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The Red Deer Walmart shooting
Central Alberta has been rocked this week from the horrific attack at the south Walmart on Friday night, and confused by the nonsense that has come out since.
Unlike that poor nurse is the burning car I have no knowledge of anything involving the case. I was drinking at The Pint downtown at the time of the shooting and only found out about it because after the hockey game one of the TVs was left on CityTV.
In the aftermath as we learn more, from the Red Deer RCMP deliberately lying about the shooting to try and discredit (accurate, it turns out) reports being shared on social media† to the entirely predictable discovery that the savage killer was in fact a Red Indian, we are still left with a few "why"s, as the official "robbery goes wrong" seems odd. At least, I was...until watching Global TV interview the victim's wife.
Things are about to become more clear. Let's start with the timeline as we understand it as of today, Christmas Eve:
~6:35pm: Charles (Jim) Williams is in the Walmart apparently only buying deodorant and interacts with Chase Freed. It is unclear where the accomplice Crystal Maurice was at this time. This apparently occurred inside the Walmart. The conversation was not violent and appeared civil enough that RCMP claimed this was why they first thought Williams was targeted.
6:45pm: Williams is now outside of the Walmart now and his confrontation with Freed fires at him. Williams walks over to the car where his wife Roxine is waiting for him, and he opens the car door and vehemently tells her to stay put. This is the last she ever sees him alive.
6:47pm: Freed shoots at Williams multiple times and flees to a black SUB that Freed and Maurice have stolen together. On the drive out of the parking lot, he fires shots out the window possibly at two onlookers and possibly into the air like he's in a western.
9:17pm: Freed and Maurice drive out towards Rimbey and steal a red pickup in or near the town.
10:30pm: Both the pickup and the SUV are spotted near Sylvan Lake, and driving eastbound on Highway 11 are stopped by a spiked belt. They find the suspected murder weapon and surprise surprise it isn't legal.
† In between 6:47pm and 10:30pm, Rimbey RCMP are looking for the suspect kinda not really while Red Deer RCMP are instead in full on fake news mode.
Police initially said the shooting was targeted, but later determined it was not. Calls to 911 and social media reports also indicated the shooting had occurred in the main entrance of the store and that there were multiple victims.
RCMP had initially said there was no danger to the public on Friday evening. Groves said that while the suspects were still at large at that time, RCMP were trying to cull rumors of a mass shooting.
“We wanted to let everybody know that the culprits who had committed the shooting had left the scene,” Groves said. “What we were dealing with at the scene was the result of the violence that had taken place… the accused had departed.
I'm not sure whether or not "quelling rumours" was the correct term for this. They made Williams out to be something he wasn't so that people didn't get the crazy idea that this was a "mass shooting"...even though additional shots were fired at multiple people that night. It's not even clear that at the times Williams was killed he was the first person shot at: Roxine says there was a "pop" sound before he told her to stay put, no guarantee it was directed at him. In other words, police admitted they lied about the scenario because people's social media accounting erred one way and they felt it was best to err the other.
As an armed robbery gone wrong the story doesn't make a lot of sense: Williams was buying a $4 can of Right Guard. Even evil Red Indian thieves tend to aim higher than that: after all they stole a flashy red pickup in Rimbey, not a 2008 beige sedan. Why didn't he get into a confrontation with a middle aged asian woman struggling with a 55" Smart TV, or somebody pushing a cart full of Christmas booty? If this wasn't a "targeted" shooting it certainly doesn't resemble an armed robbery.
So then I watched the widow's interview on Global...here is the victim, Jim Williams with Roxine:
Suddenly everything seems a lot more clear. Williams likely was targeted...because of his facial deformity. I suspect the scenario went something like this: Freed was there to commit robbery, likely by watching people taking stuff back to their vehicle and then following them out. Since it's the Red Deer South Power Centre he was possibly looking for somebody who would drop off bags and then proceed to Five Guys or Reitman's and leave their (locked) vehicle unattended. The weapon was likely intended (at least in the pre-planning phase) to only be brought out if required. A scuzzy Red Indian up to no good would easily draw the ire of other people, and the feel of all those unfriendly eyes who knew what kind of punk he was but just didn't know how far he would go must have put him on edge. Williams probably was the latest in a long line of such eyes, and his own physical abnormality would have been an easy target for Freed to lash out at in return. Williams at this point would have reacted: harshly or patronizingly wouldn't have been unfair replies and either could set Freed off even more. While Williams is shopping Freed's hate festers and instead of moving onto his targets he instead thinks of some good responses to Williams (who may have come up with some good material on his own). The second confrontation goes much more aggressive than the first, and Freed reaches for that hidden weapon.
Is that what actually happened? I wasn't there, I can't tell you. But you can believe the theory of the Red Deer RCMP who have already lied to the public about Freed, or start looking for more likely reasons that a jackpine savage shot a guy with a screwed-up face holding less than $10 worth of merchandise.
In just under an hour the 107th Grey Cup begins live from Calgary.
Last year, I attended the Grey Cup here in Edmonton, and while my cousin is at the game and suggested I come along, I decided to continue my streak of never attending a game at McMahon Stadium and give the hated Stampeders organization hard currency (it's the same reason I don't go to Cuba or Montreal).
It goes without saying that this year's edition is much less rage-inducing than last year's edition: I don't hate either of these teams though I'm still mad at Hamilton over last week's debacle. And it goes without saying that after the events of earlier this year there's no reason to cheer for Hamilton about anything.
So...uh, let's go Blue Bombers.
The Wrath of Abrams
Ranker.com has a list of the greatest film scores of all time.
The highest Star Trek score is, probably unsurprisingly, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. What is surprising is that it's at a criminal #47 overall [please, no "47s" lame quips.. -ed], below Dances With Wolves and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Surely Jerry Goldsmith's sublime and powerful album deserves a Top 25 spot along with other 40something scores like Goldfinger and The Wizard of Oz.
But then things get sad, and they get sad fast. What's the second ranked Trek score? My money of course is on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the wonderful before-he-was-famous James Horner score. Dark horse candidates would include The Search for Spock, First Contact, The Undiscovered Country, even The Final Frontier (no, really, the movie is horrendous but the score is lousy).
So, second place Star Trek score, ranked at #111 is... Star Trek (2009). Wait, what? No, seriously: are you kidding me?
Movie scores have been on steady decline since Howard Shore and John Williams did such great work on the Star Wars prequel and Lord of the Rings trilogies. By 2009 they were essentially Rick Berman's famous "window dressing". There's nothing remotely memorable about the score. For that matter, no movies made after 2009 should even be on the list. But there's the 2009 waste of space Abrams-verse film polluting spaces that better scores could take up.
The next Star Trek film is First Contact at #177, Wrath of Khan at #188, Final Frontier (see?) at #343, The Undiscovered Country at #346, The Search For Spock at #374, The Voyage Home (the worst of the original 6 Trek scores) at #375, Star Trek: Nemesis at #397, Star Trek: Into Darkness (the one that opens with Faggot Spock flaming) at #425, and finally the IV-level forgettable Star Trek: Insurrection at #459. Almost every entry is ridiculous.
Other surprising omissions on the list are The Hunt for Red October (surely a top 50, Crimson Tide sits at #253), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Event Horizon, and National Treasure (both surely in the top 588!).
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Physics must be racist now
Bianca Andreescu has defeated Serena Williams and won the US Open. If the Serena-loving leftwing media went ape over racism when she was rightly defeated by a half-Jap half-negress last year, just wait for what the excuses are this year.
Note Serena's closest chance to win was only taken away when she double-faulted. I assume the only thing that can come next is the Lucy van Pelt defense...
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2019 Edmonton Fringe Review: Game of Chrohn's
"I was failing biology and biology failed me."
One of the downsides of fringing...
a) at the very end
b) with other people
...is that you're at the mercy of what the group wants to go see. While nobody in my circle has Chrohn's Disease, one of the girl's brother did and therefore we ended up spending Friday night watching Game of Chrones and trying to laugh at disease.
Play play features one of my least favourite tropes: "the story of my life". "Write what you know" is good advice and all that, but it also comes across as horribly narcissistic, which we all know arts majors are notoriously guilty of, but they don't have to remind us so effectively. Dan Rosen, helpfully styled as "Dan B. Rosen" fortunately gets that fact about him out of the way relatively early.
Growing up in Halifax, both of Dan's parents were doctors. He was the always seeking attention class clown, when suddenly he got hit by a debilitating illness that neither of them could work out. I'll take a brief aside here to note I know a girl (not one who attended the show) with two doctor parents and she's also diseased. Read into that as you will. Anyways, Dan (a balding guy who vaguely resembles Enrico Colantoni from "Just Shoot Me!") is constantly in hospital before discovering that what he has is Crohn's disease.
He goes into the dietary restrictions quite a bit which resonated well with those of us (most of us) who have diabetic family members who also suddenly can't eat the foods they like to eat. I counted five Game of Thrones references. I'm not a fan of the show, so there may have been more. Martok seemed to think there were a dozen, but I consider his input unreliable. The crowd generally ate it up (Dan had to smack down a brief heckling comment), as the fru-fru fringe crowd (especially on Friday night) really likes their poop jokes. Is it because of all the homos, they have shit on the brain so to speak? Who knows.
There were a few legitimate laughs, a lot of uncomfortable moments when he went into detail about medical stuff I don't like hearing about, He also yammered about "white privilege" because of course he does. For a guy who's been stuck in the hell of the Canadian healthcare system he didn't have much material about its failings: whether that's because he's as delusional about socialized medicne as all "white privilege" talkers are or because he never thought anything abnormal about his experiences, who can say.
For those interested in hearing a sympathetic tale of a teenager whose romantic and professional future was sabotaged by his own bowels, it's engaging enough. I didn't feel it though. Rosen's energy is just enough to keep you interested without being manic however, and except for the third quarter of the play really dragging and getting repetitive, it flowed well enough.
Flowed well. That insane far-leftist Fish Griwkowsky made a half dozen poop jokes in his review. I only made the one, and it wasn't even intentional.
Dan Rosen may become the public face of Crohn's disease, but I'll still keep typing "Chr" and having to correct myself until the day I become worm food.
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Where the Wild Thi...wait is that really the theme this year? Ugh. 2019 Edmonton Fringe
It's that time of year again, and after missing the first half by being on vacation I've been able to fit in the final weekend of the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Just like 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and most years going back to 2007 and 2006.
And as always for my fringe reviews, I have the standard rule:
NO FAGS.
Read the Game of Crohn's review here.
Day 1 of the Hipster Millenial Holocaust
YouTuber Emily Hartridge killed in UK's first fatal electric scooter crash
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A Third Edge of the Sword Success Story
A special thank-you to everybody on team Third Edge of the Sword.
I honestly didn't think Operation Destroy FagWalk From Within would work, but you guys who pretended to be women and got outraged that dykes are allowed to exist.
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145th running of the Kentucky Derby
Break out the mint juleps, tell your woman to put on a silly hat, and get ready for the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby from beautiful soaking wet Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky.
Currently Tacitus and Improbable have met up at 5-1 to be tied for the favourite this year, with strong contender Omaha Beach already being scratched. And since I'm sitting at home with mint juleps in a proper silver cup instead of somewhere I can gamble, I provide my (mostly) seat of the pants predictions for the main event.
Win: War of Will (17-1)
Place: Vekoma (21-1)
Show: Tacitus (5-1)
ALBERTA ELECTION: Global Edmonton tells lies about conservatives
As you may have heard this week, Far Left Big Tech further banned Faith Goldy from social media because of her political beliefs.
As you may have also heard, Faggot-Familiar Alliances are still big news because Jason Kenney dares to think maybe parents should know when child molesters like Kristopher Wells or Mike Morrison are being invited to secret meetings with young children who have shown an interest in an evil and unacceptable lifestyle choice.
And if you watch Global TV Edmonton, you'll hear all about the "online reaction":
What you definitely won't hear in the extremely biased and one-sided reporting of fake news peddler Sarah Kraus is anybody opposed to Faggot-Familiar Alliances in school, or even opposed to keeping parents in the dark. Why is that? Because Global News is only looking on platforms that are already setup to exclude those voices. Kraus and her bosses know this, but they'll push the sodomite agenda endlessly and claim ignorance to anybody who pushes back.
So I'm calling out Kraus, her bosses (Jim Haskins and Kerry Powell), and any other media member pushing this false narrative. They know, surely, that Twitter won't even let you call a man by his name to satisfy the insane tranny activists. As a result, the people likely to support Kenney are either removed from the platform (as what happened with Faith Goldy this very week) or forced to self-censor in order to avoid the axe falling on them as well. As a result is it any wonder that pillow biting teachers extolling the benefits of exposing the children they are supposed to protect to sexual deviants are the only tweets Kraus can find (or pretends to find) in her disgusting story?
I call on Global News Edmonton to apologize to Jason Kenney for their story that makes it sound like he's a crazed maverick standing against universal opposition. I demand that they permit those of us who oppose these sick schools airtime in accordance with the popularity of our views in accordance with Global's own news policies which Kraus and Haskins violated:
Integrity, fairness and transparency are at the foundation of our newsgathering process. We are committed to reporting news without distortion or misrepresentation.
How is it not distorting and misrepresentation to talk about "online reaction" and not admit that these social media platforms are biased against conservative expression, especially social conservative expression?
We will not formulate news content based on our own personal cultural beliefs, opinions, corporate influences or those of anyone else engaged in its preparation or delivery.
News events and public issues may be analyzed and put into context, as long as comment or opinion is clearly identified and kept distinct from regular news coverage.
Based on the fact that child raping sodomite Kristopher Wells is a routine guest on Global Edmonton's morning show, it's clear that this story is part of a longstanding trend of Global TV stories about the Edmonton uranist community formulated on the personal beliefs and opinions of Global TV News department.
Kerry Powell, will you promise going forward that Global News will cease publishing anti-conservative opinion under the fake guise of "reporting on online reaction"? If not, will these stories feature a disclaimer in the future that the social media platforms these reactions are posted on have a long history of banning, shadow-banning, and suppressing viewpoints that would provide a more balanced (and accurate) set of views?
We all know this story was written, coordinated, and aired in order to attack Jason Kenney. No "online reaction" news stories have ever been posted when conservatives not yet banned on social media have used their accounts to blast Trudeau or Notley. Global News owes an apology to us all, and a promise that in accordance with their own journalistic principles they will not push false narratives in the future.
The chance to set the record straight on the eve of polls closing is fading fast, Global. Your move.
Eugenie Who?
As I type this, Angelique Kerber is defeating a shaved ape in straight sets (after winning the first 7-6) at the Indian Wells quarter-finals.
But the story of the tournament isn't either of the ugly monkeys who keep U.S. sportswriters employed. It's probably 7/10 Belinda Bencic who topped 7/10 Naomi Osaka to get to the quarter-finals on the weekend, and then Karolina Pliskova to move onto the semis.
The second biggest story though has to be Bianca Andreescu (7.5/10), who last month surpassed the 10/10 Eugenie Bouchard as Canada's best female tennis player. This week she herself moved into the semifinals herself by defeating 7.5/10 Gabriñe Muguruza. Canadian tennis is now in an Anna Kournikova/Maria Sharapova scenario, where the hotter and famous player has to give way to a younger less attractive girl in the cold hearted reality known as "you may actually need to be good at tennis now and again". Bianca Andreescu is certainly no Maria Sharapova, but she's decent looking enough and can actually win a match or two. It's certainly better than the poor American situation where two shaved ape sisters win the matches while Nicole Gibbs has to languish in relative obscurity.
For now, Andreescu will take on Ukrainian hottie Elina Svitolina (9.5/10). She already, by getting to the semifinals, has in this tournament surpassed her lifetime earnings.
Now she just needs to do some more suggestive photo shoots.
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What our George did in Africa this year
Posted on June 10, 2013 by rangell
George went to South Africa with his university in April this year. SInce he got back a lot of customers have asked what he was doing out there. Below is his presentation on the study trip. He did a lot of other “fun” stuff like visit a cheetah sanctuary but this was the “work” part of the trip. His presentation was on the rationale of burning regimes on the reserve of Mankwe: why burning is done, why it is effective, what it acheives etc.
Does the time of day affect the diversity of grazing species across different burn years?
Figure 1: Male white rhinoceros (Angell, 2013)
Prescribed burning is a method used by game ranches to manage their grassland. Burning disposes of dead grass as shown in a study by Trollope in 2004 where it is proven that burning is an effective way of removing unacceptable grass material and controlling/preventing the encroachment of undesirable plants.
Burning regimes and large mammal populations can affect the carrying capacity of a reserve. The carrying capacity is defined by Bothma, 1989 as the maximum population of animals an area can support without deterioration to the habitat. A study by Bird et al, 2005 shows that good burning regimes will affect the veld condition and thus the utilisation of the veld by the animals. A veld is an area of grassland in Africa and is another name for a field. If the veld is poorly managed then the animals will begin to overgraze areas which leads to a lack of resources, and, in turn lowers the carrying capacity.
Figure 2: Zebras, Bulk grazers. Le Breton 2013
A game reserve will need to be able to accurately estimate the numbers of animals within the reserve to determine whether carrying capacity is exceeded or not. To do this line transects can be used to estimate the population within the area. Strip transects may also be used however these tend to have more observer bias than line transects according to (Ogutu, 2005).
Figure 4: Warthog, Specialist feeders. Le Breton 2013
MacTavish, 2013 stated that animals that have the greatest effect on carrying capacity are the grazers, this is because they can cause overgrazing leading to soil erosion and bush encroachment. He also stated that there are three main types of grazers found on game reserves and these are bulk grazers (species like white rhino, wildebeest, and zebra), mixed feeders (species such as impala and eland) and specialised feeders (species such as reedbuck and warthog). Other large mammals such as kudu will fall into the strict browsers category.
Figure 5: Kudu, Strict Browser. Le Breton 2013
Therefore to evaluate the carrying capacity and predict the areas of overgrazing due to population movements, large mammal line transects should be used. Driven transects differ from walked transects as the cover much more ground in the same period of time.
This study will enable game ranches to better determine how the time of day effects the grazing patterns of the animals within it. An animal’s location can be manipulated through the burning regime as shown by a study by Bird et al (2005), however a study by Delagarde et al in (2000) showed that time of day may affect this further due to the plants composition of soluble carbohydrates.
A study by Archibald et al in (2005) shows that grazing species move towards recently burned areas and their abundance is between 2 and 6 times more than that of their control areas. They also show that other areas are also consequently not grazed, which gives these areas a resting period. This allows burning regimes to be designed to maximise carrying capacity by limit overgrazing and the damage to the habitat. It also helps reserves better understand where the next over grazed area may be, as supported by Trollope, 1990.
Bothma, 1989 states that burning regimes are necessary as the smaller the area being used for wildlife, the more intensively it must be managed. Trollope, 1990 supports this by saying natural rotational grazing, for example migrations, cannot occur due to the areas being too small. Therefore using techniques such as grass surveys alongside techniques like those carried out in this study, the effectiveness of burning regimes can be assessed and improved by understanding the animals utilisation of areas.
Understanding the utilisation of grassland depending on time of day will help game ranches better manage the manipulation of population location, whether it be for anti poaching methods, resting areas of veld or to better increase the nutritional value of the veld within the reserve and in turn improving carrying capacity. It is possible that there is a higher diversity of animals on the newer burns in the evening to take advantage of the fresh vegetation of new burns and high sugar contents within the grasses as suggested by Delegrade, 2000.
Firstly the transect routes were selected.
Transect 1 took place on the 17th April at 4:50pm-6:15pm. It started at the North end of Zebra drive and came South to join up with centre road to then follow zebra drive back North. The second half of the transect then started at the North end of Eland drive and drove South until we met Kgokong road.
Transect 1 differs from transect 2 3 and 4 as the 2010 burn section from the north end of eland drive, coming south was all thicket so it was difficult to spot wildlife. Also the first section of the transect meant driving back on Zebra drive meaning that the wildlife could have been scared away on our first pass or double counted.
Tsessebe Le-Breton, 2013
Transect 2 started at 7:17 am and finished at 9:20am. It started on the East side of centre road and then met Zebra drive and headed North to meet perimeter road. The second section started at the north end of the east perimeter road and headed south until we met the 2012 burn. Transect 3 followed the same route but started at $:09pm and ended at 6:01pm.
Hartebeest Le Breton 2013
Transect 4 was the same route as transect 2 and 3 however it was carried out in reverse. It started at 7:17am and finished at 9:09am. It was carried out in reverse to be able to get a better representation of results. This is because animals that may have been present on the burn for example here on the 2010 at the start of the transect but were not actually seen when recording took place.
Wildebeest Le Breton 2013
One scribe was present to record the data and four spotters were present. However group numbers changed between drives meaning more spotters were sometimes present. There was also a driver who also acted as a spotter along with a member of staff, both of which changed between drives 1-2 and 3-4. All spotters used binoculars to identify the animals.
Eland Le Breton 2013
Once the selected route was reached the odometer reading on the car was reset and a start GPS co-ordinate was taken. The selected route was then driven, when an animal was spotted the vehicle was stopped and recordings were taken. Recordings included the odometer reading along the transect, the angle the animals were from the transect line (this was measured using a compass), the distance they were from the vehicle (measured using a rangefinder), the number of individuals and the species present (The species we were recording we all those who have an effect on the carrying capacity, so that is all the types of feeders mentioned previously, along with ostriches although they are not mammals they also graze and effect the veld condition), the time they were observed (to the nearest minute) and the burn year they were observed in.
The total distance travelled on each burn was recorded for each transect to standardise the distance travelled. Any animals spotted after 3km on any burn were not counted, this is due to 3km being the limiting distance on the 2009 burn.
The data that is collected will be analysed using Simpsons index to measure the diversity in each burn on each transect.
Our results from each transect were put into tables to be able to analyse the diversity of each burn.
Results tables page 2
The Simpsons Index was calculated and the tables were used to create graphs to better present the data
Simpsons index chart
This bar chart compares the Simpsons index of all burn years across all transects. Drive 1 and 3 took place in the afternoons and drive 2 and 4 took place in the mornings. Results show that generally areas are more diverse in the mornings and that on average the 2012 burn was more diverse than any other burn. No data was collected on drive 1 for 2010 burn as this was the thicket patch where no animals could be observed which would indicate why 2010 appears to have the lowest diversity overall. It could be argued that these results show that time of day does affect species diversity and that the newer burns are of preference.
My results show that time of day does affect species diversity across different burn years with the highest diversity being in the morning. This is opposite to what was expected as it was hypothesised that there was to be more diversity in the evening when the grass has the higher soluble carbohydrate level. However a study by Watts and Pollitt, 2010 has shown that almost all of the African grasses tend to be higher in sugars and starches than other grasses from across the world. Therefore it could be argued that due to the naturally higher sugar levels in African grasses, the grazing animals do not need the extra sugar found in the evenings so graze in the mornings to eat before the competition eats all the grass.
The 2012 burn has the highest diversity on average and on each morning drive it was the highest. This supports the research by Bird et al, 2005 and Archibald et al 2005 showing that animals prefer the newer burn years due to the newer more palatable grass. It was to be expected that 2010 would have the next highest diversity as after having a year to rest while new pasture was grazed following it being burnt, it would have palatable grasses for grazers, however due to the limitation of the thicket in 2010 burn on transect 1 this could not be concluded.
Certain species abundance in burn years differed with time of day. It can be noted that higher numbers of wildebeest and impala were found in 2012 burn in the morning and 2009 burn in the evenings. It can be argued that these animals eat the easier to digest more palatable grasses in the morning to beat competition and go on to eat the more lignified grasses in the evening when competition dies down and the gut is more metabolically active.
During transect 1 and 2 the weather was warm and dry with minimal cloud cover, however transect 3 was overcast and cooler while transect 4 was after a night of heavy rain and was still very overcast. This may have affected the animals grazing strategies as the grass could have been more palatable while it was wet.
During transect 3 more spotters were on the vehicle which means that animals that may not have been normally spotted could have been counted. Also transect 1 and 2 had a different member of staff and driver present to transect 3 and 4. A total of 252 animals were seen on transect 1 and 2 whereas a total of 413 animals were seen on transect 3 and 4. This could be down to the difference in driving speeds, transect routes, spotters present or weather change.
In conclusion, burning is an essential method to small game reserves as a way of controlling dead, undesirable plant material within the reserve. It is important as it increases the quality of the veld and improves the digestibility of the grass to species such as zebra, wildebeest, impala and warthog. Good veld management will help increase the carrying capacity by better improving nutrition and reducing overgrazing. Measuring carrying capacity is imperative as it ensures the reserve is not keeping animals at the detriment to the habitat.
Time of day does have an effect on species diversity within different burn years, with the morning having the highest diversity. It can be argued that this is down to competition between species for the more palatable grasses as the newest burn was also the most diverse.
Impala and Ostrich. Angell 2013
George is off again in just over a weeks to the Seychelles and Aldabra/Assumption to work on a conservation project for a year. We will post on the outline of this project soon.
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Movie Review – In Bruges
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Clemence Poesy
In Bruges is simply Snatch, less frantic and more somber. Or else, it will always be compared to films like that, to Guy Ritchie’s early style, to British crime comedies, because that’s exactly what it is, and it apologizes not once. McDonagh recently found success with Three Billboards, which I did not particularly like, but which I hadn’t understood my dislike for until just now, having watched and loved In Bruges. This is the genre he has the talent to add to, this is the story I want to see, a romp gone wrong with a touch of deep sadness, which sure sounds like Three Billboards, but is done much better here, because this time we have a main character we can love and side characters we can laugh at. Basically, McDonagh peaked early, has tried to reinvent his masterpiece since, but has failed, which is probably because In Bruges is a singularly excellent dramody that cannot be duplicated.
Ray & Ken are on the run, assassins who botched there last job and so are hiding out for a time until things cool down. Their boss sent them to Bruges, Belgium, which is only a ferry ride away from London, but is out of the country and well away from whatever fire is burning since their mistake during their last mission. The instructions now; keep your heads down and enjoy the scenery, Bruges at Christmas is a lovely place to be, with all the architecture and the canals and whatnot. But Ray is restless, he hates fucking Bruges, and so looks for trouble somewhere other than in the hotel room. He meets a midget, a mouthy Yankee, a bungling burglar, and a lovely lady named Chloe, who he spends far too much time with and begins to forget why he’s in Bruges in the first place. Because it’s he who messed up in London, and it’s he who has yet to pay the price.
Hilarious from the opening scene on, In Bruges is a film that should be on a pedestal somewhere in a museum as an example of British Isle humor at it finest. The leading men both hail from Dublin, and their chemistry is unmatched, a pathetic but lovable pair if ever there was one. And the shit they pull, the trouble they get into, the oddballs they meet, well that’s unmatched as well. The story moves quickly through many stages, from grief to laughter, from romance to murder, but it always holds itself tight through the tricky corners, never loses control when other movies would have. There are heavy moments, scenes where you will laugh out loud, iconic lines to quote for years; this film has it all. Farrell is incredible, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him better, other than, perhaps, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Gleeson was the perfect sidekick. Poesy was solid, Ralph Fiennes made a nice addition later in the plot, and I enjoyed myself from the opening line to the final credits. Perhaps we have seen this style done before, but rarely have we seen it done better, done with both precision and with ease with the result being something you will never forget.
My rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Potemkin Translators
In Essence | Autumn 2010
“The Pevearsion of Russian Literature” by Gary Saul Morson, in Commentary, July–Aug. 2010.
Like Dostoyevsky’s saintly Prince Myshkin, literary translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky seemingly can do no wrong. Their recent translations of Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, and Dead Souls, among other Russian classics, have garnered praise from such diverse cultural arbiters as The New Yorker and Oprah Winfrey. But accolades do not sway Gary Saul Morson, a humanities professor at Northwestern University. In Morson’s eyes, P&V, as the two translators, who are married, are known among the literati, churn out “Potemkin translations—apparently definitive but actually flat and fake on close inspection.”
Morson holds that P&V’s weakness as translators owes a lot to their method. Volokhonsky, a St. Petersburg native, kicks off the process by translating the Russian text into highly literal English, which is then massaged into readability by Pevear, a literature professor from Massachusetts who has only a basic command of his wife’s native tongue. That approach gives short shrift to essential literary elements such as context, tone, humor, and timing, Morson says.
Take a passage from Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls (1842). In the 1942 English translation by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, the protagonist, a bureaucrat, settles into “a very dark cubbyhole, whither he had already brought his overcoat, and together with it, a certain odor all his own, which had been imparted to the bag brought in next, containing sundry flunkeyish effects.” “Sundry flunkeyish effects” is true to the spirit of Gogol, Morson asserts, since “Gogol often chooses words less for their meaning than for their humorous sound and resonances.” Guerney also stays true to Gogol by ending the passage with a funny image, as in the Russian.
P&V’s translation is quite different. In their version, the bureaucrat settles into “a very dark closet, where he had already managed to drag his overcoat and with it a certain smell of its own, which had been imparted to the sack of various lackey toiletries brought in after it.” The use of “toiletries” in the P&V version is prompted by the Russian word tualet in the original, but Gogol’s intention, Morson says, was for tualet to be funny and jarring. This effect is achieved by Guerney, but not in the P&V translation.
A handful of instances in which P&V emphasize semantic accuracy over tone and overall meaning round out Morson’s indictment of the lauded literary pair. For Morson, a great work of literature is an “experience, not just [a] sequence of signs on a page.” If translators are not able to convey that experience, they risk leading readers to think that the book’s greatness is the real sham.
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Parashat Vayishlach 5778 Fighting Angels and Chasing Demons
Parashat Vayishlach 5778
Fighting Angels and Chasing Demons
As he made his way back home to the land in which he was born, the land which was promised to his children, there must have been many thoughts swirling around Yaakov’s mind. The threats which had caused him to flee had not changed; only Yaakov had changed.
Years earlier, Yaakov had run away, to escape the real possibility that his brother would do him harm. His mother Rivka assured him that when Esav’s murderous hatred abated, she would send him a message, and let him know it was safe to return. Yaakov knew that he had brought Esav’s rage upon himself by impersonating his elder brother and stealing the blessings; the fact that he had done so at his mother’s insistence did nothing to assuage his guilt or to satisfy Esav’s thirst for revenge.
In Lavan’s home, Yaakov embraced the years of servitude to which he was subjected: First, he toiled for seven years for the promise of Rachel’s hand in marriage. When he awakes the morning after their wedding only to discover that the woman sleeping next to him is not his beloved Rachel, but her elder sister Leah, his reaction is completely unexpected: He confronts Lavan, whose response is sinister, sarcastic, and biting: “That’s not the way things are done here. We don’t put the younger sibling before the elder.” Yaakov is silent; he accepts his fate with equanimity. Like Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov, Yaakov seems to believe that he deserves to be punished for the crime he committed, and Lavan’s words must surely have sounded to him like well-earned rebuke. He accepts the punishment, and agrees to seven more years of servitude.
The years slip away; the all-clear message from his mother does not arrive, and Yaakov cannot be certain whether his mother simply was unable to send the message before her death, or if Esav’s anger has not subsided. Either way, as soon Yosef is born, Yaakov knows it is time to make his way back home.
As Yaakov prepares to disengage from the house of Lavan and strike out on his own, we cannot help but notice that a change comes over Yaakov. Perhaps the decision to go home has emboldened him, or perhaps his new courage and guile are what help him make the decision to start the next stage of his life; either way, Yaakov begins his journey by facing up to his erstwhile tormenter. Lavan, who has benefited greatly from Yaakov’s years of dedicated service, soon finds himself outsmarted by Yaakov, who takes his new-found wealth and his growing family, and with God's blessing and encouragement, sets out for his father’s home.
Yaakov speaks up for himself, venting decades of pent frustration, and casts aside the roles he has played; he is no longer a victim, no longer a refugee, no longer a person to be mistreated or abused. Yaakov has found his voice; he has become empowered. This does not mean he behaves rashly or without careful thought and planning: He is wise, and cautious, as he prepares for the showdown he had been avoiding for so many years – but he has no intention of backing down: He is coming to stake his claim on the land God promised him. What made Yaakov suddenly able to confront Esav was precisely this new resolve: Yaakov had to know that he was in the right, and he had to be prepared to take what was rightfully his, before he could face a man like Esav.
The night before the fateful confrontation, Yaakov is accosted by a mysterious adversary.
When he had started his journey, Yaakov had dreamed of angels climbing a ladder; upon returning, an angel tries to stop him. But this is not the same Yaakov who ran from Esav and cowered before Lavan. Now, Yaakov takes on - and defeats - his heavenly assailant. He is a new man, and his new name reflects this new identity: He has become Yisrael. With his trust in God and a clear conscience, with his confidence that he has the right to inherit the Land promised to him and his descendants, Yaakov/Yisrael will be victorious. After defeating an angel, Yaakov is finally ready to face his demons.
© Rabbi Ari Kahn 2017
For more Essays and Lectures on Vayishlach:
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2017/11/audio-and-essays-parashat-vayishlach.html
Audio and Essays Parashat Vayishlach
Essay:
Fighting Angels facing Demons
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2017/11/parashat-vayishlach-5778-fighting.html
Parshat Vayishlach - Fighting Angels facing Demons
Full lecture -
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/889953/
5 minute -
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/889644/rabbi-ari-kahn/parshat-vayishlach-fighting-angels-facing-demons/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwErxcNWFk
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/868791/rabbi-ari-kahn/fear-and-trembling/
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/845558/rabbi-ari-kahn/struggle-of-yakov-and-esav-from-birth-to-almost-death/
The Struggle of Yaakov and Esav; Yom Kippur and Sukkot
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/845562/rabbi-ari-kahn/the-struggle-of-yaakov-and-esav;-yom-kippur-and-sukkot/
שלש שיטות בגיד הנשה
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/845559/rabbi-ari-kahn/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%A9-%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%92%D7%99%D7%93-%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%94/
Yakov's Struggle; Identifying the Angel of Esav
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/845192/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Yakov-s_Struggle-_Identifying_the_Angel_of_Esav
Struggling with Angels
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821446/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Struggling_with_Angels
Yakov and Yisrael
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/752096/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Parshat_Vishlach_-_Yakov_and_Yisrael
The Death of Rachel
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821445/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Death_of_Rachel
The Ultimate Defeat of Esav by Yosef (Haftorah)
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821447/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Ultimate_Defeat_of_Esav_(by_Yosef)
Yakov Esav and Yosef
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821448/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Yakov_Esav_and_Yosef
The Name Yisrael
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821449/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Name_Yisrael
Theological Echoes of The Confrontation between Yakov and Esav
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821740/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Theological_Echoes_of_The_Confrontation_between_Yakov_and_Esav_
Kol and Rav -Michal and Meirav; The Secret Identity of King David
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821742/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Kol_and_Rav_-Michal_and_Meirav;_The_Secret_Identity_of_King_David
Preparing for Battle
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/784495/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Preparing_for_Battle
Who are You - Yakov or Yisrael?
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/821450/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Who_are_You_-_Yakov_or_Yisrael
Parashat Vayishlach - Yakov and Yisrael
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/752096/rabbi-ari-kahn/parshat-vishlach-yakov-and-yisrael/
Parashat Vayishlach Homeward Bound
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/parashat-vayishlach-5776-homeward-bound.html
Preparing for Battle, Praying for Peace
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/parashat-vayishlach-5775-preparing-for.html
Confronting Your Fears
http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/231568951.html
Give Truth to Yaakov
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2009/11/parshat-vayishlach-5770-give-truth-to.html
Yaakov / Yisrael
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2008/12/parshat-vayishlach-5769-yaakovyisrael.html
http://archive.rabbiarikahn.com/writing?id=45
The Struggle of Jacob
Parashat Vayetze 5778 Limited Leverage: You Can’t Force God’s Hand
Parashat Vayetze 5778
Limited Leverage: You Can’t Force God’s Hand
Parashat VaYetze opens as Yaakov runs for his life: He had been told that his brother Esav has murder on his mind, that he intends to take revenge on for Yaakov’s deceptive acquisition of blessings that he felt were rightly his own - and Yaakov doesn’t stick around to see if Esav will make good on his threat.
For his part, Yaakov had been put in an untenable situation. His mother Rivka had not merely encouraged him to impersonate his brother Esav and to secure their father’s blessing for himself, she had commanded him to do so. Yaakov faced an impossible choice: Should he obey his mother, if it means deceiving his father? Or should he ignore his mother’s orders, which may well have been motivated by the prophecy she had received years earlier?[1] And were these blessings not rightfully Yaakov’s to take? Esav had abdicated his rights as firstborn years earlier; he had willingly, even enthusiastically, passed the responsibilities to his younger brother. Should the blessings not have accrued to Yaakov as part of the deal?
Aside from the complex interpersonal family relationships, there is another important perspective, which was lurking in the shadows in last week’s Parasha, namely, God’s perspective. Was Rivka, and, by extension, Yaakov, acting with Divine license? Were her instructions to Yaakov an outgrowth of the prophecy she had received, or had Rivka taken things into her own hands? If she was acting on her own, new questions arise: Can a blessing actually be “stolen”? Does God have a say in who is blessed, or are the blessings Yitchak bestowed on his son some sort of magical incantation that necessarily brought about the desired result? The blessings Yaakov “usurped” involved physical bounty and military-political power. Were these blessings, once they were uttered, guaranteed to whomever received them?
The inauspicious beginning of Yaakov’s journey is a stark contrast with the blessings in question: Yaakov is a fugitive; he is destitute and afraid for his life. He has no place to sleep, and no possessions. The blessings do not seem to have had any immediate magical effect.
As Yaakov slips away unto slumber, something magical does happen, he has an epiphany; God appears to him. This is not a simple point, for if God were truly displeased with Yaakov, we suspect he would not have been privileged to receive such a revelation. The content of the vision needs to be carefully considered. Of course, the most famous element is the ladder with its feet on the ground reaching into the heavens. And the angels which climb the ladder and return to earth.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. (Bereishit 28:12)
Then there is a Divine soliloquy:
And God was standing beside him and He said, “I am The Eternal, the God of your father Avraham and the God of Yitzchak. The ground on which you are lying I will give to you and to your offspring.
Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall be blessed through you and your descendants.
Behold, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (Bereishit 28:13-15)
It must have come as a relief to Yaakov that God appeared to him, and declared that He will remain Yaakov’s protector. Moreover, God reiterated what his father Yitzchak had promised him; the inheritance of the Land of Israel. However, the crux of the matter, is not just what God said, it is also what God did not say. There was no mention of the blessing designated for Esav. Regarding power and bounty there was an eerie silence, one which Yaakov certainly heard. The blessing designated for Esav was not coming to Yaakov. He would have to make his livelihood by the sweat of his brow, and not by divine providence.
Yaakov responds to the silence and declares, that if God provides even the bare minimum he would be grateful.
Yaakov made a vow. 'If God will be with me,' he said, 'if He will protect me on the journey that I am taking if He gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear, and if I return in peace to my father's house, then I will dedicate myself totally to God. Let this stone that I have set up as a pillar become a temple to God. Of all that You give me, I will set aside a tenth to You.' (Bereishit 28:20-22)
Clothing on his back, bread on his plate is all which Yaakov now imagines. He is not thinking of riches and power, just the bare minimum needed to survive. The silence of God spoke volumes. One cannot “steal a blessing”. One cannot force God’s hand. Yaakov sees the ladder with its feet on the ground and the angels first ascending and then coming down; to receive divine blessings we need to first create those angels based on our actions below, only subsequently will angels come down.
All that was accomplished by taking these blessings was not that Yaakov would be the beneficiary of stolen blessings, but rather that Esav would have less power, and less ability to wreak havoc. Sometimes a little less is more, sometimes your enemy having less can be a blessing.
For more Essays and Lectures on Vayetze:
http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2017/11/audio-and-essays-parashat-vayetze.html
See Targum Onkelus Bereishit 27:13
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Retrospecstive 2015: recorded
Happy new year to you, and welcome to the Specs 'round-up' of 2015 - part one. This year I thought I'd mix genres (so that people who like a bit of everything might come across something different) - so here are my 'recorded' highlights, covering CDs/downloads (including reissues) from both the classical and rock/folk worlds. I'll follow this up with a second post recalling my favourite 'live on stage' memories from the year.
I hope you enjoy it and - ideally - discover a new artist, band or composer to love.
(Quick digest for specialists - with my CDs of the year in bold type...)
Classical: Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake, Alice Coote & Graham Johnson, Mark Padmore & Kristian Bezuidenhout, Adrienne Pieczonka & Brian Zeger, Rachel Podger, Jo Quail, Dorothea Röschmann & Mitsuko Uchida, Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton, Andreas Staier.
Rock / folk / other: Beirut, Calexico, John Carpenter, Clutch, Golden Void, Bert Jansch & John Renbourn, Myrkur, Sieben, Swans, Richard Thompson, Trembling Bells.
Onwards! Yet also backwards!
Beirut: "No No No"
Thrilled to see one of my favourite bands return in 2015, with a glorious, slight swerve of a record. Short, delicate and with less of the just-about-hinged clutter of some older material - here we get a focus on piano and drums. At times, both stately *and* slinky, as on this track, 'So Allowed'.
Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake: 'Songs by Schubert - 2'
The ongoing 'Schubert live at the Wigmore Hall' series from this duo continues to pay dividends with brilliant programming as well as performance. I thought the first CD was one of the great live albums in any genre, but this sequel has exhilarating moments even surpassing that, including a superb closing run featuring this track (Schubert riffing in his most sprightly fashion) along with 'Atys', 'Nachtviolen'... oh, just get it, it's fantastic. (I could only find a studio version of 'Fischerweise' to include here, but no matter!)
Calexico: 'Edge of the Sun'
Sometimes I feel a bit guilty for taking Calexico's scorched Americana for granted, but then they come along with the brilliant idea of adding the 'we-found-him-in-a-cave' whisper of their old mucker Iron & Wine's Sam Beam to their vocals on this track... and it reminds you how individual and precious they are. A lovely, but again slightly low-key album... I'm aware that really rating this and the Beirut record this year is almost certainly no coincidence.
John Carpenter: 'Lost Themes'
Who could've predicted this treat? In an era of cool retro electronica and resurrected soundtracks, the man on earth most able to scare you witless with both a movie camera and a synthesiser reappears with an album's worth of 'fake' film music. Take this superb opening track, 'Vortex', which will probably have you checking the corners of your laptop screen for agile shadows or sudden disturbances.
Clutch: 'Psychic Warfare'
A tight funk outfit trapped in the bodies of a metal band, Clutch are now decades into their existence but show no signs of running out of incredible riffs or whip-crack beats. I love the fact that even an in-your-face groover like this track, 'A Quick Death in Texas' - flirting with both Zep and ZZ Top - reveals more riches with each listen. An array of hooks - one for verse, another for chorus, another for middle eight, and a slightly warped version of the chorus riff for the outro; excellent use of the rock 'n' roll "Hey! Hey!"; gratuitous cowbell; and some born-storyteller imagery ("The saloon door stopped swinging / The piano player stopped playing"). One of their best albums in years, overflowing with ideas. Mostly noisy ideas.
Alice Coote, Graham Johnson: L'heure Exquise
A terrific year on record for mezzo Alice Coote - one of our finest, most involving and at times, intense performers - releasing a 'Sea Pictures' CD with the Hallé Orchestra and a superb disc of Schumann with pianist Christian Blackshaw. But on this gorgeous Hyperion album with Graham Johnson, she presents a selection of French mélodies that make full use of her astonishing emotional - as well as vocal - range. Bringing in a hint of the 'chanson' where appropriate, she's not afraid to temper the sheer beauty of the sound with mischief, seductiveness or ennui. A treasure trove.
Golden Void: 'Berkana'
This heroic track, 'Burbank's Dream', is a typical - and typically glorious - example of Golden Void's psychedelic rock. As out of their time as you'd expect from a band named after a Hawkwind track, the atmosphere is so thick, it feels like you're listening to it through smoke - and extra points for vocals that sound to me as if they're 'informed' by the marvellous Gary Brooker of Procol Harum. Prog-standard!
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn: 'Bert and John'
All of Bert Jansch's early records are being reissued. Great news for fans of spectral acoustic fingerpicking, clearly, but it also means I've finally got myself a copy of 'Bert and John', the informally named collaborative album Jansch made with John Renbourn, in their pre-Pentangle days. This track ('The Time Has Come') just has the pair take a channel each - the guitars miraculously dancing around each other as the voices gently harmonise. The art of sounding diffident, while knowing exactly what you're doing.
Myrkur: 'M'
Interesting stuff, this - Danish singer-songwriter Amalie Bruun, already successful in solo and band careers, decided to create an alias to record some of the music she really loves: black metal. While not without its ethereal touches (occasional passages of choir and piano make you wonder if this is what would result if Enya had grown up listening to Darkthrone), it's mostly a thunderous gallop of rumbling drums and buzzsaw guitars: totally true to its inspiration but not compromising other aspects of its creator's talent. An intriguing grower, recommended.
Mark Padmore, Kristian Bezuidenhout: 'Beethoven / Haydn / Mozart'
I'm desperate for this partnership to get together as often as possible and just record MORE STUFF. MP's measured, serene tone and KB's ringing fortepiano are a perfect match and produce a kind of jointly celestial sound. After a disc of mostly Schumann song, they seem to be gathering repertoire as well as pace and released this wonderful CD of the story so far. Here's LvB's 'Adelaide'.
Adrianne Pieczonka, Brian Zeger: 'Adrianne Pieczonka sings Strauss and Wagner'
AP is one of my favourite operatic performers, so any CD is most welcome. But this was a particularly exciting prospect, featuring songs by composers with whom she seem particularly at home on stage. It doesn't disappoint - she's in glorious voice: here's Wagner's 'Träume':
Rachel Podger: Biber 'Rosary Sonatas'
Slight red herring, this example (it was all I could find on YouTube) - as RP is playing the solo Rosary Sonata which originally appeared on her earlier CD named after it, 'Guardian Angel'. This year, she released a double album placing it alongside all the other Sonatas on it, too - so *imagine* how good that is. Surely one of the most accomplished Baroque musicians ever.
Jo Quail: 'This Path With Grace'
This cellist-composer - a very familiar name to Specs regulars, I'm sure - continues to push her writing and playing in unexpected, exhilarating directions. This incredible 20-minute piece, is scored for cello (Jo's electric instrument alongside a squad of traditional acoustic cellos), percussion and choir. From the opening blasts to the all-encompassing voices, you'll be transfixed as the piece comes 'full circle' to its climax, taking in rock, folk, choral and classical along the way.
<a href="http://joquail.bandcamp.com/track/this-path-with-grace">This Path With Grace by Jo Quail</a>
Dorothea Röschmann, Mitsuko Uchida: Schumann and Berg Lieder
I was lucky enough to be at one of the Wigmore Hall recital evenings where this album was recorded. The duo have a fascinating dynamic in performance: extraordinary empathy (it struck me that it was all too rare to see a two-woman recital partnership, but could that have an effect?) and in some ways a reversal of the norm, with MU more likely to be the firebrand in perpetual motion and DR almost an old-school, regal presence. But in fact, the extent to which the pair clicked is audible: MU constantly looking from her music over towards her colleague, tracking her precisely, while DR's emotions are all filtered through her gloriously expressive voice, making this an ideal 'listening' recital. In this track (apologies if you don't have Spotify), you can hear them navigate Schumann's twist and turns as if they were a single entity.
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton: 'Fleurs'
My classical CD of the year. Carolyn Sampson ventures out of her familiar Baroque surroundings and into art song. Creatively and artistically, this is clearly a huge step - but how lightly she skipped over it. Thinking about the way she combines expressive purity of tone with speed and precision, it's a wonder she didn't try it earlier..! But one of the things I think make 'Fleurs' a truly great record is the programming as well as the performance. The duo have made a 'concept album' of sorts, with the floral link kept throughout as the track listing ranges across composers and styles, showing off the brilliantly versatile playing of JM alongside CS's 'born-to-this' renditions. I hope this is just the start of a really strong partnership (you get the impression from 'Fleurs' that their rapport is burned into the disc) and expect that future records and recitals from them will be equally as interesting and illuminating as simply, satisfyingly beautiful.
Sieben: Norse EP
Matt Howden - the man behind one-man musical phenomenon Sieben - is on a roll at the moment, releasing his forthcoming album in stages, as three quite distinct EPs. The familiar elements are there - voice, violin, loops - but with a constantly increasing majesty. Always pushing the boundaries of his chosen set-up, the current Sieben sound explores the epic: tracks of around 10 minutes each, layer upon layer of shifting sound, leaving behind a strict verse-chorus format to explore chant/mantra. This is new magic.
<a href="http://sieben.bandcamp.com/album/norse-ep">Norse EP by Sieben</a>
Andreas Staier: J S Bach Harpsichord Concertos
I first heard Andreas Staier through his marvellous fortepiano playing - particularly when accompanying Christoph Prégardien in lieder - but he's also 'rather good' at the harpsichord, and this year's Bach disc is understandably an embarrassment of riches. Listen to the full-on, exhilarating production on this track, the D minor concerto.
Swans: White Light in the Mouth of Infinity / Love of Life
One of the most intense rock groups ever, the current incarnation of Swans continue to put out vast albums, like universes unto themselves. However, in a previous life - with the band dynamic balanced between Michael Gira and Jarboe - they achieved a kind of wracked musicality. This year, the ongoing reissue series reached this pair of albums (they belong together and come in a single package) - and this track in particular seduced me back in the day and got me into them for the first time. I had to include it.
Richard Thompson: Still
As in, still brilliant. Another example of an infallibly reliable talent suddenly releasing not 'just' another great set of songs, but a record to sit alongside their best. Based around the 'Electric' trio - sounding very (a)live in a warm and sympathetic production from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy - but fleshed out with harmony vocals and tempered with acoustic touches (as on this track), it's the best of all old worlds.
Trembling Bells: The Sovereign Self
My rock CD of the year. Trembling Bells are, on the face of it, a folk-rock outfit, but they can't really be contained by that description - in the same way that their sound seemed barely kept in check by the studio or your speakers. Blessed with chief songwriter Alex Nielson's virtuosic jazz drumming (somehow keeping the beat while adding multiple shades of percussive colour) and Lavinia Blackwall's all-points-between-heaven-and-earth voice, they released a three-and-a-half minute spooky pop wonder, 'Hallelujah', for Record Story Day, along with their finest album yet, 'The Sovereign Self', where everything came together perfectly. Unafraid to stretch themselves on every track, a bewildering stew of musical styles bubble together in the cauldron - folk, country, even metallic riffage - not so much from song to song, but all the time, in the overall, consistent sound. This feels to me like my national music. Out there, but not as far as you think. A masterpiece.
Sound waves: Alice Coote and Julius Drake
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Michelangelo’s disintegrating frescoes
As we predicted at the time of the last restoration of the Sistine chapel ceiling, by removing all of the glue-painting applied by Michelangelo to finish off and heighten the effects of his frescoes, the Vatican’s restorers exposed the bare fresco remains for the first time in their history to new dangers from the atmospheric pollution that is exacerbated by huge numbers of paying visitors.
Then, 2 million visitors entered the chapel every year. Now, that figure is 6 million.The Vatican has been carrying out secret attempts to remove disfiguring calcium deposits building up over the remains of Michelangelo’s painting. These deposits are caused when moisture given off by tourists and air-borne pollutants are absorbed by the plaster. This now-acknowledged process will also activate, as we specifically contended, the remnants of the cleaning agents (sodium and ammonia) that were washed into the frescoes during the rinse cycles of their last so-called restoration and conservation treatments. At the time, the use of the ferociously aggressive cleaning agent AB 57 was justified by the Vatican on the grounds that it was necessary to remove, among other things…ordinary solvent-resistant calcium deposits that had built up over the centuries in parts of the ceiling exposed to leaks in the roof.
Then, the Vatican promised that special air-conditioning systems would protect the newly exposed fresco surfaces in perpetuity. That system had failed even before the Vatican recently celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the end of the last restorations of Michelangelo’s paintings. Today, as the new physical threat is seen to be turning the frescoes white, the Vatican promises new, improved air conditioning units (from the same firm). To counter the new pale appearance, the Vatican recently installed thousands of LED lights, each individually attuned to heighten the colours in Michelangelo’s painting. Michelangelo’s now twice-injured painting has been left a colourised but still lucrative wreck – and an EU-funded (EUR 867 000) showcase (“This made the Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel the ideal venue for LED4ART”) for a company that shows in its advertisements that it has no idea what the Sistine Chapel looks like.
We said at the time that the restoration constituted a crime against art. Now, the Vatican promises to limit the numbers of visitors inside the chapel to 2,000 at any one time. But that means allowing a crowd as big as a full capacity audience at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, to pack into the small chapel all day long. The Vatican’s administrators – who have known of the present problems since 2010 – now concede that the glue coatings (that were in truth Michelangelo’s own final painted adjustments) had served as a protective barrier against all air-borne pollutants. The tills will continue to ring. Art lovers remain weeping. Shame on the Vatican’s administrators.
For our previous coverage, see:
Misreading Visual Evidence ~ No 2: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling;
The Sistine Chapel Restorations: Part I ~ Setting the Scene, Packing Them In;
The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part II: How to Take a Michelangelo Sibyl Apart, from Top to Toes;
The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part II – CODA: The Remarkable Responses to Our Evidence of Injuries; and Thomas Hoving’s Rant of Denial;
The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part III: Cutting Michelangelo Down to Size;
The Twilight of a God: Virtual Reality in the Vatican;
Sistina Progress and Tate Transgressions;
ArtWatch Stock-taking and the Sistine Chapel Conservation Debacle;
Coming to Life: Frankenweenie – A Black and White Michelangelo for Our Times
11th November 2014. Michael Daley
UPDATE: 16 November 2014
While the Vatican now admits the hitherto concealed fact of the damage that is being caused to Michelangelo’s frescoes by the massive increase of tourist numbers, it remains in denial about the destruction during the last restoration of the final a secco adjustments that Michelangelo had made to those frescoes. That autograph last-stage painting – which was observed and described with perfect, detailed clarity by the painter Charles Heath Wilson in the 1881 (second) edition of his book Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarroti – is characterised, preposterously, and against the evidence of all contemporary and subsequent copies of the Sistine ceiling, as consisting of “centuries of built-up candle wax, dirt and smoke”, as if such substances might somehow have disported themselves along the lines of Michelangelo’s design so as to reinforce his modelling and depict shadows cast by his figures. This latest apologia is carried in an Associated Press article “Sistine Chapel frescoes turning white ~ Humidity, tourists’ CO2 to blame”.
A paperback facsimile of a 1923 edition of Wilson’s milestone book (in which he describes his close examination of the ceiling on a special portable scaffold) is now available. It is time for the Vatican to acknowledge that Michelangelo had indeed finished his frescoes with secco painting, and that its curators, restorers and conservation scientists had blundered badly and inexplicably when, having judged Michelangelo’s specific, purposive pictorial enhancements and modifications to be nothing other than arbitrary accumulations of polluting material, removed it – and, thereby, exposed the lime plaster surfaces of the frescoes to their present dangers. That initial error and the subsequent falsification of art history that was made on its back, have both now been maintained for two decades.
November 11, 2014 | Categories: news | Tags: A crime against art, AB 57 cleaning agent, Corbis, ECN Impact Awards, Frankenweenie, LED4ART, Michael Daley, Michelangelo, Michelangelo's frescoes, The Royal Opera House, The Sistine Chapel, The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, The Vatican, The vatican's administrators, Thomas Hoving. | Leave A Comment »
Sistina Progress and Tate Transgressions
The tide continues to run against supporters of the Vatican’s 1980s and 1990s restorations of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, but it looks as if the National Gallery’s technical conservation division might be about to attempt a last-stand defence of the proclaimed “Gloriously Recovered Colours” that were said to have resurrected a “New Michelangelo”. An exhibition at the Gallery, Making Colour (June 18 to September 17), is to examine the stuff of pigments, in the course of which… Michelangelo is to be enthroned among the great colourists Titian, Turner and Matisse. The manoeuvre shows signs of back-firing.
The Times’ art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston was healthily wary and alert to art world conservation politics when previewing the exhibition (“True colours: from Titian to Turner”, The Times, 31 May 2014):
“It is wilfully provocative to put a sculptor most famous for his pallid stone carvings on a list of the world’s greatest colourists. But his Sistine Chapel paintings – coming together as they do to create the single greatest pictorial scheme of the Italian High Renaissance – are among the most vibrant works of western art ever created. And after a recent and highly controversial restoration in which solvents were used to strip away half a millennium’s worth of accrued candle smoke and grime – and with it, many argue, the artist’s own shadowy subtleties – Michelangelo is being reassessed. Every book on this artist will have to be rewritten declare historians who marvel at the newly revealed drama of vivid colour. Others, however, remain not just sceptical but deeply dismayed at the irreversible damage that the cleaning has done.”
Even the restoration-friendly Art Newspaper carries seditious words on conservation and the Sistine Chapel in its current (June) issue. The spat that we reported between Bendor Grosvenor (“Art historian, dealer and broadcaster”, of the Philip Mould and Company gallery), and Martin Myrone (“Lead curator, pre-1800 British art at Tate Britain”), at last month’s Mellon Centre conference on connoisseurship and educated eyes, is re-run in the Art Newspaper under the heading: “Do we need a return to connoisseurship?” Dr Grosvenor’s latest comments on restoration and connoisseurship are, however, almost cryptically condensed. They read in full:
“I despair at seeing a picture over-cleaned through a conservator’s misunderstanding of how an artist worked, and the removal of an original glaze in the belief that it is either dirt or over-paint (the Sistine Chapel is the most depressing example of this).”
For the record, Dr Grosvenor’s Mellon Centre mea culpa of May 2nd was delivered as follows:
“And to show why I think that connoisseurship has such a valuable role to play in conservation, let me mention what is – let me end with what is probably the most single important painting in Western art history: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. I recently went to Rome and saw the ceiling for the first time, and as I was standing underneath it with my binoculars, being jostled this way and that by the crowds, I am afraid I got a terrible shock. I always used to think that critics of the Sistine Chapel restoration were being slightly myopic, or a little bit obsessive, and that trained restorers surely at this level were infallible, and couldn’t possibly damage pictures. But how wrong I was! The Sistine Chapel has been subjected to the most brutal over-cleaning imaginable. I don’t mean the exposure of the bright colours which we see looking so nice here, which most people fixate on, but the actual removal, through simple abrasion with solvents and a rough sponge, of the crucial darks and shadows which gave the ceiling so much meaning and form. Though we don’t have time to go into the debate here as to whether Michelangelo worked a secco on the ceiling or purely in fresco it seems to me that the whole approach to the cleaning of the ceiling was fundamentally misunderstood. But my contention is that if the restorers had, in fact, been real trained connoisseurs of Michelangelo’s work and were not just pure technicians and had a feeling and an eye for how Michelangelo intended his pictures to work they might not have made the same mistakes. And I don’t think I can really make a greater example of why connoisseurship matters. Thank you very much.”
The now linked battles over art restoration and connoisseurship are intensifying. (We are intrigued to know what Dr Grosvenor thinks of the Philip Mould gallery’s own picture cleaning methods. We do know that even when restorers aim to remove just “varnish”, real paint often comes off in the wash – as seen at Figs. 12 and 13. Would the risks not be all the greater when restorers are removing what they take to be “re-paints” from pictures in a hunt for better work underneath?) The museum world’s phoney “Culture Wars” between a supposed but now mythic Art Establishment (look at the recent membership of the Royal Academy and its Summer Show banner “Discover the new; discover the now”) and the Tate and State-pampered, edgy, head-banging contemporary art sensationalists is masking a fundamental art world schism that shows signs of turning ugly. Dr Grosvenor’s ideologically opposite number at both the Mellon Centre conference and the Art Newspaper forum, was Dr Martin Myrone – who happens to have hit the headlines. Tate Britain is mounting an exhibition of British folk art (see “Tate Britain rejects ‘elitist’ Old Masters as Turner makes way for thatched king”, the Times, 5 June 2014). Tate’s press release declared “British Folk Art will include surprising and diverse examples of British folk art, from rustic leather toby jugs to brightly coloured ships’ figureheads. The imposing larger than life-size thatched figure of King Alfred created by master thatcher, Jesse Maycock, in 1960 is one of the exhibition’s highlights.”
News of this exhibition almost caught us off-guard: when Tate spokespeople witter about “diverse” and “surprising” things, we instinctively reach for our cultural pistols, so to speak. But for once, the artefacts clearly are of interest (see Fig. 11) and worthy of attention. The bone cockerel shown in the Times is, in its wit, force and verve of plastic articulation, the superior of the over-sized blue cockerel presently occupying the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square – which itself is the best of a very long, very bad bunch of occupants. The straw man, likewise is, with its subtle, ominously Germaine Richier-like weight-shifting presence, more than an expressive sculptural match for, say, Sir Anthony Gormley, R. A.’s turgid “Angel of the North”. In short, we have no problem with the subject of the exhibition: quality is, as quality is found. No problem, that is, except this: the Tate is not parking this exhibition in Tate Modern’s vast halls or spinning it as an overdue and welcome blast against the enfeebled self-indulgence of today’s decayed fine art tradition. Instead, it treats this folk art as vindication of that very sector (because Tracey sews and Grayson potters) and is using it as yet another way of denigrating and humiliating odious, elitist Old Masters. (One more sign, perhaps, of the un-wisdom of permitting one man an unbroken, guaranteed-for-life, twenty-six years long reign of tenure at the Tate?)
Insofar as Dr Myrone’s dense sub-Marxian jargon in the Art Newspaper permits appraisal, it would seem that his antipathy to the notion and practice of connoisseurship is deep and visceral. As he puts it in the Art Newspaper:
“…Instead, contriving the resuscitation of connoisseurship on the basis that its worth is self-evident may be retrogressive, obscuring the stakes and investments actually brought into play as the different parties involved (academics, curators, dealers and so forth) establish their relative authority and their claims to public attention…Arguably, the only thing that now distinguishes connoisseurship as such is the element of economic and social purposefulness, its specific role as a way of talking about art and asserting aesthetic merit in terms which are readily translatable into economic value. The language of connoisseurship is simply more compliant to the needs of the market than other forms of historical discussion, which may be more open-ended and questioning, less certain about the judgement of value.
“Moreover, allowing the issues of authenticity and authorship to overshadow all the other issues and questions around historical works of art risks impoverishing our understanding and enjoyment of art’s rich histories and our ability to communicate this in genuinely open-minded, engaging and thought-provoking ways. There is nothing, I think, radical or outrageous in pointing out that connoisseurship has served to reinforce social difference and further material interests over history.There are numerous studies which testify to this. What would be absurd would be to claim that this has somehow stopped in the present age and that connoisseurship is now absolutely removed from struggles over cultural authority…”
What is so sad and alarming is that art professionals working in the most elevated art institutions should be so antipathetic to art as art. As for lucre, they are happy to pursue careers and draw salaries working among art as long as it can be made instrumental – serve some “enlightened” progressivist, consciousness-altering, society-levelling social force. This is sad because it is philistine. It fails to respond directly, unashamedly, unapologetically to art itself. It is dangerous because should such blinkered aversions gain an absolute upper hand, cultural repression would result. Dr Myrone is clearly a conscientious man with the interests of the common weal at heart. But if we were to deny contemplation of the highest, the best, and the most life-enriching art to all, we would gain nothing and simply add cultural and personal impoverishment to existing social ills.
This antipathy to connoisseurship must be defused. First, let us recognise that it really doesn’t necessarily come with snooty baggage or an eye on the financial main chance. That, at heart, it is a perfectly simple, decent and desirable matter; that it is comprised of nothing more odious than an ability to discern qualities that are of value. Second, that every art school lecturer used to recognise “the hand” of every student. We say “used to” because artistic hands are only evident when common cultural purposes are pursued through limited artistic means (as when all art students drew and drew from the same casts or figures). If scrunching paper and blinking lights count as art today then connoisseurship is already dead – and Dr Myrone can chill. He may, on the other hand, already be halfway to connoisseurship himself – in the Art Newspaper, he also writes:
“It is perfectly possible to talk about technique, authorship, authenticity and quality without recourse to the rubric of connoisseurship. Moreover, the application of skill in these various matters is part of the every day work of the art historian and curator, tending in practice to be rather modest and mundane. It is just part of the job.”
Well, which is it to be? If connoisseurship is being done routinely, albeit under a different name, what is the problem? And why should we not talk about the doing of it, on the assumption that some may be doing it better than others?
In art practice itself, every proper artist is a connoisseur, not least of his own work. Every teacher forms preferences and will see more of value in the productions of one student over another. That is connoisseurship in action. Nothing to be ashamed about. When teaching in art schools it is not unheard of to encounter a student from Eton or from the Old Kent Road. Proper professional concern for quality and talent puts the Old Etonian on a level playing field and at risk of being outclassed by the greater talent of someone from nowhere. Dr Myrone complains, as reported in the Times, “We have rested much more on the idea of a canon of great masters, a Hogarth-to-Turner story…it is a fairly narrow kind of canon. A select few artists have been elevated, but there is a whole world of making and physical production which is really exciting.” And so there is – but what humbug: narrow canons? How many working illustrators, film animators or car designers win Turner Prizes or get elected to the Royal Academy? Is everything really of equal value to the Tate? Are all avant gardists of the same merit? On what basis, then, are the Turner Prizes awarded? If someone scrubs a painting and features come away, as was the case with the group of lads holding a ladder at the top of Fig’s. 7 and 8, would it be a good and desirable thing if art historians lacked the critical visual ability to notice – or the courage to speak out? Dr Grosvenor has at last cottoned on to the menace – is Dr Myrone still not up to it? Has he not yet come across the excellent post on Grumpy Art Historian which carries this helpfuly clarifying comment:
“Why cannot the art historian emulate [the archaeologist] and treat all images simply as artefacts of a given culture? I think the answer is simple. Such pretended scientific objectivity would rapidly lead to the suicide of our subject. On a purely practical level the archaeologist is saved from the agony of selection by the relative scarcity of his evidence. We are in a very different position. Once we decided not to make any distinctions between painting ceilings or, for that matter, assembly halls, we would be so swamped with material that Michelangelo’s or Wren’s creations would be lost in an ever-swelling card index”
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Above, Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Libyan Sibyl, as seen before and after restoration in colour (Figs. 1 and 2), and in greyscale (Figs. 3 and 4).
Above, top, Fig. 5: The Sistine Chapel ceiling as seen after cleaning in the 2006 Scala book The Vatican Museums ~ Masterpieces from the Incomparable Papal Collections. The book carries this statement-in-brief of the enduring official account of the restoration: “It took nine years from 1980 to 1989, for the restorers to rid the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of the accumulated grime of centuries to recover the original bright colouring, allowing us to enjoy these extraordinary figures once more.”
Above, Fig. 6: A detail, as recorded in a large-scale lithograph of the entire ceiling that was printed in twenty-one colours on two sheets of paper. The lithograph measures 1,027 x 470mm and was made from an 1853 drawing by Pratesi by C. Köpper, under the art direction of L. Gruner and supervision of J. Storch at Winckelmann and Sons, Berlin.
(The lithograph is reproduced in Michael Twyman’s stunning A history of Chromolithography as described in our previous post.)
The testimony of this large-scale work which faithfully recorded the Ceiling’s then chromatic and tonal relationships is immensely valuable. Partly because it shows all of Michelangelo’s upper walls and ceiling frescoes simultaneously on the same plane and without any perspectival distortion (and, thus, in a manner that was inconceivable photographically), but more especially because it captured the hierarchy of tones and colours which progressed from the darker more subdued lower sections (seen in this image in its outer parts) toward the brightly lit ‘windows’ which cut through the illusionistic architecture and permitted the biblical scenes to be set in the sky or out in the wider world. This single image gives the lie to the original claims of the restorers – and their once-numerous supporters – that the shading in Michelangelo’s frescoes had not been a deliberate artistic intention, but was simply the arbitrary consequence of accumulations of soot and varnish. That claim was always preposterous – but it explains why, even to this day, some supporters of the restoration cling to the once-confident and near-universal belief that the “transforming” (i.e. artistically devastating) effects of the cleaning constituted an almost God-given revelation. The ‘political’ need for this restoration to be defended at all costs has inflicted considerable theological collateral damage as well as immense artistic damage.
Above, Figs. 7 and 8: A section of the upper-right corner of Michelangelo’s Last Judgement wall, before cleaning (top) and after cleaning (above). Again, looking at the areas and the scale of the shading that was lost here, makes clear how absurd was the claim that Michelangelo had originally painted as as in the cleaned state at Fig. 8, and, then, centuries worth of grime had conspired to alter Michelangelo’s painting so as to bring it to the condition see at Fig. 7.
Above, Figs. 9 and 10: The head of a boy seen in the Sacrifice of Noah scene on the ceiling, before cleaning (top) and after cleaning above.
Above, Fig. 11: Part of the Times’ coverage of Tate Britain’s new exhibition “British folk Art” (“Tate Britain rejects ‘elitist’ Old Masters as Turner makes way for thatched king”).
Above, Fig. 12: Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate since 1988, (as drawn by Michael Daley for the cover of Jackdaw No 5, February 2001: “Serota a dangerous dictator?”).
A RECENT RESTORATION “DISCOVERY”: WHAT COMES OFF IN THE VARNISH REMOVAL WASH
Above, Figs. 12 and 13: A painting – View of Scheveningen Sands, by Hendrick van Anthonissen – as seen (top) before “varnish removal” at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, the art conservation branch of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and after cleaning (above).
View of Scheveningen Sands is on permanent display in the Fitzwilliam Museum in the recently refurbished gallery of the Dutch Golden Age, which reopened on 3 June.
Cambridge University’s Varsity website reports that whilst removing the varnish from this painting, the restorer, postgraduate student Shan Kuang, discovered that “a figure started appearing standing directly on the horizon line [of the sea].” And then, soon after, the fin of the whale was discovered, being at first thought to be the sail of a ship. However, eventually, the body of the stranded whale was fully revealed…and another glorious restoration discovery and Good News Story had been made and announced to the world.
…AND, YET ANOTHER RESTORATION DISCOVERY:
“Paris Street; Rainy Day” – now not!
The Wall Street Journal reports that The Art Institute of Chicago’s six-month restoration of Gustave Caillebotte’s 1877 painting revealed surprises. A previous restoration left the sky “duller and more one-dimensional [sic]”. As a result of the varnish removal – and the removal of what was taken to be an earlier restorer’s repaint in the sky – curators now believe Caillebotte is likely to be viewed more as an Impressionist and less a traditional realist. Moreover, the restorer said that Caillebotte had not (as had been thought) depicted a generic rainy day in this bustling street scene near the Gare St. Lazare. Instead, he had had in mind “a precise moment right after the rain has stopped and the sun is trying to break through” — which is why everyone in the picture continues to walk around with umbrellas up. To the present restorer, this newly recovered state of the painting constitutes “the kind of specificity that was a hallmark of the Impressionists”. Another great conservation-led advance for scholarship, then.
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The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part II: How to Take a Michelangelo Sibyl Apart, from Top to Toes
“I must confess I harbour a lingering almost subconscious fear that someday someone will come, unexpectedly, with a really intelligent observation that will show all of us to have been blind.” ~ Gianluigi Colalucci, 1990
We were startled when the Vatican authorities admitted that Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes are in greater peril than at any point in their history. Powerful art institutions rarely broadcast their own embarrassments. More often, they see off their critics by sitting tight, quietly briefing journalistic proxies and…continuing to be. Welcome as was the acknowledgement of the problem by Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, casting the Chapel’s paying visitors as the principal cause of the present crisis, masked greater institutional responsibilities.
The Vatican has yet to acknowledge that this environmental crisis arose as a direct consequence – and within just two decades – of permitting the Chapel’s ancient frescoes to be used as a test bed for the then new and highly controversial cleaning agent “Mixture AB 57”. And, despite the brouhaha over toxic visitors, there remains no hint of acknowledgement that the restorations of the 1980s and early 1990s proceeded on an art critical misreading which, in addition to stripping the fresco surfaces bare and leaving a chemical time-bomb within the Chapel, inflicted grave and irreversible artistic injuries on Michelangelo’s paintings – see right.
On the cleaning method’s toxic conservation legacy, we had precisely warned in 1993 that: “even if the Vatican team were to concede that the brilliance of Michelangelo’s new colours is a chemical deceit purchased at the cost of a physical and chemical weakening of the frescoes, the dispute would not be laid to rest. The need to avoid further deterioration would still be there.” (James Beck and Michael Daley, “Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal”, Chapters III and IV.) In similar vein we can now say that today’s promises of dramatic technical “improvements” are simply recycled 1980s assurances that, at best, remain of a palliative nature. Even when promised the first time around, the Vatican authorities had admitted to us (see below) that the measures could not fully solve the then already pressing environmental problems unleashed by the restoration’s experimental method.
The Experimental New Picture Cleaning Method
AB 57 was developed by Professor Paulo Mora and his wife Laura Mora, chief conservators at Rome’s Istituto Centrale del Restauro, for cleaning stone buildings. It comprised: “a mixed gelatinous solvent, consisting of a solution of ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, Desogen (a surf-actant and anti-fungal agent), carboxymethylcellulose (a thixotropic agent), dissolved in distilled water.” Toti Scialoja, a painter and a former professor at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts, complained that its ingredients were “too powerful – ammonia and soda, the stuff you use to clean your bathtub”. Professor Christoph Frommel, director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, described it as “a sharp and aggressive chemical”.
The Moras presented AB 57 as a means of removing insoluble salts and incrusted materials from wall paintings: “If the original surface of the painting is unaffected by water then this mixture will have no deleterious action on it”. Michelangelo’s frescoes did not suffer greatly from incrusted and insoluble salts but they were extensively covered with water sensitive glue/size painting which artists, conservation experts and scholars held to comprise Michelangelo’s own final painted adjustments. An early sign of the wrongness of the new cleaning method came when the restorers abandoned customary claims of a miraculous “recovery” of original and authentic conditions. The use of AB 57 had produced such a mismatch between the cleaned frescoes and the early copies that had been made of them, that the hype had to be bolder and of a different order. As seen in our previous post, the decision to clean with AB 57 had been taken quickly and in express excitement at the prospect of overturning art history itself. This dramatic technology-led change of conservation philosophy was reported in a 1983 Newsweek account: “As recently as 1976 while cleaning paintings by the other artists on the side walls of the Chapel, workers deliberately kept the colours muted so that Michelangelo’s wouldn’t look too faded by comparison. ‘Even then it entered nobody’s head to start on Michelangelo’, says master restorer Gianluigi Colalucci. But when a new cleaning solvent was developed, Colalucci tested it…”
Selling the Surprising AB 57-induced Changes to Michelangelo’s Painting
Having used it, the resulting rupture between the old Michelangelo and his restored self was trumpeted by Fabrizio Mancinelli, the Vatican Museums’ curator and co-director, with Gianluigi Colalucci, of the restoration. Mancinelli claimed in 1986 that the restoration “had brought to light (and will continue to bring to light) a totally new artist, a colourist quite different in character from the unnaturally sombre character who has in the past fascinated generations of historians, connoisseurs and fellow artists…The cleaning of the frescoes has led to the surprising conclusion that the kind of suggestive painting by shadows for which Michelangelo was admired until a few years ago was essentially the product of candle smoke and still more of glue varnishes applied possibly even before the 18th century.” (“The Sistine Chapel ~ Michelangelo Rediscovered”, p. 218.)
Even though no evidence was ever produced of extensive glue applications having been made by restorers, in the early years, art historians and credulous art critics queued to repudiate what one scholar dubbed the “Darkness Fallacy” and the “Sculptural Fallacy” of traditional Michelangelo studies. The proclaimed “New Michelangelo”, however, was an entirely modern chemically engineered artefact, not a scholarly construct. In fact, it flew in the face of the historical record: Michelangelo had been celebrated at his own funeral not for any colouristic brilliance – let alone for, as one critic recently held, the “sharp and acid palette used by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel” – but for his “fleeting, sombre colours”. The new art historical dispensation rested on a twentieth century purging of aged, sometimes distressed but nonetheless authentic material. Indeed, it was precisely because this was not a historically-informed recovery of an original state that drums had had to be rolled for “The New Michelangelo”.
It was claimed that this revisionist reading of historical and material evidence had been corroborated “scientifically”. But this was a New Science to sanction a New Michelangelo. Scientific examinations of the frescoes in the 1930s by X-ray and ultra-violet imaging techniques had led to altogether contrary conclusions. It was reported in 1938 that Michelangelo’s “overpaintings were lying quite brightly a secco on the fresco layer itself; these overpaintings proved themselves undoubtedly the painting of the Master himself.” (See “Art Restoration”, Chapter III.) It was further claimed that Colalucci and his colleagues had recovered the original fresco surfaces so deftly that they had preserved its “original” patina and even left a thin layer of dirt above them that would protect the new surface from airborne pollution. Well, we all now know from the present panic in the Vatican that that assurance was not worth a used solvent swab and that a couple of years ago “unimaginable amounts” of dirt were scrubbed off the frescoes by conservators working at night so as not to impede the daytime tourism stream.
The Over-Selling of Conservation Science
Conservation science has its uses but it can never analyse or appraise works of art because Art’s essential properties are aesthetic not material; perceptual not mechanical. Insofar as there might be a science of art, it is to be found in art itself and within artists’ own practices. This is because art consists not so much of materials as of values and the relationships between values that artists’ create and orchestrate, albeit, with materials. These values are aesthetically relative, not intrinsic to materials, and they are continuously appraised and adjusted by artists as they work. Self-criticism, self-analysis and continuous aesthetic appraisal are integral to the making of art. With art, critical and analytical faculties can never be replaced by apparatuses or be donned by technicians. Conservation science might sometimes tell us of what something is made but never by whom it was made.
The Mis-Appliance of Conservation Science
In terms of professional art restoration, conservation science can serve a useful diversionary purpose. The restoration-authorising authorities and art lovers alike can be invited to put aside critical responses on an implicit assurance that some inscrutable but infallible force has guaranteed the probity of whichever of the many conflicting restoration methodologies is being used at that moment. We ArtWatchers are not inclined to be so trusting nor so easily led. In the case of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, having examined evidence of the cleaning method and its consequences for two and a half decades, and being now armed with the officially published accounts, we are confident that not only can it be shown that Michelangelo’s tonal/plastic systems were recently injured, but that even his very designs, his drawing, his vaunted disegno were repeatedly violated and corrupted.
A Catastrophic Loss of Art Citical Nerve
These losses and violations were not so much unfortunate by-products of an inappropriately aggressive cleaning agent as the consequence of prior and catastrophic failures of art critical judgement and powers of aesthetic analysis. This failure was evident not only within the Vatican’s curatorial, scientific and conservation staffs, but throughout much of the wider international art historical establishment. By effectively agreeing to “de-attribute” what were – and had always been recognised to be – the last stages of Michelangelo’s own work, an overly deferential art historical establishment sanctioned their destruction. For all this (initial) pan-national consensus, the judgement was historically rogue. In 1986, when defending his own restoration, the chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci admitted that his professional predecessors’ judgements had been contrary to his own and “not encouraging” to the restoration. That was an understatement: restorers who had worked on the previous restoration (1935-36) had officially and flatly reported that Michelangelo had “finished off a secco”, that is, that he had painted on top of his frescoes when they had dried.
The Testimony of Charles Heath Wilson
Restorers who had worked on the restoration of 1904 had abandoned attempts to clean the frescoes for fear of damaging Michelangelo’s vulnerable work on the surface. Colalucci, greatly in thrall to contemporary “scientific” analysis, dismissed such official reports as “subjective impressions”. He also ignored the testimony of the British painter and fresco expert Charles Heath Wilson who had reported his own close-hand examination of the ceiling in an 1876 book “Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarotti”. Wilson had found the frescoes “extensively retouched with size colour…evidently by the hand of Michelangelo”. He found that this secco painting “readily melted on being touched with a wet finger and consisted of a finely ground black, mixed with a size probably made according to the usage of the time from parchment shavings.” He further noted, “The shadows of the draperies have been boldly and solidly retouched with this size colour, as well as the shadows on the backgrounds…The hair of the heads and the beards of many of the figures are finished in size colour …These retouchings…constituted the finishing process or as Condivi [Michelangelo’s preferred biographer] expresses it, alluding to it in the history of these frescoes, ‘l’ultima mano’.”
For Wilson, there could “be no doubt that nearly all of this work is contemporary, and in only one part was there evidence of a later and incompetent hand.” Aside from its artistic force, certainty about the secco painting’s antiquity lay in an elegant technical proof: “The size colour has cracked as the plaster has cracked”. It is a matter of record that the ceiling cracked before any restorers touched it. If, as has been claimed, later restorers had repeatedly applied glues, those glues would inevitably have been brushed into the pre-existing cracks. Wilson, who tested the depth of the cracks with a penknife, saw that none had been. Artists like Wilson appreciate that it is impossible to paint over a cracked surface without working the material into the cracks. Wilson was left in no doubt: having been applied when the ceiling was new and not-yet-cracked, these surface glue paints could only have been Michelangelo’s own work, his finishing stages, his l’ultima mano. Normally, restorers recognise that when varnishes or paints can be shown to have run into age-cracked materials this can be taken as a proof of their more recent origins. On this occasion, the restorers failed to recognise the implications of the converse.
The Vulnerability of Michelangelo’s Glue Painting
Moreover, this original secco work, Wilson appreciated, was water-sensitive, having been damaged when “washed by labouring men with water in which a caustic has been mixed”. As to when the alleged restorers’ glue-varnishes might plausibly have been applied, no evidence was forthcoming. In 1996 Colalucci said that although “countless attempts at cleaning and restoration seem to have been made”, only “four are actually accounted for”. The four are of 1566, 1824-25, 1904 and 1935-36. As we showed in our post of 1 April 2011, that first restoration itself provided the clearest possible evidence of Michelangelo having painted shadows a secco. That evidence, taken together with the copies of the ceiling discussed opposite should have been an end to the matter. The last two restorations cited by Colalucci coincide with photographic records and these, too, offer no support for the claimed superimpositions of secco painting and glue-varnishes by restorers.
Perplexed by the Vatican’s unwavering but evidently unsupported insistence that the ceiling had repeatedly been coated with glue “varnishes”, I asked in May 1990: “Does any documentary evidence exist to support the claim that hot animal glue was repeatedly applied to the frescoes over the centuries in order to revive the colours?” Colalucci replied that there was none. In 1986 he had reported a note in a manuscript which described how the ceiling had once been cleaned with linen rags and bread “scrubbing hard, and sometimes when the dirt was more tenacious, the bread was moistened a little” but added “That is as much as it says. The note does not mention at all the use of substances to revive colours or of glue varnish.” (See “Art Restoration”, pp. 74-78.) If, as Wilson discovered, the secco painting dissolved at the touch of a wet finger, an earlier hard scrubbing with wet rags or bread would certainly have been sufficient to cause the injuries that Wilson and others had reported to parts of the ceiling.
A Filmed Corroboration of Wilson’s Testimony
Wilson’s appraisal was echoed from another scaffold a century later. In 1967 the art critic and writer Alexander Eliot and his wife Jane Winslow Eliot spent over 500 hours making a close-up documentary film of the ceiling, “The Secret of Michelangelo, Every Man’s Dream”. Alexander Eliot reported in the April 1987 Harvard Review how “with the exception of the previously restored Prophet Zachariah, almost everything we saw on the barrel vault clearly came from Michelangelo’s own inspired hand. There are passages of the finest, most delicately incisive draughtsmanship imaginable. Michelangelo’s loving depiction of fingernails, eyelids and tiny wrinkles stand in contrast to tremendous swirls of colour…” On 20 May 1985 Eliot had pleaded with the Vatican’s Secretary of State for him to view the Vatican’s own copy of the Eliots’ film and to “have it stopped at the images of the Ancestors [on the lunettes]. Compare what it proves was there against what’s left today”. That precious, now historical, record still awaits a re-showing.
Venanzo Crocetti’s Protests Against the Restoration – as a Sculptor and as a Former Restorer in the Sistine Chapel
In 1989 the sculptor Venanzo Crocetti, who had spent “four full years” working during the 1930s as an apprentice restorer on the scaffold, published three photo-comparisons of the cleaned lunettes in an article in the December Oggi e Domani (“Salviamo Almeno il Giudizio Universale”) – see Fig. 28. Crocetti’s account was detailed and technically informed. He began by explaining how he had appealed unavailingly in 1983 to the director general of the Vatican Museums, Prof. Carlo Pietrangeli, to desist from incurring the “rapid biological degradation caused by the cleaning power” of AB 57. Crocetti flatly dismissed claims that the glues had been applied by restorers. He also testified that as early as 1983 applications of AB 57 had been standardised at 3 minutes each, regardless of local conditions (see below). He complained of the folly of cleaning aggressively in small patches, zones that had originally been made with very broad applications. These glue-paint applications, he noted, had been made chiefly in the shaded parts of the figures and to such artistically selective purpose that Michelangelo’s authorship was beyond question. As a (formerly) supreme case in point, see Fig. 1.
The Effects of the Double Applications of AB 57
Crocetti’s testimony on the AB 57 cleaning method then being used on Michelangelo was particularly damning. He noted that while the first 3 minutes long application left the frescoes looking cleaner, the second on the following day, left them with altered and considerably degraded colours. He believed that the first applications effectively “degreased” the surfaces leaving them open to greater penetration by the second applications. He was convinced that the immediately apparent visual effects of these twin applications would not be their final outcome. He argued that their corrosive actions would continue because of the absorption of the solvents to a depth of half a centimetre. Some days after the second applications he noticed (from the scaffold itself) the appearance of “whitish oxidations of variable intensity” over large zones.
He considered the restorers’ claimed discovery of “stratifications of dirt gathered on the frescoes over the centuries” exaggerated and misleading, and he held that the early photographs of the lunettes by Anderson made the extent of this exaggeration clear – see Fig. 28. He believed that the ferocity of AB 57 made any finely tuned cleaning gradated to meet local conditions impossible. He believed that the greatest injury was to the chief feature of the frescoes – their disposition of lights and shades, and not their local colours. He believed that the restorers, in their pursuit of more intense colours, had penetrated the frescoes to their brighter, less modulated preparative layers. He felt confident that he had seen at first-hand how, with “cleaning”, the figures in the lunettes had been remade, becoming “false in form and colour” alike. He saw that many of the shadows from which the figures had formerly emerged had simply disappeared. He saw that corrections which Michelangelo had, with mastery, made invisible, had been exposed (in particular, see Figs. 11-16). Above all, he confirmed that the condition of the frescoes remained “excellent”, and that this was in part due to the absorption over the centuries of greasy substances of chapel smoke which had “strengthened the colour. Leaving upon it a glittering shift of the lightest varnish [thereby counterbalancing] the aridity and fragility” of old fresco. Having worked on the restoration in the 1930s, he found himself near to despair.
The Invasive Ferocity and Likely Legacy of AB 57
The AB 57 water-based paste used to remove Michelangelo’s size painting contained two “caustics”: sodium bicarbonate and ammonium bicarbonate. Professor Frommel had questioned the method of application: “Who knows if they succeed in cleaning this completely away? No one can prove whether or not it will affect the frescoes in the future. No one can say definitely if they get all of it off.” Consider Colalucci’s own account of the method of application:
“The times of application, rigorously measured, were: First application: 3 minutes, followed by removal, washing with water. Left to dry for 24 hours. Second application: 3 minutes, followed by removal, washing and leaving to dry as before. If necessary, and locally only, small applications, followed by plentiful final washing. In the case of salt efflorescences consisting of calcium carbonate, there was added to the solvent mixture a saturated solution of dimethylformamide…”
Chemically Adjusting Michelangelo’s Colours
AB 57, a calcium dissolving solvent, was thus used to remove organic materials with an oven-cleaner like ferocity and speed even though many experts held those very materials to comprise authentic Michelangelo work. Contrary to assurances otherwise, the aesthetic consequences of this stripping extended, as Crocetti had observed at first hand, into the very fabric of the exposed fresco surfaces. This was a serious matter. The Vatican’s research chemist, Nazzareno Gabrielli had explained that AB 57 contained two separate salts because while “Ammonium Carbonate alone tends to tone down colours…sodium carbonate livens them up”. The Moras’ combination, he judged, had “the proper chromatic effect”. So far as we know, it was never explained by what means the “proper” combination for Michelangelo might have been established.
Juggling with dangerous chemicals and processes constitutes professional chic in some restoration quarters. Restorers often claim that a dangerous chemical in “safe hands” is better than a mild one in “untrained hands”. When restorers speak among themselves, the professional conceits are more evident. The IIC Bulletin carried an obituary on Paolo Mora who died on 27 March 1998. He had studied under Mauro Pelliccioli, who restored Leonardo’s Last Supper, and, reportedly, was fond of claiming that he could clean a picture with a broom and drugstore chemicals. When he found himself too busy to clean a large Bellini altarpiece, Pelliccioli enlisted two students and showed them how to dissolve rods of caustic soda in water. He demonstrated his cleaning technique by sweeping a swab of soda over the picture with one hand followed immediately by a “neutralising” swipe with a turpentine swab with the other. Thus enlightened, the students were said to have “cleaned the large painting in a single day”.
The AB 57 Rinse-Water Menace
Aside from exposing the stripped fresco surfaces to the Chapel’s notoriously polluted atmosphere, yet other risks were taken in pursuit of brighter colours. Removing the water-based solvent gel with copious amounts of washing risked, as Frommel feared and Crocetti had observed, depositing corrosive ingredients within the frescoes. The “highly soluble” ingredients were said to have been selected because “they are easy to wash off”. It was certainly desirable that they should be so: carboxymethyl cellulose is known to encourage sodium retention; ‘Desogen’, being a detergent as well as fungicide, is non-volatile and does not evaporate. The Moras had conceded that these ingredients have “the disadvantage of remaining in the painting unless removed after treatment by rinsing with water”.
There are problems with washing, however. First, the rinse water was absorbed deeply into the porous fresco and with it, inevitably, particles of soluble and corrosive ingredients. Twenty four hours were needed for the water to evaporate before a second application of AB 57 could be applied. Second, tap water may contain solutions of sodium, iron, copper, and chloride, and unless it is packed with sufficient calcium bicarbonate, will itself attack the calcium carbonate of fresco. Even distilled water (which is free of impurities) slowly dissolves calcium carbonate and attacks the frescoes’ structure. When challenged in 1991 on having introduced dangerous materials into the frescoes, Colalucci replied: “AB 57…has been greatly tested and is very old. The actual solvent is held within a gel which does not allow the particles of the actual solvent to penetrate the plaster and the colour. However, the gel is removed and only a minimal (if any) percentage might remain which has no influence on the colours.” In 1986 Colalucci disclosed that, at that date “The work was concluded with abundant rinsing, repeated at intervals of up to several months” and that only “The last rinsing was done with distilled water”. Much copious washing was thus carried out with tap water.
Mirella Simonetti on Dangerous Deposits and their Air-Borne Allies
Far from having “no influence”, experts expressly feared that residues deposited within the frescoes by rinsing would react with airborne pollutants and moisture. The restorer Mirella Simonetti held one of AB57’s ingredients, bicarbonate of soda, to be an “extremely damaging” residue because, when combined with the sulphates of calcium and air-borne sulphuric anhydrites, it produces sodium sulphate – a whitish dust which corrodes the fresco and destroys its coloured surface. Simonetti also maintained that the use of EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid) within the solvent gel had chemically altered the fresco by causing a “breakdown in the molecular structure [and] bringing about a disintegration [which] in turn causes the division of the components and the discohesion of the lime.” Once weakened in this fashion, the disintegration would continue – and “even water can favour such a process”. Simonetti’s alarm was later vindicated when, tests showed that the compound’s corrosive properties etched the surface of marble into irregular corrugations, scattering light and imparting a deceiving effect of brightness that provided more routes of ingress to airborne pollutants.
Fresco Painting and Its Known Enemies
It had long been recognised that air-borne sulphur attacks fresco. In 1884 the reverend J. A. Rivington explained in a paper delivered at the Society of Arts in London how air contaminated by coal and gas emissions destroys fresco: “The carbonate of lime is converted into the sulphate, breaking up the paint and becoming itself disintegrated in the process of change.” The notoriously contaminated air surrounding and invading the Sistine chapel contains sulphur dioxide from coal-burning, nitrous oxides from car exhausts and hydrogen chloride from incinerated plastics. When combined with rain or condensed water these substances produce sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids respectively, all fiercely corrosive. Water is brought into the Chapel by tourists in the form of perspiration and breathing vapour while breathing itself gives off carbon dioxide.
On 12 December 2012, Corriere della Sera reported: “‘Dust, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide are the great enemies of paintings’, Museum Director Antonio Paolucci told reporters in the Vatican, ‘so this threat is something we have to address. The five million tourists who visit the Sistine Chapel each year bring massive amounts of grime and humidity with them, and it is seriously damaging Michelangelo’s frescoes. So starting in the middle of 2013, every tourist will be thoroughly vacuumed, dusted, cleaned, and chilled before admission to reduce the amount of environmental pollution they cause. ‘On entering the chapel, each tourist will be required to pass through a hi-tech vacuum system to remove dust, fibres, skin flakes, hair and other tiny particles, before they are allowed to view the frescoes. At the same time, a special carpet will also clean their shoes, while side vacuums will cool their temperature, to reduce the heat and humidity that emanates from their bodies. The dirt and heat generated by the 20,000 bodies each day has caused grime to accumulate on the paintings, and a thick layer of dirt had to be scrubbed off of the Last Judgment two years ago. This cannot be allowed to happen again.’”
What Goes Round, Comes Round
We have been there before. In “Art Restoration” in 1993 we wrote: “A recent report commissioned by the Vatican on the Chapel’s microclimate noted that the very large numbers of tourists produce the following adverse effects: they carry in from the streets polluted dust and organic particles on their clothing and hair; their combined body heat raises the temperature by as much as 5°C; and they greatly increase the relative humidity of the air. The moisture and carbon dioxide given off by tourists combines to produce carbonic acid which dissolves the calcium carbonate of the fresco. Water vapours convert sulphur particles into sulphuric acid which also dissolves fresco. The body heat creates convective air currents which carry polluted particles up to the walls and ceilings. Water vapour can activate the traces of salt and detergent left behind after the cleaning with AB57.”
In 1981 Colalucci had equated the glue/size paints with “extraneous chemical substances” without which “and with the science we have today” he hoped “the frescoes will remain in good condition for a very long time”. As mentioned, he offered an assurance that he had left “a very thin film of dirt touching the paint surface with its varying ‘patina’. This fine layer of dirt acts as a form of protection to the paint.” As also mentioned, we now know that whatever Colalucci might have left behind performed no such service, and that dirt on frescoes is no protection from further accumulations of corrosive dirt.
