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James Irvin
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Simplicity doesn’t mean simple, certainly when to comes to music and the music of Gadsen, Alabama’s own Albert Simpson is certainly no exception. His Southern, funky folk sound and his rich Alabama accented voice are only the surface elements of the complex, honest and revealing songwriting that lies beneath the most recent addition to the Ten Ton Records roster. While having often been seen working in collaborative settings such as Highly Kind (who’s album Don’t Wake Albert stands as a landmark work for Allman Brothers and Widespread Panic producer Johnny Sandlin), as a member of Mobile’s Dead and guesting with (San Francisco Giant) Jake Peavy and The Outsiders for the “Can’t Stop the Train: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia” benefit concert that featured Grateful Dead legend Phil Lesh at the legendary Fillmore West in August of 2016. Albert tends perform solo but does so with all the bravado and musical complexity of a full band, delivering one of the most complete sounds from a solo artist you are likely to hear anywhere. More recently, Albert has released the new single "Pieces" and continues to tour largely in the Southeast, however Albert has constantly expanded his touring horizons to now include all three continental coasts and beyond so keep your eyes open and don’t miss this talented musician when we comes your way.
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Frozen finds in the Alpine
Artifacts of the caribou hunter
By Todd Kristensen, Tom Andrews and Darryl Bereziuk
The winds bode well for a small group of climbers high in the alpine on an August afternoon. They are peering down below at unsuspecting caribou that have clustered on a patch of ice to stay cool. The stench of caribou dung left by thousands of animals that have returned to this area over thousands of years is a nasal reminder of how caribou are set in their ways. On a daily basis during the summer months, the animals migrate upslope to colder heights during the hottest time of day only to return to the valleys at night. This ancient habit makes the caribou predictable. And so, as long as caribou have been gathering at ice patches in Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories for over 9,000 years, people armed with sturdy moccasins and stone-tipped weapons have followed them.
Archaeological research from Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias Ranges to the Mackenzie Mountains in the NWT has revealed rare and delicate tools preserved in high altitude ice that document a deep human history in some of the most remote alpine habitats on the continent. These artifacts were lost by ancient people such as the hunters described above, and have since been encased in a barrier of ice that climate change has recently unlocked. A race is now on to find frozen relics from the past before they, and the icy archives that house them, disappear forever. Also fading are the memories of this traditional practice among local indigenous groups. Elders still remember an age old mantra passed down for generations that may just as well describe the strategy of modern hikers: “Climb high and stay high”. The important point was to approach game from above. Archaeology and traditional knowledge combine to tell an amazing story of mountain climbs in ancient times.
The story of prehistoric alpine hunters owes its existence to modern biologists in the Yukon who discovered an odd piece of wood above the tree line in the Coast Mountains. The find was reported to local archaeologists who realized that it was a wooden tool lost on the ice thousands of years ago. Indigenous people across the North still remember stories of life in the alpine, but until that lucky Yukon find, archaeologists didn’t expect that much physical evidence of old activities would preserve in the harsh high altitude conditions. It is very rare to find intact wooden tools that are thousands of years old, so the artefact triggered a series of research programs that focused the eyes of archaeologists upwards on lofty peaks where they eventually found themselves down to their knees in slippery caribou dung.
A suite of research techniques is helping to uncover the technologies used by alpine climbers while radiocarbon dates are indicating when different weapons were used. The flurry of scientific methods in alpine research is an avalanche of acronyms to the uninitiated: GPR (ground penetrating radar), SEM-EDS (scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectrometry), and our own invention HUMT-FT (hiking up mountains to find things). Scientists also rely on caribou radio-collar data, ancient DNA research, mountain range satellite imagery, and snow indices. The result is an impressive library of information about alpine life in the days before hiking boots, crampons, and Gor-Tex.
Archaeologists have learned that Indigenous people used three major weapons to kill caribou, sheep, ptarmigan, small mammals, and even bison in high altitude areas. The first and oldest is the atlatl and dart system (or spear thrower). Picture a lacrosse stick but instead of a basket on the end, a little spur or hole served as the seat of a small wooden spear. The spear or ‘dart’ was launched from the wooden stick like a javelin. When compared to a basic spear, the atlatl increased the length of the thrower’s arm and in turn increased the power, which drove the dart deeper into the target’s body.
Around 1,200 years ago, the atlatl and dart were replaced by the bow and arrow. Broken bow fragments from the ice patches tell of failed hunting expeditions while frozen arrows tell of near misses that were lost in the snow. The benefit of the bow and arrow was that hunters could stand still while firing as opposed to the running launch of the atlatl dart. Less hunter movement meant that animals didn’t notice their two-legged predators until too late. The bows were made of maple and willow wood (bendy but durable) while arrow/dart shafts were made of birch, spruce, and saskatoon. A traditional indigenous name of the saskatoon plant is ‘arrow berry,’ which reflects the ancient roots of a raw material used over 2,000 years ago.
Stone arrowheads were coated in thick, sticky spruce sap that glued the arrowhead in place on the arrow shaft. It was then tied tight with thread or “sinew” made from caribou back tissue. Sinew was also used to tie neatly clipped bird feathers to the ends of arrows. This is called ‘fletching’ and helped create drag that kept the arrows flying straight. Just as every old village in Europe had a blacksmith, every village had an arrow-maker, which explains the now common North American surnames of ‘Smith’ and ‘Fletcher’. Arrowmaker is also a common indigenous family name for this same reason. The ideal feathers for arrows were from hawks, owls, and eagles because it was hoped that their silent aerial hunting skills would be passed on to the flying weapons.
The last weapon system found in the high altitude ice was used to capture the notoriously ferocious ground squirrel and marmot. Rodent snares have been found in the Selwyn Mountains of Northwest Territories that are made of leather loops that were triggered by wooden trip pegs set outside burrows. Indigenous stories tell us that ground squirrel skins were stitched together to form beautiful robes and that up to 200 snares in a single alpine area could produce enough food to last for months. Add the supply of caribou, sheep, ptarmigan, and berries and alpine life from late summer to early fall was good.
The collection of preserved alpine tools in northern ice patches is truly unique in North America and they are broadening our understanding of prehistoric ways. For example, a 1,400-year-old moccasin from the Yukon Plateau region represents one of the oldest pieces of footwear found in northern North America. The moccasin was likely replaced by spares that hunters carried with them while hiking over hard and rocky mountains. As modern climbers know, the right gear (in this case new shoes) can be a matter of life and death. Moving around in the alpine was a critical thing, which is strongly echoed in indigenous stories. Living in the alpine meant knowing how to move through it, and, more importantly, how to properly treat a landscape that held the fate of one’s own life. People would regularly “pay the water” (offer gifts to spirits at water bodies), properly dispose of animal remains (to make sure the spirits could be re-incarnated), and “dream animals” (listen to the omens of alpine spirits that communicated to people through dreams). All of this helped maintain a healthy balance in which people took care of the land and the land took care of the people.
Over time, the caribou have seen it all, from atlatls to snares and bows and arrows to muskets (a musket ball was found on a Yukon ice patch). In addition to all that technological change, the caribou are now watching a novel impact of human industry, one that is having bigger effects on caribou populations than prehistoric hunting. Warming temperatures are eating away at the ice patches that caribou rely on to beat the heat. For an animal adapted to surviving frigid Arctic winters, it is the hot summers that may prove more dangerous to survival. Now, archaeologists and caribou are meeting eye-to-eye along the vanishing edges of alpine ice patches. While archaeologists eagerly recover ancient artifacts, caribou reluctantly clamour for pockets of cool snow. They are now laying on totally melted ice patches out of instinct, which is bad news because the exposed dark dung bands absorb solar radiation and drive up caribou body temperature. They are returning to cool down at ancestral resting spots that no longer exist.
Ice patches that lasted for over four millennia have vanished in the last 50 years. Jennifer Galloway of the Geological Survey of Canada studies changes in northern plant communities by inspecting ancient pollen and her research helps uncover the rate, magnitude, and direction of climate change over the last 10,000 years. She’s detected dramatic changes in the recent past and hopes to use that information to understand how regions like the mountains of the NWT may experience future changes if the climate continues to warm.
The causes of global warming are debated but the alpine effects are clear. It is ironic that as the ice melts it unlocks a story of prehistoric hunting while exposing those very clues of the ancient past to destructive high altitude weather. A book is opening and quickly closing. Much remains to be learned. If modern climbers find old bones, wood, or a potential artefact, please leave them in place and contact the authors with some photographs or map coordinates so we can continue to learn about the deep past of life in the alpine.
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Cigars are one of the most commonly used stylish types of fermented tobacco. It is rolled up and dried form of tobacco which you must have seen quite often in movies or TV shows when a gangster or a mafia lit up and smoke. It is considered to be highly priced and showcases wealth and business. In more simple terms it is a rolled up tobacco in which one end is lit with fire while the other is the opening by which smokes enter the mouth. The tobacco used in the cigar is also quite special and its flavor is considered to be rich and deep. It is grown in the countries like Mexico, Cuba and Brazil. The best varieties of cigars are Cuban cigars which lit a tight and large wad of smoke and leaves. Cuban cigars are considered to be highly priced and experts content that Honduran cigars are easily the rival of Cuban cigars.
How Cigars made?
Cigars are considered to be very expensive and usually confined to banquets where smokers are held. Choice of tobacco leaves makes a cigar. It is made with a combination of heat and shade. This serves to lower the leaves, water and sugar content without causes leaves to rot. Once it is dried, they are slowly processed to fermentation. With time, controlling temperature and humidity, the leaves ferment without rotting. In such crucial period, the flavor and aroma builds into the cigar. Once the process of fermentation is complete, the leaves are sorted to decide whether it will be used a wrapper or a filler.
The later on, the leaves are kept moist and handled. As soon as the leaves are sorted out, a cigar maker rolls them into a shape and then sold in market. The flavor of the cigar depends mainly on the wrapper and filler used for making it. The final color of the product could be very light in shade, more brownish and greenish and known as double claro or black grown in Cuba or Brazil. The color of the wrapper decides its color. Most cigars are made up of fillers where smoking tobacco leaves are bundled together by binders and some of them are mixed with various tastes in order to give different shapes and tastes.
Where to find best Cigars?
One can search online to find great source for Rocky cigars because of its taste and choice. Online provides a great source for Rocky cigars to choose your cigar type.
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Strategic Leader Seminars
June 27, 2015 September 7, 2015 Lee Vinson
Sue Sears, VP Global Diversity and Inclusion at Kimberly-Clark and Kris Ruedebusch, KCP Senior Sales Capability Leader lead panel discussion with U.S. Army Brigade Commanders at the U.S. Army, Command and General Staff College, School for Command Prep, Brigade Pre Command and Command Sergeants Major Course
Fort Leavenworth, KS/ March 03, 2014 / — Kimberly Clark Corporation (KCC) and Apex Analytics Group (AAG) introduced Sue Sears, VP Global Diversity and Inclusion at Kimberly-Clark Corporation as the keynote speaker for the U.S. Army, School for Command Prep, Pre Command Course, “Strategic Leader Seminar” (SLS) held March 02 – 06 2015. The course is held fourteen times per year at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, School for Command Preparation located on Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Senior industry leaders from Kimberly Clark Corporation, led by Sue Sears, VP Global Diversity and Inclusion and Kris Ruedebusch shared their insights and experiences with the U.S. Army Brigade Pre-Command Course, 15-04 during the Strategic Leader Seminar session.
The Kimberly Clark leaders discussed the story behind their award-winning people strategy and shared how it is driving critical cultural changes for Kimberly Clark to adapt and grow to a changing global environment. “K-C’s workplace diversity and inclusion are integral to our growth strategy, and we realized how greater diversity in the management team benefits the growth of Kimberly-Clark’s businesses and brands” explained Sue Sears, Vice President of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The Kimberly Clark representatives were truly value-added in the PCC course. Their discussions and corporate perspectives on leading change and creating a positive and successful corporate culture were outstanding.” – COL (R) Tom Guthrie
The classroom of over 50 Army Brigade Commanders and Command Sergeants Majors (CSMs) were engaged and quickly grasped the importance and relevance of K-C’s people strategy to their roles as strategic leaders. KCC executives highlighted K-C’s strategy of delivering measurable business results by embedding the belief that greater diversity of thought, experience and perspective fosters new ideas, identifies breakthroughs, and helps minimize risks in order to achieve goals. KCC’s insights resonated well with the Army officers and senior non-commissioned officers (NCOs) as they connected the strategy to messages from senior Army leaders. One commander’s feedback highlighted this linkage “Great case study on how a company self-corrected to maintain relevance”.
“It is essential to have leadership from the top. Our CEO, Tom Falk, champions Kimberly-Clark’s efforts to create a more diverse and inclusive management team. He models the behavior we want to encourage across the organization.” (Source: Sue Sears Q&A Interview, Huffington Post Blog, 8/9/2014) US Army Veteran Kris Ruedebusch described how KCC’s diversity strategy extends to their development of military and veteran talent through their SALUTE network group which focuses on professional development and support of over 500+ military and veteran employees at Kimberly Clark. “Exposure to diverse environments and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of partners is a key component of professional development at Kimberly-Clark. SALUTE and Kimberly-Clark recognize the great diversity that military veterans can bring to the organization.” Explained Ben Johnson, Sr. Brand Manager Global Intimate Care and Founder Kimberly-Clark SALUTE.
“We really appreciated the leadership perspective Sue Sears of Kimberly Clark provided to our Army’s future senior leaders. Sue’s insights on leading change, valuing diversity and her sharing of techniques to help shape the strategic direction of the firm were unequivocally value-added. This joint outreach initiative recognizes the importance of how seniors can continue to learn from others; it was a truly enriching experience.” – COL (R) Todd Ebel, Director of Brigade Command Development Programs
I know I speak for all our employees at K-C in saying that we consider it a privilege to be there to help our veterans in any way we can for all the sacrifices they and their families have made for us. I was inspired by being with such a talented group of professionals during the SLS panel and believe that these military leaders model leadership every day and those skills are very transferrable to the business world.
About US Army PCC, Strategic Leader Seminar at Fort Leavenworth
This strategic leader seminar series is delivered during each Pre-Command Course and CESL course by the Apex Analytics team in support of US Army senior leader development objectives. The objective of each seminar is to deliver operationally relevant leadership topics and insights through the lens of industry. The SLS executive panel was moderated by CGSC SCP Army instructors Todd Ebel and Tom Guthrie, and Northwest Missouri State University’s School of Business professor Ben Blackford.
The U.S. Army Mission Command Pre Command Course addresses a range of critically important themes in the area of Army senior leadership and strategy. The Apex team brings academia and industry together to deliver the Strategic Leader Seminar, and address similar leadership themes through the lens of industry. The seminar series identifies and invites leading industry organizations to exchange perspectives in strategic leadership with U.S. Army Brigade commanders and Command Sergeants Major as well as senior government civilian executives. Keynote speakers include industry corporate thinkers and leaders in their field, as well as papers and workshops delivered by university professors and industry practitioners.
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, nearly a quarter of the world’s population trust K-C’s brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No. 1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. To keep up with the latest K-C news and to learn more about the Company’s 143-year history of innovation, visit www.kimberly-clark.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
About Apex Analytics Group
Apex Analytics focuses on delivering a valuable Strategic Leader Seminar series for the U.S. Army’s SCP, helping to ensure their success and shape the future of the Army through the Commanders, CSMs, and senior Civilian Executives attending the course. Apex Analytics’ mission is to provide operationally relevant and professional services to our clients.
For more details about the information provided in this release please contact: James Dowdy, Apex Analytics Group, 913.314.3802. jd.dowdy@apexanalyticsgroup.com
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Back in the days on "The Talk of the Town" 930 CJCA (when it was talk radio, not Christian programming), his morning highlight and possibly the only reason my father didn't commit suicide in the 1980s recession was "The Bill and Bill Show" with Bill Matheson (the infamous weather guy) and Bill Jackson.
Amoungst their many topics, the most polarizing (heh heh) of all had to be the endless discussions of "do the northern lights make noise". At least twice a month the topic would come up and you'd get insistant calls from people who'd live in the north their entire lives who insisted that they had never once heard the northern lights make noise, followed by falls from more people who had lived in the north their entire lives who insisted that they had always heard them make noise. Then somebody would call up and say they were a scientist and explain briefly why the northern lights had to make noise, followed by another phone call from another scientist who patiently explained how the northern lights couldn't possibly make noise.
Well, Wikipedia doesn't even mention the controversy, but does link to this page:
The main results of the thesis
The analysis shows statistically significant correlation between the sound power fluctuation and the geomagnetic activity.
The cross-correlations were performed at one-third octave bands with different delay values.
The delays between magnetic field activity and sound power fluctuation at the highest correlation values speak for a sound source relatively close to the measuring place (ground level). Thus the possible audio range sound source (infrasounds excluded) is not located at the aurora light source, 80-100 km above the ground level, but relatively close to the ground.
The same audio data revealed a clear correlation peak at the upper infrasound range (<20Hz) with a delay corresponding to the sound wave traveling-delay from the level of the aurora light source to the ground (this outcome confirms a known result published earlier).
The possible physical mechanisms behind these sound effects are not yet known.
The simultaneously measured local electric field signals (a VLF antenna 20m from the microphone) indicated very low correlation with the measured sound signals (at zero delay) which means that the local electric field cannot be the cause of the acoustic signals detected.
The acoustic measurements were done with a highly sensitive, low noise, measuring microphone (B&K) which is carefully shielded against ambient electric and magnetic field disturbances.
So there you have it citizens: the aurora borealis do indeed make noise, and 1/2 of the callers to the Bill & Bill Show were idiots. (This probably isn't a surprising statistic)
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Scheduled Appearances for Bill Rodgers
2/4 - Impact Melanoma Meeting, Concord, MA
2/16 -NIRSA Conference, Boston, MA
2/8 - 2/9 - Podcast with the BAA in Boston, MA
2/22 - 2/24 - Hyannis Marathon / Half Marathon & 10K, Hyannis, MA
2/27 - Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, Concord , MA
3/20 - Boston Marathon Banner Day w/ the BAA & John Hancock, Boston, MA
3/15 - The Metro West Community Breakfast, Sheraton Hotel, Framingham, MA
4/3 - Grab the Torch, Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY
4/11 - 15 - Boston Marathon, Boston, MA
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4/26 - 4/28 - Pro Football Hall of Fame Marathon, Canton, OH
5/3 - 5/5 - Run For The Cows, Redding, CT
5/16 - BBL Workforce Challenge, Albany, NY at the Corporate Cup
5/17 - John Hancock, Boston, MA
6/2 - Charlies Surplus 10 Mile, Worcester, MA (Charlie Epstein Dedication takes place at 2:30pm)
6/5 - 6/8 - Bellin Run, 10K, Green Bay, WI
6/13 - 6/16 - Shelter Island 10K & 5K, Shelter Island, NY
7/8 - 7/10 - ZAP Fitness Camp, Blowing Rock, NC
7/11 - 7/14 - Boilermaker 15K & 5K Road Race, Utica, NY
7/24 - 7/27 - Bix 7 Mile, Davenport, IA
8/16 - 8/18 - Falmouth Road Race, Falmouth, MA
9/25 - 9/26 - Thompson Island Outward Bound, 4K X-country race, Boston, MA
9/28 - 9/29 - Team Daniel 5K, North Hempstead, NY
10/8 - Warsaw, Indiana, Warsaw Schools
10/25 - 10/27 - Overton Park 5 Mile Classic, Memphis, TN
11/1 - 11/3 - NYC Marathon, New York City, NY
Bill will be appearing at the following locations during the NYC Marathon weekend:
Friday November 1st, 10am at "The Run Center" @ 320 West 57th Street.
Friday November 1st, 3pm at "Tavern on the Green" Central Park, W 67th St, New York, NY - meeting with NYC Marathon Streakers!
Saturday November 2nd, 11am at the Javits Center, NYC Marathon Expo, 429 11th Ave, New York, NY
11/21 - 11/24 - Philadelphia Marathon, PA
11/27 - 11/23 - Feaster 5 Expo & Race, North Andover, MA
12/6 - 12/8 - St. Jude Marathon, Memphis, TN
12/14 - 12/15 - Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run - 5K Somerville, MA
12/20 - 12/22 - Mt. Dora 5K & Half Marathon, MT Dora, FL
Click here to read a new article by Toni Reavis "BRRC: GONE BUT IRREPLACEABLE"
Bill won the Boston Marathon 40 years ago (in 1975) he broke the Boston record, the American record and it was the first sub two hour and ten minute time 2: 09:55 run at Boston. It was a race that when you look back at how he ran, nobody was going to beat him he stopped for water and to tie his shoes, which were Nike racing shoes that he got in the mail a week before the race from Steve Prefontaine. The shoes were a bit large and he would have to stop and tie them up for better support.
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Release of teachers' bonuses until Nov. 2 — DepEd
By Jade D. Miguel
MANILA, Oct. 13 (PNA) — The Department of Education (DepEd) is releasing the 2013 Performance Based Bonus (PBB) of teachers and other DepEd employees starting this month until early November, this year.
In an interview with the Philippines News Agency, DepEd Assistant Secretary Tonisito Umali said that the release is ongoing and will continue until Nov. 2.
According to DepEd, around 600,000 teachers and non-teaching personnel of DepEd would receive their bonuses within the said period.
An amount of Php5 billion has been allocated by the DepEd for the bonuses of all public school teachers and non-teaching personnel.
As for the delay of the PBB release, Umali said that the DepEd had to "check on all the ratings" of schools and teachers relative to the PBB criteria such as the school's drop-out rate, national achievement test (NAT) performance and the disbursement of school’s funds as the bases of school’s performance, which has also become the basis of individual teacher’s performance.
Aside from that, Umali said that the DepEd also "classified schools as small, medium and big" and computed the amount of bonus to be released for the teachers corresponding to the formula designed by the department prior to the release of teachers' bonuses.
The PBB varies from Php5,000 to a maximum of Php35,000 depending on the individual employee's and the agency/office's performance rating. It is one of two incentives under Executive Order No. 80 signed by President Benigno S. Aquino III in July 2012.
Another incentive signed is the productivity enhancement incentive (PEI) which amounts to Php5,000 and is given to all the employees and officials of the government.
Umali noted that previously, a one-time PEI amounting to Php10,000 is only given by the government to teachers and government employees, but with the said Executive Order, they can now receive more than Php10,000.
Meanwhile, DepEd Assistant Secretary Jesus Mateo said that all DepEd employees will receive their bonuses on the said period "depending on the completeness in the submission of requirements." For the school divisions, they are required to submit liquidation reports of the maintenance and operating expenses, national achievement test, and governance condition transparency.
“All DepEd employees will receive their bonuses between this month and next month depending on the completeness in the submission of requirements,” Mateo said. (PNA)
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2 Responses to “Release of teachers' bonuses until Nov. 2 — DepEd”
anpalz on October 22nd, 2014 3:39 pm
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh….wag na ibigay yan….parang ayaw naman ibigay eh…
joseph on October 22nd, 2014 4:56 pm
all are false alarms..
laging nasa news pero wala nman..
ano bah. toh> nasaan nah ang pera?
Hardship allowance for MG teachers asan nah?
wala na rin?
or Ubos nah?
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Mighty Milton embarking on a two book adventure
BLM Team | November 28, 2018
We’re absolutely thrilled that Chicken House have acquired Milton the Mighty by debut writer Emma Read, a funny, quirky adventure with a uniquely lovable spider hero at its heart.
The novel was shortlisted for the 2017 Bath Children’s Novel Award. Barry Cunningham, Chicken House Publisher, acquired World Rights to Milton the Mighty and a sequel from Lauren Gardner. Line illustrations and cover have been commissioned from illustrator and picture book author Alex G. Griffiths.
Aimed at readers aged 7+, the story explores themes of fake news, phobia and friendship as Milton is falsely accused of being dangerous in the media.
When little spider Milton discovers he’s been branded deadly on social media – and is targeted by pest-killers BugKILL – he fears for his life and the future of his species. Alongside his BFFs, big hairy Ralph and spindly daddy-long-legs Audrey, he searches for a way to clear his name. But to succeed, Milton realises he must communicate with his house humans, a school-girl called Zoe and her arachnophobic dad … Is he mighty enough to achieve the impossible?
Emma Read has previously worked as a biologist, and now uses her transferable skills such as attention to detail, patience and fine motor skills to both write children’s books and extract Lego from under the sofa. She lives in Bath with her young family.
Emma said, ‘As Milton’s house-human, I’m thrilled to be sharing his adventures with the world. Working with Chicken House is a dream come true, and we are celebrating with a double-helping of fruit-fly flan.’
Illustrator Alex G. Griffiths said, ‘Collaborating with such a great publisher and author has of course been very exciting for me. Emma’s story is heart-warming, funny and filled with great characters, and has been such a pleasure to illustrate.’
Milton the Mighty will be publishing in July 2019 with the sequel to follow in 2020.
Barry Cunningham, Chicken House publisher and MD said, ‘Isn’t it exciting to find a whole world of wonder in those dark corners? Milton will change the way we feel about spiders forever – and I can’t wait to show how respect, love and fun are the really right feelings to have about our eight legged companions!’
Lauren Gardner said, ‘Emma and Milton captured my heart in their wonderful web from the very first submission, and I am delighted to have found them a publishing home with the brilliant team at Chicken House.’
Categories: Children's Tags: Barry Cunningham, Bath Children's Novel Award, Chicken House, Emma Read, Milton the Mighty
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ENGL 221 - Major British Writers I
Kyle Dickson
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Festive Comedy
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by Kyle Dickson | 10.13.09 | 221-Early Modern
Most students come to college with some familiarity with the plays of William Shakespeare, but often these previous experiences were with tragedies. What many of these students find surprising then is that the immortal Bard, the Sweet Swan of Avon, could also tell a joke. As a young playwright, Will was actually quite fond of them, writing almost as many comedies as tragedies and histories combined. He enjoyed laughing at the madness of love, puncturing self-conceit, and wordplay, lots of wordplay. Shakespeare's early comedies like A Comedy of Errors and Midsummer Night's Dream are light, airy confections dependent upon puns and mistaken identity; later in his career William began to develop more complicated, layered forms of comedy that balanced festivity with solemnity, young love with menace, light with shadow, but more on that later. For now, take a few minutes to read Susan Snyder's introduction to The Genres of Shakespeare's Plays (labeled “Session 1”) and then return to this assignment to complete the exercise below.
Shakespeare's Genres – Session 1
Genre in the Video Store Exercise
Even if you've never used the word “genre” outside of an English class, you've no doubt had passionate debates on the subject while standing in the aisles of a video store. You can't walk into a Blockbuster without overhearing the couple next to you discussing which movie they'll rent: he wants something with a car chase and she wants something sweet but not too sad. Questions of genre are a familiar part of video-store culture, influencing every part of the ritual down to the organization of the store itself.
Before class, list as many broad types of movie as you can, starting with the basic categories and then dividing this list into subgenres if possible. These categories are always just behind our first response to a new movie. When someone says they liked or didn't like the new Julia Roberts movie, they are silently comparing it to other films she has starred in or other favorite romantic comedies. To adapt Susan Snyder's observation,
In recognizing such habits as [improbable plots and witty dialogue in a romantic comedy] . . . we construct a notion of a [film's] modus operandi that in turn conditions our reactions as dialogue and action unfold. A sense of the norms of genre guides us through that unfolding: prompting sympathy or detachment, highlighting the significance of what we witness, and raising expectations about what is to come. The [screenwriter/director] may also at times invoke generic codes in order to play against them, refusing to fulfill the expectations he has aroused and thus pointing us in a marked new direction. (“Session 1” )
List 2 or 3 examples of recent films that raise expectations based on genre only to fulfill them or play against them. Then in 2-3 sentences, explain how the audience's understanding of these norms is used or manipulated. We'll return to this conversation in class.
Comic Genres Review
The term Shakespearean Comedy is deceptively singular. No single definition or narrowly-defined genre can contain the 14 plays listed as comedies in the 1623 First Folio, including plays as diverse as Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Neither did Shakespeare draw on a single tradition or set of models, varying his methods as often as his material.
Return to Susan Snyder's The Genres of Shakespeare's Plays web-seminar and read “Session 4.” Pay special attention to descriptions of the festive (or festival) roots of English Comedy. You might list festive characteristics you can reflect on as you finish reading the play.
Reread Feste's clowning scene with Sir Andrew and Sir Toby from Act 2, scene 3 (1096-1100). Then watch the following clip from a 1996 film adaptation. You probably noticed the similarities between Feste's lyrics and the carpe diem tradition. If the enemy of love in carpe diem poetry is time, in Twelfth Night what are the enemies of comedy or the festive spirit? If specific characters come to mind, what values or ideas do they represent?
Present Mirth clip
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ENAMORED ARMOR
The Potency of the Female Figure
GLASSBORO, NJ – Rowan University Art Gallery welcomes guest curator Amie Potsic with this exhibition. Three women artists reframe the cultural construct of feminine as empowering in Enamored Armor. The opening reception and artist talk is on Thursday, November 29 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. The exhibit is on display from November 29, 2018 – January 12, 2019.
Featuring work by Marjan Moghaddam, Mari Ogihara, and Tiantian Li, Enamored Armor includes references inspired by art history, cultural specificity, and contemporary society. The classical figure serves as a basis, as the artists investigate the multiplicity of ways in which women choose to present and redefine themselves in pursuit of potency and self-discovery. Through video, painting, sculpture, and Augmented Reality, their work spans a historical spectrum of millennia with a finger on the pulse of current artistic practice, the women’s empowerment movement, and emerging technologies.
Marjan Moghaddam is an award-winning and pioneering digital artist and animator who works primarily with 3d computer graphics, motion capture, and digital media for animation, post-internet art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in addition to curated shows at the Armory Show in NYC and Art Basel Miami. In her digital female bodies, Marjan utilizes aesthetic styles as part of a figural vocabulary that explores the evolving nature of humanity. The figures represent the deconstruction of the organic, and its fracturing and fragmentation as it migrates from the physical to the digital.
Mari Ogihara’s work ranges from female figures to colorful biomorphic sculptures. She connects her understanding of how a samurai got ready for battle with the way women throughout history have prepared their physical appearance for sexual intimacy. Ogihara has held international residencies in France, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico in addition to multiple residencies in the United States.
Tiantian Li’s work has been shown in numerous Philadelphia galleries in addition to major art museums in China. In her watercolors she explores ideation of female intimacy and emotions expressed through portraits of her lingerie superposition with portraits of historical characters from the renaissance period, which represents a time of enlightenment and romantic expression. She is encouraging women to take a positive perspective on their bodies and female representation while giving themselves the attention, humor, and respect they deserve.
The Rowan University Art Gallery is located at 301 High Street West. Free 2-hour public parking is available in the Mick Drive Parking Garage across the street from the gallery. Admission to the gallery, lecture, and reception is free and open to the public. Regular gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Directions can be found on the gallery website. For more information, call 856-256-4521 or visit www.rowan.edu/artgallery.
Support for programming at Rowan University Art Galleries is also made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Baisser in Mary Boone, in Glassish & Waxish Glitch“ from marjan moghaddam on Vimeo.
Thank you to Mary Salvante for the content of this post.
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UTSAV LAL & JESSE SPARHAWK
live at Fire Museum Presents
Indian Classical Ragas on the Piano
Philadelphia, PA, United States HOUSE GALLERY 1816
Time: Saturday @ 8:00 PM
Admission Free/Donation requested
Young Steinway Artist and Yamaha Jazz Scholar, creative pianist /composer Utsav Lal, often known as the ‘Raga Pianist’ has set a precedent with his innovative handling of Indian Classical music .
Jesse Sparhawk: is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose instruments include harp, guitar, and electric bass.
Seating is limited and is on a first come basis. For more info: steven@museumfire.com
HOUSE GALLERY 1816, 1816 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125 between Berks and Montgomery.
Transport: Closest septa stop is Berks St and you can cut across the school feed for a shortcut into Fishtown. Bus# 25 stops on Frankford Ave.
Raga Malkauns (Alap-Jod-Jhala) London – Utsav Lal (2018)
Ragapianist. Published on Jul 16, 2018, Live at St. Nicholas Church , Chiswick, London May 2018
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PGH Excavating Depends on Kenworth Vocational Trucks To Move Business Forward
Posted on December 5, 2019 by agibson
For Chris and Nick Thornhill, owners of PGH Excavating, moving dirt runs deep in their DNA. By watching their father own and operate a successful hauling business that served excavating companies, the two brothers learned how the industry worked at an early age.
Chris Thornhill of PGH Excavating and Kenworth T880S Dump
“When my brother Nick and I each turned 18, we went to work for our dad,” said Chris Thornhill. “I drove a Kenworth dump truck and delivered material to backfill jobsites. My brother helped contractors grade jobsites to create level surfaces. We learned so much through the years, we decided to start our own company.”
In 2007, Chris and Nick founded PGH Excavating. Before the Enumclaw-based company could haul its first load of dirt, it needed to acquire heavy equipment, as well as a few trucks and trailers. Chris and Nick’s first purchase was a Kenworth long-hood from their father.
“From the days of operating a Kenworth truck myself, I knew first-hand that a Kenworth would run for years,” said Thornhill. “My dad was a Kenworth customer for more than 40 years and he was keen on running equipment that would be reliable, while at the same time, offer drivers trucks they would be proud to drive.”
From left, Kenworth W990 and two Kenworth T880S models
Since that first purchase, the company has steadily grown its fleet to include 15 heavy-duty trucks, primarily a mix of Kenworth long hoods and vocational models. The company operates two Kenworth T880s and two T880S models equipped with PACCAR MX-13 engines rated at 510 hp. The company also has a W990, Kenworth’s new long-hood model.
“Kenworths have always been reliable. The performance we’re getting from our T880s is especially high,” said Thornhill. “In the past four years, our T880s have only missed two days of work. That speaks volumes to the quality of the PACCAR MX-13 engine. We’re a dependable company; minimal downtime keeps our drivers on the road, delivering for our customers and making money. It’s a win for us across the board, so we plan on adding more Kenworth T880S models with MX-13 engines.”
PGH Excavating fitted one T880 and one T880S with super solo dump bodies, capable of hauling 25 tons. The other T880 and T880S are equipped with Sturdy-Weld dump bodies that can haul up to 17 tons.
Kenworth T880S Dumps
The company’s T880s and T880S trucks deliver material to jobsites that require extra material for grading, or they can take excess straight to the dump site. PGH Excavating offers grading services at the locations where it removes material and can also deliver grading product fresh from one site to another.
“We’ll often drive up to 90 miles through the congested city streets in and around Seattle, so it’s important to us to maximize each payload,” said Thornhill. “Some jobsites will take a week or less to clear and grade. Others, like massive neighborhood developments, can take more than a decade. We’ll typically send our super solo trucks to areas with heavy traffic, so we don’t have to make as many runs to that area. The PACCAR MX-13 engine gives our trucks plenty of power even with the added weight.”
Kenworth T880S Dump
To transport the company’s excavating equipment to and from jobsites, PGH Excavating relies on their new W990 purchased through Papé Kenworth Northwest – SeaTac. So far, the truck has surpassed all expectations.
“When the W990 first became available, we wanted to be one of the first companies to own one,” said Thornhill. “We did our research and placed an order with Ray Lute, salesman at Papé Kenworth Northwest, who worked with our dad for a number of years. Since we began operating the W990 earlier this year, it’s been performing flawlessly.”
The Kenworth W990 is equipped with a 605 hp engine and an 18-speed Eaton Fuller manual transmission. The W990 pulls a 5-axle lowboy trailer; the company expects it will put on 60,000 miles in its first full year of operation.
“We get plenty of comments on how clean and beautiful our trucks look, but the W990 in particular, has received a lot of attention,” said Thornhill. “I’ve always been a fan of the traditional long-hood. As we phase out some of our older rigs, the W990 will replace them.”
High driver turnover can sometimes be an issue for fleets in the trucking industry. For PGH Excavating, driver retention has never been an issue.
“Many of our drivers have been with us from the very beginning,” said Thornhill. “Our driver retention is well above the industry average, thanks in large part, to the equipment we own. Our drivers really enjoy the enhanced comfort provided by the wide Kenworth cabs, as well as the enhanced visibility.”
Thornhill will be the first to admit that PGH Excavating doesn’t drum up new business from the looks of its excavation equipment. Its Kenworth trucks, however, are a different matter.
“People recognize us for the Kenworth trucks we have on the road,” said Thornhill. “They are a great marketing tool for us, and help us establish the image we want to portray to potential customers. We strive to put the best trucks on the road, and Kenworth continues to be that truck.”
Kenworth T880S dump (left rear) and Kenworth W990 (center front)
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No Ordinary Being: Starling Burgess (1878 – 1947)
Over the past thirty or forty years Llewellyn Howland III, the genial proprietor of Howland & Co Books in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts has written more than a few books and articles, mainly about maritime subjects. All have been meticulously researched, scholarly, written well in the simple but elegant style that one would expect of a former editor at the venerable Boston publisher Little Brown, and they are also literate and engaging as well as entertaining. You don’t have to be a world-class sailor or a naval history buff to enjoy Louie’s books as they are eminently readable, but it helps if you are interested in classic yachts and everything about them. When talking to Louie, or calling up to order a book from his ever seductive and informative catalogue, many friends and customers heard about his many years (decades really) of research into the life and work of W Starling Burgess. In the 1980s some of his findings were written up in a series of articles in Wooden Boat magazine. However, when asked about publication in book form, Louie was uncharacteristically vague. He would mention some new source, new interviews, newly discovered materials, and yet another good story. Several years ago, and with time ticking on, he was strong-armed by the folks at the New Bedford Whaling Museum into agreeing to proceed. With David Godine as publisher and in association with the Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, which signed on, he was left with no further option for evasion. And thus No Ordinary Being (a reference to a quote by AJ Munnings of the Royal Academy in a letter to the Times of London about the designer of ENTERPRISE, ca 1930), W Starling Burgess (1878 – 1947) came into being.
The book, which has been printed in landscape ratio rather than portrait, is a hefty several pounds and runs to 455 pages; it is printed in soft grey tones on matte finished paper. Since there are numerous illustrations (prints, plans, images, sketches, and the like from throughout Burgess’s life) the horizontal shape, the gray tones and the matte paper suit the book and the material admirably. The book encompasses a deeply researched and carefully written narrative, an afterword, acknowledgments, list of yachts and other vessels designed by Burgess, aircraft designed by Burgess, notes on sources, bibliography and index. Louie once told me that there are over 200 illustrations, and I am sure there are.
The Burgess Schooner NINA
Now for some observations: W Starling Burgess was the son of the noted designer Edward Burgess whose designs for Gloucester fishing schooners and other vessels accomplished during a short life led to a series of handsome, fast, able and sea-kindly boats. During his somewhat longer life Starling was involved in several design offices (friendships with the Stephens Brothers – Rod and Olin, L Francis Herreshoff) and he was involved with numerous women, being married five times. During his life he endured tragedy (the suicide of his first wife and the tragic drowning of his elder son) and enjoyed triumph. His designs range from fishing schooners (COLUMBIA, PURITAN) to J-Class yachts (ENTERPRISE, RANGER) to Metre class boats (VARUA), the brigantine designed for William Albert Robinson to sail to the South Seas, the cutter BARNSWALLOW (a boat I’ve always admired and that someone needs to restore), many different power and cruising as well as racing boats, and of course, one of the greatest of all schooners NINA (lost with all hands in the Tasman Sea in 2013). In association with others he designed (and flew) early planes, was involved with Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion car and many other projects such as WWII anti-submarine work for the US Navy and Air Force.
Sir Norman Foster and his Dymaxion car
Many of Burgess’s designs plans are at Mystic Seaport Museum where they are accessible for the yachtsman to review. It is curious that with the growing fondness for classic yachts no one has engaged a boatyard to build one of his designs. Imagine a 6, 8, 10 or 12-Metre, or a P, Q, or R boat, or even a steam tug as designed by Mr Burgess! About the planes, the cars, and other inventions I cannot comment as they are beyond my ken but the idea of a Dymaxion car rather tickles my fancy and obviously it ticked Lord Norman Foster’s fancy too because in 2010, the British architect had one built.
The book will assuredly be the most authoritative biography of Starling Burgess for years to come, perhaps for all time. In his elegant narrative and gracious manner Louie Howland has written a narrative that does justice in full measure to the complex and complicated creative and personal life of a truly original American thinker, inventor, yacht and aircraft designer – an American genius and NO ORDINARY BEING – in what is no ordinary book!
Virginia Crowell Jones
Author: Virginia Crowell Jones
Filed Under: Beautiful yachts, classic yacht history, Great Designers, Reviews
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I Am Nigerian. I Am American. I Will Not Choose.
A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program alum Mfoniso Udofia is taking the American theater by storm. Her current project is the Ufot Family cycle, a series of nine plays exploring a family of Nigerian immigrants in America. The cycle has been workshopped at leading new-play incubators, including SPACE on Ryder Farm and Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre. Three of the plays—Sojourners, runboyrun, and Her Portmanteau—have been produced at The Playwrights Realm, Magic Theatre, and New York Theatre Workshop. Now, she is back at A.C.T. with Her Portmanteau. After 22 years apart, Nigerian-born Iniabasi Ekpeyong—bearing a worn portmanteau—reunites with her mother and half-sister in Manhattan. This coming together isn’t easy. The women must sort through their literal and figurative baggage as they uncover their personal and familial identities. We chatted with Udofia about the Nigerian American identity and the importance of having Black bodies onstage.
Scenic designer David Reynoso, playwright Mfoniso Udofia, and director Victor Malana Maog at the first rehearsal for Her Portmanteau. Photo by Elspeth Sweatman.
A big theme in Her Portmanteau is identity. It’s a tricky place to live, caught between multiple cultures, languages, and countries.
It is. Especially when the country you are from becomes more and more unlike the country you’re now in. The United States is a very individualistic society. Nigeria is more collectivist. Being a Nigerian in America, it’s always a fight between the “I”—“I want to succeed”—and the “we”: “This is what we have always done. This is what we need to do.” There’s always a struggle within second-generation offspring; I can look at my foreign-born parents and their culture that is also a part of me and understand it, but also look at American culture and ethos and understand that. As a playwright, I want to illuminate that intersection, because I actually live it. I am Nigerian and I am American and I will not choose. The more we see stories where we are living in this intersection, the easier it will be for those of us who live there.
How does your work tackle the misconception that all Africans are from impoverished war-torn areas?
Africans from those areas exist, and the plays that chronicle their lives can be illuminating and impactful. But if those representations become the only truths you see related to an African body, that’s problematic. The Africa that I know, and the Nigeria that I know, do not look like that. Did we have a cataclysmic, terrifying war? Yes. The first modern, African civil war—the Biafran War—happened in my ancestral homeland. But do we also barbecue at our house in Massachusetts? Yeah. It’s important to me that audiences see different kinds of Blackness in relation to each other. In TV shows or plays, you see only Nigerians in Nigerian stories, only African Americans in African American stories, Jamaicans in Jamaican stories; you never see us all interacting. My Ufot cycle wants to look at what happens when Africa and the African Diaspora do interact, and interact from a place of love.
Her Portmanteau—Udofia’s fourth installment in her Ufot Cycle—begins previews at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater February 15. Get your tickets here. And to read the full interview with Udofia, purchase a copy of Words on Plays, A.C.T.’s in-depth guide to mainstage productions.
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Auntie Winnie's Hands
Lolita has been on my mind of late simply because I happen to be reading The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Edited with Preface by Alfred Appel Jr. As to why I am reading it my readers here may have to wait a couple more days for a full explanation.
I mention Lolita because the idea of an older man interested in young girls is an experience I have never had. When I was interested in 12-year-old girls I was 10 or 12. I have never felt much of an attraction for a woman much younger than I. And as I get older that gulf seems to get wider. The voices of the announcers of the young females on CBC Radio sound like Canadian variations of Valley Girls of yore. They don’t excite me. Give me Barbara Budd from As It Happens if you want to get any kind of a rise from me. I am not interested in re-gaining my youth through interaction with a young woman or a young girl. It seems that a young blonde girl (in combination with a bright red Mazda Miata) is supposed to give the aging man a sense of a new-found youth. I have never felt that. For me it has been quite the opposite.
Many years ago in the beginning of the 70s I was teaching a grade 12 class in a Mexico City private school. I would often say to my class, “I feel so young when I face you.” One day I was taken to task and one of my students said, “That must be because you are surrounded by youth.” My reply shocked them, “No, it is because I am surrounded by prematurely old people set in their ways who must practice all kinds of self-imposed regulations (particularly dress ones) to feel that they fit in.”
I have often wondered why politicians such as Winston Churchill became more conservative with age. I always thought that one could risk more when time is short. And yet there were people like Bertrand Russell and Linus Pauling who became more liberal and forward thinking as they aged. I mention this as one of my blog follwers sent me a missive suggesting that I was stressing much to much the "age thing". Quite to the contrary I want to point out all the advantages. About a month ago I lost all the data on a hard drive. It included a year's worth (2009) of plant scans and a Power Point presentation that my granddaugther Rebecca and I did at the World Rose Convention back in June. I was devastated. But I noticed that as days became weeks the sense of loss was diminishing to the point that I did not feel the loss at all. When John from Powersonic (in Richmond) called to say, "I have retrieved the data (including those plant scans and the Power Point Presentation) from that drive. It will cost you $600." I felt like saying, "John it is not important at all, anymore. Few things at my age are and that's good!"
It did not come as a shock to me when last week at a birthday party at an East Broadway Japanese restaurant honoring my friend Charles Campbell ( a sort of snobbish “I protest the Olympics” sort of party as it began at 7 pm the day of the opening ceremonies) when another friend Maja Grip told me, “For the first time I see that you are aging.” I felt like countering with a kind reply (kind replies come with age) in which I would have said, “For someone your age who never flaunted her charms you are showing today a fair amount of very attractive cleavage.”
It was about 5 years ago that I had a model that I have photographed many times during the years come into my studio. She was a beautiful woman who in the last 10 years has cut her lovely hair and worn clothing she would have never worn before. It is almost as if she wanted to hide her beauty to be accepted for who she is. I would argue that individuality is what makes us be me and not her and part of that individuality is how we look. A world of look-alike clones would be a most confusing one.
As I was adjusting my camera settings she looked at my hands and gasped. “What is it?” I asked. She said nothing. I knew that she had noticed my weathered/age/garden hands and suddenly noticed that I was a much older man. It could have been that my hands were an equivalent to looking at herself in the mirror.
Hands have always been important in my life. I remember my father’s strong but small and elegant hands stained by his Player’s Navy Cut cigarettes. I remember my mother’s beautiful piano hands with long slim fingers and immaculate finger nails. She also had beautiful feet which I inherited. Alas I did not inherit her hands but until that model had noticed my hands in the studio I had always bragged about my gentleman’s hands. They were hands that were soft and uniform in colour with nicely kept nails. I bragged that I didn’t have the hands of a ditch digger.
But garden work and particularly the caring for my beloved roses have changed that. Just the pruning of a viciously endowed rambler, Rosa ‘Albertine” a few days ago has left my hands with scratches, wounds and festering sores.
Rosemary cannot remember when it exactly happened that she stopped being able to trim the nails of her right hand. She comes over to my side of the bed (the left side) and sits on the edge so I can trim her nails (anybody out there, a small portable hand vacuum would make an excellent Christmas present).
I have few memories of my father’s older brother, my Uncle Harry and his wife Winnie. One involves a nighttime dinner at their Acassuso home in Buenos Aires. I could smell Uncle Harry’s predilection for tobacco and alcohol as I watched him whip up some Colman’s mustard. I may have been 7 or 8 but I did notice that he put in a teaspoonful of sugar into the mixture. His hands were big. They looked like a working man's hands. Last year my first cousin Willoughby Blew came to visit us with his wife from Florida. He watched me put sugar into my Coleman’s (now Keen’s) powder and said, “Just like Uncle Harry used to make it.”
It is the other memory of my Auntie Winnie serving us tea in her quintessential English dining room on a sunny afternoon when I noticed her disfigured hands. She could barely lift the tea pot to serve us tea. I have no other image of Auntie Winnie. Her face is a blur but her hands are as sharp in my memory now as the shock of seeing them as a little boy then.
That memory is reinforced every night when I sleep. I move around and my hands get caught under the pillow. My pinkies throb. I have arthritis. At my rate I will soon not be able to prune my roses as the secateurs will be unmanageable in my hands.
But I know for sure I will still be able to stir in that sugar into my mustard.
If anybody were to ask me precisely what my style is when I shoot my portraits I would answer, “I like eye contact with my camera and I always try to incorporate my subject’s hands. After our face, our hands reveal the most about us.”
Link to: Auntie Winnie's Hands
The Dithering Photographer And His Clones
About 10 years ago three photographers (I was one of them, and one of the others was a woman who also became one of my subjects) had a project which we repeated three times. It started at a downtown café called Subi’s. I told the other two that we would pick a fairly attractive female and bring her to the studio for a group shot. Then during a month each one of us would photograph her and make sure that none of us were aware of what the other was doing. At the studio I would plainly tell our subject, “If at any time any of us ask you to undrape you must do it. If there is any objection to this, tell us now.” Then we would have a one night show in my studio. One of our subjects Corrie Clark reneged on our instructions and I had a hard time (I succeeded in the end) in making her undrape.
It took me years to go through the normal channels of not knowing how to convey to my subject that I wanted her to take it all off. I had not discovered the direct approach nor was I aware that for every photographer that wants to have the model take it all off there is a large multitude of subjects who will readily volunteer if asked.
With one model in particular I was particularly indirect and obtuse. I dithered around taking pictures that were not satisfying me in the least. Finally my model said, “Is this what you really want?” and she lowered the straps of her slip and exposed her breasts. I blushed and took my pictures.
Since that one time I have learned to put my cards on the table. There was one young woman who told me, “You can only photograph 25% of this and you can only go as far down as here. I turned off my lights and told her that she could go.
In another occasion I had two very beautiful young women in my studio and to break the ice I told them, “I have two daughters who are both older than both of you. I am not in the least interested in you except as my photographic subjects. I prefer women my age and that is why I am attracted to my wife. I just want to take your pictures.” They looked at each other and walked out of my studio. Since then I have been ambivalent about being direct and in some cases I have chosen to say less and take more pictures instead.
Of late, without my studio, I have given the whole process some thought. I occasionally teach a nude portrait class at Focal Point and with my instructions my students become my surrogates and take pictures my style. This led to one of my students saying to me in the presence of my other students, “What you want to do is to turn us into little Alexes.” He got up and walked out and never did return.
It had all begun when my student had projected some pictures which we critiqued. One of our models had been slightly on the large size. I always tell my students that it is our obligation to make people as good as we can and if possible even better. A lot of this can be done with lighting and camera angles. The moving of the body can diminish neck folds (anathema!) and I tell my students I don’t want to look at armpit folds (double anathema!). The student in question did nothing to hide the model’s pendulous breasts. I pointed this out and was told that there was nothing wrong with pendulous breasts. I asked one of my female students if she would be happy with pictures that showed her breasts as being like that. She agreed that she would not be happy. To finish the argument my student said, “We pay the model. We can make her look anyway we want.” It is in such times that I feel like picking up sticks and moving to Trelew in Patagonia and learn to speak Welsh. But that is not a viable option at this moment.
I photographed María de Lurdes Behar three times. The third time she was one of my tub women for a show. The first time around I took pictures when I was still in the height of my dithering period. It was 1990.
After some exposures I finally came up with enough nerve and most of her clothes were discarded. Some of these pictures are extraordinarily beautiful. Because my intention was always to photograph the model undraped I never did look at the pre-undraped exposures with any interest, until now.
At my age I find my drive (that one!) is diminishing and my idea of what is erotic is more in the direction of subtlety. Clothed, is now suddenly much more interesting. I found a couple of pictures of María de Lurdes which I think are beautiful. I hope that anybody looking at them might just agree.
Link to: The Dithering Photographer And His Clones
The Last Intruders - By Sean Rossiter
NAS Whidbey Airshow … Rossiter… 15 August 94
Former Navy pilot Stephen Coonts is working on a follow-up to his novel Flight of the Intruder, from which Paramount Pictures derived the popular Vietnam action movie in which a Navy A-6 crew decide to buck the president’s bombing guidelines and attack Hanoi. Coonts’s novel contains some of the best evocations of military flying since Pierre Closterman’s WWII memoir The Big Show appeared in 1951. Both books remove the romantic veneer from the war in the air, at least partly because bombing is so much more dangerous and morally ambiguous than air-to-air combat.
The movie was distributed to carrier air groups during the Gulf War, when it might have been expected to boost morale. It was, after all, the first depiction of the nerd of carrier aviation, Grumman’s A-6 Intruder. To real-life A-6 flight and ground crews, though, the flyboy caricatures they saw of themselves were a grave slight. Like most aviation pictures, Flight of the Intruder is in trouble as soon as the action returns to the carrier deck.
Maybe Paramount will do better with Coonts’s new book The Intruders. The actual A-6 community is more complex is infinitely more interesting than director John Milius’ portrayal. Certainly more professional. Capt. John Schork’s bomber-pilot war stories are less about combat than accounts of the ongoing battle with fear of celebrations of sheer technique. Peace stories you might call them.
The Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s executive officer, Commander Joe Nortz (think of the Tom Skerritt character in Top Gun but with fewer wrinkles), had promised us war stories. Not only would we hear war stories, but the guy telling them would be the base commander. NAS Whidbey’s CO, Schork flies more than a desk. He has flown the A-6 Intruder in three wartime situations, and he keeps himself current.
He told his first story with an arresting special effect: flames reflected in the left sides of his GI sunglasses. The explosives set off to simulate the effects of a pop-u bombing run by an A-6 had ignited the tinder-dry grass across from the air show flight line at NAS Whidbey’s annual Sea-N-Sky Festival last July. It was burning out of control.
The fireman supporting the A-6’s air show demonstration of bomb delivery techniques had put on a more impressive display than anybody had intended. Every once in a while a staff officer in immaculately-pressed dress whites would appear out of nowhere to whisper a firefighter’s progress report into Schork’s ear while he coolly offered his interviewer vivid reminiscences of two decades in the cockpit of the Navy’s deadliest combat airplane.
“The thing that really sticks with you is, we go out and fly low-level, high speed terrain-following through these mountains”- Schork makes an almost imperceptible motion with his right hand, past the fire raging 200 yards away, to the Cascade Mountains ---“and no matter how long you fly the airplane, you never lose the thrill….
“The only thing between me and the rocks and trees is good electronics and training. Every time I do it – and I’ve been doing it for 20 years – it is a thrill. There are few jobs,” he adds, quite unnecessarily, “where you get that kind of exhilarating feeling.”
Schork grew up in nearby Oak Harbor and is still among the most proficient A-6 drivers at the base. The Thursday before we met his name was spelled out on the base’s E for Excellence scoreboard as the current winner of the Norden Picklebarrel Award as the most accurate bomber pilot in attack squadron VA-128, NAS Whidbey’s training unit. (Norden is a maker of bombsights; a pickle barrel is what a good bomb sight enables you put your bombs into.) “I’m a little embarrassed, “Schork said, sounding pleased as punch. “The trophy is for the young guys, not old-timers like me.” Not only Schork was the most accurate pilot in its Replacement Air Group, Attack Squadron 128, But NAS Whidbey, his command, was the best installation in the Navy worldwide. He was having the month of his life.
Schork is a compact, thoughtful and intelligent man with a self-deprecating sense of humor who calls himself the worst quarterback in the history of Oak Harbor High. He has none of the professional warrior’s mannerisms. Maryanne Kilkenny, wife of VA-196’s executive officer, who returned from a six-month cruise aboard the carrier Carl Vinson last Sunday, calls Schork “a wonderful man,” an uncommon encomium in the military. (VA-196 “Main Battery,” by the way, is the outfit portrayed in Flight of the Intruder.) In every way except bulk he personifies the airplane. The two, man and airplane, have matured together since he first flew the A-6 in combat over Saigon the day the city was being abandoned to the North Vietnamese.
This year’s Sea-N-Sky Festival had an almost nostalgic undertone to it. NAS Whidbey exists as the largest naval air station on the Pacific coast – 9,000 on active duty and 2,500 civilians – because of the Grumman A-6 and EA-6b Prowler, its electronic warfare derivative. Working together with the lengthened, crew-of-four, EA-6B jamming enemy anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) and SAM radar, and the two-seat (pilot, bombardier-navigator) A-6 dropping bombs, the Intruder-Prowler team are the fleet’s sharp point. There is also a tanker version, the KA-6D. Several of NAS Whidbey’s squadron carry battle honors from the Gulf War and subsequent enforcement of the no –fly zone over Northern Iraq.
But there is no room in the Navy budget for further development of the Intruder/Prowler design. Thirty-four years after it first flew and a little more than three decades since it entered service, the A-6 is facing retirement. Three generations of naval aviators devoted their careers to it. Throughout its service life, they have celebrated it by pointing out that no other carrier-based combat aircraft could, as they put it, reach out and touch someone – anytime, anywhere. VA-196 is scheduled to be the last A-6 squadron in the Navy. It will be decommissioned in 1996.
Whidbey, identified as “Intruder Country” on one of its cavernous hangars, where the shriek of A-6s is thought of as “The Sound of Freedom,” wonders what could possibly replace the A-6. “It’s not so much the airplanes themselves,” says blonde and pregnant Kathy Roberts, even though her husband “loves it” and carries a picture of one in his wallet. “Does he carry a picture of you?” she is asked. “I don’t know!” she exclaims. “It’s not the airplane,” she says, “It’s the mission. It’s the whole responsibility of what he does.”
When it first flew in 1960, the A-6 was the smartest airplane in the fleet. An expensive airplane to begin with, 43 percent of the $25 million-a-copy (1990 dollars) Intruder’s cost was accounted for by its electronic equipment – an unheard-of proportion of brains to brawn. It had an onboard computer driving cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays for both pilot and bombardier-navigator, a feature introduced to commercial aviation on Boeing 757-767 airliners 15 years later.
Although the first four A-6 Intruders lost in combat over Vietnam were listed as having been downed by anti-aircraft artillery, aviation historians believe three of them were more likely to have been destroyed by their own bombs. The price of pioneering in warfare is usually high, and it was at least mitigated by excellent British Martin-Baker ejection seats that saved the lives of all eight crewmen, two of whom became prisoners of war.
One solution was to use explosives to actually blow the bombs off their racks under the wings. Another was to “pop-up” from the low-level run, climb to 2,000 feet, visually acquire the target by rolling the A-6 inverted, and then aim it at the target. A variation is to release the bombs while climbing vertically over the target. Doing a pop-up imposes a four-G load on the airplane and its crew, whose heads, burdened with helmets and breathing gear, become four times their normal weight. Then again, as the Sea-N-Sky Festival air show commentator, a Confederate Air Force Colonel from Arlington, Texas, explained over the PA, when you bomb while flying straight up, “You can be at home sipping a cold beer by the time the bombs go off.” The pop-up bomb run resolved the suicidal aspects of low-level bombing, which had become necessary because North Vietnam’s sophisticated SAM defenses made conventional high-level bombing out of the question. The technique also happened to create a sensational air show routine, “It looks pretty good from the inside, too,” Schork mentions.
There was an A-6 parked in front of Whidbey’s operations centre during the air show. Frank Silebi was putting in a long hot day in his polished black boots and khaki flying suit by the Intruder’s nose, telling anyone who would listen that he is part of a naval aviation milestone: “the last class ever for the A-6, “three pilots, one bombardier-navigator, doomed to become carrier qualified anachronisms. Silebi was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, but grew up from an early age in Pennsylvania. He can speak fluent Spanish. When Silebi was in flight t training, flying TA-4J Scooter on and off carriers, the withdrawal date for the A-6 was 1999. By the time he had his naval gold wings, the date had been moved ahead by two years. Flying the A-6 is Silebi’s reason for being in the Navy, and for a while he was afraid he might not be trained soon enough to do it. After all he says, “What’s better than flying low and flying fast?”
John Schork (43) and the airplane (34) came up together. Their careers are as one. Smart airplane, bright officer. The current Norden Picklebarrel Tropy holder put in three of his four combat tours with VA-95, the Green Lizards, celebrating 50 years of service last October. Schork’s Green Lizard tours have included his top-cover assignment over Saigon. It is now almost 20 years since John Schork made his combat debut ushering in peace over Vietnam in early 1975. The fire of his sunglass lenses lit up to the story as he described his first taste of the Real Thing, the thing he still wins awards training for: “I can remember orbiting Saigon. I could see Tan Son Hhut airbase burning. I can remember the tracer fire coming up against the gathering dusk, and the smoke, and thinking this was a historic evening. We were flying A-6s, loaded with bombs, as cover. Our helos (CH-53 helicopters) were circulating, evacuating people….” In other words, the A-6 was used over Saigon in a fighter’s role, able to fly safely in darkness. The concern was that if any helicopters were shot down that day, the vengeance impulse might extend the war. None were.
“It was a dependable airplane,” Schork says, lapsing into an early obituary for the A-6. “I’ve seen this thing come back with one of the horizontal stabilizers gone. It’s a forgiving airplane. It’s practically impossible to spin the airplane. I can take off at Whidbey and on-leg-it to Washington, DC. I have flown the thing trans-Pacific. We flew a strike from the carrier in mid-Pacific and flew 1500 miles to the Hawaiian Islands, at night, and flew back to the ship. That’s when you realize how big the Pacific is. Each of us had our own tanker. That’s you’re you realize what the airplane can do. “
There are plenty of guys at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island who feel the loss of their airplane will leave the world a less safe place. They don’t come out and say so. That would be unprofessional. Their wives are more straightforward on the subject.
I remember exactly when I fell in love with the A-6 myself. To me the Intruder and its genius brother, the Prowler, consisted of bulbous noses, bug-eyed and strong but sagging bellies: they were flying dump trucks, worthy of respect but hardly killer sex objects. Infatuation has a lot less to do with looks that with timing and circumstances.
It happened four years ago last Saturday. The air show in Abbotsford, British Columbia was over. The star was a MIg-31 Mach 2-plus turbojet dragster, seldom seen in the West until then. It had drawn audible gasps in the finale by flying low directly at the crowds, pulling up, lighting both afterburners, and climbing on twin sheets of flame, scorching the infield. A Mig-31 is fast but cannot turn, and the Mig Bureau’s celebrated chief test pilot, Valeri Menitsky, had wrung everything the big fighter had to give. The Cold War was already history in 1990, although the hour or so I had spent with the genial Menitski, conversing through a dour-faced interpreter, still felt like a handshake over a vast ideological gulf. After getting to know him beforehand, exchanging gifts, watching him muscle his fighter into turns that took him from the Fraser Valley out over the San Juan Islands and return from his routine soaked with sweat, it came as a distinct surprise to me that the A-6 is the mental snapshot I retain from that air show.
Perhaps the guys from NAS Whidbey felt a reply was in order. As we were packing our cameras and empty sandwich wrappers, a hard-edged rolling thunder directed our attention to our left. The A-6 in mottled grey war paint was maybe 30 feet off the runway and going to beat hell. Its wing appeared to be exactly at eye level, with its external tanks hung underneath in shadow, tangential to its potbelly. The red anti-collision strobe was blinking away underneath the cockpit. It was flying fast enough to generate white condensation in a vortex off its upper wing roots, an effect heightened by its unique tadpole shape and wide two-man canopy with its art deco windshield frame. In front of the canopy, the Intruder’s in-flight refueling probe stood up and pointed forward like some trans-sonic insect’s feeler. Nose down, tail up, all business, it looked lethal in a way it never did standing on its landing gear on the flight line. The bombardier-navigator saluted as it passed. The A-6 became a blur in front of our turning heads, pulled up, and in an instant was a T-shaped dot dematerializing through the cirrus.
Sean Rossiter is the author of The Immortal Beaver - The World's Greatest Bush Plane, The Otter & Twin Otter and The Chosen Ones - Canada's Test Pilots in Action
Sean Rossiter
Captain John Schork the Novelist
Link to: The Last Intruders - By Sean Rossiter
The A-6 Intruder - My Conflict With War Games
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
5909 Athlone Street
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Dear Mr. Waterhouse-Price [sic],
Thank you for your letter of December 14, which reached me today via Simon & Schuster. I apologize for the delay, but sometimes they take a while.
When I looked at the photos I realized you have a rare gift. You are one hell of [frequently used by this author in his novels with the spelling helluva] a photographer. And you are on a good story, which is much bigger than the demise of the A-6. The aftershocks of the collapse of communism will affect many lives, not the least of which are those people who have made a career of the military. They are the most directly affected, but the devastation is just as total on the families of the engineers and technicians of the so-called military-industrial establishment who are also facing career death.
I would like to tell you this is something new, a phenomenon cause by the fundamental changes in the international scene that make the worlds a safer place for free people, but alas, that is not the case. This is the same process that occurred after the American Civil War, World War I, World War II and Vietnam. Downsizing. Institutional stagnation. Until the next crisis comes along--and it will, it always does—we don’t need or want you folks, nor can we afford you, so good-bye and have a nice life. But leave your name and telephone number just in case, okay? Now back to the problem of the welfare mothers.
Stephen Coonts
Back in 1984 I had read a new techno thriller called Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy. There was another novel (far more satisfying for me) also by Tom Clancy, and co-written with Larry bond, published in 1986, Red Storm Rising in which petroleum shortages usher in a scary and most believable WW III.
But it was Stephen Coonts' 1986 novel, The Flight of the Intruder, published, like Hunt for Red October (then considered quite odd) by the Naval Institute which I consumed in one night's reading. Its description on what must be the single most difficult job in the world, to land a jet aircraft on the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier at night, left me amazed. Coonts’(himself a former naval pilot) explanation on the workings of the pilot and his tandem seated BN (bomber/navigator) in the Grumman A-6 Intruder left me with extreme airsickness as I understood that the BN spent most of the time looking down on a radar screen and instruments. If I were to do that in a placid flight on a Boeing 737 I would be sick on the spot! Coonts' descriptions of A-6 Intruder night flights over flack and SAM infested North Vietnam was as realistic as the claustrophobia inducing The Boat by Lothar-Gúnther Buchheim, the cold and misery of Alistair MacLean's H.M.S. Ulysses and Nicolas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. The fear in the throat of Coonts' hero Grafton was as real and horrific as the fear and gore of Len Deighton's Bomber.
Since I am now a Canadian citizen I have like most Canadians not been a war mongerer or an enthusiast of war. But it is difficult to deny a childhood of playing with swords, cap gun replicas of Western .45s and waging war with toy soldiers on my mother’s lawn. It is difficult to deny the pleasure and awe with which I enjoyed in the 50s my uncle, Luis Miranda’s collection of war-time Life Magazine. I saw the picture of McArthur returning to Leyte there and ads for Buicks that proudly stated that Sherman tanks had Dynaflow automatic transmissions! It is difficult to deny the influence of four years of high school in Austin, Texas and of many trips to the nearby Bergstrom USAF. It was there that I first saw the towering Boeing B-52 and passed my hands on the sharp edged wing of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
In the mid 60s while in the Argentine Navy I translated into Spanish the operation and maintenance manuals for the then recently purchased Douglas A-4 Skyhawks. I became intimate with these beautiful (for beautiful they are) airplanes and when the Falklands War happened I was more concerned on the loss of what I considered my airplanes than the death of the Argentine pilots who did well enough and died in equipment that had been obsolete back in my days at the navy.
It was difficult to reconcile and understand that my classmates at St. Ed’s in Austin, Texas, as Americans had been part of the Vietnam War that I remember as body count accounts on my weekly readings of Time Magazine. My room buddy John Arnold had been a US Marine who dangled from helicopter cables to save downed flyers in Vietnam. Others from my class died in Vietnam conflicts. My friend grade 9 friend John Straney with whom I had shared my interest in WW II German airplanes and tanks was in the US Air Force in 1967. Of late these classmates have put a face on the body counts and I feel conflicted particularly when I re-read (as I did last week) Coonts’ Flight of the Intruder and its 1994 sequel The Intruders. I cannot so easily dismiss the conservative beliefs of my Texan classmates who own many guns, target practice at least once a week and tell me of their exploits in 'Nam. Who am I to argue after two years of a desk job as a conscript in the Argentine Navy!
Steam catapults make modern Aircraft Carriers possible. Invented by the British during World War II, catapults freed designers from the necessity of building naval aircraft that could rise from the deck under their own power after a run of only three hundred feet. So wings could shrink and be swept as the physics of high speed aerodynamics required, jet engines that were most efficient at high speeds could be installed, and airframes could be designed that would go supersonic of lift tremendous quantities of fuel and weapons. A luxury for most of the carrier planes of World War II, the catapult now was now and absolute requirement.
The only part of the catapult that can be seen on the flight deck is the shuttle to which aircraft are attached. This shuttle sticks up from a slot in the deck that runs the length of the catapult. The catapult itself lies under the slot and consists of two tubes eighteen-inches in diameter arranged side by side like the barrels of a double-barreled shotgun. Inside each tube – or barrel - is a piston. There is a gap at the top of each barrel through which a steel lattice mates the two pistons together, and to which the shuttle on deck attaches.
The pistons are hauled aft mechanically into battery by a little cart called a “grab”. Once the pistons are in battery, the aircraft is attached to the shuttle, either by a linkage on the nose gear of the aircraft in the case of the A-6 and A-7, or by a bridle of steel cable in the case of the F-4 and RA-5. Then the slack in the bridle or nose-tow linkage is taken out by pushing the pistons forward hydraulically – this movement is called “taking tension.”
Once the catapult is tensioned and the aircraft is at full power with its wheel brakes off, the firing circuit is enabled when the operator pushes the “final ready” button.
Firing the catapult is then accomplished by opening the launch valves, one behind each tube, simultaneously, which allows superheated steam to enter the barrels behind the pistons.
The amount of acceleration given to each aircraft must be varied depending on the type of aircraft being launched, its weight, the amount of wind over the deck, and the outside air temperature. This is accomplished by one of two methods. Either the steam pressure is kept constant and the speed of opening of the launch valves is varied, or the launch valves are always opened at the same rate and the pressure of the steam in the accumulators is varied. Aboard Columbia, the steam pressure was varied and the launch valves were opened at constant rate.
Although the launch valves open quickly, they don’t open instantaneously. Consequently steam pressure rising on the back of pistons must be resisted until it has built up sufficient pressure to move the pistons forward faster than the aircraft could accelerate on its own. This resistance is provided by a shear bolt installed in the nose gear of the aircraft to be launched, to which a steel hold-back bar is attached. One end of the bar fits into a slot in the deck. The bolt used in the A-6 was designed to break cleanly in half under a load of 48,000 pounds, only then allowing the pistons in the catapult, and the aircraft, to begin forward motion.
The superheated steam expanding behind the pistons drove the length of the 258-foot catapults of the Columbia in about 2.5 seconds. Now up to flying speed, the aircraft left the deck behind and ran out into the air sixty feet above the ocean. When it then had to be rotated to the proper angle of attack to fly – in the A-6, about eight degrees nose-up.
Meanwhile, the pistons, at terminal velocity and quickly running out of barrels, had to be stopped. This was accomplished by means of water brakes, tubes welded onto the end of each of the catapult barrels and filled with water. The pistons each carried a tapered spear in front of them, and as the pistons reached the water brakes the spears penetrated the open ends, forcing water out around the spears. Water is incompressible, water got smaller and smaller, yet as the spears were inserted the escape openings for the water got smaller and smaller. Consequently the deeper the spears penetrated the higher the resistance to further entry. The brakes were so efficient that the pistons were brought to a complet stop after a full-power shot in only nine feet of travel.
The sexual symbolism of the tapered spears and the water-filled brakes always impressed aviators – they were young, lonely and horny – but the sound a cat made slamming into the brakes was visceral. The stupendous thud rattled compartments within a hundred feet of the brakes and could be felt throughout the ship.
Tonight as he sat in the cockpit of an A-6 tanker waiting for the cat crew to retract the shuttle, Jake Grafton ran through all the things that could go wrong with the cat.
The Intruders, Stephen Coonts, 1994
And in a later chapter that sheer bolt does break off prematurely which leads to some of the most exciting writing account on how Grafton is able to stop his plane before it rolls:
Sliding, turning left and still sliding forward…he felt the left wheel slam in the deck-edge combing, then the nose, now the tail spun toward the bow, the whole plane sliding…
And he stopped.
Out the right he could see nothing, just blackness. The right wheel must be almost at the very edge of the flight deck.
He took a deep breath and exhaled explosively.
His left hand was holding the alternate ejection handle between his legs. He couldn’t remember reaching for it, but obviously he had. He gingerly released his grip.
My fascination with The Flight of the Intruder led me to go to several air shows at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor in Washington State. I went with my friend Sean Rossiter who like me is an airplane enthusiast. At Whidbey Island I thrilled at watching A-6 Intruders fly. And it was in July 1994, my last visit that I found out that the A-6s where being phased out and replaced by F/A-18 Hornet. I talked to pilots who told me that the thrill (and fear!) of piloting an A-6, very low (skimming the trees) at night and in bad weather could never ever be replicated by the Hornet. In fact to this day the Hornet can not match the Intruder’s range and payload. During its existence as an attack plane (A-6s were never used as fighters but to bomb, strafe military installations and ships) the Intruder could carry a bomb payload that was second only to that of the Boeing B-52.
My excitement at seeing the Intruders and taking photographs of the then base commander (who had flown Intruders) Captain, USN John Schork led me to propose to Rossiter that we collaborate on a story and to try to sell it to magazine. We never found anybody interested even though Coonts in his letter to me suggested a few venues. The story died even though Rossiter wrote it. In my files today I found two versions of Rossiter's 6 page story. I called him up for permission to run it. Permission has been granted (story will follow sometime today). Since 15 August 94 when Rossiter wrote his second draft he lost all records of it. The publishing of the story in the blog will be a pleasant and now anticipated surprise for him.
When I re read The Flight of the Intruder (all about Vietnam) and then its sequel The Intruders (no war) I was able to read the technical stuff with far more enjoyment. My ignorance of naval aviation is perhaps the only reason why in my Buenos Aires war games I was never a naval pilot!
The splotches of the pictures here are result of bad fixing of my prints. They are Ilford resin coated paper not known for being all that archival. My b+w negatives of these Intruder people are pristine. I like the look of the deterioration.
And would you believe it, Captain John Schork is now an author of aviation novels!
Captain John Shork
Not related but still within the subject Sukhoi
Link to: The A-6 Intruder - My Conflict With War Games
Patrick Marber's Closer At The Marble Arch
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
is lust in action; and, till action, lust
is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust:
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Sonnet 129, William Shakespeare 1609
Sometime in spring of 2001 I was approached by Richard Wolfe and Tim Carlson of Theatre Conspiracy with an offer I could not refuse. They were going to mount a performance of Patrick Marber’s play Closer (June 7-16) and they wanted me to take pictures even before the rehearsals began. Wolfe was the director and Carlson the assistant director. The idea is that our pictures (in collaboration with Argentine painter Nora Patrich) would serve as special promotional photographs, as photographs to be used in the program and the photos and collaborations with Patrich (part sketches and part photographs) would hang the night of the opening in large frames.
The actors Kurt Max Runte (as Larry, seen here in a doctor’s smock) Steve Griffith, Michelle Harrison ( Alice seen here as the stripper) and Sarah Louise Turner ( Anna as the photographer) had not really met. Patrich and I put them into a room of the Marble Arch (we had read the script) and set up the shots. We were in the room for four hours. What was really amazing for me is that I had forgotten that actors can act, particularly on demand with short notice! I would give them instructions and they would do as told. I would only need to shoot one or two frames. Runte and Harrison posed in one of the real stripper booths of the Marble Arch. It felt authentic. The amount of emotion we were able to extract from these four was an experience I will never forget.
I have seen some excellent theatrical pictures in Vancouver through the years but just this time I will beat on my own drum to opine that these pictures are really special.
If you read the plot synopsis here you will understand the gist of the pictures and the reason for the camera, the doctor's smock, the mouse and Steve Griffith (Dan) in drag.
Anna. "She has one address in her address book; ours ... under 'H' for home."
Dan. I've cut that line.
Anna. Why ?
Dan. Too sentimental.
Dan. What do you want ?
Alice. To be loved.
Dan. That simple ?
Alice. It's a big want.
Larry. It's about you, isn't it ?
Alice. Some of me.
Larry. Oh ? What did he leave out ?
Alice. The truth.
Link to: Patrick Marber's Closer At The Marble Arch
Pluto Platters & Wham-O Blowguns
On February 13 I read in my hard copy NY Times:
Walter Fredrick Morrison, who at 17 sent the lid of a popcorn tin skimming through the air of a California backyard and as an adult remade the lid in plastic, in the process inventing the simple, elegant flying disc known today as the Frisbee, died Tuesday at his home in Monroe, Utah. He was 90.
I was not aware that Morrison’s invention before it was bought by the Wham-0 company in 1958 had been called the Flyin’ Cake Pan, the Whirlo-Way the Flyin’-Saucer and finally the Pluto Platter.
I read the obituary with nostalgic interest but I must clarify that I never did master the art of throwing a Frisbee. It may have been sometime around 1959 when the Frisbee arrived to St. Ed’s High School in Austin, Texas. The master of the sailing art was my friend (and now a successful dentist in Houston) Steve Burdick who tried his best to teach me. My expertise with wrist work involved the ping pong paddle. I was one of the best in school in that game. The Frisbee was never my thing and I remember young men throwing them in Kitsilano Beach here in Vancouver in the mid 70s. They often played the game with their dogs. I found the whole exercise kind of silly! My son-in-law Bruce Stewart plays something called Frisbee Golf.
While the Frisbee and I never did get along I had an early relationship with the Wham-O company in 1957 when I was a nerdish freshman at St.Ed’s.
Because I was an Argentine born boy who had lived in Mexico so that my accent was a blend of Argentine and Mexican I was considered an outsider by la Raza (those that were either Mexican of Mexican heritage) while the white Texan/Americans considered me a foreigner (even though I, too was white and spoke English). I was in between and part of neither camps. I was left to my own resources.
So I took advantage of the efficient American postal system and became a member of a “club” in which I purchased b+w glossies of airplanes including military fighters, vintage WWI and II plus the more recent jet fighters and bombers. The club also had a new section and I began to collect photographs of what they called guided missiles. I remember the BOMARC and the Nike.
I also constructed gadgets. My source of materials for these gadgets was an army surplus store on Congress Avenue that was very close to the Congress Avenue Bridge (before the bats settled in). It was at that store that I bought a special compass that I could adapt into a flying-saucer-spotter. The compass could be opened so I was able to put two electrodes on either side of North. The electrodes I connected to a buzzer that was battery-powered. At night I would position the device under my bed with the compass pointing north. The idea behind the gadget is that many in those flying saucer sighting days had read (as had I) Major Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real and Flying Saucers From Outer Space. We were thus aware that the proximity of a flying saucer would affect the magnetic field. This meant that a nearby compass needle would fluctuate. If I had built my gadget correctly the buzzer would sound!
What I was not aware until Brother Vincent De Paul, CSC punished me for waking up part of the dormitory one night was that large tractor trailers also modified the magnetic field. Brother Vincent commanded me to disconnect my compass.
I shifted my interests to potentially more destructive and dangerous endeavours.
I purchased a Wham-O sling shot. I remember when it arrived in a little brown package. You loaded the leather pouch with steel balls or copper BBs. I was soon practicing by the creek with glass beer bottles.
When I saw an ad for the Wham-0 blowgun I rapidly lost interest in the sling shot. It arrived in a longish box. It was partly collapsible in that you connected the rear part with the hand grips to a front part. It came with steel darts that were five inches long. The weapon was silent and I soon came to realize that it was dangerous and could be deadly. Do you think the Brothers of the Holy Cross would have taken it away from me? Absolutely not, as far as Brother Vincent was concerned my “toys” made no noise at night! For a while I practiced to see how much my darts would pierce plywood. But the weapon was useless with beer bottles.
I visited the army surplus store and bought a co2 cartridge powered air pistol. I also bought a Spanish American War vintage leather holster (used for carrying a .45 caliber automatic). While many of my classmates became members of the National Rifle Association and joined the Rifle Club run by Brother Stanley Repucci I was never tempted. I perhaps did not know then but I might have already been a liberal who believed in gun control and a Canadian type of socialized health care system. I did not have the credentials to ever be a Texan. But I did practice by the creek to see if I could unholster the gun as quickly as Matt Dillon.
Brother Vincent did not take away my air pistol. It was in the summer holidays before I returned to St. Ed’s for Grade 10 that I ran into my first and last incident with my toys. In Nueva Rosita, Coahuila where my mother taught school to the children of the engineers of the American Smelting and Refining Company, we lived close by to a our American bowling alley. I remember spotting the older man who ran it, Juan standing by the door. Without thinking I put a dart into my blowgun and blew. The dart penetrated the door, inches from his face. My mother took away the blow gun. I was too old for an old-fashioned paliza (whipping).
Addendum: My son-in-law, Bruce Stewart has informed me that he does not play Frisbee golf. "It is called disc golf because if you were to try to catch one of these it would break your fingers."
Link to: Pluto Platters & Wham-O Blowguns
Friday was indeed a sad day. I took Toby to the SPCA. I almost felt that Toby was apologetic when he soiled his plastic cage in the car. When Dr. Peter Lekkas saw Toby and noticed how far he had deteriorated after a previous visit a couple of weeks ago he looked at me and we both agreed on the course of action. I told Dr. Lekkas that while he dealt with Toby I was going to cross to the adoption side to see if some cat would appeal to me. That being the case I was going to adopt the cat, right on the spot, take him home and present Rosemary with a fait accompli. I did find a cat but I was not able to take him home.
The cat I saw was in a sterile quarantine section of the SPCA because many of their cats had suffered from respiratory diseases. They had all been kept apart just in case. In order to see the cats I had to slip into plastic booties and then stand for 30 seconds in a strong disinfectant. There was one cat I immediately noticed. He was a very large gray tabby with almost no markings, with strikingly large eyes of an unearthly yellow green. He was pleasant, low key and affectionate. His name was Kassy which was short for Kassynova [sic]. When I told the woman in charge that I was interested in Kassy she asked me, “Which cat is she?”
The folks at the SPCA told me that Kassy, 6, was a one cat household cat and that he was most definitely a house cat. That he was a house cat was evident as the 18 pound cat was certainly overweight. I was further told that he had never been around children. It seemed it was all stacked against me. I told them I wanted to take the cat anyway but I was denied. There is a new regulation that stipulates that if a person wants to adopt a cat in a two-person household the other person has to be there. Dr. Peter Lekkas tried to “fix” the situation by vouching that we were cat people and that I was not married and had no wife! I went home minus the cat.
Rosemary reluctantly told me that we would go the next day with the girls but she didn’t think she was ready for another cat just yet. I was thinking that as our financial fortunes diminish going from one cat (an eventually to none) might be our ticket if we plan to travel and or live in a small apartment.
Both Rebecca and her mother Hilary said I should get another cat that would be Rosemary’s, as Toby had been. Rebecca was precise, “Abi thinks that Plata (my female cat) is a bitch. She wants a cat of her own.”
So we went to the SPCA and all four of us crowded into the room wearing our plastic booties. Kassy sat on our lap, one at a time. He never hissed or in any way showed any inclination to be aggressive with the girls. I said nothing but Rebecca kept harping to her grandmother that this was indeed the cat that was going to be hers.
We left the SPCA with our cat. Both Lauren and I decided that Kassy would go back to his original name but spelled correctly. He would be Casanova and we would call him Casa for short. He is big as a house so the name fits.
During the whole two days Rosemary was so confused and worried about a possible adoption that she never really stopped to consider that I had returned Friday afternoon with Toby in a box. I opened the box in the garden to find a white towel that was wrapped almost in a ball. I could see Toby’s lovely white front paws sticking out. I had no heart to look any further. I dug the hole and put Toby in it. It began to drizzle as I covered the hole with leaves and dirt. As Rosemary said when I went up the stairs, “Toby is home.”
Plata did not know what to do when we arrived on Saturday with Casa. Casa was a bit shy and would hide under the bed (as cats so expertly manage to be in the exact centre so you cannot reach them). But by today Sunday Casa knows where the litter box is. He is friendly with everybody and allows himself to be picked up (if you are able to!) without any fuss. Rosemary had Casa on her chest while lying in bed. She is not too sure about Casa. She likes the traditional tabby cats with lots of markings on the body and those lovely white paws that Toby had. Rebecca pointed out that Casa is indeed a tabby as he has an M above the eyes.
I have a feeling that Rosemary and Casa, Casa and Plata, will be friends real soon. We will not forget Toby.
Today Rebecca called to say she, Lauren and their Nana wanted to pay us a visit so that Nana could meet Casa. We had hot chocolate and tea. I had the opportunity to take this Fuji instant print so that you can see Casa, at home.
Link to: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
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Tech N9ne Reflects On Lil Wayne & Discovering E-40 Is His Cousin
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Tech N9ne's "Like I Ain't" breakdown takes fans down memory lane.
Today, we're honored to team up with Tech N9ne for the latest episode of "Between The Lines." Off the bat, Tech breaks down a few of his early grudges, namely that old eternal foe: The Industry. Fans might recall Tech's previous singles like "FTI" and "The Industry Is Punks," drawing back to his heyday. As he so aptly points out, Tech has never taken to slacking on the mic, and those he once disavowed have been forced to take notice. He takes a moment to reflect on his journey, reminiscing on some truly wild concerts. "I used to kick hard," he laughs. "Fuckin ecstasy, shrooms, acid, the fans used to give it to me back in the day. New Year's Eve two years in a row in Seattle Washington back in the day!"
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Clearly, "Like I Ain't" is riddled with humble-brags, a testament to Tech's wide-ranging and impressive career. He takes a moment to pay homage to a fellow Worldwide Choppa, Twista, naming the Chicago rapper as the hierarchal figure of his craft. He reflects on director Nick Cassavetes happening upon his Absolute Power album and using Tech's music in "Alpha Dog." In fact, Cassavetes ultimately loved his music so much, he tasked Tech with scoring the movie alongside Aaron Zigman - despite Tech having never scored a film before.
"Did it like I wasn't a starter that was on Tha Carter," raps Tech, reminding ya'll that he once held it down in a pivotal role on Lil Wayne's Carter IV. "That was a big thing that Wayne made happen when I came up here to Rikers to visit him. He said 'when I get out it's going to be on.' When he got out, he called us and I went down and recorded "The Interlude" and he put Andre 3000 on it."
In a shocking hip-hop twist, Tech also reveals that he's related to E-40. "No wonder I like him so much," he laughs. He cites the time E-40 called him, and put Tech's younger cousin Christopher on the phone. "Whatchu doing with E-40?" he recalls asking, only to be told "that's our cousin, Dontez! We all connected!" Tech's stunned reaction says it all. In fact, his affable energy is a constant throughline, and you'd be wise to catch this interview before checking out N9NA tomorrow. Respect to Tech N9ne for this one!
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The Civil War Swamp Angel of Charleston Harbor
Fort Sumter fell to the Confederates on April 13, 1861. By the summer of 1863, Fort Sumter had been bombarded by Federal artillery for two years, but it still stood and guarded Charleston, South Carolina. At the entrance to Charleston Harbor is Morris Island, and Union General Quincy A. Gillmore and his troops were stationed there. Gillmore wanted to construct a battery on Morris Island so he could bombard Charleston directly, and force the city’s surrender, thus bypassing troublesome Fort Sumter and other forts in the harbor.
A big gun with the range to reach Charleston would allow General Gillmore to get to the meat of the matter, which was to force the Rebel stronghold of Charleston to surrender. The Swamp Angel is exactly what Gillmore needed.
This gun was huge. It was made at New York’s West Point Foundry and it weighed 16,700 pounds. With an 8-inch bore, its barrel had an 11-foot bore depth. Even the construction of the battery and parapet needed for the big gun was impressive. Merely getting this gun into place on the swampy, mushy, ground of Morris Island (with mud sometimes twenty-feet deep) in Charleston Harbor was a challenging engineering job. Construction began on August 2, 1863 and included:
13,000 sandbags weighing greater than 800 tons total
123 pine timbers, 45-55 feet in length and 15-18 inches in diameter
5,000 feet of 1-inch thick board
9,500 feet of 3-inch thick planking
The spikes, nails, and iron required to hold it all together weighed 1,200 pounds
75 fathoms (450 feet) of rope, 3 inches thick
All this would allow the Swamp Angel to use a 17-pound powder charge to fire a 200-pound projectile 7,900 yards into the heart of Charleston. To top it all off, the projectiles could be filled with “Greek Fire” an incendiary fluid, that would set Charleston ablaze. On August 17, it arrived at Morris Island. An awesome weapon of war was about to go to work.
Gillmore sent a message on August 21, to Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, the commander at Charleston, demanding the evacuation of Confederate posts on Morris Island and Fort Sumter, or else shelling of Charleston would start. The Yankees had sighted the Swamp Angel in on the steeple of St. Michael’s Church.
Beauregard gave no reply to Gillmore’s demands. At 1:30 in the morning on August 22, the Swamp Angel began to roar with its first shot at Charleston. Following the first shot, bells, whistles, and alarms from Charleston could be heard on Morris Island. Before daylight came, fifteen more shots rained down on Charleston from the big gun, 12 of the shots filled with Greek Fire.
Charleston was receiving the wrath of the Union in the form of horrible huge shells filled with fire, shot from a huge monster of a cannon 7,900 yards away. On August 23, the Swamp Angel belched out 20 more shells into Charleston. It looked like the Confederacy would lose Charleston to surrender as the terrible gun rained its hellish shells full of fire down on the city.
But when the Swamp Angel fired its 36th shell on August 23rd, it did something cast-iron Parrott guns were known for, despite their distinctive wrought iron reinforcing bands placed around their breeches. On the 36th shot the Swamp Angel’s breech blew out and the gun’s barrel flew on top of the sandbag parapet.
Although it had suffered some damage and a few fires were set by the Swamp Angel, Charleston was now safe. The great big gun was dead. No further huge guns like the Swamp Angel were placed on the Union’s Morris Island battery.
The Swamp Angel’s military career was over, the fate of the great gun was for it to be sold as scrap iron. However, instead of being used as scrap iron and physically lost to history, the citizens of Trenton, New Jersey bought the Swamp Angel and made it into a monument.
If you visit Trenton today, you will find the Swamp Angel at Perry and Clinton streets. Even if it could still fire, and despite its might, the Civil War Swamp Angel could not reach Charleston from Trenton. People of Charleston, you may rest easy because the Swamp Angel is no longer a threat to you.
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Protests squeezing Hong Kong economy, tourism, leader says
Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam says the city's economy is being battered by months of increasingly violent protests
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's economy is languishing after months of increasingly violent protests, the city's embattled leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday.
Lam, addressing reporters after a long weekend of more turmoil, said tourism arrivals were down by half and that hotels and retailers were suffering.
