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Speaker, 30 congressmen set to bolt Lakas By Charlie V. Manalo 04/12/2010
Ready to endorse Villar — source
Speaker, 30 congressmen set to bolt Lakas
By Charlie V. Manalo
Lakas-Kampi presidential bet Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro faces more woes as Speaker Prospero Nograles, together with 30 other congressmen, is said to be ready to bolt the ruling Lakas-Kampi-CMD party and support the presidential candidacy of Nacionalista Party (NP) standard bearer Sen. Manuel Villar Jr., sources close to the administration party said.
“It won’t just be the Speaker who is ready to bolt Lakas. He is bringing along with him 30 congressmen, ready to switch their support to Villar,” the sources told The Tribune yesterday.
According to sources, the 30 still to be identified congressmen who have signified their approval in joining the Speaker in bolting the administration party “are big guns” and have been proven to deliver the votes for whoever they support..... MORE
Erap flays GMA-7 for smear job
Comelec says 90% ready for automated polls
NP bet cuts Aquino’s lead in latest survey
Villar, Noynoy ‘dangerous’ candidates — Jinggoy
Comelec admits ink scam, to rebid deal
Villar, Noynoy ‘dangerous’ candidates — Jinggoy By Gerry Baldo 04/12/2010
By Gerry Baldo
Reelectionist Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino senatorial candidate Sen. Jinggoy Estrada yesterday said the Filipino electorate are now beginning to realize that his father, former President Joseph Estrada, is among the leading presidential candidates in the May 2010 elections.
Jinggoy added the people are also now seeing the truth that two of his father’s political rivals – Senators Manuel Villar and Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, are “dangerous.”
“People are beginning to realize that the other candidates are quite dangerous,” Jinggoy said in the sidelines of a huge rally in Longos, Malabon, last Friday.
He added that of the two leading presidential candidates Villar is the most dangerous because of his campaign spending..... MORE
Comelec admits ink scam, to rebid deak
Erap flays GMA-7 for smear job By Gerry Baldo
As his numbers rise in the surveys, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada said the media are again demonizing him.
Estrada, in an interview during a campaign rally in Malabon on Friday, accused GMA-7 of kicking off a demolition job on him when it came out with a report about his Statement of Assets Liabilities and Networth (SALN) a few days ago.
“They have started the smear job against me, about my SALN. It was all too sudden after my rating at number three started to go up,” he said..... MORE
May 2010 opportunity EDITORIAL 04/12/2010
May 2010 opportunity
The financial state of Nacionalista Party (NP) bet Manuel Villar Jr. is a factor for voters to consider since it has been this side of his candidacy, that of his having spent to high heavens to win the presidency, that had chiefly stuck in the mind of the public.
The president has wide access to government resources and assets, a privilege that is prone to manipulation and abuse as inarguably proven by the plundering couple now occupying Malacañang.
If Manuela Corp.’s gargantuan debts running to more than P2 billion in loans and supply credits are major issues now, what more if Villar becomes president of the republic?... MORE
Very valid issue
With saw and screwdriver, China doctor gives gift of height
The desert lands of Cory Aquino
Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs
Junk food killing pet cats and dogs
Not just churva teines
Very valid issue FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/12/2010
Black propaganda or not, the refusal of Noynoy Aquino to take up the challenge of Manny Villar for both of them to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, after the bogus psych report on Aquino’s alleged mental disorder was made public, will do more harm to Aquino’s candidacy than it would Villar on the Liberal Party (LP)’s claim that this fake report was leaked out to ABS-CBN by the Nacionalista Party.
The reason is simple. Since Noynoy Aquino indicated his interest in running for the presidency, talk started about his alleged “autism” and of his being bi-polar.
While this was hardly brought to fore by the media, the fact is that the talk on this alleged mental and emotional disorders suffered by Aquino, kept coming. He has been called “abnoy” the street name for “abnormal,” and is still being called that by many, in political conversations and gabfests.... MORE
With saw and screwdriver, China doctor gives gift of height FEATURE 04/12/2010
SHANGHAI — Orthopedic surgeon Bai Helong hikes up his trousers, places his foot on his desk and marks the spot just below his hairless knee where he cuts into the legs of patients who want to be taller.
Over the past 15 years, Bai has given the gift of height to about 3,000 patients aged 14 to 55 — Chinese, Americans, Germans, Japanese — about half of whom went through with surgery simply because they did not like being short.
“I’m something of an authority in this field,” explains Bai, who uses a technique he developed himself at a modest private clinic in the suburbs of Shanghai..... MORE
The desert lands of Cory Aquino DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 04/12/2010
A thousand years before Christ, China under the Zhou dynasty had already massive water impounding and river diversion projects irrigating its lands. Its builders Sunshu Ao and Ximen Bao were the earliest known hydraulic engineers in history. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Iran go even farther back in terms of irrigation — as early as the 6th millennium BC.
Agriculture, irrigation and surplus food production as hallmarks of a civilized society have never changed since those ancient times. President Ferdinand Marcos’ 21 years as leader of the Philippine Republic had brought the country onto the threshold of self-sufficiency in food production and even achieved a surplus for export at one point. That was made possible by his dedication to the building of the nation’s water and irrigation management systems, covering one million hectares by the time he was forced out of Malacañang.
Twenty-four years after the fall of Marcos, the Philippines has only 600,000 hectares of irrigated lands left, according to farmers’ organizations KaMMMPi and Araro. Twenty-two years of deliberate under-funding, policy obfuscation and neglect, as well as anti-agriculture land policies, plus international multilateral sabotage of agricultural and irrigation development programs had turned back the clock of progress. Farmer-irrigators’ associations were sidelined and the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) wasted precious irrigation fees.
After Cory Aquino, irrigation did not take priority again until President Joseph Estrada’s term. He allocated major funding toward rebuilding irrigation systems and revived the carabao development program along this end. In all, Marcos and Estrada markedly supported domestic productive capabilities while the Aquino-FVR-Arroyo triad merely sacrificed agriculture at the altar of globalization.
Right after the assumption of Cory’s Yellow regime, her government began the steps to dismantle and deconstruct the policy foundations for a productive and self-sustaining agriculture in the Philippines.
The Marcos era Agri-Agra law (PD 717) that required all banks to lend 25 percent of their funds to agriculture was amended to allow private banks to use these funds to purchase government debt papers or T-bills instead of compelling them to lend direct to farmers.
Irrigation programs were separated from the Department of Agriculture while government financing was cut in favor of loans from multilateral funding agencies like the World Bank.
Land use policies were skewed toward conversion of prime irrigated agricultural lands into residential and industrial parks — instead of these residential settlements being moved to high-rise urban dwellings and the latter to higher elevations — yielding huge profits to real estate speculators, developers and, of course, the oligarchs.
Cory Aquino and her political heirs sacrificed prime, flat, lowland agricultural properties which other Asian countries such as Korea or Japan would have preserved for rice production.
But then, the Aquino administration never seemed to have a clear policy agenda for development, true to the constitutional change it introduced in 1987 that the private sector would become the primary engine of economic growth. The only growth we have seen since is corporate profits as agriculture and industry have been kept to precariously nominal or, at best, marginal growth.
Cory Aquino’s deleterious policies were then followed up by Fidel Ramos with his “high value crops for export” strategy and later, Gloria Arroyo’s “food security by rice importation” scheme, which is increasing by leaps and bounds.
By 2010, the normal 10-percent rice importation level is expected to double, with more and more money going to foreign farmers.
Today’s government statistics claim that irrigated lands have increased to 1.5 million hectares, but the stark reality, such as the helplessness of farms in the face of El Niño, shows otherwise. Many of what the government claims are really old Marcos era irrigation structures like dozens of dam projects in the North that are now dried up, eroding and unmaintained.
The one reviving many of these old water impounding and irrigation structures is not government but tobacco tycoon Lucio Tan, at the cost of hundreds of millions, in such areas like Patpata, La Union; Quiling, Ilocos Norte; Garab, Cagayan; Dadda, Tugeugarao, Cagayan; Silag, Ilocos Sur; Casilagan, Ilocos Sur; and many other areas that are still undergoing rehabilitation. In many other areas, Lucio Tan is building new similar structures under the auspices of his family’s Tan Yan Kee Foundation.
Lucio Tan’s efforts reflect a cultural foundation that is rooted in the millennial experience of the oldest of civilizations: That water (coupled with irrigation) is the foundation of all life and civilization. Its lack, in turn, should not be blamed on non-human factors such as El Niño, but on our own unpreparedness for the vicissitudes of nature.
In my small eight-hectare mountain farm in Bataan, I am also taking a multi-pronged approach to the water issue, preparing my own small water impounding project and drilling a water well at the same time while requiring all detergents and soaps to be coconut oil-based so that water for laundry, bath and kitchen use can be recycled for watering plants.
President Estrada in 1991, still as a senator, authored the “Irrigation Law” (RA 6978) mandating the NIA to irrigate 1.5 million hectares within 10 years — a program FVR and Gloria didn’t pursue, which Erap couldn’t complete due to Edsa II.
We need to turn back the deserts of Cory Aquino that are spreading all over the land. We cannot let her heirs and ilk, plus the locust heads of globalization, continue to ravage the nation’s productive capacities and “yellow” our crops in their drying fields.
Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs FEATURE 04/12/2010
BEGEVE — Now you really can reach out and touch someone through the Internet, with the help of a wearable robot designed by a husband-and-wife team of scientists based in Japan.
Five years in the making, the device aims to inject a little physicality into online chatter, boosting the emotional quotient of virtual exchanges between flesh-and-blood people.
Forget emoticons, those annoying little smiley :-) or frowning :-( faces added to text messages with key strokes.
The quickened thump of an angry heart beat, a spine-tingling chill of fear, or that warm-all-over sensation sparked by true love — all can be felt even as your eyes stay glued to a computer screen.... MORE
Junk food killing pet cats and dogs FEATURE 04/12/2010
PARIS — The junk food and poor eating habits affecting humans is also killing their four-legged pals, say veterinary surgeons and experts.
Allergies and obesity are reducing the life expectancy of Lassies and Mittens nourished worldwide on industrial foodstuffs, said Gerard Lippert, a Belgian acupuncturist for animals who has just completed a study on the diets of 600 dead dogs.
“Pets, like humans, are victims of junk food,” he told AFP.
Of the 600 furry corpses he examined “those fed on processed foods died three years earlier than those fed on food made in the home.”... MORE
Not just churva teines HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 04/12/2010
Danton Remoto is all smiles these days after the Supreme Court (SC) had overturned the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s decision to bar his party-list, Ang Ladlad, from seeking third sex representation in Congress.
The Comelec earlier had banned Ang Ladlad on grounds of morality and religious beliefs. The Comelec even played god in a sense when it discriminated against gays when it claimed that to allow this gay group to run would be allowing Ang Ladlad to flaunt its ideologies and ideas before the once august halls of Congress, which would be tantamount to tolerating immorality, aside from Ang Ladlad, allegedly being offensive to Christians and Muslims.... MORE
Let’s party SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 04/12/2010
You’re invited to the “It” event in the country: The Philippine Elections! It’s on May 10, 2010 at your nearest precinct. Come in your best heat-resistant attire — it’s going to be packed! Watch out for “scalpers” or those individuals who will sidle up to you and try to “buy” your vote for a bargain price — they want in, but you know very well that’s out of the question!
As early as 2008, people have been preparing for this major event of the year. Candidate wannabes did the tango, rigodon and waltz before settling into the party of choice. This year, the entertainment has been extra fierce — and it’s not even the DAY yet!
First up: The “funny” presidentiables.
Speaker, 30 congressmen set to bolt Lakas By Char...
Villar, Noynoy ‘dangerous’ candidates — Jinggoy B...
Very valid issue FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares ...
With saw and screwdriver, China doctor gives gift ...
The desert lands of Cory Aquino DIE HARD III Herm...
Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hu...
Junk food killing pet cats and dogs FEATURE 04/1...
Not just churva teines HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 04/...
Let’s party SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 04/12/2010...
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How Sun readers vote
In one of the previous threads someone asked how Sun readers actually vote. Well, now I can tell you! MORI have rushed out figures from their aggregated data looking at just that.
MORI’s aggregated data for the last 9 months has voting intentions of CON 41%, LAB 26%, LDEM 19%. Amongst Sun readers though it was CON 42%, LAB 29%, LDEM 12% – so while there isn’t much difference in Conservative support, Sun readers are actually a bit more Labour and a bit less Lib Dem than the population as a whole, meaning the Tories have a lower lead amongst Sun readers than elsewhere in the country.
That said, if you go back and compare this to MORI’s aggregated figures from 2005 (which indeed they have), Sun readers have swung more heavily towards the Tories – a swing of 12.5%, as opposed to 9% in the country as a whole.
Filed under: MORI
YouGov Daily figures – 37/30/21
The daily figures from YouGov are CON 37%(-3), LAB 30%(+1), LDEM 21%(+3).
Short term changes are slightly surprising – the Lib Dems appear to have gained rather than Labour – but I expect that’s down to sample variation. The bigger picture is that Labour have reached 30% and the Conservative lead is down to 7 points. Obviously we’re down into hung Parliament territory here.
Before people get excited though, this is just the sort of conference boost we’d expect. Even without daily polling, polls that used to crop up on the middle of conference in past years showed the same sort of thing (last year YouGov had the Tories going from a 20 point lead before the Labour conference to a 10 point one straight afterwards). Most of the time they don’t last, and we should expect the Conservatives to benefit next week in exactly the same way that the Lib Dems and Labour have these past two weeks. The interesting thing would be if they didn’t.
Fieldwork for this poll began after Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday, but obviously many people would have answered it before they saw any coverage (and certainly before today’s newpaper coverage) so there might be more to come. On the other hand, for the Lib Dem conference their peak was the day after Nick Clegg’s speech, so this might well turn out to be Labour’s peak too (especially since their coverage now seems to have been swamped by negative stuff about the Sun endorsing the Conservatives). We’ll see tomorrow at 5.05pm.
The survey also repeated questions on Brown’s approval ratings and whether he should step down from earlier Daily surveys. His net approval is at minus 32, up from minus 37 before the speech. 47% of people think he should replaced as Labour leader, down from 50%.
On other questions, 59% thought that a referendum on AV would be a good idea. Asked how they would vote in such a referendum, 26% said they would vote for FPTP, 43% for AV.
Filed under: YouGov Daily Polls
Open thread on the Labour conference
The last thread seems to have very little discussion about polls and lots of partisan argument, so I thought it time for an open thread. Normal comment policy is suspending for just this thread, so feel knock yourselves out. Meanwhile, can we try and keep other threads on topic and free from party political bickering.
First reactions to Brown’s speech
YouGov have an instant reaction poll to Brown’s speech. This was a survey of 673 people who watched Brown’s speech.
The topline is that they liked it. 33% thought it was an excellent speech, 30% good, 22% fair, 11% poor and 4% bad. Their opinion of Brown has also improved since a few days ago, his net approval rating amongst these people was minus 24 a couple of days ago, now it it zero, so a big jump.
However, it’s important to remember that these are people who watched Brown’s speech, rather than a representative sample. Almost by definition, the majority of an actual representative sample wouldn’t have watched the speech, so wouldn’t be able to give any sort of verdict yet. People who watched his speech are likely to be a lot more politically aware, a lot more well disposed towards Labour to start with (I suspect you’re more likely to watch the speech of a party you like), and hence probably more receptive to Brown’s message.
The real effect of Brown’s speech will what difference it makes to the vast majority of people who see only clips of it on the 10 o’clock news, or hear it only through the prism of the newspapers tomorrow morning. Next voting intention figures will be at 5.05pm tomorrow, so we’ll see then how much of a boost it gives Labour.
Filed under: Labour, YouGov
YouGov Daily Poll 40/29/18
YouGov’s daily polling figures are normally going up at 5.05pm each day, but today (and next Thurs) publication is being brought forward to before the leaders’ speeches to leave 5pm free for other things.
Hence we already have today’s figures, which are CON 40%(+1), LAB 29%(nc), LDEM 18%(-2). That surprising bump up into the high 20s for Labour yesterday seems to be real, while Lib Dem conference boost looks like it is rapidly fading.
The most interesting other question on the poll was about “that question” by Andrew Marr on Sunday. A large majority of people (73%) thought Marr was wrong to ask Gordon Brown whether he was taking prescription pills and that Brown had a right to privacy. Only 22% said the public had a right to know Brown’s medical details.
I was actually rather surprised by that result – my expectation was that the general public attitude towards politicians is that they should jump through whatever humiliating hoops we demand. Looking at the queston wording, YouGov did specificy that the Prime Minister had a right to privacy on medical matters “that do not materially affect their work” and I suppose Andrew Marr would have said that the rumours, if true, could affect Brown’s work. That said, 73% to 22% is pretty clear opposition to this sort of questioning.
YouGov also asked whether people supported or opposed plans to ban automatic bonuses to bank employees and limit the amount of money banks can spend on bonus. Much less surprisingly, there was overwhelming support for this with 83% approval and 9% opposed.
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Lothlórien
(Redirected from Lothlorien)
The name Lórien refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Lórien (disambiguation).
The name Lothlórien refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Lothlórien (disambiguation).
"The Forest of Lothlorien in Spring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pronunciation loth-loor-ee-en
Other names Lórien, Lórinand, Lindórinand, Dwimordene, Laurelindórenan, Hidden Land, Golden Wood
Location East of Misty Mountains on both sides of the Celebrant[1]
Type Forest
Description Golden wood with mallorn trees
Regions Naith, Egladil
Major towns Caras Galadhon, Cerin Amroth
Inhabitants Galadhrim; Sindarin/Noldorin/Telerin leadership
Events Quest of the Ring, War of the Ring
Gallery Images of Lothlórien
"O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.
O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor."
― Galadriel, Farewell to Lórien
Lothlórien was a kingdom of Silvan Elves on the eastern side of the Hithaeglir. It was considered one of the most beautiful and "elvish" places in Middle-earth during the Third Age, and had the only mallorn-trees east of the sea.
1.1 First Settlers
1.2 The Sindarin Dynasty
1.3 The Lord and Lady
1.4 War of the Ring
1.5 Afterward
5 Names
6 Portrayal in adaptations
[edit] History
[edit] First Settlers
The first inhabitants of the forested area later known as Lórien were a group of Nandor that refused to cross the Hithaeglir.[2] Lórien was probably one of their scattered settlements in the area. Later, however, as the power of the Longbeards of Moria grew, they relocated to the western side of the Anduin, across the Nimrodel. The land in which they dwelt (the forest east of the Hithaeglir, above Fangorn and below Mirkwood) became known in the Silvan tongue as Lórinand, or Laurelindórenan.
[edit] The Sindarin Dynasty
Following the destruction of Beleriand and the War of Wrath, most of the Noldorin exiles and remnants of the Sindar retreated to Lindon. The Valar reinvited these Elves to Aman, but Amdír, among many others, was unwilling and remained in Lindon.[3] He, along with his son Amroth, established himself in Lórinand, where he would soon lead the princeless Silvan Elves.[4] Their language was replaced by Sindarin. The arrival of the Sinda Amdír affected the Nandor of Laurelindórenan. He took over as their King, while another Sinda, Oropher, became King of Greenwood the Great.[5]
Celeborn, a Sindarin elf, dwelt with his Noldorin wife Galadriel in Eregion. They made contact with the Nandor of Lórinand, and before long they passed through Moria and arrived in the woods. Before the Fall of Eregion and the death of Celebrimbor, Nenya, one of the Three Rings of the Elves, was delivered to Galadriel.[6] Other survivors of Eregion, including many Noldor and Sindar, escaped into Khazad-dûm and were granted passage by their friends the Dwarves, coming eventually through the Misty Mountains to the woodlands that would long afterwards be called Lothlórien.[7]
As Sauron's power grew over the Westlands, King Amdír marshaled the Elves of Lórinand to the War of the Last Alliance. His division was cut off from the main body during the Battle of Dagorlad and many of the Nandor went down into the Dead Marshes with their King.[5]
The survivors of the battle, which included Amdír’s son Amroth, returned to Lórinand. Amroth was the new King, but he was tired of Middle-earth, and wished to go West and seek Valinor. When Moria fell to evil in T.A. 1981, many of the Lórinand elves fled south. Around that time Amroth departed to Edhellond with his beloved, Nimrodel. The Nandor never saw either of them again.[8]
[edit] The Lord and Lady
Angus McBride - Galadriel
After Amroth and Nimrodel had passed away, Celeborn and Galadriel took the title of Lord and Lady of Galadhrim, the collective name for the people of Lothlórien.[6] With Nenya, the land was kept pure and alive, and evil was not permitted to penetrate it. They moved back to the western side of Anduin, and built Caras Galadhon, the great center of the woodland kingdom. There Galadriel planted the seeds of the mallorn trees that was given to her by Gil-galad when she lived in Lindon, where they couldn't grow.[9] It was because of the mellyrn that Lothlórien became known as the Golden Wood thenceforth.[10] Lothlórien was filled with light and life, and became beautiful and by the power of the Elven Ring the trees did not die.
Under the Lord and Lady, Lothlórien prospered for more than a thousand years as time passed without decay under the golden boughs. Celeborn and Galadriel produced a daughter, Celebrían who married Elrond, and their granddaughter Arwen Undómiel was considered the fairest of the elven race at that time.
In T.A. 3017, Aragorn passed by Lothlórien with the captured Gollum to deliver him to Mirkwood. Gandalf got word from Lothlórien on his way to the Shire, and he changed his course to go and meet them.[11]
[edit] War of the Ring
But as the Third Age came to an end, troubles at last began to touch the Valley of Singing Gold. As the shadow of Sauron lengthened, and the War of the Ring raged, Lórien received the remnant of the Fellowship of the Ring, a group of travellers on a quest of immeasurable importance. The border-wardens came across them. Among the company were Aragorn, a prince of the Dúnedain and a friend of the Lady, as well as Legolas of Mirkwood. The only reservation the border-wardens had about them was the dwarf, Gimli.[12] The Fellowship were led in blindfolded for a time, but at Galadriel's word they were taken to Caras Galadhon on 17 January, T.A. 3019, and their blindfolds were released.[13] The very night the Fellowship arrived, a band of Orcs crossed the Nimrodel. A regiment or so of the Galadhrim were sent out, and destroyed the Orcs.[12]
There the Elves learned of the death of Gandalf, and Galadriel knew what evil had been brought into the Golden Wood. She revealed her own ring to Frodo, and showed him her mirror.[14] Then the Fellowship was furnished with new supplies, and sent off down Anduin, bearing the gifts of the Lord and Lady.[15]
Right when the Company left, Gwaihir brought Gandalf to the Golden Wood, who was only recovering from his battle with Durin's Bane. He was healed, clothed and given a new staff, before leaving for Fangorn.[16]
But the coming of The One Ring was only the beginning of their troubles. But they were only the heralds of greater conflicts that were to occur. Sauron unleashed massive attacks on the Golden Wood.
On 11 March, Orcs from Dol Guldur swarmed into the forest in a full-scale assault. By the power of the Wood-elves and Galadriel’s ring, they were repulsed. The second wave came on 15 March, at the same time as the invasion of Mirkwood. Again, the Orcs were forced out. The third and last attack was made seven days later, 22 March. They caused much destruction, but Celeborn led the Nandor in a great counter-attack that routed them utterly. Boats were made, and the armies of Lórien crossed the Anduin. They stormed Dol Guldur (the Nazgûl being absent in the war to the south), and took it. Galadriel threw down its walls, and Mirkwood was cleansed. The southern part of Mirkwood fell into the dominion of Lothlórien, and it was called East Lórien.[13]
[edit] Afterward
Lothlórien in J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth
Only two-and-a-half years after the War of the Ring, Galadriel, the Lady of Lórien, took ship West to Valinor.
The eastern border of Lothlórien in the southern Eryn Lasgalen became East Lórien. It was founded after the cleansing of Dol Guldur during the War of the Ring, and Celeborn ruled the Galadhrim of Lothlórien. In the Fourth Age he grew weary and left for Rivendell leaving the wooded land of East Lórien populated by only a few wandering Silvan Elves.[17]
In the Fo.A. 121, a grief-filled Arwen Undómiel travelled to Lothlórien, now fully abandoned, after Aragorn surrendered his life, surrendering her own life upon Cerin Amroth. "[T]here is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten..."[18]
[edit] Geography
Lothlórien stood between the south-eastern end of the Misty Mountains and the great river Anduin. The river Celebrant ran through the wood from its source in the mountains to the west through to the Anduin to the east.
