to rely on pictures to understand where he had come from.
If she thought about it like this, if Qian Zhou was also in Asian territory, it should not be that cold. For warhorses to be frozen solid, just how cold would it need to be? Did Asia have a place like that?
“What is it?” Ban Zou saw that she was in a daze and could not help but ask.
Feng Yu Heng shook her head, saying: “It’s nothing. I was just wondering why Qian Zhou was so cold.” It seemed that this was not the Da Shun country that was a part of 5000 years of history. Even the geography of the area was different. She could no longer use her modern knowledge to infer things.
At this time, the ice carriage being pulled by the five wolf horses arrived before them. The people standing at the sides immediately moved away to open up a path; however, the ice carriage did not continue any further. It stopped very quickly, and the two girls holding lotus flower ice lanterns lifted them, and one of them asked in a loud voice: “What happened up ahead?”
This voice was clearly asked using internal strength. The bearded man heard this from quite a distance away. He was given a shock, as he quickly ran forward.
Wolf horses and an ice carriage, just based on these two things alone, he knew that the people that had come were from Qian Zhou’s imperial family. Only people of the imperial family were noble enough to sit in a carriage drawn by wolf horses; moreover, there were five wolf horses.
He arrived in front of the ice carriage and immediately bowed respectfully. At the same time, he replied, saying: “This lowly one received an order from lord Duan Mu and was about to execute the officials that had come from Da Shun to celebrate a birthday but used a fire to try and escape.” While he spoke, he glanced at the ice lanterns being held by the two girls. Once the two lotus flowers entered his vision, he immediately trembled. He had been standing at first, but he immediately kneeled. At the same time, he kowtowed on the snowy ground, saying in a loud voice: “This subordinate greets your Highness Prince Lian! Long live your Highness!”
TN: The lotus flower in Chinese is lian hua. That’s why beardy mcbeardface recognizes that it’s prince Lian from seeing a lotus flower ice lantern.
aphtoaster says:
Beardy mcbeard face 😂😂
cesmagno says:
Snow says:
Thanks for the chapter 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Oh finally the lotus prince showed up! His name has been mentioned alot in spoliers!
How powerful is Qian Zhou? really…
Ban Zou: That is a species unique to Qian Zhou. Apparently, it’s the result of a child between a hunting horse and a white wolf.
A-Heng: A horse can be bred with a wolf? And this thing will be the result?
Ban Zou: Of course.
Her shock caused her to think of something more impossible to even think.
A-Heng: If that is the case then, we could bred a unique horse too by combining a warhorse and a goshawk…then the result will be like having a unicorn or a pegasus.
Ban Zou: *gasp* Master is genius!
That lotus prince, does he have a lotus feet too?? 😀
Thanks muchoo Springrain and co.
With further interbreeding(and lots of sketchy magic), one can produce a legendary alicorn!
Ladebalken says:
Shit really? Wolf’s and horse. Are we in impossible creatures? Fuck create flying whales!
LMFAO. I just thought of Narnia & Game of Thrones & the creatures present in these two.
dercocoknight says:
First impossible chimeras, and now mindstopping gongs that operate on internal energy. The seeking arrow technique and the cold environment are already powerful deterents on their own. Especially the enviroment, Just look at what happened to poor Napolean. At this point I’m starting to think the story will reveal that the nation has mystical ice tigers, an undead ice king, and straight up ice magic. What trying to say is, Qian Zhao is starting to remind of Eleum Loyce. Also I gotta ask how many more technologies/upgrades/special techniques does the author give to the nation/reveal in future chapters? because I’m getting annoyed at the fact that these unique cultural and national traits of the nation are only being revealed now.
One of the best treasures of another rival nation was only primitive steel or some precursor. What unique things does Da Shun or any of the other nations have and why does Qian Zhao get some many?
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By cited in article | September 5, 2019 - 5:12 pm | September 9, 2019 Dow Jones News
U.S. stocks closed solidly higher Thursday after American and Chinese officials declared a tentative resumption of tariff talks, viewed by Wall Street as a sign of progress in the yearlong trade conflict between the economic superpowers.
Also helping boost sentiment were a series of bullish economic reports, including data from ADP estimating the private sector added 195,000 jobs in August, and a better-than-expected reading on activity in the U.S. services sector.
How did the major benchmarks perform?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.26% rose 372.68 points, or 1.4%, to 26,728.15, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.09% advanced 38.2 points, or 1.3%, to reach 2,975.98. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.17% rose 139.95 points to 8,116.83, a gain of 1.8%.
The Dow’s rally marks its sharpest point and percentage gain since Aug. 13, according to FactSet data. The Nasdaq notched its best gain since Aug. 13, while S&P 500 performed better than any trading day since Aug. 16.
Read: History says the stock market’s volatile August paves the way for more losses in September
What drove the market?
China’s Commerce Ministry, in a statement, said that Beijing and Washington had set a tentative date for “early October” after a conference call between Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, according to translated version of the text.
Read: China says trade talks with U.S. to take place in October
U.S. trade officials confirmed the talks and noted that both sides must hold discussions with lower-level officials to lay the groundwork for more serious negotiations to take place next month.
The communication between China and the U.S. comes after tariffs were raised by both sides over the weekend and another increase is set to take place in the coming weeks. The tariff dispute between the world’s two largest
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Wells Fargo unveils organizational changes in its Community Bank
Wells Fargo’s retail bank is creating three new teams and streamlining management to build a better bank and restore trust.
Wells Fargo is creating three new teams and streamlining the organizational structure of its retail bank to help drive its efforts to rebuild trust and transform the experiences of team members and customers.
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Mary Mack, head of Community Banking, said in an internal message that the bank would evaluate internal and external candidates to lead three new groups:
Customer Segments, focused on core customer groups such as small businesses and the affluent;
Customer and Branch Experience, focused on the experience in the branch and among team members and customers; and
Business Strategy and Administration
“These three new groups will enable us to continue to focus on what matters: the unique needs of our customers across segments, the branch and team member experience, and the structure to drive our business and efforts to build a better bank and restore trust,” Mack said.
In addition, the company will transition from three regional banking executives overseeing its network of retail branches to two executives.
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Security at European Attractions and Borders Increased After Paris Attacks
Alan Clendenning and Riccardo De Luca, Associated Press
- Nov 14, 2015 3:34 pm
Soldiers and paramilitary troops toting semi-automatic rifles patrolled outside the Colosseum and inside St. Peter’s Square on Saturday, as Italy joined the rest of Europe in beefing up security a day after terrorist attacks killed 127 people in Paris. U.K. officials shut down a terminal of Britain’s No. 2 airport for hours after a man was spotted discarding what looked like a firearm.
Europe has been mostly free of land-based border checks for decades, but the attacks prompted authorities in countries from Belgium to Hungary to re-impose spot inspections of vehicles. Some local authorities vowed to do the work if their national governments don’t.
In southern Germany, Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder insisted the country needs to know who is entering and railed against cherished European borderless travel, citing the Paris attacks and the continent’s migration crisis.
“The days of unchecked immigration and illegal entry can’t continue,” Soeder told the Welt am Sonntag weekly newspaper. “Paris changes everything.”
And if Germany can’t secure its borders, he said, “then Bavaria can take on this task.”
Soeder, a member of the conservative sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, made the comments as Bavarian officials confirmed that firearms, explosives and hand grenades were found when undercover police stopped a man near the German-Austrian border on Nov. 5.
Authorities declined to confirm reports the man appeared to be en route to Paris, but said there were “reasonable grounds” to assume that there may be a link to the Paris attacks. Following a request from France, Germany ramped up border controls, focusing on road, rail and air traffic from France to Germany, said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
British officials called in explosive specialists and evacuated the North Terminal at Gatwick Airport after a French man got rid of an item authorities said appeared to be a firearm. The man was arrested on suspicion of firearms offenses, though authorities were not sure whether the weapon was useable.
“Given the events in Paris on Friday evening, there is heightened awareness around any such incident and it is best that we treat the matter in all seriousness,” Detective Superintendent Nick May said.
London was among cities that put in place high-visibility patrols at key locations to reassure citizens, with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe stressing that the “scale of the attacks and the range of weaponry used by the terrorists are a serious cause for concern.”
Britain and Spain did not raise their terror threat levels, but Italy hiked its own to the second highest possible, allowing for rapid deployment of special forces if necessary.
In Rome, tourists visiting historic sites ended up seeing heavily armed troops including 700 soldiers sent to beef up security. Italy’s Sky TG24 television said police checked sewer manholes on a road leading to the Vatican to ensure no explosives had been planted.
Nordic nations like Denmark sent officers with semi-automatic weapons to patrol outside foreign embassies where usually no police are posted. And Swedish officials pledged to increase security at Saturday night’s European Championship soccer playoff game between Sweden and Denmark in Stockholm.
The French Football Federation said France’s friendly match against England in London on Tuesday will still take place despite major safety concerns. France beat Germany 2-0 on Friday at Stade de France in a game overshadowed by the attacks. Two explosions went off outside the stadium.
Finnish police said they were increasing surveillance in airports and harbors, while Romania announced that French institutions in the country had canceled cultural events and a French cinema closed until Dec. 18.
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party postponed a Sunday congress to elect new leadership, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban said police would carry extra firepower while stepping up patrols at airports and the country’s nuclear power plant.
Many nations declined to announce what steps they were taking since doing so would only tip off would-be attackers.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told reporters in The Hague on Saturday that his administration will take “visible and invisible” measures to increase security, including stiffer border controls.
“Violence and extremism will never triumph over freedom and humanity,” he pledged.
Clendenning reported from Madrid. Associated Press writers across Europe contributed to this report.
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Photo Credit: Soldiers patrol in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. Riccardo De Luca / Associated Press
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March 16, 2019 / By AJ - Host
Bree Mission is the latest artist to be featured in our series showcasing up and coming artists from around the world; On the Rise ! The 25 year old artist hailing from the GTA had only started to pursue music within the past 2 years, but is already making waves across the Canadian music scene.
Follow @basementtothebillboards to tap in to Bree & the Mission Movement ! ( 📸: @taransodhi)
Bree has always had a passion for music since he was a child, however an impromptu studio session, where he was forced into the booth by his homies is really what jumpstarted the young artist's realization that music was a viable creative outlet. His sound is greatly influenced by Toronto's ethnic diversity and vast sonic landscape.
This diversity is clearly reflected in his crew Mission, which is comprised of a collective of creatives who are striving for greatness. The collective's debut 7 song project FROM THE BASEMENT TO THE BILLBOARDS serves an introduction into Bree's unique sound and the collective's immersive & ambitious vision. While the project is dropping soon, the debut single "Wanted You" featuring MVTTHEW is the perfect initiation for listeners to familiarize themselves with Bree's refreshing melodies and MVTTHEW's immersive production. The track itself is an ode to moving forward and striving for prosperity, using people's underestimations of your abilities as motivation to go get it 😤 Be sure to listen to "Wanted You" below & stay in tune with Mission as they have way more in store for you listeners for the rest of 2019 !
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Zoot Suit: The fashion started by African American men and overtime grew popular with white and mexican men. Once seen by parents as gangsta fashion
Posted on October 7, 2016 by Sunbelz.com
The word zoot was made up by African Americans Some contested that it has no meaning whatsoever,
and is only part of a rhyming jive type of speech common amongst Black people of the era. The word comes from a reduplication of suit. The word Zoot means exaggerated,” a term that could be applied to both music and fashion.
Zoot Suits are associated with African American fashion in urban communities such as Harlem, Chicago, and Detroit and were commonly seen worn by African American jazz musicians in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Most of The Zoot Suits were colorful and is noted as an important cultural significance within the black community and were prohibited by the white working and upper-class. It was seen as too outrageously designed and gangsta to be worn by whites. They were generally worn by young men of African-American descent, initially,” known to be quizzical for a fashion that was so unconventional.
The Zoot first appeared in the mid- to late-1930s and were especially popular among young and fashionable black party goers and street performers,men who wanted to be noticed. “They were expensive, attention-grabbing and identified wearers with the posh club scene of the Harlem Renaissance,” known to be quizzical and was seen as unconventional.
DENZEL WASHINGTON AND SPIKE LEE WATER PAINT ZOOT SUIT PIC
It was known throughout American cities that the oversized zoot suit trend was started in the 1930s by African American men, and Most fashion created by them were seen as gangsta fashion. Being ones own man” the zoot suit was a fresh air of independence for the men, not relying on nor controlled by white American mainstream fashion but their own.
To compliment the look black men who wore the zoot would put on a swagger, adopting a walk and dip while out and about, that garnered many attention. Some people thought that the walk was provocative and was seen by the upper class as straw in the wind. As for the African American men that wore the fashion it was only a trick of the trade. It was also worn to grab the attention of female admirers.
African American tailors specifically and dutifully designed the extravagant suit for black men to make a bold statement to the world as they were subjected to a lot of discrimination during that era. Wearing the oversized suit was a declaration of pride freedom and self-determination, even rebelliousness. It was attention grabbing and flashy.
A SMASH HIT
The eye catching African American jazz-inspired trend started to gain popularity among the city’s Mexican American population. Latino youths known as “Pachucos” caused a sensation by donning zoot suits, pork pie hats and dangling watch chains, and it wasn’t long before their eye-catching garb earned them an overblown reputation as street thugs and juvenile delinquents.
Mexican parents would worry when they see their sons in zoot suit as it was often seen as a black male fashion, and overwhelmingly worn by black entertainers and black gangsta night clubbers. “Initially it was mainly a mystery to mainstream Americans,” “It was seen as strange but not necessarily sinister.
AS PROUD AS A PEACOCK
The zoot suits had a number of defining characteristics. Made initially out of wool –Suit pants were worn high on the waist and very tight; below the waist, the pants billowed like parachutes around the thighs and knees before being tied tight at the ankles.
Zoot suit jackets also had exaggerated contours, with wide shoulders and sleeves that reached the wearer’s fingertips . Many African American and Mexican zoot suiters also donned hats adorned with feathers, wore pointy shoes and sported key chains that dropped all the way to the knees to complete the look.
A young Malcolm X described the zoot suit as: “a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic’s cell”. Zoot suits usually featured a watch chain dangling from the belt to the knee or below, then back to a side pocket. Zoot suit wearers’ dates often wore flared skirts and long coats.
BEAT A HASTY RETREAT
Tensions grew especially high between zoot-suiters and the large contingent of white sailors and Marines stationed in Los Angeles. Since wool and other textiles were subject to wartime rationing, they also considered the oversized suits an unpatriotic waste of resources.
“ Over time their perception was that the zoot suit is unpatriotic.”
“In the midst of the war it is associated with men who are criminals or members of gangs,” “Around 1943, there is a riot that breaks out in Los Angeles. White servicemen and civilians began to attack young men, especially Mexican-American men. They rip the clothing off their bodies, and the zoot suit takes on this sense of being a danger.” White parents, however, were not quite as smitten by the style and feared that if the fashion was allowed to catch on in their back yards, whilst copying the outrageous poses and walk/ persona associated with the zoot, their upper-class neighborhoods would be doomed.
TENSION START TO RISE
1943’s “Zoot Suit Riots” in Los Angeles take their name from the high-waisted wool trousers and baggy, long-tailed suit coats then worn by many black and Mexican youths, but the violence was more about race relations than fashion. The racially charged atmosphere finally led to full-scale riots in early June 1943. Following a series of bloody street brawls between zoot-suiters and white soldiers, a mob of U.S. servicemen took to the streets in taxicabs and began attacking Latinos and stripping them of their suits.
COME TO REST
— Later rationing as World War II kicked in —
Thousands more servicemen and civilians joined the fray over the next several days, often marching into cafes and movie theaters and beating anyone wearing Pachuco clothing or hairstyles. Blacks and Filipinos—even those not clad in zoot suits—were also targeted and beaten. Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and police generally restricted their arrests to the African American and Latinos who fought back. The mayhem didn’t die down until early June , when U.S. military personnel were finally barred from leaving their barracks.
The Los Angeles City Council issued a ban on zoot suits. Amazingly, no one was killed during the week-long riot, but it wasn’t the last outburst of zoot suit-related racial violence. Similar incidents took place that same year in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit.
POPULAR 1920S DANCE MOVES ASSOCIATED WITH ZOOT SUIT
The zoot suits also became associated with swing dance and jitterbugging, two of the more popular dances of the time created by african americans , because the style of the clothing complemented and accentuated the dance movements. “The fabric swung as African American dancers did,”. The Jitterbug, swing dance and lindy hop started in 1927 by black club goers, street dancers, and performers. Nightly dancing attracted many of the best, most innovative dancers in the New York and surrounding area. Stimulated by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands.
The jitterbug and swing dance became very popular shortly before World War II and continued its craze throughout wartime. Americans in Europe spread the jitterbug, lindy hop and swing dance to their overseas counterparts (despite loud protests from European officials touting the dance as uncivilized.
CONDEMNED AND BANNED
At the dawn of World War II, the zoot suit was condemned by the U.S. government as wasteful. Not surprisingly, the criticism did little to dissuade its fans from wearing it, and in fact may have even attracted more people to the look. In the early 1940s, working-class youth, entertainers and dancers continued to wear zoot suits, and the look spread to Italian and wealthy white Americans, Jews, and even some teenage girls.
A RESURGENCE OF THE ZOOT SUIT
As the tension slowly begin to die down White American put their pride aside and began to embrace the posh luxury suit. African Americans were rarely shown on TV so It became popular overtime as it was copied by white entertainers that were seen on television donning the luxurious attire. The luxury looking fashion item was too much to be ignored and “Mexican-American and white working-class men started to wear them. Typically they order them at local clothing shops and have them tailored to pattern to their oversized style” often seen worn by black American men.
DEFIANCE AND ENDURANCE
The suit’s rise in popularity coincided with the emergence of the entertainment industry showing none black dancers on tv doing the jitterbug and other forms of swing dance moves that was created by black Americans in the 1920s and made popular by Elvis Presley, who was known to be familiar among the black communities, clubs and black street entertainers that he would often visited back then. The flowing look of the suit was particularly flashy on the dance floor, and young people took note.
“A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)” was a 1942 song written by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Bob O’Brien
To be continued: Next we will be taking you through the jitter bug, lindy hop and swing dance.
Let your light shine in time with old and new memories
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Right away I am going to do my breakfast, afterward having my breakfast
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Thanks for this very exciting piece on fashion and zoot suit.
Fanterpppppppppp says:
This is one of the most interesting piece of history that I have read in a long time.
Fanterpppppppp says:
Melintal says:
Is there a movie about the los angeles riot?
Vrom says:
Look at all the commotion over a suit. It even started world war lol.
Pink panther sometimes wore a zootsuit.
Jetmet says:
There are many versions of the zoot suit, you can add or take away.
Dredsar says:
Many mafias and gangstas still wear the zoot suit even now it is still worn.
Lindyhop says:
It was popular in the god father movie series.
Pennydrop says:
How come they don’t have a movie about the African American zoot suiters,come on guys this would make a great film.
Peacerice says:
I want the zoot suit to make resurface and come back in fashion.
Gaery says:
The American white and black pimps still wear zoot suit in clubs.
onehapa says:
I saw several older black men wearing zoot suits at an O’jays concert and came here to find out what it’s about.
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OUT On Stage in theaters July 24th
Friend of Sup Doc Zach Noe Towers let us know about a one-off theater screening of this standup special that also features other friends of the show (like Irene Tu, Casey Ley, Janine Brito, and Jonathan Rowell). Details below!
This summer, moviegoers can expect a rowdy, raucous good time with the feature-length comedy event “OUT on Stage,” which will be screened in cinemas across the country for a one-night event on Tuesday, July 24. Hosted by comedian Zach Noe Towers, the event contains 90 minutes of laugh-out-loud content from a lineup of renowned gay and lesbian stand-up comedians, including Brendan Scannell, A.B. Cassidy and Janine Brito.
Tickets for “OUT on Stage” can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com and at participating theater box offices nationwide.
“‘OUT on Stage’ has been a real passion project for me,” comedian and host Zach Noe Towers said. “What an incredible experience it’s been to bring together such a gorgeously funny group of queer comedians. Each and every person featured in the content has such a unique perspective and I’m thrilled that we’re being given a platform for those hilarious voices to be heard.”
“We at Fathom pride ourselves on consistently serving up diverse content for our viewers, and we’re thrilled to be spotlighting such a talented group of LGBTQ+ comedians with ‘OUT on Stage,’” said Fathom Events Chief Content and Programming Officer Gordon Synn. “It could not be more fitting to announce the upcoming celebration of these comedians during June, National Pride Month! We’re certain that every moviegoer will find something to love in ‘OUT on Stage,’ and that they’ll share many laughs with us along the way.”
“We strive to be at the cutting edge of comedy and bringing the laughs to the entire audience,” Comedy Dynamics CEO Brian Volk Weiss said. “With Out on Stage, I think we’ve continued with that tradition.”
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This graphic novel, by one of the elder statesmen of comics, pushed the medium into new formats, genres and methods of distribution. We discuss how Eisner used a very personal tragedy to create it, as well as its unique representation of Jewish American identity.
A Contract With God
Comics and Sequential Art
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
Hubert Selby, Jr.
Eisner's A Contract with God Is the First Graphic Novel. By: Plummer, Marguerite R., Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2013
The 'God' father
THE ANATOMY OF EXPRESSION: WILL EISNER AND ‘A CONTRACT WITH GOD’
Scott McCloud’s Introduction to Will Eisner’s A Contract With God — the Centennial Edition
Royal, D. P. (2011). Sequential Sketches of Ethnic Identity: Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" as Graphic Cycle. College Literature, 38(3), 150-167.
Rick & Morty, Season 1 0
This animated adult comedy from Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon is on a mission to violate boundaries, while indulging in themes of nihilism and toxicity. We discuss how it's written and animated, along with its representation of women and its non-unionized production team.
The Auteur
T. C. Boyle Stories
Social Commentary in “Rick and Morty”
Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland talk bringing absurd to 'Rick and Morty'
Talking to Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland About Their New Adult Swim Show, ‘Rick and Morty’
‘Rick And Morty’ Is Better When It Embraces Its Strong Women
‘Rick and Morty’ Creators: How Hiring Female Writers Made Season 3 the Best Yet
Rick and Morty co-creator addresses toxicity among fanbase
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland on Rick and Morty, How Community Is Like Star Trek, and Puberty
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 0
The first book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy focuses on humanity's weird relationship with nature and how we react to the unknown. We look at how VanderMeer wrote the book, the unique publishing strategy behind it and his choice to strip the characters of their identities, while still representing an all female cast.
Area X (the collected Southern Reach Trilogy)
The Peripheral
The Other Side of the Mountain
Tainaron: Mail from Another City
Pattiann Rogers works
Annihilation: “Weird” Nature
Jeff VanderMeer: 'Power of Nature' Inspired New Sci-Fi Novel 'Annihilation'
Finally, a novel about weird science that's genuinely weird
The boundary-pushing fiction of Sean McDonald and his new FSG imprint, MCD
From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey
An Interview With Jeff VanderMeer: "Full Disclosure, I'm Really A Komodo Dragon"
I’m Jeff VanderMeer, the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). AMA!
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet 0
This Marvel Comics storyline began in 2016 as a synergistic publishing scheme that led to the wildly successful Black Panther film. Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist Brian Stelfreeze tell a tale about monarchy, nationalism, revolution, diversity and the universal trope of power.
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet
TA-NEHISI COATES FIGHTS THE POWER—LITERALLY—WITH BLACK PANTHER
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze is brilliant, political, and human
The Return of the Black Panther
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther is a human drama about power
Ta-Nehisi Coates Hopes 'Black Panther' Will Be Some Kid's 'Spider-Man'
The Words that Build Wakanda: Following Ta-Nehisi Coates’ BLACK PANTHER
The Confused Politics Behind Marvel's Black Panther: A Brief History
WAKANDA REBORN
Guided By Voices, August By Cake 0
This is Guided By Voices' 100th record (by some fuzzy math). We discuss how they create songs and what each band member contributes. We also debate the quantity over quality ethos of this prolific band... and wonder if for some listeners it's more like a religion.
August By Cake
Cap'n Jazz and the Kinsellas
Pitchfork review
Popmatters review
Flood Magazine review
GUIDED BY A LOT OF VOICES: GBV MEMBERS WEIGH IN ON ‘AUGUST BY CAKE’
Band Q&A: Guided By Voices
Life Lessons from Robert Pollard
GUIDED BY VOICES: ROBERT POLLARD, WHO ARE YOU?
What Makes These Guided By Voices Superfans Still Love Robert Pollard After 100 Albums?
Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming (with guest Van Jensen) 0
Together with guest Van Jensen, we dissect the original James Bond source material. We look at Ian Fleming's life and possible wish fulfillment, as well as how he wrote and published this post-World War II spy story. And of course, we'd be remiss if we didn't also discuss Bond's misogyny and nationalistic fantasizing.
Casino Royale (the book)
Casino Royale (the film that is nuts)
Casino Royale (the film that is great)
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer
Cryptocracy
The Leg
Spook Country
The Honourable Schoolboy
The Bond Dossier
The Magic Christian
Kerr, P., & Saunders, F. S. (2002). Licensed to print money. New Statesman, 131(4576), 38.
Moran, C. (2013). Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA. Journal Of Cold War Studies, 15(1), 119.
Bond, J. (2008). Nobody Does It Better. (cover story). In Britain, 76(2), 22.
Grose, T. K. (2008). The Man With the Golden Typewriter. U.S. News & World Report, 144(13), 28.
Casino Royale: 60 years old
'The name's Secretan… James Secretan': Early draft of Casino Royale reveals what Ian Fleming wanted to call his super spy
Bond’s Women: Feminist Heroes or Mere Accessories?
5 Things I Learned About Women From The James Bond Books
Millennium, Seasons 1 - 3 0
Was this 1990s serial killer television drama about the end of the world? Or was it about having empathy for our fellow humans? Chris Carter (X-Files) created it after watching Se7en, but over the course of its three seasons Millennium shifted and changed, until unfortunately it was cancelled.
Millennium, The Complete Series
Back To Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium
MILLENNIUM'S NIELSEN RATINGS - STATISTICAL CHARTS AND ANALYSIS
TV'S BEST KEPT SECRET IMPROVES IN ITS SOPHOMORE SEASON
Staring Into the Heart of Darkness
CHRIS CARTER INTRODUCES US TO MILLENNIUM
Back To Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium. Edited by Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon. Published by Fourth Horseman Press, 2013.
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Michael Shea was a genre writer who combined fantasy, science fiction and horror into a unique blend of wonder and imagination. Together with our guest Robert Lamb (Stuff To Blow Your Mind), we discuss Shea's writing style and legacy.
Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea
Michael Shea listing on Amazon
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Eight Black Offerings
The Grave Stompers: Six Tales From the Southern Earth
Karl Edward Wagner listing on Amazon
Swords and Deviltry (The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) (Vol 1)
The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1 (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)
www.michaelsheaauthor.com
The Extra. (2009). Publishers Weekly, 256(49), 35.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee5ckbUQ4jI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FSICmPrDU
Miami Blues 0
Based on a hard-boiled novel by Charles Willeford, this sweaty, sultry film has us questioning hedonism and the struggle between order and chaos. Between writer/director George Armitage, a very shirtless Alec Baldwin and killer performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward... we've got plenty to talk about.
Miami Blues (the film)
Miami Blues (the book)
Grosse Point Blank
Interview: George Armitage
Pinkerton, N. (2015). PRINCE OF PULP. Sight & Sound, 25(7), 98.
Fisher, M. J. (2000). The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction. Atlantic, 285(5), 117-121.
Olson, Kirby. Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford . Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2001
When Satire Fails
Miami Blues
The New Cult Canon: Miami Blues
Pastel Noir: George Armitage’s MIAMI BLUES
The Overlooked Sunshine Noir ‘Miami Blues’ Finally Hits Blu-Ray
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This comic book project stitches together the most important moments from decades (and thousands of pages) of X-Men comics. We talk to cartoonist Ed Piskor about his production process, the comics market and the relevance of the X-Men's themes in the present day.
X-Men: Grand Design
Hip Hop Family Tree
Wizzywig
The X-Men's 40-year history has just been compressed into one easy-to-read story
In X-Men: Grand Design, Ed Piskor tells the superheroes' whole story
Ed Piskor breaks down X-Men history with style in this Grand Design exclusive
X-Men: Grand Design Wants to Save Marvel's Mutants From Themselves
Chris Claremont & Ed Piskor Reflect on the Grand Design of the X-Men Legacy
Cartoonist Ed Piskor on 'Hip Hop Family Tree' and the Importance of Creative Freedom
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This band has been creating experimental music for 35 years. So we look at the moment when they doubled down by teaming up with musicians from Big Business. We confront our own subjectivity about music and examine how to make a living from something creative like this long-running doom machine.
(A) Senile Animal
Day Late, Dollar Short
This Machine Kills Artists
What One Becomes
Hew Time
Orinda's Noise Vomitorium
The Melvins: A Senile Animal
Melvins (A) Senile Animal
Melvins Interviews and Studio
(((O))) : INTERVIEW: JARED WARREN FROM BIG BUSINESS
Coady Willis of Big Business Talks What He’s Learned From the Melvins
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Bid Rigging Update
The witness: Convicted bid-rigger takes aim at tech firms
By Elizabeth Howell, Ottawa Business Journal Staff
The sentence: a $5,000 donation to charity
A vice-president of one of the tech firms charged with bid rigging has been convicted and will serve as a key witness as the matter proceeds through the courts this summer, court documents show.
On Feb. 23, Veritaaq Consulting’s Shannon Lambert signed a statement of facts submitted to the Ontario Court of Justice, admitting she participated in rigging an IT contract for Transport Canada.
For the Transport Canada contract under investigation, Ms. Lambert fingered three firms as the alleged ringleaders of a bid-rig conspiracy: TPG Technology Consulting Ltd., the Devon Group Ltd. and Donna Cona Inc.
Donald Powell, who heads TPG and has an ongoing grievance against the government related to another bid that he claims was changed to favour Montreal’s CGI Group Inc., was the head of the group, the document stated.
TPG has claimed the bid-rigging case was revived due to Mr. Powell’s testimony in the CGI case before the House of Commons in June 2008.
“The bidders’ objective was to win as much of the work resulting from the RFP (request for proposals) at Transport Canada as possible,” read the statement signed by Ms. Lambert.
“The bidders agreed on the content of their bids, including technical and financial information with respect to resources by securing specific, agreed-upon resources that they knew would obtain high scores during the technical evaluation process.
“By submitting the same names and work experience information, the bidders hoped to obtain the best scores possible and secure the rights to provide services.”
But Mr. Powell did not attend about three-quarters of the meetings for the contract under question, argued Serge Buy, a consultant at Flagship Solutions acting as the public spokesperson for TPG.
“This is just bloody ridiculous,” he said.
“My worry is (this case) is doing a good job to destroy Mr. Powell’s credibility. The fact of the matter is all of this will be proven in court, but in the meantime the court of public opinion is there.”
The statement signed by Ms. Lambert noted the meetings were presided over by Thomas Townsend, who was working for Mr. Powell at the time. Mr. Townsend has been charged with bid rigging in regard to the Transport Canada contract.
There are also eight Canada Border Service Agency contracts and one Public Works contract from 2005 being investigated.
“In order to be charged with bid rigging … an individual must be party to the agreement at hand,” wrote Competition Bureau spokesperson Alexa Thorp in an e-mail.
“However, joint ventures are permissible under the Competition Act. Any party to an agreement or arrangement must explicitly notify the tendering authority of the agreement or arrangement to avoid liability under this offence. It is not enough that the tendering authority ought to have known there was an agreement because of past practice or because identical prices were submitted.”
Public Works will maintain business relations with Veritaaq and the other firms charged for the time being, stated spokesperson Nathalie Betote Akwa.
“(Public Works) has undertaken an administrative review to determine if administrative measures are warranted against Veritaaq and other companies and individuals,” she wrote in an e-mail, noting the department is acting with “due diligence and fairness” as it investigates under section 40.1 of the Financial Administration Act.
In exchange for her upcoming testimony, Ms. Lambert received protection in the Competition Bureau’s immunity program for the eight CBSA and single Public Works contracts.
However, another unnamed witness came forward first for the lone Transport Canada contract, disqualifying Ms. Lambert for immunity. For her activities in that contract, she received a suspended sentence requiring she donate $5,000 to charity.
“The reason there’s an immunity program is to detect what are very, very secretive activities,” said Sheridan Scott, a partner at Bennett Jones LLP and commissioner of the Competition Bureau until last year.
“If you’re coming forward, you have to assist in the investigation, you have to be able to provide evidence and provide witnesses.”
Ms. Scott noted she could not comment on the particulars of the case given “it was basically alive the entire time I was there.”
But in general terms, she added, applicants to the immunity program will only receive immunity if they are the first one in, although the bureau is implementing a leniency program that will reduce the sentences for other witnesses who choose to testify.
“You’re letting people off scott-free. People are not going to be prosecuted and they have engaged in criminal activities. You have to have a huge incentive to bring them forward.”
A letter from the deputy minister of Public Works written in April 2007 – seven months after search warrants were issued in relation to the bid-rigging allegations – praised TPG’s work with the federal government, Mr. Buy pointed out, indicating to him the case was all but dead at that point.
“I should note that your firm has served us well in the provision of engineering technical services. It is also a firm in good standing with our department,” stated the letter, signed by then-deputy minister David Marshall.
However, Mr. Marshall further wrote he had concerns with allegations that TPG was making in public concerning the RFP process.
“On the most serious allegation made, let me assure you that neither the minister nor his staff were involved in the selection process – they were not involved in the requirements specification, in determining the evaluation methodology, nor in the evaluation itself.”
THE CONTRACTS
Canada Border Services Agency: 46E29-069331
Firms charged:
TPG Technology Consulting Ltd
Spearhead Management Canada Ltd.
Tipacimowin Technology Inc.
TPG Technology Consulting Ltd.
Donna Cona Inc.
Canada Border Services Agency: 46E29-06719
Public Works and Government Services Canada
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Watch Dog said
No Much Surprised
Somehow I am not surprised at seeing Veritaaq Consulting’s name in this scandal. There are all kinds of rumors about the questionable practices by the employees of this firm. I am not sure to what extent they are true but Veritaaq Consulting’s name in this bid rigging coviction should be an eye opener for consultants and clients who want to do business with this firm. Its reputation is forever tainted now after the indictment of its key vice-president in the corruption scandal. OPS should also review the decision to keep this tainted firm on its VORs after its malpractices vis-a-vis Federal Government have been discovered.
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Though starships have been traveling hyperspace for millennia, the technology propelling these ships is always evolving. Advanced shielding and weaponry must also be outfitted for any starships venturing outside secured hyperlanes. In the years of the Great War, shipbuilders crafted a new generation of starships. Republic and the Imperial engineers developed a variety of unique designs for official use, but some of the most advanced models have surfaced on the black market, where Bounty Hunters, Smugglers, and pirates pay high prices to acquire the most advanced technologies available.
1 Trooper starship: BT-7 Thunderclap
2 Smuggler starship: XS Stock Light
3 Jedi Knight & Jedi Consular starship: Defender
4 Bounty Hunter starship: D5-Mantis
5 Imperial Agent starship: X-70B-Phantom
6 Sith Warrior & Sith Inquisitor starship: Fury
Trooper starship: BT-7 Thunderclap[edit | edit source]
The BT-7 Thunderclap is the Republic's largest and most elite rapid assault ship—streamlined for fast deployment in combat situations. Upgrades requested by Republic Special Forces ensure reliable performance and durability: state-of-the-art armor plating and heavy laser cannons provide exceptional combat capability, modular shield systems protect the Thunderclap from enemy fire, and the ship's design deflects blaster fire away from crucial components in the event of shield failure.
Smuggler starship: XS Stock Light[edit | edit source]
The classic Freighter has advanced by leaps and bounds since the Dynamic class Freighters from the days of the Jedi Civil War. The freighter is larger and more versatile than its predecessors, and the XS Stock Light model also features a variety of significant upgrades that make it one of the fastest and most nimble ships in the galaxy. In addition to an enlarged cargo hold, the XS also has secret compartments throughout the ship for transporting contraband and anything else the captain would prefer to keep hidden.
Jedi Knight & Jedi Consular starship: Defender[edit | edit source]
Developed at the height of the Great War, the Defender was custom-built for the Jedi Order. The Jedi Council commissioned the starship after determining that Republic military vessels were not well-suited to the Jedi's more specialized missions. The Defender's exterior design is based on the consumer model corvette, but it has been outfitted with countless customized upgrades.
Bounty Hunter starship: D5-Mantis[edit | edit source]
A rare, best-in-class vessel, the D5-Mantis is an alpha predator in the cold depths of space. Designed to meet the hefty demands of a much larger interdiction vessel, the Mantis has a compact frame and above all-- is built to fight. By employing three retractable weapon foils with independent power supplies, the Mantis is capable of safely utilizing armament intended for larger class vessels, as well as reducing its profile significantly in order to be packed tightly into carrier ships with a surprising number of other Mantis crafts. To mitigate what would otherwise be an extremely cramped interior, the engineers of the D5-Mantis make efficient use of vertical space and minimized bulkheads to provide more open areas and ensure ease of access for maintenance. Due to the prohibitive cost of building a completely independent, long-range picket ship, the Mantis has never seen large-scale production. Spotting one in use is a very rare sight, and a mark of exceptional means.
Imperial Agent starship: X-70B-Phantom[edit | edit source]
The starships of the Imperial Navy are the product of centuries of military research and development. The Empire designed its fleet to destroy the Republic as quickly and efficiently as possible. During the years of the Great War, however, the Empire refined its design strategies. Co-opting newly discovered technologies and revising blueprints according to lessons learned, Imperial engineers built a new generation of starships.
Sith Warrior & Sith Inquisitor starship: Fury[edit | edit source]
Featuring an advanced hyperdrive and state-of-the-art sub-light engines, the Fury is the most versatile starship in the Imperial fleet. Though initially designed for high-priority military missions, the Fury has become a favorite among Sith Lords and the latest models have been engineered accordingly.
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View Obituary "The Times, Trenton," Obituaries
Raymond J. DiCrecchio
Raymond J. DiCrecchio LAWRENCEVILLE Raymond J. DiCrecchio, 87, of Lawrenceville, NJ, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, at Capital Health Regional Medical Center-Fuld, Trenton, NJ, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Secane, PA, Raymond had resided in Lawrenceville for the past 51 years. A U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War, Raymond retired in 2006 after more than 50 years of service in the tire business. He was past senior vice commander of the American Legion Post 414, Lawrenceville, The Legion Baseball Team advisor of V.F.W. Post 3022, and president of the Lawrence Babe Ruth Baseball League. Ray was an avid bowler, he loved his trips to PARX Casino and Atlantic City, but most of all, he loved his family. He loved spoiling his grandchildren, great grandchildren, and loved the yearly vacation to Wildwood, NJ. He was predeceased by his parents, Caesar and Mary Sarlo DiCreecchio; his brother, Caesar DiCrecchio Jr, and his sisters, Rita Tirro, Eleanor Sciotto, Adele Arcangeli, and Rosalie Ukrich. Ray is survived by his wife of 65 years, Elizabeth A. Nasella DiCrecchio; his sons, Raymond E. DiCrecchio Jr. and wife, Nancy, Tom DiCrecchio, and fiancee, Jean Peters; his daughters, Diane Kelly and husband, Tom, and Betsy Kusnirik and husband, Andy; his grandchildren, Ray DiCrecchio (Angela), Anthony DiCrecchio (Megan), Mary Harrison (Bryan), Joseph DiCrecchio (Karen), Nicole DiCrecchio, TJ Kelly (Gigi), Chrissy Raymond (Mike), Michelle Thompson (Zak), Katharine Kusnirik, Andrew Kusnirik IV, Kara Manrique (Kevin), and Robert Kusnirik; his great grandchildren, Kristen, Blaire, AJ, Leah, Everett, Landon, Jack, Ryan, KJ, and Paige, and many nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, and neighbors on Hopatcong Drive. Christian funeral services will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15, at 11 a.m., at the Brenna Funeral Home, Immordino Chapel, 1799 Klockner Rd., Hamilton, NJ 08619. The Clergy of St. Ann Church, Lawrenceville, will officiate. Burial will follow at Ewing Church Cemetery, Ewing, NJ. Calling hours for family and friends will be on Wednesday, Aug. 14, from 4 to 9 p.m., and Thursday from 9:30 to 11 a.m., at the funeral home. To send condolences to the family, please visit brennafuneralhome.com In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Raymond's memory to the American Legion Baseball League, 100 Berwyn Place, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Brenna Funeral Home Immordino Chapel 1799 Klockner Rd. Hamilton, NJ 08619 (609) 587-1300
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View Obituary Tyler Morning Telegraph Obituaries
Lethan Alan Barnes
Services for Lethan Alan Barnes, 77 years of age, of Tyler, will be held on Tuesday, October 8th at 10:00 a.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home with Dr. David O. Dykes and Rev. Ron Wells officiating. Burial will follow at Cathedral in the Pines in Tyler under the direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home. Dr. Barnes passed away Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in Christus Trinity Mother Francis Hospital. He was born September 13, 1942 in Abilene to Hoyt and Nettie Barnes. Alan was devoted to God and family. He was passionate about encouraging others to achieve both spiritual and intellectual growth. Alan was an active member of Green Acres Baptist Church where he enjoyed singing in the Choir and teaching Sunday School. A graduate from Texas A&M Class of 66', Alan was a proud Aggie often wearing maroon. For over four decades, Dr. Barnes was a professor and academic counselor at Tyler Junior College. Alan was preceded in death by his parents, Hoyt and Nettie Barnes; his brother, Wilman Barnes; and his loving wife, Barbara Barnes (Martin). He is survived by his loving family including his wife, Nan Barnes; his children, Chrissy, Terry, Tandy, and Patrick Barnes; Nan's daughters, Shannon Stiefel and Amy Annett and husband Mark; grandchildren, Mia, Bailey, Sarah, Tristan and Isabelle Barnes, Brandon and Blayne Noble, Aubry Blackmon, Trevin Annett and wife Alicia and Trent Annett; and great-grandchildren, Rene and Lily Annett. Pallbearers will be Rick Stewart, Alan Fisher, Joe Dark, Jim Reed, Mark Mueller, and Clint Chamberlain. Honorary pallbearers will be Gideon Members of East Camp Tyler. Visitation is scheduled from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Monday, October 7th at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway in Tyler. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to either of the following: Gideons International, P.O. Box 131997 Tyler, TX 75713-1993 (check memo: "For Bibles") or Centrepoint Ministries, P.O. Box 2464 Lindale, TX 75771.
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Mollie D. Jones
Mollie D. Jones Mollie D. Jones (Williams). was born in Coatopa, Alabama to John Henry Williams and Ida Mae Garrett. She's survived by her, son Otis Jones Jr.& Denise(Former wife), daughter Nicole McEvoy & Rich(husband), Willie Johnson and Hettie Lawson (Michigan) Stephen Williams (Delaware) Garrett (Margie) Williams (Alabama) Marie Moore, James Williams, Ida Davis and Larry (Karen) Williams (Michigan) (Wife) and six grandchildren Brittany Jones, Natasha Jones, Marcus McEvoy, Malcolm McEvoy, Otis R Jones, and Mykal McEvoy. Mollie is preceded in death by husband Otis L Jones, daughter Rose Marie Jones, sister Bea Ogles, brother Frank Williams, sister Irene Hines, and brothers John R. Williams, Harry Williams and Edd Williams Mollie graduated from Sumpter County Training School in 1959, upon graduating she went on to attend Miles College in Alabama In 1961 she met Otis L Jones who was to become her husband. They were married the following year and had three children (Rose, Otis Jr., and Nicole) from this union. During their time together they traveled to Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana, Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Royal Air Force Base Alconbury England, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Royal Air Force Base Upper Heyford, England, and Scott Air Force Base, Illinois (where they retired from the service). She was a very loving and passionate woman that loved people especially her grandchildren. She really enjoyed playing bingo, going to casinos, sewing and spending time with her grandchildren, they were her heart and she was so proud of them. Services will be the following: Viewing Friday, October 11, 2019, from 5 pm to 8 pm Funeral Services Saturday, October 12, 2019, at 11:00am at Lewis Funeral Home, 811 S. W. W. White Road San Antonio TX. 78220 She will be laid to rest Tuesday October 14, 2019, Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery 1520 Harry Wurzbach Road San Antonio TX. 78209
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Consumption of Oceanic Plates – Review of the Subduction Concept
Subduction first of all it means recycling, i.e. recycling of crustal fragments into the asthenosphere. When oceanic crustal fragments are rising above baselevel, we speak about obduction processes, whilst in case crustal fragments are indeed melted into the asthenosphere we may speak about subduction processes.
According to the GSST theory, kinematic plate fragments are in constant motion, showing certain relative plate velocity contrasts. Under constraints of the Coriolis force, hence, due to their accumulated momentum, microplates tend to rather develop transpressional orogenic build-ups on their longer edges than forming subduction zones during their constant eastward drift. As a consequence, oceanic plate fragments instead of being recycled are rather preserved, being obducted into orogenic complexes, where they are forming suture zones. In other words, the presence of ophiolites in orogenic complexes is the proof of obduction processes, and only indirectly can be inferred the presence of subduction zones from mass balance considerations. Hence, it is not surprising that the peri-Tethys area is full of obducted ophiolite units; starting with the Vardar, Transylvanides, Dinarides, dozens of Asian (e.g. Anatolian) obducted ophiolites in the geological record are all product of transpressional strike-slip tectonics.
Because of global kinematic constraints, subduction may happen only perpendicularly to the principal plate drifting vector or more frequently, as a function of the principal drifting vector of kinematic chains. This means, that real subduction may only form roughly in N-S direction. Basically there are only two such kind of convergent plate boundary lineaments on the Earth, where plate recycling could happen: 1) at the western Pacific plate margin, 2) and at the eastern Pacific plate margin.
In section 3, we have already reviewed the main geological, geophysical, geodetic observations made regarding the evolution of the Japan Island. All these data are proving the significance of shear deformation in northeast Japan, where the intensity of fault activities is very pronounced, earthquake epicenters indicating the presence of E-W directed fault planes. Clustering of earthquake epicenters in stress nodes is generally present all along the Western Pacific subduction zones, from the Sumatra Arc to the Philippine subduction zone. Pacific plate velocity measurements might change with time as new GPS stations will be installed in the oceanic domain, and if the motion of smaller crustal units is also going to be integrated. The origin of the Mariana Trench and the Bonin Ridge is linked to the same strike-slip displacement, which was made along the irregular Hawaii North Mp/ Bonin Nanoplate boundary, in S to N direction. This irregular plate boundary in turn is the result of another plate velocity contrast, which is characterizing the Bonin Np–Hawaii North Mp and the North Philippine–Hawaii South Mp kinematic chains.
Therefore, structural features of the Japan Island and the whole southeastern Asia island-belt, suggest that instead of real subduction we are facing various transpressional space management processes, best described with the term of plate-overriding, i.e a mix of obduction, lateral escape, plate buckling mechanisms.
From a kinematic perspective, real subduction, where recycling of crustal fragments occurs it could only happen in the western margin of the American continents. Here, all the kinematic prerequisites of subduction are present: 1) the motor of subduction is present, and it can be identified in the Coriolis force, which is transferred and exploited by the momentum of plates, 2) there is an obvious density, hence a momentum contrast, between the oceanic and continental crustal fragments.
Momentum contrasts between plate fragments can play a significant role in the initiation of both oceanic spreading and subduction processes, in case the Earth suffers angular acceleration. Whether the angular acceleration of planets is a common planetary phenomenon or not, it is out of our knowledge, but certainly accidental larger meteoric impacts may affect the spinning velocity of the Earth.
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Definition of Micro-, Nano-, Pikoplates and Kinematic Chains
Marquesas Mp-Ganges Mp kinematic chain is found south of the Cretaceous Panglobal Fracture Zone, and incorporates microplates of the Pacific Ocean, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Africa, India and the Indian Ocean
Being involved into various shear zones during continental drift, world tectonic plates area broken into smaller and smaller tectonic units with time. Contact zones of microplate are marked by pushup ranges and evolved orogenes, deep sedimentary basins, and transform fault scars on the oceanic floor. Most probably, a great percentage of fault-scars preserved on the surface of the Earth are somewhat older than Holocene, and ocean-floor fault scars are even older. The ‘quasi-neotectonic’ term points to this timing uncertainty.
Size of these crustal fragments is varying within a wide range, thus a plate hierarchy can be established according to their size ranges. In GSST we propose the simultaneous usage of conventional ‘plate‘ name to refer to the classic large plate tectonics units. For mid-size plate fragments we also keep the ‘microplate‘ term. In order to study the movement of the even smaller, but well individualized crustal fragments, we propose the use of the ‘nanoplate‘ term, without any direct reference to the absolute plate size range. Nanoplates usually appear in areas of long lasting contractional stress, and are made up of incipient or well developed plate duplex horses.
‘Pikoplates’ are the internal components of nanoplates, smaller with about one order of magnitude. These are the most important elements of structural hydrocarbon plays and are driving the regional distribution of hydrocarbon and ore accumulations. What we know as hydrocarbon trends, for example, are related usually to the presence of pikoplates.
Example: The Marquesas Mp-Ganges Mp kinematic chain is found south of the Cretaceous Panglobal Fracture Zone, and incorporates microplates of the Pacific Ocean, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Africa, India and the Indian Ocean.
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100 young climate champions awarded ‘Green Tickets’ to attend first ever UN Youth Climate Summit
Secretary-General urges young people worldwide to join online and in local communities
The United Nations today announced that 100 outstanding young climate champions chosen from around the world will receive support to participate in the UN Youth Climate Summit on Saturday, September 21 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The “Green Ticket” winners will join the more than 500 young climate leaders selected to participate in the first-ever Youth Climate Summit at the UN. The Summit will provide a platform for young climate leaders to showcase their solutions on a global stage and engage directly with decision-makers on the defining issue of our time. Youth leaders will present the discussions of the Youth Climate Summit at the Climate Action Summit on Monday, 23 September.
The 100 ‘Green Ticket’ winners will receive funded travel as carbon-neutral as possible to New York to attend the Youth Climate Summit, after being selected from a group of over 7,000 applicants between the ages of 18 to 29, based on their demonstrated commitment to addressing the climate crisis and advancing solutions. Recipients represent countries from all regions.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated Green Ticket recipients and all successful applicants in a video message, saying, “I appeal to young people around the world to follow the Summit online and to be drivers of climate action in their own countries.”
Young people who are unable to attend in person are encouraged to participate in the My Future Our Planet campaign by sharing a selfie video on Twitter or Instagram with the phrase “Youth #ClimateAction Summit”, declaring what actions they are already taking to fight climate change and asking their leaders to take climate action now. They can also get involved in local United Nations Association chapters; continue to make choices to have less harmful effects on the environment and track these efforts through the UN’sActNow campaign; and tune into the Youth Climate Summit virtually via livestream on UN Web TV. More ways to engage will be announced in the coming weeks on the UN Youth Climate Summit website.
The Youth Climate Summit will feature a full-day of programming that brings together young activists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are committed to combating climate change at the pace and scale necessary, as demonstrated by science. It will be action-oriented, intergenerational, and inclusive, with equitable representation of young leaders from all walks of life.
The Youth Climate Summit is a key milestone ahead of the Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit, which is calling on leaders from government, business and civil society to boost efforts to tackle climate change and comes just one day after the Global Climate Strike on September 20.
“Young people are leading the way on climate action,” said the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake. “The Secretary-General’s Youth Climate Summit will provide a powerful global platform for young climate leaders from all over the world to take their rightful place and drive positive climate solutions”.
With the devastating impacts of the climate crisis being felt right now in all countries, the Secretary-General is convening leaders in New York to spark the transformation that is urgently needed to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and deliver on the Global Goals. He has called for bold actions and concrete plans for carbon neutrality by 2050.
The announcement of the ‘Green Ticket’ call for applications took place in early July in Abu Dhabi, where the Secretary-General convened over 1,700 people – including youth leaders and representatives from over 160 countries around the world. The Secretary-General’s public dialogue with young leaders during his opening ceremony, moderated by the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, is available to view here.
More information on the UN Youth Climate Summit can be found athttps://www.un.org/en/climatechange/youth-summit.shtml. Follow @UNYouthEnvoy on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for the latest updates on the Youth Climate Summit.
For further information on the 2019 UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit, please visithttps://www.un.org/en/climatechange/index.shtml. Follow @ledealba on Twitter for all the latest breaking news on the Climate Action Summit.
For more information, please contact: Dan Shepard of the UN Department of Global Communications, 1-212-963-9495, shepard@un.org or Hayley Moller at 1-415-233-1140.
Source: UN Department of Global Communications
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Home Food & Drink New menus on offer at refurbished Baker Street Kitchen
New menus on offer at refurbished Baker Street Kitchen
An ambitious restaurateur has re-launched his first venture eatery with an impressive refurbishment less than a year after taking it over.
Simon Fletcher acquired Baker Street Kitchen, on the corner of Baker Street and Albert Road in Middlesbrough, last July and quickly developed a plan to relaunch it with exciting new menus, to include weekend evenings.
He closed the already popular cafe for two weeks to give the place a new look.
And since re-opening in early April he has created nine new jobs to accommodate his updated food offerings, taking the total number of full and part-time staff to 21.
They include new head chef James Thorburn, who has previously worked at Cena, Muse and The Cleveland Tontine, and new manager Georgina Cornelius, who previously worked at Rockliffe Hall’s Brasserie.
Simon, formerly the manager of Cena in Yarm, is now hoping to tap into Middlesbrough’s thriving weekend economy.
He said: “It’s definitely a busy market, but I think Middlesbrough is up-and-coming and the council is very active in supporting local business, including great events like the Pip Market and Restaurant Week and also developing schemes for office workers.
“Weekday nights aren’t always as busy, which is why we’ve focussed on weekends and our weekday offering to start with, but we’re doing really well already and business has really picked up since we made the changes.”
It’s been a whirlwind start to life as a restaurant owner for the Sheffield-born aspiring entrepreneur who only moved to Teesside a few years ago.
“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, even when I was younger,” he added.
“I studied at catering college in Sheffield and worked in a Michellin star restaurant before work brought me up here.
“I helped the management of Cena open in 2014 and was with them for just over three years, but then I decided I was ready for the next step and do something different.”
Simon was quick to put his own stamp on Baker Street Kitchen, although added: “I’d already had lots of ideas, but I wanted to get settled in, get to know the customers and what they like, which is why we decided to start with the evening menu on weekends to start with.
“But now we have a lot of options for customers both during the day and on weekends, so we’re confident it’ll pay off.
“We’re also planning to host events such as gin nights, live music and wine tastings.”
Food on the new daytime menu at Baker Street Kitchen now includes all day breakfasts, omelettes, jacket potatoes, sandwiches, toasties and salads.
And on the evening menu, dishes include starters of mussels arrabiata, risotto, and a sharing board, and main courses of lamb rump, seabass, seafood linguini and classics like pie of the day and burgers. Roast dinners are also served on Sundays.
Baker Street Kitchen is now open 8am-7pm Monday to Thursday, 8am-11pm on Fridays, 9am-11pm Saturdays and 9am-4pm Sundays.
Menus can be viewed online and tables can be booked at www.bakerstreetkitchen.com or by calling 01642 210404.
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After graduating in 1977 from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Thomas Blackshear worked for a year for the Hallmark Card Company in Kansas City, Missouri. While there, he met the famous illustrator Mark English and became his apprentice for several months. By 1980, he was working as head illustrator for Godbold/Richter Studio. He became a freelance illustrator in 1982 and has been self-employed ever since.
Known for his dramatic lighting and sensitivity to mood, Blackshear has produced illustrations for advertising, books, calendars, collectors’ plates, greeting cards, magazines, postage stamps, and national posters. His clients range from Disney Pictures, George Lucas Studios, and Universal Studios to International Wildlife and National Geographic magazines. He has illustrated thirty United States postage stamps and a commemorative stamp book titled I Have a Dream.
Blackshear has also designed and executed illustrations for four collectors’ plate series. He is known for his best-selling Christian prints produced for DaySpring’s masterpiece collection. In 1995 he created Ebony Visions, which has been the number-one-selling black figurine collectible in the United States for the past twenty years. He won Artist of the Year in 1999 for that line from the National Association of Limited Edition Dealers and the prestigious International Collectible Artist of the Year Award in 2001. In 2006, Blackshear had a one-man show through the Vatican in Rome. There he unveiled his painting of Pope John Paul II for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pope John Paul II Foundation.
In 2018, Blackshear won the Artists’ Choice Award at the Autry’s Masters of the American West and the Best of Show Award at the SLOPOKE Fine Art of the West Exhibition and Sale. His many other awards included Gold and Silver Honors in the 1982 Kansas City Art Directors Club; two Gold Awards and Best of Show in 1986, Best of Show in 1989, and two Gold Awards in the 1990 Illustrators West Shows; a Gold Medal in the 1988 National Society of Illustrators; two Silver Awards in the 1989 San Francisco Society of Illustrators Show; and the Plate of the Year Achievement Award in 1990. His work has appeared in the Society of Illustrators annuals 24, 25, 27, 28, and 30, and in Volume 2 of Outstanding American Illustrators Today. His paintings are displayed at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, Texas, and the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
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Swiss Air Force plans to retire 27 F-5 fighters this year
by Dario Leone Sep 23 2018
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The service will be left with 26 active F-5 fighters
The Swiss military has indicated of its desire to retire 27 Northrop F-5s from service. Four aircraft have already been donated to museums.
The rest have been grounded and buyers have been found. Switzerland will be left with 26 active F-5s. These aircraft will flank the Swiss Air Force F/A-18 Hornets until the acquisition of new fighter jets.
Noteworthy last July Switzerland kicked off a multibillion-franc competition to replace its ageing fleet of F-5 fighter jets, and older model F/A-18 fighters, inviting five European and U.S. weapons makers to submit bids by January.
The selection of the new aircraft will be based on a report prepared by a group of experts who will evaluate several fighter jets, specifically the JAS-39 Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Dassault Rafale, the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
The purchasing of new fighter planes stalled after the Swiss people voted against the acquisition of 22 JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets in 2014.
The F/A-18 fighter jets, which perform Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) service to defend Switzerland’s airspace, will reach the end of their lifespans of 5,000 flight hours in 2025. In its new fighter jet strategy, the country will extend their flight hours to 6,000 by evaluating and reinforcing structural weaknesses as well as replacing certain parts of the jets.
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While its arguable whether money makes the world go around, there’s certainly no question that it built Las Vegas in the USA.
How else do you transform a piece of sandy desert into a high-rolling hive of activity, surrounded by lush green golf courses, sprawling pools and dancing fountains?
On face value, the immense scale of Vegas suggests nothing but glitz, glamour and good times. However, beneath the surface, as gambling revenues fall, you’ll find a beating heart searching for new blood as the city looks to cement its future as a tourist mecca and business hub.
Enjoy this Las Vegas travel guide.
Las Vegas travel guide: The Strip
Las Vegas for history lovers
Established with the coming of the railroad to the wild west, Las Vegas’ fortunes have risen and fallen over the years.
From humble beginnings on Fremont Street under the patronage of gangsters and mobsters, the city we know today gradually emerged. Downtown Las Vegas (DTLV) — home to the Golden Nugget casino and other iconic landmarks of the 1940s and 50s — now hosts the Fremont Street Experience, where the world’s largest LED screen puts on a dazzling light show. Get your adrenaline fix as the SlotZilla Zip Line flies you through the lights at over 60 kilometres per hour.
Las Vegas travel guide. Image courtesy of Fremont Street Experience
The Strip (a section of Las Vegas Boulevard just south of the city-proper) houses most of the world’s largest hotels, all competing to fill their share of 62,000 rooms. The lighting along here is truly mind-blowing, and you can take a fascinating (and well lit) step back in time at The Neon Museum — a boneyard for retired signs. Entry is by appointment only and spots fill quickly. The ultra famous ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada’ sign lives on and is located on the southern approach to The Strip. It dates back to 1959.
Another option for tapping into the city’s past is to visit The Mob Museum. It will guide you through Vegas’ bad old days.
Top cultural experiences in Las Vegas
While Vegas might not spring to mind as a cultural destination, the array of entertainment options on offer in this city is truly staggering.
Everyone who is anyone in entertainment has performed here. Some pop in for ‘one night only’, while others take up semi-permanent residence. Britney Spears, Elton John, and Donny and Marie have all called Las Vegas home.
Then there’s the pure spectacle of big brand productions like Cirque du Soleil. No less than seven different shows transport audiences to a magical world of spectacular acrobatics, stunning sets and beautiful music. ‘O’ at the Bellagio, where performers breathe air from divers submerged under a stage made of water, will take your breath away.
Las Vegas travel guide. Image courtesy of Penn & Teller
If you love watching a rabbit being pulled out of a hat, you’re in good company in Vegas. See MGM-resident David Copperfield for the grand scale, and Penn & Teller at Rio for a hilarious blend of illusion and comedy.
Check the Las Vegas Entertainment Guide for a complete rundown of what’s on during your stay.
The club scene in Vegas is also huge — huge spaces, huge crowds and huge prices. Iconic DJ’s Calvin Harris and Tiesto will set the scene as you kick off the evening around midnight and party into the early hours. XS and Hakkasan are definitely the places to be seen, while Omnia is nipping at their heels. Book a table with friends, pop your bottle of Grey Goose in the middle and enjoy.
Las Vegas travel guide: Hakkasan. Image courtesy of MGM Grand Hotel & Casino
The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art partners with museums and foundations around the world and as they say, is where great art goes on vacation.
Great places to eat in Las Vegas
Las Vegas is renowned as the USA’s ‘all you can eat buffet’ capital.
However, the choice of incredible restaurants headed by renowned chefs will certainly entice you away from the food halls.
Breakfast may not be on the list for many, but brunch is another thing. The Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan serves one of the best on the strip with free flowing Bloody Marys and champagne to kick-start the day.
Mon Ami Gabi on the terrace at Paris offers alfresco dining as the fountains at the Bellagio entertain and you enjoy steak frites under the cooling mist.
Michelin-starred eateries are well represented and tasting menus are an ideal opportunity to splurge. Five courses plus little extra bites at Picasso at the Bellagio is exceptional value as you dine surrounded by $20 million worth of art.
Picasso. Image courtesy of Bellagio Hotel and Casino
Cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are a staple of the Las Vegas diet for many, evidenced by the multitude of giant plastic Eiffel Towers, Pyramids and other hotel replica drink containers wandering the streets in the hands of revellers. The theory is that generous pouring will encourage you to stay around and try your luck at the tables and slots. Drink and gamble responsibly. Have a winning target or a losing limit and be prepared to walk away (famous last words!).
Where to shop in Las Vegas
If you’re lucky enough to win big, you’ll need something to spend it on.
The Fashion Show Mall has over 250 stores, while the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace guide you along Romanesque streets under painted skies. Luxury reigns supreme at The Shops at Crystals, which offers shopping, dining and nightlife. Louis Vuitton and Gucci lead the pack in stunning showrooms.
Las Vegas travel guide: Luxury reigns supreme at The Shops at Crystals.
If you’re after a bargain, head out to the Las Vegas North Premium Outlets. Note: The food hall is average, so just shop and get out.
If souvenir t-shirts, fridge magnets and other assorted kitsch are on your holiday shopping list, you’ll trip over shops as you wander along the Strip.
Ways to relax in Las Vegas
With so many hotels vying for attention, huge money has been invested into recreation spaces within their grounds.
Simply meander from one to the next and enjoy the spectacle. From a carefully recreated Venetian Grand Canal (complete with crooning gondoliers), to a rooftop roller coaster that flies around the landmarks of New York City, and the famous dancing fountains at the Bellagio, there’s plenty to keep you well and truly entertained.
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Vegas’ myriad pool parties attract big crowds looking to party with resident DJs. Encore Beach Club hosts the likes of David Guetta, while Marquee at the Cosmopolitan pumps out the tunes day and night. One of the coolest spaces on the Strip is Drai’s Beach Club — the rooftop pool at the Cromwell. This is Vegas, so the more ladies in your group the better. Don’t even think of turning up with a group of ten blokes expecting to get in.
There are also, of course, pools where more conventional relaxing is the order of the day. Some hotels welcome non-guests and the Tropicana will allow you to swim and chill on lounges and grassy banks for $10 (at time of printing) — a bargain by Las Vegas standards.
Las Vegas travel guide. Image: Neil Brook
Golf courses are lush and green — if you hit the fairways. Miss them and you’ll be searching for your ball amongst the cacti. Badlands will challenge without destroying you. Drinks delivered by passing carts, and clubs cleaned afterwards, add to the allure.
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As a travel blogger and photographer, Neil Brook travels the world looking to meet interesting people, taste great food, and find different angles from which to write about his adventures. He is privileged to have lived in Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. More a traveller than a tourist, Neil prefers to mix with the locals, learn their history and culture, and walk the backstreets to uncover hidden gems worthy of praise in words or quiet moments of private reflection.
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Release Day Review + Giveaway – SIN & SUFFER by PEPPER WINTERS
“Some say the past is in the past. That vengeance will hurt both innocent and guilty. I never believed those lies. Once my lust for revenge is sated, I’ll say goodbye to hatred. I’ll find a new beginning.”
She came from a past Arthur “Kill” Killian never forgot. She made him sin and made him suffer. She tugged him from the shadows and showed him he wasn’t as dead as he thought. And with her resurrection came betrayal, deceit, and war.
But then they took her. Stole her. Imprisoned her.
Now Kill’s carefully laid plans for vengeance are complete. He craves action, retribution-the blood of his enemies. War has begun. War is all they’ll know until they’ve paid their penance. He will get her back-and rewrite their destiny . . .
Ruin & Rule ended with a stunning cliffhanger. . . and Sin & Suffer continues the thrilling, sizzling rollercoaster of a ride!
Arthur “Kill” Killian must devise a scheme to get his true love away back from his sick, twisted father. He is a broken man but he will stop at nothing to wreak revenge on his “family.” At the same time, how can he possibly protect Cleo from the evils that surround her?
“Cleo eclipsed everything. She was my Sagittarius, my soul mate, my best friend. Not only had I failed her once and persecuted us to eight years apart, but she’d also been harmed twice at my father’s hand. She’d suffered more than she ever should and it was all because of me and my need to settle the score. I wanted to forget about my goal—to halt the guillotine hovering over both our futures—because if I didn’t, if I continued chasing death, then I didn’t deserve her. And I want so fucking much to deserve her.”
Cleo is battling her own devastating past, but like all Pepper Winters’ books, Cleo is one kick-ass heroine who is strong, stubborn and resilient. Kill is her soulmate, her true love since childhood and she can withstand almost anything now that she knows he is back in her life.
“There hadn’t been a single moment in the past eight years when I’d awoken and wished I could forget.
Every morning had been a struggle to remember.
Every night a battle between needing to know and needing to forget.”
Sin & Suffer has TONS of twists and turns. I love MC books so this book was a pleasure to read. It is not quite as dark as Ruin & Rule, but it is just as thrilling and satisfying. Cleo and Kill are two unforgettable characters and I loved the conclusion that Ms. Winters gave to them in Sin & Suffer.
“Her flaws could be called ugly—an imperfection to be hidden. But it only made me fall deeper in love with her. She had the strength to bare them—even using them to define how others saw her.”
(ARC provided by the publisher in return for an honest review.)
About Pepper Winters
Pepper Winters is a New York Times and USA Todayinternational bestseller. She loves dark romance, star-crossed lovers, as well as the forbidden and taboo. She strives to write a story that makes readers crave what they shouldn’t, and delivers complex plots and unforgettable characters that keep readers talking long after the last page is turned.
On a personal note she loves to travel, has an addiction to creme brulee, and is married to an incredible Canadian who puts up with her endless work hours and accompanies her on signings. She’s also a firm believer that the impossible can become possible.
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Loraine Oliver says
Thanks so much for this giveaway! I love Pepper Winters!
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Emma Chaplin1,
Lorna Latimer2
1Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
2Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Unit, Leicester Institute for Lung Health, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Correspondence to Emma Chaplin, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; emma.chaplin{at}uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Finding an effective rehabilitative modality that does not evoke severe dyspnoea is indeed of great interest to clinicians. The DICES trial aims to identify the optimal training modality by studying the efficacy of high-frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), and low-frequency NMES or strength training in severely dyspnoeic individuals with COPD with quadriceps muscle weakness at baseline. We have some queries regarding the data analysis employed by Sillen et al.1
A power calculation is described in the online supplement which is based on a between-group (intervention vs control) difference of 9.2 kg. With a 5% significance level and power of 80%, the required sample size is 36 per group, plus an allowance for withdrawals. This power calculation is based on previous work by O'Shea et al2 which compared a strength training intervention with a non-training control group. The DICES trial on the other hand compares the outcome of three different interventions, with no control. The between-group difference when comparing three interventions might reasonably be assumed to be much smaller than 9.2 kg. Alongside the effect size question, the addition of a third group leads us to question the validity of the power calculation for this trial.
Despite specific mention of a control group in the online supplement, the main paper has no mention of a control group and, in fact, the authors highlight this as a methodological limitation. There is also some confusion over the units used to measure strength with the power calculation using mass (kg) and the results reported as a torque (Nm). Clarification is needed of how the numbers in the power calculation transform to be comparable with the results.
The authors conclude that high-frequency NMES is ‘equally effective’ as strength training in strengthening quadriceps in this population. With this sample size, a between-group difference would only be detected if the effect size was 9.2 kg or greater. Although the DICES trial did not detect a statistically significant difference between high-frequency NMES and strength training, there may have been a smaller, but still clinically important difference which this study was not sensitive enough to detect. The data presented do not support the rejection of the null hypothesis. It can only be stated that they were unable to prove that the two interventions were different. The authors, therefore, cannot conclude equivalence, and caution should be exercised before applying these findings in a clinical setting.
O'Shea SD,
Taylor NF,
Paratz JD
. A predominantly home-based progressive resistance exercise program increases knee extensor strength in the short-term in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial. Aust J Physiother 2007;53:229–37.
