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We’d like to tackle food waste in Greece and we visualize Sustainable Gastronomy as a vital product of the Greek Sustainable Tourism.
Welcome to Sustainable Food Movement in Greece, a social enterprise aiming to fight food waste and promote sustainability in the Culinary Arts Industry. We are here to train professionals in sustainable gastronomy and urge business executives and restaurateurs to become innovative through sustainability.
create public awareness on food waste
promote sustainable gastronomy through consulting and education
develop a Corporate Social Responsibility Model in the Culinary Arts & Tourism Industries
introduce ethical consumerism
support local farmers and small producers
help people in need
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We are a team of social entrepreneurs, passionate for a sustainable life model. We believe food is culture and it brings people together. We respect what the Greek soil has to offer and we admire the people who work hard, with great passion and love, so we can have food on the table. We have an academic background in Humanities and a professional background in creative and cultural industries, business management and human resources. We strongly believe that there’s too much food that goes to waste and we’d like to change the way people think about food. Our motto: “food use – no loss – no toss”.
Vee Bougani Founder & President +30 6943 634 705 [email protected] "Sustainable Gastronomy is Environmentalism served nicely on plate"
Evangelia Voria Communications/ Sales & Vice President Finance +30 6932 545 194 [email protected] "A chef must think like a scientist, organize like an accountant, inspire & motivate like a warrior, move like a trackstar, plate like an artist and cook like grandma!"
Katerina Skarpelou Events & Vice President HR +30 6951 688 117 [email protected] "Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground"
Sustainable Food Movement in Greece is a social enterprise registered in Athens, Greece in July 2017 aiming to tackle food waste and promote sustainable development in the Greek Culinary Arts Industry. We believe that environmental awareness, education, expertise, specialization and digital innovation are the only keys to progress and success.
Greece is attracting more than 22.5 million people each year because it’s an attraction for international visitors mainly for the Mediterranean climate and the great gastronomy. But the growth of the Greek tourism industry through the last decades, has added an increasing impact on the environment. Waste generation in the southern Mediterranean region has grown approximately 15% over the last decade. In many regions in Greece, restaurants, resorts and hotel units, produce more solid waste than local residents. There is lack of space and of adequate waste management infrastructure and there is limited information to the stakeholders involved in culinary and touristic activities about the need for integrated waste management and an outlined step by step plan towards to a zero waste strategy in the hospitality industry. Food wastage (food waste) is an issue that affects everyone. It is of particular concern for businesses in the hospitality and food service sector, which in Greece dispose of an estimated 300,000 tons of wasted food every year.
It has been estimated that 75% of hospitality businesses’ (hotels and restaurants) environmental impacts are directly associated with excessive consumption. This is wasteful in terms of resources and it increases operational costs unnecessarily. It is economically beneficial for these businesses to pursue "green practices" in three areas, namely energy saving, water conservation and recycling and waste management.
Environmental improvement is an increasingly important factor for businesses to stay competitive and manage their supply chain risks. Increasing resource scarcity; rising raw material, transport and utility costs; and pressure from legislation, customers and society to reduce environmental damage, are combining to drive businesses to improve their performance and become sustainable.
The challenges for the Greek hospitality and culinary sector is to creatively adopt instruments for sustainable development and waste management and become increasingly effective, maximizing the value of the resources used. This requires changing the mindset around food.
1. ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΤΙΚΟ Sustainable Movement in Greece_ΤΡΟΠΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ
2. ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΟ ΓΕΝΙΚΗΣ ΣΥΝΕΛΕΥΣΗΣ Νο 01
3. ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΟ ΔΙΟΙΚΟΥΣΑΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ Νο 02
We’re here to develop zero waste restaurants in Greece. We provide guidance, expertise, support and innovative solutions to stakeholders who visualize their enterprise environmentally friendly. We work with a network of experts and highly trained professionals in sustainable development strategies.
We’re educating the general public in prevention and food waste management. We create awareness on ethical consumption and responsible food production for people of all ages, through public talks, cooking techniques and sustainable development workshops.
We train Culinary Arts and Hospitality students in becoming sustainable through theory and practice.
We are willing to build "green teams" in the Tourism Industry by providing a series of specialized workshops in Sustainable HR.
We design workshops for culinary professionals and Restaurateurs who wish to become sustainable.
We teach kids and youngsters sustainability in and out of class.
We’re dedicated to fight food waste through sustainability. We design a series of events from charities, gala nights and pop up dinners to street happenings, cultural events and conferences aiming to succeed in tackling food waste.
Our philosophy on tackling food waste is based on ethical, economical, efficient and visionary approach which will guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices in order to create a sustainable, closed loop of materials.
Launching "foodity", our surplus food sharing app, we urge restaurants fight food waste and encourage consumers to buy surplus food portions at very low cost. "foodity" is based on the philosophy "saving food – earning money".
Be one of us
• Volunteer: Do you see yourself as an activist and environmentalist? Would you like to contribute to your own country and work with others like yourself who have a desire to accelerate our country’s development and promote sustainability? Do you want to live in a country where people shouldn’t struggle with food insecurity and food shouldn’t go to waste? As a volunteer you will make a positive impact on your homeland, by working with others in creating public awareness on food waste.
• Member: Do you wish to become one of us? Do you believe in circular economy? Is it valuable for you to live in a country where people are aware, informed and educated on sustainability? As a member you will be part of a Committee Board, you’ll attend the meetings throughout the year and you’ll have the right to vote equally with others on the agenda topics.
Membership fee: 100€ (one time application and refundable upon membership termination)
• Donor: Do you find our work important for the country’s development? Do you believe in us? Would you like to support our work and contribute in our future existence as a social enterprise? Are you excited about the impact we’re trying to create? As a donor, you keep us motivated to never quit. We need any kind of support to make a social and environmental impact and succeed in what we do. Every little helps!
We believe that the value and the performance of two or more companies combined, is greater than the sum of the separate individual parts. We’d like to cooperate with others who share the same business values with us and we’re open to any proposals that will bring financial sustainability through a social and environmental impact. Do not hesitate to get in touch with us and make things happen!
To contact us...
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Research & Development Internship
The Sustainable Food Movement in Greece, a social enterprise tackling food waste and promoting sustainability in the Greek Culinary Arts and Hospitality Industry is looking for happy, creative and bubbly Interns to join the team:
Responsible for research, planning and implementing new programs and protocols into the organization in the field of policy framework and business
Keep track of all costs related to the creation of new products
Make sure the organization is up to date and current with the most R&D developments
Educational Requirements:
Master’s Degree (Human Resources, Finance, Management)
Budgeting ability
Communication and presentation skills
Envision projects from start to finish
Pay attention to details
Solving problems fast
Name: Vee Bougani
Full Time: Yes
Administrative Position
Working experience: 1-4 years of experience, early career
The position is based in Athens. The successful candidate should be able to work remotely and join team meetings at least twice a week
Contract: 2-6 months
Trial work Period: 3 weeks
Digital Media Manager Internship
-Business School or Engineering School
-Digital specialization and/or entrepreneurship specialization or experiences are a plus
Skills and Requirements:
Brand awareness development & online reputation
Planning & goal setting
SEO & content management
Visual Design & Web Development Strategy
Promotion & engagement strategy through social advertising
Motivated, creative, with passion for connecting with future customers
Good knowledge of the digital environment (social media, e-acquisition, bot, mobile trends etc.)
Part Time: Yes
Freelance Events Manager
The Sustainable Food Movement in Greece, a social enterprise tackling food waste and promoting sustainability in the Greek Culinary Arts and Hospitality Industry is looking for happy, creative and bubbly people to join the team:
Organisation, planning, team working and problem solving
Communication, attention to detail, consistence
Customer Service and interpersonal skills
Able to take initiative, stay focused and be calm under pressure
Working to deadlines
Negotiations skills
Control events from conception to clean up
Contract: Minimum duration of 9 months
Trial work Period: 2 months
Salary:25% of project net income
Freelance Senior Fundraising Manager
Develop goals and plan for raising money
Identify and explore donor pools
Personally handle VIP donors
Write grant proposals and manage endowments
Plan fundraising events such as dinners, receptions and parties
Develop alliances with other organizations
Work collaboratively to enhance fundraising efforts
Work in contact with the CEO and the board, apprising them of fundraising successes
Excellent written and spoken communication skills
Ability to motivate and manage others
Excellent organization skills
Budget management skills
5-9 years of experience, mid career stage
Contract: Minimum duration of 12 months
Salary:To be discussed at interview
Required Formation:
-Prior experience in areas such as sales and marketing is welcomed
-Know how to deliver a number of workable creative ideas to hit fundraising targets, within a budget
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A Clinton Baby!
A huge congratulations goes out to Bill and Hillary Clinton as they will be first time grandparents. Daughter Chelsea, now 34 had claimed that 2014 would be "the Year of the Baby" for her and it seems that she was spot on. The former First Daughter, married to Marc Mezvinsky made the announcement at a Clinton Foundation event earlier today. "I have one more thing to say very quickly. I just want to thank all of you for being such an inspiration to us and to me in particular. Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year," Chelsea shared at the very end. "And I certainly feel all the better, whether it's a girl or a boy, that she or he will grow up in a world with so many strong, young female leaders." We are beyond thrilled for the former President and the future President because we just adore them and we wish nothing but a happy and healthy pregnancy for Chelsea!
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The Top 10 Pick-Up Artists Of 2003
February 4, 2004 by Thundercat
Filed under Analysis, Top 10 Lists
**Reposted from the first Lair, original date: 12/16/03
Okay, so the debate has been raging for a while now over who is the best PUA (Pick-Up Artist) out there. Obviously, a lot of egos are involved in this statement, and everyone has their own opinions about who the best really is. In fact, its so subjective, that I don’t really think there will ever be a clear and honest answer on the subject. Its like asking who the best warrior or soldier is in a war. But the fact of the matter remains, no one can ever ALWAYS be the best. They’re always going to have their off days — be a little bit slow, a little bit late, a little bit unprepared or caught off guard. But that doesn’t stop some people from categorizing the people in our little community as “The Best.” So I’ve decided to throw my hat in the ring and rate the top 10 PUAs operating out there.
However, only the people I have met personally are eligible for my list. There could very well be many great PUAs out there that beat these guys out, but I have not met them and cannot verify their skills personally, so they are off my list for now, though I will mention a few afterwards who I think are worthy of it. Also, my rankings are not based on sheer skill alone, rather, they are based on consistency, and what I have seen as far as how often they are practicing what they preach. So keep that in mind as we go through this.
Thundercat’s Top 10 Pick-Up Artist
1. Style: Style is definitely, hands down, bar none, the best operating in the game today. This guy is probably the most evil, sneaky, manipulative bastard I have ever seen in operation. The thing is, this guy comes in totally under the radar, and that is why he is so dangerous. His subtlety is so amazing, that before you know it, you are qualifying yourself to him and he has you right where he wants you. And the thing is, he does it with both girls AND guys. No one is safe. To give you an idea of how incredible Style is, he’s practically invented most of the techniques a lot of the top guys, like Mystery and Tyler Durden, are using and teaching. He is practically Machiavellian in nature, and is someone I both admire and fear. I should also point out that I have a special, non-gay, place in my heart for this man, because it was with his help that I broke down my barrier with approaching women, so I owe a lot of my current game and success to Style, which is another reason why I rate him #1.
2. Swinggcat: Swinggcat comes in at a close second, and would in fact probably be number one if it weren’t for the fact that that he is a better looking guy than Style. Swinggcat is a pretty hip looking (think a shorter version of Vince Vaughn in Swingers and you get a rough idea of what Swinggcat looks like), whereas Style is a skinny, bald, jewish guy. Swinggcat is just as evil, sneaky, and manipulative, but considering what Style has to overcome in the looks department, that puts his game above Swingg’s. That said, I have seen Swinggcat in action on numerous occasions and am amazed at a lot of his game. The way he is able to process and sum up the information girls give him and turn their frame around is truly a sight to see. Not only that, he is so intuative, he can make up cold readings on the fly and be almost 100% accurate, which is fuckin’ creepy. His book only scratches the surface of his vast knowledge, and I think we’ll be getting a lot of good (and evil) stuff from his upcoming newsletters.
3. Zan: Zan is not a name that is very well known in the community, but having met the guy and seen him in action, I am convinced he is one of the top dudes out there when it comes to picking up chicks. In fact, I’d have even placed him at number 1 if it wasn’t for the fact that this guy is a “natural” seducer, and therefore what he does cannot be taught to others. But in accordance with the sheer skill of his game, he lays all others flat on their back. The thing is, the guy looks like a male model. He’s 40 years old, but looks like he’s 20. He actually USED to be a model, in fact, back in France in the 80′s I think, and his girlfriend was Monica Bellucci of the Matrix fame (hey, don’t hate the player, hate the game =). Currently, the guy has between 6 and 9 hot ass girlfriends who ALL know about each other, and apparently he enjoys many 3-somes and fuck buddies to boot. Not only that, but Zan has one of the most amazing philosophies on life I have ever heard. He spends his time moving towards beauty and away from things that are not beautiful. I hung out with the guy for only 3 days, but I am secure enough in my masculinity to say that if I was a chick, I’d have been all over him. Probably the coolest guy in the community. He was on stage at the Chicago DYD seminar, and if David DeAngelo ever decides to sell the audio to that thing, you’ll get a real treat hearing Zan speak about inner game. Simply amazing.
4. Maddash: Maddash, like Zan, is also a successful, good looking, older guy. He’s a big proponant of the “No Game” game, which is pretty much emulating the behaviors of “naturals,” such as Zan, and because of that, Maddash’s game comes off as very subtle and natural. When I saw him in action I was very impressed. It seems like he gets a new girl every night. The thing about Maddash is that his life is not ruled by PUA, he is very much into business and athletics as well. Pick-up is just a small factor of his life, but one he strives to perfect — and boy, does he do a good job at it.
5. Craig: Craig probably deserves to be higher on the list, but unfortuneately, I think the four people above him beat him as far as technique goes. That said, Craig is VERY good. He is the king of the short-set method. This is basically where you approach a set of women, say something funny/amusing, then move onto the next set and repeat. Its a very good way of being social and works great in bar scenes. Its also good for creating social proof. Craig is also a very funny guy, and his dancing skills help attract attention from others (in a good way, mind you). The quality of women Craig gets is quite high. I have yet to see him with a girl I would rank lower than a 9 on the looks scale. Not only that, but he seems to get them pretty consistantly. However, the fact that he comes off as a good looking frat guy, the fact that he has appeared on Elimidate, and the fact that he lives on a beach, are all contributing factors to his success — but that does not take away from the fact that he is very skilled. He is also one of the few PUAs I’ve seen that can do all his shit effectively while drunk. He was also on stage at the Chicago DYD seminar, so you may hear stuff from him fairly soon.
6. Mystery: Okay, I know Mystery is gonna be pissed that I rank him so low (or not. He probably doesn’t give a shit what I think. Can ya blame him?), but in my opinion, for as good as Mystery is, the other 5 guys are better. The thing about Mystery is that he’s incredibly good at raising his value in other’s eyes. I’ve seen him pull off some amazing instances of social proof with his magic tricks, and he is incredibly entertaining, funny, and exciting. Its easy to get caught up in Mystery’s spell. That said, the reason I rate him #6 is because I do not feel his long game is very good. I always get the sense that Mystery has a hard time genuinely connecting with people, and this effects his long term relationships. It seems like he can be very insecure at times and needs constant validation from others, which leads to a lot of mind games that get him his validation, but at the same time succeeds in pushing people away from him. Whether or not this is intentional, I don’t know, but it happens. He also seems to care more about adjusting his game to suit the girl than making the girl adjust to his game, which I think ends up hurting his pick-up in the long run because it is not really congruent with who he is and how he presents himself long term. In fact, if you hang out with Mystery long enough, you get the sense that everything he talks to you about is a pattern, and he always ends up bringing the conversation back to his favorite topic, which is, of course, himself. And that is the reason I put him at #6.
7. Tyler Durden: Tyler is one of the big “up and comers” in the community. His posts made him a legend on ASF, and then once he teamed up with Papa and started doing workshops, his stock only rose. For a while, there was speculation as to whether or not TD was all talk, but he proved to everybody that he was legit in the Vegas Mystery Method workshop where he not only got laid, but got Style and Mystery laid as well. I have seen Tyler at work in the field, and he is impressive. He is a genuinely funny and engaging guy with lots of interesting stuff to talk about. His posts are some of the most interesting to read in the community as well, and he backs up his teachings with lots of field experience. However, like Mystery, I get the sense that TD has problems in his long game. When he picks chicks up, he does so from the frame where he makes the girls feel like “bad girls” or “sluts.” This works good for party girls and good girls alike, but on day two when the frame wears off, the girls associate that feeling with him and then flake, because feeling bad and slutty might be exciting for a night, but long term it is not a good feeling. TD also comes off as very gay. This is not a bad thing per say, but he has adopted the “hot chick” frame so congruently, that I think when girls sleep with him, its almost incongruent with who they thought he was. I could, of course, be totally wrong in this assessment since I haven’t hung out and sarged with Tyler as much as I’d like, but I’m going off of what I have noticed.
8. Primoman: Primoman is a dude that is no longer an active member of the community, but he is still a pick-up artist in every sense of the word. Primoman is known as the “King of the Ugs.” He is a dude who I’ve yet to see without a girl on his arm. Allbeit, that girl is usually ugly, or fat, or a combination of the two, but nonetheless, it is a girl. Primoman is not so much about quality as he is about QUANTITY. He probably lays more girls than any other guy in the community, but he is also not too picky with his prospects. Regardless, he gets laid a LOT! And that’s what it all comes down to in the end. His game is very Juggler in nature. In fact, he is quite AFC in his approach, but he is just so congruent with who he is and gently persistent in his sarge, that he eventually wins the girl over. Lately he’s been working his way up the “looks” scale as far as his girls go, so he may be giving Style a run for his money some day.
9. Sickboy: Sickboy is a protogee of Tyler and Papa. He’s a New Yorker and is best known for his appearance in the movie Zoolander as one of the male models in the movie. Yes, that’s right, the guy looks like a male model. But despite this, he is incredibly down to earth and has absolutely no ego about himself. He’s a very easy guy to talk to and a good friend. His game is also quite solid, though I do think it’s helped greatly by his looks. I think his frames aren’t as strong as they could be, but he definitely has the subtleties of PUA down pat. He recently spoke to the NYC lair and that’s a great read if you can find the transcripts somewhere. He’s a guy to look out for.
10. Harmless: Harmless is not what you would expect from a PUA. He’s pretty prolific on ASF, and seems to know his shit. The thing is, the guy comes off very much as his name describes him — Harmless. He’s a pretty average looking guy who seems very unassuming at first. But then you see the guy in action, and he’s very good. I think he comes across much like Mystery and TD, where he raises his value in the girl’s eyes by being entertaining and engaging. I know I enjoy talking to the guy, if that’s any indication. I haven’t seen enough of his game in action to critique it any further, but I do know he’s going to start teaching workshops soon, so his game’s gotta be pretty high. Regardless, he’s one to keep an eye on.
There are a number of other people out there who probably deserve to be on this list, but like I said before, I have not had a chance to really see them in action. But here are a few who I think deserve a mention.
Bad Boy — Apparently this guy is amazing. I know TD gets a lot of his AMOG tactics from Bad Boy. He’s a croatian pick-up artist who was injured in the Bosnian war, which makes his game so much more incredible considering he was almost killed and still suffers the effects from that somewhat. Apparently the guy is very fearless and straight-forward agressive with women. In fact, some would descibe his game as all cocky and no funny, which is probably why its so effective. Not only that, but he is supposed to be incredibly congruent. I know he’s currently fucking Miss Croatia and using her as a pawn to pull other women for threesomes if that tells you anything about his game.
Toecutter – I don’t know the guy personally and all I have to go off of are his posts on ASF and Mystery’s Lounge, but this guy seems to have it going on. I know TD studdied his archive like the dead sea scrolls, and his posts convey a very congruent attitude. I’m interested in seeing him in action, and if I’m ever in Canada I’ll see if I can’t hook up with him.
MTLPUA — Don’t know much about him, but I hear he’s really good.
David X — I know Clifford had good things to say about him.
Chet – The Chetinator! I got to see him speak in Chicago. Supposedly he’s god-like with women, but I have yet to see him in action and can’t say for sure.
Adam – The “natural.” Look to see great things from this guy in the future!
Masterclass — The guy is currently juggling 4 girls right now. He’s also an incredibly sneaky speed seducer who is moving more into the cocky/funny stuff and having great success. Right now, I think his game could be up there with the best there is if he got past his fear of approaching.
Rick H. — The legend. I have not hung out with the guy yet, but I’m sure when I do, it’ll be veeeeeeery interesting. =)
Ross Jeffries — I’ve hung out with Ross on a few occasions now and have only sarged with him once. From what I saw, I liked, but have not done enough field work with him to accurately rate the guy. I know Papa speaks highly of him, and he’s been out in the field with him more than I have.
Papa – I go out with Papa all the time, so I’m a bit biased when it comes to his skill level. He teaches at all of TD and Mystery’s workshops as well, and his field reports are always worth a read. He’s also single-handedly bringing this community together, so he has to be respected for that at the very least. The reason I didn’t put him in the top 10 was because much of his material is from Style and Tyler. I think in order to be in the top 10, a PUA needs to be developing his own style. One thing I will say about Papa is that he is incredibly good with creating strong frames.
Alphamale – This guy is incredibly impressive. Most of his game is based on using pivots to pull girls for him. I haven’t hung out with the guy enough to get an idea of how good he is, but from what I have seen, his game is awesome.
Well, there ya go, my Top 10. Hopefully one day I’ll make my list, but I doubt it! I’m much too hard on myself, lol.
That’s why they call me…
Tags: 2003, adam, alphamale, bad boy, chet, craig, david x, harmless, maddash, masterclass, mtlpua, mystery, papa, pick up artists, primoman, rick h, ross jeffries, sickboy, style, swinggcat, toecutter, top 10, top ten, tyler durden, zan
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Suicide squad is a science fiction/fantasy action animated film based on the covert supervillain team from DC comics & takes place in the DC animated universe.
Amanda Waller has utilized her secret team of super villains & antihero's with ruthless efficiency to take on assignments that most would consider insane & essentially suicide however latest assignment is different though in that she is using Task Force X for personal gain. Waller has found out that she is diagnosed with a terminal disease which guarantees her death in a few years so she assigns the squad the task of locating a mysterious magic card known as the "Get out of hell free" card which allows anyone who possesses it when they die to bypass hell or purgatory & go straight to heaven. This latest suicide mission puts Task force X in conflict with some of the DC universes most ferocious & deadly villains who are also seeking the card to fulfill their own agenda's.
If your like me you would have been fairly disappointed with the recent live action Suicide Squad film which many would agree had a great concept but a fairly poor execution overall storyline wise. Many criticized the fact that they played it too safe with film which clearly should have had r-rated visuals to match its dark & gritty tone. With Hell to pay that vision is fully realised as the film is filled with bad guys being truly bad by using foul language, violently killing people & engaging in raunchy behavior. This feels like a film which understands what the Suicide squad is all about and allows them to be truly diabolical without any restrictions.
Hell to pay does justice to the Suicide Squad in a way that the live action film did not by having a consistently good story & violent visuals to match this villain themed film. Hopefully Warner Bros studios corrects their past mistake by ensuring the Suicide squad sequel gets the r-rating it deserves so we can see Task force x in all their villainous glory.
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A conceptual view of the proposed reservoir in Del Puerto Canyon. Del Puerto Canyon Road, which begins bottom right and makes a sharp left turn under the site, would be relocated. Southbound and northbound I-5 run parallel to Del Puerto Canyon Road before the turn, middle right to top.
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Planning Commission has questions about proposed reservoir, gets Sperry interchange update, more
Jenifer West
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include links to previous articles on the proposed reservoir.
Proposed Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir
Several members of the Planning Commission last Thursday expressed concerns about the proposed Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir project – both about the project itself, and that they have not been given an opportunity to meet with the organizers to discuss it. A joint meeting with the Planning Commission and the City Council was scheduled at one point, but was cancelled.
Director of Community Development David James said that staff had been “trying to get a joint meeting,” but added that “because they have a big consulting team, we didn’t want them to have to organize everybody twice. But then the council had some second thoughts about the perception of having a specific meeting for the city…”
However, a number of public meetings will be scheduled, he said, at which the project will be discussed in detail, so city officials decided to forego a joint meeting. Planning commissioners and councilmembers can attend, without concern of a Brown Act issue, James said. A list of meetings should be ready in early December.
Commission Chair Ron West asked about recreation at the proposed reservoir.
“For the moment,” James said, “they’re thinking it wouldn’t really have much of a recreational component.”
“That’s one reason I wanted them to come and talk to us,” West said, adding that he’s “not happy” that project organizers will not be meeting with the commission. “That’s awfully close to us.”
He also expressed concern that the water in the reservoir would be diverted from replenishing the city’s groundwater supply.
West also questioned where the dirt to build the 200-foot dam for the project would come from, and whether it would be trucked through town. He added that he’s been asking questions “for months,” and has not received answers.
Commissioner Eric Bendix expressed concern that the project “would now put us in a dam failure inundation zone, like a good part of Modesto is. This is gonna be a major issue, and it’s an earthen dam,” he said.
James pointed out that the impact on the area both during construction and after the project is completed will have to be considered as part of the project’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
Commissioner Titus Linares pointed out that the project will be built “at higher elevations than our city… It’s crucially important that we have a say.”
“The water filling that dam has gotta get pumped out of that canal,” Commissioner Lynn Apland said. “Del Puerto Creek, in 500 years, wouldn’t even fill 10 percent of what this project (will hold).”
I-5 / Sperry Interchange improvements
The community’s commuters and other travelers will no doubt be interested, but probably not thrilled, to hear the latest developments on the I-5 / Sperry Avenue interchange.
Because the interchange is outside city limits, Andrews explained, the county is the lead agency, and is working with CalTrans. The city is involved in the discussions, “and we push it along as best we can, which is a challenge.” The ultimate upgrade is in the Project Approval and Environmental Documentation stage with CalTrans, with some distance to go before permits for construction can be issued.
“The city keeps pushing… to get traction on that,” Andrews said, “and I don’t know why CalTrans doesn’t feel like that’s an emergency, when we have traffic backing up on the freeway. It’s slow going, but we’re working on it.”
Various alternatives, including roundabouts, were considered, Andrews said. “What has been selected is traffic lights at both intersections, widened ramps, additional lanes under the bridge and leading up to and around under the bridges. The remaining part of this phase is wrapping up environmental work,” Andrews said, but there are currently “disagreements between CalTrans and county and the city. CalTrans feels strongly that this could be a good habitat for an endangered salamander, and the county and city feel otherwise,” he said, adding that the concern must be addressed before the project can move forward.
Fee to be updated
James said that the city’s “fee mechanism” for this interchange and other roadway improvements that will be required by future development “has been out of date for a long, long time.” Planning staff and the city manager are working on a new fee protocol that will cover the I-5 / Sperry Avenue interchange, as well as the intersection at Sperry Avenue and Highway 33 and other future roadway projects. The increased fee would not impact smaller, infill projects, he said, “But a large project, like Palms Plaza and others that will be forthcoming; we need to make sure that these projects are paying their fair share.”
In response to Commissioner Apland’s question about a proposed starting date for construction on the I-5 / Sperry interchange, James said, “I don’t know if we’re there yet,” adding, “We’re gonna keep after CalTrans – we want to put them on the spot.” Staff has been trying to get a CalTrans representative to attend a meeting with the planning commission, he added.
“We’re handling a lot more than just our traffic, so they need to work with us,” West said.
The interchange upgrade project has been under discussion for “at least four years,” Andrews said. “Just the discussion about improvements that are needed has been three years.”
Interim fix
Andrews said that the city has been working with the county on an agreement for interim improvements to help ease traffic congestion, such as four-way stop signs. No start date has been given.
I-5 / Zacharias Road interchange
Andrews said preliminary work for the future interchange connecting I-5 and Zacharias Road is progressing, and that a draft EIR for public comments is expected sometime in February or March.
Highway 33 and Ward Avenue
In response to concern expressed regarding the confluence of streets and the railroad tracks at Highway 33 and Ward Avenue, Andrews said plans were in the works to “rearrange that intersection,” to make it safer. A draft EIR is expected in the spring.
The Parks and Recreation and Transportation master plans should be presented to the commission in late January or February, Andrews said.
Wayfinding sign program
James said that the contract for signage at the I-5 / Sperry Avenue interchange has been awarded to Graphic Solutions, located in San Diego. The sign is intended to make travelers aware that the Villa Del Lago travel center is “linked to an actual community,” as opposed to others that stand alone on the I-5 corridor.
Encouraging travelers to venture further into town, providing them with “opportunities to spend money” will be beneficial for the city’s economy, James pointed out. “There’s nothing better than bringing in sales tax dollars from the outside. The goal is to capture their attention, and bring them into the community. The goal isn’t to take business away from Villa Del Lago, but to let folks know when they get off the highway that there’s a historic downtown, a Walmart, grocery stores.”
http://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/news/local_news/proposed-reservoir-moving-forward/article_f304da9e-fb66-11e9-8037-4385152a6e96.html
http://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/news/local_news/proposed-private-reservoir-stirs-public-interest/article_ddc90ec0-b426-11e9-b2ae-233978383a09.html
http://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/news/local_news/public-s-time-to-speak-on-reservoir-project-ends-p/article_5dcb0bc0-aff7-11e9-844b-f320c9c08b29.html
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Benefit - "Exact"
I haven't given this Atlanta emcee enough spins in my iPod, but this song off of his 2003 album B.E.N.E.F.I.T., demonstrates his lyrical ability. The instrumental isn't anything special, but the imagery of the chorus alone makes it worth the download.
I got the deaf people hearing this,
Blind people seeing this,
Paralyzed from the neck down still feeling this.
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Name: Valentine St. Barbe Collins
Rank: Lieutenant
Units: 22, 45, 48
Place of Birth: Bermuda
Died: 02 September 1918
Place of Death: France
Memorial: Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
The son of Colonel Charles Bury and Etheldred St. Barbe Collins, Valentine St. Barbe Collins was enrolled at Wellington College in 1911. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and served with 45 Squadron before being injured on 29 November 1916. A Brisfit observer, he scored his first three victories with 48 Squadron in September 1917. Posted to 22 Squadron in 1918, he scored seven more victories before he and his Australian pilot, Capt. Brian Laidley Dowling, were killed in action. He was 24 years old.
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1 04 Sep 1917 1900 48 Bristol F.2b (A7224) 1 Albatros D.V (OOC) Middlekerke-Ostende
2 27 Sep 1917 1830 48 Bristol F.2b (A7226) 1 Albatros D.V (DES) Pervyse
3 27 Sep 1917 1845 48 Bristol F.2b (A7226) 1 Albatros D.V (OOC) Pervyse
4 28 Jun 1918 1015 22 Bristol F.2b (C989) 2 Fokker DR.I (DES) N of Estaires
5 10 Jul 1918 0945 22 Bristol F.2b (C989) 2 Fokker DR.I (OOC) Lille
6 08 Aug 1918 1030 22 Bristol F.2b (D7894) 3 Pfalz D.III (OOC) S of Douai
7 10 Aug 1918 1810 22 Bristol F.2b (D7894) 3 Fokker D.VII (DES) SW of Péronne
9 21 Aug 1918 1945 22 Bristol F.2b (E2454) 3 Fokker D.VII (OOC) Albert-Cambrai
10 27 Aug 1918 1400 22 Bristol F.2b 3 Fokker D.VII (OOC) Senlemont
1 Pilot 2Lt W D Bostock
2 Pilot Lt Frank Gibbons
3 Pilot Lt Leslie King
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Home » Theater Reviews » Circus of Horror: Titus Andronicus
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Circus of Horror: Titus Andronicus
Posted on Feb 2, 2015 in Theater Reviews
by: JK Clarke
Titus Andronicus is not one of Shakespeare’s plays particularly noted for its poetic language. Nor does it have the twists and contours of his more complex tragedies. Rather, Titus is to traditional Shakespeare what a Hollywood blockbuster is to an arthouse film: heavy on the action with less emphasis on character development and dialog. In short, it is a bloody and remarkably violent revenge tragedy. Hence, it is a play that relies primarily on theatrics. A company must contrive to convey its heavy message (that an “eye-for-an-eye” ethos will inevitably become toxic and self-destructive) in a manner as quickly-paced and visually entertaining as possible. And it’s in this vein that the very worthy New York Shakespeare Exchange delivers the goods in their very excellent production of Titus Andronicus, playing at HERE through the remainder of the week.
In this production, director (and adapter) Ross Williams sets the play as a sort of nightmare inside a depression-era circus tent, opening with a pantomimed reverie of a depressed Pierrot-esque clown (Kerry Kastin) in which creatures creep out of the scenery and proceed to slaughter one another in a game of tag with daggers. It’s a fairly on-the-nose foreshadowing of the butchery to come. Great Roman General, Titus Andronicus (Brendan Averett) returns from the Goth Wars with their captives, the Goth Queen, Tamora (an intense Gretchen Egolf) and her sons. When Titus’s sons demand the brutal execution of one of her sons as revenge for their losses in the wars, he allows it, despite her heart-rending pleas that he be spared. Titus’s lack of forgiveness (a Christian value, lest the Elizabethan audience forget that the Romans in question are lowly pagans) leads to cascading acts of revenge that leave just about everyone in the play dead, though not before they are raped, maimed or surreptitiously fed to their relatives at a banquet. Yes, it’s that gory.
Jason Lajka’s set design, coupled with Drew Florida’s lighting, drive home the carnival and circus tent motif, with a dressing room adjacent to the stage on one side suggesting the gross-theatricality of this story. And on the other side is a grain chute, that is triggered to noisily release corn into a metal tub upon each murder, simulating the spilling of blood, almost as in a slaughter house. In the first half of the play it’s the only suggestion of blood, suggesting the banality and insignificance of death to the warring types who grace the stage. Once Titus becomes directly impacted by the mayhem we finally see real blood, as it becomes real for him. It’s an effective device: instead of becoming numbed by the violence, we begin to see it in greater detail as it becomes more personal, and it is more painful for us to witness as it is for Titus Andronicus to endure.
Character presentation is also significant in this production, as signified by the panto personage of the clown, so Elivia Bovenzi’s costume design in which villains are exaggerated (Tamora’s vile Goth sons are wild creatures wearing animals pelts and with racoonish, devious eyes) make it easy to distinguish the bad from the really bad. All is aided by terrific acting from Averett as Titus; Kate Lydic as Titus’s poor daughter Lavinia (one of the play’s few innocents and who ends up enduring the most extreme violence); Warren Jackson as an especially dynamic and somehow sympathetically evil Aaron, the Moor; and there’s also Vince Gatton in a fine turn as newly crowned Emperor, Saturninus.
Titus Andronicus, as Shakespeare wrote it, has the potential to be dry yet monotonously violent. But, when handled so passionately and with a deeper understanding of its broader message, it becomes an entertaining and fascinating play, a feat which the Shakespeare Exchange has pulled off with aplomb. It’s a shame the production has such a short run, as this is a great opportunity to see a play seldom produced so well.
Titus Andronicus. Through February 8 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue @Spring Street). www.here.org
*Photos: Kalle Westerling
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Cars.com Sales Process Ongoing, Extends Board Nomination Deadline
March 25, 2019 — Although sources confirmed to us two weeks ago an acquisition of Cars.com was close, we’re still waiting. But signs are a deal should be announced in the next several days.
According to a press release this morning, the process is ongoing and involves “multiple parties.” The biggest indication, though, is that Cars.com also announced it has extended the deadline for board nominations to 5 pm ET April 22, 2019. The extension follows recent discussions with Starboard Value, the activist investment involved with Cars.com. The next shareholders’ meeting has yet to be scheduled (was in May in 2018).
If a deal wasn’t close, Starboard likely wouldn’t have signed off on an extension of the board nominations. Starboard’s history shows a willingness to fight for control of companies’ boards and that likely will happen with Cars.com if a deal isn’t consummated in the next few weeks.
Cars.com announced in January it had begun exploring strategic alternatives, and since then, there have been few leaks. CDK Global was reported to be preparing a bid, but all of our sources agreed with our analysis that such a deal made little sense.
Late last week, StreetInsider reported Carvana had emerged as a late bidder. This one makes even less sense than the CDK rumor. Carvana is a used car dealer that uses an online platform to sell and distribute its vehicles. It uses other platforms such as Cars.com, Autotrader, and CarGurus to list its inventory.
If Carvana were to acquire Cars.com, every other dealer listing inventory on Cars.com likely would pull their inventory immediately due to competitive issues. And it’s not likely Carvana is planning on switching its business model.
Nevertheless, there are numerous entities in which an acquisition of Cars.com would make strategic sense. We outlined several possible buyers two weeks ago and why or why not they should acquire Cars.com (for premium subscribers only).
Cars.com Sale Likely Close, Here’s a Rundown of Possible Buyers
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The Bohemian Blog
Darmon Richter
Monumentalism
Holidays in Abkhazia
Abkhazia, Travel, Unrecognised Countries, USSR
Nestled on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, between Russia and Georgia, Abkhazia is home to just under a quarter of a million people. The region is famed for its beach resorts, once known as the ‘Soviet Riviera’ – back when even Joseph Stalin had a holiday home here. Since the breakup of the USSR however, Abkhazia has seen numerous bloody conflicts. Georgia still claims this region as their own, while many of the locals, with Russian support, have continued to fight for independent status. As a result the so-called Republic of Abkhazia is one of a handful of unrecognised countries in the region; what’s sometimes referred to as a post-Soviet frozen conflict zone.
The Abkhaz capital is Sukhum (spelled ‘Sukhumi’ by the Georgians, but ‘Sukhum’ by most of the people who live there now), and in August 2017, myself and a couple of friends obtained Abkhaz e-visas online, then crossed the demilitarised zone from Georgia to spend a long weekend exploring Sukhum and its surroundings. Here’s what I found.
The ‘Brigantina’ mosaic in central Sukhum, Abkhazia.
Downtown Sukhum, with the abandoned Council of Ministers building just visible in the distance.
Bridge on the River Ingur
By half past eight in the morning we arrived at the border checkpoint. It was quiet – taxi drivers slept in their cars while out on the road a single dog chased through a herd of slow-moving cattle, nipping at their ankles in playful provocation. Past the silent cars and cattle, a mile around the corner and just beyond the bridge on the Ingur River, another militarised checkpoint marked the entrance to the unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia.
At a window beside the barrier, we slid our passports across to a dour-faced Georgian guard. He nodded, took our documents and told us to wait. Looking around at the flimsy office buildings, the plastic garden chairs outside the cafe, I decided that this was just about the worst border checkpoint I had ever seen. But then, as far as Georgia is concerned, this isn’t even a border.
On Sukhum’s seaside promenade, kids can ride on a miniature electric tank complete with Abkhaz flag.
Monument to Peace: a sculpture of a gun with knotted barrel, on the Georgian-Abkhaz border.
We waited there for an hour before the man at the window waved us on through the checkpoint; the first checkpoint of three.
Abkhazia can be reached by road from Russia, but here, on the Georgian side at a river crossing just north of Zugdidi, visitors to Abkhazia must proceed on foot. It was almost a mile to the river, a strip of quiet tarmac hemmed in by trees. One of the stray dogs had followed us, and she kept our pace as far as the Monument to Peace: a metal gun with its barrel tied into a knot, the last built structure on Georgian-controlled territory.
I have never seen a more picturesque no-man’s land. The trees fell away at the water’s edge and a long bridge carried us over a landscape of rolling hills and babbling currents. I had been warned that Russian snipers watched the bridge from positions hidden in the bushes; stop to take photos of this scenic demilitarised zone and the least they might do is deny you entry to Abkhazia. We saw no sign of them though, and as we walked we simply enjoyed the lush green scenery in blissful naivety, our cameras tucked away inside their cases.
The next checkpoint, just beyond the river, was controlled by Abkhaz authorities. Beyond that we’d meet a third and final checkpoint staffed by Russians. It was this middle one that got us, though.
It was clear the Abkhazians took the border more seriously than their Georgian counterparts did. We were met by soldiers, chainlink fences and barbed wire. A guard post was positioned before the fence and we stepped inside to show our paperwork. Please wait, we were told, as the border guard took our passports away once again. He puzzled briefly over our nationalities – one American, one Australian and a Briton – then made some calls. We waited.
A police officer patrols the beach at Gagra, Abkhazia.
The wonderfully retro changing facilities on Gagra beach.
By now the midday August sun was rising and outside the guard hut, sat on the dusty grass, there was nowhere to find shade. I ran out of water in the first hour and as the temperature rose to almost 40 degrees Celsius (100+ Fahrenheit) I was sure I could actually see my skin slowly burning. All the while, other visitors were arriving and passing on through, the groups getting bigger as the day went on. They were locals, and I wondered what their stories were – so many people had been displaced by the war, communities uprooted, families divided. My sunburn was probably pretty minor compared to whatever they were going through.
Three hours passed, sitting in that grassy no-man’s land. We became increasingly concerned… was this normal? My phone was still picking up Georgian internet, and as chance would have it, a friend had recently introduced me online to Abkhazia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; she’d met him in Sukhum, and now we were Twitter friends. I sent him a message, asking if a four-hour border wait was normal. No, it’s not, he replied, and said he would look into it.
Twenty minutes later, the guard waved us through. Two checkpoints down, one more to go.
The Gagarin Shopping Centre in Gagra was abandoned after taking severe damage during the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia.
This last barrier was staffed by Russian soldiers. They looked so young – I guess many were still teenagers – but they were smartly uniformed, sharp, keen-eyed, and not altogether unfriendly. Reaching the gate, one soldier started asking us questions in Russian. I struggled my way through a few before he switched, with a half-smile, into surprisingly proficient English. The questions were predictable (What we were doing? Why did we have cameras? Did we work for press organisations?) and we kept our answers simple: Tourism. Tourism. Tourism.
We seemed to pass the test, and just before we passed the gate the soldier asked to take a quick look through our bags. Of course, we said. We didn’t have anything to hide… or so we thought. But my American friend had been shopping back in Tbilisi. He’d bought a bunch of DVDs of old Georgian WWII movies; and now this Russian soldier had found a stash of historical-political media packaged in cases covered with Georgian script. It couldn’t have looked good. He lifted them with an outstretched arm, as if contaminated, ordered us not to move, then took them to his superior officer.
Eventually they let us into Abkhazia, but my friend wouldn’t see his DVDs again.
Monument to Ephraim Ashba in Sukhum.
Spotted from a taxi window: Monument to the Fallen in the Battles for the Liberation of Abkhazia, at Tamishi.
Once inside we tried to play it cool; tried hard not to look like the naive tourists we were. We ignored the drivers waiting at the gate, shouting “Taksi!” as we walked by tired and sunburnt. There was absolutely no way they wouldn’t overcharge us. Problem was, once we’d got past them we didn’t see many other options. Some locals were waiting in a marshrutka, but to get to Sukhum meant changing in Gali, plus there was no knowing when this bus would be full, and ready to leave. So we got cold drinks in a shop where moustachioed border guards were arguing over plastic cups of kvass; and then, once rehydrated, we bit the bullet and put ourselves at the mercy of the taxi men.
I guess it wasn’t too bad in the end. Between three people we haggled from 2,500 down to 2,000 Russian Rubles (about €25), whereas the bus would have cost just one tenth of that. But this was the fastest we’d moved all day, we were finally on our way, and it felt fantastic.
Our driver – a mad, bombastic sort of man, his flatcap resting so far down his red, round nose that I wondered if he could actually see the road at all – made a first stop in Gali, just 10km north of the border. We pulled up on a market street near the train station, where he heaved a couple of sacks from the back of his car, and onto a nearby truck. He opened one and tossed us each a hazelnut for our troubles; then pocketed some cash from the truck driver and we were back on the road.
A mermaid sign at the Pitsunda resort advertises tours to nearby Lake Ritsa.
In Georgia, taxi drivers had always seemed offended when I put my seatbelt on; as if it were some kind of sleight against their driving skills. They had groaned and complained (one called me a girl), but Abkhaz taxi drivers, apparently, were more direct. David, our Australian in the front seat, got a surprise when the driver reached over and forcibly unplugged his belt. He turned then to us in the back and we all unbelted, as per our driver’s bellowed commands.
From Gali we followed the coastal road north, speeding through an industrious green landscape of factories and farmland; scattered with ruins, bullet-holed houses and the most extraordinary mosaic-tiled bus stops. Our driver saw us enjoying the view and he shouted, “Fotos! Pazhalsta!” as he gestured at us to document it. So we wound down our windows, poking lenses out the sides of the car like cannons on a war galleon. Meanwhile, some kind of national music blasted through the in-car stereo – all drums and accordions – and when the road was empty, our driver would crank the steering wheel, swerving across both lanes in time to the frantic rhythm.
Visit the waterfalls at Novy Afon!
Cafe Lebed (meaning ‘Swan’) in Novy Afon, Abkhazia.
Abkhaz IKEA.
The Republic of Abkhazia
In August 2017, BBC Radio broadcast a short documentary titled Abkhazia: A Land Forgotten. The words “forgotten” and “remote” appear frequently throughout the piece… as they do in many other Western accounts of the region. Calling this region “remote,” however, belies a certain anglocentric naivety. From Sochi – Russia’s largest resort city and host of the 2014 Winter Olympics – you can drive to the Russian-Abkhaz border in 40 minutes. Another 40 minutes and you’ll have reached your beachside hotel. That’s faster than London to Brighton.
Stately architecture on display in Sukhum, Abkhazia.
Meanwhile the heaving crowds of Russian tourists who flock each summer to Abkhazia’s seaside resorts (as many as 1.67 million in a year) don’t appear to have “forgotten” this place… and the Georgians certainly haven’t forgotten Abkhazia either. Even before I published this article, it was already attracting attention. Back in November I received a polite-yet-firm email in response to a hidden photo gallery on my site, that read: “I would like to ask you to indicate Abkhazia as Georgia, as it is the part of the country currently under occupation.” A follow-up email made the same case again, adding, “I am happy to hear that Abkhazia is of interest to you, awaiting your story about one of the most beautiful parts of Georgia.”
During my trip through the Caucasus I spoke with a lot of Georgians, and a lot of Abkhaz people too. I got on well with almost all of them – but on the subject of Abkhazia, I heard opinions from either side that were simply irreconcilable. (Perhaps that’s why it has taken me 18 months to put this story into words… because I know that whatever I write, it’ll no doubt upset someone.) Look, I’m no expert. I’m a tourist with a travel blog. If you’re interested in this region then don’t take it from me, do your own research. But the problem, put simply, is this: Abkhazia is a distinct region with its own unique identity, and while there is precedent for it being independent, there is precedent too for it falling under Georgian jurisdiction.
It might look like a badly parked cruise ship, but that’s actually a pier: the Sukhum Naval Station.
Going back as early as the 9th century BC, Abkhazia formed part of the ancient Georgian kingdom of Colchis. By the 7th century AD it existed as an independent Byzantine Princedom, later reuniting with the Kingdom of Georgia in 1008 AD. In 1810, Abkhazia became an autonomous principality within the Russian Empire and from 1921 was declared by the Bolsheviks as a fully independent Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR Abkhazia). In 1931 Stalin (a Georgian himself) demoted Abkhazia to the status of an autonomous republic within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic… and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Abkhazia declared itself independent once more, whilst most of the rest of the world continued to view it as part of Georgia.
Both sides of this debate appeal to history to justify their arguments. From the Georgian perspective, Abkhazia has been a part of their world for most of 30 centuries; and the times when it wasn’t theirs came largely as the unwelcome result of foreign interventionism (be that Byzantine, Russian, Soviet, etc.). But according to Abkhazia, the Abkhaz people are historically, ethnically, culturally and linguistically different to both their contemporary neighbours – the Russians and the Georgians – and their story is one of an underdog nation forever struggling for independence.
A kvass vendor takes a midday nap beneath the palms. Gagra, Abkhazia.
Modernist holiday rentals on Gagra beach.
In the lead-up to the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia, Georgia was accused of committing cultural genocide in an attempt to re-Georgify the region; in response, it is reported that (allegedly Russian-backed) Abkhaz separatists led a campaign of brutal ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Georgians who then made up the majority population in the region. A United Nations mission found both sides guilty of severe human rights abuses.
Relationships with Russia further complicate matters. It was Russia, and later the Soviet Union, that drew the modern borders between Georgia and Abkhazia, and many Georgians reject such divisions as foreign tampering. During the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, Abkhazia fought with Russia against Georgia… leading Russia to formally recognise the ‘Republic of Abkhazia,’ and Georgia to officially declare Abkhazia as a Russian-occupied territory. Abkhazia remains friendly with Russia today, not least because Russia supplies the military strength with which Abkhazia continues to maintain its border against Georgia.
Exploring Sukhum’s parks.
But like I said, don’t take my word for it. The history of the region is dense, complex and bloody; making sense of it is far beyond the remit of this 5,000-word article. What I can tell you with confidence, however, is what it’s like to visit.
Sukhum(i)
I have visited a handful of unrecognised republics now (see for example: Transnistria), and out of them all, Abkhazia was by far the most different from its ‘parent’ country. More than just a rebellious breakaway region, the Abkhaz people are ethnically unique. While Russian is widely spoken here Abkhazia has its own language (written now in an adapted 55-character Cyrillic alphabet), and while they accept the Russian ruble, for convenience, they also have their own currency – the apsar. They have their own government, flag, anthem, and all the other trappings of state. It doesn’t feel much like Georgia at all; and despite the presence of Russian flags and soldiers, it doesn’t feel an awful lot like Russia either.
Sukhum Seafront 1.
The architecture is largely Soviet-classical, and in between the frequent ruined buildings (scars from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict) stand lovingly (and often expensively) renovated hotels. Someone is clearly pumping a lot of money into the region. The Soviet war memorials of Abkhazia are well maintained, not neglected and falling apart like many of those in Georgia, and stood alongside you’ll see monuments to the victims of more recent wars – typically, designed in a similar style to the Soviet ones. And my god, are the Abkhaz people friendly. I find it’s often the way with these unrecognised republics: the fewer nations that recognise a state’s sovereignty, the more welcoming the locals are to tourists. I guess it’s like a validation of sorts.
Although having said that, not everyone warmed to us right away. The woman who ran our guesthouse in Sukhum was downright suspicious when we arrived – side-eying us as she led the way through the garden to an outhouse made up for guests. The family dog was less judgemental though, and as we made friends with him, she softened too. By day three our host was serving us freshly made kompot, and telling us off for leaving the house without sun hats.
Former headquarters of the Council of Ministers in Sukhum, Abkhazia.
Built in the 1960s, Sukhum’s 12-floor parliament building suffered irreparable damage in 1993. It now stands abandoned.
Once checked in, we hastily dropped our bags then headed out to get our bearings. Our accommodation was just off the main boulevard, and it led us straight to perhaps the most iconic building in modern Sukhum: the old parliament, former headquarters of the Council of Ministers. This 12-storey government building was a casualty of the war, and now it stands ruined at the city’s heart. Rather than ignore it though, or tear it down, it seems the Abkhaz government has recognised its power as a monument; the ruin stands defiant, its Abkhaz flag flying high over the streets of the capital.
From parliament we walked down to the seafront promenade. Exploring Sukhum, with its palm trees and Beaux Arts architecture, there were moments I could have believed we were in the Caribbean. It was a far cry from the post-Soviet war zone I might have pictured: instead, holiday makers walked the cobbled streets in flip-flops, past ice cream stalls and caricature artists, while aggressive seagulls dive-bombed them for chips. Sukhum had all the trappings of every upmarket resort town I’ve ever visited, and it pulled it off better than most.
The eye-catching Amra Pier, clearly built as a focal point for Sukhum seafront, looked almost abandoned from outside. We were delighted to find it open though, and what’s more to discover a wonderfully retro 1960s cafe inside. We had a beer in the shade then continued our walk along the promenade… past balloon sellers, toy guns, hot dog stalls and a man offering rides on child-sized electric cars shaped like Soviet tanks complete with Abkhaz flags.
Amra Pier in Sukhum, Abkhazia.
Dolphin and seahorse motifs decorate the 1960s-era recreational pier.
Despite having suffered some damage during the war, Cafe Amra is still going strong.
Wandering inland we crossed a green park full of monuments, to reach a burned-out backstreet mansion. Purple graffiti marked the red and fire-blackened bricks. We stopped to take out cameras, when a pair of strangers staggered towards us. They wore shabby, dishevelled clothes, with mischievous eyes… one was clutching a bottle of vodka, which he waved in my direction as he started talking at us. His Russian was heavily slurred, but I understood the words money and more vodka.
Instinctively, we said No – and they shrugged off the rejection, now seemingly interested just to talk with some foreigners. We chatted a bit, as much as we were able (the state they were in, I don’t think their Russian was all that much better than mine), and then I gave them 100 Rubles anyway.
Ruined buildings on a backstreet of Sukhum, Abkhazia.
Getting lost in Sukhum’s leafy residential zones.
Have fun! I said, and the smaller man grabbed me suddenly, pulling on my lapels as he reached in to kiss me once on each cheek. “Russia Forever!” he shouted, in English. His colleague took up the chant, and together they tumbled off down the street, hooting and hollering.
The Soviet Riviera
Back at the border, we had anticipated a grilling from the guards – and so we’d memorised a list of legitimate reasons why we might want to visit Abkhazia: the 2nd century Anacopia Fortress; Stalin’s Summer Residence at Novy Afon, later frequented by Khrushchev and Brezhnev in turn, and now a museum; the extravagant domes of the Simoneau-Kananitsky Monastery; and the Veryovkina Cave, which at a depth of 2212 metres is the deepest known cave on Earth. But we didn’t visit any of them in the end. Instead we joined the crowds and spent a full day touring the resort towns of the riviera.
‘Heroes of Abkhazia,’ a Black Sea pleasureboat picks up tourists in Pitsunda.
Pitsunda beach in August.
For the preceding week we had travelled around Georgia by rental car. Here, our dependence on taxis was restrictive, expensive… yet also, somehow liberating. It was clear, and clearer all the time, that we hadn’t allowed enough time to properly see Abkhazia. Four days and three nights would only give us time to get our toes wet; but doing that by taxi, hopping from one beach resort to the next, at least gave the experience some authenticity. We would see Abkhazia’s riviera the same way Soviet tourists had, in the old days – and the same way that millions of Russian tourists still do.
First we stopped in Novy Afon (‘New Athos’), then at the northern end of the Abkhaz coast we spent a while exploring Gagra: with its abandoned hotels, some extraordinary Soviet-era bus stops, and a long walk down the beach with ice creams. We took another taxi to Pitsunda where resort hotels spilled out into a beachside plaza with bouncy castles, fountains and bronze monuments.
‘Apsny’ building at the Pitsunda Resort Pension Association.
The Pearl Divers sculpture at Pitsunda (Irakli Ochiauri Alekseevich, 1969).
Does it feel like I’m skipping some details here? There’s a reason for that. My main goal while touring Abkhazia was to document the region’s Soviet-era monuments, Modernist architecture and bus stops… and in the near future I plan to share dedicated posts expanding on these topics.
My general impression though, on exploring Abkhazia’s former ‘Soviet Riviera,’ was that this was as pleasant and peaceful a holiday destination as any I can name. The scars of war are still visible, of course – we’d pass fire damaged buildings like the ruined Gagarin Mall in Gagra, or see bullet holes sprayed across backstreet residential blocks – but the scars of former conflict were off-set by a lot of new investment. Boutique hotels and trendy cocktail bars line much of the Abkhaz coast, while the mood in the resorts was one of lazy contentment. Getting into Abkhazia (at least, from the Georgian side) had been a headache, all guns, barbed wire and bureaucracy… but once inside, it’s exactly the sort of place you might want to bring your family for the holidays.
Che Guevara Karaoke-Bar. Gagra, Abkhazia.
Driving back to Sukhum in the evening, we chatted with the taxi driver. He only wanted to talk about the war though: “Russia took Abkhazia from the Georgians,” he told us, “and gave it back to us.”
Near the village of Bzipi I asked him to stop at a Soviet-era WWII memorial beside the road. He consented with a shrug, then while we took photos he waited with the car. Two minutes later he was pulling over again though, this time to show us a contemporary monument to the victims of the Georgian-Abkhaz War. Quid pro quo. The old man approached this monument as if it were some holy altar; head bowed, hand on chest. I wondered who he had lost.
Memorial to the Fallen in the Great Patriotic War. Bzipi, Abkhazia.
Memorial to the Victims of the War (1992-1993). Bzipi, Abkhazia.
Leaving Abkhazia
On the morning we left Sukhum, our hosts’ dog followed us all the way down to the waterfront. We tried sending it home but it would retreat crestfallen, watch us from a distance for a while and then come trotting after us again. When we sat down for breakfast in a cafe on the main promenade, the dog curled up outside to guard the doorway. The woman who worked in the cafe was Syrian, and we talked for a while as she delivered our lattes, eggs and avocado toast (the menu in this place would have looked perfectly at home – save for its Cyrillic script – in any hipster coffeeshop from Brooklyn to Shoreditch). At some point during our meal, the dog got bored and went home.
The main seafront promenade through Sukhum, Abkhazia.
There was one last thing for us to do: Western tourists visiting Abkhazia must have their visas approved at the ministry of immigration in Sukhum. We didn’t get around to it until our last morning.
Finding the building was easy enough, but then we had to wait an hour or so in queues, squatting in a cramped hallway alongside crowds of locals waiting on paperwork. Thankfully, by the time we finally got into the office the process itself was refreshingly simple: a couple of quick stamps and our e-visas were validated. Welcome to Abkhazia said the man at the desk, we thanked him, then hopped in a taxi to the border.
Beaux arts aspirations in the backstreets of Sukhum.
That last Abkhaz taxi driver thought we were spies. One American, one Australian and a Brit, all armed with fancy cameras, clearly defied any other explanation. He chatted with an Abkhaz woman in the passenger seat, while we sat in the back, taking photos out the windows. Every time a shutter clicked the driver and his friend shared knowing glances.
On the way to the border we stopped in Gali again, this time to pick up a man in a freshly pressed border guard uniform. I presume he was hitching a ride to work. As we squeezed in, now six of us in the car, the driver turned to the newcomer and said in Russian, “Maybe spies.” The border guard furrowed his brow and nodded sagely.
“Slava Abkhazia!” the driver shouted, suddenly (“Glory to Abkhazia!”), and us three foreigners hastily agreed.
Marine life reliefs decorate a road into Gagra, Abkhazia.
We got a grilling from Russian soldiers at the border: “What were you doing in Abkhazia? Where did you visit? Where did you stay? Where will you go next? What is your profession? Are you a journalist? Do you have friends in Abkhazia? Do you have friends in Georgia? Are you sure you’re not a journalist?”
This young Russian spoke even better English than the previous one, but the questions felt more perfunctory than suspicious. He even permitted a smile to cross his lips, when he finished and waved us through with a “Have a nice day.” As we entered the chainlink corridor towards the bridge, a local man passed us carrying a pig in a sack.
We were across the river, just passing the knotted gun sculpture, when we were stopped by researchers working for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. They weren’t allowed inside Abkhazia, they told us, so they waited by the border and quizzed tourists on their way out. “What were you doing in Abkhazia?” they asked. “Where did you visit? Where did you stay?” It was almost the same script the Russian soldiers had used.
Monument to the Fallen in the Great Patriotic War. Gagra, Abkhazia.
And just like that, we were back in Georgia. Or perhaps we never left? I’ll let you be the judge of that, though I can tell you that crossing the Ingur River really does feel like walking into a different country. Abkhazia is objectively different – culturally, socially, politically – to Georgia, but when you consider that such differences result (at least in part) from an organised campaign of ethnic cleansing… well, it did somewhat sour my otherwise positive impressions of the place.
Of course, #NotAllAbkhazians should be made to answer for those crimes, just like #NotAllGeorgians supported the “vicious, ethnically based pillage, looting, assault and murder” committed against ethnic Abkhaz people in Sukhum(i) back in 1992 (as detailed in this Human Rights Watch report). But it seems – at least to this tourist – that the relative peace that exists in Abkhazia now, however politicised, however imperfect, must surely be better than what came before.
Thanks for reading – I know this was a long one. If you’re thinking of visiting Abkhazia for yourself, then I recommend you take a look at this guide by Megan Starr. It certainly proved invaluable while I was planning my trip. Good luck!
Abandoned train station in Sukhum, Abkhazia.
Out of use since 1993, this once-grand station has seen better days.
Upmarket resort hotel in Gagra, Abkhazia.
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James 6:40 am | June 3, 2019
Nice piece! I always enjoy a fresh perspective.
” One American, one Australian and a Brit, all armed with fancy cameras, clearly defied any other explanation. He chatted with an Abkhaz woman in the passenger seat, while we sat in the back, taking photos out the windows. Every time a shutter clicked the driver and his friend shared knowing glances. ”
Maybe they did consider you spies, but from my perspective as a human being and working in the transportation industry in the US…, The knowing glances were probably what I gave passengers and tourist when they were acting all touristy with photos, and general glee…, a eye roll at my fellow co workers with raised eyebrow.
Nothing more than a human reaction to someone being goofy.
But then again…., maybe the populace are a paranoid nation?
But yes, A beautiful country as well.
I hear the real gem in the region is in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi which was Tiflis until 1936.
I’d love to see a tour of that city. I hear it is spectacular.
Ajay 5:26 am | May 3, 2019
I love your blog so much!
Marina 6:00 pm | April 23, 2019
New to the blog, love it. Hope we could go back to the times when blogs were independent and personal like this one and all the nonsense of Twitters and FBs were nowhere to be seen.
Cheers from Costa Rica
Daniel 5:51 pm | February 26, 2019
Really good read once again! Apart from sewer exploration, these kind of in-depth articles about ‘strange’ countries’ are my absolute favourites!
MarK 4:27 pm | January 30, 2019
Love it! The entry and visa process you described was fascinating…Soviet-style red tape mixed with modern travel convenience in the form of an e-visa. It’s on my endless bucket list to go. Thank you for sharing your trip.
John 1:12 pm | January 11, 2019
The knotted gun sculptor is copy of a famous monument at the headquarter of the UN. Its a symbol for peace all over the world. Its called “Non-Violence”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Violence_%28sculpture%29?wprov=sfla1
Stefan H. 10:18 am | January 4, 2019
I have always been curious about these independent republics in the Caucassus. Thank you for the post, really!
Alvaro 11:39 am | January 2, 2019
Yes, me too. I had been meaning to visit for a while. I’m glad you found this interesting!
Darmon 6:07 pm | January 2, 2019
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-verb to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing a seed, broadcast voice, public exposure, spreading, diffusion, or dispersal of speech from one few or many.
To disseminate, in terms of the field of communication, it means to broadcast a message to the public without direct feedback from the audience. Dissemination takes on the theory of the traditional view of communication, which involves a sender and receiver. The traditional communication view point is broken down into a sender sending information, and receiver collecting the information processing it and sending information back, like a telephone line.
With dissemination, only half of this communication model theory is applied. The message carrier sends out information, not to one individual, but many in a broadcasting system. An example of this transmission of information is in fields of advertising, public announcements, and speeches. Another way to look at dissemination is that of which it derives from the Latin roots, the scattering of seeds. These seeds are metaphors for voice or words. To spread voice, words, and opinion to an audience. Dissemination can be powerful when adding rhetoric or other forms of persuasiveness to the speech. According to John Durham Peters who wrote "Communication as Dissemination," "Making a public offering is perhaps the most basic of all communicative acts, but once the seeds are cast, their harvest is never assured...The metaphor of dissemination points to the contingency of all words and deeds, their uncertain consequences, and their governance by probabilities rather than certainties." (Peters, Communication as Dissemination)In other words, dissemination of words to multiple people can take on multiple meanings to each individual depending on the experience, the attitude, the knowledge, the race or even the gender of the listener. All of these aspects can distort the message that the sender is disseminating towards the public. Depending on the circumstances, the surroundings and the environment the listener is receiving this message in, can also have an effect on the outcome of the meaning of the message received. This interfearance is also known as "Noise" in the traditional model of communication theory. Noise can distort the original meaning of the message. John Durham Peter explains, "Broadcasting information to an open ended destination is a feature of all speech. The metaphor of dissemination directs our attention to those vast continents of signification that are not directly interactive." (Peters, Communication as Dissemination)Dissemination basically sends information to a audience, without direct contact to the receiver, and without a direct response or clarification method that a conversation or dialogue would have.
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Dissemination is a technical term in the philosophy of language.
One problem with language, identified by Ludwig Wittgenstein, is to identify
which comes first, the rule of language, or the speech itself from which
we then get rules. Wittgenstein considered whether the application
of a rule that only ever occurred once could be thought of as 'applying a rule'.
In his essay Différance, Jacques Derrida deals with ideas relating to
the structure and genesis of language. He notes that the fact that a word is
iterable is prior to considerations of the question as the priority of rules or speech.
That words and concepts are quotable by themselves
or with varying amounts of context, that is, that they are reusable
in different contexts and can be written into different areas of discourse,
indicates how open they are to diasporatic usage and therefore to disseminated
The writing of a word entails necessarily the absence of the
writer and reader; the responsibility toward repeating univocal word
use is not available, it is absent. The taking up of words,
and the metaphorisation that may take place is never ending
and has various trajectories in the history of language without
any one identifiable consciousness to take responsibility or ensure constancy.
So, for example, the taking up of the word evolution as a metaphor for use in
biology, adds to it polysemically, equivocally. Outside of polysemic
distinctions to indicate the sense of a word, we have a dissemination
that is ongoing and escapes the univocality of any attempt to indicate
a definite semantic from its polysemia
To quote Derrida.....This essential drifting, due to writing as an iterative structure cut off from all absolute responsibility, from consciousness as the authority of the last analysis, writing orphaned, and separated at birth from the assistance of its father.
---Struture, Sign and Play.
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This season of Sacred Lies follows Elsie (Jordan Alexander) as she searches for the family she never knew after being abandoned as a child.
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The film, due on March 13, is a tender and offbeat coming-of-age story based on the critically-acclaimed, New York Times' best-selling young adult novel.
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As previously announced, the series returns Sunday, February 9 at 9:00/8:00c.
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The show's final episodes premiere January 24 on the streaming service.
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IPS: Is Canada's Pension Fund Violating Landmine Treaty?
Date: Monday, December 22 2003
POLITICS: Is Canada's Pension Fund Violating Landmine Treaty?
By Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Dec 20 (IPS) - Anti-war activists say Canada's national
pension fund might be violating the global Mine Ban Treaty that Ottawa
championed by investing in U.S. arms makers that have manufactured landmines.
A report released by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) says the
Canada Pension Plan (CPP), a 64-billion-dollar fund to which workers and
employers contribute, invests in 15 of the world's top 20 weapons contractors.
Three of those firms, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Electric, are
listed in a report by the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Human Rights
Watch (HRW) as having been involved in the making of anti-personnel landmines.
Lockheed Martin, the world's highest-ranking arms maker, still produces
components for CBU-89 "Gator" landmines, says COAT Co-ordinator Richard
Sanders.
By investing in these companies, Canada is breaking the spirit, if not the
letter, of the highly acclaimed global Mine Ban Treaty, which is now part
of Canadian law, Sanders told IPS. "It's incredibly hypocritical," he added.
By law, a portion of every Canadian's earnings, along with matching
contributions from employers, is channelled into the CPP. While monthly
pension checks are issued at age 65, most of the money in the plan is
invested in stocks and real estate by an independent agency called the CPP
Investment Board.
"I'm not sure there's proof of any breach but we would want to make sure
Canada would be consistent with the spirit and letter of the treaty," said
Paul Hannon, executive director of Mines Action Canada (MAC), one of six
NGOs that began the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
coalition in 1992. ICBL won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Canada led the diplomatic effort to create the treaty and was the first to
sign on in Ottawa in 1997. Today, 141 states from every region of the world
have ratified the convention, making it the most successful international
agreement in recent decades, according to the ICBL.
While the treaty bans states from producing, stockpiling or transferring
landmines, it also prohibits any action "to assist, encourage or induce, in
any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a state party under
this convention".
"We're trying to create a new international norm that says the use of these
weapons is repugnant," Hannon told IPS.
Investing in companies that make mines or their components should be
similarly stigmatised as repugnant he says -- "we shouldn't invest in them".
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Electric remain on HRW's list as past
and potential future suppliers of mines and mine components, confirmed Mary
Wareham, a senior advocate with HRW, also a partner in ICBL.
However, the U.S. government has not awarded any mine-production contracts
since 1997, Wareham says. Washington has not signed the Mine Ban Treaty,
and has not renounced the weapons' use. The U.S. military currently has
some 10 million antipersonnel landmines in stock.
Even the appearance of a violation bothers Hannon.
Canada's investment practices should not call into question the country's
leadership role in the convention, he says. "It could be used as a way to
discredit the treaty."
Hannon says it should not be difficult for the CPP board to screen
potential investments, nor would doing that jeopardise the fund's earnings
But the three companies in question are respected and successful, counters
John Cappelletti, manager of communications and stakeholders at the CPP
The CPP invests in legal, publicly traded companies in an effort to
maximize financial return, he added, basing those decisions solely on
financial information.
The legislation controlling the board prevents it from screening companies
on an ethical or moral basis, Cappelletti said.
In any case, such screens -- generally termed "socially responsible
investing" (SRI) -- would not be feasible because the plan represents
millions of Canadians with widely diverging viewpoints, he added.
When asked about potential violations of international agreements like the
Mine Ban Treaty, Cappelletti said he would have to look into the matter.
Screening weapons contractors from investments is quite easy to do,
according to Robert Walker, vice president of Ethical Funds, a Canadian
mutual fund company that manages 1.5 billion dollars in assets.
"It's a complete red herring to say you couldn't get a consensus on which
companies to exclude," Walker told IPS. Some U.S. states are already doing
it, and all pension funds in the United Kingdom must reveal their SRI
policies and criteria, he added.
"There's no reason CPP investments couldn't be consistent with Canada's
public policy," according to Walker.
Canadians would object if they knew how their pension monies are being
invested, he added.
The COAT report found investments of 2.5 billion dollars in at least 170
domestic and foreign military corporations.
CPP also invests in Altria, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco
Inc., the top three tobacco firms in the world.
(END/2003)
copyright IPS--posted here for fair use only
[couldn't find link]
The story above was forwarded by the Inter Press News Service to 100
countries via 1,200 outlets (Dec.20-21,2003). Perhaps this will finally
result in some mainstream, corporate media coverage.
For more info and to
join the 2000 who've signed COAT's webpetition to "Stop CPP War Investments":
http://coat.openconcept.ca
To see the signers names and read their comments:
http://coat.openconcept.ca/signed.php3#namelist
-Richard Sanders, COAT
http://coat.openconcept.ca http://coat.openconcept...
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/155712701-ips-is-canada-s-pension-fund-violating-landmine-treaty
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ALIVE IN CALIFORNIA - KEVIN AYERS
Box-O- Plenty Records BOP CD002
released: 16/11/04
This beauty landed on the mat only 20 minutes ago after a long and anxious wait in which the first copy went walkabout somewhere in the several thousand miles that separate the purple sunsets of California from the November murk of Manchester UK. If the mystery recipient is half as pleased as I am then I'm not surprised he kept it rather than returned to sender.
Most of you will know the thread that span the spool that wove the fabric behind this release but there is a skein of gold which makes it worth restating. I am acutely aware of horrendous mixed metaphors in that previous sentence, but what the hell - I'm in heart-on-the-sleeve mode and don't intend to edit any of this. This CD is the product of a fan who clubbed together airfares, pulled in favours, laid hard cash on the line, sweated blood to rehearse, play, mix and market. If I could play a single note, this is the one fan I'd want.
After the washed out cover that murdered 'The Island Years' this boasts one of the best photos to grace a Kevin Ayers album in recent (or any?) years. This is a lovely and glossy production. Ocean, palm trees, guitar and a sense of vastness merge beneath an immense sky. Sunrise or sunset? A new dawn or the fading day before the velvet night? A wonderful mystery. I can picture the letter already from Clever Dick of Liverpool pointing out that all ocean views in California must look to the west and therefore, even without John Wayne riding into it, this must be a sunset. Not so quick, Dick - keep going west and it's Japan which is the east and the Land of the Rising Sun. Ha - QED.
No arguments about the music however. You will not believe that these gigs were prefaced by an absolute minimum of rehearsal - in that respect they acquire a fascinating perspective to offset the other live set of 1995's 'Turn The Lights Down', captured after a week of intense playing every night with the Wizards of Twiddly. Richard Derrick has chosen a personal selection of songs from 4 gigs in LA and San Francisco between 1993 and 2000. Skilfully captured on a mixture of DATs, soundboards and audience cassettes, the setlist emerges as a seamless experience with the subtleties between the different (and previous) bands a secondary factor. I'm sure you'll know what I mean - these are songs that have opened their hearts, welcomed in Ollie, Oldfield, Summers, Hillage, Carl Bowry, Alain Berthe - there is a never-failing fascination in hearing what each brings and yet the songs still swell and grow with a dynamism and life of their own. Flute and sax add a welcome texture to the songs and some storming guitar work from both Ken Rosser and Victor Manning reminded me why I loved these sets the first time I heard the rough mixes. Miracles have been performed to the sound quality which literally sparkles.
Kevin is on fine form throughout, relaxed and bantering with a passionate crowd who appear to be sitting on his lap in places. Spontaneity at a Kevin Ayers gig is the first ingredient we would all want and recognise - the humanity of that occasional dodgy intro or outro is a vital counterpoise to understand the magnificence of what may follow; the silence in the spaces the prelude to the genius in between. This is Kevin Ayers alive.
Do not hesitate to buy this record and order a spare for grandchildren, loved ones, the unconverted and just in case the b**st**d who nicked my first copy has got his eye on you. These will disappear fast.
And make a note to vote Richard Derrick for next President.
MW November 04
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The opening ceremony of the exhibition of “Yan Fu and Chinese Imperial Students at the Royal Naval College” organised by YanFu Foundation and Greenwich Foundation has been held in the evening of 13th November 2014 in Amiral’s hall of Greenwich Royal Naval College. Chinese ambassador Mr. Liu Xiaoming, Minister Counsellor Mr. Xiang Xiaowei and Counsellor Mr. Zhou Zheng attended the ceremony. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming has given a speech, recalled the history in 1877 of Yan Fu and the first group Chinese students studied in the UK and the first Chinese ambassador Mr. Guo Songtao who have been exploring ways towards national prosperity and strength for China. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming quoted Mr. Xi Jinping’s speech “Yan Fu displayed extraordinary vision and courage of a true Chinese pioneer” in praise of the vision and courage still inspiring us today, in our efforts to reform, to unleash the vigor of the market, to innovate our way forward and to promote the rule of law. The chairman of YanFu Foundation, Dr. Liu Kai has talked ambassador Liu Xiaoming through the panels summarised Yan Fu’s extraordinary life devoted commitments to promoting understanding between cultures and civilizations, aside from being a remarkable thinker, an outstanding educator and creative translator. Yan Fu presented the people of China with insights into European natural, social, and political sciences as well as theories of economics and philosophy. He became a preacher of science and democracy and a supporter of reform and modernisation. The exhibition cover inscription was contributed by Dr. Shan Sheng, the president of the Promotion of China Re-unification Society in the UK. The exhibition displays sixteen panels of pictures and texts presenting the key successes of Yan Fu’s studying, teaching, translating and being the first president of the Beijing University.
The exhibition will be opened publically at16th November 2014 till 31st January 2015 and displayed in the under floor of the Paint Hall in Greenwich Royal Naval College.
网站：www.yanfufoundation.org
微信公众平台：YanFuFoundation
邮箱：wenjing.li@yanfufoundation.org
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2019-20 Artist Residencies
In 2008, Yellow Barn instituted its Artist Residencies, the first retreat program in the United States created specifically for professional, performing musicians of any kind. The purpose of the Artist Residencies is to further the art of the performance of classical music by providing an environment conducive to undistracted study, an exchange of ideas and opportunities for performance. Their content is defined by artists’ proposals and Yellow Barn’s artistic vision, and musicians have come to Yellow Barn to create new repertoire, to prepare for major performances, to explore new interpretations of important works, and to stage theatrical events.
Past Artist Residency projects
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The Music Alliance Project
Jazz duo Cordelia Tapping (vocals) and Chase Morrin (piano), together with Yellow Barn musicians flutist Rosie Gallagher and cellist John Myerscough, embrace the commonalities between jazz and classical music. More
Residency Concert
Thursday, February 20 | 7:30pm
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Duo-ING: Refractions
Violinist Ying Xue and pianist Qing Jiang return “home” to Yellow Barn to focus on sonatas of J.S. Bach and Ravel, juxtaposed with works written over the past decade by Tonia Ko, Eric Nathan, Sean Shepherd, and Daniel Temkin. More
Sunday, February 23 | 7:30pm
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River Spirits: An abstract fable
In August of 2018, sopranos Mary Bonhag, Susan Botti, and Lucy Shelton gathered in Yellow Barn’s artist studios and began developing River Spirits, a new work and abstract fable by Ms. Botti. They now return with an ensemble of players from the Folger and 21st Century Consorts, and from Yellow Barn, to focus on the work’s musical foundation, and to begin conversations with set designer Leslie Taylor, as they consider its intended multi-media environment. More
Sunday, April 19 | 7:30pm
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Ultrafizz: Since 1500
Ultrafizz (Lucy Dhegrae, mezzo-soprano, and Nathaniel LaNasa, piano) comes to Yellow Barn to develop and premiere Since 1500, a musical program that connects the Medieval period to our own time through sonic, textural, and thematic elements. A cornerstone of this program will be a new work by Esin Gündüz that transforms Medieval alchemy into sound. It will receive its premiere in this artist residency performance. More
Saturday, May 16 | 7:30pm
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Lydian String Quartet: “Versuch uber die Fuge”
To celebrate their 40th Anniversary season, the Lydian String Quartet is embarking on a project they call Beethoven 2020, eight programs that present Beethoven’s complete cycle of string quartets, contextualized with contemporary repertoire. They have chosen to focus on one of these programs during their Yellow Barn artist residency, juxtaposing Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Opus 130, with its original final movement, the Große Fuge, and Jörg Widmann’s Versuch über die Fuge (Attempt at the Fugue), Fifth String Quartet with Soprano. Joining the Lydian String Quartet for this residency will be soprano Tony Arnold. More
Read more about Lydian String Quartet: “Versuch uber die Fuge”
The WholeHearted Musician
In this artist residency, career consultant, psychotherapist, and former concert cellist Dana Fonteneau will work with the Argus and Omer Quartets, facilitating a week-long intensive to explore all aspects of what is required for a fulfilling, successful, and sustainable career. The residency will be bookended by two performances showing how these “off stage” elements, when addressed effectively, make a difference in performance “on stage”. More
Residency Concert I
Monday, September 23 | 7:30pm
Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Seo, and Webern
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Residency Concert II
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Lassus Quartett
Composer Morton Feldman writes,“Art is a crucial, dangerous operation we perform on ourselves. Unless we take a chance, we die in art.” That there is no in-between for the artist who wants to be “alive in art,” finds a contrapuntal lament in this reflection of Feldman’s, spoken in phrases punctuated by long pauses: "There’s an aspect of my attitude about being a composer that is like mourning. Say, for example, the death of art . . . something that has to do with, say, Schubert leaving me.” Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No.2, a work lasting six hours, and Schubert’s G Major string quartet will be the focus of the Lassus Quartet while at Yellow Barn. More
Residency Discussion
Monday, November 4 | 7:00pm
Antidote Books
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Tuesday, November 12 | 4:00pm
Michael S. Currier Center, The Putney School
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Three Enigmas: Kern
Cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Conor Hanick return to Yellow Barn to explore the first “chapter” of a new work by composer Marcos Balter: Kern, my new 20-minute work for cello and prepared piano, is inspired by the graphic designing term “kerning”. It will be built around the concepts of clarification and obscurantism, and how they relate to the temporal and spatial organization of musical material. Eventually, Kern will become part of Three Enigmas, an hour-long tableaux comprised of three interconnected works. Incorporating hidden music quotations and systems, as well as extra-musical elements hidden within the fabric of the tableaux, the three sections point toward a single, larger-scale enigma. More
Read more about Three Enigmas: Kern
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Mind the gap: Wage inequity and you
By Lauren Satterlee
Today is Equal Pay Day - what does that mean? Each year, that day marks the amount of time women have to work into the current year to match the earnings of their male counterparts in the previous year. (Women and men of color experience on average an even greater pay inequity and have to work further into the year to make up the difference.)
In Minnesota, we tend to pride ourselves as state that fosters strong, healthy communities and looks out for our most vulnerable residents. Although we do stand ahead of many states in community health and well-being in some measures, we still face challenges prevalent across the country and world, including a gender wage gap. Women make a fraction of the wages of their male counterparts, even with identical training and experience.
The #ynpnwagegap event on April 1 at the Nicollet tackled this subject. The event opened with Debra Fitzpatrick from the University of Minnesota's Center on Women and Public Policy, which convenes and connects across divides to bring down barriers to gender equity and build broad-based public responses. She and her colleagues at Gender Justice have done extensive research and work on the gender wage gap and its causes and its implications for our communities.
The Center’s recent update on the Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota states women represent two-thirds of those in the state earning at or below the minimum wage and continue to be the majority of those living below the poverty line. Compared to about thirteen years ago, the average income for single mothers in Minnesota and across the country has declined significantly, whereas the median income for most families has stayed the same. Women earn an average of 80 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts in Minnesota, and the gap is even larger in rural areas and reaches to 40% for women of color.
The event gathered steam as we broke into small groups for facilitated discussion on topics including gender dynamics in the workplace, wage negotiation, exploring notions of gender difference, and being an effective ally to others. The group shared tips on how to effectively navigate wage negotiation, how to question our own ingrained assumptions on the roles of women and their competence in traditionally male-dominated fields, and the daily impacts of these assumptions on the opportunities available for women. These assumptions and expectations can impact hiring choices, but also the more intangible beliefs that our young women hold about their own abilities. On average, high school girls match male performance in science and math coursework, but don't perform as well on high-stake pre-college tests, which demonstrates the power of these assumptions. Pushing this analysis further, the group also discussed the false dichotomy of traditional gender roles and exclusion (and discrimination) of people who are transgender or who do not identify with either gender.
What can you do to help improve gender economic equity in Minnesota? For starters, you can advocate for regular wage reviews at your organization or company. This can encourage institutional responsibility for equitable wages, and not leave the responsibility lying solely on the shoulders of individual women at the negotiation table. The Minnesota Council of Nonprofit publishes a Salary and Benefits Survey every two years to help organizations maintain fair and competitive compensation practices. You can also take an online assessment to learn more about your own gender assumptions.
Right now, you also have a political opportunity let your voice be heard on the topic! Legislation is currently proposed to comprehensively address these issues in Minnesota. Gender Justice and the Center on Women and Public Policy are two of the founding members of the Minnesota Coalition for Women's Economic Security, which is advocating for the adoption of the Women's Economic Security Act. The Act is a set of bills that will improve economic security of women in Minnesota, and ultimately improve the lives of all Minnesotans. Specifically, the legislation includes bills to: close gender pay gap; increase the minimum wage to $9.50; expand access to high-quality, affordable childcare; expand family and sick leave for working families; protect women from discrimination in the workplace; enhance protections for victims of violence; encourage women in non-traditional, high-wage jobs; help women-owned small businesses succeed; and help older women be economically secure. Take action and contact your legislators to express your support of this legislation.
Don’t forget to check out the #ynpnwagegap Twitter feed from the event.
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Jonathan Defeats the Philistines
1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father. 2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men; 3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. 4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few. 7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart. 8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them. 9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. 10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us. 11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. 12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. 13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. 14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. 15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another. 17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there. 18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel. 19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand. 20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. 23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
Saul's Rash Vow
24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. 25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. 28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint. 29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. 30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. 32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood. 33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. 34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there. 35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. 37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. 38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. 39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him. 40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee. 41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped. 42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die. 44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. 45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not. 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
Saul Fights Israel's Enemies
47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them. 48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: 50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
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Adult Memior Review: "Buddy" is Really Something To Crow About
Title: Buddy
(How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man)
Author: Brian McGrory
Format: Print ARC
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Award-winning journalist Brian McGrory goes head to beak in a battle royale with another male for a top-spot in his home, vying for dominance with the family’s pet rooster.
Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian’s only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and a portly, snow white, red-crowned-and-wattled step-rooster named Buddy. While Buddy loves the women of the house, he takes Brian's presence as an affront, doing everything he can to drive out his rival. Initially resistant to elements of his new life and to the loud, aggressive rooster (who stares menacingly, pecks threateningly, and is constantly poised to attack), Brian eventually sees that Buddy shares the kind of extraordinary relationship with Pam and her two girls that he wants for himself. The rooster is what Brian needs to be – strong and content, devoted to what he has rather than what might be missing. As he learns how to live by living with animals, Buddy, Brian’s nemesis, becomes Buddy, Brian’s inspiration, in this inherently human story of love, acceptance, and change.
In the tradition of bestsellers like Marley and Me, Dewey, and The Tender Bar comes a heartwarming and wise tale of finding love in life’s second chapter - and how it means all the more when you have to fight for it - Goodreads
This book is one of those feel-good reads that reminds readers that unconditional love comes in all species.
When you are an award winning journalist with years of globe-trotting, headlines, and deadlines under your belt; who would know that the biggest challenge of your life would come in the forms of a beautiful veterinarian, two wonderful little girls, two barking balls of love, and one rooster,
BUDDY.
Readers will laugh, cry and cheer their way through the life and times of Brian McGrory as he makes his way from divorced companion of "Golden extraordinaire" Harry, to the married family man and rival for their affections that he is to become.
This book is proof that sometimes humans don't have all the answers, but we don't have to look far to find them.
In fact, all we really have to do is look deep into the eyes of the pets that we love the most; and who often times in spite of ourselves, choose to love us.
As humans, it is easy to forget that we are not alone in our capacity to travel the emotional spectrum from the giddiest of pinks to the most melancholic blues.