In its earlier days, the woods of Lothlórien extended south into Fangorn Forest. In these days there was no true border between the two territories, though after conversation between Treebeard and the King of the Golden Wood it was agreed that the inhabitants of either land could walk freely at their leisure across whatever borders there may be.[19] It is also possible that the woods of Lórien extended into the southern regions of Greenwood the Great, though there is only a small amount of evidence supporting this possibility.[20] By the Third Age, Lórien was separate from Fangorn in the south and Mirkwood in the east by many miles.
[edit] Locations
Caras Galadhon
Cerin Amroth
[edit] Etymology
Lothlórien, said to mean "Lórien of the Blossom", is a compound of Sindarin loth + Quenya Lórien "?Dream Land"). Treebeard translates the name as "Dreamflower".[21]
[edit] Names
Lothlórien was often shortened to Lórien, or the Golden Wood (referring to the golden mallorn trees that grew in that land).[21][22] Other names recorded for the region were:
Laurelindórenan Q. ("Valley of Singing Gold")
Lórinand ?N. ("valley of gold")[23]
Laurenandë Q. "Valley of gold"[23]
Glornan S. "Valley of gold"[23]
Nan Laur S. "Valley of gold"[23]
Lindórinand ?N. "Vale of the Land of the Singers"[23]
Dwimordene. The name means "haunted valley" in Old English.[24]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
1988: J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth:
Lórien is one of the several battlegrounds in this game. The trees are just normal trees.
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
Lórien was portrayed more as a city of moonshine and soft candlelight, in stark contrast to its brilliant golden appearance (filled with sunshine) in the books.
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game):
After defeating the Balrog, the Fellowship enters Lothlórien. There are no missions; stepping towards a ladder triggers the Mirror of Galadriel-scene and continues the game.
2004: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth:
In the Good Campaign, Lothlórien (along with the Fellowship) is attacked by several waves of orcs and trolls. The area is full of treasures, which form the only income needed to make elven archers.
Map of Lothlórien from The Lord of the Rings Online.
2004: The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring:
Similar to The Battle for Middle-earth, a skirmish takes place after Fellowship's arrival in Lothlórien. Player's goal during the mission is to protect two mallorn trees from attacks for a certain period of time.
2006: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II:
Lothlórien makes appearance as a Battleground in both "Evil" campaign and skirmish model. The layout of the map drastically differs from the ones in the game-predecessor.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
Lothlórien is one of major regions of the game, added following the The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria expansion. It is inhabited by over a hundred of non-playable characters, who are involved in hundreds of various quests. The map shows the major landmarks of the area: The Mirrormere, rivers Anduin, Nimrodel and Celebrant, Cerin Amroth and Caras Galadhon.
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix A: The Silvan Elves and their Speech"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix B: The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Amroth and Nimrodel"
↑ 5.0 5.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix B: The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves"
↑ 6.0 6.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "A Description of the Island of Númenor"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn", note 5
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"
↑ 12.0 12.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Lothlórien"
↑ 13.0 13.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Mirror of Galadriel"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Farewell to Lórien"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "The White Rider"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"
↑ 21.0 21.1 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 300 (citing from the Unfinished index)
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 48
↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", note 5
↑ Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, entry "Dwimordene"
Route of the Fellowship of the Ring
Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen · Eastemnet · Fangorn Forest · Rohan · Edoras · Hornburg · Isengard · Dunharrow · Paths of the Dead · Gondor · Erech · Lamedon · Linhir · Lebennin · Pelargir · Minas Tirith · Osgiliath · Cross-roads · Ithilien · Dagorlad · Black Gate · Field of Cormallen · Cair Andros · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen†
Frodo and Sam
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen · Emyn Muil · Dead Marshes · Black Gate · Ithilien · Henneth Annûn · Cross-roads · Morgul Vale · Stairs of Cirith Ungol · Cirith Ungol · Shelob's Lair · Tower of Cirith Ungol · Mordor · Morgai · Plateau of Gorgoroth · Mount Doom · Field of Cormallen · Cair Andros · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Celebdil† · Lothlórien · Fangorn Forest · Edoras · Hornburg · Isengard · Rohan · Anórien · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Osgiliath · Cross-roads · Ithilien · Dagorlad · Black Gate · Field of Cormallen · Cair Andros · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen · Emyn Muil · Eastemnet · Fangorn Forest · Wellinghall · Derndingle · Isengard · Hornburg · Dunharrow · Drúadan Forest · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
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Every so often, I get asked for a recommended reading list for those interested in the 'paranormal'. My usual answer is "I recommend everything provided it's actually read."
Not much of an answer but it's accurate.
The more information you have, the better rounded your abilities as either an investigator or even an informed 'ghost enthusiast'.
Still, a few books do stick out in my eyes as being an excellent starting point for anyone heading down this path. I don't subscribe to any one of them (in other words, there is no 'ghost bible' and probably never will (or should) be) but, these several books have helped steer me on both paths... one of interest and one of exploration.
#1: ESP, Hauntings & Poltergeists - The Parapsychologist's Handbook by Loyd Auerbach.
Auerbach's tome is pretty well rounded and based on his education in parapsychology at JFK University. There's many good points in this including some definite ideas on 'how to' do an investigation and how to interview witnesses.
Although good, it certainly is NOT a coverall and is not as complete as it could be. Combined with the books below though, it's a useful and decent read... if a little "pop culture" dated with loads of references to the movie "Ghostbusters" and such.
#2: The Paranormal - An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Stuart Gordon
Not a great book by any stretch of the imagination as it covers a LOT of topics (over 700 pages and almost as many entries) that truly deserve their own book of an equivalent size but darnedably handy when you need a quick education in an area of 'non-ghostly' and some even 'ghostly' information or to look up one of the people involved in the paranormal.
Being able to quick-quote this book has saved my bacon on a few occasions in so much as the person talking to me figured I wasn't COMPLETELY incompetent.
Although NOT a CSICOPish book, weirdly, it's listed on the CSICOP "Young Skeptics" site as a 'readable' book.
#3: Shockingly Close to the Truth - Tales of a Grave Robbing UFOlogist by James Moseley and Karl Pflock
A UFO book for the ghost enthusiast??? You bet!
James Moseley's been running amok in the field of UFOlogy (or UFOolery as he calls it) for over fifty years! This book is important on many levels... Firstly, it shows how the subject IS important but the people involved in the paranormal need to LIGHTEN UP and realise we can and often do look and act silly to the rest of the planet.
Second, it show's how investigators (in this case, UFOlogical but it DOES go all ways) eat their young... the way we can get such a big head and start arguing that WE are right and THEY are wrong to the point of overlooking important work. An old 'computer software' joke(?) once went "If software developers put half the effort they put into building cool screen savers into actual applications, then world would be a better place." Well, on occasion, if we paranormal researchers (myself included) spent half the time doing actual field work as opposed to whining, criticizing and pontificating in ACTUAL field work, we'd probably discover some kick-butt stuff!
Thirdly, Moseley's book (and his "magazine", Saucer Smear) are incredibly funny and fun to read.
#4: Missing Pieces - How to Investigate Ghosts, UFO's, Psychics and other Mysteries by (non-scientist) Joe Nickell and Robert Baker (contributor)
From Saucers to CSICOP!?! What am I thinking!?! How to be well rounded, that's what.
The only thing on THIS book though I ask is PLEASE DO NOT BUY IT NEW! Ever since CSICOP has started asking people (this is NOT a joke) to bequeath them an inheritance in their will, I cannot spend any money that might go to them myself... Nor would I recommend you send these sceptdebunkers any cash either! Vultures!
For more information, please see our message board article by clicking here.
Anyway, this book is written by the ghosty-sets reigning devil, Joe "Auto-Debunking" Nickell and talks about how the debunkers go about their work! It's a good read to ensure that you are ready for these twerps if they come a knockin' at your door. Do not expect anything scientific, nor even remotely neutral. This book is clearly written to push an Atheist agenda, and to mock people.
On the plus side, it also DOES shed light on the "actual" frauds (not CSICOP themselves but lately I'd argue...) which is useful in helping you sift through the OTHER side of the paranormal fence in the realm of pay-per-play psychics and house clearers. If you're a 'true believer', you may find yourself gritting your teeth reading this BUT it's important. Think of it as learning all about the dark as you're already acquainted with the light.
#5: Almost Anything by Hans Holzer on Ghosts (but a high recommendation for The Great British Ghost Hunt)
The Living Legend of Ghost and Hauntings Research and Psychical Research for many. Dr. Holzer has some pretty set patterns and beliefs and uses psychics heavily. He also believes that ALL ghosts are "lost souls" that NEED to be sent off in to the light... so house clearing is a necessity.
Regardless, his writing style is good and they are enjoyable reads. They also are good when looking into the more "psychical side" of ghost research.
#6: Our Own Online Course by Matthew James Didier
Although an illiterate and egotistical butthead, Didier has based the course on his own studies and reading. Useful things can and ARE in this course which is being used by all the active GHRSs.
The only problem is it's quite obvious that Didier want's to be Hans Holzer, Jim Moseley and a little bit of the dreaded Joe Nickell which, obviously, is a stupid goal.
Seriously, the course IS printable and it's free and yes, it's based on things from the books listed here as well as my own experiences. The stuff about EMF amongst other things SHOULD be pretty useful to most... I hope.
#7: Almost anything you can get your hands on from the Society for Psychical Research... especially their early ghost research days.
Holzer may be the living legend but the SPR in Great Britain set the tone for excellent and relevant scientific AND psychical research into ghosts and hauntings. We steal... er, I mean, borrow a lot of the GHRS's methods and terms from these extraordinary researchers.
Over the last few decades though, their focus has been more on the PSI phenomena then in investigating "ghosts" or "haunted spots" but their work was precedent setting and excellent. When at your library, keep your eyes open for stuff by the SPR and their members.. but also keep an open mind when reading it. The members of the SPR were all very different and often pontificated points as much as we do on the dreaded 'net today.
#8: Confessions of a Ghost Hunter by Harry Price
Harry had a lot of issues. He was a media whore par excellence and it IS probable that he... well... pumped a lot of extra "oomph" into his findings and conclusions to make them more interesting to the BBC audiences he did radio shows for.
Still, Mr. Price is a legend and rightfully so and once one peels back the layers, they can find excellent information and ideas in his writings. Good old Harry may have been a half-fraud but his ideas were still valid.
#9: True Tales of the Paranormal by Kimberly Molto
WARNING: This is NOT for the novice and it goes so far into ghosts and hauntings that yes, mathematics IS involved!
This relatively new book has three benefits... Firstly, it's a medical/scientific tome that is NOT for the sceptdebunker. Secondly, it's Canadian and lastly, it mentions your humble correspondent as well as our friends at Haunted Hamilton and 'our' own sister site director and significant other, Sue from ParaResearchers. What more could I want?
Seriously, it is an EXCELLENT and thorough look at ghosts, hauntings and ESP phenomena with a scientific and factual mind that is not biased via the CSICOPs of the planet. Ms. Molto's book is a GOOD read... if a little heavy.
#10: Crookes and the spirit world; a collection of writings by or concerning the work of Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S., in the Field of Psychical Research by (surprise) Sir William Crookes
Lately, Sir William got moved back to the front burner but here is the CLOSEST thing you'll have to the Paranormal Researcher's Galileo Galilei. Crookes scientifically 'proved' that the consciousness survives death. It would take the better part of a few pages to explain how or why BUT to many, it is accepted evidence and his experiments HAVE been recreated by some.
Of course, Sir William was mocked and basically pawned off to the public by most as a fraud and a crackpot but he did some amazing work.
How many Nobel winning scientists do you know that dabbled in psychical research?
I GUARANTEE this is NOT for the novice BUT, if you're up for a challenge and want what some say is definitive proof of the existence of some sort of afterlife, this is a MUST read.
For the record, CSICOP and James "The Amazing/Amusing" Randi think that Sir William was a moron for his psychical work and beliefs... despite the fact that he indeed MAY have found proof.
For the Ontarian (or Canadian), I could add books by our own John Robert Colombo, Terry Boyle, Barbara Smith or Sheila Hervey... of course, we are biased to John Robert but honestly, that was BEFORE the GHRS was formed, but all of the above are more or less "must reads" for the SERIOUS ghost researcher.
Note: Picking up the books by the authors listed above is good for another reason... Everyone likes to visit 'haunted locales' and these books (by the authors just above) give you ideas, areas and reports of places where you can visit to do your own investigating! (Just be respectful and go only where allowed and during PROPER hours!)
I'd also recommend some selections from Peter Underwood (for stories and reports) and William G. Roll and Scott Rogo (for information and study...), but what can I tell you... my personal library is quite extensive! I'd even recommend Underwood's book on Vampires (yeah, not ghostly...) as a good read too!
Now, far more fun but I could get into trouble would be to do a list of books and resources NOT to read to be a good researcher... and maybe sometime I will. (grin)
*cough* John *cough* Edwards *cough* Sylvia *cough* Browne *cough* The *cough* Warrens *cough* but again, I'll work on that one later!
ADDITION: January 2003 I'd like to add a couple of "good ones" for simple source and reading material... "Subway Books" or (pardon this but...) "Bathroom Books". Basically, good information, easy to digest and fun to read that don't require a lot of time to finish a chapter or section and ARE useful in the knowledge they impart...
Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History by Richard Shenkman.
Excellent book that blows away many of the preconceptions of historical myths. Easy to read and great for "factoids". All well documented and very painless to pick up and put down.
Any of the "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers"
Don't laugh! These are great big books with tiny little chapters and sections. Again, mounds of interesting factoids and easy to digest. Any local bookstore should have one of the many editions available... Pick it up and leaf through it and you'll see the reason it made this list. For example, did you know that "Glass" is NOT considered a solid? It is an EXTREMELY viscous liquid! These books are great "look like a smart @$$" books!
Charles Berlitz's World of Strange Phenomena by (surprise) Charles Berlitz
Woefully lacking in details BUT making up for it in the sheer number of things reported in the book! An excellent "cover-all" for the paranormal researcher that just needs to be able to quote a "quick" reference. Each "chapter" is for the most part, about a paragraph or two long BUT it does cover ghosts, UFOs, dissapearances, 'ghost ships', ESP and whatnot admirably enough to wet anyone's appetite and at least allow you to cite the odd thing when called upon! Again, an excellent "quickie" resource.
Here is an update based on the books that have helped shape a lot of our notes and ideas... There's "duplicates" listed above but this may be helpful to those truly interested...
Auerbach, Loyd - ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Parapsychologists Handbook
ISBN: 0-446-34951-8 Copyright 1986 by Loyd Auerbach
Warner Books
Bayless, Raymond - Apparitions and Survival of Death
ISBN 0-8065-1134-6 Copyright 1973 by Raymond Bayless
Citadel Press - Carol Publishing Group
Branden, Victoria - Give Up The Ghost: Taking the Super out of the Supernatural
ISBN 0-9694385-2-4 Copyright 1992 by Victoria Branden
Imp Press - Impressa Communications Limited
Brookesmith, Peter (Editor) - Ghosts<BR> ISBN 0-85613-637-9 Copyright 1984 by Orbis Publishing
Orbis Publishing Limited, London
Brunvand, Jan Harold - Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
ISBN: 0-393-32358-7 Copyright 2002 by Jan Harold Brunvard
W.W. Norton & Company
Clark, Jerome - Unexplained!
ISBN 0-8103-9436-7 Copyright 1993 by Jerome Clark
Visible Ink Press- Gable Research Inc.
Cohen, Daniel - The Encyclopedia of Ghosts
ISBN: 0-396-08308-0 Copyright 1984 by Daniel Cohen
Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc
Colombo, John Robert - Mackenzie King's Ghost
ISBN: 0-88882-136-0 Copyright 1991 by J.R. Colombo
Hounslow Press
Colombo, John Robert - Mysteries of Ontario
ISBN 0-88882-205-7 Copyright 1999 by John Robert Colombo
Hounslow Press - Dundurn Group
Gordon, Stuart - The Paranormal: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
ISBN: 0-7472-3603-8 Copyright 1992 by Richard Stuart Gordon
Headline Book Publishing
Holzer, Hans - Best True Ghost Stories
ISBN: 0-13-071928-5 Copyright 1983 by Hans Holzer
Prentice Hall of Canada
Holzer, Hans - True Ghost Stories
ISBN 0-88486-073-6 Copyright 1992 by Hans Holzer
Bristol Park Books
Molto, Kimberly - True Tales of the Paranormal
ISBN 1-55002-410-8 Copyright 2002 by Kimberly Molto
Dundurn Press
Moseley, James - Shockingly Close to the Truth: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist
ISBN: 1-57392-991-3 Copyright 2002 by James Moseley
Prometheus Books
Owen, A.R.G - Psychic Mysteries of the North
ISBN 0-06-013266-3 Copyright 1975 by A.R.G. Owen
Harper and Row
Owen, Iris M. & Sparrow, Margaret - Conjuring Up Philip
ISBN: 0-88902-003-5 Copyright 1976 by Iris M. Owen and Margaret Sparrow
Nickell, Joe with Baker, Robert - How to Investigate Ghosts, UFO's, Psychics and other Mysteries
ISBN: 0-87975-729-9 Copyright 2000 by Joe Nickell
Price, Harry - Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter
Copyright 1974 by H.H. Price
Causeway Books New York
Price, Harry - The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory
Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd
Rhine, Louisa E. - ESP in Life and Lab: Tracing Hidden Channels
Library of Congress 67-12800 Copyright 1967 by Louisa E. Rhine
Macmillan Company
Rogo, D. Scott - Life After Death: The Case for Survival of Bodily Death
ISBN: 0-85030-504-7 Copyright 1986 by D.S. Rogo
Aquarian Press
Rogo, D. Scott - The Poltergeist Experience
ISBN 0-14-0044995-9 Copyright 1979 by D. Scott Rogo
Stander, Dr. Philip & Schmolling, Dr. Paul - Poltergeists & The Paranormal: Fact Beyond Fiction
ISBN 1-56718-682-3 Copyright 1996 by Paul Schmolling and Paul Stander
Llewellyn Publications
Tyrell, G.N.M. - Apparitions
Collier (#07809) Copyright 1953 by The Society for Psychical Research
Collier Books
Upton, Kyle - Niagara's Ghosts at Fort George
ISBN 0-9685150-0-2 Copyright 1999 by Kyle Upton
Kyle Upton - Newmarket
Wilkins, Robert - The Bedside Book of Death
ISBN 0-8065-1277-6 Copyright 1990 by Robert Wilkins
Citadel Press - Carol Communications, Inc.
This is another list I'll be adding to as things come in!
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Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
Though everyone knows that brushing the plant will cause an uncomfortable burning pain for several hours, many do not equate that effect with 'poisoning'.
Read more about Urtica dioica, stinging nettle, in these blog entries (most recent first);
'Poisonous Plants 1-2-1' video about stinging nettles
Stinging nettles always sting me but don't always cause stinging
Could I do a full twenty minute talk just on nettles?
A Remembrance Day look at plants associated with war and soldiers
Poisonous plants in a public park.
Is nettle sting a form of acupuncture?
The many 'cures' for nettle sting
Meaning of the Name
From the Latin ‘uro’, ‘to burn’ or, more specifically, ‘to irritate by burning’.
dioica
Dioecious. The male and female are different plants.
Common Names and Synonyms
common nettle, stinging nettle, the naughty man's plaything (naughty man = the devil).
How Poisonous, How Harmful?
Formic acid is present and responsible for the initial pain but the longer term effects are caused by histamine, acetylcholine and 5-hydroxytryptamine.
Brushing the plant produces a stinging on the skin of varying intensity. There is almost no-one who has not been stung by the nettle.
Many, many millions but few result in damage or effects so severe as to require medical attention. In studies on volunteers, the sting has been found to persist for about twelve hours if left completely untouched.
Urtica ferox is a species unique to New Zealand which is said to have caused one human death as well as numerous deaths of dogs and horses. It is believed to contain an additional neurotoxin to those found in other species of nettle.
Folklore and Facts
The poisons are in tiny hairs on the edge and underside of the leaves. Each hair is, effectively, a sealed hypodermic syringe. Brushing passed a hair breaks off the top leaving a sharp end which sticks into the skin. Continuing sideways movement results in the bulb containing the poisons being squeezed so that the toxins are injected. The sideways action is essential to break the tops off and leads to the concept of 'grasping the nettle' which suggests that you can avoid damage to the hairs if you take hold of the plant with no sideways movement.
As many people believe that grasping the nettle is painless as say it is nonsense.
Many sources say it was introduced to Britain by Roman soldiers who expected to need to beat themselves with nettles to keep warm. Given that the nettle dies back in the winter, it would not have been available when it was most needed so, either the story is untrue or the Romans were ignorant of the conditions they would meet.
In his 'The Englishman’s Flora', 1958, Geoffrey Grigson talks about using nettle fibres to make cloth. He cites the 18th century Scottish poet, Thomas Campbell, as writing of sleeping in nettle sheets and eating off a nettle tablecloth. Grigson also says that nettle cloth was found wrapped around cremated bones in a Danish grave from the later Bronze Age suggesting the plant was known in northern Europe long before the Romans arrived.
Grigson, John Gerard and others call Urtica pilulifera the ‘Roman nettle’. Grigson says it was found in Romney in Kent where Julius Caesar landed but then points out that its discovery came long after it had been given the name Roman nettle and ‘long after’ it had been grown by Gerard. Grigson describes its alleged use for keeping warm by Roman soldiers as ‘the tall story’.
Grigson does, however, say that it seems to follow mankind around and talks of it appearing in New England in the 17th century after the arrival of British settlers. This following man around leads to the belief in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland that nettle grows from the bodies of the dead.
Pliny has a lot to say about the uses of the nettle but, even though he served in the Roman army in Germany, he makes no mention of its use as a personal heating system.
John Parkinson, in his Theatrum Botanicum, published in 1629, is believed to have been the first to claim that nettle was an import from Italy.
William Camden in his book ‘Britannia’, first published in Latin in 1586 but extensively revised in 1607 and then translated into English in 1610, says that the Romans believed Britain to be a place where giants lived in the mountains and serpents roamed the valleys and a person would need to be mad to voluntarily travel to Britain. He then gives the story of the Romans bringing nettle seeds with them.
It may be, therefore, that the Romans brought nettle to Britain not knowing it was already here and not knowing it would die off in the winter. Equally, nettle may just have come with them in the way that it followed the early settlers to New England.
There is, of course, the added complication of how Roman were the ‘Romans’? The Roman Empire depended on assimilating conquered peoples so many of the invading army were native to other parts of the Roman Empire and, by the time Hadrian’s Wall was built about 150 years after the initial invasion, many of the garrison soldiers were native to England and, thus, well used to the climatic conditions.
On balance, Grigson’s view that soldiers beating themselves with nettles was a ‘tall story’ is, probably, correct.
In June, 2000 researchers from the University of Plymouth published the results of a randomized controlled double blind study of the effect of nettle sting on arthritic pain at the base of the thumb.
The trial was very small involving just 27 people who were given a non-flowering plant, either Urtica dioica or Lamium orvala, deadnettle, and asked to apply the underside of one leave to the skin on the base of the thumb or other painful area once a day for thirty seconds. The patients were warned that they might experience stinging but were told the plants in the trial were all stinging nettles.
All the patients using stinging nettles reported an almost immediate reduction in pain and their diaries revealed a significant reduction in analgesic medication. The researchers concluded that further work was required.
In 2007, the results of a pilot study were published. The study was only intended to test the acceptability of a trial for treating knee pain rather than actually testing the benefits of stinging nettle. It involved only 42 people and found little difference in effect between the Urtica dioica and the non-stinging control. A larger study will be required to see if there is a reliable reduction in pain.