Contributors All authors contributed to the content of this letter.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Maurice J H Sillen Frits M E Franssen Jeannet M L Delbressine Anouk W Vaes Emiel F M Wouters Martijn A Spruit
Thorax 2014; 69 525-531 Published Online First: 07 Jan 2014. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204388
Thorax 2014; 69 953-954 Published Online First: 13 Jun 2014. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205781
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“I’d Love To Work With Genevieve Nnaji” – British-Nigerian Actress
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by Helen Oguntoyinbo August 11, 2017, 4:55 pm 813 Views 5 Comments
British-Nigerian actress, Deborah Ayorinde who starred in new comedy movie, Girls Trip.
In an interview with Essence Magazine, the actress who is also popular for her role as Candace in Luke Cage named Nollywood star Genevieve Nnaji as one actor she would love to work with as she is down to do Nollywood movies.
Deborah Ayorinde said:
I really want to work with Genevieve Nnaji.
There are a few others – Monalisa Chinda, I would love to do films with her too
She graduated from Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of Communications with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production.
Simon Says says:
Really? She should aim higher *SMH*
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Brian Austin Green on Tori Spelling's 'Crush' and How Megan Fox Marriage Mirrors 'BH90210'
Television By TooFab Staff | August 14, 2019 12:44 PM
The Stars of '90210': Where Are They Now?
The actor also reveals what he "did not enjoy" back in the day and spills on bringing his son to set.
Brian Austin Green's real life and fictional relationships are back under the microscope thanks to the premiere of "BH90210," which may or may not have embellished things between him and Tori Spelling and was partly inspired by his marriage to Megan Fox.
Let's start with the Tori of it all. On the series, the stars of the original "Beverly Hills, 90210" all play exaggerated versions of themselves, as they reunite for a reboot. In the first episode, she said she lost her virginity to BAG, IRL.
"I thought you were gonna ask me if that was true or not," said Green during an interview with AOL Build on Tuesday. When the reporter noted Tori said she "had a crush on you back on the day, but nothing really ever happened," Green added, "Good for her, she answered perfectly."
Though in 2015, Spelling herself claimed -- while taking a lie detector test -- that the two had sex back in the day, Green wouldn't even cop to reciprocating Tori's crush when asked if he ever had one on her too.
"No, we were kids, we were doing a show. Tori's awesome, we had a lot of fun but I'm one of those serial monogamous daters," he explained. "When we started the show, I started dating [Tiffani Thiessen] not too long after, we were together for a few years, then she came on the show, then I started dating Vanessa Marcil for a little while and then I started dating Megan and we've been together for 15 years now, we got married and have 3 kids together, so I'm kinda that guy."
"I was either really single, really doing music and doing my thing or really all about relationships," he added.
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Though he's married to the famous Fox IRL, "Brian's" wife on the show is a super popular musician, played by La La Anthony. Green's on-screen persona is trying to make a name separate from his wife's on the revival, as he tries to regain solo fame. Speaking with AOL, the actor was asked how much the series mirrors his real life marriage.
"We wanted to have fun, but do something that was close enough where it wasn't too much of a stretch," he explained.. "If I was married to a florist, it would have been too much of a stretch, I don't think people would have related to it, understood it."
"There was a lot of thought that went into it," he added, while hoping viewers aren't constantly asking themselves, "Is that from Brian and Megan's real marriage?"
Green also said the actors sat down with the writers to figure out how to create these "heightened" versions of them. "Some of the stories came from our real lives," he said, adding that he knew what he was signing up for as far as the references are concerned.
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Though the new version of the show leans into the actors' real lives, Green admitted he wasn't necessarily happy when the OG series did that back in the day. When asked about David Silver's musical aspirations by a fan, the actor admitted he "did not enjoy the musical scenes" of the original, because they were inspired by his experiences outside of the show.
"I love music myself and the head writer on the show saw me dancing at one of the wrap parties and wrote it in and all of a sudden music became the character," he revealed. "I was very self conscious on set doing it because it was so close to myself and I wasn't able to get lost in the character and do something silly and be separated from it that way."
He said he "never totally got used to it" and things "got a little muddy" for him, but he's okay with it now, looking back.
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Now a family man with four kids of his own, Green also talked about his oldest son with Marcil, Kassius, coming to visit him during filming and why it was so surreal for his costars.
"He came to set for a week and it's crazy for me, A) to think I have a 17 year old, because that's just insane, but for everyone else in the cast it was weird because he's the same age that I was when I started," he said.
"For them, it was a trip, talking to him they'd pick up little nuances," he said, adding that the teenager also wants to get into acting.
"He should just have a Plan B," said Green with a laugh. "I never had a Plan B, I started acting when I was 9, so [Ian Ziering] was like, 'Totally support him but make sure he has a Plan B, just in case."
"BH90210" airs Wednesdays on Fox.
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You are here: Main » Apple Announces Their Participation In New Health Studies
Apple Announces Their Participation In New Health Studies
by Edward Lowe - at September 13, 2019
Next, there's the Women's Health Study, which will act as an extension of the already-available period-tracker on the Apple Watch, using the collected data to look at the "bigger picture" and expand the potential capabilities of the app.
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Silly Season Shakeup Ahead of Homestead
Peter Stratta
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Silly Season Shakeup in Week Leading into Homestead
In the closing days of the 2019 NASCAR season, lots of seats are now occupied for 2020. Silly season is in full force, so let’s take a look at each of the drivers who have new homes for next season after this week. Some driver’s futures are also still in limbo heading into Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The week leading into each series’ season-finale offered an unusual amount of silly season shakeup.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s #41 Mustang will have a new driver for 2020. News of Cole Custer replacing Daniel Suarez broke just before Championship 4 Media Day on Thursday. Custer, 21, is one of the Xfinity Series ‘Big 3,’ and is one of their Championship 4 going for the 2019 title. Each of the Xfinity ‘Big 3’ from 2019 will join the Cup Series as rookies for 2020, as Custer will race against Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bell for Rookie of the Year. Custer has seven wins already in 2019, including besting Kyle Busch and Joey Logano. The 2020 Cup Series rookie class will be one of the most stacked in years, as they all come in with loads of success. The Rookie of the Year battle in the premier series next year will be a season-long story we will eagerly watch.
Ever since Matt Tifft’s seizure sidelined him for Martinsville, substitute drivers have had to pilot the #36 Ford. Matt Crafton drove the Front Row Motorsports car at Martinsville, but in the three races since it has been in the hands of John Hunter Nemechek. With this week’s news that FRM and Tifft have parted ways, many rumors have the younger Nemechek slated to take over the 36 for 2020. While this news is not yet confirmed, an announcement will be coming soon. Nemechek would join an already-elite rookie class, and only further the silly season shakeup.
After losing his seat at Richard Childress Racing to rookie and 2-time Xfinity Series champion Tyler Reddick, Daniel Hemric will be taking a step down. The Kannapolis, NC native will join JR Motorsports for 21 Xfinity Series races in 2020. Hemric will share driving duties of the JRM #8 Camaro with Jeb Burton (11 races) and team owner Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (1 race). In two past seasons of Xfinity competition, Hemric made the Homestead Championship 4 both times. While Hemric is not currently going to contend for the driver’s championship, he will have a great shot at scoring his first NASCAR national series win.
After months of negotiations to return to the Stewart-Haas Racing #41 Mustang, Daniel Suarez shared unfortunate news via social media this week. Due to a lack of sponsorship, Suarez will leave SHR after just 1 season where he narrowly missed the Playoffs. Suarez’s 2020 plans are still in limbo, as the Mexico-born driver looks for a third Cup Series opportunity.
While Suarez did win the 2016 Xfinity Series championship, his Cup Series success has been more fleeting. In 107 career Cup starts, Suarez has eight top 5s, 32 top 10s, and an average finish of 17.1. Suarez’s best result in a Cup race was 2nd at Pocono in July, 2018, while racing for Joe Gibbs. Stay tuned to our site for any updates regarding Suarez’s status, whether in Cup or Xfinity competition for 2020.
Tyler Ankrum
Shifting down to the Truck Series, the 2019 Rookie of the Year will have a shot at even more success in 2020. Tyler Ankrum will move from DGR-Crosley to powerhouse GMS Racing. Ankrum will join the stacked lineup of Brett Moffitt, Sheldon Creed, and part-timer Sam Mayer. In his rookie campaign, Ankrum won at Kentucky in July, made the Playoffs, and contended for a Championship 4 spot. With a year of experience under his belt, the sky is the limit for Ankrum in 2020.
Perhaps the team most affected by a silly season shakeup is Kyle Busch Motorsports. With the departure of both Todd Gilliland and Harrison Burton, KBM will have two new full-time racers in their trucks. One of their new additions will be 2019 ARCA champion Christian Eckes. With 12 prior Truck Series starts, the 20-year-old Eckes has seven top 10s. Earlier this weekend, Eckes helped KBM win the 2019 Owner’s Championship by wheeling the #51 truck to a third place result at Homestead.
Eckes also won this year’s ARCA title despite missing a race with food poisoning. It appears that Eckes will be the latest Toyota development driver to race at KBM. This distinguished list of racers includes Erik Jones, William Byron, and Christopher Bell. In the flagship #18 Toyota Tundra, Eckes should help return KBM to the title stage.
The other new addition to the KBM stable is French-Canadian Raphael Lessard. At just 18-years-old, Lessard will be a very green talent to join the Trucks full-time. The Quebec native is the 2016 CARS Super Late Model Tour champion. He also has five Truck starts from 2019. With very little experience, Lessard will have a learning curve before returning the #4 to victory lane. Both KBM drivers will compete against each other for Rookie of the Year honors in the Truck Series next year.
While the 2019 racing season is in its final week, the silly season is far from over. A lot of people and teams have yet to fall into place. As 2020 Daytona Speedweeks looms in the not-so-distant future, that will change. Be sure to stay tuned to TSJ101Sports and TSJ_NASCAR on Twitter for all updates to this continuing silly season shakeup.
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Residential Burglary on Mariposa Avenue in the unincorporated area of Jackson
On June 2, 2014, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) received a report of a residential burglary on Mariposa Avenue in the unincorporated area of Jackson. A Sheriff’s patrol deputy responded to the call and learned that the home was burglarized between 9:45 AM and 11:30 AM while the residents were away. The victims in this case reported numerous items missing, including a full size gun safe containing numerous firearms, jewelry, an ammunition safe containing live ammunition, cash, personal documents, prescription medications, cellular telephones, hunting bows, and hunting accessories. The total loss reported as a result of the burglary was estimated at approximately $23,000.
On the evening of June 3, 2014, at approximately 8:41 PM, the ACSO received a report of gunfire coming from the area of the Old Well Motel in Drytown. Deputies responded to the area to investigate and heard shots being fired near a residence immediately north of the Old Well Motel. Deputies approached the residence and noted the presence of expended shell casings and multiple subjects inside the home. After knocking, the front door was opened by the resident of the home, 46 year old Robert Allen Jarrell Sr. Jarrell was known to the deputies on scene from prior law enforcement contacts and denied knowing anything about shots being fired. Jarrell told deputies that he was alone even though other people were observed inside the residence. While inside the residence the deputy that investigated the June 2nd burglary noted the presence of a gun safe and an ammunition safe matching the description of those stolen in the previously reported burglary.
Jarrell was placed under arrest for possession of stolen property, and the residence was secured so a search warrant could be obtained. Jarrell was transported and booked into the Amador County Jail where he was later released after posting $20,000 bail.
ACSO Detectives responded and drafted a search warrant for the residence. Upon serving the search warrant, numerous items stolen from the residence on Mariposa Avenue were located, including the firearms, hunting bows, ammunition, and personal documents.
ACSO Detectives conducted additional follow-up and ultimately submitted their case to the District Attorney’s Office recommending additional charges against Jarrell and two co-conspirators, 21 year old Michael Gaunt of Drytown, and 23 year old Nicholas Ray Carreira of Valley Springs.
On April 2, 2015, an Amador County Superior Court arrest warrant was issued for Jarrell on charges of burglary, grand theft of a firearm, receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, and possession of a stun gun by a felon. The bail amount for Jarrell’s warrant of arrest was set at $100,000. Additional warrants were issued for Gaunt and Carreira for charges of receiving stolen property and grand theft of a firearm. Bail on the warrants of arrest for Gaunt and Carreira was set at $50,000.
On the evening of April 5, 2015, at approximately 8:00 PM, the ACSO received a call from a resident on Diamond View Drive in Pioneer reporting that unknown subjects were at a neighboring home with flashlights, and the reporting party believed they had broken a window. Deputies responded, contacted and detained three subjects including Jarrell, 53 year old Glen Milo Mohr of Jackson, and 23 year old Henry Ralph Ramirez Jr. of Drytown. During the course of their investigation Jarrell advised deputies he came to the property to collect a debt from a former tenant.
At the conclusion of their investigation, deputies placed Jarrell, Mohr, and Ramirez under arrest for burglary. In addition to the fresh burglary charge, Jarrell was arrested and booked on his arrest warrant, making his total bail amount $120,000. Ramirez had outstanding warrants for state parole violation and a misdemeanor warrant out of Sacramento County for domestic battery and violation of probation. Ramirez is being held without bail. Mohr’s bail is set at $20,000.
Following Jarrell’s arrest, Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team (ACCNET) executed an unrelated search warrant at Jarrell’s residence in Drytown.
ACCNET Agents located evidence of a Butane Honey Oil (BHO) extraction lab, approximately 3.8 pounds of processed marijuana, methamphetamine, and evidence of drug sales including unused packaging materials and three scales.
Jarrell was additionally charged with possession of marijuana for sales, manufacturing a controlled substance, and possession of methamphetamine.
While executing the search warrant, ACCNET personnel also observed numerous rabbits, chickens and birds found locked in filthy cages, many without food or water. A goat was found tied to a stake with a two and a half foot long lead. The goat had no access to food or water of any kind and was trapped on a small ledge with no room to move more than a foot in any direction. Amador County Animal Control was notified and responded to the scene. An animal control officer subsequently removed the endangered animals.
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The Whole Half-Life TWHL
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The Future of TWHL Created 8 years ago2011-01-31 06:49:13 UTC by AJ
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Created 8 years ago2011-01-31 06:49:13 UTC by AJ
zeeba-G
Posted 8 years ago2011-02-02 03:17:36 UTC Post #289935
Yea something that catches game/ computer technology development and growth in general. GamersExpansion.com
Gamersdevelopmentrealm.com too broad?
compconstruct.com
Goldenresources.com
Goldengamersourse.com / Goldengameresources.com
Thewholegamer.com
zeeba-G3D
Rimrook
I give up. :<
RimrookGoldsource Guru
Soup Miner
Without knowing exactly what audience this new community will cater to, it's nigh impossible to come up with that perfect name. We know that it'll support more engines. Will it be a select few engines or will it be ANY engine that is or will be? Which other aspects of game modding will be supported aside from mapping? Will it support entirely new game creation? If these aren't even hammered out yet, the name can wait, IMHO.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "same content, same community" now, because the others posts seem to suggest that the content will be vastly expanded upon, but it's completely unknown as to what extent.
Edit: I have no idea what's going on anymore, I'm out of this thread.
DiscoStu
So essentially you want to STEAL Atom's site and want us to come up with a new name for your operation, while you pretend to cater to an unknown new audience. I'm not sure this will work.
I'd REALLY try to contact Atom in any way possible. He can't just vanish from existence.
What if we don't like this new audience, what if they go against our belief system by not wearing hats?
Penguinboy
No decisions have been made at this point, it's only a discussion at the moment. I want to create a new TWHL site, but I'm not going to if I only have my current limited access to the hosting. There's also the fact that I have no control at all over the hosting, and because of this, it's possible that TWHL could disappear overnight at any time.
We have had some contact with atom and he was supportive of the idea to transfer the website onto hosting that we control. Halfway through organising the details, we stopped getting any email replies from him. The last message we got from him was over three months ago.
At this point we have to assume that atom either cant or wont talk to us. In either case, the only way the site can improve is to move the site to a host that we can control. We can't redirect the domain, because we can't contact atom. We can't get another TWHL domain, because none are available. We want to open the site up to other games and engines, but the site name almost forbids this.
Stu claims that we are trying to "steal" TWHL from atom. You really think this? I think if atom had any feeling of ownership of TWHL, he would log in once in a while. I feel that ownership of TWHL has been passed down from atom to Seventh, and then to Ant and myself. Each of us have improved TWHL in our own way, making it unique, making it ours. In my opinion, this is the next logical step.
As for scope, theoretically, the site would still focus mainly on the creation of maps for any engine that provides a map editor of some sort. We wouldn't try to compete with a site like ModDB (which is mainly for mods), it would be more like the same style of site content, and so on.
There would be a much bigger focus on MOTM and various other 'featured map' kind of things. All the tutorials would be put into a less-restrictive wiki type thing. Basically, imagine TWHL except with more engines enabled in the vault, as well as an improved, more polished, more modern website.
Hosting the site ourselves would also mean we don't have to worry about storage formats, file sizes, file limits, and so on. We could increase the maximum size of uploads allowed to the vault. We could allow texture packs, models, sounds, screenshots, and so on to be uploaded without having to worry about running out of space. There's a ton of other nice improvements that we could add to the site if we had proper control over the hosting.
I only want to help the website evolve and improve. I like the TWHL name, and would miss it if it went away, but sometimes changes are necessary to move on. I hope that helps you understand why we are thinking about this.
PenguinboyHaha, I died again!
We want to open the site up to other games and engines, but the site name almost forbids this.
This is will probably destroy the community's original character and will bring lots of spammers. That being said, you're not building up this community to a higher level. You are destroying it and creating another.
Sure, it will be almost the same, until there will be lots of newcomers.
We can't assume it's going to be famous, but I bet none of us wants our community to become something like facepunch, where a shitstorm is born everyday.
I am not against this, evolution is part of our lives. But damn it, I'll shed a tear when TWHL will be gone.
StrikerI seriously doubt myself
TheGrimReafer
"I bet none of us wants our community to become something like facepunch
Ill personally assure that wont happen.
TheGrimReaferADMININATOR
Just like growing up.
JessieTrans Rights <3
I'm not entirely sure why you're all against newcomers. New people bring fresh ideas, more creativity and more friends. Yes, we will get out fair share of spam like any site does, but there's nothing that can be done about that.
Think of it this way: if you arrived at what looked like a fantastic site with great learning resources, a stock pile of excellent maps and a friendly community and was then shunned by that same community, how would you feel?
There's literally about 30-40 people who actively visit the site at the moment. That's visit, not contribute. That number will keep on declining, as it has been for a good while now.
Shitstorms are built by the community. It's your job, as the regulars and lovers of this site, to ensure that if the community grows, it grows in a friendly, helpful and entertaining manner. Acting hostile to new blood is what causes shitstorms in the first place. When I originally joined, the people here treated me incredibly well (even with my lack of knowledge of proper forum protocol). I was never publicly spoken down to or ignored. Everyone joined in and contributed possible solutions to problems and new ideas sprang forward often. Believe you me, I'm far more rosy-eyed about TWHL than most of you.
TWHL won't ever be gone unless you all start thinking that way. Have some optimism,remember what brought you all together and then embrace the fact that you're shaping a bigger, potentially greater community.
AJGlorious Overlord
Personally, I think it's time for a change anyway. I'm not a very sentimental person, I'll miss the name but I won't stop it leaving.
As long as all the awesome people who are here now head into the fray of a new face for TWHL as well... The only way to go is up.
Stojke
EnginePlanet?
TheMinistryOfMapping TMOM
MappersUnite
I think it needs to be something that represents mapping in general, for all games...
StojkeOPL - 3
never ever @#!@#!@ planet in domain name
my vote goes to goldandsource
The Whole Mapping Life
JeffMOD
I like TWHL the way it is. True, newcomers would be nice, if they were decent people, but I don't want the site to be crowded. Honestly, I like knowing all the regulars, I like being familiar with the people I talk to.
As for increasing file size limits, more download sections, and maybe even that project vault idea Pengiunboy proposed a while ago with the project forums, info, etc, for individual mods (hint hint) I'm all for it. But I don't want TWHL to lose it's focus on Source and Goldsource. I wouldn't mind having maps/mods on other engines uploaded occasionally, as long as they were labeled with the correct engine. But nothing would bother me more than clicking on the latest map by someone, with a really good screenshot, then find I can't play it because it's for Cryengine. Perhaps things for other engines would have the engine on one of these underneath the screenshot?
When I originally joined, the people here treated me incredibly well (even with my lack of knowledge of proper forum protocol)
That's one of the things I loved about this community from the start. But I feel that if TWHL were to grow too large, this would be lost. The small size contributes, at least in part, to the closeness of the community, and the kindness everyone feels towards each other.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Oh, and we need more source tutorials.
JeffMODCall 141.12
Oh, and we need more source tutorials.
I applied for one but nobody responded.
Suparsonik
maps4all.com?
themaptrap.com?
SuparsonikHot meat, metallic blood.
RabidMonkey
it's a trap!
RabidMonkeymapmapmapfapmap
kdunivan
@everyone: and please don't take this the wrong way....
I don't think any of you realize how dire the situation is. If you could read and possibly read between the lines then you WOULD realize what is being said.
it's possible that TWHL could disappear overnight at any time.
Are you reading this and have you all figured out that this could very well happen and if it did then we would ALL be left in the void without any idea of how to reconnect with anyone.
I think we need to get our heads out of our arshes and think of a good name cause it has been made very clear that TWHL is NOT going to be in the new name. Get over it people, you act like you are loosing your girlfriend.
It's a freakin website, not your personal platform to be an ass; although I am quite good at that myself. I know we are all comfortable here. I don't like the crap any more than any of you but I am willing to change.
Call the site whatever you want. It is NOT the name that makes the site necessarily. It's the people, and we have a great group here.
And Ant is right, why are you all so afraid of new people? It's taken me awhile to fit in here and I have been here forever. You people are harsh sometimes, and you know it. And personally, 30-40 people is not enough people to keep a website running. You might as well just have a blog.
Stop being selfish!
WorldCrafters.com and we make Soup an Administrator, of course.
I like ya Soup, even if you don't like me.
There are other platforms of communication other than a forum y'know
ANYWAY! If this site could go down overnight, STOP TRYING TO PICK A NAME START DEVELOPING!
I suggest everyone get into the TWHL Steam group or Twitter or some other non-TWHL way of getting info about developments, admins organize something and let us know. If I may suggest, Grim has some amazing web dev talents that could add to the work force.
So get going!
Stu claims that we are trying to "steal" TWHL from atom. You really think this?
To be honest, I was just kidding. Some things one can't express correctly using text.
There's a counter point to your plan, however. Assume you finally give up on Atom and move everything to a new server. But Atom doesn't know that, so now he's paying for an empty server. Or worse, a server that holds the old TWHL as it was the day the new site was launched, confusing the situation even further. New users will come across the "old", abandoned TWHL and will leave disappointed in a few days seeing it's deserted, or stick around and interact with other new clueless members, forming a sub-community.
Perhaps it needs more thought.
Out of all suggestions for a new name, I liked the "Map Vault" one the most.
Change is inevitable, we must adapt to survive. If that means changing the name, or supporting more engines, I'm fine with that.
If the need for a programmer arises, I would love to help!
New users will come across the "old", abandoned TWHL and will leave disappointed in a few days seeing it's deserted
We have enough control over the site to throw in a redirect at least.
There is another reason why we're proposing a such a bold move. As mentioned in my first post, the Admin team have full-time jobs and various other commitments. Rebuilding a website takes a lot of time. If we decide to keep things the same when we do the rebuild, we'd be putting in all this time and effort for the 40 people that visit the site.
As for the issue raised concerning the confusion surrounding 'what engine a map is for', the design would obviously make it clear. This version of TWHL was designed to not branch away from the previous version, so there's a lot of problems with the interface. I've done enough web design to know how to properly separate content (part of my real job is web designing), so there's no need to worry about that. Frankly, it's not exactly a reason not to pursue more engines.
Then it's settled. Map Vault it is.
LukeLuke
Stu: I'm almost 100% sure that the only reason TWHL is still hosted right now is because atom hosts all his other websites on the same hosting plan. What we'd be doing is removing TWHL's bandwidth use on his servers. And we are able to put in a .htaccess redirect or something similar.
But, meantime, if he hasn't paid for any of it then the whole kit and kaboodle could go down at any minute. Does anyone know if he has been cut off from the rest of the world with Egypt cutting 90% of their internet?
Anyone have a web route map of the world?
I am fully aware that most people would be in the direct loop and would be advised if something major happened and the site went down for a month or two. Not everyone on the site has that direct communication though.
All I am saying is I would hate for the site to just blank out. It has been said already that this probably would not be the case.
@Penguinboy: Couldn't most or all of the content be simply moved without being recoded? Don't know much about PHP. All I know is that it creates the pages on the fly. Is there some sort of PHP Engine that you can't get to?I know you want to remake the site but you could move it temporarily until you get the newer code. Then you could take more time. And it would appease the people more if they made a slower transition to a newer site format. I remember the old site and it was a litle bit of a shock to move to TWHL2. I liked it once I was on for a couple of weeks. Whichever, just a suggestion.
WORLDCRAFTERS.COM is the best I can come up with. lol
We can move it without changing it. Thing is though, it's a great chance for us to redesign it properly and rebuild it: I know PB is itching to do it. We can certainly move it to a new server in the interim and have a basic redirect setup.
In the short term, it would save you alot of hassle, and like I said, give you more time to design it the way you want. And possibly give me time for needed input from the community itself.
I know we speak of the 40 but really there are far more people that stop in and possibly never come back. I really like the idea of opening up to other engines and possible other ways of thinking about things. This is all I have ever really pushed for on this site.
We all love Half Life 1 and it's ultimate ease of use. It will always be there and we should not turn our back on our benefactors. Without it, we wouldn't all be here having this discussion. Change is good though.
It will be sad to see the name changed...
What can you do? lol
hlife_hotdog
You know, I only just got back and couldn't be bummed reading what everyone wrote, but I would kinda be sad if it got changed. It would feel like when they change the name of a popular stadium to some commercial name, like Crazy John's Statium. I understand why though, but I would greatly miss the old domain (not to mention the mysterious free domain we got here, who would pay for the new hosting?)
hlife_hotdogForever
PB and I would be paying.
Captain Terror
Maptown?
zeeba: i rather like "TheWholeGamer" =)
Captain Terrorwhen a man loves a woman
. It would feel like when they change the name of a popular stadium to some commercial name, like Crazy John's Statium
Agree with that. Changing the name to something like MapVault would be almost like changing Coca-Cola to "The black beverage".
Or McDonalds to Fatland.
saw1833
I think the opposite of that. Our name kind of sucks really. The Whole Half-Life. Kay... so we have a whole... half-life. So this like changing "The Dark Brown Soft Drink (because Coke isn't black)" into Coca-Cola.
I think the first step that should be made is moving THIS TWHL to a new server, THEN designing it so that if we do lose hosting, we'll already be gone, leaving no confusion.
(because Coke isn't black)
And the water isn't blue...
If you understand me.
Technically, no kind of matter is ANY color. Only light has color, which is reflected off of matter
Don Punch
1 thing i have to add to this conversation is;
In my experience in hosting servers is, that when rumors or talks begin about changing the host, that it causes instability within your population.
I agree that not knowing the future of the hosting situation calls for action by those who have a vested interest in the site, but unless you already have the means and plans to start this new site, you should not be discussing it in an open forum like this.
A name is useless without the workload behind it to make it happen.
On another note, there are countless links on various places that would be broken. I know this was covered, but I find this to be a primary source for new members.
Also, with a current active population of 30-50, I wouldnt worry about that too much, I would work on building a new community using your current members are promoters.
Last I would like to add, that by spending about 5 mins on the web, I have 'Atoms' real name, address, email, and phone number. I don't think it would be impossible to contact him concerning such an important issue.
If one of the admins wants that info, just pm me, since I dont want to post his private info here.(if you cant find it yourself that is)
What ever happens, I will continue to support this and any new community who's focus is on the modding community.
Don Punch: We have already been in contact with atom, as PB mentioned earlier in this thread. He has, for the last few months, not returned any of our emails. We did the exact same thing you did to get this information.
Links are easy to rebuild.
This thread was not to primarily come up with new names. It was to communicate future plans and for others to contribute to them.
That's the general idea, but it seems that a lot here are against an influx of newcomers.
Given newcomers come with SOME prior knowledge of what they are doing, then yeah. If we launch and they come here looking for Unreal help and we don't have it, it might be difficult to keep new members for other engines. So anyone who knows anything about other engines besides gold/source will have to keep on their toes.
More like Lazytown yuk yuk.
MapVault.net
It might not be the rarest idea, but I wonder if you guys gave any thought to what Don said: Did you try using the phone? That he can't escape from
Crollo
Unless it's his work number that he no longer works in, or his home phone and he doesn't answer\strangers, or it could just be a dead number period.
There's also little need to bother someone over the phone for such a thing, although desperate times I'm sure he would mind it interrupting his personal life.
CrolloTrollo
I'm going to back up all of the stuff I uploaded to the site since I don't exactly have all of it. :>
Dunno about you guys, but I'm not exactly going to call South Africa from Australia.
gimme his number i can do it.
i dont think i can either.
Guys, this isnt 1982.
Long distance is like 10 cents a min. Give me your paypal. I'll send you a quater and you guys can sort out the details.
but all joking aside, someone should try a phone call. I'm sure it would all turn out nicely.
Change for the "better" is good. Its time to up grade. I still use the goldsource because compiles are fast but it can't handle most of my ideas... I got a buddy from school that uses udk I just met. Maybe he'll teach me a thing or two and I can intro. him to the good old quick and basic gold. Either way changing is fine. But have a plan "what engines it will incorporate according to current tech." and what it will expand to......
@captain, agreed; that was a good name.
I also liked compconstruct.com
Given newcomers come with SOME prior knowledge of what they are doing, then yeah.
This is why I wouldn't support a site for 30-40 people. You might as well swap steam id's and have a big chat party everyday.
I thought we were supposed to be supporting...
Skals
Stealing is bad, Mkay?
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Both men are right. The Fitbit, which I received for my birthday July 4, is pushing me to reboot my already disciplined daily exercise habit. But when is enough, enough? The day I log 15,495 steps, I am exhausted by 8:30 p.m.
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On July 19, a sad day when my boss died suddenly of a heart attack, the watch greeted me with a simple, “Hi, friend.” It has come to know me and anticipate my needs.
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Helene, 66, began wearing a Fitbit two years ago because her employer incentivized it. She now walks longer distances in the morning and over lunch, and she expects those habits to continue once she retires this fall.
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This entry was posted in Health and wellness on July 28, 2018 by Amy Gage.
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Jane July 30, 2018 at 12:33 am
This is very true – love it!
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STRONG female characters, Mary Sues and Manic Pixie Dream Girls… What the Heck is up with Female Characters in Books!?
Published on December 9, 2018 December 9, 2018 by theorangutanlibrarian
Hello all! So as you guys may know I was reading Kingdom of Ash recently. As the final book in a l-o-n-g series, you’d expect there to be some changes from the original works, and that’s fair enough. But there was one tiny issue that bugged me: most of the female characters had become warriors (though #notall). Now, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good kickass heroine and I didn’t by any stretch of the imagination dislike this book. Yet there were two things that struck me with this decision: a) Celaena, as she was originally known, stood out less than she had in previous books (where she’d been an exception to the rule in a world where there seemed to be few female fighters) and b) it kind of leans in to the idea that women *have to* be more masculine in order to be considered strong women.
Time and again, I’m finding that female characters are being type cast into the “strong” role of warrior. And it doesn’t seem to just be one character- it’s got to be the bulk of them. Regardless of whether the author wants to dress up this character in girly clothes and makeup, I don’t think there’s any denying the fact that their heroism predominately comes from their ability to kick ass and not their penchant for applying lipstick. Often it feels shoehorned in and doesn’t seem to be a necessary part of the character (like Clary in Mortal Instruments, who already had killer powers). It also doesn’t seem to matter if the world obeys the laws of earthly biology or not- it seems to be something we have to accept the predominance of the warrior woman in the large bulk of genre fiction (especially fantasy/sci fi, but even in historical fiction as well). Unfortunately this mentality seems to bleed into real life- I can’t tell you how many times (mostly male/female feminists) have criticised me for not being physically strong. Because, in case you didn’t know, I’m a regular girly monkey who doesn’t have the superhuman ability to kick butt.
Guess I’ll just use any excuse to get dressed up 😉
Evidently, I’m not crazy about this trend for many reasons. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Buffy growing up and like the occasional Wonder Woman style heroine. I also think this can really work in the fantasy genre- such as with characters like Nona from Red Sister, who come across as representations of shadow and myth. HOWEVER, I don’t recall it being the case that these were the *main* and *only* kind of female characters. Even when it came to Buffy, there were a bunch of other roles fulfilled by female characters. And thank goodness for that- because Buffy wasn’t the character I gravitated towards anyway! I’ll let you in on a not-so-surreptitiously held secret: I always identified the most with adorkable-brainy-oddball Willow- cos that’s who I found relatable. And this is a bit of a trend for me. While Tamora Pierce is famous for her Lioness character, I fell in love with Daine from Wild Magic. I adored the heroines in books by Eva Ibbotson- who never went raging to war but were fearless nonetheless. And I know that a few of the heroines in Game of Thrones fall into this super strong type- yet I love the series because it plays with every type it introduces and never presents a singular view of people.
A lot of the reasons this arose in the first place was a desire to challenge the status quo, to create something different and be appealing to a wider audience. And yet it’s not relatable; and somehow it has become a type. Regardless of whether they wear dresses or not, this STRONG female character is close to becoming a caricature just like any other irritatingly unrealistic representation. Many might have heard of terms like Mary Sue and Manic Pixie Dream girls getting (over)used all over the internet. What I understand about people that have problems with both of these, is that it’s irritating to see so many poorly conceived female characters. Naturally, these don’t simply apply to female characters- there’s always the people who shout “sexist” first and ask questions later (fyi for all those offended by the term Mary Sue, Marty Stus are a thing as well). And of course sometimes the criticism can be unearned- such as the infamous example of 500 Days of Summer using the Manic Pixie Dream girl trope… when it’s actually a deconstruction of that idea. Also, naturally, as in the case of unfinished or contentious works, these terms can be open to debate (as much as I’d like to insist that Rae from Star Wars is 100% a Mary Sue). So, whether in reading or writing, I think it’s good to be careful how we apply these terms- because boy is it frustrating to see characters reduced to nothing more than a trope.
If I was a lonely voice in the crowd, one could say I was a random butthurt woman (or “wahmen” 😉 ) blowing things out of proportion. Yet, I don’t seem to be the only one who thinks this way. In recent years, I’ve seen amazing articles from fellow readers like the lovely Kelly over at Another Book in the Wall, and videos from the likes of the Authentic Observer and even Jordan Harvey on similar topics. I know there are so many more- so forgive me if I left any obvious ones out. Point is: perhaps the zeitgeist of public opinion is changing. Maybe, just maybe when people were crying out for different types of female characters, they weren’t looking to be type-cast into yet another role. All I have ever wanted in fiction is believable, interesting and realistic characters. Wielding a sword is optional.
Hope you didn’t mind my somewhat rambly thoughts- I just wanted to get all this off my chest. What do you think about this trend? How do you like your female characters? Let me know in the comments!
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97 thoughts on “STRONG female characters, Mary Sues and Manic Pixie Dream Girls… What the Heck is up with Female Characters in Books!?”
I enjoy a strong badass leading lady. However I will admit that I have also noticed the same character traits in a lot of the books that I have been reading. They dress them up differently but the outcome is always the same. So yes, I guess it’s kind of hard to not ask yourself what type of message are they trying to send out 🤔
Yeah I totally get what you mean- I’m not completely adverse to it. But it’s strange that this seems to be the majority of female characters in a lot of books. Yeah for sure.
Same. I sometimes feel as if I’m basically reading the same books with the same characters, and I think we can do better. And I agree that the “badass warrior who also likes frilly things” is just not that different from “badass warrior who hates dresses” so we can stop pretending it is. There are different ways to be strong! And, honestly, not everyone even *has* to be that strong.
I really agree with you there- I’d just like to see more variety. And yeah- to be honest it’s a bit of a superficial difference to me. And absolutely! I love when books show all different kinds of strength and I can also respect characters who maybe aren’t as strong as others. It’s okay to show vulnerability too.
curious•pondering says:
Great post! I am only on Throne of Glass and am not enjoying the main character too much. I read The Assassin’s Blade, but she is not a great character to me. Her personality flip flops from extreme girly girl to killer of men and I just don’t buy it. I am going to continue the series, but am having some iffy feelings. This is a great post! I think about the YA female main character pretty often as the majority of them are on the nose obnoxious to me.
Thank you! Yeah i can understand that- personally, I began reading it a long time ago and liked her character back then cos it felt more different. Looking back, it’s perhaps not as great as I remembered. And yeah I so relate to you there- cos I often struggle to like the mc nowadays.
I haven’t read many YA, and even less of those “warrior women” ones, so i haven’t come across many of these tropes. But it is not enjoyable when all female characters are basically just cliches and tropes and are not like actual people. Most real people are not just one thing.
That’s fair- it mostly comes up there (and in fantasy). And yeah I really agree with you there. Absolutely!
Kim @ Traveling in Books says:
I’m open to a warrior woman character in a book. Women really can be warriors, after all. I mean, would you really want Serena Williams coming after you with an axe (or even a tennis racket)? But the ‘dainty girly girl who is also a badass warrior who can beat up men twice her size with just her fists’ thing is just aggravating. Much as I like to read about a good warrior woman, I want her to be realistic. And I’d like to see women portrayed with the full spectrum of skills and abilities that real women in the world have, not just the Warrior Woman, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, or the other handful of tropes that show up in so many books.
Like I said, I’m not against it and it can happen- it’s just not my favourite character type since it’s not as common as these books would make it seem. hahaha that’s a funny image!! I don’t think I’d want that either 😉 And yeah I do agree with you there. I don’t think it makes much sense when it’s always the dainty girls… but to me, that doesn’t mean girls who aren’t as physically imposing should be written out- like you, I’d appreciate seeing girls with different skill sets. And yeah I absolutely agree- I don’t want them boiled down to just a trope.
I’m also tired of the “strong female lead” only being represented by a warrior. I like strong characters, but I don’t see why strength has to be shown with a sword. In my opinion this shows just how entrenched our society is in toxic masculinity. Instead I would love to see more characters (both male and female) showing their strength in other ways. It was one of the reasons I loved The Goblin Emperor so much. Maia and other characters ARE strong, but nobody ever picks up a sword! It’s also what I’m loving so much about the Wolf Hall series! I feel like this is something especially lacking in YA, for whatever reason, and is a big part of why I’m getting so burnt out of that genre.
I really agree with you there. I love strong characters, but that doesn’t mean they have to be a warrior every time. Like you, I don’t think strength can only be shown with a sword. And I want to read both of those books- so I’m really glad to hear they both don’t conform to that (though I had an inkling with Wolf Hall 😉 ) And yeah I can understand that completely!
Agree to disagree about Game of Thrones the changes made to Brienne and Arya, in the series especially, were pretty much what brought this one to the boiling point for me. But one could write a thesis work on female representation in that book/show (and someone probably has.) You raise good points though. I think getting sick of the trope has just made me look all the harder for work that subverts it or just plain has better representation so… bright side! Great article!
Fair enough! I’m not saying that the tv show does a great job all the time with the characters or that the books are perfect, cos they’re not. hehe that’d be an interesting thesis! And that’s such a great point! I’ve definitely reached that point where I’m bored of it too! Thank you so much!
Yeah, it has become a bit cliched. And with all cliches, they start out strong 😉 but then they get boring because they all end up being copycats. Give me interesting characters. Real, flawed, strong… whatever. I just want characters I care about and can root for! (And like you said… Wielding a sword is optional.)
Ah so true!! I really, really agree with you! Absolutely!
I’m fine with “strong female characters” when they feel like real, three dimensional people. I’m also OK with female characters occupying a more conventional role, if they also feel like real, well thought out people. I think that if a character has thoughts, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, etc that character will resonate because people can identify. Tastes and opinions about what a female character “should” be change over time. Different tropes gain and lose popularity. So the way to avoid making a character seem like a dated cardboard cutout is make that character three dimensional. If the reader can identify with the character as a fellow human being (even if the character isn’t technically human!) then that character will continue to resonate.
Totally get that. I’m happy with either conventional or unconventional, provided they feel real and like you said, come across as well thought out. Increasingly, I don’t feel like that’s the case and to me personally it feels like a lot of unconventional portrayals seem to be to prove a point rather than for the sake of character development (for instance, in the book I mentioned in the post, a female character who was introduced as a spy-like character became a warrior by the end of the series- which wasn’t an improvement on an already strong female character- it just suggested the only way she could express her strength was in a physical way now). And yeah, I do agree with everything you’ve said- just got a bit carried away 😉
This will be interesting because I’m on my THIRD gin of the evening but I pretty much agree with you. I don’t like any kind of stereotypes because people are multifaceted and I find them unrealistic and reductive – especially when you see them over and over.
I think it’s really interesting what you’re saying about female characters essentially taking on more masculine traits in order to be seen as good strong role models. I hate that – I’m a tiny blonde girly looking girl (even if I am secretly quite strong and good at lots of traditionally boyish things) and I very rarely see a heroine who reflects someone like me. It’s one of the reasons I love Arya – I’m so glad she didn’t get given a whacking great big broadsword and told to fight in the same way as the men.
I think there’s always been a lot of negative connotations attached to anything feminine and I’m really not ok with that.
Also, who is criticising you for not being physically strong? Throw bananas at them for being so rude!
hahaha hope you enjoyed!!
And yeah I definitely agree there!
I can very much relate to that. It’s funny because whenever I have to think of female characters I actually relate to, it’s really hard (and usually it’s only ever the same few that come to mind) which is a shame cos a lot of what I read is dominated by female characters… and yet they don’t resonate with me a lot of the time. I really do agree with you there- Arya is a great example because she was always a tomboy, but that didn’t mean she became the next Brienne (in the books at least 😉 )
And yeah that’s definitely true unfortunately.
hehe it happens- I’ll do that next time 😂
I did enjoy my gin, thank you! I actually had to go and read my comment again because I’d entirely forgotten what I’d said 🙈
Is that because you read overly simplistic YA? 😉 Seriously though, I feel like it will take YEARS before we start to value more traditionally female traits (whether they’re evidenced by male or female characters) so we’ll be waiting a good while yet.
hehehe well good 😉
hahaha quite possibly! That is unfortunately too true!!
Making women a Man with Boobs and calling them “strong” does a disservice to all women. It also shows a genuine lack of understanding of the bloody fact that men and women ARE different. Sigh….
I really agree with you there.
I completely agree. Women don’t need to take on traditionally masculine characteristics in order to be strong. There are all kinds of women and all kinds of ways to strong. Usually authors can showcase this more when they have more than one female character, so I find it odd that an author would slowly transform the bulk of female characters into warriors.
I’m really glad you agree. And yes absolutely! I definitely think that. And yes it’s a real pity- especially since I was discussing one of the changes with my sister and seemed like an odd choice for them (they were a spy type of character, but transformed into a warrior by the end of the series, which negated the different kind of strength they’d shown earlier in the story and was a real shame).
That IS odd! People love spy characters! Why change her into a warrior? It also seems potentially out of character. People who like sneaking around don’t seem like they’d necessarily be the same ones charging at people with weapons.
I know right?! It made no sense to me either. Exactly!
I love warrior woman but I do hate how that’s the first thing that pops up when we think of strong female characters. Plenty of characters are deserving of being called a strong female character and they don’t wave a sword around.
Yeah I think that’s a good point. It shouldn’t be the first thing that comes to mind.
I actually don’t mind a cliché, I can’t kick ass, but I am one of the strongest person I know… So in my books, I don’t mind if a heroine is typecast as long as she is intelligent and does not play damsel in distress waiting for man to rescue card…. I generally don’t care how she is dressed or if she is given masculine characteristics, as long as she can think for herself… I hate simpering, fawning, vapid main characters…
I haven’t read any of books mentioned. But I have seen Buffy, I liked her, but I didn’t like her decisions, hence I would disconnect with her depending on the episode.
My view may not be the popular one, but this is what I like…
Well I think everyone’s entitled to like whatever they want and I don’t always dislike it- I just wish it wasn’t turning out to be the majority of strong female characters. I just think strength can be portrayed in different ways- like you said, you’re the strongest person you know, and yet that doesn’t mean you can physically kick ass. I just wish there were more characters like that in books. I’m not a fan of vapid characters either- so I agree with you there.
And I also do like Buffy, I was just pointing out I preferred Willow, if that makes sense.
No worries! You’re very welcome to like whatever you want 🙂
I like my female characters strong. I enjoy reading about the kickass ones precisely because I’m not. Heck, if I try to kick something I just end up hurting my toe or ankle! 😉
But I don’t think my heroines need to be aggressive and physically strong to be great. I liked Willow more than Buffy too… cuz as much as I liked Buffy, I saw more of myself in Willow. Thankfully in the genres I read more of the females’ strength doesn’t have to play out in a physical or aggressive way. Cozy sleuths mostly have to just be clever. ☺️
hehe well fair enough! I also like strong characters, but for me that doesn’t have to be physical. I’m glad you agree there! And yeah I was the same!! hehhe I totally get what you mean 😉
Agreed. It seems a solid confrimation of the strength of the prevalent patriarchal attitude that in order to appear strong a woman must start to resemble a man. Not only in books, in movies as well. Take the movie I already criticized long and often, Thor: Ragnarok, where Hela is a character turned on her head, a lost warrior sister to Thor and Loki :/, bigger and badder than both of them.
It’s also a rather new trend, I’d argue: women in books by Robin Hobb or Ursula le Guin, for example never needed to become warriors to show their inner strength. This trend seems strongly influenced by UF, I think 😉 And don’t get me started on Rey 😉
Well yeah it’s very frustrating to see strength portrayed as masculine a lot of the time. And yes, definitely agree that this happens *so much* in movies as well. That’s a really good example! Very much agree!
And yes, I definitely see this as a new trend. While it did happen in older books, even books that were famous for having female warriors like Tamora Pierce, there were still characters who fit outside of that trend. hehehee better not- I had to really rein myself in from going all out on Rey in the post lol 😉
Don’t those points apply to male characters as well? Most strong male characters are shown to be warriors who kick lots of ass yet I’ve seen hardly any criticism against them. Maybe the problem is just badly written
one dimensional characters.
Well, talking about female characters doesn’t, to my mind, preclude talking about male ones. The reason I was addressing this was because it’s a current and particular trend. And yep, I definitely have a problem with characters just being boiled down to a single trait. Incidentally, I have talked about male characters who were not warriors (like Kvothe for instance) going down the sword-wielding route unnecessarily, just because it was what’s expected of the character in order to appear “strong”.
I agree. I just feel that female characters get more flak for that sort of thing than male characters do. Not blaming you for that, don’t take it the wrong way.
I did not know Kvothe does that (I’m currently half way through the first book). That is a bit disappointing. One thing I liked about the book so far was that there was not much emphasis on fighting unlike most fantasy books, which was refreshing.
Well, I think there are two reasons for that: 1) it’s a current trend and a new thing, which means people are bound to examine and question it and 2) it doesn’t reflect a lot of people’s reality. I’m not saying that everything has to be about realism or that there has to be conformity, but asking people to constantly suspend their disbelief is going to create more questions.
I don’t think having physically strong women who can kick a lot of ass is harder to believe than dragons and stuff. Saying that I can see it’s not for everyone.
Yes, I’m just trying to explain why people will question it more. It’s not that you can’t do it or that you shouldn’t- just explaining why people might question it. Especially if it goes against the rules of the established world (eg in a world where women are shown to be physically weaker, it’s interesting to play with the idea, but not necessarily make every female character a warrior cos that’s boring and doesn’t make sense in the established world) Also not discounting that art is often a reflection of reality, even if it’s fantastical
I wholeheartedly agree with all of what you said, love! ❤ It's such a shame when the only way a woman can be considered "strong" is if she's a kick-ass warrior. There are so many ways to show power and strength through means other than physical strength, and I wish authors would illustrate this more often. And THANK YOU for linking to my post! *sheds tear* You're too sweet! ❤
Thank you! So glad you agree!! ❤ Absolutely! I so agree with you!!
Aww no worries!! ❤
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I disagree with the idea that strong warrior type female characters are a result of the idea that women have to be like men to be strong. In settings where there is an emphasis on war, fighting etc. there is very little scope for non action characters. If you don’t write women who physically kick ass in such settings, you’d end up having no female characters at all, or only damsel in distress type characters. Women who kick ass do exist and in certain settings, those are the type of women who would get to do things. I’ve heard characters like that being dismissed as ‘men with boobs’ which I think is rather insulting towards women who don’t confirm to traditional ideas of femininity.
Of course, it would be nice if we could have more well-rounded characters and not physical badasses. However I don’t think that’s necessarily a gendered issue. It is unlikely most male readers would be able to kick ass the way male characters do in books.
No worries. I think I’d disagree with you there- because there are most definitely other types of characters (and also a lot of the genres I’m talking of don’t specifically *have to* have a war setting). But even if they did, in fantasy, there are magical roles, and in both historical fiction and fantasy there are roles such as healers, strategists, politicians, ladies of the court, performers, spiritual leaders etc. I think it’s very limiting to only think of these things in terms of warriors vs not warriors- and to see anyone else who’s not a warrior type as a “damsel”. And yes, this can be applied to male characters as well. But the reason I focus on women, particularly in settings where this is relevant, is that there is a biological and physical difference that would mean the prevalence of women in certain roles does shift. In my view, women don’t have to conform, but it would be nice if some books could recognise the existence of femininity beyond superficial things like wearing a dress or putting on makeup.
I do agree that there are other roles. However in some settings the number of characters in less and the warriors are the focus and in such a setting it would be realistic to have the main characters be warriors regardless of gender. Regarding biological differences, I don’t think that matters that much in a fantasy setting. A lot of authors create unrealistic characters and still manage a willing suspension of disbelief . A lot of cases it is wish fulfilment- for instance I’m not the type who could kick ass in real life but I like imagining myself to be like that while reading fiction. However I do realize that may not be for everyone, nor is it applicable to all genres.
I don’t agree that that’s the case- because there are physical attributes that make some people more desirable warriors than others. I think it does matter if the author engages with human characteristics and biology. And even made up worlds have to have rules. If the rule is that there is no difference biologically, then have at it, but bear in mind this won’t necessarily resonate with a female audience. And yes, I do agree that this can be wish fulfilment- and like I’ve already said, I’m not opposed to this on occasion- I just think it occurs more frequently than one would expect.
Okay I think we can agree to disagree on this.
Another wonderful discussiob post! Ok my two cents speaking “in general” I agree with you. The best example is Kestrel from the Wiiner’s Curse. Not a warrior but strong female MC. Now for KoA I think we overlook that in time of war people change and rise to the occasion! At WWII many women had to learn new “manly” skills because it was needed! Also maybe Aelin drew in women with a warrior potential bacause that’s what would be needed later? But I do agree that she does not shine alone any longer.
Thank you very much! Ah yes I loved Kestrel as a character- she was brilliant!! And that’s true- except that in WWII the large majority of women entering male roles didn’t mean they physically fought- women showed their strength and bravery in other ways (and this is also reflected in women’s choices after the war as well). To me, strength doesn’t necessarily have to be physical and I feel like that’s overlooked a lot of the time in some fiction. I think that could have been a fair view (much like how the lioness in Tamora Pierce books later inspired other women) but I think in the time allotted there wasn’t room for that to manifest and it also meant that previously established characters developed in a way that wasn’t necessarily true to them (Lysandra is a good example, because she had a fascinating, subtle role as a spy, which showed a different kind of strength… but morphed into kicking butt by the end- which, to me, made her less interesting). Also by introducing a lot of characters who were warriors all along (and who Aelin might have known about) made the whole part about her being special for being a female assassin less relevant to begin with. That shock of her being a young girl *and* an assassin wouldn’t have had such an impact- so it kind of becomes a plot hole that suddenly all these people who were femlae fighters turn up. Anyway, hope all that made sense!
Hahaha yes …somehow LOL
hobbleit says:
I am not a fan of the strong female character mostly because when an author uses this trope, it becomes the one defining feature of that character. They never seem to have any other personality trait other than kickass.
I really do agree with you there! To me, it often comes across as superficial as well.
Personally I think that we like characters that we can relate to or admire; when this new wave of feminism started we started seeing powerful female central characters and people got behind them. Now, however, I think the bandwagon has been jumped on too many times and, what was once new and exciting, has become cliched. Therefore, in attempts to recreate the popularity that these characters had in the beginning, they become more and more exaggerated and therefore less relateable. When you add in the long legs, perfect hair, pouty lips and an excess of leather to the mix the ‘strong’ female lead just becomes a parody.
ps. I started reading Scythe yesterday – you were right, it’s very good :O) x
I think that’s a really fair point. That’s very true! hehehehe I really agree with you there 😂😂😂
Ahh I’m so glad to hear it!!
Jheelam says:
This is a wonderful topic, one I’ve been thinking for long – thus it made me to pick up my YA fantasy books carefully.
Just like you, I’m so over this “kick ass women who rely more on brawn than brain” trope. I mean, a female lead can save the world through number crunching as well!
She doesn’t have to throw that spear every goddamtime. Also, such emphasis on “making women more masculine” in books got me into thinking that- the authors should mention what happens to female warriors when their bodies go through transformations- be it menstruation, menopause or childbirth.
I mean these things can’t be swept under carpet. *Sorry for hogging your space * 😛
Thank you so much! I really relate to that- I’m increasingly avoiding certain books where I just know it’s going to fall into this trap.
Ah I’m so glad I’m not the only one! Absolutely!!
YES!! And yeah I really agree with you there!!
Ah I so agree! No worries- I enjoyed your comment 😀
This is definitely true and I think it’s effects are seen across media from books to TV shows and films. I think this came from a desire for female characters to be front and centre and to be the protagonists of their own stories but as a result, they’ve been written to be masculine. And speaking of Buffy, while I loved that show and her character, I always saw her reliance on her physical strength as being a weakness at points. The number of times she tries to punch her way out of a situation rather than talking it through (especially with Spike) was huge and I thought it was a solid character flaw that was linked to her superpowers. Great discussion!
Yeah I’ve definitely seen this across all mediums. And yeah, I definitely understand where it’s come from. And that’s a great point- I really agree with you there. I think it’s generally great when any strength is exposed as a weakness as well. And that’s explored to great effect in Buffy (gosh I loved that show 😉 ) Thank you!
I think sometimes, people assume that a “strong woman” is basically the opposite of a “feminine woman”, which I don’t agree with. It’s a pity that more modern novels don’t explore different facets of what ‘strong’ means – for example, I think Fanny Price for Mansfield Park is a strong character, in that she stands up for what she believes in even though she’s generally very meek and mild.
I really agree with you there!! And absolutely!!
Such a fantastic post. Kate Elliott has written about this at length, I think she may have even had an article on Tor about the topic of ‘strong women characters’ and how strength doesn’t just mean physically strong but just a well fleshed out character in whichever role and also how people should write more than one type of female character into their works and all of that stuff.
This is also one of the reasons why I really liked the newest Mackenzi Lee book, because one of the messages is that women can be strong in various ways and you can still love frilly dresses and be a feminist. 🙂
Ooh that’s interesting- I’d like to check that out! I really agree with that point!
And that makes me really intrigued about that book 😀
This is a great post, and I loved reading your thoughts on the topic too. I haven’t read Kingdom of Ash yet (it’s on my TBR list so it’s probably going to end up a priority of mine for 2019) but yeah I’ve noticed there tend to be a lot of women-warriors in books now. Don’t get me wrong it’s great to see kick-ass female characters in books but sometimes you do need a bit of variety.
I’m read The Lady’s Guide by Mackenzi Lee and someone else in the comments pointed this out too but there’s a great character who is smart and definitely kick-ass but loves feminine dresses and make-up and she doesn’t let anyone look down on her or discount her for those likes. All the female characters in Mackenzi Lee’s books are so well written and so different too. 🙂
Thank you! Oh cool! Hope you like it! And yes, I really agree with you- I don’t actually dislike it, but I wish it wasn’t the only role for a lot of characters in books nowadays.
Oh I just heard somebody else praising that exact same author and it makes me really excited to read her work! I actually have the first book on my kindle 😀 So that’s really great to hear!!
We need variety in female characters, if not it’s just going to become a cliche isn’t it?
Definitely, she’s an incredible writer and The Gentleman’s Guide and the sequel are two of my favourite books for sure! 😀
Absolutely! Ah that’s so great to hear!!
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I want my female characters to be believable. So sure, some of them can be Strong Women or Mary Sue or even Manic Pixie Dream Girls. But they can’t *all* be like that or I won’t believe it.
I really agree with you there!
I like it when females are known for more than just being female. Like the Strong Woman is still identified as being a Woman, you know what I mean? It’s almost as if by identifying some one by their gender forces them to be stereotyped. Take Doctor Who. The latest doctor is now known as the “Female Doctor.” None of the male Doctors were ever known as the “Male Doctor.” But maybe I’m just being nitpicky.
Ah that’s a really good point! Personally, the reason I’ve made the distinction is cos it’s made a big deal of in the book. If it had been integrated in a way that it wasn’t a big deal, I wouldn’t have noticed. But the thing is, particularly with this trope, the desire to reflect reality is naturally going to draw attention to this. And that’s a good point about Doctor who.
This is a thoughtful post, and I appreciate how it opened my eyes to some things. I love a strong female character, but I definitely don’t need a caricature. Well-done!
Thank you so much! I’m really glad you thought so!
This is so true! Many a time I’ve been trying to figure out why “strong female characters” have to lean towards the tough warrior type. I agree that it’s all fine and alright, but that this shouldn’t be the only way to depict feminine strength. A random example I thought up on the spot is Queenie Goldstein from J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts. Compared to her sister Tina who is much more tougher in appearance and mannerisms, Queenie (who adores pink and is leaning towards the pastel aesthetic type – if this makes sense), is in no way weaker. She displays a different strength (the only difference being her exterior, I guess)!
I really get what you mean. And absolutely! Oh so agree with you- that’s such a great example (and I love Rowling in general for her ability to show such a great range of female characters). For sure!
What a brilliant posts. 👌 You managed to articulate extremely well what has been going through my mind recently, bravo! 👏
These so called STRONG female characters really bug me too. I love Tamora Pierce’s books because her heroines don’t mind asking for help and their strengths are in their vulnerabilities, not their abilities to kick some butts (even though they can do that too lol). And I also preferred Daine to the Lioness… And Willow… 💕 She was my fav character in Buffy as well. ❤️
I think it’s important to show that being brave doesn’t always mean screaming and roaring. That bravery has many forms. That saying: I’ll try again tomorrow, I love you, I can’t do it alone, I don’t know how to do this… are all forms of bravery. 😊
Thank you so much!! 😀
I really agree with you- especially in relation to Tamora Pierce who was so wonderful at showing a range of characters, with strengths and weaknesses. Ahh so glad you agree!! ❤
Absolutely!! Love how you put that!! 🙂
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bailey. says:
I completely agree with this. This was actually one of my issues with the particular series mentioned from the get-go. There are so many types of strength, but I feel like lately there’s a very specific type of woman being portrayed particularly in YA fantasy and it definitely is becoming a type of Mary Sue. She’s got to be sassy, brash, and butt-kicking while still being physically desirable. I loved the Tamora Pierce reference. Daine was actually my favorite.
Thank you so much! I’m really glad to hear I’m not the only one. And yes I really agree with you about there being other kinds of strength- which unfortunately rarely get portrayed in books! And yeah that’s so true. That’s awesome!
Carrie @ Cat on the Bookshelf says:
The strong, fighter type of girl has really annoyed me in books and movies over the last couple of years. I agree with this post. I never got passed Throne of Glass, but I remember that there were a lot of complaints about Calaena being an assassin who never killed anyone for several books. I don’t know how the changes later helped or hurt her character development, but that was the reason for the changes.
The only time I’m into the strong female trope is when it’s used more appropriately, like Katniss Everdeen or Mac from Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley. Katniss had to be this tough to survive the harsh realities of living in District 13, and she’s shown in other lights when she has to visit the Capitol or fight to be out of the 75th Hunger Games. I like Mac because she is someone who wanted to go to this military school where she is in the first class that allowed girls in, and she is forced to deal with hazing and figure out who in her group that she could trust to not let her get literally killed. She even has to accept help from a hacker girl and watch as the other girls find different ways to try to survive. These books give good reasons for making the strong, fighter girl type and complicate it in a way that would make sense if this were real life.
Oh! Yes! Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. What get’s me is how people seem to forget that much of what women “are” is from homones: more nurturing, less muscled, and less prone to violence. I keep pointing out to people how wrong it is to celebrate and support boys who want to be princesses (which is great), but then turn around and judge girls who want to be princesses. They will also cheer on transgendered people getting hormone therapy when they start feeling and acting more emotional, but then scold other women for being too emotional. As long as it’s not hurting themselves or others everyone should just be allowed to be happy. And you are right, there need to be more female characters who are strong in hormonally female ways. 👍✨
What a fascinating topic! I’ve never really thought about the labeling of female characters as “strong” tends to be the ones that are physically strong. There are so many different forms of strength. There are those that are emotionally strong, intellectually strong, spiritually strong, morally strong, etc. I agree, just because a woman is not physically strong, doesn’t mean she is not a “strong” female character.
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Great post! I do think women can be strong warrior characters it’s just when that idea is over used too many times and it starts to get old. They do need to be realistic as well. But it is nice to see character development when a weak character becomes stronger through certain events xx
R.K. Lander says:
I certain,y can relate to this post and totally agree. It bugs me like Hell.
Ah so glad you agree!!
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We subconsciously cater to patriarchal standards when we insist on female characters being strong like a “man.” Excuse me?! The strongest people I know are those who possess feminine qualities, they’re gentle, sensitive, they cry (including men) and they’re freakin’ resilient. Women as women are strong. It’s about time we see more feminine characters. Not only that, I think it demonstrates just how deep internalised misogyny goes and it’s sad to see female readers lack this self-awareness, like come on, root for your own team. I wish Characters like Fleur were given more pages because I think she’s an excellent example of a feminine strong character.
YES- just saw this comment and really agree!
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Annie Bookdevourer says:
I one hundred percent agree with the points you made here! It’s crazy how women who behave like men are said to be ‘strong’ but men who behave like women are called sissies and told to ‘man up’.
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Breezy. Dark. Comic. And it works.
Dedh Ishqiya is easily the sexiest film this year. And the title of the film totally justifies the narrative which follows. It is not entirely a sequel. Yes, there are Khalujan and Babban continuing the same task they did previously, but this time they are bound by a tauter, more light backdrop. We have a new story, involving the once-royal people who haven't lost their grandeur. Naseeruddin Shah shows a side of himself as Khalu which was naive to Ishqiya. The film is a visual triumph of colours which comes not only as a thrilling black comedy like the original, but also a sharp rom-com. There are amazing palaces, sweeping ghaghras and mujre ka gharana. There is profound literature and sufi music. On the whole, this is a film that wins over easily. Watch it for Madhuri Dixit, she is a total finesse here.
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Princess Amber Kazanov needs a husband. She flees her native Russia and takes refuge in England with her cousin Prince Rudolf Kazanov and his English wife. Prince Rudolf knows only one man who has the power and strength to protect his cousin. Arriving with Amber at the Earl of Stratford’s home, Rudolf makes the earl an outrageous proposition.
A broken man grieving for his dead wife . . .
Miles Montgomery, the Earl of Stratford, wants to be left alone. Since losing his beloved wife in a fire, Miles has sat in the dark and waited for his own death. Until the day a beautiful princess walks into his home seeking marriage and the protection of his name. Amber’s beauty attracts Miles, but her courageous heart shakes him to his core.
Drawn to Miles, Princess Amber sees beneath his masked scars and gruff exterior. Her love persuades him to push his bitterness aside and truly live and love again. Can Miles keep Amber safe when her enemies arrive in England? Or will his past return to haunt them?
Miles Montgomery, the fifteenth Earl of Stratford, turned his back on the nauseatingly cheerful sight outside his study window. He shifted his gaze to the portrait over the hearth. Sweet Brenna, gone in the flash of a midnight fire.
Out of habit, Miles reached to close the drapes and shroud his study in comforting darkness. He stopped himself, though, remembering his guests. John Saint-Germain, the Duke of Avon who was also his brother-in-law, and Prince Rudolf Kazanov had several business ventures in the offing and wanted to include him.
Business ventures. Miles twisted his chiseled lips into the ghost of a smile. Since the fire, business ventures had filled his empty existence.
Miles touched the mask that covered the left side of his face. His love, his face, his life had died on the fateful night of the fire. Now he needed to wait for his heart to stop beating.
“My lord, His Grace and His Highness have arrived,” the majordomo announced.
Miles touched his mask again. “Send them in, Pebbles.”
“Come on inside,” Pebbles called, his hands cupping his mouth.
Both the prince and the duke grinned at the majordomo as he passed them on the way out. Pebbles inclined his head as if he were the aristocrat and they the servants.
Miles met the two men in the middle of the room. With a smile of greeting, he shook the prince’s hand first and then the duke’s. Both men were as tall as he, a couple of inches over six feet.
Located on the second floor in the west wing of the manor, the earl’s study sat at one end of the Long Library. Floor-to-ceiling windows bathed the room in afternoon sunlight when the draperies were open, as they were now. Thousands of volumes filled the bookcases, and a thick red Persian carpet covered the floor. Over the main fireplace mantel hung an enormous portrait of a woman.
“Brenna, my wife,” Miles said, seeing where the prince’s gaze had drifted.
“She was a beautiful woman.”
“Shall we get down to business?” Miles gestured across the chamber. He sat behind his desk while the other two men took the chairs opposite him.
“Caroline misses you,” John said.
“I will visit her soon.”
“I’m surprised to see the drapes open,” his brother-in-law continued. “Normally, you sit in the dark. I was beginning to wonder if you were a vampire.”
“I opened the drapes for you,” Miles told him. “Normally, you comment on my sitting in the dark.”
Prince Rudolf chuckled, drawing their attention. “You bicker like my brothers and me.”
“We are not bickering, Your Highness,” Miles said. “His Grace prefers to mind my business instead of his own.” Though he spoke with a hint of a smile, his tone held a hard edge.
“You need a wife,” the duke said, undeterred by his brother-in-law’s sarcasm. “If you die without an heir, Terrence the Weasel will inherit.”
Miles wished he could be in his family’s company without listening to their comments regarding his life. Why should he care if his cousin inherited his title?
“I finished with the wife business when Brenna died,” Miles said, his weariness with the topic apparent. He glanced at the prince. “Do you see the nagging inflicted upon me?”
“The nagging will cease if you remarry,” Prince Rudolf said.
“No woman can ever replace Brenna.” Miles touched the masked side of his face. “Besides, what woman would consider marrying a scarred beast?”
“Georgiana Devon looks especially well,” John remarked. “She asked about you the last time I saw her in London.”
Miles shrugged his shoulders with indifference. “I left Georgiana behind a long time ago.”
“As I recall the gossip, you dropped Georgiana in favor of Sarah Pole,” John said. “You did know Sarah’s husband died and left her a wealthy widow? Weren’t you considering offering for her?”
Miles gave his brother-in-law a pointed look. “You know very well that I was considering Sarah when I met Brenna.”
“Vanessa Stanton lost her husband,” John said. “She always favored you, and you enjoyed her company.”
“Vanessa enjoyed everyone’s company. She sought her pleasures when I had a whole face,” Miles said. “I prefer living alone to wearing horns.”
“What would you do if a virtuous woman did want to marry you?” Prince Rudolf asked.
“I would marry and plant a dozen sons inside her,” Miles answered, hoping to drop the topic.
“Consecutively, I hope,” John quipped, making the other two smile. “Come to London and look over the latest crop of hopefuls.”
“I retired from society four years ago,” Miles refused. “If you have seen one debutante, you have seen them all.”
“Damn it, Miles,” John snapped. “Brenna is dead but you still live. Do you think she would want you to hide in the shadows?”
Miles said nothing, and an uncomfortable silence descended on the three men. Why, in God’s name, did John and Isabelle need to solve his problems? Why couldn’t they leave him alone in his misery?
“I couldn’t reach her in time and lost half my face for nothing,” Miles told the prince.
“I am sorry for your loss,” Rudolf said. “I cannot imagine the horror of losing the woman you love.”
Miles inclined his head, accepting the prince’s condolences.
“John is correct, though,” the prince added. “You need to return to the living.”
“Are you going to nag me, too?”
Prince Rudolf held his hands up in a gesture indicating he would say no more.
“I told you how pigheaded he is,” John said. Before Miles could reply, he added, “Shall we get down to business?”
Miles lifted his gaze to his wife’s portrait. He knew they were correct about living while he could, but his wife was gone. And the woman who equaled her had not been born . . .
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A Regency twist on Beauty and the Beast (regency romance)
Today’s Sneak Peak is the historical Regency romance Beauty and the Earl by Patricia Grasso.
Book 2 ~ Lords of Stratford Series
You can buy Beauty and the Earl by Patricia Grasso right here AT 50% OFF THE ORIGINAL PRICE for the entire month of September!
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Beauty and the Earl by Patricia Grasso (historical romance – Regency historical New Release!)
Today I want to tell you about a new release, here at Lachesis Publishing – Beauty and the Earl by Patricia Grasso. It’s a twist on the old fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast”. I had a wonderful time working on it with Patricia. It’s a revised edition of To Love A Princess. But Patricia added even more magic to this new edition. And don’t you just love the cover? I adore it! LeeAnn Lessard and our cover artist Laura Givens did an outstanding job. Beauty and the Earl is part of a lovely new series that we’re calling the Lords of Stratford. This is book 2 in the series but it is a stand-alone so you can read it and enjoy it on its own. We’ll be releasing book 1 Enchanting the Duke very soon!
I know you’re going to love Beauty and the Earl as much as I do. Have a great weekend and happy reading! 🙂
You can buy Beauty and the Earl by Patricia Grasso right here.
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Top of the evening to ya!
Back with part 2 of our rather extended St.Patrick’s Day posting.
This one features, sadly, just one photo of Seosaimhin (Irish for Josephine, I’m told) at a Martello Tower at the Brittania Village Sim (based on Folkestone, Kent, England), hence the UK flag flying over it rather than an Irish one this St. Patrick’s Day.