There have been many unfounded assurances. In 1987 Kathleen Weil Garris Brandt, Professor of Fine Arts, at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and spokeswoman for the Vatican on the restoration of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, assured readers in Apollo that, “The substances used for the cleaning…have been used successfully for over twenty years… their chemical action is known and stops once the process is finished…the cleaning chemicals do not actually come into contact with the fresco surface”. Just months before in the Summer 1987 Art News, Summer 1987, the Moras themselves had claimed no more than that placing the solvents in a cellulose gel helped to “reduce penetration into the fresco”. In the summer 1987 Art News, the assurances were becoming more specific. M. Kirby Talley Jr., an independent consultant in fine art, interiors and art conservation, wrote:
“In order to prevent the condensation of moisture on the surface of the fresco, the Vatican has already embarked on an extensive programme to control the micro-climate of the Sistine Chapel. Professor Camuffo of the University of Padua spent a year making detailed measurements of relative humidity, temperature and air movement. A climate-control system based on his findings, which will prevent the movement of air above the windows as well as filter it, is now being developed by Carrier-Delchi. Electrical heating coils, ‘A sort of giant electrical blanket,’ as Persegati called it, will be placed under the roof above the ceiling, and will help to maintain a steady temperature during the winter. A dirt absorbing carpet has already been installed on the stairs down to the chapel and on part of the floor inside. Carrier-Delchi is considering a wind shower to remove dust particles from people’s clothing before they enter the chapel. Low heat lamps that can be adjusted to the amount of natural light entering through the windows will further reduce the temperature.”
Synthetic Resins – On or Off?
Talley Jr. reported that Colalucci had assured him that Michelangelo had used no secco paint on the lunettes, and that while the synthetic resin B 72 had been used to seal the walls of the lunettes it had not been used to that purpose on the ceiling. Even the official apologias for B 72 were more disturbing than reassuring: “Like all restoration materials it has its good and its bad points”, Talley said. Frommel was quoted as saying “According to the critics B 72 is something which may become opaque in the future. Are the critics right when they say we don’t know what it will do? They say tests should have been made and then a long period of time should have been allowed to elapse before proceeding. Paraloid can close the surface to respiration. It can close the pores, and if that were to happen it might change the interior life of the fresco.” To this Talley gave voice to B 72’s champions. According to the Moras “If you don’t use Paraloid, what do you use? Organic resins and inorganic fixatives such as lime water, ethysilicates and barium hydroxide all have serious drawbacks. Of the synthetic resins the acrylics are the best, and of the acrylics Paraloid is the least bad.” Was the least bad, good enough for Michelangelo – and better than his own secco painting which had for centuries protected the fresco surfaces from airborne pollutants?
On this question, the Vatican’s accounts prove unsatisfactory and shifting. All that can be said safely is that B 72 was abandoned and not replaced at some point between 1986 and 1991, at which latter date Colaucci claimed “There was no final application to protect or saturate the painting”. This change of mind was defended in 1991: “Our decision not to apply a protective material derived from the awareness that any new material which is not homogeneous with the original components of the fresco will undergo rapid degradation, causing, in the best of cases, aesthetic damage.” This being so, we must expect some parts of the frescoes to deteriorate more rapidly than others – but how many? In 1991 Colaucci put B 72 applications at “lunettes 50 per cent, ceiling 3 per cent”. In 1993 (“Art Restoration” p. 120) we had noted that while protection of the frescoes was to depend on the thin layer of original dirt that Colalucci claimed to have left in place and on the above described plans to stabilise and purify the chapel’s microclimate: “When Michael Daley asked if the air-conditioning system would eliminate the great fluctuations triggered by tourists, he [Mancinelli] replied ‘No. It will reduce the peaks and the troughs but will not eliminate the problem entirely.’” Of course, at that date, as today, the problems could have been halved by halving the numbers of tourists. Then, as perhaps still is the case, on days when the Chapel was closed to visitors, visitor numbers to the Vatican museums fell by 60 per cent.
The Breach of Methodological Good Practice that Menaced Michelangelo’s Shading
In the execution of the cleaning, certain procedural lapses compounded the risks and dangers. Early in the programme (in 1981 when working on the lunettes), Colalucci had said that AB 57: “was created mainly for marble but the Moras experimented with it on fresco. It is like paste. It can be on for a minute or ten minutes. The effect varies with the amount of time it spends in contact with a surface. The danger is that if you leave it on a minute or two too long it will go beyond the foreign substances and start removing the paint. You can see little areas where I’ve applied AB57 in two or three stages. Each time I take it off well before it’s too late. Then I look at it and gauge how much more time it will need…Here’s a tiny patch where I left it on too long. In this little experimental patch you see completely solid violet paint, but around it you can see the gradations of dark and light, which are the shadings of Michelangelo’s own work.”
Why, then, were the varying thicknesses of the (mis-designated) “foreign and extraneous substances” all given identical applications of two three minutes-long applications set twenty-four hours apart? Such an uniform treatment of so vast and varying a programme of painting seemed to breach conservation’s own ethics and “good practice”. As we had reported in “Art Restoration”:
“Within four years, Colalucci had abandoned this control of the solvent by constant observation and timing. In its place a standardized procedure was adopted, described in the 1986 ‘General Report on the Lunettes’: ‘First application, three minutes followed by removal and washing with water. Left to dry for 24 hours. Second application, three minutes followed by washing and leaving to dry as before’. These three-minute applications were said to have been ‘rigorously measured’. Colalucci explained the reason for the change of procedure: the size of the ceiling required that work be carried out by a team. Individual restorers, responding to the evidence of their own eyes, would draw different conclusions. Therefore, in order to obtain a ‘homogeneity of result’ – a ‘primary objective’ – they must be denied the opportunity to judge for themselves how long the solvent should remain in place. Solvent applications had to be predetermined, Colalucci felt, in order to avoid ‘either emotional involvement or complex mechanical manipulation on the part of the restorers’. When asked in 1985 at the Wethersfield Conference in New York why he did not adjust the timing to what his eyes were witnessing, he replied: ‘Because emotional or subjective conditions must not be permitted to intrude upon science.’ The scaffold, he added, did not permit stepping back to assess effects and the continuous bright lights of the Japanese film-makers ‘fatigued one’s eyes’. The activity of the film crews was itself a distraction as was also his having to entertain up to sixteen VIP visitors a day…” See Figs. 34 and 35.
Conservation Ethics and Showbiz Restorations
The inventors of AB57 held that cleaning should never be considered “entirely a technical matter…confined merely to the choice of solvent”. The restorer’s responsibility for the control of the solvent’s actions is absolute and should never be left to “depend on the natural uncontrolled action of the products” and must always depend on “the precise wish and aim of the restorer guided by his critical interpretation”. By failing to exercise control at all times, the restorer “deprives himself of the principal alarm signal when faced with new situations; he gives up looking ahead and allows the problem to resolve itself mechanically so that subsequently he can impose the result as an accomplished fact.”
By test-driving a new cleaning agent under television studio conditions in a constricted, over-crowded and art-politically febrile space, the Vatican restorers pioneered a new professional genre: conservation as both entertainment and professional swank. The combination of the Nippon Television Corporation sponsored showbiz and a provocatively radical restoration drew many protests. This spawned intensely propagandistic promotional razzmatazz, the unprecedented scale and character of which will be examined in Part III.
“The activity of restoration can be defined in terms of two overlapping headings, procedure and method. Procedure is fixed and invariable, and consists in the scientific planning and execution of the restoration project, regardless of the material involved. Method, however, is the department strictly of the action taken in the course of the restoration, and is therefore variable, subject to factors arising from the material, technique and state of conservation of the monument involved. “The adoption of a procedure which governs the progress of the work is characteristic of modern restoration. Under the impetus of a marked development in technological expertise, modern restoration has extended its established and primary function of conservation for aesthetic ends to include a research capacity, directed towards the work of art considered as an inseparable duality, conceptual and material. “In the past restoration practice aimed at cancelling out the effects of time and events upon the work of art, termed by Brandi comprehensively its historical aspect, absolute priority was given to its aesthetic aspect, conditioned of course by its contingent situation. The restoration of works of art was therefore entrusted to artists, who were free to introduce personal methods, often secret or private, consistent with the aim of returning the work to its pristine material state, but not necessarily to its original intended state. “In the evolution of the ‘art’ of restoration, the laboratory for the Restoration of Pictures in the Vatican Museums has had a not insignificant role. Founded in 1992 by Biagio Biagetti according to the latest ideas, and subsequently provided with a Laboratory for Scientific Research, the institute is today directed by by Carlo Pietrangeli who in 1978 established its guidlines in Rules for the restoration of works of art. “In June 1980 this laboratory, constitutionally responsible for the restoration of the pictorial patrimony of the Holy See, qualified and informed by its enormous experience, which goes back more than 50 years and has been constantly renewed both technically and in terms of personnel, undertook the most important task it had yet undertaken in its history, the restoration of the frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel…” ~ Gianluigi Colalucci, “Michelangelo’s Colours Rediscovered”, “The Sistine Chapel – Michelangelo Rediscovered”, London, 1986.
“The restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel was a venture that shook the very foundations of the art world more than any other single event has managed to do in the last quarter of a century. “Promoted and conducted with rigorously conservative objectives, over the course of its execution the restoration program assumed an ever-growing significance in historical and critical terms – an importance that was foretold when the first patches were cleaned and was fully confirmed by the restoration of the Eleazar-Mathan lunette.” ~ Gianluigi Colalucci, “Michelangelo The Vatican Frescoes”, by Pierluigi de Vecchi and Gianluigi Colalucci, 1996.
“…The intuition that the colours must have been quite different from those that could be seen can be found sporadically in the writings of the more perceptive scholars of Michelangelo, from [Charles Heath] Wilson to Biagetti and Wilde. But clear and conclusive evidence of the original colours was established for the first time in recent times by the extraordinary photographs of the Japanese photographer Takashi Okamura, taken just before the restoration and published in a book of 1980, unfortunately in a small limited edition and now not widely seen. The eye of the camera, in itself much more acute than the human eye, and aided by much stronger light than is usually available in the Chapel, revealed beneath the dirt and deteriorated glue-varnish the tangible existence of of what the restoration today is gradually retrieving. “Although the book with Okamura’s photographs and the restoration that is now proceeding came about independently and for different reasons, the two are complementary, and Okamura’s book is today a valuable record of what for centuries had masked the true nature of Michelangelo’s painting; if the cleaning had not gone ahead, it would have been the sole means by which to achieve a proper or effective analysis of his work…” ~ Fabrizio Mancinelli, “Michelangelo at Work”, “The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo rediscovered”, London, 1986.
Above, (top) Fig. 1: Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl, detail.
Above, Fig. 2: Michelangelo’s Moses.
Evaluating restorations (or attributions) requires a clear appreciation of an artist’s most secure works and characteristics. Michelangelo’s phenomenally potent carved figures, such as his Moses (above), found parallel realisation in the figures he was compelled to paint on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, such as the Libyan Sibyl shown at Fig. 1 and below. In the reproduction of his Moses at Fig. 2, we see how (natural or artificial) light and shadows are trapped/made by the architectural projections. Within the constraining rectilinear spaces set by the architecture, the figure’s own component parts move and shift against one another so as to produce planar and volumetric dynamism and expressive anatomical torsion.
MICHELANGELO’S USE OF DRAPERY
The not-naturalistic drapery in the Moses complements and enhances the body’s deportment with its own autonomously animated structures and vitalising rhythms. The deeply undercut, shadow-producing drapery over Moses’s left thigh had found direct pictorial anticipations on the ceiling in the Libyan and Erythraean sibyls shown here. Michelangelo had discovered, as Leonardo had taunted, that a painter controls his own lighting and can (like an etcher) submit it to his own singular will, darkening here, highlighting there, shaping and moulding matter with form-describing tonal values and relationships. In Fig. 1, which is a fragment of a coloured painting reproduced in greyscale, we “see” a piece of sculpture – or strictly speaking, a sculpturally conceived figure that happens not have been made but was depicted pictorially with an imagined optimal lighting so as to render its forms with the fullest sculptural lucidity and force. Such was Michelangelo’s genius in these matters that the fragment from his Libyan Sybil might be thought the creative equal of a fragment of the Parthenon’s carved frieze.
SPOT THE ODD ONE OUT:
Above, Figs. 3, 4 and 5.
Fig. 3 (above, top) is a fragment of the Libyan Sibyl’s drapery before restoration. Fig. 4 (above, middle) is the same fragment after restoration. Fig. 5 (above) is a fragment of an engraved copy of the Libyan Sibyl made in 1797 by a fine (Flaxmanesque) engraver, Tommaso Piroli.
Of the three images, the first is by Michelangelo as found before the last restoration. The second is the same fragment of the figure as it emerged after the last restoration. The third is the corresponding fragment of a copy showing the figure as it had survived for nearly three hundred years. We hold that the differences between the first and the second states constitute evidence of injury, and claim support for this reading in the third image here and in the images at Figs. 6, 7 and 8. As further corroboration, we show below how, in the wake of the restorations of the 1980s and 1990s, many similarly injured passages can be found throughout the ceiling. The painting contained in the first image (at Fig. 3) had never been challenged or doubted as part of an entirely autograph work of Michelangelo. Never challenged, that is, until the beginning of the last restoration when the Vatican’s restorers advanced a claim that this figure, and all others on the ceiling, had been so deformed by dirt and successive layers of restorers’ varnishes as to constitute a corrupted and misleading Michelangelo. The true Michelangelo, it was contended, lay unrecognisably different under alien material accretions which, with the help of some very powerful chemicals-in-a-gel, would be dispersed – even though the resulting change of appearance in the paintings would in turn require that everything previously thought about the artist be overturned. Tragically, the Vatican authorities permitted this hubristic, artistically perverse and historically unsupported programme to proceed. That which had survived for nearly five hundred years in Fig. 1, was turned after two three minutes long chemical dousings into Fig. 2.
THE CHANGED CHARACTER OF THE DRAPERY
The pre-restored image showed drapery that was boldy massed, purposefully shaded and satisfyingly sculptural in its volumetric descriptions and compositional fluency. To educated eyes, its then appearance could only have been a product of artistry. It could not have been an accidental by-product of random accumulations of unequally disfigured accretions, as has been claimed in defence of all the restoration changes. The pre-restoration state, as is shown above, bore too close a family relation to Michelangelo’s carved sculptural forms for its authorship ever to have been in question. By comparison, the post-restoration image is weaker; its forms smaller; its tones consistently lighter. The surviving tonal modelling is more local to each piece of material, less broadly unified across incidents. It is thus weakening to the previously strong overall sculptural effects, spatially ambiguous, and more akin to shallow relief than free-standing sculpture. There is no historical corroboration for today’s appearance – it appears in no copies. All of which raises the question: “Why was the very design of Michelangelo’s work changed by this removal of a piece of drapery?”.
THE LOST SECTION OF DRAPERY
The large fold of drapery that hangs from the lower left leg no longer sweeps down gracefully from below the knee, as seen if Figs. 3 and 5, but emerges abruptly and uncomfortably at the shin. On stylistic grounds alone, the removed material cannot be said to have been an addition made by some other person, let alone by accretions. This section of pre-restoration drapery was entirely, seamlessly of a piece, and served a clear compositional purpose.
Above, Fig. 6. The Libyan Sibyl, as copied in 1797 by Tommaso Piroli. As well as giving the clearest account of the not-yet truncated drapery hanging from the left leg, Piroli (an engraver of antiquities) provides an elegant shorthand account of Michelangelo’s three principal zones of dark tone. The first, at the bottom between the legs, differentiates their positions in space vis-a-vis the viewer: the side of the more distant leg misses the strong light source (as indicated by its emphatically cast shadow) and is therefore optically subordinated by darkened tones. The arms and torso are relieved by dark tone over the drapery hanging from the table. The curving sweep of drapery on the right begins brightly at the top, as if caught by the light. This area of brightness relieves the darker shaded side of the arms and torso. It then darkens as it passes close to the Sibyl’s body before lightening again as it moves froward into the light that catches the left leg and foot.
Above, Figs 7 and 8: Two states of an anonymous 16th-century engraving.
Although the author of this copy (published in “La Sistina Riprododotta”, 1991, and here reversed) was not as fluent a draughtsman as Piroli, and took liberties with the architecture, on the two crucial issues of the right foot’s cast shadow and the shape and the extent of the hanging drapery at the raised left leg, the copy is entirely consistent with the later artist’s testimony. Thus, just as with Piroli two centuries later, we see that the drapery emerged below the knee and at an acute angle. It did not, as today, burst into view abruptly at a right angle from behind the shin, as left by the restorers. We can rule out the possibility that a change might have been made to Michelangelo’s drapery by a restorer even before this 16th-century engraving was made. The restorer known to have been called in during the 16th-century – Domenico Carnevale – did so in 1566. He made five repairs in total and all were made in buon fresco, not a secco. He did no work on the Libyan Sibyl. Thus, only Michelangelo could have amended his own buon fresco work on the Libyan Sibyl’s drapery with a secco painting – just as he can be seen to have done on the sybil’s right foot…which can also be seen to have been injured in the last restoration, at Figs. 11, 12 and 13.
Above, Figs. 9 and 10. The legs of the Libyan Sibyl, as published in 1990 (left) and in the post-restoration state in 1992 (right). In Fig. 9 we see how before restoration the former design of the hanging drapery helped create a compositionally mediating, “fanning” movement between the position of the two legs, as had been recorded in the 16th and 18th-century copies shown above. Both copies show that, as before restoration, the wedge-shaped piece of hanging drapery ran into the shadowed zone that served to push back the right leg and give greater prominence the left leg.
THE MANGLED FOOT AND ITS DISAPPEARED SHADOW
Above, Figs. 11, 12 and 13.
This sequence records many alterations made in the Libyan Sybil’s right foot: before cleaning (top); after cleaning (middle); and after repainting (bottom). In fig. 11 we see a mini fanning movement in the three short dark accented folds at the ankle of the sybil’s right foot which have melted away in Fig. 12. We see also in Fig. 11 examples of what Alexander Eliot described as “Michelangelo’s loving depiction of fingernails, eyelids and tiny wrinkles”. Once again, Michelangelo’s habit of placing a dark shadow beind the lit edge of a form and a light ground behind its shaded side was evident here in his treatment of the strategically dramatic arched foot.
UNDOING AND (PARTIAL) REDOING
This sequence also comprises a tacit acknowlegement of error on the part of the restorers. Evidence is here present not just of the loss of the foot’s cast shadow (as also with the Jonah below) but even of its anatomical credibility. Michelangelo had repositioned this foot, scraping away one part and adding another. The cleaning undid this revision, and thereby produced (uniquely in Michelangelo’s oeuvre) a human heel that was not rounded but that came to a point, as in Fig. 12. We questioned this transformation (and that of the Erythraean Sibyl’s right foot, shown below) to Fabrizio Mancinelli, the co-director of the restoration, when he gave a talk on the restoration at the Courtauld Institute, London. Later, on visiting the Chapel we discovered that the heel had become rounded again if not entirely whole, as seen at Fig. 13. Clearly, if the repainted addition is now correct, it should never have been removed in the first place.
Above, Fig. 14: An article in The Independent of 22 November 1991, which first showed the Erythraean Sibyl’s right foot as it emerged after restoration.
Above, Figs. 15 and 16: The Erythraean Sibyl’s right foot before cleaning (left) and after cleaning and restoration (right). Note, in addition to the mangled foot, the changes made to the forms and the colours of the drapery. We assume that no one believes that the foot today is as Michelangelo intended it to be left. We have found deafening the collective silence of art historians and art critics on this grotesque blunder. Perhaps some think that such sacrifices of authentic painting are a price worth paying to get at brighter colours?
Above, Fig. 17: The Libyan Sibyl and the Prophet Daniel, before restoration
Note how effectively Michelangelo had simulated monumental figures set within palpable architecturally bounded spaces. On the left, we see the Libyan Sibyl (discussed further below) and the Prophet Daniel. Note particularly with what force the drapery over Daniel’s right shoulder cascades and twists, and how emphatically it captures a deep dark shadow next to his right side.
Above, Figs. 18 and 19: The Prophet Daniel, before restoration (left) and after restoration (right).
In this pairing, we see one of most massive destructions of a Michelangelo a secco revision. Once again, corroboration of the pre-restoration state – and disqualification of the post-restoration state – is found in early copies of the figure, as shown below.
Above, Figs. 20 and 21. Engraved copies of the Prophet Daniel.
These two copies made in the 1790s by artists working in very different graphic styles (in tones in the case of Giovanni Volpato, left, and with lines with Tommaso Piroli, right) both testify to the then survival of Michelangelo’s unprecedented pictorial chiaroscuro – his emphatic placement of lights against darks which had so struck and thrilled his contemporaries.
When we first reminded the restoration’s supporters of Michelangelo’s original pictorial schema and drew attention to the corroborating copies, Nicholas Penny, for one, rushed to be dismissive, saying of the copies that “none of them support the claim Daley makes”, and added, “I am surprised to hear that the ceiling was ‘praised precisely for its unprecedented chiaroscuro’.” In the 11 February 1993 London Review of Books Dr Penny had recited the then Standard Defence For The Restoration:
“Study of the ceiling now that it has been cleaned tends to distance Michelangelo from the art of recent centuries – and from the work of artists who were inspired by the ceiling – and reveal a far closer connection with the dazzling colours favoured by artists in his immediate following and also evident in some of the better preserved 15th-century panel paintings.”
The operative words were “now that it has been cleaned”. While it is true that Michelangelo’s biographers had suffered the handicap of having to respond to the ceiling when it was freshly painted and not yet “cleaned”, it was remiss of Penny not to have noticed that none of Michelangelo’s contemporaries had spoken of dazzling colours or likened his great fresco cycle to 15th-century panel paintings. The truth is that Michelangelo had shown his figures and his fictive architecture as if placed in a brilliant “cinematographer’s” light – why else, how else, could so many of his feet have originally sported such dramatically cast shadows on the ceiling’s illusionistic mini projected “floors”, and so many of his figures have cast such dramatic shadows onto the walls?
EVEN GOD WAS AT RISK FROM THE CLEANERS
Above, Figs. 22 and 23: God (detail) in Michelangelo’s panel showing the bestowing of life upon Adam, before cleaning (top), after cleaning (above).
If old pictures were simply being cleaned and not injured, their ranges of tonal values would be extended and not diminished, as seen here. For example, in the bottom left-hand corner what was graduated, nuanced, modelled, has become uniform, flatter, more “on the surface”. The ridges of drapery which formerly wrapped round the shoulder, now break off short. The folds themselves have become simpler in drawing, less expressive in shading. Lines of under-drawing emerge more strongly, while crisp tonal demarcations blur. Individual hairs get lost. If Michelangelo really had left his painting as in this “cleaned” state, what might have improved the drawing and modelling to the degree seen in the uncleaned state through all the (alleged) foreign accretions and filth?
Above, Fig. 24. This pre-restoration photograph shows the crucial junction between the Last Judgement and the ceiling. The zone contains some of Michelangelo’s most brilliant figural inventions, of which the commanding central Jonah earned the greatest admiration when the ceiling was unveiled. Note the general dispositions of tonality, the relative lightness of the illusionistic compartmentalising architectural elements, and the then legibility of the shadow cast by Jonah’s left foot – which foot, curiously, touches the same architectural arch as the foot of the Libyan Sibyl, above and to the right of Jonah.
Above, Fig. 25: Jonah’s left foot, before cleaning (left), and after cleaning (right).
While no one enthused over Michelangelo’s colours, everyone marvelled at his unprecedented use of light and shade on the ceiling. Among them, Condivi thought the Jonah the “most admirable of all…because contrary to the curve of the vault and owing to the play of light and shadow, the torso which is foreshortened backward is in the part nearest the eye, and the legs which project forward are in the part which is farthest.” Vasari asked: “Then who is not filled with admiration and amazement at the awesome sight of Jonah…The vaulting naturally springs forward, following the curve of the masonry; but through the force of art it is apparently straightened out by the figure of Jonah, which bends in the opposite direction; and vanquished by the art of design, with its lights and its shades, the ceiling even appears to recede.” [Emphases added.] Note carefully what was being said at the time: by his drawing and his use of lights and darks, Michelangelo had made surfaces which were actually advancing towards the viewer seem to recede. What was not said, pace Mancinelli, was that Michelangelo’s colours had been used “pure” and that, as such, they had played “a primary structural role”. No authority then existed for the restorers’ recent trading of those impeccably accredited lights and darks for today’s heightened colours.
Above, Fig. 26. Four copies of Jonah, as published in “Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal” in 1993.
Most certainly, no authority existed for removing the shadow cast by Jonah’s foot. Countless copies over the centuries had recorded it. Giulio Clovio, in his copy shown here in the top left-hand corner, also recorded (in the bottom corners) parts of two lunettes that Michelangelo had painted before 1512 but destroyed before 1536 to prepare a continuous surface for the Last Judgement.
Above, Fig. 27: A 19th century engraved copy of a now lost drawn record of the two sacrificed lunettes. The copy of a copy of the sacrificed lunettes shows precisely “the kind of suggestive painting by shadows for which Michelangelo was admired until a few years ago”. Its testimony specifically contradicts the restorers’ claim that the suggestive painting was “essentially the product of candle smoke and still more of glue varnishes applied possibly even before the 18th century.” The dramatic shading in this record captures the decisively drawn shadow at Jonah’s left foot, as glimpsed at the top left. Fabrizio Mancinelli’s claim that the lunettes had erroneously “been interpreted for centuries by scholars as chiaroscuri with light and shade distributed so that the figures seem to be emerging from the darkness”, flouted Paolo Giovio’s 1525 testimony that Michelangelo had “used a gradually diminishing light to suggest some figures in the distance, almost hidden…”
Above, Fig. 28: A lunette figure before (left) and after (right) restoration. This was one of three photo-comparisons of the cleaned lunettes published by the sculptor Venanzo Crocetti in the December 1989 Oggi e Domani. That there was much surface disfigurement on the lunettes is not in dispute. Crocetti had seen for himself after years on the scaffolds that the effects of smoke varied by location within the Chapel and that the lunettes had been disproportionately affected because of their position at the junctions between the walls and ceiling. The central question in the restoration generally, as here, is why previously evident artistic features (shadows, folds of drapery and so forth) disappeared along with the dirt through which they had formerly been visible? How, for example, could the left thigh of this figure have been perceived before restoration with a light upper surface and a darker side surface – and why did that tonal distinction disappear?
Above, Fig. 29: An engraved copy of Michelangelo’s Erythraean Sibyl made in the 1570s by Giorgio Ghisi. Here we see that shadows that disappeared in the last cleaning had been recorded within sixty years of the painting and therefore could not have been products of later accretions. It has sometimes been suggested that the testimony of engraved copies is not reliable because engravers exagerated tonal effects. Ghisi produced five other major plates of the prophets and sibyls (and of their surrounding figures). Like his Erythraean Sybil above, all showed a strongly dramatic use of shading that was still to be found in the figures themselves until the restoration. If Ghisi had exaggerated, what had he been exaggerating at a time when soot and restorers’ alleged varnishes had yet to impart their (Mancinelli-attributed) chiaroscuro-esque effects? Had Ghisi and other early copyists like Giulio Clovio collectively anticipated dramatic effects that Time and Accident would bestow centuries later?
Above, Fig. 30: The Erythraean Sibyl before cleaning. Note the many correspondences of lighting and shading between the engraving and the photograph four centuries later. In both, the Sybil’s head casts a shadow onto the architecture. In both, the face’s lit profile is thrown into relief by background shadow. In both, the deeply undercut ‘U’ shaped fold of drapery that runs from the right thigh begins in the light but sinks progressively into a shadow which merges with the shadow that the figure casts onto the architecture.
Above, Figs. 31 and 32. The head of the Erythraean Sibyl before cleaning (left), and after cleaning (right), showing catastrophic losses of modelling and shading. Note here the particulary emphatic and successful use of the tonal convention of relieving light contours against dark grounds, and vice versa, so as to deploy the most sculpturally expressive range of half-tones in between.
Above, Fig. 33: This (rotated) view of the ceiling in which the vertical wall appears in the bottom left corner shows the complicated curved geometries on which Michelangelo’s images were painted and the curious way in which the shadow-casting feet of Jonah and the Libyan Sibyl touch the same piece of curving architectural moulding.
Michelangelo’s task in designing and executing such a complex array of figures in so precise an “architectural” context was immensely difficult. In this respect, it would be less than human not to feel some sympathy for the restorers whose handicaps were compounded by the decision to allow the sponsors (the Nippon Television Corporation) to film the entire operation from the scaffold. In addition to the TV crews, other photography was permitted as part of the restoration’s promotion in the media. In one specialised respect, photographs that catch restorers at work can illuminate restoration proceedures to a degree rarely encountered in offical presentations.
Above, Fig. 34: The Libyan Sibyl during cleaning. This photograph, of a restorer being filmed at close quarters while working on the Libyan Sibyl, was reproduced across two pages of a 1992 book “Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel” by Robin Richmond, a painter who was supportive of the restoration. It shows that the figures were being cleaned first and separately from the backgrounds. A slight overlapping of the cleaning onto the figures’ dark green “relieving” background has introduced a light green halo-effect. The difference between the light green ‘halo’ and the adjacent dark green between the figures indicates the magnitude of the reductions of tonal values that took place in the shaded zones throughout the cleaning. As Crocetti had observed, Michelangelo had used his size or glue painting most of all in these zones. Wilson, testified that he had done so with a finely ground black pigment.
Above, Fig. 35: The Libyan Sibyl during cleaning. Over the years, many excellent photographic records of major restorations have appeared in National Geographic. The December 1989 issue carried an article (“A Renaissance for Michelangelo”) which contained the stunning photograph above by Adam Woolfit (here in greyscale for comparative purposes). This photograph records the cleaning as it approached the draperies over the Libyan Sibyl’s legs. The halo effect seen at Fig. 25 had by then disappeared along with the removal of almost all of the dark green background toning. Only a small rectangle of the former dark paint on the background remained, temporarily attached to the bottom of the Sibyl’s left upper arm. Woolfit eloquently captures the extremely bright artificial television lighting under which the restorers worked, and, most valuably of all, an “in-between” state when the incoherences that emerge in the stripping-down of paintings have yet to receive restorers’ tidying and patching-up with the paint brush (-or, in restoration trade posh, “reintegration”) .
Above, Fig. 36: The Libyan Sibyl as published in 1990.
Above, Fig. 37: The Libyan Sibyl as published in 2010. The transformation during restoration was immense. In 1986 Mancinelli claimed that Michelangelo had used his colours “constantly pure” and that they had served “a primary structural role” enabling him to “abandon almost altogether traditional chiaroscuri modelling”. The following photographs chronicle the swift demise of Michelangelo’s nearly five hundred years old chiaroscuri.
Above (top), Fig. 38, the torso of the Libyan Sibyl, as published in 1904 and, Fig. 39, in 1996. Within the characteristically restoration-compressed range of tones, the boy’s hair, which previously was light and blonde, relieved against a blackish green ground (as seen in Figs. 36 and 38), is now darker than the radically “cleaned” light green background drapery. If we consider the whole figure before cleaning (as at Figs. 17, 33 and 36) we see a consistent and dramatic light falling on it from the left. As well as casting the strong shadow from the right foot, that light illuminated the left side of the sibyl and the right-hand side of the architecture. The sibyl’s head had a lit side and shadowed side and, just like that of the Erythraean Sybil, each side was set off by a tonally contrasted background. Similarly, the brightly lit left arm was strongly relieved by the very dark green drapery, while the shaded right arm was thrown into relief against the light stonework…and so forth. After a cleaning, we would expect Fig. 39 to be like Fig. 38 in its values only more so with lighter lights and darker darks. Instead, while Fig. 39 is now certainly cleaner looking and tidier, by comparison with its former self, it resembles an early state of an etching before the dark tones and blacks have been worked up – rather as may be seen at Figs. 7 and 8.
Above, Fig. 40. The Libyan Sibyl’s head, as published in 1966, before restoration. Note the progressions of tones, and the brilliant highlight at the shoulder.
Above, Fig. 41: The testimony of Woolfit’s 1989 photograph (detail) of the cleaning in progress. We see at this stage of restoration that along with the removal of the glue-based paint on the background green draperies, the formerly clear and precisely established contours of the left upper arm have been disrupted by the emergence of dark patches of sketchy, inconsistent and disconnected outlining. Given that these arbitrary irregularities are not present in either the pre- or the post-cleaning states, we must consider how they arrived and how they were persuaded to depart.
Above, (top) Fig. 42, the Sibyl’s forearm, as seen in 1904. Above, (middle) Fig. 43, the Sibyl’s forearm, as seen during cleaning in 1989. Above, Fig. 44, the Sibyl’s forearm as seen after cleaning and repainting. At Fig. 43, once again, along with the removal of the former dark toning material behind the arm, we see remarkable changes to the tonal modelling of the arm itself and to its previously lucid, now erratic contours. We would claim that such changes cannot be seen as anything other than restoration-induced injuries: 1) It is inconceivable that Michelangelo would ever have been content to leave a limb in such a condition. (Think of the Virgin’s arms in the Doni Tondo.) The massively intrusive overdrawing of the thick bar-like contour of the thumb and forefinger seen after cleaning at Fig. 43 is inexplicable except as preliminary underpainting. (Remember that Crocetti complained of AB 57 having penetrated the frescoes to a depth of half centimetre.) 2) It is inconceivable that Michelangelo would have depicted the left contour of the forearm being ruptured by the intrusion of the edge of the giant book’s cover board that rests on the top of the draped table behind the sibyl, as seen at Fig. 43 (and as such, exclusively by courtesy of Woolfit’s photograph, so far as we know). Such an illogical intersecting relationship might have appealed to Picasso in his analytical cubist phase, but it could hardly have done so to Michelangelo. How, then, did it arise and how did it disappear? Have any accounts been published of the emergence and swift extinguishing of this extraordinary pictorial phenomenon? Has film of the cleaning of this arm been broadcast? 3) Finally, it is of course, inconceivable that had Michelangelo left the forearm drawn and modelled as seen in 1989 at Fig. 43, that subsequent accumulations of soot and glues could have sufficiently remedied his defects of drawing so as to bring the work to the condition seen in 1904 at Fig. 42. Clearly, the restorers themselves did not accept the emerging injuries to the arm to be a fair recovery of some original and authentic condition, because it is apparent from Fig. 44 that steps were taken to paint out some of the more glaringly incongrous defects. But who was the author of the “corrections” to the very defects that the restoration unleashed? Who should be accredited for authorship of the hybrid, revised arm as seen at Fig. 44?
Above, Fig. 45. In December 1989 National Geographic published this beautifully balanced record (here flipped) by Victor R. Boswell, Jr. of the last moments of the Sistine Chapel ceiling as finished by Michelangelo. Springing from the centre top of the not-yet-cleaned Last Judgement we see Jonah around whom congregate, in the last section of the ceiling that Michelangelo painted, some of the artist’s most miraculously inventive figures set in their fictive temple-in-the-sky. For a little longer this section retained the majesty and mystery of the infinite space and dark depths that had survived for nearly half a millennium.
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Brian Reed: Head Halo Writer
Author Topic: Brian Reed: Head Halo Writer (Read 3123 times)
https://twitter.com/BrianReed
So... yup. This just happened.
Man, it's a shame Halo ended after Reach! I would've like to see where that story was going!
I'm not sure whether I'll get a PS4 or a WiiU. You guys?
Re: Brian Reed: Head Halo Writer
Quote from: craZboy557 on December 09, 2013, 10:37:59 PM
I couldn't find a whole lot on the guy other than he used to be a comic writer. Is he like the Mac Walters of the comic industry or something?
On the subject of new hires, 343 also acquired Tim Longo from Crystal Dynamics, who made the Tomb Raider reboot. Too bad he wasn't around prior to Halo 4's launch as I'm sure he would have brought Cortana's bust size down to a more "reasonable" size
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-12-09-tomb-raider-creative-director-joins-343-industries
I was thinking of getting a PS2 slim version myself. I have a strong desire to replay games like Spy Hunter, Dino Crisis 1-2, Resident Evil 1-3, Einhander... the list keeps growing. Retro gaming ftw!
I got a Wii U. Wind Waker HD ftw.
He's always been the franchise writer. I dunno if he actually went a job change or its just semantics.
It can't be a difficult job.
Humani-bros are best. Aliens are ugly terrorist monsters. Geneva Convention is for pansies. After a war its more important to make new armor variants and claim alien artifacts than build houses.
Semi-relevant bits from GAF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93255304&postcount=1478
And a thought that I think applies to Spartan Ops as well and Halo in general, going forward.
The problems with Halo 4's writing were twofold, in a general sense; one, they didn't say enough in regards to the Didact's motives in the game.
The second is that less is more, and a lot of scenes would have played out much nicer had they straight-up cut some dialogue. Cody Miller at HBO posted an edited cutscene from the end of Midnight where they lose Chief's "she told me that once" line to himself, and the scene plays so much better and has a greater sense of subtlety. Cortana stroking the Chief isn't really weird if you know the backstory, and it's not really played that sexually... except Cortana says "I've always wanted to do that", and it pushes it over the edge into weird and creepy for me. A line here and there would have made an inordinate amount of impact on improving the style of Halo 4's storytelling.
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Logistics Parks
MidState Hayes Buildings #2 and #3 Now Fully Occupied
VISALIA, Calif., Jan 22, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Allen Group, a major developer of industrial and office properties across the United States, today announced that it has leased space in the MidState Hayes Building #2 to WorkflowOne, a leading provider of document and business process outsourcing services. The 10-year lease covers 118,000 square feet of warehousing and distribution space at the MidState 99 DistributionCenteron the northwest corner of Plaza Drive and Ferguson Avenue in Visalia, Calif.
“The new business service center in Visalia will help WorkflowOne offer improved services to our West Coast customers,” said Douglas Burnham, Senior Director of Distribution Services. “In addition to increased inventory capacity, it enables us to provide one-day shipping to virtually all of California.” WorkflowOne offers a wide variety of print and promotional products, as well as fulfillment and distribution services, to organizations of all sizes across the United States.
The MidState 99 Distribution Center is strategically located in the heart of Calif. With direct access to Highway 99, the state’s major trucking corridor, companies located at MidState 99 have the distinct advantage of being able to access both northern and southern California.
“MidState 99 is unlike any other distribution and manufacturing site in the state,” said Harve Filuk, Vice President of Development, California, The Allen Group.
“Companies located at MidState 99 tactically benefit from the ability to efficiently serve 98 percent of California overnight via next-day UPS Ground service, which is nearly impossible from other distribution site locations.”
The tenant signing of WorkflowOne will result in MidState Hayes Buildings #2 and #3 being 100 percent occupied. Filuk notes that the Company is already in the planning stages for the next speculative buildings at MidState Business Park, with hopes to begin construction this summer.
For more information on MidState 99 or The AllenGroup, log on to www.allengroup.com .
Editor’s note: A high resolution photo of the MidState 99Distribution Center is available upon request.
About The Allen Group
The Allen Group is a commercial development firm specializing in rail-served industrial parks and build-tosuit facilities, including Class A office buildings. The Company currently has 8,000 acres under development across the United States, with commercial properties ranging in size from 35,000 square feet to 1.7 million square feet, as well as four master-planned industrial parks. These projects include the International Trade andTransportation Center ( www.ittc.com ); MidState 99Distribution Center ( www.midstate99.com ); the DallasLogistics Hub ( www.dallashub.com ), and recently announced, a new BNSF Intermodal logistics hub near Kansas City.
The Allen Group, based in San Diego with regional offices in Visalia and Bakersfield, Calif., as well as Dallas, Texas, is trusted by Fortune 500 companies such as VF Corporation, Cox Communications, FedEx, International Paper Company, Intuit, Kraft Foods and Wal-Mart Stores. For more information about The AllenGroup, please visit www.allengroup.com .
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PSU Men’s Basketball tops Framingham State
Framingham State
Plymouth State (3-0) 30 27 57
Framingham State (1-3) 22 28 50
Pts: Curtis Arsenault - 16
Reb: Nathan Clarke - 10
Ast: Nathan Clarke - 3
Pts: Bertholyn Alexandre - 15
Reb: Bertholyn Alexandre - 7
Ast: Timothy McCarthy - 4
Panthers' strong interior play leads to another win
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – Plymouth State University improved to 3-0 after getting past Framingham State University, 57-50, in men's basketball action Thursday night. With the win the Panthers are off to the best three game start since the 2006-2007 season, when PSU opened the year 4-0.
Junior Curtis Arsenault (Berlin, N.H.) led all scorers with 16 points, while classmate Jack Preston (Nashua, N.H.) added 14 points and six rebounds. Senior Uche Nwokeji (Lynn, Mass.) contributed 11 points and six rebounds, as sophomore Brian Boulay (Keene, N.H.) had eight points. Senior guard Nathan Clarke (Reading, Mass.) put in a complete effort, stuffing the box score with four points, two steals, three assists and a game-high 10 rebounds.
Sophomore Tony Alexandre (Hyde Park, Mass.) led the Rams (1-3) with 15 points (7-of-9 shooting) and seven rebounds, as senior Jacek Louisville (Worcester, Mass.) contributed 13 points.
The Rams jumped out to a 9-2 lead early in the first half, but the Panthers used a 14-2 run, capped by a three in transition from Arsenault, to take a 16-11 lead. Plymouth State pushed the lead to as many as nine, 24-15, on a steal and layup from Clarke, before taking a 30-22 lead into halftime.
Framingham State opened the second half with a 5-0 spurt, fueled by a bucket in the paint from Alexandre to pull within three, 30-27, but the Panthers responded with a 10-2 run of their own, highlighted by a reverse lay-in from Preston and another three from Arsenault, pushing the lead to 40-29 with 13:15 left to play.
Arsenault and Boulay both hit a pair of free throws, giving PSU its largest lead, 49-35, with 5:11 remaining. Framingham State made things interesting, using a 13-5 run to close within six, 54-48, with 50 seconds to go behind a pair of three-pointers from junior Daniel Gould (Quincy, Mass.) and a layup from Alexandre. Clarke hit one-of-two from the line, followed by a pair of free throws by Boulay, to wrap up PSU's third straight win.
Plymouth State shot a solid 46% from the floor (20-of-44), while holding the Rams to 40% shooting (17-of-43). The Panthers owned the glass, outrebounding FSU 38-25.
Plymouth State opens Little East Conference play Saturday at UMass Dartmouth (3:00 p.m.). The Panthers will look to avenge last season's 88-87 overtime loss on a buzzer-beating jumper at the Tripp Athletic Center. The Rams will host Trinity College Tuesday night (6:00 p.m.).
(With contributions from Framingham State University Sports Information)
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A Funeral in Bath
Vintage Lorry Funerals first funeral in Bath was an emotional send off for a well respected man and over 600 people attended, which is documented in the Blog September 2017. Unbeknown to David, his second funeral in Bath would attract a similar sized crowd at Haycombe Crematorium.
The second funeral in Bath was for the largest Funeral Director in the City and often when visiting Bath with his wife, David would contemplate how he would manage the logistics if he was ever asked to undertake a funeral from their small yard.
David took a phone call from a Funeral Arranger who he had known from her days working in Bristol. Kim was excellent in providing the details of the funeral, including the timings and the Family’s decision that there would be no flowers. Kim advised that the vintage lorry needed to be with them by 1330 hours, however, she provided no information on why the Deceased’s Family had chosen the vintage lorry.
The 1950 Leyland Beaver is based in a garage behind David’s home, however, the street which leads to the main road can become gridlocked with cars being deposited at inappropriate places by people needing to catch a train to Bath. Obstructive Parking has prevented Emergency Vehicles getting up the street and on one occasion an elderly lady fell at home, broke her hip, and the Ambulance couldn’t get near her house. Sadly the lady had to be carried down the street and this event led to David galvanising the neighbours to demand Double Yellow Lines. The concept has been approved, however, it takes time for action to take place so, until Double Yellow Lines are installed, David will leave the street before 0730 hours.
David was left with a conundrum, where to park the vintage lorry in Bath, a historic city with Roman Baths and elegant Georgian properties but with limited parking opportunities for any vehicle larger than a car. David spoke to the Bath Spa Hotel, one of the most prestigious hostelries in the city, frequented by famous clientele such as Joan Collins. To David’s surprise the Receptionist was most friendly and offered parking for the vintage lorry whilst David could have his morning coffee, however, she omitted to mention the £15 parking fee.
The solution involved David contacting Paul Dallenty, a Funeral Director based in Twerton, the less affluent part of the city. Paul gave David his first funeral in Bath and was delighted to help, highlighting the opportunity to park in the Bath City Football Club car park or else in front of his shop. David opted for the second suggestion as he saw a way to promote potential future business for both Paul and himself.
David arrived in the Leyland Beaver at 0730 hours only to find that a Double Decker Bus had parked in the space in front of Paul Dallenty’s shop. The Bus was waiting for School Children and the Bus Driver was very interested in the vintage lorry, taking pictures with his tablet. Then some of the children got off the Bus and took pictures with their cameras.
Sue Hart, of Paul Dallenty Funerals, was extremely kind and held up the traffic whilst David turned the vintage lorry in the street. She then parked her car to prevent anyone leaving a car in front of the lorry which would have created a difficulty for the lorry to leave later in the day. Sue then invited David to sit in the Dallenty Office where he wrote his next blog by the heat of the 3 bar electric fire. The warmth of Sue’s hospitality and the warmth of the office were most welcome on this bitterly cold February day.
David left Twerton at 1315 hours and proceeded to the Funeral Director where he was scheduled to collect the coffin. There were no flowers for the funeral, so David decided to arrive only 30 minutes before the cortege was due to depart, because it wasn’t possible to get into the yard due to the volume of parked cars. The only place available was very close to the Funeral Directors wall and then to encourage those drivers wanting to pass, to mount the kerb.
A number of people walked past and commented how clean the lorry looked and how fitting it was for someone’s final journey. Whilst a Mother was talking to David, her Daughter used her mobile phone to load up the Vintage Lorry Funerals website and asked David about the most interesting Themes he had created. David described some Themes that were related to TV shows, like a 1950’s TV Set with The Lone Ranger & Tonto on the screen or his working model of Del Boy falling through the bar from Only Fools & Horses.
As this was the hub of the Funeral Directors operation, there were a number of coffins in the despatch area and David asked which was the one that he was about to load. Approaching the coffin indicated, David became alarmed that someone had left some old rags on top of the coffin and he admonished the staff for not treating the coffin with respect. One of the Funeral Director’s Staff started to chuckle saying, ‘that ain’t rubbish Dave, that’s to go with the coffin, the Deceased was a Painter & Decorator.’
As the Leyland Beaver descended the hill down to the crematorium it became evident that Deceased was a much loved and well respected man, because over 400 mourners were outside the chapel. David gave the Family Bearers instructions how to receive the coffin and as the Deceased was being raised onto their shoulders the ‘Only Fools & Horses’ Theme tune played, much to the delight of most people in the crowd. Although David appeared calm, he was raging inside because had he known more about the Deceased he could have created his ‘Only Fools & Horse’ Theme with the working model, of the counter being lifted, Del Boy falling through the bar and then springing back up again. Two of the Deceased’s Workmates declined to go into the service and decided to talk to David about his lorry. They understood David’s disappointment at not having any contact with the Family.
The men confirmed that the Deceased’s Family would have loved to see Del Boy falling through the bar and that the extra £150 would not have been a problem, they said they would have paid £75 each to see what David had described. David shook his head and said, ‘I have a limited number of skills but being a clairvoyant isn’t one of them, and if a Funeral Director doesn’t give me access to the Family how was I supposed to know that the Deceased liked Del Boy. I hate to leave a crematorium knowing that I could have done more for a Family.’
One of the men then asked, ‘Have you ever had a whole family on your lorry, you know two coffins together and then another one or two rows.’ David looked at the man and said, ‘Do you mean loading coffins side by side?’ The man nodded and David turned to the Funeral Director who had conducted the funeral and asked, ‘Why is it that a member of the public can visualise coffins side by side but people in the funeral industry can’t? David went on, ‘It is because when there are multiple bodies for a funeral a Funeral Directors eyes light up, as more coffins mean more hearses.’
The Funeral Director said that wouldn’t happen in his company, however, he accepted that David’s comments would apply to most Funeral Directors.
Posted by David Hall at 03:52
I had my first ride in a 1950 Leyland Beaver when I was 5, in 1958. It is an honour and a privilege to take a Loved One on their final journey using my Leyland Beaver. When I'm travelling around the UK some amazing things happen and often facts may appear stranger than fiction, as you will see in these articles.
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Rockies notes: Tyler Matzek gets start, Eddie Butler talks injury, Michael Cuddyer out 6-8 weeks
By Patrick Saunders
Rockies right-hander Eddie Butler went on the disabled list Monday with shoulder inflammation after making his big-league debut last Friday against the Dodgers. (Justin Edmonds, Getty Images)
The contrast in the Rockies’ clubhouse was stark late Monday night.
First came word from a major-league source that 23-year-old left-hander Tyler Matzek, the club’s 2009 first-round draft choice, will start Wednesday night’s game against the Braves. It will be Matzek’s long-awaited major-league debut.
Then into the clubhouse walked veteran right fielder Michael Cuddyer, the defending National League batting champion. His left arm was cradled in a sling as he talked about an injury that will bench him for at least six weeks, and probably a lot longer.
Just moments before that, right-hander Christian Bergman had been talking about his own big-league debut — an impressive six-inning, two-run, five-hit effort that was overshadowed by another Rockies defeat. Their offense a no-show again, the Rockies lost 3-1 to the Braves, the Rockies’ 10th defeat in their last 11 games.
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Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
"There’s a melancholic beauty in the melodies of Zach Condon that conjure a cinematic romanticism—the kind you’d find in something contemporary like Rushmore or Amélie, but maybe more appropriately in something classically French, like Jules et Jim. And while Condon has devoted his second proper full-length release to French pop culture, there is no shortage of influence from the more eastern side of Europe. The waltz-time signatures, oompah rhythms, and torchy anthems imply something pre-Weimar Republic. It belongs to the Viennese, the Germans, and the Gypsies. Imagine a tiny village of gnomes, hell, Smurfs even, who understand the sadness of life yet join together in song because, if nothing else, they have the gift to do so, beautifully.
But just when you think it might get a little too cute or precocious—what with the accordions, brass horns, Oktoberfest organs, marching band drums, cymbal crashes, ukuleles, and even what seems to be a bouzouki—a melody rises above it all. Songs such as “A Sunday Smile” and “St. Apollonia” are sung in a high tenor that is so stunningly gorgeous and honest, it captures the sound of a brokenhearted man sitting in a café somewhere across the Atlantic, contemplating the fact that his lover has gone and won’t ever be back. “Fuck the gnomes and the Smurfs,” he may think, but it’s really time to go back to them—to stand in taverns with steins of pilsner and with voices united in self-pity, singing songs of brotherhood and understanding. And even though anyone would leave the bar in a second for another chance with the girl who just left, it’s still the sound of hearts mending…the sound of sadness and loss coupled with the knowledge that there was never any other choice but to sing it out loud."
01. A Call To Arms
02. Nantes
03. A Sunday Smile
04. Guymas Sonora
05. La Banlieue
06. Cliquot
07. The Penalty
08. Forks & Knives (La Fete)
09. In The Mausoluem
10. Un Dernier Verre (Pour La Route)
11. Cherbourg
12. St. Apollonia
13. The Flying Club Cup
Címkék: Beirut, World
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The Democratic Party's New LGBT "Equality" Agenda: Big Words, Short Arms
Filed By Rebecca Juro | January 08, 2011 12:00 PM | comments
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Tags: Democratic Party, ENDA, LGBT civil rights
It's really interesting to see how mainstream cable newsmedia is lauding the Democratically-controlled 111th Congress for getting so much done. It's not entirely undeserved of course, but when one takes a close look at what actually did get done this past session of Congress in terms of protecting and ensuring equal civil rights for all Americans, we find that their actual results are really not quite as impressive as some would like us to believe.
The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a great example of what I'm talking about here. Long overdue to be sure, but also only actually impacting the lives of just a tiny fraction of a single percent of the American LGBT workforce, just like the rest of the "progress" made on LGBT rights by this administration thus far, mainly by Executive Order of one form or another.
What about the rest of us, the majority of the American LGBT workforce who work in the private sector or for state and local governments in areas of the country without laws which protect their LGBT citizens? Well, apparently neither the mainstream news media nor the Democratic Congressional leadership felt we were worthy of their attention over the last two years, so for the vast majority of LGBT American civilian workers and jobseekers things continue to be just as rough as they've ever been, even rougher in fact, what with the higher-than-normal number of straight job applicants and a lower-than-normal number of available jobs out there just in general.
Despite the Democratic Party leadership's seemingly continuous promises to introduce and vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act during the 111th Congress, when push came to shove left-wing pundit and politician alike wrapped themselves in the flag, focused in like a laser on the fight to protect just the miniscule fraction of LGBT Americans who work for the government, and patted themselves on the back for a job well done as the Democrats once again threw the bulk of the American LGBT workforce and our families back under the bus for at least another 2-4 years.
And so once again a self-congratulatory Democratic Congress and Administration along with its attendant liberal mainstream media flotilla sails off into the sunset, flags flying so proudly and brass buttons shining so brightly in the sun, leaving behind the bulk of the American LGBT workforce and our families, unnoticed, uncommented upon, unprotected.
Someone remind me please: Exactly when was all that "CHANGE" stuff supposed to kick in?
I don't know about you, but I'm having a really hard time seeing any actual differences between the way things were for the vast majority of LGBT American workers under Clinton and Bush and the way they are now, after two years of Mr. Fierce Advocate and Democratic control of both houses of Congress. I mean, sure, we've made some significant progress here and there at the state and local levels, but when it comes to the really big ticket federal items, the kind of legislation that can actually make a difference in people's lives, the kind we waited nearly a generation for the Democrats to have the necessary majorities in Congress and control of the White House to finally enact into law as they promised, unless you're one of the relative handful who's employed by the federal government in some capacity, the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress didn't deliver very much which will help make your life better as an LGBT American.
Yes, it's great that LGBT Americans are now protected by a federal hate crimes law. It's also great that for the first time in the history of our nation LGBT Americans are defined as a protected class under federal law. That happened in this Congress, and it's worthy of both notice and commendation. Thing is, since the protections of this law only kick in once a serious violent crime has been committed and an LGBT person is likely already seriously injured or dead, it's difficult to see this law as actually protecting anyone from anything. In the end, all the hate crimes law does is help ensure that the perpetrator of a hate crime serves a tougher, more just sentence than they would otherwise, and that those hate crimes are more accurately tracked by law enforcement officials than they had been in the past. It doesn't actually improve anyone's life or actually protect anyone from anything, it simply helps to balance the scales of justice once someone's life has already been made horribly worse or taken from them entirely, not at all the same thing.
Again, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the Democrats don't deserve credit for all that they did get accomplished in the 111th. At the same time, though, I also think that's it's important that we don't forget that the Democrats have once again failed to deliver on their promises for the vast majority of LGBT American working families, even though they swore up and down to us a thousand times that this time it would be different with firm control of both houses of Congress and the White House.
Once again, even with the political winds at the their backs and firm control of the legislative agenda this time, the Democratic Congressional leadership and the White House still wimped out and took the easy, cowardly way out in advocating for basic civil rights for all Americans, and once again, American LGBT workers and our families will continue paying the price for their cowardice for years to come.
Have we finally had enough now?
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Doug | January 8, 2011 12:44 PM
This seems a little too pessimistic to me. While I agree that these changes affect a fewer number of people, the fact remains that incrementally is how things change rather than all at once. The normalizing of GLBT issues is a path, one which we are on and moving in the right direction. In retrospect, look how far we have come in our lifetimes. I can remember being too timid to wear pink for fear of bullying. That was real. Now its becoming a memory. Slowly but surely. Like losing weight for the long term. Work, for certain, but worth working for.
Rebecca Juro | January 8, 2011 11:34 PM
I'm sorry Doug, but this incrementalist nonsense just doesn't fly anymore. Not when it takes them 17 years to protect just a fraction of 1% of LGBT Americans. The truth is that the American people are far beyond this crap and we have been for a long time. It's the political cowardice and anti-LGBT bigotry of those in Congress which are the true stumbling blocks here.
Bill Perdue | January 8, 2011 7:04 PM
1. The prospects for repeal of Bill Clintons DADT and passage of ENDA are very unlikely because the WH and the Congress are controlled by parties opposed to both, just like they were during last two years.
2. Obama's pulled a Clinton and aligned himself to work with Clintonistas and Republicans by appointing them to key positions. (It's a repeat of Clintons strategy after Republicans won the house in the 1990's.) Now Obama's appointed fellow Chicagoan Bill Daley as his chief advisor. "Daley, brother of outgoing Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, was Commerce Secretary under Bill Clinton, the chief architect of NAFTA... and, most recently, Midwest chairman of JP Morgan Chase. He shares the corporate centrism of Emanuel and, when it comes to economic issues, may be worse. AFL-CIO head John Sweeney once said that Daley stood squarely on the opposite side of working families.'” http://www.alternet.org/story/149436
3. 'Incrementalism' is another term for submission.
David Kaufman | January 9, 2011 8:03 AM
I can't help but question the motivations of this posting. At a time of potential national crisis --when true allies of LGBT progress are literally being shot down in our faces -- a "community" thinker has come up with yet another "what has Obama done for me" treatise. "Thrown under the bus"; "all that 'CHANGE' stuff"; "Obama is the new Bush" -- shame on you Rebecca Juro for being yet another cog in the LGBT self-immolation machine.
And what about a little original thinking? These kinds of meme-cliches are so, like, 2009!
What has Obama done for you Juno -- what have YOU done for yourself, your "community", all those LGBT families you so recklessly banter about.
The forces of evil are literally raising arms against you and the folks you claim to care so passionately about.
It's time to cut the crap, stop the whining and begin to attack our real enemies out there.
If not, postings -- and posturings -- like the one by this author are literally going to get us killed!
Rebecca Juro | January 9, 2011 9:35 AM
Actually, it's less about what Obama has done for me lately and more about what the Democratic Party has done to me (and the rest of us) for the last forty years.
You see, the problem is that if one does not keep the pressure on the Democratic Party constantly, one finds that political cowardice will eventually rule the day among Democrats. We've seen it over and over:
Democrats make promises, we believe, we vote for them, we donate to them, they get into office and all of those promises are quickly forgotten.
That's exactly what happened in the 111th. Democrats swore up and down to us for years, decades in fact, that once they had control of the White House and both Houses of Congress that they'd pass ENDA into law. Yet, the first time that was finally the case Democrats chickened out just like they always do, passed just the lowest hanging fruit, and left the rest of us twisting in the wind.
This is what you want us to stand up for? People who treat us like this? Forget it! Democrats have taught us yet again that the only way to make our point with these people is to hurt them, to threaten so much damage to them politically that they have no choice but to deal with us.
The way I look at it we now have two solid years to make our point with these people and make sure they do not forget which side their bread is buttered on this time. If it doesn't sink in by 2012, there are ways to begin making our point in earnest. I strongly suspect that if Obama and the Democrats do not make ENDA a primary plank of their platform in the next election, we will and the Democrats will not like the way we go about making our points to the American public.
Bo Shuff | January 9, 2011 9:25 AM
Seriously? When the D's were campaigning on 2008 there were 4 promises of note.
1. Repeal DADT.
2. Pass Hate Crimes
3. Pass ENDA
4. Repeal DOMA.
50% of our major legislative agenda has been passed in two years.
Please, ask the Unions, ask the Environmental advocates, the Immigration community, or any other group working on specific policy if they have fared that well.
When is it good enough for you? Do you really hold the same barometer for success that a two year old does - I'm going to cry until I get everything that I want.
Listing LGBT individuals as a protected class isn't just noteworthy it is historic. It is a bedrock principle that will allow other legislation to be passed. DADT was repealed as the first ever stand alone vote in the U.S. Congress on positive LGBT legislation.
Incrementalism is not submission, it is reality. Just as Rome was not built in a day, neither has any Legislative agenda been passed in one.
Bill Perdue | January 9, 2011 10:59 PM
Don't sell Obama short. First of all you left out two Easter egg parties on the White House Lawn. They represent a mind boggling opportunity for social advancement and even more invitations. Of course they won't be addressed Wife and Wife or Husband and Husband but still, we can't have it all, can we? As it is it's almost too thrilling to bear.
I misspoke. Incrementalism is abject submission. Of the four items you list two are relatively unimportant because they do little to improve our lives.
The hate crimes bill lacks focus and harsh penalties. It should be focused on cult bigots and political bigots who call for violence openly or simply by suggesting that we're less than human.
The repeal of the Democrats DADT ends legally required bigotry but will do nothing to protect GLBT GIs from the aggressive bigotry of the ultra right officer corps or to provide them with spousal benefits, forbidden by Dixiecrat Bill Clintons DOMA.
Two items on the list would create the openings for major improvements in our lives. ENDA, if it's stripped of all bigotry added when Democrat Barney Frank gutted it in 2007 will open the way for a legal assault against widespread workplace discrimination. It doesn't really cover housing, public services, etc. and doesn't include draconian punishments so those issues will have to be addressed separately.
Repeal of Democrat Bill Clintons DOMA is less important than passing ENDA or alternatively, our inclusion in existing civil rights laws but when it occurs it'll be a signal victory over bigots like the Clintons, the Bushes, McCain, Palin, Obama and Biden.
Incrementalism has a history in this country and all of it bad. How long for suffrage? What about racism? Lots of pretty laws were passed, including a set of Constitutional amendments to end it but racism remains the institutionalized law of the land. The evidence can be found in the stats of who's unemployed, who's been shoved back into poverty and who's living in Obamavilles. Who hired last and fired first.
Incrementalism prays, which is what we say because we don't think sucking is such a bad thing at all.
David Kaufman | January 9, 2011 10:20 AM
Which is how, exactly? So much LGBT posturing and so little action. The only thing these homo-threats have done is help create an environment that ushered in a repub-majority House and the kinds of psychos who shoot truly Democratic politicians.
You know what -- let's say it like it is:
Rebecca Juro: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO IF ENDA IS NOT MADE A PRIORITY???
What action are you going to take. What protest are you going to make. What sacrifices are you willing to endure to ensure your demands are met?
What are you willing to give up? Willing to lose?
And what exactly is the strategy you have beyond typing letters onto your computer screen.
Because that is what it takes to ensure true political progress.
It's all-talk/no-action folks like you that have rendered this "movement" impotent, leaderless and rudderless.
When you've paused your "complain" button and activated your "action" button, please get back to me.
You want to see how I take action, David? You're reading it. For another way, tune into the re-premiere of my Internet radio (this Thurs. 7pm eastern, for reals this time).
Furthermore David, you don't know me. You don't know what kind of activist I am, what I've done or haven't done, or really anything else about me other than this blog post apparently because if you did you'd probably realize just how far off-base you actually are.
Chitown Kev | January 9, 2011 9:30 PM
And just what have you done, kaufman, other than shoot down anyone who has even the slightest criticism of the President, and I mean the SLIGHTEST criticism.
Dude you really need to quit with that "forces of evil" rhetoric. Seriously.
"The only thing these homo-threats have done is help create an environment that ushered in a repub-majority House and the kinds of psychos who shoot truly Democratic politicians.
The lack of knowledge that would lead someone to sya that is hard to comprehend.
1) By "homo threats" Kaufman no doubt means the huge progress in our communities towards independence from bigots like Obama and bonerboy.
2) The Republican majority in the house was created entirely by Democrats who betrayed everyone but the looter class. They escalated Obama's four wars. They gave trillions to the rich who destroyed our economy. They busted unions, cut wages and absolutely refusing to do anything significant to lower the poverty and mass unemployment that were caused by Clinton and Bush.
3) Saying that those opposed to the bigotry of Obama and the Democrats (and their Republican litter mates) had anything at all to do with the atmosphere that led to the shootings in the Springs is an infamous lie.
4) The atmosphere that created the epidemic of assassinations and mass murders has everything to do with US genocide and mass murder in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Panama, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Pakistan, among others. It has everything to do with rage about the world's largest prison population, mass poverty, unemployment and wages cuts. It has nothing to do with the righteous anger of all layers of society (except the rich) against the betrayals of Obama and the Congress.
Stonewall Girl | January 9, 2011 10:23 PM
We have plenty of people that talk and complain. We have too few people that talk, complain and then DO.
Hate Crimes? Repeal of DADT? Transgender people getting passports? GLB and T people hired in senior capacities? Gender Identity protections added to non discrimination for federal employees.
that's just a sample of things! In 2004 you'd never hear the term, "transgender" spoken ... or at least in a positive light.
Yeah, no difference than when Bush was President!
You can ignore all the reality you want ... You may not have had anything to do with the progress of the last 6 years... the last 2 years, but that doesn't mean nothing happened, nor does it mean that there could have been more accomplished. My take is that if you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem! I know that won't get you attention!
give me a break Becky!
All low hanging fruit, Babs. You know as well as I do how long the Dems were promising us ENDA once they had the majorities they needed (they actually got more than they said they needed) and control of the White House and you know how quickly ENDA fell off the schedule (a-gain) once they were safely past the '08 election.
You also seem to forget how quickly Bush rolled back all those gay-positive Clinton Executive Orders once he took office. You may call that real progress, but I don't.
Give me a break, Babs!
David Kaufman | January 10, 2011 8:26 AM
So then Rebecca -- WHAT DO YOU WANT and WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO GET IT?
Besides parroting the tired rhetoric of so many of your ilk.
I suggest perhaps begin with some original thinking!
The greatest tragedy of your posting above is that we've simply heard it all before.....
Rebecca Juro | January 10, 2011 10:57 AM
I don't parrot anyone, David. I create my own rhetoric, thank you very much. If you actually read my work instead of just obviously spouting off with near-zero information, you'd know that. Seems like you're the one in need of some original thinking, dude.
Stonewall Girl | January 10, 2011 12:27 PM
No Becky, I won't give you a break!
Did you step forward to really understand the dynamics why DADT passed and the less controversial ENDA failed?
When Garden State Equality offered to bring NJ folks to DC to lobby for ENDA and put them uo overnight and feed them dinner... did you show up and help?
I'm sick and tired of the whining without a path for success... we have too many complainers and too few who actually DO!
I'm unhappy with folks like Barney Frank, who on leadership of ENDA, could not hold a candle to Democrats Patrick Murphy or Kirstin Gillibrand who were tenacious and got it done with DADT! But to paint Democrats in a broad swath for getting things done against a united Republican front to kill everything LGBT positive is baloney!
Do you realize that every single Republican voted to kill the Hate Crimes bill? 100% every one including the sponsors! Yeah... kumbaya with the repugnicans, Becky!
Sorry, no break! You want to pick on individuals.. go do your homework and get facts, but you can't handle the big paintbrush!
Rebecca Juro | January 10, 2011 1:21 PM
Ok Babs, tell you what: Let's get into it on my show next week (we re-premiere this Thursday with guest Autumn Sandeen), the 20th.
We'll lay out our arguments, ask the listeners what they think, and then leave it up to them to decide who's right and who's wrong.
Up for it?
blakebrown55 | January 10, 2011 4:44 PM
Once again, the so-called leaders and bitching, moaning and whining about what "they" didn't get. I have never spoken to one of these individuals, so I cannot say if they have been told exactly how the congress works. Let us start with the house. Every bill Nancy Pelosi brought to the house floor PASSED! She and the Democrats sent 400+ bills to the senate where most of them sat and died.
On to the senate, where it takes 60 votes to get even get a bill to the floor for a final vote. I hear voices like Rachel Maddow, Moveon.org and others condescendingly talking about having huge majority in the house and the senate and not getting anything done. I know that in theory that would be true if there were 60 liberal senators, but there are approximately 40-45 senators that were willing to vote on the bills that came from the house, but there are or shall I say were, 10-15 "blue dog" Democrats (Republican lite) who have no intention on supporting our President or the alleged liberal agenda. This is a topic that needs some clarification. When the spokes people for the LGBT community talk about the gay/LGBT agenda, they need to specify that they mean the white LGBT agenda. When discussing what needs to be done to help gay people, my black friends and myself do not speak of DADT (Don't Ask Don't Tell, brought into being by stupid ass Bill Clinton) or gay marriage. We discuss the fact that we are still being infected HIV and dying of AIDS. We talk about not having anyone who on the Human Right Campaign (HRC) and other comparable organizations to make sure that all view points are represented. We wonder why the liberal establishment doES not inquire why there are no black and Latino faces present to represent our segments of LGBT community. It seems that the black and Latino LGBT communities are treated in much the same way as it was during the Jim Crow era, as an after thought.
I honestly believe the true face of the LBGT community was in clear focus on election night 2008 when the California marriage ballot measure was defeated and there were shouts of nigger-this, nigger-that, blaming black people for voting against allowing gays and lesbians to marry, while no one did any outreach to our community or made any attempt to convince black voters that the issue is truly one of civil rights. No, anger, blame and separation were on full display.
Lastly, let us talk about change. A campaign slogan. One that was taken too literally. We can change politicians at every election cycle, but until we change the leaders of the groups and organizations that supposedly represent the LGBT community to ones who will begin to include blacks and Latinos from the start of the discussion, nothing will ever change. I believe that most of leaders of these groups were and still are staunch Hillary Clinton supporters and are still very reluctant Obama supporters. Their language and attitudes say to me that they are only tolerating the president and that he "owes" them something for their vote. I am not exactly sure what change they wanted. If they wanted something magical then maybe they should have nominated magician David Blain or maybe even Jesus since he was able to feed the multitude with a few loaves of bread and some fish. I am sure that these "disappointed" people will suggest a primary challenger to the president instead of being logical and working to elect more liberal senators and congress members.
Tom Lang | March 7, 2011 9:56 AM
@ David Kaufman, I would like to point out what I am seeing here. Some criticize the Democrats for not delivering, others criticize Gay Inc for betraying our community in the cottage industry of the equality fight.
As a MA activist I have seen a lot. The connection between the Democratic Party and our lgb(t) leadership is what concerns me most. I see many times Gay Inc being used as a tool for election of Democrats and it taking orders from Dem leadership in campaign strategies that may or may not be directly in our best interest. MA's own Trans Bill had the majority support in both Houses last year yet it never reached a vote because the Democrats played politics around the election and MassEquality listened and obeyed. No one, not even this blog reported on what happened with our bill.
We also hear that ENDA had the votes ?? There are many theories going around as to why ENDA was not passed. Connections and timing around DADT Repeal is one, though Frank and Baldwin know and so did the HRC yet they all are still not being open with us.
The author of this post sees what our movement was and what it has become. Many of us recognize that trans people are the ones whose BASIC rights and protections get backburnered and dumped every time our lgb(t) organizations and the Democrats strategize together. Maryland for example right now...we understand WHAT is happening to trans people in these two blatantly discriminatory bills, yet the WHY has not yet been spelled out. We will figure it out soon and be prepared for a very very pissed off group of people--TG/TS people who have been betrayed yet once again together with activists like myself and the author of this post and many others who refuse to keep the blinders on.
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Home / News / Online RPG platform Roll20 gets D&D’s Monster Manual
Online RPG platform Roll20 gets D&D’s Monster Manual
Jason January 26, 2017 News, PC, Tabletop Gaming Leave a comment 1,204 Views
Big news for those who prefer playing their tabletop games in the online arena, Roll20 now has the D&D Monster Manual.
In the eye of the Beholder
Few RPG’s are as iconic as Dungeons and Dragons. And since Roll20 signed the role-playing giant, they’ve been making the most of it. This latest announcement though, is the icing on the cake.
Over half of Roll20’s users are D&D 5th Edition rule players. That’s a monster (sorry) number, especially considering that the company now boasts some 2 million members. So there’s going to be about 1.4 million RPG fans who are going to be pretty happy to play with the Monster Manual.
But what does the addition of this digital tome mean exactly? Well a hell of a lot actually, and it all sounds pretty sweet. You’ll get a digitized version of the Monster Manual to (virtually) thumb through, complete with “beautiful artistic renderings of the monsters”. Of course, there’ll also be lore aplenty in there, and loads of stats.
That’s far from all however. Don’t forget that there’s an actual game to be played here. And, as such, there’s lots that the Monster Manual adds to Roll20.
Here’s a rundown
In addition, Roll20 DMs and players can use the Compendium tab within the Roll20 tabletop platform to view Monster Manual entries—and even drag & drop monsters into their pre-existing games! The monsters that are added to Roll20 games will automatically place a gorgeous token on the tabletop and create a new Handout in the platform’s Journal, where the full biography, lore, and clickable NPC character sheet can be perused. This makes it much easier for a DM to suddenly add a displacer beast to their ongoing campaign, to the possible despair of their adventurers!
The D&D Monster Manual officially hits Roll20 on February 7th, and will run you $49.95 USD.
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Lamia Vox - Inlumaeh
Steven Gullotta Martial Industrial, Dark Ambient Debuting their first book project underneath Cyclic Press, Cyclic Law Records welcomes the dark photography work of Krist Mort. Within this release, the photographer has related light and darkness; wherever there is a darkness, the simplest source of light can cast a shadow upon it. Propelling forth the alluring aspects of death and the unknown, rebirth, as well as sordid facets of heart and soul, you could say her work is inspiring and interesting.
While, disappointingly enough, the promo I grabbed did not include any of her photos, I was able to glimpse at a few via the Cyclic Law website where you can pre-order the album. Perhaps the photo that was able to catch me in rapture the most would be of a woman on all fours, covered in a cloak; in some form, it looks like a group of cobwebs. Whether this woman was woken from an ancient slumber, or if it's a harrowing ghost ready to haunt, or even if it's just a mere model to base off of, it was eye taking.
But, aside from the pictures that I was able to explore with eyesight, my ears filled with lovely, lovely music from Lamia Vox, a Russian based dark ambient/martial industrial project that is able to crack out ritualistic hymns like the back of her hand. To guide us on our journey through such distinct images, she brought forth three rituals to accompany us. And, my, they are glorious.
The first two come out with a serious dark ambient ring to it, focusing on synths that are deep in pitch, sometimes lasting for a bit before fading away for another to come forth and take its place. The various effects, such as a slight tap on the drum that will echo into the abyss, what sounds like violin work, and every other creepy manifestation that manages to form is brilliant. The real draw here, though, is her whispering that accompany the notes; and it's her voice that really propels the notes to make a very, very spiritually motivated impact on you.
The final ritual differentiates from the first two in the fact that it uses another wind instrument, and has a drum beat to it. Her voice is still in check, as much of a background noise it is, it still is blissful to hear.
And though it lasts only around twenty and a half minutes, it is a glorious twenty and a half minutes to go through. You might lose track of time, or even your own personal surroundings, but such a concentrated effort would do such a thing to yourself. Both these artists are good, in terms of photography and music production. And, when both their talents combined, there is nothing you can do but sit back and enjoy the imagery and soulful tunes that will take you away into another land. July 27, 2014 http://www.brutalresonance.com/review/lamia-vox-inlumaeh/ 4
Released 2014 by Cyclic Law Records
Martial Industrial, Dark Ambient
Debuting their first book project underneath Cyclic Press, Cyclic Law Records welcomes the dark photography work of Krist Mort. Within this release, the photographer has related light and darkness; wherever there is a darkness, the simplest source of light can cast a shadow upon it. Propelling forth the alluring aspects of death and the unknown, rebirth, as well as sordid facets of heart and soul, you could say her work is inspiring and interesting.
And though it lasts only around twenty and a half minutes, it is a glorious twenty and a half minutes to go through. You might lose track of time, or even your own personal surroundings, but such a concentrated effort would do such a thing to yourself. Both these artists are good, in terms of photography and music production. And, when both their talents combined, there is nothing you can do but sit back and enjoy the imagery and soulful tunes that will take you away into another land.
# lamia-vox
# russia
# cyclic-law
# dark-ambient
# martial-industrial
# kris-mort
# cyclic-press
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Take the Family › Home › Destinations › Europe › France › South of France › Hautes Alpes
Hautes Alpes Family Holidays & Breaks
© Serre Chevalier Vallée Briançon
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Set apart from the better-known ski resorts of the French Alps (Rhône-Alpes) because it’s further south (it’s actually part of the Provence–Alpes–Côte d'Azur region or 'South of France'), the Hautes Alpes département offers a number of uncrowded child-friendly destinations, some relatively high-altitude skiing, and good value for families who don’t mind the fact that most places don’t even register on the trendiness scale.
Another advantage is that it’s often sunnier here – it’s not unknown for people to ski in T-shirts in April. Some resorts are close to the Italian border, and, as with Montgenèvre, interconnected via a vast ski area stretching into Italy.
In summer, the area is a hotspot for outdoorsy family holidays, with plentiful opportunities for kayaking and rafting, hiking in the natural parks and wild valleys, mountain-biking, via ferrata, forest acrobatics, horse- and donkey-riding and trips by horse-drawn carriage.
Things to do with kids in Hautes Alpes
Serre Chevalier is one of the main ski areas, its southerly aspect countered by its altitude – the resort is at 1350m, with skiing up to an impressive 2830m. There are 250km of runs through beautiful tree-lined scenery, most of them good for intermediates. The resort is actually three villages and the city of Briançon (see below), linked by slope and bus; two of them – Villeneuve and Monetier – have excellent beginner areas. There are lots of chalets, hotels and apartments; the ones in the villages are generally on the slopes. It’s a good place for parents who like to ski long distances without anything to frighten them.
Montgenèvre, an attractive village with a slopeside market, is part of the 400km connected Milky Way area, and you only ski for a few minutes before you’re in Italy. The whole region is a delight of easy skiing – generally, you’ll be pottering through charming tree-lined scenery – so it’s perfect for family holidays. Children love skiing into another country, to places such as Sauze d’Oulx and Claviere in a region that upgraded many lifts for the 2006 Winter Olympics. There are lots of chalets here. The lift-pass also gives you a day in Serre Chevalier (see above), in Alpe d’Huez and Les Deux Alpes in Isère (day-trips are often organised by package companies) and Puy St Vincent (see below).
Montgenèvre also has a dedicated (and free!) mountain-biking park spread over an altitude of 1000m (from 2760m down to 1860m), with eight downhill trails of different levels (accessible by chairlift and gondola), fun areas and free-ride areas. Summer sees mountain-biking contests, and there’s a mountain-bike school offering biking tours as well as tuition.
Puy St Vincent is a small, modern resort ideal for young families – it's won awards for its family friendliness. The skiing is limited (75km) but there's reliable snow, good beginner areas and a long green back from 2,000m to progress to.
Risoul is another jolly family-friendly resort – not too ugly and based around modern but traditional slope-side chalet-style apartments. There’s a reasonable amount of skiing (180km), shared with its sister resort Vars. The slopes, up to almost 5500m, are generally snowsure, and there are great nursery slopes in the village and good runs to move onto. The rest of the skiing is mostly intermediate.
Les Orres is another modern resort, friendly and with intermediate terrain (62km of runs), but it's tucked away in the mountains, with longish transfers from Lyon.
The Hautes Alpes’ other big name is La Grave, a mecca for serious off-piste skiers – not really a family place unless with sporty older teenagers, who should be able to tackle some of the slopes. It has a couple of hotels and some apartments.
Briançon, Europe’s second highest city (at 1350m), is worth a wander – some of its old fortifications are UNESCO World Heritage sites. Beware, though – its picturesque narrow streets are steep. In school holidays the tourist office runs workshops for kids aged 6–12 while their parents take guided tours.
Near Briançon, the Parc National des Écrins – one of nine French national parks – covers nearly 1000km of high mountains, glacier fields, Alpine pastures, woodlands and lakes. It’s not the most accessible park to families because of its terrain, but the visitor centres run a whole range of interesting workshops and events, from making and playing instruments from natural materials to animal discovery walks (bats, butterflies, insects, birds of prey…).
Serre-Ponçon, one of the biggest artificial lakes in western Europe, has a Muséoscope with an interactive exhibition on the creation of the massive dam (including the drowning of entire villages) and views over it and the lake, plus the Maison de l'Eau et des Énergies visitor centre, where you can learn about the workings of the dam. You can also sail, canoe, jet-ski, swim and fish here. Nearby, the Parc Animalier Serre-Ponçon is a small zoo with marmots and other local animals, including wolves and vultures, plus a reconstruction of a prehistoric cave complete with stalagmites and cave paintings.
Regional mountain dishes that might tempt your kids include potato and cheese ravioli (often eaten with honey or raspberry jam…), potato gratins, tourtons (stuffed savoury beignets) and oreilles d’âne (‘donkeys’ ears’ – wild spinach pasta with bechamel sauce).
Resorts also offer plenty of international cuisine, plus superior pizzerias due to the proximity to Italy.
When to go to Hautes Alpes
The ski season in the Hautes Alpes lasts from December to April. From May to September lovely weather is virtually guaranteed – the area gets a healthy 300 days of sunshine a year – and outdoors activities come into their own.
Less fashionable than resorts in the actual French Alps, the Hautes Alpes can offer better value for money, especially if you choose self-catering accommodation.
By Nick Dalton
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20 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Had A Twin
Here’s a fun fact – twins are actually common, more common than most people realize! That gets to be a whole lot of fun when taking a look at some of the most popular names and faces in TV, Hollywood, and the latest gossip sites…then realizing that they have had a twin their whole lives.
So, are you curious about those twins you never knew existed – and how they impacted the lives of the celebrities we know so well? Let’s take a look at which twins got the looks, which stayed behind the scenes, which have close friendships with their siblings….and which don’t.
1. Scarlett Johansson and Hunter Johansson
It’s hard to believe someone as famous as Scar-Jo has a twin, right? But she does: Hunter Johansson does use the Johansson name, but only in a quiet way as a force for good.
It turns out he’s actively involved in charity work and supporting various political campaigns – which makes us like her sister even more, if that’s possible. …Still, Hunter should consider getting out in front of the camera at least now and then.
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2. Eva Green and Joy Green
Here’s a great sibling rivalry for you. Eva Green is a famed Hollywood beauty with a successful modeling career and a collection of well-received movies behind her (she currently stars in Penny Dreadful). Her sister is a business whiz who married an Italian count. Which do you think won?
3. Ashton Kutcher and Michael Kutcher
You may have known that Ashton Kutcher is an adamant supporter of research into cures for Cerebral Palsy, but did you know why? Because his brother Michael lives with the debilitating condition.
In fact, the family story is that Ashton originally began his modeling work as a way to help pay for his brother’s medical expenses – which is just super charming, if we’re honest.
4. Kiefer Sutherland and Rachel Sutherland
The Sutherlands are a talented family with an enormous collective filmography, so you may expect that Kiefer Sutherland’s twin Rachel has at least a few TV shows under her belt as well.
However, Rachel decided to enter the family business in a very different way: She’s a post-production supervisor who makes sure that everything looks just right. We wonder how often she works with her brother?
5. Vin Diesel and Paul Vincent
Paul Vincent is getting a whole lot more attention lately thanks to the tragic death of Paul Walker. Vin Diesel noted that the two looked a lot alike (they really do, it’s a bit eerie), and fans were eager to spread the word of the odd coincidence.
No sign that Paul Vincent is intending to enter the film business, however.
6. Aaron Ashmore and Shawn Ashmore
While some of our listed twins keep to different professions and have different looks, the two Ashmores are some of the most likely to get confused. They both have acting careers, and both tend toward sci-fi shows and movies, which means you’ve probably mistaken them at least once.
Shawn tends to appear on the big screen (he was Iceman in the X-Men movies, that’s what you’re thinking of), while Aaron is often on the small screen in shows like Smallville and Warehouse 13.
7. Siva Kaneswaran and Kumar Kaneswaran
If you’re a fan of The Wanted, you probably already know who Siva Kaneswaran is and how the music star became famous not only for a series of dance hits but also for his adorable good looks.
Fortunate for the world, then, that he has an identical twin named Kumar – who like all good twins regularly plays pranks on people by pretending to be his brother.
8. Jud Reyes and Joselin Reyes
Have you been wishing that more twins of famous actors played their twins on TV? The Reyes are here to save your day: Judy Reyes is of course the indomitable nurse Carla from Scrubs, and her sister did indeed show up to play Carla’s sister.
But Joselin deserves extra credit for her work as a paramedic in Law & Order, too. We wonder what the Reyes think about being typecast in the medical field.
9. Olly Murs and Ben Murs
Allow us to refresh your memory on this one: Olly was runner-up on the 2008 X-Factor: His relationship with his brother hit the tabloids when Olly decided to perform on the X instead of going to his brother’s wedding. Looks like everyone made up, though.
10. Jill Hennessy and Jacqueline Hennessy
These sisters are another pair that both took to the screen and confused an entire generation of TV viewers – especially fans of Canadian TV. Jacqueline hosted Medical Intelligence, while Jill is widely known as the lead in Crossing Jordan and a star in Law & Order.
11. Giovanni Ribisi and Marissa Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi is often known as, “Oh yeah, that one actor, in that movie.” The movie is usually Avatar or one of his more recent comedies, but few people even realize that he has a twin sister who has also dabbled in acting.
Currently, however, she’s busy raising kids with – get this – Beck, to whom she is happily married. The world just got a lot smaller.
12. Alanis Morissette and Wade Morissette
Oh yes, Alanis Morissette most certainly has a twin, and Wade is just as…well, just as Morissettey. He works as an author, therapist, and yoga instructor, because of course he does.
He’s also helped create a few musical albums of his own, although they have been along the lines of “meditative yoga rock.” Okay, we’re actually gonna go look that up right now, brb.
13. Nicholas Brendon and Kelly Donovan
There’s probably a lot of fans out there that didn’t even know Buffy alum Nicholas Brendon had a twin brother – even though they have both appeared in Buffy The Vampire Slayer when a convenient Xander twin was needed.
14. Joseph Fiennes and Jacob Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes played Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love: While that thought is rattling around your brain, we’ll also point out that he’s another film actor with a whole lot of siblings, including a twin named Jacob Fiennes.
Apparently the two are very close, although Jacob prefers conservation work to the world of film.
15. Giselle Bundchen and Patricia Bundchen
How much do you trust your brother or sister? Well, Gisele Bundchen absolutely trusts her sister enough to let her become Gisele’s manager during her modeling career. Actually, both of them used to model at one time.
We have to wonder how Patricia decided to step down and run the show, because they are both incredibly beautiful. Did they have a dance off? Did they flip a coin? The people want to know.
16. Jon Heder and Dan Heder
Jon Heder was famous for his indie super-cult hit Napoleon Dynamite, but he has gone on to be involved in other comedies as well. He also has a whole lot of siblings – one of which is his twin Dan Heder.
Dan also like the film world, but he works mostly as an animator, which is why you probably haven’t seen him before.
17. Jenna Bush and Barbara Bush
It’s not often that you see twins in the White House, but Jenna and Barbara certainly qualify. We have to imagine it was a tough job, being the “First Twins” while still trying to lead normal lives.
18. Parker Posey and Christopher Posey
If the name Parker Posey rings a bell, that’s probably because she starred in a number of independent films in the 1990s, most highly acclaimed, which won her attention as the “Queen of the Indies.”
Her twin Chris, on the other hand, is an attorney based in Atlanta. You can’t get much more different than that.
19. Charlotte Ronson and Samantha Ronson
Sam Ronson is recognized as Lindsay Lohan’s ex – which is a little unfair, because she’s made a perfectly fine name for herself as a skilled DJ, which is both very cool and probably a lot healthier for her social life.
Her twin, Charlotte, is a fashion designer, and we hope they collaborate on at least a few projects.
20. Leslie Hamilton and Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton will go down in history as the first and most badass version of Sarah Connor from the Terminator franchise. However, she also had an identical twin sister who apparently didn’t care quite as much for her own safety, because she served as a body double for Linda on multiple occasions when filming.
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Woke up yesterday in North Hampton, drove to East Hampton and played an open mic, and spent the night in South Hampton. (Apologies to West Hampton, if there is one). Things are definitely happening but I am not having time to record it all. Soon, very soon, you'll have all the details. One thing-- Nima got mugged yesterday in Boston, but he's okay. Troy Byker got mugged in Oakland soon after I left there, too. Hmmm. And two women I stayed with along the tour (Bridget and Jessica) gave birth to babies on the day I arrived in their towns. What does it all mean??! Maybe it's just a cosmic post-post-modern snap-shot of love and war on the U.S. frontlines.
It's a rainy day in Beantown... What's most disturbing is the dead, black cat on the sidewalk outside the gate. It's been here for the last few days and it's eyes are taking on a moony glow. Creepy. On the upside it has been a true pleasure to spend time with Nima and Amanda. I'll miss them when I leave tomorrow. Two nights ago I played at the very excellent Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge. An old Olympia buddy named Jeff Stern set it up and though, underattended, it went great. I did get a little sick beforehand from indulging in some cookie-batter ice-cream, but pulled through. Tonight is the big house concert so I better remove, or at least cover, the cat and it's cloudy, bulging, phosphorescent fish-retinas. Tomorrow I head West!!!
Here's a link to the flyer advertising the Northhampton show on Sunday.
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My new CD, The Long Ride Home, is officially in stores across the nation today!! This is a big deal to me, because up until now I've only sold my previous releases to people I meet at shows and to friends. I'm hopeful that they will sell quickly, but nervous, none-the-less, that I'm not well-known enough yet. I guess that's what this tour's about; reviews are starting to trickle in, too. Here are a couple that I've found via the internet:
Sandman / Long Ride Home / Billed as something of a cross between rap and country, I would disagree. This is stripped down singer/songwriter music and it is haunting and beautiful. It most immediately reminds me of Lou Reed back in his bad old days. This is a really great disc that tells a story and tells it so well that you will listen to it again and again. (MK) Impact Press (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay03/musicr4503.html)
All Music Guide Review
While the release of multiple albums has made Sandman known as somewhat of a cross between hip-hop and country, don't let that fool you. Yes, there are certain hip-hop elements on this 15-song album, but anyone who is familiar with the K Records sound and their branched elements won't have one bit of trouble accepting this. That's because the urban elements are kept to a minimum and never override any one song, instead taking their place like an obedient schoolboy. No, Sandman is through and through alt-country on The Long Ride Home, with a capable croon like that of Matt Wignall of Havalina and twangy guitar reminiscent of Woody Guthrie. The big skies from which he emerged have served Sandman well, as his sound is a nice accompaniment to the atmosphere that envelops one who has been to Montana and the surrounding states. An accomplished, established album that shows a gentle artist starting to come into his own. ~ Kurt Morris
And just ten minutes ago someone from West Coast Performer called to ask me a few questions about who produced, engineered, and mastered The Long Ride Home. She told me that one of their top reviewers, Rob Thompson, really liked the CD and would love to do an interview the next time I play in the Bay area. The review will appear in the June issue.
By the way, today I'm in Boston, or more precisely-- Jamaica Plain, at my good buddy Nima Samimi's place. I arrived at midnight after getting lost for an hour. Nima and Amanda greeted me warmly and we all had a slumber party in his room. I spent yesterday mostly in Vermont recording a couple new songs with a producer named Justin Galenski who I'd met at the show. First we did "Underneath the Grief" and finished with "Thanks for the Sex". Both songs feature vocal experimentations and have multiple layers of me singing, grunting, and whistling. I plan to send these to Bret at Knw-Yr-Own for use on a new Summer compilation CD. By 6 pm I'd bid adieu to the Tomlinson family and began my drive to Boston. Tek, sent me home with a sturdy box of his Tektonic Palates Ethiopian pastes. I encourage everyone to visit his website, 'cause he knows how to make sauces and pastes.
While I'm at it, here's another link you should check out: ?!!
New England!!! I'm feeling randy in these hills of New Hampshire-- you'd have to see it to believe the beauty that surrounds this mountain farm! I showed up two nights ago (at 2 am) after my long drive from Philadelphia; Senayit and her mom, Sally, waited up. A fat, orange moon lit the dirt road to their cabin and slid me into a cozy bed. In the morning I met Senayit's Ethiopian-born father, Tekleab, who is a 70-yr.-old who looks 45. He and Sally own 240 rolling acres filled with woodpeckers, moose, beavers, and black bear. I saw a monster-sized wild turkey in a field. This is the New England people might fantasize about. (On Golden Pond was filmed forty miles away). Tek and Sally also have a family of friendly animals: two dogs, three cats, and two horses. Eventually, Senayit and I crossed the river into Bradford, Vermont and prepared for our show at The Middle Earth. By 8:45 Senayit was singing and playing on her 12-string guitar and my ears danced. I ought to mention that this venue was definitely one of the nicer places I've ever played. It was built to resemble a British pub out of Lord of the Rings. I followed Senayit and played for over an hour. The seventy or so people who came were enthralled with my unique style and I sold more CDs and received more compliments than at any other show so far. The owner, Chris, wants me to return and play an official (non-rental) show in the Fall. Most the money made at the door went to pay off the rental of The Middle Earth, but I did receive $30 after expenses. After me came the jazzy Ordinary Magic who had what it took to make the people dance and the kazoo player was rad. After them I was asked to play again and I did for another half hour.
Today I took two long walks and a horseback ride through the trails with Senayit, Sally, Sedalla (Senayit's sister), and Dan (Sedalla's friend). Andromeda, the appaloosa mare I rode (bareback), pulls to the left just like my car. She trots good, but my groin is sore anyway. Now Tek is preparing a huge Ethiopian feast with the spongy bread and everything and I'm ready to eat it.
Still in New York. I need to get back to Philly to get my car so I can drive the seven hours to New Hampshire today. Last night I stayed at the famed graffiti writer, Shoan One's, apartment. He, I, and his Serbian friend, Petar, walked about thirty blocks for no particular reason except to maybe view beautiful, ancient Columbia University at night. Earlier in the day I lounged around Mush's East Village apartment and had lunch at a Venezuelan restaraunt. Perhaps I should rewind to my last hours in D.C. where I spent the day with Heather Jones...
...and what a tour-guide she was! By day's end I'd seen the Pentagon, White House, Capitol Building, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, the Viet Nam and Korean war memorials, a bunch of musuems, and other famous landmarks. The museums were the most amazing as they were filled with art that blew my mind-- original statues and paintings by all of the most famous artists of the last fifteen-hundred years. To gaze deeply into one of Van Gogh's self-portraits, for example, is unexpectedly chilling. Warhol still confuses me, but maybe that's his point. After a day of this, I was zoned out; plus the temperature was over 80 degrees. I drove to Philly and arrived at Jessica and James' by 11:00 pm. Jessica had given birth to her first baby that morning: a long-limbed boy named Aiden. I spent the next day doing nothing and the morning after that I walked around with my friend Jan Brottman, who also lives with Jessica along with her boyfriend, Michael. (I'm cutting corners now since I need to run catch my train soon... In fact, I better leave right now.)
I'll try to sneak in a few words, though I'm about to hit the town (I'm in Manhattan). Gotta go.
Still in D.C... spent the morning meandering the streets of the El Salvadorean district, had lunch in a Guatemalan cafe. I'd meant to see some museums and monuments, but plans with my friend, Heather Jones, who's visiting from the West Coast, fell through. We'll do it tomorrow instead, before I head North.
Yesterday was spent relaxing with Nana, who currently has a sinus infection. We ate Thai food for dinner with her friend, Ton, who is Thai. Ton is a great, light-hearted, genuine guy and I hope to stay friends with him.
Saturday Nana worked so I spent the day with her roommates and roommate's friends. We went to the Arboretum and played frisbee next to the river. The weather has been around 70 degrees for the last three days which is a relief after the cold days in North Carolina and Virginia. Nana, who is Ghanian-American (she left Ghana when she was four), took me to a Ghanian restaraunt which was a revelation as I've never been to one. The taste of my rice, fish, and plaintains was highlighted by the dance-hall reggae and Nana's presence. I was in heaven! Someday perhaps I'll go there. At midnight we met her friends, Kadd and John, for a screening of Donnie Darko. Saturday had been the night I'd planned to go to Brooklyn, but I just could not bring myself to go; I needed rest.