It is nice to be reminded that whether they crow, bark, slither, or swim, or animal friends never lets us walk through our lives, emotionally or physically alone.
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Labels: Adult Memoir Review, Brian McGrory
"The Lost Prince" Will Find Your Heart
Title: The Lost Prince
(The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #1)
Author: Julie Kagawa
Format: E-Galley
Don't look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them.That is Ethan Chase's rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs—including his reputation—begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he'd dare to fall for.
Ethan thought he had protected himself from his older sister's world—the land of Faery. His previous time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust for the world Meghan Chase has made her home, a land of myth and talking cats, of magic and seductive enemies. But when destiny comes for Ethan, there is no escape from a danger long, long forgotten
-Goodreads
Just when the tears are dry over the ending of Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey, she presents readers with the first story starring none other than Ethan Chase.
That's right folks, little Ethan is all grown up and the baddies from the Nevernever are hot on his trail.
If you are a big fan of Mahan, Ash, and Puck this is not the read for you.
Yes, they cameo, but this story has more to do with a cast including new baddies, new buddies, and new loves...all for Ethan.
Ethan comes off as very up tight for a major portion of this story, but that is only because he is trying to stay as far away from the world of the fey as he can.
That is until friends of his are in danger; then he heads into a Nevernever much changed from the one he remembers.
It seems that the realms of the Summer and Winter courts are shrinking as fey disappear in droves.
All the while, a new race composed of the ghost-like Forgotten, are making themselves known.
What's an unlikely prince to do?
Jump in with both feet, find his friend, save the world, and get the girl of course.
This is a wonderful start to what promises to be a great series. There may be tie-ins to the Iron Fey, but don't expect this series to rest on the laurels of its famous predecessor. The characters found in The Lost Prince are strong, well rounded, and very well written.
This book will draw you in, just as the first did and not let go until the last word.
Labels: 5 Stars, Julie Kagawa
Find Yourself in "34 Pieces of You"
Title: 34 Pieces of Me
Author: Carmen Rodrigues
Publisher: Simon Pulse
A dark and moving novel—reminiscent of Thirteen Reasons Why—about the mystery surrounding a teenage girl’s fatal overdose.
There was something about Ellie... Something dangerous. Charismatic. Broken. Jake looked out for her. Sarah followed her lead. And Jess kept her distance, and kept watch.
Now Ellie’s dead, and Jake, Sarah, and Jess are left to pick up the pieces. All they have are 34 clues she left behind. 34 strips of paper hidden in a box beneath her bed. 34 secrets of a brief and painful life.
Jake, Sarah, and Jess all feel responsible for what happened to Ellie, and all three have secrets of their own. As they begin to confront the darkest truths about themselves, they will also find out what Ellie herself had been hiding all along....Goodreads
Ellie was beautiful...Ellie was smart...Ellie took too many pills...and now Ellie is dead.
This book gives readers an all too real snapshot of just what happens when someone commits suicide.
Though the pain may be over for the person in question; the wounds and devastation left for family and friends of the lost loved one never ends.
In most cases, the people left behind are asking themselves and all who will listen one question.
"34 Pieces of You" will haunt all the secret places and darkest corners of your mind. As you make your way through its pages, you will find pieces of yourself.
You may be Ellie, a person who for whatever reason has felt or is feeling that things would be "so much better" for everybody if...
You may be Jake, the sibling that has to go through life with the "if only" that losing a brother or sister causes.
If only I had stayed.
If only I had been there.
If only...
You may be the girlfriend or boyfriend whose heart is now in taters. The one blaming him or herself for not "loving your lost love enough."
You may be Sarah, the best friend, the shadow, the first one to see all the signs, but not be able to read them. The last one to see, hear, or speak to that person. Your pain being just a little different than the others because...
I thought you said that you would never leave me?
These are the stories that are told with heartrendingly elegant style in 34 Pieces of You.
This book tells readers that every link in the chains that form the emotional bonds that we need in life is important. When Ellie breaks her chain, the weaknesses created by the loss of her strength allow all the inner demons in the lives of those she loved and that her presence kept at bay, to reek unchecked havoc in their lives.
Ellie told her story...In 34 pieces.
34 scraps of frayed paper.
34 reasons WHY?
34 questions answered too late.
34 cries for help unheard.
I recommend this book to anyone who has ever considered or attempted to take their own life.
Please know that life is so precious. YES, EVEN YOURS!
There is help there for the asking.
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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Labels: 5 Stars, Carmen Rodrigues
Book Sparks PR Presents: Perfect Bait
Title: Perfect Bait
Author: Micheal Fowlkes
Publisher: Thunderbird Press
A spellbinding thriller, as suspenseful as it is sensual.
The richly-textured settings of Seattle's commercial waterfront, San Diego's topless beaches and the breathtaking waters off Cabo San Lucas create the backdrop for a riveting story of love, romance and betrayal, as a young couple find themselves in a fight for their lives having been set up by the FBI as perfect bait. -Goodreads
Corey Phillips is a man who believe that he has found his "happily ever after" in the arms of his beautiful high school sweetheart Karyn, and is all set to live with her in wedded bliss on his boat in the sheltered harbor of Seattle.
That dream is shattered on the day that Corey comes home to find his wife and best friend lost in an undertow of passion so powerful that they are not even aware that he is in the room.
Heartbroken, Corey decides to leave it all behind, and with nothing more than a few clothes and his truck; sets out to find a place to heal.
Traveling from the coasts of Washington to the beaches of California, Corey manages to find the love he seeks in the arms of his fiery new love Jennifer, and his furry sidekick Sierra.
Deeply in love and ready to return to the water and the life that he has always known; Corey starts running charters on Vintage, a beautiful yacht that he and Jennifer saved an uncertain fate and lovingly restored.
Just when it seems that there is nothing ahead but clear waters and blue skies for these two, the sharks begin to circle and there is blood in the water, as one fateful charter changes their lives forever.
This book is written from a very emotional perspective, which makes it a very easy read to lose one's self in. Jennifer and Corey seem like the kind of people that anyone would be glad to have as friends; making them very easy for readers to invest in relatively quickly.
Though this book is said to be a thriller, the number of pages dedicated to the romantic aspects of this tale (about 265), versus the 120 or so that get down and dirty with the thrilling, leads one to classify this as more of a romantic thriller.
Each scene that the reader is allowed to experience is captured in such detail that its as if the moment has been placed inside a bubble; giving audiences the chance to view it from all sides before releasing it in anticipation of the next.
Female readers will be happy to find that the sex scenes in this story are plentiful and very romantic.
The only true negative that one finds in this story is the seeming disconnection between the romance of the first part of the story and all the action and mayhem in the ending chapters.
The book should be longer so that all of the time and attention that that was given to the romantic part of the book could have transitioned to the thrills.
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Labels: 4 Stars, Adult Romantic Thriller, Micheal Fowlkes
"Heaven" Is Quite the Fall From Grace
Title: Heaven
Author: Alexandra Adornetto
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Only sixteen when she started the series, Ally Adornetto knows how teen hearts beat, and this long-awaited conclusion is certain to be her most popular book yet.
Bethany, an angel sent to Earth, and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier, have been to Hell and back. But now their love will be put to its highest test yet, as they defy Heavenly law and marry. They don’t tell Beth’s archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, but the angels know soon enough, and punishment comes in a terrifying form: the Sevens, who are rogue angels bent on keeping Beth and Xavier apart, destroying Gabriel and Ivy, and darkening angelic power in the heavens.
The only way Bethany and can elude the Sevens is to hide in the open, and blend in with other mortals their own age. Gabriel and Ivy set them up at college, where they can’t reveal their relationship, and where there is still danger around each corner. Will Bethany be called back to Heaven – forever – and face leaving the love of her life?
This again is going to be one of those reviews that I can only do in first person. My feelings on this book are as such that blanket generalizations about what may or may not appeal to my readers are not going to make it this time.
I must also preface this review by saying that I have read the ENTIRE Halo series.
Left me wanting something to happen. The whole book was spent with Gabriel and Ivy obsessing over the fact that Bethany's relationship with Xavier was wrong, and telling her that there were "going to be consequences, young lady".
There were NO consequences!
There I was...all psyched about seeing Bethany get the all mighty smack down...and NOTHING!
Though there was a lot more action in this read, with the kidnapping and Jake in Hell and all. This book still left a lot to be desired. Jake just kind of fell flat in the badass department once Bethany was in HIS domain. Then it got all..."My father won't let me". What?????
Then there was the thing with Ivy and the Ouija board!
Hint: She's an ANGEL! She should not need a Ouija board to communicate with another ANGEL.
Then there was the entire "I'm in Hell, now let me waste time pining for my HUMAN boyfriend and spying on him through the River of Forgetfulness!"
Then there was the AHA MOMENT when Bethany's Angelic light kicked in and. (cue heavenly music) she defeats the bad guys!
Yada...yada...I could go on, but I won't!
This book was not much better than the ones that proceeded it, but at least I can say that it was very funny. That's both funny strange and funny HA HA.
So Bethany and Xavier come up with the brilliant idea that they should get married.
Hello????
She's an ANGEL and he's a HUMAN and according to several sources this union of souls DOES NOT WORK OUT WELL!
Soooo...
The powers that be are not happy with BETHANY again, and since GOD is BUSY, the SEVENS are
dispatched to kill her.
(Yes, the book actually said that GOD was too busy to deal with this.)
So Bethany and her crew come up with the brilliant ideas that:
1. Gabriel should lie to his superiors to try and protect Bethany.
2. Bethany and Xavier should "hide in plain sight at Ole Miss.
3. Bethany and Xavier who ARE MARRIED should lie to everyone and say that they are SISTER and BROTHER.
4. Whats with all the lying and sneaking? Angels...Hello?
It goes on in this vein for several hundred pages with some SEX, more LIES and some preachy bits thrown in for good measure before Bethany is FINALLY called to the carpet.
This series could have been so much better than it was if the ANGELS were allowed to be ANGELS and were not reduced to HUMANS with WINGS.
You expect humans to make stupid mistakes, angels who have not given up their direct link to the divine, not so much.
The author gets so caught up in the romanticism of Bethany and Xavier, that she forgets that she has other characters that have to make sense to make the story work.
If as an author you are going to choose to fictionalize biblical aspects, it is very important that your i's are dotted and t's crossed.
There were a lot of crossed mythologies and actions and reactions that didn't make sense in this series.
There was an inordinate amount of preachyness in a book that is clearly written for secular audiences.
Labels: 2 Stars, Alexandra Adornetto
Adaptation Will Change the Way You Read YA
Title: Adaptation
(Adaptation #1)
Author: Malinda Lo
Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.
Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.
Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.
Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.
This book is a true conspiracy thriller centered around teens! (Cue heavenly light and angelic choirs.)
Every aspect of this book is so well thought out that it could easily have made waves on the adult shelves; but as the literary gods would have it, YA has been graced by this one of a kind read.
This is the type of read that grabs not only the attention, but the imagination of the reader and leads him or her to places so far off the beaten path that there is no possible return.
Everything about this read is unorthodox. Everything about this book is WONDERFUL!
Thank you Malinda for writing Reese and David with the skepticism and clear eyed rationale needed to find their way through the situations that they are faced with.
Finding out that you may or may not have people following you after coming home from a strange hospital having had treatment that you can't remember is not exactly the time to go all "doe eyes and duh."
There are so many times in this book where one wrong word, look, or move by Reese or David could mean trouble that there is just no time for the asinine.
And the goodness never stops...
Relationships abound in this read, and they are just as complex as the ever evolving plot.
Cases in point.
Reese has feelings for David.
David has feelings for Reese.
(neither of them has expressed said feelings bu they are still there)
Reese has feelings for Amber.
Amber has feelings for Reese.
(they take every opportunity to express said feelings)
Reese likes Amber but may not be able to trust her.
Amber likes Reese but may have something to hide.
Reese likes David and David likes Reese and they
can't hide anything from each other.
In short...this book has it all. From conspiracy to kidnapping, love to Area 51, it's like Ragu, it's in there...and once you taste what this book has to offer you'll be begging for more.
Labels: 5 Stars, Malinda Lo
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Rarely, if any, are science and celestial creatures mixed in a work of fiction. Phantom shows that such fusion of seemingly incompatible subjects can blend together very harmoniously to tell an interesting story. The book is about a young Nephilim who is caught in the middle of an interplanetary battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. It tells the readers that, like the Nephilim, we humans can tap into our angel side, which is a source of so much power, so that we can overcome our challenges, conquer our personal demons, reach the goals we have set for ourselves, and fight for what is right and good. This story not only entertains the readers but inspires them opening the door to new creative possibilities and showing that nothing is impossible no matter how big the goal is. It is the first in its series of four original books. -Goodreads
"Mystic City" Is The Stuff of Dreams
Title: Mystic City
(Mystic City #1)
Author: Theo Lawrence
Publisher: Random House Children's Publishing
For fans of Matched, The Hunger Games, X-Men, and Blade Runner comes a tale of a magical city divided, a political rebellion ignited, and a love that was meant to last forever. Book One of the Mystic City Novels.
Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents' sworn enemies. The union of the two will end the generations-long political feud—and unite all those living in the Aeries, the privileged upper reaches of the city, against the banished mystics who dwell below in the Depths. But Aria doesn't remember falling in love with Thomas; in fact, she wakes one day with huge gaps in her memory. And she can't conceive why her parents would have agreed to unite with the Fosters in the first place. Only when Aria meets Hunter, a gorgeous rebel mystic from the Depths, does she start to have glimmers of recollection—and to understand that he holds the key to unlocking her past. The choices she makes can save or doom the city—including herself. -Goodreads
This novel is just too juicy for words.
O. K., let's start at the beginning shall we?
This is the first political thriller that I have seen in YA. The story of Aria Rose and Thomas Foster being made pawns in their families plot to monopolize New York government and by extension the mystic energy that powers it.
Plot...Plot...and More Plot
Aria is never quite sure who to trust, it seems that everyone wants something from her.
Her parents need her for power.
Thomas needs her as a trophy.
Her friends need her prestige.
All the people in her life have everything, but everything it seems is never enough.
Until Hunter.
He is a boy from the Depths, a rogue mystic, as far from the glitz and glamor of Aria's world as day is from night.
He is different in another way as well. Unlike the people who surround Aria, he wants nothing from her. Instead he wants to give her love, passion, purpose, power, and memories.
Her family will stop at nothing to keep these two apart.
There was definitely no absent parent syndrome in this book. If her parents got any more involved in her life, they would have been living it for her.
That is, if they don't KILL her first.
Technique-ly Speaking
This book is so intense that you can wait to finish each page just so that you can get to the ones after it. The thing that makes this book so appealing is the balance that is achieved between the fantasy, thriller, and romantic aspects of this read. No one aspect is allowed to override the other, and as a result, there are no drawn out lulls or over done actions runs; just a seamless masterpiece of book heaven.
This is a book that will keep you on your toes until the very end and you will love EVERY heart-stopping moment.
Labels: 5 Stars, Theo Lawrence
"Unspoken" is Something To Scream About
Title: Unspoken
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
(The Lynchburn Legacy #1)
Format: E- Galley
Rating 4.5 Stars
Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.
But all that changes when the Lynburns return.
The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him? -Goodreads
This book is one that is brimming with surprises. You just never know what is going to happen next in the sleepy little hamlet that is Sorry-in-the-Vale. It is in fact the still water appearance of the town that makes it such an effective backdrop for the mystery, mayhem, and murder that surrounds the unexpected return of the Lynchburns.
Kami/Jared/Ash
Kami is a girl that you can't help but love. She makes no bones about her thirst for adventure and fully embraces her role as resident "nosey parker" going so far as to establish a school newspaper to legitimize her investigative efforts. Little does our lady reporter know that she has a starring role in what may just be the story of her life.
Jared is the voice in Kamie's head. Her go to friend, the person who knows her better than anyone else. The thing is, Kamie is not sure that Jared is REAL.
That is until they meet.
It is then that she finds out that not only is he real, he is also a Lynchburn and from all appearances...TROUBLE.
Can Kamie reconcile the Jared that has lived in her head with the seemingly uncontrollable force of nature that is the sulky person in the flesh?
Is he really the danger that he has been said to be?
Ash Lynburn is Jared's cousin and the Lynchburn prince. Where Jared is brooding and dark, Ash is sweetness and light.
At least on the surface.
The thing that Kamie has to find out is...What is Mr. Perfect hiding?
Why do the people of Sorry-in-the Vale fear the Lynchburns?
The Lynchburns seems to have an unbreakable hold on the town of Sorry-in-the-Vale that just gets stronger as the story deepens. The Lychburns are the thing that goes bump in the night for the people of this town, and now that they have returned the bumps are louder than ever.
When Kamiand Jared stumble upon what appears to be a ritualistic sacrifice in a hut in the woods behind her house, they have no idea they are also unearthing the first of many secrets about the town, magic, promises, betrayals, murders, and themselves.
Why Not a 5?
The reason that this book was not given a 5 was that the end and the relationship between Jared and Kami was left as a big question mark.
After devouring this book in record time and investing so much in the relationship between these two,
there was no reconciling how they ended.
The upside of this being that this book is a series.
The downside of the same coin being the wait for the next book.
This is a wonderful, funny, dramatic, heart-stopping dose of literary cat nip that will have you mind tripping long after its end.
Labels: 4.5 Stars, Sarah Rees Brennan
Crossroads Book Tours Presents: Ashes to Ashes
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9/11: The Day That Defined a Generation Where were you on 9/11? That question has become part of the fabric of our lives as Americans. On that bright, sunny day, none of us had any idea what was in store and how it would change our lives. Depending on what part of the country you lived in, you may not have known anything was going on until several hours after the first plane struck. You may not have heard the news until you got to work, turned on your car radio, or received a call from a loved one asking if you had seen or heard the news. Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down is a look at the events of 9/11 from personal and informational perspectives. Author, Pauline Hawkins, who lived in Texas at the time of the attacks, shares her experience of 9/11, and its repercussions for her family, her job, and how she viewed the world. Pauline's story of coping with the news, reframing how she thought about America and the world, and making a conscious decision to become better-informed will resonate with anyone who lived through 9/11. In addition to her personal testimony, Pauline provides a thought-provoking context for the events of 9/11, including political background, social commentary, and reflections on the contributions of everyday heroes. You'll come away from this book both enlightened and comforted by Pauline's honesty and common sense, as well as her heartfelt appreciation of those who sacrificed for our country, and those who continue to work toward healing and rebuilding.
When I sat down to actually write this book, my expectation was simply to put a few words on paper to work through my own grieving process for 9/11. However, I soon found out that the more I said, the more I had to say. Once I started writing, it was as though the emotional floodgates opened, and all the memories came back -- memories that beckoned to be put on paper. I soon realized that while everyone talked about what happened in New York, at the Pentagon, and in the field in Pennsylvania, very little had been said about how that day affected those of us outside of those areas. An entire country, and world, were affected that day. Lives were changed, security lost, and our story should be shared as well. My hope is that you will find this book not only enjoyable but also informative and thought-provoking. I truly have enjoyed sitting down and sharing on these pages my experiences associated with 9/11 and the days and years following.
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Pauline L. Hawkins was born in Munson Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on Easter Sunday. Pauline has been in the health insurance industry for almost thirty years, working her way up from the mailroom to corporate management and claims payment. In 2002, Pauline received her Instructional Design certification, which allows her to create instructor-led and learner-paced training curricula, along with computer-based learning activities and website creation. Pauline has enjoyed writing since she was in high school, and has decided to start sharing her stories. Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down is her debut book.
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The Tudor Revival will Breathe Life Into Your Book Pile
Title: The Tudor Revival
(Calum's Curse Ultima Bellum)
Author: Sky Purington
Is it true love... or is this dark need part of the Tudor's Revival?
A man stuck between worlds.
Ghost hunter and dare-devil, Seth, is flung into the afterlife. His one draw to reality? Alana. He died. She lived. But he can't let go. There is something more than friendship between them and he won't say goodbye.
A woman drawn to the past.
The last thing Alana expects to encounter when she inherits her grandmom's Tudor Revival is the spirit of her deceased best friend and crush, Seth. But everything is not what it appears to be. He is determined to live again. When his investigative team, The Worldwide Paranormal Society shows up at her door, Alana soon learns that she's in for a wild ride.
Calum's curse visits one more house. Things get hotter and more paranormal than ever before. Love, as always, struggles to overcome the odds. Time is limited though and the creature set to destroy Seth and Alana is the most cunning of all.
Will Alana and Seth face mankind's worst fear and survive? Find out in The Tudor Revival.
-Taken with permission from the author's site
Just when you think that this series can't get any better authoress Sky Purington manages to throw readers another literary fast ball that is destined for "out of the park" status.
Seth's story is the third of the Calum's Curse series. (I dare not say last, because I am hoping for more...somehow)
O.k, back to the review.
It seems that life has charged Seth the steepest price in his quest to end his family's curse and find his lady love.
He has to DIE!
That's right, die.
Not to worry though, he's got the best team ever on his side, and the fiery Alana has a few tricks of her own.
Just as in the first two books of this wonderful romp through paranormal wonderland, you will find a few ghosts, a beautiful time shifting back drop, romance, toe curling sex...and so much more.
This book is so full of story that it is hard to write this review without spilling the beans right here and now!
Seth and Alana are the twin flames that light the way to passion and romance for the reader throughout the story's course. Alana is allowed to take the lead in the saving on this one. It turns out that Seth's family isn't the only name in the magic game this go round, and a certain someone has a few awesome powers up her sleeve as well. Not to worry though, Seth swoops in and saves her and himself in pure dare-devil style, as only he can.
The thing that sets this book apart is that all the players from previous books come together in full force in this tale to fight the ultimate foe.
It is said that love can conquer all...
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to the ultimate test
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A Little About the Authoress
Best-selling author, Sky Purington lives in southern New Hampshire with her son and husband. The written word has been her obsession from the very beginning. Purington writes time-travel paranormal/fantasy romance heavily influenced by history.
From Irish Druids to Scottish Highlanders many of her novels possess strong Celtic elements. More recently, her vampire stories take the reader to medieval England and ancient Italy.
Enjoy strictly paranormal romance? Sky's latest novels follow three haunted houses in New England and the sexy ghost hunters determined to make sense of them. Make no mistake, in each and every tale told you'll travel back to another time and revisit the romanticism history holds at its heart.
Sky loves to hear from readers and can be contacted at Sky@SkyPurington.com Interested in keeping up with Sky's latest news and releases? Visit Sky's Website, www.skypurington.com to download her FREE App on iTunes and Android.
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Just Sittin' Here...Waitin' On Wednesday #25
Time for a
This wonderful meme is based on the one started by Breaking the Spine
Title: Blind Spot
Author: Laura Ellen
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Expected Publication Date: October 23rd, 2012
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer.
This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else
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How I Created My Imaginary Friends
There are two main characters in Angel’s Heart: The Keeper, Sophie and Henry, but beyond them, there are slew of others who crept their way into the world I created, and into my heart. Yeah, I’m a little sappy like that. For me, building the supporting characters are just as important, if not more so, than the main. In Angel’s Heart: The Keeper these roles fall onto Deva and Tabitha’s shoulders.
Both women have qualities that Sophie can only hope to ever have. Deva is strong, confident, and beautiful. She knows what she wants and goes out to get it, not letting anyone stop her. Tabitha is witty, sarcastic, and sassy. She’s not afraid to call someone on their crap. Sophie sees herself as being invisible next to these two, and because of that, she hides who she really is. Deva and Tabitha see the true Sophie, the incredible passionate woman who loves with her whole heart.
Along with the members of Willow Crest, Deva and Tabitha do what they can to help Sophie see her true self, the beauty that lies under the surface. But from the beginning, it’s Henry who does the most for Sophie. From the moment Sophie and Henry meet, the connection between the two is strong, yet both of them are afraid to allow themselves to truly open themselves up to the other. Years of feeling alone, lost and forgotten, have Sophie and Henry scrambling to understand the undeniable bond that both of them feel toward each other.
During the process of writing Angel’s Heart, I found myself pouring more of myself into the pages, my tears and laughter, my fears and dreams for the future.
Who Is Lisa Bilbrey
Lisa Bilbrey is a mom of three and has been married to her high school sweetheart since 1996.
Finding a love in the written word, she started writing as a way to express herself. From the first word she wrote, she'd found her heart and soul. Always willing to learn, she's spends much of her time trying to improve as a storyteller. She's been blessed to find Michele Richard and Laura Braley, both of whom she spends hours every day writing with.
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Question of the Week: 113 - 6/8/2003
Let’s be honest. There are some people who inhabit our Pagan/Heathen communities who are clearly ‘problem children’. They may lie about their experience, lineage, credentials or intentions. They have been banned, banished or fired and yet they resurface and unabashedly continue on their merry ways. Worse even, we may have sexual predators, charlatans, thieves or con artists working their scams amongst us.
It seems that we are reluctant to confront them (or even to prosecute those who exhibit actual criminal behaviors) lest ‘it make us all look bad’. Well, they DO make us all look bad and we won’t look any prettier if they are eventually exposed (or indicted) by those outside of our own communities. But what can WE really do?
What does a Traditional coven or group do about former members who resurface still claiming to be a ‘priest or priestess of such-and-such degree’ after they have been banished by that group? What if these folks never earned or were stripped of those same degrees that they claim to hold?
What should we do about those known to use the lure of ‘teaching witchcraft’ in order to take advantage of others or coerce them into sexual relationships? What about Pagan merchants who take our money and then never produce the product?
CAUTION! This is a hot topic and so this is where I start placing notes of caution and related disclaimers all over the darn place: Please do not name names or point fingers at any specific person, persons or group here. {If a person committed a crime (sexual assault, theft, fraud, etc.) against you, please report him/her to the proper legal authorities. And yes, we know that this is a very difficult thing to do.} This is not the official Pagan Hit List. We are not the Pagan Police.
What we are looking for here (Help us, O Wise Elders/Leaders/Guides from all Traditions, Paths and Religions!) are examples of successful techniques or procedures from those who have experienced the ‘Pagan Problem Children’ or ideas about how the Pagan/Heathen communities can better cope with -- and reduce the havoc resulting from -- the actions of the ‘problem children’ amongst us -- and do so without resorting to ‘witch-hunts’ ourselves.
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Banishing Your Neighbor. Witch War And How. Jun 8th. at 11:42:31 am EDT
Greybeard (Albuquerque, NM) Age: 57 - Email - Web
I've seen more witch wars than I care to. This question treads dangerously close to supporting witch wars. Most of the situations I've seen it was the "community leader" shouting to banish someone else who ought to have been shunned. A lot of the time the real reason is some personal jealousy, lost lover, former lover, didn't get to be lover, etc. Often it's coven or community power politics. Another common excuse for stirring up hate in the community is that someone isn't toeing the PC line, and I'm about as non-PC as any pagan you'll meet. Problem children? How about problem pagan leaders?
Let's look at the criteria stated in the question.
Lying about lineage or credentials? I guess that would put them in the company of Gardner, Sanders, and many of the other pagan leaders you have met. Credentials are often invented. Does the person complaining about phony credentials have a Gardnerian lineage? Are their credentials beyond question?
Sexual predator? Usually that is a description of the man she couldn't' get to bed fast enough last week, or the man who's taking someone else to bed and not her. The term also implies a high level of misandry by the speaker. Isn't this like calling a woman a "slut" or "whore"? It sounds like the personal problem of the accuser to me.
As for a charlatan or con artist again we look to Sanders and other respected founders. Remember witchcraft was illegal under the False Mediums Act because the majority of people think the whole religion is a con. No, I don't think we want to go there.
Prosecuting "actual criminal behavior"? The Ardanes prohibit Wiccans from taking our problems to law enforcement. Much of "criminal law" is codified christian commandments and morality. The claim that the "bad" pagan did "actual criminal behavior" is not a reason to banish her or him, and in truth it may only show that he or she may be more pagan than christian. The Ardanes prohibit taking disputes to civil law enforcement because it will make us look bad, and cause irreparable psychic damage to the community. As an excuse for banishing another pagan, the "actual criminal law" of a christian culture doesn't suffice.
What about a Traditional coven who banishes a former member does if they claim their initiation? That description probably includes about half of the former members of most Traditions. By the time members leave a Tradition there is likely to be sexual jealousy, ended relationships, or personal power struggles with the former group. A banishment by the former Tradition is almost a recommendation. If they never earned the degrees they clam they earned in your coven you can be honest and say so, but you can't take back the degree you awarded someone last year when she or he was sleeping with the HPS.
And using witchcraft to lure someone for a sexual relationship? Come on. Men and women have been using every conceivable pickup line to lure partners for sex since before Lucy's grandmother started developing enhanced breasts. If pagans started "doing something about" everyone who lures someone else for sex there wouldn't be any pagans left. This excuse sounds like sour grapes of a passed over prospect combined with misdandrist dogma that always blames men for being normal men.
I have only once encountered a pagan merchant who didn't produce the product promised on a special order. I have had more problems with Office Max. I deal with Office Max by never buying from them again and spreading their reputation. Isn't it nice that we don't have to buy from Ma Bell any more.
So what can WE really do? First WE need to look long and hard at anyone who suggests banishing someone else. We need to ask what his or her problem is, and what our prejudice is that causes us to want to banish that person. We need to ask if the banishment ought not go the other way. Most of the time, in my experience, the one who ought to be banished is not the one being accused. For example, the blackmailer who threatens to send someone's pagan documentation to his employer unless he leaves the group quietly and never comes back is the one who ought to be banished from the group, along with the HPS who's behind the blackmail. But that's not the story that you will hear in public. Likewise the woman who changed her mind the next morning and accused the man who "took advantage of" her own admitted "heightened sexual feelings" and engaged with her in mutual groping is not the kind of responsible person who we need at a pagan gathering.
There are occasions when someone is really doing wrong. The drunk with the knife who tried to cut up someone else at a Beltane gathering is an example. That kind of misconduct we deal with by getting several men together and throwing him bodily out of the gathering. Even then we need to be very sure to know if the fight was not provoked or started by someone else.
Perhaps a Council of Elders can work, as required by the Ardanes. It needs to be Elders who are acceptable to the parties involved and not the coven/community Elders who are half of the problem under discussion. The Elders need to focus on making things right, finding a way to make restitution, not on punishment of the guilty.
Raising Awareness And Integrity Jun 8th. at 11:06:29 am EDT
Wolf's Voice (Singapore) Age: 28 - Email
Like what Starlight has said, I would agree on educating ourselves. Raising awareness of the problem (children) and informing ourselves about their behavorial patterns/methods.
I don't think we can run away from the problem. We cannot turn away and say "Oh, it's not my problem." It's our problem, because these people are part of the community and what they do will reflect on us as well. I know that it's always the bad hats who will make us look bad, but I think we need to really tackle/confront the issues.
Call them out. Raise people's awareness what they have done. Of course, we have to be careful not to turn it into a witchhunt. As a community, we need to be accountable for each other and be responsible. Confront them. Point out what is wrong and should not be done. At the same time, emphasis on the need to be people of integrity as well.
Integrity is what is needed in a functioning community built on personal accountability. We need to know what is truly right and wrong. And we cannot tolerate scam/con artists and bullies. We have people who go around pretending to be someone they are not. They have also created personas, hiding their own negative behavior. And for people who have been affected by these characters, they are often left with a bad taste in the mouth. The same goes for pagan bullies. I would suggest -again - to call them out on what they have done.
Sometimes, we need to be brutally frank and honest. The way to remove the cancer is to attack it directly.
I know the need for tact here. Emotions and tempers might get out of control. I would caution for the need to be tactful and impartial.
Wolf's Voice
Education Is Mightier Than The Sword Jun 8th. at 10:14:50 am EDT
Starlight Bunnybutt (FL, USA) Age: 26 - Email
Every community has problem children, not just ours. We see bullies, charlatans, abusers, corruptors, the vicious the stupid and the cruel all around us every day.
The best weapon we can use to combat these problem children, the best way to arm ourselves, is to inform ourselves. Not about individuals necessarily, but about the behavior in general.
We should own up to the fact that we have these problems, that yes, they DO make us all look bad. Whether we want them or not, these problem children are our responsibility. We should take it upon ourselves to educate people inside and outside of the community about behavior patterns that indicate a problem child. Or, in the case of merchants and non-delivery of goods, actually name names as well as filing a BBB report against them.
The Llewellyn 03 Witches Alamanac (I think its that one, yes I'm a Llewellyn reader, so sue me) has a wonderful article on "Magical Bullies". It points out classic problem child behavior such as kissing up without doing any real work, claiming to know more than anyone, always making others feel small, etc. It also briefly talks about what to do with these folks. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
We should always let anyone who wants a "teacher" know what warning signs to look for in a manipulative and destructive teacher as well. We have a responsibility to protect those just starting out, whether they are young or old. Daven's Journal as well as Witchvox, has some great articles on finding a teacher. Never be too busy to give a newbie sound advice, no matter how inane their questions sound to you.
And yes, our responsibility for our bad seeds extends to educating the public at large about them. If we have abusers amongst us, we should let anyone who will come in contact know about them. We cannot be silent about abusers in our midst, just look at what that is doing to other groups. While we can say "This person certianly does not represent me!" we can't say "This isn't my problem."
Be sure though that we don't stoop to malicious character assassination when we do our educating. Say your piece and move on, don't pound the person into the ground. Only small people want others to feel smaller.
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I sent my daughter a birthday gift two months ago. It fell into the Bermuda Triangle for seven weeks and remarkably returned to me intact last Friday. I'm blaming the French P.O. The U.S.P.S. did a great job. Bored, I decided to throw Alison's bday gift a party. The DVD's are set up, the cat's set up, we have refreshments and the Giants Bad Call Brick & Ali's gift has her lucky hat on. "Go Giants! Bruuuuuuce!"
A Vision on Bleecker Street
21-19 Bleecker Street ~ 2015
Last night, I got off the #6 train at Bleecker Street early for a Jonatha Brooke show at Subculture and walked around. Down to LaSalle Academy's old building next to NYC Marble Cemetery on 2nd Street east of Second Avenue, along Bond Street and The Bowery and back up to Bleecker Street towards Lafayette. The one thought in my head coming back up Bleecker: I still an urge to punch Carmelo Spinelli in the mouth. No, not just for looking at me funny, I haven't seen him since LaSalle graduation on June 12, 1972. No, I wanted to pop Carmelo for another reason.
1968, my mother's torturing my fourteen year old sad-sack body with yells, pushes and shoves to get up, "you're going to be friggin' late again!" Ten minutes later, another push out the door for a run/walk to the subway and ride to school that took a little over an hour.
Arriving downtown on the #6 Local, I'd run up the stairs pushing through other almost late LaSalle students who had no interest in seeing Brother Michael Dean of Discipline's sick smile waiting for late students, or better for him and worse for you, late without ties.
72 yearbook
Carmelo "Don Mel" Spinelli
I'm on my way down the north side of Bleecker Street towards The Bowery and who pops out one of these doorways (houses in the photo on top) whistling and tying a perfect Windsor knot in his tie like he doesn't have a care in the world?
Carmelo Spinelli, and he says to me, "Hi, Boyass!"
I still can't tie a tie well. I wore a clip-on Freshman year until I couldn't handle the humiliation anymore. Even the lunch lady made fun of me.
For that alone, I want to hammer my red LaSalle schoolbag over his head, but all I'm feeling is deep sadness thinking he gets to sleep an hour longer than me every Monday to Friday morning.
Our antagonism lasted until Veterans Day in our junior year 1971. On the old grass field on 15th Street right off the FDR Drive next to the Con Ed plant my classmates and Yorkville friends played a tackle football game in the rain against Carmelo's classmates and his Little Italy buddies. We beat them on a pass I threw to Kevin King, a 6'6" stick figure of athletic excellence. Nothing like contact sports to stop the bullshit between snotty boys. After that game, we called each other whatever we wanted with a smile and respect.
Back on Bleecker Street last night, Jonatha Brooke was excellent.
Our "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" finale at Cornelia Street Cafe is Tuesday Feb 10th. It's a good one to go out on. Our artists: Barbara Aliprantis, Phillip Giambri, Jim Hawkins, Adam Wade and Sherryl Marshall, one of my favorite musical talents on the planet will present a showcase set.
My memoir:
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Touchstone Palaces of My Youth
In yesterday's New York Times, Nathaniel Adams wrote about three surviving palatial movie theaters, "A Return to the Wonder Years." I visited one of the three cathedrals in March 2012 and wrote the piece below. On the bottom here is a link to more photos from a memorable night.
Touchstone palaces of my youth: old Yankee Stadium, the original 86th Street movie houses and in distant third place various churches. Something holy happened to me in each of these temples. Churches are still here, but don’t hold my attention like they used to. Old Yankee Stadium was buried under the horrible renovation after the 1973 season. The RKO and Loew’s theatres on East 86th Street were chopped up shortly after the 1960s.
Yesterday, I took a trip on the PATH train to the classic Loew’s Jersey Theatre at Journal Square. This beauty opened in 1929 same year my Dad was born. It has 3100 seats, same size as the old 86th Street RKO. Secret, don’t tell anybody: the Yorkville RKO’s Lounge downstairs under the lobby was huge with lots of comfy furniture, a giant black table and several paintings (huge one of "standing in a boat not too smart" George Washington crossing the river). Matching the lounge's size, the urinals in the men’s room were mammoth. Top of one came up to my eight year old head. When we played hide and seek in the RKO after watching the movie twice we’d hide in the urinals.
The urinals are not over-sized at the Loew’s Jersey but everything else about it made me feel like an explorer breaking through the bush and finding an ancient city. From outside the theatre you barely get a sense of the majesty beyond the gold doors. All the luxurious decorations inside help you suspend your disbelief for a few hours and transport you to another world. Last night, I went to the land of the “Dude.” The film was “The Big Lebowski.” I felt safe knowing, “the Dude abides.” By the way, before the film we were entertained by an organ that rose from the orchestra pit. This was a blow my mind bonus since the Yorkville theatres had no live music when I was a boy. You had to go to Radio City for that. Visit the Loew's Jersey if you can, it will not disappoint.
Thank you, Eric Vetter, for turning me on to this treasure, I had a blast.
Here are more photos.
Below are pictures from Loew’s Jersey Theatre and a link to a hundred other photographs.
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Passing Time ~ Stoops to Nuts on Cornelia Street
We had a blast last night at the "Penultimate City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" at Cornelia Street Cafe. Thank you, Don Rosler, Michael Schwartz, Robert White, Judith Heineman and Michael Braudy for rocking the Cafe. Your stories were wonderful. Thank you, Paul Jones & Robin for terrific service, and thank you, to the Cafe's family for letting us play.
I was touched by the full room of friends. I watched the eyes of the engaged crowd as the music and stories flowed and saw why storytelling is so important in our lives. It soothes and fills emotional gaps that strengthen our connection to each other.
Our last Stoops to Nuts show at Cornelia Street is Tuesday Feb 10th. We're going to drop a bomb on you. Our artists: Barbara Aliprantis, Phillip Giambri, Jim Hawkins, Adam Wade & Sherryl Marshall, one of my favorite musical talents on the planet will present a showcase set.
If you would like to check out my memoir, "I Hate the Dallas Cowboys - tales of a scrappy New York boyhood," it's available at Logos Bookstore, 1575 York Avenue, or buy it online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble or other booksellers.
Don Rosler
Judith Heiniman & Michael Braudy
Cornelia St Cafe
"Stoops to Nuts" crowd
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Stoops to Nuts Tomorrow & Safety Last
The penultimate "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" @ Cornelia Street Cafe is tomorrow, Tuesday, January 13th @ 6pm. Our show is a love letter to street life, the neighborhood and the characters in it. Our artists: Judith Heineman, Don Rosler, Michael Schwartz & Robert White (Hunter College's best teacher ever) ~ $ 8 admission includes a free drink, I'm your host and I'm telling one from my memoir, "I Hate the Dallas Cowboys - tales of a scrappy New York boyhood."
If you read my book, please post a few honest words on Amazon and/or B&N ~ Thank you, everyone who has put a review up for me.
Safety Last
I strolled the neighborhood with Dad all the time. Whenever I could I tried to direct our walk past Rappaport's Toy Bazaar on the east side of Third Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets. They had gorgeous model sailboats in the display window perfect for cruising Central Park's sailboat lake, south of the Alice in Wonderland statute. I pictured myself in my captain's cap directing my "Flying Dutchman" over the sea just off Fifth Avenue.
One day in the early 1960s, I got Dad to turn left on 79th Street putting us directly in front of Rappaport's. It was Saturday, and the street was crowded with people. Dad grabbed my hand and we did a punt return dance through and around most of the folks. I wanted to stop and pitch Dad on the boats, he wanted to get to 72nd Street to meet a friend. As he pulled me forward and I pulled him back, a tall man said, "Hi, Tommy." I said, "Hi, John." Dad gave me a funny look and we kept going. Crossing 78th Street a short chubby man with a moustache said, "Hey, Tommy." I said, " Hi, Jeff."
Once we were on the sidewalk, Dad stopped dead and twisted my head with his hand straight up so we made eye contact.
"Who the hell were those two men?"
"Oh, they're Emergency Room doctors at Lenox Hill."
Dad shook his head and we kept walking.
Later that night, Dad said to Mom, "I think Tommy should wear his football helmet all the time." The look on Mom's face said she was giving the idea strong consideration. I had no defense. My stitch collection was starting to make my face look like a hockey goaltender. A clumsy fellow, I regularly fell off the ten cent rides in front of Woolworth's, Lamston's and Grant's.
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Penultimate Stoops to Nuts is This Tuesday, January 13th
Tommy @ Cornelia St Cafe in 2008
The penultimate "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" @ Cornelia Street Cafe is next Tuesday, January 13th @ 6pm.
Our show is a merge of storytelling and narrative song - a love letter to street life, the neighborhood and the characters in it. Our artists: Judith Heineman, Don Rosler, Michael Schwartz & Robert White. (Hunter College's best teacher ever)
$ 8 admission includes a free drink, I'm your host and I'm telling one from my book, "I Hate the Dallas Cowboys - tales of a scrappy New York boyhood." This is our next to last show at the Cafe. I thank everyone who's been onboard these past five years, especially, the Cornelia Street Cafe's family for letting us play in your yard.
Our final "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" show at the Cafe is Feb 10th @ 6pm.
Han's Duck friend
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood published "Two Guys Talking on the Corner." A story from my memoir, "I Hate the Dallas Cowboys - tales of a scrappy New York boyhood." (YBK Publishers)
Thank you, Mr. Beller's!
The book's on sale at Logos Bookstore, 1575 York Avenue. If you're not local, buy the book online at Amazon, B&N and other booksellers. If you admire Mr. Peabody & Sherman, or H.G. Wells, you'll love the story. If you like the story, the book will provide a ride on the WABAC Machine to street life in your old neighborhood when you were a kid.
Mom pitching to Tommy in Central Park -1962
n/e cor 84th & York Ave - 2014
n/e cor of 84th & York Ave - 1945
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My Book Excerpt Published in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
The book's on sale at Logos Bookstore, 1575 York Avenue. If you're not local, buy the book online at Amazon, B&N and other booksellers.
If you admire Mr. Peabody & Sherman, or H.G. Wells, you'll love the story. If you like the story, the book will provide a ride on the WABAC Machine to street life in your old neighborhood when you were a kid.
The penultimate "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" @ Cornelia Street Cafe @ Tuesday, Jan 13th @ 6pm. A merge of storytelling and narrative song ~ a love letter to street life, the neighborhood and the characters in it. Our artists: Judith Heineman, Don Rosler, Michael Schwartz & Robert White. (Hunter College's best teacher ever) - $ 8 admission includes a free drink, I'm your host, and I'm telling one from my book, "I Hate the Dallas Cowboys - tales of a scrappy New York boyhood." This is our next to last show at the Cafe. I thank everyone who's been onboard these past five years, especially, the Cornelia Street Cafe's family for letting us play in your yard. Our final "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" show is Feb 10th.
If you like Jean Shepherd's 'A Christmas Story" you'll love my book, promise.
"I Hate the Dallas Cowboys - tales of a scrappy New York boyhood,"
is perfect for the big kid in your life.
Praise for the book ~ ( if you read it, please say a few honest words online in booksellers reviews section)
“Thomas R. Pryor has written a sweet, funny, loving memoir of growing up old-school in a colorful New York neighborhood. A story of sports, family, and boyhood, you’ll be able to all but taste, smell, and feel this vanished world.”
—Kevin Baker, author of the novels Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Strivers Row
“Tommy Pryor’s New York boyhood…was the mid-century coming of age of all of us. A rousing read.”
—Robert Lipsyte, author and former city and sports columnist, The New York Times
“Pryor could take a felt hat and make it funny.”
—Barbara Turner-Vesselago, author of Writing Without A Parachute: The Art of Freefall
“Pryor burrows into the terrain of his childhood with a longing and obsessiveness so powerful it feels like you are reading a memoir about his first great love.”
—Thomas Beller, author of J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist
“I wasn’t alive for the New York Thomas Pryor writes about, but thanks to his brilliant, honest, and hilarious book, I feel like I was there.”
—Dave Hill, comedian and author of Tasteful Nudes
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It's Just Another Full Moon
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Sam Hunt Drops Out of NASCAR Awards Following DUI Arrest
Wendy Hermanson
Metro Nashville Police Department
Sam Hunt was scheduled to play at the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Awards Dec. 5 in Nashville, but his recent run-in with the law has thrown a wrench into his plans. Hunt, who was arrested for DUI Nov. 21, has pulled out of his featured slot at the event.
Hunt was booked in Nashville's Metro jail at approximately 6:30AM that morning after police responded to reports that a vehicle was seen swerving near Ellington Parkway and Ben Allen Rd. in East Nashville. The "Kinfolks" singer allegedly had two open containers of beer in the car with him and smelled of alcohol. He also had bloodshot eyes and offered his credit card when asked for a driver's license.
Hunt has since called his decision to drive after drinking a "selfish" one and has put forth a public apology. He has not said anything regarding his latest cancellation, however, as of press time. He'll appear in court on Jan. 17.
Country's Chris Janson and Cole Swindell will perform at the NASCAR event.
“I’m thrilled to be bringing my music to the NASCAR celebration in Nashville,” Janson says. “We love NASCAR, the drivers and the fans! It’s going to be a good time!”
The show will be co-hosted by Cassadee Pope and TV racing analyst Rutledge Wood. This is the first time Nashville will host NASCAR Champion’s Week, which in addition to the awards includes a slate of events including driver appearances, fan interactions, and live music. The festivities kick off Dec. 3.
These Are Sam Hunt's Top Songs
Source: Sam Hunt Drops Out of NASCAR Awards Following DUI Arrest
Filed Under: Chris Janson, Sam Hunt
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21st Century Asian Arms Race
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It became a rare thing. A listicle that worked like a crystal ball.
This was The Assault Rifles of the Near Future (TAROTNF), an awful pictures-and-text essay that sought to leave the Internet more knowledgeable about the world’s small arms. It’s been updated thrice in two years to accommodate the staggering number of new rifles from manufacturers.
On any given day of the week TAROTNF attracts massive traffic, a sure sign that structuring content like a BuzzFeed post is a formula for success. (Can the listicle bubble ever burst?)
But TAROTNF didn’t just grab international eyeballs. For what seemed the first time ever, here was proof that in our peaceful age conventional weapons are spreading–proliferating–at an incredible rate.
It’s an old dictum in practice. Technology never stands still.
At the end of the 1950s, there were only four assault rifles being exported and mass-produced. The Heckler & Koch G3, the FN FAL, the AK-47, and later on the M16.
Half A Century Later
Today there are a hundred different kinds of assault rifles available for militaries and police forces. Many are variants of older models, others are viable concepts nobody wants to buy. Then there’s a selection of rifles unique to national armies. (Japan’s Howa Type 89 comes to mind.)
If taking an epic survey of assault rifles accomplishes anything, it suggests the general direction semi-automatic weapons are heading toward.
The direction is uniformity.
Assault rifles are turning amorphous and interchangeable. A perfect example is the unexpected journey of the Colt M4. What was meant to be a defensive weapon for rear echelon personnel is now a “modular” rifle that supports countless upgrades and even different calibers–so long as its barrel is replaced.
The M16 and M4 is used by dozens of countries and is the basis for different assault rifles, i.e. the German HK 416, the Turkish MPT-76, the Taiwanese T91 and the Caracal 816 from the UAE.
The far-reaching consequence of this homogenization is what used to be military standard no longer applies. The inventory of one national army is the same as its neighbors. Russia mass-produces its own 5.56x45mm rounds for the AK-102. Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania each build their own 5.45mm AK-74’s.
China’s state-owned arms manufacturers go further. The PLA might have settled on the bullpup QBZ-95, but have at least six other rifles to choose from: the NAR-10, the Type 81, the Type 56, the AK-2000 (an AK-74 clone), the CQ (an M16 clone), and an M14 clone.
The World Goes Flat
Iran is another egregious example. Its military-industrial complex churns out copies of the G3, the M16, the AK-47, dubious experimental rifles, and an assortment of light and heavy weapons. Ditto India and Pakistan.
More governments are reverting to domestic small arms production. The growing list includes Croatia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
Up to a half dozen African countries are mass-producing unlicensed AK-47s. In South America several types of assault rifle are churned out by government-owned factories, these include FX-05, the FN FAL, the FN FNC, the AK-47, the SIG 540, and the Galil.
Meanwhile, in the US hundreds of start-ups are either modding or inventing new firearms.
Then there’s Eastern Europe and its orgy of small arms in whatever caliber. Simply put, shopping for rifles and machine guns isn’t hard and is bound to become more convenient. With assault rifles so ubiquitous no country can have better small arms than its rivals.
A solution attempted by the US, France, South Korea, China and now Canada, is a “smart” rifle. But these efforts have proven futile.
In the medium-term there could be an ultimate leveling out of conventional weapons. By then the holy grail for R&D are rare specialist “intelligent” firearms.
Or maybe hunter killer robots.
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Indic Justice – rediscover or reinvent?
Posted in Business, Current Affairs, Environment, European History, Feminist Issues, History, Media, politics, Uncategorized by Anuraag Sanghi on July 30, 2009
More like Amartya Sen has foot in mouth disease?
Indic Justice …
The on-going saga of the Ambani brothers’ dispute, brings home how deeply and completely Indic norms of justice and fair play have been lost. The Ambani brothers have approached the Prime Minister and are pressing their cases in the Supreme Court for justice. Such a form of dispute redressal is alien and remote to Indic thought.
The other apparently unrelated ‘event’ is the much promoted and publicised book, The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen, has no clue about justice (at least on Indic thoughts on justice). Apart from a few token mentions about Ashoka Maurya and Akbar Moghul, he has very little to say about Indic thought on justice.
But he speaks very volubly on Western thinkers and thought on justice.
The wise king delivers justice
To bring out the contrast, one has only to read the Biblical story of King Solomon’s justice (where two prostitutes claimed the surviving baby as theirs). The point worth noting is that this paradigm of justice centralizes solutions and concentrates power in the hands of some central authorities.
So, whether it King Solomon or Caliph Haroun Al Rashid (the King in disguise), or the Turkish Çapanoglu Ahmet Pasha (of the bell of justice fame which even a donkey could ring to summon the king for justice) – the model was the all-knowing King. Variations of the Donkey /Horse and the Bell of Justice story is localized and retold in various cultures.
King Solomon’s Justice
Going back earlier, the Desert Bloc model of seeking justice was captured in the story of Tehuti-nekht (the oppressive overseer); a ‘sekhti’ (the poor salt-trader) the ‘clever’ Meruitensa (The Grand Vizier /Supreme Judge) and The Wise Pharoah Nebkanra.
The Duke of Venice perpetuates the myth of justice in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The more than 120 Doges of Venice who ruled Venice for nearly a 1000 years, preserved the myth of justice during the Middle Ages.
In modern times, as republican democracy made Emperors and Kings redundant, the Smart Lawyer took over the justice function, in the garb of legal thrillers.
Perry Mason replaced The Wise Emperor as the fount of justice. John Grisham keeps company with many writers about legal-eagles, who go out to save the innocent from the hangman- and send the guilty into the dock. Like John Buchan, GK Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, et al.
Hollywood used the legal thriller genre with assembly line regularity – with successes galore, like Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution (1957), with earlier instances like Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich, or the screen adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), or the more modern Erin Brockovich (2000)and My Cousin Vinny (1992).
All quiet on the Indian front …
In more than 1000 Indic books, that record more than 10,000 years of history, there is no instance of any dispute reaching an Indic King.
The longest ancient epic in the world, The Mahabharata has no incident where a private dispute reached Yudhisthir (though a mongoose could lecture the King about sacrifices and yagnas). There was never any case of private dispute, recorded in the Ramayana, that reached Ramachandra (though a dhobi could ‘inform’ the king on bazaar talk about the Queen Sita). Even a poor Brahman, Kautsa, could reach King Raghu for help in the disbursal of guru-dakshina गुरु-दक्षिणा.
Kannagi and Devanthi - The Dream, from the epic Silappadhikaram
In yet another instance, rulers were warned against disproportionate punishment – through the Mandavya incident. Mandavya, was punished by Yama (the God of Death) for his ‘crimes’ as a child, of hurting insects. Through a chain events, Mandavya ended up, impaled on a trident /stake. After best efforts to remove the offending weapon, a part remains inside Mandavya’s body.
With a trident through his body, Mandavya confronted Yama. Mandavya, the sage, berates Yama for ‘criminalising’ children. Codifying the principle of juvenile justice, Mandavya exhorts “that no action committed by a human being till he is fourteen years of age shall be regarded as a sin which it would thereafter.” In turn, Mandavya curses Yama to be born as a shudra child – to learn about the ‘reality’ of life. Yama, born to shudra woman, became Vidura, Dhritarashtra’s court.
In Buddha’s childhood, an injured swan becomes a point of legal dispute with his cousin, Devadatta. The injured swan, Devadatta’s hunting /archery practice target, was claimed by Siddhartha. Some minister’s preferred Prince Siddhartha’s claim, due to his position. Since the hunt was not for food, but for pleasure, Devadutta’s claim over the swan was seen as weak. Finally the claim of the saviour was seen as superior to the claim of the hunter /captor. Replace the swan, with a slave, and the legal principle for any dispute between a slave-owner versus slave-liberator, is established. The same principle is evidenced in Artha-shastra in many shlokas.
The Tamil classic, Silappadikaram, is ancient Tamil drama about the perils of royal justice. Silappadhikaram is, a literary critic informs us is “a saga of the of the cult of the Goddess Pattini … the first ripe fruit of the Aryan-Dravidian synthesis in Tamil Nadu.” Who is Goddess Pattini? Once a widely worshipped Goddess in South India, now limited to modern Sri Lanka “Pattini was an angry deity, whose anger was directed at evil people and she is also associated with rational justice.” The destruction of the city by Pattini, the Goddess of ‘rational’ justice, is a warning against vengeful royal ‘justice’ – and instead move towards ameliorative Indic justice system.
Elango Adigal warns Indic kings from taking over and interfering with dispute resolution mechanisms. The Pandyan King, Neduncheziyan, in Silappadikaram, comes to grief, after royal intervention goes horribly wrong, resulting in miscarriage of justice.
It gets worse! No prisons …
Modern econometric modelling shows that for much of the last 1000 years, India has been a significant economic power – till the 1900. China and India, this analysis estimates, for the last 1000 years, accounted for 50% of the world economy. Statistical analyses showed India with a world trade share of 25% for much of the 500 years during 1400-1900. The interesting (historical) aspect of the criminal management story is the absence of any surviving mass jails in India prior to colonial India. Just how did pre-colonial India, one of the largest (and most prosperous) populations of the world, deal with crime and criminals?
Without prisons!
But then crime rate in India must be really high …
Cut to modern India. With such an inheritance, India has the lowest prison population in the world. How can India have such a low prison population, with a poor police-to-population ratio and a crime rate which is not above the average – in spite of a large civilian gun population.
All the 5 indices (below) create a bias for a lawless Indian society and rampant crime. With these five indices, namely: –
Police to population ratio (‘increase police force’)
Prison population (‘put more criminals behind bars’)
Capital punishment (‘kill enough criminals to instill fear’)
Poverty (‘it is poverty which the root of all crime’)
Gun ownership (‘more guns means more crime’)
against a stable social system, how does current day India manage low-to-average crime rates. More than 2000 years ago, Megasthenes a Greek traveller to India wrote,
Theft is of very rare occurrence. Megasthenes says that those who were in the camp of Sandrakottos, wherein lay 400,000 men, found that the thefts reported on any one day did not exceed the value of two hundred drachmae, and this among a people who have no written laws
Historically, trade in India is governed by शुभ लाभ ‘shubh labh’ – and hence Indians have not been major players in drugs proliferation (unlike Japan, the West in which traded Opium in Korea and China) or in slave trade.
In modern times, India is not a big player in spamming or in software virus – though a power in computing industry. In August 2008, a hoax story alleged that an Indian hacker, had broken into a credit card database, and sold it to the European underworld. Some ‘experts’ feared that this would spark of a crime wave across Europe.
The Indic model of justice, crime and law
Evidence of a different Indic system goes far back in history. To Lipit Ishtar, Hittite laws, Hammurabi et al. At least as far back as 4000 years back in history. Indian kings did not deliver justice. It was done at the local level by panchayats पंचायत. Indian justice systems did not rely on imprisonment or executions or the police to control crime!
The answer – the world’s most stable marriage system and the extended family-social structures took care of the wayward.
Still from Breaker Morant - Edward Woodward, 3rd from left, portrayed Harry 'Breaker' Morant
A recent Hollywood film on the Desert Bloc system of justice was the schizophrenic Breaker Morant – by Bruce Beresford. In the closing lines of Breaker Morant, when asked about his religion, Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant declares that he is a pagan.
When the execution detail comes to get Morant and Handcock, the military chaplain asks their religious affiliation. “Pagan.” replies Morant. “What’s a pagan?” inquires Handcock. Morant replies, “Well, it’s somebody who doesn’t believe there’s a divine being dispensing justice to mankind.” Handcock nods and says to the chaplain, “I’m a pagan too.” (extract from Wikipedia; accessed on 25th January, 2010).
I have always wondered how much the writer knew – and understood the import of that statement.
Crumbling edifice
In India, under the onslaught of the Desert Bloc, Akbar-Birbal stories, Tenali Ram-Krishna Devaraya were used to create expectations of a Wise King. From then on, the Indic system of justice crumbled at a faster pace.
Is it that Indians were ‘saints’ and did not have private disputes? Were they so civilized that they could solve all disputes by talking to each other? Is it that Indian kings were not bothered about delivery of justice!
By Richard Brust
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Should Politics Trump Everything?
Emerging from a 3 day battle with some godless microbe and 72 hours of highly potent neocitran-boozie concoction to kill it into submission, I’m scanning the #TOpoli with a mixture of disbelief and.. something else that is beyond my vocabulary at the moment. Like, I’m really groggy and quite possibly drifting in and out of consciousness, unable to fully judge if I’m asleep or awake.
Is this how the more casual observers of the municipal political scene here in Toronto feel when reading through the news? An out-of-body experience, this can’t really be happening kind of sensation? This is all a joke, right? This is not how a major metropolitan city conducts itself, is it?
On their regular Sunday afternoon radio slot, the mayor and his councillor brother brag about the restraint shown when the councillor was verbally accosted by a bike courier. “He (courier) was cursing and swearing with some nasty words,” Councillor Ford said. “I told him that if I wasn’t an elected official I would kick his ass.” He so would’ve too! He really would’ve! “The mayor said there would have been ‘one less courier to worry about’ if there was an incident. “Doug took kick-boxing for six years and has quick feet,” Mayor Ford said.
No, no, no, no, no. Our mayor did not just say that out loud, over the wireless, as some sort of populist bromide. My big brother’s tough as nails! Ford tough! You know how I know that’s all just a figment of my imagination? Later on in the show when talking about bullying in schools with a newly elected TDSB trustee, Councillor Ford claimed: “We never had bullies in our school. We’d always take care of them if there was.”
No semi-sentient adult being could be that self-unaware to not check themselves before blurting out such revelatory personality traits. I’d punch somebody for bad-mouthing me if there weren’t any repercussions. We didn’t have a bully problem because we ‘took care’ of anybody we thought were bullies…
It’s the virus in my bloodstream making me hear that, right? Some sort of auditory hallucination brought on by my mistakenly having mixed 151 proof rum with my cold medication. My mind’s just fucking with me at this point surely.
But then I wake up this morning to read that there’s a court motion afoot to oust Mayor Ford from office. Good god! Is the fever back? This can’t be—it’s Monday of March break. Nothing’s supposed to happen at City Hall. Will I never be free of this damned contagion that’s playing with my mind?!
For a full account of what’s allegedly happening, read Hamutal Dotan at the Torontoist and John McGrath at Open File TO but in short, way back in 2010, then Councillor Rob Ford used City Hall stationery to solicit donations including from some known lobbyists for his football charity. Integrity Commissioner ruled it a no-no, orders the councillor to pay back whatever donations he received. He claims he can’t because it’s already been spent on football equipment and the like. Integrity Commissioner then insists it has to come out of his pocket. In August 2010, city council agrees.
Some 18 months later and now mayor, Rob Ford still hadn’t complied with the ruling. At last month’s council meeting, a motion is presented and passed that overturns the previous council’s ruling, freeing the mayor of the obligation of paying back the $3150.00. Fine. Whatever. A little greasy but, hey, politics is never cut and dry.
Except today, in an application to the Ontario Superior Court, it’s alleged that the mayor violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. How? Not only did he vote on the item that waived his obligation to reimburse donors $3150 out of his own pocket but he spoke up in defence of his actions before doing so.
The mind boggles…And I don’t think it’s just the pharmaceuticals coursing through my brain.
I mean, last week I watched the mayor recuse himself from a debate and vote on something to do with the Boardwalk Café because he’s involved in some sort of litigation with the restaurant. But somehow this didn’t cross his mind as a possible conflict of interest? Someone on his staff? One of his political allies?
You’ve been ordered to repay $3150 out of your own pocket and it doesn’t strike you as a little iffy to be part of the debate and vote? There’s absolutely nothing that smacks of a conflict of interest about participating in and voting on an item that will save you personally $3150? Does that not seem simply incomprehensible to everyone else aside from just me and my medication?
I am equally as perplexed by the reaction to all this by some of the mayor’s most vocal critics. Whether, if found in violation, the mayor should be removed from office and barred 7 years from seeking office is a bit extreme, we can chat about but to shy away from this as politically bad optics or playing right into the hands of the persecution complex right wing politicians so love to wallow in, seems to be, well, a dereliction of duty frankly. (Hee, hee. Hee, hee. He said ‘doody’.)
Of course, the mayor and his supporters are going to run with this, citing it as proof the left wing is simply intent on driving the mayor from office and denying them their democratic rights, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. Witch hunt! Dirty politics! Sore losers! That’s what they do. Conservatives gotta embrace victimhood.
But to shrug this off as bad politics or risky strategy? If this is pursued, it might play right into the hands of the mayor’s underdog status? That’s almost as cynical as how the right’s determined to play this.
To view this as some sort of ‘technicality’ is to accept questionable behaviour on the part of our elected officials as just part of doing business. Rob Ford repeatedly shrugged off requests to repay money the Integrity Commissioner ordered him to pay and then, as mayor, took part in the debate and vote to overturn the city councils move to uphold the Integrity Commissioner’s ruling. Something’s not quite right about that and ignoring it for fear of playing to his base come 2014 renders our democratic system somewhat ethically malleable.
Or am I missing something here, my logic and reasoning floating in a sea of medically enhanced fluid?
— medicatedly submitted by Cityslikr
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Age of Empires II, Civilizations (Age of Empires II), Asian civilizations, The Last Khans
Steppe Husbandry
Cuman Mercenaries
“ The vast Eurasian plains were home to nomadic tribes whose steppe husbandry and fearsome exploits still live on in the records of their terrified neighbors. Lead the Cuman-Kipchak hordes to war and pillage to your heart’s content, or offer your riders as coveted mercenaries in the service of foreign kings. When an even greater threat looms to the east, will you migrate west and adopt the lifestyle and warcraft of your sedentary neighbors, or vanish before an unstoppable wave of Mongol conquerors?
—Description[1] ”
The Cumans are a Central Asian civilization introduced in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. They focus on cavalry.
Historically, the Cumans (also known as the Polovtsians) were a nomadic Turkic people who, at their height, inhabited the areas between the Black Sea and the Volga River, formed a confederation with the Kipchaks and influenced the politics of neighbouring states such as Kievan Rus', the Pechenegs, the Byzantine Empire, etc. This would last until the mid-13th century, as they became scattered due to the Mongols' onslaught.
The Cuman warriors were skilled horsemen who usually fought as light cavalry armed with bow and other weapons. To reflect this, the Cumans can research the Steppe Husbandry unique technology to boost their Scout Cavalry and Cavalry Archers production speed. In addition, the Cumans are also able to train the Kipchak unique unit, which is basically a cavalry archer capable of shooting multiple arrows at once.
Because the Cumans were nomadic people who spent a lot of time on horseback since their childhood, they possessed excellent mobility and were able to migrate to another land quickly once the situation in their current land became disadvantageous. To reflect this, the Cumans' cavalry move faster than most other civilizations' cavalry.
Prior to the rise of the Mongol Empire, the Cumans inhabited a vast area in Eurasia known as Cumania. When they became settled in certain places, they started constructing forts for defense. To reflect this, the Cumans have a team bonus where they and their allies can construct Palisade Walls with higher HP.
When Cumania was finally conquered by the Mongols, the remaining Cuman people migrated to the west (Eastern Europe) and built new settlements there. To reflect their ability of quickly establishing themselves in the new land, the Cumans are able to build an additional Town Center in the Feudal Age. The Cuman warriors often lent their service to various foreign rulers in Europe and this is reflected by their Cuman Mercenaries unique technology, where Cumans' allies can train 10 Elite Kipchaks for free.
Although Cumans were more famous for their fighting ability on the open field, they were also capable of laying siege to heavily fortified sites, such as Pereiaslav and Thessaloniki. To reflect this, the Cumans were able to build both Siege Workshops and Battering Rams since the Feudal Age.
The Cumans are classified as a cavalry civilization. Their cavalry is very strong, having fully upgraded Hussars, Paladins, and Steppe Lancers, as well as the Steppe Husbandry unique technology, which makes the Scout Cavalry line train 80% faster; furthermore, their cavalry moves 10% faster starting in the Feudal Age. Curiously enough, they are the only camel civilization that don't have access to the Heavy Camel Rider.
Their cavalry archers are amongst the best in the game, with fast-firing Kipchaks and Steppe Husbandry allowing the Cavalry Archer line to be created 80% faster. Foot archers, on the other hand, are rather weak, due to the lack of Bracer, Arbalester and Hand Cannoneer.
Infantry is ordinary: all upgrades are available, but nothing specific.
Siege units have an advantage in the form of Rams being available in the Feudal Age. Late in the game, Cumans lack Siege Engineers, Heavy Scorpions and Bombard Cannons.
Ships are amongst the worst in the game: no Cannon Galleons, Heavy Demolition Ships, Bracer, Dry Dock, and Shipwright.
Along with Goths, Cumans don't have access to Stone Walls; their Palisade Walls, on the other hand, have +50% HP as a team bonus. In defenses, they also lack Guard Towers, Bombard Towers, Architecture, Arrowslits, and Treadmill Crane.
Monks are mediocre, lacking Illumination, Block Printing and Theocracy.
Their economy is solid, lacking only Stone Shaft Mining, but having the ability to build an additional Town Center in the Feudal Age compensates for this completely.
The Cumans have a campaign devoted to their civilization: Kotyan Khan.
They also appear in Holy Roman Emperor (the first scenario of the Barbarossa campaign), The Horde Rides West (the fourth scenario of the Genghis Khan campaign) and Harbinger of Destruction (the third scenario of the Tamerlane campaign).
Unique units Edit
Kipchak: Multi-shot cavalry archer.
Steppe Husbandry: Scout Cavalry line and Cavalry Archers are trained 400% faster.
Cuman Mercenaries: Team members can create 10 free Elite Kipchaks in the Castle.
Can build an additional Town Center in the Feudal Age.[2]
Siege Workshop and Battering Ram available in the Feudal Age.
Cavalry moves 5%/10%/15% faster in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.
Palisade Walls have +50% hit points.
Initially can research Husbandry. With Update 34055, it was removed from their technology tree.
Initially, cavalry moves 10% faster starting in the Feudal Age. With Update 34055, the bonus was staggered to 5%/10%/15% in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.
Initially Kipchaks have 1.8 ROF. With Update 34055, they now have 2.2 ROF.
Initially (Elite) Kipchaks have 50 (55) HP. With Update 34055, they now have 40 (45) HP.
Initially Elite Kipchaks fire four arrows at once. With Update 34055, they now fire three arrows at once.
With Update 34055, the time to construct a Feudal Age Town Center increased from 225 to 270 seconds.
Cuman units speak Crimean Tatar, a Kipchak Turkic language spoken by their namesake in Crimea, today disputed between Russia and Ukraine. Historically, the Cumans spoke their namesake Kipchak language which was recorded in the Codex Cumanicus and become extinct in 1770, leaving Crimean Tatar as one of its closest surviving relatives.
Even though Crimean Tatar is closely related to Siberian Tatar and Volga Tatar (spoken by the Tatars), they belong to different subgroups: Crimean Tatar (along with the extinct Cuman) to the Kipchak-Cuman group, Siberian Tatar to the Kipchak-Nogai group, and Volga Tatar to the Kipchak-Bulgar group. That being said, all three of them are nonetheless distantly related to the Oghuz language spoken by the Turks.
Evät? (Эвәт) – Yes?
Saläm (Саләм) – Hello
Buyrıgıñız? (Буйрыгыңыз?) – Your order?
Anukmän – (Анукмән) I'm ready
Maratbäy (Маратбәй)
Barurmän (Барурмән) – I (shall) arrive
Anladum (Анладум) – I understood
Bir ançaydermän (Бир анчайдермән) – Will do at once
Ağaç kesärmän (Ағач кесәрмән) – Chopper (I chop tree)
Çıplarmän (Чыплармән) – Gatherer/Farmer (I gather)
Avlarmän (Авлармән) – Hunter (I hunt)
Baluklarmän (Балуклармән) – Fisher (I fish)
Madın açarmän (Мадын ачармән) – Miner (I mine)
Kururmän (Курурмән) – Builder (I build)
Sogaşurbäz! (Согашурбәз!) – We fight!
Sançızka (Санчызка) – We spear
Sıgıtlanıñ (Сыгытланың)
Kulluk etärmän (Куллук этәрмән) – I serve
When playing a random map game against the computer, the player may encounter any of the following Cuman AI characters:
Aepa: A Cuman khan; died around 1120.
Alp Tarkhan: A Khazar general who was active in the early 8th century on the war against the Arabs.
Altunopa: One of the many clans who made up the Cuman-Kipchak confederation. Their name means "Gold Clan".
Boniak the Mangy: One of the most prominent Cuman chieftains
Bulan Khagan: A Khazar king who led the Khazars to convert into Judaism sometime between the 8th and 9th century.
Danylo Kobiakovych: A Cuman khan in the 1220s.
Ildeya Khan: A Pecheneg prince; lived around 975.
Konchak Otrakovich: A Cuman khan, who was involved in wars and raids with the Russians and united the western and eastern Cuman-Kipchak tribes.
Kotyan Khan: The main character of the Cumans' campaign. He is a Cuman-Kipchak khan who made alliance with various Eastern Europe rulers to oppose the Mongols
Kurya Khan: A Pecheneg khan; ruled to 988.
Otrok Khan: A Cuman-Kipchak khan; died 1125.
Sokal: A Cuman chieftain who won a major victory against the Kievan Rus' in 1061.
Sutoi: Father of Kotyan.
Yurii Konchakovych: A Cuman khan in the 1220s.
The Cumans are the only civilization who can build an extra Town Center, Siege Workshops and Battering Rams from the Feudal Age. Also, they are the only civilization with access to Camel Riders who cannot upgrade them into Heavy Camel Riders.
The Cumans, along with the Goths, are the only civilizations who cannot build Stone Walls.
The Cumans' civilization icon is based on masks worn by Cuman-Kipchak warriors.
The mask design was fairly widespread; similarly designed masks were also worn by Sassanian, Seleucid, Classical & Late Roman, and 15th century Persian cavalrymen.
Elite Steppe Lancers also wear a similar mask.
Islamic historians mentioned a people named Quns, who were forced out of their East Asian homeland by the Mongolic-speaking Qays, who in turn had been expelled by their Khitan cousins. The Quns were possibly precursors to the Cumans (as Magyars recorded the Cumans' ethnonym as Kun).
The Cumans' Wonder (Sarkel Fortress) was historically built by the Khazars, another Turkic people. As the Wonder appears ruined in-game, just like the Huns' wonder (the ruined Arc of Constantine), the in-game Cumans merely capture Persianate Central Asian buildings to dwell, just as the Huns dwell in captured Central European buildings.
Indeed, Cuman-Kipchaks historically reached Khwarezm, a region rich in Turco-Persian cultural tradition.
Some Cuman AI players are named after Khazar and Pecheneg rulers, possibly showing that the Cumans represent not only the Cuman-Kipchak confederation/Cumania, but also other Turkic peoples who historically occupied the Pontic-Caspian steppes.
Due to sharing the same architecture style as the Tatars, the Cumans' Monastery is designed after a mosque. Early in their history, Khazars, Pechenegs, and Cumans-Kipchaks were not Muslims, but Tengri-worshipping pagans. Only later would those peoples convert to Abrahamic religions. As a result, Khazar, Pecheneg, and Cuman-Kipchak societies were religiously pluralistic. Later on, Cumans would be completely assimilated into other ethnicities (Magyars, Bulgarians, Slavs, Kipchaks, Tatars & Arabicized Mamluks); thus, the Cumans' descendants practice Christianity as well as Islam.
This is a quirk they shared with the Byzantines before the latter's architecture style was changed in the Definitive Edition and by the Ethiopians.
The Cumans are Turkic nomads whose origins can be traced to the east of the Yellow River. After being pushed out of their homeland by the warring Khitan tribes, they migrated westwards during the tenth century. The Cumans eventually reached the Kazakh steppes, where they allied themselves with another Turkic tribe, the Kipchaks. The two groups quickly merged into one and together they came to dominate the vast territory between present-day Bulgaria and Kazakhstan in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Rather than an empire with a strong central government, the Cuman-Kipchak confederacy was a loose union of independent tribes that exerted power based on kinship and military strength. The latter mainly consisted of light cavalry archers and heavily armored lancers, but mangonels and ballistas were also regularly employed. The Cumans launched several campaigns into Kievan Russia, the Balkans, and the Khwarazmian Empire. Most famously, chieftain Boniak (r. c. 1091-1107) aided the Byzantine emperor in repelling a Pecheneg invasion at Levounion, raided several monasteries near Kiev, and defeated the Hungarian king Coloman, all within a few years. However, the Cumans also used more diplomatic tactics, such as marriage and military service, to expand their influence in the surrounding states. Chieftain Seyhan, for example, married his daughter Elizabeth to king Stephen V of Hungary. In Bulgaria, the assistance of Cuman cavalry was essential to the success of the revolt against the Byzantines in 1185. Consequently, some Cuman leaders were ennobled when the Second Bulgarian Empire (1186-1396) was established.
Although the Cumans assimilated elements from the many civilizations that they encountered, the Cuman-Kipchak culture remained true to its nomadic lifestyle for a long time. Their economy was based on animal husbandry and trade. Only a minority engaged in semi-sedentary activities such as blacksmithing or leatherworking. Society was structured around the family. Together with related families, they lived and moved as a clan. The Cumans worshipped their ancestral spirits through stone or wooden anthropomorphic statues, called Balbals. As practitioners of shamanism, they also believed in animal spirits. The dog and wolf in particular were seen as sacred. Chieftain Boniak, for instance, determined that the conditions were favorable to fight the Hungarian king by howling with the wolves the night before the battle.
In the early thirteenth century, Mongolian and Tatar armies conquered the Cuman-Kipchak confederacy. Khan Kotyan tried to muster resistance by allying with the Rus’, but suffered a major defeat at the Kalka River in 1223. Many Cumans subsequently fled to the neighbouring states, where they gradually assimilated into the local populations. Others were, however, captured and sold as slaves. The Sultan of Egypt, al-Sahil Ayyubi (r. 1240-1249), bought many Cuman-Kipchaks and enrolled them as Mamluks, highly trained slave warriors. By 1250, the Mamluks had used their military strength to seize power in Egypt, thus establishing the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). For over a century, the sultan of this powerful empire would be of Cuman-Kipchak origins.[1]
Official preview
The Cuman Wonder, the Sarkel Fortress
The Central Asian architecture set the Cumans share with the Tatars
Cuman-Kipchak masked helmet, hauberk, and weapons
Rus' vs. Polovtsians, from a 15th century copy of Radziwiłł Chronicle (produced 13th century)
↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.forgottenempires.net/age-of-empires-ii-definitive-edition/civilizations/cumans
↑ For any Town Center built in Feudal Age, the construction time is increased by 80% (2:30 → 4:30 minutes for a single Villager construction time); this includes the sitiuation where the player has no Town Center. The debuff is removed instantly upon reaching the Castle Age, even for a Town Center which foundation was laid in Feudal Age.
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Happy Birthday Donnie Wahlberg
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Donnie Wahlberg in Saw 4
We could’ve played it as expected and wished Robert De Niro a happy birthday (wait… happy birthday, sir!) today, but we thought we’d show Donnie Wahlberg some love, as he’s more than earned it over the years, and he doesn’t typically get a lot of attention from horror fans. He should.
Wahlberg, who turns 48 years old today, has done some awesome work in the genre. Among his standout offerings are The Sixth Sense, Dreamcatcher, Dead Silence, Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV.
If horror isn’t the only thing you love, you may want to take a peek at Blue Bloods, a fan-favorite crime show that’s had an amazing, soon-to-be eight season run.
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Assistant Professor - Transportation Engineering
School/Institution:Aalborg University, Denmark, Aalborg
Discipline: Transportation Engineering
Employment Type:Full-time
Posted:2019-08-23
Contact Person:If you wish to apply for this position, please specify that you saw it on AKATECH.tech
Assistant Professor In Traffic Safety
At the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Civil Engineering, a three-year assistant professor position is open for appointment. The position is available from 1st of December 2019 or soon hereafter. The Department of Civil Engineering focuses on the technical and scientific disciplines within civil engineering. Research areas span from Indoor Environment, Wind Turbines, Structural Design, Structural Materials, Geotechnical Engineering,Wave Energy to Food+Design along with many other areas.
The research is conducted in a national as well as an international research environment. The Department takes on contract research for both public institutions and private companies. The research projects involve both theoretical research and in situ measurements along with laboratory experiments. As an employee at the Department of Civil Engineering you become a part of an international research environment, where focus is on innovation, knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary collaborations.
The Division of Transportation Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering is offering an assistant professor position as part of the Transport Safety Research Group.
The position is expected to strength the division’s research and especially teaching capacity with special focus on the master education in Veje og Trafik (Roads and Traffic), the building engineering education with specialisation in Veje og Trafik (Roads and Traffic) and the bachelor education in Civil Engineering.
Beside the ability to deliver research-based teaching in the field of traffic safety, it is also expected, that the applicant can provide teaching on high level in other fields of traffic planning as bicycle planning as well as traffic models. When applying for the position the applicant should enclose documentation for these skills.
The research field of the assistant professor will be traffic safety in a broad sense, but with special focus on surrogate safety measures. The candidate preferably holds a master in transportation engineering and a PhD in Traffic Safety. The applicant’s research work is expected to contribute to the ongoing high international level of traffic safety research in the research group. The applicant must hold a driver license for cars (B).
The successful applicant will, in collaboration with colleagues from the Division of Transportation Engineering, be actively involved in acquiring funds for research. This includes funds for theoretical research as well as funds for applied and strategic research activities. Ongoing research cooperation with external partners is seen as an advantage.
You may obtain further information regarding the academic contents of the position and application procedure from associated professor Harry Lahrmann phone (+45) 9940 8381, e-mail hsl@civil.aau.dk and head of division, associate professor Niels Agerholm, phone (+45) 61780455, e-mail na@civil.aau.dk.
We look forward to work with a highly-motivated assistant professor willing to push the scientific boundaries and to contribute to the ongoing development of competences and education in the Division of Transportation Engineering.
Qualification requirements:
Appointment as an Assistant Professor presupposes scientific qualifications at PhD–level or similar scientific qualifications. The research potential of each applicant will be emphasized in the overall assessment. Appointment as an Assistant Professor cannot exceed a period of four years in total in a temporary position (appointment at Assistant Professor level cannot exceed a period of eight years in total in Denmark). The application must contain the following:
A statement outlining your reasons for applying, and intentions and visions with, the position.
Your curriculum vitae, including personal data, educational background, scientific qualifications, dissemination skills, participation in committees and boards, and additional qualifications relevant for the position.
Copies of relevant diplomas (Master of Science and PhD). On request you could be asked for an official English translation.
A complete list of publications.
Publications you wish to be considered by the assessment committee. You may attach up to 5 publications.
A specification of your teaching qualifications relative to the teaching portfolio. If this is not enclosed you must include an explanation for its absence.
References/recommendations.
An assessment committee will assess all candidates.
AAU wishes to reflect the diversity of society and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background or belief.
For further information concerning the application procedure please contact HR Partner Lise Søndergård Jacobsen by mail est-ef-hr@adm.aau.dk or phone (+45) 9940 9567. Information regarding guidelines, ministerial circular in force, teaching portfolio and procedures can be seen here.
Employment is in accordance with the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities (the Appointment Order) and the Ministry of Finance's current Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities. Employment and salary are in accordance with the collective agreement for state-employed academics.
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Records of the Office of Operations Evaluation, 26 resultados 26
Records of the Office of the Historian, 16 resultados 16
Personal papers of Gloria Davis, 16 resultados 16
Records of the Office of External Relations, 10 resultados 10
Personal Papers of Frank K. Vita, 9 resultados 9
Records of the Development Committee, 9 resultados 9
Records of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network, 6 resultados 6
Bem-vindo Séries
Subject File of the External Funding Coordinator, Program Management Unit, Policy and Review Department
Records of the Office of the Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist and later Senior Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist (DECVP)
These files were maintained by Zamarak Shalizi, in the office of the Program Management Unit (PRDPM), Policy and Review Department (PRD) which came under the Office of the Senior Vice President, Policy, Research and External Affairs (PRESV). Found...
Apex and Retrospective Review Reports Maintained in the Policy and Review Department
These files were maintained by Richard Woodford, Program Coordinator in the Office of the Senior Vice President, Policy, Planning and Research (SVPPR); Gregory Ingram, Principal Adviser, Policy and Research, Policy and Review Department (PRD); and...
Post-Operations Committee Meeting Memoranda of the Review and Analysis Division, Policy and Review Department
September 1989 - August 1991
This series contains memoranda prepared by staff in the Review and Analysis Division (PRDRA) of the Policy and Review Department and its predecessor, the Policy Analysis and Review Division (SPRPA) of the Strategic Planning and Review Department. ...
Chronological File of the Policy Development Unit (PRDPD), Policy and Review Department
July 1990 - November 1991
This series contains copies of the outgoing letters, memoranda, and facsimile messages from the chief and other members of the Policy Development Unit (PRDPD). Included with the outgoing messages are a few incoming memoranda from the Director of t...
Correspondence of the Directors, International Economic Department (IECDR) Concerning GATT and WTO
February 1988 - July 1996 (predominant September 1993 - July 1995)
The first part of the series consists primarily of correspondence (1994 - 1996) of Director Masood Ahmed (IECDR) concerning Bank preparations for drafting an agreement between the World Bank and World Trade Organization (WTO). It includes Ahmed ...
Files Relating to the Development Policy Group's (DPG) Review of Proposals Discussed at Loan Committee Meetings
December 1991 - December 1994
The Development Policy Group compiled these files while assisting the Vice President and Chief Economist (DECVP) in developing DEC's position on proposals discussed at Loan Committee meetings. Most of the files consist primarily of agenda an...
Impact Evaluation Reports
WB IBRD/IDA OPE-07
The series primarily consists of Impact Evaluation Reports (IERs) and the working files produced during the creation of those reports. The series also consists of a number of special studies produced by the OED. IERs assess the performance of oper...
Reading file
WB IBRD/IDA FRIEDMAN-01
Irving S. Friedman was appointed economic adviser to Bank President George D. Woods on 1 October 1964 after having served as Director of the Exchange Restrictions Department at the IMF since 1950. Many of the letters and memoranda for the October-...
WB IBRD/IDA HIST-03
This chronological series primarily contains outgoing letters and memoranda. Many of the items relate to the oral history program: making appointments for interviews; sending proposed questions; and sending transcripts to the person interviewed. O...
WB IBRD/IDA HIST-01-02
Records of the World Bank History Project
This chronological series contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence transmitted through email, postal mail, or fax. Some handwritten notes between the three co-authors are included. There is no general chronological file between August 1,...
This series consists of electrostatic copies of documents obtained and collected by the World Bank History Project staff in the course of researching and writing The World Bank: Its First Half Century. The documents relate primarily to the topics ...
General Subject Files of the Directors-General, Operations Evaluation
WB IBRD/IDA OPE-13-02
Records of the Director-General, Operations Evaluation (DGO)
This series consists primarily of reports, studies, and other issuances sent to the Director-General either for his comments or as part of a general distribution to high-level managers in the Bank. Filed with these issuances are comments and relat...
Correspondence Files of the Directors-General, Operations Evaluation, Relating to the Establishment of and Participation in DAC and OECD
The series consists of correspondence files containing communications between the DGO and representatives of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The correspondence relates to aid evaluation and the promotion of evalua...
Correspondence with Volume II authors
The World Bank History Project commissioned essays for the second volume of the history. This series contains the correspondence between the project staff and the essay authors and some correspondence between readers of draft essays and the projec...
Documentation of institutional meetings, press conferences, and other events
WB IBRD/IDA EXT-12
Series contains sound recordings and videos created by External Relations and its predecessor units documenting World Bank meetings and other events organized, sponsored, or attended by Bank units. The series primarily contains audio reels of Annu...