And this time, there’s some RL naturist link. As well as in England, Martello Towers were built around the British Empire of the time, and that included Ireland, articularly around the Dublin area. One is particularly famous at Sandycove, due to James Joyce living in it, and also setting it as the home of the character of Stephen Dedalus (in ‘Ulysses’).
Not only that, but one location close to this tower is known as ‘Forty Foot’. Not a reference to the width of the beach, or depth of the water, but that it was a bathing place of the 42nd Highland Regiment of Foot, a British army regiment who subsequently became The Black Watch. The Forty Foot were stationed closed by, and the beach became their chosen place of (nude) bathing.
In ‘Ulysses’, Buck Mulligan takes a dip there in that he calls ‘the snot green sea, the scrotum tightening sea’ (due to the Irish Sea being, well, blooming cold!)
Thereafter, it became a ‘gentleman’s bathing place’, code for ‘nude bathing’, and remained so until the 1970s when feminists struck out to claim equality, so that nude bathing is available to both genders now, despite Ireland not officially having any naturist beaches (the only country in Europe without any, I believe).
I don’t imagine many who historically took the plunge there would maybe have historically considered themselves nudist, but in poorer times (and certainly in the era of a British Army regiment doling out ‘kit’) a swimsuit was an unnecessary luxury. Instead, the hardy swimmers of Dublin’s fair city would have accepted they simply wore the swimsuit God gave them.
Seosaimhin prepares to take to the waters beside an SL Martello Tower.
The entrance to the RL ‘Forty Foot’ on the outskirts of Dublin
All of this sounds like a typical Irish solution to a typical Irish problem. Don’t have ‘official’ naturist beaches…but establish a set of rules whereby it can exist. 🙂 Who can fail to love the Irish approach to ‘issues’?
The Irish Naturist Association have a website here, for those who may be interested in naturist activities in the Emerald Isle. In 2014 the 34th International Naturist Federation Congress will take place in Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim.
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Atari files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Atari U.S.based video game making company filed for bankruptcy in Manhattan with the intention of separating from the unprofitable French (Atari S.A) parent and seeking independent funding. Atari, Inc. founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney pioneered the game industry with games like Pong and Asteroids. The company at one point even employed Steve Jobs before he went on to found Apple.
With the filings done yesterday the company has 90 to 120 days to sell all, or substantially all, of their assets, in a free and clear sale under the U.S. bankruptcy laws, or confirm reorganization plans that accomplish substantially the same result.
Atari owns or manages more than 200 brands, including Centipede, Missile Command and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Their games are made to be played on consoles and online. The move to separate the U.S. business comes not a minute to late at their French partner has not rolled a profit since 1999 and is expected to have another loss in the coming year.
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The Best 13 Things to Do in London with Kids
Europe / 05/20/2014 01/08/2020
London is an amazing city. It’s big, busy, and so packed full of culture, fun, food, and wonderful things to see and do, it’s almost overwhelming. We certainly had a tough time organizing ourselves during a whirlwind long weekend visit in London-town, but it IS possible to get a real taste of the city, even if you only have limited time. Here are our best bets for thirteen great, family-friendly things to do in London with kids.
1 13 Things to Do in London with Kids
1.1 Getting Around London
1.2 Must Do London
1.3 Royal Fun in London
1.4 Maybe Do London
1.5 Outside the city
1.6 Talk to the locals to discover charming secrets
13 Things to Do in London with Kids
Getting Around London
Take the Tube. It’s so convenient, and between the Tube and walking, you can get just about anywhere in the city. Car and bus traffic can be a nightmare in summer, but a ride on a traditional red double-decker bus or London cab is certainly fun! If you’re planning a visit for a week or more, an Oyster or London Travelcard will save you money as you hop the many subway lines. Individual daycards work well for shorter visits.
Going Underground with the Tube in London
Sight-seeing by Thames river cruise is also a good option. While it’s not the fastest way to get around the city, you can see a good chunk of central London via the river’s vantage point. Take advantage of hop-on-hop-off stops along the way. If you have more time to linger in London town, here’s a fantastic four day itinerary guide to assist your trip planning.
And if you need guidance on where to stay with the family, this post has tips on the best family hotels in London.
Must Do London
Centuries of history at the incredible Tower of London
1. The Tower of London showcases over 900 years of incredible English history. It’s been a royal palace, fortress, prison, garrison and execution site. The current Tower houses the Crown Jewels for public display, the White Tower armory, and Torture Dungeon. Do take a free tour of the Tower with a Yeoman Warder guide, who will get into all of the glorious and gory details of its history and make the Tower come alive. You can also watch the Beefeater Guards march the grounds throughout the day.
TTM Tip: Purchase attractions, tour and transportation tickets ahead of time and print them out before you arrive. We did this through Visit Britain with good success. You will save time, money and bypass long lines with priority entry to many of the most popular sites, including the Tower and Madame Tussauds.
Cross the historic 19th century Tower Bridge
2. In walking distance to and from the Tower is the Tower Bridge. It’s a great vantage point to take great photos of the Thames and the city, and historians and bridge enthusiasts will enjoy the Inside the Tower Bridge Exhibition that provide the history and mechanics of the bridge operation. This post has more suggestions on free things to do in London.
The royal celebrations of the birth of Prince George at Buckingham Palace
Royal Fun in London
3. Get your Royal fix at Buckingham Palace. Take a tour of the State Rooms inside the famous Royal residence, or witness the pomp and ceremony of the Changing of the Guard at 11:30 AM in summer (every other day during the rest of the year). Arrive early to get a good spot before the crowds.
4. Visit historic St. Paul’s Cathedral. There is a small entrance fee, which includes an excellent audio tour. Climb up the 500+ steps to the Whispering and Golden Galleries, for incredible views of the city that rival the London Eye. In the Crypt, you’ll find the tombs of important English heroes, including Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.
5. Ride the London Eye for incredible views of the city. The Eye has become London’s top (paid) visitor attraction, and yes, it looks like a giant ferris wheel. Pre-purchase tickets before arrival, and consider the fast pass option during summer high season travel.
The magical toy department at Harrods Department Store
6. Visit one of London’s iconic department stores. Whether it’s Harrods, Selfridges, Harvey Nicks et al, there is so much history and beauty on display at these incredible shops, you don’t even have to buy anything to feel pampered. If you do choose to stop for lunch or ice cream, just read the price list ahead of time to make sure you haven’t just paid 70 pounds for four sundaes (true story).
Maybe Do London
7. Whether the queues and chaos of Madame Tussauds are worth the visit is open to interpretation, but many kids will love ‘meeting’ their favorite movie stars and action heroes in waxy, lifelike form at Tussauds. Ticket pre-purchase is a must, unless you love wasting hours waiting in line-ups, and prepare yourself for the crowds. {They may still be worse than you can imagine.}
We’re jammin’ with Bob Marley at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
8. We didn’t make it to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on this visit, but for fans of the Bard, this would be a must see. The open-air Globe has been recreated based on the original theatre, built in 1599. Theatre lovers will also enjoy checking out London’s West End theatre scene to see the best variety of plays and musicals outside Broadway.
9. A day spent among the animals would be a highlight for many travelling families. The ZSL London Zoo in beautiful, royal Regent’s Park, displays over 760 animal species, including three new tiger cubs in Tiger Territory. The Zoo’s App and interactive map will help you navigate your way through the large facility.
Centuries of human history on display at the free British Museum
10. Visit a free museum or art gallery. London’s cultural scene is second to none; don’t miss a chance to glimpse into England’s (and the world’s) history and cultural heritage. Choose a museum that interests you and your family the most. Top choices could include; the Victoria and Albert Museum (and related Museum of Childhood), British Museum, Imperial War Museum, National Gallery, and Tate Modern.
Outside the city
Wandering through Diagon Alley, Harry Potter at Warner Studios
11. A day trip to the Warner Bros – Harry Potter Studio Tour will be at the top of my list on our next London visit. I’m really inspired after reading my friend Lisa’s review of her family’s Warner Brothers Studio Tour! Located 20 miles northwest of the city (and best accessed via rail or road), it’s become the most popular attraction outside of London. Any HP fan would love to stroll down Diagon Alley, walk in the Great Hall of Hogwarts Castle, and live some of that story and movie magic. Note: Tickets must be purchased in advance – none are sold at the Studio Tour itself.
12. If time allows, travel by boat up to the World Heritage Site of Greenwich, and relive Britain’s glorious maritime history. It’s only a 5-mile boat ride on the Thames from central London, and you will enjoy lovely gardens and park space, the Royal Naval College, the National Maritime Museum, and can tour the historic Cutty Sark sailing ship.
Talk to the locals to discover charming secrets
Charming St. Christopher’s Place, Oxford Street
I mentioned at the beginning that London can be overwhelming. It’s a big city, and in summer’s peak travel season, it can be hot (temperature wise), and even hotter with hordes of tourists. Plan your family’s ‘top list’ carefully to ensure everyone gets their number one item (as best possible), and don’t try to do and see everything.
And keep your ears open to local wisdom! Our most delightful London discovery came from a clerk at Selfridges department store. Her restaurant advice led us to the narrow lane of St. Christopher’s Place, which was packed with wonderful boutiques and restaurants. For dinner, we picked Caluccio’s, a great, family-friendly Italian spot with reasonably priced pasta and Italian food. Of course, there’s no shortage of tasty and unique restaurant choices in such a cosmopolitan city!
We never would have found the entrance to St. Christopher’s Place (it’s about two feet wide) without her help, and it made our London holiday so much more special, memorable and truly charming.
Photo Credits: C. Laroye
Have you been to London? How did you plan your visit and what did you enjoy seeing most? Share your comments below.
3 thoughts on “The Best 13 Things to Do in London with Kids”
Phil Bratley
I would certainly recommend a visit to The Shard for the Viewing Platform on the 68 and 69 floor giving a very good view across London.Book it before you go and it is located beside London Bridge station
Take a day trip too historic Canterbury (about an hour’s travel by train) in Kent and enjoy the sites of the Cathedral,the town with its quaint little streets,pubs,restaurants and shops
Those are great tips, Phil. Thanks so much for your comments!
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The Goulburn Valley is an expression used in describing tourism and agriculture. It is as more a locality than a geographic description of the valley formed by the Goulburn River and its tributaries.
The Goulburn River is shaped like an S in reverse. The headwaters are a short way from the summit of the Great Dividing Range in the vicinity of Woods Point. Traversing a distance of 560 km in a north-westerly direction until it joins the Murray River about 10 km east of Echuca, the Goulburn is joined by numerous tributaries. The drainage area of the Goulburn River and tributaries is 16,191 sq km, the largest of any on the Victorian side of the Murray River. It drains 8% of the area of Victoria.
The river descends from mountainous and hilly terrain, entering a relatively narrow farm valley running from Thornton to Yea. The agriculture and tourism Goulburn Valley is usually applied to the river’s downstream area, beyond Seymour, where the river enters what is predominantly a riverine plain with farm irrigation areas.
In the 1870s the pastoral properties downstream of Seymour were subdivided for farm selection. Consisting mostly of wooded grasslands, they were cleared for dry land farming, mainly cereals, grazing and local dairying. Waterworks trusts were formed to supply water for stock and domestic use, and in 1887 the Victorian Government constructed the Goulburn Weir north of Nagambie. The weir raises the river level so that irrigation water can flow by gravity along channels. Within two years the irrigated farmlands were promoted as being the Goulburn Valley.
In 1909 a large swamp west of Murchison was made into the Waranga Basin reservoir connected to the Goulburn Weir by the Stuart Murray Canal. From the Basin, channels were constructed to take water to farmlands at Tatura and Kyabram. By 1920 irrigation was extended to Stanhope, Shepparton and Tongala. These areas comprise the heart of the fruit growing and dairying of the Goulburn Valley.
Postwar irrigation
Irrigation supply was increased when several upstream tributaries were dammed between 1927 and 1955. The tributaries were the Big Jamieson and Howqua Rivers and, along with the Goulburn River, were dammed to form the Sugarloaf Reservoir. In 1955 it was enlarged approximately nine fold as the Eildon Reservoir, with a capacity of 3.4 billion cubic metres on a surface area of 140 sq km. The Eildon waters enabled a great extension of irrigation through the Waranga system to as far west as Boort, linking up with irrigation from the Campaspe-Loddon system. Channels run off the main western Waranga channel, irrigating farm areas northwards to the Murray River. An eastern irrigation channel runs from the Goulburn Weir through the Shepparton and Katandra districts.
In 1991-92 the Goulburn Valley locality had farm holdings totalling 3589 sq km, of which 2167 sq km were irrigated. Ninety percent of the irrigated area was for pasture, 3.5% was for orchards and 3% was for grain.
Farm outputs
Dairying has increased in terms of outputs per cow, although there has been a decrease in total herd numbers and number of holdings. The increase came from perennial irrigated pastures. Orcharding has decreased: canned fruit markets have declined and some orchards have been damaged by rising water tables. Yields per tree, however, have increased. In 1992 there were 7700 ha of orchards.
In 2013 the fruit cannery, SPC Ardmona, announced drastic reductions in fruit purchases. As many of the crops were canning quality, unsuitable as table fruit, orchardists were faced with growing unsaleable fruit or borrowing to convert to new businesses.
Tourism’s primary focus in the Goulburn Valley is mainly on water based recreation, upstream from Murchison. The river and irrigation storages are attractive for fishing and boating, and Eildon has several boat harbours and house boats. Lake Nagambie, back from the Goulburn Weir, is a venue for local and national rowing regattas.
Goulburn Murray Water has four Goulburn storages:
Eildon 3,334,158
Goulburn 25,500
Waranga 432,630
Green Lake 32,500
Melbourne water storages total 1,812,175 ML.
Alan D. Tweedie (ed), Man (sic) and the valley, Melbourne, 1975
Deakin, Goulburn, Nathalia, Rodney, Shepparton and Waranga shires; and Kyabram and Shepparton entries
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Harvesting peaches, Goulburn Valley, 1958
Irrigating young peaches 'Invergordon', 1963
Dhurringile Presbyterian Boys farm, Goulburn Valley, 1953
Irrigation in Victoria, Weir of River Goulburn
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Dog Walkers Near Cedar...
Dog Walkers Near Cedar Lake LRT Regional T...
Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail
Trail Distance: 4.5 miles
Time Estimate: 2 hr +
Elevation Gain: 50 feet
Route Type: Point-to-point
Restroom: No
The Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail is part of a trail system that the City of Minneapolis has called "America's First Bicycle Freeway," but it's more than just a commuter trail for cyclists. This 4.5-mile trail, and the others it connects with, help make Minneapolis a paradise for pedestrians of all kinds, including four-legged ones. The wide, paved, two-way trail has plenty of room for multi-use traffic from both directions, and passes through green spaces where dogs can rest their paws and take a potty break.
The 4.5-mile trail begins at the Park and Ride lot next to the Depot Coffee House in Hopkins. It's a good idea to consult a trail map and plan your route, because it can get tricky from there. There are technically three trails with the name "Cedar Lake" in them, and two immediately branch apart at the trailhead. The Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail proceeds 4.5 miles east to where it merges into the Midtown Greenway just south of Cedar Lake. The North Cedar Lake Regional Trail heads north along Highway 169 past Aquila, Texa-Tonka, Cedar Knoll, and Dakota Parks, crossing Minnesota Highway 100 and skirting just north of Cedar Lake.
Both trail branches can ultimately take you to the eastern shore of the Mississippi River. The North Cedar Lake Regional Trail continues past Target Field and ends at the river just north of the Hennepin Avenue Bridge. If you trek the entire length of the Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail and continue on the Midtown Greenway, you'll end at the part of the river just north of White Sands Beach. Each route is just under ten miles long.
The scenery at the start of each trail section is distinctly urban and industrial, following old commercial railway corridors, though each trail passes through parks and over creeks too. Of course, ten miles is a long way for little puppy paws on a paved trail, so people using the Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail for dog walking should plan how long they want to walk and which section of the trail they want to use. Starting at the Depot Coffee House, you and your dog can walk to where the trail crosses Minnehaha Creek and back in about two miles. The section from the Midtown Greenway to Lilac Park is about 1.5 miles and is probably the most scenic.
Minneapolis' trail system isn't just fantastic for bike commuters, but is puptastic for canine commuters as well. Bring any supplies for the trek, such as water and clean up bags.
Pups and their people give the urban Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail two paws up!
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SRI, DARPA partner on visual system for unmanned surveillance
Team will design a visual intelligence system for unmanned aerial recon work
With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, SRI International Inc. is leading a team to design a visual intelligence system that will usher in a new era in unmanned robotic surveillance.
The Visual Intelligence Grounded in Learning system, known as VIGIL, will be integrated with other components of DARPA’s Mind's Eye program that are being developed by research teams around the globe, according to a June 21 SRI announcement.
The result will be a smart camera system that needs minimal human supervision, can be deployed rapidly and cost effectively in unmanned vehicles stationed in areas under automatic surveillance, and can interpret behavior and identify potential threats from video data, the announcement added.
“SRI's VIGIL system combines automatic reasoning and machine perception to automatically analyze areas of interest while keeping members of the Armed Forces out of harm's way," said Hung Bui, senior computer scientist at SRI International.
For this project, SRI and its partners, the University of Leeds in England and the University of Maryland, are currently working to solve several challenges.
They include how to generate consistent interpretations based on adequate background knowledge about the structure of observed actions and objects, recognize potential threats despite incomplete or missing perceptual input and learn new patterns and situation indicators with minimal human supervision
SRI International, of Menlo Park, Calif., ranks No. 97 on Washington Technology’s 2011 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.
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From all available evidence, the '''Precursors''' are the first species to evolve sentience and explore the known universe. They moved quickly to become masters of the galaxy, leaving evidence of their presence virtually everywhere. However, it appears that the Precursors vanished from the galactic scene quite suddenly, but there is no indication as to why.
:''This article is about the Precursor race. For information on the remixing project, see [[Precursors Remixing Team]].
The height of Precursor culture seems to have been approximately 200,000-250,000 Earth years ago. The Precursors reigned for only a few thousand years before they vanished.
The '''Precursors''' (also referred to as the '''Shaggy Ones''' by the [[Slylandro]]) were an ancient, highly advanced species and the earliest known race to extensively explore the known [[Star Control Universe|universe]]. Unfortunately, the actual name of the race has been lost in antiquity. The Precursors moved quickly to become masters of the galaxy, leaving [[List of Precursor relics|evidence]] of their presence virtually everywhere. The height of Precursor culture seems to have been approximately 250,000 Earth years ago.{{ref|1}} Despite their widespread presence, it appears that the Precursors vanished from the galactic scene quite suddenly, leaving no indication as to why. From the recovered Precursor artifacts, it has been determined that as a species they were a race of "shaggy giants," likely 5-8 meters tall and twice as wide, and seemingly not bipedal. Commander [[Hayes]] suggests that they may have looked similar to brontosaurs or elephants, and the [[Star Control II]] manual states, referring to [[ The Flagship]], that "Levers were almost impossible to move, three people were required to actuate a single switch, and the chairs, beds and other furnishings were better suited for a wooly mammoth than a human."{{ref|2}}
While the species itself appears to be long gone, evidence of their existence still remains. Various artifacts of Precursor origin have been discovered on any number of worlds. The largest artifacts known to date are the [[Sa-Matra]] battle platform discovered by the [[Ur-Quan]], the Precursor factory discovered underneath the surface of Vela 1 ([[Unzervalt]]), and the 10 [[Rainbow Worlds]] found throughout this region of space, which seem to have been used as dumping grounds for their civilization.
The only species that has been confirmed to have first-hand contact is the Slylandro. However, due to the lack of writing implements, much of their knowledge of the Precursors has been lost over the passing time. The Slylandro do mention that prior to the mysterious exodus, the Precursors were frantically searching for something and were obviously ''worried'' over the situation. Their last transmission seemed to indicate that the Precursors had found the answer they were searching for, and that the arrangement of Rainbow Worlds would give a hint as to where they went — the [[Galactic Core]].
From the recovered Precursor artifacts, it has been determined that as a species they were a race of "shaggy giants", perhaps 5-8 meters tall and twice as wide.
The [[Spathi]], however, believe that the Precursors are not really gone, but that "they simply came to their senses one day and used their superior technology to invent some kind of perfect invisibility shield and remain alive and happy to this day". Obviously, the Spathi hope to rediscover this secret someday and disappear into similar obscurity.
The only species that has been confirmed to have first-hand contact is the [[Slylandro]]. However, due to lack of writing implements, much of their knowledge of the Precursurs has been lost over the passing time. The Slylandro do mention that prior to the mysterious exodus, the Precursors were frantically searching for something and were obviously "worried" over the situation. Their last transmission seemed to indicate that the Precursors had found the answer they were searching for, and that the arrangement of Rainbow Worlds would give a hint as to where they went.
While the species itself appears to be long gone, evidence of their existence still remains. Various artifacts of Precursor origin have been discovered on any number of worlds. The largest [[:Category:Precursor Technology|artifacts]] known to date are the [[Sa-Matra]] battle platform discovered by the [[Ur-Quan]], the Precursor factory discovered underneath the surface of Vela I ([[Unzervalt]]), and the 10 [[Rainbow Worlds]] found throughout this region of space.
==Notes and references==
{{note|1}}''Several dates have been given for the Precursors' place in galactic history. The [[Star Control]] manual (pg. 37) places them approximately 300,000 years ago. The [[Star Control II]] PC manual (pg. 49) states that [[The Flagship]] was designed 250,000 years ago. Commander [[Hayes]] says that they suddenly appeared about 200,000 years ago, disappearing after 3,000 years in less than a decade. The [[Slylandro]] had interactions with them about 41-39 Drahn ago (about 250,000-265,000 Earth years ago).''
{{note|2}}''[[Star Control II]] manual, pg. 20 (PC)''
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[[Category:Precursor]]
This article is about the Precursor race. For information on the remixing project, see Precursors Remixing Team.
The Precursors (also referred to as the Shaggy Ones by the Slylandro) were an ancient, highly advanced species and the earliest known race to extensively explore the known universe. Unfortunately, the actual name of the race has been lost in antiquity. The Precursors moved quickly to become masters of the galaxy, leaving evidence of their presence virtually everywhere. The height of Precursor culture seems to have been approximately 250,000 Earth years ago.1 Despite their widespread presence, it appears that the Precursors vanished from the galactic scene quite suddenly, leaving no indication as to why. From the recovered Precursor artifacts, it has been determined that as a species they were a race of "shaggy giants," likely 5-8 meters tall and twice as wide, and seemingly not bipedal. Commander Hayes suggests that they may have looked similar to brontosaurs or elephants, and the Star Control II manual states, referring to The Flagship, that "Levers were almost impossible to move, three people were required to actuate a single switch, and the chairs, beds and other furnishings were better suited for a wooly mammoth than a human."2
The only species that has been confirmed to have first-hand contact is the Slylandro. However, due to the lack of writing implements, much of their knowledge of the Precursors has been lost over the passing time. The Slylandro do mention that prior to the mysterious exodus, the Precursors were frantically searching for something and were obviously worried over the situation. Their last transmission seemed to indicate that the Precursors had found the answer they were searching for, and that the arrangement of Rainbow Worlds would give a hint as to where they went — the Galactic Core.
The Spathi, however, believe that the Precursors are not really gone, but that "they simply came to their senses one day and used their superior technology to invent some kind of perfect invisibility shield and remain alive and happy to this day". Obviously, the Spathi hope to rediscover this secret someday and disappear into similar obscurity.
While the species itself appears to be long gone, evidence of their existence still remains. Various artifacts of Precursor origin have been discovered on any number of worlds. The largest artifacts known to date are the Sa-Matra battle platform discovered by the Ur-Quan, the Precursor factory discovered underneath the surface of Vela I (Unzervalt), and the 10 Rainbow Worlds found throughout this region of space.
Notes and references[edit]
1Several dates have been given for the Precursors' place in galactic history. The Star Control manual (pg. 37) places them approximately 300,000 years ago. The Star Control II PC manual (pg. 49) states that The Flagship was designed 250,000 years ago. Commander Hayes says that they suddenly appeared about 200,000 years ago, disappearing after 3,000 years in less than a decade. The Slylandro had interactions with them about 41-39 Drahn ago (about 250,000-265,000 Earth years ago).
2Star Control II manual, pg. 20 (PC)
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The war between Coke and Pepsi: A cultural phenomenon
Evan Karvonen, Staff Writer
A cultural war has raged ever since the founding of Pepsi in 1898; a war of business. This war has been fought between the companies Coca-Cola and Pepsi and even among the fans of the drinks themselves.
But how has this war affected the students at MMS? I conducted research during eighth-grade lunch to see which side students at MMS took in this feud. My group of test subjects consisted of eighth graders plus a few staff members, and of this group, before tasting, 91% said that they preferred Coke over Pepsi.
On a scale from 1 to 5, most were confident that they could tell the difference between the two soda brands with the average certainty rating being 3.4.
The volunteers were given 2 samples, labeled A and B. In the taste test, A was Coke, and B was Pepsi. In this blind test, 36% preferred Pepsi(B), and 64% preferred Coke(A).
When asked to identify which was Coke, 45% subjects guessed incorrectly. In turn, 45% of the subjects chose as the best tasting the opposite beverage than they typically prefer.
The true presence of the war of Coke and Pepsi lies within the comments from after the taste test. For the subjects who guessed incorrectly, 80% were surprised that they were wrong. Yet, they said they would continue to drink Coke rather than Pepsi even though they preferred Pepsi in the blind test. Eighth grader Ozias Covington says he was surprised, but “would not drink Pepsi.” And Kyle Kotlan agreed that he “would probably not switch to Pepsi.”
This war has been around since Pepsi’s founding, as Coke had gotten competition from a rival brand. This war peaked in the 1990’s after the introduction of “New Coke,” in which the company tried a new recipe to mimic Pepsi’s sweetness. This failed miserably and many Americans scrambled to Pepsi for a better alternative. Then with the reintroduction of “Coca-Cola Classic,” Coke was quickly back on top–at least in terms of customer preference.
According to Eric Reed with The Street, customers generally prefer Coke. He says, “The red can of cola is one of the most popular products in the world, in some places more common than clean water.”
There are some key differences in the ingredients that would make someone prefer one over the other. According to Wide Open Eats, Coca-Cola has a bit more sodium than Pepsi, which “results in a less blatantly sweet taste.” Pepsi is higher in calories, sugar, and caffeine than Coke.
Coke contains coca leaf extract. The Coca-Cola company imports these leaves from Peru, and Pepsi cannot get them due to a patent on the original syrup recipe from 1893. Instead of coca leaf, Pepsi uses citric acid, which Coke does not include in its listed ingredients. Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his book Blink that it is the zing of the citric acid that makes Pepsi often do well in a taste test in which tasters get just a sip. But upon having to drink a full can or serving, customers said Coke satisfied them more.
Even though customers overwhelmingly prefer the taste of Coke, and even though more restaurants serve Coke as a result, Pepsi is doing better as a business. At the close of 2018, PepsiCo’s stock sold for $117.09 in comparison to Coke’s $49.83. According to Eric Reed, “The reason is diversity.” Pepsi now owns Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Tropicana–extending its money-making potential to snacks as well as beverages.
Despite this, for soda drinkers, Coke still manages to edge it out over Pepsi, especially in more recent years with Coke’s newer flavors like Cherry Coke, Orange Vanilla Coke, and more. Coke remains top dog in a fairly large pond.
“Stranger Things” series 3
The 25th anniversary of Friends
The best Halloween movies, according to MMS staff and students
A closer look at KPop and its fans
Why is Minecraft so popular?
Can MMS teachers learn a TikTok dance in 10 minutes?
The live action Dumbo movie brings needed changes to the original
Follow up to Geekerella; The Princess and the Fangirl is released
SHAZAM shocks the box office
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SHOT/CHASER: President Trump Agrees With Sen. Baldwin On Another Major Policy Issue
For the second week in a row, President Donald Trump agrees with Senator Tammy Baldwin on a major policy issue.
Shot: For months, Senator Baldwin urged President Trump to support her “Buy America” legislation which would require American-made products to be used in certain water infrastructure projects. Last week, during an interview with WTMJ political reporter Charles Benson, Trump announced his support for the Senator’s common-sense legislation.
Chaser: Sen. Baldwin is a champion for Wisconsin dairy farmers and she knows just how crucial they are to our made-in-Wisconsin economy. Earlier this month, she visited Five Star Dairy, LLC in Elk Mound and discussed an issue she called “front and center” on her agenda which are concerns about unfair trade practices in Canada. Baldwin called for fair rules and a level playing field for Wisconsin dairy farmers. Today, in a tweet, President Trump once again agreed with Sen. Baldwin that something must be done to level the playing field for Wisconsin dairy farmers.
Apr 26, 2017 News Gov. Scott Walker Turns Blind Eye To Milwaukee County Sheriff's Negligence
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IPCC Method Of Proving The 'Human Caused Warming' (AGW) Hypothesis Forced Deliberate Creation of Misinformation
Guest Blogger / June 30, 2014
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” — John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765
The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report included evidence in the form of a “hockey stick” graph, showing that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) did not exist. Less prominent, but just as wrong, was erasure of the Little Ice Age (LIA). Proponents of the IPCC hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming were mainly connected with the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Leaked CRU emails, beginning with 1000 in late 2009, exposed the corruption of climate science of the IPCC. CRU people controlled critical portions of IPCC Working Group I. They set up procedures to control the peer-review process, control data, and attack any who challenged, especially if it was with contradictory evidence.
This was necessary because they deliberately thwarted the scientific method by presenting an hypothesis and blocking normal and essential skepticism. They determined to prove rather than disprove the hypothesis. As Richard Lindzen correctly observed decades ago, the consensus was reached before the research had even begun. Evidence emerged, despite their efforts, so they created pseudoscientific vehicles to counterattack.
One vehicle was William Connolley’s control of over 500 Wikipedia articles.
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period.
The web site, RealClimate, was another major vehicle created by Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt, who invented the name.
A group of scientists established themselves as the palace guard for the gang at the CRU. Mann and Schmidt led and quickly earned reputations for aggressive, assertive, replies to challenges. They saw them as threats rather than contributions. It was the attitude that if you are not with me you must be against me. On December 10, 2004 Schmidt set the tone when he wrote,
Colleagues, No doubt some of you share our frustration with the current state of media reporting on the climate change issue. Far too often we see agenda-driven “commentary” on the Internet and in the opinion columns of newspapers crowding out careful analysis. Many of us work hard on educating the public and journalists through lectures, interviews and letters to the editor, but this is often a thankless task. In order to be a little bit more pro-active, a group of us (see below) have recently got together to build a new ‘climate blog’ website: RealClimate.org which will be launched over the next few days:
It sounds innocent but was used in a very different manner. Schmidt’ phraseology is revealing.
The idea is that we working climate scientists should have a place where we can mount a rapid response to supposedly ‘bombshell’ papers that are doing the rounds and give more context to climate related stories or events.
The phrase “working climate scientists” was used frequently as a put down, such as by Andrew Weaver in his public attacks against me. Unless you are one, you have no credibility or right to an opinion. It reflected concern about the growing group of qualified, but older climate experts, speaking out about what the IPCC was doing. It was a deliberate attempt to marginalize.
What is a “bombshell” paper? Invariably, it was one that contradicted their claims. Normally, these were ones that showed current climate is well within natural variability and not linked to human activity. The fundamental objective of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis is to show human behavior and particularly industrial development is unnatural and creating unnatural changes. This illusion allows them to point to any natural event and imply it is unnatural. Skeptical evidence consistently showed it was not, but most people didn’t know, so, sadly, it was effective.
Examples of Spin
Temperature range in the Antarctic ice core record (Figure 1) is approximately 12°C and the three previous Interglacials were warmer than today. Both facts were effectively ignored by diverting attention to the apparent relationship with CO2. Within five years it was shown to be opposite to the assumption in the hypothesis because temperature changed before CO2.
The Holocene Optimum, formerly called the Hypsithermal and/or the Climatic Optimum, was a warm period during which most of ice from the last Ice Age phase melted. Several have written effectively about AGW claims for this period, including Steve McIntyre and. Anthony Watts. Michael Mann’s comment was an attempt to deflect the evidence.
This [Holocene Climatic Optimum] is a somewhat outdated term used to refer to a sub-interval of the Holocene period from 5000-7000 years ago during which it was once thought that the earth was warmer than today. We now know that conditions at this time were probably warmer than today, but only in summer and only in the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere.
Mann is incorrect because most of the last 10,000 years was warmer than today as the Greenland ice core shows.
Figure 2; Composite PowerPoint slide. Source: The Author
Two indicators of the temperature range are the Greenland ice cores and the global sea level increase. Figure 2 is a slide linking R. B. Alley’s temperature plot with a photograph of a fossilized 4940-year-old White Pine located 100 km north of the current tree line. Graph temperature range is approximately 4°C.
Sea level rise is compiled in Figure 3 and shows most occurred between 15,000 and 7,000 years ago. It is not a sub-interval as Mann claims.
Determination to rewrite history and “prove” the claim that current climate is unnaturally warmer than ever, really became focused after the 1990 IPCC Report.
It contained the illustration 7 (c) that showed the MWP and the LIA (Figure 4) and contradicted the IPCC hypothesis.
My discussions with Lamb about the graph involved the beginning and ending points of both the MWP and the LIA. It was crucial because my period of study potentially covered the end of the MWP and the onset of the LIA. Those questions didn’t concern the IPCC because for them they didn’t exist. He said the graph was of temperatures for the Northern Hemisphere and the dotted line represented the average temperature of the 20th century. Lamb defined them by the dotted line on the graph, as the labeling indicates.
It was also in a region, central Canada, were transition was important because it covers the annual shift of the Circumpolar Vortex (CV). The average latitude changes in mid continent seasonally from approximately 30° to 65°, but these latitudes change as global climate changes. The latitude shift in the CV was captured in my analysis of wind directions, among other variables. This was included in my doctoral thesis (1982) and peer-reviewed papers.
Figure 5 shows changing percentages of southerly winds at York Factory for two decades: 1721 -31 was within the LIA and 1841 – 1851 apparently not.
Source: Ball,.T.”A Dramatic Change in the General Circulation on the West Coast of Hudson Bay in 1760 A.D.: Synoptic Evidence Based on Historic Records”, Syllogeus Climatic Change in Canada 5: Critical Periods in the Quaternary Climatic History of Northern North America, Editor, C.R. Harington, National Museums of Canada, 1985, Vol. 55, pp. 219-229.
Fewer than 10 percent were southerly winds in the decade 1721 -1731 but they were more than 10 percent between 1841-1851.
The IPCC claimed the MWP and LIA did not exist. This allowed them to avoid the real issue, which is not whether the warmer and cooler periods occurred, but when they began and ended. That question requires an explanation of the mechanism of change. Consider the debate going on today about the changes in the Circumpolar Vortex. Saying they don’t exist eliminated the need to consider evidence of solar causes of changing CV latitude and the shift of patterns between Zonal and Meridional Flow. This, by default, narrows the focus on human production of CO2 as the cause of change.
A general synopsis of Lamb’s views on the MWP and LIA from our discussions is that they both occurred and were global. Dates of onset and termination varied, often significantly, depending on dominant factors in different regions. He identified land – water juxtapositions and topography as two major factors with these being of greater import in Polar Regions.
The IPCC set up a system to prove the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. They created a false imagery, supposedly verified by computer models, orchestrated to produce predetermined results. They made valiant efforts to control the entire climate research area, from funding through peer review and publications. Despite these efforts, evidence kept emerging that disproved the hypothesis. Instead of accepting and accommodating, they set up agencies to counter and hopefully negate them. This paralleled their practice of changing names from global warming to climate change, when temperatures leveled after 1998, while CO2 continued to rise. They effectively blocked advances in climate research for 30 years. They had sufficient success to fool the world into unnecessary energy and economic policies that have cost billions so far and it is not over yet, as the Obama administration attacks on coal illustrate.
June 30, 2014 in IPCC, Opinion.
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66 thoughts on “IPCC Method Of Proving The 'Human Caused Warming' (AGW) Hypothesis Forced Deliberate Creation of Misinformation”
Bloke down the pub says:
Maybe one day there’ll be a presidential inquiry into who said what and when, but there again presidents don’t like asking embarrassing questions about previous incumbents, as they don’t want to set a dangerous precedent.
Truthseeker says:
What it requires is for some politicians to be elected that have both brains and a backbone. However the power brokers ensure that the only “choice” that is given to the sheeple is between the insipid and the incompetent. That way the power stays with the power brokers …
A more concise headline would help your readers.
Stephen Wilde says:
“the need to consider evidence of solar causes of changing CV latitude and the shift of patterns between Zonal and Meridional Flow. This, by default, narrows the focus on human production of CO2 as the cause of change.”
http://www.newclimatemodel.com/new-climate-model/
Otter (ClimateOtter on Twitter) says:
Charlie~ ‘The IPCC LIED.’
How’s that one?
knr says:
IPCC is a parasitic organisation whose existence relies on AGW , with Mann and his gang are merely parasite facilitators who have done very well out of their ‘work’ , without its ‘host ‘ like any parasite its it would be dead through starvation.
With that in mind, is anyone surprised to find its acts in the way it does?
The saddest part is the very people that should have acted has gate keepers to such behaviour have either played the three wise monkeys or deep their own snouts in bucket of funding slops no matter how much ‘filth’ they had to clog their eyes , ears and mouths with . And for that we may all pay the price as the people start to view all science through the dishonest, hypocritical , poor scientific approaches used by climate ‘science’ .
richardscourtney says:
Tim Ball:
Your article is titled and explains that the “IPCC Method Of Proving The ‘Human Caused Warming’ (AGW) Hypothesis Forced Deliberate Creation of Misinformation”.
Well, yes, of course it did! From its inception the IPCC has had the purpose of producing political propaganda in the form of scientific information selected and developed to promote a political agenda. This is formally stated in the IPCC “Principles” which are frequently reconsidered and approved by representatives of the governments which comprise the InterGOVERNMENTal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of each IPCC Report is agreed “line by line” by politicians and/or representatives of politicians, and it is then published. After that the so-called ‘scientific’ Reports are amended to agree with the SPM. This became IPCC custom and practice of the IPCC when prior to its Second Report the then IPCC Chairman, John Houghton, decreed,
We can rely on the Authors to ensure the Report agrees with the Summary.
This was done and has been the normal IPCC procedure since then. So, IPCC custom and practice dictate that the most recent IPCC report (AR5) is edited to match its SPMs.
This custom and practice enabled the infamous ‘Chapter 8′ scandal so perhaps it should – at long last – be changed. However, it has been adopted as official IPCC procedure for all subsequent IPCC Reports. Appendix A of the present Report (i.e. AR5) states this when it says.
4.6 Reports Approved and Adopted by the Panel
Reports approved and adopted by the Panel will be the Synthesis Report of the Assessment Reports and other Reports as decided by the Panel whereby Section 4.4 applies mutatis mutandis.
This is completely in accord with the official purpose of the IPCC.
The IPCC does NOT exist to summarise climate science and it does not.
The IPCC is only permitted to say AGW is a significant problem because they are tasked to accept that there is a “risk of human-induced climate change” which requires “options for adaptation and mitigation” that can be selected as political polices and the IPCC is tasked to provide those “options”.
This is clearly stated in the “Principles” which govern the work of the IPCC. These are stated at
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/ipcc-principles/ipcc-principles.pdf
Near its beginning that document says
2. The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. IPCC reports should be neutral with respect to policy, although they may need to deal objectively with scientific, technical and socio-economic factors relevant to the application of particular policies.
The IPCC exists to provide
(a) “information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change”
(b) “options for adaptation and mitigation” which pertain to “the application of particular policies”.
Hence, its “Role” demands that the IPCC accepts as a given that there is a “risk of human-induced climate change” which requires “options for adaptation and mitigation” which pertain to “the application of particular policies”. Any ‘science’ which fails to support that political purpose is ‘amended’ in furtherance of the IPCC’s Role.
The IPCC Reports are pure pseudoscience intended to provide information to justify political actions; i.e.Lysenkoism.
Eric Simpson says:
And Goddard has brought to our attention some of that misinformation in terms of manipulating the temperature record. What gets me is that this is not a bigger story in the mainstream media. We are seeing that the Chicken Little Brigade has completely fudged the record, so a big question is whether we have been warming at all.
Btw, I’ve been trying to highlight a point that seems inconsistent with the idea of 20th century runaway warming as promulgated by Michael Mann, et al. It’s that 6 out of the 7 continents set their records for the coldest day after their record for their hottest day. Same for ALL 4 hemispheres (North, South, East, West). In runaway warming, the record for the hottest day should have been set very recently, as in “the hottest decade on record.” And coldest should have been set near the onset of the supposed out of control 20th century warming. I don’t think that that warming happened, and that is consistent with Goddard’s analysis. And I’m looking at the data for individual countries, and I’m getting a mixed bag and a spotty record. But I think you are going to have greater exceptions to the trend as well as possible warmist tampering with things at the individual country level. Look at the continents, and with again, 6 out of 7 setting their cold records more recently than the hot record, I find that belies the supposed warming trend in the temperature record. The continent data in an easy viewing chart is here: http://www.space.com/17816-earth-temperature.html
Julian Williams in Wales says:
The evidence is there, but the problem for us is that revealing this sort of information into the public domain sounds like a conspiracy theory. People find it hard to believer that the Royal society, New Scientist, Governments and universities all fell for this hoax, and the public do not want the arduous task of finding out for themselves. Also the Obama’s relish the opportunity to saving the world by central control. It is all quiet hard for outsiders to grasp.
The other side of the coin is that when people do eventually turn against it they will start to lump scientists with bankers and politicians; you cannot believe a word of what they say because they are too busy loading their message to access grants and fortune.
The Climate junk science has really damaged the reputation of science.
thingadonta says:
“They made valiant efforts to control the entire climate research area, from funding through peer review and publications.”
One take on why they do this, is a deep-seated belief that the social and economic system based on fossil fuel use is subject to a Malthusian type catastrophe, that can only be prevented by blocking the system wholly and effectively to begin with. In other words, the system has to be subverted, because it is the system, including science, that is the problem in the first place. In their attempt to save the world from inevitable catastrophe, the normal processes of science have to be suspended.
But you are quite right in pointing this out to people in the above, as most people might not actually agree that science has to be suspended for the sake of a ‘higher cause’.
vukcevic says:
IPCC often can not get even basics correct.
This graph
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/slides/large/04.18.jpg
is regularly shown in their publications. However, one of the crucial parts is wrong in content and substance.
Two years ago I emailed
with detailed clarification, but did not get even an acknowledgement of the email.
johnmarshall says:
Together with the anti-science hypocracy of the IPCC, their ”demands” have lead to refusal of aid for developing countries to increase their energy availability and doubled food costs for these same countries pushing more people into starvation. More and more westerners are also descending into fuel poverty as basic energy costs escalate. Evil bastards.
Thanks Dr Ball.
Well, it clear as day that we haven’t been warming for, what, 18 years? All the while CO2 has continued it’s unchecked rise. This in itself and the total failure of their much touted climate models suggest that the very foundation of their theory, on CO2, is false. That’s the evidence, at least recently. Actually, going back hundreds of thousands of years, looking at the ice core data, we see the same thing. No evidence that CO2 does squat, and this is despite Al Gore & the ipcc’s claims to the contrary. See the 3 minute video that changed me from a warmist to a skeptic, that exposes Al Gore’s willful deceptions on CO2, and that has Tim Ball playing a bit role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg&info=GGWarmingSwindle_CO2Lag
a bit role Kidding! Tim Ball’s role in the linked video is to sound the climactic point, that their theory is all a bunch of baloney (paraphrasing). Btw, promote the above key video on facebook or something, because it’s that important: it will change people’s opinion in 3 NY minutes!
AlecM says:
The most basic criticism of Climate Alchemy is the IPCC climate modelling, based on the Trenberth et al ‘Energy Budget’, falls at the first hurdle, the creation of extra energy within the system, a ‘Perpetual motion machine of the 2nd Kind’, failing the Clausius criterion of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
In short, no professional scientist or engineer can accept it therefore its supporters are unprofessional., no matter how many there are and the number of peer reviewed publications they have produced.
Pretty stark, maybe, but science has to be retaken by professionals from those who gained income and status from being unprofessional.
Cynical Scientst says:
Check your language settings Anthony. Many page elements are in turkish.
REPLY: why does everyone always assume problems on their own browser is my fault? The only Turkish here is inside your own computer. I’ve checked on three browsers on two machines, there’s no issue with WUWT. I suggest a cache cleaning, restart, or or reboot – Anthony
OK – Turkish now gone. So was the problem at my end or at yours.
Eric Simpson says of the Goddard revelations –
“What gets me is that this is not a bigger story in the mainstream media.”
whilst the toilet paper of record, NYT, WaPo & other CAGW gatekeepers may have ignored the news, others didn’t:
27 June: UK Daily Mail: David Martosko: Obama mocks GOP global warming skeptics and says they ‘pretend’ they ‘can’t read’ – but ignores new claims that the US has been COOLING since the 1930s
The president spoke to a partisan audience of environmental activists on Wednesday night in Washington
He claimed GOP lawmakers believe global warming is real but won’t admit it because they’re afraid of ‘a bunch fringe elements’ in their own party
‘They ducked the question and said “Hey, I’m not a scientist”,’ Obama joked
Obama ignored new evidence that American scientists have been altering climate data for years
The US Historical Climatology Network has been adjusting its records by replacing temperatures with data fabricated by computer models
As he tries to rally public support around new White House rules aimed at coal-burning power plants, however, the president hasn’t yet addressed a brewing scandal in the scientific community.
Global warming specialists inside the scientific community are buzzing about revelations first made Friday, which show how the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s official graph of historical U.S. surface temperatures records has been quietly altered for years.
Government scientists, it is alleged, have been tweaking some of the world’s most oft-cited climate records by replacing actual temperature readings in the United States, Iceland and Australia with hypothetical numbers derived from computer models…
The damning graphs published on the ‘Real Science’ blog by Steven Goddard, the nom de plume of a self-described ‘lifelong environmentalist’ with graduate-level scientific credentials…
They are also tripped up by the changing list of temperature measurement stations, Goddard writes, as more estimates are used instead of real readings: ‘As rural stations are lost, the infilling process contaminates them with warmer urban stations.’
This, he says, is how the U.S. government has claimed the earth has been steadily warming by 3 degrees Celsius per century, while the actual measurements indicate that the planet has been cooling since the 1930s.
Obama, however, steered clear of science on Wednesday and accused Republicans of ignoring global-warming evidence for political advantage…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671146/Obama-mocks-GOP-global-warming-skeptics-says-pretend-read-ignores-new-claims-US-COOLING-1930s.html
27 June: Detroit News: Frank Beckmann: Climate alarmists won’t save economy
Faced with an economic report that was about to show a 2.9 percent drop in gross domestic product (GDP, a key economic indicator), President Barack Obama and his band of gloomy climate scaremongers introduced us to a new one — climate change is now a threat to the U.S. economy…
This should come as good news…
Saving a planet that is irreparably damaged — as the alarmists have told us has happened because we haven’t addressed the dangers of CO2 emissions in time — is such a big job, even for the wizards of smart in the church of environmental religion, but saving the economy? Now that’s a possibility…
This latest initiative, called “The Risky Business Project,” uses all the usual ruses employed by the imaginative alarmist crowd, more frequent heavy storms, rising sea levels, melting arctic ice caps, and, of course, catastrophic temperature increases.
You can talk to them all day about the reductions in heavy storms over more than a decade, the lack of sea level rise, the actual increase of Arctic ice cover, and the 17-year hiatus in global temperature rise, but they won’t want to hear it.
You can point out, as Steven Goddard did at his website called Real Science, that alarmists have fraudulently changed the temperature data from years past to falsely show a more recent warming trend — the real numbers show the 1930s as the warmest years in the U.S. — and Obama, et al, cover their ears…
In addition to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson — yep, the guy who forced banks to accept TARP loans even if they didn’t want them — the Risky Business group includes none other than Tom Steyer, the billionaire California environmental activist who’s buying up Democratic party candidates wherever he can…
But as is the case with the so-called scientists who warn of cataclysmic climate change, one need only follow the money to determine the true motives of the alarmists….
In Steyer’s case, he and his former hedge fund company are invested in a firm that is competing with the Keystone pipeline to transport Canadian tar sands oil.
Yes, Steyer has been involved in all sorts of fossil fuel investments to make his fortune and he now seeks to grow it through destruction of the traditional fuel industry and government subsidy for his new favorite green projects and investments, all with the help of Peters and other politicians he supports…
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140627/OPINION01/306270020
27 June: Carroll County Times: Michael Zimmer: Ground climate change debate in facts
Some news reports from around the world, and some columns from various sources have caught my eye recently on the subject of climate change, or global warming if one prefers that term…
A column that drew my attention was from Christopher Booker writing for the London Telegraph June 21…
Booker expressed amazement at the part “played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data.”
He cited as “another damning example” the information uncovered by Steven Goddard’s science blog.
Goddard purports to reveal “adjustments” to the temperature records of U.S. surface temperatures by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Goddard believes NOAA has substituted actual temperature data with “data fabricated by computer models.”
Goddard compared currently published temperature graphs with those based on temperatures measured at that time. The results seem to indicate a downgrade of earlier temperatures and exaggeration of more recent decades.
Booker concludes that global warming notions should not be looked on as science, “but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberration of group psychology.”…
http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/opinion/mike_zimmer/michael-zimmer-ground-climate-change-debate-in-facts/article_65188aa7-0bf1-5db6-9661-91619281c2d3.html
can’t resist posting this snarky piece of nonsense in the UK Mirror. love the use of “we” and “us”:
24 June: UK Mirror: Conrad Quilty-Harper: Did NOAA “fiddle” global warming data? Nah
Debunking the latest manufactured controversy about global warming data.
To Steven Goddard, Christopher Booker, James Delingpole, Matt Drudge and the rest of the “climate change”-isn’t-real brigade, this is a deadly sin and proves that NASA and NOAA are committing Orwellian thought crimes with the data.
To the rest of ***us, it’s scientists doing science, and the mere fact that ***we have to explain it makes ***depressed…
http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/2014/06/24/did-noaa-fiddle-global-warming-data-nah/
Eric Worrall says:
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=4872.txt
… I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards ‘apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data’ but in reality the situation is not quite so simple. … the recent warmth was probably matched about 1000 years ago. …
The Source of the Pressure
… K Hutter added that politicians accused scientists of a high signal to noise ratio; scientists must make sure that they come up with stronger signals. The time-frame for science and politics is very different; politicians need instant information, but scientific results take a long time …
…Hi Keith, Here is the Oroko Swamp RCS chronology plot in an attached Word 98 file and
actual data values below. It certainly looks pretty spooky to me with
strong “Medieval Warm Period” and “Little Ice Age” signals in it. It’s
based on substantially more replication than the series in the paper you
have to review (hint, hint!).
Oroko Swamp is in New Zealand. The email, from the year 2000, proves Climate scientists knew the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period were global, at a time they were trying to claim in public that these events were regional variations confined to Europe.
Jimbo says:
On December 10, 2004 Schmidt set the tone when he wrote,
It’s a good thing Gavin helped set up RealClimate.org because we can browse his responses. See his response to a question about future temperature records being exceeded by 2013.
Real Climate – December 2007
Daniel Klein asks at #57:
“OK, simply to clarify what I’ve heard from you.
(1) If 1998 is not exceeded in all global temperature indices by 2013, you’ll be worried about state of understanding
(2) In general, any year’s global temperature that is “on trend” should be exceeded within 5 years (when size of trend exceeds “weather noise”)
(3) Any ten-year period or more with no increasing trend in global average temperature is reason for worry about state of understandings
I am curious as to whether there are other simple variables that can be looked at unambiguously in terms of their behaviour over coming years that might allow for such explicit quantitative tests of understanding?”
[Response: 1) yes, 2) probably, I’d need to do some checking, 3) No. There is no iron rule of climate that says that any ten year period must have a positive trend. The expectation of any particular time period depends on the forcings that are going on. If there is a big volcanic event, then the expectation is that there will be a cooling, if GHGs are increasing, then we expect a warming etc. The point of any comparison is to compare the modelled expectation with reality – right now, the modelled expectation is for trends in the range of 0.2 to 0.3 deg/decade and so that’s the target. In any other period it depends on what the forcings are. – gavin]
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/12/a-barrier-to-understanding/
richard verney says:
The land based thermometer record is fundamentally flawed, and compromised through endless adjustments, station drop outs and encroachment of urbanisation etc, and it is time that it was ditched.
The land based thermometer record should be re-stated to raw data (warts and all), and should end in 1979. A realistic error bar should be set taking into account ‘the warts and all’. Adjustments should not be made to get rid of or smooth the warts and all.
As from 1979, only the satellite data should be used, which has better spatial coverage and is less polluted by UHI etc. Again a realistic error bandwidth should be set (taking into account its limitations and issues such as orbital decay and sensor degradation etc)..
The two should not be spliced together but it may be appropriate to look at the trends of each, one up to 1979 and the other post 1979, but bearing in mind that they represent a different approach to measuring temperature, and they are measuring a different region.
The only land nased thermometer record worthy of being kept is CET, and this is because it is the longest instrument record, and therefore can inform on matters pre dating the 1850s. Again a proper error bandwidth needs to be set.
On top of the is we will have ARGO, again warts and all, and once again a proper error bandwidth needs to be set. Since measuring ocean temperature is measuring the right metric (ie, energy content) and given that the oceans contain many more magnitudes of energy compared to the atmosphere, and given that it is the oceans that drive climate, it is only ocean temperature which is of any real note. the problem with ARGO is the short duration of the record.
Mann was concerned about the divergence problem post 1960s. His trees were telling him that there was no post 1960s warming and possibly even cooling, whereas the ‘adjusted’ land based temperature record was suggesting that there was ‘significant’ warming.
Perhaps his trees were not as wrong.as he thought. The satellite data confrims that between 1979 and up to and around the Super El Nino of 1998 there was no warming, and the land based thermometer record suggests that there was cooling in the 1960s and early 1970s. See http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1958/to:1976 which is based upon Hadcrut 4 global mean.
Perhaps what Mann had found, through his trees and the divergence problem, was that the ‘adjusted’ land based instrument record had been artifically warmed due to the numerous homogenisation, adjustments, pollution through UHI and station drop outs etc. Who would have guessed it, Good Old Mann. His error was failing to set out his findings on the reliability of the land based instrument record post the late 1970s. That is what his paper should have been on!
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As regards the answer to point 3, it would be interesting if Gavin would detail the positive forcings due to increase in emissions of GHGs (I recall seeing estimates that some 25% or more of manmade emiisions of CO2 have taken place these past 16 or 17 years), and what volcanos are said to be relevant post 1998 and his assessment of the size of their respective negative forcings, so he can explain why we have not since 1998 seen a rise in temps of between 0.2 to 0.3degC per decade in accordance with model projections
He can then answer what does observation verses model projection tell us about the state of our understanding and the competency of models to usefully project what will happen.
Village Idiot says:
Thank you, Dr. Ball for your unstinting efforts to uncover this worldwide conspiracy and restore Lambs iconic graph of N. hemisphere temps to its rightful place as the starting point of all climate research. Maybe you could just jot in a few figures on the temp axis for clarity?
An impressive article that explains the lack of valid science and the extent of political manipulation that props up the warmist alarmism.
“Proponents of the IPCC hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming were mainly connected with the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. ”
I think is was a much broader group than that. CRU were important as guardians of hiding/losing/destroying one of the major land temperature records, but it was a broader group that were perverting since to push their politics.
The Met Office Hadley Research Centre, charged with managing the sea surface temperatures seems to have some equally enthusiastic characters.
One count that came out at the time he got a temporary suspension at WikiPedia was 3500. That is surely way out of date now.
Connolley was also a cofounder. of RC and did some (rather unsuccessful ) modelling work for British Antarctic Survey (BAS) as well as being tied to the Hadley Centre around the turn of the millenium.
OH dear, I’ve used the “C” word , stuck in moderation. 😉
buckwheaton says:
I am waiting for some climate scientist to publish a paper on what the optimum climate is for our biosphere. The first question that would naturally flow would be where is our current trend in relation to this finding.
That nobody seems interested in this vital comparison indicates that there climate is being studied for other purposes. Since all the urgent demands that flow from today’s climate science all converge on policy solutions that involve statism, bigger government, higher taxes, less personal liberty, the bigger picture tells me all that I need to know about “climate science”.
I am also curious about how deep the ice got during the last period of glaciation of the northern hemisphere, but that is a question for another time.
@richardscourtney says:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/30/ipcc-method-of-proving-the-human-caused-warming-agw-hypothesis-forced-deliberate-creation-of-misinformation/#comment-1673095
I really appreciate you posting from time to time that reminder of the IPCCs mission. As a long-time reader and participant here at WUWT, that was something that impressed me early on that there was no reason to expect skeptical or contrary views to CO2-based CAGW from the IPCC. Newbies here at WUWT will always benefit from seeing the IPCC mission clearly presented. Thank you, sir.
Dr. Tim Ball’s essay is a pretty nifty expose’ of some of the lengths that the unaccountable IPCC has gone to in order to keep the gravy train chugging along, let alone advancing the agenda behind the creation of the IPCC.
The science is quite interesting here at WUWT, but I always appreciate the injection of some discussion of the political aspects of the beastie called CAGW. Thank you, Dr. Ball.
Joseph F. Lais says:
In the graphic of Figure 2, the conifer is a white spruce (Picea glauca), but in the text it becomes a white pine – probably Pinus strobus. BTW, the graphic reads (Pinus Glauca), but only the genus should be capitalized. .
Figure 2 is a slide linking R. B. Alley’s temperature plot with a photograph of a fossilized 4940-year-old White Pine located 100 km north of the current tree line.
[Dr Ball: Do you concur with those edits above? .mod]
JohnWho says:
“Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. …
The web site, RealClimate, was another major vehicle created by Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt, …
A group of scientists established themselves as the palace guard for the gang at the CRU.”
But, don’t use the word “conspiracy”.
/cynic /sarc
@Greg –
Oh, that “c” word.
Reblogged this on CraigM350 and commented:
Includes Dr Ball’s discussions with HH Lamb.
Eugene WR Gallun says:
Eugene WR Gallun
Crispin in Waterloo but really in Beijing says:
The summation is good. Climate alarm in a hazelnut shell : [A] little acidic.
Re the satellite temps and the land record: I like the idea of showing the land record as a separate line, not stopping at 1979 when the satellite period begins. For one thing, it shows them running in parallel with a gap between. Nothing wrong with that.
For another the two measure different things and it would not be good to have people think the satellites measure ground temperatures. What is important is their trends.
If it emerges that the reported temps are projections in many places don’t be surprised by the responses of the shameless. Fudge, waffle and denial. It would not surprise me in the least if the Conus was cooler now than in the 1930’s. Yes it is hard to tell, but one thing is sure, CO2 is not having any detectable influence on the trend.
Dr. Ball, re your figure 5: I am impressed whenever I see what looks like weather data of such antiquity. Does this information come from proxies or from weather logs dating back to those times?
Dr Norman Page says:
My blogpost of May 2013 is relevant here
http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com/2013/05/climate-forecasting-basics-for-britains.html
It concludes
“This is where the Seven Alarmists scientific judgment was lacking – they embraced the CO2 meme with irrational exuberance and gave poor old Blair ,Cameron Clegg and Miliband the feeling that CO2 disaster was certainly coming and so embarked on their quixotic pursuit of windmills, solar panels biomass, fossil power plant closings, GHG targets and the whole quite mad dogs breakfast that constitutes British climate and energy policy.
I do hope that some of the Seven might even yet review their positions along the lines outlined above and at least say publicly that any coming warming is much less certain than they once thought and that the government might usefully abandon their wasteful subsidies of renewables and forget GHG emission limits and thus reduce the price of energy to British industry and ordinary people.
HankHenry says:
The scientific underpinnings of the anthropogenic global warming thing are correct. The problem is that models have been demonstrated to be quite inadequate. The science is settled but the science’s application to real world conditions is in doubt. There’s no telling if the effect is worrisome or not. Until proper models have been engineered there is no way to know what to do. The problem is not with the scientific principles, it’s with the engineering of a prediction based on the principles.
Robertvd says:
It has nothing to do with climate but everything with taking away the power from the experiment ‘We The People’.It has been a hoax since the beginning created so we give up our rights voluntary to save the planet.
Of course this is nothing new because those in power have done this since the beginning of humanity. Power corrupts.
Once you get used to the red carpet the applause the unlimited power most get addicted to this way of life.
voluntarily
Chip Bennett says:
Excellent read. Thank you.
dipchip says:
Once upon a time a long long time ago John Adams wrote a Dissertation on how to preserve Liberty before he/we knew liberty.
In other words in order to preserve Liberty, the voters must have the most intimate knowledge of the historical conduct and moral character of their chosen leaders before the fact. To sustain liberty this right is indefeasible or can not be made null and void.
In today’s America this right has been superseded by political correctness, the hidden communications and secret messages transmitted between our government agencies, Congressional Representatives and the Executive Branch.
Our Chief Executive is the most egregious example; and forbids the use of this inalienable right.
In today’s America every effort is made by most Politian’s to obfuscate and mislead the voters in all things associated with civic knowledge. Civic knowledge has the lowest priority of all courses taught by our grammar and prep schools.
Ask any 6th grader to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. They cannot because in today’s America it would be a lie.
Liberty and Justice for all
Dr. Ball, re your figure 5:
Mr. Strom
Fig,5 : Fewer than 10 percent were southerly winds in the decade 1721 -1731 but they were more than 10 percent between 1841-1851.
Thanks for that. Just take a look at this graph for the CET and also the N. Atlantic records (the highest cumulative number in my data file) for the 1721-1731 decade. It would be a great +, if Dr. Ball can confirm the data.
This post started with an important, traditional definition of knowledge that is, unfortunately, contrary to what the IPCC uses. It is also contrary to the intentions guiding K-12 and higher education reforms all over the globe, especially in papers issued by the National Research Council guiding the incorporation of the Next Generation Sciences Standards within the Common Core ELA standards.
Briefly the relevant ‘knowledge’ is now to be provided concepts that in turn are to guide people’s perceptions of their lived experiences. CAGW is just one of those concepts but it is a crucial one because it guides the sense that transformative economic and social change is necessary. Bad weather reenforces because that is how the conceptual understanding is structured.
Knowledge then is conceptual beliefs about how the world works and the physical images tied to those beliefs. It’s also why gaming and virtual reality are so crucial to the curricula NSF has been funding to implement these visions. Perceptions of reality are firmly guided by whatever the programmers designed into their work. Designers like the influential Jane McGonnigal have bragged about designing games that will convince the student players of the need for transformational change.
This acute problem of trying to remake the nature of knowledge in the 2st century to augment governments ability to plan economies and societies and reward cronies has got to be stared straight in the face so we can deal with it. Otherwise we are funding our own demise with foreseeable consequences.
dipchip-I have been explaining recently on my blog that civic education does not mean what we believe and is shifting us towards what is being called deliberative democracy based on required Racial Equity Outcomes. It is also being called Participatory Governance with everyone with an ‘affected interest’ supposedly entitled to a role in decision-making meant to bind everyone.
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/experimenting-on-people-and-places-via-the-rockefeller-process-of-communication-for-social-change/ lays this out with lots of links to the documents. The reference to the Rockefeller process of KFSC comes from a World Bank document. That really is the name of this globally intended means of invisible but transformative social change. Like it or not.
My book also lays out that the word Competency as the purpose of a new vision of K-12 keeps tying back to Civic Mission of the Schools reports that describe creating John Dewey’s participatory democracy of economic justice for all. I wish this is not what the intentions are but there really is no ambiguity in what is being sought in the name of civics education.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act that sailed through the US Senate last week provides funds for community organizing groups to integrate English language instruction for adults with this Deweyan definition of civics ed so the to-be citizens learn English and the need for structural change at the same time. I read all 812 pages yesterday. I knew from who was plaesed with the act that it had to be bad. I was right.
Robin: This was to be written for my E-mail list before you responded and now have a few additions.
In today’s America this right has been superseded by political correctness. The hidden communications and secret messages transmitted between our government agencies, Congressional Representatives and the Executive Branch are the basis of all new law. Political expedience trumps all useful governmental change with examples of doom to excite the masses for votes.
In today’s America every effort is made by most Politian’s to obfuscate and mislead the voters in all things associated with civic knowledge. Civic knowledge has the lowest priority of all courses taught by our grammar and prep schools. The most dire situation involves political science courses taught in our institutions of higher learning; where the free flow of certain political opinions are suppressed to the point of physical harm if they are expressed or promulgated to the student body or administration..
@HankHenry June 30, 2014 at 6:58 am
The scientific underpinnings of anthropogenic global warming are not correct. It comes down to a failure, originating with Carl Sagan, to understand basic radiative and IR physics.
1. The black body surface IR emission assumption confuses Irradiance, a potential energy flux, with a real flux. in reality the surface emits at 0.16 mean operational emissivity, mostly in the ‘atmospheric window’.
2. There can be no thermalisation of GHG-absorbed IR in the gas phase because that would breach Kirchhoff’s Law of Radiation.
3. There is no back radiation, see (1) and (2).
4. He got the aerosol optical physics wrong, misinterpreting work by van der Hulst: the sign of the AIE is reversed.
Otherwise the models are OK and in 20 years or so may be able to forecast weather a week ahead. Climate never, at least without bringing in paramaterisation of a lot of astrophysics, irreversible thermodynamics and the biofeedback which, controlling cloud area and albedo, give the GHE! I suppose that makes me a constructive sceptic…..:o)
Neil Jordan says:
Re Eric Simpson says: June 30, 2014 at 1:24 am
“. . .so a big question is whether we have been warming at all.”
Re Eric Simpson says: June 30, 2014 at 1:42 am
“Well, it clear as day that we haven’t been warming for, what, 18 years?”
It would appear that some of the players (e.g. Munich Re and Rahmstorf of sea level rise fame) saw the light at least two years ago:
http://books.google.com/books?id=JuyMUNeUkKUC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=%22Munich+Re%22+Rahmstorf&source=bl&ots=jzLpQcspiY&sig=vMvVT0QwVfFBb55SO45soBPnzbA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-6ixU-D0OcGxoQSs9IDYBQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Munich%20Re%22%20Rahmstorf&f=false
Note the 2012 reference is titled “Global Cooling: Strategies for Climate Protection” By Hans-Josef Fell.
RobRoy says:
Yes indeed. Freedom/Liberty is won on the battlefield with blood and treasure.
It is lost through a misinformed electorate in the ballot booth, VOLUNTARILY.
Michael 2 says:
Cynical Scientst says: “OK – Turkish now gone. So was the problem at my end or at yours.”
WUWT doesn’t have an “end” — it is a blog hosted on WordPress which in turn is hosted on three datacenters. It isn’t his server.
The webservers will make a guess at your native language based primarily on the request header sent by your browser but also by the IP address. If the IP address is known to be from Turkey, the webserver will “localize” certain elements thereto.
If you are indeed in Turkey this is normal behavior.
If you are NOT in Turkey then perhaps the proxy that is intercepting your browsing is in Turkey. That is usually a Bad Thing.
Gunga Din says:
I’ve worked in local government for almost 25 years. One thing I’ve noticed is that the more the authority has become centralized, the more politically correct and nonsensical decisions and detached from reality policy has become. The IPCC is just a tool to move authority and policy even further from reality.
Thanks for your input, and for your records. Wind direction could have been recorded pretty accurately in the 18th century, but I am always curious as to whether the information comes from diaries, historical accounts, or instruments. As we stretch our reconstructions back in time we have to use all three sources, and more, with, of course, attendant uncertainties.
“Mann is incorrect because most of the last 10,000 years was warmer than today as the Greenland ice core shows”
You may want to consider that the warmest temperature spike in Greenland from 1350-1150 BC, was very cold in the mid latitudes and caused the collapse of many civilisations including the Minoans that is named after.
Look at 1740 and just before 1740 on Greenland (and other dates too):
http://snag.gy/3I7Gu.jpg
and compare to CET, they are travelling in opposite directions. So Greenland temperatures are an inverse proxy for the temperate zone.
nickreality65 says:
IPCC clearly states that their mandate is to study man caused and only man caused sources of climate change. Natural forces and sources could overwhelm man caused and they don’t look and don’t care. Just like all of us, they know who signs their checks and what those signers expect.
James Abbott says:
[snip – just too stupid to print, flamebait, sorry -mod]
Dan Pangburn says:
Discovering that CO2 change and therefore human activity does not cause global warming is a start. But this leaves the question of what actually does drive average global temperature change.
Two primary drivers of average global temperature have been identified. They very accurately explain the reported up and down measurements since before 1900 with R2>0.9 (correlation coefficient = 0.95) and provide credible estimates back to the low temperatures of the Little Ice Age (1610).
The influence of CO2 change is insignificant.
Coefficient of determination, R2 = 0.9049 considering only sunspots and ocean cycles.
R2 = 0.9061 considering sunspots, ocean cycles and CO2 change.
The calculations use data since before 1900 which are publicly available.
The coefficients of determination are a measure of how accurately the calculated average global temperatures compare with measured.
Everything not explicitly considered (such as the 0.09 K s.d. random uncertainty in reported annual measured temperature anomalies, aerosols, CO2, other non-condensing ghg, volcanoes, ice change, etc.) must find room in the unexplained 9.51%.
The tiny difference in R2, whether considering CO2 or not, demonstrates that CO2 change has no significant effect on climate.
The method, equation and data sources are provided at http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com and references.
ConTrari says:
I thought Connolley messed with 5000 Wikipedia articles, not 500?
rishrac says:
First, Thank You so much for this article. It sums up very precisely the arguments that many have made. Second @ Richard Verney, trying to tease temperature data from tree rings is useless, unless you are a complete idiot and know nothing about how trees grow, yes temperature is important, but so is moisture, amount of sunlight, type of tree and soil conditions. Was it on the sun side of the hill? What was growing next to it? What kind of plant hormones did those trees produce? Are you wondering what kills those weeds in your yard? Elevation? What’s the range? Both in height and latitude? You don’t think that the rings will be different at the northern and southern limit of its range, or the level above sea level? I can’t believe that this was accepted as evidence of climate change. Supposedly, he cut down over 70 trees till he found one that matched the record he wanted.