Friday was the day of the show. Between 80 and 100 people showed up and deposited $254.00 in the tip jar. $100 of it went to pay for the keg and I got the rest. I also made $85 in merch sales! The show itself was a challenge as it was difficult to be heard above the roar of revelry. Those who cramped themselves into the living room to listen were all smiles and gratitude, though. I was fortunate to be able to use the amp and microphones from the band that played before me-- Nude Afternoon. They were a cool jazz/rock quartet with keyboards and stand-up bass and a singer with a voice like Jeff Buckley. For those that showed up late I played a few more songs out on the porch. These D.C. women are flirtatious, lemme tell ya; one of them almost walked off with my black hat! By 4:30 a.m. I was asleep.
Now I'm in Washington, D.C., five blocks from the White House at my friend Nana's office. I've never been to this town before, so I'm kind of excited!!
p.s. For those who read my journal earlier today, I just fortified the last entry with a couple more details.
Charlottesville, Virginia was an experience to treasure! I arrived in the early afternoon yesterday and strolled through the streets that bordered the University of Virginia and then checked out the beautiful, historic campus. Eventually I made it to the Stribling house where a house full of young adults welcomed me in and took me back to campus where we all snuck into the cafeteria for a free dinner. After a tour of some of the funky places around town by my wonderful tour-guide, Heather, I went back to the house and prepared for the show. I set up both racks of shirts and then waited until 11:30 pm before beginning. 20 or 25 folks showed up and the majority of them loved it. By night's end I'd sold ten t-shirts and seven or eight CDs for a grand total of $124! It felt awesome to have a crowd that loved my eccentric, random shirts (and songs) as much as I do; God bless you Charlottesville. : ) After two hours I had to call it quits so's I could make it to the radio station for my 2:00 am interview with Ramsey and Rich. At 3:00 it was over and after liberating 175 Krispy Creme Donuts from a dumpster Heather drove me back to the Stribling house where I collapsed in my sleeping bag and slept sweet dreams. At noon I awoke and joined Heather, Sara, and Elle for a delicious breakfast at a bustling, greasy-spoon restaraunt on the outskirt of town (they treated!). Sara and Elle are both breathtakingly beautiful, Middle-Eastern women with the warmest smiles and most generous spirits one could encounter. Sara is Persian, and Elle is Lebanese/Syrian/Palestinian. We talked a little of the ways that white gentiles use racism and anti-semitism to divide Arabs and Jews and Elle expressed frustration with people who bad-mouth Israelis... Yes!! And to top it all off, they said that my songs give them hope. Sara gave me a colorfully collaged CD of her music which I can't wait to hear. As I drove away I telepathically thanked Jonny Corndawg for talking me into coming here. Speaking of J.C., he left me a care-package of a CD, tape and wood-block-printed shirt which I'm wearing as I type this. Thanks again, Corndawg.
Now I'm in Durham and I just played two shows. The first one was in a restaurant and flopped... I now realize that I don't make the best background music. When people finally catch onto my words they tend to lose their appetites. I played 4 songs and then told them I had food poisoning and had to leave (which made them lose their appetites even more I think). I made $2 in tips. My friend Laura is the waitress there. After the show I went to her house-party where I commenced to do show #2. This one started out uncomfortably with a bunch of folks wanting to jam. In all there were five instruments: accordion, banjo, mandolin, and two guitars. A picker named L.A. Fernandez, and I, swapped songs for about an hour or so, with everyone else following behind, until he and the accordion player left. Then I played another hour or so just entertaining the remaining folks. I hit it off well with Laura's boyfriend, Al, who also raps some, and gave him a sampler CD. I gave L.A. one, too, who says he might be able to help me set up another show here in the Fall. It's unlikely I'll return that soon, but would like to if I can somehow pay off my credit card debts by then.
I wake up in about five hours.
It's cold and raining outside.
Go, li'l Joe... keep on keepin' on.
Hi. I'm in Asheville, NC. Last night I was in Black Mountain, NC for a wild show at The Town Pump. All sorts of crazy characters showed up and seemed to like me just fine. They paid me $65 and I was given a place to stay by Camo's old girlfriend, Kendra, who I've been hearing about for seven years now. This morning I slept in and eventually made it to the house of Bryan, Brigit, Stephanie, Wilde, Parker, and as of yesterday morning, Wise Emmet Freeborn, who just hatched!! He's a long-limbed little mammal with a twinkle in his eye. It was good to meet his beautiful sister, Wilde, who was born two years ago, too. My old friend, Sierra, flew out from Colorado to help out as did many of Bryan and Brigit's relatives, so needless to say it is a busy household. They're all asleep now as I type this. Soon I'll head back to Kendra's. Earlier this evening Sierra and I hit up the Grey Eagle open mic which was a good time. There's a lot of talent in these hills, that's for sure.
I played two shows in Nashville that I haven't mentioned yet. They both helped to earn me some more rent money. A special treat was running into my old friend, Matt Steinke, who played at the Red Rose Cafe in Murfreesboro before my set with Baby Stout. He's married now and creates musical robots.
My stay with Camo and Asher was a gift. I love those guys. We played takraw (a Siamese wicker ball is used as a hackey-sack), watched movies, reminisced about the Workhorses of Yesteryear, and talked about various women we love. Rapping along with Camo's beatbox was a highlight, too.
I'd better be gettin' on home now. G'night.
Joe's getting maintained at the mechanic's right now so I walked to the library. Camo's probably wondering where I ran off to. Last night we played a show at Bongo Java; and Reverend Asher joined us for a couple songs. A fellow named Jonny Corndawg, opened for me. He's a seriously crazy 19-yr-old country/punk Southern-boy who drove from Charlottesville, Virginia on his motorcycle; poetry dripped off him in every way. He wore a pink headband and a Christmas-flavored sweater. In fact, the whole audience of six people came mainly to see him. I managed to sell 3 CDs. I met Calvin's girlfriend, Kristina, at the show. She was just in Olympia visiting him. Chris Davis was there, too. Tonight I play with Baby Stout in Murfreesboro!
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"Return of the Allies"
By SeaMonkey, February 1, 2005 in Strategic Command 1
Bill101 14
Strategic Command Developer
That was great fun!
I played on intermediate level and conquered Germany in Jan/Feb 1945, but they didn't surrender until mid July, which was a bit of bad luck, the Italians having gone down at the start of July.
The colossal amount of Russian partisans produced was a major factor, as was the fact that the Luftwaffe had no real strategy.
The AI also kept getting its units cut off in the east. However, I mistakenly thought in Aug 1943 that my Russians were on the road to Berlin as I had some units in the vicinity of the German border, but the AI managed to launch a major counter-attack which drove me back to Minsk for a while.
I didn't understand why the AI was trying to use an Italian HQ to batter down my defences in Egypt, but the 8th Army sure enjoyed the experience!
Thanks Brad for a very enjoyable and all too addictive scenario.
Most welcome Bill
Congratulations!! You beat my best so far and I'm the designer.
I'm getting indications of other Supreme SC commanders out there having some successes also.
And you are right the partisans play a major role, its just they are so random, you never know if they will popup at that critical moment. May have to add some more Luftflottes to the mix, its just once you go over 6 its kind of outside the "what if" realm,....maybe an Italian or two.
willebra 0
I would like to try this too:
martin.vonwillebrand@helsinki.fi
Jeff Gilbert 0
Received the scenario yesterday ... going to have to restart as I used the "intermediate" and +1 and got spanked ... :eek:
This is very fun ... renewed my interest quite a bit. Thanks !!
matt68228 0
I would be interested in playing it, could you send it to matt68228@yahoo.com
stahlwolf 0
Hello SeaMonkey,
I do not know if you read my offer in the other thread...I can put your Mod online for everyone, if you like me to.
Couldn't resist the temptation to play it on the highest setting. It took a bit longer (18th Sep 1945) but the same strategies paid off.
I'm even thinking of playing it with partisans off, but that might be tempting fate too much!
Playing this scenario has been like playing SC again for the first time, and my girlfriend hardly saw me over the weekend as a result.
Don't let Hubert play this scenario otherwise SC2 will be delayed by another month...
Nice comments Bill, I also really had fun with it. Great job Sea Monkey.
Hard to believe we can beat the AI with so much going for the Axis. You will have to give the Axis a little extra help in your new version.
Ok, I'm back...short business trip. Glad to see many of you still enjoying this scenario. Stahlwolf, I will put together a read.me file and do some modifications and testing before we'll be ready to post it permanently, thanks. I'm thinking of adding the Turks to the Axis, or something to stop the gamey move of using the American and/or UK contingents into the USSR, probably would never of happened in real life.
Matt, if none of our SC brethren haven't sent you the campaign, I will send it to you tonight when I get home.
[ February 12, 2005, 04:00 PM: Message edited by: SeaMonkey ]
Birdmon 0
Seamonkey, I would like to try this mod!
birdmon@planetc.com
Alright, I think I'm up to date on getting everyone this campaign, sorry but business was demanding.
I would like to suggest two "house rules" although I detest the use of them, but SC design limitations sometimes make them appropriate.
1. No building of UK units until both Manchester and London are in Allied hands.
2. No operating or use of UK/USA units in the Soviet Union.
Both seem logically to have occurred if this "what if" had truly been a part of history. Anyway it will make for a more competitive game for you "experts" out there.
santabear 0
I haven't been around here in quite a while. Hello to everyone.
And SeaMonkey, I'd LOVE to try your scenario. Please send it to:
mvotta@email.unc.edu
Nero's Cat 0
Hi - would also love to try this scenario - could you please send it to me at smithstacey29@aol.com
SeaMonkey, I've just finished a game using the two house rules you suggested.
The first didn't make any difference as I've never needed to make any UK units before London is liberated, but the second, preventing allied troops from fighting in the USSR, certainly did.
The Soviet Union surrendered in late 1944, just when DDay was on the verge of liberating France and US troops had cut the land link between France and Spain.
Sadly with the Russians out of the war we had to slowly withdraw from France, and then we spent the next two years fending off continuous German landings in Britain. Fortunately Iraq and Egypt remained allied, providing enough MPPs to fund the war effort, so this was possible and the game ended with London still allied and the Axis winning but with a negative score.
Great fun once again. My next mission will be to actually win without using allied troops in Russia. I'm sure it can be done!
You are becoming an expert in this campaign and my best feedback so far...thanks. Now what were the settings for this game?
I can tell you that my win on Intermediate/+1 exp. the only use of Allied troopers(in addition to 2 USSR corps) in USSR was to surround and kill a rampaging Panzer group in the Caucasus(the last southern city)that was destroying all my resources in that area. So technically I did violate the "house rule", although I used only the units that originated in Iraq and Egypt, ie. I did not operate air or transport additional units around the "Hope".
Glad you are still having fun with this.
Anyone else want to profess to being a conqueror in this campaign. How about it CT, you were suppose to win the first day?
Hi Brad
It was on the Expert/+2 setting.
I also had the problem of the rampaging Panzergruppe, but once I had a couple of corps nearby it settled down. Unfortunately it was settled on one of my cities deep in the Caucasus!
I used the British troops already in the Middle East to entrench in the northern most hex of Iraq, with a HQ also in the mountains. The remaining corps were placed on all the Iraqi resource hexes.
The US troops ended up defending Egypt. It's funny how they ended up swapping positions, but I'd had to pull back the British due to a lack of MPPs to repair them, and then I gradually rebuilt them in Iraq.
My game was only +1 setting. But I also used American forces in the USSR and then USSR forces in the mid east for awhile. I think it would be harder and more realistic to limit it. Bill does seem to be getting the expert at this. I was very challeneged at +1, never even tried +2.
Hey SeaMonkey,
If you could shoot a copy up to Dallas, I would love to try it. Though most of my gaming time is now spent playing Strat-O-Matic football, running a 1964 AFL-NFL keepers league, I still play Strategic Command PBEM and anxiously await SCII.
leopard138@comcast.net
aesopo 0
Can you send one to me also?
aesop123@hotmail.com
SeaMonkey, thanks a bunch for the scenario!
Got around to playing it tonight, quite a challenge
Alright guys...its on the way.
Preliminarily it looks like Bill is top candidate for SCAEF (Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force). Hey Bill, if you need some subordinate commanders for multi-player SC2 PBEMs, please consider me.....perhaps I can save China!
Agent Smith 0
Sea Monkey,
why not just upload the scenario file at the games depot page of the wargamer. There are some rather aging scenarios there could be dusted off. There are plenty of other sites that hold SC scenario files. Surely that would make life easier for all.
Of course you are right AS, but I'm not sure this will be my final edition and my read.me is not done yet...due to demands of business.
Any of you guys already in possession of the scenario, feel free to pass it on to any of our requesting brethren.
I apologize for not getting this out to all parties in a timely manner...just the demands of Earth are sometimes overwhelming.
Just done it!
Allied victory in May 1947 with +114, using the house rules and expert/+2.
What a tough game though, and as Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a close run thing.
DDay took place early in 1944 and I managed to liberate France and half of Spain, and (just about) hang on to them until the end. Unfortunately the Axis never seemed to run out of MPPs to repair their airfleets, so it was a constant battle in the west, swinging backwards and forwards between DDay in early 1944 until the end.
In the east, well, that was a very different story. When DDay was launched the Russians had 3 corps and 1 HQ defending half the Caucasus, Stalingrad and the northern half of the Caucasus having already fallen.
I had a similar force, commanded by Zhukov and backed up by a rocket, holding the Urals.
The good thing about DDay was that it really diverted massive Axis resources away from finishing off the Russians, so while my small army group deep in the Caucasus was slowly beaten down and eventually the one surviving corps and HQ had to be evacuated to Iraq, Zhukov slowly retook most of northern and western Russia. Just before the end we had retaken Stalingrad and another force was fighting the Germans NE of Warsaw, but with all the oil fields in the Caucasus in Axis hands Russian income was very low.
I think that a rocket strategy for the Russians, might be the way to real victory, i.e. actually destroying the Axis, rather than just holding them. I might try that one next.
I played on intermediate +1 experience, followed house rules. Occupied all of Germany by August 1944 and had Italy surrender in December of 1944. Heck, Germany did not surrender until April 3, 1945. I diverted resources to the mideast or else this would have been done and over with earlier. Such a waste of having those army leaders bunched up in the mideast doing nothing. Next I will try the expert level/+2. I have played the fall weiss campaign as allies on that level and giving Italy and Germany each 9999 MPPS and got them rolled up usually all the time by late 1944 or early 1945. Hey, make this really difficult by having Sweden and Finland already joining the axis and maybe some extra mpps, plus industrial tech 5 for Germany and Italy. As long as you know what you are doing, the AI is really predictable and it is easy hit areas with massive firepower than doing attrition (then you lose!). Good tough scenario. Although I think the US should be more mobilized as the invasion of the UK would have prompted a massive full mobilization of the US Army. Another suggestion, the UK and US navies should have been actively deployed in the Atlantic and UK area.
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The Quest of Alain Ducasse, A Film Review by Marc Glassman
By: Marc Glassman
The Quest of Alain Ducasse
Gilles de Maistre, director and co-script w/Eric Roux
Featuring: Alain Ducasse, Massimo Bottura, Francois Hollande, Prince Albert 2 of Monaco
We’re in a time when Anthony Bourdain, Paul Bocuse and Wolfgang Puck are superstars. Everyone can start a conversation by asking if you have a favourite new superfood—is it quinoa or coconuts?—and what foodie shows are the ones you obsess over on TV. So it’s no surprise that French documentary filmmaker Gilles de Maistre was given funding and carte blanche to follow the chef and culinary impresario Alain Ducasse for two years to figure out what makes him tick.
Ducasse controls over 20 restaurants, has 18 Michelin stars, builds culinary schools and presents his eco-friendly sustainable philosophy worldwide. Although he occasionally dresses in kitchen whites at major receptions, Ducasse is no longer a celebrity chef; he’s more of an iconic presence, respected by his peers and the rich and famous who spend time and money in his restaurants.
In The Quest of Alain Ducasse, de Maistre follows the culinary expert from France to Japan to Brazil to the United States, Monaco and the Philippines. A charming, thoughtful figure, Ducasse is seen eating sushi in Kyotoa and every manner of meals around the globe but his main interest seems to be with finding produce that is exceptional in every locality he visits. Ducasse was raised on a farm in southwestern France and loves vegetables since he was a child. As a chef and entrepreneur, he was a key figure in simplifying exquisite French food, emphasizing a food-to-table approach that eliminated extravagant sauces and over indulgent presentation styles. His search for the truth in food remains at the heart of his quest.
There is, of course, a show biz quality to Ducasse. The journey around the globe completed, Ducasse works with his team to create Ore, one of the most prestigious restaurants in the world, located at the legendary Palace de Versailles. Much of the last quarter of the film is taken up with the opening of Ore and its glittery first reception.
One of the unique aspects of the film is that filmmaker de Maistre never shows us Ducasse’s wife and children. Their absence is only referred to once; it clearly was a condition imposed by Ducasse. We are made to understand that Ducasse is obsessed with food and his working philosophy and that his private life is not important in understanding his “quest.” Whether that’s true or not, The Quest of Alain Ducasse does offer us insights into a very successful culinary giant and is a unique and fascinating film.
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Atlanta Carnival 2008 Receives Official "Support" by Elected Officials
The Atlanta Caribbean Carnival 2008 Receives "Official" Support by Elected Officials Throughout the City and State
By Jacqueline Louis
Themed, “Unity through Diversity-Celebrating 20 Years,” the Official Atlanta Caribbean Carnival will be held on Saturday, May 24, 2008 in downtown Atlanta. In promoting the recognition of the Caribbean community, strategic alliances were forged with elected officials throughout the City of Atlanta and State of Georgia, to support the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival festivities, as well as the long-term viability of Caribbean arts, culture and community development.
“The City of Atlanta proudly celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival,” says City of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, further sharing that: “The Atlanta Caribbean Carnival – a celebration of cuisine, culture and history–adds, in no small part to Atlanta’s cultural landscape. For generations, Caribbean nationals have added to the vitality of the Atlanta, through their achievements and contributions of business, politics, education, community service and culture. By recognizing the efforts of Caribbean nationals, we can encourage the importance of inclusion in building a bright future for everyone. We extend best wishes for a successful celebration.”
In addition, an official proclamation by the Atlanta City Council, represented by Councilman C.T. Martin will be presented during the Carnival festivities on Saturday, May 24. This proclamation announces the City’s support of the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival as the “Official” Caribbean Carnival celebration, and also, deems Memorial Day Weekend, as “the Official Atlanta Caribbean Carnival weekend.” The City of Atlanta will also present an unprecedented Phoenix Award recognizing the many talents of international recording artist, Machel Montano as the “Caribbean Music Ambassador.”
Also among this esteemed group of supporters is State Representative Billy Mitchell (D-Stone Mountain): “I am indeed privileged to take part in the celebratory events of the Caribbean community, as their accomplishments and contributions to our state-indeed our nation, is most deservedly worthy of honor and recognition.”
Both the City of Atlanta and State representatives will be presented with unique UNITY Ambassador awards in recognition of their ongoing commitment and support of the Caribbean community.
The main Atlanta Caribbean Carnival events will be held in downtown Atlanta on Saturday, May 24, and include a Parade of Bands, that begins at 12:00 PM on West Peachtree, and ends with a Festival Village and lively onstage entertainment in the historic Auburn District-between Jesse Hill Jr. and Hillard Streets. For further information, media inquiries and/or interviews, contact Jacqueline Louis at jacquelinelouis@msn.com or 404-664-0541. For general information about the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival, contact Annette Lemonn at 404-587-5195.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2007, pp. 1-2
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Undernutrition, infection and immune function
Philip C. Calder, Alan A. Jackson
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2007, pp. 3-29
Undernutrition and infection are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. These two problems are interrelated. Undernutrition compromises barrier function, allowing easier access by pathogens, and compromises immune function, decreasing the ability of the host to eliminate pathogens once they enter the body. Thus, malnutrition predisposes to infections. Infections can alter nutritional status mediated by changes in dietary intake, absorption and nutrient requirements and losses of endogenous nutrients. Thus, the presence of infections can contribute to the malnourished state. The global burden of malnutrition and infectious disease is immense, especially amongst children. Childhood infections impair growth and development. There is a role for breast-feeding in protection against infections. Key nutrients required for an efficient immune response include vitamin A, Fe, Zn and Cu. There is some evidence that provision of the first three of these nutrients does improve immune function in undernourished children and can reduce the morbidity and mortality of some infectious diseases including measles, diarrhoeal disease and upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Not all studies, however, show benefit of single nutrient supplementation and this might be because the subjects studied have multiple nutrient deficiencies. The situation regarding Fe supplementation is particularly complex. In addition to immunization programmes and improvement of nutrient status, there are important roles for maternal education, improved hygiene and sanitation and increased supply of quality water in the eradication of infectious diseases.
The effect of calcium on iron absorption
Sean R Lynch
The experimental and epidemiological evidence demonstrating that Ca inhibits Fe absorption was reviewed, with the objectives of estimating the potential impact of variations in Ca intake on dietary Fe bioavailability and of providing some guidelines for predicting the effects on Fe status of recent recommendations for higher dietary Ca intake. In animal models Ca salts reduced both haem- and non-haem-Fe absorption, the effect being dependent on the amount of Ca administered rather than the Ca:Fe molar ratio; dairy products had a variable effect; factors other than Ca may have been important. In single-meal human absorption studies, both haem- and non-haem-Fe absorption was inhibited by Ca supplements and by dairy products, the effect depending on the simultaneous presence of Ca and Fe in the lumen of the upper small intestine and also occurring when Ca and Fe were given in the fasting state. The quantitative effect, although dose dependent, was modified by the form in which Ca was administered and by other dietary constituents (such as phosphate, phytate and ascorbic acid) known to affect Fe bioavailability. The mechanism by which Ca influences Fe absorption has not been elucidated. The effects of factors that modulate Fe bioavailability are known to be exaggerated in single-meal studies, and measurements based on several meals are more likely to reflect the true nutritional impact. The results of most multiple-meal human studies suggest that Ca supplementation will have only a small effect on Fe absorption unless habitual Ca consumption is very low. Outcome analyses showed that Ca supplements had no effect on Fe status in infants fed Fe-fortified formula, lactating women, adolescent girls and adult men and women. However it should be noted that the subjects studied had adequate intakes of bioavailable Fe and, except in one study, had relatively high habitual Ca intakes. Although cross-sectional analyses in Europe have shown a significant inverse correlation between Ca intake (derived primarily from dairy foods) and Fe stores, the quantitative effect was relatively small. The general conclusion is that dietary Ca supplements are unlikely to have a biologically significant impact on Fe balance in Western societies unless Ca consumption is habitually very low; however, increased consumption of dairy products may have a small negative effect that could be functionally important in pregnancy if Fe supplements are not taken. It is uncertain whether the inverse relationship between consumption of dairy products and Fe status is due entirely to increased Ca intake; substitution of milk proteins for meat may also have negative effects on Fe balance.
Value of traditional foods in meeting macro- and micronutrient needs: the wild plant connection
Louis E. Grivetti, Britta M. Ogle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2007, pp. 31-46
The importance of edible wild plants may be traced to antiquity but systematic studies are recent. Anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, food scientists, geographers, nutritionists, physicians and sociologists have investigated cultural aspects and nutrient composition of edible species. Important contributions to the diet from edible wild plants are well documented and numerous studies reveal roles played by ‘lesser-known’ species when meeting macro- and micronutrient needs of groups at risk, whether infants and children, pregnant and/or lactating women, or the elderly. The literature is vast and scattered but information on the macro- and micronutrient content of wild plants and their importance to the human diet appear in five kinds of publications: cultural works by social scientists, descriptions and inventories by botanists, dietary assessment studies by nutritionists, intervention programmes managed by epidemiologists and physicians, and composition data generally conducted by food scientists and chemists. Many macro- and micronutrient-dense wild species deserve greater attention but lack of adequate nutrient databases, whether by region or nation, limit educational efforts to improve diets in many Third World areas. Limited and uneven compositional data generally reflect factors of cost and personal interest in key nutrients. Whilst edible wild plants are regularly deprecated by policy makers and considered to be the ‘weeds of agriculture’, it would be tragic if this led to loss of ability to identify and consume these important available species.
The effects of diet on circulating sex hormone levels in men
Naomi E Allen, Timothy J Key
There is considerable epidemiological evidence that a Western-style diet may increase the risk of certain hormone-dependent conditions in men via its effects on hormone metabolism. Experimental evidence also suggests that dietary factors may exert subtle effects on hormone metabolism. Here we review the clinical and epidemiological evidence that diet is associated with circulating sex hormone levels in men. In comparison with factors such as age and BMI, nutrients do not appear to be strong determinants of sex hormone levels. Dietary intervention studies have not shown that a change in dietary fat and/or dietary fibre intake is associated with changes in circulating sex hormone concentrations over the short term. The data on the effects of dietary phyto-oestrogens on sex hormone levels in men are too limited for conclusions to be drawn. Observational studies between men from different dietary groups have shown that a vegan diet is associated with small but significant increases in sex-hormone-binding globulin and testosterone concentrations in comparison with meat-eaters. However, these studies have not demonstrated that variations in dietary composition have any long-term important effects on circulating bioavailable sex hormone levels in men. This lack of effect may be partly explained by the body's negative feedback mechanism, which balances out small changes in androgen metabolism in order to maintain a constant level of circulating bioavailable androgens. It appears, therefore, that future studies should look for dietary effects on the feedback mechanism itself, or on the metabolism of androgens within the target tissues.
The absorption of stearic acid from triacylglycerols: an inquiry and analysis
Geoffrey Livesey
Although stearic acid is a saturated fatty acid, its influence on plasma cholesterol acid other health variables is neutral; possibly owing in part to poor absorption. Reduced absorption of stearic acid from particular triacylglycerols, cocoa butter and novel fats formulated with short- and long-chain acid triacylglycerol molecules (Salatrims) has been attributed to high intakes. However, the circumstances and causes of poor stearic acid digestion from triacylglycerols are unclear; published data were therefore collected and analysed, with emphasis on human studies. Of twenty-eight studies conducted in adults, most are in men (>90%). The assertion that reduced absorption is due to a high intake of stearoyl groups is not supported: dietary intakes of stearoyl of 0·05–0·65 g stearic acid equivalent/kg body weight (cf typical intake of 0·2 g stearic acid equivalent/kg body weight in the Western diet) indicate that the ‘true’ digestibility of stearoyl is 0·98 (SE 0·01) g/g, with apparent digestibility less than this value at low intakes owing to endogenous stearic acid excretion and to inter-publication variation of unidentified cause. The neutral health impact of stearic acid must be due to factors other than availability. Exceptions include cocoa butter, Salatrims and tristearin, for which digestibility is an additional factor. The efficiency with which human subjects digest stearoyl from cocoa butter still remains uncertain, while the digestion of total long-chain fat from this source is 0·89–0·95 g/g, high in comparison with 0·33 g/g for Salatrim 23CA and 0·15 g/g for tristearin in their prepared states. Salatrims contain the highest proportion of long-chain fatty acids that are stearic acid-rich other than tristearin, which is the main component of fully-hydrogenated soyabean and rapeseed oil. Analysis shows that apparent digestibility of stearic acid is associated with stearoyl density within the triacylglycerol molecule and that, in Salatrims, the occurrence of short-chain fatty acids in place of long-chain fatty acids increases this density. Soap formation appears not to be a major factor in the reduced digestion of stearic acid from tristearin under regular dietary circumstances, but both microcrystallinity and reduced digestibility of tri-, di- and monostearoylglycerols appears to be important. Solubilisation of high-melting-point tristearin in low-melting-point oils improves the digestibility of its stearic acid, particularly when emulsified or liquidized at above melting point. However, without such artificial aids, the digestive tracts of the rat, dog and man have a low capacity for emulsifying and digesting stearic acid from tristearin. Reduced digestibility of stearic acid from Salatrim 23CA also appears to be attributable to reduced digestibility of di- and monostearoylglycerols and is particularly due to remnants with the 1- or 3-stearoylglycerol intact after initial hydrolytic cleavage. Short-chain organic acid in Salatrim 23CA, which is readily hydrolysed, leaves such remnants. Unlike tristearin, Salatrim 23CA melts at body temperature and mixing it with low-melting-point oils is not expected to cause further disruption of microcrystalline structures to aid digestibility of its stearoyl groups. The low digestibility of stearoyl in Salatrim 23CA, together with the occurrence of short-chain organic acids in this product, account for its relatively low nutritional energy value (about 20 kJ (5 kcal)/g) compared with traditional fats (37 kJ (9 kcal)/g) and low fat value (<20:37 kJ/kJ; <5:9 kcal/kcal) relative to traditional fats. In part these differences are because of minor effects of Salatrim 23CA on the excretion of other fat and protein, due to the bulking properties of this poorly-digestible fat.
Herbal products: active constituents, modes of action and quality control
Ron B.H. Wills, Kerry Bone, Michelle Morgan
An overview is given of the current position of medicinal herbs in general in relation to usage, market and production, types of pharmacological activity and how they differ from conventional drugs. The increasing importance of quality and manufactured products is also discussed. A more detailed consideration of these issues is given in relation to echinacea, valerian and St John's wort as these herbs are well studied, are market leaders and have widespread community usage.
Plant polyphenols in cancer and heart disease: implications as nutritional antioxidants
Garry G. Duthie, Susan J. Duthie, Janet A. M. Kyle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2007, pp. 79-106
Certain dietary antioxidants such as vitamin E and vitamin C are important for maintaining optimum health. There is now much interest in polyphenolic products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway as they have considerable antioxidant activity in vitro and are ubiquitous in our diet. Rich sources include tea, wine, fruits and vegetables although levels are affected by species, light, degree of ripeness, processing and storage. This confounds the formulation of databases for the estimation of dietary intakes. Most attention to date has focused on the flavonoids, a generic term which includes chalcones, flavones, flavanones, flavanols and anthocyanins. There is little convincing epidemiological evidence that intakes of polyphenols are inversely related to the incidence of cancer whereas a number of studies suggest that high intakes of flavonoids may be protective against CHD. In contrast, numerous cell culture and animal models indicate potent anticarcinogenic activity by certain polyphenols mediated through a range of mechanisms including antioxidant activity, enzyme modulation, gene expression, apoptosis, upregulation of gap junction communication and P-glycoprotein activation. Possible protective effects against heart disease may be due to the ability of some polyphenols to prevent the oxidation of LDL to an atherogenic form although anti-platelet aggregation activity and vasodilatory properties are also reported. However, some polyphenols are toxic in mammalian cells. Thus, until more is known about their bioavailability, metabolism and intracellular location, increasing intakes of polyphenols by supplements or food fortification may be unwise.
Iron fortification of infant formula*
R. J. D Moy
The purpose of this review is to examine the need for and appropriate level of Fe fortification of infant formula, and to assess any adverse effects of Fe fortification. The appropriate level of Fe fortification of infant formula has been established through studies of Fe absorption or erythrocyte incorporation of Fe, and through clinical trials of formulas with varying levels of Fe that were aimed at preventing the development of Fe deficiency in participating infants. In addition, the effects of varying levels of Fe fortification on the absorption of other minerals and trace elements, and on the incidence of infection and immune function have been studied, as has the effect of adding bovine lactoferrin to formula. Studies of Fe absorption have shown that increasing the level of Fe fortification in formula does not significantly increase the amount absorbed, and that the addition of bovine lactoferrin is unlikely to further increase absorption of Fe. Quite different recommendations for the level of Fe fortification of formula are made in the USA and in Europe. The higher level (12 mg/l) commonly used in the USA is not well supported by the evidence from clinical trials that suggest that lower levels (4 mg/l or less) may be adequate to prevent the development of Fe deficiency. Higher levels of Fe fortification may also interfere with the absorption of other minerals such as Cu and Se. Concerns about potential adverse effects of Fe fortification on immune function and susceptibility to infections have been disproved as have concerns about associated gastrointestinal symptomatology. There are no clearly demonstrated advantages in using ‘follow-on’ formula with high Fe content (up to 13 mg/l) instead of the standard UK formulas with Fe fortification in the range 4–7 mg/l after the age of 6 months, although they may provide an important ‘safety net’ for the prevention of Fe deficiency in communities with weaning diets low in Fe.
Perspectives on the role of the human gut microbiota and its modulation by pro- and prebiotics
Toni Steer, Hollie Carpenter, Kieran Tuohy, Glenn R. Gibson
One of the most topical areas of human nutrition is the role of the gut in health and disease. Specifically, this involves interactions between the resident microbiota and dietary ingredients that support their activities. Currently, it is accepted that the gut microflora contains pathogenic, benign and beneficial components. Some microbially induced disease states such as acute gastroenteritis and pseudomembranous colitis have a defined aetiological agent(s). Speculation on the role of microbiota components in disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, bowel cancer, neonatal necrotising enterocolitis and ulcerative colitis are less well defined, but many studies are convincing. It is evident that the gut microflora composition can be altered through diet. Because of their perceived health-promoting status, bifidobacteria and lactobacilli are the commonest targets. Probiotics involve the use of live micro-organisms in food; prebiotics are carbohydrates selectively metabolized by desirable moieties of the indigenous flora; synbiotics combine the two approaches. Dietary intervention of the human gut microbiota is feasible and has been proven as efficacious in volunteer trials. The health bonuses of such approaches offer the potential to manage many gut disorders prophylactically. However, it is imperative that the best methodologies available are applied to this area of nutritional sciences. This will undoubtedly involve a genomic application to the research and is already under way through molecular tracking of microbiota changes to diet in controlled human trials.
Measurement of dietary nutrient intake in free-ranging mammalian herbivores
Robert W. Mayes, Hugh Dove
The nutrient intakes of mammalian herbivores depend on the amount and the nutrient content of the plant species and plant parts which they eat. We review the merits of oesophageal-fistulated (OF) animals, microhistological procedures, stable C-isotope discrimination and plant cuticular-wax markers as methods for estimating diet composition and intake in both ruminant and non-ruminant herbivores. We also briefly discuss methods based on grazing behaviour measurements or on H2O or Na turnover, and methods for estimating supplement or soil intake. Estimates of intake in ruminants are often based on separate measurements of faecal output and herbage digestibility. We review this approach and emphasize that, under some circumstances, the applicability of in vitro digestibility estimates based on OF extrusa is questionable. We discuss how plant-wax marker patterns can be used to check whether OF and test animals are consuming similar diets, but also emphasize that a major advantage of the use of plant-wax markers is that this approach may obviate altogether the need for OF animals. Estimates of total herbage intake can be partitioned into the intakes coming from different plant species and/or parts, provided diet composition can be measured. Diet composition estimates based on C-isotope discrimination have the major disadvantage that they cannot be taken to species level. By contrast, microhistological methods can identify many plant species in extrusa, digesta or faeces, but often a large proportion of plant fragments remains unidentifiable. Plant-wax hydrocarbons show great promise as markers for estimating diet composition and intake. However, we suggest that to be applicable in complex plant communities there is a need with this method either to recruit a wider range of wax markers (e.g. alcohols, sterols, fatty acids) or to use it in combination with other methods. We suggest that, in turn, this generates an urgent need for research on statistical aspects of the combined use of markers or methods, in relation to the error structures of the data or methods being combined and the standard errors of the resultant estimates of diet composition and intake. We conclude by discussing the extension of intake and/or diet composition measurements to the measurement of nutrient transactions within the gut, particularly in relation to the supply of absorbable nutrients.
Phytate and phytase: consequences for protein utilisation
P H Selle, V Ravindran, A Caldwell, W. L Bryden
The excretion of large amounts of P in effluent from intensive pig and poultry units is indicative of the poor availability of phytate-bound P in plant-derived feed ingredients. This environmental problem prompted the development and acceptance of microbial phytase feed enzymes for single-stomached animals. Their introduction led to an increasing recognition that phytate may have adverse effects on protein utilisation in addition to P. Consequently, the nutritional relevance of protein–phytate interactions for pigs and poultry is considered in the present review. Since the current understanding of the effects of protein–phytate interactions comes mainly from responses obtained to added phytase, literature on the influence of microbial phytases on amino acid digestibility and utilisation is summarised, followed by a discussion of possible mechanisms contributing to the negative effects of phytate. However, the rationale for the protein responses to added phytase remains largely speculative, and several modes of action are probably involved. It may be that the release of protein from protein–phytate complexes occurring naturally in feed ingredients, the prevention of formation of binary and ternary protein–phytate complexes within the gut, the alleviation of the negative impact of phytate on digestive enzymes and the reduction in endogenous amino acid losses are all contributing factors. A better understanding of the mechanisms of protein–phytate interactions and the modes of action of exogenous phytase enzymes is clearly desirable. Studies are also needed to identify and quantify the factors that contribute to the variable amino acid responses to added phytase. It appears that the relative solubilities of phytate salts and proteins from different feed ingredients and their effects on the extent of protein–phytate complex formation, coupled with variations in the effectiveness of phytase in different dietary contexts, may be the major factors responsible.
Antibiotic use in animal feed and its impact on human healt
Mary D. Barton
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause disease in man is an issue of major concern. Although misuse of antibiotics in human medicine is the principal cause of the problem, antibiotic-resistant bacteria originating in animals are contributory factors, with some types of resistance in some species of bacteria. Antibiotics are added to animal feeds to treat and prevent infections and to improve growth and production. Until recently, the major concerns about incorporation of antibiotics in animal feeds related to antibiotic residues in products from treated animals. Although, in 1969, the Swann (1969) report drew attention to the potential for antibiotic-resistant bacteria to spread from treated animals via the food chain, there was little response until the detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in animals fed a related glycopeptide, avoparcin. Subsequently, attention started to focus on the issue and other examples of transfer of resistant bacteria through the food chain, such as enterococci resistant to quinupristin–dalfopristin or to everninomicin, fluoroquinolone-resistant campylobacters and multiresistant Escherichia coli, and salmonella such as Salmonella typhimurium DT104. Reviews and committees in many countries have highlighted the need for better control of licensing of antibiotics, and codes for prudent use of antibiotics by veterinary practitioners and farmers. The continued use of antibiotic growth promoters has been questioned and there is a need to ensure that antibiotics important in human medicine are not used therapeutically or prophylactically in animals.
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A predictive model for conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk patients
Adam J. Ciarleglio, Gary Brucato, Michael D. Masucci, Rebecca Altschuler, Tiziano Colibazzi, Cheryl M. Corcoran, Francesca M. Crump, Guillermo Horga, Eugénie Lehembre-Shiah, Wei Leong, Scott A. Schobel, Melanie M. Wall, Lawrence H. Yang, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ragy R. Girgis
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 49 / Issue 7 / May 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2018, pp. 1128-1137
Print publication: May 2019
The authors developed a practical and clinically useful model to predict the risk of psychosis that utilizes clinical characteristics empirically demonstrated to be strong predictors of conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk (CHR) individuals. The model is based upon the Structured Interview for Psychosis Risk Syndromes (SIPS) and accompanying clinical interview, and yields scores indicating one's risk of conversion.
Baseline data, including demographic and clinical characteristics measured by the SIPS, were obtained on 199 CHR individuals seeking evaluation in the early detection and intervention for mental disorders program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center. Each patient was followed for up to 2 years or until they developed a syndromal DSM-4 disorder. A LASSO logistic fitting procedure was used to construct a model for conversion specifically to a psychotic disorder.
At 2 years, 64 patients (32.2%) converted to a psychotic disorder. The top five variables with relatively large standardized effect sizes included SIPS subscales of visual perceptual abnormalities, dysphoric mood, unusual thought content, disorganized communication, and violent ideation. The concordance index (c-index) was 0.73, indicating a moderately strong ability to discriminate between converters and non-converters.
The prediction model performed well in classifying converters and non-converters and revealed SIPS measures that are relatively strong predictors of conversion, comparable with the risk calculator published by NAPLS (c-index = 0.71), but requiring only a structured clinical interview. Future work will seek to externally validate the model and enhance its performance with the incorporation of relevant biomarkers.
Mental health difficulties and suicidal behaviours among young migrants: multicentre study of European adolescents
Elaine M. McMahon, Paul Corcoran, Helen Keeley, Mary Cannon, Vladimir Carli, Camilla Wasserman, Marco Sarchiapone, Alan Apter, Judit Balazs, Raphaela Banzer, Julio Bobes, Romuald Brunner, Doina Cozman, Christian Haring, Michael Kaess, Jean-Pierre Kahn, Agnes Kereszteny, Ursa Mars Bitenc, Bogdan Nemes, Vita Poštuvan, Pilar A. Sáiz, Merike Sisask, Alexandra Tubiana, Peeter Värnik, Christina W. Hoven, Danuta Wasserman
Journal: BJPsych Open / Volume 3 / Issue 6 / November 2017
Migration has been reported to be associated with higher prevalence of mental disorders and suicidal behaviour.
To examine the prevalence of emotional and behavioural difficulties, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among migrant adolescents and their non-migrant peers.
A school-based survey was completed by 11 057 European adolescents as part of the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) study.
A previous suicide attempt was reported by 386 (3.6%) adolescents. Compared with non-migrants, first-generation migrants had an elevated prevalence of suicide attempts (odds ratio (OR) 2.08; 95% CI 1.32–3.26; P=0.001 for European migrants and OR 1.86; 95% CI 1.06–3.27; P=0.031 for non-European migrants) and significantly higher levels of peer difficulties. Highest levels of conduct and hyperactivity problems were found among migrants of non-European origin.
Appropriate mental health services and school-based supports are required to meet the complex needs of migrant adolescents.
4-D Imaging and Modeling of Eta Carinae’s Inner Fossil Wind Structures
Thomas I. Madura, Theodore Gull, Mairan Teodoro, Nicola Clementel, Michael Corcoran, Augusto Damineli, Jose Groh, Kenji Hamaguchi, D. John Hillier, Anthony Moffat, Noel Richardson, Gerd Weigelt, Don Lindler, Keith Feggans
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 12 / Issue S329 / November 2016
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2017, p. 420
Print publication: November 2016
Eta Carinae is the most massive active binary within 10,000 light-years and is famous for the largest non-terminal stellar explosion ever recorded. Observations reveal that the supermassive (~120 M⊙) binary, consisting of an LBV and either a WR or extreme O star, undergoes dramatic changes every 5.54 years due to the stars’ very eccentric orbits (e ≈ 0.9). Many of these changes are caused by a dynamic wind-wind collision region (WWCR) between the stars, plus expanding fossil WWCRs formed one, two, and three 5.54-year cycles ago. The fossil WWCRs can be spatially and spectrally resolved by the Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (HST/STIS). Starting in June 2009, we used the HST/STIS to spatially map Eta Carinae’s fossil WWCRs across one full orbit, following temporal changes in several forbidden emission lines (e.g. [Feiii] 4659 Å, [Feii] 4815 Å), creating detailed data cubes at multiple epochs. Multiple wind structures were imaged, revealing details about the binary’s orbital motion, photoionization properties, and recent (~5 − 15 year) mass-loss history. These observations allow us to test 3-D hydrodynamical and radiative-transfer models of the interacting winds. Our observations and models strongly suggest that the wind and photoionization properties of Eta Carinae’s binary have not changed substantially over the past several orbital cycles. They also provide a baseline for following future changes in Eta Carinae, essential for understanding the late-stage evolution of this nearby supernova progenitor. For more details, see Gull et al. (2016) and references therein.
The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797
Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter, Katie E. Corcoran
Journal: Social Science History / Volume 40 / Issue 2 / Summer 2016
Print publication: Summer 2016
How do insurgents engaged in high-risk collective action maintain solidarity when faced with increasing costs and dangers? Based on a combination of process tracing through qualitative evidence and an event-history analysis of a unique data set assembled from naval archives concerning a mass mutiny in the Royal Navy in 1797, this article explains why insurgent solidarity varied among the ships participating in the mutiny. Maintaining solidarity was the key problem that the organizers of the mutiny faced in confronting government repression and inducements for ships’ companies to defect. Solidarity, proxied here as the duration of a ship's company's adherence to the mutiny, relied on techniques used by the mutiny leadership that increased dependence and imposed control over rank-and-file seamen. In particular, mutiny leaders monitored and sanctioned compliance and exploited informational asymmetries to persuade seamen to stand by the insurgency, even as prospects for its success faded.
By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. Brittan, Justin Broackes, Dan W. Brock, Aaron Bronfman, Jeffrey E. Brower, Bartosz Brozek, Anthony Brueckner, Jeffrey Bub, Lara Buchak, Otavio Bueno, Ann E. Bumpus, Robert W. Burch, John Burgess, Arthur W. Burks, Panayot Butchvarov, Robert E. Butts, Marina Bykova, Patrick Byrne, David Carr, Noël Carroll, Edward S. Casey, Victor Caston, Victor Caston, Albert Casullo, Robert L. Causey, Alan K. L. Chan, Ruth Chang, Deen K. Chatterjee, Andrew Chignell, Roderick M. Chisholm, Kelly J. Clark, E. J. Coffman, Robin Collins, Brian P. Copenhaver, John Corcoran, John Cottingham, Roger Crisp, Frederick J. Crosson, Antonio S. Cua, Phillip D. Cummins, Martin Curd, Adam Cureton, Andrew Cutrofello, Stephen Darwall, Paul Sheldon Davies, Wayne A. Davis, Timothy Joseph Day, Claudio de Almeida, Mario De Caro, Mario De Caro, John Deigh, C. F. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael R. DePaul, Michael Detlefsen, Daniel Trent Devereux, Philip E. Devine, John M. Dillon, Martin C. Dillon, Robert DiSalle, Mary Domski, Alan Donagan, Paul Draper, Fred Dretske, Mircea Dumitru, Wilhelm Dupré, Gerald Dworkin, John Earman, Ellery Eells, Catherine Z. Elgin, Berent Enç, Ronald P. Endicott, Edward Erwin, John Etchemendy, C. Stephen Evans, Susan L. Feagin, Solomon Feferman, Richard Feldman, Arthur Fine, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, William FitzPatrick, Richard E. Flathman, Gvozden Flego, Richard Foley, Graeme Forbes, Rainer Forst, Malcolm R. Forster, Daniel Fouke, Patrick Francken, Samuel Freeman, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Michael Friedman, Michael Fuerstein, Richard A. Fumerton, Alan Gabbey, Pieranna Garavaso, Daniel Garber, Jorge L. A. Garcia, Robert K. Garcia, Don Garrett, Philip Gasper, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Bernard Gert, Roger F. Gibson, Cody Gilmore, Carl Ginet, Alan H. Goldman, Alvin I. Goldman, Alfonso Gömez-Lobo, Lenn E. Goodman, Robert M. Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Daniel W. Graham, George A. Graham, Peter J. Graham, Richard E. Grandy, I. Grattan-Guinness, John Greco, Philip T. Grier, Nicholas Griffin, Nicholas Griffin, David A. Griffiths, Paul J. Griffiths, Stephen R. Grimm, Charles L. Griswold, Charles B. Guignon, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Dimitri Gutas, Gary Gutting, Paul Guyer, Kwame Gyekye, Oscar A. Haac, Raul Hakli, Raul Hakli, Michael Hallett, Edward C. Halper, Jean Hampton, R. James Hankinson, K. R. Hanley, Russell Hardin, Robert M. Harnish, William Harper, David Harrah, Kevin Hart, Ali Hasan, William Hasker, John Haugeland, Roger Hausheer, William Heald, Peter Heath, Richard Heck, John F. Heil, Vincent F. Hendricks, Stephen Hetherington, Francis Heylighen, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Risto Hilpinen, Harold T. Hodes, Joshua Hoffman, Alan Holland, Robert L. Holmes, Richard Holton, Brad W. Hooker, Terence E. Horgan, Tamara Horowitz, Paul Horwich, Vittorio Hösle, Paul Hoβfeld, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Frances Howard-Snyder, Anne Hudson, Deal W. Hudson, Carl A. Huffman, David L. Hull, Patricia Huntington, Thomas Hurka, Paul Hurley, Rosalind Hursthouse, Guillermo Hurtado, Ronald E. Hustwit, Sarah Hutton, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, Harry A. Ide, David Ingram, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Alfred L. Ivry, Frank Jackson, Dale Jacquette, Joseph Jedwab, Richard Jeffrey, David Alan Johnson, Edward Johnson, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Joyce, Hwa Yol Jung, Robert Hillary Kane, Tomis Kapitan, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, James A. Keller, Ralph Kennedy, Sergei Khoruzhii, Jaegwon Kim, Yersu Kim, Nathan L. King, Patricia Kitcher, Peter D. Klein, E. D. Klemke, Virginia Klenk, George L. Kline, Christian Klotz, Simo Knuuttila, Joseph J. Kockelmans, Konstantin Kolenda, Sebastian Tomasz Kołodziejczyk, Isaac Kramnick, Richard Kraut, Fred Kroon, Manfred Kuehn, Steven T. Kuhn, Henry E. Kyburg, John Lachs, Jennifer Lackey, Stephen E. Lahey, Andrea Lavazza, Thomas H. Leahey, Joo Heung Lee, Keith Lehrer, Dorothy Leland, Noah M. Lemos, Ernest LePore, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Isaac Levi, Andrew Levine, Alan E. Lewis, Daniel E. Little, Shu-hsien Liu, Shu-hsien Liu, Alan K. L. Chan, Brian Loar, Lawrence B. Lombard, John Longeway, Dominic McIver Lopes, Michael J. Loux, E. J. Lowe, Steven Luper, Eugene C. Luschei, William G. Lycan, David Lyons, David Macarthur, Danielle Macbeth, Scott MacDonald, Jacob L. Mackey, Louis H. Mackey, Penelope Mackie, Edward H. Madden, Penelope Maddy, G. B. Madison, Bernd Magnus, Pekka Mäkelä, Rudolf A. Makkreel, David Manley, William E. Mann (W.E.M.), Vladimir Marchenkov, Peter Markie, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Ausonio Marras, Mike W. Martin, A. P. Martinich, William L. McBride, David McCabe, Storrs McCall, Hugh J. McCann, Robert N. McCauley, John J. McDermott, Sarah McGrath, Ralph McInerny, Daniel J. McKaughan, Thomas McKay, Michael McKinsey, Brian P. McLaughlin, Ernan McMullin, Anthonie Meijers, Jack W. Meiland, William Jason Melanson, Alfred R. Mele, Joseph R. Mendola, Christopher Menzel, Michael J. Meyer, Christian B. Miller, David W. Miller, Peter Millican, Robert N. Minor, Phillip Mitsis, James A. Montmarquet, Michael S. Moore, Tim Moore, Benjamin Morison, Donald R. Morrison, Stephen J. Morse, Paul K. Moser, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Ian Mueller, James Bernard Murphy, Mark C. Murphy, Steven Nadler, Jan Narveson, Alan Nelson, Jerome Neu, Samuel Newlands, Kai Nielsen, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Carlos G. Noreña, Calvin G. Normore, David Fate Norton, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Donald Nute, David S. Oderberg, Steve Odin, Michael O’Rourke, Willard G. Oxtoby, Heinz Paetzold, George S. Pappas, Anthony J. Parel, Lydia Patton, R. P. Peerenboom, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Adriaan T. Peperzak, Derk Pereboom, Jaroslav Peregrin, Glen Pettigrove, Philip Pettit, Edmund L. Pincoffs, Andrew Pinsent, Robert B. Pippin, Alvin Plantinga, Louis P. Pojman, Richard H. Popkin, John F. Post, Carl J. Posy, William J. Prior, Richard Purtill, Michael Quante, Philip L. Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. Sherburne, Christopher Shields, Roger A. Shiner, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert K. Shope, Kwong-loi Shun, Wilfried Sieg, A. John Simmons, Robert L. Simon, Marcus G. Singer, Georgette Sinkler, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Matti T. Sintonen, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, Robert C. Sleigh, Michael Anthony Slote, Hans Sluga, Barry Smith, Michael Smith, Robin Smith, Robert Sokolowski, Robert C. Solomon, Marta Soniewicka, Philip Soper, Ernest Sosa, Nicholas Southwood, Paul Vincent Spade, T. L. S. Sprigge, Eric O. Springsted, George J. Stack, Rebecca Stangl, Jason Stanley, Florian Steinberger, Sören Stenlund, Christopher Stephens, James P. Sterba, Josef Stern, Matthias Steup, M. A. Stewart, Leopold Stubenberg, Edith Dudley Sulla, Frederick Suppe, Jere Paul Surber, David George Sussman, Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, Zeno G. Swijtink, Richard Swinburne, Charles C. Taliaferro, Robert B. Talisse, John Tasioulas, Paul Teller, Larry S. Temkin, Mark Textor, H. S. Thayer, Peter Thielke, Alan Thomas, Amie L. Thomasson, Katherine Thomson-Jones, Joshua C. Thurow, Vzalerie Tiberius, Terrence N. Tice, Paul Tidman, Mark C. Timmons, William Tolhurst, James E. Tomberlin, Rosemarie Tong, Lawrence Torcello, Kelly Trogdon, J. D. Trout, Robert E. Tully, Raimo Tuomela, John Turri, Martin M. Tweedale, Thomas Uebel, Jennifer Uleman, James Van Cleve, Harry van der Linden, Peter van Inwagen, Bryan W. Van Norden, René van Woudenberg, Donald Phillip Verene, Samantha Vice, Thomas Vinci, Donald Wayne Viney, Barbara Von Eckardt, Peter B. M. Vranas, Steven J. Wagner, William J. Wainwright, Paul E. Walker, Robert E. Wall, Craig Walton, Douglas Walton, Eric Watkins, Richard A. Watson, Michael V. Wedin, Rudolph H. Weingartner, Paul Weirich, Paul J. Weithman, Carl Wellman, Howard Wettstein, Samuel C. Wheeler, Stephen A. White, Jennifer Whiting, Edward R. Wierenga, Michael Williams, Fred Wilson, W. Kent Wilson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John F. Wippel, Jan Woleński, Allan B. Wolter, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
Edited by Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Book: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Print publication: 27 April 2015, pp ix-xxx
By Fran Brearton, Sarah Cole, Neil Corcoran, Santanu Das, Simon Featherstone, Christine Froula, Sandra M. Gilbert, David Goldie, Margaret R. Higonnet, Peter Howarth, Tim Kendall, Edna Longley, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Adrian Poole, Mark Rawlinson, Vincent Sherry, Jon Stallworthy, Elizabeth Vandiver, Jay Winter
Edited by Santanu Das, King's College London
Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Print publication: 11 November 2013, pp xiii-xvii
The Chandra survey of Carina OB stars
Marc Gagné, Garrett Fehon, Michael R. Savoy, David H. Cohen, Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Matthew S. Povich, Michael F. Corcoran, Nolan R. Walborn, Anthony F.J. Moffat, Yael Nazé, Lidia M. Oskinova
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 6 / Issue S272 / July 2010
We have combined 22 deep Chandra ACIS-I pointings to map over one square degree of the Carina complex. Our x-ray survey detects 69 of 70 known O-type stars and 61 of 130 known early B stars. The majority of single O stars display soft X-ray spectra and have a mean log LX/Lbol ≈ −7.5 suggesting shocks embedded in the O-star winds. Over OB stars show unusually high X-ray luminosities, high shock temperatures or time variability, not predicted for embedded wind shocks.
Spectroscopic follow-up of the colliding-wind binary WR 140 during the 2009 January periastron passage
Rémi Fahed, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Juan Zorec, Thomas Eversberg, André-Nicolas Chené, Filipe Alves, Wolfgang Arnold, Thomas Bergmann, Luis F. Gouveia Carreira, Filipe Marques Dias, Alberto Fernando, José Sánchez Gallego, Thomas Hunger, Johan H. Knapen, Robin Leadbeater, Thierry Morel, Grégor Rauw, Norbert Reinecke, José Ribeiro, Nando Romeo, Eva M. dos Santos, Lothar Schanne, Otmar Stahl, Barbara Stober, Berthold Stober, Nelson G. Correia Viegas, Klaus Vollmann, Michael F. Corcoran, Sean M. Dougherty, Julian M. Pittard, Andy M. T. Pollock, Peredur M. Williams
We present the results from the spectroscopic follow-up of WR140 (WC7 + O4-5) during its last periastron passage in january 2009. This object is known as the archetype of colliding wind binaries and has a relatively large period (≃8 years) and eccentricity (≃0.89). We provide updated values for the orbital parameters, new estimates for the WR and O star masses and new constraints on the mass-loss rates.
X-Ray modeling of η Carinae & WR 140 from SPH simulations
Christopher M. P. Russell, Michael F. Corcoran, Atsuo T. Okazaki, Thomas I. Madura, Stanley P. Owocki
The colliding wind binary (CWB) systems η Carinae and WR140 provide unique laboratories for X-ray astrophysics. Their wind-wind collisions produce hard X-rays that have been monitored extensively by several X-ray telescopes, including RXTE. To interpret these RXTE X-ray light curves, we apply 3D hydrodynamic simulations of the wind-wind collision using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We find adiabatic simulations that account for the absorption of X-rays from an assumed point source of X-ray emission at the apex of the wind-collision shock cone can closely match the RXTE light curves of both η Car and WR140. This point-source model can also explain the early recovery of η Car's X-ray light curve from the 2009.0 minimum by a factor of 2-4 reduction in the mass loss rate of η Car. Our more recent models account for the extended emission and absorption along the full wind-wind interaction shock front. For WR140, the computed X-ray light curves again match the RXTE observations quite well. But for η Car, a hot, post-periastron bubble leads to an emission level that does not match the extended X-ray minimum observed by RXTE. Initial results from incorporating radiative cooling and radiative forces via an anti-gravity approach into the SPH code are also discussed.
η Carinae long-term variability
Augusto Damineli, Mairan Teodoro, Michael F. Corcoran, Jose H. Groh
We present preliminary results of our analysis on the long-term variations observed in the optical spectrum of the LBV star η Carinae. Based on the hydrogen line profiles, we conclude that the physical parameters of the primary star did not change in the last 15 years.
By Kateri Berasi, Carol A. Boyer, Diane R. Brown, Robyn Lewis Brown, Tony N. Brown, Padraic J. Burns, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Daniel L. Carlson, Cheryl Corcoran, Manuela Costa, Stephen Crystal, Gary S. Cuddeback, William W. Eaton, Adrianne Frech, Virginia Aldigé Hiday, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Allan V. Horwitz, Robert J. Johnson, Verna M. Keith, Ronald C. Kessler, Corey L. M. Keyes, Jacinta P. Leavell, Harriet P. Lefley, Mary Clare Lennon, Laura Limonic, Bruce G. Link, Athena McLean, David Mechanic, Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Barret Michalec, John Mirowsky, Shirin Montazer, Joseph P. Morrissey, Carles Muntaner, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Christopher Peterson, Jo C. Phelan, Michael Polgar, Sarah Rosenfield, Catherine E. Ross, Ebony Sandusky, Jaime C. Sapag, Teresa L. Scheid, Mark F. Schmitz, Sharon Schwartz, Dena Smith, David T. Takeuchi, Peggy A. Thoits, R. Jay Turner, Edwina S. Uehara, Jerome C. Wakefield, James Walkup, Emily Walton, Blair Wheaton, David R. Williams, Kristi Williams
Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Tony N. Brown, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Book: A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health
Published online: 05 June 2012
Print publication: 16 November 2009, pp xi-xiv
3-D SPH Simulations of Colliding Winds in η Carinae
Atsuo T. Okazaki, Stanley P. Owocki, Christopher M. P. Russell, Michael F. Corcoran
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 3 / Issue S250 / December 2007
Print publication: December 2007
We study colliding winds in the superluminous binary η Carinae by performing three-dimensional, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. For simplicity, we assume both winds to be isothermal. We also assume that wind particles coast without any net external forces. We find that the lower density, faster wind from the secondary carves out a spiral cavity in the higher density, slower wind from the primary. Because of the phase-dependent orbital motion, the cavity is very thin on the periastron side, whereas it occupies a large volume on the apastron side. The model X-ray light curve using the simulated density structure fits very well with the observed light curve for a viewing angle of i = 54° and φ = 36°, where i is the inclination angle and φ is the azimuth from apastron.
Colliding Wind Binary X-ray Sources
Michael F. Corcoran, Kenji Hamaguchi, A. M. T. Pollock, J. M. Pittard, I. R. Stevens, D. B. Henley, A. F. J. Moffat, S. Marchenko
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 1 / Issue S230 / August 2005
Very massive stars (${\gtrsim} 20$ M$_{\odot}$) are rare but important components of galaxies. Products of core nucleosynthesis from these stars are distributed into the circumstellar environment via wind-driven mass loss. Explosive nucleosynthesis after core collapse further enriches the galactic medium. Clusters of such stars can produce galactic chimneys which can pierce the galactic disk and chemically enrich intergalactic space. Such processes are vitally important to the chemical evolution of the early Universe, when the stellar mass function was much more weighted to massive stars.
Very massive stars are difficult to study, since they are formed in distant clusters which yield problems of sensitivity and source crowding. A relatively new tool for studying these systems is via high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution observations in the X-ray band. In this note we describe some recent progress in studying mechanisms by which very massive stars produce X-ray emission.
Irreversible Tensile Stress Development in PECVD Silicon Nitride Films
Michael P. Hughey, Robert F. Cook
Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 795 / 2003
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, U1.6
The thermo-mechanical behavior of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposited (PECVD) silicon nitride films are investigated during thermal cycling and annealing. It is well known that PECVD films have a large amount of incorporated hydrogen that evolves on heating. This reduction in hydrogen is shown to be directly responsible, via constrained volume decrease, for irreversible increases in tensile stress. It is demonstrated that no stress equilibrium is attained during very long time anneals. The thermal cycling behavior of PECVD films can be modeled by chemical reaction theory, with the irreversible development of film stress a mechanical consequence. The model assumes first-order reaction kinetics of Si-H and N-H bonds, which react to form molecular hydrogen and reformed network bonds. The activation energy of reaction is not single-valued, indicative of the strong influence that the local bonding environment has on bond energies. If the incorporated hydrogen reactant pairs are assumed to be normally distributed with activation energy, irreversible stress development is well modeled, and the mean activation energy ranges from 2.44 to 2.93 eV for 150 to 300 °C deposited films.
In hot pursuit of the hidden companion of η Carinae: an X-ray determination of the wind parameters
Julian M. Pittard, Michael F. Corcoran
Journal: Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 212 / 2003
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016, pp. 218-219
We perform X-ray spectral fits to a recently obtained Chandra grating spectrum of η Carinae, one of the most massive and powerful stars in the Galaxy and which is strongly suspected to be a colliding wind binary system. The good fit that we obtain gives us further confidence in the binary hypothesis, and we find M ≈ 2.5 × 10–4 M⊙ yr–1 for the mass loss rate of η Car.
A high-resolution study of η Carinae's outer ejecta
Kerstin Weis, Michael F. Corcoran, Kris Davidson, Roberta M. Humphreys
η Car is a very luminous and unstable evolved star. Outflowing material ejected during the star's giant eruption in 1843 surrounds it as a nebula, which consists of an inner bipolar region, coined the Homunculus, and the Outer Ejecta. The outer ejecta is very filamentary and shaped irregularly. Kinematic analysis, however, shows a regular bi-directional expansion, despite of the complex morphology. Radial velocities in the outer ejecta reach 2000 km s–1 and give rise to X-ray emission, as first detected by ROSAT. We will present a detailed study of the outer ejecta based on HST images, high-resolution echelle spectra for kinematic studies, images from Chandra-acis and HST-stis spectra.
High-resolution X-ray imaging of the colliding wind shock in WR 147 (WN8(h)+B0.5V)
Julian M. Pittard, Ian R. Stevens, Peredur M. Williams, Andrew M.T. Pollock, Steven L. Skinner, Michael F. Corcoran, Anthony F.J. Moffat
We present the results of a high-resolution Chandra X-ray image of the Wolf-Rayet binary system WR 147, which consists of a WN8 star and an early-type companion located 0″.6 to its north. The image provides the first direct evidence for spatially extended X-ray emission in an early-type binary system, and shows that the emission peaks north of the WN8 star and close to the position of the radio bow shock. Simulated X-ray images of the wind-wind collision have a fwhm consistent with the data, but cannot account for the full spatial extension, unless emission from the stars is also included.
X-ray observations of massive colliding wind binaries
Michael F. Corcoran
Massive stars in binary systems can generate X-ray emission in the region between the two stars where stellar winds collide. Colliding wind X-ray emission acts as an in-situ probe of important wind parameters like mass-loss rates, chemical abundances, wind velocities, and possibly magnetic field strengths. Variations in observed colliding-wind X-ray emission can be produced by the changing line-of-sight to the colliding wind region as the stars move in orbit and/or the changing emission measure of the shocked gas in the wind collision zone produced if the separations between the two stars change. X-ray variability depends on the wind and orbital parameters and so can in principal allow the direct measurement of mass functions even for low inclination systems and provide a connection between the stellar and wind parameters. X-ray emission from colliding wind systems can thus be used to refine our understanding of the evolutionary state of massive stars and to help test evolutionary models. We discuss recent advances in defining the X-ray spectral and temporal signatures of colliding wind X-ray emission using ROSAT, ASCA, RXTE, Chandra and XMM-Newton data.
Bulge Test on Free Standing Gold Thin Films
Yawen Li, Michael J. Cima
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, U10.3
Bulge test was performed on gold and gold/nitride composite films with in plane sizes ranging from 20 to 200μm. The films were prepared using the microfabrication process of a drug delivery MEMS device, and the bulge test setup was constructed using some of the packaging components of the device. Incremental pressure at 5psi interval was applied to the films, whose deflection was measured using interferometry. The extracted gold film properties from bulge test on either pure gold films or composite films yielded comparable values. The lower modulus (126∼168 GPa) comparing with the bulk gold could be due to the less dense microstructure of the evaporated gold film.
An investigation of one hundred suicides
Michael J Kelleher, Brendan Keohane, Paul Corcoran, Helen S Keeley, Stuart Neilson
Journal: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine / Volume 17 / Issue 3 / September 2000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2014, pp. 86-90
Objectives: This study examines the backgrounds of 100 people who died by suicide and whose cases were adjudicated on consecutively over a five-year period, by the two Cork City coroners.
Method: Five main sources of information were used; coroners, relatives, investigating police, general practitioners and hospital records. The cases were examined under the headings of age and gender differences; methods used; social circumstances; illness; treatment prior to death and previous attempts. Certain information may have been missed because peers were not interviewed. There were 72 males and 28 females.
Results: In the 15-44 age group, the male female ratio was 4:1; in those over 45 the ratio was almost equal. Men were more likely to be unmarried even when age differences were taken into account. All the women and all but seven of the men had a psychiatric diagnosis, but women were more than more likely to have received medical treatment in the year before their suicide than men (OR = 6.6). Thirty-seven had made at least one previous suicide attempt.
Conclusions: The study confirms that suicide, particularly for men is becoming more a young person's problem. Psychiatric illness is the single commonest association. Over a third of suicides had made a previous attempt. These findings point to the need to improve recognition of psychological distress and find effective methods to reduce parasuicide.
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Juror says Cosby trial panel almost evenly split
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The juror says they initially voted overwhelmingly to acquit Cosby on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault . On counts one and three, the two holdouts were "not moving, no matter what" the juror said. For more on Cosby, including stories about the trial, historical photos, videos and an audio series exploring the case, visit http://www.apnews.com/tag/CosbyonTrial. Lire la suite »
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'Dirty old Santa' traveled to have sex with child
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Jr. NTR To Star In 'Nadigaiyar Thilagam'
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WWE announces five more competitors for Mae Young Classic
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Mourners remember US student held prisoner by North Korea
He died of severe brain damage, which doctors said was likely due to cardiopulmonary arrest. President Donald Trump did not attend the funeral, but has blasted Warmbier's death as "a total disgrace". This undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency ( KCNA ) on May 30, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a test-fire of a ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Lire la suite »
Images of fake explosive belts worn by London attackers released
Dozens of people were injured before the three attackers were shot dead by police. People walk past floral tributes on the southern end of London Bridge for victims of the attack , during the morning rush hour, in London , Monday, June 12, 2017. Lire la suite »
Clooney Sells his Tequilla brand for $1 Billion
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What Kind Of Voting Hacks Hit Arizona, Other States?
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Judge Identifies 12 Jurors Who Deadlocked on Cosby
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'Making A Murderer' Defendant Brendan Dassey Should Be Released, Judges Affirm
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This Bollywood Celeb Will Be Part Of Krushna Abhishek's New Show?
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Cosby trial alternate juror: I would have voted to convict
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La République en Marche obtient la majorité absolue — Législatives
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Taylor Swift To Release Entire Discography To Spotify
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Jason Isbell Talks Politics on The Daily Show
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Muslim model in Hijab appears on cover of top US magazine
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The man to read on this, as usual, is Reason's Peter Suderman , whose critique of the bill is exhaustive and devastating. If legislation is to prevail, Republicans can only lose the support of two of the Senate's 52 Republicans, assuming all 48 Democrats and independents oppose the bill as expected. Lire la suite »
Bay and Wahlberg roll out of Transformers franchise
But the previous movie, " Transformers: Age of Extinction ", did gross more than $245 million in 2014 . The first film's CGI was so crude that numerous skirmishes resembled spinning Rubik's Cubes. "Its characters are stupid - as in their decisions seem dictated by a level of subhuman intelligence - and grossly conceived". How will this Transformers movie do? She warns the scientists and tells them not to touch it because "He" won't like it. Lire la suite »
Senate GOP to unveil health care bill
Vice President Mike Pence can vote yes to break the tie and pass the bill. They'll have to do it quickly because McConnell plans to hold a vote next week. They would feel the brunt of the cuts if the Republican bill is passed and becomes law, which would enact cuts to the program that millions of disabled Americans rely on. Lire la suite »
Jurors told Bill Cosby offered to pay for accuser's schooling
Cosby has pleaded not guilty to the charges, insisting their sexual contact was consensual, and has denied similar allegations from more than 60 women. Cosby himself anxious about the repercussions from public disclosure. On Friday, jurors heard from Bill Cosby about what it was like to be at the receiving end of a mother trying to protect her daughter. Lire la suite »
Barack Obama Could Soon Have a Street in LA Named After Him
Rodeo Road is not far from Martin Luther King Jr. "Our council district is home to Washington Blvd., Adams Blvd., and Jefferson Blvd., and today we begin the process of making it a home to Obama Blvd". Obama held his first rally on the five km long Rodeo Road after announcing his candidacy for President in 2007. The California State Senate in May backed a plan to rename a stretch of the 134 Freeway running through the Los Angeles northern suburb after Obama, who attended the Occidental ... Lire la suite »
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Juveniles copan lista preliminar de Uruguay para enfrentar a Argentina y Paraguay
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Federico Valverde , una de las figuras más prometedoras del fútbol uruguayo y uno de los pilares fundamentales de la selección Sub 20, se muestra como sorpresa en la lista divulgada este viernes por la AUF. Uruguay , 17° en el ranking FIFA recibirá a la Argentina , y una semana más tarde (el 5 de septiembre), visitará a Paraguay . Uruguay , que durante varias fechas encabezó la tabla pero luego cedió posiciones, hoy ocupa el tercer puesto de las eliminatorias sudamericanas con 23 ... Lire la suite »
Riverdale EP Explains Why Season 2 is Scarier Than Season 1
Clair, Veronica's old classmate/ex-boyfriend from her days in New York City. Describing the latest cast addition, producer and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa said, "Nick is an old classmate of Veronica's from NY, and despite his parent-pleasing veneer, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing: a hard-partying Lothario with dark desires and an unchecked sense of privilege". Lire la suite »
Williams Capital Reiterates $47.00 Price Target for RSP Permian, Inc. (RSPP)
Wolfe Research started coverage on RSP Permian in a research report on Thursday, June 15th. They set an "outperform" rating and a $45.00 price target on the stock. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 8,270,351 shares of the company's stock, valued at $285,244,405.99. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website . Lire la suite »
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha First day box office collections
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is released in India in 3000+ theaters and 590+ theaters in overseas. Stay tuned with us for more updates and box office report, you can share your views with us on the box office collection and performance of " Toilet Ek Prem Katha " in the comment section below. Lire la suite »
Is DMX heading back to jail?
DMX performs onstage during the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour at The Forum on October 4, 2016 in Inglewood, California. The rapper is out on bail in his tax evasion case , and one of the conditions was that he must give the judge a heads-up if he blows out of town. Lire la suite »
L'étoile de Charles Aznavour brillera à Hollywood
Elle sera située sur le célèbre Hollywood boulevard, devant un théâtre historique de Los Angeles... Né à Paris de parents arméniens, Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian est devenu l'un des plus ardents défenseurs de la diaspora arménienne. A 93 ans, le chanteur sera l'une des quelques célébrités françaises à recevoir son étoile sur la Promenade de la célébrité de Hollywood: le " Walk of Fame ". Lire la suite »
Laos to withdraw troops as Hun Sen visits
Hun Sen on Friday dispatched forces to the border and issued an ultimatum for Laos to withdraw the soldiers. Choung Chougy, Sok's lawyer, said the court's decision was unjust, adding that his client had submitted requests to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is the plaintiff in the case, to appear in court, which had been ignored. Lire la suite »
DMX Placed On House Arrest, Fails 4 Drug Tests
The rapper is out on bail in his tax evasion case , and one of the conditions was that he must give the judge a heads-up if he blows out of town. As previously reported, the rapper was facing jail time after he visited family in St. After pleading not guilty back in July, X was let out on bond but faced strict conditions, including travel restrictions. As a result of these violations, DMX has been placed on house arrest. Lire la suite »
The Broad City Girls Just Dropped a Line of Sex Toys
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Solar eclipse: When New Yorkers can see the phenomenon
On August 21, 2017, beginning at 10:15 a.m. PDT, a total solar eclipse will sweep across the United States . "Since Cleveland is in the path of totality , hosting an event was a no-brainer". It will be followed in 2024 by another total eclipse that runs from Texas to Maine. So when the moon passes in front of the sun, it can create a total eclipse , depending on your viewing site. Lire la suite »
Hackers demand HBO pay MILLIONS in ransom | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV
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Pahlaj Nihalani sacked, Prasoon Joshi is new censor board chief
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, who has been appointed a member of the censor board, told IANS about the structural changes in the government-appointed body, which oversees all movies before they are released in India. Similarly, censor board had ordered 89 cuts and told producers to remove all references to Punjab, elections and political parties in the movie " Udta Punjab ", which was based on the state's drug problem. Lire la suite »
'The Death of Stalin' Trailer: Armando Iannucci Targets Soviet Russia
Their one common trait? Cast: Rupert Friend , Jason Isaacs , Paul Whitehouse, Jeffrey Tambor , Steve Buscemi , Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin , Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine and Andrea Riseborough . The Death of Stalin will premiere at The Toronto Film Festival and opens in theaters on October 20. The trailer for Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin came out today and the Trump administration comparisons are easily found in this depressingly relevant looking satire. Lire la suite »
Mother detained after abandoned newborn girl found covered in ants
But Peterson, who was on his way to work at 5 a.m., discovered something completely different: an hours-old newborn baby, covered in ants and dirt, laying in a flowerbed. "He heard a murmur and a cry, what he thought was actually a cat", Harris County Deputy Thomas Gilliland told reporters . But then a 21-year-old woman in the apartment admitted that she was the baby's mother , according to ABC7. Lire la suite »
Gypsy Canceled by Netflix
Gypsy's cancelation is reportedly surprising because the streamer had already been talking to producers about a second season, with the writers room active for almost a month working on storylines. It was produced for Netflix by Universal Television and executive produced by Rubin, Naomi Watts , Sean Jablonski, and Liza Chasin. Two other dramas that have been renewed are Marvel's Iron Fist and 13 Reasons Why . Lire la suite »
Nikki Reed, Ian Somerhalder welcome first child
They announced Reed's pregnancy this past May. After the baby arrives, we're doing one month of silence. "We'll take the baby's first month for ourselves", said the first-time mom. The duo tied the knot in April 2015. Back in May, the "Vampire Diaries" star shared his feelings about being a dad on Instagram: "To our friends, family, and rest of the world". Lire la suite »
Middlesbrough FC agree on sale of midfield star Marten De Roon
Despite their season opener defeat to Wolves, Middlesbrough will look to perform impressively this term and return back to the Premier League as soon as possible. Atalanta have resigned Dutch midfielder Marten de Roon from Middlesbrough for a fee of €13.5 million excluding bonuses. Lewis Baker scored 10 league goals last season . Lire la suite »
According To Days Inn Employee, Usher Did Meet Up With Quantasia Sharpton
One of the women who came forward and accused megastar R&B singer, Usher , of sleeping with her without informing her that he had genital herpes has a supporter. Reports confirmed that the woman's birthday was in October. She said Usher came into the lobby just after midnight on November 16. The employee said she asked Usher for a picture and he promised to return and pose with her, but never did. Lire la suite »
Nemanja Matic Sale a Casualty of "Crazy Transfer Market", Says Antonio Conte
Conte said he believed Chelsea , who have also signed midfielder Tiemoue Bakayako from Monaco , are a stronger side than last season. "I think he's very similar in a way to Michael Carrick in a controlling midfielder, but what he brings what Michael doesn't bring is a little bit of aggression which as I say he gets to the ball, he tackles, he allows other people to play". Lire la suite »
Batman vous présente son imposant jet privé — Justice League
Ainsi, naissait la Justice League . Il s'agit de photos présentes sur le calendrier 2018 à paraître bientôt et elles montrent enfin un aperçu de Superman qui s'est fait très rare depuis le lancement de la campagne promotionnelle du film . Lire la suite »
Zedd opens up about the downside of dating Selena Gomez
Selena, who famously dated Justin Bieber in the past, has since moved on with singer The Weeknd . The collaborators sparked the rumor mill thanks to some flirty vibes via social media following their 2015 single, " I Want You To Know ", which encouraged a glaring spotlight that the rising producer hadn't quite experienced at that point on his ascent to fame. Lire la suite »
Kim Kardashian West responds to mommy shaming
However, the law doesn't apply to children who are over 40 inches tall or weigh more than 40 pounds . Finally, on Thursday, the reality queen released a video defending the 20-month-old's seat orientation. "He is so cute let's protect this handsome boy by making sure is rear facing", one fan wrote on Facebook. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics , parents are advised "to keep their toddlers in rear-facing auto seats until age 2, or until they reach the maximum height and ... Lire la suite »
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Home » News & Events » News » New report highlights challenges for mature workers in Australia
New report highlights challenges for mature workers in Australia
A new report released by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) has found that many mature workers across Australia feel excluded in today’s workforce and have limited development opportunities and flexible working arrangements, compared to the younger population.
The researchers, based at Curtin University and the University of Sydney, conducted a national benchmarking survey of mature workers to understand how organisations might better manage and harness the benefits of an ageing workforce. The report shows that many mature workers currently do not feel included in the workplace with, for example, age-biased opportunities for skill development, a limited availability of flexible work that fully caters for workers’ individual needs and preferences, and a somewhat underwhelming degree of knowledge transfer amongst co-workers of different ages.
CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Sharon Parker, from Curtin University’s Future of Work Institute, said the new research aimed to identify and develop successful work policies and practices that supported the attraction, retention and engagement of mature workers.
“With age diversity projected to continue to increase in Australian organisations, creating an environment in which all employees feel valued and respected regardless of their age will become increasingly important. This will in turn benefit not only organisations as a whole, but also teams and individual employees,” Professor Parker said.
The researchers asked over 2,000 employees from more than 1,500 Australian organisations about inclusive work environments; individual strategies to adapt to physical, emotional and cognitive changes over the life span; and supportive workplace practices, such as age diversity and flexible work arrangements.
The researchers found that workers of 55 to 64 years of age, as well as working men older than 65, especially perceive their organisations’ policies as less age inclusive than younger workers.
Image: Perception of all age-inclusive HR practices. Credit: CEPAR MWOS Industry Report 2019.
According to the report, failure to create an inclusive work environment is likely to result in mature workers leaving their organisation early, and less likely to be engaged in their work. When employers provide motivating opportunities, such as fair access to promotions and training, both mature workers and their younger counterparts benefit.
Professor Parker highlights the importance of work design, adding that HR and work practices needed to be adapted to ensure fair access to training and development opportunities.
“Retraining mature workers will be important to enable them to adapt to the changing work demands of an increasingly digital environment. Also important is ensuring that mature workers’ jobs are redesigned to accommodate changes in their needs and preferences, such as reducing physical demands in manual jobs, or providing more opportunities for mentoring,” Professor Parker said. The research challenges some common age stereotypes. More than 90 per cent of mature employees aged over 65 years surveyed reported they actively try to develop their capabilities.
Professor Parker said that given the misconception that older workers are less adaptive than younger individuals, the report explored the adaptability component of individual performance in more detail.
“Employees of all ages surveyed said they had reasonable ability to cope with changes to their work tasks. Interestingly, the results indicate that lower levels of adaptivity tended to be reported more by younger workers,” Professor Parker said.
“These results go against the typical ageing stereotypes and indicate that older workers don’t struggle more than young workers to adapt to changes and learn new ways of completing their core work tasks.”
Co-author Marian Baird, CEPAR Chief Investigator and Professor of Gender and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School, said the survey also asked employees about their access to flexible working arrangements.
“Significant caring responsibilities, such as the need to care for elderly parents or grandparenting responsibilities, have been identified as a key driver for mature employees to consider early retirement,” said Professor Baird.
“Supporting employees who are balancing care responsibilities is an important issue for organisational growth with an ageing workforce. As our working population ages and organisations strive to retain mature workers, greater flexibility in working arrangements will become increasingly important to support mature workers.”
The researchers asked employees to report on the extent to which they feel that their employer supports the use of flexible working options as well as their previous access to flexible arrangements. The survey responses indicate a discrepancy between the support that employees feel their organisation has for flexible work and actual reports of access to flexible arrangements.
Professor Baird added that elder care and grandparenting leave options are inclusion strategies that organisations should utilise to enable mature workers to participate in the workforce longer.
“As the mature workforce continues to grow, these options are likely to become a higher priority for mature job seekers and therefore provide a competitive advantage for organisations aiming to attract high performing employees,” Professor Baird said.
Professor Sharon Parker said that the report offered hope, adding that women who have remained working beyond the age of 65 had largely positive experiences, with higher reports of inclusive, individualised and integrative work practices.
“The actions taken by the organisations employing these women have created positive and age-supportive organisational and managerial contexts. These findings show that it is indeed possible to create positive work and workplaces for mature workers, and we hope to see such situations emerge more widely,” Professor Parker said.
“Moving ahead, we hope this report will stimulate policymakers, CEOs, HR professionals, and other relevant stakeholders to better value the mature workforce, and to take active steps to design and implement age-friendly policies and practices.
“More training and development of diversity professionals, line managers, and others involved in enacting work policies is needed to move in this direction, as is the provision of evidence-based guidance to help organisations to implement and embed these policies.”
M-WOS (Mature Workers in Organisations Survey) is a longitudinal multi-level study that includes over 2,000 mature workers. Most existing longitudinal research on ageing focuses on individuals within households, whereas M-WOS is unique in Australia in its organisation-based approach.
Andrei, D.M., Parker, S.K., Constantin, A., Baird, M., Iles, L., Petery, G., Zoszak, L., Williams, A., & Chen, S. (2019). Maximising Potential: Findings from the Mature Workers in Organisations Survey (MWOS). (Industry Report). Perth, WA: Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
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Congo (1995)
Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, based on the novel by Michael Crichton
Directed by Frank Marshall
Dylan Walsh: Dr. Peter Elliot
Laura Linney: Dr. Karen Ross
Lorene Noh and Misty Rosas: Amy the Gorilla
Featuring the single best B movie actor collection I have ever seen, including Joe Don Baker, Bruce Campbell, Tim Curry, John Hawkes, Grant Heslov, Ernie Hudson, James Karen, Delroy Lindo and Joe Pantoliano. I can only assume Dick Miller and Jeffrey Combs were busy.
This is a movie that lets you know exactly what it's going to be like from the first minute of screen time. First--some shots of the African plains and mountains, then Bruce Campbell outside a tent, a satellite in orbit and a high-tech command center. A computer guy has to open a door with a key code and voiceprint and puts a sneer on his face as he says "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy," with increasing venom on each repetition. And the movie's not getting any better than this, so if you didn't find that amusing you might as well tap out now.
You get dumped pretty much in the middle of the plot, with Bruce Campbell playing Charlie Travis, who is in the Congo looking for diamonds so he can make awesome lasers for a telecommunications empire run by his father (which makes Joe Don Baker this movie's Telstar Man). Another expedition member finds a lost jungle city while looking for the source of the diamonds and wanders into a dark stone temple--not a move with any long-term survival potential. Charlie exits the film at this point as well, with Campbell apparently cast specifically because he screams really well. The automated satellite call back to TraviCom shows an empty campsite, the bodies of the expedition (minus Charlie) and a killer grey-furred gorilla.
An expedition from TraviCom is hastily put together to find out what the hell happened; his ex-fiancée Dr. Ross is dispatched by Joe Don Baker's telecommunications magnate to take over an existing Congo trip and hire good people to help get to the diamond-discovery site, retrieve everyone's bodies for a decent burial, investigate what happened, and recover all the flawless diamonds in the area so that TraviCom can control the next decade of diamond-laser satellite communications. Ross's priorities are in that order; Travis's are not.
The scene then shifts--jarringly--to a primatology lab where the future producer of The Monuments Men tries to mentor a gorilla in finger painting. I don't know if Grant Heslov keeps this one on his resume any more, but if I were in Congo I'd never stop telling people I was in it. It turns out that two primatologists are combining motion-tracking virtual reality computer technology with the sign-language capabilities of Amy the gorilla in order to communicate with a primate in more or less real time, with other people able to observe the two-way paths of understanding and response between the human and the gorilla. Which, to be honest, is awesome. The retro-technology fan in me also loves the hell out of the vintage film screened at the primatology demo where a person born without vocal cords uses a sixty-pound rig connected to the "desktop" version of Colossus in order to "speak" for the first time in his life.
The talking gorilla is a big hit with the sparsely populated college auditorium audience, and we get a shot of Tim Curry looking at a piece of jewelry that shares a motif with one of Amy's finger paintings (not that he would know what the gorilla's paintings look like). It develops that Amy has been having nightmares and the two primatologists decide to try and let her loose back in the jungle where she was captured as an infant; the university president (James Karen, who has been in this, Return of the Living Dead, and Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster--truly a B movie c.v. to die for) refuses to try and fund any project that will result in the absence of a talking gorilla on his campus. In steps Herkemer Homolka, a "Romanian philanthropist" portrayed by Tim Curry in Bela Lugosi accent mode. He offers to personally pay for the expedition and Amy's going to go home.
Or so we'd think, except that Homolka's broke and can't pay for the jet fuel that will get the expedition plane to Africa. In steps Dr. Karen Ross from the other plot thread, with an unlimited line of credit and suddenly the loaded then unloaded plane gets reloaded and the members of the main cast (with the exception of Ernie Hudson as their native guide in the Congo) start their linked quests.
There's also an exposition drop in which the sensitive 90s man primatologist declares that the "killer African ape" is a myth perpetuated by uninformed outsiders; could that possibly turn out to blow up in everyone's face later?
The cavalcade of awesome character actors continues once the party reaches the airport; Joe Pantoliano is their fixer ("Now wasn't that easier than going through customs?" is not something I'd want to hear after a guy in a knockoff Hawaiian shirt stamped my passport, personally) who fires their guide and introduces them to Monroe Kelly (played by the invaluable Ernie Hudson, doing a fantastic Cary Grant impression in a dueling-accents competition with Tim Curry). A failed coup attempt at the airport leads to a truck-jacking and a narrow escape from the squads of soldiers running around the tarmac with machine guns. Monroe Kelly turns out to be a man of action and a cheerful rogue, which is the kind of person you want on your side in this kind of B movie situation.
The group is detained by soldiers as the Congo-Zaire border is closed and we get to see another one of the golden highlights of world cinema in the following scenes--an uncredited Delroy Lindo as Captain Wanta, demanding that the detained group eats sesame cake (and then yelling at Herkemer Homolka to stop eating his cake) and fussing over the bribe he takes to let them past the border. He brings a touch of absurdity to the proceedings noticeable even among the background radiation of Joe Don Baker: Satellite Owner and talking gorillas. I missed him for the rest of the film after his brief scenes were finished.
The rest of the film is packed with alternating exposition and action--the group makes its way through Tanzania to get to Zaire to get to the jungle region where Amy was captured; first we learn that Herkemer Homolka is looking for a lost city in Africa and then their plane is attacked by ground troops using Stinger missiles. Monroe and Dr. Ross use flare guns to confuse the heat-seeking missiles and get away from the attack in a sequence unlikely to make a Cracked list devoted to realistic air combat. The crew and adventurers abandon the plane after the missiles are spoofed (I'm not entirely sure why), and the rest of the trek is on foot (and raft). A call back to TraviCom headquarters drops some foreshadowing about the third act (the images on the previous satphone call have been computer-analyzed and show a new species of gorilla on them; the Verunga region is undergoing serious seismic activity and could blow up any time, but will definitely go up soon).
Next we get a Survivor of Horrible Events Freakout Monologue from Bob Driscoll, sole survivor of the previous TraviCom expedition; he wakes up from a shock-driven coma and sees Amy, then screams uncontrollably and dies of terror (which is too bad; the guy who played Solomon Star on Deadwood deserved better than yelling a lot and doing a head-slump). Then there's that raft trip I mentioned earlier, complete with nighttime hippopotamus attack. The group eventually gets to the region they were aiming for--minus a couple of deserting porters, and who knows how the hell they're going to get back home on foot--and the third act can begin in earnest. It should not surprise the viewer that the lost city of Zinj is full of diamonds, the unknown species of killer grey gorillas are really there, and that the volcanic activity alluded to from the first scene means lots of stuff falling over and / or being swamped by lava. Virtue is rewarded, evil punished, self-interest sows the seeds of its own destruction and the lonely gorilla gets to go back to the wild. Also a communications satellite is blown up in a totally gratuitous action sequence and Joe Don Baker yells at a TV screen.
Congo is a rollicking adventure movie full of stuff happening and packed to the gills with character actors (and some gorgeous scenery courtesy of location filming in Costa Rica), and yet it never really jells into something great--or even all that good. The two leads seem to think they're in an A movie about primatology and exploration, while the supporting cast uniformly realizes they're in a flick with killer monkeys and a lost African city full of diamonds. I really wish I could have sat in on lunch with the cast--for a B movie junkie like myself, listening to Ernie Hudson and Bruce Campbell swap stories with Tim Curry and Joe Pantoliano would be utterly irresistible. It seems pretty obvious that this one got greenlit when Jurassic Park was a worldwide smash; Michael Crichton's catalog got mined for several films in the 90s, with this movie and The 13th Warrior representing his backlist. Some times he had a billion dollar idea, and the other times he had killer monkeys and Tim Curry as an Eastern European diamond-city searcher. This film isn't nearly as bad as its reputation might suggest, but you can do a heck of a lot better.
"Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy" Best scene in the movie, aside from a gorilla drinking a Martini.
Tim Lehnerer June 7, 2014 at 10:06 PM
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Clear air on Jayalalithaa's health: Madras High Court
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Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday asked the Tamil Nadu government to clear confusion about Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's health. According to news agency ANI, the government lawyer has been asked to submit the information to the court tomorrow.
The instructions from the Madras High Court came in response to a petition asking the AIADMK government statement amid speculation that Jayalalithaa, 68, is seriously unwell and her party is trying to keep it a secret. The petition also asked that an interim chief minister be appointed as she recovers at the Apollo hospital in Chennai.
Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on September 22 with fever and dehydration. Her party AIADMK has vehemently denied reports that she is critically ill and said that she is recovering well.
"Apollo hospital authorities say that her treatment is going well. She needs rest and she is recovering. She is hale and healthy and will come back soon," said CR Saraswathi, a party spokesperson, on Tuesday. Over the weekend, the party confirmed that a UK specialist was flown in to supervise her recovery.
With curiosity about the Chief Minister's health fuelling questions on who is in-charge, a party leader said that a team of six officials and aides - who have also been visiting the hospital - are running the show for now.
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Haiku on Trophy/ Fine/ Angel/ Pressure
You are my trophy
Impossible to keep you
Sitting on a shelf
Tom Jones' trophy wall
It's not impossible he
Collected knickers
The blessing of gods
An impossible trophy
For scoundrels and thieves
Fine lines from my pen
Curl themselves into letters
Words for my haiku
Nothing be finer
Than loving Carolina
Early one morning
A Fine Arts degree
Sounds so much more important
Than one in science
The angel of death
Not exactly best of jobs
But someone has to
She was beautiful
With such an angelic smile
In Satan's workshop
The angel grinder starts up
All the tools screaming
Pressure to succeed
Goes against human nature
Fount of human ills
Low pressure weather
Cyclone over the east coast
Gale force winds and rain
Blood pressure rising
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Making of a Child Psychiatrist: (41) Settling Down Sort of… (4)
As I remember it, Christmas 1965 was a rather fleeting time because Jan had now become an employee subject to rosters; being one of the newer employees, she was down the hierarchy a bit in terms of taking leave.
So we travelled down to Westgate on Christmas Eve on our blue Vespa, with a case full of clothes and carefully wrapped loot for the families. It was freezing, and although we were both dressed as warmly as we could, we did not have leathers to fend off the chill; we were ‘mods’ rather than ‘rockers’. We did have woollen gloves inside sheepskin gloves, and Jan had taken the precaution of wearing thick tights under her ski trousers, and tucked herself in tightly behind me. But we froze. I know that when we arrived in Kent having negotiated the road out through Blackheath, the newly completed M2, and then the Thanet Way, the day was fading, and we were immensely relieved to reach dear old Westgate-on-Sea in its seaside town winter emptiness.
As it must be for all newlyweds, it was complicated having to satisfy two families. My recollection is that we stayed at Kingsmead Court with Jan’s family and its extensions, and that Christmas Day was shared with my parents and Andrea coming for Christmas lunch and the afternoon. On Boxing Day we went to my old family home, now re-occupied by Ted and Eve and Andrea after their return from Australia. We certainly have black and white photos of a delightful day showing us all in smart clothes and silly hats, standing around a Christmas tree as tall as the room, and stacked with more presents. We look happy, and I am sure we were. I was delighted to have my family back again, and reachable. The three years of absence in Australia had made me self-reliant, and that was never to change. But it is important for all of us to have that readily accessible emotional connection, and the potential for support if it is needed.
Having said that, at that time my side of the family were in many ways very different to Jan’s side. The vast majority of the Martin side of the family migrated to either Australia or to America in the years after the Second World War. As I noted in an earlier chapter, my mother’s side of the family (the Mays) have been a bit thin on the ground. Her paternal grandmother Charlotte (May, née Hirst) had died in January 1923 (aged 55), when my mother was only 4, and only two years after her own father Harold (aged only 26 in 1921) had died from tuberculosis after being gassed in the First World War. The other grandmother (Hannah, née Howie) died in 1924 (aged 69). These three deaths must have left my grandmother (Louisa née Barrett, then in her 30s) reeling, grieving very much on her own while trying to survive with two small children. Life must have been emotionally very hard, as well as stressful with little income except that from her war pension and her dressmaking. Her father (John Henry Barrett) was to die in her house in Feltham in July 1938, when my own mother was 18. Then Grandad May had an argument with a London trolley-bus in 1941, and died from his injuries. Admittedly, both were in their 80s, but Louie must have felt surrounded by death with so many over those twenty years.