Hong Kong's third quarter economic data will definitely be "very bad", said Lam, the semi-autonomous territory's Beijing-backed chief executive said.
Lam said she did not have the data with her. But empty streets and tourist attractions are evidence of the fallout from the protests that began in June over a now-shelved extradition bill that would have allowed some criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.
Initially, the protests caused little damage and were confined to an area near Hong Kong government offices. But they've since spread to many parts of the former British colony, which enjoys freedoms guaranteed to the semi-autonomous region of about 7 million people when Beijing took control in 1997.
The demonstrations have gradually escalated into a broader anti-government movement that has grown increasingly violent, with protesters targeting shops and banks.
The city's airport has been periodically besieged by protesters, and some train and subway lines and shopping malls have suffered significant disruptions from the demonstrations.
Lam warned that the Chinese military might intervene if need be but said she hoped to revolve the unrest at the local level.
So far, Hong Kong's stock exchange has kept steady, and the benchmark Hang Seng index gained 0.5% on Tuesday. Prices have been supported by ample demand since shares listed in Hong Kong are perceived as being relatively cheap, says veteran investment manager Francis Lun.
The city's monetary regulators say Hong Kong has ample reserves to weather bouts of hard times.
But tourism and retailing are languishing, and some investors are shifting money out of the city, Lun says
Analysts say the political turmoil and the risk of intervention by Beijing could undermine Hong Kong's status as a world financial hub.
"Unless it stops soon...it's really Hong Kong's survival at stake," he told The Associated Press.
Goldman Sachs has estimated that between $3-$4 billion has been moved to Singapore from Hong Kong since August, based on estimates from bank deposit information.
Economic growth slowed to 0.5% year-on-year in the April-June quarter from a 3% rate of expansion in 2018.
The government has forecast growth in full-year 2019 likely will slow to 0%-1%.
Protesters are demanding Lam's resignation even after she withdrew legislation that provoked the latest rounds of turmoil. They also want investigations into the handling of the protests by police.
AP Business Editor Elaine Kurtenbach in Bangkok contributed.
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On Buying a Sailboat
I'm typically drawn to technical pursuits (brewing, coding) so it wasn't surprising when I took up sailing earlier this year. It started with just my own curiosity- I'd pore over books, forums, blogs, videos, and just about every other piece of information available on the topic.
One thing I hadn't quite anticipated was just how slippery a slope it would become. I'd always wanted to buy a boat. I grew up on the water, and I spent my weekends on boats, snorkeling, jumping off rocks- enjoying all things water related. This interest in sailing, however, was a much more recent phenomenon - one which took me by surprise.
I'd always viewed sailors as a crew of posers, who liked to tie up dockside attired head-to-toe in Helly Hansen, pint in hand, never daring venture beyond the breakwater. Turns out there was more to it than this misconception..
The idea of a form of propulsion that didn't cost several hundred dollars per hour to run is very appealing! Even more appealing is the skill involved in trimming a set of sails to glean optimal performance based on current wind direction, velocity, tides and current. It's a multi-dimensional, complex polynomial equation to be solved which takes a lifetime to perfect. Never did I think that zipping along at seven-and-a-half miles per hour could be so exhilarating ..
Community Boating, Charles River, Boston
I started sailing at Community Boating on Boston's Charles River. For just $300/yr, I could take lessons & eventually sail their entire fleet. The season opens in April, when the frigid rivers of the Charles are incentive enough to avoid capsize. I joined first day, and between April and July I was sailing often 4 or 5 nights a week, graduating through their rating system.
Eventually, I had the sufficient cajones to take out their larger boats, and in heavier wind conditions too.
In parallel, I'd realised there was more to sailing than the Charles River Estuary - Boston Harbor has some of the best daysailing grounds in the United States. I'd applied to volunteer crew on racing boats on a number of boards, and eventually somebody took pity on me (thanks, Ryan!). I started crewing on a 26' Thunderbird, racing out of South Boston. Most courses saw us sailing in the lee of Thompson Island, and Boston Harbor turned out to be infinitely more exhilirating than the Charles River Basin. That was it - time to buy a boat!
The Criteria
I wanted something comfortable for myself and Katharine to sleep on for short periods, at a price point which wouldn't be dehbilitating were we to discover we didn't much like crusiing. This first lead to a trailerable 22' boat, but this was quickly ruled out for two reasons:
One: Interior accomodations were akin to a tent on the water. It'd be nice to be able to stand up!
Two: We'd have nowhere to store a trailer. The cost of summer storage, and the pain that would be launching for every use would be alleviated by just keeping a boat in the water.
A slippery slope, this boat buying business. At least this better defined what I wanted in a boat, and to this end I started scouring Craigslist with a rough criteria in mind:
Catalina 30 Interior
Easily single handed - because I want to eventually be able to sail solo evenings after work, and fitting an Autopilot would have cost thousands
At least one 6'3" berth - because I'm tall
A Reliable Diesel Inboard - yes, it's a sailboat, but I'd rather not be forced to moor under sail, and accidentally drift into the $500,000 catarman I share the anchorage with
Cost less than I'd sold my car for - because that way it was somehow an easier, more sensible purchase to justify. $11,000 was the budget.
Along with this criteria list, I had a checklist of items to check assembled from a few self-survey resources online. A time consuming process, this checklist consisted of about 2 hours of poking & examining.
I had every intention of having a professional survey performed - but I wanted to avoid this cost if I could identify "a lemon" (of which we encountered a few) before paying some $600 for a Survey.
We ended up viewing 8 different boats, settling on a Catalina 30 - the only boat which had any standing headroom for my 6'3" frame. Compared to other boats of its size, it feels huge down below.
While it's no bullet-proof blue water cruiser of the world's oceans, it suits our ambitions for the next few years just fine.
I made an offer, the owner countered, and we eventually settled on a price.
Boat on the hard
The boat was sitting on the hard at the owners house, so transport added both cost and stress - possibly why the boat hadn't sold despite being $5k below retail. The survey checked out, so I went ahead and arranged next-day transport for the boat 50 miles to the water south of Boston.
We launched, the boat didn't leak, and it spent a few days on a mooring at a South Shore yacht club before we sailed her back to Boston Harbor, where she now lives.
Now, the fun part - as with most of my blog posts, I'm happy to be an open book on the financials, since it's an interesting insight for anybody considering doing similar. What did all this cost?
One-time:
Base purchase price: $11,500 (yep, $500 over budget) Marine Survey: $590
Transport: $990 (50 miles, inc. splash & mast step)
MA Sales Tax: $718
Total cost: $13,768
Mooring in Boston Harbor: $2,800
Tow-US Membership: $175
Winter storage: $1590
Total yearly: $5,133 (plus maintinence - the big unknown!)
So far, we've had a few glorious sunset sails through Boston Harbor. I've also already been kneck-deep in projects - in the past 2 weeks since launch, I've had to tackle mold, remove wasp nests, drain & clean both water tanks, fitted an engine breather hose, rewired the nav lights, and fixed the autopilot.
Hopefully before the 2016 season ends we'll get to spend a night or two on the boat. Right now, the stretch goal is a trip to Provincetown, a 6 to 8 hour sail from Boston to the tip of Cape Cod - but let's see how a night at the mooring goes first..
More on that as I have it!
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(this article was first published in Green Building Magazine, Autumn 2010)
In Paris, after visiting the Eiffel Tower, Le Musée d'Orsay, Notre Dame, etc, go to the Musée des Egouts, a museum sited inside a working sewer with real Parisian turds floating by on their way to the sewage treatment plant. Now, I could be accused of bias in my choice of tourist trips as I have been down the London sewers, my grandfather worked in them, I own a t-shirt celebrating the alligators of the New York sewers, and, as a plumber, have cleared many a blocked drain. But even my partner (a psychotherapist) admitted it was quite interesting though, she wasn't too keen on the smell. So how is it possible to have a museum inside a Parisian sewer? In the London sewers all visitors would have to wear thigh-high waders and safety harnesses as they waded through sewage reading the information!
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The Paris sewer network was designed by Eugene Belgrand in 1850 and by 1878 the sewer network was 600 km long. The sewer is shaped like a button mushroom; the sewage flows in a channel (a cunette), and there is a walkway on both sides of the cunette. Maintenance of the sewer can be done from the walkway, using a variety of different methods. Access to the sewers is from the pavement, and an underground passage leads into the middle of the road where the sewer is. This is fascinating and what is even more interesting is the network of pipes running at high level within the sewers. The sewers were designed to carry two separate water supply networks, one for potable water (supplied into buildings) and the other for non potable water, used for cleaning the streets of Paris. It is a fabulous design. Any leakage can be easily identified and repaired, whilst street cleaning uses water fit for purpose and with a lower carbon load than if drinking water was used. In addition to the water mains the sewers now house telecommunication cables and even pneumatic tubes in some areas.
A history of sanitation in Pairs from the middle ages to the present day, plus actual exhibits of the different machinery used to clean the sewers inform the visitor. The information panels are somewhat water damaged as this sewer has flooded across the walkway to a height of about one metre, obviously following heavy rainfall, but that just highlights the fact it is a working sewer; as do the signs warning you not to touch the walls, to wash your hands when you exit, the noise and smell of the flowing sewage, and the staff, who are the sewer workers themselves. Don't miss it!
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A former spy with a dark secret and a past he can’t outrun. A mysterious cult that steals beautiful teenagers. A looming battle between the forces of light and dark, and the girl who drags them into the middle of it all.
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Copper and Brass Bands (strips) in Russia: Production, Market and Forecast
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This report is a study of the market of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia.
The purpose of the study is to analyze the market of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia.
The subject of the study are copper and brass bands (strips).
The work is a desk study. As sources of information, the data of the Federal State Statistics Service, the customs statistics of the Russian Federation, the site of foreign trade operations UNdata were used; materials of the branch and regional press, annual and quarterly reports of securities issuers, Internet sites of manufacturing enterprises and consumers of copper and brass bands (stripes), as well as data obtained from telephone interviews with representatives of manufacturing enterprises and consumers.
Chronological framework of the study: 2015-2017; forecast for the period 2018-2030.
Geography of the study: The Russian Federation - a comprehensive detailed analysis of the market.
The report consists of 5 parts, contains 86 pages, including 28 tables, 26 figures and 2 applications.
The first chapter of the report examines the production of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017. This section of the report provides statistical and estimated data on the volume of output of the products under consideration by manufacturing enterprises. Also here is given the characteristic of large producers.
The second chapter provides data on foreign trade operations with copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017 - the volume of supplies (including by brand) in bulk and in money terms, the main suppliers and consumers are represented.
The third chapter is devoted to the analysis of consumption of the products in question in 2015-2017 The balance of production-consumption is given, the capacity of the markets is determined. Also in the chapter the main participants of the market are designated, the structure of consumption of each kind of production by branches, alloys, standard sizes is resulted. In addition, the characteristic of the main consuming industries (current state and prospects of development) is given.
The fourth chapter gives an assessment of the prospects for the development of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips). The forecast of production and consumption for the period up to 2030 is presented.
The fifth chapter identifies the most promising products (in the line under consideration). Market barriers to entry into the industry are estimated.
The appendix lists the largest machine-building plants in Russia, addresses and contact information of enterprises producing copper and brass bands (strips).
The target audience of the study:
- participants in the market of copper and brass bands (bands) - producers, consumers, suppliers;
- potential investors.
The proposed research claims to be a reference tool for marketing services and specialists who make managerial decisions on the market of copper and brass bands.
1. Manufacture of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017
1.1. Dynamics of volumes and structure of production
1.2. Brief description of the main manufacturing companies
OJSC "Kirov Plant of OCM" (KZOTSM)
LLC "New Technologies of Colored Metallurgy" (Noginsk, Moscow region)
LLC "Gaisky Zavod OTSM" (GZOTSM) (Orenburg region)
JSC Kamensk-Uralsky Plant OTSM (KUZOTSM) (Sverdlovsk Region)
2. Trends in Russian imports of copper and brass bands (bands) in 2015-2017
2.1. Import
2.2. Export
3. Consumption of copper and brass bands (strips) in the Russian Federation in 2015-2017
3.1. The balance of production-consumption. Determining the capacity and saturation of the Russian market
The market of copper tapes and stripes
Market of brass bands and strips
Total capacity and main trends in the development of the market for copper and brass bands (strips)
3.2. The main market participants
3.3. Structure of consumption
Structure of consumption by industry
The structure of consumption by types of products (alloys, standard sizes)
3.4. Analysis of the main industries that use copper and brass tapes (strips)
Manufacture of automotive radiators
Manufacture of electrical equipment and electronic equipment
Manufacture of capsules
Building sector
4. Evaluation of the prospects for the development of consumption of copper and brass bands (bands) to 2030
5. Identification of the most promising products (in the line under consideration). Estimation of market barriers.
Appendix 1: List of the largest machine-building plants in Russia
Appendix 2: List and address information of the largest instrument-making plants in Russia
Table 1: Main application areas of different grades and sizes of copper tape
Table 2: Main application areas of different grades and sizes of brass tape
Table 3: The main grades of alloys used by Russian enterprises in the production of copper and brass bands (strips)
Table 4: Production of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia by enterprises in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 5: Production of the main types of products of OJSC Kirovsky OTSM plant in 2014-2017, t
Table 6: The main technical characteristics of copper and brass bands (bands) produced by JSC "Kirov Plant of OCM"
Table 7: Some financial indicators of OJSC Kirovsky OCM plant in 2012-2017, million rubles.
Table 8: The main financial indicators of LLC "New Technologies of Colored Metallurgy" in 2014-2017, thousand rubles.
Table 9: Production of the main types of products LLC "Gaisky Zavod OTSM" in 2014-2017, t
Table 10: The main technical characteristics of copper and brass bands (bands), produced by LLC "Gaisky Plant OTSM"
Table 11: Main technical characteristics of copper strips produced by JSC Kamensk-Uralsky Plant of OCM
Table 12: The main technical characteristics of copper and brass bands (bands) produced by LLC "Kaluga Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant"
Table 13: Geographical structure of Russian imports of copper and brass bands (bands) in 2015-2017, t
Table 14: The largest foreign suppliers of copper and brass bands (bands) in Russia in 2015-2017, t, $ / kg
Table 15: The largest Russian recipients of imported copper and brass bands and strips in 2015-2017, t, $ / kg
Table 16: Russian imports of copper and brass bands (strips) in natural (t) and value (thousand $) in 2015-2017
Table 17: Geographical structure of Russian exports of copper and brass bands (bands) in 2015-2017, t
Table 18: The largest Russian suppliers of copper and brass bands (bands) to the foreign market in 2015-2017, t, $ / kg
Table 19: Russian exports of copper and brass bands (strips) in natural (t) and value (thousand $) in 2015-2017
Table 20: The balance of production and consumption of copper tapes and strips in Russia in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 21: Balance of production-consumption of brass belts and strips in Russia in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 22: The balance of production and consumption of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 23: Structure of consumption of copper and brass tapes (bands) by main consumption areas and standard sizes in Russia in 2015-2017, kt,%
Table 24: Fields of application of stamped parts from various alloys of brass
Table 25: Production indices in industries consuming copper and brass bands (bands) in the Russian Federation in 2013-2017,% to the prev. year
Table 26: Growth in production of machine-building industries in 2018-2020,% to prev. year
Table 27: Forecast of volumes and patterns of consumption of copper and brass bands (bands) in the period up to 2030, kt,%
Table 28. Analysis of the level of competition in the industry (scheme "five forces of competition" M Porter) for recommended products
Figure 1: Dynamics of production of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 2: Dynamics of production of copper and brass bands and strips in Russia in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 3: Dynamics of the production of copper and brass bands and strips in OJSC "Kirov Plant of OCM" in 2015-2017, t
Figure 4: Dynamics of production of copper and brass belts and strips in LLC "Gaisky Zavod OCM" in 2015-2017, t
Figure 5: Dynamics of production of copper strips in OJSC Kamensk-Uralsky Plant of OCM in 2015-2017, t
Figure 6: Dynamics of Russian imports of copper and brass bands (strips) in 2015-2017, t
Figure 7: Structure of Russian imports of copper tape (strips) by application areas in 2017,%
Figure 8: Dynamics of Russian exports of copper and brass bands (strips) in 2015-2017, t
Figure 9: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of copper tapes in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 10: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of copper strips in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 11: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of brass tapes in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 12: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of brass bands in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 13: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of tapes from copper and brass in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 14: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of strips of copper and brass in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 15: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips) by enterprises in 2017,%
Figure 16: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass tapes by enterprises in 2017,%
Figure 17: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass strips by enterprises in 2017,%
Figure 18: Sectoral structure of consumption of copper-containing products in 2015-2017,%
Figure 19: Structure of the Russian market of copper tapes and strips by areas of application in 2017,%
Figure 20: Structure of the Russian market of brass bands and strips by application areas in 2017,%
Figure 21: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips) by brands (alloys) in 2017,%
Figure 22: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips) by size in 2017,%
Figure 23: Dynamics of transformer production in Russia in 2010-2017, megavolt-ampere (MV × A)
Figure 24: Forecast of consumption of copper tapes and strips in Russia in 2018-2030, kt
Figure 25: Forecast of consumption of brass tapes and strips in Russia in 2018-2030, kt
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Mad man in charge.
I am not sure Americans realize how truly f****d we are with this clown in the White House.
Every day we see American ideals and principles being chipped away, and no one seems to give a damn.
It has become so bad with this guy that every new scandal just elicits a yawn from us, and they never seem to last more than one news cycle.
I have been saying for some time now that the president of the United States is more than likely clinically insane, or that he is suffering from some kind of medical condition that is causing his mental faculties to deteriorate.
After reading an article in Raw Story about a Yale professor who is so concerned about the president's mental state, that she actually wrote a book about it.
"On February 28, we published a post, "The Elephant in the Room: It’s time we talked openly about Donald Trump’s mental health," which went viral with close to a million reads. People on both sides of the political spectrum—as well as some mental health professionals—weighed in with hundreds of comments.
One comment was from Hal Brown, MSW, a colleague of John Gartner, Ph.D., whom we mentioned in the post. John is the founder of Duty to Warn, an organization intent on warning our country that we are in dire trouble due to our president’s mental instability. More than 60,000 mental health professionals have signed John’s petition, which states:
“We, the undersigned mental health professionals, believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’”
John requested an interview with Phil for a podcast and then asked him to participate in a short documentary film that was recently released. So far, nearly 2 million people have viewed the documentary.
In mid-March, we received an email from Bandy X. Lee of Yale University. To give you a little of her amazing background, she is an M.D.; M.Div. (Master of Divinity); assistant clinical professor, Yale Law and Psychiatry Division; co-founder and director of the Violence and Health Study Group for the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; as well as co-leader of Academic Collaborators for the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance. We were honored, and a little scared, when she asked us to contribute to a new book she was putting together, with the working title, Duty to Warn. The book was time-sensitive in that she, other contributors, and interested publishers felt an urgency to get the book into the hands of the public and governmental powers-that-be as soon possible. We had less than a month to send our essay to her.
All other projects were sidelined as we devoted the next two weeks to researching and writing. Fortunately, we had "The Elephant" as an outline and our time perspective expertise in observing Trump’s extreme present hedonistic behavior to help us determine our findings. As we dug deeper into the fallout of Trump as president, we became increasingly alarmed by how one person can affect an entire nation. We used this newfound knowledge for our book chapter, as well as two subsequent PsychogyToday.com post: "The Trump Effect, Part I," about the increase in bullying in schools and a small adult population across the U.S. since the 2016 presidential campaign; and "Part II," about the increase in sexual harassment incidents." [Source]
We know now that Mr. trump lies about where his father was born, has a problem pronouncing basic words, seems to forget what he says from one moment to another, and shows signs of paranoia and delusion when he speaks about certain things. Throw in his need for attention, and his petty fixation with his image and it's clear that we have a mad man on our hands.
*Pic from epictimes.com
That's cool, the Dems will investigate this moron to death until he has his Colonel Jessup moment.
Drumpf is a fucking nutjob, alright.
https://www.the-immoral-minority.com/trump-erroneously-claims-that-president-obama-was-the-one-who-jailed-children-and-that-he-was-the-one-who-stopped-it/
And never forget it is stoopid fucking wingnuts that are keeping this POS in office because they are afraid to lose the senate and then won't be aBle to pack the courts or filibuster nominees anymore.
Paradoctor said...
But meantime he has Miller for an advisor.
Mother Jones says Chinese woman charged with breaching security at Drumpf Dump South was charged with lying to federal authorities. So when does Drumpf get charged with lying to federal authorities?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/news/redlining-public-housing-museum-exhibit-martin-luther-king/amp/
Even though he fired Kristjen because she tried to explain family seperation is illegal. A normal President wouldn't have these problems.
trump had no problem laundering money for Iranians.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/trump-iran-revolutionary-guard-terrorist-organization/amp
Trump Derangement Syndrome said...
Is it really the President, Mr. Field Negrto, or is it maybe you?
320 MILLION People in the USA and 3 people a year die from White Nationalists.
Might be a record for LOWEST deaths from a radical extremist political movement in history.
Coyote ugly said...
"Even though he fired Kristjen because she tried to explain family seperation is illegal."
Obama did it. No one had a problem with it then.
The reason kids are separated from adults in detention is that some of the adults will rape the children.
The law incentivizes dragging a kid across the border with you, because they have to let you in. Shouldn't we change that particular part of the asylum law?
"Obama did it. No one had a problem with it then."
And then the current administration tried to get officials to break the law because a curcuit court stopped the family separation. Kristjen was the latest victim. That is problematic.
"The law incentivizes dragging a kid across the border with you, because they have to let you in. Shouldn't we change that particular part of the asylum law?"
Leaving your children behind in a violent situation should not be encouraged. Not a good idea.
"320 MILLION People in the USA and 3 people a year die from White Nationalists."
There have been more deaths from right wing radical donestic terrorists than Islamic extremists. Should we just stop worrying about terrorism at all?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/national/in-the-united-states-right-wing-violence-is-on-the-rise/2018/11/25/61f7f24a-deb4-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html
I think that he's a malignant narcissist, so to that extent he's mentally ill, but mostly he's just a huckster wannabe mobster con man who doesn't belong anywhere within 500 yards of important decision making.
It's not like he displays characteristics way out of line with a huckster wannabe mobster con man, many of them are narcissists anyway, it's just that we don't make huckster wannabe mobster con men president of the United States, because they will do pretty much exactly what he's doing if you do, and what he is doing is bad.
And the 25th amendment won't help as long as there are 34 goddamn poltroon Republicans in the senate, so we have to get real about how he can actually be reined in, stopped, and removed, which means showing up to vote him out next year.
Also, not ever forgetting that the goddamn Republicans did this to us, because they will do it again, and each time it gets worse.
Don't even kid yourself that Fergus is the worst they can do. They can and will do worse. They always do. It's one of the only consistent things about the GOP.
Nixon was the worst. (Maybe Ford wasn't as bad, but they didn't elect him. The ones they elect get worse and worse. Remember that Fergus got more Republican primary votes that anyone in history and they still LOVE him.) Reagan was the worst. Poppy Bush was an extra term of Reagan being the worst.
Then there was Dubya. He was so awful that it was almost funny, except for the Iraq war, and the one massive tax cut each for the foolhardy wars he started, and the torture, and the ratfucking of the 2004 election, and the attempt to privatize Social Security, and the worst economic crash since the great depression leading to the economy shedding 700,000 jobs a month by the time Obama was sworn in to clean up the godawful mess he had made.
Oh, and remember "ownership society"? The bullshit con W foisted on us to cover for the housing bubble that destroyed trillions of dollars in ordinary citizens' wealth when it burst? The hucksterism isn't unique to Fergus, it's just gotten incrementally worse, like everything else Republican.
"There have been more deaths from right wing radical donestic terrorists than Islamic extremists. Should we just stop worrying about terrorism at all?"
Ridiculously false assertion.
And Muslims make of less than 2% of the population. Shouldn't we expect Islamic terrorism to be a tiny fraction of such crimes?
White liberals - supporting open borders to own Trump:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wOki7WAAAjXzS.jpg:large
You are all deranged.
Not false at all.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/581284/
https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/03/domestic-terror-still-greater-threat-than-islamic-extremism.html
"White liberals - supporting open borders to own Trump:"
They’re the ones who have broken away and become extremists. But they have power. So the normal people are now framed as extreme.
For wanting to have a home.
Their behavior is treasonous. This isn’t tax rates policy, this is the end of the country. Cause they’re virtue-signalling scumbags.
The country has to be crashed with no survivors for no other reason than lefties (white especially) are the worst people on earth. Powerful, selfish, and holding an incredibly shitty and insane worldview.
So America has to die. Because of that. Thanks guys. Thanks a lot
@ PilotX:
Fake statistics from Fake News, generated from taking non-political crimes and falsely labeling them as terrorism.
"Fake statistics from Fake News, generated from taking non-political crimes and falsely labeling them as terrorism."
https://www.cato.org/blog/terrorism-deaths-ideology-charlottesville-anomaly
Reality said...
Worldwide Incident Tracking System:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wOYkGWwAAmKX6.png
Nazis in last place.
Hate Fact™ said...
White people ain't the problem:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wKymtWsAEiVa0.jpg
https://tv.avclub.com/reconstruction-america-after-the-civil-war-connects-am-1833874175?_ga=2.47292583.1023359118.1554573013-amp-ERjatNHnu-BLikR32BfF4fDZg8BjjQt11JouSDEY5pz_xyAnWZ-ZGrEBZ1pOiaM9
Religion of Pieces said...
And Muslims make of less than 2% of the population. Shouldn't we expect Islamic terrorism to be a tiny fraction of such crimes?"
You might expect that, but that's not the case:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wInjSW0AAfxgJ.jpg
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/04/yeah-conservatives-jerks-we-on-left-did.html
Obama did not, in fact, separate children from their families, Fergus did that and still wants to do that.
Black Power said...
Candace Owens ripped Ted Lieu a new one today:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1115680604589371395
"This isn’t tax rates policy, this is the end of the country."
I don't know what kind of weak-ass country your propaganda has convinced you we live in, but this is not the end of the country.
What Ted Lieu attempted with Candace Owens is a classic example of a Struggle Session. During the Cultural Revolution, counter-revolutionaries were brought out to schools or sports areas while officials read off their alleged crimes and the crowd chanted. No response was allowed.
What l learned today is that the American values of liberty are not compatible with people such as Ted Lieu. He has nothing in common with the people that founded America. In fact, he hates them and us.
White Nationalist said...
What I learned today is that if you care about border security and immigration control, if you insist on national sovereignty, if you care about preserving what's left of our country's ethno-cultural and constitutional character, you're a "White Nationalist."
Clown Congress said...
The Democrats entire congressional agenda is attacking Trump and his supporters.
trump king clown said...
And it will be successful in 2020.
Candace Owens is an insane idiot, perfect for conservatives.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/candace-owenss-presence-turned-a-serious-inquiry-into-a-farce/2019/04/09/8e2976be-5b09-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html
https://www.theroot.com/candace-owens-is-racist-white-americas-black-friend-and-1833921887
Rita M. said...
Y'all just can't handle a strong, intelligent black woman like Candace Owens.
"White people ain't the problem"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wQjTrX4AEU12V.jpg:large
We live in a majority white nation, where Jews make up about 2% of the population, yet our government wants to make it illegal to support white nationalism and make it illegal to oppose Jewish nationalism.
We have a foreign occupied government and voting will not change this.
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Candace Owens' fan said...
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! That dumb broad! Have you listened to her? Conservatives love the uneducated.
Um, ok said...
Is that you Congress woman Omar?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/amp27090290/candace-owens-white-nationalism-hearing-house-republicans/
I got the horses in the back said...
There must have been a way to give the black man the respect he deserved without burning down the country. America was evolving into a real nation with a unified vision. We would have been an unstoppable force creating an unimaginably bright future.
A house divided was easy pickings. Now we all gotta deal with the consequences.
Nah, it’s Congressman Steve King (R-Nazi Germany).
Does he believe there are 57 states?
Drumpfuck the king dumbfuck said Obama instituted the policy of taking children away from their parents at the border and he ended it.
from CBS- Under the discontinued "zero tolerance" policy of increased prosecution for those who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, the Trump administration forcibly separated more than 2,600 migrant children from their families near the southern border and designated them as unaccompanied minors.
After massive public outcry, including from many Republicans, Mr. Trump was forced to sign an executive order in June 2018 to rescind the policy crafted and implemented by his administration.
When will you stoopid fucking devotees of the pathological liar throw up your hands in disgust with this piece of human filth and admit you were wrong all along about him?
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians."
So you are trying to tell us that Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were not Russians? Please pick up a Russian history book. Your entire post is just nonsense.
Mike from Iowa said ......
"When will you stoopid fucking devotees of the pathological liar throw up your hands in disgust with this piece of human filth and admit you were wrong all along about him?"
I don't think that's ever going to happen, Mike. The mind set of Trump's hard core followers does not respond to facts or reason.
Faith_and_Fairness said...
Funny you should ask, Mike, as to when right-wing extremists will veer toward facts and reality. In fact, citing inaccuracies of Obama administration policies, debunked time and again, is merely sport.
When will this stop? Answer per current Michael Harriott piece below.
Report: White People Still Tripping
https://www.theroot.com/report-white-people-still-tripping-1833915981
How many people per week do Negroes kill in America? There is your "we are fucked" answer. As usual Fraud Negro lies...
Black people lose their blackness when they go off the progressive reservation.
Remember, you must conform to progressivism at all times... but we must judge ALL people as individuals!
Latinx Migrant Caravan Comedian said...
Senor Donald Trump está muy loco!
A su burrito le faltan unos frijoles!
What inspires trolls, and what are they trying to accomplish?
Well, you see, after Dale Carnegie typed up "How To Make Friends And Influence People", he threw out the carbon negative; this inverse image went to the landfill, where it was contaminated by toxic waste and zapped by radium watch-dials. It mutated into an evil inverse of the original; this was dug up by a neo-nazi incel, who published it on the Dark Web, where it has inspired and guided trolls ever since.
And the name of that inverse text?
"How To Make Enemies And Not Influence People".
Black people get uninvited to the family reunion when the throw in with white nationalists just like Candace Owens. There are many Black conservatives, they just don't join the klan. Kinda like all Jews other than Stephen Miller not joining the nazis.
Your entire post is just nonsense.
That pretty much goes without saying.
Trump is only one of our big problems. The other is the compromised and scared Senate. Trump has been a clown, yes, but also an extremely experienced bully who both gives the Senate what it wants--tax gifts to the its wealthy donors--but threats that anyone who criticizes him will be publicly humiliated and primaried. Since most Republican senators are in it for the grift anyway, they stay silent. And they aren't about to invoke the 25th amendment, support impeachment, or try any other remedies to stop this predatory lunatic.
Come to think of it, the 25th amendment requires action of the cabinet, so scratch that. We're left with impeachment, another non-starter for the Republican-controlled Senate.
Black Americans would lose their identity if they became stoopid fucking wingnuts because they would be arrested and shipped to Africa in less than three seconds.
Sure there are- 57 states of denial wingnuts are immersed in.
Here is your new home, stoopid fucking wingnuts. Enjoy the ride and on the off chance any of you or any future offspring survive the trip there, don't bother to send a postcard. There is no mail service where you are headed, you dumb fuckers.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/world/black-hole-photo-scn/index.html
Let us pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster the black hole isn't too particular to swallow stoopid fucking mow rawns like the ones headed its way.
PilotX: I’m glad I helped.
Addendum: the mutating text was also infected with swine flu.
Now Barr is going all in "deep state" madness. We may have a slow moving coup on our hands. Nancy Pelosi may be the only one who can save us.😬
To quote a line from that hit film Moana, Donald Trump is "straight up KOOKY DUKES!"
Candace said that there was no such thing as a Southern Strategy. I rest my case. 🤔
"Candace said that there was no such thing as a Southern Strategy. I rest my case. 🤔"
She also said there is no racism because she isn't a slave. I guess when you are a racist white party you have to take any negro you can find, even if they're crazy and stupid.
Hey stoopid fucking wasicu wingnuts, if Drumpf has nothing to hide, why not hand over the tax returns he has been clearly lying about for ages and then sit under oath for a senate inquisition similar to what HRC faced from dumbfuck wingnuts on her emails and Benghazi- over and over and over and over again?
Drumpfuck whining about less than 2 year investigaTion when Whitewater went on for five fucking witch hunting years.
Drumpfuck signed EO making it harder to stop pipeline construction the constitutional way- through protests and slowing down the required permitting system.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-orders-making-it-tougher-for-states-to-block-pipeline-construction
Wingnut dumbass guv of South Dakota wants to fine protesters and use that money to pay for environmental damage caused by pipelines. Oil companies that push dilbit already don't have to pay the 9 cents per gallon to environmental cleanup fund because they convinced stoopid fucking wingnut congress that tar sands is not crude oil when it comes to taxation. For all other purposes it is considered extremely crudem oil.
Neither he nor anyone else ever believed there were 57 states. This was just a "slip of the tongue." He meant to say contests. He was speaking of the number of Democratic primaries and caucuses in the party's presidential nominating process.
I don't think Obama ever disgraced himself by calling Tim Cook Tim Apple. When a president can't remember a simple name like Cook for even a few minutes, there's a problem - a big problem.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/health/principal-bone-marrow-donation-stranger-trnd/index.html
Come on racist wasicu wasteys, tell me what is wrong with this picture.
Duh! Just because white liberals support giving asylum to refugees, it does not mean the we support "open borders." Seems to me you are jumping to a false conclusion here. If this is a sample of you kind of logic, be careful not to take any wooden nickles. In other words, you are a person that is easily fooled.
Attorney General William Barr suggested the FBI and intelligence agencies were “spying” on the Trump campaign — but there’s a major flaw in that conspiracy theory.
Barr made the explosive allegation — which matched President Donald Trump’s claims — under questioning by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), but he later admitted he had “no specific evidence” of wrongdoing by the Justice Department he now oversees, reported the Washington Post.
Barr is just like Drumpfuck and is doing the job he was hired for- lying.
Dems did it alright, we just can't prove it because it didn't happen, but they did alright.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/438345-trumps-sister-retires-as-judge-ending-probe-into-alleged-misconduct
The whole Drumpfuck family is crooked as a dog's hind leg.
So low energy Drumpfuck just keeps his lips flapping, cheats at golf, lies all the time, cheats on every wife he ever had, and sucks at being a human being with feelings for anyone except his victimized orange ass. What's not to like?
"Senor Donald Trump está muy loco!"
Yes, Donald Trump is very crazy in addition to being an evil gangster who is suffering from dementia.
Mike from Iowa said....
"Come on racist wasicu wasteys, tell me what is wrong with this picture." https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/health/principal-bone-marrow-donation-stranger-trnd/index.html
Oh my God, the hero of this story is a black man! Racists heads are exploding as they read about it.
Julian Assange arrested under deportation order.Now let us count the ways wingnuts in DC work to prevent him being deported to the tender mercies of Dems in congressional investigation committees.
Is this another Monday? Authorities arrest the son of wasicu deputy for burning churches in Looserana and the suspect (turned in by his wasicu deputy dad) is whiter than anyfuckingmoosepussy and racist friends.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-church-fires-suspect-holden-matthews-turned-in-by-father-louisiana-deputy-sheriff/
Can't wait for Fake Noize to blame blacks for fires in spite of the arrest.
Well, well, well. Julian Assange has been expelled from the Ecuadorean embassy and arrested.
He worked so hard to keep out Hillary Clinton, whom he apparently hates, and elect Trump. And now, ironically, Trump is going to jail him.
I can’t really say I feel bad for him. What a gigantic asshole.
Worn out granny says...
"Neither he nor anyone else ever believed there were 57 states. This was just a "slip of the tongue." He meant to say contests. He was speaking of the number of Democratic primaries and caucuses in the party's presidential nominating process."
Funny. There's another story that goes "He meant to say he has visited 57 Islamic states."
But, whatever...he is a horrible person and a complete fraud.
"slip of the tongue." LOL
"But, whatever...he is a horrible person and a complete fraud.
"slip of the tongue." LOL"
A horrible person? You must be speaking of Donald Trump.
wolf.....wolf......wolf......
Video: Guard draws gun to ward off black attackers at Mag Mile McDonald's:
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/04/video-man-draws-gun-to-ward-off.html
“Funny. There's another story that goes ‘He meant to say he has visited 57 Islamic states.’
Nice bigoted conspiracy theory you’ve got there. For the billionth time, Obama is not Muslim.
But also, I kinda doubt there even are 57 majority-Muslim countries in the world. Sounds unrealistically high.
Then again, if even 1% of a country’s population is made up of Muslims, you claim they’ve somehow “taken over,” so going by your wacky standards ...
Moar winning Drumpfuck's dumbfucks- WSJ
U.S. Budget Deficit Grew 15% in First Half of Fiscal 2019
Government spending increased 5% from October through March as revenues rose 1% over same period
Kiddie diddlers church (Catholics) blame the 60s sexual revolution for the decades of priest abuses that began long before the 60s were ever a glimmer in anyone's eye.
"wolf.....wolf......wolf......"
How come your mom lets you play with her computer? Anyway shouldn't you be in school? Surely your second grade class is meeting right now.
Missing black men found dead in Georgia storage unit; 4 negroe suspects named:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-men-found-dead-georgia-storage-unit-suspects/story?id=62319689&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_card_related
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/11/fox-business-incorrect-trump-poll-1270245
Fake Business host Lou Dobbs claimed new poll had Drumpf's approval rating at 55% which was in reality his disapproval rating. Of course Drumpf was all over this like stink on shit and tweeted about.
Fake Noize's correction comes too late and doesn't matter because Drumpf's magat armies believe whatever lies he tells them. The next time they hear the truth will be the first time.
bot... bot... bot...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-surprising-push-to-rebrand-trumps-very-fine-people-remarks?ref=home
Wingnuts and racist white supremacists are pretending Drumpf did not say there were fine people on both sides in Charlottesville. Even with video and audio transcripts showing Drumpf said that, they pretend he didn't say it.
The loony right is completely batshit bonkers.
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/10/has-trumps-department-of-justice-found-an-exemption-to-the-emoluments-clause-that-benefits-him_partner/
Never could have guessed the Drumpf DOJ would read the emoluments clause narrowly so it would protect Drumpf's crooked ass. Since 2017 the DOJ has changed how the clause is read to protect Drumpf the crookedest Russian prez ever in the kremlin annex.
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/10/so-much-for-stimulus-after-trump-tax-cuts-irs-refunds-down-by-6-billion/
So much for the stimulus of taxcuts on working families.
Not really the Catholic Church as a whole. The previous pope (who, unusually, stepped down, rather than continuing in office until his death) said this.
This isn’t the official view of the Church, and I imagine the present pope probably isn’t very happy that his predecessor has made this inane comment that will only intensify criticism over the Catholic sex abuse scandal.
"Nice bigoted conspiracy theory you’ve got there. For the billionth time, Obama is not Muslim."
I never said he was, but he is a member of that black liberation church. Funny that he never liberated himself. He still has time...Liberia is waiting.
How many people did Negroes shoot or kill this week? How many White folks did Negroes kill this week? How many total crimes in America did Negroes commit this week? The Negro Mantra...FUBU, Fucked Up By US. YOU are YOUR own worst enemy.
Will this racist shit ever end? https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/watch-black-army-sergeant-arrested-defending-racist-road-rage-attacker/
Black army vet gets yelled at, has her car struck gets attacked by a crazy racist bitch and the army woman gets arrested.
Racist wasicu wastey pig body slaMS middle school Black kid just like in rassling. Caught on video, of course. I suppose the pig will plead he feared for his life from the tiny terror.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/video-florida-cop-fire-lifting-middle-schooler-air-body-slamming-waited-parents-show/
You can't make this shit up unless you are dead Breitbart or zombie James POS O'Keefe.
Fucking cop is crazy.
Segregation is the answer Child of the Corn Mike.
Hate rising.
Sickos.
Some fishy things in the swamp.
No Mr. President, you are not "f-cked", not yet.
Those other tragic church fires.
Musings.
Burning churches and hiding taxes.
No, our country isn't full, but the president is f...
Still hunting the witches.
The head birther lies about his own father's birth...
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Is the Ontario government taking the right path by promoting nuclear energy?
CATCH News - February 22, 2007 - http://www.kingstonelectors.ca/forums/showthread.php?p=7087
Clark challenges Nanticoke nuclear plans
Stoney Creek councillor Brad Clark says secret discussions about building a nuclear power plant upwind of Hamilton require the city to publicly challenge the provincial government. And he points to a string of safety problems and the exemption of nuclear plants from environmental assessment as additional reasons for his call for a city moratorium on new nuclear facilities.
"We implement the moratorium and we state our concerns publicly," he recommended to city council last week. "And let the government of Ontario now deal with this matter in a public manner, not behind closed doors."
In December, Stelco officials offered to sell lands at Nanticoke for a new nuclear station, but provincial officials said the site was not on their list. Clark thinks otherwise, pointing to statements by Haldimand mayor Marie Trainer that she had discussions on this more than a year ago.
"So, while the government of Ontario stated publicly that there were absolutely no discussions about the construction of a nuclear power facility in Nanticoke - and that was their official position - the mayor of Haldimand Marie Trainer stated to a CH interview that she had been contacted and had had discussions with the minister about 14 months ago," noted Clark.
He pointed to the unresolved nuclear waste issue as evidence that the technology doesn't qualify as clean energy, and he cited several expert reports identifying safety and reliability problems over the last 15 years at Ontario's existing nuclear facilities. In one 1995 document, Clark noted that the Atomic Energy of Canada Board threatened to close down Pickering nuclear facilities because of a significant number of serious events.
Clark's motion seeks to put on record "that the city will oppose the construction of a nuclear power plant within Hamilton's air-shed." It notes opposition to nuclear plants by the Sierra Club, the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, the Pembina Institute, and numerous other groups.
He told councillors that his main concern, however, was a recent provincial decision to exempt new electrical generating facilities from the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act, and the weaknesses in federal assessment legislation which doesn't require consideration of alternatives.
"If there's no environmental assessment process, when do we as a municipality make our concerns known for our constituents?" Clark asked. "I don't know any other time to do it except now while the discussions are happening behind closed doors without public involvement."
Letters opposing Clark's motion were received at the same council meeting from the Organization of CANDU Industries and from two individuals - the first time in many months that correspondence from individual citizens has been included in the council agenda.
Noting the interest, Terry Whitehead moved to defer Clark's motion to a future committee meeting "so that we have a full fledged debate on this issue before we can actually finalize the decision."
The motion was narrowly approved by a 7-6 vote with support from Russ Powers, Maria Pearson, Robert Pasuta, Bernie Morelli, Bob Bratina and Scott Duvall.
Postponement was also the fate of a supporting motion by Brian McHattie that also urged the province to shut down the Nanticoke coal-fired power station that has been identified as the biggest single air pollution source in Ontario.
"I brought this forward in consultation with our Public Health Department," explained McHattie, "and they clearly felt that Nanticoke with it's coal operations is not acceptable from a public health perspective and they're asking that the facility be converted to a gas burning operation no later than 2009."
A letter from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance supporting his motion was received at the meeting.
CATCH (Citizens at City Hall) updates use transcripts and/or public documents to highlight information about Hamilton civic affairs that is not generally available in the mass media. Detailed reports of City Hall meetings can be reviewed at http://www.hamiltoncatch.org/.
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-CJ Cheil Jedang has expanded its global bio-business portfolio with the acquisition of Chinese amino acid producer Haide.
-Expansion marks entrance into the global functional amino acids market worth KRW 1 trillion, giving it a firm foundation to advance into the medical-use amino acid market.
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CJ Cheil Jedang, a leading manufacturer in the global feed amino acids industry, has entered the 1-trillion-won market for functional amino acids, which are used to make health supplements and cosmetics.
CJ Cheil Jedang said on March 21 that it had signed a deal to acquire Haide Biochem Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of amino acids. The company will acquire a 100 percent stake in the Chinese company for KRW 36 billion. Founded in 1986, Haide has two production lines in the Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone, Zhejiang, China, and has proven expertise in refining technology, which is the core of functional amino acid production, with some 300 distribution channels and global customers.
The acquisition will increase CJ Cheil Jedang’s portfolio of amino acid products to more than 40, including functional amino acids and amino acid derivatives. CJ Cheil Jedang is expected to use Haide’s expertise in refining technology in conjunction with CJ’s strength in fermentation technology by integrating end-to-end processes for material purchase, research, production, and sales to generate greater competitiveness for future growth and business opportunities.
Over the next five years, the company plans to launch a large-scale investment program to develop core technologies, improve facilities, and recruit talent. This investment program will enable it to expand its business to include medical-use amino acids, such as rehydration solutions and amino acids for infants. The company expects the investment program to generate sales worth KRW 400 billion by 2020. This would give it a 35 percent share of the global functional amino acid industry, making it one of the top three players in the market. The company is also seeking to become a global leader in all sectors of the amino acid industry by diversifying its businesses to include medical-use amino acids.
Functional amino acids are used in a wide range of products, including foods, beverages, health supplements, cosmetics, daily necessities and fertilizers. The key components include cysteine, methionine, glutamine, arginine, valine, leucine and isoleucine. Depending on the type, they are known to be effective in boosting the immune system, improving the skin and hair, protecting cells, relieving fatigue and improving physical stamina. The market for functional amino acids is growing at an annual rate of ten percent, not least because their chemical structure has become a basis for future and high-tech biomaterials.
Based on the takeover, CJ Cheil Jedang plans to continuously expand its business by developing products based on eco-friendly biotechnology, maximizing sales of high reward products, and attracting new global customers. In addition, the company is also planning to rise as a global bio-company by strengthening its competitiveness in food seasonings (nucleic acids and MSGs) and amino acids (for animal feed additives, functional and medical use) and by expanding its business lines to include various industrial materials (white bio) which can replace chemical products.
“While we have focused on investing in amino acids for animal feed additives (e.g. lysine and methionine) to become a global leader, we are now the first company to produce five amino acids for animal feed additives using eco-friendly bio-fermentation technology,” said Roh Hang-deok, vice president of the bio-business division at CJ Cheil Jedang. “Based on the acquisition of Haide, we will double our efforts to become a major global player in the functional amino acid industry.”
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‘More Can Be Done’ to Prevent Student Suicide in Wales
Published on: 23rd May 2018
More could be done to support students who are vulnerable to suicide, a senior Welsh Government advisor has said.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show 12 students in Wales died by suicide in 2016, the highest number in the last 15 years.
The number of students needing support for mental health issues has risen, according to Universities UK.
The family of a student who killed himself three months ago has spoken out about the pressures he was under.
Prof Ann John, chairwoman of the National Advisory Group to the Welsh Government on suicide prevention, told the BBC’s Wales Live programme: “It’s actually a huge transition going to university.
“It takes investment that’s on a par with the investment we put into physical disorders.
“We need to put [the same] into mental disorders in young people because if we can deal with things when people are young, then we’re sort of stepping them off that trajectory.”
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Postmortem.
There is so much to take away from the GOP debate last night that I don't even know where to start.
First, let me say congrats to Jeb for finally growing a pair. Unfortunately for him, though, it might be too little too late. The orange colored one seems to have his number. Yes Jeb, if you are running as a right wing republican demagogue, you can "insult your way to the presidency".
Then there was Chris Christie. He actually said that he would shoot down Russian jets if they violated the no fly zone. What's another World War among friends? Then, to top it off, he actually called Obama a "weakling".
"“My first phone call would be to Vladimir, and I’d say, ‘Listen, we’re enforcing this no-fly zone,'” Mr. Christie said on MSNBC. “And I mean we’re enforcing it against anyone, including you. So don’t try me. Don’t try me. Because I’ll do it.”
Mr. Christie went on to say that Mr. Putin was “punching above his weight” and called Mr. Obama “this weakling in the White House.”' [Source]
I got news for you Chris, anyone who goes against you is "punching up above his weight". (Sorry I couldn't resist.) But you might want t ease up on all the bluster just a little bit. Leave all the crazy talk for trump. No one is buying your tough guy I'm from Jersey, act. That little bridge issue you had has pretty much doomed all chances you ever had of becoming president.
Carly was ....well... Carly. As is always the case she told a story that wasn't quite connected to reality.
"Carly Fiorina today stood by her debate claim about a general she said was pushed out by President Obama, even though that general did not serve in this administration.
She railed against how the current president has ignored advice from top generals, saying she would “bring back the warrior class.”
Fiorina said, “Petraeus, McCrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn, every single one of these generals I know, every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear.”
Now, General David Petraeus left for other reasons, but another issue in what she said was with the mention of Jack Keane, a former Army general and current Fox News analyst.
On Fox Business this morning, Keane told Stu Varney what Fiorina said was inaccurate since he served under George W. Bush, not Obama." [Source]
But I saved the best for last. My man Ted Cruz was in rare form as he went back and forth with Marco Rubio. (When my grandfather came to America) Unfortunately Ted forgot that he was talking to millions of Americans and some of the stuff he was saying was not for public consumption.
"Sen. Richard Burr (R-North Carolina), the chairman, told reporters on Wednesday that he had asked his staff to explore whether Cruz's comments about the National Security Agency's surveillance program constitute disclosing classified data, The Hill reported.
"I'm having my staff look at the transcripts of the debate right now," Burr told reporters, according to The Hill. "Any time you deal with numbers ... the question is, 'Is that classified or not?' Or is there an open source reference to it?"
Wait, I was wrong. What Ted Cruz did was not the best from the debate. The orange one saying that he is going to create a wall around the internet by closing it up to Isis was. "I don't want them using our Internet". He wants to "penetrate" the Internet and find out exactly where Isis is hiding in it. Ok then Donald.
"Donald Trump has said many things that make no sense. But at Tuesday night’s CNN debate, he outdid even himself.
For a man with such a remarkable social media presence, he appears to have literally no idea what the Internet is or how it works."
For his next trick Donald Trump will insult the Washington Post in 5..4..3..2..
*Pic from slate.com
Labels: Carly Fiorina, David Petraeus, GOP debate, Jeb, Mr. Christie, Mr. Putin, Ted Cruz.
Good catch, I almost forgot about Carly's "inaccuracies". She learned from the last debate her target audience isn't big on fact checking and the insular world of conservative media will keep her safe. These guys want to stop ISIS and "radical Islamic terrorists" but bring back the cold war. ISIS can't destroy 'murica but Russian missiles can. This is Reagan's wet dream, spend billions on defense and let the poor to their own devices. 80's conservatism at its finest. I guess invading Central American countries to root out communism will be the focus of the next debate.
Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years
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"Nine senior commanding generals were fired by the Obama administration in 2013 for political purposes, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is under way."
The Ministry of Truth said...
This debate was apparently just a "macho-off" in which the candidates competed to make "Obama wears mom jeans, the big pussy," playground-type insults, and to outdo each other in how fast they'd bomb the Middle East and how many bombs they'd drop.
The Republicans now seem to want to just be the Superhero Party. All their policies boil down to:
1) There is a terrifying Supervillain who's gonna getcha!!!
2) But don't worry, I will put on my cape and go crush the Supervillain.
That's literally the only thing they've got now.
All the candidates are lying their asses off, but Carly wins special mention for offering up some of the most obvious lies. Like, lies easily debunked in 10 seconds on Google. She's really trying hard to take the crown from Trump, with his references to New Jersey Muslims cheering on 9/11 and Islamic no-go zones in Europe, both of which are totally fictional.
Trump also wins the honorary Ted Stevens Technophobic Grandpa Politician award, so named (by me) for the late Republican Senator Ted Stevens -- who was widely mocked a few years back because he sat on a committee responsible for regulating the Internet, yet described the Internet in the ultimate tech-ignorant fashion as "a series of tubes." (Stevens was also responsible for pushing to build Alaska's famed Bridge to Nowhere, an especially hilarious example of idiotic government pork-belly wasted spending. If it had actually been erected, it would have cost around $400 million to serve a population of 50 people.)
"U.S. special forces are working side by side with Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic State militants and American military advisers and trainers are working with Iraqi troops in various locations. To be sure, Bush has called for an intensification of the military effort in a variety of ways, but debate viewers would not know from his comment that U.S. troops are already operating with Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
His comment fits a pattern in the Republican race as a number of candidates criticize President Barack Obama’s course against IS while proposing largely the same steps that are already underway."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/16/ap-fact-check-republican-debaters-go-astray/?page=2
"All the candidates are lying their asses off, but Carly wins special mention for offering up some of the most obvious lies. Like, lies easily debunked in 10 seconds on Google"
Continuing her pattern from the last debate. She knows she is bullet proof because the party needs her to be the anti-Hillary so she can say anything she wants. Kind of the 2016 version of Palin. And the thing is her crowd doesn't care about facts, as long as they say hateful things about the negro in the WH it doesn't matter. Almost too easy to be a gop candidate, they really are the know nothing party. And remember, if you get called on any lies attack the media for being biased and liberal. With this formula no wonder they have kooks and idiots running.
Ivan Biggen said...
"Then there was Chris Christie. He actually said that he would shoot down Russian jets if they violated the no fly zone. What's another World War among friends?
It's not really a "no fly zone" if you won't enforce it, is it?
And Obama is the one who nearly started WWIII when he overthrew a democratically elected government in Ukraine and installed a puppet government. Putin called his bluff and took Crimea.
Obama certainly is a dangerous weakling, starting shit he can't finish.
Lance Cockstrong said...
The recent atrocities that necessitated a debate focused entirely on war and immigration are a right wing wet dream, allowing them a cloak of legitimacy over the hatred, misery, and ignorance that unites them. No point in trying to parse out any specific meaning in any of the bloviating and pontificating but Cruz more than anyone else showed that he has the conscience of Sticky Dick Cheney. Butt Trumpet on the other hand was a clear loser, did not come out smoking as advertised, every confrontation, with Cruz, Bush, Fiorina, either backed down or was beat down, and was reduced to whining about how unfair the questions were.
"Trump also wins the honorary Ted Stevens Technophobic Grandpa Politician award"
How about Hillary Clinton, who can't drive a car, use an ipad, or figure out how email works?
I really think Rand Paul is worth a primary vote. The liars all demonize ISIS which resulted from the Wahhabism of our Saudi Arabian terrorist ally and us arming and training McCain's "moderate rebels". Both parties are guilty. Trump is better than the neocons on non intervention, but he's a racist nut. Paul raised the issues of us supporting terrorism in the first Benghazi hearing and you haven't see him on the panels since. Paul is better than Trump on non intervention, and probably the best peace candidate from either party. And I do think Paul is for protecting people's right to be racist instead of him being a racist himself. He sure represents a much better direction for the GOP to go in than the others. Hillary is a warmonger, and while Sanders is much better, he is a Zionist who votes to fund wars. A Rand Paul vote seems like the most bang for your buck in the primaries to me.
The GO fucking P said...
The ISIS rhetoric is way overblown, but there actually are people being shot, decapitated, blown up, crucified and burned alive.
The Democrats believe instead that imaginary global warming is the biggest national security threat. Seriously. They are that fucking corrupt and/or stupid.
"His comment fits a pattern in the Republican race as a number of candidates criticize President Barack Obama’s course against IS while proposing largely the same steps that are already underway."
Again, not a new tactic. This is the same stunt the Republicans have been pulling with the Syrian refugees:
OMG, THEY'RE IMPORTING DEADLY MUSLIMS!! I INSIST WE IMPOSE SOME BACKGROUND CHECKS ON THESE DEADLY MUSLIMS!! WHY NO BACKGROUND CHECKS?!!! RECKLESS OBAMA WANTS US ALL TO DIE!!
Except refugees already are subjected to extensive background checks, and have been for years. So, not a new idea, really. This is scaremongering, based on the ignorance of certain voters, by inquiring why-oh-why aren't we doing stuff that we're absolutely already doing.
Hillary! said...
"Almost too easy to be a gop candidate, they really are the know nothing party."
At least the repubs have a real primary process. Your party is about to anoint a life-long criminal with zero positive accomplishments as their nominee.
"And Obama is the one who nearly started WWIII when he overthrew a democratically elected government in Ukraine and installed a puppet government. Putin called his bluff and took Crimea."
Oh Christ, this crap again? This conspiracy theory that the U.S. arranged the uprising in Ukraine is Putin-generated propaganda to justify controlling the governments of countries neighboring Russia, and grabbing their land when they have the gall to demand democracy.
Avid Russia Today watcher, are you?
WTF is wrong with wingnuts today that they seem to admire Vladimir Putin so much? He's not such a great guy, you know?
We have always been at war with Eastasia said...
Except refugees already are subjected to extensive background checks
That's bullshit, and you know it.
You have one of the most fitting handles on this site - your posts are truly Orwellian.
"This conspiracy theory that the U.S. arranged the uprising in Ukraine is Putin-generated propaganda"
Jesus look at you, spending your time defending the Obama regime's false narratives like a yapping little lapdog.
Grovel, boy, grovel.
"The Democrats believe instead that imaginary global warming is the biggest national security threat. Seriously. They are that fucking corrupt and/or stupid."
Because it is a major security threat.
It is not an immediate security threat, but it is a long-term security threat. Our military's top analysts have identified it as such, not just a bunch of tree-hugger eco-activists. How could it not be? If big swaths of arable land around the world become useless for growing food, due to increased drought or flooding, that will cause future wars, lots of them.
But I can see how this might be unclear to you, if you're too dumb to believe in science.
"You have one of the most fitting handles on this site - your posts are truly Orwellian."
Jeez, ever hear of irony?
And you wingnuts are alwasy accusing us liberals of being humorless scolds.
"At least the repubs have a real primary process. Your party is about to anoint a life-long criminal with zero positive accomplishments as their nominee."
Sure, a nomination process in which the leader is a reality tv star. That's like building a top of the line football stadium that seats 100,000 for a high school team. The sad part about it is that there are a few serious people in the gop but their voices are drown out by the crazies. Didn't you guy s have the same nomination process in 2008 and the best you came up with was McCain/Palin? You may want to have a serious look at your nominating process.
Yisheng said...
Trump is the male Whooteemoo's supreme being, some who validates their white privilege/entitlement and racists/misogynist views.
The GOP nominating process has been used by the Establishment to stifle the conservative base and is now being blown the fuck up by Donald J. Trump. This is a good thing for conservatism.
White Man's Burden said...
Trump is the male Whooteemoo's supreme being, some who validates their white privilege/entitlement and racists/misogynist views
Yeah, so?
If you mocked the overboard positions you take, your handle would be ironic.
Instead, you fervently support the ideology in power, parroting liberal tropes and defending the company line.
I guess in an unironic way you indicate that everything you say is a lie.
As yet another example of rampant Islamophobia, professor Larycia Hawkins (who is a black woman, if it matters to the Field Negro blog) has been suspended from teaching at Wheaton College, which is a right-wing Christian school in suburban Chicago.
Her offense? She wore a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims, who are facing a lot of hostility in this country right now, and she said that we should find a way to empathize with them because after all, they worship the same God.
How dare she, the evil terrorist-loving monster?
"Instead, you fervently support the ideology in power, parroting liberal tropes and defending the company line."
And you can keep pretending that conservatives are some sort of scrappy rebels, bravely fighting the establishment.
The Republicans ARE the establishment.
" professor Larycia Hawkins (who is a black woman, if it matters to the Field Negro blog) has been suspended from teaching at Wheaton College"
Man bites dog story.
"As yet another example of rampant Islamophobia, professor Larycia Hawkins (who is a black woman, if it matters to the Field Negro blog) has been suspended from teaching at Wheaton College, which is a right-wing Christian school in suburban Chicago."
I lived in Wheaton for a while, it's known for its churches and we're not talking the chicken restaurants. Pretty much a fundie hotbed. I would not recommend straying too far from the doctrine of one works there. That would be like a biology professor teaching evolution on that campus. You can do it but I wouldn't recommend it.
"And you can keep pretending that conservatives are some sort of scrappy rebels, bravely fighting the establishment.
The Republicans ARE the establishment."
Irony alert, a conservative doesn't know the definition of conservative. Rich. Good observation MoT.
http://urbanintellectuals.com/2015/12/16/actor-delroy-lindo-play-great-marcus-garvey-upcoming-biographical-movie-released-2017/
Sweet! Can't wait for this.
Progressives own the White House and, more importantly, the permanent government - the bureaucracy that stays in power no matter who wins the latest election. They control almost the entire news media, the vast majority of the country never hears news critical of progressive politicians or policies. They control the entertainment media - movies, TV, and advertisements are used to push progressive propaganda 24/7. They control public education and the universities, where learning has been replaced with indoctrination.
Progressivism is the ideology of the elite and no one in power does not bow before its Gods. The Republican establishment has shown over and over that it will defend progressive imperatives before it will accede to the demands of its conservative base.
You are the boot stamping on the human face forever.
America is a communist country.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare.html
"She wore a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims, who are facing a lot of hostility in this country right now, and she said that we should find a way to empathize with them because after all, they worship the same God."
No, the God of the Koran is nothing like the God of the Christian bible. You obvously know nothing of either religion.
It is not an immediate security threat, but it is a long-term security threat. Our military's top analysts have identified it as such,
Instead of working on new strategies to deal with asymmetric threats like ISIS, or worrying about China's nuclear missile arsenal built by stealing our technology, we have our 'top military men' keeping an eye on the weather for people whose grandparents haven't been born yet. Yeah, that's not idiotic.
In any case, it's 2015. We're at war in Afghanistan, war in Iraq, helped destabilize Libya and Syria, have seen the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, have no ability to vet visitors and entrants to the country or otherwise protect our borders, and have no coherent strategy for dealing with ISIS. We have a president who actually claims that climate deals are a good way to fight ISIS, and a press that treats this as a reasonable claim to make.
Must be nice to be a Democratic president.
-- Mollie Hemingway
KaJo said...
They control almost the entire news media,
As evidenced, apparently, by the morphing of MSNBC to right wing propaganda and elimination of liberal hosts except in the 4 hour prime time block.
And the iron grip second-ugliest man on earth Rupert Murdoch has on print and electronic news media, especially the proliferation of Fox News on basic cable.
And the recent purchase of a notable Nevada newspaper by the ugliest man on earth, Sheldon Adelson.
Nevermind the circular firing squad a.k.a. conservative news blogs such as Breibart, Twitchy, World Net Daily, Daily Caller, Townhall, Human Events, Red State, Stormfront, InfoWars...
Average annual temperatures in Fahrenheit 1880-2015:
http://ace.mu.nu/Windows-Live-Writer/8e670c24a67b_F51E/Global-2-copy_2.jpg
As evidenced, apparently, by the morphing of MSNBC to right wing propaganda
Kajo thinks MSNBC is "right wing propaganda". You must have Pol Pot posters in your bedroom.
"Progressivism is the ideology of the elite and no one in power does not bow before its Gods. The Republican establishment has shown over and over that it will defend progressive imperatives before it will accede to the demands of its conservative base.
You are the boot stamping on the human face forever."
I see. Apparently Orwell was your hero. It must be for his valiant defense of the world from those dirty progressive left-wingers who want to oppress all hardworking, righteous wingnuts!
Oh, wait, no, hang on a minute. Orwell was a socialist.
Fox News is one cable channel; the rest are all left wing, as are all the broadcast networks, all the news services, all the major newspapers, and the biggest political sites on the internet.
"I see. Apparently Orwell was your hero. It must be for his valiant defense of the world from those dirty progressive left-wingers who want to oppress all hardworking, righteous wingnuts"
You read Animal Farm and became a fanboy for the pigs.
Self-awareness is not your strong point.
"You read Animal Farm and became a fanboy for the pigs."
The pigs were Stalinists.
Next comes the part where you pretend that Democrats are Stalinists. Or that there are any meaningful number of revolutionary communists in the U.S.
And that's followed by the part where I laugh at you.
I'm done here.
"I also find it amusing, you Cow, that you don't disagrees when I call Hillary a self-serving, multi-millionaire, liar, old, woman who will say ANYTHING to get elected."
Why do you find that amusing?
Joder La Resistencia said...
This is Reagan's wet dream, spend billions on defense and let the poor to their own devices. 80's conservatism at its finest. I guess invading Central American countries to root out communism will be the focus of the next debate.
Opposed to liberal's wet dream of cutting military budgets, using the military has a social experiment and creating new programs for the poor and spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on poverty than Reagan.
End result? A weaken military. Moral at a all time low. No net growth in wages and incomes for the poor. Near historic poverty rates.
Liberalism at its finest. And yet many on the left like Bernie Sanders are shocked,shocked, to see the results of their polices.
"Ted forgot that he was talking to millions of Americans and some of the stuff he was saying was not for public consumption."
Except he didn't. And Cruz was already cleared before field posted...When has facts every mattered to the left?
"The school district defended the assignment.
“The statement presented as an example of the calligraphy was not translated for students, nor were students asked to translate it, recite it or otherwise adopt or pronounce it as a personal belief,” the district stated. “They were simply asked to attempt to artistically render written Arabic in order to understand its artistic complexity.”
Further, the district said the assignment was "consistent with the Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning and the requirements for content instruction on world monotheistic religions."
It was a calligraphy class and the Arabic language was used to let students practice. I guess in the mind of a wingnut it's indoctrination and a call for all Virginia students to jihad. Conservatives are weird people. Paranoid for no reason. Geez, no wonder they need assault weapons all over, they're afraid of damn near everything.
“There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
No indoctrination there.
And why was a student denied the use of a bible? And why did the teacher tell female students they should wear a hijab?
Just another example of the hypocrisy we get from the left in this country. They use "separation of church and state" to hide their hatred and bigotry they feel towards Christians and Christianity.
"Democrats are Stalinists."
They are working on it.
Uhleekh M'Baahles said...
Support for halting Muslim immigration higher among non-whites than it is among whites. From MSNBC:
When asked if Trump went too far when he called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration, 87% of Latinos, 88% of “other,” and 96% of blacks answered “no.”
Among white people, 69% answered “no.” Overall, 76% of Americans answered “no.”
Yet the progressives tell us that only white people can be 'racist'.
Ohmigosh said...
White folks are scared out of their gourd. Bullets are going to be flying at the drop of a hat. This country's no joke to live in now; it's getting worse by the second. Maybe if you'd taken "ownership" of the country legally instead of stealing it, and NEVER instituted a "Slave Trade", karma wouldn't be biting you in the butt now. Not only you, but all of us.
MSNBC poll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK4wllyUs1c
Has Donald Trump gone too far with his plan to ban muslims?
Cacausian 69% no
Hispanic 87% no
African American 96% no
Other 88% no
Dumbocrat 83% no
Independent 92% no
Rethug 86% no
The left-wingnut narrative is falling apart.
Bill is an F'n Idiot said...
And Bill's dumb ass believes this.
Yet the conservatives tell us that only blah people can be 'racist'.
There, fixed it.
Republicans should rot in hell said...
End result? A weaken military.
Military budgets should be cut. The U.S. spends more money on military than the rest of the world combined. There should be some closures of overseas bases or do conservatives not care about debt? Japan and Germany can defend themselves right? America first right? Even a slightly weakened American military is bigger than the rest of the planet. Who the fuck can invade America? Of course we should spend more on poverty than Reagan did. Star wars anyone?
"Progressives own the White House and, more importantly, the permanent government - the bureaucracy that stays in power no matter who wins the latest election. They control almost the entire news media, the vast majority of the country never hears news critical of progressive politicians or policies. They control the entertainment media - movies, TV, and advertisements are used to push progressive propaganda 24/7. They control public education and the universities, where learning has been replaced with indoctrination.
Progressivism is the ideology of the elite and no one in power does not bow before its Gods. The Republican establishment has shown over and over that it will defend progressive imperatives before it will accede to the demands of its conservative base."
So says someone indoctrinated in right wing propaganda. Yawn, so predictable.
http://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/poll--majority-oppose-trumps-muslim-ban-583869507848
Ok, I guess writing something will indoctrinate them huh? And the teacher explained why she suggested the female students
wear a hijab. Read the story. It wouldn't freak me out as a parent. Sorry man but one teacher trying to open the minds of a few kids isn't "goverment indoctrination". To some ANY mention of Islam will freak them out. I'm not that scared.
Mr. We Have Always Been at War, what exactly are the demands of the conservative base?
I doubt any Republican would actually win the presidency. I think you're devoting a little too much energy to it. But such is your right; it's your blog. Post whatsoever you wish. But you're coming across a bit on the Chicken Little tip, and it's probably unnecessary. The sky isn't falling; Trump could have an even larger lead in the primary, or Carson could surge to 88% or Cruz to 99%, and still that's only for Republicans. They still have to run against a Democrat, and that means wall-to-wall, nonstop negative coverage from MSNBC, CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, the New York Times and a thousand other newspapers, People and Time and Rolling Stone magazine, half of the tabloids in the grocery store aisle, and more than half of talk radio. And then probably 99.5% of "black" outlets like BET and Vibe and Source and Ebony and the suchlike.
You'll never convince the black community to vote Republican at this juncture. The millennials who truly believe that the freedom of speech should be denied in order to protect feelings -- well, needless to say they're not voting Republican. Most independents would probably never go with Republicans, no matter how awful Democratic policies are. Who are you left with? Old people and Christian literalists. lol
Don't worry. Democrats will get another 8 years in the White House, and another 80 years at the locals, and no matter how many more communities fail, how many more schools fail, how many more people end up jobless, etc, it will all still somehow be the fault of Republicans. The goal on y'alls end isn't to make the nation any better; it's simply to assume the power position politically. You don't have a plan beyond that, and certainly not anything that would work to turn America around. So, congratulations.
But once you vote Republicans into extinction in most areas save the south, what on Earth are you going to blame everything negative on? Oh, stupid question. My bad. There's still 60% white people here. lol You can't vote us away. We'll still be here to shoulder 100% of the blame for every single thing to go wrong in the entire world. Credited with nothing, blamed for everything.
Not easy being you is it Josh? Another 80 years at the locals? What on earth are you talking about? Republicans hold every card except for the presidency. 32 states have Republican governors. 23 of those states both houses are also Republican. And your state of VA could also be in that category except that Republicans decided that their gay bashing science denying DA Cooch would make a fine candidate for governor in 2014.
Dear Mr Field, this is to serve notice that Anon Inc will be closing its doors at the end of this yerar to certain blogs of certain persuasion. Our last board meeting was deadlocked between 'two' groups but certainly one has to be decidedly dropped.
Hence, I'm writing to get your version about this matter because it could impact FN greatly. Please think instead of reacting to your Big R emotions. Don't let your racial mind lead you down the rabbit hole.
As a bm let me wish you all Brothers, Black and White, "Happy Kwanzaa".
PS what ever happened to Doug in Oakland?
"What on earth are you talking about?"
I'm talking about--as I thought was explicitly obvious from my comment, but maybe not--all these areas inhabited by Democrats, who have chased Republicans out a long, long time ago, yet still continue to blame Republicans. I'm not talking about America in general; I'm speaking about liberal precincts around the nation, which include some large cities and even entire states, where a Republican has been out of power (and I mean POWER, not the Governator beholden to a band of raving liberals) so long that it's like teaching kids about dinosaurs. But whenever something goes wrong in those states, like another 3 million bastards from baby mamas who can't even pick out a guy to fuck who has a job, or the public unions ruining another school or business, here come the cries about how Republicans are ruining their lives. And that's going to continue until which point Republicans are relegated to only the south, as I explicitly said in my comment, which I thought made the context clear, and still it's going to be the fault of Republicans that shit is failing.
And seeing that the majority of millennials today honestly believe that your freedom of speech does not matter as much as their feelings and comfort, prepare your anus for the next big wave of nothing-but-Democrat elections when we're old men and they're in charge of (failing) shit. Republicans, by that juncture, will damn near be extinct; the indoctrination compounds that are American universities* are obviously succeeding. And America will become exponentially worse with these whiny-ass, see-racism-everywhere, can't-do-shit, won't-learn-shit, just-beg-for-shit good for nothings, and they'll never wise up and change their government because they'll just find those Mississippi and Georgia Republicans to blame.
They weren't quite as bad even a decade ago, but still bad. My master's thesis was on "selfish" gene suppression in populations inhibiting the proliferation of cooperation (give or take), and I had half a dozen professors, assistant professors, adjunct professors, student assistants, the student body president, and "concerned" students reaming me out in a special meeting just for me, because these dumb motherfuckers read "populations" and inferred "race." "We feel our standards here at George Washington should promote fairness and inclusiveness, Joshua." "We just feel that a thesis on 'populations,' as you call them, is an area too sensitive to explore given the climate." "We would appreciate it if you reworked your thesis to make it more inclusive of the human race as a whole, rather than separating people into groups. We feel this would be a better approach." When I asked for a tuition refund, seeing as my money was just wasted if I was forced to do what they wanted, their whining subsided.
I saw it coming back then. We FEEL! They FEEL! FEEL! FEELINGS! Fuck the truth. Fuck the facts. MUH FEEWINGS! But I digress...
Poor old Josh. You've gotta feel sorry for the boy.
I don't know. If I had some celebrity fetish or a way to HTML ads into my blog posts, I'd be doing fucking fantastic seeing as all you bunny-boiling motherfuckers literally cannot stop yourselves from blasting my name across your screens. You must check to see what I'm doing. "What did Josh say?" "What can I say to get a response from Josh?"
Some even follow me to other sites just to see what I'm saying.
Not sure how "sorry" you feel for someone you've stalked around this board for going on three years. Seems to me you envy me in every sense of the word. You need my attention; you need Josh in your life. You physically, literally cannot stop yourself from focusing on me. I'm a fucking stranger; you'll never meet me; I'll never have any influence or sway over your life unless you allow it. And you obviously, objectively allow it. It's axiomatic. Whatever "poor old Josh" is doing, he's got y'all on the line like celebrity stalkers, and you refuse to let go of the obsession.
Number of times I've plucked a comment of yours off the forum to respond to you: 0.
Number of times you've plucked a comment of mine off the forum to respond to me: I'm going to need a calculator.
I've yet to respond to you unless you bring my name up. And, for fuck's sake, do you ever constantly bring my name up!
Flattering, in a weird way. Very fucking creepy, but mildly flattering. Here am I, an average dude sat in Northern VA, an ocean away, and you're showing up here specifically to speak my name and to try to get a rise out of me.
Eugene Nix said...
@Josh 11:33 PM -
So liberalism then is the result of a genetic mutation? Who knew? Fortunately for you genetically superior types who are resistant to selfish gene suppression, you will inherit the earth in a million years or so. Or sooner if James Bold decides to go on a rampage or something.
But in the meantime, the Heritage Foundation is no doubt looking for a man of your talents.
http://bernardgoldberg.com/the-crucifixion-of-jason-richwine/
"So liberalism then is the result of a genetic mutation?"
Dunno. Though it may be a genetic mutation to infer something so outlandishly different than the text implied. If they hand out the Drawing Y from X award at Field's, I'm sure you'd be considered for the category.
And, actually, what you mean to say is that if we types are not resistant to selfish gene suppression (e.g. tribal-like selfish behaviors). To enable cooperation in tribes past, to come together as civilizations, a sweeping change, I hypothesize, had to happen within the phenotypic distribution among populations whereby the heritable traits that took over were less inclined to steal food and more inclined to share food; less inclined to rape women and more inclined to court women; less inclined to murder someone and more inclined to just banish them as a group. A lot changed in our evolution beyond our physical form and function. Some great, sweeping change came about that transformed homo sapiens from competing, warring tribes (some of which still exist today, and many of which still existed as of a few hundred years ago) into a far more cooperative species whose cooperation extended outside of one's direct tribe; e.g. tribe A and tribe B coming together to create a water supply rather than A just murdering B, drinking B's pond dry, and then having to move on. Chess, not checkers. This was only enabled once genetic markers predisposed to be more cooperative swept through and rendered extinct, or at least suppressed and pointless, strictly unsympathetic, uncooperative, fiercely territorial genes.
The idea has nothing whatever to do with any sort of superiority. In the context of survival and civilization, it's simply more advantageous to be cooperative (to an extent; obviously not carrying worthless people who provide nothing to your social structure) than it is to hoard resources and continually war with everyone else.
Just a suggestion, but maybe next time you could ask what something means instead of getting it so incredibly wrong. I don't mind, of course; but I know how my fan club enjoys being the ones who're right while I'm always wrong.
Dear Anon Inc. please be advised that I will be contracting a civil rights attorney regarding this matter, as I believe that TFN blog has been discriminated against for racial reasons.
I am current with my payments and I believe the only reason u are backing out of our contract is because of the racial makeup of this fine blog.
Of course no liberal media bias...
NY Times Stealth-Edits Article to Remove Embarrassing Obama Admission
In his meeting with the columnists, Mr. Obama indicated that he did not see enough cable television to fully appreciate the anxiety after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-times-stealth-edits-article-to-remove-embarrassing-obama-admission/
How out of touch is Obama that he needs cable teev to understand how people feel.
Empathy?
Watergate?
DNC penalizes Sanders campaign for improper access of Clinton voter data
Officials with the Democratic National Committee have accused the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton, according to several party officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-sanders-campaign-improperly-accessed-clinton-voter-data/2015/12/17/a2e2e14e-a522-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sandersdnc-1155pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
If he is stealing from his own party, of course he would steal from others.
Character.
Good for a laugh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9tQoBk1BNY
Obama seems rather out of touch how to use a smartphone.
Another chicago police shooting video to be released... 2.5 years after the teen was shot dead.
Funny how often police shootings in chicago get covered up.
Judge bars release of 2013 videos of fatal shooting by Chicago cops -- for now
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-cedrick-chatman-shooting-video-20151209-story.html
Imagine the outrage if the ruling class in waco texas kept covering up police shootings to keep the rehtug party in power.
I've ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.
I will let you know.
"Obama seems rather out of touch how to use a smartphone".
Maybe we should petition Columbia and Harvard to add smartphoneology to their list of college majors.
Most independents would probably never go with Republicans, no matter how awful Democratic policies are. Who are you left with? Old people and Christian literalists. lol
You forgot your demographic Josh, racists. Republicans attract racists.
Josh is a drama queen said...
and you're showing up here specifically to speak my name and to try to get a rise out of me.
Because it's so easy and funny. Anytime anyone mentions your name you respond like a 12 year old girl with emotional issues and it's fucking hilarious. Please, don't stop.
How silly.
Most of us, Republicans, have friends, family members, co-workers who are brown or black that we like and respect.
Black skinned people in general are the least educated, desirable neighbors, coworkers. They demand special treatment in college, in hiring, on the job.
When that special treatment goes away, black people will no longer be discriminated against because they will be equal. Until then, we know to tread lightly with the color their skin.
the GOP said...
Thanks for proving me right. Ha!
White people in general are the least educated, desirable neighbors, coworkers. They demand special treatment in college, in hiring, on the job.
teh stupid said...
Wow, take a look at that last sentence. White racists certainly are stooooooooopid.
Wow, teh stooopid is strong in this one.
Dear Mr. Field, please issue an APB on Mia Love. No one has heard from her since her election. We are very concerned for her welfare.
Also, we haven't heard anything about the knockout game recently. I am still afraid of roving bands of teens knocking me out and even Sean Hannity gave up on informing me of this menace. Thanks for your concern. I would really love to know when I can leave my house.
I repeat. As long as black and brown people demand special treatment for admissions to colleges and quotas based on skin color, with less than required by others, they will never be equal.
There. Fixed it for you.
That is my experience. You fixed nothing.
Edit: not bad neighbors. My black neighbors are good neighbors, in my experience of three years. I was too quick to copy your Bullshit.
White people GET special treatment in college, in hiring, on the job.
NOW it's fixed.
I repeat. As long as white people demand special treatment for admissions to colleges and quotas based on skin color, with less than required by others, they will never be equal.
"Most of us, Republicans, have friends, family members, co-workers who are brown or black that we like and respect.
Black skinned people in general are the least educated, desirable neighbors, coworkers. They demand special treatment in college, in hiring, on the job."
Read your first line and thought: Might be hope for wingnuts yet.
Read the second line and though to myself: What was I thinking?
A racist can't change his spots.
I repeat. As long as white people continue to get special treatment for admissions to colleges and demand entitlement based on skin color, , they will never understand white privilege.
Field Negro said:
Do you deny blacks get preferential treatment in college admissions and jobs?
When they don't they will be equal. That is all I was saying. As to neighbors, I live in a multi-cultural neighborhood with a couple of black middle class families. They are good neighbors. I would welcome more black families like them.
Do you deny blacks get preferential treatment in college admissions and jobs
Do you deny White people have a history of denying Blacks jobs and admission to college based on race?
No, I don't deny that historically Blacks were treated very badly. So were women.
Women are no longer a protected class in college admissions or jobs.
Blacks continue to get preferential treatment in jobs and college admission. Why should they?
Think again sunshine.
White women in STEM are THE most "protected group" in America.
Source, Yisheng?
"White women in STEM are THE most "protected group" in America."
My source is 20 years of working in STEM, with the incompetent ones I've seen being primarily White women.
Even White men can't get away with that nearly as often.
Then you are racist AND sexist, Yisheng. I wish I knew where you worked so I could report you. Shame on you for your honest assessment of people.
Just kidding. Isn't that wrong and silly?
Don't you want the best employees regardless of color of skin or sex or religion, etc? I sure do!
As to your assertion, your anecdotal evidence doesn't support your previous argument.
@10:58, ask a White man, who in their life got away with being incompetent and White women will top the list EVERY time.
Especially if she's blond.
"We weren't ready for a black president:....."
This New York Times oped is on point, and Cos goes...
No shield for Tamir.
Holiday cheer.
TEN REASONS.....
Holiday questions.
In transit.
Show me your company....
"A bigot and a racist"?
Friday night open thread.
Debate night.
Political lies and offensive covers.
When terrorists become "loners".
"The power of fear."
Those Negroes are just not that smart.
Will "hillbilly paranoia" doom the GOP?
Fear mongering in America.
The F word.
Hide the hijab.
Terror in California, and abuse of power in Alabam...
Waiting on another video in Chicago.
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What are you doing to MAKE BRAW not suck?
Ulysses Paiva
Location: Pernambuco, Brasil
Re: What are you doing to MAKE BRAW not suck?
Chris Whitten wrote: FWIW my 'beginner' view....
I've spent hours watching and rewatching Resolve tutorials. I've spent money on courses, for example at Ripple Training. Grading in Resolve is a very steep learning curve for beginners, at least for me.
I personally have found it easier to adjust my footage using the correction tools than using a LUT.
For me I try to get the shot as good as I can in camera. Of course in situations of a main subject in shadow, while other parts of the scene are bathed in hard, bright sun, are going to be a challenge. It's going to involve compromise, where some of the brighter parts of the image might be blown out, unrecoverable.
Both the camera (P4k) and Davinci Resolve are complex to use properly. If I'm having issues I know it's down to me, not the product. I wouldn't say using LUTs is 'essential' for beginners. If I get my CDNG or BRAW footage right in the camera, I find it relatively easy to get it to stage one viewable in Resolve using the wheels and curves.
Great! Now you got it! Only thing left is practice. That, no one can avoid. But you are exactly right on the path now, you showed you're an intelligent guy. I never use LUTs. In the beginning, I didnt cause I wanted to learn and practice. Then, I dont use because now I know how to do my own way. But we never stop learning.
Be sure of 1 true thing: You got high quality tools that are more than enough to let you do great work. Now it is up to you only. And be patient, its not easy and not quick, but it comes and you will love it everyday.
UPMD Filmes
http://www.upmdfilmes.com.br
Chris Whitten
Tyler Edwards demonstrates an easy workflow - also using a LUT right from the beginning.
The grading bit starts at 5 minutes in:
I never claimed it was wrong to use that workflow. I have decent results making exposure, contrast and saturation adjustments myself, once I have applied the correct settings in the camera raw window.
I use LUTs too depending on the project.
Back on the original topic. The BRAW footage in the Edwards video doesn't look poor quality or destroyed by the adjustments he makes in highlight or shadow recovery and contrast.
Brad Hurley wrote: I think this is a lost cause
Boy, is it ever. It's funny to think that the OP actually followed the [bad] advice being given here, even though he hadn't yet heard it. And with such great results.
I believe examples of Ray's work was recently cited in another thread, and as I recall Ulysses posted samples of his grading some time back. It's for others to decide whether they admire the work or not.
However, the proof of the procedures some of the rest of us are advocating need no justification: they're industry standards. If you want evidence color management works, look at a Hollywood movie, or commercials on TV.
I'm neither a film maker or colourist professional.
This was shot on Pocket 4K with vintage lenses (C Mount Kodak) in Q5 Braw.
Once I had done my best to manually adjust the raw footage in Resolve I stuck a LUT on the end to add character - film grain, more saturation, and colour shift.
So, in terms of a 'Hollywood' standard look, no I'm not capable of that level of quality, and luckily it is largely not expected in music video.
Most of my errors occur at the shooting stage. I am not a cameraman and am working in a very dim studio space.
I'm very much a beginner at Resolve and grading in general.
Real Name: Chris Sagherian
John Paines wrote: But what's terrible first and foremost is your "grading".
This isn't a grade, this was simply trying to add a little color and recover shadows and highlights. Which is impossible with this kind of footage in a dynamic shot like this. I'll happily send you the BRAW file so you can show me what it should look like?
John Paines wrote: Boy, is it ever. It's funny to think that the OP actually followed the [bad] advice being given here, even though he hadn't yet heard it. And with such great results.
My point by providing that example was not to say I need advice on how to grade. Or have no clue. Or that that advice was correct or not. It was more to prove the theory wrong. That doing it that way will produce no better results, because the data is simply NOT in the file, luts, grading from scratch or not.
Now can you please add something valuable to the post, like what your thoughts are on why those shadows look like absolute garbage.
Upload the shot, or a portion of it, to dropbox or other similar service, and post a link here or PM me with it. If you're a recent forum member and try to post the link in the forum, you may need to add a space somewhere, for the forum system to accept it.
No doubt other people here will also take a crack at it. Which is all to the good! My interest is not in making it beautiful, but determining how much data is actually present, and ensuring that this data is fully represented in an initial adjustment -- the starting point for grading.
You can trim the braw file in Media Manager to as little as one frame. Consult the manual if the Media Manager is unfamiliar. Or just upload the entire file, if it's of manageable size.
Chris S wrote:
John this is the original file. The shadows are garbage in this .BRAW file. You can honestly tell me this image has 12-13 stops of DR?
No amount of grading will fix that.
Which brings me to my point about ISO 800 - Is it possible ISO 400 is just the magic ISO?
I need the actual file. Not a picture of it. Otherwise, this is a waste of time.
Chris, this image you shot has MUCH more than 13 stops in it. The difference between a sunlit area and a shadowed area can go above 20 stops. The problem is not with the camera or the codec, is with the way you shot it. Again, you are relying on the gear to magically do the things for you and you think you just need to press a button and everything will be hollywood. And its not. And thats why everyone here knows you dont have proper knowledge yet. You first need to accept that
Chris Whitten wrote: Tyler Edwards demonstrates an easy workflow - also using a LUT right from the beginning.
Chris, forgive me. I confused you with the OP.
Dune00z
Real Name: Duane Eues
Man this thread is getting out of hand... so why not add to it?
LUTs are perfectly fine and used often in professional settings for a variety of purposes. The thing is that you have to shoot for something like a creative LUT in order for the look to be correct. If the LUT is made for a certain Kelvin for example and you don't balance for it, it won't look right until you fix the balance to fit the LUT. Same thing for curves... if you do not expose for the curve correctly, the image will need manual adjustments to get it to look right when using the LUT.
Generally, the fastest process that uses the least amount of labor and gets the proper look is the preferred way to run a production on this front. It is not necessary to manually grade every single shot or grade a project to be completely different from the next. LUTs can greatly reduce the time spent in grading if done right even if the only purpose is to bring the footage into proper REC709 with no creative looks at all. If you manage a lot of a projects per quarter like I do (over 100 projects in Q2), you want a streamlined process that gets the same looks every time with as little effort required as possible.
Make the process idiot proof. LUTs can fit this bill perfectly.
But like anything, it has to be done right. Slapping a creative LUT made for one look that used a certain camera onto a shot that's lit contrary to the LUT's purpose and shot on a different camera will often provide crap results, requiring a hell of a lot of work just to make it kind of work right, and often it looks bad unless you are decent at the helm. This is why people THINK that its a "beginner" thing, when it isn't. Its just beginners aren't great a doing a lot of things, and that's fine.
Its like anything... if you don't know what you are doing and experimenting, you mess up, and that's perfectly fine as long as you learn from it.
Nothing at all wrong with LUTs and when you have a clean, streamlined process, it can be the easiest way to get great looks without even trying in the grade software.
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Again, amateur here, but when attempting a shot like that porch I would set the camera to capture the main subject, which is very dark and shadowy. I would then not expect to have great detail in those very bright skies showing through the trees.
Chris Whitten wrote: Again, amateur here, but when attempting a shot like that porch I would set the camera to capture the main subject, which is very dark and shadowy. I would then not expect to have great detail in those very bright skies showing through the trees.
Contrary to what some people seem to believe, proper exposure is completely relative to the purpose of the shot. If you are trying to capture ALL of the dynamic range the camera can provide, then you may just expose to protect highlights. That is probably what the OP is trying to do since it seems to be a dynamic range test shot, not a narrative.
This camera doesn't have 20 stops of DR. It has 13. I have shot this camera at noon with bald sun and the shadows would not be clean without blowing certain highlights. Of course the best way to combat this is with filters to expand DR, but there is only so much the thing can capture.
What the OP could do is try capturing the same shot with different exposure methods to see which works best and use Davinci Resolve to do the grading since it works best with BRAW and use a variety of grade techniques discussed in these forums and online to see what fits. Anytime you start using a new thing you have to get your head wrapped around what it can and can't do and give time to play with it.
Also the OP could use a different lens as well as the lens used looks uh... let's just say sub-optimal.
I was a bit snarky before because the thread looked like it was another BRAW haterade thread... hoping some of what I am saying can be helpful.
Chris S, my opinion about it, the problem isn't directly BRAW, but the sony sensor is the way it is. With CDNG your example picture would not be better. I don't like the BMPCC4K image quality so much and especially in the shadow area you can see a lot of noise.
This is all useless... No source files, no info about timeline/project settings...
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Ray, this is the 3rd or 4th inane argument I've been involved in, in about as many days, over questions which aren't actually controversial (except here). Even when you refer people to established authorities in the field, like Steve Yedlin, who takes the trouble to perform meticulous tests and argue his positions lucidly and patiently, it doesn't matter: people here, with zero credentials, still know better.
In this case, your insistence that using normalizing LUTs and color management are bad practices is just plain ludicrous. It's done every day in the business, and at the highest levels. Nobody has to be an "expert" to know that. It's just a fact. If you can't accept it, your argument isn't with me. It's with Davinci Resolve and the entertainment industry.
Anyway, that's all I have to say on this subject.
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John Paines wrote: It's done every day in the business, and at the highest levels.