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Abrus precatorius, rosary pea
Aconitum lycoctonum, wolfsbane
Aconitum napellus, monkshood
Actaea racemosa, black cohosh
Actaea spicata, baneberry
Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut
Amanita muscaria, fly agaric
Aquilegia atrata, columbine
Aristolochia clematitis, birthwort
Artemisia absinthium, wormwood
Arum italicum, Italian cuckoopint
Arum maculatum, cuckoopint
Aspergillus fumigatus
Atropa belladonna, deadly nightshade
Brugmansia suaveolens, angel's trumpet
Bryonia dioica, bryony
Buxus sempervirens, common box
Camellia sinensis, tea
Cannabis sativa, marijuana
Catha edulis, khat
Chelidonium majus, greater celandine
Cimicifuga racemosa, black cohosh
Claviceps purpurea, ergot
Clematis vitalba, old man's beard
Colchicum autumnale, naked ladies
Conium maculatum, poison hemlock
Convallaria majalis, lily of the valley
Cynoglossum officinale, hound’s tongue
Daphne mezereon, spurge olive
Datura stramonium, thorn apple, jimsonweed
Datura suaveolens, angel's trumpet
Delphinium, larkspur
Digitalis spp., foxglove
Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum
Echium vulgare, viper’s bugloss
Eranthis hyemalis, winter aconite
Erythroxylum coca, cocaine
Euonymus europaeus, spindle tree
Euphorbia x martinii, red spurge
Euphorbia pulcherrima, poinsettia
Fritillaria spp., fritillary
Galanthus nivalis, snowdrop
Hedera helix, common ivy
Helleborus spp., hellebore
Heracleum mantegazzianum, giant hogweed
Hyacinthoides non-scripta, bluebell
Hyoscyamus niger, black henbane
Ilex aquifolium, holly
Jacobaea vulgaris, ragwort
Juniperus communis, common juniper
Laburnum anagyroides, laburnum
Lactuca serriola, prickly lettuce
Leucojum aestivum, snowflake
Lithospermum officinale, gromwell
Lolium temulentum, darnel
Malus 'John Downie', crab apple
Mandragora officinarum, mandrake
Mercurialis perennis, dog’s mercury
Narcissus, daffodil
Nepeta faassenii, catmint
Nerium oleander, oleander
Nicotiana sylvestris, tobacco
Oenanthe crocata, hemlock water dropwort
Papaver somniferum, opium poppy
Pastinaca sativa, parsnip
Polygonatum odoratum, angular Solomon's seal
Prunus laurocerasus, cherry laurel
Pulsatilla vulgaris, pasque flower
Ranunculus acris, meadow buttercup
Rheum x hybridum, rhubarb
Rhododendron spp.
Rhus radicans, poison ivy
Ricinus communis, castor oil plant
Rosmarinus officinalis, rosemary
Rumex obtusifolius, broad-leaved dock
Ruta graveolens, rue
Salix alba, white willow
Salvia divinorum, sage
Scutellaria laterifolia, Virginian skullcap
Senecio jacobaea, ragwort
Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade
Solanum melongena, aubergine
Strychnos nux-vomica, poison nut
Symphoricarpos albus, snowberry
Symphytum spp., comfrey
Taxus baccata, yew
Toxicodendron radicans, poison ivy
Thevetia peruviana, yellow oleander
Veratrum album, white hellebore
Verbascum olympicum, Greek mullein
Vinca major, greater periwinkle
Viscum album, mistletoe
Vitex agnus-castus, chaste tree
Phantastica
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Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty
By Charlie Large -
Almost twenty years after the release of the original Oddworld title Abe’s Oddysee (which debuted on the PlayStation in September 1997), the ground-up remake Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty lands on the PlayStation Vita – instantly challenging for the honour of becoming the handheld’s best platformer.
You play as Abe, a Mudokon slave who spends his days working as a floor-waxer at Rupture Farms – ‘the biggest meat-processing plant in Oddworld’. One night whilst he is cleaning, Abe happens to overhear Rupture Farms’ owner Mullock the Glukkon discussing his latest meat-based product – Mudokon Pops! Startled by this revelation, Abe sets off to escape the factory whilst rescuing the rest of the Mudokon slaves before they become tasty snacks.
You take control of Abe at the start of his escape, and the opening chapter in Rupture Farms helps you to get to grips with the core gameplay mechanics. Keeping with the original, New ‘n’ Tasty is a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer that tests you with its precision-requiring jumps and obstacles that require impeccable timing.
As you make your way through the first chapter you will notice that the game’s environment is used to display additional information exceptionally. There is no HUD in New ‘n’ Tasty – everything you need to know is provided to you by environmental objects. You will notice the side-scrolling displays that provide information on the game’s controls that form a tutorial of sorts, and the gigantic billboards in the game that – quite hauntingly – remind you of how many of the 299 trapped Mudokons you have rescued (or left to die).
The environments in the game are stunning, and you can definitely tell that a lot of time and care was put into making the Vita version of New ‘n’ Tasty. There had to be some compromises made to port the game from the PlayStation 4 to the Vita, but even with these alterations the game is gorgeous. There were a few times when there were a lot of enemies on the screen that I noticed a drop in frame-rate, and a few times when objects in the game did not work as expected, but this did not ruin the overall experience for me.
Speaking of the enemies, one thing that makes Abe unique to other platforming heroes is that he cannot directly harm the various creatures that can do him harm. The one thing that he can do is chant. By holding down the left and right triggers on the PlayStation Vita you will perform a chant, allowing you to possess one of the enemy types that you will encounter during play. By taking control of the Sligs that patrol Rupture Farms and the surrounding areas you can use their machine guns to clear your path and can also unlock security gates within the Rupture Farm’s compound. Other enemies in the game cannot be possessed, and to outwit these you will need to solve puzzles and use environmental objects to make sure that you come out on top. Each enemy is unique and distinctly different, and they all have their own characteristics that can make for some hilarious, unscripted happenings throughout the game.
I had great fun solving the game’s puzzles and using the various objects in the environments to overcome obstacles that the game threw my way. Using the Vita’s d-pad you can make Abe (or possessed Sligs) interact with other creatures. Interacting comes down to using a command system known as GameSpeak, having you mimic passwords that you hear in certain parts of the game in order to advance. GameSpeak blends in with the other sounds that you hear throughout the game to make for great audio. Who doesn’t love the sound of farts, mystical chants, and whistles against an industrious backdrop?
The Mudokons that you need to rescue are located throughout the game’s fifteen chapters, and they will require you to thoroughly search the environments in order to find them. When I first escaped Rupture Farms and entered the Stockyards area of the game I thought I had rescued all the Mudokons in the opening chapter; I was soon proven wrong when the first billboard I came across told me that over forty of my chums had perished. How many Mudokons you rescue will affect the game’s ending, encouraging you to play through New ‘n’ Tasty multiple times just to see how the story plays out.
Don’t worry if that sounds like too much of a chore, New ‘n’ Tasty is short but sweet. My first playthrough took me between six and seven hours from start to finish. Although that does seem like a short time, I had played the opening chapters previously on the PlayStation 4, so it may take newcomers to the game a little longer. As I mentioned earlier I also, inadvertently, missed out on saving quite a few Mudokens – so you can probably add an hour or two onto the length of the game if you are taking your time to find and save all 299. There is even a trophy on offer for completing the game in under three hours whilst rescuing all of the Mudokens – that is definitely one for people who enjoy a challenge, with the game also featuring online leaderboards that allow you to compare details such as time taken to complete and how many Mudokens you have saved with others that have played the game.
Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty is, in my opinion, the best Oddworld title on the PlayStation Vita – which can only be a good thing when the Oddworld games available include the excellent Stranger’s Wrath. I think that this is partly due to the time and attention the developers have put into optimising New ‘n’ Tasty for the Vita. One example of this is the controls, which have been tweaked for the handheld and work perfectly – allowing for precision which is crucial for both platforming and sneaking throughout the game. The gameplay is also exceptional, with New ‘n’ Tasty managing to encapsulate the feel of the original – Abe’s Oddysee – whilst managing to feel fresh at the same time.
Now that I have finished the game, I have an urge to go back to it – which is unusual as I normally put games back on the shelf or remove them from my memory card when I complete them. With New ‘n’ Tasty however, I want to go back; I want to try and beat the game quicker, see the other ending, and try and save all 299 Mudokons. That in itself is a testament to the work that Nephilim and Oddworld Inhabitants have put into perfecting the PS Vita version of Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, and why the game is one that I highly recommend you purchase – you won’t regret it!
This ground-up remake manages to encapsulate the feel of the twenty year old original and still holds its own against modern 2D platformers - showing how ahead of its time Abe's Oddysee was. Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty is a game that both fans of the series and newcomers alike will enjoy, so pick it up and jump into the strange and humorous land - this game is one of the best platformers in recent years!
ODDWORLD: NEW 'N' TASTY
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Charlie Large is the Deputy Editor of The Vita Lounge and has been a part of the site for over 2 years! A fan of all things PlayStation, he spends most of his time playing, writing, talking or thinking about games! You will find him currently splitting his time between his PS4 and Vita trying to work through an ever-rising backlog of brilliant titles!
Dirty Geeza
I was very pleased with this game .. its really hard but i like that about it …. and a steal at $8 on sale and it works on my ps3 and ps4 as well as my vita … buy it get it now … its a classic indeed
scwiffy
Wow, this is going near the top of my list!
Lester Paredes
This game is awesome. Despite the few hiccups, it’s a fantastic port. Just Add Water and Nephilim Game Studios did a fantastic job. Nephilim made a great port, while making the correct sacrifices to make the game play as well as it does, and Just Add Water of not rushing them and giving them all the time needed to get it done right. This was one of the first PS4 titles I ever bought. Fantastic remake. Now all I hope is that we get the Alf’s Escape DLC as well.
DMSpider
Just downloaded this for free off the European PlayStation Store. Was it free on PlayStation Plus at some point?
Kevin Aaronson
It’s was in the US a few months ago.
Juan Manuel M. Suárez
Did you buy it on the PS4? Because the title is cross play, so if you had already bought it, you had access to the PSV version once it came out~.
It was free on PS4 in March last year. (according to Wikipedia)
Does Anybody know If This Work’s On PsVita TV .. Im Getting More & More Interested In Buying One …. They Are Only $30 These Daze …..
Logan Graham
Doesn’t look like it. Sorry.
Correct, it isn’t compatible with the PSTV I’m afraid
Well Thanks For Letting Me Know …. I Guess Im being Selfish as i have it on my ps4 /ps3 Too
Ahh fair Doo’ i Guess I Can Do The Whitelist Hack When I get One !
Buckybuckster
Sold! Thanx for another awesome review Charlie! And thanx to Oddworld Inhabitants and all others involved in getting the game out on the Vita in sterling form. Even with all of the problems that arose during the porting process, they stuck to their guns and got the job done!
Roger Dillon
No PS-TV support! Son of a bitch!
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What The Hell Are They Smoking At The Department For Business, Innovation And Skills..?
And can I have some?
Forget the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker: in 20 years some of the most popular jobs could include vertical farmer, space pilot and body part maker, according to a government commissioned report.
The government spent taxpayer money on this pile of cack..?
Well, I bet they had lots of helpful ‘guidelines’ for the writers on what to emphasise, eh? Here’s one:
Shape of Jobs to Come predicts advances in science and technology, coupled with the expected onset of climate change, could make for career paths that are virtually unrecognisable today.
Oh, well, we had to get that in there somewhere, I suppose…
This was a nice little earner for someone, all right:
The research company Fast Future was asked by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to compile a list of jobs as part of the government's Science: [So what? So everything] campaign, launched last year to encourage a better understanding of science.
And it seems they did that compilation by ordering up some primo hash, laying in a stack of snacks and sugary drinks and encouraging their staff to surf the net, read some William Gibson and watch old sci-fi movies…
The company asked a network of "futurists and future thinkers" to consider likely science and technology developments before suggesting specific jobs. The result was a list of 110 roles, whittled down to 20 for the study.
Traditional roles within medicine and farming are expected to rely much more heavily on the use of computers and robots, while careers in social work are predicted to expand, to deal with the continuing increase in popularity of social networking sites.
Say what..?
Social workers are going to be dealing with Twitter-related abuse and Facebook exclusion in the future, are they? Well, they might be better at that than stopping raving lunatics from hacking up their five year old daughters, perhaps. Certainly if it means they don’t have to leave their cozy offices to do it…
What else did this brains trust come up with?
Some of the most exciting developments are expected to come in medicine, where the study predicts the creation of new limbs and organs will become a reality, meaning body part makers will be in demand.
Well, that at least could be useful. Think of all the amazing developments for injured people that this will provide, and the opportunity to go all 'Island of Doctor Moreau' on Everton...
Wait. What..?
Rohit Palwar, chief executive of Fast Future, predicted the generation of extra limbs would be invaluable to the military, but could see more use in sport. "If you're spending £80m on a footballer and for £2m you can have a couple of spare legs, then you're going to do it," he said. "The level of medicine will probably tell you very accurately when their legs will fail, or what kind of strains they're likely to suffer from. So you might say as a preventative measure, rather than three months' recovery let's have an artificial limb ready so we can replace their leg and have them back playing again within a few days or weeks."
Ummm, ok, Rohit, if you say so...
Look, 'fess up, OK? That bit was a joke, right? One of your employees said 'What's the most outlandish thing we could put in this, something that'll never get past them as a serious suggestion?' and one of the other said 'No way, man, they'll swallow anything!' and it was on...
That has to be the answer, right?
So what exciting future careers should the kiddiewinks be setting their sights on, Rohit, if they don’t want to become Head Gene Splicer at Wembley?
The team considered factors as diverse as the rise of space tourism, the risk of a deadly virus and the onset of climate change in compiling the list – three events which could lead to people working as space pilots or tour guides, quarantine enforcers and climate change reversal specialists.
Doesn’t that seem inviting..?
I suppose at least the Prime Mentalist wasn’t daft enough to utter a squeak about this waste of money blue sky repo…
Gordon Brown said he hoped it would inspire young people to gain skills and training for these new careers. "A priority for this government is to prepare Britain for the economy of the future and to make sure our young people can seize the opportunities that innovations in science and technology will bring."
I can only assume he had that statement written for him by someone who hadn’t yet read the thing, and who is now clutching his forehead in agony and contemplating the almighty ribbing he’s going to get from all the other spin doctors and speechwriters in Whitehall…
Palwar said schools should concentrate on scientific subjects and improving all-round skills to equip children. "If I was a parent today the key thing I would want to make sure is that my kids were well versed in science and technology and were learning things like problem solving and how to make complex decisions."
Well, gosh, thanks for that, Palwar. But unfortunately, that’s what children used to learn in school.
Thanks to the policies of the bunch of cretins who are hosing down your staff with other people’s money, now all they learn is politically correct attitudes, how to keep your head down and not make eye contact with the other inmates and relationship issues...
Still, never mind, Rohit. When you do become a parent, your kids'll have a job in your firm, won't they?
Labels: government insanity, throwing money down the drain
It is obvious there was an avid SiDi reader in the group that produced that list.
With a little thought I could list the books they used as 'technical data', in fact I might use their basic idea in one of my stories.
Brian, follower of Deornoth said...
If it takes twenty feet of rope to deal with each of the parasites at the Department of WhateverItsCalledToday, how much does that come to?
At two civil servants per tree, how many of London's streets would be decorated?
Perhaps we could commission a report.
Angry Exile said...
Oddly enough Mrs Exile and I are in the middle of watching this right now, and here comes JuliaM talking about soccer players having new legs stuck on when their's go Pete Tong.
NickM said...
The great irony is the governement is the very reason all these whizz-bang technologies may well not come to pass.
If they effed off out of it (and emptied my effing wheelie bin!) and let real scientists and engineers and business and such get on with it in an atmosphere where they are not taxed and regulated to complete buggeration then...
Well, picture the scene. Two brothers turn-up at the ministry and they've built an aeroplane...
There'd be the elfnsafety and the environmental audit, the questions over social inclusion and the Business Initiative Forms to fill out... They'd be invited to network at events organised by A4E... It would go on and on and on.
Fortunately Messrs Wright just bloody well did it. But you could back then.
The whole idea of a government department of innovation...
Dear God! Our society is eating itself.
Obnoxio The Clown said...
"It is obvious there was an avid SiDi reader in the group that produced that list."
I wonder if it was actually a 'group'..! ;)
"Perhaps we could commission a report."
It's the only way to be sure...
"Oddly enough Mrs Exile and I are in the middle of watching this right now..."
Lol! I bet the future isn't going to be quite so shiny, though, in any UK dystopia..
"The great irony is the governement is the very reason all these whizz-bang technologies may well not come to pass. "
Yup, invention is a messy business, and doesn't usually conform to H&S requirements. We'd still be in the Stone Age if the accident report form had been invented first...
"Hm."
Oh, just great! Still, makes sense. They are already running their anti-paedo campaign based on that show, after all...
did you say a pile of crack or cack Julia?
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WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF SUM FUN
Sum Fun Update: Jan – Jun 2018
We are thrilled to be invited back by Explore Learning to sponsor the National Young Mathematicians’ Award for 2018/19. This will be the third year in a row that we’ve had the pleasure of supporting such a fantastic competition!
After months of hard work, we’re absolutely delighted to announce that the rest of Europe have also started having Sum Fun! Sales channels have now been expanded to France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
After months of serious game playing, investigation and judging, including 3 days of collecting the opinions of the UK Expo Family Zone attendees, we are absolutely thrilled to have won a Maths Gold Award and Family Gold Award at the Imagination Gaming Family & Education Awards.
Stay tuned for some more exciting developments in the coming months!
Sum Fun Update: Jul – Dec 2017
The company continues to grow and to cope with increased demand production of the game is moved to China and we appoint Trio Logistics Ltd http://www.triologistics.co.uk/ to deal with all of our shipping requirements. Trio Logistics are a proud partner of APC Overnight https://apc-overnight.com/ who are the UK’s largest delivery network, with more than 112 locations nationwide.
We release our first video of how to play Sum Fun and we hope you like the little jingle that comes with it!
We are listed as one of the top 5 must-have new maths games to play by Imagination Gaming
Sum Fun is listed as Amazon’s Choice for the first time and we are thrilled to be invited back by Explore Learning to sponsor the National Young Mathematicians’ award for the second year in a row
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Sum Fun can now be purchased in the USA on Amazon.com. via etailz Inc. Etailz Inc. is one of the fastest growing companies in the US, an Amazon Top 3 platinum seller, and has many years’ experience in building product and partner brands. We look forward to developing our relationship with them further over the coming months!
Sum Fun can now be purchased on eBay
Stay tuned for more exciting developments in the coming months!
We experience record sales over the six month period and are proud to announce Sum Fun reaches number 3, in its section for Toys and Games, for best-selling games on Amazon! We also break into the top 500 for the best-selling Toys and Games sold on the whole of Amazon for the first time!
Sum Fun is featured in the PTA+ magazine, the home of school fundraising, as we look to help support schools all around the UK. We also roll out our first e-mail marketing campaign offering schools the chance to raise valuable funds for themselves in return for promoting the game.
Sum Fun wins its first award at the Imagination Gaming Family & Education Awards for 2017! After months of serious game playing, investigation and judging, including 3 days of collecting the opinions of the UK Expo Family Zone attendees, we are absolutely thrilled to have won the Maths Silver Award in recognition for Best Maths Game.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Sum Fun Games Ltd is now working in partnership with etailz Inc. It’s exciting times as etailz is one of the fastest growing companies in the US, an Amazon Top 3 platinum seller, and has many years’ experience in building product and partner brands. We look forward to developing our relationship with them further over the coming months!
Sum Fun Update: Oct – Dec 2016
We meet with some Community Interest Companies for the first time and Sum Fun is used as a resource in workshops and courses to help promote family learning.
As proud sponsors of the National Young Mathematicians’ Awards (NYMA) we are invited to attend the regional finals. It’s fantastic to meet so many children and teachers with such a passion and enthusiasm for learning maths. Sum Fun games are awarded as prizes to each of the finalists and huge congratulations go to Bilton Junior School who were the eventual winners!
In response to a demand to develop games suited to particular age group we launch our new educational mini games section on our website
We experience record sales over the Christmas period and are proud to announce Sum Fun reaches number 7 in its section for Toys and Games for best-selling games on Amazon. We are thrilled that our customers are enjoying the game so much – thank you for taking the time to post a review.
To cope with demand Sum Fun appoints a new business development manager to help with marketing strategies for the coming year ahead.
Sum Fun Update: Jul – Sep 2016
The first Sum Fun display units go into retail stores to help advertise the game.
Website sales of the game continue to increase and Sum Fun can now be purchased online via Amazon FBA.
We meet with various distributors in the retail and education market to our explore options of entering the European market and scaling the business further.
Sum Fun is delighted to announce that we will be sponsoring the National Young Mathematicians’ Awards (NYMA) for 2016. Regional finals will take place over the coming months and the final will be held at Cambridge University later this year. We wish every contestant the very best of luck!
We are asked to write our first blog for the award winning tuition centre Explore Learning. Read what our Managing Director has to say about making maths fun!
Sum Fun Update: Apr – Jun 2016
What a great few months for Sum Fun!
Sum Fun attends the Surrey Heath Show and there is a great deal of interest from children, parents and after school clubs.
There is more interest from the retail sector and Sum Fun is stocked at a garden centre for the first time.
Sum Fun meet with the award winning after school club Explore Learning and the game is sent to some of their members to play and review. We are absolutely thrilled with the positive feedback:
Explore Learning Feedback
User blog review
We attend the Festival of Education to keep up to date with the latest developments in the world of maths and dyscalculia
We’ll be back in October for our next update…. we’ve got some BIG news coming up!
Sum Fun Update: Jan – Mar 2016
We’ve had a busy few months and things are starting to pick up! Here are the highlights from January to March:
SUM FUN attends the BETT Exhibition at London Excel.
There is interest from a whole variety of sectors – education, adult learning, dyslexia, toy shops and international development.
SUM FUN receives their first International tweet from Belgium – a school is using SUM FUN as part of their maths lessons!
Sales leads from the exhibition are followed up and orders are strong.
Sum Fun strike additional retail agreements with a number of independent toy shops and children’s stores.
We will be back in July with our next SUM FUN update. See you then!
So since our launch in October 2015, what’s been happening in the exciting world of SUM FUN?
SUM FUN carries out its first SUM FUN workshop at a local Primary school.
The response from teachers, maths leaders and children is fantastic and SUM FUN is used as part of a maths lesson for the first time!
SUM FUN receive a fantastic video review – https://youtu.be/PI8Iwdm12VI
As word spreads SUM FUN is sold to various local schools and Parent Teacher Associations.
To grow the business and cope with demand SUM FUN appoints a Business Development Manager.
Due to strong demand SUM FUN open their new online store.
SUM FUN gets sociable and launch on Twitter and Instagram.
SUM FUN prepare for their first exhibition.
Our first retail agreement is struck – we are in the shops for the first time!
We will be back in April with our next SUM FUN update, where we will have some more exciting news on developments during the last few months!
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The Prysm Group have been organising leading B2B trade exhibitions for twelve years, with a strong track record of producing well run, well attended events, which receive significant investment to constantly evolve and improve them.
High OCTANe Event Comes to Calif., Brings Businesses, Investors Together
25th August 2015 25th August 2015 TheBizTeam Events and Exhibitions, Lamborghini, The Technology Investor Forum
California has always been the “it” state. The go-to location for creativity and the birthplace of innovative ideas, and successful companies. While not always the case (think: more than a decade of economic and social troubles), it remains the eighth largest economy in the world.
Supporting the idea that the Golden State is still the place to see and be seen, is that high-tech companies employ approximately 1 million people with a payroll of about $100 billion, and that 66 percent of new jobs come from companies younger than five years old.
So, what does all this mean? For OCTANe, a startup accelerator, it’s an opportunity to connect people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology and growth in Orange County. Through its LaunchPad SBDC program, the Orange County-based company has seen tremendous initial investment in affiliated startups. With follow-up funding and equity exit activity, total investment in OCTANe LaunchPad companies now approaches more than $780 million since 2004.
In the spirit of continuing its mission to help companies raise capital, OCTANe Launch Pad will be holding its Technology Investor Forum on May 5 in Irvine, Calif.