Louie had developed a close supportive relationship with an aunt Emma (born in 1864), who lived in Twickenham, looking after her tobacconist father Thomas until his death in 1912. But travel was sometimes hard on public transport, and the correspondence between the two reflects Louie’s somewhat desperate need for closer support.
Admittedly there were supports. There was an uncle Ernest, younger brother to her father Harold, and a City of London policeman. He and his wife May had two daughters born in 1925 (Barbara) and 1928 (Dorothy). They lived in Feltham, and became close. Uncle Ernie was to become the family patriarch, a role he filled vey well. Eve’s brother Harold (born a month after their father had died) was later married to Ruth, and they had a son, Brian, born in 1947, also living in Feltham. Even so, I sense the ongoing sadness that permeated the extended family, and this filtered down to my mother, and was amplified when her own mother died in 1945. Eve was not aloof, but despite her apparent gregarious nature in company, she was always a loner with few close friends, and sometimes a bit distant. Even when at her happiest, there was a self-protecting wistfulness. And her happiest was when she was painting or sculpting, somewhat solitary pursuits.
So Christmas 1965 was special, but even after our 1963 trip to stay to with my family in Adelaide, the relationships were never overly close, always a little reserved. On the one hand Jan and I were respected for developing professional careers and doing well at University (something both of my parents would have wished for themselves), but we were expected to live our own lives. That was fine but I always felt slightly guilty in having such a relaxed and comfortable relationship with Jan’s family. I guess at the time, there had been fewer deaths in their families of origin, they were consistently light-hearted, and their lifestyle as hoteliers reflected a naturally gregarious nature.
The difference in styles of our two families shows in several ways. When Jan’s parents were not running the hotel in what passed for summer in Kent, they were always looking for opportunities to get together with family, or spend a couple of weeks on holiday. In my teens, I was privileged over the years to join them in North Wales on one occasion, and the Lake District on another. I was always made to feel welcome as a part of their family. In addition there were two skiing trips – one when I was only 14, another when 16. The latter was a ten-day gathering of extended Hughes family in Saas Fee in Switzerland. Sadly, my own family never took the opportunity to go anywhere for holidays. I guess money was always an issue, but I suspect a ‘home body’ attitude was also in play.
Another example is an episode that occurred in about March 1966, when Jan and I had been married nearly a year. I had to do a month of intensive midwifery training, and allocations to various units were made without consultation or redress. You were placed, and expected to perform for the month. That is you had to be an active part of at least 20 births, attested to by a supervisor midwife. I was allocated to Derriford Hospital a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, in Devon. So, fairly recently married, I was going to be forcibly separated from my life mate. I found this irksome and irritating, but just accepted it was something I had to do, in that somewhat blind male way of my extended family not really considering it might have major implications for Jan. She fretted, despite frequent phone calls and the odd letter.
If my family had had to deal with that, I suspect my father would have said something like “Well, you just have to get on with. It will be over soon enough”. Jan’s family reacted in a totally different way. Admittedly they were free to travel given it was pre summer season for the hotel. But they arranged to bring Jan down to Plymouth for a week, and make it one of their active holidays. She managed to get some time off from work, and we were both thrilled about connecting. Unfortunately, it went slightly awry. Jan caught some virus, was not well for most of the week, and then had one of her extended migraines. She was happy to be there, but not very happy. In addition, I was on call for births. As we all know, babies decide their own time, so the time Jan and I had together was disrupted a couple of times. Life is like that.
There was one quirky event that happened in Plymouth at the Royal Hotel where the family were staying and we were having lunch. Behind us there was a table with a rather large and somewhat elderly woman holding forth. She had a strong Australian accent, and Jan and I looked at each other bemused, remembering our own time in Australia. After lunch we went over to introduce ourselves, and talk about our experiences in Adelaide. We ended up sharing afternoon tea. Turns out the lady had been living in the street next to the one in Adelaide where we were housed for our three months. And she knew the Davidsons, in half of whose house we had been living. Life is strange like that with coincidences in time and links made around the world; if you are open to them. And you wonder whether there was some reinforcement of our enjoyment in Adelaide as a city, given what we now know about our future. But those are stories to come.
While the majority of you will understand immediately why I have taken time to explore these matters, I know that some may be asking: “What has all this go to do with learning to become a Child Psychiatrist?” The first thing to say is that, while death is a universal fact of life, grief affects us all in different ways. I believe as a doctor I have had to work with grieving people all my professional career. Not only have I had to come to terms with my own losses, but also I have had to learn how to help others manage loss and grief and make some sort of recovery so that it did not continue to have an impact on both their emotional and physical health. More than that, I believe I have made a partial case for how grief may shape a family style of living in the world. As a general practitioner I always thought of myself as a ‘family doctor’, needing to be able to work fairly with all members of a family. As a Child Psychiatrist, I have always thought of myself as a child and family therapist. My hope is that this will become amply demonstrated as this narrative unfolds.
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Pale left over clouds
Rinsed by all the passing storms
Morning's memories
Old salmonella
Best to rinse all vegetables
Even when pre-packed
Saw him lathered up
Then again in rinse cycle
My poor teddy bear
He has the patter
So funny; no real matter
A real mad hatter
There are dark matters
So much that can't be measured
Like integrity
What really matters?
That at the end of the day
I will still love you
The caring mother:
"What do I have for homework?"
Breeds entitlement
Improve love-making
Read that naughty hidden book
Sensual homework
And now for homework
You will complete things from work
Phone interrupted
Painful injury
Sliver of wood under nail
Sliver of pork pie
With low alcohol pub beer
Anorexic lunch
Dark meditation
A sliver of light appears
Mindsight peace of mind
We moved into a flat at 190, Camberwell Grove, a gracious Edwardian three storey semi-detached with a basement. The house had a ground and first floor where the mid 40s owner/ landlady lived. The second floor, reached by a rather noisy staircase clad in brown linoleum, was all ours - a kitchen, a living area, quite a large bedroom with an en suite bathroom.
Basic furniture was supplied from various family sources, and carried up the stairs with family help. Of course we had the loot from our wedding, unpacked awaiting our return from honeymoon, and were bemused to find we had ended up with 13 casseroles, very welcome bed and table linen, and several decorative ashtrays. My parents had given us a rather posh tea trolley that we used on most days. It had an amusing but somewhat odd habit of rolling independently across the kitchen, given a slightly sloping floor. Like most events in our lives at that time we just thought it was funny. These days it would have been a serious reason to call in a builder.
We realised we had collected rather a lot of books between us, and had nowhere to store them. They were piled unceremoniously while we sorted the rest of our meagre belongings. But one Saturday I went to a builder’s yard, and organised a couple of 10 foot long pieces of pine planking, and a number of bricks. When they arrived home, with considerable pride we built a simple 60s bookshelf to take the lot, as well as a stack of records and my old player (good for 45s, 33s, and older 78s). Later we bought some garish winged bucket chairs. We were home.
In amongst the muddle, Jan studied for her finals in the coming June, and I tried to avoid too much study by beginning to work studiously on my stamp collection. As part of my life long self-analysis, I have realised I am a collector. I understand that at times of stress, or times when I want to avoid hard work, I bury myself in an activity. More simply, when Jan was revising three years of study, I could have been doing the same, preparing myself for my own finals just under two years hence. My first stamp album was bought by an aunt and uncle as a gift for a four year old being a frilled, velveted pageboy at their wedding. This thin red album had very few stamps, and had simply languished as part of my baggage for many years. Now, I developed a passion for British stamps, and spent hours organising several new albums around a miscellany of stamps purchased cheaply from local dealers and others. I became fascinated by variations, watermarks, franking, and first day covers. It kept me quiet.
There were times of relaxation and freedom. Above us was a tiny rooftop flat rented by a couple very much at our age and stage. Bob Stebbings was an architectural assistant, and his wife Chris a receptionist. They were young, also newly married, happy go lucky, interested in the world around them, and very funny. We became great friends. At some stage in my past I had been allowed to borrow an 8mm camera from Jan’s father, who taught me the skills of editing and splicing celluloid. I cannot remember how I acquired a camera, but the four of us began to create a film of us around London doing crazy things. The first attempt was a picnic in the local park one Saturday. We had no children, but between us we did have a collection of soft toys, and we filmed a teddy bears’ picnic with silly interactions. An example was a big blue blow-up ‘teddy’, filmed as the plug was pulled and it slowly deflated. We all fell about laughing. On a later occasion, we went into the city on the underground and visited The Tower of London, Horse Guards Parade, and The Embankment, with Bob parodying guardsmen, emulating silly walks, us sitting on bronze cannons, or using the glass of shopfronts as mirrors and lifting one leg as if we were puppets. Over time I edited the film down and came up with an appropriate title. The Stebbings, who were great smokers, became ‘Stubbings ‘66’. We still have the reel of silent film (amongst a now large collection of other films and videotapes of our family history); and every four or five years we replay it, just to enjoy the silliness, remind ourselves of simple times, and wonder how Chris and Bob’s lives evolved.
Jan’s exams came and went, and she relaxed in that tense kind of way we do when waiting for results. Of course she had passed, and gained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. She glowed, but I suspect her parents Reg and Bobbie were even more proud; to have a daughter with a University degree exceeded their expectations given the post war uncertainties they had survived, and their own educations curtailed by necessity. Jan joined a kind of elite in their eyes, along with cousin Monica who became an academic in plant genetics, and her brother Michael who gained his degree and joined a software engineering firm in the early days of serious computing.
I am not sure how the connections were made, but Jan applied for a laboratory technician job at King’s and was successful. She began her own journey of professional work, and I could see her confidence in her own abilities expand as she gained a varied skill set, became a well liked member of a team and learned the ever emerging techniques of hospital biochemistry. The bonus was that Jan was earning a salary working in the hospital at which I was a medical student. So I became a kept man, supplementing my £96 a quarter county council grant with moral earnings from my woman. Seriously, it made an immense difference to our lives, and our sense of security for the future. In many ways we had come to believe the dire warnings that it was crazy to get married while we were still students; at time we had lived on next to nothing, even combining our grants. We breathed more freely.
It dawned on me that I now had to live up to my side of the bargain, and do sufficient work to complete my own degree. I had to set aside the stamp collecting me, given my fantasy of making a lot of money selling special stamps had not come to fruition. I had to begin to study in earnest. But I found myself frequently falling asleep over textbooks. Clearly it was not for a lack of interest in my chosen career. But I now know from my later neurolinguistic training that I am a visual and experiential learner. As I have noted earlier, I am not good at following a logical plan. Throughout my life I have continued to be a voracious reader. But textbooks are for dipping into, not learning verbatim. I had been under the misunderstanding that, to emulate so many of my close colleagues, I had to read every textbook from cover to cover. I just have never been able to do that. I learn, and always have learned from my patients, and the subsequent supervision sessions or post clinical discussions. And once learned visually and experientially, I rarely forget. In terms of medicine, I am a collector with a fascination for remembering the work and names of historical figures and their contributions, minutiae of various diseases, all along with a clear visual memory of patients and episodes going back 50 years (even if I struggle to remember their names).
I did not know this in 1965-6, and struggled. I felt dumb, and thought I was stupid. From time to time I believed I was not worthy to become a doctor. Looking back, I know I became depressed, and found myself seeking out odd activities to prove I was not dumb. Again, I cannot quite remember the detail, but I came across some information about intelligence and, perhaps during my earliest student time in psychiatry, I was introduced to the work of Hans Eysenck, some of whose work I devoured (Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, 1956); Fact and Fiction in Psychology, 1965), and who had written a book in 1962 called ‘Know Your Own IQ’. I found a second hand, but clean, copy in a bookshop and devoured that as well, and seemed to do OK. So I challenged myself to do the Mensa test. The results proved to me that I was not dumb; so that was not the problem.
I now know that I was in an episode of depression with loss of confidence, confusion, irritability and self-blame. How could that be, when I was newly married to the love of my love, we had a bit of an income, we had funny friends, and a place to call our own. I guess we could factor in an episode of glandular fever, from which Jan and I both suffered in recent months. It is said that can leave you with depressed feelings. Whatever, I did what I have always done, which is to bury myself in whatever I was doing at the time, and just get on with it.
And what rescued me on this occasion, probably was the possibility of doing the pantomime ‘The Tempest’ described in an earlier chapter. I became so engrossed in the whole process, I forgot about being depressed and my inner conflict over studying. Well, it was Christmas, and the holidays loomed.
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Oceans of plastic
Fish no longer multiply
Asphyxiated
Can you multiply?
Special tables may help you
Chairs are not as good
Problems multiply
In number, seriousness
Unless you solve them
Obsession in film
The Butterfly Collector
Can Clegg find love
Obsession with words
I find I can win Scrabble
Against anyone
Finding my left sock
Has become an obsession
Others are not right
Did not learn one faith
I learned that loving kindness
Permeates the core
Faith in my teachers
Allowed me to learn each day
Now I teach to learn
To have faith in life
Needs predictability
Patterns we have learned
She was in a spin
Three hours to catch the plane
Could not find passports
Travel through your mind
Observe each moment's record
Take out all the spin
Wander life's byways
Avoid travel agent spin
Meet local people
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A recent article by DiA’s Nic Cheeseman made front page news in Zambia, and was subsequently denounced by the Patriotic Front government. Click through for the story, and the denunciation.
A recent article by Professor Nic Cheeseman about the state of democracy in Zambia under President Edgar Lungu that was originally published in The Conversation was subsequently reproduced on the front page of The Mast, one of the country’s most prominent independent publications. In the piece, Nic discusses the democratic backsliding that has occurred under President Edgar Lungu, including the arrest of opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema on charges of treason.
The piece appears to have struck a nerve, as the ruling party, the Patriotic Front, quickly issued a response that attacked “so called” Professor Cheeseman’s credentials, conveniently omitting the fact that he wrote his PhD on Zambia and has published a number of pieces on the country in peer reviewed journals. Also missing from the claim that Professor Cheeseman’s remarks reflected a lack of knowledge of the country and its politics was any reference to the fact that he had discussed these very issues with the late Michael Sata – former PF leader and president of Zambia – after inviting him to speak at Oxford University.
For the original article, click here.
For the PF’s denunciation, click here.
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Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church was built in 1911 at 8501 Woodward Avenue, at the corner of Philadelphia Street, just outside of Detroit’s New Center neighborhood. Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church was designed in English Gothic style by prominent church-architect, Sidney Rose Badgely. Badgely had designed many church’s throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. The rough, dark reddish-brownstone church is accessorized with light-colored limestone throughout the church’s façade. Its most distinguishing feature is a tall, octagonal-shaped lantern that rises from the center of the roof that is flanked by twin towers that surround the church’s entrance. The lantern-dome-crowned church is Badgley’s calling card, and Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church is among his finest works and a unique landmark.
Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church’s congregation had over 2,200 members by 1921. That number would continue to stay fairly steady, until the 1960’s when many members were leaving Detroit for the northern suburbs. Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church had fewer than 1000 members in 1961 and only 404 left in 1971. In 1991, Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church’s congregation had dropped al the way down to just a couple hundred of members by 1990.
In 1993, the congregation split from the Presbyterian church, eventually becoming the Abyssinia Interdenominational Church. Unfortunately, Abyssinia Interdenominational Church wouldn’t last very long. When the pastor died in 2005, Abyssinia Interdenominational Church was closed. The closing was supposed to be a temporary closing, but by 2008, scrappers had began to enter the church and steal all of it’s valuables. It became obvious that the church was not going to re-open.
By 2010, Woodward Avenue Presbyterian had fallen into despair and became a urban explorer destination. As with Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church attracted people from all over the world.
In 2012, the movie “Alex Cross” was filmed at the former church.
In 2014, the church has been purchased by a group looking to convert the building into a residential shelter.
As of 2015, work has begun on cleaning up the former Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church. Crews have started to repair the leaking roof and board up missing windows. The church, however, is still abandoned.
Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in 2008:
A look from the rooftop of the Whittier Hotel.
The suites also featured intricate woodwork in some of the rooms.
The suites on the top floor of the Whittier Hotel featured unique fireplaces.
A look at one of the suites on the top floor of the Whittier Hotel.
The “WHITTIER” sign atop of the hotel roof.
A look at the organ from the pulpit of the church.
A look at the beautiful pulpit area inside the church.
A look at the pulpit area from the upper balcony.
The gorgeous organ inside the church.
The elegant organ was truly a sight too see.
A look at the sanctuary from the upper balcony.
The piano and baptismal pool area.
The drum kit and choir area inside the church.
The sanctuary inside the church was truly beautiful.
The exterior of the church before the fire.
A landscape mural adorns an office wall, as a refrigerator serves as a time capsule.
A “PRIVATE” office in the Farwell Building.
A look at the iron hand-rails of the octagon skylight inside the Farwell Building.
One of the hallways inside of the Park Avenue Building.
Old medical equipment left behind inside the Park Avenue Building.
A supply room full of old chemicals and outdated supplies.
A look at the former laboratory inside the Park Avenue Building.
A desk and typewriter sit inside the Park Avenue Building.
Old books inside a former classroom inside the Park Avenue Building.
Auditorium seating and a ton of plastic block letters still sit in a former office.
The first floor of the Park Avenue Building featured a restaurant.
An antique television still sits inside an office at the Park Avenue Building.
The former restaurant featured beautiful Pewabic Pottery tile work.
A view from the rooftop of the Park Avenue Building.
A look at an old exam table inside of a former doctor’s office.
Old medical supplies and equipment inside the laboratory at the Park Avenue Building.
More outdated equipment inside the former doctor’s office inside the Park Avenue Building.
An old television sits inside a vintage looking office.
A look down the hallway of rooms inside the Park Avenue Building.
Beautiful detail surrounds the entrance into the former restaurant area at the Park Avenue Building.
A look toward the former entrance inside the Park Avenue Building.
The gorgeous ceiling of the lobby inside the Park Avenue Building.
The stunning detailed ceiling in the main entrance hallway of the Park Avenue Building.
An exam table still sits inside a former doctor’s office.
The exterior of Michigan Central Station at night.
The exterior of Michigan Central Station.
Coatroom and classroom at St. David School.
Entrance to gymnasium at St. David Catholic School
Hallway at St. David Catholic School,
Chalkboard in a classroom at St. David School.
The alley behind St. David Catholic School.
Student desks sit empty in one of the classroooms at St. David Catholic School.
The gymnasium and auditorium at St. David School.
Coat room for children’s belongings at St. David School.
Another chalkboard in a classroom at St. David School.
Boys bathroom at St. David School.
A classroom missing a wall at St. David School.
Classroom and hallway at St. David School.
Left over chairs and desks at St. David School.
School supplies at St. David School.
An exterior archway at St. David Catholic School.
chalkboard, desk and record player in a classroom at St. David School.
Girls bathroom at St. David School.
A view inside the Highland Park Fire Station #3
An exterior view of Highland Park Fire Station #3.
The exterior of the GAR Building.
The exterior and “GO & GO CO” smokestack of Goddard & Goddard Company.
The exterior of Goddard & Goddard Company.
The main entrance detail of Goddard & Goddard Company.
The main entrance of Goddard & Goddard Company.
A close up of the iron, hand-railing in the lobby at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look at the iron, hand-railing that was still in the lobby at Goddard & Goddard Company. You can also see the original ceiling and wall detail behind the drop-ceiling.
Most of the administration office floor at Goddard & Goddard Company was in bad shape.
A look inside the administration office and “INFORMATION” area at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A close up of the machine products that was left behind at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look at one of the machinery rooms inside Goddard & Goddard Company.
An old wheel-cart sits in the former main production area at Goddard & Goddard Company.
The “GO & GO CO” smokestack at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look at the original, round-circular, concrete-sinks in the bathroom at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look at the stairway going from the main floor up to the second floor at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look at the main production floor at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look at one of the original, metal doors in the factory of Goddard & Goddard Company.
The main production area at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A look inside the main production area at Goddard & Goddard Company.
A view of the ornate chandelier, upper balcony, and lower level pews from the pulpit stage.
A close up of the hand-painted, ceiling detail in the pulpit at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The sanctuary from the lower level pews at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A look at the rows of pews in the sanctuary at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A look at the wooden-bordered, arched doorways that lead from the sanctuary to the stairway.
A look into the sanctuary from one of the adjacent rooms at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A look at the pulpit and the pews in the seating area from the upper balcony at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A look at an arched-window and another chandelier that was also still hanging above the pews at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A look at the ornate chandelier that was hanging above the sanctuary at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A drinking fountain is in the midst of being scrapped.
A look at a bent rim on one of the gymnasium basketball hoops.
A clock still hangs above an original, wooden, display case in the main hallway at Foch Intermediate School.
A drafting board in one of the classrooms at Foch Intermediate School.
A wooden bench sits in the administration office at Foch Intermediate School.
The exterior of the Fowler Building.
The exterior of Friendly Missionary Baptist Church.
A look at the beautiful, cross-carved pews and the pulpit area inside of Friendly Missionary Baptist Church.
The “CHURCH COVENANT” still hangs on the wall above the organ in the sanctuary at Friendly Missionary Baptist Church.
A couple of arm-chairs sit in the raised pulpit-area at Friendly Missionary Baptist Church.
A look at the pews and seating inside Friendly Missionary Baptist Church.
A look at a deteriorating stage in the music classroom at Douglass High School Academy.
The gymnasium at Douglass School. All of the basketball hoops have been scrapped.
The “FD” auditorium at Fredrick Douglass School has seen better days. The stage is falling apart and the graffiti “tagging” has gotten worse.
Many of the walls in the library, as well as throughout Douglass School, have been smashed and busted for scrap.
The walls of the library have fallen over, but the modern lights still hang proudly in the library at Douglass School.
The former main entrance into Douglass School.
A look at the chandeliers and detail of the auditorium.
A view of the auditorium seating from the stage at Foch Intermediate School.
A TV still hangs in a rather blue-ish classroom at Foch Intermediate School.
A camera still hangs in the middle of the main entrance and hallway at Foch Intermediate School.
A look at one of the other classrooms at Foch Intermediate School.
Portraits of some famous African-Americans were painted on the wall in the main entrance into Foch Intermediate School.
A display case and a clock hangs in the main hallway at Foch Intermediate School.
Paintings of a arrows, a car, and a computer adorn the walls in the former computer lab at Foch Intermediate School.
Murals of purple shapes adorn the wall inside the tool and dye classroom.
A look at the tool and dye classroom at Foch Intermediate School.
The fashion and cosmetology classroom at Foch Intermediate School.
A look at the home-economics classroom at Foch Intermediate School.
A look at the original, beautiful, wood-paneled bookshelves in the library.
A look at the library inside of Foch Intermediate School.
A look at the original, beautiful fireplace in the library at Foch Intermediate School.
The student lockers for the “ROTC” program at Foch Intermediate School.
A look down the hallway of lockers at Foch Intermediate School.
The exterior of Faith Deliverance Ministries Church.
A look at the pulpit from the seating at Faith Deliverance Ministries Church.
A look down one of the hallways at Foch Intermediate School.
A look at the details in the interior of the auditorium.
The auditorium form the lower level.
A look at the design details in the interior of the auditorium at Foch Intermediate School.
A side view of the auditorium at Foch Intermediate School.
A view of the chandeliers and window detail inside the auditorium at Foch Intermediate School.
A view of the auditorium at Foch Intermediate School.
A view of the auditorium from the upper balcony at Foch Intermediate School.
The swimming pool at Foch Intermediate School. It still had the power on back then.
“DEPTH 4 FEET”
A look at the swimming pool at Foch Intermediate School.
A look at the two-level style gymnasium at Foch Intermediate School.
The gymnasium at Foch Intermediate School was a two-level style with a track around the second level.
A look at the basketball hoops in the gymnasium at Foch Intermediate School.
The gymnasium at Foch Intermediate School.
A look inside the cafeteria at Foch Intermediate School.
The cafeteria at Foch Intermediate School.
The north entrance detail at Foch Intermediate School.
The south entrance detail at Foch Intermediate School.
The exterior of Foch Intermediate School.
The façade detail of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
The exterior of the main entrance into the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
The exterior of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
A look at the original wood-paneled entrance into the dormitory area at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
The Detroit Fire Department emblem is centered on the door window of the dormitory entrance at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
The sinks and mirrors of the bathroom at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
A look at the dormitory room in the upstairs of Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
A fan still hangs from the ceiling and a clock still hangs above the doorway in the kitchen/dining area at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
The two garage doors at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36 that was used for the fire trucks to pull in and out of.
The chief’s office at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36 had been cleaned out.
The main garage at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
A look at inside the main garage at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
A look at the beautiful fire place that was in one of the offices at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
A mural is painted above the doorway and a gorgeous, brick fireplace in this office at Detroit Fire Department Engine 36.
The exterior of Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
A beautiful, wooden door with hand-carved, fire-shields is barely hanging in the doorway leading upstairs at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
A make-shift hockey arena in the attic of Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
The fire fighters of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 27 had made the attic into a make-shift gymnasium and a hockey arena.
An old fire alarm still hangs in the doorway at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
The office at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
A pool table still sits in the recreation room at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
A painting still hangs above a leather chair and above the gorgeous, wood-paneling in the upstairs of Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
Hand written notes and names of fire fighters adorn the wall from the “LAST 24 DAY” for Detroit Fire Department Engine 27. The last day was October 1, 2006.
File folders still hang on the wall in the entrance to the kitchen at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
The two garage doors for fire trucks at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
The red “DETROIT FIRE DEPARTMENT” door at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
A look at one of the original, red, wooden, French-doors at Detroit Fire Department Engine 27.
The auditorium at Dixon Elementary School.
The library at Dixon Elementary School.
A painting of “WELCOME TO DIXON” was on the wall in the main hallway at Dixon Elementary School.
The student lockers at Dixon Elementary School still had dinosaurs and reptiles painted on them.
The curved-wooden bench in the kindergarten classroom at Dixon Elementary School.
A look at the curved-wooden bench in the kindergarten classroom at Dixon Elementary School.
The exterior of Dixon Elementary School.
A look at the exterior Art Deco design of Dixon Elementary School.
A view of the auditorium seating from the stage at Dixon Elementary School.
The student lockers were painted with murals of children playing. Above the lockers, a mural of Egypt, musicians, and more children playing adorns the wall.
A mural of a scroll with the description of the “LIVING THE AFRICAN-AMREICAN EXPERIENCE” was hand-painted above the classroom entrance at Dixon Elementary School.
A look in the gymnasium/cafeteria at Dixon Elementary School. It seems that vandals have gotten into the paint…
The basketball hoop is missing in the gymnasium/cafeteria at Dixon Elementary School.
A painting of “WELCOME TO DIXON” adorns the wall in the main hallway at Dixon Elementary School. The drinking fountain has been scrapped and is laying on the ground.
At one time, we had to climb up and through that opening in the atrium/greenhouse and then up and through this broken window because the door was actually nailed shut. It was fun, but a real pain in the…
At one time, we had to climb up and through this opening in the atrium/greenhouse and then up and through a broken window because the door was actually nailed shut. It was fun, but a real pain in the…
A mural of “WELCOME TO DIXON” was also painted on the exterior wall at Dixon Elementary School.
The Art Deco details on the entrance exterior at Dixon Elementary School.
A look at the Art Deco exterior details at Dixon Elementary School.
A look at some of the chemistry supplies that were left behind in the science laboratories at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
The exterior of the former McKerrow Elementary School.
A look at the textbooks that were left behind in the bookstore at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A globe sits on the back table and in the foreground of all the art supplies in the art room at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A globe sits on a table, a clock still hangs on the wall, school posters still stick to the wall, and a projection screen is ready to go in a classroom at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A look down the main hallway at Detroit Urban Lutheran School. A painting of some students was in the entrance to one of the classrooms.
A look at the librarian desk and the library at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A look at the desks and chairs that were still in the library at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A look shelves of books and a pile of reading books on a table that were all left behind at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
The library card catalog at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A look at the “NON-FICTION” section in the library at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A look at all of the books that could have been re-used.
A look at the library at Detroit Urban Lutheran School.
A look at the chemistry laboratory at Detroit Urban Lutheran School. Most of the chemicals and supplies were left behind.
Anatomy dummies still sit on the teacher’s desk, as more science equipment and supplies sit on the shelves behind it.
The exterior of East Grand Nursing Home.
A mural of some “old-school” gangsters adorns a door at East Grand Nursing Home.
A pink waiting area and medication window at East Grand Nursing Home.
A statue of Lady Liberty is painted on the wall in the doorway to the recreation room at East Grand Nursing Home.
Chairs still sit in the former recreation/television room at East Grand Nursing Home.
A look at the nurses station inside of East Grand Nursing Home.
A hand-painting of Jesus Christ was on one of the offices at East Grand Nursing Home.
A choo-choo train was painted on the wall in the main stairway at East Grand Nursing Home.
Air Jordan was also one of the many murals and paintings that could be found throughout East Grand Nursing Home.
A smashed piano sits in pieces near the stairway in the main lobby at East Grand Nursing Home.
This circular-room at East Grand Nursing Home featured a rainbow bench, mattresses, and a dresser.
A hand-painted tribute to 9/11 adorns the door in the main entrance and lobby at East Grand Nursing Home.
A bench still sits in the main lobby at East Grand Nursing Home. The stairway was still the original wood, but had suffered scrapping damage. The fireplace had also been scrapped.
A look at the main entrance and lobby at East Grand Nursing Home. You can still see some of the original detail along the ceiling molding.
A look at a rainbow-colored bench and a mural of “DOG HEREOS” in this pro America-themed room at East Grand Nursing Home.
A look at some of the original, wooden-detailed, closet doors that had been painted with an American-Indian.
A mural of Martin Luther King Jr. was in this room at East Grand Nursing Home.
This office at East Grand Nursing Home had an American flag and portraits of Dr. King.
The original, detail can be seen in the crown molding inside this office at East Grand Nursing Home.
An arched-doorway leads to a little porch-area at East Grand Nursing Home. You can again see some more original detail in the crown-molding here.
A wooden, saloon-style door still sits on the stall in the bathroom at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
A look at the locker room and weight room for fire fighters at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
A look at the original, Pewabic Pottery glazed-tiles that were used in the gorgeous design of Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
A painting still hangs in this bedroom, but the sink has been damaged by scrappers.
A fire hydrant and a “lady photo” still hang in this porch-area at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
The main garage at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
A look at the famous “watching eyes” posters for arson fire that still hang in the windows at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
A look at the main garage at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
The side entrance and exterior detail of the former McKerrow Elementary School.
A bulletin board with photos of “fallen heroes” still hangs in the conference room at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 38.
The auditorium at Detroit Open Elementary School.
A look at the Detroit Open logo at center-court in the gym.
A look at the gymnasium/cafeteria at Detroit Open Elementary School.
A cafeteria bench-seat sits in the middle of the gym floor at Detroit Open Elementary School.
A look at a mural of a rainbow that was in the main entrance to Detroit Open Elementary School.
The kindergarten room at Detroit Open Elementary School featured a brick fireplace, a curved wooden-bench, and a climbing platform.
The missing VPS panel was the way into Detroit Open Elementary School…..at one time.
The exterior of Detroit Open Elementary School.
The demolition of the Luben in 2010.
A view inside of Tiger Stadium during the demolition.
The United Artists Theater in 2006.
A look inside the Luben.
A view of the exterior of the Senate Theater.
A view of the Farwell Building and Capitol Park.
A view of the back exterior and the ghost sign from the building’s last days as the Meyer Jewelry Co. Building.
The exterior of Harvard Square Centre.
The exterior of the National Theatre.
The exterior of the former Meyer Jewelry Company Building.
A look down Woodward Avenue from the from the front of the former Meyer Jewelry Co.
The exterior of the former Wright-Kay Jewelry Company Building.
The exterior of the Detroit Fire Department Engine 8 fire station.
A Detroit city boundary map still hangs near the stairwell inside of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8.
A look inside the garage of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8.
The garage of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8.
A fire fighting mural was painted in the recreation area at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8.
The exterior of the former Wright-Kay Jewelry Co. Building.
The exterior of the Broderick Tower during the 2012 renovation.
Pictures of fires still hang on the walls in the recreation area inside the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8 station.
A look at back at the boarded-up Woodward Avenue entrance at the Whitney Building.
The recreation area inside of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8 station.
A log book to keep track of all the fire runs for the former Engine 8.
A 2012 view of the two “Davids,” as in the David Whitney and the David Broderick Tower.
A view of some of the books and paperwork left behind in the office at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8 station.
A look at the pool table in the recreation area at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8 station.
A close up of the mural of firefighters in action that adorned the recreation area wall at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 8 station.
A view of the Film Exchange Building from Cass Avenue.
A view of the demolition of Midland Elementary School.
A look at the 2012 renovations of the GAR Building.
A view of the GAR Building during the renovations in 2012.
An exterior view of the former Seventh Precinct Detroit Police Station.
The exterior of the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
A look at Herman Kiefer Hospital in 2012.
A look at the recreation room in the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
A world map still hangs on the wall in the recreation room at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
A look at the pool table in the recreation room at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
The tile-work in the entrance that was made to represent Engine 10.
A look at the stairway inside the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
A look at the original iron hand-railed stairwell and the original wooden doors inside the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
A look inside the garage at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
The arched, tiled doorway leading from the office into the garage at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
A “DANGER” sign that was announcing the closing of Engine 10 sits in the middle of the garage floor.
A look at the “DANGER” sign from when Engine 10 closed. The sign was laying on the ground in the middle of the garage for some odd reason.
The garage at the former Detroit Fire Department Engine 10 station.
The swimming pool at Cooley High School.
A look at the gymnasium in Cooley High School.
A look at the gymnasium floor from the track above the gymnasium.
A view of the Cooley High School gymnasium from the track above.
The gymnasium and track above the gymnasium at Cooley High School.
The hallway lockers at Coolidge Elementary School.
The wooden bookshelves of the library at Coolidge Elementary School.
The auditorium at Coolidge Elementary School.
A few smiley faces were painted above the lockers at Coolidge Elementary School.
A view of the “OFFICE” entrance in the main hallway at Coolidge Elementary School.
The library fireplace at Coolidge Elementary School.
A view of a fireplace in one of the classrooms at Coolidge Elementary School.
The drafting board in the art classroom at Coolidge Elementary School.
A view of the hallway and lockers at Coolidge Elementary School.
A row of lockers is in the midst of being scrapped at Coolidge Elementary School.
Some textbooks fill the cabinetry in a classroom at Coolidge Elementary School.
The Detroit “D” adored the gymnasium wall at Coolidge Elementary School.
Paintings of the different sporting balls was on the wall in the Coolidge Elementary School gym. Some of the gymnasium lockers have been scrapped.
A basketball hoop still hangs in the gym at Coolidge Elementary School.
A look at the Coolidge Elementary School gymnasium.
The exterior of Coolidge Elementary School.
The stairway and hallway at Coolidge Elementary School.
The gymnasium at Coffey Elementary School.
A look down the hallway and classrooms at Coffey Elementary School.
The home-economics classroom at Coffey Elementary School.
A look at the drawers in the art classroom at Coffey Elementary School.
A television monitor hangs in the art classroom at Coffey Elementary School.
A look at the television monitor that was still hanging in the art classroom at Coffey Elementary School.
The “BOY’S LAVATORY” at Coffey Elementary School.
A look inside a classroom at Coffey Elementary School.
The “MAIN OFFICE” at Coffey Elementary School.
A look inside the library at Coffey Elementary School.
A television monitor still hangs in the library at Coffey Elementary School.
A view of the basement auditorium at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The auditorium at Coffey Elementary School.
A view of the auditorium seating at Coffey Elementary School.
A view of inside the turret at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the auditorium seating from the stage at Coffey Elementary School.
A stained-glass window in the stairway of the Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church parish house.
A look at the arched entrances in the Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church parish house.
A view of the main stairwell at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A Disney “BATH TIME” mural in the daycare at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A mural of children playing in the classroom at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The auditorium at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the sanctuary from the upper balcony at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A close up view of one of the chandeliers at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A line of chandeliers in the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the chandeliers that were still hanging from the ceiling in the sanctuary.
A view of the stained-glass windows and details of the upper balcony at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A close up view of the upper balcony stained-glass windows and chandeliers at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the intricate, brass door handles at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The confessional booth at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the stained-glass windows and the pews inside the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the upper balcony at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the stained-glass windows in the corner seating of Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A stone structure on the alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
Chandeliers still hang in the side area of the pulpit at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the seating area to the side of the pulpit at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the stained-glass that was above the pulpit side seating area.
The exterior of Cooley High School.
A view of the sanctuary from the pulpit at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The sanctuary from the pulpit at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A mosaic-tile shrine next the alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The beautiful, mosaic-tile shrine at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the sanctuary from the alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the upper balcony in the sanctuary of Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at one of the confessional booths at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the sanctuary stained-glass windows and the upper balcony at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the pews in the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The different types of stained-glass windows at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The confessional booths at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A flyer from the church’s last days as “FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCH.”
The exterior entrance at Coffey Elementary School.
The exterior of Coffey Elementary School.
A view of the lights and pews inside Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The pews inside the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The main lobby and entrance into the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The exterior of Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A close up of the mosaic-tiled shrine near the alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A side view of the sanctuary.
A view of the sanctuary from the pulpit and alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The pulpit and alter at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A look at the upper balcony and the chandeliers at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The side pews that were tucked into a corner in the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The corner pews at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The back of the sanctuary.
A look at the sanctuary from the middle of the pews at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
A view of the sanctuary from the back of the church.
A view of the sanctuary from the back corner of the church.
A view of one of the confessional booths at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The sanctuary from the corner of the church.
The stained-glass window I one of the offices at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The main entrance into the sanctuary at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The main lobby at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The main entrance exterior of Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
One of the exterior side entrances at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The main entrance and lobby at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The columned-entrance into the office at Our Lady Gate of Heaven Catholic Church.
The auditorium at Courville Elementary School.
The Pewabic Pottery glazed-tile backsplash in the stairwell at Courville Elementary School
The small gymnasium at Courville Elementary School.
A view of the basketball hoop in the gymnasium at Courville Elementary School.
Alphabet letters still hang in the library at Courville Elementary School.
The main hallway at Courville Elementary School. The “COURVILLE” banner has fallen to the ground.
At one time, this window was the way into Courville Elementary School.
A view of the auditorium at Coolidge Elementary School.
A view of the auditorium seating inside Coolidge Elementary School.
A brick fireplace in one of the classrooms at Coolidge Elementary School.
The gymnasium at Coolidge Elementary School.
Murals in the hallway of Cooley High School.
The swimming pool at Crockett Technical High School.
One of the gymnasiums at Crockett Technical High School.
One of the gyms inside Crockett Technical High School.
The basketball court in the gymnasium at Crockett Technical High School.
The gymnasium at Cooley High School.
The Industrial Arts classroom at Cooley High School.
An open window at Cooley High School.
A close up view of one of the entrances at Cooley High School.
A close up of the stone-detailed entrance at Coolidge Elementary School.
A view of the jungle cartoon mural in the hallway at Cooley High School.
A view of the murals in the Media Center at Cooley High School.
Murals of wildlife and nature were painted above the bookshelves in the Media Center at Cooley High School.
A view of the auditorium from upper balcony at Courville Elementary School.
A mural of wildlife, science, and nature adorns the Media Center wall.
A view of the auditorium from the upper balcony at Courville Elementary School.
The original, beautiful woodwork in the library at Cooley High School.
The interior of the media center at Cooley High School.
The auditorium seating from the stage at Courville Elementary School.
A look at the jungle mural above the “MEDIA CENTER” entrance in the hallway at Cooley High School.
The climbing ropes still hang in the large gymnasium at Courville Elementary School.
A jungle-scenery painting above the entrance to the “MEDIA CENTER” at Cooley High School.
A cartoon of a painting of some jungle scenery in the hallway at Cooley High School.
A mural of different cultures was in between some lockers at Cooley High School.
The Pewabic Pottery mosaic-tiled backsplash in the stairwell of the hallway at Courville Elementary School.
A close up of Thomas Cooley mural that was painted above the bookshelves in the library.
A close up view of the gorgeous, woodwork and upper balcony in the library at Cooley High School.
A look at the bookshelves in the library at Cooley High School.
The mural of Thomas Cooley was painted in the library at Cooley High School.
The interior of library at Cooley High School.
At one time, this bent metal VPS was the way into Courville Elementary School.
The hallway entrance into the “LIBRARY.”
A look at a basketball hoop with a Cooley Cardinal painted on it in the gym.
A mural of a stone bridge and nature was painted on the wall at Cooley High School.
A mural of famous African-American men adorns the wall above the display cases in the hallway at Cooley High School.
The gymnasium at Cooley High School. The power was still on at this point.
At one time in the past, this was the way into Cooley High School.
At one time, this broken window was the way into Cooley High School.
The front exterior of Crockett Technical High School.
A view of the auditorium seating from the stage.
The auditorium from the upper balcony at Crockett Technical High School.
The clock still hangs on the wall above the fireplace in the library at Crockett Technical High School.
The library at Crockett Technical High School.
The science lab at Crockett Technical High School.
The auditorium at Cooley High School, back when there was still power.
A look at one of the gymnasiums at Crockett Technical High School. Crockett Technical High School had two gymnasiums to separate the boys and the girls.
The way into Crockett Technical High School…..at one time anyway.
The gymnasium at Crockett Technical High School.
The auditorium at Crockett Technical High School.
The exterior of Crockett Technical High School.
The auditorium at Carstens Elementary School.
The children’s playground in the back of Carstens Elementary School.
A look down the hallway of student lockers at Carstens Elementary School.
A look inside the science room at Carstens Elementary School.
A look at the “WELCOME TO CARSTENS” mural that was painted in the main entrance at Carstens Elementary School. The mural showed portraits of famous Detroit Public Schools students, among other random people.
The light shines perfectly on the hand-painted mural at Carstens Elementary School.
A look at the hand-painted portraits of former and famous Detroit Public Schools students. The mural was on display in the main entrance at Carstens Elementary School.
A look at the mini-lockers in one of the classrooms at Carstens Elementary School.
A mural of children playing in the grass is on display on the wall leading to the auditorium at Carstens Elementary School.
A look down one of the hallways of student lockers at Carstens Elementary School.
The exterior of Cadillac Middle School.
The sign and main entrance exterior at Cadillac Middle School.
The main entrance into Carstens Elementary School.
A look inside a wallpapered classroom at Burton Elementary School.
The library at Burton Elementary School.
A clock still hangs in the hallway at Burton Elementary School. Note the power was still on back then.
A look at a television that still hangs above the chalkboard inside a classroom at Burton Elementary School.
Some of the books were still left on the bookshelves, but most had been thrown to the ground in the library at Chandler Elementary School.
The library at Chandler had gotten trashed and ransacked by 2012.
The auditorium was also trashed inside of Chandler Elementary School.
The mural-covered hallway at Chandler Elementary School. Note that the locker doors have been scrapped.
A look at “THE CHANDLER RANBOW OF PRIDE” that adorned the wall above the space where lockers and a drinking fountain used to be.
A look at the basketball hoop inside the gymnasium at Burton Elementary School.
The gymnasium at Burton Elementary School.
A look at the center of the gymnasium at Burton Elementary School.
A look at the basketball hoop that still hangs in the gym at Burton Elementary School.
A look at the anatomy dummy that was still hanging out in the science classroom at Chandler Elementary School.
A look at the school supplies that still were on the shelves in the cabinetry at Chandler Elementary School.
A look at the cafeteria inside of Burton Elementary School.
The cafeteria also featured a basketball hoop…..for some reason, at some point it seemed that Burton Elementary School had two gymnasiums.
The auditorium at Burton Elementary School.
A look at the fireplace and the colored-diamond pattern on the floor in one of the classrooms at Burton Elementary School.
This classroom at Burton Elementary School also featured patterns of multi-colored diamonds and circles. The window to the right (with board underneath and on the ground) was our way into Burton Elementary School back then.
The exterior main entrances at Burton Elementary School.
A look at the façade detail at one of the main entrances into Burton Elementary School.
The exterior of Burton Elementary School.
A look at the trashed main hallway at Chandler Elementary School. Note the lockers have all been removed and scrapped.
A look inside one of the classrooms at Chandler Elementary School. The pictured alphabet cards still hang in the classroom.
A close up view of textbooks that were still in the storage room at Chandler Elementary School.
A look at the door-less lockers inside the main hallway at Chandler Elementary School.
A green chair, without it’s legs, sits in the basement hallway at Chandler Elementary School.
The gymnasium at Chandler Elementary School still showed the signs of fire damage, as the floor is still buckling.
The blue and yellow Chandler “C” at the center court of the gymnasium.
A look at the gymnasium at Chandler Elementary School. The gym was in terrible shape by 2012.
A look at the children’s books that were still on the shelves of this little bookcase in a classroom at Chandler Elementary School.
The lights were on, as a clock still hangs in the hallway at Burton Elementary School.
The stone and Pewabic-tiled fireplace in a classroom at Burton Elementary School.
The student lockers and a drinking fountain in the main hallway at Burton Elementary School. Note the power was still on back then.
A look inside the auditorium at Burton Elementary School.
A look inside the library at Campbell Elementary School.
The auditorium at Campbell Elementary School.
A mural of people’s faces adorns the wall in the hallway at Campbell Elementary School.
A mosaic-tiled mural of an early explorer that is sailing in a boat, adorns the wall in the main lobby at Campbell Elementary School. The power was still on during our first visit to Campbell.
A look down the main hallway at Brady Elementary School.
A look at the auditorium seating from the stage inside Brady Elementary School.
Ceiling tiles have fallen tot he ground in the gymnasium at Brady Elementary School.
A look at the basketball hoop inside the gymnasium at Brady Elementary School.
A look at the gymnasium inside of Brady Elementary School.
The library at Brady Elementary School featured a Pewabic Pottery tiled-fireplace with brick and tile columns, as well as gorgeous wooden details.
A look at the stairway and main hallway at Brady Elementary School.
Brady Elementary School featured a gymnasium and cafeteria combination.
A beautiful, brick fireplace in one of the classrooms at Brady Elementary School.
This was the way into Brady Elementary School at one time.
A look at the Pewabic glazed-tiles that were featured above the doorway at Brady Elementary School.
A closer look at the exterior of Brady Elementary School.
The façade detail at Burbank Middle School.
The exterior of Burbank Middle School.
Many of the medical supplies at the Arnold Home were left behind when they closed, such as these bottles of “SODIUM CHLORIDE.”
An old oil painting has fallen to the ground in the patient hallway at the Arnold Home.
A look at the nurses station at the Arnold Home. Note the once, gorgeous Pewabic tiled-fountain on the left side of the hallway.
A leather chair sits in the hallway at the Arnold Home. The windows that used to lie this corridor have been scrapped.
A close up view of the brass railings at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
An arm chair sits in front of the window inside one of the former residential rooms at the Arnold Home.
The television and security desk in the lobby at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the marble stairway and columns inside the lobby at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The chandelier still hags in the main lobby at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The chandelier hangs over the metal detectors and vestibule entrance at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at an old “incident report” write up that happened when a patient/resident would hurt themselves, fall ill, or pass away.
The lobby at American Motors Corp. Headquarters featured a gorgeous, marble staircase and columns, as well as intricate, iron railings.
The main lobby at the Arnold Home. The ceiling is deteriorating badly and the couch has seen better days.
A side profile of the beautiful, marble staircase and the iron hand-rails that lined the stairs. Note the intricate, brass grilles for the vents and the “NO CAMERAS PERMITTED” sign.
The recreation room/ballroom at the Arnold Home. It featured mirrored-walls and prop designs.
A look at the main entrance vestibule from the marble staircase.
The piano inside the former recreation room/ballroom at the Arnold Home had been smashed and had fallen apart. Note the beautiful, modern, concrete-block wall in the background.
A look at the Arnold Home piano that was on it’s last leg….literally.
A look at the former recreation room/ballroom inside the Arnold Home. The room featured a piano, a dance floor, and tables for games.
A chandelier still hangs from a barreled-ceiling at the top of the staircase in the American Motors Corp. Headquarters. Note the marble bordered doorway.
A look through the marble-bordered doorway on the second floor at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The marble-bordered doorway and barreled-ceiling of the second floor lobby inside of American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A close up view of the brass chandelier and the marbled-bordered doorway in the second floor lobby area.
A look at the gorgeous details of the second floor lobby area at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The chandelier and detailed, crown-molding in one of the former offices inside American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at a hidden door in the conference room at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the beautiful, crown molding and chandelier that were in on of the offices at American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The exterior of the Ancient Free Masons Lodge.
A view of the auditorium and meeting hall at the Ancient Free Mason Lodge.
Tables were still in the meeting hall that was located inside the auditorium at the Ancient Free Mason Lodge.
A look at the beautiful, detailed vent grilles and some of the intricate, stage bordering at the Ancient Free Mason Lodge.
A look at the security desk and main lobby.
The auditorium from the balcony at the Ancient Free Mason Lodge.
A look at the magnificent details of the main lobby. Included are the marble columns and staircase, the intricate iron hand-rails, and the brass chandelier.
Some of the chandeliers still hang in the auditorium and stage inside the Ancient Free Mason Lodge.
A close up view of the brass chandelier, the iron hand-rails, and the marble stairs inside the main lobby.
A look from inside the main entrance vestibules in the main lobby of the AMC Headquarters.
A look at the vestibules and push-doors that were used as an entrance and exit to the main lobby at the AMC Headquarters.
Lights still hang in the former fitness/exercise room at the American Motors Corporation Headquarters.
Televisions still hang in the former fitness room at the American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the work out equipment that was still in the exercise/fitness room at the American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The scoreboard still hangs at center court in the gymnasium at Burbank Middle School.
The newer auditorium at Burbank Middle School.
The swimming pool at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the swimming pool at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The auditorium at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A view of the auditorium seating from the stage at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School. Note the clock still hanging on the balcony wall.
A view of the stage inside the auditorium at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A mural of students is painted on the wall in the hallway at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A mural of “EXPLORE THE WORLD” adorns the wall next to the student lockers.
A look at center court of the gym at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The basketball hoops were still hanging in the gymnasium at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look inside the gymnasium of the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the arched-windows and plaster details of the library at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The library at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School featured a mirrored-ceiling and extraordinary crown molding and plaster detail.
A classroom at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School that featured natural skylights. Unfortunately, they were covered up at some point.
A look down the main hallway of lockers at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the auditorium stage inside of Burt Elementary School.
A view of the auditorium from the upper balcony at Burt Elementary School.
A lunch table lays broken in the gymnasium/cafeteria at Burt Elementary School.
A look at the school’s logo at center court inside the gym at Burt Elementary School.
The basketball hoops and climbing ropes still hang in the gymnasium at Burt Elementary School.
The door was ajar and that is how we used to get into Burt Elementary School.
The exterior details at Burt Elementary School.
The exterior of Burt Elementary School.
The exterior of Apostolic Faith Church of Love.
The cafeteria inside of the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the mirrored-ceiling and arched windows in the library at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the sanctuary inside of the Apostolic Faith Church of Love.
A look at the pulpit and alter inside of the Apostolic Faith Church of Love.
The lights still hang from the beautiful detailed ceiling inside the library of at former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A view of the library inside the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The auditorium at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School also featured gorgeous arches and plaster detail.
A mural of students was painted on the main entrance wall at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School, last used as Finney High School.
The exterior of the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the façade details of the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A look at the exterior of the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The swimming pool still had some stagnant, chlorinated-water left in it from the school’s last days. Note the radiators are lined up and ready to be scrapped away.
“HOMEWORK” on the chalkboard inside one of the classrooms at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The power was still on inside the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School. The “PREPARE” mural of studying students was on full display with the hallway lighting.
A look at the “PREPARE” and “EXPORE THE WORLD” mural that was painted on the wall next to the student lockers.
The basketball hoop’s rim was dunked on too many times.
The large gymnasium at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The light were still on inside the school back then. The gymnasium was all lit up for this shot.
The lights were on and helped to illuminate the gymnasium at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
The cafeteria at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School.
A clock still hangs in the main hallway at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School. Note the power was still on back then.
The pool at the former Andrew Jackson intermediate School. Note the radiators are ready to be hauled away for scrap.
A mural of some children playing around a tree was on one of the walls inside a former classroom at Best Academy.
The “BEST ACADEMY BULLDOGS” used a section of the former Detroit Osteopathic Hospital as a school, but it was short lived and quickly abandoned as well.
The secretary and reception desk at Best Academy, formerly Detroit Osteopathic Hospital.
A superman mural was on display on the main hallway wall at Best Academy.
“THEY ALSO HAD A DREAM. YOU CAN TOO!!!”
A look at a mural of famous faces that was painted on the main hallway wall at Best Academy.
A look at the famous faces painting that adorned the wall inside the main hallway at Best Academy, which used to be Detroit Osteopathic Hospital.
Former cubicles in the office section at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The marble-detailed, doorway border and barreled-ceiling of the second floor lobby area at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The administration office inside of Biddle Elementary School.
The second floor vestibule at the top of the marble staircase inside of the former AMC Headquarters.
A look down the hallway of lockers at Biddle Elementary School.
A look inside one of the classrooms at Biddle Elementary School.
A look at one of the classrooms at Biddle.
Basketball hoops still hang in the gymnasium at Biddle Elementary School.
A brass chandelier still hangs in the stairwell at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the cafeteria and gymnasium combination room at Biddle Elementary School.
A look at the auditorium/gymnasium/cafeteria at Biddle Elementary School.
The brass chandelier still hangs from the barreled-ceiling in the main stairwell.
A view of the marble staircase and iron hand-rails at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters. Note the beautiful, vent grilles had been scrapped by 2012.
A look at the bras chandelier in the main entrance to the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A view of the vestibule entrance and main staircase at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the iron hand-rails that lined the marble staircase at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The security desk and monitor still sit in the main lobby at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A television monitor still hangs in the main lobby at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the marble details of the staircase and columns in the main lobby.
Exercise equipment was still in the fitness center at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the treadmills inside the fitness center at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at all of the equipment that was left behind in the fitness center/exercise room at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A close up view of the weight machines in the fitness center area at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
Leg-press machines were also left behind in the fitness area at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look inside one of the offices at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
This used to be the way that we had to get into the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters. It was NOT as easy as it looks!
One of the wood-paneled, executive offices at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The wood-paneled walls inside one of the former executive offices at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A chandelier still hang from the beautiful detailed ceiling in one of the former office.
The lobby of the Broderick Tower during the renovations.
The magnificent details of the Broderick Tower lobby.
A semi-circular, sun-dial in the details of the lobby at the Broderick Tower.
The lobby of the Broderick Tower during the renovations in 2012.
The arched, barreled-ceiling in the hallway at the Broderick Tower.
The elevator lobby at the Broderick Tower.
A look at the granite walls, the barreled-ceiling, and the brass elevator inside the Broderick Tower.
The mailboxes in the lobby of the Broderick Tower.
A chandelier hangs from the barreled-ceiling in the main corridor at the Broderick Tower.
Red, leather couches were added to the lobby of the Broderick Tower in 2012, shortly before re-opening it’s doors to the public.
A look at the main entrance in the lobby of the Broderick Tower.
The auditorium inside of Burt Elementary School.
A look at some rather interesting drawers in one of the classrooms at Burt elementary School.
The gymnasium/cafeteria at Burt Elementary School.
Paintings above the bookshelves in the library at Burt Elementary School.
Hand-paintings of animals and a kid riding a bike adorn the walls of the library at Burt Elementary School.
A painting of zebras in the safari adorns the wall above the student lockers at Burt Elementary School.
A look inside the tower of the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
Climbing this ladder in the tower portion of the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters was not fun!
A look at the old gymnasium in Burbank Middle School that had been converted into a “Industrial Technology” or a “shop” classroom.
A look at the small windows in the tallest portion of the tower at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The beautiful, woodwork in the library at Bethune Elementary School.
A blue, range, and yellow mural was painted on the chalkboard in one of the classrooms at Bethune Elementary School.
A fireplace in one of the classrooms at Bethune Elementary School.
A look down one of the main hallways at Bethune Elementary School.
A look out of the tower window at the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
A look at the skylights in the gymnasium at Bethune Elementary School.
A basketball still sits on the floor in the gymnasium at Bethune Elementary School.
A look at the natural skylight in the gymnasium at Bethune Elementary School.
The auditorium at Bethune Elementary School. Note the power was still on back then.
The cafeteria at Bethune Elementary School.
A look at the original, wooden cabinetry inside a classroom at Bethune Elementary School.
The exterior of the former American Motors Corporation Headquarters.
Note the last window on the right is ajar. This is how we first entered Bethune Elementary School.
A look at the façade detail at the former AMC Headquarters.
The side exterior of Bethune Elementary School.
The façade detail at the American Motors Corporation Headquarters.
The school sign and exterior of Bethune Elementary School.
The exterior of the former American Motors Corp. Headquarters.
The main entrance exterior at Bethune Elementary School.
The exterior at Bethune Elementary School.
The exterior of the AMC Headquarters.
A look at the ceiling tiles that have fallen to the ground in the former art classroom at Burbank Middle School.
A clock still hangs in the main hallway at Burbank Middle School.
A Burbank “B” adorns the stage curtain in the auditorium at Burbank Middle School.
A view of the auditorium from the upper balcony at Burbank Middle School.
A look inside the former “shop” or “Industrial Tech” classroom at Burbank Middle School. This was the original gymansium for Burbank Middle School.
The auditorium stage at Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center in 2012.
The graffiti-covered basketball hoops still hang in the gymnasium at the Brewster-Wheeler Rec Center in 2012.
A look at the beautiful, Pewabic Pottery tiles in the swimming pool area at the Brewster-Wheeler Rec Center. You can see by 2011, the scrappers started chiseling away at them to try and remove them.
The swimming pool at the Brewster-Wheeler Rec Center in 2012. Note all the ugly graffiti “tags.”
A 2012 view of the pool fromt eh upper balcony, where the bench seating used to be. You can see the little “stubs” that were left from the scrappers removing the metal railings and metal benches.
Terrible graffiti “tags” surround the basketball hoop in the gymnasium at the Brewster-Wheeler Rec Center in 2012.
A look at the gymnasium that Detroit’s own Chris Webber had donated just a few years prior to closing.
The basketball hoops in the gymnasium at the Brewster-Wheeler Rec Center. The Brewster-Wheeler Rec Center had gotten so disgraced by supposed “graffiti artists” that thought it was a genius idea to spray paint a historic landmark.
The center court of the gymnasium had Chris Webber’s “C-WEBB” signature and his logo in 2012.
A look at the semi-circular room in one of the classrooms at Brady Elementary School.
The library at Bethune Elementary School.
The “THIS COURT WAS DONATED BY DETROIT’S OWN CHRIS WEBBER” sign on the wall has been completely ruined and covered by ugly graffiti by 2012.
A look down the natural skylights on the second floor hallway of Brady Elementary School.
Chairs and tables were still in the cafeteria at Bethune Elementary School.
The auditorium at Brady Elementary School.
A look down the main hallway at Bethune Elementary School. Note the drinking fountains have been scrapped.
A look at the auditorium at Brady Elementary School.
The gymnasium at Bethune Elementary School featured skylights that would allow the sunlight to naturally light up the gym.
The ceiling tiles in the gymnasium at Brady Elementary School have fallen to the ground.
The gymnasium at Bethune Elementary School.
A fire at an abandoned Detroit church.
The swimming pool at the YMCA Western Branch.
“NO RUNNING” at the YMCA Western Branch.
The locker room of the YMCA Western Branch.
The weight room of the YMCA Western Branch.
A look at the weight room inside the YMCA Western Branch.
The YMCA “Y” at center court.
Target practice in the gymnasium of the YMCA Western Branch.
A basketball hoop hangs in the gymnasium of the YMCA Western Branch.
A look at the gymnasium inside the YMCA Western Branch.
The basketball hoops inside the gym at the YMCA Western Branch.
The gymnasium at the YMCA Western Branch.
The handball court inside the YMCA Western Branch.
A mural of a kid going fishing was on the wall leading to the gymnasium.
A mural of a sunny day on the wall inside the hallway at the YMCA Western Branch.
The main conference hallway at the YMCA Western Branch.
The dining room at the YMCA Western Branch.
The arched ceiling of the porch at the YMCA Western Branch. The skylights had been covered up at sometime.
A look at the arched porch inside the YMCA Western Branch.
The empty swimming pool at the YMCA Western Branch.
A view of downtown Detroit from the rooftop of the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A hospital bed and a television in one of the former hospital rooms at the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A look at the nurses station inside of Southwestern High School.
The former patient/nurse chart sill hangs on the wall in one of the nurse’s station inside of Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A look at the nurse’s station and hallway of patient rooms inside Southwest Detroit Hospital.
The lobby of Southwest Detroit Hospital had been cleaned out at some point by 2012.
The administration offices had been trashed by vandals.
A look inside one of the former ER operating rooms at Southwest Detroit Hospital.
Many of the stainless steel fixtures and equipment at Southwest Detroit Hospital had been scrapped and stolen.
The “FILM FILE ROOM” had x-rays of former patients still on the shelves at Southwest Detroit Hospital.
The x-ray table and equipment was still in some of the operating rooms inside the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
The patients files and x-rays that were left behind at the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A look at the former x-ray table inside the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
An examination table still sits in one of the exam rooms at the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
The courtyard at Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A look at the patient waiting room of the “COMMUNITY CARE CENTER” inside the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A look inside one of the patient waiting rooms at Southwest Detroit Hospital.
The receptionist desk and hallway leading to the “PATIENT CARE AREA” at the Southwest Detroit Hospital.
A look at an original, wooden cabinetry inside one of the offices at the abandoned Detroit church.
A look at one of the offices at the abandoned Detroit church.
The confessional booths in the abandoned Detroit church.
The gorgeous ceiling in the main entrance to the abandoned Detroit church.
The hand-painted ceiling and iron gates that led into the side office at the abandoned Detroit church.
The pews of the balcony at the abandoned Detroit church.
A close up of the organ at the abandoned Detroit church.
The organ overlooked the sanctuary at the abandoned Detroit church.
A view of the organ that overlooked the sanctuary inside the abandoned Detroit church.
A view of the sanctuary from the upper balcony at the abandoned Detroit church.
The chandeliers still hang in the sanctuary of the abandoned Detroit church.
The organ had started to fall victim to the scrappers.
A close up of one of the chandeliers at the abandoned Detroit church.
The organ was located on the upper balcony and overlooked the sanctuary.
The chandeliers still hang from the ceiling at the abandoned Detroit church.
The sanctuary from the upper balcony at the abandoned Detroit church.
The organ and the balcony at the abandoned Detroit church.
The sanctuary from the upper balcony.
A look at the chandeliers that were still hanging from the sanctuary ceiling.
The sanctuary at the abandoned Detroit church.
A look at the beautiful ceiling details in the main entrance into the abandoned Detroit church.
The view of the church sanctuary.
The iron gates in a side room at the abandoned Detroit church.
The view of the sanctuary from the pulpit stage at the abandoned Detroit church.
A view of the pulpit and the alter at the abandoned Detroit church.
A view of the surrounding mosaic walls, iron gates, and granite details of the church’s pulpit and alter.
A close up of the granite alter at the abandoned Detroit church.
A view of the pulpit and alter at the abandoned Detroit church.
The sanctuary, looking toward the main entrance and balcony.
A view of the rows of pews at the abandoned Detroit church.
A view of some bookshelves inside one of the former offices in the church’s parish house.
A view of the top of the stairwell at the parish house.
The kitchen inside the parish house of the abandoned church.
The granite shrine of the abandoned Detroit church.
The rows of pews and the confessional booths of the abandoned Detroit church.
The granite pulpit and alter at the abandoned Detroit church.
The side of the pulpit and sanctuary.
A close up of the granite alter.
The iron gate detail of the office that was connected to the pulpit.
The chandeliers hang over the pulpit at the abandoned Detroit church.
A look at the church pews and seating of the abandoned church.
A center shot of the pews and the balcony at the abandoned church.
A shot of the sanctuary from the back of the church.
The main lobby of the abandoned Detroit church.
The auditorium ad gymnasium at St. Rita School had been scrapped and had started to fall apart by 2013.
A look at the buckled floor in the gymnasium/auditorium of St. Rita School in 2013.
The main sanctuary had fallen hard to scrappers and weathering damage.
The main entrance lobby area started to show some signs of graffiti “tags” inside of St. Agnes Church.
More immature graffiti tags of on the Pewabic Pottery glazed-tiles were still located in the lobby area at St. Agnes Church. It’s sad that these “taggers” have to ruin such beauty.
The arched stone details had been stolen ad scrapped from St. Agnes Church.
The western window confessional booth at St. Agnes Church.
A look back toward the balcony and main entrance from the pulpit at St. Agnes Church.
The chairs were stacked in the hallway at Wilkins Elementary School.
A mural of Rosa Parks in the hallway above the student lockers at Wilkins.
A look at the science laboratory at Purdue Educational Center.
Original, wooden drawers in the science laboratory at Purdue Educational Center.
Moss grows on the floor inside a classroom at Purdue Educational Center.
A look inside the English classroom at Purdue Educational Center.
A look down the main hallway at Purdue Educational Center.
Books pile up on the floor at Purdue Educational Center.
The auditorium at Purdue Educational Center.
A view of the upper balcony seating in the auditorium of the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center.
The auditorium stage and seating at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center.
The locker room for the gymnasium at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center.
The basketball court in the gymnasium at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center. The former school acutally had two gymnasiums.
The basketball hoops still hang in the gymnasium at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center. The former school acutally had two gymnasiums.
A look at the basketball court at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center.
One of the gymnasiums at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center.
The auditorium seating from the stage.
A look at the stage and seating in the auditorium.
The cafeteria at the former Eastern Junior High School/Purdue Educational Center.
The exterior of Webster Elementary School.
Children toys still sit in one of the classrooms at Webster Elementary School.
A look down the main hallway and classroom entrances at Webster Elementary School.
Many of the school supplies and furnishings were left behind at Webster Elementary School.
A look a the former computer lab at Webster Elementary School.
A classroom full of old, broken printers?
Chairs line up at the front of this classroom.
A look at the cafeteria tables inside the auditorium and gymnasium at Webster Elementary School.
Chairs are stacked on a table in the gymnasium at Webster Elementary School.
The auditorium/gymnasium combination room at Webster Elementary School.
The cafeteria was located on a raised platform that surrounded the gymnasium/auditorium.
Webster Elementary School had an auditorium and gymnasium combination room.
A look at a climbing net in the gymnasium at Webster Elementary School.
A piano and the climbing net that was in the gym.
A look at the chairs and other school supplies that were left behind in the gymnasium/auditorium at Webster Elementary School.
A look through the climbing net in the auditorium/gym.
A look down toward the entrance into the gymnasium/auditorium at Webster Elementary School.
The arched-doorways in the main entrance into Webster Elementary School.
A close up of the original, wooden arches in the main entrance into Webster Elementary School.
Student art work still hangs in a classroom at Webster Elementary School.
An exterior stone, flower pot at Webster Elementary School.
The exterior of Parkman Elementary School.
The hand-painted ceiling and magnificent detail in the lobby of the Fox Theater.
The main entrance stairway leading to the auditorium of the Fox theater.
The gorgeous plaster faces that overlook the auditorium at the Fox Theater.
The chandelier at the Fox Theater.
The famous artists signature wall backstage at the Fox theater.
The podium on the Fox Theater stage.
The “AUDITORIUM” entrance at Gethsemane Lutheran School.
The auditorium and gymnasium inside Gethsemane Lutheran School.
The chandelier hangs above the auditorium seating at the Fox Theater.
The auditorium had started to show some ugly graffiti “tags” at Southwestern High School by 2013.
The stone detailed faces and lions in the Fox Theater.
The swimming pool had started to show graffiti and ugly “tags” by 2013.
The gorgeous auditorium of the Fox Theater.
The biology laboratory at Southwestern High School.
The science classroom at Southwestern High School.
A supply case in the science classroom at Southwestern High School.
The chandelier hangs from the ceiling at the Fox Theater.
The interior walls of the auditorium at the Fox Theater.
The balcony seating in the auditorium of the Fox theater.
The “TELEPHONE” booths inside the Fox Theater.
The detailed fireplace at the Fox Theater.
The gorgeous fireplace and Pewabic Pottery glazed-tiles in the lounge and restroom area at the Fox Theater.
A look inside one of the classrooms at Wilkins Elementary School.
The ticket booth and attraction advertisements in the entrance to the Fox Theater.
Some musicians adorn the auditorium wall at Wilkins Elementary School.
The “W” for Wilkins Elementary School on the curtain of the auditorium stage.
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Secretarial Letter Dictation
Revision as of 13:10, 12 November 2008 by Torpille (Talk | contribs) (→The typewriter's role in the growth of the secretary)
1 Basics of secretarial positions
2 Secretary as mediums
3 Stenography in secretarial duties
4 The typewriter's role in the growth of the secretary
5 Secretary as extension of self
6 Letter dictation in pop culture
Basics of secretarial positions
Secretarial work, in one form or another, has existed since writing has existed; scribes were the first incarnation, followed by clerks. With the commercialization of the typewriter in the late 1800s and their adoption in the 1900s, record-keeping and composition became increasingly integral to modern businesess and organizations. Originally, most outgoing business correspondence was handled by business owners and a hired clerk, and was usually handwritten (Yates 25). This was an incredibly time consuming, laborious process, and made record keeping confusing, as all incoming and outgoing communication was hand copied so it was impractical to keep more than one comprehensive book of correspondence (Yates 38). Speedwriting and stenography along with typing skills sped up the process of bureaucracy and were delegated to women, particularly young women, in the 1900s.
The origins of the word secretary are generally agreed to be related to secret-keeping and trust. According to Edward Jones Kilduff, the word secretary "has its origin in common with the word secret, for both are derived from the Latin word secretus, which means private, secret, or pertaining to private or secret matters. Hence came the general definition of secretary as a person who is intrusted with private or secret matters; a confidential officer or attendant; a confidant" (Kilduff 3).
Secretary as mediums
In a sense, secretarial work is a kind of 'medium' in and of itself. Secretaries receive communications from all types of sources; it is up to the secretary to determine which communications are the most pressing, and which do not deserve attention, and forward the important communications to the boss. Communications between businesses, especially letters, were not usually written by the businesspeople themselves--rather, the businessperson would speak (dictate) what was in the letter while the secretary/stenographer would write in shorthand what her supervisor dictated, and then type the letter on a typewriter with correct 'form,' meaning correcting any grammatical errors, formatting, spelling, detail work, etc. Essentially mail communications would go from a businessman to his secretary to another secretary to the businessman she represented. This was also true of phone calls and visitors: all communications had to pass through the secretary before reaching the intended recipient.
Secretaries themselves still exist, but their duties have changed drastically due to email communications, word processing, and various other technologies. Letter dictation in particular is now incredibly rare, perhaps because of the common use of word processing technologies which drastically reduce the time needed to compose documents. Like the demise of the scribe due to increased literacy and printing, the stenographic duties of the secretary have diminished due to computing technologies. However, stenographers (using stenographic typewriters) are still in use in the legal system alongside voice-to-speech technology in case of computer failure.
Stenography in secretarial duties
Stenography, or the practice of transcribing spoken word, was essential to the duties of a secretary, and a fast speed (usually of 100 words per minute), was desirable. "Except in the instances of college graduates, of persons who have received a specialized training in secretarial work, and of those who posess some exceptional qualification (a knowledge of financial matters or the ability to write well, for example), it is very difficult to obtain a position as a real private secretary without first having served an apprenticeship as a stenographer" (Kilduff 358).
The importance of stenography, and particularly accurate stenography, for the secretary was expressed by George E. Roberts, vice president of National City Bank of New York City, "If my stenographer is not wholly accurate and dependable in transcribing her notes--her share of this mutual work--the effectiveness of my letter suffers. Through carelessness she has made me appear to say things I did not say, she has inclined my reader to the belief that I am ungrammatical, and by her inaccuracies in typing she has caused my letter to make an unfavorable impression. [...] Letter writing is an important function in business, and is becoming of greater importance because of the fact that transactions carried on by means of letters are rapidly increasing in number. The personal contact between a business house and its customers that existed in former years is being supplanted by a contact by letters. And all of this means that we must today make our letters more efficient. To do so we must enlist the coöperation of our stenographers to perform efficiently their share of the work of getting out good letters--letters that are accurate in transcription, correct in spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and pleasing in appearance" (Kilduff 13). This excerpt suggests that secretaries only copied exactly what was written, but frequently part of their duty was to correct wording, phrasing, and grammar, and know all of the correct formats, sort of like what Microsoft Word does with its Paperclip helper.
Many different types of speedwriting and shorthand exist, including the Pitman and Graham styles. College courses on shorthand were a popular choice for young women, and considered to be very practical. An example of this is in Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, in which the Plath-based protagonist Esther's mother encourages Esther to take shorthand instead of trying to be a poet. Esther rejects this, seeing shorthand as a sure way into a subservient lifestyle.
The typewriter's role in the growth of the secretary
In 1890, the U.S. Census reported 33,000 people employed as stenographers/typists, and by 1900, there were 134,000 people employed as stenographers, typists, and secretaries. In 1910, that number doubled; and in 1920 doubled again--786,000 secretaries (Yates 43). The typewriter allowed for a massive boom in the amount of women in the workforce: in 1871, only four percent of total commercial (business skills) school was female, and by 1900, that number leaped to 36 percent (Yates 44).
Before the typewriter, letters were usually drafted and finalized by the composer of the letter--that is to say, the writer (the one who thought up the source of the material) and the writer (the one who performed the physical act of writing) were one in the same. With the advent of the typewriter, the two acts were separated entirely. According to Yates, the typewriter allowed "increasing subdivision of tasks and specialization of jobs, with the techniques of systematic management to coordinate the various specialized elements" in order to maximize efficiency. The typewriter further reduced the amount of time spent by highly paid executives on letter-writing, instead moving that task to lesser-paid secretarial workers (44).
With the popularization of personal computers and word processing, this separation of composing and typing has again merged, as executives can easily write their own letters and internal communication is done increasingly through e-mail.
Secretary as extension of self
What is particularly interesting about the secretary as a medium was the focus on her appearances, or 'poise.' While secretarial handbooks emphasize fast typing and shorthand skills along with organizational skills, each book has lengthly sections on the presentation of a secretary. As is expected, secretaries had dress requirements like we do today in offices, but even more requests on the attributes of secretaries were made. For example, a desired quality among secretaries was a pleasing voice, and to smile. Becker encourages secretaries to be 'phonogeninc' while on the telephone, at least until "television becomes a practical commercial reality" for telecommunications (73). Particular posture was requested--"Draping yourself about furniture, or leaning against files or doors as if they were lampposts is similarly condemned" (Becker 106)--and only pale nailpolish acceptable. One secretary recommends wearing blue frequently, as "[m]en almost universally like blue" (103).
Manners were also essential, and women were thought to be much better at mannered speech and behavior than men, and more adept at being 'channels.' Edward Kilduff explains, "In so far as any general statement can be true, male secretaries are more likely not to possess suitable manners than are female secretaries; perhaps because it is man's nature to be more unrestrained and more independent than women, perhaps because men are not so sensitive to the effects of manners as women are and hence do not appreciate their value." Men, essentially, made bad mediums because they are too independent, more productive, and more creative than women.
The work a secretary did, particularly letters, were not signed by secretaries but rather bosses, and it was important that they and their work was reflective of their employers. The secretary, ideally, was to be involved, but not necessarily thought of as a 'producer' of content--only visible as an extension rather than authority: "Letters are an expression of an executive's personality. Don't you, as a secretary, quickly spot any flaws that come to your employer's desk? Don't you judge other secretaries and their employers by the kind of letters they mail from their offices?" (Becker 11)
The ideal secretary was one who was trustworthy with private data, efficient, reliable, and attractive. She, as one employer describes in Secretaries Who Succeed, served as "an extension of my own brain" (37). This sentiment has been echoed in the present with new technologies such as the iPhone, Blackberries, and laptops--all of which similarly serve as both status symbols, secret-keepers, transmitters of data, and as extensions of one's consciousness.
Letter dictation in pop culture
In Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 33, <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0FFAFqle8>letter dictation is parodied</a>. Biggles dictates a letter to his secretary, who is confused as to exactly what words to transcribe in this exchange:
Biggles puts on antlers to indicate he is not dictating
Secretary. Of Norway, is that?
Biggles. Just put down what I say.
Secretary. Do I put that down?
Biggles. Of course you don't put that down.
Secretary. Well what about that?
Biggles. Look. (she types) Don't put that down. Just put down - wait a mo - wait a mo. (puts on antlers) Now, when I've got these antlers on - when I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off (takes them off) I am not dictating.
Secretary. (types) I am not dictating.
Biggles. What? (she types; puts the antlers on) Read that back.
Secretary. Dear King Haakon, I am not dictating what?
Biggles. No, no, no, you loopy brothel inmate.
Becker, Esther R. Secretaries Who Succeed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.
Charters, W. W. and Isadore B. Whitley. Summary of Report on Analysis of Secretarial Duties and Traits. New York: The National Junior Personell Service, Inc., 1924.
Doutt, Howard M. Secretarial Science. Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1944.
"Episode 33." Monty Python's Flying Circus. BBC. 30 Nov 1972.
Kilduff, Edward Jones. The Private Secretary. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1924.
Pitman, Isaac. New Standard Dictation Course. New York: Pittman & Sons, 1933.
Yates, JoAnne. Control Through Communication. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
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Emily S. Mendel Dec 12, 2006
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It’s hard not to enjoy a heartwarming movie, such as Dan in Real Life, in which Dan, a cheerless widower with three children (Alison Pill, Brittany
Robertson and Marlene Lawston) finds love and happiness. It’s also hard not to like Steve Carell in this film, whose adroit performance as Dan follows his versatile roles in Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Forty Year Old Virgin (2005).
In Dan in Real Life, Dan Burns writes an advice column, and thus, of course, can solve everyone’s problems except his own. His teenage daughters want boyfriends and driving privileges before Dan is ready to let them; and he hasn’t started dating again since the death of his wife four years earlier.
The film takes place off season on the Rhode Island shore at Dan’s parents’ homey roughhewn house, where the whole Burns family has gathered for one of their (unrealistically) happy family reunions.
Dan’s parents, ably played by veterans Dianne Wiest and John Mahoney, are the kind of parents the audience wishes were theirs. They have loving, supportive and comfortable relationships with Dan and his siblings, including his lightweight brother, Mitch (Dane Cook-Good Luck Chuck, Employee of the Month). The whole family is looking forward to meeting Mitch’s new girlfriend.
While out on an errand, Dan meets Marie, Juliette Binoche, (Quelques Jours en Septembre, Chocolat, The English Patient) and over coffee, Dan soon finds himself love-struck. We can understand why. As Marie, Juliette Binoche is dazzling; she is beautiful without being obvious; she is warm, engaging, interesting…and interested in Dan. As she departs, Marie reluctantly confesses that she is in another relationship. I trust that I don’t have to give my readers a spoiler alert here, since it is screamingly obvious that she is Mitch’s new girlfriend.
The majority of the film is about Dan’s quandary over his growing
infatuation with Marie, which he feels must sublimate out of loyalty to his brother. Here is where Steve Carell shines. Our hearts melt at his longing, dejected gazes at Marie. His description of how it feels to be in love is genuine and tender. As directed by Peter Hedges (Pieces of April; Screenwriter: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy) who also gets screenwriter credit here, Carell’s multifaceted performance transports the movie above its otherwise rightful place as a run of the mill romantic comedy.
Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook and the supporting cast are great foils for Carell. They all play likeable, amiable, well-adjusted characters. Even Dan’s problematic teenagers are really good kids. After all, the daughter who wants to drive doesn’t steal a car; she merely tries to coax her father into giving permission. Actually, Dan in Real Life portrays anything but real life.
There is a subplot involving Dan’s opportunity to have his column
syndicated, which, I guess, is used to dramatize Dan’s moment of truth about his relationships with Marie and his children. At his interview with his prospective publishers, Dan confesses that he has royally messed up his own life. This turning point scene is an improvement over the “running to love” scene, where the hero realizes he can’t live without his girlfriend and must run to stop her from leaving the country or getting married. But we never see how the publishers react to Dan’s unexpected admission. In truth, the
entire construct of Dan’s writing an advice column didn’t add to Dan’s character or further the plot.
All in all, I was engrossed and entertained by Dan in Real Life. The issue for me is how I felt afterward…it was as though I had relished eating a very sweet chocolate cake, but then bemoaned that I had allowed myself to overdose on sugar. But then again, I’m a sucker for chocolate cake.
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M.N.: The very strange and puzzling case against V. Bukovsky...
M.N.: The very strange and puzzling case against V. Bukovsky. I believe that it is entirely possible that the "forbidden pedophilic images" were somehow planted into his computer by Russian intelligence services or their equivalents. Given all this hullabaloo with cybersecurity these days and the "achievements" of Russian hackers, it would not be surprising at all. It would also fit neatly into the evident, counteracting "anti-Putin pedophilia narrative", apparently pursued actively by "his post-Soviet majesty's" servants. The most poignant thing is that this affair pits such a figure as V. Bukovsky against the British judicial system, which he called "Kafkaesque". I guess, some people in some Moscow offices rub their hands with glee and satisfaction. This "case", I am sure, is watched by many and it might produce some investigative, legal, cyber and political lessons to learn.
Russian dissident, who was a close friend of Litvinenko, is protesting at ‘Kafkaesque’ judicial system in UK. Source: Vladimir Bukovsky: ‘I’m on hunger strike for the British public’ | World news | The Guardian
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Coral Beach Resort Sharjah Observes UAE National Flag Day
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Guests and staff of Coral Beach Resort Sharjah joined in the celebrations of UAE National Flag Day at the hotel on 3rd November, 2015. The day holds a special significance in the country’s history and this year marked the 10th anniversary of Presidency of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The UAE Flag Day celebrations across the country were aimed to enhance feelings of national unity and pride. Hoisting the National Flag with his team, Haytham Aziz, Hotel Manager, Coral Beach Resort Sharjah, stated, “It is an occasion of tremendous pride and honour for us and we are delighted to share this special moment with our guests and associates. It helps them to understand the history of the Nation as well as its glorious heritage and traditions”.
The UAE flag was chosen from over 1,030 designs according to The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development. Each colour in the UAE Flag holds a special significance. The red in the flag symbolises the sacrifices of previous generations who laid the foundations for the union of the seven emirates, and of subsequent martyrs who have died protecting the UAE. The green depicts growth, prosperity and cultural renaissance, while the black is said to reflect the rejection of injustice and extremism. The white celebrates the UAE’s charitable contributions and the government’s aim to work towards achieving global peace.
About Coral Beach Resort Sharjah
The Coral Beach Resort Sharjah recently underwent a complete refurbishment of rooms and facilities that has given it a brand new appeal. The deluxe resort features 156 spacious rooms, many with panoramic sea-view. A major attraction is the wide repertoire of dining options with menus to cater to every taste. The resort is located on one of the emirate’s principal sand beaches and features a range of leisure activities for all ages, including the Rimal Club, state-of-the-art fitness centre, children’s pool, indoor playroom and complimentary Kid’s Club as well as tennis (By Clark Francis Tennis Academy), badminton, volleyball and two outdoor swimming pools.
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Forty-one states, including California, have adopted the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts. The standards describe the knowledge and skills that students should master by the end of each grade to graduate from high school ready for success in college and the workplace. Major ongoing issues are whether teachers are adequately prepared to teach based on the standards in all schools and districts throughout the state, whether they have adequate curriculum materials aligned with the standards, and whether students, especially English learners and special ed students, are adequately prepared to take the new assessments.
For better insights into California's new test results, look at achievement over time
Analytical tools that are available but not used can help schools better understand how to improve student performance.
David Wakelyn
How did students at your child’s school do on Smarter Balanced tests?
Readers can access results for California’s Smarter Balanced tests taken by students in the spring in nearly 10,000 school statewide.
Diana Lambert
Slow growth, big disparities after 5 years of Smarter Balanced tests
Average scores have been rising in English language arts, but dropping in math as students progress through middle and high school — a cause for worry.
John Fensterwald And Daniel J. Willis
California science teachers offer more input on new classroom materials
A new rubric for science textbooks aims to help teachers understand the state standards while picking out new materials.
Sydney Johnson
Plan to expose all students to physics missing one element — teachers
As California schools move to implement new science standards, there will be an increased demand for teachers in a subject area where there is already a severe shortage.
10 California districts struggle, and find some success, as they shift to Common Core math
Studies of the Math in Common project offer lessons for other districts and a warning: Steady progress takes a long-term commitment.
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Support, strengthen education reforms in California, new report urges
Learning Policy Institute says schools need more funding, teachers need more support and the public needs more help understanding where the money goes.
California students may not be ready for new science test
Although students will begin taking the California Science Test in March, most school districts have yet to approve textbooks or materials aligned to the new standards adopted six years ago by the State Board of Education. Still, federal law is requiring California to begin testing this year.
Michael Kirst's parting advice: more teacher and principal training is critical to success of local control
In an exit interview, retiring state board President Michael Kirst urges more attention to professional development for teachers and principals, discusses the need for more school funding, an expanded school database and a new agency focused on children's needs.
New California coalition agrees on next steps to improve schools, student achievement
The Alliance for Continuous Improvement releases a "GPS" guide that calls for improving on sweeping changes already in place: new education standards, a more equitable funding system and higher expectations for student success.
Small rise in California’s math and reading scores in 2018
There are signs of "encouragement" and "distress" in implementing the Common Core standards after four years of Smarter Balanced testing. There is also a dilemma: 11th-grade results.
Multifaceted reforms needed to reach California’s education goals, research project finds
Getting Down to Facts II finds strong support for education reforms but also obstacles to student achievement and a need for more funding.
Essential Guide to Getting Down to Facts II
Here are the take-aways from the studies on special education, funding needs, a teacher shortage, a data deficit, student mental health local control's unmet potential – and more.
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Ten years on, California is making progress but must do more for preK-12 education
Getting Down to Facts II research project scrutinized how California's schools are doing after a decade of policy changes.
Susanna Loeb
Fewer Californians than residents nationwide favor raising teacher pay
Strikes in low-paying states opened the public's eyes. In California, where teachers are among nation's highest paid – cost of living aside – Education Next's 2018 poll found more support for raising overall funding than teacher pay.
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Robert Farrell is known as one of the best Digital Marketing Trainers and Lecturers in Ireland.
We learn by doing, by putting our ideas into practice and delivering results. This is at the heart of how Robert Farrell approaches training. He creates customer training programs for small-medium sized organisations who want to use technology to improve their operations.
He has designed and delivered Digital Marketing training programs with HubSpot, the Digital Marketing Institute, Dublin Business School, National College of Ireland, IBAT, the British Academy of Digital Marketing and the Irish Computer Society.
His main expertise lies in Digital Marketing Strategy, the Inbound Methodology, Content Marketing and Digital Disruption. He has delivered a range of programs from afternoon workshops to full MBA programmes in Ireland and London.
Robert has a deep connection with the marketing industry and is a member of the judging panel for the Spider Awards, Digital Media Awards and the Education awards. He was also shortlisted for the Net Visionary Awards in 2017.
Additionally, Robert is frequently seen on the conference circuit including the Dublin Tech Summit, 3XE Digital, Sales & Marketing Summit, Tech Connect and FutureScope. His past topics include Social Media Marketing, Virtual Reality Marketing, Digital Disruption and Technology Entrepreneurship.
Discuss Content Eco-system at Digital Transformation Summit 2019
On 13th June, Robert Farrell is participating as a Keynote Speaker at DLR’s Digital Transformation Summit in Royal Marine, Dun Laoghaire.
He will be discussing how organisations like HubSpot create a content ecosystem that attracts visitors to their website, engages them and ultimately converts them into customers. The topic of his presentation is ‘Creating a content eco-system to generate prospects and serve customers’.
He will explain how content can be a way of providing resources that will allow customers to self-serve their queries, content can also be used to train staff and build brand eminence.
Come along on 13th June, to learn how organisations can gain new customers, reduce costs and gain organisations efficiency by creating a content eco-system to save multiple audiences.
The key takeaways from his presentation will be:
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Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage
A Tribe Among the Trees:
By Jack Donovan
Ex: http://www.counter-currents.com
The Forest Passage [2]
Translated by Thomas Friese
New York: Telos Press, 2013
We all live in deserts.
Urban deserts. Suburban deserts. Even in rural areas it is difficult to escape the commercially refined silicates of mechanized and meaningless modernity that blow over and bury the fossilized remains of dead gods and old ways. The desert — The Nothing [3] — grows and obscures and stifles all.
Describing the terrorized boredom of modern men, Ernst Jünger, quoting Nietzsche, warns: “woe to him in whom deserts hide.”
Jünger was writing in the aftermath of World War II about the chafing of his own individualism against the bureaucratic machine of Nazi Germany, and The Forest Passage makes mention of dictatorships. But, with uncanny foresight, he predicted our Twenty-First Century predicament, from the pointlessness of voting to near-constant surveillance and the neurotic need to know the news numerous times throughout the day. Jünger prophesied our states that make technicians into priests, while paving over institutions, like churches, which facilitate an inner spiritual life that the secular state is unable to control. That which cannot be counted, measured, or taxed cannot be permitted. This unquantifiable grain of existence that survives beyond the reach of the mechanized world is what Jünger identifies as freedom, and woe to him who knows only the desert, “woe to him who carries within not one cell of that primal substance that ensures fertility, again and again.”
Jünger’s forest is a spiritual oasis. It is not in the desert, but within it. The forest is everywhere — in the desert, in the bush, and in the enemy’s’ own backcountry — like an invisible layer of transcendent humanity and creative life energy that is seen only by those who choose to see it.
. . . it is essential to know that every man is immortal and that there is eternal life in him, an unexplored and yet inhabited land, which, though he himself may deny its existence, no timely power can take from him.
He doesn’t reference it directly, but one wonders if the forest is some kind of allusion to the Garden of Eden — some memory of pure, sinless and untainted man living in harmony with nature. Throughout the book, Jünger seems to be equating pure, primal human morality with Christ-like morality — which will seem an obvious error to everyone who is not a Christian, and a natural fact to anyone who is. The forest rebel — one who takes the forest passage — is so morally certain that, “he allows no superior power to dictate the law to him, neither through propaganda nor force.” This is somewhat problematic, because this kind of individualism-at-all-costs makes tribal life impossible, and therefore makes a new, better society impossible. Without hope for a better society and the ability to integrate into it and trust one’s peers, the forest rebel is just raging against the machine, and seems like a mere contrarian or malcontent.
The Christian morality of The Forest Passage is an integral part of it, but Jünger’s conception of it is so amorphous that it often seems Jungian or similar to the work of Joseph Campbell — it’s as if he’s superimposing Christian morality on all myths.
This brings me to my favorite line in the book, which opens up a point of entry for those of us who see a somewhat different forest: “Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”
If we use the forest as a code for the timeless world of myth that exists in us, and choose to perceive it as being alive in something as cold and dead as shopping mall parking lot or a government building, we can experience life differently.
In a recent interview I did with Paul Waggener from the Wolves of Vinland [4], he said that Germanic mysticism was his life, and that the aim of ritual was to plant a seed that spreads out like the branches of a tree and affects every aspect of one’s life, until everything becomes ritual. One could say that a man who achieves this state of being is living in the forest, despite the desert.
The work of spiritual revolt in the desert, of keeping the forest alive and planting seeds of it in the sidewalk cracks of the mechanized world is what Jünger referred to as “the forest passage.”
In old Iceland, Jünger wrote, “A forest passage followed a banishment; through this action a man declared his will to self-affirmation from his own resources.” A man on the forest passage “‘takes the banishment in stride” and becomes his own warrior, physician, judge and priest.
Jünger warned forest rebels away from the controlled, predictable and pointless forms of rebellion, like voting “no,” and offered that a man scrawling “no” on a wall would have a greater impact on the minds of those around him. Spreading dissenting and destructive ideas and information can have a greater impact than making an official gesture that can be easily tracked, quantified and punished.
One can never know the true motives for the sniping of anonymous online characters today, and it is difficult to gauge their sincerity because they are ultimately accountable only to themselves and can easily change positions or be complete hypocrites. However, it is possible and likely that some are truly sincere and have chosen the forest passage because it allows them to do greater harm to the desert forces. Those who fund the operations of more public figures and organizations are also examples, as they must remain covert to continue to generate the income that they funnel into insurgent operations.
Jünger did understand that change would not come from ideas alone, and that action would also be necessary. In several passages, he predicted the necessity of service-disrupting fourth generation warfare tactics of the type outlined in John Robb’s Brave New War. The forest rebel,
. . . conducts his little war along the railway tracks and supply routes, he threatens bridges, communication lines, and depots. His presence wears on the enemy’s resources, forces them to multiply their posts. The forest rebel takes care of reconnaissance, sabotage, dissemination of information in the population.
However, Jünger wanted to be clear that while the forest rebel does not fight “according to martial law,” he does not fight like a bandit. He wasn’t clear what the difference is between a bandit and a rebel, and distinctions like this seem like little more than moral posturing. The controlled masses will see the actions of any forest rebel the way they see the acts of terrorists and criminals. After all, he saw how fragile our status as non-criminals was and would be, and wrote:
None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.
This is one of the great strengths of The Forest Passage, and a good reason to read and contemplate it. Any of us could be forced into a position — such as prison — where solitary and spiritual revolt is the only form of revolt left available to us. Understanding the nature of power and the nature of the modern bureaucratic systems means understanding that you will receive no justice from the system, and that you may find yourself completely alone.
The resistance of the forest rebel is absolute: he knows no neutrality, no pardon, no fortress confinement. He does not expect the enemy to listen to arguments, let alone act chivalrously. He knows that the death penalty will not be waived for him. The forest rebel comes to learn a new solitude . . .
Like any prisoner of war who knows he will not be rescued, he is ultimately alone with his honor.
However useful, this focus on solitude and the absolute moral authority of the individual requires some sort of caveat. This kind of alienation and absolute individualism limits human connections and makes human relationships disposable. It is a product of and the way of the desert. It is the way of the inveterate consumer who chooses one identity today and another tomorrow, fearful of the risks associated with true commitment to other people.
The forest passage is a strategy for desperate and fearful times. It is a tool for the prisoner, whether behind bars, or behind a desk typing with a camera over his shoulder and some algorithmic authoritarian tagging and monitoring his keystrokes.
Any vision of a forest worth preserving must include a reconnection not only with myth, but with men. The end must be to find a tribe among the trees, or the forest itself, however magical, will forever be a lonely and fearful place, and it will offer little comfort from the encroaching desert.
URL to article: http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/06/a-tribe-among-the-trees/
[1] Image: http://www.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ForestPassage.jpg
[2] The Forest Passage: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0914386492/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0914386492&linkCode=as2&tag=countecurrenp-20&linkId=OFSI2UZ5WKZGALOV
[3] The Nothing: http://www.amren.com/features/2014/05/identity-defies-the-global-marketplace/
[4] In a recent interview I did with Paul Waggener from the Wolves of Vinland: http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2014/06/start-the-world-podcast-episode7-the-wolves-of-vinland/
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4-H Summer Camp Explore
4-H Safety Programs, Health and Wellness, STEM – Science Technology Engineering and Math, Youth Projects
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 7:00am
Announcer: Farm and Family is a production of the Mississippi State University Extension Service.