I am sure the minds behind ACES will be very disappointed they've been wasting their time
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Australian Image wrote:
Brad Hurley wrote: After normalizing is done, that's when you move on to lift, gamma, gain, color balancing, etc. to fine-tune the result, and then on to secondary grading.
And isn't that exactly what I'm talking about?
John Paines wrote: I believe examples of Ray's work was recently cited in another thread, and as I recall Ulysses posted samples of his grading some time back. It's for others to decide whether they admire the work or not.
Keep up the bagging mate. At least I'm making the effort of explaining what does work for me. Sure, some of my earlier grading efforts have been woeful and I'll freely admit it, but if you've never made a mistake, you've never made anything. Clearly, it seems, you've never made a mistake.
And it's really easy to pick bad examples and leave out the better ones to try and put someone down. And the fact is that I'm often using three different cameras, BMPCC4K, E-M1 and TG5 to make various videos and/or combine them, so that there's always variations given what they produce. So in less than 12 months I think I've made a decent amount of progress and as someone that has started completely raw with Resolve, can make suggestions to someone in a similar boat.
So in all of your magnificence, all that you've managed to do in this thread is attempt to disparage me. That['s where all of your efforts have gone. Do you now sit back and tell yourself, 'Man, I showed him!. Where is all of your work so that others can see if you not only talk the talk, but can walk the walk? I think that we deserve to see exemplary work in all respects, given how you claim to be such an expert.
Over to you.
Ok. I can't keep it in my mind anymore
Australian Image, if you on learning path with variable unclear image look results, the worst thing you can do is take those suggestions here and there to other people with low level of experience and produce total mess in their heads. Especially when your Pocket 4K video examples graded like they where all shoot on web camera or cell phone and also with no any artistic style and composition talent. Especially when multiple people try to point to your mistakes in gentle way and instead listen and think, you fight against healthy critics by providing some outdated Youtube video tutorials and other random buzz. If you put your own video online this means it was passed your own artistic "moderation", so people have full right to measure your skills level based on in.
Jack Fairley wrote:
There is nothing special in ACES. It is just one of the attempts to build universal "one for all" color space transform engine that easy to pair with VFX linear gamma workflows. Compare to ARRI log to rec math curve or BMC color Space Transform, ACES build-in transforms converts log to rec in rather hard way with more aggressive highlights clipping. RED IPP2 math also looks smoother. ACES is rather limited and less flexible for color manipulations compare to native Resolve Color Space Transforms.
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Australian Image wrote: They are all referring to creative LUTs, but all of those videos (and many others) all recommend doing some basic correction/adjustments before going anywhere near a LUT (if at all). These basic corrections/adjustments include WB, highlight/shadow detail, contrast, etc, then you can apply a LUT to get a certain colour look, say orange and teal if that's your thing. But you really shouldn't start with a LUT and then commence other adjustments.
They might be, but those in this thread are not. A technical LUT maps one color space onto another, generally to reverse some form of color compression being performed by a camera. They are mathematically accurate to produce as exact a reversal of some change that was made in the camera as possible in order to bring an image into a usable color space. In some cases the curves involved could be quite complex and expecting someone (even a very good colorist) to accurately produce the same correction manually is a fool's errand.
A LUT of this nature *MUST* be applied FIRST, before those other corrections are made, because making other adjustments to the image would result in the image no longer matching the profile that the LUT was designed to reverse.
Since the LUT would be working 1:1 with the source image to map it to a destination color space as would be optimized for a specific camera or encoding, the notion that this somehow results in lower end quality is bogus.
The purpose of using such a LUT is to take nonstandard coloring of log-type footage as produced by a particular camera and convert it into a standard, linear color space for editing. This is not something any colorist should normally bother themselves with - that is why there are technical LUTs.
Others have pointed out Resolve's color management features which basically take a different approach to doing exactly what the LUTs do. That is a perfectly valid option. Trying to discourage beginners from using LUTs and other perfectly good tools in those situations where they make sense is *not* valid.
Ulysses Paiva wrote: Chris, this image you shot has MUCH more than 13 stops in it. The difference between a sunlit area and a shadowed area can go above 20 stops.
I too am thinking this is the actual issue behind the original post. The porch needed to have some fill light added to bring the dynamic range into the range of the camera.
As an aside, 13 stops is more than what most film stocks offer.
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Australian Image wrote: OK, let's take this one step further. Some are saying that you need to do RCM before anything, so what settings does anyone new to the system choose? You have a drop down selection, then another, then another and even more. And if you use more than one camera type and want to combine videos, how complex does it have to get? Maybe just leaving this at the default and going straight to the Colour Page might be a little easier in the first instance...
For me, it didn't seem too difficult:
1. Color Science: DaVinci YRGB Color Managed
2. Input Color Space: Blackmagic Design Film (I have OG BMPCC and shoot RAW)
3. Timeline and Output Color Space: Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 (a common space to work in)
4. Click Save.
Before RCM, I started by trying to manually adjust the log files and got nowhere. I invested in the Ripple Training course I mentioned earlier. The courses go on sale frequently and I was just spinning my wheels. They have helped my understanding a lot. I'm just a hobbyist but I realized I needed to invest some time and energy to understand how things work.
If anyone needs a good, free, quick introduction to the benefits of RCM (including the incredible amount of time you can save matching shots from multiple cameras), Brad Hurley posted this link in the Resolve forum last November:
I'm reluctant to be critical, and of course you're entitled to both your opinion and your approach, but I feel you do a disservice by telling others to ignore the experienced, expert advice on this forum. To me, that is one of the most unique and valuable things about this particular online community. I, as a hobbyist just trying stuff, can get my questions answered (patiently and for free!) by professionals who do this for a living.
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John, don't bother. Even if you could be perfectly correct in arguing with Ray, it's pointless. I can glimpse you are both talking about things from differing directions, but Ray is very linear and is stuck on the fact that people should learn the basics, and that somebody with some sort of reputation said luts are bad, even though that doesn't really aplly to the sort of technical luts we should be talking about here. The posting of a video titled "luts don't work", is a patently wrong thing to say on the videos part, hype. But there is a guy over reduser who makes technical luts to normalise footage for individual camera models after a lot of testing. I would trust his stuff as a basis. But, on the other side of this debate, is newer abilities to apply things without baking them in, then bake them in at output, allowing maximum flexibility in working the image in relation to issues.
But, you guys are pretty expert, and I'm more interested in designing stuff. What sort of setup do you use to realistically automatically transform your footage into technically correct and linear values, then apply a look on top without wrecking everything, all automatically, then allowing you to fine tune, or change the preferred look then fine tune, all virtually, then commit and output a baked file?
Australian Image wrote: ...As I mentioned, I use a number of cameras, four to be exact, and RCM is pointless in this case as it doesn't cater for those other cameras and it's not possible to have multiple settings (as far as I know). So going straight into the Colour Page has taught me a hell of a lot about how to manipulate the settings to try and match the outputs from different cameras....
My latest video, I think, is a vast improvement and each one that I do has me trying out something new and which points out to me errors that need improvement. Unfortunately our bitter winter (by Australian standards) has prevented me from getting out and doing anything more interesting.
Right-click the clip in the Media or Edit page and select Input Color Space. Of course, your other cameras may not be listed.
New video looks good to me!
Australian Image wrote: As I mentioned, I use a number of cameras, four to be exact, and RCM is pointless in this case as it doesn't cater for those other cameras and it's not possible to have multiple settings (as far as I know).
Gawd forgive me, I swore I wouldn't say another word, but this is beyond crazy. The other cameras you're using, like the TG5, only record in rec. 709 color space, so the footage doesn't need normalization. It's already in the correct color space, like video from any consumer camera.
But, unfortunately, you neglected to tell anyone that you're weren't talking about the BMPCC 4K. So the rest of us were advising you on the correct approach to the BMPCC 4K, while you were insisting that your consumer cameras don't require such processing. And they don't. They require, and allow, relatively little color correction. Because they don't record log.
On the same note, the videos you're posting here are evidently shot with rec. 709 profiles, on cameras with consumer-level in-camera processing -- they're not tests of color correction ability from log files. If they're meant as proof of your ability to normalize log footage manually, the problem is, they're not log.
Finally, you're mistaken in saying that "it's not possible to have multiple settings" in RCM. That's the whole point of RCM -- you can mix footage from dozens of cameras, each with different log formats, and bring them into a single output standard.
Now, can we have a little sanity, or are you going to claim, to the death, that you're right and everyone else is wrong?
Here we go again. OM400log, if you're actually using it on the EM-1, is is a slightly flattened color profile. It doesn't require much to be "normal". The shots can be so close to an acceptable rec. 709 profile, you don't even have to touch them, if you like that look.
BMPCC 4K log is quite different, as your previously posted experiments should have proved to you.
Finally, as I and others have said before, many times, the issue is correct preparation of BMPCC 4K log footage for grading. Skills beyond that stage are really beside the point now. Your insistence on turning everything into a competition, where you must be right and all others are wrong, seems to make it impossible for you to absorb new knowledge. It's also remarkable to me that despite this furious arguing, you still haven't read the manual on RCM ("as far as I know", indeed!). So the fact that you don't know, and admit it, means that you're right even when you're wrong ("I said I didn't know"!).
In any event, several people have tried here to help you, to no effect, and if I continue on this any longer, the moderators will probably intervene. Good luck with your grading.
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Dmitry Shijan wrote: And it keeps rolling and rolling...
How's that battery pack rolling?
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I probably shouldn't get involved, but came across this thread while browsing. For any beginners, if somebody is arguing *against* a proper color managed workflow, ignore that advice. Learn how and why color management exists (fyi it's not just for cameras. It's for VFX, stills, compositing, CG, delivery, etc) and how to use it properly. If you've been told it's just a bunch of old-guard types giving overly complicated advice, that is patently and demonstrably wrong.
I just came off a 6 day, multi-camera, shoot in LA shooting the Venice, and if I had walked over to the DIT booth and said 'oh you guys with your LUTs! It's just not necessary! LOL!" there would have been a loud record scratch over playback while the whole crew watched while I was gently escorted off set by the 1AD.
Learn to do it right. And learn the ins and outs. Or at least try. It CAN BE complicated. And yeah, it can be religion for some people. But to try to *manually* compensate for any sort of log/linear source material vs applying the correct input transformation first is not correct.
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It's unbelievable, they should reflect on the conceptual relationships of what they are saying misapplied.
Just as an update and after a lot of testing. There is a huge difference in the quality you get using "Constant Bitrate - Q0" and almost everything else. In addition ISO 400 does seem to be a magic number. It seems you get the most latitude with color, highlight and shadow reproduction as related to noise and overall image quality.
It's still a mystery what "Highlight Recovery" does, as 90% of shots I try to use it on--That you'd think it would work, based on exposure histogram--it does nothing, while 10% of shots, it maybe helps recover some slight detail. I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. It recovers detail that's been just barely clipped I guess?
Any, big thanks to everyone who has tried to include constructive ideas on how to push the limits of BRAW.
I'm going to post a follow up on some things that helped me after being forced to move from Premier/Adobe -> DR.
Chris S wrote: Here are just a few samples of some footage I feel looks completely terrible.
A couple of steps that can improve the effort:
1. Press Alt-S (if using Windows) to create a serial node. Always work with nodes rather than the original file so that you never do any physical changes to the original file. You can create as many nodes as you like and what nodes do is sequentially add the changes that you make to the file to produce the final result. If you do something you don't like, you can delete that node and start anew without damaging anything you've done previously.
2. To begin with, in the colour wheel section, click on the cross at the top left where it says Lift and move the cross to the darkest point in the image. This will set the black point ie, make blacks black. Don't worry if the image goes too dark, that can be adjusted later. I prefer to p[lay around with the settings below the colour wheel.
3. Then click on the cross where it says Gain and move the cross to the whitest point in the image. this will now change the brightness of the scene. Same thing applies as before by adjusting the setting below the colour wheel.
4. The Gamma setting changes the overall brightness/darkness of the scene and
5. Offset expands/compresses the brightest/darkest parts of the scene and if you enable scopes, you'll see how the three colours change when you adjust the
6. The settings below that 1/2 allow for additional changes to suit your own preferences regarding saturation, contrast etc.
This is just a very rough starting point, but will work well is not taken to extremes. Work in small increments and become familiar with each control. If you use nodes and play around with these setting in turn, you'll quickly learn what works, when you're going too far and what looks nice and natural.
Thanks for taking so much time to try and demystify some of this stuff. I get how a lot of basic settings work, it's just a much different work flow vs premier pro/cinemaDNG. Also it seems Q0 gets much better results for dynamic range latitude, IMO after some more recent testing.
Chris, if you follow around here, you will find that ISO is faux ISO here, and shouldn't be relied upon in Bayer raw. There are only two real iso's, and you should expose to them.
Highlight recovery probably uses a trick to use the unburnt out color pixels to guess the burnt out ones, but eventually all channels get burnt out. You might be talking about a couple of stops. So you should expose with that limit in mind. Otherwise highlight recovery is likely to be haphazard and only just shape over exposed regions a bit better. If it had been a 16 stop+ camera, it would be easier to make it look more like what we see naturally. But here, it's old picture work, you have to work it. I see a lot of .. over exposed bark and leaves flat shaded without even curvature and detail, and little colour, and people call that fantastic. On my old 16 stop+ pocket stills camera, I might get grain, I might not get much color at the extremes (very Bayer raw looking) but I would get curvature and some detail. Once you go 16stop plus correctly, it looks mystical, alien something there is a brighter twighlight without much highlight effect. Rather cool. Pity, that nearly 20 year old sensor had a version data speed rated around 720p. Would have been sic compared to a lot of cinema cameras last decade.
Chris S wrote: It's still a mystery what "Highlight Recovery" does, as 90% of shots I try to use it on--That you'd think it would work, based on exposure histogram--it does nothing, while 10% of shots, it maybe helps recover some slight detail. I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. It recovers detail that's been just barely clipped I guess?
Is it possible for you to post examples of where you're trying to recover highlights?
Chris S wrote: Just as an update and after a lot of testing. There is a huge difference in the quality you get using "Constant Bitrate - Q0" and almost everything else. In addition ISO 400 does seem to be a magic number. It seems you get the most latitude with color, highlight and shadow reproduction as related to noise and overall image quality.
In RAW there is no difference to the image data if you set your ISO at 100 400 or 1000 - it's just a different metadata tag in the xmp file. Highlight recovery attempts to reconstruct a clipped channel from the remaining data from the unclipped channel and as you are seeing if you are not clipping it's not doing anything. I've not seen an difference between Q0 and 3:1 - care to explain what you are seeing?
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I had slowly progressed from
- Using LUTs
- Manual Grade
- Manual grade in RCM
and was quite happy, but after having footage that seemed to really struggled with RCM I experimented with just about every setting and configuration and found what I think is the best BRAW workflow bar none.
I went back to non colour managed set up and all I do before I start is go to the raw clip settings and change the colour space there from BM Film to REC 709.
This changes the colours to super accurate and nice looking without affecting anything else.
I then manually adjust primary exposure and usually have a fantastic grade within about 30 seconds.
So, no BT2100 or DCI? Is there an easy way to make them like those rather then knock off the colour gamut?
I find that RCM on a project level seems to have a big hit on playback speed for some reason. I prefer to use color space conversion on a timeline node if all the clips are from the same camera and on clip node if I'm mixing cameras. I must say that I let resolve do the gamut mapping (you can't do this manually) but a lot of the time I will do the luminance mapping manually. I use luts at the end if I want a specific look but I have long moved on from using them to do basic conversions from camera to timeline. When we are all shooting linear RAW and not LOG then LUTs will just be for the output look. LOG is after all a workaround for the limitations of the camera codecs data rate as it's a form of data compression.
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Gary Jaeger wrote: I probably shouldn't get involved, but came across this thread while browsing. For any beginners, if somebody is arguing *against* a proper color managed workflow, ignore that advice. Learn how and why color management exists (fyi it's not just for cameras. It's for VFX, stills, compositing, CG, delivery, etc) and how to use it properly. If you've been told it's just a bunch of old-guard types giving overly complicated advice, that is patently and demonstrably wrong.
Definitely. I've run into people resisting that advice because it's too complicated for them... and their work looks VERY amateurish, so it's clear that they're just not trying.
I'm going to prep a LUT for use on set for a shoot this coming weekend, because the director wants his short to be in black and white. So rather than view in color and guess, we'll view in black and white.
That's part of what LUTs are for -- though it's true that you do need to know what they're for and where to use them in order to get the results you expect. IDTs first, looks after, then ODT.
It's actually not that complicated for just a single color space, but if you're making a Dolby Vision AND a Rec709 grade, you'd have to have to ODT's set up, one for the Dolby Vision display and one for the Rec709 display, and each monitor needs its own calibration...
But how many newbies would be attempting an HDR grade of any kind at all yet?
It *can* be done, but grading is a LOT easier if you get your color management set up correctly. I used to grade starting with log footage, and it was a pain -- once I learned how to get the color management set up correctly, grading got a LOT easier. The IDTs really can save you a lot of work.
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Chris S wrote: I feel the quality is no different than any other mirrorless camera now. It's very very sad and very disappointing.
I have the perfect solution. Get a new camera.
Have you ever seen anything shot in BRAW that you like? If so, contact that person and get some information. If not, sell your camera. Easy peasy.
I can't believe this much effort is being exerted on this. Either figure it out like the rest of us or get a new camera. It's obviously user error. Simple.
Australian Image wrote: The discussion is actually quite informative. It shows how differently people approach post-processing and how differently people interpret what each other is doing, often assuming the wrong thing. This is exemplified in another similar post in the last day..
But it's also informative to those who ask such questions. However, if people are too afraid to ask questions and others too afraid to pose their views because others start belittling both, you might as well not have a forum. Sometimes all sides might learn something about their own ideals and views.
The title of the post is off-putting. It sucks because of user error. Had the question been posed differently, my response would have been different.
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OP,
P4K has 2 real analog ISO's, 400 and 3200. So if shooting in BRAW set to either 400 or 3200 and expose properly. I never shoot anything with the P4K outside of 400 and 3200, but I frequently adjust the ISO in Resolve afterward. This is directly related to the highlight recovery option, which has nothing to do with recovering blown out pixels while filming.
You need to also understand page 44 of the new camera manual. Its in the others but I only have the one that comes with the 6.5 camera update at the moment. The image I attached. This camera has a "strategy" on ISO that needs consideration. This camera is very unique in this way. My experience was similar to yours when I first started shooting with it until I learned about that uniqueness. Once you figure it out its not hard to master, but you will have to take into account more information when deciding which analog ISO to use in what conditions and with what expectations. For instance, know why 1250 ISO is much better than 1000 ISO in low light conditions, with this particular camera.
The video here seems to be right up your alley. It explains everything you want to know.
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Australian Image wrote: I now realise what's going on here, it's all to do with language. While the eggs spurts keep disparaging someone who has more than 14 years of experience in processing RAW stills files,
As someone who has been processing RAW stills ( professionally) for 16 years I have to say that it has very little relevance when it comes to grading LOG source video.
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OK.....
RAW stills is uncompressed 14/16 bit RGB linear which is very easy to work with when compared to 8/10 bit YCbCr LOG (often highly compressed) codecs. ETTR is the default exposure with stills RAW and as long as you don't clip and keep out of the noisefloor you can do just about anything to it and it and it will respond predictably to the simple tonal and colour controls in stills RAW converters. Colour space conversions are fairly simple as well unless you are converting to CMYK for commercial press printing and it's pretty easy and cheap to buy monitors these days that cover 100% ARGB which is the working and delivery color space.
In terms of workflow then pro video grading has been developed to work within large teams in post production facilities where large amounts of complex working footage has to be processed as quickly and as efficiently as possible and pass between different specialist operators so a standardised set of procedures is essential. Stills are generally processed by single owner operators and are never going to be going through the same large scale industrialised production workflows and any self devised workflow is going to work. When you are processing stills it's obviously nice to get a set of images that looks fairly consistent with regards to colour, tone and exposure but variables are not going to be noticed too much as the media is physically separate. With video clips in a timeline it must be matched perfectly otherwise even the untrained eye will pick up differences (continuity).
I could go on but as someone who classes myself at the higher end of expertise in stills RAW processing and retouching and who can comfortably operate in a professional capacity in that industry I consider myself as a beginner in video grading who would be totally out of my depth in a video production pipeline. I mean I could probably get the result in the end but it would take so long that I wouldn't be commercially viable as an operator.
One thing I have learnt from video grading is I wish I had the scopes and image controls in C1 and ACR that I have in Resolve - scopes particularly.
Backing back up the recent post list. Yes, as we are saying, people were speaking from different aims and conceptual angles, producing the argument, I feel. Since then it has become about the absoluteness of each camp, one camp mistaking what the subject was about. I've been on the receiving end of that a lot, pretty much kills learning sharing etc. So, it's important to come at it from the same conceptual angle that's already started. Any other angle is a contrast, alternative to the same aim, or off topic, but is not something to insist what was originally said was about something different than it was and that the other person is wrong for stating it.
Australian Image wrote: I've been a professional photographer as well, working for newspapers and other industries since 1980. Even when doing news work, I always shot RAW vs my peers who shot JPG. I simply found it better and faster to make any necessary changes. Plus RAW files gave me much better control, given the often very unpredictable lighting conditions and working situations. My tools were a camera and flash at best.
But we're not talking about the size of the production team, in this thread it's just one person coming to grips with BRAW and producing pleasing results. The simple fact of what I described is that processing RAW still images has much in common with processing RAW video files. The same would apply to processing JPG and ProRes files. Understanding what the tools in the Colour Page do is fundamental to generating quality work, just as understanding the equivalent tools is in Capture One.
And it's even more important if you are a one person operator that does everything. That video clip that I posted above was shot in roughly half an hour (36 separate files) and then processed in around another hour and a bit, plus a bit of extra to find and work in the background music. If Resolve allowed easier rearranging of clips, the work would flow even faster, though much faster now with the Cut Page.
I thought you were not supposed to change images when doing journalism thus why so many in journalism shoot in jpg?
Dune00z wrote: I thought you were not supposed to change images when doing journalism thus why so many in journalism shoot in jpg?
That's absolutely true, you don't materially change the image, but it's quite acceptable to adjust, exposure, contrast, highlights/shadows to produce a clean image. Working in the Australian sun can be horrendous when it comes to getting a clean shot, so using RAW was a great benefit over using JPG.
News photographers use JPG (often compressed) because most news outlets don't have RAW processing software installed in their systems. Some cameras also had woeful burst mode in RAW. Then they simply uploaded their images into the server, often with no adjustment (hence why you sometimes see awful news shots), added a caption and then sent it off to the sub-editors.
I used my own laptop to do the RAW processing and then uploaded the finished JPGs into the system. Many may think that this was slow work, but it wasn't. I could clean up a RAW shot much faster than any JPG shooter. There was also an advantage for me if the sub-editors wanted a larger or even a full/half page shot, as I always had a RAW copy of the image to give them a much better JPG file.
Like my peers, I wasn't shooting with the latest and greatest cameras, so I had to take advantage of what I had. Many would be surprised at how many news and sports photographers use quite old gear. Nowadays the newspapers have gotten rid of most photographers and just give their journos a P&S or they use their iPhone. Sports photography is still partly alive, but even then I've seen journos with a bridge camera taking shots of a game.
OK thanks for the info on that. Each journalist I have met shoots a DSLR because its reliable, most actually choosing the Canon 1dxmii for example even though the sensor isn't the greatest compared to others but its fast and out of camera jpgs are really good from it. Some LOVE the Sony SLT designs, which I thought was really weird. All of them shoot JPG though so hearing about raw shooting for journalism seemed odd... used to work in TV News but that's not the same obviously.
Well I thought I had it but now I am confused.
I had figured out how to kill the horrible houselights in the venue I shoot one of my interview shows and had added a china ball as the key light.
Now I feel like the UMP shot has less ugly color issues but all the shots are now noisy
I though the noise shimmer was from the house lights but seems like its worse without them on. Is it in fact BRAW ? I don't remember ever really seeing noise in Prores
Australian Image wrote: I watched that twice on YouTube at full screen and can't see any noise.
On a side note, do you use one or two cameras? I've always been under the impression that with two cameras, you have them positioned so that when swapping from one subject to the other, the camera position appears the same to the viewer ie, bot are shot from the same visual side.
Its 3 cameras, two Pocket 4Ks and one Ursa Mini Pro G1
Currently set up like this
Each subject is set up so that there is empty space in the frame in the direction they are looking to preserve the impression that they are talking to each other. Doing it the way I think you are suggesting would break this conversation visual convention.
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LEGACY FORUMS - Professional / Injured Workers
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Almaraz & Can of Worms (California)
Ask your AMA Guide questions to Dr. Chris Brigham. Christopher R. Brigham, MD is recognized as the nation's leading expert, author, and trainer on the Guides (www.impairment.com). We have expanded this category to include other rating questions under both new and old schedules.
by davidd on Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:18 am
Dr. Chris Brigham, in a recent public telephone conference, raised some very pertinent issues with Almaraz.
I have copied them here, with Dr. Brigham's permission, to further the debate and get folks thinking about the practical impact of this decision. I hope folks jump in on this discussion and share thoughts...
Who, when and how is it determined that a Permanent Disability Award is inequitable or disproportionate?
Who, when and how is a finding of “fairness” made, the precursor, according to the court to an allowance of Guides rebuttal evidence?
What is an adequate standard of evidence to be admissible for rebuttal of the Guides?
How does one alternatively calculate Permanent Disability?
I will go out on a limb right now in the interests of furthering public discourse over the issues - the WCAB made the correct legal interpretation of LC 4660 in stating that the AMA Guides portion of the Schedule is rebuttable. Nothing in 4660 says otherwise. LC 4660 simply says that the Guides shall be incorporated, and that the Schedule is prima facie evidence (which by definition is rebuttable). So, in my opinion, the Board correctly interpreted the application of the statute.
Dr. Brigham in his conference, opines that this will influence other jurisdictions that rely on the Guides. I disagree - this is a very statute specific interpretation and other state statutes regarding the Guides are likely very different.
But, Dr. Brigham raises more important consequences of this decision that will produce problems down the road - what is the quality of evidence sufficient to rebut the Guides? Is 'opinion' good enough (in which case why bother with any reference to the Guides other than "incorporation")? Or does it need to be "substantial" and supported by some science (something more than subjective complaints)?
And, doesn't Alamarz place the physician in the position of a trier of fact? Or does the physician simply offer alternatives and let the Board or court make the determination? How do we separate these functions?
I hope folks jump in on the debate, and I hope also that Dr. Brigham likewise offers more insight in to his opinions.
And remember - keep the debate civil!
Re: Almaraz & Can of Worms (California)
by rbaird on Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:47 pm
I have still not fully digested Almaraz, but it is clearly intended by the Board to extensively discuss and refer to the manner in which other states, which have considerable experience with the AMA Guidelines, handle the vexed issue of discretion and substantiality of evidence. In my opinion, the legislature was sold something of a bill of goods, the illusive prospect of reducing inflated permanent disability costs by a return to "objectivity". Had there been a political willingness to adjust the benefit rate to an economically realistic level, there would not be the increasingly elaborate attempts to evade the results of PD evaluations applying the AMA Guides. We have had the benefits of "reform" for long enough and the burdens a readily apparent. The evaluation system is a farce. The attempt to micromanage treatment expense by administrative fiat and schedule is inefficient at best. I am glad I chose to retire a couple of years ago because I don't like what I am seeing. I thought it interesting the Board cited Lewis (44 CCC 1138) with approval although the question of whose discretion may be applied remains open. A can of worms, indeed.
rbaird
by samcat on Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:08 pm
In my view, the WCAB was absolutely incorrect in its decision.
While the PDRS can be rebutted, I believe that it can only be rebutted in the aggregate and not on an individual basis. What may be right or wrong with Ms Almaraz or Ms Guzman is not relevant. If you can find something better, in the aggregate, other than "incorporating the discription and measurements of physical impairments and corresponding percentages of impairments published in the AMA 5th(as juxtaposed to the entirety of the AMA Guides)" have at it.
Why am I saying this?
Well, when one reads 4660(d) and you are confronted with the mandate that "the schedule shall promote consistancy, uniformity and objectivity", you create the antithesis of that charge when you allow each individual to rebut the schedule with his/her set unique set of circumstances.
But lets look for further support in the California Constitution where you find the intent of our workers compensation system requires;
a. Establishing who gets what and how much via "plenary authority vested in the legislature".
b. Mandates that the system "shall accomplish substantial justice in all cases expeditiously"
Once again, the interests of Ms Almaraz and Ms Guzman are not relevant even if, in their particular circumstances, it might be inequitable. Also what they would have gotten under the old system is not relevant as well, as under the concept of plenary authority (as harsh as it sounds) the legislature giveth(ala ab749) and they also taketh away(ala sb899). If the political crystal balls are correct the hammer of plenary authority could very well be swinging a different way in just less than two years from now.
The WCAB created utter and complete chaos in this decision and its rational flies in the face of the statute and the constitution. While there is no sure thing in the world of appellate litigation, at the end of the day I believe that this case will be reversed.
samcat
Re: Almaraz & Can of Worms
by davidd on Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:54 am
Hmmm - all very good points Samcat!
But I guess the opposite argument would be that 4660(d) says "schedule" shall promote, which may be different than the data that gets plugged into the schedule.
Rbaird makes a poignant point as well. In my view, the entire system is incorrectly designed as it rewards negative behavior, but we must deal with what we are dealt. Onward to higher authority I guess.
by denyse on Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:27 am
There is no standard for a doctor to reference against when deciding fairness. [e.g. Query: does a doctor know that the WPI goes up 40% after FEC adjustment for psyche? If not, how does he/she know the bottom line (after adjustment) is fair/unfair]. This is a huge boost for defense attorneys, who have been hit hard since SB 899. I don't feel so for the AA's. Lots, and I mean lots of work they don't get paid for with questionable results. Don't they have to challenge every case or face the risk of malpractice. Won't this back the courts up 10 years? So how does this benefit the IW? Now let's look at how the employer fares:
Here is the major problem I see with all of the above. This comes from a recent conversation with a reinsurer. Let's say that you have a post partial lateral menisectomy and arthritis (3% WPI). The doctor, like one quoted in Guzman/Almaraz, feels he needs to create a new subhead on fairness (why?). He says, because the patient can't golf, ski, or do any torquing activities REALLY impacts ADL's and that he read in the Planet Mars Journal Of Medicine where a doctor felt that this condition was more accurately defined as 50% WPI because of functional blah, blah, blah limitations. The case is now 3 years old, and the carrier has calculated the employer's dividend a year and a half ago, and now it's the carrier's money. The DA calls and says the split is 27%, and the demand is 20%, and states that the WCJ hints he likes the sound rationale. He really, really recommends we settle. Query: How do you reserve for this a year and a half ago ? Reinsurers need predictability in order to manage finances. My friend told me that the en banc decision will have, what little reinsurance market there is in California, fleeing for the hills, leaving the carrier with taking the loss from cradle to grave. As such, the carrier will now have to use the new case law to reserve for probable outcome (what's that?), and be able to justify the dramatically HIGH increases in reserves and resultant premiums based on the adverse loss development. In other words, they won't have to make stuff up (like the docs). The result is the WC insurance premium will skyrocket in a state where it's already a state that businesses consider hostile (regulatory). Was SB 899 enacted to increase costs for the employer? I feel we will see more and more companies moving out of state at a time when record unemployment is occurring.
This is a horrible, myopic decision that requires the Gov's intervention (AMA Guides presumptive). Fix the other parts of the equation (FEC, other adjustments, PD rate, etc.) We need to provide those who allow WC to operate in this state predictability. As Jake says, this is an 8 lane highway. One of the worst decisions I have seen in 24 years when it comes to destabilizing the insurance market. One that some might say is fragile at press time.
by MHarrisLaw@verizon.net on Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:43 am
Why blame the WCAB for their decision? The fault lies in using a reference work that is unscientific, not relevant to evaluating work disability, not consistent nor objective. The solution lies in creating a rating schedule that uses objective measurements and work guidelines, and modifies based on relevant criteria.
Why keep trying to make the AMA Guides work? It just does not.
Marjory Harris
Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law
San Francisco Bay Area & Inland Empire
Editor, getMedLegal Magazine
mharrislaw@verizon.net
by kombergchiro on Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:36 pm
Tis is an interesting topic, with several aspects to it. First, are the AMA Guides scientifically based enough that the ratings performed by the physician will be "evidence-based" and objective? The answer is no. First, it should be noted that each chapter was written and edited by separate groups. There is a singular lack of continuity throughout. Second, although the Guides indicate methods by which impairment may be determined, even the examples provided do not consistently follow the methodology provided. A very good example of this is the SLR validity test in Chapter 15.
The conclusion, as other have mentioned, is that the Guides are inconsistent and should not be the basis of determining impairment.
That being given, we still are mandated in their use.
Next, please note that they are Guides. Their use is to determine "whole person impairment", i.e., consider the effects of the injury on the person as a whole, not simply injured body part(s). It is extremely logical and well documented that two individuals with similar injuries will react to and recover from the injuries at sometimes wildly different rates and levels. Therefore, determining impairment should take into account the individual circumstances and not use a flawed cookbook to determine an impairment level. This was the purpose of including an assessment of ADLs. However, the Guides provide no specific indication of how to determine impairment based upon difficulties in ADLs, other than in Chapter 15, DRE method, where they are referenced in placing an impairment within a range.
Clearly, there must exist a method by which the individual is considered, rather than as simple body parts. In following the spirit of the AMA Guides, there are numerous references to support consideration of the "whole person". The WCAB, in Almaraz/Guzman took the appropriate course. It is now up to the examining physician to present a cogent, logical reason why the AMA impairment does not accurately reflect the impairment, if that decision is invoked. It is then up to the trier of fact to determine if this meets the necessary requirements and the AMA portion of disability is, in fact, over-ridden.
kombergchiro
by denyse on Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:27 pm
First off the burden is with the applicant. Why any doc would stick their necks out is beyond me. One rater/DA already has a blacklist out there. I have seen closed to 30 opinions on Almaraz and not one report states why the WPI by the Guides is unfair. They simply say because Almaraz says you can rebut then they can. The fundamental issue is what is fair. The case specifically said you can't use the 1997 PDRS. So what are you using as a yardstick? It looks low? I don't think any of the reports I have seen merit substantial medical evidence and don't address the fundamental Q. What are you basing your fairness theory on? The same rater/DA has intimated that if the report is not substantial evidence then you can seek reimbursement. The cases are now all in stalemate. Only ones getting paid is the CE and DA. DA's will start to have 4-5 hour depos on what is fair or unfair. They will work on 2 cases a day. AA's won't get paid for 2-3 years, maybe longer under appeal. The question I have is do you try a defective opinion, or is the onus on the defense to make sure a WCJ doesn't rule liberally??? A bloody mess.
I advise docs not to get involved, or fear retribution by the employer (no more AME's). Let the board send it back or let the AA make his/her case. Then simply ask what statute, case or reference material discusses the fairness standard. If they can't produce anything punt to the trier. Creating subheads or fiction is the kiss of death. It is not the doc's fault and they are not the trier.
by kahanamoko on Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:10 pm
One can blame our legislature for creating this gigantic mess. I often fall into the trap of blaming applicant attorneys, then I remember that they are simply following their avaricious nature. This problem could be easily fixed with repair legislation, if our legislature wanted to clean up their mess. Their failure to do so makes on wonder why. Do they hold out hope, one way or the other, for the current appeals? Are they afraid any change in the current statues will look as though AA's were right and create more headaches? The fact that most agree on is that the Labor Code has become increasingly burdensome over the last 20 years. It seems like a natural outcome that legislatures will increase the size of legislation as years go by. Look at our income tax system. Look at just about any other statutory system. Increasing in size annually. And each time we change the rules, AA's do what is in their nature and look for every loophole they can find. It's what they're paid to do and they would be performing malpractice if they failed to find the loopholes. So, draft legislation which is clear and unambiguous, yes? The problem is that most of the people drafting this legislation are not experts in comp. SB899 was drafted overnight, and it shows. In the meantime, we wait months and years to increase PD, per statute, because the Governor wants to take time to review any increases. Time which was not taken when SB899 was shoved down our collective throats. The AMA Guides was bootstrapped into our Labor Code without sufficient review and analysis. Why? Because, we assumed, it worked in other states so it would work here. But they couldn't leave well enough alone and had to go about bootstrapping more stuff onto the bootstrapped AMA Guides. Schedules. Schedules which fail to address all body parts. Schedules developed without sufficient review and analysis. Why? Because the Governor said it was a "Crisis!!". Call anything a "CRISIS" and a politician can get people excited and can ramrod legislation through. It's a historical fact and one which Schwarzennegers advisors knew too well.
Can we please get someone in Sacramento to fix this statute? Can we please get someone to fix the situation created in Ogilvie? Can we get them to address the mess created by the MPN issues?
kahanamoko
by davidd on Tue Dec 28, 2010 4:01 am
Kahanamoko - tell this to Martin Brady of CCWC! See his opinion here: http://www.workcompcentral.com/signup/news/index.php?fa=column&article_id=340b85c6e967e13c1d49372582e4bb9cj
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The Most Important Game Ever Made #6: The Politics Of Dancing
Al Ewing & Sarah Peploe • FT • Games/The Most Important Game • 4 comments • 431 views
Finishing off the Cavern Club set, Paulbot leaps into ‘I Saw Her Standing There’.
I’ve about run out of things to say about the Cavern-era Beatlebots, but looking at that live footage shows a general muting of the performances in the game – look at Ringo, a manic bundle of energy in a suit, thrashing away at the kit, compared to the grinning, docile half-alive thing Ringobot presents itself as. Granted, the above clip is from 1964 and (as was pointed out by Daniel Poeira in the comments) in 1963 Ringo was in real danger of being maimed by Pete Best supporters and might well have been a little nervy. But looking at some of the later stuff, Ringobot doesn’t change that much.
As for Paulbot – well, let’s see the digitised version:
Not that much difference, actually – the digital version seems considerably more than a year younger, but that works to his advantage in this one. Paulbot looks like the office tea boy pushed onto the stage at the Christmas do and forced to sing, fresh-faced, innocent, slightly nervous. (I’m wondering if nervousness will still be a visual theme in the next level, when the band are allegedly established pop idols.) That works for the song, because this – to my untutored ears at least – is a very innocent song. Kind of.
Let’s divert for a minute and talk about dancing. I didn’t start dancing until I was about 14 or 15, and even then it was self-conscious half-ironic disco moves – I didn’t start dancing for real until I was at Uni, where it was a lot safer to let yourself go. Mostly, I was dancing to techno songs – I left the floor for the Britpop and Indie numbers – and mostly it was the joy of moving to a rhythm. I used to throw a lot of shapes. Socially, you’d either dance in a rough clump of people with plenty of space between to avoid hitting anyone, or you’d form a vague circle. Dancing with one particular person was possible, but it didn’t seem to be the norm. Any coupling happened between songs, off the floor. (These were student-run discos, not any kind of club scene – your mileage for on-the-floor action may vary.)
In this song, the dance and the courtship are the same. The way McCartney sings it, there’s a clear progression: see the girl, dance with the girl, realise you could probably fall in love with/settle for this girl, fall in love/settle for the girl, get a job and a mortguage and two kids and then look around and realise you’re sixty-four and where did it all go? (Obviously the song cuts out before step five in this progression.) It’s sweet and innocent, as long as the metaphor lasts.
But it is a metaphor – dancing as sex is a metaphor as old as time, especially when you bring in all the social ‘dancing exclusively with’ mores of the time that this song conveys. So, as McCartney lets off an orgasmic shriek, in comes Georgebot, smirking Byronically over the solo, the tempting Devil to Paulbot’s sweet-faced angel. Yeah, we know what you mean, Paul. “And I held… her… hand… so… TIGHT!” We know what you’re saying. They should have called this song When I Saw My Penis Standing There In My Pants.
And underneath that buried sexual heat, we have a song about – a pretty girl at a dance. It’s rude and sweet at the same time, having the cake and eating it, which is probably the best way to be at the moment. We’ll see if they can keep this balance with their other teen-oriented output.
Musically – am I alone in thinking this is pure country? The twanging guitars, the cowboy inflection in the vocals – that “held her hand so tight” line should end in a “Yee-haw!”, and right afterwards we’re into another twangfest. It makes sense – Elvis would have been an inspiration for the Beatles, and Elvis was rockabilly through and through – but if I close my eyes while I listen, I don’t see the Beatles on that stage. I’m seeing four filthy digital cowboys, ready to move right on from this one to Ramblin’ Man and I Love This Bar. And it’s kind of a crime that Apple Corps won’t let me make that dream come true.
NEXT: Fast-forward to Ed Sullivan.
Tom on 21 Sep 2009 #
This series is great – we need to get it set up as an actual series tho cos with the turnover of content at the moment stuff’s in danger of getting lost. (Don’t worry about doing this yourself – I will, or Alan will, or someone will at the admin end.)
admin on 21 Sep 2009 #
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/series/the-most-important-game-ever-made/
Vic Fluro on 22 Sep 2009 #
Legitimacy! Thanks doodz
Tracer Hand on 24 Sep 2009 #
It’s funny how a seemingly obvious connection – that “Saw Her Standing There” is basically a country song – often won’t occur for years and years. I didn’t realize it either.
For instance it took me until 2008 to notice that “Memo From Turner” is a really clear-cut attempt to create a Bob Dylan song from scratch.
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The Most Important Game Ever Made #4: That’s What I Want
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by Burnet Graeme Macrae
The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet’s accomplished first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau--the small French town of Saint-Louis. Detective Gorski is called away from his night of solitary drinking to the site of a car accident that left Bertrand Barthelme, a respected solicitor, dead. When the deceased's rather attractive wife suggests that the crash may not have been an accident, Gorski looks closer into Barthelme's circumspect movements… (more)
The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet’s accomplished first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau--the small French town of Saint-Louis. Detective Gorski is called away from his night of solitary drinking to the site of a car accident that left Bertrand Barthelme, a respected solicitor, dead. When the deceased's rather attractive wife suggests that the crash may not have been an accident, Gorski looks closer into Barthelme's circumspect movements on the night of his death. His investigation leads him to various bars, hotels, and brothels in the nearby city of Strasbourg. At the same time, Barthelme's rebellious son, drunk on Jean Paul Sartre novels, is conducting an investigation of his own. Their independent, dual inquiries lead the reader down a twisted road marked by seedy back rooms, bar brawls, a moment of accidental incest, and--as we have come to expect from Burnet--copious amounts of wine.
The Accident on the A35 is a darkly humorous, subtle, and sophisticated novel that burrows into the psyches of its characters and explores the dark corners of life in a sleepy town.
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Heads ID wins, tails you lose
Having returned to the debate over Aristotelian-Thomism (A-T), “Intelligent Design” (ID) theory, and William Paley so as to answer some recent criticisms of my views on the subject (here and here), I want to devote one more post to the theme before mothballing it again for a while. ID defender Jay Richards recently edited a volume on God and Evolution. One of the essays he contributed to it (“Separating the Chaff from the Wheat”) is in part devoted to responding to me. Like Vincent Torley, Richards is a good guy who makes a serious attempt to respond to my arguments and to show that A-T and ID really are compatible after all. And like Torley, he fails miserably.
I have always been very specific about the respects in which ID conflicts with A-T philosophy and theology. It has nothing to do with Darwinism, nothing to do with whether God in some sense “designed” the universe (of course He did), and nothing to do with a rejection of probabilistic arguments per se. Rather, it has to do with (a) ID’s eschewal of immanent formal and final causes, even if only “for the sake of argument”; and (b) ID’s univocal predication of attributes both to human designers and to God. The problem with (a) is that it conflicts with the most fundamental metaphysical commitments of A-T – those which underlie the Thomistic arguments for God’s existence, the Thomistic understanding of the relationship between soul and body, and the Thomistic understanding of natural law ethics. The trouble with (b) is that it conflicts with the Thomistic doctrine of analogy and the conception of God’s nature associated with it. These are, for the Thomist, non-negotiable; and thus ID is unacceptable. It’s as simple as that.
I have found that serious defenders of ID – as opposed to uninformed “culture warrior” types who mouth off in comboxes – either explicitly or implicitly concede this incompatibility. Steve Fuller is one ID defender who does so explicitly, and advises his fellow ID defenders frankly to acknowledge that their position is theologically incompatible with Thomism. Another is my sometime co-blogger Lydia McGrew, who in the course of our many past combox exchanges over ID has allowed that ID is committed to a conception of nature incompatible with the A-T conception, and concluded “So much the worse for A-T.”
Dembski, Torley, and Richards also all acknowledge the incompatibility, even if only implicitly. We have seen before (here and here) that Dembski acknowledges that ID rejects Aristotelian formal and final causes (at least “for the sake of argument”), and that his attempts to dodge the inevitable conclusion that this puts him at odds with A-T only lead him into incoherence. We have also seen that Torley concedes that ID defenders tend to apply language to God and to human designers univocally. Dembski, in effect, says “Feser, you are wrong to say that ID is committed to (a) and (b). Except that yes, it is committed to (a).” Torley, in effect, says, “Feser, you are wrong to say that ID is committed to (a) and (b). Except that yes, it is committed to (b).”
Richards is in one respect like Dembski – he concedes that ID theory is incompatible with an Aristotelian conception of the natural world. But his way of dodging the conclusion that ID is incompatible with A-T is less incoherent than Dembski’s, though only because it is more shameless: He boldly resorts to the “No true Scotsman” fallacy. Or in Richards’ case, we might call it the “No true Thomist” fallacy. For in Richards’ view, real Thomism is not Aristotelian in the first place – he assures us that “Thomas… was not strictly an Aristotelian” and that ID’s Thomist critics are merely trying to “force Aristotelianism on him” – so that ID’s incompatibility with Aristotelianism does not put it at odds with Thomism. You heard it here first, folks.
If this strategy seems absurd, that is because it is. To be sure, there were in the twentieth century various interpreters of Aquinas who emphasized the non-Aristotelian aspects of his thought. For instance, Cornelio Fabro focused attention on the Neo-Platonic influences on Aquinas, and Etienne Gilson emphasized Aquinas’s originality. Richards has evidently been influenced by these interpreters, or at least by the literature their work spawned. But that work in no way justifies the frankly preposterous claims Richards makes about Thomism.
For one thing, that Aquinas was influenced by thinkers other than Aristotle (which of course he was) and made innovations of his own (which of course he did) simply does not entail that he was not an Aristotelian, fond though Richards is of this brazen non sequitur. For another, whether even the non-Aristotelian elements emphasized by writers like Fabro or Gilson are as significant as they claimed them to be is a matter of controversy. Yet Richards (who is not an Aquinas scholar) does not merely present his idiosyncratic position as one, highly contentious interpretation of Thomism among others; he writes matter-of-factly as if what he has to say about Aquinas were the settled wisdom. ID’s Thomist critics, it seems, simply hadn’t gotten the memo. Nor, apparently, did eminent twentieth-century Thomists like Garrigou-Lagrange, De Koninck, Wallace, Weisheipl, Ashley, and McInerny – not to mention countless Thomists of previous centuries, and those of Aquinas’s day who were suspicious of his thought precisely because of its novel Aristotelianism – all of whom labored under the delusion (as Richards sees it) that Aquinas was an Aristotelian. Ite ad Richards, gentlemen!
This would all be outrageous enough for most writers, but not enough for Richards. For not only is “Aristotelian-Thomism” bad Aquinas exegesis, in his view; it is theologically suspect, a “key danger” and “error” that Bonaventure had warned us about in Aquinas’s day and which is now rearing its ugly head again in the guise of ID’s Thomist critics. (“Heresy hunting,” anyone?)
And what exactly is this theological dynamite allegedly lurking within Aristotelianism? Why it has to do with nothing less than the “immanent teleology” insisted upon by ID’s Thomist critics, Richards tells us. For Aristotle believed that the world has always existed, and this (Richards says) is why he “didn’t feel the need to resolve the problem of where that teleology came from.” Plus he didn’t have anything like the Augustinian notion that the essences of things pre-exist in the divine intellect as the archetypes according to which God creates. By contrast, Aquinas was influenced by Neo-Platonism, and quotes Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius a lot, and accepted the doctrine of divine ideas, and was a Christian who believed the world had a beginning. Also, the demiurge of Plato’s Timaeus sounds in some respects more like the God of Genesis than Aristotle’s God does. And so on, for several pages.
And therefore… what exactly? Are we supposed to conclude from all this that Aquinas did not believe in immanent teleology? That certainly doesn’t follow, and it isn’t true either. Nor does Richards ever really say that it is, or indeed even give any actual argument at all. He just kicks up a lot of dust, insinuating that somehow or other these diverse bits of theological and philosophical trivia show that Aquinas differed from Aristotle in a way that lets ID off the hook.
Here’s the thing, though. Either Aquinas believed in immanent teleology – final causes “built into” the natural world – or he did not. And if he did, then it doesn’t really matter for the present discussion whether he also believed all sorts of other things that Aristotle didn’t, such as that even immanent final causality must ultimately be explained in terms of God’s directing activity. For if he did believe in immanent teleology, then even though he was more than an Aristotelian, he was at least an Aristotelian, and that is enough (by Richards’ own tacit admission) to put him at odds with ID.
That he did believe in it, and that he was an Aristotelian, there can be no serious doubt whatsoever. There is, after all, a reason why Aquinas called Aristotle – not Plato, not Plotinus, not Boethius – “The Philosopher.” There is a reason why he wrote many lengthy commentaries on the works of Aristotle, specifically, and never devoted as much attention to the works of Plato or any Neo-Platonic thinker. There is a reason why the notions of act and potency, form and matter, final cause, and the rest of the Aristotelian apparatus absolutely permeate Aquinas’s writings. Just try to defend Aquinas’s Five Ways, or his conception of the relationship between soul and body, or his account of natural law, without appealing to them. It can’t be done. Certainly, these notions are – as I have shown at length elsewhere – absolutely central to the way Aquinas himself defends the positions in question. The reason Aquinas seems to be such an Aristotelian, and the reason he has always been regarded as an Aristotelian, is that he was an Aristotelian. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and not a seven-centuries-old “misinterpretation” waiting to be cleared up by a guy at the Discovery Institute.
Nor can the particular Aristotelian bits that ID theorists especially dislike be plucked out while leaving the rest intact. Remove immanent final causality from the Thomistic picture of nature and the act/potency distinction goes with it, since a potency is always a potency for some actuality, “directed to” it as toward a final cause. And with the act/potency distinction goes everything else (again, consult Aquinas to see just how thoroughly this distinction underlies the entire Thomistic system). That is the reason why twentieth-century Thomists made the affirmation of the doctrine of act and potency the first of the famous “Twenty-Four Thomistic Theses,” and why Pope Pius XI wrote:
The metaphysical philosophy of St. Thomas, although exposed to this day to the bitter onslaughts of prejudiced critics, yet still retains, like gold which no acid can dissolve, its full force and splendor unimpaired. Our Predecessor [St. Pius X] therefore rightly observed: "To deviate from Aquinas, in metaphysics especially, is to run grave risk.” (emphasis added)
You can insist that Aquinas’s metaphysics sometimes goes beyond anything Aristotle himself says. (And it does, though it always builds on an Aristotelian foundation, and even the Neo-Platonic bits are secondary and Aristotelianized – see e.g. my discussion of the Fourth Way in Aquinas.) You can reject that metaphysics altogether. But to pretend that Thomism can survive such a rejection, that a nod to some vague “spirit of Thomas Aquinas” (Richards’ expression) suffices to make one a Thomist, doesn’t pass the laugh test.
The woolliness of Richards’ general “Aquinas as non-Aristotelian” theme is evident too in his various subsidiary insinuations – and insinuations is all they ever are, for he never gets up to pulling an actual argument out of all the name-dropping and miniature lessons in the history of ideas. For instance, Richards seems to think it a terribly telling point that Aquinas disagreed with Aristotle about the eternity of the world. Aristotle thought the world has always existed, and that God has merely kept it moving eternally rather than created it out of nothing; Aquinas, as a Christian, believes that it had a beginning, and that God caused this beginning. Somehow or other this shows, in Richards’ view, that Aquinas couldn’t have shared Aristotle’s view of immanent teleology, but instead went in for something closer to the extrinsically imposed teleology of the artisan god of Plato’s Timaeus. Except that Richards is also careful to say that Aquinas doesn’t really adopt Plato’s view either. His is rather a middle ground position that affirms teleology or final causality that is “both intrinsic, in one sense, but ultimately extrinsic, in another sense.” And this is all supposed to be absolutely devastating for us Thomist critics of ID.
How? That, we are never told, nor is it by any means easy to reconstruct an argument on Richards’ behalf. Certainly it is not news to any A-T philosopher that Aquinas’s position on teleology is a middle ground between Aristotle’s and Plato’s; that is something I have emphasized myself many times – for instance, in my treatment of the Fifth Way in Aquinas (which Richards has told me he’s read!), and in my Philosophia Christi article “Teleology: A Shopper’s Guide.” And if Richards actually agrees with me that Aquinas does believe in immanent teleology (even if Aquinas also, unlike Aristotle, thinks that immanent teleology must itself be explained in terms of God’s ordering action), then he has effectively conceded the main point between us.
For another thing, though Aquinas does indeed believe the world had a beginning, he rather famously denies both that this can be proved philosophically and that it has anything to do with proving God’s existence. Rather, he concedes for the sake of argument that the world had no beginning and proceeds to offer his five proofs of God’s existence on that basis (precisely, some commentators have suggested, out of an excessive respect for Aristotle). These proofs include the Fifth Way – the proof from final causes or teleology. And that means that the way the existence of teleology in nature leads us to the existence of God has, in Aquinas’s view, nothing to do with whether the world had a beginning. So why, given all that, does Richards think that Aquinas believed these issues were linked? Here Richards does not even insinuate an answer, much less argue for one.
Though it is a lesser offense, it is worth noting that Richards misrepresents my own views no less than he does Aquinas’s. For instance, in response to my charge that ID theory is mechanistic, Richards waxes logorrhetic on the great many senses attached historically to the term “mechanism.” But he could have spared his readers the history lesson – and the false insinuation that I have failed to use language precisely – because I have always been very clear that what I mean by a “mechanistic” view of nature is, specifically, any view which rejects immanent formal and final causes, even if only in a “for the sake of argument” manner.
Richards also insists, as if he were contradicting some view I hold, that it is “simply not true” that Newton, Boyle, and other early modern philosophers eschewed final causes. But what I have actually said is that these thinkers eschewed immanent final causes, while acknowledging that they affirm extrinsic final causes (i.e. final causes or teleology imposed on the world from outside).
Richards also badly misrepresents my view of the nature of artifacts, absurdly attributing to me a kind of “reductionism.” For I hold, he claims – ripping some words of mine out of context – that an artifact like a mousetrap (for example) “is ‘nothing but’ a collection of wood and metal parts.” And he has no trouble showing that this view is absurd, since in addition to the wood and metal there is also of course “a function imposed on them by an agent.” But what I actually said is that “apart from human interests, the object is ‘nothing but’ a collection of wood and metal parts.” The words Richards has deleted obviously change the meaning entirely. And anyone who bothers to read the post of mine that Richards is replying to – as, needless to say, most readers of God and Evolution will not – will see that what I actually claim is that an artifact like a mousetrap is made up of its material parts plus a function imposed on them from outside by a human designer. In other words, my actual view of artifacts is the very one Richards himself takes, and the contrary of the view he attributes to me. (Where Richards and I differ is in taking artifacts to differ essentially from natural objects, which have their functions intrinsically. And here it is Richards, not me, who is closer to reductionism, since in treating natural objects as if they were artifacts he implicitly denies their immanent teleology and organic unity.)
Finally, and again by taking my words out of context, Richards gives the impression that I am a kind of Aristotle worshipper who subordinates Christianity to pagan philosophy:
Feser… has written [in The Last Superstition]: “Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought… this abandonment has contributed to the civilizational crisis through which the West has been living for several centuries…” Notice he does not say the abandonment of God or the doctrine of creation or the truths of the Nicene Creed, but the abandonment of Aristotelianism…
So, Aristotle über alles, right? Well, no, actually. For what does the original passage look like without Richards’ ellipses? Like this:
Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought. More than any other intellectual factor – there are other, non-intellectual factors too, of course, and some are more important – this abandonment has contributed to the civilizational crisis through which the West has been living for several centuries, and which has accelerated massively in the last century or so. It is implicated in the disintegration of confidence in the rational justifiability of morality and religious belief… (emphasis altered from the original)
Richards’ selective quotation gives the impression that I regard Aristotelianism and Aristotelianism alone as the sine qua non of the health of Western civilization. But as the full passage makes clear, I was talking specifically about the condition of “Western thought,” of the specifically “intellectual” factors behind the decline of Western civilization, while explicitly acknowledging that there were “other… more important” factors too, and that even the intellectual ones are significant in part precisely because of their effects on the status of “morality and religious belief,” including the theological doctrines cited by Richards. Far from treating Aristotelianism as an end in itself, I was rather emphasizing its importance as an intellectual bulwark against the erosion of sound morality and sound theology – just as Pius X and Pius XI emphasized the role of Thomistic metaphysics (which incorporates and expands upon Aristotelian metaphysics) in serving as such a bulwark.
Richards’ arbitrary redefinition of “Thomism” and his other exercises in sleight of hand are of a piece with the frequently slippery quality of ID argumentation. To secularists, ID defenders insist that ID has nothing to do with natural theology in general or Paley’s design argument in particular, but is merely a new scientific procedure for detecting signs of intelligence. To religious believers, they say that ID shows that any intelligent being existing within the material world would itself have to be explained by reference to an intelligence outside the natural order, so that “God’s design is… accessible to scientific inquiry” (as Dembski has put it). To opponents of evolution, they say that ID provides a devastating scientific critique of Darwinism. To evolutionists, they say that ID is compatible with evolution, since that might be the means by which the designer creates. In one breath, Dembski acknowledges that ID rejects Aristotle’s distinction between natural substances and artifacts and his related conception of teleology as immanent to the natural world. In another, he insists that ID is perfectly compatible with the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of nature. One moment ID defenders are telling us that ID constitutes a “new science,” a “revolutionary” new program for biological research. The next, they are telling us it has much more modest ambitions, amounting to little more than a reductio ad absurdum of certain naturalistic and Darwinian premises. Sometimes ID is identified with some specific, novel methodology or conceptual framework, such as Dembski’s theory of “complex specified information.” At other times, any old thing is said to count as ID as long as it affirms “design” of some sort or other.
In short, ID is whatever the ID defender needs it to be at the moment, given his audience and the imperative to avoid offending potential allies or neutral third parties. “Heads I win, tails you lose!” – and then off to confront the next opponent, hopefully before the last one (or at least the audience watching the debate) has seen through the flimflam. As I have always acknowledged, this or that specific point made by this or that individual ID theorist may well have value. But as a movement, as a would-be school of thought, ID is a complete mess, with no coherent intellectual core to unite its defenders’ various ad hoc pronouncements. It is, too often, politics rather than science, and rhetoric rather than philosophy. Plato, whom Richards prefers to Aristotle, had a name for that sort of thing.
Posted by Edward Feser at 10:52 PM
Crude March 25, 2011 at 12:26 AM
I'll pass on defending ID for the moment, and simply ask this. What would your response be to someone who said to you, "This (naturally occurring biological thing) looks designed to me. It seems like something indicative of a mind." No irreducible complexity argument, no complexity filter. Just someone's hunch or observation.
Would you agree with them conditionally but frame it in the Fifth Way? Disagree? Does it depend on the 'thing' in question?
Damien S March 25, 2011 at 5:57 AM
Outstanding riposte Ed. Your case seems pretty tight to me.
Untenured March 25, 2011 at 7:24 AM
The more I read about these I.D. types, the more their style of argumentation looks like that of the dedicated naturalist. They have a conclusion that they are determined to reach, and their first goal is to say whatever they think they need to say in order to "win". Those quotes with the ellipses removed are just down right dishonest- the kind of maneuver one normally expects only from Catholic bashing fundamentalists.
Mark Duch March 25, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Dr. Feser -
I've made it "Facebook-official." You've convinced me. I'm an Aristotelian-Thomist. Your books are incredibly coherent and fair, your blog fearless, and as Damien put it, your case "pretty tight."
I am in your debt.
Mark Duch
Michael Sullivan March 25, 2011 at 8:44 AM
If being an Aristotelian means that you hold pretty much everything Aristotle says, then neither Aquinas nor any other scholastic was an Aristotelian. But if being an Aristotelian means that you accept the broad frameworks of his approach to most philosophical issues, use his vocabulary, employ his concepts and distinctions, start with and engage with his positions, and modify or reject those positions only after careful consideration and argument, then both Aquinas and every scholastic writer after say c.1250 was an Aristotelian. Even Aristotle-suspecters like Bonaventure and avowed Aristotle-haters like Olivi were so Aristotelian that your average 20th-century Analytic philosopher would be pretty hard put to tell the difference between their kind of Aristotelianism and Aquinas'. Basic Aristotelian concepts like the ten categories or the potency/act distinction are just built into the substructure of all scholastic thought. To try to carefully remove the Aristotle from the Thomistic edifice, like Jenga pieces, so that you can turn Thomas into either a proto-Wittgenstein or proto-von Balthasar or whatever, is both impossible and ludicrously absurd.
However, Dr Feser, I'm not sure this is quite fair:
There is, after all, a reason why Aquinas called Aristotle – not Plato, not Plotinus, not Boethius – “The Philosopher.” There is a reason why he wrote many lengthy commentaries on the works of Aristotle, specifically, and never devoted as much attention to the works of Plato or any Neo-Platonic thinker.
After all one reason that Aquinas wrote no commentaries on Plato or Plotinus is that their works weren't available in Latin (except for Meno and Timaeus) and Aquinas never had the chance to read them. He did write commentaries on much of the neoplatonic literature he had access to. There's every reason to think he would have done so for Plato and Plotinus if he got the chance. It's also fair to note that once P. and P. became available in Latin, much western thought made a decided shift in a Platonic direction, just as it shifted in an Aristotelian direction soon after Aristotle became available.
BenYachov March 25, 2011 at 8:59 AM
ID is hopeless. Sure you can try to claim some complexity in nature seems to imply a designer that is unequivocally compared to a natural human or superhuman artificer.
But it could never be exclusively seen as the True God of Abraham since it could also be aliens or Q from Star Trek.
Alyosha March 25, 2011 at 9:02 AM
Some ID proponents' insistence on linking ID to Thomism reflect on their admiration to Thomism that they wish to tag ID along with the grand tradition of Thomism.
However, why do they need to invoke Aquinas? They insist pretty much that ID is scientific concept and it is pretty clear that by the claim of scientific nature of ID it is rooted in pretty much what modern science roots itself in, mainly mechanistic view of nature. Of course one way to tag ID to Thomism is to throw away the mechanistic conception and adopt Aristotle's realism as foundation of science which I think you propose in TLS.
I think what is more interesting is that whether it is possible to craft a case against Darwinism from A-T metaphysics. My reading of your books (TLS and Aquinas) does not seem to show your position on evolution except that it is irrelevant to the case of God's existence or in fact in may support it. Does it mean you are A-T Darwinist or at least theistic evolutionist?
I also have one more question. Your books focus on natural theology and I infer from that it is possible to be A-T Jews, A-T Muslim (no matter how weird this sound) and of course also A-T Christian (A-T Protestant anyone)? The question is: why are you the later?
OTOH the God of the 5 ways can only be the Classical Theist God who I love with all my heart.
Down with Mechanistic Philosophy!
Down with Theistic Personalism!
Down with the denial of immanent telology!
Down with empiricism alone and the sole means of natural knowledge!
Long live St. thomas Aquinas Doctor of the Catholic Faith by the Grace of Christ Almighty!
I used to be sympathetic to the ID cause because I saw them as a group of very dedicated fellows attacking naturalistic superstition. These days, not so much. Sometimes they strike me as plain dishonest.
They need to learn some Thomas.
Ben Yachov, your enthusiasm scares me.
Bilbo March 25, 2011 at 1:18 PM
I guess I fall under the category of "cultural warrior in the combox."
I guess I don't understand the Thomist objection to ID. Given that natural objects have immanent final causality, is it supposed to automatically follow that they will eventually produce living organisms? And if there is no evidence that they would eventually produce living organisms, are we to believe that they will, despite the lack of evidence?
Could there be a middle view of immanent teleology? For example, could there be a view that the immanent teleology of the initial moment of creation (the Big Bang) was to produce the right kind of natural objects that would then be formed into living organisms through additional divine direction?
As to the problem of univocality: Are Thomists saying that God could not manipulate matter? Or are they saying that God could not manipulate matter the way we do, by applying physical force to it?
If the former, then I can see a potential conflict with ID. But if the second, then I don't see why there needs to be a conflict.
GringoRoyale March 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM
Bilbo....
don't think I've ever seen you here before.
See your not over at TT anymore.
Hi GR, I just drop in to war culturally in the combox, now and then, if it has to do with ID.
Leo March 26, 2011 at 1:48 AM
@Bilbo:
I guess I don't understand the Thomist objection to ID.
ID is at variance with A-T because the former regards biological teleology as artificially and externally imposed, whereas the latter regards it as immanent and natural.
Are Thomists saying that God could not manipulate matter?
Yes: God creates by the conjoining of essence and existence, not by the manipulation of matter.
Dianelos Georgoudis March 26, 2011 at 4:16 AM
I think one must distinguish between ID and its defenders, for whether one likes or doesn’t like the latter is irrelevant. After all some really bad characters defend Christianity too. Or perhaps one should distinguish the idea of ID from the political movement of ID. What interests me here are the merits of ID as an idea.
As far I can see there is a weak and a strong version of ID. The weak version is this: It is almost certain that an intelligent species (us) has evolved in the universe by means of natural evolution. It is true that natural evolution can be interpreted naturalistically, i.e. as being a mechanistic, purposeless, undirected process. Let call that later thesis “naturalistic natural evolution” (or NNE for short). So what is the probability that given the initial conditions of the universe some intelligent species would evolve by NNE? There is nothing in science that so much as suggests what that probability is, and that therefore the claim that this probability is high, or at least not low, is *not* based on the science. In other words the weak ID thesis is that NNE is not warranted by the actual state of the science. Therefore, there is nothing in the science that so much as suggests that intelligent life is the result of a naturalistic process instead of the realization of a design, despite New Atheists’ loud claims to the contrary.
The strong ID thesis (SID for short) is that the probability of NNE is low.
These are two related but distinct ideas. Both are scientific theses, for the first makes a claim about the actual state of science, and the second makes a claim about the value of a probability defined entirely in scientific terms.
I think that the weak ID thesis is true as a matter of observational fact. Indeed, to my knowledge at least, no scientist has ever computed the value of the relevant probability, even if only as a gross approximation.
SID is much tougher, for here it is the burden of ID theorists to prove, based exclusively on scientific principles, that the probability of NNE is low. If they succeed they will demonstrate scientifically that it is improbable that natural evolution is a dumb mechanistic process, and thus that naturalism is probably false. Thus, much is at play here. So now, have ID theorists proven SID? In my judgment they haven’t, and are indeed very far from it. At most they have raised some doubts based on ideas such as irreducible complexity. But, first, to challenge believers in NNE to solve an apparent problem does not amount to an argument for SID. And, secondly, some NNErs have risen to the challenge and have shown that suggested cases of irreducible complexity are spurious, thus actually producing some at least weak evidence for NNE and against SID.
Now, should science one day compute the relevant probability it would decide both NNE and SID. Unfortunately, given the nature of quantum mechanics, it may well be the case that the computation of that probability is intractable. But perhaps science can demonstrate that it is scientifically intractable, thus moving both NNE and SID outside of the scientific discourse, which would probably be a good thing.
You write: “God creates by the conjoining of essence and existence, not by the manipulation of matter.”
Can you please clarify this in the context of natural evolution? Does A-T say that matter is such that it will spontaneously evolve the human species without any directing force by God?
My interest in A-T is a bit like a Jack Chick conversion. That is to say, Jack Chick is so outrageous that it only piques interest in Catholicism for a fair-minded reader. Likewise, a certain doctor and frequent commentor at W4 is what I'd call my negative moral compass--whatever direction he points, go the other direction. So when he started laying into A-T, naturally I had to order Aquinas for Beginners. :)
Anxious Inquirer March 26, 2011 at 7:27 AM
Ed:
Re your a) and b):
a) Why can't you phrase ID arguments as reductio ad absurdums? i.e. "Okay, let's pretend there is no immanent teleology; even so, given your own empiricist principles, you should admit that biological complexity is designed." What is wrong with this? You refute his naturalism and then he becomes more open to AT, right?
b) Why is ID committed to this? And even if it is, the argument can again still be phrased as a reductio of naturalism - a naturalist might not hold that if there is a God, univocal prediction of human design attributes is inappropriate.
Brandon March 26, 2011 at 8:17 AM
Danielos asked Leo:
Since God is the cause of existence, nothing is done without God; and since He is the ultimate final cause, nothing happens without His direction in at least some way. And A-T leaves the issue open: whether or not this or that can spontaneously evolve depends entirely on the natures of the things involved. Except for noncontradiction, there's no a priori constraint on what kinds of natures God can create, and thus in general one can only find out what, precisely, the natural world can do by looking and seeing. If, however, you mean by 'directing force' an external imposition of some kind, then lots and lots of things happen without such directing force: divine omnipotence is not so limited in its options as always to require it.
Anxious Inquirer,
But a reductio, properly speaking, needs to share all of its principles with what one intends to reduce to absurdity, or the reductio really is a reductio of a completely different position. Do naturalists really accept the theories of irreducible complexity, specified complexity, and so forth, on which ID inferences build? Further, a reductio doesn't commit one to anything positive: even at best assessment, one would have to say that ID doesn't prove any of the claims it makes (i.e., it doesn't show that anything is designed or requires a designer); it just would prove at most the falsehood of one position (by showing that it both denied and implied a designer). This is a point Ed makes elsewhere: all that would follow is that a naturalist would have to stop committing to the things that led to the absurdity, either by specifically rejecting the relevant claims, or being mysterian or else suspending judgment about the topics the claims are about; and some naturalists, like McGinn or Nagel or Chomsky, are in that vicinity already.
Daniel Smith March 26, 2011 at 9:55 AM
Dr. Feser: "what I actually claim is that an artifact like a mousetrap is made up of its material parts plus a function imposed on them from outside by a human designer."
I've been chasing you around from thread to thread trying, with no luck, to get you to comment on Aquinas' statement regarding active/passive potential in pre-existing matter and the distinction re: Life.
It appears to me that Aquinas contrasts the active potential of matter to be formed into something else - an artifact like a mousetrap - to the passive potential of matter to be formed into life - something he says only God can do.
Here's the quote:
"An effect may be said to pre-exist in the causal virtues of creatures, in two ways. First, both in active and in passive potentiality, so that not only can it be produced out of pre-existing matter, but also that some pre-existing creature can produce it. Secondly, in passive potentiality only; that is, that out of pre-existing matter it can be produced by God. In this sense, according to Augustine, the human body pre-existed in the previous work in their causal virtues."
Now, there is no denying that Aquinas is talking about artifacts here when he says "not only can it be produced out of pre-existing matter, but also that some pre-existing creature can produce it", but he seems to also be saying that there is some type of artifact (Life) that only God can produce. When he says "Secondly, in passive potentiality only; that is, that out of pre-existing matter it can be produced by God", isn't he talking about life as an artifact?
Now, I know that this argument is about the human body, but it would seem in principle to apply to all of life. It would seem, (as Bilbo pointed out in another thread), that Life is a property that only God can add to matter. In this sense, Life IS an artifact - because the elements that constitute life do not have the active potential to become life on their own, it must be imposed on them from outside, and this can only be done by God.
It would seem also that this is a possible "middle ground" where ID and Thomism could come together.
So, Dr. Feser, could you PLEASE comment on what you think Thomas meant when he distinguished between active and passive potential and how that applies to the formation of life from pre-existing matter?
Bilbo March 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Leo: "ID is at variance with A-T because the former regards biological teleology as artificially and externally imposed, whereas the latter regards it as immanent and natural."
I'm afraid that doesn't clear up my confusion. Is it possible that God created the parts so that their final cause to be parts of a living organism, but that in order for this to happen someone must put the parts together in exactly the right order? Does this mean that it is not immanent and natural? If not, why?
"Yes: God creates by the conjoining of essence and existence, not by the manipulation of matter."
But if the essence of living organisms is not only the properties of their parts, but the right configuration of their parts, it seems that there would need to be a manipulation of matter somewhere, by somebody.
And this seems to preclude any sort of empirical study. We are saying at the outset, "However life originated, it was not by the purposeful arrangement of its parts." But what if it was?
Anxious Inquirer March 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM
"This is a point Ed makes elsewhere: all that would follow is that a naturalist would have to stop committing to the things that led to the absurdity, either by specifically rejecting the relevant claims, or being mysterian or else suspending judgment about the topics the claims are about"
Sure, but this is still progress. That you are forced to make such moves in order to hold on to naturalism is a cost of believing in it. You smoke the naturalists out of their house and they will flee elsewhere: some to ID, some to AT. So Thomists shouldn't complain. The IDists are helping your cause.
21th Century Scholastic March 26, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Bilbo,
the "thomistic objection to ID" has nothing to do with the origins of life (many thomists, after all, believe that life has been directly created by God - for various reasons). It has to do with the ID conception of nature.
ID proponents assume a world that is able to "carry on" all by itself (without some entity sustaining it into existence), and a God that intervenes "from outside" to create life and everything. Under a teleological view of nature, this makes no sense; the conception of divine action is dramatically different (the famous "blacksmith vs. minstrel" metaphor).
To clarify further: IDers infer a designer from "specified complexity" in nature, that is, features of the natural world (as some living organisms, the flagellum etc.) too complex to have been "created by chance". This, too, makes no sense to an A-T. Given that (as dr. Feser shows in Aquinas, pp. 113-114) even chance events presuppose causal regularities, there are no "undirected" events or organisms possibly "arising by chance" without direction from God.
Again, this doesn't mean that evolution is true. It only shows that the "argument from design" isn't a good proof of the existence of God, and presupposes a seriously wrong conception of nature.
Tony March 26, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Bilbo: Are Thomists saying that God could not manipulate matter?
Leo: Yes: God creates by the conjoining of essence and existence, not by the manipulation of matter.
Heavens, Leo, are you saying that God cannot move natural bodily objects through a purely supernatural imposition? The He cannot do miracles? That's exactly what it sounds like, unfortunately.
While it is true that God creates by granting an essence "to exist", it is not like He grabs some existence with His left hand, and some essence in his right, and mashes the two together. Neither the one nor the other "is" before He acts, and both are said of the thing after He acts. Further, it is not like once He made the thing, He is done: in order for the thing to go on existing, God must go on willing that this "thing," of which is predicated both essence and existence, continue to exist.
But He does this much even for the existence of angels. For natural beings, i.e. beings with bodies, God is not only responsible for willing that this essence have existence, but He wills it with respect to some specified matter: when its essence informs some matter, that matter is specified as the body, and that essence begins to exist really.
The question to ask is not whether God can manipulate matter (of course He can), it is whether when He creates (say) a living being, He does so by a special act over and above the natural material and immanent formal and final causes of the prior material beings that immediately precede the new being. Catholic theology answers in the positive for MAN: for each man that exists, he exists not only because of the coming together of suitable material, and not only because of a man and a woman acting to generate a new being with human nature, but God's direct action to bring into being an immortal soul - a supernatural act as such. But other than for man, theology is quiet.
My sense of Thomist philosophy is that outside of man, God's special agency is not needed in the coming to be of any living being from its parents, but would be needed in the coming to be of any living being from something of a different nature.
Brandon March 26, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Only in the same sense that everyone -- including naturalists attacking principles of ID with which Thomists disagree -- are "helping the cause". This is not really 'helping'; it's just an ordinary feature of any dialectical reasoning. By the same reasoning we should count naturalist attacks on ID as helping Thomism because, once the IDists are smoked out, some of them will flee to naturalism and some to Aristotelianism.
Also, even this is the result only at the most optimistic assessment: that is, only if we treat ID purely as a reductio (and I've already noted that it's not obvious how to do so, since what, specifically, is it a reductio of, given that it would have to share all its basic principles with that position?) and not as making any positive claims about the world. But what ID theorists go around saying that, for all they know, things with specified complexity are not designed, it's just that naturalists are commited to saying they are?
Daniel, you say,
What in the world from the actual text leads you to think that any of this has anything to do with treating life as an artifact? Are you assuming that every effect is an artifact? That seems manifestly false: fulgurite is formed out of pre-existing matter (sand) by a pre-existing creature (lightning) but that hardly means that fulgurite is an artifact.
What Aquinas is saying is that some effects in nature are due to the natural capacity for the effect being activated by some already active created cause; and other effects are due to the natural capacity for the effect being activated by God. Artifacts aren't even in view here: what Aquinas is doing is resolving an apparent contradiction in Augustine. Augustine says that human bodies were created by God implanting the causal ability to become the human body in nature, which afterward did become the human body, but this has to be consistent with God's forming the human body out of earth. So Aquinas says both are true: God put the ability to become the human body in the earth but activated this ability Himself.
Anxious Inquirer March 26, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Brandon,
This is the layout as I see it.
The naturalist says this:
These empiricist/scientific principles (E) are true, an from them we can infer naturalism (N).
Given that, there are two ways of deploying ID.
The more common: E is true, but in fact you should infer a designer (D) from E.
The reductio: Even if E is true (and I'm not saying it is, mind you) then it nevertheless follows that D.
The Thomist can claim that the best account of D is the God of the AT tradition.
Then his argument against the naturalist is as follows:
1. Either E or AT
2. If AT, then ATGod
3. If E, then D
4. If D, then ATGod
5. ATGod.
This also enables me to address your other worry, that nat. attacks on ID help AT (ie. attacks on (3)). It wouldn't because then AT would lose converts coming via (4). (If ATGod, then AT.)
Anxious Inquirer, you say:
But it could very well gain it coming from elsewhere; after all, not everyone comes to agree with Aristotelian thought by following this one very specific line of thought that you've laid out. Naturalist attacks on ID may very well lead IDists who are beginning to be uneasy about the matter to look into more sophisticated accounts of final causes, for instance.
The point, of course, is not that naturalism does help this way (although the line I mention above is one I've known people to follow), but that helping this way is purely incidental to the position involved: it depends on where people are, what their dispositions are, and the like, at least as much as it depends on the objections being raised.
If we take ID in a full positive sense (involving specific theories of specified complexity, etc.), it makes a very implausible via media; the only thing it has in common with Thomism is the position that something or other in the natural world is caused in some way or another by some intelligence or another. If we take it as merely a reductio of naturalism, assuming that it can be taken so, it's not the right sort of argument to serve as a genuine via media in the first place -- at best it serves the function of any and every other argument, namely, as an occasion of thought. This is a genuine value, and it's a genuine value that a Thomist (or any scholastic) would recognize: it's an objectio in need of a reply or a sed contra in need of a clarification. But any non-Thomist argument you can name will end up as one of those two.
Brian March 26, 2011 at 10:52 PM
This might be a Catholic-specific question, but I might as well ask it since it relates to evolution.
Aren't Catholics bound to believe Original Holiness - i.e., the state of affairs before the Fall in which (1) man and nature are in harmony (2) neither death nor decay afflict nature or man. I can pull quotes out of the Catechism if need be, but these two propositions obviously conflict with natural history. How could God, the source of all life, be the author of death? Seems to me that this is the logic of Original Holiness. So isn't this a pretty big problem for Catholics/thomists?
Aren't Catholics bound to believe Original Holiness - i.e., the state of affairs before the Fall in which (1) man and nature are in harmony (2) neither death nor decay afflict nature or man.
As far as I know, the CCC states that original holiness was the state of man originally. Not a state of nature or a state in relation to nature. I also don't think it's claimed in the CCC that there was no death in nature.
But I could have missed something, so I could use those refs.
Brian March 27, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Ok, here is the first paragraph, I think, on Original Justice. It describes the harmony between man and nature.
376 By the radiance of this grace all dimensions of man's life were confirmed. As long as he remained in the divine intimacy, man would not have to suffer or die. The inner harmony of the human person, the harmony between man and woman, and finally the harmony between the first couple and all creation, comprised the state called "original justice".
The following paragraph describes how death and decay entered nature, not just man, through the Fall.
400 The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay". Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground", for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.
There are probably more paragraphs, but these are the ones that stood out to me. Altogether aside from this teaching, how could God, the source of life, be the author of death, which is what we see in natural history before the Fall?
Finally, there are a handful of Scripture verses which support Original Justice that Catholic evolutionists will have to grapple with, and you guys should be careful about contradicting them or abstracting them. The state of Original Justice is a central strand running throughout the Bible, and unraveling that strand will affect the whole picture. Not to mention, as Catholics, we don't want to contradict Scripture in the first place.
Anyway, I am hoping to find a good enough resolution that is in line with Catholic teaching and respects the Bible. Of course, all of this may just be a misunderstanding.
Brandon: "What in the world from the actual text leads you to think that any of this has anything to do with treating life as an artifact? Are you assuming that every effect is an artifact? That seems manifestly false: fulgurite is formed out of pre-existing matter (sand) by a pre-existing creature (lightning) but that hardly means that fulgurite is an artifact."
Perhaps my error is that I assumed that by the word "creature" Aquinas was referring to man (or angels.) I did not think of it referring to any created thing (like lightning.)
So, from that assumption, I believed Aquinas was referring to man-made objects vs God-made objects.
"what Aquinas is doing is resolving an apparent contradiction in Augustine. Augustine says that human bodies were created by God implanting the causal ability to become the human body in nature, which afterward did become the human body, but this has to be consistent with God's forming the human body out of earth. So Aquinas says both are true: God put the ability to become the human body in the earth but activated this ability Himself."
Thank you for that clarification.
Let me ask you Brandon, do you believe that this active/passive potential distinction applies to all of life - or just to the human body?
Brian: "how could God, the source of life, be the author of death"
If I may, God is not the author of death - Man is.
God is, as you say, the source of life.
Man rejected that source.
Hence - death.
The answer to the "problem of evil" will always be some form of the above.
Hi, Daniel,
If I understand Aquinas's point properly, the distinction applies to every material thing; it's basically the claim that, for every material thing that comes to be, there is a pre-existing material cause, and there is also a pre-existing efficient cause adequate to making it exist. Where the human body comes in is that it is a natural thing that, because of its particular relationship with the rational soul, Aquinas holds that it falls on a different side of the distinction than most other things -- for almost all material things, the material pre-exists and the power to make it exist also pre-exists in creatures, but for some things, no creaturely power will be an adequate cause, so the only adequate pre-existing cause to activate the potential of the matter is God. In the case of the human body it would be because its form is incorruptible and therefore can't be caused to exist as a genuinely human body (as opposed to just a body that looks human) by any creaturely power. The slime of the earth from which the human body comes was created with the potential to be transformed into the human body, but the only cause capable of activating this potential was God, because every human soul is on Aquinas's view directly created.
Daniel, of course I want to believe that, but does that not contradict with natural history? There was death for billions of years before man entered the picture.
I'm not quite sure what your question about original justice is. Original justice is a special grace: it's not natural in anything like our ordinary sense of the word. Aquinas, for instance, is very clear that his view is that everything material by nature dies (and that this is good simply considered on its own because the corruption of one thing allows for the generation of other things); original justice was a special gift that prevented death, not an integral part of nature. Indeed, Aquinas goes so far as to say that it is simply unreasonable to think that animals with teeth and claws didn't use them to kill prey. What he did think happened was that man and woman had special graces as lord and lady of all creation: they were in harmony with the natural world, and the natural world with them, because they had a divinely backed authority over the world -- it conformed itself to their will, not because of nature but because of divinely given grace. I don't see anything in the CCC that is inconsistent with this (although I think the CCC is also clearly consistent with other views than Aquinas's).
In any case I don't see why you think evolutionary theory would have any relevance one way or another to the question of original justice.
Brandon: "If I understand Aquinas's point properly, the distinction applies to every material thing"
So, if I'm reading you correctly, "passive potential only" just applies to the human body and not to the origin of life?
IOW, the elements of the earth have (in your view) the active potential to become life but not the active potential to become human?
IOW, (again) the earth can produce life but only God can produce man?
Brian "Daniel, of course I want to believe that, but does that not contradict with natural history? There was death for billions of years before man entered the picture."
Yes, I see your dilemma. Original Justice only makes sense if the biblical creation account is true.
If the biblical creation account is not true, and death was here for billions of years before the fall, then God introduced death and decay into creation with no seeming justification.
Mr. Green March 27, 2011 at 10:00 AM
21th Century Scholastic: IDers infer a designer from "specified complexity" in nature, that is, features of the natural world (as some living organisms, the flagellum etc.) too complex to have been "created by chance". This, too, makes no sense to an A-T. Given that even chance events presuppose causal regularities, there are no "undirected" events or organisms possibly "arising by chance" without direction from God.
Does this objection to ID centre on its trying to separate teleological stuff (life) from non-teleological? To which the Thomist objects that there is no "non-telelogical", which not only gets you a better argument for God (via the Fifth Way), but ID is hopelessly muddled because it's looking for a distinction that doesn't exist (just in the opposite way from how materialists think it doesn't exist).
I never thought of it quite that starkly before because it misses the point of ID. Yes, we have to work around the misapplication of "teleology", but there obviously is a distinction to be made (and it does seem to apply to life). Of course God directs everything down to the last detail. But the pattern made by falling raindrops is still "random" — that is, in scientific terms, the pattern is not correlated to whatever it is we're considering (e.g. Hamlet). Obviously where each raindrop falls is entirely caused (such as by the position and density of clouds, etc., etc.) and entirely foreknown by God and under His control. But if you see a phrase from Hamlet spelled out in waterdrops on your front porch, you are not going to conclude the water was raindrops.
You could say the waterdrops are a message from God. But you wouldn't. Nor, when every time I shuffle the cards, I get dealt four aces, will you respond that gee, God works in mysterious ways. Likewise, if the development of life is supposed to be uncorrelated to the laws of physics (in a certain way), and yet the evidence indicates that life developed in a way that beat the odds time and again, then the rational thing to conclude is that there is something going on — some correlation or piece of the puzzle that has been missed.
21th: "ID proponents assume a world that is able to "carry on" all by itself (without some entity sustaining it into existence),"
This is not true for most ID proponents, who are Christians and believe that God must continually sustain the world in existence.
"and a God that intervenes "from outside" to create life and everything."
ID proponents believe that specific events must have happened at specific times in the universe, in order for life to come into existence, and that this is best accounted for by a directing intelligence. I'll let you decide whether God needed to intervene "from outside" in order for this to happen.
"Under a teleological view of nature, this makes no sense; the conception of divine action is dramatically different (the famous "blacksmith vs. minstrel" metaphor)."
I haven't heard this metaphor before, so it may help us understand our differences. Could you tell me what it is, please?
machinephilosophy March 27, 2011 at 12:01 PM
A *very* interesting article relevant to this issue and Ed's take:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/03/what_intelligent_design_offers045251.html
21th Century Scholastic March 27, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Brian: this, of course, assumes that the "findings" of modern geology are "findings" and not mere interpretations of the evidence (that is, wrong interpretations).
Anyway, the fall could be retroactive, as Dr. William Dembski theorizes in "The End of Christianity".
Bilbo, even for the christian proponents of ID, divine conservation takes at most a marginal role. A mechanistic world, in fact, has no need of being "sustained" into being; that's why most mechanists were deists.
As for the question of divine action: i think it was Peter Geach who said that God is not like a blacksmith which makes a shoe (where the shoe can continue to exist apart from his maker) but like a "minstrel" playing a song. If he stops, the song simply ceases to exist.
To get a better grip of the issue, i recommend reading Dr. Feser's post on classical theism: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/09/classical-theism.html (and, possibily, his books.)
Bilbo March 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM
21th: "Bilbo, even for the christian proponents of ID, divine conservation takes at most a marginal role. A mechanistic world, in fact, has no need of being "sustained" into being; that's why most mechanists were deists."
Given that a mechanistic world is a contingent world, just as much as a non-mechanistic world, I think your reasoning is rather faulty.
"As for the question of divine action: i think it was Peter Geach who said that God is not like a blacksmith which makes a shoe (where the shoe can continue to exist apart from his maker) but like a "minstrel" playing a song. If he stops, the song simply ceases to exist."
Very good. So if in order to bring the first living organisms into existence, God had to sing a new theme, or a new verse, then we may have a good idea of what ID would look like on the "minstrel" metaphor. Works just as well for ID as the blacksmith metaphor. For as we know, a shoe is a contingent thing, which must be sustained in existence by God.
But of course Feser would object and say that thinking that God sings is a univocal error and therefore we cannot use the "minstrel" metaphor, either.
How about the following scenario:
God: Hey you, Michael and Gabriel.
M&G: Yes, God?
God: I would like to bring about life in this universe that I created, but it requires so many specific events that I thought it would be better just to do it separately. Unfortunately, the Thomists have ruled that I'm not allowed to manipulate matter. So I want you guys to do it for me.
M&G: Sure thing God. You tell us how to do it, and we'll do it.
God: There, I hope Feser doesn't object to that.
Of course, no need to take me seriously. I'm not really looking for truth here. I'm just a culture warrior mouthing off in the combox.
Edward Feser March 27, 2011 at 2:17 PM
No time right now to comment at length, but since Bilbo seems to have been really stung by my "uninformed culture warrior" remark, I suppose I should mention that it was not inspired either by him or by anyone else who comments here at my blog. Rather, I had in mind the sort of remarks I tend to see in the Uncommon Descent comboxes, both recently and in the course of past exchanges on this topic.
Mr. Green March 27, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Bilbo playwrought: God: There, I hope Feser doesn't object to that.
Heh. Of course, that's not really fair to the Profeser because God most certainly can manipulate matter, or create each species immediately over six days, or create an auto-unfolding universe that "evolves" life over eons, or even something that involves the participation of angelic causes.
There are two important points that may help: on any kind of Aristotelian interpretation, life and non-life are both teleological, so there's no problem about how you get "teleology" from a primordial puddle or whatever. Meanwhile, an organism does not get "organized" from the outside (the way a blacksmith imposes the form or purpose of a horseshoe on it "externally" — meaning it is an artifact). Living things are what they are intrinsically, which doesn't mean they cannot be caused by natural, even lifeless causes (they can), but it means that their form is not imposed "from the outside". So you can't determine that life is special in some way by looking for that "outside" cause (the way you can look for the blacksmith to explain the shoe, or deduce the existence of the blacksmith, even though you may not know exactly who or what he is, or why he made the shoe). Those, I think, are the key differences between an Aristotelian/Thomistic/Scholastic perspective and the way ID positions are usually presented. However, I do not see that this in any way invalidates the attempt to ask the sort of questions that ID asks qua science. (They'll just have to be presented in a different way.)