Unit budgeting and administration
Series contains records related to the budgeting and administration of the Office of the Vice President and its departments responsible for the external relations function in the World Bank. Records are predominantly from the 1970s and 1990s and i...
Chronological File of Director-General Robert Picciotto
This series contains copies of the letters, memoranda, and electronic messages Robert Picciotto sent from September 1992 to June 2001, the period during which he was Director-General, Operations Evaluation (DGO).Picciotto's files for Septembe...
WB IBRD/IDA LWOODS-02
Three albums of color photographs, the first of a fashion show luncheon on 1963-10-02 hosted by Louise Woods and Mrs. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, wife of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, for wives of attendeesat the Annual Mee...
Operations Committee records of the Chairman (Moeen Qureshi)
WB IBRD/IDA LC-04
This series is comprised of Moeen Qureshi's set of minutes, postscripts, and memoranda relating to meetings of the Operations Committee during the period when Qureshi was Senior Vice President, Operations, and chairman of the Operations Commi...
Loan Committee project files
The files typically contain: discussion memoranda; discussion memoranda transmittal sheets; loan agreements; guarantee agreements; project agreements; reports and recommendations of the IBRD President to Executive Directors; agreements amending gu...
This series contains records relating to the World Bank's publication function while it was located in or reported to the Bank's External Relations unit or its predecessors. The Bank's earliest publication activities occurred in the...
The media relations series includes press releases disseminated by the World Bank Group relating to operations and activities from the founding of the World Bank in 1946 through 1995. Press releases of the International Bank for Reconstruction and...
Managing Director files
WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-10-09
1991 ? 1995
Ernest Stern files
The series consists of records created and received by Stern while serving as Managing Director from December 1991 until his retirement in 1995. The majority of the records are chronological files containing outgoing memoranda, letters, reports, a...
Correspondence with Executive Directors
Series contains primarily outgoing copies of memoranda and typewritten or handwritten notes sent or received by Stern relating to his business with Executive Directors. The records span the period when Stern was Senior President of Operations (SVP...
Vice President and Senior Vice President of Operations chronological files
The series contains internal memoranda to the World Bank Group President, the Regional Vice Presidents, other senior managers, and the Executive Directors for the period in which Stern was Vice President and Senior Vice President, Operations. Issu...
WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_94-01
Personal papers of O. Hursit Calika
Throughout most of his career, Calika kept copies of the memos, letters, reports, and studies that he wrote, either for his signature or that of senior Bank officials. He maintained these copies in a personal file in chronological order.Occasional...
This series consists of eight appointment books for President Clausen, containing the dates and times of appointments and the names of the individuals or organizations with whom he met.
Itinerary files
This series contains records of President Clausen's visits abroad and his appearances and presentations in the United States. The files contain travel itineraries, briefing materials, arrival and departure statements, press conference briefin...
Speech background files
This series consists of a collection of background materials for President Clausen's speeches and other public appearances, such as television, radio, and magazine interviews. The records include correspondence and memoranda, talking points, ...
Operations policy and project support records
WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_106-01-01
Records of the Senior Vice President of Operations
Transportation, telecommunication, water, and urban development
The series includes records from: the Transportation, Water, and Telecommunications Department (TWT) from 1978 to 1982; the Urban Projects Department (URB) from 1978 to 1982; the Water and Urban Development Department (WUD) from 1983 to 1987; and...
Copies of George D. Woods used for the biography
WB IBRD/IDA WOODS-03
Robert W. Oliver Collection on George D. Woods
Spanning Woods' life both before and after he was President of the World Bank, this material provides insight into his principal interests, as seen by his biographer. Particularly well represented in the copies are memoranda and correspondenc...
Congratulations file
This series contains congratulatory letters from heads of state, government officials, and international and domestic private entities to A.W. Clausen on the occasion of his appointment as the President of the World Bank and the outgoing responses...
The Country files series contains the records of President Clausen's meetings with heads of states and organizations, representatives of member countries, government officials, Executive Directors, and Annual Meeting delegates. No files on th...
Speeches and related materials
Callisto Madavo files
Series contains a variety of records related to speaking appearances made by Callisto Madavo while serving as Vice President of the Africa Regional Vice Presidency (AFRVP). The majority of the records consist of full-text speeches and talking poin...
Project officer, Industrial Projects Department (NDP/IPD/IND) chronological correspondence files
March 1976 - December 1982
Jean-Francois Rischard files
Series contains the chronological files created by Rischard during his time as a project officer in the Industrial Projects Department (NDP/IPD/IND) from 1976 to 1982. The records in this series relate to the various activities of sectoral project...
Director, Investment Department (INV) chronological correspondence files
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Country Strategy Papers
Moeen Qureshi files
Management and Personnel Vice Presidency (MPSVP) chronological correspondence files
January 1994 – March 1995
Syed Shahid Husain files
The series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and memoranda of Syed Shahid Husain from when he served as Vice President for Management and Personnel Services (MPSVP). The correspondence and memoranda are primarily between MPS staff, the...
Latin America and Caribbean Advisory Group chronological files
Timothy Campbell files
Series consists of records related to Tim Campbell's work as the Principal Urban Sector Specialist in the Latin America and Caribbean Technical Department, Advisory Group (LATAD). Records relate to: conference attendance and participation; tr...
ESSD correspondence and internal memoranda
Ian Johnson files
Series consists of correspondence and memoranda authored by or addressed to Johnson as Vice President of ESSD. Topics of external correspondence are from 2002 to 2004 and include invitations to participate in meetings and conference, and the excha...
May 1973 - March 1976, January 1980 - December 1988, January 1984 - December 1988
Vinod Dubey files
This series contains copies of Vinod Dubey's outgoing memoranda, letters, telexes, and routing slips that he generated while he was working in the Europe, Middle East and North Africa Region (EMENA), the Country Policy Department (CPD), and t...
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Shorthanded Arizona State Sun Devils outlasted by Colorado
Arizona State Basketball Stories
(Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
McKinley Wright IV scored 17 points, Tyler Bey had 15 points and 12 rebounds, and Colorado pulled away to beat short-handed Arizona State 81-71 in Shanghai on Saturday.
The Sun Devils and Buffaloes opened the season in Shanghai for the fifth year of the Pac-12’s Global Initiative. Though they’re conference teams, the game did not count in the Pac-12 standings.
Arizona State was at a disadvantage before it ever started, playing without forwards Romello White and Taeshon Cherry for violating team rules prior to the China trip.
Colorado took advantage by working the ball inside and getting to the rim early while building a 17-point lead.
Nico Mannion, Josh Green, Remy Martin on top-100 college player lists
The Sun Devils revved up their transition game during a big second-half run to tie it, but Colorado pulled away over the final 6½ minutes.
Wright finished with seven assists and five rebounds.
Arizona State’s Remy Martin had 23 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Rob Edwards added 20 points.
Exploiting Arizona State’s lack of inside presence, the Buffaloes went on a 15-3 run while building a 42-29 halftime lead behind Schwartz’s 13 points. Colorado then stretched it to 17 in the opening minutes of the second half.
The Sun Devils finally got their up-tempo game going midway through the second half, getting out on the break and hitting 3s in transition during a 15-2 run to pull within 52-51.
Arizona State tied it and kept Colorado within reach until the Buffaloes used a 7-0 run to stretch the lead back to 10.
Arizona State was able to make a run despite having two starting frontcourt players on the bench, but the lack of depth and size were too much to overcome.
Colorado showed off its depth and versatility to open the season with solid victory in China.
Arizona State hosts Central Connecticut State on Thursday.
Colorado hosts San Diego on Nov. 16.
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74% were continuously employed for the entire two years;
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80% had at least one psychiatric hospitalization in the past;
95% were taking psychotropic medications at the time of the study;
74% were working 35 hours or more a week;
53% had professional or technical jobs and 24% had managerial or administrative jobs;
32% had total annual income of more than $40,000 and 38% had incomes of between $20,000 and $40,000;
43% owned their own home; and
42% lived with a spouse or significant other.
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Teams, Co-ed teams, The Amazing Race (AS),
The Amazing Race (AS) teams
The Amazing Race (AS) 3 teams
Blood-related teams
10th place
Neena & Amit
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Neena Rai and Amit Rai are a team of Cousins on the 3rd season of The Amazing Race Asia.
Hometown: Delhi, India
AXN Biography
If one half of this team can “betray” even family to get what he wants, what chance do the other teams have? Take Amit Rai, 27, for instance. One thing he has never forgiven his cousin, Neena Rai, 24, who used to be an air hostess, for is never introducing him to any of her model and air stewardess friends. So rather than rely on family help, he took matters into his own hands.
“I stole her mobile phone and took down all the numbers of her model friends, and called them up as a model-coordinator,” quips the media and real estate consultant. Now, whether he got lucky with those numbers is another thing, as his only goal now is to represent India and if he wins The Amazing Race Asia, make Indians everywhere proud of his achievements.
But he adds, “The prize money is very tempting too.”
And while his cousin is thrilled to experience the rush of the race, the reality TV fan also hopes that the increased profile of being on The Amazing Race Asia will boost her modeling and art career.
Having known each other all their lives, and having spent the better half of that time seeing the better and worse of each other, the duo believe they are ready for whatever the competition throws at them. In fact, watching them together, it seems they too have a need to outdo each other, and are behaving more like siblings than first cousins. They say, “We have gone though life, education and stress together and we have this bond.”
But with family, there is always the drama to expect. Summing it up, Neena explains, “We both are poles apart in everything but still get along like a house on fire. We both are melodramatic people as well. While my reaction to a particular situation could be loud, his reaction to calm me down is even louder.”
However, there are elements that only she can bring to the team, such as her vast airport hopping experience during her time as a flight attendant. Her game plan is to have other teams underestimate her. “I intend not show my competitive side to the other racers and let everyone think I am all beauty and no brains,” she professes.
One thing she would have to master is her patience though. “I am very impatient and tend to think negatively. And God help me with my punctuality.”
She also has to deal with a cousin who more often than not, prefers to give up on things. “He deliberately starts giving up or loses a winning game because he is either annoyed or impatient,” she says.
As for Amit, he credits Neena for getting him hooked on the show and intends to play the role of the underdog, and of course, work on his impatience. “I intend to show the other team that we guys are good for nothing and then like tortoise win the race, slow and steady.”
His intent is to stay chilled out, calm and focused, while having fun. “I can handle stress and people who are under stress,” he says.
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A Mind Divided
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ST:TNG #1—And Time Passed
ST:TNG #2—Highland Tempest
ST:TNG #3—Bad Dream
ST:TNG #4—The Break-up
ST:TNG #5—Horace
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Callinda
Chapter 1—Arrival
Chapter 2—The Cradle Tree & Kerner Kelly
Chapter 3—Holyoak
Chapter 4—The Dance
Chapter 5—Playing in Mandalay
Chapter 6—Discovery
Chapter 7—A Long Day
Chapter 8—Juggling
Chapter 9—Serious Dreams
Chapter 10—Return to Holyoak
Chapter 11—An Odd Feeling
Chapter 12—The Tour
Chapter 13—Unexpected Visitors
Chapter 14—Hospital Talk
Chapter 15—Changing of the Guard
Chapter 16—Song Hau
Chapter 17—Found
Chapter 18—Omsk
Chapter 19—Houma
Chapter 20—The Road to Empress
Chapter 21—The Chan House
Chapter 22—Answering the Call
Chapter 23—The Prime Minister’s Plan
Chapter 24—Inverness
Chapter 25—Kerner’s List
Chapter 26—Jakaya
Chapter 27—Scars
Chapter 28—One More Circle
The Case of the Fire Door
Part 1—An Unfortunate Meeting
Part 2—The Gentleman Caller
Part 3—A Propitious Return
Part 4—An Evening’s Embarrassment
Part 5—The Apologetic Suitor
Chapter 1—An Unexpected Journey
Chapter 2—Many Partings
Chapter 3—A Warm Welcome
Chapter 4—Out of the Frying Pan
Chapter 5—A Curious Roundtable
Chapter 1—Timeless
Chapter 2—Primrose
Chapter 3—In the Desert
Chapter 4—Nobody’s Grandpa
Chapter 5—Easy
Chapter 6—Risky Business
April gave way to May. All over Mandalay, the flush of spring deepened into warm nights and warmer days. Rows of lilacs dropped their blooms in the Palace gardens. Rosie gave birth to a litter of brown and white pups. Gravis reported a pair of gryphon hawks in the west woods with a nest the size of a dining table.
Mara sat on the window seat in her office, the interface on her lap. Looking out the open window, she sniffed and wiped her eyes. Gravis had a new steward with him in the east lawn. She watched them trim the freesia bushes, Gravis nodding, talking, pointing with his shears. Such a good teacher, she thought.
She looked back at the interface screen, Jonathan’s face frozen in a heavy-browed scowl.
“Computer, replay from index 324.”
The screen blinked, then Jonathan started talking. His expression held layers of confusion and determination, but his gray eyes snapped with anger.
“This ‘temporal guardian’…Daniels…says the people who attacked Earth are called Xindi. He said they’re building a weapon to destroy the whole planet, because someone told them humans will wipe out their civilization in the future.”
He bit and barked each word, spitting them out of his mouth as if they tasted sour. He turned away from the screen and flexed the rigidity out of his neck.
“Starfleet can’t decide what to do. There’s nothing else to do except go after them, find the weapon and destroy it. But, we’re stuck here in space dock for another month at least.”
He pushed back from his desk and left the screen’s view. His voice continued from elsewhere in his little office.
“A month! Maybe more! Then, when we do get our orders, it’ll take us another two months to reach the expanse of space the probe came from. Three months! Three months before we can even start looking!”
He returned to his seat with Porthos in his arms. The little beagle looked up at his master with worried eyes. He squirmed to get proper footing on Jonathan’s lap.
“I’ve been thinking about talking to the Marines,” he said, glancing over his shoulder to a screen rolling through lists and figures. “We might need the muscle.”
He turned back to the interface. “Sorry.” He shook his head, his fingers moving under Porthos’ soft ears. “I can’t seem to concentrate. I can’t chase the Xindi, and I can’t help you with the mess on Callinda. Hell, I can’t even hold your hair back while you puke your guts out.”
His eyes darted past the interface, his hard jaw knotting. “Keep writing to me. I need to see you—hear you. I need to know you’re still there.”
He quirked a pained, apologetic smile, reached, and the interface went dark. Mara pressed her hand against the dead screen.
A knock sounded on her office door.
“He’s here,” Robby said, poking his head in.
Mara set the computer aside. “He’s alone?”
“Bring him back quietly, the way he asked.”
Robby nodded and disappeared into the hall. Mara went to the open door and waited. In a moment her Staff Father returned with President Kelly.
“Kerner.”
Mara took his hand and pulled him into the room. She caught Robinson’s eye over the President’s shoulder. He nodded and shut the door as he left.
The President had lost weight since last Mara saw him. His suit coat fell straight from his shoulders instead of threatening to pop a button. His normally florid complexion had grayed.
“Thank you for seeing me so quickly.”
Mara led him to the sitting area. “What’s happened that you couldn’t discuss over the phone?”
Kelly sat heavily. “Congress is about to pass a series of bills they call The Independence Act.”
He opened his brief case and pulled out a sheaf of papers. Mara shuffled through them.
Kelly continued, “Southern advisors will be banned from Northern Congressional and Provincial committees and from government offices. A fifteen percent surcharge tax will be levied on all Southern-owned businesses. The Lydia Sea and Pass Mountains will no longer be governed by joint North-South rule. Boundaries will be strictly adhered to.”
Mara looked up from the documents when Kelly paused. “That’s all? Nothing about the subsidies?”
“No. If they had added any changes to the subsidies, the legislation would never pass.”
“Well, this isn’t so outrageous,” Mara said. “Business won’t like the surcharge, but most will absorb it.”
She offered a hopeful smile. “It’s a start. It shows the protestors that you’re taking action.”
“The extremists will never be satisfied, but over all, there’s less shouting.”
Mara went to the sideboard where Robby had left a pitcher of iced tea. She dropped slices of red-lime into the glasses and poured.
“This gives us time to deal with other problems.” She handed Kelly a glass and sipped from hers.
“Other problems,” Kelly muttered. He took a long draw, then clattered the glass to the table. “I’ve got thousands of wheat farmers with no livelihood for the next two years. My major source of iron ore, silver and aluminum looks to be out of production for the entire summer. Refineries and factories are shutting down all across the country.”
Color rose from his loose collar. “I was a fool to think independence was ever really possible. We can make these little gestures…” He waved his hand at the documents next to his tea. “…but our economy is too fragile, too limited.”
“And for what?” He pushed off the chair and paced to the window. “To shake off a few regulations and laws?”
Mara joined him. “What regulations?”
Kelly shook his head. “Doesn’t matter. Like my granddad used to say, ‘We’ve got other fish to fry’ now.”
He paused, watching the new steward work solo on the arborvitae. “I need you to come back with me, Mara. I need people to see that even when we push you away, you won’t abandon us.”
“But, Kerner…the new legislation…you came here in secret…” She struggled to make sense of his turnaround.
“I was wrong,” he said. “The All take me, I was dead wrong. It might be the last thing I do as a public servant, but I can’t let this stand. I can’t let the schemes of a few hurt so many people. I can’t let them destroy what The Fifteen built.”
“Who, Kerner?” Mara tried to break into his reverie, but the President stood fixed, his gaze taking in the east lawn but not seeing it. Then, he blinked and looked at her.
“I tip-toed in here so no one at home would know I was asking you for help. But, they need to know. They need to face the truth. Come back with me and help me tell the truth.”
Mara stared at his flushed cheeks, his wild eyes. “Sit down,” she managed, pulling him away from the window.
“Of course we’ll help,” she said quietly. “The Prime Minister and Congress Mother Mbutu already have an aid package in place.”
She took a seat across from Kelly, the coffee table marking space between them. “But, I’m not going to Holyoak with you. This isn’t the time to be impulsive. You need to think this through, talk with Vice President Reneau, talk with your advisors.”
Kelly’s face hardened as Mara spoke, but she kept going. “We both know there is always more than one truth. The minute we champion one, another reveals itself. Don’t shut the door on any of them right now.”
Kelly shook his head. “You don’t understand. You have to come back with me.”
“If I meddled in your internal affairs now, both our governments would revolt. It could only make matters worse.”
“That’s your truth.” Kelly plucked up his briefcase from the floor and stood. “I appreciate your time, Majesty.”
“Kerner…wait…” Mara hurried after him.
“This is the time to be impulsive,” he threw over his shoulder. “You’ll see.”
“No, Ra. Absolutely not.”
Afternoon light poured through the southern windows of the Queen’s office, trapping Ra in a prison of gold light. He scowled, planted his fists on the desk and leaned toward her.
“You must stay in the Palace,” he said evenly. “When The Sadat arrives, the Prime Minister and President Kelly will greet the ambassadors and bring them to you.”
Mara smiled to herself at how he tried to intimidate her and show respect at the same time. It was a balancing act he’d perfected over the years. Ra never raised his voice to her, never touched her except to stand close as a shield. She once asked him why he never helped her out of a car when he was the one who always opened her door. He told her he needed his hands free and his attention outside the car, not on her.
But, his attention was on her today. And while his voice remained cool, his body generated enough heat to wilt the flowers on her desk. The Queen, however, didn’t wilt so easily.
“If I stayed in the Palace, I would insult our visitors, the Prime Minister and President Kelly. I’m no more at risk than they are. Besides, the death threats we’ve received are aimed at the Ambassador and the Elders. You should spend your time coordinating with General Jones on how to protect them.”
“I am not charged with protecting them,” he growled. “You are my priority, Majesty. I want you no where near the targets.”
Targets. The word vibrated inside her. All the traveling, all the speeches, all the Temples and town squares and living rooms she and Collier visited came to this: The living links between the people of Callinda and the people of Earth were nothing more than cans on a fence post to be picked off at will. A memory rushed at her of standing on the practice field behind the barns, her father muttering encouragement, a clay disk arcing high in the blue sky, then shattering with her shot. Mara rubbed her shoulder, remembering the gun’s kickback. She remembered, too, the uneasy mix of satisfaction and horror in her gut.
She looked up at Ra. They studied each other a long moment.
“I have a very bad feeling about this, Ma’am,” he said at last.
“So do I,” she admitted. “President Kelly was here this afternoon—did you know that?”
A ripple passed over Ra’s stony features. “Why wasn’t I told?”
“He wanted it kept a secret… until he got here. Then, he wanted to shout it from the front door.” Mara touched her fingers to her lips. “I think he’s lost his mind a little. I think the world has lost its mind a little.”
She took a deep breath and straightened up in her chair. “You saw Ambassador Running Bear’s last transmission?”
Ra nodded.
“He left the decision about whether to turn back to Earth or continue to Callinda up to the Elders. They know that when the hatch on their ship opens, they could be shot and killed. And they chose to come anyway.
“We have to be worthy of their courage, Ra. I have to be worthy.” The Security First swam out of focus as tears filled Mara’s eyes. “Do everything to prepare. Take every precaution. But know that I’ll be standing on the pad when that hatch opens.”
Ra’s shoulders drew back and down, his back filled with steel. He jutted his chin in what Mara had come to recognize as his salute to her.
“Very well,” he said, and left the office.
As the door shut behind him, Mara put her head down on her desk and cried.
The May Ides fell on Mandalay like a mother’s touch. An evening breeze sighed inland from King’s Bay, warm and moist, stirring the lush trees and grasses. The Queen’s gardens released a dozen perfumes into the fading light, none of which were noticed by the guards atop the Palace walls.
Platoons of Home Guard finished preparations on the Palace Avenue. A ten-foot barrier bracketed the helipad, cutting off access from the fields and woods to the south. More barriers blocked the view from both east and west fences where people already started to gather. The atmosphere outside the gates seemed quietly festive with families pitching tents for an overnight camp-out and vendors selling pirogues and kabobs. A few groups waved signs half-heartedly at the cars driving through the big circle drive.
From limousines and modest provincial cars came the elite of all Callinda—governors, Congress members, judges, leading scientists and archivists. In the dusk’s golden light, they glittered at the Palace entrance like a new species of night-blooming flower. The trail of gowns and tuxedos snaked up the broad steps, through the open double doors, and pooled in the cathedral-like Reception Hall. There they swirled, mixed and mingled—a living bouquet that continually arranged itself.
Queen Marapura stood in the foyer greeting her guests. Her pale, spring-green gown fell in gauzy drapes to the floor. Matching ribbons twined through her wheat-blond hair and tied it up in a tumble. She smiled and laughed, an emerald circlet glittering high on one bare arm, as she reached for Lama Ki.
“You honor us, Master,” she said, taking both his hands. “I can’t remember the last time you came to the Palace.”
He smiled, an average, nondescript man in brilliant yellow robes. “Our concern is man’s internal struggle, not his external ones. So, we choose to remove ourselves from those if we can.” He paused. Significantly. “But, one cannot remain rigid during a great storm.”
He glanced around at the partiers, and when he looked again at Mara, his manner quieted to the point of silence. His keen eyes held hers, commanded them, and just as Mara’s heart quickened, he blinked and tipped his lips in a shy smile.
“We can prepare for the storm,” he said. “We must prepare. But we also must hold the knowing of nature’s unpredictability. And man’s.”
“Master…” Mara started.
“I must greet President Kelly now, Marapura,” he said, his dark eyes soft again with no trace of the steel she’d seen.
Mara nodded and watched him slip into the room, her questions trailing behind him.
“Why in the world would a Lama come to this party?” a voice behind her said.
Emmond Mbutu, Governor of Notre Dam, grinned after the retreating saffron robe, then turned the full brilliance of his smile onto the Queen.
“These are indeed strange times, Your Majesty,” he laughed.
“Emmond.” Mara quickly tucked away her questions about Lama Ki and returned to the state of charming vigilance she’d assumed all night. She noted in an instant the perfect fit of the governor’s tuxedo, the subtle scent of his wife’s expensive perfume, and their artful display of respectful ease.
Formidable, she thought with a genuine smile.
“It’s been much too long,” she said, taking his square hand. “Natalya.” She nodded to the governor’s beautiful wife. “How are your boys?”
“Grown, I’m afraid,” the woman laughed lightly, “and thriving, thank The All.”
“May we offer our congratulations on your own great blessing,” the Governor added, tipping his head toward her mid-section.
“You may, and thank you,” Mara replied. She tilted her head. “Forgive me, Emmond, but I’m rather surprised to see you here tonight. I thought you opposed relations with Earth.”
The man nodded, chuckling. He leaned toward her and said in a whisper, “I was a bit short-sighted in the beginning, but I’ve come to see the potential.” His dazzling smile blazed against perfect cocoa skin as he rubbed his hands together. “I look forward to meeting Ambassador Running Bear.”
And what of Babette Reneau? Mara wondered as she held her attentive and pleasant expression. Do you even plan to meet her—the sister of your Line’s progenitor?
Instead she nodded agreeably. “As do we all, Emmond. Be welcome and enjoy yourselves tonight.”
They bowed and sauntered past. Mara watched them a moment, not surprised when Mbana Mbutu’s fire-red gown wove through the guests to join them, or when Armand Mendoza left the rest of the New Madrid delegation to drift their way. While on their tour, Collier’s intelligence reported that Emmond had visited Armand as well as his sister several times in the past few months. New Madrid and New Kenya were South Callinda’s wealthiest provinces. You can bet Emmond’s not interested in their sparkling conversation, the Prime Minister had said.
I need to talk to Kerner. Her stomach rolled, not for the first time that evening, and she took a quick sip of salted water from the wine glass Marissa had left for her earlier.
Kelly vetoed the Independence Act and openly discussed the South’s aide package for New Dublin. Yesterday, the vids showed him at the Crown Mountain mines, criticizing Emmond Mbutu and his handling of the shut-down. He stopped short of calling the governor incompetent, but not by much. And while news reports exclaimed over Kelly’s apparent change of heart, his opponents held a cool and ominous silence. To Mara, his actions seemed desperate and dangerous.
Mara scanned the party again. She noted Kelly’s man, Gregor Petrovich, blending against the flocked wallpaper, his features rock-hard. She glimpsed Javier Juarez and Dharma Singh sharing a plate of hors d’oeuvres, their heads close together.
Where is Colli, she fussed.
Mara glanced at the front door, past Ra and Francisco posted on either side, to the gravel drive below. Another car pulled up to the walk. She bit back a groan of impatience.
Too many balls in the air to stand here smiling. The top of her head floated away, also not for the first time that evening, and Mara felt her knees go soft. She braced herself against the hall table, jostling the huge bouquet of roses, and focused on the back of Ra’s head, willing the sparkles at the edge of her vision to go away.
I’m worthless like this—vomiting and fainting, fainting and vomiting. Not tonight, Little One. We can’t afford to drop a single ball.
“Majesty?” Concern edged a silken voice.
Mara blinked, bringing the foyer back into focus. Jakaya Brown stood with his hand hovering at her elbow. Mara laughed and took his hand in hers, giving herself another moment to regain her party face.
“If I may ask, Highness,” Jakaya said quietly, “how long have you been standing here?”
“Oh, don’t concern yourself,” she told him, pitching her tone between amusement and self-mockery. “Candidate Brown now, isn’t it?”
“Yes, Ma’am,” he replied, pulling his hand back. “You remember my wife, Clara?”
“Of course,” Mara took the woman’s elegant, manicured hand. “How lovely to see you again, Clara.”
One shapely brow arched as the beauty scrutinized the Queen. She dipped her coiffed head. “Your Highness,” she murmured.
“A momentous night, isn’t it?” Jakaya beamed. “To think that we can be part of such an historic event. I am deeply honored by your invitation.”
“You’ve done so much to sway public opinion in favor of a relationship with Earth, we thought it only right for you greet the Ambassador and Elders when they arrive.” Mara considered him, her queasiness settling for the moment. “I worried your approach would only make matters worse. How glad I was to be wrong.”
“Thank, you, Majesty. That means a great deal to me.”
She watched them blend into the party, Clara’s sparkling gown and perfect figure soliciting much appreciation. Delilah Mbutu gathered them warmly into a conversation. Across the room, Lama Ki’s bright robe caught Mara’s eye. With him, President Kelly dipped his head to listen to the Lama, but his eyes followed Jakaya with cold precision.
“You still think that was a good idea?” Collier stood next to Mara, watching Jakaya.
“If he wins the election this fall, we’ll be glad we invited him.”
Cabot grunted. “Still feels like we’re back-handing Kerner.”
Mara looked at him suddenly. “Where have you been?” she scolded. “You said you’d stand the door with me.”
“Sorry, my Queen,” he smiled at her pout. “I needed to check the helipad and grounds security.”
“Horatio and Ra couldn’t do that without you?”
“Just indulge me, will you?”
“So, we’re ready for tomorrow?”
Cabot took a breath, let it out. “As ready as we can be.”
“And Ra closed the gates?”
“Jakaya’s car was the last. We’re locked tight until after the shuttles land tomorrow.”
The Queen took another sip of the salted water and set it next to the vase of roses. She tossed her head, curls of green ribbon bouncing, and took the Prime Minister’s arm.
“Then, find Willa and start mingling, dear. We have work to do.”
Mara held herself still. Through the glass doors of the Palace rear entrance, she watched purple-gray clouds boil up from the south. Morning light strained to reach the Avenue, the bright flowers smudged and overcast. The tall barriers cut off her view of the east and west fences, but she knew thousands of spectators gathered there. Beside her, Kerner Kelly cleared his throat. Collier Cabot took a deep breath. Behind her, the governors of North and South Callinda waited in silence—a collective breath held.
Ra appeared before her, hand at his earpiece. “It’s time.”
He and Gregor Petrovich threw open the doors and led them onto the Avenue. Like a dance, the Royal Guard fell in beside the procession, enveloping it in a coating of gray suits. The wind pushed and pulled at them, but the Queen, the President and the Prime Minister marched steadily to the end of the pad, the governors hurrying behind.
Out of the clouds one shuttle slipped into sight, and then the other—pale thumbnails against the coming storm. A huge sigh rose up outside the barriers with a smattering of applause. Mara’s heart leapt.
The ships banked in formation, adjusting to the wind, and as planned, landed nose to aft with their port sides facing each other. General Jones recommended this additional protective tunnel for the Elders as they disembarked. The Royal Guard, supplemented with Home Guard troops, formed a wall around the shuttles and dignitaries. No bands, no fanfares, just the Callinda flags jittering in the wind.
Mara stepped into the little corridor. It took all her will to keep from clutching at Kerner and Collier. As the doors rose, a tall man jumped out of the left shuttle. He ducked under the still-moving hatch and trotted to the waiting trio.
“Jason Running Bear.” He placed his hands over his heart and bowed. “Your Majesty, Mr. President, Prime Minister.” The wind whipped his long black hair around his face.
Mara grasped his hand as Jonathan had taught her. “At last,” she said. “Be welcome, Ambassador.”
Kelly and Cabot pumped Running Bear’s hand in turn.
“We should get the Elders into the Palace as quickly as possible,” Cabot said, raising his voice above the increasing noise of the wind. “Do any of them need help?”
“Mrs. Mendoza.” Running Bear pointed to the other shuttle.
“I’ll escort her,” Cabot stated.
“Let’s go,” Mara urged.
A guard brought stepstools. Wide-eyed, but determined, the Elders took the proffered hands and climbed out. As rehearsed, a governor with Guard escorts took charge of each visitor and moved them toward the Palace.
They’re beautiful, Mara marveled, looking into each face. They’re us.
One woman paused at the door. “Marapura?” she asked.
“Yes,” the Queen answered, reaching up for her. Then, she looked into the clear blue eyes and answered the hopeful smile.
“Lydia!”
Joy flashed through Mara. At the same time, Ra shouted, “ROOF!”
Guards scrambled. A faint popping sound came from the distance. Mara shoved Lydia back into the shuttle. She felt a punch and pinch in her shoulder, then she was falling.
Shoes stuttered on the air pad tiles.
Ra’s voice roared orders.
Gunfire.
Screams.
“Mommy?”
Fog surrounded Marapura. Her thin gown was soaked with it. Chilled, she turned in circles, trying to see.
The child’s voice came again. “Mommy?”
“Little One?” Mara peered into the fog. “Linny, is that you? Where are you, sweetheart?”
“Mommy, Daddy’s angry.”
“I know, Precious.”
“No, you don’t. Daddy’s mad in his head and in his heart. Pretty soon, he’ll stay mad all the time. He’ll get sick with it.”
“Why? Why will he be so angry?”
“Because he won’t find the Bad Men. He won’t stop looking, and it will make him sick.”
“What can we do for him, Linny?”
“Live.”
Cold, damp fog rushed down Mara’s throat, freezing and choking her. She bent over her knees and coughed. And coughed. And COUGHED.
Clotted blood flew from the Queen’s mouth as she convulsed on the hospital gurney. Pain exploded in her left shoulder, pulling her through the fog but not out of it.
“Turn her!” Dr. Jones shouted.
Hands lifted and turned her. Mara coughed and strained. Her feet seemed to be dancing, dancing in the fog.
“Marapura!” Jones’ voice seemed a dream.
“MARAPURA!” King Jacque bellowed beyond the fog. His command ripped it apart. “WAKE UP THIS INSTANT!”
The Queen’s eyes snapped open. She gasped air, heaving great lungsful, and grabbed the shirt in front of her. She watched the blood on her hand soak into white cotton. More hands lifted her, probed, and adjusted. Still gasping through a ventilating mask, she continued to hold tight to the shirtfront. It belonged to the Prime Minister.
“Colli,” she croaked. “My baby.”
“Fine, Mara,” he said, clutching her hand. Dried blood smeared his face. “Your baby’s fine.”
She shook her head. He didn’t understand. But, even as she tried to form another question, the last of the fog drifted away. She yanked on the shirt.
“The Elders?”
“All safe.”
“Anyone…” She squirmed against the pain in her shoulder.
Cabot glanced at Dr. Jones.
“Tell me.”
“President Kelly is dead,” the Prime Minister said, “and Ra.”
She closed her eyes against the pain. “Who? How?”
“Enough.” Dr. Jones pushed Cabot away. “Bring her,” she said, waving at someone behind him, “but only for a moment.”
Lydia Abercrombe swam into Mara’s sight. A splatter of blood fanned across her face and into her soft, white hair.
“Oh, my dear,” the Elder said. She cupped Mara’s face in gentle hands.
The Queen smiled back at the beautiful woman, but wasn’t sure who she was.
“Mommy?” she whispered, then slipped into the dark.
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"Will a Mormon president treat constitutional clauses as divine injunctions?"
"If so, what grounds will we non-Mormons have for interpreting with secular arguments what is presented as God’s will? For that matter, what right will the Supreme Court have to treat the document as anything less than a divinely inspired covenant? Does the First Amendment actually separate church and state, or does that not count, since it is merely an amendment, not the original word of God? But why, then, did a mere amendment change the first inspiration that made slaves less than full persons?"
Garry Wills, he's not anti-Mormon. He just has questions. A lot of questions. Can't blame a man for asking questions, can you? I'd say you can. This is an effort to smear Romney with some really silly insinuations. Why would the fact that the President is a Mormon — even assuming Wills states the belief correctly and Romney himself holds that belief — affect what the Constitution means, what non-Mormons will be able to think about what it means, and how the Supreme Court would interpret it?
In any case, isn't the belief that the framers of the Constitution were divinely inspired fairly common? Where does it get you... other than to profound reverence and dedication? What's wrong with that? The President is supposed to be dedicated to the Constitution. The original Constitution is structured around the existing institution of slavery, but what's the point of bringing that up? Wills is asking questions, not making arguments, which let's him be very slippery. He knows that the part of the Constitution that liberals care about is all in the amendments, and perhaps he'd like to separate the good part of the Constitution — the amendments — from the bad part — the part with slavery... and all the structural safeguards that conservatives would like to see enforced.
Tags: Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause, Garry Wills, law, Mormons, religion and government, religion and politics, slavery
Harrumph des Willens
Couldn't these questions also be asked of a Christian? Doesn't the bible basically say (Romans 13, I think) that the authorities placed over you are there because God put them there?
I'm paraphrasing, of course.
Our resident liberal asked loudly one day of me (so that all others might hear it and my response), "What do you think of a president who believes that in the afterlife he will be the master of his very own planet?"
I responded, "I don't care. I'm tolerant of others' religious beliefs, even if they attended a church where the minister proclaimed "GODDAMN AMERICA!"
Come on Wills... Kennedy was Catholic. Remember, "no Popery" and how they worried about Kennedy obeying the pope instead of the Constitution?
Well I'd perfer a Mormon (I'm Catholic) over a 'God Damn America' president any day.
Assume that Wills is right (I'm going to tentatively say he is not). The Constitution has a built in amendment process, so there is no reason to assume that anyone who thinks the document is divine would not say: "But, none of the amendments produced via this divine instrument are equally valid."
Also "since recognized black rights" is pretty awkward to say about a church that was allowing blacks to minister before the Civil War. It's like he doesn't understand the complicated nature of the faith and relied on the interpretation of a college student who couldn't answer his questions, and instead of figuring it out, Wills decided to shoot off his mouth.
Wills never even says: "Then I looked it up and confirmed this crazy belief is true."
This is lazy. No wonder I've never heard of him before.
LYNNDH said...
Wasn't this debate put to rest with JFK? Dems with short memories
and no brains.
"The original Constitution is structured around the … institution of slavery"?
machine said...
Can Man amend the word of God?
Harry Reid will be glad to answer all of those questions, as soon as he passes his Mormon Budget, to go along with his Mormon ReidCare health bill.
I Callahan said...
I foresee a comment by Crack Emcee.
Matthew Sablan,
Wills is a Catholic, hate-America first liberal. He wrote a book about John Wayne's America that had some good parts in it but was ultimately poisoned by his America hatred. No one listens to Wills because nothing he says is important.
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Man, it's like it's 1960 all over again.
Garry Wills wrote a book called "Why I Am Still A Catholic"; these days, he displays the same level of self-knowledge by swimming laps around his pool while angrily insisting that he is still not wet. One can't put much stock in his acuity.
The issue is less what he thinks than what his SCOTUS appointees (as many as 4, possibly) think.
Couldn't these questions also be asked of a Christian?
Or a Jew?
Or a Hindu?
Or a (cough) Moslem?
"Can Man amend the word of God?"
Sure. Open any Bible, and check for an imprimatur. If it doesn't have one, compare the table of contents with that of one that does have an imprimatur. Apparently man can delete whole books if he has big enough cajones and followers who don't ask too many questions.
karrde said...
Re-write the article, but write Evangelical Christian everywhere the word Mormon appears.
Does the article make any more sense?
Try it with Catholic in the place of Mormon.
Then try it with whatever combinations of words covers Attended Church under Jeremiah Wright, in place of Mormon.
Does the original question make any more sense when asked this way? If not, why not?
Gary Wills,
"You've got a lot of growing up to do, buddy. Suck my balls."
Wait, what? "Divinely inspired" - ? I never heard that one.
Seriously, who has said this?
I'm not saying what is so, but I have questions. Given Ann's rebuttal and the rebuttals of the other commenters, I wonder if Wills raises his questions not because he really wonders about them, but because he is a partisan hack. I'm just raising questions, you know?
Becoming "entangled in Mormonism" seems very scary, and you know that Mormonism is super weird and Romney seems weird too when you hold your mouth just right...Oops, that was only a question.
Since Constantine was converted in 315 AD, the Christian Church became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
The Christians never opposed the Government before that, but they opted out of Emperor Worship which made them tolerated traitors, and sometimes human torches on feast days.
Then the Calvinists and Luther rebelled against the Pope's version of the World Court that could make and break Kings.
The Calvinists then threw away the authority of all Governments unless they ran it themselves by a vote, hung any blasphemers, and out of stubborness gave up Charles I to Cromwell's Army for beheading.
Then everyone really wished the Anglican Charles II would come back and let life resume.They had such an orgasam of joy that they and named Charles Town SC after him.
But he soon died leaving a Catholic heir, which the Glorious Revolution replaced with his Protestand daughter Mary and her husband William of Hanover ( a German). They founded William and Mary College in Williamsburg.
And the citizens of Williamsburg Va. later saw common sense in getting rid of the German King George who was letting Parliament arrange to rule over North America for their private profit as if it was their conquest in the French and Indian War rather than English citizens organized as colonies overseas for 150 years.
All went well after that until Obama I declared his Imperium.
CatherineM said...
If he were a Muslim, would he be questioning the possibility of Sharia being imposed, or would he call out anyone who suggested such a thing?
"The issue is less what he thinks than what his SCOTUS appointees … think."
Yep. Preach it! I don't care about Romney; I care about who gets appointed to the court, because if the wrong people get sent up there, it doesn't matter what Romney thinks, or any of us think. Legislatores nos regunt, sed curiae legislatores regunt.
BarryD said...
So wait.... Am I supposed to be AGAINST a President who treats the Constitution as divine injunction? Because I'm really not seeing it.
If that's what a Mormon President would do, then let's get ourselves one, and right now!
""The original Constitution is structured around the … institution of slavery"?"
I only mean to say that the Constitution dealt with the existing conditions and didn't resolve the problem, but worked around it in a few ways, the most notorious one being what Wills referred to fairly deceptively, which was the 3/5 solution, determining how slaves would be counted in allocating representatives by population.
I'm sorry if my word choice made it seem as though I meant to say that the whole constitutional scheme is built on slavery.
It's not necessarily that the Dems have short memories, they just have different standards when it comes to themselves verses Republicans. Why? SHUT UP! [/sarc]
Tom Spaulding and Paul Zrimsek possess very accomplished wit. They also possess MadMen Yourself avatars.
RKearns said...
I'm sure that our MSM will ask the same about other Mormons who happened to be successful in their choice of careers. "Will a Mormon quarterback (Steve Young) treat the playbook as divine injunctions?" "Will a Mormon general manager (Danny Ainge) treat the Boston Celtics as divine injunctions?"
Mormons are normal people. Some of use even read Ann Althouse, for Pete's sake!
Seven Machos said...
Read the Pentateuch. Note the same law twice and three times. Is it the same law?
Garry Wills is still around! I thought he croaked long ago.
Difference is nobody thinks Democrats are actually genuine with their beliefs.
You'd think it'd offend SOME of them...but it doesn't appear to.
That the constitution is divinely inspired is a useful heuristic to stop people from monkeying around with it too much (just like the amendment process itself).
An individual's faith (or perception of reality) will influence their outlook and decision process. However, this is true whether you are Mormon, Catholic, Muslim, or atheist. This is not an interesting or significant insight. We have no ability to infer intention other than through action. In the meantime, Utah is notable for its exceptionally sound economy, despite a large and progressive influx of both migrants and illegal aliens, the liberal ideas they tend to field, and over 60% of the land controlled by the federal government.
I would think slavery would be exhibit A in the case that the Constitution was not divinely inspired.
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." Jefferson.
Of course God works in mysterious ways. And I do think it's entirely possible that God was helping Jefferson along as he wrote the Declaration. There are some self-evident truths in that document that led to the abolitionist movement.
Garry Wills? The Garry Wills who was convinced George HW Bush took a secret trip in a jet fighter just before the election? That discredited doofus?
Garry Wills? The arrogant nitwit who wrote a buok called What Jesus Meant without so much as securing an interview?
Ignore him and his machinacions about Mitt Romney.
I just stepped in to hear Rev Crack preach to us about cults. Did I miss it?
The First Amendment does not establish a separation of church and state. It only serves to bind Congress from establishing a national religion and preventing their interference to practice religion.
As for divinely inspired or motivated, that is a given, both in the establishment document: "Nature's God... endowed by their Creator", and the organizational document: "Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States ... in the Year of our Lord ".
America is only secular to the degree that is founded on classical liberal ideas which are tempered by Judeo-Christian principles. It is assumed that citizens are capable of self-moderating behavior in order for them to enjoy optimal liberty.
Maybe someone here can call me stupud, just to move things along for Rev Crack until he arrives?
"Fen, you ignorant slut"
Mkay. Better.
Fen -- I agree. Crack's schtick is getting old. One very interesting thing I note here is that a lot of leading Biblical scholars will refer to the priestly writers of the Old Testament in shorthand as "the cult." Assuredly, that's what it was.
The fact of the world is that the world needs cults, just as it needs heroes. Nihilism and existentialism are the defaults of all serious thought. We absolutely must have big, meaningful ideas if we are to have any civilization. Cults bring us those ideas.
Are the ideas true? It doesn't much matter. The trick isn't getting rid of cults, but ensuring that the cults produce beneficial results.
Saint Croix:
Slavery persisted due to an original compromise... among men. There is no reasonable argument to be made for ending it at the time of America's establishment or organization. Not before opposing interests were capable of marshaling sufficient forces and resources to confront those who would choose to preserve it.
As for God's role, presumably it was to help those who helped themselves. Whether it was God or nature's order, certain outcomes are predictable, and human consciousness, both individual and cooperative, has finite influence upon it.
You have to read the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment together. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States...
If Delaware were to go Unitarian, as it could under your interpretation, you'd have a pretty clear violation of the 14th Amendment.
Seven Machos:
Exactly. It is most meaningful to judge any faith or philosophy by the principles it engenders. There is often, however, a need to share a faith in order to accept its principles. This is why America is such an exceptional experiment. Its principles engendered by the Judeo-Christian faith are especially tolerant of non-believers and wholly compatible with both the natural order and individual dignity which it embraces as an underlying tenet.
Nah. Religion is man's interpretation of God, and men are imperfect creatures.
The Constitution was based on Judeo-Christian law. And then it EVOLVED as our culture did. Originally just for the merchant class, then for all white men, then to include all black men, then women.
To complain about it not being all-encompassing back then is like complaining that it doesn't include Animal Rights now. Baby steps. The concept is silly to most now, but in x number of decades, our culture will have EVOLVED enough to require another ammemdment protecting the liberty of animals.
And the well-spring of all this Liberty gradually extended to all? A Constitution grounded in judeo-christian law.
I dare someone to do better.
All this fuss, and they still won't look at the canonized Mormon scripture.
(Pr they looked and it didn't support their smear so they're ignoring it.)
I cite from section 134 of the Doctrine and Covenants, the writings and claimed revelations of Joseph Smith, and a fully canonized book in the Mormon body of scripture (along with the Bible, and Book of Mormon):
1 We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.
2 We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.
3 We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people if a republic, or the will of the sovereign.
4 We believe that religion is instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul.
[then skipping down]
9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.
10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world’s goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them. They can only excommunicate them from their society, and withdraw from them their fellowship.
Seven: One very interesting thing I note here is that a lot of leading Biblical scholars will refer to the priestly writers of the Old Testament in shorthand as "the cult." Assuredly, that's what it was.
Good points. In my more cynical moments, I sometimes wonder if Christianity was just a play to usurp religious power from the Jews for Rome.
The Catholic church sure made out well. Hell, they're still a player on the world stage today.
That is only partially correct. The Fourteenth Amendment would still not restrict the establishment of a state religion, but it would preserve the right of individuals to practice their religion. In any case, I only remarked on the First Amendment and a common misconception that it establishes a "separation of church and state." It does not.
I sometimes wonder if Christianity was just a play to usurp religious power from the Jews for Rome
The Christian church was a tiny sect for 300 years. It's unlikely that anyone thought that far ahead.
It seems more likely to me that, if Jesus was not, in fact, the Son of God, then the religion was a Hellenization of Judaism, and a philosophical break from some of its tenets. The Hellenization seems especially important to me. Greco-Roman literature is filled with half-man/half-god figures who died tragic deaths.
The Hellenization of religion is especially important to Titus.
n.n. -- It's hard to argue that the very act of establishing a religion does not in itself restrict other religions.
I like your sentiment. I agree with your interpretation of the First Amendment. But I don't think it's compatible with the Fourteenth. I add that the 14th Amendment is terribly ambiguous and it needs tweaking and narrowing, written as it was at an emotional and weird time in our history.
The comments are interesting, and the questions and even Mormons ask these questions are they smearing Mitt?: "Mr. Wills,
I think your article is an interesting one, and the subject you raise, in fact, is debated among Mormons themselves. I am a retired attorney and law professor and have had this discussion with many fellow Mormons over time. For example, when some of my Mormon (or non-Mormon) friends say they are strict constitutionalists, I usually reply by asking them which one--the original one, or the one after all the amendments. This includes, of course, the question of whether the Constitution was improved by adding the Bill of Rights and the Thirteenth Amendment on slavery. Because you have different Mormons with different views on the proper interpretation of the Constitution, you have many Mormons who are Democrats (Harry Reid, for example) and many who are Republicans (Mitt Romney). For your information, and to be exact, Mormons accept as scriptures revelations given by Jesus Christ to Joseph Smith and collected in a book called the Doctrine & Covenants.
starboardhelm said...
Good Lord. Another Romney / Kennedy Clan parallel (minus the cronyism, nepotism, boozing, whoring, rapes and murders). Wasn't it a concern back when Humpin' Jack Flash was running for office that the Pope would have too much influence on his policy? Catholics r baaad, Mormons r worser?
Althouse said...
"I'm sorry if my word choice made it seem as though I meant to say that the whole constitutional scheme is built on slavery."
Heh. Well, I thought it was odd wording. I thought "oh no, she's turned into a Crit!"
"The Catholic church sure made out well. Hell, they're still a player on the world stage today."
The gates of hell shall not prevail against her. There's a story I've heard from, IIRC, Fr. Robert Barron. So Barron notices that in the video where Pope Benedict greets the crowds after his election, Francis Card. George is standing off to one side of the loggia with this odd expression on his face, and Barron asks him what he was thinking. And George replies that he was just thinking that when Cæsar put St. Peter to death at the bottom of the monolith a bowshot away, none was mightier than Cæsar, and few were more powerless than a fisherman from Judea who preached an incredible story of a carpenter from Judea who had met the same fate a couple of decades sooner. Yet today, where can you go to see the successor of Cæsar? Where can you find the Roman Empire that he governed? Cæsar is dust; his line is extinct; his empire is ashes. Yet the successor of Peter is standing ten feet from me; you can find the Church that Peter governed and which he governs today through his 264th successor on behalf of that carpenter. I really like that image. The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone of a supernaturally mighty edifice!
"In any case, isn't the belief that the framers of the Constitution were divinely inspired fairly common?"
I've never heard that suggested seriously before, and doubt very much that, as beliefs about the law and its sources go, it is "fairly common." Whether it is a common view among Mormons, I have no idea and see no reason to care. Assuming it was divinely inspired, nothing about how it should be interpreted changes. It's still a text-bound exercise.
So if this was a poll I guess you'd say God works through evolution.
I'm not sure I agree with the evolutionary thesis, at least in regard to morality. We do seem to have acquired more knowledge over the centuries. Theoretically this should make us better. And yet we are still filled with ego, hubris, pride, arrogance, deceit, violence. Name the sin, we still have it. We got rid of slavery and brought back infanticide.
Sometimes I think it's a wash.
Richard Nixon - the mad bomber of Cambodia - was a Quaker.
"For example, when some of my Mormon (or non-Mormon) friends say they are strict constitutionalists, I usually reply by asking them which one--the original one, or the one after all the amendments."
Don't get stuck on stupid.
Bob -- Agreed that Roesch makes a terrible argument there. Just embarrassing.
ZZMike said...
Where was everybody while Harry Reid was Majority Leader?
Maybe it is as one of you suggested, that Democrat Mormons are good, while Republican Mormons are bad.
Just as rich Democrats (of which there is no end) are good, while rich Republicans are bad.
We can simplify that belief by eliminating variables:
Democrats are good; Republicans bad.
Garry Wills is a Screwtape among Catholics.
I'm still thinking about God and evolution.
When we talk about progress or evolution, I suspect we are talking about our lives getting easier and easier, due to technology and increased knowledge. But I would think this would make us less moral, not more. It would make us less righteous. It would take us away from God.
The Framers were more religious because their lives were harder. People who suffer look to God. People whose lives are easy don't need God. We forget about God.
An easy life makes you soft, weak, shallow, and selfish. It corrupts you.
Doing the right thing is hard. It costs you.
That's why I applaud single moms. Even if they have no idea how hard it's going to be, they're doing the right thing.
The American revolution was hard. The suffering was incredible. The odds were next to impossible.
So maybe it was divinely inspired.
But today, with our easy lives, I don't know. We push buttons and our enemies disappear. The ease of that, our lack of suffering over it, all of this disquiets me. It's like going to a doctor's office, take a little nap, and when you wake up your pregnancy is gone. My concern is that technological advancement has made our selfish desires easier and more cost-free to us. And this isn't a beneficial evolution but something closer to the opposite.
Raise these issues the next time Keith Ellison runs for re-election at your own risk.
It was structured to minimize the power of slavery by allowing only 3/5 of a vote for those persons enslaved. That reduced the southern state's power by reducing the population that was used to assign the House of Representatives numbers.
It is widely misunderstood. The 3/5 was the result of a compromise.
"damikesc said... nobody thinks Democrats are actually genuine with their beliefs"
Really? NOBODY? So all those black churches filled with Democrats aren't "genuine?" All those Democrats faithfully attending Shabbat services in their synagogues aren't "genuine?" How about all the Roman Catholic Democrats? Shall I go on?
Is your faith "genuine" enough to retract this demonstrably false statement? After all, there is something about "false witness" in most "genuine" faiths.
Althouse said,
"I only mean to say that the Constitution dealt with the existing conditions and didn't resolve the problem, but worked around it in a few ways, the most notorious one being what Wills referred to fairly deceptively, which was the 3/5 solution, determining how slaves would be counted in allocating representatives by population. "
The choice was no United States as we know it, and probably either a monarchy or more likely, a colleciton of colonies to be picked off by Britain, France and Spain over the next 20 years or so, or leaving slavery out of the argument to get the support of the slave states for the Constitution.
The 3/5 rule was a means to restrict slavery and reduce the representation in Congress of slaveholding States. Had slaves been counted fully for the purpose of apportionment then Virginia and Georgia, with huge slave populations but low voting populations, would have had more unrepresented strength in Congress than the "free" states. By only fully counting free people, the Constitution gave more power to abolitionists.
Todd G. said...
A brief correction to tradguy above regarding tbe Glorious Revolution - Charles II did indeed die, and his brother the Duke of York ascended as James II a staunch public Catholic. There were concerns about this among the Anglicans and some Dissenter groups causing the Exclusion Crisis - wanting the crown only to go to Anglicans. This controversy was contained by figuring that James and his queen, given their ages and previous kid producing troubles,would not produce a male heir FOR JAMES II, not Charles II. When that male kid did happen(James Francis Stewart aka the Warming Pan Imposter and Young Pretender), the stuff hit the fan. James II's staunchly Anglican daughter Mary (married to William of Orange a Dutch Calvinist not a German)and her husband were offered the crown by a group of concerned English nobles and thus the Glorious Revolution ending with the Battle of the Boyne. The German House of Hanover doesn't come in until after Queen Anne (James II's other Anglican daughter who was married to a German).
Ben G ...Thanks. You must teach History. You cleared up things very well.
Garry Wills is a perfectly fine historian.
He's a shitty constitutional scholar, and highly disingenuous. But he does fit in well with the Kennedy hagiography crowd, so it's surprising he would trot out this sort of religious bigotry.
Oh, Jesus H. Christ, he's basing his whole editorial on the uncertain assertions of an 18-year-old student.
Maybe it's a composite student. Or an imaginary student.
Does anyone notice how these strange anti-Mormon insinuations (our own Crack Emcee revels in them) echo a kind of anecdotal "true Scotsman" fallacy.
I have a Mormon friend who served a mission in Brazil and speaks fluent Portuguese (strangly like Wills stand-in). He's also a huge liberal and Obama supporter.
But he doesn't count. A true Mormon loves haggis.
BBridges said...
I grew up in the 60-70s deep south. Racial humor was pretty common. But in my teens my sister told me a Jewish joke. I didn't find it funny and was more confused than anything and asked her to explain because there were very jews where we lived and we were heard about the various stereotypes of Jews. She tried for a short while to give me the necessary background before walking off in a huff and I'm sure reminding herself to never take me to a party.
But the point is that my total ignorance in the prejudice against Jews made me immune to those jokes.
It seems like Dems like Wills have a similar problem. Prejudice against Mormons is not fully understood and they need to educate everybody on why they should hate them.
In my life I have worked and been friends with a few Mormons and all have been nothing but kind to me. I'm older though and know more about the Mormon church but still, it will take a lot for me to fear a Mormon President.
Tradguy - thanks. I don't comment often, but 17th C Anglo stuff is my current field of study. Unfortunately, my state won't let me teach history although I've been working in the field for over 25 years, as I haven't taken enough college credits in the education field (I dropped them when I realized they were crap as an undergraduate). Hopefully, states will begin to moderate their requirements for public instruction. I would love to do it in a few after I leave my present history career.
Laika's Last Woof said...
Is the Amendment process not just as much a part of the original Constitution as the part about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Mr. Wills' thesis is self-contradictory.
"...let's him be very slippery." Should be "lets", no?
Good post drawing attention to this lazy, slimy attack.
Fen: The Constitution was based on Judeo-Christian law. And then it EVOLVED as our culture did. Originally just for the merchant class, then for all white men, then to include all black men, then women.
Saint Croix: So if this was a poll I guess you'd say God works through evolution.
Perhaps. Frank Herbert says a God would have to allow Free Will just to avoid going insane from boredom :)
The entire Evolution Vs Creation is kind of irrelevant to me. Humans are going to worship *something*, and I'd prefer it be a God in Heaven than a God on Earth. And I'd prefer they worship a God of mercy and forgiveness, given the other choices human civs have made.
I'm with Puddleglum: "suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow. As for me, I shall live like a Narnian even if there isn't any Narnia."
It's possible, but not tactful to describe Prince George of Denmark as a German.
Ben thanks for dropping in. Good read.
Unfortunately, my state won't let me teach history although I've been working in the field for over 25 years, as I haven't taken enough college credits in the education field (I dropped them when I realized they were crap as an undergraduate). Hopefully, states will begin to moderate their requirements for public instruction. I would love to do it in a few after I leave my present history career.
You should get your story to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com - he hammers that point home every few weeks and could use more examples.
Hagar - you are correct. I can only plead the troublesome nature of the northern protestant European ruling families from intermarrying - and writing without notes. Although it is interesting that the Act of Settlement precluded some 40 or so English Catholics from rightully (religion excepted) assuming the throne - as ballsy as the original Glorious Revlution really.
The 3/5 rule was a means to restrict slavery and reduce the representation in Congress of slaveholding States. Had slaves been counted fully for the purpose of apportionment then Virginia and Georgia, with huge slave populations but low voting populations, would have had more unrepresented strength in Congress than the "free" states.
I'd really like to see the arguments from then. It seems obvious that slaves shouldn't have a vote because their owner orders their choices. How did we lose that argument? Was our side drunk?
bwebster said...
"I love the Constitution of this land. But I hate the damned rascals that administer the Constitution." -- Brigham Young. Heh.
It's all horsetrading.
Is there someone, for reals, that believes that the Constitution is divinely inspired?
Sounds blasphemous to me. And a clear violation of the Revelations, which state that words *shall not be added* to the book. (Which lets all the "God told me so" "special revelation" people out, too, stupid Robertson!)
Dave: "Really? NOBODY? So all those black churches filled with Democrats aren't "genuine?" All those Democrats faithfully attending Shabbat services in their synagogues aren't "genuine?" How about all the Roman Catholic Democrats? Shall I go on?
Is your faith "genuine" enough to retract this demonstrably false statement? After all, there is something about "false witness" in most "genuine" faiths."
When Republican politicians or voters have "beliefs" they are scary beyond all reason... for the simple reason that we're to assume that those beliefs are real. When Democrats politicians or voters have "beliefs" they are warm and fuzzy and not threatening at all, because we're to assume that those "beliefs" are comfortable social events.
I will hazard to say, however, that the question of black churches is a middle ground of frightening True Believers, but since blacks have little to no influence on the Democratic Party the fact is conveniently ignored.
Beleifs are like Patriotism... icky and frightening fanaticism if held by conservatives.... comfy and non-threatening window dressing if held by liberals.
In reality, I suppose, there are True Believers on the liberal side of things, True Patriots, too. But don't thump the Bible or wave the flag too much around your friends, it's gauche.
My second word verification word looked like Hebrew letters... I'm serious! Good thing it didn't count.
Martin said...
They're REALLY desperate.
@ Synova Sounds blasphemous to me. And a clear violation of the Revelations, which state that words *shall not be added* to the book.
I think that is many evangeliclas problem with Mormons to start with ... adding to the Book by having more {and reputedly *better*} books.
But compared to how Obama views the Constitution ....
That being said, the comments over at the original article are worth looking at. Wills assumed his bright student represented the position of the Mormon hierarchy? (Also ... the mission work is two years, dude. Did your guy flunk Mormon Mission Work 101?)
Synova: "Is there someone, for reals, that believes that the Constitution is divinely inspired?"
"Sounds blasphemous to me. And a clear violation of the Revelations, which state that words *shall not be added* to the book."
'What can you expect, they ask, of a sect ... [whose] official newspaper The Deseret News solemnly proclaims on its masthead, "We believe that the Constitution of the United States was Divinely Inspired", but fails to explain why the Almighty changed His mind on the Eighteenth Amendment?'
-- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (1968)
The Mormons added a whole 'nother book to scripture, so adding words wasn't an issue.
So, his fear is that a president might take the constitution seriously.
That IS horrible.
@ Paul 2:22 Come on Wills... Kennedy was Catholic. Remember, "no Popery" and how they worried about Kennedy obeying the pope instead of the Constitution?
Maybe Wills isn't old enough to remember that? Apparently not.
"I think that is many evangeliclas problem with Mormons to start with ... adding to the Book by having more {and reputedly *better*} books."
Well, yes.
It seemed such an odd thing to say was a common belief.
"But compared to how Obama views the Constitution ...."
If it's not in the context of a doctrinal argument over salvation or who is a Christian or not, I'm far more concerned with what a religion teaches about character, and the Mormons seem to emphasize responsibility. And I'd rather someone who was brought up to respect the Constitution as something to adhere to, than, as someone mentioned, someone who was brought up to distrust America.
What is there to chose in that?
The thing is, really... if there is prejudice against Mormons, it's mostly the good sort. Sure, there's some Prop 8 chaffing, but mostly the attempts to gasp, "Oh, noes! Funny undies!", are attempts to manipulate Fundie Protestants who have been raised to view Mormonism as a cult. (It's right up there with the concern trolling, "Oh, by the way, did you know Cheney had a gay daughter," by Kerry.) It's trying to frighten the rubes.
But when one despises the rubes, it's not surprising if the thrust doesn't go home.
I can, without spraining anything, happily (well not *happily*, but you know what I mean) concede that Mormons are cultists going straight to hell, (after all, isn't nearly everyone?) and vote for Romney because I believe he's a decent guy, even if not my first choice, and certainly better than what we've got.
How about Artur Davis as Vice President?
Micha Elyi said...
Sounds blasphemous to me. And a clear violation of the Revelations, which state that words *shall not be added* to the book.
-Synova (10:00 PM)
The book being referred to is not the entire Bible but just one of its books, Revelation - to which you yourself just added an "s", Synova. The Bible as we know it did not exist at the time John penned Revelation, therefore he could not have been referring to the entire Bible in that passage but only to the Book of Revelation. A few hundred more years would pass before the Catholic Church compiled and authorized what became known as the Bible. (The redacted Bible protestors against the Church use today wouldn't exist until another millineum had passed.)
Finally, even were some work of man was "divinely inspired" (as some believe the music of Bach to be) that does not mean it is Scriptural, divine moral instruction, or even a part of God's public revelation that must be accepted by all believers.
A knowledgeable and faithful Catholic can clear up these and other misconceptions about Christianity. (Rest assured, Garry Wills is not such a Catholic.)
Micha, there is disagreement as to whether "adding to the book" is only Revelation or if it's the whole scripture. Yes, I understand that Revelation was written before whatever canonical conventions there were that decided which books got in and which didn't.
And yes, I understand that Catholics are not anywhere near as strict about this as Evangelicals tend to be. After all, there is the Pope and all. I also understand that I was raised in one of the most strict of strict denominations, and this was the basis of their teaching that the Charismatics were wrong. It is also the basis for a pastor from a less strict denomination to condemn Falwell from the pulpit for daring to say what sin it was God was punishing us for on 9-11.
Personally, I think that a whole lot of very terrible error in the Christian church would be avoided if more pastors and other smarty-pantses would be a little bit more concerned about the error of presenting their own notions as the word or will of God, so I *choose* to favor the more strict interpretation.
I mean, seriously... how silly is it to insist that it's wrong to add to Revelation, but quite all right to add to Matthew or to just add some new stuff elsewhere, write a new book?
I've sat next to too many people in too many pews who were taking any excuse to view the pastor, a human subject to human whim, as a spiritual authority with *authority* over the congregation to think that this is a harmless error.
It's never harmless.
We have lots of questions too:
What happened to the $800 billion in stimulus money?
Why is U3 unemployment still over 10% even when we were told by this administration that without the Stimulus, unemployment could rise to 8%?
Why did clearly unsuitable companies like Soylendra get $500 million in taxpayer dollars?
Explain the purpose of "Fast and Furious"
Why is the First Family taking hugely expensive foreign vacations at a time when so many americans can't make ends meet?
How did America's credit rating get downgraded?
Why is the Democrat controlled Senate not passing or proposing a budget after more than 3 years?
Eyes on the prize, people
Really? NOBODY?
Really. Just look around you. How many Democrats fingered Bill Clinton for being a liar and hypocrite? Uh huh, "nobody" to at least within five significant digits in a country of 300 million people.
So all those black churches filled with Democrats aren't "genuine?" All those Democrats faithfully attending Shabbat services in their synagogues aren't "genuine?" How about all the Roman Catholic Democrats? Shall I go on?
-Ibid
Please do, if you've got more Democrats to incriminate. C'mon, do Christian or Jewish Democrats fully respect the commandment against covetousness. (There's no exception clause excusing coveting as long as Caesar accomplishes the actual taking, sorry Democrats!) Nor did Jesus of Nazareth instruct his followers to render the poor unto Caesar. Other examples of lack of genuineness among Democrats abound. As I wrote, just look around you.
AlanKH said...
I have a higher opinion of that kind of president over one who thinks he can be master of THIS planet.
Pretty much, yes. Democrats fairly regularly give speeches in churches. Not an unheard of situation. I have a hard time thinking of a Republican giving a major speech at a church.
...yet Republicans are the "religious" party and Democrats are not. Why is that?
Clinton mentioned God far more than Bush did --- but Bush was the "God nut"? Why is that? Obama cited God more than Palin has --- who is the "religious nut" in the eyes of the Progressives?
So all those black churches filled with Democrats aren't "genuine?"
The pols who go there --- no, they are not genuine in the slightest. Their own supporters clearly demonstrate that they don't feel they are. I don't see a reason to dispute what people who LIKE somebody think of their authenticity.
All those Democrats faithfully attending Shabbat services in their synagogues aren't "genuine?" How about all the Roman Catholic Democrats? Shall I go on?
No, they are not genuine. The people who VOTE for them recognize that. Why is it so hard to follow?
As a hint: If you're a Catholic and you support abortion --- then you're not a genuine Catholic. End of story. Catholicism has a pretty clear hierarchy of church beliefs and "pro-choice" isn't on that list anywhere.
Democratic pols don't believe what they preach.
That isn't limited to religion, mind you. They don't believe ANYTHING they peddle to the rubes who vote for them.
They are no better at "global warming" than they are at religion at living with what they believe. Nor are they any better with taxation, equality of pay, racism, sexism, etc.
Matthew, WRT "allowing blacks to minister before the Civil War", the same folks who like to hear you say "black" when you say "thug" always make a similar equivalence between "slave" and "black", neglecting to consider that there were also free black people in America before the Civil War (many actually owning other blacks as slaves). The Constitution doesn't distinguish between black/white, but slave/free. This is not to ignore the fact that the slaves were black or that free blacks weren't most likely looked down on by free whites, but that a lot of the racial animosity between whites and blacks was a byproduct of punitive actions during Reconstruction to benefit former slaves, often at the punishment of all whites, even those poor whites who never owned slaves.
Ann, I agree the 3/5 compromise is the most notorious accommodation to slavery in the Constitution's original text, but it is also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented as well. Many people, and most blacks, will tell you the 3/5 compromise encoded that slaves (blacks) weren't of the same worth as free people (whites), but this simplistic emotional representation is contrasted by the fact that had slave-owning States had their way the slave (black) would have counted the same and had non-slave-owning States had their way they wouldn't have been counted at all. I would never argue that many, if not most, free people (whites) of the times believed slaves (blacks) to be inferior, that has nothing at all to do with the comrpomise.
Bitch, please.
Liberals dont give a shit about the Constitution, except as a barrier to be overcome to inflict their authoritarian ideas on the rest of us.
Christopher R Taylor said...
The US Constitution did not at any time reduce slaves to less than a whole person. The 3/5ths compromise was not about a slave's value as a human but a way to control their use for congressional power.
Some states, especially southern plantation states, wanted to count slaves for their numbers to determine how many representatives they got in the House. These slaves wouldn't be represented in any way whatsoever, they were just padding the numbers of people so they'd get more power in congress. Other states wanted to exclude them in this count entirely for that reason. The compromise was just a way of getting the constitution out, and had nothing to do with persons or value.
Sad but all too typical of the left, whose understanding of the constitution is second or third hand at best.
D. Jordan Walser said...
I guess I can see how people could interpret what John wrote as referring to the whole Bible- after all, the man was a prophet/apostle, and I am sure the Lord could have directed him to write that line so that it would refer to the future Bible, not that Book of Revelation. Granted, I think that's a bit of a stretch, but its plausible. But you have to admit as well, that the other interpretation, that what John wrote is what it actually claims to be, an admonition not to add to the Book of Revelation, is at least as plausible as your own interpretation?
I can see your point about the dangers of pastors claiming to speak for God- that can lead to all kinds of apostasy and danger. But I just don't see where the Lord ever said, "From here on out, no more scripture. You have what you have, use it well, good bye." He has, through out history, sent prophets and directed his people, and I don't see why that would change. That's my personal belief, and I am sticking with it. :)
Back on topic, one of the reasons LDS (Latter Day Saints, or Mormon) believe the Constitution is divinely inspired (as mentioned above, this is separate from thinking it is actually scripture) in large part due to its protection of freedom of religion. We believe that with out that protection of religion, it would have been impossible to start our church, or, as we view it, restore the true Church to the earth. Thus we believe that God had a pretty good hand in its crafting (yes, even the amendment process!), and that protecting the constitution is going to be whats best for this land. And, also like has been mentioned above, isn't the President suppose to support the Constitution? When did that turn into a bad thing?
@Sylnova
I find it worth pointing out that the statement in the Book of Revelation that says that the book should not be added to nor taken away from (paraphrased, obviously) appears in another place: the Book of Deuteronomy. So does that mean all of the books in the Bible that fall after Deuteronomy (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel 1&2, etc) are false?
I don't think you'll find a Christian that agrees with that.
I would say that that's a pretty good argument for not dismissing the LDS Scripture out of hand, since the Bible is translated so many different ways, so many different times.
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There's a reason it's cheap —
Netflix, Amazon, and major studios try to shut down $20-per-month TV service
It's the third lawsuit against TV box makers filed by Netflix and film studios.
Jon Brodkin - Apr 23, 2018 5:20 pm UTC
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Netflix, Amazon, and the major film studios have once again joined forces to sue the maker of a TV service and hardware device, alleging that the products are designed to illegally stream copyrighted videos.
The lawsuit was filed against the company behind Set TV, which sells a $20-per-month TV service with more than 500 channels.
"Defendants market and sell subscriptions to 'Setvnow,' a software application that Defendants urge their customers to use as a tool for the mass infringement of Plaintiffs' copyrighted motion pictures and television shows," the complaint says. Besides Netflix and Amazon, the plaintiffs are Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.
Netflix, Amazon, and major studios sue maker of “free TV” box
The complaint was filed Friday in US District Court for the Central District of California. The companies are asking for permanent injunctions to prevent further distribution of Set TV software and devices, the impoundment of Set TV devices, and for damages including the defendants' profits.
Set TV's website says its applications let customers view TV channels on Windows, Mac, Android, and other platforms. The company also sells an $89 set top box that is preloaded with its software.
"Whether their customers choose a subscription or a preloaded box, what Defendants actually sell is illegal access to Plaintiffs' Copyrighted Works," the complaint says.
The Set TV service offers "a user-friendly interface and reliable access to popular content," just like legitimate streaming services, but "customers only pay money to Defendants, not to Plaintiffs and other content creators upon whose copyrighted works Defendants' business depends," the lawsuit says.
Set TV's website advertises access to live channels such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN, Bloomberg, TNT, FX, USA, Bravo, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Cinemax, and many others. Customers are told that they can watch all those channels for $20 a month, with "no long-term commitments, no activation fees, no cancellation fees, [and] no credit check."
"The Setvnow application provides a built-in media player and curated menus of live television channels and on-demand television show episodes and movies," the industry lawsuit says.
When a user selects a channel, "Setvnow begins streaming the selected content from third-party sources," the complaint says. "These sources capture live transmissions of the above-listed television channels, convert the copies of the television programs into streaming-friendly formats, and then retransmit the entirety of the live broadcasts over the Internet."
Set TV provides access to on-demand video in a similar way, "rel[ying] on third-party sources that illicitly reproduce copyrighted works and then provide streams of popular content such as movies still exclusively in theaters and television shows," the lawsuit says. The industry says that Set TV advertises its service "as a substitute for authorized and legitimate distribution channels such as cable television or video-on-demand services like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix."
“Free TV” box lawyer says video industry is “digging its own grave”
Netflix shows such as Stranger Things and some of Amazon's original movies are among the on-demand videos whose copyrights were violated by Set TV, according to an industry court filing.
Set TV's terms of use tell customers that they may not use the Set TV service to violate copyrights. The terms instruct copyright owners to notify Set TV by mail if "any Content, User Material, or other material provided through the Services, including through a link, infringes" their copyrights.
Set TV owner Jason LaBossiere is also a defendant in the case. In 2014, Google filed a complaint against LaBossiere in order to gain control of the androidtv.com and xbmcandroidtv.com domain names, alleging that he misused Google's trademark to sell TV devices. Both domain names are now controlled by Google.
We left a message with Set TV today and will update this story if we get a response. Calls to a phone number listed for LaBossiere could not be completed.
Netflix, Amazon, and the studios previously sued the makers of the similar "Dragon Box" and "Tickbox." A lawyer for the Dragon Box company told Ars in January that the product merely links to content online and that the entertainment industry is "fighting tooth and nail against innovation and technology."
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Piracy is piracy. Set TV wants to stream this content? Go sign a deal with the content providers.
This is another company looking to skim a lot of money quickly before the shutdown they (should) know is coming.
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I still kind of think that if your TV channel is ad-supported, and broadcast over the public airwaves for free with a FCC license, that you should not get to complain about or collect another fee from someone carrying your channel. Aren't they doing you a favor anyway -- by helping your content, and its ads, reach a wider audience?
I don't at all understand why my cable company has to pay a fee (which ultimately comes out of my pocket) to NBC and I still have to watch the damned ads anyway.
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Fabermetrics wrote:
So its piracy, but why are people paying for it?
Because it's easier that using a torrent. You don't have to sift through torrent sites and whatever to find what you want. You don't have to have a computer plugged into your TV or whatever. You just plug the box in, and you're set.
Convenience is often worth money to people.
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Do companies like this think they’ll get a quick payout and flee, or do they actually think this is not somehow massive copyright infringement, as has been seen in court before?
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Set TV's website advertises access to live channels such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN, Bloomberg, TNT, FX, USA, Bravo, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Cinemax, and many others.
Do you like getting sued? Because this is how you get sued. *Obligatory Archer Meme*
trimeta Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Is there any explanation on the "third-party sources" that Set TV uses to get its content? Not that it would much matter: Aereo literally had arrays of antennas in each region and "rented" antennas to users (so each antenna was used only by a single user), and then encoded and transmitted the content over the internet to the users. They were still declared "too much like a cable company" to run this business model without paying a fee to the networks...but "not enough like a cable company" to be allowed to pay that fee.
3217 posts | registered Sep 1, 2008
cvilleraven Ars Scholae Palatinae
The catch to this is: if someone were to find a way to do this legally (bundle a bunch of streaming services for a substantially lower cost, by some corporate voodoo), I'd be all for it.
Until such time as the streaming media providers enter into an agreement with a legitimate bundling service, they get to slap any of them with massive lawsuits.
780 posts | registered Sep 29, 2016
Baumi Ars Scholae Palatinae
A lawyer for the Dragon Box company told Ars in January that the product merely links to content online and that the entertainment industry is "fighting tooth and nail against innovation and technology."
They could at least decide on one avenue of defense. It‘s either „we‘re just doing linking here, no different from Google“ or „we have a highly innovative business model that our competition is jealous of“.
Not that I buy either of them (especially because their business model depends on leeching their „competitor‘s“ content ), but the combination of the two makes even less sense than either would alone.
1021 posts | registered Jun 17, 2007
HiroTheProtagonist Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Let this be a lesson kids: only VC darlings are allowed to flaunt the law in the name of industrial disruption, small startups need not apply.
2186 posts | registered Jan 24, 2016
solomonrex Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
snowman<ca> wrote:
Are they streaming content Netflix commissioned, how the other studios are likely being infringed upon is pretty clear, I am just confused how Netflix has any standing in this case.
Of course Netflix streams their own content. House of cards alone is years old now. Stranger things is on its second season. They've released as many movies this year as all of Hollywood, supposedly, too.
Last edited by solomonrex on Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:41 pm
courageousrobot Seniorius Lurkius
Looks like. There's literally a picture of someone looking at an Orange is the New Black show page on their website scroll.
43 posts | registered May 28, 2011
Edgar Allan Esquire Ars Scholae Palatinae
If I had to guess, it would be over licensing content by country. A Netflix exclusive in one country may appear on a different channel in another country.
1076 posts | registered Dec 7, 2016
Hort Ars Centurion
UserIDAlreadyInUse Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Edgar Allan Esquire wrote:
Probably. I know many of the Netflix Original DreamWorks animated shows shown n North American Netflix appear on cable TV in, say, Taiwan.
robrob Ars Praefectus
trimeta wrote:
It's just Kodi with their own front end and likely the usual sources, Resistance is a big Spanish one, likely how they get their "add 73 Spanish channels for $5". Thus why Netflix is suing, there's also a huge on demand component that Kodi is more well known for.
So this is someone literally charging for pirated feeds, nothing like Aereo which was at least free to air channels.
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jbrodkin Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Good point—there are Netflix and Amazon originals (like Netflix's Stranger Things) that are listed among the infringed works, presumably via the on-demand functions. I added a sentence to clarify that.
Jeff S Ars Praefectus
Just an educated guess here - not all content on Netflix is a "Netflix Original". They also pay for streaming rights to content from other networks and movie studios. If they have paid for streaming rights to content that someone else is streaming online in illegal competition to them, they are potentially harmed (although, it's not clear that someone paying for the other service would necessarily pay for Netflix if they couldn't use this service).
But, that would be how I could see Netflix stating a harm to the court - illegal competition.
3858 posts | registered Jun 4, 2008
Matthew J. Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
ElectricWatusi Ars Centurion
Matthew J. wrote:
My peeve is that they charge a monthly fee and *then* have the brass to show infomercials.
"Here is the programming you have paid us for, and never mind we spend a lot of money in capital and electricity to throw into the air for free, and now here's something you wouldn't watch unless you're a victim of A Clockwork Orange re-enactment. Enjoy!"
222 posts | registered Aug 17, 2016
zman54 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
The fees for ads on "free" TV are based on estimates of the number of viewers.
The companies placing the ads benefit from a "wider audience" audience but the TV company wouldn't.
The "content" only serves to bring in advertising revenue. There is no value in reaching a wider audience if that doesn't also increase advertising revenue.
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Kane2207 Ars Praefectus
Try PPV boxing - I have to have cable (£x amount per month), then it’s £20 a fight, then they still bombard me with adverts between every three minute round!
PapaMocha Smack-Fu Master, in training
cvilleraven wrote:
Aside from the Netflix and Amazon originals, isn't this what IPTV services like DirectTV Now or PSVUE do? If you are looking for cable channels I don't understand why not pay a little more for legal and faster options. I don't understand why people would choose sketchy services like this and not the legal option.
Years and years ago I heard the argument about consumer choice and if cable companies won't provide IPTV then pirated streams are "justified." I don't see how anyone can make that argument anymore with all the easy no contract options for legal media consumption.
EDIT: after reading some responses I feel slightly ignorant, my experiences with the services above are from living in a major city, I had no idea they weren't as unrestrictive in other areas. I'm sorry.
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Fabermetrics Ars Scholae Palatinae
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mltdwn Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
reply Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:01 pm
PapaMocha wrote:
Not sure about PSVUE, but at least around here with DirecTV now you still have to subscribe to home DirecTV service with AT&T, buy their packages and still only get the channels which they carry in your area (thus things like local sports blackouts and the like are still a thing). It’s no different than what you had before except you can consume it on a different devices.
Note: This is in Oklahoma. What we ended up doing was that my grandmother just had to have cable for her shopping channels that she watches maybe 1-2 hours every couple of days and that’s it so we just use her account.
JonathanSmith Ars Scholae Palatinae
I don't want to support piracy or anything, but have plaintiffs considered that if they got their shit together and didn't try to nickle and dime everybody, nobody would be using these shady third party services?
I mean christ, I've been trying to figure out how to legally watch Westworld for days now. Apparently I, a person with no TV, would have to sign up for a cable package AND an online streaming package on top. (This might have actually been The Expanse that required cable.)
Yeah, no.
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968 posts | registered May 15, 2012
JonathanSmith wrote:
I mean christ, I've been trying to figure out how to legally watch Westworld for days now. Apparently I, a person with no TV, would have to sign up for a cable package AND an online streaming package on top.
... Huh? Isn't Westworld an HBO series? Can't you sign up for HBO through Hulu, all without a cable subscription?
I don't mean for this to come off as an ad or anything, but content through the premium channels without a cable package seems to be more or less a solved problem. Indeed, I'm fairly sure you can subscribe to HBONow standalone.
bralex Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
I cut cable about 8 years ago, but stayed in a hotel with directv last week. I couldn't believe the number of infomercial stations - something like 15-20% of channels were infomercials and shopping, at least in the evenings. I don't even have an adequate sarcastic remark, though I really want to work out something witty with "Fixing Crepe-y Skin," which was airing on 2 or 3 channels at a time...
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johnt007871 Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Most of these companies have some free content. I'm surprised someone hasn't made a single app to stream all of the free stuff. It isn't extensive, but if you look at like cbs.com they have some free eps, as does abc.com and i'm sure others. I guess maybe there are "re-transmit" laws or something.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Is HBO Now not a thing for where you live? You can add it to your Amazon if you're drinking that KoolAid, otherwise you can buy it standalone.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/offers?benefitID=hbo
https://order.hbonow.com/
175 posts | registered Aug 8, 2014
Soroc Ars Centurion
Amazon Prime offers an HBO package as well, I believe.
kansanian Ars Scholae Palatinae
HBO Now is what you want.
But yeah, until they have Napster (or Spotify, or Apple music, etc.) for TV, they're all just delaying the inevitable. Netflix gets close, but none of it is live, and there are still disputes over contracts, etc.
Someday, it'll maybe happen. There's no technical reason a service like this can't exist, but it'd kill the current models. It may have to wait until the 23rd or 24th century, where Star Fleet exists, and money is no longer a thing. In other words, it's likely a utopian fantasy.
ryanja Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
Alfonse wrote:
No, you're dead on. Depending on your local TV carrier (some adopted the policy change later than others), you haven't had the need to have a cable TV service to get HBO in a couple years.
Tremoré Smack-Fu Master, in training
As someone sitting across the big pond: It would go a long way if they'd offer the same libraries as the US gets. Until then, I'm not interested in paying for less content.
Paying for piracy... that is a big no no as well and one must be quite daft/lazy to go that route.
42 posts | registered Feb 28, 2018
bralex wrote:
It's the old establishment fighting back the only way they know how. Since pretty much everything that used to bring in advertising revenue is now available sans ads online, they're now just filling the space with feature-length advertisements. Pretty soon there won't be anything on cable besides sports channels, sensationalist news shows and infomercials for the nostalgic.
ringobob Ars Praefectus
The law needs to change to compulsory licensing. Until *anyone* is allowed to pay a "reasonable fee" (which is still a sticking point) to stream whatever they want to whomever they want, there will only be lawsuits and lock in, and what amounts to monopolistic practices.
SilverSee Ars Scholae Palatinae
If they are not paying for content, they have no right to resell it. Seems simple enough. No different than selling bootleg DVDs really.
sttm Ars Scholae Palatinae
For the low low cost of $20 a month you too can get the experience of watching pirated content!
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"(Detail)" in the book Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1967)
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"May Company, 6150 Laurel Canyon, North Hollywood," in the book Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1967)
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NZSL video about making the arts more accessible to Deaf people
A New Zealand Sign Language video, made by Deafradio’s Seeflow translation service for Arts Access Aotearoa, lets Deaf people know about some of the ways artists, performing arts companies, festivals, museums, galleries and venues can make the arts more accessible to Deaf people.
Highlighting Arts For All, a practical guide to accessibility published by Arts Access Aotearoa, the video says that one in four New Zealanders (24% or 1.1 million people) were identified as “disabled” in the 2013 Census.
In addition, the Census shows that 20,000 people use New Zealand Sign Language.
New Zealand Sign Language is one of three official languages in this country, says Richard Benge, Executive Director, Arts Access Aotearoa.
“Signed videos such as this are a valuable way to connect with the Deaf community and let them know about sign interpreted arts and cultural events,” he says.
Marketing the arts to people with access needs
Arts For All outlines the benefits of marketing the arts to people with access needs. It also includes immediate and longer-term steps you can take to provide access.
It provides a framework for members of networks set up by Arts Access Aotearoa in Otago, Christchurch, Wellington, Taranaki and Auckland. These Arts For All networks are made up of representatives from the disability sector, arts and cultural organisations, artists, venues and festivals. They meet twice a year and share information, expertise and solutions to particular challenges.