Amy Myers: Today we're talking about the 4-H Summer Camp Explore. Hello. I'm Any Myers, and welcome to Farm and Family. Today we're speaking with Christina Meriwether, Mississippi State University Extension agent in Leflore County.
So, Christina, this Summer Camp Explore is hosted by MSU Extension. What is the 4-H Summer Camp Explore?
Christina Meriwether: The 4-H Summer Camp Explore is an overnight camp, July 23rd through the 26th, at Lake Tiak O'Khata. It offers participants many fun and exciting opportunities to experience nature and recreation, outdoor survival, first aid, and archery and firearm disciplines in a safe environment, of course.
Amy Myers: Okay. So, who comes to the 4-H Summer Camp Explore?
Christina Meriwether: It's for junior 4-H members ages 8-13, as their age as of January 1st.
Amy Myers: Okay, so tell me. What will they learn at this camp?
Christina Meriwether: There are four hands-on learning tracks that the campers will participate in. There's the Outdoor Expressive Arts, Health and Safety, and STEM. In the Outdoor track, they'll learn tree ID, animal and fish ID, kayaking, water seining, and much more. The Health and Safety track will include archery and air rifles, basic first aid, and survival skills. In the Expressive Arts track, it will include drama and communications. The Choctaw Indians will come over and do heritage activities. And in the STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics track, we'll include robotics and programming with an entomology theme. There will also be a volunteer service component that will include disaster preparedness and recycling. The campers will also have opportunities to go swimming and participate in the Spirit award contest and in team-building activities and games.
Amy Myers: What exactly is water seining?
Christina Meriwether: It's where they catch fish and identify the individual fish, look at their health and the number of fish that they caught, and discuss other aquatic ideas and things.
Amy Myers: Okay. That sounds like a lot of fun. Is there anything else you want to add about the 4-H Summer Camp Explore?
Christina Meriwether: Registration is available through your respective Mississippi State University County Extension office, and the deadline is Friday, July 5th. It does cost $200.00 and includes lodging, meals and snacks, activities, and a T-shirt.
For more information, you can contact me, Christina Meriwether, at 662-453-6803, or cav4@msstate.edu. If you don't know how to find your MSU County Extension office, simply go to extension.msstate.edu, and click on "County Offices." Or, google Mississippi State University Extension County Offices.
Amy Myers: So, this summer camp will be chaperoned and well-supervised, right?
Christina Meriwether: Yes, by about 25 Extension agents.
Amy Myers: When and where will the 4-H Summer Camp Explore be held, and where can we go for more information, or to register?
Christina Meriwether: The 4-H Summer Camp Explore will be held July 23rd through the 26th at Lake Tiak O'Khata in Louisville, Mississippi.
Again, for more information you can contact Christina Meriwether at 662-453-6803, or email me at cav4@msstate.edu. Also, you can look for North Mississippi 4-H Summer Camp Explore on Extension's calendar. Just go to extension.msstate.edu and click on "Calendars."
Amy Myers: Thank you so much, Christina. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Today we've been speaking with Christina Meriwether at Mississippi State University Extension, Leflore County agent. I'm Amy Myers, and this has been Farm and Family. Have a great day.
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Fatal Cure / The Wrong House / Red Ink / Having Our Say (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, #214)
Robin Cook Amy Hill Hearth CarolWallace Greg Dinallo Sarah L. Delany
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Fatal Cure by Robin CookA small haspital in a quiet New England town just the place you d expect to find good old fashioned medical care, down home values, and the up to date version of a country doctor.It s the last place you d expect to find what young physicians David and Angela Wilson did They d come for the simple lifestyle, to give their daughter, Nikki, a fight Fatal Cure by Robin CookA small haspital in a quiet New England town just the place you d expect to find good old fashioned medical care, down home values, and the up to date version of a country doctor.It s the last place you d expect to find what young physicians David and Angela Wilson did They d come for the simple lifestyle, to give their daughter, Nikki, a fighting chance against life threatening cystic fibrosis and to be good doctors.But for some unexplained reason patients at Bartlet Community Hospital are dying at an alarming rate And not from the illnesses they ve been admitted for The Wrong House by Carol McD WallaceFrances Drummond has retirement all figured out She and her husband will by a quaint little cottage in Connecticut She ll tend the garden He ll restore the parquet floors And they ll be close enough to New York so their grown children will be har pressed for excuses not to visit.A rosy vision that unfortunately is not to be For a monumental mishap, a case of unforgivable bumbling, is about to play a mean trick on Frances And while the rest of the world might laugh it off, Frances, most assuredly, is not amused Red Ink by Greg DinalloSkilduggery was so easy in the old Soviet Union There were the corrupt party officials, the dissidents, the black marketeers Working the angles, a streetwise newspaperman like Nikolai Katkov could get by nicely.But now it s all changed, Ex KGB assassins are looking over their shoulders A ruthless new criminal class is on the rise Freedom and the profit motive have turned modern day Moscow into a deadly free for all It s a dangerous time for anyone even the best reporter to go digging up a story Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years with Amy Hill HearthReaching the venerable age of a hundred plus is rare But centenarian sisters Sadie and Bessie Delany are two rare individuals Born into the poverty of the post Civil War South, the Delany girls not only beat the odds, they made history.Their story is inspiring But be advised when the Delany sisters speak out, the feather fly Seems that advanced years bring special privileges amoung them, the right to have your say Bessie and Sadie Delany five themselves so completely to the reader it s as if you re in the home of these intelligent, humorous women listening to the mtalk over dinner Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Librarian Note Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.Dr Robin Cook born May 4, 1940 in New York City, New York is an American doctor novelist who writes about medicine, biotechnology, and topics affecting public health.He is best known for being the author who created the medical thriller genre by combining medical writing with the thriller genre of writing His books have been bestsellers on the New York Times Bestseller List with several at 1 A number of his books have also been featured in Reader s Digest Many were also featured in the Literary Guild Many have been made into motion pictures.Cook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medicine He finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard that included general surgery and ophthalmology He divides his time between homes in Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts where he lives with his wife Jean He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary He has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce a succession of bestselling books Cook s medical thrillers are designed, in part, to make the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing ethical conundrums.Cook got a taste of the larger world when the Cousteau Society recruited him to run its blood gas lab in the South of France while he was in medical school Intrigued by diving, he later called on a connection he made through Jacques Cousteau to become an aquanaut with the US Navy Sealab when he was drafted in the 60 s During his navy career he served on a nuclear submarine for a seventy five day stay underwater where he wrote his first book 1 Cook was a private member of the Woodrow Wilson Center s Board of Trustees, appointed to a six year term by the President George W Bush 2 edit Doctor NovelistDr Cook s profession as a doctor has provided him with ideas and background for many of his novels In each of his novels, he strives to write about the issues at the forefront of current medical practice.To date, he has explored issues such as organ donation, genetic engineering,fertility treatment, medical research funding, managed care, medical malpractice, drug research, drug pricing, specialty hospitals, stem cells, and organ transplantation 3 Dr Cook has been remarked to have an uncanny ability to anticipate national controversy In an interview with Dr.Cook, Stephen McDonald talked to him about his novel Shock Cook admits the timing of Shock was fortuitous I suppose that you could say that it s the most like Coma in that it deals with an issue that everybody seems to be concerned about, he says, I wrote this book to address the stem cell issue, which the public really doesn t know much about Besides entertaining readers, my main goal is to get people interested in some of these issues, because it s the public that ultimately really should decide which way we ought to go in something as that has enormous potential for treating disease and disability but touches up against the ethically problematic abortion issue 4 Keeping his lab coat handy helps him turn our fear of doctors into bestsellers I joke that if my books stop selling, I can always fall back on brain surgery, he says But I am still very interested in being a doctor If I had to do it over again, I would still study medicine I think of myself as a doctor who writes, rather than a writer who happens to be a doctor After 35 books,he has come up with a diagnosis to explain why his medical thrillers remain so popular The main reason is, we all realize we are at risk We re all going to be patients sometime, he says You can write about great white sharks or haunted houses, and you can say I m not going into the ocean or I m not going in haunted houses, but you can t say you re n
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Your search skills are impressive. Gee, time does fly.
Sorry, I temporarily lost sight of the replacing the RTD2660 angle.
Yeah, the P2 could be a nice replacement for the P1 in my application with a lot more overall power, especially graphically. And the DAC's would eliminate the resistor DAC's I currently use (even though I just use one resistor per channel), opening up a spectrum of colors.
I've asked myself about the idea of one P2 cog being able to handle four screens before, freeing up three cogs. The main thing that limited the P1 was getting data from the HUB, but things should move much faster on the P2 (and things would scream if things can be kept in step with the streamer).
But what I'm unsure of is the internal connection of the DACs. While there are 64 smart pins, there's only 8 sets of DAC's. In a prior design of the P2, I think one could choose which DAC set to connect with, and that allowed for one cog to potentially connect with more than one DAC (though probably not in the same instruction). But looking at a diagram for the latest architecture, I'm not sure that such is still the case. It looks like a cog is limited to one DAC. And there's no inter-cog communication channels, so I'm not sure how one would break out of that. But maybe I'm wrong about all that, as I may be reading in too much to the system architecture diagrams I've seen. Maybe things didn't change after all. I must confess that, in order to make progress with my project, I've taken to doing some skim reading of that P2 forum over the last year or so.
The EFM8LB1 seems interesting from a cursory look at this datasheet. It might be over my head, though, even with an extended look. And it's another thing to program. Yikes! I wonder if those DAC's can operate at video speeds. And I'm not sure how to get data to them, and it seems like the chip count is getting up there with the MUX's. Also, offhand, I'm not seeing how that simplifies cabling. If you say it does, it does, but the light hasn't turned on for me. All I know is that I eventually have to connect to 50-pin flex cables with the present LCD's. And are you talking about the EFM8LB1 in connection with the P1 or the P2? If I moved the project to the P2, I likely wouldn't want to limit things to "just" text displays.
As for baud rates, if using the P1 (and maybe even the P2), I think full screen refresh rates of around a tenth of a second (100ms) are acceptable, perhaps even a bit slower. I like for the screens to basically change in a blink of an eye from screen to screen, but I don't need video rates. As for planes, I currently don't use any sprites or cursors, but if something could be overlaid, so much the better. With a P2, ideally, it would be nice to support popup windows that could truly overlay the background without blanking stuff out around the edges, but I figured that would be more doable with off-chip memory. With the P1, I can certainly get by without that.
If moving to the P2, character-based displays are simpler and one could buffer many different screens; however, using 2 bpp bitmapped displays would allow maximum flexibility for centering text horizontally and vertically and for simple boxes without having to resort to tricks with a tile-map setup. But that may be looking ahead way too far at this point. It's fun to think about, though.
Maybe I can check out that sound chip later. I realize that people say that the TDA7052A is "long in the tooth," but it seems to get the job done for my current purposes. But I've just used it for simple beeps or buzzes. And I haven't thrown a sound cog of some kind at it.
Thanks for your comments. While I wasn't able to keep up with all your ideas this time, such as for the cabling, I do appreciate them. BTW, I'll be offline for 10 hours or so.
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Yikes! I wonder if those DAC's can operate at video speeds. And I'm not sure how to get data to them, and it seems like the chip count is getting up there with the MUX's.
The DACs have a slew-limit, so I've found you can INC and DEC at full speed (LSB at 36MHz) but you cannot do a 50% step.
So, not enough for video, but good enough for low-distortion Sine/triangle wave function generator.
Data from P1 to the 4 x EFM8LB1 would be via 4 separate serial links. (200k+baud)
The MUX's are quite cheap, ~ 15c, and easy to handle, and they allow a decent 8bpp.
And are you talking about the EFM8LB1 in connection with the P1 or the P2? If I moved the project to the P2, I likely wouldn't want to limit things to "just" text displays.
The EFM8LB1 pairs better with the P1, as it can manage 16x32 font and do a full 50x15 chars with a 8bpp palette, but not much more.
It's easiest to use what you already have that works, but if you found you needed to bump chars from 40 to 50, or more colours, or cannot get RTD2660, or hit enough volumes you are motivated to cost-down a bit, the EFM8LB1 may be viable.
Once you dropped in a P2 master, the EFM8LB1 is not keeping up with what a P2 could manage, so there I think P2's on video are better... which brings us to :
Also, offhand, I'm not seeing how that simplifies cabling. If you say it does, it does, but the light hasn't turned on for me.
The cabling comments relate to P2's as RGB drivers, not so much to EFM8LB1 as being simpler. EFM8LB1 has a uart link, which is slightly fewer wires than HV(RBGx4).
With P2, that has enough horsepower to drive all 4 x 50 pin connectors, to some useful bpp, but how to design a PCB that easily accepts 4 cables ?
I guess a quite large PCB with a connector on each edge might work, tho it's nice to secure that connection during assembly and transit ?
Not sure about 1 P2 COG driving 4 displays, I may have been unclear above, I was meaning 1 COG per display, ie as you do now. I'd do the 1/COG first, then see if 2/ or 4/ was comfortable.
Whether the whole shebang (P1 and 4 display drivers ) could swallow into just 1 P2 likely depends on the Pin budget, and the bpp you want. ~11 bpp (x4) would equate to P1 pins.
On frame rates for SW RGB : I did find an other forum comment that claimed 1MHz min on LCD, but I'm not sure how believable that is. That's ~10Hz frame on the smaller TFT display they were talking about.
I found a couple of 480x272 data sheets that mentioned 5MHz min, 9MHz typ, which maps to a min frame rate of ~ 25Hz, sounds more plausible.
It may be that the lower limit is more related to human eye effects, as movies are projected at 24 fps, so it's likely best to try to keep above that.
On that basis, the ~42Hz an EFM8LB1 can get, is sounding like it could be ok.
Okay, perhaps the light is starting to dawn. The four EFM8LB1's would replace the four RTD2660's. The reason is to elimiate the driver boards to reduce cost and maybe complexity, as well as bump up the the number of colors.
So, looking at the EFM8LB1's datasheet, I'm seeing a lot of FLASH but not much RAM. Thus your idea would use the FLASH to store a character set (font) similar to the one that's built in to the Prop. For example, 256 16x32-bit (64 byte) characters would take up 16KB (and the EFM8LB1 datasheet says it has up to 64KB).
Then I guess you're proposing using much of the 4+ KB of RAM in the EFM8LB1 to buffer one or two screens worth of characters. A 40 char x 15 line screen at 2 bytes/char (1 for ASCII and 1 for a fg/bg color pair) would need 1200 bytes, and a screen with 50-character lines would need 1500 bytes. Perhaps two screens be stored or a screen with two planes.
And apparently your suggesting using part of the EFM8LB1's up to 29 I/O pins to directly drive the LCD, no DAC's required. And even if it had video DAC's, we'd be back to needing driver boards, wouldn't we. Sorry for the confusion on my part with my own project. It's sounds a bit similar to using 5 Props, except that the EFM8LB1's are, say, one-fifth the cost and they don't need EEPROM's or external crystals. The solution might also use less power. Am I getting things right, or have I walked from one cloud into another?
For the current console form-factor, such a solution would work best by putting the main PCB back in the head (including the SD card socket). That's how my older prototypes worked. The PCB size was 15x15 cm, with some room to spare around the edges. I think the space occuppied by the 12-pin and 4-pin PH 2.0 connectors that were (and still are) used to connect up with the driver boards would be enough for the flex connectors for the screens. But I'm not sure about the rest of the chips. I guess the Prop might have to switch to the QFP package for that to work (and maybe things could be an all SMD one-sided design).
Of course, there would still be the matter of driving the backlights of the LCD panels.
As for a single P2 solution, using four cogs to drive four VGA driver boards seems attractive. Firstly, I don't think that one cog can connect with more than one DAC. And secondly, using a whole cog potentially allows for more graphical effects than trying to drive multiple displays with one cog. So, my apologies for driving us down that road.
Then one could use a five-P2 solution, but that would be as expensive as using VGA driver boards and wouldn't take advantage of the DAC's. And a single P2 would not pair well with four EFM8LB1's because it would unnecessarily limit things to text.
As for the frame rates of LCD's, I recall that Rayman has driven them at rates well below standard video rates. I forget the exact numbers, but perhaps something like 15 fps or lower. It almost for sure depends on the panel and the size may be a factor. Also, I don't know if doing so long term can cause any damage. Hopefully, its still fast enough to keep the liquid crysals happy (not degrade them). But I guess something like that would have to be tested for many hours (days?) with a specific setup (the EFM8LB1) and panel (like the AT070TN90). Alternately, perhaps relevant research is already available.
Yup, pretty much nailed it
There are some minor variants possible around the details of fg/bg, but the rest is 100%.
With the simplest 1-byte fg/bg, as you listed above, that gives 4bits each, and needs a single So16 mux, ... but is only 16 colours.
It a minor speed penalty to have that fg.bg byte instead index a palette, which has a pair of bytes for 8b fg and 8b bg, (512 added total) and uses 2 ports on the LB1 and now 2 MUX's, but bumps to 256 colours.
I've confirmed the SPI port has 3 byte deep buffering (1 x shifter + 2 fifos), so that helps simplify code. (16 w font can simply load 2 bytes, no polling )
The uart looks to have 2 bytes deep buffer in TX, but RX side is not co-operating, and looks to be single buffered. Data is rather conflicted there, as it suffers from cut/paste-itis - maybe I've missed some RX-fifo enable bit somewhere **
I've confirmed the EFM8UB3 has a 5 deep UART buffer, (1 buffer+4 FIFO) on TX side - that's a 48MHz core, 40k Flash, 2048 XRAM.
** Addit: I changed LB1 code from a read_buf to a poll TI,RI, and that can only accept 2 bytes sent, if phased just before the 2nd byte mid-stop bit. ie it is just single buffered Rx, but can queue 2 on Tx.
Interesting. I'd expect mainly flicker type effects to keep designs away from lower speeds.
David Betz Posts: 13,663
While all of this discussion of how to implement a better version of WordFire with a P2 is interesting, it would also be interesting to hear people talk about the kinds of games this platform might support. I've been thinking of multi-player text adventure games. What other ideas do people have?
Yes, palettes can be a good way to go. Even the video driver for the current console uses a palette that allows for 16 foreground and 16 background colors selected from 64. But the console hardware can only generate 8 colors, so there's no real need for the indirection with it. But it allowed for potentially more colors for a two-screen version where maybe two-bit RGB color channels were used instead of one-bit channels.
As for using the EFM8LB1 or one of its relatives to replace the VGA driver boards, if I had to decide right now, I'd probably say that I fear that it would add more complexity than it's worth. It does add tons of colors, but I feel I'm getting by pretty well with the eight that I have, which, again, allows for dozens of fg/bg pairs. Sure, all things being equal, the more colors the better. But they come at a price of complicating the main board that I'd have to manufacture and test.
Also, I just checked, and I see that I can now get the driver boards for around $8 each (in low volumes), not including shipping, etc. But I figure that using the EFM8LB1 could cost around $2, maybe more, for the chips, support chips and the FFC connectors. So, I'd really only be saving $6 per screen, which amounts to $24 off the BOM, which is not insignificant but may not be enough to justify the change.. Plus that doesn't take into account the backlight circuitry.
Another reason I'm inclined to stay with the driver boards is that they could work with a single P2 version using its DAC's. That allows for a possible upgrade path for the current system by changing out the main board on the bottom. That is, the LCD's and driver boards (with cables), as well as the console housing could all be reused. I don't know how likely it is that one would upgrade, but, if I can keep that door open, I'd like to.
But it is interesting to ponder replacing the driver boards. Now if the microcontrollers that would replace them had, say, an additional 96,000 bytes of RAM at a minimum that could be used as a buffer for 800x480x2bpp, then it would be more tempting to consider them. The reason is that such would allow for placing text anywhere on the screen (to allow centering) and drawing boxes and other graphic elements.
I just feel that the current solution is pretty elegant as is: one Prop driving everything (at least on the main board). And it means only needing to program one controller. It's true that the driver boards are a fly in the ointment, but they're kind of a necessary evil. And with the P2, they would allow for tons of colors using just five pins per screen (assuming no sharing of the HS and VS lines among screens). I know that the P2 has 64 pins, but there still is a need to conserve pins, particularly if adding some kind of external memory chip. And driving four VGA screens eats up 20 pins right off the bat. That's not to say that I wouldn't consider replacing the driver boards with something else in combination with the P2, but there's a good chance that they will still be present (assuming some persistent display technology doesn't come out at a cheap price and make this discussion somewhat moot).
Anyway, it's still interesting to consider other designs that would work with the P1. Maybe I could still be persuaded. Never say never (except when saying "Never say never") is a good rule of thumb. If time and effort were going to be put into a new design, it might be good to look ahead at the P2 or at least to something that can do bit-mapped graphics (or display list stuff). That last sentence reminds me about the EVE line being used with the P1. No, it wouldn't save much money, if any, but it would add quite a bit of graphics flare for the added complexity, making it worth consideration. Then again, the focus of the console isn't on being able to, for example, bounce a hundred balls around on the screen or something like that. But the EVE line can do a lot with fonts and widgets that could be quite useful. But the P2 will be so powerful on its own that additional chips may not be warranted. Well, I can see advantages to having a font chip. That could be very useful. But I haven't done the math (nor do I understand the P2 well enough) to calculate if a font chip (flash chip of some kind) could be accessed fast enough for on-the-fly tiled characters. I presume so, particularly for a quad channel chip like you (jmg) have mentioned in the P2 forum, but I'm not sure. A font chip could store fonts at different sizes, maybe different styles, mono or proportional, and even things like Asian characters, not to mention graphical elements, all good stuff for text games.
Perhaps at this stage, I'd be better off focusing on game development and trying to promote the current console than going back for yet another round at the drawing board. But there's nothing wrong with looking ahead to what might be possible in the future with the P2 or other chips that are (coming) out. But if going the P2 route some day, there would be so much to consider. For example: Should a P2 be on the main board or on a module? Should an external memory chip be used? Should a font chip be used?
@Dave: You're right, of course. I think that there are dozens upon dozens of possibilities. A couple obvious ones are a sentence unscrambling game and a game where one fills in blanks in paragraphs, both of which I touched briefly on in some of the videos. But that's just a couple of obvious examples.
Here's another: Suppose an article was loaded off the SD card, such as a story, a conversation, an explanation and so on. Then maybe the first few words of the first sentence would be displayed to all players. Next, players would type the first character of whatever they thought the next word was, receiving several points when correct or a small penalty otherwise. That next word might be displayed with blanks to tell players how many letters it had to help players guess. Players would then progressively work their way through the article collaboratively but in competition to the end.
Or here's a somewhat similar idea that reminds me of the first electronic game I had, the SIMON game where you repeated the tones of a tone sequence by pushing four buttons (you could play alone or with others). Players would be presented an article (as above) to read through. Perhaps players could take turns even reading the articles aloud. Then the article would disappear and players would need to reconstruct the article by typing the first letter of each word, similar to the way that players had to reconstruct a tone sequence. For this particular game idea, it might actually be best to have players take turns, even though the console in general doesn't require players to take turns. But players would be given a limited time to type a letter (such as 5 seconds) to keep things moving. And play wouldn't end just because one made a mistake, but they just wouldn't get points for mistaken guesses. And maybe they could pass if they were afraid to guess, not sure.
I think that there's lots of good ideas for games for the console that haven't even been considered yet.
I wonder if some kind of adventure game on steroids, so to speak, is possible.
Yes, that's why I've suggested the EFM8LB1 as either the cost down (when volumes justify) or if the present char/colour limits prove too limiting.
Fingers crossed the P2 works first time
... Well, I can see advantages to having a font chip. That could be very useful. But I haven't done the math (nor do I understand the P2 well enough) to calculate if a font chip (flash chip of some kind) could be accessed fast enough for on-the-fly tiled characters. I presume so, particularly for a quad channel chip like you (jmg) have mentioned in the P2 forum, but I'm not sure. A font chip could store fonts at different sizes, maybe different styles, mono or proportional, and even things like Asian characters, not to mention graphical elements, all good stuff for text games.
The external serial chips would need some form of buffering. They have an address preamble overhead that needs many clocks, and that's a high cost for a short strip of pixels.
A full screen soft font buffer, (no repeated fonts), would need 48k Bytes, so that's doable in a P2.
Is there any reason that the P1-based board couldn't be replaced by a P2-based board later on leaving everything else intact? I realize that maybe the driver boards wouldn't be required with the P2 but would they hurt?
David Betz wrote: »
Is there any reason that the P1-based board couldn't be replaced by a P2-based board later on leaving everything else intact?
No, & exactly that was mentioned above.
I realize that maybe the driver boards wouldn't be required with the P2 but would they hurt?
That comes down to pins, and backlight drivers.
The drivers allow analog in, which could nicely use the P2 DACS, and the same loom design.
-or-, you could take 4 FFCs into one P2 board, and drive 4 screens skipping the drivers, but you still need to replace the backlights, and the pin-mapping gets tricky.
In theory, 11 bits per pixel could fit in the pins, but I think the P2 streamer is only binary-sized, giving 8 or 16 as the choices.
Assembling & handling something with 4 FFCs facing in 4 different directions is also a challenge.
Oops, sorry! I didn't read all of the above messages throughly enough. Sounds like a P2 replacement board down the line is possible. That means anyone who buys one of these now can have an upgrade path.
That means anyone who buys one of these now can have an upgrade path.
An upgrade path, you say. Cool! By the way, the check is in the mail.
jmg wrote: »
The external serial chips would need some form of buffering.
Ah, that makes sense. Well, as you say, things could be buffered. However, if no external SRAM/SDRAM chip were present AND the screen buffers used bitmaps instead of tile maps, then memory would be tight.
Powers of two, huh? Good to know.
That's a good point. I can't believe your insight into things! I have to focus a bit to connect an LCD's flex cable to a driver board on a wide-open table. It would be much, much harder inside the confined head of the console with little finger room. Might need tweezers or something to slip them in and pliers to close the locks. Or perhaps the main board could go into the head after the LCD's were connected to it, but that has issues, too. My older prototypes had a hole in the mainboard for cables (keyboards and power) to come up through from the stand below to make assembly easier. But a hole eats a lot of PCB real estate.
Well, I suppose that the upgrade path might actually be that the buyer can make his/her own PCB to replace the P1 one that comes with the WordFire device. I guess there is no guarantee that you will offer an upgrade yourself. Of course, I don't think you've even decided for sure that you'll productize the P1 version have you? I've been thinking a bit more about this and wondering if the Propeller could be coupled with an ARM to run the game logic. The Propeller could handle all of the I/O. That would open up the possibility of significantly more complex game logic and not much more cost since there are very cheap ARM chips around. One problem though might be having Propeller pins available to communicate with the ARM.
It'd be great to offer an upgrade path if I could; that would make the most sense. The problem would be whether I would try to maintain support for the P1 console. My thinking in announcing the P1 console here is that people interested in developing games could at least get started with it. And later they could upgrade if an upgrade became available. But the P1-based console is plenty powerful on its own. Easily hundreds of game could be developed for it that would all fall comfortably within its memory confines.
As for productizing the current console, I hope to do so soon. I spent a lot of money on development recently, so I'm waiting for the project coffers to recover before pressing ahead with an order for screens and so on. Also, I wanted to gauge if any interest existed before ordering a bunch of parts that I might get stuck with. Again, I think this project would be better launched to a wider audience on a crowd-funding site, but I was hopeful that P1 enthusiasts would show interest first to get the ball rolling in terms of game development. And if the console did move to the P2, games could be ported over. For many word games, developing the content can take much longer than writing the game engine. But a lot of other games are also possible that don't involve generating content.
At one time, I thought about combining the Prop with a chip with a lot of RAM that had BASIC in FLASH (the name escapes me), but I found that I could do practically all of the main kinds of games that I'm most interested in with just the 32KB Prop. And I don't think anyone will ever need more than 640K in a desktop computer. Just kidding about that, but, seriously, the SPIN bytecodes are really efficient for packing in a lot of logic. Of course, graphics eat memory, as well as long text strings, but most of the text for the games developed so far comes off the SD card.
Having said that, as mentioned above I believe, I did do a two-Prop version, where one Prop handled game logic and the other handled the screens. That worked fine. The game logic Prop sent display commands to the second Prop over a single pin. There was a reverse channel (pin) for confirmations or whatever, but I never used it. But I prefer the one-Prop solution, as doing graphics is more direct and it's more elegant/less complicated. But if an ARM chip (such as in a Raspi) were used (or that chip that ran BASIC), it could be more worth doing (than using a second Prop) because those chips have more resources in terms of memory and language support to bring to bear. Anyway, I like programming games in SPIN, other than perhaps the limited built-in string handling.
Dave: Can the console be upgraded to the P2?
Jim: Why yes, Dave, I mean complete stranger to me. I'm glad you asked.
Dave: That's wonderful! You've really thought ahead.
Jim: Thanks, stranger. By the way, see me after the presentation; I have something for you.
It will take some working code examples by Chip to fully flesh out what the streamer + LUT can, and cannot do, when connected to TFT LCD displays.
That's a good point. I can't believe your insight into things! ...
That's just my inbuilt laziness at work, I try to avoid tricky mechanicals or wiring, to the point where another MCU might be added to save some wires.
With the smallest MCUs now sub 30c, that's less than the cost of a single wire in a typical loom, and less than many detect/micro switches...
FYI : As an update to the EFM8LB1 approach, I did manage to improve the UART handling, as that 200k was sounding a bit low...
By reserve of a single palette index (eg 00H) as a repeat/keep code, one line of code can test that, and skip the 9 lines of palette update, and instead use those 9 lines to check/read a uart byte into a buffer, to be read during flyback times.
Peak rate is then 1 char/16 pixels of stable FG.BG info, so a say 50% FG.BG change rate, could support > 500kBytes/s or 5MBd.
The MCU is unlikely to be able to process at that 5MBd, but 200k baud is a much lower number.. - now means UART read is no longer a bottle neck & also lowers jitter impact (in case that matters)
JD Posts: 553
This is a great invention and game; Fantastic job. I like the games, I can see this could get really fun with a small group or even solo. It would be cool to see a Boggle type game created. I imagine this could be used for learning a new language as well; has anyone adapted it to use another language?
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Your breadth of expertise is mind boggling. First, I discovered that you had intimate knowledge of IC fabrication. But I figured that you wouldn't know applications that well. Then I came to know that you knew chip families, programming and even things like the particulars of LCD displays. What planet are you from? All I know is that you use British spellings. Anyway, your chip strategy makes sense, but that's partly because you have experience with so many kinds of microcontrollers. For a hobbyist like myself, there's a learning curve to overcome when adding a new chip. Another thing is that you appear to be used to working with huge volumes, where a lower BOM helps to get to an acceptable price point.
I figured, despite having rather terse "manual" describing the chip/instructions. Anyway, that means that it would likely be easier for mere mortals to stick to the DAC's rather than synchronize with the streamer to drive LCD pins directly, unless, of course, someone blazes a trail. Also, DAC's save pins. But never say never.
As an update to the EFM8LB1 approach, I did manage to improve the UART handling, as that 200k was sounding a bit low...
Are you coding in your head mostly, or have you tried something out on a real EFM8LB1? Perhaps for you theory and practice are the same thing.
Peak rate is then 1 char/16 pixels of stable FG.BG info, so a say 50% FG.BG change rate,
Yes, that sounds plenty fast for text. Does that "1 char/16 pixels" refer to just one scan line of a character? If so, then it would seem that the fg/bg colors could change for every character (and maybe even from scanline to scanline within a single character, not that that's needed). That's way more than is generally needed for text, as, for example, a word (such as five adjacent characters) would almost always be rendered in the same fg/bg colors. The exception might be a cursor. And there are some games (possibly not word games) where it would be nice to be able to regularly change the fg/bg color pairs of adjacent characters. Your skip code sounds like it really increased the throughput. Kind of reminds me of the skip codes that infrared remote control protocols use.
[That] now means UART read is no longer a bottle neck & also lowers jitter impact
Does that refer to potential "jitter" on the LCD screens similar to shimmying or to "jitter" with respect to updating the characters/colors in the buffer that might be noticeable to viewers? We definitely wouldn't want text to shimmy like it sometimes does on some composite displays.
The buffer depth tests noted above were done on a real EFM8LB1, and given all the data waffle about FIFOs I was dissappointed to see they have only 1-deep RX side handling. (perhaps an errata is why ?)
The timing, I run in a simulator, which is an (appx) guide, and the inner loop is not large (of course) because it needs to be fast.
All fits on one editor screen Currently 69 bytes and 46/53/55 clocks for the 3 possible code forks - it needs to be under ~64+4? to fit inside the time to send 16b at SysCLK/4 SPI speed (18MHz).
Yes, that sounds plenty fast for text. Does that "1 char/16 pixels" refer to just one scan line of a character? If so, then it would seem that the fg/bg colors could change for every character (and maybe even from scanline to scanline within a single character, not that that's needed). That's way more than is generally needed for text, as, for example, a word (such as five adjacent characters) would almost always be rendered in the same fg/bg colors. The exception might be a cursor. And there are some games (possibly not word games) where it would be nice to be able to regularly change the fg/bg color pairs of adjacent characters. Your skip code sounds like it really increased the throughput. Kind of reminds me of the skip codes that infrared remote control protocols use.[/quote]
As you say, it is more common to have whole words the same colour.
Yes, you can change colours on every single char, if you need to, but if you do that across the whole line (rare) you drop the possible extra RX check slots. There is still flyback time to check, so even that is not drop-dead.
LCD screens have their own clock, so they should be immune to those RC type edge effects.
The jitter that is not spec'd on the LCD data, is from one clk to the next, but would only be an issue if the LCDs had a PLL on board, in their driver chips and I think they do not do that. Data I have found shows a simple long shift register.
I did trial an EFM8LB1 driving an Analog Monitor a while back, and the RC oscillator was not quite up to it. It all worked, and actually looked better on highest resolution monitors, but smaller monitors with lower resolution eg (800x480) have more coarse jumps, so you notice that more. (likely your 'shimmy').
That effect is the RC oscillator jitter 'beating' with the sync'd sampling clock. Needs an external oscillator for that.
@jmg: That's certainly well beyond theoretical, then. Theory is great, but the devil is often in the details. So the 1-deep RX instead of 3-deep wasn't a deal breaker, it seems. It's nice that you got things down to a tight loop. As for shimmer, it seems that things would be rock solid on a raw LCD panel as compared to the analog monitor you've tried in the past, even though it mostly worked.
@David: You perhaps have already surmised that I was trying to thank you for sort of setting me up to spike the ball, whether intentionally or not with your comments about there being an "upgrade path" that could make the current console even more attractive. I've appreciated your ideas/interest over the course of this thread.
JD wrote: »
I can see this could get really fun with a small group or even solo.
Thanks for the encouragement. That's what I was hoping to achieve. Of course, many more games are needed, but at least it's a start.
Is the schematic available? I didn't find it on your web site.
No. I did a schematic for a prior version (my first and only schematic using DipTrace). But I haven't updated it yet. One can basically derive most of the schematic by checking the Docs section of the website about how the video screens and keyboards are wired and by looking at the PCB images. Let me know if you have questions about specific pins.
You could publish a net-list style doc, that lists what each P1 pin connects to. That would help those looking to roll their own games ?
On the LCD side, I notice Mouser etc have some new displays
MOP-TFT800480-50A-BLM-TPN - this seems to need just a single 3v3 (200mA) with all other supplies derived on-panel ? - and 18.6V @ 40mA LED
There is also
EVE2-50A-BLM-TPN - that has the EVE2 included
Prices are maybe not low enough yet, but it does give a way to investigate EVE2 on a more easily managed panel ?
DaveJenson Posts: 264
When I first saw this thread, I thought it might make a good foreign language training device. Maybe vocabulary tests. Or match the native word to the foreign meaning or vice versa.
@jmg: Yes, a net list is as informative as a schematic. I may release that later. Thanks for the LCD links. I'm always interested in new developments in the display industry. The offerings are expensive, prohibitively so in my case, but as you say, prices could decline. Based on the first link, even prices for QTY 200 are currently much more expensive than what I pay for an LCD+driver-board combination in QTY 1. And even with QTY 200 pricing, that would add around $50 to the cost of the console, which is already up there. But it's nice that some displays generate their own voltages. If memory serves correctly, the one that I use needs four different voltages. I recall coming across an IC chip that can generate such multiple voltages, but I've never used it (of course, it needs some passives).
@DaveJenson: Thanks for your feedback. it likely could be used for foreign language learning, particularly if it were used in a language lab where more than one user could use it at a time (otherwise, a tablet or smart phone or PC could suffice). As it stands now, the game console uses the built-in Propeller font, so it's basically limited to whatever languages can be written in that font, at least without resorting to tricks. And the games that have been written so far are really for native English speakers. For example, Things People Say - Level 3 is really aimed at native speakers that are teenagers or adults. However, I'd like to make a Level 0 or 1 version that might be useful for non-native speakers of English and also for young native speakers. It's fun to create content, but it does take a lot of time.
Where do you get your inexpensive LCD and driver?
@David: I've ordered things mainly through suppliers in China, surprise, surprise. Since you asked about my sourcing, the specific website that I've used the most is Taobao. Suppliers on there tend to come and go, but it can be a good source. As you might expect, communication can sometimes be a problem, but many vendors in China are willing to use some English. Having said that, the site caters mainly to people in China (as will be abundantly clear when visitors are confronted with a Chinese interface), but it can be used by people abroad (Google Translate's rough translations sometimes come in handy). For folks outside China, it's necessary to set up a way of paying. Generally, that means working through a "middleman" that handles the final payment in China for a modest fee. I don't have any specific recommendations about the best way to pay (things periodically change), but there are videos on YouTube that explain various ways one can set that up. Things on Taobao are often in a state of flux, as their policies and website have changed several times over the years, but I think things are generally improving and overall I'm impressed with the site. Of course, there are thousands of vendors on there, just like on EBAY, so Taobao can't really vet them all. It's easy for sketchy vendors to set up business credentials in China and there were some cases of fraudsters on Taobao in the news a few years back that prompted Taobao to crack down. Personally, I've never been the victim of fraud on Taobao. I have received some products that didn't work (which I didn't contest), and I've received something different than what I ordered even after chatting with the vendor to try to specifically prevent that from happening, but I've ALWAYS received my orders, and timely so. However, someone in the States could probably save some time and brain cells for a small order by sticking with EBAY or similar, even though prices are sometimes higher. By the way, I'm sorry that it seems like my console costs "an arm and a leg." I've really worked hard to get the costs down and thought that I had gotten the cost down to "just" a leg, ha-ha. But apparently I still have a ways to go, and like we've discussed by PM, I'm thinking about what I could do to reduce costs further, such as by leaving all of the assembly to the end-user. Still, there's far more time and effort that goes into getting a product out the door than what is immediately apparent.
Thanks for the detailed info. Maybe I'll wait for you to get your units ready for production. Sounds like it's easier to do all of this from Taiwan!
Just out of curiosity, how many of these things have you made so far? You show ten of them in pictures on your website. Are those all functioning units?
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Stachys is running July 12th in the Mystic Lake Mile Stakes. he will be ridden by Eddie Martin Jr. He is trained by Michael Biehler and owned by Al and Bill Ulwelling.
Ms. Cruisen' is running July 12th in the Sweet and Sassy Stakes. She will be ridden by Jose Caraballo. She is trained by Michael Charles Aro and owned by John Cantarella.
Palace Malice, Chrome headline HOY future wager: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/2014/07/10/palace-malice-chrome-headline-horse-of-the-year-wager/12471015/
From Horse Racing Radio Network facebook: Sherman - @SharedBelief and @CalChrome have very similar running styles. The two wouldn't meet up until the @BreedersCup Classic.
Simply Confection is running July 19th in a maiden special weight for 2 year old fillies going 5 1/2 furlongs on turf at Ellis Park. She will be ridden by Nathan Chaves. She is trained by William Fires and owned by Xpress Thoroughbreds LLC.
Shared Belief’s win could yield Breeders’ Cup showdown: http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/richard-eng/shared-belief-s-win-could-yield-breeders-cup-showdown
West Virginia Derby Next for Candy Boy: http://www.paulickreport.com/news/thoroughbred-racing/west-virginia-derby-next-for-candy-boy/
SHARED BELIEF
(Last week No. 4) Last year’s 2-year-old champion recently added the Los Alamitos Derby – his first start on dirt – to his list of dominant performances. He would probably be favored in the Travers if he traveled east, but trainer Jerry Hollendorfer plans to keep him in California to face older horses in the Aug. 24 Pacific Classic before a possible match with California Chrome in the Awesome Again. It will be difficult to unseat “Chrome” in the 3-year-old division, but he can’t be counted out just yet.
Dubai Sky is running July 19th in a maiden special weight for 2 year olds going 1 1/16th miles on turf at Saratoga. He will be ridden by Joel Rosario. He is trained by Bill Mott and owned by Besilu Stables.
Kamarius is running July 19th in a maiden special weight for 2 year olds going 1 1/16th miles on turf at Saratoga. He will be ridden by Javier Castellano. He is trained by Tood Pletcher and owned by Wertheimer and Frere.
Selection is running July 19th in a maiden special weight for 2 year olds going 5 furlongs at Del Mar. He will be ridden by Drayden Van Dyke. He is trained by Tom Proctor and owned by Peter Blum.
Manha is running July 20th in the Columbine Stakes. She will be ridden by Russell Vincchrilli. She is trained by Robert Hoffman and owned by David Lebsock.
For all who are Twirling Candy Fans, his full brother, Dubai Sky will make his first start today at Saratoga in Race 1. He is trained by Bill Mott.
Ride N' Reel is running July 24th in a maiden special weight for 2 year olds going 7 1/2 furlongs on turf at Louisiana Downs. He will be ridden by Gerard Melancon. He is trained by Steven Flint and owned by Whispering Oaks Farm LLC.
Sweet Luca is running in the Addison Cammack Handicap. He will be ridden by Carlos Marquez Jr. He is trained by Chris Block and owned by Fortino Inc.
Carta Regina is running is running July 26th in a maiden special weight for 2 year old fillies going 4 1/2 furlongs at Gulfstream. She will be ridden by Hugo Sanchez. She is trained by Antonio Sano and owned by Magic Stables.
Grand Tito is running July 26th in the Eight Miles East Stakes. He will be ridden by Manoel Cruz, He is trained by Antonio Sano and owned by Grupo 7C Racing Stable.
Ms. Cruisen' is running July 26th in the Regret Stakes. She will be ridden by Josiah Francis Hampshire Jr. She is trained by Michael Charles Aro and owned by John Cantarella.
In one of the first route races for two year olds on the turf, Kamarius sat on the outside, pressing the pace setter Luck of the Kitten. Javier Castellano let the colt run coming out of the turn, and they widened the lead for fun, galloping to a six length victory in 1:43.79. Luck of the Kitten held on for second by a neck over The Truth or Else. KAMARIUS (Candy Ride (ARG) - Eximius (GB), by Atticus) is a half to Honeymoon Handicap (G-2) heroine SARACH (Arch). Their dam placed in a French stakes. She’s a half to the dam of Santa Anita Oaks (G-1) winner TURBULENT DECENT and to the dam of Ruffian Stakes (G-1) heroine SWIFT TEMPER. The second dam GORGEOUS won the Ashland (G-1), Hollywood Oaks, Vanity Invitational (G-1) etc. Third dam KAMAR was Champion 3YO Filly in Canada. Kamarius should stretch out to 1 1/8 miles, and may go longer with maturity. He has class and apparently some ability, so watch for him to point towards the Breeders' Cup’ Juvenile Turf.
Candyman E is running July 27th in the Teddy Drone Stakes. He will be ridden by Charles Lopez. He is trained by David Jacobson and owned by Gold Square LLC and David Jacobson.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/86354/candy-boy-among-47-west-virginia-derby-noms
Tapiture, Candy Boy Top Nominees to West Virginia Derby presented by Xpressbet: http://www.paulickreport.com/news/thoroughbred-racing/tapiture-candy-boy-top-47-nominees-to-west-virginia-derby/
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Beer is slipping; what Americans are drinking instead
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business 1575754848000
(CNN) - Beer is in a bear market.
Domestic brews, such as Budweiser, Coors Light and Miller Light, once dominated the US beverage market. But sales are declining while alternatives are spiking. Drinkers think beer is stale, compared to the innovative new brands and creative concepts emerging from other places, so they are craving a variety of other boozy drinks, including premium liquor, canned wine, spiked seltzers and pre-made bottled cocktails.
In 2018, alcohol consumption in the United States dropped for the third-straight year, according to IWSR Drinks Market Analysis. And beer is to blame: Sales of a case of beer declined 1.5%. For the past five years, beer volume in the US declined 2.4%, the firm said.
The trend doesn't appear to be reversing itself. Sales of domestic beer slipped 4.6% between October 2018 and October 2019, according to Nielsen. Microbrew and craft beers are also in a minor slump, down 0.4%, despite Big Beer companies scooping them up left and right (AnheuserBusch just purchased Craft Brew Alliance, which makes Redhook Ale).
But people are still drinking — a lot. Alternative drink categories that both firms tracked have all grown. With traditional beer getting the boot, here's what people are drinking instead.
Spiked seltzer
Perhaps no other alcoholic drinks had more of a breakout year than White Claw because people are seeking drinks lower in sugar and calories. The spiked seltzer brand exploded over the summer and shows no signs of slowing down. Sales cracked $1.2 billion for the previous 52 weeks ending on Oct. 5 — a nearly 200% jump in growth year over year.
Although White Claw remains the United States' top-selling spiked seltzer brand, rival brands have also found success. Truly, which is produced Boston Beer, is also growing in popularity. Analysts at Guggenheim said in a recent report that Truly is driving "more than 100% of the company's retail growth" and is helping the company, which makes Sam Adams lager, beer-proof itself. In contrast, the company's flagship beer, Samuel Adams, sales fell 11% and its 60 Minute IPA fell 14% for a 12-week period ending on Nov. 2, according to Guggenheim.
The spiked seltzer fever has also caught on with Anheuser-Busch InBev. It has two well-established brands, Bon & Viv and the beer-and-fruit flavored Natural Light seltzer, with plans to add a third based off its Bud Light brand. Bud Light Seltzer "falls in a spot in between our other seltzer brands," meaning it will be more expensive than Natural Light and cheaper than Bon & Viv. It's scheduled to launch in early 2020.
Canned wine
The portability and attractive price point of canned wine has helped sparked a new trend. Nielsen reports a 73% jump in sales between October 2018 and October 2019, totaling $54 million.
Seattle-based Precept Wine has helped grow the space with its line of brands, including selling its popular House Wine in a can in 2017. CEO and founder Andrew Browne told CNN Business that the idea came from its customers seeking portable wine for social events, like boating and tailgating.
The company told CNN Business that its canned wines sales are doubling the industry growth average, according to data it obtained from Nielsen. It has expanded its line of canned drinks to a wine spritzer brand, called Day Drinking with country brand Little Big Town.
It's mulling an expansion of flavors, including fruit flavors and sangria. Precept Wine is projecting to sell 300,000 cases of all of its canned wine brands by end of year.
Growth in the sector has also attracted the attention of AB InBev. In July, the brewer bought Babe Wine, a company co-founded by popular Instagram influencer Josh "The Fat Jewish" Ostrovsky and brothers David Oliver Cohen and Tanner Cohen. They are the writers behind the Babe Walker @whitegrlproblem Twitter account.
Babe sells its pinot grigio, rosé and red wines in cans. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed but a source close to the deal previously told CNN Business that it is AB InBev's biggest investment in wine to date.
Popular overseas, the pre-made cocktail trend is finally hitting the states. A mix of established alcohol companies and startups are looking to enter the growing space. Sales of prepared cocktails, which includes drinks in glass, canned and plastic bottles, jumped 17% to $323 million between October 2018 and October 2019, according to Nielsen.
Haus, a startup that aims to be the "Warby Parker of alcohol," is one stylish direct-to-consumer brand that entered the sector this year. Haus cofounder and co-CEO Helena Price Hambrecht told CNN Business that their bottled cocktail company was created for what a new generation of drinkers want — a drink with natural ingredients and lower alcohol content.
"They're perfect as a cocktail base or on their own, and they're designed for the generation that loves the social ritual of gathering, but wants a little less booze," she said of the brand's drinks that have a third of alcohol content of hard liquor. Haus sells two drinks: Citrus Flower and Bitter Clove, each costing $35 per bottle.
The company declined to disclose specific sales numbers, but said it has received "several thousand" orders since launching in June.
Premium liquor
Spirits from whiskey to tequila grew for the ninth straight year in 2018, according to the Distilled Spirits Council, a national trade organization that represents distilled spirits makers in the US.
The trend is still growing this year, according to Nielsen. Spirits sales grew 6% to $15 billion from October 2018 to October 2019, according to Nielsen. Tequila grew the most at 13%, whiskey was in second at nearly 8% and vodka jumped 3%.
Jack Daniels-maker Brown-Forman continued to have a strong year. In its most recent earnings report, its portfolio of super-premium American whiskeys, including Woodford Reserve, Jack Daniel's Single Barrel and Gentleman Jack and its tequila brands, led by Herradura, all had double digit percentage increases.
CFO Jane Morreau said in its earnings call that the company expects to deliver another year of "solid results."
--CNN Business' Danielle Wiener-Bronner and Paul R. La Monica contributed to this report.
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Misery is a thriller about Paul Sheldon, a novelist who writes "Misery" stories, Misery being a fictional woman. He has gone to a mountain retreat in order to complete the last in this series of books during a heavy snow fall. As he is headed into town, he is caught in a terrible snow storm in which he is involved in a car accident leaving him unconscious. He is then rescued by Annie Welds, who turns out to be a mentally deranged nurse previously accused of numerous murders. Annie takes him to her home where she nurses him back to health. He is held captive by Annie, being forced to continue his writing of the "Misery" novels, Annie claiming to be his number-one fan.
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With the downsizing of the sugar industry leaving over 7000 workers without jobs, Guyana’s employment rate could see a dramatic increase. This is according to outspoken political commentator and economist Ramon Gaskin who on Wednesday said Government has no comprehensive policy for job creation. His comments are being made as the Guyana National Bureau of Statics (GNBS) gears up to release its unemployment numbers for 2018, which will serve as a marker to the economic status of the country. The quarterly Labour Force SurveyOutspoken political commentator, Ramon Gaskinfor July to September 2017 had revealed that the unemployment rate for persons aged 15 and above was 12 per cent, with the situation for women being substantially worse than that for men.At that time, thousands of now dismissed East Demerara, Rose Hall and Skeldon sugar workers were employed up to December 31, 2017 and taking into consideration of their contention relating to inconsistent employment, Gaskin’s estimation of an increased unemployment is likely to reflect the reality.However, as the official numbers are being finalised, Gaskin from his assessment of the economy, intimated that youth unemployment is also significant with reference to the magnitude of persons present at the recent job fair at the soon to be opened MovieTowne Guyana establishment earlier this week.“The unemployment rate is quite high, there are no jobs in this place; people are coming out of school and are looking for work; nobody opening any jobs, besides MovieTowne; there are no other jobs available…the Police, Army, public service are employing people but in the Private Sector there are no jobs,” Gaskin suggested.No concrete policyIn this light, he was questioned on the need for a shift in Government policy should the employment drop. Gaskin thereafter indicated his dissatisfaction with the presentation of Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s 2019 Budget wherein he contended that there was no concrete policy for job creation.“The Government has no policy for job creation; the Finance Minister Budget had no provision for job creation – he talked about entrepreneurship, training people in the interior and small business enterprise programme but there are no jobs available for employees. He cannot tell you where jobs are being created,” Gaskin pondered. Moreover, he indicated that the public service payroll has increased, saying that large contingents of persons are seeking employment with the State.” It’s packed up with people; all of them going there to see if they could get lil work.”Gaskin also related that Chinese-contracted building projects such as the one near the Chinese embassy have a majority of foreign workers in addition to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion Project. He called for more locals to garner employment on such projects. After seven years, the CJIA expansion remains incomplete due to several delays.The 2017 survey was done from a total population of 550,831 – persons 15 years and above, with some 72.2 per cent living in urban areas. From this figure, only 271,068 comprised the total employed population during the time of the quarterly survey, with males having accounted for 166,873 and females 104,195. The survey’s findings had revealed unemployment among women was 15.3 per cent and among men 9.9 per cent. The youth unemployment rate among 15 to 24-year-olds was almost twice that of adults, with 21.6 per cent. Young women had seen 28 per cent of them being unemployed.The employment rate for persons 15 and above was 49.2 per cent, with 62.1 per cent being males and 36.9 per cent being females. It had been also noted that the percentage of employed people in time-related underemployment was 4.2 per cent, with 72.2 per cent of the underemployed being based in urban areas.The survey also found that 28.4 per cent of the labour force is underutilised, while between 48.3 per cent and 52.6 per cent of the persons employed hold informal jobs.Prior to the 2017 estate closures, the Wales Sugar Estate was shuttered in December 2016 and many workers in that community say they have faced a decline in finance. Given the decrease of jobs in rural areas over the two-year period, it remains to be seen what the numbers in the 2018 survey will reflect.
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IDEAcarbon has been working on an initiative to i) explore the practical design for an international carbon reserve in a globally networked carbon market and ii) for the establishment of ratings driven exchange rates for carbon assets. This webpage has been created by IDEAcarbon to share and communicate thoughts on this important subject and make it inclusive of expert opinion.
The World Bank Group formally requested IDEAcarbon to do an extensive study to evaluate the feasibility of these initiatives, propose a design & structure and review ratings’ readiness to support the design. This work is a reflection of the World Bank Group brief, but the ideas and concepts are those of IDEAcarbon.
The World Bank’s task group on International Carbon Reserve is being co-led by IDEAcarbon and the World Bank. IDEAcarbon delivered its White Paper on the Design and Role of an International Carbon Reserve at the first World Bank Working Group meeting In Paris in September 2013. The design and concepts are IDEAcarbon’s concepts.
IDEAcarbon’s work on these initiatives is led by Shandi J. Modi, has benefited from input and encouragement from the World Bank Group, and has drawn on the expertise of our Advisors and friends, including Professor Dr. Helmut Schlesinger (Former President of the Bundesbank), Nitin Desai (former UN Under Secretary-General), Lord Nick Stern (former Vice Chair, IDEAglobal Group), Bill White (chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the OECD), Ian Johnson (Chairman of The Carbon Ratings Agency, President Club of Rome and former Vice President of the World Bank), Rupert Edwards (Managing Director at Climate Change Capital), Bob Litterman (Former Head of Risk at Goldman Sachs Asset Management), Michael Gallagher (former Head of Research, IDEAglobal) and John Davitt (former Head of Emerging Markets Research, IDEAglobal). It has drawn considerably from the vast relevant intellectual capital of The Carbon Ratings Agency. The White Paper and related recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of any of the individuals who have reviewed this work.
International Carbon Reserve: Explained
The starting assumption for this initiative is that trading across domestic emissions markets will lead to efficiencies, lowering the cost per tonne of CO2 avoided thus encouraging greater ambition.
A "top down" global agreement would be the best solution and would likely lead to some level of harmonization across national systems, but is likely to take some time. In the absence of a global agreement, some countries and regions are voluntarily moving to develop carbon price mechanisms and NAMAs (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) at the domestic level. Most are interested in "linking" their markets formally and financing their NAMAs appropriately.
To encourage this national and sub-national effort requires a credible, harmonized framework and comparability. However, generally, the picture going forward looks to be one of fragmented, heterogeneous markets. A globally-networked carbon market would be one way to facilitate trading across such markets in order to make markets more efficient and lead to a better price discovery.
A globally networked carbon market could be achieved through the establishment of "exchange rates" and possibly a "reserve carbon currency" to support exchangeability and fungibility across “assets” of different types and from different countries.
This is the subject of The IDEAcarbon White Paper entitled ‘The Role of an International Carbon Reserve in a Globally Networked Carbon Market’, which also makes the case for the creation of a reserve whose goals would be to provide forward looking price stability in the carbon market and to encourage a far greater level of investment and financial flows than would otherwise be likely.
It is our view that implementing such a scheme could conservatively and realistically result in a significant increase to the current size of the market within three-to-five years, reduce costs of mitigation, and vastly improve environmental outcomes in size and integrity. Our White Paper is expected to be of interest to potential investors with an interest in developing and expanding future investment opportunities in the climate change and carbon markets space and to those committed to implementing a long term vision for a stable and scaled up carbon market capable of making a substantive contribution to reducing GHG emissions.
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Development of a Carbon Asset Rating Agency (CARA), an independent and credible rating system to inform ICaR's actions and those of other stakeholders of significance (private capital, corporations and the public sector).
An International Carbon Reserve System (ICaR) to establish a credible long term "international price" and carbon asset exchange rates, thereby supporting domestic and international action and reduce volatility. This translates to potential “crowding in” long term private sector investors.
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Study on tobacco consumption patterns and its determinants in an urban slum in New Mumbai
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Kanchan Mukherjee
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Background and aims: India has a high burden of tobacco usage and its related morbidity and mortality. Almost 30% of the above 15 years of age of the Indian population use some forms of tobacco. Men usually use smoked tobacco, while women more likely use smokeless (chewed) tobacco. Tobacco usage has been identified as a risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among slum dwellers in urban cities. This study explored the tobacco consumption patterns and its determinants in an urban slum community of New Mumbai.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Study methods included review of secondary literature and policy documents on tobacco control. Primary data were collected from the Turbhe slum community in New Mumbai using semi-structured interview schedules. Cluster sampling followed by simple random sampling technique was used to achieve the sample size of 300 households.
Results: The prevalence of tobacco consumption in Turbhe slums was very high. Twenty five percent of tobacco consumers initiated tobacco use before 18 years old. Peer pressure emerged as a major factor for initiation of tobacco consumption. Smokeless tobacco was the predominant form of consumed tobacco. Though television is the most viewed medium, newspapers and magazines were the most impactful media for quitting tobacco.
Conclusion: Tobacco consumption is a major public health challenge in urban slums of New Mumbai. Absence of effective legislation on curbing availability of tobacco products and poor community awareness on the harmful effects of tobacco creates a vicious cycle contributing to the rising burden NCDs in India.
Urban slum
Tobacco consumption (smoked and smokeless) is one of the leading causes of preventable morbidity and mortality.1 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are nearly one billion smokers in the world. Smoking kills 6 million people each year. These include mostly current smokers and ex-smokers (5 million approximately). Each year, however, nearly 600,000 people die due to hazards of second hand smoking as well. Two-thirds of the world’s smokers live in low and middle- income countries. Smoking leads to premature death and is a huge economic burden on health systems and families of smokers; especially in developing countries with already limited resources.2 The rising burden of smoking in these countries is attributed to aggressive marketing strategies of large multinational tobacco companies.3 There are about 1.3 billion active smokers (of which 12% are women). In India, smokeless tobacco is a very common form of tobacco consumption and its usage is increasing, more so in younger generations. About 10-25% of people incomes are spent on tobacco consumption.4 India have a high burden of tobacco usage and its associated morbidity and mortality. Almost, 30% of the above 15 years old in the Indian population use some forms of tobacco. Men typically use smoked tobacco, while women use smokeless (chewed) tobacco.5 Approximately 16.6% (182 million people) of the total smokers worldwide live in India.6 Several studies in India have shown that tobacco usage is strongly linked to mortality7-9 due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and etc. The total projected annual deaths due to tobacco usage were one million in 2010.10 Tobacco usage as a risk factor for NCD has been shown not only in rural India but also among the urban poor living in slums.11 The urban-slum population has emerged as a new section in the society, which is known to fare very poorly on issues related to health.12 The proportion of the urban- slum population is also increasing at a rapid rate. India’s urban population has grown from 62 million in 1951 to 377 million in 2011,13 with a future projection of about 535 million by 2026.14 The 58th National Sample Survey (NSS) round reported that one in seven urban residents is a slum dweller in India.15 The slum population more than doubled from 43 million in 2001 to 93 million in 2011 and is projected to grow at 5% per year, adding 2 million every year. Maharashtra is one of the states leading in urbanization and has over than 50% of its population in urban areas.13 In Maharashtra, the projected growth of slum population is 13.3% (2011-17),16 of which the main contributor is believed to be the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Area (MMRDA), which includes the area of New Mumbai. In New Mumbai, the slum population is concentrated around the locality known as Turbhe. While there are epidemiological studies on tobacco usage in rural India there are very few studies on tobacco usage in urban slum population and none for New Mumbai area. Hence, this study addresses the gap in knowledge that exists on tobacco use and its determinants in urban-slum population. The study findings will be useful for planning and implementing effective tobacco consumption cessation strategies in this population. Objectives were to explore the types of tobacco usage among the urban-slum community of Turbhe, New Mumbai; to identify the determinants (income, education, age, employment, etc) associated with tobacco usage and knowledge regarding its harmful effects in this community. The independent variables like income, education, age of individuals, employment status, etc are not associated with tobacco use and knowledge regarding harmful effects of tobacco.
The study site was the largest urban slum in New Mumbai at Turbhe. The study was conducted from December 2014 to June 2015 using a cross-sectional descriptive study design. Study methods included review of secondary literature on tobacco usage and policy/program documents on tobacco control in the state of Maharashtra in India where the study site is located. A rapid community survey was conducted among 600 households in Turbhe to understand the prevalence of tobacco consumption in this community. The survey found 517 households (86.16%) having at least one person currently consuming tobacco in some forms. A sample of 300 individuals who were currently consuming tobacco from these 517 households was contacted for exploring the pattern of tobacco consumption and its association with the determinants mentioned above. Cluster sampling followed by simple random sampling technique was used to reach these 300 individuals who were current consumers of tobacco. No blood or biological sample collection was done. Primary data was collected using a pre tested semi structured interview schedule. The interview schedule was prepared using the WHO STEPS instrument for chronic disease risk factor surveillance.17 The STEPS instrument was modified and translated in the local language (Marathi) and pilot tested in the community. The variables studied included- triggers for tobacco use onset, dynamics of regular tobacco usage, knowledge regarding harmful effects of tobacco and factors that motivate the users to quit tobacco. The pattern of tobacco using (smoking and smokeless) among slum population (male and female) and factors associated with it (age, marital status, literacy, type of work, religion, birth place, household income, etc.) was assessed through face-to-face interviews in the community. The study only included persons in the age of 15-59 years and having permanent residence in Turbhe. The scientific and ethical components of the study were approved by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Research Council. Oral informed consent was taken from all participants in this study. The informed consent form as approved by the TISS Institutional Review Board (IRB) was used for this study. Analysis was done using excel and non-parametric statistical tests like chi-square test applied to test association between education levels, age of initiation, per capita income, type of employment with tobacco use.
There were 155 males (52%) and 145 (48%) females in the sample population. Eighty for percent of the sample population were in the age group of 26-55 years. Fifty two percent of females and 17% of males had no education. Sixty percent of female respondents were not employed, 42% of males respondents were self- employed and 40% were employed in the private sector. Eighty five percent of the sample populations were married. Sixty one percent of respondents’ annual family income was INR 1,000,000 or lesser. Seventy two percent of the households had an annual per capita income of INR 25,000 or less with 51% households having only one earning member in their families. Majority of respondents (64%) consumed tobacco for the first time between 18-30 years of age. There were more female (15%) late onset initiators (post 30 years) of tobacco use than males (5%). Thirty percent of males respondents were children or adolescents when they consumed tobacco for the first time compared to 21% of females respondents. Overall, approximately 26% of respondents consumed tobacco for the first time before 18 years old (Table 1). Hence, males were early initiators of tobacco users as compared to females. The most common reason quoted for consuming tobacco for the first time was peer pressure or along with friends. Approximately 71% of male respondents and 44% female respondents consumed tobacco for the first time with friends or after seeing friends. Tobacco was popular amongst female respondents for getting relief from toothache. Majority of respondents, i.e. 89% consumed only smokeless tobacco. Excepting one female respondent, all female respondents consumed only smokeless tobacco. Approximately, 12% of male respondents consumed both smoking and smokeless type of tobacco. Regarding the impact of media messages on harmful effects of tobacco on quitting, television is the most noticeable medium but newspapers and magazines turned out to be the most
impactful media. 60 for present respondents who noticed tobacco quitting messages in newspapers/magazines thought of quitting tobacco (Table 2).
Table 1: Age of initiation of tobacco use
Age at First Consumption of Tobacco Females Males Total Children (<11 years) 3(2%) 5(3%) 8(3%) Adolescents (11-17 years) 27(19%) 42(27%) 69(23%) Young Adults (18-21 years) 34(23%) 43(28%) 77(26%) 22-30 years 59(41%) 56(36%) 115(38%) 31-40 years 19(13%) 8(5%) 27(9%) 41-49 years 3(2%) 1(1%) 4(1%) Total 145 155 300
Table 2: Impact of warning messages on quitting tobacco
Impact of Warning Messages Thought of quitting Did not think of quitting Total Noticed warnings in newspapers/magazines 110(64%) 61 171
Noticed warnings on television 131(48%) 141 272
Noticed warnings on tobacco packets 128(52%) 118 246
Noticed all the above types of warnings 109(66%) 57 166
The higher the education levels are the higher the proportion of individuals noticing messages in different types of media. Also, higher the education levels, higher the proportion of individuals being aware about the harmful effects of tobacco. However, this awareness did not translate into action as none had quit tobacco consumption. Although majority of respondents had noticed the dangers of tobacco advertised on different platforms like newspapers/magazines, television, tobacco packet warnings, etc only 42 (14%) respondents tried to quit tobacco in the past 12 months. Of these 42, eleven respondents were self-motivated to leave tobacco; eleven tried to leave it due to illness while eight tried quitting due to doctor’s advice. Other reasons were given for attempting quitting including: Motivation by friends/family members, shortage of money and warning advertisements. Approximately 73% respondents spent INR 25 or less on their last purchase of tobacco products. The amount spent was dependent on the type of product purchased. Packets of smoked tobacco products like cigarettes and beedi's cost more than packets of smokeless products. Chi Square test did not find any significant association between education levels, age of initiation, per capita income, type of employment of individuals and tobacco use. Hence, null hypothesis is accepted.
Studies have shown high prevalence of tobacco consumption in rural India, but this study shows that tobacco consumption is highly prevalent among the urban slum populations. Lack of education as a determinant for smoking has been identified in various studies in South East Asia.18-22 This might be due to lack of awareness about the adverse effects of tobacco products.18-20 This study also found that higher the level of education translated into higher awareness about harmful effects of tobacco. Another determinant associated with tobacco using is poverty.19,20,23 However, a study in Pakistan found the association with income was secondary to confounding with education and lack of awareness.24 Age of individual has also been identified as a determinant for tobacco using especially smoking.19,24,25 Lower prevalence in younger age groups might suggest a shift in taking up smoking toward older age groups. A study by Jha et al. also suggested that smoking starts at a later age in India as compared to Europe and North America, which could also be due to under-reporting by younger respondents.26 Also, the cultural acceptability of smoking for older individuals as compared to younger individuals was shown in a qualitative study.27 In this study prevalence of smoking was very less (11%) as smokeless tobacco as the predominant form of tobacco consumption. However, almost one third of the males and one fifth of females had started consuming smokeless tobacco before reaching 18 years. Males were early initiators of tobacco users as compared to females in this population. Also, it was found that many females started consuming tobacco after marriage, which suggests the role and influence of the husband in the initiation of tobacco consumption. Studies have looked at the adverse health effects of passive smoking, especially in young children in households where adults smoke.28 Also, children are prone to poor health and malnutrition when their fathers spend their limited income on buying cigarettes.29 In this study, a large majority (89%) consumed smokeless tobacco. So, the effect of passive smoking is limited in this population. Also, the immediate economic impact on the household is less, as the smokeless tobacco products are very cheap as compared to cigarettes. However, with the habit continuing and the potential of smokeless tobacco to cause to serious life threatening conditions like Oral Cancer, the economic consequences of smokeless tobacco consumption would be catastrophic for such poor households. A study by Rooban T et al. using secondary data found statistical significance within the various demographic parameters (age 15-49 years, secondary education, religion, household structure, and marital status) and tobacco use in a study population.30 Chockalingam K et al. in their study found tobacco use prevalence to be significantly higher in rural areas, slum dwellers, males and older age groups in the Chennai region of South India.31 A study among adolescents in Bhubaneshwar slums in the state of Odisha found an overall prevalence of tobacco use of 28.7%, which was associated with peer pressure and tobacco use by family members.32 Peer pressure for young adolescents and family member (husbands) use of tobacco was associated with initiation of tobacco use in this study.
CONCLUSSIONS The prevalence of tobacco consumption in this urban slum community was found to be very high. In order to control the tobacco epidemic, WHO recommends 6 evidence-based measures called MPOWER, which are: monitoring of tobacco use and prevention strategies, protection of people from tobacco smoke, offering help to smokers for quitting, warning public about adverse effects of tobacco, enforcing bans on tobacco advertisement and promotion, and raising taxes on tobacco products. 33 For the population studied none of the above seemed to be effective as tobacco consumption was and the major consumption was for smokeless tobacco. Tobacco advertisement and promotion is restricted in India and there is a legal ban on sale of gutka packets (most popular type of smokeless tobacco) in the state of Maharashtra, where New Mumbai and Turbhe are located. However, this study shows clearly that the ban is not being enforced properly. Gutka is now sold loose and not in a packet form resulting in smokeless tobacco being available at cheaper prices. Hence, to effectively address consumption of smokeless tobacco a strong initiative is required by the government to ban the cultivation of tobacco and manufacture of smokeless tobacco products. Apart from this supply side measure, community interventions are required to create awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco and curb the demand for tobacco. Both these supply and demand side strategies need to operate to address the tobacco challenge faced by the urban poor in India. In addition monitoring of tobacco using is an important strategy, which can track the tobacco burden as well as gauge the effect of preventive strategies.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
We are grateful to thank all people who kindly helped us in conducting this research.
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Anti-Religious Hatred
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12 Worst Trolls of the Year
2019 unfortunately took off where the last year left us, with many examples of individuals and entire media outlets spreading anti-religious and racist views. We’ve created a countdown of some of the worst perpetrators of the year:
In number 12, we have the Belgium paper Doorbraak who published an article recounting a speech Wim de Wit made at an IJzerwake event in which he claimed “In principle, freedom of expression still applies, except when it comes to Muslims, Negroes, holibi’s [homosexual, lesbian and bisexual individuals], Transgender people, transvestites, Gypsies, feminists and certain politicians.”. Read our article where we criticise Doorbraak for their lack of journalistic criticism of the speech.
In 11th place, we have the French TV Channel LCI, which broadcast an episode of ’24 Pujadas’ where they invited Robert Ménard (known for his racist, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim stance) along with Guillaume Tabard (editor-in-chief of Le Figaro) onto the show, where Tabard said ‘We had lived through deadly Islamist terrorism in France, so if we want to keep score, we are not yet even’. Read our article on why LCI’s decision to include these guests and the statement is insensitive and wrong.
In 10th place, is the Hungarian public service website Hirado for reporting a government press conference on Brussels’ distribution of migrant cards. Despite the government spokesman suggesting that the recipients of this financial assistance were ‘anonymous’, and that there might be some ISIS members involved, Hirado decided not to critically report on this discriminatory rhetoric, thus allowing the Islamophobic statements to appear factual.
Coming in at number 9 is the Belgium party Vlaams Belang for their Islamophobic rhetoric in November. When an asylum centre in the city of Bilzen was torched down, many assumed it was supporters of Vlaams Belang due to their protests on the site a few days prior. Their party leader was outraged by the assumptions but used his speech to spread anti-Islam views and that Islamisation of the country would be supported by his opponents.
Greek lifestyle magazine ‘Athens’ is in at number 8, for publishing an article where the author suggests that ‘Jewish banks’ are partially a cause of the Greek debt. This article displays blatant antisemitism, promoting dangerous antisemitic theories and furthering well-established conspiracy theories.
In 7th place, is the French online newspaper Atlantico, for an article published about the Decathlon – Hijab controversy, where the sports chain created a ‘running’ hijab, which caused a backlash on social media by people claiming it was an example of the ‘Islamisation’ of France. The article’s headline suggested the hijab was a ‘victory for the Muslim Brotherhood’, thus spreading anti-Muslim sentiment.
In at number 6 is PI News, a far-right German news website, which discusses the latest birth rate figures, and suggests that the rise in foreign-born babies reflected the ‘Islamisation’ of Germany and Europe. It also states the number of ‘true’ Germans is lower than what the figures reveal. Using these far-right tropes, the article spreads strong anti-Islam ideas, and encourages its readers to agree with them about the scale of the ‘problem’.
Number 5 is another entry from Hirado, along with its sister public broadcaster MTI, and it is due to their spreading of fear-mongering lies on refugees, stating in an article that ‘40,000 migrants are about to set off from Turkey and Greece towards Central Europe, to be joined along the way by many more’, followed by multiple similar stories on the subject.
In number 4, is the Belgium group Vismooil’n VZW for their extremely antisemitic float which displayed caricatured orthodox Jews with several antisemitic features, including long ugly noses, bags full of cash and coins and rats in their dresses, while attending the annual Carnival parade in the Belgian city of Aalst. TV broadcasters and city officials barely made any comments on its antisemitic nature.
In 3rd place, is the British far-right news site Politicalite. The article reads like a conspiracy theory and uses many of the well-known far-right tropes such as the ‘Great Replacement’ theory. It is written by Bethany Helmsley, who also writes for a blog called ‘Spotting The Serpent’s Tail’ where they recently published a post calling for ‘for the “cleansing” of those who make Britain multicultural.’
German paper Der Spiegel just misses out on top spot, settling for second place. The article suggests it was an ‘investigative piece’, but it used well-known anti-Semitic tropes to push an anti-Jewish narrative, specifically in reference to two lobby groups which they suggested had influenced German politicians.
And our troll of the year goes to – Rod Liddle and the Spectator. In November, columnist Rod Liddle had an article published in the right-wing paper, suggesting that ‘Muslims should be prevented from voting in the next general election’ causing outrage on social media for its clear Islamophobic comments. Following the backlash, Riddle defended himself by saying that his suggestions were ‘patently a joke’, despite the multiple examples of Islamophobia in his work prior to this.
Get the Trolls Out condemns Rod Liddle for his anti-Muslim column on The Spectator
An article by the columnist Rod Liddle suggesting that Muslims should be prevented from voting in the next general election has caused widespread criticism for its Islamophobic statements. The Media Diversity Insitute published an article highlighting how Rod Liddle’s racist statements are far from being isolated, and Get the Trolls Out! joined the Stop Funding Hate campaign, by putting pressure on companies to stop advertising on media outlets that make profit out of hateful articles.
Published in Complaints
HUNGARY – Anti-Muslim fear-mongering dominates pro-government media outlets’ reporting on Eid al-Adha
The pro-government news sites Pesti Srácok and Origo report about the Eid al-Adha celebrations in Europe by presenting Islamophobic narratives of Muslims as dangerous, barbarian and violent. This is Hungary’s media monitoring highlight for August.
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BELGIUM – Right-Wing Blog Quotes Quran Out of Context to Spread Anti-Muslim Sentiments
Right-wing blog Westerse Beschaving acts as an information portal for those looking for ‘proof’ of Islam’s incompatibility with the West. It uses quotes from the Quran out of context to spread this narrative. This is Belgium’s media monitoring highlight for July.
GREECE – Religious News Platform Hosts Author Spewing Anti-Muslim Claims With No Evidence
The religious news platform Vima Orthodoxias gave a platform to known conspiracy theorist, author Serena Nomikou. In the article, Nomikou made very extreme anti-Muslim claims backed by zero evidence. This is Greece’s media monitoring highlight for July.
BELGIUM – Jewish MP says the kippah is a symbol of faith and the veil a symbol of oppression
In an interview with “Le Soir,” Conservative N-VA MP & former editor of Joods Actual Michael Freilich said that Muslim and Jewish religious head coverings were not comparable, saying that a Jewish kippah is a symbol of faith, white a Muslim hijab is a symbol of oppression. This is Belgium’s media monitoring highlight for July.
UK – The Telegraph Mischaracterises Muslim Players’ Actions at the Cricket World Cup Victory Celebrations, Reinforcing Anti-Muslim Sentiments
The Telegraph published a video on Twitter of England cricket players Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid walking away from the champagne celebrations following their World Cup win, falsely framing the situation in a negative light. This is the UK’s media monitoring highlight for July.
HUNGARY – Origo exploits Christian persecution to incite hatred against Muslims
The pro-government news site Origo uses data on discrimination against Christians across the world to spread fears on the presence of Islam in Europe. This is Hungary’s media monitoring highlight for July.
The Daily Mail wrongly claims that Mohammed is the most popular name in Berlin
The Daily Mail failed to recognise the Islamophobia and the inaccuracies in one of its articles, after the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) filed a complaint.
The article, published on Mail Online on 3 May 2019, claimed that “Mohammed was the most popular first name for boys born in Berlin in 2018”, but a closer look at the results of the Society for the German Language (GfdS) study revealed that this is not accurate.
Austrian Minister dog-whistles Islamophobia at OSCE conference
The EUJS has reacted to an Islamophobic statement by the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karin Kneissl. At the opening conference of the Slovakian Chairmanship of the OSCE in February, which focused on the topic of antisemitism, Karin Kneissl, foreign minister in Austria's right wing, nationalist coalition government, stated that if we speak of antisemitism we should look to Muslims and immigrants.
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Indian Economy MCQ (Pages :37)
31 Accession Tax is levied on which among the following?
(A) New Property
(B) Gifts and bequests received by heirs.
(C) Rented Property
(D) Purchased Lands
32 Agricultural Census is done for every:?
(A) 2 years
(B) 5 years
(C) 10 years
(D) 15 years
33 Agricultural Income Tax revenue goes to which of the following governments in India?
(A) State Governments
(B) Central Government
(C) Collected by State Governments ; delivered to Central Government
(D) Collected by Central Government; delivered to State Governments
<Explanation>
The taxing powers of the central government encompass taxes on income (except agricultural income), excise on goods produced (other than alcohol), customs duties, and inter-state sale of goods. The state governments are vested with the power to tax agricultural income, land and buildings, sale of goods (other than inter-state), and excise on alcohol. Local authorities such as Panchayat and Municipality also have power to levy some minor taxes.
34 Agriculture, Irrigation and Power Projects were given highest priority in which among the following plans?
(A) First Five Year Plan
(B) Second Five Year Plan
(C) Third Five Year Plan
(D) Fourth Five Year Plan
35 All banks including foreign banks in India have migrated to Basel II norms by March 31, 2009. In this context , what is the correct full form of SREP?
(A) Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process
(B) System Review and Evaluation Programme
(C) Supervisory Review and Evaluation Programme
(D) Systematic Revision of Entry Programme
36 All commercial banks including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks are insured by the DICGC. What is the full form of DICGC?
(A) Deposit Insurance And Credit Guarantee Company
(B) Deposit Insurance And Credit Guarantee Corporation
(C) Direct Insurance And Credit Guarantee Corporation
(D) Direct Insurance And Credit Guarantee Company
37 All the foreign funds to come forward as Foreign Institutional Investments (FII) prior to any investment, are needed to register in which among the following bodies?
(A) RBI
(B) SEBI
(C) Department of Economic Affairs
(D) Both A & B
38 Among the Environment protection, flood control, fertilizers and diesel which can be classified as “merit goods’ for the purpose of subsidies?
(A) Environment protection; flood control and fertilizers only
(B) environment protection and flood control only
(C) flood control only
(D) environment protection only
39 Among which of the following countries would you call a growing country or growing economy?
(A) A country with rising GNP at constant prices
(B) A country with rising GNP at current prices
(C) A country with constant GNP at rising prices
(D) None of the above
40 An autonomous increase in expenditure should result in an increase in a country’s real GNP only if?
(A) The country’s balance of trade is negative
(B) The country’s economy is working under conditions of less than full employment
(C) It is government expenditure
(D) The multiplier is at least 1.5
41 An estimate of a sum required to meet the expenditure that it incurs during the first three to four months of an election financial year until a new government is in place, to keep the machinery running is also known as ______?
(A) Interim Budget
(B) Vote on Account
(C) Expenditure Budget
(D) Demand Grant
42 An excise duty is a charge on which of the following?
(A) export of goods
(B) production of goods
(C) production or sale of goods
(D) import of goods
According to Central Excise act 1944 and the Central Excise Tariff Act 1985, every manufacturer of the goods in the country has to pay Excise duty. Most of the products attract 16% excise duty But in case of some products it more than that. It is opposite to custom duty which is charged in international trade
43 An instrument traded at U.S. exchanges representing a fixed number of shares of a foreign company that is traded in the foreign country is called as?
(A) GDR-Global Depository Receipt
(B) ADR-American Depository Receipt
(C) SDR-Special Drawing Rights
44 An investor or speculator who subscribes to a new issue with the intention of selling them soon after allotment to realize a quick profit is called?
(A) Stag
(B) Tall
(C) Bull
(D) Bear
45 An organization which holds securities (like shares, debentures, bonds, government securities, mutual fund units etc.) of investors in electronic form at the request of the investors is called?
(A) Bank
(B) Depository
(C) Share market
46 Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) was launched in?
(A) December 2000
(B) December 2002
(C) December 2004
(D) December 2006
47 AoA in context with World Trade Organization is ___?
(A) Article of Association
(B) Agreement on Agriculture
(C) Agreement on Association
(D) Administration of Agriculture
Pillars of WTO 1.Multi-Fiber agreement (MFA). 2.Agreement on agriculture (AOA). 3.Trade related investment measures (TRIMS). 4.Trade related intellectual property right (TRIPS). 5.General agreement on trade and services (GATS)
48 Apart from Revenue deficit and budget deficit , the Indian government started using one more concept of deficit known as primary deficit from which of the following budgets?
(A) 1992-93
(B) 1993-94
(D) 1995-96
49 Approximately what fraction of India’s trade by volume is moved by sea?
(A) 70%
(B) 80%
(C) 90%
(D) 95%
50 Approximately what fraction of the world’s oil exports is pumped by the 12-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC?
51 ARCIL is related to which of the following?
(A) Asset Reconstruction
(B) Assessment of Liabilities
(C) Assessment of Industrial Finance
(D) Assessment of Industrial Licencing
52 Arrange the following in correct chronological order of their years of establishment?(RBI, SBI, IFCI, ICICI, NABARD, UTI)?
(A) RBI; SBI; IFCI; ICICI; NABARD; UTI
(B) RBI; IFCI; ICICI;SBI; NABARD; UTI
(C) RBI; IFCI; NABARD;ICICI;SBI; UTI
(D) RBI; IFCI;ICICI;SBI; UTI; NABARD
RBI (1935), IFCI 1948, ICICI January 1955, SBI July 1955, UTI 1964, NABARD 1982
53 Arrange the following in the descending order of the largest agricultural imports of India: 1.Pulses 2.Wood and Wood Products 3.Edible Vegtable Oils?
(A) 1-2-3
(B) 1-3-2
(C) 2-1-3
(D) 3-2-1
54 As a wholly owned subsidiary of which of the following, the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) was started in 1990?
(A) Industrial Investment bank of India Ltd
(B) Industrial Finance Corporation of India
(C) Industrial Development Bank of India
(D) Reserve Bank of India
55 As per norms, a domestic airline needs to complete how many years of domestic operations to be eligible for International Operations?
(C) 5 years
(D) 7 years
56 As per the current provisions of the Reserve Bank of India of Act, 1934, what is the highest denomination of notes RBI can issue?
(A) Rs. 1000
(B) Rs. 2000
(C) Rs. 5000
(D) Rs. 10000
57 As per the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM Act), 2003, the RBI does not participate in which of the following activities with effect from April 1, 2006?
(A) Open market Operations
(B) Printing new currency notes
(C) Increasing interest rates
(D) Primary issuance of Government securities
58 As per the FRBM Act 2003 , which of the following year was set as a target to achieve zero revenue deficit?
59 As per the Lakdawala Formula , which among the following is accepted to estimate “urban poverty”?
(A) Consumer price Index for industrial labors
(B) Consumer price Index for Agriculture
(C) Wholesale Price index
(D) 2 & 3
60 As per the National Manufacturing Policy, the land area of a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone is to be minimum ____?
(A) 1000 Hectares
(B) 2000 Hectares
(C) 3000 Hectares
(D) 5000 Hectares
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POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED
THE TREACHERY OF SHERRITT
BEGINNING OF THE LAST HUNT
NED KELLY LODGED IN GAOL The unprecedented exploit of the bushrangers at Euroa simply staggered the whole State. The whole business was so daring and clever as to compel admiration even amongst the warmest believers in law and order. But the matter presented other and more disquieting features. That four men no matter how well armed, or with previous bloodshed fortified, should be able to take possession of a populous town and hold that possession as long as they pleased, seemed to argue something more than mere terror - to suggest the existence of elements of friendship and sympathy rather than that of a general epidemic of fright and pusillanimity. The police authorities were beside themselves.
Police groups were rushed to various places in the hope of their encountering the bold outlaws. But they were too hampered by red tape to do any good. Everything thing had to be determined by some officer in charge. Which would have been wise had the officers been worthy of the trust. But the report of the Royal Commission
.......that most of them were
..... .. unworthy as incapable of any intelligent action in a desperate emergency as the merest recruit. Men and money were wasted in all manner of vain and futile quests. The most wooden and stupid police traditions of procedure were perpetuated to the last stage of absurdity. Lots of time was wasted chasing will-o'-the-wisp reports. One man said that the Kellys were camped in his paddock, and that it was their purpose to steal his horse.
A rush of police to the place elicited that the horse was in the last stages of a scanty and toothless old age. The "gang" dwindled down to one poor miserable devil of a sundowner.
The police officers never seemed to consider probabilities at all; and possibilities but seldom; in their action upon the reports brought in as to the whereabouts of the outlaws. Every statement, no matter how absurd, was investigated. In a few days the rank and file were tired out, and one officer in charge had to be relieved. But the outlaws pursued their journey homeward in tranquillity; no one interrupting.
In the course of one week the outlaws, according to reports received; and almost invariably acted upon; by the police, covered an area of about 54,000 square miles. And in doing so committed all the crimes that are classified time after time.
Finally, the police …. on the argument of the bribe ….. of Aaron Sherritt; who had played bushrangers with the Kellys as a youngster; and persuaded him, with the offer of the whole of the reward then held out (£400), to betray the friends of his youth. The police declare that Sherritt was an abandoned scoundrel of the most pernicious order. When, after his ferocious and horrible threat against Joe Byrne, that careful bandit lengthened the odds against misadventure for himself by slaying Sherritt a few hours after his threat, the police rejoiced at being rid of a confederate whom they regarded as being infinitely worse than any of the outlaws.
The killing of Sherritt has long been justified beyond question. But the news of his death sent the public excitement on to fever heat. Because the public did not know the facts, the public do not know all the facts even now. Some of them are too horrible to mention. But before he died Sherritt had managed to get some information for the police that would have been valuable if communicated in any more intelligent quarter. He told them that the outlaws were going to cross the border and stick up a bank in New South Wales.
This was just after the storekeeper, Owen, came to the rescue of the Byrne family with a load of stores. And a few days later the bank at Jerilderie was robbed by the gang. A description of his exploit was given in the "Sun" of yesterday. The outlaws followed the safe course of sticking up the police station first.
The manner in which the outlaws lorded it in Jerilderie is almost incredible. Not a man dared to interfere with them. Ned Kelly took the opportunity of making a speech, in which he set forth the reasons that had sent him and his comrades to the bush. He declared that he was not within 400 miles of the homestead on the day on which he was alleged to have shot Fitzpatrick. It is quite probable that this address may have had something to do with the fact that all four of the outlaws were permitted to leave Jerilderie without molestation. They rendezvoused at a sheep station 20 miles away that night.
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Photos of KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #209: Where Schemes Come True
KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #209: Where Schemes Come True was recorded as Dana, Ken, Quincy Marr and myself were driving from Walt Disney World to Theme Park Connections and then back.
Here are some photos I took during the recording:
You can see the recorder (in between the seats) and you can see Dana holding Quincy's phone (as he talks about on the show.) There was about 15 minutes before the recording where we thought the recorder was on and it wasn't. During that time Dana made fun of Quincy's phone. Much of the conversation was re-created on the new recording.
Reflections of China
On the newest Ken PD Snydecast much is said about the host of the EPCOT attraction Reflections of China.
From Wiki: Li Bai (701–762), also known as Li Po, was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were the two most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry in the mid-Tang Dynasty that is often called the "Golden Age of China".
He's also known for playing jokes on Martin Short. Watch the full video below:
KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #209: Where Schemes Come True
Ken & Dana return with a magical car journey near Disney World featuring special guests Guy Hutchinson and Quincy Marr. Go LISTEN!
Two notes: Mustaches were eventually purchased and no photos were actually taken of sleeping Ken Plume.
Talking Dennis Miller Update
Remember Talking Dennis Miller?
No? I hardly blame you.
Back in the summer of 2012 Dana put him on eBay:
I bought him. And drank beer with him:
And I took him to meet a Muppet:
Then (August 2012) I shipped him to DragonCon where he hung with Aaron Poole:
Photo courtesy of @doctoraicha
From there he was sent to Jon Eadler who reunited him with Dana in the Summer of 2013:
Eadler took good care of Dennis for the rest of the year and handed him back to Dana this past week (January 2014):
Here he is with Ken Plume and Dana's old friend Quincy:
At the end of the night, Jon Eadler handed off Talking Dennis Miller to Movie Brain Rot's Jim DeSantis:
Where will Dennis go next? Time will tell...
From left, Guy, Dana, Ken and Quincy.
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Did Saving Mr. Banks Show The Wrong Warner Brothers logo?
On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #208: Boobknobs And Breadsticks Ken mentions a scene in Saving Mr. Banks where they show the Warner Brothers logo.
Ken mentions that the Warner Brothers logo they show is the current logo, not the 1961 logo:
So is it?
IMDb says so:
The truth is a little more convoluted. Here's a brief history of the WB logo:
The current logo is similar to the one used in the 1960s.
Here's the logo that WB used for the 1954 film Dial M For Murder:
It matches pretty closely with the one in the film, if you look at the painted clouds.
It seems possible that a limo driver in 1961 would have a sign that looked like the one in the film.
Melanie Paxson
On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #208: Boobknobs And Breadsticks Dana mentions having worked with Melanie Paxson at the Lyceum Theater in a production of Peter Pan.
Melanie plays Dolly in the Disney film Saving Mr. Banks.
Walt Disney Mustaches Volume 2
On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #208: Boobknobs And Breadsticks They mention the Moustaches.
In addition to a Walt Disney version, they make these:
Here are the characters. As you can see, some have mustaches (like hook and Geppetto.) Some are weird like (Sulley and Cheshire Cat.) Some are debatable, like Hitchhiking Ghosts and Jafar (who may have mustaches, but they don't exactly look like these.)
Narcoossee's
On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #208: Boobknobs And Breadsticks Ken and Dana talk about Narcoossee's.
It's pronounced NAHR-COO-SEES.
Slip away to this elegant waterfront retreat for exquisite seafood specialties and spectacular views of Seven Seas Lagoon.
It's known for it's fine seafood.
The Logo Fiasco-rama
Ken was digging through old pics and found this photo taken during KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #13: The Logo Fiasco-rama.
Here is the original asitecalledfred.com description:
Dana & Ken assemble a virtual (yet real) cornucopia of [adult swim] luminaries to judge the seemingly never, yet mercifully ending logo contest, with a guest list that includes The Venture Bros.’ Jackson Pubick and Doc Hammer, Aqua Teen’s Ned Hastings, Home Movies and Lucy, Daughter of the Devil’s Loren Bouchard, writer extraordinaire Brian Studler, and the beautiful Jennifer Stephens, direct from [as] headquarters. It’s a real mess, but fun. Really. Trust us. You’ll find a cheat sheet of all the logo entries below.
We are still waiting for the cheat sheet...
Here is a timeline of quotes from the episode:
02:35 Give me a sharpie and 15 minutes and I'll give you guys a logo.
03:05 ...the blue one isn't the worst, the green one is...
26:58 You can't fake this kind of awfulness.
28:16 I'm getting this as a tattoo. The green one. The little logo that could.
34:00 As god as my witness this is the greatest logo ever!
37:27 I will fight anybody who says this isn't the greatest logo in the history of logos.
Ken in the tub!
The photo has surfaced!
So now we just have to buy them.
ZZCoop posted this on Twitter. God bless him.
On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #208: Boobknobs And Breadsticks the boys talked about Sesame Place.
Sesame Place is a amusement/water park in Langhorne Pennsylvania (about an hour outside of Philadelphia.)
Ken remembers getting his photo taken in Ernie's bathtub. Here is a photo (that's not Lil' Kenny) of the bathtub:
It was an area where you could get a souvenir photo next to a replica of Sesame Street.
Dana mentions seeing the animatronic Cookie Monster and Oscar:
Dana mentions the history of the site. Here's a timeline I put together of the early history of the park:
June 1960: Jim Henson visits Disneyland and is interested in the way theme parks can bring characters to life.
April 1978: Jim and CTW discuss the idea of a theme park based on Sesame Street. The goals were to promote exercise, healthy eating and learning in a fun way.
June 27, 1979: A formal groundbreaking takes place in Middletown PA (just outside of Langhorne) with a group of children, from the New Approach Method day care.
July 30, 1980: Sesame Place opens to the public. Admission is $3.95.
August 12, 1980: The Middletown township supervisors vote 5-0 to seek a declaratory judgement from Bucks County Court against the operators of Sesame Place. The township wanted Sesame Place to collect an "amusement tax" from patrons. Sesame Place contended that it was not an amusement park.
1982: Sesame Place adds "Automated Muppets," animatronic versions of the Sesame Street characters that tell jokes sing and laugh. (THIS IS WHAT DANA MENTIONS SEEING)
1983: The first walk around characters: Ernie and Bert and The Honkers debut at Sesame Place.
You can read the full timeline I put together here and many more articles about the park's history I have written here.
Dana mentioned that I go there often, which is true... I should note I take my pre school age son with me. Dana also says that he believes that everything is pretty much the same as it was in the 1980s there. This is most definitely not true.
Almost none of the features from the 1980s (including the animatronic Muppets) have been removed from the park.
Dana mentioned the restaurant he ate at. It was a super sleek restaurant called The Food Factory. Today it's re-themed as Elmo's Eatery (this answers Ken's "Is it all Elmo now" question.)
The park has been totally redone and expanded many many times over from the 1980s.
This was actually why I ended up blogging about the history of the park. I was fascinated by how different it was and unable to find good info online.
If you want more info check out the blog I put together: http://bigbirdbridge.blogspot.com
It's not updated often, but it's the most comprehensive historical look at Sesame Place online.
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Buyer & Celler (Theatre)
BUYER & CELLAR ROASTS CELEBRITY ADORATION IN ICONIC BABS-STYLE
In the tradition of Truman Capote’s fictionalized non-fiction of In Cold Blood, playwright Jonathan Tolins used Barbra Streisand’s overtly-obsessive 2010 coffee-table tome My Passion For Design as a springboard to both roast our modern society’s obsession with celebrity worship and to comment on the movie star’s strange design and collecting obsessions. The resulting one-person performance titled Buyer & Cellar at LA’s Mark Taper Forum is a laugh-riot of a good time.