And I take your questions seriously, anyway, because they are serious questions. Thomism is not easy, though at the same time, it is not hard, at least not once you've got used to not thinking in the "modern" fashion that has brainwashed us into thinking the older an idea is, the wronger it is. It just takes some time. Regardless of how interested you are in Thomism per se, I would recommend learning more about it, even just for general philosophical mind-stretching. There are good books on Aquinas by Feser himself, Copleston, Kreeft, and many more, but a very good place to start is with G.K. Chesterton's biography, which contains plenty of philosophical meat, and you probably know that Chesteron is always worth reading anyway.
21th Century Scholastic March 27, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Bilbo:
Mmm, "contingent" in what sense? In the sense of "needing an explanation" (a la leibnizian cosmological argument), perhaps, but not in the sense of "needing a sustaining cause".
After all, in the modern worldview there are no formal and final causes, and therefore ---> no forms ---> no essences ---> distinction between essence and existence. And without this crucial distinction, you have no "contingent" universe (in the thomistic sense, at least).
"Very good. So if in order to bring the first living organisms into existence, God had to sing a new theme, or a new verse, then we may have a good idea of what ID would look like on the "minstrel" metaphor. Works just as well for ID as the blacksmith metaphor. For as we know, a shoe is a contingent thing, which must be sustained in existence by God."
At this point, how would you distinguish a thing directly created from God from one that is not? If you say, "Complexity Filter", i've got bad news, for the filter presupposes that simple and unspecified phenomena have no intrinsic purpose (which is completely wrong).
Behe's "Irreducible Complexity" argument is better, and (i believe) escapes successfully the criticisms, though i would focus more on the "Irreducible" part than on the "Complexity" one, for the aforementioned reasons).
Hi, Daniel, you said,
I don't recall offhand anything Aquinas says about the origin of life simply speaking, so I'd have to go digging to see what, if anything, he says about the matter, but in this passage, at least, the human body is being treated as a special and unusual case, and it is the only thing in view. I presume on Aquinas's Aristotelian modification of Augustine it wouldn't be the elements alone that would be involved with the origin of living things -- I very strongly suspect, without actually looking it up at the moment, that the elements would only have the passive potential and they would be activated by the celestial bodies, especially the sun (Aquinas, following Aristotle, thinks some very simple lifeforms can be directly generated from certain combinations of the elements by the sun). But, yes, in general the idea would probably be this: the elements would have the passive potential to become anything material, even a living material thing, and other created things, like the sun, would have the active potential, i.e., would be able to activate this passive potential so that they actually existed. But human beings aren't purely material because of our intellect and will, so while the elements can become the human body, nothing short of God is an adequate explanation of the human body's being genuinely human.
Brian March 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Hi, Brandon. My question on Original Justice concerns the following in the CCC:
400 The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. ***Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay"***. Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground", for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.
My trouble is with nature not experiencing death nor decay before the Fall.
Hi, Brian,
I see how you could read it the way you are reading it, but I don't see that there's anything requiring this reading; the Catechism here is just paraphrasing Romans 8:20. Aquinas, for instance, argues that three completely distinct interpretations of this verse are legitimate, only one of which takes it to refer to sensible creation generally; there's no particular need to follow Aquinas on this point, but the point is that there is already a long tradition of interpreting the verse in various ways, none of which are particularly ruled out here, although no doubt some fit somewhat better than others.
Further, you are assuming that the CCC is providing an interpretation; it looks more to my eye like it's just telling the story, which is why this whole section has so many references to Scripture and involves so much paraphrase of Scriptural passages. This is especially important to keep in mind given CCC 390 (cf. also 289), which explicitly warns that in readng the story of the Fall we should expect much of it to be description of the historical facts in figurative language.
Then how should I read the CCC on this? Are there any books on the matter that you have read that lead you to your position?
I agree with Mr. Green’s position above. ID is, and is meant to be, a scientific thesis. Why then should it use Thomistic terminology? The fact that the success of ID would have theological implications does not imply that Thomistic terminology is required (even assuming that Thomistic metaphysics is right). After all Thomists do not object that, say, quantum mechanics is not described using Thomistic terminology. Or do they?
So, am I missing something? Where is the problem exactly? Ed writes that IDers “eschewal” of Thomistic terms “conflicts” with A-T’s fundamental metaphysical commitments, but I don’t see how this is possible, given that ID is not a metaphysical thesis. Cooking recipes do not use Thomistic terminology either. Not to mention that many IDers may not be Thomists, and some, for all we know, may not be theists.
As for rejecting the view that God manipulates matter “from the outside” – I wonder if here Thomists are not fighting a paper tiger. After all no knowledgeable theist for the last two thousand years (or at least since John 1:3) believes that matter has some autonomous existence or properties. And I don’t see where the ID thesis requires or assumes that God manipulates matter “from the outside”, given that it does not require or assume the existence of God in the first place.
21th Century Scholastic March 28, 2011 at 5:27 AM
Mr. Green: I'm sorry, i didn't notice your post. Comboxes sure are messy. :D On specification, see my comment above to Bilbo.
Dianelos: The problem with ID theory is that, just like evolutionism, it is committed to a mechanistic worldview (no final causes intrinsic in nature). When you say "Everything that exhibits specified complexity is the work of a designer, while other phenomena could be the result of chance" you're assuming a worldview utterly devoid of teleology (as Aristotle, and Aquinas after him, defined "teleology").
Don Jindra March 28, 2011 at 6:47 AM
Dianelos Georgoudis,
As for rejecting the view that God manipulates matter “from the outside” – I wonder if here Thomists are not fighting a paper tiger.
I'd say so. It makes no fundamental difference if God manipulates matter from outside or inside. Both views are teleological. Both are mechanistic. It makes no difference if it's called design, immanent teleology. or final cause. Nor does it matter if final causes are extrinsic or intrinsic. All of these concepts ultimately mean the same thing. Aquinas clearly argued, like ID, that God, and God alone, created the universe. Aquinas does not argue man evolved directly from the natural teleology of mud. But even if he had, the only difference is in timeline. If God inserted a teleology into the essence of mud, that's design. Both views depend on magic. The biggest difference is that ID is more open about the magical connection.
djindra is another Fundie Dawkins Drone who dogmatically believes all Theistic belief in any form is morally on the same level as believing in faeries. Then there is his persistent unconscious, unexamined and dogmatic positivism/scientism.
Plus he hasn't read a thing about philosophy & will attack Thomism with every warmed over anti-ID anti-6D-YEC argument he can think of in short warning he is beyond boring.
Mr. Green March 28, 2011 at 8:52 AM
Dianelos Georgoudis: ID is, and is meant to be, a scientific thesis. Why then should it use Thomistic terminology?
It's not that ID, or any other scientific endeavour, shouldn't use Thomistic terminology. If Thomism is true, then everything should! However, insofar as bad terminology "works", it can be translated into proper terminology. (Or, I suppose, it may be regarded as an alternative terminology that may be translated or not as you desire.) But an actual equation, say, uses mathematical terminology, which is fine to Thomists. It's more the interpretations — and although strictly speaking, the scientific method itself does not depend on a particular philosophy of nature, an actual person cannot do science without having some philosophical interpretation in mind. Again, insofar as that interpretation "works", it will have a Thomistic analogue, but it would surely be more productive to do science with a good philosophy in mind rather than a misleading one. Quantum mechanics is a great example of this — all sorts of nonsesnse beyond the strict science itself is the result of bad philosophy lurking in the background. (For starters, on a Thomistic view, QM isn't even weird; a lot of the (so-called) problems with modern physics are the result of trying to fit the science into a bad philosophy that never worked in the first place.)
The philosophical implications of ID do need to be put into proper (philosophical) terminology, of course. A given conclusion from ID may be able to be translated into a correct Thomistic view; or it may lead to some related conclusion given Thomism; or it may turn out not to make sense at all Thomistically.
21th Century Scholastic: On specification, see my comment above to Bilbo.
Are you referring to "the [complexity] filter presupposes that simple and unspecified phenomena have no intrinsic purpose (which is completely wrong)"? But really that's only half-wrong. The correct translation of "rocks have no teleology but organisms do" is actually "rocks have a certain kind of teleology, but organisms have a different or additional teleology." Which rather obviously is true. That's why we can't say that ID is committed to mechanism (though some of its supporters may be).
Hence my example of the (rain?)drops that spell out a message. We can look at the teleology in the droplets themselves; or we can look at a higher level (the level of the message) and talk about rain falling "by chance". Obviously chance is not absolute in this sense (as in "uncaused" or "without God"), but this is an ordinary, practical way of speaking that everybody uses. Consider Aquinas's example of the man who buries some treasure and the farmer who later finds it when ploughing his field. The burying and the digging up are both entirely caused, directed actions, but it's still correct to say that the farmer found the treasure "by chance" because his deliberate actions were not directed at finding the treasure. Of course, if the farmer walked into the middle of the field straight to where the treasure was and dug in only that one exact spot, we would conclude that his actions were directed at finding the treasure.
My suggestion is the one I already gave: read the CCC here like it's laying out a summary of the story, which includes a great deal of figurative language, not giving any rigorous theological interpretation explaining precisely what the figurative language implies in non-figurative language; that, in any case, is what the CCC seems to me to be suggesting itself, given CCC 390.
Mr. Green: So, (tell me if i understand you correctly) you're claiming that in addition to the instrinsic design present in nature, God could have imposed an additional design upon some organisms (like humans impose a function on wood pieces, for example, when they build a table)?This seems to be referring to God in a univocal way (like a human designer).
derp March 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Another day, another djindra troll post.
Brandon, the CCC is usually very clear in what it intends. In other sections, it lets you know that this or that is or might be figurative, but there is no such clarification, here. That leads me to conclude that it is being quite clear that neither death nor decay entered nature until the Fall. That being said, it is *just one* sentence, so I think it's a bit silly to decide either way just yet. What do you think? What have you read that has lead you to this conclusion? Can you recommend any literature which might talk about this in more depth?
Mr. Green March 28, 2011 at 12:09 PM
21th Century Scholastic: ...God could have imposed an additional design upon some organisms (like humans impose a function on wood pieces, for example, when they build a table)?
Well, God could presumably act "like" a human designer; say, he could miraculously levitate pieces of metal and have them come together to form a watch, or send a tornado through a junkyard in just the right way to assemble a watch. I don't see that that makes God univocally a designer, though.
In any case that's not what I'm saying. The final causes in an organism are intrinsic, they're just not the same causes as in a rock. A heart shares inanimate ends with rocks (such as gravitational or electromagnetic tendencies, etc.), but it also has ends of it own (pumping blood). It is perhaps understandable that science takes the bottom level of teleology for granted; without it there wouldn't be any science. But a heart's (intrinsic) tendency to pump blood is something over and above its (intrinsic) tendency to fall down. I imagine that science cannot distinguish between the intrinsic end of an organic heart and the extrinsic end of an artificial heart, but it should be able to identify that some kind of final cause is operative.
Dianelos Georgoudis March 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM
Mr. Green writes: “It's not that ID, or any other scientific endeavour, *shouldn't* use Thomistic terminology. If Thomism is true, then everything should!”
Surely you don’t mean that. Assume that Thomism is true. Even then scientific textbooks, not to mention cookbooks, should not be rewritten to use Thomistic terminology. The foundational status of metaphysics does not imply that one cannot reasonably describe things on a higher level.
“For starters, on a Thomistic view, QM isn't even weird; a lot of the (so-called) problems with modern physics are the result of trying to fit the science into a bad philosophy that never worked in the first place.”
Finding a naturalistic interpretation of QM is hard whether Thomism is true or not. QM phenomena, as well as life phenomena (if strong ID is right), have metaphysical implications which happen to cause trouble for naturalism. I really don’t see why people can’t investigate these internal problems of naturalism independently of Thomism. The idea is to find an internal incoherence in naturalism, the way the problem of evil is about finding an internal incoherence in theism. And as atheologians should argue about the problem of evil using entirely theistic concepts and language, so should theists argue about the problem of naturalistically interpreting physical phenomena using entirely naturalistic concepts and language.
Mr Green: that's a good point, i never thought of it that way; but i still doubt that immanent purposes and extrinsic ones (such as those posited by ID theory) may co-exist in nature, and i think it would be better in any case to focus on the stronger kind of teleology represented by thomistic design.
BenYachov March 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM
>That leads me to conclude that it is being quite clear that neither death nor decay entered nature until the Fall.
Then how did anyone eat anything if plants being part of both nature and creation where impassible and immortal?
Even if somehow 6D-YEC is true animals clearly died before the Fall as Augustine said & predators hunted prey.
CCC 390 is quite clear that the whole of Genesis 1-3 is figurative, albeit a figurative portrayal of primeval events; likewise, the particular sentence you emphasized is quite literally nothing other than a paraphrase of Romans 8:20, which is being taken here insofar as it is Pauline commentary on Genesis 1-3, and the interpretation of it would depend entirely on how one interpreted Romans 8:20, which the CCC doesn't constrain in the least.
Likewise, CCC 289 makes quite clear that the reason for expounding the story laid out in Genesis 1-3 is that it is useful for catechesis in basic truths: creation, fall, and promise of salvation. This is what the CCC is doing all through here (the CCC has a structure; it is not a bunch of disjoined paragraphs to be read on their own). There is nothing whatsoever to indicate that the CCC is clarifying the matter at all at this point, rather than simply laying out what goes on in the highly figurative Genesis 1-3. So the Catechism is quite clear about what it is doing throughout Paragraphs 4 through 7 of the discussion of the first article of the creed (of which the section you quote is part), and is quite clear that much of the discussion is figurative, albeit a figurative description of truths.
Dianelos Georgoudis pointed out: The foundational status of metaphysics does not imply that one cannot reasonably describe things on a higher level.
Oh, I didn't mean that; just that any philosophical aspect is better described using proper philosophy, of course. An equation should be presented using mathematical terminology, and a recipe using cooking terminology; but any interpretation comes down to your philosophy of science (or your philosophy of cooking!). And of course it should be easier and less confusing to approach ID or QM or any other kind of science with a correct philosophy of science (since even when you're working directly on the equations, some kind of interpretation is always in the back of your mind). But I agree about using ID as a reductio — to show that a mechanistic approach has problems, you would have to try explaining things in that terminology, and then see whether it works or not.
21th Century Scholastic said: but i still doubt that immanent purposes and extrinsic ones (such as those posited by ID theory) may co-exist in nature
Well, I think that the only reason they are described as extrinsic is because ID is generally described using the language of mechanism. I don't see why it couldn't (indeed, shouldn't) be rephrased in a more Aristotelian way to talk about different levels or varieties of immanent teleology. And even if they don't talk that way, I'm not sure how far they could get anyway (sort of as if your colour-terminology used an inverted spectrum: for some things it would work fine; for certain detailed colour analysis, it wouldn't).
i think it would be better in any case to focus on the stronger kind of teleology represented by thomistic design.
Better for what? I'm not even sure the difference between intrinsic or extrinsic ends or between organism and mechanism is "visible" to the scientific method, so it may be moot to ID qua science (though not to ID qua philosophy). The scientific question, and whatever philosophical implications follow from it, are still fully worth investigating on their own; there is an answer to the question one way or the other, even if the answer turns out to be "no, science can't identify 'design' that way", and it's reasonable and proper to look for such answers because they tell us some truth about the universe that God created.
Don Jindra March 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM
djindra is another Fundie Dawkins Drone who dogmatically believes all Theistic belief in any form is morally on the same level as believing in faeries.
I don't expect anyone will make a credible case that their theistic belief is on a different moral or intellectual level than believing in faeries. But the current issue seems to be an assertion that design in ID is fundamentally different than design by another name, such as immanent teleology. I don't think anyone has made that case either.
Then there is his persistent unconscious, unexamined and dogmatic positivism/scientism. ...Plus he hasn't read a thing about philosophy & will attack Thomism with every warmed over anti-ID anti-6D-YEC argument he can think of
Really? Maybe I ought to ask you when you last examined the reliability of your own omniscience.
djindra
People here have debated you before. You have nothing to contribute to the conversation. You don't admit to mistakes. You backpedal when called out on your ignorance. You come off as a know it all when you clearly know very little about the subject matter at hand.
Plus nobody here has to prove a thing to you loser. If you want to get off you lazy Fundie New Atheist arse and learn something of the basics about Aristotle & Thomistic philosophy nobody is stopping you. But if you are here to sneer and act like that is the same as rational argument then go smeg off. You can go over to J's blog & have a little circle jerk about how brilliant you both are for not believing in Flying Pasta creatures or whatever.
There are several descent thoughtful and learned Atheists who have posted on this blog. BDK, dgeller and that Hoffman fellow just off the top of my head. You are not one of them! If you are so stupid as to claim with a straight face that Paley's mechanistic teleology is anything like Aquinas then you are as moronic as the YEC plebb who thinks there is no difference between Lamark vs Darwin.
I nominate we should ignore djindra till he does his homework.
These Gnus need a good smack on the nose with a rolled up newpaper till they learn better.
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Well, Brandon, you have done quite a lot to convince me of your view. May I ask you (and anyone else) one last question: can you recommend a work on theology/biblical interpretation that goes into Genesis with my issues in mind?
BenYachov,
Your ad hominems show the state of your grasp of the issues.
Yes, I do claim Paley's mechanistic teleology is fundamentally the same as Aquinas. They both depend on divine design. They both find a purpose in nature where there is none to be found. That may be a stupid position but based on what I've seen of your tactics so far I seriously doubt you will be able to make a solid case to counter my position.
machinephilosophy March 29, 2011 at 7:26 AM
How could one possibly know that there is no purpose in nature? Just wondering about the epistemic status of such universal denials, since they never seem to be argued, only claimed by their thumping evangelists.
The Troll said
Yes, I do claim Paley's mechanistic teleology is fundamentally the same as Aquinas.
Then you are as stupid as the religious fundie with a 6th grade education who claims Lamark's view of evolution is fundamentally the same as Darwin.
The difference between us is if I stopped believing in God tommorow, knowing what I know I would still think you are a complete idiot for making the above ignorant claim.
As we can see folks by his own admission djindra is not fit to participate in this discussion he has nothing to contribute. He clearly does not understand the subject matter.
>They both depend on divine design. They both find a purpose in nature where there is none to be found.
You have not proven there is no design in nature you just assume it Ad Hoc. Also you conflate Paley's false view of design with Aquinas. Since you can't tell the difference how can you even begin to make a convincing case the universe is void of design via Aquinas?
You can't because you have not learned anything of the subject matter. All you will do at this point is recycle standard anti-Paley arguments no Thomist here believe in the first place.
You are as useless as teats on a bull at this point.
>That may be a stupid position but based on what I've seen of your tactics so far I seriously doubt you will be able to make a solid case to counter my position.
You haven't offered any position other than "Your stupid for believing in gods & flying Pasta creatures blah blah blah...."
You have nothing to offer here. Nothing! You have neither the education nor the intelligence.
So good day. Come back when you have done your homework.
Vincent Torley March 29, 2011 at 8:22 AM
I'd just like to say thank you for the tone of your latest blog post. While you definitely pull no punches in arguing for your position, what you made very clear in this post is that the disagreement between Catholics like Dr. Jay Richards and yourself is an "in-house" controversy between Catholics of different theological stripes. I'd just like to thank you for that.
Having said that, I have to add that you misrepresent Richards on a couple of points. First, you implicitly accuse him of quoting you dishonestly - in particular, of claiming that you assert that an artifact like a mousetrap (for example) "is 'nothing but' a collection of wood and metal parts." Not so. I have Richards' book here in front of me. On page 227, Richards quotes you in full:
"Take a few bits of metal, work them into various shapes, and attach them to a piece of wood. Voila! A mousetrap. Or so we call it. But objectively, apart from human interests, this object is 'nothing but' a collection of wood and parts."
So the words "apart from human interests" ARE in the passage he quotes. Even if you think he badly misinterprets you, he does not misquote you on machines.
The real difference between you and Richards on machines, by the way, is that you claim that the function of a machine is, strictly speaking, in the mind of the designer and not in the object itself, whereas Richards claims that the function is really in the machine itself, but incapable of existing on its own except in the mind of the builder.
You also write: "Where Richards and I differ is in taking artifacts to differ essentially from natural objects, which have their functions intrinsically." But on page 238, Richards acknowledges:
"Second, unlike a windmill, an organism seems to be internally directed. It is following an end, its own good, according to its own nature rather than being directed externally as, for example, a tractor, a violin, or an arrow."
Thus living things, at least, possess their functions intrinsically. The real difference, as I see it, is that Richards sees no significant difference between non-living natural objects and artifacts. In other words, he sees no need to impute immanent final causality to non-living matter (although he does not deny it either).
You think that a denial of immanent final causality in natural objects sells God short. I can certainly understand where you're coming from, but as someone told me once, there are two sides to any story. In my next post (this one is getting a little long), I'd like to tell Boyle's side.
You criticize Newton, Boyle and other early modern thinkers for eschewed immanent final causes, and allowing extrinsic final causes. But it's worthwhile asking: why did they do that? Here I'd like to quote from Richards on page 244:
"For Boyle, a virtue of the teleo-mechanistic view was precisely that it showed that the physical world depended on an Intelligent Creator. Since matter could hardly do anything on its own, Boyle could argue that nature's manifest design could only be the product of a transcendent Creator. The apparent teleology of nature pointed clearly beyond nature for its source, as it did in Plato, as was not 'immanent' within nature itself, as it was for Aristotle."
Interesting! Boyle viewed the imputation of immanent final causality to matter as weakening theism because it gave too much power to matter, which might lead some to assert that matter was self-sufficient. You, on the other hand, view the denial of immanent final causality to matter as weakening theism because it turns nature into a machine - and hence, something not essentially dependent on its maker for its being.
But what I find interesting is that both you and Boyle argue that the existence of laws of nature points to an Intelligent Creator. As Richards writes on page 244:
"Boyd emphasized that physical laws and properties of matter (he preferred to speak of 'rules' rather than 'laws') are the results of God's will and not his nature, and so had to be discovered rather than deduced from reason. They quite explicitly reflect the purposes of God, and must constantly be upheld by God. 'Laws,' for Boyle, implied and active and independent Lawgiver."
So there you have it. Both you and Boyle agree that God constantly upholds nature, and that nature would collapse in a screaming heap with God's conserving power. Both you and Boyle agree that laws point to the existence of God. I have to ask: is the difference between you so large?
I should mention that Richards goes on to distance himself somewhat from Boyle's position on page 245, where he characterizes it as an over-reaction to Aristotle. Richards argues that we should try to discover who was right by investigating nature. We need to do more science before we can decide whether all natural objects exhibit immanent final causality as opposed to extrinsic.
Would you care to comment?
Sorry. The phrase "for eschewed immanent final causes" in the first sentence of my last post should read: "for eschewing immanent final causes."
>Boyle viewed the imputation of immanent final causality to matter as weakening theism because it gave too much power to matter, which might lead some to assert that matter was self-sufficient.
I don't see how that is possible since in Classic Theism Matter is continuously generated top down and thus in principle can't exist apart from the creator?
Also it's the post-enlightenment philosophy that because it teaches there is no final causality in nature matter is just a brute fact which at best has God as it's efficient cause for it's existence. Said God could in theory cease to exist and the matter he created would go on without him.
Thus I fail to see how this gives more power to matter & less to God. It seems to me to be the opposite.
Ed knows way more than I and can respond.
Cheers VJ!
Unfortunately, no; as far as I know, no such work, at least of any quality, exists. I mean, there are good books where your issues would be addressed in passing, but I know of none that discuss them at any length.
machinephilosophy March 29, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Ben, that points to a central issue:
What is the basis for pointing to some aspect of the physical world and saying it all stops at X (or level X)? If claimed without argument, will some materialist-mechanist specify the scientific basis of such a claim?
The funny thing is that you claim that they are but offer no argument, and ask others to explain why it is not. Beyond the typical dysteleological canard, you're being somewhat disingenuous here.
Hello Vincent,
Some quick points (I wish I could reply at greater length and reply also to the comments others have made, but I've got no time just now):
1. I did not misrepresent Richards. It is true that he quotes a long passage from the blog post of mine that he was responding to, and that the words in question are contained in that long block quote. But when he goes on to criticize my view as "reductionist," the crucial words are suddenly left out and their relevance to my intended meaning ignored.
2. Whether Aristotle or Boyle is right is indeed a matter of "investigating nature" but it is not fundamentally a matter of empirical hypothesis formation, argument to the best explanation, or the like. For A-T, the reality of final causes, the act/potency distinction, etc. are deeper than that. They are truths of "philosophy of nature," i.e. that branch of metaphysics devoted to investigating the metaphysical presuppositions of there being a world for natural science to study in the first place. And it is the truths of philosophy of nature -- which are more fundamental and certain than any empirical theory, precisely because they are concerned with what any empirical theory has to take for granted -- and not the claims of empirical science, that are the proper foundation of natural theology.
Of course, for A-T, determining which natural phenomena specifically are genuine substances, precisely what their essences are, etc. involves a very large empirical component, including research in physics, chemistry, biology, etc. But the more general claims that there are any substances, final causes, a form/matter composition to material substances, etc. at all are metaphysical questions and not empirical ones.
More on this in a future post.
Mr. Green: "Meanwhile, an organism does not get "organized" from the outside (the way a blacksmith imposes the form or purpose of a horseshoe on it "externally" — meaning it is an artifact). Living things are what they are intrinsically, which doesn't mean they cannot be caused by natural, even lifeless causes (they can), but it means that their form is not imposed "from the outside"."
Life as we know it certainly appears to be an organized complexity. And that requires an explanation. If the ability to cause this organized complexity lies in nature, then we certainly haven't been able to figure out how nature does it, and all the evidence suggests that nature cannot do it. Now perhaps God created nature so that it would bring about this organized complexity only once, so that any attempts to figure out how it happened will be fruitless. But then what would it mean for God to create nature so that it would bring it about once? It would mean that God arranged for a very large number of improbable events to occur at a specific time and place. That certainly appears to be an act of design, whether "internal" or "external."
"So you can't determine that life is special in some way by looking for that "outside" cause....
But it's already clear that life is special. The level of organized complexity in life is far above anything we find in the rest of the natural world. What we are "looking for" is the cause, whether "internal" or "external."
" Regardless of how interested you are in Thomism per se, I would recommend learning more about it, even just for general philosophical mind-stretching."
I should, but Feser's arguments against ID tend to dissuade me from thinking Thomism has anything of real value.
"... and you probably know that Chesteron is always worth reading anyway."
machinephilosophy,
How could one possibly know that there is no purpose in nature?
If you read what I wrote you'll find I didn't claim to know there is no purpose in nature. I claimed there is none to be found. If you find that purpose please let me know. So my epistemic status is that of a person who tries not to believe in things for which there is no evidence. I think that's solid ground. I wonder if you question the epistemic status of those who argue as if they know there is, indeed, purpose in nature -- and not a philosophically uninteresting purpose which is merely synonymous with more or less arbitrary functions, but rather a "final cause" sort of purpose that's infused with the being of every pebble that lies by the road.
I'd be interested especially in reading what Dr. Feser thinks of the possibility of immanent and extrinsic causes co-existing in nature (or of the "intelligent design as a variety of aristotelian teleology" proposed by Mr. Green).
Bilbo, what about our discussion on the contingency of the world, etc.?
No. I have not proven there is no design in nature. But, to be trite, those who make extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. So where is the evidence that this design called "final cause" is built into every atom of the universe? I'm not making that sort of extraordinary claim. I simply claim a rock is a rock and exists on its own without design or purpose or some thinly disguised animistic existence. Mine is not an extraordinary claim. It's a quite ordinary claim.
So how about it. Make a case for your extraordinary claims. Show me I'm wrong. I don't think that's an unfair request. Likely, you will not because there is no point in arguing with someone who refuses to accept dogma found in ancient texts.
And just to be clear, I didn't say I can't tell the difference between Paley and Aquinas. I said they are the same fundamentally. A Thomist builds his house over a basement. An IDer builds his house on a slab. But the essentials of the foundations are the same. I would think an "essentialist" would understand that fundamentals go deeper than slabs and basements.
Why is the claim that the universe has a purpose 'extraordinary' and why does it need extraordinary evidence?
"Purpose is a result, end, mean, aim, or goal of an action intentionally undertaken."
djindra:
1) intends to show that Paley's extrinsic mechanistic teleology and Aquinas' intrinsic Aristotelian teleology are fundamentally the same.
2) claims that there is no purpose to be found in nature.
If djindra is succesful with 1) by intentionally undertaking his goal of showing that it is actually true that hose two kinds of teleology are fundamentally the same...
Then one has two wonder whether djindra is in nature if 2) is true.
Oh the dilemma...
Then one has to wonder whether djindra is in nature if 2) is true.
If we are talking fundamentals (in the essentialist manner) then my "purpose" is assigned to me from outside. Additionally, as a person among many, my purpose must transcend me. It can't be something I assign to myself. It has to be more like the purpose McDonalds assigns to cattle. Then the purpose you and I might find in my solitary and arbitrary will is an illusion. It's not purpose at all. If we concentrate on me the individual and you the individual, we can find our purposes conflict. So there is no essential purpose in my acts if we're talking of the nature of man. There is no dilemma.
>So how about it. Make a case for your extraordinary claims.
What part of “We don’t have prove anything to you loser!” do Ye not understand loser? The subject matter here is Thomistic Teleology vs ID/Paley. Not how do we know God exists or how do we know the universe contains teleology. That topic along with your fundie New Atheist Positivist dogma that empiricism alone is the sole means of natural knowledge vs the correct idea that Philosophy is the primary means of natural knowledge (of which science is a subset) was addressed in Dr. Feser’s Book THE LAST SUPERSTITION. Most of us here have read it and are up to speed.
You haven’t done any homework so you have no worthwhile opinion to offer.
If some evolutionists on some blog are let’s say, discussing Dawkins Neo-Darwinianism gradualism vs Stephen Jay Gould’s Punctuated equilibrium a Fundie Young Earth Creationist doesn’t get to hijack the discussion and make everyone drop everything to prove to him evolution is true to his shifting undefined standards of satisfaction. Nor does he get to heckle them “We all know Evolution is false how dare you discuss it!.
Well guess what? A Fundie New Atheist like you doesn’t get to do the same here. Do your homework and get up to speed on the subject matter.
>And just to be clear, I didn't say I can't tell the difference between Paley and Aquinas. I said they are the same fundamentally. A Thomist builds his house over a basement. An IDer builds his house on a slab. But the essentials of the foundations are the same.
How is that possible? The foundations of Paley are Post-enlightment mechanistic modern philosophy and empiricism. Mixed in with a liberal dosing of either conceptionalsim & or nominalism. The foundations of Thomas Aquinas are Classic philosophy the metaphysics of Aristotle and a healthy dosing of moderate realism.
How can they have the same foundation? They clearly can't.
Really Troll boy, you do not know enough about the subject matter to fake it or for anybody here to take you seriously.
>Likely, you will not because there is no point in arguing with someone who refuses to accept dogma found in ancient texts.
Wow! This loser actually thinks the philosophy of the Classics is nothing more that a set of Ex Cathedra decrees and not profoundly reasoned arguments!
Stop trying to faking it djindra. Nobody here is buying it. Enough of your backpedaling and warmed over anti-ID polemics. Thomists don’t buy it.
What are gonna do now? Shout "Courier's Reply" or are we going to hear more of how you conflate Philosophical reasoning with Dogmatic pronouncement?
Useless as Teats on a bull!
Read what is said about the meaning of "purpose" numbnuts.
Even cattle witout Asperger's disease should understand that simple dilemma...
>If you find that purpose please let me know.
Reminds me of a lecture dick to the Dawkins gave where he showed a slide of a large red rock out in the Arizona desert and quipped "So why is this Rock here? What's it's purpose? Does the alleged God supposedly like red rocks or is this rock merely the product of random geological forces......etc".
Yeh Troll Boy and Dawk Boy can't get the Paley out of their heads but these questions and Paley's definition of purpose have nothing to do with Final Causality.
Really learn the subject matter before you speak.
derpish derpity derp March 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM
I like where this is going.
21th: "Mmm, "contingent" in what sense? In the sense of "needing an explanation" (a la leibnizian cosmological argument), perhaps, but not in the sense of "needing a sustaining cause".
After all, in the modern worldview there are no formal and final causes, and therefore ---> no forms ---> no essences ---> distinction between essence and existence. And without this crucial distinction, you have no "contingent" universe (in the thomistic sense, at least)."
First, I think our belief that the world cannot continue to exist without God's sustaining power was first rooted in Scriptural teaching, then in Aristotelian philosophy. So whether a Christian is an Aristotelian or a Mechanist is beside the point. The orthodox view is that all of existence depends upon God's sustaining power.
Second, if I understand how the modern worldview came about, initially there wasn't a denial of formal and final causes, but a purposeful ignoring of them in order to study empirically the natural world, by focusing on material and efficient causes. I imagine there was a considerable lapse of time before the denial of formal and final causes became popular. But the modern worldview still has no answer to the question, "Why is there something instead of nothing?" It is incomplete, and the Christian Mechanist knows the correct answer as well as the Christian Aristotelian.
Daniel Smith March 30, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Brandon: "But, yes, in general the idea would probably be this: the elements would have the passive potential to become anything material, even a living material thing, and other created things, like the sun, would have the active potential, i.e., would be able to activate this passive potential so that they actually existed."
OK, but Aquinas says that something that has only passive potential and no active potential can be activated (formed from pre-existing matter) by God alone. He says that something with both active and passive potential can be activated (formed from pre-existing matter) by creatures.
I think Aquinas' view on whether this applied to all life was distorted by his adherence to the science of his day - which held that some life could be spontaneously generated (maggots from meat.)
I think, given what we now know about even the simplest forms of life, that Aquinas' views on the human body could (and should) be applied to all of life.
Life only comes from life. God is life. Therefore, life only comes from God. It's as simple as that to me.
djindra: "I didn't claim to know there is no purpose in nature. I claimed there is none to be found. If you find that purpose please let me know."
They haven't found a purpose for the heart yet? No one can find a purpose for lungs, eyes or teeth? Weather cycles serve no purpose? The sun is purposeless? The moon? Wow! What has science been doing all these years if not describing the purpose of all of these things?
Paul Mollica March 30, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Leo March 30, 2011 at 6:37 PM
First of all, please make your contentions clear, since otherwise it becomes all but impossible to argue against them
Second, why do you demand that the teleologist prove that everything is endowed with a final cause? Several finalists would deny that claim; Aristotle, for example, is often interpreted as claiming that only life is teleologically ordered.
Third, rather than coming on and telling us, "Teleologists haven't shown anything!" why not intelligently comment on some of the not insignificant philosophical literature on the subject? I, for one, would find such commentary more persuasive that snide combox remarks about theists believing in magic.
derp March 30, 2011 at 6:57 PM
@Leo: nice pic, man.
Are you claiming God acts without purpose? Are you claiming an immanent teleology God designs, manufactures and implements is devoid of purpose? Please clarify.
Daniel Smith,
They haven't found a purpose for the heart yet? No one can find a purpose for lungs, eyes or teeth?
A heart has a function. But don't pretend this function is anywhere near the nature of "purpose" as used around here. A bed has a function. We all know what that is. But what is its final cause? What's its ultimate purpose? Who put that purpose into the bed? Was it man or God? If God, then maybe a bed's purpose is to attract human food for bed bugs.
The foundations of Paley are Post-enlightment mechanistic modern philosophy and empiricism. Mixed in with a liberal dosing of either conceptionalsim & or nominalism. The foundations of Thomas Aquinas are Classic philosophy the metaphysics of Aristotle and a healthy dosing of moderate realism.
There is a lot of uncritical acceptance of your characterizations. But how true are they? ID depends on miracles. Many, if not all, IDers absolutely deny a mechanistic explanation for life. Those with whom I've had discussions believe miracles happen every day. They certainly do not see themselves living in a mechanistic universe. Their god becomes personally involve in their lives.
Likewise it's simply wrong to group all Post-enlightenment modern philosophy as mechanistic, or even to claim it's strictly empirical or that empiricism is necessarily mechanistic. Certainly modern science is not strictly mechanistic or we wouldn't have The Theory of Evolution and its dependence on chance, nor would we have Quantum Mechanics or Chaos theory. Besides, Thomists have not totally escaped the mechanistic tag. After all, teleology implies a mechanistic end, and immanent teleology implies a pervasive mechanistic "life" to all things.
djindra,
So this is you tactic? Pretending Thomism is really mechanistic and you back it up with argument from special pleading?
You are as lame as the Fundamentalist Protestant who claims the Council of Trent really teaches Pelagianism or semi-Pelagianism.
Why loser don't you just admit you know know Thomistic Teleology from Mechanistic Teleology from a hole in the head?
It's obvious to everyone here including the ID supporters as well as their Thomist foes.
>There is a lot of uncritical acceptance of your characterizations. But how true are they?
If they are not true the burden of proof is on you to show us.
All the experts I read make the opposite claim from you. If you have contrary facts produce them.
But like I said (thought I mangled it because I rushed while posting) Why loser don't you just admit you don't know Thomistic Teleology from Mechanistic Teleology from a hole in the head?
It's obvious.
Your the critic the burden of proof is on you to show Thomism is Mechanistic but that is the same as trying to claim with a straight face natural selection is the work of an external artificer who imposes teleology on something that does not have it by nature.
Internal teleology is compatible with natural selection and Aquinas' teaching on the nature of random events.
The story thus far.
So djindra wants us to believe with a straight face after having clearly not studied either Philosophy (classic or modern), philosophy of science, Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas that Paley's mechanistic teleology is fundamentally the same as Aquinas.
Then he backpedals and claims he didn't really meant what he said but the essentials of Paley and Aquinas' foundations are the same(whatever that means).
Now his new weirdness is to claim [all] teleology implies a mechanistic end, and immanent teleology implies a pervasive mechanistic "life" to all things.
He's saying the same thing (which is nothing)because he really doesn't know what he is talking about.
I can deny god(s) tomorrow and knowing what I have learned from Feser, Oderberg, Agnostic Thomists like Kenny, etc that he is full of shit!
This is the face of the New Atheism. Uneducated morons and fakers without belief in god(s).
Give me a real Atheist like a Jack Smart or Sobel any day of the week compared to these Dawkins/Harris/Hitchens losers!
SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES
THAT DIVINE PROVIDENCE DOES NOT EXCLUDE FORTUNE AND CHANCE
[1] It is also apparent from the foregoing that divine providence does not take away fortune and chance from things.
[2] For it is in the case of things that happen rarely that fortune and chance are said to be present. Now, if some things did not occur in rare instances, all things would happen by necessity. Indeed, things that are contingent in most cases differ from necessary things only in this: they can fail to happen, in a few cases. But it would be contrary to the essential character of divine providence if all things occurred by necessity, as we showed. Therefore, it would also be contrary to the character of divine providence if nothing were to be fortuitous and a matter of chance in things.
[3] Again, it would be contrary to the very meaning of providence if things subject to providence did not act for an end, since it is the function of providence to order all things to their end. Moreover, it would be against the perfection of the universe if no corruptible thing existed, and no power could fail, as is evident from what was said above. Now, due to the fact that an agent fails in regard to an end that is intended, it follows that some things occur by chance. So, it would be contrary to the meaning of providence, and to the perfection of things, if there were no chance events.
[4] Besides, the large number and variety of causes stem from the order of divine providence and control. But, granted this variety of causes, one of them must at times run into another cause and be impeded, or assisted, by it in the production of its effect. Now, from the concurrence of two or more causes it is possible for some chance event to occur, and thus an unintended end comes about due to this causal concurrence. For example, the discovery of a debtor, by a man who has gone to market to sell something, happens because the debtor also went to market. Therefore, it is not contrary to divine providence that there are some fortuitous and chance events among things.
[5] Moreover, what does not exist cannot be the cause of anything. Hence, each thing must stand in the same relation to the fact that it is a cause, as it does to the fact that it is a being. So, depending on the diversity of order in beings, there must also be a diversity of order among causes. Now, it is necessary for the perfection of things that there be among things not only substantial beings but also accidental beings. Indeed, things that do not possess ultimate perfection in their substance must obtain such perfection through accidents, and the more of these there are, the farther are they from the simplicity of God. From the fact, then, that a certain subject has many accidents it follows that it is a being accidentally, because a subject and an accident, and even two accidents of one substance, are a unit and a being accidentally; as in the example of a white man, and of a musical, white being. So, it is necessary to the perfection of things that there should also be some accidental causes. Now, things which result accidentally from any causes are said to happen by chance or fortune. Therefore, it is not contrary to the rational character of providence, which preserves the perfection of things, for certain things to come about as a result of chance or fortune.
[6] Furthermore, that there be order and a gradation of causes is important to the order of divine providence. But the higher a cause is, the greater is its power; and so, its causality applies to a greater number of things. Now, the natural intention of a cause cannot extend beyond its power, for that would be useless. So, the particular intention of a cause cannot extend to all things that can happen. Now, it is due to the fact that some things happen apart from the intention of their agents that there is a possibility of chance or fortuitous occurrence. Therefore, the order of divine providence requires that there be chance and fortune in reality.
[7] Hence it is said: “I saw that the race is not to the swift ... but time and chance in all” (Sirach 9:11), that is, among things here below.
Yeh we can see Aquinas rejects chance no doubt he also denies God is a Trinity............NOT!!!!!!!
It's time to stop making a fool of yourself djindra by make believing you know what you are talking about.
>Those with whom I've had discussions believe miracles happen every day.
Do we define Miracles the way Aquinas does (i.e. a Potency that is actualized directly by God who is Pure Actuality sans threw a top down causality threw secondary agents) or according to Hume's faulty Mechanistic definition (i.e. violations of the LAW OF NATURE)?
Makes a difference since Aquinas is not a Mechanist contrary to the claims of some uneducated chuckleheads.
I'm spent!
Anon & others can continue to pick on Troll boy. He has enough basic mistakes to go around for everybody.
BenYachov March 31, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Some helpful links on Aquinas & Random Chance.
http://thomism.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/if-chance-exists/
http://thomism.wordpress.com/?s=Chance+Random
and on Teleology:
http://payingattentiontothesky.com/2011/01/07/reading-selections-from-teleology-inorganic-and-organic-david-s-oderberg-part-i/
http://payingattentiontothesky.com/2011/01/10/reading-selections-from-teleology-inorganic-and-organic-david-s-oderberg-part-ii/
http://payingattentiontothesky.com/2011/01/03/redefining-a-vocabulary-%E2%80%93-edward-feser/
QUOTE"If you think that what Aristotelians or Thomists mean when they say that teleology pervades the natural world is that certain natural objects exhibit “irreducible specified complexity,” or that some inorganic objects are analogous to machines and/or to biological organs, or that they are best explained as the means by which an “Intelligent Designer” is seeking to achieve certain goals, etc., then you are way off base."END QUOTE
djindra: "A heart has a function. But don't pretend this function is anywhere near the nature of "purpose" as used around here."
I'm not pretending. An object's function usually reveals its purpose.
"A bed has a function. We all know what that is. But what is its final cause? What's its ultimate purpose?"
A bed's final cause is to be something comfortable to sleep on.
"Who put that purpose into the bed? Was it man or God?"
I think you're making too much of this djindra. Final causality is not some mystic, undefinable quality added to objects "by magic". It's just what they're observed (on a regular basis) to do.
Don Jindra April 1, 2011 at 10:58 PM
In regard to your generous quoting of SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES, BOOK THREE, Chapter 74, I should explain something. The chance Aquinas is referring to is not divine chance. It's chance as seen by agents of lesser power such as human beings. So you have badly misused the text. It does not support your case. In fact, it agrees with Paley on his description of chance meetings which often happen when two individuals pursue their own purposeful but separate ends. But God is One, so I am told, so none of this applies to God. I don't see how you failed to understand this. Aquinas is very insistent in this book. From God's point of view there can be no chance. He directs everything towards his end. Otherwise God is imperfect.
BenYachov April 2, 2011 at 4:52 AM
>The chance Aquinas is referring to is not divine chance.
Divine Chance? What the hell is that? I've been studying Theology for 20 years and I have never heard of such a thing! That's like taking about Divine Muscle tone! Or a Divine Gall Bladder! What you think you can just make up nonsense and expect to be taken seriously?
>It's chance as seen by agents of lesser power such as human beings. So you have badly misused the text. It does not support your case.
I reply: No I have used it correctly your the idiot who is making up his own terminology. Divine Chance? So if God stays out in the sun too long he gets a Divine Sun Tan? So let me get this straight. You clearly are one of those low brow fundie Atheist types who believes God is literally an Old Man in the Sky aren't you?
You clearly have an anthropomorphic view of God. Classic Theologians, Philosophers and most educated people in general have learned think in the abstract by now. So what is your damage?
>In fact, it agrees with Paley on his description of chance meetings which often happen when two individuals pursue their own purposeful but separate ends.
Is that what Paley said? Prove it! You can't just make stuff up (like Divine Chance) and expect those of us who have taken the time to learn about the topic, to take you seriously.
>But God is One, so I am told, so none of this applies to God.
Your the one who claimed in his ignorance chance and natural selection where incompatible with Final Causality. I destroyed your argument. Now your best rebuttal is to make stuff up & nay say.
Why don't you simply admit you don't know what you are talking about? Other Atheists who post hear have done that. Atheists I respect & one of them knows way more philosophy than moi. I don't respect you at all because you are a faker.
>I don't see how you failed to understand this. Aquinas is very insistent in this book. From God's point of view there can be no chance. He directs everything towards his end. Otherwise God is imperfect.
So now you admit Chance doesn't apply to the deity but before you where talking about "Divine Chance"?
You can't fake it here. You clearly haven't done your homework.
This is your brain on Dawkins(i.e. regarding anything he has to say on any topic outside of Biology) any questions?
Don Jindra April 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Paley: "There must be chance in the midst of design: by which we mean, that events which are not designed, necessarily arise from the pursuit of events which are designed. One man travelling to York, meets another man travelling to London. Their meeting is by chance, is accidental, and so would be called and reckoned, though the journeys which produced the meeting were, both of them, undertaken with design and from deliberation. The meeting, though accidental, was nevertheless hypothetically necessary, (which is the only sort of necessity that is intelligible:) for if the two journeys were commenced at the time, pursued in the direction, and with the speed, in which and with which, they were in fact begun and performed, the meeting could not be avoided."
This is very similar to, if not exactly the same, as the "chance" you quoted from Aquinas: "The multitude and diversity of causes proceeds from the order of divine providence and arrangement. Supposing an arrangement of many causes, one must sometimes combine with another, so as either to hinder or help it in producing its effect. A chance event arises from a coincidence of two or more causes, in that an end not intended is gained by the coming in of some collateral cause, as the finding of a debtor by him who went to market to make a purchase, when his debtor also came to market."
Aquinas got his example from Aristotle's Physics, Book II, part 4. Here Aristotle effectively denies dumb luck. The last sentence of part 6 reads: "Spontaneity and chance, therefore, are posterior to intelligence and nature. Hence, however true it may be that the heavens are due to spontaneity, it will still be true that intelligence and nature will be prior causes of this All and of many things in it besides."
Clearly all three men viewed chance as a human misunderstanding of the nature of the universe.
At the end of Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Three, Chapter 64 we have this: "Now, by this conclusion the error of the ancient philosophers of nature is refuted, for they said that all things come about as a result of material necessity, the consequence of which would be that all things happen by chance and not from the order of providence."
Obviously Aquinas considered a universe without God to be a world of chance, and strangely, a universe of material necessity to be a place of chance, but a universe of God was one governed and ordered.
So both Paley and Aquinas would deny the "chance" meeting of those two men in their examples was "chance" in God's eyes. We humans call it "chance" only because of our limited knowledge. God does not have that limitation.
It's odd that you keep accusing me of not reading Aquinas when it's so apparent you are not reading or not understanding him.
You've never heard the phrase, "If by some divine chance..."? Seriously?
I admit the term isn't precise, but it is commonly used and not just by common people.
Plato's Republic, Book IX, Glaucon says that a man of sense will stay out of politics. Socrates answers, "certainly in his own city -- yet perhaps not in his native city, unless some divine dispensation should intervene." That's the Rouse translation. Curiously, the Staussian, Allan Boom, translates "divine dispensation" as "divine chance."
Victor Hugo approves of the characterization that Waterloo was a "catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance."
Herodotus, The Histories, Cyrus: "This is your situation, men of Persia: obey me and you shall have these good things... but if you will not obey me, you will have labors unnumbered like your toil of yesterday. Now, then, do as I tell you, and win your freedom. For I think that I myself was born by a divine chance to undertake this work;...'" (Godley translation).
You claim it's a anthropomorphic view of God. That's odd coming at a site where practically every good human quality is attributed to God.
In the interest of precision I'll elaborate. I used "divine chance" as cause not merely sanctioned by God, but cause that surprises even God. I don't think Aquinas would accept that anything surprises God. I don't think Aquinas would agree his god lets things happen on their own, randomly, without purpose.
BenYachov April 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM
This is the backpedaling part when you pretend you where arguing about something else after having been called out on your ignorance.
>Clearly all three men viewed chance as a human misunderstanding of the nature of the universe.
Maybe you need to define what it is you think you mean by "Chance" because I don't see any clear or coherant definition of it on your part. What you said above could be said about two men in an Atheistic Universe governed by Quantum Super Determinism.
Both Darwin & Lamarck believed in species transformism over long periods of time by natural means. It doesn't logically follow therefore Lamarck believed in natural selection as the mechanism for that process since he didn't. Similarity doesn't imply sameness.
All you have shown is Paley & Aquinas both believed in some form of Divine Providence. How does that prove your weird claim Aquinas was a Mechanist? It doesn't. Aquinas believed nature was imbued with four(efficient, Material, Formal and Final) causes. Paley at best two causes(Efficient & Material). What about this nonsensical phrase you invented "Divine Chance"? Where do Aquinas & or Paley talk about that? Or your weird claims teleology implies a mechanistic end, and immanent teleology implies a pervasive mechanistic "life" to all things?
>It's odd that you keep accusing me of not reading Aquinas when it's so apparent you are not reading or not understanding him.
I did read Aquinas rather all you are doing is merely proof texting Aquinas and compairing similar statements in order to uphold your simple minded claim that Aquinas and Paley where the same. I can find similar statements between the Koran and the Bible it doesn't make them the same.
>So both Paley and Aquinas would deny the "chance" meeting of those two men in their examples was "chance" in God's eyes. We humans call it "chance" only because of our limited knowledge. God does not have that limitation.
I thought I made it clear I believed in Divine Providence? If only your reading comprehension skills equaled your proof-texting skills.
>You've never heard the phrase, "If by some divine chance..."? Seriously?
>I admit the term isn't precise, but it is commonly used and not just by common people.
Yeh common people who believe in Evolution say "Gorillas turned into men over time". Which is technically not an accurate scientific description of change by natural selection.
But if I was trying to make a serious argument against evolution(not that I care one way or another. I'm not anti-evolution) I would look foolish using a mere popular convention in a serious technical argument. I don't see where Aquinas has ever formulated a concept of "Divine Chance". Tis silly.
>You claim it's a anthropomorphic view of God. That's odd coming at a site where practically every good human quality is attributed to God.
Unlike you I have read about Aquinas' doctrine of analogy, equivocal& unequivocal language in talking about God. You are taking statements that where either poetic or analogous and treating them in an unequivocal fashion. That is a big no no!
>In the interest of precision I'll elaborate. I used "divine chance" as cause not merely sanctioned by God, but cause that surprises even God. I don't think Aquinas would accept that anything surprises God.
No Classic Theist would. You are correct for once. Only Process Theists or Theistic Personists would believe such crap.
>I don't think Aquinas would agree his god lets things happen on their own, randomly, without purpose.
Accept you need to define what you mean by purpose and not conflate it with what we mean by purpose.
If you would get the chip off your shoulder & withdraw your phony ignorant claims about Paley & Aquinas you would find I can be civil to persons of good will regardless of belief.
But I will not tolerate fakers.
What was it Leo Carton Mollica said early in the post to djindra?
This......
QUOTE"First of all, please make your contentions clear, since otherwise it becomes all but impossible to argue against them.
Third, rather than coming on and telling us, "Teleologists haven't shown anything!" why not intelligently comment on some of the not insignificant philosophical literature on the subject? I, for one, would find such commentary more persuasive that snide combox remarks about theists believing in magic.END QUOTE
You claim. "Aquinas believed nature was imbued with four(efficient, Material, Formal and Final) causes. Paley at best two causes (Efficient & Material)."
Paley certainly believed in "final cause." He approvingly references "final cause" several times in Natural Theology. But there's much more, including:
"There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance without a contriver; order without choice; arrangement, without any thing capable of arranging; subserviency and relation to a purpose, without that which could intend a purpose;"
"I say once more, that it is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds; it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the 'law' does nothing; is nothing."
"If, in tracing these causes, it be said, that we find certain general properties of matter which have nothing in them that bespeaks intelligence, I answer, that, still, the managing of these properties, the pointing and directing them to the uses which we see made of them, demands intelligence in the highest degree."
"In one important respect, however, the theory before us [appetencies, which Paley rejects] coincides with atheistic systems, viz. in that, in the formation of plants and animals, in the structure and use of their parts, it does away final causes." -- a doing away with of which he disagrees.
In fact, the whole book is an argument for "final cause."
>>This is the backpedaling part when you pretend you where arguing about something else after having been called out on your ignorance.<<
In your world your misinterpretation of me becomes my backpeddling.
I said from the beginning that Paley and Aquinas are foundationally the same. I have not changed my opinion. So I'm clueless as to what you mean.
Maybe you think I should make Dawkin's arguments. You've implied that. But I am not Dawkins and I've never read him so I have no idea what you mean by that either.
>>What you said above could be said about two men in an Atheistic Universe governed by Quantum Super Determinism.<<
The issue is how Paley and Aquinas compare to each other. It's irrelevant to me how they might compare to a third party. Let's stick to the determinism implied by Aquinas and Paley and the sort of chance both would deny. You say I can't compare Paley's mechanistic conception of the universe to Aquinas. I think I can compare the two because Paley is less mechanistic while Aquinas is more mechanistic than some here will admit. Both men see God directing the universe. Both see God as omnipresent.
>>Maybe you need to define what it is you think you mean by "Chance" because I don't see any clear or coherant definition of it on your part.<<
Perhaps you should tell me what you find so difficult in the word "chance."
BenYachov & Leo,
>>please make your contentions clear, since otherwise it becomes all but impossible to argue against them.<<
I do think I'm clear but I will try to be more so. In return please refer to what I write, not to what you wish I had written.
>>why do you demand that the teleologist prove that everything is endowed with a final cause?<<
Do you expect me to believe it without credible evidence? If the issue is important to you, and I think it is, you should welcome the opportunity to prove it. Otherwise it seems to me that this site is no more than an exercise in group dynamics.
>>Several finalists would deny that claim; Aristotle, for example, is often interpreted as claiming that only life is teleologically ordered.<<
If someone wants to limit teleology to life, I have no problem sticking to that issue as long as the opponent does likewise.
>>rather than coming on and telling us, "Teleologists haven't shown anything!" why not intelligently comment on some of the not insignificant philosophical literature on the subject?<<
I have.
>>I, for one, would find such commentary more persuasive that snide combox remarks about theists believing in magic.<<
For the record, my "snide" remarks have been trivial compared to what's been shot back. Besides, the "Last Superstition" sets the tone. I realize we're in a hyperbolic age. But if Feser wants to claim atheism is a superstition he can't expect delicacy in return. Nevertheless, you have no idea how many times I've toned down my posts already, not that it matters. I do think any honest person who reads what I've written in the past few days would agree they have all stuck to issues.
BenYachov April 2, 2011 at 10:06 PM
>But if Feser wants to claim atheism is a superstition he can't expect delicacy in return.
You are a clueless idiot! If you had read the Book(which you clearly haven't) the "Superstition" has nothing to do with Atheism per say but with the abandonment of Classical Philosophy in favor of Mechanistic Philosophy(i.e. New Philosophy, Modern etc). The "Superstition" is the false belief Post-enlightenment New Philosophy has refuted the Classic philosophy. Feser shows that is not true.
Additionally Feser attacks "The New Atheism" not all Atheism. He has many kind things to say about Atheistic Philosophers who are not "New". Just as I might attack Theistic Personalism without pity it doesn't logically follow I am attacking all Theism.
Are you really this thick? Get off your fat arse & read your opponent book before making asinine comments about it!
Why is this simple concept so hard for you to understand?
>You claim. "Aquinas believed nature was imbued with four(efficient, Material, Formal and Final) causes. Paley at best two causes (Efficient & Material)."
I claim? It's in Feser's book! It's in the writing of Mortimer Adler! It's known to any expert on Thomism. Any first year Thomistic philosophy student can tell you this! You haven't done any research you have merely proof texted. Any Baptist can do that with a KJV Bible but that doesn't make him a learned Theologian. Proof texting Aquinas doesn't make your silly superficial conflation of him with Paley doesn't make you a philosopher.
>Paley certainly believed in "final cause.etc etc"
Lamarck believed in species transformism over long periods of time by natural means just like Darwin. It still doesn't logically follow that Lamarck was the same as Darwin. Your sophistry is pure rubbish! Paley did not understand Final causes the same way as Aquinas. Live with it! Just has Darwin believed in a different mechanism for species Transformism different from Lamarck(i.e. Natural Selection vs Aquired Traits are inherated). You have not shown Paley believed in Final causality in the same way as Aquinas. You have merely asserted it without proof.
The only likeness between them you have shown is the superficial similarity of both believing in some type of God. Except neither had the same philosophical concept of God or the same underlying philosophy.
>In your world your misinterpretation of me becomes my backpeddling.
You haven't made a single clear coherent argument. You are not a philosopher and your are clearly not interested in learning to think or speak like one.
>I said from the beginning that Paley and Aquinas are foundationally the same.
Which makes about as much sense as claiming Darwin & Lamarck are foundationally the same. They are not! Darwin's mechanism for Species transformism was Natural Selection. Lamarck's was Acquired Traits are Inherited. They are not the same they are at best superficially similar.
>Maybe you think I should make Dawkin's arguments. You've implied that. But I am not Dawkins and I've never read him so I have no idea what you mean by that either.
Rather you are like Dawkins in that it is self evident neither of you has actually studied the subject matter you are commenting on & those of us who have studied is are appalled by both your willful ignorance.
>The issue is how Paley and Aquinas compare to each other.
Yes and you have declared by dogmatic fiat they are the same without having studied either of them. Thus your comparisons are worthless.
>It's irrelevant to me how they might compare to a third party.
It's very relevant in that it shows how you disingenuous you are in your treatment of the subject.
>You say I can't compare Paley's mechanistic conception of the universe to Aquinas.
You have not compared them you have conflated them with one another by fiat. Big difference.
>I think I can compare the two because Paley is less mechanistic while Aquinas is more mechanistic than some here will admit. Both men see God directing the universe. Both see God as omnipresent.
Calling Aquinas mechanistic makes about as much sense as calling Aristotle an Empiricist. Or Hume an Idealist and or a Rationalist.
So many levels of stupid!
The superficial similarity that they where both types of Theists is unremarkable. Just like the fact both Darwin & Lamarck where evolutionists is superficial & unremarkable.
>I do think I'm clear but I will try to be more so.
I have little hope you will but I will leave room to be proven wrong.
>In return please refer to what I write, not to what you wish I had written.
Except you have not extended that courtesy to Feser, Aquinas or Paley so physician heal thyself. (Good advice even if you deny gods).
>Do you expect me to believe it without credible evidence?
Philosophical Evidence or Empirical Evidence? You keep repeating the same errors and equivocations.
>Otherwise it seems to me that this site is no more than an exercise in group dynamics.
You have at best glanced at a few posts & you haven't read anything of note on Aquinas or Aristotle other then a few proof texts. You are just channeling your anti-ID mojo. You are conflating them because you don't have the slightest idea of how to challenge Aquinas.
Your opinion is crap.
>For the record, my "snide" remarks have been trivial compared to what's been shot back.
boo hoo! I have no sympathy for a Creationist who hasn't studied Evolution trying to take on biology students with his know nothing yapping why should I feel any pity for you pretending you really understand either Aquinas or Paley?
Don Jindra April 3, 2011 at 12:27 AM
>>"Superstition" has nothing to do with Atheism per se<<
It's hard to take your word on that. Nevertheless, calling Post-enlightenment New Philosophy a superstition is even worse. I happen to love the USA and our Enlightenment roots. I believe in liberty. I believe science has won the day. So no, Feser does not get points for attacking modernity.
>>I claim? It's in Feser's book!<<
I don't care if it's in Feser's book. He can be wrong. Read Paley. Read Aquinas. Those are primary sources, not Feser.
>>It's in the writing of Mortimer Adler! It's known to any expert on Thomism. Any first year Thomistic philosophy student can tell you this!<<
Any first year Thomistic philosophy student is free to be wrong, and so is Mortimer Adler.
>>You have not shown Paley believed in Final causality in the same way as Aquinas. You have merely asserted it without proof.<<
I was asked for evidence. I was asked to read. I go to primary sources. I repeatedly show the two men thought alike. They even use similar analogies. I uncover the embarassing truth. Once I do this, you conveniently ignore the sources. You don't want to discuss the text. You don't want to counter my evidence with your own. You prefer to send me to secondary sources and see what they say. The truth is, they disagree. And you are switching tactics.
>>It's very relevant in that it shows how you disingenuous you are in your treatment of the subject.<<
That's nonsense. You're avoiding the subject with a tangent.
>>It still doesn't logically follow that Lamarck was the same as Darwin.<<
You keep bring this up but it's a bad analogy.
>>Paley did not understand Final causes the same way as Aquinas.<<
You provide no textual evidence to support this.
>>Philosophical Evidence or Empirical Evidence?<<
It will be hard to argue any case if you ignore what the men wrote.
It's been fun. I promise I won't bug you for a few days. I really should get some work done.
>I don't care if it's in Feser's book. He can be wrong. Read Paley. Read Aquinas. Those are primary sources, not Feser.
Based on that reasoning I should ignore what Dawkins, Coyne and Gould say about Darwin and Evolution and interpret it for myself and rely on my own armature opinion.
You are neither a logical or rational person. You contradict yourself big time.
You say you want evidence but you refuse to look at any. That makes you a hypocrite too.
Let me rephrase...so if a first year biology student or someone with no knowledge in science whatsoever who happens to be a Young Earth Creationist tell me there is no scientific evidence for evolution I should just believe him and refuse to read Dawlkins, Coyne, Gould etc?
I should take his interpretations of any "citations" he gives from primary sources at face value and ignore the experts?
This makes sense too you?
>It's hard to take your word on that. Nevertheless, calling Post-enlightenment New Philosophy a superstition is even worse. I happen to love the USA and our Enlightenment roots. I believe in liberty. I believe science has won the day. So no, Feser does not get points for attacking modernity.
Your are giving an evaluation (a very inaccurate and stupid one) of a work you refuse to read. That is not rational! Regardless of you beliefs about gods.
>It will be hard to argue any case if you ignore what the men wrote.
But it's ok when you do it? I've ignored nothing. You OTOH are clearly inconsistent and irrational.
>I was asked for evidence. I was asked to read. I go to primary sources.
No I asked you to read Feser's arguments(if only so you may be familiar with them. I wasn't demanding accent to them). You have refused and you seem to believe you are still qualified to speak on the subject.
You don't believe in evidence. You are not rational.
>I repeatedly show the two men thought alike.
You showed some undefined similarity nothing more. I showed the same with both Darwin and Lamarck. You gave no rational rebuttal to my argument.
>You keep bring this up but it's a bad analogy.
For example.....
>You don't want to counter my evidence with your own. You prefer to send me to secondary sources and see what they say.
So you reject reading experts? Why don't you simply produce an expert that shows with detailed argument that Paley and Aquinas are identical? Maybe because it doesn't exist?
>You don't want to discuss the text.
Would you want to discuss a Text of Darwin with a YEC who hasn't done any of the relevant background reading?
You are not being rational.
You are a typical New Atheist. An anti-intellectual fundamentalist without god belief. But an anti-intellectual fundamentalist none the less.
>It's been fun. I promise I won't bug you for a few days. I really should get some work done.
You have nothing to teach any of us if only because you have refused to learn.
I'm glad you are not on our side. You are as useless as teats on a bull.
Dianelos Georgoudis, you said...
what is the probability that given the initial conditions of the universe some intelligent species would evolve by NNE? There is nothing in science that so much as suggests what that probability is, and that therefore the claim that this probability is high, or at least not low, is *not* based on the science.
I'd like to ask you a question:
What is the probability that given the initial conditions of the universe, that the Green Bay Packers would win the Super Bowl last year?
Dianelos Georgoudis April 5, 2011 at 2:01 PM
Anonymous wrote: “What is the probability that given the initial conditions of the universe, that the Green Bay Packers would win the Super Bowl last year?”
Assuming the naturalistic interpretation of natural evolution that probability would be virtually zero. As would the probability of humanity evolving.
That’s why I was careful to speak about the probability of the evolution of some intelligent species only. If naturalism is viable then that latter probability must not be very small. For if it is very small, then the fact that we have evolved by natural evolution is evidence against the naturalistic interpretation of natural evolution.
Frater Bovious April 14, 2011 at 3:38 PM
I wade into these deep waters, filled with great white sharks and killer whales, with some temerity. As I paddle about just off shore I have these observations.
The problem with Intelligent Design is that it is not a science, but rather an attempt to build to suit a philosophy in support of a notion. It seems very nearly an act of desperation on the part of folks that fear scientism has captured the minds of the unwary and led them astray. A pseudo-scientific-sounding philosophy has been proposed as an alternate shiny object to dumbfound these same unwary and bring them back to the fold. The notion then is that we can only argue against one shiny object with another shinier object.
There are many issues – not the least of which is that scientism is also not a science; rather it is itself a philosophy purpose built to defend and advance a world view that does not depend on a creator.
The problem with both philosophies is is in that they are purpose built. They do not arise out of contemplation of the true nature of all things. Rather, they are both manufactured to defend a position. They are both lies in that they miss the point. A developed philosophy should help a person to understand who they are and what it all means. It should go without saying that one does not develop an understanding of “who am I” and “what does it all mean?” by first deciding both, and then cobbling together a framework to support a hitherto unsupported whim.
ID does a great disservice by playing on the same field of scientism, and distracting people from the fact that not only is scientism not science, it is also not philosophy. At their best, both are simply examples of marketing.
machinephilosophy April 14, 2011 at 9:09 PM
I don't think it's marketing. And I'm not sure about whether it's successful, but I enjoy how much of a monkey ID has become on the back of naturalism.
And to me, who I am and what is all means is already presupposed to some extent in merely questioning those things.
Catholicism, conservatism, and capital punishment
Inevitable Scholasticism
Unhinged Dissent
Thomism versus the design argument
Pasnau on the history of philosophy
Razor Boy
Beckwith contra Forrest
Scientism roundup
Liberal neutrality update
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Authors A. D. Keramidas A. D. Theocharis A. Nikolopoulou A. Shafarenko Anastasios D. Keramidas Anastasios Keramidas B. Arabatzis Bisdounis, Lambros C. A. Aggelopoulos C. Drouza C. Gamrat C. Jesshope C. Theoharatos C. Varlikli Ch. Antonopoulos Charalambakos, Vasilios-Nektarios Chou, H. Christos Fidas Chryssoula Drouza D. Karageorgopoulos D. Panagiotaras D. Papoulis Despina Toli Dimitrios Papoulis Dionisios Panagiotaras Dori, M. Drosopoulos, Anastasios E. Vitoratos Fakis, M. G. Economou G. Katsagounos G. Pokol G. Tsigaridas Giannetas, V. Giorgos Tsigaridas Hadellis, Loukas Hiroaki Katsuki Hsien-Hsin Chou Huihui Li I. Oner Ifantis, Apostolos J. -M. Philippe J. Madarasz J. Milias-Argitis J. T. Lin J.T. Lin Jiann T’suen Lin John Giapintzakis K. Barkoula Kapsalis, Vasilis Kapsalis, Vasilis Konstantinos C. Christoforidis Kostas Seintis L. Panayiotidou Lefkia Panayiotidou M. Dori M. Fakis M. Stylianou Marcos Fernández-García Marianna Dori Marios Stylianou Mihalis Fakis N. Arabatzis N. B. Arampatzis N. Balis N. Boukos N. Fragoulis Nikos Arabatzis P. Lianos P. Persephonis Panagiotis Lianos Persephonis, P. Peter Persephonis Shu Yin Sridhar Komarneni Stathatos, Ilias Stathatos, Ilias T.-Y. Lin Tsugio Sato U. Bondi V. Dracopoulos V. Giannetas V. Nagygyorgy V. Tsagaris Vassilis Giannetas Y. S. Yen Yung-Sheng Yen Zacharias Viskadourakis
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Kapsalis, V. & Hadellis, L. (2017). Optimal operation scheduling of electric water heaters under dynamic pricing. Sustainable Cities and Society Journal Elsevier, 31, 109–121. [More]
Kapsalis, V., Fidas, C. & Hadellis, L. (2013). Towards a Domain-Specific Context Acquisition, Presentation and Rule-Based Control Platform. Int. J. Pervasive Computing and Communications, 9(1). [More]
Panayiotidou, L., Drouza, C., Arabatzis, N., Lianos, P., Stathatos, I., Viskadourakis, Z. et al. (2013). Structure, Reactivity, Luminescence and Magnetism of Novel Dinuclear Ln3+ Complexes Produced by the Ln3+-Assisted Hydrolysis of 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)tetrazine. Polyhedron, 64, 308-320. [More]
Madarasz, J., Nagygyorgy, V., Stathatos, I. & Pokol, G. (2013). Aging and thermal stability studies on quasi-solid composite electrolytes for Gratzel-type solar cells. Part 1. Application of thermogravimetry and coupled methods of evolved gas analysis (TG/DTA–MS and TG–FTIR). Journal of Thermoanalytical Colorimetry, 113, 1055-1062. [More]
Dori, M., Seintis, K., Stathatos, I., Tsigaridas, G., Lin, T. -., Lin, J. T. et al. (2013). Electron injection studies on TiO2 nanocrystalline films sensitized with fluorene dyes and photovoltaic characterization. The effect of co-adsorption of a bile acid derivative. Chemical Physics Letters, 63, 563. [More]
Panayiotidou, L., Stylianou, M., Arabatzis, N., Drouza, C., Lianos, P., Stathatos, I. et al. (2013). Synthesis, crystal structure and luminescence of novel Eu3+, Sm3+ and Gd3+ complexes of 1,3,5- and 1,2,4-triazines. Polyhedron, 52, 856. [More]
Papoulis, D., Komarneni, S., Panagiotaras, D., Stathatos, I., Toli, D., Christoforidis, K. C. et al. (2013). Halloysite–TiO2 nanocomposites: Synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic activity. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 132–133, 416-422. [More]
Fakis, M., Dori, M., Stathatos, I., Giannetas, V., Persephonis, P., Chou, H.-H. et al. (2013). Electron injection dynamics and efficiency in TiO2 films and quasi-solid state solar cells sensitized with a dipolar fluorene organic dye. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 251, 18-24. [More]
Bisdounis, L. (2012). An accurate and compact MOSFET I-V model for nanometer CMOS circuit analysis. Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), . [More]
Fragoulis, N., Bisdounis, L., Tsagaris, V. & Theoharatos, C. (2012). Mixed-signal low-power techniques in energy harvesting systems. Chapter 10 (pp. 2) in Green mobile devices and networks: Energy optimization and scavenging techniques, CRC Press, , 55-278. [More]
Stathatos, I., Papoulis, D., Aggelopoulos, C. A., Panagiotaras, D. & Nikolopoulou, A. (2012). TiO2/palygorskite, composite nanocrystalline films prepared by surfactant templating route: Synergistic effect to the photocatalytic degradation of an azo-dye in water. Hazardous Materials, 211–212, 68-76. [More]
Karageorgopoulos, D., Stathatos, I. & Vitoratos, E. (2012). Thin ZnO nanocrystalline films for efficient quasi-solid state electrolyte quantum dot sensitized solar cells. Power sources, 219, 9-15. [More]
Panayiotidou, L., Stylianou, M., Arabatzis, N., Drouza, C., Lianos, P., Stathatos, I. et al. (2012). Synthesis, crystal structure and luminescence of novel Eu3+, Sm3+ and Gd3+ complexes of 1,3,5- and 1,2,4-triazines. Polyhedron, International for Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, . [More]
Fakis, M., Dori, M., Stathatos, I., Giannetas, V., Persephonis, P., Chou, H. et al. (2012). Electron injection dynamics and efficiency in TiO2 films and quasi-solid state solar cells sensitized with a dipolar fluorene organic dye. Photochemistry and Photobiology(published on-line), . [More]
Antonopoulos, C., Kapsalis, V. & Hadellis, L (2012). Optimal scheduling of smart homes appliances for the minimization of energy cost under dynamic pricing.. In EEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). [More]
Theocharis, A. D., Charalambakos, V.-N., Drosopoulos, A. & Milias-Argitis, J. (2012). Equivalent circuit of photovoltaic generator using Newton-Raphson algorithm.. Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (COMPEL), 31, 1224-1245. [More]
Barkoula, K., Ifantis, A. & Economou, G. (2011). Long term geo-electric potential signal analysis using the Teager Huang Transform. IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA), . [More]
Bisdounis, L. (2011). Analytical modeling of the overshooting effect in sub-100nm CMOS buffers. Circuits, Systems, and Computers, World Scientific, 7, 1303-1321. [More]
Gamrat, C., Philippe, J. -., Jesshope, C., Shafarenko, A., Stathatos, I. & Bondi, U. (2011). AETHER: Self-adaptive networked entities - Autonomous computing elements for future pervasive applications and technologies. Chapter 7 (pp. 149-184) in Reconfigurable computing: From FPGAs to hardware/software co-design, Springer ., , 149-184. [More]
Balis, N., Dracopoulos, V., Stathatos, I., Boukos, N. & Lianos, P. (2011). A solid-state hybrid solar cell made of nc-TiO2, CdS quantum dots, and P3HT with 2-Amino-1-methylbenzimidazole as an interface modifier. Phys. Chem. C., 115, 10911–10916. [More]
Katsagounos, G., Stathatos, I., Arabatzis, B., Keramidas, A. D. & Lianos, P. (2011). Enhanced photon harvesting in silicon multicrystalline solar cells by new lanthanide complexes as light concentrators. Luminescence, 131, 1776-1781. [More]
Fakis, M., Stathatos, I., Tsigaridas, G., Giannetas, V. & Persephonis, P. (2011). Femtosecond decay and electron transfer dynamics of the organic sensitizer D149 and photovoltaic performance in quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 13429-13437. [More]
Oner, I., Stathatos, I. & Varlikli, C. (2011). White light electroluminescent devices employing an organic-inorganic heterostructure with CdSe quantum dots as red light emitters. , Advances in Optical Technologi(710628). [More]
Arampatzis, N. B., Stathatos, I., Lianos, P. & Keramidas, A. D (2011). Synthesis and characterization of mononuclear Eu(III) complexes with 1,2,4-triazine derivatives -enhanced of luminescence properties. In International Conference on BioInspired Materials for Solar Energy Utilization. [More]
Stathatos, I. (2011). Dye sensitized solar cells as an alternative approach to the conventional photovoltaic technology based on silicon: Recent developments in the field and large scale applications. Chapter in Solar Cells / Book 2, InTech Publications, . [More]
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Lemongrass Chicken Salad at Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop - Costa Mesa
Salads get a bad rap. It’s the name: salad. We Americans associate the word with lettuce, usually iceberg, which is flavorless, bland--the antithesis of a steak. For those on a diet, salad is punishment. But perhaps the comedian John Pinette put it best when he said this about salad:
“Salad isn't food. Salad comes with the food. Salad is a promissory note that something good is going to happen...”
It’s something you eat not necessarily because you want to, but because you want to say you did. But I’ve eaten plenty of salads. I love salads...provided it has things in it that can be loved. My favorite salad is the Indonesian dish gado gado, which is technically called a salad but has tofu, hard boiled eggs, and a peanut sauce that can make anything it touches edible. In fact, there are a lot of Indonesian dishes that are technically salads. It's just Indonesians don't have a word for salad. Salad is food. Food is salad. My unproven hypothesis is that the word “salad” exists only in meat-centric societies that needs something to describe a food that contains mostly vegetable.
The lemongrass chicken salad I had recently at Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop, which has made a name for itself in making salads, is another salad in a short list of Western World salads I’ve enjoyed. When I ate it I felt good about myself. Perhaps it’s because the restaurant is designed to make you feel good about yourself and your dietary decision to eat there. There’s a working garden outside and non-HFCS soda dispensed in the drink fountains. The place looks like a log cabin built by hipsters.
The salad I ate has chicken, but it was beside the point. This salad would have been good without the chicken. What makes it a great is everything else, including the tender, delicate baby mixed greens, the mango, the grilled pineapple, the jicama, the toasted coconut, the cashews, and most of of all, the lychee vinaigrette that has hints of Thai chili, Thai basil and yes, the perfume of that magical herb, lemongrass. This is a salad that's more than a promissory note; it's a salad jackpot.
Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop
234 East 17th St.
http://greenleafchopshop.com
Crave - Santa Ana
Banh Tom (Sweet Potato and Shrimp Fritters) at Van's - Garden Grove
There are two things you need to order at Van's Restaurants. First and foremost are the banh xeo. Van's is, without question, the reigning ruler of these crispy fried Vietnamese pancakes that can be best described as a cross between a French crepe and a Venezuelan arepa. You eat it with a bunch of herbs, sluice it with fish sauce, making little lettuce-wrapped burritos with the scraps of crispy fried batter and the oil-wilted bean sprouts and shrimp.
The second thing you need to order is the banh tom. In fact, just order the banh xeo and banh tom. The two will make what I consider a very lovely lunch.
Banh tom is deep-fried simplicity at its finest and most basic. They take sweet potato, lace it in a light tempura batter, then drop it in the oil with these thick, fat, juicy, gigantic whole shrimp. Traditionally, like at Brodard across the street, they are supposed to arrange the sweet potato sticks to form little rafts on which the shrimp rests. No such effort is made at Van’s. Van’s doesn’t do much more than throw a mess of the potatoes into the fryer and follow it with the shrimp somewhere in the middle. But somehow, Van’s banh tom is much better, crispier, sweeter, more delicate and more decadent than Brodard’s.
Be prepared on how greasy the thing is. It straddles that fine line where you’d say it’s too oily but never goes over it. It’s perfect tangle of hot, fried food. You eat it the same way you eat the banh xeo: with fistfuls of herb and cold dunks into that ambrosial fish sauce.
I should warn those who’ve never been to Van’s that this restaurant is old, well-worn and grimy. The floors seems to be perennially strewn with bits of food from the last group of customers who just finished their own banh xeo and banh tom feasts. There will be a few discarded stems and bits of torn napkin that may not have had a chance to be swept up. The overworked busboys simply can't keep up with the demand for tables and the ravenous appetites of those who come for the banh xeo and the banh tom.
Van's
14122 Brookhurst St
Pocket Burger Shack - Sunset Beach
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The Viking Truck - Orange County
Yes, that is a Space Shuttle in the background. No, it's not a real Space Shuttle, but neither is the Viking ship parked in front of it. The Norse vessel is, in fact, the Viking Truck, a soldier itself in the army of luxe loncheras that has invaded Orange County the past couple of years. But the irony was too delicious for me not to snap a pic, and also, order a corn dog.
Years ago, when this food truck craze was just in its infancy, I wrote somewhere that I wished the Disneyland Corn Dog Truck (you know, the one at the end of Main Street) would break free of its moorings and do a victory lap around Orange County. It offered what’s not only the most affordable and the best thing to eat in the Magic Kingdom, but also the most wonderfule corn dogs this side of the OC Fair.
Well, that’s never going to happen. I’ve seen the Little Red Wagon move. It creeps along at a snail’s pace as if it were stuck on half a gear. And I’m pretty sure the DMV does not consider it street legal.
That’s where The Viking Truck comes in. It serves corn dogs, freshly dipped gigantic ones about the size as Disneyland's. I’ve not done a side-by-side comparison, but I like these just as much.
The batter isn’t as thick, nor are they lopsided and malformed like a petrified amoeba--one of the best qualities of a Disney corn dog--but it is more delicate, and slightly creamier also. The Viking Truck’s batter actually melts after you breach the outer crust. And the wiener beneath is thicker, a better tasting dog than I presume Disneyland now uses (they reportedly changed it to a “healthier” pork-and-chicken blend of some kind).
And there’s this fact: a picture of the Little Red Wagon with Tomorrowland in the background isn’t nearly as anachronistic.
The Viking Truck
http://www.thevikingtruck.com/
LinX - Orange
Goldilocks - Las Vegas
If you like Filipino food and happen to find yourself in Vegas, get thee off the strip and locate Goldilocks on your Google Maps app, stat! You won't regret it. Filipino food, which is surprisingly plentiful in Sin City, is still unappreciated by non-Pinoys even in this increasingly metropolitan town in the middle of the desert; but this, from what I can tell, is where the local Filipinos go when they want a good, bountiful pot of sinigang, thick kare kare, and binagoongan fried rice.
You might be dismissing my recommendation right about now, thinking that you've been to the Cerritos Goldilocks and that it wasn't "all that" compared to Magic Wok. But the Vegas Goldilocks operate their kitchens their own way, answering to no one but their own high standards. It may be in the same Goldilocks family, but the cooking here is as different from the Cerritos branch as your mom's compared to your aunt's.
We ordered a bowl of sinigang and it was one of the finest I've sipped in a long time, with mustard greens, actual pork spare ribs, and pieces of okra that slowly thickened the broth. And as always when we go to this Goldilocks, we ordered the ukoy, a fried nest of shredded yams, zucchini and carrots rendered crispy and greaseless with a whole shrimp stuck to it and a sour-sweet-soy dipping sauce you use to douse.
Don't even try to find ukoy on the menu at the Cerritos Goldilocks...they don't have it, because (say it with me) what happens in the Vegas Goldilocks, stays in the Vegas Goldilocks...
Goldilocks Bake Shop & Restaurant
2797 S Maryland Parkway
Michael's Pizzeria - Long Beach
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Seasons Kitchen USA - Anaheim
A post shared by MonsterMunching (@monstermunching_oc) on Sep 19, 2018 at 1:15pm PDT
Finding Malaysian food that I like in Orange County usually involves driving to Anaheim on the weekends for Seasons Kitchen USA (@seasonskitchenusa), which I reviewed last year for OC Weekly.
But sometimes its Malaysian food finds me, especially now that Seasons Kitchen's Khim Teoh has set up a traveling pop-up lunch shop at certain Irvine, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, and Tustin office parks during the workweek.
And that's good news, because let's face it, for us Malaysian/Singaporean/Indonesian working stiffs, the workweek is when we need this food the most!
Seasons Kitchen USA
641 N. Euclid St.
www.seasonskitchenusa.com
Quan Bun Co Giao Thao - Garden Grove
Icy Cream Roll - Buena Park
A post shared by MonsterMunching (@monstermunching_oc) on Sep 17, 2018 at 7:21am PDT
It’s trendy. It’s overpriced. It’s rolled ice cream and liquid-nitrogen-dipped cereal that causes you to huff and puff white vapor like Pete’s Dragon. And where I got it, Icy Cream Roll, is one of the latest in a slew of eclectic eateries to open at The Source in Buena Park, which is quickly becoming the epicenter of eclectic eateries in Orange County.
Rolled ice cream isn’t new to OC. Other vendors offering the made-to-order frozen delicacy has been around for a couple of years. And the concept of freeze-from-scratch ice cream—whether smeared on a freezing pan or poured into a liquid-nitrogen-filled mixer—has been around for longer than that.
It’s all about the gimmick. In the case of these specimens, the ice cream is so cold, it’s hard as a rock for the better part of ten minutes. And those cereal balls add nothing but special effects.
In the end—after you realize you can get two pints of Haagen-Dazs for how much you spent— it’s still ice cream. But I’ll be damned if it isn’t fun. And what is ice cream if it’s not fun?
Icy Cream Roll
6980 Beach Blvd H-118
Circle Hook - Newport Beach
"Pulutan" by Marvin Gapultos
A post shared by MonsterMunching (@monstermunching_oc) on Sep 8, 2018 at 9:59am PDT
This is a shout out to my old school food blogging comrade from way back: Marvin Gapultos. He’s the creator of quintessential Filipino food blog, Burnt Lumpia. And when the rest of us were still writing about food trucks, he went out there and started actually started food truck, Manila Machine, LA’s first Filipino food truck.
He followed that with “Adobo Road” one of the most adroit, well-researched cookbooks on Filipino cuisine. Now he’s about to drop his newest cookbook. It’s called “Pulutan”, in which he focuses on Filipino bar bites, appetizers, and street food--basically stuff that goes well with beer. It’s on Amazon pre-order now and will be out this week.
Marvin sent me an advance copy and I can tell I’m going to have a lot of fun trying the recipes from this book, especially his corn-dogged kwek-kwek (quail eggs), a fun Filipino street food merged with a fun American county fair food. The cookbook is full of why-didn't-I-think-of-that inventions like this, which I guarantee will be copied by trendy American restaurants who are already realizing that Filipino cuisine is awesome, underrated, and here to stay.
KoJa Kitchen - Tustin
Sweet-and-Sour Pork Ribs at Din Tai Fung - Costa Mesa
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If I had to guess the secret to Din Tai Fung’s recipes, it’s this: get quality ingredients; do only what it takes to let those quality ingredients shine.
This is why, I think, the pork chop tastes the best a pork chop can taste; and the green beans always snap as though it’s at the peak of its season.
But even when the kitchen uses a heavy sauce, such as in their newest dish of sweet-and-sour pork ribs, no single ingredient outshines the other—everything is in perfect balance. Behind the shellacking of sticky glaze made with Shaoxing wine, rock sugar, and black vinegar, I can still taste the pork—which was itself sweet and soft where it wasn't covered in that caramelized lacquer. It’s easily one of the best things I’ve had at Din Tai Fung, and that’s saying a lot!
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Playa Mesa - Costa Mesa
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NINTH VIBRATION
L. ADAMS BECK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.
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Atlantic Monthly , Asia , and the Japanese
Grassho , in which periodicals most of
these stories have appeared, for their
kindly interest in their publication in
book form,
L. ADAMS BECK,
THE NINTH VIBRATION
THERE is a place uplifted nine thousand feet in purest air where one of the most ancient tracks in the world runs from India into Tibet. It leaves Simla of the Imperial councils by a stately road; it passes beyond, but now narrowing, climbing higher beside the khuds or steep drops to the precipitous valleys beneath, and the rumor of Simla grows distant and the way is quiet, for, owing to the danger of driving horses above the khuds, such baggage as you own must be carried by coolies, and you yourself must either ride on horseback or in the little horseless carriage of the Orient, here drawn and pushed by four men. And presently the deodars darken the way with a solemn presence, for--
These are the Friars of the wood, The Brethren of the Solitude Hooded and grave--"
--their breath most austerely pure in the gradually chilling air. Their companies increase and now the way is through a great wood where it has become a trail and no more, and still it climbs for many miles and finally a rambling bungalow, small and low, is sighted in the deeps of the trees, a mountain stream from unknown heights falling beside it. And this is known as the House in the Woods. Very few people are permitted to go there, for the owner has no care for money and makes no provision for guests. You must take your own servant and the khansamah will cook you such simple food as men expect in the wilds, and that is all. You stay as long as you please and when you leave not even a gift to the khansamah is permitted.
I had been staying in Ranipur of the plains while I considered the question of getting to Upper Kashmir by the route from Simla along the old way to Chinese Tibet where I would touch Shipki in the Dalai Lama's territory and then pass on to Zanskar and so down to Kashmir--a tremendous route through the Himalaya and a crowning experience of the mightiest mountain scenery in the world. I was at Ranipur for the purpose of consulting my old friend Olesen, now an irrigation official in the Ranipur district--a man who had made this journey and nearly lost his life in doing it. It is not now perhaps so dangerous as it was, and my life was of no particular value to any one but myself, and the plan interested me.
I pass over the long discussions of ways and means in the blinding heat of Ranipur. Olesen put all his knowledge at my service and never uttered a word of the envy that must have filled him as he looked at the distant snows cool and luminous in blue air, and, shrugging good-natured shoulders, spoke of the work that lay before him on the burning plains until the terrible summer should drag itself to a close. We had vanquished the details and were smoking in comparative silence one night on the veranda, when he said in his slow reflective way;
"You don't like the average hotel, Ormond, and you'll like it still less up Simla way with all the Simla crowd of grass-widows and fellows out for as good a time as they can cram into the hot weather. I wonder if I could get you a permit for The House in the Woods while you're waiting to fix up your men and route for Shipki."
He explained and of course I jumped at the chance. It belonged, he said, to a man named Rup Singh, a pandit, or learned man of Ranipur. He had always spent the summer there, but age and failing health made this impossible now, and under certain conditions he would occasionally allow people known to friends of his own to put up there.
"And Rup Singh and I are very good friends," Olesen said; "I won his heart by discovering the lost Sukh Mandir, or Hall of Pleasure, built many centuries ago by a Maharao of Ranipur for a summer retreat in the great woods far beyond Simla. There are lots of legends about it here in Ranipur. They call it The House of Beauty. Rup Singh's ancestor had been a close friend of the Maharao and was with him to the end, and that's why he himself sets such store on the place. You have a good chance if I ask for a permit."
He told me the story and since it is the heart of my own I give it briefly. Many centuries ago the Ranipur Kingdom was ruled by the Maharao Rai Singh a prince of the great lunar house of the Rajputs. Expecting a bride from some far away kingdom (the name of this is unrecorded) he built the Hall of Pleasure as a summer palace, a house of rare and costly beauty. A certain great chamber he lined with carved figures of the Gods and their stories, almost unsurpassed for truth and life. So, with the pine trees whispering about it the secret they sigh to tell, he hoped to create an earthly Paradise with this Queen in whom all loveliness was perfected. And then some mysterious tragedy ended all his hopes. It was rumoured that when the Princess came to his court, she was, by some terrible mistake, received with insult and offered the position only of one of his women. After that nothing was known. Certain only is it that he fled to the hills, to the home of his broken hope, and there ended his days in solitude, save for the attendance of two faithful friends who would not abandon him even in the ghostly quiet of the winter when the pine boughs were heavy with snow and a spectral moon stared at the panthers shuffling through the white wastes beneath. Of these two Rup Singh's ancestor was one. And in his thirty fifth year the Maharao died and his beauty and strength passed into legend and his kingdom was taken by another and the jungle crept silently over his Hall of Pleasure and the story ended.