There are eight chapters in Arts For All, including chapters on getting started; communications and marketing; galleries and museums; and live performance.
The chapter on digital media has a photo and story about Deaf filmmaker Jared Flitcroft. “The digital world evolves all the time and now Deaf people are a part of it,” Jared says. “Digital media is a very positive experience for us.”
The guide also includes information about using New Zealand Sign Language interpreters to interpret arts events, including museum and gallery exhibition tours. Auckland Lorraine McQuigg mentions the sign interpreted shows provided by Auckland Live.
“In the past, I avoided live events. My hearing family also tends to avoid events if I can’t be included too. These interpreted performances have opened up a whole new opportunity for us to do something special together.”
To watch the video with accompanying text, visit the Arts For All resources webpage.
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You can also contact Arts Access Aotearoa on 04 802 4349 or email info@artsaccess.org.nz if you don’t have internet access and would like to be sent a copy of Arts For All and the additional resources.
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Yes, we’ve got three new employees. Let’s meet them now!
First, there’s Angelina Rivas.
Looks like she’s got her head in the clouds, right? She does. In fact, one of her pastimes is parasailing. It’s riskier than working a nail gun in a lumber mill next to an ICBM silo, but she loves the thrill.
What else does she like? “All music other than heavy metal,” she says. So, even Gheorghe Zamfir, master of the pan flute? Even “countrypolitan” singer Slim Whitman? Even Sigue Sigue Sputnik? Yes, yes, and oh my goodness yes.
Angie aspired to be an attorney growing up, but she ended up with us, working on claims. Trying to be accommodating, we’ve given her free rein to shout, “You’re out of order! You’re out of order! This whole claim file is out of order!” That’ll shake things up. (Attorney’s note: The claim files of Ashton Tiffany and its affiliates, partners, business associates, subsidiaries, overseas divisions, and franchisees are, in fact, never out of order.)
Next up is Mike Del Vecchio.
He says he’s got 51 years of experience…at being Mike Del Vecchio. This makes him the best Mike Del Vecchio one can imagine. (HR tells us that none of the other Mike Del Vecchio candidates even came close.)
Mike says his favorite food is, “All.” Yes, that’s a quote. So, does he eat laundry detergent? Or is he just ecumenical in his dining habits? Check back for updates.
Mike also wanted to share this belief with us: “Our purpose in life is to help others.” WOW. I really wish someone had mentioned this earlier, because I have been totally whiffing. But not Mike…he’s a good guy…a good man…and a great addition to Ashton Tiffany.
Finally, there’s Catie Bassett:
Favorite food? Spaghetti with garlic bread. Favorite activity? Hot pilates. Dicey scenario? Big spaghetti/garlic bread dinner, immediately followed by hot pilates.
Here are two other weirdly related facts about Katie: (1) she’s never broken a bone; and (2) she aspired to be an actress growing up. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? She’s a natural for Mrs. Dunn in the upcoming “Unbreakable” sequel (which is really happening).
Finally, she says her favorite quote is anything from Walt Disney. So, we’ll end Catie’s bio with this gem from the happiest man on earth:
Do you see the name on that parking spot? Yeah? And what does it say? Does it say Joe Blow? No. It says Walt (expletive deleted) Disney. Is your name Walt (expletive deleted) Disney? No. So go find a parking spot that says Joe Blow, and park your piece of (expletive deleted) car there. Oh and, one more thing: If you ever park in my spot again, you’ll be working the puke mop on the Matterhorn for the next 40 years. Do we understand each other? Good. Now get the (expletive deleted) out of here.
Okay, that was mean. Walt Disney would never say such a thing (and if he did, Catie would never support it). Here’s something he really did say…something we hope will inspire Catie, her two new colleagues, all ATers, and anybody else who’s still reading:
First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.
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Apocalipsis Monday 11/11/19 #59
Uri and Benjamin aren’t getting any readier to leave for Rome, but Benjamin’s figured out how to reach whoever’s publishing The Woman in the Burqa videos. It would be practically impossible to track them down in TOR, but he sent an irresistible comment–a link to all the information he’s found out about Ricardo. But he’s also sending them malware.
He gets a response and traces the IP to Jerusalem, then takes over the computer’s webcam and it’s…
Not Zoe. It’s Soraya. The dudes are bummed. Soraya, meanwhile keeps dropping her jaw farther open and her eyes keep widening, so I guess she’s reading all the info on Ricardo and freaking out.
Benjamin pouts until it occurs to him that the person in the videos might not be the person publishing them. Zoe wasn’t a hacker. She could have found someone to help her.
And look, if she figured out Ricardo brought that plane down, she could have been hiding all this time to protect herself and their child.
And she didn’t contact him because…?
Until yesterday he was Ricardo’s partner. And he never listened to her.
Uri agrees that makes sense. Benjamin starts packing for Jerusalem and Uri insists on going with him. No arguments! He’s Ben’s uncle and he feels responsible!
In Rome, Ricardo’s poring over the international news online, worried that one of the three cranky rich guys might have said something to the press. But no.
While he’s doing that Alan’s kissing Ricardo’s ass about how they kicked Benjamin out of the company for his own good.
Uri and Benjamin have made it to Jerusalem, but Uri keeps listing all the ways Benjamin might be wrong about this. They find a café with no one using the one computer and Ben orders coffees. He’s going to wait there for this person to show up and he’s going to keep waiting every day until they do.
Behind them Soraya sneaks into the café, which cracks me up. She sits down behind that sweet doublewide screen and pulls the cell phone out of a sewn pouch in her string bag.
Alan’s annoyed with Adriano for not just having a good time. What happened to Fun!Adriano?
Fun!Adriano’s gone. This wedding is like the last dance on the Titanic. The three rich whiners are in Moscow. They maybe kings without countries, but they’ve got money. He’s convinced something bad is going to happen.
Alan says Ricardo will take care of them after the wedding.
Adriano doesn’t get it. Alan’s completely changed since he started working for Ricardo. Ricardo’s slick. He can get a guy to hurt his own son.
Uff! Alan doesn’t want to hear that. Who’s Adriano to talk to him about morality?
OK, Adriano agrees he’s got no room to talk. But Ricardo really is capable of taking away what’s most important to people.
Soraya finishes uploading the video and leaves the café. Outside, Benjamin’s telling Uri “she” just uploaded another video. And Uri looks at Soraya and recognizes her face.
The two of them start chasing her. And by “chasing” I mean that they stand up from their chairs, Benjamin bumps into a waitress, and Uri gets stuck paying for their coffee because Benjamin only has $19.
When they catch up to her, she pretends not to speak English. I would’ve thought the smart thing to do was just say “I’m Benjamin” but no, he’s all “Do you know this woman?” and Jamal comes up to Soraya and asks what’s up. Before they can leave Benjamin says “I know you’re the one who publishes the videos of The Woman in the Burqa. I’m the one who sent you the information on Ricardo.” Oh sure, Benjamin, why don’t you just say it a little louder since I don’t think anyone outside of Jerusalem heard you! He says he just wants to know if Zoe is alive.
César and Guido are all grumpy about Enrique getting away. I have to admit that I just don’t care. César still thinks Dudú’s the one who helped him. Guido still insists they have no evidence.
Dudú brings their pay over to Robinson. They’re laughing about being rich, though Dudú was happy enough seeing César’s face when they found the ankle bracelet on the dog.
Dudú gives Celeste a ring–not as a proposal, but as an apology for being so busy lately.
Diogo comes over to Bárbara’s to talk. He doesn’t see why they can’t talk, considering they “almost” had a baby (awwww 🙁 ). He doesn’t know how else to say this, but he loves her. He doesn’t want her to change. He likes that she’s independent and modern and if she wants her space, he respects that. Whatever she wants, however she wants it, he’ll accept it. He thinks they should give themselves a chance.
Ricardo’s whiny because Bela’s thinking about Benjamin instead of him. She tells him Benjamin called him the devil and she thinks he’s gone “crazy.” Ricardo tells her not to worry, Benjamin’s like the brother he never had and they’re going to lose him. He gives her a kiss and a hug and makes a face behind her back. I’m just waiting for him to crack and start screaming about this being HIS MOMENT!
Zoe’s brushing her hair after a bath when Benjamin just shows up all “Zoe? I came to find you and our child! Don’t freak out!”
He reaches out to her and Zoe twists his arm behind his back and slams him into a tent pole. That’s right, bro, she’s had THREE YEARS to learn how to fight. “Who else knows I’m alive?! Does Ricardo know?” She’s got him by the throat.
Benjamin swears he’s not working for Ricardo anymore. And Pastor Jonas and César helped him find the truth. He’s got dirt on Ricardo and Ricardo kicked him out of Gudman. And he knows Ricardo’s the antichrist.
She lets him go, but she still thinks he’s faking.
He says she tried to warn him and now he knows it’s all as true as his love for her. And his love for God. Yep, he’s converted. He knows God protected Zoe in the desert and helped him find his faith.
They get to snogging in the bath tent, but wait! Soraya shows up with David. David’s not super enthusiastic about meeting his dad.
Uri’s back at the tents, talking to Jamal. Jamal just wants to clarify–Benjamin found out Ricardo’s a monster just like Zoe’s always saying? What’s the evidence?
Uri’s response shocks me–he says they have the evidence that the biblical prophecies are correct and they’re coming true. They’ve got bad times coming. But maybe they’ll be safe here, in the middle of the desert.
Ricardo’s in the study with Padre Stefano, complaining that the three “kings without kingdoms” are trying to bring him down and how hate invigorates him. Debora comes in wearing a long red dress that I wish didn’t just fall from the shoulder and have no waist. Ricardo jokingly accuses her of trying to outshine the bride.
Downstairs, the guests are starting to assemble. Ricardo hugs his grandparents. Debora whisks Susana off to check on the bride. I don’t know if it’s the dress, but Susana looks sad.
Ricardo has to console his grandmother. It’s not that Debora doesn’t care that she’s there, it’s just that she’s so nervous about her son getting married.
Maybe there was a dress code for the women. Everyone’s going flowing and floor length and wearing fascinators.
Talita’s in a short skirt, though, and sampling the champagne, which worries her mom and Felipe. I’m not sure “Don’t worry, this is like organic juice compared to the stuff I did before” was the right way to approach this.
Susana comes over to greet them. No, Benjamin’s not coming. And it didn’t quite go down the way it was described in the papers, but they’ll talk later.
Estela addresses Felipe as “mi amor” (?) and asks if that’s not his son over there.
Felipe didn’t know he was coming. He goes over to say hi.
Andre’s just telling Brenda how at home he feels around these rich people. Brenda’s like “You mean snobs.”
Felipe comes over and I get the feeling that when he mentions to Andre that he’s with Estela (!) and he’s the new hospital administrator (!!) Andre’s suddenly going to think having a dad is a good idea.
Back in the living room, Susana’s asking Estela how she’s dealing with Enrique’s escape.
Estela doesn’t know what she’d do without Felipe (!!!). And she feels bad for Talita, who never really had a good example of a father.
Susana says maybe it’s better that he’s gone, in that case.
Greta’s long black dress looks fabulous and she’s going sans fascinator, but she’s got an earpiece in. She tells Debora it’s time. Debora tells her to find Alan and send him to get the bride.
Ariela shows up with Luca. There’s some conversation, but Debora throws a glass of wine on him and Ricardo kicks him out. He tells Debora to act like his mother and not some cualquiera (slut, low-class woman). Then he asks Ariela to come with him.
In the office, Ariela gloats about how easily Debora gets upset.
Ricardo really doesn’t care about their sick little relationship, he wants to know what the three are up to.
Not much. After Moscow they all went on vacations with their families. And they’re so “conventional” she knows they won’t be thinking about anything else.
I don’t know what kind of service this is going to be, but Ricardo’s got his red cloak on and his yarmulke. Padre Stefano says it’s time.
Osiel complains to Gideon and Saulo that none of Ricardo’s groomsmen are his age. Saulo says they’re important men and Ricardo needs them for somethingorother. Gideon’s complaining that Ricardo’s Jewish and he should be respecting tradition and having a Jewish wedding.
Marta thinks so too and she and Tamar LOUDLY argue about it. Marta’s practically screaming that Ricardo’s the messiah and he should be getting married in Jerusalem!
Hanna’s relieved when Ricardo starts asking people to head out to the garden.
Tamar tries to check on Debora, but Debora says nothing’s going on, she just has a lot of things to do.
Dylan and Noah walk through the park, commenting on the lack of children. Dylan doesn’t think things will ever go back to the way they were. He always used to feel like an alien life form. That’s why he went to work for the Space Agency (haha).
But ever since all those people disappeared now he feels like the world understands him better. Like he’s finally a part of it.
And then Noah showed up and gave him back not only his family, but his faith.
Bela’s dress is all sparkly. She reminds her dad she can’t cry ’cause of the makeup. Alan tells her he always wanted to have a girl because watching her grow up to be a strong woman is the highest honor a man can have. Bela gives up on the makeup and hugs him. (I dunno, I mean…what’s that worth coming from a guy who stabbed his own son in the back?)
Benjamin comes back to the camp with Zoe and David and Soraya. Zoe says it’s good to see him and Uri’s like “This is…” Zoe says it’s a miracle. Uri says hi to his nephew. He’s now convinced God exists. He looks up and tells Monique she’d be proud of him.
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JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) -- With the heat and humidity this summer that may call for a trip outside to the beach.
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Thu Apr 9th 2015 by abagond
Walter Scott (1965-2015) was a 50-year-old unarmed Black American man and father of four who was shot dead by a White police officer during a traffic stop. That was on April 4th 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The killer cop was Michael T. Slager.
Officer Slager said that on Saturday April 4th he stopped Scott for a broken tail light on the Mercedes Benz he was driving. At some point during the stop, Scott took the officer’s taser gun. Officer Slager, in fear for his life, shot Scott. He then gave Scott CPR to try to save him.
Scott’s brother Anthony arrived at the scene. The police would not tell him why they killed his brother. Anthony Scott:
“This just doesn’t sound right. How do you lose your life at a traffic stop?”
Part of the traffic stop was caught on video by Feidin Santana on his phone. He was walking to work at the time.
The video shows Scott running away and Officer Slager shooting eight times at his back. Scott falls. Instead of giving CPR, Slager handcuffs him.
Officer Slager then goes to get a black object and drops it on the ground next to Scott. He does it like he has done it before. It is presumably the taser gun, dropped next to Scott to create “evidence” to support his lie, his lie to get away with murder.
A still from Santana’s video.
Santana overcame his fears and gave the video to Scott’s family. Their lawyer gave it to the press.
Michael Slager.
And then, amazingly:
Officer Slager was charged with murder – no grand jury necessary!
Officer Slager was arrested – no protests necessary!
Officer Slager was fired – no paid leave!
The state took over the investigation – the police department was not trusted to investigate itself!
The police chief was “sickened” by the video.
In short, the Normal Human Reactions that seem so strangely lacking in White people when an unarmed Black person is killed by the police (and yet they will go nuts over a Paula Deen or a Don Sterling for saying racist stuff).
Scott did have a warrant for his arrest. He was way behind on child support payments. But I doubt that is an offence punishable by death in the state of South Carolina.
North Charleston is about 47% Black and 37% White – yet the police force is about 80% White. No doubt because North Charleston only hires the “best” people.
There were two known complaints against Slager in the past. In September 2013 he tasered someone and slammed them to the ground for no good reason. The police department “exonerated” him of that complaint.
If found guilty of murder, Slager could get 30 years to life in prison. But that is a big if. After all, there was damning video in the cases of Eric Garner and Rodney King, and yet the police walked free. Phantom Caucasian Justice.
Just so you know: Over the past five years in South Carolina, police have shot 209 people. Not a single police officer was convicted of a crime.
– Abagond, 2015, 2017.
Update (April 13th): The Associated Press says there was no warrant for Scott’s arrest. NBC says there was.
Update (December 7th 2016): The trial ended in a hung jury. Ten White jurors and one Black juror voted to find Slager guilty of at least manslaughter, but, after four days, they were not able to persuade the remaining White juror, who said, “I cannot in good conscience consider a guilty verdict,” – despite the video that shows Officer Slager shooting Scott in the back five times while he runs away!
Phantom Caucasian Justice
Racist Uncles
Don Sterling
Black Brute stereotype
slave patrols
driving while Black
The extremely incomplete list of unarmed Black people killed by police
Ferguson II
Why do White people hate Black people? – my opinion
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 04:20:23 jefe
What I found so interesting also was how quick the North Charleston Police chief came forward to condemn this. Maybe he doesn’t want to happen to him what eventually happened to Ferguson’s police chief.
But then again, that was only after the video surfaced.
If the State of SC takes over, then maybe they will not need a DOJ probe.
Will they try to thuggify Walter Scott? That may be difficult if the police are not controlling the media.
One thing is sure — if the Police chief decides to pin it on this officer, that might not have the best result. White people like to pin racist behaviour on certain whites that are so obviously far gone. Then they can go back to continuing their own racist behaviour untouched. (that is, racist behaviour among whites can be pinned on a few bad apples; the vast majority are non-racist colour blind upstanding citizens. :P)
It will be interesting to follow this case.
Not to worry. The New York Times is already on it.
In the article they wrote when this first came out, they told us of Slager’s Coast Guard service but did NOT inform us of the complaints against him as a police officer.
Scott also served in the Coast Guard. The New York Times did NOT bring that up. Instead they combed through his police record going all the way back to 1987 when Scott was 22 or so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-is-charged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 04:55:34 teddy1975
Slager? As in the Dutch for Butcher, just a bit more domestic than Slayer? SANTA-na comes up with the evidence to get the murderer prosecuted? I could understand people might think it was made up, but coincidences exist.
Yeah. Maybe the police chief does not want to see his city in flames.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 05:39:45 shannon
South Carolina has indicted four white policemen for brutality since last year. This is my birth place and is along the narrow strip of land between Savannah, Ga. and Charleston, SC where slaves were “welcomed” to the new world. I live on a little island in between… that the black former slaves took over and made their own after the “civil” war. North Charleston is a hop, skip and a jump for me, should this “runaway slave” killer get off for being a “blue brother/ slave catcher” for the 1%. Me pissed, yeah? Indictments mean nothing. I’ll be in North Charleston for A14, for sure.
Yep, I think the North Charleston Police chief does not want to see his city get burned to the ground and get broadcast to the whole world. Tear gas, batons, looting, tanks, the National Guard in North Charleston? If that happened, it would not bode well for him. Better to pin it on a single offender to play the role of the racist uncle and blow over quickly so that North Charleston can resume its natural normal (and racist) self.
It would lead to more effective reorganization if the State or Federal govt found a pattern in the North Charleston police department and not pinned on this single murderous cop, but on an institutional problem. That would not bode well for the police chief either.
Any more development on Tamir Rice in Cleveland? I have not seen any development on that.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 06:01:20 leigh204
I’ve been reading comments about this latest killing and it’s sickening. Some idiots are pulling everything from their behinds saying he shouldn’t have run away from that cop. They must’ve seen something else that I didn’t see. My gosh! Mr. Scott was murdered in cold blood! RIP Mr. Scott. 😦
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 07:42:56 Solesearch
I wonder why Scott ran in the first place…maybe he had experienced brutality from cops before. I wouldn’t be surprised what with his numerous run ins with the police. What’s the north charlestons pd reputation?
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 08:59:32 Michael Cooper
The horrific cell phone video sheds a beam of light on Mike Brown’s killing last August. Notice the similarities. Shootist Darren Wilson stopped Mike Brown for walking in the street. Shootist Michael Thomas Slager pulled over Walter Scott for a faulty brake light. Wilson said that Brown tried to take his gun. Slager said that Scott tried to take his stun gun. Wilson said that he feared for his life. Slager said that he feared for his life. Both Brown and Scott ran from the police because they probably feared for their lives as well. Wilson shot Brown six times, mostly in the front of the body, with one bullet entering the top of his head apparently as he fell from the previous shots. The video shows Slager firing eight times at Scott’s back. Scott fell to the ground. The fearful so-called officers, Wilson and Slager, are alive and Brown and Scott are dead. Unfortunately, Wilson was not charged with murder. Officials in South Carolina filed a murder charge against Slager three days after Scott’s shooting, fortunately.
If this horrific video had not been recorded Michael Thomas Slager would still be patrolling the streets of North Charleston. Slager would be called an American hero by White people, and, of course, Slager would have been funded thousands of dollars by his people (White people) for killing another Black man. Enough said.
@ leigh204
I’ve read ill-comments about Walter Scott’s killing and, yes, I agree with you – it is sickening. But for those idiots to rhetorically comment on Scott’s killing says a whole lot about the immorality that exists across America and the world over. Although I don’t make bets but I can surely bet anyone that the same idiots that said he shouldn’t have run away from that cop are the SAME idiots who root for the White guys who run away from the police in the reality TV show called ‘Cops’.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 09:38:57 Bud Dhuu
Michael Cooper said:
[…] If this horrific video had not been recorded Michael Thomas Slager would still be patrolling the streets of North Charleston. Slager would be called an American hero by White people, and, of course, Slager would have been funded thousands of dollars by his people (White people) for killing another Black man. Enough said.
This. ^
It’s the video that has made the reaction possible. Not just that it showed the murder, but also that it showed the throw-down of the taser. The video and the cautionary example of Ferguson make it expedient to sacrifice this one killer cop for the sake of PR. That is all. No police chiefs were “sickened”, no officials were shocked. Circumstances forced them into a damage limitation exercise.
Without the video it would have been business as usual. I doubt that any proportionate justice will occur.
And let’s not forget the accessories after the fact who tried to help the murderer cover it up.
The North Charleston police department’s reaction looks like damage control to avoid becoming another Ferguson and subject of another DOJ probe. It’s OK to have a sacrificial lamb.
This is certainly not the first time something like that happened there. What happened to the prior cases?
Their swift and condemnation reaction will enable them to keep the power structure and history of institutional racism in check.
The negative comments about Walter Scott, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown etc etc etc have nothing to do with the facts of the cases. Even where some of the victim-blaming may contain details that are factually correct, that is irrelevant. It is a ritual of denial and blame that cares nothing for facts. It is automatic and poisonous.
One cannot argue with those kinds of commentators. Pointing out numerous bullets in the back of a victim who was running will not register beyond triggering a counter claim that the killer cop somehow “felt threatened”. Pure ritual.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 13:15:05 ckepler
I think your final statement — “Not a single police officer was convicted of a crime” — may not go far enough. I thought I read somewhere that not a single internal investigation resulted in a finding that an officer had acted wrongly.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 15:04:10 Just Me
“A new report by ThinkProgress.com unearthed disturbing figures when it came to the number of police-related deaths that occurred in America in the month of March alone.
Just last month, in the 31 days of March, police in the United States killed more people than the UK did in the entire 20th century. In fact, it was twice as many; police in the UK only killed 52 people during that 100 year period.
According to the report by ThinkProgess, in March alone, 111 people died during police encounters — 36 more than the previous month.
This high number in March increased the average for police killings from every 8.5 hours, to nearly 1 police killing every 6.5 hours in the US.
China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014.
On average, US police kill people at a rate 70 times higher than any of the other first world countries as they “protect and serve” the American citizens.”
(It’s ironic how many here, and worldwide, still believe that the USA is THE bastion of Freedom.)
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?466603-U.S.-Police-Kill-More-Civilians-in-March-than-UK-Police-Killed-in-100-Years&p=5596717
re: Abagond
It might be instructive to compare how different news agencies cover this. I just saw that CNN mentioned Scott’s Coast Guard record.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 16:04:14 nomad
@Michael Cooper
worth saying again
Too bad no cameras were around to film Miriam Carey’s assassination on the Washington mall. Very similar circumstances. Fleeing driver shot several times in the back.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/08/us/miriam-carey-autopsy/index.html
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 18:33:39 Speak Out
“The online fundraising platform Indiegogo is enabling Officer Michael Slager to profit in the aftermath of killing Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man that Slager shot eight times while he was trying to run away.
Join our campaign demanding that Indiegogo remove ALL Michael Slager fundraising pages from their platform immediately. So far Indiegogo is refusing to do so.”
http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/indiegogo/?sp_ref=114347251.176.12472.o.1.2&referring
“Subject: When the media protects killer cops
The Post and Courier reporter Andrew Knapp’s initial article on the shooting tries and convicts the victim, Walter Scott, by overemphasizing Michael Slager’s version of events, as well as Scott’s irrelevant criminal record.
His piece exemplifies a media landscape that blindly trusts the word of law enforcement, and inadequately examines police brutality cases. In turn, this media culture fuels the violent and racist culture of policing that endangers the lives of Black folks every day.”
Demand the Post and Courier issue a public apology immediately. http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/scott_postcourier/?sp_ref=114360220.176.12470.e.0.2&referring_akid=4270.2267999.nGsG3t&source=em_sp
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 20:18:01 Deb
@jefe…“What I found so interesting also was how quick the North Charleston Police chief came forward to condemn this. Maybe he doesn’t want to happen to him what eventually happened to Ferguson’s police chief.
Pt. 1: I just moved back home last May after 40 years and live about 10-15 minutes from the scene. I left last Friday to visit the husband in FL cuz I just needed to recharge because I’d begun to get frustrated. It seemed my people, despite a very vocal NAACP president, had been either so beaten down they’d given up on standing up or, for those who’d “moved on up,” held pretty much the same attitudes as the white folk, that the problem was us (I remember talking to a family member when I first got back about the case I linked to below and was told, “With these knuckleheads running around, what would happen if we didn’t have the cops?” My reply was, “A lot fewer dead Black folk”). No matter the meetings I’ve attended over the last near-year, I didn’t ever get the feeling there’d be any Ferguson-like protests, ever.
But I’m pretty sure that was one of the reasons why the mayor & police chief moved so quickly to condemn AFTER THE VIDEO SURFACED but, “business as usual” had already begun from the day of the murder (Sat.) until then. As Abagond pointed out, the NYT was already on it, and so were all the local “news” outlets: http://fair.org/blog-entries/media-were-already-running-with-police-fantasy-when-video-exploded-it/
I’ve no doubt had that video not surfaced, things would’ve progressed exactly as Michael Cooper described — because it happened downtown a month after I’d moved back (different PD since N. Charleston incorporated, becoming its own city in ’72, but same MO): http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/gaps-remain-in-the-denzel-curnell-suicide-narrative/Content?oid=4957874
There was surveillance video in that case as well, but conveniently, 3 crucial minutes of video were missing — from the time the off-duty cop working security (a legal George Zimmerman if you will) pulled up to the curb and confronted the young man in a hoodie, to the time the cop is outside of his car pointing his gun at the kid on the ground, dead. As you can see from the link, the cop, fully supported by the mayor & police chief, was fully exonerated and SLED & the Solicitor ruled this kid’s death a suicide, mainly, IMO, bcuz nobody knew what happened during those 3 minutes! This time, the whole world knows what happened. So no, SLED taking over doesn’t necessarily mean no DOJ probe will be needed.
Black folk were angry, there was no marching that I heard of, but the NAACP held a meeting which I did attend. The purpose was to acquire enough information from individuals who’d endured fake traffic stops, excessive force encounters with the cops, etc., to force a DOJ probe. To my knowledge, it went nowhere — until now, thanks to that cell phone video.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 20:22:24 maxine
Poor black America.
@jefe…Pt. 2
I think the MOST important reason for the quick response though is the age-old, capitalist one — “dollar, dollar bills y’all.”
Charleston has been vying for the #1 tourist destination since they successfully — to use your word on another of Abagond’s post — they “bleached” downtown of its former, Black majority, pushing most of us to the North Area as it used to be called through gentrification and bad property decisions by some Black folk (to include my own). Condé Nast Traveler’s has knighted it so for 4 years in a row which has brought beaucoup tourist dollars there since: http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2014/10/20/cond-nast-names-charleston-no-1-us-city-for-fourth-year-in-a-row
North Charleston, has experienced significant $$$ growth with the courting of large companies like Boeing, in particular, which is set to build yet another engineering plant there soon per a meeting I attended in my community with Mayor Summey. They have plans for a new transportation hub worth $14 million: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150318/PC16/150319311/1177
and they’re in the running for Volvo now, while Daimler’s already committed to expand a van assembly plant: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article13748288.html
The mayor can’t afford to have these lucrative deals fall through over one idiot cop who got caught on tape committing murder! He’s been mayor for 20 years and his daddy was mayor there as well (Hell, downtown Charleston’s mayor’s been there for 40 years!). There are some Black candidates angling for his job in the next election, it’ll be interesting to see how that goes after all this.
I’ve been trying to write a series about all I’ve seen since coming back, but have been blocked for some time due to sheer frustration. Sadly, it seems Walter Scott’s death has unblocked me. Hope to be done with it soon.
@shannon…“This is my birth place and is along the narrow strip of land between Savannah, Ga. and Charleston, SC where slaves were “welcomed” to the new world. I live on a little island in between… that the black former slaves took over and made their own after the “civil” war.”
Yeah, we were “welcomed” at our own Ellis Island — the Sullivan’s Island Pest Houses where they held hundreds of West African slaves for up to 30 days in cramped 30×10 spaces to hose ’em down and make sure they had no contagious diseases. I’ve been gone so long and I’m old now, my memory fails me these days, but I think I have some family where you live! 😃 James or Johns??
Since I’ve been out of town since last Friday, I’ve only been able to follow what’s happening online. I totally agree with you, “Indictments mean nothing.” I’m going back this weekend and I’d like to get in where I fit in — what’s “A14?”
@nomad…“Too bad no cameras were around to film Miriam Carey’s assassination on the Washington mall.”
Hey, ‘mad!! I totally agree with you! They murdered Miriam Carey and nobody seemed to care.
@Speakout…““The online fundraising platform Indiegogo is enabling Officer Michael Slager to profit in the aftermath of killing Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man that Slager shot eight times while he was trying to run away.”
Seems they went to Indiegogo after GoFundMe rejected them: http://www.live5news.com/story/28753926/gofundme-rejects-campaign-to-support-officer-in-fatal-n-charleston-shooting
From the link:
“We’re campaigning to show our Support for Officer Michael T. Slager! We believe in all of our LEOs and want to publicly support them! Although he may have made mis-steps in judgement he was protecting the community.”
As of 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, $66 of the $5,000 goal had been raised.
Protecting the community from whom, him?? Smdh $66 since Wednesday, seems nobody’s buying that BS after seeing that video.
And, right on cue: http://www.live5news.com/story/28769315/rev-al-sharpton-to-visit-charity-baptist-church-this-weekend
Can’t wait to miss that!
Hi, Deb. The story’s still not clear, but apparently they got the child away from her and shot her in the back every bit as cold blooded as Slager. The only difference is we don’t have pictures to touch us on that visceral level. And the Prez sat back and approved.
should have included “as she ran for her life”
@nomad…“The only difference is we don’t have pictures to touch us on that visceral level. And the Prez sat back and approved.”
We talked about this at my place remember? The child was in the car while they trained their guns on her and then shot her in the back as she tried to run away. I, for one, was touched viscerally by this young sister’s execution, pictures or not. And yes, as usual, particularly when it comes to Black folk, the Changeling didn’t do a damned thing — no investigation ordered, no probe, no nothing. {smdh}
Yes indeed.
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 23:22:15 Mack Lyons (@DDSSBlog)
So, how do we make this stop?
That’s been a question on my mind for the longest. Because things like these can’t continue indefinitely without some form of pushback.
Sadly, I wonder sometimes if we even have the strength to push back anymore. It seems we’re still stuck in our desire to get along with the same people, the same groups and the same institutions that not only think so little of us, but would also want to see us dead in droves.
How do we make this stop?
on Fri Apr 10th 2015 at 23:26:23 #WalterScott | Oppression Monitor Daily
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 00:30:56 Just Me
@ Mack Lyons
Critical Mass. When the tipping point is reached.
Unfortunately, a lot more Black people will have died by the time we reach this tipping point…. if we do reach it.
Critical Mass – when the majority of us begin to realize that we’re already marked for death, and therefore have nothing of value to lose.
Then, hopefully, we might fight/push back.
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 01:02:24 Mary Burrell
I knew they would find a way to get support to fund this beast
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 01:41:34 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
Why is Sharpton getting so much hate for wanting to come along and lend his support ? He’s dammed if he doesn’t but dammed if does.
As to this case : You know what ? I wish to god the witness would have held onto the video for 10 more days.
I would have loved that just see Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, other slick white racists, right wingers, stormfronters zombies and many others go on their precanned anti-“thug” tirades and smear campaigns, possibly digging up a parking violation the Walter Scott may have committed 20 years ago, and generally siding with the murderer.
And then BOOM !!!!!!
Video drops. O my god – That would have been beautiful.
Although that didn’t happen, I’m sure people are so much more skeptical about word of the police now. And I’m sure it has changed some minds about Ferguson.
With all that being said. Eric Garner’s murder was caught on camera too and the only person who served time was the camera man.
So the brave person who shot this video, you can bet that Easter Egg, you got last Sunday, they’re checking his immigration status right now
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 01:50:25 abagond
Here is the South Carolina Post and Courier article that came out two days after the shooting, which was BEFORE it knew about the video:
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150406/PC16/150409558/1268/north-charleston-police-say-officer-who-fatally-shot-man-pulled-him-over-because-of-brake
The New York Times would have had to have known about this article. If you compare the two, you will see that the Times LEFT out the complaints against Slager – but not his Coast Guard service.
The same NYT link I gave earlier in the thread:
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 02:11:25 sharinalr
“ith all that being said. Eric Garner’s murder was caught on camera too and the only person who served time was the camera man.”—-Exactly! Which is why I am a bit worried about how this will go.
Whites don’t even defend not being racist anymore.
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 02:23:21 lifelearner
Stopped for a broken tail light. And ended up DEAD. I just can’t anymore. I’m in self preservation mode. R.I.P. Walter Scott. This was someone’s brother, nephew, cousin, father…
http://watercoolerconvos.com/2014/08/10/white-fear-the-single-greatest-killer-of-black-people-in-the-us/#disqus_thread
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 04:14:57 jefe
@Deb,
So, you mention that the Charleston Area NAACP has been pushing for a DOJ probe all along. I would surmise that the North Charleston police chief DOES NOT WANT THAT so will do anything to prevent it. Once the video surfaced, he was quick to act – fire the police officer and charge him with murder. In other words, the police chief needed to wipe his hands clean.
We now need to come to another step – require a DOJ probe each and every time an unarmed suspect is killed by the police. Hopefully it will cause the other police depts to shape up fast to avoid this probe.
Or maybe it would force districts with obvious problems to satisfy federal requirements, like the Voting Rights Act used to. Anyone aware of any federal legislation being proposed?
It is interesting how the information changes depending on who is reporting it and how many days after the shooting.
It is interesting how the SC paper can put something like “The police officer felt threatened” in the headline and find it perfectly normal to say things like that. An unarmed man who is not in the process of committing any crime or actually threatening the officer can be called a deadly threat without a single reader (esp. the white ones) flinching.
Each paper is obviously representing a political interest. What is NYT’s? What is the NYT’s vested interest in thuggifying Scott?
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 04:36:39 blakksage
Yup, … my pathetic hometown of Charleston, S.C. has done it again. Thanks for showing the world that racism is alive and well; thanks for revealing that every police shooting is in fact a re-reading of a tired police officer’s script; thanks for letting us all know that all black witnesses truly are liars,. ..that’s unless you have a video; thanks for confirming that black men only morph into either a monster or the black Hulk with super strength only when video cameras are not within the immediate area; thanks for corroborating the contention that most white police officers lack the required amount of empathy to be certified as policemen; thanks for authenticating once again that those within the status quo only respond to an unarmed person being murdered when their own status is threatened; thanks Mayor Summey, Police Chief Driggers and Governor Haley for showing the world that you believe that black lives truly DOESN’T MATTER when you’re considered a lifelong reprobate; absent self redeeming qualities; thanks for revealing the true attitudes of officials when an attempted cover-up is caught on tape; because only at that time will so-called officials respond quickly as REAL OFFICIALS; thanks for allowing us a glimpse into the feeble mindset of some white folks until irrefutable evidence to the contrary surface; … up to that point, white folks in general put on a mask to pretend as if they’re benevolent caring folks. In summary, THANKS FOR NOTHING!
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 04:56:36 Deb
@Mack Lyons…“Sadly, I wonder sometimes if we even have the strength to push back anymore. It seems we’re still stuck in our desire to get along with the same people, the same groups and the same institutions that not only think so little of us, but would also want to see us dead in droves.”
I think it’s a 50/50 thing — part lack of strength for some, part lack of will for others, especially those of us who believe “we’ve arrived & are accepted” like some Black celebs & politicians in particular, who are held up as “role models” not because of any stand they take, or real work they do in & for the community — but because of the money they make (for themselves, or for their capitalist overlords).
I agree with Just Me that the ONLY way to make it stop is, “Critical Mass – when the majority of us begin to realize that we’re already marked for death, and therefore have nothing of value to lose.
The trick is getting there, and believe you me, I’ve seen, in the last near-year I’ve been home, that’s a tough mountain to climb.
@TheHipHopRecords…“Why is Sharpton getting so much hate for wanting to come along and lend his support ? He’s dammed if he doesn’t but dammed if does.”
No hate here, just awareness of who he is. Given all that’s been unveiled about his activities, playing both sides of the fence to fatten his pockets (FBI snitch, milking big corporations for cash NOT to march or protest against their BS, etc.: http://breakingbrown.com/2014/04/yvette-carnell-please-dont-embarrass-yourself-by-defending-rev-al-sharpton/)
I don’t damn him if he doesn’t, actually I’d just prefer he didn’t.
“As to this case : You know what ? I wish to god the witness would have held onto the video for 10 more days…And then BOOM !!!!!!
Yep, it sure would’ve been — but in this instance, Santana saw wrong and wanted to right it, rather than playing those “Games Mother Never Taught You” (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34238.Games_Mother_Never_Taught_You — I read this book back in 1978 after graduating college and going out into the corporate world in DC. It was written for women, but I can still see how it applies to men, not initiated into the “American way” of doing business in this country like Santana, who is Dominican). I’m glad he went ahead and turned it over to the Scott family because it gave them hope for justice, when before that, there wasn’t any.
Do people think that Santana’s act will help mitigate the resentment that some non-Hispanic blacks feel towards Dominicans in the US?
@jefe…“So, you mention that the Charleston Area NAACP has been pushing for a DOJ probe all along. I would surmise that the North Charleston police chief DOES NOT WANT THAT so will do anything to prevent it. Once the video surfaced, he was quick to act – fire the police officer and charge him with murder. In other words, the police chief needed to wipe his hands clean.
No, the NAAP was pushing for a DOJ probe in the case that happened in downtown Charleston. That went nowhere. But I think you’re dead-on regarding the North Charleston police chief. While I think your suggestion of a probe each and every time is a wonderful idea — I wouldn’t hold your breath. Hell, we wouldn’t have even gotten a charge and/or firing in this case had there not been a video. Your, “…like the Voting Rights Act used to” is proof enough of that. Remember when they gutted it, Roberts, writing for the majority said, “Our country has changed”… While any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions.” I’m not aware of any proposed legislation.
@blakksage… AMEN — to every word you said!!!
@jefe…“Do people think that Santana’s act will help mitigate the resentment that some non-Hispanic blacks feel towards Dominicans in the US?”
Maybe, but for me, given the apartheid going on in Hispaniola against Haitians: http://www.ezilidanto.com/zili/2015/02/barbaric-lynching-dominican-republic/ — it’s on a case-by-case basis. I have to admit, when Santana came forward and I found out he was Dominican, I was surprised he’d gone that extra mile for a Black man who resembled the Haitians that his countrymen have routinely been persecuting. Just goes to show, you can’t paint everyone with a broad brush, because I am truly grateful that he did what he did. But that’s just me…
@sharinalr…Thanx for the link to that most powerful and truthful piece! I feel exactly like the writer!!
Maybe Santana’s act might be an indication of where he lives — in SC he gets racialized as black. But Dominicans in NYC might see themselves differently.
In any case, I hope we can all learn not to paint everyone with a broad brush.
Re: Police forces around the country.
Indeed, most are administered at the local level – by county, or even down to city or town. There does not seem to be much oversight at the State level, not to mention the Federal level.
Voting registration has always been administered at the local level. It wasn’t decided until 1965 that Federal oversight was needed. Has any congressman or senator or someone from the Executive branch promoted the idea that oversight at the Federal level is needed for local police administration?
At least Holder and Obama condemned the SCOTUS decision to relax Federal voting right oversight. I can’t for the life of me how they could take Shelby’s county’s word for it, being situated right between Birmingham and Selma, and right while the film Selma was being produced and filmed.
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 13:37:42 Bud Dhuu
@Mack Lyons
I don’t think that it can be stopped by a reaction by POC alone. Although racism is a discrete issue in and of itself, it is also symptomatic of a wider unsustainable prevalence of inequality – economic, social, gender, racial…
The whole thing, the whole runaway society of individualist greed, selfishness, disregard of community… It all needs dismantling and replacing with a society based on totally different values and priorities. IMO, POC and working class whites share a great deal in common. There should be natural alliance, but hostility and racism-through-ignorance have been engineered.
i owe approximately $28000 in back child support, i am not allowed to leave the USA or perhaps it is more accurate to say i would not be allowed back in
i been in charleston county lockup SGT AL CANNON or some crap like that
Originally Posted By @deb
OK. Fair enough. I’m in England. So even thiough I know and most people know who Sharpton is. I don’t know how much dirt he’s allegedly done. I like to think the best of people and maybe with Sharpton it’s that’s ol saying “Just because a person does good, that don’t mean they are good”. I just found it interesting that the Scott family dont want him at the funeral. Maybe they don’t Sharpton and the circus of it all.
v8driver said: “i owe approximately $28000 in back child support, i am not allowed to leave the USA or perhaps it is more accurate to say i would not be allowed back in.”
I have a question for you. How much is there a chance of you getting a few hollow point bullets violently inserted into your back as a white man for what you owe in child support?
Scott owed $18,000. His brother said that he ran from the police because he was afraid of getting thrown in prison for it.
@blakksage I would say probably significantly less than a black man, but i think the cops are trained to just blast away lately. I do see your point as this fat white cop just apparently didn’t feel like chasing or tasing the black man so he drew his pistol, or it is just complete racism. I haven’t heard any audio yet on this one. But the placing the taser etc is a complete coverup. It’s a very bad story.
Eric Garner’s murder was witnessed by the whole world yet he was still blamed. I find it interesting that Mr. Scott’s death was on camera as well. And i am glad his killer is in jail and fired. Even those fools on Fox News like Sean Hannity agree that Scott’s murder was wrong. And Ben Carson even called it an execution. Are they just doing this to say “See we are not racist” I find all of this interesting. Smartphone cameras are so vital and i wonder if in the future will police think twice before they gun someone down or handle someone with brute force.
There were quite a few city officials who attended Walter Scott’s funeral. That’s a new twist. Usually they never care about dead black men. They didn’t attend Eric Garner’s funeral or Tamir Rice’s funeral. And I certainly didn’t think they would attend Michael Brown’s funeral. I just said all this because i was surprised to see city officials attending Mr. Scott’s funeral. Is this part of damage control? They don’t want what happened in Ferguson to happen in their city is what i am thinking.
I am curious to know if they will come after the guy who captured the murder of Walter Scott, in the same way they came after the guy who recorded Eric Garner’s murder. Will they try and deport him? The guy who recorded Eric Garner’s murder said he felt it was retaliation that the New York cops came after him.
Al Sharpton is everywhere just so he can have his face on camera. He is kind of self serving to me. There is something disingenuous about him.
Smartphone cameras are so vital and i wonder if in the future will police think twice before they gun someone down or handle someone with brute force. – Mary Burrell
Good question Mary, however, Edomites (white people) are descendants of Esau, brother of Jacob. Biblically speaking, Edomites are hard-wired to be hunters. Obviously, Officer Slager thought of Mr. Scott as simply a prey that was attempting to get away. This is why it is so easy for whites to kill with the greatest of ease, just as Officer Slager did to Walter. By no means was Mr. Scott a world class sprinter either. To prove my point, Officer Slager was able to chase Mr. Scott down after he ran away at first. He could’ve just as easily chased him down again, but instead, he reverted back to his deeply embedded primordial instincts when it wasn’t truly necessary.
Therefore, I do not think that the nonchalant murdering of black people by whites will change. Unfortunately, what’s happening right now in this violent world of ours is already WRITTEN!
I just said all this because i was surprised to see city officials attending Mr. Scott’s funeral. Is this part of damage control? They don’t want what happened in Ferguson to happen in their city is what i am thinking. – Mary Burrell
You nailed it Mary! 🙂
@blakksage: Thanks for reading my post i wanted my post to make sense and flow together as i have so many questions about this tragedy.
Walter Scott was stopped because of a traffic violation “broken tail light” I hate to racialize this but i really don’t see how i can avoid doing that. If Walter Scott had been a white man i believe the officer would not have responded to a white man in this manner to the point of killing him. Even if he was running, a running white man would not be shot like an animal. This week it was Walter Scott i am afraid this is going to continue to be an on going thing in America.
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 19:16:16 Linda
Hey there Deb, long time, nice to see you
Thank you for the “insiders” view on this story.
‘m so sick of reading about these incidents. The media sensationalizes it but still, nothing gets done really.
I just thank GOD that this young man had the sense to record what he saw, or it would have been business as usual.
on Sat Apr 11th 2015 at 19:31:57 TeddyBearSniffer
@blakksage
Describing a diverse group of people with mixed DNA to having come from one origin rather than argument concerning social privileges is not the best approach. What you speak of these “Edomites” only precludes your absolute simple-minded perceptions that defeat the case of this blog.
Mary @ I am curious to know if they will come after the guy who captured the murder of Walter Scott, in the same way they came after the guy who recorded Eric Garner’s murder. Will they try and deport him?
Santana already got himself an attorney, so I think he is ready and waiting for the shenanigans to begin.
but my opinion, as far as his immigration status, it’s probably solid and legally tight or he would have never came forward.
It would take an exceptional strong person to come forward and put themselves in front of Immigration/Homeland Security, if they knew they were illegal or they did not have a valid visa — and deportation would be the last of his worries.
His biggest problem would be getting detained “indefinitely” because if you are not a US citizens, your “civil rights” are not protected
around the south, there are private Immigrant detention centers run by a company called CCA, that make money from the US Gov. just for holding people with or without due process.
http://www.thenation.com/article/173120/how-private-prisons-game-immigration-system
It’s a big Business. I think they make $100 per day, per body.
In Florida, there is Krome detention center, which is government run.
(true story: a Jamaican night club in my town was raided by INS (now called ICE). Everyone was caught up, illegal and legal immigrants who did not have their green card or naturalization papers on hand, and taken to Krome. The legal residents and naturalized US citizens were jailed and once they proved their legal status, they still had to pay up to $500 to get released — the raid went down around 3 am, I was at the club earlier in the night and left early but a few of my friends stayed and got caught up)
@Linda: Thank You for that information helps me understand how the law works in regards to immigration.
None of the outrage/shock/regret shown by establishment/law enforcement/politicians is sincere. At least, not with regard to Mr Scott’s death.
The shock/outrage is at being pit in a position that they cannot just brazen it out in the normal manner. The video was simply too damning. Mr Scott was clearly running away and presented no threat at the time of the shooting. He had not been involved in a crime, there was no reason to think he was a danger to himself or anyone else. The video clearly shows the killer do the throw-down of the taser. The lies told before the video was made public were exposed by the video. There, those adverse circumstances are what the outrage/shock/regret are over – not the conduct of the killer cop.
The words and gestures are ALL damage limitation. Never, ever believe agents of the system.
I worry for the safety of Mr Santana. Cops are vindictive and tend to get even.
Despite crowd-funded bail being raised, the guy who filmed the murder of Eric Garner was held in jail just as long as the cops and the DA could drag out his ordeal. While locked up he feared he would be poisoned as rat poison was found in the jail food.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/man-who-filmed-eric-garners-death-still-in-jail-and-afraid-to-eat-despite-posting-bail/
There is no regret with these people, only a biding of time until they think they can get away with payback for the embarrassment.
Take care, Mr Santana.
But the placing the taser etc is a complete coverup. It’s a very bad story. – v8driver
I just wanted to slightly correct you here. The repositioning of the taser was not merely a “cover-up” as you put it, however, it’s actually BUSINESS AS USUAL that was fortunate enough to be caught on tape. Furthermore, the murdering of Mr. Scott isn’t just a bad story, in reality, it’s actually a glimpse into the system of Amerikkkan apartheid form of government. Let us not beat around the bush with a few carefully selected words, let’s call it like you would if you was good umpire.
In baseball, a strike is a strike, a base-hit is a base-hit. Therefore, the intentional shooting of an unarmed, … supposed suspect (cough, cough), who is fleeing, is in no way possible a threat to the shooter. Point being, someone who kills another individual who is unarmed is a murderer, and not just a “bad decision” as Mayor Summey stated when referring to the actions of former Officer Slager. Hell, … the good folks of N. Charleston should gather enough signatures; conduct a recall and throw his ass out of office on this shallow statement alone for attempting to limit the severity of the death of an individual. This stupid statement is in fact not only a reference to his feeble state of mind, but also his disconnect to humanity. His words were certainly and evidently an indication of an individual that’s unfit to hold public office.
oh man i’m feeling some crime stats coming back… but blakksage i hear what you are saying.
do you think the problem with police violence will dissapate as whites become more of a minority? or noone will care about whites getting killed by cops either? I think it’s door #2 right there
do you think the problem with police violence will dissapate as whites become more of a minority? or noone will care about whites getting killed by cops either? I think it’s door #2 right there, just wondering… v8driver
I’ll give you a real quick answer because I’m about to be out the door. When black people ruled all of Europe (yes, including Russia), prior to the Renaissance period, there was no systematic manner put in place to target the white race for destruction. So, to answer your question, I do believe that police violence will greatly reduced or near non-existence. I say this because blacks in general are much more humane people than whites.
Sorry v8driver, but this is what I feel and this is what I’ve been able to extrapolate from all of my readings of history, the Bible and many other sources.
@Bud Dhuu: That is what i was getting at about the law enforcement and city officials attending Walter Scott’s funeral it is not sincere. You hit the nail on the head in your post Sir. Always good to read you.
@jefe…“Maybe Santana’s act might be an indication of where he lives — in SC he gets radicalized as black…”
I think you’re right about that because there’s a large Latino population in N. Charleston and I promise you, unless they’re heard speaking Spanish, folk, particularly white folk, would see him as a light-skinned, Black guy who works at a barbershop!
I can’t lie, given my people’s history in this country, that’s often easier said than done, my Brother — at least for me. I tend to deal with folk on a case-by-case, based not only on what I know of their people’s history as it relates to mine, but how they treat me.
“Has any congressman or senator or someone from the Executive branch promoted the idea that oversight at the Federal level is needed for local police administration?”
Not to my knowledge. I thought here in SC, it was SOP for cases to be handed over to SLED in an officer involved shooting. However, according to this: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150410/PC16/150419860 — “Though most police departments usually call in SLED, it’s not a requirement…” Additionally, “The pending bill would also require that the attorney general’s office take over the prosecution.” but that’s still at the state level.
Ask anybody who’s ever read me, Man — I got nothin’ for Brother Ass-Coverer or the Changeling. My grandmother always used to tell me, “Ain’t what dey say, Debi — it’s what dey do!” Their condemnation means absolutely nothing to me when I look at their actions over two terms. As for why “the Supremes” took Shelby’s word for it, IMO — in that 5-4 ruling, you got Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy and Alito who, to my mind are racist as hell. Then you got the self-hating Thomas from Pinpoiint, GA, a small, predominantly black community near Savannah founded by Freedmen after the Civil War. As far as I’m concerned, ‘nuf said.
Just like Michael Brown’s body was laying on the concrete for hours dead, Walter Scott’s family and loved one will always have that horrible video footage of their loved on being shot and his dead body laying in the grass. That will be etched in their memories forever and that is so horrible to me, seeing the demise of their loved one.
http://blackagendareport.com/killercops-bodycount
This IMO is a worthwhile read (regarding the War against Black people).
So are the comments that follow.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 00:17:03 Bud Dhuu
@ Mary Burrrell
Thanks, and back at you.
Seriously, it is beyond scary to think that an event as clearly recorded as this one is STILL unlikely to change much beyond the narrow PR steps taken locally.
As we agree, there is no real remorse. Just spin.
By luck that I didn’t earn, I was born white and outside the USA: thus I have dodged more bullets than I can count. That contrast says it all.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 00:18:07 Deb
@Bud Dhuu…“The whole thing, the whole runaway society of individualist greed, selfishness, disregard of community… It all needs dismantling and replacing with a society based on totally different values and priorities. IMO, POC and working class whites share a great deal in common. Their should be natural alliance, but hostility and racism-through-ignorance have been engineered.”
Agreed, but I surely don’t see that happening in my lifetime! And yes, POC and working class whites certainly share a great deal in common but, after the engineered hostility and racism-through-ignorance you so clearly identify — I don’t see any meaningful alliance happening there, ever. If you gave me a dollar for the number of times I heard, “At least I ain’t a nigger!” growing up in Charleston, I’d be rich as hell! I tend to agree with Dr. John Henrik Clarke on this one — “Dammit if you want a friend, look in the mirror!”: https://youtu.be/fvrzoId6n0E Oh-h-h-h, he took folk like me to task in this one, given I’m interracially married, but no matter (my baby turns 31 tomorrow and I wouldn’t trade him for the world!) — I appreciate the lesson, despite the fact I was a day late and a dollar short learning it because it has since helped me pay better attention when folk are disingenuously trying to be my “friend” or “ally.” I took Dr. Clarke’s advice to heart — I look in the mirror.
@TheHipHopRecords…“I like to think the best of people and maybe with Sharpton it’s that’s ol saying “Just because a person does good, that don’t mean they are good”. I just found it interesting that the Scott family dont want him at the funeral. Maybe they don’t Sharpton and the circus of it all.”
I like to think the best of people too, but just because I like to, doesn’t make it so. I choose, particularly now in my old age and after all of the formal miseducation with which I’ve been inculcated over 20 or so years, to critically think about folk and try to determine their true intentions. Sharpton’s not done any good for Black folk, IMHO. He’s parlayed his association with Dr. King to bamboozle plenty Black folk while being used (for big bucks of course) by those who would oppress them. I applaud the Scott family for their decision, and by the way, they’re not the on family of a police shooting vicimm who has done so: http://iloveblackpeople.net/2014/12/family-of-police-shooting-victim-tells-al-sharpton-to-go-away/ (I’m a link hoarder who, over the last near-year has been more blocked than not, what can I say!😊)
^ The Necromancer has come.
@Linda…“Hey there Deb, long time, nice to see you
Thank you for the “insiders” view on this story…I just thank GOD that this young man had the sense to record what he saw, or it would have been business as usual.”
Hey, Linda, nice to see you again too! Yes, it has been a long time. Last time we talked here, I was planning on moving to Africa, remember? Got a post sitting in draft (among plenty others) on why I changed my mind.
You’re quite welcome! I have to tell you it blew my mind when I read about this last Tuesday night (in FL visiting the husband since last Friday) because I live maybe 10-15 minutes from where it happened. Still adjusting, but I’ve been trying to pay attention to what’s happening in the city.
I’m so, so grateful that Santana recorded what he saw but, like Mary Burrell, I’m really worried for Santana. I agree with you he was smart to get an attorney quick, fast and in a hurry, not for deportation concerns but exactly for the reason you gave that — “His biggest problem would be getting detained “indefinitely” because if you are not a US citizens, your “civil rights” are not protected.”
And yeah, that is CCA’s biggest moneymaker (courtesy of the U.S. gubment!). And I totally believe your true story about Krome. I’m familiar with it.
Not sure how old you are but, do you remember back in 2002, when that wooden freighter carrying 200 or so Haitians (& 3 Cubans they’d picked up along the way) ran aground off Miami, and once the Coast Guard got there, most if them jumped overboard into Biscayne Bay (some tossing their children to those already in the water) and swam ashore and ran onto Rickenbacker Causeway? They were all taken to Krome for a very long time, but because of the Cuban Adjustment Act (Wet foot, dry foot policy), the 3 Cubans were not detained and were allowed to simply go free. I was living in the Keys and writing for the newspaper down there then. I wrote a few columns about the inequity in treatment of the decidedly poor, Black Haitians being sent to and held in Krome by the INS until they were shipped back to Haiti vs. the Cubans who, by law, were allowed to be taken in by the politically connected, nowhere-near-poor, Cuban community. It was terrible.
But, back to Santana — my biggest worry for him is that Slager’s “Brothers in Blue” just might be crazy enough to try and take out the only real witness against him. Sounds crazy I know, but unfortunately, not impossible to fathom.
When will this deprivation of basic constitutional rights end? I don’t believe in the death penalty, so I won’t call for that, but I do think that “strongly fascistic” cops (Wilson, Pantaleo, Slager, et cetera) should get life without parole…how’s that for serving justice…”
We both know that will never happen.
These officers were just playing their scripted role. Do we think that anyone in their police departments is really shocked at what they have done? Or are their monsters particularly useful to them in other circumstances. The uniforms change but the program remains the same.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 08:55:26 Michael Cooper
“The uniforms change but the program remains the same.”
You could not have said it any better.
http://topicnow.info/topic/2-florida-police-officers-found-to-be-kkk-members/
I almost wish I hadn’t used the word “alliance” in the comment to which you replied. The word “ally” has a certain smug, condescending, liberal do-gooder connotation that makes me squirm. But I mean it in its dictionary definition sense of “a union or association formed for mutual benefit“, “a relationship based on similarity of interests, nature, or qualities”.
Repectfully, I don’t entirely agree that no meaningful alliance can happen. Anarchists of all “races” hold absolute equality as a fundamental law. Opposition to racism, sexism, homophobia etc is not something we do out of faddy liberal charity, it is done because that sh!t makes no sense. It prevents us from building the society to which we aspire.
I don’t expect any meaningful alliance between POC and white liberals (liberals will change nothing), but the coincidence of interest between POC seeking justice, peace and equality and Anarchists seeking the same thing already exists regardless of whether it is recognised, acknowledged or accepted. We all fight the power, as Chuck would say.
@blakksage sorry, i’m not with you on that tribes of japheth, shem, ham thing. I see that as a major contributor to racist/xenophobic thought formation
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 12:34:13 Mack Lyons (@DDSSBlog)
@ Just Me
@ Deb
@ Bud Dhuu
“Critical mass,” huh? I’d hate to see what that’d look like. By that time, I’d probably already left the country with little more than a tablet (for eBooks and wifi) and the clothes on my back.
do you think the problem with police violence will dissapate as whites become more of a minority? or noone will care about whites getting killed by cops either? I think it’s door #2 right there, just wondering…
I’ve thought about this point, too. I was reading an article on Gaza and it was implied that the most powerful weapon they had on their side was demographics, or more importantly, a birth rate that far outstripped that of the Israeli population.
Black Americans currently make up 13.2% of the U.S. population. At the same time, the white American population is declining due to a birth rate that’s in terminal freefall. We’re due to be over 17% of the population by 2060. In my opinion, we should up that percentage to 27%.
Drowning out the white and upcoming Latino population in a sea of black should be a last-ditch goal for a people who’ve been denied opportunity after opportunity to either coexist or thrive separately from their white counterparts. Scattering ourselves into the four winds in an unending diaspora does nothing except satisfy those who’d just want to see the U.S. become just a little whiter.
Demographics is destiny, it seems. It would do black America to get in on the ground floor while there’s still time.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 16:04:15 sondis
I am not going to hold my breathe to see if a white cop, gets convicted of killing an unarmed black man. I’ll believe it if and when it happens.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 16:32:05 blakksage
v8driver said: @blakksage sorry, i’m not with you on that tribes of japheth, shem, ham thing. I see that as a major contributor to racist/xenophobic thought formation.
I perfectly understand v8, this is Amerikkka, people not only have the right to be free of tyranny, they even have the right to be ignorant as well. Goodbye!
The NYT is a White liberal Democratic newspaper. It is in bed with the cops, White flight and racial segregation. The thuggification of Black men helps to underpin all of that.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 18:56:02 Just Me
Who can predict what the tipping point will look like, or that it will recognized as such when it begins?
Civil Disobedience on a massive scale.
It might look like a type of Underground Railroad.
Or something in line with ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door.’
It could be similar to the old Black Panther Party of Self Defense.
It might be anything previously done, or entirely new, innovative, never seen before.
@blakksage well you say the great flood and noah, i prefer to say… not, call it ignorance if you like
@ Lord of Mirkwoodk
It’s easy to see the B.S. on the Right. You’ve probably been raised to see it. But believe me, the B.S. on the Left is just the flip side of the same coin. There is NO political party that’s standing up for you and that has your best interests at heart.
Nobody… There is no “Oppositional Democracy,” only the appearance of one, and the Democrats at the top would slit your throat just as quickly as the Republicans would, and for the exact same reasons.
” Also studies show that Democrats support victims of police brutality much more than Republicans.”
Maybe because most Blacks are Democrats. I do not notice any groundswell against police brutality among White Democrats.
In the case of Ferguson, for example, both the governor and the county prosecutor were European-skinned Democrats. Both protected killer cop Darren Wilson.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 22:08:07 sharinalr
@Lord of Mirkwood
“This is the embarrassing moment when I admit I’m White”—Why? It is not your fault that you have azzholes that share your skin color. Same as it is not my fault that I have azzholes that share mine.
Thanks. I felt the same way.
This is the embarrassing moment when I admit I’m White…”
I repeat. “There is NO political party that’s standing up for you and that has your best interests at heart.”
Sure, White Supremacy and White privilege, to some extent, will work in your favor, but in the end, your Whiteness will not save you either. Racism is just one arm of the octopus. There are many others. That is the foolishness of many poor Whites. They fail to realize that they will soon swing from the very gallows that they are so happily building for the hated minorities.
This is about power, and control, pure and simple. And the ends will justify the means.
The enemy is not only Wall Street, it is also the Unions. The enemy is both of the major political parties. The enemy is Fox News and also MSNBC. The enemy is Hollywood. If you want to truly control people, you must offer them choices. People don’t respond well to having their choices removed. So you do the next best thing—you simply define and then control what choices they can choose.
Like “Democrat” or “Republican.” Most people will become so invested in one or the other party/philosophy that they will never even realize that they are both the same thing. It’s so easy to believe that you have been right, when really you have been so blind all along.
on Sun Apr 12th 2015 at 23:36:33 A
@ King, something like this?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2tRIxDD3A)
Maybe, but I fear that it will likely get a lot worse before it gets better. Maybe not this year or next… but eventually
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 02:24:51 sharinalr
Agree with your statement as my husband was told by an officer that they are trained to shoot to kill and not incapacitate.
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 08:05:41 Kartoffel
Is the police in the US allowed to use shots to apprehend people? Or are they only allowed to shoot in self-defence?
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 13:48:14 Bud Dhuu
Nothing to add. Simply quoted for truth.
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 15:26:18 resw77
“The repositioning of the taser was not merely a ‘cover-up’ as you put it, however, it’s actually BUSINESS AS USUAL that was fortunate enough to be caught on tape.”
Just how many times this has been done to excuse police slayings and wrongful convictions is anyone’s guess, but I’d think it’s been done tens of thousands of times.
“someone who kills another individual who is unarmed is a murderer, and not just a ‘bad decision'”
It’s just an excuse to cover up police policies that enable the killing of unarmed black men to fool us into thinking Slager was a rogue type. We all know if it weren’t caught on tape, they’d be defending Slager.
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 15:36:47 afro
Hey I just wanted to suggest an edit to the article, even though Walter Scott was behind in his child support payments the question of whether or not he had a warrant is being challenged.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/10/walter-scott-no-warrant-issued-child-support-traffic-stop
@ afro
Thanks! I added an addendum to that effect.
@resw77
They are defending Slager. That is what is outrageous to me. They are literally trying to vilify Scott right now by saying…”He should not have run!” Calling him a criminal. Does not paying child support make you a criminal now?
The attitudes of many white Americans are “They deserve it” and try to justify it in this very manner.
@sharinalr
I was referring to the police chief/local gov’t authorities, but yes, I understand racist civilians are defending him (as if the penalty for running from a cop is death).
The same thing just happened in Tulsa. Did anyone see this video?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/12/oklahoma-deputy-who-killed-unarmed-man-thought-he-was-firing-taser-authorities-say/?tid=pm_national_pop_b
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 18:19:11 Deb
@sharinair…You’re welcome! Just like “crazy knows crazy” as my grandmother used to say, “Sensible knows sensible!”😊
@afro@abagond…“Hey I just wanted to suggest an edit to the article, even though Walter Scott was behind in his child support payments the question of whether or not he had a warrant is being challenged.”
I’ve got a family member in Mr. Scott’s situation and from what I know, once the payments are late, the Family court issues a bench warrant but they don’t necessarily send the cops out looking for you. However, if you get stopped by a cop — for ANY reason, they run your information (tags, driver’s license, state-issued ID, etc.) and if there’s an open warrant, they will arrest you. That’s why I believe his family when they said that was probably why he ran — he didn’t want to get arrested. Here’s what one of the local papers had to say about the child support situation: http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2015/04/13/walter-scott-attended-program-for-dads-who-are-behind-on-child-support-payment&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Daily
I just got back into town last night and I’m going to a community meeting at 4pm this afternoon. I’ll update you guys when I get back.
on Mon Apr 13th 2015 at 19:59:30 Jacque
Post racial my arse.
OK. Now I start telling my 11 y/o son how to respond to police even though he has done nothing.
It’s funny how most “white” folks still believe in Fantasy Island USA which has lead to all the policy BS people of color have been forced to live with.
I was watching a CNN interview on this topic with a black South Carolina activist who stated that ” We have a real racial problem in South Carolina and the nation as a whole-(paraphrased) this weekend and the black journalist had the nerve to ask him “How do we know there was an element of racism involved?” I just shook my head. I was done.
Ah ha. I agree.
“The same thing just happened in Tulsa. Did anyone see this video?”—I have not seen it as of yet, so thanks for the link. After reading it all I can do is smh
on Tue Apr 14th 2015 at 22:08:14 Speak Out
“As Video Captures Officers’ Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Men, Knowing Your Rights to Film the Police”
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/14/as_video_captures_officers_fatal_shootings
“Yeah, the courts have been crystal clear on this matter: You have a right, under the First Amendment of the Constitution, to take photographs or video of anything in public when you’re in public. And there have been attempts in some states to pass laws curbing this right. They have been struck down by the courts, and the Supreme Court has refused to review those rulings striking down those kinds of laws. So there’s no ambiguity about the law.
The only problem is, is that a lot of police officers continue to think that they can go up to you and say, you know, “You need to turn that camera off, ma’am.” That is not a lawful order. It’s not a constitutional order. But it’s one that continues to happen all too often. And they certainly don’t have the right to look at your camera or seize your phone without a warrant. And they never, ever, under any circumstances that we can imagine, have the right to destroy or erase your video or photographs.”
“After Police Abuses Caught on Video, a New Guide Teaches How to Best Archive and Distribute Footage”
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/28/after_police_abuses_caught_on_video
on Wed Apr 15th 2015 at 02:19:30 King
The only problem is, is that a lot of police officers continue to think that they can go up to you and say, you know, “You need to turn that camera off, ma’am.” That is not a lawful order. It’s not a constitutional order. But it’s one that continues to happen all too often.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbrd72MqMno)
Careful with the language, but it shows you what happens.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIbcmt1vCHc)
on Wed Apr 15th 2015 at 06:32:48 jefe
Thank you Speak Out.
This explains why many HK people are alarmed by the repeated attempts to enact national security laws in Hong Kong. One reason why Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, non-Chinese blog hosting sites (like WordPress), Instagram, Linked-In, etc. are all blocked in China is because they include content which the Government views as treasonist, seditionist or otherwise a threat to national sovereignty. They also do not want any protests to spread outside an area where they can otherwise control them, and controlling social media is seen as a vital step in that process.
This would include anything that would question the authority of the police or lawfulness of their actions. Anything like that would be treated as a threat to national security.
Their attempt at control has now expanded outside their borders.
They keep 99% of the population quelled by depicting foreigners (e.g., Japan and the West) and national minorities (Uyghurs, Tibetans) as divisive, evil elements, who seek to undermine China’s sovereignty, and making this part of national education. As there is some element of historical truth to it, it is easy to use this to control the population. But the continued use of this trope looks so disingenuous to me.
If HK passes national security laws as approved by Beijing, what I just typed could be viewed as spreading lies to harm the state.
As much as I am dismayed by America’s dismal racist and belligerent past and present and its attempt to cover it up, at least there are ways to communicate that won’t land you in jail. Anyhow, the advice in the link provided probably is good advice for anywhere.
on Wed Apr 15th 2015 at 19:09:03 resw77
Did anyone see this one? No running…just complying with the officer’s instructions: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038896/Sir-shot-did-reach-license-innocent-victim-police-shooting-calls-bodycams-traffic-stop-cop-opened-fire.html
on Thu Apr 16th 2015 at 01:36:05 Mary Burrell
They will shoot you even if you are not running and complying with their commands. I don’t trust them. I feel they will shoot you for jay walking.
on Thu Apr 16th 2015 at 03:16:21 King
Mary! How could you say that?
Everyone knows that the police punishment for jaywalking is beating, not shooting!!
http://nypost.com/2014/01/19/cops-beat-elderly-man-after-he-jaywalked/
on Thu Apr 16th 2015 at 03:24:33 sharinalr
^^^*snickering*
on Sat Apr 18th 2015 at 18:46:10 Speak Out
From the ACLU:
“On Tuesday, the Assembly Public Safety Committee begins debate on two important bills to end racial profiling (AB 935) and stop the excessive use of force (AB 619). If approved by the Legislature and signed by Governor Brown into law, California can truly lead by ensuring law enforcement personnel uphold our civil liberties.
The personal stories of real Californians can make a big impact in Tuesday’s hearing. We need legislators to hear about the real-life impacts of racial profiling and excessive use of force, first-hand.
If you or someone you know has experienced racial profiling or excessive use of force, please share your story with us now. We will submit comments to the Assembly Public Safety Committee before Tuesday’s hearing, and show the importance of AB 935 and AB 619!”
“What we do now will determine the future of fair policing and accountable law enforcement in our state.”
https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ca/issues/alert/?alertid=65133626&type=CU
on Sun Apr 19th 2015 at 20:32:25 Speak Out
Be advised: Last night I was harassed by the police in my car and when I pointed my cell phone camera at them they shone flashlights into the camera so that I couldn’t record their faces. All that showed up was a ball of light. They set big flashlights on top of their cop cars so that the cars and the surrounding area could not be seen on video. From what they said it was clear that this is now their strategy for disempowering members of the public who try to hold them accountable by recording them. They also refused to show me their badge numbers as they are required to do, but that’s what they’ve always done.
“Miami Beach Police Spokesman Calls Cop “Immature” for Shining Light in my Camera Lens (Updated II)”
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/05/miami-beach-police-spokesman-calls-cop-immature-for-shining-light-in-my-camera-lens/
“Flex your rights – film the police”
http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/damon-cline/2014-07-01/flex-your-rights-film-police
“There’s a burgeoning “citizen-journalist” movement where activists, who sometimes call themselves “copwatchers” or “copblockers,” actively follow on-duty police to document their activities. Many of them have YouTube channels, such as Photography Is Not A Crime (PINAC), HonorYourOath, Flex Your Rights and Police State USA.”
“Finally, self-protection is another reason why some start filming when the red-and-blue lights start flashing. All citizens need factual, objective documentation for any encounter they have with government authorities. And nothing is more factual and objective than an audio or video recording. Without it, the truth is whatever the state says it is.”
“Now, this may come as a shock to all you upright citizens, but police don’t always tell the truth. In fact, they don’t have to – the Supreme Court ruled it was OK for police to lie to citizens almost 50 years ago (Frazier v. Cupp).
That’s not to say cops are pathological liars (though some clearly are), it’s just they are duty-bound to say whatever is necessary to justify their actions and secure convictions. This is why police reports – something judges, juries and journalists consider to be the truth – read pretty much like carbon copies.
Anyone detained will have been acting “suspicious,” or made “furtive movements,” or happened to be “in a known drug area.” Anyone arrested for driving under the influence will have had the “strong odor of alcohol” on their breath, “slurred speech” and “bloodshot” eyes. Anyone police shoot with a taser will have been “aggressive” or “combative.””
“Look at it this way: Say an officer asks to search your vehicle and you refuse (which you should always do to exercise those Fourth Amendment muscles). If he still wants to search but doesn’t want to go through the trouble to get a warrant, all he has to do to is say he “smells the odor of marijuana.” Presto! – instant probable cause for a warrantless search.
It doesn’t matter if the last time you even saw marijuana was during the Clinton administration, if he says he smells it, he smells it. If the officer really wants to put on a good show, he can get a K-9 unit to say the same thing by walking a police dog around the car until it “alerts.””
on Mon Apr 20th 2015 at 13:27:40 v8driver
Im reporting tomorrow i expect to stay, also hv parking tickets
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206312595202325&id=1489932727&set=a.1195315651607.30423.1489932727&source=48&refid=17&ref=bookmark&_ft_
on Mon Apr 27th 2015 at 04:25:58 Mz.Nikita
..I know this post has been uP for awhile but I just wanted to thank Abagond for being one of the first sources that I could (accurately) find about the treacherous videotaped murder of Walter Scott-thanks for continuing to not let important (and increasingly occuring) travesties like go unreported, and in a timely fashion as well. Keep uP the good work, Abagond and R.I.P. Mr. Walter Scott!
on Tue Apr 28th 2015 at 04:06:03 List of unarmed blacks killed by police | People Against Violence
[…] Walter Scott (North Charleston, SC) 2015: Anthony Hill (Chamblee, GA) 2014: Akai Gurley (New York, NY) 2014: […]
on Mon Jun 8th 2015 at 17:24:35 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
I see Slager has indicted today but i see two things happening with this case
1) He’ll walk free
2) He’ll get a slap on the wrist, meaning a few years at a minimum security prison and even on the inside he won’t do hard time. This is the type of time Slager will do
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztx8qfoNu0)
on Thu Jul 23rd 2015 at 05:02:16 Call for Clarity: No More Sweet Chariots Swinging Low or Wading in the Water | prize in joy.
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on Thu Sep 3rd 2015 at 03:03:22 Since I’ve been gone…. | doubleeworld
[…] (Prairie View, TX) 2015: Icarus Randolph (Witchita, KS) 2015: Freddie Gray (Baltimore, MD) 2015: Walter Scott (North Charleston, SC) 2015: Tony Robinson (Madison, WI) 2015: Anthony Hill (Chamblee, GA) 2014: […]
on Sat Oct 3rd 2015 at 13:31:58 EPGAH
@jefe Brad Miller in the Christian Taylor case was a similar Sacrificial Lamb.
But more chilling is the way the WEB media–not the real media this time–tried to play “Gentle Giant” myth. The thug was just WALKING AROUND the car lot PEERING into cars.
Either they misspelled “punching”, or they were intentionally trying to pass off a “Gentle Giant” narrative. You know, like the “Gentle Giant” who was walking AWAY from Officer Wilson with its hands up? But somehow had an EXTRA hand to grab the gun, and the officer fired, the bullets went wild, then turned 180º in midair and impaled it front-to-back. I haven’t seen ballistics like that since Huckleberry Hound!
OR maybe Occam’s Razor indicates that the less-interesting story that thug and cop were fighting over the gun, and the thug got shot the normal way MIGHT be the right one!
Think of it this way: You could be murdered by a Gentle Giant who was just walking around your house!
on Tue Dec 29th 2015 at 10:31:31 Wake up, Americans will tolerate this but for so long! | QUITETRILL WORLDWIDE
[…] 4th 2015: Walter Scott, 50, North Charleston, SC, […]
on Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 00:11:06 LonelyBlkGirl
Did you hear about this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews
Please write blog post about it. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Same city different year new victim Keith Scott. A disabled man with a head injury.
on Sat Sep 24th 2016 at 22:03:17 Deb
@Mary Burrell…Hey Lil Sis! Different city — Keith Scott was killed in “Charlotte, North Carolina,” but his mother DOES live here on James Island, one of the barrier islands right outside of “Charleston, South Carolina” where Walter Scott was killed.
@Deb: I was hoping you would respond as I know this is your neck of the woods so to speak. Yes you are correct the gentlemen having the same last name is what had me confused I am thinking. Charleston and Charlotte two different cities and states. Thank you for the clarification. But I still think they used the same tactic of planting a weapon near the body.
@Mary Burrell…“Thank you for the clarification. But I still think they used the same tactic of planting a weapon near the body.”
No problem, Dear-heart, I got you! And, I second that emotion about the planting of, as Abagond so rightly calls it — a Phantom Negro Weapon!
Saw this today on Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/23/dont-shoot-him-wifes-cellphone-video-fatal-police-shooting-released…and the question is — “Gun or no gun?” Her video shows no damned gun by his foot — and she was there! Check out NikkiJaid’s chronology in the comment section of the article — pretty damned convincing!
@Deb: Thanks for the link
on Fri Nov 18th 2016 at 00:37:14 police brutality.
on Wed Dec 7th 2016 at 03:59:07 abagond
Update: The trial ended in a hung jury. Eleven White jurors and one Black juror voted to find Tensing guilty of at least manslaughter, but, after four days, they were not able to persuade the remaining White juror, who said, “I cannot in good conscience consider a guilty verdict,” – despite the video that shows Officer Slager shooting Scott in the back five times while he runs away!
on Wed Dec 7th 2016 at 04:31:31 michaeljonbarker
“The trial ended in a hung jury”. Unbelievable with the evidence. No justice for the Scott family.
on Wed Dec 28th 2016 at 04:14:52 Origin
Wow, I lost track of this and just learned of the verdict. I want to say I’m surprised but that wouldn’t be true. Disappointment that my most cynical expectations were confirmed is more like it.
on Mon Dec 4th 2017 at 15:31:01 jefe
Another update due today:
Ex-cop Michael Slager faces sentencing for videotaped killing of unarmed black man
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/03/ex-cop-michael-slager-faces-sentencing-videotaped-killing-unarmed-black-man/917587001/
on Mon Dec 4th 2017 at 17:22:37 Deb
From the Charleston Post & Courier today:
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/december-sentencing-scheduled-for-ex-north-charleston-officer-who-killed/article_12098474-b5ca-11e7-80fa-ff3f4d47921c.html
From Truthdig on 11/30:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jeff-sessions-lies-used-criminal-defense-cop-killed-walter-scott/
@ jefe @ Deb
Thanks! I hope to do a post on Slager soon.
@abagond…Your welcome, I’ll be reading!!!
on Tue Dec 5th 2017 at 01:14:46 v8driver
oh hell yeah im running over child support 25% of my last year i was locked up over it
probably another felony charge for running but he didnt have no gun that a bunch of bs well its easier in the city
actually yeah that’s a tough call,
so i be talking to the wife we need to move and wow i have 4 kids too they need rooms and soon the one will be driving i dont think the ex will get him a car i dont think our curren tblock is very childproof
ok. RIP
its just the county, right?
that’s messed up
on Tue Dec 5th 2017 at 06:00:07 Deb
@jefe…Following Slager’s case as I have to (for my own sanity!), I reread the thread, and these comments of yours (& the last one of my own) resonated with what’sstill going on in Charleston:
“It would lead to more effective reorganization if the State or Federal govt found a pattern in the North Charleston police department and not pinned on this single murderous cop, but on an institutional problem. That would not bode well for the police chief either…
…So, you mention that the Charleston Area NAACP has been pushing for a DOJ probe all along. I would surmise that the North Charleston police chief DOES NOT WANT THAT so will do anything to prevent it.”
I was a more than a little presumptuous as the following links will show (if you’ve got time for the grime — read the comments:
https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/justice-department-north-charleston-police-hold-second-feedback-session-on/article_93e3d66f-c3fd-502d-81b4-bea801ff71dd.html
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/summey-seeks-to-mend-fences/article_a5215977-ad12-529a-a185-f4ed78801c3f.html
https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/charleston-police-body-cam-footage-is-off-limits-to-public-thanks-to-new-state-law/Content?oid=5295208
https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/the-slow-death-of-the-north-charleston-police-departments-federal-review/Content?oid=12114081
https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2017/10/27/north-charleston-moves-forward-with-new-doj-agreement-as-activist-groups-demand-police-assessment?utm_source=Master+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d91db6d620-CP_DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4e2097b95-d91db6d620-117386649
Update on Slager’s ongoing sentencing hearing:
https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2017/12/04/feidin-santana-the-eyewitness-who-filmed-walter-scotts-shooting-takes-the-stand-at-michael-slagers-sentencing-hearing?utm_source=Master+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=2de95fc943-CP_DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4e2097b95-2de95fc943-117386649
on Thu Dec 7th 2017 at 20:56:59 Deb
Update from the Post & Courier today — Slager got 20 years: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/former-officer-michael-slager-sentenced-to-years-in-jail-for/article_331553da-db5b-11e7-a06e-9fb99ca21ecb.html
on Thu Dec 7th 2017 at 22:21:57 sondis
20 years, eh? Meh…So what….So they threw black men a bone for the hundreds of thousands of black men that have been killed by police for many years.
Its not like this sentence is going to start a trend among police departments across America. what say you all, black people?
on Fri Dec 8th 2017 at 02:41:18 Mary Burrell
Well it’s good Slager got 20 years he cold blooded murdered Walter Scott. I am glad for once there was some justice.
on Fri Dec 8th 2017 at 19:29:21 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
The conviction only happened with a guilty plea from Slager.
Also. White supremacist play the long game. In 4 yrs time this will be forgotten and Slager will get out. No way is he doing 20 yrs and as an ex-cop the time he’ll do inside will be like that scene in Goodfellas when they get sent to Shawshank.
on Sat Dec 9th 2017 at 12:48:03 Herneith
He will probably be sent to one of those ‘country club’ prisons.
on Sat Dec 9th 2017 at 15:08:46 sondis
Hence the reason why i am like, “Meh”. I also believe he’ll do a few years until people aren’t pay attention anymore ( which is swift when it comes to a white person, killing a black person ) White people only remember a crime, when a white person is killed and makes it a point to remember for years and years ( the little white girl Bennett Ramsey ) and countless other white people.
If they’re not remembering the criminal that was convicted of a crime, where another white person is killed, they’re making a celebrity out of the person that committed a crime ( Again, only white criminals are made into celebrities )
So yeah, i’m not impressed and if there’s any black people here that are, you’re falling for the okey doke….as usual -_-
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Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic caucuses in Iowa
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a caucus night rally at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hillary Clinton narrowly won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa, outpacing a surprisingly strong challenge from Bernie Sanders to claim the first victory in the 2016 race for president.
The former secretary of state, senator from New York and first lady edged past the Vermont senator in a race the Iowa Democratic Party called the closest in its caucus history.
The Iowa Democratic Party said Tuesday that it would not do any recount of the close results. Sanders spokesman Ted Devine said his campaign does not have "any plan or intention" to challenge the results, citing Sanders comments from Monday that the race appears to have ended in "a virtual tie."
Even a narrow victory for Clinton over an avowed socialist could complicate her quest for the nomination. But Clinton has deep ties throughout the party's establishment and a strong following among a more diverse electorate that will play a larger role in primary contests beyond New Hampshire, where Sanders is favored.
Clinton, who entered the race as the heavily favored front-runner, was hoping to banish the possibility of dual losses in Iowa and in New Hampshire. Two straight defeats could set off alarms within the party and throw into question her ability to defeat a Republican.
Sanders, for his part, was hoping to replicate President Barack Obama's pathway to the presidency by using a victory in Iowa to catapult his passion and ideals of "democratic socialism" deep into the primaries. He raised $20 million during January and hoped to turn an Iowa win into a fundraising bonanza.
Clinton, in New Hampshire Tuesday campaigning ahead of the state's Feb. 9 primary, said she was "so proud I am coming to New Hampshire after winning Iowa" adding, "I've won and I've lost there and it's a lot better to win."
Clinton's victory in Iowa means she will collect 23 delegates and Sen. Bernie Sanders will win 21. With her advantage in superdelegates - the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice - Clinton now has a total of 385 delegates. Sanders has 29.
It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president.
Portia Boulger, a 63-year-old who traveled to Iowa from Chillicothe, Ohio to support Sanders, declared a razor-thin outcome as good as a victory for Sanders.
"The political revolution is here and it's started in Iowa," she declared. "Win, lose or draw we have won."
Caucus-goers were choosing between Clinton's pledge to use her wealth of experience in government to bring about steady progress on democratic ideals and Sanders' call for radical change in a system rigged against ordinary Americans.
"Hillary goes out and works with what we have to work with. She works across the aisle and gets things accomplished," said 54-year-old John Grause, a precinct captain for Clinton in Nevada, Iowa.
"It's going to be Bernie. Hillary is history. He hasn't been bought," countered 55-year-old Su Podraza-Nagle, 55, who was caucusing for Sanders in the same town.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, unable to turn it into a three-way race, ended his quest for the nomination.
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Brownlee Maureen
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LITERARY LANDMARK: Valley Sentinel community newspaper, 1012 Commercial Street, Valemount
Maureen Brownlee grew up in the farming community of Dunster in the Robson Valley and went to school in nearby McBride. She lived in Arrow Lakes and Prince George before moving to Valemount, also in the Robson Valley, where she founded and operated The Valley Sentinel from 1985 to 1994. Her little-known but excellent first novel, Loggers' Daughters, was featured on the cover of B.C. BookWorld in 2014. For those old enough to remember a Canadian writer named Margaret Laurence, it can be likened to an old fashioned Margaret Laurence novel.
Imagine being born somewhere north of Quesnel, deep in the inland rainforest of the Rocky Mountain trench, back in the early 40s, back when BC Rail was still called the PGE and everyone called it Please Go Easy.
Everything you know about your parents comes from snippets of conversation you weren't meant to hear. Your grandparents died in a collision with a train, and your mother inherited the farm that is your childhood home; your father was specifically excluded, a continuous source of acrimony between your parents.
Then your father, injured in a bush accident, loses his source of income (and pride) and becomes a very heavy drinker.