Given the celebrity icon’s litigious history, the play opens with a seven-minute disclaimer on the fictionalized nature of the unfolding work. What is undisputed truth is this: according to Streisand’s book, the star/author/principal photographer (cum all-in-one-enterprise) was inspired by the DuPont family’s Winterthur Museum. Winterthur is the American decorative arts museum in Delaware initially created by Henry Francis DuPont to house his massive American and European fine and decorative arts collection. In homage and emulation, Streisand has built an avenue of quaint storefronts in the basement of her Malibu estate, creating a mini-Winterthur in her cellar. This self-indulgent underground emporium — complete with doll shop, vintage clothing boutique, soda fountain, frozen yogurt shop, etc. — was built to house the star’s vast collection of material stuff. “Remember, this is the part that’s real,” Urie reminds the audience as he slips into character, Alex More, a struggling and recently-fired gay Los Angeles actor desperately seeking meaningful employment. “Crazy, right?” he asks.
Right! And crazier than this fact is the even-crazier notion that Streisand continues to fabricate a self-indulgent shopping experience for herself by employing our narrator Alex to man the shops, in a “Charmin-Mr-Whipple-way,” as she shops -- and bargains for -- the very same objects she already owns! In one exchange, Streisand refuses to pay retail for a unique French automaton toy. Alex, in a surge of mastery and control over his star-employer, holds firm to his made-up asking price for the toy. Within days, Streisand returns to the basement doll shop with the hilarious statement “I’ve found a coupon!”
Alex’s emotions span the wide horizon of feelings from an initial awe and fascination with the star herself, to one of playful mischief and coy flirtation, ultimately transitioning to wide-eyed adoration and culminating into “dare-we-call-it-friendship” feelings. Alas, all is illusion. Nonetheless, our narrator has been transformed by the Streisand experience, sending back a rug from Pottery Barn that is 2 ½ inches shorter than represented.
The deliciously wicked material is well suited for Michael Urie, who delivers an astonishing non-stop and uninterrupted 100 minute performance. Playing no less than five characters —Alex; Sharon, Streisand’s house-commander-in-charge; Barry, Alex’s screenwriter boyfriend; James Brolin, Streisand’s current hubby; as well as the icon herself – Urie’s outstanding skill in storytelling is augmented by his limber physicality. He commands the entire spare stage and delivers the material in a convincing, just-between-us kind of way. Stellar direction by Stephen Brackett. Thoroughly delicious! Don’t miss it.
Buyer & Cellar plays Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1 and 6 p.m. through August 17, 2014 at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes with no intermission. Ticket Price: $25-$85 (Ticket prices subject to change.) Contact: (213) 628-2772 or www.centertheatregroup.org
Armin’s Grade: A
by Armin Callo, Theatre Critic
Tags:Review, Armin Callo, Buyer & Celler
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VIOLATION OF WESTERN SYMBOLS IN MURAKAMI’S KAFKA ON THE SHORE
The aim of this study is to explore the icons Johnnie Walker and Colonel Sanders used in Haruki Murakami’s novel Kafka on the Shore in the context of postcolonialism and reveal the influence of the cultural imperialism of the West. In addition, in this study it is attempted to explore Murakami’s portrayal of the western elements and his depiction of cats as metaphors of voiceless ethnic minorities in Japan. To prevent the domination and hegemony of the West, Japan has been forced to adopt Western modernity causing self-colonialism of the country and act like hegemonic West towards the other Eastern countries becoming an imperialist power after a while. Haruki Murakami subverts the cultural stereotypes that misrepresent, the Other objectively, as argued in Orientalist tradition. In addition, his unique style might be resulted from his double consciousness of culture and his own “hybridity” while his writing reveals contemporary Japanese culture. Moreover his writing reveals contemporary Japanese culture, emphasizing the abundance of Americanized commodities in Japan. Johnnie Walker and Colonel Sanders characters in the novel symbolize the modernist and capitalist mindset in the Post war period. The civilized and elite image of Johnnie Walker is deconstructed to illustrate how the western concepts of modernism and civilization could be destructive. The respected elderly image of Colonel Sanders is also reversed by his selling call-girls which makes human a comodity. Slaughter of the cats by the character Johnnie Walker reminds the subaltern subjects or ethnic minorities who do not possess language to express their pain. In the novel, the modern and civilized symbols of the West are violated while revealing Japan’s exposition to American popular culture.
Postcolonialism, Ethnic Minorities, Self-Colonialism, Modernism, Subaltern
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Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old, edited by Raquel Ojeda-Garcia, Irene Fernández-Molina, Victoria Veguilla, (electronic resource)
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Fernández-Molina, Irene
Veguilla, Victoria
This book explores the traces of the passage of time on the protracted and intractable conflict of Western Sahara. The authors offer a multilevel analysis of recent developments from the global to the local scenes, including the collapse of the architecture of the UN-led conflict resolution process, the advent of the War on Terror to the the Sahara-Sahel area and the impact of the ‘Arab Spring’ and growing regional security instability. Special attention is devoted to changes in the Western Sahara territory annexed by Morocco and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Morocco has adapted its governance and public policies to profound socio-demographic transformations in the territory under its control and has attempted to obtain international recognition for this annexation by proposing an Autonomy Plan. The Polisario Front and Sahrawi nationalists have shifted their strategy and pushed the centre of gravity of the conflict back inwards by focusing on pro-independence activism inside the disputed territory.--
New York, Palgrave Macmillan US | Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
1. Introduction: Towards a Multilevel Analysis of the Western Sahara Conflict and the Effects of its Protractedness
2. The United Nations’ Change in Approach to Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict since the Turn of the 21st Century
3. The Geopolitical Functions of the Western Sahara Conflict: US Hegemony, Moroccan Stability and Sahrawi Strategies of Resistance
4. The EU’s Reluctant Engagement with the Western Sahara Conflict: Between Humanitarian Aid and Parliamentary Involvement
5. Western Sahara and the Arab Spring
6. Algerian Foreign Policy towards Western Sahara
7. Beyond Western Sahara, the Sahel-Maghreb Axis Looms Large
8. The Role of Sahrawis and the Polisario Front in Maghreb-Sahel Regional Security
9. Western Sahara in the Framework of the New Moroccan Advanced Regionalization Reform
10. The Western Saharan Members of the Moroccan Parliament: Diplomacy and Perceptions of Identity
11. Changes in Moroccan Public Policies in Western Sahara and International Law: Adjustments to a New Social Context in Dakhla
12. Memory and Resistance: A Historical Account of the First “Intifadas” and Civil Organizations in the Territory of Western Sahara
13. Western Saharan and Southern Moroccan Sahrawis: National Identity and Mobilization
14. The View from Tindouf: Western Saharan Women and the Calculation of Autochthony
15. “For us, Parliament is a Tool for Liberation”: Elections as an Opportunity for a Transterritorial Sahrawi Population
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Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old
Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization
When a Conflict Gets Old
edited by Raquel Ojeda-Garcia, Irene Fernández-Molina, Victoria Veguilla
Poverty, Aid and Development
Africa -- Politics and government
1. Introduction: Towards a Multilevel Analysis of the Western Sahara Conflict and the Effects of its Protractedness -- 2. The United Nations’ Change in Approach to Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict since the Turn of the 21st Century -- 3. The Geopolitical Functions of the Western Sahara Conflict: US Hegemony, Moroccan Stability and Sahrawi Strategies of Resistance -- 4. The EU’s Reluctant Engagement with the Western Sahara Conflict: Between Humanitarian Aid and Parliamentary Involvement -- 5. Western Sahara and the Arab Spring -- 6. Algerian Foreign Policy towards Western Sahara -- 7. Beyond Western Sahara, the Sahel-Maghreb Axis Looms Large -- 8. The Role of Sahrawis and the Polisario Front in Maghreb-Sahel Regional Security -- 9. Western Sahara in the Framework of the New Moroccan Advanced Regionalization Reform -- 10. The Western Saharan Members of the Moroccan Parliament: Diplomacy and Perceptions of Identity -- 11. Changes in Moroccan Public Policies in Western Sahara and International Law: Adjustments to a New Social Context in Dakhla -- 12. Memory and Resistance: A Historical Account of the First “Intifadas” and Civil Organizations in the Territory of Western Sahara -- 13. Western Saharan and Southern Moroccan Sahrawis: National Identity and Mobilization -- 14. The View from Tindouf: Western Saharan Women and the Calculation of Autochthony -- 15. “For us, Parliament is a Tool for Liberation”: Elections as an Opportunity for a Transterritorial Sahrawi Population -- 16. Conclusion
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Dear media partners, dear colleagues,
Let’s start with facts: The next Reeperbahn Festival – the 12th! – kicks off in exactly two months. It should come as no surprise, then, that the number of band and artist confirmations continues to grow. Launched in 2007, BBC Music Introducing is committed to supporting undiscovered artists, making the British radio format a perfect fit for Reeperbahn Festival – and so we’re very pleased that, in 2017, for the first time ever, BBC Music Introducing, together with the British PRS Foundation, will be presenting a programme at Reeperbahn Festival. And, last but not least: the line-up for this year’s Word programme is now complete.
Frehn Hawel
Hamburg, 20 July 2017
Over the past 12 years, Reeperbahn Festival has become known for presenting an immense amount of exciting new music – new music that has the potential to make it really big. And the festival’s 2017 edition will, of course, continue in this tradition. With Amadou & Mariam (ML) (photo) we’ve got true music celebrities heading our way. The blind couple from Mali create a sound cosmos that combines traditional Malian melodies, Malian rhythms, and western rock with such skill and brilliance that music stars – including Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and Herbert Grönemeyer – are scrambling to work with them. Much the same could be said of Omar Souleyman (SY), whose music can be seen as a stand against the horror and violence in Syria, his home country, and whose driving-beat dance numbers – released, incidentally, on Diplo’s Mad Decent label – bring clubgoers to their feet in about two seconds flat. Seldom has a rap duo been more spot on: Zugezogen Maskulin (DE) from Berlin show that social criticism and biting humour harmonise superbly with brute trap beats – while fully renouncing rap clichés. Epic – that, in a word, is Sólstafir’s (IS) psychedelic rock: rugged like Iceland’s landscape, the songs by this Reykjavik foursome erupt out of the blue into geysers of massive sound and have found their way into the hearts of fans of harder rock around the world. Similarly euphoria-inducing, though belonging to a completely different genre, is the sound of DARDAN (DE), whose mixtape “Hallo Deutschrap” provides more than enough reason to declare him the most innovative voice in German rap. They formed in Jordan, they represent the Palestinian diaspora: 47SOUL (JO/PS). With its fusion of Arabic dabke music, electronic production, and English-Arabic lyrics, 47SOUL has invented its own musical genre – shamstep – a blend of drums, synthesisers, percussion, and hypnotic guitars that when performed live whips crowds into an ecstatic frenzy. And for something a bit quieter there’s singer and guitarist Fin Greenall from Brighton – he’ll be at the festival with his band, Fink (GB), his classic-sounding blues, and his thirteenth album, “Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club”.
Also confirmed: Fayzen (DE), Loney Dear (SE), Kat Frankie (DE/AU), Lil Peep (US), Boiband (DE), Dermot Kennedy (IE), Pabst (DE), Wandl (AT), Nadine Shah (GB), Noah Kahan (US), IDER (GB), Shy Luv (GB), Fyfe (GB), ÄTNA (DE), Matt Maltese (GB), Jordan Max (GB), Nilüfer Yanya (GB), Jane Weaver (GB), ALL WE ARE (GB), Schwarz (DE), Cosima (GB), Chantal Acda (BE), Black Honey (GB), Ilgen-Nur (DE), Erregung öffentlicher Erregung (DE), einarIndra (IS), Noah Slee (NZ), Farewell Dear Ghost (AT), NOËP (EE), The Wanton Bishops (LB), Palm (US), Yungblud (GB), Jade Bird (GB), Kalandra (NO), Jules Ahoi & The Deepsea Orchestra (DE), EDSUN (LU), When 'Airy Met Fairy (LU), Tuys (LU), Flora Cash (SE/US), Adna (DE), Ant Antic (AT), Mise en Scene (CA), Ankathie Koi (AT), The Aces (US)
The First Ever BBC Music Introducing/ PRS Foundation Night on 21 September at Nochtspeicher
For the first time ever, British radio format BBC Music Introducing is teaming up with PRS Foundation to bring four up-and-coming UK artists to Reeperbahn Festival. Since 2007, BBC Music Introducing has been supporting unsigned and lesser known artists by giving them exposure both on the radio and on the many BBC Music Introducing stages found at major festivals like Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, and SXSW. This format has meant that, over the years, the venerable BBC has become the most important platform for presenting the freshest and most exciting new music from the UK – making it a perfect match for Reeperbahn Festival. This week, BBC presenter Huw Stephens announced the artists who will be performing at the BBC Music Introducing/ PRS Foundation night on 21 September at Nochtspeicher: IDER (GB), Nilüfer Yanya (GB), Matt Maltese (GB) and Jordan Max (GB).
Reeperbahn Festival Word Programme 2017: 4 Days, 3 Venues
No Reeperbahn Festival would be complete without the Word programme, where literature and the literary world take centre stage. In 2017, the Word programme spans four days, takes place in three venues – Alte Liebe, Imperial Theater, and Millerntorwache – and offers a line-up that includes Pop Lectures, with, among others, Diana Weis (DE) and Roger Behrens (DE), and events with authors Tex Rubinowitz (DE), Tobias Bamborschke (DE), Messer singer Hendrik Otremba (DE), and many others. And, of course, the beloved classic, the Türsteherlesung, a reading with three Reeperbahn bouncers, is back again this year.
Also confirmed: Michel Massmünster: Das Versprechen der Nacht (CH), Ray's Reeperbahn Revue (GB), Indiecon Island (DE), Books de Hoode präsentiert Alexander Hacke (DE), IMJA Preisträger-Lesungen (DE), Hempel's Beatles Tour (DE), NDR Blue Backstage (DE)
Photo: Hassan Hajaj
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writer | bookseller | paper hoarder
Another post at Broken Circles, wherein I start, realize it is late, and leave off with an idea half-finished. I know, such a tease.
“I wasn’t talking about the reader; I was referencing the writer. The narrative anxiety is his (or hers, or its). Dr. Bradley sees it as more basal, more Maslow-ian, and yes, while that is part of the narrative and the motivation within the narrative, it’s not part of the writer’s anxiety.”
I’ve got to break these up. My brain only works in half-hour segments any more. 🙂
January 30, 2008 mark
Oh, and an addendum
I finish up the Broken Circles post, and realize that Fields of the Nephilim’s “Straight Into the Light” is playing on the headphones. I don’t even realize its presence any more. It just sends me into the zone. It is, as always, ever-present when I poke at that thin veil between me and the Universe.
I will fly again
All our days are numbers
We bare the face of men
The rain, the skies are changing
But I will fly again
Look up, look down
Look straight into the light
{you and I will fly again}
{you and I again}
Look down
Is it the face we know?
Or something beyond the soul?
We served this world like angels
Been burned both night and day
Now we turn with eyes blazing
Well its time for us to go
You and I will fly again {you and I will fly again}
You and I again {you and I again}
I’m just sayin’. You can’t poke at the Universe without it poking back. It’s part of Being Awake.
Should All Broken Circles Be Mended?
“If the New Weird argued that magic had a place in urban, modern, settings, then we ask you consider why do we still insist on calling it “magic.” Why do we lash ourselves to any of the language used in the last three hundred years to describe the “un”-human? Yes, “faery” and “vampire” and “lycanthropy” are useful tools because they give our audience something familiar, something to which they can cling as they are thrown into the textual sea, but these words are also boat anchors that will drag you down. We are children of the 21st century. We are hurtling towards “trans-” and “post-” in our humanity. Why is our language, our fantastic literature, not already there? Why is it not showing us the way? Urging us ever on?”
I’m part of the group who is blogging over at Broken Circles, where we are attempting to (initially) come to some sort of consensus about what it is that we’re doing with our words. From there, we will, I dunno, scamper off into the hills and put it all into action.
The above is pulled from my first post. Click over and join in. Poke holes in my arguments. That should be fun. And check out the rest of the discussion that Jonathan Wood, Paul Jessup, and others have been engaging in.
Capsule Reviews: two DVDs, one book, one GN
Some quickie reviews on media that has passed through our filters recently.
Balls of Fury (DVD): When you have kids, you quickly realize that, some nights, films that cling to the Water Balloons To The Crotch style of comedy are perfectly acceptable fare. Balls of Fury makes no claims otherwise. Plus one star for the balls out premise. Minus one star for being both too short and too long (not enough ping pong hilarity, too much . . . it’s not even “story” . . . so yeah, whatever it is, it doesn’t go anywhere). Plus one star for Christopher Walken. Plus one more star for putting him in faux geisha costumes. Minus one star for wasting Jason Scott Lee and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Minus one star for making us wait until the end credits to see the best parts (the Def Leppard singalong and bloopers). Let’s see, doing the math . . . carry the one . . . ah: zero stars.
Casshern (DVD): Briefly, for those who have recently agreed that Bioshock offers oodles research material, Casshern is a must see. Filled with all manner of digital backgrounds, CGI work, and wire fu, this film is total eye candy. Part giant robot story, part chambara epic, part Soviet propaganda-style military alternate history, part family tragedy, part live-action anime, Casshern waits until the last five minutes to sucker punch you. I’ve seen it twice in the last month, and the subtly of its thematic thrust is very, very good. Five stars.
Halting State, by Charlie Stross (novel): Yes, it’s a heist book, and the gimmick is that the bank is a virtual entity within a MMORG. Yes, it’s set near-future and Charlie lays it on heavily with both the geek references and the geek toys. It’s also told in the second person–for each of its three protagonists. It’s an homage to the whole history of online games (Zork, anyone?), and it should be a complete train wreck. But it’s not; quite the opposite, actually. It’s damn near invisible. The writer in me gives it five stars; the reader takes one away due to an ending that fails to outshine some of the material earlier in the book.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (GN): My comic book store guy did not like this. In fact, when I mentioned it to him, I touched off a bit of a rant. Now, I understand his point of view, but it’s just . . . well, it comes down to this: Alan Moore fucked his audience by putting in too many words. The buggery being that “too many words” was not the sort of funny picture book that LoEG was previously, and that standard set, Moore went off the rails badly with The Black Dossier and, well, that sort of thing is inexcusable. Having finished the The Black Dossier earlier today (and subsequently finding all the pieces of my head and putting them back together after having it exploded in fine fashion), I have to say that my comic book guy is sort of an idiot. Which is too bad, because I like him and I like his store. But he’s wrong.
For many reasons, but the two biggies are: (1) It’s an Alan Moore book. What the fuck did you think he was going to do? (2) It’s a series where the heroes of fiction are recast as a Victorian superhero team, and the whole of our fantastical literature is being raided as grist for Moore’s febrile story-telling. The Black Dossier simply takes the next step and includes actual material (heretofore hidden and other “undiscovered”) from several centuries that support Moore’s alternate world-view. Moore offers a lost Shakespeare play, a Wooster & Jeeves story, a mashup pulp fiction dime novel by Kerouac and Joyce (yeah, that’s where my head exploded), a rewrite of Crowley’s history concerning The Book of the Law , and Oh My God! Is that not enough? No? How about a 3-D ending that requires reading Dr. Seuss style (with one eye shut) in order to see all the clever.
Too many words? Jesus, people. This is a landmark piece that synthesizes literature and pulp, fantasy and history. And the ending? It’s . . . well, it’s Moore. I thought Watchman was staggering in its deconstruction of the superhero genre, From Hell mind-boggling in its attention to detail, and the previous LoEG books to be incredible. This just tops all of them.
Jess Nevins: Dude, they were totally gunning for you on this one. You should get a special dispensation from the Queen of England for doing the annotations.
Wherein Rabbit Admits to Not Using His Free Time Wisely
In the great, grand scheme of procrastinating from writing, I have gone and gotten myself an Xbox 360. The Wii is fun and all, but frankly? Everyone once in a while, Daddy wants to shoot something. Or crash something. Or pretend that playing Bioshock is world-building research.
Anyway, I have no friends. Well, one. I need more. My gamer tag is thumbless ape.
The Backassward Way of Process
I’ve been wrestling hard with INSTRUMENT over the last few weeks. I know the story I want to tell; I’ve just been having a bitch of a time figuring out how to get into it. And then I realized that voice that has been working best for this milieu is not the voice of the main character. This realization cemented the fact I’ve been avoiding: my main character–as I’ve been considering him–is just the wrong guy.
So, out with the old, and finding something new. A tagline for another story surfaced from the old idea file, hooked itself onto the main character, and suddenly I realized that RABBITS FOOT would be a much more suitable introduction to this world and these players.
Maybe it’s just background that I play through and then keep to myself as I go back to INSTRUMENT, better armed to get into the book. But I realize that the hook into INSTRUMENT works much better if you’re party to RABBITS FOOT in its entirety.
This is my process. Instead of figuring out the beginning of a book that has been dogging me for five years, I back-burner it entirely to write the prequel. I’m still not sure if this is avoidance behavior or clever redirection of a nut that my brain isn’t ready to crack. Somewhere along the line I stumble to the fact that GEARS is the book that follows RABBITS FOOT and INSTRUMENT. And I know what the city is called by its denizens, so I can finally ditch “Empire City.” It’s an old friend, but it needed to go as it no longer fit the world.
During the 1500 word blitz to the end of Chapter One today, I hit a spot where a bit character (Burke) informed me he was a secondary character of some importance (thereby giving me a huge way in to the history of the world), and the main character (Mistral) did a little thing that told me he was ready to play with others.
Excellent. Blockage removed. Flow is on. Now to Chapter Two, which opens with a severed hand in a sink. But, first, my favorite bit from today behind the cut.
(a little WIP)
Something Resembling a Top Ten List for 2007
We’re still in the process of shifting gears over here (including some pretty serious distractions): dumping the head space used for “The Heart of the Rail,” which did manage to get out the door in time (and a nod to Eric Griffith for the title, thank you sir!); finding the last good copy of “Blackmail boxes,” the editing of which I do need to stop putting off; finishing off the last code push for the not-so-secret Secret Project; and deciding if I really want to write INSTRUMENT or RABBIT FOOT.
Not to mention settling on which order those last two occur in.
So, while I thrash about, clearing things up, I offer you this. My favorite records from last year (as reported to Igloo):
Ulver :: Shadow of the Sun (Jester Records): Calling this “ambient metal” is somewhat of a disservice to both ambient and metal, but I’m at a loss to how else to quantify this record. It is a thousand miles away from their black metal beginnings, but in the wake of recent releases like Perdition City and Silencing the Singing , it’s a natural evolution. A haze of melancholy and fading heat energy, Shadow of the Sun is rife with glitch, classical atmospherics, and stanzas of banal lyrics that Garm’s delivery transforms into emotionally loaded introspection. It shouldn’t touch me as deeply as it does, but somehow I can’t stop listening to it.
Aaron Spectre :: Lost Tracks (Ad Noiseam): Alan Lockett says it best. A surprisingly gentle record from the man who mashed thrash and drum ‘n’ bass into one of my favorite records from 2006.
Detritus :: Fractured (Ad Noiseam): Another record from Ad Noiseam, who on the whole always produces a consistently excellent catalog. Fractured leaps out of this already excellent release list with a stellar piece of cinematic soundtracking. The sort of record that should make David Arnold very nervous about the producers of the next James Bond swapping his tired orchestrations for David Dando-Moore’s phenomenal Strings ‘n’ Beats. God, wouldn’t that just blow the doors off the whole genre of movie soundtracks?
Nine Inch Nails :: Year Zero & Y34rz3r0r3m1x3d (Nothing): After With Teeth , I had given up on Trent Reznor, but he managed to ditch all the things I hated about that record, rediscover the energy that made The Downward Spiral a blast of ferocious energy, and damage the whole thing with a layer of digital glitch and effects that is just amazing (the arrival of the “Great Destroyer” nearly makes up for With Teeth all by itself). Y34rz3r0r3m1x3d is one of those extremely rare remix records that manages to be a completely different experience, yet isn’t filled with a bunch of tracks that make you miss the originals (Saul Williams’ remix of “Hyperpower!,” for example, should have sucked for burying the great drum track beneath vocals, but Williams’ caustic and inflammatory delivery transforms the track into a revolutionary call to arms).
Tonikom :: Epcoh (Hymen Records): A number of my favorite labels held their ground this year, putting out records that, while they certainly weren’t embarrassing, weren’t interesting enough for me to hold my attention. However, Tonikom’s debut on Hymen, Epoch , caught my ear every time a track from it surfaced on my daily play list. Marrying the best parts of Contagious Organism’s soundscape work with the rhythmic noise aesthetic the label is known for, Tonikom managed to make the whole sound seem fresh again.
Tetsu Inoue :: Inland (FAX): The best release from FAX last year. Once upon a time, FAX was all a growing boy needed as far as electronic music (and the hefty release schedule helped). Now, it seems like a boutique label for Namlook’s noodling, which makes Inland all that more of a surprise and a treat.
Amon Tobin :: Foley Room (Ninja Tune): Tobin’s complex programming combined with a dramatic sense of cinematic overdub. As a headphone record, it turns whatever mundane task you are doing into a high-stakes thriller. Nothing better for cleaning out the sock drawer, or re-arranging the kitchen utensils, or waiting for a terminally late bus.
Kiln :: Dusker (Ghostly International): For some reason, I’ve been confusing Kiln with Aeroc in my head (I know, these days it’s hard to not confuse a couple of artists once a week or so), and had put off listening to Kiln (again, not sure why? I like Aeroc’s Viscous Solid well enough). So, eventually, I get around to Dusker and have been thoroughly enjoying their glitchy shoegazing pop music.
Young Gods :: Super Ready/Fragmente ( ): The Young Gods wandered off my radar for a few years and burned their way back onto my regular playlist with the blistering Super Ready/Fragmente . Not as “funky” as Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero , but noisy with that same sense of industrialized energy (think an Italian roadster compared to the jacked-up NIN pimp wagon). More guitar too, which is never a bad thing.
Omnimotion :: “Embrace” (from Midnight Soul Dive ) (Aleph-Zero): Omnimotion’s full-length was good, but six months later, I can’t recall many of the individual tracks. But “Embrace,” his contribution to the latest compilation from Israel’s downtempo/world fusion label, still transports me to a different headspace every time I hear it. Aleph-Zero has embraced the digital distribution models, so you should buy one less overpriced cup of coffee today, and go get this track instead.
And five records I still need to track down.
DeepChord :: Presents EchoSpace: The Coldest Season (Modern Love): I’ve been more of a reader than a producer of content at Igloo this past year, and reviews like Robbie Geoghegan’s on DeepChord :: Presents EchoSpace get me very excited about listening to music again. Why does my local record store not have a single copy of this? Bastards.
Rapoon :: Time Frost (Glacial Movements): Storey’s work in the last few years has seemed to be in a repeating pattern, but conceptually he’s gone into the wilderness with this record, and I’m intrigued. It helps that I have a weakness for soundtracks of glacial terrain. I don’t know why; I just accept it.
Ontayso :: 24-hours (U-Cover). Even if I could afford each hour (19 euros each!), I’ve missed my chance for this one. Twenty-four discs, each one an hour long, that detail a day in the life of Ontayso, from soundscapes to ambient textures to god-knows what (though Paul Lloyd does a nice job covering enough of them that I’m even more sick that I missed out). Maybe the rest of us will get lucky and U-Cover will do a digital version of these records. Please?
David Sylvian :: Naoshima (Samadhisound): A piece of environmental music that, as the press release states, isn’t really complete until it is heard in situ at the town of Honmura. As it is more and more impossible (without really good headphones) to listen to ambient music without having to consider where and when you are listening to a record, this sort of spacial requirement for the full “aural” effect of a record is fascinating to me. Naturally, I’ll be listening to it while riding a train on a different continent entirely, but well, that’s what the transportive magic of music is all about, isn’t it?
Stars of the Lid :: And Their Refienment of the Decline (Kranky): Which I have somewhere, but God knows where it is in the stacks and piles and random chaos that is my office. 2007 was that sort of year, and it probably wouldn’t hurt me to find this record, put it on, and do nothing for its entire playing time. At least once.
Draft Finished
Finished a draft of the train story today. Hid out from the world and banged on it until it was done. so, 4K of words for me today. I’m going to go off and see if I can’t be seduced by a crappy movie and the blinking lights on the front of an XBox 360.
Any of y’all that want to be first readers, let me know. I’ll need comments by Sunday, though. Got that deadline looming.
Reason #1334 For Switching Back to Mac
I sold my old HP laptop last night. It had been sitting around under my desk for the last six months, getting in the way, and while I loved this husky monster of a machine, it’s just too unwieldy to haul around on the train. So, craiglist and gone. The guy who was buying it asked me why I was letting go of the machine and I said, “I’ve gone back to Macs.” He made that face and shrugged, giving off the “what a moron” vibe. A couple minutes later, I mention Vista and he goes off on a long tear about what a piece of shit that OS is.
Dude, I know. Why do you think I went back to the elegance of the Mac?
Speaking of elegance, Mac Heist is doing their yearly package deal. $50 gets you 11 sweet little apps (it was ten earlier today; between when I got the package and got home, they added one, and I still got it as part of the deal). There’s a robust little graphic app, an accounting app, an alarm clock, a sexy little iTunes album art app/mp3 player, a task manager, a CSS editor, and a few others.
$50.00. For ALL OF THEM.
And, 25% of that goes to charity. You can pick from several or split it among the whole list.
Not only are you not going to see this sort of deal on the PC side of the fence, probably half of them wouldn’t work for shit with Vista. I’m just saying . . .
Wishing Makes It So
Back in 2004, a buddy of mine brought a daruma back for me from his recent trip to Japan. I dutifully made a wish, and colored in an eye.
A couple of nights ago, I gathered some friends, made a toast, and colored in his other eye with a black Sharpie.
There. Done. That wish came true.
January 8, 2008 mark
Finish Your Novel!
Mike Voss on Works in Progress
Mark Teppo on Works in Progress
Mariana on On the Danger of Making Things Up
Dave on Eulogy for Enkidu
Author Stuff
Making Things Up
What's Been Going On?
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Trace: Marriage and Religious Faithfulness
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ogausdg
MARRI's Website
About Marripedia
1. Marriage Impacts the Economy
1.1 Shaping Citizens
1.2 Contributions of Married Couples
1.3 Retreat from Marriage
2. Chastity Impacts Marriage
3. Religion Impacts Chastity
4. Marriage, Religion, and Chastity Impact Sexual Enjoyment
Marriage and Religious Faithfulness
The well-being of the United States is strongly related to marriage,1) which is a choice about how individuals channel their sexuality. The implications of sexual choices are apparent when comparing family structures across societal measures, such as education and employment, as well as personal measures, like sexual satisfaction. Frequency of religious worship is pivotal in shaping these sexual choices.2) In all cases, federal government data show that the intact married family that worships God weekly produces the most profitable and sexually satisfied citizens.
Marriage impacts the economy,3)
Chastity impacts marriage,
And worship impacts chastity.4)
Decisions about sexual conduct—and how this plays out in marriage and family life—shape or misshape the ability of American society to function in its major tasks.
One significant way by which marriage impacts the economy is its influence on the future workforce—its children.
According to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth,5) American children raised in intact, married families have higher GPA’s6) than those born into non-intact families. These children are more likely to get further in their education,7) and to perform more diligently in school.8)
When religion is factored in, children perform even better. This is especially true for children raised in low-income communities. According to Dr. Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin, weekly religious worship delivers educational benefits that are equivalent to moving the poorer children into middle class neighborhoods.9) Nothing in public policy yields returns like these in education.
Therefore, it is no surprise that children raised in intact married families that attend religious services weekly are most likely to receive A’s in school.10)
Common sense and myriad social science studies indicate that the better an individual does in school, the more that individual will earn later when he/ she joins the workforce.11)
In addition to forming productive workforce participants, married couples also play an important role in sustaining the economy. Controlling for all relevant factors, men’s productivity increases about 26 percent when they marry.12) Similarly, the most productive segment of the workforce is married men13) with three or more children.
Marriage is especially necessary to fund the government.14) The below chart of preliminary, unpublished data by Dr. Henry Potrykus should catch the eye of every politician: Married couples contribute at least 20 percent more to the tax pool than do their non-married male and female counterparts, controlling for related factors.
Despite the inherent value in marriage, adults have steadily retreated from marriage over the last several decades (see red trendline in graph below).15) This decline in marriages, combined with the impact of marriage on tax contributions, means that the government has lost significant revenues from marriageable adults that remain single.
The role of marriage in shaping personal and societal outcomes clarifies the plight of the Black Family.16) Black males who forego marriage are less likely to hold a steady job, are more likely to engage in risky behavior, and are less likely to contribute society than Black males who do marry. The retreat from marriage across all four different levels of education (high school dropout; high school graduation; college education; and even professional graduate education) among black men has undermined many of the gains made by the civil rights movement under Dr. Martin Luther King.
Marriage trends are driven by sexual decisions—chastity and monogamy, or their opposite, polyamory. The below chart, perhaps one of the most important in the social sciences, informs all other data in research related to marriage and the family.
This chart shows the status of American marriages five years into the marriage. Among both men and women who have never had any sexual partner other than their spouse (ie. they were totally monogamous), 97 percent of women and 99 percent of men were still married. For women who had one extra sexual partner (for most, before marriage) only 64 percent were still married—a drop of 33 percent, which is twice the rate of men. For those women who had two sexual partners outside of marriage, only 55 percent were still married five years down the road.
Clearly, the more sexual partners an individual has, the less he/ she is capable to sustain marriage. This is especially true for women, who experience a steeper and more significant reduction in marital security with each additional non-marital or extra-marital partner.
Given the negative impact of divorce on income, productivity, and savings,17) and especially on the education of children,18) it is clear that chastity is the foundation of an industrious society and flourishing economy.
Chastity is best preserved by religious worship. As shown below, frequency of religious attendance is positively correlated with the percentage of individuals who had sexual intercourse with a “pick up” in the previous year.19) Individuals who attended religious service weekly or more were far less likely to have had a pick-up sexual partner. More than seven times as many people who never attend religious worship had a one night stand than weekly church-goers.
Religious worship also protects American teenagers from initiating sexual intercourse at a young age. The more teens worship, the more likely they are to abstain from sex during their adolescent years. At age 17, nineteen percent fewer youth who attend church weekly are having sexual intercourse than adolescent who never attend.
Age at first intercourse sets the foundation for a lifetime of sexual mores. According to the National Survey of Family Growth, the earlier an adolescent initiates intercourse, the more sexual partners the adolescent will have. Children who engage in sexual intercourse at age 12 have seven times more partners that young adults who initiate intercourse at ages 21-22.
This, in turn, impacts the proportion of out-of-wedlock births in an area. The same survey showed that girls who initiate sexual intercourse at age 12 have over three times the probability of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy as girls who first have intercourse at ages 21-22.
Religious worship also helps establish sexual control. Testosterone levels influence the age of first sexual intercourse for most boys; however, frequency of worship of God also significantly influences sexual initiation. As shown below, religious practice lessens the influence of high testosterone and lack of worship unleashes the influence of high testosterone. Worship of God and sexual conduct work in tandem.
When marriage is factored in, the religious benefits are further intensified. As shown below, adolescents who were raised in intact married families that worshipped God weekly were almost six times as likely to have had only one sexual partner during their lifetime as those who were raised in a non-intact family that did not worship.20)
The extent to which an individual has remained chaste—the number of sexual partners he/ she has had—sets the pattern for future sexual conduct.
These data taken together show that adolescents raised in intact married families that worship God weekly have the most sexually fulfilling lives. As shown below, 65 percent of adults who were raised in such families report that they are “very happily married”—the highest percent compared to those in non-intact families that did not worship, intact families that did not worship, and non-intact families that did worship.21)
This helps explain one of the great counterfactuals of the sexual revolution: those in intact families that worship God weekly have the most frequent sexual relations.
Not only do people in intact marriages who attend religious services engage in frequent sexual relations, but they also enjoy the most gratifying sexual experiences. As shown below, this is the group most likely to feel satisfied,22) loved,23) wanted/ needed,24) taken care of,25) and thrilled/ excited26) during intercourse.
Given that marriage impacts society, chastity impacts marriage, and religion impacts chastity, it is no surprise that the intact married family that worships God weekly produces the most numerous and significant benefits. A thriving society needs a culture of chastity—joyful chastity if it is to be a happy society, repressive chastity if it is to be a repressive society, and no chastity if it is to be a dysfunctional society. Religious faithfulness is the foundation of this all. Those who worship God frequently are more likely to lead chaste lives; those who lead chaste lives are more likely to have secure and sexually satisfying marriages; and stable marriages are more likely to shape a strong, flourishing nation.
1) Henry Potrykus and Patrick Fagan, “U.S. Social Policy Dependence on the Family,” Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2013) available at http://marri.us/policy-2013.
2) John O.G. Billy, “Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women,” Journal of Marriage and Family 56, no. 2 (May 1994): 387-404.
Lynn Blinn-Pike, “Why Abstinent Adolescents Report They Have Not Had Sex: Understanding Sexually Resilient Youth,” Family Relations 48, no. 3 (July 1999): 295-301.
3) Henry Potrykus and Patrick Fagan, “Non-Marriage Reduces U.S. Labor Participation: The Abandonment of Marriage Puts America at Risk of a Depression,” The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2012), available at http://marri.us/labor-slump.
Henry Potrykus and Patrick Fagan, “The Divorce Revolution Perpetually Reduces U.S. Economic Growth,” The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2012), available at http://marri.us/productivity-divorce.
Henry Potrykus, Patrick Fagan, and Robert Schwarzwalder, “Our Fiscal Crisis: We Cannot Tax, Spend, and Borrow Enough to Substitute for Marriage,” The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2012), available at http://marri.us/our-fiscal-crisis-we-cannot-tax-spend-and-borrow-enough-to-substitute-for-marriage.
5) Patrick F. Fagan, “Religious Attendance and School Performance of U.S. High School Students,” Mapping America Project available at http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF08C36.pdf
6) Patrick Fagan, Kirk A. Johnson and Jonathan Butcher, “A Portrait of Family and Religion in America,” The Heritage Foundation, 2006, chart 20, based on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
7) Jan O. Jonsson and Michael Gahler, “Family Dissolution, Family Reconstitution, and Children's Educational Careers: Recent Evidence for Sweden,” Demography 34, no. 2 (1997): 285.
Evans, M.D.R., Jonathan Kelley, and Richard A. Wanner. “Consequences of Divorce for Childhood Education: Australia, Canada, and the USA, 1940–1990.” Comparative Sociologyy 8, no. 1 (February 2009): 134-135.
8) Susan L. Brown, “Family Structure and Child Well-Being: The Significance of Parental Cohabitation,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 66, no. 2 (2004): 362.
Jay D. Teachman, “The Living Arrangements of Children and their Educational Well-Being,” Journal of Family Issues 29, no. 6 (2008): 747.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach, “Heterogeneity in Two-Parent Families and Adolescent Well-Being,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 70, no. 2 (2008): 445.
9) Mark D. Regnerus, “Making the Grade: The Influence of Religion Upon the Academic Performance of Youth in Disadvantaged Communities,” Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, Report no. 3 (2001).
10) Patrick F. Fagan and Scott Talkington, “'Likely to Receive Mostly A’s' by Structure of Family of Origin and by Current Religious Attendance,” Mapping America Project available at http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF11A16.pdf
11) U.S. Census Bureau, “Work-Life Earnings by Field of Degree and Occupation for People With a Bachelor’s Degree: 2011,” U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Briefs (October 2012): 4.
12) Kate Antonovics and Robert Town, “Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering Sources of the Marital Wage Premium,” American Economic Review 9 (May 2004): 317–21.
13) W. Bradford Wilcox and Robert I. Lerman, “For richer, for poorer: How family structures economic success in America,” American Enterprise Institute (2014), available at https://www.aei.org/publication/for-richer-for-poorer-how-family-structures-economic-success-in-america/.
14) Henry Potrykus, Patrick Fagan, and Robert Schwarzwalder, “Our Fiscal Crisis: We Cannot Tax, Spend, and Borrow Enough to Substitute for Marriage,” The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2014), available at http://marri.us/our-fiscal-crisis-we-cannot-tax-spend-and-borrow-enough-to-substitute-for-marriage.
15) Patrick F. Fagan and Christina Hadford, The Fifth Annual Index of Belonging and Rejection, The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2015), available at http://marri.us/index-2015.
Patrick F. Fagan, “The Family: Agent of Economic Development & the Fundamental Safety Net.” (Paper addressed at the United Nations Conference May 14, 2015).
16) Patrick F. Fagan and Christina Hadford, “The State of the Black Family in America,” The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (2015), available at http://marri.us/get.cfm?i=OR15B01.
17) Jay L. Zagorsky, “Marriage and Divorce’s Impact on Wealth,” Journal of Sociology 41, no. 4 (2005): 416-417.
Mary E. Corcoran and Ajay Chaudry, “The Dynamics of Childhood Poverty,” Future of Children, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1997), pp. 40-54, quoting from G. J. Duncan et al., “Lone-Parent Families in the United States: Dynamics, Economic Status, and Developmental Consequences,” unpublished research paper, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1994.
18) Milling Kinard and Helen Reinherz, “Effects of Marital Disruption on Children’s School Aptitude and Achievement,” Journal of Marriage and Family 48 (1986): 289-290.
Potter, D., Psychosocial Well-Being and the Relationship Between Divorce and Children's Academic Achievement, Journal of Marriage and Family, 72 (2010): 933, 940-941.
Paul R. Amato, “Children of Divorce in the 1990s: An Update of the Amato and Keith (1991) Meta-Analysis,” Journal of Family Psychology 15 (2001): 355-370.
19) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “'Had Intercourse with a “Pick-Up” in Previous Years' by Marital Status and Religious Attendance.” Available at http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF13A30.pdf
20) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “’Number of Sexual Partners in Lifetime’ by Marital Status and Religious Attendance.” Available at http://marri.us/get.cfm?i=MA12H09.
21) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “Intergenerational Links to Marital Happiness: Religious Attendance and Family Structure.” Available at http://marri.us/get.cfm?i=MA08L03.
22) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “‘Feels Satisfied During Intercourse with Current Sexual Partner’ by Current Religious Attendance and Marital Status.” Available at http://marri.us/get.cfm?i=MA13E07.
23) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “’Feels Loved During Intercourse’ with Current Sexual Partner by Marital Status and Religious Attendance.” Available at http://marri.us/get.cfm?i=MA13E05.
24) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “'Feels Wanted, Needed During Intercourse' with Current Sexual Partner by Marital Status and Religious Attendance.” Available at http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF13J24.pdf.
25) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “’Feels “Taken Care of” During Intercourse with Current Sexual Partner’ by Marital Status and Religious Attendance.” Available at http://marri.us/get.cfm?i=MA12H06.
26) Patrick F. Fagan and Althea Nagai, “Feels Thrilled, Excited During Intercourse with Current Partner.” http://www.frc.org/marri-mappingamerica/mapping-america-116-feels-thrilled-excited-during-intercourse-with-current-sexual-partner.
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Meet Mary Hoedeman
Mary Hoedeman shocked her unsuspecting parents when she announced she was quitting college and her “set-for-life” job at The Kellogg Company – the company that was paying her tuition bills at Western Michigan University - behind. You didn’t leave that kind of a setup lightly.
Kellogg’s was a fixture in the Hoedeman family: Mom worked there; Dad worked there. Mary’s parents had met, married and raised their family - Mary is the youngest of three girls - all while working at Kellogg’s.
But Mary was not to be deterred. At a time in Michigan’s history when the oft-repeated tag-line was “Last one out, turn off the lights,” Mary folded her 5’8” frame (two-thirds legs) into her little yellow Mazda Cosmo and headed south. Upon arrival, she moved in with a high school friend, another battle Creek ėmigrė,
and her sister helped with securing a job at Occidental Petroleum.
But Texas was in the news for a reason other than the oil business. John Travolta’s third big movie, Urban Cowboy, a huge hit, had come out just a year earlier. Huston was crammed with paying customers, clamoring to learn those country dances; dance studios were struggling to find enough instructors to meet the demand. About the same time, Mary, a born athlete, decided corporate life was not for her.
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Our neophyte dancer was about to get very lucky. Mary answered the ad and began training under Nikki York, a World Champion through the Arthur Murray ballroom dance studio system. Nikki taught Mary ballroom technique, warned her that “If you want to win you have to fix that Waltz step,” and within months Mary was winning professional competitions. Working her way through the Country&Western competitive system, Mary won her first Country & Western Grand Championship in 1989 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As her competitive career continued, Mary and her partner repeatedly placed among the top 5 competitors in the world. The style of country dance that blended traditional forms with ballroom technique introduced and developed by Mary, and several of her colleagues, remains the dominant competitive style today.
Mary continued to teach of course, but with the notoriety that comes with competition win after competition win coupled with Mary’s infectious love of her sport, her innate charisma, and the advent of video, her reach to potential students expanded exponentially. In 1990 Mary became a film producer when she, and her company, Country and Western Dancing U.S.A., filmed the instructional video, "No One Has Two Left Feet." There are now nine videos in this series. Mary's video library eventually grew to number 23 instructional videos with combined worldwide sales totaling well over 300,000 copies. Her video, “The Beauty of Dance is Only a Step Away,” done to celebrate Mary's 25th year as an "ambassador of dance" is #24.
Many who bought Mary’s videos contracted with her to her to travel to their area, and for the next twelve years Mary enjoyed a 340 day per year, teaching and performing touring schedule throughout the US and Canada. In 1993 the Pepsi Cola Company made Mary a national spokesperson.
In addition to Mary traveling to her students, Mary’s students traveled great distances to be taught by her. For over twelve years Mary hosted a twice-yearly week-long dance retreat week in Music City; Nashville, Tennessee. For many of those years, Mary and her students capped off the week by performing live for television at the world famous Wild Horse Saloon. Mary also does choreography and is responsible for creating the line dance for Ricky Van Shelton's music video, Wild Man.
Mary kept her dance foot firmly in the competition world by acting as a judge at competitions as well as competing with her amateur students. In 2005 Mary's pro-am student won his own World Championship in Nashville, Tennessee with Mary as his partner.
From 2012-2017 Mary taught locally at Indiana University in Bloomington.
While at IU Mary organized two “flash mob” events featuring her students. Interested in bringing awareness to the poor posture and other health risks associated with having one’s face constantly buried in a smartphone or tablet, Mary, and her students organized a flash mob set to Andy Grammer’s “Keep Your Head Up.” Next, taking a stand for self-respect and self-confidence; a second flash mob was organized using Karen Drucker’s “I’ve Got The Power.”
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A Brief History of Holy Wells
Intercession with God, or with gods, at springs and watery places is global, stretching back into prehistory. It is found in modern Ireland at holy wells, of which about 3,000 are known. These range from remote, insignificant looking pools, that are now almost forgotten or little visited, to more popular, developed, rural and urban wells that form distinctive landmarks.
It has been widely accepted, even among academics, that our holy wells are Christianised relics of an ancient pagan religion. They are said to demonstrate continuity of practice, being a stunning example of the extraordinary symbiosis between the Celtic Church and paganism. Increasingly, historians and archaeologists challenge this idea as uncorroborated and propose that the tradition is probably an early Christian import.
We have little reliable evidence of religious practices in pre-Christian Ireland, unlike Britain. The Romans wrote about native British cults, in which wells were central. Some were assimilated into Roman religious practices, like the mineral springs of Bath in Somerset. This is supported by archaeological excavations. In Ireland, artefacts of the Bronze and Iron Age, interpreted as votive offerings, have been recovered from watery places, though not from wells. While some of the procedures carried out a the holy wells, like clockwise circumambulation, rag-typing to bushes and the leaving of votive offerings may indeed reflect continuity of native Irish pagan practices, there is no evidence that they were part of the rituals before Christianity. To date, no excavations of an Irish holy well demonstrate use before the 18th century.
References to pagan supernatural wells are found in early Irish literature and folklore, like healing wells of Dian Cecht, but may be imported story motifs. The earliest reliable literary reference to holy wells in Ireland comes from Adhamhán’s 7th century life of Colmcille. Holy wells are attributed to most early saints thereafter.
Christian pilgrimages to holy wells were common throughout Medieval Europe. The custom disappeared in Britain after the Reformation, but continued in Ireland. Ó Giolláin cites it as one of the principal methods of religious observance among Irish Catholics before the Famine, despite the Penal Laws.
Every pilgrimage or turas in Ireland shares common elements, although none are exactly alike. A well of some sort is basic, often dedicated to a saint or the Virgin Mary. Certain rituals are performed around the well, usually, at a prescribed time, for example, on the saint’s feast day or some other holy day. Pilgrims recite prescribed prayers while progressing clockwise round the well. Stones or stations are found at some wells, punctuating the turas round. Sometimes a cairn of stones is located by the well. It is customary to toss a stone on the cairn after each circuit, or at the end of the turas. Some wells have brushes or a tree on which rags are hung and small personal votive offerings may be left, both are tokens in exchange for healing. Water from the well may be imbibed, applied to the person or taken away, in hope of cures or favours.
Until two hundred years ago huge crowds attended these pilgrimages on the patron’s day, often fasting and barefoot. After long religious devotions, general socialising took place. At some wells alcohol was dispensed. Some excessive imbibing led to rowdy behaviour and faction fighting and brought the pilgrimages into disrepute, provoking condemnations from religious and secular authorities alike.
St. Colmcille Well, Carryblagh, circa1900
Circuit of the Well circa 1960s
A Pattern in Connemara, 1842
St. Davaddog's Well, Doaghmore
Maps & Photos Courtesy of "The Holy Wells of Fanad" by Brídín Nic Chearáin
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The life of one (soon to be) former Delegate
While we have to wait and see what November brings, the chances are pretty good that there will be an additional few dozen Marylanders walking around with the unofficial title of “former member of the General Assembly.” Some, like outgoing Senator Nancy Jacobs or Delegate Donna Stifler, decided well in advance, while our local Delegate Rudy Cane cynically waited until after the filing deadline to insure no one would oppose his apparent choice for successor, Sheree Sample-Hughes.
And then we have the handful who lost in their primary – among them was Delegate Don Dwyer, whose well-documented personal struggles and legal issues, along with redistricting, made his an uphill battle. But as he wrote a few days back:
I simply couldn’t walk away without committing to continue my efforts in regaining liberty and true freedom. I believe as many do, that the one best solution to federal tyranny is the doctrine of NULLIFICATION under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. I would like to introduce the States Rights Foundation and new blog The Rightful Remedy.
Washington will not fix itself. Our intent is to partner with other groups and people who are dedicated to advancing the 10th Amendment movement. It is the solution to the out of control Federal Government. If enough States say NO, the Federal Government will be unable to enforce its unconstitutional laws, lacking the resources to do so without aid by the States.
Whether intentional or not, The Rightful Remedy was officially launched on Bastille Day, July 14.
As has been his modus operandi in the past Dwyer is holding a gun raffle to raise funds for his project, which he explains further:
As a Maryland State Delegate, I introduced several bills considered Nullification Legislation, by which the State of Maryland would refuse to comply with Federal “laws” for which the Federal Government has no Constitutional authority to impose. The legislation essentially prohibits the State to use any resources to assist the Federal Government in taking action against Maryland Citizens who are not complying with any Unconstitutional Federal Act. The result, should such legislation pass, profoundly affects the ability of the Federal Government, which rely (sic) heavily on resources from the state, such as police, to effectively enforce their “laws.” (Emphasis in original.)
Nullification is an intriguing practice, although it’s not often tried (here’s one example.) It brings arguments about whether it should be up to the states or left to the judiciary to decide what is in accordance with the Constitution.
But states are generally reined in under the federal judiciary’s interpretation of the Supremacy Clause (such as the case with Arizona’s SB1070 in 2010) as well as the prospect of losing needed federal funding if they don’t perform a particular action – examples I’ve often used are the .08 blood alcohol level standard and legal drinking age of 21, for which the lack of acceptable state law resulted in a deduction of federal highway funding. It would take a state willing to endure the penalties of perhaps defying the Supreme Court (as in a fictional example I recently reviewed) and losing a significant part of its federal funding to openly adopt nullification, and I can tell you Maryland politicians are way too gutless to try either. (Given his go-it-alone attitude, I daresay Rick Perry and Texas might come the closest to using the approach.)
Yet there is a logical argument to non-enforcement as well. We’ve often heard about the prospect of gun confiscation, but there’s an open question as to whether law enforcement – particularly in rural areas like the Eastern Shore – would be willing to go on what’s been described as a “suicide mission.” At the time, Dwyer was calling for the formation of a “voluntary militia” in each county. On the other hand, we have constant complaints about the federal government not enforcing certain other laws, such as the ones dealing with illegal immigration – a backhanded form of nullification unto itself.
I guess the problem is who decides which laws to not enforce, and if they’re not enforced, are we still a nation of laws? A stricter adherence to the Tenth Amendment and Constitution in general would help, but for that we need to clean out our judiciary swamp. I think an equally productive avenue for Dwyer to pursue with his States Rights Foundation would be to work for repealing the Seventeenth Amendment, which has been argued in some circles for several years and is something I’ve advocated for on both a federal and state level as well. That would help to assure the interests of the several states are represented in Congress, so nullification may not be as necessary.
Author MichaelPosted on August 9, 2014 August 9, 2014 Categories Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Constitution, Don Dwyer, Donna Stifler, illegal immigration, Maryland General Assembly, Nancy Jacobs, Rick Perry, Rudy Cane, Seventeenth Amendment, Sheree Sample-Hughes, States Rights Foundation, Supremacy Clause, Supreme Court, Tenth Amendment
Pipkin bids farewell to Maryland Senate
It wasn’t how you’d expect the political career of a man who served as Minority Leader of the Maryland State Senate – and who was brash enough to seek statewide office just two scant years after upsetting a longtime incumbent to enter the Senate in the first place – to end. But no one ever said E.J. Pipkin did the expected as a politician.
In a letter written on Maryland Senate stationery but addressed as a “Letter to the Editor”, I found this in my e-mailbox tonight:
First, I want to thank the citizens of the Upper Shore and the State of Maryland for giving me the honor of representing them in the Maryland Senate. My eleven years in the General Assembly has been a time of challenge as a Republican, a time of accomplishment as a State Senator and a time when I have learned much about people and what can be achieved when people are determined.
One’s responsibilities to family and oneself often change the direction of life. So, it is with regret that I am resigning as Senator from District 36. My last day will be Monday, August 12, 2013. I will carry with me both the bitter and the sweet memories of the past eleven years. My family will be moving to Texas, where I will pursue studies at Southern Methodist University for a Masters of Science in Sport Management.
I chose to resign now, rather than serve out my term, which ends in January 2015, in order to give the Republican who fills the 36th District Senate seat the advantage of serving the people until he or she runs for re-election.
Again, I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity and honor to serve as your representative.
E.J. Pipkin
I’d actually first heard this at our Central Committee meeting this evening. But while the multimillionaire Pipkin follows his dream of higher education, those in his district have to consider a successor and, for the rest of us, the battle to become new Minority Leader among the other eleven Republican Senators is on.
I’ll look at the successor first. The obvious choice would be to elevate one of the three sitting Delegates from the district – who are all Republicans – to serve as the new Senator. In terms of seniority in the House, there is no contest because Delegate Michael Smigiel was elected in the same 2002 election which saw Pipkin win office. The other two Delegates, Steve Hershey and Jay Jacobs, were first elected in 2010. Smigiel also has the advantage of greater name recognition as he’s taken a lead role in the fight to uphold our Second Amendment rights.
Moreover, elevating Smigiel could allow the Central Committees within District 36 to correct a grievous wrong which has affected Caroline County for several years – it is the only county in Maryland without a representative in Annapolis, basically owing to its small population and unfortunate geographical position of always being part of large, multi-county districts. While District 36 covers all or part of four counties, the Cecil County portion is also in two other House districts, with District 35A being exclusive to the county.
On the other hand, the race for Minority Leader boils down to just a few possibilities. Starting with the eleven remaining Senators, we can probably throw out three who are leaving the Senate next year: Nancy Jacobs is retiring, while Allan Kittleman and Barry Glassman are seeking County Executive posts in their native counties.
Senator David Brinkley, though, served as Minority Leader for two years (2007-08) and more recently was Minority Whip (2010-11). His counterpart George Edwards was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007 under Governor Ehrlich, though.
The only other members with leadership experience in the General Assembly: Senator Joseph Getty was a Deputy Minority Whip in the House from 1999-2002, and he was succeeded by fellow Senators Christopher Shank from 2002-03 and J.B. Jennings from 2003-06. Shank was Assistant Minority Leader from 2003-06, though.
Since it’s probably going to be more or less of a caretaker role I wouldn’t be surprised if Brinkley doesn’t get another turn, although the newer members may want a fresh start with a new face. With only 11 votes (or 12 if a new Senator from District 36 is selected before the leadership change) the winner only has to convince five or six others.
Such is the sad state of affairs for Maryland Republicans when a former statewide candidate decides a gig in a master’s program is better than politics. I must say, though, it’s a good exercise in citizen legislation since Pipkin wasn’t a lifer and went on to something new after 11 years. I wish him the best of luck in Texas, and suspect he’ll like it there.
Author MichaelPosted on August 5, 2013 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2014, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Allan Kittleman, Barry Glassman, Caroline County, Christopher Shank, David Brinkley, E.J. Pipkin, George Edwards, J.B. Jennings, Jay Jacobs, Joe Getty, Maryland General Assembly, Maryland Senate, Michael Smigiel, Nancy Jacobs, Steve Hershey4 Comments on Pipkin bids farewell to Maryland Senate
The first GOP domino to fall
Yesterday I found out that District 34 State Senator Nancy Jacobs will not seek another term in Annapolis. In a release, the 18-year veteran legislator said it was time to move on:
This has been one of the most difficult decisions I’ve ever had to make. I’ve met so many wonderful people over the years who have not only supported my political career, but who have become my friends as well.
The time has come for Bruce and me to begin a new chapter in our lives. I will return to private life on January 1, 2015. Bruce has always been my biggest supporter and ally during my entire political career. It is time for us to be able to spend more time together.
You may recall Nancy also made an unsuccessful bid for the Second Congressional District seat last year, winning the GOP primary nod but losing with just 31% of the vote to Dutch Ruppersberger. While Dutch is rumored to be interested in running for governor next year, the release by Jacobs would seem to indicate her vote gathering days are over.
And while I commend Senator Jacobs for her lengthy service – which included a brief stint as Minority Leader in the Senate – I’m putting on my Central Committee member hat in bringing this up as an example for other party leaders and legislators to follow. Even if you don’t go public with the announcement as Nancy did, candidate recruitment is much easier when we have a direction toward which we need to recruit candidates. Obviously we need to contend for seats currently being held by the opposition, but now GOP leaders in Cecil and Harford counties can also work to find Nancy’s replacement with plenty of time for contenders to bring a campaign up to speed. Delegate Glen Glass would be the natural successor as he’s the lone GOP Delegate in that District; obviously this would also attract interest from his Democratic counterparts Mary-Dulany James and David Rudolph. In turn, those challengers for Delegate could be emboldened by the opportunity of winning an open seat in the House of Delegates.
Because they had the advantage for so long in local races, Democrats developed a fairly deep bench of replacements as veteran legislators and executive branch officials retired or moved up the political food chain. But the fact that Republicans are faring better in many localities and actually have the majority of local elected officials in Maryland should begin to work for them on a state level next year. That’s not to say any election will be a cakewalk in this state, but our opportunities should now be greater.
And thanks to Senator Jacobs and her timely announcement, we know we have a seat to defend with a new contender.
Author MichaelPosted on June 18, 2013 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2014, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, PoliticsTags Campaign 2014, Cecil County, David Rudolph, Dutch Ruppersberger, Glen Glass, Harford County, Mary-Dulany James, Maryland GOP, Nancy Jacobs
Disingenuous
As you might know, one of the traditional items I do for my readers is compile the monoblogue Accountability Project, with this year’s version likely to come out next month. (I have to do some slight tweaking to the format, which may take a little more time.) But a few days back I received an item from the Maryland Campaign for Liberty regarding speed cameras, from which I excerpt:
We had no illusions that the Statists in Annapolis would seriously consider a pro-liberty proposal like getting rid of speed cameras throughout the state.
Why would we be satisfied with just accomplishing these three goals you might ask?
Because we were able to get politicians on the record.
And boy, did we get them on record.
Between now and the next legislative session we’ll be holding politicians accountable for their votes in committee.
Our job as activists is to connect the legislative season to the electoral season.
The goals they were alluding to were to have the speed camera bill introduced, get a hearing on it, and put it to a vote, which it received in committee. All three were accomplished, but to the surprise of many (including me) neither the House bill nor a Senate companion received a single committee vote – this despite the fact three of the bill’s co-sponsors (Delegates Jay Jacobs, Wayne Norman, and then-Minority Leader Tony O’Donnell) sit on that Environmental Matters Committee. Norman was excused from the vote, but O’Donnell and Jacobs voted in line to kill the bill. The same was true for Senator Nancy Jacobs, who did nothing to back the Senate version she co-sponsored, although that vote was likely a perfunctory formality because the Senate vote document notes the bill is “Dead in House.”
Still, one would think a sponsor would at least vote for his or her bill, so I wonder how that vote came about in committee.
I’ll cheerfully admit I don’t know the ins and outs of how these committees work when they sit down to vote, but I would venture to say I know more about the legislative process than 99% of Maryland residents because I study the votes. It’s sort of sad to consider that not all of the 2700 or so bills introduced in the 90 day session receive a committee vote, although Environmental Matters voted on about 85% of the bills they were assigned this year. Many of those were rejected in a similar manner.
And the Campaign for Liberty people make the same point:
Wouldn’t you think that at least a few Republicans would have voted the right way on such a no-brainer liberty bill?
I make it my business to study bills and voting patterns, so I know that not all bills being considered in a committee are voted on in a unanimous manner. Take the three examples I’ll be using for the mAP from that same Environmental Matters Committee: HB44 failed on a 16-7 vote, HB106 (the Septic Bill repeal) failed 19-5, and HB252 (also sponsored by Delegate Smigiel) died in a 17-6 vote. I actually look for split votes, because unanimous votes generally show either broad support, a complete lack of guts, or a bill simply way too far out of the mainstream to even get a motion. HB251, in my opinion, fell into the second category.
So perhaps the Campaign for Liberty is correct in chastising those who didn’t vote to support the speed camera repeal, because there were several other votes where they were unafraid to stand in the minority. Hopefully next year their effort will gain steam, since the other side typical introduces bad bills several years in a row before legislators are cowed into approving them. Maybe the same is needed for good bills, too.
Author MichaelPosted on May 26, 2013 May 26, 2013 Categories All politics is local, Business and industry, Campaign 2014, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Campaign For Liberty, Jay Jacobs, monoblogue Accountability Project, Nancy Jacobs, speed cameras, Tony O'Donnell, Wayne Norman1 Comment on Disingenuous
Giving up or (hopefully) expanding the pie?
I received two e-mails on Thursday that I think activists should know about. Both came under the banner of “Maryland for Romney” but from two different people. The first I excerpt from came from David Ferguson of the state party:
In order to make sure that Mitt Romney becomes the 45th President of the United States, we need to win key swing states like our next-door neighbor, Virginia.
So, please join us for a trip to the Northern Virginia suburb of Sterling. The bus will depart Greenbelt (Century 21 Real Estate, 6401 Golden Triangle) at 8am, travel to Virginia (Sterling Victory Office, 21430 Cedar Drive Sterling, VA 20164) and return that same evening at 7pm.
And the second came from the desk of National Committeeman Louis Pope:
Victory is within site (sic) for the Romney-Ryan team on November 6th, and we all must pitch in to get over the finish line and win this election!
That’s why I’m inviting you to join our team in traveling to Ohio this weekend. Polls today have shown the race there tied at 48%, and putting boots on the group will give us that critical edge to overcome the Obama agenda. Ohio is one of a small number of remaining swing states that will determine if we welcome Mitt Romney as our 45th President or if Barack Obama retains the keys to the White House for another term.
For details on our Friday (October 26th) evening departure from Frederick, plus overnight accommodations in Independence, OH, please RSVP athttp://www.mdgop.org/mitt-romney.
Okay, I get the fact that Maryland is probably not going to be Romney country – although I suspect it won’t be nearly the bloodbath John McCain suffered here. I can see a single-digit margin in the race if all breaks correctly.
But the other thing I see is a number of winnable downticket races perhaps being ignored because we’re sending our best and brightest out of state, including a lot of party regulars. Is that really the way to attract and reward those grassroots supporters who may have come on board because they’re most interested in a local candidate like Nancy Jacobs, Eric Knowles, Faith Loudon, Tony O’Donnell, Frank Mirabile, or Ken Timmerman, or even the statewide race of Dan Bongino?
I’ll grant that the Ferguson note concluded with this statement:
If you can’t make it to Virginia, the MDGOP StrikeForce will be holding a Super Saturday in Montgomery County (18540 Office Park Drive in Montgomery Village).
These Super Saturday events have worked to promote a number of candidates in various high-density areas of the state (there were none on the Eastern Shore) but it seems like the top billing has gone to events where Maryland volunteers are sent to Virginia or Pennsylvania. Of course, this begs the question: who remains to change hearts and minds here in the Free State?
Yet if you think of things in a political cycle, as I sometimes tend to do, the Maryland GOP has failed in achieving its key objectives. Obviously we were at a very low point in 2008 when we were trounced due to a subpar candidate at the very top of the ticket whose opponent had enough coattails to drag in an extra Congressman from a district which should vote Republican every day and twice on Sundays.
But in 2010 we gained back that seat and picked up a net win of four seats in the General Assembly (losing two in the Senate but gaining six in the House) almost despite ourselves – many of our biggest victories came at the county or municipal levels. Unfortunately, the state party has done little to cultivate those grassroots supporters who may now want to see a local candidate prevail. Instead, they seem to be pressing hard for helping Mitt Romney win other states and risking defeat in a few winnable races here in Maryland.
Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, I believe the time has come for new leadership in the state party. We had a promising start on that with the election of Nicolee Ambrose as National Committeewoman, but perhaps the time has come for a new group of executives to push the party in a different direction. We don’t seem to have a lot of discipline as some key people have defected on issues like the U.S. Senate race or the three questions we in the grassroots worked hard to get on the ballot. Candidates – good candidates – which have essentially fallen into our lap have seen their efforts wasted or simply bypassed the state party to attempt to push their efforts forward.
I understand the deck is somewhat stacked against us by a perceived 2:1 registration disadvantage. But we use that as a crutch rather than as a wedge. I believe we can peel 1 out of 5 Democrats away who are really conservative and should be registered Republican; further I also feel that perhaps 2/3 of those unaffiliated are closet Republicans. Instead of a 2-to-1 state (actually 56-29 in registration) by my thinking we are politically a 50-50 state. Just do the math:
Begin with 56 D, 29 R, 15 unaffiliated.
Take 2/3 of unaffiliated and put them in the R column: 61 D, 39 R.
Now peel the 1 in 5 Democrats off: 50 R, 50 D.
That’s how we have won elections in the past; the trick is to get people to register (and vote) the way they feel. It’s a process of education and work, and there are areas where we will lag behind in the process because the voter rolls are much more heavily liberal and Democrat. But in the words of Dan Bongino we “cede no ground.”
There will be lessons to learn from the 2012 election, but I’m just hoping they’re not too bitter for Maryland Republicans who let a couple close state races slip away by not minding the store.
Author MichaelPosted on October 29, 2012 October 29, 2012 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2012, Campaign 2012 - President, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Daniel Bongino, Eric Knowles, Faith Loudon, Frank Mirabile, Ken Timmerman, Maryland GOP, Mitt Romney, Nancy Jacobs, Tony O'Donnell
Odds and ends number 60
More dollops of blogworthy goodness, neatly bundled up in short, paragraph-or-three packages. I put them together and you raptly absorb them. It seems to be a good formula.
If you believe it’s time to ditch Dutch, you may want to know your contributions are paying for this. Here’s 30 seconds from State Senator and GOP hopeful Nancy Jacobs:
Now this is a good message, but oh! the cheesy video effects. It sort of reminds me of the Eric Wargotz “Political Insidersaurus” commercial, which had a message muddled by production. Sometimes people try too hard to be funny, but that shot of Dutch peeking around the Capitol dome might have the same effect clowns do on certain people who find them creepy.
A longer form of communication comes from a filmmaker who somehow got in touch with me to promote his upcoming documentary. It may not be “2016: Obama’s America” but Agustin Blazquez is an expert on communism, having left Castro’s Cuba as a young man nearly 50 years ago.
Perhaps it’s hard to read, but the gist of the film is that it exposes “Obama and his supporting network of organizations that helped him win the Presidency…and the connections with George Soros and the Communist Party U.S.A.”
I’m not going to speak to the merits of the film because I haven’t seen it. But this is a good opportunity to relate something I’ve encountered in my personal experience – the ones who seem to be most concerned about America’s slide leftward are those who have experienced Communist oppression firsthand, risking life and limb in many cases to escape to America. And they have no desire to go back.
One more video in that vein is the most recent web ad from First District Libertarian candidate Muir Boda.
One may debate whether we have a purpose for being in Afghanistan and Iraq, although in both cases we are in the slow process of withdrawing. But Boda goes farther and talks about rescinding foreign aid entirely, and that changes the terms of the debate dramatically. We can also include the idea of withdrawing from the United Nations in there.
It’s unfortunate that Andy Harris has chosen to skip the debates this time around because, in the wake of the Chris Stevens murder in Benghazi (“Obama lied, Chris Stevens died”: new foreign policy slogan) the time has come for a robust debate about how we treat both foreign relations and our dealings with Islamic extremists such as the ones who attacked our compound there.
Meanwhile, we also have to worry about our own border security in the wake of the killing of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie last week. The Center for Immigration Studies rushed out their assessment of the situation, which bolsters an argument that we need to mind our own borders. They add:
Nicholas Ivie’s name is now added to the large and growing list of individuals killed on both sides of the border as a result of failed and corrupt policies.
We need border security, but perhaps it’s time to be more libertarian and consider the impact of our War on Drugs. I can’t promise it would eliminate the Mexican cartels, and honestly their battles with a corrupt Mexican government may end up as a civil war on our doorstep. But one also has to consider what the crackdown does to American youth as well.
You’ll note I panned Andy Harris for his apparent refusal to debate a couple paragraphs ago. That works for both sides, and especially so in the wake of Barack Obama’s recent debacle.
Fifth District Congressman Steny Hoyer claims people know where he stands, but he’s obviously afraid to defend his views onstage and challenger Tony O’Donnell takes exception to that:
Regardless of where we stand on the issues, this election is not about where we both have been, it is about where we are going. The citizens of our district reserve the right to witness the passion I encompass when I know our rights are in jeopardy. Representative Steny Hoyer has lost this spark and is merely a smoldering ember underneath the smokescreen of his 45 years as an elected official in Maryland. It’s time to blow the smoke away and ignite a new fire.
My campaign has invited Representative Hoyer to debate in front of the citizens in each county and once on television. In addition, The Chris Plante Show attempted to arrange an on-air debate. Also, citizens throughout the District have called for a debate. Yet Representative Hoyer rebuffed all requests.
That’s because Hoyer knows he has some built-in advantages: the power of incumbency along with the franking privilege, a willing and compliant press, and lots of money in the bank to create 30 second commercials. In a debate he can’t control the narrative, and that’s a position of a politician who knows he’s not as popular as he may let on.
I would expect that attitude of arrogance mixed with fear from Steny Hoyer, who’s long past his sell-by date, but I hoped Andy Harris would be better than that.
In Hoyer’s case, this ad from Americans from Prosperity should be beamed into his office. It’s simple but powerful in its message.
Time to try something different indeed. I received a number of reactions to the latest unemployment report, including ones from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Lt. Col. (and Congressman) Allen West which flat-out accused the Obama administration of making it up. That’s okay, the Democrats lie on Medicare too.
Even Andy Harris responded, noting that:
I agree with what Vice President Joe Biden recently said when he stated that the middle class was “buried” over the past four years.
That is why the House voted to stop President Obama’s tax hike proposal on small business owners and the middle class, which would destroy over 700,000 jobs. We need the President and the Senate to work with House Republicans instead of continuing to promote job-destroying policies that the American people can no longer afford.
Even before the unemployment figures came out, though, the Republican Study Committee hammered President Obama and the Democrats for incomes which had fallen faster during this so-called recovery than during the preceding recession, particularly at a time where gasoline prices are skyrocketing.
The jobless recovery even extends to Wicomico County. As local researcher Johnnie Miller writes in an e-mail I obtained:
Wicomico has 132 fewer workers this year as compared to the same period last year – (08/12 vs. 08/11). Even though the unemployment rate has declined in Wicomico from 8.8% to 8.2% – the real indicator points to the fact that those receiving unemployment checks have now exhausted their benefits and still not found jobs.
More alarmingly, somehow the county lost 1,613 workers from their labor force between July and August. 190 of them simply disappeared off the unemployment rolls as well, allowing the county’s unemployment rate to drop to 8.2%.
If this is recovery, I’d hate to see a depression. I could only imagine what the county’s U-6 unemployment rate would be.
I suppose there’s the possibility that these employment rolls may have been kept up like voter rolls are – perhaps they forgot to remove a few deceased workers. After all, the deceased really can vote in Maryland, according to the watchdog group Election Integrity Maryland:
While just scratching the surface of voter roll research, having looked at 35,000 voter registration records so far in Maryland, EIM has discovered 1,566 names of deceased still on the voter rolls. Of these names, apparently two voted and three registered to vote after their deaths.
Talk about a serious case of rigor mortis. But there are about 3.5 million registered voters in Maryland so if you extrapolate the numbers in a statewide race that’s 200 voters who would have been discovered, not the mention the potential for 156,600 zombie voters. It’s long past time to cull the voter rolls AND enact photo voter ID.
But let’s go back to the economy for a little bit, since those dead voters seem to be among those supporting a Governor who seems to be killing Maryland’s prospects for economic recovery in the next decade.
After Governor O’Malley appeared on CNBC yesterday, his nemesis Change Maryland immediately found significant fault with his remarks. Larry Hogan, Chairman of the group, delivered the real story:
We are very familiar with Martin O’Malley putting out falsehoods about his own record when it comes to Maryland’s economic performance. Maryland is a laggard in economic performance in our region, so he compares us to states like Michigan and Nevada. The difference in those hard-hit states is that there top elected officials are dealing with structural problems in their economies while our Governor enjoys seeing himself on TV and making partisan attacks.
Martin O’Malley does seem to suck up a lot of airtime these days. I’ll bet a debate with him and Larry Hogan would be fun to watch in much the same manner some watch NASCAR rooting for the 14-car pileups. We all know the engineer of that train wreck would be Martin O’Malley, so the trick would be seeing if Larry Hogan could keep a straight face during all that. I’m sure I couldn’t.
What I can do, though, is leave you on that note as my e-mailbox is in much better shape. I do have some Question 7 and SB236/PlanMaryland/Agenda 21 items to discuss, but those merit their own posts. Three score odds and ends are in the books.
Author MichaelPosted on October 6, 2012 Categories All politics is local, Business and industry, Campaign 2012, Campaign 2012 - President, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Americans for Prosperity, Andy Harris, Border Security, Center for Immigration Studies, Change Maryland, Chris Stevens, Communism, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Dutch Ruppersberger, Election Integrity Maryland, Larry Hogan, Libya, Lt. Col. Allen West, Martin O'Malley, Muir Boda, Nancy Jacobs, Republican Study Committee, Steny Hoyer, Tony O'Donnell, War on Drugs, Wicomico County
Poll results disappointing to MD conservatives
The most recent Maryland Poll by Gonzales Research came out on Wednesday, and the results can only be described as disheartening to Maryland conservatives, who have their work cut out for them in the last month of the campaign. (Hat tip to Maryland Reporter for the link.)
First, the terrible topline numbers here in the state:
President: Barack Obama (D) 55, Mitt Romney (R) 36
U.S. Senate: Ben Cardin (D) 50, Dan Bongino (R) 22, Rob Sobhani (I) 21
Question 4 (in-state tuition for illegal aliens): For 58, Against 34
Question 6 (legalizing gay marriage): For 51, Against 43
Question 7 (expanding gambling): For 45, Against 46
President Obama has a 54% favorable rating, with 32% unfavorable
Vice-President Joe Biden has a 47% favorable rating, with 34% unfavorable
Mitt Romney has a 35% favorable rating, with 50% unfavorable
Paul Ryan has a 36% favorable rating, with 38% unfavorable
Gonzales did not poll on Question 5 (redistricting) or any of the Congressional races; in the latter case it’s likely because the sample sizes would be too small for reliable results. 813 self-proclaimed likely voters made up this sample.
One thing I have always liked about the Gonzales surveys is their willingness to provide the actual numbers. Instead of massaging the results to a certain turnout model, the Maryland Poll is set up to reflect the electorate based on party registration – so 56% of the respondents were Democrats, 30% Republicans, and the remainder unaffiliated. This closely matches the state’s current voter registration totals.
Because of that, some trends can be determined. For example, as a percentage fewer Democrats are behind Barack Obama (81%) than Republicans backing Romney (86%). This is because there’s always been a percentage of Democrats in Maryland who are simply registered as Democrats but often vote for Republicans. It’s President Obama’s 88% approval rating among black voters (which matches their lockstep 88% support) that saves his bacon in Maryland.
On the other hand, though, Democrats strongly back political lifer Ben Cardin (74%) while Republicans are just 60% behind Dan Bongino, their U.S. Senate nominee. The presence of onetime Republican-turned-independent Rob Sobhani is all but destroying GOP chances of posting an upset in the race, since Cardin is only at 50 percent. This is because Sobhani is taking more votes away from Bongino (22% of Republicans) than Cardin (16% of Democrats.) More troublesome is that these numbers are undermining Bongino’s stated intention of making inroads into the minority community, because just 8% of black voters support him but 15% back Sobhani, who was born in America but is of Iranian origin.
Meanwhile, the political correctness bug seems to be biting some of the squishier members of the GOP. While the state party has come out against these issues in a broad manner by supporting the idea of “repealing O’Malley’s laws” the Maryland Poll finds 29% of Republicans are for in-state tuition for illegal aliens, 17% support gay marriage, and 35% are in favor of expanding gambling. Could this be the Bradley effect manifested in a different manner? There’s no way to tell.
Overall these numbers are quite disappointing, but the silver lining which exists in them is now we know where to focus our efforts. For one thing, we are close enough on some races that enhancing GOP turnout could turn the election, particularly on Questions 6 and 7.
It’s also important to remember that a number of Congressional races could hinge on turnout as well. Simply based on voter registration numbers it’s clear that Eric Knowles, Faith Loudon, and Frank Mirabile have the steepest uphill battles but there’s more possibility of an upset from Tony O’Donnell, Nancy Jacobs, or Ken Timmerman. Even Roscoe Bartlett could fall into the “upset” category based on the gerrymandering Democrats did to make his seat endangered for Republicans.
There is one other observation regarding the races I need to make. Given the 19-point advantage Barack Obama enjoys here in the formerly Free State, it’s clear he probably won’t be spending any money in the local Baltimore television market. (Washington, D.C. is a different story because Virginia is in play.) Yet that commercial time is being vacuumed up by the millions of dollars both sides are spending on debating Question 7.
Because of that simple fact, it will be harder for those advocating other ballot issues and downticket candidates to afford television time, and that works against both sides equally. This makes the retail and social media campaigns that much more important because one easy outlet is no longer as readily available.
You may ask why I’m so strident on some of these issues. In my case, there’s a lot of areas where they crossed my line in the sand a long time ago and I’m simply fighting a sort of guerrilla war trying to beat things back where I can. But like Benjamin Netanyahu, we need to pull out our red Sharpie and draw our own line this time around because once that’s passed there is no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Once we allow illegal immigrants in-state tuition, the next thing they’ll want is full amnesty and voting rights – never mind they have broken numerous laws by crossing the border (or overstaying their visa) while thousands who try to do things the correct way are denied or face long delays in receiving what’s due for them. Crime is not supposed to pay.
Once we tell Democrats it’s okay to ignore geography and cynically make up Congressional districts which place people with little in common together for base political interests, there’s no telling what other steps they’ll take to dictate what they determine is fair representation. Obviously political affiliation is a fickle standard, but when only 56% of voters are registered Democrat should they have 88% of the Congressional representation? Obviously it could work out that way even if the state was scrupulously and evenly divided based simply on existing geographic lines, equalizing population, and contiguity, but I suspect it would not.
Once we allow gay marriage to pass, then the question becomes what will be legitimized next: plural marriage, marriage between adults and children, or some other bastardization of the concept? Where does the line get drawn? Despite common misguidance, marriage is NOT a right and despite the best efforts of the gay lobby to promote the idea this quest shouldn’t be equated with the civil rights movement of a half-century ago. As this group points out, there are no “gay only” drinking fountains.
Certainly people of any gender can be in a loving relationship with one of their own gender, but as far as the legal concepts of marriage our state already covers it. What was wrong with civil unions? I could live with that as a compromise which preserves, as much as possible in this day and age, the sanctity of marriage.
I’ve seen elections where people down double-digits in polling have come back to win in the last week, and a month is an eternity in political circles. Just a month ago Wendy Rosen was a game but underfunded challenger to Andy Harris until the startling allegation she voted twice in two consecutive elections, and now Democrats are reduced to pinning their hopes on a write-in candidacy. So anything is possible, good or bad.
But polls make news, and this poll certainly garnered a lot of attention across the state. The question is whether we can make it a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment.
Author MichaelPosted on September 29, 2012 September 29, 2012 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2012, Campaign 2012 - President, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, Polling, State of ConservatismTags Andy Harris, Barack Obama, Ben Cardin, Daniel Bongino, Eric Knowles, Faith Loudon, Frank Mirabile, Gonzales Poll, illegal immigration, Joe Biden, Ken Timmerman, Maryland gambling, Maryland Politics, Mitt Romney, Nancy Jacobs, Paul Ryan, Rob Sobhani, Roscoe Bartlett, same-sex marriage, Tony O'Donnell, Wendy Rosen2 Comments on Poll results disappointing to MD conservatives
You know them, you love them…bloggy bits of goodness I expound upon which run from a sentence to a few paragraphs. Here’s my latest batch from a chock-full mailbox all but neglected over the weekend.
Actually, the first item doesn’t come from my mailbox but was shared with me on my Facebook page by Jim Rutledge, who urged me to read and share this piece by Diana West about how we’ll never win if we kowtow to Islamic radicals.
West writes about the saga of Marine Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley, Jr., who was killed in a “green-on-blue” attack last month. Chillingly, Buckley predicted, “one day they are going turn around and turn those weapons on us.” And so they did.
Of course, that leads to the obvious question of why we remain in Afghanistan, which has no clear-cut answer. At this point, it truly makes no difference to the most radical Islamist whether we stay or go as we’re the Great Satan just the same. Right offhand, I have no idea what the body count is on their side, but I’m sure it could be a lot more if we didn’t pull our punches. Once we bombed Tora Bora back to the Stone Age to get Osama bin Laden, but it was a more precise Seal Team Six which sent bin Laden to those 72 virgins, with Obama trying to heist the credit. Certainly there are those Afghans who love the accolades they receive from their comrades when an American is cut down as well.
All in all, the Patton rule still applies: “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” Just substitute “religion” for “country” on their part.
Another old saw from the Left is that not throwing money at education produces inferior results. But that theory is debunked by a study recently released by State Budget Solutions. If the liberals’ theory was correct, then states which spent the most per pupil would have the best results – but the numbers suggest otherwise. In announcing the results, SBS noted:
From 2009 to 2011 the national average for state educational spending as a percentage of total spending dropped from 30 percent in 2009 to 29.3 percent in 2011. The top state spenders across all three years were Texas, Vermont and Arkansas, all spending at least 4 percent more than the national average. Michigan made the top five in 2010 and 2011. Virginia earned the #4 and #5 position in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
The states that spent the least as a percentage of total spending during 2009-2011 were Alaska, which came in last all three years, Hawaii and Tennessee. New York and Massachusetts also made the bottom five in 2010 and 2011.
For states that spent the most, only Vermont saw significant results from 2009 to 2011. In fact, four out of the five states spending the most on education failed to produce correspondingly high graduation rates or ACT scores. Arkansas remained in the top five states in spending for all three years, yet Arkansas’ average ACT scores consistently fell below the national average, and continue to decline annually. In 2010 and 2011, Texas ranked first in the nation in spending, 36.9 percent each year, but fell below the national average in graduation and ACT scores.
One can have whatever educational Taj Mahal the taxpayers willingly – or begrudgingly – pay for, and teachers who receive the highest pay around, but if they can’t teach then all the money is essentially wasted. Otherwise, why would bright homeschooled children be the academic leaders of this country?
At this time in the election cycle, endorsements are always news. Recently the Conservative Victory PAC added two new Republican hopefuls to a growing stable of CVPAC-backed candidates as Second District Congressional hopeful Nancy Jacobs and Third District candidate Eric Knowles got the CVPAC blessing.
On Jacobs the group wrote:
CVPAC supports Ms. Jacobs’s education reform agenda, including expansion of Charter Schools in failing school districts, means-tested tax credits for parents with children in religious schools and other private schools, and tax credits for Maryland businesses that invest in schools or hire graduates from local schools.
CVPAC Treasurer Ruth Melson had this to say about Knowles:
Let me tell you why Eric Knowles must be your next United States Congressman from Maryland District 3. Eric knows about defending the United States Constitution against foreign enemies and he will defend it at home the same way; he is a US Air Force veteran. He knows about our terrible economic plight; he works as a bartender talking to regular folks every day. In the United States Congress, he will always represent the interest of Marylanders like you and me. He is not an ivory-tower politician building castles in the air; he is pragmatic. Government, he says, must stay within its constitutionally enumerated powers; government must be rolled back to what we can afford.
Along with U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino, the Conservative Victory PAC has endorsed four of Maryland’s six Republican Congressional challengers: Ken Timmerman, Faith Loudon, Jacobs, and Knowles. I suppose they have a few weeks to add Fifth District challenger Tony O’Donnell and Seventh District aspirant Frank Mirabile to the list.
Bongino, meanwhile, keeps adding to his national profile by getting key endorsements of his own; most recently Lt. Col. Allen West added his vocal support:
The differences cannot be any clearer in the race for United States Senate. Ben Cardin has been an elected official for 45 years and you need to question ‘Is Maryland better off than it was in 1967?’ It is time the people need to elect someone who has some real experience, and that is why I am endorsing Dan Bongino for U.S. Senator for Maryland.
We need someone who has walked a police beat and not someone who all he knows how to do is walk into a chamber and vote aye and nay all day long!
West is a conservative darling who some believed would have been a great VP pick.
On the other hand, “establishment” Republicans may have been enamored with an endorsement closer to home – former Governor Bob Ehrlich:
Dan has the unmatched integrity and unique depth of experience necessary to defeat an entrenched incumbent like Senator Cardin. His background in law enforcement and federal investigations, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen, afford not only a broad overview of the political arena but also personal expertise in job creation, fiscal responsibility, and community involvement.
We cannot continue down the same non-productive road we’ve traveled for the last 45 years. It’s time we elect someone new – someone who can relate to the needs of the average Maryland family. Dan’s message resonates strongly with both Democrats and Republicans alike, and he is the right person at the right time to represent Maryland and shake things up in Washington.
Gee, Bob, that sounds a little bit like your 2010 primary opponent I voted for. While it’s nice to have the endorsement, honestly I’m not sure the Ehrlich name carries the cache it formerly did among rank-and-file Republicans, let alone those who call the TEA Party home. They were more enthused by the Allen West statement, I’m sure.
Speaking of those who have spanked Ehrlich electorally, Martin O’Malley is once again getting beclowned by Larry Hogan and Change Maryland as they point out Maryland’s unemployment rate is rising as the national percentage drops:
Maryland’s unemployment rate inched up to 7.1%, marking months of consecutive upticks since January’s rate of 6.5%, in the latest state employment picture released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The preliminary August numbers show a slight gain in employment due to July numbers that were revised downward by 1,600 jobs. In August, Maryland payrolls increased by 1,400 over July.
The slight change in employment numbers, however, is not enough to lift Maryland out of the doldrums when it comes to competing with neighboring states.
“We are lagging in job growth in the region and are simply not competing with our neighbors,” said Change Maryland Chairman Larry Hogan. “This year’s performance on job growth is abysmal as it has been since 2007.”
On a percentage basis of jobs lost, Maryland’s decline of 1.4% since January of 2007 is the second-worst in the region after Delaware.
And Change Maryland had even more fun at O’Malley’s expense, reminding its audience that each and every Republican governor berated by DGA head O’Malley scored higher on job creation than he did:
In recent remarks in Iowa, O’Malley said, “We are the party that grows our economy; they are the party that wrecked our economy.’ This false statement is borne out today in the latest August employment numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that show Maryland’s loss of nearly 7,000 jobs this year is worse than Florida, Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, New Jersey and Maine. In some cases it is much worse. For example, under Gov. John Kasich, Ohio has created 68,300 jobs this year; Florida Gov. Rick Scott, 50,500 jobs; and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 26,200 jobs. So far this year under Gov. Rick Perry, the Lone Star state has created 140,000 more jobs than Maryland, which some have dubbed the “Fee State” as opposed to the official “Free State.”
“Martin O’Malley has no credibility whatsoever talking about jobs,” said Change Maryland Chairman Larry Hogan. “What he can talk about, but chooses not to, are the 24 taxes and fees he has raised since taking office which remove $2.4 billion annually from the pockets of struggling Marylanders.”
I know Jim Pettit doesn’t necessarily write these releases to be laugh-out-loud funny, but when you consider the material he has to work with, you have to laugh to avoid crying – particularly if you still live in Maryland. As I’ve put myself on the record saying, take away the nation’s capital and Maryland is Michigan without all the lakes – or the jobs. (By the way, even that state is creating jobs much faster than Maryland.)
A surefire way to curtail job creation, however, is to overregulate land use to a point where no growth is possible. Whether consciously or not, the effect of new state rules may be the eventual death knell to the Eastern Shore’s economy.
There is an upcoming “Growth Offset Policy Meeting” Thursday morning to discuss these proposals, dryly described as follows:
The meeting will include a presentation by staff from Maryland Department of the Environment about the draft Growth Offset policy and the proposed timeframe for acceptance and implementation of the policy. Following the presentation, the remainder of the meeting is dedicated for a question and answer period. Participants are invited to ask questions and express concerns to staff from Maryland Department of the Environment, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Planning.
The Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology is organizing this event and would like to thank the Town Creek Foundaiton (sic) for their generous support which allows the Center this opportunity.
You can register here; it’s no surprise that plenty of seats are still available. I’m sure the Radical Green in this area will take time off their public-sector, taxpayer-funded jobs to try and convince these people that every acre in Wicomico County not already developed needs to return to its pristine, pre-settlement state.
If we were to take a path, I say join the one being blazed by Cecil County and say “to hell with the maps.” If Rick Pollitt wants to do something useful for a change, this is something to consider when you think about how similar Cecil County is in population to Wicomico.
Finally, turning to the national race: there’s a constituency group out there which is always assumed to be a solidly Democratic bloc and that’s the Jewish vote. But according to this ad from the Republican Jewish Coalition, voters are turning away:
Perhaps borne out by this ad, a survey by the American Jewish Council of 254 registered Jewish voters in Florida showed only 69% would vote for Obama. It’s noteworthy the survey was conducted prior to the 9-11-12 Islamic attacks on our embassies in several Middle Eastern countries, most notably Libya. On the other hand, they didn’t ask about the respondents’ 2008 vote so in that respect the survey has limited value – we have no basis of comparison to truly determine a trend.
But another number from the AJC survey serves as a way to tie this post together: 62% of those Jewish voters surveyed either strongly or moderately support U.S. military action against Iran’s nuclear program. 74% of them would support Israel doing the same.
It all comes back to wars and rumors of wars, doesn’t it?
Author MichaelPosted on September 26, 2012 Categories All politics is local, Business and industry, Campaign 2012, Campaign 2012 - President, Delmarva items, Education, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, Polling, Senator Watch, State of ConservatismTags Afghanistan, Ben Cardin, Bob Ehrlich, Cecil County, Change Maryland, Conservative Victory PAC, Daniel Bongino, education, Eric Knowles, Faith Loudon, Frank Mirabile, Jim Rutledge, Ken Timmerman, Larry Hogan, Lt. Col. Allen West, Martin O'Malley, Maryland Department of the Environment, Nancy Jacobs, Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, Republican Jewish Coalition, Rick Pollitt, State Budget Solutions, Tony O'Donnell, Town Creek Foundation, unemployment, Wicomico County
On the question of Libya
This evening I’m choosing to highlight some of what you may not have heard on the evening news. Republicans in Maryland don’t always get a lot of news coverage, but they were handed a golden opportunity for criticism about the Obama Administration and their handling of the Ambassador Chris Stevens murder and other issues around the Middle East.
So let’s look at how some of these challengers are reacting to Middle East tensions, beginning with U.S. Senate hopeful Dan Bongino.
My prayers go out to the families and friends of Ambassador Stevens and the three other Americans who were brutally massacred yesterday in Benghazi. As a Secret Service agent, I saw firsthand the dangers that face our diplomats as they go about the business of spreading the message of freedom and democracy to other nations. I have the greatest respect for these men and women and for those who are called on to protect them. I join all Americans in thanking them for their service to our country.
This tragedy underscores our need for a peace through strength foreign policy, not a chaos through weakness approach. America must forever be vigilant toward the danger posed by those who choose violence over diplomacy, disorder over peace.
That “chaos through weakness” approach seems to be even more apparent as more is learned about the situation. Obviously Dan has a unique perspective on the situation, which is why he was in demand as a news guest after the incident. He was more harsh on Andrew Wilkow’s show on The Blaze’s new cable channel:
Either this was the worst threat assessment done by completely incompetent people or the threat assessment was accurate and was ignored.
Of the Congressional Republican candidates who reacted, some were more brief. For example, Third District candidate Eric Knowles noted on his Facebook page:
Work to preserve our liberties for generations to come – this is the ultimate way we can honor those who lost their lives on this day as well as those who sacrificed so much in the resulting wars.
Also on Facebook, Seventh District aspirant Frank Mirabile took exception to Obama’s statements on the President’s weekly radio address yesterday:
Mr. President where is the issuance of…
“The United States of America WILL NOT tolerate any acts of terrorism issued against American diplomats or those who protect them. Period. We WILL bring upon those who participated in these acts of aggression the true nature of American Justice and Retribution! America will not tolerate terrorist acts of aggression against it’s people.”
Nancy Jacobs, who’s running in the Second District, minced no words: “America needs to be tough.”
As we Americans spent the day reflecting on the horrors of 9/11, a similar incident of mass murder and hate by religious zealots was underway at the U.S. Embassy in Libya. The killing of our Ambassador Christopher Stevens, and three other diplomatic staff by an angry mob in Benghazi is an absolute outrage. Today I feel terrible grief for the families of the victims but also immense anger over the attack.