James McCown says:
@AlecM says:
Hearing this about Sagan doesn’t surprise me one bit. He always came across to me as a politically-motivated phony. If he were alive today, he would be one of the high priests of the Church of AGW. And he would be appearing in the leftist media quite often to tell everyone how stupid they are to have the slightest doubt of AGW.
bushbunny says:
He said man made greenhouse gases, showing a belching station, caused warming. This precedes an ice age. It does, but not man made, sun made.
metro70 says:
Richard Courtney @
I think you’re right about the IPCC in general, but couldn’t this statement…
[The IPCC exists to provide
(a) “information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change”]
Be interpreted as meaning ..
[ The IPCC exists to provide
(a) “information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of any possible risk of human-induced climate change”…]
…..leaving it open to them—-or even signaling an obligation for them — to provide just as readily, information that concludes or suggests that human-induced climate change is insignificant?
It’s deliberately ambiguous IMO—maybe to cover themselves in order to claim if necessary, that they’re not at fault because the contrary information was withheld from them.
CAGW scientists beware?
Tim Ball says:
The data in Figuree 5 was derived from daily journals and meterological logs maintained by the Hudson’s Bay Company. I created a coding system to digitize the weather data and ended up with approximately 6 million individual weather data points on precipitaion, wind, temperature, etc and many proxy indicators such as date of arrival of geese in spring. I was then able to plot a multitude of graphs such as the one for a sepcific study in Figure 5. All the data for two locaqtions, Churchill and York Factory on Hudson Bay are in printed olumes at Environment Canada at downsview.
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Your post at July 1, 2014 at 7:32 am which is here makes an interesting comment on the IPCC described in my post at June 30, 2014 at 1:15 am here.
I agree with you that the phrase taken out of context allows the IPCC to reverse position. However, in its context I think the meaning is clear and its wording is not ambiguous. The IPCC has a “Role” which decrees it is tasked to fulfill a political function and not a scientific function: it does what it is intended to do.
The difference between scientists and propagandists is as follows:
When scientists have a theory, they diligently search for data that contradicts their theory in order to improve the theory, and they welcome the views of others. They adopt the scientific method.
Propagandists, however, cherry-pick only data that appears to support their theory, they discard the other data, then they place their theory on a pedestal claiming it is indisputable ‘gold standard’ settled science fully backed by a consensus. And God help any reputable scientist who dares challenge the theory with valid scientific data!!!!
Well, without a doubt, the propagandists have been driving the catastrophic man-made global warming agenda.
Mervyn commented “When scientists have a theory, they diligently search for data that contradicts their theory in order to improve the theory”
As much as I sympathize and might even share some of your resulting views, in this case I think the scientists doing the real work are doing exactly as you say where it makes sense to do so.
What I mean by that is your purpose out in the field may be to collect data rather than to confirm or challenge a specific theory. In my opinion it is better this way NOT to have a specific theory in mind you are trying to confirm or deny.
What kind of data could exist to disprove a guess or improve a theory of AGW? Nearly everything is an “induction” — the only actual measurement shows that temperatures go up and sometimes down. For more distant past you don’t have temperatures, you have “proxies” whose conformity to temperature varies from pretty good (Vostok ice cores) to rather lousy (tree rings).
To be sure, you can find correlation but establishing that one is the cause of the other is not so easy to determine, perhaps impossible to determine. For instance: Divorce rate in Maine has a .992558 correlation with the U.S. Per Capital consumption of margarine.
http://twentytwowords.com/funny-graphs-show-correlation-between-completely-unrelated-stats-9-pictures/
Some indicators are invisible to non-educated. I have a geologist friend who on looking at a photo I made of canyonlands told me the prevailing wind direction from millions of years ago. That really seemed like he was pulling it out of the nether regions but he explained to me that the huge sand dunes are pushed by the prevailing winds and leave tell-tale “slip faces” downwind or on the lee side. You can plainly see these slip faces and bedding planes (the bottom of the dune). Now, I too see ancient winds blowing sand all the way across North American piling up against the mountains of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
So I give the scientists the benefit of my doubt. On the other hand I give politicians the benefit of my skepticism. When a scientist plays at politics (MM) or a politician plays at science (AG) then for me skepicism is stronger but it is not exclusionary. I will still study the science and that is one reason this particular blog is useful — more science as compared to some and you can ask questions.
KenB says:
Tim Ball, excellent call on the way science was sold out, and as an Australian I am ashamed of the part that some Australians played, like Tom Wigley, he was in the box seat to have exposed these charlatans when he rose to head up the Climate Research Unit in the U.K. and unless I am badly mistaken he had none of the integrity of Lamb and unfortunately was right in the middle of the corruptive influences that have sullied that institution and bought into question his prior association with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology another institution that like the CRU, lost its way.
Where is the conscience of those that knew, and must have understood what was going on, but allowed other fine scientists (colleagues) to have their reputations put down, their work blocked and subverted and what for? Pursuit of personal fame and fortune, and as can be seen from another prominent Australian that fame and fortune is as fickle as the integrity and character of the person.
It seems inevitable in the field of climate science that truth will prevail and some reputations will be reduced to tatters, perhaps still time for some to right the many wrongs that have been done to fellow scientists.
One consolation for me, is that our Fred Daly stood proud and tall opposing their tainted science until to the relief of the “team” he passed on.
The late great Fred Daly will live on in history, with his integrity intact and remembered for his defence of science and colleagues. There are other fine Australian scientists who have taken up the challenge and I thank them for their strength of character.
The legacy of those that crossed that dark line and failed to defend you when you stood up for the integrity of science, will have to live with that personal failure for the rest of their lives.
Mea Culpa! and an abject apology to the Late Great John Daly for misnaming him as “Fred”! I really can’t forgive myself for such an error! It would be nice if we had an edit function to correct the text, but then the old adage kicks in that one should check several times “before” posting. It would be nice if the moderators could correct that stupid mistake for me!!
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Forty-eight states, along with Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, announced Tuesday that they were launching a broad multistate investigation into whether Google has been violating antitrust laws and whether the company has been engaging in "anticompetitive behavior that harms consumers."
The investigation, led by Texas, will focus on Google's dominance in the online advertising market and whether the online search giant broke any laws on its way to becoming the biggest game town.
"Now, more than ever, information is power, and the most important source of information in Americans’ day-to-day lives is the internet. When most Americans think of the internet, they no doubt think of Google," said Texas' Attorney General Paxton in a statement announcing the probe. "There is nothing wrong with a business becoming the biggest game in town if it does so through free market competition, but we have seen evidence that Google’s business practices may have undermined consumer choice, stifled innovation, violated users’ privacy, and put Google in control of the flow and dissemination of online information."
Google controls up to 31% of digital ad dollars according to an estimate from eMarketer, far ahead of its closest competitor, Facebook.
"It's like if you were trying to buy a house, and Google owned the house, and a lot of houses on your block. And they were the buyer's agent and also the seller's agent," said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. "It would raise questions, certainly."
"Legal experts from each state will work in cooperation with Federal authorities to assess competitive conditions for online services and ensure that Americans have access to free digital markets," a release about the probe states.
Attorneys general from Alabama and California, the home to Silicon Valley, have not joined the probe.
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Google did not comment, and instead referred to previous statements about being willing to work with state officials.
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Police appeal for witnesses following assault in Dawlish
Police have appealed for witnesses following an unprovoked assault in Dawlish at the weekend.
The incident happened on Saturday 18th June.
Two men and a woman left the Mount Pleasant Inn at around 9.20pm, they had a near miss with a red Nissan Micra after it drove at them causing them to jump out of the way.
The woman, a 21 year old, suffered from a broken ankle.
The two men and a woman were later chased and assaulted by a number of people who were in red Nissan Micra, a black Ford Focus and another Nissan Micra.
One of the victims of this assault, a 32-year-old man from Teignmouth, suffered heavy bruising to his face and a suspected fractured cheekbone. He was taken to Torbay District Hospital by ambulance.
Detective constable Rich Jones said: “We are investigating this unprovoked attack that appears to have escalated following a near-miss at the pedestrian crossing near Mount Pleasant, in Dawlish.
“Soon after the initial incident, the group were approached by the drivers and passengers of three cars, one of which we believe was involved in the earlier incident at the zebra crossing, and proceeded to assault the group leading to a number of injuries.
“We are appealing for witnesses to either incident and asking that if anyone can help us identify those responsible, that they speak to the police immediately.
“This was an unprovoked attack on three people returning home after a night out. Whilst i would like to reassure the people of Dawlish that these types of incident are rare, it is important that the local community help us identify those responsible so they can be held accountable for their actions.”
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9:00 am-10:00 am Staff Campus Currents Thomas Commons
The Block 6 Campus Currents meeting will be held from 9-10 a.m., and repeated from 2-3 p.m., in Hedges Conference Room. The purpose of Campus Currents meetings is to allow a greater opportunity for staff to learn and discuss college issues, events, news, and other topics that are relevant across divisions. Each Campus Currents meeting will be held twice so staff can rotate to keep offices open. Meetings are typically scheduled the last Thursday of each block.
11:10 am Science Interest Group (SIG) Talk: Kara Beauchamp: "Exploring the Rosette Nebula" West Science
The Rosette Nebula is a region of our galaxy full of gas and dust where many stars have recently formed. This region can be imaged in different wavelengths of light, and different wavelengths provide different kinds of information about region, such as the temperature of the region and its chemical composition. By measuring the brightness and the polarization of radio waves, we can learn about the density of electrons and the magnetic field in the region. This talk will discuss properties of the Rosette Nebula and the analysis of radio wave polarization data to determine the magnetic field in the region.
7:00 pm-8:00 pm Reception for Cedar River Artisans Exhibition Cole Library
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7:30 pm Theatre Production: GREEK Kimmel Theatre
�Not Your Mother�s Oedipus:� A Modern re-telling of a Classic The Cornell College Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce its production of Steven Berkoff's GREEK, running March 2nd � 5th in Kimmel Theatre on the Cornell College Campus. The Department's new head of acting, Caroline Price, directs this exciting retelling of the ancient Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex. This contemporary retelling offers a fresh and edgy approach to our hero's journey, his search for his true identity and the redemptive power of love. �This is not your mother's Oedipus,� says Price, �audiences should expect a modern, racy, and snarky version of Sophocles' masterpiece. Berkoff takes the story of Oedipus, wraps it in dark humor, and slaps you in the face with its South London feel.� This modern, twisted version of the myth combines Shakespearean grandeur, with Cockney slang to a riotous effect; creating an electric and often aggressive atmosphere. Price's bold staging of this punk "love poem" to the spirit of Oedipus takes hold and won�t let you look away. Cornell College Junior, Bobby Nowak, plays our hero, Eddie. He is joined by area equity actor, Patrick Du Laney, Cornell alum MC Cole (�16) and area actor Robyn Calhoun. Scenic and Lighting Design by Scott Olinger, projections design by Kristen Geisler, Costume Design by Jenny Nutting Kelchen. On opening night audiences are invited to stay for a post-show reception sponsored by Mount Vernon�s own First Street Community Center: Uptown Theatre and Dance Arts Iowa on Thursday, March 2nd immediately following the performance. Also, each night before the show, and at intermission, audiences are welcome to enjoy a cash bar brought to you by Bon Appetit. GREEK runs one weekend only, March 2nd through 4th at 7:30 pm and March 5th at 2 pm in Kimmel Theatre on the Cornell College Campus. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors/students/youth, and free for Cornell College faculty, staff, and students with ID. Tickets can be reserved by calling (319) 895-4293 or e-mailing boxoffice@cornellcollege.edu. This production is intended for mature audiences and seating is very limited. Kimmel Theatre is accessible through the front doors of Armstrong Hall. Parking is available in the lot behind and to the south of the theater at the corner of College Blvd and Summit Ave.
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Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Armonk, New - 01 Oct 2014: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that they have completed the initial closing for Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business under the terms described in their announcement on Monday, September 29, 2014.
Lenovo is acquiring System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations. IBM retains its System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, and PureApplication and PureData appliances.
As part of the agreement, Lenovo and IBM have also established a strategic alliance where Lenovo will serve as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to IBM and will resell select products from IBM’s industry-leading storage and software portfolio. These include IBM’s entry and midrange Storwize storage product family, Linear Tape Open (LTO) products, and elements of IBM’s system software portfolio, including Smart Cloud software, General Parallel File System and Platform Computing solutions.
The transition will begin today in countries that are part of the initial closing, which includes most major markets. The transaction is expected to close in most other countries later this year, with the few remaining countries following in early 2015.
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Meet Steve Bardouille, Creator of Famberry
By Becca Taylor - Wednesday 20th November, 2013
Ahead of tomorrow’s #Croydon #TechCity November session, Becca Taylor speaks to Steve Bardouille of Famberry about the importance of private social networks and the news of royal appointment.
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At the end of October, Purley-based Famberry founder Steve Bardouille unveiled news that the Royal Russell School in Croydon would be using the social platform to help their students build their family trees as part of a school project. The school’s choice to use Famberry is proof of the hard work the team has put into developing a network which is practical, useful and serves a genuine need in the online world.
Steve’s team found a niche for Famberry as a great alternative for parents with young children, keen to keep photos and family news within a smaller network. This led to them researching schools which would be interested in their product.
“We looked at many schools in the area, but we felt that with its reputation for innovation, Royal Russell would make an excellent choice for an initial roll out to schools. Royal Russell loved the concept from the outset and was so supportive. The school provided us with our own room, set up with laptops, so that parents and children could try the demo or ask questions regarding the Famberry features.
“The children at Royal Russell have really seen the benefit of the project and we hope to leave them with stronger family units as families connect to each other through Famberry. Since Royal Russell we have been in talks with a number of other schools who have shown an interest in using Famberry.”
“More than 48% of the people who leave Facebook do so because of privacy concerns”
Famberry’s strongest selling point is privacy – with traditional social networks regularly changing and updating their policies on our information, people are becoming more and more concerned about what’s happening with photos, updates and information they post online. Networks like Ask.fm have come under huge governmental pressure to change after the site was linked with several teen suicides, and Twitter users who abused the activist Caroline Criado-Perez have faced court over their threatening behaviour.
“People are certainly becoming more aware that the things that they post on social networks are automatically stored by search engines and can be spread by anyone else or used in a manner for which it was not originally intended. We have all become too familiar with stories of houses being burgled while the owners are posting messages about being away on holiday or individuals victimized because bullies feel that they can hide behind the supposed anonymity of the internet.
“The lack-of-privacy aspect of social networks is now a common feature on the news, with many high-profile figures finding themselves in trouble for posting messages that were not intended for the whole world to see. More than 48% of the people who leave Facebook do so because of the privacy concerns that they have and this has caused a mistrust of open social networks in general.
“These issues were high on the agenda when designing Famberry and we feel that the closed social network of Famberry, where only the family members have access to the posted messages, makes it a safer place for families to enjoy the positives of social networking without having to concern themselves with privacy settings that often change.”
“We have even been told of users having Famberry parties where family members get together to build their tree together on Famberry”
Famberry’s appointment at the Royal Russell School is a big success story, not just for the company and the borough but for #Croydon #TechCity too. As one of the early adopters of Tech City they have received a lot of help and support. Steve even spoke at their second ever event alongside the Citizen’s own James Naylor.
“Croydon Tech City has really helped us to meet other like-minded people whom we can bounce ideas off and gauge their opinions. It’s nice knowing that there is a community that supports technology companies and embraces innovation.
“Croydon is an area of surprises for anyone who visits and it’s interesting watching the reaction of visitors when they see that Croydon has one of the most active technology forums in the UK.”
The future looks good for Steve and the Famberry team, who are aiming for controlled growth over the next few years. “We need to grow the team, so we are looking for creative thinkers who share the passion for strong families and positive communities.
“Our first few months of marketing the platform has hit all of our planned milestones, but the feedback that means the most to us are the emails from users who tell us that their family members are thanking them for simply connecting the family and starting their family tree on Famberry. We have even been told of users having Famberry parties where family members get together to build their tree together on Famberry. Our aim for the next five years is to become the prime destination for families to connect, interact and grow closer to each other.”
Inspired? You can grow your family tree at Famberry.com and see Steve talk at tomorrow’s #Croydon #TechCity event – see below for details!
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Sounds like a great idea. I don’t think there are any privacy issues with Facebook, though, as long as one’s status updates are only sent to “Friends”, rather than “Public”.
Very true on the status front, Anne, but there are other aspects of your information that Facebook itself can withhold rights to – that’s the main concern that some users have.
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10 Traditional Hungarian Foods that Will Remind Magyars of Home
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Hungarian food is known for its hearty, comforting dishes – and with so many mouth-watering options to choose from, it’s no surprise that many locals (and visitors!) begin to miss it the moment they step foot out of the country. From warming soups to delicious desserts, these traditional dishes are some national favorites.
A fried dough topped with garlic, sour cream, and grated cheese forms one of Hungary’s most popular street food snacks, and a favorite dish of many Hungarians across the world. Other toppings are also available, but it’s this traditional combination that is the most common and authentic, and the one most likely to remind any Hungarian of home.
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Főzelék
Főzelék simply refers to a hearty vegetable stew: the ingredients can vary according to preference, with lentil, green bean, and cabbage Főzelék all popular options. Technically neither a stew nor a soup, it’s a unique dish with no English translation and is so popular that cafés exclusively serving the dish can be found across Hungary.
Főzelék-ismétlés! Most kelkáposzta. #konyha #főzelék megint nagyon jó
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This comforting dish consists of cabbage stuffed with minced meat, rice and seasoning (paprika is often involved, too), blanketed in a rich tomato sauce. A hearty meal reminiscent of grandma’s cooking, everyone has their own favorite recipe (often passed down through generations) and a good plate of this deliciously nostalgic dish when it’s cold outside is just what the doctor ordered.
Gyümölcsleves
Most commonly enjoyed during the warmer months, this is a cold fruit soup of various flavors: sour cherry is one of the more popular fruits used, and this version of the soup is the most typically Hungarian; however, everyone has their favorite when it comes to this refreshing dish. Usually served cold on a hot summer’s day, wine and sour or fresh cream are often added to the sour cherry variety which can be eaten as an appetizer or a dessert.
Gyümölcsleves © Christo/Wikimedia Commons
Sweet poppy seed pasta
Poppy seeds are commonly found in Hungarian cuisine, and this is a dish that features them as a primary ingredient. The seeds are ground, before being mixed with sugar and added to tagliatelle-style pasta and a little melted butter. The result is a simple, sweet dish that is regularly found on the dinner table in Hungary and, thanks to its easy recipe using easily attainable ingredients, can be enjoyed no matter where you are.
Paprikash
Paprika is likely Hungary’s most popular spice, and these are a series of dishes in which it’s the star ingredient. Paprikash is composed of a creamy, paprika-rich sauce added to a number of different options: chicken, catfish, or mushrooms are the most common variations. Add nokedli (Hungarian egg noodle-dumplings), and the meal is complete. This is comfort food at its finest.
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Gulyásleves (Goulash)
With its status as one of Hungary’s national dishes, it is no surprise that this is a dish that will transport Hungarians back home with the first delicious spoonful. A beef stew with plenty of paprika added for good measure, the recipe has evolved over time but the typically Hungarian dish remains as popular as ever.
Hungarian vanilla custard, layered between crisp, flaky slices of pastry, make up this delicious sweet treat, which is a favorite dessert across the country. Head to any traditional pastry shop in Hungary and krémes is almost guaranteed to be on the menu: it’s perfect enjoyed with a hot cup of coffee and is one of the most delicious, not to mention popular, Hungarian cakes.
Kremes © Illustratedjc / Wikimedia Commons
Warming, filling, and traditional, this paprika-based fish soup is a much loved Hungarian dish and traditionally uses carp, pike, or catfish in its recipe. Served in homes and restaurants up and down the country, the most authentic way to enjoy the delicious soup is with freshly caught fish from the Danube or Tisza rivers. The fish is then cooked along with a base of paprika, vegetables, and bouillon in a cauldron over an open fire, on the banks of the river: rustic, warming, and spicy, it’s a true taste of Hungary.
Somlói galuska
Multiple layers of different types of sponge cake (usually plain, chocolate, and walnut), cream, rum-soaked raisins, chocolate sauce…a number of deliciously sweet components make up this Hungarian trifle, which has been awarded by many with the title of “Hungary’s favorite dessert.” Indulgent, rich, and very moreish, the dish can be found in a number of styles, from hearty and homemade to refined and given a fine dining makeover. It’s the original, less contrived, version that is enough to transport any Hungarian back home.
Somlói galuska © Toben / Wikimedia Commons
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Indian hockey coach Sjoerd Marijne is “very angry” with his players. He believes they had “lied to him” a few months back!
It was October 2017 and Marijne was just a few days into his job as India coach. India and Pakistan were set to clash in the Asia Cup group match at Dhaka and the Dutchman had asked his wards what it was like playing against their neighbours.
While coaches world over are well versed with this phenomenon, it was a new territory for Marijne having no experience of coaching an international senior side before.
“Business as usual,” said the Indian players and Marijne put in place a plan as India eyed the Asia Cup gold. But just a few minutes into the game and Marijne knew “this was something else”.
“I watched the first half and quickly realized they lied to me. They played totally different to normal,” Marijne said.
Normal isn’t a word one usually associates when it comes to India-Pakistan matches and Marijne will know it very well by now as the nations prepare to battle it out in one of the most sought-out matches at the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast on April 7, Saturday.
There is plenty at stake for both teams who come into this match having walked entirely different paths in recent history.
India have, without doubt, been the best team in Asia in the last two years and their triumph at the Asian Games in 2014 and the Asia Cup recently is proof enough. No team from Asia has been able to match them in terms of consistent results, with Pakistan being at the receiving end in the last seven matches.
India won all of them, including two commendable wins at the FIH Hockey World League last year in London, the victory margins being 7-1 and 6-1.
For Pakistan, it is an entirely different story. Once the heavyweights and the most feared team in world hockey, theirs has been a story of downfall and heartbreaks since 2014 when they missed out playing the World Cup for the first time. This followed their absence from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Now, they are in repair mode and turned to former coach Roelant Oltmans — the only coach in the history to have guided both India and Pakistan — who joined them on an SOS call last month.
At the Commonwealth Games, they are on a mission. The Green Shirts are determined to turn it around and want to begin it by doing well at the quadrennial Games. Pakistan played out a 1-1 draw against Wales in their opening match at the CWG on Thursday and are expected to go all out against India on Saturday.
There have been some tremendous battles between the two starting from their glory days at the Olympics. India defeated Pakistan to lift the gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne and 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, while Pakistan got the better of India in the 1960 Rome Olympics.
India’s 1975 World Cup win over Pakistan is one of their greatest sporting moment, while many consider India’s win in the 1982 Champions Trophy bronze medal match as one of the best matches in the history of the nation’s sporting rivalry.
Recent history also throws up some remarkable contests, with India’s dazzling 7-4 win in a group match of the 2003 Champions Trophy as an example of what these two nations can bring to the field.
The 2014 Asian Games at Incheon too brings to the fore the heart-rendering rivalry and raw passion that the players an fans share alike. India won 4-2 on penalties to win the Asian Games gold as Pakistan fought them tooth and nail, in what was a remarkable display of skills, talent and passion.
Marijne vs Oltmans
Much like the big battle that will unfold on the turf, there is an interesting sub-plot that is set to unravel when Oltmans and Marijne will take their places in the dugout on Saturday.
Oltmans, who coached India between 2013 and 2017, before losing his place to countryman Marijne will be keen to prove a point or two and this sub-plot makes for an interesting scenario.
Marijne too will be keen to show his tactics and guide the team on his first major assignment in what is considered one of the toughest jobs in world hockey. It will be interesting to see how the two marshall their troops as the world of hockey comes together for the most-awaited battle of it all, at the Gold Coast Hockey centre on Saturday afternoon.
Gear up… it doesn’t get bigger than this.
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Review: Chuno [Slave Hunter]
July 27, 2013 by kfangurl 196 Comments
THE SHORT VERDICT:
Grand. Sweeping. Lush. And jaw-droppingly magnificent.
In every way, from every aspect, Chuno is a literal feast for the senses, and a sumptuous one at that.
From the glorious cinematography, to the pulsing, evocative OST, to the (mostly) well-drawn, (mostly) well-acted characters and their stories, Chuno is a complete experience; one that engulfs you and takes over your very faculties.
Yes, it’s not perfect by any means. But boy, does it have a lot to offer.
Best consumed in large, generous, HD servings. Sink in and let this sexy beast blow you away. I mean the show, of course. Mostly. *cough*
Chuno OST – 추노
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/vbi3o9fi5d/16_.mp3
THE LONG VERDICT:
This is sorta the part where I wish I could just flail my arms about and say, “Chuno is just flat-out ah-ma-zing. See it to believe it. Just.. watch it! You’ll see.”
But, I realize that won’t do.
To be honest, it took a whole lot of convincing before I first set foot on the Chuno train, 2 years ago.
When Chuno first came out in 2010, it aired here on KBS World, and my mum watched it on our not-very-good TV. When I walked by, I caught glimpses of dusty surroundings populated by straggly-looking people and I was not at all tempted to join her. That just did not look like my kind of drama.
Sometime in 2012, I chanced on Dnoella’s wonderful, glowing (mostly non-spoilery) review, and I was intrigued. Plus, I’d seen Jang Hyuk in Tree With Deep Roots by this time, and had been duly impressed. I wanted to see more of his work, and Chuno sounded like just the ticket.
Diving in for my first watch of Chuno (in HD! There is simply No. Other. Way. to watch Chuno but in HD. Trust me, ok?), I was completely blown away. But I hated – like, really, really hated – the ending.
Fast forward to 2013, when I wrote my Jang Hyuk k-love confession, and did my best to persuade, wheedle and coerce everyone into checking out Jang Hyuk in Chuno. Ha. In the end, all that Jang Hyuk-Chuno talk made me crave an actual re-watch. So I did it. I joined my friend Michele on her first watch. And lo and behold, I fell for Chuno all over again. Maybe even more this time, coz this time, I even appreciate the ending. (Woah, is that even possible, you might ask? Stay tuned to find out!)
The cinematography in Chuno is nothing short of spectacular.
Thanks to that amazing Red One camera, thoughtful framing, excellent editing, and a PD with a lovingly detailed eye for beauty, everything and everyone looks stunningly gorgeous.
The color palette is intense, and combined with every frame’s crisp, clean, cinematic quality, we are immediately and completely immersed in a world that is so beautiful that it feels surreal.
The effect is utterly and thoroughly spell-binding.
Just take a look at these:
The panoramic splendor is pretty breathtaking, isn’t it?
Add to that the very deliberate use of slow-motion, and the grandeur just gets magnified.
Here, we see how slow-motion is used to bring out the beauty in movement; in this case, of water:
Slow-motion is also artfully combined with the use of fast-motion, particularly in fight scenes.
The slow-motion allows us to revel in the fluidity of the movement and the impressiveness of the form, and then towards the end of the motion, the frames speed up to magnify the moment of impact. It’s quite stunning to behold.
Here’s a peek:
It’s mesmerizing. Honestly, it gives new meaning to the phrase “poetry in motion.”
Sure, the cinematography does lean a little indulgent – ok, sometimes maybe a lot indulgent – with it seeming to sometimes revel in its own beauty to an excess. It’s all so captivatingly, painfully beautiful, though, that I am more than happy to simply indulge together with the show’s makers.
One thing to keep in mind, is that the cinematography is stylized, and quite majorly so. And sometimes, this translates into aesthetic choices which don’t make complete sense. For example, our female lead character Eonnyeon (Lee Da Hae) remains completely clean throughout the show, despite spending much of the time in dusty, dirty surroundings.
Certainly, I’m sure PD Kwak was well aware that no human being could possibly keep that clean while traversing such dusty locales without opportunities to change or wash. But I saw it as a stylistic choice, to bring out the ethereal nature of the character’s beauty. Once you accept these aesthetic choices as simply a stylistic statement, they become much easier to accept.
[SPOILER ALERT]
In episode 6, Eonnyeon’s garments get splattered with blood from being in close proximity to a fight, and her companion, Song Tae Ha (Oh Ji Ho) uses charcoal to draw branches between the blood splatters, turning her garment into a stylish, pretty dress.
Logically, this is a huge stretch, coz really, blood doesn’t look that pretty, and neither is it that color on fabric. Plus, the blood splatters are distributed oh-so-conveniently such that they form pretty blossoms, not only at the base of her hanbok, but down her right sleeve too.
Ridiculous? Well, put that way, it’s kinda hard to say it isn’t. I’d venture to say, though, that if one chooses to nitpick at these little details, that it just mars the enjoyment of the artistry employed in the design of this world.
I’d say the easier, more comforting choice, is to accept it as part of the fantasy built into the creative blueprint of the show.
[END SPOILER]
The music in Chuno is beautifully scored and masterfully employed.
In the intense stretches of the show, pulsing, rhythmic themes swell to dizzying crescendos to magnify the potency of the moment. And in the quieter scenes, evocative instrumentals give poignant voice to the unspoken pathos of our characters.
It is gorgeously absorbing and completely immersive. And the music never feels muted, nor does it ever feel intrusive. It is a bona fide presence in the show, on equal footing with the outstanding cinematography.
The music and the cinematography fuse together as one powerful force, to entirely engulf you and take over your senses.
I’ll be sharing a number of the OST tracks in this review, but I will say that there is nothing quite like experiencing the OST while watching the show.
Over and above the excellent music and cinematography, it is the characters that make Chuno an absorbing watch. There are so many characters, though, that it is impossible to touch on them all in this review.
Besides our major characters, I will highlight several secondary characters that left a deep impression on me.
Jang Hyuk as Lee Dae Gil
Hands-down, Jang Hyuk’s Dae Gil is the heart of the show. And boy, does that heart throb well, hur hur. Pun totally and unabashedly intended.
Those of you who have read my Jang Hyuk k-love confession post know that I was completely mesmerized by this man onscreen during my Chuno watch.
Jang Hyuk makes Dae Gil completely believable as the Badass With Heart. In fact, Jang Hyuk becomes Dae Gil, so much so that I am never tempted to think that this is Jang Hyuk in character. Instead, I am always fully on board that this is Dae Gil. And what a wonderfully layered and textured character he is.
Dae Gil is macho, swaggery, smirky, and possesses a piercing, unrelenting panther-gaze that seems to completely see through people. Not only that, he’s a fabulously skilled fighter (thanks to Jang Hyuk’s super authentic Amazing Fight Skillz) and he fights with ease and flourish, taking down his opponents with laid-back, effortless, streetwise finesse.
One of the things I really enjoy about Dae Gil is how unhurried he is, even when chasing someone. Even the way he stands is languid. Or just the way he breathes. Dae Gil often doesn’t say much, so his eyes, expression and body language say it for him. And when he does speak, it’s in a slow, often sardonic drawl.
To add to the sexy, Dae Gil’s also smart. Not only extremely street-smart, but highly educated too, since he is of noble birth.
Put it all together, and Dae Gil is one potently sexy package that Jang Hyuk brings to life with an impressive amount of nuance.
Over the course of the show, Dae Gil encounters all manner of challenges, obstacles and heartache, charting a journey of realization and – dare I say it? – growth as well.
Before we move into spoilers, let me just share a couple of screenshots with ya.
Exhibit A: Dae Gil’s Piercing Panther Gaze
Exhibits B through F: Dae Gil’s Fantastic Fighting Form:
Pretty darn awesome. Especially when you realize that being this shirtless, it’s quite impossible to use a body double. Super Authentic Amazing Fight Skillz FTW! 😉
And as a fangirl aside: Swooonn~~ All that muscle and sinew, shown off to such glorious, delicious perfection. Thank you, wardrobe people. I owe you. We all owe you.
There is a scene in Episode 10 where I am completely blown away by Jang Hyuk’s nuanced delivery.
Dae Gil is walking with Seolhwa (Kim Ha Eun) and he is too lost in his own thoughts to pay any attention to her prattling. As he walks, he sees a vision of Eonnyeon before him.
What amazes me about this scene is how Dae Gil’s eyes change throughout those few short moments. His irises literally change in size as his gaze goes from empty, to focused, and then to empty again.
It’s going to take quite a few screenshots to walk us through it, but it’s worth seeing the transformation.
This is where we start, where Dae Gil’s gaze is completely dazed and stoned:
And then, as he spies the vision of Eonnyeon before him, his eyes shift into focus in degrees:
He stares at her, stunned with amazed wonder. And then as the vision begins to turn away from him, tears well up in his eyes:
As the vision begins to walk away from him, Dae Gil reaches for her, tears falling, his eyes straining to see her, fearful that she will disappear:
The vision gone, Dae Gil’s gaze goes vacant once again, this time defeated and deflated:
Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Respect.
Together with Jang Hyuk’s full-on delivery, I really appreciated Dae Gil as a character.
On the surface, he’s steely and unflinching, hunting down slaves in a precise, analytical manner, paying no heed to their cries for mercy. Yet, when the transaction has been completed and he’s been paid, Dae Gil stealthily frees the same slaves he’d captured, and gives them money, directing them to Mt Worak to start a new life.
Dae Gil’s compassion also shows in episode 7, where he demonstrates tolerance and empathy for Seolhwa, who’s squandered all their money, thinking that Dae Gil and the boys had abandoned her. Instead of reprimanding her, Dae Gil carries the drunk Seolhwa on his back, without a word.
And despite all his posturing with Cheon Ji Ho (Song Dong Il), Dae Gil’s fondness for him totally shows in episode 18, when Dae Gil cries over Cheon Ji Ho’s body.
That’s why he’s a Badass With Heart.
On a deeper level, I really appreciated Dae Gil’s journey of growth and realization through the course of the drama.
As a young nobleman, we learn that Dae Gil had dreamed of changing the world, so that he could live with Eonnyeon, the woman he loved. When circumstances separated him from Eonnyeon, he put that dream aside, replacing it with the hope of finding her. Through most of the first half of the show, Dae Gil operates on the hope of finding Eonnyeon again, and approaches every slave hunt fueled with that dogged, determined hope.
Once he realizes that Eonnyeon has married Tae Ha, though, Dae Gil is like a dead man walking through most of the second half. Gone is the hope from his eyes. Only a deadness colors the cynicism where before at least there had been shades of hope. To add to it all, Dae Gil has to also contend with the “loss” of the only family that he has left: General Choi (Han Jung Soo) and Wang Son (Kim Ji Suk).
Dae Gil deflates for a time, spouting cynical words at every turn, but eventually, he returns full circle to his original dream of changing the world. Except this time, he goes one level higher and wages his very life on it. (More on that later)
Superficial Asides
As a superficial aside, I was rather impressed to realize that the flashback scenes of Dae Gil show him fuller in the face, without the goatee, and much fairer in complexion than present-day Dae Gil. I thought that attention to detail was really admirable.
I know makeup and styling does a lot, but that can’t be all simulated, right? It made me wonder whether they deliberately shot these flashback scenes earlier, so that Jang Hyuk had time to go lean and grow the goatee for current-day scenes. Mad props indeed.
I was also rather tickled to realize that in the later episodes, the way Dae Gil is styled reminds me of Jack Sparrow, ha.
Oh Ji Ho as Song Tae Ha
Most viewers of Chuno get firmly on board either the Dae Gil ship or the Tae Ha one, and when you’re on one ship, you care a lot less about the other one. Um. No prizes for guessing that I’m firmly on the Dae Gil ship. What can I say? The heart wants what it wants. Heh.
Oh Ji Ho as an actor has never left a very deep impression on me. I’ve seen him in Get Karl, Oh Soo Jung and Queen of Housewives, and in both shows, I thought he was nice to look at, but his delivery wasn’t anything to shout about.
I will say, though, that Oh Ji Ho as Song Tae Ha is literally the best that I’ve seen from him, to date. Granted, his sageuk speech is reportedly really poor in Chuno, but it didn’t bother me too much because to my unschooled ears, he only sounded somewhat off, instead of majorly off.
To his credit, Oh Ji Ho delivers some great scenes in Chuno, and he clearly had to dig pretty deep to do it. Yes, he does appear rather wooden at times, but the woodenness is in line with his character’s straight-laced personality, so it works.
As a character, Tae Ha stays pretty square to the very end. But there is definitely a measure of growth, in that his deeply ingrained traditionalist views do get challenged and shaped along the way.
One of the scenes where I thought Oh Ji Ho did admirably well is in episode 4, where we see Tae Ha in flashback.
It’s during the Manchu war, and he returns to his home to find that his wife’s been killed by Qing attackers. He discovers that his infant son is still alive, and cradling the baby, he fights off invader after invader.
After he’s finally taken down the last attacker, he peels away the baby’s swaddling clothes, only to find that the child is dead.
In a matter of moments, Tae Ha’s expression morphs from relief,
to shock,
to disbelief,
to realization,
to grief,
to remorse,
to deep, utter anguish.
It’s an arresting scene, and Oh Ji Ho’s deep-reaching delivery brought tears to my eyes. Well-done indeed.
Another scene where I also sat up and took notice of Oh Ji Ho’s acting chops is when Tae Ha is in the torture chamber in episode 17.
Before the torture commences, he speaks with an air of fierce resolve:
And then, he valiantly bears with the searing pain as the red-hot iron meets his flesh:
And finally, he roars and gasps in pain:
Chills. And, shudder. He made the torture feel all too real.
This torture chamber scene also shows Tae Ha’s by-the-book, straight-laced character. While nearby, streetsmart Dae Gil feigns unconsciousness in order to bide his time, Tae Ha practically goads Commander Hwang (Lee Jong Hyuk) to put the hot iron on him.
Tae Ha’s growth as a character is relatively slow over the course of the show, but it rings true, because that is how deeply ingrained Tae Ha’s traditionalist views are.
Tellingly, Tae Ha struggles for a long time, over many episodes, when he realizes that his wife Hye Won was born as Eonnyeon the slave. His denial is so strong that he literally only seems to realize the truth of that fact when Dae Gil spells it out for him in episode 16. And even then, Tae Ha refuses to accept it.
In fact, so strong are those traditionalist beliefs, that Tae Ha gets tripped up by them more than once. In episode 17, when Dae Gil is concerned about Eonnyeon’s safety and therefore wishes to talk, all Tae Ha can do is nitpick the fact that her name is Hye Won, not Eonnyeon. At this point, I was like, Seriously? Don’t you care about the fact that the woman you profess to love is in imminent danger because she is carrying the Royal Successor? Stupid man.
But that is how principled and stiff Tae Ha is, and when he finally comes around, even the small shifts feel authentic and organic, because he’s taken time to grapple with his beliefs.
As stiff as Tae Ha is, his loyalty is equally deep-seated. I find it revealing, that it is only in the later episodes, upon the realization that his men were slain by Commander Hwang, that he finally is incited enough to denounce Commander Hwang as his compeer. This, despite the multiple personal betrayals that he had suffered at Commander Hwang’s hands, even to the extent of being stripped of his military title and being (literally) branded a slave.
That says a lot, about the kind of upright and loyal character Tae Ha is.
Chuno OST – 달에 지다
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/fe90pxgdam/03_.mp3
Lee Da Hae as Eonnyeon
Lee Da Hae as Eonnyeon is beautiful, there’s no doubt about it. Eonnyeon’s beauty is of the ethereal, luminescent, incandescent variety, and Lee Da Hae fulfilled the quota for gentle radiance very well.
While Lee Da Hae’s delivery is decent overall, I have to say that it does lean on the bland side.
Eonnyeon is graceful and elegant, and I suppose that is why Lee Da Hae imbues all of Eonnyeon’s expressions and gestures with a restrained, muted kind of demureness. While that’s all well and good, it really did get boring, after a while.
I guess what I would have preferred, is for Lee Da Hae to have dug deeper to give Eonnyeon more facets, textures and depth. Given the extreme range of circumstances and related emotions that Eonnyeon faces over the course of the show, there were ample opportunities for Lee Da Hae to show us more substance in her delivery. It’s disappointing that Eonnyeon remains rather two-dimensional despite the potential inherent in the role.
Before we get into spoilers, I thought I’d share a couple of Eonnyeon screenshots with ya. If the screenshot above is of Eonnyeon gently contemplative, then here is:
Eonnyeon, gently happy:
Eonnyeon, gently sad:
And Eonnyeon, gently shocked:
Sorry, couldn’t resist, heh. But see what I mean about muted and restrained?
In some ways, I found Eonnyeon unusually progressive for someone of her background. Like daring to love her young master, and having the audacity to feel disappointed that Dae Gil doesn’t tell his father about her when his father questions him about marriage (above).
Having been born into slavery, Eonnyeon would have grown up with the deeply ingrained notion that a slave has no hope of marrying her young master.
She would have also grown up with the notion that a slave does not refuse his/her master. So I found it interesting, and to some extent, a little jarring, when she refuses Dae Gil’s advances in episode 8.
As Dae Gil leans in to kiss her, Eonnyeon pulls away, saying, “In my childhood, when I knew nothing of this world, I thought of you as just a compeer of mine. It was only when I grew into adulthood… that I found out what coming from different classes truly meant. If you see me as someone to frivol with… I would never dare to refute that, however… I would prefer if you didn’t.”
Gracious words, to be sure. But coming from Eonnyeon, an uneducated slave-girl, it feels sufficiently discordant and odd to be distracting.
To the show’s credit, it does hang a lantern on this very thing. In episode 20, Seolhwa, on seeing Eonnyeon for the first time, remarks, “How can a slave be so elegant?!” Ha. Exactly.
On a more positive note, I appreciated that Eonnyeon shows flashes of strength, in spite of her generally bland and weak disposition. Like in episode 13, when she’s told to leave Tae Ha by the leading scholar of the conspiracy Jo Seonbi (Choi Duk Moon), she outright refuses, despite the pressure that he exerts on her.
I also liked that Eonnyeon shows some street smarts, evidenced in episode 17 in how she manages to get food and lodging for herself and the Royal Successor (Kim Jin Woo) by hinting that her husband is an officer of the court. And then later, she finds a way past the guards by pretending that she and the child are sick with something dangerously contagious.
On the romantic front, Eonnyeon spends much of the show being stuck between the promises she’s made to 2 men. On the one hand, there is Tae Ha, whom she has married. And on the other, there is Dae Gil, her One True Love come back to life.
I’ll spend more time looking at each of those relationships in a bit, but let me just say that by the end of the show, I think she does genuinely love both men, just in different ways.
Han Jung Soo as General Choi
Han Jung Soo is ABSolutely pitch perfect as the ABtastic, stoic General Choi. Giggle. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
General Choi is a strong, silent, gentle giant who’s plenty badass in his own right, and I love how he’s the voice of reason in our favorite slave-hunting trio.
I am particularly tickled by the running gag through the show, that he draws all the women’s attentions and affections. Can’t quite blame the ladies, though, can we?
[MINOR SPOILER ALERT]
I found it amusing that the Jumos both lust and pine after General Choi, each squirreling treats of extra food to him on the sly, while beside him, Wang Son grins and Dae Gil smirks.
At the same time, on the other side of the fence, the painter and horse doctor lust and pine after the Jumos. Oh what a tangled web we weave!
This side arc definitely brought a delightful side of comic relief. And General Choi, squirming uncomfortably from all the attention? It never gets old.
To give credit where credit’s due, here’s some badass General Choi for ya:
In episode 3 I love that he kicks ass using a handful of bush, when he’s separated from his spear:
And more general badassery:
[END MINOR SPOILER]
Kim Ji Suk as Wang Son
Kim Ji Suk is completely adorkable as Wang Son, the flighty, grumbly, lusty maknae of our slave hunter trio.
As the maknae, Wang Son keeps having to do all the cooking and laundry, and it’s a running gag that he complains and nags about it like there’s no tomorrow:
It’s doubly funny that it is the boy who cooks and cleans and who has the least swag among them, that is the one who gets up to the most flirtatious mischief, always bedding the ladies:
And therefore often gets soundly disciplined by Dae Gil and General Choi:
While Wang Son definitely brings the laughs, like he does here:
I found it genuinely sweet that whenever he’s worried that Dae Gil is hurt, he’ll bawl like a baby:
Aw. He’s a loud handful, but he’s caring at heart.
Kim Ha Eun as Seolhwa
Kim Ha Eun is wonderful as Seolhwa. Literally a breath of fresh mountain air, Seolhwa is sassy, impulsive and genuinely likable.
Seolhwa feels honest and unaffected as a character, and Kim Ha Eun imparts sufficient layers to Seolhwa, that underneath her bravado and sass, we can see Seolhwa’s borne many emotional wounds and scars in her young life.
Sassy and wise to men’s lusty hearts, Seolhwa doesn’t hesitate to use her wiles to get her way.
I love the running gag where she basically wraps Wang Son around her little finger, artfully getting her way while coquettishly hinting at (non-existent) rewards of the bedroom variety.
At heart, though, all Seolhwa wants is to feel like she belongs, and her saddest moments are always when she feels that she’s been abandoned:
I love, though, that no matter how hard it is, Seolhwa chooses to smile in the face of it all, even if it’s with tears in her eyes:
Gotta love such a gutsy girl.
Lee Jong Hyuk as Commander Hwang
Considering that Commander Hwang is a fairly significant, albeit secondary, character, I felt that he was written a little flat.
Or perhaps, it was that Lee Jong Hyuk delivered him as too much of a cipher?
Lee Jong Hyuk made Commander Hwang badass by the boatload, which I appreciated and thought very apt for the character. At the same time, there were key points in the story where I found a lack of expression (for lack of a better word), with regard to his thought processes and decision-making. I can’t decide if this was a directorial or acting issue, but there were certainly moments in the show when I wondered exactly what he was thinking.
For most of the show, we see and experience Commander Hwang as a lean, mean, evil killing machine. He doesn’t hesitate to snuff out lives with a brandish of his sword, even if it’s of his past compatriots. Plus, for most of the show, he’s hunting down an adorable 4-year-old child. To kill him.
His doggedness and tenacity are almost machine-like, and his impassiveness make him inscrutable. It was easy to dislike him, since he was, y’know, trying to kill everyone.
Among Commander Hwang’s scenes, the moments that I appreciated the most, are the scenes that Commander Hwang shares with his mother (Kim Young Ok). It is only with his mother that we get to see flashes of gentleness from him, and hints that deep down, he’s not as evil as he appears to be.
I’ll talk more later, about Commander Hwang’s sudden turnaround at the end of our story.
Min Ji Ah as Chobok
I really enjoyed Min Ji Ah as Chobok. She made Chobok refreshingly spunky, spirited and earthy.
I loved that Chobok is faster and smarter than the men, and has a disarmingly natural and unaffected smile. Sure, it’s unrealistic that a slave has such beautiful teeth, but well, it’s a drama. Heck, if Eonnyeon gets to stay clean throughout the show, Chobok gets to have pretty teeth.
Chobok listens in on the men as they plan their rebellion, and worms her way into the faction, insisting that she wants to be involved, while offering to act as their look-out and decoy.
It’s to her credit that she saves the men several times over the course of the show. And they hadn’t even wanted her around to begin with. Pfft.
I love that Chobok even teaches herself how to shoot a gun by cheerily eavesdropping on the men’s shooting lessons. That the men all fail miserably, while she manages to hit the target on her first try? Gold.
I enjoyed her the most, out of the entire rebel slave faction arc.
Gong Hyung Jin as Eopbok
Eopbok is one of the major players in the rebel slave faction, and it is through his eyes that we see the brutality of slavery. It is also often through his thoughts and his voice that we grapple with the foundational morals – or lack thereof – in slavery.
While he isn’t one of my favorite characters, he does have several particularly memorable scenes, and Gong Hyung Jin delivered excellently. (More on that later)
It’s interesting to me, that among all the characters, Eopbok is the only one who shares Dae Gil’s dream. Or rather, I should say, Eopbok is the only one whose dream aligns with Dae Gil’s. Since through most of the show, Eopbok is intent on killing Dae Gil and all.
In episode 23, Eopbok muses, “If we [the slaves] triumph, and then force yangban into slavery, then nothing would really change.” … “Can we gain that power but still leave the yangban alone? By… What was it… Changing the system?”
Such irony, that the one man who echoes Dae Gil’s dream, is trying to blow Dae Gil’s brains out.
Ha Si Eun as Lee Sun Young (Commander Hwang’s wife)
Mad props to Ha Si Eun, who played such a minor character so well that she not only brought Commander Hwang’s wife to life, but also brought tears to my eyes.
It must be no easy task, playing a character with palsy, but Ha Si Eun manages to imbue the incessant twitching of her body and distortion of her face with genuine emotion. We see clearly, her worry and fear for her husband, her frustration with her condition, as well as her despair at her one-sided love for her husband.
Wonderfully, tragically played.
Park Ki Woong as Geu Boon
Um. I don’t know how to talk about Park Ki Woong’s turn as Geu Boon without going into spoiler territory.
Without going into specifics, let me just say that his character felt a little random when he showed up, and his character arc also felt rather forced. I have seen Park Ki Woong do much better.
Ok, so the insertion of Geu Boon’s character felt a little random and forced, but I can believe Left State Councilor (Kim Eung Soo) would go that far, to plant someone to mislead the slaves and use them. It’s Geu Boon’s complete turnaround at the last stretch, with the manic evil eyes and sinister laughter that feels discordant, sudden and bemusing. It just makes Geu Boon the character feel more like a caricature than a real person. Maybe we should have been given hints earlier?
Also, Park Ki Woong’s delivery is sometimes majorly OTT, especially the villainous expressions. It’s like, “This Is My Evil Face. Bwahahaha.” It takes me out of the moment and makes me almost want to laugh. Except it’s so bad that it’s not funny.
Not one of Park Ki Woong’s finest moments, unfortunately. Guess he did get better at the Evil Face, though, since he did WAY better in Gaksital.
Chuno OST – 낙인
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/w6bjmi5n1j/02_.mp3
Forget plot machinations, it’s the relationships that form the core of the show. Over and above romance – although there is some of that – it’s bromance and brotherhood that trumps the day in Chuno.
Dae Gil, General Choi & Wang Son
The bromance between our slave hunting trio is Pure. Gold. I LUFF THESE BOYS TOGETHER. ♥
On the surface, Dae Gil, General Choi and Wang Son are completely different personalities. Dae Gil’s all swaggering, streetwise and smirky, while General Choi is strong, silent and stoic. And Wang Son’s all monkey and mischief.
Their dynamic works wonderfully, though, and beneath all the machismo and aggravated affection, these boys are family.
Waitaminute. I just had a stroke of brilliance. Taking the family analogy one step further, can you see that Dae Gil’s the father, all leader and decision-maker of the family? And then, General Choi is the mother, all voice of reason and quiet nagging. Wang Son? He’s their bratty son, ha. He whines all the time about chores, and gets into all kinds of mischief, which gets him soundly disciplined by both “parents” – HA! HAHAHA!! Can you tell that I’m extremely tickled by this?
Bottom line is, I LUFF THESE BOYS TOGETHER (oh, have I said that already?), and I would watch them scuffle and swagger and banter together, for a hundred episodes. And then some.
There are so many moments where this rag-tag family tugged at my heartstrings.
In episode 12, during a quiet moment, General Choi senses that Dae Gil is troubled and asks, “I shouldn’t really say this, but aren’t we family? If anything is troubling you, just lean onto us.” Dae Gil scoffs, “Family?! Who, familiar scoundrels like us? We’re just tagging along the same path.”
But a touch of a wry smile plays about Dae Gil’s lips, hinting at the truth, that he does love them as family, even if he won’t say so.
A telling moment is in episode 14, in the way General Choi and Dae Gil desperately and relentlessly go after a missing Wang Son. It says so much about how much these men really care for each other, underneath the tough words and gruff exterior.
Among the three, Dae Gil is the one who is most gruff in his affections, refusing to admit that he loves General Choi and Wang Son. But in episode 16, we see how deeply he loves them, in how heartbroken he is, thinking them dead.
Dae Gil gets Jumo to set a table for three, and sitting at it all alone, he puts Wang Son’s arm band and General Choi’s headpiece on the other 2 bowls of rice, ie, acting as offerings to the “deceased” Wang Son and General Choi, as well as to represent their presence.
Dae Gil begins to eat, in what is quite possibly the most anguished egg-eating scene in the history of kdrama:
As he eats, he imagines General Choi and Wang Son eating with him, with their usual cheerful banter. Dae Gil speaks to them and offers them food, while tears stream down his face. So. Heartbreaking.
Tears. T.T
Poor Dae Gil.
To balance out this terribly heartbreaking moment, let’s revisit the most heartwarming moment between the three.
In episode 20, the three are finally reunited when Dae Gil arrives at Mt Worak. Hearing that Dae Gil has arrived, General Choi and Wang Son come racing.
Upon seeing them, Dae Gil is stunned, and touches General Choi on the cheek to test if he’s not a vision, while Wang Son sidles up to Dae Gil with a happy grin:
Dae Gil starts to yell at Wang Son for being such a dumbass and nearly getting himself killed, and amid the teary yelling, General Choi quietly grabs Dae Gil for a hug, saying simply, “I missed you.” AWWW.
Dae Gil’s tears finally overflow, and then, group hug! AWWW.
How cute. And how very, very sweet. Melt.
Although Dae Gil doesn’t say it, he loves these boys even more than he loves himself. We see this in episode 24 when General Choi and Wang Son realize that Dae Gil’s paid for land and houses for them. And it is only Dae Gil’s house that remains unpaid. His brothers came first, for him. That is so sweet.
I JUST LUFF THESE BOYS TOGETHER. ♥
Dae Gil & Tae Ha
Song Tae Ha is the flint to Dae Gil’s steel, and the two spark off each other all drama long.
It’s a reluctant bromance, alright, seeing as how they’re not only as different as night and day, but that they’re mostly standing on opposite sides, and exchange blows almost every time they cross paths.
Much as they resent each other, though, these two shape each other, and in pretty powerful ways. Yes, we sometimes have to get through a whole lotta male posturing with these two, particularly since they love the same woman. But when all the blows have been delivered, these two reluctantly have deep, philosophical conversations. Conversations that end up shaping both men, pretty much against their will.
I love that these two head-strong characters, each so set in their thinking and their ways, affect each other in such a profound manner.
Dae Gil’s and Tae Ha’s interactions show us a lot about each of the men, in terms of their philosophies and outlooks on life and the world they live in, and I actually found that more interesting than the question of who would end up with Eonnyeon.
A revealing conversation between Dae Gil and Tae Ha takes place in episode 16, after they’ve finally stopped fighting and Dae Gil has gained the upper hand.
Tae Ha asks, “When you said she was one of your clan’s varlets, what did you mean?” and Dae Gil shoots back, “Why, is my having a past as a yangban all that vexatious?”
Disbelievingly, Tae Ha asks again, “Was my spouse… truly a slave?” Sardonically, Dae Gil replies, “And so what? Slave or yangban, what difference would it make? If you have feelings for each other, that is all it matters.”
Tae Ha counters, “Be that as it may… People’s roots are unalterable.”
But it is Dae Gil who has the last word, stating simply, “It’s because people like you are in power that we live in such a wretched world. If people like you didn’t exist, then there would be no need for people like me, either.”
I found this moment of honesty fascinating because it shows us so much about these two men.
Usually, Dae Gil is the one spouting hard-nosed stuff like “I had no feelings for a mere slave” etc, and Tae Ha is the one who’s portrayed as nice and noble. But when it comes down to a moment of honesty, we see that they actually feel quite differently.
Tae Ha’s the one who’s got caste ingrained in him, and who struggles – deeply – with the fact that Eonnyeon used to be a slave. Although Tae Ha himself experienced slavery, he doesn’t see himself as a real slave, because he didn’t come from a slave background. And he struggles with the fact that Eonnyeon came from a slave background, not seeing her as true nobility. Quite fascinating, considering how nice he’s been portrayed up till this point.
On the other hand, Dae Gil’s the one who is truly able to put his actions where his mouth is. He believes it so strongly, that he would act on it, and without hesitation.
What a contrast, these 2 men. And on multiple levels too. Notably, they are both educated as well, so it’s not a difference in education that accounts for their very different outlooks.
Another moment of honesty between the two men occurs in episode 22, as they rest in the darkness.
Tae Ha muses, “While spending my lifetime on the battlefield, I only had one thing in mind. That, should the battle be too much to handle, I would just die. That I would have given my everything, so there would be no regrets. But now, no matter how hard it is, I must survive, so that path is much more arduous than accepting demise.”
Dae Gil answers with a touch of wistfulness, “You know, no matter how noble your intents are, people struggle by the same rules. Once misery engulfs you, your life can only get worse. So just take it as it comes. Abandon all greed and let it go. How nice it would be? Having a spouse and children, a land to farm… That’s all you need. A life of simplicity is a wise man’s greatest virtue. Warm and simple…”
Tae Ha then asks, “Back in the day, did you not wish to change the world yourself? To make a world without yangban or commoners? Did you not dream of making a world where… you could spend your entire life in peace with the woman you love?”
Dae Gil’s eyes deaden again as he answers, “Before I experienced reality… Back then, I did.”
Many of their conversations don’t have the sort of closure where one party agrees with the other, but watching them speak, you can just tell that each is giving the other substantial food for thought. And it is in the wake of these conversations that each grapples with his own philosophy and outlook on life and the meaning of it.
Another thought-provoking moment in conversation is in episode 23, when Dae Gil and Tae Ha bide their time at the inn.
At one point, Tae Ha says to Dae Gil, “Are you not of yangban ancestry yourself?”
Dae Gil replies, “There was such a time in the past. But, you know? Once you start wearing the same things and eating like they do, you become just like them. What makes a yangban is not his genealogy, but these [points at his clothes] and nothing else. I have never seen someone with fancy garments endure adversities, nor have I seen anyone in rags leading a happy life. That is the truth behind our lives.”
It’s clear that Dae Gil is a much more practical man than Tae Ha, in that he forms his thoughts and philosophies based on what he experiences, while Tae Ha clings to a fixed set of philosophies.
And I’m positive that these words from Dae Gil give Tae Ha much pause for thought, in terms of shifting his mindset to become finally fully able to accept and embrace his wife for who she is.
I particularly like the final conversation that Dae Gil and Tae Ha share in episode 24, after having been on the road for some time.
At one point, Tae Ha says to Dae Gil, “I feel sorry towards you. But is not chance part of our destiny as well?”
On the surface, it looks like Tae Ha is apologizing for taking Dae Gil on the run with him, but on a deeper level, I feel like it’s also a gentleman’s apology, for having unwittingly taken Eonnyeon away from him.
In another nice moment, Tae Ha finally acknowledges the value of Dae Gil’s street smarts, as Dae Gil rattles off all the details and factors relating to their journey.
Looking thoughtfully at Dae Gil, Tae Ha remarks, “I see you discount no detail whatsoever. I’ve learned a lot from you.”
I love that Dae Gil playfully smirks in reply, “Of course. You should get on your knees and be grateful. For all the things I taught you…” Hee.
What a long, long way these two have come. It’s taken quite a journey, but they’ve effectively moved from mutual disdain, to mutual respect. With a little bit of ribbing on the side.
Full Circle in the Open Fields
There’s a recurring motif that I really love, because it shows us how far Dae Gil and Tae Ha have come, in their relationship with one another, and that’s the motif of them fighting in open fields.
When the two men first meet, they are on opposite sides; the hunter and the hunted. Dae Gil sees Tae Ha simply as another job, while Tae He sees Dae Gil as an attacker he must fight off.
They face off, leaping headlong into each other, weapons raised:
By episode 22, the two men have arrived at a reluctant place of partnership and alliance.
There’s a great throwback moment, after they’ve fought off Commander Hwang’s men together, and Dae Gil and Tae Ha run towards each other with fists raised, as if to each other, and in slo-mo too, to show us the determination in their eyes.
Except their fists are really aimed at the other’s pursuer, whom we don’t see until each of their fists makes contact with the other’s pursuer. After they take down the other’s pursuer, Dae Gil and Tae Ha stand facing each other, smiling.
I loved how this moment is so reminiscent of their first face-off in the open field, yet so very different.
Finally, to bring us full circle, there’s a great moment in episode 24, where Dae Gil and Tae Ha run in the open fields, but this time, instead of facing off with each other as they did when they first met, they are running together, on the same side.
I love the little detail, that as they run, they each have a look of exhilaration on their faces.
Sure, Dae Gil mutters insults at Tae Ha all series long, even to the very end, but it’s clear that they work well together and they know it.
It’s completely gratifying to see the change in their relationship over the course of the show; from being a thorn in each other’s sides, to becoming reluctant partners.
Romance was never the main event in this show. Bromance was.
Chuno OST – 비익련리(比翼連里)
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/jri2czxqiy/10_.mp3
Dae Gil & Eonnyeon
Truth be told, Dae Gil’s romance with Eonnyeon was never the focus of the show.
Because of our familiarity with kdrama romance tropes, we might tend to think of Dae Gil and Eonnyeon as our OTP. After all, we meet him first, before we meet anyone else, really, and we quickly see that beyond his badassery lies a heart that still beats for and yearns for Eonnyeon, his First Love. All classic symptoms of a couple that is Meant To Be.
But really, that’s just not how Chuno rolls.
Instead of being the central event, Dae Gil’s romance with Eonnyeon plays more of a expository role, because it is through this relationship and how it affects Dae Gil, that we get to see the inner workings of Dae Gil’s heart and mind.
Perhaps one of the most important things that Dae Gil’s relationship with Eonnyeon shows us, is Dae Gil’s outlook on slavery and equality.
In episode 8, Dae Gil, carrying Eonnyeon on his back, smiles as he shares his plan with her, “…I’ll have to pass the national examination.” Eonnyeon, smiling playfully, asks, “And after that?”
Dae Gil answers, “I’ll gain an important position in the court.” And Eonnyun presses, “And when you do?”
Dreamily, Dae Gil adds, “I’ll change this country.” Puzzled, Eonnyun asks, “How?”
Dae Gil concludes smilingly, “By making a world which doesn’t discriminate between yangban and commoners. So… you and I can live together. Forever.”
Precisely because Dae Gil is shown having an actual relationship with Eonnyeon, and seriously planning to actually do these things that he talks of, shows us plainly that this is something that he truly believes. That he’s willing to take action to support those beliefs. That it’s not just talk.
I find this point really important, in terms of distinguishing the differences between Tae Ha and Dae Gil like we talked about earlier, ie, at which point can each of these men love and accept Eonnyeon and her slave girl origins. For Dae Gil, this was never a question. He loved her from the very beginning, slave girl origins and all.
All series long, Dae Gil is doggedly focused on finding Eonnyeon again. I feel like after Dae Gil’s yangban stature disintegrates in the fire, together with his family, and all that was familiar to him, that he focuses his entire existence on the hope of finding Eonnyeon again. It’s likely that this is why he chose to be a slave hunter in the first place.
So when Dae Gil discovers that she is marrying Tae Ha, his whole world comes crumbling down, all over again. Once again, he’s forced to re-examine his driving purpose in life.
As Dae Gil breaks down wailing in the streets, and his tortured sobs shudder through his body, we can practically taste his agony. Thoroughly heartbreaking.
So great is Dae Gil’s love for Eonnyeon, though, that he does not stop loving her even though she is married to another man.
He continues to care for and ensure her safety, going out of his way to save her, like he does here when she’s dragged before a magistrate and questioned:
To be fair, Eonnyeon still feels a deep connection to Dae Gil too, and we see this in episode 15 when she feels Dae Gil’s presence before she even turns around to face him.
When Tae Ha and Dae Gil go at each other with their weapons, Eonnyeon shields Dae Gil with her own body, just before Tae Ha’s sword strikes him, willing to take the fall for him if necessary.
We see that Eonnyeon is terrified in the moment, and that the danger is very real. Yet, she does not hesitate to put her life on the line for Dae Gil.
Granted, Eonnyeon then does the same for Tae Ha, but I think it’s noteworthy that she shields Dae Gil first.
While it’s true that she is partly motivated by a deep sense of guilt over what happened to Dae Gil because of her and her brother, I believe that Eonnyeon’s actions here are motivated more by her love for Dae Gil.
After the two men leave to duel it out, Eonnyeon weeps, and I feel that her tears are more for Dae Gil than for Tae Ha. In her tears, I feel she is expressing a multitude of pent-up regret and sorrow over the twist of fate that has forever separated her from Dae Gil.
Subsequent to this, we see that even though Dae Gil continues to care deeply for Eonnyeon, that he repeatedly stands aside, respecting the relationship that Eonnyeon now has with Tae Ha.
I love that Dae Gil is not only made of such honorable stuff, but that his love for Eonnyeon is not dependent on whether or not he gets to be with her. I love the selfless nature of his love.
In episode 18, we finally see a measure of closure to Dae Gil’s and Eonnyeon’s relationship.
As Eonnyeon goes about her chores at Mt Worak, Dae Gil watches her from afar and it’s clear that he still loves her.
When Seolhwa shows up and pulls Dae Gil into a hug, Dae Gil hesitates for a moment before we see a look of resolution cloud his eyes. He then looks right at Eonnyeon and returns Seolhwa’s embrace.
Clearly, Dae Gil is sending Eonnyeon a message of closure in this moment, and Eonnyeon looks at him with sorrowful, teary eyes, understanding his message.
On one hand, one might argue that this makes Eonnyeon seem really greedy in that she has affection for Tae Ha but appears to not want to let Dae Gil go.
At the same time, I feel like she has a different sort of love for each man, and that she basically has a very special place in her heart for Dae Gil, the man who loved her for herself, not caring about her slave girl origins. And she mourns the moment of putting this love away, for good.
Of course, I do have issues with the way the moment of closure is treated, almost with hard defiance on Dae Gil’s part, and him using Seolhwa in the process. It doesn’t feel right, but it is what it is. Dae Gil’s not perfect by any means, and the show doesn’t hesitate to remind us of that.
In episode 21, Dae Gil muses to General Choi, “Not being able to see her was driving me crazy, but now that I can see her every day, it’s just killing me.”
The road that Dae Gil walks in terms of this love is never an easy one, and we see it all the more in his final words to Eonnyeon in episode 24.
As Dae Gil runs with his very last dredges of strength to face the troops who have arrived, he speaks in a final voiceover to Eonnyeon. In gentle, tender tones completely dissonant with his outer bloody surroundings, Dae Gil says, “Eonnyeon-ah… Eonnyeon-ah… Live in happiness. Spend endless moons with that man of yours, and that child, until the day we shall once again meet, and you will tell me how your life was. My Eonnyeon… My… beloved.”
Tears. And chills.
He loves her so, so very much that for him, it transcends life and even death.
Tae Ha & Eonnyeon
If Dae Gil’s love for Eonnyeon is like a raging furnace that can’t be put out, then the love between Tae Ha and Eonnyeon would be like a pile of winking embers that, given a long time, finally grows into a muted but steady flame.
I confess that I was not very invested in this relationship during both of my watches of the show. But I do appreciate how their relationship moves from being shrouded in layers of half-truths, to a place where Tae Ha and Eonnyeon can be truly honest with each other.
In addition, it is Tae Ha’s relationship with Eonnyeon that serves as a barometer for his gradually shifting views on nobility and slavery.
To be honest, I found the beginning of this couple’s relationship a pretty shaky and superficial one.
Simply put, Tae Ha finds her beautiful and graceful, and is intrigued. Eonnyeon, on the other hand, is indebted to him for saving her from being raped by thugs. Plus, he’s good protection for a girl traveling alone.
To top it off, both lie about not being pursued. And both also lie, about not being slaves.
It is only when the layers of lies get slowly peeled away, that they are forced to confront and grapple with the truth.
In episode 9, part of the truth gets unraveled as Tae Ha’s headband gets sliced off during a fight:
Tae Ha looks at Eonnyeon in shock, like a deer caught in headlights, as he realizes that his secret has just been exposed. Eonnyeon, in turn, looks at him in stunned realization. Before this, Tae Ha had strenuously denied that he was a slave. But now, the evidence is staring at her from his forehead: 奴. Slave.
From this point onwards, Tae Ha and Eonnyeon have several conversations surrounding this, with Tae Ha still emphatic that he is not a slave, and that he’s got more important things to tend to, than shedding his slave status.
Notably, Tae Ha still speaks in riddles, which confuses Eonnyeon, “You are a slave but not a slave. You are one the being chased but you are not running away. What kind of words are these? Which words that you speak are ones I can believe in and which words should I throw away?”
At the same time, I find it significant that Eonnyeon chooses not to reveal her own slave background, even when Tae Ha’s slave background has been uncovered.
As the pair continue to travel together on Tae Ha’s mission, they gradually exchange tokens of affection, such as here, where she takes his hand, or on the cliff-tops, where they embrace, and she allows him to kiss her:
I feel, though, that the more significant change, on Eonnyeon’s part at least, is in episode 12, where she goes to the temple and prays for Tae Ha.
I find it quite key, that she now prays for Tae Ha instead of Dae Gil. I think that’s a true sign that he’s entered her heart, even though it’s not verbalized yet. I find this more significant than the kiss even, because this is what she used to do for Dae Gil in the past, even praying for him through the night.
As the episodes progress, though, we see that there is one thing that remains a sore point – and a barrier, at that – in their relationship and marriage. That is, that Tae Ha cannot accept the fact that Eonnyeon used to be a slave. We see that surface every time Tae Ha has a conversation that with Dae Gil, and Dae Gil refers to her as Eonnyeon instead of Hye Won.
Another noteworthy thing, is that the relationship between Tae Ha and Eonnyeon is one that is based on loyalty more than romantic feelings.
In episode 19, Eonnyeon decides to leave Tae Ha because of her slave past, and because she does not wish to stand in the way of his mission.
I find it telling, that it takes Tae Ha some time to decide to stop her. And that when he does move to stop her from leaving, this is all he can say,”I pledged to myself I would awaken to the anguish of our people, but I never envisioned a world without slavery, or the same traditional tenets which guided us.” … “Even while experiencing slavery firsthand, I could not think of that. No matter how long it takes, until the day when I walk on the righteous path, will you aid and await me?”
Not at all romantic, and it’s revealing that all he speaks of is a higher purpose. I mean, a higher purpose is all well and good. But surely sometimes, especially at this time, it’s important to approach things in a more personal way?
I also find it significant, that Tae Ha, even having experienced slavery first-hand, had never envisioned a world without slavery. What does this tell us about him? At best, he’s a square who can’t think out of the box. At worst, he’s a snob who doesn’t think that slavery is wrong, even when he experienced the humiliation and suffering first-hand. He only thought that he was NOT a slave and therefore these treatments were not rightly applied to him.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate Tae Ha or anything. I just think that his deeply ingrained traditionalist views, combined with his very straight-laced personality, are what stand in his way of changing his paradigm of the world. He just cannot imagine it.