You'll never know for certain, but maybe it is the bar bills at the local hotel that one day persuade your parents to give you up to the local hotel owners, a German couple, or maybe they are Austrian, and so you never get past the tenth grade.
Essentially you are traded, like chattel, forced to work as a permanent, live-in employee, working in the kitchen and cleaning the hotel rooms. You don't get paid. You wonder why your protective older brother Garth doesn't come to your rescue but, of course, by this time he has finished his grade twelve and is off working in the bush. You hate it. You run away twice.
The only thing unusual about you is your name, Adare.
"She wanted to go to the city,"; writes Maureen Brownlee, in her first novel, Loggers' Daughters. "Get a job in a bank. Or an office. Type. Smoke cigarettes in an ebony holder. Cigarettes lit by a gentleman in a black fedora.";
Years go by. You marry a young construction worker, a decent guy who has been to university, who works in the lumber industry and you have two kids. You get to do all the traditional maternal stuff that goes along with being a mill wife in a mill town in the early 50s in one of those now abandoned logging towns out along CNR's east line. You are deeply enmeshed in a life of shared labour, brawls, dances that go on all night and then everyone decides to whip up pancakes. Nobody has much but there is enough to go around.
This all comes to a grinding halt when the mill that everyone relies on burns down one frosty night. Your country loving husband decides to gamble on an offer to take over your mother's farm, long neglected and falling to ruin. Over your objections you move, you, your kids, your mill house rolled on logs onto a lumber truck. Into a life of unremitting labour: cattle, haying, kids, and a nasty, bitter mother living just across the gully.
But you thrive here, save the family farm, improve it. You can remember when you got indoor plumbing. While your husband, Dave, was off taking seasonal work for much of the year, you eke out a living on 160 acres of rock and pine and a triangle of sweet loam that touches upon the Fraser.
Then your mean-spirited mother goes squirrelly with dementia, and you get stuck with that too. Your brother Garth is a busy logging contractor, living well beyond his means. Your sister Nancy, who married early, and often, now lives safely distant in Kamloops.
When your cancer-ridden mother dies in 1983 - after three months in hospital - during which you take the brunt of enduring the dreary, pain-ridden, guilt-ridden vigil typical for so many families, nobody deeply acknowledges your sacrifice because, after all, by now, it is expected of you.
Then the worst thing happens. Even your wise and usually considerate brother Garth thinks the family farm should be sold four ways. There is no will. Your siblings need and want a share. Everyone has delayed talking about this while your mother was alive.
Then the best thing happens. Your smarty-pants daughter, Brianne, who left town when she graduated from high school in 1972, is held overnight in jail in Vancouver for participating in some demonstration against American missiles. So you visit her for a few days. You accompany her to an eye-opening conference at UBC called Women and Words, June 30-July 3.
At this monumental gathering of a thousand women, you learn about the fire-bombings of pornographic video stories by a secret group called the Wimmins' Brigade. You also visit a women's shelter where Brianne volunteers, a refuge for countless women who invariably go back to violent and abusive households for the sake of their children.
More importantly, you learn about a Supreme Court decision made against a Canadian farm-wife named Irene Murdoch in 1973 who tried to legally claim her fair share of the family ranch following a divorce. Listening to passionate women debating the inequity of the Murdoch case, decrying the court's paternalist legal decision as "bourgeois bullshit,"; it strengthens your resolve to stand up for what is owed to you.
That's just a glimmering of the deep dignity of perseverance that permeates the text of Loggers' Daughters. Anyone who sticks with the narration that bounces back and forth between past and present will probably agree Maureen Brownlee's long-in-gestation, fully-fledged first novel deserves to be heralded as a triumph.
Quite likely this manuscript has endured previous incarnations. No matter. It is now a mature work. If you are not thirsty for mere cleverness, if you can appreciate instead how each anecdote has been forged from experience, you will never forget the protagonist, Adare Wilkins, in much the same way you will always recall the likes of Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel or Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God.
The title Logger's Daughters and a cover image of a choker cable around a tree are far from beguiling, and likely few readers beyond rural B.C are going to be comfortable with a novel that doesn't explain what a skidder is, but Brownlee has wrangled and honed a family saga until it has finally emerged as a sublime testament to the strength of the women who maintain families within the timber, ranch and constructions industries of the province.
Brian Fawcett, who left his hometown of Prince George at age twenty-two, has recently written his own novel about central B.C. with a similarly prosaic title, The Last of the Lumbermen (Cormorant), examining much of the same territory from a male perspective. Peter Trower's trilogy of logging novels has also been largely overlooked.
The earliest, classic B.C. logging novel that literary folks tend to acknowledge is M.A. Grainger's Woodsmen of the West (1908). Roderick Haig-Brown wrote logging novels, Timber (1942) and On the Highest Hill (1949). Arguably the first B.C. graphic novel ever is Bus Griffith's unparalleled Now You're Logging (1978; 2013).
Loggers' Daughters (Oolichan 2014) $19.95 978-0-88982-294-8
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Notice Moment’s Notice
Check out this Transcription of John Coltrane’s solo on his composition, “Moment’s Notice”. This is a great tune. The melody is very singable and the chord changes, while difficult, make sense. I’ve loved this tune for years but never really learned it well.
Looking at the solo, the first thing that strikes me is how often ‘Trane will use the same melodic material with slight variations. It’s clear that he has worked out some basic ideas for these changes. The second thing I noticed is an increasing use of the sharp five on dominant chords as the solo progresses. This is nearly always part of a descending arpeggio and happens at mm 21 (Bb7), 29 (Eb7), 33 (Bb7), 43 (Bb7 – not part of a descending arpeggio), 57 (Bb7, though he actually starts on an A natural here. Also, not resolving to I), 63 (Ab7), 85 (Ab7), 95 (Bb7, not resolving to I), 98 (Bb7 – he plays the arpeggio after the chord has already resolved to I and follows up with a lick that he also plays a few times earlier in his solo. That lick is also two beats later. Compare mm 21-22, 81-82, and 97-99.), 101 (Ab7), 109 (Bb7), and 115 (Bb7). I hadn’t really picked up on this with casual listening but it became very clear once I got into the transcription process.
Coltrane starts the solo out with a break. He plays down the so-called major bebop scale (a major scale with a chromatic added between 6 and 5 which keeps chord tones on strong beats) and then outlines the I chord. It’s repeated almost note for note at his second break in measures 40-41. The descending Maj7 arpeggio in measure 8 is used again in measures 62, 84, 85 (up a half step) and 100. Actually, he plays the exact same line in mm 99-102 that he played in mm 61-64. The difference is that the later repetition is part of a very long eighth note line. It’s as though he was assemling ideas in his first two choruses and then putting them together in the final chorus.
In measure 13 I think it’s pretty clear that he was still playing over Cmin7 even though the change to Bbmin7 had already arrived. It still sounds great and he makes the modulation quite clear in the second half of the measure with a descending Bbmin7 arpeggio.
Contrast the 13th measure of the form (mm 16, 54, 92) with the 29th measure (mm 32, 70, 108). It’s clear that despite the written changes, he is treating the former as a I chord (before launching into the key change up a minor third), whereas in the latter he is treating the measure as a ii-V to the ii chord. It’s an excellent example of how the function of a change can determine what you might do with it.
I love the desending melodic minor scale Coltrane uses over the Abmin6 chords in this tune. Check out mm. 31, 69, 91, and 107. I also appreciate the way he echoes the melody over the last 8 bars of each chorus. And of course there is the double time diminished scale lick right before the third chorus in measure 75. Dom7#5 chords played in descending minor 3rds. Each four note group is half of a diminished scale and the next four note group covers the other half. Well worth learning. Also note that the longest 8th note phrase – 5 bars long – is in his final chorus. And the first note of each measure is G, F#, F, E, Eb, and F. In case you thought that the F# on the Eb chord was some kind of error!
Every time I transcribe I learn something new. Usually I discover that what I thought was complicated is actually really straightforward. And I’ll admit that I don’t have this solo learned at full speed. Yet. That’s what practice is for!
This entry was posted in improvising, Jazz, music and tagged arpeggios, Coltrane, Guitar, Improvisation, jazz, lessons, Major scale, Music, patterns, scales, tenor sax, transcription on January 10, 2016 by alexanest.
Out of Stitt’s Brain
I’ve recently completed this transcription of Sonny Stitt’s solo on “Out of Nowhere” from his Last Sessions LP. It’s one of the many tunes that I should have known years ago but only recently learned. I transcribed Sonny’s interpretation of the melody as well as his two chorus improvisation. The fingering should allow you to get close to the original phrasing, which is why, for example, in measure 53 there is a sudden jump up from position II to XII.
Rather than analyze the entire solo, here are some highlights that I found particularly interesting. There is a lot to learn from transcribing a solo, from phrasing to feel to interpretation and scale choice.
MM.24- This lick is difficult on guitar but it sounds great and the sudden drop of a fifth is very cool. Also, after this point Stitt begins to mix up the octaves that he uses to play the melody, jumping up and then back down and using melodic fills to move around. Overall his statement of the melody is loose and peppered with short licks in between the important melodic passages. While the original melody covers a ninth, from D below the staff to E an octave up, Sonny’s version covers an octave plus a sixth, from D below middle C up to the B above middle C.
MM.36- The break is what made me want to transcribe this solo. It’s such a great use of the minor pentatonic where many other players would tend to use some sort of D7 lick. The repetition of the Bb contrasts with the B on beat one of the form, when Stitt outlines the G triad from the third up.
MM.40- It’s clear from looking at the lines in measures 40-41, 56-57, 72-73, and 88-89 that Stitt is thinking of the ii-V in Ab as a Bbmin7 chord. He never really outlines the Eb7, completely avoiding the third (G, the tonic of the overall key) in every case. Also, the way that he transitions back to the tonic key with double chromatic enclosures in measures 41, 57, and 89 is ingenious. In all cases he uses two notes that are diatonic to the Ab scale to enclose a chord tone from G. What a great way to employ chromaticism diatonically!
MM42- I always learn something new when I transcribe. I never would have thought to treat the G chord in measure 5 of the first eight as a G7, especially considering the F# in the melody, but that’s exactly what Stitt does and it sounds great.
MM.50- Thanks to my student Ben Collins for showing me that you can slow a Youtube video down to half speed! He also helped to transcribe this lick when my ear was failing me. Mastering the double time licks in this solo is not easy. You will need to pay close attention to your right hand technique and decide for yourself where you want to slur. I like to slur as little as possible to maintain clarity. Note that the lick in measure 52 starts out the same as the one in measure 50 except it is down a half step, missing the first note, and is not in double time. I put the octave slide here in measure 53 to reflect the way that Sonny does it on the tenor.
MM.66- Although the changes here are iii – biii dim – ii – V, which is a very common chord progression in standard tunes, Sonny outlines a iii – bIII – ii – bII and quotes a bit of the Charlie Parker tune “Ornithology”. Both sets of changes get you back to the tonic efffectively.
MM.70- Guitarists know that playing the same note on two different strings yields a different tone. Saxophonists also have alternate fingerings for certain notes and Stitt bounces back and forth between two different B notes here. If you refuse to use open strings then catch this on the G and D strings.
MM92- This is another difficult lick. I found that in order to smoothly execute the sixteenth note Bmin arpeggios I had to play them all as an upstroke sweep. You might try down-up-up-up, but that didn’t work for me.
MM100- For some reason I didn’t learn how to effectively wrap up a solo until way after college. I guess it was when I started recording and realized that all of my solos just stopped without any resolution. Sonny Stitt uses a nice major pentatonic (mostly) lick to close out two choruses of great improvising.
When learning this solo, remember that you are copying someone else’s phrasing and feel. Work on playing along with the recording. If you just try to learn the licks off the page without listening to the record, you are completely missing the point. Good luck, have fun, and when you’re done, find another solo to transcribe on your own! It’s enjoyable and educational!
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Kidou Senshi Gundam UC
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Title: Kidou Senshi Gundam UC
Kidō Senshi Gundam UC (Japanese)
Mobile Suit Gundam UC
機動戦士ガンダムUC <ユニコーン> (Japanese)
Overall: Buy
2010, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mecha, OVA, Sci-Fi
Notables:
Animation - SUNRISE
R1 License - Right Stuf Intl
Anime adapted of the Gundam Ace novel series of the same name, authored by bestselling Japanese writer Harutoshi Fukui.
This six episode OVA (~50 min each) will be directly dubbed into English and will be released with English, Spanish, Chinese and French subtitles. This will be a 'first' in that it will be released to both the Japanese and US R1 markets at the same time. [source: ANN].
The first episode was shown as a premiere review in theaters on 20.02.2010 with BD and DVD available as advance sales, also starting from the same day it was available for purchase from Sony's Playstation Store. Sales of the first episode in other stores started on 12.03.2010.
7 episode OVA (~50 min each)
[edit] The Gundam franchise:
Gundam (main story, UC0079-0083)
(1979) Kidou Senshi Gundam (TV series, 43 episodes)
(1981) Kidou Senshi Gundam 0079 I Gekijouban (Movie)
(1981) Kidou Senshi Gundam 0079 II: Ai Senshi Hen (Movie)
(1982) Kidou Senshi Gundam 0079 III: Meguriai Uchuu Sora Hen (Movie)
(1988) Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushu no Sha (Movie)
(1989) Kidou Senshi Gundam 0080: Pocket no Naka no Sensou (6 OVA episodes)
(1991) Kidou Senshi Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (13 OVA episodes)
(2015) Kidō Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt (4 ONA episodes)
(2016) Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (film remake of first ONA series)
(2017) Kidō Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt (ONA 2) (sequel, 4 ONA episodes)
(2017) Kidō Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower (film remake of second ONA series)
Gundam Z (sequel, UC0087)
(1985) Kidou Senshi Z Gundam (TV series, 50 episodes)
(2005) Kidou Senshi Z Gundam I: Hoshi wo Tsugu Mono (Movie, compilation)
(2005) Kidou Senshi Z Gundam II: Koibitotachi (Movie, compilation)
(2006) Kidou Senshi Z Gundam III: Hoshi no Kodo wa Ai (Movie, compilation)
Gundam ZZ (sequel, UC0088)
(1986) Kidō Senshi Gundam ZZ (TV series, 47 episodes)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (sequel, UC0093)
(1988) Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushu no Sha (Movie, 124 min.)
Gundam Unicorn (sequel, UC0096)
(2010) Kidou Senshi Gundam UC (OVA, 7 episodes)
Gundam: Twilight Axis (sequel, UC0096)
(2017) Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis (ONA, 6 episodes)
Gundam F91 (sequel, UC0123)
(1991) Kidou Senshi Gundam F91 (Movie, 115 minutes)
Victory Gundam (sequel, UC0153)
(1993) Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (TV series, 51 episodes)
The 08th MS Team (side story, UC0079)
(1996) Kidou Senshi Gundam: Dai 08 MS Shotai (12 OVA episodes)
(1998) Kidou Senshi Gundam: Dai 08 MS Shotai - Miller's Report (Movie, compilation of OVA)
MS IGLOO (side story, UC0079)
(2004) Kidou Senshi Gundam MS IGLOO: Ichinen Sensou Hiwa (3 OVA episodes)
(2006) Kidou Senshi Gundam MS IGLOO: Mokushiroku 0079 (3 OVA episodes)
(2008) Kidou Senshi Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Juuryoku Sensen (3 OVA episodes)
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Future Century)
(1994) Kidou Butoden G-Gundam (49 TV episodes)
Gundam Wing (After Colony calendar system)
(1995) Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W (49 TV episodes)
(1997) Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing Endless Waltz (3 OVA episodes, sequel)
(1998) _ Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing Endless Waltz (Movie, compilation of OVA)
Gundam X (After War timeline)
(1996) Kidou Shin Seiki Gundam X (39 TV episodes)
Turn A Gundam (CC timeline)
(1999) Turn A Gundam (50 TV episodes)
(2002) Turn A Gundam I: Chikyuu Kou (Movie 1)
(2002) _ Turn A Gundam II: Gekkou Chou (Movie 2)
Gundam Evolve
(2001) Mobile Suit Gundam Evolve (15 OVA episodes)
Gundam SEED (cosmic era)
(2002) Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED (50 TV episodes)
(2004) Kidō Senshi Gundam Seed Special Edition (2 TV specials + 1 OVA)
(2004) Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED DESTINY (50 TV episodes)
Gundam 00 (Anno Domini timeline)
(2007) Kidou Senshi Gundam 00 (1st season, 25 TV episodes)
(2008) Kidou Senshi Gundam 00 2nd Season (25 TV episodes)
(2010) Kidou Senshi Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (movie, 120 minutes)
(2011-12) Kidō Senshi Gundam AGE (49 TV episodes)
(2013) Kidō Senshi Gundam AGE Memory of Eden (2 OVA episodes)
(2013-14) Gundam Build Fighters (25 TV episodes)
(2014-15) _ Gundam Build Fighters Try (25 TV episodes)
Mobile Suit Gundam-San
(2014) Kidō Senshi Gundam-san (13 short TV episodes)
Gundam: G no Reconguista (Regild Century timeline)
(2014) Gundam: G no Reconguista (?? TV episodes)
Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Post Disaster timeline)
(2015-16) Mobile Suit Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans (25 TV episodes)
(2016-17) Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans (TV 2) (25 TV episodes)
Series Story
Episode Story
Buy 4 10 10 8 6 8 9 Ggultra2764 [series:2255#1552]
Kidou Senshi Gundam UC Hitting off my 1200th review on Mikomi is one of the more recent additions to the Universal Century continuity of the Gundam franchise in the form of Gundam Unicorn. Taking place years after the events of Char's Counterattack, Unicorn features several factions in conflict with one another to gain possession of a mysterious item called Laplace's Box that is said to hold enough power as such that it can shake up the power structure between Federation and Neo Zeon forces. This conflict has our teenage leads, Banagher Links and Audrey Burne, caught up in the mess as Banagher becomes the unwilling pilot of a new powerful Gundam unit called the RX-0 Unicorn that is a key element of obtaining Laplace's Box and Audrey's ties to influential leaders in the Zabi family are seen as something that the factions wish to exploit for their personal gain.
What makes Unicorn stick out compared to many Gundam titles is the tight and complex story it is able to tell within its 7-episode OVA run. Many Gundam titles are notable for having 50+ episode runs to tell their stories of conflict between opposing factions yet Unicorn is able to pull the same thing off in much shorter time. Within this time, you are able to get complex story development and character depth as Unicorn delves into the personal ideologies, back story and goals that drive the factions and many of the major characters seen throughout the course of this series. The various ideologies seen through characters such as Neo-Zeon leader Full Frontal, Federation lieutenant Riddhe Marcenas and former Zeon soldier Suberoa Zinnerman serve to conflict with the idealistic beliefs that Banagher has that are pushed to their breaking point as he confronts the realities concerning the tensions between the Earth Federation, Neo-Zeon and other organizations trying to obtain or seal any details concerning Laplace's Box. The fact such complicated storytelling conveying the normal themes you would expect from a Gundam title is able to be told within a quarter of the time of many past Gundam titles is an impressive feat from Sunrise.
This being said though, Unicorn is still another entry in the Gundam franchise that revolves around a young and idealistic teenage lead being given a powerful mecha to make use of in a heated battle between factions. It still carries a few of the Gundam franchise's notable weaknesses with its male lead being overly preachy at points with the ideals he expresses and the Unicorn is overpowered as such where it is never seriously challenged in many battles that it fights in, which kills much of the suspense one would hope to get out of fearing if Banagher will prevail or not. The Newtype power is also used in some moments of deus ex machina later in the anime's run when Banagher does find himself seriously challenged in the final conflicts of the series. The ending is still mostly satisfying with what is revealed about Laplace's Box and some ideological clashes during the finale, but the use of Newtype power to create sudden power upgrades is still a lazy way of resolving story conflict.
Visually, Unicorn is easily one of the best-looking entries to have come out of the Gundam franchise to date mixing around CG and hand-drawn animation to depict settings both in space and on Earth. There is vivid color and plenty of detail to convey the various settings seen throughout the series such as space colonies, spaceships and cities or military bases on Earth. Mecha designs retain many of the standard gimmicks you would find from a Gundam title with design aesthetics being similar to Gundam and mook enemy units from past titles, though the design of the Unicorn in its normal state is a unique one that sticks out from many Gundam units from past titles. The animation here is very fluid, with mobile suits and battleships naturally moving about as they clash with one another during heated battle scenes without any noticeable animation shortcuts, errors or loss of detail. CG animation does get employed during some of the Newtype or Unicorn unit gimmickry that gets shown off such as the Unicorn employing its NT-D System or mental communication between Newtypes which is mostly integrated with the hand-drawn animation, but has its moments where it can stick out like a sore thumb.
Despite a few issues, Gundam Unicorn is easily among the best offerings I've seen for the Gundam franchise thus far as it is able to smoothly tell a typical UC Gundam story in a fraction of the time that many of its past offerings could convey. It does require one to have familiarity to many aspects of its themes from earlier installments of the franchise that get mentioned. But if you have seen your fair share of Gundam titles from the Universal Century timeline, you shouldn't miss out on this latest offering.
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Other than watching Bleach, I have lost all inspiration to watch anime lately. Gundam 00 was a mess and I had given up on the series. New mecha animes were few and far between or just lacking, that was until now. I just finished watching this Gundam and the Music was absolutely stunning, if I could give it higher than a 10 I would. Like all other stories, not everything has developed yet, but the Mecha design is amazing there is plenty of fighting, and the battle between the Federation and Zeon has been rebooted in the correct century...That is right, we are back in the U.C. The only thing I am sorry about is that it is only an OVA. It is good to see the battle between Zeon and the Feddies continued in this series. The Zeon main mecha in this first OVA is awesome looking, I am a closet ZEON fan at heart. The Gundam is nice and all, but eh it is a Gundam, over powered and ho hum. I would rather pilot the main ZEON mobile suit if I could... Unfortunately we will have to wait till Autumn 2010?!?! for the second OVA...It is dissapointing that I have to wait that long, but this first OVA has got my attention...
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Essays on Origins: Creation vs. Evolution Buy Book
The Hopeful Monsters of Evolution
by Dr. David Menton on September 2, 2017
Editor’s Note: First published in St. Louis MetroVoice 4, no. 6 (June 1994).
Since the time of Darwin, evolutionists have looked to the fossil record for historical evidence of evolution. Most evolutionists now concede, however, that the fossil record fails to show the progressive transformation of any living organism into a distinctly different kind of organism. This has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists—but they have made it clear that they will not be dissuaded by the mere lack of evidence, nor will they turn to a Creator to explain this enigma. Rather, evolutionists hope that monsters may come to their rescue!
All animals and plants appear suddenly in the fossil record and are not preceded by continuous transitional stages.
All animals and plants appear suddenly in the fossil record and are not preceded by continuous transitional stages. While some of these fossilized organisms have become extinct, many have persisted right up to the present time in what appears to be essentially their original form, showing only a limited range of variation. Bats, for example, appear suddenly in the fossil record with no evidence of “pre-bat” ancestors. Fossil bats have all the same distinctive features we see in bats today, including extraordinarily long webbed fingers on their forelimbs and “backward” facing hind limbs. (Bat knees and toes face to the sides!) Even the distinctive shape of the bat skull, which serves to channel sound to their ears for navigation by sonar (echo location), is found in fossil bats just as it is in all modern bats.
The absence of even a single example of a continuous fossil sequence showing the progressive stages of evolution of any plant or animal would certainly seem to be an insurmountable problem for evolutionism. Evolutionists have long been aware of this problem and have felt compelled to try to explain it away by any means possible, short of abandoning their faith in evolutionism itself. In 1944, the evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson spoke of these missing transitional forms in his book < i>:
Their absence is so nearly universal that it cannot, offhand, be imputed to chance, and does require some attempt at special explanation as has been felt by most paleontologists.
Paleontologists have indeed been trying to imagine some “special explanation” for how progressive evolution could occur without leaving any fossil evidence. Since evolutionary speculations have rarely been restricted by the demands of experimental verification, evolutionists have allowed their imaginations to run free and have now devised a really outrageous explanation for their lack of evidence.
In the 1930s, paleontologist Otto Schindewolf concluded that the missing links in the fossil record were not really missing at all, but rather were never there in the first place! Schindewolf proposed that all the major evolutionary transformations must have occurred in single large steps. He proposed, for example, that at some point in evolutionary history, a reptile laid an egg from which a bird was hatched! This bizarre notion was championed in 1940 by geneticist Richard Goldschmidt of the University of California at Berkeley. Like Schindewolf, Goldschmidt resigned himself to the fact that true transitional forms were not found despite over a hundred years of searching for them, and that evolutionary theory would simply have to accommodate this fact.
Goldschmidt sought to advance Schindewolf’s notion of evolution through single large steps by trying to imagine a plausible mechanism for it. He suggested that the answer might lie in what are known as embryological monsters, such as the occasional birth of a two-legged sheep or a two-headed turtle. Goldschmidt conceded that such monsters rarely survived very long in nature, but he hoped that over a long period of time some monsters might actually be better suited to survive and reproduce than their normal siblings. Goldschmidt named this monstrously hopeless speculation the “hopeful monster theory.” Since there was not even the slightest shred of evidence to support the hopeful monster theory, it was dismissed with derision by almost all evolutionists of his time. But Goldschmidt was quick to point out to his critics that there wasn’t the slightest evidence for their gradual evolution either!
The hopeful monster theory would have joined the “recapitulation theory” in the scrap heap of abandoned evolutionary speculations were it not for Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge. In 1972, these influential evolutionists resurrected the long-discredited hopeful monster theory and gave it a more respectable name: “punctuated equilibrium.” This theory speculates that the intermediate stages in the evolution of organisms do not appear in the fossil record because these transitional organisms were short-lived, extremely unstable species which, as luck would have it, quickly evolved into stable species. Thus, the evolution of any organism is characterized by long periods of equilibrium (no evolutionary change) during which time many offspring, and thus many fossils, are produced—punctuated by relatively rapid bursts of evolution that left no fossil record. In the May 1981 issue of Discover magazine, Gould explained that “two outstanding facts of the fossil record— geologically sudden origin of new species and failure to change thereafter”—actually “predicted” this new evolutionary theory!
While most evolutionists have now reluctantly accepted punctuated equilibrium as the only way out of a difficult situation (i.e., no evidence), a few stubbornly cling to classical Darwinism, and indeed it is this discredited version of evolution that is generally taught as “fact” in our schools. Eldredge challenged classical Darwinists by reminding them that they could disprove punctuated equilibrium theory if they were to find so much as a single series of intermediate forms in the fossil record; no one has. Of course the sudden appearance of relatively unchanging organisms in the fossil record is perfectly consistent with special creation, but most evolutionists find the idea of an omnipotent Creator to be simply unthinkable.
Most evolutionists find the idea of an omnipotent Creator to be simply unthinkable.
Many of the arguments that Eldredge and Gould have used to refute the beliefs of classical Darwinists sound like they are actually trying to support special creation, but this is hardly their intent. For example, in his regular column in Natural History magazine (May 1977, pp. 12–16), Gould chided the gradual evolutionists for appealing to the “extreme imperfection” of the fossil record in an effort to explain the missing links. He countered that even if we were to grant this “traditional escape,” it still would not answer the biggest question—the viability of the transitional forms themselves. Gould pointed out that it is difficult to even imagine how transitional animals passing through the intermediate stages of evolution would be benefited or even survive. He asked:
Can we invent a reasonable sequence of intermediate forms, that is, viable, functioning organisms, between ancestors and descendants? Of what possible use are the imperfect incipient stages of useful structures? What good is half a jaw or half a wing?
Now that’s a good question: One only needs to imagine a mouse-like creature slowly transforming into a bat to appreciate what Gould is saying. The reader may well ask at this point, of what use is evolutionary speculation itself—and why is it being taught as a “fact” in our schools?
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'This is a marathon event': Death toll rises after long night of bushfire horror
Yahoo News Australia 4 January 2020
A man is dead and hundreds of properties are feared lost after the latest day of "awful" bushfires swept through NSW in extreme and dangerous conditions.
The 47-year-old man died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday night while defending a friend's rural property from a bushfire near Batlow, southwest of Canberra.
This now brings the nation’s bushfire death toll to 23 since the start of the season.
NSW communities are bracing for news of property damage and loss after another long night for the state’s firefighters.
Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said they were receiving reports of "significant damage and destruction" on Saturday night after more than a dozen blazes reached an emergency warning alert level throughout the day.
He believed property losses could run into the hundreds.
"Some areas alone are reporting at least 15 properties alight in some locations," Mr Fitzsimmons told ABC TV.
Image from Batlow.
That is horrifying. pic.twitter.com/l0Gwl638js
— Andrew Ferguson (@AndrewRLP) January 4, 2020
RFS Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers later said properties had been reported lost or impacted in the Batlow area south of Tumut, North Nowra and Bundanoon in the Southern Highlands.
"Hopefully in a couple of hours conditions will start to ease but I've got to say there is so much fire out there that I don't think the danger is going to pass for some time," Mr Rogers said on Saturday night.
"We have no chance of getting containment on these fires anytime soon."
Two emergency warnings are in place – one at the Morton Fire just five kilometres southwest of Bundanoon in the Southern Highlands and at the 240,000-hectare Border Fire in the Bega Valley region.
As firefighters worked through the night, a large water tank burst in the town of Cooma, south of Canberra, injuring a woman and sending water flooding through streets and homes.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Sunday there are no reports of anybody missing in the state.
A statewide total fire ban is in place on Sunday while a week-long state of emergency – the third in as many months – continues.
Fire impacting North West of #Batlow. Getting regular updates from mates on the ground. Stay safe folks. #dunnsroadfire #AUSTRALIANBUSHFIRES pic.twitter.com/weOq016asY
— Tobie Payne (@tobeee123) January 2, 2020
Victoria fires rage on but forecast improves
More evacuation orders have been issued to Victorians overnight as massive blazes continue to ravage the state's east.
People in Dandongadale, Freeburgh, Wandiligong and surrounding areas in northeast Victoria were advised to leave overnight as a southwest wind change fanned bushfire flames.
Dozens of fires were burning in Victoria as dawn broke on Sunday and four are at emergency level – one 13km of Walwa in the state’s northeast, one in the Upper Snowy area, one at Wangarabell and another in the Cann Valley.
'Like an eclipse': Eerie scenes as towns turn red
The Sydney suburb that's the hottest place on the planet
Concerning message behind yellow bins left out in coastal town
Seven people remain missing in East Gippsland blazes, on top of two confirmed dead.
More than 900,000 hectares of land has been overrun by flames, with about 110 properties and 220 outbuildings razed so far in the state.
Temperatures soared to the early and mid-40s in parts of East Gippsland and northeast Victoria on Saturday, with total fire bans in place for a swag of weather districts.
More than 70 new fires were sparked in the 24 hours to 6pm on Saturday.
Cooler conditions, lighter winds and a lack of lightning on Sunday are expected to bring some relief to firefighters.
Scene in #Mallacoota is a lot like a really long eclipse with multiple sun sets and rises. Still very dark. pic.twitter.com/CS6nsUyuR0
— Brendan (@brendanh_au) January 4, 2020
The mercury is forecast to peak in the early 20s in East Gippsland, with rainfall of about 20 millimetres expected later in the day.
In the northeast, temperatures could hit the late 20s in some parts, with some rainfall – albeit it likely less than five millimetres – expected.
"That will help subdue the fire activity," Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Dean Stewart told AAP.
Despite the shift, Premier Daniel Andrews has urged people to heed warnings and not be complacent.
"Lives can be lost if people don't follow the instructions they're given," he told reporters.
The towns of Omeo and Swifts Creek in East Gippsland as well as Corryong near the NSW border are among those to have been under threat.
‘This is a marathon event’
About 50 people were evacuated from Omeo by Chinook helicopters on Saturday but about 300 chose to stay in the township, Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville confirmed.
The evacuees were flown to Bairnsdale on the western side of the fires, before being transported to Sale.
In Gippsland, firefighters have been working to save critical infrastructure and the Country Fire Authority's Andy Gillham said they were "in for the long haul".
"This is a marathon event and we expect to be busy managing these fires for at least the next eight weeks."
The sky in Omeo turned to an eerie red on Saturday. Source: Getty
The fires have already killed Buchan man Mick Roberts and Maramingo Creek man Fred Becker.
About 70 per cent of the 100,000 population of the fire-impacted East Gippsland have fled.
Major highways have been closed for days, phone and powerlines are down, and residents have been told not to drink tap water amid contamination fears.
After the sky turned red, then black at Mallacoota on Tuesday, people from the town are reporting the same thing has happened on Saturday.
Naval vessels plan to re-stock and return to the township to evacuate more people.
About 500 people are at a relief centre in Bairnsdale and there is an overflow centre at the local racecourse.
A state of emergency remains in place for Victoria throughout next week.
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Design Milk Travels to… San José del Cabo, Mexico
A feeling of misgivings can wash across the mind initially when arriving into Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Ambling forth through customs, surrounded by the raucous partying-vacationing crowd destined for Cabo San Lucas, it’s natural to begin feeling doubts about rest, relaxation, and any semblance of solitude being in the cards. Indeed, Cabo San Lucas lives up to its fairly commercialized reputation as party central, its spirit far removed from the city’s original fishing town by the sea vibes. Yet, only half an hour away, up towards the eastern side of the peninsula’s tip is San José del Cabo – artsy, earthy, quietly sophisticated, and an increasingly luxurious destination. San José del Cabo still offers visitors miles of deserted beaches, beautiful local architecture, and the artistic license to paint your days in vibrant local color.
Even with 35,000 sq. ft. spread across two levels, the Spa at Grand Velas Los Cabos feels intimate and welcoming. Photo: Gregory Han
The gentle arcing architecture of the Grand Velas Los Cabos was designed by Ricardo Elias, principal of Elias and Elias Architects in Guadalajara (also responsible for the Grand Velas Resorts in Riviera Maya and Riviera Nayarit). Situated at the end of development, the hotel’s luxurious all-inclusive experience begins with the spacious guest rooms (ranging in size from 1,180 up to 3,412 sq. ft.) overlooking the ocean down to its waterfall of swimming pools facing outward to a beach where dolphins and rays can be seen leaping from the ocean. Beyond the opportunity to watch wild animal acrobatics from the comfort of your own beachside bed, the hotel’s two-level, 35,000 sq. ft. subterranean spa is an exemplary experience not to be missed.
Beaches like this one just adjacent to the Grand Velas Los Cabos offers a surprising opportunity for solitary sunbathing, but should be carefully researched for swim-friendly conditions. A list of swimmer-safe beaches below.
Glass and concrete embellished with only a hint of blush paint the minimalist interiors of the futuristic luxe Hotel Mar Adentro. Photo: Hotel Mar Adentro
The Hotel Mar Adentro feels like the set of a science fiction film, a utopian cityscape of gleaming verticality seemingly floating upon an expanse of water (a white linen ensemble seems appropriate to wear while being a guest of this miniature metropolis of minimalism).
Photo: Hotel Mar Adentro
Designed by Miguel Angel Aragonés, Mar Adentro is at its most stunning just as the sun begins to lazily melt into the ocean – the azure sky deepens while cotton candy pink clouds mirror in perfect reflection across the placid canvas of water. The collaboration between architecture and the landscape, each sunset makes it worth a visit in itself (a restaurant/bar noted below offers another reason). Perhaps in an acknowledgment of the beautiful colors outside, the rooms themselves are austere, furnished to direct the gaze outward into the infinity of sky and ocean, illuminated into a colorful grid work in the evening.
The Marquis Los Cabos lobby. Photo: Marquis Los Cabos
The Marquis Los Cabos makes an unforgettable first impression with its giant arching lobby, evoking thoughts of the architecture of Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti. The resort operates as an all-inclusive, adults-only, all-suites experience (the rooms skew more traditional in decor in contrast to the resort’s modern communal areas).
“Relaxed 1960s Southern California-meets-Baja aesthetic” permeates inside and out of The Cape resort ocean view suites. Photo: The Cape.
The Cape Los Cabos sits on prime surfing coastline, and is decorated like a modern rendition of a surfer’s pad, directed by Mexican architect Javier Sánchez’s view of hospitality design as, “urban acupuncture”.
The rooftop pool offers guests a perfect spot to watch boats return through the mouth of Puerto Los Cabos or to admire the view of the nearby estuary. Photo: Gregory Han
We’ve already featured the Hotel El Ganzo for its relaxed and freewheeling atmosphere, one garnished with artwork and a tasteful selection of modern and vintage furnishings. The modernist hotel was designed by architect Pablo Sanchez-Navarro, but the entirety of Hotel El Ganzo is an ever-evolving canvas designed to display the artwork and installations of visiting visual and musical artists intermittently.
Photo: Hotel San Cristóbal
Though not located in San José del Cabo, the newly opened beachside Hotel San Cristóbal in nearby Todos Santos deserves mention for its picturesque “end of the road” destination vibes. It’s a more intimate experience than most other larger resorts across Los Cabos, with just 32 rooms appointed with the aesthetics and amenities that likely appeal to the wandering creative set.
Even if you never set foot inside an art gallery in the San José del Cabo Gallery District, there is much to admire in the townscape itself. Photos: Gregory Han
Color spills into every corner of the Gallery District in San Jose del Cabo throughout the year. In the evenings between the months of November and June, the cobblestone streets are filled with artists and art lovers, with numerous galleries like Patricia Mendoza opening their doors in celebration of the local art scene.
A gradient of pink hides in the back of artist Frank Arnold’s gallery courtyard. Photo: Gregory Han
Of particular note is abstract-surrealist Frank Arnold, an artist with a gallery in front, an adjoining beautiful courtyard residence in the back. If you’re fortunate, the amicable artist might let you take a glimpse of his Instagram-worthy pink walls.
Nido (nest in Spanish) is a bar/restaurant located in the pool courtyard of the Mar Adentro. Covered in a latticework assembled with recycled twigs by local craftsmen, the structure does a convincing job of creating a cozy nest for dining and drink.
Photos: Acre Baja
Getting to Acre at night – a picturesque restaurant situated on 25 acres of hillside farmland adjacent to San Jose del Cabo – can feel like an adventure in itself. The roads are bumpy, dusty, windy, and illuminated only by the moon and stars. But that’s all part of its charm. Once you arrive, a dark and tropical walkway directs eyes and feet toward an architectural compound wafting with delicious smells from an open kitchen, vying for attention with the blare of festive music and an adjacent tasting bar busily hawking the restaurant/farm’s own label of mezcal – a smoky spirit executive chefs Kevin Luzande and Oscar Torres will undoubtedly insist accompany your meal.
The Festival de Cine de Todos Santos. Photo: Gregory Han
If time permits, a day trip that comes highly recommended is to drive to the surfing/farming town of Todos Santos. It’s locals-only, secret status has long passed, but it still promises the antithesis of the polished resort experience, with a local surf school, charming town center, and even its own annual film festival.
The Wirikuta Botanical Cactus Garden hosts over a million plants, a labyrinth comprised with a thousand bougainvilleas, a sculpture garden, and three pyramids built of giant granite stones. Photo: Wirikuta Botanical Cactus Garden
Those with an affinity for plants were once advised to check out the Cacti Mundo, a botanical garden once situated in the heart of San Jose del Cabo. It’s unfortunately been closed, but the Wirikuta Botanical Cactus Garden offers an unusual alternative – a theme park with over 1,500 types of desert plants on display from around the world during the day, and a Cirque du Soleil-ish dinner and entertainment destination at night.
** Note: Despite the scenic and inviting coastline, many beaches along the shorts of Los Cabos aren’t swimmer-friendly due to the prevalence of strong undertows. This short list of beaches suitable for swimming is helpful to keep as reference if swimming at the beach is imperative for your getaway.
Photo: Design at Drift San José
Design at Drift San José, the retail wing of the newly launched Drift San José hotel, is stocked with contemporary wares sourced from up-and-coming independent Mexican designers, fair trade goods supporting traditional industries, pop-up shops, design shows and collaborations. Partners include brands like Lagos del Mundo, Protototipo Cero, Colorindio, Bamboocycles, Loose Blues and Lørdag & Søndag (the rest of the hotel is like one giant staged design catalog).
Photo: Eduardo Sanchez
Jewelry artist Eduardo Sanchez gets name dropped by the likes of Travel + Leisure and GOOP regularly for his one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry inspired by ancient coins and Mayan history. His boutique is housed inside a charming and historic 19th century house in San José del Cabo, with additional outposts across the region.
Photo: Shima Shima
Color lovers will undoubtedly be drawn to the small but vibrant selection of gifts, crafts, art, and fashion on display inside the diminutive confines of Shima Shima boutique. Peruse their wares from afar via their Instagram.
The entire southern tip of Los Cabos is seeing rapid and unabated development all along the coastline, with many of the large resorts dominating prime real estate and reshaping the tourist atmosphere (mostly for the better, but at the expense of natural landscape). Still, opportunities to experience the local charm of San Jose del Cabo and other sections of Los Cabos still await if you veer into the small family operated stores dotting the quieter parts of town or walk a short distance along the shoreline. Make an effort to investigate narrow walkways and you may find yourself in a quiet courtyard all to yourself; the sanctuary of a town’s cathedral offers a spiritual respite from retail temptations, with the rewards of local craftsmanship decorating the interiors.
Photo: Gregory Han
And of course, no trip to the Baja Peninsula is complete without several days spent at the beach. My personal favorite activity is to beachcomb, keeping a careful eye for the colorful seashells, seaweed, and other coastal detritus that washes up with the tide. Arrangements can make for a memorable photo, a keepsake of an ephemeral nature that represents a uniquely Los Cabos moment.
What else are we missing? Comment below with your favorite sites to stay, visit, and shop and we’ll check them out!
Rating Design Milk Travels to… San José del Cabo, Mexico is 5.0 / 5 Votes: 5
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Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service
by Colm MacCarthaigh | on 19 NOV 2019 | in Advanced (300), Amazon EC2, Security, Identity, & Compliance | Permalink | Share
November 20, 2019: We’ve added a link to the re:Invent session about this topic.
Since it first launched over 10 years ago, the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) has helped customers build secure and scalable applications. The IMDS solved a big security headache for cloud users by providing access to temporary, frequently rotated credentials, removing the need to hardcode or distribute sensitive credentials to instances manually or programatically. Attached locally to every EC2 instance, the IMDS runs on a special “link local” IP address of 169.254.169.254 that means only software running on the instance can access it. For applications with access to IMDS, it makes available metadata about the instance, its network, and its storage. The IMDS also makes the AWS credentials available for any IAM role that is attached to the instance.
When you run applications in the cloud, application security is as critical as instance security; if the applications running on an instance have vulnerabilities or misconfigurations, there can be serious consequences. While application security plays an important role in a layered defense, AWS also constantly evaluates where to add layers, even within the instance, to minimize the damage that can occur when these situations occur.
Today, AWS is making v2 of the EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2) available. The existing instance metadata service (IMDSv1) is fully secure, and AWS will continue to support it. But IMDSv2 adds new “belt and suspenders” protections for four types of vulnerabilities that could be used to try to access the IMDS. These new protections go well beyond other types of mitigations, while working seamlessly with existing mitigations such as restricting IAM roles and using local firewall rules to restrict access to the IMDS. AWS is also making new versions of the AWS SDKs and CLIs available that support IMDSv2.
What’s new in IMDSv2
With IMDSv2, every request is now protected by session authentication. A session begins and ends a series of requests that software running on an EC2 instance uses to access the locally-stored EC2 instance metadata and credentials. The software starts a session with a simple HTTP PUT request to IMDSv2. IMDSv2 returns a secret token to the software running on the EC2 instance, which will use the token as a password to make requests to IMDSv2 for metadata and credentials. Unlike traditional passwords, you don’t need to worry about getting the token to the software, because the software gets it for itself with the PUT request. The token is never stored by IMDSv2 and can never be retrieved by subsequent calls, so a session and its token are effectively destroyed when the process using the token terminates. There’s no limit on the number of requests within a single session, and there’s no limit on the number of IMDSv2 sessions. Sessions can last up to six hours and, for added security, a session token can only be used directly from the EC2 instance where that session began.
For example, this curl recipe retrieves a session token that’s valid for the full six hours (21600 seconds) and then uses that token to access the EC2 instance’s profile metadata:
TOKEN=`curl -X PUT "http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token" -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds: 21600"`
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/profile -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token: $TOKEN"
If you need to write code against the IMDSv2 directly, you can get more detail on the new scheme in the EC2 User Guide.
How these changes add defense in depth
IMDSv2’s changes are easy to use, and you’ll start using it automatically if you’re using the updated AWS SDKs and CLIs. These changes go beyond other types of mitigations to protect against misconfigured-open website application firewalls, misconfigured-open reverse proxies, unpatched SSRF vulnerabilities, and misconfigured-open layer-3 firewalls and network address translation.
Protecting against open Website Application Firewalls
Some Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, such as AWS WAF, can’t be configured to act as open WAFs. However, some third-party WAFs can be misconfigured to allow attackers unauthorized access to the network behind the WAF, including the EC2 IMDS.
Many WAFs are designed to act invisibly, so that they can protect websites and applications without administrators having to change or reconfigure the applications that are behind the WAF. To be transparent, WAFs usually pass on all of the headers that come with a request, and do not add their own headers, such as the standard X-Forwarded-For header that other kinds of proxies add. In other words, applications behind a WAF get requests just as the requester sent them.
The AWS approach is to block open WAFs by using a type of request that open WAFs very rarely support, HTTP PUT requests. Although web services such as Amazon S3 use PUT requests for object storage, they’re an uncommon type of request for websites and browsers to use. Our analysis of third-party WAF products and open WAF misconfigurations found that the vast majority do not permit HTTP PUT requests. We’re using this PUT request to provide a new layer of defense that goes beyond any existing capabilities – we’ve architected the IMDSv2 service to require a PUT request at the beginning of a session, which will prevent open WAFs from being abused to access the IMDS in the vast majority of cases.
Protecting against open reverse proxies
As it happens, it’s also very rare for open reverse proxies to allow PUT requests, but IMDSv2 has another layer of defense against open reverse proxies. Reverse proxies, such as Apache httpd or Squid, can also be misconfigured to allow external requests that reach internal resources, but it’s still normal for these proxies to send an X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. That header itself is used to pass on the IP address of the original caller. IMDSv2 will also not issue session tokens to any caller with an X-Forwarded-For header, which is effective at blocking unauthorized access due to misconfigurations like an open reverse proxy.
Protecting against SSRF vulnerabilities
SSRF vulnerabilities allow attackers to make unauthorized requests from web applications. Since these requests come from the application itself, they can be used to access internal resources that the application has access to but that were not intended to be accessible to outsiders. SSRF vulnerabilities vary in their severity, and some are immune to other types of mitigations. For instance, blocking SSRFs through static headers in instance metadata requests is effective only when the vulnerability merely allows the attacker to control the URL that is being requested; however, AWS analysis found many SSRF vulnerabilities that allow attackers to set arbitrary headers because the SSRF vulnerability impacts the application’s own header processing.
IMDSv2’s combination of beginning a session with a PUT request, and then requiring the secret session token in other requests, is always strictly more effective than requiring only a static header. AWS analysis of real-world vulnerabilities found that this combination protects against the vast majority of SSRF vulnerabilities.
Protecting against open layer 3 firewalls and NATs
Last, there is a final layer of defense in IMDSv2 that is designed to protect EC2 instances that have been misconfigured as open routers, layer 3 firewalls, VPNs, tunnels, or NAT devices. With IMDSv2, the PUT response containing the secret token will, by default, not be able to travel outside the instance. This is accomplished by having the default Time To Live (TTL) on the low-level IP packets containing the secret token set to “1,” much lower than a typical value, such as “64.” Hardware and software that handle packets, including EC2 instances, subtract 1 from each packet’s TTL field whenever they pass it on. If the TTL gets to 0, the packet is discarded, and an error message is sent back to the sender. A packet with a TTL of “64” can therefore make sixty-four “hops” in a network before giving up, while a packet with a TTL of “1” can exist in just one. This feature allows legitimate traffic to get to an intended destination, but is designed to stop packets from endlessly running around in circles if there’s a loop in a network.
With IMDSv2, setting the TTL value to “1” means that requests from the EC2 instance itself will work because they’re returned to the caller (on the instance) before the subtraction occurs. But if the EC2 instance has been misconfigured as an open router, layer 3 firewall, VPN, tunnel, or NAT device, the response containing the token will have its TTL reduced to zero before leaving the instance, and the packet containing the response will be discarded on its way out of the instance, preventing transport to the attacker. The information simply won’t make it further than the EC2 instance itself, which means that an attacker won’t get the response back with the token, and with it the ability to access instance metadata, even if they’ve been successful at getting past all other defenses.
Both IMDSv1 and IMDSv2 will be available and enabled by default, and customers can choose which they will use. The IMDS can now be restricted to v2 only, or IMDS (v1 and v2) can also be disabled entirely. AWS recommends adopting v2 and restricting access to v2 only for added security. IMDSv1 remains available for customers who have tools and scripts using v1, and who are comfortable with the existing security posture of their instances.
A number of tools are available to make transitioning to v2 and disabling v1 seamless. Starting today, a new CloudWatch metric is available that provides visibility into the number of v1 calls that are being made on any given instance. Customers can use this metric to monitor how often v1 is still being accessed as Amazon Machine Images, the AWS SDKs, CLIs, cloud-init, and other software accessing the IMDS is updated, released, and upgraded. When you can see that an instance can be launched, activated, used for service, and the metric is zero, it is safe to require v2 of the IMDS, disabling v1. For more information on transitioning to IMDSv2, see the user guide.
Security can also be further enhanced while this transition is happening. AWS credentials provided by the IMDS now include an ec2:RoleDelivery IAM context key. Credentials provided by the older IMDSv1 have an ec2:RoleDelivery value of “1.0,” and credentials using the new scheme will have an ec2:RoleDelivery value of “2.0.” This context key makes it easy to enforce use of the new scheme on a service-by-service or resource-by-resource basis by using those context keys as conditions in IAM policies, resource policies, or AWS Organizations service control policies. For example, if all of the software accessing an S3 bucket has been upgraded to use IMDSv2, then that S3 bucket can be safely restricted to only allow access to role-account credentials that have the “2.0” value (or greater) for the context key. The effect is that credentials retrieved using IMDSv1 will be prevented from accessing the bucket. AWS CloudTrail is also being updated to record the new ec2:RoleDelivery parameters.
Hear about IMDSv2 at re:Invent
Mark Ryland will be talking in more detail about IMDSv2, and the transition to it, at AWS re:Invent in December. See SEC310 in the re:Invent catalog.
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Album #4 is on the Way
Warm hello to everyone!
We are happy to announce that the fourth Barley Station "Passing Through Time" (a full album) pre sales have begun on iTunes!
Somehow, for some reason, iTunes has slapped a Parental Advisory on this album and we don't really know why! There is no cursing on it. Perhaps if interpreted in some ways, there is some sexual innuendo? We don't know for sure. But this is the first time iTunes ever labelled us as "Pop" and "Parental Advisory"
You be the judge. Does it deserve a Parental Advisory? You can now hear samples of each song and hear how each song was carefully selected and treated with utmost care and detail. Definitely a headphone listening experience too!
All iTunes pre orders include an instant download of the song "The Fog" This is a sort of more chill and mysterious track but we know you're going to love it!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/passing-through-time/1479597204
The final release date is Nov. 5, 2019
We also made a 6 song clip Passing Through Time promo video for YouTube to give people a more overall picture and sample of the soon to be released 12 song and 4th Barley Station album. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/utdTslrS0tc
And of course, there are any number of little sneak peeks scattered throughout Barley Station Social Media! Credits to Alan Garmonsway for piano contribution and Virginia Grey for harmony and background vocal contributions on the song "Fallin", a gorgeous piano based love song!
For those who have made it this far into this newsletter, you're lucky because here is a little back story on a couple of the songs.
Back story on the album's opening track "What's The Crime". This is an upbeat and happy type of song and aside from the fact that I had no idea what I was singing about when I first wrote it, the song and chords were written in Feb, 2000. But the song was shelved until I could find the right arrangement for it and nail the vocals the way they should be. With a lot of slides this was a tough one to sing consistently for such a length as it needed on the chorus.
When the moment was right, I finally got it.
I can't stand to hear my own voice so it was tough to decide but I was finally happy enough with the chorus. But it was the backing vocals that it was missing and the half time style guitar parts woven in to act as a sort of cloud to carry the vocals on. The backing vocals are the wind that blows them through the clouds. And it made me say "ahhh this is IT - this is the arrangement it needed!" That make sense to anyone?
This past summer it finally came together all the way when I experimented with some beats and finally got the feel I wanted and worked magic around that. I did the whole album this way. I patiently waited until each piece was exactly right. Listening to mixes and going BACK to make it perfect no matter how many times it took. If I wasn't feeling it, I scrapped it. EVERY song and arrangement had to be great. The harmonies chosen had to be just the right ones. low middle high? What works best?
Now, the opposite song of this might be track 10 titled "Can't Find My Way In". On this song you'll hear a clip of something we call "beautiful sadness". It is so sad and lyrically dark that it is beautiful. Unfortunately. Making beauty out of sorrows is sometimes called therapy.
The emotions in these 12 songs are so intense and I hope you can feel them through the music and they speak to you in some way. The album contains utter sadness, utter joy, utter confusion, and sometimes utter madness. There is was no room for mediocrity in this album. Those moments when I used to say "This is good enough" were discarded for "This HAS to be EXACTLY the way I want it and my ears tell me it should be". 100%
August 2018,
Warm hello to everyone, fans and friends old and new!
As summer begins coming to a close, we are happy to announce the release of the newest single "Like You For You". It's first week out to radio has had Absolutely Amazing results with the song being #1 most added on most boards and already debuting at #19 on the New Music Weekly Indie Chart!
We are sure you'll want to hear the new song and learn a little about it.
It is about liking, caring, loving someone for who they are, warts and all, flaws and all. If you find someone who likes you for who you are and sticks to you through thick and thin, cling to them. All too often we find ourselves chasing the stars and losing the moon. When the moon would have been just fine,
and where the stars will never be enough. In a selfish age that we live in, this song is about unconditional love. Who can comprehend it? I hope you all enjoy it!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Rhg0OyZBSPjqOEnLGPerb?si=vAbX689WQMGYFN-gtSml7w
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/like-you-for-you/1423008732?i=1423008757
And of course, as always, we make the lyrics available for you to find easily on our website:
Lyrics Page: https://barleystation.net/like-you-for-you
Meanwhile, as the new song begins hitting the charts here in the US, we are more than thrilled and thankful and grateful
for the last song "Younger Summer Memories" to have had record number of weeks at #1 on New Music Weekly's AC40,
The European Indie Chart Top Indécouvertes, and #1 positions in Country, AC40, Top40 genres on a number of charts
including National Radio Hits, New Music Weekly, Independent Music Network, to name a few.
Big thank you's go out to everyone in radio of any sort. And special thanks to all of our fans and friends who have voted in
the various votable charts and contests for such a superb job and being supportive in every way!
And you can bet that as you hear the new song "Like You For You" another single is already in done recording and in preparation
to make its way out to you in due time. So stay tuned and enjoy the new song!
Team Barley Station
The Waited for Waiting
Warm greetings to all our fans and friends, old and new!
Happy early summer in the US. We seemed to have skipped Spring and went straight to unrelenting summer. So we have just the song for you. We have just released the official music video for the song "Waiting" on YouTube. We hope to convey the message that life is short and time is precious and we should value both.
Here is the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/NWPhoFrxl_E
Last week we released our newest single "Paper Goddess" which is being so well received, and we are very pleased
at how so many are enjoying the song! Its flowing and gentle, sexy and smooth, but it has a punch and it takes a twist
Here are just a few links where you can find it:
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2GGH5DE
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/paper-goddess/1378946782?i=1378947584
CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/barleystation21
And of course we have the lyrics on our web page at http://barleystation.net
We have a live show coming up on July 7th at Red Fish Blue Fish in St. Charles, MO, USA - show begins at 9pm CST.
Meanwhile, on various U.S. charts we continue to climb and have reached #9 on the New Music Weekly AC/HOT AC Main chart, most notably, and are very close to the top 40 on the extremely competitive FMQB Mainstream chart where we chart alongside the biggest names in the music business while remaining Independent.
We are sure of more great news ahead and if you have followed us for any length of time, you know we always have new music in the works!
Greetings to all our fans and friends, old and new!
Ok, it's Spring this time for real here in the U.S.. Leaves are opening, pollen is falling, people are sneezing, flowers are blooming, and spring storms are brewing with everything from tornadoes to rainbows.
And things are brewing for Barley Station and we have lots of news and updates!
First we want to thank you all for your ongoing support and help in voting in some of the charts that allow fan voting! We have been #1 by the vote in 3 different formats, AC40 (six straight weeks) Top40 (two weeks) and more recently #1 by the vote in Country.
The biggest news is that we are pleased to announce the release on May 22, 2018 of a new song titled "Paper Goddess".
Please follow us on Spotify if you are a Spotify user to be notified right as soon as it comes out.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7l6uWd7qySJe9TBlNB8ZTY
Spotify has been very friendly to Indie artists the past year and has made many improvements already this year including adding on demand for free accounts, so we are very pleased about that.
A promo clip is on our YouTube Channel and here is the link:
https://youtu.be/1tGRIuRNa1Y
You'll also find it on the front top of our main page at barleystation.net
While thinking of a way to describe this song we were really at a loss except to say it is a gentle flowing tune with a sexy vibe but with a beat and bass that kicks you in the _____ ? (fill in the blank after you hear it)
Brian is on the lead vocal and guitar pickings as well as mandolin and keyboards (which you don't hear in this clip - but if you dig around on our social media you'll find a bit of that part in another sneak peek). On this song, Randy is on bass and programmed sample beats, other real organic percussion, tremelo guitars, harmony vocals, and that phat bass. Other weird things thrown in here and there and we don't even remember what they were.
Meanwhile, our song "Younger Summer Memories" is still kicking it up on many of the U.S. charts such as New Music Weekly, FMQB, National Radio Hits, Independent Music Network, and others. It is closing in on #1 now in AC40 format, crossed over Top40 and is moving up and now sits in the top 20s. Numerous notable Indie Charts have already found us in the Top 10 as well.
And in a recent big move the song has also crossed over into Country and moved quickly up to #37. It now sits presently at #22 on New Music Weekly's published Mainstream AC40 chart and is creeping up amongst all the major label artists over on NMW (New Music Weekly) and FMQB (Friday Morning Quarterback).
For those not familiar, here's the wiki on FMQB: Friday Morning Quarterback (better known as FMQB) is a trade magazine which covers the Radio and Music industries in the United States.[2] Its coverage includes programming, management, promotion, marketing, and airplay for music formatted radio. The magazine was founded in 1968 by Kal Rudman and is read by over 10,000 industry professionals. The website also hosts an industry database of over 5,000 music and radio professionals.
In a sea of major labels surrounding us, we are holding our on and moving up every chart it has been on, so we are very thrilled and excited to let you know that Independent artists CAN and DO compete and break through, but it hasn't been easy. There is a lot of big money (like in politics) that we have to compete with and we are just on a poor little indie label. But our song is breaking in radio all over the U.S. and we can't complain.
Please continue to show your support by voting for us on some of the vote-able charts below and help us make a difference in bringing real and organic music back to the mainstream. On the first three click the green arrow at the end of the line on our chart position and click. Very simple!
Daily vote: (NRH AC40 Charts)
https://nationalradiohits.com/charts/ac-40/
Daily Vote: (NRH Top40 Charts)
https://nationalradiohits.com/charts/top-40/
Daily Vote: (NRH Country Charts)
https://nationalradiohits.com/charts/country/
Weekly Vote: (IMN Charts)
http://www.independentmusicnetwork.com/
Well, if that isn't news enough, meanwhile over in Europe, our French version song Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses)
has now hit the top 20 on the Euro Indie Charts and is sitting at #14 having moved up 5 spots over last week.
Don't forget to visit our website at http://barleystation.net where you can find everything you need, from song lyrics to merch, to
social media links.
In other news, we are scheduled for a video shoot for the song "Waiting" this coming week and hope to have that video
released before too long. So look for that! We are also getting closer to having some tour dates coming up soon so look for that as well!
First we just want to thank ALL of you for your support! A warm hello to fans and friends new and old!
Spring is almost here in the US and we are announcing the upcoming release on March 20th, 2018 of a cover song that hit #10 on Billboards Top 100 in 1984.
With a complete curve ball as we are known to do, it is a Rock/Pop Version of Madonna's Borderline more akin to the version from her 2010 Stick and Sweet Tour. If you follow on our social media you may have heard some sneak preview clips. If not, search out our social media links on our front page. The links are there so you can find the previews! It will be released in digital format at most major digital retailers.
This song features the vocals of Randy Wayne Belt on lead vocal and Verity White on leading harmony and both on backing vocals It is an across the pond vocal collaboration between the US and UK.
The photo for the cover is by Veronica Linge Phillips of Veronica Marie Photography. Many thanks to Veronica and Verity for the huge contributions for the song!
You can find more works by Veronica Marie Photography here:
https://veronicamariephoto.photoshelter.com/index/allx/all
More on Verity White here:
https://www.veritywhite.com/
We continue to work on our 4th full length album and are busy auditioning for our live show and hope to have some live show dates coming up soon!
Meanwhile, we broke records on the Official European Independent Music Chart for weeks at #1. First we broke the chart record, then we broke our own record - twice now with 16 weeks at #1 for our single "Younger Summer Memories"! We wouldn't have guessed that would be the one to do it but it did.
And another meanwhile: The song has now entered the U.S. radio market and it's first week out results were incredible!
Here are some of the first results:
#1 “Most Added” AC40 on New Music Weekly! (AC40=Adult Contemporary Top 40)
2nd “Most Added” AC40 on National Radio Hits!
3rd “Most Added” FMQB! (FMQB, for those that don't know ((Friday Morning Quarterback)) is an important trade publication since 1968 which covers the Radio and Music industries in the United States.)
Next, we entered the AC40 Indie Chart Debut on NMW (New Music Weekly) at #12!
Then, we hit #40 on the AC40 Chart Debut at NRH (National Radio Hits)
And finally, we came in on the AC40 Main Chart Debut at #40 on NMW! (New Music Weekly)
For those who are the most active and engaged supporters and have helped in so many ways, we thank you so much for being there for us! Thanks for listening, sharing, voting in polls and spreading our music!
Below is a very important place to vote for us, and we ask that if you aren't already doing so, please take a moment to click the link find Barley Station sitting at #40, go to the end of the line there and click the green up arrow and put in a vote to show you support us and help propel the song even higher! It is a daily poll so you can vote daily in this one.
Thank you all again!!
End of Year Recap News
Happy New Year and warm welcome to all!
You will now find uploaded to Jango radio a song appropriate for the arctic blast here in the U.S. called "Like Winter"
and it DOES feel like winter!
2017 was a great year for Barley Station and our fans. We released a single in early 2017 called "Just Begun".
Then in September we released 'Back There Somewhere', a new full length album with 11 songs. Then we released a French language version of track 3 (Warm Embraces).
And then we capped the year off with an original Christmas Song which made its premier on Limehead Radio out of the UK.
If you haven't heard the Christmas song yet, you can find it anywhere our music is distributed digitally such as CDBaby, iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, etc.)
https://open.spotify.com/track/717xHOeyrbALw5cijoxcTs
It has been entered into the U.S.A. Songwriting Contest (Christmas Contest) and we should know how it did in the competition by mid February.
Meanwhile, in 2017, we hit the European Indie Charts at a run and made it to #1 for 7 weeks so far (still going) and obviously have had a lot of radio airplay in Europe. The same song won a spot on Jango Radio's Summer Playlist as well!
And thanks to everyone over on N1M we went over half a million plays on N1M.
In 2017 we sent out two songs via a compilation CD via Bongo Boy Records to Asia, a single from the last album out to Asia and Mainland China through Music Dish China, followed by the new album 'Back There Somewhere' which is already hitting the Kanjian charts for starters.
We set up a new merchandise shop with cool products with better prices at:
https://barleystation.threadless.com/
In the midst of all of this, we did our weekly livestream over on Facebook which became very popular as we played some acoustic versions of songs, shared news, had a hilarious time, and had a blast with that. In Spotify Land, our monthly listenership increased in 2017 by a HUGE 600%.
So we worked hard and had some fun at the same time and were keeping you all in mind for these great adventures.
We appreciated the many messages and emails you sent and words of encouragement and messages of how our music was meaningful to you all in so many ways.
We are thrilled and honored to have had such a connection with all of you in some way or another this past year!
And as 2018 is set to begin,we have started on our fourth full length album, have a number of collaborations of some cover songs in the works, and a remix of one of our songs coming that will explore new territory. We have some music magazine features coming up this year as well, so look for news on those soon too.
We appreciate all your support in whatever way it has been given. Every bit counts.
Thank YOU and here's to a wonderful 2018!
December Surprise!
On December 21, 2017 we will be releasing our first original Christmas song.
Look for that at all major digital retail outlets and Spotify.
"Hear The Christmas Call" is the title and here is the cover art:
If you follow on our social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
you can find an audio clip of the song!
Warm winter hello to everyone!
Well, guess what? Following the release of the album 'Back There Somewhere' in
September, we are following up with a French language version of track 3,
Warm Embraces. It didn't translate quite the same to French so it is modified a bit
and re titled Baisers Volés which translates more as "Stolen Kisses".
Special thanks to Patrick from Ghostly Beard for helping with the
The artwork for the cover is excellent and we want to thank Recording and visual artist
Dianne Meinke for creating this for us. She painted it on canvas with acrylic paint and
then transfered it to a format we can use for cover art. There's a sampling of the song
up now so take a listen! We don't pass for Frenchmen, but we had fun singing it in
French and enjoyed the challenge! It will be available for purchase at almost
all digital retail outlets plus Spotify on December 19th!
Here is the cover art:
Meanwhile, over on the European Independent Music Chart, our song
"Younger Summer Memories" has hit it's 6th week straight at #1 far
exceeding our expectations! So we are very glad and honored and thankful
to everyone in radio, listeners, and supporters!
Don't forget to follow us on Spotify where many of our songs are being
added to very large playlists
As the Holidays approach we want to tell our about our new and improved
Barley Station Shop which has some better priced items and some phone
cases which people are loving. (Especially the Double Star phone case)
Here's the link to the new store. There is free shipping until D
ecember 15, so act fast to save on shipping! There are four styles of
shirt based on album art and our logo, plus phone cases and mugs.
http://www.barleystation.threadless.com
We have a lot of things we are working on - our fourth album, some Holiday music,
a cover song no one would have expected, and some collaborations.
So it will be a busy New Year coming up with lots of happenings in
Barley Station land.
We hope everyone has a Happy and Joyful Holiday Season
and a great New Year!
~Team Barley Station
November brief
The new charts came out in the morning of Nov. 4, 2017
showing our song "Younger Summer Memories" has hit
the #1 spot on the European Independent Music Charts!
We have started a Facebook Live stream every week now called
T-Night Live with Barley Station. It's a combination of Live Music,
humor, news, fake news, fake weather, and who knows what else.
We also will be doing live CD signings for those who purchse
direct through our webiste and want a real hard copy.
This coming week on Tuesday, October 24, will be our 6th Episode
and, like a fine wine, they just keep getting better and a little zanier!
It will begin around 7:30pm CST (8:30pm Eastern US Time)
So far it has been a big success and we are having fun doing it.
If you have missed the past episodes, you can find them embedded
into our web page. Here's the link:
here: https://barleystation.net/tnight-live-archives
Meanwhile the new album came out on Sept. 14, 2017
You can find the whole album on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon, iTunes,
and most digital retailers. So go sample the whole thing and see what you think!
Meanwhile, over on the Official European Independent Music Charts,
our song "Younger Summer Memories" from the Damaged Goods
album has popped into the top 10 and is holding at #5 currently.
So we are thrilled about that!
Enjoy the music and pop in over on Facebook Live this coming Tuesday
and be entertained!
Memories and Waiting
It is always music that brings back memories. We live and breathe music
whether we realize it or not. And It is always a song that we hear that takes
us back to some memory, good or bad, happy or sad, or some emotion.
Back There Somewhere is where all of our memories are and what makes us who we
are but doesn’t hinder us with who we shall be. And that is the theme of the third Barley Station
studio album which explores time and space in a unique way on each and every song.
“Waiting” is the first track from the soon to be released new album “Back There Somewhere”.
As a special treat, we have the entire song of the first new track "Waiting" is up as a lyrics video!
https://youtu.be/WNUAO6vj328
If you are listening on Jango, the track is up there too!
Not only that, but a couple new live performances are up on our YouTube Channel. Brand new stuff,
Including an acoustic performance of another song called "Warm Embraces" that will be on the new
album. The studio version is great but there's always something special about a live performance
that just makes it more human and personal.
The new album is set to be out on Sept. 14, 2017 and is currently available for pre-sale
through our website http://barleystation.net for hard copies. Digital pre-sales are in progress
but for the few who like to have the real thing still, we have physical CDs. And ordering through our
website gets you a signed copy and a signed Lyrics sheet of the song "Waiting" with your order.
So, if you have been following us on our social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram especially) or
frequented our website, you will have heard some audio sneak peeks.
In one week the new album will be out everywhere.
A lot of interviews and stuff coming out soon say watch close and follow us on our social media
and website to stay tuned. If you didn't catch our interview with Ally's Attic here is the link:
http://www.allysatticshow.com/conversations-with-stars.html
And some good news saved for last if you've managed to read this far. In the past two weeks we have watched
as one of our songs has closed in on the Top 10 on the Official European Independent Music Charts. And other songs are
beginning to follow at their heals. So while it is great to be at the top of various charts, it is even better that
this means more exposure and possibilities to bring our live shows to you wherever you may be.
More news soon!
Two days to go and digital pre-sales begin at iTunes and Amazon on our new full length album
"Back There Somewhere". August 10 is the pre-sales date!
For those who buy the album in advance, an instant gratification track will be available as well.
We decided on a song titled "Waiting" for the instant track. The title makes sense while you
are "waiting" right?
The release date when the new album drops on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and most major digitl retailers is
(and in CD format) is September 14. So mark your calendars! We will also have it available on our website
if you want to buy it direct, as well as some bundle discounts on multiple autographed CDs with a signed lyrics sheet
and some other goodies.
If you follow us on our social media, you probably have seen some artwork of the album,
not to mention some reviews, and write-ups on us that are just plain great!
There was a lovely write-up on Barley Station in Music Arts Monthly Magazine here:
http://www.musicartsmonthly.com/August2017reviews.html
We just want to conclude by saying we are very thankful for all of the messages, emails, and support
from all of our friends and fans! We will keep making music for you all!
@barleystationofficial is how to find us on Instagram.
Be sure to follow us on our social media sites to see what we are up to. Lots of great things coming soon!
All of our social media links are on our website so go check it out and find us.
July 2017 News Brief
Lots of stuff to share.
Did you know our website barleystation.net has the lyrics to all of our songs?
Plus many have little stories or facts about the song under the lyrics.
Go see!
You can now follow us on instagram! @barleystationofficial
http://www.instagram.com/barleystationofficial
This past week we did several interviews. A favorite is our feature in America Pride Magazine.
Read and hear us talking about how the new album was put together and it's theme that came to be.
http://www.americanpridemagazine.com/latest/randy-wayne-belt-developing-a-song-into-something-more/
The new album is going along as scheduled and the release date picked is September 15.
We are also thrilled to say our music is getting added to large Spotify Playlists and being
picked up by more and more radio.
And don't forget to Follow us on Spotify for those who use it.
Soon we will let you know when Pre-sales start on the new album, "Back There Somewhere"
Hello to all of our fans and friends old and new!
After releasing a slew of singles for some time, it is now time for a full length Album.
A new full length album is expected to be released sometime over the summer of 2017.
Most of the tracks are completed and the artwork is being gathered. The title will be
'Back There Somewhere'. Several of the singles that have been released such as "Double Star",
"Like Destiny", and "Must Be Something" will be appearing on the album but the huge majority
are completely new tracks.
The idea of "Back There Somewhere" is the concept that we are made of memories and we can all
reflect back and remember so many things that we've been through in life. Every moment that
passes soon becomes a memory. There is the past, the present, and the future. This album
does that in a uniquely musical way.
For those close to the band that have heard samplings of the new songs, the reaction has
been one of amazement and eager anticipation. Each song was carefully crafted and stands
on its own as a powerful son. The songs are relatable to almost everyone in some way.
We should have an announcement of a release date for the new album coming soon. So look for that!
Aside from having our Facebook account verified last year with that little blue coveted
check mark, we recently had our Spotify also verified! Woo hoo! This is important for
us independent artist because it provided an important, albeit as yet, small revenue
stream for independent artist like us who have self-financed everything we do as we
remain independent and retain creative control of our music and sounds.
So be sure to hit that Follow button on Spotify if you use Spotify and
stay up to date with all the newest releases:
Winter 2016-2017 Newsletter
Hello again to all of our fans and friends, old and new.
It's about that time again. Time for a new single!
We will be putting the full stream exclusively on N1M for the new single "JUST BEGUN"
just in time for Valentine's Day. The actual release date for iTunes, Google Play, etc.
will be on March 2, 2017.
The song is a gentle acoustic/vocal oriented song and fits well with Valentines Day
with it's lyrics "If the world around us all burns like the sun, will we still
be where we've Just Begun".
So hear it hear it on N1M before anyone else can get it.
http://www.numberonemusic.com/barleystation/song/603018-Just-Begun
This new song will also appear on the Bongo Boy Records compilation
release titled Homestead Volume 1 and will bring yet more of our music
into the Asian market. So look for that some time in late March or April
after he official release by our own label Barleyfields Records.
Also, look for an interview with Randy from Barley Station on Ally's Attic coming up on
Monday February 20th. http://www.allysattic.ca/
Thank you so much for all the support and lovely notes and emails from so many of you.
We hope you enjoy this new song and share it around. Another is in the works already
so stay tunes for that announcement coming up as well.
Greetings to all of our friends and fans old and new,
Summer is now behind us in the mid western US and autumn is here. And with autumn comes those autumn feelings, sights and smells.
Not to mention sounds. And a nice little autumn sound treat is on the way. What is it, you ask?
We'll let this preview/review of a new single speak on our behalf:
"Just when you thought you've heard all of the magic that Missouri-based band Barley Station could possibly create for our listening pleasure, they come out with yet another treasure and it arrives in the form of their upcoming single 'Treacherous'. The song, an original by Taylor Swift from her 'Red' album, is a magnificent ode to the artistry behind her acoustic version. The lyrical ability of vocalist Randy Wayne Belt lends heart fluttering languid, intricate, longing to this already exciting tale which talks of 'new love' and the thrilling feeling that ensues.
This, combined with the acoustics are impeccably on spot with Swifts original score yet when sung in Belt's unique style, he breathes new life into a song that might have otherwise went unnoticed with the resurrection of Swifts 1989 album. Add this to your growing Barley Station collection and make sure you send a copy to that girl you've just fallen for or if you are one, make sure you sit quietly under the stars at night, look up, and wonder. Well done Barley Station, Starlight Music Chronicles has been WOW'ed yet again."
-CA Marshall
Starlight Music Chronicles
www.starlightmusicchronicles.com
There you have it! On October 31, 2016 you can expect the release of
our unique cover of Taylor Swift's 'Treacherous'.
Enjoy the sound clip from this release here:
http://www.numberonemusic.com/barleystation/song/545872-Treacherous-cover-of-Taylor-Swift
With another original single coming up soon after that release,
there's lots to keep your eye out for from Barley Station
Hello to all and a warm welcome to all of our new fans and friends!
Introducing the new single - "When the Stars Go Blue", Barley station's first ever official release of a cover song:
"When The Stars Go Blue" by Ryan Adams.
Release date is June 23, 2016.
The Barley Station version is a stripped down version emphasizing the vocals/lyrics and guitars especially - and adding a slightly new approach to the chorus with four and five-part harmonies while staying true to the way we believe Ryan Adams would appreciate the song as a whole.
This version keeps the song close to the realm of its original sanctity and integrity as much as humanly possible, but with enough liberties to give it that Barley Station sound.
It's turning out to be a long hot summer here in the USA so enjoy this little snippet of the tune during the cool of the night if you're here in the US.
It's a great night-time romantic song. We apologize that we are only able to put a small clip of the song up but, since this is a cover, we pay licensing fees
to the original artist, so jump on over to a "Buy" link to purchase the whole song for .99 cents to hear and have the whole song.
Very soon we will be announcing yet another single to be released. Yes, they just keep coming! Several are finished, but we are deciding which one to release next. A beautiful cover of Taylor Swift's song "Treacherous" is sitting in the cue so don't be surprised if that comes out before long either.
And don't be surprised if in the coming months you find us playing a show in Canada. We've been anxious to play there for quite some time!
Have a great summer! and for our friends down under, stay warm this winter!
January Newsletter - "Like Destiny"
New Single Released
Hello everyone, fans and friends old and new!
We hope your 2016 is turning out great. Thank you for all the holiday and New Year wishes and kind words!
You are always appreciated!
The new single "Like Destiny" is now out!!
Here's a little snippet from it's first review:
"In the wake of last fall's epic 'Double Star' release on October 15th, 2015, 'Like Destiny' is a Mellifuous blend o
f both instrumental and vocal brought home with a folk/rock blend truly consistent to what is now known as
'The Barley Station Sound'. Congrats on yet another single knocked out of the park!"
~Editor Starlight Music Chronicles
http://starlightmusicchronicles.blogspot.ca/2016/01/new-song-review-barley-stations-like.html
If you love it and want to keep it, AND help us move up various charts, here is the iTunes link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/like-destiny/id1069832844?i=1069832850
And for the non-apple folks here's another suggested purchase link:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/barleystation12
Another treat for you is an interview done on Jan 18th, 2016 on KUHS Denver, CO
on the Saddle Up show with host Moses Jones. If you missed that, here is a link to the repeat for the broadcast
on mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/mosesjones/saddle-up-january-18-2016-with-interviews-from-naomi-psalm-and-barley-station/?play=fb&fb_action_ids=10207417940758117&fb_action_types=mixcloud%3Aupload
You'll hear Randy talking about an upcoming benefit concert in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada this coming summer.
In a nutshell the concert is to raise funds for Morgan's Mission (www.morgansmission.ca) in effort to help less fortunate
youth channel PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, mental illness and peer pressure/bullying into the arts.
The goal is to give hope to these individuals by restoring confidence through art programs such as vocal/music lessons,
fine arts, dance, writing courses, photography, and fashion. In the interview you'll also hear Randy chatting with host
Moses Jones about the single "I've Got News" and hear it spin on KUHS.
Stay tuned for more news and more singles coming!!
Have a great and fabulous 2016!
Warm welcome, as always, to all of our newest friends and fans and artists joining our network!
Yes, another new single is on the way! Meanwhile, If you haven't heard the newest single
"Double Star" be sure to take a listen.
Without further ado, we are announcing that we will have yet another new single dropping on January 21, 2016. The title is "Like Destiny". True to form for Barley Station, this one blends sounds and genres bringing something unique to the musical table. The cover art is being worked on currently and should be done soon as well.
And here is a snippet from a pre-release review:
"...you'll want to find a pretty spot under the old oak tree by the river and let Barley Stations new single 'Like Destiny' flow right through your soul. The unique instrumental in the song pairs perfectly with Vocalist Randy Wayne Belts 'tranquil fluid motion' vocals transcending one into a heavenly place of peace also known as: bliss... Infectious and pretty, this song is one for the iPod 'favorites' playlist for sure!"
~CA Marshall editor of SMC
Next, this week the Holiday 2015 edition of Starlight Music Chronicles Magazine came out!
A great read with articles written by Barley Station's own Randy Wayne Belt reviewing and interviewing U.S. recording artist Hank Barbe of Three Beards, and Canadian recording artist Olivia Penalva and there are many other great interviews and reviews including an interview with the great producer Stuart Epps (Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, Bill Wyman, George Harrison, etc.) cover artist Rachel Woznow, Dani Rosenoer (of Three Days Grace) , Palaye Royale, The Röxy Suicide, and many, many more!
Here's a link to the magazine:
http://issuu.com/starlightmusicchronicles/docs/smcdec092015holidayissuufinale1?e=19610390%2F31870869
Thank you for ALL of your Barley Station love, support, wishes, messages, connections, encouragement, community and friendship! Season's Greetings and however you choose to spend your holiday may your December and New Year be filled with sweets, savories, new adventures, fond memories, love, warmth, good health, acceptance, abundance and gratitude!
We'll let you know again on January 21st when the new single is out! It's sure to be found in full on N1M shortly and a clip on Reverb Nation shortly thereafter.
The New Single "Double Star" is now out!
"Did aurora's laugh into your sky - Where you gonna crash before the night -
Did you take your number for the ride - Will you be my star?"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/double-star/id1042190853?i=1042190854
If you have been a fan of songs like "Dream You Lost",
"No Breaking Ground", "Never Leave" and others, then you
will love this one too.
A few people have asked if we are changing directions
or sounds. The answer is - no. We do what we always have done, which is exactly
what we want with no regard to genre. We bend, mix, blend, and twist genres of
music because that's what we like to do.
We are Independent and enjoy our independence to make the kind of music
we want to make. We will keep doing that. We have never been easily pinned
down to one genre and our albums often run more like a mixtape.
That's always been our biggest compliment and thats how we roll.
Enjoy the song! Meanwhile, work continues on the next album
which will be a composite of some of these new singles and
other songs that are just about completed.
Thanks again for the strong support, plays, and sharing.
By next week we will expect to have hit 100,000 plays on N1M,
and we've only had presence there for about 6 months.
That's really awesome!
We love you all!!
~Barley Station
September Newsletter - Yet Another New Single
Hello to all and warm welcome to all of our newest fans and friends!
"Double Star" is yet another single soon to be released.
The artwork is finished and a release date is set for October 15, 2015.
With a reputation of blending and jumping around genres a bit, as usual,
this one's different. The title is "Double Star". And it creates a more spacey
atmosphere and is a bit more on the adult alternative side of things.
(somewhat similar to "Never Leave" from the 'Damaged Goods' album)
As one pre-release review stated "Double Star embodies the desire
and longing to have that one special person by your side for all eternity."
And just for our fans and friends and select media only, we have a preview
of the beautiful album art which was taken of a real "blue moon", so we can
say this is "once in a blue moon" single song art with certainty.
It also contains a song clip of the upcoming new single on a private
password only page just for you! Here is the link to see and hear it:
http://barleystation.net/double-star
And when prompted for the password to access it type in: doublestar2015
Special thanks: Graphics and Cover Art by
CA Marshall - Editor Starlight Music Chronicles and Magazine
Also new: A lyrics video for 4th of July (with real fireworks)
This lyrics video is more than just a lyrics video. It has
real fireworks from an actual 4th of July Celebration
throughout including the Finale. So make sure to stay
for the end or you'll miss the Finale!
lyrics video: http://youtu.be/2hZE-Nclm4o
(If you are N1M click the "watch" button on the song's tabs)
Thanks to everyone who has played and shared the new song
"I've Got News"!! With your support it brought the latest single
"I've Got News" right up to the #1 spot in the Country Pop genre
on the N1M charts. And if you haven't heard our cover of
"Blackbird" by the Beatles, go take a listen.
It also popped up to #3 on the charts at N1M its first week out.
We're so very grateful to have such support! You all are awesome!!
Find us on Facebook too for other updates:
http://www.facebook.com/barleystation
More good news soon,
New Single Release
Hello to all from Barley Station!
As always, a warm welcome to all of our new fans and friends!
The new single is now out titled: "I've Got News"
Those who have heard it have been saying it is one
of our best yet. This new song is the second single
released this summer and is a blend of mid western rock, a little
country and unforgettable guitar riffs.
Get it here on our website, or for the Apple enthusiasts:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ive-got-news/id1023309536?i=1023309728
And any number of digital retailers.
And another great piece of news is that our video for
"Younger Summer Memories" is now premiering Coast
to Coast on "Bongo Boy TV Episode 1057 'What About You'".
The Bongo Boy Rock n' Roll TV Show series has exclusive national
airtime to over 15 million viewers in the USA on 9 major cable companies.
(NBCUniversalComcast, FiOS, CableVision, Time Warner, RCN,
AT TUverse, Verizon FiOS, Charter Communications, Suddenlink)
Also International with Go Indie TV Roku Channel in the UK,
Canada, and The USA.
The video is beginning Heavy Rotation on 33 TV channels and
we are very excited! Great reviews are already coming in.
Work continues on the new album as well, and we plan to
have that finished and released before the end of the year.
Thanks for being the best fans of music and of us!
Mid Summer Newsletter
Warm welcome as always to all of our new fans and those who have just joined our mailing list.
Special thanks to all of the wonderful people who have sent such inspiring emails! Your the best!
There's a lot of news for Barley Station, so we'll start with this:
We are thrilled to announce that the "Younger Summer Memories"
video won Best Video in Americana/Rock category from
the Akademia Music Awards in Hollywood, CA!!
http://www.theakademia.com/july2015_bestmusicvideo_americanarock.html
This is such an honor! The video was not a slick production with lots of dollars thrown into it,
but rather, it was Barley Station, with a little help from friends, putting together a video to
accurately tell the story of the song in an entertaining way and keep the song rooted in
it's Americana-ish setting.
And to top it off, the video will be aired on Bongo Boy TV soon, aTV show series that has
exclusive national airtime to over 15 million viewers in the USA on 9 major cable companies.
They are filling the void on Television that MTV once dominated. So stay tuned for more on that!
Coming events:
Announcing a new single titled "I've Got News"
will be released on August 13, 2015!
There is a sample track here:
https://www.reverbnation.com/barleystation/song/23992504-ive-got-news-clip
Look for an interview the day before with Randy from Barley Station
(August 12 at 9:00PM EST) on A.V.A. Live Radio with host Jacqueline Jax
who will be the first to spin the new single! http://www.avaliveradio.com
Don't miss it! Randy will be discussing the new song, talking about changes in the band,
and what's ahead, as well as giving some songwriting advice and a answer some questions
on music marketing, as always with some witty answers that drive the so called experts mad.