Our leaders in Washington should be expressing to the world that we will not be terrorized by radical extremists. We cannot afford a mealy mouthed response to this atrocious act. It is critical that America stand strong, shout loud and show, with our actions, it will do everything necessary to protect the safety and security of our people here and overseas. The world must know those who dare to participate in such lawlessness should be aware that the United States has the strength, ability and resolve to fight back if necessary.
It is also critical for America to immediately address with Israeli leadership the continuing threat to Israel by Iraq. Instability in the region is a huge threat to the world and America. Throughout we have stood proud, strong and tough in defense of democracy. We must be ever so clear that America will not start wavering now.
Perhaps it’s fitting that Eighth District hopeful Ken Timmerman, who’s written extensively on the Middle East, also had a diatribe which featured this remark:
It’s time that we face reality: the so-called Arab Spring that the United States aided and abetted has ushered in an Islamist Dark Age descending upon much of the Middle East that endangers Americans, endangers Christians and other religious minorities, and endangers Israel.
It also directly threatens the authentic, pro-freedom forces in these countries that Ambassador Stephens and his colleagues tried bravely to nurture.
Timmerman is one who’s calling for specific action: suspending aid to Libya and other governments in the region until they clean up their acts and bring perpetrators to justice. It’s a start.
The more I hear about how one portion of the media seems to desperately playing defense for their favored candidate, while a collection of foreign sources and domestic alternative media tries to uncover what’s really happened and – more importantly – what led up to it. Missing daily security briefings at a critical foreign policy juncture, as the President has reportedly done, is legitimately a questionable policy issue and Mitt Romney should call President Obama out on it. This point is made by pro-troop group Move America Forward, with spokesman Danny Gonzalez noting:
(MAF) also pointed to the official White House Calendar, which showed no public record of President Obama attending a daily intelligence briefing since September 5th, as further evidence that the administration is not taking foreign policy or national security seriously. Hostile foreign regimes and terrorist groups around the globe have picked up on his nonchalant attitude and have displayed a pattern of further testing his commitment to American national security.
While Romney was condemned in the press for supposedly speaking too soon, it turns out his gut instinct was pretty much on the mark. Did you actually think the mainstream, partisan media would give him a fair shake? Neither did I. And those who were ignored until I mentioned it today finally get a piece of their due as well.
Author MichaelPosted on September 16, 2012 Categories Campaign 2012, Mainstream media, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Barack Obama, Chris Stevens, Daniel Bongino, Eric Knowles, Frank Mirabile, Ken Timmerman, Middle East, Mitt Romney, Move America Forward, Nancy Jacobs1 Comment on On the question of Libya
More depressing Maryland employment news
The bad month for Governor Martin O’Malley continues, with his new nemesis Change Maryland at the forefront once again. They did the research and determined that Maryland’s anemic employment gains were, in fact, no gains at all over the first six months of 2012 – as it turned out the Free State lost more jobs than any other state. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from the watchdog group indicates around 10,300 jobs were lost by Maryland during this time frame; indeed, that’s more than any other state.
And the news gets worse if you expand the period of study backward – only Pennsylvania has lost more jobs in this region than Maryland, and it’s a larger state.
So far Governor Martin O’Malley has been mum on this data – as opposed to previous releases by the group, where an O’Malley mouthpiece tried his best at obfuscation – but Change Maryland head Larry Hogan seems to be burnishing his gubernatorial credentials by pointing these dismal employment numbers out, stating in the accompanying release:
Governor O’Malley says repeatedly that Maryland has fared better than other states during the recession. He should be talking about our state’s performance relative to others in this region, not compared to Michigan or Nevada. Once again he is cherry picking data in an attempt to fool people.
As someone who has lost his job during the time period in question, I think Hogan may be on to something when he talks about the frequent tax increases and lack of spending discipline being an issue in the state.
Apparently Nancy Jacobs does too, as the State Senator and Second District Congressional challenger talked about job losses in her region during her opponent’s recent Congressional tenure:
News of layoffs has been especially bad in Congressional District 2 where I am the Republican nominee for Congress. On Friday two more Baltimore County companies announced layoffs. At Siemens in Dundalk, 38 jobs are being cut. Bank of America in Hunt Valley reports it will cut 55 employees in Hunt Valley. Eastern Baltimore County was especially hard it by the loss of 2000 jobs at RG Steel in Sparrows Point Plant earlier this month. We must ask what Dutch Ruppersberger what is he doing in Washington to address this issue so critical to his constituents!
Well, the truth of the matter is that doing something in Washington is the wrong approach – the better question to me is what Nancy Jacobs will undo in Washington. One who uses the slogan “Vote Jobs – Vote Jacobs” may be well-served to show what she can do. Luckily she does have a record:
Maryland Business for Responsive Government gives me a 100 percent ranking when it comes to my votes that improve business and create jobs.
But I wanted to get back to that raw data. Thanks to Jim Pettit, who forwarded me the data, I looked at all the states which lost jobs – here’s the list, in alphabetical order:
Kansas lost 7,800 jobs.
Maine lost 4,300 jobs.
Maryland lost 10,300 jobs.
Mississippi lost 4,100 jobs.
Missouri lost 7,700 jobs.
Nevada lost 400 jobs.
New Hampshire lost 3,700 jobs.
New Mexico lost 4,400 jobs.
Rhode Island lost 800 jobs.
Tennessee lost 4,200 jobs.
West Virginia lost 6,800 jobs.
Wisconsin lost 2,100 jobs.
So it’s true that in raw numbers Maryland performed the worst. But there is a proviso which Martin O’Malley may be able to hang his hat on just a little bit. These are job losses expressed as a percentage of the workforce for these states:
Kansas, 0.58%
Maine, 0.72%
Maryland, 0.40%
Mississippi, 0.38%
Missouri, 0.29%
Nevada, 0.04%
New Hampshire, 0.59%
New Mexico, 0.55%
Rhode Island, 0.17%
Tennessee, 0.16%
West Virginia, 0.89%
Wisconsin, 0.08%
Measured this way there are five states which did worse than Maryland: Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and West Virginia. So now we’re #46 instead of #51…woohoo!
But the other chart Change Maryland bases its assertions on compares Maryland to a peer group of surrounding states and Washington D.C. and tabulates the total employment figures from January, 2007 through last month. This time I will do both the total jobs gained or lost and percentage, along with peak and trough months:
Maryland, a net 39,900 jobs lost (-1.53%) – peak February 2008, trough February 2010.
Virginia, a net 32,100 jobs lost (-0.85%) – peak February 2008, trough February 2010.
Delaware, a net 20,000 jobs lost (-4.55%) – peak February 2008, trough February 2010.
Pennsylvania, a net 58,800 jobs lost (-1.02%) – peak April 2008, trough February 2010.
West Virginia, a net 600 jobs gained (+0.08%) – peak September 2008, trough February 2010.
District of Columbia, a net 46,200 jobs gained (+6.69%) – peak April 2012, trough June 2007.
Out of these states, only Delaware has fared worse in terms of a percentage of jobs lost. It’s also very telling that early 2008 was peak employment for most areas – except Washington, D.C. And while the others hit bottom in February 2010, the District – while in a bit of a lull – was still well above its pre-Obama low point.
So maybe the problem is in Washington, because these jobs are the fool’s gold of the economy – pencil pushers who add no real value.
And while the Change Maryland group is securing sensational headlines a little bit beyond the true scope of the revelations, the news is still quite bad for Martin O’Malley. As he tours the country on his perceived 2016 Presidential run, MOM’s failing to notice the vast majority of states are creating jobs despite his party’s best efforts. How long this can go on may depend on who is elected this fall.
Author MichaelPosted on July 24, 2012 July 24, 2012 Categories Business and industry, Campaign 2012, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Bureau of Labor Statistics, Change Maryland, Delaware, Larry Hogan, Martin O'Malley, Maryland Business for Responsive Government, Nancy Jacobs, Pennsylvania, unemployment, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia8 Comments on More depressing Maryland employment news
Conservative Victory PAC latest to endorse Timmerman
Because this story is relatively short for me on Examiner (just over 250 words) and there’s a long lag in between the time I placed it on that site and here, I’m just going to go ahead and reprise it in full.
Perhaps it’s a symbolic gesture, but the Conservative Victory PAC announced on Tuesday their wholehearted endorsement of Eighth District Congressional hopeful Ken Timmerman.
CVPAC president Chuck Floyd conceded the “massive financial advantage” Van Hollen has in the race – the incumbent has $2.2 million on hand, and has remitted thousands of dollars to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – but asserted that “Marylanders are just beginning to learn the truth about Van Hollen’s brand of machine politics and crony capitalism that is driving hard working businesses out of state or into bankruptcy.” Floyd spoke at a fundraiser for Timmerman, who indeed has a significant financial disadvantage because he had only around $50,000 on hand through June compared to Van Hollen’s $2.2 million, which is unusually high even for a sitting Congressman.
However, the Eighth District may not be the walkover people think it will be since a significant amount of conservative voters were added during redistricting. And there’s a lot of grassroots organizing experience in the Conservative Victory PAC fold as many of the members of their Board of Directors are veterans of Jim Rutledge’s 2010 Senate campaign. That campaign relied heavily on grassroots support as it was well-outspent by eventual GOP nominee Eric Wargotz yet received 31% of the vote in a crowded Republican field. Apparently this crew knows how to work on a shoestring budget.
So while the fundraiser may not have brought in a lot of money, the backing of the army of Rutledge supporters could turn out to be the most important result of the evening.
This is the video I included. We’ll see how it works, since I normally use the old embed code.
I had one other thought. Ken Timmerman isn’t someone who has to run for Congress. Come on, the guy is a successful author.
(Actually, I forgot I had this picture. Probably should have used it on Examiner.)
So why would someone of his stature go through the trouble of running for office for the second time? (Ken also ran for U.S. Senate in 2000.) You’d have to ask him (or read his thumbnail bio) but it’s people like that who I think should be elected, as opposed to political hacks who have held elective office for most of their adult lives. (Case in point: his opponent Van Hollen, who started in the Maryland House of Delegates way back in 1991 at the age of 32 and has held some political job since. And that doesn’t count Van Hollen’s previous experience as a political staffer.)
In fact, if you look at those who are on the state GOP ticket this time, there’s an interesting mix of veteran politicians and newcomers to the scene. Admittedly, Nancy Jacobs and Tony O’Donnell are longtime members of the General Assembly, but they didn’t begin their lives in the political arena – Jacobs was first elected at the age of 47 and O’Donnell was 33. Even Roscoe Bartlett and Andy Harris were rather seasoned when first elected to office, winning at the ages of 66 and 41, respectively.
The point is that they experienced life outside politics before running for office, and that’s the way it should be. Ideally, a legislator would be a citizen who becomes successful in life away from (and despite) politics, serves a handful of years, and then departs rather than spend decades in a position. I understand this places me in a precarious position of hypocrisy since I would support Roscoe Bartlett in his race over a political newcomer in John Delaney, but philosophy is important as well and Bartlett won his primary fair and square. Unfortunately, sometimes people go for the familiar name.
Obviously this took me pretty far afield from my original post but sometimes I think of ways to improve things, even after they’re put to bed. So it is with this post.
Author MichaelPosted on July 19, 2012 July 18, 2012 Categories DC ExaminerTags Andy Harris, Chris Van Hollen, Conservative Victory PAC, DC Examiner, Eighth Congressional District, Jim Rutledge, John Delaney, Ken Timmerman, Nancy Jacobs, Roscoe Bartlett, Tony O'Donnell1 Comment on Conservative Victory PAC latest to endorse Timmerman
36th Annual Tawes Crab and Clam Bake in pictures and text
I know a lot of people have been waiting with bated breath for this, so let me tell you that if a picture is a thousand words this will be a post upwards of 32,000 words. And I didn’t think I took all that many pictures.
Nor did it seem like this year’s edition had the crowds that previous recent Tawes gatherings did. Perhaps this falls in the category of anecdotal evidence, but I climbed up to the top of the bleachers and took this panoramic photo just before 1 p.m. – a time you would think there would be huge, long lines.
And it also seemed like fewer businesses were there this year, too. Of course, you had the regulars:
Both of these entities are there every year, with Eddie Heath providing the tent “fencing” for another longtime client, the Hebron Savings Bank. And it goes without saying that this event is an important part of Somerset County’s economic development.
But I spied a couple new entities I was unfamiliar with, too.
The Great Bay Wind Energy Center is being pushed by Somerset’s economic development team, as they seek a 65-turbine complex. Despite its name, the wind farm is planned for an inland site near Marion Station.
The second could be an exciting development on the entertainment front.
The first concert at The Amphitheater at Heron Ponds will be a free show featuring local ’80’s bands on August 24; a shakedown cruise if you will for its first major event featuring country singer Kellie Pickler on August 25.
They also win the creativity award for keeping the beer cold.
If you’re scratching your head as to why I found it humorous, here’s a wider view.
But the reputation of the Tawes Crab and Clam Bake was built on the perception that it was the place for Maryland politicians to see and be seen. Despite the smaller crowds, this year was no different.
Of course, you had the two party tents. I’m biased, so the GOP goes first.
The Democrats had a smaller rendition, but I think part of the reason is, as I found out, there’s only two counties represented there. (The Republicans generally pool Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester into theirs.)
One advantage the Democrats had was a little grassy area for easy sign placement.
They had the usual fare: Obama, Cardin, Rosen, Conway. Norm Conway? He’s not up this year, is he?
Nor is Blaine Young of Frederick County. But he is planning a 2014 run for Governor on the GOP side so he secured his own tent.
But the granddaddy of all political tents didn’t belong to a party or a candidate. Instead, it belonged to a lobbyist.
It even had fans stationed along one side of the perimeter.
Unfortunately, you cannot read the cards, but various politicians had reserved tables inside the tent. These two were saved for Delegate Cheryl Glenn and State Senator Joan Carter Conway. They weren’t the only ones.
However, I must say that Bereano is bipartisan – a goodly number of the pictures below were shot in front of his tent, which was conveniently across from the GOP tent.
And as I said above, those who wanted to see and be seen were in Crisfield, the southernmost city in Maryland. (Bet you non-locals didn’t know that.) I have a lot of these photos, so I suppose I’ll begin with statewide races and work my way to local ones.
Since I already revealed Blaine Young had a tent for his 2014 gubernatorial bid, I’ll start with him enjoying his lunch within.
To be honest, this was the biggest splash his nascent campaign has made, as he has a little catching up to do with two of his fellow presumptive GOP contenders. Larry Hogan (right in photo below) was in the house, sporting his Change Maryland logo with Red Maryland blogger and state YR head Brian Griffiths.
Griffiths is apparently an equal opportunity gladhander, since he’s also here with Harford County Executive David Craig, the unofficial-official candidate for Governor in 2014.
On the other side, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman is thought to be considering a run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He’s on the right, Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt (who introduced me) is to the left. I’m also told Peter Franchot, who may run in 2014, was there as well but I didn’t see him.
There was one other statewide candidate there, at least that I’m aware of.
Let’s just put it this way. I arrived at 11:00, and Dan Bongino was there 15 minutes later (note that the event officially started at noon.) The photo below was the second one I took. He stayed and sweated it out (literally) until almost the bitter end.
And while I show him by the GOP tent in this picture, he was all over the Somers Cove complex getting votes.
And they didn’t forget to get more volunteers, as the Bongino signup sheet was prominent on this table.
An advantage Bongino and other challengers had was the fact the incumbents were working today in Washington. So Ben Cardin couldn’t walk the grounds gathering votes, and nor could Andy Harris in the local First District race. But Harris had a good volunteer turnout.
Opponent Wendy Rosen had her own small posse of backers, too.
I had never met Rosen before today, so I wanted to put a face to a name. She’s a nice enough lady, but when she remarked something along the lines of Republicans selling their souls to the Koch Brothers, well, let’s just say the class envy card isn’t accepted here.
The Second District could have much better representation with this lady, who obviously approves this message.
It was nice to see her get some airtime, although the local TV station isn’t in her district.
I wish I had gotten a better photo of Third District hopeful Eric Knowles (on the right) but this will have to suffice.
While most state and local politicians aren’t on the ballot for awhile, there is one exception. Salisbury Mayor Jim Ireton is up for re-election in early 2013. Here he’s on the left (which seems to be the norm) but being bipartisan is Delegate Charles Otto, on the right.
General Assembly members from near and far came to participate. Delegate Mike McDermott was rolling up his sign as the day wound down.
State Senate Minority Leader E.J. Pipkin had one of his supporters in tow.
Here’s that Brian Griffiths guy again, in front of the Bereano tent with Delegates Kathy Szeliga and Justin Ready. Truly, though, it’s better Griffiths be in front of the camera and me behind it than the other way around.
And maybe politics is in the future of these two lovely young ladies – after all, they’ve won one contest already. The outgoing Miss Crustacean and Little Miss Crustacean will turn over their crowns at the Hard Crab Derby in September, but Hannah Adkins (left) and Jessica Wilson (right) seem to be having fun with their titles for now.
They definitely have winning smiles.
And by next week those who normally frequent the Somers Cove Marina can have their facility back.
So with that another Tawes Crab and Clam Bake is in the books. Next year should be a little more active since the 2014 campaign will be in full swing.
Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention some of my local blogging cohorts there. Since Jackie Wellfonder was busy coordinating Dan Bongino’s effort she may not put anything up on her Raging Against the Rhetoric site, but Julie Brewington of Right Coast Conservative was snapping a number of shots for herself while Jonathan Taylor of Lower Eastern Shore News has his observations as well.
Author MichaelPosted on July 18, 2012 July 18, 2012 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2012, Campaign 2013 - Salisbury, Campaign 2014, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, Personal stuff, Politics, Senator Watch, State of ConservatismTags Andy Harris, Blaine Young, Brian Griffiths, Bruce Bereano, Business and industry, Charles Otto, Daniel Bongino, David Craig, E.J. Pipkin, Eric Knowles, Jim Ireton, Justin Ready, Kathy Szeliga, Ken Ulman, Larry Hogan, Maryland Democratic Party, Maryland GOP, Mike McDermott, Nancy Jacobs, Rick Pollitt, Somerset County, Tawes Crab and Clam Bake, Wendy Rosen3 Comments on 36th Annual Tawes Crab and Clam Bake in pictures and text
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Springtime in Russia (May 2017)
December 10, 2017 natyliesb 3 Comments
This is an unpublished travel essay about my trip to Russia this past May. – Natylie
Me in Moscow,
The first thing one sees to their right as they begin the descent down into Moscow’s largest airport is the sun glistening off the Moscow River surrounded by lots of greenery. It gave me the pick-up I needed after an exhausting 24 hours of minimal sleep, being crammed on several airplanes and literally running from one end of an airport to another because my first flight was almost 2 hours late and nearly made me miss my connection.
We were blessed with sunny weather in the Russian capital, which was a welcome change from the rain and dreariness at both New York and Paris.
After departing the airport, I had to snicker in the back seat of our cab as my travel companion, who had never been to Russia before, became frazzled over the high speeds and improvised lanes that one sees on some of the major roads in Moscow. Our taxi driver, a young military veteran who works in the veterinary profession and drives for extra money on the weekends, kept getting an earful from my friend but took it in stride.
Having settled in later that evening, I heard music at various times out in the distance from our apartment, alternating between classical piano and a lady’s voice singing. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly where it was emanating from, but it was pleasant nonetheless.
On Sunday morning, just before 10:00 am, as I was sitting in the kitchen drinking my tea, enjoying the breeze through the open window on another sunny day, I heard the lovely sound of church bells ringing followed by a beautiful piano sonata.
View from apartment on New Arbat Street, Moscow, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
About a half hour later, I ventured out to the street where many spectators were standing along the sidewalk waiting for the procession to pass by in rehearsal for Tuesday’s Victory Day Parade. Lots of families were out with little ones in tow and babies were being pushed in strollers as I made my way to a small grocery a couple of blocks down to buy a few necessities.
By Tuesday, the weather was not holding up so well. Part of the parade route included New Arbat which is the street our apartment was located on, so I headed outside about a half hour or so before the start time and braved the cold. I was able to find a good vantage point to watch and take pictures, having decided that I wouldn’t walk all the way over to Red Square, reasoning that it would be too crowded and I likely wouldn’t be able to get in for a good view. I later learned my intuition was correct and that only people who have permission can actually get into the square on Victory Day – probably officials, foreign dignitaries and special guests.
Victory Day, Moscow; photo by Natylie Baldwin, May 2017
More people came out to line the damp streets as the time drew near. Lots of families, people with their phones out ready to snap pictures, and a smattering of individuals waving Russian flags thronged the edge of the modest barricades and tape that separated the spectators from the road. In terms of security, the atmosphere was fairly low-key. Police officers were stationed every 25-30 feet. At one point I spotted an officer on the roof of one of the buildings across the street surveying the scene. When I looked up again a while later he was gone.
Many officers wore wind breakers and some had on rain coats. City officers generally don’t carry guns. There was no riot gear.
As people waited, earnest Russian music spilled out of loudspeakers. Then the music stopped and a brief announcement was made. A short motorcade of military officers in their crisp uniforms drove by about 5 minutes before the rest of the procession of tanks and other military vehicles began their ride down the street. Some soldiers in the procession waved to the cheering crowds as they rode by, sometimes honking their horns.
The holiday celebrations concluded with a fireworks display at 10:00 pm, which I watched from our kitchen window as the balcony was too crowded with other residents from our floor of the building. Fireworks could actually be seen in different parts of the city, but the largest display lit up over Red Square and the Kremlin.
According to a recent survey by the independent Levada Center, 76 percent of Russians planned on celebrating Victory Day this year. Interest and participation was relatively equal among Russians, regardless of age, education or income level, which is unsurprising given the effects of the Great Patriotic War – as WWII is known here – on the former Soviet Union. The Soviets lost about 27 million people fighting off the Nazis – 17 million of them civilians – and one third of their country was destroyed in the process. General Eisenhower wrote in his memoirs of what he saw when he went into the Soviet Union in 1945:
When we flew into Russia, in 1945, I did not see a house standing between the western borders of the country and the area around Moscow. Through this overrun region, Marshal Zhukov told me, so many numbers of women, children and old men had been killed that the Russian Government would never be able to estimate the total.
Although many Americans and Europeans have been bombarded with the America-centric rhetoric of the U.S. winning WWII in Europe, it was not controversial in the aftermath to acknowledge that the Soviet Union had, in fact, broken the Nazi Wehrmacht, likely saving many American lives by bearing the brunt of the fighting as one of FDR’s advisers had talked him into going into North Africa in late 1942, which significantly delayed the U.S. opening up a western front attack on Germany.
Russia solemnly commemorates Victory Day each year with elaborate parades in major cities, like Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Russian president gives a speech before the Moscow parade and the parade is followed by the Immortal Regiment Rally in which Russians march through the streets carrying photos of family members who fought and/or died in the Great Patriotic War.
I met my guide Natasha outside of the apartment at 10:00 am to begin our all-day tour of Moscow. We went around the corner to the bus stop across the street from the American Embassy. The bus took us close to our first destination of the day.
The Gulag Museum is a large red rectangular building with numerous windows covered with closed wooden shutters. This is the first unsettling clue of what awaits inside.
Entrance to Gulag Museum, Moscow, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
The Museum, which was moved to this area from its former location closer to central Moscow a couple of years ago, is now open to individual visitors for self-guided tours, whereas before only group tours were accommodated. Natasha explained to me that this new iteration of the Museum was more elaborate, having been designed by professionals for a more realist atmosphere and the addition of more artifacts from the actual prison camps.
In the first dimly-lit room was a large four-sided frame with about 8 to 10 actual doors from Gulag cells affixed to three of the four sides. Each door included a card, in both Russian and English, stating which camp the door was from. The worn and pock-marked doors were made of wood, metal, or a combination of both. Most had a small square window that opened out in the middle, presumably for the passing of food. All had sliding bars and heavy locks. The fourth side of the frame was open and I could see the interior of the doors – the side the prisoners saw for hours, months or years – that is, when they weren’t toiling in the extreme cold.
Various artifacts from the Gulag prisons could be seen hanging on the walls of this same room, such as a prisoner’s shirt, a small lantern from a cell, metal beds and benches, and a pair of handcuffs.
On one wall was a schematic illustration of one of the gulag prison camps before it was constructed.
In the next room were several glass cases. One displayed fragments of letters written by the prisoners on cloth, typically parts of clothing, as they were provided no paper. Another displayed pieces of wood with messages written on them by the prisoners, demonstrating their need to communicate with anyone who might see it. One case had items that had been made by some female prisoners, such as a utility box and shoes, constructed from whatever materials they could get their hands on.
In another room was a long table with photos and biographies of prisoners who survived the camps and wrote about the experience. A copy of some of the books written appeared in front of the author’s picture. Of course, the most recognizable was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
The second to last room I was in had 3 video screen displays on one wall. The middle screen had a continually scrolling list in white against a black background of the names of those who’d been executed directly during the Great Purge of 1936-38. This would have been 700,000 to 750,000 people out of the 1.5 million that were arrested during that period.
The screen on the left had photos and a brief description of certain prisoners along with the dates of their arrest and execution. These people were engineers, teachers, military officers and other average people – all of whom had been declared “enemies of the people.” I stopped to study the faces of a few of these individuals – one man in particular stood out to me because of his sad eyes. I wondered if the photos were taken at the time of arrest (did he know his fate?) or if they were just everyday photos that may have been available.
The screen on the right had portions of actual lists of those to be arrested and executed projected on to it.
The last room I was in had a large television with video interviews playing of several elderly people who’d survived the prisons, discussing their ordeals, particularly their feelings about what life was like after they were released, including the process of becoming “rehabilitated.” Many mentioned being faced with possible ostracism for having once been imprisoned and the subsequent decision of whether to hide their past or not. One woman recalled her apprehensiveness at telling her future husband, fearing rejection. However, his respect for her only increased after learning of what she’d endured. Another woman said that the legacy of her imprisonment was that she lived a life of fearlessness, “What could I possibly be afraid of after what I’d been through?”
After Stalin’s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin and gradually released all of the prisoners, shutting down the Gulags and implementing a program of re-integration. Khrushchev later admitted that he’d had much blood on his hands from the Stalin era, but that he and many others knew that if they resisted they likely would have also been executed.
One of the explanatory panels in the exhibit had stated that Stalin’s goal was to “destroy the possibility of political opposition, to nip non-conformity in the bud.”
Natasha and I sat on the bench in front of the television talking about the video when a young man from Kazakhstan briefly joined in our discussion. Upon realizing that I was American he politely asked me some things about the United States, including Guantanamo prison. I answered his questions as best I could. He also mentioned that there were people in Kazakhstan – a part of the Soviet Union at the time – who lived in the old buildings there that had constituted some of the Gulag prisons. When Natasha and I expressed surprise at this, he simply replied that the buildings were sturdy so people put them to use.
Exhausted, we finally left the museum and went over to the old Arbat street, a charming area that had been closed to auto traffic in the 1990’s and turned into a pedestrian thoroughfare with shops, gardens, restaurants and sculptures. We passed by the Pushkin monument comprised of statues of the poet and his wife.
(Old) Arbat Street, Moscow; photo by Natylie Baldwin, May 2017
We stopped for lunch at a Russian buffet style restaurant and I asked Natasha her opinions about the Revolution, what alternatives (if any) might have prevented the Bolshevik coup in October of 1917 and the subsequent repressions, culminating in Stalin’s “concentration camps” and mass murder. We discussed Nicholas II’s tragic incompetence and whether the February Revolution, led by social democrats, would have had potential if it had been allowed to run its course.
We also talked about the Monument to Victims of Repression, aka The Wall of Grief, which will commemorate Stalin’s victims. I had originally requested to see this monument as part of the tour but was told that it would not open until October 13th, which is the officially designated day of remembrance for victims of repression in Russia.
Reportedly, Putin played a key role in getting this monument approved. Despite Western depictions of Putin as a dictator, he must arbitrate among different powerful factions when making his decisions. I imagine there were some factions that weren’t too keen on this monument.
Most Russians, in fact, do not view Putin as a dictator since they know what real dictators look and act like. A Levada Center poll from last year reveals that 66 percent of Russians consider themselves to be free and do not believe Russia will return to dictatorship. Generally, the Russian president is seen as a strong and effective leader. I remember speaking to a group of professionals in Krasnodar during my first visit who insisted that a strong leader was needed to get things done. But they also insisted that the leader needed to be accountable to the people and their needs. As reflected in Putin’s consistent approval rating above 80% – even according to independent polls – over the past few years, apparently most Russians believe he meets this criteria. This is not to say that Russians are totally uncritical of Putin either or that they are afraid to express any criticism of him – that was not my experience during either of my visits.
Moreover, Russians are an educated people with just over half of the population holding a college degree – compared to about a third of Americans – and everyone I spoke to on both trips acknowledged that they have access to western media through satellite and the internet – though they were bemused by the west’s cartoonish portrayal of their country and their leader. Simply writing Russians’ generally positive views of Putin and the progress Russia has made since the 1990’s off to government propaganda would be a mistake.
With regard to Stalin, Natasha mentioned that there is a segment of Russians who don’t want to talk about the repressions or want to downplay them. In her view, this is explained by the fact that many average Russians participated in or enabled the repressions, including reporting other Russians, not because they suspected them of a real crime, but due to personal vendettas, jealousy, or the hope of acquiring someone’s property. “Many Russians have someone in their family or circle who were victims and many have someone in their family or circle who were the enablers. It’s the latter group that doesn’t want to condemn Stalin’s repressions.”
According to interviews I conducted in person and questionnaires answered by Russians I networked with during my visit, most credit Stalin with the industrial buildup and leadership necessary to save the Soviet Union from the Nazis, while acknowledging the brutality and excesses.
400 artists competed for the opportunity to design the Wall of Grief. The winner, Georgy Frangulyan, has designed a bronze wall that will have the names and figures of the victims. The Wall of Grief monument will cost around 400 million rubles and will be placed in the center of Moscow at the intersection of Sakharov Avenue (named after the famed Soviet dissident Andrey Sakharov) and the Garden Ring.
After lunch, we visited a park where the Elbe Monument was located. Dedicated in April of last year, the Elbe Monument commemorates the meeting up of the US and Soviet armies on a broken bridge over the Elbe River near Torgau in Germany on April 25, 1945.
Elbe Monument, Moscow, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
The monument was much smaller than I expected and was one of several sculptures by the same artist at this location. Right next to the Elbe Monument is a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln shaking hands with his contemporary Alexander II. Alexander II, the reformist Czar, freed the serfs in Russia in 1861 and Lincoln freed the slaves by 1865. Alexander II had also sent naval support to the Union during the Civil War. Both were later assassinated.
Courtyard of Museum of Contemporary Russian History, Moscow, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
We then took the Metro to another part of Moscow to go to the Museum of Contemporary Russian History which had a special exhibit on the Russian Revolution A bright young man guided us through the exhibit while Natasha translated. We concluded with an interesting conversation among the three of us about what might have averted the Revolution, Lenin’s motivations, what fueled his fanaticism, and whether he knowingly received assistance from the Germans for his journey from western Europe back to Russia in April of 1917 after which the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government. Subsequently, the Bolsheviks signed a peace treaty with Germany under terms that were widely seen as humiliating to Russia.
The next day we took a 4-hour train ride to St. Petersburg. The train was clean, modern and fast. After settling in, I looked out the window to watch the scenery, which included a lot of open land, with birch forests and salt marshes. There was a stretch where dachas dotted the landscape, some so diminutive and colorful they reminded me of dollhouses.
We originally planned to visit the Hermitage on our first full day in St. Petersburg but since the weather was nice we decided to go sightseeing instead.
My friend and liaison, Misha, a native of the city known as The Venice of the North, drove us around to some key landmarks. One of these was a park that included the Immortal Flame, which commemorates the Great Patriotic War. The Immortal Flame was framed with an abundance of roses that had been recently laid down for Victory Day. An older man on a bike stopped for a moment to pay his respects, while a pair of young women quietly snapped photos with their phones. I walked around with my camera and saw families on picnics and couples strolling by.
The eternal flame at memorial park in St. Petersburg, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
After a short walk near the Aurora ship on the dock of the Neva river where an old man sat playing the accordion and a handful of Russians dressed in imperial era costumes milled about, we stopped for lunch at a Georgian restaurant at the request of my travel companion. The restaurant was named after a Georgian painter of the primitivist school and the interior was elaborate, with a mural on one wall exemplifying his style, a fountain and fancy furniture.
The big finale for our day’s sightseeing was a river boat ride throughout the Neva, which is surrounded by numerous architectural delights, such as the Winter Palace (aka the Hermitage), the Peter and Paul Fortress where the remains of the last imperial family (who have been canonized by the Orthodox Church) are interred, the Admiralty building, and numerous other historical sites. It was cold and windy, especially on the first leg of the ride, but well worth it to see the grand city that Peter the Great decided would be built on a marsh, a city intended to rival the finest of Europe in terms of art and architecture. My travel companion, a retired journalist who has been all throughout Europe, including France and Italy, remarked: “I just can’t get over this city. I think Peter outdid them all.”
Peter & Paul Fortress as viewed from Neva River, St. Petersburg, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
Like his 20th century counterpart, Stalin, Peter meant to drag what was perceived to be a lagging nation kicking and screaming into modernity. The human toll of making this magnificent city a reality is estimated to be in the thousands.
I was tired from the day’s outing but had my first formal interview on the Russian Revolution scheduled with an 86-year old retired engineer who’d worked in the shipping industry. This was part of my project to interview a cross-section of Russians to get their views on the 1917 Revolutions since it was the centennial anniversary.
I had formulated a series of questions to ask my interview subjects: were the Revolutions overall positive or negative for Russia and why, what did they think of Nicolas II, Lenin, Stalin, etc.
This gentleman had given interesting answers about the Revolutions, his assessment of Nicolas was typical – he was weak, incompetent and completely ill-equipped to deal with the historical moment he’d been faced with, and he offered some thought-provoking points about Lenin, though he clearly was not a fan of the Bolshevik leader.
However, he lingered a long time on the issue of Stalin, elaborating more on this question than any of the others. At one point, his hands gripped the corners of the table. I was debating whether to ask if anyone in his family had been affected by the mass repressions. On the one hand, it is a legitimate question in terms of my research, but another part of me cringes when a question goes beyond discussing something in the abstract and crosses over into personal territory that will dredge up something painful.
My dilemma soon resolved itself as he began the story on his own about how his father had been taken away in the night when he was 7 years old. His parents had decided not to wake him to say goodbye. When he got up the next morning and went to his parents’ room, his father was simply gone and the bookshelves had been sealed off with wax. The rest of the family was exiled to a city far away from Leningrad. They were originally told that his father had been imprisoned incommunicado, but they found out years later that he’d actually been executed on the charge of conspiring against “Comrade Stalin.”
I was mystified by the sealing off of the bookshelves and asked if there was any explanation for this. He explained that his father was a talented mathematician and geologist, had written several books and had a leadership role in several scientific societies. When an individual was arrested, any items of particular value were confiscated. Since his father was an intellectual and a writer, his books were taken and the bookshelves rendered unusable.
Before I realized it, 2 1/2 hours had gone by since we arrived at his apartment. I recall one moment, after we’d gotten through the worst parts of the interview, looking out the window at the first signs of dusk. The clock beside the window indicated it was 9:30 pm.
As we concluded our discussion, I expressed my condolences for what had happened to his family and my appreciation of his taking the time to talk with me about such a painful subject. He admitted that it was painful but that it needed to be talked about. He wanted to ask me a few questions as well. I realize that many Russians have very few, if any, interactions with Americans and when they do encounter one they are often curious and inquisitive. So I’m no longer surprised when this occurs. He asked me about certain aspects of what happened on 9/11 and what priority Americans currently placed on countering Islamic terrorism.
On the way back to the apartment, Misha and I discussed the interview and the difficult history of Russia in the 20th century. He told me that many Russians expressed shock when the archives were opened up and the ugly truth of the Stalin era started to come out into the open. But he said that he’d known about it because his grandfather had told him of the repressions when he was 15. Misha lamented how crazy it was for the leadership of a country to kill and imprison the most intelligent, educated and talented members of society – the very ones who had the skills to contribute to the nation’s development. The next day, after he’d thought about it some more, he told me: “We have a very complicated history and it becomes hard to love a country when you know about such bad things. But it is still our country and we have to learn to do that.”
Our second day of sightseeing began with a pretty blue and white church called the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral, located only a couple of blocks away from where we were staying. It was often used by sailors and naval officers who would come to pray and receive blessings before embarking on a journey. The main church was open only at certain times and was mainly for the seafaring folks. Another smaller church building off to the side was open at all times and received anyone.
St. Nicholas Cathedral, smaller chapel, St. Petersburg, Russia; photo by Natylie Baldwin
The church is still in use and a section is cordoned off for tourists and sightseers in which they can view the magnificent interior of gold and artwork. Only churchgoers are allowed to go beyond this point. I watched Russians light candles and pray. One woman kissed an icon as is customary in the Russian Orthodox religion.
We then made our way over to the Church on Spilled Blood, which I’d been anxious to visit so I could see the interior. On my last visit I’d seen the splendid outer part of the church but didn’t have time to go inside. I’d heard that the mosaic artwork on the inside was amazing and was determined to see it this time.
Since this was a Sunday and the weather was unusually gorgeous, the church was packed, so I kept my visit shorter than I normally would have as trying to maneuver my way within crowds tends to wear me out. But I was not disappointed by the church’s interior. The rich imagery on the walls and ceiling was beautiful, along with the set of marble steps that led to the altar and the canopy that covered the actual spot where Czar Alexander II had fallen when he was assassinated in 1881. The church was built as a memorial to him.
Church on Spilt Blood, Built at site of reformist Czar Alexandaer II’s 1881 assassination. St. Petersburg, Russia; Photo by Natylie S. Baldwin, 2015
Before being mortally wounded by a bomber from the terrorist revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya, the reformist czar had decided on a decree that would have set Russia on the road from an autocracy to a constitutional monarchy. But the assassin got to the czar before the decree was issued and his son, Alexander III, made no pretense as to reform, so the idea languished until the 1905 revolution when Czar Nicholas II would cede some power to a parliament – if only on paper.
Palace Square in St. Petersburg where thousands of starving peasants gathered to petition the Czar and plead for justice but were gunned down by the Czar’s forces, known as Bloody Sunday, triggering the first Russian Revolution of 1905
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3 thoughts on “Springtime in Russia (May 2017)”
Lyttenburgh says:
““Many Russians have someone in their family or circle who were victims and many have someone in their family or circle who were the enablers. It’s the latter group that doesn’t want to condemn Stalin’s repressions.”
Natalie – we already had this conversation back when you were publising first posts on your visit to Russia this summer. The truth is different – the number of Russians affected by the repressions amounts to 2.5-3% of the total population in the span of 30 years. What “many” you are talking about?
Also – I’m not averse to talk about repressions. Not at all. I think people should talk about them more, to learn why it was necessary.
That quote was the opinion of the woman I was talking to who was my tour guide in Moscow.
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The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, March 27, 1984, Page 1, Image 1
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V V Not-so-super Tuesday Partly cloudy, chance of afternoon thundershowers, high around 70, low around 50. Chance of rain Wednesday. Copyright 1984 The Dailv Tar Heel. All rights reserved. Volume 92, Issue 7 11,111 1 . fLUHUiimiMJ- mi. IW ( .MM,. i I . " v 7 i r I ' ? t3 . , - " I ; ) , J x;c, f IS V A 1j sSS::?: ... .. w. ..- ' ; , s:;:V':;,'''' So N o s : DTnLon L. Tnomas Student Body President Paul Parker (left) voted Monday to revise student activities fee increases. ... Other action at the CGC meeting Monday called. for allowing the CGC to pass more allocations. Plan ties health fees to insurance By BILL RIEDY Assistant State and National Editor A proposal before the N.C. Insurance Commission designed to save college students more than $100 on large medical bills, might also improve student health services in the long run. Dr. William McRae, director of Stu dent Health Services at UNC Greensboro, submitted the proposal to Insurance Commissioner John Ingram's office last September. The proposal would allow students to apply their stu dent health fees toward their medical in surance policy deductible. But the matter still is under considera tion by the Insurance Commission. Since the proposal already has been submitted to the commission the next step is up to Ingram. In a statement released Sept. 29, In gram stated his support for the idea and said he would set up investigatory hear ings at universities around the state to get a feeling for the support the proposal may have. He then could approve the proposal and decide when it would take effect. McRae, however, said no hearings had 'Yack' delayed by overruns, should be out in two weeks By BILL ROSE Staff Writer Despite a number of unexpected cost overruns, the 1983 Yackety Yack will be distributed in two weeks, a Yack repre sentative said Monday. Peter Krogh, associate editor of the 1983 Yackety Yack, said the yearbook had been completed and would be sent to the Hunter Publishing Co. in Dallas, Texas on April 2 to be published. Krogh said a major reason for the delay of yearbook distribution was un expected costs. "We have recently dis covered a cct overrun of about $3,000," he said. "T.iis has caused us a few prob lems, but we expect to have it resolved by Friday. We have most of the money right now. "The absolute worst thing that could happen would be to cut out a few pages to pay for the expenses," he said. "The essential point is that the book will go out next week." Krogh said a recent three-week delay by the publishing company pushed the distribution date to early April. "They have a commitment to a number of schools, and they wanted to wait to publish our book at one time and do a better job on it," he said. "They (Hunter Publishing Co.) have been extreme ly cooperative, and they want to print an excellent book," Krogh said. Peter Krogh The Yackety Yack is traditionally one of the better college yearbooks in the country, Krogh said. "So many yearbook staffs around the country look at the Yack as an example," he said. "1 think if you compared the Yack with a number of other yearbooks, you would much rather have ours on your bookshelf." Krogh said the 1983 Yack is geared much more towards students, and he believes it reflects university life clearer than the past couple of volumes. "What we did was make a book that students y been scheduled. He said he had called the commission about the status of the pro posal and was waiting for someone to return his call. No one was available at the commis sioner's office last week to. discuss the proposal. "Policies generally have a deductible of $100 to $150 that you have to pay, and the insurance pays everything over that," said Darryll Hendricks, and executive vice president for student government at UNC. "Since students pay a student health fee, they could get a receipt for it at student health and take it later on to cover the deductible. The fee would be classified as a first payment (toward medical bills)." UNC students currently pay $77 per semester, or $154 a year, in student health -fees. The administration of Student Body President Paul Parker is working through the UNC Association of Student Govern ments to solicit support from all schools in the 16-campus UNC system. "I can't possibly see why any student would be against this," Hendricks said. In addition to the obvious advantage to parents and students, the University 'So many yearbook staffs around the country look at the 'Yack9 as an example. I think if you com pared the 'Yack with a number of other yearbooks, you would much rather have ours on your bookshelf ' Peter Krogh would really want," he said. "We have heeded the criticism and suggestions from students and faculty. "That is our responsibility to make a book for our subscribers, the students, and not for our own pleasures," he said. For instance, the 1982 Yack was a great yearbook of Chapel Hill, but it did not reflect the university as much as it could have, Krogh said. Lisa Granberry, editor of the 1984 Yackety Yack and managing editor of the 1983 Yack, said she agreed the 1983 Yack was more student-oriented. "The proofs that I have seen of the book are very, very good," she said. "The staff has done a lot to make it a good student yearbook. There is much more written copy in this Yack than in the '82 issue. It's a little unusual, but catchy." . Granberry said her No. 1 priority with the 1984 Yack is to get it out on time. "We're hoping to get it out by November or December," she said. "We will have a large group of people here this summer, and that is.when we will do the bulk of the work." Krogh said he hoped students would remember the value of owning a year book. "It's not a book you throw away after six months," he said. "It is. best ap preciated five to 10 years after you have left Chapel Hill." It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. 'Serving the students and the University community since 1893' Tuesday, March 27, 1984 would benefit from the proposal, he said. Since the proposal could save students over $100, Hendricks said, "the Universi ty could raise student health fees by a small amount and thus could improve SHS and allow them to cover more ser vices." In the long range it will save insurance companies money. But they will lose lots of revenue in the short run," Hendricks said. "The insurance companies will fight this they're pretty big and powerful," McRae said. "Unless they think of something themselves, they don't like to think it's a good idea." McRae said the intention was for the proposal to be used by all colleges and universities in North Carolina before stu--dent governments promote it on-a.na--ti6nal scale. "If we can get out foot in the door, it could conceivably be a big thing," he said. Even if implementing the proposal wouldn't mean any more immediate ac tual dollars for student health services, McRae said it would be a psychological advantage for the student health industry nationwide because of the long-run benefits. ' C llf..-i 1"S m ' "v Li! jst yvs "'A - H , ' I ' ' $ " I ! " I I - 3 ' ,:""- " J ) t,s:" . , sy , - , ' Y '"'S-''' f o 0I ,BTrrn I, $ - Turn im m i n i vx-extffc. Almost in '"HL,",no" The season may be over, but high school students Jeffrey Degraf-, fenreid (left) and Marius Barbee continue their personal one-on-one tournament. The action took place at the Hargraves Center in Carrboro. Some people just can't wait for the regular season to get their basketball fix. Mm Chapel Hill, North Carolina inance By BEN PERKOWSKI Staff Writer Sherri Watson resigned as Campus Governing Council Finance Committee Chairperson Monday night and Thomas Kepley was named as temporary chair person until the full Council meets again to make a permanent appointment. Wat son said she resigned for personal reasons. In a full session Monday night, the CGC voted 13-8 to reject a bill which would stop the CGC from appropriating subsequent funds to any organization for the fiscal year 1983-84 unless the com bined funds of Student Government in cash at the Student Activities Fund Office and the Investment exceeded $40,000. The CGC also voted to exempt them selves from the Treasury Law which sets the $40,000 limit. . The Treasury Law in question, Article VIII, Section 2, states "the combined funds of Student Government in cash at the Student Activities Fund Office and in the Investment shall never fall below $40,000." Watson said Student Govern ment currently has $15,728.98 in cash which includes a $10,000 loan from The Daily Tar Heel which reverted back into the Student Government fund this week.. The CGC voted to accept a net asset figure of $25,728.98 submitted by Burke Mewborne, former Student Body UNC receives four-acre estate By STEVE FERGUSON Assistant University Editor UNC has been given the title to the house and property of the late Louise V. Coker, a four-acre estate located at 609 North St. in Chapel Hill. Charles D.-Fox III and his wife, Preston W. Fox, of Roanoke, Va., were heirs to. 4he property and responsible for the gift, Chancellor Christopher C. For dham III reported Monday. Coker died last year. The Coker home is considered one of Chapel Hill's most beautiful estates. Ford ham said. The University is indebted to the Foxes for this bequest, he said. In Coker's will, the property had several restrictions which were unaccep table to the University, UNC Property chair resigns Chairperson cites personal reasons; CGC votes to allow subsequent funding Treasurer, which means the CGC has ap proximately that figure to appropriate this fiscal year. The $25,728 figure in cludes an expected return of $10,000 in student fees. Patricia Wallace, chairperson for the Rules and Judiciary Committee, said she didn't agree with the Council's decision to reject the bill. "I thought it was rather negligent of the Council," she said. "However, Council is aware of the prob lem and I feel it will take measures, such as an increased awareness of the Treasury Laws and the functions of the student body treasurer for the CGC to become more fiscally responsible." Tim Newman, CGC representative from District 11, said in support of rejec ting the bill: "We cannot take a stand saying we are not going to do anything else (appropriate more funds) this year; there could be a program that desperately needs funding and we could not do it if this bill were passed." Paul Parker, student body president, voted against the bill and added he did not think the Student Government had broken the law. "I think we have not in terpreted this correctly," he said. "It might have to go to the Student Supreme Court, but I don't believe we have broken the law at all." Parker said a question arises in Article VIII, Section 2 of the Treasury Laws when it states "No investment is allowed Officer Grace Wagoner said. The pro perty was to be used by UNC but not owned by it, it was to be a residence for faculty members and the University was to be responsible for upkeep of the grounds. On Feb. 17 the Board of Trustees of the -Endowment Fund decided to turn down Coker's bequest because of the ex v pense qf .maintaining the ... property without owning it. - The Foxes, who would have inherited the property if the University had not ac cepted it, decided to change the restric tions of the will. "The conditions in the will are no longer valid," Wagoner said. She said she wasn't aware of the estate's value or how the University would use it. "I think there is potential for good use for the University," Wagoner said. Im provements to the house will include plumbing, wiring, and heatingcooling renovations, Wagoner said. Preston Fox is the niece of Louise V. Coker, wife of W.C. Coker, former head of UNC's botany department. Fox is also granddaughter of former UNC President Speaker defines leadership Fleece inductees tapped By JEFF HIDAY Editor U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., at 29 the nation's youngest congressman, defined leadership for the 26 inductees of the Order of the Golden Fleece as "wil lingness and ability to inflict pain for a worthy goal, regardless of the consequences. "It's not a plea sant thing, Cooper said, "but it's a worthy, wor thy thing." c i JU Cooper was the speaker for the James Cooper 1984 Frank Porter Graham lecture on Ex cellence, held in the art building Monday night. He said successful leadership depended on taking risks and putting your name and neck on the line. "Once in pro minence," he said, "do something with it." Apathy, negative feelings and excessive partisanship are rampant in politics, Cooper said. But he offered a few an tidotes. r "It's awfully difficult to shake apathy," Cooper said, reminding his au dience of about 150 that this year's presidential election probably would be decided by a few thousand people in a state like North Carolina. "Don't just vote," he said. "Vote with your feet. Our forebears got here by voting with their feet. The people in El Salvador just yesterday risked their lives to vote." Cooper advised combining a sense of history with a sense of humor to combat negative feeling. William G. Season's surprise The Tar Heel women's bas ketball team almost out shone the men's. To find out why, read Mike Schoor's penetrating analysis on page 5. NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 which would reduce the Cash position of SG below $10,000." "It does not say ex penditure, it says investment," Parker said. "I think there is an ambiquity there which needs to be looked into." Dan Hall, CGC representative from District 14, said it didn't matter if the $40,000 limit is arbitrary. "The fact is that we are below the limit which is the law, and if Student Government purpose ly violates the Treasury Laws, it really is in bad shape," he said. The CGC voted to establish a task force to review and investigate the Stu dent Code concerning the Instrument of the Judicial Government. The task force will examine the Student Government Constitution, the By-Laws of the CGC, and "Executive Affairs." The task force shall be comprised of two members from the CGC, two members from the Executive Branch, one representative from the UNC administra tion and two members from the Judicial Branch. Wallace said: "I think it will be a good chance for the judicial, executive and legislative branches to work together." Newman said: "Considering the prob lems the CGC has run into lately, I think it would be slapping ourselves in the face if we don't pass this bill." The CGC voted to move a bill which See CGC on page 4 Francis Preston Venable. This is the second major gift the couple has given the University. With sons Charles D. Fox IV and Francis P. Fox, and Coker, they originated the Coker Fox Scholarship Fund. According to Fordham, the Foxes, Cokers and Venables represent some of the greatest names in the University's history. . , ,..;,;....,....'.. ... , The Cokers were responsible for several gifts to botany scholarships at UNC, and Louise Coker and other family members were contributors to the Coker Arboretum. Louise V. Coker attended St. Mary's College in Raleigh and received and A.B. degree from UNC in 1923. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She later worked for the Department of Agriculture in Washington. She returned to Chapel Hill in 1924, and was employed by the Extension Divi sion of the University and married W.C. Coker in 1934. Charles Fox is a member of the class of 1951, and Preston Fox received a degree from UNC in 1950. More than once, Cooper said, he faced "excessive partisanship" in what Time magazine called the "most heavily spotlighted" House race of 1982. Cooper defeated Cissy Baker, daughter of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, by a margin of better than two to one. "A Republican lady told me, '1 wouldn't vote for you if you were St. Peter.' I told her, 'Listen, ma'am, if I were St. Peter, you wouldn't live in my district.' " Earlier in his speech, Cooper likened himself and his remarks to Marilyn Monroe's fifth husband. "He knows what to do, but he's not sure he can make it interesting. "Be different from past generations," Cooper said. "Think. Participate. Make a difference with your personal lives." Golden Fleece members are called argonauts and their leader, Robbie Bach, is called Jason. As Bach named the in ductees and cited their accomplishments, the black-robed argonauts tapped and stood behind the inductees. Officially, Monday night's ceremony was the 81st Annual Tapping. The 1984 initiates are as follows: Edward Claywell Irvine, LaQuetta Ann Robinson, Andrea Emily Stumpf, Tresa Suzette Brown, Keith Harrison Johnson, Paul Gray Parker, Timothy Patrick Sullivan, David Jeffrey Maslia, Michael Jeffery Jordan, Debra Lynn'Wulfhorst, James Jervalle Exum, David Culver Keesler, David Timothy McCoy, Richard David Owens, John Bernhardt Wilson, Jr., Edith Maria Baxter, Joseph Allen D'Amico, William Burke Mewborne, III, Lucia Veronica Halpern, Mary Margaret Jones, Robert G. Byrd, James ,Q. Cansler, Lars G. Schoultz, and Walker Percy. McAdoo
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With rolling and folding displays, tech firms see good times ahead
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Rob Lever and Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 2019 12:54 PM
Tim Alessi, senior director of home entertainment products for LG Electronics USA, watches as the rollable screen of an LG Signature OLED TV R rises from its base during an LG Electronics news conference at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Jan. 7, 2019. Steve Marcus, Reuters
LAS VEGAS -- Electronic displays that fold, roll and bend have finally arrived after years of development, and tech firms are touting the technology as a potential source of growth and new applications.
At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, South Korean giant LG unveiled its ultra-high definition television that rolls into and out of a base stand and can be furled and unfurled on demand.
"It brings freedom of design to a space, without the limitations of a wall," LG senior vice president of marketing David VanderWaal said while introducing the OLED TV R.
A demonstration showed that the 65-inch (165 centimeter) screen could disappear completely into the base, extend just part way to display photos, act as a control screen for smart devices, or rise completely for full viewing.
LG did not disclose pricing for the roll-up television.
Chinese startup Royole meanwhile showed off what it claimed is the first foldable smartphone, which can fit into a pocket but unfold into a full-sized tablet computer, which is available in China and now is offered in the US for $1,300.
"People want mobility but they also want large screens," Royole founder Bill Liu told a news conference as he showed the recently launched FlexPai device.
"It's really a combination of a smartphone and tablet."
Other device makers are expecting to introduce foldable handsets this year, but Liu said the technology using superthin layers with nano-sized sensors offered a lot more than just more convenient phones.
Royole showed how the same flexible displays could be used for automotive dashboards, wearables, and for various other commercial and industrial uses.
"We see this as the next generation of human-machine interface," Liu said.
"It can change the way we connect to everything."
Royole says its flexible sensor technology can be adapted for a variety of touchscreen applications with improved performance and lower costs than traditional screens.
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Royole and LG were among the firms making media presentations ahead of the official opening of the January 8-11 Las Vegas event.
The two announcements could portend a wave of new products from tech firms this year and could offer a spark to a smartphone sector that has seen sluggish growth over the past year.
CES features 4,500 exhibitors across 2.75 million square feet (250,000 square meters) of exhibit space showcasing artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, smart homes, smart cities, sports gadgets and other cutting-edge devices. Some 182,000 trade professionals are expected.
GlobalData research director Avi Greengart said the roll-up television appears "cool" and offers "unique technology."
"Foldable phones is going to be a big trend this year," Greengart said, noting that most of new product announcements of that ilk were likely to be saved for the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Samsung is widely believed to launch a folding handset sometime this year, possibly at the Barcelona event.
Greengart said he expected the challenge to folding smartphones to be on the software side, not with the displays, since applications will have to be designed to adapt to going from phone to tablet screen sizes.
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Return to (DfE) Department of Education
The Department for Education (DfE) is a department of the UK government responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education.
A Department for Education previously existed between 1992, when the Department of Education and Science was renamed, and 1995 when it was merged with the Department for Employment to become the Department for Education and Employment.
The Department for Education’s Ministers are as follows: [3]
The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP Secretary of State and Conservative Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath Overall responsibility
David Laws MP Minister of State and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Yeovil Schools [4]
Edward Timpson MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Conservative Member of Parliament for Crewe & Nantwich Children’s minister with responsibility for adoption and children in care
Matthew Hancock MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Conservative Member of Parliament for West Suffolk Further education, skills and lifelong learning (Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills and Education)
Elizabeth Truss MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk Early years’ education
Lord Nash
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools and Government Spokesperson Schools (including academies)
Matthew Hancock works jointly between the department and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.[5]
As of 15 March 2012 the board:[6]
Permanent Secretary – Chris Wormald
Director-General for Children, Young People and Families – Tom Jeffery
Acting Director-General for Infrastructure and Funding – Andrew McCully
Acting Director General for Education Standards – Stephen Meek
Director Finance and commercial Group – Simon Judge
Lead Non Executive Board member – Paul Marshall
Non Executive Director Board Member – Theodore Agnew
Chief Executive of Education Funding Agency – Peter Lauener
Non Executive Board Member – Dame Sue John
Director of Strategy, Performance, and Private Office Group – Hilary Spencer
Director of People and Change Group – Janette Durbin
Non-Executive Board members:[7]
Anthony Salz; lawyer
Theodore Agnew; businessman
Dame Susan John, DBE; Headteacher, Lampton School
John Nash, sponsor, Pimlico Academy
As of 15 March 2012, the DfE has five main sites:[8]
Castle View House, Runcorn
2 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield
Mowden Hall, Darlington
Sanctuary Buildings, London
Standards and Testing Agency, Coventry
Education, youth and children’s policy is devolved elsewhere in the UK. The department’s main devolved counterparts are as follows:
Scottish Government – Learning and Justice Directorates
Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (children and young people) [9]
Welsh Government – Department for Education and Skills [10]
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^ DCSF Annual Report
^ Cabinet Office List of Government Departments and Ministers: Department for Education
^ The Rt Hon David Laws MP
^ Ministers: John Hayes MP
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^ Non-Executive Members, DfE Board
^ http://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/departmentalinformation/locationdetails/a0022/where-to-find-us accessed 15/3/2012
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Polish woman appeals for help to find son missing with estranged husband
Judge gives Leyla Dad permission to write open letter to six-year-old Mani, who vanished from home in Kielce, Poland, and is thought to be with his British father 21st June 2015 Judge gives …
WALES/ENGLAND – Minister tells judges to keep out of legal aid disputes
Courts should not intervene in funding disputes where a litigant has already been denied legal aid, the justice minister has said. 10 December 2014By John Hyde Shailesh Vara (pictured) told a committee of MPs …
UK – Stay-at-home mothers facing child custody battles without legal representation
Mothers have borne the brunt of the impact of cuts in legal representation in family court cases, figures court show Mothers have borne the brunt of the impact of legal aid cuts Photo: …
ENGLAND – Thousands of mothers have multiple babies removed
Thousands of mothers over the past seven years have had successive children removed by family courts in England, the BBC has learned. One case saw two judges remove 15 successive babies from the same …
UK – Britain’s missing babies: How thousands of children have disappeared from council care in the last two years – and one infant still can’t be found
Almost 5,000 children – including babies – disappeared from council care 19 babies have vanished for months at a time, the figures reveal The statistics, unveiled under FOI, have been called ‘alarming’ by NSPCC …
ENGLAND – Baby P council apologises for failings in Child T abuse case
Filed under Child Abuse, Child Death, Child Protection
Haringey council says it should have intervened more swiftly in case of toddler who at one point had 50 bruises on his body
The council that dealt with the Baby P and Victoria Climbié cases has apologised after failing to prevent the abuse of a toddler who suffered extensive injuries at the hands of his family.
The boy, referred to only as Child T, was twice taken to hospital but returned to his mother and stepfather before eventually being taken into care in June 2011, when he was aged four.
At one stage he was found to have more than 50 bruises on his body. He told a doctor of being hit with a belt and a stick by his stepfather, a heroin addict.
Haringey local safeguarding children board launched a serious case review (SCR) into the matter, which found failings by the police, social workers and medical staff who saw the boy and his three siblings.
The report concluded there was an overall weakness in following up collaborative investigations across all the agencies along with a failure to focus on the children of the family and what life was like for them.
It also blamed a reluctance to “think the unthinkable” and recognise all the adults in the family as the perpetrators of abuse, as well as a lack of alertness to the possibility of child abuse being the cause of his injuries.
Referring to the case of Baby P, who died in August 2007 with more than 50 injuries, the report said: “The correspondence with the abuse of Peter Connelly cannot go unmarked.”
The “list of concerns sounds like a textbook presentation of frequently found weakness in the protection of children,” it added.
The first time Child T came to the authorities’ attention was when he was taken to the A&E department at North Middlesex hospital by his mother and stepfather in June 2010. He had bruising around the eyes, forehead and nose and swelling that was said to have become worse during the day.
His stepfather told medics that the boy often ran around and “bangs and hits himself on the wall”. Child T was kept in overnight before being seen by a paediatrician the next day who thought his case should be referred to children’s social care services. But the fax was mistakenly sent to Enfield instead of Haringey.
In February 2011 police were called to the family home after Child T’s mother said his stepfather had been violent to both him and herself. The stepfather, referred to as Mr C, was arrested and the toddler was taken to hospital by police the following day where he was found to have more than 50 bruises of varying ages and sizes.
The doctor judged that many of the injuries were caused by physical abuse and that others were “highly suspicious”. Mr C was interviewed by police where he denied causing any injury to Child T, claiming that his mother and maternal grandmother, who lived with them, hit the child with a slipper. He also denied any violence towards his partner.
There were also claims that Child T’s younger sister and older half-sister were abused by Mr C, and that he tried to drown the older girl in the bath and hit her with a rod. The three children, along with Child T’s six-month-old half-sister, were eventually taken into care. Mr C was sentenced to four years in prison in October 2011 for assaulting a person under the age of 16.
Haringey council’s leader, Claire Kober, said: “We fully accept the findings of this SCR and apologise unreservedly for the failings set out in the report. Together with partner agencies, we could and should have intervened more swiftly.
“We are pleased that we were able to secure positive outcomes for the child in this case, and that he is now thriving in a safe family environment.”
SOURCE: The Guardian
Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/family-law-public/child-protection/england-baby-p-council-apologises-for-failings-in-child-t-abuse-case/
WALES/ENGLAND – Kill off outdated family law, says retiring Coleridge
Filed under Divorce
The private sector should take the lead in developing more innovative and ‘daring’ alternatives to the ‘bloodshed, time and cost’ of court, according to a retiring family judge.
Announcing the he is stepping down from full-time judging, Sir Paul Coleridge also called for an overhaul of outdated divorce laws.
He told a conference in London yesterday that he will devote more time to the Marriage Foundation – the charity he set up two years ago – and to ‘explore and push’ the possibilities of out-of-court alternative dispute resolution.
English courts need to follow other jurisdictions and be more ‘innovative and much more daring’ in this field, he said.
Save in rare cases, Coleridge said the ‘days of gladiatorial wars of titans’ are over; ‘the dinosaurs have had their day’.
Even the most intractable and difficult cases, he suggested, can be solved in a more ‘sophisticated and modern way’ with less ‘bloodshed, time and cost’.
He said the private sector has to pioneer the work and pave the way for change, as ‘we cannot wait for the courts to get round to moving into a more streamlined and user-friendly environment’.
Coleridge called for an independent commission to take a ‘new and fresh’ look at the current divorce laws, which have been unchanged for 40 years.
Family law, he said, should regulate how life is lived now, not in the ‘distant past’.
Current divorce and financial provision law, he said, was ‘designed in a wholly different era to deal with a wholly different society and way of life’ and is no longer fit for purpose.
‘In the immortal words of John Cleese it is dead as a parrot, it is no more, it has gone to meet its maker. Or should do.’
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, he said has ‘had its day’ and should be ‘humanely killed off’.
SOURCE: Law Society Gazette
Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/family-law-private/divorce-2/walesengland-kill-off-outdated-family-law-says-retiring-coleridge/
ENGLAND – Child death reviews: improving the use of evidence
Filed under Child Death
A study investigating how to make better national use of the information collected through the child death review processes.
Child death reviews: improving the use of evidence
Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-264-8, DFE-RR303 PDF, 711KB, 72 pages
Child death reviews: improving the use of evidence: brief
Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-265-5, DFE-RB303 PDF, 167KB, 9 pages
Local safeguarding children boards in England were statutorily required to establish local child death overview panels (CDOPs) by April 2008 to review the deaths of all children from birth up to 18 years normally resident in their area.
The primary purpose of CDOPs is to review individual deaths to inform strategic planning on how best to safeguard and promote the welfare of the children in their area. To support the CDOP function and using templates provided by the Department for Education, CDOPs collect information about each child who dies including the conclusions of the panel review.
The study was conducted in December 2012 through to March 2013. Questionnaires were emailed to all CDOPs to collect representative data, following which a series of telephone and face-to-face interviews were conducted with CDOPs, managers and chairs.
SOURCE: Department for Education
Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/family-law-public/child-death/england-child-death-reviews-improving-the-use-of-evidence/
WALES/ENGLAND – Silver splitter surge leaves divorce lawyers with new headache – the meddling children
It is a job which has always required the skills of a diplomat, conflict negotiator, property expert and financial whizz all rolled into one.
The number of divorces rises when people turn 60 Photo: ALAMY
But divorce lawyers say their ability to defuse acrimony appears to be being put to the test more than ever before – because of the rise in so-called “silver-splitter” separations.
The problem, they say, is not the couple getting divorced themselves but their meddling adult offspring, often intent on protecting their own inheritance.
Those who decide to divorce in later life are more likely to have grown-up children who are, lawyers say, more likely to get involved, often making the process even more bitter and protracted.
Beverley Darwent, a partner in family law at Pannone Solicitors, said she and other colleagues had noticed a marked “pattern” in recent years, corresponding with the growth in over-60s heading to the divorce courts.
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Ms Darwent said it had brought a host of unexpected complications for those trying to negotiate the separation.
The influence of adult offspring routinely causes one or other party to the split to dig their heels in and raise their demands, she said.
Often they put pressure on parents to change their will to protect their share of the family assets from any future half brothers or sisters. Or they endless try to persuade their parents to get back together when the marriage is beyond rescue, simply delaying the inevitable and running up costs, she added.
In some cases they have been known to take matters into their own hands such as tracking down their father or mother’s new partner and bombarding them with angry or abusive messages by email or on sites such as Facebook.
She added that, even though adult children have no say in proceedings, she has at times had to hold meetings with them to explain the process in hope of defusing the acrimony.
“Regardless of the motivation, some of the adult children concerned often express quite forceful views which only serve to complicate their parents’ divorce, meaning that the process is even more distressing all-‘round and takes longer to resolve,” she said.
“One of the things they do is try to make contact with one of the parties’ new partner and try to be beastly to them.
“Some of them do resort to nasty emails or messages on Facebook.
“Particularly when trying to feather their own nests they will try to put pressure on the parents to alter their will, which won’t be effective because you could argue that there was undue pressure.”
While often the children’s motivation is simply a sense of shock or desire to preserve the family, it was clear in many cases that concerns about their future inheritance were a major consideration.
“You can tell that’s what they are thinking,” she said.
“Very few of them will actually articulate that but you can tell from the venom towards the new partner what their thinking is.”
SOURCE: The Telegraph
Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/family-law-private/divorce-2/walesengland-silver-splitter-surge-leaves-divorce-lawyers-with-new-headache-the-meddling-children/
ENGLAND – Ofsted launches new single inspection for children’s services
Filed under Adoption, Care Leaver Support, Child Protection, Children Charities, Children Services, Foster Care, Local Authorities, Looked-after Children, Ofsted
Ofsted’s new single framework for the inspection of local authority services for vulnerable children will come into effect from November 2013. The framework will bring together child protection, services for looked after children and care leavers, and local authority fostering and adoption services.
Inspection gradings have been revised so that anything less than ‘good’ will be deemed not good enough and will be judged to ‘require improvement’. The ‘adequate’ rating will no longer be applied.
Inspectors will judge performance in three key areas in the single inspection:
– the experiences and progress of children who need help and protection;
– the experiences and progress of children looked after and achieving permanent homes and families for them;
– leadership, management and governance.
If a local authority is judged ‘inadequate’ in any of these three critical areas, it will automatically be judged ‘inadequate’ overall.
Ofsted’s new National Director for Social Care, Debbie Jones, said:
‘While I understand the pressures and recognise that the social care landscape is changing, I believe that this new framework has children and young people and the quality of professional practice at its heart.
It is our ambition to establish “good” as the new minimum and for this to become the agreed standard for all services for children and young people. It is right to introduce the harder test asking what difference we are all making and I am impressed with the extent to which the new framework sets this out.’
The introduction of the new framework has been the subject of concern among local authority professionals. Mark Rogers, Chief Executive of Solihull MBC and Lead on Children’s Services for the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (SOLACE) made the following statement on the Society’s website:
‘Only good is good enough when it comes to delivery of children’s services. Excellence must be the ambition when it comes to the outcomes for children and young people. Unfortunately, Ofsted’s efforts to deliver a quality independent single inspection framework fall short of expectations and still require improvement.
SOLACE has successfully argued that a single inspection framework is needed to recognise the complexity of the local system for protecting and caring for children and young people. However, it is hard to see how justice is done to this complexity when the performance of other agencies remains out of scope. The publication of a simplistic single grade to describe the performance of a sophisticated multi-agency system will not enhance public understanding, improvement or accountability.
Of greatest concern is the readiness of the inspectorate’s workforce to deliver this new inspection framework routinely to a high standard. Feedback from the two pilots was only recently concluded and SOLACE is very concerned that this will leave insufficient time for the learning to filter through. Inspection practice and consistency will suffer as a consequence.
To deploy this inspection framework at this time will be like driving using only the rear view mirror.’
Andrew Webb, President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) voiced concerns about the use of graded judgments:
‘Every director of children services wants to ensure a safe and high quality service is provided by all partners to protect and support children, young people and their families. The universal nature of the Single Inspection Framework is welcomed but we fundamentally disagree with the use of graded judgments. Graded judgments can, and do, hide a multitude of strengths and weaknesses, and there is no certainty that two local authorities with the same judgments are providing the same quality of service and achieving the same outcomes for children in their area.
The complex, multi-agency, nature of safeguarding and protecting vulnerable children would be better suited to a narrative approach to judgments. Narrative judgments, which are used effectively in Coroners’ Courts, would allow Ofsted to describe its findings in detail, including the strengths and weaknesses of the system. This, combined with a requirement for the local authority to produce an ‘action plan’ detailing how improvement will be achieved, would ensure the public can see a remedy for improvement alongside a diagnosis of the problems. Local authorities, working with their partners in health, education, police and probation, would then be empowered to devise and conduct a targeted and tailored programme of improvement designed to ensure sustainable change across the whole system, with everyone playing their part. We hope Ofsted, when working with other inspectorates to develop the planned multi agency, multi-inspectorate framework for April 2015, will consider the use of narrative judgments as a more constructive way to ensure that sustained improvements are made.’
SOURCE: Family Law
Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/family-law-public/child-protection/england-ofsted-launches-new-single-inspection-for-childrens-services/
ENGLAND – Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications
Filed under Cafcass (England), Care Applications
The head of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has dampened hopes that a recent decrease in new care applications represents the start of a sustained fall in children needing protection.
Douglas expects care applications to remain at a high level despite recent falls
Cafcass chief executive Anthony Douglas said the need for care applications remained at a “high level” with there being “no underlying change” in demand.
His comments followed the publication today of the September care applications figures from Cafcass that showed there were 830 applications last month, six per cent fewer than in September 2012. The monthly figure for August (828) was also 17 per cent down on the corresponding figure in 2012.
Despite applications falling for two consecutive months and quarterly figures sitting at levels not consistently seen for two years, Douglas attributed the decline to the introduction of the revised Public Law Outline (PLO) case management system.
“We saw a decline in 2008 before the first PLO was introduced, and I think this decline is primarily down to the impact of the revised PLO,” he explained.
The PLO sets out the work that local authorities need to do before making care applications, so any changes to these requirements will take councils time to adapt. The changes to PLO have been phased in over recent months, with the last 30 local authorities starting to use it this week.
However, Douglas said that efforts by local authorities to do more pre-proceedings work could be helping to resolve some cases without having to make care applications.
He added: “It may be an early trend on more diversion; it’s too early to tell. But it’s probably not enough to affect the underlying high level of between 850 and 1,000 applications per month. It is quite a range, but I think it will stay at that level.”
Douglas said the figures also hid “wild local variation” in the number of applications made by different councils, with some areas making “rapid progress” in their use of diversion to find alternatives to care.
In 2012/13, Cafcass received 11,099 new applications, eight per cent higher than the previous year. February 2013 saw 1,002 applications made, the highest monthly total ever recorded.
SOURCE: Children & Young People Now
Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/cafcass-england/england-cafcass-chief-wary-over-recent-fall-in-care-applications/
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County lake, reservoir both see decent holiday crowds
By MINDY KEPFIELD
Marion County Lake enjoyed more visitors this Labor Day weekend than last as staff at Marion Reservoir opened more campsites and continued efforts to clean up damage left by flooding.
In addition to primitive camping at Marion Cove, some sites at Hillsboro and French Creek Coves, both of which have electrical hookups, have been opened, assistant lake manager Kevin McCoy said.
“It was nice to see people come out,” he said.
He said he didn’t have any firm numbers about the number of guests who took advantage of the newly opened sites this holiday weekend, but said he was happy offer more opportunity to campers after reservoir staff put in much hard work.
“It’s a slow process to get even a handful of (sites) open, even for Hillsboro and French Creek. We’ve been working on them for months,” he said.
Meanwhile, at the county lake nearly all available campsites with electrical and water hookups were taken. A total of nearly 50 campsites were filled, said Isaac Hett, lake manager.
“We had more visitors this weekend than there were last Labor Day, so that’s good,” he said.
Anglers apparently were not put off by Thursday night damage to the lake’s heated fishing dock caused by high winds that buckled its metal walkway and shoved it back to the bank.
The lake remains under blue-green algae warning.
“We saw quite a few fishing and quite a few boaters, both Saturday and Sunday,” he said.
Hett said the lake has seen visitors come and go in “streaks” this season, with some months great and others off.
“June was very good and July was probably a little less,” he said.
“Our August was slow because of the blue-green algae warnings,” he said.
Both lake managers say they have a winter of cleanup ahead of them.
McCoy said Cottonwood Cove, the largest campsite at the reservoir and the most damaged, will be closed the rest of the season.
He said he is hoping to have it up and running this spring.
“It’s going to be close,” he said.
High water left some roads in shambles, shattered concrete tables, uprooted large trees, swamped showers, and left a residue of blue green algae over the mess.
Electric hookups that went under high water will have to replaced.
“That’s a very expensive hit,” he said. “The roads are another one.”
Some good news, he said, is continued interest in visiting the reservoir.
“We know people monitor it every day and check the website to see what is available,” he said. “We may see a little increase as people squeeze in a little camping before winter sets in.”
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PLSN Staff • Product News • May 13, 2019
LOS ANGELES – The FR20 DTW is an incredibly compact, yet surprisingly potent, wash fixture that is ideal for a wide variety of stage, theatre and commercial applications where space is limited. It is the most recent addition to ADJ’s popular Encore range of LED-powered stage lighting.
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The Encore FR20 DTW is powered by a 17W LED engine and is equipped with a 2-inch Fresnel lens. It produces a soft-edged beam with a 19-degree beam angle and is perfect for illuminating small stages, performance areas and displays. It is also supplied with a Frost Filter, which can be used to increase the beam angle up to 45-degrees, as well as a gel frame that can be used to hold colored gels (sold separately) in front of the lens. Removable metal barn doors are also included as standard, which can be used to adjust the beam dispersion.
The fixture generates a warm white wash with a color temperature of 3000K and also features Dim to Warm technology. This means that the light source incorporates an LED element with a lower color temperature which is automatically mixed into the light output as the dimming level is decreased, creating the appearance of the incandescent glow associated with halogen lamps as they are turned on and off.
A manual dimming knob is located on the rear of the fixture, which can be used to alter its output between 0 and 100%. However, unlike most LED-powered units, the fixture is also Triac-dimmable. It is compatible with ADJ’s range of DMX dimmer packs – including the two-channel Uni Pak II and four-channel DP-415R or DP-DMX20L models – as well as Lutron and Leviton wall dimmers. This means the fixture can be easily integrated into an existing dimmer-based stage lighting setup or included as part of a regular commercial lighting installation.
The Encore FR20 DTW is a unique fixture that is perfect for a wide range of situations that require a professional-caliber, but extremely small, Fresnel fixture. As well as small theatre and stage productions, it is ideal for shop window displays, art galleries, coffee shops with performance areas and church youth rooms.
Offering a light output of 600LUX, measured at a distance of 3M, the Encore FR20 DTW is an ideal solution for illuminating small performances areas. Thanks to its efficient LED light source, very little excess heat is generated which will help to keep the on-stage temperature cool for performers. The fixture’s LED also offers an operational life of 50,000 hours, which eliminates the time and cost involved in replacing lamps that comes with traditional halogen lamp-based units.
Despite its diminutive dimensions of 10.25” x 5.25” x 8.25” / 259 x 133 x 210mm (L x W x H) and low weight of 5 lbs. / 2 kg., the Encore FR20 DTW has an extremely robust casing design. Boasting a fully metallic construction (including the hanging bracket) finished with a high-quality matt black powder coating, the fixture will look at home as part of permanent installations in luxurious surroundings and is also tough enough for touring and event production duties.
The new FR20 DTW joins two existing wash fixtures in the ADJ Encore range. The FR50Z features a 6-inch Fresnel lens and is powered by a 50W LED engine, while the FR150Z is equipped with an 8-inch lens and harnesses the power of a potent 130W LED light source. In addition, the Encore Series also includes two profile fixtures – the Profile 1000 Color, which utilizes a 120W RGBW LED, and the Profile 1000 WW, which features a 120W warm white LED – as well as the Encore Burst range of LED-powered high-intensity blinder/strobe fixtures.
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Vote on pot shops could end lingering LA issue
Quoted in this piece in the AP.
The new law will do little to serve as a model for other cities, said professor Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School.
"I think we've been the perfect picture of dysfunction," she said. "Most of the guidance is actually what not to do."
"The pot shops are not going to take this lightly," Levinson said. "I think they will drag their feet exactly as long as it takes until police officers are at their door."
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Category: Ken Kayser
MONTEREY CAR WEEK 2018: THE QUAIL!
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering is not your average 16-year-old. Yes, the swagger is there but it’s less arrogant, more confident. And if she exhibits any aggressive behavior it’s in the way she is determined to please all within her intoxicating embrace, blogs photojournalist Jim Palam.
So how did I get so lucky to gather here in the manicured splendor of the Quail Lodge & Golf Course in Carmel, floating among the magnificent motorcars, bounteous buffets and beautiful people? Ah yes, I am here to shoot the pictures and tell the stories of the event, now in its 16th year, that many consider the Crown Jewel of all Monterey Car Week events.
So grab a glass of champagne and come-along with me for Part II of my three-part Monterey Car Week report – a peek into the pomp, polish and pleasure that is The Quail. The Rolex Circle of Champions – Best of Show 1953 Lancia Aurelia PF200C, above, was the first car I photographed, not because I’m a predictor of outcomes, but because it truly has magnetic appeal – and it was parked close to the entry point of the show!
You know you’re about to experience something special when it’s not even 8 AM and they’re handing out champagne under the towering entrance gate to The Gathering.
A feature of the show-winning Lancia that first caught my eye was the chrome bumpers where rear lights would normally be. With seating and controls far forward one appears to be piloting the Lancia rather than driving it.
“Everything Else Just Became Transportation.” The folks behind the Genesis Essentia Concept Car know how to write a good tagline – and how to dazzle the Quail crowd with a big-screen video backdrop that looped stunning high-definition black & white graphics and cityscapes behind their sleek and sinister showstopper.
What can I say that hasn’t already been said about this icy-blue Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic Coupe – other than it’s more Pacific on display at The Quail – and a galactic gem wherever it dazzles!
Porsche hopes to flip the Sizzle-Switch again in 2020 with it’s all-electric Mission E Taycan, which sat book-ended with ‘48 Porsche No. 1 Type 356 on the heavenly white 70 Years of Porsche stage.
Jose Fernandez of Mexico City had a dream – to build a traditional, handcrafted, coach-built ‘Speciale’ as an homage to the Michelloti-designed, Vignale-bodied racing Ferraris of the early-1950s. With deep pockets, determination and the skills of The Creative Workshop, his Custom Coachworks 1966 Ferrari 330 GT Speciale was unveiled at The Quail. Simply WOW!
The heart of Mr. Fernandez’s dream car – a matching numbers, modified Ferrari 330 Columbo 60-degree V12, 3,967cc, SOHC, 24 valve motor. It’s a treat for the ears and eyes.
Ever been too early for something – like the unveiling of the custom-built Hennessey 7.6 Liter Twin-Turbo V8 engine capable of achieving more than 1,600 horsepower at 7,200 rpm? Me neither, until The Quail. I did get to photograph the awesome Supercar she’ll be powering though. I’m good with that.
You’re looking at Zora’s #58053, the first L88 Corvette prototype development car and Ken Kayser, the insider, one of its owners, and author who has written the definitive story (http://www.tachometerpublishing.com/order/zoras-58053) of this legendary build. It’s believed to be the first St. Louis assembled Corvette with the big-block Mark IV 427 RPO-L72 engine.
This impressive lineup of legendary Lancias sat ready to rally in front of the winner’s ramp at The Quail. The successful Martini Racing sponsorship with the works Lancia team lasted for over a decade, starting in 1982.
Chasing Classic Car’s Wayne Carini describes the size a wad of car restoration cash needs to be to bring a classic to The Quail in show-winning condition!
The gent representing the Jim Glickenhaus SCG 003S Supercar was somewhat tight-lipped about details. There’s nothing sleepy about this Sleepy Hollow, NY- based, 800-Horsepower, 2,700-pound Stradale.
This ‘78 Dome ‘Zero’ was one of the road-going Supercars developed in Japan by racing aficionado Minoru Hayashi. Dome prototypes were intended to offer an alternative to exotic European Supercars.
When Curtiss Motorcycles CEO Matt Chambers unveiled the unpainted, all electric Zeus motorcycle at The Quail Motorcycle Gathering back in May he was wearing a suit, albeit without a tie. Just three months later he has added color and performance enhancements to the Zeus and ditched the suit. I like your style, Matt!
Even though there were only 435 Kaiser Darrins produced, many of you car guys are familiar with its quirky exterior design and sliding channel doors. So I thought you might enjoy this look at this ’54 K-D’s soothing Seafoam interior. Designed by Howard “Dutch” Darrin, power came from 161-inch Six.
The Senna is the most track-focused McLaren ever built, delivering a power-to-weight ratio of 668 PS-per-tonne (659 bhp). Impressive – but not to the two ‘Twenty-Somethings’ standing next to it at The Quail. “Yeah, it’s fast but this one is just boring looking.” Apparently, the monotone color scheme left them wanting!
How to standout in a field of Porsches: Go small. This stunning ½-scale, gas-powered 356 ‘Speedster’ is a highly-detailed, fully-functional driver!
Croatian EV manufacturer Rimac Automobili brought its beautiful blue California Edition C–Two to The Quail. With a sticker price of over $2 million this hyper-EV delivers 1,888 horsepower, goes from 0 to 60 in 1.85 seconds and has an advertised top speed of 258 mph!
Well guys, I was hoping to finish this report with a cool shot of this wicked ’65 GT350 Mustang. But darn it, this visitor from Belarus walked into the picture. I’m sorry. Stay tuned for the final installment of my Monterey Car Week coverage – coming soon!
Words & Photos: Jim Palam, https://www.jimpalam.com/
For more information about The Quail Motorsports Gathering and details about next year’s event, please visit https://whatsupmonterey.com/events/monterey-car-week/the-quail-a-motorsports-gathering/457
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Posted on September 5, 2018 Author Categories 1, 800 horsepower, all-electric, Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic, CA, Corvette, Driving, EV, Genesis Essentia Concept, Hennessey Venom, Jim Glickenhaus SCG 003S, Jim Palam, Kaiser darrin, Ken Kayser, Martini Racing, McLaren Senna, Porsche Taycan, racing, Rimac Automobili, Seat, Shelby GT350 Mustang, Wayne Carini, Zora Duntov's L88 MuleTags bugatti type 57 atlantic, genesis essentia concept, hennessey venom, kaiser darrin, martini racing, mclaren senna, porsche taycan, rimac automobili, shelby gt350 mustang, wayne carini, zora duntov's l88 mule
MARK II: CHEVY’S MYSTERIOUS 427!
The real 427 Mystery Motor, unlike the Z11, was not available in a car, or to the public. You had to have serious NASCAR cred to get one of the 20 built.
In the 1960s, Semon “Bunkie” Knudsen always seemed to be one step ahead of GM Chairman Fred Donner’s anti-racing missives. While running Pontiac, he had supported the Super-Duty Group that later, after he left, managed to get 421 Catalina Lightweights to drag racers before the axe fell. Then he moved on to Chevrolet in 1961 and supported the RPO Z11 drag racing and clandestine NASCAR 427 Mystery Motor projects. Both pure racing programs survived even though GM was officially out of racing. In the case of the Mystery Motor, everything was conducted through Chevrolet’s backdoor.
The 427 Mystery Motor’s real function was that of a “bridge” between the old school W-Series 348-409 and the next-gen 1965 Mark IV big-block. It used the same bore/stroke block – 4.31-inch bore and 3.65-inch stroke – as the Z11 engine. But that’s where the similarity ends. Unlike W-Series engines with combustion chambers in the cylinders, the Mark II NASCAR engine utilizes canted and staggered-valve (Porcupine) heads with conventional chambers. This style head debuted in production 396-427 Mark IV big-block engines, affectionately dubbed “Rat Motors” by enthusiasts!
Although developed primarily as a NASCAR race engine, Chevrolet did produce a singular variant for street applications, shown here with Ken Kayser, right, who had been Business Case Manager for the Mark IV big-block at Tonawanda. The Mark II in street trim, displayed for many years at GM’s Tonawanda, NY engine plant, was built to justify the expenses of building a racing-only engine. It is possible that at some point the project was referenced internally as RPO Code Z33. That would have been done only to disguise the 427 as an optional production engine so as not to attract unwanted attention. Interestingly, the Mark II engine was not produced at Tonawanda, the facility best known for Mark IV 396-427-454 engines.
Part of the mystery surrounding the Mark II engine can be attributed to its planned public debut on February 24, 1963 at the Daytona 500. The first couple of engines were shipped to Smokey Yunick for use in Chevys being prepared for the 500. Junior Johnson and Johnny Rutherford were two high-profile racers originally slated to run this engine. However, Mark II 427s were in two Z06 Corvettes competing in the 250-mile American Challenge Cup, at Daytona on February 16! This was a race for sports cars and one-offs, not NASCAR stockers. Few people at the time realized that two of the split-window Sting Rays in the Challenge Cup had Mark IIs under their hoods. They were actually the first big-block Corvettes.
Smokey Yunick prepared two Corvettes like NASCAR Grand National stockers and installed Mark II engines, sparked by magnetos with HD three-speed transmissions. Scheduled drivers were Junior Johnson and Rex White. During practice, Junior was not comfortable with how his Corvette was handling at 160 mph and decided not to drive. Bill Krause replaced him and went on to finish Third. He beat other Corvettes, Ferrari GTOs and Porsche Carrera Abarth GTLs. Paul Goldsmith driving a Pontiac Super-Duty 421 Tempest, won the three-hour race, followed by A.J. Foyt driving a Nickey Corvette! Bunkie was not unhappy!
Johnny Rutherford driving Smokey’s #13 car finished 9th, the best finish for a Mystery-motored Chevy. Rutherford lapped the track at 165.14 mph, setting a closed course record. A broken distributor in the #3 Ray Fox/Holly Farms Impala sidelined Junior. Junior won 7 of the 55 Grand National races in 1963, including the Charlotte 400 in October. With no factory support for the engine, the car was parked in 1964. Junior’s iconic Impala, as last raced, survives today. It’s at RK Motors, Charlotte, NC, https://www.rkmotors.com/
The 427 Chevy Mystery Motor, along with other super-high-performance cars and engines from the period including the Z11 Chevy drag cars, are showcased in Marty Schorr’s new book, DAY ONE, https://www.amazon.com/Day-One-Automotive-Journalists-Muscle-Car/dp/0760352364/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493561421&sr=1-1&keywords=Day+One+by+Martyn+L.+Schorr
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Glenn Greenwald Leaving Salon for the Guardian
By Joe Coscarelli
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Salon is losing one of its marquee names, fire-breathing blogger and former constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald, who will move his daily writing to the U.S. edition of the Guardian, where he’ll also write a weekly print column, Politico reports. “I have nothing but the highest regard for Salon and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism,” Greenwald writes today. “But sometimes sustaining one’s passion and sense of challenge requires change.” He’s been at Salon for more than five years since moving his solo Blogspot to the enduring online magazine. At the Guardian, Greenwald will join a beefed-up roster of brand-name Stateside columnists like Ana Marie Cox and Naomi Wolf.
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How the Impeachment Trial Affects Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar in Iowa
By Ben Jacobs
The four senators still running for president will lose valuable face time and local media coverage during a crucial stretch of the campaign.
Two weeks out from the caucus, it’s an unprecedented four-way deadlock. Ready, set, go!
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Title: A Course in Survival
Author: Les Cleveland
In: Experiment 10
Publication details: Victoria University College Literary Society, 1963, Wellington
Part of: Experiment
A Course in Survival–
Les Cleveland
It is 10 o'clock, Armistice Day, 1937. I am outside the sports locker rooms.
"There will be a one-minute silence. The school will stand to attention. The band will play 'God Save the King'."
The Headmaster had given this out at morning assembly with the gravity of a top diplomat telling the Christmas Islanders about the schedule for the next atomic explosion. Then he stalked off to the staffroom to go over the campaign with the rest of the top brass.
This school is a barracks where we rehearse a crude, quasi-military comic opera round the school band, the cadet corps, and the doctrine of keenness. At the blast of a prefect's whistle, hundreds of louts in short pants and page 44 flannel shirts with the sleeves rolled up to a regulation height of one inch above the elbow, scramble to key positions and fall-in by platoons. To trumpet and drum, and the animal-farm shrieks of a swarm of n.c.o.'s, they march into company echelons and do physical drill, sometimes to music from a wireless amplifier hooked up to the school gramophone. It plays "The Skater's Waltz". The n.c.o.'s examine us critically about the head, arms, hands and feet before herding us on to the battalion parade ground.
There, by a swift manipulation of masks, the masters appear in blustering khaki as majors, captains and lieutenants. The battalion sergeant-major is a barrel-bellied Boer War veteran on the permanent army staff who has advanced from the local drill hall on a khaki-painted Boer war bicycle. He calls for markers. We shamble through the obsolete rigmarole of the British Army Manual of Elementary Drill. It is a ritual derived from tactics which no doubt were successful at Waterloo, but which are going to be demonstrated before long to us uneasy cannon fodder as hopelessly inadequate to withstand the Panzer onrushes, the Stuka attacks and the blitzkrieg assaults–onslaughts which, had we but known it, the wily Hun was at that very moment devising for our further education.
But today the school band pumps and dribbles reassuringly through the Invercargill March, the right hand guides spring rapidly to attention with a clockwork click of their shining heels, the battalion falls in, numbers off, forms fours, open-order marches, and struts obediently to the commands of Imperial Authority. The officers take post at their respective company stations, and the Headmaster, a tight, Napoleonic, beribboned figure, complete with spurs and a cavalry sword, confers with his adjutant. Ten o'clock strikes. Sad whistles wail from the boilers of both the school heating system and a nearby brewery. The Head snaps the battalion to attention. The officers salute. The band wheezes into the National Anthem. The Head clanks his sword up into the general salute. All are transfixed in a respectful tableau before that shining symbol of authority and tradition. Only a few cripples propped up on their crutches outside one of the classrooms, and a scat-page 45 tering of strays who had been temporarily left out of battle on account of illness are exempt.
I am one of these. I look at the Head. He is glaring behind his sword. I think of Armistice Day, Anzac Day, League of Nations Day, May Day, Empire Day, Christmas Day and Mothers' Day. I can see what's wrong with this parade. It isn't so much that it's an attempt to turn Armistice Day, and whatever it might stand for, into a kind of Empire loyalty demonstration–I don't object to that–it's simply that the Head isn't doing it properly.
"The fool," I think. "He doesn't know anything about it."
This is true. The Head got a commission in peacetime and has never seen a shot fired, let alone a cavalry charge. The only people on the staff who perhaps have, are keeping very quiet about it. When they turn up on these parades they always stand morosely in what I am one day to realise are attitudes of doubt and suppressed irritation.
"Anyway," I tell myself, "I'm not a soldier; why should I have to stand to attention?" So I don't. I lounge against the locker room door with my hands in my pockets. This is conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. It is defiance, insurrection–a questioning of the entire Anglo Saxon tradition of obedience to the tribal mores that looms behind the brass band and the military rituals.
The Head sees me out of the corner of his eye. I get a caning.
"You used to be such a keen young fellow," he says. "But you've got very slack lately, very slack. It won't do."
He is quite right. During my first year at this school I build up an impressive reputation for my keenness. I fling myself into all the compulsory sports parades. I badger the masters in charge of the junior grades for sports equipment with which to play extra games on unscheduled occasions. I swot up books on rugby and on athletics and I go for training runs with the Third Fifteen. Later on I am to realise this might have been the path to a brilliant future–a good sporting record at school, a steady job with page 46 an oil company or a stock and station agency, a commission when the war breaks out, and a responsible post (preferably somewhere behind the lines), promotion to managerial rank on return to the office, perhaps a few seasons as a rugby selector ("It's a pity about the war, he'd have been an All Black if he could have kept going"), membership of the right clubs, a few lucrative directorships, maybe appointment to this or that advisory board or administrative tribunal. Anything could have been possible. But instead I am corrupted by Science and Technology.
In these simple days people still believe in Science. Sometimes they tut-tut about the likelihood of poison gas being used in warfare again, or have occasional qualms about dropping explosives on unarmed civilians; but nobody is obliged to worry about the possibility of blowing up whole cities and laying waste whole continents. People think Science can be coaxed along so that progress and happiness will be almost as automatic as the notion of social security which Michael Joseph Savage, Uncle Scrim and a few other howling revolutionaries are scheming to establish in New Zealand.
I read books on economics, and on scientific method, and I join the Science Club. No more training runs and extended football practices. In between manufacturing home-made explosives and experimenting with an illegal radio transmitter which some of us are constructing in a corner of the school boiler room, we wonder why political science can't be made into a more exact discipline and why everyone is kicking up such a fuss about the depression.