"There was not a memory of the place up there," Olesen went on. "Certainly I never heard anything of it when I went up to the Shipki in 1904. But I had been able to be useful to Rup Singh and he gave me a permit for The House in the Woods, and I stopped there for a few days' shooting. I remember that day so well. I was wandering in the dense woods while my men got their midday grub, and I missed the trail somehow and found myself in a part where the trees were dark and thick and the silence heavy as lead. It was as if the trees were on guard--they stood shoulder to shoulder and stopped the way. Well, I halted, and had a notion there was something beyond that made me doubt whether to go on. I must have stood there five minutes hesitating. Then I pushed on, bruising the thick ferns under my shooting boots and stooping under the knotted boughs. Suddenly I tramped out of the jungle into a clearing, and lo and behold a ruined House, with blocks of marble lying all about it, and carved pillars and a great roof all being slowly smothered by the jungle. The weirdest thing you ever saw. I climbed some fallen columns to get a better look, and as I did I saw a face flash by at the arch of a broken window. I sang out in Hindustani, but no answer: only the echo from the woods. Somehow that dampened my ardour, and I didn't go in to what seemed like a great ruined hall for the place was so eerie and lonely, and looked mighty snaky into the bargain. So I came ingloriously away and told Rup Singh. And his whole face changed. 'That is The House of Beauty,' he said. 'All my life have I sought it and in vain. For, friend of my soul, a man must lose himself that he may find himself and what lies beyond, and the trodden path has ever been my doom. And you who have not sought have seen. Most strange are the way of the Gods.' Later on I knew this was why he had always gone up yearly, thinking and dreaming God knows what. He and I tried for the place together, but in vain and the whole thing is like a dream. Twice he has let friends of mine stay at The House in the Woods, and I think he won't refuse now."
"Did he ever tell you the story?"
"Never. I only know what I've picked up here. Some horrible mistake about the Rani that drove the man almost mad with remorse. I've heard bits here and there. There's nothing so vital as tradition in India."
"I wonder what really happened."
"That we shall never know. I got a little old picture of the Maharao--said to be painted by a Pahari artist. It's not likely to be authentic, but you never can tell. A Brahman sold it to me that he might complete his daughter's dowry, and hated doing it."
"May I see it?"
"Why certainly. Not a very good light, but--can do, as the Chinks say."
He brought it out rolled in silk stuff and I carried it under the hanging lamp. A beautiful young man indeed, with the air of race these people have beyond all others,--a cold haughty face, immovably dignified. He sat with his hands resting lightly on the arms of his chair of State. A crescent of rubies clasped the folds of the turban and from this sprang an aigrette scattering splendours. The magnificent hilt of a sword was ready beside him. The face was not only beautiful but arresting.
"A strange picture," I said. "The artist has captured the man himself. I can see him trampling on any one who opposed him, and suffering in the same cold secret way. It ought to be authentic if it isn't. Don't you know any more?"
"Nothing. Well--to bed, and tomorrow I'll see Rup Singh."
I was glad when he returned with the permission. I was to be very careful, he said, to make no allusion to the lost palace, for two women were staying at the House in the Woods--a mother and daughter to whom Rup Singh had granted hospitality because of an obligation he must honor. But with true Oriental distrust of women he had thought fit to make no confidence to them. I promised and asked Olesen if he knew them.
"Slightly. Canadians of Danish blood like my own. Their name is Ingmar. Some people think the daughter good-looking. The mother is supposed to be clever; keen on occult subjects which she came back to India to study. The husband was a great naturalist and the kindest of men. He almost lived in the jungle and the natives had all sorts of rumours about his powers. You know what they are. They said the birds and beasts followed him about. Any old thing starts a legend."
"What was the connection with Rup Singh?"
"He was in difficulties and undeservedly, and Ingmar generously lent him money at a critical time, trusting to his honour for repayment. Like most Orientals he never forgets a good turn and would do anything for any of the family--except trust the women with any secret he valued. The father is long dead. By the way Rup Singh gave me a queer message for you. He said; 'Tell the Sahib these words--"Let him who finds water in the desert share his cup with him who dies of thirst."' He is certainly getting very old. I don't suppose he knew himself what he meant."
I certainly did not. However my way was thus smoothed for me and I took the upward road, leaving Olesen to the long ungrateful toil of the man who devotes his life to India without sufficient time or knowledge to make his way to the inner chambers of her beauty. There is no harder mistress unless you hold the pass-key to her mysteries, there is none of whom so little can be told in words but who kindles so deep a passion. Necessity sometimes takes me from that enchanted land, but when the latest dawns are shining in my skies I shall make my feeble way back to her and die at her worshipped feet. So I went up from Kalka.
I have never liked Simla. It is beautiful enough--eight thousand feet up in the grip of the great hills looking toward the snows, the famous summer home of the Indian Government. Much diplomacy is whispered on Observatory Hill and many are the lighter diversions of which Mr. Kipling and lesser men have written. But Simla is also a gateway to many things--to the mighty deodar forests that clothe the foothills of the mountains, to Kulu, to the eternal snows, to the old, old bridle way that leads up to the Shipki Pass and the mysteries of Tibet--and to the strange things told in this story. So I passed through with scarcely a glance at the busy gayety of the little streets and the tiny shops where the pretty ladies buy their rouge and powder. I was attended by my servant Ali Khan, a Mohammedan from Nagpur, sent up with me by Olesen with strong recommendation. He was a stout walker, so too am I, and an inveterate dislike to the man-drawn carriage whenever my own legs would serve me decided me to walk the sixteen miles to the House in the Woods, sending on the baggage. Ali Khan despatched it and prepared to follow me, the fine cool air of the hills giving us a zest.
"Subhan Alla! (Praise be to God!) the air is sweet!" he said, stepping out behind me. "What time does the Sahib look to reach the House?"
"About five or six. Now, Ali Khan, strike out of the road. You know the way."
So we struck up into the glorious pine woods, mountains all about us. Here and there as we climbed higher was a little bank of forgotten snow, but spring had triumphed and everywhere was the waving grace of maiden-hair ferns, banks of violets and strangely beautiful little wild flowers. These woods are full of panthers, but in day time the only precaution necessary is to take no dog,--a dainty they cannot resist. The air was exquisite with the sun-warm scent of pines, and here and there the trees broke away disclosing mighty ranges of hills covered with rich blue shadows like the bloom on a plum,--the clouds chasing the sunshine over the mountain sides and the dark green velvet of the robe of pines. I looked across ravines that did not seem gigantic and yet the villages on the other side were like a handful of peas, so tremendous was the scale. I stood now and then to see the rhododendrons, forest trees here with great trunks and massive boughs glowing with blood-red blossom, and time went by and I took no count of it, so glorious was the climb.
It must have been hours later when it struck me that the sun was getting low and that by now we should be nearing The House in the Woods. I said as much to Ali Khan. He looked perplexed and agreed. We had reached a comparatively level place, the trail faint but apparent, and it surprised me that we heard no sound of life from the dense wood where our goal must be.
"I know not, Presence," he said. "May his face be blackened that directed me. I thought surely I could not miss the way, and yet--"
We cast back and could see no trail forking from the one we were on. There was nothing for it but to trust to luck and push on. But I began to be uneasy and so was the man. I had stupidly forgotten to unpack my revolver, and worse, we had no food, and the mountain air is an appetiser, and at night the woods have their dangers, apart from being absolutely trackless. We had not met a living being since we left the road and there seemed no likelihood of asking for directions. I stopped no longer for views but went steadily on, Ali Khan keeping up a running fire of low-voiced invocations and lamentations. And now it was dusk and the position decidedly unpleasant.
It was at that moment I saw a woman before us walking lightly and steadily under the pines. She must have struck into the trail from the side for she never could have kept before us all the way. A native woman, but wearing the all-concealing boorka, more like a town dweller than a woman of the hills. I put on speed and Ali Khan, now very tired, toiled on behind me as I came up with her and courteously asked the way. Her face was entirely hidden, but the answering voice was clear and sweet. I made up my mind she was young, for it had the bird-like thrill of youth.
"If the Presence continues to follow this path he will arrive. It is not far. They wait for him."
That was all. It left me with a desire to see the veiled face. We passed on and Ali Khan looked fearfully back.
"Ajaib! (Wonderful!) A strange place to meet one of the purdah-nashin (veiled women) ," he muttered. "What would she be doing up here in the heights? She walked like a Khanam (khan's wife) and I saw the gleam of gold under the boorka."
I turned with some curiosity as he spoke, and lo! there was no human being in sight. She had disappeared from the track behind us and it was impossible to say where. The darkening trees were beginning to hold the dusk and it seemed unimaginable that a woman should leave the way and take to the dangers of the woods.
"Puna-i-Khoda--God protect us!" said Ali Khan in a shuddering whisper. "She was a devil of the wilds. Press on, Sahib. We should not be here in the dark."
There was nothing else to do. We made the best speed we could, and the trees grew more dense and the trail fainter between the close trunks, and so the night came bewildering with the expectation that we must pass the night unfed and unarmed in the cold of the heights. They might send out a search party from The House in the Woods--that was still a hope, if there were no other. And then, very gradually and wonderfully the moon dawned over the tree tops and flooded the wood with mysterious silver lights and about her rolled the majesty of the stars. We pressed on into the heart of the night. From the dense black depths we emerged at last. An open glade lay before us--the trees falling back to right and left to disclose what?
A long low house of marble, unlit, silent, bathed in pale splendour and shadow. About it stood great deodars, clothed in clouds of the white blossoming clematis, ghostly and still. Acacias hung motionless trails of heavily scented bloom as if carved in ivory. It was all silent as death. A flight of nobly sculptured steps led up to a broad veranda and a wide open door with darkness behind it. Nothing more.
I forced myself to shout in Hindustani--the cry seeming a brutal outrage upon the night, and an echo came back numbed in the black woods. I tried once more and in vain. We stood absorbed also into the silence.
"Ya Alla! it is a house of the dead!" whispered Ali Khan, shuddering at my shoulder,--and even as the words left his lips I understood where we were. "It is the Sukh Mandir ," I said. "It is the House of the Maharao of Ranipur."
It was impossible to be in Ranipur and hear nothing of the dead house of the forest and Ali Khan had heard--God only knows what tales. In his terror all discipline, all the inborn respect of the native forsook him, and without word or sign he turned and fled along the track, crashing through the forest blind and mad with fear. It would have been insanity to follow him, and in India the first rule of life is that the Sahib shows no fear, so I left him to his fate whatever it might be, believing at the same time that a little reflection and dread of the lonely forest would bring him to heel quickly.
I stood there and the stillness flowed like water about me. It was as though I floated upon it--bathed in quiet. My thoughts adjusted themselves. Possibly it was not the Sukh Mandir. Olesen had spoken of ruin. I could see none. At least it was shelter from the chill which is always present at these heights when the sun sets,--and it was beautiful as a house not made with hands. There was a sense of awe but no fear as I went slowly up the great steps and into the gloom beyond and so gained the hall.
The moon went with me and from a carven arch filled with marble tracery rained radiance that revealed and hid. Pillars stood about me, wonderful with horses ramping forward as in the Siva Temple at Vellore. They appeared to spring from the pillars into the gloom urged by invisible riders, the effect barbarously rich and strange motion arrested, struck dumb in a violent gesture, and behind them impenetrable darkness. I could not see the end of this hall--for the moon did not reach it, but looking up I beheld the walls fretted in great panels into the utmost splendour of sculpture, encircling the stories of the Gods amid a twining and under-weaving of leaves and flowers. It was more like a temple than a dwelling. Siva, as Nataraja the Cosmic Dancer, the Rhythm of the Universe, danced before me, flinging out his arms in the passion of creation. Kama, the Indian Eros, bore his bow strung with honey-sweet black bees that typify the heart's desire. Krishna the Beloved smiled above the herd-maidens adoring at his feet. Ganesha the Elephant-Headed, sat in massive calm, wreathing his wise trunk about him. And many more. But all these so far as I could see tended to one centre panel larger than any, representing two life-size figures of a dim beauty. At first I could scarcely distinguish one from the other in the upward-reflected light, and then, even as I stood, the moving moon revealed the two as if floating in vapor. At once I recognized the subject--I had seen it already in the ruined temple of Ranipur, though the details differed. Parvati, the Divine Daughter of the Himalaya, the Emanation of the mighty mountains, seated upon a throne, listening to a girl who played on a Pan pipe before her. The goddess sat, her chin leaned upon her hand, her shoulders slightly inclined in a pose of gentle sweetness, looking down upon the girl at her feet, absorbed in the music of the hills and lonely places. A band of jewels, richly wrought, clasped the veil on her brows, and below the bare bosom a glorious girdle clothed her with loops and strings and tassels of jewels that fell to her knees--her only garment.
The girl was a lovely image of young womanhood, the proud swell of the breast tapering to the slim waist and long limbs easily folded as she half reclined at the divine feet, her lips pressed to the pipe. Its silent music mysteriously banished fear. The sleep must be sweet indeed that would come under the guardianship of these two fair creatures--their gracious influence was dewy in the air. I resolved that I would spend the night beside them. Now with the march of the moon dim vistas of the walls beyond sprang into being. Strange mythologies--the incarnations of Vishnu the Preserver, the Pastoral of Krishna the Beautiful. I promised myself that next day I would sketch some of the loveliness about me. But the moon was passing on her way--I folded the coat I carried into a pillow and lay down at the feet of the goddess and her nymph. Then a moonlit quiet. I slept in a dream of peace.
Sleep annihilates time. Was it long or short when I woke like a man floating up to the surface from tranquil deeps? That I cannot tell, but once more I possessed myself and every sense was on guard.
My hearing first. Bare feet were coming, falling softly as leaves, but unmistakable. There was a dim whispering but I could hear no word. I rose on my elbow and looked down the long hall. Nothing. The moonlight lay in pools of light and seas of shadow on the floor, and the feet drew nearer. Was I afraid? I cannot tell, but a deep expectation possessed me as the sound grew like the rustle of grasses parted in a fluttering breeze, and now a girl came swiftly up the steps, irradiate in the moonlight, and passing up the hall stood beside me. I could see her robe, her feet bare from the jungle, but her face wavered and changed and re-united like the face of a dream woman. I could not fix it for one moment, yet knew this was the messenger for whom I had waited all my life--for whom one strange experience, not to be told at present, had prepared me in early manhood. Words came, and I said:
"Is this a dream?"
"No. We meet in the Ninth Vibration. All here is true."
"Is a dream never true?"
"Sometimes it is the echo of the Ninth Vibration and therefore a harmonic of truth. You are awake now. It is the day-time that is the sleep of the soul. You are in the Lower Perception, wherein the truth behind the veil of what men call Reality is perceived."
"Can I ascend?"
"I cannot tell. That is for you, not me."
"What do I perceive tonight?"
"The Present as it is in the Eternal. Say no more. Come with me."
She stretched her hand and took mine with the assurance of a goddess, and we went up the hall where the night had been deepest between the great pillars.
Now it is very clear to me that in every land men, when the doors of perception are opened, will see what we call the Supernatural clothed in the image in which that country has accepted it. Blake, the mighty mystic, will see the Angels of the Revelation, driving their terrible way above Lambeth--it is not common nor unclean. The fisherman, plying his coracle on the Thames will behold the consecration of the great new Abbey of Westminster celebrated with mass and chant and awful lights in the dead mid-noon of night by that Apostle who is the Rock of the Church. Before him who wanders in Thessaly Pan will brush the dewy lawns and slim-girt Artemis pursue the flying hart. In the pale gold of Egyptian sands the heavy brows of Osiris crowned with the pshent will brood above the seer and the veil of Isis tremble to the lifting. For all this is the rhythm to which the souls of men are attuned and in that vibration they will see, and no other, since in this the very mountains and trees of the land are rooted. So here, where our remote ancestors worshipped the Gods of Nature, we must needs stand before the Mystic Mother of India, the divine daughter of the Himalaya.
How shall I describe the world we entered? The carvings upon the walls had taken life they had descended. It was a gathering of the dreams men have dreamed here of the Gods, yet most real and actual. They watched in a serenity that set them apart in an atmosphere of their own--forms of indistinct majesty and august beauty, absolute, simple, and everlasting. I saw them as one sees reflections in rippled water--no more. But all faces turned to the place where now a green and flowering leafage enshrined and partly hid the living Nature Goddess, as she listened to a voice that was not dumb to me. I saw her face only in glimpses of an indescribable sweetness, but an influence came from her presence like the scent of rainy pine forests, the coolness that breathes from great rivers, the passion of Spring when she breaks on the world with a wave of flowers. Healing and life flowed from it. Understanding also. It seemed I could interpret the very silence of the trees outside into the expression of their inner life, the running of the green life-blood in their veins, the delicate trembling of their finger-tips.
My companion and I were not heeded. We stood hand in hand like children who have innocently strayed into a palace, gazing in wonderment. The august life went its way upon its own occasions, and, if we would, we might watch. Then the voice, clear and cold, proceeding, as it were, with some story begun before we had strayed into the Presence, the whole assembly listening in silence.
"--and as it has been so it will be, for the Law will have the blind soul carried into a body which is a record of the sins it has committed, and will not suffer that soul to escape from re-birth into bodies until it has seen the truth--"
And even as this was said and I listened, knowing myself on the verge of some great knowledge, I felt sleep beginning to weigh upon my eyelids. The sound blurred, flowed unsyllabled as a stream, the girl's hand grew light in mine; she was fading, becoming unreal; I saw her eyes like faint stars in a mist. They were gone. Arms seemed to receive me--to lay me to sleep and I sank below consciousness, and the night took me.
When I awoke the radiant arrows of the morning were shooting into the long hall where I lay, but as I rose and looked about me, strange--most strange, ruin encircled me everywhere. The blue sky was the roof. What I had thought a palace lost in the jungle, fit to receive its King should he enter, was now a broken hall of State; the shattered pillars were festooned with waving weeds, the many coloured lantana grew between the fallen blocks of marble. Even the sculptures on the walls were difficult to decipher. Faintly I could trace a hand, a foot, the orb of a woman's bosom, the gracious outline of some young God, standing above a crouching worshipper. No more. Yes, and now I saw above me as the dawn touched it the form of the Dweller in the Windhya Hills, Parvati the Beautiful, leaning softly over something breathing music at her feet. Yet I knew I could trace the almost obliterated sculpture only because I had already seen it defined in perfect beauty. A deep crack ran across the marble; it was weathered and stained by many rains, and little ferns grew in the crevices, but I could reconstruct every line from my own knowledge. And how? The Parvati of Ranipur differed in many important details. She stood, bending forward, whereas this sweet Lady sat. Her attendants were small satyr-like spirits of the wilds, piping and fluting, in place of the reclining maiden. The sweeping scrolls of a great halo encircled her whole person. Then how could I tell what this nearly obliterated carving had been? I groped for the answer and could not find it. I doubted--
"Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten of the insane root
That takes the reason captive?"
Memory rushed over me like the sea over dry sands. A girl--there had been a girl--we had stood with clasped hands to hear a strange music, but in spite of the spiritual intimacy of those moments I could not recall her face. I saw it cloudy against a background of night and dream, the eyes remote as stars, and so it eluded me. Only her presence and her words survived; "We meet in the Ninth Vibration. All here is true." But the Ninth Vibration itself was dreamland. I had never heard the phrase I could not tell what was meant, nor whether my apprehension was true or false. I knew only that the night had taken her and the dawn denied her, and that, dream or no dream, I stood there with a pang of loss that even now leaves me wordless.
A bird sang outside in the acacias, clear and shrill for day, and this awakened my senses and lowered me to the plane where I became aware of cold and hunger, and was chilled with dew. I passed down the tumbled steps that had been a stately ascent the night before and made my way into the jungle by the trail, small and lost in fern, by which we had come. Again I wandered, and it was high noon before I heard mule bells at a distance, and, thus guided, struck down through the green tangle to find myself, wearied but safe, upon the bridle way that leads to Fagu and the far Shipki. Two coolies then directed me to The House in the Woods.
All was anxiety there. Ali Khan had arrived in the night, having found his way under the guidance of blind flight and fear. He had brought the news that I was lost in the jungle and amid the dwellings of demons. It was, of course, hopeless to search in the dark, though the khansamah and his man had gone as far as they dared with lanterns and shouting, and with the daylight they tried again and were even now away. It was useless to reproach the man even if I had cared to do so. His ready plea was that as far as men were concerned he was as brave as any (which was true enough as I had reason to know later) but that when it came to devilry the Twelve Imaums themselves would think twice before facing it.
"Inshalla ta-Alla! (If the sublime God wills!) this unworthy one will one day show the Protector of the poor, that he is a respectable person and no coward, but it is only the Sahibs who laugh in the face of devils."
He went off to prepare me some food, consumed with curiosity as to my adventures, and when I had eaten I found my tiny whitewashed cell, for the room was little more, and slept for hours.
Late in the afternoon I waked and looked out. A low but glowing sunlight suffused the wild garden reclaimed from the strangle-hold of the jungle and hemmed in with rocks and forest. A few simple flowers had been planted here and there, but its chief beauty was a mountain stream, brown and clear as the eyes of a dog, that fell from a crag above into a rocky basin, maidenhair ferns growing in such masses about it that it was henceforward scarcely more than a woodland voice. Beside it two great deodars spread their canopies, and there a woman sat in a low chair, a girl beside her reading aloud. She had thrown her hat off and the sunshine turned her massed dark hair to bronze. That was all I could see. I went out and joined them, taking the note of introduction which Olesen had given me.
I pass over the unessentials of my story; their friendly greetings and sympathy for my adventure. It set us at ease at once and I knew my stay would be the happier for their presence though it is not every woman one would choose as a companion in the great mountain country. But what is germane to my purpose must be told, and of this a part is the personality of Brynhild Ingmar. That she was beautiful I never doubted, though I have heard it disputed and smiled inwardly as the disputants urged lip and cheek and shades of rose and lily, weighing and appraising. Let me describe her as I saw her or, rather, as I can, adding that even without all this she must still have been beautiful because of the deep significance to those who had eyes to see or feel some mysterious element which mingled itself with her presence comparable only to the delight which the power and spiritual essence of Nature inspires in all but the dullest minds. I know I cannot hope to convey this in words. It means little if I say I thought of all quiet lovely solitary things when I looked into her calm eyes,--that when she moved it was like clear springs renewed by flowing, that she seemed the perfect flowering of a day in June, for these are phrases. Does Nature know her wonders when she shines in her strength? Does a woman know the infinite meanings her beauty may have for the beholder? I cannot tell. Nor can I tell if I saw this girl as she may have seemed to those who read only the letter of the book and are blind to its spirit, or in the deepest sense as she really was in the sight of That which created her and of which she was a part. Surely it is a proof of the divinity of love that in and for a moment it lifts the veil of so-called reality and shows each to the other mysteriously perfect and inspiring as the world will never see them, but as they exist in the Eternal, and in the sight of those who have learnt that the material is but the dream, and the vision of love the truth.
I will say then, for the alphabet of what I knew but cannot tell, that she had the low broad brows of a Greek Nature Goddess, the hair swept back wing-like from the temples and massed with a noble luxuriance. It lay like rippled bronze, suggesting something strong and serene in its essence. Her eyes were clear and gray as water, the mouth sweetly curved above a resolute chin. It was a face which recalled a modelling in marble rather than the charming pastel and aquarelle of a young woman's colouring, and somehow I thought of it less as the beauty of a woman than as some sexless emanation of natural things, and this impression was strengthened by her height and the long limbs, slender and strong as those of some youth trained in the pentathlon, subject to the severest discipline until all that was superfluous was fined away and the perfect form expressing the true being emerged. The body was thus more beautiful than the face, and I may note in passing that this is often the case, because the face is more directly the index of the restless and unhappy soul within and can attain true beauty only when the soul is in harmony with its source.
She was a little like her pale and wearied mother. She might resemble her still more when the sorrow of this world that worketh death should have had its will of her. I had yet to learn that this would never bc that she had found the open door of escape.
We three spent much time together in the days that followed. I never tired of their company and I think they did not tire of mine, for my wanderings through the world and my studies in the ancient Indian literatures and faiths with the Pandit Devaswami were of interest to them both though in entirely different ways. Mrs. Ingmar was a woman who centred all her interests in books and chiefly in the scientific forms of occult research. She was no believer in anything outside the range of what she called human experience. The evidences had convinced her of nothing but a force as yet unclassified in the scientific categories and all her interest lay in the undeveloped powers of brain which might be discovered in the course of ignorant and credulous experiment. We met therefore on the common ground of rejection of the so-called occultism of the day, though I knew even then, and how infinitely better now, that her constructions were wholly misleading.
Nearly all day she would lie in her chair under the deodars by the delicate splash and ripple of the stream. Living imprisoned in the crystal sphere of the intellect she saw the world outside, painted in few but distinct colours, small, comprehensible, moving on a logical orbit. I never knew her posed for an explanation. She had the contented atheism of a certain type of French mind and found as much ease in it as another kind of sweet woman does in her rosary and confessional.
"I cannot interest Brynhild," she said, when I knew her better. "She has no affinity with science. She is simply a nature worshipper, and in such places as this she seems to draw life from the inanimate life about her. I have sometimes wondered whether she might not be developed into a kind of bridge between the articulate and the inarticulate, so well does she understand trees and flowers. Her father was like that--he had all sorts of strange power with animals and plants, and thought he had more than he had. He could never realize that the energy of nature is merely mechanical."
"You think all energy is mechanical?"
"Certainly. We shall lay our finger on the mainspring one day and the mystery will disappear. But as for Brynhild--I gave her the best education possible and yet she has never understood the conception of a universe moving on mathematical laws to which we must submit in body and mind. She has the oddest ideas. I would not willingly say of a child of mine that she is a mystic, and yet--"
She shook her head compassionately. But I scarcely heard. My eyes were fixed on Brynhild, who stood apart, looking steadily out over the snows. It was a glorious sunset, the west vibrating with gorgeous colour spilt over in torrents that flooded the sky, Terrible splendours--hues for which we have no thought--no name. I had not thought of it as music until I saw her face but she listened as well as saw, and her expression changed as it changes when the pomp of a great orchestra breaks upon the silence. It flashed to the chords of blood-red and gold that was burning fire. It softened through the fugue of woven crimson gold and flame, to the melancholy minor of ashes-of-roses and paling green, and so through all the dying glories that faded slowly to a tranquil grey and left the world to the silver melody of one sole star that dawned above the ineffable heights of the snows. Then she listened as a child does to a bird, entranced, with a smile like a butterfly on her parted lips. I never saw such a power of quiet.
She and I were walking next day among the forest ways, the pine-scented sunshine dappling the dropped frondage. We had been speaking of her mother. "It is such a misfortune for her," she said thoughtfully, "that I am not clever. She should have had a daughter who could have shared her thoughts. She analyses everything, reasons about everything, and that is quite out of my reach."
She moved beside me with her wonderful light step--the poise and balance of a nymph in the Parthenon frieze.
"How do you see things?"
"See? That is the right word. I see things--I never reason about them. They are. For her they move like figures in a sum. For me every one of them is a window through which one may look to what is beyond."
"To where?"
"To what they really are--not what they seem."
I looked at her with interest.
"Did you ever hear of the double vision?"
For this is a subject on which the spiritually learned men of India, like the great mystics of all the faiths, have much to say. I had listened with bewilderment and doubt to the expositions of my Pandit on this very head. Her simple words seemed for a moment the echo of his deep and searching thought. Yet it surely could not be. Impossible.
"Never. What does it mean?" She raised clear unveiled eyes. "You must forgive me for being so stupid, but it is my mother who is at home with all these scientific phrases. I know none of them."
"It means that for some people the material universe the things we see with our eyes--is only a mirage, or say, a symbol, which either hides or shadows forth the eternal truth. And in that sense they see things as they really are, not as they seem to the rest of us. And whether this is the statement of a truth or the wildest of dreams, I cannot tell."
She did not answer for a moment; then said;
"Are there people who believe this--know it?"
"Certainly. There are people who believe that thought is the only real thing--that the whole universe is thought made visible. That we create with our thoughts the very body by which we shall re-act on the universe in lives to be."
"Do you believe it?"
"I don't know. Do you?"
She paused; looked at me, and then went on:
"You see, I don't think things out. I only feel. But this cannot interest you."
I felt she was eluding the question. She began to interest me more than any one I had ever known. She had extraordinary power of a sort. Once, in the woods, where I was reading in so deep a shade that she never saw me, I had an amazing vision of her. She stood in a glade with the sunlight and shade about her; she had no hat and a sunbeam turned her hair to pale bronze. A small bright April shower was falling through the sun, and she stood in pure light that reflected itself in every leaf and grass-blade. But it was nothing of all this that arrested me, beautiful as it was. She stood as though life were for the moment suspended;--then, very softly, she made a low musical sound, infinitely wooing, from scarcely parted lips, and instantly I saw a bird of azure plumage flutter down and settle on her shoulder, pluming himself there in happy security. Again she called softly and another followed the first. Two flew to her feet, two more to her breast and hand. They caressed her, clung to her, drew some joyous influence from her presence. She stood in the glittering rain like Spring with her birds about her--a wonderful sight. Then, raising one hand gently with the fingers thrown back she uttered a different note, perfectly sweet and intimate, and the branches parted and a young deer with full bright eyes fixed on her advanced and pushed a soft muzzle into her hand.
In my astonishment I moved, however slightly, and the picture broke up. The deer sprang back into the trees, the birds fluttered up in a hurry of feathers, and she turned calm eyes upon me, as unstartled as if she had known all the time that I was there.
"You should not have breathed," she said smiling. "They must have utter quiet."
I rose up and joined her.
"It is a marvel. I can scarcely believe my eyes. How do you do it?"
"My father taught me. They come. How can I tell?"
She turned away and left me. I thought long over this episode. I recalled words heard in the place of my studies--words I had dismissed without any care at the moment. "To those who see, nothing is alien. They move in the same vibration with all that has life, be it in bird or flower. And in the Uttermost also, for all things are One. For such there is no death."
That was beyond me still, but I watched her with profound interest. She recalled also words I had half forgotten--
"There was nought above me and nought below,
My childhood had not learnt to know;
For what are the voices of birds,
Aye, and of beasts, but words, our words,--
Only so much more sweet."
That might have been written of her. And more.
She had found one day in the woods a flower of a sort I had once seen in the warm damp forests below Darjiling--ivory white and shaped like a dove in flight. She wore it that evening on her bosom. A week later she wore what I took to be another.
"You have had luck," I said; "I never heard of such a thing being seen so high up, and you have found it twice."
"No, it is the same."
"The same? Impossible. You found it more than a week ago."
"I know. It is ten days. Flowers don't die when one understands them--not as most people think."
Her mother looked up and said fretfully:
"Since she was a child Brynhild has had that odd idea. That flower is dead and withered. Throw it away, child. It looks hideous."
Was it glamour? What was it? I saw the flower dewy fresh in her bosom. She smiled and turned away.
It was that very evening she left the veranda where we were sitting in the subdued light of a little lamp and passed beyond where the ray cut the darkness. She went down the perspective of trees to the edge of the clearing and I rose to follow for it seemed absolutely unsafe that she should be on the verge of the panther-haunted woods alone. Mrs. Ingmar turned a page of her book serenely;
"She will not like it if you go. I cannot imagine that she should come to harm. She always goes her own way--light or dark."
I returned to my seat and watched steadfastly. At first I could see nothing but as my sight adjusted itself I saw her a long way down the clearing that opened the snows, and quite certainly also I saw something like a huge dog detach itself from the woods and bound to her feet. It mingled with her dark dress and I lost it. Mrs. Ingmar said, seeing my anxiety but nothing else; "Her father was just the same;--he had no fear of anything that lives. No doubt some people have that power. I have never seen her attract birds and beasts as he certainly did, but she is quite as fond of them."
I could not understand her blindness--what I myself had seen raised questions I found unanswerable, and her mother saw nothing! Which of us was right? Presently she came back slowly and I ventured no word.
A woodland sorcery, innocent as the dawn, hovered about her. What was it? Did the mere love of these creatures make a bond between her soul and theirs, or was the ancient dream true and could she at times move in the same vibration? I thought of her as a wood-spirit sometimes, an expression herself of some passion of beauty in Nature, a thought of snows and starry nights and flowing rivers made visible in flesh. It is surely when seized with the urge of some primeval yearning which in man is merely sexual that Nature conceives her fair forms and manifests them, for there is a correspondence that runs through all creation.
Here I ask myself--Did I love her? In a sense, yes, deeply, but not in the common reading of the phrase. I have trembled with delight before the wild and terrible splendour of the Himalayan heights--; low golden moons have steeped my soul in longing, but I did not think of these things as mine in any narrow sense, nor so desire them. They were the Angels of the Evangel of beauty. So too was she. She had none of the "silken nets and traps of adamant," she was no sister of the "girls of mild silver or of furious gold";--but fair, strong, and her own, a dweller in the House of Quiet. I did not covet her. I loved her.
Days passed. There came a night when the winds were loosed--no moon, the stars flickering like blown tapers through driven clouds, the trees swaying and lamenting.
"There will be rain tomorrow." Mrs. Ingmar said, as we parted for the night. I closed my door. Some great cat of the woods was crying harshly outside my window, the sound receding towards the bridle way. I slept in a dream of tossing seas and ships labouring among them.
With the sense of a summons I waked--I cannot tell when. Unmistakable, as if I were called by name. I rose and dressed, and heard distinctly bare feet passing my door. I opened it noiselessly and looked out into the little passage way that made for the entry, and saw nothing but pools of darkness and a dim light from the square of the window at the end. But the wind had swept the sky clear with its flying bosom and was sleeping now in its high places and the air was filled with a mild moony radiance and a great stillness.
Now let me speak with restraint and exactness. I was not afraid but felt as I imagine a dog feels in the presence of his master, conscious of a purpose, a will entirely above his own and incomprehensible, yet to be obeyed without question. I followed my reading of the command, bewildered but docile, and understanding nothing but that I was called.
The lights were out. The house dead silent; the familiar veranda ghostly in the night. And now I saw a white figure at the head of the steps--Brynhild. She turned and looked over her shoulder, her face pale in the moon, and made the same gesture with which she summoned her birds. I knew her meaning, for now we were moving in the same rhythm, and followed as she took the lead. How shall I describe that strange night in the jungle. There were fire-flies or dancing points of light that recalled them. Perhaps she was only thinking them--only thinking the moon and the quiet, for we were in the world where thought is the one reality. But they went with us in a cloud and faintly lighted our way. There were exquisite wafts of perfume from hidden flowers breathing their dreams to the night. Here and there a drowsy bird stirred and chirped from the roof of darkness, a low note of content that greeted her passing. It was a path intricate and winding and how long we went, and where, I cannot tell. But at last she stooped and parting the boughs before her we stepped into an open space, and before us--I knew it--I knew it!--The House of Beauty.
She paused at the foot of the great marble steps and looked at me.
"We have met here already."
I did not wonder--I could not. In the Ninth Vibration surprise had ceased to be. Why had I not recognized her before--O dull of heart! That was my only thought. We walk blindfold through the profound darkness of material nature, the blinder because we believe we see it. It is only when the doors of the material are closed that the world appears to man as it exists in the eternal truth.
"Did you know this?" I asked, trembling before the mystery.
"I knew it, because I am awake. You forgot it in the dull sleep which we call daily life. But we were here and THEY began the story of the King who made this house. Tonight we shall hear it. It is the story of Beauty wandering through the world and the world received her not. We hear it in this place because here he agonized for what he knew too late."
"Was that our only meeting?"
"We meet every night, but you forget when the day brings the sleep of the soul.--You do not sink deep enough into rest to remember. You float on the surface where the little bubbles of foolish dream are about you and I cannot reach you then."
"How can I compel myself to the deeps?"
"You cannot. It will come. But when you have passed up the bridle way and beyond the Shipki, stop at Gyumur. There is the Monastery of Tashi-gong, and there one will meet you--"
"His name?"
"Stephen Clifden. He will tell you what you desire to know. Continue on then with him to Yarkhand. There in the Ninth Vibration we shall meet again. It is a long journey but you will be content."
"Do you certainly know that we shall meet again?"
"When you have learnt, we can meet when we will. He will teach you the Laya Yoga. You should not linger here in the woods any longer. You should go on. In three days it will be possible."
"But how have you learnt--a girl and young?"
"Through a close union with Nature that is one of the three roads. But I know little as yet. Now take my hand and come."
"One last question. Is this house ruined and abject as I have seen it in the daylight, or royal and the house of Gods as we see it now? Which is truth?"
"In the day you saw it in the empty illusion of a blind thought. Tonight, eternally lovely as in the thought of the man who made it. Nothing that is beautiful is lost, though in the sight of the unwise it seems to die. Death is in the eyes we look through--when they are cleansed we see Life only. Now take my hand and come. Delay no more."
She caught my hand and we entered the dim magnificence of the great hall. The moon entered with us.
Instantly I had the feeling of supernatural presence. Yet I only write this in deference to common use, for it was absolutely natural--more so than any I have met in the state called daily life. It was a thing in which I had a part, and if this was supernatural so also was I.
Again I saw the Dark One, the Beloved, the young Krishna, above the women who loved him. He motioned with his hand as we passed, as though he waved us smiling on our way. Again the dancers moved in a rhythmic tread to the feet of the mountain Goddess--again we followed to where she bent to hear. But now, solemn listening faces crowded in the shadows about her, grave eyes fixed immovably upon what lay at her feet--a man, submerged in the pure light that fell from her presence, his dark face stark and fine, lips locked, eyes shut, arms flung out cross-wise in utter abandonment, like a figure of grief invisibly crucified upon his shame. I stopped a few feet from him, arrested by a barrier I could not pass. Was it sleep or death or some mysterious state that partook of both? Not sleep, for there was no flutter of breath. Not death--no rigid immobility struck chill into the air. It was the state of subjection where the spirit set free lies tranced in the mighty influences which surround us invisibly until we have entered, though but for a moment, the Ninth Vibration.
And now, with these Listeners about us, a clear voice began and stirred the air with music. I have since been asked in what tongue it spoke and could only answer that it reached my ears in the words of my childhood, and that I know whatever that language had been it would so have reached me.
"Great Lady, hear the story of this man's fall, for it is the story of man. Be pitiful to the blind eyes and give them light."
There was long since in Ranipur a mighty King and at his birth the wise men declared that unless he cast aside all passions that debase the soul, relinquishing the lower desires for the higher until a Princess laden with great gifts should come to be his bride, he would experience great and terrible misfortunes. And his royal parents did what they could to possess him with this belief, but they died before he reached manhood. Behold him then, a young King in his palace, surrounded with splendour. How should he withstand the passionate crying of the flesh or believe that through pleasure comes satiety and the loss of that in the spirit whereby alone pleasure can be enjoyed? For his gift was that he could win all hearts. They swarmed round him like hiving bees and hovered about him like butterflies. Sometimes he brushed them off. Often he caressed them, and when this happened, each thought proudly "I am the Royal Favourite. There is none other than me."
Also the Princess delayed who would be the crest-jewel of the crown, bringing with her all good and the blessing of the High Gods, and in consequence of all these things the King took such pleasures as he could, and they were many, not knowing they darken the inner eye whereby what is royal is known through all disguises.
(Most pitiful to see, beneath the close-shut lids of the man at the feet of the Dweller in the Heights, tears forced themselves, as though a corpse dead to all else lived only to anguish. They flowed like blood-drops upon his face as he lay enduring, and the voice proceeded.) What was the charm of the King? Was it his stately height and strength? Or his faithless gayety? Or his voice, deep and soft as the sitar when it sings of love? His women said--some one thing, some another, but none of these ladies were of royal blood, and therefore they knew not.
Now one day, the all-privileged jester of the King, said, laughing harshly:
"Maharaj, you divert yourself. But how if, while we feast and play, the Far Away Princess glided past and was gone, unknown and unwelcomed?"
And the King replied:
"Fool, content yourself. I shall know my Princess, but she delays so long that I weary."
Now in a far away country was a Princess, daughter of the Greatest, and her Father hesitated to give her in marriage to such a King for all reported that he was faithless of heart, but having seen his portrait she loved him and fled in disguise from the palaces of her Father, and being captured she was brought before the King in Ranipur.
He sat upon a cloth of gold and about him was the game he had killed in hunting, in great masses of ruffled fur and plumage, and he turned the beauty of his face carelessly upon her, and as the Princess looked upon him, her heart yearned to him, and he said in his voice that was like the male string of the sitar:
"Little slave, what is your desire?"
Then she saw that the long journey had scarred her feet and dimmed her hair with dust, and that the King's eyes, worn with days and nights of pleasure did not pierce her disguise. Now in her land it is a custom that the blood royal must not proclaim itself, so she folded her hands and said gently:
"A place in the household of the King."
And he, hearing that the waiting slave of his chief favorite Jayashri was dead, gave her that place. So the Princess attended on those ladies, courteous and obedient to all authority as beseemed her royalty, and she braided her bright hair so that it hid the little crowns which the Princesses of her House must wear always in token of their rank, and every day her patience strengthened.
Sometimes the King, carelessly desiring her laughing face and sad eyes, would send for her to wile away an hour, and he would say; "Dance, little slave, and tell me stories of the far countries. You are quite unlike my women, doubtless because you are a slave."
And she thought--"No, but because I am a Princess,"--but this she did not say. She laughed and told him the most marvellous stories in the world until he laid his head upon her warm bosom, dreaming awake.
There were stories of the great Himalayan solitudes where in the winter nights the white tiger stares at the witches' dance of the Northern Lights dazzled by the hurtling of their myriad spears. And she told how the King-eagle, hanging motionless over the peaks of Gaurisankar, watches with golden eyes for his prey, and falling like a plummet strikes its life out with his clawed heel and, screaming with triumph, bears it to his fierce mate in her cranny of the rocks.
"A gallant story!" the King would say. "More!"
Then she told of the tropical heats and the stealthy deadly creatures of forest and jungle, and the blue lotus of Buddha swaying on the still lagoon,--And she spoke of loves of men and women, their passion and pain and joy. And when she told of their fidelity and valour and honour that death cannot quench, her voice was like the song of a minstrel, for she had read all the stories of the ages and the heart of a Princess told her the rest. And the King listened unwearying though he believed this was but a slave.
(The face of the man at the feet of the Dweller in the Heights twitched in a white agony. Pearls of sweat were distilled upon his brows, but he moved neither hand nor foot, enduring as in a flame of fire. And the voice continued.)
So one day, in the misty green of the Spring, while she rested at his feet in the garden Pavilion, he said to her:
"Little slave, why do you love me?"
And she answered proudly:
"Because You have the heart of a King."
He replied slowly;
"Of the women who have loved me none gave this reason, though they gave many."
She laid her cheek on his hand.
"That is the true reason."
But he drew it away and was vaguely troubled, for her words, he knew not why, reminded him of the Far Away Princess and of things he had long forgotten, and he said; "What does a slave know of the hearts of Kings?" And that night he slept or waked alone.
Winter was at hand with its blue and cloudless days, and she was commanded to meet the King where the lake lay still and shining like an ecstasy of bliss, and she waited with her chin dropped into the cup of her hands, looking over the water with eyes that did not see, for her whole soul said; "How long O my Sovereign Lord, how long before you know the truth and we enter together into our Kingdom?"
As she sat she heard the King's step, and the colour stole up into her face in a flush like the earliest sunrise. "He is coming," she said; and again; "He loves me."
So he came beside the water, walking slowly. But the King was not alone. His arm embraced the latest-come beauty from Samarkhand, and, with his head bent, he whispered in her willing ear.
Then clasping her hands, the Princess drew a long sobbing breath, and he turned and his eyes grew hard as blue steel.
"Go, slave," he cried. "What place have you in Kings' gardens? Go. Let me see you no more."
(The man lying at the feet of the Dweller in the Heights, raised a heavy arm and flung it above his head, despairing, and it fell again on the cross of his torment. And the voice went on.)
And as he said this, her heart broke; and she went and her feet were weary. So she took the wise book she loved and unrolled it until she came to a certain passage, and this she read twice; "If the heart of a slave be broken it may be mended with jewels and soft words, but the heart of a Princess can be healed only by the King who broke it, or in Yamapura, the City under the Sunset where they make all things new. Now, Yama, the Lord of this City, is the Lord of Death." And having thus read the Princess rolled the book and put it from her.
And next day, the King said to his women; "Send for her," for his heart smote him and he desired to atone royally for the shame of his speech. And they sought and came back saying;
"Maharaj, she is gone. We cannot find her."
Fear grew in the heart of the King--a nameless dread, and he said, "Search." And again they sought and returned and the King was striding up and down the great hall and none dared cross his path. But, trembling, they told him, and he replied; "Search again. I will not lose her, and, slave though she be, she shall be my Queen."
So they ran, dispersing to the Four Quarters, and the King strode up and down the hall, and Loneliness kept step with him and clasped his hand and looked into his eyes.
Then the youngest of the women entered with a tale to tell.
"Majesty, we have found her. She lies beside the lake. When the birds fled this morning she fled with them, but upon a longer journey. Even to Yamapura, the City under the Sunset."
And the King said; "Let none follow." And he strode forth swiftly, white with thoughts he dared not think.
The Princess lay among the gold of the fallen leaves. All was gold, for her bright hair was outspread in shining waves and in it shone the glory of the hidden crown. On her face was no smile only at last was revealed the patience she had covered with laughter so long that even the voice of the King could not now break it into joy. The hands that had clung, the swift feet that had run beside his, the tender body, mighty to serve and to love, lay within touch, but farther away than the uttermost star was the Far Away Princess, known and loved too late. And he said; "My Princess--O, my Princess!" and laid his head on her cold bosom.
"Too late!" a harsh voice croaked beside him, and it was the voice of the Jester who mocks at all things. "Too late! O madness, to despise the blood royal because it humbled itself to service and so was doubly royal. The Far Away Princess came laden with great gifts, and to her the King's gift was the wage of a slave and a broken heart. Cast your crown and sceptre in the dust, O King--O King of Fools."
(The man at the feet of the Dweller in the Heights moved. Some dim word shaped upon his locked lips. She listened in a divine calm. It seemed that the very Gods drew nearer. Again the man essayed speech, the body dead, life only in the words that none could hear. The voice went on.)
But the Princess flying wearily because of the sore wound in her heart, came at last to the City under the Sunset, where the Lord of Death rules in the House of Quiet, and was there received with royal honours for in that land are no disguises. And she knelt before the Secret One and in a voice broken with agony entreated him to heal her. And with veiled and pitying eyes he looked upon her, for many and grievous as are the wounds he has healed this was more grievous still. And he said;
"Princess, I cannot, But this I can do--I can give a new heart in a new birth--happy and careless as the heart of a child. Take this escape from the anguish you endure and be at peace."
But the Princess, white with pain, asked only;
"In this new heart and birth, is there room for the King?"
And the Lord of Peace replied;
"None. He too will be forgotten."
Then she rose to her feet.
"I will endure and when he comes I will serve him once more. If he will he shall heal me, and if not I will endure for ever."
And He who is veiled replied;
"In this sacred City no pain may disturb the air, therefore you must wait outside in the chill and the dark. Think better, Princess! Also, he must pass through many rebirths, because he beheld the face of Beauty unveiled and knew her not. And when he comes he will be weary and weak as a new-born child, and no more a great King."
And the Princess smiled;
"Then he will need me the more," she said; "I will wait and kiss the feet of my King."
And the Lord of Death was silent. So she went outside into the darkness of the spaces, and the souls set free passed her like homing doves, and she sat with her hands clasped over the sore wound in her heart, watching the earthward way. And the Princess is keeping still the day of her long patience."
The voice ceased. And there was a great silence, and the listening faces drew nearer.
Then the Dweller in the Heights spoke in a voice soft as the falling of snow in the quiet of frost and moon. I could have wept myself blind with joy to hear that music. More I dare not say.
"He is in the Lower State of Perception. He sorrows for his loss. Let him have one instant's light that still he may hope."
She bowed above the man, gazing upon him as a mother might upon her sleeping child. The dead eyelids stirred, lifted, a faint gleam showed beneath them, an unspeakable weariness. I thought they would fall unsatisfied. Suddenly he saw What looked upon him, and a terror of joy no tongue can tell flashed over the dark mirror of his face. He stretched a faint hand to touch her feet, a sobbing sigh died upon his lips, and once more the swooning sleep took him. He lay as a dead man before the Assembly.
"The night is far spent," a voice said, from I know not where. And I knew it was said not only for the sleeper but for all, for though the flying feet of Beauty seem for a moment to outspeed us she will one day wait our coming and gather us to her bosom.
As before, the vision spread outward like rings in a broken reflection in water. I saw the girl beside me, but her hand grew light in mine. I felt it no longer. I heard the roaring wind in the trees, or was it a great voice thundering in my ears? Sleep took me. I waked in my little room.
Strange and sad--I saw her next day and did not remember her whom of all things I desired to know. I remembered the vision and knew that whether in dream or waking I had heard an eternal truth. I longed with a great longing to meet my beautiful companion, and she stood at my side and I was blind.
Now that I have climbed a little higher on the Mount of Vision it seems even to myself that this could not be. Yet it was, and it is true of not this only but of how much else!
She knew me. I learnt that later, but she made no sign. Her simplicities had carried her far beyond and above me, to places where only the winged things attain--"as a bird among the bird-droves of God."
I have since known that this power of direct simplicity in her was why among the great mountains we beheld the Divine as the emanation of the terrible beauty about us. We cannot see it as it is--only in some shadowing forth, gathering sufficient strength for manifestation from the spiritual atoms that haunt the region where that form has been for ages the accepted vehicle of adoration. But I was now to set forth to find another knowledge--to seek the Beauty that blinds us to all other. Next day the man who was directing my preparations for travel sent me word from Simla that all was ready and I could start two days later. I told my friends the time of parting was near.
"But it was no surprise to me," I added, "for I had heard already that in a very few days I should be on my way."
Mrs. Ingmar was more than kind. She laid a frail hand on mine.
"We shall miss you indeed. If it is possible to send us word of your adventures in those wild solitudes I hope you will do it. Of course aviation will soon lay bare their secrets and leave them no mysteries, so you don't go too soon. One may worship science and yet feel it injures the beauty of the world. But what is beauty compared with knowledge?"
"Do you never regret it?" I asked.
"Never, dear Mr. Ormond. I am a worshipper of hard facts and however hideous they may be I prefer them to the prismatic colours of romance."
Brynhild, smiling, quoted;
"Their science roamed from star to star
And than itself found nothing greater.
What wonder? In a Leyden jar
They bottled the Creator."
"There is nothing greater than science," said Mrs. Ingmar with soft reverence. "The mind of man is the foot-rule of the universe."
She meditated for a moment and then added that my kind interests in their plans decided her to tell me that she would be returning to Europe and then to Canada in a few months with a favourite niece as her companion while Brynhild would remain in India with friends in Mooltan for a time. I looked eagerly at her but she was lost in her own thoughts and it was evidently not the time to say more.
If I had hoped for a vision before I left the neighbourhood of that strange House of Beauty where a spirit imprisoned appeared to await the day of enlightenment I was disappointed. These things do not happen as one expects or would choose. The wind bloweth where it listeth until the laws which govern the inner life are understood, and then we would not choose if we could for we know that all is better than well. In this world, either in the blinded sight of daily life or in the clarity of the true sight I have not since seen it, but that has mattered little, for having heard an authentic word within its walls I have passed on my way elsewhere.
Next day a letter from Olesen reached me.
"Dear Ormond, I hope you have had a good time at the House in the Woods. I saw Rup Singh a few days ago and he wrote the odd message I enclose. You know what these natives are, even the most sensible of them, and you will humour the old fellow for he ages very fast and I think is breaking up. But this was not what I wanted to say. I had a letter from a man I had not seen for years--a fellow called Stephen Clifden, who lives in Kashmir. As a matter of fact I had forgotten his existence but evidently he has not repaid the compliment for he writes as follows-- No, I had better send you the note and you can do as you please. I am rushed off my legs with work and the heat is hell with the lid off. And--"
But the rest was of no interest except to a friend of years' standing. I read Rup Singh's message first. It was written in his own tongue.
"To the Honoured One who has attained to the favour of the Favourable.
"You have with open eyes seen what this humble one has dreamed but has not known. If the thing be possible, write me this word that I may depart in peace. 'With that one who in a former birth you loved all is well. Fear nothing for him. The way is long but at the end the lamps of love are lit and the Unstruck music is sounded. He lies at the feet of Mercy and there awaits his hour.' And if it be not possible to write these words, write nothing, O Honoured, for though it be in the hells my soul shall find my King, and again I shall serve him as once I served."
I understood, and wrote those words as he had written them. Strange mystery of life--that I who had not known should see, and that this man whose fidelity had not deserted his broken King in his utter downfall should have sought with passion for one sight of the beloved face across the waters of death and sought in vain. I thought of those Buddhist words of Seneca--"The soul may be and is in the mass of men drugged and silenced by the seductions of sense and the deceptions of the world. But if, in some moment of detachment and elation, when its captors and jailors relax their guard, it can escape their clutches, it will seek at once the region of its birth and its true home."
Well--the shell must break before the bird can fly, and the time drew near for the faithful servant to seek his lord. My message reached him in time and gladdened him.
I turned then to Clifden's letter.
"Dear Olesen, you will have forgotten me, and feeling sure of this I should scarcely have intruded a letter into your busy life were it not that I remember your good-nature as a thing unforgettable though so many years have gone by. I hear of you sometimes when Sleigh comes up the Sind valley, for I often camp at Sonamarg and above the Zoji La and farther. I want you to give a message to a man you know who should be expecting to hear from me. Tell him I shall be at the Tashigong Monastery when he reaches Gyumur beyond the Shipki. Tell him I have the information he wants and I will willingly go on with him to Yarkhand and his destination. He need not arrange for men beyond Gyumur. All is fixed. So sorry to bother you, old man, but I don't know Ormond's address, except that he was with you and has gone up Simla way. And of course he will be keen to hear the thing is settled."
Amazing. I remembered the message I had heard and this man's words rang true and kindly, but what could it mean? I really did not question farther than this for now I could not doubt that I was guided. Stronger hands than mine had me in charge, and it only remained for me to set forth in confidence and joy to an end that as yet I could not discern. I turned my face gladly to the wonder of the mountains.
Gladly--but with a reservation. I was leaving a friend and one whom I dimly felt might one day be more than a friend--Brynhild Ingmar. That problem must be met before I could take my way.
I thought much of what might be said at parting. True, she had the deepest attraction for me, but true also that I now beheld a quest stretching out into the unknown which I must accept in the spirit of the knight errant. Dare I then bind my heart to any allegiance which would pledge me to a future inconsistent with what lay before me? How could I tell what she might think of the things which to me were now real and external--the revelation of the only reality that underlies all the seeming. Life can never be the same for the man who has penetrated to this, and though it may seem a hard saying there can be but a maimed understanding between him and those who still walk amid the phantoms of death and decay.
Her sympathy with nature was deep and wonderful but might it not be that though the earth was eloquent to her the skies were silent? I was but a beginner myself--I knew little indeed. Dare I risk that little in a sweet companionship which would sink me into the contentment of the life lived by the happily deluded between the cradle and the grave and perhaps close to me for ever that still sphere where my highest hope abides? I had much to ponder, for how could I lose her out of my life--though I knew not at all whether she who had so much to make her happiness would give me a single thought when I was gone.
If all this seem the very uttermost of selfish vanity, forgive a man who grasped in his hand a treasure so new, so wonderful that he walked in fear and doubt lest it should slip away and leave him in a world darkened for ever by the torment of the knowledge that it might have been his and he had bartered it for the mess of pottage that has bought so many birthrights since Jacob bargained with his weary brother in the tents of Lahai-roi. I thought I would come back later with my prize gained and throwing it at her feet ask her wisdom in return, for whatever I might not know I knew well she was wiser than I except in that one shining of the light from Eleusis. I walked alone in the woods thinking of these things and no answer satisfied me.
I did not see her alone until the day I left, for I was compelled by the arrangements I was making to go down to Simla for a night. And now the last morning had come with golden sun-shot mists rolling upward to disclose the far white billows of the sea of eternity, the mountains awaking to their enormous joys. The trees were dripping glory to the steaming earth, it flowed like rivers into their most secret recesses, moss and flower, fern and leaf floated upon the waves of light revealing their inmost soul in triumphant gladness. Far off across the valleys a cuckoo was calling--the very voice of spring, and in the green world above my head a bird sang, a feathered joy, so clear, so passionate that I thought the great summer morning listened in silence to his rapture ringing through the woods. I waited until the Jubilate was ended and then went in to bid good-bye to my friends.
Mrs. Ingmar bid me the kindest farewell and I left her serene in the negation of all beauty, all hope save that of a world run on the lines of a model municipality, disease a memory, sewerage, light and air systems perfected, the charted brain sending its costless messages to the outer parts of the habitable globe, and at least a hundred years of life with a decent cremation at the end of it assured to every eugenically born citizen. No more. But I have long ceased to regret that others use their own eyes whether clear or dim. Better the merest glimmer of light perceived thus than the hearsay of the revelations of others. And by the broken fragments of a bewildered hope a man shall eventually reach the goal and rejoice in that dawn where the morning stars sing together and the sons of God shout for joy. It must come, for it is already here.
Brynhild walked with me through the long glades in the fresh thin air to the bridle road where my men and ponies waited, eager to be off. We stood at last in the fringe of trees on a small height which commanded the way;--a high uplifted path cut along the shoulders of the hills and on the left the sheer drop of the valleys. Perhaps seven or eight feet in width and dignified by the name of the Great Hindustan and Tibet Road it ran winding far away into Wonderland. Looking down into the valleys, so far beneath that the solitudes seem to wall them in I thought of all the strange caravans which have taken this way with tinkle of bells and laughter now so long silenced, and as I looked I saw a lost little monastery in a giant crevice, solitary as a planet on the outermost ring of the system, and remembrance flashed into my mind and I said;
"I have marching orders that have countermanded my own plans. I am to journey to the Buddhist Monastery of Tashigong, and there meet a friend who will tell me what is necessary that I may travel to Yarkhand and beyond. It will be long before I see Kashmir."
In those crystal clear eyes I saw a something new to me a faint smile, half pitying, half sad;
"Who told you, and where?"
"A girl in a strange place. A woman who has twice guided me "
I broke off. Her smile perplexed me. I could not tell what to say. She repeated in a soft undertone--
"Great Lady, be pitiful to the blind eyes and give them light."
And instantly I knew. O blind--blind! Was the unhappy King of the story duller of heart than I? And shame possessed me. Here was the chrysoberyl that all day hides its secret in deeps of lucid green but when the night comes flames with its fiery ecstasy of crimson to the moon, and I--I had been complacently considering whether I might not blunt my own spiritual instinct by companionship with her, while she had been my guide, as infinitely beyond me in insight as she was in all things beautiful. I could have kissed her feet in my deep repentance. True it is that the gateway of the high places is reverence and he who cannot bow his head shall receive no crown. I saw that my long travel in search of knowledge would have been utterly vain if I had not learnt that lesson there and then. In those moments of silence I learnt it once and for ever.
She stood by me breathing the liquid morning air, her face turned upon the eternal snows. I caught her hand in a recognition that might have ended years of parting, and its warm youth vibrated in mine, the foretaste of all understanding, all unions, of love that asks nothing, that fears nothing, that has no petition to make. She raised her eyes to mine and her tears were a rainbow of hope. So we stood in silence that was more than any words, and the golden moments went by. I knew her now for what she was, one of whom it might have been written;
"I come from where night falls clearer
Than your morning sun can rise;
From an earth that to heaven draws nearer
Than your visions of Paradise,--
For the dreams that your dreamers dream
We behold them with open eyes."
With open eyes! Later I asked the nature of the strange bond that had called her to my side.
"I do not understand that fully myself," she said--"That is part of the knowledge we must wait for. But you have the eyes that see, and that is a tie nothing can break. I had waited long in the House of Beauty for you. I guided you there. But between you and me there is also love."
I stretched an eager hand but she repelled it gently, drawing back a little. "Not love of each other though we are friends and in the future may be infinitely more. But--have you ever seen a drawing of Blake's--a young man stretching his arms to a white swan which flies from him on wings he cannot stay? That is the story of both our lives. We long to be joined in this life, here and now, to an unspeakable beauty and power whose true believers we are because we have seen and known. There is no love so binding as the same purpose. Perhaps that is the only true love. And so we shall never be apart though we may never in this world be together again in what is called companionship."
"We shall meet," I said confidently. She smiled and was silent.
"Do we follow a will-o'-the wisp in parting? Do we give up the substance for the shadow? Shall I stay?"
She laughed joyously;
"We give a single rose for a rose-tree that bears seven times seven. Daily I see more, and you are going where you will be instructed. As you know my mother prefers for a time to have my cousin with her to help her with the book she means to write. So I shall have time to myself. What do you think I shall do?"
"Blow away on a great wind. Ride on the crests of tossing waves. Catch a star to light the fireflies!"
She laughed like a bird's song.
"Wrong--wrong! I shall be a student. All I know as yet has come to me by intuition, but there is Law as well as Love and I will learn. I have drifted like a happy cloud before the wind. Now I will learn to be the wind that blows the clouds."
I looked at her in astonishment. If a flower had desired the same thing it could scarcely have seemed more incredible, for I had thought her whole life and nature instinctive not intellective. She smiled as one who has a beloved secret to keep.
"When you have gained what in this country they call The Knowledge of Regeneration, come back and ask me what I have learnt."
She would say no more of that and turned to another matter, speaking with earnestness;
"Before you came here I had a message for you, and Stephen Clifden will tell you the same thing when you meet. Believe it for it is true. Remember always that the psychical is not the mystical and that what we seek is not marvel but vision. These two things are very far apart, so let the first with all its dangers pass you by, for our way lies to the heights, and for us there is only one danger--that of turning back and losing what the whole world cannot give in exchange. I have never seen Stephen Clifden but I know much of him. He is a safe guide a man who has had much and strange sorrow which has brought him joy that cannot be told. He will take you to those who know the things that you desire. I wish I might have gone too."
Something in the sweetness of her voice, its high passion, the strong beauty of her presence woke a poignant longing in my heart. I said;
"I cannot leave you. You are the only guide I can follow. Let us search together--you always on before."
"Your way lies there," she pointed to the high mountains. "And mine to the plains, and if we chose our own we should wander. But we shall meet again in the way and time that will be best and with knowledge so enlarged that what we have seen already will be like an empty dream compared to daylight truth. If you knew what waits for you you would not delay one moment."
She stood radiant beneath the deodars, a figure of Hope, pointing steadily to the heights. I knew her words were true though as yet I could not tell how. I knew that whereas we had seen the Wonderful in beautiful though local forms there is a plane where the Formless may be apprehended in clear dream and solemn vision--the meeting of spirit with Spirit. What that revelation would mean I could not guess--how should I?--but I knew the illusion we call death and decay would wither before it. There is a music above and beyond the Ninth Vibration though I must love those words for ever for what their hidden meaning gave me.
I took her hand and held it. Strange--beyond all strangeness that that story of an ancient sorrow should have made us what we were to each other--should have opened to me the gates of that Country where she wandered content. For the first time I had realized in its fulness the loveliness of this crystal nature, clear as flowing water to receive and transmit the light--itself a prophecy and fulfilment of some higher race which will one day inhabit our world when it has learnt the true values. She drew a flower from her breast and gave it to me. It lies before me white and living as I write these words.
I sprang down the road and mounted, giving the word to march. The men shouted and strode on--our faces to the Shipki Pass and what lay beyond.
We had parted.
Once, twice, I looked back, and standing in full sunlight, she waved her hand.
We turned the angle of the rocks.
What I found--what she found is a story strange and beautiful which I may tell one day to those who care to hear. That for me there were pauses, hesitancies, dreads, on the way I am not concerned to deny, for so it must always be with the roots of the old beliefs of fear and ignorance buried in the soil of our hearts and ready to throw out their poisonous fibres. But there was never doubt. For myself I have long forgotten the meaning of that word in anything that is of real value.
Do not let it be thought that the treasure is reserved for the few or those of special gifts. And it is as free to the West as to the East though I own it lies nearer to the surface in the Orient where the spiritual genius of the people makes it possible and the greater and, more faithful teachers are found. It is not without meaning that all the faiths of the world have dawned in those sunrise skies. Yet it is within reach of all and asks only recognition, for the universe has been the mine of its jewels--
"Median gold it holds, and silver from Atropatene,
Ruby and emerald from Hindustan, and Bactrian agate,
Bright with beryl and pearl, sardonyx and sapphire."--
--and more that cannot be uttered--the Lights and Perfections.
So for all seekers I pray this prayer--beautiful in its sonorous Latin, but noble in all the tongues;
"Supplico tibi, Pater et Dux--I pray Thee, Guide of our vision, that we may remember the nobleness with which Thou hast endowed us, and that Thou wouldest be always on our right and on our left in the motion of our wills, that we may be purged from the contagion of the body and the affections of the brute and overcome and rule them. And I pray also that Thou wouldest drive away the blinding darkness from the eyes of our souls that we may know well what is to be held for divine and what for mortal."
"The nobleness with which Thou hast endowed us--" this, and not the cry of the miserable sinner whose very repentance is no virtue but the consequence of failure and weakness is the strong music to which we must march.
And the way is open to the mountains.
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC (1912)
from Notes on life and letters (1921)
IT is with a certain bitterness that one must admit to oneself that the late S.S. Titanic had a "good press." It is perhaps because I have no great practice of daily newspapers (I have never seen so many of them together lying about my room) that the white spaces and the big lettering of the headlines have an incongruously festive air to my eyes, a disagreeable effect of a feverish exploitation of a sensational God-send. And if ever a loss at sea fell under the definition, in the terms of a bill of lading, of Act of God, this one does, in its magnitude, suddenness and severity; and in the chastening influence it should have on the self-confidence of mankind.
I say this with all the seriousness the occasion demands, though I have neither the competence nor the wish to take a theological view of this great misfortune, sending so many souls to their last account. It is but a natural reflection. Another one flowing also from the phraseology of bills of lading (a bill of lading is a shipping document limiting in certain of its clauses the liability of the carrier) is that the "King's Enemies" of a more or less overt sort are not altogether sorry that this fatal mishap should strike the prestige of the greatest Merchant Service of the world. I believe that not a thousand miles from these shores certain public prints have betrayed in gothic letters their satisfaction--to speak plainly--by rather ill-natured comments.
In what light one is to look at the action of the American Senate is more difficult to say. From a certain point of view the sight of the august senators of a great Power rushing to New York and beginning to bully and badger the luckless "Yamsi"--on the very quay-side so to speak--seems to furnish the Shakespearian touch of the comic to the real tragedy of the fatuous drowning of all these people who to the last moment put their trust in mere bigness, in the reckless affirmations of commercial men and mere technicians and in the irresponsible paragraphs of the newspapers booming these ships! Yes, a grim touch of comedy. One asks oneself what these men are after, with this very provincial display of authority. I beg my friends in the United States pardon for calling these zealous senators men. I don't wish to be disrespectful. They may be of the stature of demi-gods for all I know, but at that great distance from the shores of effete Europe and in the presence of so many guileless dead, their size seems diminished from this side. What are they after? What is there for them to find out? We know what had happened. The ship scraped her side against a piece of ice, and sank after floating for two hours and a half, taking a lot of people down with her. What more can they find out from the unfair badgering of the unhappy "Yamsi," or the ruffianly abuse of the same.
"Yamsi," I should explain, is a mere code address, and I use it here symbolically. I have seen commerce pretty close. I know what it is worth, and I have no particular regard for commercial magnates, but one must protest against these Bumblelike proceedings. Is it indignation at the loss of so many lives which is at work here? Well, the American railroads kill very many people during one single year, I dare say. Then why don't these dignitaries come down on the presidents of their own railroads, of which one can't say whether they are mere means of transportation or a sort of gambling game for the use of American plutocrats. Is it only an ardent and, upon the whole, praiseworthy desire for information? But the reports of the inquiry tell us that the august senators, though raising a lot of questions testifying to the complete innocence and even blankness of their minds, are unable to understand what the second officer is saying to them. We are so informed by the press from the other side. Even such a simple expression as that one of the look-out men was stationed in the "eyes of the ship" was too much for the senators of the land of graphic expression. What it must have been in the more recondite matters I won't even try to think, because I have no mind for smiles just now. They were greatly exercised about the sound of explosions heard when half the ship was under water already. Was there one? Were there two? They seemed to be smelling a rat there! Has not some charitable soul told them (what even schoolboys who read sea stories know) that when a ship sinks from a leak like this, a deck or two is always blown up; and that when a steamship goes down by the head, the boilers may, and often do break adrift with a sound which resembles the sound of an explosion? And they may, indeed, explode, for all I know. In the only case I have seen of a steamship sinking there was such a sound, but I didn't dive down after her to investigate. She was not of 45,000 tons and declared unsinkable, but the sight was impressive enough. I shall never forget the muffled, mysterious detonation, the sudden agitation of the sea round the slowly raised stern, and to this day I have in my eye the propeller, seen perfectly still in its frame against a clear evening sky.
But perhaps the second officer has explained them by this time this and a few other little facts. Though why an officer of the British merchant service should answer the questions of any king, emperor, autocrat, or senator of any foreign power (as to an event in which a British ship alone was concerned, and which did not even take place in the territorial waters of that power) passes my understanding. The only authority he is bound to answer is the Board of Trade. But with what face the Board of Trade, which, having made the regulations for 10,000 ton ships, put its dear old bald head under its wing for ten years, took it out only to shelve an important report, and with a dreary murmur, "Unsinkable," put it back again, in the hope of not being disturbed for another ten years, with what face it will be putting questions to that man who has done his duty, as to the facts of this disaster and as to his professional conduct in it--well, I don't know! I have the greatest respect for our established authorities. I am a disciplined man, and I have a natural indulgence for the weaknesses of human institutions; but I will own that at times I have regretted their--how shall I say it?--their imponderability. A Board of Trade--what is it? A Board of... I believe the Speaker of the Irish Parliament is one of the members of it. A ghost. Less than that; as yet a mere memory. An office with adequate and no doubt comfortable furniture and a lot of perfectly irresponsible gentlemen who exist packed in its equable atmosphere softly, as if in a lot of cotton-wool, and with no care in the world; for there can be no care without personal responsibility--such, for instance, as the seamen have--those seamen from whose mouths this irresponsible institution can take away the bread as a disciplinary measure. Yes--it's all that. And what more? The name of a politician--a party man! Less than nothing; a mere void without as much as a shadow of responsibility cast into it from that light in which move the masses of men who work, who deal in things and face the realities--not the words--of this life.
Years ago I remember overhearing two genuine shellbacks of the old type commenting on a ship's officer, who, if not exactly incompetent, did not commend himself to their severe judgment of accomplished sailor-men. Said one, resuming and concluding the discussion in a funnily judicial tone:
"The Board of Trade must have been drunk when they gave him his certificate."
I confess that this notion of the Board of Trade as an entity having a brain which could be over come by the fumes of strong liquor charmed me exceedingly. For then it would have been unlike the limited companies of which some exasperated wit has once said that they had no souls to be saved and no bodies to be kicked, and thus were free in this world and the next from all the effective sanctions of conscientious conduct. But, unfortunately, the picturesque pronouncement overheard by me was only a characteristic sally of an annoyed sailor. The Board of Trade is composed of bloodless departments. It has no limbs and no physiognomy, or else at the forthcoming inquiry it might have paid to the victims of the Titanic disaster the small tribute of a blush. I ask myself whether the Marine Department of the Board of Trade did really believe, when they decided to shelve the report on equipment for a time, that a ship of 45,000 tons, that any ship, could be made practically indestructible by means of watertight bulkheads? It seems incredible to anybody who had ever reflected upon the properties of material, such as wood or steel. You can't, let builders say what they like, make a ship of such dimensions as strong proportionately as a much smaller one. The shocks our old whalers had to stand amongst the heavy floes in Baffin's Bay were perfectly staggering, notwithstanding the most skilful handling, and yet they lasted for years. The Titanic, if one may believe the last reports, has only scraped against a piece of ice which, I suspect, was not an enormously bulky and comparatively easily seen berg, but the low edge of a floe--and sank. Leisurely enough, God knows--and here the advantage of bulkheads comes in--for time is a great friend, a good helper --though in this lamentable case these bulkheads served only to prolong the agony of the passengers who could not be saved. But she sank, causing, apart from the sorrow and the pity of the loss of so many lives, a sort of surprised consternation that such a thing should have happened at all. Why? You build a 45,000 tons hotel of thin steel plates to secure the patronage of, say, a couple of thousand rich people (for if it had been for the emigrant trade alone, there would have been no such exaggeration of mere size), you decorate it in the style of the Pharaohs or in the Louis Quinze style--I don't know which--and to please the aforesaid fatuous handful of individuals, who have more money than they know what to do with, and to the applause of two continents, you launch that mass with two thousand people on board at twenty-one knots across the sea--a perfect exhibition of the modern blind trust in mere material and appliances. And then this happens. General uproar. The blind trust in material and appliances has received a terrible shock. I will say nothing of the credulity which accepts any statement which specialists, technicians and office-people are pleased to make, whether for purposes of gain or glory You stand there astonished and hurt in your profoundest sensibilities. But what else under the circumstances could you expect?
For my part I could much sooner believe in an unsinkable ship of 3,000 tons than in one of 40,000 tons. It is one of those things that stand to reason. You can't increase the thickness of scantling and plates indefinitely. And the mere weight of this bigness is an added disadvantage. In reading the reports, the first reflection which occurs to one is that, if that luckless ship had been a couple of hundred feet shorter, she would have probably gone clear of the danger. But then, perhaps, she could not have had a swimming bath and a French café. That, of course, is a serious consideration. I am well aware that those responsible for her short and fatal existence ask us in desolate accents to believe that if she had hit end on she would have survived. Which, by a sort of coy implication, seems to mean that it was all the fault of the officer of the watch (he is dead now) for trying to avoid the obstacle. We shall have presently, in deference to commercial and industrial interests, a new kind of seamanship. A very new and "progressive" kind. If you see anything in the way, by no means try to avoid it; smash at it full tilt. And then--and then only you shall see the triumph of material, of clever contrivances, of the whole box of engineering tricks in fact, and cover with glory a commercial concern of the most unmitigated sort, a great Trust, and a great ship-building yard, justly famed for the super-excellence of its material and workmanship. Unsinkable! See? I told you she was unsinkable, if only handled in accordance with the new seamanship. Everything's in that. And, doubtless, the Board of Trade, if properly approached, would consent to give the needed instructions to its examiners of Masters and Mates. Behold the examination-room of the future. Enter to the grizzled examiner a young man of modest aspect: "Are you well up in modern seamanship?" "I hope so, sir." "H'm, let's see. You are at night on the bridge in charge of a 150,000 tons ship, with a motor track, organ-loft, etc., etc., with a full cargo of passengers, a full crew of 1,500 café waiters, two sailors and a boy, three collapsible boats as per Board of Trade regulations, and going at your three-quarter speed of, say, about forty knots. You perceive suddenly right ahead, and close to, something that looks like a large ice-floe. What would you do?" "Put the helm amidships." "Very well. Why?" "In order to hit end on." "On what grounds should you endeavour to hit end on?" "Because we are taught by our builders and masters that the heavier the smash, the smaller the damage, and because the requirements of material should be attended to."
And so on and so on. The new seamanship: when in doubt try to ram fairly--whatever's before you. Very simple. If only the Titanic had rammed that piece of ice (which was not a monstrous berg) fairly, every puffing paragraph would have been vindicated in the eyes of the credulous public which pays. But would it have been? Well, I doubt it. I am well aware that in the eighties the steamship Arizona, one of the "greyhounds of the ocean" in the jargon of that day, did run bows on against a very unmistakable iceberg, and managed to get into port on her collision bulkhead. But the Arizona was not, if I remember rightly, 5,000 tons register, let alone 45,000 and she was not going at twenty knots per hour. I can't be perfectly certain at this distance of time, but her sea-speed could not have been more than fourteen at the outside. Both these facts made for safety. And, even if she had been engined to go twenty knots, there would not have been behind that speed the enormous mass, so difficult to check in its impetus, the terrific weight of which is bound to do damage to itself or others at the slightest contact.
I assure you it is not for the vain pleasure of talking about my own poor experiences, but only to illustrate my point, that I will relate here a very unsensational little incident I witnessed now rather more than twenty years ago in Sydney, N.S.W. Ships were beginning then to grow bigger year after year, though, of course, the present dimensions were not even dreamt of. I was standing on the Circular Quay with a Sydney pilot watching a big mail steamship of one of our best-known companies being brought alongside. We admired her lines, her noble appearance, and were impressed by her size as well, though her length, I imagine, was hardly half that of the Titanic.
She came into the Cove (as that part of the harbour is called), of course very slowly, and at some hundred feet or so short of the quay she lost her way. That quay was then a wooden one, a fine structure of mighty piles and stringers bearing a roadway--a thing of great strength. The ship, as I have said before, stopped moving when some hundred feet from it. Then her engines were rung on slow ahead, and immediately rung off again. The propeller made just about five turns, I should say. She began to move, stealing on, so to speak, without a ripple; coming alongside with the utmost gentleness. I went on looking her over, very much interested, but the man with me, the pilot, muttered under his breath: "Too much, too much." His exercised judgment had warned him of what I did not even suspect. But I believe that neither of us was exactly prepared for what happened. There was a faint concussion of the ground under our feet, a groaning of piles, a snapping of great iron bolts, and with a sound of ripping and splintering, as when a tree is blown down by the wind, a great strong piece of wood, a baulk of squared timber, was displaced several feet as if by enchantment. I looked at my companion in amazement. "I could not have believed it," I declared. "No," he said. "You would not have thought she would have cracked an egg--eh?"
I certainly wouldn't have thought that. He shook his head, and added: "Ah! These great, big things, they want some handling."
Some months afterwards I was back in Sydney. The same pilot brought me in from sea. And I found the same steamship, or else another as like her as two peas, lying at anchor not far from us. The pilot told me she had arrived the day before, and that he was to take her alongside to-morrow. I reminded him jocularly of the damage to the quay. "Oh!" he said, "we are not allowed now to bring them in under their own steam. We are using tugs."
A very wise regulation. And this is my point--that size is to a certain extent an element of weakness. The bigger the ship, the more delicately she must be handled. Here is a contact which, in the pilot's own words, you wouldn't think could have cracked an egg; with the astonishing result of something like eighty feet of good strong wooden quay shaken loose, iron bolts snapped, a baulk of stout timber splintered. Now, suppose that quay had been of granite (as surely it is now)--or, instead of the quay, if there had been, say, a North Atlantic fog there, with a full-grown iceberg in it awaiting the gentle contact of a ship groping its way along blindfold? Something would have been hurt, but it would not have been the iceberg.
Apparently, there is a point in development when it ceases to be a true progress--in trade, in games, in the marvellous handiwork of men, and even in their demands and desires and aspirations of the moral and mental kind. There is a point when progress, to remain a real advance, must change slightly the direction of its line. But this is a wide question. What I wanted to point out here is--that the old Arizona, the marvel of her day, was proportionately stronger, handier, better equipped, than this triumph of modern naval architecture, the loss of which, in common parlance, will remain the sensation of this year. The clatter of the presses has been worthy of the tonnage, of the preliminary pæans of triumph round that vanished hull, of the reckless statements, and elaborate descriptions of its ornate splendour. A great babble of news (and what sort of news too, good heavens!) and eager comment has arisen around this catastrophe, though it seems to me that a less strident note would have been more becoming in the presence of so many victims left struggling on the sea, of lives miserably thrown away for nothing, or worse than nothing: for false standards of achievement, to satisfy a vulgar demand of a few moneyed people for a banal hotel luxury--the only one they can understand--and because the big ship pays, in one way or another: in money or in advertising value.
It is in more ways than one a very ugly business, and a mere scrape along the ship's side, so slight that, if reports are to be believed, it did not interrupt a card party in the gorgeously fitted (but in chaste style) smoking-room--or was it in the delightful French café?--is enough to bring on the exposure. All the people on board existed under a sense of false security. How false, it has been sufficiently demonstrated. And the fact which seems undoubted, that some of them actually were reluctant to enter the boats when told to do so, shows the strength of that falsehood. Incidentally, it shows also the sort of discipline on board these ships, the sort of hold kept on the passengers in the face of the unforgiving sea. These people seemed to imagine it an optional matter: whereas the order to leave the ship should be an order of the sternest character, to be obeyed unquestioningly and promptly by every one on board, with men to enforce it at once, and to carry it out methodically and swiftly. And it is no use to say it cannot be done, for it can. It has been done. The only requisite is manageableness of the ship herself and of the numbers she carries on board. That is the great thing which makes for safety. A commander should be able to hold his ship and everything on board of her in the hollow of his hand, as it were. But with the modern foolish trust in material, and with those floating hotels, this has become impossible. A man may do his best, but he cannot succeed in a task which from greed, or more likely from sheer stupidity, has been made too great for anybody's strength.
The readers of The English Review , who cast a friendly eye nearly six years ago on my Reminiscences, and know how much the merchant service, ships and men, has been to me, will understand my indignation that those men of whom (speaking in no sentimental phrase, but in the very truth of feeling) I can't even now think otherwise than as brothers, have been put by their commercial employers in the impossibility to perform efficiently their plain duty; and this from motives which I shall not enumerate here, but whose intrinsic unworthiness is plainly revealed by the greatness the miserable greatness, of that disaster. Some of them have perished. To die for commerce is hard enough, but to go under that sea we have been trained to combat, with a sense of failure in the supreme duty of one's calling is indeed a bitter fate. Thus they are gone, and the responsibility remains with the living who will have no difficulty in replacing them by others, just as good, at the same wages. It was their bitter fate. But I, who can look at some arduous years when their duty was my duty too, and their feelings were my feelings, can remember some of us who once upon a time were more fortunate.
It is of them that I would talk a little, for my own comfort partly, and also because I am sticking all the time to my subject to illustrate my point, the point of manageableness which I have raised just now. Since the memory of the lucky Arizona has been evoked by others than myself, and made use of by me for my own purpose, let me call up the ghost of another ship of that distant day whose less lucky destiny inculcates another lesson making for my argument. The Douro, a ship belonging to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, was rather less than one-tenth the measurement of the Titanic. Yet, strange as it may appear to the ineffable hotel exquisites who form the bulk of the first-class Cross-Atlantic Passengers, people of position and wealth and refinement did not consider it an intolerable hardship to travel in her, even all the way from South America; this being the service she was engaged upon. Of her speed I know nothing, but it must have been the average of the period, and the decorations of her saloons were, I dare say, quite up to the mark; but I doubt if her birth had been boastfully paragraphed all round the Press, because that was not the fashion of the time. She was not a mass of material gorgeously furnished and upholstered. She was a ship. And she was not, in the apt words of an article by Commander C. Crutchley, R.N.R., which I have just read, "run by a sort of hotel syndicate composed of the Chief Engineer, the Purser, and the Captain," as these monstrous Atlantic ferries are. She was really commanded, manned, and equipped as a ship meant to keep the sea: a ship first and last in the fullest meaning of the term, as the fact I am going to relate will show.
She was off the Spanish coast, homeward bound, and fairly full, just like the Titanic; and further, the proportion of her crew to her passengers, I remember quite well, was very much the same. The exact number of souls on board I have forgotten. It might have been nearly three hundred, certainly not more. The night was moonlit, but hazy, the weather fine with a heavy swell running from the westward, which means that she must have been rolling a great deal, and in that respect the conditions for her were worse than in the case of the Titanic. Some time either just before or just after midnight, to the best of my recollection, she was run into amidships and at right angles by a large steamer which after the blow backed out, and, herself apparently damaged, remained motionless at some distance.
My recollection is that the Douro remained afloat after the collision for fifteen minutes or thereabouts. It might have been twenty, but certainly something under the half-hour. In that time the boats were lowered, all the passengers put into them, and the lot shoved off. There was no time to do anything more. All the crew of the Douro went down with her, literally without a murmur. When she went she plunged bodily down like a stone. The only members of the ship's company who survived were the third officer, who was from the first ordered to take charge of the boats, and the seamen told off to man them, two in each. Nobody else was picked up. A quartermaster, one of the saved in the way of duty, with whom I talked a month or so afterwards, told me that they pulled up to the spot, but could neither see a head nor hear the faintest cry.
But I have forgotten. A passenger was drowned. She was a lady's maid who, frenzied with terror, refused to leave the ship. One of the boats waited near by till the chief officer, finding himself absolutely unable to tear the girl away from the rail to which she clung with a frantic grasp, ordered the boat away out of danger. My quartermaster told me that he spoke over to them in his ordinary voice, and this was the last sound heard before the ship sank.
The rest is silence. I daresay there was the usual official inquiry, but who cared for it? That sort of thing speaks for itself with no uncertain voice; though the papers, I remember, gave the event no space to speak of: no large headlines--no headlines at all. You see it was not the fashion at the time. A seamanlike piece of work, of which one cherishes the old memory at this juncture more than ever before. She was a ship commanded, manned, equipped--not a sort of marine Ritz, proclaimed unsinkable and sent adrift with its casual population upon the sea, without enough boats, without enough seamen (but with a Parisian café and four hundred of poor devils of waiters) to meet dangers which, let the engineers say what they like, lurk always amongst the waves; sent with a blind trust in mere material, light-heartedly, to a most miserable, most fatuous disaster.
And there are, too, many ugly developments about this tragedy. The rush of the senatorial inquiry before the poor wretches escaped from the jaws of death had time to draw breath, the vituperative abuse of a man no more guilty than others in this matter, and the suspicion of this aimless fuss being a political move to get home on the M.T. Company, into which, in common parlance, the United States Government has got its knife, I don't pretend to understand why, though with the rest of the world I am aware of the fact. Perhaps there may be an excellent and worthy reason for it; but I venture to suggest that to take advantage of so many pitiful corpses, is not pretty. And the exploiting of the mere sensation on the other side is not pretty in its wealth of heartless inventions. Neither is the welter of Marconi lies which has not been sent vibrating without some reason, for which it would be nauseous to inquire too closely. And the calumnious, baseless, gratuitous, circumstantial lie charging poor Captain Smith with desertion of his post by means of suicide is the vilest and most ugly thing of all in this outburst of journalistic enterprise, without feeling, without honour, without decency.
But all this has its moral. And that other sinking which I have related here and to the memory of which a seaman turns with relief and thankfulness has its moral too. Yes, material may fail, and men, too, may fail sometimes; but more often men, when they are given the chance, will prove themselves truer than steel, that wonderful thin steel from-which the sides and the bulkheads of our modern sea-leviathans are made.
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Kamuntu Jolly
Award for Communication – 2012
Democratic republic of Congo (DRC)
AFEM (Association de Femmes des Medias du Sud Kivu)
Tags: justice, war, responsible citizenship, radio, local collectivity.
Kamuntu Jolly, the expressionist. Kamuntu Jolly is 36 years old, she has three kids and she is a communicator. Madam Kamuntu is that lawyer who got into the radio like in religion: with faith and passion. She started with Catholic radio Maria in 2000 and she joined radio Maendeleo afterwards in 2004. She had different functions first as a collaborator up to the direction of radio Maendeleo through the positions of journalist, redactor and responsible of programs. Today, Kamuntu is the director of radio Maendeleo and head of the AFEM.
Problem: In the South Kivu region of the DRC rural community have no voice at all. They are excluded from public goods. With the war in Eastern Congo indeed armed groups move everywhere and have worsened the conditions of countrymen in an area where the life style of people was already bad. Injustice is a rule.
Action: Kamuntu started to work as a journalist who was opposed to the violation of the Human Rights. At work, she handles the tasks between men and women with no favor to this or to that position. She gives the voice to people who have no voice any more, she promotes their life conditions within an area of a real poverty. Kamuntu makes field visits for listening to armed groups, she talks to improve the rule of law and to support initiatives for real justice. She reveals some truths that no other official channel would dare to underscore in public media. This attracts her hatred from armed groups and threats to death. She works with the 145 radio clubs in the area. These clubs are more close to the mob and offer the populations more chances for debating serious issues online. Through these radio clubs people have the opportunity to talk freely, they discuss social issues, … they participate in the transformation of their society.
Harubuntu Dimension: Kamuntu could have been that good journalist with some willing to spend days and nights in bush with armed groups for reporting on their heroic actions in a place where none else would dare to go. She could give the voice to everyone but this would be normal action since community radios are created for that. She has the privilege to promote the culture of openness, dialogue and voice. Her action goes beyond her job as journalist; she organizes radio clubs and she stimulates the mob to use that chance to express their voices. This is how rural people in Eastern Congo have won the contact with the authority for a discussion on core issues like peace and governance. What makes Kamuntu noticeable is her way to walk against the taboos about women; she succeeded to show the capability of women in South Kivu to contribute to local development and to the transformation of their society.
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(History: Boedromion 19: Delicious Pomegranate!)
Posted on September 23, 2005 by Jenna
Persephone is dead. She’s a graveyard girl. She’s down in the earth with the seeds of the grain.
“It’s very dark,” she says.
So Hades ignites the air. Billows of flame race through the Underworld, scorching large numbers of the residents.
“My hair!” cries Sisyphus.
He’s the guy damned to push a boulder eternally up and down steep cliff walls. Also, his hair is on fire! Fortunately, he knows what to do. He stops. He drops. He rolls! Then the boulder rolls on top of him.
“Curse you, emergency preparedness manual!” cries Sisyphus.
Cerberus’ nose gets singed.
“Wuf,” says Cerberus, unhappily.
Then his other nose gets singed.
“Rurf!” mourns Cerberus.
His third nose gets singed and he gets four hotfoots.
“Aroo!”
His howls sound through the Underworld.
“I am aflame!” laments the daimon Penthos, in full harmony with that howl.
Penthos is the daimon of lamentation and grief. He is always lamenting about this, that, and the other, such as being on fire.
Finally, there is a momentary delay in the assignment of fates to souls as Ananke takes the actions necessary to avoid burning. One may imagine all kinds of humorous effects but realistically, Ananke, who is Necessity, is extremely good at taking care of herself. If her skirts blow up in the flames or she has to huff and puff to keep her fingernails from catching on fire, it is because she is playing to an audience that loves her. If these things don’t happen, it’s because the viewers would think them undignified; and shame on you, if so, for judging Necessity!
Amidst all of this, Persephone is impressed by the flames, but extremely agitated.
“Too hot!”
She is frantically waving her arms around to keep her dress from catching on fire.
So Hades banks the fires of the Underworld.
It is 1317 years before the common era. Hades has stolen Persephone from the world above. While her mother searches for hope, Persephone looks around and struggles to come to terms with events.
And slowly, with the fire dimmed, Persephone’s heartbeat decelerates.
“It’s so bleak,” Persephone says.
The ghosts who move through Hades’ kingdom are shades. They have no memory and no attachment. They move through a world of grey and shadow and they are not alive.
The soil is dry.
The air is grey.
“It is bleak,” Hades concedes.
He takes two pomegranates from a silver tray that a trudging ghost carries. He hands one to her and bites into the other.
Persephone ignores the fruit.
“But,” says Hades, after chewing and swallowing, “it is your home.”