Here's the new single cover:
And look for another very unique spotlight music review/interview by our very own
Randy Wayne Belt in Starlight Music Chronicles coming soon on Canadian recording
artist Melody Lovejoy.
Here's a sneak peek: (ssshh) "The same moving passion for singing is felt in an incredible
way when you hear Melody's moving duet with Sawyer Brown member, Shayne Hill.
The lyric in this song, "I can almost feel the rhythm of our souls" is rendered even more
effective by the sibling-like blend of vocals the two brought to the song."
A couple good bits of news for you all.
Barley Station will be releasing a single on Thursday, July 2 and it is planned to be available on iTunes that day. The title is: "4th of July". The song is a contagious downhome footstomper sitting solidly in the realm of the Americana genre and about as organic as you can get. It makes a comparison of a promised relationship to the explosiveness of a Fourth of July celebration.
But we have to warn you, if you hear it once it will be stuck in your head for the rest of your life, even if you don't like it!
And another single will be following this one soon and over the summer titled "I've Got News". We call it a midwestern country rock song with even more contagious melodies and guitar hooks.
Meanwhile, we are shooting for the next album (an EP in a series of 2 EPs) to be finished by summer's end but we have not set a release date yet.
So stay tuned for that as well as several upcoming interviews!
Connect with us on Facebook and get more frequent updates and say hello: http://www.facebook.com/barleystation
And drop by our website at http://barleystation.net or http://www.barleystationmusic.com
and browse song lyrics and notes!
In other news, we are happy to announce that Barley Station has signed with I AM PR Agency
Joining this roster has us adding yet another hard working group to our team
and we are excited to have already started working with them.
So count it down - 6 days to go for the new single release!
Official Video for "Younger Summer Memories" Released
Greetings to all of our newest fans, and hello to everyone who has been with us from the beginning - and everyone in between!
We are happy to announce the Official Video for "Younger Summer Memories" is now released!
You can find it here: http://youtu.be/PwRu_3Ip2Ek
It's a fun summer song, and summer is coming upon us. For our friends and fans in Australia, etc. well, winter's coming right? So hopefully this will warm you up! It isn't some overly serious video. Why do what everyone else does? If you know us, we like a little comedy thrown in. We are here to entertain.
Enjoy the video, and stay for the end and the credits for a few extra things.
You know how you find a movie occasionally that has cool stuff going on during the credits?
And if you didn't stay you miss them and just get to hear everyone else talk about them?
Well, it's kind of like that!
And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel while you're there
http://www.youtube.com/barleystation.
Meanwhile, we are still working on our next album and it is coming along nicely.
We hope to have some sneak peaks for fans on the mailing list only soon enough.
AND look for a single to be released sometime over the summer.
More lyrics videos are on the way and maybe some other goodies and things.
And be sure to check out the music journalism of our very own
"Randy's Blog" here: https://barleystation.wordpress.com/
where you'll find music reviews (that are being increasingly published in more places)
of other recording artists, some recording tips, and who knows what else.
Newsletter: Barley Station's Feature in the
Marquix Global Network's Entertainment section 'WHO'S HOT IN MUSIC IN 2015'
We wanted to let you know about our latest press feature.
We are pleased to have been featured this month (and and interview with us) with the Marquix Global Network's Entertainment section 'WHO'S HOT IN MUSIC IN 2015'
Some excerpts:
"Barley Station’s debut radio single ‘10 Nights’ is already climbing to the top of the charts. A hybrid work of Americana, Pop Rock, County and Folk, their evocative vocals and mastery of instrumentation are attracting fans all over the world."
"LILY: Your song ‘10 Nights’ is receiving a strong listener response on radio. What was your initial reaction when you first heard it played?
RANDY: I’ll give you an honest answer. Being the perfectionist that I am, I start nitpicking over what I could have done better. But you know at some point you just have to say 'okay, leave it alone' because I hear flaws in major label recordings and my ear is so picky. I have to get out of producer mode and just enjoy it. And then, it’s always weird hearing your own voice. It seems like someone else sometimes.
BRIAN: I don't know about hearing it on radio but after hearing the final mix I told Randy this one song was better than our entire previous album!
RANDY: There. Brian has the practical perspective I can appreciate. (laughs)"
http://www.marquix.tv/features/barley-station.html
Meanwhile, progress continues in the studio and we expect a new single release announcement soon to precede the next album release. So stay tuned for that!
Until next time, Cheers!
Newsletter: Barley Station's Interview With 'It's All About That Music
Just published today, here's the most recent interview we were telling you about (on our facebook page) with Maxim Daniels from "It's All About That Music". We tackle the subject of our diverse sound and being "genre misfits" and effectively answer a couple tough questions.
You don't want to miss this one!
http://www.itsallaboutthatmusic.com/indie-interviews/barley-station
Here's a few excerpts from some of our answers: (speaking of best selling albums) "With the exception of Adele’s 21, and maybe a couple others, the top thirty or forty best sellers of all time are from years and years ago. Mostly from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. I think we should be able to do better than that in the music industry, don’t you?"
Barley Station (Randy) - "I have two answers. First, the long one:
I say, look at your music collection. Do you only listen to one genre? Probably not. We aren’t any different."
"People like radio with variety, so why not a band with variety? As long as we make good music in whatever flavor you want to call it, then who cares?
We enjoyed the interview!
Meanwhile, we continue to work in the studio our third release, and may be putitng out a new single ahead of that release. Things are going good and sounding good. Stay tuned and we hope to have a sneak preview soon!
Barley Station Newsletter
Hi! We have some tidbits of news and things for you all. And at the end of this, some encouragement for all of our fellow artists and musician friends.
If you follow on twitter or facebook you may have heard already, and if not, we are letting you
know about our feature in American Pride Magazine: http://ish.re/KFHA
Get to know us better and check out the feature!
A quote from it: “If you have a great song, it’s a great song in any format. If you let the artist be who they are and let them
have their own sound you’d be doing a greater service to the listeners.” - Barley Station (St. Louis) @barleystation
So there we are, on record, standing up for independent artists and taking on elements of the music industry that are simply
out of touch.
Meanwhile, production continues for our first "real" music video and we will let you know when that is released as it gets closer. Here's a picture of part of the location for the shoot.
We continue to pick up more radio play everyday. And have moved up various charts and playlists. Recently, we had our entire album featured on Lonely Oak Radio, http://www.lonely-oak.com/ which we are excited about because the album really was designed AS an album to listen to with a definite flow and artistic direction. So as far as we know, at least in America, this was a first for a station to have the whole album getting spun on radio. So we are thrilled about that! Also a shoutout to EGH Radio http://www.eghradio.com/ for all the spins there and for the kindness to us! And another thank you to Jacqueline Jax and A.V.A. Live Radio http://avaliveradio.com/ . Thank you Jacqueline Jax for being so supportive!
And thanks to ALL of you out there for your friendships and support as well!
And now a little word of encouragement for our fellow artists, bands, musicians. As you may well know, in this music industry you face a lot of rejection. You will have turn downs on your songs, you'll get advice (sometimes good - oftentimes bad) and criticism both constructive and destructive. But don't let that discourage you. In this business you need thick skin yet also a willingness to listen, and that, at times witha grain of salt.
Here's a little story as an example of why you should never give up doing what you love. Some time ago there was a radio station we had hoped to get played on. We submitted our music. They rejected it. It wasn't what they were looking for. A couple months later, we had someone besides us submit it to the same station on our behalf - Same station, same Program Director. This time it was accepted. Not only was it accepted, but the station fell in love with us and our music. From the exact same song that was submitted before! This has happened on several occasions. We just don't give up!
Why that happens, we can only speculate. Perhaps, like many other busy Program Directors, DJs, and A & R people, they only listened to the first 15 or 20 seconds and threw it aside. Maybe they weren't in the right mood at the time for that song. Who knows? But whatever reasons, our response is the same. Never give up!
So come join us on facebook if you havn't already: http://www.facebook.com/barleystation
We have a lot more going on right now, but that's for next time!
Cheers and Ciao!
~Randy, Brian, Steve, and Team Barley Station
First, a warm welcome to all of our newest fans and friends in Barley Station nation!
Today the rural roads composed of gravel that provide such a bucolic setting to the award-winning song "10 Nights" are covered in snowfall. As it turns out, the glistening snowfall struck Barley Station twice so far this year as not only was "10 Nights" given theakademia.com seal of approval for best Country Pop/Rock song, but so was "Younger Summer Memories" for best Americana/Pop song!
As our fans and friends may remember, “Younger Summer Memories” was the kickoff single for DAMAGED GOODS and an early acquisition for those who pre-ordered the album on iTunes.
Apparently, in a bit of irony, it is the perfect winter song. Didn’t get ‘Damaged Goods’ yet?
Go to iTunes today and get it!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/damaged-goods/id649218610
The Belt/Kious duo have been busy combing through an endless array of new songs and cutting demos to see which will be the next step forward. While Randy has been tending to the official side of Barley Station from his office in east-central Missouri for the Barleyfields Records side of things, Brian has been coordinating the auditioning additional musicians for the upcoming sessions that will be the follow-up to DAMAGED GOODS. "We are still at a crossroads, I think.", says Brian. "We have two or three flavors of songs to choose from and at least twelve albums worth of material collectively as well. We can do another mix-tape style record or...."
Randall strategizes, “We will take a more focused approach to song selection. We want to release another collection of well-crafted and powerful songs, but it’s been difficult to choose because you never know what might happen in production. So we are taking awhile to sort through them all."
As always, life continues to prove a thick layer of inspiration as Randall is spending spare time on farming and looking for a few fine specimen of llamas to complete his rural paradise, inspired by Napolean Dynamite. Brian, meanwhile is waist-deep in study of Chinese culture and language in a St. Louis area university and would like to brag that he taught himself enough Mandarin Chinese to test out of the basic courses.
While still brainstorming on the next set of songs to cut in the studio, Randy and Brian, as well as new fixture Steve, would all like to shout a big warm hello to their friends and fans!
In closing, thanks to The Akademia for the awards and acknowledgement! Randy and Brian also wish to thank Nil DeSilva for his rock solid performance on DAMAGED GOODS which was a major factor in every song. Thanks to LeAnne Fisher for her vocal contributions, Casey Wollberg for his collaborative efforts lyrically, and to Ben Ash who loaned us his time and his gear. All of you made these two awards possible.
See you all soon!
Randy, Brian, Steve, and team Barley Station
A prolonged hello to the Barley Station Nation!
It's been awhile since the band has published their goings on, so we felt it was time to bring everyone up to speed....
Back in the summer of 2013 Barley Station released a most powerful follow up to their 2012 album AFTER ALL. DAMAGED GOODS contains some of the absolute finest songs the Belt/Kious duo could muster. Not only that but the superb arrangements and production were leaps and bounds ahead of where they were in 2012. They broke precedent by using some beat parts from an old drum machine for the bass drum parts in sections of the song "Rain When You Go." The parts were edited in and out leaving all the really cool drum work that makes the song great to Nil and his Ludwig drum kit. Could this be one of those songs that hints the direction that a band might go in the future? Might they dive off into the exotic far aways that are conjured in the eastern tinged "Mr. Rain"? Who knows for sure.
What we can tell you....
Following the release and subsequent early public appearances of promoting DAMAGED GOODS, Brian packed his old kit bag and ran off for Texas, then split there for California and the deserts of the west on eighteen wheels. Vowing that recording DAMAGED GOODS was such a religious experience that he'd never write again as his best work was done, has come back to Missouri with about 5 or 6 new songs. Lately, upon our visits to his home he's been seen unraveling the mysteries of the piano (Brian played a great deal of the keyboard work that was featured on the DAMAGED GOODS album) and reading 4 and 5 books simultaneously. "I personally think after a rambunctious 2 years," he told us, "we [Randy and I] needed to find some silence and center ourselves for the next phase of the band. I can't give any hints as to what we'll be doing because, well, I don't really know.”
Randy agrees, “We always did our best work when we didn’t know for sure what we were going to do. Spontaneity is sometimes the mother of creation for us. I think the new album we are about to record will be a bit more laid back and earthy in some ways, but you never know. My own writing has become a bit more country so that will be a factor, but for some reason my pop sensibilities are hard to keep from surfacing, and we always get wild ideas once we get in the studio”. My permanent move to that real gravel road down the country lane with no streetlights (from the song “Ten Nights”) will have an impact on the new material. Nature has its own beat, harmony and melody that can drive and influence how you write music.”
"Right now, we have a large amount of songs we are trying to sift through and choose which ones will work best together on an album. Then it's a matter of how to record them and what instruments to use"
Brian adds, “We have tossed around eventually making a Euro pop styled album, a rustic sparsely arranged Country/Americana album, and I like the idea of doing Chinese Blues songs but singing them in Norwegian. I've been playing a lot of piano lately. Perhaps we'll be invited to score a found-footage horror flick before the craze dies out."
All while this has been playing out for the songwriters of the group, and a big focus on family time, drummer Nil De Silva got married in March and has been enjoying the bucolic lifestyle of Alpaca ranching. Nil has kept his chops up during this hiatus by offering his expertise to St. Louis area groups and offering professional opinions. Nil is still fast friends with Brian and Randy but is opting to sit out the next outing, though like with Casey Wollberg, one shouldn't be too surprised to see Mr. De Silva make an appearance now and again. And there may be other guests or a surprise guest or two that could appear on the next album.
Taking the throne for the next phase of Barley Station is a longtime musical partner of Randy and Brian: Steve Meyers. Steve is a singer/songwriter who plays drums and percussion primarily, but also plays guitar, accordion, bass guitar and various other noise makers. Steve helped name Barley Station in the beginning and performed on several tracks on the After All album and so is a natural fit.
Steve was a major player on Barley Station's [the Barnacles'] 2007 album CQD and is the singer/writer of that album's [possibly] catchiest number, "Every Heartbeat." He was also the contributing drummer on 3 or 4 tunes on 2012's AFTER ALL album.
In soap opera fashion, Brian and Steve were working together in a group called The Red And the Green when Brian left to work with Randy in Barley Station. Steve spent a couple years taking Brian's spot as lead singer in that band and also releasing some solo singles under the name Quell.
Randy and Brian’s signature harmonies will naturally be present on any new work and put the stamp of their sound on anything they do together, but they hint of trying a different approach to the songs. Brian puts it this way “Seeking to scale back the magnitude by which we produce and arrange and with a few of the songs already selected, Steve felt like a natural choice to keep the beat and offer up ideas with us this time around. He played and sang with us for 6 or 7 years, so we're all really familiar.”
You can expect to hear more out of Randy, Brian, and Steve later this summer as they plan on beginning rehearsals somewhere deep in rural Missouri. It is difficult to say which way Barley Station will take their sound, but it will not be short of interesting. While contemplating a motif for the next record, and acknowledging their absence from stage for many months, Barley Station are contemplating a grand RE-release of DAMAGED GOODS. We’ll see.
Meanwhile, as the band plans its next move we invite you to search through their back catalogue under their previous name, The Barnacles. (Some of you know that already) Sometimes where you’ve been indicates where you might be going - sound-wise.
What to look for in regards to the back catalogue....
WIRELESS is a 6-song EP released in the summer of 2001. It features the same lineup that 2012's AFTER ALL featured with Randy, Brian, and songwriter/vocalist Casey Wollberg. Interesting note: Casey wrote a song called "The Sea Guardian" that ultimately didn't get finished in time to be included. In 2013, Casey and Randy reworked the chorus of that song and cut it in with some verses and pre-chorus parts Randy wrote and the result was "Never Leave" from the DAMAGED GOODS album. The group enjoyed a good run of requests from this record, most noteably "Amy's Song" which still gets requested from time to time. "Crazy For You Now" is also a regular resident in live sets.
Wireless on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wireless/id5924352
INLAND & OTHERWISE is a full length album featuring Belt & Kious with additional songs, vocals and guitar work from California-based folk rocker Kevin Hartman who has released a handful of tasty records from his hometown of Joshua Tree, CA. INLAND, released in early 2003, was successful in airplay and criticism from the press. It features "Third Degree Burn" which is still included in most Barley Station live sets, as well as early versions of "Want It To Be" and "True as well as the Hartman penned “eden Avenue”. "Third Degree Burn" has been called a '#1 if ever there was one.'
Inland & Otherwise on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/inland-otherwise/id4098192
C.Q.D. might as well be a Barley Station album. Released in October 2007, it features Randy, Brian, and Steve Meyers on drums, with Casey filling in some harmonies. These four all also appear on AFTER ALL. This little known gem spent 4 years on the cutting room floor before finishing touches were added to it. It marked a dramatic change in its' predecessors. The songs are a little edgier, less folky (though there is a token acoustic waltz), and more honest to the group's live sound of the day. CQD features "Undressing Beverly", "That Won't Change It", and "Whatcha Need", all included in current set lists for Barley Station shows.
CQD on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cqd/id266424441
Hope everyone continues to do well out there!
Stay tuned folks. The engine is turning over. Gas is in the tank. And we’re unfolding the map!
Randy, Brian, and Steve
Contributions by staff writer, Michael "Microwave" Evans
Damaged Goods is now released!
Announcing the release of the second Barley Station album, Damaged Goods!!!
Here's just a few links where to get it:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/barleystation8
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CW54IHW/ref=dm_sp_alb/180-8182654-2104949
You've read about it, you've heard the stories about it and now it's here! With independent friendly radio already clamoring to get copies before it was even released, we know you're going to love it too. Currently, the release is only in digital as there were issues with the artwork set up for the physical copies. So if you want a physical copy, check back here http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/barleystation8 in 7-14 days. We apologize for that, but they will be there soon. And stay tuned for reviews as they come in.
In other good news, For a third time we are Featured on the front page of twitmusic.com a site which receives over a million hits per month which I'm sure you all know if you are a twitter user.
In even better news, we are very pleased to announce that we are Officially in the Texaco Country Showdown, hosted this year by Jewel!!! This round of the Showdown will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 11th on the main stage at the Lincoln County Fair in Troy, Missouri. The top six finalists from that proceed to the next round at the St. Charles County Fair on July 27th. We are psyched!
We also want to thank all of you who voted and helped our friend Southern Rocker Glitter Rose get to the next round in her competition in California! Way to go!! She tied for #1. Thanks ya'll! Here's her website: http://www.glitterrose.com
And if you haven't heard yet, we now have a Youtube Channel.
It is http://www.youtube.com/barleystation and presently there are two live videos from our performance at The Melvin Theater in St. Louis, MO on June 2, 2013. You definitely don't want to miss Nil going crazy on the drums during Abilene at around the 4:30 point of the video.
So subscribe and check it out. There will be more.
And... don't miss our first interview post-Damaged Goods release on June 26th at 8PM Eastern Time (7pm Central Time) on the Artist First Radio Network here:http://www.artistfirst.com/ We will be talking about the new album and having a good time!
Ok, we crammed a lot into this so there you have it.
~Randy, Brian, Nil, and team Barley Station
The Peculiar Story Behind The Cover - Plus: Album Release Date Links
In our last newsletter we told you a bit of how we put the new album it together. This time it is the story behind the album cover, which is no doubt, a very peculiar story. Here it is again for reference to view, before the story begins:
( pre-release buy link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/damaged-goods/id649218610 )
We wanted an album cover that reflected the theme of the album, naturally, being this is a semi-concept album. So we spent a couple of weeks working out a really nice album cover collage of various pieces of damaged goods, old things, rusty stuff, and so on. Brian put together most of it, sent it to Randy for final edit, shared it with Nil for his approval, and we all liked it a lot.
A lot of work went into it! But then... on one partly cloudy day, Brian was driving past his old neighborhood in St. Charles, MO where he grew up only to discover it was being torn down and utterly leveled to the ground to make room for a huge strip mall, or some type of shopping center.
What was once his old neighborhood was reduced to piles of rubble and all the homes were torn down. There were piles of debris, tractors, bulldozers, and torn up trees. He came upon one area where someone had arranged the doors, presumably from the houses that once stood there, into a Stonehenge like display.
Always one to have an eye for art and things that seem to scream ART by their very existence, he snapped a picture of it with his ipod and sent it to Randy suggesting it might be a good idea for the back cover of the album that we had just finished recording.
Randy agreed it was good. Really good! In fact, so good it should be the cover. Now after spending so long working on what was going to be the cover, it takes a good bit of humility to accept the fact that you've just taken a snapshot of something that you didn't even work that hard to get and it just surpassed all the hard work you put into what you thought was going to be the album cover for a really great album.
(I'm sure all of you artists out there know what I mean) Just that stroke of pure chance at the right moment and you have exactly what you were looking for. After a flurry of texting back and forth, we all knew, that this was going to be the album cover. It just demanded to be. We don't know who set up the doors, but whoever it was just gave us a fantastic album cover!
Now the picture Brian took wasn't going to work because the resolution and quality was not high enough to convert into artwork without ruining the shot. And, someone was tearing down the doors!! We had very little time to act. With a high resolution digital camera, we needed to go back... fast!
Here's the REST of the story - in Randy's words:
"The sun had to be right in the sky and we needed a day without rain to cause problems. On a day shortly thereafter, I decided it was THE DAY to get the shot. Being a photographer as a hobby (and used to have my own black and white darkroom) I decided the day was right and announced to my wife and little daughter, "we're going on a little trip today to see DOORHENGE". I didn't use my Chevy Chase voice and we certainly are not quite the Griswolds, but it was almost as exciting as traveling to the UK to see the real Stone Henge! This was better than going to the art museum, or the structure park it seemed.
(Another image that will appear on the CD disc)
"When we got there it was the most surreal scene. We were really in awe. And when a little kid is in awe of it, it's really special. It was a strange awesomeness because it was accompanied by a certain sadness for the neighborhood that disappeared and for the people who lost their homes (to whom we dedicate this album).
But in the midst of it all, someone had created this work of art made of doors. Someone took what was a tragedy for someone else no doubt, and turned it into something that will be the cover of something else that we hope will bring smiles and happiness. I didn't even recognized the place anymore. If not for the street signs I wouldn't have known where I was. It was strange. "
Randy continues:
"I got picture after picture, angle after angle of this fascinating array of art. Then we drove by one last time and said goodbye to "Doorhenge". We knew we wouldn't see it again. I asked myself 'Did they really have to tear it down'? 'Couldn't they keep it as a monument even in a small little area in honor of the old neighborhood?'
It sometimes puzzles me the coldness and heartlessness of the way business is done. I'm just only glad that this work of art, this memorial of what was a lot of people's homes or dorm rooms, or place of residence, will be memorialized in time by our Album cover, the name is perfect: 'Damaged Goods'.
Several days later, Brian called me, and said 'it's gone!!!' So, indeed, we captured the photo in the nick of time!"
Thats the story behind this album cover. The songs contained within and the pictures in the artwork all have a story to tell!
And on June 18, you can get a copy for yourself by going to this link:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/barleystation8 which will be functional on that day.
Or by calling 1-800-BUY MY CD
and ordering "Damaged Goods" by Barley Station
If you can't wait and want to order through iTunes, it is now in pre-sale purchase at iTunes here:
By ordering in advance you have access to download the instant gratification track "Younger Summer Memories"!
And on release date, if your itunes is set to "Autodownload" the album will automatically download itself to your iTunes. If you don't have it set on autodownload, you'll either want to change it to auto or manually download on release date.
As we said previously, the first 25 people (only one per household please) to pre-order on iTunes will receive a hard copy of the CD. If you pre-ordered just send an email to: barleystation@barleystation.net with the subject line "I pre-ordered" and let us know you pre-ordered on iTunes, and give us a shipping address, don't forget your zipcode, or country's zip code!
We will verify with our iTunes report from our distributor and get the physical CD with full manufactured artwork and all (the real thing) sent out! If you dont send the mail we won't know if you're among the first 25, so be sure to do that because we aren't psychic, we just write songs! iTunes reports may take 1-2 months, so please be patient for a hard copy while you enjoy the music.
There you have it. AND - If you are in the St. Louis, MO Metro area on Sunday, June 2nd, we will be performing at The Melvin Theater, a really nice 400 capacity venue. See our calendar page for details and get your tickets here:
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/283743?wrKey=F42D03DC61A73F1AC49FD3517B2A48D6
Randy, Brian, Nil and Team Barley Station
New Album Release/ Spring Newsletter (and How the album was made)
At long last here it is!
After many months of recording, re-recording, mixing and re-mixing, mastering and re-mastering, we are very happy and very proud to announce the release date (and pre-release date) of our new album, "Damaged Goods".
The release date will be June 18, 2013.
And more good news is, the iTunes pre-release date is May 21.
Here's where you'll find it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/damaged-goods/id649218610
That's less than a week away, so if you have iTunes, on May 21 you can buy the digital album and it will automatically download to your iTunes player on the offical release date of June 18.
And what's even better is that if you buy on or after the pre-release date you'll get an instant gratification track
right then to hold you over until the album is downloaded on release day. Sounds Great doesn't it!?!
An even sweeter deal is that the first 25 people to buy the album on iTunes, pre-release, (before June 18) will also get a physical copy of the CD, autographed by us once physical copies are available. You'll just need to verify proof of purchase and wa la, an autographed physical copy is yours as well. We'll give you more details soon on that.
Here is the album cover:
And now, we'd like to tell you a little bit about this album, which painstakingly was made through blood, sweat, tears, and a lot of patience. If you don't believe the "sweat" part just ask Nil who did take after take until he broke out dripping and covered in sweat on the track "Goodnight Mary", he'll tell you!
The approach to this new album was a bit different than the last. First, we have Nil De Silva on drums this time, someone who approaches drumming from more of an "old-soul" point of view, and you can hear his own influences creeping through the songs as they accent them and drive them. A lot more instruments were used by Randy and Brian on this album as well, compared to the last album. Here's how it worked:
Then, the songs were selected using what we call the "Rumours approach" (after one of the best selling albums of all time "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac) and that is, every song must be a potential single in of its own - then each song was approached as an entity all its own. Every song was carefully crafted as art. There was no "use this technique for everything" sort of approach. We let each song go where it seemed to want to go and didn't stop it. We took our time with each song and let it take as long as it needed to be right. There is no "we have to sound like this or that" there was only, this has to sound like it wants or demands to sound. Each of the two writers write in various styles and moods and its easy for a song to just spring to life on it's own. When we introduce songs we just play the bare bones for each other - acoustic guitar and vocal. Then we let the song speak and added what each one seemed to call for.
We'll use the song Mr. Rain (track 8) as an example. No one had any idea what this song would turn into. It started with just an acoustic guitar and vocal track with a vision of having a latin-ish feel and flavor. Then Nil brought out his genuine Tablas (a type of drum)purchased in Sri Lanka, Brian grabbed his mandolin and something very, very different began to take shape. But we'll have to leave you in suspense as to how it ultimately turned out after the track grew and had a mind of its own.
The album isn't us trying to be anything in particular, nor perfect, except perfect in the sense of what we intended it to be. The singing is real, raw and living - organic if you will. It is us - warts and all. The element of humaness stays intact in these recordings. We present this music and call it perfect in it's imperfections, complete in it's humanness.
Now that doesn't mean it sounds sloppy by any stretch of the imagination. Nor does it sound too polished, like the homogenized milk-toast crap that we didn't want it to be. And It doesn't sound like Johnny Cash, though we think he'd dig it. Nor does it sound like Mumford & Sons, though we think they'd dig it too. And it doesn't sound like Nirvana by any means, or even Foo Fighters, but we do think Dave Grohl would creatively appreciate what we've done nevertheless. If only we could've recorded it in Sound City Studios... Well, we didn't, but we thought of it in the process. You get the picture. It's organic.
We really looked at making this new album from an artistic approach. Painting it delicately with each stroke of the musical brush. Not taking any shortcuts, but taking the painstaking time to get it just like we felt it should be.
Even to the selection of the album cover artwork (and that's a story we will share soon enough) had to speak definitively. "Damaged Goods" is more than just being about a bunch of broken pieces, or things. It speaks of lives, of our humanity, and who we are. When this album is released, we know that it won't be just a selection of some of our best work, or just a bunch of catchy songs, but it will be a connection. It will be like walking through an art gallery of sounds, sounds not just of the past and present, or even just the future, but sounds that speak to the heart and soul of the humaness of us all.
And it is summed up in the line from the title song "Damaged Goods" that says, "we are all damaged goods, uh huh".
~ Randy, Brian, Nil and team Barley Station
A belated Happy New Year and Happy Chinese New Year! The year of the dragon closes and gives way to the year of the snake this month and speaking of snakes, we're thrilled to annouce the release of our new single "Medusa" today. We waited until the day after Valentines Day so as not to mess up anyone's day with a song that is definitely NOT a love song, BUT it's something we think you'll love anyway. Here's a couple of our favorite places with links where you can get "Medusa" it:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/medusa-single/id600801318
And Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Medusa/dp/B00BCQHJCS
True to our nature as artists, this one is a bit different from December's single release "10 Nights". And if you don't have that one yet here's a link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/10-nights-single/id585952365
And now we're all getting ready for the next installment of the Barley Station saga. But before we give away the secrets of what comes next, let's take a look back at 2012.
Last year showed the release of the first Barley Station album AFTER ALL and it was a critical success! Not only did it yield a lot of radio favourites, but also a lot of rave reviews and a few awards nominations for best country and folk albums! Special thanks to all ya'll in radio who have played our music and given such great and kind feedback! That's a great start to a great start!
Last year also saw the fortunate addition of Nil DeSilva on drums thus solidifying the core/touring lineup. Nil can be heard on the first of the new installment of Barley Station releases "10 Nights". The 2012 tour was also an adventure. Barley Station would like to give a shout out to their new friends and fans in Chicago, Norwood, Denton, Abilene, Memphis, and of course St. Louis! Apologies to Tulsa, OK for cancelling as Oklahoma was on fire (literally) the night the band was going to travel to the venue forcing highways to close. Most memorable of all the tour dates was the finale in St. Louis at Humphrey's where a massive outdoor venue was packed wall to wall! Thank you St. Louis, and goodnight!
Now for the news! We are halfway finished with the recording of album #2 tentatively titled DAMAGED GOODS. This record, though with some familiar alt.country flavouring will be a progression of the Barley Station sound with the most noticeable addition being Nil's drums. The band has added mandolin and a touch of synthesizer to the mix and even making more use of rich harmonious vocal arrangements. DAMAGED GOODS is going to sound bigger, richer, and a bit more progressive than the previous album. The most fun in the studio has come from the use of the mandolin claims Brian, "We don't want to use it on every song, but it's just too tempting!"
The human imperfections of real organic music is what you will get with the new album. No auto-tune vocals for our style of music, just plain down home real harmonies like you're sitting on the front porch with us listening, but with maybe a few amps thrown in the yard for good measure.
So far, 2 songs have been released as singles. In December 2012, "10 Nights" was released, staying true to the flavouring of AFTER ALL's twangy backdrop (but slightly bigger). And today, February 15, sees the release of "Medusa", a song which displays the band's ability to move in a more rock/prog rock direction yet keeping its foundation.
DAMAGED GOODS will feature at least 10 songs featuring "10 Nights", "Medusa", "Communicationally Yours", and "Safe Return" all songs that were featured during the AFTER ALL TOUR. And if you were in Abilene, Texas when we came through, you got to hear a song called "Goodnight Mary" which is something we call a "barn burner" and we found that even playing it in the studio can give your fingers blisters!
If you havn't seen us on facebook and twitter much lately, it's because we have spent almost every spare moment in the studio working on this new album. But feel free to stop by and say HI, cause we do take breathers. But when you hear this finished album you'll appreciate the time that went into it! Just ask our friends at Wreckingball Radio who have called '10 NIGHTS' "the best thing you've sent yet!" Check them out at www.wreckingballradio.com/ and request our music and say hello to the good folks there keeping music real!
And lastly a SHOUT out to all our artist friends in the biz and another SHOUT to those who are our biggest fans! We love you all!!
See you all down the road, Happy 2013!
~Randy, Brian, and Nil
Hello Barley Station Nation!
NEWS FROM THE ROAD:
We just got home from a couple dates in Texas. A valuable lesson was learned in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas, especially the fines for speeding. Our trusty van was pulled over by a friendly Texas State Trooper. Did I mention the van is very easy to speed in?
The shows went great and the band made a lot of new friends. Plus we met up with some of Brian's family in Denton, TX who came to see the show there. We debut a few new songs from the album currently being recorded.
Another valuable lesson: always know the hotels before you stay there. Randy had the worst time in Denton with a collection of stones bagged up as a mattress to a railroad freight line no more than 100' from the Abilene hotel room. Not a lot of sleep was had but it's the road and as legends have it, bands never sleep. The eatin’ was good and we played our hearts out and that’s what counts!
For those of you in the vicinity, our last night on the road (for now) for the 2012 After All Tour will be in Memphis, TN on October 13th. You all will be treated to a fine set featuring the new songs "Medusa", "10 Nights" and maybe a couple more that won't be heard until the new album is finished.
NEWS FROM HOME - RECORDING
We are closing out tours for the year with a couple new shows to our nearest metropolis St. Louis, and St. Charles, MO and we are sure to have a blast there. Don't forget to keep playing our music at soundcloud, spotify, twitmusic, radio in general, AND tell your friends! Heck, tell your enemies. Music brings people together and we love being part of that.
On the home front we are continuing to work on the second album and just on a listen through the basic tracks this is turning out to be our best yet! The songs are once again bending all the rules of genre purism and each song will definitely be something for everybody. Some instruments you will hear will be mandolin, 12-string guitar, 6 string acoustic and electric guitars, upright bass, electric bass, Ludwig drums, harmonica, piano, and a plethora of as yet undetermined instruments. Not to mention our trademark harmonies.
We are spending a lot of time on each song to make sure they are precisely how we wanted them and to capture each song’s vision. We expect to release a couple new singles before year’s end and the whole new album early in 2013. We can't wait to bring this new music to you! And of course, we believe the next newsletter will have a link to a sneak peek at some of the tracks we are working on. Exclusively for Newsletter subscribers!
Meanwhile, if you don’t have some kind of copy of “After All” be sure to get your copy from Amazon: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/after-all/id507047384
or iTunes: http://www.amazon.com/After-All/dp/B007GD3C3G/ref=sr_shvl_album_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1331292036&sr=301-3
Or order physical copy from right here on our website.
AWARDS NOMINATIONS:
If you haven’t heard already, we have been nominated for “Best Country Artist” and “Best Folk Artist” by the Artists In Music Awards in Los Angeles. For those who have voted already we give a HUGE thank you! If you haven’t voted yet, there is still time. Just go to these links to vote: Check the box by our name and click "Finish Survey".
Best Country Artist
http://booroo.com/app/rendersurvey.asp?sid=i7l02gcdlf0s06z16342
Best Folk/Acoustic Artist
http://booroo.com/app/rendersurvey.asp?sid=dix65mn3ft5kasw16336
FEATURED RADIO STATION:
As is our custom we like to feature one of the many radio stations that have been so kind as to put our music into rotation. This month we give you KRANKIT RADIO
http://server4.reliastream.com/start/krankitradio/
Kudos to Wayne who has done much to help emerging and independent artists! Check it out!
FEATURED ARTIST:
Felicia Dias. She is based out of Minden, Germany. This alternative pop artist writes one consistently great song after another, writing with her heartand soul! You can hear her music here: http://www.reverbnation.com/identityfelicia
Thanks go out to all the new radio that has picked us up, and to all the new fans we’ve met and made. Special thanks to B’s R.S.M. Promotion, Carol and Mark at Butterflies Radio, Big Bill in Calgary, Alberta and to Walter at the Indie Music Bus!
Randy, Brian, and Nil
Barley Station's July Newsletter
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Greetings from Barley Station!
Well, It's been a super hot and busy summer. We hope everyone is staying cool!
First a reminder to everyone in the Chicagoland area, we will be stopping there on Friday, July 27, 2012 and we take the stage at 8pm! Tickets are $10 and available here: https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=4d70227b547803ee5d9801d42192fb9b&t=tix
This will be broadcasted live, so if you can't be there or are halfway across the world, never fear, internet braodcast is here. The Venue in Chicago, The Elbo Room, will be broadcasting the performance live via JUSTIN.tv Here is the link to their channel: http://www.justin.tv/elboroomchicago
We understand that we will be able to grab an embed code and share it on our website as well. So that is a big plus!
Then we head back down to St. Charles, MO to play at the City Club Saturday the 28th at 8pm. Then on August 3rd we head further south and into the Ozarks area and perform at the Northwood Valley Jamboree in Norwood, MO then head over to Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 4th for a performance there. We then come back and will spend much of August laying the rhythmic foundations of the new album. Then we head to Texas, but that's for the next newsletter. Check our Calendar for details.
And for those of you who subscribe to the newsletter here, as promised, we have something especially for you. You are the first to hear alternate version of the song Abilene. We had originally intended this to be for a live video, but things got fouled up with the video part of that. The audio was saved and here it is : http://soundcloud.com/barleystation/abilinelivemix1
This is a live version, as a three-piece band, of "Abilene". Randy on bass and vocals, Brian on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, and Nil on snare and ride drums. It is a stripped down version of the song and raw, warts, mistakes, and all.
We hope you enjoy it and the pure humanness of it.
And if you didn't catch our interview with Olaf on the New Country Show 89.6 (Mannheim, Deutschland) 105.4 (Heidelberg, Deutschland) in Germany on July 7th and its other air dates we have it up on our webpage in the "reviews/interviews" tab. Or go to Soundcloud here: http://soundcloud.com/barleystation/new-country-shows-interview
On those "in-betweens" of live shows, we will be in the studio working out parts for the songs for the new album we have begun. Yes, it is underway! We hope that in the next few months we should have some sneak previews of some of those tracks for you. If you're lucky enough to catch a live performance, you may also hear a few of the new songs that we have already worked out. But we love studio time and that's where a lot of the magic will happen. This next album promises to be a step up from "After All" in both production and in strength of material. So we can't wait to get it done! For the few that have heard the raw songs, they will tell you this is true. You'll hear a few new instruments being introduced as well, like the mandolin, and some experiments with what we have. But that's a secret for now.
A few other news bits:
We are sitting at #7, as we write anyway, in "Americana" genre on the Indie Charts at indiecharts.com (the best indie/unsigned artists) panel review, so we're happy about that!
On top of that, our DRT report came in (Digital Radio Tracker) and we pleasantly and surprisingly discovered that our song "Dream You Lost" was getting heavy rotation on radio where it has been played. Heavy rotation means that a song is being played frequently through the broadcast day. Usually more than 25 spins per week. In perspective, "Dream You Lost" has been getting over 40 spins per week. Now, we all hate it when radio plays something to death, but when you are an independent band like us, you need all the play you can get, so it's a good thing and a good sign!
So another big Thank You to our fans and everyone in radio, you're the best! Truly! So good to us!!
In addition, we now hold 8 of the top 10 spots in Americana genre on twitmusic.com, and are still #1 locally on Reverb Nation and nationally in the top 40-50.
All good news for us and for you. Because the more successful we are, the sooner we can expand our tours out and across the nation and eventually, the globe, and be in a better position to help other artists break down barriers and make waves.
Now, we know that our music doesn't really fit neatly into any one genre, but most places on the web and on the various charts force you into one genre. So if you find us somewhere where we you think we don't perfectly belong, you'll just have to excuse us, because the system is not set up for bands like us. But we will not be cornered, easily labeled and put into a box, and we enjoy our musical independence immensely, and we know you do too! So thank you ALL for supporting independent music and artists like us!
And speaking of supporting indie artists, we always love to support other Independent artists and -
Our Featured Artist this month is:
Cecilia McLaren - This artist's music and voice will totally blow you away. She is THAT good.
Check out her music at: http://www.reverbnation.com/barleystation#!/ceciliamclaren
And our featured Indie Friendly Radio is:
Wreckingball Radio - Check it out at http://www.wreckingballradio.com
Always something good playing on there!
If you haven't bought our album "After All" yet, we found the cheapest place for digital purchase is at Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/After-All/dp/B007GD3C3G/ref=sr_shvl_album_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1331292036&sr=301-3
Well, I'm sure we forgot something here, but that's about all for now.
Barley Station's June Newsletter
Lots of news and stuff. This one is pretty packed with some cool info, so here we go:
Newsworthy:
If you are in the St. Louis Metro area, Barley Station will be performing on the Fox 2 News Morning Show with Tim Ezell at 9am. If you're not in St. Louis, you can watch it Live here: http://fox2now.com/on-air/live-streaming/
So tell your family, friends, neighbors, your neighbors' friends and your friends' neighbors to tune in to the Fox 2 News Morning Show June 14th, at 9am to watch Barley Station rock the house!
Internal Stuff:
After rehearsing with us for the past month or so, we are happy to announce the addition of our long sought after permanent drummer - enter: Nil De Silva! Welcome Nil!! (pronounced Neal) You'll see Nil in the new pictures.
On a sadder note, Emily Thomas has decided to exit the group, so we wish her well on all her endeavors. We will miss her and miss her bringing us chocolate at practice! She may make another guest appearance on the next album though, who knows. Casey is still with us but working more behind the scenes and we're sure he'll be doing some studio vocal work with us again too.
Yes, the newest pictures our June 2012 photo shoot are beginning to appear! (Check our facebook, twitter, or website, etc.)
Our favorite one is the one where it looks like we are somewhere in the Galactic Republic, minus a droid or a wookie. Pure photography, no photoshopped effects. We thought it would be fun to experiment with some nighttime photography and all the cool things you can do with that environment. So there will be some more very interesting pictures being added soon enough.
Social sites:
Speaking of social sites - You can now find us on Google+. We're still working out the kinks but its there! Here's the link: http://plus.google.com/102517984534530218017
Now once Google gets some audio and other plug-ins they'll be ready to compete with ...er... the competition! :)
And don't forget to follow us on twitter here http://www.twitter.com/barleystation and Randy and Brian (the songwriting core) at our individual twitters:
Randy here: http://www.twitter.com/randywaynebelt or @randywaynebelt and Brian here: http://www.twitter.com/brianolenkious or @brianolenkious
And speaking of studio work... Guess what? The next album is offically in the works. All songs are selected and the guide tracks are being laid down. What are guide tracks? They are the basic vocal and the rhythm guitar (or piano) for the foundation of the songs, and establish the right feel and tempo for a given song. So while we are in between tour dates, we will be busy with that. Making more new music for all of you! And we can tell you, from the songs we've selected for it, this one is going to be quite an album. And you know, as always, we'll have some sneak peek listens for you all who are on the mailing list as soon as they are ready.
NOTE: Only those who receieve the emailed newsletter from being on our mailing list will be able to access the sneak peek links. So be sure to join our mailing list for that! A link to join is on our front page.
And as long as we are on the subject of tour dates, we have just added some dates: St. Louis, MO on June 29 and we will be playing with bands, The Homewreckers and Soma Jet Set. Also added Chicago, IL on July 27 at a really cool venue called The Elbo Room that broadcasts the performances live on internet stream. We have had to reschedule our Stevens Point, Wisconsin date, so hopefully soon, we'll have that back on the calendar! And with that, a thanks goes out to Jim at 90FM in St. Point, WI for the 30,000 watt air support! More shows to come so keep an eye out.
Featured Radio station of the Month:
A new segment of our newsletter starting this month. Featured Radio station of the Month: This first month will be Roothog Radio out of Plano, TX So check them out visit and listen and be sure to request Barley Station! it's easy to do - just go here http://www.roothogradio.com/playlistB.html?character=B and find the song of ours you want to hear and click "request" - easy as pie. www.roothogradio.com
Featured Artist of the Month:
We always like to point out to you good new music to listen to. We make a lot of music connections and get to hear a lot of new up and coming artists and would ike to share some with you all as we find great talent. This month is: Renee Wahl.
A songwriter and musician after our own hearts, so please check out her website and music:http://www.reneewahl.com/
"High energy Alt Country/Roots music in the vein of Chris Isaak, Neko Case and Lone Justice. If you’re looking for romance, murder and a little bit of sinister southern humor, check out Renee Wahl’s 'Cumberland Moonshine'."
Much love and thanks go out to all of our friends and fans around the globe. If you haven't visited in awhile, you may notice we now have a translator tool on just about all of our Home Site webpages. Of course, if you can read this, you probably don't need a translator, but there's nothing like seeing everything in your own first language. :)
Some more thanks to go out. A thanks to the folks at Music Indie Bus for giving us a lift. ( and we will be doing an interview July 1st with the good folks there.) And a thanks to Olaf at New Country Show 89.6 (Mannheim) 105.4 (Heidelberg) in Germany where we will be interviewed in the July show. On the internet here: http://www.bermudafunk.org And a thanks to Jayson at Wrecking Ball Radio http://www.wreckingballradio.com.
And many THANKS to all the new station pick-ups, you can find them on our Homepage at http://barleystation.net
Bonjour! Cheers! and Hasta Luego!
~Brian, Randy, and Nil from Barley Station
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High above the Shenandoah River in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, we find the members of the Americana outfit Mink’s Miracle Medicine. It’s not hard to understand why a pair of songwriters would call this place home. The river’s eternal hum blasts over the front porch and in through the kitchen window. Mink’s Miracle Medicine tap into that soulful reservoir on their first album, House of Candles.
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Lead singer Melissa Elizabeth Wright picked up her love for music at a young age, attending bluegrass jams at an old furniture factory in her hometown and writing some of her first songs on an Oscar Schmidt Autoharp. She spent her summers camped out at old fiddlers’ conventions, where she learned to pick the guitar like Maybelle Carter and how to craft songs in the Americana tradition. After high school, she attended Berklee College of Music and graduated with honors in 2012.
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« on: 17 April 2019, 08:02:08 »
Why exactly does the Blazer automatically default to using cores from Large Lasers?
In theory shouldn't the principle apply to Medium Lasers as well?
Because I'd be totally down for 7 damage, 6 heat at 2 tons and 3/6/9.
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Re: Medium Binary Lasers
« Reply #1 on: 17 April 2019, 10:23:20 »
A big part of the Blazer's value is headcapping. A Blazer Lite can't do that. Besides, this just isn't as cool
And with those stats, I'd rather just mount two MLs, because 7 damage isn't going to breach much more than 5, and I'd rather have 10 total than 7 total. At least make it 1.5 tons.
Also, I know it's canonically from a different era, but maybe the Heavy Medium Laser is what you want? The Heavies are fairly balanced in a 3025-tech setting (if only by their ludicrous heat in a SHS-only era), and we already have stat blocks for them.
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Rayneth
Conflicted Member of the Purple People
As Alsadius says, the biggest appeal of the normal Binary Laser Cannon is that sweet 12 points of damage at medium range.
I don't really see much of a niche for Medium Blazers to fill other than some kind of rule of cool.
Sabelkatten
It would probably be pretty balanced at 6 heat, 2 tons, 3/6/9 range, and 9 damage. You generally have to go above 10 points for damage concentration to really matter, 2x5 points or 1x9 should be about equally effective.
It would make a powerful weapon against really light mechs, thought. Scouting and scout-hunting would become a lot more "interesting"...
Quote from: Sabelkatten on 17 April 2019, 12:13:09
That's my thought as well. The large blazer only does 50% more damage, which is why I went with 7 damage but even that would be a massive boon for light mechs. It would also be the perfect counter for those pesky Clan medium lasers when Revival comes around.
Quote from: Alsadius on 17 April 2019, 10:23:20
No, I meant blazers. We all know that Heavy Lasers are what Blazers want to be when they grow up.
Quote from: Intermittent_Coherence on 17 April 2019, 13:01:05
7 damage is probably too low. Even using the "50% more" from the Blazer, I'd round it up to 8. Doing 8 damage on 1.5 tons would be playable, I think, even with that high heat. Bugs would probably like that a lot, whereas at 2 tons I'd just take the two MLs on a Spider.
Ignoring weight/slots for a second, I think the Blazer might arguably be a better weapon than the HLL. 16 heat and 12 damage vs 18 heat and 16 damage(at +1 to hit)? Not an easy choice, tbh. The Blazer has BV 222, while the Heavy Large is 244, so statistically (using the base BV math assumptions, which probably under-penalize to-hit penalties), they're nearly equal in actual damage dealt. The HLL wins on the five tons you save, obviously, but otherwise they're not too far off.
Large laser amounts of damage in a 2 ton package(let alone 1.5 tons) is game breaking. It already surpasses the Clan Medium and Medium Pulse Lasers which are themselves already broken. And that's in the Clan Wars.
In the Succession Wars era, even more so.
Putting them next to IS Medium Pulse Lasers gives you a good option, do you trade +1 damage for -1 accuracy and +1 heat?
The_Caveman
A Living Fossil
Large laser amounts of damage in a 2 ton package(let alone 1.5 tons) is game breaking.
But with nearly as much heat and just over half the range. And the damage concentration isn't enough to deal a major blow to anything over 35 tons. It's actually less deadly than two medium lasers.
My problem with using something like a MBlazer as a primary weapon on a light 'Mech is it's just one more weapon with 9 range. Virtually everything carried by 3025 light 'Mechs has 9 range except for the street-sweepers, and all of it is most useful at ranges where the small stuff can hit.
For two tons, it'd be more useful for it to do 6 damage and have a range of 12 than to do 8 damage and have a range of 9.
Half the fun of BattleTech is the mental gymnastics required to scientifically rationalize design choices made decades ago entirely based on the Rule of Cool.
The other half is a first-turn AC/2 shot TAC to your gyro that causes your Atlas to fall and smash its own cockpit... wait, I said fun didn't I?
The MBlazer would be much like clan heavy lasers. Not so much a "why" as a "why not".
Daryk
The Double Deuce II/II-σ
I think Caveman hit it on the head... the "why not" is simply range. A Medium Blazer is right down there with a Small one (5 damage, 2 heat, 1/2/3 range). You're better off with two regular weapons of that size.
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But if you're generally better of with a pair of standard MLs then the MBlazer isn't unbalanced, and if it isn't unbalanced there's no reason to disallow it.
Other than it simply would never make it out of testing and in to production, sure...
It wouldn't justify the cost of R&D. Maybe you'd see it as a weird Solaris weapon, where the novelty outweighs the degree to which it sucks. But nobody is putting one into production because it's objectively worse than the tried-and-true tech and has no real niche.
Amusingly, you could strap two Clan medium lasers together and it'd be game-breaking. A two-ton headchopper with medium range and moderate heat. But then you've run smack into that one guy's law.
I think the clan version would only do 11 points.
marauder648
The Blazer gets a lot of stick but its not that bad. The Bombast however deserves every ounce of rotten fruit and veg lobbed at it.
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Absolutely... I love the "regular" Blazer Cannon. It's everything a 3SW weapon should be...
Quote from: Daryk on 22 April 2019, 04:34:34
I just wish they hadn't made it quite so heat-punitive in an era where nothing can spare it. At 14 heat it'd still be cumbersome enough to prevent it popping up everywhere, but not unbearably so.
I wouldn't have minded 14 heat, but I can totally live with 16. It's not bad as a drop in AC/20 replacement, but it gets tougher when replacing an AC/10.
Replacing an AC/20 with a Blazer is rough. Replacing an AC/10 is just farcical. You end up with 8 extra heat that you can't sink without ripping other stuff off the chassis.
I just think there are better ways this could've been handled. Like making the weapon 12 heat 12 damage and suffering spikes of +20 heat on a roll of 2. That would make it tricky to manage even in the DHS era without making the average performance so abysmal that nobody would include one without a gun to their head.
Try one on an Urbanmech… they work fine...
But the standard Urbie is ridiculously oversinked. Most mechs aren't.
It's not quite that bad... I'll have to dig up one of my Blazer threads to link here...
But it performs worse than just swapping both weapons out for two large lasers. Which are always going to be easier to find than a white elephant like a Blazer cannon.
Better/worse for the 2 Large Laser/Blazer Cannon debate is subjective. Sure, the first gets you more damage (if they both hit), but they're very unlikely to be to the same location. The Blazer converts any head hit into an instant kill (at least in 3025, before Hardened Armor). The only weapon in the era that does more damage to a single location is an AC/20.
Found one of the Blazer threads... this one had a Centurion and a Hatchetman in it...
So, a given blazer shot on a TN of 7 gives you a 1.6% chance of an instant kill and an average of 6.96 damage. Two large lasers give an aggregate 9.28 average damage with an 82% chance of doing at least 8 damage. My dice are cursed so I know which one I'm taking every single time. Plus you get to keep fighting if an arm goes missing.
And versus anything an UrbanMech should be fighting, both hits to the same location, unless it's the head, is less desirable than 8 points to two different locations. There's a lot of stuff in 3025 that has locations with <8 armor.
True, but there are plenty of 10-point locations too, and while they're PPC-proof, the Blazer will penetrate.
With cursed dice, I'd also go for more chances to hit, but I am a Blazer fanatic...
I like Blazers and use them on some of my more "flavorful" designs, but honestly, just one or two niche advantages (Head Capping) doesn't make for a "subjective" debate.
There's probably a good in-universe reason why nobody bothered to make ER or Pulse Blazers.
Quote from: Retry on 24 April 2019, 22:59:26
Actually a pulse Blazer has more potential than the regular variety IMO. A 15-damage weapon with -2 to hit would be great to have when fighting the Clans. Even better, putting two pulse lasers together implies it should have the -3 to-hit of VSPLs because of the increased rate of fire. 20 heat is a pain to deal with but in 3050+ you also have things like Gauss rifles and SSRMs to even out the heat curve.
A Large Pulse Blazer would be interesting! But by that point, I think the field is pretty crowded with options.
The relative value of a 12-point hit is subjective outside of head capping. Anything where "YMMV" is subjective by definition, and the Blazer is definitely in that category.
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Bible > Commentary > Haydock > Leviticus
◄ Leviticus 18 ►
God, to whom the right of giving laws belongs. (Du Hamel)
Ordinances respecting marriages, divine worship, &c. (Haydock)
Live in them, a long and happy life, (Chaldean) attended with grace and glory. (Lyranus) --- Jesus Christ and St. Paul explain it of eternal life. (Matthew xix. 17; Romans x. 5.) (Calmet)
Approach to marry, much less to gratify his sensual appetite. (Haydock) --- To him. Hebrew, "None shall approach to any of their descendants;" ad omnes reliquias carnis suæ; to any of those who spring from the same stock. The Jews assert, that all are bound by the law of nature to abstain from their own mother and sister, from another's wife, and from unnatural conjunctions. (Selden, Jur. v. 11.) (Calmet) --- Nakedness, or turpitude, which title the body deserves, when it is used in a manner contrary to the law of God.
Father, with whom the daughters must not have any connexion, as Myrrha had with Cymoras. (Metam. x.) (Haydock) --- All relations in a right line are excluded for ever, according to the emperor Justinian. The reason of these various impediments is, 1. That God's people may not resemble infidels, who permitted such things, ver. 3. The Persians married their own mothers, daughters and sisters. (Clement of Alexandria, strom. 3.) Semiramis married her son Justin. Cleopatra was both mother and wife of the two Ptolemies, Philometor and Euergetes, or Physcon. (Tirinus) --- The Egyptians took their sisters to wife for a long time, by the authority of their laws, and in imitation of Isis. (Diodorus 1.; Clement, recogn. 9.) Solon permitted people to marry their step-sisters by the same father, and Lycurgus only those by the same mother. (Philo ad 6. præc.) 2. By this law, the bands of society are strengthened, and families become connected. (St. Augustine, City of God xv. 16.) 3. Disorders which would easily take place under the same roof, on the prospect of a future marriage, are prevented. 4. The contrary practice would often prove contrary to order and decency, as the son would be raised above his mother. These regulations seem to have been made from the beginning, or at least from the time of the deluge; since the nations not subject to the law of Moses, are condemned for the transgression of them, ver. 24. See Genesis xix. 33. (Calmet)
Father. He hath known her; and to him she belongs, as being one flesh. (Haydock) --- If he were even dead, it would shew a want of respect to marry his widow, though she were not your own mother. (Calmet) --- This law, Ruben and the incestuous Corinthian transgressed. [1 Corinthians 5:1] (Tirinus)
Abroad; being born of your mother, while she was married to another. The marriages of brothers and sisters at the beginning, were authorized by necessity; but now they are the more to be condemned, as religion forbids them. (St. Augustine, City of God xv. 16.) Some Rabbins assert, that such connexions were lawful till the time of Moses. But St. Epiphanius (hær. 39,) maintains, they had been condemned long before. Seneca (St. Augustine, City of God vi. 10,) acknowledges that such marriages of the pagan gods were not right; ne pie quidem: and Plato says, they are hateful to God. The Romans punished them with death. Many barbarians do not, however, make any scruple to contract marriage with their children, or with their mothers. (St. Jerome, contra Jov. ii. 2.; Eurip. Hermione.) (Calmet)
Sister, by thy step-mother.
Father. Nearly related, and springing from the same source. (Menochius)
Who....affinity. Hebrew, "she is thy aunt." Some say that, in the old law, a person might marry his niece, but not his aunt; as the order of nature would be inverted if the aunt were subject to her nephew. But others assert that the law was reciprocal, and excluded the marriage of both. The emperor Claudius married his niece Agrippina, and authorized others to do the like. But only one imitated him at Rome; (Suetonius) though Tacitus (An. xii.) says, other nations did it with solemnity, as they had no law to the contrary. Aliis gentibus solemnia, &c. (Calmet)
CHAPTER XVIII.
Brother; though she may be even divorced from him. (St. Augustine, q. 61.) If the brother were dead without offspring, the next relation was bound to marry her; (Deuteronomy xxv. 5) and the kinsman of Booz was accounted infamous for neglecting this duty, Ruth iv. 6.
Daughter, together, or successively; even if she were the child of another husband. --- Incest. Hebrew, "a crime." Aquila, "an abomination." Septuagint, "an impiety."
Rival her, (in pellicatum). Hebrew and Chaldean, "to trouble her." After the death of one sister, it seems, another might be taken. Jacob had two at once. Some think that polygamy is here forbidden. But the law seems to have tolerated it; and only condemns many, or too great a number, with respect to the king, Deuteronomy xvii. 17. The impediments specified in this chapter may be comprised in these four verses:
Nata, soror, neptis, matertera, fratris et uxor,
Et patrui conjux, mater, privigna, noverca,
Uxorisque soror, privigni nata, nurusque,
Atque soror patris, conjungi lege vetantur. (Calmet)
Thus, &c. The refractory were to be slain, chap xx. 18. It was thought that the infant would be in danger; and hence the Jews punished with death the man whose child was born lame. St. Augustine (q. 64,) believes that this law is still in force; and some accuse the person who neglects it, as guilty of a venial sin. (Bonfrere)
Wife. This crime is to be punished like the rest, ver. 29.
Consecrated. Hebrew, "to pass through the fire to Moloch." Septuagint, "to serve the ruler." Syriac, "to marry strange women;" as also chap. xx. 2. One of the sons of Achaz was offered to this idol of the Ammonites; and yet, perhaps, succeeded his father; (4 Kings xvi. 3; xviii. 1,) which shews that the children were not always burnt to death, but only lustrated, or made to pass over or between two fires. Yet many assert that the children were frequently consumed in the flames, and God condemns the cruel parents to be punished with death, chap. xx. 2. The brazen idol was heated red hot, and the unhappy victim was placed in its arms, or the priests dragged the child over or between the fires. The surrounding nations delighted in human victims. The Carthaginians offered them till the time of Iphicrates. Adrian abolished several such cruel customs among the Greeks. See Porphyrius, de Abst. ii. Jerem. vii. 31. --- God; by causing any to suppose that he is cruel, like the idols. We must mention his name with the utmost respect. "The mouth, which utters the sacred name of God, ought never to pronounce a shameful word." (Philo de 10. præc.) Some think, that the idolaters honoured their god by committing an abominable action in his presence. See Malvenda. But most people understand that human sacrifices are here forbidden. (Calmet) --- The nations of Carolina very lately observed the same custom as the ancient idolaters, in sacrificing their children to the devil, by buring them to death in a brazen statue. (Vives in Civ. Dic. vii. 19.) Moloch was represented as a king, in all his ornaments, with the head of a calf. He was, perhaps, the idol adored by other nations, under the name of Saturn, who devoured his own children. (Bonfrere) (Tirinus)
Abomination, punished so severely in the Sodomites, Genesis xix. Yet, even the philosophers of Greece were not at all ashamed of it. Bardesanes assures us, that the eastern nations punished it with death, and would not allow the guilty the honours of burial. Those beyond the Euphrates were so shocked at it, that they would kill themselves if they were only accused of such a crime. (Ap. Eusebius, præp. vi. 10.)
Crime. Hebrew, "confusion." The Egyptians did so with goats, as part of their religion. See chap. xx. 16. and An. Univ. Hist. We need not, however, infer from this law, that the crime was common among the Jews, as Voltaire would insinuate. (Haydock) --- Nothing but monsters can proceed from such wickedness. (Menochius)
Vomited. Moses speaks of what would shortly happen, as if it had already come to pass, which is familiar with the prophets. (Calmet) --- He represents the earth as sick and disgusted with the crimes of its inhabitants, in the same manner as the Book of Wisdom (v. 23,) says, the water of the sea shall rage (or foam, excandescet) against them. The strong expression used by Moses, shews to what a length the Chanaanites had carried their abominations; so that God, justly irritated, orders them all to be exterminated.
People. Hebrew hammam. The same temporal punishment is inflicted upon all the aforesaid crimes, though they were not all equally grievous. The smallest of them deserved to be treated with such severity, to prevent the spreading of such contagious vices. (Haydock) --- The regulations respecting marriage, were not immutable, or all determined by the law of nature, which admits of no dispensation. Only those relations in a right line, and the first in the collateral line, can be esteemed of this description. (Du Hamel) --- If Protestants maintain, that all these regulations of Moses are part of the natural law, and bind Christians, they must also allow that a person must marry the widow of his deceased brother, if he has left no children, Deuteronomy xxv. God would never have established this general rule for his people, if it were in opposition to the natural law; which is clear and obvious to all people by the light of reason, according to Aristotle. (Polit. 2.) Neither would so many holy men have violated this law without reproof, if it had prohibited the marriages of two sisters, of aunts, &c. See Genesis xxix.; Exodus vi. 20. God never dispensed in the right line; (1 Corinthians v. 1) and such relations, or even people in the first collateral degree of consanguinity, marrying, are punished with death, chap. xx. Whereas those in the second degree, or in the first of affinity, undergo a smaller punishment; which shews that the transgression, in both cases, is not against the law of nature. No man ever undertook to dispense with the marriage of brothers and sisters; though Beza lays this to the charge of Pope Martin V. But the person alluded to, only obtained leave to retain the sister of her whom he had privately dishonoured, when his marriage could not be dissolved without great scandal. (St. Antonin. 3. p. tit. i. 11.) As, therefore, some of these impediments were introduced by the positive ceremonial law of the Jews, which was abrogated by Jesus Christ, they have no other force at present than what they derive from the authority of Christian republics, which have adopted some and changed others, appointing, in some countries, death for the punishment of theft, and not of adultery, though the old law enjoined the reverse. See chap. xx. 10, and Genesis xxxviii. 24; Exodus xxii. 1. The Church may, therefore, surely dispense with those laws which she has enacted. (Worthington) (Council of Trent, Session xxiv. 3.) --- She has indeed restricted marriage between relations to the fourth degree included, both of consanguinity and of affinity. See the Council of Lateran, under Innocent III. But she will not allow people to marry their aunts, brothers' widows, or sisters of their deceased wife, as the Jews do. (Tirinus)
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Shell VPower Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally 2015 Flags off
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The 2015 Shell V-Power Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally flags off 28th August 2015 at Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi and will run through the weekend to 30th August 2015.
38 drivers have confirmed participation and two foreign drivers, Jassy Singh from Zambia and Jaspreet Chatthe from Kenya who are also contenders for the FIA Africa Rally Championship.
Speaking during the flag off ceremony at Silver Springs in Bugolobi, Vivo Energy Managing Director Hans Paulsen urged the participants, fans and the general public to observe the safety measures put in place to ensure their full safety during the rally.
Vivo Energy is committed to maintaining the very highest safety standards and together with the Federation for Motorsport (FMU) in Uganda, has committed Safety guidelines & plans that will provide assurance of the safety of the participants, spectators and the general public during this year’s rally.
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Hans further noted that V-Power has also introduced the Go-Karts championship as one way of promoting motorsport in Uganda.
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Singleton Golf Challenge returns for 4th season
Eddy Kenzo entertains guests during the Singleton Match Play Challenge 19th hole experience.
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The Entebbe Golf Club was draped in all white on Saturday night as the Singleton Match Play Challenge celebrated the opening round of their 2020
edition during an all-white 19th hole experience that took place at the picturesque course.
Undoubtedly one of the most sought after golfing tournaments in the country, the 2020 edition opened up with a bang as over 100 golfers tried their best to make the cut and be part of the 64 pairs that will in the course of the next seven months go head to head on the grueling course for a chance at the grand prize.
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GDPR: The Start of a Perfect Storm for Data Privacy and Protection
Robert Shields Oct 24th, 2018 Data Security
GDPR has galvanized the need for data privacy and protection. In conjunction with social media privacy concerns and the seeming avalanche of regional and state privacy regulations, the focus on data privacy has accelerated beyond any past predictions.
Witness the growth and interest in the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Membership has grown to 60,000 privacy professionals worldwide and their regional privacy events frequently sell out. They must sift through hundreds of presentation submissions to fill only dozens of open speaking slots.
GDPR has also spawned new legislation from several nations and states. California has enacted the CaCPA, and on July 6, the European Commission and the Japanese government published a joint statement on international transfers of personal data. More countries and states are expected to announce regulations, and the United States continues to show growing interest in enacting a national uniform privacy law.
At the recent ISSA CISO Summit in Denver, Informatica’s Chief Trust Officer, Bill Burns, presented to dozens of CISOs and privacy officers on the need for data privacy in organizations. Many of the CISOs reported that data privacy and protection is now a topic of board discussions; and they are not looking for education, but action. Many boards now expect a quarterly briefing on data privacy and security.
Consumer awareness of data privacy and security continues to grow as well. In numerous surveys and polls, consumers have indicated that trust is a key factor in purchase decisions. In fact, research suggests trust is more important than price.
At Informatica, we have witnessed these trends with new customers who are proactively implementing board-mandated data privacy and protection measures for compliance with all privacy regulations. The boards of these organizations recognize the value of data privacy and protection for retaining customer trust and gaining a competitive advantage.
GDPR has created a perfect storm – and an opportunity – for organizations to view data privacy and protection holistically. We believe this is a continuous process to ensure that organizations understand the personal and sensitive data they hold, proactively remediate risks, monitor data for new threats and manage privacy rights such as data subject access and consent requests. We call this approach intelligent data security, which can serve as a foundation for a systemic data privacy and protection program. This approach offers capabilities to assess, protect and manage personal and sensitive data across the enterprise.
Simply stated, organizations need the following capabilities to continuously analyze, protect, monitor, manage and measure compliance:
Define and manage governance policies
Discover and classify personal and sensitive data, and understand how it is being used and shared
Link identities to sensitive data for intelligence on individual’s data
Analyze the data’s risk and prioritize remediation
Put the intelligence to action: protect data, manage subject rights and consents
Measure, communicate, audit readiness
In summary, the market forces behind data privacy, spawned and catalyzed by GDPR, strongly suggest that all organizations embrace a unified approach to data privacy and protection. And all indicators suggest these market forces will only grower stronger in the foreseeable future.
Planning for 2019 is already underway in many organization, and security and privacy officers should consider how they will meet the exponential needs for data privacy and protection. Not only is it prudent given the current and expected demands of regulators and customers, but boards and customers, will expect it.
About Informatica Data Privacy and Protection: Informatica’s Data Privacy and Protection solution enables organizations to continuously improve data privacy and protection, discover new and existing data assets, analyze data risk across the enterprise, link identities to sensitive data, understand the impact of data protection before implementation and automate protection workflows for privacy and security teams. Organizations can then monitor for new risk and measure their progress for compliance to regulations and internal policies.
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Going for Brokerage: SEC Report Highlights Best (and Worst) Practices in Cybersecurity Preparedness
Daniel Dunne and Aravind SwaminathanPosted on February 12, 2015
On February 3, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a Risk Alert addressing cybersecurity issues at brokerage and advisory firms, along with suggestions to investors on ways they can protect themselves and their online accounts. FINRA issued a similar, more extensive “Report on Cybersecurity Practices” on the same day.
The National Exam Program Risk Alert, “Cybersecurity Examination Sweep Summary” summarizes cybersecurity practices and policies of 57 registered broker-dealers, and 49 registered investment advisers based on examinations conducted by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”). These findings should be reviewed by CISOs and CIOs who have responsibility for cybersecurity protection because they highlight best practices and areas ripe for improvement. It is reasonable to assume that both the SEC and FINRA will expect firms to review the findings and tailor their own internal assessments and practices to improve their cybersecurity posture, accordingly. They also underscore that the simplest cyber-related scams (phishing, fraudulent e-mail scams, etc.) are still remarkably successful.
By way of background, on March 26, 2014, the SEC sponsored a Cybersecurity Roundtable, highlighting the role of cybersecurity in ensuring the integrity of the market system. On April 15, 2014, OCIE announced that it would conduct a series of examinations to “assess cybersecurity preparedness in the securities industry and to obtain information about the industry’s recent experiences with certain types of cyber threats.” As part of its examination, OCIE explained that it would focus on cybersecurity governance, identification and assessment of cybersecurity risks, protection of networks and information, risks associated with remote customer access and funds transfer requests, risks associated with vendors and third parties, detection of unauthorized activity, and experiences with certain cybersecurity threats. Although OCIE spent considerable time gathering information relating to practices and policies, it did not conduct any technical review of firms’ cybersecurity related programs.
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of broker-dealers (88%) and advisers (74%) reported having experienced a cyberattack of one kind or another. Among the most common were simple fraudulent e-mail scams, which were successful more than 25% of the time. And although broker-dealers generally reported these events to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), very few reported these cases to law enforcement.
There are a number of lessons to be gleaned from the SEC’s Alert, including:
Surveyed broker-dealers and advisers frequently relied on external standards to model their information security architecture and processes, such as the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
While most firms conduct periodic firm-wide cybersecurity risk assessments, far fewer subject their vendors – a common point of entry for attackers – to similar scrutiny.
Many firms (particularly financial advisers) failed to require vendors to conduct adequate cybersecurity assessments by not incorporating security requirements into agreements with vendors.
Better-prepared firms made more extensive use of industry information-sharing networks, such as FS-ISAC (the “Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center”), peers and conferences to identify best practices to improve their cybersecurity.
For firms that hold customer assets, it is important to define when the firm is responsible for a client’s loss associated with a cyber incident, and to implement relevant policies and procedures in advance. These should be consistent with customer agreements.
Unsophisticated fraudulent e-mail scams continue to be a significant problem, and are successful largely because individual employees fail to follow established customer identity verification policies. It is not enough to implement strong policies and procedures – firms must continually educate, train and remind their employees not to deviate from them.
Firms’ continued vigilance for insider threat actors appears to be successful, as evidenced by a relatively low incident rate of employee misconduct resulting in misappropriation of funds or securities.
About one-half of broker-dealers and one-fifth of advisers maintain insurance for losses caused by cybersecurity incidents, a measure that many firms may wish to consider.
Takeaways: OCIE’s examination says a lot about what the SEC and other regulatory bodies think should be emphasized in cybersecurity. Firms should consider themselves on notice of what is expected, and where they should turn their attention. It is no longer enough to focus on improving the technical security defenses and measures of their own network through encryption or cyber-threat intelligence sharing. Firms must also spend resources to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities introduced into their network through third-party vendors, and improve security training of internal employees to ensure strict compliance with established security programs and identity authentication protocols.
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Orissa Locals Fear Red Mud Spill
Krishna Pokharel
On the afternoon of May 16, after heavy rain in Lanjigarh village in India’s eastern state of Orissa, a pond storing waste from Vedanta Aluminium Ltd.’s alumina refinery started overflowing into a nearby river, according to local villagers.
Courtesy of Samarendra Das
A pond that locals say is filled with red mud from Vedanta Aluminium’s refinery in Lanjigarh, Orissa.
The spillage of thick red waste, known as red mud, continued for about an hour until officials from Vedanta Aluminium repaired the wall of the pond, said Samarendra Das, a local filmmaker and activist.
The waste is the toxic byproduct of bauxite - from which aluminum is extracted - and is harmful to people and animals. In October 2010, Hungary declared a state of emergency after red mud flooded the town of Kolontar, killing 10 people.
Mr. Das said that the breach in the Lanjigarh refinery pond is a recurring phenomenon. He blames Vedanta Aluminium, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources PLC, for being careless. “They are creating havoc,” Mr. Das says.
Vedanta couldn’t be reached for comment. Vedanta issued this comment late Friday.
The company’s expansion plans in India have been waylaid by environmental concerns raised by both the government and local villages and tribes. Orissa is a sensitive area as many protected tribes live there, but Vedanta still hopes to mine the state’s Niyamgiri Hills as well as expand its Lanjigarh refinery.
Locals are apprehensive about the impact such projects will have on their lives and livelihoods, while India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has raised objections because of environmental concerns.
Surendra Nag, a 36-year-old villager, says the red mud spillage from the pond next to Vedanta’s refinery happens every time there is a heavy downpour. The rains on May 16 sent waste spilling into Vamsadhara River and other nearby water bodies, he said.
Vamsadhara River, which flows from Lanjigarh to the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh, has been the source of water for drinking, bathing and washing for locals for many years and was clean before the refinery was set up, villagers say.
“Now we don’t drink its water because of the waste from the refinery that flows into it,” Mr. Nag said. But people still use the river for bathing and washing clothes. “We are getting eye, skin and respiratory diseases due to this but we don’t have other options,” he added.
The complaints about red mud spillage could prove a further setback to Vedanta’s expansion plans.
The company wants to increase the Lanjigarh alumina refinery's capacity to six million metric tons a year from the current one million, but the Ministry of Environment and Forests in October rejected its request, citing environmental violations.
Vedanta says it hasn’t violated environmental regulations. The ministry has asked the company to make a fresh application , but it’s not clear yet whether it is doing so.
UPDATE, May 23, 10:45 a.m.: Vedanta couldn't be reached for comment for this post on Wednesday but issued this comment late Friday.
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First Look at Disney Channel's 'Andi Mack'
Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Lilan Bowden
Hey, look! Another Asian American family on television! Andi Mack, the upcoming new Disney Channel series from the creator of Lizzie MacGuire, stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Lilan Bowden as sisters.
The single-camera coming-of-age series centers around Andi (Lee) as she's about to celebrate her 13th birthday. However, when her capricious older sister Bex (Bowden) returns home with the hope of getting her life together, Andi's life is turned upside down and she is left questioning everything she's ever known.
Here's the first super-brief teaser trailer promo thing for Andi Mack:
Not a lot to go on just yet, but that kid sure is pretty adorable. Created and executive produced by Terry Minsky, the series will also star Lauren Tom as Bex and Andi's mother, Celia.
Andi Mack will premiere in March on the Disney Channel.
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Introducing Pantone’s 2019 Color of the Year, the Socially Motivated Living Coral
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Can’t get to Australia to dive the Great Barrier Reef this year? Pantone is here to help out. Their 2019 Color of the Year, Living Coral, “embodies our desire for playful expression” and “embraces us with warmth and nourishment to provide comfort and buoyancy in our continually shifting environment,” they said.
Sounds inviting, no? Socially-conscious entities applauded the choice. The Nature Conservancy tweeted, “As International Year of the Reef #IYOR2018 comes to a close, it’s only fitting that #LivingCoral has been named the Pantone 2019 Color of the Year. Full of optimism and energy, just what we need to save coral reefs.”
Mind you, not everyone is such a fan. The Associated Press asked, “But do we want to run toward this color of grandmothers?” Slate called the color choice the “latest hilarious misfire in Pantone’s history of awkward wokeness attempts”—their issue being directed more at the choice acting “like a troll directed at a planet rapidly growing inhospitable to the many organisms that call it home” than the color itself.
Indeed, Pantone has gone there for several years now, choosing a Color of the Year that goes beyond fashion influence to also reflect what’s going on in the world. Two-thousand-eighteen’s Ultra Violet wished for a bipartisan electorate, Slate reminds us (“It takes two shades that are seemingly diametrically opposed—blue and red—and brings them together to create something new,” Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute said.) In 2017, Greenery also hinted at political and social strife—“For a world weary of so much red and blue, green may be just the right tone,” Pantone said.
Gathering inspiration from the larger universe and everything that’s happening in the world is integrated into Pantone’s process, which they have said takes a team 12 months of research to complete. “In choosing the color of the year, we look at everything around us,” Eiseman told Elle Décor. “We look to see what people are doing in beauty and in fashion and in art; we look to see what people are wearing, and buying, and posting about on social media. In a time when so many of us are increasingly immersed in digital experiences that can be cold and isolating, Living Coral felt like an appealing shade of connection. There’s just something about the color that feels earthbound and welcoming, optimistic and intimate. And those are the exact reason’s Living coral is so applicable in the home and design space.”
Regardless of motivations and backstory, the color that Pantone calls, “an animating and life-affirming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge” is about to invade your space. So get ready for a proliferation of pretty things that emit “the desired, familiar, and energizing aspects of color found in nature.”
That means “everything from kitchen accessories to food and beauty products,” said Forbes, but also walls and upholstery and rugs and accessories. The wrong coral hue may veer toward cantaloupe or Pepto Bismol, but “vibrant, yet mellow” Living Coral, as Pantone calls it, exists in a happy coral place that we can’t wait to bring into our space. Take a look at some of our favorite ways to use Living Coral at home below.
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Kenyatta the Gossip Girl Mon Nov 1st, 2010
I wanted to start off November with an old-school "90210" star becoming a dad,
IAN ZIERING. He and his wife ERIN (whom he married in May) are going to be parents
and Erin is almost five months along, the baby is due in April of 2011. Ian said they are
excited to become parents, its something they both wanted.
From "baby-news" to "divorce-news" after 17 years of marriage BILLY RAY & TISH CYRUS are
divorced (I can imagine how Miley's feeling). But the divorce papers were filed in Tennessee citing
irreconcilable differences. From what I hear its not sitting well with the five Cyrus children, Miley
included.
HEIDI MONTAG who "divorced" SPENCER PRATT is gushing because she's back together with him.
Just Saturday she hosted a Halloween Party at "PURE" in Las Vegas and she confirmed that they
are "together-again". But one thing she made clear is that she will not gamble when she's in Vegas, which I believe because she gambling with her love for Spencer.
Did you hear that the New York Old Homestead Steakhouse offered LADY GAGA fans to wear the
exact meat dress (made of pork rib-eye & porterhouse steaks) that she wore to the MTV VMA's for
$100,000. The meat dress even comes with a goody bag containing chocolate sauce, Kobe
burgers, filet mignon, and candy corn (quite a Halloween treat, and strangely enough I'm very
hungry).
If you were at the Ibiza Nightclub in Washington D.C. on Saturday Night you were expecting to see
SOULJA BOY in concert, well the concert was cancelled. Two reasons were that the promoters
did not have all the money. Reason #2 was that many fights broke outside the club in which the
D.C. police had to break up. But Soulja was good enough to apologies to fans and promises
that he will be back.
You can look up my videos on FACEBOOK (under Kenyatta Simpson) & YOUTUBE
(under 73Gossipboy's). Also every Sunday listen to me on www.partyradiousa.net
at 6:30pm & 7:30 where I will tell you my most talked about gossip stories of the week on
"NEW MUSIC SPOTLIGHT WITH TONY SANTIAGO" Sundays from 6pm-9pm.
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Welcome to California
California is where dreams become a reality. From meeting Mickey and Minnie in Disneyland to sipping vintages in Napa, to road tripping along the sun-kissed coastline of Big Sur, the Golden State grants all your wishes and then some. Tick off your bucket list and then stay a while to experience the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and all the glitz and glamor of Hollywood.
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From Silicon Valley to Wine Country
Epic urban getaways are guaranteed, thanks to California’s diverse mix of world-class cities. In San Francisco, dig into fresh seafood along Fisherman’s Wharf, admire the iconic Golden Gate Bridge and take a drive down Lombard Street, the most crooked road in the world. You can also take a ferry to Alcatraz Island to see the infamous prison that once housed America’s most notorious felons.
Great Blue Lakes
Straddling Northern California’s eastern border with Nevada, Lake Tahoe shimmers with topaz waters that will make you want to bust out the canoes and sailboats. If you’re new to water sports, enroll at the High Sierra Waterski School to learn the ins and outs of its namesake pastime along with jet skiing, kayaking or paddleboarding. The lake also supports large populations of mackinaw, kokanee salmon and brown and rainbow trout. You can reel in these prized catches from the Truckee River on the west shore, Boca and Stampede reservoirs in the north or Taylor Creek in the south.
Every family vacation needs to include a stop at Disneyland. The Happiest Place on Earth is located in Anaheim and promises a magical day filled with rides, shows and character experiences. Planning a romantic getaway? Whisk your partner to Sonoma or Napa Valley and spend your time touring scenic vineyards and indulging in award-winning wines.
I Love LA
Los Angeles is the perfect mix of beaches and pop culture. Visit iconic attractions like the TCL Chinese Theatre, Walk of Fame and Grammy Museum. When you’re done being star-struck, head to Santa Monica pier for old-fashioned amusements or Venice Beach to watch the city’s most eccentric characters stroll the boardwalk.
Natural Treasures
Channel Islands National Park is located just off the coast of Ventura County and has been hailed as the “Galapagos of North America.” This ecological wonderland is filled with rare plants and an abundance of wildlife. Paddle around the five islands and you’ve got a good chance of encountering whales, seals and dolphins.
Walk Among Giants
California may seem young with its carefree spirit and fresh perspective, but its natural wonders have been around for over a millennium. Witness these treasures at Redwood National and State Parks. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980, this protected area houses the tallest trees on the planet. Hike the Trillium Falls Trail or Prairie Creek Trail to gawk at ancient redwoods or drive down the Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway to enjoy the peaceful landscape from your car.
Arid Wonderland
Death Valley National Park looks straight out of another planet with its stark badlands, mountainous sand dunes and endless salt flats. These otherworldly landscapes have been used as the backdrop for countless movies including Star Wars and Blade.
Explore California’s Birthplace
See where the Golden State all began in San Diego. Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo arrived at Point Loma in 1542, making him the first European explorer to set foot on America’s West Coast. You can learn more about his landing at Cabrillo National Monument. Watch the Age of Exploration film at the visitor center and then visit the nearby Old Point Loma Lighthouse, which has been restored to its 19th-century appearance. Old Town San Diego State Park also gives you a glimpse into the past with over 20 adobe buildings and rustic wooden structures dating back to 1821. Wrap up your history lesson with a trip to the Gaslamp Quarter, a historic neighborhood lined with Victorian architecture and buzzing with trendy restaurants and bars.
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Job Posting: Rhubarb Festival Director
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is seeking a dynamic individual to program and curate The 41st Rhubarb Festival.
Part Time/Contract
Salary $13,000
Applications Due: January 11th, 2018 at 5PM
The Rhubarb Festival, produced by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, is Canada’s longest running festival devoted to new work and experimentation in performance. This festival includes theatre, dance, performance art, music and hybrid forms. Over the course of its history, the Rhubarb Festival has had an immeasurable impact on the local and Canadian cultural landscape by acting as a seeding ground for new work, providing a critic-free environment for experimentation, and introducing audiences to generations of artists working at the vanguard of performance. Toronto Life calls Rhubarb “Toronto’s go-to event for thought-provoking, political, adventurous entertainment.”
The Rhubarb Festival Director manages all aspects of the planning and implementation of the Rhubarb Festival. The Director manages partnerships with other companies and arts institutions, facilitates and maintains relationships with the artists in the festival, offers support to the works that are programmed, and manages the budgets and administration of the Festival. The Director reports to Buddies’ Artistic Associate Mel Hague and Artistic Director Evalyn Parry, and works in collaboration with our box office, production, communications, and fundraising teams to deliver festival programming.
Experience in dramaturgy and the development of new work
Experience in producing and/or curating performance events
Knowledgeable of issues relating to the queer community
Knowledgeable of contemporary performance and theatre practice
Ability to effectively manage a budget
Effective analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent management and organizational skills
Excellent verbal, written presentation and listening communication skills
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Strong team building skills
Strong time management skills
Ability to manage stress
Buddies in Bad Times encourages applications from all individuals. We are an equity-seeking employer and encourage submissions from candidates who identify as Indigenous, QTBIPOC, 2-Spirit, and Trans, and applicants with diverse abilities. If you need support or access accommodations while preparing your application, please feel free to get in touch prior to the deadline and we will be happy to assist you.
Interested candidates can please send a cover letter and CV to by email to hiring@buddiesinbadtimes.com by January 11th at 5PM.
We thank all candidates for their submissions; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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[Video] Onslow County Schools: Thank You to NC State College of Education for 800+ Books, Resources and Supplies
The NC State College of Education collected over 800 books, materials and resources to support Onslow County Schools after Hurricane Florence battered much of the county. "We just want to thank the NC State College of Education for such a generous donation," said Deborah Hoffman, principal of Jacksonville Commons Elementary School. "It looks like a project that started pretty small and turned into something absolutely large and phenomenal, and we're very thankful to be recipients of those books and supplies and resources."
NC State Education Hurricane Recovery Efforts
The NC State College of Education responded to the aftermath of Hurricanes Florence and Michael by offering multiple ways of support -- to students and partner school districts across North Carolina. Among the efforts were a book drive and emergency student support fund.
Helping Students Recover from Hurricane Florence
The NC State College of Education is helping students directly impacted by Hurricane Florence through the Gerald Fund for Emergency Student Support. Clinical mental health counseling graduate student Jasmine Ambrose -- who recently moved to Jacksonville, N.C. -- is the first to receive funds to assist with immediate needs due to circumstances caused by the record-breaking storm.
Serving Others in Crisis and the Classroom
When Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina in mid-September, Mary-Lynn Kebker ’17MED was ready to serve. The Wolfpack WORKS literacy coach and N.C. National Guard captain led and coordinated hundreds of first responders during and after the storm to help families trapped by rising water and serve those with some of the greatest needs.