“The Technology Investor Forum presents a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs, investors, local universities’ faculty and staff and corporate CEOs to come together in one place to build upon the strong foundation of resources in Orange County,” said Bill Carpou, OCTANe CEO.
One award-winning technology company selected by OCTANe to be showcased at the event is MovoCash, Inc.“We are excited to be a part of what OCTANe is doing to promote economic growth in Southern California, and it is an honor to present along side of the other terrific startup companies hand picked by OCTANe,” said Eric Solis, president and CEO of MovoCash.
MovoCash will be presenting their groundbreaking payments technology in front of over 700 in attendance. The premise of MovoCash is to provide a secure app for consumers to take control of their finances by turning their smartphones into their very own digital banks, generating fraud-preventing one-time-use payment tokens on demand for shopping online or in store.
A total of 10 hand-picked companies will be showcased at the event. To date, past companies that have been selected to present have gone on to raise over $418 million.
“This event serves as a source for capital creation for emerging companies and businesses within the California region and gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to connect with investors from all over the country,” said Carpou.
Attendees will have access to investment panel discussions, a “fast pitch” competition with prominent regional investors, and an innovation showcase demo.
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PIZZAGATE Will Be Used To Take Down The Alt Media…Unless We Are Vigilant
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This Is The Most Important Video On The Internet Today
SOS: Alt Media Under Serious Threat By PIZZAGATE False Flag!
The Alternative Media right now faces the greatest existential threat since its inception in 1995 with the advent of the Internet.
The “Scandal of the Millennium” known as PIZZAGATE was not supposed to go prime time. It really wasn’t.
However, in this day and age of information highways crisscrossing all over the Internet while the likes of WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, Anonymous and Guccifer were on the loose, many a Pandora’s box (PB) has been opened.
The most radioactive of these PB’s is clearly PIZZAGATE. Truly, if ever there was one scandal capable of taking down the whole God-forsaken System, it is PIZZAGATE.
Our proof is that the Mainstream Media (MSM) has literally gone ballistic. Remember, the media magnates who control the media corporations are into their own versions of PIZZAGATE. Hence, at the end of the day, all similar pedogates are inextricably connected. Just as Hollywood pedophilia and Beltway pedophilia are “joined at the hip”.
John and Tony Podesta were in Praia da Luz, Portugal on May 3rd, 2007–the day that Madeleine McCann vanished
The current reality is that the world power structure that is manned by human beings is quite vulnerable to being blackmailed and bribed, coerced and compelled to do things they would not otherwise do. What is usually being held over their heads like the Sword of Damocles is the threat of a manufactured pedophilia scandal being outed by the local media.
This thing is so BIG the World Shadow Government will react with fury and ferocity.
And why wouldn’t they, the WSG itself is now in great jeopardy as it faces its own very serious existential threats. When one truly understands that the entire Global Control Matrix is itself controlled by pedophilia, Satanic ritual child sexual abuse, child pornography, child rape, child trafficking, etc., then it’s easy to see why the power structure will not permit the Alt Media to disseminate its investigative findings so freely regarding PIZZAGATE.
The TMR editor started writing an article on a very strong premonition that began on Monday of Thanksgiving week. The premonition was that the owner of Comet Ping Pong Pizza would either be violently suicided or his massage pizza parlor would be blown up or shot up via a classic CIA false flag black operation. This very strong intuition then went on to inform the clandestine plot being used by TPTB to blame it on the Alt Media that is aggressively investigating PIZZAGATE. In this way every Alt Media platform that has posted anything about this exploding scandal would be tagged as a “fake news website”. Once this occurred, hearings would be held in Congress to address the ‘growing problem’ of fake news. Of course, it is the MSM that is the biggest purveyor of fake news on the Internet… as well as throughout world history. All the MSM does is propagandize 24/7—worldwide. Everything they disseminate is fake and fraudulent as it is produced by phony journalists.
Surely the reader gets the picture.
If you don’t get it, please watch this urgent video asap. It is perhaps the single most important video on the net today. Yes, it’s that critical!
What makes this video especially relevant is that the producer developed the identical narrative as The Millennium Report editor but did so INDEPENDENTLY of ours. It was only the Thanksgiving holiday that prevented us from getting our article completed. Now with Barry Soetoro’s excellent video uploaded on YouTube, we are quite confident that we can avert the false flag(s) that are being engineered to shut down alternative news sites all over the world.
For those who do not quite understand what is being asserted here, it is this: PIZZAGATE is the greatest scandal of the millennium with the potential to collapse the U.S. Federal Government, after it dissolves the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration. It was found out in a way that surprised all of those rich and powerful who are directly involved. Now that this genie is out of the bottle, there is no way of putting it back in. Hence, they will systematically kill every messenger that spreads any pejorative evidence or damning information.
TPTB can only “kill all the messengers” by taking a sweeping action against the Alt Media. The “fake news” meme began after PIZZAGATE and first made its way onto the Internet after election day. Not only did the MSM blame the Alt Media for the election of Donald Trump, they especially gin up the “fake news” charge against those sites that post on PIZZAGATE. When the two major newspapers of record — The Washington Post and The New York Times — print front page articles explaining the iniquities of PIZZAGATE, it’s quite obvious they have some serious problems.
‘Pizzagate’ shows how fake news hurts real people — WashPo
Fake News Onslaught Targets Pizzeria as Nest of Child-Trafficking — NYT
Clearly the MSM saw a golden opportunity to take down a whole lot of truth-seeking citizen journalists and alternative news websites in one fell swoop. The more that they can tar and feather the Alt Media with PIZZAGATE “fake news”, the more they will do something very desperate. This is where PIZZAGATE is actually a double-edged sword, and can badly hurt both sides of this epic battle for the soul of the nation and ongoing info war.
If the reader has happened upon this post, it is not by accident. Every single person who receives this article ought to take it very seriously, even if there is not a dramatic false flag event.
What makes this unfolding situation all the more consequential is that the Alt Media is challenging the MSM like never before. As a matter of fact, the Alt Media is growing so big, so fast that it will soon overwhelm the MSM. The corporate media know this and will do everything within their power to forestall their end. They know that many higher-ups will go to prison for life for covering up so many heinous crimes both at home and abroad.
This is the intensifying predicament that the whole nation faces at this very moment. It will get very ugly very fast no matter what how PIZZAGATE evolves. Therefore, it is highly advised that everyone takes the sage advice from the video. From this point forward as the Alt Media warriors march forward in the deep investigation of PIZZAGATE, caution is highly recommended. Any type of slander or libel ought to be strictly avoided. Let the facts speak for themselves as there are many and they are very incriminating.
Alternative Media is the New Guerrilla Warfare: Time for Citizens to Expose Globalists
Lastly, please pass this post on. Spread it far and wide so that everyone sees what is truly at stake. The whole Alternative Media now sits on a precipice that only we can step back from. We can also preclude false flags from occurring by spotting them in advance and warning all concerned. Those false flag operations that do take place can be quickly identified and deconstructed for the frauds that they are.
The false flag warning issued in this post should not be taken lightly. The U.S. Federal Government has arrogated unlawful powers unto itself to conduct false flag operations against the American citizenry when certain conditions related to national security have been met. You can be sure that those who run the US Inc. see the explosive revelations associated with PIZZAGATE as a grave matter of national security.
“FALSE FLAGS” are LEGAL PROPAGANDA PRODUCED by the Department of Defense
PIZZAGATE: The Scandal That Will Take Down the Clintons, the Democratic Party and the U.S. Federal Government
PIZZAGATE: The Greatest Scandal of the Third Millennium
James Achilles Alefantis And His Comet Ping Pong Network
PIZZAGATE: The Owner’s (Of Comet Ping Pong Pizza) Full Name Means “I Love Children” In French
Huge Breakthrough in D.C. Pedophilia Ring
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US sued over Navy sonar tests in whale waters
By U.S. News
Thursday Jan 26, 2012 1:46 PM
Center for Whale Research via AP
A female orca, or killer whale, travels with her offspring in waters around the San Juan Islands in Washington State.
By msnbc.com staff and news services
Environmental groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday for granting the Navy permits to test underwater sonar along the West Coast -- and potentially harass up to 650,000 porpoises, seals, dolphins and whales over a five-year period.
The alliance said it wasn't seeking to stop the testing but to scale it back, especially at certain times and in waters important for feeding and giving birth.
Several studies have found that marine mammals can hear low-frequency sonar, which is magnified under water, and periodically dolphins and even whales have been found with perforated ear drums.
The National Marine Fisheries Service "fell down on the job and failed to require the Navy to take reasonable and effective actions to protect" marine mammals, Steve Mashuda, an attorney for the law firm Earthjustice, said in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claims that the Navy's sonar use might be strong enough to kill the animals outright. But even if it doesn't, it claims, the repeated use of sonar in certain critical habitats is unwarranted.
In 2010, the fisheries service approved the Navy's five-year plan for operations in the Northwest Training Range Complex, an area roughly the size of California that stretches from Washington state to Northern California.
Under the five-year plan, the service said it was acceptable for the Navy to incur up to 650,000 cases of harassment of marine mammals.
Regulators determined that while sonar use has been associated with the deaths of whales around the world, including the beaching of 37 whales on North Carolina's Outer Banks in 2005, there was little chance of that happening on the West Coast. The short duration of the sonar use, typically 90 minutes at a time by a single surface vessel, and reduced intensity would help prevent whale deaths, they said.
Regulators are requiring the Navy to shut down sonar operations if whales, sea lions, dolphins or other marine mammals were spotted nearby by ships in the water.
But the plaintiffs argue that visual mitigation is ineffective.
"Visual detection can miss anywhere from 25–95 percent of the marine mammals in an area,” stated Heather Trim, policy director for People For Puget Sound. "It’s particularly unreliable in rough seas or in bad weather. We learn more every day about where whales and other mammals are most likely to be found — we want NMFS to put that knowledge to use to ensure that the Navy’s training avoids those areas when marine mammals are most likely there."
A spokeswoman for the Navy declined to comment, saying she had not seen the lawsuit, and the fisheries service did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
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The contemporary Belarusian literature finds itself in a situation of a strong competition with the volumes of book production in Russia and translations of the world literature. The term "national literature" in Belarus today is specific for its literary works, developing in the context of a formal bilingualism, which, in practice, represents the predominance of Russian language. As far as the genre structure is concerned, Belarus is not an exception in the world trends, aiming towards "light" genres (detective novels of all kind, fantasy novels, etc.). From the point of view of topics, in the "high quality" literature, prevailing topics usually are: World War II, Chernobyl, the Belarusian countryside, also with new motives appearing: general facts on ongoing processes and the current life in Belarusian cities. Besides that, experimentation in style and form is present.
What is significant for the contemporary Belarusian literature is the co-existence of two forms of literary works: "official" and "alternative". The first of the two is basically represented by members of The Association of Writers of Belarus led by Mikalai Charhinets. The second – The Association of Belarusian Writers. The poet and prose writer, Uladzimir Niakliaeu is considered the main opponent. However, the contemporary literature is rather a literature of "individualists", out of whom each creates their own art world and that is why hardly any institutional affiliation influences the creative work of real artists.
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In 1974 Vasil Bykov was awarded the State award of the USSR (for the story Live to See the Dawn, 1973). In 1980 he received the National Writer of Belarus Award and in 1984 was made a Hero of Socialist Labour. In 1986 he got the Lenin Award for the story Sign of Trouble.
Vasil Bykov also wrote a memoir about his life called ''The Long Road Home''
Mr. Bykov never called himself a political exile. He spoke openly, however, about Mr. Lukashenko's government, which he frequently referred to as ''the regime.'' He objected to what he called Mr. Lukashenko's heavy-handedness with Belarussian society and contended that freedoms, hard-won during the struggles of the late 1980's and early 1990's, were being taken away. After he left Belarus, Mr. Bykov lived in Finland, then in Germany, and finally in the Czech Republic.
Mr. Bykov, called by some the Sakharov of Belarussian literature, drew as many as 50,000 people to Minsk's central streets for his funeral procession on June 25, said Ales Pashkevich, chairman of the Belarussian Writers Union.
Here you can find book written by V. Bykov.
Svetlana Alexijevic was born in Ukraine. Her father was Bellorussian and mather was Ukrainian. After demobilization of her father of army the family moved to Belarus. They lived in countryside. Both parents worked as teachers, likewise their ancestors.
Source: Láska je potrebná, ale ľúbiť človeka je ťažké, tvrdí nobelistka
Svetlana Alexijevic has already published speeches and other text as schoolgirl. In 1967 she began to study journalism at the University of Minsk. For works she has received several academic awards.
After graduation she got new job in regional newspaper in Brest region. At the same time she was also teaching in a rural schol. For a long time she could not decide,if she will continue in teaching as family tradition or will choose journalism as a profession. She started to work in newspaper in Minsk.
The Works till this time she focused on suffering of her characters. Therefore she wanted to take a look on a reversed perception of life in which she aimed at the eternal fight between good and evil. „Society will never be completely safe. We can only make it more safer with love,“ she said in an interview with the station Svoboda.
„So far I have written books about murders and dies of people. But this is not the whole life of humanity. From this time I will write about love, loving. I want to love a man although it is difficult. Everything is complicated,“ she said for her website.
Alexijevic gives important messages not only by books, in which she takes inspiration from true stories. Strong messages have also her stories. She often points at the fact that the responsibility for the bad or catastrophic routing has every individual in society, not only those who have an authority.
Return to Belarus had an emotional background for Alexijevic - incentives for the works she requests to obtain where she grown up. „I came back because I need to listen to our people. My books have the content from things and stories I hear from them,“ she said for the German television.
Erich Németh said...
Books of Svetlana Alexievich to get in Belarusian literature curriculum
Для фанатиков украинской литературе имеются 100 лучших шедевров украинской литературы : http://www.liveinternet.ru/tags/%F3%EA%F0%E0%E8%ED%F1%EA%E0%FF+%EB%E8%F2%E5%F0%E0%F2%F3%F0%E0/
Книги Светланы Алексиевич будут проходить на уроках белорусской литературы : http://belsat.eu/ru/news/knigi-svyatlany-aleksievich-buduts-prahodzits-na-urokah-belaruskaj-litaratury/
Проверьте или Знают ли белорусы про триумф Светланы Алексиевич? : http://belsat.eu/ru/vod_video/znayut-li-belorusy-pro-triumf-svetlany-aleksievich/
Современная белорусская литература: http://grodnonews.by/category/zhizn/news21723.html
Интересная статья о белорусской литературе. Я рекомендую прочитать. : http://kurapaty.info/ru/news-ru/item/belorusskaya-literatura-perezhila-chetyre-volny-terrora-nigde-v-mire-takogo-ne-bylo
Everything you need to know about Svetlana Alexievich and her Nobel Prize Award from The Guardian
Gomel to host Slavonic Literature Dazhynki from 30th of october till 2nd of november - The program of the festival will comprise presentations of printed publications of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian writers. In particular, there will be presented two books of poetry developed by the Union of Writers of Gomel Oblast, the Taganrog Literature Association Chaika and the Union of Writers of the Don.
Belarus bookshop braves the state to publish Nobel winner's work - Underground publisher says it is risking regulations to translate Svetlana Alexievich’s novels into her home language - By The Guardian
Interview of Ana Lunic´s with Svetlana Alexievich - Talking about some of her works, opinions on world politics, history and many more.
The UN initiative UN70 Belarus Express for Sustainable Development Goals sets off on a journey around the country on 23 October. The train will bring more than 250 events to the regions.
The 28th International Festival of Modern Choreography will be held in Belarus on 22-19 November, deputy director for special projects of the Vitebsk culture center Marina Romanovskaya told a press conference dedicated to the festival.
http://kamunikat.org/Belarusian_Review.html?pubid=27882
O tom prečo Hienadź Buraŭkin (28.august 1936- 30.máj 2014) dnes už nieje len skvelým básnikom.....
V próze Alesa Adamoviča "Moje ves lehla popelem" autor nesmierne bolestne zobrazuje utrpenie ľudí v Bielorusku počas Veľkej vlasteneckej vojny.
С 1979 года начал публикацию собственных литературных произведений в печатных органах, таких, как газеты «Літаратура і мастацтва» и «Голас Радзімы», журналы «Полымя», «Беларусь», «Маладосць», «Крыніца». Личность Олега Бембеля как философа-публициста и поэта сложилась на рубеже 70-80-х годов. Работал на Белорусском телевидении в 1983—84 годах, был одним из авторов исторически познавательного телесценария «Архитектурное наследие Беларуси». С 1984 по 1986 год работал в Академии наук БССР.
В 1979—81 годах осуществлял работу над своей книгой «Родное слово и морально-эстетический прогресс». Она была посвящена языковой ситуации в БССР и реальному положению белорусского языка в СССР. Так же автор отразил мнения самих белорусов о проблемах своего родного языка. Во время написания он проводил широкое анкетирование по этому вопросу, что тогда было запретной темой для советских социологов. Данные анкетирования были изложены в книге.
В теоретической части своего труда Олег Бембель утверждал, основываясь на принципах экологии культуры, что в условиях усиления моральной и эстетической пауперизации (массового обнищания) человека, его родной язык, как наиболее универсальное и цельное выражение этоса и эстетики народа, может и должно стать могучим средством возрождения и сохранения духовности человека. Также в сочинении подвергалась резкой критике советская языковая политика, и отрицательно оценивалась работа деятелей культуры, ответственных за охрану белорусского языка.
Сначала автор собирался издать книгу официально, но когда стало известно, что это невозможно, работу начали распространять в машинописном варианте. С помощью Алексея Кавки и белорусского историка Юрия Турёнка, живущего в Польше, удалось передать машинописный текст в Лондон, где в 1985 году он был издан Обществом белорусов Великобритании.
http://budzma.org/literature/svyatlo-khrysciyanskay-paezii-alyeha-byembyelya.html
One of faux pasfaux pas was last year in October during the presentation of Viktar Martsinovich´s novel called Mova in Hrodna. Shortly after start of presentation police, a person from Ministry of Emergency Situations and the official from the City Council appeared in the room, where presentation was held. As he said: "The meeting was held on account of the published book, which was legal and sold in all the stores, and, sorry, sold out in huge numbers for Belarus. I also said the meeting was being held on the day when the president met with Belarusian writers."
Victor Martinovich
He was born 9-th of September 1977, in Oshmiany (Belarus).
Education: 1994-1999 – Belarussian State University, Journalism department, student. 1999-2002 – BSU's Postgraduate courses, history of journalism studies. 2002 - Postgraduator, name of the thesis – Representation of Vitebsk's art avant-garde in Soviet press of 1920-s. 2008 Defended PhD at Vilnius (Lithuania) on the history of journalism.
Book of Victor Martinovich – Паранойя book
I tis his first novel.It has been positively reviewed by New York Times Book Reviewin 2009 and 2013. In 2013 North Western university Press (Chicago) published English translation of Paranoia, prepared by Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton’s professor of Russian literature.
Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale and his share about Paranoia from Victor Martinovich. more
Third novel of Victor martinovich - Sphagnum, was presented to public 2013 and surprisingly not only appeared on the book shelves of state-owned shops, but also became best-selling novel in Belarussian language.
Sphagnum on web:
Books from Belarus
Виктор Мартинових Сфагнум
Dr. Victor Martinovich in his upcoming book Rodina: Marc Chagall in Vitebsk in 1914-1920, available in August from The European Humanities University (EHU) Press.
You can see discussion on YouTube
Discussion with Victor martinovich on Culture.pl
Her full name is Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich. She is Belarusian journalist and non-fiction prose writer, writing in Russian. She was born 31 May 1948 in Stanislaviv (Ukrainian SSR). She won Nobel Prize in 2015 “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.“
Svetlana’s father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. She grew up in Belarus, after finishing school she worked as a reporter in several local newspapers before graduating from Belarusian State University (1972) and becoming a correspondent for the literary magazine Neman in Minsk (1976)
Alexievich wrote War’s Unwomanly Face on 1985. More than two millions copies were sold. The novel is made up of monolouges of women in the World War II.
Another book by Svetlana Alexievich – The Last Witnesses: the Book of Unchildlike Stories describes memories of children during World War II.
Svetlana also published Enchanted With Death in 1993. This book is about attempted and completed suicides due to the downfall of the Soviet Union.
Svetlana’s books were not published by Belarusian state-owned publishing houses after 1993. private publishers published only two of her books: Voices From Chernobyl (1999) and Second-hand Time (2013).
More about Svetlana Slexievich is on her website - http://www.alexievich.info/indexEN.html
Khadanovich is a teacher of literature in Belarusan State University and Belarusan National Liceum of Humanities. Head of Translation Workshop in Belarusan Colegium (Minsk). An organizer of Literature Contest Ya Maju Tvor for Belarusan schoolchildren.
Svetlana’s father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. She grew up in Belarus, after finishing school she worked as a reporter in several local newspapers before graduating from Belarusian State University (1972) and becoming a correspondent for the literary magazine Neman in Minsk
Alexievich wrote War’s Unwomanly Face on 1985. More than two millions copies were sold. The novel is made up of monolouges of women in the World War II
Я́нка Мавр (настоящее имя — Ива́н Миха́йлович Фёдоров) был белорусским писателем. Писал прозу не только для детей, но и для взрослых. В 1925 опубликовал научно фантастическую повесть «Человек идёт».
Боллее подробную информацию из жизни автора можете найти по этому сайту: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Янка_Мавр
Также посмотрите интересное видео: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbcOPBVK8ws
В честь его имени названа улица в Минске.
Андрей Егорович Макаёнок был известным белорусским писателем и драматургом. Свои первые стихотворения начал писать уже в школе. Позже, во время войны, писал записки в своём дневнике.
Первым его серьёзным произведением была песня “На досвітку”. В ней рассказывается о борьбе французских рабочих за свои права.
Более подробную информацию из его жизни можете найти по этому сайту: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Макаёнок,_Андрей_Егорович
В честь этого писателя названа улица в минске.
Ива́н Па́влович Ме́леж (белор. Іван Паўлавіч Мележ) был белорусским писателем, прозаиком, публицистом и драматургом. Самые его известные романы: «Люди на болоте» и «Дыхание грозы». Романы посвящены людям белорусской деревни 20-30-х годов.
Больше информации об авторе вы можете узнать по этому адресу: http://ivanmeleg.ru/
Пи́мен Емелья́нович Па́нченко (белор. Пімен Емяльянавіч Панчанка) был белорусским поэтом. Начал писать ещё в юности. Впервые его стихи «Ураджайнае» и «Моладзі» были опубликованы в 1934 году. Кроме стихов писал различные эссе и воспоминания.
Более подробную информацию из его жизни можете найти по этому адресу: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Панченко,_Пимен_Емельян..
For those who were interested in my posts about Victor Martinovich´s novel Paranoia, on this website you can read this dystopia.
From the Reviews
"Along with the recognizable topography of Minsk, Paranoia also has a literary topography filled with references, quotations and artifacts. (...) Paranoia has an energy and a nerve of its own -- a refreshing sign that cultural life in Belarus has not been defeated. Yet the danger for a writer working in an oppressive regime is not only that his book will be banned, but also that one day it may be allowed. The K.G.B. can fashion a good biography for a writer; it cannot write a good book for him." - Arkady Ostrovsky, The New York Times Book Review
"Both dense and intense, the novel, full of passionate intelligence and incisive wit, defies easy pigeonholing." - Publishers Weekly
"Indeed, Paranoia may not be the most appropriate title for Martinovich's novel: the hero's predicament and his interpretation of what is happening is not so different from the perfectly sane analysis of Belarus given in the foreword by Timothy Snyder. (...) Martinovich's achievement is to show how, in such an 'Absurdistan', a hole can open up in the ground and drop you into hell. (...) The translator hasn't shrugged: she's put her shoulder to the wheel. But some aspects are untranslatable. (...) Nevertheless, whether read in the original or in translation, Paranoia is an exciting novel that is not easy to forget." - Donald Rayfield, Times Literary Supplement
Алоиза Степановна Пашкевич была белорусской писательницей, поэтэссой, прозаиком и актрисой. Известно, что любила природу и свою родину, именно этим и были мотивы её творчества. Написала сборники «Хрэст на свабоду» и «Скрыпка беларуская», также книги для детей «Першае чытанне для дзетак беларусаў», «Лемантар», «Гасцінец для малых дзяцей».