Persephone gives him a sideways look.
She says, “Can you make it home-like like you made it bright?”
Hades hesitates.
“So tasty,” says Hades. He bites deeper into his pomegranate.
“Mm,” enthuses Hades.
“There’s nothing like a delicious pomegranate!” Hades declares.
Categories: Histories, Histories and Stories, Canon, Hitherby, Ghosts, On Puppies, The Witch of Children's Teeth, Storyline 4: The Cracking of the Lens
David Goldfarb on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am said:
Hades is being a little…obvious, isn’t he?
ADamiani on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am said:
I assumed this was towards humorous effect.
Not a man well versed in persuasion, our Hades. Or in anything interpersonal it seems like– see how clumsilly he lights the underworld?
Sparrowhawk on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am said:
So, what is the connection between the Persephone myth; the creation of the world; Buddhist morality; Thistles; and the month of Boedromion?
Aw hell, I should stop trying to analyze everything and just sit back and enjoy the ride. This stuff probably won’t make sense for another few months yet.
Metal Fatigue on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am said:
Well, the connection between the myth of Persephone and the month of Boëdromion is the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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The jury is still out on whether bitcoin is in the bubble zone. But investors who invested Rs 1,00,000 in the cryptocurrency in November 2010 have seen their wealth swell into a humongous Rs 625 crore in just seven years.
The crypto-currency has surged from nearly Rs 10 per bitcoin to above Rs 6,20,000 in India during this period.
In global markets, the e-currency is just a few hundred dollars shy of $10,000. It trades at $9,650 at present against $0.22 in November 2010, marking a 43,86,264 per cent jump (dollar terms) during this period.
BNP ParibasBSE says there are many symptoms of a bubble in crypto currencies. The key feature is that many participants appear to be buying crypto-currencies just because their prices are going up. One of the features that aid the bubble is the fact there is a hard limit for bitcoin issuance of 21 million, which is expected to be reached in 2040.
At present, there are about 17 million bitcoins. Market experts believe that if bitcoin is adopted more and more, price is likely will rise substantially as the supply is finite. Limited supply can help entrench the highly speculative nature of the currency. It's a brilliant feature by the designers.
BNP Paribas in a report said, "Bubble does not mean that it will burst soon. It depends on a host of factors, not least the possibility of self-fulfilling expectations that the price will continue to rise and this will bring in more participants. While the dotcom bubble inflated and burst, the capital that was diverted into the sector facilitated emergence of some of today's giants like Amazon and Google. We are seeing a shift in resources. Is this a misallocation or seeds of a really shift? Time will tell. We suspect crypto-currencies are here to stay."
In recent times, China has already acted to close down exchanges, though reports suggest that 70 per cent or more of "mining" takes place in China, partly as a result of cheap electricity.
A potential threat to central bank seignior age, worries about money laundering, financial stability, tax avoidance and crime, all make regulatory moves elsewhere possible.
On the other hand, CME plans to launch a futures contract and efforts to possibly list ETFs in the US show that the market for crypto-currencies may take further large steps going forward.
Bitcoin is not regulated, but is traded on specialist platforms. Launched in 2009 as a bit of encrypted software written by someone using the Japanese-sounding name Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin is controlled and regulated by its community of users.
Central banks and a couple of global financial services companies believe that virtual currencies can be used for illegal purposes and are highly speculative in nature.
"We have a biased view on bitcoin, as we are one of the leading bitcoin exchanges in India. We advise investors to invest in bitcoins in a systematic manner," said Sandeep Goenka, co-founder, Zebpay.
Deutsche Bank recently joined the ranks of those warning against the virtual currency as an investment. "I would simply not recommend this to the everyday investor," Reuters quoted Ulrich Stephan, chief strategist at Germany's largest lender.
Source: ET
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Is HHV-6 the key to the Autism epidemic?
Dr. Michael Goldberg talks about Autism as a Disease.
Read Truth to Power, the book on the HHV-6 cover-up, the key to the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Autism epidemic. Available here.
The Fifty Shades of AIDS Viruses
Charles Ortleb
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
-- George Orwell
Why do you call HHV-6/7/8 “The Fifty Shades of AIDS Viruses”?
Because they are a family of multisystemic viruses capable of causing all the problems in AIDS and a dozens of other illnesses. HHV-6 seems to be the most destructive, but the other two emerged at the same time and seem to also play a role in the world “Fifty Shades of AIDS epidemic.”
So HHV-6 is a major public health threat?
It is the biggest public health threat of our time. Only climate change is a bigger issue and maybe that is only number two considering what HHV-6 is doing to the health of the entire human race. And this isn’t about something that will happen in the future. This is about a viral plague that is going on for decades and everyone in the world may be dealing with.
What Illnesses has HHV-6 been linked to?
The list goes on and on because it is variable and multisystemic. You can find a lot of the illness as HHV-6 University or The HHV-6 Foundation.
Is HHV-6 capable of causing AIDS?
Absolutely. It was originally found in AIDS patients.
Is it capable of causing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Sure. It was also originally found in CFS patients. That should have sealed the deal on the relationship between AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Is it immunosuppressive?
Can it cause cancer?
All kinds.
Is it neurotropic?
Can it cause encephalitis?
Can it play a triggering role in Multiple Sclerosis?
Is it associated with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy?
Can HHV-6 destroy t-cells?
Yes. That’s why it should have been called the real AIDS virus.
Can HHV-6 destroy natural killer cells?
Yes. That’s also why it should have been called the real AIDS virus.
Can HHV-6 also destroy monocytes and macrophages?
Can HHV-6 cause hemorrhages?
Yes. And that is another bit of evidence that it may be related to African Swine Fever Virus, or that it behaves like African Swine Fever Virus.
Has it been linked to illnesses in children?
It can cause roseola, febrile illnesses and encephalitis in infants.
Is it a problem in transplant patients?
It’s a big one.
Does it persist in people?
Well, that is complicated. The conventional wisdom is that it persists in people with impaired immune function, but since it is capable of impairing the immune function itself, it may be a problem in everyone regardless of immune status. Besides, we really don’t know what the spectrum of multisystem immune problems is in this country. Probably because the Centers for Disease Control is afraid to look.
Can HHV-6 persist in the central nervous system and cause problems?
Can HHV-6 cause an alteration of cytokines that leads to all kinds of symptoms?
Does HHV-6 interfere with the body’s ability to fight off viruses and bacteria.
Can HHV-6 stimulate other viruses like CMV, HHV-8 and EBV?
Has HHV-6 been difficult to detect?
Yes. The problem with testing is probably why HHV-6 has not been declared the real AIDS epidemic.
Is it true that there is very little free virus circulating in the serum?
Is it also true that it is difficult to distinguish between active in latent infections?
Yes, and it is possible that HHV-6 is never truly latent. Just less active. That’s why it is a plague.
Is HHV-6 able to integrate itself into human chromosomes?
Yes, and for all we know, in animal chromosomes, too.
Where in the body can one find high levels of HHV-6?
In blood, sera, and hair follicles.
Is it true that a significant percentage of children who have viral encephalitis have chromosomal integration of HHV-6 in the spinal fluid?
Is HHV-6 integrated into monocytes and t-cells?
Can one do a test on a person’s hair to see if they have HHV-6 chromosomal integration?
Will a person with chromosomal integration of HHV-6 always test positive for the virus?
Will someone with chromosomally integrated HHV-6 also have the virus in their central nervous system?
Yes. That’s part of the tragedy of the decades of mistakes make by the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health.
So, is there an increased risk for a variety of illnesses if one has chromosomally-integrated HHV-6?
Can people with chromosomally-integrated HHV-6 benefit from antivirals?
That work needs to be done, but because of the CDC’s refusal to admit that it is driving a major pandemic that includes AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, that work has not been done yet.
Is it true that HHV-6 can cause amnesia in people who have transplants?
Yes. It results from the HHV-6 related encephalitis.
Are there those who think that HHV-6 causes a kind of autoimmune disease?
Yes. And one of the theories is it involves molecular mimicry in that the virus genome has certain properties which are identical to myelin protein. To the body makes antibodies against the virus and itself. That may be another thing that suggests HHV-6 is really related to African Swine Fever Virus. Or at least does a great impression of it.
Is it true that HHV-6 may interfere with the ability of cells in the brain to repair themselves?
Does HHV-6 incorporate myelin proteins from the infected person in such a way that it could be the cause of the symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Is there total confusion about latent and active HHV-6?
Yes. And as we said, whether HHV-6 is ever truly latent is up in the air. That’s why it is a complicated plague in a scientific Tower of Babel.
Can HHV-6 explain all the problems with brain function in Multiple Sclerosis, autism, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
And AIDS, of course.
Does HHV-6 then explain the problems in the prefrontal grey matter of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients?
When did you become familiar with HHV-6?
Back in the 1980s, my newspaper, New York Native, did the most reporting of any publication in the world on the virus.
Did you think it was the real AIDS virus?
Absolutely. If it had been discovered before HIV it would have been called the AIDS virus. Scientists got it backwards and they kept it backwards for decades to hide their mistake.
Has the CDC been covering up the HHV-6 Epidemic?
Yes, obviously.
These days, people in public health feel that they have the right to control information about illness, usually under the pretext of keeping the public from panicking. But that pretext can also be a mask for covering up their own mistakes. Not recognizing that HHV-6 was driving the AIDS epidemic was probably the biggest mistake in the history of science and medicine. And the CDC endangered the health of the entire planet by getting that wrong.
Who did the most important work linking HHV-6 to AIDS?
Two scientists. Konnie Knox and Donald Carrigan.
What exactly is HHV-6?
HHV-6 is a DNA virus that was supposedly discovered in 1986 by scientists in the laboratory of Robert Gallo.
Supposedly?
There is the very real possibility that they stole the work of another virus and renamed that scientist’s virus.
Who was the scientist?
His name was John Beldekas and he was a scientist at Boston University. According to a report (on the internet, reference to come) "In August, 1986, John Beldekas was invited to go to the NCI and present his findings on the link between ASFV and AIDS, which he did. Beldekas gave samples of all his lab work to Gallo. Later, the government asked Beldekas to turn over all his reagents and lab work to the government, which he did. Beldekas had found ASFV presence in nine of 21 AIDS patients using two standard procedures. At the meeting, Gallo was reported saying: 'we know it is not ASFV.' How could Gallo know this as he hadn’t done any of his own tests to look for ASFV? Two months later, Gallo published an article in Science (Oct 31, 1986) that he discovered a new possible co-factor in AIDS, a virus he called Human B Cell Lymphotropic Virus which he named HBLV. Like ASFV, HBLV infected B cells and also lived in macrophages. Did Gallo steal Beldekas’s ASF virus he found in AIDS patients and rename it HBLV? Later on, when Gallo found that HBLV could also infect other immune cells, he changed the name of HBLV to HHV-6. Eventually, Gallo identified his HBLV as the variant A strain of HHV-6 and called it a human herpesvirus."
What did the Department of Agriculture say about this?
They said that it was impossible for African Swine Fever to infect people. But that turned out to be true.
If African Swine Fever was really HHV-6, can you find it in pigs?
While there has been no research on that, it is possible that HHV-6 in pigs is porcine Herpes Virus I and II. And Porcine Herpes Virus I and II could actually be a renamed form of African Swine Fever Virus.
So is it possible pigs in America are infect with strains of African Swine Fever that have been renamed Porcine Herpes Virus I and II?
Is it easy to play these name games with virus. Porcine Herpes Virus I and I were discovered after ASFV has been ignored or renamed in American pigs for decades.
Is the naming of viruses that arbitrary?
Yes, but the public doesn’t realize how subjective and political it is. Along with everything else that has to do with science and medicine. The public has not even entered kindergarten where the political nature of science and medicine is concerned. Pepole don’t have a clue.
HHV-6 and Pets
Can HHV-6 infect pets?
If one looks at CFS as one of the epidemiological markers for the HHV-6 epidemic, the answer is absolutely yes.
Do you mean dogs and cats can become infected with HHV-6 and get illnesses like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and all the other illnesses associated with HHV-6?
Yes, for starters.
Who discovered this?
A dentist named Thomas Glass. He did a study titled, “The Human/Animal Interaction of Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome: A Look At 127 Patients and Their 463 Animals.”
What was his background?
In addition to his D.D.S., he was a Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Oral and Maxilofacial Pathology and Pathology University of Oklahoma.
Why did he do the study?
Because there had been anecdotal reports about domestic animals belonging to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients who seemed to also get sick. In his study he studied mainly dogs and cats.
How did he decide who was a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patient?
He used the definition created by the Centers for Disease Control
Did the pets generally get sick after the owners got sick?
That’s what the Glass paper reports. But sometimes the patients got sick after the animals were sick, suggesting that the pets were carrying something that they passed on to their owner.
How sick did the pets get?
According to Glass’s paper, they got so sick that it was necessary to euthanize them.
Did the illnesses the pets got resemble the illnesses of their owner?
Yes, according to the Glass research.
What did he find in the animals?
Glass wrote in his paper, “Observations from my animal biopsy service demonstrate two interesting findings in animals of CFIDS patients (unpublished findings). Gingival biopsies from cats demonstrated an unusual epithelial viral vesicle associated with an equally unusual submucosal inflammatory response. Several melanomas were found in dogs of CFIDS patients which had the unique feature of a striking progression of the tumor in the absence of an inflammatory response.”
Are people who have CFS more likely to have had animal contact than the general public?
Yes, according to the Glass paper. He found that 97% of patients had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
So people with pets are some kind of risk group for acquiring Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
That’s what it sounds like. Ownership of cats and dogs was much higher for CFS patients. Thomas said that the typical CFS patient he studied was an “animal lover.”
What other animals did the patients he studied have contact with?
According to Glass, “Birds (parakeets and ducks were mentioned most often), followed by horses, cows, rabbits, goats, and guinea pigs. Two (2) [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] patients had contact with primates.”
Did the patients have a great deal of interaction with their pets?
That’s what Glass reports.
What was the conclusion of the studies?
The first study, which was a retrospective study using questionnaires asking patients to describe the health of their pets concluded that “a large number of these animals have atypical or unusual diseases which at least mimic” Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”
What was the second study?
He focused on 343 sick pets which were owned by CFS patients.
What did we see in sick pets.
The symtoms were all over the place, like in CFS patients. He reported that the animals exhibited “a variety of altered immune conditions. including allergies, skin rashes, hair loss, systemic lupus erythematosus.” Here are more descriptions of the what he saw:
122 animals (41 cats; 81 dogs) had "Neurological" signs. 32 animals (17 cat.; 15 dogs) of the neurological category had lethargy, weakness, or sleep disorders. 30 animals (9 cats; 21 dogs) in the neurological category had seizures, tremors, or tail twitching. 19 animals (4 cat:; 15 dogs) demonstrated hind limb dragging, myalgia, arthralgia, or Bell's palsy. 16 animals (6 cats; 10 dogs) were anxious, depressed, moody, or demonstrated inappropriate behavior, including urination and defecation outside their litterbox. 15 animals (4 cats; 11 dogs) had photophobia, ocular discharge, or blindness. 10 animals (1 cat; 9 dogs) had deafness, ear sensitivity, or loss of balance.
36 animals (21 cat.; 15 dogs) demonstrated "Gastrointestinal" signs. 13 animals (9 cats; 4 dogs) in the gastrointestinal category had inflamed gingiva, mouth odor, tooth loss, or drooling. 10 animal, (4 cats; 6 dogs) in the gastrointestinal category had diarrhea or abdominal distention. 9 animals (5 cat.; 4 dogs) demonstrated anorexia. 3 animals (2 cats; I dog) had increased appetite without weight gain. 1 cat had hard stools.
33 animals (18 cats; 14 dogs; 1 other) showed "Reticuloendothelial or Blood Disorders". 12 animals (3 cats; 8 dogs; 1 other) of this category demonstrated bleeding or blood disorders. 10 animals (9 cats; I dog) in this category developed leukemia. While all of the leukemic cats were positive for feline leukemia virus [FLV], 5 of the cats had been vaccinated against FLV prior to the onset of their feline leukemia. 7 animals (5 cat.; 2 dogs) died of either feline AIDS or canine immune defidency (AIDS). 2 dogs showed massive and generalized lymphadenopathy. 1 cat and 1 dog died of lymphoma (lymphosarcoma).
Excluding leukemia and lymphoma, 15 animals (3 cats;12 dogs) developed tumors ("Neoplasia"). 8 animals (2 cats; 6 dogs) in this category had either fatal and/or multiple tumors which were not further classified, but which resulted in euthanasia of the animal. 4 dogs of this category died from malignant tumors of epithelial origin (3 squamous cell carcinomas and 1 transitional cell carcinoma), while 1 cat developed perianal adenomas, but was still living at the time of the survey. 1 dog died of a functional pituitary tumor and 1 dog died of melanoma.
What was the conclusion of his study?
He concluded, “While this study demonstrates the multiplicity of CFIDS-like signs in the animals, it is this same multi-organ involvement in the CFIDS patients that makes CFIDS so difficult to diagnose in humans. As with CFIDS in humans, the animals usually showed no laboratory evidence of a specific disease entity. There was, however, a predominance of neumlogic, neuromuscular, and rheumatologic symptoms in the animals just as there are in CFIDS patients. The result of these studies need to alert the veterinary profession of the need to inquire as to the health of the animal owner and their family. Conversations with a number of clinical veterinarians have pointed out that they are commonly confronted with conditions in domestic animals which do not fall into well established disease patterns. The most common of these deal with neurological and infectious diseases. These two areas were the most often reported as the pet signs found by CFIDS patients.”
Why hasn’t this work gotten more attention and inspired more research?
It all goes back to the Centers for Disease Control that does not want to even admit to the public that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is contagious because that would lead to research that would challenge everything they have told the public about AIDS, HIV, HHV-6, and a lot of mysterious, multisystemic diseases (like autism) that are linked to HHV-6. Covering up the fact that HHV-6 is what I call a “fifty shades of AIDS virus” is what drives the CDC’s behavior.
Did Glass look for HHV-6 in the pets?
No, but clearly it should have been the leading suspect.
If HHV-6 can be found in the pets of CFs patients does that raise the real possibility that it isn’t a human herpesvirus but is what John Beldekas said he thought it might be, a form of African Swine Fever Virus?
It certainly raises that possibility. If Glass had looked at pet pigs of CFS patients that had gotten sick, the United States Department would probably have gotten involved. Given how many different kinds of animals seemed to have contracted something from CFS patients, and given how much pigs are like humans immunologically, it seems highly likely that pigs would also be susceptible. But we eat pigs and that raises a lot of political and economic issues that are very disturbing. The idea that the CFS agent is in the food supply is the most inconvenient idea of all.
On Neenyah Ostrom
You published a book about Gilda Radner’s struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Yes, I published What Really Happened to Gilda Radner? Frontline Reports on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic by Neenyah Ostrom. It consisted of the first reporting she did for my newspaper New York Native.
When did she start writing about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
In 1988 and she continued doing it until we went out of business in 1997. We were the first publication to give Chronic Fatigue syndrome serious and sustained coverage. Most people think New York Native deserves a place in history for giving he first serious coverage to the AIDS epidemic, but I think that the work we published on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is just as important. And a big part of that coverage involved HHV-6.
Gilda Radner died of cancer, didn’t she?
Yes, but that is often the tragic outcome of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome because not only does HHV-6 cause dysfunction in many elements of the immune system, but HHV-6 seems to also be an oncogenic virus.
So, one could call HHV-6 a cancer virus?
When was Gilda Radner diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
According to Ostrom, “in June 1996 . . . approximately a year-and-a-half before she developed the ovarian cancer that killed her in May 1989.” (Radner p. 1)
Had the Centers for Disease Control been hearing about cancer in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients?
Yes, but they ignored it. (Radner p. 2) Early on there was a decision made at the CDC not to take CFS seriously which makes it look like a decision was made to cover up CFS practically from the minute it began to surface in the general population. Probably because it was too much like AIDS and it threatened the CDC’s AIDS paradigm.
Were there any studies by scientists outside of the CDC showing that CFS patients were at an increased risk for cancer?
Yes, in her book, Ostrom reported that Dr. Ronald Herberman studied an outbreak of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in a symphony orchestra and concluded that there is “a remarkably increased cancer risk” in people with CFS. (Radner p. 2)
An outbreak in an orchestra? Does that mean Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HHV-6 are casually transmissible?
Unless the members of the orchestra were having orgies after their performances.
So, you think the virus they were sharing was HHV-6?
One would have to be an idiot not to at least say that it is the leading suspect.
Where was the first outbreak of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Well, in retrospect it was probably breaking out all over the county at the same time without doctors realizing what they were looking at. The outbreak that most people are aware of happened in Nevada. Ostrom wrote, “The first recognized outbreak of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome began in autumn 1984 in Incline village, Nevada. Two general practitioners, Dr. Paul Cheney and his partner Dr. Daniel Peterson . . . noticed that their patients were sick with a flu that didn’t seem to go away. The two physicians had worked in the community for several years; they recognized that something new was affecting their usually stable population. Their patients had ‘flu-like’ symptoms: recurrent fevers, malaise, headaches, sore throats, painful lymph glands, joint pain, and muscle pain and weakness. They also exhibited some disturbing neurological symptoms like dizziness, photophobia (intolerance of light), an inability to concentrate well enough to read or even watch television, and short-term memory loss. Most disturbing of all, however, was that the symptoms showed no sign of disappearing over a period of several weeks to months.” (Radner p. 3)
Did the CDC go out there to investigate?
Yes, but it was clear that a scientist was sent out there to basically not see anything. The fix was in from the very beginning. The data that was collected did not reflect what was going on there. The CDC just didn’t want to admit what was going on. It was weird and has never made sense unless something major had to be covered up.
Back in the 80s, what was the prevalence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Ostrom reported, “In 1987, Dr. Anthony Komaroff, at the prestigious Brigham and Women’s Hospital I Boston (affiliated with the Harvard Medical School), conducted a survey of 500 patients seeking treatment in a general clinic. To his surprise, Kamaroff found that a staggering 21 percent of patients attending the clinic for other reasons reported experiencing symptoms of the new syndrome. Komaroff published this astonishing discovery; nothing happened.” (Radner p. 5)
Nothing happened?
Once you grasp the lay of the land in terms of the CDC’s cover-up of all this, nothing surprises.
Is it true that Japanese researchers may have had a good grasp of what was going on with CFS back in the 80s?
Yes. They published a paper in which it was called “Low Natural Kiler Syndrome.” (Radner p. 5) And they came up with an effective treatment.
According to Ostrom, it was “intravenously-administered lentinan, an extract of shiitake mushrooms that had been investigated as an anti-tumor, anti-viral, and immune system-stimulating compound since 1969.” (Radner p. 5)
Why didn’t the Centers for Disease control adopt that definition and suggest that all patients be given lentinan?
Good question. The best answer, again, is that something big had to be covered up. And it had something to do with AIDS and the virus HHV-6. They just didn’t want to tell the public that there was a huge epidemic of immune dysfunction connected to AIDS and a virus that they pretended was of no importance.
Didn’t scientists originally think that CFS was caused by Epstein-Barr Virus?
Yes, and interestingly, that was also originally thought by some scientists to possibly be the cause of AIDS. But in AIDS and CFs, it was soon clear that EBV was a secondary factor, a sentinel of the immune system indicated that something major had gone awry.
Wasn’t CFS jokingly called “Yuppie flu”?
Yes. Ostrom reported it was called that “because only documented cases were in people who had the education, confidence, and financial resources to pursue medical care.” (Radner p. 13)
Why all the jokes about CFS?
I think it stems from The CDC’s unconscious fear that they had gotten AIDS wrong and this new ailment had many inconvenient similarities to AIDS. It needed to be joked away. It was like whistling pass the graveyard. And while the CDC played games with CFS, HHV-6 spread throughout the world. And, with AIDS, CFS was just the tip of the iceberg.
Do scientists tell jokes about HHV-6?
They don’t dare. That would open up a Pandora’s Box that would cause a debate about whether HIV is the biggest scientific mistake I history and whether it has been used to cover up the HHV-6 pandemic.
Are children affected by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Absolutely. Ostrom wrote about a doctor who was seeing CFS in children in Lyndenville, New York. She reprted, “Dr. David S. Bell is following a population of 60 children with [CFS]. Bell considers [CFS] to be identical in children and adults, although the progression and presentation of symptoms appaear to vary with age.” (Radner p. 15)
Does CFS cause learning problems in children?
Yes. Ostrom reported, that “neurological dysfunction in a child is often perceived as a learning problem. One-third of the children in Bell’s group have developed severe academic difficulties and failures.” (Radner p.16.)
If HHV-6 is causing these neurological problems, could it also be behind the autism epidemic?
Absolutely, and there is evidence supporting that notion.
Do children with CFS get better?
According to Bell, if children or adults have CFS for more than two years, they will probably never regain full health. (Radner p. 17)
Is that because they are dealing with HHV-6 for the rest of their lives after they become infected?
Does it affect a person’s ability to earn a living?
Ostrom summed it up when she wrote, “Confusion, forgetfulness, and inability to concentrate cause interruption of careers and, sometimes, loss of income.” (Radner p. 17)
Did Ostrom write about the discovery of HHV-6?
Yes. Originally it was called “human B-lyphotropic virus.” She wrote, “HBLV was first isolated in 1985 from ‘AIDS’ patients by Drs. Dharam V. Ablashi and S. Zaki Salahuddin and associates, working in the laboratory of Dr. Robert C. Gallo at the National Institutes of Health.” Ostrom also wrote that the virus “is an extremely efficient killer of immune cells.” According to her report Ablashi stated, “The virus has the capability of growing in, and killing the cells of the T-cell and megakaryocyte lines; these are the hemopoietic [blood cell generating] cells. Plus, it has a degenerating effect on the glial blastoma cells [a nervous system cell line].”
Was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome thought to be a new entity?
According to Ostrom’s reporting, Cheney did. Cheney himself wrote, “Outbreaks of this syndrome have been reported and strongly suggest that a novel agent or set of factors is at play in a virgin population. Indeed, the best candidate as a novel cause of CFS may be the newly discovered Human Herpes Virus-6 or HHV-6. The apparent laboratory behavior of HHV-6 could, if present in this condition, allow it to eclipse EBV as an associated if not causal factor in CFS.”[1]
Did Gallo think HHV-6 was involved in AIDS?
Ostrom reported that, on May 11, 1998, in the Miami Herald, he said he thought it might be “a factor in the development of AIDS because of its extreme efficiency in killing the cells of the immune system.” (Radner p.20) His associate, Dharam Ablashi, told the Miami Herald “Because it [HHV-6] can infect the same target cell as HIV, it may enhance some effects in the AIDS patient by killing the target cell and suppressing the immune system.”[2]
Why didn’t he think it might be the real AIDS virus?
Because he had put all his chips on the HIV theory. And he had helped the government build a public health empire around HIV. They couldn’t admit they got it wrong. It would have undermined the credibility of American science and medicine. So instead they tried to say it was involved in order to hedge their bets. If the truth ever came out that HHV-6 was the real cause of AIDS, Gallo and his folks could always say we never said it wasn’t involved. They were covering their asses.
[1] Cheney, Paul R.; “CFIDS:A Real Clinical Entity (and Possible Pandemic?); CFIDS Chroniccle, November/December 1988. P.7.
[2] Goudreau, Rosemary; “Highly Contagious Herpes Virus Linked to Cancer, AIDS”; Miami Herald, May 11, 1988, p. 1.
A New Cartoon
Are HHV-6 infections of the brain causing people to read less?
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/poll-do-you-still-read-books-and-newspapers-now-that-you-have-me-cfs-or-do-you-read-much-less.54506/
But is HHV-8 really African Swine Fever Virus?
http://www.ecns.cn/2017/09-22/274779.shtml
If HHV-8 is really African Swine Fever Virus, then Jane Teas and John Beldekas should get the Nobel prize.
Why are Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients infected with HHV-8?
And is the high prevalence of HHV-8 in Sardinia due to the fact that HHV-8 is really African Swine Fever Virus?
Inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus in pigs
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/08/09/science.aan4187
Xenotransplantation is a promising strategy to alleviate the shortage of organs for human transplantation. In addition to the concern on pig-to-human immunological compatibility, the risk of cross-species transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) has impeded the clinical application of this approach. Earlier, we demonstrated the feasibility of inactivating PERV activity in an immortalized pig cell line. Here, we confirmed that PERVs infect human cells, and observed the horizontal transfer of PERVs among human cells. Using CRISPR-Cas9, we inactivated all the PERVs in a porcine primary cell line and generated PERV-inactivated pigs via somatic cell nuclear transfer. Our study highlighted the value of PERV inactivation to prevent cross-species viral transmission and demonstrated the successful production of PERV-inactivated animals to address the safety concern in clinical xenotransplantation
Does this have implications for endogenous human retroviruses like HERV-K18 which has been linked to AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome via HHV-6?
Will Lady Gaga become the Liz Taylor of the HHV-6 Epidemic?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/lady-gaga-hospitalized-i-am-in-severe-pain/ar-AArWQeM?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
Nurses with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome may be proof CFS is contagious. Is it HHV-6?
Estimating the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome among nurses
"The present study assessed the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in a sample of nurses. There is a paucity of studies on the prevalence of CFS in healthcare professionals. Two samples of nurses were recruited through mailed questionnaires. Data were collected on demographic characteristics and symptoms. In addition from the sample, those nurses with CFS-like symptoms were more comprehensively evaluated using a structured clinical interview and reviewing their medical records. A physician review team estimated the prevalence of CFS to be 1,088 per 100,000. These findings suggest that nurses might represent a high-risk group for this illness, possibly due to occupational stressors such as exposure to viruses in the work setting, stressful shift work that is disruptive to biologic rhythms, or to other possible stressors in the work settings (e.g., accidents)."
Is HHV-6 pathology behind the bacterial infections that lead to Autism?
http://news.mit.edu/2017/studies-explain-link-between-autism-severe-infection-during-pregnancy-0913#press-inquiry-section
Will somebody please tell Bill Gates about the HHV-6 pandemic?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/bill-gates-reveals-the-biggest-public-health-threats-over-the-next-10-years/ar-AArSnrV?li=AA5LBhu&ocid=spartanntp
HHV-6 the AIDS/CFS virus is also driving male infertility.
Lady Gaga is another victim of the HHV-6 Non-HIV AIDS Cover-up.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/what-is-fibromyalgia-lady-gagas-chronic-illness/ar-AArPEes?ocid=spartanntp
Fibromyalgia is just another HHV-6 disease that is being covered up by the CDC.
Fibromyalgia is basically the same as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is Non-HIV AIDS.
Listen to these radio shows to learn more about the HHV-6 Non-HIV AIDS cover-up: http://charlesortleb.podbean.com/
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The story of Historic Plate SA "1"
SA '1' Update:
Here are two rare images of SA '1'.
When first registered to Hargreaves, circa 1906-7:
And the 1952 Ford van this Historic Plate is currently registered to:
SA '1'
We've recently spoken with the registered owners of the brilliant plate SA "1". It has quite an incredible history, part of which we have captured following; we are planning on expanding on this in the near future.
The incredible history was verified by family members and the plate's registered owner; for example the car today actually wears a set of c.1921 issued numberplates, that have been on this car since approximately 1960 when it was first registered. Incredible history.
Keep an eye on our site for more information and for more of the tale about SA "1".
SA"1" Today.
Why we may never see SA1 on our roads.....and why for plates under 200 what we’ve now got is what we’ve got.
One of the most asked questions of historicplates.com.au is- where is plate SA1? At historicplates.com.au we know exactly where it is and it has one of the most fascinating histories of any plates in SA.
Most plate enthusiasts are interested, indeed most South Australian’s are curious to the whereabouts of good ol’ No 1.
Sadly, we may likely never see this plate on a car in regular use in SA.
Why this is the case, is a complicated tale, but if you’re a plate enthusiast you’ll likely be interested.
Here’s my researched and educated take on the scenario.
Firstly, we need to go back to 1906 when SA1 was first issued. As we’ve written earlier, each individual plate was issued to a motor car, a motorcycle and finally a trailer, at or around the same time. So, at any one moment three classes of vehicle could have been operating in SA with the “same” number.
Now, Plate SA1 being of great interest, the owners kept the plates on each of the three vehicle-types registered....from the plates original issuance in 1906 right through the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, up to the release of the Proprietary Right Great Plate Auction in 1985.
I believe that historic plate SA1 was transferred sometime in the 1950’s to a business vehicle, and this vehicle still bears the SA1 registration number to this day. However, we believe the number is also registered on a trailer and potentially a motorcycle too.
So, in order for an individual to obtain the SA 1 historic plate, one would need to purchase all the vehicles that plate 1 is registered to, and obtain a transfer of the plate into their name via the Department of Transport.
However, the Department of Transport have declared that Historic Plates will only be auctioned off in the future, and that they will no longer allow the issue of Class Specific or Proprietary Rights to an owner of a vehicle with a Historic Plate; nor will they allow transfer of a plate without rights from an original/old owner to a new owner.
So, when these vehicles that have SA1 registered to them change ownership, they will immediately forfeit plate SA1 upon any transferral of the paperwork from old owner to new owner.
The registrants of SA1 know this, and simply will keep their vehicles registered, paid up and in their names; thus preventing the plate from “disappearing” into the Department of Transport’s system.
So, in effect there is a standoff between the registered owners of SA1 and the Government Department.
Other low plates too, we understand, are in a similar situation.
But, the story for SA1 and other low historic plates doesn’t end there.
When the first Grand Prix was held in 1985 a series of commemorative “Black” GP plates, in numbers 1-199, was issued. See our page on Grand Prix plates here:
http://www.historicplates.com.au/black-grand-prix-white-grand-prix-plates
The Department of Transport at the time issued these GP plates with ”Proprietary Rights” to each number- in effect the same “rights” to the “same” number that were allocated to Historic class plates at the original Great Plate Auction.
There have been several legal challenges to the Department of Transport from Historic Plate owners who, in their mind, had the SOLE rights, the PROPRIETARY rights, to a specific number. That is, it was their understanding at the time of purchase that they secured the sole, proprietary, singular, only use of a specific number on a plate in SA.
However, for example plate 3 has been issued with Rights in both the GP Black and Historic series......so essentially there are two cars registered in plate number 3 in SA. Yes, the plates themselves are different, the plate styles are different, but the challenge to the Department of Transport is that the numerals, the actual number (in this case no 3) is the “same”.
We understand that the Department of Transport has had Crown Solicitor advice to never again issue duplicates of any one number that corresponds to those GP plates sold in the range 1-199; the numbers that correspond to those numbers in the black GP series.
So, even if SA1 was to become available due to a lapse of registration of the vehicles it is registered too, or if ownership was transferred, it would never be sold at auction due to this duplicity of the black GP and historic numbers 1-199.
This rule rings true for other low historic numbers under 199 that to this day have not had Class Specific or Proprietary Rights previously issued. Indeed, any historic plate that is without full rights but is registered on an old car can now no longer be applied for and purchased directly from the Government.
This same Crown solicitor advice, we understand, has led to the concurrent change in rules now preventing white GP plates (sold and issued in the range 200-9999) from being re-sold and transferred to new owners. Again, there are duplicate Historic Plates that had full proprietary/class specific rights purchased for these numbers from 1985 to the present day.
So, today the lowest historic number in SA that has had full rights purchased to it is plate SA "3"; and the “lowest” number extant in SA that any rights have been sold to is plate GP "1".
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Ramadan in Ithaca
Ramadan has started on the evening of May 5 / day of May 6.
The prayer schedule for Ramadan can be downloaded here.
In addition, the Ramadan information sheet distributed by the Muslim Life Program at Cornell University can be downloaded here.
Below is a list of some activities during Ramadan.
1- Daily Prayers
Prayers in congregation are held at the moosalla at the following times: Fajr – 15 minutes after start, Dhuhr – 1:15pm, Asr – 6:30pm, Maghrib – 12 minutes after sunset, Isha is held at One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University 5 minutes after the start time.
2- Daily Quran Recitation Halaqa
At the moosalla every day for 45 mins there will be Quran recitation halaqa after Asr prayer (6:30pm).
3- Daily Iftaar
There will be daily iftaars every day in One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University. Sponsored by the Cornell Muslim Alumni.
In addition, there will be Maghrib prayers in congregation and a small iftaar at the moosalla daily.
4- Nightly Taraweeh Prayers
Taraweeh is prayed after ‘Isha prayer during Ramadan. These will be prayed at One World Room, same place where iftaar is served. There are guest Huffaz visiting and the complete Quran will be recited before the end of the month, inshaa’Allah.
5- Weekly Potluck
Each Saturday at One World Room there will be a potluck iftaar. On Saturday, May 25, there will be a special iftaar for families of graduating students.
6- Quran Competition
Spend some time this month to memorize and revise the Quran. More details will be announced.
Prizes are sponsored by the Cornell Muslim Alumni.
7- Itikaf and Qiyam Nights
In order to take advantage of all of the last nights of Ramadan, there will be tahajjud prayers held during every odd night from the last ten days from 2:15am-3:00am at Moosalla Noor. The nights are:
21st Ramadan: Night of Saturday 5/25 – Morning of Sunday 5/26
23rd Ramadan: Night of Monday 5/27 – Morning of Tuesday 5/28
25th Ramadan: Night of Wednesday 5/29 – Morning of Thursday 5/30
27th Ramadan: Night of Friday 5/31 – Morning of Saturday 6/1
29th Ramadan: Night of Sunday 6/2 – Morning of Monday 6/3
Events, Information, Prayer Times, Ramadan
Prayer Time Table for September and October
The prayer schedule for the months of September and October can be downloaded here.
Fajr – 6:00am (until Oct. 12th) / 6:30am (from Oct. 13th)
Dhuhr – 1:30pm (until Sept. 28th) / 1:15pm (from Sept. 29th)
Asr – 5:45pm (until Sept. 28th) / 5:00pm (from Sept. 29th)
Isha – Start + 15 min (until Sept. 28th) / Start + 20 min (from Sept. 29th)
Prayer Time Table for August and September
The prayer schedule for the month of August and September can be downloaded here.
Fajr – 5:15am (until Sept. 1st) / 6:00am (from Sept. 1st)
Dhuhr – 1:30pm
Asr – 6:30pm (until Sept. 1st) / 5:45pm (from Sept. 1st)
May 18, 2018 May 5, 2019 admin
Ramadan has started.
In addition, the Ramadan information sheet distributed by the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association of Cornell University can be downloaded here.
Below is a list of activities during Ramadan.
Prayers in congregation are held at the moosalla at the following times: Fajr – 10 minutes after start, Dhuhr – 1:30pm, Asr – 6:30pm. Maghrib and Isha are held at One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University soon after the start time.
Taraweeh is prayed after ‘Isha prayer during Ramadan. These will be prayed at One World Room, same place where iftaar is served. There are guest Huffaz visiting and the complete Quran will be recited by June 9, inshaa’Allah.
6- Weekly Quranic Support Group
The Quran refers to itself as a “healing and a mercy to those who believe.” Every Wednesday 7pm at G3a Anabel Taylor Hall, Chaplain Yasin will lead a Quranic based emotional support group for anyone facing stress, anxiety, depression, despair, guilt, loss and more. All are welcome! For more information, click here.
7- Weekly Open Q/A with Chaplain Yasin
Every Thursday 7pm at G3a Anabel Taylor Hall, join Chaplain Yasin for open conversations.
Spend some time this month to memorize and revise the Quran. Details found by clicking here.
21st Ramadan: Night of Monday 6/4 – Morning of Tuesday 6/5
23rd Ramadan: Night of Wednesday 6/6 – Morning of Thursday 6/7
25th Ramadan: Night of Friday 6/8 – Morning of Saturday 6/9
27th Ramadan: Night of Sunday 6/10 – Morning of Monday 6/11
29th Ramadan: Night of Tuesday 6/12 – Morning of Wednesday 6/13
Prayer Time Table for April
The prayer schedule for the month of April can be downloaded here.
Congregational prayer times are as follows (until May 5):
Fajr – 6:15am (until 6th) / 5:30am (from 7th)
Asr – 6:00pm (until 6th) / 6:15pm (from 7th)
Isha – Start + 20 min (until 13th) / 9:30pm (until 21st) / Start + 10 min (from 22nd)
Prayer Time Table for March
March 1, 2018 March 29, 2018 admin
The prayer schedule for the month of March can be downloaded here.
Congregational prayer times are as follows (until April 2):
Fajr – 6:15am (until 2nd) / 5:45am (until 10th) / 6:15am (from 11th)
Dhuhr – 12:30pm (until 10th) / 1:25pm (from 11th)
Asr – 4:15pm (until 2nd) / 5pm (until 10th) / 6pm (from 11th)
Note the time changes due to daylight savings starting on March 11.
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Kim Sun-ah (김선아)
Liz K-popped 12 years ago
Every woman who has watched Kim Sun-ah in My Lovely Sam-soon loves the actress.
Many have said that they relate to the character and admire the star for her dedication to her work. That’s because Kim actually piled on the kilos to portray the titular character in the 2005 drama series.
Sam-soon is basically the Korean version of Bridget Jones. They share similar traits: both are on the chubby side and singletons looking for love. And of course, the object of affection (even if the heroine is in denial initially) is a man oozing charisma. In this drama, Jin-heon (played by Hyun Bin) gets the coveted Mark Darcy-ish character.
As things turned out, Sam-soon was the pivotal character that shot 32-year-old Kim to Hallyu stardom.
Having said that, I notice that there’s very little English material on the actress. All I could find out was that she was a model (endorsing Han Bul cosmetics in 1996) before becoming an actress. She made her silver screen debut in the actioner Yesterday (2002).
Dubbed the queen of comedy, Kim is also said to be passionate about acting and is careful and meticulous. She seems to be lying low lately. Apart from a couple of fashion spreads, her latest outing is a brief cameo in the movie The Worst Man of My Life.
Name: Kim Sun-ah/ Kim Seon-ah
Date of birth: October 1, 1975
Weight: 50 kg (before she played Kim Sam Soon)
Family: A younger brother and a younger sister
Education: Middle/High School in Tokyo, attended Ball State University (in Indiana) – Majored in Piano
Girl Scouts (2008)
The Worst Man of my Life (2007) – cameo
She’s on Duty (2005)
S Diary (2004)
Happy Naked Christmas / Happy Ero Christmas (2003)
The Greatest Expectation (2003)
Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield (2003)
Wet Dreams (2002)
TV Dramas:
When Night Comes (2008)
My Name is Kim Sam Soon / My Lovely Sam-Soon (2005)
Golden Era (2000)
좋아좋아 (2000)
Love Story (Korea) (1999) – daily drama
Jump (1999) sitcom
Love and Success (1998)
Forever Yours (1998)
Related story: My Lovely Sam-soon showing on 8TV
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I love Kim Sun Ah! I`m a fan since 2005. Watch out for her new TV drama City Hall SBS with RSW, to be broadcast on April 2009.
Elaine January 2, 2009
wow, check out the tango she did with Bi in the latest Rainism Comeback Special (Youtube). really good for an actress with no formal dance training…though she is so qualified in as a musician…training with Bi were recorded and so hilarious…hope all the lawsuit ordeals are behind her. such a talented person..surprised that very she has such few comments.
Gail T. September 30, 2007
i love Sun-ah sshi. 😉 She has worked with Gong Yoo twice (to my knowledge) and appeared in pictures with him. I so wish they end up together. heehee.
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Nationwide Series Rookie Chase Elliott Fourth in Standings after Bristol
By Elliot Mabe
Elliott scores third top-10 finish at Thunder Valley, finishing ninth and moving up in NASCAR Nationwide Series standings.
NASCAR Nationwide Series rookie Chase Elliott and the No. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS team finished ninth in Saturday’s Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 and did so at the treacherous Bristol Motor Speedway, a half-mile bullring in the north Tennessee mountains with the nickname “Thunder Valley.” It was Elliott’s third top-10 in four races, and it moved him up one spot to fourth in the championship standings. Elliott is now just 13 points behind leader Regan Smith and five points behind third-place Ty Dillon.
Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch combined to lead 299 of 300 laps, with Busch claiming his second win of the season. The two drivers lapped all but eight cars in the early stages, including 10th-place Elliott on lap 84. But the 18-year-old rookie regained lead-lap status with a ‘lucky dog’ on lap 135, and he benefitted from chassis adjustments on laps 95 and 136 to surge forward. He passed his teammate Smith for sixth on lap 165 and took over fifth not long thereafter.
But it was the final restart with nine laps to go that was the key juncture of the race. Elliott, in fifth, was the unfortunate recipient of an inside-row start spot, which was slower due to the lack of tire residue on the bottom groove. As a result the much faster outside line paraded by him in the short 4.5-mile sprint to the checkers while Elliott attempted to squeeze up. He would finish ninth, just in front of Smith, and take solace in his third consecutive top-10 for JR Motorsports.
Busch beat Kyle Larson by six car lengths in a drama-free finish. JR Motorsports’ Kevin Harvick finished third while Ryan Blaney and Kenseth rounded out the top five.
Quotes | Chase Elliott
“It was an eventful weekend for this NAPA team. We didn’t have a very good qualifying effort on Friday, and that kind of hurt us at the end. I felt like starting behind like that made it hard to catch up. But we fought all day, and I’m proud of this NAPA team for that. We were up to fifth on that last restart, but on the bottom it was just hard to get going. All in all it was a good day, and we’re looking forward to improving at Fontana.”
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Jang Hyuk and Park So Dam Lead the Cast of Beautiful Mind at the Well-deserved Drama Wrap Party
Posted on August 8, 2016 by ockoala
I’m so pleased to do a blog post on the drama wrap party for KBS Mon-Tues medical drama Beautiful Mind. It was as lowly rated as it gets for a prime time drama, with ratings averaging in the 4% range, and ended up with the most ignominious and egregious treatment of all by its very own network with an episode cut. The drama wrapped this past week at fourteen episodes, by all accounts a satisfactory ending despite the abruptness of the decision to end it. I watched the first two episodes and thoroughly enjoyed it, planning to bank the remainder for a satisfying marathon in September, so I didn’t live through loving the drama during its run and being personally offended and annoyed with the official decision to cut it short. With that said, the cast did a stellar job at acting and should be immensely proud of this drama, and from the looks at the drama wrap party everyone is indeed content.
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Jang Hyuk and Park So Dam Lead the Cast of Beautiful Mind at the Well-deserved Drama Wrap Party — 47 Comments
Michykdrama on August 8, 2016 at 1:47 AM said:
Yay! Some Love for the Beautiful Mind cast here! ❤️ All looking good but Jang Hyuk looking especially mighty fine. And his acting was simply top notch. Loved him and Heo Jun Ho (Elder Dr Lee) for their masterclass acting.
cahill on August 8, 2016 at 2:18 AM said:
Great drama. Beautiful cast . When i see this, i dare to say that is not a good cast or a good script that makes a hit . It’s a need from viewers at a certain moment… or something else. Some sreenwriters and actors should experiment a similar case to make their fans stay on the ground! And stop bragging !!!! Just my opinion.
EG on August 9, 2016 at 10:01 PM said:
Most actors and writer have flop
But not all fans bashing others when their fav are flopping
sara on August 8, 2016 at 2:33 AM said:
great drama ,my only regret is its reduction ,thinking what would it have been….
junny on August 8, 2016 at 2:46 AM said:
A wonderful drama through and through, flaws and all. Excellent effort from the cast and crew, and indeed they can be very proud to have been part of this production. Jang Hyuk was superb throughout and had adorable chemistry with Park So-dam. Love!
leven-heap on August 8, 2016 at 7:37 PM said:
i didnt expect it at the beginning but park so dam n jang hyuk are so cute.definitely one of my fav dramas this year.it ended well regardless the ep was cut short
Rondo on August 8, 2016 at 4:32 AM said:
Loved the drama, the creative story line, the great cast and the great acting by the cast. Jang Hyuk was superb as Dr. Lee and there was great chemistry between him and Park So-dam. It is a shame the drama did not capture the imagination of the general audience,and the drama’s season was cut short ( IT IS A GREAT SHAME).!!!
Regardless BM is an excellent production and a great drama!!!Kudos to all the cast , the stars and the production team.!!!
Yoeda on August 8, 2016 at 4:41 AM said:
One of the best drama this year. Totally underrated. It has flawed and episode cut make it’s worst. But, the story and acting make it better. And…. 205. He’s precious(insert Gollum mode here). Btw, all the stunt make kbs looks like Hyunsung and BM is Young Oh. Talking about drama in real life. Lol
Ck1Oz on August 8, 2016 at 4:54 AM said:
Good solid drama. One of the most solid medical dramas I’ve ever watched. Plus actually one of the most coherent well written and excellently acted dramas this year.
The network executives should all deserved to be shot. No guts at all to finish the drama. And one wonders why people laugh at their year end awards winners.
KBS might save a bit of face and restore a smidgen of credibility if they award Jang Hyuk the Daesang this year. But knowing KBS, the big prizes will probably end up in unworthy hands.
sky on August 8, 2016 at 6:53 AM said:
@Ck10Z absolutely agree with your post especially the second para lol.Inside I’m still boiling and wishing all kbs dramas this year get poor ratings..I would have been happier if they get poor rated,weakly produced dramas for a certain time period,they need to get a lesson for what they did huh.
BA on August 8, 2016 at 6:35 AM said:
I think tbat placed too many characters in this drama. However, it was way better then Doctors Crush as I gave up DC after mere 3 ep and hung around for BM for all 14!
Denali on August 8, 2016 at 6:46 AM said:
An excellent drama. And Bernard Park’s “Dirt” song’s been on repeat mode ever since hearing a few notes that captured my heart.
Ta on August 8, 2016 at 6:49 AM said:
Yes , they all we deserved , good drama , acting , good scriptwriting even got cut short 2 episodes but the writer wrap it up well
And omg Jang Huyk, it is my first drama with him and I am totally head over heels , I am beggining watching all of his dramas . Yea it’s lame for me that I just discover him now but it’s never too late
@TA, you can also chech out Thank You as he also played doctor in that drama. Thank You was an excellent drama partly becuse of storyline and superb acting by both leads and all supporting characters.
Drama2016 on August 8, 2016 at 10:19 AM said:
+1. Thank You is memorable and another critically acclaimed drama of the star writer Lee Kyun Hee who also penned uncontrollably disappointing Uncontrollably Fond. After watching Thank You, then you should see the difference in acting between two casts. LOL
Sky on August 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM said:
Lol exactly ^^
novvtiioo on August 8, 2016 at 7:43 PM said:
Thank You is a masterpiece from Lee Kyung Hee because of the excellent casts. But after she cast ‘you know who’, in uncomfortable fond, it was a down grade.
Ta on August 8, 2016 at 5:17 PM said:
Thank you guys for the recommendation , yea I’m watching it now hehe
Ema on August 8, 2016 at 8:16 AM said:
I wondering if this drama air in other network,will rating be the same?
joe on August 8, 2016 at 8:26 AM said:
he look old in the drama with her. they should have cast a woman near his age. guy look like her uncle.
was a bad idea for PSD to join this mess drama.
D on August 8, 2016 at 8:42 AM said:
I wasn’t blown by PSD but she was a perfect foil to Jang Hyuk’s character. I don’t know about compatibility in looks age wise but this couple was a delight to watch. I attribute it mostly to Jang Hyuk’s acting.
crayon on August 8, 2016 at 8:44 AM said:
Fans like you humiliate actors and actresses. Both leads were awesome and acted perfectly. This drama is so far from “mess”. Guess you’re too young to understand, kiddo.
Ck1Oz on August 8, 2016 at 10:41 AM said:
Hahaha I was about to write the same. Some people don’t even recognize a plot when they see it. For once the male lead was age appropriate and the female lead acted like her character was written as.
I wonder why it’s a foreign concept that actors should be able to act. And dramas should have a well written plot.
I rarely take Asian dramas seriously. For me, Asian dramas are pretty entertaining, exciting sometimes, romantic but not oversexualized like American dramas. Nonetheless to say Asian dramas are deep in conveying humanity, I’m not so enthusiastic to sing praises. But there are a few memorable dramas that deserve my compliment as a viewer with critical mind. Beautiful Mind is among these few. I watched BM for Jang Hyuk who has earned my admiration for many of his prior dramas even including Midas that was lackluster in everything else. He was also the reason for me to watch Deep Rooted Tree and got to know another acting talent Song Joong Ki. I have had great respect to this actor way before Beautiful Mind. But I never expected him to deliver such stellar performance. Among all the actors who played a role of personality disorder recently, he’s most convincing and touching as someone whose mind went awry, not overacting, nor underwhelming.
Kudos to the production crew, specifically the writer. The screenplay is brilliantly written except for the annoyingly dumb heroine for the very first few episodes. I wish BM could have been complete with originally planned 16 episodes. But the flow of the narratives wasn’t really intercepted by cutting short to 14 episodes. I’ll be interested in knowing what other works the writer has done.
Deb on August 8, 2016 at 11:21 AM said:
For anyone starting out on BM, don’t give up after the first episode. I was close to giving up but kept watching because of all the praises and somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd episode I realized I was watching something special and was all in. And yes, Jang Hyuk’s acting is impressive.
KBS execs are idiots for not letting such a short drama run its course even with the glowing praises online. They really think they can get away with anything post-DoTS.
Hahanzyy on August 8, 2016 at 12:12 PM said:
When I knew that D and BM were going to start airing at the same time, I was so looking forward to D and didn’t intend to watch BM at all.
While waiting for D episode 9, I decided to try BM and since then had marathon and followed it…. Realised it is such a good drama with well thought out plot & character development. I wished they were given the chance to show the original 16 episodes the writer had intended it for. Sigh
Math on August 8, 2016 at 3:50 PM said:
Love Jang Hyuk and have seen most of his drama and movies, do watch Searching for the Elephant, his character is kind of like BM one but more intense! I will have to watch this show after Doctors to see any similarities. On a happy note ! 😊 as a fan …..Doctors just got 21.3% from its K audience against the OG! Commented before, there is something in this show that the locals love! Blame the station for not fighting to the end……I can’t understand why they have to have the same kind of show on the same time slot. Really weird! Feel sad for its fans but it’s not Doctors fault.
Drama2016 on August 8, 2016 at 4:50 PM said:
BM and Doctors are definitely not the same kind of show. While Doctors is more romance/rom com with cheesy lines like DotS, BM is more of a thriller and melo. Similar settings in hospitals and doctors as main leads don’t equate the two dramas in the same genres. LOL…..In general, fluffy romance always wins over thriller and serious dramas. So no comparison in ratings.
Chirpy on August 8, 2016 at 5:02 PM said:
Doctors and BM are both completely different in terms of tone and story line. The only similarity is that they share the white coat. I’m watching both and I enjoy both equally. BM is mysterious and dark and Doctors is cheesy and fluffy. They both kind of balance each other out. Korean audiences prefer light and fluffy dramas rather than dark and serious ones. That’s why dramas like BM tend to get low ratings.
Okkk on August 8, 2016 at 9:29 PM said:
I never got why ifans like beautiful mind so much. while I love Jang Hyuk as an actor this show didn’t grab my attention after the 4th episode I couldn’t take it anymore and dropped it . After that I just read the recaps and it never redeem itself,lets hope he picks a better drama next time. Love the pics of the cast everyone looks simple yet stylish.
yoeda on August 8, 2016 at 10:41 PM said:
On Jh defense, this is totally one of his best character to date. If I-fan really love it maybe there’s something that attracted them to the drama that you yourself cannot see. This drama is better than some of K-drama that airing nowadays. But, we entitled to our own opinion so I respect yours.
ami on August 9, 2016 at 6:25 AM said:
PSD looks young but her acting is not, that’s why she matched so well with JH. And I like BM from the very first scene of JH on the airplane.
Abc on August 9, 2016 at 2:16 PM said:
KBS must have been gutted to have dropped Doctors years ago so they came up with BM. They must have known the story of Doctors because they were the ones that gave the prize to HMH. Luck was not on your side this time KBS but you did have DOTS earlier in the year. Maybe all the big hit dramas should begin with the letter D this year! Also, people who have just watched a few episodes of Doctors do not know what they are talking about. It is not a cheesy drama like DOTS. I know BM fans are sour grapes!
LMAO. Doctors has way more cringe-worthy and cheesier lines for the male lead than DotS; the acting, the screenplay, directing, and editing can’t compare to DotS at all. Doctors is just a copycat trying to mimic the romantic and rom com sentiment of DotS. Unfortunately subpar script writing produced a rip-off in quality so to speak. LOL. It’s your last resort to label ppl sour grapes, in your hyperbola pathepatic imagination and twisted mentality, becasue you can’t refute criticism when there is no solid evidence to convince ppl Doctors deserves critical acclaim. SMH….It’s not like we don’t have our own life to just pick on entertainment products to get by. LOL
Those who appreciate BM as an underrated quality drama did try to watch fluffy Doctors but ended up great disappointment. Nobody deliberately intend to downgrade a drama since we did try VERY HARD to like and continue to watch it. If it’s not good enough, then it’s not good enough whether you like it or not.
Sganarel on August 9, 2016 at 4:00 PM said:
Oh, Doctors is not even worth discussing. It’s simply bad and I began to question even Kim Rae Won’s acting ability while watching some parts of it (I never managed to watch even one episode entirely, only some parts of several episodes).
Doctors’ success is still a mystery to me.
How can you understand the drama only watching a few cuts? You must be god
It’s better not say what you don’t know though
It might not worth discussion but it’s still one of the biggest drama this year. It’s a fact.
Sganarel on August 10, 2016 at 8:34 AM said:
EG, one doesn’t have to be a god to realise a drama is bad. It’s Doctors’ fault that I couldn’t finish the episodes not mine: I tried my very best but to no avail.
Do you even watch the show to all it a copycat? There is nothing alike aside female lead doctors and high rating.Their romance is completely different too.
But it’s definitely not for everyone.
And Doctors was written in 2010 when was DOTS?
Drama2016 on August 10, 2016 at 6:36 AM said:
Haha, had watched 7 episodes and quit. Could not stand the hero’s cheesy lines and moves. Ain’t talking about the plots of the two dramas, but how the flow of the storylines and how the fluffy romantic vibes. Doctors was much similar to Dots in those aspects, at least for the episodes I had watched. Most likely to do with screenplay and directing. You do know book is not equal to script writing right? Do not tell me DotS copied Doctors instead. LOL
Drama2016, according to some people DotS copied Doctors and, what is shockingly interesting, Song Joong Ki copied Kim Rae Won’s cheesy acting style. LOL
On a serious note, Doctors did copy DotS (my opinion) and when there was nothing left to copy it started to bring various cameos in order to prevent the viewers from dropping the drama.
@sganarel, LOL…Really, SJK copied KRW? That’s hilarious!
I liked the first 6 episodes of Beautiful Mind very much (Park So Dam’s character didn’t annoy me as it seemed to annoy others in the beginning of the drama).
However, afterwards I felt a change in the format of the drama and inexplicably I lost interest in it: there were all sorts of irrelevant patients (their appearance was meant, I suppose, to help the main character develop emotionally, but the writer’s intention was a complete failure, in my opinion); Park So Dam’s character lost her personality (her character didn’t make any sense to me anymore); and the father-son relationship, well, it was somehow abandoned in the background.
I struggled with the next 4 episodes and finally gave it up (I didn’t watch the last 4, so maybe things changed; but I doubt).
The problem was the following: the writer tried to cover a subject she/he didn’t really master (psychology, especially).
I’d rather watch a drama with a shallow subject but well directed, well acted and well written (for its particular subject), than such an failed attempt of an intelligent drama (Jang Hyuk and Park So Dam acted very, very well but, unfortunately, it was not enough).
While I respect your personal drama preference and opinions about BM, I don’t think the writer didn’t really understand psychology. To the opposite, I consider the screenplay of BM related to psychology part is BRILLIANT written and DEEP. I, as a daughter of a psychology professor who was once also appointed a county criminal counselor, have watched plenty of films and documentaries about personality disorder with my dad, ransacked my dad’s study room for research literature, had my own learning experience of the subject in college classrooms, and have had enough exposure to the topic that I even got sick of dramas relevant to psychology in general. But BM is the only Asian drama I’ve watched so far that has that kinda pro depth in exploring the issues, plus Jang Hyuk’s stellar performance as someone of confused mind.
My take for the low ratings of BM is very simple: the genre would never be a popular one without dramatic rom com, crazy romance, or exaggerating acting like in It’s OK It’s Love or Kill Me Heal Me. BM is too straightforward, too intellectually blunt, and too raw in spelling out the humanity sought out from the topic. Had BM been more dramatized, the ratings might have been higher. On the other hand, they could have lost a viewer like me who, as I said, have no desire to watch sensational gimmicks playing with psychological disorder.
OK, finally done with my long ass speech. LOL…I couldn’t help since I like BM very much and surely will defend it.
Well, maybe I don’t understand psychology enough; who knows? But the fact remains that from episode 7 onwards the drama just didn’t feel the same to me (and this disappointed me).
roxyalso on August 9, 2016 at 8:30 PM said:
I liked this drama very much. The storyline was interesting and JH acts well in any role he takes as his own.
lhena on August 13, 2016 at 6:29 PM said:
love the drama .. Both act really good specially Jang Hyuk and the screen father , Dr. Lee..PSD acting is so good too but being a partner with JH is not very compatible in a short no chemistry.. If probably they made it into like a sibling , this drama would click so high with the audience…
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AN ORDINANCE ENACTING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF KIESTER MINNESOTA,
ADOPTING THE MINNESOTA BASIC CODE OF ORDINANCES, 2019 EDITION AND
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WHEREAS Minnesota Statutes Section 471.62 authorizes the city to adopt the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances by reference, and Sections 415.02 and 415.021 authorize the city to cause its ordinances to be codified and printed in a book,
NOW THEREFORE the City Council of the City of Kiester Minnesota, ordains:
Section 1. The Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances, 2019 Edition, together with amendments and supplements contained therein, is hereby adopted and shall constitute the “Code of Ordinances of the City of Kiester.” This Code of Ordinances also adopts by reference certain statutes and administrative rules of the State of Minnesota as named in the Code of Ordinances. It is the intention of the City Council that, when adopting the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances, all future amendments and supplements are hereby adopted as if they had been in existence at the time this Ordinance was enacted, unless there is clear intention expressed in the Code to the contrary.
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How to Build Your Brand by Blogging
Whether you’re seeking a job or looking to advance your career, using social media to raise your visibility is a must. Yet if you want to stand out—either in a stack of resumes or when your boss needs someone to head up a new project—don’t just do what everyone else is doing. Instead, go beyond the cliché of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and write a post for a popular blog.
Is this more time-consuming than sharing a link? Absolutely. Is it more difficult than banging out 140 characters? You bet. Does it seem strange to write for someone else’s blog rather than your own? Certainly.
Yet put the time and effort into crafting a thoughtful piece, and you’ll likely experience a rich range of rewards. At minimum, you’ll demonstrate thought leadership, make a name for yourself, and earn a byline in which you can link to your resume or website. Even better, you could land a promotion, secure a job offer, or generate new business.
For my part, guest-blogging has led to a variety of opportunities. Consider the fruits of my first commentary for Mashable, which was published in August:
Two new clients
100 new Twitter followers
2,000 page views to my blog
an invitation to speak at a conference
two requests to meet for coffee
a pitch from a PR agency
coverage in the SmartBrief on Social Media e-newsletter
praise from the Measurement Standard blog
a reprint on Yahoo
Heady results for 500 words, right?
Here’s another personal example. A few months before my Mashable debut, I spoke to the American Marketing Association—Washington, DC, about how to win friends and influence bloggers. Afterward, I published my presentation on SlideShare and milked it for three blog posts. The former has been viewed almost 10,000 times, while the latter included my first piece for Tech Cocktail.
(Of course, it helps that I did my own PR, tweeting to people and companies mentioned in the post and presentation and blasting the links to everyone in my address book.)
Jen Moire, a PR pro in St. Louis, has pursued a similar path (though instead of opining, she reports). In the spring, she wrote her first article for All Facebook. Today, she’s a regular contributor, with all the benefits this brings: more Twitter followers, more traffic to her website, new contacts, and a rep as an insider that boosts her business.
The marketing firm, Eloqua, offers another case study. Over the past year, Eloqua has risen to prominence in the social media space on the strength of its community offerings. Recently, the firm detailed the success of an infographic it released called the Blog Tree:
hundreds of inbound links
49 sales-qualified opportunities
introductions to the bloggers featured in the infographic
Elaborating on this last bullet, Joe Chernov, who oversaw the project, tells me that these intros later blossomed into partnerships, whereby the bloggers contributed to Eloqua’s e-books (both its Grande Guides and its Social Media ProBook).
Finally, behold this example, described by Ken Auletta in last month’s New Yorker:
“Dana Canedy [an editor at the New York Times] was engaged to Army First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. Their son, Jordan, was born in 2006—when King was in Iraq—and he started writing a journal addressed to Jordan, offering life advice in case he didn’t come back. In October, just a month before King was to return home, he was killed by an improvised explosive device. At the end of the year, the Times planned a series of short profiles of soldiers killed in Iraq, and Canedy volunteered to write about King. . . .
“The story, ‘From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By,’ appeared on page one of the Times on January 1, 2007. Canedy wrote about King’s lessons: how to behave on a date and how to treat people who are different. She movingly described how ‘as a black man he sometimes felt the sting of discrimination,’ yet ‘betrayed no bitterness.’ Readers flooded the paper with letters and e-mails. Organizations invited her to speak. Publishers vied to give her a book contract. Denzel Washington optioned the movie rights.
So whether you’re penning an op-ed or delivering a speech, reporting the news or developing an infographic, guest blogging can open up unexpected doors. Now it’s up to you to start knocking on them.
A version of this blog post appeared on Brazen Life on November 8, 2011.
Addendum (2/6/2013): To generate leads, most companies rely on search engine optimization. They’d be better off writing guests posts for top blogs, which, as Scripted.com CEO Sunil Rajaraman shows, is far more effective.
Published on November 9, 2011 in Blogging, Career Advice, Jonathan Rick
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Turn on Those Sad Songs
tags: emotion, Family, James Taylor, lyrics, music, Pets, sad songs, songs, Tess
UPDATE: Tess returned at 5 a.m. Monday morning. Thanks for all your prayers and positive thoughts!
I’m feeling sad tonight.
I am sitting at the computer, reading blogs and starring out the window to see if my cat, Tess, will appear. She’s been gone for more than a day (including all last night). While she’s always been an outdoor/indoor cat, it’s rare she does not come back at night. So today has been a melancholy Sunday as I felt her presence missing in the house. I’m trying to brace myself for the reality she may not be back.
I clicked over to YouTube to listen to songs that reflect my blue mood. As I listed to them, I thought I would share these beautiful and heartbreaking songs with you. It’s obvious why some of these tunes are pensive; others not so much. Some of the lyrics are not sad per se, but depressing because of the stories and singers behind them. Here are seven songs that always make me stop, think, and more often than not, shed a tear.
Sand and Water, Beth Nielsen Chapman — Chapman wrote this song after the death of her husband. It’s a beautifully-written tribute to the emotions she felt as a widow left behind to raise a son. Sand and Water also appeared at the end of an episode of ER many years ago (the episode was aptly titled “Sand and Water”). It was the perfect accompaniment to the episode.
We’ve Got Tonight, Bob Seger — I will always associate We’ve Got Tonight with an episode of The Wonder Years where Winnie was pulling herself away from Kevin, and he was so confused as to why his childhood friend would behave this way. The sorrow in Kevin’s face made me cry.
Mr. Tanner, Harry Chapin — Those of you Harry Chapin fans will recall this story about a dry cleaner who sang baritone as he hung clothes. Signing was Mr. Tanner’s life passion. After getting the nerve to sing publicly, Mr. Tanner was criticized by reviewers who said he shouldn’t quit his day job. I always feel so bad for Mr. Tanner who had the courage to go after his dream but was shut down. I think anyone who has pursued her life purpose can relate to Mr. Tanner.
Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton — How can you not cry your eyes out when you know Clapton wrote this song for his 4-year-old son who died tragically in an accident? It’s haunting and beautiful at the same time. And as a parent, the song breaks my heart even more as I listen to it today.
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley — Here’s a song that I don’t think is necessarily sad with lyrics. But the music is haunting and I cannot hear the song without thinking of Buckley’s untimely death. Hallelujah was originally penned by Leonard Cohen. But Buckley made it his own and it is his version we hear when it’s played in so many television shows and movies.
In My Life, James Taylor — Yes, I know this is written by The Beatles. But it’s not the Beatles version I find sad. It’s Taylor’s rendition that he sang during the 2010 Academy Awards tribute to those that passed away. That part of the Oscars always heart-breaking. And adding Taylor’s incredible voice and the single acoustic guitar makes it even more powerful a song.
Father and Son, Cat Stevens — My “baby” sister reminded me of this one. Father and Son brought me to tears when I heard it for the first time as a freshman in college (20 years ago!). But what truly breaks my heart as I listen to it now is that I relate so much more to the parent’s perspective of which Stevens sings. Father and Son (could also be Mother and Daughter, Parent and Child) is the perfect tribute to youth and aging and how we change so much over the years, and how sad that can sometimes be.
I hope I didn’t totally depress you all with this post. But like writing, music help me cope with not-so-happy situations in life. The sad songs make me feel a little less alone in the world. It’s amazing what words and music can do to heal one’s soul.
What about you — what are the songs that have meant something in your life? What’s the saddest song you can think of?
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cyclingrandma permalink
Nice assortment; can’t say I’ve heard of them all. I could create a long list of songs – mostly Beatles- that bring back high school. Harry Chapin- college, and more.
emjayandthem permalink
I sure hope Miss Tess makes her way back to you.
…. great song list; the one that makes me cry every time is Eva Cassidy’s “Fields of Gold.” Haunting.
Carolyn D. permalink
Having a daughter, one song that gets me is “In My Daughter’s Eyes” by Martina McBride. My mom gave me the song as a gift once and it made me cry when I thought of it in the perspective of the daughter and now it has double the meaning since I have daughters of my own and can listen to it from both perspectives. Hope your cat comes back. This happened to my cat once and we found her under our car. She’s now currently back to driving us nuts on a regular basis. Hope that is the case for you as well!
Elizabeth Young permalink
Thanks for sharing these wonderful songs Leah! There’s nothing like a sad song to comfort us and sustain us when we are down is there? Certain songs ‘do it’ for me also and have become an intricate part of my life. I once said to my mother that I can do without an awful lot, but music? Forget it!
Melissa Crytzer Fry (@CrytzerFry) permalink
Oh, Leah… I’m SO sorry about your kitty. My fingers are crossed tightly that she returns to you. I know that feeling too well; happened to me an my furry buddy when I was in college.
The video – most likely the LYRICS and the STORY behind them, that you so graciously shared – had me misty-eyed as well.
kebibarra permalink
Leah sorry to hear about Tess. I’m hoping she returns soon.
julie farrar permalink
I’m so sorry to hear about your Tess. Sending prayers her way. I know all the songs except Chapman’s. I remember, back in the day, hearing “Mr. Tanner” live more than once. When the voice of “Big John” (Chapin’s bass player and the voice of Mr. Tanner) rose above the music you truly wanted to weep. As for “Hallelujah,” you must listen to K.D. Lang’s version.
Ariana permalink
“Hallelujah” by Cohen is one of my fave. songs.
I heard it when I went to see him in concert. Tess will come back for sure – Peaches is gone 2-3 days at the time and finds his way home always.
Susan McBeth permalink
The Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Middler makes me cry every time I hear it, because it was the song I chose to play at my mom’s funeral. She was the wind beneath my wings, always. And I’m sorry about Tess, Leah. Please update us.
Caryn permalink
I’m so sorry to hear about Tess. I hope she finds her way back safely.
Music is always my go-to when I am feeling down and sad. Strangely, when I am very happy, I still love music for music, but it doesn’t capture my emotion as well. I can totally relate to many of your selections and I like how a couple are tied to TV show episodes. That is where I have come across some of my favorite music. Joshua Radin is a big favorite of mine with I’m blue.
Shary Hover permalink
I hope Tess will be home safe soon. Our pets fill our homes with their personalities and it’s just not the same when they’re absent.
Thanks for sharing your list of sad songs. When I’m sad I usually look for music to cheer me up. In a situation like the one you’re in now, though, I’d need the fellowship of these musicians, too, to make me feel less alone.
jolinapetersheim permalink
Sending thoughts (and hugs) your way that Tess will return to your arms soon. I hope Sophie’s holding up okay about it all. When I was her age, I used to sob my heart out if my cat so much as hurt her paw. And thank you for the music selection!
the domestic fringe permalink
I hope you’re feeling a bit happier today and I really hope your cat came home.
Cynthia Robertson permalink
Ack…that video made me tear up.
I hope your Tess comes back, Leah. I once had a cat disappear for two weeks, then she turned up, skinny and starving for a plate of her favorite canned food.
Keep a light burning.
Oh my Leah, what a wonderfully written post. I was really saddened to read about Tess but am SO happy she’s returned. Where”d the little meow meow come back from!!?? Thanx for the wonderful music you posted, too. I love the “Wind and Sand” song I also like “Hallelujah” and “Wind Beneath My Wings”. Also an Ian & Sylvia oldie “Walker River” and …
nikky44 permalink
Glad Tess is back home <3
Songs are my favorite way of expressing myself. Every song can be special in a specific circumstance. I realize that most are sad songs. I can't really think of names now. Some songs accompanied my darkest days
reelingintheyears.wordpress.com permalink
So sorry to hear about your sweet cat. I had the same thing happen when I was young. So feel for you, and can’t wait to listen to the wonderful music you posted!
Sela Toki permalink
Wheeww, I’m so relieved Tess came home. It’s a scary feeling not knowing whether they will return or gone forever. I’ve been so busy moving and have missed blogging and blogging friends. Thank you for dropping by my blog. I love your list of songs. I’ll have to list my sad songs one day on my blog. Malo ‘Aupito.
Frances antoinette permalink
I love that song by Jeff Buckley, it never loses it’s calming effects.
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A Grab Bag from America’s Back Roads – The I Things #AtoZChallenge
Idaho Potato Museum – Blackfoot, Idaho
At the Idaho Potato Museum in 2013 – Blackfoot, ID
Idaho Potato Museum – Blackfoot
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Intercourse, PA Sign – the most stolen town sign in the US
Amish Buggy Sales lot just outside of Intercourse
Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant – Corfu, New York
Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant
Indian Falls from the parking lot of the Indian Falls Log Cabin restaurant in New York
I-80 Truck Stop – World’s Largest Truck Stop – Walcott, Iowa
Sumoflam at I-80 Truckstop in Walcott, IA
Full Size semi truck and trailer inside I-80 Truck Stop
Imagination Takes Flight Sculpture – Council Bluffs, Iowa
Imagination Takes Flight – Matthew Placzek in front of Council Bluffs Public Library
Ice Cream Cone Buildings – Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; Peoria, Illinois
Turtle Twist Ice Cream in Canonsburg, PA
Sumoflam and Twistee Treat in Peoria, IL
Inverness, Montana dinosaur
The dinosaur sculpture off of US Highway 2 near Rudyard, made by farmer Byron Wolery of Inverness, MT
International Bakery – Omaha, Nebraska
Shelves of Mexican pastries and breads at the International Bakery in Omaha
Indian River Inlet Bridge – Bethany Beach, Delaware
The Indian River Inlet Bridge between Maryland and Delaware
Ironwood, Michigan
A section of the Miner’s Memorial Mural in Ironwood, which was completed in 2012
Historic Ironwood Theatre in Ironwood, MI
Indian Paintbrush – Cool, Texas
Indianapolis Children’s Museum – Indianapolis, Indiana
Giant Dinosaur at Indianapolis Children’s Museum
T Rex Trl in Indianapolis
Idan-Ha Drive In – Soda Springs, Idaho
Idan-Ha Drive In Theatre – Soda Springs, Idaho
Indian Head – Indian Head, Saskatchewan
Sumoflam at Indian Head Statue in Indian Head, SK in Canada in Sept. 2007
Iago, Texas
Imes Covered Bridge – St. Charles, Iowa
Irma Restaurant – Cody, Wyoming
Irma Restaurant, Cody, WY
Interstate by William King – Council Bluffs, Iowa
Interstate by William King at entrance to Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, IA
Independence Hall – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Island Hopping – Bohol and Cebu, Philippines
Island Hopping in the Philippines in 2006
A portion of one of a series of ceramic murals on the Clay County Public Services Building in Independence, MO
Illinois Route 66 – Staunton, Illinois
Historic Route 66 in Illinois
Route 66 “Route Beer”
Capital Building in Indianapolis, IN
Welcome Sign in Indianapolis
Irvine, Kentucky
Welcome to Irvine, KY
A large wooden carving of a mountain mushroom in downtown Irvine, KY
F is for Falls – #atozchallenge
I love visiting all of the offbeat and quirky places when I’m out on the road. But, I must confess that I am also addicted to the beauty of nature in all its forms.
One of the more splendid beautiful objects of nature is the waterfall. Every state in the country has waterfalls, those though some are more magnificent than others.
Sumoflam at Cumberland Falls in Kentucky
Like millions of other tourists, I have most certainly been to Niagara Falls on the Canadian side and to American Falls on the American side. These are beyond spectacular!
Though the roar of Niagara Falls will always be in the back of my mind, there are others that I’ve drawn me closer in that I have enjoyed.
You can almost feel the mist and hear the roar of Niagara Falls in this photo
American Falls on the Niagara River in New York
Maid of the Mist boat at the bottom of Niagara Falls filled with tourists
At Multnomah Falls in Oregon
When I made my first trip to Portland Oregon in 2011, one of my main objectives besides visiting voodoo doughnut, was to visit Multnomah Falls. Of course you know that one! That’s that beautiful tall waterfall with a bridge going in front of it that shows up all over the place.
When I first saw photograph of that waterfall I had to research and find out what it’s name was and where it was and when I realized it was in Oregon it became the top of my list to get to and I didn’t make it.
Multnomah Falls in Oregon…one of my favorite places in the US
Some tourists enjoy Multnomah Falls from the bridge
The wonderful thing about going to Multnomah is that there are numerous other waterfalls along the highway before you get there. So, along the way I did drop by to see a couple of them. In their own right, these are beautiful waterfalls.
Horsetail Falls in Oregon
Wahkeena Falls in Oregon
Over the years and over the miles on my road trips, I have made it a point to visit waterfalls and in some cases have just come across some.
Otterville Falls in Otterville, Ontario, Canada
A small waterfall in Red River Gorge, Kentucky
Sumoflam at Yellowstone Falls
One of those that I made a point to get to was the beautiful waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park. The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River are magnificent. Of course, this canyon in Yellowstone was forged by the river. The walls of the canyon a filled with stone that is yellow and this is where the actual name of the park comes from.
Yellowstone has numerous waterfalls, but none as glorious as this one. Indeed, this has to be one of America’s greatest waterfalls to visit. I certainly was in awe.
Yellowstone Waterfalls
Another smaller waterfall along the road in Yellowstone National Park
Another of the classic waterfalls that I have enjoyed thoroughly is right here in my own state of Kentucky. Cumberland Falls is down in Southern Kentucky near the Tennessee border. This lovely waterfall is similar to Niagara Falls, but of course, not nearly is huge. The falls themselves are beautiful, but this waterfall is also known for its famed “Moonbow”, something which I have yet to witness. Sometime….
Cumberland Falls in southern Kentucky
Grand Falls of the Little Colorado in Arizona
One more waterfall of note today must include in this is in the desert of Arizona of all places. This waterfall is typically only visible in the springtime as the remainder of the year there’s typically nothing but a trickle. I am referring to the Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River. This large stairstep waterfall is located east of the Grand Canyon near Cameron, AZ. The Little Colorado River always flows red because of all of the red sandstone. When there are heavy rains in the spring, the falls can be seen in their magnificence. As a tour guide in Flagstaff in the 1980s, I was able to visit Grand Falls numerous times. And I’ve been able to pick up a couple of wonderful photos of it.
A tourist observes the grandeur of the Grand Falls of the Little Colorado in Arizona in 1984
David and Julianne at Chagrin Falls in Ohio
Most of the waterfalls I’ve noted above are not in the middle of towns, but on the outskirts are far removed. There are, however, some waterfalls that can be seen within towns. Perhaps one of the most interesting is the town of Chagrin Falls in Ohio. This town is south of Cleveland and actually has two waterfalls flowing right through the middle of town. You can stand on one bridge and look at one fall to your left and one to the right. The town is a little tourist attraction because of the falls and has restaurants that reside right on the edge of the falls to where you can eat and look at the beauty of the falls. On our visit in 2016 we did not have time to sit down and eat there but we still got to enjoy the waterfall.
Chagrin Falls, OH
The waterfalls on the Snake River called Idaho Falls
Another set of lovely waterfalls in the middle of a town are those in Idaho Falls, Idaho. From the waterfalls you can actually view the Idaho Falls Temple of the Mormon church but also enjoy the lovely view of the falls from the pathways to go along it.
Snake River in Idaho Falls
With my oldest daughter Amaree at the same Great Falls in 2006
Heading east from Idaho Falls to Montana, there are the famed Great Falls of the Missouri River located in, you got it, Great Falls, MT. Back in the days when Lewis and Clark we’re traversing the Missouri River, they came across the falls and all of their glory but now the falls have been dammed up a bit. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful sight to visit.
Great Falls of the Missouri in Great Falls, MT
Memorial Falls near Great Falls, MT
The same Lewis and Clark start of their adventure on another river waterfall in Kentucky and Indiana as they passed by the falls of the Ohio River. Today, these falls or not so exciting to see as they probably were back in the days of Lewis and Clark.
Webster Falls near Hamilton, ON
Side view of Webster Falls in Ontario
For the real fan of waterfalls, perhaps the best thing to do is go into Hamilton, Ontario northwest of Niagara Falls. There are a number of waterfalls that feed into the Niagara River eventually. One can walk literally to the side of many of these waterfalls and look down. There is Tews Falls and a couple of others that were very nice and easily can all be seen the same day as one sees Niagara Falls.
Tews Falls near Hamilton, Ontario
I have yet to hit many of the huge waterfalls in California. I have missed some of the other big ones in the United States and Canada as well, but I’ve been fortunate enough to see a number of them. In the following photos you will see a few other waterfalls including one in Alaska and some from other points across the United States.
Ragged Falls in Algonquin National Park in Ontario
One of many waterfalls seen along WA 123 in Washington near Mt. Rainier NP
Lovesick Falls in Ontario
With my wife at a waterfall near Mendenhall Glacier not far from Juneau, AK
A far off waterfall in Glacier National Park
A small waterfall in Clifton Mill, OH
Taughannock Falls in New York
When you are on the back roads of America, always keep your eye open for a sign to a waterfall. You’ll be glad that you did.
A Whirlwind Trip to Palmyra, NY and the Hill Cumorah Pageant
Lunchtime on a Skyscraper by Sergio Fernari – Williamsville, NY
My wife and I took a quick whirlwind trip to Palmyra, New York this past weekend (July 19-21, 2013) to attend the spectacular Hill Cumorah Pageant, which is presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Naturally, along the way we made a few stops. The three day trip was a lot of driving and a lot of fun. Following is a map of the trip.
View Larger Map – Lexington, KY to Palmyra, NY and back
The first part of the drive was straight up through Cincinnati and Columbus with just a small gas stop in Grove City, Ohio. I have traveled these roads so often, I think I have run out of places to see. (Actually, I am sure there are a number of smaller roads I could still do!!). We stopped overnight in the Akron, with a quick stop in Green, Ohio to have dinner at Menches Brothers, the Inventors of the Hamburger and the Ice Cream Cone.
Menches Bros. in Green, Ohio
According to Menches Brothers history, “History recorded that Frank and Charles Menches ran out of pork for their sausage patty sandwiches at the 1885 Erie County Fair. Their supplier, reluctant to butcher more hogs in the summer heat, suggested they use beef instead. The brothers fried some up, but found it bland. They added coffee, brown sugar, and other ingredients to create a taste that stands distinct without condiments. They christened this sandwich the “hamburger” after Hamburg, New York, where the fair was being held. At the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, Frank and Charles baked waffles in Parisian waffle irons and topped them with ice cream. They then had an idea to wrap the warm waffle around a fid, a cone-shaped splicing tool for tent ropes. The waffle cooled and held its shape to provide an edible handle for eating ice cream. Returning home to Akron, the Menches began production of “premium” cones at their Premium Popcorn Works factory.” Menches currently has 50 different varieties of burgers on their menu.
Sumoflam at Menches Brothers
Menches Brothers
Interestingly, neither my wife or me tried their hamburgers, which still use the original recipe. I tried their Perogie Pizza, which is also fairly famous. It is a pizza made with garlic mashed potatoes, cheddar cheese and bacon. And really yummy!
Famous Perogie Pizza at Menche’s
Spinach and Mushroom Spaghetti at Menche’s
The 50 Chart at Menches Brothers – competition to see who can eat all 50 varieties of Menches Burgers
As for the actual inventor of the hamburger — I have been to Seymour, Wisconsin where Charlie Nagreen claims to have invented the hamburger (see my original post about this). Further, Wikipedia has a great entry about the various claims (see Wikipedia article). Ironically, both the Menches and Nagreen make their claims ca. 1885. One thing is for sure, there was nobody with the name of McDonald that has a claim on the first hamburger!!
Daffin’s Candies – Sharon, Pennsylvania
Sharon, Pennsylvania
After a good night’s rest we were on the road eastward. Our firs stop was in Sharon, Pennsylvania, which is about an hour east of the Akron area and just over the border from Ohio. Sharon is the home of Daffin’s Candies, which claims to be the “World’s Largest Candy Store.” It is also home to the “Chocolate Kingdom.”
Daffin’s rows of Candy Cases
Chocolate candy cases at Daffin’s in Sharon, Ohio
The 20,000 square foot store is chock full of every candy imaginable, including a huge variety of chocolates. I saw some candies I hadn’t seen in years.
Aisles of packaged and single candies at Daffin’s
The original candy store was started in 1903 by George Daffin in Woodsfield, Ohio. After a couple more moves over the years, the store made its way into downtown Sharon, Ohio in 1947. It was also the factory for making the chocolates at that time. They eventually got so busy they had to move. Besides the store, they now also have a 30,000 square foot factory.
Paul Daffin statue – 3rd Generation owner and idea man behind the Chocolate Kingdom
Chocolate Kingdom entrance at Daffin’s
For me, the drawing card to Daffin’s was not necessarily the size of the store, but rather the unique “Chocolate Kingdom” housed in the back of the store as it fits the whimsy and quirky characteristics of places of I like to visit. The Chocolate Kingdom includes large chocolate animals and two large castles, and an entire miniature village with chocolate houses and railroads. The big drawing cards are a 400-pound chocolate turtle, a 125-pound chocolate reindeer and 75-pound chocolate frog, not to mention a few other animals. There are also chocolate castles, a train, a village, and a Ferris Wheel.
Sumoflam at the Chocolate Kingdom in Daffin’s
Famous 400 pound chocolate turtle and his frog friend in Chocolate Kingdom at Daffin’s
Chocolate Rhino in Chocolate Kingdom at Daffin’s
Chocolate Animals at Daffin’s
Another chocolate castle at Daffin’s
Chocolate Castle in Chocolate Kingdom at Daffin’s
After picking up a few pieces of chocolate, we were on the road again. While in Sharon I saw a unique building with some cool lamps. Also saw a nice wooden sculpture across the street from Daffin’s.
Wooden sculpture in a yard across from Daffin’s in Sharon, PA
Buhl Mansion in Sharon, Pennsylvania
The Buhl Mansion is considered one of America’s Top 10 Most Romantic Inns and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by noted Youngstown architect Charles Owsley (1846–1935) and built in 1891. It is a 2 1/2-story, ashlar sandstone residence with Richardsonian Romanesque style features. It features round arches, steep gable wall dormers, an inset porch with heavy arches, stone finials, and several turrets with copper capped spires.
Buhl Mansion Lamps
From Sharon we headed east on US 62 through Hermitage and Mercer to I-79 and then headed north. This is a very scenic stretch of interstate as it goes through the beautiful hills of the Allegheny Plateau with the offering of plenty of rural scenery. We proceeded north until we got to the Meadville exit (147A) so we could stop and see an assemblage of artwork on the roadside….all made from road signs.
“Stop-Flower” in Meadville, PA
Signs & Flowers is a garden of 12 large flowers made of recycled road signs and landscaping at the PennDOT storage lot in Meadville (photos below). In the spring and summer of 2001, Allegheny College art students, under the direction of art professor Amara Geffen, designed and planted the “garden,” which has quickly become a popular attraction for local residents and tourists. In the summer of 2002 Geffen’s students continued the project by constructing a 200-foot sculptural fence Read Between the Signs on the PennDOT property along Hwy 322 (photos below).
Signs & Flowers in Meadville, Pennsylvania
Under the direction of Professor Geffen, art apprentices worked in collaboration with PennDOT welders, road crew and heavy equipment operators to create a sculptural garden that speaks of our human impact on the planet. Twelve enormous (10′-12′ high) road sign flowers and rolling mounds echo natural forms.
Blue Flower in Meadville, PA
Detour Flower
Road Closed Flower
Side view of Signs & Flowers
Road sign Roses
Sumoflam and Road Sign Flowers
Just a couple of blocks away is the Read Between the Signs work. This work is a 1,200’ x 9’ sculptural relief constructed from reclaimed road signs that is located at the gateway into Meadville. This is really quite amazing work considering the media used to make it. (Some of the photos below were taken during a trip through here in 2011 – thus the snow…)
Balloons (less than 10 tons!!)
Courthouse and tree
Train and signs
Singing Cowboy
Store front signage
Which Way? Tree
Grazing in a Litter Free Zone
After the little “Sign Break” in Meadville, we were back on the road to New York. We made it to I-90 and zipped on past Erie and Buffalo with an occasional nice view of Lake Erie to the north of us. By 3 PM we were a bit hungry so we took the Pembroke Exit off of the Toll Road to find somewhere to eat.
Pembroke, New York
Just near Pembroke, in the small town of Corfu, we came upon Kutter’s Cheese Factory. This one made me laugh!!
Kutter’s Cheese in Corfu, New York
Mural at Kutter’s Cheese Factory in Corfu, New York
From Kutter’s we drove down the road to the Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant, also in Corfu. This rustic little restaurant/bar is built along the Indian Falls of Tonawanda Creek, which flow over the Onondaga Escarpment. Though not huge, the falls are certainly scenic. The falls are a curtain falls with a height of about 20 feet and a crest width of roughly 100 feet.
Indian Falls Log Cabin
Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant – Corfu, NY
Rustic Indian Falls Restaurant
The restaurant has a nice room with open windows that overlooks the falls. We enjoyed our lunch with the sounds of rushing water and a great view. In fact, the best view of the falls is from this little restaurant.