Storm to Storm: How One N.C. Educator Uses Lessons Learned From Katrina in the Wake of Florence
NC State College of Education Professor and Board Member Michael Ward ’77BS, ’81MS, ’93EDD experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand in Mississippi. Now he’s using that experience -- and the research he conducted in its aftermath -- to spearhead FAST NC to help K-12 students and teachers in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and Michael.
From Dean Danowitz: Our Response to Hurricane Florence
As a college, we are taking several steps to support our students, alumni and partner school districts who need assistance, including collecting non-perishable food items and school supplies to distribute to our community members and their loved ones impacted by Hurricane Florence.
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Beginnings, Joy, Life and Death, Political Expression, Prose and Poetry, Publishing, Serenity and Peace, The Crows of Beara, Writing
And Still I Write*
November 13, 2017 by Julie Christine Johnson
In the early spring of 2013, my husband and I left our careers in Seattle to move to a remote peninsula in the northwest reaches of the state. It’s the place where we’d intended to retire someday, but we had another twenty years of work ahead of us. After crisscrossing the country and oceans to the east and west, we’d at last found jobs we felt we could live out our salaried lives growing into. We worked for the same company, one that seemed to espouse our personal and political ideals. We were earning a comfortable combined wage with excellent benefits.
And I was writing. By the winter of 2012, I had published several short stories and I was deep into the first draft of my first novel. I’d been admitted into an MFA program starting in the fall at a local university, and thanks to a flexible schedule, I knew I could make it all work.
It was a good life. We were happy.
There’s a story churning in my gut, a contemporary drama about a corporate culture that allowed a stream of employees to be bullied into impossible corners and intimidated into silence, a cautionary tale of a mentally unstable, power-sick company executive who targeted a worthy rising star, and bullied him with impunity. It’s a story with ripple effects both beautiful and grave, circumstances that opened doors and burned down buildings. In it, a couple refused to remain silent or back down; they worked in solidarity to shine light in the darkest of those tight, unforgiving corners.
Seattle is now a place where I once lived. All that happened is a memory in a shared life story.
That ending to our tidy lives, the cleaving of our employment, became the beginning of my full-time writing career. Leaving the city life for a village by the sea meant simplifying and we created a budget that allowed for one income. It also meant sacrifices and a resetting of expectations, but my husband declared his willingness to support us for as long as it took me to build a sustainable writing career. He became my sponsor, a gesture of grace and generosity.
I worked hard, writing hours a day, seven days a week, rarely a day off. I landed an agent and sold two novels and completed a third in the first two years as a fulltime writer. I published short stories and essays, my first poem. I began leading writing workshops and started a freelance editing business. I was awarded a writing residency in Ireland and saved up enough to send myself on a writing retreat in France. I was living a writer’s dream, at least one in its early stages. My income was modest: moderate advances and whatever I netted from teaching and editing gigs. Not enough to sustain myself, but enough to give me confidence that I was on the right track.
My first novel launched in February 2016, an event concurrent to the collapse of my marriage. That spring, as I publicly celebrated the most fulfilling, rewarding thing that could happen to a writer, a twenty-five year marriage was very privately coming to an end. How a couple slides from unity to dissolution is a tapestry of mistakes and sadness I will be unraveling for years. But the ending became delayed by something that still shames me to admit: I knew if my husband and I separated, my life as a fulltime writer would end. My security would vanish. I would be forced to return to a day job, giving up my dream almost as soon as it began. Yet to continue in a marriage that was less than either of us deserved would be to continue in a lie.
Ten months to the day after my first novel released, I punched a time card. I was fortunate to have found a job in the wine industry, a world I’d left three and half years before. I worked first for a resort, where the hours were long, the nights were late, the work physically demanding, commuting white-knuckled on dark roads all through the fall and winter. The summer I spent at a winery close to home with better pay, but no benefits and an uncertain future. Then a few weeks ago, a phone call from a new, local, non-profit arts school asking if I would join their staff. A return to my long-ago, rewarding career in education administration, creating systems and processes to advance a mission I could wrap my head and heart around.
And still, when people ask what I do, I say, “I am a writer.” Somehow, in the midst of life’s chaos, the grief of a marriage ending, the bewilderment of another broken relationship blundered into from fear of loneliness and excitement of freedom, I scribble away still, determined to hold on to that which defines me: my words.
My second novel, THE CROWS OF BEARA (Ashland Creek Press) released in September. I had neither the time nor the funds to mount an in-person book tour. I released myself from the expectation of a sprint after launch and the novel is serenely flying alone. I settle into my new job, reclaim my routines, and set my sights on making bookstore rounds in the spring, knowing now from experience that promotion is a marathon, a slow and steady race without a finish line. A third novel is recently on submission. I have made tentative steps into a fourth project, having promised my agent I would have a draft of something solid by summer. Late summer.
I know of few writers who write fulltime, sustaining themselves on advances and royalties. Most of us, even those with bestseller in their bios, teach and freelance to supplement an uncertain and meager income, or we work full or part-time at jobs unrelated to our writing, jobs that provide health insurance, that pay the mortgage, the college tuition, the credit card debt, the medical bills. Those who have partners able to provide financial stability are the fortunate ones, as I was once. And fortunate I am still, for I have found stability on my own, with a vocation that sustains me financially and intellectually. My avocation, that as a writer, sustains my soul.
Julie Christine Johnson’s short stories and essays have appeared in journals including Emerge Literary Journal; Mud Season Review; Cirque: A Literary Journal of the North Pacific Rim; Cobalt; and River Poets Journal. Her work has also appeared in the print anthologies Stories for Sendai; Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers; and Three Minus One: Stories of Love and Loss. She holds undergraduate degrees in French and psychology and a master’s in international affairs.
Named a “standout debut” by Library Journal, “very highly recommended” by Historical Novels Review, and “delicate and haunting, romantic and mystical” by bestselling author Greer Macallister, Julie’s debut novel In Another Life (Sourcebooks) went into a second printing three days after its February 2016 release. A hiker, yogi, and swimmer, Julie makes her home in northwest Washington state.
Visit www.juliechristinejohnson.com for more information on Julie’s writing.
Follow her on Twitter @JulieChristineJ
*This essay originally appeared on Women Writers, Women’s Books, November 8, 2017.
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Molly A. Tessnear says:
Thank you so much for posting this. The title resonated with me when I saw it in my email inbox. I have never heard anyone explain as simply as you just did the difference between a vocation and an avocation. One supports you financially and physically; the other supports your soul. Love it! I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic” recently and she speaks about how you shouldn’t expect your art to support you. You need to support it. Your post is so encouraging for me. I have often wanted to “just” be a writer, but you are correct that full time writing happens for very few. It’s really the luck of circumstances. But there are many good writers who have day jobs. I am also in the education field. I hope to start using my summers off to write more. Thanks again and, as Gilbert would say, “Onward!”
Molly, thank you for the beautiful comment. I love “Big Magic” – so much of it resonated deeply. I wish you the time and courage to write more in 2018. All peace and light to you,
So Real.
Brave woman. To unfurl yourself so… Those writing sirens are calling you: Let ‘er rip!
Julie, until a writer opens the door to her private life, none of us are able to imagine the complex events she must manage – and still be a writer. Like most of us, part of your dream has come true but part remains a tangle of issues that only you can resolve. Thank you for sharing something so deeply personal. You showed the tough work that writing is. Wishing you the best in future,
Anne Boyd Rioux says:
Thank you for sharing with us your journey. It heartens all of us who write to hear how other writers make it happen. That is often the invisible part that we have such a hard time figuring out. How can I write when it doesn’t pay the bills? How to find the time and energy? As you say, you make it work however you can because it is your avocation, it keeps you whole.
Mike Fuller Author says:
Onward! Break a keyboard.
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How did the deer, pronghorn and elk cross the road?
Lauren Anderson | July 29, 2019
Wildlife crossings could reduce vehicle-wildlife collisions. Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS.
Wildlife crossings are an important investment that can protect people and wildlife, and now we have a chance to fund these projects through the Surface Transportation Bill. This work consists of building overpasses and underpasses across highways that block mule deer and pronghorn migrations and creating culverts (pathways for water to flow under infrastructure) that allow turtles and amphibians to cross barriers safely. Combined with fences along roads to funnel animals to the crossings, wildlife crossings have proven to be the most effective measure to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions across America and around the world. These crossings also prevent roads from cutting off key migration corridors and fragmenting critical wildlife habitat.
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Mule deer and pronghorn: The Wyoming Department of Transportation has constructed networks of crossings at Nugget Canyon and near Baggs over the last decade that have reduced ungulate-vehicle collisions by approximately 80 percent in these areas, and increased habitat connectivity for other species. The Trapper’s Point project near Pinedale, Wyoming, which includes six underpasses and two overpasses, has become world-renowned for reducing pronghorn and mule deer collisions and for protecting the “path of the pronghorn” migration. A network of 81 wildlife crossings over and under U.S. Highway 93 in Montana, combined with more than nine miles of fencing, reduced deer-vehicle collisions by over 90 percent.
Pronghorn wildlife crossing. Wyoming Game & Fish Department.
California mountain lions and Florida panthers: By creating a safe passage for wildlife near Highway 101, the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing in California will be the largest wildlife crossing in the world, and a global model for urban wildlife conservation. The Florida Department of Transportation has constructed numerous wildlife underpasses on busy state roads throughout South Florida.
Salamanders: In Vermont, culverts installed along Vergennes Road have allowed hundreds of amphibians to safely cross the road, including blue-spotted salamanders, wood frogs, spring peepers, yellow-spotted salamanders, Eastern newts, and four-toed salamanders.
Moose: The Critical Paths Project in Vermont is identifying priority zones for wildlife crossings along the spine of the Green Mountains. This project will help species like moose, and will help enhance migration pathways, strengthen wildlife populations, and reduce animal-vehicle collisions.
Turtles: In Massachusetts, a culvert was installed under Route 44 to allow spotted turtles to cross a dangerous roadway that bisected two populations. While collisions with larger animals pose a threat to human life, it is also important to consider smaller species like reptiles and amphibians who may be more vulnerable to population level impacts.
Animals using wildlife crossings. Credit: Conservation NW.
Wildlife crossings benefit people and animals in several key ways:
Reduce vehicle collisions with wildlife, protecting people and animals,
Reduce associated expenses with animal collisions (estimated at $8 billion annually), and
Help wildlife reach the resources they need, such as food, water, shelter, and breeding sites, which in turn supports the outdoor economy (worth $887 billion).
Federal investment through the Surface Transportation Bill is needed to ensure the safety of our transportation corridors and the future of our wildlife heritage.
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By Harriet Cash on 11 June 2018
Preserving a palace on wheels
The conservation team are hard at work preserving Queen Victoria's spectacular royal carriage—we caught up with Chris Binks to find out the latest.
Our resplendent royal carriages are some of the most popular objects in our collection, fascinating visitors every day with their finery—and with the stories they tell of how Britain has changed over the past 150 years. Looking after them is a challenge, but one that our dedicated conservation team—Wendy Somerville-Woodiwis, Chris Binks, Martyn Halman, Catherine Fairless and Helen de Saram—are more than equal to, as we found out on a Friday afternoon in Station Hall when Chris and Wendy were hard at work.
The first thing that Chris is keen to stress is that the team’s work is about conservation, rather than restoration. The two are closely linked, but Queen Victoria’s carriage and vehicles like it (‘antiques on wheels’) are being preserved for future museum preservation and display, not with the intention of running on the rails again.
This afternoon he’s busy building up small cracks in the window frames using a filler, in order to smooth out any visible dents or chips. The carriage’s interiors have been given a good dose of TLC in recent years and are in good condition, but the exteriors are ready for the same attention. Chris jokes that he told the Prince of Wales on a visit in 2013 that the whole job could be done in 18 months—thankfully he hasn’t been back to check!
Conservation Assistant Chris Binks working on the window frames of Queen Victoria’s saloon.
So far, the top rails have been regilded, as have several areas of the carriage side. Paint has been stripped from the panels and repainted in primer, base coat and a first coat of gloss—it’ll be a while before the team even think about varnishing. If the painting was being done for outside running, the carriage could need up to 11 coats of varnish, but for museum preservation it thankfully won’t need quite that much.
The bottom panels are in LNWR carmine lake—a brown paint which is actually closer to purple when you handle it. Combined with the LNWR flake white of the top panels, the scheme is colloquially known as ‘plum and spilt milk’. During previous preservation work over 50 years ago, these bottom panels were coated in shellac, which cracks and flakes over time. The new paint job will instead be finished using Paraloid B72, a non-yellowing acrylic resin which is more flexible, and, crucially, more easily reversible—so if future conservators have a better idea, no lasting damage will have been done.
The carriage’s paint scheme is known as LNWR ‘plum and spilt milk’
Possibly the most exciting thing to look out for at this stage in the project is the beautiful frieze along the top of the carriage. Over the several weeks that the team have been working on it, it’s been transformed from a somewhat indistinguishable brown pattern to a magnificently defined, glossy floral decoration depicting the flowers of the British nations.
To achieve this, nine layers of life-expired paint dating from the original 1869 coat right up to the carriage’s days at Clapham Museum in the 1960s needed to be removed and analysed. Castings were then taken from the parts of the frieze in good condition using Steramould (also used to make dental impressions!) and new castings produced from epoxy resin. This replaced the original gesso plaster—surprisingly, the frieze turned out not to be wood like the rest of the carriage as the team had expected. This plaster is the same as was used in gilt picture frames, and was originally made from a mixture of pipe clay and rabbit-skin glue—not ideal conservation materials now, but as Chris points out, the Victorians weren’t afraid to try things out!
Working in situ in Station Hall is a necessity because the historic wooden carriage can’t be run on the rails to get it into the paint shop for safety reasons. But there’s actually real benefit to working this way—our visitors get to see real conservation work in action and discover just how much time and concentration is required to return a royal carriage to its former splendour. The team are able to answer questions and encourage visitors’ curiosity about how we look after our incredible collections, so in many ways it’s win-win.
The royal train at Aberdeen station, November 1900. The train was carrying Queen Victoria from her Scottish home in Balmoral to Windsor Castle—one of the last train journeys she made before her death in January 1901.
If you’re visiting the museum, make sure to drop by the royal carriages as you explore Station Hall. Look out for the floral frieze (see if you can make out the English rose and Scottish thistle) and discover what else the conservation team have been up to in the meantime. Restoration work like this takes time and patience, so there’ll be plenty more to see over the coming weeks and months.
Header image: The London & North Western Railway’s royal train at Wolverton, 25 May 1897. This official photograph was used on postcards issued by the LNWR in the early 20th century.
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2 comments on “Preserving a palace on wheels”
Royce Andrews says:
3 July 2018 at 10.55
Fascinating reading. So good that the present is able to preserve the past for the benefit of the future.
K Sherwood says:
11 July 2018 at 10.13
Fascinating insight, hopefully there will be more.
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By Joseph Simborio on February 04, 2019
SEO has been the driving force of how websites are marketed since the inception of search engines. What started as simple cataloguing and indexing has evolved to a more complex, intent-driven process for ranking high in search engine results.
Google (the one search engine to rule them all) has been rolling out around 500-600 search algorithm changes every year and occasionally releases a major update such as Panda and Penguin that dramatically affects search engine results in huge ways. As a search marketer, you know first-hand how important it is to keep up with these trends as they can significantly affect the search industry and how you operate.
From keyword stuffing to publishing of relevant content, SEO has evolved by leaps and bounds. In the coming year, we’re expecting changes in SEO trends as technology plays a huge part in shaping new methods and optimizing SEO processes. Here are some of the trends that may change the SEO game in 2019:
Mobile-first indexing
According to a Statista report, the number of smartphone users is expected to reach the 2.5 billion mark while mobile users are predicted to pass five billion in 2019. Google has made the move to predominantly use the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking since majority of users now access Google through their smartphones. Going forward, the index will primarily use the mobile version of a page’s content.
In mobile-first indexing, Googlebot essentially crawls and indexes pages with the smartphone agent, allowing Google to show the URL, which is either desktop or mobile, most appropriate to users in search results.
After coming into effect in May 2018, GDPR is expected to make some changes in SEO. The biggest impact will be on website subscription and registration services since compliance with data protection policies and consent will be more prominent in the coming year.
In terms of ranking, GDPR is anticipated to affect user experience as data permissions and prompts are required to be presented to inform users. Analytics is also expected to change since users must also be informed how their data is going to be used in web analytics.
While there’s still no clear indication of how GDPR will affect ranking factors, Google will be rolling out updates in the next few months, so changes may happen.
Page speed is a measurement of how quick the content on your page loads. And with Google indicating this as one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank in search engine results, it’s high-time to optimize your web pages for faster loading.
Page speed is important in delivering great user experience, since pages that take longer to load tend to have higher bounce rates and lower average time on page. Make sure you utilize SEO best practices to make sure your content loads fast such as file compression, minimizing code and reducing redirects.
User intent or user experience optimization
Also known as search intent, this involves the goal an internet user has when entering a search term into a search engine. This has now been a major factor in content and SEO, passing individual keywords as a dominant ranking factor.
User intent is also essential in delivering a more pleasant UX so search results show the most relevant content possible. If you can figure out the user’s informational intent, you can deliver content that meets their needs. This results in better and more traffic.
Voice search and artificial intelligence
Technological innovations have given us consumer products such as virtual assistants Siri and Alexa, changing how we conduct search queries. You no longer have to type in keywords but instead, conduct voice searches using full sentences and grammatically correct language.
With this new method, opting for conversational content and fully integrating businesses with Google Maps help capture the benefits of this new type of search.
There are 300 hours of video uploaded on YouTube every minute, making videos a dominant media type for content on the web. They are optimized differently from text-based content, so to make them rank in search results and get those views, your videos should be optimized for video search.
Despite constant updates, search engines can still have a hard time interpreting web page content. This is where structured data comes in, allowing search engines to not only crawl your site but also understand it. These are basically all the added information that you see next to a website and its meta description that help your business in search results listings.
When you’re searching for a restaurant, the search engine listings will show structured data with not only the restaurant’s name, but other information such as hours, pricing, and stars to indicate customer reviews. If you’re not using structured data as part of your SEO strategy, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to really distinguish yourself from the pack.
Image SEO was once a huge factor in content and website optimization, potentially driving a large amount of image search traffic. This made file names, alt tags, and image sitemaps important back then. But when the ‘view image’ button was added to Google images, image search traffic went down by as much 63%. While image optimization is still practiced today, it hasn’t been effective in driving much traffic---until now.
The ‘view image’ button was removed and has since made a huge impact on image search traffic. This adds more context to each image while forcing most users to visit the site where it’s published before merely grabbing the image and leaving the image search results page.
Security has always been important not only in keeping your website and all its data safe but also for SEO purposes. Website security affects rankings in two ways: site speed and protection from hackers that mess with your site’s overall function.
HTTPS has been a Google ranking factor since its 2014 algorithm update, and while it doesn’t give you an instant search engine ranking boost, it adds an extra layer of trustworthiness to your visitors. However, HTTPS is not without its flaws and this is where HSTS comes in.
HTTP Strict Transport Security or HSTS is a more robust security policy mechanism that protects your website from hackers who strip down your SSL certificate, leading to protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hacking. Since HSTS helps your web pages load faster by adding an extra layer of security, this undeniably helps boost your site’s search rankings.
Amazon has grown to be the largest online retailers in the world. And if you’re trying to improve product visibility on their website using Google AdWords data, you may be striking the wrong chord.
Amazon uses its proprietary A9 algorithm and with it, has its own way of ranking your product in its search results page. A product with a strong sales history will rank higher with the algorithm heavily relying on as many relevant keywords as possible to match the potential search queries of customers.
Position "0"
Everyone wants to be in Position 1, but Position 0 is going to be what it’s all about this coming year. This is the place on the search engine results page above the top result. It usually features a snippet in paragraph form, showing the most relevant answer to your search query.
As Google continues to adjust its algorithm to include more “featured results” such as videos and product listings, the exposure for rest of the page will most certainly get stolen. There’s a new most-coveted spot in town, and you’re going to want to be there.
There will always be changes, both big and small, in how Google ranks websites. This will be influenced by what we put out there and how technology integrates itself in how we use the internet.
It will be a challenge, but adapting to the changes and doing what’s needed can help you achieve your SEO goals. Let these trends be your guide as we enter another year of using the web and work our way up the search engine ladder.
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30 American Zoos Still Use Bullhooks To Control Elephants, But That Comes To An End With Recent Ban
Elephants are sensitive animals that learn best through positive reinforcement. Sadly, for decades circuses and some zoos used a torture weapon known as bullhooks to control them.
The bullhook is similar to a fire poker with a sharp end that is used to cause pain to the elephant. Elephants were continuously poked and prodded with the sharp weapon until they did what the humans wanted. Many lived in fear of the so-called “tool” that caused puncture wounds and abscesses.
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The barbaric bullhook was banned in Rhode Island and California, along with many other cities. However, 30 zoos around the country were still using bullhooks on elephants in varying degrees.
“Elephants are capable of strong and complex emotions including joy, grief, compassion and empathy. Elephants are also capable of suffering from physical and emotional pain. Therefore, to treat elephants in a manner which inflicts both physical suffering and psychological suffering is inhumane,” states Elephant Voices.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums just announced they will phase out the use of bullhooks on elephants at their member zoos. “The board of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, an accrediting organization that previously defended bullhooks as essential management tools, recently voted to phase out the instrument’s use in routine elephant care and training by the start of 2021. It also approved a statement of intent to completely end the use of bullhooks except in emergencies and non-routine medical care by 2023,” stated The Washington Post.
Handlers are encouraged to use treats and praise to train, instead of weapons to inflict pain. Elephants are intelligent and many have formed strong bonds when handled with love.
While some zoos defended their use of bullhooks as extensions of their arms or “guides”, all have said they will comply with the ban.
Even though it is overdue, this is a huge win for captive elephants.
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What have YEC members been busy working on just in time for fall? Launching podcasts and forming contracts are just a few of the projects launching them into September. Below, we highlight 11 members and their big news.
Kenai Sports Awarded Sub-Contractor Contract
YEC member Charlie Bogoian's company Kenai Sports was awarded sub-contractor on a multi-year state contract in MA. Says Bogoian, "Though our focus is on uniforms and outerwear, we were presented the opportunity to create a sustainable textile purchasing program. Through a partnership with Milliken & Company, we are providing a solution for textile purchasing while simultaneously recycling the waste generated in their clothing shops." Kenai Sports makes clothing out of trash pulled from landfills across the country. Read more about the partnership here.
Jean Ginzburg Recognized as a 'Woman to Watch'
Jean Ginzburg, founder and CEO of JeanGinzburg.com and Ginball Digital Marketing, was recently recognized as a "Woman to Watch" by Colorado Biz Magazine. JeanGinzburg.com and Ginball Digital Marketing help entrepreneurs, startups and small- to mid-sized businesses find new customers using digital marketing strategies. Read more about the honor here.
GoLeanSixSigma Recognized as One of Hawaii's Fastest 50 Growing Companies
YEC member Karlo Tanjuakio's company GoLeanSixSigma.com was announced as one of Hawaii's Fastest 50 Growing Companies for 2018. It is its third year in a row receiving this honor. GoLeanSixSigma is a simple problem-solving methodology that consists of five phases, also known as DMAIC. This includes defining, measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling. Read more about the award here.
Robert Glazer Wins Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award
Acceleration Partners' CEO and founder Robert Glazer has won a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award recognizing the highest rated CEOs for 2018 in the U.S. SMB category. Glazer was rated #2 of 50 CEOs with a 99% approval rating from employees. Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs list is released annually as part of its Employees’ Choice Awards. Winners are determined based on feedback employees voluntarily and anonymously share in Glassdoor reviews. Acceleration Partners is the leading independent affiliate management agency in the world. Read more about what Glazer's employees had to say, here.
Trevor Owens Launches Javelin
YEC Member Trevor Owens recently launched his startup Javelin, a platform that helps entrepreneurs rapidly test startup ideas with customers. You can use Javelin to record customer interviews, test landing pages and use predesigned surveys to analyze important feedback. The all-in-one customer development software has powerful features and is based on eight years of teaching lean startup methodologies around the world.
Newchip Closes $2M Round
YEC member Ryan Rafols' company Newchip closed a $2M round and is expanding, hiring for new remote developers and positions in Austin. It launched its own round to its users and hit its minimum goal of over $50,000 in 24 hours. Newchip allows everyone to now invest in startups, pre-IPO companies, real estate, REITS and securitized tokens.
David Gardner Launches New Podcast, The Big Jump
YEC member David Gardner, co-founder & partner of ColorJar, launched season one of his new podcast, The Big Jump. Fueled by a mission to inspire people to make their next big jump, it's a podcast about human reinvention. Each episode features a professional athlete who has leveraged their athletic mind to create success beyond sports. The Big Jump is available on Apple Podcasts here and on Android via Google Play here. You can listen to Gardner discuss the exciting launch on WGN Morning News.
Nate Andorsky Starts Role as CEO at Creative Science
YEC member Nate Andorsky started a new role as CEO at his current company Creative Science. Creative Science applies behavioral science to create digital tools that turn its clients' toughest challenges into their greatest opportunities. Andorsky believes that at their core, digital experiences are human experiences, which is why behavioral science lies at the core of all his company's digital creations.
Srinivas Rao Launches New Book: An Audience of One
YEC member Srinivas Rao launched a book called: An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake. According to Amazon.com, Rao, host of the podcast The Unmistakable Creative, argues that we should counter the thinking that creating for our own pleasure isn't as necessary as making money or pursuing fame by intentionally creating art for ourselves alone -- an audience of one. You can download a free chapter here.
Convene Raises $152 Million
YEC members Christopher Kelly and Ryan Simonetti's company Convene recently raised $152M. Investors included Revolution Growth, Brookfield Property Partners LP and the Durst Organization.
Convene is the fastest-growing network of full-service, tech-enabled meeting, event and flexible workspaces. Founded in 2009, they have locations in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago (coming soon). According to Bloomberg, "The company’s goal is to increase its footprint from 582,000 square feet (54,000 square meters) under management today to 700,000 square feet by the end of the year, and 1.7 million square feet in 10 cities by the end of next year." Previously, Simonetti served as a vice president at Gramercy Capital Corp., where he was in charge of the restructuring of a billion-dollar loan portfolio. Kelly is recognized as an active thought leader and industry spokesperson for Boston Properties University, WORKTECH, Cornell Baker School of Real Estate, NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate and MIT Center for Real Estate.
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Many ways to make content for Adobe DPS 2015
Posted on October 8, 2015 by James Lockman | Comments (0)
I presented a talk entitled Creating Content for Mobile Apps with Adobe Digital Publishing Solution at Adobe MAX 2015, and the recording is available here.
While the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is a magazine platform that had many Enterprise applications, the Adobe Digital Publishing Solution (DPS 2015) is an Enterprise platform that can be used for magazines. Magazines are one of many use cases for which DPS 2015 is appropriate, and in this session, we see how to use a number of content sources in addition to InDesign to make articles for DPS 2015. These include but are not limited to Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Muse, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Captivate, Adobe FrameMaker and even Adobe Acrobat.
It is clear that content producers have more choices than ever when it comes to making, managing and deploying content to readers on tablet and mobile devices. Adobe DPS 2015 offers Enterprises a flexible, measurable and cross-platform solution for a wide range of communications use cases.
FIRST Robotics uses DPS for its Game Manuals
Posted on April 21, 2015 by James Lockman | Comments (0)
One of the great benefits of working at Adobe is that Adobe believes strongly in community involvement and volunteering. Every Adobe employee is encouraged to use their skills and passions outside of their jobs as volunteers and board members for nonprofits and other community organizations. I take this to heart as a volunteer with FIRST Robotics.
James working as a Game Announcer at the Granite State District FRC event, 2015
FIRST Robotics offers programs for elementary, middle school and high school students around the world. These programs expose students to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) through sport-like competition. Students receive a challenge at the beginning of each competition season and then build robots to address the challenge. Depending on the age of the participants, the challenge may be to solve an important problem such as water quality or delivery of affordable health care, or it might be to play a game that requires careful planning of both robot design and gamely strategy.
The elementary school program is called Junior FIRST Lego League (Jr.FLL). In Jr.FLL, students prepare a presentation to address the challenge. As the students get older, the programs become competitive and the teams must design, build and program a robot to address the challenge.
The middle school program is called FIRST Lego League (FLL). In FLL, the robots are made of Legos and use Lego NXT or EV3 controllers. The robots always operate autonomously, and there is only one robot on each side of the playing field at a time. The robots perform tasks related to the challenge, but do not generally compete directly with another robot.
In high school, teams compete alongside other teams called Alliances to try and outscore other alliances. There are two high school programs: FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). In FTC and FRC, the robots operate autonomously for the first few seconds of the match, and then the students drive the robots for the remainder. There is usually a period at the end of the match, known as the “endgame,” where the rules change or an additional challenge becomes available. There is not always an endgame.
FTC uses Lego NXT robot controllers on larger robot frames, but they are transitioning to Android controllers for the next season. FTC matches consist of two robots per alliance and two alliances on the field at a time. FRC uses a National Instruments roboRIO controller and frames up to 120 lbs. FRC matches consist of three robots per alliance and two alliances on the field at a time. There is a ton of YouTube video out there; just search for FLL, FTC or FRC. I volunteer with FRC as a play-by-play announcer at competitions and occasionally as an event judge.
The FIRST app features a home screen with sections for each program.
Common to all FIRST programs is documentation. Each program has a range of program-specific documentation, including but not limited to:
Rules for each competitive season
Coach and mentor guidelines
Team notifications
Curriculum help
Change logs for all of the aforementioned documentation
Managing all of this documentation is a challenge, as the documentation changes regularly with real consequences for teams. For instance, it is common early in the competition season for game rules to change that might impact robot design. Also, teams are encouraged to ask questions about the rules, and those questions and answers are often summarized in the game documentation. Teams need to be informed in a timely manner so that they don’t proceed with designs that might not align with the game rules.
Another challenge is timing. Game rules are announced to the world at specific times on specific days. This is done through global simulcast so that no team has an advantage over another team when it comes to the game rules. Traditionally, documentation has been provided via password-protected PDFs on the FIRST web site. At the end of the simulcast, the password would be revealed and the teams could begin to read.
When we started talking about DPS with FIRST, these two challenges were topmost in our minds, and when I say “our,” I mean the Adobe team. I can’t speak for what was topmost in FIRST’s collective mind. We all believed that DPS could solve the update problem as well as the timed release of content problem very well, so we put it to the test in January of 2015 with the reveal of the 2015 FRC Game, Recycle Rush.
You can download the FIRST app from iTunes or from Google Play. You can also read the FRC Admin Manual, Game Manual, Team Updates in the DPS web viewer.
For FRC Kickoff, I went to a local college with most of the teams from Maine to watch the simulcast together. Many of the mentors and students had their mobile devices, and many had the FIRST app on their device ahead of time. As the game was revealed and as the password for the PDF was shown, the game manual for Recycle Rush appeared in the FIRST Game Manual app right on schedule. One of the mentors sitting next to me watched this happen. He looked at me and asked if he needed a password. I smiled and asked him to open the manual and find out. He tapped on the manual and began to read. Smiling, he looked up and said, “Wow. That was cool!”
A text push notice about a Game update.
The next test came a week later when the first updates were to be published. The manuals are made in InDesign, so the team at FIRST was able to make the adjustments and publish those changes from InDesign. Once published, teams needed to know that the changes were available, so FIRST used the built-in DPS push notification service. I and my team all received the notices on our iPads and our iPhones, and swiping or tapping the notice took us right to the updated content.
As we moved through the competition season, I watched how teams used the manuals. Many teams had it on their phones as well as their tablets, as they frequently returned to the manual to confirm design choices. Later, as the season progressed, they were looking carefully at the conditions which might lead to penalties. Even through the District Championship event, with teams having competed in two or more precursor events, teams still made frequent use of the manuals.
The design of the manual is as important as the content, and FIRST produced a clean, readable, and highly functional tool to help teams play the game and ultimately to be better competitors. Kudos to the FIRST documentation team, who produce manuals for all of the FIRST games.
I’m headed to the FIRST Championships in St. Louis, Missouri this week to volunteer some more and to see all of the FIRST programs draw to a close for the 2014-2015 season. It has been a pleasure and a delight to help bring the manuals on DPS to fruition and then to see the positive reaction and real world usage of the tool. I’m looking forward to helping the manuals evolve as the 2015-2016 season gets underway.
Come learn how to use AEM for DPS Libraries and Entitlement at Adobe Summit
Posted on February 25, 2015 by James Lockman | Comments (0)
I’ll be leading a lab at Adobe Summit this year that helps to tighten the integration between Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). AEM has had the ability to manage and publish content to DPS for a couple of years now, and customers are having great success using AEM as a templated design surface on which to make DPS folios.
Customers who want to leverage DPS Entitlement have had to build or buy a solution that usually but not always runs on a Apache with PHP/MySQL. The Adobe DPS Developer portal has several examples, including a great starter kit. Customers have been asking, though, how to use the user management built in to AEM to manage entitlement.
In addition, DPS apps often have custom Libraries and Storefronts, which are basically HTML portals that interact with the DPS app and the DPS Services to provide a customized experience in the app. Customers also will build or buy custom Library/Storefront solutions based on the DPS Library APIs.
My lab at Summit, presented with my good friend Herman Lee of Ensemble Systems, shows how to use AEM to both manage DPS entitlement and to create and manage custom Library/Storefront code. AEM is an excellent design surface for this, with its flexible component architecture and its ability to integrate with Enterprise Identity management solutions. The session is “L709 – Implement an Adobe Digital Publishing Suite storefront in Experience Manager” and it takes place on Tuesday Afternoon at 1:30 to 3:30 Utah time. If you’re going to Summit, sign up today for my lab and learn how to get even more value out of your AEM and DPS investments. You’ll need to login to the Summit site in order to register.
Agency workflows for Enterprise DPS customers
I often encounter questions about how Agencies and their Enterprise customers should collaborate on DPS projects. While not hard to do, there are definitely nuances to how Agencies and Enterprises interact when it comes to building apps in general, and DPS apps in particular. I’d like to outline a few scenarios and provide some best practices along the way.
First, let’s set a few expectations. There are cases when the Agency is doing all of the work for their Enterprise customer, and this will include the Agency owning the Apple Developer account, the Adobe DPS account, and all of the creative. This article is not intended to shed any light on that scenario. Instead, we’ll look at the following cases:
The Enterprise owns the Apple Developer Account and the DPS Account but the Agency supplies the creative
The Enterprise owns the Apple Developer Account and the Agency owns the DPS Account and supplies the creative
The Enterprise owns the DPS account and the Agency owns the Apple Developer Account and the creative
Enterprise owns it all
This scenario is very common for DPS customers who build internal apps for Enterprise distribution through Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions. It also applies for brands who build branded customer-facing apps that they distribute using app marketplaces such as iTunes. Public apps will not only bear the Enterprise brand, but they will also appear as being published by the Enterprise.
In this case, the Enterprise has several options when it comes to using the creative content that the Agency will supply. The preferred workflow is for the Enterprise to extend an AdobeID to its Agency or Agencies that can be used by the Agency when they are making folios for the Enterprise. Typically, the AdobeID might be related to a brand or a project, and would not be specific to the Agency. For instance, if ABC company had XYZ brand, and Agency Q was providing creative for their DPS projects, then ABC might make an AdobeID called XYZ_DPS_agency@ABCCompany.com. The alternative is for the Agency to use its own AdobeIDs for content creation, and then they would share the folios with XYZ_DPS@ABCCompany.com for publishing to DPS. In either scenario, the Enterprise controls whether to publish the folios to its app.
In the case of the app, if there is a custom Library or Storefront, then the Agency can provide the code to the Enterprise as a .zip archive, which the Enterprise will include in App Builder when they make their app. The Enterprise, usually through their IT department, will control the Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision files, and the Enterprise will also not need to share access to iTunes Connect or their Enterprise Mobile Device Management (MDM) portal. As a result, the Agency will provide the look and feel of the app, but IT will do the actual building. An alternative to this scenario would be that the Enterprise creates an AdobeID with the App Builder role and shares it with the Agency. The Agency can then create an app and sign it with their own Apple certificate and mobileprovision file. This allows the Agency to test the full functionality of the app without being able to publish an app on behalf of the Enterprise, since they would not have access to the Enterprise’s Apple Developer account. When the app had cleared review, the Enterprise would then log in to the App Builder with the same or another AdobeID with App Builder role and update the app with the Enterprise’s Apple certificates and mobileprovision files.
Enterprise has the Apple Developer relationship and the Agency has the DPS account
This arrangement is common for Enterprises who make apps but are unfamiliar with DPS or are interested in testing some apps as part of an evaluation. Also, it is common for a digital Agency who makes apps on behalf of their customers to use DPS to meet a specific campaign need for their client when speed market and a rich user experience is important. Any apps published under this arrangement will have the Enterprise branding and will appear to be published by the Enterprise in app marketplaces. The Agency would need a specific DPS license in order to use their DPS account for publishing on behalf of their client, so the Agency should contact their DPS Account Executive to determine if they have a license that supports this scenario.
In this case, the Agency will be making all of the content using their Adobe DPS account. They would use their own AdobeID which is associated with their Adobe DPS account for content, and their own AdobeID for accessing App Builder. The Agency would share folios with an AdobeID that the Enterprise controlled so that the Enterprise could review content using Adobe Content Viewer. The Agency would test the app using their own Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision files, and then bring a device to the Enterprise or enroll an Enterprise device in their Apple Developer pool so that they could send developer apps to the Enterprise for testing.Once approved, the Enterprise would need to sign the app with their own Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision, and then distribute it via Enterprise MDM or iTunes.
There are three app building methods that have been most widely used. The first is for the Enterprise to create a set of .p12 certificates and mobileprovision files for the app and transmit them to the Agency for use in App Builder, and it is the lesser of the methods that Enterprises use today. The next, more popular method, is for the Agency to provide App Builder access to the Enterprise through an Agency AdobeID they build for the Enterprise. Following our previous example, the Agency would make an AdobeID called XYZ_DPS_appbuilder@Q.com and share the password with the Enterprise. The Enterprise IT department would then use App Builder to sign the app with their own Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision files, and ultimately distribute using iTunes or MDM. The third method, and most popular, is for the Agency to create an app using their own Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision files, and then the Enterprise would simple re-sign the app with their own Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision files.
Enterprise has the DPS Account and the Agency owns the Apple Developer relationship
This is a scenario used by many Enterprise customers who want to make branded apps for distribution through iTunes. They often want to do market testing or produce short-lived campaign pieces they need to get to market very quickly. In this model, the Enterprise would own the DPS account, but they would likely be using the Agency for creative. In the same manner as our first scenario, the Enterprise would either make and share an AdobeID with the Agency, or the Agency would create content using their own DPS account and share it with the Enterprise. Review and approval would be like the first scenario as well. Things get different in the App Builder stage.
Since the Agency has the Apple Developer relationship, only the Agency will be able to build apps unless they create and share Apple Developer certificates and mobileprovision files with the Enterprise. They would also need to enroll an Enterprise device in their Apple Developer pool to enable developer apps to be reviewed at the Enterprise. If they are unwilling to share certificates and mobileprovision files with the Enterprise, then they will need to enroll an Enterprise device in their developer pool so that they can send a developer app to the Enterprise for review. Once approved, the Agency would then publish the app under their own account using iTunes Connect. This is the same end result as when the Agency owns the DPS account and the Apple Developer relationship, which we did not discuss in detail here.
No matter how you slice it, it comes up DPS!
Each of these three scenarios has its nuances, and business rules will decide which scenario is appropriate for a specific Enterprise/Agency relationship. Regardless of how the Enterprise and the Agency collaborate, it is possible to use DPS to make apps and to get them to the appropriate distribution channel.
A new and simplified Notetaking solution for DPS
Posted on December 10, 2014 by James Lockman | Comments (0)
Many of my DPS customers want to incorporate note taking into their DPS apps. Over the years, there have been several examples posted to DevNet, including one by me back in 2013. One of the challenges with that solution was that it requires the designer to make multiple copies of the underlying HTML file in order to support placing the note taking overlay on more than one page in an article. I have gone back and revised that code to make it work with a single HTML file that supports any number of pages in an article. You can read about the new technique here.
The new system has CSS styling to help match it to your brand. In addition, I’ve added a button to email a specific note as well as the whole set of notes. I’ve also been working on extending the system to include thumbnail images of the specific pages in the email. I’ve got a little more work to do on that before I’m ready to share it, but keep your eyes here (and on DevNet) for a follow-up article about embedding images in email messages from DPS.
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Alumni Campground and the relationship with seasonal guests and wildlife
Abstract: For our capstone, we plan to focus on the wildlife and human interaction dynamics within Paul Smith’s College Alumni Campground. The objective of Owen’s section for capstone is too develop a ‘bear-awareness’ program for the Alumni Campground. Katie is looking into establishing a wildlife management plan of the campground correlating with the evidence of determining where there are patterns of travel within the campground of the local wildlife.
Major: Natural Resources Conservation and Management
File Attachments: Capstone Paper_3.docx
Authors: Owen Murray , Katie Reily
Planning and Future Management of the Adirondack Land Trust Glenview Preserve
Abstract: The Adirondack Land Trust purchased a 238 acre parcel of land, Glenview Preserve, from the Trevor family in 2016. The Glenview Preserve is located along New York State Route 86 in Harrietstown. The Glenview Preserve already consists of a heavily visited scenic vista of Whiteface Mountain, the McKenzie Range, and other Adirondack High Peaks. The property borders the Bloomingdale Bog, the third largest boreal peatland in New York State. The Glenview Preserve can be a perfect spot to incorporate a trail system to allow visitors the opportunity for non-consumptive recreational activities. When creating a trail system for recreation it is important to examine the impacts on local flora and fauna. A clearly designated trail system is the number one way to mitigate impacts on soil, vegetation, wildlife, and water created by visitors. Within the preserve interpretive signs will be implemented to educate and inform visitors on proper usage of the trail system. The unique thing with the area is the gradual grade of only 50 feet so the breathtaking views are virtually accessible to everyone who visits. Recreational activities allow people to get outside and enjoy nature and hopefully build personal environmental stewardship. The trail system will not only allow recreational opportunities for visitors but establish a sense of an outdoor community.
File Attachments: Capstone_Murray 2019.docx
Authors: Payton Murray
Managing a Successful Bakery
Abstract: For this capstone we were given the responsibility of running the A.P. Smith's Bakery for eight weeks. These responsibilities included the management of student employees, and the creation of menus, production lists and ordering sheets.
Major: Baking and Pastry Arts
File Attachments: Final Capstone Paper.docx
Authors: Daniele Warner
Katelyn Aupperle
Lower St. Regis Lake Survey: A Comparative Study of Fish Population Structure and Function over Time
Abstract: Lake surveys are performed on bodies of water to provide a health analysis of fish populations over time. Lake surveys can be conducted in a variety of ways to attain specific data. Lower St. Regis Lake was surveyed to determine the fish community composition and to understand fish population traits. Using fyke nets placed at six predetermined locations for 24 hours, as well as fishing, we collected data for age, length (mm), weight (g), and parasites present. Data was analyzed in the lab using Excel to form graphs and tables to demonstrate our findings. Catch rates were lower compared to years before and comparing our data to New York State Department of Conservation data found that our length-at-age data was lower for the six-species sampled. Pumpkinseed and yellow perch were the only two species to have over twenty fish sampled. Decreased air temperatures brought in by a cold front during the week of our sampling may have been a reason for our lower number of fish caught. Mesh size is also a bias while using these nets as smaller fish can escape, and predatory fish can prey on smaller fish while in the net. Some species of fish such as black crappie may be more susceptible to capture due to its habit of associating with structure.
Major: Biology, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Studies, Fisheries and Wildlife Science, Natural Resources Conservation and Management
Authors: Deacon Chapin, Jared Chlus, Louis Daversa, Jon Herrman, Robert Visicaro
A Comparison of Winter Wildlife Use of Minimally, Moderately and Highly Impacted Shorelines on Lower St. Regis Lake and Black Pond in the Adirondack Park, NY
Abstract: Continued development and human interference with freshwater shorelines creates a degraded environment and can negatively affect native wildlife along impacted areas. Throughout the Adirondack Park, shorelines have experienced substantial degradation with the development of lakeside summer homes. There tends to be a strong preference for the aesthetics that lakes offer, as well as the numerous recreational opportunities they provide. The increased human use of shorelines and the development of anthropogenic structures has directly resulted in the degradation of shorelines in the Adirondack Park. Likewise, the Paul Smith’s College shoreline along Lower St. Regis Lake has been subjected to degradation throughout the history of the campus. This highly impacted site was selected, alongside minimally and moderately impacted sites in the surrounding areas as representatives for different impact levels. Shoreline degradation includes a decline in the health and presence of natural vegetation, creating a decrease in available food source for native wildlife. The removal of natural vegetation creates a decline in shoreline stability with the removal of root systems, allowing for greater amounts of erosion to occur. Additionally, degradation decreases available canopy cover and increases exposure of wildlife to predation. The objective of this study was to determine the difference in wildlife activity and diversity between three levels of shoreline impacts: minimal, moderate, and high. It was expected that the minimally and moderately impacted shoreline sites would show a greater diversity and abundance of wildlife than highly impacted shorelines. Trail camera data was analyzed at three sites for each treatment on Paul Smith’s College property, along both the Lower St. Regis Lake and Black Pond. Although we detected no significant differences in either activity or diversity across the treatments, there was higher relative activity and diversity in moderately impacted shorelines than minimally or highly impacted. However, wildlife species that are more rare and/or area-sensitive, such as the fisher (Martes pennanti) and American marten (Martes americana), were only detected in the minimally impacted shorelines of Black Pond. A restoration of the highly impacted shoreline to reflect minimally and non-impacted shorelines of the surrounding region would allow for opportunities to improve habitat for native wildlife species.
Major: Biology, Ecological Restoration, Environmental Sciences
File Attachments: Shoreline Restoration
Authors: Tessa White, Caroline Matuck, Kasey Lane, Rosemary Bloodnick, Kyle Pasanen, Annalee Kraai
Effects of Silvicultural Treatments on Wildlife Communities at the Paul Smith's College Forest Research Demonstration Areas
Abstract: Logging has drastically altered North American forest ecosystems for centuries. While extensive studies have been done to determine the impacts of different silvicultural practices on plant communities, minimal research has evaluated the impacts on wildlife communities, particularly in the Adirondack Mountains. Silvicultural practices may significantly impact wildlife communities due to the disturbances it causes, as well as the way it alters the habitat. We monitored winter wildlife communities in the Forest Ecosystem Research Demonstration Area owned by Paul Smith’s College in the Northern Adirondack Park. By analyzing the data collected by trail cameras, tracks and measuring percent browse, we compared the abundance and diversity of wildlife in three silvicultural treatments (i.e., clearcut, group selection, control). We also collected data regarding the physical aspects of the silvicultural treatment plot (i.e. canopy cover and snow depth) to indicate the kind of available habitat. We found that despite there being the highest average relative activity in group selection, there is no significant relationship between average relative activity and harvest treatment type. Using the Shannon-Weiner Diversity Index, we found that the highest diversity was in control/reference. Due to our limited treatment sample size, we did not have conclusive findings in most areas of our study. However, the highest total tracks and relative activity were found in the clearcuts. We suggest that more research be done on this study in order to eventually make forest management plans that properly account for both plant and wildlife species.
Major: Biology, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Conservation and Management
File Attachments: Effects_Silviculture_Wildlife_FERDA.docx
Authors: Jacob Adams, Caitlin De Bellis, Tyler Fisk, Hyla Howe, Mark McHugh, Daniel Sutch
Vista Wellness: An Educational Community Center for the Glenview Preserve
Abstract: The Glenview Preserve is home to a beautiful open vista of the High Peaks. This land was recently purchased by the Adirondack Land Trust and is looking for ways to sustainably manage the property by utilizing Paul Smith’s College capstone students for recommendations. One viable opportunity the ALT can incorporate, is the addition of a sustainable forum and conference center. With a community-oriented mind, Vista Wellness will provide a multitude of spaces for businesses and individuals to retreat while partaking in recreational activities. Vista Wellness is designed to be low impact with features such as a living roof and LEED certification. Using a promotional commercial and an intricate model, using state of the art construction supplies, we are able to convey the need for this addition to the Glenview property.
Major: Environmental Sciences, Sustainable Communities & Working Landscapes
File Attachments: VIstaWellness_FinalDraft.docx
Authors: Kimberly Kehr
, Matthew Syke
, Thomas Szabo
Influence of Slope on Soil Organic Carbon on Costa Rican Coffee Farms.
Abstract: Soil management is an important factor on agroforestry farms that help with soil fertility and carbon storage. Coffee agroforestry farms in Central Valley Atenas, Costa Rica were analyzed between November 2008 and May 2017. The objective of this study was to see if there is a relationship between mean slope and annual soil organic carbon sequestration (Mg/ha), and mean slope and soil organic carbon storage (Mg/ha), from samples taken on November 2008/May 2009 and November2016/ May 2017. Sample were taken on five farms with twenty 0.05 ha plots. Many coffee farms in the central valley are assembled on steep slopes or sides of mountains. Steep slopes are susceptible to erosion affecting the amount of soil organic carbon sequestration and storage. There was not a significant relationship found between mean slope and loss of carbon sequestration annually in November 2016/ May 2017 (Mg/ha). Mean slope and soil organic carbon storage from November 2016/May 2017 were compared by testing the effects of slope with carbon storage and there was no relationship. Whereas a statistically significant positive relationship was found between mean slope and soil organic carbon storage from November 2008/ May 2009. Additional data was examined to look at annual carbon sequestration loss on conventional and organic farms. However there was not a significant difference between the two. When all farms were compared for their annual carbon sequestration loss, marginally significant difference was found, but reasons for these differences remain a hypothesis. Further research to examine these differences may include practices of the farmers and erosion steeper slopes before erosion implications were taken by the farmers.
Major: Environmental Sciences
File Attachments: JMcLaughlin_Capstone.docx
Authors: Jessica McLaughlin,
Engaging Visitors Of Glenview Preserve With Interpretive Signage
Abstract: Glenview Preserve is a Lowland forest and Field property that boarders the Bloomingdale Bog. Implementing an educational system at the preserve would lead to more public interaction that would guarantee support for the Adirondack Land Trust’s mission objectives. This approach would involve the development of an interpretive day-use site, interpretive programs and signs, and an outdoor education space. For my portion I will be investigating how the Adirondack Land Trust can construct interpretive signage that is weather resistant and provides valuable content. The quality of the content will be evaluated using the National Association of Interpretation principles of POETRY. These signs will promote ALT’s mission objectives by encouraging people to make a difference after their visit through well-constructed and entertaining information. Visitors will donate money to ensure that having an educational system at the preserve is a leading concern of the Adirondack Land Trust’s management plan for Glenview Preserve.
Major: Integrative Studies, Natural Resources Conservation and Management, Recreation, Adventure Education and Leisure Management, Parks and Conservation Management
File Attachments: How Can the Adirondack land trust use interpretive signs to conserve the treasures of Glenview Preserve
Authors: Tiffany Elizabeth Marie Clark
Student of Natural Resources and Conservation Management
Fall 2018 graduate of Paul Smith's College
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a host of travellers. The people at home are addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches. I suppose the dogs and horses must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own. If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature, steeped in ale and good cheer and a little overloaded by his flesh. Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts. The Englishman associates well with dogs and horses. His attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. The horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion. Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians like the company of horses better than the company of professors. I suppose the horses are better company for them. The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully, and if I wanted a good troop of soldiers, I should recruit among the stables. Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable. They come honestly by their horsemanship, with Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders. The other branch of their race had been Tartar nomads. The horse was all their wealth. The children were fed on mares' milk. The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts. In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once con- . verted into a body of expert cavalry. At one time this skill seems to have declined. Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas ; and the reason assigned was that the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place. Now, they boast that they understand horses better than any other people in the world, and that their horses are become their second selves. “William the Conqueror being,” says Camden, “better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.” The Saxon Chronicle says “he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.” And rich Englishmen have followed his example, according to their ability, ever since, in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their
game-preserves. It is a proverb in England that it is safer to shoot a man than a hare. The severity of the game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters. The gentlemen are always on horseback, and have brought horses to an ideal perfection; the English racer is a factitious breed. A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house. Every inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot; and the House of Commons adjourns over the “Derby Day.”
CHAPTER v.
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THE Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the application of these names with any accuracy, but from the residence of a portion of these people in France, and from some effect of that powerful soil on their blood and manners, the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle. And though, I doubt not, the nobles are of both tribes, and the workers of both, yet we are forced to use the names a little mythically, one to represent the worker and the other the enjoyer.
The island was a prize for the best race. Each of the dominant races tried its fortune in turn. The Phoenician, the Celt and the Goth had already got in. The Roman came, but in the very day when his fortune culminated. He looked in the eyes of a new people that was to supplant his own. He disembarked his legions, erected his camps and towers, –presently he heard bad news from Italy, and worse and worse, every year; at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed. But the Saxon seriously settled in the land, builded, tilled, fished and traded, with German truth and adhesiveness. The Dane came and divided with him. Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived, and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity, had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim ; forced the baron to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings; and, step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius of the place conspired to this effect. The island is lucrative to free labor, but not worth possession on other terms. The race was so intellectual that a feudal or military tenure could not last longer than the war. The power of the Saxon-Danes, so thoroughly beaten in the war that the name of English and villein were synonymous, yet so vivacious as to extort charters from the kings, stood on the strong personality of these people. Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy, and the banker, with his seven per cent., drives the earl out of his castle. A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a com
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We’re committed to making a quality education accessible to deserving students. In addition to our scholarships and awards, the bursaries and financial support options below can help you with tuition costs. First, review our Scholarships and Awards page to see what you’re eligible for.
Canada Student Loans
Booth University College has been designated as an eligible institution under the Canada Student Loan Act (Institutional Code – DPAP). Financial assistance may be available to those who qualify. Application forms may be secured from the Minister of Education, Student Aid Branch, in the relevant province. Canada Student Loans are open to all legal residents of Canada for application to Booth University College. Students are urged to make early application. For more information, please visit the Government of Canada’s CanLearn website.
Manitoba and Out-of-province student aid recipients are also subject to the fee payment deadlines. Any disbursements received will be automatically paid towards the tuition owing for the semester. Any remaining funds will be forwarded to the student.
United States Student Loans
Booth University College is approved as an eligible institution for the U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid (Federal School Number G25772). Go to the Federal Student Aid page to learn more.
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)’s Post-Secondary Student Support Program (PSSSP)
The Government of Canada offers financial assistance to eligible First Nation and Inuit students pursuing post-secondary education. Visit the Government website for more information.
Tuition Discount for Senior Learners
Learners 65 years of age or older may, upon presentation of proof of age, enrol in Booth University College courses for credit or audit without paying tuition. Standard course fees apply and a $50.00 per course administration fee is assessed and payable on enrolment. A maximum of 15% enrollment in any course will be comprised of such tuition-free learners. Such seats are allotted on a first come first served basis after all fee-paying students are enrolled in a course.
Tuition Waiver Program
The Tuition Waiver Program through Futures Forward provides the opportunity for current and former youth in Child and Family Services care in Manitoba to attend post-secondary education. You must be accepted to Booth University College in order to apply for a Tuition Waiver and its associated funding. Tuition Waiver Program recipients may be eligible to apply for Living Supports to cover the costs of books and supplies, transportation and housing while attending school, so you can focus on your studies. For more information visit the Futures Forward website.
Booth University College offers this waiver on a limited basis. However, submitting your application may help us to identify other scholarships and awards to help meet your tuition needs. Follow these steps to apply for the Tuition Waiver Program.
1. Apply to Booth University College by March 31. Go to myboothuc.ca to create a profile and submit your online application.
2. Fill out Booth University College’s Tuition Waiver Form and email it to lhildebrand@yesmb.ca by March 31.
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Manitoba Scholarship and Bursary Initiative
We’re proud to partner with the Province of Manitoba in the Manitoba Scholarship and Bursary Initiative (MSBI). This means our students can access more bursary money to help pay for course tuition fees. Canadian or permanent resident students who are able to demonstrate financial need are invited to apply through the Booth UC Bursary form. To be eligible, your application (including approximated budget) must be submitted by 4 p.m. on the following dates:
July 31 – for funding in the Fall semester
November 15 – for funding in the Winter semester
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These bursaries are non-renewable. Each semester, students may apply for a bursary.
*Students must maintain a full-time equivalency enrolment status in order to qualify for bursary consideration
**Students must enrol in 6 credit hours (minimum) in order to qualify for a bursary in the Spring and Summer semesters
Remember to review our scholarships and awards page to see what you’re eligible for.
Our Admissions team is happy to answer questions or help you with financial planning for your Booth education.
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Miscellaneous Disbursements
UW-Madison Administrative Policy
Policy # 323
Effective Date: Jan 1, 2018
Last Updated: Jan 1, 2018
Last Reviewed: July 1, 2019
Next Review: Jan 1, 2020
Functional Owner: Controller, Division of Business Services, Dan Langer
Executive Sponsor: Controller, Division of Business Services, Dan Langer
Policy Contact: Travelers and departmental staff should contact their respective Divisional Business Office for policy questions. Divisional Business Offices may e-mail uwtravel@bussvc.wisc.edu with questions.
The purpose of this policy is to define and establish University of Wisconsin-Madison requirements for the procurement and payment of household relocation costs and costs associated with temporary and indefinite work assignments.
Who This Policy Applies To
This policy applies to all faculty and staff when relocation and related travel costs are funded in full or part by the University or when temporary or indefinite work assignments are made.
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin Madison to allow institutions to reimburse relocation, related travel and temporary lodging expenses for new and presently employed personnel assigned to new locations by transfer or promotion, in accordance with IRS regulations. This policy identifies allowable expenses related to relocation and temporary or indefinite work assignment away from the employee’s headquarters’ location.
Policy Detail
Relocation expenses for employees may be provided dependent upon availability of funding. The approving authority and the following policy provisions will determine the total amount provided for relocation.
I.Taxable Reimbursement. In accordance with IRS regulations, effective January 1, 2018, the reimbursement or payment of any relocation costs under this policy are considered taxable income and subject to applicable income and employment taxes.
II. Eligibility. At the discretion of each UW institution, reimbursement of relocation expenses may be authorized for new or presently employed employees assigned to new locations by transfer or promotion. Reimbursement is not authorized for employees appointed as University Staff Temporary (formerly limited term employees (LTEs)).
Reimbursement of expenses or payment of an Employee Relocation Award is mandatory when the appointing authority requires the employee to change residence location because the employee is ordered to relocate or is promoted to a different position within University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the appointing authority determines the relocation or promotion requires the employee to change residence. It should be determined whether it is in the best interest of the University to provide payment or reimbursement for relocation and travel expenses. The following circumstances should be considered:
Are the individual’s skills in critically short supply? If yes, is payment usually available from competing employers?
Is the labor market tight for this particular position?
Does the individual rank above all other candidates in a combination of training, experience, and personal qualities?
Will the best qualified individual for the position be unable to accept the institution’s offer for financial reasons unless relocation expenses are paid?
Other eligibility considerations:
Payment or reimbursement is on a permissive basis, at the discretion of the new Appointing Authority, for an employee who requests a transfer or demotion and relocates as a result.
Payment or reimbursement is on a permissive basis, at the discretion of the Appointing Authority, for an employee reporting to their first place of employment at the University of Wisconsin- Madison or reporting upon reemployment after leaving the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Payment or reimbursement is on a permissive basis, at the discretion of the Appointing Authority, if the distance between the new place of employment and the old residence is at least 35 miles farther than the distance between the former place of employment and the former residence, and the distance between the new and former residence is at least 35 miles. If the appointing authority determines a relocation is a mandatory condition of employment, the minimum distance requirements are not applicable.
No more than two relocations may be reimbursed to an employee in a calendar year.
Unless otherwise authorized by the Appointing Authority, to be eligible for relocation payment or reimbursement, the employee must move no later than one year from the effective date of the appointment or the end of probation, whichever is later.
III.Reimbursement or Payment of Relocation Costs. An Employee may be paid an Employee Relocation Award for costs associated with a relocation. An Employee Relocation Award is a lump sum, one-time, tax reportable payment to an employee in lieu of reimbursing the employee’s expenses or directly paying vendors for the costs associated with the employee’s relocation including travel costs and temporary lodging. The intent is the Employee Relocation Award to be the only payment made by the University related to the employee’s relocation. An Employee Relocation Award is made through the University’s reimbursement process not more than 30 days in advance of the employee’s relocation (move) date. The payment of an Employee Relocation Award does not require receipts; but instead requires the Relocation Authorization Letter (See Section 6, University’s Responsibility below) be attached to the reimbursement request.
OR, the University may reimburse or pay the direct costs associated with the relocation, including the costs associated with self-moves, such as truck/trailer and containers, or a commercial moving carrier’s van line service. If self-move is selected, neither the employee nor the employee’s spouse or dependents may be reimbursed for their labor.
Allowable costs associated with the relocation may be reimbursed to the employee or, at the discretion of the institution, paid directly to the commercial carrier upon pre-audit of all invoices and receipts. When payment is made directly to the carrier, sales tax, which may be assessed on containers, must be deducted. The employee must substantiate all costs with an itemized bill of lading and paid receipts for direct costs.
A non-inclusive list of indirect costs that will not be paid include expenses related to house-hunting; the moving of goods not considered household goods such as farm equipment, livestock, motorcycles, automobiles, recreational vehicles, and pets; the moving of swing sets, jungle gyms, and other similar outdoor items and third party services for disassembly or assembly of these items; and storage for more than 30 days or any storage that is at the convenience of the employee. Please see the Relocation Expenses Chart.
The University may reimburse the transportation costs of the employee and immediate family. For moves within the continental United States, the amount of reimbursement for transporting the employee and immediate family members from the former residence to the new place of residence may not exceed the cost of one-way mileage for one automobile at the standard mileage reimbursement rate. The maximum allowable mileage reimbursement shall be based on one-way mileage using the most direct route. MapQuest and Google Maps are the standard tools for calculating mileage.
For moves to or from the continental United States, the cost of one-way airfare for the employee and immediate family members may be paid or reimbursed in lieu of mileage. Airfare must be purchased in accordance with Policy 311 – Air Travel.
IV.Temporary Lodging in Connection with a Household Move. An Approving Authority may authorize payment of temporary lodging for up to 45 days to an employee. Temporary lodging will be authorized only where circumstances require the employee to establish a temporary residence for reasons such as the temporary need to maintain domiciles in the old and new locations or where permanent housing is temporarily not available upon moving to the new headquarter location. The days for which temporary lodging allowance is provided need not be consecutive. Therefore, it is possible for the 45 days of temporary lodging reimbursement to extend over a period of time greater than 45 calendar days. All temporary lodging must be reserved and paid for in accordance with Policy 312 – Lodging at a rate not to exceed the University’s maximum for the location and dates of stay.
The designated headquarters city of an employee must be established and changed at the time the employee begins employment at the new location.
V.Piecemeal Moves. If an Employee Relocation Award is not paid the Approving Authority may approve reimbursement for piecemeal moves necessary to transport the employee’s household goods from the former residence to the new residence. The total cumulative reimbursed cost of moving household effects on a piecemeal basis may not exceed the amount which would have been charged if the relocation had been accomplished in one trip. To make that determination, an estimate showing the cost to accomplish the move in one trip must be obtained.
VI.Temporary or Indefinite Work Assignments. Reimbursements of expenses for “temporary” assignments away from the tax home are generally not taxable to the employee as this is considered travel. If the assignment is “indefinite,” the employee is considered to have moved his/her tax home to the new headquarter location. Reimbursements of expenses for “indefinite” travel are taxable.
The Internal Revenue Service looks at all facts to determine whether the travel assignment was intended to be temporary or indefinite. ( Rul. 93-86; Rev. Rul. 99-7). The table below provides a brief summary of temporary and indefinite travel assignments. Examples provided within the IRS regulations can be found in the document titled When “Temporary” Travel Assignments Become “Indefinite.”
Departments/Divisions should contact their Human Resources Offices to ensure appropriate approvals, accounting and tax related issues are addressed and in place prior to the starting date of the temporary assignment.
Departments/Divisions should account for each temporary assignment as a separate contract and use appropriate processing procedures (e.g., requisitions, billing).
University of Wisconsin-Madison employees on assignment to another agency or institution may be eligible to receive supplemental compensation in lieu of reimbursement to employees for meals, lodging, and transportation expenses, which may be paid directly to the employee with required deductions made or transferred for payment to University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Supplemental compensation for periods exceeding a one-year period will become taxable to the recipient at the time the University knows the agreement will exceed one year.
In the event that assignments change from temporary to indefinite, or indefinite to temporary, triggering a change in tax-ability to the employee, the institution’s Office of Human Resources must work with the UW System Service Center to ensure proper coding and tax treatment.
Consequences for Noncompliance
Failure to comply with UW-Madison Travel Policy or Procedures may result in disciplinary steps, up to and including dismissal.
Allowable Costs: Costs for which a relocating employee may be reimbursed under this policy.
Appointing Authority: Chancellor of the UW Madison, or formally delegated designee.
Approving Authority: Vice Chancellor, formally delegated division dean or director who approves expense reimbursements for relocation or temporary work assignments.
Authorization Letter: A letter that specifically outlines and approves university funding for relocation expense types and amounts, including Employee Relocation Awards. The Authorization Letter must provide a maximum, not to exceed amount for the cost of the relocation.
Direct Costs: Costs attributed to the relocation of household goods.
Employee: Any individual who holds a faculty, academic staff, university staff, or limited appointment with any UW System institution.
Headquarter Location: The official location where the employee’s work is performed on a permanent basis. Typically the campus or institution office.
Indirect Costs: Costs related to the relocation process excluding transportation and temporary lodging.
Employee Relocation Award: Tax-reportable payment to employee for relocation costs intended to represent the total relocation cost amount paid to the employee.
Tax Home: The city or general vicinity where an employee’s primary place of business or work is located, regardless of the location of the employee’s residence. Tax home has an effect on the employee’s tax deductions for business travel.
Approving Authority: Prior to the move, the Approving Authority must authorize in writing the payment of an Employee Relocation Award, reimbursement for or direct payment of relocation costs, or temporary lodging expenses. Written approval is required prior to authorizing reimbursements to the employee.
When approving relocation expenses, the Approving Authority must review and approve the following information on a Relocation Authorization Letter using University letterhead:
Name of relocating employee
Reason for the move
Specific amount of relocation funding for any of the following line items offered:
Employee Relocation Award and whether the Employee Relocation Award represents the maximum amount to be paid to the employee for the relocation
Direct Cost to be reimbursed related to commercial move services or self-move rental/supplies for the transportation of household goods
Transportation for the employee and immediate family
Temporary Lodging, including the number of days at a rate no greater than the University lodging maximum for the location and the rationale for providing temporary lodging
When approval for relocation expenses is granted, the Approving Authority must provide the relocating employee a copy of the Authorization Letter. The Authorization Letter must be attached to any relocation related request for payment or reimbursement.
Employee/Recipient: Employees are responsible for completing the following tasks, as applicable, to be eligible for relocation payment or reimbursement:
Obtain the Authorization Letter from the hiring department. The letter approves the payment of the relocation expenses and also outlines the amount of funding. This documentation and any required receipts must be submitted to support payment or reimbursement of relocation costs.
Unless an Employee Relocation Award intended to cover all costs of the relocation is paid to the employee, or the employee chooses a self-move, the employee can use an approved commercial carrier for the relocation. UW System has a contract with corporate moving companies for substantially reduced rates. Please see the Employee Relocation Guide. If the employee elects not to use a contract vendor, the employee may select any carrier, but payment/reimbursement is limited to the lowest of three estimates, one of which must be from one of the UW contract carriers. The Contracted commercial carriers serve local, domestic and international move needs. Employees that are relocating should contact the commercial carriers far in advance to obtain quotes and schedule a move date.
Employees are advised that any piecemeal move (a move that requires more than a single trip) that the cumulative cost of moving household goods on a piecemeal basis may not exceed the amount which would have been charged if the relocation had been accomplished in one trip. To make that determination, an estimate from the contract commercial carrier showing the cost to accomplish the move in one trip must be obtained.
Work with the hiring department on all payment and reimbursement requirements.
Discuss the payment of an Employee Relocation Award for moving costs early with the hiring department.
Unless an Employee Relocation Award intended to cover all costs of the relocation is paid, airfare or temporary lodging must be reserved through the University’s travel program and using UW contract properties and pricing when available. Please see Policy 311 – Airfare and Policy 312 – Lodging.
Link to Related Policies
Policy 310 – Travel
Policy 320 – Expense Reimbursement
Policy Number: 330
Date Approved: July 1, 2019
Revision Dates:
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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Goddess of Fire Jeongi" Episode 21
By Lisa Espinosa on 2013/09/11 at 19:14 PST
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There are powerful emotions at play that could potentially up the stakes in "Goddess Of Fire Jeongi": jealousy and anger. Both are two of the most unpredictable emotional states and could potentially make some great conflict. The chances that the show will capitalize on that potential are slim to none and despite the futility of it, I will hope that the show will improve.
Kang-chun and Jung
Jung has discovered that Kang-chun is behind her father's death, which sparks her rage and fuels her desire for revenge. Revenge is a plot device that I can get behind. While the plan for revenge may be well thought out and stable, the emotions behind it are churning and unpredictable. Unfortunately, Jung's plan is as unstable as her anger: she decides to stay at Punwon Kiln until she discovers the truth behind her father's murder. It was an impulsive decision and she has no concrete plan. That is troublesome in terms of the overarching plot of "Goddess Of Fire Jeongi".
Jung is the titular Goddess of Fire and yet she has very little in her that makes her worthy of that title. Sure, she has gumption and is courageous to a fault. But a true heroine also needs discernment, which she entirely lacks save in her art. To attain a high position in any field requires some political savvy and business know-how - she has none. She stays on at Punwon Kiln and uses every chip she has to bargain for what she wants. When a friend is in danger, she gives up her chance to become a ceramicist to save him. Whenever there is trouble, she immediately intervenes without thought. While it is beautiful to see such loyalty, it's hard to imagine such a person becoming the political pawn that she will later be in Joseon's dealings with Japan.
In that manner, I admire Hwa-ryung's character and her role in the story. She is partially what Jung needs to be, calculating, and is also partially what Jung could become if she loses her compassion, cruel. The writer makes Hwa-ryung a bit foolish as well, which is good because she is young and inexperienced and fueled by greed and jealousy. She is in the same place in her life as Jung is. Like Hwa-ryung, Jung has also become greedy to beat Kang-chun and I want to see her fight him and battle herself to keep from turning into the cruel creature that Hwa-ryung has become.
King Seon-jo
As for the political side of things, it is finally picking up. There is more than one faction involved in the battle now: Gwanghae is backed by the scholars and Royal Consort In-bin is backed by the ministers and Imhae. The king is opening jealous of Gwanghae's popularity with the people and of the scholars' support of him. This jealousy will fuel much opposition to Gwanghae and his ascent to the throne. Jealousy is a good motive although the idiocy of this portrayal of King Seon-jo is maddening. He is easily manipulated by In-bin and the scholars and seems to only care for his pride. I suppose this can be said about a lot of monarchs, but Seon-jo's character is so one-dimensional it's hard to see his value in the story. There is no insecurity shown in his private quarters. He is never made human. Perhaps that is the biggest issue: King Seon-jo is a buffoon king with no depth. Even if he wasn't a great king in history, he was still a human and that needs to be seen in the story.
Gwanghae isn't involved enough in politics yet. He is carried along by the political tide and has not yet taken command of his future. I'm waiting for the moment that he does. If he can be as proactive about being a potential crown prince as he is about protecting Jung, he could be a very effective monarch. He was a very effective monarch despite his unfortunate circumstances in history. During this episode, he asked a scholar not to mention his appointment as crown prince, but the scholar did. Then Gwanghae merely reacted to the king's fury afterwards. Historically, Gwanghae was an effective ruler and it makes no sense to have him be passive, especially with the invasion of Japan on the horizon. The shaky relations with Japan were mentioned briefly in the episode, which makes me think it will come more into the foreground soon.
"Goddess Of Fire Jeongi" needs follow through. It starts many things well and then it leaves the viewer wanting. This episode planted some great emotional groundwork for the characters that needs to be developed. I doubt that will happen, but like I said before, I can hope.
Written by Raine from Raine's Dichotomy
"Goddess Of Fire Jeongi" is directed by Park Seong-sook and written by Kwon Soon-gyoo and features Moon Geun-young, Lee Sang-yoon, Kim Beom and Park Gun-hyung.
Lisa Espinosa
Journalist, drama lover, and foodie, Lisa enjoys exploring Korea, speaking the language, and soaking in all that dramaland has to offer. Her Korean husband laughs that she knows more than he ever will about dramas and K-pop. Lisa Espinosa can be contacted via lisa@hancinema.net.
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Base World: The Pentagon’s Profligate and Prodigious Presence
USAF personnel train at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Because we won World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Baker)
W.J. Astore
As President Trump heads off on an overseas trip, trailing Washington scandals in his wake, it’s worth reminding ourselves of America’s prodigious global presence and the profligate expense at which it comes. As David Vine notes in his latest article for TomDispatch.com, the USA has something like 800 military bases overseas, which must be garrisoned and maintained at a cost of roughly $150 billion each and every year. What exactly are we getting for this colossal global footprint?
Come to think of it, why do we need 800 overseas bases? Our aircraft carriers are basically mobile American bases, and much of our weaponry (Tomahawk cruise missiles, long-range bombers, and Reaper drones, for example) obviates the need for physical bases in foreign lands.
Of course, there are many reasons why these bases persist. One is the influence they give us (or that we think they give us) in places like Turkey and South Korea, for example. Second is the fear American officials have of losing their leading roles on the world stage, i.e. the concern that, if we abandon “our” bases, other countries will take them over, and we will be shunted aside, losing our starring role in world affairs.
Indeed, you could say Americans are the divos and divas of the world stage, elbowing our way into operatic tragedy after operatic tragedy.
Third (always a consideration) is money. There’s so much money to be made from these bases, and so many U.S. contractors involved in making it. And fourth is intelligence. Americans think these bases are essential to gathering intelligence, even as our “intelligence” routinely proves wrong or incomplete.
I spent three years in Britain at U.S. bases there (“Little Americas”), and could have been assigned to U.S. bases in Iceland and Turkey, but the latter never materialized. It’s funny: When you’re in the military, you never give much thought to why we have bases in faraway places. You just take it for granted; it’s the status quo for us.
(As an aside, think of the irony here of Trump’s border wall with Mexico. Even as Americans are everywhere in the world, thrusting our way into foreign countries with our militarized bases, we boast of building walls to keep other peoples out of “Fortress USA.” Only “exceptional” U.S. officials could see no contradiction here.)
Select foreign bases have some value, but the U.S. has far too many at far too high a cost. We’d do well to stop investing in them and to start closing them. American bases in Turkey, South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere are not the key to our security. Our security begins right here at home.
Remember that saying, “Yankee go home”? Why don’t we?
Yankee go home. Why not?
Posted on May 18, 2017 June 6, 2017 by wjastorePosted in US Foreign Relations, US Military, warTagged David Vine, military bases, overseas bases, Pentagon.
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26 thoughts on “Base World: The Pentagon’s Profligate and Prodigious Presence”
D. J. Manley says:
As usual， spot－on and well put。
Monotonous Languor says:
Americans suffer from appalling level of ignorance, about the world out there. Most of it is acquired by our sanitized version of history and an old Soviet style Pravda Press here at work in the USA – our McMega-Media. The Corporate Press has been nearly non-stop cheerleaders for the Wall Street-Security-Military-Industrial Complex since the end of WW 2. Vietnam was an exception, but only when it became obvious the glowing battlefield commander reports and the press releases from the Pentagon and State Department contradicted what reporters were witnessing.
Honest reporting on the situation in Vietnam by the press, created the press as an enemy – they were not on Team USA. The press continued to do an effective job during Watergate and eventually hearings were held (Church Committee among others) that revealed some of the dirty laundry, i.e., Operation Mockingbird, Operation Mongoose, and Operation Northwoods. There maybe others but Iran-Contra was maybe a last gasp by the big corporate press at investigative reporting. By the time of Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2, the McMega-Media were all on Team USA. The press was embedded in more ways than one.
There are some “third rails” our McMega-Media will not touch. It must not ever be reported that Saudi Arabia or the Gulf Oil States are dictatorships. The Castro regime could be labeled a Communist Dictatorship and vilified, but Communist China receives a free pass. Another third rail is if we are a peace loving nation why has the USA been involved in more wars since the end of WW 2, than any other nation on earth??
Certainly, all these bases inflate the bottom lines of the defense industry, but they are also vitally important to making the world safe for multi-national corporations.
wjastore says:
Yes. So much for “making the world safe for democracy.” As Vine notes in his article, U.S. bases are in many authoritarian countries, effectively propping up many authoritarian regimes (as long as they continue to play ball with U.S. officials and corporate agendas, of course).
Michael Murry says:
On the occasion of another former U.S. serviceman/servicewoman walking free after years in prison for telling the American people the truth about their vaunted Visigoths rampaging overseas, something I wrote five years ago:
“The Ship of State leaks from the top” — U.S. President John F. Kennedy
“Kill the chicken, scare the monkey” — Ancient Chinese proverb
Free Bradley Manning (in forty-four syllables)
Petulant President
Barack Obama who
Hates him some leakers (just
Not from the top),
Makes an example of
Low-level privates so
Don’t have to stop.
Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright © 2012
Walk free now and enjoy the rest of your life, Chelsea Manning. And thank you.
Yes. I just read a comment by someone who’s outraged that Manning has walked free. Sharing secrets and all that — she must be punished forever!
Manning is a person of conscience. And whether one agrees or disagrees with her actions, she has certainly paid the price.
Walk free, indeed.
A great cartoon by Mr Fish:
The Whistler
“Washington D.C. 5 seconds before [and 5 seconds after] a real American hero was released from Fort Leavenworth after serving 7 years of a 35-year sentence for the unforgivable crime of sharing information that proved to the world that the United States is a heartless plutocracy held together by rage and bullshit and wouldn’t recognize the inspiring thunder of truth, bravery and public service if it detonated, like the voice of God Almighty, across the deaf and comatose republic.”
That about covers it.
I once served at a small “base” located on the banks of a dirty brown saltwater river about two kilometers from the southernmost tip of Vietnam. Back then we called such a remote and isolated outpost an ATSB, or “Advanced Tactical Support Base.” These days — because the U.S. military always needs new names for the same old shit our generals keep reinventing — we call them an FOB, or “Forward Operating Base.” Ten years ago, when I heard about General David Petraeus and his swell plan to spread out our military forces “among the people” of Iraq so as to “provide them with security” and stuff like that, I thought: “Oh, sure. I can see how that would work. Just like it did back in Southeast Asia forty years ago.” Anyway, I thought a bit about the “new” terminology introduced by our genius generals and came up with my own version of the plan. Call it:
Mini Green Zone Outpost Diaspora
Far from the Green Zone Castle
In mini-Green-Zone forts
Our scattered forces “mingle”
With RPG retorts
Then when the ambush happens
The cavalry replies
And rides off to the rescue
With any handy guys
It takes perhaps an hour
Once timely news arrives
Of dead and injured soldiers
And lost Iraqi lives
Somewhere we’ve got a mission
That no one can explain
It promises to triumph
With just a bit more pain
For sure, we hear, our “leaders”
In uniform and not
With yet more blood and billions
Could plan an “ink stain” spot
They work in bits and pieces
A little here and there
And see some hints of “progress”
Just never any where
They travel to the future
And tell us what they’ve seen:
That things, absent their fuck-ups,
Would soon get really mean
We need them to continue,
They say of what they’ve done,
Because if we stop losing
The “bad guys” will have “won”
The country’s off its rocker
When talk like this persists
While troop retention withers
And no one new enlists
Yet if they wreck the Army
Perhaps some good will come
For with no foreign legion
They might not act so dumb
It hurts to lose our soldiers
But many profit, too
So why give up the gravy
Slurped by the greedy few?
The country’s lost its marbles
That such a thing should be
As suits and brass commanding
Naught but their perfidy
We’ve learned of those “belief tanks”
Where no one thinks of doubt
And “scholars” scream for “going in”
But not for getting out
We’ve got the dumbest “leaders”
Who ever walked the earth:
Those lowered expectations
Of less than zero worth
So tell us of the “new” plan
We cannot wait to hear
The brilliant scheme you’ve cooked up:
What next we have to fear
Mike: Nice reference to the ink stain/blot theory. I swear I just got this ink blot quote from a military briefing on-line: “Ink blot strategy: pacifying a given area establishes its presence in a location where the population is most supportive of its efforts, or where an area of
key strategic importance can be secured.”
Now, trying to render that into English: winning control of an area, then growing the gains outwards, like an ink blot. We tried that in Vietnam in the 1960s. We tried that in Afghanistan in 2009-10. Didn’t work. Not at a price we were willing to pay to sustain the “ink blot.” And that price wasn’t in ink, but in blood and money.
Yet another disastrous metaphor. People and public support are not ink blots. Reality is nothing like that. Reality is far more complicated; and ink blots can be shrunk, or effaced — or erased.
Note* cliché: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.
Right on about the disastrous metaphors, Bill. We can also call these frozen figures of speech thought-terminating clichés, a term coined by the historical psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton. Every time I hear or read about one of our military masterminds attempting to explain strategy and/or tactics by spewing this kind of post-modern mumbo-jumbo, I want to scream “Bullshit!” As DIY therapy for having to listen to this crap for decades upon decades, I made it my business to collect these artless arrangements of word-like noises into lines of verse so that I could at least make some creative use of them. Like, for instance:
The Tipping Point Turns the Corner
Around the next corner the tipping point turns
As the good ship capsizes and sinks
While the mad metaphors and flawed figures of speech
Guarantee that no one really thinks
So the dots get connected with crayon lines drawn
By the journalists flogging clichés
Like astrologers linking the stars into shapes
Telling fortunes as long as it pays
At the end of the tunnel the dominoes fall
As the oil spots to flypaper stick
With his boots on, George Custer fights to the last man
Making even the strong stomach sick
As they stood up, we stood down — just not right away
With our shoulders to shoulders we marched
When the morning came corpses piled up in the morgues
Like some laundry loads unwashed and starched
Like the city that shines on the top of a hill
With a thousand or more points of light
Now the current flows only an hour a day
So in sweltering blackness they fight
They’ve a government, now, freely chosen at last
By the parties that somehow had won
Our ambassador, though, had to choose their PM
When we didn’t like what they had done
Sure, they can’t leave the Green Zone without getting killed
Our officials, too, travel by plane
Sneaking into and out of the country unseen
By the people who think us insane
But he won’t cut and run says the man who ain’t there
From his purpose he swears he won’t swerve
“Bring ’em on!” taunts the juvenile joker in jeans
Clearing brush on his Texas preserve
As the world watched in horror, he drove off a cliff
Then he stumbled around in a daze
Now he says – after three years of chaos and death –
That he might have misused a trite phrase
“It’s as easy as shootin’ a bird in a cage,”
Says the Texas stud hamster of quail
When the rodents ride roughshod the feathered will flee
From the drunken dudes gone off the trail
And we’ve got us some mantras from Vietnam days
Like “we’re there ’cause we’re there ’cause we’re there”
So when once we go somewhere, that means we can’t leave
Like that German boot-planting affair
And the logic swirls faster in circles that swim
Like our friends won’t respect a retreat
See, they’d rather we kept acting stupid and blind
Till we wind up a pile of dead meat
And our foes will not fear us if we should act smart
Which assumes that they fear us when dumb
An American innocence, surely, that comes
From a depth that you simply can’t plumb
The octopus fascist sings swan songs sedate
Reinventing the same words and tune
So the president babbles of going to Mars
When we can’t even get to the Moon
Like the light of an oncoming train in the dark
We see hopefulness ever draw near
We’re on track, can’t you see, to a glorious dawn
So we’ll stay the curse, never you fear
So, let us untie our hands, take the gloves off, run it up the flagpole, and grab ’em by the balls so their hearts and minds will follow. I almost lost my mind at that little ATSB called “Seafloat/Solid Anchor,” but I escaped to start life over again almost from scratch. It took me awhile to learn how to live with the memories, but I feel better now. And you can take that to the bank.
Another one that’s trendy is “all options are on the table,” by which U.S. leaders mean threats of military attacks. “All options are on the table” with North Korea, or for Iran’s nuclear program, or for anyone else we don’t like.
Now, why should that surprise any foreign leader? The other point: it’s a very large table that fits all options.
Just speaking of clichés, remember the Bumper Sticker Wars = These Colors don’t Run, Support the Troops, and the flowers and the proliferation of American Flags.
The following items are not from some satire site like the Onion, they are true.
Professional Sports have periodic tributes to support the troops. May 14, 2015, the Department of Defense has paid at least $6 million in taxpayer money to 16 NFL teams across the country, including $377,500 to the Jets, with the bulk spent by the National Guard. U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, said most in the general public believe the segments were heartfelt salutes by their hometown football team, not an advertising campaign paid for with their money. The Guard defended the arrangement as an effective recruitment tool for the force, and the Jets pointed out numerous other ways in which they support the military. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/which_nfl_teams_are_getting_your_federal_tax_dolla.html
March 13, 2017, Cambodians are responding with outrage to the U.S. government’s demand that the country repay a nearly 50-year-old loan to Cambodia’s brutal Lon Nol government. Between 1965 and 1973, as it fought what would prove to be a losing war in neighboring Vietnam, the United States dropped an estimated 500,000 tons of explosives on eastern Cambodia. United States said the money was still owed, with interest and late fees, though it offered rescheduling on favorable terms. Since then the debt has swelled to $506 million. >> Not exactly a Marshall Plan spirit here. <<<
Good points about the Pentagon tax subsidies for sports-franchise propaganda events that “promote the troops” and — by implication — America’s now-permanent “wars.” But even more shameless than the American loan repayment demand, I read not long ago where the Southeast Asian victims of our massive air bombardments and crop defoliation attacks asked the United States to pay reparations, whereupon the U.S. refused, saying “the destruction was mutual.” I defy anyone to top that for unadulterated cluelessness.