Более подробную информацию вы можете найти по этому адресу: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пашкевич,_Алоиза_Степан..
В честь её имени названа улица в Минске.
Бори́с Ви́кторович Плато́нов, родился в 1903 году. Был советским актёром театра и кино. В 1961—1963 годах являлся художественным руководителем театра. Умер он в 1967 году. Был похоронен в Минске на Восточном кладбище.
Более подробную информацию вы можете найти по этому адресу: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Платонов,_Борис_Викторо..
В честь его имени названа в Минскеулица.
„Doba z druhej ruky“ is a great book by Svetlana Alexijevic. In the book she describes the end of communist regime and the fall of Soviet imperium which was a great shock, disappointment, frustration and disorientation for people living in Russia.
Source: Doba z druhé ruky
The book is a mosaic of real voices, which A. recorded during the interviews with people in which they talked about soviet system, how they killed and died for its idea.
In book she writes about secrets of communism, Stalin‘s gulags, wars in general and Chernobyle‘s disaster... she describes opinions which lead to traum of society.
Heroes of this great book think that the peek of freedom was the august of 1991, when thousads of Russians came to the streets, stood in front of tanks which tried to „defeat“ democratic reforms. It was a time of a big hope.
Russians thought that capitalism is a big supermarket but suddenly in next day they woken up to country where were social problems, anarchy, inflation, criminality, corruption and the economic fall in general.
The book tries to show why Russia is not able to become modern democratic and modern country in a short time. It also describes why autocrats like Putin are very popular (85% of popularity) and why Russians think that Stalin was a great man (70% people share this opinion).
Svetlana Alexijevic got a lot of prizes for this book. In France she won the prize for the best Book of the year 2013 and she got Prix Médicis 2013, in Germany she got a prize by Booksellers 2013... The author was also the laureat of many others prizes in USA, Russia, Poland, Sweden...
Франци́ск Луки́ч Скори́на родился в Полоцке около 1490 года. Был писателем и переводчиком, свою деятельность начал в Праге, где перевёл около 23 книг Библии на старобелорусский язык. Его творчество оказало большое влияние на духовную культуру Беларуси. Его имя носят университет в Гомеле, центральная библиотека, педагогическое училище, гимназия № 1 в Полоцке, гимназия № 1 и улица в Минске. Умер Скорина около 1551 года, точная дата смерти неизвестна.
Более подробную информацию из его жизни вы можете найти по этому адресу: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Скорина,_Франциск#.D0.A..
Another review of the book Paranoia
The country Paranoia is set in may not be explicitly identified by name, but it is closely based on the author's native Belarus (and its protagonist's best-known work is a collection of essays titled: The Country whose Name begins with B). The: "Head of State, Commander in Chief, Minister of State Security Nikolai Mikhailovich Muraviov" -- who plays a significant role in the novel -- is known as the: "last dictator in Europe", just as the actual Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is, and the states they rule over truly are totalitarian.
Writers from Belarus, Ukraine, Russia partaking in literature festival in Gomel. The festival has begun today, and will be active till 6th of November.
The ninth international festival of Slavic literature will officially open in Gomel on 5 November. Attending the event will be over 60 writers and poets from Belarus and other countries of the CIS (or known as Commonwealth of Independent States).
The international festival of Slavic literature was founded in Gomel in 2007.
Since then, it has become a major cultural event for Gomel Oblast. The number of its participants is growing from year to year. The festival is aimed at supporting young talented poets and writers, promoting Belarusian literature, and exchanging experience with Russian and Ukrainian colleagues.
Here are some facts, you have to know about belorusian Nobel Prize Winner, Svetlana Alexievich.
Elite of Elites in Literature - Alexievich is the 14th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature—it has been awarded 107 times. Half of those wins have been in the past 25 years.
Struggle of the youth - In 1983 Alexievich completed her bestseller, War's Unwomanly Face, which gathers the voices of 200 Soviet women who went to war in 1941. It was destroyed by the Communist Party for "de-glorification of the heroic Soviet woman." Two years later, Gorbachev took office and the political climate changed. The book was finally published and has since sold more than 2 million copies.
She speaks for the people
Each of her books is a distillation of interviews with 500 to 700 different people.
- "I don’t ask people about socialism, I ask about love, jealousy, childhood, old age,” Alexievich writes. “Music, dances, hairstyles. The myriad sundry details of a vanished way of life. This is the only way to chase the catastrophe into the framework of the mundane and attempt to tell a story." -
Виктор Мартинович
Недавно его рассказ «Табу» попал в литературную рецензию The New York Times и заслужил несколько самых лестных эпитетов. В сознании же белорусов он -- автор, как оказалось после 19 декабря, не такой уж и утопии «Паранойя». Неудивительно, что и сам писатель для него -- это псих и «задрот», а писательство -- психоаналитический сеанс. Заместитель редактора «БелГазеты», доктор философии (PhD), руководитель академического департамента политических наук ЕГУ Виктор Мартинович о Беларуси Лукашенко в программе "Наедине со всеми".
(посмотрите интервью)
Васи́лий Никола́евич Тя́пинский был белорусским писателем, поэтом и переводчиком. Занимался переводом и изданием Евангелия. Известно, что Василий любил родину и защищал родный язык.
Более подробную инфориацию из его жизни можете найти по этому адресу: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тяпинский,_Василий_Нико..
В Минске в честь его имени названа улица.
Михась Чарот был белорусским писателем и поэтом. В 1917 году окончил гимназию в городе Молодечно, после чего был призван в армию, где и написал первые стихотворения. Через год возвратился на родину, где участвовал в партизанском движении. До 1930 года Михась Чарот был редактором газеты «Савецкая Беларусь». В Минске, Молодечно и Руденске в честь поэта названы улицы.
Более подробную информацию из его жизни вы можете найти по этому адресу: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Михась_Чарот
Фёдор Михайлович Янковский был белорусским писателем и филологом. Работал секретарем редакции районной газеты«Сацыялістычная вёска».С 1936 года начал заниматься литературной деятельностью. Более подробную информацию из его жизни вы можете найти по этому адресу:https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Янковский,_Фёдор_Михайл..
В Минске тоже названа улица в честь его имени.
В Минске, на улице Держинская, разрабатывается хороший проект: курсы чтения для подростков. Это цикл встреч для молодых людей, где будут обсуждать важные вещи, читая хорошие современные книги. Создатели этого проекта хотят объяснить те самые темы, на которые дома не говорят. Например, курение, наркотики, ранний секс, насилие в семье и школе, детская жестокость… То, что о них молчат, ещё не значит, что они исчезли. Молодых людей хотят научить, как правильно надо относиться к этим темам на основе обсуждения книг с этой тематикой.
http://www.belarus.by/ru/about-belarus/architecture/n.. по этому адресу вы можете найти информацию о самом большом собрании по количеству белорусской литературы. В 2006 году было открыто новое здание Национальной библиотеки. Эта библиотека построена в современном стиле, и здесь не отсуствуют новейшие технологии сохранения книг.
День белорусской письменности. Этот день проходит в исторических городах и касается не только литераруры, а также культуры, науки и книгопечатания. Это день, когда белорусы гордятся своей культурой.
Более подробную информацию об этом празднике вы можете найти по этому адресу: http://www.belarus.by/ru/about-belarus/culture/den_be..
2012 год в Белоруссии был годом книги, чтобы повысить интерес людей к чтению и сохранить известные и малоизвестные белорусские книги. Многие считают этот шаг полезным в рамках нового разрыва литературной деятельности. Также это для многих является жестом, который значит, что литература для государства важна, и в ближайшем будущем её будут поддерживать.
Victor Martinovich - Paranoia
2014 German translation of Paranoia is published by Voland und Quist (translation performed by Thomas Weiler.
Victor Martinovich and his work experience (in journalism): Present time – May 2002. Deputy editor-in-chief of weekly newspaper «BelGazeta».Columnist of BelGazeta. Has a popular Weblog at martinovich.livejournal.com May 2002 – September 2000. Chief of political department of «BelGazeta». September 2000 – September 1998. Chief of political department of Daily news-paper Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta (also known as «BDG»). September 1998 – April 1995. Journalist of economical department of BDG.
At the year 2011 Victor Martinovich published his second novel Cold paradise. Text was written in Belarussian language and appeared at the Internet only (author stated, that he is “tired” of playing “to ban or not to ban game” with the state). It pioneered the way to non-paper editions for Belarussian writers and until now remains the most downloaded example of fiction writings in Belarussian segment of Internet.
Forth Martinovich novel, Mova, is appearing Autumn 2014 both on paper and at the Internet.
Nowadays have international rights on Paranoia from Victor Martinovich are sold for Germany, Finland, Sweden, USA, on Sphagnum sold for Germany.
Review of Paranoia from Victor Martinovich in New York Times
Magazine about Eastern Europe: New Eastern Europe
Video recording of statements of laureats for Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 -
https://youtu.be/rmyoboDkWjI
Interview with Svetlana Alexijevic after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm1GLOklTyA
Book „Doba z druhej ruky“ is available as an e-book at the local distributor Alza Media in Czech language-
https://www.alza.sk/media/doba-z-druhe-ruky-d3067296.htm
Short inteview with Svetlana Alexijevic on the official website of the Nobel Prizes -
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-interview.html
Writers festival in Prague organized a meeting with Svetlana Alexijevic -
http://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-64724630-svetlana-alexijevicova-nobelova-cena-profil
Alexijevic received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 mainly due to the older book „Černobyľská modlitba“ - http://magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/nobelova-cena-za-literaturu-2015/r~1d420c126d0611e58f1e002590604f2e/
The head of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow is in house prison. Allegedly had anti-Russian Bandera books. Russian writers and also new Nobel Prize winner for literature Svetlana Alexijevičová vindicated her.
Source: Knihy vás môžu v Rusku dostať do väzenia ako za sovietskych čias
"Communism had a crazy plan - to remake old man, the ancient Adam. And it has succeeded ... That's about the only thing that was a success. For more than seventy years in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism, it has managed to create a special type of man - homo soveticus..." - Excerpt from the book "Second hand time " by Svetlana Alexievich
Second hand time represents the final, the fifth book of the famous artistic documentary cycle Svetlana Alexievich´ Voices from Big Utopia. It is a sort of guided consciences of people who lived through some part of her life in the former Soviet Union and who have experienced or are experiencing reality after its disintegration, Slovak Daily SME published a few snippets of text.
Special book, winning numerous prestigious prizes (in France triumphed in a poll of the magazine Lire for Best Book of the Year 2013 and won the Prix Médicis 2013 in Germany, the Peace Prize of the German Booksellers 2013, was being sold at the Frankfurt fair, the author herself (Svetlana Alexievich) won other major awards in Germany, Sweden, Poland, France, Russia and the United States. Second hand time
The author's works are specific in that they are based on interviews with different people and focused on human destinies in specific historical periods. Alexievich gave herself for the past 30 to 40 years of Soviet and post-Soviet era - to the women and men who survived the tragedy in Chernobyl, the Soviet-Afghan War and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Member of the commission for Nobel Prize Sara Danius after the results said she read books of Belarusian writer and it created strong emotional experience. "Svetlana Alexievich writes about historical events, but these in themselves are not important," Daily SME quoted. She added that historical events are merely a pretext for a writer to examine and describe the lives of specific individuals. "Alexievich captures the stories of small people and also maintaines their original language".
In the Czech translation you can read a book by Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl (2002), which was created based on interviews with hundreds of people affected by the nuclear disaster. Stories about women, who despite the warnings of medical teams held their dying husbands in their hands, even though they would end up affected by radiation.
By the end of 2015, Slovak translation of one of Alexievich´s books - War's unwomanly face (1984) is coming out, which brings interviews with thousands of Soviet women soldiers fighting in the Great Patriotic War.
The centre of Belarusian cultural and political activities is in Polish city – Bialystok. There lives a strong minority of Belarusians – around 50 thousand with national and additional 50-100 thousand with weakened and mixed identity. The whole population of Bialystok is almost 300 thousand according to the last cenzus. The city is situated in the north-eastern part of Poland, almost 60 kilometres from the polish-belarus border, 350 km from Minsk and 300 km from Vilnius. The way Belarusian culture influences the city and whole region is for example publishing a weekly magazine Niva in Belarusian language , airing radio Racyja and tv programmes. Moreover on the University of Bialystok there is the Department of Belarusian Culture.
Belarus. Love and apathy (BIAŁORUŚ. MIŁOŚĆ I MARAZM), is a book written by Hanna Kondratiuk, published in Bialystok in 2013 by Fundacja Sasiedzi. The book of reportages was made by the author while travelling through small cities and villages of Belarus. There are conversations with Belarusians, talking about political history, identity od Eastern nation. Blue sky, houses, people brings you picture of Belarus – sad and happy at the same time. The reading leaves the reader with questions like – What is the future of Belarus? What direction will take Lukashenko´s state on? What comes to the fore – love or apathy?
The review of the book in Polish language
HANNA KONDRATIUK was born in Kutłówce na Podlasiu. She graduated from Warszaw University. Since 1993, she works in weekly magazine of Belarusian minority in Poland – Niva. She is the author of many reportages from Belarus, Ukraine and mainly from Podlasie. Hanna has written four books: „W stronę Tarasiewicza" (two publications – 2002 and 2004), „Carskaja Tryzna" (2007), „Dziadowskie tournée z Anatolem S." (2010) and „Białoruś. Miłość i marazm” (2013). Moreover, she recorded ancient songs and stories " Žuryłasie Kateryna " (2005) . Since 1995 she leads journalistic workshops for children and youth , so-called " Sustreczy Zorki "( e-zorka.pl ) by which she edits the addition of " Zorka " in " Niva " . She works with literary magazines in Poland and Belarus and lives in Bialystok, Poland.
The highest authority in politics, sport and culture of Belarus, the one and only president – Alexander Lukashenko and the people who since 1994 live in the country with ill system, waiting for the change.
“System Belarus“ was written by former political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut - Belarusian and Polish journalist, blogger and activist of the Polish minority in Belarus from Grodno. In the past he worked for these Belarusian media - Pahonia, Dien, Miestnoje Wriemia, Narodnaja Volia, Głos znad Niemna and Magazyn Polski. Andrzej currently serves as a head of the Council of the UPB (Union of Poles in Belarus), an organization recognized by the Belarusian authorities as illegal. The book was published in 2013, the year he was exempted from serving the sentence for defaming the President of Belarus.
Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga (Centre for Eastern Studies) said:
“Poczobut´s book is lightly written story about difficult cases. Journalistic pen , skillful selection of facts , statements of direct witnesses make "System Belarus" reads like a sensational story of the struggle for power and its maintenance. The only pitty is that this is a true story ...”
Victor Martinovich, in Vilnius, presented the book – a study on the one of the most prominent artists of XXth century in Belarus. To write this scientific study, journalist was gathering information for 15 years. The book is called «Радзіма: Марк Шагал у Віцебску» (Homeland: Marc Chagall in Vitebsk.)
„It is important so that the world could see what has been written by political prisoners and repressed,” said political prisoner Ales Bialiatski in the article published on November 15 – on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Ales spends his free time (which is according his words approximately an hour and half a day) for writing. He mentiones, that it is important to think about establishing a library of Belarusian prison literature, where would be collected the works of those writers who wrote in jail. Library like this might serve as a school of moral and moral example for many Belarusians and future generations. The idea of the library is, in my opinion, really good and almost required looking back to dozens imprisoned writers.
This is not an essay about a book or an author even though I am mentioning them. This is the essay about phenomenas which are currently present on Belarus literary scene. Sometimes, we - readers are so excited about a plot of some book, we are impressed by a hero of a book or by style an author uses in his or her book. Yes, it is why we read. But there is a special thing about Belarusian literature ( I mean, mostly contemporary – as in my essay I mention that one) – I am impressed already before reading. Why? Let´s look on some conditions in which some Belarusian books grow up. And maybe you will share the impression with me.
The first book I mention on the blog is "Enlightened by the Belarusian Issue." It is a book of critical essays written by Ales Bialiatski – political prisoner and the head of Belarus Human Rights Centre Viasna, Vice president of International Federation of Human Rights. He started to write this book in 2011 before arrest and kept on the work during his imprisonment by sending texts in letters. Through this book the author brought for the first time the term "Belarusian prison literature" into modern Belarusian literary studies. Moreover he writes about almost unkown author from 1920s’ Khviados Shynkler who perished in WWII and in the book are also reviews on different poetry works such as “Stremka” written by his friend Siarzhuk Sys. Palina Stsepanenka who composed the book describes Bialatski’s reaction after its publication: ‘‘On 6 February I received a letter from Ales, he writes that the publication of a book was a cultural shock for him, as he has never even dreamed that there would be such a book.‘‘ But the fate of book continues. See what happened after the seizing of 40 copies of the book at the Belarusian - Lithuanian border crossing “Kamenny Loh” in July 2013 from human rights activist Tatsiana Reviaka, the book was requested for examination and the expert committee came to conclusion that the work ‘‘could damage the image of the Republic of Belarus.‘‘ So the book is finally prohibited and marked as something what could damage the image of the Republic of Belarus. That´s so sad, but not something unexpectable in Belarus.
For example a book „Paranoia,“ written by contemporary writer, journalist and also teacher at European Humanities University in Vilnius – Victor Martinovich suddenly disapperead from Belarusian book market after few days. The reason is probably similiar as in case of Bialiatski. The authorities must be careful and let anyone to damage the image of the country. Apart from this book Victor Martinovich has written Cold Paradise , Sphagnum and Mova (on the links you can see photos from presentations of the books) And his recent acitivity was when in Vilnius presented the book – a study on the one of the most prominent artists of XXth century in Belarus – Marc Chagall. To write this scientific study, Martinovich was gathering information for 15 years. The book is called «Радзіма: Марк Шагал у Віцебску» (Homeland: Marc Chagall in Vitebsk). So looking at pomer he published, we may claim he´s been „in safe,“ yet.
The next book is not fiction but a political biography. It was written by Alyaksandr Fyaduta who says that he is proud of having written a banned book. Although the book was published in Moscow and for a month was on the top of political biography charts, it was not possible to get it in Belarusian bookshops. Moreover anything published under the name of former political prisoner requires special examination on the Belarus border. So in this case we meet author who is thanks to his writing activity seen as “persona non grata” in Belarus.
In Belarus aslo happens that not just Belarusian authors are put jail or at least have banned some book. The living testimony is former political prisoner and activist of the Polish minority in Belarus - Andrzej Poczobut originally from Poland. He is the author of “System Belarus“. The book was published in 2013, the year after he was exempted from serving the sentence for defaming the President of Belarus. Andrzej currently serves as a head of the Council of the UPB (Union of Poles in Belarus), an organization recognized by the Belarusian authorities as illegal.
Looking at these examples, we may see that it is not easy to be a writer in Belarus whether you write fiction or non-ficition, whether you are Belarus or Polish, when it is necessary the authorities can always find something against you or your piece of work. The prohibition and controls are present. That´s why I decided to find out more about Belarus literary activity abroad. I did not have to „go far“ when I started to read about Polish city Bialystok - the centre of Belarusian cultural and political activities in Poland. There lives a strong minority of Belarusians – around 50 thousand with national and additional 50-100 thousand with weakened and mixed identity. The whole population of Bialystok is almost 300 thousand according to the last cenzus. The city is situated in the north-eastern part of Poland, almost 60 kilometres from the polish-belarus border, 350 km from Minsk and 300 km from Vilnius. The way Belarusian culture influences the city and whole region is for example publishing a weekly magazine Niva in Belarusian language , airing radio Racyja and tv programmes. Moreover on the University of Bialystok there is the Department of Belarusian Culture.
Apart from general information about Bialystok I wanted to find some concrete piece of work created here. I found a book „Belarus. Love and apathy“(BIAŁORUŚ. MIŁOŚĆ I MARAZM) written by Hanna Kondratiuk, published in Bialystok in 2013 by Fundacja Sasiedzi. The book of reportages was made by the author while travelling through small cities and villages of Belarus. There are conversations with Belarusians, talking about political history, identity od Eastern nation. Blue sky, houses, people brings you picture of Belarus – sad and happy at the same time. The reading leaves the reader with questions like – What is the future of Belarus? What direction will take Lukashenko´s state on? What comes to the fore – love or apathy? (The review of the book in Polish language) So it is concrete example of work interested in Belarus created in Bialystok.
In the end I just want to add some statements about Belarusian literature. First was written by Pavał Kaściukievič, Art-director and International projects' coordinator of Kniharnia Łohvinaŭ Publishing House and Literary Center,in the article Go Bisons! 693 words about Belarusian literature. „Literature in Belarus is a political dialogue prohibited in modern Belarusan society. It is an artistic battle with the State ideology and lack of freedom, a balancing act between East and West, serving as a refuge for tender hearts confronted with a hard reality. At the same time, Belarusan literature opposes aesthetic censorship; it is a distinctive observation of the human soul, a journey in the mostly unfavourable conditions of Eastern Europe“, Moreover, Publishing House Łohvinaŭ in recent past went through hard times when government „gifted“ it with fine around 60 000 dollars. The bookstore survived thanks to crowdfunded campaign. The next expressed Ales Bialiatski on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (November 15): „It is important so that the world could see what has been written by political prisoners and repressed,” and he came with an idea of establishing a library of Belarusian prison literature, where would be collected the works of those writers who wrote in jail. Library like this might serve as a school of moral and moral example for many Belarusians and future generations. The last was said by Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga (Centre for Eastern Studies) when she was describing Poczobut´s book:“ It is lightly written story about difficult cases. Journalistic pen, skillful selection of facts , statements of direct witnesses make "System Belarus" reads like a sensational story of the struggle for power and its maintenance. The only pitty is that this is a true story ...”
Through these statements and examples from Belarus and neighboring Poland I tried to draft the situation of Belarus literary life. In the beginning I mentioned that I am impressed already before reading a concrete book. The reason of my impression is the story hidden by these particualar books and many other which I did not mention. When I realize that something like this is happening in the 21st century, in Europe where we are used to present our opinions and we are taught to think critically, to read stories of these Belarusian books sounds like ficiton.
Victor Martinovich. Social dystopias as reflection of Belarusian reality.
(Lucia Chudá, 2boRV)
Dystopia (from Ancient Greek: δυσ-, "bad, ill", and Ancient Greek: τόπος, "place, landscape") is a very specifical type of literature. It is defined as:
1. An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
2. A work describing such a place or state: "dystopias such as Brave New World" (Times Literary Supplement).(1)
From Orwell´s dystopias Animal farm, 1984, trought Bely´s Argonauts or Bryusov´s The Republic of the Southern Cross(2), we will travel to Belarus to meet one contemporary writer – Victor Martinovich.
In my work I will write about this writer and about his works-dystopias and also try to describe his books and show some important points which may mean something more than just words.
I will also try to point out reflection in his dystopias which may be influanced by his homeland - Belarus.
1 The free dictionary by Farlex: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dystopia
2 ELIÁŠ, A. a kol. Ruská literatúra 18.-21. storočia, Bratislava: VEDA, 2013. 131 s. ISBN 970-80-224- 1344-2
Short biography of Victor Martinovich
Victor Martinovich, who was born in 1977 in Ashmyany, is belurussian contemporary writer, journalist and art historian. In 1994 he started to study at Belarussian State University(BSU), journalism department. After five years of studying at the university, he has been participating in BSU’s Postgraduate courses, history of criticism he studies during three years.
He developed thesis on Vitebsk’s avant-garde of 1920-s, its social and cultural context and Soviet media criticism. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to defend PhD in Belarus, at that time BSU was not happy about his civil position expressed in numerous interviews and texts. Finally, in 2008 he successfully defended PhD at Vilnius’ academy of fine arts. Name of his thesis was „Representation of Vitebsk’s avant-garde in news-papers of 1920s“. Since 2008 till now (2015) he works as an assistant professor of European Humanities University in Vilnius.(3)
His first novel Paranoia, published in 2009 in Moscow, has been positively reviewed by New York Times Book Reviewin 2009 and 2013. In 2013 North Western university Press in Chicago published English translation of Paranoia, prepared by Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton’s professor of Russian literature.