Anyone who is at school during the thirties can't help knowing all about the depression. If your parents don't have some money you probably never get to a secondary school, but if you do, you find yourself trying to matriculate in three years so that you can compete for a job as an office boy, a bank clerk, or if you are extremely talented and lucky, as a cadet in the Civil Service. If you get as far as a university it is axiomatic that you are the New Zealand equivalent of a gentleman. This was soon to be no longer the case, but in the thirties, whatever the physical hardships and moral anxieties, one certainly knows one's page 47 social status. The example of the next door neighbour being charged with theft for stealing firewood from the wharf, the people across the road going bankrupt and having to sell their home, the schoolmate's father who commits suicide when his business fails, and the swaggers who are always turning up at our place looking for feeds, or just being found asleep under the big macrocarpa hedge, enable you to sort your position out very accurately in terms of pounds, shillings, pence, meals and beds.
There are a few sons of the rural aristocracy, as well as some boys from well-to-do industrial, upper-middle-class families at this microcosm, but most of us are from lower, more insecure levels and we know it. We have arguments about Socialism, Fascism and Communism at the Science Club, and we concern ourselves with the possibility that the mild little band of opportunists who constitute the first Labour Government should institute what the newspapers are calling the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat". A club meeting ends in a fight when a faction of farmers' sons rises in revolt during a debate on "Should New Zealand Be Turned into a Collective Farm?"
It is suggested that depressions could be prevented if the Government took over agriculture. The peasantry might resist, but they could be disciplined. That starts the fight.
The Head stops me in the corridor next day and says the club had better limit itself to pure science and keep off politics: parents have been complaining about the damage done to their children by the farmers' party. These farmers' champions are hefty creatures–one of them has the distinction of being the best belcher in the school. He can reverberate his way through a whole stanza of the National Anthem, but in no disrespectful way; he is quite capable of vigorously defending tradition and the status quo when what he feels to be his real interests or his personal dignity are threatened.
The Head gives me another lecture on keenness and says it would be better for me if I concentrated on sport instead of setting myself up as a political agitator. Now in these days, Headmasters are still important people. They page 48 have not been reduced by the growing power of the Education Department to mere administrative dummies, carrying out the instructions of the central bureaucracy in Wellington, being polite to parents, nice to the staff, and appearing as benign, apologetic father figures to the pupils in the institutions. Headmasters still have power. They set themselves up as authorities. They introduce all sorts of crackpot systems into their schools, they thunder out moral instruction and make ex cathedra statements on formal occasions. One tyrant even turns his breakfast table into a forum for philosophical discourse, and when he runs out of his own platitudes he has his children recite passages from Shakespeare, the New Zealand equivalent of Greek. All these old Gradgrinds are guardians of the national well-being, manipulators of its future collective mind. Few actually see themselves as teachers, however, and it is not till years later I am to realise that the only thing you can possibly get from a New Zealand school, apart from a rather patchy formal education, depending on what crank happens to be influencing the syllabus at the time, is a certain amount of training for survival in the adult arena. Not training in theoretical tactics either, but training in ordinary commercial hand-to-hand fighting, using boots, claws, broken bottles, biting, gouging and verbal dexterity as well. No holds barred. The worse the school–that is to say, the more confused, brutal, tyrannical, cynical and materialistic the regime–the more can this be seen by a child of average sensibility to resemble the adult world outside, and in consequence, the more useful preparation it offers for the ordeal that awaits him.
So I ask myself questions. What possible relevance could the myth of team spirit have in a society which can't find enough useful work for everyone to do, and which tolerates fear and distress in God's Own Country, to say nothing of racial hatred and political oppression in Europe? It occurs to me that the Head is in the position of a king in a feudal state. But he is a bad king. Instead of warning his subjects about the Black Plague and the difficult things they will have to do to deal with it, he is telling them fairy stories. Anyone can see that the Headmaster's sword-rattling is no answer to the blitzkrieg methods which page 49 have been used experimentally in the Spanish Civil War, or, for that matter, even the terrific fire power of the infantry in the concluding stages of World War I. It is not even any use as a symbolic evocation of force and intelligence, because it is an evasion of reality. The most that such leadership can do is to send us trampling heroically into another Gallipoli or another Passchaendale. I can see that in this school, as perhaps in the world outside, it is necessary to resist in order to survive. Fortunately there are opportunities for guerrilla fighting.
I am ultimately to find that the impressive thing about New Zealand lies in its ability to produce, at any given moment, an impressive assortment of heretics, cranks and dissenters as well as the usual clamour of uncertainty, selfishness, panic and intrigue from the main body of citizenry. Like the larger world outside, this school has its mystique. On the one hand there are the official, invalid, discredited, inadequate myths: on the other there is the range of uncertain, imaginative, individual possibilities. Like all resourceful institutions this one has its officially sponsored subversives. One of them is an eccentric art master who fights the prevailing materialism by embracing it. In order to arouse glimmerings of interest in the reluctant prisoners before him, he is forced to talk about how Cellini actually made his big bronze castings, how Michaelangelo mixed his paints and how sculptors grappled with their blocks of marble. If we can't grasp the form of the artifact we can at least investigate the components of it. Another rugged individualist is always scurrying around the Alps on mountaineering expeditions. This makes him fitter than anyone else on the staff and enables him to referee football matches and coach the First Fifteen by vigorously intervening in the scrum himself with a curse and a thump here, and a stimulating cuff there. It also enables him to talk condescendingly about football as if it were, after all, only a game for sody pops who get puffed after running about for an hour or so, on flat ground too.
And there are dancing classes. You go to these if your parents have the money for the fees. If you are lucky and cunning you dance with the Headmaster's page 50 daughter–a voluptuous redhead of 17, filling in time at home until she goes on a physical education course. She is helping the regular dancing mistress–a more mature and disillusioned specimen from among the staff wives–to introduce us to genteel social behaviour and the delights of the dance. I track the redhead to the local skating rink on afternoons when I should be at compulsory sports. She is very friendly.
Every few weeks you are herded into the school hall and mustered into the Gay Gordons by the scowling staff. Girls are laid on from a nearby private school. All goes well until the secretary of the Science Club flogs a bottle of absolute alcohol from the chemistry laboratory and laces the girls' fruit drinks with it. There is a row afterwards because some of the girls pass out and are subsequently pronounced to be drunk when the matron at their school holds an inquiry. The Head gives a talk at morning assembly on the dangers of sex and alcohol. He also bans the Science Club.
We hand over the minute book and the funds go out of existence officially, but we continue to meet secretly in the school boiler room. The boiler room is an island of humanism in the ocean of authority. It is the only comfortable place in the school. The cripples who can't do drill or sports sit on sacks of coal and old packing cases, reading books about sex or smoking illicit cigarettes; deserters and conscientious objectors skulk among the pipes, and the Science Club continues its serious research projects in a corner which once held an electric lighting plant. When the Head liquidates the club he does not destroy its underground roots.
One afternoon we are all down there tinkering with the radio transmitter we have made in order to carry out a special exercise on Sports Day. We propose to install a secret circuit in the school amplifier system so that we can operate it by remote control through our transmitter. This, we hope, will enable us to superimpose embarrassing wisecracks on official announcements, introduce snatches of improbable music and bursts of gibberish when the Head is presenting the prizes and making speeches. We page 51 have just been trying out a Shirley Temple record played backwards at the wrong speed.
"What we want," I say, "is something like that only a bit more crazy, a bit more violent. It wants to sound like somebody in the middle of a real balls up, yelling his head off, saying all sorts of mad things. What we want's a cross between Charlie Chaplin and Bob Semple, something that's completely opposite to the Head's idea of himself. He's a little man, see–and like all little jokers he thinks he's Napoleon. (I have just read a book on psychology and I'm a hot shot at character analysis.)
"And who do you think you are?" sneers one of the cripples who is listening–a pale, bitter casuist with a twisted foot. This is unexpected. I hadn't actually thought of that aspect of psychology.
"Yes, you," said the cripple. "You're busy pulling everyone's tit–what about your own?"
"I haven't got any,"I tell him coldly.
"Ha!" sneers the cripple. "That's what you think. And that's what you think because you think you're a great lady killer like Ramon Novarro or Errol Flynn or somebody."
"Shut up, you rotten little twisted up bastard!" I say. "You're jealous because the Head's daughter likes me, that's all. I can't help it if women are fascinated by me. It's just one of those things.
When the laughing stops I realise that the transmitter has been running all the time. Most of this dialogue has been picked up by the old carbon granule microphone we are using, but I don't suppose it matters; we are using a dummy aerial and it won't carry beyond the school buildings.
A few nights later, after I've been to dancing class, I am kissing the Head's daughter in the back seat of his Chev. where he has left it parked in his driveway. With analytic passion my tongue is exploring the inside of her throat while I rummage elbow deep in her clothing. The door is wrenched open and her father shines a torch on us.
"The great lady killer, eh!" he hisses. "Go to my study."
He hustles the girl inside and comes after me. Obviously he's been listening in to all our doings on his own wireless set in the house. He probably just leaves it running all the time and monitors us whenever we come on the air. So that's why he always seems to be one jump ahead of us! We'll have to change our frequency or something.
"This is just one of those things," he says when the caning begins. "Personally I think there's more of the Machiavelli about me than the Napoleon, and this is fortunate for you, otherwise I should most likely expel you."
When I do escape from that school I ask the Head for a reference. He smiles an omnipotent smile and scribbles.
It reads: "He took his part in school activities."
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:12 am Post subject: X Factor AXed NeXt Year
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/gossip/the-juice/x-factor-not-back-next-says-simon-cowell-084636645.html
Cool beans! I thought the use of three Xs in the yahoo news headline was really quite clever... 3 Xs being the way BGT ends the hopes of those trying for a career in entertainment.
They appear to have had second thoughts about the headline.
We used to have a duvet cover that was like Sinitta's outfit - mum gave it to us - she bought it from Sainsbury's - I hated it, but fortunately it only withstood a couple of washes and is now history.
Since they long ago scraped a hole in the bottom of the barrel it's a case of "not before time" but, as it is a huge revenue stream, for both him and ITV, I daresay they'll dream up something just as crass to replace it.
Ian Robinson
Location: Chorley, Lancashire
Sinitta says this every year! It's just another tiresome thing to keep X-Factor in the headlines.
gazmando
Location: Huntingdon
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:35 pm Post subject:
I hope it's true!!!
I like talent shows but The X Factor is just a scripted program that lets Simon Cowell showcase his preselected acts
Maybe we'll get a better Christmas No 1 record after it's gone!
Helen May wrote:
What, like The Military Wives?
X-Factor ends 2 weeks before Christmas this year, so no certainty what's going to be Number 1.
Well wasn't that only put out to stop the X Factor song?
Ian Robinson wrote:
"OI", I like that song, Mr Robinson!!
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:28 pm Post subject:
It's a fine song - that's why it beat X-Factor. But it was helped by X-Factor finishing a week earlier than usual, so the winner already had their week of fame before being toppled. I expect the same will happen this year.
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How to stream the 2019 NFL Season
The NFL games for the 2019 season air on NBC, ESPN, CBS, FOX, and the NFL Network as well as on nfl.com and the NFL app.
August 9, 2019 – by Megan Southard in News
Diehard NFL fans who want to watch their favorite teams have a few options to stream the games live this season. Cordcutters are in luck because multiple networks have full coverage. The games for the 2019 season air on NBC, ESPN, CBS, FOX, and the NFL Network as well as on nfl.com and the NFL app.
It takes a lot of channels to access as many games as possible. FOX carries the Sunday NFC games split by geographic area, while CBS carries the AFC games. Sunday Night Football is on NBC and Monday Night Football is on ESPN. Thursday Night Football appears on FOX for 11 out of 13 games and is simulcast on NFL Network and Amazon Prime Video as well as digital properties across devices on Twitch, NFL, FOX, and FOX Deportes.
Viewers can also catch at least one game live, determined by your location. Live and on-demand access to ESPN’s pay-TV content and NFL Network is also easy to add through most skinny bundle streaming services like Sling TV, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, and DirectTV Now. Credentials from a pay-TV operator or skinny bundle providers like Hulu + Live TV or YouTube TV can also provide online access in many other cases. Here is a quick breakdown of ways you can watch this season.
If you’re on a budget, choose an over-the-air antenna
The easiest and cheapest way to watch football is on your local FOX, NBC, or CBS affiliate, which is free with an over-the-air antenna. If you haven’t taken the leap to watch over-the-air TV with an antenna, you’re missing out. You’ll get an HD signal with better picture and sound quality than the compressed signal you have with a cable provider. Modern antennas are small, easy to install and cost less than $50.
Most people who live near a major urban television market can access local network broadcasts for free. See what channels you receive by entering your home address at NoCable. Your free report will show a list of stations, antenna recommendations, and directional tips for setting up your device.
If you subscribe to a skinny bundle, add the NFL Network
There are more than 200 games to watch on the NFL Network, including all of the Thursday Night Football games, preseason games and more. Most skinny bundle providers include the NFL Network in their base package or charge a nominal fee for adding it as an extra.
Sling TV is the least expensive skinny bundle that carries sports, and it also has the most subscribers. Sling TV costs $25 per month after a three-month introductory rate of $15.
Football fans get the best coverage with the Orange package which includes ESPN, ESPN2, and local channels in some locations. Viewers can also add the NFL Network subscription for $5/month as an Extra to watch NFL news, original programming, and game analysis.
The sports-centric streaming service is $54.99 per month and carries the NFL Network but not ESPN or ESPN2. Live coverage of 2019 NFL preseason is available on fuboTV from your local network if fuboTV carries it, or on your antenna otherwise. Viewers can opt into the fubo Extra package to add the NFL Network to watch 13 live preseason games and all 65 games throughout August on-demand. Check out NFL Network’s full preseason schedule.
Like all sports, the live games on NFL Network are blacked out locally, even if fuboTV doesn’t broadcast the local affiliate. If this happens to you, switch over to your over-the-air antenna to watch the game live. fuboTV works with all of the most common streaming devices, like Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV and includes a cloud-based DVR with 30 hours of storage, upgradable to 500 hours.
Hulu’s live TV service includes more local channels than any other low-priced skinny bundle streaming service, so there’s a good chance you’ll have the local NBC and FOX affiliates. Subscribers can also watch football games on ESPN and ESPN2.
Hulu + Live TV works with all of the most common streaming devices, like Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV. Viewers can also download shows and movies to watch without an internet connection. The service includes a cloud-based DVR with 50 hours of storage and unlimited access to Hulu’s extensive on-demand library for $44.99/month.
YouTube TV is widely available to television markets across the country for $49.99 per month. YouTube TV includes an unlimited DVR, 70 channels, and provides local FOX, NBC, and CBS in 90% of U.S. markets. Sports coverage includes ESPN, Fox Sports, Big Ten, and CBS Sports.
Subscribers of DirecTV Now can watch sports on ESPN and ESPN2 in the base level package which costs $50 a month. The service won’t carry the NFL Network or REDZone this season as it has in years past. The streaming service has pretty good coverage of most local channels but is embroiled in a blackout with CBS-owned stations in 14 markets. Before subscribing, check to see what channels are covered in your area.
If you want it all, subscribe to an app
The best way to catch every game possible is to subscribe to the NFL app or the WatchESPN app. Monday Night Football on ESPN streams live for those with pay-TV credentials after logging in on common streaming devices. Skinny bundle subscribers can also use their login credentials to access the CBS Sports app.
Cordcutting has completely transformed the way we watch TV, with a wide variety of options for streaming or watching the games over the air. Live and on-demand access to ESPN’s pay-TV content and NFL Network is easy to add on the streaming services Sling TV, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, PlayStation Vue, and DirectTV Now. For the games, you can’t see anywhere else, subscribe to an app for the most complete coverage.
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Lithium-ion batteries – How they are produced and forecasts of a fast-growing industry
Source: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence – www.BenchmarkMinerals.com – September 2017
The scramble to build new lithium ion battery capacity is underway. In 2020, the world will have at least 265GWh of additional manufacturing capability, an increase of 230% from today.
Confusion reigns, however, between what constitutes a lithium ion cell plant and one that produces battery packs for electric vehicles and stationary storage devices. In quantifying raw material demand, understanding this difference is vital. Here, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence outlines the production process to make lithium ion cells and battery packs as the world prepares for the rise of the battery megafactories.
The lithium ion battery megafactories are rising. In February 2014, Tesla announced its Gigafactory – a battery plant that could produce 35GWh of cells, and 50GWh of battery packs.
It was an outrageously audacious plan at the time and one that would increase lithium ion production by more than 50%. At that time, there were only two other battery megafactories in the pipeline: Panasonic’s Dalian, China plant; and Foxconn Technology Group’s idea to build a facility in Anhui, China.
Foxconn’s plans never left the drawing board and instead the Apple iPhone manufacturer recently invested $1.2bn into Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) – China’s biggest lithium ion battery producer for 1.9% of the business.
Panasonic on the other hand has since started production at its new 5GWh plant in Dalian at the beginning of 2017 and is part owner of Tesla’s Gigafactory which also began production earlier this year.
Since the early days – albeit just over three years ago – a global battery arms race has resulted in 17 battery megafactories under construction totaling 265GWh of capacity, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence data.
There is little doubt about the impact that this will have on the upstream mining industry, those companies that mine and process minerals to battery-grade, specialty chemicals. The impact on the downstream auto sector is also clear.
There is also no dispute that the electric vehicle (EV) has arrived and the world is now in the cusp of an energy storage revolution. The dawn of the semi mass market EV now means consumers will soon have a choice of mid-priced, pure battery powered vehicles owing to the launch of Tesla’s Model 3, Chevrolet and General Motors’ Bolt, and Nissan’s new 60kWh LEAF.
Confusion reigns however between the manufacturing of lithium ion battery cells and packs. In the mainstream media, there has been somewhat of a pack mentality to brand every plant that handles lithium ion cells, a new cell manufacturing facility.
This year has seen the addition of three new plants from SK Innovation in South Korea at 4GWh, Dynavolt in Fujian, China at 6GWh of nickel-manganese-cobalt capacity, and a new Tesla-inspired megafactory plan from Northvolt in Sweden.
Benchmark has also upgraded CATL from 50GWh to 100GWh as it expands to meet major contracts with some of China and Europe’s biggest auto manufacturers.
Momentum has been added to this build out in battery capacity with Volkswagen Group (VW) recently revealing it will need at least 200GWh worth of lithium ion batteries by 2025 each year.
The numbers are simply huge. In total by 2020 the industry can presently expect an additional 265GWh of new lithium ion battery cell capacity – the first step in the battery production process.
Considering the relative speed in which a new battery plant can be expanded – 6 to twelve months depending on equipment availability – expect this new megafactory capacity number to rise over the coming years.
With the rapid expansion of cell capacity, a clear distinction must be made between these plants that actually purchase the raw materials and make the cells, and those that assemble the EV packs.
Preparing raw materials
There are three mainstream lithium ion cell designs: cylindrical, pouch and prismatic. Cylindrical designs look most like a battery that the world is familiar with: a larger version of the AA sized batteries that would go into our TV remote controls.
Whereas, the pouch and prismatic batteries are different shapes to the common perception and used in portable electronics and vehicles.
The life of all three cell designs begins in the same way: electrode fabrication. This is where the raw materials are mixed with solvents before being coated onto an aluminium sheet (cathode) or a copper sheet (anode).
Using the example of an NMC chemistry, nickel-cobalt-aluminium oxide powders are lithiated with lithium carbonate and mixed with solvents to create a paste. This paste is then applied in a micrometre thin layer onto the aluminium sheet.
A 5GWh plant would require 4,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate and 8,300 tonnes of NMC cathode material. Four 1,000 gallon mixers would be needed for the cathode material and solvents.
For the anode, graphite – either coated natural spherical graphite, micronized synthetic graphite or a blend of both – is mixed with solvents and pasted onto a copper substrate.
Around 6,000 tonnes of graphite anode material would be needed for the cell, requiring two 1,000 gallon mixers. It is likely, however, that the plant would consume up to 20% more graphite than what just goes into the batteries as it is also used as lubricant throughout the manufacturing process.
Once the anode and cathode are mixed and pasted into their respective substrates, the calendaring process begins. This is a series of high pressure rollers that press the raw material onto the substrate and ensure uniform thickness.
In this process, the thinner the sheets are, the better the battery as more raw material can be fit into a lithium ion battery cell increasing its density.
The final step in the electrode preparation slitting – a process which cuts the electrode roll into the desired width of the cell. Once this is complete, the raw materials are ready to enter the battery formation stage which differs slightly for each cell design.
Most common today is the 18650 – a measurement of the radius and height of the cell. Major producers of 18650 are Panasonic Corp in Japan which produce the cells that are consumed by Tesla’s pack assemblers in Fremont, California.
Future vehicles from Tesla – starting with Model 3 this year – will use a new cylindrical design, the 2170. This is a taller and slightly wider version of its predecessor which has an increased volume of 46%.
There are many reasons Tesla decided to redesign the classic 18650. Speed of manufacturing and plant density are key.
For Tesla to produce 500,000 electric vehicles each year, the speed in which the Gigafactory can churn out lithium ion cells is a critical factor.
The new larger battery design means less individual cells need to be produced for each vehicle while the battery pack remains the same desired capacity.
“The machine that builds the machine,” was how Telsa CEO, Elon Musk described the Gigafactory at launch earlier this year. “[Its] not a hodgepodge of things where the machines are bought from a catalogue.
There’s almost nothing in a Model S that’s in any other car… the same approach has been taken for the [Gigafactory],” said Musk “The output is going to be volume times density times velocity. What is the density of useful to non-useful volume?
Its crazy low [between] two or three percent” “Then you say velocity. What is the reasonable expectation? Carmakers may make a car every 25 seconds, it sounds fast, but length of car plus buffer space is five metres– it’s taking 25 seconds to move five metres.. you’re not much faster than a tortoise at that point.”
“The density improvement may be as much as an order of magnitude of improvement [from] two to three percent to 20 of 30 percent [volumetrically]. With significantly less engineering effort, we can make dramatic improvements to the [Gigafactory],” he added. Tesla’s first principals approach has drawn some criticism from experts in the battery who are experts in building traditional battery plants. One expert explained to Benchmark some basic errors were made when Tesla was first planning the Gigafactory including having some heavy battery equipment on second and third floors of the building, something that it could not structurally support in the designs.
However, the battery industry has evolved step by step for the last 25 years – adding plant capacity when needed onto the original building.
For the first time, the potential in battery demand has forced the rise of megafactories that now warrant rethinking the way they are produced. The first step in lithium ion battery manufacturing is winding of the cathode and anodes into ‘jelly rolls’.
While winding a 2170 sized roll will take more time than an 18650, it is still one of the quickest parts of the process. Significant amounts of time are saved in placing these jelly rolls in aluminium casings which must be sealed. Even more time is saved in the pack manufacturing process where each cell is riveted and secured into the modules which make the pack.
The second major benefit of the 2170 is the weight in the vehicle. Some of the heavier components in a battery are the aluminium casing and other related parts. Considering there at least 7,104 of the 18650 cells in a Model S 85kWh model, using the new larger cells could reduce this to under 3,850 for each car.
Reducing the amount of material used across the board and the number of cells in a pack saves both cost and time. Recent interest from new start-ups such as Faraday Future and Lucid Motors – new players that are seeking to follow a similar platform to Tesla – has set a path for the 2170 to become the premier battery design for EVs.
As a result, both of Panasonic’s long-term competitors, LG Chem and Samsung SDI, are now developing their own 2170 designs to meet new demand.
Pouch and Prismatic
Before Tesla’s rise, pouch and prismatic were the foremost cells in the EV space used in pioneering cars such as Nissan’s LEAF. Development of a pouch design allowed for larger cells than cylinders and did not require rigid and heavier casings for individual cells.
The manufacturing process begins in a similar way to its cylindrical counterpart with a winding or ‘folding’ process of the cathode and anode into a desired shape. Instead of forming a cylindrical jelly roll, the manufacturing equipment produces a stack formation, much like folding a piece of paper into four.
This stack is then encased in a thin aluminium foil creating a pouch which can be used individually in tablets, laptops and mobile phones. The prismatic battery design is larger version of the cylindrical jelly roll process which is then placed into a hard aluminium casing.
Samsung SDI have been the industry’s champion for this lithium ion battery design and have had a significant marketing push for this to be the favoured cell for the EV industry.
In 2017, the battery major launched a range of prismatic designs and capacities to target the sector with 28Ah, 40Ah, 60Ah, 64Ah options launched using an NMC cathode chemistry and blended (natural and synthetic) graphite anode.
Pack assembly
The plants that produce these cells are fundamentally different to assembly facilities that make the EV packs. For example, Samsung SDI recently opened a new ‘battery plant’ in Hungary that caused much confusion in the market place.
The facility based in Goed, 30km north of Budapest has the ability to make packs for 50,000 EVs. “Batteries are one of the most important parts supplied to global car makers. I expect the plant to contribute much to the growth of the European EV market,” Samsung SDI president, Jun Young-hyun said.
The plant however will be using cells from Samsung’s battery plants in Korea and China. It may be producing cells and will not be procuring the raw materials that go into the cells – this process will happen in Asia.
In the circumstances when a pack facility does not produce cells, it may purchase an electrode roll which it would then make into cells however it will still not be procuring the raw materials. This is the case with Automotive Energy Supply Corp (AESC) which purchases its electrode roll from NEC.
The pack area of the lithium ion supply chain is a rapidly developing link in the supply chain. Mastering the pack or the platform is a critical component of making a high quality EV.
It is where the skilled engineers really earn their credit by decisions on the optimum capacity of the pack, the number of cells that should be used, the size and shape of the cells, the shape of the pack, the cooling systems that are deployed and many more.
In a pure EV, the pack is essentially the vehicle’s engine and is where the serious intellectual property ground can be gained or lost. Do strategies of the lithium ion battery majors differ?
This has been a recurring question that Benchmark is asked and it is quite interesting to observe the three different strategies that have been deployed. Samsung SDI has been one of the first to significantly invest in pack assembly outside of Asia.
Tesla started life as a pack manufacturing company rather than an EV producer and has since integrated upstream into making the cells at the Gigafactory in conjunction with Panasonic.
For Tesla, significant reduction of costs through supply chain integration was a critical step in its mission to turn the world electric. For Panasonic, teaming up with Tesla meant the cell manufacturer was vested in both pack and vehicle production.
LG Chem, the third battery giant of the group, has focused on expanding its cell manufacturing capacity in four global hubs: South Korea, China, Poland and the US. Expanding its presence from the home of South Korea was a deliberate strategy.
The Korean lithium ion producer is presently building its newest EV megafactory in Wrocław, Poland, in the south west of the country close to the border with Germany and Czech Republic.
It will have an initial capacity of 4GWh and construction is now underway with a start-up expected by Q4 2017. “We will turn the Poland EV battery plant into a mecca of battery production for electric vehicles around the world,” UB Lee, President of LG Chem said at the ground-breaking ceremony.
Raw material flows
To understand where lithium, graphite, cobalt and nickel will be consumed, a clear distinction needs to be made between where the cells are manufactured and where the packs are assembled. Benchmark launched its lithium ion battery megafactory tracker to focus on where the hotspots of raw material demand will be located.
The biggest cell producer by 2020 is expected to be CATL with a 100GWh capacity. This would translate to an annual demand for lithium carbonate of 80,000 tonnes, cobalt chemical consumption at 23,000 tonnes, and its graphite anode needs at 120,000 tonnes.
While these numbers are huge in comparisons to where the industry is today, more than a doubling of battery raw material demand in 2016, it is quite conservative as to where the battery industry is heading.
VW have been more vocal about their plans to produce EVs in recent months. The most significant news from world’s number one auto manufacturer was the revelation of its expected lithium ion battery consumption by 2025.
The group says it will require a minimum 200GWh of lithium ion battery cells each year from 2025 onwards.
Considering the lithium ion battery industry was only 70GWh in 2016, it is a significant step change for the sector and the first time a traditional auto manufacturer has been so explicit.
Benchmark does not expect VW to be making its own battery cells anytime soon, but significant investments into cell manufacturing capacity must be on the horizon for the German group.
In raw material terms, 200GWh translates to 160,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate, 216,000 tonnes of graphite anode, and 63,000 tonnes of cobalt chemical. This is additional supply that the industry alone would not be able to fund without commitments from the world’s biggest end users like VW.
Pack of the future
Battery packs are becoming bigger and denser. When the Toyota Prius hybrid was first produced in 1997 it had a 1.3kWh nickel metal-hydride battery, while Nissan LEAF began its life in 2010 with a 24kWh pack.
Today for a mid-range EV, this would be deemed a very small battery pack with Model S at 85kWh, Model X at 100kWh and Lucid Motors’ and Faraday Futures new designs at over 130kWh.
The new standard capacity for mid-range vehicles is likely to be between 60-65kWh with both Tesla’s Model 3, Nissan’s third generation LEAF, and Chevrolet’s Volt all aiming for these sizes.
This would give a range of over 230 miles on a single charge. When considering electric buses, the packs are even bigger. Proterra’s new designs contain packs that range from 79kWh to 660kWh.
The most common way to improve the pack is to make the cells denser. However, adding more cells means adding more weight.
The reduction of passive materials – those other than the cathode, anode and separator – in a battery pack is of paramount importance. Tesla’s new, bigger 2170 design is a good example of this trend and its one that reduces the amount of aluminium casing needed in the pack.
The cooling system is also another area of significant weight. Today’s EVs are liquid cooled therefore much research is going into air cooled pack designs. There is also focus on improving how the vehicle draws energy from the batteries.
Therefore, software – the energy management system – has a vital role in making today’s lithium ion batteries better.
While chemists have received the credit for the improvements we have seen in lithium ion batteries over the last 10 years, it will be the pack engineers and software programmers that will own the next decade. Maybe having a pack mentality isn’t a bad thing after all.
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Rally journalist Mike Shaw and co-driver Ian Holmes interview drivers, co-drivers, organizers and others involved in the sport of rallying with a primary focus on North America and the WRC. Come take a ride with us as we provide our own flavor of news and commentary to what is considered one of the most challenging and exciting forms of motorsports in the world.
RallyCast Episode 53 - The 100 Acre Wood Rally Review and an Open Paddock Reunion
Well, we recorded this about 2 week ago and I'm just now getting around to posting it. Apologies for the delay as life kind of got in the way. Anyway, in this episode we had a bit of an Open Paddock reunion where I'm joined by 2 former hosts from the previous version of OpenPaddock, Doug Patterson and John Olsakovsky. Doug is a well known motorsports photographer among his many other exploits, and John "The Race Fan" Olsakovsky has been to many an IndyCar and sportscar race, but this was his first ever stage rally. We didn't have any special guests this week other than our regular co-presenter Ian Holmes who co-drove the 100 Acre Wood in the 3 Triangles Rally Team rally truck. Since it was many of our first times to this event, we discussed our 100 Acre Wood experiences from that of a photographer, a co-driver, media host, and a rally first-timer. Thanks to the awesome volunteers and organizers for putting on such a kick ass rally!
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Facebook Wants To Take Over Your Phone
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Facebook Owns Your Phone (Fast Company)
Over the last couple of years, Facebook has packed its mobile apps with much of the same functionality as operating systems like Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, or Amazon’s version of Android for Kindle Fire. It has not, however, launched the Facebook phone that once seemed inevitable. That's because your phone already is a Facebook phone.
According to comScore, Facebook already owns 23 percent of time spent in apps on Android and iOS. It also owns Instagram, one of the apps with which mobile users spend the second most amount of time (it's tied with Gmail and YouTube at 3 percent). The more time the company controls on its competitors' phones, the less important it is that it doesn't have its own devices. Read >>
What's In Your Wallet? A Facebook Card? (The Huffington Post)
Facebook announced a major addition to their Gifts product on Jan. 31— Facebook Cards. Facebook Cards, as the name implies, are physical, multi-use gift cards that users can order for friends directly through Facebook. Facebook Cards uses the existing Facebook Gifts infrastructure to allow a user to send a Facebook Card with a credit from a participating retailer. The recipient is prompted to enter their mailing address (more data!) in order to receive the physical card. Facebook sees it as a multi-use, multi-retailer product. This nudges it up close to, but not fully into, the mobile wallet space. For one thing it's still a physical object and for another, Facebook has no immediate plans to allow users to load up dollars or deals, but this could change rapidly. Read >>
Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple And Google (Wired)
We’re in uncharted territory here since platforms-on-top-of-platform configurations are relatively new. Yet we do have one related industry example that could shed some light on this case. It’s one of Japan’s leading mobile social game developers: GREE. GREE makes up to four times more average revenue per user (ARPU) than Zynga. And Facebook has far more reach than GREE. Given that social applications, and particularly games, are the most popular and highest revenue generators of all mobile applications— a Facebook multi-sided platform similar to GREE would divert a lot of value away from Apple’s and Google’s smartphone platforms. Read >>
Wall Street Rethinks Facebook Earnings (Reuters)
Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser upgraded Facebook to a "Buy" rating, calling Wall Street's reaction to the results "downright dazed." The stock market incorrectly interpreted Facebook's "mobile revenue figures as a negative when in fact they are part of a story that we can see as qualitatively more favorable," Wieser said. Shares of the company finished regular trading the day after earnings down 0.8 percent at $30.98. The company reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday and said mobile advertising revenue doubled to $306 million, suggesting it was making inroads into handheld devices such as smartphones and tablets. Investors were looking for at least $350 million in mobile advertising revenue, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a note to clients. Read >>
Developing A Strategic Social Media Plan For Your Business (Ahain Group)
After you’ve taken time to discover how customers would like you to engage on social media, you now need to develop a social media strategy that will generate meaningful and real returns for the business. The 10 steps in developing strategic social media are:
Align with the business
Define goals
Identify KPIs
Assign values to KPIs
Decide on channels
Determine tactics
Select analytics
Roll out strategy
Measure and refine
Quantifying an ROI from social media is only possible after you’ve developed a strategic plan that will make measurement both clear and easy. Read >>
Super Bowl, Commercials, And Social Media (NetBase)
Now that the game is over, here is what NetBase found about Super Bowl commercials during the last 24 hours:
Go Daddy (249,273 mentions: 14.67 percent positive)
Doritos (137,509 mentions, 90.87 percent pos)
Pepsi (47,176 mentions, 69.99 percent pos)
Volkswagen (31,052 mentions, 84.08 percent pos)
Budweiser (24,658 mentions, 83.37 percent pos)
Dodge Ram (19,619 mentions, 77.66 percent pos)
Taco Bell (19,783 mentions, 93.20 percent pos)
Calvin Klein (16,532 mentions, 75.17 percent pos)
NFL (Leon Sandcastle) (12,700 mentions, 91.54 percent pos)
Blackberry (10,773 mentions, 55.36 percent pos)
The graphic compares 8 of the 15 most buzzed about commercials by mentions, sentiment and passion intensity. The amount of chatter about a brand is indicated by the size of the bubble, while the placement of the bubble shows the sentiment (from top to bottom) and the intensity of passion (from left to right). Read >>
How To Measure Social Media ROI (Jason Fox)
Is it enough to have a Facebook profile, a Twitter account, and a YouTube channel? To be putting original content onto each platform on a consistent basis. To be monitoring for comments and likes that you can connect with and create relationships. Maybe venturing out into less common social media channels like Pinterest or Google+. To be collecting Fans, Friends, Followers, and Likes with a reckless abandon. Possibly promoting an occasional Facebook post to maximize exposure. Is that enough? Perhaps it is to much. The only way to know for sure is to measure social media ROI:
No matter how you are using Social Media there is a way to measure its value. Whether you interested in a general overview or you want to create a closed loop marketing campaign. There is a system that will help you to Measure Social Media ROI. Read >>
Twitter Blew Out Facebook In The Super Bowl (Business Insider)
As the Baltimore Ravens were narrowly beating the San Francisco 49ers, Twitter featured in 26 out of 52 nationally aired advertisements, while Facebook only featured in four, and Google+ was not mentioned at all. YouTube and Instagram were mentioned once each, according to the website MarketingLand.com. In last year’s Super Bowl, Twitter and Facebook tied with only eight mentions each out of a total of 59 advertisements. For Twitter, the change from eight mentions to 26 represents a gain of more than 300 percent. For Facebook, it is a 50 percent drop. Read >>
The Social Credit Card? (The Huffington Post)
BarclayCard tapped the power of the crowd (their card members) to collaborate on building a better credit card experience. They launched a community where card member could exchange ideas, vote on product features and earn "credits" for their participation. The result is BarclayCard Ring — the world's first community-designed credit card. Benefits include:
Full transparency — insight into how Barclaycard Ring makes money, including metrics on Ring's financial performance.
Continued influence over the offering — a chance to guide Ring's benefits, rates, rules and penalties through an idea submission and peer evaluation system.
A share of Ring profits — including options to donate profits to community-chosen charities.
A robust social experience — topical forums, ask-and-answer, idea-sharing, polls, blogs, and credits earned for community participation.
If your social strategy doesn't include new ways of thinking about how your social customers fit into your business, it better. 2013 will be a game-changing year for social media. Brands like Barclaycard who are serious about social will make sure of that. Read >>
Social Media Is Changing The Way You Fly (WFAA)
Airlines no longer just make money taking travelers where they want to go. Some carriers now show up where their passengers already are. Southwest has six employees dedicated to social media, often only during regular business hours. The airline created its team by drawing employees from different departments, including customer service, marketing, and communications. This team doesn't just respond to questions, comments, and criticism on Twitter. Southwest employees also rebook flights, track bags, and issue travel vouchers all in 140 characters or less. Airline customer service has always been a thankless job. But its presence on social media continues to evolve as the power of participating for passengers does, too. Read >>
Social Media vs. Email: Which One Is Best For Your Business? (Publicity Mag)
The following infographic shows the peculiarities of social media and email. The stats are a bit dated, but you can get a fair idea about the power of both tools. Read >>
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Visualizing Code to Fail Faster
In What You Can't See You Can't Get I mentioned in passing how frustrated I was that the state of the art in code editors and IDE has advanced so little since 2003. A number of commenters pointed out the amazing Bret Victor talk Inventing on Principle. I hadn't seen this, but thanks for mentioning it, because I definitely should have. Maybe you haven't seen it either?
It's a bit long at 54 minutes, but worth viewing in its entirety. What Bret shows here is indeed exactly the sort of thing we should be doing, but aren't.
In some ways we've actually regressed from my ancient Visual Basic 6.0 days, when you'd get dynamically notified about errors as you typed, not just when you compiled or ran unit tests. The idea that you should be able to type (or gesture, or speak) and immediately see the result of that change is simple, but extremely powerful. It's speed of iteration in the small. That's essentially the basis for my argument that showing markup and rendered output side-by-side, and dynamically updating them as you type, is vastly superior for learning and experimentation compared to any attempt at WYSIWYG.
But Bret goes further than that – why not show the effects of predicted changes, and change over time? Time is the missing element in a static display of code and rendered output; how do we show that?
Again, watch the video because it's easier to see in action than it is to explain. But maybe you'd like to play with it yourself? That's sort of the point, isn't it? As I wrote in 2007:
I yearn for the day when web pages are regularly illustrated with the kind of beautiful, dynamic visualizations that Ben Fry creates.
That day, I'm happy to report, seems to have arrived. Bret's article, Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction is extremely interactive in plain old boring HTML 5.
Yes, it's artsy, yes these are mostly toy projects, but this isn't entirely abstract art house visualization nonsense. Designing tools that let you make rapid changes, and see the effects of those changes as soon as possible can be transformative.
Paul realized that what we needed to be solved was not, in fact, human powered flight. That was a red-herring. The problem was the process itself, and along with it the blind pursuit of a goal without a deeper understanding how to tackle deeply difficult challenges. He came up with a new problem that he set out to solve: how can you build a plane that could be rebuilt in hours not months. And he did. He built a plane with Mylar, aluminum tubing, and wire.
The first airplane didn't work. It was too flimsy. But, because the problem he set out to solve was creating a plane he could fix in hours, he was able to quickly iterate. Sometimes he would fly three or four different planes in a single day. The rebuild, retest, relearn cycle went from months and years to hours and days.
Eighteen years had passed since Henry Kremer opened his wallet for his vision. Nobody could turn that vision into an airplane. Paul MacCready got involved and changed the understanding of the problem to be solved. Half a year later later, MacCready's Gossamer Condor flew 2,172 meters to win the prize. A bit over a year after that, the Gossamer Albatross flew across the channel.
Don't get me wrong, we're failing plenty fast with our existing tools. But I can't shake the feeling that we could we fail even faster if we optimized our IDEs and code editors to better visualize the effects of our changes in real time as we make them.
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At a distance of 1.5 km from the main market, Reenam promises that you will be away from the hustle and bustle of the city, yet close enough to be convenient. Most of its 34 well appointed rooms which include Family Suite rooms look out on to the spectacular snow capped Stok-Kangri Range and the Leh Palace and Tsemo Castle. Last year Reenam introduced Superior rooms on the 3rd Floor and has also installed Elevators for easier access and mobility for the guests.
The hotel has all the facilities to cater and comfort the discerning travellers. Thoughtfully laid out apporoach and central heating in all of the rooms ensure that this property can be your home away from home at any time of the year. Fresh ideas, new rooms and the ideal location of our property all come together in making your Ladakh experience a memorable one.
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Ecolodge with solar heating and an organic vegetable garden is a 6-minute walk from Sankar Monastery and 1.9 km from 17th-century Leh Palace. The relaxed, airy rooms with wood floors, exposed beam ceilings and mountain or palace views feature complimentary Wi-Fi, sitting areas and flat-screen TVs. A suite adds a seating area, and some units have furnished balconies. Children age 5 and under stay free with an adult. Breakfast is available for a fee. There's a casual restaurant/coffee shop serving international fare and vegetables from the on-site garden. Other amenities include a lobby lounge and garden lawns.
This was our base hotel for our 2 weeks in Leh. After a week, I started calling it home away from home. After reading some of the reviews, I can say that, people treat you based on how you treat them. The staff at the Reenam is the most hospitable, professional, friendly, dedicated staff I have encountered in the Ladakh region. The hotel itself tries it's best to meet world 3-star standard. It offered satellite cables with English shows, laundry service, a reliable elevator, transport (by appt), a Lavazza coffee shop (1/3 the Starbucks price in India) with freshly baked pastries daily. The view from the upper floors is world class.
We stayed at Reenam Hotel during the low travel season in Leh, a time when the hotel runs at much lower patronage than usual. Most hotels/homestays here actually close when summer is over and don't reopen until April/May the next year. We're lucky that Reenam Hotel was open during our visit. They made delicious Indian style food which we had for breakfast and dinner every day. In the mornings, the best place to get some sun is out in the courtyard where the owner himself spends time in. Mr. Tsering, a soft spoken but knowledgeable man, is usually always around and can be counted on to give recommendations for local travel and organising taxis.
Visiting during the low season of Leh, the owner was kind enough to accommodate 4 of us. The entire hotel only had up to 8 guests during our entire trip. We were welcomed with warm tea and biscuits by extremely friendly staff. Although there were only 3 staff working at the time they catered to all our needs. Breakfast and Dinner were all served on time and best of all it was deliciously cooked fresh warm food. Beds came with bed-warmers which was extremely helpful during this cold period.
Away from the main market, this hotel was established in 2012 and since then has been improving. Large rooms and decently equipped bathrooms are plus points. It is manned by limited but homely staff who seem to be ever present. Mr Lobzang Tsering the owner / manager is a one point solution to all problems of vehicle, travel etc. Wi-fi is available only in the lobby and younger people seemed upset with it. Meals are in the dining hall and is very frugal in choice and quality. Room cleaning takes place once in two-three days. Great place to be in for its location. Heaters in rooms ( central heating) are available only in winters.
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Shanti Stupa is one of the magnificent Tibetan structures that has ever been built. The architecture and the beauty of this place are unexplainable. Shanti Stupa is a white-dome structure dedicated to Buddhism. This brilliant structure stands atop a steep hilltop at a dizzying height of 11,841 feet above sea level. This dominating altitude of the Stupa allows it to offer picturesque views of its beautiful surroundings and hence, draws the attention of thousands of tourists every year. Facing towards the Leh Palace, the stupa overlooks the entire vibrant and colourful city of Leh and offers panoramic views of the Changspa village too. The beauty of Shanti Stupa takes a level up at night, especially during the full moon night when it is naturally illuminated by the moonlight.
Alchi Monastery or Alchi Gompa is a Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex (chos-khor) of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, of the Indian state under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of Jammu and Kashmir. The complex comprises four separate settlements in the Alchi village in the lower Ladakh region with monuments dated to different periods. Of these four hamlets, Alchi monastery is said to be the oldest and most famous. It is administered by the Likir Monastery. Alchi is also part of the three villages (all in lower Ladakh region) which constitute the ‘Alchi group of monuments, the other two villages adjoining Alchi are the Mangyu and Sumda Chun. The monuments in these three villages are stated to be of "unique style and workmanship", but the Alchi monastic complex is the best known.
Khardung La (Khardung Pass, la means pass in Tibetan) is a mountain pass in the Ladakh region of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The local pronunciation is "Khardong La" or "Khardzong La" but, as with most names in Ladakh, the romanised spelling varies. The pass on the Ladakh Range is north of Leh and is the gateway to the Shyok and Nubra valleys. The Siachen Glacier lies part way up the latter valley. Built in 1976, it was opened to public motor vehicles in 1988. Maintained by the Border Roads Organisation, the pass is strategically important to India as it is used to carry supplies to the Siachen Glacier.. The elevation of Khardung La is 5,359 m (17,582 ft). Local summit signs and dozens of stores selling shirts in Leh incorrectly claim that its elevation is in the vicinity of 5,602 m (18,379 ft) and that it is the world's highest motorable pass.
The Leh Palace, also known as 'Lhachen Palkhar' is one of the most historically rich edifices that can be found in the country and is located in the breathtakingly beautiful Kashmir, in the town of Leh in India. This grand structure was built in the 17th century by King Sengge Namgyal as a royal palace, and the King and his family were the former residents of the majestic mansion. The Leh Palace is also one of the tallest buildings of its time with nine stories in all, and offers marvellous panoramic views of the entire town of Leh, as well as of the Stok Kangri and Zanskar mountains of the mighty Himalayan ranges, thereby giving the palace a strategic position.
The hotel has all the facilities to cater and comfort the discerning traveller. Thoughtfully laid out apporoach and central heating in all of the rooms ensure that this property can be your home away from home at any time of the year.
Reenam hotel is located north of Leh at Chubi Katpa and is a comfortable kilometer and a half uphill walk from the main Leh market towards Lamdon school.
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FDA Pushes for Over-the-Counter Naloxone
In early 2019, the FDA announced that they would be supporting efforts to move naloxone from a prescription drug to an over-the-counter product. In an effort to speed up the process, the FDA developed and tested naloxone Drug Facts labels (DFL) required for OTC products. The Drug Facts label is the panel published on all OTC products and contains information on active ingredient, purpose, uses, warnings, and directions for taking the product. The FDA has never preemptively developed and tested an OTC DFL, which is a testament to their commitment to provide better naloxone access. There are two DFLs available from the FDA, one for naloxone nasal spray and another for a naloxone auto-injector. There is no denying that naloxone is a valuable tool to prevent opioid overdose deaths, but there may be additional barriers that limit uptake of OTC naloxone.
While the cost of saving a life is immeasurable, those who do not know they or their loved ones are at risk for an opioid overdose may not see the value in obtaining naloxone. Manufacturers and the FDA should work to ensure that access to OTC naloxone is not cost prohibitive.
The ease of access to naloxone may also factor into a patient’s interest in obtaining the product. If they are required to purchase it behind the counter and present an ID, that may scare off some from purchasing naloxone. If/when naloxone can be purchased in the front-end of a store, access could increase for patients/caregivers. The price point of the OTC product may influence access even in the front end as this could prove to be a highly pilfered item.
While no one knows who patients are buying the naloxone for, there is still a stigma surrounding naloxone as a medication to save drug addicts. The general public may not be aware of the potential for accidental overdose of legal opioids and the benefits of naloxone. There are also people who believe that naloxone shouldn’t be so widely distributed when other lifesaving medications (i.e., epinephrine injections and insulin) are restricted and have a high out-of-pocket cost.
Pharmacists should be sure patients using opioid medications and their caregivers are aware of the risks of opioid overdoses and the potential for naloxone to reverse the effects. Family members and friends of someone with a drug problem should also be educated on the availability and uses of naloxone as a lifesaving medication. Pharmacists and healthcare providers should use each opportunity to educate patients, caregivers, and the general public about the benefits of purchasing naloxone in case of emergency.
All states currently allow for naloxone to be obtained at the pharmacy without previously obtaining a prescription. OTC naloxone will expand access to the product and ideally get it in the correct hands to prevent overdose deaths.
You can learn more details by reading the FDA’s statement on efforts to develop over-the-counter naloxone at https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/information-about-naloxone
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Mace B. S. Sketch Map
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Maze or onemace High Constable 1835
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Mace – Mache - bottom Local
Mace Rector of Annaghdown
rocky, hilly
Present Proprietor Francis Blake, Esq., Cregg Castle. Under tillage except a portion of flooded bog on the East side, the greater portion is laid out on Demesne. There is neat house of two stories. The former residence of Mr. Francis Blake ? ?.
It is situated 1 mile S. W. of Currandulla Chapel. Bounded North by Shanbally. South by Castlequarter. East by Currandulla and Castlecreavan and West by Thonamace.
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16 Democrat AGs Begin Inquisition Against ‘Climate Change Disbelievers’
Beginning in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king’s. Using the powerful arm of the government, the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific, or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences; property confiscation; fines; and in severe cases, torture and execution.
One of the lasting results of the Spanish Inquisition was a stifling of speech, thought, and scientific debate throughout Spain. By treating one set of scientific views as absolute, infallible, and above critique, Spain silenced many brilliant individuals and stopped the development of new ideas and technological innovations. Spain became a scientific backwater.
As an old adage says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So we now have a new inquisition underway in America in the 21st century—something that would have seemed unimaginable not too long ago.
Treating climate change as an absolute, unassailable fact, instead of what it is—an unproven, controversial scientific theory—a group of state attorneys general have announced that they will be targeting any companies that challenge the catastrophic climate change religion.
Jon Kahn Releases Bluegrass Version of Grassroots Anthem ‘American Heart’
This week marks the release of the Bluegrass version of “American Heart” by Breitbart’s own Jon Kahn. The song has already garnered a featured spot in Bluegrass Today. As I sit across a desk from him most days at Breitbart’s Los Angeles HQ, I thought I’d ask him a few questions about the song’s unique history and this newest incarnation.
D.N. American Heart has an unusual history; I remember you telling me at one point that it was inspired by a column you used to write in the early days of Big Hollywood.
J.K. That’s true. I used to write a column called “My Weekly Date with a Liberal.” Andrew [Breitbart] and I decided that it would be of tremendous social value if I were to anonymously date liberal women in L.A., and then report the results — however harrowing they may be — on the pages of Big Hollywood. The song came about after I had a particularly grim conversation with one of these dates, where it became clear to me that part of the liberal mind frame was a fundamental contempt for the concept of America. I went home, sat down at the piano and wrote the song.
D.N.: So how did it become, essentially, an “anthem” for the conservative grassroots? I mean, the song was — and still is — everywhere. You’ve played it at conservative rallies all over the country. I mean, everyone from Sarah Palin to Curt Schilling to former UN Ambassador John Bolton has sung its praises..
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What It Takes to Get Fired From Your Government Job
A federal agency apparently interprets union-backed civil service protections to be so strong that employees, and even interns, can’t be fired for work-related misconduct unless they have also been convicted of it in a court of law.
That would mean a federal employee couldn’t be sacked for coming in to work drunk, not showing up at all, or anything else that is not a crime — or is a crime but is unlikely to be independently pursued by criminal prosecutors.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was unable to sustain a firing when its inspector general determined that an intern took two housing project units for herself, one of which she sublet out to someone else, and then lied about it.
Source: The Daily Caller
Refujihad" Strikes Again
What is wrong is now right. A male Norwegian Socialist politican, Karsten Hauken, wrote a mind-boggling response to what he suffered at the hands of a Somali Muslim "refugee", according to Breitbart London.
A self-styled "anti-racist and feminist", Hauken was raped by the African migrant but refused to blame his attacker, claiming he was not "responsible for his action" and chalking up the crime to being "a product of the unjust world". Hauken expressed sadness that the migrant was sent back to Somalia, thinking that he was fit to walk among Norwegians when released. However, the Socialist was most upset by the popularity backlash that refugees woulde received in Norway and the West.
This is part of a larger pattern of Third World migrants, under the guise of being refugees, coming to Europe and committing mass rapes. The sexual assaults in Cologne, during the 2015 New Years celebration were widely publicised, but many more rapes are committed against activists who work with refugees. Especially shocking is the effort of those Leftist organizations to hush up migrant rapes, like on the Franco-Italian border last year.
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Ramona Hage Federal Judge BLM Engaged in Criminal Conspiracy
Trump's silver lining!
*Trump's special qualifications for being president*
Lets check out Trump's presidential qualifications
Obama is against Trump
The Media is against Trump
The establishment Democrats are against Trump
The establishment Republicans are against Trump
The Pope is against Trump
The UN is against Trump
The EU is against Trump
China is against Trump
Mexico is against Trump
Soros is against Trump
Black Lives Matter is against Trump
MoveOn.Org is against Trump
Koch Bro's are against Trump
Hateful, racist, violent Liberals are against Trump
Cher says she will leave the country
Mylie Cyrus says she will leave the country
Whoopi says she will leave the country
Rosie says she will leave the country
Al Sharpton says he will leave the country
Gov. Brown says California will build a wall
Sounds like the kinda president the US needs!!! Go Trump!
How Obama Let Al Qaeda Out of His Sight
Two of Al Qaeda's former explosives experts were just transferred out of Guantanamo Bay and sent to Senegal, the Defense Department confirmed Monday, marking the latest detainees to be shipped out of the prison camp despite the risk they could return to the battlefield.
The two Libyan former detainees were separately listed as threats to U.S. interests in Department of Defense documents obtained by Wikileaks and The New York Times.
Salem Abdu Salam Ghereby is believed to have fought coalition forces at Usama bin Laden’s Tora Bora complex in Afghanistan “and was associated with senior members of Al Qaeda.” Omar Khalif Mohammed Abu Baker Mahjour Umar was assessed to be likely to “immediately seek out prior associates and reengage in hostilities and extremist support activities” upon his release, according to a 2008 government document.
The news comes as senators prepare to introduce legislation to permanently block transfers of Guantanamo detainees to terror hot spots and state sponsors of terrorism including Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran and Sudan. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., was expected to introduce a bill as early as Monday, Fox News has learned.
Source: FoxNews.com
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Puppy Mill Update
Just to be clear, (I've had a lot of calls) the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office simply backed up the Wicomico Humane Society. This is NOT their case at the moment as there have been no charges filed to date.
The Humane Society has not put out a press release on this matter to date. Once more information is available we will provide it. Perhaps now with all the media attention on this matter they'll put something together soon.
Arizona college imposes fee to fund scholarship for illegal immigrants
A private college in Arizona is charging students a fee to fund a scholarship for illegal immigrants, a controversial move supporters say gives a hand to those who need it but anti-illegal immigration advocates call irresponsible.
Prescott College is tacking a $30 annual fee onto its $28,000 annual tuition to establish an annual scholarship for “undocumented” students, as part of a policy first proposed by students and faculty from the undergraduate and Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts divisions. While students can opt out of paying the fee, if they do nothing it will be automatically imposed. Backers say it helps reverse what they call Arizona’s reputation as a “national example of discriminatory politics.”
“I am proud that our students take on the role of scholar activists,” said school President John Flicker, adding that the university is committed to “broaden access to higher education for a diverse group of students” and “mobilize its resources towards social justice.”
After Four-Year Delay, Justice Dept. Gives Congress Fast and Furious Documents
The Justice Department said Friday that it had given to Congress additional documents related to the botched gun-smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious.
The Obama administration had for the last four years refused to provide the records to House Republicans, invoking a claim of executive privilege.
But a federal judge in January turned aside that argument, saying a blanket assertion of executive privilege was inappropriate since the Justice Department had already disclosed through other channels much of the information it had sought to withhold.
In a letter Friday, the Justice Department said it was moving to end the legal dispute with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by providing the documents even though it continued to disagree with the order from Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
The department said that, in producing the documents Friday, it had completed its obligations under the court order.
Chaffetz said in a statement that while the department had turned over "some of the subpoenaed documents," the committee remains entitled to "the full range of documents for which it brought this lawsuit." He said the committee was appealing in hopes of getting additional documents.
Sound the Alarm: New Obama Regulations Will Push Private Retirement Savings Into Government Accounts
If you thought Obamacare was terrifying, just wait until you read about what President Obama's regulatory agencies are planning to do with your retirement savings.
According to an alarming report in the Wall Street Journal, government regulators at the Labor Department will be implementing new rules at the end of the year that will eventually force private retirement investments into government accounts. How? By making private investment options, specifically IRAs, too burdensome, a liability and expensive. Bolding is mine.
President Obama’s regulators aren’t slowing down, alas. And on Wednesday they unveiled another part of their plan to push Americans out of private investment accounts and into government-run plans.
The Department of Labor says its so-called fiduciary rule will make financial advisers act in the best interests of clients. What Labor doesn’t say is that the rule carries such enormous potential legal liability and demands such a high standard of care that many advisers will shun non-affluent accounts.Middle-income investors may be forced to look elsewhere for financial advice even as Team Obama is enabling a raft of new government-run competitors for retirement savings. This is no coincidence.
Labor’s new rule will start biting in January as the President is leaving office. Under the rule, financial firms advising workers moving money out of company 401(k) plans into Individual Retirement Accounts will have to follow the new higher standards. But Labor has already proposed waivers from the federal Erisa law so new state-run retirement plans don’t have the same regulatory burden as private employers do.
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From The Washington Post
Editorial Board – “We hope the commitment to this program is long-term and not just a one-year infusion of money offered as a sop.”
“For a decade, Maryland teachers unions and their allies managed to block all efforts to establish a scholarship program enabling poor students to escape failing schools by attending private schools. The outcome was different this year, partly due to the shadow cast on the legislative session by last spring’s riots in Baltimore, which focused attention on the costs of not providing better educational choices.
“Included in the state’s $42 billion operating budget worked out between Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Democratic leaders of the General Assembly is $5 million for scholarships. Students from low-income families will be eligible. …
“Mr. Hogan had backed a measure to provide tax credits to companies that contribute to scholarships, but it ran into long-standing opposition in the House. An alternative scholarship program emerged this year, The Post’s Ovetta Wiggins reported, after House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) softened his opposition to private school vouchers at the urging of two African American delegates from Baltimore, Antonio Hayes (D) and Keith E. Haynes (D). They stressed the urgency of helping young black men in the city. Education, Mr. Hayes told us, is key to better futures, and the unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray last April shone new light on the shortcomings of the public school system and the injustice that does.
“State education officials and an advisory board appointed by the governor and legislative leaders will be tasked with designing the mechanics of the program. They would do well to look at the success of the District, where a federally funded scholarship program has improved academic outcomes for participants and spurred improvements in public schools. We hope the commitment to this program is long-term and not just a one-year infusion of money offered as a sop. It would be cruel to offer opportunity to students and then yank it away.”
Texas InsiderTed Cruz’s Law Firm Backed Obama, Other National Democrat Campaigns
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — As interested observers, most Texans are probably trying to remain objective while watching the back-and-forth of political campaigns in the early stages of spring. Last week, however, the tactics by one of the campaigns for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate crossed the line from tough campaigning, into a realm of a behavior most will discern as unworthy of someone they’d want to have representing Texas.
In a charge quickly-proven as inaccurate, the accusation appeared in a blog post written by Ben Shapiro of Big Government that Texas’ Lt. Governor & Senate candidate David Dewhurst had held a Washington, D.C. fundraiser at the home of “Obama cronies.”
The truth was, in fact, something quite other than that. An updated story from Shapiro himself later cleared up the confusion and proved the charges false. The “meet & greet” reception was not a fundraiser of any sort – and rather than being hosted by “Obama cronies,” was organized solely by Republicans, including many who worked in President George W. Bush’s Administration.
McCaughey: Hillary Running 'Most Racist' Campaign in Modern History
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is running "the most racist" presidential race in modern history, former New York lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey charges.
In remarks Friday to "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth on Newsmax TV, McCaughey says Clinton "stokes up racial animosity, racial distrust.
"And in every campaign stop she delivers the same message," McCaughey said. "She says African-Americans are victims of systemic racism in this country and she attributes the high incarceration rates of blacks, the school discipline rates of blacks, to systemic racism."
"Hillary is running the most racist campaign of any presidential candidate in modern history," she charged.
McCaughey also said Hillary Clinton's stance is "why her husband is getting beaten up on the campaign trial," referring to protesters who confronted Bill Clinton in Philadelphia on Thursday — and his angry response.
"She's doing it — dividing this country and making black Americans unjustifiably angry," McCaughey said.
How The Media Attack Religious Liberty
Most of the media won’t acknowledge that Americans who refuse to participate in a gay wedding could have any sincerely held beliefs or good faith arguments. For the media, there is hate. And there is light.
And one way the news media signal their disdain of religious liberty is by insinuating that the entire debate is bogus. Editors do this by putting quotation marks around the term “religious freedom,” as if this notion, when practiced by Christians, is somehow ambiguous or manipulative or deceptive.
Now, if those quotation marks exist because the topic itself is up for debate, then why isn’t there a similar journalistic standard for the usage of “inequality,” “environmentalist,” “civil rights,” “investments,” “loopholes” or any of the hundreds of other similarly contentious or loaded words in our political discourse?
Another, more overt way of misleading the public about religious freedom is framing the debate as a struggle between open-minded, civil-rights-seeking gays and a bunch of bigots frightened of progress — essentially the tone of every piece covering Mississippi’s new religious liberty law.
Here’s a tweet about the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act from the allegedly unbiased The Hill.
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Why You Should Keep Backyard Chickens
Many urban homeowners increasingly desire to keep small flocks of chickens in their backyards, and with good cause. There is no reason every family in this country that can run a flock of chickens in their backyard should not. This perfectly logical and reasonable habit—backyard chicken farming—has been buried under a great deal of hipster elitism (from many of the backyard chicken farmers themselves) and sneering derision (from their critics). Please try to ignore these detractors. If you can play host to backyard chickens, you should.
It is, in many urban localities, easier said than done. This normal and praiseworthy practice, which has been gaining ground in many cities across the country, has come under fire from both pearl-clutching busybodies and incompetent health inspectors and animal welfare agents, all of whom are under the impression that backyard chicken farming is both frightening and dangerous.
These are lies—it is neither—although it is tough to get many of the busybodies and public officials to see this, particularly when the latter stands to make money off the lies.
Cue the Chicken Nazis
In my hometown of Richmond, Virginia, for instance, to set up a chicken flock, one must (1) apply for a $60 permit (which expires annually), (2) submit to a background check, (3) submit to an on-site inspection of one’s premises, (4) agree to randomized inspections in the future, (5) build your coop at least 15 feet from any dwelling, at the rear of your property, with a fence around it (with slats no greater than two inches apart), and (6) limit yourself to four chickens total.
This is absurd political theater. It is regulatory folderol written by people who have not even the faintest idea what they are regulating.
Backyard chickens require none of these complex bylaws. There are ways to screw up backyard chicken farming, but not in any way that a randomized inspection by a clueless animal welfare officer could preempt. Animal husbandry is overwhelmingly an actualized vocation. It demands both careful attention and a kind of sylvan intimacy, neither of which can be found on the clipboard of some stiff from the city government or in the perfectly ridiculous zoning regulations that mandate the explicit placement of your backyard coop.
How Islamists Are Slowly Desensitizing Europe And America
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine whose offices Islamists attacked in 2015, published an editorial recently titled “How Did We Get Here?” that has raised some eyebrows. In it, they ask how Europe has become where European-born Muslims have attacked the hearts of Paris and Brussels. Their answer has proved distasteful to many on the Left.
The editorial has been harshly criticized and the magazine accused of racism and xenophobia. The Washington Post says Charlie Hebdo blames extremism on individual Muslims—the veiled woman on the street, the man selling kebabs. There’s some truth to this accusation, and to the extent that there is, Charlie Hebdo is wrong. But this, and other critiques, miss the larger point of the article, which is to demonstrate the gradual and quotidian way in which criticizing Islam has been silenced.
It’s worth quoting Charlie Hebdo at length:
Justice Dept. Fails to Turn Over All Fast and Furious Docs
The Obama administration failed to adhere to a court-ordered Friday deadline to turn over all subpoenaed documents to Congress about the government's role in the 2009-2011 Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, prompting immediate complaints from Congress.
"Today, under court order, DOJ turned over some of the subpoenaed documents," House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz said in a statement late Friday. "The committee, however, is entitled to the full range of documents for which it brought this lawsuit. Accordingly, we have appealed the District Court's ruling in order to secure those additional documents."
A U.S. District Court judge had ruled in January that the Obama administration could not claim executive privilege to keep from making these files public. The Justice Department was given another 60 days to turn over the information.
"As we've long asserted, the committee requires and is entitled to these documents. They are critical to the committee's efforts to complete meaningful oversight. The committee has a duty to understand and shine light on what was happening inside DOJ during the time of this irresponsible operation," Chaffetz said.
HOW TO DISMANTLE ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS
PayPal, Apple Lecture North Carolina, Do Business in Countries Far More Hostile to Gays
PayPal drew a line in the sand when North Carolina enacted a law prohibiting people from using the restrooms of the opposite sex, but critics say that line got washed away on the shores of Malaysia, a nation that consistently ranks among the least LGBT-friendly in the world.
The company canceled its plan to build a global operations center in Charlotte after the passage of HB2, which CEO Daniel Schulman called discrimination against the transgendered. He noted that the move would cost North Carolina 400 well-paying jobs.
But Malaysia’s Penal Code 187 — which punishes homosexual conduct with whippings and up to 20 years in prison — did not stop PayPal from opening in 2011 a global operations center there that it estimated would employ 500 workers by 2013.
“We chose Malaysia because of its highly skilled, globally competitive and multilingual workforce, in addition to a world-class business environment and technology infrastructure,” John McCabe, senior vice president for global operations, said at the time.
But PayPal is not an isolated corporation, nor is Malaysia an isolated country.
Whether it’s Apple opening stores in Saudi Arabia or American Airlines looking to dominate the Cuban travel market, many of the companies that have threatened to cut business ties to North Carolina over its bathroom bill are eager to do business in countries with regimes far more repressive of gays (and everyone else).
Study: Readers Abandoning Newspapers in Droves
Newspaper readers are ditching print editions – but aren't then transitioning to the online version, a research paper finds.
The study, titled "Reality Check: The Performance Gap between U.S. Newspapers' Print and Online Products, 2007-2015, finds the websites of 51 big-city newspapers are averaging just 10 percent of the market's readership, while print readership has plummeted to 28.5 percent from 42.4 percent.
"It’s totally unsurprising that print readership has been shrinking, but it is extremely surprising that in-market online readership hasn’t been growing," Hsiang Iris Chyi, an an associate professor at the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, tells Media Life Magazine. http://www.medialifemagazine.com/think-papers-websites-are-gaining-think-again/
The study also found more than half of newspaper websites saw declines from 2011 to 2015 – and a surprising snub from digitally obsessed Millenials.
Sotomayor Angry After Obama Nominates White Male to SCOTUS
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the nation's highest court needs more diversity of personal backgrounds and professional experience, speaking as a vacancy has refocused attention on the court's makeup.
During a talk Friday at Brooklyn Law School, Sotomayor didn't mention the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, who is highly respected but wouldn't add racial, religious, or educational diversity to the high court. But Sotomayor, the court's first Latina justice, said "it is important that we have greater diversity on the Supreme Court" and in the legal profession.
"I, for one, do think there is a disadvantage from having (five) Catholics, three Jews, everyone from an Ivy League school," several justices from New York City and no one who practiced criminal defense law outside white-collar settings, Sotomayor told the law school audience.
Some liberal groups hoped Obama, who had previously tapped Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan, would nominate another woman or minority. Instead, he tapped Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Gov. Nikki Haley: SC Does Not Need Transgender Bathroom Bill
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley spoke out against a bill that would limit LGBT legal protections by requiring transgender people to use bathrooms matching the gender on their birth certificate, according to The Post and Courier.
"While other states are having this battle, this is not a battle that we have seen is needed in South Carolina," said Haley.
The bill, filed by Republican Sen. Lee Bright on Wednesday, said the law is about "public safety, unrelated to differing bills and laws in other states concerning religious liberty," reports The Post and Courier.
"South Carolina is doing really well when it comes to respect and when it comes to kindness and when it comes to acceptance," Haley said, according to The State. "For people to imply it's not, I beg to differ."
Democratic Sen. Marlon Kimpson led the charge against the bill, saying, "I can't imagine a more ridiculous bill." Adding that the bill calls for a "genitalia patrol" to check birth certificates at bathroom doors.
Maryland legislature overrides veto of transportation bill
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly on Friday overrode Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a hotly debated bill that creates a scoring system to prioritize transportation projects.
The Senate voted 29-17 to override the veto — the minimum for the required three-fifths majority. The Senate was one vote short for several minutes, and senators stalled for time explaining their votes until a senator who had left the chamber returned. Sen. Jamie Raskin said he was in a meeting with Hogan and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford to discuss redistricting reform, when Sen. Cathy Pugh “burst into the room” and said he was needed in the Senate.
“I do not believe that there was a connection,” said Raskin, D-Montgomery, referring to the timing of the meeting and the override vote. “On the other hand, a lot of people back on the floor seemed to know where I was and think that the governor asked me to come up at this time rather than at another time.”
"The Real Donald Trump Story"
Immigrant Mother Pens Powerful Letter to Trump – And it’s Not What You Probably Think
Sabine Durden, a legal immigrant from Germany, recently penned an impassioned letter to Donald Trump. In the letter, obtained exclusively byBreitbart, Durden writes about her son, who was killed by an illegal immigrant driver in 2012.
Durden began by blasting the media for tearing Trump down, and telling “lies” about him. She then recounted the accident that killed her son:
“On July 22, 2012, my only child, my 30-year-old son Dominic was on his way to work on his motorcycle. His right of way was taken by a truck; he was hit head on and thrown into a wall where he died instantly. My best friend, my only child was taken from me, my heart torn into millions of pieces, and my life as I knew it was over.”
Obamonics has failed
President Barack Obama, when asked to name an accomplishment for which he is most proud, said, "I'm proud of saving the American economy." Breathtaking.
Let's examine the facts, using only government, left wing -- or, at least, non-conservative -- statistics, sources or analyses.
In 2012, the third year of the Obama recovery, the Associated Press wrote: "Since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An Associated Press analysis shows that by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest. ... Economic growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been slower. More than in any other post-World War II recovery, people who have jobs are hurting: Their paychecks have fallen behind inflation."
Mark Levin Blasts Anti-Trump Movement: 'Frauds,' 'Buffoons'
Radio host Mark Levin blasted voters who are so opposed to Donald Trump as a presidential candidate that they would vote for Hillary Clinton, or refuse to vote.
He said those people are "not conservatives," and are "frauds" and "buffoons."
If Trump becomes the Republican candidate, those who do not support him against Hillary Clinton are "asinine," Levin said on his radio show, reported by Real Clear Politics.
Maryland legislature passes expansion of equal pay law
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly has passed an expansion of the state’s equal pay law.
The House of Delegates gave the bill final approval on a 100-36 vote Saturday. The bill strengthens state law that prohibits pay discrimination based on gender. The measure also prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
It prohibits businesses from retaliating against employees for discussing or disclosing salaries.
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Sally Halterman, the first woman granted a license to operate a
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Virginia Gov. McAuliffe Vetoes Three Pro-Gun Bills
And we’re back to gun control…
From Guns:
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) gave thumbs down Thursday to three pieces of legislation he said would threaten public safety by weakening Virginia’s gun laws.
Among the proposals scuttled, two, SB 626 and HB 766, would have enabled domestic violence victims with a protective order against another individual to carry a concealed handgun for up to 90 days without a permit, while the third, HB 560, would have eased the Commonwealth’s law on the accidental display of a weapon.
In a veto message to lawmakers, McAuliffe held up a compromise deal he made with state Republicans in February which included taking guns away from domestic abusers as reason to veto the new legislation seeking to speed up the process to allow victims to carry a legal firearm.
“Domestic violence situations can be extremely volatile, and all too often result in serious injury or death,” said McAuliffe. “Senate Bill 626 (and House Bill 766) encourages victims of domestic violence to introduce deadly weapons into an already dangerous situation, an approach that I believe could have significant negative public safety consequences.”
I'm a Man. I can fix that!
Subject: Michelle Obama Hosts Iranian New Year’s Feast
Amid increasingly negative rhetoric surrounding the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran, first lady Michelle Obama hosted a traditional Iranian new year’s feast Wednesday at the White House to celebrate diversity and inclusion.
“Right now when we are hearing such disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been and will always be our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States,” said Obama. “We think America is strongest when we recognize our many traditions, when we celebrate our diversity and when we lift each other up.”
Man Flies Pro-Trump Flags On His OWN Home, Then Look Who Makes SURPRISE Visit
An ardent Donald Trump supporter in New Jersey wanted to display his support for the candidate, so he decided the fly a pair of flags outside of his residence that had pro-Trump messages on them. However, he quickly learned that wasn’t a good idea, and you won’t believe who knocked on his door shortly after.
The First Amendment is a wonderful thing, and it was created by the Founders with political speech specifically in mind so people didn’t have to worry about persecution due to their beliefs, which is what happened in the nation they fled.
However, New Jersey apparently doesn’t like to respect the First Amendment rights of individuals, and now John Hornick may face jail time because of the pro-Trump flags he flies at his West Long Branch home.
Why? Apparently either New Jersey or his town has an ordinance that forbid the display of political signage unless it’s within 30 days of an election, which means the police showed up at his home to issue a citation when he was found to be in violation. Now he faces either 90 days in jail or a $2,000 fine, NBC New York reported.
Quite a draconian penalty for a couple of flags, wouldn’t you say?
Hornick flies two Trump flags both day and night, and said that there’s no way in hell they’re coming down. Although, he did say that unhinged anti-Trump vandals have come through and ripped them down at least five different times. But he didn’t seem too worried.
“Let them come, let them rip those flags down because I have a warehouse on alert, and I’ll put up a flag every time they tear one down,” he said.
Even though he’s facing stiff penalties, Hornick is looking forward to his day in court – and he couldn’t care less if he loses.
“I’m not taking the flag down, and if I do 90 days in jail, I’ll do 90 days in jail,” he said.
The VIDEO that WALMART DOESN'T Want You To See!!
Walmart Denies That Cashier Was Fired For Hugging Customers, Matching Prices
Last year, people around the country rallied behind two Walmart employees who they believed were unfairly fired for redeeming $5.10 in discarded soda cans and for waiting half-an-hour to turn in $350 dollars he found in the parking lot. Now, consumers are once again showing support for another cashier of the big box retailer who says he was fired for hugging customers and discounting a jug of tea.
Baltimore police use of Tasers in poor, black neighborhoods questioned
Baltimore police officers exceeded widely accepted safety limits for Tasers more than any other force in Maryland, and in nearly all cases fired the weapon at suspects who were not complying with police orders but did not pose a threat.
Most of the suspects hit by Tasers in Baltimore were black, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Baltimore Sun, and more than two-thirds of the incidents from 2012 to 2014 took place in ZIP codes with the city's lowest median incomes.
The trends concern the city's top cop.
"Who suffers the most when police departments have deficient policies and procedures? Minorities and poorer communities suffer," Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said in response to The Sun's findings.
Davis has begun reorganizing the department and implementing new policies aimed at reforming its practices, including how officers use Tasers. His efforts come as the Justice Department continues a yearlong investigation into whether Baltimore officers violate federal civil rights laws when using force on residents, ranging from deadly force to Tasers and pepper spray.
Civil rights leaders and attorneys contend that more needs to be done. They say that residents increasingly complain about police abuse of Tasers and that the data shows that officers treat residents differently, depending on where they live and the color of their skin. Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP, called The Sun's findings "troubling."
Maryland Passes Bill That Would Keep Pesticides Harmful To Bees Off Retail Shelves
Although some retailers have stopped selling pesticides that are thought to be harmful to bees, amid concerns over the declining population of honeymakers, Maryland will become the first state to have a legal measure barring the products.
DUI Log for Week 4/04/2016 Thru 4/10/2016
Name Hometown Date Time Age Location of Arrest Accident Yes or No?
Mark Anthony Bowden Sr Salisbury, Md 04/04/16 7:53 AM 32 Rt 50 @ Bell Rd N
Monty Ray Jones Berlin, Md 04/05/16 10:46 PM 52 8428 Stephen Decatur N
James Edward Click Frederick, Md 04/05/16 11:13 PM 55 N/B Golf Course @ Rt 50 N
Marlin Triece Bohler 3rd Salisbury, Md 04/10/16 3:32 AM 51 W/B Rt 50 West of Rt 90 N
USPS Will Cut Postage Rates This Weekend, Isn’t Happy About It
If you’ve been stocking up on Forever stamps since the last price hike at the beginning of 2014, we have some bad news: those the price of first-class stamps will fall by 2¢ down to 47¢ this weekend. That might perhaps causing slight annoyance for consumers, but will hurt the U.S. Postal Service financially. The price cut, you see, wasn’t their idea.
Study Finds Deep Conversations Can Reduce Transgender Prejudice
Prejudices are often deep, obstinate beliefs. You've probably noticed this if you've ever tried to change someone's political opinion at a dinner party. But David Fleischer, the director of the Leadership LAB of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, thinks he's found a way to begin changing people's prejudices with just a short conversation.
He and several collaborators struggled for years to get to this point. "We brainstormed every idea and tried every idea, overwhelmingly those ideas failed," he says. And once he thought they had discovered a powerful way to fight prejudice, an enormous scientific fraud perpetrated by other researchers tumbled their progress back a year.
He and his colleagues started the effort in 2009, shortly after the Prop 8 constitutional amendment and struck down same-sex marriage in California. "The LGBT community and our allies were shocked and upset," Fleischer says. "Out of that outrage and despair, people wanted to do something very constructive." He and LGBT Center volunteers began talking to as many people as they could, trying to understand why they lost Prop 8.
Good News For Procrastinators: 3 Extra Days To File Taxes
If navigating your tax return has remained on the back burner until now, you can stretch the process out for three more days this year. That's right: This year's deadline is actually April 18.
This is all because of a fortuitous overlap of federal and state holidays with the usual April 15 due date.
Emancipation Day, an official holiday in the District of Columbia that usually falls on April 16, is on Friday, April 15 this year — pushing the tax deadline to the following Monday.
The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Washington, D.C., when in 1862 the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act "freed 3,100 individuals, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and men money to emigrate," according to the D.C. mayor's office.
Baltimore Sees Hospitals As Key To Breaking A Cycle Of Violence
Every year, U.S. hospitals treat hundreds of thousands of violent injuries. Often, the injured are patched up and sent home, right back to the troubles that landed them in the hospital in the first place.
Now, as these institutions of healing are facing pressure under the Affordable Care Act to keep readmissions down, a growing number of hospitals are looking at ways to prevent violence. In Baltimore, health department workers have pitched hospitals an idea they want to take citywide.
The idea builds on the city's Safe Streets program, which hires ex-offenders to intervene in conflicts before someone gets hurt. They're called "violence interrupters," and they use their street credibility and deep social ties to settle fights.
Apple-Justice Department Standoff Over iPhone Access Goes On, In New York
Although the FBI says it has successfully unlocked the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, a separate legal standoff between Apple and the government continues — in a drug case in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Justice Department told a judge Friday that Apple's help is still needed to unlock an iPhone seized from a methamphetamine dealer. The DOJ is appealing a ruling from a magistrate judge, who sided with Apple in February.
"The government continues to require Apple's assistance in accessing the data that it is authorized to search by warrant," U.S. Attorney Robert Capers wrote in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Margo Brodie.
A comparison between the New York and the San Bernardino case isn't, well, apples to apples. The cases involve different types of iPhones that run different types of operating systems and require different types of technical assistance from the company.
SpaceX Rocket Lands Safely On A Ship At Sea For the First Time
Friday was a landmark day for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It launched into space a resupply capsule bearing a new inflatable habitat for the International Space Station. Then the rocket's "first stage" returned to Earth for a sea landing — without exploding.
Though the SpaceX rocket had successfully landed on solid ground before, the last attempt to land the rocket on a barge at sea ended in a fiery crash.
"The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off, carrying an inflatable space module that will be added to the station. NASA hopes this kind of expandable room in space could someday help astronauts get to Mars," NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports for our Newscast Unit. "As the rocket's second stage carried this cargo into orbit, the first stage did something unprecedented. It turned around, flew back to Earth and touched down vertically on a robotic barge floating off the coast of Florida."
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“Sea-thru” Brings Clarity to Underwater Photos
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Coral reefs are among nature’s most complex and colorful living formations. But as any underwater photographer knows, pictures of them taken without artificial lights often come out bland and blue. Even shallow water selectively absorbs and scatters light at different wavelengths, making certain features hard to see and washing out colors—especially reds and yellows. This effect makes it difficult for coral scientists to use computer vision and machine-learning algorithms to identify, count and classify species in underwater images; they have to rely on time-consuming human evaluation instead.
But a new algorithm called Sea-thru, developed by engineer and oceanographer Derya Akkaynak, removes the visual distortion caused by water from an image. The effects could be far-reaching for biologists who need to see true colors underneath the surface. Akkaynak and engineer Tali Treibitz, her postdoctoral adviser at the University of Haifa in Israel, detailed the process in a paper presented in June at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
The large coral formation as originally photographed, before processing with Sea-thru. Credit: Derya Akkaynak
Sea-thru’s image analysis factors in the physics of light absorption and scattering in the atmosphere, compared with that in the ocean, where the particles that light interacts with are much larger. Then the program effectively reverses image distortion from water pixel by pixel, restoring lost colors.
One caveat is that the process requires distance information to work. Akkaynak takes numerous photographs of the same scene from various angles, which Sea-thru uses to estimate the distance between the camera and objects in the scene—and, in turn, the water’s light-attenuating impact. Luckily, many scientists already capture distance information in image data sets by using a process called photogrammetry, and Akkaynak says the program will readily work on those photographs.
“There are a lot of challenges associated with working underwater that put us well behind what researchers can do above water and on land,” says Nicole Pedersen, a researcher on the 100 Island Challenge, a project at the University of California, San Diego, in which scientists take up to 7,000 pictures per 100 square meters to assemble 3-D models of reefs. Progress has been hindered by a lack of computer tools for processing these images, Pedersen says, adding that Sea-thru is a step in the right direction.
The algorithm differs from applications such as Photoshop, with which users can artificially enhance underwater images by uniformly pumping up reds or yellows. “What I like about this approach is that it’s really about obtaining true colors,” says Pim Bongaerts, a coral biologist at the California Academy of Sciences. “Getting true color could really help us get a lot more worth out of our current data sets.”
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Financial Times: Shell plans Sakhalin expansion: Posted Tuesday 13 December 2005
By Thomas Catan in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
Published: December 12 2005 22:00
Royal Dutch Shell plans a sharp expansion of liquefied natural gas production at its flagship Sakhalin-2 project.
The plan will be welcomed by investors hit by news of delays and spiralling costs at the project, and will add to Shell’s lead in one of the fastest-growing energy sectors.
The price tag for the project on the Russian island, which is set to deliver Russia’s first ever shipments of LNG, has doubled to $20bn (€17bn) and it is running about eight months late. However, demand for the LNG it will produce continues to grow in Asia and the US, and the price of gas is continuing to rise.
The two LNG production lines – or “trains” – under construction are due to produce 9.6m tonnes of super-cooled natural gas a year when they start up in the third quarter of 2008.
However, company officials said they could adjust the plant in two stages to increase production by up to 20 per cent. After that, Shell is seeking to add one or more trains to the plant, though managers stressed that a final decision had not been taken. The project could potentially double its LNG production.
“It’s highly likely there will be at least a third train and more,” said Ian Craig, chief executive of Sakhalin Energy, which operates the project. “The question is … when is the optimal time?”
Mr Craig said the company had studied adding more trains to the LNG plant and taken steps to ease the process.
For the moment, shareholders wanted the company to focus on delivering the first two trains, Mr Craig said. However, it will consider the expansion plans in a year’s time if the project remains on schedule. Any new trains would not come on line until at least 2011, he said.
Shell owns 55 per cent of the mammoth oil and gas project; Mitsui and Mitsubishi of Japan own the rest. Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, is also set to become a shareholder under a planned asset swap with Shell.
At present, Sakhalin Energy’s LNG plant will be largely fed by its own Lunskoye gas field, which is situated off the eastern coast of Sakhalin.
However, Russian officials have raised the possibility of a rival consortium led by ExxonMobil being forced to feed its gas into Sakhalin Energy’s liquefaction plant. The Exxon-led Sakhalin-1 project is currently seeking to sell its gas via a pipeline into China.
Sakhalin Energy officials said their existing two LNG trains would process only its own gas, but that an expanded plant could potentially take gas from Exxon’s project in the future.
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Category Archives: Rural
Democrats Can Get Close To A House Majority With Suburban Seats Alone
Category : 2018 Election , 2018 House Elections , Election Update , Rural , Suburban
This entire election cycle we’ve heard (and even written) that the Democrats’ path to a House majority may lie in the suburbs. Although that summary is a bit simplistic because of the breadth of the House battlefield, an analysis of a recent article from CityLab and FiveThirtyEight’s House forecast suggest that Democrats’ gains will come from districts that are more suburban than not.
CityLab placed all 435 House districts into six categories based on neighborhood density,19 two of which are predominantly suburban: “Sparse Suburban” and “Dense Suburban.” The former are districts that have a mix of exurban development and outer-ring suburbs at the periphery of major metropolitan areas like the Michigan 11th or New Jersey 3rd. And the latter are districts composed of more inner-ring suburbs and some urban areas, like the California 10th and Utah 4th. Together, these two categories have 169 districts, which means they make up 39 percent of all House districts. This compares to 42 percent of districts that are more rural and 19 percent that are more urban.20
Interested in knowing the likelihood that these districts will deliver a win for Democrats (or help Republicans keep control) in the midterms, I used the Classic version of FiveThirtyEight’s House forecast21 to understand the odds in these 169 districts. And what I found is that districts that are predominantly suburban could almost give Democrats a majority on their own.
Here’s my reasoning: Democrats currently have about a 6 in 7 (or 86 percent) shot of winning a House majority, and if we treat every district where a Democrat is favored, even slightly, as a win for that party, Democrats would gain a net of 32 seats.22 And 21 (or around 60 percent) fall in either the “Sparse Suburban” or “Dense Suburban” categories. Yes, these 21 seats are still shy of the 23 that Democrats need to win a majority, but they could play an important part in the party’s strategy to take back the House. (One important caveat: This seat count does include five toss-up districts. They’re toss-ups where the Democratic candidate is slightly favored to win, but they’re still toss-ups.)23
Democrats could be rockin’ the suburbs
The types of districts where FiveThirtyEight’s House forecast gives Democrats an edge to pick up seats, as of Oct. 31
Current districts
Forecasted districts
district category
Dem. pickups
Share of dem. pickups
Sparse Suburban
Dense Suburban
Urban-Suburban
Rural-Suburban
Pure Rural
Pure Urban
Data based on individual district win probabilities, which differs from the overall forecast. Some columns may not add up due to rounding. Data as of 2 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 31, 2018.
Source: CityLab
But it’s not just these two mostly suburban categories where Democrats could pick up seats. Two of the other four CityLab categories also contain districts that are somewhat suburban and could be pickups for Democrats. We’re talking about places like the Florida 27th — a mix of urban areas with some denser suburbs — and the Kentucky 6th — suburban and rural with little or no urban area — that respectively fall into the “Urban-Suburban Mix” and “Rural-Suburban Mix” groups. Together, they make up 37 percent of House districts, and if we combine them with the two predominantly suburban categories, you could say that almost every district where Democrats are favored to make gains has notable suburban characteristics, with just three potential pickups coming from “Pure Rural” seats.24 (Note: The oft-discussed Obama-Trump and Romney-Clinton districts both overlap with these suburban categories.)
Also, while Democrats are struggling to make significant gains in more rural parts of the country, you can see their potential in urban areas is practically maxed out,25 making their drive to pick up suburban seats all the more pressing.
But what does this mean for Democratic representation? Democrats already control 56 of the 83 “Dense Suburban” seats, so their potential gains in districts such as the California 49th and the Arizona 2nd — two GOP-held seats where Democrats have better than 9 in 10 odds of winning — would only make this Democratic-leaning category bluer. Rather, the potential for major Democratic gains is in the “Sparse Suburban” category. Such gains would dramatically shift the Democratic share of “Sparse Suburban” seats, from around 2 in 5 currently to potentially almost 3 in 5 after the midterms, essentially flipping the party makeup of this group and making it the group with the largest forecasted swing among the six CityLab categories.
Where each party dominates
Current share of districts controlled by Democrats in each neighborhood density category and share Democrats are forecasted to control in 2019
Share of Democrat-held districts
Data based on individual district win probabilities, which differs from the overall forecast. Data as of 2 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 31, 2018.
Where this change might be felt most is in Pennsylvania — thanks in large part to court-ordered redistricting. Democrats are solid favorites to capture the 6th, 7th, and 17th districts, all part of the “Sparse Suburban” category. But it’s not just Pennsylvania where Democrats stand to gain ground. The outer edges of metropolitan areas such as Minneapolis-St. Paul (the Minnesota 2nd and 3rd), New York City (the New Jersey 7th and 11th), and Washington, D.C., (the Virginia 10th) are also “Sparse Suburban” areas represented by Republicans but featuring races that favor Democrats to some degree. Democrats could also make gains in the “Urban-Suburban” category, although they already control the vast majority (85 percent) of those seats. But if each party wins every seat where they currently have an edge, Republicans will find themselves holding the majority of seats in just two of the six categories, both of which are predominantly rural: “Rural-Suburban” and “Pure Rural.”
Combining our forecast with CityLab’s data suggests that the GOP, which already does best in rural areas (see the current party breakdown in our first table), would become more concentrated in those places. Currently, Republicans control 80 percent or more of the seats in each of the two rural categories. And our Classic forecast does not expect dramatic Democratic gains there.26 On the other hand, the predominantly suburban districts — “Dense” and “Sparse” — could undergo a large shift whereby Democrats go from controlling 54 percent of those seats to holding 66 percent.
The battle for control of the House will mostly play out in suburban swing districts, as these are the districts most likely to change hands and there are enough of them to give Democrats much of what they need to take back the House.
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Rome develops a Republic. From Kingdom to Republic 509 B.C.E. Overthrew Etruscan king Set up Republic: A form of government which power rests with citizens.
Published byTobias Tucker Modified over 4 years ago
Presentation on theme: "Rome develops a Republic. From Kingdom to Republic 509 B.C.E. Overthrew Etruscan king Set up Republic: A form of government which power rests with citizens."— Presentation transcript:
1 Rome develops a Republic
2 From Kingdom to Republic 509 B.C.E. Overthrew Etruscan king Set up Republic: A form of government which power rests with citizens who have the right to elect the leaders, no monarch.
3 Early Republic: battle for power Patricians Aristocratic landowners who held most of the power. Plebeians Common people at the beginning of the Republic they were denied the power to elect officials.
4 Republican Government Separate branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial Two Consuls- Executive Officials who commanded the army and directed the government. Term of office one year, elected by the Patricians Senate- legislative Aristocratic (Patricians) branch of Rome’s government Controlled foreign and financial policies and advised consuls.
5 Tribunes (legislative) Elected by the plebeians to represent their interests in government They had the power to veto measures they judged unfair
6 Roman Law “Believed that laws should be based on principles of reason and justice and should protect citizens and their property. This idea applied to all people regardless of their nationality.” This idea had a great influence on the development of democracy in western world.
7 A Written Legal Code 450 B.C.E. Twelve tables Assured that all citizens had a right to the protection of the law. These laws or versions of these laws have been assimilated into modern democracies. Such as innocent until proven guilty and the right to face your accuser before a judge in a court of law.
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The season has finished with a flourish, the enthusiasm and hard work by the diggersbeing rewarded with some spectacular finds.
Amongst the many finds uncovered in the stokeroom fill by some of SOAG's junior memberswas part of a spring padlock. The padlock is made of iron and although it is in poor condition it has enough featuresto enable us to identify it.
Spring Padlock
The following week a bronze bracelet was found in the same area. It is in good condition andis extensively decorated.
Close up view of bronze bracelet
After further excavation in trench 7 we now have a clear picture of the north wall and its alignment relative to the rest of the villa. There are significant differences along the length of the wall in terms of its structural make up and its width which has left us with more questions to answer.It is possible that a narrowing of the wall along part of its length is associated with an entrance to the villa.
Excavating and recording the north wall (view from west)
Work in the rooms enclosed by the north wall has continued to produce a large volume of rubble, particularly roof tileand painted plaster. Amongst a deposit of tile was a complete tegula - a first for the site and quite a rare occurrenceon other sites.
Excavating a deposit of tiles
Complete tegula
The excavation has now closed for 2007 but will re-open in May 2008 when we shall be investigating some of the questionsposed by the work this year.If you would like to get involved or have any questions about the excavation please contact us.
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Mitsubishi Motors starts mass production of Mirage hatchback in the Philippines
From left to right: Mr. Froilan G. Dytianquin, MMPC FVP - Marketing Division; Mr. Dante C. Santos, MMPC FVP - Corporate Management Division; Mr. Arnaldo Exequiel T. Janolo, MMPC FVP - Manufacturing Division; Mr. Yasuhiro Maruyama, MMPC EVP - Manufacturing; Mr. Yoshiaki Kato, MMPC outgoing President and CEO; Mr. Hirofumi Shibata, MMPC EVP - Treasury; Mr. Johnny C. Miaral, MMPC FVP - Manufacturing Division; Mr. Arnold B. Almario, MMPC FVP - Treasury Division; Mr. Shigeru Ogura, MMPC EVP - Marketing; and Mr. Mutsuhiro Oshikiri, MMPC incoming President and CEO
Manila, July 27, 2017 – Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) today announced that it has, for the first time, begun the mass production of the Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback model in its Santa Rosa plant.
The first Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback off the assembly line was presented today in a ceremony held at the Solaire Resort and Casino in Parañaque City.
MMPC has previously imported the Mirage hatchback from Thailand. But following a ₱ 4.3 Billion investment by MMPC in its production facilities, the company is now able to produce the Mirage locally.
Last February, MMPC presented the first Mirage G4 sedan manufactured in the Philippines to President Rodrigo Duterte. Both the Mirage G4 sedan and hatchback are Mitsubishi Motors’ entry into the government’s Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS) program. The CARS program aims to position the Philippines as Southeast Asia’s car assembly hub, through attracting new investment into the sector and generating increased consumer demand within the Philippines.
Mitsubishi Motors Philippines has engaged in locally manufacturing of vehicles for more than 50 years now. It is the number two auto company in the country, with a market share of 16 per cent, thanks to a strong network of local commercial partners.
The transfer of Mirage production to the Philippines will lead to new jobs within MMPC, and will also benefit the 31 local businesses which were awarded to supply a total of 255 parts for the car. MMPC is now actively working on its parts localization activities to further increase the local content ratio.
“MMPC will continue to exert great efforts to make a contribution to Philippine society and the economy to support the government in its effort to promote the entire automotive industry” said MMPC incoming President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Mutsuhiro Oshikiri.
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