Indian Falls as seen from a window in the Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant
Indian Falls from the parking lot of the Indian Falls Log Cabin restaurant
We did have a nice lunch by the way… Their Sweet Potato Fries are sweetened and then come with a nice cinnamon sugar butter dipping sauce.
Sweet Potato Fries at Log Cabin Restaurant
Prime Rib Sandwich at Log Cabin Restaurant
After lunch we continued east to Palmyra, New York and the Hill Cumorah Visitor’s Center. We arrived around 6:30 PM. The Pageant would not start until around 9:15 PM, so we hung around, relaxed, and I took pictures of what was going on.
Hill Cumorah Cast
The Hill Cumorah Pageant began in the early 1920’s when a small group of missionaries from New York City gathered for the Cumorah Conference at the Joseph Smith Farm in Palmyra to celebrate Pioneer Day, the day when Brigham Young first entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In July of 1934, the conference was moved from the Farm to the Hill Cumorah, the large hill behind the visitor’s center. Today the Pageant, with its incredible staging, lighting, special effects and colorful costuming is still carefully designed to keep its message about Jesus Christ both simple and pure. I actually plan on writing a more complete post about the Pageant with many photos soon. (Link will be here when completed)
Sumoflam poses with the actor who portray’s the wicked King Noah from the Book of Mormon
One of the actors who portrays the prophet Lehi, who led his family out of Jerusalem
Angels trumpet in the beginning of the performance
Moon glows behind one of the towers used for lighting of the production
The performance was a grand spectacle and very moving. I have been to other LDS Church Pageants (in Mesa, AZ; Manti, UT and Nauvoo, IL), but this one was perhaps the most amazing of all of them with fires, mists, volcanoes and storms all on the stage.
Sumoflam with Laman and Lemuel, sons of Lehi
After the pageant we headed back towards Buffalo, New York for an overnight stay in Williamsville, NY. Though over an hour away, it was the closest place to find a reasonably priced motel. The pageant draws visitors from all over the U.S. and hotels are filled a year in advance or more.
Memorial Statue in memory of the victims of Flight 3407 on Feb. 12, 2009. This is located in Patriots and Heroes Park in Williamsville, NY
The small village of Williamsville is replete with numerous bronze works of art thanks in great part to the hotel and restaurant entrepreneur Russell J. Salvatore, the owner of a number of places in the area (along with his family).
Russell J. Salvatore Statue in Williamsville’s Patriots and Heroes Park
Tribute statue for firefighters during the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center. This is located in the Patriots and Heroes Park in Williamsville, NY
Perhaps the most unique of all of the pieces in the area is the Lunchtime on a Skyscraper sculpture by Sergio Furnari, which is based on a popular photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets in 1932. An Italian sculptor, Furnari owned a mobile tourist attraction which he took around New York and which he created himself. Sergio made his living driving it around New York and selling souvenir versions of the statue to people. Russ Salvatore offered to buy it from him and eventually purchased it for $50,000 and then paid to have it moved to the front of his Garden Palace Hotel in Williamsville.
Lunchtime on a Skyscraper in Williamsville, NY
Rear view of Lunchtime on a Skyscraper
Once the ten-ton crane positioned the sculpture, Russ then hired local mural artist Tim Martin to create a mural of New York City below the men. The hand-painted billboard makes the statue look authentic, as if they are truly eating lunch 38 stories up in the sky.
Another view of Lunchtime on a Skyscraper
Closeup of Tim Martin mural that is at bottom of sculpture
There are a couple of other unique sculptures
Large buffalo statue made out of stone at Garden Palace Hotel in Williamsville, NY
Bronze of children playing in front of Garden Palace Hotel in Williamsville, NY
Children playing – sculpture in Williamsville, NY
After breakfast we were on our way home again. I always like to take a different route whenever possible, but we also had our schedule to consider. Nonetheless, we dropped south towards Jamestown, NY. We went west on I-90 until the Fredonia exit and then south on NY Hwy 60 towards Jamestown.
Town of Gerry, NY
Along the way we drove through the small town of Gerry, NY. I had to stop for a photo as one of my good friends in Lexington is named Gerry. Took this in his honor!! (Hope you are reading Gerry!)
Lucille Ball Birthplace – Jamestown, NY
Jamestown, New York is the birthplace of iconic TV star Lucille Ball. There is Lucy and Desi stuff all over town. We didn’t have time to visit the Lucy-Desi Center, but I did at least get shots of the facilities (The Lucy Desi Museum and the Desilu Studios) from the outside.
Desilu Studios – Jamestown, NY
Lucy Desi Museum – Jamestown, NY
Lucille Ball Theatre in Jamestown, NY
Desilu Playhouse – Jamestown, NY
Jamestown Banner advertising Lucille Ball Festival
Big wall photo of Lucy and Desi in Jamestown, New York
Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to get to see her grave marker in the cemetery. I did get a shot of a huge mural however… The mural was done by Gary Peters Jr. and Gary Peters Sr. and completed in October 2012.
Large Lucy Mural in Jamestown, NY painted by Gary Peters Jr. and Gary Peters Sr.
Large Lucy Mural as seen from downtown Jamestown, NY
Old buildings in Jamestown, NY
From Jamestown we headed west on Interstate 86, also known as the “Southern Tier Expressway.” This used to be US Rte 17, but, as of 2013, much of this has been converted to interstate. The section we were on goes all the way to Lake Erie and is a very scenic drive. We eventually hit I-90 in Erie, PA and then headed south to I-79, which we followed towards Pittsburgh. Along the way we were stuck in a huge traffic jam due to road construction near Moraine State Park (Exit 99) in Pennsylvania. It did allow me time to get some wildflower photos from the car….
Wildflowers on I-79 south of Worth, PA
Wildflowers on I-79
Wildflower on I-79
The rural scenery is also wonderful on I-79 as it rolls through the Allegheny Plateau.
Farm near Harmony, PA on I-79
Rows of corn in Western Pennsylvania as seen off of I-79
We eventually got off at Exit 88. I wanted to visit the town of Zelienople, chiefly because I had not been to a town that started with the letter Z (as far as I could recall – turns out I had been to Zanesville, Ohio in the past and we passed through Zanesville all on our way back on this trip too!! – 2 Z Towns in one day). Taking the road to Zelienople, we passed a turn to Harmony, Pennsylvania. Seemed to me that our church founder Joseph Smith had spent time in Harmony, so we decided to drop in. As we looked at the historic buildings we saw nothing there about our church. So, we Googled it and found out that the “old” Harmony, PA is now called Oakland (in NE Pennsylvania). Nonetheless, THIS Harmony was a quaint little town and was worth the visit anyway. Zelienople and Harmony actually share a Chamber of Commerce and are practically one in the same place. The towns are located in the Connoquenessing Valley.
Welcome to Zelienople-Harmony, PA
Rustic old barn in Harmony, Pennsylvania
Old Log Cabin – Harmony, Pennsylvania
Old Log House in Historic Harmony, Pennsylvania
Harmony is on the National Register of Historic Places. The area was settled by a German religious group known as Pietists, who broke off from the Lutherans and came to America in 1804. The first group of settlers arrived in Harmony in November 1804 and erected nine log cabins. They also laid out the town with three streets running north and south with three streets running east and west with a large diamond in the center. (More History here)
Harmony Museum – Harmony, Pennsylvania
Harmony, Pennsylvania
From Harmony we returned to I-79 and continued south and then west on US 22 towards Steubenville, OH, crossing a narrow strip of West Virginia. There is about a 5 mile section of West Virginia’s panhandle that is squeezed between Pennsylvania and Ohio. We stopped in Weirton, WV for lunch) through However, it is actually not the narrowest neck of land in the U.S. My research shows that the panhandle of Maryland’s mountainous western area is a geographic anomaly, a 1-mile-wide strip between Pennsylvania and West Virginia (near Cumberland). As for Weirton, WV, it too has some geographic significance. The town extends from the Ohio border on the west to the Pennsylvania border on the east. This makes it the only city in the United States that borders two other states on two sides, and its own state on the other two sides.
Veterans Memorial Bridge in Steubenville, OH
My main reason for the stop in Steubenville was to get a photo of the huge Dean Martin mural. I had been to Steubenville (also known as the “City of Murals“) once before (in 2008) and had many of the murals (see the full post here). But the Dean Martin mural eluded me (I had added a photo to my post that I found elsewhere). This time I did find it…
Sumoflam and Dean Martin
Dean Martin was originally born Dean Crocetti and is Steubenville’s most celebrated citizen. They have a Dino Festival in town every June. The Mural below was painted in 1998 by Robert Dever.
Dean Martin mural in Steubenville painted by Robert Dever
From Steubenville we followed the scenic drive along the Ohio River, passing through Brilliant, Ohio… (love the name).
Welcome to Brilliant, OH
From Brilliant we continued south through Columbus and on to Lexington. What a whirlwind trip!!
Zippy the Pinhead Roadside Attractions Zippy encounters a large cast of roadside characters in his ongoing cross-country road trip. From Long Island’s “Big Duck” to the Giant Hand Car Wash on L.A.’s Ventura Blvd., Zippy has something meaningful to say to every outdoor icon he meets–and they’r
Lost Parks – Florida's Lost Tourist Attractions An homage to the diversity that was Florida tourism
Man on the Lam A Curious Gentleman’s Guide to Escapes and Escapism
Place Names website Want to find out about place names? This one is a good reference site
Corco Highways A site focused on photos of highways and highway signs from around North America.
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An 18-year-old girl, Amaka Nweke, has reportedly been beaten to death by her parents for dating a Muslim Yoruba boy and having a baby for him in Lagos.
According to The New Telegraph, she was allegedly beaten to death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Nweke, for dating and having a baby for a Muslim Yoruba boy in Agility, Mile 2 in Lagos.
The Lagos State Police Command has said it is waiting for medical report to ascertain the cause of her death, although, angry residents of Agility, Mile 12 claim her parents repeatedly subjected Amaka to torture, including starving her during pregnancy.
Amaka and her boyfriend, Ibrahim Lawal, were said to have met when she was in Senior Secondary School. The relationship later resulted into pregnancy, which her parents kicked against. She later delivered a baby boy, christened Zaeed.
Her friends claim Amaka went through hell while pregnant for defying her parents.
One of the Nwekes’ neighbours, Adebola, said;
“Amaka went through a lot. She really suffered. When they were dating, her parents were always threatening her.
They told her that they didn’t want her to continue associating with the boy. They used to beat her with different objects even while she was pregnant. Whenever her boyfriend brought food to her, they would not allow her to have access to it.”
When Amaka was delivered of her baby, her parents couldn’t afford the medical bill. They had to call on Ibrahim’s family and they gladly paid up.
After she was released from the hospital, her parents tried to prevent the boy’s family from naming their grandchild. But it took the intervention of the Chairman of the Community Development Association (CDA) and some elders in the area before the Nwekes released the baby to them.
Ibrahim’s mother, Ebunola, said that she reported the repeated beatings to the police. She said:
“When my son impregnated Amaka, I didn’t reject the pregnancy.
I was already used to seeing them together. On January 1, 2020, she called Ibrahim that her mother had started beating her again for collecting clothes and money from us. .
It was during the beating that she became unconscious and later confirmed death at the #Gbagada General Hospital.”
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Saturday, September 12. 2015
Saturday morning links
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It’s too easy being single in New York
When Emily Post drove from sea to shining sea
Long Island Estate Fit for a Czar Lists for $100 Million
U. Penn defends expression of controversial opinions
How have we gotten to a place where that is a headline?
University of California considering recognizing a “right” to be “free from … expressions of intolerance”
Cool. A right to be free from free speech and opinions.
California Will Give Free High School Diplomas To Kids Who Flunked Out
EPA Chief Blames Boston’s ‘Worst Winter Ever’ on Global Warming
Legal gambling and government greed
America’s longest-standing case of ‘legal plunder’ and ‘crony capitalism’ – the sugar racket
"It's microaggressions all the way down."
The Rise of Victimhood Culture - A recent scholarly paper on “microaggressions” uses them to chart the ascendance of a new moral code in American life.
No, 48 Million Americans Are Not Going Hungry - "Food insecurity" doesn't mean what you'd think
Portrait of a Fanatic: A top physicist’s embarrassing tirade
Remembering 9/11: The Wolf In 'Patriot Act' Sheep's Clothing
Justice Dept says Clinton could erase emails if she liked
Dear Donald Trump, Respect Matters
The Clinton campaign puts the ‘moron’ into oxymoron
Marines Wrestle Over Gender
WHEN WILL WE GET BACK TO NORMAL?
A former French minister stirred up controversy Friday after saying Germany “took our Jews and gave us Arabs”
Exactly right
Passenger Says Alan Kurdi’s Father Was Smuggler, Captain Of Boat, Begged Passengers Not To Turn Him In
Racism via Powerline toons:
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Bird Dog: A right to be free from free speech and opinions.
A slippery slope argument can be made, but do you think that a group that goes around campus wearing white hoods, calling African Americans the n-word, should be without sanction? Are you saying the university can't set any standards of behavior?
#1 Zachriel on 2015-09-12 10:19 (Reply)
It's a public university, not private. They can set moral and academic standards, not political standards.
#1.1 bd on 2015-09-12 10:36 (Reply)
bd: It's a public university, not private. They can set moral and academic standards, not political standards.
The KKK is a political organization. So you're saying they can go around campus wearing hoods yelling the n-word at African Americans?
#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-12 10:40 (Reply)
Zach, years ago the ACLU won the right for Nazis to parade and yell in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago with a majority of Jewish residents. Why is the KKK different?
#1.1.1.1 jma on 2015-09-12 11:46 (Reply)
jma: years ago the ACLU won the right for Nazis to parade and yell in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago with a majority of Jewish residents. Why is the KKK different?
So you think that gangs of white students roaming campus wearing hoods and calling African-Americans the n-word should be allowable behavior?
The KKK has the right to march (within certain legal parameters), however, other students have the right to an environment conducive to learning. Those rights have to be balanced.
#1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-12 11:53 (Reply)
The KKK has the right to march (within certain legal parameters), however, other students have the right to an environment conducive to learning completely ignore them. Those rights have to be balanced are mutually exclusive, and can be exercised without the imposition of outside authority.
FTFY. You're version requires the god Zork or someone to arbitrate. The correct version is self governing, which in the U.S. we traditionally aspire to without the unsolicited help of authoritarians, do-gooders and the like.
#1.1.1.1.1.1 BillH on 2015-09-12 13:02 (Reply)
time, place and manner guidelines for restrictions on speech have been around a long time. this isn't rocket science. all it takes is about five minutes of research (hint: read Grayned v. City of Rockford) and you'll have at least a grip on the issue. (hint: hearkening back to some imaginary golden age in the past won't work, mainly, because its your personal vision of how things ought to be).
#1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-12 13:58 (Reply)
BillH - How can you be so blind?
Zachriel is trying to educate you. If the University of California does no have the power to shut down student or faculty speech immediately for set vague, ill-defined standards, do you know what might happen?
We'll have gangs, Bill. GANGS.
And not just any 'ol gangs. White gangs. Gangs of white students! They could blind us all with the reflection of the brilliant California sun off their pale skin! And then if we dare to raise our voices in protest, they'll correct our grammar. Because they're students, BillH! GANGS OF WHITE STUDENTS!
Sure, there are aren't any hooded gangs on campus now. Nor, one suspects, have there ever been. But there might, someday, be such gangs. Only Zachriel understands how important it is that all students and faculty surrender their human rights to the administration right now, lest someday Gangs of White Students might appear!
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2 L. Beau Macaroni on 2015-09-12 14:03 (Reply)
L. Beau Macaroni: If the University of California does no have the power to shut down student or faculty speech immediately for set vague, ill-defined standards, do you know what might happen?
Attacking the standards as vague or ill-defined is reasonable. Claiming there should be no standards is not.
L. Beau Macaroni: Sure, there are aren't any hooded gangs on campus now. Nor, one suspects, have there ever been.
You seem somewhat unfamiliar with U.S. history.
https://desegregationofeducation.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/good_black_girl_escorted.jpg
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-12 15:50 (Reply)
Anyone who equates Louisiana of 1960 with California of 2015 seems unfamiliar with both places.
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 L. Beau Macaroni on 2015-09-12 16:54 (Reply)
You seem to have forgot your own claim.
Not only have been, but within living memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-12 17:50 (Reply)
The story at the link was talking about the University of California. The proposed policy under discussion would be effective only within those schools under the authority of the Regents of the University of California.
I am still unaware of any "gangs of white students roaming campus wearing hoods" at any campus in the UC system.
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 L. Beau Macaroni on 2015-09-12 18:36 (Reply)
L. Beau Macaroni: The story at the link was talking about the University of California.[/i]
Yes. Are you suggesting there is no history of ethnic tensions in California?
You have continued to avoid the point. Are you saying there can be no standards, or only that the proposed standards are ill-considered?
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-13 09:25 (Reply)
Zachriel: Are you suggesting there is no history of ethnic tensions in California?
Way to move those goalposts, my friend.
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 L. Beau Macaroni on 2015-09-14 11:49 (Reply)
It's the same place it's always been. Are you saying there can be no standards, or only that the proposed standards are ill-considered?
#1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-14 12:58 (Reply)
in nonpublic forums like public schools the government can limit speech content but not speech viewpoint.
The university of California expresses intolerance of "expressions of intolerance".
#2 JK Brown on 2015-09-12 10:33 (Reply)
Switzerland: 1 in 2 citizens has guns
Switzerland has licensing and registration requirements for handguns, and restricts carrying guns for personal security.
"Portrait of a Fanatic: A top physicist’s embarrassing tirade"
Krauss mistakes scientism - the belief in science - for science itself.
An all too common conceit among the Bunsen-burner set.
#4 JJM on 2015-09-12 11:06 (Reply)
Black Labs matter, All Labs matter
Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now, that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that you still haven't gotten any!
The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3du1qm/eli5_why_is_it_so_controversial_when_someone_says/
Imagine that you are a struggling middle class worker tryng to keep a roof over your head paying property taxes, income taxes and sales taxes. Imagine that the taxes you pay both hidden and open take more han half of your income and your school sytem absorbs half of the outrageously high property taxes you pay. Imagine that for reasons you cannot understand and no one can explain the black kids going to the expensive schools you pay for choose to not only not study and pay attention but are disruptive to the point that other students have trouble learning in class. Imagine that these same black kids start fights hit teachers and in general icrease the costs and decrease the amount of learning taking place. Than imagine that when these black children drop out of school without a decent education they pump out children and get on welfare taking even more of your taxe money. Imagine that this minority commits a majority of crimes including murders. Than imagine that they form a militant group that advocates killing police (which your taxes pay for) and making false claims about the police and demanding even more special treatment that YOU will have to pay for. Imagine that you are fed up with these whining losers who constantly blame all their problems on their race and never take any responsibility for their actions or the results. Imagine that in response to their racist saying "black lives matter" you respond with a clean and legitimate version of it "all lives matter" and our media and political leaders show their true colors (no pun intended) and call you names for saying it. Imagine that we are all pretty pissed at this privilaged group of people who seem unable to succeed in the greatest country on earth and instead demand more privilage and more free stuff that you must pay for. Now imagine this is me telling you to STFU.
#5.1 Sweetpea on 2015-09-12 12:27 (Reply)
I wish I could vote your comment. Hands clapping from working taxpayers.
#5.1.1 Baruch Goldstein on 2015-09-12 12:37 (Reply)
sounds like an excuse. excuses are for libtards.
life isn't fair. it will never be fair no matter how much you complain on the internet or how much you "imagine". you can have all the back patting, hugs and upvotes you want and it means as little as the "black lives matter" talking heads.
Sweetpea: Imagine that you are a struggling middle class worker tryng to keep a roof over your head paying property taxes, income taxes and sales taxes.
Now imagine you are a struggling black middle class worker trying to keep a roof over your head paying taxes and you or your kid get stopped by the police, again.
"Black labs matter, All Labs matter"
Got one of each, and used to have a Chocolate too.
#6 rocdoctom on 2015-09-12 11:38 (Reply)
"A former French minister stirred up controversy Friday after saying Germany 'took our Jews and gave us Arabs'..."
Someone is being a tad disingenuous.
The Nazis didn't just "take" the Jews of France; the Vichy government itself cheerfully expedited their delivery to the Germans. An enduring shame from its collaborationist days that France still has to cope with.
There have been "French Arabs" for quite a long time. France once ruled North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia as if it were a département. North African troops were an integral part of the French Army and served with considerable distinction (there is no shortage of Muslim graves in French war cemeteries).
France's "Arab" population is completely of its own making and is in fact composed of two groups. The older group is long-established, well integrated and thoroughly républicain in its values.
But there is a newer group of immigrants far less integrated into French society and quite militantly Islamist. These are the Muslims of places like the Paris banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois.
listen to the man, or you'll be shot trying to escape.
#7.1 Louis Renault on 2015-09-12 14:12 (Reply)
Please someone clarify for me, sure, it's fine of Clinton deleted personal emails...I guess...but she still had classified information (unmarked) on her server/in emails. Right?
So even if the Justice Dept. has gotten rid of the idea of 'deleting' emails as a crime...she still is looking mighty guilty of mishandling classified information and unauthorized retention of it, etc.
Right? That part has not been eliminated. And if she is found to have deleted non-personal emails off of her server...if the FBI can find evidence of that...she would be facing criminal charges.
#8 MissT on 2015-09-12 18:51 (Reply)
I would say the nub of the problem lies in proving how the emails got on her system and what she knew about that process. That could actually be quite tricky.
It would first have to be clearly demonstrated that the content of these emails did indeed originate as classified material that was "air-gapped" from a secure system (i.e., downloaded to a memory device and loaded to another PC), stripped of security classification markings and caveats and then sent onward to Clinton.
Then you'd have to prove Hillary had "ordered" it done (she herself would not be doing the downloading, air-gapping and classification stripping of course).
Otherwise, it's not her fault if "someone else" sends emails to her private server that contain unmarked but classified material.
Is this pretty dodgy as a defence?
Well, as Bill would say, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is".
#8.1 JJM on 2015-09-12 23:50 (Reply)
JJM: I would say the nub of the problem lies in proving how the emails got on her system and what she knew about that process.
The actual problem is that email is inherently insecure.
Classified information is only supposed to be found on secure intranets. However, people discuss issues over emails, and sometimes those discussions involve information that may be classified, even if it has been openly reported in the press.
The U.S. government classifies far more than it should, and that can actually make real secrets less secure because great efforts are expended safeguarding that information. For instance, the CIA's involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup was classified until 2013, even though every Iranian schoolkid knows the story.
"The actual problem is that email is inherently insecure."
Which is why you don't put classified information in an email on the Internet.
"Classified information is only supposed to be found on secure intranets."
Which is why its appearance on an insecure Internet-connected server means someone has had to deliberately air-gap it from a secure system.
#8.1.1.1 JJM on 2015-09-13 15:30 (Reply)
JJM: Which is why you don't put classified information in an email on the Internet.
Which includes .gov email addresses.
"The U.S. government classifies far more than it should..."
Nice try, but no cigar.
The opinion that the US government classifies far too much information might be an argument for reviewing and modifying security classification procedures but it is not an argument for ignoring them.
JJM: The opinion that the US government classifies far too much information might be an argument for reviewing and modifying security classification procedures but it is not an argument for ignoring them.
It means that some information that is considered classified can be found in the newspapers. This creates a situation where people who are having discussions have trouble distinguishing between common knowledge, such as that the U.S. is using drones in Pakistan (top secret!), what really needs to be kept secret.
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Thanksgiving Day is finally here, which means in 24 hours it will finally be over and I will have my house back. I'll be spending the day serving as kitchen help for my 10-year-old son, the Food Network addict, who is ostensibly cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the second year. He looks awfully cute in his Emerial "Bam!" apron. If your kids are less involved with preparing the meal and more involved with getting in the way, park them in front of the computer and have them interact with Scholastic's The First Thanksgiving, which if nothing else should make them thankful they live in an era with computers and, like, ovens. CatholicMom.com also has some nice Thanksgiving links, craft, and gratitude ideas for kids, along with some suggestions for putting a little spirituality in the day. I'm sure a lot of us need prayer to get through a long large dinner with family. Good luck getting through yours.
New on "Mothers with Attitude"
What's worse than one big overstuffed button-busting have-another-helping-dear dinner with family? Two in a row! That's the hard-won wisdom Ken Swarner shares in this week's Family Man entry. Dividing the holiday between two families isn't a problem my husband and I have had to deal with, but honestly, one family and one dinner is usually enough to put us seriously over capacity, both food-wise and stress-wise. So I'm looking pretty mightily forward to Friday -- that day when all you have to do is heat stuff up, and you can have a nice turkey sandwich on a paper plate in the kitchen instead of a big Turkey feast on china in the living room. And you can do it without in-laws.
Then again, Friday starts the Christmas shopping season, so when your sandwich is done there's a nice new shipment of stress waiting on your front doorstep. I've actually gotten a start on my gift gathering, thanks mostly to finding a really cute gift shop on our summer vacation, but there are still many impossible-to-shop-for relatives to deal with (including the elderly cousin who made a point of telling me last year that she didn't like our gift and hadn't liked them for several years previous, but wouldn't give a clue as to what she would prefer; I'm thinking a lump of coal). My kids usually have a long list of stuff they want, most of it things I know will end up sitting idly in their rooms or on their floors, waiting to be stepped on. If you're looking for good gifts for a child with special needs (or, more likely, looking for ideas to give out to the relatives who will start demanding lists about this time of year), the Parenting Special Needs guide at about.com has some interesting suggestions.
Blessings and balderdash
Today was one of those days where you know you should stop and count your blessings, but you're too busy grumbling over all your petty little annoyances. My son's school is on one of our town's main streets, right across from a funeral parlor. This isn't usually a problem, but on a day like today -- when a local police officer killed in the line of duty was being laid to rest -- it becomes a logistical nightmare. Our first hint of trouble came last night, when the school activated its snow-day phone chain to warn parents to get their kids to school early, because the street would be closed at 8:45, right when school starts (and rush-rush parents like me come ripping up the street with their tardy offspring). My son and I drove up at 8:35 -- heroically early for us two sleepyheads -- and the street was already closed, with angry officers motioning us to keep it moving, keep it moving, keep it moving. I'd made a big point of telling my son that it's important to honor police officers, who put their lives on the line every day to protect our community, even if it means we have to change our routine a little to accommodate it, but -- MAN! Did they have to close the *&!%#@ street so early! Don't they know kids have school! How can they just inconvenience everybody like this! Mumble mumble grumble.
I finally found a parking place on a sidestreet and walked my guy to his building along with all the other mumbling, grumbling parents who'd thought they were promised another 10 minutes of right of way. We had it better than the driver and aide of the special-ed schoolbus that couldn't get through either, and had to herd their load of kiddos a lot farther than the usual up-the-steps-and-through-the-door. Didn't stop us from grumbling, though, especially when the crossing guard mentioned that there was a major accident on a nearby highway, and we noticed all the helicopters hovering and disaster-bound emergency vehicles adding their sirens to the funeral-bound ones.
It soon became apparent that getting into the neighborhood around my son's school, blocked streets and all, was going to be a lot easier than getting out. I work just up the street from the school, but of course that street was closed. And all the streets surrounding it led to streets that were clogged with funeral traffic or clogged with traffic avoiding the highway accident. Quiet residential streets were suddenly on full gridlock alert. One escape route after the other led to long lines of stopped cars. My less-than-five-minute ride to the office turned into 45 minutes of traffic jams. Plenty of time to grumble about the traffic and the lack of planning and the likelihood that my son would be unable to concentrate with several hundred flashing-lighted vehicles outside the window of his classroom. I did try to keep things in perspective: While waiting for the cars ahead of me to poke along, I took out a little rosary I keep in my purse and tried to say prayers for the soul and the family of the police officer and for anybody hurt in the accident, and to thank God that my own family was, after all, safe and healthy and intact. But then some side-street speedster would cut in front of me, and I'd get to grumbling again.
I wondered all day, with much righteous indignation, whether my son had managed to hold himself together with so much powerful distraction in his immediate environment, but his school behavior chart came home with its usual satisfactory mark just like any normal uneventful day. He told me how his class and a few others had stood on the front steps of the school to watch as the procession of official vehicles left the funeral home and headed toward a church across town. He told me that he had counted 303 motorcycles. And he showed me the way he and his classmates had held their hands over their hearts in honor of the fallen officer.
Maybe he's got this perspective thing down a little better than I do.
Me? A Bully?
Next time your children jump on your last nerve and you feel they're in need of aggressive correction, here's a new idea for disciplining them: Don't yell, don't scream, don't shout, just pick up a phone and call Murray Straus and Carolyn Field. They're the co-authors of a study in November's Journal of Marriage and Family that claims that most parents bully their kids, citing screaming, shouting and yelling as unacceptable forms of psychological aggression. No distinction is made in their censure for harshness of language or frequency of outbursts; raising your voice at all, ever, is just wrong, they conclude. HealthDay News quotes Straus as saying, "There is no empirical evidence to indicate occasional psychological abuse, such as the frustrated parent 'blowing off steam,' is harmless," though he doesn't explain how a frustrated parent holding in all that steam and eventually busting a blood vessel is preferable.
I'm convinced, though: No more yelling at kids for me. No more screaming when they're sibling rivalring, no more shouting when they start across the street before checking for cars. Nope; I'm no bully. The next time I feel like my kids need a good, loud scolding, I'm going to call ol' Murray Straus and have him come over and deal with them for a while. And then I'm going to go out, buy myself an expensive cup of coffee, browse through a bookstore or read a magazine, and allow my blood pressure slowly and delicately return to normal. My kiddos may not end up being better behaved, but I sure will be.
So apparently it's not enough now for exceptional young atheletes to drop out of college to play professional sports, or even to go pro right out of high school. Now, they're coming for the 14-year-olds. That's the ripe old age of soccer prodigy Freddy Adu, who recently signed a six-year contract to play professionally for Major League Soccer. And it would be nice to think that this is some sort of exception, that this young man is just freakishly talented or that soccer is just different from other sports. But I wouldn't be surprised to see underclass sportspersons of all types suddenly catching more limelight, and Major League scouts frequenting Little League games. This way, the kids can become big stars, burn out, and still have time for a second career as something else.
My daughter, the reader
As part of my mission to share books that my daughter likes in order to throw a life-preserver to other parents of highly reluctant readers, I'd like to announce that in one weekend, she read an entire 27-chapter mystery book -- a feat that included reading 12 chapters on Saturday and 11 on Sunday. The book was The Light on Hogback Hill by Cynthia DeFelice. It ain't exactly Agatha Christie, and it ain't exactly PC -- one character is a single mom so caught up in her anger and bitterness that she throws herself into work and leaves her 11-year-old daughter home alone for days, and another is the brother of a disabled woman who hides her away in a hilltop cabin rather than deal with her disability -- but man, you give me something that my daughter will agree to read, much less read in a rush, and I'll forgive a lot. If you're seeking something that will look like a proper book for a middle-schooler but be accessible to kids with much lower reading levels, you might want to give this one a try. My personal reading-hater gives it a thumbs up.
The timelines of our lives
The other day, my daughter came home from middle school worried about her latest assignment: to draw a timeline of her life, from birth to present, complete with photographs and major milestones. What would she do about baby pictures, she wondered? She was adopted at age 4.5, and we've got plenty of pictures past that point, but nothing prior. Should she put her adoption on the timeline? Her coming to America from Russia? The details of how she slipped two years behind her age peers in school? There are some milestones that just don't look so great on posterboard.
And for a minute, I got angry. I'd just had a meeting with her teachers and told them she was adopted, giving them some information about her difficult early years precisely to avoid situations like this. Yet here we were, confronting with tears and consternation the fact that her timeline was liable to look very different from anyone else's.
But then, as happens so often with language impaired kiddos, she started to remember other things the teacher had said, in little blips and bloops that eventually painted a bigger picture. The teacher had specified that they could use any milestones, important ones or minor ones. If they didn't have photos from early childhood, they could use symbols. There should be something for each year, but it could be anything. And so, my daughter and I sat down and had a talk. Do you want to put your adoption milestones? I asked her. Or do you want us to find things that are just the same as everybody else? She opted for bland normalcy, and I was happy to oblige. We were lucky to have info on her first word and step from her orphanage paperwork. The birth of her brother was a milestone; no need to mention that they were both in Russia at the time, and didn't know each other or us. Our great adoption journey got boiled down to "First train ride," with a photo of a train cut from a catalog. We used school photos from age 5 on, so she could say that the reason there were no earlier photos is because her mom wouldn't let her cut them up. And a very nice timeline it was, indistinguishable from her peers except for the fact that it started two years earlier.
And I guess I could have made a fuss about that. If timelines are bad for adopted kids, they're doubly bad for adopted kids who aren't in the proper grade for their age. But in the end, I wasn't sorry she had to do it. It was interesting to her to think about how far she's come, to look back at her old pictures and see the yearly progress, to go through news stories and pick out things that happened during the years she's been alive. It was, in many ways, a good assignment -- and more unfair, possibly, to kids whose parents aren't available to help them with big complicated projects than to anyone else.
New on Mothers with Attitude
Ken Swarner's latest entry in his Family Man column muses on the futility of trying to settle sibling rivalries. I'll admit that animosity between siblings has been a challenging part of parenting for me. Although I have a half-sister, she left for college shortly after I was born and so I was essentially an only child growing up. I longed to have close-in-age playmates under my roof and imagined how wonderful it would be to have sisters and brothers to bond with. And there certainly are times when my two bond nicely, playing with video games or Barbie minivans together as peaceful as you please. And then there are times when my daughter is so disgusted by the sight of her male sibling that she's forced to put her hand in front of her eyes, and times said sibling teases and taunts his sis in ways that, if he were a random schoolchild and not my own personal son, I would have to haul him in front of the principal and scream "Zero tolerance! Zero tolerance!"
And so I try to enact truces. I talk a lot about peace, love and understanding. I make the girl put down her hand and the boy watch his mouth. But as the Family Man knows, resistance is futile. I was reminded of that again this morning when my kids were getting ready for school. My daughter was mumbling something derogatory about her slowpoke bro, and he responded by getting right in her face and yelling "Loser, loser, loser!" I sent him straight to time-out with admonishments about not using mean words, and when he was done he went right back to her and, with the same aggressive attitude and vocal volume, yelled, "You're a winner!" She stalked off, still mumbling. Siblings will be siblings.
Push a Pringle, go to jail
You know those really annoying ads during children's television? No, not the ones designed to make your kid crave the latest toy. Not the ones designed to make your kid desperate to see the latest flick. Not the ones designed to make your kid beg you to take him to a theme park. Not the ones designed to make her want to watch the same Disney Channel TV movie for the 555,226th time. No, no, no -- the ones designed to make your kids hungry for junk food. The one where the kid gets his room cleaned up by peers entranced by the notion of pizza rolls. The one where a cool Tiger talks to you when you eat Cheetos, or your head turns into a watermelon when you down fruit chews. Those are the ones the kind folks at the Center for Science in the Public Interest want to wipe off the air. And we say, "Great! And when you're done with the Cheetos, could you do something about 'The Cheetah Girls'?"
Seriously, the CSPI (not to be confused with CSI, which is who you end up with when you put your mortal body between children and Doritos) believes that the marketing of junk food to children is responsible for the terrible state of child health -- the obesity, the incipient diabetes and heart disease, the healthy green-veggie-filled dinners left unfinished -- and wants advertisers to cut it the heck out. And while we think that's a fine idea, we also think that the CSPI is kidding itself if it thinks that just cutting the commercials is going to make kids stop desiring all things greasy, salty, sweet and cheesy. Some other suggestions they may want to put into practice if they're really serious about this:
* All colorful, fun, cartoon character-bedecked packaging for junk food to be replaced by brown paper wrappers labeled "Liver and Onions."
* Supermarkets to hide junk food in small pockets of shelf space in aisles otherwise devoted to such non-kid-friendly items as mouthwash, laxatives, and Depends undergarments.
* All vending machines legally required to carry nothing but carrot sticks, broccoli florets, and rice cakes.
* All children's movies and videos to be edited to alter or remove scenes of junk food consumption. Instead of Reese's Pieces, Eliot to now lure E.T. with Brussels sprouts.
It won't be easy to make kids renounce junk food, but that's not the hardest job. Nope -- the hardest job will be to get adults to stop buying the stuff "for their kids" because they really want to eat it themselves. What, you think kids are eating all that Halloween candy?
Mothers with Attitude, and Opinions
Authors Amy Baskin and Heather Fawcett are once again seeking the opinions of moms of children with special needs -- and hey, when's the last time somebody actually wanted to hear your opinion? The two, both mothers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, are writing a book on mothering kids with special needs, and have surveys posted at Baskin's Web site, www.amybaskin.com. In addition to an earlier questionnaire on personal and professional supports, there's now one on family and relationships. Stop by and chip in your personal two cents. Who knows when somebody might be all that happy to hear you whine again?
Cute Adoption Column
There's a funny column by Betty Cuniberti in yesterday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch on adoption -- and, in particular, the dumb things people say about it. Like:
"Medal of Honor Dumb Thing. It is so nice of you to adopt children.
Logical response: And it is even nicer of YOU to raise those kids of YOURS. I don't know how you do it! Or why you do it. You're just a saint."
I've heard most of the dumb things Cuniberti mentions in her column, and her responses are very nearly the ones I've thought of about an hour later when it was too late for the appropriate zinger. Let's all read and study, then, so we'll be ready the next time.
A Good Read
On Wednesday, I started leading a reading group for the sixth-grade book club at my daughter's school, even though my own personal daughter wouldn't touch a reading group with a 10-foot volume of "Harry Potter." The first book the kids are reading is "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo, and I thought I'd mention it here because, while it is in no way specifically about adoption, it does deal with a child who knows nothing about one of her birthparents, and feels a sense of loss and loneliness over that, and as such might lead to some interesting discussions for adoptive parents and kids. The story is told by India Opal Buloni, a preacher's daughter newly settled into a Florida trailer park and feeling a bit alone in the world. She doesn't remember her mama, who left when she was little, and her daddy tends to withdraw like a turtle into its shell when conversations involving difficult emotions threaten. What makes the difference for this family is not a good therapist, but a great dog -- one who knows how to smile, freaks out during thunderstorms, and has an uncanny way of bringing people who need people together. It's one of those "children's" novels, like "Sarah, Plain and Tall," that I know I'll pick up every year or so and read again, just because it tells so much truth so simply. If you've got a late-elementary or middle-school reader, check it out.
Laughing in the Face of Death
My daughter and I watched the return of the new, post-John Ritter "8 Simple Rules..." tonight, and although I had a certain amount of trepidation going in about the laff riot potential of tragic death, I thought the writers mostly managed to mix grief and gentle humor with sufficient, but not excessive, dignity. Whether they'll be able to do it on a regular basis, of course, remains to be seen. Untimely demise isn't particularly savory sit-com fare, but single-parent families are sit-com bread-and-butter, so it seems possible that the Hennesseys might have a future. My daughter's certainly determined to keep watching; she's been eager for the program's return, and cried for a good five minutes when the episode was over. My husband, in standard women-overreact-to-art mode, sought to comfort her by saying, "It's not like anybody really died" ... then had to rethink his strategy. John Ritter may be gone, but at least in our household, his show's not dead yet.
Oh, Dear
Here I was worrying about the sex-ed video they were showing at my daughter's school, and it turns out that kids are really getting their contraceptive information from Friends. A recent survey concluded that teens who watched the episode in which a condom didn't keep Rachel from getting pregnant were more likely to be well-informed about that source of birth control, and many talked to their parents about it afterward just to be sure. And, well, good for them. The oversexed nature of sitcoms these days might as well be good for something, and if kids get the message that sex is only for fantastically adorable people with great teeth and muss-free hair, so much the better. But I'll tell you, I'm not altogether sorry that my daughter is more interested in watching our cable company's new 24-hour PBS kiddie show channel than anything else these days. I think I've got a while before Arthur and Francine have to deal with an unplanned pregnancy, or Emmy has to take a trip to Dragontales' Birth Control Forest. Then again, these days, you can't be too sure.
Four things that gave me a smile this weekend:
1. A catalog that came unbidden through the mail from Despair, Inc., featuring the sort of motivational posters you might expect to see in a Dilbert cartoon. Like, "MEETINGS: None of us is as dumb as all of us." Or, "GET TO WORK: You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams." You've got to see the whole package -- classy inspirational photo and all -- so if you've ever worked in a soulless bureaucracy, check out the Despair, Inc. Web site and imagine which waste-of-oxygen co-worker you'd give one of these gems to.
2. Do you remember your first computer? Mine was a Kaypro, purchased in the mid-'80s after I'd sworn for years that I would not compute. I saw a fellow writer at a writer's conference toting around one of those blocky metal things with the keyboard that snapped over the screen and the cute little carrying handle, and suddenly the future didn't look so scary. This little walk down memory lane comes courtesy of Old-Computers.com, where you can visit your first digital love -- or, if you're a computer newbie, browse the museum and be amazed that anybody ever processed words without a giant screen and superfast chips and gigabytes of memory.
3. A nice story in our local paper this morning told of a teenage girl with autism who runs cross-country for her town's high school. I tend to look a bit skeptically at stories that try to wring inspiration from neurologically impaired people making like normal folks, but this story had enough little quirks in it -- like the fact that the girl needs a "shadow" running with her to keep her safe and directed, and that the faster and better she runs, the harder it is to find somebody to keep up with her -- that it hit me just right. You go, girl.
4. Our whole family attends a Sunday-night bowling league, my husband playing with our son, and me bowling with our high-scoring daughter. You'll understand my general skill level here when I tell you that my average is 84, and last week I didn't even make that. Sunday night bowling, for me, falls under the category of "Things you do for your kids." But tonight -- ah, tonight -- I bowled an astounding 112 in the first game. My daughter had a good game too, 148, including a turkey (three strikes in a row, for you non-bowlers). But then came the second game, in which three miraculous things happened:
a. I bowled a turkey! Me! And the fact that I followed it up with a gutter ball only momentarily dampened the excitement;
b. I bowled a 139, certainly the highest I ever bowled in my life and probably the highest I ever will; and
c. I beat my daughter, who merely made her average of 124.
And may I say, at the risk of being tagged a bad sport: WOO-HOO! Cyber-high-five me, y'all!
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Home / Pakistan / Pakistan committed to send its first astronaut to space by 2022
Pakistan committed to send its first astronaut to space by 2022
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Ch. Fawad Hussain said on Sunday Pakistan was committed to sending its first astronaut to space by 2022.
China would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, he said, adding the selection process for the astronaut would start in 2020, state-owned wire service quoted him as saying during an interview to a news channel.
He revealed that Initially, 50 persons would be selected and then the list will be shortened to 25 in 2022, out of them only one would be sent to space.
Moreover, the Pakistani Air Force would play an important role in astronaut’s selection, he said.
To a question, Ch. Fawad said the debris of India’s first space mission namely ‘Shakti’, which had failed, was even posing dangers to the space missions of other countries.
Earlier, on July 25, the minister of science and Technology had announced that Pakistan would send its first citizen into space by 2022 selection process.
“Proud to announce that selection process for the first Pakistani to be sent to Space shall begin from Feb 2020,” he tweeted.
Proud to announce that selection process for the first Pakistani to be sent to Space shall begin from Feb 2020,fifty people will be shortlisted — list will then come down to 25 and in 2022 we will send our first person to space,this will be the biggest space event of our history— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 25, 2019
In 2022 we will send our first person to space, this will be the biggest space event of our history, Ch. Fawad Hussain said.
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Belgian Ghost Town Is A Street Art Mecca
Doel, a 700-year-old town in Belgium, is on the brink of extinction. With the expansion of the Port of Antwerp, the town is set for complete demolition. Most residents began selling off their property to developers in the 90s and have long left the town, but a couple hundred remain.
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In 2008, 100 riot police were sent to Doel to manually evacuate the remaining residents. This has left the town in an almost war-torn state. With so many empty buildings, the village has become a giant canvas for brilliant street art. Gigantic, colorful works are the only bright spots in an otherwise bleak landscape.
Photographer Romany WG captured these incredible photos and more can be seen on Flickr.
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MultiChoice Announces Return of Step-up Campaign for Upgraded Packages
Pay television operator, MultiChoice, has announced to the public the return of its “Step Up” for its DStv and GOtv customers
The Step Up offer, which runs from Monday, September 2 to Thursday, October 31, provides subscribers on both platforms the opportunity to subscribe to a higher viewing package and get upgraded to the package above that.
The offer is designed to give all active and disconnected DStv Compact, Family and Access customers the opportunity to pay for a package a step above their current package and get a boost to view programming on an even higher package.
In addition, active and disconnected GOtv customers, especially those on GOtv Plus, Value and Lite packages, would have the opportunity to upgrade to GOtv Max and have access to quality programming on the package.
Speaking on the offerings, the Chief Customer Officer, MultiChoice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho, said the campaign, which ran initially from January 15 until April 15, 2019, is back just in time for customers on lower DStv and GOtv packages to enjoy all the exciting content lined up on higher packages at reduced costs.
“When we launched this first-of-its-kind offer back in January, the objective was to give our customers the opportunity to experience great entertainment on DStv and GOtv packages they normally would not have been on. The campaign was well received by our customers, and we are pleased to announce a second installment of the offer,” Mabutho said.
Mabutho explaining further the details of the offer, he said DStv customers currently on the Access package who pay N4,000 for Family package would get boosted to view programmes on the Compact package, while customers currently on the Family package who pay N6,800 for Compact package would be given Compact Plus package. Likewise, Compact customers who pay N10,650 for Compact Plus package would, in turn, get Premium package programming.
Also, customers on GOtv Plus, Value and Lite will get upgraded to GOtv Max when they pay a reduced fee of N2,600 while GOtv bridges the gap with a N600 “top up.” GOtv Max customers can also take advantage of this limited-time offer to renew their subscription for N2,600. This campaign offer is open to both active and disconnected DStv and GOtv customers with all upgrades taking effect within 48 hours.
Subscribers who upgrade to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus and GOtv Max will have unlimited access to games of the 2019/2020 football season of the Spanish LaLiga and Italian Serie A. Similarly, selected games of the English Premier League and the UEFA Champions League, Europe’s elite club football competition would also be broadcast live.
Also on offer are the 24-hour WWE SuperSlam pop-up channel and the UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts (MMA) event, available to DStv subscribers.
Quality African entertainment is not left out for subscribers as brand new local shows and series, surprise pop up channels, including award-winning international series and blockbuster movies, would be shown on all Africa Magic channels, BET, FOX Entertainment, StarLife, ROK 2 and CBS Reality amongst others.
In conclusion, “the Step-Up offer is open to both active and disconnected customers on DStv Access, Family and Compact while customers on GOtv Lite, Value, Plus and Max are also eligible for participation, he stated.
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Seven Massachusetts Students Receive Grand Awards at Intel ISEF
Photo: US students join those from other countries in an opening ceremonies celebration.
The Massachusetts delegation to the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) racked up five third-place awards and two fourth-place awards at today's Grand Prize Ceremony in Pittsburgh, PA.
Name: Emily Hu School: Lexington High School Project: "The Effects of Mindful Decision Making on Post Decision Regret" Description: The purpose of this experiment is to determine a relationship between mindful decision-making and post decision regret. The main objective is to confirm that both trait and state mindfulness produces less post decision regret.
Name: Dominick Zheng School: Boston Latin School Project: "Mast Cell-Restricted Tryptase-Heparin Complexes Hinder Coagulation" Description: Mouse mast cell protease-6 (mMCP-6) and its human ortholog tryptase-beta (hTryptase-beta) are found to prevent blood coagulation by proteolytically destroying fibrinogen, and are more effective anticoagulants than heparin on a weight basis.
Name: Anish Athalye School: Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science Project: "Cooling without Electricity: Engineering a New Refrigerator" Description: A novel cooling technology based on the adsorption cycle was invented and proven to work. In addition, full scale prototypes were engineered and shown to achieve enough cooling effect for the application: medicine refrigeration in developing countries.
Name: Richard Housley School: Boston University Academy Project: "Emergency Convulsive Seizure Detection and Notification System" Description: This project focuses on the creation of a convulsive seizure detection and notification system; it is capable of sending emergency text messages when a convulsive seizure is detected.
Name: Sneha Subramaniam School: Westborough High School Project: Engineering a Novel Hydrogel Matrix for Bone Cell Regeneration Description: The goal of this project was to engineer a low cost and low risk alternative for bone cell regeneration through tissue engineering techniques. An mTG crosslinked gelatin hyrogel was used as a scaffold and its effectiveness quantified by biomineralization.
Names: Hao Shen & Surya Bhupatiraju School: Lexington High School Project: “Investigating the Spread of the Influenza A Virus: A Phylogetic Analysis of the H1N1 Subtype” Description: We explore H1N1 using a phylogenetic analysis of its NA gene. We identified two different strains of H1N1 in 2009, its path throughout the US during the 20th century, and isolated the time and nucleotide location where resistance to a drug was acquired.
Name: Julia Knowles School: Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science Project: "Flushed Away with Gray: Engineering the Gray Water Toilet" Description: This project comprises a device that was designed to collect gray water that would be automatically used to flush the toilet and, at the same time, be easily adaptable to an existing domestic bathroom.
Congratulations to these award-winning students and to the entire Massachusetts delegation!
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MNE Fellow Award 2019
sponsored by EVG
https://www.evgroup.com/
To promote micro- and nano-engineering in Europe, the MNE Steering Committee recognizes a researcher or engineer every year who has made outstanding contributions to fields addressed by the MNE conference.
The aim is to honor a researcher or engineer who has inspired the MNE community by his/her leadership or outstanding work. This could, for example, be through leadership in the successful development and commercialization of a technology, the pioneering of a method or development of a tool with significant impact on current research or manufacturing methods, or an outstanding invention.
The award ceremony will take place during a Plenary Session of the MNE Conference. In previous years the MNE Fellow Award was bestowed to:
Dr. Haroon Ahmed from University of Cambridge (founder of Microengineering conference, which became the Micro & Nanoengineering conference) at MNE 2003, Cambridge
Dr. Peter Vettiger from IBM Research – Zurich at MNE 2005, Vienna
Dr. Mike Hatzakis from NCSR Demokritos Athens at MNE 2006, Barcelona
Dr. Bruno Murari from ST Microelectronics at MNE 2010, Genoa
Dr. Luc Van den Hove from IMEC at MNE 2011, Berlin
Dr. Hans Löschner from IMS Nanofabrication AG in Austria at MNE 2012, Toulouse
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kern from the University of Tübingen at MNE 2014, Lausanne
Dr. Emile van der Drift from Technical University of Delft at MNE 2015, The Hague
Prof. Dr. Nico de Rooij, professor emeritus at the EPFL Lausanne and Vice-President at CSEM SA
Prof. Andreas Manz from Saarland University of Saarbrücken at MNE 2017, Braga
Dr. John Randall from Zyvex Labs, USA at MNE 2018, Copenhagen
MNE Fellow 2019
Hella-Christin Scheer
University of Wuppertal, Germany
More than nanoimprint – replication and combination
Hella-Christin Scheer received her PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. Starting from work on solar cells, the focus of her research later moved to dry etching. Since 1995 she has been Professor for Microstructure Engineering at the University of Wuppertal and has became one of the pioneers of nanoimprint.
Her group investigated the technological aspects of this trend-setting mechanical approach for the patterning of polymeric surfaces, first focussing on lithography applications and later on nanoimprint combination techniques. Major contributions cover the fundamental aspects of polymer mechanics as well as introducing and exploiting the potential of conventional photoresists for this technology. Beyond combining the nanoimprint of photoresists with exposure techniques in the UV- and VUV-range, a recent aspect is to control the properties of novel materials by means of imprinting, e.g. by inducing phase separation or crystallisation.
MNE2019 Best Poster Award
(sponsored by RAITH)
The MNE conference gives much relevance to the poster session. Contributions selected for poster presentation do not have less scientific quality than contributions selected for oral presentation, but their contents are expected to be more suitable for communication in poster form. To highlight the importance of the poster session, awards are given to the best posters.
The posters will be evaluated per topic and four Best Poster Awards will be given out, one for each topic:
Advanced Nanopatterning,
Nanofabrication for functionality,
Nanodevices – MEMS and their applications, and
Lab-on-a-chip /Nanofabrication for life science applications.
The evaluation will be based on the assessment of the abstract reviewers and by the poster examination from the jury during the conference.
Winner announcement: The Best Poster Award Winners will be announced during the conference dinner on September 26th.
Advance Nanopatterning:
SEM Inspection of Nanowire Devices: Contact Inspection, Resistance and Cpacitance Measurement and Buckling Evaluation
Takeyoshi Ohashi1, Kazuhisa Hasumi2, Masami Ikota2, Gian Lorusso3, Hans Mertens3, Liesbeth Witters3, Naoto Horiguchi3
1Hitachi, Ltd.,
2Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation,
3imec
Nanofabrication for Functionality:
Hydrophobic Desalination Membranes from common Hydrophilic Materials
Zain Ahmad, Ratul Das, Sankara Arunachalam, Ulrich Buttner, Himanshu Mishra
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Nanodevies - MEMS and their applications:
3D tactile microprobe with isotropic kinematics for industrial micro metrology
David Metz1, Stephan Jantzen2, Karin Kniel2, Martin Stein2, Andreas Dietzel1
1Technische University Braunschweig, Institute of Microtechnology,
2Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Department of Coordinate Metrology
Lab-on-a-chip / Nanofabrication for Life Science Applications:
Internalization and viability studies of suspended nanowires silicon chips in HeLa cells
Sara Duran1, Marta Duch1, Rodrigo Gomez1, Marta Fernandez1, Manuel Reina2, Claudia Müller2, Alvaro San Paulo3, Jaume Esteve1, Susana Castel2, Jos. Antonio Plaza1
1Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona IMB-CNM, (CSIC),
2Departament de Biologia Cellular, Universitat de Barcelona, 3Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, IMMCNM (CSIC)
The 2019 Microelectronic Engineering Journal, Young Investigator Award and Lectureship
(sponsored by Elsevier MEE/MNE journals, and MNE conference)
Honoring and Promoting a Young researcher active in the fields of Nanofabrication and Nanotechnology for Electronics, MEMS and Life Sciences
Microelectronic Engineering family (MEE/MNE) is proud to continue its long contribution (1983-2019) in the field of processing for Micro- and Nano-scale Device and System fabrication. In the past 35 years MEE/MNE has expanded from the field of microelectronics to the fields of Nanotechnology and Microsystems following the rapid proliferation of microelectronics into many new areas and applications. Beyond electronics, MEE/MNE is now also focusing on fabrication of photonic, plasmonic, bioelectronic, electromechanical and fluidic devices and systems and their applications in the broad areas of electronics, energy, life sciences, and environment.
Deadline for applications: April 8, 2019
For more information click here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/microelectronic-engineering/news/call-for-applications-2019-young-investigator-award
MNE Young Investigator Awardee 2019
Yuksel Temiz
ΙΒΜ Research-Zurich
Chips and gadgets for miniaturized assays
Yuksel Temiz is a research staff member at IBM Research – Zurich. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering, specializing on VLSI circuit design for MEMS sensors. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2012 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he developed 3D chip integration and post-CMOS processing techniques for biosensing applications. Since 2012, he has been working in the Precision Diagnostics group of IBM Research – Zurich with the goal of using microtechnologies for addressing important problems in life sciences. He has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, 20 patent applications, and several book chapters primarily relating to capillary-driven microfluidics, bead-based immunoassays, system integration and packaging, and microfabrication. He has received 5 invention achievement awards and 2 outstanding technical achievement awards from IBM. His current research focuses on innovative microfluidic technologies and portable electronic platforms for point-of-care diagnostics, particularly ultra-miniaturized immunoassays and IoT devices for mobile health applications.
The nano- micro-graph contest
(sponsored by Zyvex labs and the Scientific Micro & Nano Society of Greece)
The MNE 2019 micrograph and nanograph contest is now open.
Please submit your favorite, or strange, or spectacular microscope image (SEM, TEM, AFM, SNOM, optical......) to this year's contest organized by Dr John Randall of Zyvex Labs
The rules include the following:
Entries have to be of a single image taken with a microscope and should not be significantly altered.
There is no restriction with respect to the subject matter.
Since participants vote via their mobile application for the best nano-micrograph, enter your submission as early as possible in order to be seen by participants. It is advised to submit your image before September 20th, or on the first days of the conference or the latest before Wednesday September 25th noon. Awards will be given at the gala dinner Wednesday September 25th and include prizes of 100 Euro and a certificate.
To submit your nano-micrograph please visit the website of Zyvex labs https://www.zyvexlabs.com/communications/micrograph-contests/mne-micrograph-nanograph-contest/
To see the submitted entries please visit https://www.zyvexlabs.com/contests/2019-3/
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Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 140 - 162, May 2014
Cover: Bovine macrophages infected with the intracellular, protozoan parasite Theileria annulata migrating inside matrigel. Leading edge is rich in F-actin (green) and dynamically remodeled. Parasite in red is located behind host cell nucleus (blue) with respect to the direction of migration. Surpass image of 15 individual confocal sections is shown. Green: F-actin (phalloidin Alexa488), Red: parasite (anti-Theileria annulata surface protein TASP, Cy3), Blue: DNA (hoechst). Picture by Martin Baumgartner (University of Zürich, Switzerland). The cover is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Enlarge issue cover
Live longer on MARS: a yeast paradigm of mitochondrial adaptive ROS signaling in aging
Gerald S. Shadel
Adaptive responses to stress, including hormesis, have been implicated in longevity, but their mechanisms and outcomes are not fully understood. Here, I briefly summarize a longevity mechanism elucidated in the budding yeast chronological lifespan model by which Mitochondrial Adaptive ROS Signaling (MARS) promotes beneficial epigenetic and metabolic remodeling. The potential relevance of MARS to the human disease Ataxia-Telangiectasia and as a potential anti-aging target is discussed.
Hormesis: a fundamental concept in biology
Edward J. Calabrese
This paper assesses the hormesis dose response concept, including its historical foundations, frequency, generality, quantitative features, mechanistic basis and biomedical, pharmaceutical and environmental health implications. The hormetic dose response is highly generalizable, being independent of biology model (i.e. common from plants to humans), level of biological organization (i.e. cell, organ and organism), endpoint, inducing agent and mechanism, providing the first general and quantitative description of plasticity. The hormetic dose response describes the limits to which integrative endpoints (e.g. cell proliferation, cell migration, growth patterns, tissue repair, aging processes, complex behaviors such as anxiety, learning, memory, and stress, preconditioning responses, and numerous adaptive responses) can be modulated (i.e., enhanced or diminished) by pharmaceutical, chemical and physical means. Thus, the hormesis concept is a fundamental concept in biology with a wide range of biological implications and biomedical applications.
When less is more: hormesis against stress and disease
Andreas Zimmermann, Maria A. Bauer, Guido Kroemer, Frank Madeo and Didac Carmona-Gutierrez
All living organisms need to adapt to ever changing adverse conditions in order to survive. The phenomenon termed hormesis describes an evolutionarily conserved process by which a cell or an entire organism can be preconditioned, meaning that previous exposure to low doses of an insult protects against a higher, normally harmful or lethal dose of the same stressor. Growing evidence suggests that hormesis is directly linked to an organism’s (or cell’s) capability to cope with pathological conditions such as aging and age-related diseases. Here, we condense the conceptual and potentially therapeutic importance of hormesis by providing a short overview of current evidence in favor of the cytoprotective impact of hormesis, as well as of its underlying molecular mechanisms.
Morphed and moving: TNFα-driven motility promotes cell dissemination through MAP4K4-induced cytoskeleton remodeling
Min Ma, Martin Baumgartner
Cell dissemination from an initial site of growth is a highly coordinated and controlled process that depends on cell motility. The mechanistic principles that orchestrate cell motility, namely cell shape control, traction and force generation, are highly conserved between cells of different origins. Correspondingly, the molecular mechanisms that regulate these critical aspects of migrating cells are likely functionally conserved too. Thus, cell motility deregulation of unrelated pathogenesis could be caused and maintained by similar mechanistic principles. One such motility deregulation disorder is the leukoproliferative cattle disease Tropical Theileriosis, which is caused by the intracellular, protozoan parasite Theileria annulata. T. annulata transforms its host cell and promotes the dissemination of parasite-infected cells throughout the body of the host. An analogous condition with a fundamentally different pathogenesis is metastatic cancer, where oncogenically transformed cells disseminate from the primary tumor to form distant metastases. Common to both diseases is the dissemination of motile cells from the original site. However, unlike metastatic cancer, host cell transformation by Theileria parasites can be reverted by drug treatment and cell signaling be analyzed under transformed and non-transformed conditions. We have used this reversible transformation model and investigated parasite control of host cell motile properties in the context of inflammatory signaling in Ma M. et al. [PLoS Pathog (2014) 10: e1004003]. We found that parasite infection promotes the production of the inflammatory cytokine TNFα in the host macrophage. We demonstrated that increased TNFα triggers motile and invasive properties by enhancing actin cytoskeleton remodeling and cell motility through the ser/thr kinase MAP4K4. We concluded that inflammatory conditions resulting in increased TNFα could facilitate cell dissemination by activating the actin cytoskeleton regulatory kinase MAP4K4. We discuss here the relevance of TNFα-MAP4K4 signaling for pathogen-driven cell dissemination and its potential impact on the induction of metastasis in human cancer.
Prokaryotic Argonautes – variations on the RNA interference theme
John van der Oost, Daan C. Swarts, Matthijs M. Jore
The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) has been a major scientific breakthrough. This RNA-guided RNA interference system plays a crucial role in a wide range of regulatory and defense mechanisms in eukaryotes. The key enzyme of the RNAi system is Argonaute (Ago), an endo-ribonuclease that uses a small RNA guide molecule to specifically target a complementary RNA transcript. Two functional classes of eukaryotic Ago have been described: catalytically active Ago that cleaves RNA targets complementary to its guide, and inactive Ago that uses its guide to bind target RNA to down-regulate translation efficiency. A recent comparative genomics study has revealed that Argonaute-like proteins are also encoded by prokaryotic genomes. Interestingly, there is a lot of variation among these prokaryotic Argonaute (pAgo) proteins with respect to domain architecture: some resemble the eukaryotic Ago (long pAgo) containing a complete or disrupted catalytic site, while others are truncated versions (short pAgo) that generally contain an incomplete catalytic site. Prokaryotic Agos with an incomplete catalytic site often co-occur with (predicted) nucleases. Based on this diversity, and on the fact that homologs of other RNAi-related protein components (such as Dicer nucleases) have never been identified in prokaryotes, it has been predicted that variations on the eukaryotic RNAi theme may occur in prokaryotes.
Autophagy extends lifespan via vacuolar acidification
Christoph Ruckenstuhl, Christine Netzberger, Iryna Entfellner, Didac Carmona-Gutierrez, Thomas Kickenweiz, Slaven Stekovic, Christina Gleixner, Christian Schmid, Lisa Klug, Ivan Hajnal, Alice G. Sorgo1, Tobias Eisenberg, Sabrina Büttner, Guillermo Marin͂o, Rafal Koziel, Christoph Magnes, Frank Sinner, Thomas R. Pieber, Pidder Jansen-Dürr, Kai-Uwe Fröhlich, Guido Kroemer, Frank Madeo
Methionine restriction (MetR) is one of the rare regimes that prolongs lifespan across species barriers. Using a yeast model, we recently demonstrated that this lifespan extension is promoted by autophagy, which in turn requires vacuolar acidification. Our study is the first to place autophagy as one of the major players required for MetR-mediated longevity. In addition, our work identifies vacuolar acidification as a key downstream element of autophagy induction under MetR, and possibly after rapamycin treatment. Unlike other amino acids, methionine plays pleiotropic roles in many metabolism-relevant pathways. For instance, methionine (i) is the N-terminal amino acid of every newly translated protein; (ii) acts as the central donor of methyl groups through S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) during methylation reactions of proteins, DNA or RNA; and (iii) provides the sulfhydryl groups for FeS-cluster formation and redox detoxification via transsulfuration to cysteine. Intriguingly, MetR causes lifespan extension, both in yeast and in rodents. We could show that in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, chronological lifespan (CLS) is increased in two specific methionine-auxotrophic strains (namely Δmet2 and Δmet15).
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HomepageJournalEPA Bolsters Independence of Scientific Advisory Groups
EPA Bolsters Independence of Scientific Advisory Groups
EPA Administrator Pruitt has announced a directive aimed at bolstering the independence, integrity and geographic diversity of scientists serving on any EPA Federal Advisory Committee (FACS). [1] He will also make new appointments to several committees, he said in the October 31 announcement.
Preventing Conflicts of Interest
Under the new policy, scientists and researchers who receive EPA grants are no longer eligible to serve on EPA scientific advisory groups. In an effort to prevent conflicts of interest, the administrator said, “From this day forward, EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the agency.” [1]
Pruitt’s plan includes appointment of new leadership and members to the Science Advisory Board (SAB), Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC). These three bodies have had a profound impact on how science is factored into EPA’s regulatory actions. [2] Pruitt said, “It is very, very important to ensure independence, to ensure that we’re getting advice and counsel independent of the EPA.”
In a news conference following release of the documents, Pruitt said that the EPA calculated more than 20 members of the SAB, CASAC, and BOSC received over $77 million in EPA grant funding while serving on these committees in the past three years alone. [3] He added that the EPA ethics board would ensure that conflicts of interest did not exist with scientific advisers who receive grants associated with industry. [4]
Broadening Geographic Representation
Aside from the new directive that committee members shall be independent from EPA, three principles for expanding geographic representation were included as part of the EPA directive:
• Expanded participation from state, tribal and local governments
• Increased inclusion from unrepresented or underrepresented states and regions
• Regular rotation of membership to promote inclusion of new perspectives [1]
More Appointments to Come
While EPA has not confirmed a full list of new appointees, Dr. Michael E. Honeycutt has been appointed to chair the EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Honeycutt is the top toxicologist at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). He has history of sparring with the EPA over ozone standards and has argued the agency has inflated the health benefits of more stringent air quality standards. [5]
Lawyers know very well the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest and giving clients independent advice, not just telling the client what he or she wants to hear. It seems the EPA had gone astray, and now Mr. Pruitt is bringing sound ethical principles back to government or at least to the EPA.
Article by: Tami Schmitt
Photo by: Sidney Perry
1 https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-pruitt-issues-directive-ensure-independence-geographic-diversity
2 http://ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com/2017/11/epa-administrator-revises-principles-selecting-science-advisors/?Source=EHSC&effort=1&utm_source=BLR&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ENVIn5Email&spMailingID=12298159&spUserID=MTg2NjgwOTk4MzMzS0&spJobID=1280542489&spReportId=MTI4MDU0MjQ4OQS2
3 http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/31/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-bars-government-paid-science-advisers-from-panels/
4 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/31/epa-scott-pruitt-ends-77-million-conflict-interest-science-advisers/
5 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/climate/pruitt-epa-science-advisory-boards.html
To read the full EPA directive, please visit here.
To read the full EPA memo, please visit here.
Tami Schmitt
Board of Scientific Counselors, BOSC, CASAC, Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, conflict of interest, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Administrator, EPA grants, FACS, Federal Advisory Committee, independent government panels, SAB, Science Advisory Board, scientific advisory, scientific integrity, Scott Pruitt
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Harvey Family History
Today's Working Farm
The Museum & Homestead
Musterfield @ Facebook
Check our What's New page for recent events
Visit Musterfield Farm on Facebook
Muster Days at Muster Field Farm
Preserving Old Barns
Out of Tin Boxes
History in Song
Muster Field Farm Museum
& The Matthew Harvey Homestead
Muster Field Farm is associated with several organizations important to the museum's successful operation. We've listed these as well as other links that might be of interest:
Hiking / Trails | Related Organizations | Historical Societies | Farm Museums | Other Museums
HIKING / TRAILS
Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition
www.srkg.com
The Matthew Harvey Homestead is under a society easement which gives legal protection in perpetuity against any alterations or activities which would adversely affect the appearance or worksmanship of the building.
185 Lyman Street, Waltham, MA 02432 | (781) 891-4882 | www.historicnewengland.org
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Approximately 200 acres of woods at Muster Field are under an easement from the Forest Society, precluding any development and allowing for sustainable forestry.
SPNHF, 54 Portsmouth Street, Concord, NH 03301 | (603) 224-9945
The NHHS is an independent, nonprofit organization which receives no operating support from the State of New Hampshire. As it has since its founding in 1823, the Society relies its membership for all funding.
The Tuck Library, 30 Park Street, Concord, NH 03301-6394 | ( 603) 225-3381 bcopeley@nhhistory.org | www.nhhistory.org
Sutton Historical Society
Muster Field is listed as one of the Society's historical cornerstones of the town of Sutton.
PO Box 85, Sutton, NH 03260
FARM MUSEUMS
New Hampshire Farm Museum
Visitors observe actual farm life skills and practices of the 1890s, with guided tours of the Jones Farmhouse, self-guided tour of the Jones Barn filled with farming tools and implements, active blacksmith shop and display cobbler shop, farm animals, 50 acres of land to explore, special events and programs related to agricultural activity. Closed during winter.
1305 White Mountain Hwy (Route 125), PO Box 644, Milton, NH 03851
(603) 652-7840 | www.farmmuseum.org
Stonewall Farm Working Farm and Educational Center
A working New England farm and non-profit education center, dedicated to promoting the importance of local agriculture and the stewardship of natural resources.Lots of activities for families and kids, including school programs and summer camp Check their website for full listing of educational programs and special events.
242 Chesterfield Road, Keene, NH 03431 | www.stonewallfarm.org | (603) 357-7278
OTHER MUSEUMS
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
Non-profit museum dedicated to increasing public awareness of American American traditions, philosophy, and art. Through exhibits and programs, the Museum seeks to teach and inspire an understanding of the natural world and of resource conservation and land stewardship as developed by native people over thousands of years. Open May 1 through October 31, seven days a week.
Kearsarge Mountain Road, Warner, NH 03278 | www.indianmuseum.com
The Fells
One of New England's finest examples of an early 20th-century summer estate. Stroll the length of the 100-foot Perennial Border, discover the Old Garden, hidden behind masses of rhododendron, and admire the view of Lake Sunapee from the formal Rose Terrace and hillside rock garden where a brook trickles to a Japanese water lily pool. The 22-room Colonial Revival mansion is open seasonally for historic guided tours and the nature and hiking trails are open year-round, dawn to dusk.
www.thefells.org
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You are here: Home / News / Certain Puerto Rican retirement trusts are eligible to use group trusts
Certain Puerto Rican retirement trusts are eligible to use group trusts
September 9, 2014 by Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory
The IRS has issued a revenue ruling that modifies the list of group trust retiree benefit plans eligible to participate in group trusts described in IRS Rev. Rul. 81-100, as modified by IRS Rev. Rul. 2011-1 (which was modified by Notice 2012-6), to include trusts of certain Puerto Rican retirement plans. The guidance covers plans that are qualified only under the Puerto Rico Code and that are described in ERISA Sec. 1022(i)(1). The IRS has also clarified that assets held by certain separate accounts maintained by insurance companies may be invested in 81-100 group trusts, and has provided limited transition relief.
Rev. Rul. 81-100 allows qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to pool their assets for investment purposes in an 81-100 group trust if certain specified requirements are satisfied. Rev. Rul. 2011-1 revises and restates the generally applicable rules for group trusts described in Rev. Rul. 81-100 and expands the types of plans that are eligible to participate in these group trusts (if certain conditions are met). In Rev. Rul. 2011-1, the IRS stated that it anticipated issuing guidance as to whether a plan described in ERISA Sec. 1022(i)(1) could participate in an 81-100 group trust and that, until such guidance was issued, the IRS would not treat a group trust as failing to satisfy the requirements of Rev. Rul. 2011-1 merely because the group trust included the assets of a section 1022(i)(1) plan.
The IRS has decided that, although a section 1022(i)(1) plan is not a qualified retirement plan under Code Sec. 401(a) and is not currently listed as a group trust retiree benefit plan under Rev. Rul. 2011-1, it can satisfy the other requirements of Rev. Rul. 2011-1 applicable to group trust retiree benefit plans participating in 81-100 group trusts. For example, ERISA Sec. 1022(i)(1) provides that a section 1022(i)(1) trust is tax-exempt under Code Sec. 501(a), which is a requirement under Rev. Rul. 2011-1. In addition, the IRS notes that a section 1022(i)(1) trust must, pursuant to ERISA and the Puerto Rico Code, be part of a plan that satisfies an exclusive benefit requirement that is very similar to the exclusive benefit rule of Code Sec. 401(a) and Reg. Sec. 1.401(a)-2. The IRS states that, due to this similarity, a section 1022(i)(1) plan that satisfies the exclusive benefit rules of ERISA and the Puerto Rico Code is deemed to satisfy the exclusive benefit requirement of Rev. Rul. 2011-1. Finally, the IRS explained that permitting a section 1022(i)(1) plan to participate in an 81-100 group trust is consistent with the legislative history of section 1022(i)(1) because it permits a 1022(i)(1) plan to diversify its investments without adverse tax consequences to the group trust or its investors. Thus, the IRS has modified Rev. Rul. 2011-1 to include section 1022(i)(1) plans on the list of group trust retiree benefit plans eligible to participate in an 81-100 group trust if the requirements of Rev. Rul. 2011-1, as modified by this revenue ruling, are satisfied.
Separate accounts of insurance companies
Rev. Rul. 2011-1 requested comments on whether tax-favored accounts held by plans described in Code Sec. 401(a) or Code Sec. 403(b), such as pooled separate accounts supporting annuity contracts that are treated as trusts under Code Sec. 401(f), should be permitted to invest in 81-100 group trusts. The IRS has ruled that in order to clarify the rules pertaining to the investment of separate accounts in group trusts, Rev. Rul. 2011-1 is modified to permit separate accounts to invest in group trusts subject to certain conditions. They are: (1) all of the assets in the separate account must consist solely of assets of group trust retiree benefit plans as defined in Rev. Rul. 2011-1 and as modified by this revenue ruling, (2) the insurance company maintaining the separate account must enter into a written arrangement with the trustee of the group trust consistent with the requirements of Rev. Rul. 2011-1, and (3) the assets of the separate account must be insulated from the claims of the insurance company’s general creditors.
The IRS has also provided transition relief concerning when insurance companies and trustees of a group trust must enter into the written arrangement described above.
Source: IRS Rev. Rul. 2014-24.
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Japanese Characters Not Displaying Properly Windows 10
srt) file as a text file, the chinese subtitles are displayed correctly. DVD-RW not working properly Hello, I just want to be able to use my DVD-RW like a hard drive, like in windows. Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. If the website doesn't work in Firefox or Mozilla Suite by design, the best long term solution is to respectfully ask the website developer if they can make their page work in Firefox/Mozilla. Check whether Arial Unicode MS font is installed at C:/windows/fonts. The windows fonts view in control panel is showing gibberish letters for some fonts too (fonts with the codepage number 1255 in their name). Fonts Do Not Print Correctly With PDF Printing. This Knowledge Base Article lists all known and open issues of the latest available SAP GUI for Windows Patch. "â" instead of "|"). Nov 02, 2017 · When running certain apps on Windows 10 desktop or Windows 10 Mobile, some characters display as a square or rectangular box, or as a box with a dot, question mark or “x” inside, while the same app running on earlier Windows or Windows Phone versions did not have this problem. Hello, I have a couple users displaying garbage characters when they viewing PDF's in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Capture2Text is a Windows-only software. Google Input Tools remembers your corrections and maintains a custom dictionary for new or uncommon words and names. ) Now, however, the icon is gone and the ability to get Japanese characters to display has vanished. My default was set to 200% which I then changed to 100% and it is now displaying correctly. The problem is resolved, unfortunately I cannot say for sure if creating the second account fixed it. Japanese characters displaying as random symbols. by My lenovo pc has not working properly after 5-10 minuts automatically pc turns off and a beep sound coming what’s this problem. I recently updated to Windows 8 and saw the issue still persist. Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Windows fully supports Unicode, and it isn't something that can be removed from the operating. Here are the highlights from the July data for the Netflix ISP Speed Index, our monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Date field was not converted correctly when exported to DBF file. Special Characters. Flash, Reader, Adobe CS, etc). Other temporary solutions are that you can use an USB keyboard (if you travel often, then this is not for you) or if you are on Windows, then you can use the On Screen Keyboard which can be found at: Start–> All Programs –> Accessories –> Accessibility –> On-Screen Keyboard (working on this keyboard will be extremely slow). Embedded subtitles are not displayed: A: Right-click on the white LAV Splitter icon in the system tray (right-bottom of your screen). May 08, 2018 · For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters – Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). 11 or later (an older beta version can run on 10. If the phonetic guides are not entered correctly, make the necessary corrections. So far we have not had any issues with characters not displaying properly in the designer or viewer so it only appears to be a PDF export issue. So far this has worked through every build of windows 10 elegantly until now. Output Displayed :Ã#berprüfung nach § 29 STVZO. You're having a "bit-ness" problem and you need the right drivers. So basically in explorer and media player 12 japanese characters are not displayed correctly but in my browser. Code page is the name that SAP uses instead of character encoding. skype) with japanese font/kanji display as squares. Remove ANYTHING with 'Adobe' in the name (e. im having a problem with my laptop's top letter row of the keyboard. Some scripts are complex and require a large number of pixels to display properly. Any of Microsoft's operating systems could experience problems after Windows updates are installed, including Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server versions. The Chinese characters are displayed properly under Excel content. I am having a problem in Indian language kannada, some of the letters are not correctly being shown in Indesign but the same thing in microsoft office 2007 is being shown correctly i have attached the sample documents for Indesign and office 2007 with the kannada language font. everything looks and works correctly). Jan 21, 2019 · Will Mailbird allow me to have multiple emails open in separate windows like Windows Live Mail from Windows 7? The Windows 10 Mail app does not. Fix text that isn't displaying properly If you see squares instead of text on webpages, or text is blurry or fuzzy, follow the steps below to try fixing the issue. I have read numerous articles about how Windows 10 offers custom DPI scaling for multiple DPI displays. exe fails to display Chinese directory name on Windows 10 English. Some programs aren’t designed to display different languages. Hi there, I am running Window 10 Pro on my laptop with English as the display language and Chinese Language Pack installed. If you're using Microsoft Excel to create your CSV file, you may run into an issue: When you're using Japanese or Chinese characters - Microsoft Excel does not generate a UTF-8 compliant CSV file that retains the Japanese and Chinese characters. Feb 19, 2013 · Hello sir,i have asus build 9600 windows 8. However, it's not uncommon for a user to sit there working, with 10 or 20 minimized windows in the taskbar. This row also not working with "SHIFT" key. How to Handle Special Characters in OpenOffice. Well, if you copy the same text that is displayed in notepade ++ is not correct , in other applications of the OS it is displayed correctly. Version history. Getting Excel files from a client and when looking at VBA with the macros, they are not displaying the Japanese characters correctly, but the English part in them is fine - they just seem to make some random ASCII characters where the Japanese characters should be:. 0, or UniKey 3. How to enable 'Hey, Cortana' on Windows 10. srt file can not be displayed correctly in notepad. The Windows console window can display, for example Korean and Japanese characters, just fine (example I know is a US-English Windows 7 with Korean and Japanese language package installed and system set to use them). FAQ: Chinese Characters Will Not Display in Some Applications or Web Pages on an English Language Windows System. js, and PDF. The new cumulative update is creating trouble for some users, calling into question Microsoft's policy of forced updates for Windows 10. Jul 23, 2017 · “Why does the Windows 10 calendar show Chinese characters?” Because you told it to. Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. Event in Pussy, France by Vojtech Voyta on Sunday, March 29 2015. To allow users to keep the English-US language settings within Internet Explorer and still be able to send mail correctly with the foreign language character set, you will first. I know some of you are still looking for the solution to resolve this annoying issue. Windows 10 and Google Chrome are not email programs or interfaces (Windows 10 is the operating system that runs your computer, and Chrome is the browser that displays web pages). Apr 14, 2014 · When you generate a report in Simplified Chinese, the Simplified Chinese characters do not appear properly. How can I get Excel to properly display accented characters in the CSV file saved from Accompa? Print This: Accompa creates CSV files that are compliant with the UTF-8 standard. Hi everyone, I'm having subtitle issues when using Potplayer I have tried using other player such as SPlayer, VLC and Windows Media Player, all are Subtitle not displaying correctly in Potplayer - Gizmo's Freeware Forum. Getting Excel files from a client and when looking at VBA with the macros, they are not displaying the Japanese characters correctly, but the English part in them is fine - they just seem to make some random ASCII characters where the Japanese characters should be:. html (precedence moves from right to left). ic66386: pcom: long file names do not display correctly in 3270 file transfer gui: ic67597. Where Gamers Call Home. enabled pref to false or if this didn't help disable Direct2D by setting the gfx. 2016-03-17T12:33:39Z Internationalization Working Group’s Tracker /International/track/issues/383. ) Attributes. (Characters include letters, punctuation, and spaces. ) For some suggested commands that you can use to test whether the server is accessible and working properly, see Section 2. The latest video game news, reviews, previews, cheats, guides, trailers, screenshots and podcasts from 1UP. Solution: 1. Your customizable and curated collection of the best in trusted news plus coverage of sports, entertainment, money, weather, travel, health and lifestyle, combined with Outlook/Hotmail, Facebook. Default Paragraph Font - Looks Like a Character Style but is not. exe program. This was the W3C's home page for the XHTML2 Working Group, which was chartered in March 2007 (see news) until December 2010. This is to prevent an undefined character in a font from causing characters and texts to no longer be displayed. NIST promotes U. For them to work, the applications that they are to be used with must also support entry and display of Unicode characters. Nov 29, 2019 · A Japanese department store that says it was trying to help out its female employees is now facing backlash over a uniform accessory. I learned most of my programming skills and database management skills through self-study and the material available on Lynda. On Windows 10, go to Control Panel > Display > "Set a custome scaling Level". It seems a bit of a shame that Windows can display these characters just fine (with the right language packs installed) but XBMC can't without a. If you do choose to upgrade to Windows 10, please be aware that intermittent problems may occur, including your game ceasing to launch or function properly. The Chinese characters are displayed properly under Excel content. Unfortunately for me, the file names are in Japanese. spanish accent marks on a computer For a summary of the rules for when to use an accent mark in Spanish, go here. Korean characters are displayed everywhere in my PC except browsers!. Windows XP. csv and then import this csv. OpenEdge 10 Unicode client displays garbage for extended characters. In the table below, notice the letter a is below あ. You don't seem to understand what Unicode is. *22 "Windows Update" does not cover upgrading MS-Windows from X. Update 16-7-2014: Adding link to Office 2013 known issues. 2 on an English Windows XP system with the Japanese system locale setup, the Japanese characters might not display correctly in Import Wizard windows. Code page is the name that SAP uses instead of character encoding. On the web, browsers take encoding information from the website, but if the browser can’t read the correct information, then Unicode won’t display properly. Getting Excel files from a client and when looking at VBA with the macros, they are not displaying the Japanese characters correctly, but the English part in them is fine - they just seem to make some random ASCII characters where the Japanese characters should be:. exe fails to display Chinese directory name on Windows 10 English. However, I cannot use the Chinese characters under Excel VBA. seemingly random characters are displayed. 1 and Windows 10 include native OS support for displaying Japanese text by default. Mar 15, 2017 · OneNote search is not working / indexing. I am on Windows 8. Japanese wont display properly? Some parts I can read but other parts are just a bunch of random characters. See official wiki for all configure options. Archive of the best epicurious. I'm trying to copy Japanese and Chinese text from an Excel file into Notepad++ 6. These are special HTML codes that have been developed to represent the myriad of special characters available, such as the ones outlined above. in order to correctly display east asian characters such as chinese and japanese in report pdf output, user needs to make sure: use a font type that is capable of displaying east asian characters. This is usually caused by your game or graphics. Jul 28, 2015 · The chinese characters do not show properly in Crystal Report, which the ASP. Kate Stanhope. By default, non-Chinese, Japanese, or Korean versions of Photoshop hide options for Asian type that appear in the Character panel and Paragraph panel. And may never do so. However, if you’re using Windows Vista Ultimate (the mother of all Vista edition), you can totally forget about NJStar or Chinese Star, if you just need to write or read Chinese characters or install and running Chinese program such as Storm Codec II. Update 16-7-2014: Adding link to Office 2013 known issues. I need to work with Japanese language, so after installing windows I downloaded and installed the Japanese language pack. If you cannot view Japanese characters properly on word processing software or email software even after installing Japanese fonts, the software does not support Unicode (Multilingual character code). No more special discs with complicated software. Now I have the problem, that some text are shown right with japanese characters. FAQ: Chinese Characters Will Not Display in Some Applications or Web Pages on an English Language Windows System. in order to correctly display east asian characters such as chinese and japanese in report pdf output, user needs to make sure: use a font type that is capable of displaying east asian characters. Note: Clicking the Settings icon before you have selected the Notebook will open System settings, not the settings section for Cortana. You just have to know how to get in there, turn it on, and. This is usually caused by your game or graphics. I tried to switch the locale / non-unicode from english to chinese. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to change the display language on Windows 10 desktops. Nov 14, 2019 · To find the screen resolution setting in Windows 10, 8, or 7, select Change display settings from the left side of the screen. So it's only a problem with I play it with VLC. So, for example, a file named page. In order to be able to sort or compare strings, you also need to define a collation. Debian-based GNU/Linux. If you want to run two versions of Windows, you have. Jan 31, 2018 · Character encoding (aka code page) Character encoding is a name ("utf-8", "iso-8859-1", etc. If Windows Search still not working on Windows 10, then you may be able to fix the problem by resetting the feature. If the phonetic guides are not entered correctly, make the necessary corrections. It also has a special feature to take backup and restore registry information in case any mistake is done while repairing registry. There may be an app and (pretty soon) a bot for just about everything, but this might be a first. 2) Click Ease of Access. This is not a style and you cannot directly modify it!. This issue has been replicated consistently on many machines. (Characters include letters, punctuation, and spaces. In case, if you have data with these characters, it's better to take them off before working further. 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But in Windows 10 version 1809 this. If someone creates a document on a computer with an East Asian language version of Office, that document might look different when shared with someone else who does not have East Asian fonts installed on their computer. Only few fonts support those symbols. Aug 30, 2019 · Recently, So many windows 10 users have complaint about this issue that you find in many online forums. Jun 06, 2012 · So if you see this sort of pattern, it’s probably because text has been entered in a single byte character set (one of the ISO-8859s or Windows ones) and is being displayed as ISO-8859-1. 1 upgrade, I had quite a bit of trouble. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. If this sites is not displaying correctly, see the Browser Setup page for set up information. If you install a fresh instance of Windows 10, or upgrade an older version of Windows to Windows 10, these optional features are not enabled by default. If the phonetic guides are not entered correctly, make the necessary corrections. But there is a automate-generated space after each character( not typed by me). In Kanji mode, as you type the Chinese or Japanese reading of a character in English, suggested Kanji characters will be displayed on the number key row. For example, the following option assigns the asterisk (*) to the third formatting character, the pound sign (#) to the seventh character, and does not alter the remaining characters: formchar(3,7)='*#'. Mar 19, 2019 · A good knowledge of Chinese characters is the only way to write Chinese correctly, and the best way to gain knowledge of Chinese characters is by learning to write them by hand. Test the original PDF file in question to verify fonts are correctly showing. FTP Special Characters from Mainframe to Windows. When i try to copy the Japanese text from Microsoft Word to Notepad++ the Japanese text does not appear properly. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption. Jun 08, 2018 · Unfortunately, some users reported that PDF files aren’t printing properly on Windows 10, so let’s see how to fix this problem. This issue only occurs on PCs running Windows 10, but does not on Windows 8 or 7 or any of the Server OS variants. In the early 2000s, many sites in India would provide custom fonts to view a particular site. I'm working on a Window 7 English platform with English and Chinese language installed on Office. 03) and I have already performed an uninstall / reinstall to see if that helps, however, it seems to come and go. Not all browsers display Japanese characters (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana) automatically. 4 Ways To Solve YouTube Not Playing On Windows 10. My database's character is utf8, I have a table which has a clob column, my client is windows xp simplified chinese version, my nls_lang is. 9 or later [2. In this article:. So Plane 0 cannot be used with this scheme, but Plane 16 becomes available. "Why does the Windows 10 calendar show Chinese characters?" Because you told it to. So basically in explorer and media player 12 japanese characters are not displayed correctly but in my browser. System locale is the language used when displaying text in programs that do not support Unicode. japanlife) submitted 1 year ago by goofballl 東北・青森県 I'm not exactly sure which of the Japanese subs this should go in or if I should be asking in a programming sub, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to get Japanese characters to display. Hello Everyone, I’m having some problems with japanese subtitles. Embedded subtitles are not displayed: A: Right-click on the white LAV Splitter icon in the system tray (right-bottom of your screen). The opposite situation applies just as well: software written in English, which uses Latin characters, expected to run and be displayed correctly on a Windows computer in Chinese. To turn on support for Chinese. When opening a new Microsoft Word 2013 document (blank doc) the keyboard will not type, only give the beeping as though youre pressing the wrong key at a dialog. Connect up to 10 accessories to your Windows PC through a single SuperSpeed USB 3. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. 0 for Windows does not correctly recognize these characters and may display the font name incorrectly in the menu. If the issue persists after restarting, confirm that the fonts appear in alternate desktop applications such as TextEdit or WordPad (TextEdit is included in OS X, and WordPad is included in Windows). It is recommended to use a password of at least 6 characters. You just have to know how to get in there, turn it on, and. This is usually caused by your game or graphics. Hello Everyone, I’m having some problems with japanese subtitles. The Visual Basic Editor does not support Unicode encoding, neither for input, nor for display. I got this when I launch bash after the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview upgrade: -- Beta ??? Cannot display Chinese character in latest can display chinese. Assume that you have installed Microsoft. I tried to play Action Mogura, a Japanese freeware game, on Windows 10. 变 is the simplified Chinese and 変 the shinjitai, i. After hours of troubleshooting and trying new things I finally found a fix. 6 on your computer that is running Windows 10. You can open and read Unicode-encoded files on your English-language computer system regardless of the language of the text. The file is a flat file created in JA16SJIS character set and I do not think it is encoded. For technical questions that cannot be solved with the following items, contact here. This problem does not exist when using the DirectShow framework for playback of realMedia files. Download and install foobar2000 player from its website. I tried selecting that text and choosing Japanese/Chinese from the Character Sets dropdown, but that just changes the shape of the boxes. (194022) If you Export as PDF with CCITT compression a project containing 1 Bit images, the image is. The only way to be sure that you have not found a Cygwin/X bug is to install Windows on a freshly formatted hard drive, followed by Cygwin and Cygwin/X, and finally add your other software one application at a time until Cygwin/X stops working. The fix, thankfully, is pretty simple. In Windows 8, if you set the fallback in regedit correctly, unfortunately, windows will still not fallback to your selected font. Type "Settings" (no quotes), then hit Enter. I have inserted the script tag only into the directive template that needs it, which is quite deep inside the structure of the DOM. In order to display Chinese characters properly, you need to download two packages from Microsoft. gohai changed the title Problem with ascii caracters in the code Extended ASCII characters won't display on Windows (regression) Mar 4, 2017 gohai changed the title Extended ASCII characters won't display on Windows (regression) Extended ASCII characters won't display on Windows since 3. RE: Numeric Keypad not working on Windows 10 Jump to solution Finally a solution to a problem that has caused me to spend more than 27 hours total with tech support trying to resolve this issue after updating/upgrading two computers to Wins#!t 8. Mar 17, 2017 · Following is the complete list of my free online Japanese lessons. May 16, 2019 · pcom: vt graphics do not display correctly: ic64898: pcomm:incorrout-find text hits no-matched character if the host code page is 939 japanese: ic64897: pcomm:incorrout-find text does not warp at the end of screen if host code pase is 1399. js, and PDF. The issue of Shift Key not working is not unusual in Windows. Windows 10. This is a free download. The approach is described by Microsoft in this document under font fallback. As PDF printing relies on a combination of Windows printer drivers (when printing from Windows applications), Ghostscript and a PDF viewer to deliver its output, you might have to experiment. About Drivers and application development. Feb 17, 2010 · I looked in the forum but could not find any reference to this specific issue. Capture2Text is a Windows-only software. This would explain both the continuous beeping and keyboard not working. Need to investigate it more in the future. You just have to know how to get in there, turn it on, and. I've searched this and other forums but the solutions suggested there haven't worked. Hi there, I recently published a course for a client that doesn't display properly in Windows 7/IE 11. I went through all the fonts in notepad ++, scrolling, although most of it shows all the characters … but it's not that perfect, only "consolas" is perfect in style, although it does not display all the characters like a simple windows notepad. 2 Following is a list of known issues in QuarkXPress® 10. The preview may not be displayed correctly when. I have started finding chinese characters on some of my web pages, Google, Verizon Yahoo, and possibly others. Now click back on the Index Tab and hit the Rebuild button. How do I fix my Dell laptop keyboard not working? Your laptop keyboard not working issue could be caused by different. Now I have the problem, that some text are shown right with japanese characters. Virtual keypad for windows 7 for desktop, windows 7 professional on screen keyboard? What is the command for virtual keyboard, on screen keyboard windows 7 not found? On screen keyboard windows 7, virtual keyboard for windows 7? How to open virtual keyboard in windows 7? How to use virtual keyboard in windows 7?. One of the more annoying issues is distorted display after the update to Windows 10, but worry not, because there are few solutions that can help you resolve this issue. The program will try a maximum of 6776 variants in two or three levels: if there had been a multiple encoding like koi8(utf(cp1251(utf))), it will not be detected or tested. If the domain IS NOT listed in any of your IE security zones (expected), then IT MUST BE your Anit-virus/malware security product that has settings to disable scripting on web pages Regards. Outlook 2016 not displaying html content in emails properly Submitted by Brendan Lee on Thu, 19/11/2015 - 11:18 UPDATE: Unfortunately this issue has returned after using Outlook for a while, however closing and reopening Outlook seems to fix it again (temporarily). 1, running 2 displays, trying to play on my larger display. (For Windows, see Section 2. There may be an app and (pretty soon) a bot for just about everything, but this might be a first. Flash Player works fine for administrator accounts, but Flash content is not available when logging in under a standard Windows account. 41 (beta) Fix regression bug about table editing, copy table and. Q: In Microsoft Publisher 2003, various characters from 131 (x83) to 159 (x9F) are displayed from some other font than the one selected. The file opens correctly in GEdit and Chinese text displays, using the system default font 'Monospace', which is DejaVu Sans Mono. Download and install foobar2000 player from its website. Windows 10 features a dedicated troubleshooting tool that allows users to quickly fix common issues affecting your computer. ) I had previously been using Windows 7, and upgraded (without keeping the old files) and transferred the japanese files over to this. Does anyone know how I can force windows to show the correct characters?. I tried to play Action Mogura, a Japanese freeware game, on Windows 10. If you want to run two versions of Windows, you have. its not an. So much key functionality was missing that it was not practical for developers to update their desktop applications in many cases, even if the will was there to do so. Please note that these are all unsupported hacks I figured out in my spare personal time. As soon as you type the last one, it is sent to the application. Casey Select Japanese, and it will start downloading and you will see the following. Nov 19, 2014 · All the Windows 2003, and 2008 server work correctly, but as of the new build installed today, server 2012 R2 does not scale to window size or interact with the mouse and keyboard, and becomes completely useless for Remoting to Server 2012R2. Web browsers for Mac OS 9 are not as good as those for Windows at displaying multilingual pages; they do not include support for Unicode fonts and they can only display characters that are supported by an installed Apple Language Kit. Archive of the best epicurious. This is a free download. It is instead replacing them with boxes. html (precedence moves from right to left). Fonts not displayed correctly in Acrobat DC but are in pre DC Acrobat reader and Windows 8. Here are the highlights from the July data for the Netflix ISP Speed Index, our monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Feb 18, 2015 · Japanese characters displaying as random symbols. Or, the browser may not operate correctly if you use it for video display or operation of a high-resolution camera continuously. 2 Quark Auto Update 1. I got this when I launch bash after the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview upgrade: -- Beta ??? Cannot display Chinese character in latest can display chinese. If this sites is not displaying correctly, see the Browser Setup page for set up information. Feb 19, 2013 · Hello sir,i have asus build 9600 windows 8. Windows 10 is now in the language that you have chosen. r/Windows10: This community is dedicated to Windows 10 which is a personal computer operating system released by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT … Press J to jump to the feed. How to type in the Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet on your computer. When I look at Wikipedia pages in Chinese, these 2 characters would be displayed correctly in the page body, but incorrectly in tab title and address bar. PadRight, PadLeft For. Mar 26, 2018 · Windows 10 is still new operating system, and Microsoft is working hard on resolving any potential issues. As a result, these fonts appear to be missing from the system. Like Button for the Web. No display or black screen on a computer monitor Updated: 10/07/2019 by Computer Hope If you are experiencing troubles with a computer monitor that has no display, only a black screen, when you turn on your computer, review the troubleshooting sections below. ) You can access Cortana from the taskbar. In some places, the Chinese characters are not rendering correctly. But there is no way to "cancel" an action or "validate" it. I wasn’t able to fully edit the report, but I was able to tame the formatting issues in Word (including making sure all tables had a similar look), check for. This is a concise overview of how to display Japanese characters in your browser. If your keyboard isn't typing the correct characters, you may have the incorrect input language selected. Right-click an empty space on your Windows desktop and click “Display Settings. To input Japanese on a non-Japanese version of the OS, however, the Japanese input method editor must be enabled from the Region and Language (Windows 7 and 8) or Regional and Language Options (Vista) section of the Control Panel. To view and set options for working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type in these versions of Photoshop, you must select Show Asian Text Options in the Preferences dialog box. If you do find a stuck one, tap on it for a while and see if it loosens up. I am having a problem in Indian language kannada, some of the letters are not correctly being shown in Indesign but the same thing in microsoft office 2007 is being shown correctly i have attached the sample documents for Indesign and office 2007 with the kannada language font. I realized while writing it that if I didn’t tell you it was incorrect, Liz might stab me in the eye with her red pen. ALM is not displayed properly in windows 10 due to the windows 10 feature of Custom scaling. If needed, set your browser to recognise Korean language internet sites. Click "Change system locale" and select "Chinese (Simplified, China)", press OK, and then reboot Windows 8. from Menu bar Tools > Preference, select Database > NLS_LANG item). Press LeftAlt Shift to switch out of the IME (taskbar shows your original language code). wrong characters display when you are. The second region (1000-1999) is for the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 coded character sets together with a specification of a (set of) sub-repertoires that may occur. The Chinese characters in one of my programs, some of my filenames, and on some web pages are showing up as "???", boxes and other garbage characters. I'm working on a Window 7 English platform with English and Chinese language installed on Office. How to Fix Cortana and Taskbar Search not Working Problem in Windows 10:. 0 port with the Plugable UD-3900, a universal docking station for Windows-based computers that offers the speed, performance, and reliability found in proprietary docking stations for specific laptop PC brands. Keyboard Shift key not working properly – According to users, sometimes the Shift key won’t work properly on your keyboard. But in Windows 10 version 1809 this. Aug 30, 2018 · Fix: Discord Mic Not Working If the issue is with your Computer or a Laptop you should try using Reimage Plus which can scan the repositories and replace corrupt and missing files. On searching several posts i tried modifying windows 10 display custom scaling level to 100% and changing screen resolution , it is still displaying in small font. The Xbox One can only display what the set-top box sends it, so poor audio reception from the antenna will come through on your console. Apr 10, 2009 · SQL Server can display any Unicode characters in UTF-16 encoding. strcoll() always returns 2147483647 which makes array sorting of such strings more or less random (for example). How to Handle Special Characters in OpenOffice. 2 Linux, the characters don't display correctly, even if I 'select all' and change the font to a Chinese font such as SimSun or SimHei. These steps also make it possible to install programs written in Japanese originally intended to be installed on the Japanese version of Windows. Setting & Configurations How to Install Japanese Language Pack on Windows 10. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8. Oct 31, 2015 · This video will be help to you "Keyboard typing wrong characters problem solve. Re: Lenovo Yoga 2 13 won't shut down Windows 10 08-18-2015 01:22 PM I don't think this is a Lenovo issue myself (I have it too), it's either going to be an Intel Driver issue or a Windows 10 issue. May 31, 2018 · Even if you’re not using Windows 10, you should be able to apply all solutions to older versions of Windows. ltx and so various things collected up in xelatex. An empty field would be displayed if employed EUC_JP as database encoding in PostgreSQL server. Jan 20, 2018 · Windows 10 not using full screen – This is a relatively common problem, and it’s most likely caused by your settings. 29,465 posts. To turn on support for Chinese. Usually, in a dual-touchscreen computer or computing device, the most persistent GUI elements and functions are displayed on one, hand-accessible touch screen (changing with the software application in use) alongside the virtual touchscreen keyboard, while the other, more optically-centric display is used for those user interface elements which. So, for example, a file named page. This tutorial will show you how to install Japanese typing and display ability for ALL programs running on all versions of Vista and Windows 7. If Japanese characters do not display correctly in your browser, please follow the steps below. Have a look at the changelog for a detailed list of all changes committed to the source code repository. so google "change system locale windows 10 pro. When I open the subtitle (. If needed, set your browser to recognise Korean language internet sites. Japanese Hiragana IME Keyboard Not working properly Windows 7 can anyone help me with this one?. Oct 18, 2016 · Do you see correct characters in AX GUI? By the way, you attached tag AX 2012 R2 CU7 SSRS Report print preview not showing the correct text characters, which I had to split and I removed parts that don't make good sense as tag. It says to buy the character or the definitive edition while i have already purchased the game and launch through that app. I learned most of my programming skills and database management skills through self-study and the material available on Lynda.