Paranoia is a novel about love in time of dictatorship. The love between a man and a woman is described with freshness, depth, and joy. In the background is the dark, sinister world of authoritarian rule, with its frozen emotions, unspoken truths, and bizarre understanding of reality. The book never mentions Belarus. The dictator is not the president but the secret-service minister, and his character is purposely written to differ from the current Belarusian leader.(4)
3 Biography of Victor Martinovich: http://martinovich.by/?page_id=2
4 LESHCHENKO, N., 15.1.2010, Belarus: love and paranoia: https://www.opendemocracy.net/natalia-leshchenko/belarus-love-and-paranoia
The author, Victor Martinovich, opens the novel with the pointed statement “All characters are fictional.” As a police state, such as today’s Belarusian dictatorship, approaches perfect control - someone is always watching. The young lovers are watching each other, whether they understand this or not.
We can expect that in this book is mentioned a lot of connections with Belarus, for example: A police state is not exactly identified by name, but it is closely based on the author´s native Belarus (and its protagonist´s best-known work is a collection of essays titled: The Country whose Name begins with „B“).
We can see it in Head of State, Commander in Chief, Minister of State Security Nikolai Mikhailovich Muraviov, who plays a big role in the novel, is known as the „last dictator in Europe“, just as the actual Belarusian leader - Alexander Lukashenko.5
His next books, Cold paradise and Sfagmun, are not dystopias, but we may say that they also reflect reality by a lot of symbols and situations.(5)
Cold paradise
In 2011 Victor Martinovich published his second novel Stsyudzyoni vyrai – this means Cold Paradise, it's an interesting religious and ethical concept. Vyrai in popular belief is, on the one hand, a place where birds fly during cold months, and on the other it is where spirits go after the death. So it is a paradise and a warm country at the same time.
The novel starts with an American guy who is writing notes in Belarusian. Of course he makes a lot of mistakes. This guy is a fine arts dealer, who meets a girl from Belarus, and this girl somehow gets him interested in Belarus. As it turns out, she is a dissident hiding from the KGB. To impress her, he starts to learn language (he claims his ancestors are from Belarus). He writes these notes in Belarusian which are published in some literary magazine. Via these notes he tries to invite her to a meeting, but she's in hiding. So he suggests that they meet in Vilnius – and he waits for her every week at the same time in the same café.
5 ORTHOFER, M., 29.11.2013 Paranoia by Victor Martinovich : http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/postsu/martinovich.htm
This political thriller is full of mistakes that prove this guy is not the person he claims to be.. By writing this novel the author, who although is Belarusian, made a lot of mistakes. But by the end he claims that he was quite fluent in Belarusian: „I found this person in me who is Belarusian-thinking and Belarusian-speaking“.
He received the Maxim Bahdanovich prize for this book and a lot of good reviews. Stsyudzyoni vyrai has never been translated into any language, even into Russian, because it is just too difficult to translate all the mistakes.(6)
Sfagnum
This crime-caper comedy drama is more than a story of a gang’s failure – it’s a truly carnivalesque journey into the metaphysical landscape of the Belarusian provinces. The gang’s heist scheme goes awry: one member tries to steal the loot along the way. He dies in the shooting and the rest of the gang has to run away. The local police officer arrives at the crime scene and finds the loot, quite a sizeable amount of cash. The instructions he gets from his boss are clear: no money should be mentioned in his reports. Three incompetent amateur gangsters end up owing the loot to a high-powered mafia boss and they have only a few days to come up with the cash, with a thug hot on their tail.
The novel, heavy on local dialect and foul language, introduces us to the exotic setting of Belarusian rural life and presents the reader with a vast gallery of vivid characters.
This fast-paced, laugh-out-loud gangster comedy is a perfect blend of humour, intelligence, and suspense from the young Belarusian writer who reflects his own experiences.(7)
6 GLIŃSKI,M., 8.10.2015, What If Your Language Were an Illegal Drug? An Interview with Victor Martinovich : http://culture.pl/en/article/what-if-your-language-were-an-illegal-drug-an-interview-with-victor-martinovich
7 VASHKEVICH, D., Books from Belarus : http://34mag.net/content/stuff/Books_from_Belarus_print.pdf
The newest of four books is Mova which means in Belarusian „Language“. It is a political thriller, a dystopian vision of the future in which the Belarusian language has disapeared and the rest of it is used as a drug and Poland´s capital is where this drug is distributed.
The book describes Minsk in the near future, around 70 years from now. Minsk is occupied by a Russian-Chinese Empire, but there is not mentioned a Belarus, neither Belarusian words or toponyms of streets. Actually, nobody even remembers the Belarusian language. There is only a small group of junkies who take a drug called Mova. This means they read small samples of classic Belarusian literature to „get high“. The whole system of drug distribution is obviously controlled by the Chinese, through the so-called triads. But the centre of production of the drug is actually Warsaw.
Poland and Warsaw are shown in the book as messy but likeable places without state control where you can buy everything, including this Belarusian drug.
There are two narrators: first is a drug addict, an intellectual and the second narrator is a drug dealer whose job is to travel to Warsaw, buy a lot of drugs and then transport them to the border and trick the border control and their scanners. The problem with this drug is we can only get high by reading a new fragment.
After reading we have to destroy it because it is very dangerous to own these drugs. And then we have to look for another fragment. During perceiving this new language, we begin to make mistakes in Russian – and this is the way for the state to catch us, which is the main problem in this story.
What can we suppose? However, the author does not mention names, there is always an influence which influences a writer to write a story. There are some similarities between fiction and reality. Maybe the author wants to point out a problem which is in real. After Alexander Lukashenko became a president in 1994, Belarus started to be more pro-russian oriented. One consequence of rusification is declaration Russian language as national in Belarus which could lead to stop using Belarusian language.
The author declared about his book:
„This work is very controversial, a little scandalous. Despite the fact that it has a strong plot, it does not plot the literature. Hiding under the guise of language "militants", the text tries to answer the vexed questions that have matured in our society. The main of them - language. I tried to make sense of this problem in terms of science fiction.“
Also, he answer a question - Could Mova, that is Belarusian language, be dangerous for the regime today?
„It's not about being dangerous to the regime. I can easily imagine Lukashenka speaking Belarusian. He can – and it's not dangerous for him. It used to be dangerous in 90s when we used to have a strong national front. But we don't have this any more. Lukashenka is the only one there and Belarusian is not dangerous for him – but he still hasn't overcome this fear which Belarusian was causing in the 90s.“(8)
8 GLIŃSKI,M., 8.10.2015,What If Your Language Were an Illegal Drug? An Interview with Victor Martinovich : http://culture.pl/en/article/what-if-your-language-were-an-illegal-drug-an-interview-with-victor-martinovich
Every book is special because of message, meaning. One hundred peole have different points of view on it. The only right answer on question: If Victor Martinovich really mean Belarus in his novel Paranoia, or if he was thinking about russia-belarusian relations when he was writting a novel Mova, is author´s answer. We can only expect it. But there are some situations when we should polemize about. One example could be that two days after Paranoia hits Minsk bookshops and Belarus’ Internet retailers, it is suddenly “unavailable.” It is as if the book never existed. A novel disappeared.(9)
9 LESHCHENKO, N., 15.1.2010 Belarus: love and paranoia: https://www.opendemocracy.net/natalia-leshchenko/belarus-love-and-paranoia
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Posted on August 13, 2019 by Vanessa Cole · 175 Comments
The Emmys will be awarded next month, and Game of Thrones is well positioned to take home a considerable number of trophies with its historic 32 nominations. Miguel Sapochnik has an excellent chance at winning in the Outstanding Directing category for “The Long Night,” having previously won in 2016 for “Battle of the Bastards.” In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Sapochnik shares some of the behind the scenes work involved in bringing the battle of Winterfell to life.
In addition to enduring 55 grueling nights of shooting in adverse weather, Sapochnik admits he “questioned everything, and we worked long and hard to find the right balance of credibility versus wish fulfillment. Then we shot it and reshot it and found that what was really important was rhythm.”
He addresses the decision to have Arya leap from nowhere when attacking the Night King, saying, “At one point there was an elaborate plan to have her fight her way into the weirwood forest, but as we progressed we realized she’d already done that earlier in the episode, so it felt like a repeat. In the end we felt it didn’t matter how she got there — what mattered was setting up that moment when the Night King catches her mid-leap and we think she’s done for, then she pulls her knife switch and takes him out. I loved Maisie’s performance post the takedown as well, sharing a moment with her brother, Bran. That weary smile. ‘Not today.'”
Whether he takes home the Emmy or not, Sapochnik will forever be grateful for his experience working on Thrones. “It’s been the opportunity of a lifetime. I made a lot of friends. I worked with the best actors, crew, producers and showrunners I’ve ever worked with. I got to know the people of Northern Ireland and learned about their history. I had an experience that I would never have had otherwise, and I can take that with me to every project I do.” Here’s hoping he gets rewarded with a win for his incredibly hard work on “The Long Night.”
Author George R.R. Martin is currently in Ireland for Worldcon, and while he didn’t address his progress on The Winds of Winter (shocking) he did speak to The Irish Times about the phenomenonal popularity of his A Song of Ice and Fire novels and the Game of Thrones television show. Martin admitted there is always an uncertainty about how well a project will be received. “You never know with either books or television. I had a book about 10 years before, The Armageddon Rag, a rock-and-roll book…It was going to be a bestseller, and it died totally. It almost destroyed my career.”
“It’s not a bad book – why did it sell so poorly? Why did Game of Thrones sell so well?…If people knew what would work, they would do it all the time.” He added that no one can anticipate what will succeed, saying, “[Game of Thrones] became the most popular television show in the world. When it started David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss], the showrunners, I remember them saying, ‘Well, let’s hope we can get three seasons, so we can get to at least the Red Wedding. Obviously, we got more than that.”
Martin also explained that while popularity and success is nice, it’s not what’s most important to him. “When an actor finishes a play they come out for the curtain call and the applause. The check is not enough. I want to know what people think of it. Maybe they’re going to throw fruit, or maybe they’re going to give you a standing ovation. You never know, but you’ve got to get it out before people, right?”
Read the rest – including his thoughts on genre fiction and fandom – here.
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Jack Bauer 24 says:
Congrats David and Dan, Sapochnik and everyone else involved on a magical and magnificent final season and finale episode. The entire series was brilliant from start to finish.
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A lot of time will pass until someone succeeds in doing what GoT and Miguel did with Hardhome, BoB, TLN and The Bells.
There will be great drama shows on TV in the future but spectacle on that level not so easily.
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Ten Bears says:
He addresses the decision to have Arya leap from nowhere when attacking the Night King, saying, “At one point there was an elaborate plan to have her fight her way into the weirwood forest, but as we progressed we realized she’d already done that earlier in the episode, so it felt like a repeat. In the end we felt it didn’t matter how she got there — what mattered was setting up that moment when the Night King catches her mid-leap and we think she’s done for, then she pulls her knife switch and takes him out. I loved Maisie’s performance post the takedown as well, sharing a moment with her brother, Bran. That weary smile. ‘Not today.’”
“[E]laborate plan to have her fight her way into the weirwood forest…”?
I’d have paid good money to see that.
”In the end we felt it didn’t matter how she got there — what mattered was setting up that moment when the Night King catches her mid-leap and we think she’s done for, then she pulls her knife switch and takes him out.”
Oh Miguel. It DID matter. You went for the Gotcha! moment. 🧐
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Young Dragon says:
Ten Bears,
It wasn’t a “gotcha” moment like Sansa taking down Littlefinget in season 7. There was a lot of set up, from Arya sneaking up on Jon in the godswood, her sneaking around the wights in the library, her scene with Melisandre, not to mention how much the “god of death” played into her storyline. It was no more a “gotcha” moment than Tywin arriving at the Battle of the Blackwatet, Stannis arriving at the Battle of the Wall, the Red Wedding, Cersei blowing up the Sept of Baelor, etc.
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Shelle says:
Ten Bears: 100% yup.
None of those other surprises leave you wondering about & wanting to see how they wound up happening. (Except that I do wish Sansa & Arya had referenced talking to Bran about Littlefinger to clarify that in S7.)
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Chilli says:
I really like Maisie Williams/Arya Stark, but somehow that whole scene felt wrong. People can rationalise it as much as they want, but that doesn’t change my feelings. I didn’t have those feelings with Tywin or Stannis, that all felt right.
And I also love Sapochnik, he did amazing things with Hardhome, Winds of Winter and in battle Meereen.
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MaxWaynwood says:
Wow THATS a nice metaphor of the problem with the last two seasons of GoT: they creators (writers, producers and directors) wanted to get to the ending point without explaining the journey to get there, thinking the audience would not care about it and just clap and cry, as a consequence, the plot felt incredibly rushed and nonsensical. And, honestly, people noticed, a lot of people.
Don’t get me wrong, I love game of thrones and I will always be grateful to D&D for introducing me to this great universe and fandom, but the last two seasons were, in hindsight, really really messy and straight up bad at moments, at least that’s my opinion.
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Mordred says:
Young Dragon,
Yes it was, a “subvert expectations” moment. D&D have told that:
“She seemed like the best candidate, provided we weren’t thinking about her in the moment” “Jon Snow has always been the hero, the one who’s been the savior, but it just didn’t seem right to us for this moment,”
Meaning not even them thought it made sense that Arya killed the NK, they picked her because it made no sense. They went of the gotcha moment.
Just imagine that in Infinity War Thanos never gets to fight, we never even hear him talk, we know nothing of his motivations. Black Widow jumps out of nowhere and stabs him, movie ends. Great storytelling.
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Btw, even if I criticise a few things. I will be forever grateful to D&D for creating GOT. They have made the best tv show I have ever seen on tv. And Sapochnik has done the best direction I have ever seen. There are a few things in the last 4 episodes I would have done different, but I loved almost all the other episodes. And even the last 4 episodes had some really impressing visuals. I didn’t like Dany burning so many innocents in The Bells, but the direction, visuals and acting were really extraordinary.
Mango says:
This moment should have been one of the best in the series. These monsters were set up from Episode 1. We meet Arya as a girl and it was wonderful that an unexpected character (but thematically suitable) would strike the death blow.
Then for some reason a decision was made to make it happen in the most unsatisfying way possible. There must have been something put in the water in Belfast when they were doing S8 – how could so many talented people make so many mistakes all at the same time? Mistake, mistake, mistake…Geez, dude, you needed to re-think this jump out of nowhere and kill with my little knife. Made it ridiculous.
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Grandmaester Flash says:
Nah, I loved the Gotcha! moment, and so did the person I watched with. I didn’t see it coming, but all the clues were there, just not in-your-face. I think Miguel’s right, if we’d seen Arya making her way step-by-step to the godswood it would have lost some of the impact. Although we’d still have the thrill of the knife drop.
In my head she jumped down out of a tree, and if I changed anything I would have just made the tree a little more visible to viewers.
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Grandmaester Flash,
I think (not sure!) they said she did not come from the tree – she jumped up/bounced up off a pile of wights.
Or something idiotic like that.
So many different people in the world liking different things.
kevin1989 says:
Agree with you here. I really hoped they would have shown that moment, having her move through the godswood would have felt more like GoT always did, suspense. Is she going to make it, yes or no. For me that would have made the ending more exciting.
And I disagree with MS that it would be the same as the rest of the episode. Yes Arya fought before. But that was in a different part of the episode and a different kind of feeling why she fought.
And know we know that D&D plan wasn’t the gotcha moment but that it was decided while filming it.
Still I hope MS wins the Emmy he deserves it.
First I say that I’m with you the season was brilliant and the long night too but
1. Sansa’s taking down LF was indeed a gotcha moment. That’s why many didn’t like it. Maybe the first time watching it feels excited but the second time it doesn’t feel that great. For me it would have been greater if we knew the plan beforehand. Or at leas the set-up could have been better.
2. Agree there was lot of set-up from Arya. But Arya disappeared for 30 minutes before she ended the NK. That’s a lot for a main-character to end the biggest or second biggest villain the saga. Look for instance at Frodo in LOTR before he destroyed the ring, it build up tension minutes before not half an hour before.
3. Tywin arriving at blackwater was not that of a gotcha moment then Arya killing the NK why? Because we saw first the man arriving winning the battle, then we saw the moment with Cersei and we knew only then it was Tywin. Second he was a secondary or tertiary character. And third they won the battle not the war. And 4th maybe the most important one. The battle of blackwater was focussed on Tyrion at that moment and Tywin saving the day happened at the back. It was not about the battle being won but about will Tyrion survive, how far will Cersei go etc. As for with episode 3, that gotcha moment happened in the forefront. It was what we focused on, it didn’t happen in the background.
4. Stannis arriving at the wall, did have a set-up for one whole season. 3×10 we knew that he would go there, and he arrived in 4×10. It was not a gotcha moment. And more over it didn’t need a moment before because the reason for that moment was not ending a bad guy, it was moving the story into a new direction. And another scene couldn’t be implemented to up the tension, in 8×03 a battle in the godswood with Arya could.
5. The Red wedding had a tension of 10 minutes build with Cat and the plan of Walder. The doors closed and we felt trapped, Cat’s face showed us that. It build up the tension minute by minute. With Arya destroying the NK was a scene of 2 minutes (she was gone for 30 minutes of our screens, the story shifted to another parts of what was happening). So not the same.
6. Cersei’s blowing up the sept was a scene of 10/15 minutes. With a build-up of seasons. It wasn’t a gotcha moment because in the first couple of minutes of that scene you already knew. Cersei is going to do something horrible. And it build and build every minute till the big final. And everything that happened since season 3 came together for Cersei.
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I disagree, I loved the whole season, but that moment felt like it was missing the build up for the action itself. It made sense as MS stated, if you can think for yourself you knew it would happen. But she was gone for 30 minutes and got back for a 2 minute scene. It didn’t feel right for me. But I loved that Arya was the one destroying the NK.
I even think a small wight battle 10 a 15 minutes before Arya killed the NK could have helped. We understand there, oh she is going to the NK, she is going to kill him. Go Arya. Scene cut when a second bunch of wight come. Oh no she is not going to make it. Then we saw in the end she did make it, but what? NK is going to kill her? Oh yes she survived NK is dead.
Arya killing the Night King was really popular moment with general audience and it was the only big chatarsis moment of the last season. Everything else was written more like a tragedy.
Daenerys’ victory was a horror, they didn’t give Cersei comic book villain death people wanted, Jon killed Daenerys, unpopular character became King, Jaime left Brienne,… The second half was completely anti-fan service.
Mango: I think (not sure!) they said she did not come from the tree – she jumped up/bounced up off a pile of wights.
As I’ve said elsewhere, I don’t always agree with “them”. 😀
But whatever it was she jumped from, we needed to see it a bit better.
Where was build up for Arya killing Walder Frey? People (kinda) forgot to enjoy good “shock value” scene.
The story doesn’t need to prepare you to every twist. Sometimes it’s just slap in the face. Or finger in the bum.
Chilli,
Why not? They are the exact same situation. All we see is Tywin leave Harrenhal, then he shows up at King’s Landing. We see Stannis make plans to leave for the Wall, we don’t even see him set sail, and then he arrives in time to save Jon. All we see is Sansa writing a letter, then the Knights of the Vale arrive at Winterfell. We don’t see Olenna poisoning Joffrey’s cup, we don’t see the Freys plan the Red Wedding, we don’t see Cersei set up the wildfire before her trial, we don’t see Tyrion place wildfire in the boat before Battle of the Blackwater, etc. The list goes on and on and on. Arya killing the Night King had the same amount of set up as any of these, and in some cases, even more set up. If you’re upset Arya was the one to do it, fine, but don’t say there wasn’t set up. That’s objectively false.
The nature of criticism against GoT is really strange when you think about it. No other story was put under such scrutiny. I don’t remember people complaining that we didn’t see Neville approaching Nagini in Harry Potter 8.
I already experienced this with people who are watching GoT now for the first time, but I think future generation of viewers will appreciate this show more and they will realize what an accomplishment it was, the true masterpiece of television production. They will be free from cynical approach social media had towards GoT since S1.
I mean GoT was a show that caused social media outrage and even comments from director because character didn’t pet a dog lol
10 years from now future viewers of GoT will be shocked when they look back. It will look like some sort of completely ridiculous mass hysteria.
mau,
The build up is her revenge arc that has been in play since season 1. And that build up was done in the same episode by showing Arya’s new face to Jaime.
And there’s nothing wrong with shock value so now and then. But depends how it’s done:
1. Can there be more scenes build up? With killing Walder the answer is no, that’s how it suppose to go. With Killing the NK it’s yes. They could have implemented that godswood scene.
2. What kind of episode, scene are we talking about? With Walder’s dead it wasn’t a battle episode. It wasn’t a scene of the defeat of the biggest (or second depends how you look at season 8) villain of the story. Meaning that the defeat of that villain needs to have a bigger build up just before the demise. I give you 2 examples later on and one of GoT that most of the time not going for shock value up the tension.
3. What’s the best way to go at a certain moment. Shock or tension. They started his dead with tension and ended it with Arya with shock.
4. More Arya the better right? 😉
Defeat of Voldemort in Harry Potter. Was his dead shock just out of the blue Harry killed him. Or was it a tension of 10 minutes where they fought? His ending wasn’t build of shock but on tension. Think about how the ending of Harry Potter would feel if out of the blue Harry came and ended Voldemort in just 1 minute. Was that shock the best way to go there?
example 2. The destroying of the ring in LotR. Once again the moment the ring was going to be destroyed they went with tension. Frodo battled with himself and with Gollum. It was build on tension not on shock.
example 3. GoT, red wedding. What if they went with Shock here instead of tension and the moment the door closed directly after that Robb was killed. Wouldn’t that be shocking right? Not the tension of the bolts first, not the dead of the Starks outside with Grey wind. Not Cat giving us hope by taking Walders wife. Just shock with Robb dead. Wouldn’t work right? The tension we got was better, because it was an important ending for important characters.
Example 4. Jaime Dany face-off in 7×04. Once again that moment worked because they build on tension not on shock, if it was on shock people wouldn’t be that tense at that moment when Jaime rode to her.
Nobody is putting season 8 on scrutiny in this comment section. As you know I’m one that always defend season 8 and still do. It still one of the best shows out there and I think even in 10 years not a show has match it.
That doesn’t mean I think that that small scene could have made episode 8×03 better and I wish it was there. Was it needed? No. Would I have like to have that scene happen? Yes. and now we know that D&D wrote that scene in their scripts when people were attacking D&D for not including such a scene. Now we know D&D didn’t deserve that backlash.
You know that many just made fun of Jon at that moment there right? And it was fun that just after that Rheagal died. So people made memes about Ghost killing Rheagal because Jon chose Rheagal over him, it was not serious just making jokes. (At least the most)
There were also many clips on Youtube where people cheered in groups when Jon pet Ghost in the final episode.
But which director made a comment about Jon not petting ghost in 8×04?
Tron79 says:
Ten Bears:
I find it fascinating how much leeway the directors actually get! I was yelling my head off at some of Mark Mylod’s decisions back in season 6! I just never realized they gave the director the power to change the script so much as they do. I did think that Sapo’s decisions to save budget in BOTB was brilliant and made for some of the most memorable scenes (when Jon almost suffocated and comes out of the top re-birthing).
Mine aren’t complaints about decisions, it’s more wishes about what I really would have enjoyed seeing. I was hoping for a dramatic Valyrian Steel battle with all of our fav’s who survived so far going against the White Walker Generals. Give me a few more scenes of Arya fighting her way over, because she’s just so fricken good at it. I didn’t really need to see it, but as a viewer it’s amazing drama and satisfying to see the WWs taken down by the valyrian steel warriors (and it makes the build up about the valyrian steel come together better for me personally). These aren’t really complaints because I think it works the way Sapo did it and I enjoyed the way he did it. He went for the “we’re f’ked” moment when it really seems like all is lost, and it really did seem like everyone was going to friken die. And then I just felt a sense of relief when Arya did her wolf leap and ended it. I personally would have enjoyed more satisfying action scenes along the way. I know GOT wasn’t an action movie, but a few times i wished they let us enjoy the moment more and see our actors at their best. They only showed a few seconds of Arya’s amazing spear fight on the battlements, and Maisie is just really great at those moves.