Again on the topic of loyalty, I found it noteworthy that even though Eonnyeon talks of having loved Dae Gil, that she doesn’t talk of loving Tae Ha.
Between her and Tae Ha, they only talk of loyalty and fealty. And perhaps that may mean more to a military man such as Tae Ha, but to a woman, love means more. And she doesn’t ever say that she loves Tae Ha.
Still. We see that Eonnyeon does look at Tae Ha with affection, as she does in episode 19, when she looks at him sleeping with the boy. I think it’s just a very different sort of love compared to the love that she had for Dae Gil.
It is only in episode 20, after many, many episodes of internal grappling, that Tae Ha seems to finally get over the fact that Eonnyeon used to be a slave.
As Eonnyeon talks to the Royal Successor in her arms and tells the child that her name is Hye Won, but she used to be known as Eonnyeon, Tae Ha looks at her with tears in his eyes and says, “Whatever your name is, it doesn’t matter. Be it Hye Won or Eonnyeon, all you are to me is my spouse.”
And Eonnyeon, tearing up, responds, “Hearing that makes me feel like I’ve truly become your spouse, at last.”
What a long journey that was, for this couple to finally arrive at a place of truth and mutual understanding. On the upside, though, their love feels quite true to life, in that I find it similar to the muted, gentle affections of a long-married couple.
Dae Gil & Seolhwa
Seolhwa’s crush on Dae Gil is pretty much summed in this screenshot right here.
She’s the one trailing after him, proactively making her feelings known, and he’s the one, well, enduring her attention.
I found the dynamic between Seolhwa and Dae Gil sweetly tragic, because Seolhwa actually knows that Dae Gil only has room in his heart for Eonnyeon. Yet, she continues to set her eyes and her heart on him, and her earnestness is poignantly touching.
And honestly, who can blame the girl for nursing a crush on sexy Orabeoni?
One of the things I found particularly interesting about Dae Gil’s scenes with Seolhwa, is that there are many times the show uses their scenes as parallels to scenes of Tae Ha and Eonnyeon. The scenes , meaningfully and interestingly interwoven, often appear similar on the surface, but have deeper, very different meanings for each pair of characters.
One example is in episode 7, where Dae Gil carries a drunk Seolhwa on his back, while silently thinking back to the days when he used to carry Eonnyeon the same way.
The scene splices away, to show us, in parallel, Tae Ha carrying Eonnyeon on his back, injured and unconscious.
As both men walk on, we see that each woman drops her most prized possession. Seolhwa drops her hae-geum, and Eonnyeon drops the stone that Dae Gil used to heat for her, to keep her hands warm.
We then see Dae Gil bending down to pick up Seolhwa’s hae-geum, while Tae Ha, oblivious, walks on, leaving the stone behind.
It feels like moment filled with poetry and symbolism.
Both women drop something precious, but the implications are completely different. And the scene of Eonnyeon dropping the stone and moving away on Tae Ha’s back seems to imply her leaving Dae Gil behind.
The scenes between these pairs are also often interspliced to magnify the meaning of the moment. For example, Eonnyeon’s happy wedding scenes with Tae Ha are interspliced with Dae Gil’s heartwrenching wailing on the street while Seolhwa cries, looking on. Juxtaposed with the happy wedding scenes, the magnitude of Dae Gil’s grief is amplified.
Continually contrasted like this, it does feel like Dae Gil and Eonnyeon are living in parallel lines but walking in opposite directions, away from each other.
Another thing that stands out to me, about Seolhwa’s relationship with Dae Gil, is that she is often there with him during his lowest moments. It’s the pay-off, of always trailing him around.
When he wails, heartbroken, on the street, she’s there, tearing too.
And when he’s in disbelief and grief over the death of Eonnyeon’s brother, she’s there too, to pat his shoulder, to hold his hand, and to cry with him.
And so I found it fitting that at the very end of his life, Seolhwa is there too, to send him off with tears, a smile and a song.
A bittersweet love indeed.
Eonnyeon & Seolhwa
I found the blossoming friendship between Seolhwa and Eonnyeon rather sweet.
I love the arc, that Seolhwa, from being envious and jealous of Eonnyeon, eventually comes to see Eonnyeon as the friend and older sister she never had.
The relationship between Seolhwa and Eonnyeon begins in episode 21, when Seolhwa gets drunk at the feast that the Mt Worak folks prepared, and pays Eonnyeon a visit in her room.
In her drunken state, Seolhwa drunk-talks to Eonnyeon, “Why did you do it? Why did you show up, and start tearing Daegil Orabeoni’s heart to pieces? I’m sorry. But… I can’t help but resent you. I can’t help but… envy you. If I become just like you, will Orabeoni even glance at me?”
Tearing up with compassion, Eonnyeon gathers Seolhwa in her arms, comforting her, “Cry it all out. Could there be anyone free from sorrow?”
Thereafter, we get several small interludes where the two women spend time together.
I liked that they shared their thoughts with each other as they spent time, Eonnyeon teaching Seolhwa how to read and write, and Seolhwa entertaining Eonnyeon and her “son” with the hae-geum.
I found it particularly sweet that Seolhwa would wait for Eonnyeon to return so that she could entertain her “son.”
I really enjoyed watching the unfolding of this sisterhood, and it’s too bad it got truncated by circumstances.
Chuno OST – 천하(天下)에 고함
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/os58r9hvzh/12_.mp3
Eopbok & Chobok
I rather enjoyed the blossoming love relationship between Eopbok and Chobok.
Their romance added levity to the otherwise heavy-going arc of the rebel slave faction.
Also, I found it amusing that the show kept portraying Eopbok as either too slow or too insecure to realize that Chobok has feelings for him.
A really cute moment between this couple is in episode 20, where they talk indirectly about their feelings for each other.
As they walk home in the night, Eopbok asks Chobok what she would do if they really manage to turn the world upside down and Chobok rattles off a bunch of things, including going to Mt Geumgang in the winter.
Eopbok baulks, “Say what? How could you go there all by yourself?” Without missing a beat, Chobok answers, “Why would I be by myself? You can just tag along.”
Eopbok looks at her disapprovingly, “Think you could win me over so easily, prancing around with you?”
Chobok grins, “Who said I wanted to win you over? If my leg hurts on the way, you can always carry me on your back.”
Eopbok protests, “Do you need to go all the way to Mount Geumgang for that?” Brightly, Chobok shoots back, “Why? Will you do it right now?”
Suddenly all concerned, Eopbok asks, “Does your leg hurt again?” and Chobok beams, “Yes!”
Such an outright lie. Hee. But, piggyback ride it is!
On the other end of the spectrum, I found the scene between Eopbok and Chobok in episode 23 particularly moving.
After rescuing her from her new husband, to whom she’d been unceremoniously sold, Eopbok urges Chobok to go to Mt Worak without him.
Chobok refuses with tears in her eyes, and Eopbok asks, tears burgeoning, “Chobok. Should we just… run away and live together? I will hunt, you will be farming, we will catch tigers and sell their skin at hefty prices… You’ll watch flowers blossom, dabble in the water, and after living together that way, we’ll have children. Should you and I… just live that way? Is that what you wish for? Going to a place where nobody knows us, you and I…”
After a moment’s pause, Chobok gives her answer tearfully,”No. Then, who will change the world? You need to go there and fight.”
Eopbok, tears spilling over, smiles, “Thank you. For saying that.”
They say goodbye tearfully and kiss.
I found this scene moving for showing us the sacrificial spirit behind their higher yearning for a better world. That they would give up their own happiness, in order to fight for a better world – I found that poignant and inspiring.
On a side note, as they kiss, their adjacent cheeks read “奴婢” – I wonder if the writers planned that far ahead for this moment of statement / irony?
Hanseom & the Court Lady
Even though they are minor characters, I was rather taken and very moved by the love story of Hanseom (Jo Jin Woong) and the court lady.
I found their simple love story, cut short too soon, completly heartwrenching and tragic.
In episode 10, while on the run from Commander Hwang and his murderous intent, Hanseom carries the Royal Successor, as he and the court lady walk through a field.
He asks her name, and she demurs repeatedly. Han Seom, mildly exasperated, asks, “Will you tell me your name, or not? Never had such a hard time exchanging names before.” His mock chagrin is adorable, and she’s noticeably swayed.
Just as his court lady is about to finally give him an answer, Commander Hwang’s makeshift spear pierces into her back.
Tears spill onto her cheeks as she starts to lean forward from the pain, and she manages, “M…My… name… Jang… Pilsoon…”
Crying in disbelief, Hanseom can only say, “I said you can survive…”
She gasps, “I’m… from… Pimat-gol… in Hanyang…”
Hanseom’s anguished cries are heartbreaking, “No! I told you I’d make you bask in luxury! Don’t! Listen! Listen to me!”
Trembling, Hanseom lays Pilsoon’s head on the ground. Words desert him and all he can manage are guttural, tortured shaking sobs.
Tears. So very heartbreaking.
And Hanseom’s grief and sorrow, mixed with his resolute loyalty to carry out his duty, even as he fights his tears, makes him so endearing.
In episode 21, tragically, Hanseom dies, betrayed by Jo Seonbi. But his vision of being reunited with the woman he loves and them leaving together is sweet and moving.
I love that she greets him, saying, “Where have you been all this time?”
The idea that she’s been waiting for him, to spend the afterlife together, is sweet.
Hanseom’s still as adorable in the afterlife, telling her, “I’ll make you bask in luxury.”
Aw.
REBEL SLAVE FACTION
I’ll be the first to admit that I found the rebel slave faction arc less interesting than the story surrounding our slave hunters.
During my first watch, I barely tolerated the presence of this arc, and found it too distanced from what I considered the main story.
On my second watch, though, I found myself much more tolerant of this arc, and even rather appreciative of it for the themes that it brings out in the show. I also found the slave characters more interesting this time around.
One of the recurring thoughts in the drama, is that slaves are not people. It comes up repeatedly.
[MINOR SPOILER]
Like when the painter says junior Jumo is his best portrait after the king himself, she pouts about the portrait of Eonnyeon that he keeps drawing for Dae Gil.
The painter assures her smilingly, “I’m talking about portraits of people, not of slaves”
The show is always treading that line between showing us how slaves are viewed and treated as less than human, and how slaves really ARE people. Throughout the drama, we are shown how slaves are exchanged for livestock between masters, and how they are basically beaten and branded like animals.
And it is because of this existing thinking, that in an equivalent reversal, the slaves don’t think of their masters as people either. Which explains why the slave rebel faction blithely kills off noble yangban without a second thought.
In episode 16, Eopbok asks Chobok, “Wouldn’t it be better to make a world where there are neither slaves nor yangban?”
Chobok’s answer is telling, “A world without yangban or slaves might be wonderful, but what I want to do now is avenge what those yangban did to me.”
And so it is, that the ugliness of human nature propels the slaves to a cyclically flawed goal instead of a truly better world.
Ultimately, the slave faction’s mission is really a quest for recognition and dignity. Because their masters don’t see or treat them as people, their quest is simply to be recognized as people and to have human dignity. The reason they go to extremes is because of how unyielding the prevailing belief system is. Because they believe that they need to go that far, in order to create a dent in an unyielding belief system.
There are many minor weaknesses in Chuno, but I think I’m not alone in saying that the biggest weakness in this show, is the amount of screentime dedicated to political machinations in the later episodes.
I felt the story slump the hardest, from episodes 18 to 22, where we spent way too much time on the politicking in the court than our main characters. As much as I understand how important the politics are, as a context for our characters, I did feel that we could have done with a lot less of it.
Chuno OST – 잃어버린 낙원
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/33rwwn8ezk/11_.mp3
During my first watch of Chuno, I’ll admit that there were parts of the ending that didn’t make sense to me. Probably because I watched it as a casual viewer.
On my second watch, paying closer attention, and with a more analytical lens on, I finally appreciate the ending for what it was intended to be.
I’m going to touch on the closure of various characters and where we leave them.
[SPOILERS THROUGH THE END OF THIS REVIEW]
Eopbok
Eopbok, upon discovering his dead comrades, cradles Ggeutbong’s body and muses aloud, “Ggeutbong-ah. I don’t think I can live without Chobok. She said she’d be waiting for me… But I’m not going to die like a beast. I’ll show them… Show them that even slaves like us… live in this world. If I can only do that, it’ll be worth dying for. Isn’t that right, Chobok?”
It’s a heartbreaking decision, but he knows that Chobok will choose the higher mission over her own comfort.
Eopbok’s plan to charge the palace is the ultimate dream that he and his comrades had held together. And now that all of them had perished but for him, he charges the palace to fulfill their collective dreams. A statement, for the price of his life.
That he manages to kill – pretty much by accident – Geu Boon, is so satisfying. And that he, representing his fellow slaves, kills the Left State Councilor – the one behind the entire conspiracy, the one who basically manipulated the slaves, the one whom everyone else was powerless against – is pure poetic justice.
Constable Oh
Ha. I love that Constable Oh gets his just deserts.
He gets hauled in for questioning and torture even though he’s not to blame. Just like he used to do to the townsfolk that he used to terrorize.
His replacement constable surmises of his fate: “Guess if he’s lucky, they’ll only force him into slavery.” Yet another instance of poetic justice, since he used to trade in slaves as if they were objects.
But some things just don’t change. The new constable is an even more demanding tyrant than Constable Oh used to be. I guess systemic change doesn’t come easy, is what they’re trying to say.
Dae Gil
Dae Gil’s parting words to Eonnyeon, charging her to leave with Tae Ha, are, “Take him and leave.” … “You must survive and make a better world.. Only then will there be no more people like us. Eonnyeon… You must survive… Only if you do… Will I go on living. Leave now!”
In the end, Dae Gil gives his life towards his original dream to change the world. Only it’s not by the means that he’d originally intended. It’s not by taking the exam and getting into a position of power to effect change in the world.
I feel like Dae Gil has finally come full circle, back to his original dream of making a better world, except this time, he approaches it with an even higher wager – his very life.
I believe that coming back to his dream, his motivation and resolve has strengthened to something much more profound than simply making it possible for him to live with the woman he loves. Now, it’s a higher, greater purpose, and he’s willing to pay the price of his life towards it. And it is only through Eonnyeon’s eyes that he will get to see the new world that he gives his life for.
As I mentioned earlier, I found it fitting too, that Seolhwa was the one with Dae Gil in his final moments.
In a truly heartbreaking moment, Dae Gil, with his last few breaths, finally addresses her by name, “I’m sorry… Seolhwa-ya. Darkness surrounded me, so I could not see your heart was beating for me.”
These words help to shed light on how the show resolves Commander Hwang’s arc as well, and I will talk about that in a little bit.
Tae Ha
As Tae Ha and Eonnyeon flee, Tae Ha’s strength finally starts to give out, and he asks Eonnyeon to leave without him, for Qing territory.
With tears and gasping breaths, he tells her, “I shall not… leave with you for Qing territory.” … “I am too indebted to this land of mine, so I don’t believe I could ever leave it.” … “I shall recover in no time. Once I have recovered, we must make a better world. Hyewon. Eonnyeon! I shall make sure you will never have to use two names…”
I found it really meaningful, that while it was slow in the coming, that Tae Ha would address Eonnyeon by her original name in his last few breaths. That he genuinely had come to embrace and yearn for the promise of a better world without slavery. That in their final moments, both he and Dae Gil had arrived at a place of complete agreement in terms of their hopes and dreams for the world and its future.
Commander Hwang
Left to battle it out while Eonnyeon flees with a severely injured Tae Ha, Commander Hwang and Dae Gil fight until their strength is almost depleted.
Commander Hwang asks Dae Gil, mid-battle: “What is the reason you’re doing all this?”
Dae Gil answers simply, “That fool rescued me once.” Incredulous, Commander Hwang asks, “Is that all?”
Dae Gil raises his voice, almost in anticipation, “He said he’d change it! This wretched world of ours!”
Frustrated, Commander Hwang says, “Even you… Even you bring me misery.”
Dae Gil smirks, “You may resent this world, but you shouldn’t resent people. Nice, isn’t it? Even if we only rid this world of people like you and me, I’m sure… it will be a better place.”
And with those words, Dae Gil lets out his final battle cry as he runs into the approaching troops, towards certain death.
Dae Gil’s words seem to have a profoundly deep effect on Commander Hwang. He actually stops his men from pursuing Tae Ha, saying “I won.. It’s all over.”
On my first watch, this puzzled me. But now I see that Dae Gil’s words basically turn him around. He’s actually covering for Tae Ha, so that he can change the world.
And knowing that, changes the meaning behind his words. “It’s all over” = the fighting and politicking instigated by his father-in-law to prevent the absolution of the Royal Successor.
Later, we see Commander Hwang finally approach his wife, in the scene immediately following Dae Gil’s parting words to Seolhwa, about not being able to see her heart due to the darkness around him.
In the light of Dae Gil’s words, Commander Hwang finally being able to approach his wife and sob in her arms makes a lot more sense. Because the darkness around him has lifted, he is now finally able to see her pure heart beneath her awkward affliction. And I believe, he sees too, the evil of his actions for those past months.
I also found it significant that it is Commander Hwang’s voice that peacefully narrates in voiceover, the eventual discontinuation of slave hunting and the absolution of Seokgyeon from exile. It was only at the end, that I realized that it is also Commander Hwang’s voice that narrates, in episode 1.
That puts a whole different spin on everything, that this is a story that he’s telling. That he’s the one who survived to see the good that came out of everyone’s sacrifices. The peaceful tone of his voice also suggests that he’s finally come to terms with his own darkness, now able to tell us about the brighter future, hard-won by our other characters.
Chobok with Eunshil
Our closing scene is of Chobok, her arm around Eunshil as they watch the sun rise.
Thoughtfully, Chobok says, “Eunshil. Know to whom that sun belongs to?”
Eunshil asks, “Who?” Chobok answers, “To us.”
This time, Eunshil asks, “Why?”
Chobok, a tear streaming down her cheek, replies peacefully, “Because, never even once… have we been able to possess it.”
I found it fitting, that the show chose to close on the idea that belonging, is completely different from possession. That someone can belong to you, but you cannot possess someone.
And of course, how much do I love that we get to see General Choi and Wang Son farm the land that Dae Gil bought for them, finally able to live the quiet life they’d longed for, still bantering and still abstastic? A whole lot, that’s what.
Edit: So many people have shared with me how they really, really want to see this epilogue clip of the boys, but that it’s impossible to find. I never knew that. I just know that it was in my copy of the show. So.. I’ve extracted that bit for everyone to enjoy and here it is:
I’m amazed at how much more invested I am on this watch than the last one. I feel like the show is so much better than I remembered it to be.
Honestly, when I thought this show was about the slave hunters, the ending made a lot less sense to me, because it felt like the story was losing its focus on our main characters. If a show is titled Slave Hunter, then shouldn’t we focus on the slave hunters, is what I thought.
Now, though, with a more critical lens on, and a better grasp of the language, I realize that the show is simply Chuno, ie, 추노, or in Hanja, 推奴, which refers to the act of hunting slaves, rather than the person. That puts a completely different spin on things, doesn’t it?
It’s about loyalty, courage, and selflessness for the sake of more than one’s own satisfaction and pleasure. It’s about higher ideals and more important things than a long-lost love. Higher ideals that people are willing to die for, to make the difference.
And they die for those higher ideals with courage and fire in their eyes. They look ahead to a better tomorrow and a better world, even if, for them, it’s in the after-life that they will see it.
Glorious, despite its flaws. A must-see.
FINAL GRADE: A++
Edit: Loved Chuno? You might like my imaginary dream Chuno sequel, which you can find here!
Non-spoilery trailer for those who haven’t watched the show:
MVs:
For a gorgeously shot drama like Chuno, which has such a fantastic OST, it’s surprisingly difficult to find MVs in HD. Here’s the best of what I could rustle up. Enjoy!
The badass Dae Gil cut, also found in my Jang Hyuk post, set to the same track:
Here are 2 moderately spoilery MVs featuring 2 lovely ballads from the OST. The second vid is not in HD, so just imagine it many times sharper, more intense and all-around gorgeous, ok?
Finally, a fairly spoilery MV, which runs like a badass cool, extended trailer for the show.
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Epic, if a bit uneven. One can even forgive the mess at the end. But just this one thing about Jang Hyuk. I have seen a number of dramas he has enacted since Chuno, and I continually feel the same way about him. Bear with me a short instant as I veer off a bit. During the second half of the 20th Century there was a guitarist from Congo, Dr. Nico. In a nation and music scene chock full of great electric guitarists, Docteur Nico was the greatest. He would come out onstage and folks from the audience would shout (in French) “God of the Guitar!” The thing about Nico was this: the songs he played on weren’t always the greatest or songs that were the biggest hits, but the second he started his solos, you had to listen. That is the way I feel about Jang Hyuk. Truly I wish he were on better dramas, less hokey, more tightly written, but darn it, every time the guy is onscreen he is riveting, and in Chuno, which despite its flaws, was simply terrific, he was at his very best.
beezrtp
@BE – Yes! I agree with almost everything you said. In fact as I was reading what you said it made me think of Park Hyo shin – an amazing singer but he’s not who people turn on for casual listening but he’s riveting. Most people in the west won’t know of him the way they know BTS or a handful of other Kpop groups yet his voice is undeniably a pure instrument, even transcendal.
I also wish Jang Hyuk would be more picky with his projects. (I’m excited he’ll be playing Bang won again. No disrespect intended but I don’t remember the correct post death name I’m supposed to refer to a Joseon king as.)
But here’s the only thing I disagree with you about – the Chuno ending. When I first watched it, I also told totally dissatisfied but around the third time, once I quit focusing on the star-crossed lovers theme and tied in the ending with the beginning (the whole real life prince of history situation) then I can’t imagine the ending going any other way. Although I must admit, if they had made what was happening with the prince and his family a bit more integrated periodically in the story then the ending couldn’t feel like an out of nowhere disjointed end of the story. That’s my take on it anyway but I love every single thing about Chuno so…
I didnt rly read the whole thing, sorry, but just browsed thru it coz im lookn for something to watch and saw the rating..i just wanna say that the part where u showed the lead’s eyes going from empty to blown to empty again..woah it brought tears i swear. So i think im gonna start watchng this tonight. Tnx!
Chuno is a great ride, and Jang Hyuk’s performance in it is just exceptional. ❤ Yay that you're planning to give this one a chance; if you adjust your expectations to not expect a romance, but a strong story of personal journey, this could be an excellent watch. 🙂
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Conspiracy in the Court was directed by the director of Chuno. Some of the actors from Chuno are in it, too. Kim Ha Eun is an excellent female lead. What an actress! I am still wondering why she is not super famous, especially after her role in Chuno. The script has everything I like in a sageuk: complex palace intrigue, doomed romance, and conflicted heroes. I highly recommend Conspiracy in the Court. The only problem is that I have not been able to find it on legal sites in the US. I have watched it only once.
Yllejord
Conspiracy in the court is really great. It’s like an indie Chuno that doesn’t care to be commercial, if that makes sense?
Really hard to find though. There is a director’s cut extended version with 1,5 hour long episodes, I think that was the one I watched. I don’t remember where, it probably wasn’t *super* legal
I think I watched the extended director’s cut too. Such a masterpiece. I like the indie Chuno comparison. I forgot where I watched it too, but I remember being conflicted because I thought I was going to fry my computer, but the drama was so good, I had to keep watching. Any fans of Damo here? Another very powerful (and short) drama. The last couple of minutes remain the most powerful kdrama ending I have seen so far.
Oh yes, yes, Damo, me, me! A great favorite. The scene in the cave ❤
And an amazing soundtrack too, I still listen to it when I drive. It's not often I like all the songs of a soundtrack, but Chuno, Damo, Warrior Baek Dong Soo and Emperor of the Sea I can enjoy the whole albums from the first note to the last.
Oh, Damo soundtrack! I spent hours on youtube searching for a particular track. So good and sad…
Warrior Baek Dong Soo also had a great soundtrack. I have never seen Emperor of the Sea. It is on my list, but currently there are no legitimate streaming sites in my area that have it. Sigh…..Will look for the soundtrack at least…
Ah, another one that is on my very long watch list! I’ve been planning to watch CitC for years, but just never got around to it coz there are always so many newer dramas I’m curious to check out! Hopefully Netflix will pick it up, then you can watch it again 🙂
Kfangurl,
I totally agree about the visceral effect of Chuno. There are very few other dramas that have affected me in a similar way: Damo, Conspiracy in the Court (Seoul’s Sad Song), Bridal Mask, and, most recently, Mr. Sunshine.
I can’t say for the other shows as I’ve not gotten around to Conspiracy of the Court, and haven’t finished Mr. Sunshine, but I do have fond memories of Bridal Mask. I do wonder, though, how I would respond to Bridal Mask now versus when I first watched it, since I saw it years ago.
beez
I watched Bridal Mask fairly recently, right after watching Scandal in Old Seoul. After watching Scandal, which didn’t know itself if was a serious drama or a Fred Astaire musical, Gakistal was a breath of fresh air – as far as getting the tone absolutely right. There was only one problem with Gakistal and that was the every 2-3 episodes plot to capture and torture Jin Se-Yun. Literally, capture her to use her to lure her father, then let her go. Capture and use her to lure Gakistal, then let her go. Lather, rinse, repeat. Other than that,
My only other problem is with what causes our hero to turn over a new leaf because of what’s done to his own family. To me that does not a hero make. He couldn’t see that what he was doing to other families is the same as what was done to his? For me, a true hero acts for the people because of justice, period.
Let me shout out kudos to Park Bo gum’s small role in this in which his face gives you everything necessary to understand the terror and horror of the occupation. (Before seeing this role, I didn’t understand all the hype about him. I I Ike him in Moonlight but now I get it.)
Hmmm. I should look to see if kfangurl did a review of Gakistal.
Glad you enjoyed Gaksital, beez! It’s not perfect, but I thought it was a very daring work, and despite its flaws (yes, that rinse-and-repeat torturing of the the female lead was eye-roll worthy!) I found a lot to enjoy in it. Also, yes, I did do a review of Gaksital! It’s several years old now, so I’m not super sure I would feel absolutely the same way now about the show as I did then, but you can find it here! 🙂 Also, YES, Park Bo Gum is REALLY good! ❤
Thanks for the link to your Gakistal review , I’ll check it out for sure.
Take your time, beez! ❤
sarahlantz
Dear Fangurl,
After putting it off for years, I finally did it. Jang Hyuk caught my eye in “Beautiful mind” and I just couldn’t wait for the other A++ on your site.
Was. It. EVER. Worth it. As you say, the lush scenery, the writing, the acting, the overall storytelling and symbolism involved just had me marathoning this beast of a film (yes I’m calling it a film) over one weekend.
At first I was a bit disappointed about the romantic aspect, but saw what needed to happen. What itbs did for the characters in play – like a chess, or “Go” board. I wanted to watch it again right away, and actually did restart it but had to stop myself. Just the way minor characters came out of nowhere – George R R Martin, eat their dust!!!! (Not about killing people, but about justice served)
Finally, Lee Dae Gun. I want my husband to grow facial hair and scraggly hair. For real. And I HATE beards. But his tiger eyes, his swagger, his bad-boy attitude all while hiding that sweet boy from a proper family (not at all tsundere, but everything for her sake). And how he did ALL his own stunts!! Omomo. It was enough to ring my former wing Chun (Jeet Kune Do) teacher and ask if he had room for one more in his classes.
Jang Hyuk. Jjjjaaaannng Hhyyyuuukkk. Eyes. Lips. Omomomo. You’ve slain me, Fangurl! I hope you are happy. I’m currently watching Tazza. He’s fabulous in it so far, but that’s episode 5. I like where it is going, though.
Thank you, Fangurl!!!!
Just realized I called him “Lee Dae Gun.” Lee Gun from “Fated to Love You” still in my head, I guess? I mean “Lee Dae Gil” ☺️
Tee hee. I can see Jang Hyuk’s amazing charisma in Chuno has fogged up your brain just a touch! 😉 Don’t worry, I knew what you meant! 😁
Eating a hard boiled egg has never been the same for me since Chuno…
Ahhh!!! I’m so glad you love Chuno as much as you do, Sarah! It truly is very special, isn’t it?? I find that it has a very deep, visceral sort of effect on me, and it just makes me feeeel. I can only imagine the intensity multiplied for you, since you marathoned it over a single weekend (seriously, HOW?!?)!
I’ve seen it twice, and for me personally, I felt that the big time lapse between my watches served me well. Details felt new and fresh to me again, and because I’d gained more mature drama-watching eyes, I felt everything more deeply, and found everything more thought-provoking, the second time around. So perhaps it’s a good thing that you’re putting off your second watch 🙂
And OMGGG Dae Gil is SUCH an icon. ❤ Jang Hyuk is just magnificent in this, in every single way. From his delivery of his lines, to the fighting, to just the very way he controlled his posture, everything is just perfect. 😍😍 He affected me in a big way, and I am not at all surprised that watching him inspired you to call your Chun teacher to join a class! 😉
I haven't seen Tazza, but I will say that since Chuno, I've seen Jang Hyuk in a couple of things, but it was only in Money Flower that I wondered to myself whether his performance in Money Flower might've actually eclipsed his role in Chuno. So definitely, definitely put Money Flower on your list, Sarah. You will definitely thank me later, methinks! 😀
😏 *knowingly nods*
Still the Number One show in my kdrama universe. I have watched it multiple times, and the power does not diminish.
Chuno is absolutely a very special drama. I completely understand why you’ve got it as your personal #1! 🙂
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Beezus
Glad to have found this review. I would like to point out though that Dae Gil did not know Ueyon and Tae Ha were about to be married. He saw the 4-year old child and made assumptions. We learn this when he tells General Ha something like “had I known, the results would have been different”. And I believe they would’ve been, too! I believe Ueyon has a quiet respect, a burgeoning attraction when his naked chest is two inches from her eyes/nose (it HAS been ten years for her after all), loyalty, and budding love. But I believe what she feels for Dae Gil is a burning undying passion. And the feelings she is developing for Tae Ha would’ve never been asked to spark had she known Dae Gil was alive. (She mourned 10 YEARS!) which brings up the only thing I wish Chuno had delved into – Uyeon’s life as a beautiful single woman. Despite believing Dae Gil dead, she refused to marry and I would’ve liked to see a bit more of that. Although ultimately, I suppose it wasn’t necessary storywise.
Great review. And now I’ve got to go look for other movies and dramas starring the actor playing Dae Gil. Whew!
Hi there Beezus! It’s always nice to meet fellow Chuno fans – it’s such an amazing show 🙂
Yes, I do agree that Unnyeon loved Dae Gil, and if she’d known he was alive, that things would have been different with Tae Ha. Still, I’ve come to the conclusion that the romance wasn’t the point of the show, but that the point was more about bigger, more fundamental, more profound things. Which explains why the story took the path that it did. It may not have been very satisfying on a romantic level, but for the bigger message about the price one is willing to pay to make a difference to the path of humanity, I found the show very moving.
Now that you mention it, and giving it some thought, I actually doubt Unnyeon’s life as a single woman would’ve been all that different from other single women. I mean, she lived with her brother, and they’d “achieved” nobility, so she would’ve probably spent her days doing genteel things like embroidery and such. She would’ve been older than other single women, but given her station in life, I doubt her life would’ve been particularly different compared to other single noble women. I imagine she would’ve resisted her brother’s various attempts at finding her a match, probably? 🙂
Jang Hyuk truly is amazing as Dae Gil. I personally find this his most iconic role to date, but he’s also great in other shows. If you’re in the mood for more sageuk, I found him very impressive in Tree With Deep Roots. Which is another fantastic show, I think. It’s not as magnificent as Chuno, but it’s very well-written, and quite fascinating, in that it examines how Hangul was developed. 🙂
Hi kfangirl! I saw chuno in your fave list and it’s the reason Im watching it now. I’m on ep 10 and everything’s pretty ok (I’m kinda up and down at times with this one so far). I havent read ur review yet But I just have to say that eun yeon’s character is just down right irritating! I find it hard watching her at times-most times!
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I feel ya, Ann! I watched Chuno twice, and was very frustrated with it the first time I watched it. Part of that frustration was with Eonnyeon, and another part was with the romance in the story. On my second watch, though, I stopped looking at it as a romance, and viewed it as the story of a man: Dae Gil, and his journey. And that changed just about everything, for me. So, if I’m not too late, might I suggest that you try to put the romance aside, because it really doesn’t pan out to be the main point of this story. I hope that helps! 🙂
@kfangurl – you are so right! Even loving Chuno as I do, I remember literally pulling at my hair and saying “I’m done with this!” in frustration during the episodes where Dae gil and Eunn yeon have near misses of almost running into each other for cliffhangers several episodes in a row. lol. I was still relatively new to Kdramas back then so didn’t know that’s the format. lol. But the beauty of Hyuk (and his abs?) made me hang in there and I’m so glad that I did! It became less about this one true love (which is what I’m usually watching for) and became about Dae gil’s journey taking him on to fulfilling what his young idealistic romance and romantic ideals pointed him, perhaps a little unwillingly, toward – and also becoming transfixed with Jang Hyuk’s tour de force performance.
Yes, I was SO upset with Chuno on my first watch, purely because I was watching through a romance kind of lens (it was pretty much my automatic lens, I was quite new to kdramas then).. But when you look at it as Dae Gil’s journey, it changes EVERYTHING, and it becomes this epic, profound, moving story that just lingers so much after the final credits. And OMG, Jang Hyuk is so amazing in this, I honestly think it might be his best performance that I’ve seen, to date. ❤
It’s been so long since I originally read your review and commented (now I receive an email whenever somebody comments on it), but I believe it wasn’t until I read your review that I even realized the paradox and conundrum the story told – One general forced to be a slave who refuses to accept the reality that he is a slave and maintains the viewpoint of the upperclass, refusing to let his own circumstance sway that viewpoint by refusing to have empathy with his fellow slaves (because he does not view them as his fellows). Possibly, because as a mere military man, who barely qualifies in staus as a non- slave, his inferior feelings create his prejudice (you know self-hatred type of thing because societal norms have brainwashed him to believe certain people are better than others purely by means of birth); and 2) then there’s the true uppercrust noble who chuks Seau his noble status to hunt slaves but does not believe in the class system at all. He hunts slaves to find ONE particular slave (I’m still not sure if he hunts her to be with her or for revenge but I’ll pay more attention on my rewatch of the series). But as long as he’s hunting slaves to find her, he looks at it as he may as well get paid for doing it. He doesn’t see himself as noble because he, indeed does return slaves to their horrible existences (I know we usually romanticized the fact that he did rescue the one young girl, but many slaves had their desperate escapes foiled by him. He didn’t get that horrible monstrous reputation among slaves for no reason.) What was I saying? Oh. Yeah. Dae gil and The General are two opposite sides of the same coin symbolically held by Eueonyeon but in actuality, trapped by the social mores of the time they live in.
I’m not saying it as well as you described it but one thing’s for certain, I’ve book marked your review of the series to re-read again after I finally get around to watching Chuno a second time.
Aw! Thanks Beez, I’m so happy that this review helped to give you more thoughts and insights about Chuno! It’s such a masterpiece, and definitely one that I would recommend a rewatch of. Personally, I loved it so much more on my second watch, and I wouldn’t rule out watching it again sometime 🙂 I hope you enjoy your rewatch as much as I did, when you get around to it! 🙂
Yllegjord
I just wanted to say that indeed, Dae Gil and Tae Ha are each other’s opposites in every way.
Tae Ha is the perfect comfucian gentleman, and I agree, he doesn’t see himself as a slave. He is also very shocked when Dae Gil tells him that his own wife is a former slave and he just can’t get over it. It’s something he has to struggle with.
Dae Gil was never the perfect confucian gentleman, and his disregard for social norms is a part of that. He somehow manages to see people, not statuses.
When the two of them meet, they start on the complete opposite corners and it is interesting to see how they gradually and reluctantly learn from each other. This is demonstrated at the hanging scene, where Dae Gil shows his will to live and Tae Ha clinges to his dignity (and some sort of death wish that I’m sure he’s bearing, being the last survivor of his family, his mates, the prince he was serving, I mean he must have felt some remorse for living on. People do that, right?).
But at the end we see that Dae Gil has found that there are some things even he could die for and Tae Ha that there are some things to live for.
Sorry, that was long. I just love this show, it’s full of details like this one.
@Yllegord – yup. What you said. That is why I’m trying to convince some like-minded Chuno loving bloggers to come forward and volunteer to sponsor a rewatch (@Kfangurl; @kjtamuser; @DramaFan *hint-hint*) where just a very brief summary of the episode is posted and all of us who didn’t watch Chuno in its original broadcast can discuss until Jang Hyuk’s bottom 2 abs fall off. XD
Ooh. Intriguing proposition you’ve got there, Beez! I’m feeling a little swamped right now, but will definitely keep your suggestion in mind – unless DF takes you up on that first 😉
(new word I picked up recently from Strong Woman Do Bong Soo, which I ignored at first but it’s been in my face every where I turned so I finally Googled what it means. I’m sure everybody else already knew. )
Ha. I actually didn’t know for sure what it means, so I just googled it myself! So you’re ahead of me, Beez! 😉 I need to get back to SWDBS.. I’m just a few eps away from the end, but I’m at the part where things aren’t going great, so it’ll take a little extra determination on my part, to get through that to the happy ending!
I’m recommending Chicago Typewriter to everyone. It’s a bit slow out the gate, but as if Episode 6 (which aired this week), it seems to be becoming everything I hoped for (plus, it has Yoo Ah In. The actor I predict will step into Hyukie’s shoes as premier actor as JH ages out of certain roles.)
Have you seen Six Flying Dragons? If not, trust me on this one. Yoo Ah In’s powerful performance is perfection. In a show with a lot of focus on swordfighting, he slays and commands without ever welding a sword himself. His screen presence is captivating. I can’t say enough. And the quality of the show’s writing and production is the best I’ve seen. The other actors are all top knotch as well.
Aahhh… and when Yoo An In *does* wield his sword in Six Flying Dragons, then may all the gods have mercy on our poor souls.
Good to hear that Chicago Typewriter’s working out nicely for you so far, Beez! I’m adding it to my list, but I haven’t checked it out yet, at this point.
As for 6FD.. It might shock you to hear that I did make it up to about E30 or so of the show, before my interest fizzled out. Somehow, it just didn’t quite work for me. It didn’t help matters that I watched it at the same time as Nirvana In Fire. NIF is magnificent in just about every way, and it has enough similarity to 6FD (political strategizing to put a new king on the throne) that my love for NIF just overshadowed 6FD. 😛 I know lots of folks loved 6FD, but I personally don’t currently have enough interest to go back to it. Maybe someday? 😝
@kfangurl You gotta give 6FD another chance because I don’t even think it was well out of the gate as far as the switch to the adult actors at that point. And this is also the best performance of Shin Se kyung that I’ve ever seen. (Other than The Girl Who Sees Smells and 6FD, I’ve hated every role I’ve ever seen her in.)
I been waffling about trying Nirvana in Fire and also Peach Blossom something or other because people keep raving about both. The only reason I hadn’t, is because I’ve been trying to train my ear to Korean so I can eventually watch without subtitles (I need to be able to food clothes and wash dishes & other real life stuff while I watch *looks over at pile of clothes still in basket*). After hearing you compare NIF to 6GD, maybe I’ll make an exception or watch NIF with the sound off completely.
Definitely make an exception for NIF, but watch it with sound, otherwise you lose a big chunk of the experience! You can check out my spoiler-lite review of NIF here, and hopefully that will help you make an exception in its favor 🙂
I won’t go back to 6FD at the moment because I don’t find myself in the right mood, but perhaps I will give it another go later on, since you and so many others enjoy it so much 🙂
Oh no! I didn’t mean check out SF6 right away. We all know how it is to try to find time to pick back up something you’ve abandoned. Just don’t let it disappear forever. It’s really worth it. I think that having enjoyed Tree With Deep Roots, then finding out more about the historical figured involved with it and 6FD, I was mainly amazed that Yoo Ah in could give a performance that made you continue to root for him, despite all the while reminding yourself of the horrible things he did and that maybe you shouldn’t be rooting for him.
I’d never heard the word “namaste” before but now, everywhere I turn…
I hope it’s a temporary thing, coz I personally don’t much care for the comic stuff that gave rise to this in SWDBS, to be honest! 😝
cineclique
Finally back after such a long time (so many things changed here! new girl in your team, that’s a good news :D)!
Anyway let’s talk about what brought me here: Chuno! I’ve finally found the time to devour your review…ah one sec *Chuno’s music: play* now the mood is set *delight*
Amazing review like always. Fortunately I had not read it before writting mine cause you would have change my point of view in an extraordinary way even though I had not felt it like that. I guess that’s your power: turn people’s opinions round (well the only think I’m still not convinced about is the bromance…don’t know…it didn’t work with me -except when they met again near the end: that was a beautiful moment. One point for them). It’s truly an amazing drama and I’m angered against myself to not have been able to appreciate it to its full -too much political machination near the end, that’s what killed me honestly (and I think I had chosen the wrong time to watch it). I think it was the most beautiful saggeuk drama I’ve watched in term of making. Seeing you pictures revived good feelings (the fight scenes in ep 10! forever etched on my memory..actually the whole episode. I think that’s the one I preferred in the whole show). Watching this show in non-HD is a crime like you said^^ Anyway I’m convinced: I have to give Chuno a second try! it’s a must now that I’ve read your review (I can almost hear your voice saying “Let the sexy beast blow you away once again” haha). It’s just gonna have to wait the summer holidays 😉
Yay that you’ve finished Chuno, cineclique! 😀 I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t love it as much as I did, but I remember too, that I didn’t love it as much on my first watch either. As glorious as I found it, I was rather bored and frustrated with the show in its later stretches, perhaps similar to how you felt after watching it.
On my second watch, though, I appreciate this show SO much more, and I’m so glad I gave it a second chance. I do believe that you’ll enjoy it more on your second watch too! Plus, there’s always room for more awesome Dae Gil, isn’t there? I’ve seen Jang Hyuk in a number of things now, and even though he’s consistently excellent, I feel like Dae Gil is his most iconic character to date. So yes, do let that sexy beast blow you away, all over again 😉
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Ann Lo
I saw the pictures of Dae Gil watching the lady go with tears in her eyes and I thought, ‘It’s official. I have to watch this.’ I will see how much I get through before I come back to this review. Truly, a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
Tee hee. Whatever works to get you on the Chuno train, Ann! 😀 Coz I personally find Chuno a must-watch piece of drama brilliance, and want as many people to check it out as possible. I hope you’ve got it in HD and are able to watch it on a nice big screen with a great sound system (HD on a good computer with a good set of earbuds works great too) – it’s gorgeous and breathtaking and watching it in HD is worth it 🙂
no matter how much i look i cant see to find a clip(?) of general choi & wangson farming :((( i really really wanted to see it ;_______;
Here, Amy, I just extracted the clip from my copy of the show & uploaded it to youtube. Lots of readers have been asking for it, and for some reason your comment today inspired me to figure out how to extract the clip and upload it. Enjoy 🙂
Hallo. I don’t even remember what I was googling for, but somehow I ended up in this review. I hadn’t seen a kdrama before, but I like historical and martial arts films, so I thought I would give it a try. 48 hours later here I am, totally overwhelmed and stunned, having gone through every possible and impossible human emotion. Quite a trip, thank you so much.
I do have a couple of questions. Was it the minister that sent the female assassin? And why?
What does “奴婢” mean?
Anyway, loved it. Loved the rebel slave fraktion subplot (and that song they were playing everytime there was some shooting) but I fast forwarded at the in keepers’ scenes.
The main character’s journey from innocent idealist to disillusioned cynic to utter darkness to coming to terms with life is just undescribable. I can’t find words. I’m still very shaken (my poor family)!
Hi there, Yllejord!! I apologize for my laggy response. I’ve been away on an intense work trip and am now just getting back up to speed on everything. ^^
Wow, I’m so glad you decided to give Chuno a chance – it’s quite the drama experience, isn’t it?? I love it, and feel that it’s a show that invites deeper understanding the more one watches it. I appreciated it so much more on my second watch compared to my first.
To answer your questions, it wasn’t the minister who sent the female assassin, but the bridegroom from whom Hye Won (Unnyeon) ran away. He was deeply insulted by her desertion, and wanted “justice,” basically.
奴婢 is pronounced “nu bi” and the 2 characters together mean “slave.” However, in practice, 奴 was used to refer to male slaves and 婢 was used to refer to female slaves. When Chobok and Eopbok kiss, their cheeks together read 奴婢, which I felt was a rather poetic statement.
I’m so glad you decided to give Chuno a chance – Jang Hyuk is amazing in the role. If you’d like to explore another Korean historical/martial arts drama, another one that I highly recommend is Tree With Deep Roots. It’s also starring Jang Hyuk, and is a dramatic interpretation of how the Korean letters – Hangul – came to be. Fascinating stuff, and extremely illuminating, in my opinion 🙂
Thank you for your answer and THANK YOU, oh totally unknown person on the internet, for this wonderful review that introduced my humble self to an intence experience I never expected to get out of pop culture.
I have now watched it a second time… I came down with this mild obsession, it seems. I thought it would be easier now, but no, my soul was through the grinder again.
Lady assassin: yes, of course, it was the abandoned husband who sent her. My brain was not functioning when I wrote the previous post. Btw, I found that character totally irrelevant in every possible way.
Same with that elder gaesang-younger gaesang rivalry. That never actually payed off, did it?
Seul Hwa: when she appeared I was like ”oh no, not another Happy Harlot with a Heart of Gold” but boy, was I wrong! I love her to pieces. I adore her every molecule. Even though she did interrupt what we were all desperate, DYING to watch: the interraction between Dae Gil and Hye Won. Not once, but TWICE. I wanted to kick her a little bit at that moment. Now we’ll never know what Hye Won was going to say to Dae Gil that morning in the mountain village. That sort of sucks.
Wang Son: I surprised my self by finding him adorable in stead of irritating and annoying. I don’t recognize myself.
General Choi: Loved that he was always reading a book. Books were not cheap back then, I guess, and our boys worked for practically peanuts. They were wearing rags and lived on millet and rice, but he obviously made buying books a priority? Awww.
And, he decided to finally join the slave hunting gang because he has this huge crush on Dae Gil, right? It can’t be only me that sees that, can it?
Han Seom and the court lady were so cute together, I loved that she was tiny and he was huge. They, um, sort of remind of me and my partner *blushes*
As I mentioned before, I was moved by the slave rebelion piece. I sometimes thought that they were depicted as caricatures, but the deep, unfathomed tragedy shown through… my heart was clenched every time they were on screen. And I related so much with their talk about hope, revolution, changing society, making a better life. Struggling with the idea of yangbans being people.
’’If we become yangbans and they become our slaves, then nothing’s changed’’: goosebumbs.
’’Does the king s**t?’’
’’Then our children and their children will have to continue’’
Then the guy they all believed in and put their hopes on was a simple provocateur and that did hurt. A. Lot.
The scene that went straight to my heart and carved itself there (in this show that is MADE of memorable, unforgettable scenes!) is Cho Bok and Eop Bok’s dialog in ep23.
Eop Bok is describing all the lovely things they could do if they just ran away; every word was tearing at my heart, while in my head I was repeating over and over ’’but who will change the world, who will change the world, who will change…?’’
And then… and then she goes ’’No. Who is going to change the world, then?’’
I screamed right out at the top of my voice (and woke everyone up, because it was early in the morning)
And he says ’’thank you for saying that’’. I swear I was laughing and crying uncontrollably for at least 10 min straight. That was a special, magnificent moment for me, there.
(I cried a little bucket while typing this. I get so darn emotional just by thinking about that scene)
The thing that hit me (really hard) the second time, was how simple Dae Gil’s dream was. The lad wished neither for a fancy carreer in politics, nor to rule nations, nor to be admired by thousands, go down in history, Fight Evil, get filthy rich. ALL he wanted was a life, a home, with his girlfriend. That’s IT. The fact that such a simple thing, the most natural, that shouldn’t ever be any kind of issue, caused so much pain and suffering, makes absolutely clear how twisted, rotten and totally corrupted their world was. No wonder Dae Gil became so desillusuined, pessimistic and cynical, always going on about how sh**ty this world is.
But wait, as if that wasn’t mindblowing and heartbreaking enough, there is more to it.
I read this interview by the director, he seems to have made the connection with our modern world, LGBTQ rights in particular, if I’m not mistaken. That shook me profoundly. We actually live in a similar world. Relationships like this, that should end in simple, everyday happiness, end up in misery and tragedy as we speak, because of society’s seemingly unbreakable rules.
I already loved the director (and writer) for
1. bringing General Choi and Wang Son back to life (I never dreamt I would see such a shamelessly illogical, mount-Vesuvius-crater-sized plot-hole and actually be ecstatic happy about it!!! what has this show done to me?) and
2. for the imaginary-arrow-to-the sun thing.
But those words of his made me love him ten times more.
Another thing that I totally missed the first time but was five kinds of obvious the second, was the way Dae Gil imitated Cheon Ji Ho’s (and the mountain village chiftain’s and perhaps the butcher-monk’s too, I didn’t really notice) mannerisms. He’s allmost an exact copy. Which is not so strange, the guy was a major father figure for our lad, when he was lost and scared and abandoned in the street.
I like that the makers of the show didn’t feel like they had to spell everything out, but were kind enough to let us fill in the gaps ourselves. They did try to provide us with all the clues so we can do the rest. The story of what happened between the fire and the first episode is actually given to us in amazing depth and detail. How awesome is that!
Oh, and speaking of awesome: did Dae Gil went out to this horribly dangerous mission with Tae Ha, armed only with a friggin sharpened BAMBOO STICK?!?!? What the fjdfikal leoodfinrh jslifdrh???
So, I came for the beautifully choreografed fights by the pretty, shirtless, long haired dudes and stayed for, well, about everything. But now I feel this post is getting way too long.
Um. Seems I got a bit carried away here. I could go on and on, about the elements of initiation myths and classic Greek tragedy in the story, about all those brilliant dialogues, about Jang Hyuk’s acting, but I’ll try to harness my self. Please accept my apologies for the outrageous length of this post.
I’ll just go to try and pluck that imaginary arrow from my bleeding heart now and then try to find a decend DVDbox that, maybe, plays in Europe?
Next time I watch it I’m gonna figure out what that water buffalo horn thingie was all about.
Sorry, it’s ”gisaeng”, not ”gaesang” of course. Still struggling with all the new stuff.
Drama Fan
Hi Yllejord
I wanted to tell you that your comment made my day yesterday. I wanted to answer right away but I was at work. I am huge fan of Jang Hyuk, Chuno, and Kfangurl’s review of it 😀 So much so that I requested an alert to this post’s comments
I get so happy when I see a new viewer write about Chuno with such appreciation. I especially love it when I get reminded of things I probably didn’t appreciate myself in the first place! I am referring to your comments about Cho Bok and Eop Bok’s dialogue. I don’t think I gave this storyline the attention it deserved, but I’m preparing to rewatch this series soon and I know, that with all the insight I got from great comments such as yours, my watching experience will be superior
I wanted to add something about the portrayal of Daegil (here is me acting like proud mommy of my favorite actor lol) One of the scenes you describe here, was actually added by Jang Hyuk. The arrow shot to the sky was his contribution. In fact, Jang Hyuk rewrote and sometimes wrote from scratch some of his most famous lines obviously with the approval of the director and the writer. Many of the scenes between Daegil and Unnyunn were added on set, thanks to the actors and director (his vision is always what stays obviously) because on script, Daegil and Unnyun had little to no interaction after ep 10. So that scene where Daegil and Song TaeHa rescue Unnyunn together, and Daegil and Unnyun put their heads together for a moment, a moment that meant so much to us viewers, was not on the script.
This makes me admire the writer even more, why? because instead of being petty and insisting on his view to prevail (or one could say, protective of his initial intention, which could also be very understandable), he appreciated the actor’s passion for the characters, to the point where they were living them and becoming them so, he just let them roll. Same with the director. I appreciate this director for his wonderful work in Chuno but I became a fan of his after Conspiracy of the Court, which I see as a cousin of Chuno, cause you could totally feel the director’s hand. The combination of all these talents and creative passionate people brought us something this wonderful.
I wrote a little post with quotes of writer and director about Jang Hyuk’s portrayal of Daegil, if you are interested. Here it is http://stuckonhyuk.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/chuno-the-daegil-appreciation-post/ And I didn’t add it on that post but Oh Ji Ho who played Song TaeHa also said that he got inspired while working alongside Jang Hyuk, he said something along the lines of “I used to approach my characters, always acting within the margins of the script, Jang Hyuk worked on filling the margins” something like that which I assume means something like going beyond the script.
It was great reading you 🙂
Aww thank you for your kind words, Drama Fan. Most of the time I’m just happy if people understand my english…
And wow. Just… wow. So ιf it weren’t for Jang Hyuk’s amazingly passionate dedication we would have no arrow to the sky and no heads together? It seems that he took a rather ok drama and turned it single handedly into this intense experience that just sticks with you. And saved many people’s sanity, I guess.
I already thought his acting was on a much higher level than simple ”pretending” and had almost schamanic qualities (as in leading the viewer through a series of emotions to achieve certain states of mind?). I don’t know how else to describe it. He seems really awesome. Need to watch some more of his work.
I guess we all notice different storylines according to our background and experience. I didn’t care much about the Jumos at first, but then I realized that if you are going to talk all big about changing the world and stuff, you have to think of the people that this world is actually made of. People who worry about their business, who can tell on others just to be on the good side of the authorities, who can be bullied into sabotaging horses. In the end, as I saw their situation gradually getting more dire and unsafe, ending up with a worse policeman, that sucked.
I still ff their scenes, though.
Meanwhile, I’ve been pondering on the last episode. I wondered why I felt so satisfied when there didn’t seem to be any closure for Dae Gil and Hye Won and then I realized that Hye Won didn’t want a closure. ”Don’t forgive me”, she says. She accepts the sacrifice and the burden that goes with it.
And the way Eop Bok and Dae Gil’s threads came together: both dying willingly, not for the sake of changing the world, but for the sake of the hope that the world can change. If that makes any sence.
Both leaving a legacy to those they leave behind (Eop Bok’s eyes locking with Shut Up and Accept Your Lot- slave guy, who btw is an extremely tragic figure and he would be the one character I would cry the most for in this entire series if, you know, Dae Gil wasn’t in it. Or if he were prettier than Dae Gil. Hey, I’m only human. Anyway, I choose to believe that the The Masters Take Good Care Of Us-guy accepted it, just as Hye Won accepted Dae Gil’s).
And btw, I loved how both Dae Gil and Hye Won described the change they want to see in exactly the same words: ”a world where people like me will not exist”. That is so simple yet powerful, more than any manifest or declaration of equality. The personal becomes the political.
Love Cho Bok educating and empowering the next generation.
Loved Chul Woong. Loved the way this whole thing ended. Imaginary arrow.
There is one more thing I’ve been thinking, considering this little part of the review
(Quote):
Yes, she is unusual.
But then, she couldn’t be anything less. I mean, our lad fell for her, right? He decided to spend his life with her. He overcame his cowardice to save her from the Qing. He turned the peninsula upside-down for 10 years looking for her. A mentioning of her name was enough to shut his brain down. The idea of him forgetting her had him breaking down. He ended up giving up his very life, because she WAS his life (and not, as we often were tempted to think, some unhealthy obsession).
Of course he wouldn’t fall like that for the first best cute slave that happened to be around, it had to be a very unusual young lady. She was extraordinary. She had the strength to hold on to her dignity and integrity. Going against every norm of her society, she saw her self as a person.
Dae Gil saw her as a person too (oh, he looked so startled when she said ”if you thing I am a toy…”). He was equally extraordinary. He too went against his upbringing and everything that was expected of him. He saw her NEEDS.
They were two extraordinary, awesome, remarkable young people. And that’s what makes their story so heartbreaking. They should be together. They should make lots and lots of extraordinary, awesome, remarkable babies that would grow up to make the world a better place. *sigh*
I should hire someone to stop me from writing more than two paragrafs. Or from abusing the word ”extraordinary”.
PS. Drama Fan, would it be ok if I joined that FB page that is mentioned in the link? I’m one of those nerds that update their profile pictures according to their current fiction affliction, so, um, let’s say I would fit in beautifully right now.
Yllejord, I want to give you a longer answer to this comment that has made me think again 🙂 but in the meantime I want to tell this: Of course please come and join the Chuno FB group please please please you are so welcome!
LOL my roommates and I have been looking for Han Jung Soo Chuno pics and I landed on your blog. 😀
Tee hee! And I do believe you girls found at least a little of what you were looking for? Coz I did put some very nice Han Jung Soo Chuno pix in here 😉 Ahhh. General Choi. Sweet, serious man.
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Great review, congratz. This drama is a masterpiece, I loved it! It’s one of the best that I saw, I cried for the poor Dae Gil, Jang Hyun is a very good actor! I have a question…Where do you saw the episode 24? In the episode that I downloaded is missed this part (http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/kfangurl/Chuno/Chuno167_zps76e7c594.png / http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/kfangurl/Chuno/Chuno166_zps42c19daa.png). I’d like see it very much *^* Thanks you very much in advance for reply. Happy new year 🙂
Thanks Sweet Chan, & welcome to the blog! 🙂
Yes indeed, Chuno truly is a masterpiece, and Jang Hyuk is stellar in it. I honestly think this might be his most iconic role to date. As for the epilogue with Gen Choi and Wang Son, it happens after the final shot of Dae Gil where he air-shoots up at the sun. It’s only a few seconds long, and I can see how it might’ve gotten cut from various sources since it happens after the final shot of Dae Gil. I got my video here – hope that helps you!
Finally I saw it, thank you!! ^^
Lee Dae Gil I think is a icon for many girls!! He is very charming!
Oh, great that you managed to see it! Even though it’s just a few quick seconds, isn’t it just so gratifying to see the 2 of them still happy and goofing around together, even while tending the land that Dae Gil bought for them? And yes, Dae Gil is just super alluring. Jang Hyuk really made him come alive in such a glorious, sexy, swaggery way. I don’t think anyone could’ve played Dae Gil, to be honest. ^.~
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thank you so much for this review! even several years after watching Chuno, I still find myself reflecting on it and its meaning. your post was so detailed and insightful. i really appreciate all of the hard work it must have taken to deconstruct such a complex and powerful drama. your words are extremely tasteful and do justice to what i consider such a *sacred* story. i think that even though Chuno has its flaws, it’s really a work of art. again thank you for posting this- i’m really glad i found your review (more like character analysis/commentary on life/debriefing session for inspired but slightly traumatized Chuno fans! xx
Aw! Thanks Allison! And welcome to the blog!!! Your comment made me blush, giggle AND swell up with satisfaction 😛 I’m so glad you enjoyed the review.. Chuno really IS a work of art; a masterpiece that deserves all the accolades. I’m really glad I gave it a second watch, because I’ve come to appreciate it SO much more.
This is one of those rare dramas that actually gets better on the rewatch.. There’s just SO much meat to it that it’s virtually impossible to appreciate it all on the first watch. Such thought-provoking themes, brought to life by such committed actors, delivered with such glorious cinematography. Simply magnificent! ❤
I’ve been making Fan Videos for years, but I made my first K-Drama fanvid for Chuno and Lee Dae Gil! It’s been a long time since I even made a fan-vid. I love video editing. I had to find clips on youtube to make this. So the picture quality varies. Sorry.
Anyway, I just thought I’d post it here on this awesome review! I plan to make one for Song Tae Ha next of course. 😀
Ooh, nice work, Lady G!! Thanks for sharing! I can only imagine how much work it took, to get clips off YT.. Maybe next time you could consider working off the actual HD files? ^^
Btw, it just occurred to me that we were talking about JH & kissing, and.. have you seen the deleted bed scene he did with Lee Da Hae in Iris 2? If you haven’t, just click on my JH love confession post (link is in the JH section of this review), scroll to the end, and follow the link & instructions I posted. He is so, SOOOO HAWT in it, I can’t even describe it. U hafta see if for yourself! *stifles swoon*
Oh I saw that scene from your blog. yowza yowza yowza!! lol.
Thanks for the comment on the video. 🙂 It’s actually not so hard to find the clips, I can tell right away if a clip or video will work or not.
I unfortunately don’t own the DVDs and I think i would have been more intimidated to use the HD files because I didn’t exactly know which clips I wanted or which episodes to use. It was easier with the YT clips. But, an HD video would have definitely looked prettier. 🙂 I remember the first days of Youtube, all the early vids had to be less than an 100 MBs, so that was hard to stick to. So glad it’s changed.
Yowza is about right!! I have watched that clip more than several times, and I hafta say, my jaw drops each time.. He’s just soooo shmexy in it! RAWR~~
Oh, I totally agree, I am so happy that YT now allows HD vids! It makes a huge difference! I get what you mean about having to look harder for clips if you had the HD files.. When I’m searching for a particular screenshot and I’m not sure exactly where in the show it happens, it can be a very frustrating game of hide and seek! >.< More than 20 hours of footage.. where is it?!? Lol. So maybe working off YT is a good solution for you, for now ^^
mawiie
Ahh! Chuno! For some reasons that drama just didn’t do it for me I think that watching dramas is all about being in the right mood at the right time… I remember hearing all sort of praises for Chuno and really liking the sweeping OST so I gave it a try. It is well done and gorgeous for sure, but at the time I just felt like watching something else. I did tune it for at least half of it, but eventually new dramas just keep on appearing and time just slip away before I even know it… Ah well!
Oh, you’re absolutely right, mawiie!! Mood is SO much of the equation!! Mood has taken me from hate to love, AND from love to hate, upon giving some dramas second chances.
If/when the right mood strikes, I hope you give Chuno another chance. I liked it both watches, but appreciated it much more on the second watch 🙂 It’s not perfect, but it is, in many ways, a masterpiece ^^
I was just thinking today, I would have loved to see more of Daegil’s life as a Noble. How he grew up and met Eunnyeon (am I even spelling this right? Hye Won? lol) His first reaction to her, them growing up together. The first time he literally fell in love with her and so on. They touched on it. All his cute little tricks with the stone and shoes and sneaking around the laundry. The requisite Piggy Back ride. It would have made a great contrast against the street-fighting, cynical Daegil.
Like I said in another comment, would love to read this story as a book! It could be epic length, like this Japanese book I’m reading- Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa. The English translation I have is nearly a 1000 pages. That’s been made into a movie and J-Drama I think. I’m a bit of J-Drama girl too, but they don’t thrill me as much K-Dramas. Some are too wacky and lack depth, and they are kind of cheap with the romance, Even though you know it’s there. But I have my favorites.
Oh, that would make a great prequel to Chuno! Wow, we’ve fleshed out our sequel, and now you’re moving on to writing the prequel! XD But yes, I can totally see how this story would make an epic book, painting the details that we didn’t get to see onscreen!
I’m with you on the J-dramas.. I watch a couple of them on the side, but I definitely prefer my kdramas to the J-dramas. I love the way they interpret manga in J-dramas, so Hana Kimi is one of my favorite J-dramas. Aside from the lighter, campy ones, I did genuinely like 1 Litre of Tears. I haven’t seen enough J-dramas to really able to comment much though ^^
I have an online friend who recommended J-Dramas with Hiro Mishushima. He’s done some great ones. I have 3 favorite J-actors so far-Hiro, Hayami Mokomichi, and Abe Hiroshi. I tend to like the mystery-crime-action genre more when I watch the J-Dramas. Then I don’t feel so bad when the romance is missing. LOL. I will have to check out 1 Litre of Tears.
Oh, I haven’t actually watched any crime dramas among the J-dramas.. I’ve mostly checked out manga adaptations (coz the Japanese do those SO well!), and others that come highly recommended. Romance-wise, I thought Zenkai Girl was rather cute.. Proposal Daisakusen was also a pretty nice watch. 1 Litre of Tears does make you cry (as the title so aptly suggest) but it’s completely moving and it’s based on a true story. I was surprised by how much I like it. No wonder it’s considered a J-drama classic. If you like to explore some J-dramas on the side, that’s one that you should consider checking out ^^
I don’t read the actual mangas, but my two favorite Manga based I’ve seen are Absolute Boyfriend and Meichan’s Butler. I would love to see a K-Drama version of Absolute Boyfriend, but they don’t seem to favor robots like the Japanese. LOL. There was a Taiwanese drama of the same story, but I couldn’t get past that they used a Korean lead actress then had to badly dub in her Taiwanese. Didn’t see the purpose to that. But anyway, yeah, I would definitely think the Japanese would rock the Manga adaptations! 😀 Thanks for the suggestions.
I saw a Chuno graphic novel on Ebay, but it is really just pictures from the movie with Korean text bubbles. I thought someone had literally adapted and drew it all in Manga or GN form. That would be awesome.
Oh, I liked Absolute Boyfriend too! That was cute ^^ But yeah, I didn’t like that the Taiwanese version used Gu Hye Sun. Besides the dubbing issue (which I completely agree is unnecessary and distracting), she’s not even a great actress, so I fail to see the point >.<
I really liked the J-version of BOF too.. Hana Yori Dango was so much better than BOF. I even watched the second season of it, just coz I enjoyed the first season so much.
That Chuno graphic novel sounds like a gimmick made to cash in on the drama's popularity – I can see a big fan willing to buy that. But, not very satisfying for reading purposes, I'd imagine! XD
Actually there is a real hand drawn comic book version of Chuno out there. But it’s in Korean. I would love to have one translated in English!
You’re right, there was no point to that casting. I don’t think Gu Hye Sun is a great actress either. I know everybody loves BOF, but I had trouble watching it because of her. Seeing all those guys falling over themselves for her. Ughh! It annoyed me. :p (Rant over! lol)
I started watching the J-Version of BOF a while back, I need to get back to it, I really liked it! I have to remember where I left off because it was on Dramacrazy which shut down. :<
The comic exists?? Wow, I am really impressed by the amount of Chuno love out there. Gooo Dae Gil! 😀
Ugh, BOF! I watched it when the whole frenzy was on, and got swept up in the irrational enjoyment. For some inexplicable reason, I found KHJ’s Ji Hoo really sweet and quite swoony. On a (much later) re-watch attempt, I found it utterly terrible!! And I really wondered why I ever found Ji Hoo swoony in the first place! XD No loss if you never ever watch BOF, imo! >.<
The J-version, however, is quite delightful – you should totally get back to it! (RIP, Dramacrazy *bows*)
What. The. Hell…? This K-Drama thing makes my head explode.
I came here via Twitter, as your name popped up that suggestion box thing of people to follow. I kind of assumed from your name that it was because I also follow Raine0211 and, lo and behold, it was!
I’ve never actually watched K-Drama, and in fact I’d never even heard of it until I met Raine online and took a look at her blog. To be honest, it’s one of those genres that my staid old mind can’t quite grasp. It’s kind of like the paranormal romance genre of books – in my head I imagine it to be headless Victorian ghosts trying to woo invisible poltergeists.
Despite that, I was very impressed with this review. It’s incredibly long, passionate, and the pictures almost made my Internet connection cry. Mind you, the sight of so many strapping men in tears made me feel a bit unsettled.
Viva la K-Drama!
Lol! Pleased to make your acquaintance, Michael-who-has-never-watched-a-kdrama! 😉
Given how bizarre your mental picture is, of kdrama, I am impressed that you read this monstrously long review! XD Let me assure you that kdrama isn’t as crazy as it might appear.. I enjoy the format of the mini-series because it affords a lot more room for fleshing out characters, relationships and story arcs compared to a 90 minute movie.
Even though there are a good many kdramas that I wouldn’t recommend, I’m happy to say that there is a healthy number of kdramas that would appeal to a male audience. Chuno is one of those dramas (& I assure you, the men don’t cry as much as you might think from skimming my screenshots!), but if historicals isn’t your thing, I would highly recommend Bridal Mask. It’s set during the Japanese Occupation and follows one man’s journey from anti-hero to hero. Gripping, well-paced and with some amazing performances from its actors, Bridal Mask is at once a thought-provoking social commentary on nationalism and the Japanese Occupation in Korea, as well as an extremely engaging origin story of a hero.
If you enjoy shows that make you think, Nine is a great one to check out, coz it’s an excellently executed time travel tale. Great attention to detail and a plot that keeps you on your toes practically the whole time ^^
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Your magnificent HD captures look even more magnificent on my laptop!
Does anybody know where the song “Lost Child” can be downloaded? Unfortunately, the OST available in iTunes does not include that song. Btw, that OST is so wonderful. I listen to it and all the feelings I had watching the series come back (therefore, it is tough to it in the office and hold back the tears lol)
I can’t imagine how great it must’ve been to watch this show live.
Aw yeah, the captures look wayyy better on my Mac than my PC, so the computer does make a difference! (I love you, Mac)
You know, I hadn’t noticed that Lost Child wasn’t on my OST.. and I haven’t seen it available yet, anywhere else. Thankfully, we have youtube 😉
I saw you guys comment and realized I didn’t have it either, so I went ahead and downloaded it from my Melon account. Drama Fan, I’ll send it to your email. Kfangurl, do you also want it?
Oh, that would be fantastic, thanks Gumi! You are so sweet! 😀 My email addy’s the same as what I listed on my contact page: kfangurl [at] gmail [dot] com. Kamsahamnida, chingu-ya! ^^
Timescout
Chuno… why am I feeling oddly nostalgic here? Probably because it was one of the last big ‘community watches’ before the drama community of those days dispersed to various parts of the internets, many moving on to other things. E.g the Soompi thread had over 270 pages when the drama ended. o_0 Frantic live re-capping, intelligent discussions, interesting historical anecdotes, wonderful and insightful posts, some goodnatured snarking and no shipping wars… as far as I can remember. 🙂 Good times, I sorta miss them…
Yes, definitely a drama worth watching, warts and all, perferably in glorious HD. Nothing intelligent to add. You said it all. Although I wasn’t quite that taken with Dae Gil’s shirtless hawtness. For some odd reason abs don’t do much for me. Great acting on the other hand…. 😀 Hyukie was great in the role though.
I loved the OST then and love it now. I kept playing it on a loop for weeks.