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Ahoy Africa
by Elaine Barnett | Jan 30, 2012 | Elaine Barnett |
The world was at war in 1942, the year I was born. Allied forces were fighting to suppress a dominating dictator and to defend America against foreign forces. During this time of turbulence, I, Betty Elaine, was born to a young preacher’s family, joining my older brother Calvin in Middeboro, Massachussetts. Rev. George ‘Hap’ Oliver Donner and his dear wife Elizabeth Helen (Brown) Donner were high school sweethearts with a vision to serve God for their lifetime on the continent of Africa. My father was the son of a prestigious bank president, and my mom was a humble farmer’s daughter. Back in the 1930s before ‘Hap’ and Betty Donner were married, they applied to the Africa Inland Mission and were accepted as candidates to go to Africa as missionaries. On July 1, 1938, they were married and started their deputation, support raising and other preparations. They pastored a church in Harmony, Maine. After two years, AIM told them to move back to Massachusetts, where they were better known, to have their needs met by loving family and friends. Shortly after making this move, World War II broke out and with the sinking of the ZamZam (a ship carrying many missionaries, who were rescued) the mission advised them to remain stateside until the war was over. A third child, Marlowe, was born while my dad was pastoring in Dracut, near Lowell, Massachusetts, yet the Donners’ vision for mission service in East Africa never vanished. Finally in September 1945 the war was over. AIM told the Donners they could now go to Africa. Paperwork, ordination, medical forms and countless shots and support...
On Growing Old in Kenya
by Dick Hedges | Jan 28, 2012 | Dick Hedges |
I have not yet found any area of the planet earth in which it would be pleasant to grow old. I do however count myself extremely fortunate to be growing old in Kenya for the following reasons. The indigenous populations of East Africa have a culture of respect for the aged. For most of the rest of the world the opposite is the case. The Aged, both firm and infirm, cannot be dispensed with quickly enough as they become a social and economical embarrassment and burden to their younger generation. They must be hurriedly hidden away to await death in some dismal, expensive care (less!?) home. Such an unfortunate fate awaits an ever-increasing portion of the Caucasian populations. Over one million a year is the increase of retirees in the UK alone as the baby boomers turn into geriatric ‘doomers.’ Happily this is not the case in Kenya. This Kenyan virtue and lack of it in other cultures was well illustrated when I found myself on 4th Avenue in New York a couple of years ago. I had best describe myself, as I obviously appeared to the cab driver in question. He saw an old and decrepit geriatric with white hair and long white beard shuffling along with a limp, a stoop and a walking stick. I had failed to obey a ‘Don’t cross’ pedestrian traffic light, causing a stream of loudly-shouted oaths bestowed on me by this New York cabby. Having endured in my time two years of vocal instruction from his and her UK majesty’s staff sergeants on the parade ground and from bosuns before the mast...
Christine Nicholls’ Blog, 25 January 2012
by Christine Nicholls | Jan 25, 2012 | Christine Nicholls |
My 2 January blog talked about the arrival of Jewish people in Kenya. One of the earliest, Sammy Jacobs, was a real entrepreneur. He started ‘The Dustpan’ store in Nairobi, where you could buy almost anything. This is what the magazine African World said about his shop on 31 October 1913: ‘Where but a few brief years ago the lion made the plains ring with his roar, and the hippopotamus lumbered his way down to Nairobi rivers to slake his thirst, now stand numbers of elegant, handsomely appointed shops and stores. Situated right in the very heart of Nairobi’s commercial activities, ‘The Dustpan’ ranks as one of the foremost of these business centres. Probably in its own line, as a domestic pantechnicon, where all manner of household utensils may be purchased, ‘The Dustpan’ takes first place. The business has leapt into public favour in an astonishing fashion and is now a household word among the thrifty housewives in and around town. To particularise the various goods and chattels retailed by the firm is a task of great magnitude. Everything household, from the proverbial needle to a complete bedding outfit, may be procured. Here in fact, in the very heart of almost unknown East Africa such articles as hardware of every description, tapestries, rugs, matting, brooms, brushes, stoves, linen, sewing machines, cutlery etc. etc. can be found.’ There was a ready market for Sammy’s goods. There had been a great increase in immigration to Kenya in the three years before 1913 – so much so that the Union Castle Line had to put more steamers on to the East African route, and...
Kenya Cup Rugby Final 1976
by Shel Arensen | Jan 23, 2012 | Shel Arensen |
Who’s who? In 1976, he first year I played rugby for Kenya Harlequins, the Kenya Cup was a split side competition with each of the big Nairobi clubs putting up two sides. I played for Quins Ruffians. We won the Kenya Cup semifinal against Nondies Lions and the second Quins side, the Vandals, beat Nondies Tigers in the other semifinal. This set up a Kenya Cup final between Quins Ruffians and Quins Vandals. Because of various trade restrictions at the time after the British Lions had played in South Africa, it wasn’t possible to import rugby gear from the UK or South Africa and all we had left at Quins were two old sets of black shirts. So when we squared up on the field, it was hard to tell who was who. In the end the final score was 14-14. The ref gave up and said Quins were the winners of the Kenya...
The Parable of the Layby
Here’s a topical thought since layby-occupying ‘Travellers’ are being ‘hounded’ in the UK this month, while laybys are an often-overlooked pleasure of life in Africa. So heed ye now The parable of The Laybys. Drive from Lands End to John-O-Groats in the UK and lay by where you will, be prepared to be surrounded by Travellers with looks to kill, although why they cannot be called Gypsies any more I cannot imagine. One would have thought they would have been proud of their Ancient Egyptian heritage, especially when compared to the Ancient Briton’s heritage! As well as the Travellers, you will come across another car or two parked up, the occupants all silent and sour-faced with no greeting. If Sky News is to be believed you had best search the hedgerows for a stabbed-to-death body as well, and of course all kinds of rubbish will surround you as if you were visiting a tip. But travel anywhere in East Africa, from Vanga to Lokichoggio, and you can pull up and chill out where a straightened curve in the old road has left a disused loop ideal for an exclusive roadside picnic. As if by magic from nowhere will appear a gaggle of African children all aged ’twixt three and six. Some at first might irritate you with their hand outstretched for chai but your irritation will soon be charmed away and replaced by an enduring and delightful memory. Welcoming smiles from all the sturdy, ebony black, half-naked children. Bright-eyed, sparkling white teeth all with a smile of Christ-like purity, natural, innocent, welcoming, genuine and full of joy. Commonplace in sub-Saharan Africa...
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Sir Stanley Matthews
Stan - so what?
Stan's '53 boots
Doubts have been raised over Sir Stan's FA Cup Final boots up for auction
On 24 February 2010, a pair of football boots worn by Sir Stanley Matthews in the 1953 FA Cup final were sold at auction for £38,400.
The boots went under the hammer at auctioneers Bonhams, in Chester. They were expected to fetch about £8,000.
But this fact has raised eyebrows at the National Football Museum which claims that it has the actual boots.
In the so-called Matthews Final, Sir Stan won the only major honour of his career.
The Matthews Final
Stanley Matthews was born in Stoke-on-Trent and played some of his best football for Stoke City until 1947, when he transferred to Blackpool - where he helped his new team to a dramatic 4-3 victory over Bolton Wanderers in the 1953 Cup Final.
The final is one of the most talked-about in football history.
Bonham's describe the still-muddied boots they auctioned as having been handed by Sir Stan at the end of the match to an ardent Blackpool fan, Wilf Coomer. His family passed it on for sale.
Stanley Matthews dribbles past Bolton's defence in the 1953 FA Cup Final
Included in the same Bonham's lot was a pass to the Blackpool team's dressing room, which Wilf also owned.
When the BBC approached the National Football Museum, which also claims to have the Matthews boots, they too were able to show provenance.
The Museum, which is based in Preston, said that the boots they hold were given by Sir Stan himself to a Staffordshire Moorlands cricket club, which then auctioned them in the early 1960s. The person who made the winning bid for them has now loaned them to the NFM.
Withdrawn from sale
Bonham's have thrown doubt on the authenticity of the NFM boots. A representative said that they had looked at a film of the 1953 Cup Final, and commented: "…the National Football Museum boots don't add up".
Sources have also revealed to the BBC that the NFM boots were to be auctioned at the Christie's Auction House in 2000.
When Christie's were approached and asked what had then transpired, a spokesman for Christie's said they had considered auctioning the boots, but had decided to withdraw them from sale.
However, a Blackpool club historian, Gerry Wolstenholme, is doubtful of the Coomer family's claims for the Bonham's boots.
Mr Wolstenholme said that Wilf's claim that he was allowed to travel with the team and be present in the dressing room is unlikely; manager Joe Smith was known to be strict on the question of outsiders being with the team.
Is one pair the spare pair?
Stanley Matthews receives his FA Cup winner's medal from the Queen
Could both pairs be genuine? Could Sir Stan have changed boots at half-time?
The only man who can say for sure what happened is Sir Stan himself. Sir Stan died in 2000. The only surviving member of the team is Cyril Robinson.
There is film of the final, which is likely to be examined for evidence of a change of boots.
Pioneer in boot technology
Sir Stan was well-known for his attention to his boots, and was a pioneer in boot technology. He generally carried spares.
However, it is doubtful if either party would be entirely happy with knowing it has the spare pair.
The boots which successfully set up Stan Mortensen's hat-trick and are muddied by the Wembley turf will be the ones that collectors will value.
Cheadle Cricket Club, which is the Staffordshire Moorlands, auctioned a pair of "Sir Stan's 1953 Final boots" in the early 60s.
A plaque at the ground attests to the auction. The winning bid was £11.
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Mulayam pulls up Akhilesh, Shivpal calls CM a liar
Mulayam pulls up Akhilesh Shivpal calls CM a liar
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party was in turmoil on Monday as party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav publicly pulled up his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav at a meeting which ended on a fiery note with sacked minister Shivpal Yadav calling Akhilesh a “liar”.
The Shivpal and Akhilesh factions within the once united party came to blows ahead of the meeting called by Mulayam Singh, who made it clear that he would never let go either his brother Shivpal Yadav or long-time aide Amar Singh, who the Chief Minister intensely dislikes.
On two occasions during the marathon meeting attended by Samajwadi Party leaders, Mulayam Singh, 76, shouted his son down, once asking him to shut up and later asking “tumari haisiyat hi kya hai?” (Who the hell are you?)
The Monday meeting was a desperate attempt by Mulayam Singh to stamp his authority on the Samajwadi Party ahead of crucial assembly elections early next year but it could not do away with the bitterness within.
While defending Shivpal Yadav, who was sacked on Sunday from the cabinet by Akhilesh Yadav along with three other ministers, and Amar Singh, Mulayam Singh, however, made it clear that Akhilesh Yadav would stay put as the Chief Minister.
He also warned that if the party failed to overcome its cracks, the ugly unprecedented faction fighting would help the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to return to power in the country’s most populous state.
As the meeting ended, Mulayam Singh shouted at MLC Ashu Malik, a Shivpal backer, for branding Akhilesh Yadav “an Aurangazeb”. Shivpal Yadav himself reportedly raised his voice: “Your Chief Minister is a liar.”
Earlier, in a choking voice, Akhilesh Yadav said his father was his “guru” and he would never split the Samajwadi Party. He said he was ready to quit if his father asked him — to end the turmoil in the party.
The 43-year-old, however, alleged a conspiracy against him and that Shivpal Yadav was a part of it.
Shivpal Yadav then launched a scathing attack on Akhilesh Yadav, accusing him of trying to form a new party or stitch an alliance with another party.
He alleged that officials refused to listen to him at the behest of the Chief Minister. “We have been beaten by police, have been to jail, pedalled cycles for hundreds of kilometers to bring the party to this situation,” he pointed out.
Mulayam Singh, who threw his lot behind his brother, the party’s new state unit chief, said he won’t even hear a word against him. “Nobody can become a big leader without having a big heart.”
Chiding his son for sacking Shivpal Yadav and for his diatribe against Amar Singh, Mulayam Singh said: “You all know nothing about Amar Singh. He saved me from going to prison.”
As Akhilesh Yadav rose to protest against the praise of Amar Singh, an angry Mulayam Singh asked him to shut up and sit down.
Mulayam Singh described Shivpal Yadav as a political veteran “who can make people win and lose elections”. He told Akhilesh Yadav to stop day dreaming that he alone can lead the party to victory.
As Akhilesh supporters protested, Mulayam Singh chided them: “Tum log jitney uchal rahe ho, ek lathi padegi to uchal jaoge.”
Mulayam Singh then told Akhilesh Yadav to come and hug his uncle Shivpal Yadav and bury the hatchet.
Akhilesh Yadav reluctantly hugged him and even touched Shivpal Yadav’s feet. Soon after that Mulayam Singh announced that Akhilesh Yadav will not be removed as the Chief Minister.
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Slain techie's mother questions Donald Trump's policies
Slain techies mother questions Donald Trumps policies
HYDERABAD: The mother of Indian techie who was shot dead in the US last week in a suspected racist attack, questioned the immigration policies of President Donald Trump, which allegedly triggered racist attacks.
"The US is the country of migration. People from all countries migrate to US. Who are you to say don't come," asked Parvatha Vardhini, mother of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was cremated here on Tuesday.
"If you kill people because of their colour and race, what will happen to their parents? Did you give birth to them, raised and educated them," asked the grief-stricken mother, opening up for the first time since Kansas shooting incident which killed her son.
Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed and Alok Madasani was injured when Adam W. Purinton, a white man who earlier served in the US Navy, shot them at the Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe, Kansas state, on Wednesday night.
Purinton reportedly got into an argument with the victims and hurled racial slurs. He yelled "get out of my country", "terrorist" before shooting them.
Kuchibhotla of Hyderabad and his colleague Madasani from Warangal district in Telangana were working as aviation programme managers at Garmin, an MNC.
Parvatha said her son had gone to the bar with his friend to see the football match on a big screen. "His wife had gone to the office and till her return he wanted to spend some time. Was this a crime?" she asked while talking to media persons at their house in Bachupally on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
She claimed that Kuchibhotla did not say anything to the man who entered into an argument. "My son did not say anything even though the attacker kept throwing racial slurs," she said.
She said Indians living in the US should stay united to prevent such incidents. She, however, was not sure how they will succeed in the atmosphere created in that country.
Kuchibhotla's body was brought here Monday night and the last rites were performed Tuesday.
His wife Sunayna Damala, who was staying with him in Kansas, and some other relatives also flew in from the US.
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Open Dialogue in the NHS
6 March: Introductory Seminar – London
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Introductory Seminar – London
Monday March 6 2017 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Over the past three years there has been significant development of the Open Dialogue approach from Western Lapland in the NHS and in public mental health services internationally (see the home page for more information about the approach). Open Dialogue UK has been working for the past four years to further this development, and 10 trusts are now represented on one of our two training programmes (largely teams from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Crisis/Home Treatment services). For more details on our training programmes planned for 2017 please see here.
Over the course of 6 days, a variety of NHS professionals, along with Nick Putman, founder of Open Dialogue UK, will be travelling across the UK to introduce the work that they are doing to develop the Open Dialogue approach. All of these practitioners are participating in one of our training programmes. The following professions will be represented at this event: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, social work and peer support – see below for biographies of participants (please note: some of the professionals will not be attending every seminar, but will be included via video footage when they cannot attend in person).
The seminar will serve as an introduction to the Open Dialogue approach, the work that is being done in the NHS, and the trainings that are underpinning these developments (see programme below for further details). We are running this seminar at a low cost in the hope that everyone who wishes to attend will be able to.
To see feedback on our previous seminars, please visit this page on the Open Dialogue UK website.
09.00: Registration
09:30: Introduction to Open Dialogue
Nick Putman and others will introduce the approach, the 7 principles, the 12 elements of dialogical practice, and the evidence base.
11.00: Break with refreshments
11.30: Perspectives from professionals 1
Darren Baker (Clinical Psychologist), Paul Ekwuruke (Nurse) & Rachel Waddingham (Peer Support) will speak about their view of the Open Dialogue approach and the work they are doing to develop the approach.
12.15: Dialogue with participants
13.00: Lunch Break
Lunch can be bought in the local area or you can bring your own packed lunch.
Dr John Joyce & Dr Vincenzo Giordano (Psychiatrists), Simona Calzavara & Adam Hutton (Social Workers)
14.30: Open Dialogue Training
Nick Putman will introduce the training programmes that underpin the approach.
16.30: Finish
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The Tomlinson Centre
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SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS
NICK PUTMAN
Nick Putman is the founder of Open Dialogue UK and an Open Dialogue practitioner and psychotherapist, working largely with people/families affected by psychosis.
DARREN BAKER
Dr Darren Baker is a clinical psychlogist, with 15 years of experience in the NHS, currently working in an early intervention in psychosis team in East London.
PAUL EKWURUKE
Paul Ekwuruke has 20 years of experience of NHS mental health nursing across a wide range of contexts including forensic, refugee and homelessness services.
RACHEL WADDINGHAM
Rachel Waddingham is an international trainer, group facilitator, chair of Intervoice, and a trustee for both the English Hearing Voices Network and ISPS.
JOHN JOYCE
Dr John Joyce, Consultant Psychiatrist, has worked in SLAM NHS Foundation Trust since 2001 and more recently in the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.
Dr Vincenzo Giordano is a Speciality Doctor in Psychiatry working in the Early Intervention in Psychosis team in East London NHS Foundation Trust.
SIMONA CALZAVARA
Simona Calzavara is a social worker and AMHP who has been working with the NHS Early and Quick Intervention for Psychosis team in East London since 2012.
ADAM HUTTON
Adam Hutton is a social worker currently working as a family interventions therapist in an Early Intervention in Psychosis team in SLAM NHS Foundation Trust.
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Tag Archives: Brad Dayspring
#RememberMississippi: Rick Perry and his dodgy campaign staff
By: Renee Nal
Rick Perry hired Austin Barbour via Gulflive
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry seems to have largely escaped the scrutiny recently directed toward Scott Walker for hiring establishment operative Brad Dayspring who aggressively lied about the Tea Party during the hotly contested Mississippi primary last year.
While Scott Walker, who this author has long suspected of as having establishment sympathies, has been appropriately getting heat for hiring a pro-Cochran thug, Rick Perry should also be called out for his “terrible hires,” including Henry Barbour (who previously worked for Perry), and should be “censured” and is “quite possibly the most despised campaign consultant in the entire conservative movement,” “McCain flunkie” Steve Schmidt (who believes that Sarah Palin “is filled with anger, has a divisive message”) and Austin Barbour (who also worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign) as senior adviser to three of Perry’s super PACs.
As reported at CNN Friday:
Two pro-Perry groups — Opportunity and Freedom PAC and Opportunity and Freedom PAC I — raised $12.8 million in the first half of the year. A third super PAC, which was created Thursday, collected a $4 million check from a single donor, bringing the full tally for the three groups to $16.8 million as of July 10, said Austin Barbour, the senior adviser to all three affiliated entities.
Last year, NBC reported that the pro-GOP establishment Barbour family had “palpable” anger toward Chris McDaniel, who threatened the establishment in Mississippi. In a nutshell, creepy Kate Cochran’s father Thad, through his evidently-coveted campaign staff, convinced black Democrats with robocalls and radio advertisements in the 2014 primary that the Tea Party is racist and would take away food stamps.
A pro-Cochran radio advertisement said in part,
“[B]y not voting, you are saying ‘take away all of my government programs, such as food stamps, early breakfast and lunch programs, millions of dollars to our black universities’…everything we and our families depend on that comes from Washington will be cut.”
A pro-Cochran robocall lamented:
“[I]f we do nothing, Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel wins and causes even more problems for President Obama.”
The conservative grassroots, i.e. those paying attention, universally recognize and abhor the words and deeds of the power-grabbing, Constitution-shredding establishment republicans. Just as one will never (ever) find these politically-savvy folks excited about the prospect of a Jeb Bush presidency; the patriot movement is also unified in their disdain for those who lied (also see here and here) to black voters in Mississippi in order to secure a primary victory for establishment incumbent Thad Cochran in 2014.
Posted in Constitution, History, Politics | Tagged 2016 Election, Austin Barbour, Brad Dayspring, Chris McDaniel, CNN, Conservative, Constitution, Democrats, Food Stamps, GOP, Henry Barbour, Jeb Bush, John McCain, Kate Cochran, Media, Mississippi, Mitt Romney, NBC, PACs, Politics, Racism, Renee Nal, Republicans, Rick Perry, Robocalls, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Steve Schmidt, Tea Party, Texas, Thad Cochran | 1 Comment
Conservative Revolt Brewing Against Scott Walker Over Staffer Hired By His PAC
By: John Hawkins
Last week, Right Wing News did an article about Scott Walker’s PAC hiring Brad Dayspring. If you don’t know who Brad Dayspring is, here’s an introduction from one of the conservative candidates he slimed during the GOP primaries.
“Brad Dayspring is well known as a despicable establishment operative who specializes in slander and character assassination against conservative candidates,” Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel—one such conservative Dayspring personally frequently attacked—told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday. “He is the perfect example of why conservatives no longer trust the GOP. He’s little more than a paid attack dog, without principle and honor, the personification of everything wrong with our present political system.”
McDaniel added:
“Scott Walker appears to be a good man with solid conservative instincts. But his hiring of the unstable Dayspring is an insult to honorable political discourse. If Dayspring is aligned with Walker, then conservatives should be warned to look elsewhere for leadership.”
Right Wing News has contacts with Scott Walker’s campaign and with his PAC. We reached out to both and asked for them to go on the record about Brad Dayspring. Unfortunately, nobody was willing to go on the record defending him — which should tell you a lot.
If Brad Dayspring is indefensible, why did Scott Walker’s team hire him? Well, you hire a guy like this either to stab conservatives in the back or to let your backers in the establishment know that you intend to do exactly that despite the rhetoric you’re using to trick the “bubbas” into voting for you.
Why else would they go to the mat for a new staffer after the reaction Dayspring received?
Breitbart has written a negative article about the hire and so has the Daily Caller (Where it was noted Dayspring had been telling people he was going to work for Jeb Bush). Over at Redstate, where Walker wrote a July 4th guest diary, the Wisconsin governor has been compared to Thad Cochran over this. Brent Bozell, the head of the Media Research Center, wants Dayspring gone. Mark Levin, who has roughly 7 million listeners, has been smeared by Dayspring before and retweeted the Right Wing News article we put out about him.
Since the article came out, we spoke to another one of the grassroots conservative candidates that Dayspring vilified, Dr. Milton Wolf, who primaried Republican Senator Pat Roberts in Kansas. Here’s what he had to say about Scott Walker’s team hiring Brad Dayspring.
“It’s baffling that a principled conservative like Scott Walker would hire Brad Dayspring. Dayspring is an attack dog for hire who specializes in slandering and maligning conservatives in order to protect the failed insiders who have abandoned conservative principles and are destroying our Republican Party.”
Here are just a few of the tweets from dismayed conservatives that flooded Twitter since the Right Wing News article came out.
I agree 100% with that last tweet.
Maybe Scott Walker’s team didn’t do its due diligence before it hired Dayspring. That would be a mistake, but forgivable. On the other hand, if Walker’s team hangs onto Dayspring, it might as well be flat-out telling you to leave a spot open on your back so a knife can be slammed in there down the road. A veterans’ group wouldn’t bring in Jane Fonda and no conservative you can trust is going to keep Brad Dayspring on his team.
Posted in Politics | Tagged 2016 Election, Brad Dayspring, Breitbart, Brent Bozell, Conservatives, Dr. Milton Wolf, GOP, Jane Fonda, Jeb Bush, John Hawkins, Kansas, Mark Levin, Media Research Center, Military, MRC, PAC, Pat Roberts, Politics, RedState, Republicans, Right Wing News, Scott Walker, Thad Cochran, The Daily Caller, Veterans, Wisconsin | 2 Comments
How Can Scott Walker’s Team Hire Someone Like Brad Dayspring?
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Scott Walker’s campaign caught flack for hiring Liz Mair earlier this year. Liz, whom I know and respect despite the fact she’s well to the left of me on a number of issues, made the mistake of slamming Iowa’s position in the primary system. Most conservatives don’t like Iowa having so much sway in the GOP primaries, but most conservatives also aren’t working for a candidate who’s running in those primaries either. After Walker caught flack from Iowans over Mair’s remarks, she ended up resigning. That’s too bad because Liz is an excellent digital media strategist, but once her comments became a big enough issue to actually hurt Walker in the primary, it put him in a very difficult position.
Today, he’s in a much worse position because Scott Walker’s Unintimidated PAC has hired Brad Dayspring.
Some people might excuse Scott Walker for this hire because he currently can’t coordinate with the PAC. However, people in the know realize that’s a cop-out. The PAC is run by former high-level Scott Walker staffers who would NEVER deliberately do anything he doesn’t agree with. Furthermore, you can be sure that there was PLENTY of coordination between Walker and his staffers right up until the moment he was legally unable to continue to do so. Is it possible that he personally approved the hiring of someone like Dayspring beforehand? Absolutely, but a big part of the value of PACs like this one is that they create a degree of separation between the candidate and the PAC. The PACs can run dirty ads and they can hire dirtbags who will undermine grassroots conservatives at every opportunity and supposedly, the candidate can’t be blamed.
Well, not this time.
Walker shouldn’t get a pass if his PAC keeps Dayspring on staff — and this is no small matter. If Walker becomes our nominee and wins the election, many of the staffers on his campaign and his PAC will end up working in the White House. The people holding those positions will have a tremendous impact on the sort of policies we’ll see. For example, one of the reasons that Ted Cruz has been such a champion of conservatives is that he ended up bringing in a number of staffers from Jim DeMint’s office. When a politician surrounds himself with those sort of staffers, it’s no surprise when he ends up fighting the good fight. On the other hand, when a politician is surrounded by people like Brad Dayspring, you can be sure he’ll end up fighting conservatives. Want an example? Brad Dayspring used to work for Eric Cantor. Was any grassroots conservative sorry when Cantor was beaten by Dave Brat?
Now, maybe the PAC just didn’t do its due diligence on Brad Dayspring. For example, maybe the PAC didn’t realize that he has a teen porn problem. Do the staffers who run Scott Walker’s PAC approve of that? People should ask them.
Here’s a little excerpt from Breitbart that will give you an introduction to one of the most loathsome people in the Republican Party and someone no grassroots conservative should ever trust.
There’s perhaps no Republican operative from the establishment side of the party, however, who’s been more effective in eliminating conservatives nationwide throughout the movement in recent years—and Team Walker’s decision to bring Dayspring aboard just a few months after the similarly problematic Liz Mair was let go could backfire in a significant way. The 2016 GOP presidential primary is shaking out to mirror the larger fight inside the Republican Party—the conservative grassroots is hungry for a Washington outsider, while the establishment side of the party is more interested in attempting yet again to win a general election without the GOP base.
Here’s more from Brent Bozell.
“Gov. Walker should have known better than to hire Brad Dayspring, the worst GOP anti-conservative hit man in Washington,” said Brent Bozell, the conservative chairman of ForAmerica and president of the Media Research Center. “Brad Dayspring has a despicable record using character assassination to besmirch the reputations of conservative candidates and public policy leaders. He’s paid to do the ugly work of the Washington establishment. He is the personification of everything that’s wrong in politics today. Gov. Walker, people are policy. If you want conservatives’ support, you need to get rid of this cretin immediately.”
Here’s Mark Levin on Dayspring.
Mitch McConnell’s National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) hit man, some idiot named Brad Dayspring, does not intimidate me and will not silence me with his sleazy inside-the-beltway tactics. In fact, I am more fired up than ever.
…Now, let me be clear. I hold McConnell and the chairman of the NRSC – Jerry Moran of Kansas – personally and politically accountable for the sleazy intimidation tactics of their current and former staffers. My opposition to McConnell’s re-election is underscored by pathetic behavior like this. Conservatives should not give a dime to the NRSC, money which is used to pay the salaries of these hit men and empower McConnell, et al.
Here’s more from Redstate.
As we have documented here on RedState, Brad Dayspring was one of the loudest lying voices in the dishonest, dishonorable, and disreputable campaign the NRSC waged on behalf of the mildly profoundly senile, corrupt, and adulterous Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) 46%. In this campaign Dayspring was front and center in lying about challenger Chris McDaniel. In fact, the scorched earth campaign waged by Dayspring against McDaniel exceeded any campaign the NRSC has ever run against a Democrat. He was also instrumental in launching attacks on the challenger to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) 70%, Dr. Milton Wolf….
…Though there is no monetary teat, or other appendage, Dayspring won’t pull to extract cash, he routinely accuses conservatives, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%, and conservative organizations like the Family Research Council of putting fund raising ahead of principle– which to Dayspring equates with whatever Establishment corruptocrat he’s being paid to support. At a time when the best man for his wedding was under arrest for child pornography (and favoriting pornographic tweets) he accused Mark Levin and the Senate Conservative Fund of pay-to-play purchases of Levin’s book. This is simply another of the lies Dayspring has told, knowing them to be lies. And then he moves along to yet another lie.
….There is no way I will support Governor Walker so long as Dayspring is affiliated in any way, no matter how tangential, with his campaign. This hiring of a casual liar, of a man who sets about to destroy the reputations of anyone he is told to attack speaks ill of Governor Walker. If he keeps Dayspring, it also tells you that Governor Walker is no conservative. He has now become the designated establishment candidate. If Dayspring stays with the campaign, conservatives must oppose him no matter the cost.
I like Scott Walker a lot. He’s one of my favorite candidates in the race, but if Dayspring is allowed to continue on with his PAC, grassroots conservatives would be wise to be very cautious about rallying behind Walker. I would also strongly recommend that NO ONE give any money to Scott Walker’s PAC or his campaign as long as Dayspring is affiliated with it. If you’re a grassroots conservative, this guy is not your friend and no one who wants him in a key position is your friend either.
You can tell a lot about candidates by watching when they’re willing to stand and fight. The fact that Walker fought the UNIONS in WISCONSIN and WON three elections in four years going toe-to-toe with them speaks very highly of him. However, if his staffers are the sort of people who know what they’re getting with Dayspring and are willing to lose the support of a lot of grassroots conservatives to keep him on board, that tells you they’re planning to spend a lot of time FIGHTING CONSERVATIVES if Walker gets elected. We have too many people like that in Congress as it is and we certainly don’t need one in the White House.
So, if you’re concerned, tweet Scott Walker and the PAC’s digital media director, Brittany Cohan. You should also send an email to Unintimidated PAC. Be honest, but polite. If you’re a conservative fan of Walker who’s concerned, say so. If you don’t intend to give any money to the campaign or PAC as long as Dayspring is there, say so. Give them the benefit of the doubt — for now. But, if they hang onto Dayspring, it’s a neon warning sign about Walker that’s fifty feet high and conservatives should heed it.
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A short walk in pretty countryside above Carlops mostly alongside the upper reaches of the River North Esk, surrounded by hills.
The outward leg has some difficult terrain to cover, with steep, narrow and occasionally slippery paths and a tricky river crossing. While short, this route is only for the sure footed.
Route: Start/finish – Carlops
Setting off from the car park in Carlops village opposite the Village Centre and under the rock, turn right, pass the pub and continue to the end of the village. Just before the last house on the left, turn down a track [1] (signposted ‘Buteland by the Borestane’) and pass Patie’s Mill [2].
The footpath goes round to the right of the mill and alongside its garden, emerging by the North Esk river. Follow the riverbank upstream. The path is badly eroded and tricky to negotiate in places but is generally fine for the sure-footed unless the weather is wet. The river is normally crossed via what can only loosely be described as a bridge [3] (it is a metal plate with no rails). However, the bridge is very unsafe at present and is due for repair, so if unsure, it may be better to cross slightly further upstream by wading or stepping across rocks. Once over the river, cross the stile and head up the hill.
The path comes out on a farm track near a bridge just below Fairliehope farm [4], at the half-way point of the walk.
Turn left here and follow the farm track all the way back down to Carlops, passing Carlophill Farm on the way.
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Written by Scott Mertens
There is growth, truth in message, and thought-provoking story found in The Civil Wars.
Artist: The Civil Wars
Label: Sensibility Recordings/Columbia Records
Duration: 12 tracks, 42:58
The Civil Wars is the sophomore release by the duo of John Paul White and Joy Williams. The self-titled album follows every possible success of their first release, Barton Hallow, including phenomenal record sales, worldwide tours, nationally televised appearances, various awards, and the recent renowned soundtrack, A Place At The Table, with T-Bone Burnett. The sophomore jinx of being able to follow this success looms.
At first listen the song collection seems dark, dark like the black and white album cover’s depiction of smoke and ruin. Dark like recent rumors of their relationship running afoul due to internal strive between the artists. But, wait for the second listen, the third, and so on. Artistically there is light and growth here, both in music and message, while maintaining the story line of relationship woes and folk genre blessings. Importantly, the musical chemistry between White and Williams remains strong. This is evident in their harmony, which continues to rise to new emotional heights.
Williams lilting, sorrowful voice begins the stories of relationship woes, hurt, and sorrow in “The One That Got Away”. The magic of the pair shows when the beat aggressively picks up and the duo joins in harmony. “I Had Me A Girl” begins with fuzzy electric guitar and a harder sound while White first then Williams following take the lead vocals in a bluesy song of remorse. Again, it is the duo’s harmony that brings the listener much closer to the song’s story.
A lighter sound begins “Some Old Same Old” storying the familiarity of tired but true relationships. Throughout the collection soft, emotional songs reign in “Dust To Dust”, “Eavesdrop” and “Disarm”. Emotion runs high in “Sacred Heart” sung in French telling of the waiting and wanting of love.
There are a number of tunes, including “From This Valley”, “Tell Mama”, and “Oh Henry” which are too country to be called folk and take away from the aura built on the Barton Hallow album. We also miss White’s vocal presence on these tunes.
“Devil’s Backbone” shines with the smoky story telling and harmony which White and Williams have become known for. Finally “D’Arline” brings us back to what Barton Hallow promised in soulful folk with the brilliant collaboration of White and Williams.
There is something in the song collection that is earthy, grounded, and full of life’s truths. Dark, yes but that is part of their story. Folk, yes this is the best genre for this type of lyrical story since the blues came to the forefront of music some 100 plus years back.
It is understood that self-titled albums contain the standard, and occasionally the height of an artist’s output. Time will tell if this will hold true for The Civil Wars. Sophomore jinx no, not here. There is growth, truth in message, and thought-provoking story found in The Civil Wars.
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Los Angeles Kings Head Coach Willie Desjardins Remains Optimistic
Story contributed by Steven Lieberman –
On the heels of a 5-1 victory at home over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday, Dec 8,
Big road test coming for Interim head coach Willie Desjardins of the LA Kings
the Los Angeles Kings are about to embark on a four-game East coast road trip which will see them face the Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins.
At the helm for the Kings, is interim Head coach Willie Desjardins, who took over on November 4, when former Head coach John Stevens was relieved of his duties. Although the team still sits near the bottom of the standings, the season is young and there is still hope.
When Desjardins took over, he knew it was going to be tough and did not promise any quick solutions, although he has tried to instill a sense of urgency upon the players. He may also feel that urgency, because his contract only lasts until the end of this season.
“You’ve got to find a way to make this season work,” Desjardins said. “What exactly it is, we’ve got to find out.” So far, the Kings are still searching.
He had some success coaching the Vancouver Canucks from 2014-17; his first NHL head coaching gig. Desjardins also took the Canadian national team to an Olympic bronze medal last February, so he has both experience and credibility.
The Kings are a tough assignment for him. They haven’t been able to reach the caliber of play they experienced during their Stanley Cup championship seasons in 2012 and 2014 while being led by head coach Darryl Sutter, who is now retired.
There are some top-notch players that remain on the roster which includes Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar, Jeff Carter and Jonathan Quick.
“Coming in here, it’s a great situation,” Desjardins said. “I think there’s lots to work with. Sometimes you have situations where you don’t have much of a chance to be successful. They’ve got a lot of good pieces here. There’s some really quality people within this team, some high-end guys.”
When Desjardins first took over, he didn’t want to immediately alter the Kings’ playing methods, so he’s been leaning on assistant coach Dave Lowry, as he tries to get more productive results while using basically the same schemes used under Stevens. While with the Canucks, Desjardins was known to make unusual lineup decisions. This philosophy seems to have transferred over to the Kings, as most notably, he made a decision to use veteran sniper Ilya Kovalchuk on the fourth line instead of the first two lines where he usually plays.
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Some weaknesses that he’s trying to turn into strengths, are the Kings inability to generate goal-scoring, meager shot creation, team defense, and an inconsistent power play.
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* Steven Lieberman is a veteran sports/arts/entertainment journalist. He has covered entertainment and Los Angeles-based pro sports for over 14 years. In addition to covering the NHL, NBA and MLB, he also covers concerts, theatre, opera and other entertainment events.
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Home AMAM Bulletin--OBE page 137
16 Jan Lievens, Christ Praying
at Gethsemane, pen and
wash drawing
Dresden, Kupferstichkabinet
museum, which is easily recognizable as his work by the characteristic
puff\7 cheeks of the model, is inscribed "Rembrandt geretucee... Lieve
..." (Lievens retouched bv Rembrandt), and a Portrait of an Old Man
of 1632 at the Fogg Art Museum bearing an authentic Rembrandt signature shows unmistakable traces of the soft, silkv touch Lievens developed around 1630. No wonder it is sometimes difficult to separate
their hands. A case in point is the energetic drawing of a Mounted
Trumpeter (fig. 17) accepted bv some as a Lievens and by others as a
Rembrandt of around 1624-25.14 The sharp contrasts of light and dark,
the heavy calligraphic lines, and the modeling with hatching and dots
make evident its connection with the group of drawings given to Lievens.
14 First published as a work by Rembrandt of around 1624-25 by J. G. van
Gelder, The Burlington Magazine, XCI (1949), p. 207 and discussed again as a
youthful work by him in his article of 1953, p. 7 f. J. Q. van Regteren Altena,
"Tekeningen van Rembrandt," Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, I (1953), p. 55,
published it as an early Rembrandt with the suggestion that the date 1636 in
the upper left corner of the drawing (which is not original) may be based upon
an erroneous reading of 1626. Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt,
London, 1954, I, no. 21a, accepts the work as a Rembrandt and dates it 1627-28.
Bauch (1960), p. 217, ascribes it to Lievens.
Museum Director/Acting Director Spencer, John R. (John Richard)
Contributors Spencer, John R. (John Richard)
Seymour, Charles, 1912-
Slive, Seymour, 1920-
Wittkower, Rudolf
Contents Wolfgang Stechow: Bibliography; Youthful Works bv Great Artists: A Symposium; Youthful Works bv Great Artists: An Exhibition; Youthful Works by Great Composers: A Concert;
Artists Bellotto, Bernardo (Italian, 1721-1780)
Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, 1368-1452)
Bonington, Richard Parkes (British, 1802-1828)
Brunelleschi (Italian, 1377-1446)
Cavalcanti, Andrea di Lazzaro ( Buggiano) (Italian, 1412-1462)
Copley, John Singleton (American, 1738-1815)
Degas, Edgar (French, 1834-1917)
Delli, Dello (Italian, 1404-1470)
Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500-1564)
Dyck, Anthony van (Flemish, 1599-1641)
Ensor, James (Belgian, 1860-1949)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (French, 1732-1806)
Gericault, Théodore (French, 1791-1824)
Hobbema, Meindert (Dutch, 1638-1709)
Honthorst, Gerrit van (Dutch, 1590-1656)
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (French, 1780-1867)
Jacob van Swanenburgh (Dutch, 1571-1638)
Kokoschka, Oskar (Austrian, 1886-1980)
Lastman, Pieter (Dutch, 1583-1633)
Lievens, Jan (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Luca della Robbia (Italian, 1399/1400-1482)
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, ca. 1494-1533)
Masaccio (Italian, 1401-1428)
Nanni di Banco (Italian, 1380/85-1421)
Nanni di Bartolo (Italian, active 1419-1435)
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, ca. 1445/50-1523?)
Picasso, Pablo (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Pynas, Jacob Symonsz (Dutch, 1590-1648)
Raimondi, Marcantonio (Italian, ca. 1480-before 1534)
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483-1520)
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Renoir, Auguste (French, 1841-1919)
Ruisdael, Jacob van (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)
Seurat, Georges (French, 1859-1891)
Velde, Esaias van de, I (Dutch, 1587-1630)
Vredeman de Vries, Hans (Dutch, 1527-1606)
List of Illustrations Nanni di Banco. Four Crowded Saints. Florence, Or San Michele; Assistant to Nanni di Banco: Luca della Robbia (?). Young Prophet,Porta della Mandorla. Florence, Duomo; Luca della Robbia (?). Angel, Lower left of the frontispiece, Porta della Mandorla. Florence, Duomo; Nanni di Banco. Angel, Lower right of the frontispiece, Porta della Mandorla. Florence, Duomo; Roman, Imperial. Arch of Trajan. Benevento; Luca della Robbia, Fragment of inscription, Cantoria. Florence, Museo dell' Opera; Nanni di Bartolo, Part of inscription on statue of Abdias from the Campanile. Florence, Museo dell' Opera; Brunelleschi and Buggiano (r), Tomb of Giovanni and Piccarda de Medici, detail. Florence, San Lorenzo; Luca della Robbia. Tambourine Players (before 1434/35). Florence, Museo dell' Opera; Luca della Robbia. Choral Dancers (after 1435) Canotria. Florence, Museo dell' Opera; Bicci di Lorenzo, Dedication of St. Egidius, detail. Florence, Sant' Egidio (Santa Maria Nuova); Dello Delli. Coronation of the Virgin (detail). Florence, Sant' Egidio (Santa Maria Nuova); Luca della robbia. Apostle (detail). Florence, Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel; Luca della Robbia. Crucifixion of St. Peter, St. Peter Altar (unfinished). Florence, Bargello; Masaccio. Crucifixion of St. Peter, detail, Pisa altar. Berlin-Dahlem Museum; Luca della Robbia, Liberation of St. Peter, St. Peter Altar. Florence, Bargello; Luca della Robbia. Liberation of St. Peter (detail). Florence, Bargello; Masaccio. The Story of Ananias (detail). Florence, Carmine, Brancacci Chapel; Jacob van Svvanenburgh. Fantastic View of Piazza del Campidoglio and Castel S. Angelo; Jan Lievens (copy after). Boy in a Studio; J. A. D. Ingres. Drawing after cast of a classical head, 1789; Pablo Picasso, drawing after cast of the Parthenon 'Dionysus'; Perspective Study, designed by Jan Vredeman de Vries; Rembrandt. Two figrues in an Interior with a Winding Staircase; Rembrandt. Study of an Interior with a Winding Staircase; Pieter Lastman. Coriolanus Receiving an Embassy of Roman Matrons; Rembrandt. The Stoning of St. Stephen, 1625. Lyon, Musee Municipal; Jacob Pynas. The Stoning of St. Stephen, 1617; Rembrandt, self-portrait (detail). Stoning of St. Stephen; Rembrandt. Self-portrait; Rembrandt. self-portrait (detail). A Group of Musicians; Rembrandt. Self-portrait (detail). An unidentified historical scence; Jan Lievens. The Stoning of St. Paul; Jan Lievens. Christ Praying at Gethsemane; Jan Lievens. Mounted Trumpeter; Rembrandt. Stoning of St. Stephen (detail); Rembrandt. Esther's Feast; Jan Lievens. Pilate Washing his Hands; Gerrit van Honthorst. The Procuress; Jan Lievens. Boy Blowing on a Dish of Coals; Jan Lievens. King Porsenna and Scaevola (detail); Rembrandt. Rest on the Flight to Egypt; Rembrandt. Self-portrait; Rembrandt. Self-portrait, 1629; Rembrandt. Portrait of Rembrandt's Mother, 1628; Rembrandt. Self-portrait, 1629; Rembrandt. Self-portrait; Raphael. Crowning of St. Nicholar of Tolentino; Raphael. Crucified Christ and Saints; Perugino. Sposalizio; Raphael. Sposalizio; Raphael. Crowning of the Virgin; Perugino. Ascension of Christ; Raphael. Madonna Solly; Raphael. Virgin with the Goldfinch; Marcantonio Raimondi. Orpheus Seated ca. 1505; Lucas van Leyden. Pilgrims in the Wood ca. 1508; Lucas van Leyden. Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Round Passion 1509; Domenico Campagnola. Landscape with Boy Fishing ca. 1515/16; Domenico Campagnola. The Assumption of the Virgin 1517; Parmigianino. Sketches of three Putti: Study for a fresco at Rocca di Fontanellato (recto); Diana Dashing Water in the Face of Actaeon (verso) ca. 1523; Esaias van de Velde. Summer Landscape (Road to Emmaus) ca. 1612-14; Van Dyck. Portrait of a Man ca. 1615-16; Jan Lievens. Jacob Anointing the Stone late 1620's; Rembrandt. Esther's Feast ca. 1625; Rembrandt. BeggctrWoman Leaning on a Stick ca. 1628/9; Jacob van Ruisdael. Sun-dappled Trees at the Edge of a Pond 1646-1649; Jacob van Ruisdael. The Three Large Oaks 1649; Meindert Hobbema. A River Scene 1658; Bernardo Bellotto. View of the Tiber with Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome 1740; Jean-Horore Fragonard. Education of the Virgin before 1750; John Singleton Copley. Ann Tyng 1756; Theodore Gericault. Officer on Horseback 1812; Richard P. Bonington. Mantes on the Seine 1824; Edgar Degas. Portrait of Rene de Gas ca. 1855; Edgar Degas. Rene de Gas (profile, facing right) ca. 1855/57; Auguste Renoir. Portrait of Mile. Romaine Lacaux 1864; Georges Seurat. Femme Drapee, de Dos 1875/78; Homme Nu, Bras Allonges, Paumes Offertes 1875/78; Nil S'Arc-Bcnitant en Arriere 1875/78; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Horses, Riders and Panegyric ca. 1879/80; James Ensor. The Death of ]ezebel 1880; Pablo Picasso. Studies of Two Men ca. 1900; Oskar Kokoschka. Nude ca. 1906
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Transcript 16 Jan Lievens, Christ Praying at Gethsemane, pen and wash drawing Dresden, Kupferstichkabinet museum, which is easily recognizable as his work by the characteristic puff\7 cheeks of the model, is inscribed "Rembrandt geretucee... Lieve ..." (Lievens retouched bv Rembrandt), and a Portrait of an Old Man of 1632 at the Fogg Art Museum bearing an authentic Rembrandt signature shows unmistakable traces of the soft, silkv touch Lievens developed around 1630. No wonder it is sometimes difficult to separate their hands. A case in point is the energetic drawing of a Mounted Trumpeter (fig. 17) accepted bv some as a Lievens and by others as a Rembrandt of around 1624-25.14 The sharp contrasts of light and dark, the heavy calligraphic lines, and the modeling with hatching and dots make evident its connection with the group of drawings given to Lievens. 14 First published as a work by Rembrandt of around 1624-25 by J. G. van Gelder, The Burlington Magazine, XCI (1949), p. 207 and discussed again as a youthful work by him in his article of 1953, p. 7 f. J. Q. van Regteren Altena, "Tekeningen van Rembrandt," Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, I (1953), p. 55, published it as an early Rembrandt with the suggestion that the date 1636 in the upper left corner of the drawing (which is not original) may be based upon an erroneous reading of 1626. Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1954, I, no. 21a, accepts the work as a Rembrandt and dates it 1627-28. Bauch (1960), p. 217, ascribes it to Lievens. 137
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Freeing Religious Liberty from the Right to Discriminate
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Gessen, Masha. “How Trump Uses ‘Religious Liberty’ to Attack L.G.B.T. Rights.” The New Yorker, October 11, 2017.
Green, Emma. “Why Trump’s Executive Order on Religious Liberty Left Many Conservatives Dissatisfied.” The Atlantic, May 4, 2017.
Bazelon, Emily. “What Are the Limits of ‘Religious Liberty’?” The New York Times, July 7, 2015, sec. Magazine.
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Zavvi - Virgin on the Ridiculous
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: Zavvi - Virgin on the Ridiculous
Richard Branson has finally sold the Virgin retail chain of music shops
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6998606.stm
to its senior staff for a sum not disclosed.
I seem to have read that last line somewhere before (Woolworth and MVC), and I suspect the sum was nominal.
Perhaps they dreamed up the new name after celebrating the deal.
Location: Chorley, Lancashire
What is the point of buying a Virgin business if you don't buy the name? That's the whole point of Virgin! Good grief. I give it till February...
gfloyd
Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
I thought it might be an anagram for a moment. But the Virgin brand it not as good as it used to be: poor cable service & train service have taken care of that.
His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.....
firewirefred
Ian Robinson wrote:
It has been rumoured that Branson was going to close the retail business down due to plummeting sales in the retail music business, so this is obvsiously a management buyout. It can be assumed that the brand wasn't up for enfranchisement - only the business.
gfloyd wrote:
I have Virgin cable and it's fine. I also use Virgin Trains on the West Coast Mainline into Euston (the Pendolino trains) and they're excellent. Virgin Atlantic Airways are pretty good too.....
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:19 am Post subject:
firewirefred wrote:
Yes, there's a hefty clue in the quote about entertainment retailing no longer being viewed as a core part of the business. Ironic, but not unusual in the corporate world today, since that is where he started it all.
Until Fopp came along it had been rumoured that HMV were willing to take it off his hands for a nominal amount. Given the costs to the new owners of rebranding the stores I can't imagine they've paid anything for them as such. They are all in prime shopping centre locations, doubtless with scorching rents to pay, and often with an HMV in close proximity, and if the established Virgin brand is unable to make a profit out of them (as it clearly hasn't, for some time) I can't see anyone else doing so. All I can forsee is another administration case for the accountants next year.
Oh yeah, I have no doubt the Virgin stores were failing but Branson's whole business plan is generally to build up the Virgin name and then sell the business off on more-or-less the brand name itself. I'm sure NTL, for instance, could have set up their own mobile division but they wanted the Virgin name as a brand to take on Sky.
It just seems odd to rebrand the stores with such a stupid name in such a competitive market - I'd have thought it would make more sense to refresh the brand name.
But I suppose it worked when Virgin Cinemas became UGC so maybe, just maybe, it'll work here. I doubt it though.
Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Virgin On The Ridiculous
This made me think of the Caravan song of that name!
Really, Virgin shot themselves in the foot with those awful Uma Thurman ads and dropping the Sky channels when rebranding NTL as Virgin Media.
And I shall never forget the record label dropping Anthony Phillips and Kirsty MacColl - only to sign up Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey.
Zavvi just sounds like a pizza chain.
We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
'The Good Don't Last', Spock's Beard
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject:
Might explain why they suddenly whacked up the price of their singles last week - for example the latest Ash 7" which is 99p in HMV is £4 in Virgin and the Elvis singles have gone from £4 for the CD and £5 for the vinyl have increased to £5 and £6 respectively!
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject:
Management buyout? No! Branson GAVE them £20m to take it off his hands!
Anyway, this is worth a look and a laugh:http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/community/index.cfm?n=3&parentid=8019
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:
Here's a link to The Times report http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article2477452.ece
130 stores losing £83 million in a year!!!
The comments in the forum were predictably scornful, the only positive one trying to draw attention to how poor things were before HMV and Virgin appeared on the high streets (outside London, that is) in the 1970s.
Well, in Nottingham anyway, there were at least five good independent shops, plus the old Pearson's department store together with Boots and WH Smith, and all had extensive record departments, even stocking imports. They were also competitive on price.
Now we have three stores owned by HMV, Virgin (which already resembles the Marie Celeste) and good old Selectadisc (which still looks much as it did, down to the threadbare flooring, twenty five years ago).
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:
Although the reports said the switch was to take place in January the illuminated signs on the front of the (Nottm) store have been renewed and show, in bright green, "Zavvi.co.uk".
Not much has changed inside and yesterday it was so quiet you could have played a football match in there and I don't think anyone would have noticed.
Location: Liverpool England UK
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:
'Zavvi' as in 'savvi?' Or I'll see you 'this avvy' (afternoon) to use the local vernacular?
Reminds me of the Hollywood producer who once said 'I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin'. Referring to her squeaky clean screen image!
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9:00 Dr. John Williamson (Great Britain) “Who pays for new music”
10:00 Tololupe Salako (Nigeria) “Singing with Nigerian harmonies”
11:00 Dr. paed. Inga Bērziņa (Latvia) “Vocal technique in jazz and pop music”
12:00 Ass Prof. Ilona Bagele (Latvia)
“Academic singing basics and its influence on other genres”
Ilona Bagele (Latvia) – Dec 5th 12:00
The winner of the highest Latvian music award “Great Music Award”. Soloist of the Latvian National Opera.
Academic singing basics and its influence on other genres:
1) Voice apparatus in creation of sound.
2) Basics of academic vocal and its impact on other types of performing arts.
3) Practical secrets of the mastery.
Inga Bērziņa (Latvia) – Dec 5th 11:00.
Professional jazz vocalist, and jazz educator in Jazeps Vitols Latvian Music Academy, Riga Dom Choir School, RTTEMA (Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy).
First music studies were a piano class, and later – choir conducting.
In 1991, graduated from a class of pop and jazz in Gnesin Music Education Academy in Moscow. Later achieved a doctoral degree in music pedagogy (University of Latvia, Faculty of Education and Psychology). Besides performing, teaching in jazz department and jazz camps, has successfully toured Europe and the US.
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“4.30 AM” Inga Bērziņa & Skygroove, 2002,
“Balades” Inga Bērziņa & Skygroove, 2007.
“Neizteiktie vārdi”, Inga Bērziņa kvintet, 2013.
Tololupe Salako (Nigeria) – Dec 5th 10:00.
“Come warmed up, prepared to have fun and be inspired to take your voice to the next level!”
This interactive workshop will include learning to sing in a Nigerian language and will explore vocal arrangements in that particular style of music.
2. Bio: Background, Experience as an artist, success
3.Vocal ensemble – Singing with Nigerian harmonies
4. Question & Answer session.
John Williamson (Great Britain) – Dec 5th 9:00.
John Williamson (Glasgow, Scotland) is a researcher in music at University of Glasgow in Scotland. He has recently researched and written a history of the British Musicians’ Union (for publication in 2016) and teaches on courses in Popular Music theory, politics and history. He has presented some of this work at conferences in the UK, Brazil, Canada, France and Spain.
Prior to joining the University in 2012, he worked in various sectors of the music industries as a band manager, journalist, concert promoter and venue manager.
Among the acts he has managed are bis, a band from Glasgow who enjoyed chart success in Britain and Japan as well as touring extensively around the world during the late 1990s, and the internationally renowned Belle and Sebastian, with whom he worked between 2006 -12. During this period, he also worked on the feature film, God Help The Girl, written and directed by Stuart Murdoch of the band.
As a journalist, he has worked for a number of national newspapers and reviewed and interviewed hundred of musicians in the process.
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My Turn: A successful journey through the minefield of addiction
October 15, 2014 Carol Robidoux Leave a comment
My son, at 23, is lucky to be alive.
Statistically, he is a member of a generation decimated by an opiate drug epidemic so far-reaching that in 2010 – the year he graduated high school – New Hampshire reported having a higher percentage of people abusing pain medication than any other state, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. The largest demographic was young people age 17-25.
And it continues even now, an epidemic that has led directly to the resurgence of heroin, a drug that is a much cheaper and far more deadly alternative to painkillers.
I guess it should be a given at this phase of my life, but I am frankly overjoyed that my son is a senior at UNH, and that he’s managing his life, his money, his studies and his future so deftly. I slip him gas money when he visits and he takes it, reluctantly. He is acutely aware that his childhood is defunct, and that standing on his own two feet is the only way to move forward in this life.
I say he is lucky because, in the same way I’ve heard veterans of war wrestle with survivor’s guilt, I can’t quite understand how my son found his way out of enemy territory, mostly unscathed.
As a mother, I’ve been over it a hundred times or more, and still, there are no good or logical answers.
I only know that five years ago, I didn’t see much hope in his heart for the future. He was trapped in a high school where his big brain was overshadowed by his apathy for the rat race. He underachieved because he was mostly invisible to the educators who were there to help him find himself, obscured by his long hair and the space between academia and its relevance to his world.
Looking back now, I realize there was a sub-narrative to the plot I couldn’t see because it was written in the secret language of teenagers. Now I understand that my son’s apathetic Wonder Years coincided with the pharmaceutical phenomenon we are now recognizing as the pathway to opiate addiction.
Many of his peers – smart kids, dumb kids, athletic kids, kids from good families and fractured ones – dabbled with pot and alcohol, moving on to illicit encounters with cough syrup, LSD and the premier ADHD drug Adderall – which they learned quickly would help anyone focus enough to cram for a test and excel. It was easy enough to score from someone whose brother was diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder.
Better living through chemistry led many of these kids to discover oxycodone, another easily acquired pill dished out like candy to anyone with pain. Like Adderall, it was a magic pill that quickly boosted their adolescent spirits, or dulled the pain of their perceived losses – dads that were MIA., parents who didn’t engage, romances that didn’t materialize or economic realities that didn’t support brand-name fashions or top-of-the-line technology.
My son is one of the lucky ones because some primal lobe in his big brain lit up enough to guide the rest of him out of the darkness of dabbling that has swallowed too many of his peers whole.
If you’re reading this and judging these kids, or these families, who struggle every day with opiate addiction, you don’t know the half of it. You don’t know how many of your neighbors and co-workers continue to dance this exhausting tango with a diabolical partner that won’t let go, spiraling into the twirling, clutching drain of fatal desperation that robs them of their finances, their hopes and dreams, and, sometimes, their children.
New Hampshire lags far behind in addiction treatment. Ask anyone involved in the bureaucracy. They will confirm that it’s a problem we can’t solve through law enforcement. If you’re lucky enough to find your way to a treatment bed, five days of detox and 12 steps at a time for 28 days is a futile dance that does not add up to long-term recovery.
It only leads back to a revolving door of the most powerfully relentless addictive substance on earth, which is claiming those who otherwise may not have been prone to the disease of addiction.
Join the HOPE for Recovery Rally at NH Statehouse, Oct. 18, 2014, 11a.m. -2 p.m.
According to the state medical examiner’s office, although prescription drug-related deaths dropped between 2012 and 2013, from 88 to 72, heroin-related deaths have nearly doubled, from 37 in 2012 to 70 – and that’s just as of June.
This is more than unacceptable and should be at the top of our to-fix list, just as it was for Pete Shumlin, governor of Vermont, who scrapped the PowerPoint version of his 2014 State of the State speech to focus on just one topic: how to mount a counter-attack on the heroin and opiate addiction threatening his state.
My son and I don’t talk much about those we know who are still prisoners of this particular drug war, or those who died on the battlefield. He and his own two feet have moved on.
He has the right to judge them, I suppose. He has the right to despise the human weakness that prevails when someone gives up and gives in to an enemy that takes them over and delivers them into the belly of the beast.
I was happy to hear he was planning to stop by with his girlfriend after a birthday dinner for two out on the town. I decided to bake cupcakes, the chocolate-peanut butter ones I used to send to school with him for classroom celebrations of his youth – and not because I thought it would remind him that childhood is only lost to us if we choose to forget the dreams we dream and lessons we learn while we dwell there.
But because his life is my gift, his experience has been my teacher, his losses have left permanent scars on my heart – the heart of a mother who celebrates another year of hopes and dreams for a son who, for no reason I can put my finger on, didn’t get caught in the vice-grip death trap that is our opiate drug addiction epidemic.
And because I get to celebrate another year with my amazing son and light a birthday candle for all those mothers who can’t, and who never will again.
As published in the Concord Monitor, Oct. 10, 2014
(Carol Robidoux is a freelance writer who lives in Manchester.)
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Fighting Addiction: Content + Action = Community Engagement
April 3, 2014 Carol Robidoux 1 Comment
A simple February 14, 2014 Facebook post resulted in a community gathering. Behold the power of social media and engagement.
There is power in words. I know this from many years in the field as a journalist.
I also know that with a boost from social media, word power morphs and magnifies, and extends to places we can’t predict.
Today, allow me to testify about how one person can make a difference simply by putting thought into words and words into action, through social media, powered by a strong sense that others want and need to connect to make the world a better place.
Here’s how it happened to me:
On February 14, 2014 I read an article on my hometown newspaper’s website about a community screening in Pennsylvania of a documentary about addiction, and hope in long-term recovery.
I immediately shared a link to the movie, “The Anonymous People,” on my Facebook page and wished someone would bring the movie to New Hampshire.
Wish granted.
One influential friend and 10 days later, a date was set for a public screening in New Hampshire.
On April 2, 2014 I was seated among 100+ movie-goers at the Dana Center on the Saint Anselm College campus for a free public screening of the movie, followed by a panel discussion.
Among those in attendance: Students, physicians, policy makers, professors, priests, community organizers, recovering addicts and alcoholics, family members with loved ones currently battling addiction and in desperate need of meaningful treatment options –which are few and far between in New Hampshire.
That was at the heart of bringing this movie to New Hampshire, the need for change.
There is a national drug addiction phenomenon featuring heroin and oxycodone currently driving a human health crisis of epidemic proportions. This is not an exaggeration. From our state health officials here in New Hampshire to the U.S. Attorney General, the cost to society in human suffering, crime, law enforcement and incarceration, is exploding.
Missing from the equation: Effective resources focused on recovery from addiction. New Hampshire ranks 49th of the 50 states in recovery programs. The only place harder to find treatment is Texas, according to Cheryl Wilkie, Senior Vice President of the Farnum Center and Webster Place Recovery.
I guess even the drug problems are bigger in Texas.
Some take aways for me from “The Anonymous People:”
Public perception drives policy: Headlines about the daily horrors of addiction and celebrities stuck in or lost to addiction drive our sense of hopelessness.
“This is our black plague” – a quote from actress Kristen Johnston, a recovering addict who is one of the many celebrities telling their success stories.
Lack of systemic support: Those in recovery from cancer are immersed in free post-treatment services “as part of their recovery.” Addicts get five days of detox or 28 days in a rehab bed, if they are among the lucky ones who have insurance or have good timing. After that, they are on their own.
12-Step recovery peer-based programs work: Because they offer immediate support with a proven track record – there are some 23 million people currently living in long-term recovery through participation in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous programs.
War on Drugs: A reversal of progress: There was a dedicated push toward recovery during the 1960s and ’70s, “Operation Understanding,” championed by high-profile politicians and actors in recovery, to raise awareness and remove stigma. That momentum was buried under the weight of the orchestrated U.S. “War on Drugs,” chronicled here via “Frontline.”
Mental Health Parity Act of 2008 excludes addiction: We continue to view addiction as a shame-based disease. U.S. insurance companies provide a fraction of resources for what is a paralyzing and pervasive human health crises in America.
Community is the backbone of recovery: For an addict, recovery is initiated in treatment centers. But they recover in our communities – provided there are resources available to support them in their sobriety.
Silence = Death: Borrowed from the early AIDS political advocacy movement and Act Up, actress Kristen Johnston cites “Silence = Death” as the best slogan to describe the urgency of addressing this public health crisis here and now.
So, What now?
I went back to Facebook after the screening and created a community page: Empowering Addiction Recovery in NH. Please join.
It was my initial reaction to keep the momentum going and give people a place to discuss how to move forward, again harnessing the power of social media.
I have heard there were some in attendance interested in bringing a public screening of “The Anonymous People” to their city or town. Anyone can do that. Here is a link for more information at ManyFaces1Voice.org.
Contact your mayor, board of aldermen, town councilors, town administrators, public health officials, state reps, senators and congressmen. Demand that they address the need for treatment and recovery programs and funding. Ask how you can help.
Beyond that, you can reach out to the panelists and experts who supported the April 2 Saint Anselm event, and find out how you can join the conversation and make a difference here in New Hampshire.
Tym Rourke, NH Charitable Foundation (tr@nhcf.org)
Cheryl Wilkie, VP Farnum Center/Webster Place Recovery (cwilkie@eastersealsnh.org)
Lee O’Connor, Narcotics Anonymous Granite State area (loconnor621@gmail.com)
Jerry Hevern MD, family physician Suncook Family Health Center (ghevern@comcast.net)
Megan Shea, Family Willows Manger and Therapist (MShea@fitnh.org)
Eric Spofford, Founder, The Granite House Sober Living (ericspofford@granitehousesl.com)
View this VIDEO: Excerpt from “The Anonymous People” April 2 screening and panel discussion at Saint Anselm, via YouTube.
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American Samoa Population: 50,826
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Settled as early as 1000 B.C., Samoa was not reached by European explorers until the 18th century. International rivalries in the latter half of the 19th century were settled by an 1899 treaty in which Germany and the US divided the Samoan archipelago. The US formally occupied its portion - a smaller group of eastern islands with the excellent harbor of Pago Pago - the following year.
Pago Pago has one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds; strategic location in the South Pacific Ocean
Location: Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand
Geographic coordinates: 14 20 S, 170 00 W
note: includes Rose Island and Swains Island
Climate: tropical marine, moderated by southeast trade winds; annual rainfall averages about 3 m; rainy season (November to April), dry season (May to October); little seasonal temperature variation
Terrain: five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, two coral atolls (Rose Island, Swains Island)
Natural resources: pumice, pumicite
permanent crops: 8.5% (2016 est.) permanent pasture: 0% (2016 est.) forest: 78.1% (2016 est.)
other: 0% (2016 est.)
Irrigated land: 0 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: cyclones common from December to March volcanism: limited volcanic activity on the Ofu and Olosega Islands; neither has erupted since the 19th century
Current Environment Issues: limited supply of drinking water; pollution; waste disposal; coastal and stream alteration; soil erosion
Nationality: noun: American Samoan(s) (US nationals)
adjective: American Samoan
Ethnic groups: Pacific Islander 92.6% (includes Samoan 88.9%, Tongan 2.9%, other .8%), Asian 3.6% (includes Filipino 2.2%, other 1.4%), mixed 2.7%, other 1.2% (2010 est.) note: data represent population by ethnic origin or race
Languages: Samoan 88.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 3.9%, Tongan 2.7%, other Pacific islander 3%, other 1.8% (2010 est.) note: most people are bilingual
Religions: Christian 98.3%, other 1%, unaffiliated 0.7% (2010 est.)
Population: 50,826 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 29.59% (male 7,732 /female 7,305)
55-64 years: 8.96% (male 2,244 /female 2,310)
65 years and over: 6.24% (male 1,486 /female 1,688) (2018 est.)
Population growth rate: -1.35% (2018 est.)
Birth rate: 19 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Net migration rate: -26.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 49,000 PAGO PAGO (capital) (2018)
Education expenditures: n/a
Country name: conventional long form: American Samoa
conventional short form: American Samoa
abbreviation: AS
etymology: the name Samoa is composed of two parts, "sa" meaning "sacred" and "moa" meaning "center," so the name can mean Holy Center; alternatively, it can mean "place of the sacred moa bird" of Polynesian mythology
Government type: presidential democracy; a self-governing territory of the US
Capital: name: Pago Pago
time difference: UTC-11 (6 hours behind Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
note: pronounced "pahn-go pahn-go"
Administrative divisions: none (territory of the US); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 3 districts and 2 islands* at the second order; Eastern, Manu'a, Rose Island*, Swains Island*, Western
Independence: none (territory of the US)
National holiday: Flag Day, 17 April (1900)
Constitution: history: adopted 17 October 1960; revised 1 July 1967 amendments: proposed by either house of the Legislative Assembly; passage requires three-fifths majority vote by the membership of each house, approval in a referendum, and approval by the US Secretary of the Interior; amended 1971, 1977, 1979 (2017)
Legal system: mixed legal system of US common law and customary law
Executive branch: chief of state: President Donald J. TRUMP (since 20 January 2017); Vice President Michael R. PENCE (since 20 January 2017)
head of government: Governor Lolo Matalasi MOLIGA (since 3 January 2013)
cabinet: Cabinet consists of 12 department directors appointed by the governor with the consent of the Legislature or Fono elections/appointments: president and vice president indirectly elected on the same ballot by an Electoral College of 'electors' chosen from each state to serve a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); under the US Constitution, residents of unincorporated territories, such as American Samoa, do not vote in elections for US president and vice president; however, they may vote in Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections; governor and lieutenant governor directly elected on the same ballot by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 8 November 2016 (next to be held in November 2020)
election results: Lolo Matalasi MOLIGA reelected governor in first round; percent of vote - Lolo Matalasi MOLIGA (independent) 60.2%, Faoa Aitofele SUNIA (Democratic Party) 35.8%, Tuika TUIKA (independent) 4%
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Legislature or Fono consists of: Senate (18 seats; members indirectly selected by regional governing councils to serve 4-year terms) House of Representatives (21 seats; 20 members directly elected by simple majority vote and 1 decided by public meeting on Swains Island; members serve 2-year terms)
elections: Senate - last held on 8 November 2016 (next to be held in November 2020) House of Representatives - last held on 6 November 2018 (next to be held in November 2020)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - independent 18; composition - men 17, women 1, percent of women 9.5% House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 14, women 7, percent of women 33.3%; note - total percent of women in Legislature 20.5% note: American Samoa elects 1 member by simple majority vote to serve a 2-year term as a delegate to the US House of Representatives; the delegate can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House, but not when legislation is submitted for a “full floor” House vote; election of delegate last held on 6 November 2018 (next to be held in November 2020)
Judicial branch: highest courts: High Court of American Samoa (consists of the chief justice, associate chief justice, and 6 Samoan associate judges and organized into trial, family, drug, and appellate divisions); note - American Samoa has no US federal courts judge selection and term of office: chief justice and associate chief justice appointed by the US Secretary of the Interior to serve for life; Samoan associate judges appointed by the governor to serve for life
subordinate courts: district and village courts
Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party [Fagafaga Daniel LANGKILDE, chairman] Republican Party [William SWORD, chairman]
International organization participation: AOSIS (observer), Interpol (subbureau), IOC, PIF (observer), SPC
National symbol(s): a fue (coconut fiber fly whisk; representing wisdom) crossed with a to'oto'o (staff; representing authority);
national colors: red, white, blue
National anthem: name: "Amerika Samoa" (American Samoa)
lyrics/music: Mariota Tiumalu TUIASOSOPO/Napoleon Andrew TUITELELEAPAGA
note: local anthem adopted 1950; as a territory of the United States, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is official (see United States)
Diplomatic representation in the US: none (territory of the US)
Diplomatic representation from the US: none (territory of the US)
American Samoa s a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US with which American Samoa conducts most of its commerce. Tuna fishing and processing are the backbone of the private sector with processed fish products as the primary exports. The fish processing business accounted for 15.5% of employment in 2015. In late September 2009, an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated American Samoa and nearby Samoa, disrupting transportation and power generation, and resulting in about 200 deaths. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency oversaw a relief program of nearly $25 million. Transfers from the US Government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well-being. Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes. Tourism has some potential as a source of income and jobs.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $658 million (2016 est.) $674.9 million (2015 est.) $666.9 million (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate): $658 million (2016 est.) (2016 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -2.5% (2016 est.) 1.2% (2015 est.) 1% (2014 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $11,200 (2016 est.) $11,300 (2015 est.) $11,200 (2014 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 66.4% (2016 est.) government consumption: 49.7% (2016 est.) investment in fixed capital: 7.3% (2016 est.) investment in inventories: 5.1% (2016 est.) exports of goods and services: 65% (2016 est.) imports of goods and services: -93.5% (2016 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 27.4% (2012) industry: 12.4% (2012) services: 60.2% (2012)
Agriculture - products: bananas, coconuts, vegetables, taro, breadfruit, yams, copra, pineapples, papayas; dairy products, livestock
Industries: tuna canneries (largely supplied by foreign fishing vessels), handicrafts
Labor force: 17,850 (2015 est.)
Unemployment rate: 29.8% (2005)
Budget: revenues: 249 million (2016 est.)
Public debt: 12.2% of GDP (2016 est.)
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September
Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.5% (2015 est.) 1.4% (2014 est.)
Exports: $428 million (2016 est.) $427 million (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: canned tuna 93%
Exports - partners: Australia 25%, Ghana 19%, Indonesia 15.6%, Burma 10.4%, Portugal 5.1% (2017)
Imports: $615 million (2016 est.) $657 million (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities: raw materials for canneries, food, petroleum products, machinery and parts
Imports - partners: Fiji 10.7%, Singapore 10.4%, NZ 10.4%, South Korea 9.3%, Samoa 8.2%, Kenya 6.4%, Australia 5.2% (2017)
Debt - external: n/a
Exchange rates: the US dollar is used
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 43,000 kW (2016 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 361,100 Mt (2017 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: good telex, telegraph, facsimile, and cellular telephone services; one of the most complete and modern telecommunications systems in the South Pacific Islands; all inhabited islands have telephone connectivity
domestic: 18 per 100 fixed-line teledensity, domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station
international: country code - 1-684; landing point for the ASH, Southern Cross NEXT and Hawaiki providing connectivity to New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, Hawaii, California, and SAS connecting American Samoa with Samoa; satellite earth station - 1 (Intelsat-Pacific Ocean)
Broadcast media: 3 TV stations; multi-channel pay TV services are available; about a dozen radio stations, some of which are repeater stations
Internet country code: .as
Internet users: total: 17,000
Roadways: total 241 km
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Pago Pago
Defense is the responsibility of the US
Disputes - International: Tokelau included American Samoa's Swains Island (Olosega) in its 2006 draft independence constitution
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Airtel sponsors inter-school competition
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by: Ngardi Lahai - SEM
Leading mobile company in the country, Airtel, has sponsored the Bright Light Ministries School Clubs on their third inter school competition which will take place on Saturday 6th at the British Council auditorium. Speaking to Journalists in a press conference held at Airtel’s headquarters’ office at Hill Station, Corporate Affairs Manager, June Rose Johnson, said their sponsorship is of a good part and shows a strong commitment in their corporate social responsibility as education is a strong key.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Bright Light Ministries inter-school reading and comprehension competition, Louise Chaytor, said the organization is a Christian setup which started in 2006 as a church. “Bright Light Ministries is engaged in solving family problems education and so on. Our focus is to encourage students to speak and write English well,” she stated. Madam Chaytor also revealed that nine schools participated in last year’s competition, pointing Airtel is their major sponsor with whom they are very pleased. The grand prize, she informed, is Le1 million. Madam Chaytor expressed her gratitude to Airtel for sponsoring them for over 3 years now.
Commercial Director of Airtel, Keith Tukei, said that Airtel will continue to touch the lives of Sierra Leoneans by promoting education. “Education is a partnership to which Airtel is committed,”Keith revealed. He reaffirmed Airtel’s commitment to a lasting partnership with the Bright Light Ministries.
A senior lecturer of Fourah Bay College, Mrs. Gloria Palmer, will be serving as one of the judges for the competition. Mrs. Palmer said that she is delighted in supporting Bright Light Ministries school clubs in brightening the English Language of students. She highlighted that correct pronunciation in reading will be noted and students must read comfortably without mistakes. Mrs. Palmer commended Mrs. Chaytor for organizing such a brilliant competition.
Patricia Sankoh who won last year’s competition said in her testimony that she is now furthering her education as she used the money to pay part of her CAT fees. She expressed thanks to Airtel for considering education as a vital factor in the country.
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New York Times described the prominent Syrian writer Hanna Minh as a historian of the poor and the oppressed, through dozens of his novels, and is considered one of the first Arab novelists to use social realism. Minh has written for half a century and many of his works have been transferred to cinema and television. However, only two of his works have been translated into English.
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Anniversary of usurping Alexandretta marked in Aleppo
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ALEPPO, (ST)- Marking the 80th anniversary of usurping the Syrian Arab Alexandretta (Liwa Iskenderun) by the Turkish occupation, the Aleppo Charity organization for the people of Liwa Iskenderun held a festival in Aleppo to confirm that Iskenderun is Syrian Arab land.
The festival included an operetta telling the story of the conspiracy to usurp Alexandretta.
Several speeches were made during the festival highlighting Turkey's black history of colonialism since the capturing of Alexandretta until now. Speakers stressed that this bloody history is repeating itself today in the countryside of Aleppo, Hassaka where the Turkish occupation forces are dedicating their abilities to take part in shedding Syrian blood within the framework of the global war being waged on Syria.
Alexanderetta and Colonialist Policies
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"Iskenderun(Alexanderetta) and Colonialist Policies… From Occupation to usurpation from the Syrian State” is the title a book recently issued by the Syrian General Organization of Books and written by history researcher Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Bitar.
The 247-page book discusses the stages and procedures adopted by the French occupation in this part of the Syrian land which eventually led to the separation of Iskenderun from Syria in 1939.
Iskenderun .. Arab land in the cave of the Ottoman sultan
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In Iskenderun, food, songs, folklore, and books on the shelves of the libraries are all in Arabic. The Ottoman occupier criminalizes the population who speak their Arabic language so they are speaking it secretly. Despite all the attempts of the Turks to erase the identity of Iskenderun and obliterate the Arabic identity of it, Iskenderun has remained as a thorn in the neck of the sultanate of blood, seeking salvation and return to the map of the Syrian state. Iskenderun is a beautiful region that is best known for its history and remarkable cuisine.
Returning back to that period, we have to ask the question about the reason behind France’s decision to abandon Iskenderun to Turkey? A French General called Wigan told a French journalist that the presence of a strong Turkey on the borders of the Arab countries eases their enthusiasm and hinders their development and progress, while a French researcher said about the treaty in which France abandoned the region to Turkey by saying: "This treaty is a grave in which we buried the dream of the Arab Empire."
Alexandretta is Syrian
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Patrick Seale: that "by disregarding its pledge to protect the integrity of Syria, France had committed a flagrantly immoral political act.”
Alexandretta covers an area of 4.805 square kilometers of the Levant coast along the Eastern Mediterranean. It is located on the Western section of what is known as the 'Syrian Saddle'. Its port (namely, the port of Alexandretta) is said to be "the first natural harbour in the Eastern Mediterranean". It offers safe anchorage for large ships in a gulf over 35miles in length. Furthermore, it is "the natural outlet for the vasthinterland of Aleppo and the Upper Euphrates valley and is connected by rail with Osmanich(Ottoman Empire) and thus with the main lines running west to Ankaraand Istanbul, east to Baghdad, and south, through Aleppo, Damascus and Haifa, to the Suez Canal". Within the boundaries of the sanjak (administrative division) of Alexandretta, however, lie, in addition to the port of Alexandretta, the ancient historical town of Antioch (Antakya) that has become the sanjak's capital; the fertile valley of the Orontes; and the Southern section of the Amanus Range.
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Narrativas Independentes, Jornalismo e Ação
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Documenting Brazil's protests from within...
Midia Ninja facebook page:
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"Holding to their motto of "independent narratives, journalism and action", a group of young journalists called Mídia Ninja (Ninja Media) used the recent demonstrations in Brazil's major cities as a stage for their guerilla approach to journalism, using smartphones and social media platforms to reach their audience.
Mídia Ninja was formed two years ago as a hub for independent journalists in Brazil to tell stories with a social twist that traditional media was not covering. Until June this year, the group had 20 people working full time in six of Brazil's major cities - São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre and Fortaleza."
www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/08/brazils-midia-ninja-covers-demonstrations-from-the-inside
"..Largely unheard of until a few months ago, the group claims 2,000 collaborators in 100 cities, and its Facebook page has drawn 183,000 likes.
Using social networks as a platform, it has broken news on police infiltrators and wrongful arrests - forcing the mainstream media into sheepish follow-ups."
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/brazil-ninja-reporters-stories-streets
"A media phenomenon has emerged in Brazil in the wake of the massive protests that have spread throughout the country since June. The news collective Mídia NINJA - broadcasting live from the streets with its "no cuts, no censorship" model - has attracted the attention and admiration of thousands."
www.niemanlab.org/2013/07/in-brazil-midia-ninjas-indie-journalists-are-gaining-attention-and-sparking-controversy
In Brazil, Mídia NINJA's indie journalists are gaining attention and sparking controversyProviding journalism from within Brazil's protest movement has led the 'ninjas' to find an audience that wants to be represented...
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