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Dee Stark says:
I agree totally. It was so perfectly set up and I love that her training in seasons 5 and 6 paid off SOOOO nicely in season 8. Was amazing.
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mau: Daenerys’ victory was a horror, they didn’t give Cersei comic book villain death people wanted, Jon killed Daenerys, unpopular character became King, Jaime left Brienne,… The second half was completely anti-fan service.
That’s so true, never thought of it that way
Arya’s scene with Jaime works like her scene with Melisandre. It serves as build up only when you know the outcome and rewatch the episode.
Arya killing the Night King was a surprise moment. Watching her actually come there would ruin that moment. Because the point of surprise is not to see it coming, obviously.
And the Night King wasn’t killed in a minute. We watched the longest battle ever before that and a very long and slow sequence. And then Arya comes. Feels like a shock but when you look back it works beautifully, just like every great twist should.
You are arguing against artistic choice to have Night King’s death as surprise.
Efi says:
Imo MS is currently one of the most important directors and I’d like to see him do a movie. Some of the scenes were iconic. Two of my favorites are the dragons suspending over the clouded sky in 8.3, and Jon unsheathing his sword in BotB. (btw that scene was from the books, Dornish story, only that poor guy gets killed).
No, 8.3 was one of the best eps in GOT in my opinion, not that it wouldn’t take any improvements. I’m not for another scene with Arya, but perhaps an Arya moment close to or at the entrance to the godswood would have made sense, squeezed among this last sequence we saw on screen and would have helped the viewers. Not to mention that I’d like that wonderful music with Arya’s face showing her terror, exhaustion, astonishment seeing another, say ten-twenty undead before her in that place? We didn’t actually have to see her taking them out (ok, I’m fantasizing here, lol, but it would have made a nice combination with desperate Jon). She was indeed gone for a half hour and personally I didn’t understand where she was going, but I’m not thinking very much when I’m watching (I did think of her when Jon was up against the dragon, lol, like, where tf is Arya!????), so… for me it worked, lol, it was a complete gotcha moment.
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Tron79,
“And then I just felt a sense of relief when Arya did her wolf leap and ended it.”
Yeah, after the “gotcha moment” comes the “thank God” moment, lol. Those are really to appreciate. They’re not many.
I wasn’t talking only about this comment section but in general.
Director of the episode David Nutter made a comment. Maybe for some people it was a joke, but for vast majority of people it was serious problem. And that’s why the behavior of this fan base is ridiculous. We joined Star Wars and Rick and Morty fandom when it comes to sad cringe.
Some people on different forums that I respected completely lost their mind and even refused to talk about GoT ever since lol. Guy from JustWrite said The Bells made him feel sick for days! If a TV show can make you feel that way you have a serious problem. So we can expect objective reviews from people that have emotional and mental breakdown over creative choices in TV show? They can write objective reviews about Daenerys? Yeah, right.
The whole reaction to S8 on social media feels like a bad parody of Star Wars fandom. It’s embarrassing. A season of TV show mentally broke them. Those same people that made countless arguments defending The Last Jedi against similar type of criticism we saw with S8, now joined the angry mob, people that criticized the fans who had overreaction to the way Luke Skywalker was written in TLJ and preached about rationality, now lost their mind over Daenerys.
They became what they criticized. Just like Daenerys.
As I said before, I have no problem how it turned out. But for me I don’t like when the big baddie is being killed in a surprise way. It feels Deux Ex Machina for me. I’m more of a tension guy where the tension is build up over 10 minutes. And you’re right we saw a battle. And he was into play. He survived Dany’s roast (and she get roasted by him at that moment he he he). But at the moment itself it felled as I stated before if Harry Potter would just out of the blue killed Voldemort instead of that amazing 10 minute sequence we got. They didn’t decide to go with surprise and neither did D&D their choice in the script was to go with tension not with shock. They wrote a sequence in the Godswood with Arya being attacked by wights. They are brilliant as you stated, so that choice had a reason. They didn’t want a surprise ending, they wanted a tension ending where we would follow Arya to the NK.
So I have no problem what MS brought to the screen, but I will go with D&D initial plan to have follow Arya to the NK. I think D&D choice would have been better (not that what we got was bad it was still amazing and brilliant)
Miguel said he had more freedom the longer he worked on a show, since Benioff and Weiss trusted him more. He was even EP this year.
It’s interesting how a lot of people influenced what we have on the screen, not only this season, but in every season, but whenever fandom doesn’t like something it’s always D&D BAD response. It’s childish and toxic and fan base never gave Benioff and Weiss appreciation they deserved.
When something works it’s because Ramin, directors, actors, GRRM and Jesus Christ did it, but when it doesn’t it’s always D&D BAD.
Like Benioff and Weiss didn’t make all decisions at the end. They think Ramin can create music the way he wants and put it where he wants. That D&D gave no input there. Or that Clapton can create costums however she wants, that sets are designed completely independently from D&D.
In The Last Watch documentary we saw that Benioff and Weiss even reviewed costumes for extras.
Efi,
Agree 8×03 was one of the best moments on TV. And still it had room for improvement.
And as for the scene itself I would have gone for:
– A short sequence with Arya and wights in the Godswood, she wins barely, we think how did she survive this. But then a new horde of wights come to her. More double of before. We see horror on Arya’s face. scene cut. A scene of a couple of minutes.
– Then we got what we got on screen, Arya killing the NK but with more blood on her. We understand that she survived the battle.
I agree with the part you said about fandom overreacting. If a fictional character like “Dany” is more important for you than real life people like D&D, I think that’s a huge problem. And I despise people that insulted them in the fashion some did. You can say you dislike their writing of season 8, and that they could have done better. But the moment they are name-calling them, I won’t take those people serious. (And I think they should get mental help).
And about Nutter. If he had a problem with that scene. He could have insisted to have such a scene. As we read here, a director can implement their own direction of scenes. He could have shot such scene and let D&D decide which they prefer.
Nutter didn’t have a problem. He was responding to criticism.
mau:
Yes. They really did give him freedom.
I think the more I see “the bells” it’s becoming one of my favs for Sapo. Leaving the gore aside, his artistic decisions (especially following Arya on her journey out of the city) were some of the most memorable for me. He has a real talent with following a character’s POV, and that fits well with GRRM’s POV chapters.
I am so annoyed that I can’t rewatch S8. The only way is to download it from Amazon which will cost £15, and as I intend to buy the blu-ray when it comes out I resent having to pay twice.
As I said: “People can rationalise it as much as they want, but that doesn’t change my feelings that somehow it didn’t feel right. ” And it has nothing to do with what I think of Maisie Williams or Miguel Sapochnik, because I really love them. They have made incredible good TV in the past seasons.
Eeeeyeah…that’s one surprise I would’ve foregone in favor of seeing how she pulled it off. Okay, maybe not the entire path, sure, though I wouldn’t mind seeing what he described as the original plan. But show me her climbing and leaping off the pile of dead wights and we’re good. (Also show me that pile having built up during the previous godswood scenes.) I had been accepting the tree branch, the only seemingly logical explanation.
She may have “FM skills,” but she’s still no less a detectable human presence than other people, and she was even wearing her own danged face. The library scene was typical horror-movie escape stuff. I’m good at being silent and sneaking up on people too, but does that guarantee I could make it past the Walkers and up to their leader, THE doom of humanity? I mean, maybe. :p But even in her place I wouldn’t ask an audience to buy me just suddenly appearing in the aerial blackness and diving upon that dude.
Still not big into her being the one to do it (no, I wasn’t looking for it to be Jon; I’d have gone with somebody less obvious than either of them), but whatever, if she was going to be the one delivering the final stab, fine. My bigger issues were how and, primarily, when it happened.
(And if you weren’t outraged by Jon leaving sadboi Ghost without one pat, well, as a dog nut, I just don’t know what to say…! I absolutely more than understand those who “lost their minds over Daenerys” and whatnot…”The Bells” makes me sick too…bleh D-x)
You’re absolutely right. People judge GOT far more harshly than any other television show. I’ve said this before, but I rewatched Breaking Bad as critically as people watch GOT, and it does not hold up at all. For example, did you know there were several “teleportation” moments in Breaking Bad, two of which were a lot worse than Beyond the Wall?
Grail King says:
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I never thought Sansa scene was a gotcha moment, it’s been setup since season 4 !
And if you think he wasn’t on her internal kill list, especially after escaping Winterfell and the Molestown scene; you missed something.
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1. I didn’t like it either. The writing of the scene itself was very good, and the acting was superb, but how we got there was much to be desired. It’s one of two storylines I didn’t like in the whole series, and it’s the only one I consider to be rushed.
2. It was more like 20 minutes, but I don’t see why that matters. Tywin disappeared for an entire episode before showing up. Stannis and Littlefinger disappeared for several episodes. I also don’t know why it matters how big of an antagonist the Night King is. A “gotcha” moment is a “gotcha” moment, regardless of the situation. Now, depending on the situation, you may find some “gotcha” moments more acceptable than others. Maybe that’s what you mean.
3. There was only a few seconds between Tywin’s forces arriving and then revealing who it is. And I have to disagree, Tywin arriving was definitely the focus of that scene. I mean, the episode ends with him declaring victory. As for them winning a battle and not the war, again, that has no bearing on what constitutes a “gotcha” moment or not.
4. Stannis was gone for several episodes and then just showed up. We didn’t see him leave for the Wall. Sure, there was build up, but Arya had build up to, ever since the first season and Syrio introduced her to the god of death.
5 and 6. Oh yes, the music certainly built up the tension of these two scenes, but the music built up the tension to the Night King’s defeat as well. That was one of the most intense ten minutes of my life. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. In all three of these scenes, you knew something was about to happen, you just didn’t know what, so these scenes had the same amount of build up.
Grail King,
Sansa taking down Littlefinger in and of itself wasn’t the “gotcha” moment. It was the way it happened. With most of the truly shocking events, when you rewatch, you can spot subtle clues that indicate what’s about to happen. With Littlefinger’s trial, there nothing. There was no indication that Sansa and Arya had made peace and were working together, not until it happened.
The whole action sequence at the end of Breaking Bad makes less sense than “kinda forgot” scene, but people didn’t care because it gave them what they wanted.
Not to mention the whole happy end for Walter White, complete striping him on any consequences of his actions. He got everything he wanted. He didn’t pay price for anything he did. I expected dark ending like Death Note and they gave us fan service and no one cared, apparently.
So what’s the point of the story?
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Also, there’s Jesse killing Gale. Walter was going to kill him, but is picked up by Mike and Victor, who take him to the lab to kill Walt. Walt convinces Mike to let him call Jesse, and quickly warns Jesse that he’s been captured. Jesse then runs out of the laser tag place to kill Gale and Walt tells Mike that he couldn’t kill him yet, because Gus is going to need him when Gale is dead. Mike takes out his phone and calls Gale to warn him. The scene switches to Gale, when his phone starts ringing. Gale doesn’t notice because he’s playing loud music so he doesn’t hear it (if this was GOT, people would criticize that for being too convenient). There’s a knock on the door and it’s Jesse. So, Jesse somehow runs out of the laser tag place, gets in his car, and drives to Gale’s house in the time it takes Mike to make one phone call.
Breaking Bad? I watched one and a half seasons waiting to find out what was so good about it. It bored me shi(r)tless.
Agree here. That’s why I only said I wish they did it, not what we got was bad. It was still amazing.
That makes more sense.
Shelle,
This. Just a small bit would have been amazing.
And I also had that reaction with Jon and Ghost, I was: Go pet your dog.
But I understand the reasoning why it wasn’t there. Making those scenes with wolves is lot of work. And we maybe want more Ghost scenes, but we also need to think about the wonderful wolf-actor doing those scenes. We can’t use that dog for our amusement and it need to stay fun for the dog.
Which teleportation moments? I’ve watch the show 3 times already and haven’t found a single teleportation moment.
2. Yes some gotcha moment’s are more acceptable then others. Gotcha moment is still a deux ex machina, and put there because there couldn’t be a better way of telling it. For GoT we know they know better ways. It need to be a last resort a gotcha moment. Because in reruns we don’t care if something is a surprise but we care if a character we liked survives/ struggle etc at a certain moment. Seeing Arya struggle to go to the NK would have been an amazing add to the NK demise. And for Arya’s character.
And the timing also is important. Where in half-way into a story you can always give a gotcha moment just so the story can move further and not giving to much time to a certain moment. It is also does it help the story if it is in it or not. Now we are at the end, meaning this is what everything is working towards, meaning that everything needs to be fleshed out more.
And as for the Tywin saving the day, it was important that that was a gotcha moment, because we need to see things through Tyrion’s POV, how he perceived it. Same with Stannis, we we’re in Jon’s POV. But here is the question is having that scene in Bran’s POV more important then Arya’s POV. Or maybe both is needed in the last part. Now it was through Bran’s POV only, and I wished it was a part in Arya’s POV. It would also have been amazing if we saw a raven looking at Arya when she was attacked by wights.
5/6. Agree that music was perfect. But that’s also what many mean. Why having a tension music when the clue of the scene was Gotcha? It contradicts itself.
But still episode 3 was a master piece. 9.5 for me.
Mordred,
No, D&D did not say that Arya killing the Night King didn’t make sense, only that Jon was the obvious candidate. It’s right there in the quote. It’s not every day someone completely misunderstands the very quote he provided.
Arya killing the Night King makes perfect sense and it was a fantastic way to end her character arc, killing the literal embodiment of death. D&D simply used the gardener style of writing Martin is famous for when writing her storyline.
I agree that Walter White had some sort of happy ending himself. But don’t forget how his wife, Son, sister in law, and brother in law ended up.
Walter was a pitiful man that wanted to play god, to feel like a “man”. He was somebody then. It wasn’t about the money, it was about his ego. His had many times to step out, even Fring was giving him money if he wanted out. But his ego got the best of him. And in the end it destroyed his family. His wife and Son, depressed for life. His son probably never being able to have a meaningful relationship, all because of Walter White.
So what was Breaking bad about, it was about the consequences in dealing drugs. How it will effect your family, the ones you love. Even how easy it sounds to get money etc stay away from it.
You remember that scene wrong. Jesse wasn’t with Walter. He was close to Gale’s home already. And if I’m remember correctly Jesse was already stationed in a car before Gale’s home. So it’s not out of the question that somebody can walk 2 floors up in 2 minutes.
I know that Jesse wasn’t with Walt. I said that Walt convinced Mike to let him call Jesse. And no, Jesse was at the laser tag place. Walt volunteered to be the one to kill Gale, but he was picked up by Mike and Victor before he could do it. The reason he called Jesse was to tell him he needed to do it. That was the first teleportation moment. Then, there were the Neo Nazis, who somehow took ten minutes to save Walt out in the middle of the desert from Hank. Thirdly, Walt made it in time to save Jesse from the drug dealers who killed Andrea’s brother. This one is very, very minor, but Hank’s partner, who had been assigned to a case in El Paso, Texas, makes it to the hospital to visit Hank before Walt does.
But that’s the problem, I don’t really feel like he destroyed his family. They are safe, they got money and he was going to die from cancer anyway. Yesterday I watched “Boy in striped pajamas”. That’s how you show consequences of morally wrong actions. Death of his family, or at least his son, would be great. But it didn’t happen.
For Walt all his crimes payed off in a way.
I see I remembered wrong. You’re right he was there. But I need to watch that scene again to know how they placed the timeline. And I need to look up how much time is needed to travel between those points. Maybe it’s just couple of minutes.
As for the second, true.
The third, wasn’t Walt waiting a bit longer to not being noticed that he was involved?
But for me I never had any problems with the time problems of GoT and BB.
And they had only one storyline and like 10 characters so it was much easier to write Breaking Bad, than GoT. I’m not annoyed by plot contrivances, but with hypocrisy.
In GoT these things were treated like war crimes. In Breaking Bad no one cared.
Iul says:
Miguel should win best directing for the long night. That’s a no brainier. My complaints with the episode are the dumb tactics, Jon and Bran’s insignificant involvement, a static NK, crypts stupidity (concrete is not strong…), Dany should have tried to take Jon to the Godswood on Drogon. It would have failed because the wights would have climed on Drogon aswell. And of course, the direwolfs should have “packed” the Godswood and protect Bran with Ghost and Nymeria leading.
I also liked what David did in episode 2.
Regarding George’s books, the question that bugs me is why was Daenerys among the initial 5 survivors of the novels together with Jon, Arya, Tyrion and Bran ? What did he have in mind the meaning of Dany’s story would be ? It should not have been a tragic one ? Or it should have been a tragic story, but also a fantasy; and in a fantasy anything can happen.
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It made total sense to out household for the same reasons.
Arya disappearing for that length of time heightened the tension. It was made obvious that she was going to be battling her way to wards the Godswood, the same place Arya was given the same Valyrian steel dagger that was used in the assassination attempt on Bran. We see the dead Ironborn and Alys Karstark laying on the ground with only Theon protecting Bran, then Theon dies. Just as the NK is drawing his ice blade, Arya suddenly appears. I , for one , truly didn’t give a rat’s patootie how she got there , just that she did. I didn’t realize how tense I was until she stabbed him. To me, it was the perfect completion of her story, just as Jon killing Danerys was his.
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But Miguel Sapochnik said they were trying to balance reality with wish fulfillment. There were a lot of wights and White Walkers surrounding Bran. Would it have been realistic for Arya to fight through all of them? Wouldn’t her sneaking past be a much more intelligent plan and put her assassin training to more use?
I don’t think it matters who’s POV we’re seeing the scene through. A “gotcha” moment is a “gotcha” moment regardless. To be clear, I don’t consider any of these scenes “gotcha” moments. To me, a “gotcha” moment is something where there isn’t even the tiniest hint, like when Sansa turned the tables on Littlefinger. But Arya going after the Night King was set up, maybe not as much as you wanted, but set up nonetheless. This makes it so it’s not a “gotcha” moment.
I’m not sure what you mean by the music. I thought the music was used for the same purpose in all these scenes, to build tension.
Breaking Bad is my third favorite television show, so I wasn’t concerned with timeline inconsistencies or plot contrivances either. It was only after seeing the same people who called GOT the worst written show call Breaking Bad the best written show that got me thinking. I was curious to see if GOT really was that bad and I simply had blinders on, or if people were being too critical. The results made me happy and sad, happy for GOT but sad for BB. I hope I never have to watch a show like that again.
I’ll make it easier to understand:
“Jon Snow has always been the hero, the one who’s been the savior, but it just didn’t seem right to us for this moment,”
Translation: Jon’s story is all about the WW threat, all these years we’ve made it clear that he and the NK are nemesis. But we needed a big gotcha moment to please the casuals that comprise most of our audience in the last years. We also think that shock value is great storytelling.
“She seemed like the best candidate, provided we weren’t thinking about her in the moment”
Translation: We never thought of Arya as the one to kill the NK, her story had nothing to do with the WWs. But we needed someone other than Jon, because that made too much sense.
Also, the gardener style that Martin talks about is to let your characters story grow by itself so it looks natural, contrary to force the characters from one bullet point to another, as D&D did. You may argue that they did so to cut some corners and be able to finish the story, but a gardener approach certainly it is not.
Having more characters is still a choice and should not be an excuse if mistakes occur. And I don’t see the point of talking about other shows mistakes when we are on a GoT blog. And other’s mistakes doesn’t make GoT’s mistakes ok. Only that making mistakes is human. Nobody and nothing is perfect.
And only a small portion as you stated before is that extreme negative about GoT season 8 so why bother about that. They didn’t like it, we did. We can watch the show again and again and keep enjoying it. For me more important what others think.
And about scrutiny, you are doing the same now with Breaking Bad, so I don’t see the point you making because you’re doing the same to another well praised show. I agree that the pressure for D&D were higher, and that it took more work, and probably more difficult to write. (Difficulty doesn’t correlate with quality).
But for me at the end of the day. Breaking bad is better than GoT for me, but just a little bit. less then 0,1. I would both give a rating of 9,9/10 only BB little bit higher.
As for the final itself I found the final of GoT better than the final of Breaking Bad. But I found Ozymandias (5×14) (Also the best rated episode on imdb of all time if I remember correctly, it has a rating of 10.0 and only a few shows did that and the only one with that many voted) still the best episode ever made for a TV show, and that one was from Breaking bad. For me it was even better drama then winds.
I agree with you, as I sad before I had no problems with episode 8×03. And for the scene what I was refering to was at the entrance of the Godswood. The Godswood is big. So it could have happen 200 meter away from Bran. Just a small scene towards Bran. That for me would made the episode even more amazing than it already was.
As for the music what I meant was. The music stated: Tension. Arya taking down the NK was: Shockvallue/ Gotcha. It contradicted itself.
Don’t be too concern what other’s think. At the end of the day, what matters to Young Dragon is what Young Dragon thinks of it. That’s at least how I look at it. Somebody can hate what I love, I don’t care, as long as I liked it I’m happy.
Which is your third in your top 3? BB GoT and?
And what I think with GoT is the following, it has mystery that kind of shows always get the most critic when it didn’t go as they wanted. Look at LOST.
And also it had a wider audience than it was target for. Many people watch GoT for other reasons. One for the fantasy. Other’s for the drama. Other’s for a certain character, others for the action etc. And some only watch for that small side of the story and if that doesn’t come to fruition the ending sucked for them.
Breaking bad was more a show for people who only wanted character based story. People who liked action etc were not into it, so they couldn’t complain in the end.
Not the “Arya took Jon’s destiny” argument again. She didn’t. Take out Jon in the battle and preparation of the attack and they would have lost the battle. Jon was and still is the biggest player that helped defeat the WW. Maybe not the last blow, but he was with Dany the most important one.
Not everything is about who ends the big baddie with the final blow. GoT was about teamwork. They worked together to destroy the NK. If even one player wasn’t there. King Popsicle would have won the Iron Throne. And if everyone need to work together to defeat him, who is the most important one? The one that brought them together. Who brought them together? Jon Snow. So who is in the end the one that did the most with defeating the WW. Yes Jon.
Birgit Nutter, the wife of David Nutter, has passed away. My thoughts and prayers to David and their friends and family.
I never seen it that way, the second Arya handed the dagger to Sansa I knew what her action would be, and it wasn’t to confide to LF, she’s been snarking and using him since S 4 ( a set back in S 5 ) and she was hearing all his lessons, she do what I would or you seek out someone she trust and could tell her what she didn’t know.
I didn’t need that cut scene , but for some I guess it would help them.
if Sansa is any thing like the books, her on the wall of Winterfell was it, she was conflicted, and she had to do something that could backfire on them.
I never saw it or the girls arguing as a gotcha.
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They could have had the best of both worlds – have Jon arrive at the Godswood, fighting the White Walkers; one of the White Walkers knocks Longclaw out of his hands. Suspense! Suddenly the Night King shatters (and with him the rest of the White Walkers), to reveal that Aya killed him with Catspaw dagger. Surprise! It would also be a callback to how Howland Reed saved Ned Stark by helping kill Arthur Dayne.
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Seriously, I wouldn’t bother trying to analyse D&D quotes. They don’t seem to be very articulate. Not great at getting their meaning across, it often seems to come out wrong and not make sense.
kevin1989:
We can watch the show again and again and keep enjoying it. For me more important what others think.
This right here. I can and I will rewatch this show forever and love it from 101 to 806. From start to finish. Don’t care what anyone thinks and for the people that loathe the ending and David and Dan. Well, they’re the ones who lose in the end and will forever be disappointed. Can’t wait to start my rewatch. Somehow they took this juggernaut and were able to wrap it all up neatly and give me an ending. For that i’ll always be thankful to Benioff the Brilliant and Dan the Wise ™️
Wow. So sorry to hear this.
The Morning Joker says:
Jack Bauer 24,
Do you ever come up for air?
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Stark Raven' Rad says:
It wasn’t a “gotcha” moment like Sansa taking down Littlefinget in season 7. There was a lot of set up, from Arya sneaking up on Jon in the godswood, her sneaking around the wights in the library, her scene with Melisandre, not to mention how much the “god of death” played into her storyline. It was no more a “gotcha” moment than Tywin arriving at the Battle of the Blackwatet, Stannis arriving at the Battle of the Wall,… etc.