Aw, the community Chuno experience sounds way awesome! Especially the frantic live recapping & intelligent discussions – a heady combination, in my opinion! ^^
I guess I’ve got a strong shallow streak – the abs, pecs, & all that muscle & sinew had my attention for sure! ;D I think what made it actually swoon-worthy and addictive for me, though, was the fact that it felt like all the muscle & fight prowess was treated in a fairly matter-of-fact and offhanded manner. It didn’t feel like JH was walking around showing off.. It felt like he was just.. walking around like he’s supposed to, and – oh yeah, he happens to be sinewy and extremely skilled at the fighting. No biggie. *shrug* I think it was the off-handedness that really got me 😛
And yes, the OST is just magnificent. Completely immersive. Love it! ❤
I totally agree about the offhandedness. The only thing that was deliberate was General Choi bathing and the innkeepers watching and giggling. Otherwise, these guys were just being themselves, running and fighting and running again…this drama made me exhausted just watching them. There was no requisite ‘hang my head down in the hot shower’ scene. lol.
Yep, I have a K-Drama conspiracy plan for my sis! lol
Lol! Good point! There was no angsty shower scene! Granted, there were no hot showers in their world, but that didn’t stop TPM from having an angsty bathing scene at the riverbank! XD I like that the one gratuitous bathing scene Chuno had was done in such a tongue-in-cheek manner ^^
We’re cheering you on in your kdrama conspiracy plan, Lady G!! One more potential k-fan in our midst, bwahaha! ;D
Im on that “shallow streak” boat with you 😀 The way it works for me, I fall in love with a character and then I fall in “lust” :p but when I do, I get “lost” in it lol! Yeah thats why, second watch of Chuno was oh so much more enjoyable for me. I feel the third will be even better (now that I have the intention of “understanding” things on top of feeling and lusting) Ill really reallyyy realllly try to see past the choco abs and loveliness and sexiness (brain! please cooperate this time)
Lol! I can see why this might be an uphill task for you, especially given how much schmexy there is on the screen! XD It can be done though – I speak from experience, heh.
Yup, there is something special in TV community experiences. I guess people do it in twitter and tumblr these days. Not as engeaging, me thinks.
I didn’t feel that the abstactness in Chuno was particularly gratuitous either. It was just part of what these guys are. And the General Choi bathing scene was totally done with tongue in the cheek. 😉 I’ve never been all that moved by ‘nekkidness’, though I must confess I do have a ‘thing’ for arms. Mmmmmm…. Now, give me men in suits or u-nee-forms and I’m toast. XD
Btw. did you watch CitC yet? That OST is awesome as well.
Oh, I’m quite partial to men in suits & uniforms too!! Hur. Biceps, triceps, abs, pecs.. AND suits & uniforms? I’ve got SO many fangirl distractions, don’t I? 😛
Conspiracy in the Court is on my watch list – I’m planning to get started on that after I finish White Christmas ^^ Which should be soon-ish, since I’m halfway through & it’s only 8 eps!
I’m going to add Conspiracy in the Court to my drama watch list. (It’s already a mile long now!) I love Lee Chun Hee, he’s so wonderful in the new Cyrano Dating Agency.
I love sageuk and I’ve heard so many good things about Conspiracy in the Court. I had it on my mental list so I’ll also add it to my written list and try to find it 🙂
Jumong is also on my list, again, for the good reviews, but that one is scary because of the length.
Sageuk is also what my mom is more keen on watching, and it is something we share, because besides enjoying the stories and characters we have fun looking up historical facts on the web. It only adds to the fun 🙂
I wasn’t too into Sageuk, even though I love history. But watching Chuno, Faith, and Tree with Deep Roots changed my mind. So while it’s not the first type of drama I look for, when I come across a good one I will watch them. That’s cool you can share that love with your mom. 🙂
Oh! have you considered watching The Great Queen Seondeok? That’s the one that got me into this sageuk craze. I know you have a million on your list but consider this one. It is among my top 5 series in general (only surpassed in my heart by Chuno and The Tree)
I will look into that one. Thanks for the suggestion. 🙂
Your approach to sageuk is just like mine! I don’t seek them out or anything, but now, I get really interested if there’s a good one ^^ I’m more partial to the shorter ones though, like Tree, Chuno & TPM. 🙂
I’m ready to start the 14th episode of Jumong and I love it! So far there’s no drag, it’s like watching Chuno. In fact I think Chuno is the only comparable Sageuk to this one in terms of story, production, action sequences and heart rending scenes. I spent last night in tears by ep. 12 and 13. lol. If I can tackle this 81 part monster, then I can get to watching the funny, fluffy, modern day 50 part dramas with no problem.(Hopefully! lol)
Giggle. I find your reasoning so cute! I actually find the 50+ ep weekend dramas much easier to watch than the long sageuks! For sure, if you can watch a long sageuk, a 50-parter weekend drama would be no problem for you! ;D
Might I recommend Ojakgyo Brothers as a good weekend drama to start with? It’s a really easy, fun. heartwarming watch, with lots of romance going on at any one time coz we have 4 brothers to do all the romancing 😉
It’s funny that you’re intimidated by the length of Jumong, Drama Fan! After all, you finished Queen Seon Duk – what’s another 20 eps, in the grand scheme of things? Lol 😉
Well, 20 episodes is a whole “regular length” series 😉 You are right! but QSD was my first sageuk so I didnt know better. I used to watch telenovelas before (spanish soap operas) which are at least 80 episodes each (and of much inferior quality) so at the beginning, QSD didnt seem too long! But I’ve become spoiled fast 😀 Also, for some reason I got into QSD and I never felt the length (I watched it twice) but others, I’ve had to drop in the middle. I love sageuk but Im aware of the fact that the majority of them can be draggy, dense, slow, etc so now I try to be more careful with my choices, since in general I dislike leaving things unfinished. Also, if they are too good, it means I will get super hooked and I will want to watch them all in one weekend, and that is really not possible with sageuk :p I know me and my mom, we don’t have a sense of self control, will power. etc
Yes, many long sageuks get draggy, and it’s rare to be able to say that a long sageuk isn’t.. I’m not partial to long sageuks myself, and plus, I was rather slow to embrace sageuks to begin with.. I’m now perfectly happy to watch the shorter ones though. Those tend to have higher production values and a tighter story.. And I love me a beautifully made, colorful, scenic sageuk with a good story. I loved TPM for those reasons, and I think Tree is fantastic too ^^
Which one is TPM?
TPM is The Princess Man? Oh! Adding to list. I haven’t seen that one!
Yes, TPM is The Princess’ Man! It’s a good one, and it uses the same Red One camera that Chuno used. Not as stylistic in the directing, but very pretty to look at still ^^
Yay! More people on the CitC train! I won’t be watching alone! ;D And yes, I do like Lee Chun Hee too. I rather enjoyed his character in Smile, You. Cyrano’s on my list too – that ever-growing monster list of shows I want to check out! XD
I haven’t seen Smile, you. But I watched an older 2005 drama called ‘Only You’ and he was like the near perfect 2nd male lead. I have 2 more eps. to go but I think I totally rooted for him the whole way through already. In Cyrano DA he’s the near perfect shady 2nd male lead. I love his eyes, they are so intense.
Smile, You is a fairly cute weekend drama, 45 eps. He plays a supporting character who’s a bit spoilt and a bit of a loudmouth, but hilarious while he’s at it, and of course, he has a growth arc. PLUS, he married his co-star Jeon Hye Jin too, in real life, who played his love interest. How cute is that, that reel got real?? 😀
I haven’t watched Only You.. Maybe I’ll get around to it. Someday.. 😛
May I make Chuno MV recommendation? You might have already seen this, but
It’s one of my favorite MVs of Chuno. It’s not emotionally intense nor does it have superb actions scenes, but….. awww i just luvvvv those boys (plus Seolhwa) togetherrrrr
and shameless self-recommendation of my own MV 😛 it’s very, very Daegil-centered, lol
Thanks for sharing these, Gumi! I enjoyed them both! The first one, for all the wonderful moments featuring our boys together, and the second, for all the Dae Gil!
I know exactly why I chose not to feature these vids, even though I came across them while poking around youtube.. The first one, coz I was looking for vids using an OST track, and the music didn’t sound familiar to me. And the second one, because I already had several HD vids shortlisted that used the exact same track from the OST, and I just wanted more variety in the music in the sampling of vids posted. But, I can totally see why these 2 vids are worth the watch – I found myself grinning through the first, and melting a little, at the second 😉
Ye! These were very great, Gumi! I really liked yours. That sound track gets your blood pumping, doesn’t it? LOL. I’m working on a fan-vid for Song Taeha right now. He needs more fangirling love on Youtube. 🙂
Kfangirl, I notice I changed your nick to kfungirl lol! Sorry but you are fun, so it also fits 🙂
As I told you on twitter I was just feeling nostalgic about Chuno, I had posted something along the lines of “After watching Chuno, everything seems to suck” and boom! your review came in! Wow! it definitely made my day. So, Warning! This is going to be long and spoilery
I’ve watched Chuno more than once and I really don’t know how many times I’ve re watched some scenes. So, yeah, we could say I am a bit obsessed with it. yet, I don’t love “all of it”. I’ve read so many reviews, and I agree partly with one or another. I truly envy those who enjoyed the whole drama and found each and every storyline and character to be meaningful and awesome. I didn’t. But the parts I loved, ohhhhh they still haunt me. I won’t say much about the cinematography and music because I think your review covers this aspect beautifully and you provided exquisite captures to prove your points.
The first time, I also hesitated before I started watching, I sort of dropped it once, came back to it after watching The Tree (my good impression of Jang Hyuk, allowed me to be more patient with the first episodes of Chuno, which IMO were a bit slow, dense and draggy, yup, despite the cinematography and the man-fest) Yup I was a tough cookie the first time around and only really got completely sunk into this until episode 10 (when Daegil finds Unnyun’s brother). Of course on second watch I appreciated those first episodes more, with the exquisite bromance between the three slave hunters, Seolwha, etc
Daegil – The panther gaze, the smirk…(I spend 30 minutes drooling on each picture so it took me literally all day to write this) Anyway, did I fall in love with Daegil right away? No way! I totally judged him. I didn’t find “being obsessed” with a woman justification enough to turn into a “devil”. I thought he was just “sick” and in modern times would’ve suggested him to go to a psychiatrist. To me, he was a bad sick guy…and then, that darn Jang Hyuk just sold this “unhealthy obsession” to me as “love” my brain was saying no, he is wrong, he is sick, I don’t…awwwww but poor guyyyyy! he loves herrrrr and yeah! I fell down that terrible path of despair and unrequited love with Daegil. His pain was my pain. His size changing irises, were my size changing irises! So you see, it wasn’t the swagger or the smirk that sold me Daegil, it was the freaking irises! lol
And the character only got more complex and interesting with each episode, always revealing a new aspect of himself, without betraying his true essence. He made no much sense, he was so “himself”. Like you said, I never saw the actor, always the character.
On second watch, I also appreciated Song Tae-Ha more, although I won’t lie and pretend that I cared much about his relationship with Unnyun, but I appreciated it, as contrasted with her relationship with Daegil. I also think that O-Ji-Ho’s best scenes are when he is interacting with Jang Hyuk. I loved the chemistry between the actors and the characters.
Regarding O Ji Ho’s and Lee Da Hae’s acting in this, I didn’t question it as much. They didn’t make me excited but I assumed that was because of their lukewarm relationship and the characters. I did love the scenes Lee Da Hae had with Jang Hyuk, specially the one where Unyunn sees him for the first time in the market, ohhhh she was very good in that one. Her eyes expressed so much.
Oh well, Ill admit it it and save us time here! I only “cared” about Daegil, his friends and the other main characters mostly “in relation to” Daegil. But I do agree with you that, in order to truly understand the whole world of Chuno, which is actually very well constructed one must also understand the rest of the subplots.
I also agree with your opinion on the villain. I know this actor has a lot of fans, and there were people who loved his character in Chuno, but it was hard for me to connect with him and hard to understand his transformation in the end when he was such a cold blooded killing machine. I think his interpretation was too subtle for my taste. How interesting that he was the one narrating at the beginning and the end. It certainly gives me a whole new perspective.
The bromance awwwwwwwww!!!! the bromanes were definitely the high point in this drama! Those three slave hunters and later on, I’ve said it before I did love Daegil and Song Tae-Ha working together.
The “crying while eating eggs” scenes sounds and looks pretty awkward out of context right? almost funny, but it is oh so amazing as you pointed out. Gumi told me about a talk show where they showed some scenes from Chuno and when this scene was shown Jang Hyuk got emotional and commented on the sadness of the scene. Awwww I supposed if we love Daegil he must love him even more! (if that is possible)
About the closure of Daegil and Unyunn ugh!!! that is one aspect that also bugs me. The fact that they never really talked!!! I know she knew he loved her and that his harsh words towards her were not “real”. If she didn’t perceive it (which I think she did) “Slanted ear” told her very clearly that he had been looking for her obsessively. But I wanted a scene where Daegil also knew that she had not forgotten him, even if they weren’t going to be together, I wanted my poor Daegil to know this. Although I guess, it would’ve served no real purpose. Also, he was so much smarter than the rest of the character, that he probably just “knew”. But he also knew that today, they weren’t the same people as before. Wasn’t there a conversation where she wanted to talk to him and he said something like “You don’t owe me anything”? I don’t know, I need to re watch but that was I believed, the closest the got to a “closure”
On the other hand, like you say, this was not a romance. It was about much bigger things. And that is why, on second watch I also appreciate the ending much better. I loved Daegil and Tae-Ha coming full circle, learning from each other. Daegil feeling hope again and dying for it.
Ahhhh I made myself cry again. Despite its flaws and endless characters I couldn’t connect to, I loooooooove what I love about this drama 🙂
Thank you thank you thank you for your review. Awesome as always!
Gaahhhh sorry for all the typos. It is late and I must dehydrated from all the drooling caused by the panther gaze, and the smirk and the irises :p Anyway I meant to say that “Daegil makes so much sense” (instead I wrote, “no much sense”) Anyway, thank you again! Btw, I don’t know why I forgot about Seolwha! I felt every one of her emotions too. Two of my favorite scenes involve her. One is when he is bring on the market, what she tells our boys afterwards “I saw a man crying like I’ve never seen before. It made me happy, to see a man capable of crying like that for love. But it made me sad to think that no one will ever cry like that for me” Wow! that…I cried. Then, the scene when Daegil is drunk and uses her as a blanket :p I found it super sexy! Him hugging her so tightly against his body and her, resisting only a little and then letting him squeeze as much as he pleased, oh my…hot! and at the same time sad. He was so depressed and in such need for lurrrve “Kiddo, stay put, it’s warm. Life is so wretched…wherever you go, it’s still the same”. Ok, I’ll shut up now 😀 or I could go on forever.
Wow, Drama Fan! You weren’t kidding about having LOT of thoughts after the review! I love it! 😀
I totally agree that Chuno is a drama that bears re-watching. It was only on my 2nd watch that I began to appreciate Chuno as a whole, where before, I was more fixated with badass, sexy shirtless boys and their related storylines. Well, ok. I was fixated mostly with ONE badass, sexy shirtless boy and his related storylines. *cough* Unlike you, I was very quickly smitten with Dae Gil.. By the end of episode 1, I was completely mesmerized.
On my second watch, though, I began to pick up on so many more things, and I began to really see, with new eyes, almost, what a masterpiece Chuno is.
And yes, I love, LOVED the bromance, particularly with Dae Gil, Gen Choi & Wang Son. But I also appreciated the bromantic turn between Dae Gil & Tae Ha.
You know, I thought about what you said, about wanting Eonnyeon to say something to Dae Gil to let him know that she had not forgotten him. While that would have been comforting for the fans, I actually think that it might have diluted the impact on us, of the unconditional nature of Dae Gil’s love.
As it stands, without that affirmation from Eonnyeon, we see that Dae Gil continues to love Eonnyeon, no matter what. Even though she has married someone else, he loves her, because he does not need to be with her to love her. Even though she has changed her name, he loves her, because he doesn’t care what name she uses. And I like to think that, *even if* she no longer has feelings for him, that he would *still* love her, because his love is that unconditional that he doesn’t need his love to be reciprocated in order for him to give it.
And yes! I was swooning into a puddle when Dae Gil held Seolhwa close to himself. That man is so hawt, even when he’s drunk and depressed. That sounds so wrong, but it is what it is. Dae Gil is one hawt man 😛
ahhh I loved Daegil&Seolhwa. The first time he called her ‘kiddo’, i was literally screaming opppaaaaaaa!!! Well, oppa in a literal sense, because he did look like a big brother looking at his little sister. And omg, when Daegil appeared like a prince charming with a coin between his sexy lips, I thought I’m gonna faint I couldn’t even breathe.
aww Gumi! I loved that scene where he rescued her from the clutches of the evil dance troupe! LOL
Aw, YEAH! In the moment, you TOTALLY understand why she’d fly into Dae Gil with a tacklehug! And I LOVE how he just lies there, letting her have her moment for a bit, while scrunching up his face like an uncomfortable adult dealing with the unfamiliar affection of a child. Squee! ❤
I admit I at first found Seol-hwa annoying, but then she really grew on me. She’s a pitiful character, much like Eponine in Les Miserables, you can’t help but love her either. In ways she was like the boys, tough, street smart. And a survivor. I can imagine at the end she will find her way back to them in their new home and they will all live there like a happy little family. Then maybe she will consider Wang-Son. haha.
Oh! I LOVE how you imagine the end, with Seolhwa seeking out the boys and sticking with them. It makes total sense. After all, they’re family ^^ And I bet there would be lots of comic hijinks as Wang Son tries to flirt with her, LOL! XD
I think eventually Wang Son will mature. And sooner than later considering all they went through and the loss of their ‘leader’ Daegil, But he’ll always be the doofy, fun-loving guy. I’m sure she would fall for him eventually. 😀 And of course I want General Choi to get the best of the best too. I really loved his character. At some point in your review or a comment you compared them to a family, Choi is the mother, Daegil the father, and Wang Son the…bratty son! lol. That was a great comparison. I agree. I can picture Choi finding a strong, yet very feminine woman, maybe someone good with weapons too, like his equal. 🙂
Aw, YAY, that you like the family analogy bit, coz I was supremely tickled when that thought occurred to me. I was literally giggling while typing that section! XD
Y’know, talking about what happens to our characters, I’m reminded of my fantasy drama that I wrote about in my Liebster post. I answered 2 questions about what drama I’d like to see made, and in the first, I talked about it just as a concept, and in the later question, I fleshed it out a bit. I got a real kick out of imagining the scenarios, & I thought you might get a bit of a kick out of reading it, since we’ve been talking about our Chuno friends and what happens after ^^ You can check it out here: https://thefangirlverdict.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/a-liebster-award-kinda/
It’s a little long, so I think it’s best to just use “Jang Hyuk” or “Chuno” as a search term to get you to the relevant sections! ^^ Oh, and there’s a small bit on Seolhwa too, so after you read the more robust scenario, do a search for “Seolhwa” coz it’s only in the comments that I mention her arc ^^
This is such a coincidence! Gumi and I were having a conversation about this. I was thinking of how sad Seolwha was left, and how sad Wang-Son and General Choi must’ve been without Daegil. They were a threesome, and they complemented each other so well. So Gumi speculated whether Seolwha even went back to them and told them how Daegil died or not. I said “I want to believe she did and they stayed together, and with time I wish she paid attention to Wang-Son”. Exactly the same thing lol! I do expect that she let sometime pass before that though, because in my mind, Seol-Wha did love Dae-Gil deeply, even though she was young, and initially saw him as a hero, her savior, and her love was one-sided, but still, his last words, and their chemistry makes me entertain this idea of them as a couple, in another life :p. I wouldn’t want her to forget him so fast (or ever). Part of me did find her irritating at times, but there were moments when I totally shipped them and rooted for her.
What a coincidence indeed! 😀 I love how we’re all imagining that outcome, where Seolhwa is reunited with Gen Choi and Wang Son – those 3 would be so cute together.. The only thing that would make it better is if Dae Gil could be with them too :’)
Interesting that you brought up shipping Seolhwa with Dae Gil sometimes.. I didn’t.. I just enjoyed their interactions together and I liked how Dae Gil treated her like a younger sister, almost. I guess I just saw how deeply his heart was for Eonnyeon and didn’t think that he would be able to soon love another woman. Though I can imagine Dae Gil and Seolhwa potentially being quite a cute couple, now that you mention it!
It’s quite obvious after he lost his love (my good ness the woman has 2 names and I forget them both! Sort of. lol) Daegil was a broken, defeated, man. He was like a zombie at times. 😦 In the end he sprang back to life to help the cause and save the baby prince. Going down fighting. Ultimately helping to reshape a nation.
Daegil is unforgettable. But I’m sure Seolwha would find her way back to the boys again and they would take her in, with lots of grumbling and mumbling, but ultimately love. She’s a beautiful young woman all alone, I could def. imagine General Choi say what kind of men would they be to leave her out in the cold like that? Daegil would have kept her on. 😀
You know how I remember her first name? I think of an onion = Unnyun 😀
Good one! I’ll remember that.
OMG. HAHAHA!!! XD I never saw that connection, and now that I see it, I find it completely obvious and hilarious! Good one, Drama Fan!
And she makes people cry too! lol (Ok, I’ll stop now)
HA!! Touche! Spot on, my friend, SPOT. ON.XD
She makes people cry and their are many layers to her character. Definitely an ‘onion.’
Sometimes I get the feeling that Daegil could’ve moved on after he decided to let her go the first time around. He was even making plans with his friends. But then his friends got “killed” he got all on “revenge” mode and then it all got screwed up. Then, while being forced to live close to Unyunn and STH he suffered even more (the man could not catch a break) and maybe thats when he became just too tired of everything.
That’s a good point. The really depressed mode came in the second half. When he felt he lost everything that ever meant something to him.
I really liked this show – which I was lead to watch because of your jang hyuk post 😉 – and I had every intention of giving a well thought out reply here. But all I can do is squee all over again at Jang Hyuk… Fantastic review though!!
Lol! Yes, Jang Hyuk as badass Dae Gil can definitely have that speechless effect on you! 😉 When (if?) your thoughts come back to you, I’d love to hear more of your Chuno thoughts! ^^
Yes, let’s ! Let’s rewatch together Lady G! (just let me finish with my Robbers re watch, but we could schedule it and watch only one episode a day or a week (so we have time to watch other dramas too, maybe have a virtual premiere party haha) I was talking about Chuno with Gumi and since she actually speaks korean! she was telling me about all these details that I had totally missed! For example, she explained to me that Daegil uses formal language, even his insults are not “unsophisticated” and they had a rich vocabulary which indicates he had an education (well. we knew that). I watched Chuno twice complete and then I’ve re watched parts of it, scenes, and there are still some dialogues I don’t fully understand. The Hulu subs were too complex and Netflix subs seem too simplified, so my plan is, re watch, and torment Gumi to explain everything I don’t understand 😀 Do you want to join me? I think Chuno is a drama very much worth the re watching and overanalyzing and yes, we can skip all the boring stuff 😀
Kfungirl I’m still working on my super long answer to your epic review
Oh, that’s a great point, that Dae Gil used formal language. I’d picked up on it, but didn’t connect it to the point that you and Gumi brought up, that it shows he’s not unsophisticated.
Agree that good subs are imperative for this drama. I used subs from WITHS2, which were wonderfully translated by Mr X. It does get complex at times, but he manages to bring out the meaning and flavor of the dialogue really well!
That’s a cool Idea Drama Fan. But I’m just having a really busy summer and I had commented on another post that I am invested in watching the 81 part monster, Jumong. lol. Plus a few other dramas. I really like Jumong so far-6 episodes in.
I am actually trying to recruit my younger sister to watch Chuno with me. She doesn’t seem too interested in K-Drama. (Her loss I say. lol) But she’s willing to go with me to Manhattan to see ‘The Flu’ and go to Koreatown to have a meal. I dragged her to see Werewolf Boy too and she really loved it. But I need to introduce her somehow to the beauty of Jang Hyuk and Chuno would be a perfect place to start. I’m not sure if she would like the genre as much, but we’ll see.
Interesting you brought up the subs. I watched it on Netflix. I wasn’t really paying attention to the differences in the subtitiling at that point. But then I put it on DramaFever (I do the premium membership there) (I think Hulu uses theirs, not sure) and I was scratching my head and found it hard to concentrate on the scenes when I’m trying to decipher the text. lol. But it’s a great point that you made about DaeGil’s formal language. I didn’t really pick up on it, but after reading this post I see the difference. And of course it makes sense, he’s a nobleman.
An introduction to Jang Hyuk?? Chuno is THE way to go, methinks! In all that I’ve seen of Jang Hyuk so far, nothing beats his wonderful Dae Gil ❤
Yes, totally agree!! Chuno is full of eye candy, but it has a memorable storyline, soundtrack and characters from every spectrum. It’s not easily forgotten. I will make her a fan yet. If not of K-Dramas, at least of JH and OJH. lol
I think Chuno’s got enough merits to please your sister, especially if she’s already watched k-movies with you AND is willing to take a day trip with you for a k-movie. Kdrama conspiracy, activate! ;D
WOOOOW, this was the best review of anything I’ve ever read. I have to agree with almost all of it. And Your glorious screen captures brought tears to my eyes. I have only seen this drama once. I watched it a huge fan of Oh Ji Ho and became an even deeper fan afterwards, but this was also my introduction the marvelous Jang Hyuk and soon after I was inhaling all the dramas I could find with him. I really need to rewatch this again, though I may skip the minister parts and the innkeeper scenes. Sometimes I found it all to be frivolous filler. It was only cool when the the trio were there and the girls were fawning over General Choi! Love him too. Wish he would lead a drama soon.
Aw, thanks Lady G! What a compliment!! *blush* I’m so glad you enjoyed the review, and I’m also rather stoked that it’s inspired you to consider re-watching Chuno! While the court politics did get really draggy in the later eps, I do think it provided an important context for our characters. And to their credit, the innkeeper scenes did give some insight into how it all affected the common-folk. Of course, I so agree that my favorite times were when our boys were onscreen doing their thing, so I perfectly understand the urge to skip ahead to get to more of that wonderful brotherhood ^^
And yes, I can definitely see Han Jung Soo rocking a lead role, preferably in a sageuk. He’s got sageuk face and body written all over him 😉
You’re right about the context with the innkeepers and the Ministers. It can’t be non-stop action every minute. lol I loved the quiet scenes with Commander Hwang Chul Woong and Cho Bok. I was convinced she really had Cerebral Palsy. Her acting blew me away. Lee Jong Suk is a really good actor and though he’s often cast as stern characters, he knows how to create such depth to them. He was marvelous in the recent Cyrano, and funny too.
I completely agree that Ha Si Eun did an amazing job as Commander Hwang’s wife. Not only was she incredibly convincing with the character’s palsy, she managed to convey SO MUCH, over and above the struggling and twitching. Respect.
Also, giggle. I think you must be quite taken with your current watch of IHYV, with that Freudian slip, typing Lee Jong Suk instead of Lee Jong Hyuk ;D I tease. Yes, Lee Jong Hyuk is an actor that’s grown on me as I see him in more dramas. I would’ve liked him to show us a little more dimension to Commander Hwang, so that we might have seen a little more into his thoughts. That would’ve gone a long way, I think, in helping viewers reconcile his turnaround at the end 🙂
LOL. That was a total slip. I really like Lee Jong Suk, his acting is terrific. Which reminds me I need to watch the next new episodes of IHYV! lol. LJH grew on me too, so I sought out his dramas and have been very pleased. I would have liked to have seen Commander Hwang show maybe an ounce of compassion for his wife, whether he loved her or not. But he was basically suckered into that marriage, right? And his father-in-law was a dangerous man to cross.
That’s a great point.. I’m thinking that Commander Hwang’s cold treatment of his wife was probably his frustration acting out. I can totally see how a man would take his anger out on the woman whose father has him stuck in the grip of his power-hungry evil hands.
This is precisely why I could not completely hate on Commander Hwang. I felt his struggle every step of the way. I felt he was trapped by that power-mongering father-in-law of his. Although we do not know his full history, one can probably surmise that he was coerced into marriage and/or thought it would be an advantageous marriage to some extent – which it wasn’t. Furthermore it seems his relentless search for STH was born more out of past jealousies coupled with the fact that STH was now an escaped slave AND had the royal grandson in tow! Weren’t Hwang and STH once contemporaries in the military guard together? I found myself sympathizing with Hwang throughout the drama and was particularly moved by his quiet resolution of finally letting the search and struggle go (the tight close camera shot of his face was fantastic), and his ultimate tearful break down in his wife’s lap. As an aside, his fight with STH in the water was nothing short of epic visually.
Yes, I picked up on the jealousy as well.. It was as if he always felt like he was struggling to show that he *was* better than Tae Ha, like he was fighting to come out of Tae Ha’s shadow. Given that he was also dealing with massive pressure from his manipulative father-in-law, he was a man with a lot of frustration and baggage. I get that he steeled himself for the terrible mission that his father-in-law arm-twisted him into.. I just wish we had gotten more access to his internal conflicts. That, I think, would have made him more overtly sympathetic to viewers.
I did find his final sobbing scene on his wife’s lap rather moving this time around. On my first watch, I didn’t really understand it coz I hadn’t given his arc much thought. Blame my frivolous fixation with the schmexy of Dae Gil, heh.
And yes, the battle in the water was gorgeously epic!
Yeah, if you think of it that way, you can find a depth to Commander Hwang’s character. I had hoped that at some point he would have cracked a teeny bit and showed a little love for her. But he really didn’t care for her at all. She was a total cipher to him.
Now that we’ve been talking about Commander Hwang, I really feel like his extremely cold treatment of his wife was a whole lot of anger and frustration, misplaced onto her because it was *her* father that was the source of (almost) all his problems. I think some of his frustration also stemmed from not being able to understand her, even though she tried to speak & write to him. While I can’t expect him to love her based on the fact that theirs wasn’t a love match and he has no understanding of her, I did want to see some compassion from him, for her. But perhaps there was too much anger in him towards her father, clouding & overwhelming him.
How cool, that the more we talk about this, the more understanding I feel like I have, about this character! 😀
The paralell you made with Daegil’s last words to Seol-Hwa and Commander Hwang’s “turnaround” is very significant. It had not occured to me that there might be a connection and it does give us a different perspective. It makes me think of Commander Hwang as an extreme case of “Daegil” whose darkness did not allow him to see that someone loved him (his wife) that there were good things around him. Commander Hwang’s darkness though was much much darker! He rarely showed “humanity” so it was harder to see it (at least for me).
I know! What a game-changer, right?? The first time I watched Chuno, I completely missed that, but this time, I was paying closer attention, and when they put Dae Gil’s scene with Seolhwa RIGHT before Commander Hwang’s scene with his wife, it suddenly clicked for me, and what a difference it made to my understanding of his character!!
Definitely agree, though, that Commander Hwang didn’t show us much of his internal struggles or of his real person.
Masterpiece review for a masterpiece drama! I loved every single word of your posting. Make me want to rewatch Chuno again and appreciate it even deeper…
Just one small information for you. You know how you wondered if JH filmed the young Daegil scenes first so that he can get leaner and film the rest of Daegil? That’s what I thought too, but surprisingly, he filmed the young Daegil in the middle of other scenes. So it was the magic of makeup+lightings+innocent eyes that created younger fuller innocent Daegil. So that young noble boy already had six packs underneath his clothes 😛
I also wonder if you noticed that when Hyewon and Taeha were talking in a hut Daegil quietly came out (he knows when to step aside, aww), sat on the ground, and wrote Hyewon’s name on the ground. He wrote Hyewon, not Eonnyun, and that just impressed me. He was so much faster than Taeha to accept the woman’s two different identities. Daegil was just born more open-minded than Taeha, I think.
Anyway, again thanks for a great comprehensive review! I can’t even imagine how much time you spent on this.
Aw, thanks! I’m really glad that you enjoyed the review! Coming from a serious Chuno and Jang Hyuk fan, I take that as a big compliment!! ❤
I'm pretty blown away, by that tidbit of info, that JH filmed the flashback scenes in the midst of other scenes. I wonder if he shaved his goatee for it, then wore a fake one, or did they manage to cover up his goatee in the flashback scenes with makeup? It blows my mind, how they managed that! O.O
And yes, I remember how Dae Gil wrote "Hye Won" in the ground! If memory serves, I think he'd just found out her other name, so when I watched it, I interpreted it as him trying out her name. Like, seeing how it felt on his lips etc. But I definitely agree that Dae Gil is quick to accept both of her identities. After all, he's always been the one who accepts Eonnyeon for who she is, regardless of her slave background, and then later, regardless of the name that she chose to go by.
I'm also happy to say that I'm getting faster at writing these epic-length reviews. The first time I went really epic, it was for Gaksital, and that took me almost a whole week. This time, I was at it for roughly 3 full days. And this turned out to be even LONGER than the Gaksital one! I'm happy though, to be getting more time efficient with it! ^^
Epic review of an epic drama. I am still reeling a bit from E24 but had to come directly here to read and praise and praise and read! ❤
Reeling – that’s the perfect descriptor for how this drama leaves you! The first time I watched Chuno, it lingered with me significantly, even though I didn’t love the ending. It has that “won’t-let-you-go” kind of effect, doesn’t it??
But yay, that we’ve finally gotten to a drama where you can actually read my review from start to finish, without madly dodging spoilers! XD
When you’ve recovered from Chuno a little, and perhaps any lingering jet lag, I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on Chuno! ❤
Oh yes…I am working on a fuller response! 🙂 And YES, at long last a review I could languidly (that’s a good Dae Gil word) read through it…ALL of it!
Ooh.. languid Dae Gil’s rubbed off on you, you languid reader, you! ;D I’m SO glad I did a re-watch with you – not only does it mean you don’t need to dodge spoilers, it’s made me appreciate the drama much, MUCH more than before. And I love when that happens! You know the reason I decided on a re-watch is really ALL to do with your Dae Gil related squees 😉
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I skimmed like a mad-person to prevent spoilers, but from what I did read… yet another drama to add to the list. 🙂
Ooh! I’d imagined that you’d already seen this one!! Good job on the skimming 😉 I think you’ll enjoy this one, & I think your hubs might enjoy it too. I hope you do manage to check it out sometime!! ^^
It’s one I’ve had in the back of my mind as a good one to watch with the hubs so we’re both seeing it fresh together. And now it’s been bumped a little further up the list. 😉
Aw yay! I’d be curious to hear what you think, as well as what your hubs thinks! His male perspective thoughts so far have always been really interesting!
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DDee
Such purrrty pictures to go with your purrty words :)!! I haven’t watched this yet, I kinda feel like this deserves more attention than I’m able to give at this point in time. So it’s been on the back burner for a while. OH but then just look at those pics of Jang Hyuk … hmm *searches for video files*
LOL!! I can say this much: Jang Hyuk alone is MORE than reason enough, to watch Chuno. Although, Chuno does have a lot of its own merits too 😉 I hope those Jang Hyuk pix are persuasive enough to convince you ;D
Hmm yes he does look like he has enough powers to take my mind off IHYV’s imminent end next week. I need all the distraction I can get.. 🙂
Well, let’s just say that when Jang Hyuk swaggered onto my screen in Chuno, he very quickly had my undivided attention! If you’re anything like me, I think you’ll be in good hands with Chuno! XD
Amen to that! This is the only show I watched without checking the background at all. That horse-riding hunk in the trailer was sooooooo hot I got to have more. My! He was totally weakening…*giggle,giggle and more giggles* Should rewatch this to appreciate the story… hehehe
LOL! Sounds like your Chuno experience was just like mine, kaiaraia!! XD During my first watch of Chuno, Jang Hyuk swaggering on my screen, oozing manly manly charisma and badassery, was ALL I could focus on. I had no bandwidth for ANYTHING else. So imagine my surprise when I rewatched Chuno, only to discover that the show itself is pretty darn awesome too. DEFINITELY worth a rewatch at some point. PLUS, the Jang Hyuk sexy just never gets old. Swooonn~~
Its decided then, this should be on my screen now! But I don’t wanna watch it with my hubby, hahaha!
Hee! I can imagine that it might get challenging containing the inevitable swooning, if hubs is sitting right next to ya! 😉 I know I swooned a LOT while watching the shirtless stretch, for sure.. Delicious, hawt, sexay Jang Hyuk.. Swooonn~~
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Surusa
Kfangurl, you have such a way with words! 🙂 This is one of the best Kdramas I have watched. except for the sad scenes, I had a smile on my face throughout this series. There was so much eye candy:) I have made a cd of the soundtrack and listen to it everyday, be it in the car or at the office. I will definitely watch this again, but right now I have so many other good ones to watch:)
Btw, thanks for mentioning “Fermentation family” I’m currently watching that one. Keep the reviews coming! 🙂
Thanks, Surusa, I’m glad you enjoyed the review! And yes, Chuno is a great show to rewatch.. I enjoyed it even more the second time around! And yes, that OST is just AH-MA-ZING. Love it!
I do feel ya, though.. there are always new and shiny dramas clamoring for our attention, so it’s a hard call on where to spend those precious drama hours! I will say, though, having rewatched Chuno, that even the second time around, it’s a worthy watch 🙂
Glad you started on Fermentation Family, I really rather liked that one! Hope you enjoy the watch! ^^
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Firmware Update 2.16: The Monster at the End (and Middle (and Start)) of this Podcast
On the latest episode of The Firmware Update, Joe and Malcolm talk all about the 2018 Game Awards as Joe’s apartment is suddenly accosted by terrible, sporadic construction noise that he can’t do anything about and forces the show to run shorter than planned. A real treat for the ears!
Talking Points: Red Dead Redemption 2 is a job; Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a love letter to video games; the actual awards given out by The Game Awards; Far Cry 5 gets a direct sequel; marvel at the return of Ultimate Alliance; one of the rare good non-Mario kart games gets its due; taking a trip to The Outer Worlds; a new Dragon Age is imminent, come hell or high water; Mortal Kombat 11 is gory as hell; Psychonauts 2 is coming along nicely; the first Smash DLC promises to take your heart.
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Student-Athlete Spotlight: Ally Boots
Jess Brandt, Sports Editor|December 7, 2017
Versatility is a strong attribute.
Ally Boots, sophomore forward for the Mercy College Women’s soccer team, came into the soccer season being named ECC Preseason Defensive Player of the year. However, Boots quickly stepped up into the forward position when her team needed her, and it paid off in dividends.
Boots led her team with 16 goals, 3 assists and a total of 33 points on the year.
Boots racked up a number of awards from the East Coast Conference this year being named ECC Offensive Player of the Year, ECC First Team, First Team All-East Region, Offensive Player of the Week, and two-time ECC weekly Honor Roll.
Boots and her team advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, making Mercy College history. At the tournament, Boots was named First Team All-American, the first Maverick player to be awarded this prestigious award since 2014.
The Impact: How long have you been playing soccer?
Ally Boots: Since I was four years old.
TI: Does playing sports run in your family?
AB: My dad played football and my mom played softball and volleyball, but not past high school sports.
TI: Have you played any other sports?
AB: Growing up I played basketball and softball, and then in high school I played volleyball and ran track.
TI: What do you enjoy most about soccer?
AB: Being on a team. It’s like built-in best friends, and also the feeling when you score a goal or make a play that wins a big game for your team.
TI: What inspires you to play?
AB: Helping my family financially to get me through school.
TI: What are you majoring in?
AB: Communication Disorders/ Speech Pathology.
TI: What are your hopes after graduating?
AB: To get my master’s degree in speech therapy, and then either work in a school or a private practice as a speech therapist.
TI: What is your favorite memory playing soccer?
AB: I think my favorite memory playing soccer was going into my freshman year of high school. My club team won State Cup, Regionals, and National Cup with only 12 girls, sometimes 11 depending on injuries. That journey really reminded me of going to the Final Four because we were definitely the underdogs but we kept fighting and it resulted in winning a national cup.
TI: How did it feel to make it to the Final Four?
AB: It is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I feel so blessed to be part of the team that made Mercy College history.
TI: What was the feeling like for you and your team beating LIU Post for the first time in program history, to win the ECC Championship?
AB: It was an amazing feeling to not only beat them, but dominate them on their home field in front of their fans and bring home the ECC championship for the first time since 2014. I think it showed just how special this team was, and that we were a force to be reckoned with. Everyone had a lot of heart this season, and really played for each other
TI: How does it feel to be named All-American?
AB: It is definitely a great accomplishment, and I feel really blessed to have that recognition for my season, but I really couldn’t of done it without my teammates. They just made me better, and were a huge part of me winning that award.
TI: What is your favorite song to listen to before a game?
AB: A-team by Travis Scott, or Ball Like This by L.A leakers and Future
TI: Who is your favorite professional soccer player?
AB: Megan Rapinoe.
TI: Favorite sport other than soccer?
AB: Basketball.
TI: Favorite food?
AB: Mexican food.
TI: What is your favorite part about playing soccer for Mercy College?
AB: Having a team that is always going the extra mile to work hard. Sometimes it isn’t always by choice, (cough cough field laps, thanks coach) but everyone comes together to push through because we know that in the end it is going to benefit us to be the best team we can be.
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Jess Brandt is a Media Studies major specializing in Journalism. She is from the wholesome town of Folsom located in beautiful Northern California. She...
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A Siemens designed and manufactured water pump impeller using Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing is operating in Slovenia’s Krško nuclear power plant.
Following the integration of 3D printing as part of its digital services portfolio, Siemens has achieved an industry breakthrough with the first successful commercial installation and continuing safe operation of a 3D printed part in a nuclear power plant. Because of the stringent safety and reliability requirements in the nuclear sector, achieving this qualification is a significant accomplishment.
This photo shows the original, obsolete water impeller, Siemens’ 3D printed prototype and the resulting 3D-printed replacement installed and operating in Krško NPP in Slovenia. The additive manufacturing project was code-named “Perun,” after the mythological Slavic god of lightning who is closely associated with metallurgy.
The replacement part produced for the Krško nuclear power plant in Slovenia is a metallic, 108mm diameter impeller for a fire protection pump that is in constant rotating operation. The water pump provides pressure for the fire protection system at the plant. The original impeller was in operation since the plant was commissioned in 1981; its original manufacturer is no longer in business. Obsolete, non-OEM parts are particularly well-suited for this new technology as they and their designs are virtually impossible to obtain. This technology thus allows mature operating plants to continue operating and achieving or, as in the Krško case, even extending, their full life expectancy.
Siemens’ team of experts in Slovenia reverse-engineered and created a “digital twin” of the part. The company’s additive manufacturing (AM) facility in Finspång, Sweden, then applied its advanced AM process using a 3D printer to produce the part.
“We continue to push forward our investments and cutting-edge advancements in additive manufacturing and 3D printing. This achievement at the Krško nuclear power plant is another example of how the digital transformation and the data-driven capabilities we have are impacting the energy industry in ways that really matter. Additive manufacturing’s reduced lead times and faster production optimizes parts replacement and creates real value for our customers.” Tim Holt, CEO of Siemens Power Generation Services division.
Meeting the Krško NPP’s stringent quality and safety assurance requirements required extensive testing that was performed jointly with the Krško operations team over several months, ensuring that the new 3D-printed part would perform safely and reliably. Further material testing at an independent institute as well as a CT scan, showed that the material properties of the 3D-printed part were superior to those of the original part.
“The better than expected performance of this 3D-printed part gave us confidence that we can reach the full life expectancy from our asset. Siemens has a long history of innovation in this area and their dedication to providing their customers with the latest, proven innovations made them an excellent partner for this project.” Vinko Planinc, Head of Maintenance at the Krško plant.
The Krško plant is among the highest-ranked of European nuclear power plants by the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group in terms of safety according to assessments following Fukushima. It provides more than one-quarter of Slovenia’s and 15 percent of Croatia’s power, making it vitally important to the region. For over a decade, Siemens has been actively performing modifications and providing service on the plant’s non-nuclear side, including turbine, generator and auxiliary equipment.
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Areas of Law: Civil Fraud, Commercial, Employment, Insolvency, Public, Administrative and Constitutional Law,
Tom has a broad practice extending across the full range of commercial disputes, with a particular expertise in Russian / CIS disputes, and associated offshore issues. He recently appeared in National Bank Trust v. Yurov, a nine-week Commercial Court trial of a Russian banking fraud claim of US$1 billion.
He appears in both courts and before arbitral tribunals at all levels, including under a variety of rules (including LCIA and ICC) and ad hoc.
Tom has extensive experience of appellate advocacy, including before the Court of Appeal, the Privy Council and the Supreme Court.
Tom was re-appointed to the Attorney-General’s “A” Panel of Civil Counsel to the Crown in 2018 and in this capacity undertakes some of the Government’s most high-profile and complex cases.
Commercial, Civil Fraud and Insolvency:
Tom’s civil fraud practice covers claims involving bribery, conspiracy, knowing assistance and breach of trust in a range of civil and commercial contexts. As well as commercial / contractual disputes, he also undertakes significant chancery-commercial cases, and has extensive experience of domestic and international claims arising from shareholders’ and directors’ disputes and misfeasance.
Tom is recognised in Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in Commercial Dispute Resolution and in the Legal 500 as a leading junior in Civil Fraud. Recent comments in the directories have included: “The speed at which he grasps the facts and documents is incredible”, “he is a brilliant junior – definitely one to watch”, “charming to work with and excels in turning around work under time pressure”, “he’s clever, diligent and thorough, and he’s massively hard-working”, “he has a reputation for being realistic and straightforward” and “a strong advocate who understands complex cases”.
Recent instructions include:
National Bank Trust v Yurov: acting (with Paul Stanley QC) for one of the three former directors of National Bank Trust, one of Russia’s largest retail banks, against whom claims valued at over US$1 billion are being made in the Commercial Court as a result of the allegedly dishonest management of the bank. The claim was heard at a nine-week trial in late 2008 and was listed as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2017/18.
NGM v Wallis & Ors: acting (with Simon Davenport QC) for the defendants in a £50 million fraud and conspiracy case concerning intellectual property rights and ‘can-float’ property technology. The claim was heard at a six-week trial in the Chancery Division.
One Blackfriars Limited: acting (with Simon Davenport QC) for the claimant liquidator in a £250 million claim against the former administrators of One Blackfriars for, amongst other things, selling the landmark building at an undervalue.
Acting for the claimant in a fraud and conspiracy claim concerning a portfolio of multi-million-pound properties that were gifted to the daughter of a high-profile Saudi family.
Instructed in an enforcement action arising from a Ukrainian judgment for the amount of US$ 3.7 billion.
Acting for the same client in four cases involving contract disputes in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Previous recent reported decisions include:
Purvis v Purvis [2018] EWHC 1458 (Ch)
Marr v Collie [2018] AC 631
Deutsche Bank AG v Sebastian Holdings Inc [2017] EWHC 3265 (Comm)
Tom’s extensive employment practice covers all aspects of employment law with particular expertise in conducting Tribunal and High Court claims, including injunctive action and relief. Tom’s employment work overlaps with his commercial work. This includes acting for and against directors in claims involving breach of fiduciary duty and post-termination restrictive covenants.
Tom is recognised by the Legal 500 as leading junior in Employment. Recent comments in the directories have included: “a very bright junior who’s easy to work with”, “he is highly recommended” and “he is a very high-quality junior”.
Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago v Daban [2019] UKPC 22: acting (alone) in an appeal to the Privy Council for an employee who had lost his job after receiving a prison sentence and claimed that his employer had breached his right to equal treatment under section 4(d) of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago.
ACAS v Public and Commercial Services Union [2018] ICR 1793: acting (alone) in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal from a decision of the Central Arbitration Committee. The appeal concerned the interpretation of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 and is now the leading authority on the meaning of “carrying out of an economic activity” within the meaning of regulation 2 of the ICE Regulations.
Sahatoo v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [2019] UKPC 19: acting (alone) on behalf of the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago in an appeal to the Privy Council considering the right of an individual to equality of treatment from a public authority under the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago.
Jhuti v Royal Mail Group Ltd [2018] ICR 1077: acting (alone) in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal concerning the right to access to justice, in particular the extent to which employment tribunals have power in a case involving an individual who is incapacitated to appoint a litigation friend.
Dobson v Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP [2017] 6 WLUK 372: acting (alone) in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal concerning non-party disclosure and the extent to which a party was entitled to redact documents.
First Personnel Services Ltd v Halfords Ltd [2016] EWHC 3220 (Ch): acting (with Aidan Casey QC) in a claim concerning the payment of transfer or introduction fees to a recruitment agency which had supplied staff to it, where the staff were subsequently transferred to another agency under TUPE after a re-tendering exercise. The trial was heard over 8-days in the Chancery Division.
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Tom’s practice encompasses the whole spectrum of public law challenges. He has particular expertise in matters arising out of immigration and human rights issues, standards in public life and cases involving challenges to decisions of regulatory bodies. He regularly appears in the Court of Appeal and Administrative Court instructed on behalf of companies, central government, local authorities, public interest groups, individuals and regulators.
Tom undertakes a large amount of work in the Privy Council, in particular contract and constitutional law cases, and capital appeals. He has acted for most of the Governments in the Caribbean on many high-profile cases.
Tom is recognised by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 as a leading junior in Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights and Immigration. Recent comments in the directories have included: “super clever, charming and an excellent advocate”, “very good at what he does”, “fantastic intellect”, “absolutely thorough and reliable”, “very fair and very knowledgeable”, “tends to handle the state’s work and he’s excellent at that”, and “has a very measured manner in court and comes across as very authoritative and calm. He’s pleasant, he’s on top of everything and he produces excellent written material”.
In recent years, Tom’s instructions have included by way of example:
MA (Pakistan) [2018] 4 WLR 55: acting (alone) as lead counsel on behalf of the Home Secretary in six test cases in the Court of Appeal concerning the operation of the Home Secretary’s evidential flexibility policy. The Court of Appeal’s judgment notes that Tom gave the Court a “clear and helpful overview of the field”.
Chandler v Trinidad and Tobago [2018] UKPC 5: acting (alone) instructed on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Trinidad & Tobago in a capital appeal to the Privy Council. The main issue raised on appeal was whether it was in the interests of justice to allow the appellant to raise diminished responsibility for the first time on appeal, and many years after trial, having advanced an entirely contrary defence at trial.
Sexius v Attorney General of Saint Lucia [2017] 1 WLR 3236: acting (alone) in an appeal to the Privy Council. The judgment in this case is now the defining judgment in respect of the scope of the right to silence and its interplay with the right to a fair trial.
Stubbs v Queen [2018] 3 WLR 1638: acting (with Peter Knox QC) instructed on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Bahamas. The appeal engaged the fair trial provisions in the Bahamian constitution, which are based on the ECHR, and set down important guidance as to the appropriateness of trial judges sitting on appeals.
Pitman v Trinidad and Tobago [2018] AC 35: acting (with Peter Knox QC) in a capital appeal to the Privy Council. The appeal considered the common law rule that a sentence of death should not be imposed on a mentally impaired person.
Brown v The Queen [2016] UKPC 6
R (on the application of Nyasulu) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 1145
R (on the application of Gomes) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 373
SH (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 426
R (on the application of Sathanantham) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 1781 (Admin)
R (on the application of Farooq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 2386 (Admin)
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Trump: Nike's Colin Kaepernick campaign sends 'terrible message'
President Donald Trump criticized Nike's decision to make Colin Kaepernick one of the faces of its 30th anni...
Posted: Sep 5, 2018 6:36 AM
Updated: Sep 5, 2018 6:36 AM
President Donald Trump criticized Nike's decision to make Colin Kaepernick one of the faces of its 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign.
The president told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that Nike should not have chosen to feature the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback. Kaepernick started a movement of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to raise awareness about police brutality against African-Americans and other racial injustices.
"I think it's a terrible message and a message that shouldn't be sent," Trump said of Nike's new campaign. "There's no reason for it."
Nike's flagship store had been located at a Trump property next to Trump Tower in New York City, but it closed that location. The company announced last year that it was moving to a new location on Fifth Avenue in late 2018. Nike did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump noted that Nike is a tenant of his. "They pay a lot of rent," he said.
He also acknowledged that the choice to use Kaepernick was Nike's to make.
"As much as I disagree with the Colin Kaepernick endorsement, in another way — I mean, I wouldn't have done it," he said. "In another way, it is what this country is all about, that you have certain freedoms to do things that other people think you shouldn't do, but I personally am on a different side of it."
Trump has been a vocal opponent of athletes who kneel during the national anthem to raise awareness about police brutality against black Americans and other racial injustices.
He's said team owners should fire players for taking a knee, and suggested that players who don't stand "shouldn't be in the country."
Nike delved into the fraught debate this week when it threw its support behind Kaepernick, who tweeted out a photo from the campaign on Monday.
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Adam Equipment Debuts New BKT and AE 503 Label Printing Scales and Indicators
OXFORD, Conn., August 6, 2019 – Adam Equipment, a leading worldwide manufacturer of professional scales and balances, expanded its line of bench and floor scales with the debut of the BKT line, which will work in tandem with the newly-released AE 503 weighing indicator and its integrated label printer.
Combining a full suite of weighing applications with a built-in label printer into a single compact solution, the 11 models of BKT scales and the AE 503 indicator offer value, durability and convenience for all manufacturing, shipping, packing and distribution needs. The ability to fully customize label designs – including output in English, French, German or Spanish, as well as the addition of barcodes, QR codes, pictures and logos – to suit a diverse range of printing applications, along with a wide range of capacities and base sizes, mean the BKT and AE 503 can be easily optimized for any user’s needs.
The BKT line comprises 11 different models, ranging in capacities from 16lb/8kg to 1,320lb/600kg and readabilities from 0.0002lb/0.1g to 0.1lb/0.05kg with three platform sizes (11.8 x 15.7”/300 x 400mm, 15.7 x 19.7”/400 x 500mm and 23.6 x 31.5”/600 x 800mm).
Features include two Hold modes: one for weighing moving objects (such as animals) and Peak Hold, which measures the highest amount of force something can withstand (such as how much force a cardboard box can take before buckling damaging its contents).
The die-cast aluminum base and easy-to-clean stainless steel platform of the BKT, along with the sturdy, lightweight ABS plastic housing of the AE 503, are made to stand up to industrial conditions. The pair can be placed on a bench or on the floor, with the indicator attached to the included pillar.
The AE 503 incorporates a sealed keypad with a large, easy-to-read backlit LCD screen featuring 1.3”-tall digits. The color-coded keypad allows for quick and easy configuration. The indicator offers a hold function and provides 10 weighing units (grams, kilograms, pounds, ounces, lb:oz, carats, drams, mommes, taels and tons).
An RS-232 interface provides a fast, convenient connection to computers and external printers, outputting weight, unit weight and count. The AE 503 allows user-selectable scale division and 1:60,000 resolution.
An internal rechargeable battery allows the scale to operate if electricity is unavailable. The AE 503 battery can run for up to 150 hours on a charge. An auto power-off option helps conserve energy, along with a backlight for the LCD screen that can be set to “always on,” “always off” or “light only when weighing.”
About Adam Equipment
Adam Equipment was founded in 1972. It designs and manufactures precision balances and scales for professionals worldwide. Adam Equipment’s global distribution network serves the laboratory, medical,
education, industrial, legal cannabis, food, and animal/veterinary markets. Its head office is in Milton Keynes, England and has extensive operations and holdings in the United States, China, Australia, South Africa, and Germany.
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Introducing Sujari Britt
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Scott Speck, conductor
Sujari Britt, cello
Friday March 13 at 7:30 pm
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Sujari Britt is the 17-year-old cello sensation who has been featured on The Today Show and NBC TheGrio’s “100 History Makers in the Making.” The Symphony no. 1 of William Grant Still—“The Dean of African American composers”—is widely regarded as one of the great American symphonies of all time.
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Sujari Britt showed her prodigious talent and uncanny devotion to and understanding of music from a very early age. She began formal study of the cello at age four, following her study on the violin, and piano.
Sujari earned her Bachelor's of Music (2018) in Classical Cello Performance at Manhattan School of Music in the studio of distinguished pedagogue, author and cellist Marion Feldman. Sujari presently studies with renowned cellist and pedagogue Martti Rousi, Sibelius Academy in pursuit of her Master's of Classical Cello.
In February 2019, Sujari is a featured artist at Musiikkotalo, Cellofest Opening Gala in Helisinki, Finland. Sujari also is featured at CUNY/Queens College, where she will present the Elgar, Cello Concerto in E minor.
Sujari was featured in the annual Beijing Super Cello Festival, Beijing China in May 2018. Also in May 2018, Sujari spoke and presented at C2 Montreal for the 2018 "Transformative Collisions". In Fall 2017, Sujari delivered a solo concert sponsored by Marietta College for the annual Esbenshade Series at People's Bank Theatre, Marietta, Ohio. In Spring 2016 Sujari was featured in Canada’s Neopolitan Connection Concert Series. She performed solo with Memphis Symphony Orchestra in November 2015, solo with the Chicago Sinfonietta in January 2015, and opened the 2014-15 season with Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra as soloist in their Classics Series. Sujari was featured at the UN’s international HeforShe in September 2014, and she presented at Madison Square Garden during quarter time for the NY Knicks in January. In October 2013 Sujari was a featured artist for the Shakespeare Company’s annual gala honoring Elizabeth McGovern at the Harman Arts Center in Washington, DC. Also in the 2013 season, Sujari performed at the United Nations for 2013 annual World Humanitarian Day on August 19th. Sujari served as the featured guest performer for the Adrian Symphony Orchestra Casual Classic Concert in May 2012. In May 2011 Sujari was the featured artist at the 28th Annual Children’s Concert for the Gary Historic and Cultural Society in Gary, Indiana. In 2010, Sujari closed the 11th Annual International Tropical Baroque Music Festival of the Miami Bach Society in Coral Gables, Florida, and in April, she performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall as a winner of the National Young Musicians Concerto Competition. She was invited as a guest performer at the Fifth Annual Midori and Friends Children’s Music Festival where she shared the progamme with Midori and with renowned clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera. In November 2009, Sujari had the honor of performing with Alisa Weilerstein at the White House for President Obama, the First Lady, and their distinguished guests, where she was brought to the attention of many notables in the classical music industry.
Sujari was featured in Strings Magazine Fall 2015, and was StayThirsty Winter 2014 Spotlight Artist to watch! Sujari also was featured in an on-line THKR/RadicalMedia PRODIGIES, a TIME for Kids/Time Magazine article, Ebony.com and a segment of Katie! with Katie Couric. Sujari joined a host of prodigious young movers of the world on TEDx-Redmond of TED Talks, and was featured as one of NBC TheGrio’s “100 History Makers in the Making.”
Sujari serves in the Arts Leadership Program of From the Top. She is the distinguished recipient of prestigious academic scholarships and awards, and grand prize winner of numerous national and international competitions. Sujari plays a Neuner and Hornsteiner cello made in Mittenwald, Germany circa 1718, generously loaned to her by Carlsen Cello Foundation.
In addition to her active solo career, Sujari is a member of JoSunJari, a classical string trio with her sister Joelle (violin), and her brother Sunnaj (violin); and a member of various troupes and ensembles of classical, jazz, and eccelctic genres.
Sujari has participated in international and local summer music festivals including Manhattan in the Mountains, JVL International Music Festival, New York University String Camp, Greenwood Music Festival, Gateway Music Festival, Kaufman String Camp and World Cultural programs (Prague, Budapest, Italy).
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Devoted fans in Philly will miss The Church’s eclectic music
Elizabeth Fiedler
Sean Agnew, R5 Productions (NewsWorks Electronic Image)
It’s the end of an era for a Philadelphia venue that gave the world Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, and even the vocal stylings of Ryan Gosling.
Center City’s First Unitarian Church has become a fixture among the city’s music fans. But they’re not seeking hymns or organ music.
Since 1996, “The Church” has hosted thousands of shows booked by the promotions agency R5 Productions, a DIY booking operation owned by Sean Agnew.
“The Church was pretty unusual, but really cool alternative space to see a concert. It was in the basement of a fully functioning and existing church,” he said.
Agnew, an Ardmore native and entrepreneur, dubbed his company after the R5 regional rail line train he rode home from the city.
“It never started out as a serious name. It was more of a joke. Where the first flier was the ‘R5 Train schedule’ and I just made a joke — wrote ‘R5 Productions Presents’ on it,” he said.
But the joke name stuck. While the city’s music scene has exploded, Agnew’s R5 has grown over the years into a real booking force. Over the decades, plenty of kids from Philly and the suburbs have seen their first shows at The Church — then went back to the sometimes very sweaty basement for more.
In a press release, the company says, “A bunch of now super-famous and legendary bands got their first ‘big break’ there … Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, At The Drive In, TV On The Radio, the xx etc. Even Ryan Gosling came through to play at the now infamous venue.'”
Agnew says the list of acts also includes “Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes — they both played their first Philly shows there. Along with numerous punk bands, pop punk bands like Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive In, The Get Up Kids, all sorts of interesting composers, Joanna Newsom.”
In recent years, R5 has expanded by opening two other venues: Union Transfer on Spring Garden Street and Boot & Saddle in South Philadelphia.
Fans of all ages attended Church regularly
In addition to the novelty of watching a rock show in the basement of a functioning church, Agnew says something else distinguished the shows at the First Unitarian Church: there’s no bar and every show there has been “all ages.” The ability for any music fan to enter, regardless of age, came about Agnew says, at a time when there was only a few 21+ bar venues in Philly and virtually no other all-ages space.
“So kids sort of took it on their own to do shows so that they and their friends could see it. Kids under 21,” Agnew said, “That’s how I started doing shows in 1996. I was 18 at the time. So it was basically out of necessity where we were doing shows at the church or at unusual spaces because we couldn’t see bands anywhere else.”
Agnew said, even with more traditional venue options now in his fold, The Church is still his favorite venue.
While some may have wished they could order a beer, the lack of anything except the music also gave audiences a pure music experience. There was nothing else to focus on and no quick run to the bar between sets. Just music.
Why stop regular bookings in the beloved sweaty church basement? Agnew said the Philadelphia music venue landscape has changed dramatically over the decades, and it’s become more difficult to book bands for the space thanks to their new venues and others around the city. Without regular bookings, the company said the arrangement with The Church was no longer financial reliable. Instead, the basement shows will be replaced by an after-school group using the space.
“The church has been and continues to be an amazing partner to work with for almost 20 years,” he said. “What other church would ever let a group called Pig Destroyer play a five days before Christmas? We are forever in debt to them.”
R5 will continue to book shows upstairs in the church’s sanctuary, a space that has traditionally hosted tamer acts. R5 said they hope to still do basement shows on weekend evenings.
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Old City art-house movie theater the Ritz at the Bourse will close at the end of January, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Princeton home’s history of slavery explored in new contemporary art exhibition
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Fibroids And Fertility
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What Are Fibroids And Who Has Them?
Fibroids, benign tumors that grow on the muscle tissue of the uterus, are a common complaint, affecting 25 percent of women over the age of 35. Fibroids are not a condition a woman is born with-in fact, she won't develop fibroids until she is an adult. As a rule, fibroids are not problematic and many women with small fibroid tumors go through life unaffected.
A recent study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill addressed the issue of fibroids in connection with miscarriage and discovered there was a link between the presence of small fibroid tumors and miscarriage. During that study of 1,600 women, 170 women were diagnosed with fibroid tumors and most of them were unaware of the presence of the tumors-they had never been told they had them.
In today's world, many women have put off childbearing in favor of developing their career or building a business. As a result, more pregnancies to women over 30 are commonplace, as are more cases of fibroid tumors during pregnancy. Fibroids can cause infertility challenges, miscarriage and other painful situations. However, they need not be the end of hope for a woman who wants to have children.
Fibroids And The Growing Baby
Dr. Bobbie Gostout, MD, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, says fibroids do not often cause problems with conception. However, once a woman is pregnant, fibroids can grow very rapidly during the early months especially, and they can cause severe pain which may require the woman to be hospitalized. This does not always happen to all women, but there are sufficient cases of fibroid growth during pregnancy to warrant attention. With today's modern methods of tracking the growth of both the baby and fibroid tumors, the doctors are better able to manage the situation. Surgery is not performed to remove fibroids during a pregnancy. The symptoms are managed until after the birth when the tumors can be removed by myomectomy.
Is A Caesarean Section Necessary?
Many women with fibroid tumors go through pregnancy and delivery will little problem and most studies show no differences in the risks for premature delivery, fetal growth problems, fetal abnormalities, placental problems, or heavy bleeding after delivery. One commonality in delivery for women with fibroids is caesarean section, sometimes as a result of the fibroid blocking the birth canal. Women can also experience a lot of pain and early contractions which are caused by the fibroids. If the labor begins too prematurely, bed rest and medications will be used to keep things stable until it is a safe time to deliver the baby.
Fibroids are not known to hurt the baby, and with the wonderful methods we have today of prenatal tracking, should any problems develop they can be addressed quickly and effectively without harm to the baby.
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Description: Ky Quang Pagoda was built in the early part of the 20th Century in 1924 and is quite famous in Ho Chi Minh City. The pagoda is now a place of charity for unlucky children and also helps treat diseases. Now, the pagoda is taking care and bringing up more than 100 children in the South of Vietnam.
Type of Work: volunteers will spend time with the children and help to improve their English, organize games and other activities for them. Volunteers will also do some manual work such as cleaning, renovation, etc depend on the need of orphanage/pagoda. Volunteers will get closer to the children’s life and try to build up a wider horizon for the children and encourage them to learn better for the brighter future. There are a possibility to support children with disability on the disabled children room.
Accommodation: Volunteers will stay in a dormitory, sharing rooms with volunteers of other nationalities joining the volunteering work. Normally, rooms are arranged with about 2-5 volunteers per room. In the busy time, the number can be maximum 7 or 9 volunteers per room in five bunk beds. Western toilets and hot showers are available.
Approximate Location: 778/3 Nguyen Kiem Street, Ward 4, Phu Nhuan District, HCMC, Viet Nam
Organization Description: Volunteers For Peace Vietnam (VPV) is a non-profit, voluntary organization founded in 2005 with the aim to promote voluntary service as a mean of cultural and educational exchange among people, for peace and friendship, and as an approach to address social problems. VPV hosts international volunteers from different countries and places them in suitable projects depending on the interest of the volunteers and the needs of local communities. VPV also brings the opportunities for Vietnamese to join voluntary projects around the world. By joining our programs, volunteers will experience inter-cultural living and working environment and have a chance to help those in needs. Over the past 8 years VPV has welcomed over 4,500 international volunteers from over 30 different countries. VPV is working in various locations in Vietnam, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. VPV offers programs for individual volunteers and group volunteers, for duration from 1 week to 1 year. Our projects cover areas of education, child care, animal rescue and care, environment and community development, public health and medical support, cultural heritage preservation and youth action. Since 2008, VPV Ho Chi Minh has welcomed over 2,000 international volunteers.
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It's Hot, Y'all! by Nancy Eady
This past Saturday in Montgomery, Alabama the temperature reached at least 95 degrees. On September 28, six days after the official start of fall. I am formally registering a protest with the Weather-Powers-That-Be as soon as I find out who they are. I get that I live in a state known for its heat and humidity in the summer and that summer extends from late May through early September, but at this point in the calendar, even here in Alabama, we’re entitled to lower temperatures. Nothing drastic, mind you, just temperatures topping out in the mid-80’s instead of the mid-90s. A little less humidity would be nice, too, but I’m trying not to be greedy. And to add insult to injury, apparently Yellowstone is being treated to an early snow storm!
I know for a fact that we hit at least 95 degrees yesterday because I took my daughter and her friend to the Montgomery Zoo. It was by far the worst trip we ever took to a zoo we enjoy.
I think the lions had the best idea—the two lions, one male and one female— found a shady spot in their enclosure and sprawled out sleeping, the male one lying on his back. Other animals looked at the people passing by and you could just tell they thought we were idiots to be out in the heat. I was tempted to agree with them.
The fashion industry runs on a colder clime’s schedule. This is unfortunate, since few of us are in the mood to buy winter coats, wool long-sleeved sweaters and mittens when it’s in the mid-90s outside. Now if they were selling swimsuits, shorts and short-sleeved shirts and T-shirts, that would be another story. I keep waiting for a fashion designer to discover this, but they haven’t so far.
So please do me a favor, if you’re somewhere with more seasonal weather—step outside, take a deep breath of the crisp air, view the deep blue autumnal sky and send prayers and good thoughts our way for your weather to arrive down here soon.
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The Life and Death of a Character
By AnnetteDashofy
I’ve once again delved into my list of questions posed by my street team at Zoe ChambersMysteries & Friends. This time, Jolee Jank asked if it was a good (or bad) idea to kill off a regular or semi-regular character.
I’d have answered this sooner, but I’ve been pondering it for several weeks.
Killing off a regular or recurring character is always tricky business. Fans feel these people are friends. If we, as writers, have done our job well, our readers genuinely care about the characters who populate our books.
I’ve been known to weep as I’ve killed off a character who only appeared in that one book, and who I knew had to go from the moment I opened the document and typed “Chapter One.”
So the decision to permanently end a character who has been around awhile doesn’t come lightly.
Like readers, television viewers become attached to characters in their favorite series.
Cait meets her end after one season
I was as shocked and saddened as everyone else when Cait was felled by a sniper’s bullet at the end of NCIS’s first season. Eventually, I and most other viewers came to love Ziva David, who took her place. So much so that when she left the series in 2013, fans were in an uproar for years.
Major characters “die” in television more often than in books. Actors choose not to renew a contract. Sometimes the actor playing the part dies in real life leaving producers with the decision of whether to kill off the character, too, or recast.
Hannibal Heyes before
Pete Duel's death
(For the love of all that’s holy, guys, do NOT recast. Please!)
Hannibal Heyes recast
as Roger Davis
In books, characters can live on, even after the death of their author.
Twice in my series, I started a book with the intention of having a regular-but-secondary character die at the end. Twice I changed my mind. Or to be more accurate, the story changed my mind for me. However, I’m not ruling it out in the future.
(How’s that for a tease?)
Here’s the thing—like my readers, I also feel that my characters are real. They live and breathe inside my head and my heart. I try to make them real and place them in real circumstances for my readers too. And in real life, no one gets out alive. Tragedy and illness happen. Only a cartoon character can have an anvil fall on their head and pop up to foil their nemesis another day.
I don’t write cartoons.
So, is it a good idea? Probably not. Will it happen anyway? Probably.