If we paid them, Mike, where would it end? I bet that’s what U.S. officials were thinking. Recall recent reports of all the bombs we’ve been dropping in the Greater Middle East. Few people consider the aftermath of all these munitions.
There are still people being killed in Southeast Asia from unexploded U.S. ordnance, along with the persistent cancerous effects of Agent Orange and similar chemicals.
Even when war is over, it’s never over. It persists in the minds and bodies of participants and victims as well as the land itself — the environment, I should say, since it poisons water as well as land.
War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
As a follow-on to your comments about the “all options on the table” cliché, Bill, I remember once hearing someone compare these sorts of “choices” to shopping for a new suit of clothes and having the salesman offer you any shade of khaki that you like. For new presidents like Clinton, Bush, Obama, and now Trump, the Pentagram normally provides a full palette of khaki troop escalation options: namely, a little escalation, a lot of escalation, or just the right amount of escalation. For some reason, the “no escalation” option never seems to make it onto the table. And never say “withdrawal.” Always say “drawdown.” The one implies leaving, the other implies staying at a reduced level until the opportunity for escalation again presents itself, like now with new President Trump.
When I worked for the Hughes Aircraft Company as a manufacturing planner and computer programmer, one of my managers explained to me the bureaucratic concept of “slow ramping.” He said that when you wanted something from higher management, you first need to figure out what you really needed for your project. Then, figuring that your boss will only give you half of what you ask for, you double your request. Then, when you only get half of what you asked for, you actually get what you thought you needed in the first place. This has the added benefit that when your project doesn’t pan out you can blame your management for not giving you everything that you asked for. So when your boss asks you how much more you need to finish the job, you ask for twice what you think you need and repeat the process. This explains starting out with a few hundred special forces “advisers” in South Vietnam and ending up with over half a million regular ground, sea, and air forces seven years later. The U.S. military has long since perfected the practice of “slow ramping.” You would think that American presidents would have learned this by now.
I have often struggled with trying to find a poetic image that would illustrate this tendency of the U.S. military to hyper-inflate everything they touch. I imagined a president assigning them the job of providing balloons to a group of kids having a party on the White House lawn. I could just see our generals and admirals hooking up a high-pressure air hose to a pack of condoms, inflating them with hydrogen gas into a fleet of Goodyear blimps, Hindenburg dirigibles, and “Lead” Zeppelins, covering the entire city skyline with tumescent phallic symbols and blocking out the sun — until they began exploding in toxic balls of flame. Something like that.
I did do some work in verse trying to exploit this thought-terminating “all options are on the table” cliché. My Taiwanese wife helped. She never tires of reminding me of when Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House and immediately declared “Impeachment is off the table.” Said my wife at the time: “Well, there goes another election down the drain.” She will never let me forget that. Anyway:
The Answer Off the Table
(From The Triumph of Strife: an homage to Dante Alighieri and Percy Shelley)
The bankrupt brainless blowhard beast defies
The reason to contest stupidity.
Grown fat and lazy on its loathsome lies,
The perpetrating predator feels free
To gorge upon the surface spoils of war:
Domestic profit far as eyes can see
Where foreign puppets groomed to play the whore
Return a portion of their greedy gains
To congressmen who leave us poor and sore,
While death upon a target people rains
And soldiers into pudding pounded are
By roadside bombs. How little now remains
Of them and us who suffer while we spar
Against the bogus baby made of tar.
Our new commander in his briefs has bought
The dreary drug of endless, pointless fights
And thus cannot discern the Truth he ought
That Quagmire in its sophistry delights
In making men of straw, red-herrings, too:
Those lifeless foes whose fragile feeble slights
Prove easy for the brain-dead to outdo;
A dialectic dodge that paints “extreme”
On any choices obvious and true,
Which leaves decision “centered” in a dream.
The feckless failures flail about and flop.
With each New Year they COIN a great new scheme.
We hear of “options” on the table top,
Just not the one to clearly think and stop.
Might as well throw in this one. I did it for my wife, so that she would stop laughing at me and my “American democracy.” Who now can recall the last time that Democrats actually won a mid-term election promising to cut off funding for illegal wars and removing from office the lying sons-of-bitches who started them?
Nancy the Negotiator
Gives up first; surrenders later;
Takes her cards from off the table,
Then recites her loser fable:
“We don’t have the votes we need,”
Nancy says, in tones that bleed:
“Mean Republicans will whine
If we do not toe their line.”
Nancy bows to George and Dick
While her skinny ass they kick;
Writes them checks both blank and rubber,
Then proceeds to lamely blubber:
“We don’t like what Dubya’s doing.
Still, we quite enjoy the screwing.
Masochism’s what we offer,
Helping crooks to loot the coffer”
“Sure, the squandered blood and treasure
Goes to those we will not measure.
Still, we promise you’ll adore us
If you mark your ballot for us.”
“Choices you don’t have assail you,
Leaving only us who fail you.
Nonetheless, we’ve gotten fatter.
Why, then, should we think you matter?”
Does anyone still not know why Donald Trump won election to the presidency last year?
Gregory Herr says:
Michael, your thoughts on “Nancy the Negotiator” brings to mind an interesting story Ray McGovern told in the comments section of the following article:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/20/the-gaping-holes-of-russia-gate/
Jessica K
Prof. Stephen F. Cohen is right that the Intel agencies are a 4th branch of government. I’m reading David Talbot’s “The Devil’s Chessboard” while this is going on, and one can see how right he is. Allen Dulles and his right hand man, James Jesus Angleton, resented any butting into their CIA work by any high government officials. It is amazing that Americans never seemed to wake up to the brutal, wretched activities of the CIA as unacceptable behavior to be reviled, until we now are finally getting a real account of the sordid details. What is different now, however, is how the press is not doing its job as an arbiter of fact rather than acting as propagandists, which is why this saga with Trump’s official beginning as President is so twisted. I actually don’t blame Trump for anymore than not knowing how to pick good cabinet and assistants due to his political inexperience. I also believe that if Clinton had gotten elected, we would have a corresponding circus from the other side. The American “democratic” political system I consider long gone due to corruption by money.
I was thinking last night that, if Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama had not backed away when many Americans wanted Bush and Cheney to be held accountable for their heinous crimes in Iraq, we would have a higher standard for government now. If anyone should have been impeached when he lied about WMDs and for the way the war on Iraq was conducted, it was George W. Bush. Trump doesn’t deserve impeachment any more than many members of Congress, and the Supreme Court should have been impeached for the Citizens United decision. This is a farce…
Thanks, Jessica K, for sharing the following observation:
“I was thinking last night that, if Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama had not backed away when many Americans wanted Bush and Cheney to be held accountable for their heinous crimes in Iraq, we would have a higher standard for government now.”
I think you are completely correct. After the Democrats won back the House in the 2006 election, Cindy Sheehan and I had a private talk with the Judiciary Committee’s John Conyers in his office. It was just after Conyers had taken the chair of the committee again. Besides the three of us, there were three of Conyers’s lawyers.
What do you want, Conyers asked. Impeachment of George W. Bush, we answered. Conyers: But Nancy Pelosi has removed impeachment from the table; it’s not going to happen. Why, we asked. Because Nancy says that, if we Democrats appear divisive, we will not win as big in 2008.
So I said: But the Constitution leaves you no alternative. If launching war of aggression on made-up “intelligence” is not a high crime, I don’t know what is.
“There is nothing in the Constitution that says John Conyers has to start impeachment proceedings,” Mr. CIA man, says the chairman.
I ask, Who is chair of the House Judiciary Committee?
Conyers, I am he. But we could not line up the votes anyway.
Sure you could, says I, as Conyers’ three lawyers almost pee-ed in their pants. (Apparently, you don’t talk like that to a CHAIRMAN.)
I refused to leave his office. He called the cops; I was arrested. Went to trial and was convicted for “illegal assembly,” a story I relish telling my grandchildren; some of them are already old enough to understand what the implications of what happened… and what is happening to our Republic.
I was, ok, “shocked.” Not so much at seeing at first hand how craven politics was thwarting implementation of the impeachment provision in the U.S. Constitution, a provision that our Founders were prescient enough to include in our founding document — but even more by the casual “justification” adduced by Conyers for his cowardice; no shame there, just practical politics.
There is, of course, a fully legal way to remove presidents who start unnecessary wars based on fraudulent intelligence. And the was cast, and the House prepared. Dennis Kucinich had listed and described some 50 of W’s impeachable offenses; Conyers was the responsible chairman in the House to begin impeachment proceedings. Yet, he elected to bow to Nancy — for the greater glory of Democrats in November 2008. Yuk.
Later, I learned that Pelosi’s motivation was probably worse than simply crass politics and disregard of the Constitution. My NSA alumni associates and others have reminded me that Nancy was briefed on illegal eavesdropping, torture, and other such activites conducted by the intelligence agencies she pretended she was OVERSEEING in her long-tenure leadership position in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. And she knew, of course, that there were all those memoranda of conversation written by the CIA ops people/congressional briefers, once they got back to Headquarters about how fully briefed she was.
Talk about being vulnerable to blackmail! Nancy was and remains thoroughly compromised. (Benighted Sally Yates should interview Pelosi, if she is interested in how high officials become really — not just notionally — compromised.) Pelosi even made some pre-emptive complaints back in those days about how the CIA has a practice of lying to you.
In sum, the session with Conyers — and the Dems refusal to start impeachment proceedings — showed me how far the Dems have come from the day of FDR, whom my father respected so much — not least, for his concern for the little guy.
Confronting the once-respected erstwhile chair of the House Judiciary Committee and seeing him all too willing to kowtow to the Dem politician “in charge” and then defend the kowtowing as he talked with us simple citizens taught me a whole lot. It was VERY worth getting arrested for.
(And who is to say what kind of dirt the Deep State has on Conyers?)
As for the Dems, I was a BIC (Bronx Irish Catholic) back in the day when membership in the Democratic Party was conferred at Baptism — along with automatic future membership in the local union. My union membership has expired; I view the Democratic Party with increasinglyly sad contempt (and am glad Dad is not around to see what has happened to it); I remain a Catholic — not because there’s no way to sign out — but far more because I continue to share the open, accepting, ecumenical vision of good pope John XXXIII, the aversion to war of John Kennedy, and the basic tenets of Catholic social teaching, which are no longer invoked in this land — seldom even from the pulpit. Those tenets remain the most well hidden secret of basic Catholic faith. What about taking care of the widow, the orphan, the stranger (the so-called “alien”).
There is very little difference in the behavior of the institutional churches from the way they behaved after Germany’s “9/11,” the burning of the Reichstag in January 1933.
Thus, “good” (but ignorant) Catholics can “in good conscience” vote for Paul Ryan and Donald Trump.
Years ago, a friend of mine, who became President of John Jay University in New York City, had the courage to blurt out before 3,000 well heeled participants in a St. Patrick’s Day dinner, “I have heard it said — ‘Give an Irishman a clean pair of underwear, and he’ll vote Republican every time.” He was greeted with unalloyed boo-ing by the participants who then went back to sipping their cognac and smoking their cigars.
So true, Mike. Any shade of khaki you want. Perfect.
As you noted, Mike, give the people a choice between tepid Republicans (Hillary and Crew) and scalding ones (Trump & Co.) and they’ll take the scalding.
The Democratic Party is still run by limousine liberals with a certain contempt for the people. The Republicans? They don’t mask their contempt. They sell it. Put us in charge and we’ll cut our own taxes for your benefit. Ha!
If nothing else, you have to admire the brazen honesty of the Elephant Party, so great at trumpeting their own agenda. As opposed to the braying and kicking asses of the Democrats.
The ‘slow ramping’ reminds me of another addiction of US authorities: fancy acronyms.
Never mind the contents let alone quality of whatever they describe, as long as the acronym is’sexy’.
Thus the first USAID agricultural ‘success story’ in Afghanistan was called RAMP. (Always check your catch words for meaning in other languages. In Dutch for instance ‘ramp’ means ‘disaster’ and that quickly caught on.) Don’t even remember what it stood for. Its follow-up program was called ASAP: Accelerating Sustainable Agriculture Program. Everyone with even the foggiest idea of the time needed for agricultural developments in general – let alone for them to be sustainable – will appreciate the absurdity of sustainable agriculture being ‘accelerated’. To fit presidential election PR requirements and ultimately the catchy acronym.
Not to mention the various military campaign titles, from ‘Desert Storm’ to ‘Enduring Freedom'(as if there ever had been any to start with). Wonder whether they apply some hidden logic when choosing them, like all the names of race horses born in any particular year having to start with the same letter? Or maybe they throw dice to choose the next surge’s initials, or some general ‘honours’ his wife and/or mom by choosing theirs? After which they organise an old-fashioned game with a medal as prize : what can we make from an E and an F? Forever Evil? Eternal Folly? First Exit? Ending Freedom?
As for clichés, my most detested ones are : ‘We are making every effort to avoid civilian casualties’, ‘We will increase our efforts to avoid civilian casualties’ and most of all, after having caused civilian casualties: ‘We will thoroughly investigate what happened’, after which there usually only is deafening silence and in the best of cases : it was an unfortunate misunderstanding.
Eternal Folly: So droll and deadly. As a young LT, I remember a senior civilian explaining to me that projects often lived or died based largely on their acronyms. Come up with a clever, memorable, acronym and you were almost guaranteed funding. A great example is the ASAP project you cite above. How can anyone be against sustainable agriculture achieved “as soon as possible”?
Until, of course, you think about it. Haste makes waste, especially when you’re trying to grow food in a sustainable and rational way.
But, and here’s the value of acronyms, why bother thinking, when the acronyms do the thinking for you?
Full speed ahead on project ASAP. Yes, sir!
The ink spot or more like ink blot had as one origin point during the French-Indochina War with the agrovilles.
This would morph into during Diem regime into Strategic Hamlet Program. Per Roger Hilsman, director of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, “Each strategic village will be protected by a ditch and a fence of barbed wire. It will include one or more observation towers…the area immediately around the village will be cleared for fields of fire and the area approaching the clearing, including the ditch, will be strewn with booby-traps…and other personal obstacles. The Strategic Hamlet Program began implementation in March 1962.
Forcible relocation was used. In an interview, a resident of a hamlet in Vinh-Long described the situation: “It is dangerous in my village because the civil guard from the district headquarters cross the river to the village only in the daytime…leaving the village unprotected at night. The village people have no protection from the Viet Cong so they will not inform on them to the authorities.”
I was a grunt 11B type along the Cambodian border (rain forest) and then into Cambodia from 1970-71. Other astute grunts that had been involved with operations in populated areas had this to relate: They would sweep through villages during the day. The VC and NVA had made it clear, just remember when the Americans leave at night we will still be here.
The Strategic Hamlet Program failed in reality but not on the Silver Screen. The Green Berets movie was chock full of cliches, too numerous to mention. I had to go to WIKI, to refresh my memory. It was the Vietnam War equivalent of “Reefer Madness”.
I suspect the villager in Vietnam that long ago revealed the failure of the Strategic Hamlets (Ink Spot) has numerous counterparts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In addition to the ludicrous “oil spot” and “flyaper” metaphors employed by the U.S. military to avoid actually thinking about why they can never get this “counter insurgency” thing right, I don’t think anyone can top the “termite killer” metaphor for sheer insanity. Consider:
“In early 1967 [General William] Westmoreland gave a most complicated and interesting explanation for the rationale behind the President’s “ceiling” on the number of American troops. “If,” he said, “you crowd in too many termite killers, each using a screwdriver to kill the termites, you risk collapsing the floors or the foundation. In this war, we’re using screwdrivers to kill termites because it’s a guerilla war and we cannot use bigger weapons. We have to get the right balance of termite killers to get rid of the termites without wrecking the house.” To continue this extraordinary metaphor, the American force had managed to wreck the house without killing the termites; they had, further, managed to make the house uninhabitable for anyone except termites. In a different manner, they had made the [American-created puppet government] house unlivable as well.” — Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, pp. 460-461 (Westmoreland quoted in Newsweek, 27 March 1967 – almost a year before the Tet Offensive of 1968)
And speaking of the term “guerrilla war,” as referenced by General Westmoreland and others of his type, I read not long ago where someone had lost touch with the Spanish “guerrilla” and had typed “Gorilla war,” instead. I really liked that. I propose that we make it our standard nomenclature when discussing U.S. military operations, generally.
Henry Larsen says:
The picture at the beginning of this article is credited to a USAF photographer but who wrote the caption? Surely not you, Colonel Bill — because of the reference to “Ramstein AFB”. (You of course know better.) Last I heard, a USAF base located outside of the USA, such as Ramstein, was not called an Air _Force_ Base but rather simply an Air Base (e.g., Yokota Air Base and Bagram Air Base, to name a couple others). What an embarrassing gaffe, for someone.
Thanks, Henry. Yes, I know better, but it’s my fault. Typing without thinking.
bmcks says:
I just joined your blog this AM, though for years when I saw ‘Astore’, I’d click, read, agree, and enjoy. Through your description of “retired” USAF, I guessed you about my age: 70. I was way off!
Anyway, your ‘Real Red Scare’ essay really hit me. Retired in France, I just returned from the ‘Snakes’ for 2 weeks, and the irony is I came to the same conclusions you did: capitalism & communism seem to be meeting, destroying the very societies they claimed to be saving!
Growing up on Long Island, in the same house since the 50’s, visiting my 98yo mother, I went into a ‘time zone’ I’ve never experienced before! It’s all the same, but needs a coat of paint – at the very least. Of course the problems are far more severe and alien to me: LI Newsday tells of daily opoid, dui, murders, etc. the last 24 hours. The paper also squabbles over our once proud Northport Veterans Hospital, now falling apart. Condominiums anyone? Property breathtaking! Already successful with condos in part of nearby Pilgrim State, once the largest Federal mental health hospital in America, I met plenty of crazies on Huntington’s public bus ‘system’, for lack of a better word.
I never agreed with Karl Marx’s notion that “In the end, capitalism destroys itself”, but I’m having second thoughts….
Thanks for joining and commenting!
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Abstract:In 2015, Mauricio Macri became President of Argentina and declared solving the energy crisis one of his top priorities. When Macri attempted to raise utility tariffs, however, he faced loud protests from citizens...
Paying to Improve Girls’ Education: India’s First Development Impact Bond $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 2013, Educate Girls (an Indian nonprofit working to increase the number of girls enrolled and learning in school), partnered with Instiglio, a startup specializing in financial instruments for social programs in...
Cashing Out: The Future of Cash in Israel $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:It is impossible to predict the future, but this is a task policymakers are effectively expected to do when deciding how to deploy scarce resources to the benefit of future constituents. This case therefore looks at...
The Rise and Fall of an American City: Race and Politics in Detroit, 1910-2013 (Documentary) $6.00 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 1950, Detroit was the fourth largest city in the U.S., and one of its most successful. By the time the city filed for bankruptcy six decades later, it had become a symbol of racial segregation and industrial...
The Rise and Fall of an American City: Race and Politics in Detroit, 1910-2013 (Multimedia) $6.00 Add To Cart More Info
Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to enhance the lives of low-income...
Akhuwat: Fighting Poverty with Interest-Free Microfinance $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case is about Akhuwat – one of the largest micro-finance organizations in Pakistan. The case presents Akhuwat's phenomenal growth from a small philanthropic experiment into one of the most prominent...
Betty Lou’s Budget: Introductory Spreadsheet Training for Budgeting and Financial Management (A) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This is an introductory case with a simple narrative designed to teach students the basics of designing a simple financial spreadsheet. The follow-up B case may be used to teach the basic steps for creating pivot...
Betty Lou’s Budget: Introductory Spreadsheet Training for Budgeting and Financial Management (B) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Hubway (A): Bike Sharing in Boston $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In the summer of 2014, Alta Bicycle Share, Inc had just won its second contract to operate the Hubway bike sharing system in the cities of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville in Eastern Massachusetts. Emily...
Hubway (B): Note on the Critical Fractile $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
The Quest for Sustainable Public Transit Funding: SEPTA’s 2013 Capital Budget Crisis $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Designed for a course in public finance or in transportation, this case describes the financial crisis that, in 2013, loomed over the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the transit system...
The Quest for Sustainable Public Transit Funding: SEPTA’s 2013 Capital Budget Crisis (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Devil in the Details: Designing a Social Impact Bond Agreement in Medellin $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Colombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still...
Kalamazoo Zoo $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Variance analysis is widely used in budgeting and managerial accounting, and is a required skill to be taught in any introductory budget course. The Kalamazoo Zoo is a short, amusing case for use in teaching...
The Toliza Museum of Art $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Juan Antonio Jimenez is the new Executive Director of the Toliza Museum of Art located in Spain. Jimenez is concerned that the museum lost money in 2008 and wants to understand what the financial results for the...
Betting Private Capital on Fixing Public Ills: Instiglio Brings Social Impact Bonds to Colombia $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Providing Pensions for the Poor: Targeting Cash Transfers for the Elderly in Mexico $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When the Mexican Congress approved the countrys 2007 budget, it included an appropriation of 8.5 billion pesos allocated to provide non-contributive pensions to senior citizens. President Felipe Calderon wanted to...
City of Somerville: Using Activity-Based Budgeting to Improve Performance in the Somerville Traffic Unit $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Since 2004, City of Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone has undertaken a series of fiscal reforms that have allowed the City to improve municipal services during financial hard times. A key reform has been the Citys...
Cutting Costs in Financial Hard Times: Two Massachusetts Towns Consider a Police Merger $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When local governments face budget pressures, one approach is to regionalize servicesthat is, to seek out greater economies of scale by consolidating service delivery with other municipalities. This case describes...
Extending the Green Line to Somerville $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 2012 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick presided over the groundbreaking for a 4.3 mile extension of the Green Line, a light rail transit line, into Somerville, a very dense, older inner suburb in the Boston...
The Consolidation of the Health Departments in Summit County, Ohio $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In late 2008, government officials in Summit County, Ohio began to discuss the possibility of combining the countys three public health districts. These early discussions set the stage for more than two years of...
The Consolidation of the Health Departments in Summit County, Ohio (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Cracking Oyster: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Confront a Tough Contract (B) (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This sequel accompanies case number 1985.0, "Cracking Oyster: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Confront a Tough Contract (B)." Cracking Oyster (B) is the second part of a two-part case set, Cracking Oyster...
Cracking Oyster: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Confront a Tough Contract (B) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Cracking Oyster (B) is the second part of a two-part case set, Cracking Oyster (A) and (B), intended for use in a two-class sequence. The (B) case may also be taught on its own, but students will need to read...
Knowledge Management at the World Bank $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case traces the history and evolution of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. While primarily a financial institution offering customized loans and grants across a wide range of sectors in some 100...
Effective Revenue Collection in Nomburo (or not) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:John Mwa is the newly appointed head of the Nomburan Revenue Agency (NRA), tasked by incoming President Orelio with improving revenue collections in the African nation of Nomburo. This case discusses how he goes...
Taiwan's High-Speed Rail: A Public-Private Partnership Hits a Speed Bump $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case traces the evolution of Taiwan's high-speed railroad from project inception in the late 1980s until its financial problems in 2009 describing the planning efforts, ridership projections, financial plans...
The Test of Transition: The Case of the Community Preservation and Development Corporation $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The case study presents facts pertaining to the Community Preservation and Development Corporation (CPDC), one of the best known nonprofit housing development companies in the United States, at a time of fundamental...
PROTECTA Promoting Civil Society in Serbia $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 1997 three students joined a protest against the electoral victory of Slobodan Milosevics Serbian Socialist Party. Upon the protests ultimate defeat, and Milosevics return to power, the students vowed to...
To Understand a Growing Organization: Greater Miami Neighborhoods $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case study explores the factors that are important in analyzing the health and soundness of a project in a growing nonprofit housing company with multiple program areas. A new loan officer at a community...
Buying Property in a Hot Market: NYC Creates a Fund to Keep Affordable Housing Developers in Play $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This three-part case study (along with a video supplement) presents the initial problem, the thinking, the politics, and the design negotiations that produced New York City's NYC Acquisition Fund in August...
BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The case sequel is both retrospective in describing BlueOrchards development since the original case in response to a rapidly changing environment, and prospective in raising questions about BlueOrchards future...
New Delhi Water and Power $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The New Delhi Water and Power case compares the efforts by the government of the capital territory of New Delhi to privatize its electric distribution company and reform its municipal water company. The case...
Experiments in Public Procurement: Italy Buys in Bulk $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Under pressure from the European Union, which had admitted Italy to the Eurozone hesitantly, on condition that the country control its deficit spending and reduce its high public debt, the central government in...
Experiments in Public Procurement: Italy Buys in Bulk (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Merger Talks: The Story of Three Community Development Corporations in Boston $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 2002, a successful community development corporation in Boston, Massachusetts was approached by two other organizations about potential mergers. Each organization had distinctive geographical and ethnic roots but...
Merger Talks: The Story of Three Community Development Corporations in Boston (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Mario Laborin and the Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera Development Bank (A) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Mexico went through a major political transition in 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected President. Change was in the air throughout the country, and especially in government entities. One such entity was NAFINSA, the...
Mario Laborin and the Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera Development Bank (B) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In June 2007, the governor of Pennsylvania, was negotiating with the states legislative leaders about his proposal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investors. Leasing public highways to private...
Scale without Growth: INFONAVIT's Expansion in the Mexican Mortgage Market $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:According to a World Bank report written in 2001, "in a modern, globally integrated Mexican economy, it is hard to argue for the continued existence of an institution such as INFONAVIT." The report went on to argue...
Liquor Tax Reform in Thailand: Competing Interests and Objectives $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Income tax cuts for individuals and businesses, ambitious government spending plans, financial assistance for citizens affected by the December 2004 tsunami, rising costs of the national healthcare system, and...
Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The spring of 2005 marked a tricky juncture for the leaders of a program designed to improve health care access for thousands of residents living in impoverished, isolated settlements just north of the Mexican...
Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Partnerships Victoria: The Public Sector Comparator $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The government of the State of Victoria in Australia has been a pioneer in using the private sector to provide public infrastructure through "public-private partnerships" (PPPs). Under PPP programs the government...
The St. Xavier Healing Touch Hospital $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The case is set in a large teaching hospital. Students must analyze the actual and forecasted budgets provided for the previous year to identify the financial difficulties of the hospital. They can then solve...
The Boeing Tanker Lease Deal (A) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States precipitated US military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, increasing demand for certain military assets. Domestically, the attacks crippled an already...
The Boeing Tanker Lease Deal (B) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In May 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved an agreement allowing the Air Force to lease 100 converted Boeing 767 aircraft as aerial refueling tankers. The deals critics, most prominently Senator John...
Financing the Theun-Hinboun Hydroelectric Project $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:How does a public-private venture emerge in one of the worlds poorest countries (Laos) and how does it obtain $280 million in financing for a 215 MW hydroelectric facility to supply power not to the host country,...
Revising Electricity Tariffs in Brazil $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case examines the dilemma confronting the Brazilian electricity regulator in the period following power rationing. Brazil privatized about 65 percent of the distribution companies (DISCOs) in the 1990s, but the...
Pension Reform in California $0.00 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:As February 2005 drew to a close, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger faced increasingly vociferous attacks from labor unions, and other interest groups, over his proposed public employee pension reform...
Mr. Nam's Dilemma $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 2000, Vietnam passed the Enterprise Law to spur private sector development and facilitate its transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy. The Enterprise Law changed the paradigm for private business...
Beyond Cooperation: Gender, Activism, and Self-Help in Maharashtra $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In February 2004, the general manager of the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank failed to show up for work several days in a row. His absence followed a meeting of the full staff of the bank with the chair of the...
Beyond Cooperation: Gender, Activism, and Self-Help in Maharashtra (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In February, 2004, the general manager of the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank failed to show up for work several days in a row. His absence followed a meeting of the full staff of the bank with the chair of the...
Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship: South Pacific Business Development Foundation $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:American businessman, Greg Casagrande, founder and president of the South Pacific Business Development Foundation (SPBD) in Samoa has a decision to make: who should he hire to be the next general manager of SPBD,...
The Social Construction of Gender: Microfinance and Fa'afafines in Samoa $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 2003, Minh Lai, manager of the South Pacific Business Development Foundation (SPBD), a nonprofit microfinance institution providing financial services to women in Samoa, made a decision to lend to faafafines...
Aiding or Abetting? World Bank and the 1997 Judicial Reform Project (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When the World Bank signed an agreement with the government of Peru in December, 1997 to provide a $22.5 million loan to help reform the countrys antiquated and corrupt judicial system, the Bank knew it faced risks...
A Public Service or Gravy Train? The Federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Beginning with the so-called GI Bill in 1944, the US federal government began to intervene in the higher education marketplace to provide subsidized loans, as well as grants, directly to students. After the 1965...
Aiding or Abetting? World Bank and the 1997 Judicial Reform Project $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Smarter Foreign Aid?: USAID $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The US Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for US government aid to developing nations, had come under increasing criticism from Congress and others during the 1990s. At the same time, the...
Liconsa and the Program of Social Assistance for Milk $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 2003, officials in Mexico's Ministry of Social Development were debating whether to eliminate a long-standing program that provided subsidized milk to poor families. In its place, they would expand a new program...
BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Microfinance is a field that has received increasing attention over the years in the development community. It consists of the delivery of financial services to people excluded from traditional banking institutions...
Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case focuses on one of the largest and most successful of such microlenders, Mexico's Compartamos ("we share") organization, and raises questions about the most effective business model and scale of...
Corporate Values and Transformation: The Microlender Compartamos $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Microlending, defined as very small loans advanced to very low-income entrepreneurs, has attracted wide attention as a potentially effective means to aid the economic development of impoverished nations. This case...
City of New York and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This epilogue accompanies the main case 1730.0. The Office of Management and Budget of the City of New York is considering how to use a new source of revenue--the payments from the Tobacco Master Settlement. The...
The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The (B) case, details the decisions which the Corporation for National and Community Service made as to how best to estimate the funding needs for the Trust. The (B) case (1740.0), however, goes on to frame...
The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003: Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded (A) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account-based on interviews with those who drafted the authorizing legislation-on how the program was conceived...
City of New York and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The Office of Management and Budget of the City of New York is considering how to use a new source of revenue--the payments from the Tobacco Master Settlement. The recently settled tobacco lawsuit between the states...
Neighborhood Conservation Services of Barberton: Responding to Change in the Magic City $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In the late 1990s, the leadership of Neighborhood Conservation Services (NCS) of Barberton, Ohio--a nonprofit housing rehabilitation organization founded two decades earlier to help reverse the decline of this aging...
The Ad Hoc Conference and Sammy Sockeye $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When a career public employee in a research division of the US Forest Service gets a call from a lobbyist for a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, he finds himself confronting an opportunity of which he's...
The Hestia Fund $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The economic prosperity of the 1990s, along with the coming of age of the US baby boom generation, led to new types of philanthropy at the turn of the new millennium. This case tells the story of The Hestia Fund, a...
The Challenge of Multi-Agency Collaboration: Launching a Large-Scale Youth Development Project in Hartford $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The idea that better "collaboration" among public and private service providers improves the effectiveness of social service programs for the poor is virtually uncontested in social service circles--yet many efforts...
The Challenge of Multi-Agency Collaboration: Launching a Large-Scale Youth Development Project in Hartford (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
WBLT Public Television, 1999 $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This disguised case is a vehicle for discussion of the financial situation facing the management of a US public (nonprofit) television station. WBLT is a Midwestern station which has matured from simply...
"Subject to Appropriations": Funding for Tobacco Control in Massachusetts, 1993-2003 $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Throughout the 1990s, public health authorities in Massachusetts waged among the most prominent, and by many measures, most effective, campaigns in the US against the use of tobacco. Fueled by funds authorized by...
"Subject to Appropriations": Funding for Tobacco Control in Massachusetts, 1993-2003 (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Seeking Sustainability: Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Faces Financial Challenge $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Nearly 30 years after it was first incorporated to help stabilize and improve older, declining parts of the city, Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Chicago had become among the best-known and most-respected...
A Commercial Bank Does Microfinance: Sogesol in Haiti $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In 1995 Haiti's banking sector undergoes reform two important aspects of which are a lowering of the reserve requirement on banks and a lifting of the interest rate ceiling on loans. These reforms give banks the...
Women's Thrift Cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:After more than 10 years of operation, the Women's Thrift Cooperatives (WTCs) in the impoverished Karimnagar and Warangal districts of Andhra Pradesh are an established part of the lives of their women members. As...
Phenix Federal Credit Union: Budgeting and Performance Evaluation $0.00 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The Phenix Federal Credit Union can serve as an integrative case for a full--semester course in managerial accounting, or as an introduction to credit unions in a course on nonprofit management. It may be used as a...
The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is up for sale, it moves quickly-but unsuccessfully-to convince the...
The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
The Lump Sum Grant Initiative for Hong Kong Social Services $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Notwithstanding its reputation as a free market bastion, Hong Kong has long been home to a well-developed, government-supported "social sector." Although many non-governmental social service organizations began as...
India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (A) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In the wake of the fraud conspiracy convictions of its former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the name Enron will likely long be synonymous with corporate corruption. But how did it rise, to the point...
India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (B) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Debt Relief for Poor Nations: The Battle in Congress $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In the fall of 2000, surprising momentum appeared to be growing behind the idea of forgiving the public debts owed by poor, developing nations, both to richer countries and to international institutions. The concept...
Debt Relief for Poor Nations: The Battle in Congress (Epilogue) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Cancún, Mexico: Water and Wastewater Privatization (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The sequel describes the ensuing changes to the concession contract and regulatory oversight structure, and the return of operational control to the private concession company, Aguakán. It briefly discusses...
Cancún, Mexico: Water System Privatization $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This case focuses on the privatization of water and sanitation services in the city of Cancún, Mexico. Cancún's growth from a small fishing village in the 1970s to a major international tourist...
Bangkok's Skytrain (A): Opening the System $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the...
Bangkok's Skytrain (B) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Higher Education Harvest $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:Rebecca Wilson, a recent policy school graduate, has started an unexpectedly successful small nonprofit to help urban high school students tap the many sources of financial aid for post-secondary education and thus...
Tackling Poor Performance, Extreme Inequality, Public Complaisance: Brazil's Education Minister Forges a New Role for the Ministry $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When Paulo Renato de Souza accepts an appointment to become Brazil's minister of education, he faces extreme challenges. Public education in Latin America's most populous nation is widely viewed as a failure...
Tackling Poor Performance, Extreme Inequality, Public Complaisance: Brazil's Education Minister Forges a New Role for the Ministry (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:This sequel accompanies the case "Tackling Poor Performance" (1571.0). When Paulo Renato de Souza accepts an appointment to become Brazil's minister of education, he faces extreme challenges. Public education in...
Business Process Transformation at the CIA (A) $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its...
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The Melbourne City Link $3.95 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:The Melbourne City Link, a $2 billion privately-funded highway project, was one of the first fully electronic toll roads in the world. While the government of the State of Victoria specified this innovative tolling...
Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires (Sequel) $2.45 Add To Cart More Info
Abstract:As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina specifically the province of Buenos Aires seeks to control costs and improve service in local...
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Amazon results
Amazon's international losses nearly double to $936 million, India continues to see most investments
India continued to be the main focus for the company internationally, with Amazon launching the Echo and Alexa devices, launching the first Prime Day in the country and also expanding Amazon Business.Mugdha Variyar | ET Bureau | October 27, 2017, 15:34 IST
BENGALURU: Amazon's international losses continued to grow into the third quarter fueled by the company’s aggressive push in India, swelling to $936 million compared to $541 million in the September quarter of 2016. The nine month losses form international businesses grew nearly threefold to $2.1 billion from $796 million in the same period last year.
India continued to be the main focus for the company internationally, with Amazon launching the Echo and Alexa devices, launching the first Prime Day in the country and also expanding Amazon Business.
"It is international expansion and primarily in India where we're continuing to add benefits. And we launched Prime there a year ago, if you remember, and we've had more Prime members join in India than in any other country in the first 12 months. We have free shipping on 10 million items there and we're continuing to add benefits; Prime Video, Amazon Family," CFO Brian Olsavsky said in an earning call late Thursday in response to what was driving international losses.
"We had the first Prime Day there this year, Prime Music, Amazon Business is also expanding in India. So, a lot of positive momentum and investment going on in India, very pleased with that. We also recently announced Echo and Alexa are available in India. So that should be well received by the Indian consumer base."
Amazon's third quarter sales grew 35% to $43.7 billion. In India, the early Diwali in India pushed sales for Amazon in Q3 than Q4. Amazon held its Flagship Great Indian festival sale in the end of September timed with rival Flikpart’s Big Billion Day. The sales continued through the month-long period up to Diwali last week.
"The Diwali holiday in India was a few days earlier, which may be pushed some sales into Q3 versus Q4," Amazon India head Amit Agarwal told ET in an interview Thursday that sales grew 4.5x over normal days while units sold grew 2.5x over normal.
"This was the biggest event in our history. We served more customers than anyone else. The customers who shopped on Amazon this Diwali was more than 2x from last Diwali," he added.
Amazon also introduced its AI-backed Echo devices in India this quarter. “In the last month alone, we've launched five new Alexa-enabled devices, introduced Alexa in India, announced integration with BMW, surpassed 25,000 skills, integrated Alexa with Sonos speakers, taught Alexa to distinguish between two voices, and more. Because Alexa’s brain is in the AWS cloud, her new abilities are available to all Echo customers, not just those who buy a new device," Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, said in the quarterly results.
Tags : Corporate, Amazon, Prime video, Jeff Bezos, India, Echo, Amazon results, Amazon Prime, amazon alexa
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St. George and the Dragon FloatLewis Tiney2018-06-13T03:35:35-05:00
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St. George and the Dragon Float
The history of this float goes back in time to the Adam Forepaugh Circus in 1881 when this magnificently carved adornment was the upper portion of a telescoping tableau. Literally being raised up from the body to it’s full height, this amazing vessel stood tall amongst the parade goers making the circus wagon “larger than Life.” Unfortunately, the mechanical workings were not as easy as it sounds and the height in some towns played an important role in the decision to remove the upper carvings. The wagon body was then turned into a gorgeous Bandwagon. This survives at Circus World in Baraboo today where it is known as the Lion and Mirror Bandwagon. The upper carvings were saved and mounted onto a flatbed body that created what is known as St. George and the Dragon Float.
(Richard Conover collection)
Fast forwarding many years, with the original float long gone, the Old Milwaukee Days parade was occurring in Milwaukee, Wisconsin under the sponsorship of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. During the winter of 1966/1967, a gentleman named Henry Boogaard of Kimberly, Wisconsin, was given the opportunity to re-create this fine pony float for the Milwaukee Days parade. Having nothing but a couple photographs to go by, Mr. Boogaard started out by graphing out a photo and transferring the lines to wood.
(Old Milwaukee Days Promotional photo)
Naturally, the carvings were going to be larger than a piece of wood. Mr. Boogaard had the task of gluing up layers of wood to get the pieces large enough to carve the characters out of. Basswood was the primary wood of choice for the carvings.
Mr. Boogaard’s fine attention to detail through these old photographic images reaped huge rewards in the 1800 hours he put into the craftsmanship of these carvings.
Once Mr. Boogaard had finished carving the characters for this whimsical addition to the parade, the carvings were attached to the float chassis and a delicate job of adding the beautiful painted colors to it to bring it to life was administered. The finished product was a sight to behold for all the parade goers to enjoy. Today, this float adorns the inside of the terrific exhibits at Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
(St. George & Dragon right front – Dave Lorbeske photo)
The wagon can be seen in person at Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Longbox Junk The Six Million Dollar Man: Fall of Man
Longbox Junk - The Six Million Dollar Man: Fall of Man
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As a child of the 70's I was a big fan of all things Bionic Man. Thinking back on it, I actually think he was the ultimate 70's superhero. . .a creation of science with the soul of a man. I was glad to see that this series kept the story in the 70's. I have the modern "reboot" series and it just doesn't have the same feel. Science today is taken for granted. I don't mean to make myself sound old, but at that time, Astronauts were still the great American Hero. The moon landings were still fresh in the collective memory. The world was on the edge of major change in technology. A modern Bionic man is just one high tech thing among many. But in the 70's Steve Austin wasn't just some t.v. character. . .he was OUR hero for OUR time.
So. . .did this recent (the last issue came out just a couple months ago, as of this writing) 70's Six Million Dollar Man mini hold up to the memory of that uniquely 70's superhero?
THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN: FALL OF MAN
I really like that this story takes place right where it should. . .the late 1970's. A lot of times, writers will try to move characters forward into modern times, but there are certain characters who need to stay put. Lone Ranger and Zorro need to be in the 1800's. The Shadow is best in the 1930's. Green Hornet in the 1940-50's. The Bionic man is best in the 1970's as a high tech anomaly in a world on the edge of becoming high tech.
Really, the fact that Steve Austin IS an unexplained anomaly is the point of this story so far. Nobody really knows why out of all the subjects for the top secret project that made him the Bionic Man he is the only one that was successful. When Austin finds out just HOW many others died during the project, he goes rogue to try and keep himself away from the government, who see him as their property and the key to building an army of bionic men.
This first issue is a great setup to what looks like it will be an interesting story.
BUT. . .
The art is barely functional and is pretty stiff in some places. The artist doesn't really capture the likeness of Lee Majors at all (except on the cover).
And then there's the ending cliffhanger. . .Steve Austin attacked by ninjas out of nowhere and saved by a billionaire with. . .laser eyes. With such a great start, I was disappointed with the silliness of the ending.
All in all, despite the clunky art and the silly cliffhanger ending, I liked this first issue. I just hope the ninjas and laser eyes don't signal a quick swerve off the rails. . .
Awwwww. . .. Second issue in and we're ALREADY off the rails. help me. 3 more issues to go.
Steve Austin is offered a chance to become fully human again, but the catch is that he has to go into Soviet Germany and retrieve a Maguffin.
The whole issue is pretty much a long fight scene between Austin, clones and a giant lobster monster created in a mad scientist's laboratory. Sheesh. . .
After a great setup. Lobster Monsters?
The art still remains clunky and stiff, but beyond the mad scientist's cloned monstrosities, the thing that made me roll my eyes in this issue is how random people keep mistaking Steve Austin for David Hasselhoff and making a big deal of it. . .of course playing on the meme that Hasselhoff is a huge star in Germany. But that particular meme is from the 90's, not the 70's. Hasselhoff wasn't even famous ANYWHERE until the 80's. Every time someone yells "It's The Hoff!", it clunks like a broken gear.
From out of place memes to cloned lobster monsters, this was not a good issue at all.
This was another pretty bad issue, but that said, it DID have some good things in it.
First, I liked the whole art direction on this one. The issue is pretty much all a running battle on top of and inside of a speeding train. The artist draws cutaway panels showing the simultaneous action above and below as a fluid, moving stream of action. Unfortunately, the artist had a great idea here, but he's not really good enough to pull it completely off. Still it's a great idea and points for trying. I'll give this one an extra star.
Other than the interesting art on this one, the giant lobster monster re-appears with the mad scientist riding on it's back shooting a machine gun and shouting "Death to Capitalism!" Oh. . .and more out of place Hasselhoff memery.
No bueno.
This issue was half and half good and bad.
Now that the lobster monster and Hasselhoffing shenanigans in Soviet Germany are done, the writer turns his attention toward the conspiracy to use Steve Austin as the key to creating an army of thinking bionic men. It turns out that Austin's new "friend" is actually in league with the government to find out what makes him tick. The plotting and conspiracy moves at the beginning are actually pretty good.
UNTIL. . .
We find out the woman Austin is falling in love with is a robot. And that a robot has infiltrated the O.S.I. (the organization that Austin works for). EVERYONE TURNS OUT TO BE A FRIGGIN' ROBOT! Okay, not EVERYONE, but there's quite a bit of ridiculous robotic revelation in this issue. Turns out the government has plenty of robots on hand, but they want thinking bionic men instead, so they send out the 'bots to capture Steve Austin.
All in all, it starts out nicely with conspiracy and politics, and ends up with a whole lot of robot punching.
And now, the big finish!
It's pretty much all out action as Austin escapes from captivity, friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and things explode!
All in all, this story is nicely wrapped up in this issue, with Austin and O.S.I. both coming to realize that in his case the man is what makes the machine, not the other way around. . .that the secret of the bionic man is that Steve Austin is a hero and always will be. A very nice conclusion.
Of course, prefacing it is a lot of robot punching, so there's that. . .
And there you have it, Dynamite's Six Million Dollar Man: Fall of Man.
Overall, despite the clunky art and some eye-rolling story beats (Lobster Monsters, Hasselhoffing, etc. . .) I enjoyed this mini. I'm not sure I would heartily suggest it to anybody who wasn't alive in the 70's. I think that (like I said above), Steve Austin is a man of his own time. Today, he's just another high tech hero among many, and to tell the truth, this mini wasn't impressive enough to make him stand out of the crowd like he did during the 70's.
I don't think this series did the character justice. It was okay, but never more than that.
A shame. The Six Million Dollar Man deserves better.
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Neo Matloga (South Africa, 1993) lives and works in Amsterdam, where he had a two-year residency at De Ateliers. In 2018 he won the Royal Prize for Modern Painting. The jury called him a storyteller with guts. Early this year Matloga was also nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2019. His collage paintings reflect on love, intimacy and family life after apartheid and is portrayed in black, grey and white tones. In his large paintings he tries to bring to life missing elements in Western history. The exhibition neo to love is his first solo museum exhibition and can be seen in the Fries Museum from 20th April to 18th August 2019.
Neo to love presents new life-size works by the young artist, which depict socially confirmed scenes from his childhood. His intimate paintings, drawings and collages portray people having conversations, dancing or showing affection in turbulent times: all universal social expressions. Matloga questions notions of what is normal and what is exotic, a criterion that is strongly influenced by Western perception. He has created the new works especially for the exhibition in the Fries Museum. Inspired by a visit to Rembrandt & Saskia: Love in the Dutch Golden Age, he immersed himself in the theme of intimacy during the 17th century. With his new works Neo Matloga fantasizes about the impact he would have had as a painter in Rembrandt’s time.
Although the subject matter of Neo Matloga’s canvases is domestic - daily life in black households in the artist’s native South Africa - they often have the epic scale of 19th century history paintings. Like his use of primarily black, white and grey palette, or the way he titles most of his works in his mother tongue, Sepedi, this decision is not without its political connotations, or its ambiguities. With their enamel tableware and crocheted tablecloths, his interiors are ordinary spaces, no more exotic than a suburban American home, although - to a global audience, at least - they are considerably less familiar from movies and TV. On these vast, charcoal and ink wash stages, Matloga’s cast of characters play out every-day dramas, experiencing all the struggles and consolations of desire and intimacy. Above all, the people in his canvases are as he says, ‘moral agents’, however much socio-economic and political conditions shape life outside (and, indeed, inside) the four walls of their homes.
Notably, Matloga’s characters are hybrids, their faces formed by collaging together photographic images of friends, family, and famous South African figures from politics and the arts. Physiognomy, here, is often out of whack. Eyes, mouths, and ears appear outsized, skin tone undergoes abrupt changes, hairstyles and hats sit atop the wrong heads, and accessories such as jewellery and cigars are often comically misplaced. On one level, we might interpret Matloga’s hybridisations as pointing to the vicissitudes of individual identity - the fact that the self is a kind of Frankenstein’s monster, in a state of permanent flux - but they also have a more pointedly political purpose.
Writing about his use of this technique in his series of works on paper, Black collages (2018), the artist has commented that ‘if there’s a possibility that a black face is seen as a distortion, what I’m saying is, OK, here, you have this image of the distortion, which was already there in your prejudices or racist gaze. The process of cutting, reconfiguring, and collaging facial anatomy is my way of trying to identify with the racist gaze, thereby dis-appropriating its oppressive power’.
In contrast to the characters that Matloga presents in his domestic canvases, all of whom inhabit the same physical space, and all of whom (no matter how smooth or rough the current emotional weather) are bound by the ties of family and community, those that populate the Black collages are isolated against a white, featureless ground. Facing the viewer, their bodies cropped at the neck or chest, they look like images from a bureaucratic database, assembled to unknown ends. Presented en masse, these works have a curious, cumulative power. We begin to wonder what connects them, beyond the obvious answer embedded in the series’ title. Then we begin to wonder what keeps them apart. – Tom Morton
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What is an Agency Agreement?
These agreements give power to one party (the agent) to act on behalf of another party (the principal). For instance you might give an agent the ability to go and sell your products or services in a certain territory for a certain period. Using this example your agent is your ‘salesman’ and is out there trying to generate sales for you (they would then be paid a commission based on the sales they generate) but it would be up to you to actually supply the goods or provide the services.
Agents have a Fiduciary Responsibility
Depending on the nature of the agreement, agents have the capacity to make financial decisions on behalf of the principal and enter into or affect legal relationships between the principal and a third party. They also have various responsibilities to the principal in exercising their power. The relationship between an agent and the principal is called a fiduciary relationship.
Responsibilities of Agents
The sorts of responsibilities that come from a fiduciary relationship include that the agent has to always act in the best interests of the principal. This means that they need to avoid conflicts of interest. Agents are not allowed to secretly profit from their role. This means, for example, that an agent cannot take business or commercial opportunities for themselves that they are offered while acting for the principal. The agent must not disclose confidential information about the principal. They must also not misuse the principal’s money. This includes keeping the principal’s money separate from their own money. Generally the agent must act in person; they cannot delegate their responsibilities. Agents must fulfill their duties with care, skill and diligence and they cannot act or make decisions that fall outside the boundaries of the agreed relationship. All of the fiduciary responsibilities described above are legal requirements that will apply to the agent-principal relationship whether or not they are written down in the agreement. However because the agent has a lot of power to affect the life and finances of the principal, it makes a lot of sense to have a detailed written agreement, rather than a verbal agreement.
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Literature, Travel, Writing and Journalism
“Haitus: Noun, usually in singular; A pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity.” (OED)
That’s what’s happening today. After six years of weekly posts, though thick and thin, good times and bad, a short break is upon me.
I started writing regularly here back in 2013, for a variety of reasons. The blog, and its years of posts, have helped me achieve some goals – not least focusing on my personal and professional writing.
My scribbles here have also helped me process and progress through some significant life events – career changes, emigration, personal loss, mind-opening travel trips and more besides.
For the foreseeable future, though, posts will not be weekly, as before. But they will continue – not least because this remains a forum for my personal writing, itself a product of all-important reflection and creation.
On that note, I’m embarking on this haitus by re-visiting one of the most-read posts: about a 2013 walk across Paris in the footsteps of one of my literary idols.
Until the next one then, it’s not “au revoir”, just “à la prochaine”.
Tagged blog, Cormac Looney, Ernest Hemingway, hiatus, Writing
Emigration/Immigration, Ireland
With apologies to Van Morrison, it’s almost (Irish) independence day.
This year, just like the last couple (since I emigrated from Ireland) I’ve been thinking from 4,000 miles away: what song or poem or piece of writing best sums up the Ireland and the Irish?
Not the kelly green, or lachrymose versions of “Danny Boy”, or green rivers, or a million soda bread recipes, or drinking to excess. Though there’ll be plenty of all that this weekend – at least on this side of the pond.
Then it struck me – or, rather, I heard it. As I listened to music at home last night, a song by The Gloaming – the folk/classical/progressive traditional Irish act – came on.
“The Hare” is a version of the traditional Irish tune “The Hare and the Corn” – of which I am totally unfamiliar. The Gloaming’s version is beautiful though, a fiddle performance that is short and plaintive and melodic, and it throws up all sorts of images of the homeland for me.
It may have been some dust, or the light, or a day spent staring at screens, but for a moment I swore I was standing alone, at dawn, on the flank of Mweelrea in Co Mayo, as sun and rain washed over me, with something in my eye.
Well, I was I suppose, in one way.
Here it is then – more Ireland in three minutes than you’ll get all weekend.
Tagged Cormac Looney, Ireland, Irish, St Patrick's Day, The Gloaming, The Hare
The conversation could – of course – have gone another way.
One that didn’t leave him in a daze, sitting outside the office wondering who to tell first. Or what words to use.
Instead, after 40 or so years, he was left with this: five, six months at most.
As he sat there, fumbling for his phone, an older woman sat alongside him. Next in line, probably. Better luck, missus.
He wasn’t surprised that she started talking to him (something about weekday traffic), but he was when he responded.
Shouldn’t he be staring at a void, or consoling his wife?
After all, why keep up appearances when everything else has fallen down?
Perhaps it was her face, or voice, the human connection
That saw him suggesting alternate routes home for her.
There’s a dull safety in the banal, the simple chat.
Or so he thought afterwards, after the calls, and the tears, and the paperwork, and the goodbyes they didn’t want to admit were goodbyes.
When he could think clearly, he thought about that day, and those conversations.
The one that began with a doctor telling him things were not good, and the one that ended with an exchange about freeway routes.
I know which one I’ll take with me, he thought.
Tagged Cormac Looney, Poetry
Radiohead, 2006. Pic: Drown
Remember when rock bands really, really mattered?
When new releases were presaged by weeks of publicity, when liner notes were pored over, when tracks were listened to dozens of times to figure out just exactly what that lyric was?
A newly-published anthology of writings about Radiohead, “Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium”, takes me back to that time.
The book, which (full disclosure) features a great interview with the band by my other half, Clare Kleinedler, documents 25 years of journalism about the group, from their earliest incarnation as On A Friday to global pop domination and beyond.
Reading the articles, what stands out less is their substance (although features like Clare’s, and Will Self’s, built on solid interviews as opposed to opinions drawn from lyrical or musical clues, stand the test of time) than their context.
Almost every one, at least those from the “Pablo Honey” era onwards, is written on the assumption that Radiohead matter, that they are necessary, that they have Something To Say. Reading many of these pieces at the time, from defunct (and missed) publications like Select, I’m sure I concurred.
After all, what else was more important in the year 2000 that the release of “Kid A”? Weren’t the scraps from the floor of the studio used by the creators of “Paranoid Android” worth more than the greatest political, sporting or literary achievements of the day?
Well, so we thought. Now, of course, the idea seems quaint. Other music, other writing, other points of view, all of it available online ad infinitum, along with the passage of time, served to place Radiohead within the cultural context, instead of above or before it.
Reading “Present Tense” is as much as act of nostalgia as anything else, then; I felt a warm familiarity with some of the mundane facts in the articles (mundane now, at the time, revelatory – like how the band was named for a song on Talking Heads’ “True Stories” album).
It also reminded me of a period in my life when I had more free time, and less distractions – enough to allow me to spend whole afternoons picking over the inner musical workings of “Lucky”.
I can’t say I miss this (and I’ve long forgotten the arrangement of that particular song), nor will I miss the last era of the Single Important Rock Band – a strangely reductive concept.
But it was enjoyable to read – for a few hours at least – about how things were. Everything in its right place – in this case, the past.
Tagged Barney Hoskins, Clare Kleinedler, Cormac Looney, journalism, Kid A, Lucky, Music, Pablo Honey, Paranoid Android, Present Tense, Radiohead, Will Self
We ask, we ask, we ask.
Seeking one great answer,
The true face behind the mask.
If there’s one response,
There’s a thousand, of course.
Philosophized, preached or peddled,
So in that case, what’s worse
Than to take it from a novel,
That’s a century old,
About a disconnected family,
And a day trip put on hold?
Virginia Woolfe wrote that
The revelation never comes,
But in its place we watch for
“Daily miracles, illuminations.”
These “matches struck in the dark”
Show us the meaning of life.
No need for one great answer,
One solution to our strife.
That was Woolfe’s take, of course,
Add her to the thousands.
But her small sparks may be easier to find
Than big answers – hollow, if grand.
Tagged Cormac Looney, Poetry, To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
There are things I’d like to ask you.
Like how did you do it? How did you get it over the line?
On those days when it seemed that things could go either way.
Were you scared? Where did you find a refuge?
Did you enjoy it, sometimes?
I’d ask, selfishly, because I want to map my progress against yours –
The next generation pushes things forward, doesn’t it?
But I won’t be asking those questions.
I have no idea where you are, though I hope it’s somewhere good.
I try to picture you there and – in moments – I can,
Sitting, reading a newspaper, or reaching for your coat before leaving for town.
But I can’t ask you about these things
That come upon me in traffic, or in the moments before sleep,
Or when walking down a street, halfway lost.
A night in the house Richard built
The Richard Thompson Electric Trio, Portland, February 2019
No one could accuse Richard Thompson of being on-trend. For almost half a century he’s written songs and played a guitar, rarely rising above the status of cult hero, musician’s musician, or – the most back-handed compliment of all – critics’ darling.
On a snowy February night at Portland’s Revolution Hall, he’s still at it – touring with his band and playing songs from a record he released last year. As for trends, some 850 people have come out, filling the venue to capacity, to hear him do so.
It’s the fourth time I’ve seen the Englishman (at this stage a living folk-rock legend) perform. The first was in a packed tent in rainy field in the Irish midlands more than a decade ago – the stand-out track that afternoon being a version of “From Galway To Graceland“, his song about a Elvis fan who makes that trek, believing she’s set to marry The King.
In 2011 and 2015 I attended his shows – the latter an acoustic set, not unlike a show in Thompson’s living room – at Vicar Street in Dublin. These two gigs had all the traits of the first – blistering guitar work and an acerbic, if not outright sarcastic, stage manner.
Revolution Hall last Monday was more of the same: the guitar and the palaver, underpinned by the songs. New ones too – at least half the set was composed of tunes from “13 Rivers”, Thompson’s most recent release – a stronger, leaner set of songs than his some of his recent albums.
As befitted the time (Monday night, heavy weather, mid-winter), the set leaned toward the ominous on occasion (new song “The Storm Won’t Come” in particular), before Thompson – job done, Stratocaster turned down – produced the classics, the old favorites he’d advised then audience to wait around for, at the start of the show.
These included – most notably – a version of Fairport Convention’s “Genesis Hall”, dusted off and remodeled after almost 50 years, “Beeswing”, “Wall of Death” and – his calling card (and possibly his albatross) – “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”, whose opening riff was enough to justify the audience’s weeknight trip through snow and ice.
The highlight – for me, at least – took place during the first encore, when Thompson performed “Dimming of the Day”, his love song for onetime wife Linda Thompson, solo and acoustic. The performance was simple, stark and clear – no irony, no pyrotechnics. Who doesn’t want a love song – albeit a desperate, pleading one – to end the evening?
Tagged Cormac Looney, Folk, Music, Portland, Richard Thompson, rock
The ice – cornered – clings,
The sun above seeks it out.
The earth returns.
Tagged Cormac Looney, haiku, Poetry, Snow, Winter
You’ve got to get this into your life
Paul McCartney.
Imagine turning on a TV show and hearing a new Beatles song. Impossible, of course – unless it’s another Abbey Road crate-scaping exercise.
Or so I thought. Until I watched the final scene in the latest episode of “Crashing.” As Pete Holmes strolls into the loved-up distance with his new flame, out bursts a song so catchy, so jaunty, so 1966 Paul McCartney, that it could only be The Beatles – or so it seemed.
But I’d never heard it before. Cue a scramble for my phone, a quick Shazam, and there was the answer. It was “New“, it was McCartney, and it was released in 2013. Yet it sounds more “Got To Get You Into My Life” than, er, “Got To Get You Into My Life.”
The fact that I hadn’t heard “New” until now speaks more to my musical prejudices than the song’s impact, or brilliance. Since when have I thought: “Damn, I better drop everything and listen to that new Paul McCartney album?”
And yet McCartney keeps doing it. Half a century after he wrote “Love Me Do” with John Lennon, he still had enough creative juice to knock out “New”. Which is something of a lesson to creative folks – if you like doing something, never stop.
It’s also a lesson to those of us who give up on artists, or at least give up interest in the recent work. Don’t stop listening – there’s always something new (sorry.)
Tagged Cormac Looney, Music, New, Paul McCartney, Pete Holmes, The Beatles
The piano player and the perfect playlist
Elton John, Portland, 2019
It must be thrill to create a perfect piece of music, to touch or capture such a elusive thing. Some musicians do it once or twice, some a little more often – very few have achieved it repeatedly, over decades.
I’m not the biggest Elton John fan. For years – probably because of a string of cheesy ‘80s music videos – I avoided his work entirely. That’s long since changed, which is how I found myself sitting – with 20,000 other people – in Portland’s Moda Center last Saturday night, witnessing the man’s last go-round, his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
Perfection was in the air. I’ve attended hundreds of shows over the years, but never one with such a bulletproof setlist.
As he moved from one classic pop song to the next, I wondered how it must feel to be the guy sitting behind the piano, knowing that you’ve written a bunch of pretty-much perfect popular songs? To play a set so tight that there’s no room for “Honky Cat” or “Sacrifice” – tunes that would be the high point of most other composers’ nights?
Having written two dozen or more great songs, where do you go next? Are you tormented by them, or are they like cash in the bank (in more ways that one), a form of artistic security to be drawn down when necessary? Are you bored? (How may times and ways can you play the piano solo on “Bennie And The Jets”?)
Maybe the burden of perfection doesn’t weigh heavy. Perhaps, like Elton John, you handle it by just playing the songs. He looked like he enjoyed his three hours on stage in Portland. The audience – including this awed listener – certainly did.
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Where slavery thrived, inequality rules today
More than a century later, some experts say, a terrible institution is still exacting its price.
By Stephen Mihm AUGUST 24, 2014
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Standard and Poor’s Rating Services, a credit rating firm that rarely weighs in on social issues, published a scathing report on income inequality and social mobility in the United States. The firm warned that current levels of inequality were “dampening” growth, and predicted that “inequalities will extend into the next generation, with diminished opportunities for upward social mobility.”
This unusual report on inequality, like Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book on the same subject, addresses unequal fortunes, declining mobility, and stagnating economic growth as national or even global problems, which demand similarly large-scale solutions. But scholars are also well aware that these problems vary greatly from place to place. Consider a recent, much-publicized study of social mobility by economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues at Harvard and Berkeley. As the illuminating map generated by that study shows, children born in some regions—Salt Lake City and San Jose, Calif., for example—have a reasonable shot of moving up the social ladder. By contrast, many parts of the former Confederacy, it seems, are now the places where the American dream goes to die.
Why is that true? At first blush, you might guess race could explain the variation. When the study’s authors crunched the data, they found that the larger the black population in any given county, the lower the overall social mobility. But there was more to the story than blacks unable to break the cycle of poverty. In a passing comment, Chetty and his co-authors observed that “both blacks and whites living in areas with large African-American populations have lower rates of upward income mobility.” Far from being divergent, the fates of poor blacks and poor whites in these regions are curiously, inextricably, intertwined.
Institutions are Built to Maintain, Automate Collective Action
Slavers Built Inegalitarian Institutions
Instead of chalking it up to race, recent research points toward a more startling and somewhat controversial explanation: When we see broad areas of inequality in America today, what we are actually seeing is the lingering stain of slavery. Since 2002, with increasing refinement in the years since, economic historians have argued that the “peculiar institution,” as it was once called, is dead but not gone. Today, in the 21st century, it still casts an economic shadow over both blacks and whites: “Slavery,” writes Harvard economist Nathan Nunn, “had a long-term effect on inequality as well as income.”
His work is representative of a new, more historical direction within economics. Its proponents believe that institutions devised centuries ago tend to persist, structuring economic reality in the 21st century in ways that are largely invisible. Their hope is that, by tracing these connections between past and present, they may be able to point the way toward more effective solutions to today’s seemingly intractable economic problems.
Engerman & Sokoloff’s (2002) Institutional-econ Hypothesis Explains Inequality and Economic Stagnation
IN 2002, two economic historians, Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff, published an influential paper that tried to answer a vexing question: why are some countries in the Americas defined by far more extreme and enduring levels of inequality—and by extension, limited social mobility and economic underdevelopment—than others?
The answer, they argued, lay in the earliest history of each country’s settlement. The political and social institutions put in place then tended to perpetuate the status quo. They concluded that societies that began “with extreme inequality tended to adopt institutions that served to advantage members of the elite and hamper social mobility.” This, they asserted, resulted in economic underdevelopment over the long run.
More specifically, they observed that regions where sugar could be profitably grown invariably gave rise to societies defined by extreme inequality. The reason, they speculated, had to do with the fact that large-scale sugar plantations made intensive use of slave labor, generating institutions that privileged a small elite of white planters over a majority of black slaves. These institutions, their later work suggested, could encompass everything from property rights regimes to tax structures to public schools.
Harvard economist Nathan Nunn offered a more detailed statistical analysis of this “Engerman-Sokoloff hypothesis” in a paper first published in 2008. His research confirmed that early slave use in the Americas was correlated with poor long-term growth. More specifically, he examined county-level data on slavery and inequality in the United States, and found a robust correlation between past reliance on slave labor and both economic underdevelopment and contemporary inequality. He disagreed with Engerman and Sokoloff’s claim that it was only large-scale plantation slavery that generated these effects; rather, he found, any kind of slavery seemed to have begotten long-term economic woes.
Nunn also offered a more precise explanation for present-day troubles. In Engerman and Sokoloff’s narrative, slavery led to inequality, which led to economic underdevelopment. But when Nunn examined levels of inequality in 1860—as measured by holdings of land—these proved a poor predictor of future problems. Only the presence of slavery was a harbinger of problems. “It is not economic inequality that caused the subsequent development of poor institutions,” wrote Nunn. “Rather, it was slavery itself.”
Soares, Assuncao & Goulart (2012) clarify that not race but slavery intensity begets long-term economic inequality
This finding was echoed in a study by Brazilian economists Rodrigo Soares, Juliano Assunção, and Tomás Goulart published in the Journal of Comparative Economics in 2012. Soares and his colleagues examined the connection between historical slavery and contemporary inequality in a number of countries, largely in Latin America. The authors found a consistent correlation between the existence—and intensity—of slavery in the past and contemporary inequality. Moreover, this relationship was independent of the number of people of African descent living there today. As Soares said in an interview, “Societies that used more slavery are not more unequal simply because they have relatively more black people.”
The question, then, is how exactly did slavery have this effect on contemporary inequality? Soares and his colleagues speculated that limited political rights for slaves and their descendants played a role, as did negligible access to credit and capital. Racial discrimination, too, would have played a part, though this would not explain why whites born in former slaveholding regions might find themselves subject to higher levels of inequality.
Inequality-transmission Mechanism: Public Institutions are Stunted in Slavery Zones
The Toll of Inegalitarian Anti-public Institutions Over Time: A Dearth of Public Infrastructure Translates Inegalitarian Economic Growth into Economic Stagnation
Nunn, though, advanced an additional explanation, pointing to an idea advanced by Stanford economic historian Gavin Wright in 2006.
In lands turned over to slavery, Wright had observed, there was little incentive to provide so-called public goods—schools, libraries, and other institutions—that attract migrants. In the North, by contrast, the need to attract and retain free labor in areas resulted in a far greater investment in public goods—institutions that would, over the succeeding decades, offer far greater opportunities for social mobility and lay the foundation for sustained, superior economic growth.
As it happens, a contemporary critic of slavery took it upon himself to measure some of these differences between North and South. In 1857, a Southerner named Hinton Rowan Helper published an incendiary book titled “The Impending Crisis.” Though a virulent racist, Helper was no friend of slavery, and he quantified in excruciating detail the relative number of schools, libraries, and other institutions in both free and slaveholding states, finding time and again that his region failed to measure up to the North.
In Pennsylvania he found 393 public libraries, but in South Carolina, a mere 26. In the South, he observed, “the common school-house, the poor man’s college, is hardly known, showing how little interest is felt in the chief treasures of the State, the immortal minds of the multitude who are not born to wealth.”
Antisociological Denouement, or Even Institutional Economists are Professionally, Dogmatically Adverse to Admitting Preferences Are Socially-constructed through History
Institutionalized Hegemony Can Divorce People from Their Own Interests: Southern Whites Surprised to Find They Benefit When Public Institutions Imposed
WHAT SOMEONE like Helper may not have foreseen is that the abolition of slavery would not cure these ills. The destruction of slavery did not destroy all the political institutions, social mores, and cultural traditions that sustained it. Nor did it make public institutions, of the kind that the north had been building for decades, suddenly come into being.
This notion about the “persistence” of economic institutions is part of a larger dialogue within economics. Economists ranging from MIT’s Daron Acemoglu to Harvard’s Melissa Fisher have examined how institutions and practices adopted centuries ago can shape economic reality. But not everyone buys the idea that the past can structure the present in such an enduring, predictable fashion. Wright is among the critics of this approach; he is skeptical of Engerman and Sokoloff’s hypothesis. “The persistence of inequality per se is a myth,” he says, pointing to research that highlights the degree to which inequality has ebbed and flowed in Latin America.
Wright counts himself “unconvinced” regarding comparable claims about the United States. “No doubt slavery has played some kind of background role,” he concedes. But he sees the relationship between historical slavery and contemporary inequality as an interesting correlation, not a directly causal one. Correlating one variable with another across the centuries “isn’t the same as writing history,” he notes. “If you don’t connect the dots, you’re just groping.”
Another criticism of the “persistence” school is that it may justify passivity. If counties or countries have always been poor or unequal because of something that happened so long ago, what chance do contemporary policy makers have at deflecting the dead hand of the past?
But there is room for hope, as Wright’s own research would suggest. In “Sharing the Prize,” an economic history of the civil rights movement published in 2013, Wright found that efforts to end discrimination paid substantial, enduring benefits to black Southerners. Perhaps more surprisingly, he found that the movement benefited whites, too. Many poorer whites found that that the destruction of the old order—the end of poll taxes, for example—ushered in increased levels of public funding for schools, newfound political power, and a host of other economic, political, and educational benefits, particularly in the years immediately following the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Positive Affirmations for Liberals
That revolution, of course, is still a work in progress. As we’ve been reminded over the last two weeks by the clashes in Ferguson, Mo., between mostly black protesters and a mostly white police force, there’s a long way to go before the vestiges of slavery are fully and finally made a thing of the past. But this new body of research may help us grasp that solutions to persistent inequality will require more focused policies. Increasing the level of food stamps, as economist Paul Krugman has suggested, might help, but it is perhaps too diffuse and indiscriminate a solution.
Instead, the best way to deal with the lingering effects of dead institutions like slavery may be to create regional institutions aimed to promoting social mobility and economic growth. Georgia, for example, has tried to level the field with the “HOPE Scholarship,” which enables high schoolers with a “B” average or higher to attend in-state public colleges and universities for free and private in-state schools at a heavy discount.
Such programs, with some modifications, could go a long way toward promoting social mobility in the former slaveholding regions of the United States. That’s not to say that the problems will be easy to solve. But the progress we’ve already made, both politically and economically, would suggest that while we may live in slavery’s shadow, we are not prisoners of the past, either.
Stephen Mihm is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, and co-author, with Nouriel Roubini, of “Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance” (2010).
This article was published online in the Boston Globe in 2014; but as of 2019 it is no longer available online, so I have added it here. I have added my own subtitles to help Sociologists navigate through Mihm’s disciplinary metaphysics and personal politics.
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez. 2014. “Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States.”
(Note for Community Economic Development research: Patrick Kline is the econometrician in this group. He also publishes comparative economic assessments of “place-based policies.”)
Engerman, Stanley and Kenneth Sokoloff. 2002. “Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics.” NBER Working Paper 9259.
Helper, Hinton Rowan. 1857. The Impending Crisis of the South. New York.
Mihm, Stephen. 2007. A Nation Of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, And The Making Of The United States. Harvard.
Nunn, Nathan. 2008. The Long Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades. Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (1) : 139-176.
Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the 21st Century.
Soares, Rodrigo, Juliano Assunção, and Tomás Goulart. 2012. “A Note on Slavery and the Roots of Inequality.” Journal of Comparative Economics 40(4):565–580.
Wright, Gavin. 2006. (Note: Berkeley’s Wright is retired. I cannot locate this reference. Might have to email Mihm.)
Wright, Gavin. 2013. Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.
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The carceral core
From Bauman, Valerie. 2018. “Incarceration vs. education: America spends more on its prison system than it does on public schools,” The Daily Mail, 25 October.
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Dysfunction-function junction
Hamilton-Paterson adds the example of Network Rail’s bungled electrification of Great Western (its cost rose in two years from £874 million to £2.8 billion). ‘That’s privatisation for you: layers upon layers of managers and accountants who know nothing about railways. The old British Rail alternative was layers upon layers of experienced railwaymen who knew nothing about accountancy but who did know exactly what electrifying a line entailed and simply got on and did it.’ Later in his book, he attacks the notion (‘holy writ’ today) that a college degree in management enrols one in a portable profession in which it hardly matters what a company does.”
Neal Ascherson, “As the toffs began to retreat” LRB 40(22).
If your goal is to play the institution housing an accretion of wealth–the corporation, or the privatized public good/service–for stock-market gains, then it very much doesn’t ever matter if you accomplish any substantive social or environmental goals.
“People talk easily about political ‘consensus’ in the postwar years. Edgerton disagrees. There was no lasting consensus between the parties on the welfare state, he says, and the idea of a ‘Butskellism’ common to Labour and Tory is a myth. Only for the ‘warfare state’ was there a consensus, to keep its secrets and to pay its vast bills. Britain’s hugely profitable arms trade is an enduring by-product of that state, and here Hamilton-Paterson contributes an unsettling thought. ‘It is the arms industry perhaps more than any other that best preserves the inventive standards and traditions of British engineering, research and technical expertise.’”–Ascherson
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The Power and the Mediocrity of the Sign
In “What Americans Keep Ignoring about Finland’s School Success,” Anu Partanen reveals capitalist Anglo-America’s elephant-in-the-room-sized blind spot, why its focus on competition and “excellence” results in diminishing performance in order to promote concentrated power and idealism.
The Finns (Per Sahlberg) on education reform that demands accountability from teachers: “There is no word for accountability in Finnish. Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.” In Finland all teachers and administrators are given prestige, decent pay, and a lot of responsibility.
The Finns (Samuli Paronen) on competition: “Real winners do not compete.” There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland. The driver of education policy in Finland is not competition amongst teachers and schools, policy forcing the ideal conservative conditions of bellum omnia contra omnes, but rather cooperation. School choice is not an issue, nor is putting education in the hands of the private sector and profit motive. This is in distinct contrast to America, Sahlberg observes, where “schools are a shop.”
The Finnish education reform goal was always equality and equity, never “excellence” or whatever conservative daydreams that word stands in for. “Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.” What the world dominated by conservative Anglo-american capitalist dogma still cannot face is that it is equality that most efficiently produces star performances and substantive excellence.
Tiger Moms’ genius boys in Shanghai and Singpore can put in 20-hour days of rote memorization and exhaustive cramming, and only manage to approximate in performance the Finnish children who are simply well cared for and supported by valued, independent, unionized teachers and their egalitarian society. Surely, the East Asian genius boys are better poster boys for conservative capitalist discipline; but just as surely they are inefficient…and 99% of these memorizers and crammers will never be able to write a non-plagiarized essay, that is, communicate independently, like humans can.
Why does egalitarianism more efficiently make excellence? The answer is right in front of our nose, right in front of our blind spot. It’s because in the inequality tradition, poor people are overwhelmingly, structurally prevented from attaining their human potentials, and, a factor that perversely torments conservative theorists much more, the rich enjoy the comfort of knowing that surrounded by throngs of shackled “competitors,” they can enjoy many a good old slack.
In such a conservative culture, it is the appearance and ideal of excellence that matters, because the sign unmoored is directed by and justifies power. To be chosen is a sign, necessarily imposed upon the material world. The grim “play” of signs, only ordered by the mystified, atopic distribution of power in a reified collective imagination (a world not made but given, or made by all because you cannot choose unfreely), is Anglos’ obsession, and the more people you can induce to submit to this obsession, the more human life chances are allocated by market power and the more absolutely necessary capitalism (or its feudal and slavery complements) is for any life chance at all.
At or adhered to central nodes of global capitalist accumulation, Anglo-Americans are altogether too kind, too attentive to, too solicitous of the promotional, the unmoored sign, constantly mistaking it for the legitimate, autarkic limits of knowable (meta)reality. Our literature, for one example, is far too ready to believe that the con man is the true knower.
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Game Reviews, PC, Xbox 360
Mark of the Ninja Review
Platform: Xbox 360, PC
Developer: Klei Entertainment
Publisher: Microsoft Studios
Official: Mark of the Ninja
“One of the best surprises of the year”
Ninja’s, the world’s elite assassins and covert operatives, showing amazing skill in the art of stealth and subterfuge they are a mainstay in popular culture, a favorite among children and adults alike. But the ninja has also been a hard nut to crack for both Hollywood and videogames, with end results often being a mess, one that has a lot of flash but little substance. With games such as Tenchu and Ninja Gaiden having come and gone, with varying degrees of success, it has been some time since a company has attempted to capture what makes the ninja so endearing. Well welcome Klei Entertainment’s stab at the genre, because it hits closest to the mark than any before.
Klei Entertainment is a small Vancouver studio best known for its ‘Shank” series, but they have also released Eets and helped in the development of N+ for Xbox Live, but it is still Shank that people remember. Wearing a distinct art style and displaying great action Shank 1 and 2 received favorable reviews from most outlets, but quietly Klei wasn’t resting on its laurels, they were toiling away on a title that was far away from Shanks violent frenetic pace, a title that instead put stealth and planning above all else. Mark of the Ninja released out of nowhere in early September, as quietly as its main protagonist, but it also hit just as hard.
Released originally for Xbox Live Arcade, the title just missed out on the Summer of Arcade promotion, a tragedy, as it would have greatly helped with this year’s subpar lineup. The title recently released onto the Steam platform as well. What Klei has managed to do with Mark of the Ninja is pretty remarkable, no other developer has been able to capture the magic of being a true stealth assassin, with most just opting to go for pure action ala Tecmo with Ninja Gaiden. Mark will forever be the bar that all other Ninja games are judged or possibly even stealth games in general.
Mark of the Ninja is a side scrolling stealth title with brilliant ideas and execution. The game allows you to be as quiet or as violent as you like, with viable tools for each, and each is a completely fun and exciting way to experience the game. You may choose to play through one stage as a ghost in the darkness, avoiding any enemies you see on your way to the end, then in the next level, choose to instead harass and terrify the guards in your path, stringing up their friends bodies as a message and opening up their backs while they stare in horror. Each location is an open sandbox for you to do with as you please.
One of the best aspects of the game however, is how open it is with letting you know exactly what is going on. Displayed on screen is every detail you will need to formulate your strategy, but yet it is all handled without displaying any bars or other intrusive elements onto the screen, an impressive feat. Not once while playing the game will you not know how visible you are, not once will the game feel cheap, unlike some games released this year (ahem, Dishonored) If you are in the shadows and thus not visible the games screen will become a shade of black and white, letting you know you cannot be seen. Enemies will have flashlights that act as a clear line of sight, elements making noise will show a sphere of distance, and vents and doors can be looked through to see to the other side. The game is a collection of brilliant design decisions that work so flawlessly that they may appear subtle to the user, but if they weren’t there, would be glaringly obvious and frustrating.
This care and attention has gone into your abilities and toolsets as well. You can choose to be outfitted with a number of implements, from simple darts and firecrackers, to more lethal utensils, such as spike mines and caltrops. Your skill as an assassin will also grow as you progress, opening up new maneuvers, from hanging from a light post to quietly grab your prey, to eventually running without making any noise. The game manages these abilities and tools through several skill trees that you will be able to work through as you play; these trees are enhanced further with costumes you can unlock by completing side objectives. These costumes not only look cool, they will change up how you experience the game. There is even a certain box that you can unlock, a not so subtle nod to another stealth based series.
As you move further through the story enemy variety and environmental dangers increase. You will have to plan around simple grunts, snipers, and brutes as well as dogs and security lasers. Luckily the enemy AI is fun to battle. You will be able to manipulate guards through various means, and potentially get them to mistakenly shoot their own partners as they panic. The gameplay that Klei has given Mark of the Ninja never falters at being entertaining, and if you do begin to lose interest in one form of attack, simply change up your playstyle and have at it again.
Visually Mark of the Ninja carries that distinct visual style Klei brought Shank to life with. Sharp thick lines and cartoonish figures blended with bold violent acts. If there is one gripe to the game, it’s that this beautiful art style is not displayed enough, as the majority of the experience is played with a far camera and at night and in shadows. The music and sound effects are fine, but are also toned down to give the game a quiet feeling. The story is told through animated cut scenes and takes its twists and turns, but it is nothing to write home about.
Mark of the Ninja is a cheap downloadable title that boasts one of the best gameplay experiences of the year. You can easily find yourself wanting to play through the game a second time, as a New Game Plus option opens up after completion. The game also holds hidden collectibles and bonus stages within its maze like environments. With Mark of the Ninja Klei Entertainment has possibly crafted one of the finest examples of stealth gameplay in a videogame, but they have without question created the best ninja experience in gaming ever. -Chuck
+ Fantastic gameplay for both stealth and action
+ Fun assortment of tools and maneuvers
+ Great presentation
+ All mechanics are displayed well to the player
– Art and animation perhaps not used as well as it could have been
November 12, 2012 April 11, 2013 Dishonored, Game Reviews, Klei, Mark of the Ninja, Stealth, Steam, Xbox Live
5 thoughts on “Mark of the Ninja Review”
Overall a great stealth game 😀
ChuckZ says:
Yes, I am very interested to see them tackle a sequel.
They are making a sequel??? Why not a new IP!?
Well they haven’t said they are, I would just be interested to see the kinds of improvements they could make.
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The CDBG Program helps local communities fund economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs for low to moderate income individuals (i.e. individuals earning less than 80% of the area median income).
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PM Imran leaves for one-day trip to Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday left for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on one-day visit where he would hold meetings with the Saudi leadership.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal said the visit was part of bilateral cooperation and regular exchanges between the leadership of the two countries.
The discussions between the two sides would cover bilateral matters and recent developments in the regional context.
PM Imran underscored that Pakistan wishes for peace and stability in the entire region, including the Gulf countries. All conflicts and disagreements can be resolved through political dialogue and diplomacy, he added.
The PM had also apprised MbS about the latest conditions in Indian occupied Kashmir which has been under a military lockdown since August 5.
This would be Prime Minister Imran’s fourth visit to Saudi Arabia since May. In October, he also travelled to Iran following his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York in September.
Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, and DG ISI Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed also visited Iran. General Qamar’s visit to Tehran in November was considered significant as he, according to some diplomatic sources, was carrying an important message for the Iranian leadership on behalf of the Saudis.
Pakistan has been trying to seek a patch-up between Iran and Saudi Arabia since September when the Saudi oil facilities came under missile attacks.
The prime minister would also visit the Roza-e-Rasool (Peace be Upon Him) in Madina.
Speaking at the weekly news briefing, Foreign office spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal on Thursday said high-level exchanges between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are the ‘hallmark of the brotherly relationship.’
“You have witnessed the high frequency of leadership level exchanges, especially since last August. The prime minister has undertaken at least 3 visits to KSA since May this year,” he added.
During his last visit to Saudi Arabia in October, PM Imran had met Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in a bid to ease tensions between Tehran and Riyadh.
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Baseball: Following Strong Performances On The Mound, Utes Strike It Big At The Plate
Rolling with the momentum from a historic series win in their Pac-12 opener against Oregon, the Utes traveled to Tempe over the weekend for another conference road test against a skilled Arizona State squad.
The series with the Ducks showcased a talented Utah bullpen and was capped off by a gem of a performance from sophomore Josh Lapiana, who threw his first complete-game shutout as a Ute in the final game of the series. In the team’s first game against the Sun Devils, the pitching looked equally locked-down.
Utah’s Jayson Rose kicked off the series pitching a stellar eight innings and allowed just one run before Riley Ottesen and Dylan Drachler closed out game. The strong performance on the mound was not a surprise after stellar pitching led the team to victory the previous weekend, but the team’s solid at-bats and clutch scoring gave the Utes the 3-1 victory and marked another notable improvement in the team’s offense.
“We came off of a big series win, and I think we didn’t want to be satisfied with it and came out with a chip on our shoulder, wanting to prove something,” said freshman DaShawn Keirsey, Jr., who scored one of the Utes’ three runs in Thursday’s competition and accounted for three of the team’s hits last Saturday.
Scoring enough runs to back up the pitching and overcome early deficits was somewhat of a challenge earlier in the season, and the Utes have struggled to find consistency at the plate. In nine of the team’s games prior to the series against Arizona State, the team had been held to two or fewer runs, but in the recent series against Oregon, the team combined for 11 runs and did a good job of getting runners on base and in scoring position.
Despite the team’s offensive improvements against the Ducks and in the opening game of the series against ASU, Utah was on the receiving end of a Sun Devil no-hitter in Friday’s matchup and found itself down a run heading into the bottom of the eighth inning of the final game on Saturday.
While it appeared the run-scoring production the Utes had enjoyed in several of their last games was beginning to falter, in possibly its best offensive showing of the season, the team went on a 10-0 run in the final two innings of the weekend to win the game, with Utah batters accounting for a remarkable 23 hits on the day.
“I think we were just locked in and focused that day before the game. We were ready to put that last game behind us and get the ball rolling,” Keirsey, Jr. said.
The tremendous comeback captured Utah’s first back-to-back conference series wins since leaving the Mountain West, but more importantly, it marks yet another time this season in which the Utes were able to overcome a deficit and finish a close game.
“Right now [the team’s greatest improvement] would just be being able to punch back. That has been our problem in the past, opposing teams would put up a run or two and the attitude on offense was kind of just to give in,” said senior Kellen Marruffo, who went a team-best 3-for-5 with one RBI on Thursday.
Marruffo also believes the team’s success correlates with a change in the mentality players have as they go up to bat and that the team is finding its offense niche playing small.
“This year I think a lot of effort and attitude is being put in to keep sending guys up to the plate, and whether by barrel, dink or hit over the middle infield, either way, as long as we get baserunners on, something good is bound to happen,” Maruffo said.
The Utes will look to keep stringing together solid pitching and run-scoring and put six weeks of traveling behind them as they host Arizona this weekend in a crucial three-game series. The Utes’ 4-2 conference record has them tied for first place with Cal, Washington and UCLA — a promising start for a team that finished dead-last in the Pac-12 just one year ago.
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