Fellow writers: have you ever killed off one of your secondary (but regular) characters? What kind of reaction did you receive? Fellow readers: which characters—in books or in TV shows—have you mourned when they died? Did you continue to read or watch the series afterward?
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Oh, Agatha! by Kait Carson
It’s official, Amtrak is discontinuing dining service. They are easing into the change, but cooked-to-order food will be replaced by pre-packaged food. The articles I’ve read have been short on logistics. Will patrons order when they ticket? Will a car or two be devoted to something that looks like the old Horn & Hardart?
Dining cars will be “modernized.” No more tables. The roomette and sleeping car patrons may have booths, at least for a while, but the concept is to move to a café setting. Amtrak says the changes are being made to appeal to the millennials who desire privacy over companionship. Really? Then why are GenZ and Millennials self-ranked as the loneliest generation? Half the fun of a dining car is sitting with strangers who, by the end of the trip, have become high-level acquaintances. One of the joys of eating on a train, even in this connected age, is speaking with other humans, and if you are a writer, listening in on multiple conversations swirling around.
Amtrak, what are you thinking? Can you imagine Rachett confiding in Poirot over a microwaved bit of cod and potatoes? Each party seated in his own club chair more engrossed in Alto’s Adventure than conversation. Closed room mysteries require interaction. Where better to interact than over dinner? With strangers. Christie enjoyed train travel. She frequently drew her inspiration from true-to-life events. Murder on the Orient Express was a mash-up of the Lindberg kidnapping and actual events that stopped and stranded the Orient Express. For the story to work in a modern day Amtrak train, Wi-Fi would need to fail.
Ah, there’s an inspiration – a long journey over the rails without e-mail or electronic distraction. Yes, murder would be afoot!
Has train travel been a part of your life? Will you miss the dining car?
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Writers’ Quiz by Warren Bull
How many of these literary terms can you define before reading the definitions?
Freytag's Pyramid:
A pyramidal diagram of the structure of a dramatic work; symbolizes Gustav Freytag's theory of dramatic structure. This "dramatic arc," as it is known, comprises five parts: exposition (inciting incident), rising action, climax, falling action (resolution), and dénouement.
Metonymy:
A figure of speech in which a word is replaced by something that is associated with it; it may provide a common meaning for that word.
Synecdoche:
A figure of speech by which a part is substituted for the whole (such as "50 sail" for "50 ships"), the whole for a part (such as "society" for "high society"), the species for the genus (such as "cutthroat" for "assassin"), the genus for the species (such as a "creature" for "a man"), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as "boards" for "the stage").
Assonance:
Using words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another (as in "summer fun" and "rise high in the bright sky"); vowels are repeated but consonants are not; popular in poetry and prose.
Anaphora:
Several consecutive sentences all starting with the same words. For example – I will not give up. I will do it. I will succeed.
Nut Graf:
In journalism, the paragraph that contains the main point of the story.
Widows and Orphans:
In publishing, a “widow” is the last line of a paragraph, printed alone at the top of a page. An “orphan” is the first line of a paragraph, printed alone at the bottom of a page.
Recursive Process:
Moving back and forth between the planning, drafting and revising stages of writing.
Exegesis:
The art of close reading in order to interpret a text. We often utilize this technique for poetry, but for fiction it works as well to tease out the effect of certain words or phrases, uses of repetition, references to earlier events in the text, or hints about what is to come.
Mimesis:
“The Greek word for imitation. . . . A literary work that is understood to be reproducing an external reality or any aspect of it is described as mimetic."
Chris Baldick, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford UP, 1990)
If you knew any of these, you scored better than I did.
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Scams, Scoundrels, and Suckers by Connie Berry
"There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum is said to have coined the phrase, although there's no evidence he actually said it. Nevertheless, the statement is accurate. Human beings are prone to believe what they wish to be true.
Anyone old enough to remember the ad for Sea-Monkeys on the inside back cover of comic books? For a mere $1.25 (cash, check, or money order), you could own "a bowlfull [sic] of happiness." The ad featured human-like pink creatures with friendly smiles, tri-crowned head, and fish tails.
"Just ADD WATER!" we were promised. "In ONE SECOND your AMAZING Sea-Monkeys come to LIFE! Yes, they hatch instantly, right before your eyes! SO EAGER TO PLEASE, THEY CAN EVEN BE TRAINED."
What kid could resist that? Not me. I sent off my five quarters in an envelope, and two weeks later, I received a packet of creepy flagellating organisms, in reality a form of miniscule brine shrimp, observable only through a magnifying glass. Not only were the critters strangely resistant to my training [deciding what I actually wanted them to do was my first problem], but they also promptly perished.
Harold von Braunhut, the entrepreneur who passed off brine shrimp as trainable pets, also patented X-Ray Spectacles; Amazing Hair-Raising Monsters, a card with a printed monster that would sprout hair-like mineral crystals when you added water; and Invisible Goldfish, imaginary fish guaranteed to remain permanently invisible (that one worked).
The world of publishing has its Harold von Braunhuts as well, and they target aspiring writers. These scam artists promise to read your book, publish it, and sell it on Amazon, where it is sure to become the next best-seller. All for a fee, of course. Now to be clear, I am not talking about the reasonable fees charged by legitimate editors and reputable self-publishers who offer solid advice and provide quality services. I am talking about scammers and scoundrels who prey on naïve people who don't understand how publishing really works.
Several years ago, AARP The Magazine featured an article on vanity-publishing scams: "Five Self-Publishing Scams to Watch For." Their five warning signs are worth noting:
1. EXTRAVAGANT FLATTERY.
You know the kind of thing: "Share your story with the world! You could be the next break-out best seller!" Well, maybe you could, but if so, you don't need them.
2. GRAND PROMISES.
"Your book will appear in every bookstore in America." Ha! What they mean is your book may be listed on a book distributor database, available only if requested. That's not the same thing as actually selling the book into stores. HUFFPOST (7/29/17) said, "Although results are not guaranteed, and will never in fact be realized, vanity presses imply:
* That your book has the potential to find itself on a bestseller's list (($1,999 fee)
* That Julia Roberts could one day play you in a movie ($3,999 fee)
* That you could get exposure from major media outlets ($5,999 fee)."
3. INEFFECTIVE MARKETING
All-inclusive packages include editing, proofreading, printing, binding, distribution, publicity, and shipping. For an extra fee, they'll write a press release and email it to thousands of media outlets, where it will be promptly shunted into spam filters. The vanity publisher doesn't care. Their profit comes not from book sales but from the author. They can make as much money from a flop as a success.
4. CONVOLUTED CONTRACTS
Scam publishers typically sneak in clauses that sound good but actually deliver little and put all the risk on the author. For example, they may promise to deliver the books "in a timely manner," and yet they are not responsible for "circumstances beyond their control." Often the author is required to purchase a bunch of books in advance. Never sign a contract until you've taken legal advice.
5. COPYRIGHT TRICKERY
While an ISBN number (International Standard Book Number) is easy to purchase ($125 from the U.S. ISBN Agency at Bowker), and an author in the U.S. automatically owns the copyright to his or her work, scam artists try to convince you that you need them to navigate this "tricky and expensive process"—which proves to be expensive because you end up paying the real fee plus their often-extravagant "administrative costs."
Other scams include fake "agents," who charge a reading and/or an editing fee, and fake writing contests that charge exorbitant entry fees and may require the "winners" to pay for their slab of acrylic and chicken dinner at the so-called "winners' banquet."
Thankfully, there are websites out there to help writers spot scam artists. Here are a few good ones: Writer Beware, Predators & Editors, Publishing Central.
Have you ever been targeted by a publishing scam? What cautions would you pass along to aspiring writers?
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An Interview with Maggie Toussaint by E. B. Davis
The fall from superstar to worker bee in a matter of seconds
felt meteoric, but truthfully it was another day at the office.
I was the sheriff’s new app. Instead of point
and click, I’d become point and sniff.
Maggie Toussaint, Dreamed It, (Kindle Loc. 1266)
Justice for the dead and solace for the living is Baxley Powell’s creed, but she faces uncharted territory in this sixth book of the Dreamwalker Mystery Series. The Suitcase Killer has struck again, only this big city menace is now a problem for Baxley’s hometown. As that investigation heats up, a local woman is reported missing. The sheriff orders Baxley to work the missing person’s case. Listening to the dead is familiar ground for Baxley but finding a missing young lady isn’t in her skill set. Besides, her dreams rarely follow a timeline. With the clock ticking, can this crime consultant discover a way to reach the living? Her main source of help in the afterlife, a mentor named Rose, is unavailable. Instead, Baxley must rely on her wits and her Native American boyfriend, Deputy Sam Mayes, to find leads. Each shared dreamwalk and energy transfer binds them closer together, creating another issue. Mayes wants to marry Baxley but it isn’t that easy. They’re hampered by their community roles in opposite ends of the state. Baxley juggles the pressure of two high-profile cases, a determined suitor, and expanding her limits. One thing is certain. Without her extrasensory sleuthing, the missing woman will die.
https://maggietoussaint.com/dreamed-it/
If you’ve followed Maggie Toussaint’s Dreamwalker series, this cover shows changes the new sixth novel Dreamed It introduce. While previous covers had color, few had a human figure on them let alone full face. It’s not Baxley Powell, Maggie’s dreamwalker main character, because she doesn’t have white hair.
Baxley has solved the riddles of her past and made peace with them. She still has ongoing issues with her mentor, Rose, who is curiously absent in this book. I can’t say I missed her. Although Baxley’s dreamwalks help solve the mystery, most of the action takes place in reality—real world dilemmas that are life threatening.
Dreamed It is one of the best reads in this series. I loved the others, but this one realigned the series. It’s powerful. It’s a balance between Baxley and Sam Mayes, her boyfriend, between Mayes and Sheriff Wayne, and hopefully will become a balance between the dreamwalkers and Rose. We’ll see what Maggie brings us next!
Please welcome back Maggie Toussaint back to WWK. E. B. Davis
Thank you, E.B. Davis, for the opportunity to visit Writers Who Kill. I always love coming here and your interviews are so much fun.
At the start, Baxley and Sam wake up from a dreamwalk they don’t remember, but they also find that they are in a different place. Although they eventually figure out what happened, they don’t know who is responsible. If it had been Rose, wouldn’t one of Baxley’s tattoos Rose seared on Baxley’s arm disappear or change in some way indicating she owed Rose less time?
Based on the rules of this story world, one assumes that would happen. However, as you’ve mentioned some key elements are shifting in this saga. There’s still that dichotomy of “is Rose really what she says she is” playing out, i.e., is she really an angel masquerading as a demon? Baxley doesn’t exactly trust her Other World mentor, but she relies on Rose for help in the afterlife so she is allied with her.
When a body of a woman is found inside a suitcase near a closed stripper bar, Sam Mayes calls his boss, a sheriff from a northern Georgia county, to get reassigned so he can stay near to Baxley and also get involved in the high-profile case. How can another sheriff reassign personnel to another county without a request?
In this fictional world where Mayes’ boss is running for governor, anything is possible. Baxley’s boss, Sheriff Wayne Thomson, is savvy enough to realize he doesn’t want to be on the wrong side of the future governor of Georgia. Though Wayne is all-about-Wayne, he agrees to have Mayes temporarily reassigned to his unit. After all, he requested Maye’s help in a previous case (Confound It), so there is already a precedent set wherein all the players have established a cooperation basis.
Mayes contacts an agent in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) without getting Wayne’s permission. He knows the agent has been collecting data about the Suitcase Killer. Was it an inadvertent gaff or was it done “accidently on purpose?”
Those new to the series might not know that Mayes is being groomed for Sheriff Blair’s job in North Georgia. He’s used to running his own investigations and working without close supervision. However, Sheriff Wayne Thompson keeps all of his staff on a short leash. To Mayes, contacting the GBI agent was the next step, and since they were acquainted, it was expedient for Mayes to initiate contact. Wayne did not take that well, and overreacted, which put Baxley in a near-death situation.
A missing-person’s report is filed on a young woman in Baxley’s county. After Baxley is over stimulated and passes out from exposure to the stripper bar, Sheriff Wayne assigns her to the missing-person case. How does Baxley contact the living?
As an author, this was a fun problem to have! In each book of the series, Baxley has been opening herself to accepting all of her psychic powers. She’s gone from only dreaming in her sleep, to dreaming in a meditative state, to touch readings, and more. In this book, she struggles to access the missing woman. What she is able to first detect through touch readings is the woman’s despair and loneliness. Her ghost dog also helps track the missing woman, so she doesn’t have to do this by herself.
Is Mayes’s Native American name for Baxley, Walks with Ghosts, a misnomer? She seems to be able to walk with the living as well.
Mayes gave her that nickname because he knew that Oliver, an earthbound dog spirit, was attached to her. In language and religion, there are times when the words ghost and spirit are used interchangeably. I favor this usage, and by extension, have Baxley contacting the spirit portion of a living person in addition to her communion with spirits of the dead. However, as with learning any new skill, there are speedbumps and errors along the way.
What does u ge-yu-di mean? Why won’t Mayes tell Baxley what it means?
It means lovely. And he does tell her. He’s also sneaky about using her ignorance of his cultural traditions to get them engaged Native American style before he asks her parents for her hand in marriage. Mayes knows a good thing when he sees it, and he’s made no secret of the fact that Baxley is the life mate he wants by his side.
You made up the embarrassing tale involving the embezzlement of public funds and the mayor of Tampa, FL, right?
Absolutely! One hundred percent fiction. In the first book of the series, Rose had Baxley contact a woman in Tampa as a test. When I needed someplace for Baxley to go in Dreamed It, Tampa was the logical alternative. As for mayor scandals, there are a good many reported online from other cities.
Why doesn’t Baxley like surprise gifts?
A long time ago, she got the terrible surprise of sitting in an uncle’s chair and getting trapped in the rift. Not knowing how to traverse the area between the living and the dead, she tumbled out of control until someone noticed her plight. Ever since then, she’s very guarded and prefers to have order in her already chaotic life.
Baxley asks good questions. Mayes makes good deductions. Is that why they are a good team?
It’s part of the dynamic. Mayes is also a dreamwalker so they can work together in this world or the next. His skillset is slightly different, and one of the things he can do is generate energy to recharge Baxley when she overdoes it. Basically, he speaks her language on every plane of existence.
Baxley and Mayes get into an awkward situation at the morgue. Because the ME bleached the victim’s bones, they must team up to dreamwalk because the connection is too weak. To do so, Baxley lays down on top of Mayes while each of them holds a bone of the victim to tap into her memories. But they are caught by the morgue staff, who thinks they are doing something kinky. Why is Baxley so adamant to rectify their perception and Mayes doesn’t seem to care?
As a local crime consultant, Baxley can’t afford to have avenues of investigation closed to her. Plus she’s mortified that the M.E. thought she would do anything unprofessional in the morgue. Mayes is more pragmatic. The M.E. has a closed mind and nothing Mayes says or does will change that. It’s cultural. Baxley dreams of universal acceptance while Mayes feels that some people’s prejudice’s run too deep for acceptance.
Does Cherokee custom mandate the prospective groom ask for the bride’s mother’s permission to marry?
Yes. Cherokee have a matriarchal society.
When Wayne gets into trouble with the FBI, Mayes seems eager to take over the sheriff’s position, and yet, when Wayne covers for them, Mayes is fine with Wayne taking credit for finding the serial killer. I find that a bit hard to believe. Doesn’t Mayes want credit?
Mayes is quite comfortable in the role of acting sheriff due to being groomed to take over as sheriff in his home county in north Georgia. One thing to remember about Mayes. He isn’t a lawman for the glory of it. It’s one more tool in his skillset to fight the evil in this world. Like Baxley, he’d prefer to stay out of the limelight. In Dreamed It, Mayes and Baxley grapple with their careers being in opposite ends of the state. Mayes would give up being a deputy if it meant he got Baxley.
Will Baxley learn much from her dreamwalker grandmother’s journals?
Baxley struggles with her unusual skill set, wanting a normal life for her daughter, and community acceptance. The journals represent a way for her to see how an ancestress dealt with similar issues. There is a bond that occurs when people share the same journey and the net effect is to give Baxley a clearer view of who and what she is.
“Perception versus truth” is a big element of Dreamed It. Why and how does it apply?
Authors rarely write in a vacuum, and I have found that larger scale events in reality can sneak into my work. I don’t have a degree in sociology, so apologies if I misstate this principle. “Like attracts like” is a real thing. If a room was filled with orange people and there were two blue people at opposite ends of the room, more than likely the blue people would seek each other out. The reason for this is that people in general are comfortable with people who look like us, act like us, and think like us. People with different customs, manners, behaviors, and more take us out of our comfort zone. Further, some people value perception over truth. In our nation and the world, we see that playing out over and over again. In Dreamed It (and other Dreamwalker novels), Baxley and Mayes face people willing to believe perception and unwilling to hear uncomfortable truths. Sound familiar?
What’s next for Baxley?
In fall of 2020, book seven of this series, All Done With It, will release. Writing this book challenged me in ways I couldn’t imagine before I started on it. My goal for this book is for everyone to have a sense of closure as various elements of the series come together and reprise in a new way. I don’t want to say too much and give away the plot but I think it’s pretty darn awesome.
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Counting Cards
by Tina Whittle
It was one of those social media things making its rounds on Facebook—share ten things that most people don’t know about you. I mentioned the usual—like being attacked by baboons on an elementary school field trip—but it was the last item that sparked the most conversation.
Once upon a time, I was a semi-professional tarot card reader.
Tarot is often associated with fortune telling, but I practice intuitive tarot, using the cards to engage the subconscious knowing so that it emerges in sudden hunches and gut feelings. This kind of tarot reading can feel a bit like playing hide and seek—sometimes it seems the harder you look, the more elusive your quarry becomes—but this is where my work as a mystery novelist comes in handy. For just like creative writing, tarot is all about creating a narrative
Tarot gives the subconscious a set of pretty pictures to play with, which sometimes lures it out of its hidey-hole. It’s this aspect of reading the cards that I find both most challenging, and therefore, most rewarding. When a reading starts to take shape, it’s the same feeling that happens during my writing when a crucial bit of backstory plugs right into a plot hole, or a previously misunderstood character motivation suddenly shines with clarity. There’s this bright burst of “aha!” followed by an almost effortless falling into place.
Like a good book, each tarot spread has a narrative thread running through the middle, connecting each image to a central theme. My job is to help my clients figure out this narrative for themselves. I interpret the cards, ask questions, make comparisons. But the heavy lifting of the reading is done by the client, not by me. I’m more of a midwife, guiding and encouraging and explaining as the answer to the question on the table starts to become more apparent.
The tarot functions as a tool, a channel, a container for meaning. And most of the time, the answer that bubbles up in response to the seeking isn’t a surprise. My clients already know what they need to know—sometimes they simply need a place to put that knowledge.
As a mystery novelist, I’m often stuck behind a computer making up imaginary scenarios for imaginary people. Tarot pulls me into the real world again, into the company of real people. It keeps me authentic, and it grounds me in the greater human narrative. Even with my skill at making stuff up, I don’t think I could have made up a better second job for myself than reading tarot.
Tina Whittle writes the Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver mysteries. The sixth book in this Atlanta-based series—Necessary Ends—is available now. Tina is a proud member of Sisters in Crime and has served as both a chapter officer and national board member. Visit her website to follow her on social media, sign up for her newsletter, or read additional scenes and short stories: www.tinawhittle.com.
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Given two alternative, strong endings to a novel, how to decide which one to use?
I'm in the final polishing stages of a novel and I have two endings that both blow me away and I feel are very, very strong.
Obviously, I can only have one ending. The story doesn't lend itself to a trick where I can write both into the book, but one of them turns out to be a dream and then the real one follows (I remember one or two stories like that). No, with my story and especially my protagonist that wouldn't work.
The problem is that they are opposite endings. One of them is a final turn towards the good, where after everything is lost and all scores settled, the POV MC at least is reunited with his lost love (lost her around the middle of the book, with the loss setting off most of the second part). Strong, happy ending.
The other ending also has him find her, but this time she reveals that those he hunted down and eliminated were actually her allies and she stayed hidden throughout the 2nd part of the book by her own choice because she wants to be as far away from him as possible. Fade to black, closing off all the loss and destruction with the only personal loss that actually matters to the MC. Strong, dark ending.
And I keep reading and re-reading them. I've settled on the dark ending for now, but the scales are pretty balanced and a tiny swing in mood could convince me that the happy ending is the better one. Both endings provide closure and finish the story so nothing else can be said. Both bring all character arcs and storylines to an end. Both provide closure for the reader. Both leave me personally satisfied, just in completely different ways.
I have a low number of test readers, so not a statistically significant sample to question.
Is there a tested and proven way to decide which ending to choose?
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Are you set on only choosing 1 ending? It's possible to publish both (either by including the alternate ending in the book or posting it online). It's been done before - Tolstoy once wrote a story (The Devil) with an alternate ending when he couldn't decide whether the MC should kill himself or his mistress. – Evil Sparrow is done. Mar 23 '19 at 10:12
@EvilSparrow The story definitely needs one ending. I haven't made up my mind about posting the alternative ending in an appendix or something, but no matter how you slice it, I need to pick one to be the main one. – Tom Mar 23 '19 at 11:00
How about mixing the two endings anyways? Let's say: the MC is reunited with his lost love, but having so much coped with the loss, now he wonders how he can love her as he did before, because things will never be the same. He had been so far in the mourning process that he nearly expected her to really be dead. Now he is filled with self-doubt and the future is uncertain for them. – kikirex Mar 23 '19 at 13:09
Do you wish to sell the book?
Happy endings outsell unhappy endings about 10 to 1. This has actually been studied to some extent, and the difference comes down to word-of-mouth: Even if people say they liked a book with an unhappy ending, they are much more reluctant to recommend it to friends, out of fear their friends won't like a downer ending.
Unhappy endings, like the one you describe, make the hero the reader has been identifying with feel like a fool and a stupid loser to not have realized the truth. Which is alienating to the reader, almost an insult. They read to identify with the hero as an escape from a life where nearly none of us are actual heroes, and an unhappy ending ruins the whole fantasy.
Agents know this, publishers know this, and they are less likely to represent or buy a book because of it. It means the book is much more unlikely to "go viral" with enthusiastic reviews, fans or celebrities recommending it, etc. All of that is free advertising they want and seek and try to encourage. Unhappy endings poison that well, and the sales studies prove it.
I am sure some geniuses have written best-sellers with unhappy endings, but those don't prove the averages wrong. In plays tragedies were once common. But that was in a very different social culture, and in the modern culture, most films and movies have happy endings, or at worst, consequences but net positive endings; i.e. evil was defeated but at a heavy price.
I'd go with the happy ending.
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That is an extremely good point there. I should add that my POV MC is not a good hero archetype, but has some pretty dark sides and one of the reasons I like the dark ending is that he finally gets to pay his price, while throughout the book he largely managed to make others pay for his decisions. But yes, I want to sell the book. Maybe I should include both endings when pitching to agents and publishers? – Tom Mar 23 '19 at 11:03
@Tom, read up on writing query letters and pitching. You don't discuss the ending at all! If you provide a synopsis or full manuscript, that can't be a "choose your ending" story, and I assure you they will choose the happy ending because they will make more money with it. They don't want "choices", their ideal client gives them a completely finished product they can start selling. Sorry to repeat this old advice, but "kill your darlings." Abandon your unhappy ending. If you want the MC to pay a price, work it in as a necessary penance before he gets the happy ending. – Amadeus-Reinstate-Monica Mar 23 '19 at 11:39
Just to add a point, a good ending is not necessarily a satisfactory ending. – kikirex Mar 23 '19 at 13:11
@kikirex I don't understand the distinction. If an ending is not satisfying, it isn't good. A reader judges the book "good" only if the ending is satisfying in some regard. I would say not every happy ending is satisfying, a happy ending may feel contrived, undeserved, or the characters may seem bizarrely happy considering the lives and friends recently lost. A happy ending cannot be just slapped on after a battle that killed half the people you love; some recovery period must be allowed. A good ending meets all these criteria, and is satisfying. – Amadeus-Reinstate-Monica Mar 23 '19 at 14:04
@Amadeus My bad, I should have gone more into details, but we actually share the same point of view: a good ending for the characters are not necessarily a satisfactory ending for the reader. If Romeo and Juliet went together on a horse in the sunset, it would be good for them but it would be a bad, or worse, a forgettable ending for the readers. – kikirex Mar 23 '19 at 14:26
You may want to consider what the reader has been prepared for. What have you promised, either explicitly or not? Both endings might be strong to you, but I don’t know that a reader would be equally satisfied by both.
How can a main character betraying (as I read it) the other be as viable as a happy reunion? The story surely points one way or the other?
Are there small hints that she is allies with the bad guys, besides her disappearing? Does she come off as untrustworthy? If there aren’t, it will feel like unearned, cheap drama. (Like if Han ye-hawed in to shoot down Luke in Star Wars).
If there are hints, the happy ending may feel unsavory.
Also, at the beginning of the story, is the question of betrayal brought up? Is it a hopelessly dark story, or is there a promise of a hard fought happiness and optimism?
I think the character arcs and story must be very ambiguous for both endings to be viable. You might be too close to the story to make an unbiased assessment. I’d suggest finding a couple readers to read the first half and ask them if they want or expect a more happy or more dark ending. If they want a certain type of ending, that will be the satisying ending. If they expect one, that’s what the story is leading to.
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That last is a very practical hint, thank you. I could withold the ending from a few test readers and ask for their expectations. Didn't think of that. – Tom Mar 24 '19 at 6:34
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July 6, 2015 AIMS
Medical malpractice can turn your life upside down. Victims are plagued by permanent physical and mental suffering, growing medical bills and long, drawn out lawsuits, while the doctors responsible are often plagued by guilt and nightmares for years to come.
Professional medical personnel are considered some of the smartest and most capable members of our society. Despite that, though, they too succumb to stress, anxiety, and distractions, so big mistakes like the ones below aren’t as rare as you would expect.
Here are some of the most shocking medical malpractice cases from the past few years:
1. Bodybuilder Wakes Up With a New Pair of C-Cup Breasts
“Vanity spares no one from the beauty of its own illusion.” — Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher
We’re not sure whether this was true for Alexander Baez, but his strive for physical perfection did indeed get him into trouble.
Baez is a former bodybuilder, ex-Mr. Mexico and also a Mr. Universe runner-up. Back in 1999, he decided to enhance his physique by getting pec implants. Unfortunately for him, destiny decided to introduce him to “Dr.” Reinaldo Silvestre.
Little did Baez know that he was entrusting his pecs to someone without (a) a medical license and (b) a sane mind. Soon after the surgery, the bodybuilder woke up with a brand new pair of C-cup breasts. The surgeon, however, had vanished.
Police later found out that Silvestre was posing as a surgeon using a fake license. He had illegally (and possibly inhumanely) treated over a hundred patients in the past 5 years. Some of his crude methods of “treatment” included using animal-grade anesthetics and kitchen utensils.
Silvestre was eventually caught and charged with two criminal counts. He pleaded guilty and received a seven year prison term.
2. Screwdriver Transplant in Spinal Column Doesn’t Do the Trick
Although in unalloyed condition, titanium is as strong as some types of steel and is less dense, allowing for more efficient designs.
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Arturo Iturralde was supposed to undergo a standard back surgery to have titanium rods inserted in his spinal column. Soon after the patient was cut open, the attending physician, Dr. Robert Ricketson, realized the rods were nowhere to be found.
Dr. Ricketson didn’t want to abort the operation, so he decided to improvise. He took a nearby screwdriver, removed the handle and used the metal piece to complete the surgery.
Just couple of days after the operation, however, the screwdriver rod broke. Arturo had to undergo several other back operations and was subjected to a great deal of pain during the next two years. He eventually passed away due to this complication.
Arturo’s relatives brought a malpractice suit against Dr. Ricketson. With the help of skilled negligence attorneys, they were awarded $5.6 million in damages.
3. Wrong Leg Amputated Leads to Millions Won
This is the story of a man who “walked out” of the hospital with no legs and became a millionaire back in 1995.
Mr. Willie King was admitted to University Community Hospital in Tampa, Florida, for a surgery to remove one of his legs, because it was badly diseased. When he woke up, one leg was indeed missing, but to his horror, it was the wrong one.
A series of mistakes which started way before King ever got to the OR had led Dr. Ronaldo R. Sanchez to accidentally amputate the patient’s one healthy leg. The surgeon’s own negligence cost him $10,000 in fines and a six-month suspension of his medical license.
After one of the most famous medical lawsuits in the past 20 years, the hospital paid Mr. King $900,000 and and the surgeon personally paid him another $250,000.
4. Blood Type Disaster
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One of the most shocking stories on our list involves 17-year-old Jesica Santillan. Originally from Mexico, she had spent 3 years in the US waiting for a heart and lung transplant.
After many months of strugglе, surgery day finally came and Jesica rolled into the operating room at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, North Carolina. The procedure itself is quite risky, but even so Jesica was denied a fighting chance right from the start.
She was blood type O, but received organs from someone with blood type A. This simple discrepancy should have been caught, since at least a dozen medical professionals were involved in the transfer. The mistake resulted in her body rejecting the new organs.
Two weeks after the accident Jesica received a second transplant, but it was already too late. Due to complications during the procedure, Jesica entered into a coma and suffered severe brain damage. She was later declared brain dead and taken off life-support.
The hospital admitted that human error was the cause of the accident and Dr. Jaggers personally accepted responsibility for the fatal error. Duke Hospital has since implemented a double-checking system for all transplants to prevent similar accidents.
5. Fertility Clinic Confuses DNA, Mixes Up Baby’s Father
Nancy had trouble conceiving, so she turned to in vitro fertilization to have her eggs artificially fertilized. On October 2004, she gave birth to a baby that had significantly darker skin than both her and her partner, Thomas.
It didn’t take long for the parents to realize that something must have gone wrong during the procedure. The subsequent DNA tests revealed that Thomas, who had donated sperm and was looking forward to becoming a father, was not genetically related to the newborn.
After the initial investigation, it was discovered that Nancy’s eggs were inseminated with another man’s sperm. The couple filed a medical malpractice suit against the fertility clinic and the embryologist responsible for the mistake.
6. Preventative Treatment Leads to a Loss of Not One, But Both Testicles
Benjamin Houghton, an Air Force veteran, had seen his fair share of battles during his years in service. Despite all this, life had one more unexpected surprise for him. The pain and shrinkage in his left testicle was diagnosed by doctors to be a sign of cancer.
The surgeons at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center decided it would be best to remove the diseased testicle. An error in the consent form and the surgeon’s failure to mark the correct surgical site resulted in Benjamin losing his healthy right testicle, in a dramatic turn of events similar to the first case on our list above. Since the risk of cancer remained, Benjamin had to undergo a second surgery to remove the left testicle too.
The patient filed a $200,000 lawsuit for negligence against the hospital and the staff involved. Sadly this is not an isolated case, and there have been many similar accidents.
7. Heart Surgery Performed on the Wrong Patient
A 67-year-old woman who was given the pseudonym Joan Morris was admitted to a teaching hospital to have a cerebral angiography performed. The procedure is simple and it involves using a special dye and x-ray scans to see how blood flows through the brain.
After completing the procedure the patient was returned to the wrong room. She was supposed to be discharged on the next day, but was instead rushed into the operating room again.
An hour into the open heart procedure, her treating physician called. The shocked surgeons realized they were operating on the wrong patient. The procedure was cancelled, and Ms. Morris was brought back to her room in a stable condition.
Although there were consequences from the unnecessary procedure, as with every surgery, there was a possible risk of infection, internal bleeding or a stroke. Given her age and condition, Ms. Morris could have suffered complications if the mistake had gone unnoticed for a longer period of time.
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Though human error indeed exists, as a nurse, I am appalled by these stories!
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Travelling with your children on Air Canada is simple! Here are some useful tips for a seamless travel experience:
Flying with kids under age 6? Make it easier by looking for Family Check-in signage at select airports¹.
Early Boarding
Kids under age 6 and their family board early², before general boarding. This means extra time to store belongings and settle in.
Family Seating
We’ll make sure you and your kids under age 14 sit close to each other at no extra charge³.
¹ Available for departures from Toronto-Pearson Int. (YYZ) and for domestic or international flights from Montreal-Trudeau Int. (YUL) and Vancouver International airports.
² Make sure to be at the departure gate by the time indicated on your boarding pass to take advantage of pre-boarding between zones 2 and 3.
³ A fee may apply if you decide to change the free standard seat assignment provided, or if you select Preferred Seats.
Because families should stick together!
When you book your flight online, indicate that you are travelling with children, and we will assign generic seats in proximity to each other for you and your children within 48 hours after your ticket is issued. You can then review your seat assignment by going to My Bookings.
For Air Canada Vacations bookings, go to the “View & Print Itinerary” link.
If you book directly with Air Canada Reservations, be sure to tell our agents that you’re travelling with a child under the age of 14, and they’ll make sure you’re seated close together at no extra charge.
If you did not book your travel via Air Canada directly, you can contact Air Canada Reservations to be seated, or go to My Bookings to review your reservation 48 hours after booking and validate your seat assignment.
If we are unable to seat one adult in close proximity to a child, you may contact Air Canada Reservations to change your booking to another flight on which we can provide proximity seating, or cancel your trip, all at no extra charge.
Choosing your own seats
For the best choice in seats, it’s always better to select them when you book your flight. Note that a fee may apply when choosing your seats in advance. A fee may also apply if you decide to change the free standard seat assignment provided, or if you select Preferred Seats.
Fun for Kids!
To keep the little ones happy, we offer a variety of cool giveaways on select flights. And don’t forget to check out the “Kids” section on our In-Flight Entertainment , which includes 75 hours of movies and games just for kids.
Goodies*
Special Luggage Tag
At the Family Check-in counter, your kids can pick up a special luggage tag. It’s a fun way to add personality to their bags and commemorate a trip.
Activity Books & More
On Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights within North America, we offer activity books to keep your kids entertained.
On international flights, your kids can enjoy new fun travel goodies, like a tote bag filled with things young explorers will love, including an activity book, a crayon kit, and more.
Special meals for infants and children are available on all of our international flights and in Air Canada Signature Class, Business Class, Premium Economy and Premium Rouge on all flights. You can order your special meal at time of booking on aircanada.com, or by contacting Air Canada Reservations at least 18 hours prior to departure.
Formula, breast milk, juice and baby food (in small containers) are permitted in carry-on baggage. Because onboard refrigeration may not always be available on all aircraft types, the cabin crew is unable to look after these items on board. We therefore ask that you bring these items in a small cooler to keep them at the desired temperature. If available, extra ice may be provided as needed.
All our aircraft (except the Beechcraft (BEH), Dash 8-300 (DH3) and Dash 8-100 (DH1) and most Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ)) have diaper-changing tables located in either the front or back lavatories.
If you have a normal pregnancy and no previous history of premature labour, you may travel by air up to and including your 36th week on Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge and Air Canada Express.
We’re also happy to support breastfeeding on board our aircraft, whenever safety permits.
Find out what travel documents your child needs to travel.
Child Welfare and Safety
For safety reasons, Air Canada recommends the use of a Child Restraint Device on board an aircraft rather than lap-holding your infant.
Children (age 2 and up)
Using a child restraint device is optional for children age 2 and up on an Air Canada aircraft. However, do not transition your child from a child restraint device to a seat belt if your child is not tall enough and their legs are too short to bend over the edge of the seat. These children are not ready to wear a seat belt only as they will tend to slide under the seat belt. Even when your child is properly seated, the seat belt will be pressing against their abdomen rather than on their hips. In an emergency situation, your child may be seriously or fatally injured.
Air Canada is bound by Transport Canada regulations with regard to acceptable child restraint devices.
Only approved child restraint devices can be used on board our aircraft. Most child restraint devices that are used in cars can be used on an aircraft.
Canadian Aviation Regulations do not allow an adult passenger (age 16 years and older), at any time, to be in charge of more than one infant on board an aircraft. This applies whether the infant is seated on the adult's lap or sitting in a child restraint device in an adjacent seat.
Some child restraint devices are a combination of a child restraint system and a booster seat. To be acceptable for use in the aircraft, the internal harness system must be installed and all child restraint device-labelling requirements must be met. When used as a booster seat, the internal harness system is removed and is not approved for use on board the aircraft.
The use of a child safety seat or restraint device is:
Mandatory for an infant under 2 occupying a seat. Infants occupying a seat must be properly secured in their safety seat or restraint device whenever the seat belt sign is on. For the welfare and safety of your child, we recommend using a child restraint device for your child, especially during takeoff, landing and turbulence.
Optional for a small child, dependent on the manufacturer's guidelines for the device's maximum weigh.
Air Canada does not provide seat restraint devices for small children or infants. An infant for whom a seat has been purchased must be properly secured in an approved child restraint device.
Please consult our “Child Restraint Devices” tab to get information about acceptable Child Restraint Devices, Prohibited Child Restraint Devices, Exceptions on the Air Canada Signature Class, Weight Restrictions, Combination Systems, Checked Baggage rules and Carry-on Baggage rules.
The age of your child will determine which booking, seating and ticketing rules apply. Please refer to the ‘Children and Travel’ tab for guidance on how to make sure you and your child are seated close together.
Infants (under age 2)
An infant as young as 7 days can travel on an Air Canada flight.
At no time can an adult passenger (16 years of age or older) be responsible for more than one infant.
Whenever the seat belt sign is on:
An infant seated on a parent's lap must be held securely. Lap held infants are not adequately secure during takeoff, landing and turbulence. We recommend that you purchase a seat for your child and use a child restraint device.
An infant for whom a seat is purchased must be properly secured in an approved child restraint device.
Air Canada does not provide child restraint devices. See the ‘Child Restraint Policy’ tab on this page.
Children (age 2 to under age 12)
The use of an approved child restraint device is optional for children age 2 and up. See the ‘Child Restraint Devices’ tab.
Infant (up to age 2)
Child (over age 2)
Seated on adult’s lap: no charge
Own seat: adult fare
Canada/U.S.
Seated on adult’s lap: only taxes apply
Seated on adult’s lap: 10% of adult fare †
Own seat: child’s fare ††
See section on Air Canada Signature Class below
† The discount on the adult fare does not apply to any taxes, fees, charges and surcharges.
†† The child’s fare applies only to children under age 12. Youngsters age 12 and up will pay the adult fare. If your infant child’s second birthday occurs between the departure and return segments of an international trip, you have the option to pay:
The full published child's fare for that flight (and be certain to have a confirmed seat both ways), or
The infant fare on the departure, and the published child's fare on the return. Call Air Canada Reservations to book this option.
Travelling with an infant or child in the Air Canada Signature Class cabin
With exceptions, child restraint devices are not permitted. Call Air Canada Reservations for details.
When occupying a Classic or Executive Pod in Air Canada Signature Class, a child age 2 to 7 must be seated directly in front of, directly behind or in an adjacent seat facing the accompanying parent or guardian.
The child and the accompanying guardian will receive a mandatory briefing on the safety features of the Air Canada Signature Class cabin prior to takeoff.
Please contact Air Canada Reservations whenever booking travel with young children in Air Canada Signature Class to ensure the availability of appropriate seating.
If you're travelling with a young (or small) infant in Economy Class, you may request a bassinet in advance of travel by contacting Air Canada Reservations. However, we are unable to confirm availability until the time of your flight's departure.
Bassinets are assigned on a first come, first served basis, subject to availability at time of flight departure.
Bassinets may be provided on the following aircraft:
Boeing 777-300ER (77W)
Boeing 777-200LR (77L)
Boeing 767-300ER (763)
For safety reasons:
Bassinets can be used only for infants weighing less than 12 kg (25 lb) who are unable to sit upright.
The cabin crew is responsible for installing the bassinet once the seat belt sign has been turned off.
Please note that bassinets are installed at bulkhead rows where armrests do not lift.
You can bring one stroller for each child you are travelling with in addition to your carry-on and checked baggage allowance and regardless of your destination.
Air Canada strongly recommends the use of small collapsible umbrella type strollers.
Small strollers - with a collapsed diameter not exceeding 25.5 cm (10 in) and a length not exceeding 92 cm (36 in) - can be checked free of charge at the baggage counter or at the boarding gate. When accepted at the baggage counter, your stroller is delivered to the arrivals baggage hall at your final destination. When accepted at the boarding gate, it is delivered to you at the aircraft door at every point in your journey.
Large heavy strollers can only be checked at the baggage counter because gate facilities in airports are not designed to accommodate them. Additional baggage fees do not apply. Large strollers are also subject to space limitations, and there is a risk that they cannot be accommodated in the aircraft.
Approved child restraint systems
Child Restraint Device
Transport Canada Regulation
AmSafe Child Aviation Restraint System (CARES™)
Adjustable belt-and-buckle flight harness that attaches directly to the aircraft seatbelt.
Designed for children weighing between 10 to 20 kg (22 to 44 lb), whose height is 100 cm (40 in) or less and who are capable of sitting upright.
Must be used within the limitations specified by the manufacturer (as indicated on the label), and must display the following:
Legible CARES™ label with approval standards (FAA approved in accordance with 14 CFR 21:305 (d) and approved for aircraft use only)
Part number 4082-1 on label
Cannot be installed in Air Canada Signature Class cabin.
Is not easily compatible with Bombardier Dash 8-300 (DH3) and Dash 8-100 (DH1) aircraft. Contact Air Canada Reservations for more information.
AmSafe (CARES™) device for taller individuals
Designed for taller individuals with special needs who are over 137 cm (54 in.) and up to 183 cm (72 in.) in height.
Must be used within the limitations specified by the manufacturer (as indicated on the label), and must display the same label and part number as the regular CARES™ device (please see above).
Important: Contact the Air Canada Medical Assistance Desk if the use of this larger type of AmSafe (CARES™) device is required for travel.
Devices manufactured in Canada
Must bear one of the following:
A label stating that "This child restraint system conforms to all applicable Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standards", or
The National Safety Mark, which indicates the number of the standard(s) to which the restraint device conforms, i.e. CMVSS 213 (child restraint device) or 213.1 for (infant restraint device).
Devices manufactured to U.S. standards
Must bear both of the following labels:
"This child restraint system conforms to all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards", and
"THIS RESTRAINT IS CERTIFIED FOR USE IN MOTOR VEHICLES AND AIRCRAFT" (in red lettering).
Devices manufactured to Australia/New Zealand (AS/NZS) standards
Must bear both of the following:
A Standard 1754 label, and
A label indicating that the device is acceptable for use on board an aircraft
Devices manufactured to United Nations (UN) – Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) standards
A label displaying UN standard ECE R44-03 (revision 03) or a later revision, and
A label displaying qualification for use in aircraft.
Other foreign-built car seats
Must adhere to Transport Canada regulations.
Prohibited Child Restraint Devices
Booster seats: a booster seat (or cushion) is defined as a removable device for use in a vehicle for the purpose of seating in an elevated position a person whose mass is 18 kg (40 lb.) or more. It is designed to be used with an automobile lap and shoulder belt and is therefore not approved for use in an aircraft.
Belly loops and vests or harness type devices.
BedBox®, Plane Pal, Fly-Tot, Fly LegsUp, Flyebaby.
Little Cargo® seats (notwithstanding any claims from manufacturers that they are approved for use in aircraft).
Infant sling/wrap carriers similar to Snugli™ or Baby Bjorn™ are accepted in addition to the infant's carry-on allowance if required for use on board the aircraft. These carriers are not approved for use as a "restraint device" and may not be used during taxi, take-off, and landing, or at any time the seat belt sign is illuminated. The parent or guardian will have to remove their infant from the carrier every time the seat belt sign is illuminated.
Other important rules, regulations and exceptions
Air Canada Signature Class
For safety reasons, child restraint devices are not permitted in the Air Canada Signature Class cabin. Some exceptions apply. Contact Air Canada Reservations for details.
Infants under age 2 can travel in the Air Canada Signature Class cabin but must be held in the adult's lap.
When occupying a Classic or Executive Pod in Air Canada Signature Class, a child age 2 to 11 must be seated directly in front of, directly behind or in an adjacent seat facing the accompanying parent or guardian.
CARES™ child restraint devices cannot be installed in the Air Canada Signature Class cabin.
All approved devices must fit between the armrests of the seat. They must be installed according to the directions on the device and secured using the seat belt fitted on the aircraft seat.
Weight restrictions are specified on all child restraint devices.
Rear-facing devices are generally restricted to babies weighing less than 9 kg (20 lb.).
Forward-facing devices are generally restricted to babies or children weighing 9 to fewer than 30 kg (20 to 65 lb).
A combination system (i.e. both a child restraint system and a booster cushion) is accepted for in-flight use provided it is used as a child restraint system and the internal harness system is installed, and all labelling requirements are met. It must not be used in-flight as a booster cushion*, with the internal harness system removed.
Pouch-type infant carriers (e.g. Snugli™, Baby Hawk or Ergo) are allowed for use on Air Canada flights, except during take-off, landing, taxiing on the runway and at any time the seat belt sign is on.
A restraint device that cannot be restrained due to size, design, or damage must be transported as checked baggage, as it cannot be stowed under the seats or in the overhead bins.
Please contact your travel agent or Air Canada Reservations for more information and possible exceptions to these rules (e.g. medical reasons).
* A booster seat (or cushion) is defined as a removable device for use in a vehicle for the purpose of seating in an elevated position a person whose mass is 18 kg (40 lb.) or more. It is designed to be used with an automobile lap and shoulder belt and is therefore not approved for use in an aircraft.
Checked baggage rules
To/from all destinations, infants and children age 0 to 11 years may check a car seat or booster seat free of charge in addition to their regular baggage allowance.
Customers are asked to write their name and address on all devices with the use of an indelible (Sharpie-type) marker.
If you are travelling with a car seat for a child of 2 years and above, we recommend that you bring your car seat for use on board instead of checking it. Please refer to our Child Welfare and Safety section.
Carry-on baggage rules
A child restraint device may only be accepted as carry-on in addition to the infant's child carry-on allowance provided a seat has been purchased for the infant/child.
Infant sling/wrap carriers like Snugli™ or Baby Bjorn™ are accepted in addition to the infant's carry-on allowance if required for use on board the aircraft. These carriers are not approved for use as a "restraint device" and may not be used during taxi, take-off, and landing, or at any time the seat belt sign is illuminated. The parent or guardian will have to remove their infant from the carrier every time the seat belt sign is illuminated.
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Religious Courts Alongside Secular State Courts: The Case of the Turkish Alevis
Dr. Wibo M. van Rossum
Lecturer in Legal Theory Law School Utrecht University
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Current research and media attention on religious courts, especially Islamic Councils and courts of arbitration, suggest the need for more accurate description and analysis of the diversity of non-state courts that actually exist in today’s multicultural societies. One such forum is the cem ceremony of the Turkish Alevis - which acts as a community based dispute resolution forum. The Alevis are a heterodox, Islamic sect, which make up approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population in Turkey and the same percentage of the Turkish population in European countries. The resolution of disputes at the cem ceremony constitutes a situation of legal pluralism.
Some examples from actual cases are used as illustrations to make clear that trust in Dutch state institutions leads to a diminished importance of Alevi religious law. On the other hand, distrust of Alevis in the Turkish institutions leads to the continuation of the situation of legal pluralism in Turkey.
This is a refereed article published on: 11 December 2008
Citation: Rossum, W. M. van ‘ Religious Courts Alongside Secular State Courts: The Case of the Turkish Alevis’, 2008(2) Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD). http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/elj/lgd/2008_2/rossum
Legal pluralism; Courts; Islamic Law; Shia Sect; Netherlands; Turkey; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Alevis
This article is a revised version of a paper at the session ‘Disputing ‘Religious Law’ in the 21st Century: Islam’ at the Law and Society Conference in Berlin 2007, ‘ Law and Society in the 21st Century’. I thank the reviewer(s) of LGD for their helpful comments.
Today there is increasing awareness that religious law still plays a role in secular societies and their legal systems. Religion has become a more prominent identity both within states and across state borders - be it Islam worldwide, Catholicism and Protestant Evangelism in South America, or Christianity in the USA.1It is further accepted that religious convictions of political actors have an influence on politics, and that state law grants a certain free realm for the performance of religion (religious gatherings, processions etc). More ambiguous however is the role of religion and religious symbols in secular courts and courtrooms, and the co-existence of religious courts separate from a secular legal system in a specific state. These religious courts seem to question the legitimacy of the nation state.2Religious courts are only tolerated and accepted if they respect the boundaries set by state law. That is why Sharia Councils and the Jewish Beth Din in secular states present themselves as courts of arbitration, and not courts of law.3
Post 9/11 there has been particular interest in Islam or ’sharia’ and this has led to Islam being one of the most researched and reported religions in Europe in recent years. Recent social science research has investigated the social position and development of the Muslim community in Western countries, the rise of Islam and Islamic fundamentalism in Arab and other countries, and the position of Islamic law in countries with a dominant Muslim population (Mirza, Senthilkumaran and Ja’far 2007; Otto 2006; Otto, Dekker and Van Soest-Zuurdeeg 2006).These publications do not fail to note that Islam and its law are pluralistic, comprising not only the Sunni-Shia division, but also the established schools of Islamic law: Jafari (the dominant school in the Shia branch), Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali. Apart from these official schools of law however, each local Islamic sect has its own interpretation of what is ‘the path’. One of these sects is the Alevis from Turkey.
In this article I focus on legal anthropological aspects of the Alevis in the Netherlands and Turkey. I started my research into the Alevi legal culture in 1999.4Since then I have regularly visited Alevi associations to observe meetings and interview people. I have interviewed key informants of the Alevi community in the Netherlands and I attend several cemceremonies a year (a cemis a religious ceremony, more detailed explanation follows below). I have also visited Alevi associations in Germany and in Turkey in both rural and urban areas, and have observed several cemceremonies there. I videotaped most of the cemsI attended, in order to be able (with help of insiders) to accurately describe what happens and to transcribe the dialogues. The cases I present below are taken from these transcriptions.
The Alevis are an interesting group not only because they are considered one of the Ghulat sects within Islam (Ghulat meaning they show an excessive love for the twelve Imams; Moosa 1988), but also because they have – in a legal anthropological sense – their own rules of law and legal procedure. In the Netherlands this situation of legal pluralism up until today did not pose any practical problems, because the type of cases dealt with in the Alevi legal system make a potential conflict with Dutch state law unlikely. The situation is different in Turkey, where conflicts between Alevis law and state law are more likely to occur. The tension brought about by the situation of legal pluralism will endure for quite some time in Turkey, because Alevi culture partly constitutes itself as a suppressed minority culture there: one man I interviewed related a typical presumption that ‘State and Sunni religious institutions cannot be trusted, so it’s best to hide particular religious practices from too many public eyes’.
2. Alevis as Outsiders in Islam Illustrated Through the Cem Ritual
Researchers usually say implicitly and in very general terms that Alevi law historically developed because it was functionally necessary (Kehl-Bodrogi 1988). Since the values of the official legal institutions of the Ottoman state were not in keeping with the social values the Alevis themselves uphold, the Alevis distrusted the state, turned away from its Islamic Kadi courts, and formed their own forum for the settlement of disputes. Alevis were regularly prosecuted before the Ottoman courts, for example because they did not attend Friday prayer at the mosque or were suspected of evading Ramadan fasting (Gerber 1994: 35-36; Imber 1979).
With the start of modern Turkey in the 1920s, Alevis put their hope on laiklik (laicité), the strict separation of state and religion. They generally supported Atatürk's reforms, and still revere him (some even consider him to be an Alevi). Prosecution of Alevis however was not relaxed, and repressive social control by the majority of orthodox Muslims continued in the decennia to come (Jongerden 2003). The Turkish state kept control over the dominant version of Islam through the Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet), and declared Sunni Islam fundamental to the whole of Turkey. Political and social changes from 1968 onwards led to increased tensions. Not only did the Alevis hold their ‘illegal religious gatherings’ in which a ‘ superstitious belief’ was practiced (Kehl-Bodrogi 2003: 64), but most of those who turned away from religion allied with extreme left political parties and forces (Göner 2005). My interviews with Alevi elders made clear that in those times men took guard at the outskirts of the village to secure the religious gatherings. They sat on rooftops to warn the village in case strangers, police or military approached the village. Today religious ceremonies are sometimes performed out in the open at public festivals. ‘Cette liberté est récente’, writes Irène Mélikoff in her book on the roots of Alevism (Mèlikoff 1998: 208).
To get an impression of why Alevism is so problematic in Islamic Turkey and why the religious services were considered ‘illegal’, we will look at the most important religious gathering. That gathering is called cem (pronounced as dzjèm). The cem is a religious ritual usually held in the evening. In some rural parts of Turkey and with some associations in larger cities, a cem is held every week. A cem is always conducted in Turkish (also among Kurdish Alevis).
A cemconsists of the performance of twelve ‘tasks’ for which twelve different functionaries are responsible (Yaman 1998). The most important functionary and task is the dedewho is the only person allowed to lead the cem. In general his task consists of singing several poems, observing the rituals performed before him, and performing recitations of a diversity of persons on several fixed moments during the cem. The dede is also the leading figure when people during the cemare expected to resolve their disputes (see paragraphs 4.1 and 4.2 for descriptions). Examples of other functionaries and tasks are ‘the doorkeeper’ who stands at the doorway of the cemhouse and who takes care of an orderly entrance and exit of participants, and the ‘watcher’ who supervises the participants during the ceremony and who observes the correct performance of rituals. Important and repeated recitations concern ‘the three, the five, the seven, the twelve imams, the fourteen pure and innocent, the seventeen with the girdle, and the forty’.5‘ The three’ for example refer to (and are in some recitations replaced by) ‘Allah, Mohammed, Ali’, as if they are actually one or of equal importance. In fact as far as Mohammed and Ali are concerned this comes close to the meaning most Alevi writers give to this recitation, and they refer to an apocryphal hadith that says that Mohammed said that ‘I am the city of knowledge, and Ali is its gate’ (Birge 1937: 141-142; Moosa 1988: 51). Some Alevis will equate Ali with Allah, although they would not say so in public and would protest if anyone else would publicly claim so.6
Another example that shows the divergence of Alevism in regard to orthodox Islam is the recitation of the seven. The seven are the Ehlibeyt (Mohammed, his daughter Fatima, her husband Ali, and their two sons Hasan and Hüseyin) together with not only Hatice7(Mohammed’/ s first wife), but also with Selman-i Farisi (Selman the Persian, or Salman Pak: ‘the pure and untainted’). This Selman is an interesting figure. He was brought up with the teachings of Zoroaster and Mani, and converted at a young age to Christianity. He was the first Persian to convert to Islam as soon as he heard about Mohammed and had recognized his prophecy. Ali is supposed to have said ‘Selman has known the first and the last Ilm (divine knowledge), and read the first and last books’ (Moosa 1988: 346). Legend tells Selman was also a contemporary of Jesus (Moosa 1988: 347), which is understandable in light of the Alevi belief in the transmigration of souls.
The forty illustrate a specifically unorthodox view on what is central to Islam. The story of the forty is sung at most cems, and is at a certain moment accompanied by the semah(a ritual dance which is considered a prayer). The story goes as follows.8Ali used to gather with his friends in a building on a mountaintop. Mohammed asked him several times what he was doing there, but he never got a clear answer apart from that they were meeting with 40 people. One day Ali again went to the meeting. Mohammed followed him, but on the way encountered a roaring lion. Allah, speaking from a cloud, said to Mohammed that the lion meant no harm, but would only let him pass when he put a token in the mouth of the lion. Mohammed put his golden ring in its mouth, and was allowed to pass. Arriving at the building where the meeting was, he knocked on the door. The door was opened and Mohammed said he was the prophet, so he was to be let in. But he was not let in, because ‘they knew of no prophets’. Mohammed knocked again and repeated what he said before, but the person at the door again refused his entrance. When Mohammed knocked on the door the third time, he said he was just a poor and humble servant of God. Then he was let in. There were 39 men and women in the room, and one of them was behind a veil. Mohammed asked whom he was, and he was led to him. The person behind the veil wore Mohammed’s golden ring on his finger that he had put in the mouth of the lion. So he knew that a person very close to Allah was behind the veil. On request the person then lifted the veil. It was Ali, and then Mohammed knew that Ali was the lion of Allah. Sometime later Mohammed asked where the 40th man was, because he counted only 39, and they said Selman was fetching a grape. When he returned with a grape, he squeezed it in his hand, and all drank of it and became intoxicated. The dance they then started was the dance of the forty, the semah.
Reverence for Ali points to Shia Islam, but as already said Alevis in this regard are grouped with other sects called the Ghulat(‘the Exaggerators’). Their love for Ali and the other Imams is called exaggerated by orthodox Sunni and Shia believers, is said to go beyond boundaries, and is sometimes said to be not Islamic anymore. Alevis are usually compared with other Ghulatsects like the Ahl-e Haqq, the Baha’is, the Ibadis, the Ismailis, the Shabak, the Yezidis, the Nusayris and others (Moosa 1988). The five pillars of Islam are not the central articles of their faith.
Apart from ‘exaggerated Shia’ the literature speaks about syncretism, by which is meant a mixture of local practices present in Anatolia in the 13thcentury. Hacı Bektash (13thcentury), Balim Sultan (15thcentury), and Pir Sultan Abdal (16thcentury) are considered legendary figures that have given Alevism its present shape by combining diverse elements from Islam, mysticism, shamanism, and Christianity. For example ‘light’ has an important role to play at the cemceremony. At a certain moment one, three or sometimes twelve candles are lit, which is said to refer to Allah (if one candle), Allah, Muhammad and Ali (if three), or the twelve imams (if twelve). There could be a link with Zoroastrianism and ‘the particle of light’ in Manichaeism, since some Alevis believe that with the lighted candle Ali is present at the cem. People attending the cemare therefore not ‘just a community’, but one that is sacred, a cemaat.9
Further, the semah, the ‘prayer dance’10that is based on the story of the forty mentioned above and that is always performed on a cem, carries different interpretations. It could refer to the movement of the planets in the solar system, but it could also refer to the movements of the Crane, a holy, migratory bird. By performing specific hand and body gestures the ‘dancers’ reside ‘at one moment in the visible world and in the next in the invisible’ (Stokes 1992: 214-220, citation at 220). When it comes to planets etc, it seems that some Kurdish Alevi tribes revere the sun and the moon, for which they refer to a saying attributed to Hüseyin just before the battle at Kerbela:
Ali was the gold,
Fatima was the silver,
I am the son of the gold and the silver.
My father was the sun,
my mother was the moon,
I am the son of the sun and the moon (cited in De Jong 1989)
In interviews Alevis say the following about their relationship to orthodox Islam. A summary of several interviews with ordinary Alevis: ‘We Alevis do not consider the Kuran a holy book, because many passages that refer to Ali were deleted; we do not go to the mosque to pray, because one can pray anywhere, and besides: Ali was killed in a mosque; Instead of fasting in the month of Ramadan, we fast ten days in the month of Muharrem; we do not go on hajj (the Islamic pilgrimage), because the truth and belief you need are inside you.’
This central idea of finding truth and Allah inside you is attributed to the ‘saints’ mentioned earlier. Haci Bektash is said to have written:
Intelligence is in your head, not in a crown
Whatever you seek, seek it with yourself
Not in Jerusalem, in Mecca or on a pilgrimage (Gülçiçek 1996: 14; transl. author)
And Pir Sultan Abdal supposedly said:
Don’t look for God in far away places
God is in you, when you keep your heart pure (Gülçiçek 1996: 15; transl. author)
At the cem, men, women and children attend. A characteristic social and religious value of Alevis is equal treatment of women and men. There is full access of women to places where men are, to education, to public life, and to religious festivities.11Often in Alevi cemhouses one can find the expression ‘Educate women’. The attendance of both women and men at the cemled to a suspicion and actual treatment of Alevi as people who organise ‘sexual parties’ where they commit adultery and ‘probably even incest’ (Shindeldecker 1998: 47-50).
Last but not least, the cem has an important function in the oral Alevi culture. Alevis ‘tell’ and ‘sing’ their religion and their history of persecution and injustice done to them at every cem. There is always the story of ‘how the beloved imam Ali was murdered in a mosque’, and always the story of the battle near the city of Kerbela in 680, where Ali’s son Hüseyin died of thirst. For most of the Alevis who attend the cem, the fact that this happened 1400 years ago does not matter. It is as real as if it had just happened. The story is so strong that old but also young people cry. We also hear ‘modern’ stories of injustice at the cem: an orthodox pogrom in the city of Maras in 1978 with 105 people dead, 37 dead intellectuals – most of them Alevi - in a hotel set on fire in the city of Sivas in 1993,12a ‘drive-by-shooting’ killing two Alevi dede’s and subsequent riots with 17 dead in 1995 in Istanbul.13In these stories told at the cem, we always hear the voice of the oppressed that fight for justice (cfm Göner 2005: 127). ‘…Alevis are recreating a seamless divide between past and present that embraces religious symbols but uses them to create a cultural unity that deals with the issues they face today, both in Turkey and in migration.’ (Geaves 2003: 69) Opponents are orthodox Muslims, but also Turkish state authorities that silently align with the Sunni majority.
When the above practices and beliefs of Alevis are viewed from an orthodox Islamic perspective, it comes as no surprise that Alevis are usually branded as atheists, heretics, and unbelievers who are outside of Islam (Bilici 1998: 60).
3. Active and Inactive Alevis in the EU and in Turkey
Alevis come from Turkey that today has about 70 million inhabitants. This does not mean that all Alevis consider themselves ‘Turks’. Quite a large group are of Kurdish ethnicity. In this sense one would have to say that there are Turkish Alevis from Turkey and Kurdish Alevis from Turkey, while the Kurdish Alevis speak either Turkish, Zaza, or Kurmanci, and while among them there are different tribes like Dersimis, Hormek, Lolan, and Koçgiri (Van Bruinessen 1997: 2). Turkish Alevis also distinguish themselves in several lineages, like Avsjar, Barak, Çepni, Nalcı, Sıraç, and Tahtacı (Andrews 1989: 9). These distinctions among several subgroups of Alevis are sometimes relevant, but not in this article.
Most Muslims from Turkey belong to the Sunni branch of Islam. Estimating the number of present day Alevis in Turkey and elsewhere is difficult. This is due to the fact that no statistics of for example ‘Alevi religious orientation’ are kept, and Alevis in the Turkish context are not considered a minority (Kehl-Bodrogi 1988: 93-94). McCarthy in his demographic study says no historical records exist on the diversity among Muslim believers in Ottoman times. ‘Many Muslims in Anatolia were actually members of heterodox religious communities, but were counted under the rubric ‘Muslim’ and are impossible to segregate statistically from the Sunni majority. These groups were generally of Shia orientation. Because of Ottoman reluctance to record differences within Islam, and he reluctance of members of these groups to be identified, no figures of these groups were kept.’ (McCarthy 1983: 107)
In ‘immigrant countries’ like the Netherlands and Germany we face a similar problem. In the Netherlands only the nationality of persons is registered, that is to say, a person who was born in a foreign country or of whose father or mother was born in a foreign country, is registered as allochthon. Statistics from the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (Centraal Bureau van de Statistiek) counts about 368.000 allochthon Turks in the year 2007 (of about 3,2 million allochthons on a total population of 16,3 million). Religion or religious orientation is a category, but ‘Islam’ is only registered under the heading ‘other religion’ (meaning other than Christian). Germany in 2007, according to statistics of the Statistischen Bundesambt Deutschland, counted 1,7 million Turks (of about 7,2 million ‘ foreigners’ on a total population of about 82 million). Their religious orientation (for example ‘Islamic’) is not registered.14
According to the literature, a substantial but unknown number of people from Turkey are considered to be Alevi. In 1988 Kehl-Bodrogi estimates them between 6 and 14 million in Turkey (Kehl-Bodrogi 1988: 94), while in the overall study of Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey in which she devotes an article to Alevism, her estimation comes to 20 percent, which would mean 13 million (Kehl-Bodrogi 1989: 503). Karin Vorhoff in her identity study ‘Zwischen Glaube, Nation und neuer Gemeinschaft: Alevitische Identität in der Türkei der Gegenwart’ estimates the number of Alevi at between 20 and 25 percent of the population, while various other sources estimate 10 to 40 percent and Alevi themselves estimate their number in Turkey at over 35 percent (20-22 million) in 1990. Vorhoffs valuation would roughly mean between 13 and 16 million Alevi in Turkey in the year 2000. Özalay estimates them at 15-20 million in 2006 (Özalay 2006: 12), Göner at 14-21 million (20-30 percent) in 2005 (Göner 2005: 109). If we translate the above percentages to estimate the number of Alevi in the Netherlands we would get at least 36.000 (10%) and at most 147.000 (40%). For Germany we would have to estimate the number of Alevi between 170.000 and 680.000.
Most of these people however, are not ‘ active Alevi’. By ‘active’ I mean that they have joined an Alevi Association and show up at meetings every once in a while. As mentioned earlier I regularly visit the larger Alevi associations in the largest cities. According to documents and to several informants (though nobody seems to know for sure) there are about 20 formal Alevi Associations in the Netherlands (Gülçiçek 1996 lists 25 associations).15
From the start of my fieldwork it was clear that only a minority of the Alevi minority is ‘active’ in Alevi associations. I estimate this minority of active Alevi in the Netherlands at about 3000 to 7000 people.16The organization of activities like cems, discussions, and lectures, depend very much on the personal activity of administrators and ‘informal leaders’ of the associations. When administrators are inactive, lack the time, or quarrel about the function and policy of the association, nothing really happens and members stay at home. Consequently, some associations have become so small that they do not even attract local political attention. In order to back up my argument on active Alevis and to present some ‘couleur locale’ in the mean time, below I will describe Alevi associations in several large cities in the Netherlands.
The first Alevi association, with about 150 paying members, makes use of a hired locality in one of the suburbs of the city. The locality is a ‘multicultural restaurant’ with an adjacent gym. Sunday is the only day the association can make use of the locality (for the cem separate evenings are agreed with the owner). Usually some 30 to 40 persons (men, women, and children) pay a visit. On those Sundays no special activities have been organised. Some people stay the afternoon to talk with friends, drink tea and eat home cooked food that someone has brought. Others stay for one or two hours or pay a visit to attend a Dutch language course. Children play soccer outside while teenagers sometimes play basketball in the gym. A regular day like this lasts from noon till about five o’clock.
About once a month they organize an activity. I have observed for example the visit of someone from the bureaucracy who was invited to give a lecture on the diverse taxes (for garbage etc.), a commemoration in honour of a recent deceased with a reading from the Kuran and special dishes, and several lectures from dedes on Alevi history and faith. On those occasions more people visit the locality, sometimes up to 60 or 70 people. Besides these, there are some days on which a religious festivity takes place. Like other Muslims, Alevis usually celebrate the ‘Feast of sacrifice’ (kurban bayramı) to remember Ibrahim’s (Abraham) willingness to sacrifice one of his sons. The two most important festivities specifically related to Alevi faith are Ashura, which is the commemoration of the death of Hüseyin at the battle of Kerbela, and the cem. At the day of Ashura, usually a baglama-player is invited to sing Alevi songs, and a special soup is offered for which a financial contribution is asked. At Ashura, between 100 and 150 people attend. When a cem takes place, which is once or twice a year, about 200-250 people attend. Over the last few years the association in this city has been in decline. Some older Alevis had no energy to be on the board anymore, and younger people claimed to be ‘too busy with school and work’. Moreover, an ideological split about ‘what Alevism is’ – is it the ‘real Islam’ or is it in essence more like Humanism – came to the fore in recent years, which lead to a split of the association in two factions.
The association in another large city has close contacts with the associations in two other cities. They publish an Alevi magazine in Turkish in joint effort every couple of months and they have jointly set up a website. Together the three associations have about 600 paying members. The oldest of these three associations was erected in 1987. It has its own building, in use during the whole week. The building in fact is a large three-story house just outside of the centre of town, with a large room at the back of the house. During the week (mostly) men pay a visit to chat and play cards. In the evenings activities like baglama-lessons (a sort of guitar) and a Dutch language course are organised. On Sundays, the association is open for families. The large room behind the building is used for the baglama course, discussions, lectures, and for the cem, which is held two or three times a year. About 200 people usually attend the cem. The three associations have organised a ‘youth group’, which organises lessons in folk dance, semah, and lectures and discussions on Alevilik (Alevism). One of the associations partakes in the city’s television network and makes a one-hour television program (canlar tv) every week. The building has a small studio on the first floor with technical equipment.
4. Legal Pluralism: Alevi Religious Law versus State Law
Legal pluralism today is a truism, because there are hardly any people (indigenous or minority) left who think that their customary, religious or state law is the only law that is relevant (Griffiths 1986; Merry 1988; Tamanaha 2007). Even state officials realize that state law is only one among several competing normative systems that regulate social behaviour.
Legal pluralism in this study into Alevi law and its courts is studied from the empirical perspective of interpretive anthropology and sociology. It focuses on circumstances in which members of a group are of the opinion that arguments and rules from more than one form of law claim to be valid for a specific problem or situation. The definition of law I use here is law exists whenever people’s behaviour, arguments and discussions suggest that they see rules and principles aslaw. The definition is grounded in the interpretive anthropology of Clifford Geertz and is influenced by the linguistic turn in legal theory (Geertz 1983; Tamanaha 2000). For example, in the small Staphorst village and orthodox protestant community in the Netherlands, some members argue that the Bible as ‘God’s law’ sometimes precedes Dutch state law.17Empirical legal pluralism simply focuses attention on situations wherein people as a group have a different meaning about the applicability of different forms of law, and analyses the power- and other kinds of relationships that in those situations are tantamount for the application of one rule over the other. As the definition and the Staphorst example makes clear, law is seen as a social construction, and legal pluralism is defined as a situation in which there is debate over the relevance of (what people construct as) different forms of law. Jurists generally dislike wide and especially ‘normatively empty’ concepts of law, because questions like ‘what is the typically legal quality of law, what about its principles?’ cannot be answered directly, because they are treated as empirical questions. The answer however – and this is the contribution of empirical studies – should make transparent which complex of rules, interests, and power comes into focus when analysing a social field.
Turkey and the Netherlands are both modern countries in which legal professionals and lay people generally hold a state centred view on what law is, and room for private law making is a sort of ‘left over’. (State) law is viewed as setting the boundaries that private rule making/applying is not to cross. Especially the formulation and application of criminal rules and sanctions are not to be left to private parties. The autonomy of law and its foundational role for modern states are generally taken for granted (Fitzpatrick 1992). Religious (and other) minorities however, frequently talk and behave in ways that make clear that religious or customary law is as strong as state law. The case of the Alevis therefore is a good illustration of how a minority lives by ‘two laws’ and how choices between different forms of law are influenced, both in the Netherlands where they are immigrants, as in Turkey where they are officially non-existent as a religious minority.
4.1 Alevi Religious Law in the Netherlands
Alevi law comes to life at the cem. The cem is an evening long ceremony with songs and prayers, and a communal meal at the end. In the beginning of the cem, the dede (the religious leader who is allowed to lead a cem) asks the congregation whether there are disputes in the community that need to be settled. Usually the dede recites a formula to this end, like this one I heard in the winter of 2002 in the Netherlands:
The ‘God of everybody’ has given your body a mind. He has given your heart faith. He has given you eyes to see. He has given you a face so that you can shame yourself. He has given you hands so that you can pick up things. He has given you feet so that you can walk. He has given you intelligence so that you can think. He has given you a language so that you can speak.
If you have made something empty, you need to fill it. If you have made someone cry, make him laugh again. If you have let somebody down, give him a hand – help him in getting up again! This meydan (the ritual space where the cem is held) is the territory of Hak/Allah-Mohammed-Ali. It is a territory of proud people. If something in this place is brought forward, it is ours. The things you will hide, are yours, but then accept responsibility – the things you hide will affect your inner self.
Those of you, who will not come to the fore with their troubles and conflicts, won’t find a solution. Raise your head and speak up, raise your voice! Do not look down like the guilty one. Those of you, who have a right, are required to speak up, in order to let these rights be known. Who needs to get what from whom and who owes something to someone else?
If there are people among you who are angry at each other, who owe something, who are entitled to something ... This meydan cannot bear lies! People are required to stand up for their rights!
Serenity comes when you talk openly, make things known, and acknowledge them. So, there is nobody among us who is angry, who owes something, who is entitled to something?
Usually one or two people walk forward to settle a debt or a quarrel, or some other ‘petty’ conflict. Sometimes a third party walks up to the dede to tell him about a quarrel he knows of, and then the dede asks these people to come forward. In front of the dede and before all the people attending, parties then have to ‘make up’ and ‘ reconcile’. This reconciliation takes the form of shaking hands and exchanging three kisses on the cheek. The whole procedure usually does not last longer than a few minutes. When parties are not prepared to reconcile, they need to leave the cem. This happens very seldom, because it brings shame, distrust by the community (‘he’s not an honourable person’), and religious disgrace (because one strays from the Path). This is a typical example of an ordinary case, taken from a video. I have called it ‘The Travel Cost Case’:
Dede: Respected people, a complaint came into the cem-house. Someone has probably issued a complaint. Therefore, as witnesses we have to wait before we can go on. Please...
Then a man comes forward. He is escorted by the gözcü, the ‘watcher’, who is carrying a large stick as his attribute. The gözcü is one of the twelve men assigned with a particular task on the evening: he is the one to keep order, and in this particular scene he might be called the court officer because he shows the people who want to address the court, where to stand and when to start telling their story. After the ‘please...’ from the dede the man starts out with his right hand placed on his heart:
Man A: Respected holy sirs, pure and all knowing, Allah, Mohammed, the beloved path. My mind is not peaceful. Here I have seen someone, sitting opposite of me. His name is (Man B). About four months ago I went with him to Germany. I had to pay for the trip, but I had no money, so I had to borrow it from him. I became indebted. Until now, I forgot to pay it back. Suddenly when I saw his eyes, I remembered. My heart had no rest. If something evil might have come to his mind, if he maybe thought something, here and now I want to bow for him, because I owe him.
Dede: Those who are on the path of Allah, this soul, can he now step forward? Please...
Man B then comes forward, guided in place by the gözcü. He bows with his hand on his chest, and says:
Man B: I do not think any evil concerning this problem. Up until now, he could probably have forgotten. However, I must admit I was not satisfied with this. Because of this, I have had no rest.
Man A: I really did forget. Because I have seen him here today, I realised.
Without further interference from the dede, these words seem to be enough for reconciliation. After the rite of reconciliation, the dede holds a small speech while the two men look at him:
Dede: Right then. If this has now come into your minds, it is good. What we all have witnessed is the best way. Holy sirs, are you both satisfied?
Without waiting for a reaction, the dede then formulates a rule: ‘If someone has a right, he should be met. What we owe, we should fulfil.’ The two men then take their place in the room, and the cem continues with other rituals.
No one checks if the money will really be paid back; everybody assumes the vow in front of the dede and the community will be kept. To make a promise and subsequently break it will lower your status in the community and may lead to social sanctions, as many Alevis assured me in interviews. Moreover, the vow will be kept because the Alevis regard it as a sacred vow. Most Alevis say that breaking a vow will bring forth supernatural sanctions. When we look at the ‘invitation’ of the dede, it is inevitable to consider the court a religious or religiously inspired court. Allah, the dede says, has endowed people with all the attributes of ‘humanness’, and one has to use them. The meydan as a sacred place or territory cannot give room to people who are dishonest. The rite of reconciliation is not only done before the community, but also before God. However, the term ‘religious’ with the Alevis needs to be used with caution.
First of all, there are no holy books like the Kuran, or even the ‘Buyruk’ that is said to be written by the sixth imam Cafer, used in the cem. There is no documentation of previous cases or a registry. Secondly, we must know there is no official Alevi doctrine, and no central authority guarding the consistent interpretation or right use of words of the songs sung at the cem. Alevis seem to be a ‘self regulating religion’ in the sense that each group, association, village, region etcetera decides for themselves what is right in religious, social, and legal matters. Some Alevi groups or communities broadly orient themselves on Islamic notions of what is right, others may formulate notions of right and wrong in terms of common principles of humankind, while most groups mix both. There is however one maxim, formulated in almost every building and book, and recited by every Alevi you ask: ‘be master of your hands, tongue and loins’ (‘eline, diline, beline sahip ol’, attributed to the mystic Haci Bektash). The interpretation of that rule is simple: don’t steal, don’t lie and speak evil, and do not have sex outside marriage’. Central for the moment of dispute resolution during the cem is an idea or sense among participants that they are wronged or have done wrong. The rules on which that sense is based, are left largely implicit, as we have seen in ‘The Travel Cost Case’. When asked to specify why people might feel wronged, Alevis usually come up with examples that they subsequently match with the above maxim.
So we may say the Alevi court is a religious dispute resolution council, but only when we realise there is no connotation of orthodoxy, or of an unchangeable and ancient book of law, or a God-given specific set of rules.18Faruk Bilici of the Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris says: ‘in this theology, contrary to sharia, all human problems are related to the actual world, and relevant judgments arise from life itself.’ (Bilici 1998: 54)
Another reason to apply the term ‘ religious law’ with some caution is related to who or what Alevis consider ‘Allah’. Allah in Alevi eyes is not simply seen as a force that is ‘outside’ of this world. Alevis usually say that they look for Allah in human beings, and not in a mosque, in heaven, or in the Kaaba. There are many, and many different, sayings about Allah: ‘Ali is God’, ‘perfect people are God’, ‘you and me are God’, and ‘ God exists in all things in the universe’. In mystical or gnostic terms we could say that Alevis mean to say that everybody has a ‘ divine spark’.19Central to Alevism is the opinion that the regulation of social life and decisions about right and wrong, is not up to God, but up to human beings (Dierl 1985: 29).
‘The Travel Cost Case’ would be treated by the Dutch state as one among many petty or trivial cases. Most of the cases decided by the cemin the Netherlands are about quarrels within the board of the Alevi association, disagreements among family members on the best wedding candidate, arguments among former friends etc. These cases are seen – from the Dutch perspective – as belonging before a mediator, not before a law court, and indeed, the Alevis in the Netherlands would never take these cases to the official state court. Even if someone did not agree with the cemprocedure or wanted to enforce a promise that was not kept, s/he would most probably not initiate Dutch state legal proceedings for something state law will most probably not be able to bring to a final resolution.20
Alevis in the Netherlands however do not see their quarrels and disagreements as petty cases during thecem, because at that moment all cases are alike. All wrongs, whether criminal or civil in nature, must be settled. Alevis in the Netherlands may use state sponsored mediation procedures for serious disagreements or initiate state court proceedings for cases in which large sums of money are at stake. Still however, if a cemtakes place pending mediation or court proceedings, parties will have to reconcile if they (subjectively) feel ‘anger’, they ‘owe something’, or are ‘ entitled to something’. A cemmay take place while state sponsored mediation is ongoing and there is no conflict here as the parties in the mediation already show a willingness to settle. Parties probably would not even come forward following the invitation of the dede, because of their inclination to find a middle ground for their dispute in the mediation. But where cemproceedings take place alongside court proceedings, reconciliation will be problematic (assuming that the parties could not reach an amicable agreement and therefore went to court). I understand from interviews both situations (cemproceedings in parallel to mediation or to state court proceedings) are very hypothetical in Turkey where the cemtake precedence in dispute resolution, but not so in the Netherlands. The lack of ‘trust in state institutions’ in Turkey accounts for the difference, even though in both countries there is still general preference for solutions ‘the Alevi way’. This may be explained as follows.
One the one hand Alevis in the Netherlands and Turkey state that taking your case to mediation or to a state court is not favoured among Alevis, because it means making your problem public. In particular turning to state courts implies that you cannot deal with it ‘the Alevi way’, i.e. by seeking an amicable and peaceful settlement. Looking for a solution with the help of outsiders of the community brings shame. Gossip and other social control mechanisms reinforce that shame.21
On the other hand Alevis in both the Netherlands and Turkey say that in Turkey ‘one can never completely trust state institutions’. In Turkey Alevis hold on to the ‘anti state ideology’ mentioned above (discussed further below in paragraph 4.2). A striking example of this ideology can be heard in the words of a dede from Turkey during a cem (in the Netherlands):
Up until today, the Alevi community has never taken its cases to court! In Turkey I have reconciled a man who had shot someone, and we never saw a court!
However in the Netherlands today, this ‘ covering up’ of a crime and keeping the conflict inside the community, would not only be practically impossible, but also ideologically outdated. The above argument of the dede makes no sense in the Netherlands, because the Alevis I have spoken to all said they would find it much better if the Dutch legal system dealt with criminal cases. This is because all my informants told me there is a general confidence in Dutch state and legal institutions – ‘so different from Turkey!’ This confidence has slowly grown over the years, through contact with municipal and state agencies. When Alevis came to Holland as guest workers in the 1960s, they were used to keeping their religion secret. It took a very long time, up to the end of the 1980s, before Alevis in Europe started to organize and make themselves known as different Muslims. In the Netherlands applications to acquire or hire buildings for Alevi associations for example, are only met with administrative requirements, not with statements that Alevism has no place in Islam or in the country.22A remnant of the anti state ideology in relations with Dutch state institutions can however sometimes still be found among the older Alevis. Deeply ingrained distrust apparently takes time to wear off.
We may assume that an increasing level of confidence in the (legal) institutions of the Dutch state means it will become more acceptable among Alevis in the Netherlands to resort to the Dutch legal system. This will diminish the importance of the procedure for reconciliation at the cem, because it is no longer the only available institution of dispute resolution. The possibility that two parties in an official lawsuit will meet in a cem is small, but when it happens they have to reconcile in order to show that they do not feel wronged, or otherwise evade each other. The only disputes to be resolved during cemsin the future will probably be petty cases.
4.2 Alevi Religious Law in Turkey
As far as I know, petty cases make up for most of the cem’s ‘case load’ in Turkey also, but its dispute resolution mechanism is still regarded as primary. Distrust of Turkey’s state institutions is still deeply ingrained in Alevi culture, which means we find a different situation in Turkey as compared to the Netherlands. In the past, if a cemwere to be discovered, both official and unofficial sanctions would follow. Sectarian organisations like those of the Alevis were legally banned in 1925, their lodges were closed, places of pilgrimage were sealed off for visitors, and religious ceremonies forbidden (Furat 2007: 13).
Today the legal situation of the Alevis is still tense. The ban on religious associations and on public speaking and writing in positive terms about ‘sects’ was relaxed in 2004. Still however, Alevis are merely registered as ‘islamic’, and there is fierce opposition to calls to recognise Alevism as a different approach within Islam.23The only gesture towards recognising Alevism has taken the form of inclusion of the sect in textbooks under the heading ‘mystical sects in Islam’. Compulsory religious education in schools is still based on Sunni orthodoxy, despite the fact that Turkey is in breach of the European Convention.24The Directorate of Religious Affairs still has no Alevi representative. Getting permits to build cemhouses is difficult, because they are not considered places of worship, but cultural centres. Therefore cemhouses do not receive state funding (like mosques do) (UNHCR 2005; UNHCR 2008).
The Alevi ideology partly ‘living on distrust’ in the institutions of the Turkish state reinforces the tendency to deal with legal problems by internal mechanisms. This ideology is persistent in Turkey because the state at least in the past seemed to live up to the images Alevis have established. Besides this ‘anti state’ ideology, there is also social pressure from within the community to conform to internal norms. A case I witnessed at a cemin Turkey, in a remote village, shows especially this force to conform to informal Alevi norms. The case is about the inheritance of pieces of land after the death of a father. Years after his death, his children and grandchildren still quarrel about the division of pieces of land, because the oldest son has allegedly taken the best pieces. I call this case the ‘Inheritance Case’, with Deniz (grandchild of the deceased), his mother Canan and his uncle Hakan as main participants (all names are fictional). The focus however is not so much on the development of the case, but on the presentation of ‘the Alevi way’ of solving disputes versus Turkish state law.There is intense disagreement in the cem. Deniz blames Hakan of following instructions of his father not to let daughters inherit land. This may have been a rule in the old days, but not in today’s modern society. Deniz says his mother Canan and her sisters were turned away when the land was divided by Hakan.25Hakan denies he has turned them away, and says his sister Canan is the only one who makes trouble about the land, because Deniz has set her up. The other sisters, he says, are satisfied with what they got. Deniz then accuses Hakan of having chosen the most fertile pieces of law for his own, which he denies also. About half way through the quarrel, which takes about 20 minutes to develop, the following discussion unfolds that is important for the issue of legal pluralism.
Dede: You will have to find a solution that satisfies your heart. Why don’t you accept what each of you more or less can agree on?! If you want a solution on millimetres, you will have to go somewhere else, to the land registration office. So you can do either of two things: Find a solution that satisfies your heart, within the community, or you find a solution the juridical way. But without a fight or quarrel! If you do not accept the rule of this community, what are you doing here?
People intervene, shout ‘make up’, and ask them to find ‘peace of heart’. Important people alongside the dede intervene also. Deniz is not ready to give in to accept the piece of land allotted to his (mothers) family. He does not want to question what his mother said about the deceased’s instruction that daughters should not inherit land (Canan is not at the cem).
Dede: Do you accept your piece of land?
Deniz: No, I do not.
Dede: In that case, to get your due, take the juridical road. For now you must embrace and kiss each other. You do not seem to accept anything, so I don’t see an opportunity to clear the sky. Either you find a solution here, or you go to the land registration office. They will come and measure, and there will be law and order. If you quarrel afterwards, you will both be banned from the community, so take care! Now kiss each other!
People tell them to find ‘peace of heart’, and ‘comfort of mind’, in order to cool down the disagreement. Eventually Deniz and Hakan reconcile and promise to try to settle the problem.
Dede: Ali dede, Emre baba, Hüseyin baba and others, the five of them will bring you together as soon as Canan is back in town. If you can reach an acceptable solution it is okay, otherwise take the other road [the land registration office] to handle your problem.
In this scene the dede refers to two legal orders. Alevis in this rural village seem to be allowed a choice between ‘two laws’: the law of the community, and the law of the state. These laws come with different connotations and goals. The Alevi law is the law of the heart, of satisfaction, and of peace of mind. The whole community will observe the reconciliation, God included (and if not kept, social exclusion will follow). State law on the other hand is referred to as the law of millimetres, of precision, and of ‘law and order’.
The question is not whether this contrast between a ‘warm’ Alevi law and the ‘cold’ law of the state is ‘true’ . For example, we can easily imagine the strong social pressure put on parties to reconcile (probably accompanied with social sanctions in daily life). What is important however is that the contrast is presented as such, and that Alevi people are asked to choose between two laws. Community law – that is, law inspired and acknowledge by Alevi religion – is clearly to be preferred.
We may assume that the tendency to regard Alevi law and legal solutions as primary, is dominant among the Alevis in Turkey, even in cases of crimes where the state is the first to want to intervene (hence the argument ‘we never go to court’ of the Turkish dede who led a cem in the Netherlands, see paragraph 4.1). It is likely, and also in rural areas easily possible, that Alevis keep their own crimes and other legal cases to themselves. The following poem of an Alevi dede is therefore illustrative for the situation in Turkey today:
‘We congregate together
we perform the ritual dances
and we play the ritual music.
We sing songs, hymns, incantations
we drink wine
we mourn for the twelve imams
We recognise no Kadi
do not ask us our sect
we recognise no sects
we say ‘we have our path’.’ (quoted in Bilici 1998: 53)
The sentence ‘we recognise no Kadi’ is telling, because it means a rejection of state law.
5. A Comparison and a Look Ahead
When we compare the above sketch of the situation in Turkey with the situation in the Netherlands, some differences come to the fore. In the Netherlands, the Alevis and their law pose no problem. In the eyes of Dutch law, the law of the Alevis in the cemseems to confine itself to petty civil cases that would otherwise be mediated through out of court state forums. Matters of ‘real’ interest are brought before state law courts (especially criminal matters). A conflict between Alevi laws as practiced in the cemin Netherlands and Dutch state law is therefore very hypothetical. There is a general confidence in the Dutch legal institutions and the legal system. Would this not be so, the procedure for reconciliation at the cem would retain (or regain) the importance it still has in Turkey.
In Turkey the situation is different because Alevism as a religion, and the right to establish cemhouses, are not recognized. There are regular instances of violence against Alevis, sometimes condoned by the police or other institutions. Inherent in Alevi religion and ideology is a general distrust in state institutions, including the courts. The tendency in Turkey is to keep conflicts among Alevis within the community, and social control in remote villages and in city associations back up that tendency. Preference is to deal with problems by internal mechanisms like the cem, while state law is only called in as a last resort or when functionally necessary (like with divorce etc.).
Officials of the Dutch state are unaware about the Alevis having their own legal rules and procedure. Alevis until recently weren’t very outspoken about their religion and identity, probably because of the unpleasant experiences in Turkey. Over the last few years this is changing, with Alevis trying to get a foot in the door of the Dutch visual media. They are also lobbying for state funding for a masters degree for their religious leaders at the Humanistic University in Utrecht.26Even when their law and legal procedure becomes known, no problems are to be expected. The Dutch legal system is accustomed to local groups and communities dealing with their internal problems through mediation (lawyers and doctors in disciplinary courts, arbitration, private mediation), and as long as these ‘courts’ stay within the boundaries set by state law no conflicts may be expected. The Alevis in the future will less and less feel the need to maintain the ideology of suppression by the state, and consequently the cemand its community law will probably end up as ‘folk lore’.
Officials of the Turkish state are also largely unaware about the Alevis having their own legal rules and procedure. Alevi public figures until recently weren’t very outspoken about their religion and identity, because of many unpleasant experiences in the past. Since a few years the situation seems to be slowly changing, partly because of EU influences in relation to Turkey’s possible future membership. However, Turkey has a historical difficulty in dealing with ‘diversity issues’. Turkey is considered ‘one nation’ with ‘one Islam’, and Alevis as mystical sect just do not fit in. Alevis know that. Legal pluralism is therefore likely to persist for longer in Turkey. Suppression by state law in a country where state institutions are not to be trusted, feeds the Alevi ideology of staying out of state law courts. Religious courts alongside secular state courts prevail in such a situation.
1 See for example Peterson (1996) on South America and <http://www.adherents.com/> in general (accessed on 14 October 2008).
2 Most nation states by exclusion of other institutions dominate criminal law, and the same goes for family law which is regarded as having a public function. In Islamic countries but also in Israel however family law is usually left to separate religious courts (for Muslims, Jews and Christians).
3 In Texas and in New York USA for example <http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191148.php> and <http://www.bethdin.org/>, in London UK <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4749183.ece> and <http://www.theus.org.uk/the_united_synagogue/the_london_beth_din/about_us/>, and in Canada <http://www.nosharia.com/>. All sites accessed on 14 October 2008. From the perspective of the modern state the Beth Din is a court of arbitration. I would argue that the Beth Din for orthodox Jews is a court of law. They accept a classification as court of arbitration because they know most modern states do not allow for a second legal system on an equal footing on their territory.
4 The research was initially funded by the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, where I then worked. Today I conduct the research as part of my general research on multicultural society and the law. See <http://www.wibovanrossum.nl/>.
5 Usually a recitation consists of saying just this, with some additional words.
6 Personal experience at an Alevi conference Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi told me about.
7 Or instead of Hatice the archangel Gabriel (Turkish Cebrail).
8 There are several stories about the forties, probably each sect has its own version. Moosa describes versions of the Shabak, the Bektashis, the Ahl-i Haqq (or Ali Ilahis) (Moosa 1988: 115-119), the Ibrahimiyya (166). The night of the forty is also mentioned by Gülçiçek (1996: 97) and interpreted as a symbol of the unity of a group (see also Öztürkmen 2005: 252). Furat (2007: 27-28) states that Alevis consider the story the root and foundation of Alevism. In some accounts the stage for the forty is set right after Muhammads night journey to heaven, the Miraj (Birge 1937: 137-138) See Ramadan (2007) for an orthodox account of the Miraj.
9 A term difficult to translate, but comparable to the ‘community’ attending a Mass in church. The church is first of all a distinct territory (only to be entered modestly dressed, and for some only after performing rituals like performing a cross or a slight bow), while during the service even more rules of respect need to be observed.
10 Alevis object to the semah being called a dance. Even if it looks like a dance to outsiders, for Alevis it is a prayer. See for a performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEGce1fp19I&fmt=18> (last accessed on 15 October 2008).
11 With the exception of becoming a dede, the Alevi ‘priest’. Some Alevis said in interviews that when a dede is not available and nobody else knows how to lead a cem, a well educated ‘ana’ (grandmother) is allowed to act as priest. See also note 25.
12 Rumours are that the imam of a local mosque infuriated the crowd on Friday afternoon prayers in July 1993 by saying that Aziz Nesin, who translated Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, was also in the hotel.
13 See on this last event especially Marcus (1996) who wrote an eyewitness account of the riots in Gazi, and in general on violence against Alevis Jongerden (2003).
14 Germany has no records of the nationality of parents. Many young Turks in Germany have nationalised (over 150.000 in the last four years; in 1999 for example, over 2 million people were registered as Turks). They now count as Germans in the official statistics.
15 Most of these associations came into being after the Sivas incident in 1993 mentioned earlier. ‘Sivas’ was a turning point for identity development: in stead of hiding yourself and keeping your religion secret, Alevis felt a need to ‘ come out of the closet’ to make themselves known as ‘different Muslims’ in Europe. Especially the youth felt that way.
16 This estimation is based on my regular visits and on my interviews with administrators of the Alevi associations.
17 See for example the Dutch film/documentary of Emile and Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal ‘ Staphorst in tegenlicht’ (‘Staphorst in back-light’, 2007), and the legal historical research ‘Staphorst en zijn gerichten’ (‘Staphorst and its courts’) of Van den Bergh et al (1980).
18 Jewish law, Islamic sharia, Canon law and the Hindu concept of ‘dharma’ are mostly regarded as religious law. Only Dharma comes close to the Alevi concept of law. ‘Dharma’, according to S. Desai, traditionally means ‘what is followed by those learned in the Vedas and what is approved by the conscience of the virtuous who are exempt from hatred and inordinate affection.’ (Desai 1986: 1) See also the work of Robert Hayden for a comparison between dharma and western types of law (Hayden 1984) and for dharma in the traditional nomadic ‘panchayat’ in India (Hayden 1999).
19 See the Gnosis Archive for example on <http://www.gnosis.org/gnintro.htm> (last accessed on 14 October 2008) and Schreiner for what this means for modern western religions (1990: 90-91).
20 In cases of family disputes, marriage, gender equality etcetera there is almost no room in Dutch law for the recognition of other law. Also in mediation parties cannot digress from the rules of family law and have their mediation agreement enforced in court, because these rules are considered to pertain to public policy. Dutch judges for example, will not accept a promise in reconciliation ‘not to marry a Sunni man’. Of course, on a voluntary basis and when kept completely hidden from state law, much is possible. See Berger (2006) as far as the application of sharia in the Netherlands is concerned.
21 Apart from this, we may expect other factors like costs of lawyers, emotional distance to state law, time and effort involved in a law suit etc to play a role. These factors were not mentioned in interviews however.
22 Dutch officials are mostly still unaware of Alevism.
23 The reluctance to accept Alevis as religion and as minority has consequences when it comes to the decision to accept Turkey as EU member (WRR 2004). Alevis themselves however are divided about the desirability of being a ‘ legally accepted minority’ in Turkey, since some regard Alevism as (not a minor but) a major contribution to the Turkish nation (Özalay 2006).
24 More specifically the second sentence of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1, which provides: ‘In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.’ See ECtHR case of Hasan and Eylem Zengin v. Turkey (Application no. 1448/04) Judgment 9 October 2007. In 2007 some 4000 court cases in Turkey were pending on this issue (UNHCR 2008).
25 The case makes clear that there is a difference between the religious ideology of gender equality and social life. At least the ideology of gender equality makes a discussion possible over the alleged instruction of the deceased.
26 Within the Dutch associations this led to a discussion whether women should be allowed to do the master to become ana (female dede). The outcome was that Alevism and modern society do not accept gender discrimination, so that even the traditional function of dede – some of whom say their lineage must be traceable to the family of the prophet – should be open to women. Some elders do not accept this outcome. Finance of the master is still unsure, so consequences of the discussion can be postponed.
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Numerical Collapse Analysis of Tsuyagawa Bridge Damaged by Tohoku Tsunami
In March 2011, the Tohoku tsunami swept over the east coast of Japan killing more than 15,000 people and missing more than 2,500 people. The tsunami resulted in collapsing of more than 400,000 buildings and washing away of more than 250 coastal bridges. In this study, the collapse of Tsuyagawa bridge damaged by the Tohoku tsunami is numerically investigated using the applied element method (AEM) because of its advantages for simulating structural progressive collapse. The AEM is a discrete crack approach that allows the elements separation, fall, and collision with each other in a fully nonlinear dynamic scheme of computations. The analysis was demonstrated to efficiently simulate the bridge collapse, showing that the bridge collapsed at a water speed of 6.6 m=s initiated by flexural failure of its piers. The study of bridge strengthening showed that the collapse water speed could be increased by 22 and 29% compared to Tohoku tsunami if piers are strengthened by a 100-mm RC jacket and 20-mm thick steel jacket, respectively.
Salem, H, Mohssen, S., Nishikiori, Y., and Hosoda, A. (2016) Numerical Collapse Analysis of Tsuyagawa Bridge Damaged by Tohoku Tsunami. ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000925 , 04016065.
AEM, Applied Element Method, Bearings, ELS, Extreme Loading for Structures, Hyrdodynamic Forces, Piers, Progressive Collapse, RC
Using the Applied Element Method to simulate the dynamic response of full-scale URM houses tested to collapse or near-collapse conditions
The Applied Element Method and the modelling of both in-plane and out-of-plane response of URM walls
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5 Habits Of Highly Desirable Women
By Monica Parikh
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-20188/5-habits-of-highly-desirable-women.html
Last week, I had an illuminating conversation with one of my clients, Ken. A surgeon with a thriving practice in New York City, Ken has the good looks of a Hollywood actor, and the down-to-earth charm of a Midwesterner. Unsurprisingly, people adore him.
Despite the sheer number of eligible women who find themselves smitten, Ken still finds himself yearning for what he describes as a “cool” woman.
“How do you define that?" I asked. "What would make you settle down?”
“I'd love a woman with a strong sense of herself. Someone who reads interesting books. And has strong opinions. Someone who is a little weird — a unique person. Finding someone ‘cool’ is much harder than you would imagine.”
It made me wonder: Are there certain traits that fuel desire?
I turned to my good friends Carolyn Byrne (a matrimonial attorney) and Aimee Hartstein (a relationship therapist), as they have witnessed hundreds of relationships progress from dating to marriage.
Together, we compiled the traits of certain women who seem to rack up a long line of suitors (and/or usually have a partner who is completely smitten). Below are the (uncommon) traits these enviable women share:
1. They don't rush into sex (especially not with people they don't know well).
Cool women enjoy sex, but prefer to wait if they are looking for serious commitment. Far from being constrained by “The Rules,” they understand that when introduced too soon, sex comes at a heavy price.
“Sex releases Oxytocin — the body’s love drug. Many of my female clients have sex early and the release of chemicals has them mistaking a virtual stranger for their ‘perfect match.’ This illusion typically ends in devastation,” said Aimee the marital therapist.
Cool women see dating as an opportunity to evaluate different suitors, which necessitates a certain detachment and level-headedness. By putting sex on the backburner, these women can also distinguish between men looking for a relationship versus those just looking for a good time. Cool women are in no rush to move quickly, and aren’t pressured by anyone's impatience.
2. They are passionate — about their own lives.
Cool women do not cling to or suffocate their partners. They understand that men enhance their lives, but are not their lives.
“I often wonder whether a client really needs a dissolution of their marriage or instead a dismantling of their co-dependency. People benefit from separate interests and time apart, so that they can fuel their individual aspirations and appreciate coming together again,” said Carolyn Byrne the matrimonial attorney.
Whereas many women mistakenly merge their lives with their partner’s in hopes of greater closeness, cool women understand that independence actually fuels desire. Take, for example, a girlfriend who leaves her spouse annually to mountain climb around the world. Her husband brags about her fearlessness and counts down the days until her return home.
Cool women don’t waste time gossiping or worrying about the latest carb-free diet. They are busy milking life for all it’s worth and rarely lack for a funny story based on their own experience. These women have separate careers, interests, and/or bank accounts.
3. They are emotionally stable and resilient.
Cool women are overwhelmingly agreeable and content, reserving their anger for when it’s truly necessary.
“Most of us have had a job with a demanding and nitpicking boss,” said Aimee the relationship therapist. “Although these workplaces are dreadful, many unwittingly create the same type of atmosphere at home through constant nagging, fighting and drama — especially over small slights. For a relationship to be welcoming, love, support, and appreciation must be at the forefront.”
Cool women understand that happiness emanates from within, as opposed to an external source. They create stability by tending to their emotional needs from a variety of sources, thereby lessening the pressure on their partner. They spend time with girlfriends. They take classes that fuel their passions. They exercise regularly to burn off stress. Cool women inherently understand that a balanced life equals a happier relationship.
4. They know their boundaries, and aren't afraid to communicate them.
Cool women aren’t afraid to speak up, even if it ruffles a few feathers.
A male friend once dated a woman who would clean his house after sex ... and would do so naked. When he told this story for the first time to his (now) current girlfriend, she looked him dead in the eye and said, “That’s never happening with me. So, don’t even think about it.” Guess with whom he is head over heels in love? Yup:the woman who set boundaries with him.
Doormats don’t fuel desire. Cool women are not difficult or high-maintenance, but do expect a certain standard of treatment and aren’t afraid to voice their needs. By making their boundaries known, they attract partners who are deeply respectful and courteous.
5. They don't put the cart before the horse.
In a world that overwhelmingly pressures women to conform -- what to eat, how much to weigh, when to marry and have children — cool women march to the beat of their own drum. They are worried less about arriving at a certain destination, and more about their companion for the ride.
“It’s incredibly devastating to wake up mid-life and realize that your life choices do not reflect you, but were merely an effort to keep up with the expectations of friends, family and society. I have many clients going through divorce who regret not putting more forethought into their choice of partner, as it’s the greatest predictor of lifelong happiness,” said Carolyn the matrimonial attorney.
Cool girls take their relationship day by day, evaluating how their partner treats them along the way. They would rather be with the right partner than any partner.
And by the way, I reviewed this list with Ken, the eligible bachelor. He couldn’t agree more.
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Pakistan expels Indian envoy and suspends trade over Kashmir
Pakistan expels Indian envoy and suspends trade over Kashmir /node/1536961/world
Security personnel stand guard at a roadblock in Jammu on Wednesday. (AFP)
Updated 07 August 2019
India's removal of Kashmir's special status stirs outcry
Young protesters throws stones at police in Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Wednesday it would expel India's ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its arch-rival after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status.
Neighbours China and Pakistan, which both claim parts of Kashmir, have voiced fierce opposition to India's removal of a constitutional provision that had allowed the country's only Muslim-majority state to make its own laws.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have twice waged war over Kashmir and in February engaged in an aerial clash. India, which has been battling insurgents there for 30 years, said the special status had hindered Kashmir's development and it wanted to fully integrate the region with the rest of the country.
Moin-ul-Haq, Pakistan's newly appointed ambassador to India, has yet to take up his post but will now not move to New Delhi, while Indian Ambassador Ajay Bisaria will be expelled, Islamabad said in a statement on Wednesday.
"It is very obvious that our ambassador wouldn't be in Delhi, and obviously the man who is here will also leave," Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a telephone interview with Pakistani TV channel ARY News.
A spokesman for India's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pakistan's move.
PROTESTS SMOULDER
Thousands of Indian security forces kept a lid on protests in Kashmir on Wednesday, helped by the continued suspension of telephone and internet services after the Himalayan region's special status was scrapped this week.
Streets in the main Kashmiri city of Srinagar were deserted for a third day, with almost all shops shut, barring some pharmacies. Armed federal police manned mobile checkpoints across the city, limiting people's movement.
Knots of young protesters threw stones at soldiers, police and a witness said, amid anger over the telecoms clampdown that began on Sunday.
"These (protests) are mostly localised because of the heavy troop deployment," said a police officer who sought anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media, adding that police used tear gas and pepper spray to scatter the protesters.
A witness described an episode of hours of stone-throwing on Tuesday in the Old Barzullah area near the city centre, saying, "I saw around 100 boys, in small groups, pelting stones."
He added, "The police fired tear gas to beat them back."
The Huffington Post reported that 13 people had been admitted with pellet injuries to their eyes to Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar, citing a hospital official.
It also quoted a resident of the old quarter of Srinagar, Owais Ahmad, as saying he was walking near his house when paramilitary forces fired pellets at him.
The Home Ministry in India's capital Delhi said it had no information about the incident.
The Huffington Post also reported that a 17-year old boy jumped off a bridge into the Jhelum river when he and his friends saw a group of paramilitary police on both sides of the bridge. The Home Ministry had no comment to offer and Reuters was not in a position to verify the report.
India accuses Pakistan of training and arming Islamist militants fighting its rule in Kashmir. Islamabad denies the allegation and says it only gives moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people in their struggle for self-determination.
India ordered security to be increased at its airports, saying "civil aviation has emerged as a soft target." Security officials have warned of a backlash against the move to withdraw Kashmir's special status.
MEDICAL SERVICES DISRUPTED
All telephone, television, and internet connections remained severed in Kashmir. At night, police vans have patrolled the streets with loudspeakers warning residents to stay indoors.
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik asked officials to ensure people had enough supplies and assured them of their security, Reuters partner ANI said in a report.
Local authorities have not declared a curfew, but instead clamped down on non-essential travel and gatherings of four or more people, effectively keeping restive people in their homes.
South Kashmir, the epicentre of the insurgency in recent years, was completely locked down, said a state government official who visited the area. "The highway was deserted, except for some trucks and buses carrying labourers out of the valley," added the official, who asked not to be named.
Officials with emergency services such as hospitals and the fire department said their staff were also frequently stopped at checkpoints, with access sometimes blocked.
The principal of Srinagar's Government Medical College, which runs Kashmir's largest hospital network, comprising about 3,500 beds, had to personally visit district officials to coordinate services or seek approvals, a hospital official said.
"The principal doesn’t have any means of communication," added the official, who asked not to be identified. "Police stations have been given satellite phones but not him. That shows their (government’s) priority."
About 200 police and local administration officials have received satellite phones, with several hundred more using a restricted military network, a police official said.
Srinagar’s fire officials also fear people might not be able to reach them in emergencies. "Communication is a lifeline," said one fire official who requested anonymity. "Only if someone contacts us can we do something."
A radio communications network links Srinigar's 21 fire stations, but with telephone lines down and no satellite phones, firemen can only be alerted by a call from police or an individual who visits a fire station.
Topics: Kashmir Pakistan India
India’s revocation of Kashmir’s special status will jeopardize regional peace, Pakistani FM says
PM Imran Khan, Saudi crown prince discuss Kashmir’s evolving situation
LIVE: Davos 2020 Day One - Thunberg slams elites, Trump hails US economic rebound /node/1615991/world
Discussion panels featuring a number of high profile figures from the political, business and civil world.
Environment and climate issues on agenda, but Iran and Lebanon expected to feature heavily
The World Economic Forum 2020 started on Tuesday in Davos in Switzerland. Greta Thunberg kicked off the three day forum in a panel discussion on Sustainable Path towards a Common Future.
There will be discussion panels featuring a number of high profile figures from the political, business and civil world.
They will discuss a wide range of subjects including the environment and climate issues, but Iran and Lebanon are expected to feature heavily.
Follow Arab News’ coverage below
13:45 - Bollywood superstar and mental health ambassador Deepika Padukone has a very honest and inspiring conversation with World Health Organization's director-general about her own experiences with mental illness and how the stigma surrounding it can be ended...
In 2017, Padukone spoke vividly about her struggle with depression and the stigma that surrounded it. She also described how she decided to speak out, so others wouldn't have to suffer in the same way she did. Watch the Crystal Awardee speaking earlier at Davos:
13:00 - Saudi Arabia's Minister for Communications and IT Abdullah Al-Swaha has been speaking on a panel about the strategic outlook for Middle East economies. He makes the salient point that if countries want their economies to grow, they must focus on youth, technology and the empowerment of women...
#LIVE: ‘There is growing inequality, and that dictates to us to put an agenda where we focus on women, youth and technology, and close down the digital divide and leave nobody behind,’ Minister of Communications & IT in Saudi Arabia @aalswaha @Davos #Davos2020 #WEF20 pic.twitter.com/jWnzgiKvib
— Arab News (@arabnews) January 21, 2020
#LIVE: "As the largest economy in the region, our base economy from a non-GDP grew by 3%, our digital economy grew by 6%... " Minister of Communications & IT in Saudi Arabia @aalswaha @Davos #Davos2020 #WEF20 pic.twitter.com/ttD0h21OfX
#LIVE: #SaudiArabia’s Minister of Communications and IT @aalswaha - Kingdom's digital economy grew by 6% - if you want your economy to grow and prosper, focus on youth, technology and empowerment of women #WEF20 #Davos2020 @wefhttps://t.co/IITFkjcU65 pic.twitter.com/Aj9ggIBOhk
11:30 - US President Donald Trump reverted to his role as salesman Tuesday, telling a gathering of the world's top businessmen in the Swiss Alps that he's led a “spectacular” turnaround of the US economy and encouraged them to invest in America.
He reminded the audience that when he spoke here two years ago, early in his presidency, “I told you that we had launched the great American comeback."
“Today I’m proud to declare the United States is in the midst of an economic boom, the likes of which the world has never seen before,” the president said.
Read more of the US President's address at Davos here: Trump lauds US economy in Davos, says little on climate woes
#LIVE: @realDonaldTrump: We’ve regained our stride, we discovered our spirit and reawakened the powerful machinery of American enterprise #WEF20 https://t.co/Mc818waDgv pic.twitter.com/B74yInlq5G
#LIVE: @realDonaldTrump: China will spend an additional $200 billion over two years on American services, agriculture, energy and manufactured goods#WEF20 https://t.co/Mc818waDgv pic.twitter.com/gDCTWKpURF
11:00 - Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson delivered a special message from Pope Francis. He called on everyone to remember that we are all members of one human family, and that we have a moral obligation to care for one another.
And he asked for a renewed ethical approach in the forthcoming discussions, including in the discipline of economics.
#LIVE: @CardinalTurkson believes “it is necessary to move beyond short-term technological or economic approaches, and to give full consideration to the ethical dimension in seeking resolutions to a present problem.” #Davos2020https://t.co/mfXodWpEzS pic.twitter.com/IlZfFq5omP
10:30 - The historian Yuval Noah Harari struck a pessimistic note at the opening of this session on the technology arms race.
"On the most shallow level it could be a repeat of the 19thcentury industrial revolution, when the leaders had the chance to dominate the world economically and politically... I understand the current arms race as an imperial arms race... You don't need to send the soldiers in if you have all the data on a country," says Harari.
10:00 - In one of the first sessions of the WEF, Greta Thunberg said the voices of science and youth need to be at the center of the conversations on environment and future during “Forging a Sustainable Path towards a Common Future” panel discussion.
Read more on her speech here: Thunberg condemns climate inaction as Trump joins Davos
#LIVE: @GretaThunberg says the voices of science and youth need to be at the center of the conversations on environment and future because “it is about us” #Davos2020 https://t.co/YcEzdFSp73 pic.twitter.com/22HxSkVtqX
Topics: Davos 2020 Davos WEF 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF)
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Data Scientists Use Amazon's Own Methodology to Suggest HQ2 Should Be in Washington, DC
Can the same kind of analysis that powers Amazon’s recommendation algorithms pinpoint where they should build their next headquarters?
By Tim Nelson
Amazon has announced a selection of 20 finalists for their new headquarters.Photo: Getty Images
Amazon received bids from 238 cities in 54 states and provinces to host their new "HQ2" before the submission period wrapped up last month. And while we’ve already seen many municipal overtures during the "Bahelor"-esque bidding process that bordered on the shameless, and have our own theories on the ultimate location, the jury’s technically still out until 2018.
That hasn’t stopped rampant speculation in the meantime, though. Some have relied on guesswork to choose a winner, but not Thinkful. Using a data science process known as “recommendation systems,” the same one Amazon uses to determine what you’ll want to read or buy next, the IT education company crunched the numbers to determine that—wait for it—Washington DC possesses the ideal balance of traits that Amazon is looking for in its second home.
First Thinkful pared down the list to only include municipalities that had a metro area of 1 million-plus and a nearby international airport (per Amazon’s stated requests). From there, they matched nine major criteria (covering areas like transportation quality and workforce education) in the RFP with publicly-available datasets (like US News and World Report quality of life rankings, for example). After a bit of clever data manipulation and a few nifty graphs, DC came out on top over emerging tech hubs like Boston and Austin. (NB: The New York Times's The Upshot used data to predict the same city AD did: Denver)
Of course, only Amazon knows what will factor into their final decision. But given how the company’s built its empire on the back of its data-driven decision making and logistical capabilities, you can bet they’ll conduct a rigorous analysis before breaking ground.
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CD Review: Emigrate- Silent So Long(Released December 9, 2014)
There has been some really good music throughout this year and it also ends on a good note --of course not all that came across my desk was something that I liked enough to review I also continue to only review music/movies that I like or that a appeal to me.
There are enough sites on the Internet that will take the time to slam an artist or a band but being just one person does not allow me time to write about every album that I receive.
Formed by Rammstein’s Richard Kruspe, Emigrate have now set the release date for their new studio album – the follow up to the 2007 self-titled debut, a Top 10 German chart entry.
Some great industrial music here which what he is known with his other band Rammstein -however branching out having legends like Lemmy from Motorhead and others:
As with the debut, Kruspe adds to his guitar playing / song-writing duties by stepping up to the mic, only this time he’s joined by a number of guest singers; there’s Lemmy from Motörhead, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Canadian born Berlin-dweller, Peaches, plus Frank Dellé from chart-topping German collective Seeed.
Below is the first video from the album:
"Eat You Alive"
There is not a bad song on the album this entire album rocks and am thankful to have heard it.
There is such a good mix of rock, industrial and standard rock songs to help keep it interesting for all and I am sure that helps too when they play this live as well.
"Giving Up" is my favourite song on the album and when having the headset on when walking to work keeps me at a steady pace.
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On board the Celestyal Crystal cruise-ship
DAY 1, Sunday / Arrival
Arrive at Athens International Airport, meet with our assistant and transfer to the hotel. Check-in. Your journey to the Biblical land of Greece begins! Travel in time, exploring a city with a history of more than 5,000 years! Temples, churches and museums blend with neoclassical buildings, quaint shops and cafes, in a vibrant cosmopolitan bustle that will stimulate your senses and inspire your mind! Dinner and overnight at hotel in Athens. (D)
DAY 2, Monday / Athens – Piraeus - Embarkation on 7-day “Idyllic Cruise”
Breakfast at hotel. Enjoy a morning sightseeing tour of Athens, including a visit to the Acropolis, as well as a panoramic tour of the highlights of the city. From the Acropolis Hill we will walk down to Mars’ Hill (Areopagus) (Acts 17:22) where Apostle Paul delivered his soul-stirring sermon. Rest of the day is free to wander through the Plaka and Monastiraki districts, where old combines with new as we discover shops and restaurants full of Greek delicacies. Return to hotel for collecting luggage and transfer at 6pm to Piraeus port for embarkation on the 7-day cruise. At 9pm sail to Mykonos, a cosmopolitan paradise, famous for its beaches and its vibrant nightlife. Dinner and overnight on board. (B,D)
DAY 3, Tuesday / Mykonos, Greece
At 7:00am we dock at Mykonos and we enjoy our day walking and exploring the pebbled streets of cosmopolitan Chora and have a coffee in “Little Venice”. You’ll spend the night here, so there’s ample time to discover the sandy beaches, the legendary nightlife and the pretty alleyways of Mykonos Town after dark and the gorgeous beaches, or ancient Delos, by day. All meals and overnight on board. (B,L,D)
DAY 4, Wednesday / Mykonos – Milos, Greece
At 7:00am sail to Milos. At 1:00pm we arrive at Milos. This island is a geological marvel and home to the biggest selection of diverse and beautiful beaches in Cyclades, some of them formed by ancient volcanoes. Greece. Here we will enjoy our excursion (approx. 5hrs) to the incredible scenery in Sarakiniko, an inlet of pure white stones formed by volcanic eruptions. Walk down to the inlet so we can experience this one-of-a-kind beach and take photographs.
It feels like as if you’ve landed on the moon. We will then drive on main road along the coast to the cobblestone streets and alleys of Plaka, a classic Cycladic village of white stone houses and bougainvillea flowers 250 meters above the Aegean. In just 100m from Plaka lie the early Christian catacombs, the largest in Greece, and the ruins of ancient Melos with a Roman theater, cut into the rocky slope of the hill near the ancient agora. Our path from the catacombs to the amphitheater takes us through a small olive grove beneath the retaining walls of ancient Milos, where we’ll find large Dorian walls and column fragments. On our way back to the port, we will visit the site where the “Venus de Milo” (now exhibited in the Louvre Museum in Paris), was discovered in 1820. Re-embarkation on the ship. All meals and overnight on board. (B,L,D)
DAY 5, Thursday / Santorini, Greece
At 8:00am. arrive in Santorini.
(Disembarkation by tender-boats, sea & weather permitting). We will overnight here with two full days and a chance to watch the blazing sunset from a ringside seat. We board the bus to visit Santos Winery, for a breathtaking view, deep inhalations of clean, pure, Cycladic air and memorial photos. The tour continues to Oia, while we will pass through Fira, the small traditional villages of Firostefani and Imerovigli with delicate architecture and beauties. We will enjoy the view over the caldera and the little islands of Thirasia, Palea and Nea Kameni. We will have plenty of time to stroll through the marble-paved alleys, to gaze at the adorably cute shops, to take pictures, to become acquainted with the characteristic buildings, carved into the rocks and the unusual captains’ manors, the settlement Ammoudi at the foot of the caldera. Return to the ship. All meals and overnight on board. (B,L,D)
DAY 6, Friday / Santorini, Greece
Free day in Santorini to join a second optional tour to visit the archaeological excavations of Akrotiri. Or enjoy a boat tour to the volcanic islands and hot springs. At 11:00pm we sail to Crete. All meals and overnight on board. (B,L,D)
DAY 7, Saturday / Crete, Heraklion
At 7:00 am we arrive in Heraklion, Crete. Capital of Crete and a former Venetian harbor with intriguing architecture. Optional tour to the Minoan Palace of Knossos, home to Europe’s oldest civilization and the setting of the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur. During this tour we will have the chance to visit the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion. Re-embarkation on the ship. At 8.30pm set sail to Samos island. All meals and overnight on board. (B,L,D)
DAY 8, Sunday / Samos, Greece or Kusadasi, Turkey
At 8:00am we dock at the island of Samos, once home to some of the greatest minds of ancient Greece, including Aesop and Pythagoras. Tour the island, swim at Tsamadou beach and don’t leave without tasting the delicious local Samian wine in the renowned local winery and museum. Sail to Kusadasi.
At 11:30am dock at Kusadasi in Turkey, our starting point for our visit to Ancient Ephesus, where the Apostle Paul preached and lived for three years (Acts 18:19-21). We will walk through the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Christian monuments: we see the Prytaneum, the Odeon, the marble-paved main Street of Kouretes, the Residences of the Patricians, Trajan’s Fountain, the Temple of Hadrian, the Baths of Scholastica, the Library of Celsus, the agora and the Great Theatre, built in the 4th century BC. Its capacity is 24,000 spectators and is famous even nowadays for its acoustics. The finds from the excavations, which have yet brought to light only 13% of ancient Ephesus, reside in the Archaeological Museum of Ephesus, in the city of Selcuk. During the excursion we will have the opportunity to do some shopping such as carpets, jewellery, leather and other souvenirs in Kusadasi.
At 5:00pm return to Samos and set sail for Piraeus, Athens at 8:30pm. All meals and overnight on board. (B,L,D)
DAY 9, Monday / Athens Disembarkation - Corinth
At 9:00am. arrive at the port of Piraeus. Disembarkation after breakfast.
We meet the local guide and head for our excursion to Ancient Corinth. We drive by the Saronic Gulf via the historic Corinthian Canal (quick stop for photos) and we arrive at Ancient Corinth (Acts 18:1-18). It was in this megalopolis where the Apostle Paul came, worked and established a thriving church. We see all the sites associated with his ministry: the agora, the Bema, Erasmus inscription and the small archaeological museum. On our return way to Athens, we will pass by Cenchreae, to see the remains of the 5th century basilica. After the tour check-in at hotel, followed by dinner and overnight in Athens. (B,D)
DAY 10, Tuesday / Departure
After breakfast transfer to the Athens International Airport for departure flight. (B)
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15-Year-Old Gauff Beats Venus Williams in suburbia
A huge tennis upset befell at community on Mon as 15-year-old Cori Gauff beat 5-time community winner Venus Williams. Gauff is that the youngest player ever to qualify for the community.
Venus Williams is one among the best women’s tennis players at intervals the planet. though she is graded ordinal presently, she has been graded #1 three separate times.
In tennis, there are many competitions, however, there are four “major” tournaments (contests) that ar the foremost necessary. These are referred to as slam tournaments as a result of winning all four major contests in one year is termed a slam. the community is that the only slam contest vies on the grass.
Venus has won seven slam singles titles, along with five in community. She has won fourteen slam doubles titles, fidgeting with her sister, Serena.
Williams and her sister, Serena, have changed the way the game is vying. the women have shown that durable, powerful play could also be a huge region of women’s tennis.
Cori “Coco” Gauff began enjoying tennis once she was seven. She grew up observation the Williams sisters and required to be like them. so once she got a chance to play Venus, it had been a dream come true.
At fifteen years recent, Gauff was the youngest player at intervals the competition. Williams, who is 39, has been enjoying at community for over twenty years. Still, several folks were aghast at but mature and guaranteed Gauff was.
In spite of the pressure, the young American appeared calm. Williams hit the ball with numerous power, however, Gauff was able to match her strength. Even once she lost a game whereas she was serving, she didn’t lose her focus. Gauff won in exactly a pair of sets, 6-4, 6-4.
Williams was affected. “She did everything well these days. She places the ball at intervals the court, that was much better than I did,” Williams said. “She served well, moved well. it had been an honest match for her.”
Though Gauff didn’t show it, she said later that she was nervous. “I haven’t vied on a court that vast before,” she said. “I had to tell myself that the lines on the court ar similar and everything is that constant size. once every purpose I wont to be telling myself to stay calm.”
After the match, the two cask hands and spoke at the data superhighway. Gauff later reported: “I told her thanks for everything simply} just did. I wouldn’t be here whereas not you.”
Only once the match was over did Gauff’s feelings relating to beating her hero at a slam event seem to hit her. Gauff weekday on her chair leaned her head on her racket and cried.
Gauff is later said that it had been arduous for her to elucidate what she was feeling. “I never thought this might happen,” she said. “I’m nearly living my dream quickly. Not several folks get to say that.”
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The Godfather: Part II 45th Anniversary (1974) presented by TCM
Fathom Events, TCM and Paramount Pictures present The Godfather Part II, returning to cinemas for a special three-day event! Francis Ford Coppola continues his… More Details »
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Fathom Events, TCM and Paramount Pictures present The Godfather Part II, returning to cinemas for a special three-day event! Francis Ford Coppola continues his epic Godfather trilogy with this saga of two generations of power within the Corleone family. Coppola, working once again with the author Mario Puzo, crafts two interwoven stories that work as both prequel and sequel to the original. One shows the humble Sicilian beginnings and New York rise of a young Don Vito, played by Robert De Niro in an Oscar®-winning performance for Best Supporting Actor. The other shows the ascent of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Reassembling many of the cast members who helped make The Godfather®, Coppola has produced a movie of staggering magnitude and vision, the film received eleven Academy Awards® nominations, winning six including Best Picture of 1974. A timeless classic best revered on the big screen, time tested fans and newcomers alike won’t want to miss this special event featuring exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies.
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Kay: It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago.
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Saw it 1974 and countless times on TV but seeing it again on the big screen reminded me of how epic it was. Great storytelling & acting. The back and forth of present day and Vito's history make this a terrific saga. Glad I went.
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This magnificent 1974 sequel, the centerpiece of Coppola and writer Mario Puzo's 20th Century gangster saga, is still one of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed American films, a landmark work from one of Hollywood's top cinema eras.
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Big Boss Season 12 contestants Name List for 2018 with Photo and Bio, Start Date
17 September 2018 47 Comments
Big Boss season 12 is starting fro the month of the November. The casting of the show is already in the full form. Fans are already excited for the 12th season of the Big Boss. Many celebrity names are in the news, but according to reports here are some names of the contestants. The 12th season of the Big Boss will be bigger and more interesting. Makers of the show have made major changes in the 12th season of the show. The upcoming season of the big boss will feature numerous twists and turns. So, here are the complete details related to the Big Boss Season 12 contestants Name List 2018. Also, find out the starting date, and broadcasting details of the show.
While it has been confirmed that the contestants will participate in the show with Jodies or Pairs. The 12th season of the Big Boss will be more Bolder and controversial than ever.
According to sources, the television reality show will feature the total of seven common jodies and seven celebrity jodies. They need not be husband and wife, they can be lovers, sibling, mom and son and so on. There is the huge curiosity among the audience about the contestants of the show. About the list of contestants who could be seen in the Salman Khan’s show. Here is the probable list of the contestants. Still, there are many updates coming for this upcoming season of the television reality show. So, make sure you stay tuned for the more updates related to your favorite television show.
Big Boss Season 12 contestants Name List 2018
1) TV actress Srishty Rode: She is best known for her role as Fiza in Ishqbaaz.
Nehha Pendse: Neha Pendse is an Indian film and television actress. Now she is participating in Bigg Boss 12
Karanvir Bohra: Karanvir Bohra, known also as Manoj Bohra, is an Indian television and film actor, producer and designer. Now he is taking part in India’s famous reality show BB12.
Dipika Kakar Ibrahim: She is the wife of Shoaib Ibrahim. She is popular for playing the character of Simar in TV show Sasural Simar Ka. Now participating in Bigg Boss 12.
Anup Jalota and Jasleen Matharu: Jasleen Matharu and Anup Jalota both are devotional singer and musician. Anup Jalota is participating in the Bigg Boss with his student Jasleen Matharu.
Sree Santh: Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is a former Indian cricketer. Now he is taking part in the Bigg Boss house Season 12. it will very interesting to every cricket Lovers.
Deepak Thakur and Urvashi Vani: Bihari singer Deepak Thakur is all set to enter Salman Khan’s ‘Bigg Boss 12’ with his biggest fan – Urvashi Vani.
Saba Khan and Somi Khan: Saba Khan and Somi Khan are sisters from Jaipur. Now both sisters are entering the Bigg Boss house to helping each other.
Sourabh Patel and Shivashish Mishra: Commoner Jodi, Sourabh and Shivansh entering the Bogg Boss house. He is from Madhya Pradesh.
Roshmi Banik: Roshmi Banik from Kolkata and is 26-years-old. She is one of the contestants chosen from the Bigg Boss outhouse and help of the public vote.
Kriti Verma: Kriti Verma is ex-Roadies contestants, now taking part in the Bigg Boss Season 12 for the earning popularity.
Romil Chaudhary and Nirmal Singh: Romil Chaudhary and Nirmal Singh is the former lawyer and letter policeman. They are from Haryana and now participating in the entertainment field.
BB12 Start Date
The Big Boss Season 12 is starting from 16 September 2018. Salman Khan has already shot the promo of the Bigg Boss Season 12 and the audiences will get to see the promo on TV screens soon.
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Fall 2018 Spotlight: The "So What" Factor in Nonfiction
In Praise of In Praise of Shadows: Toward a Structure of Reverse Momentum
Matthew Ferrence
What incredible pains Junichiro Tanizaki takes when he sets out to build an essay in a purely architectural style, at once fully Japanese and traditional and modern and old-fashioned and fresh and, he might say, a thing built to “harmonize with the austerity of Japanese rooms.” Yet for all this ingenuity, I understand as well how for many 21st Century readers, particularly Western ones, his “efforts might impress us as nervous, fussy, excessively controlled,” again as Tanizaki might say, did say, about something else. We are accustomed to something else, the very thing Tanizaki argues about architecture, that just as we rapidly grow used to and dependent upon the advances of the technological, we also rapidly lose sight of the ways that our very cultures, and ourselves, are built upon the relationship to things.
In Praise of Shadows attends specifically to the nature of semi-darkness, the flickering candlelight playing upon lacquerwear, the quiet repose of the ideal toilet (the most exquisitely-rendered extended passage on the beauty of that room I can recall in all of literature), the way that the brightness of externally-conceived technology can do damage to underlying culture and––this is a striking and important word––aesthetics. In this attention, Tanizaki is writing about our relationship to the world, and he is also making a case for the necessarily backward-glancing orientation of the essayist. We write, always, in negotiation with the past. We write about things, always in negotiation to that past and ourselves. We pay close attention to things, and history, and unspoken gesture, and darkness, because in peering deep into the alcove, we trust that we can make out the lines of the artwork that matter. Click here to continue reading.
Nothing Out of Something: Diagramming Sentences of Oppression
John Proctor
I think the argument could be made that sentence diagramming is merely a form or extension of Euro-centric imperialism, attempting to blast through the contours and abnormalities of the English language in ways similar to what colonizers of the Americas and the industrialists who followed them have done (still do) to our physical landscape. Language, especially written language, occupies a liminal space between the natural and the synthetic. Linguistic communication is perhaps the most human of our animal instincts, allowing us a third option to the fight-or-flight dialectic: cooperative, symbiotic understanding. Language is also the primary paradigm governing the structural understanding of ourselves, and as such is perhaps the most powerful tool not just of academic disciplines, historical narratives, and generational tradition, but also of repressive governments, rapacious industrialists and capitalists, and dusty schoolmarms and mansplainers. To Control the Message is to dictate how to use our common language: to put it in a box, to diagram its meaning as if any word or sentence or thought had only one meaning, as if any person or institution had the right to impose that meaning on the rest of our shared world. I nod in agreement listening to all of these arguments, ingest them, and reproduce them here in summary form.
But. At the root of the exercise—nay, the art—of sentence diagramming, or of my exercise of it at least, is an attempt at enacting the power of language to enable understanding. If we make language to make meaning, we deconstruct language to discern meaning. Click here to continue reading.
Essaying the World: On Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Alysia Sawchyn
Though it feels very timely to events of 2018, Valeria Luiselli’s book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions begins in the summer of 2014 and ends in a postscript dated 2017. It was neither written nor published as newsfeeds were filled with stories of families torn apart at the border, but it does provide additional context for the horrific circumstances surrounding child immigration. The book informs, and it also advocates for individuals to take action toward change. I’ll admit that when I bought the book back in March of this year, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard good things about her novels, and so when I saw that Luiselli had written a book-length essay, I added it to my purchase from Coffee House Press in that third-day AWP book-buying fever. Its cover is minimalist: a black small caps serif font on a parchment background, no image. Anything could be inside. Click here to continue reading.
Crafting Digression: Interactivity and Gamification in Creative Nonfiction
Vivian Wagner
Creative nonfiction writers are increasingly experimenting with digression and interactivity, and this seems a wise strategy for engaging current and future readers. Digression inherently involves a kind of interaction between writer and reader, and this interactivity is beginning to feel necessary. Digression, after all, can be something that the reader does, as much or perhaps even more than the writer. We live in a distracted age, whether we like it or not, and this era has trained us to go from topic to topic, making up a relatively coherent narrative for our lives out of the fragments of our days. We read in this manner, too, focusing for a while on an essay or book before checking Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, or looking up a word, or exploring the history of a subject we’ve run across in our reading. Perhaps this also echoes the rise of digital and multimedia essays. This is not to confuse “distraction” with “digression,” certainly, since those are two different concepts. It is to say, though, that perhaps the impulse behind distraction is the same as that behind digression: we, as writers and readers, want to know something––the text, ourselves, our moment––more fully, and we follow whatever paths happen to open up.
What forms might digressions of the future take? They might be variations on absence and white space. Texts without a central text. Choose-your-own-adventures. Games or game-like activities. Any number of improvisational, immersive experiences. The possibilities are as endless as the imagination of writers creating them. Let’s look first at the argument for using digression in nonfiction, and then we’ll discuss the ongoing evolution of digressive interactivity. Click here to continue reading.
I woke up this morning, having gone to sleep thinking about some lines Eric Lemay wrote in his book In Praise of Nothing. He is writing about returning to Ohio as a now-married man, having grown up in this town in Ohio (Athens?) but had moved to New York for a decade or so. The essay is about how he feels like two people at once, or, rather, feels as if his old self was never interrupted. That his old life and his current life are parallels, nearly one-in-the-same, but different because he observes both selves as if from outer space. He witnesses his past life and his current life from a dissociated distance. “Every time we went [to the lake] I wondered if I’d entered that pattern, if I was my younger self or the self in my swimsuit,” he writes. But that sense of dislocation, of dissociation, falls apart when a thunderstorm hits at the lake he visited in his past life, at the lake he is visiting in his current life:
One afternoon while we were there at that lake a thunderstorm came up. It was like a message from a far-off country that I’d once lived in and left for good. The momentous feeling that arrives with an electrical disturbance over a lake in America hasn’t changed in any important respect. This was the sublime, still the sublime. The whole thing was overwhelming, the overcast clouds that rolled in and the general worry on the beach about whether it’d rain. Then before long (there was no question now) a dark greening of the sky, and a lull in everything that has made life tick; and then the way the leaves suddenly turned up and showed their silver sides with the coming of a breeze across the water, and the premonitory rumble. (67)
There is no more wondering who is who. The essay ends with LeMay saying, “suddenly I felt the joy of my youth.”
In the feeling, in the moment, in the beauty of those leaves-turned-silver, the fractured self comes together in one trembling, unified mass. It didn’t matter if it was the LeMay or any other book or painting or actual silver shimmering. What mattered was the notice. Click here to continue reading.
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Could the Appalachian Trail Lose Katahdin?
Rowdy hikers and an ultrarunner's clash with park rangers have officials threatening to move the northern terminus of America's most famous trail.
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The view from Mount Katahdin, Maine the place where Appalachian Trail hikers celebrate their accomplishment. (Photo by Radcliffe Dacanay/Flickr)
For decades, Appalachian Trail thru-hikers have celebrated their accomplishment on top of Maine's highest peak, 5,268-foot Katahdin. After an average of around six months, some take pictures with their families, some just enjoy their achievements quietly, and a few party. But that could all change if park officials follow through on a recent ultimatum.
In a November letter to Appalachian Trail officials, Baxter State Park director Jensen Bissell complained that thru-hikers were consistently violating park rules by drinking alcohol, littering bringing dogs into the park, and traveling in large groups. While only 3 percent of visitors to the park, which hosts the northernmost 15 miles of the AT, were there to hike the trail, Bissell wrote that they used a disproportionate amount of resources and negatively affected the land.
The controversy flared up again in July, when ultramarathoner Scott Jurek was cited by rangers for allegedly violating three park rules after a record breaking 46-day run across the trail. Baxter officials responded in a Facebook post, threatening to reroute the trail away from the park altogether.
"The AT within the Park is hosted at the consideration of the Baxter State Park Authority," they wrote. "The Authority is currently considering the increasing pressures, impacts and conflicts that the Appalachian Trail brings to the Park and if a continued relationship is in the best interests of Baxter State Park."
This outraged many hikers like Ryan Mennett, of Burlington, Connecticut. “It would lose all its epicness,” he told the New York Times. “Where would they end it? At a stream? On a piece of grass?”
Bissell and other Baxter officials' unease doesn’t arise just from a few overly celebratory hikers. It also comes from the new movie “A Walk in the Woods." When Bill Bryson's original book was published in 1999, the amount of thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail increased by 45 percent, Ronald J. Tipton, the executive director of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, told the Times. Now that the Appalachian Trail is attracting increasingly large crowds to attempt the 2,000-plus miles, Baxter State Park fears for their mountain.
The Authority hopes to protect Baxter by limiting the amount of thru-hikers on the trail each year. The park already limits day hikers by capping the number of cars allowed in parking lots, and officials are considering using permits to control the number of thru-hikers as well.
Mr. Bissell thinks the chances of the trail moving are “unlikely,” and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is setting up strategies for hikers to educate themselves about rules in each jurisdiction, in hopes of slowing down the stream of citations while keeping the park healthy -- and officials there happy.
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Electronic money transfer has made life easier for us in many ways. Not only does it save time but is also one of the most secure modes of money transfer. Central Bank of India offers this facility to its customers by way of NEFT (National Electronic Funds Transfer) and RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) services. Both these services have been introduced by RBI, allowing banks to let customers transfer money, not only to other CBI bank accounts but also to accounts held with other banks. NEFT and RTGS services of money transfer make use of a unique code known as the IFSC code. This code is issued by the RBI to all banks which are a part of the NEFT network and helps regulate the process of funds transfer by identifying the source and destination bank for transactions.
How to Search For Central Bank of India IFSC & MICR Codes?
If you are looking for the IFSC or MICR codes of Central Bank of India, you can find them printed on the cheque leaves of cheque books issued by the bank. Each cheque book will have the IFSC code of the branch from where it has been issued. You can also find the bank’s IFSC codes on its website. Alternately, you can search for the bank’s IFSC codes on multiple third party websites online. However, one easy way to look for Central Bank of India IFSC and MICR code is to go to the BankBazaar website. At the bottom of the website’s main page, find the tab labelled ‘’Bank IFSC code’. Once you click on that, you will be redirected to another page which features 4 drop down menus, asking you to input the name of the bank, the state, district it is in, along with the branch that you’re looking for. Once you have input all this information, the page will immediately display the information about the specific bank branch like its IFSC code, MICR code, address and contact number.
How to Transfer Money Using Central Bank of India NEFT and RTGS?
Transferring money via NEFT and RTGS is extremely simple, convenient and secure. The process is easy to comprehend and hardly takes any time. Following are the two ways by which you may electronically transfer money.
NEFT:
NEFT or National Electronic Funds Transfer is an electronic system of making payments introduced by the RBI to help customers make reliable, economical and secure fund transfers to banks within India. NEFT transactions will be done on a Deferred Net Settlement basis where transactions are carried out on an hourly basis. To transfer funds, the remitter must furnish necessary information about the beneficiary like their name, account number, name of beneficiary’s bank and branch, along with the IFSC code for the branch where the money is being remitted. There is no maximum or minimum limit on the amount for NEFT transactions. However, for walk-in customers who wish to carry out an NEFT transaction, the transaction amount must not exceed Rs 50,000. NEFT transactions will be done by the bank between 8 AM to 7 PM and can be done 24x7 via net banking.
Charge (per transaction)
Up to R 10,000
Rs 2.50/- + Service Tax
Rs 10,000 – Rs 1 lakh
Rs 5/- + Service Tax
Rs 1 lakh – Rs 2 lakh
Rs 15/- + Service Tax
Above Rs 2 lakh
RTGS:
RTGS or Real Time Gross Settlement is another modern, integrated and robust method of making payments electronically, introduced by the RBI. RTGS facilitates inter-bank transactions on an immediate and real time basis. RTGS transactions are processed as and when the instructions are received and ne transaction is done at a time, therefore eliminating any scope of delay. These transactions are irrevocable and final. The minimum limit for an RTGS transaction is Rs 2 lakh and there is no maximum limit.
Broad timings for customer payments and bank payments are as follows:
Initial Cut-off (R-41) Customer Payments
Final Cut-off (R-42) Inter Bank Payments
Charges (per transaction)
8:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
After 12 Noon – 3:30 PM
Rs 1.00
After 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
About Central Bank of India:
Established in the year 1911, Central Bank of India is one of the nation’s oldest and largest commercial banking institutions. Based in Mumbai, the bank operates via a widespread network of over 4000 branches and 5000 ATMs. The bank offers an extensive suite of financial products and services which include deposits, loans, agri-banking, NRI banking, cards, etc.
Other Products from Central Bank of India
Central Bank of India Credit Card
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Ola and James Jordan reveal gender of their unborn baby
The couple are expecting their first child after IVF.
Ola Jordan and James Jordan (Ian West/PA)
By Julia Hunt, PA Entertainment Correspondent
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https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/ola-and-james-jordan-reveal-gender-of-their-unborn-baby-38787371.html
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This was the best Christmas present EVER!!! Finding out the gender of our baby ❤️@The_OlaJordan
Watch the full video at @hellomag
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— James Jordan (@The_JamesJordan) December 15, 2019
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