I agree. Previous seasons and, as you point out, especially S8 set it up . Most of us had obsessively re-watched the only trailer; her saying she wanted to see this face of Death, made it inevitable. The whole Melisandre chat underlined that she was MEANT to encounter the Night King. (I thought that when Mel prompted her to say “Not today”, she might even survive.) Cumulatively, this prepared us for it to happen…so it was not a “gotcha”! But for about 30 minutes they DIVERTED our attention with the Crypt scene (I think), and heroics by Jorah, Dany, Theon, others and especially Jon. So as Benioff said, we were not thinking of HER in the moment.
D&D: “She seemed like the best candidate, provided we weren’t thinking about her in the moment” “Jon Snow has always been the hero, the one who’s been the savior, but it just didn’t seem right to us for this moment,”
IMO, it made plenty of sense…when you thought about it. Winterfell, Stark blood, etc meant only three people were ever qualified by lore to kill the NK–Jon, Bran and Arya. Bran had said the Dagger was wasted on a cripple, so he could not physically do it. Jon was indeed cliché but we all expected him to do it anyway., mainly because he was the hero and previously had tantalising confrontations with the NK. But also previously, she was known for surprises, stealth, accuracy, knowing where the heart was. Also she was an assassin like the man who had previously wielded the Dagger. But most of all she ALWAYS fiercely protected her family. Since Bran’s life was at stake, she would naturally defend him.
So when D&D had to decide between Jon and Arya, they sidestepped the cliché and chose Arya. One symbolic consolation is that Jon himself made her what she is and she is a Sword. So like he had set everything in place to win the WAR, all the way back in season 1 he had also made it possible for her to do what was needed. He still won the war. A key supernatural reason was that she’d been recruited and trained by the Many Faced God’s adherents. And a Being that stole death from the Dead and made them his slaves was surely the MFG’s enemy. So there was good rationale for the God of Death to choose her. IMO, probably the surprise element was just D&D’s final reason. And then they set it up in many ways, most important being Bran himself choosing to give her the (likely) destined weapon. They even set up the dagger trick. So if we didn’t anticipate her killing the NK (I did not), it’s because they diverted us and we forgot that she was on her way.
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LatrineDiggerBrian says:
I don’t like Sapochnik. Guy always comes across like a surly ass. I also really don’t like how he bullied Ramin Djawadi into using certain instruments for his score. And I’ve seen his work outside of GoT, particularly on True Detective S2 and it was just awful. He was just a cog in an already well oiled machine. When you’re surrounded by the best producers, DPs, production designers, costume designers, VFX, it’s hard to screw up. They could’ve inserted me in there to direct those big episodes and you guys would be singing my praises too.
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Catspaw Assassin says:
I just finished watching every episode, and now my watch has ended.
And I’ll do it all over and over and over again, because this is the best tv show ever.
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The NK is not in the book. It is a D&D creation. The WW were established as dangerous to Westeros as death itself to all humanity with the NK as their leader and weak spot. I am surprised that the writers did not craft detailed steps to the NK’s defeat and death. I know that the interaction between the director and writer/showrunner can be dynamic and based on mutual confidence. GOT used rotation of directors so the vision of the D&D was generally guiding the process. The death of the NK and fall of the WW were such majors event that I am surprised that it sounds as if D&D did not have a very specific detailed clear vision of how it was to go down. Many things are left to a director but I thought this particular moment would need to D&D’s.
They have imposed themselves on directors on other less important points so please do not say it is their style. Saponik said they told him not to off Jorah when he went with the Dothraki into the darkness. Maybe because the Dotharki can regenerate and Jorah cannot!
Sorry for your loss David Nutter.
Stark Raven’ Rad,
LatrineDiggerBrian,
True detective season 2 was amazing when it came to directing. Also the music was great in GoT so that means his ideas were great. Especially in his episodes.
I also saw MS in fringe where he directed an episode brilliantly, it was a filler episode but it was one of the best. Horror-like with lots of emotion.
Mango:
Yes, I was quite surprised how well the Dothraki regenerated!
I thought when all of their flames had gone out that we had seen the last of the Dothraki. I was actually surprised Jorah and Ghost survived. How awful is it that my reaction after seeing thousands of Dothraki killed was yelling.. “Oh no, not Ghost!!”
Perhaps D&D’s decision to let Jorah survive was some fan service. It was a much more satisfying end for Jorah to see him battle to save Dany. It was also good to see Dany defend herself with the sword she picked up.
At some point D&D must have thought they needed a tangible villain, so they went for the NK character. This obviously will be very different in the books. The threat of the Others is always looming in the books. I’m still working on finishing book 2. I’m almost at page 700, but I’ve got 300 pages to go… I am enjoying getting all of the extra details, and I hope as many others do that GRRM eventually is able to finish.
I don’t really agree that D&D didn’t establish rules of the NK’s death. It was established early on that the WW’s and the NK’s vulnerability was dragonglass and Valyrian Steel. Just like werewolves can be killed by a silver bullet in the heart, the NK could be killed by Valyrian Steel in the heart, so I didn’t have a problem with this.
I thought the importance of the Catspaw’s dagger was setup many times. It would have been nice to have some additional prophesies about the dagger brought up along the way, I’ll give you that. They definitely had Arya as the princess who was promised, but it just wasn’t emphasized as much in the show. Mel was really the only one who brought it up occasionally. D&D decided not to focus on prophesies and the magical elements.
I think if GRRM would have had a NK character, he may have written an extra book all about the NK’s backstory (even if it wasn’t for the public to read). D&D didn’t have that luxury of time. I think they went with a few basic ideas using similar tropes to werewolves and vampires on how you kill him.
Catspaw Assassin,
oierem says:
About the importance of Jon and the Night King’s demise….
Remember that, ultimately, the Night King WASN’T the ultimate enemy. Dany was. The final climax of the whole story was Jon killing Dany (which was obviously George’s intention from the very beginning). So, Jon IS the ultimate hero, only not in the way we expected.
And therefore, who kills the Night King is not such an important element that had to be known from the begining. It’s totally fine that the showrunners “found out” along the way. It was beautifully set up. (and it COULDN’T be Jon, because Jon would kill Dany in the end).
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LatrineDiggerBrian: I don’t like Sapochnik. Guy always comes across like a surly ass.
😀 Hark who’s talking. 😀
Stark Raven’ Rad: A Being that stole death from the Dead and made them his slaves was surely the Many Faced God’s enemy.
That’s a great point, brilliantly expressed.
Tron79: Yes, I was quite surprised how well the Dothraki regenerated!
I thought when all of their flames had gone out that we had seen the last of the Dothraki.
In the moment I did too, but then it made sense that not all of them would have gone to Winterfell. Dragonstone would not have been left undefended.
“They definitely had Arya as the princess who was promised, but it just wasn’t emphasized as much in the show. Mel was really the only one who brought it up occasionally. D&D decided not to focus on prophesies and the magical elements. ”
On the other hand, although they didn’t go into the Azor Ahai and Nissa Nissa legend, the death of Daenerys at Jon’s hands does reflect it nicely.
Stark Raven’ Rad: I agree.Previous seasons and, as you point out, especially S8 set it up . Most of us had obsessively re-watched the only trailer; her saying she wanted to see this face of Death, made it inevitable.The whole Melisandre chat underlined that she was MEANT to encounter the Night King. (I thought that when Mel prompted her to say “Not today”, she might even survive.)Cumulatively, this prepared us for it to happen…so it was not a “gotcha”!But for about 30 minutes they DIVERTED our attention with the Crypt scene (I think), and heroics by Jorah, Dany, Theon, others and especially Jon.So as Benioff said, we were not thinking of HER in the moment.
IMO, it made plenty of sense…when you thought about it.Winterfell, Stark blood, etcmeant only three people were ever qualified by lore to kill the NK–Jon, Bran and Arya.Bran had said the Dagger was wasted on a cripple, so he could not physically do it.Jon was indeed cliché but we all expected him to do it anyway., mainly because he was the hero andpreviously had tantalising confrontations with the NK. But alsopreviously, she was known for surprises, stealth, accuracy, knowing where the heart was.Also she was an assassin like the man who had previously wielded the Dagger.But most of all she ALWAYS fiercely protected her family.Since Bran’s life was at stake, she would naturally defend him.
So when D&D had to decide between Jon and Arya,they sidestepped the cliché and chose Arya. One symbolic consolation is that Jon himself made her what she is and she is a Sword.So like he had set everything in place to win the WAR, all the way back in season 1 he had also made it possible for her to do what was needed.He still won the war.A key supernatural reason was that she’d been recruited and trained by the Many Faced God’s adherents.And a Being that stole death from the Dead and made them his slaves was surely the MFG’s enemy. So there was good rationale for the God of Death to choose her.IMO, probably the surprise element was just D&D’s final reason.And then they set it up in many ways, most important being Bran himselfchoosing to give her the (likely) destined weapon. They even set up the dagger trick.So if we didn’t anticipate her killing the NK (I did not), it’s because they diverted us and we forgot that she was on her way.
Couldn’t agree more. I love your thought that Jon set her on the path to be the one to end the threat of permanent, icy walking death. Jon’s destiny was elsewhere. Neither Jon or Arya wanted to be called a hero.
Grandmaester Flash: In the moment I did too, but then it made sense that not all of them would have gone to Winterfell.Dragonstone would not have been left undefended.
Humm… I didn’t think that Dany kept any of the Dothraki back at Dragonstone, but perhaps you are right. I suppose they had to at least defend Dragonstone with someone in case Cersei attacked, but I honestly didn’t get the idea that she left anyone behind at all.
And yes, I agree that you could draw the reference to Nissa Nissa with Jon stabbing his love through the heart. But the idea of making a special sword wasn’t mentioned in the show.
The Azor Ahai prophesy seemed to really only be used in the show as part of Mel’s personal arc. It showed how horribly wrong she read the flames when she decided Stannis was the PTWP. She followed Stannis with no doubts leading her to make her fatal mistake of getting him to burn Shireen. I think her arc demonstrated the dangers of having no doubts about what her god was telling her to do. There is a difference between having strong faith and deciding to start killing because you think your god tells you to do it. I think it’s a good illustration of the dangers of fanaticism and where it can lead. So how does someone come back from that kind of mistake? Well, you don’t really. You end up walking off into the distance and becoming dust. But Mel at least found the true princess who was promised and gave her the pep talk she needed to get the job done. Getting back to the thread, I thought Sapochnik did an amazing job with the final montage as we watched Mel litteraly fade away in the distance. The whole final montage in “The Long Night” with “The Night King” soundtrack in the background was really a masterpiece, and I’ve said that before in other posts.
oierem,
emember that, ultimately, the Night King WASN’T the ultimate enemy. Dany was. The final climax of the whole story was Jon killing Dany (which was obviously George’s intention from the very beginning). So, Jon IS the ultimate hero, only not in the way we expected.
I didn’t have a problem with Arya, but I was surpried it wasnt jon. This is an excellent point tho
Re Jorah and Ghost with the Dothrakis – I was worried when I firsr saw them there; how in hell did they not die? Oh wait, plot armor. Guess the Doth didn’t need it. The only thing that would have explined the Doth resurrgence was that Dany had a bunch of them waiting in the winds, other wise like the jet packs in the show, its a mystery….
ETA sorry GM didn’t see you said the same. Great minds and all that
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No, I’m not surly.
C’mon, you’re telling me you liked the direction in that episode that Sap directed in TDS2 with that awful sequence in the brothel where he was trying to rip off Bryan DePalma and failing miserably. Thank god D & D shut him down when he wanted to put in that awful, on the nose symbolism to Maester Aemon’s funeral (or whatever it is he wanted to do). He couldn’t even properly light the battle in S3!
Mr Derp says:
LatrineDiggerBrian: He couldn’t even properly light the battle in S3!
I’ve heard that a lot of people had trouble with the lighting in The Long Night, but I’m not one of them. I thought it was fine, although, the one time I had trouble was when the dragons were fighting. It was nearly impossible to tell them apart for a period of time.
Were you watching the episode on an HDTV, or were you watching it on a cellphone, tablet, etc? It seems like a lot of the people who complained were actually watching the episode on cell phones and other devices that couldn’t possibly complete with an HDTV for quality.
Also, anytime I watch a show/movie that has a lot of night scenes I make a point to turn off the lights in my house for proper effect. I don’t think you can really watch The Long Night during the day or when it’s bright inside.
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Mr Derp: I’ve heard that a lot of people had trouble with the lighting in The Long Night, but I’m not one of them.I thought it was fine, although, the one time I had trouble was when the dragons were fighting.It was nearly impossible to tell them apart for a period of time.
Were you watching the episode on an HDTV, or were you watching it on a cellphone, tablet, etc?It seems like a lot of the people who complained were actually watching the episode on cell phones and other devices that couldn’t possibly complete with an HDTV for quality.
Also, anytime I watch a show/movie that has a lot of night scenes I make a point to turn off the lights in my house for proper effect.I don’t think you can really watch The Long Night during the day or when it’s bright inside.
I agree. I watched in the dark with the shades down on a half way decent TV. It looked great for me. However I can see with the compression on HBO it hurt some of the resolution. I own them on amazon and I’m not sure if they are compressed or if I will need to get the dvd to get the ultimate version? I can understand though with all the different platforms how people could have trouble. It wasn’t viewable at all for me on my computer. I don’t use a tablet for movies but it was probably similar to computer. It was after all at night. So I did expect it to be dark to a point while still being able to see my favs in the action.
What do you mean with on the nose symbol of Maester Aemon?
And s3? You mean 8×03? That lightning problem was already explained to be the fault of the cable companies so why keep on talking about that? Too much data needed to be transfer to your tv, (simple put mbs they need to transfer 1 mb per second but only got room for 800kbs as an example) and the cable companies weren’t prepared for that (probably because HBO didn’t warn them). Normally what cable companies do is focus on the light parts of their streaming that enough constrast is there. But not the darker parts. Meaning that different kind of black will become one kind of black. Where as for instance a DVD or BD version show those different kind of black. I saw the version you’re talking about but that was not HBO’s fault. the version that our streaming service provided (Ziggo in the Netherlands has HBO) had the normal colors, and that’s probably because the providers in my country is very much advanced compared to others.
So please stop blaming MS or D&D for the lighting, it was not their fault. Blame your provider which you gave money for not providing what your provider needed to give.
Oh I see it was already discussed.
Yea, I think the compression on HBO didn’t help either. I actually find that tv compression is responsible for most of the image/audio issues that I have on my tv.
I don’t know if this happens to anyone else, but I find that the music on certain channels speeds up like crazy out of nowhere as if it’s racing and doesn’t sound right. It doesn’t really happen to me on HBO, but it happens a lot with cable channels like Comedy Central, etc… It’s strange. Most visual issues I can fix on my tv, but the audio is a bit of a different matter. I think it might be due to the fact that I have a 4KHD TV. I don’t think most tv channels are formatted for 4K.
Mr Derp,
tbh i had no issue with it, but it seems like a lot of people did so it was a fair point to bring up in an argument.
with Sapochnik, I haven’t really been in love with any of the episodes he’s directed storywise and that’s not his fault. but i also feel like he gets way too much credit when people barely mention David Nutter, Alan Taylor, Tim Van Patten, and my personal favorite Alex Graves who directed many of the biggest moments of the series and knocked them all out of the park. Sapochnik’s episodes have some nice cinematography, but so do all of the other GoT directors. I dunno, he hasn’t really stood out to me in the same way he has to everyone else (though I did like the calm before the storm sequence in the last episode he directed). Plus he really comes across as an arrogant asshole in all of the interviews I see him give.
And I hated Light of the Seven, as a musical piece it’s all right by itself, but to me it didn’t fit in with the series and I really detest Sapochnik for having the audacity to tell a genius like Ramin how to do his job.
Little bit more information. Not always is the problem with bad video the fault of the DVD/BD/provider etc but your tv. And most of the time it’s the fault with newer tv. why? stupid extra functions that change the video (so change the original version with a horrible edited version). I will post a link at the end with extra information. And short what you should change on your tv. Or somebody who you know that knows a lot about technology.
First why is most of the time the settings wrong? simple it’s done on purpose by manufactures. The demo version is the perfect settings version that you see in store, and the home version is a slightly different so you will buy a newer TV sooner. If you set up your TV right you can do more then 10 years with your tv and have better tv experience then the ones just buying a newer tv over 10 years. I found this problem out myself when I found my older tv better then my newer one when watching LOST again, something was not right.
1. picture mode: never choose dynamic for series or movies (only for gaming), never choose standard, or sport mode. Best is to start with cinema mode for TV/movies. This settings is almost perfect but most of the time not 100% and small changes need to be made.
2. Backlight: around 60/80% of the max. Personally I go for 80%.
3. Brightness: this is the problem with most with GoT episode 3. Everything is black. Brightness is set low. To see more shades of black put this in higher. If it’s too grey set it lower.
4. Contrast: Not black but white. Best seen when looking at clouds. If there are no difference in white-shades. Set it lower. Is it too boring higher.
5. Sharpness: The lower it is, the more realistic it is. If you want more realistic picture, put lower, else higher.
6. Color: Difference between different colors. Most of the time this is right as it is. Sometimes 1 or 2 points higher or lower.
7. Rest ignore except things like: Motion plus, digital clean view, Dynamic contrast, soap opera mode etc. Put those off, they are settings that will give you horrible viewing experience and make the pictures more fake. And put HDR only on when you are gaming, always off with TV and movies.
8. Colortone: something like warmth. No standard of dynamic. My tv has 2 warmth settings, I choose the lowest because the higher feels to warm for me and too yellow.
If somebody has questions ask away.
https://www.consumerreports.org/lcd-led-oled-tvs/tv-settings-for-the-ultimate-picture-quality/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/game-of-thrones-season-8-how-to-adjust-your-tv-for-a-cinematic-picture/
First is the best, and for my dutch commenters I recommened the coolblue explanation on their site.
That speeding up is done on purpose. More room for advertisement. make a 43 minute episode a 42 minute episode and you have 1 extra minute of income.
I agree other’s were amazing as well. Not a single GoT director was bad.
And the second. That’s his job as a director. To make sure everything is in place. That means also the music. And then the last say is the producers once the directors give them the episodes. Every movie or TV show the director give instructions for the music.
Who’s up for a season 8 re-watch in a theater. It would be cool to have someone show it at an Envision theater (or some other really nice theater). I think it could be an all day marathon. The snack bar would make a fortune, especially if they came to your seat like Envision…
I agree though with the settings you detailed. I did go through my own TV settings to make sure I had it the way I liked it. They are similar to how you suggested.
kevin1989: That speeding up is done on purpose. More room for advertisement. make a 43 minute episode a 42 minute episode and you have 1 extra minute of income.
I know what you mean, but that’s different from what’s happening to me. I probably could’ve articulated more.
The music doesn’t just speed up and stay sped up. It changes pace at random. A song will play slow, then it’ll speed up, then it’ll slow down, all in the same song. It’s inconsistent.
And yea, the first thing I did when I got my 4ktv was turn off the “motion plus” thing. I don’t recall if it’s called the same thing on my tv or not, but I agree, it provides a really strange visual. It makes most shows/movies look terrible, but there are occasional exceptions. I recall that Mad Max: Fury Road is kind of awesome with the motion on.
Dire guineapig says:
I wish the TLN creators had discovered the music of Spire before choosing the backing track for the attack of the wights:
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I remember when you said on WOTW right after “The Winds of Winter” that you didn’t like “Light of the Seven”. I think that might go down as the most unpopular comment in the history of WOTW, but you are certainly welcome to your opinion.
I know what you mean when you say it felt out of place for GoT, but it worked quite well for me. I don’t require every instrument heard on GoT to be beholden to history unless the instruments are being played onscreen. Besides, GoT isn’t really supposed to be historically accurate, seeing as though it’s a work of fantasy and fiction.
I don’t really know the details of how the Light of Seven came to be, but if Sapochnik told Ramin to do the Light of Seven the way it eventually played out onscreen then I’d say that Ramin owes Sapochnik a debt of gratitude. It’s gotta be Ramin’s most popular and requested song to date.
As far as Sapochnik being an arrogant asshole or whatever, I don’t know enough about the man to say one way or the other, but there’s a reason why the phrase “never meet your heroes, because they’re sure to disappoint” exists. I think a lot of our favorite musicians/heroes/athletes/whatever might not be the perfect people that we wish they would be.
When I first saw Arya fall onto the Night King’s neck I thought she had dropped out of the tree. That would have been a smart ambush. (Maybe she did?)
Although in the making of that scene, Arya is pulled through the air on a cable run.
Strongly agree! Your own viewing or taking in of a work of art, is part of that work of art. What use is a creation that no-one sees? Your reaction to a work is yours alone and one should let others’ reactions cause you to revise or disrespect one’s own reaction. Respect other views of course – but no less your own.
Dire guineapig,
I think Arya was supposed to have jumped from a pile of dead wights. At least, that’s what I remember being said during the read through.
Dire guineapig:
I had some issues with the giant leap until I realized that’s how a wolf attacks. You see wolves leaping on their prey exactly like Arya did. It was a very athletic leap, but Arya with her inner wolf probably has at least a 38″ vertical jump 🙂
I’m all in for that. I wish they would do that. Or better a 8 day marathon where everyday 1 season would be shown.
Oh that. I’ve had that problem but I can remember what the problem was, my tv, provider or something else.
Motion plus is more for gaming, where the pictures are already artificial (right word I hope for what I’m looking for). So that’s why just like gaming that movie was perfect for it.
I will look at it when I have the time. I’m wondering what kind of music it is. But don’t forget that GoT went for a original soundtrack. Or do you mean that the people of spire would help Ramin?
Agree fully. I also have a couple of TV shows that aren’t really that great but I love to watch it. Or old tv shows where many think, why do you watch old tv-shows? Well I just love it. I love old comedies like seinfeld, Golden girls etc and some think I’m crazy that I don’t watch newer shows instead of the old ones, well if I like it I watch it. And I don’t care how old it is.
And also the other way, I know people who love to watch and talk about every kind of sport that is on tv, soccer, darts, that race car stuff etc. Well I don’t care for that, if I would watch 20 seconds of it I have enough. But as long as they enjoy it and having a good time, I will let them enjoy it.
AnnOther says:
I partly agree with you here: I like Sapochnik/Wagner a lot, but people tend to forget other great directors . Alex Graves/ Annette Haellmigk did a great job, I 100% agree. I also love many things Podeswa/Middleton did. And many others. And, yes, I add the directors of photography, because I think the result depends a lot on how they get along.
As for the music, the 1st time I watched WoW, I had the same reaction as you (the piano seemed so off!), and I remember discussing it with my son, who had loved it : as a consequence, we rewatched it the next day: now that the surprise was gone, I did enjoy it a lot and found it great.
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Oh, now I see. You wanted Jon to be the one who ended the White Walker threat and refused to accept anything else, even though how it happened perfectly made sense.
D&D did apply the gardener style to Arya. There was the eye prophecy, for one, not to mention her relationship with the god of death and joining a death cult. D&D realized she was the perfect candidate to take out the Night King and applied the gardener style to make it happen.
Oh, I agree that in the end, my opinion is the only one that matters to me, but I was just curious. You’re right when you said BB’s flaws don’t excuse GOT’s, but I think it’s important to point out the hypocrisy of some people’s criticisms. If they criticize GOT, but give BB a pass if they do something similar, I feel this bias invalidates their argument.
My top 3 shows are GOT, The Shield, and Breaking Bad.
Miguel Sapochnik in no way bullied Ramin. He made a suggestion that Ramin initially refused. He tried the piece with multiple other instruments and found that piano worked best.
Iul,
She wasn’t one of the survivors, because there was no ending to that story. The initial 5 refers to the first outline that Martin gave to his publisher. The story was quite different (ie Arya going beyond the Wall with Catelyn to live with Jon, Jon-Tyrion being in love with Arya, Sansa supporting Joffrey who loses a hand in battle, etc), but there was no ending. What is the same is the core: a struggle for power while two threats arise, one in the North (others), another in the East (Daenerys). The story changed very much in its making and most of the details were altered (ie Arya leaves Westeros, Catelyn dies, it’s Jamie who lost his hand, Sansa escapes, etc.
It was a very athletic leap, but Arya with her inner wolf probably has at least a 38″ vertical jump
She leapt out of nowhere to save Bran, in exactly the way that Summer leapt out of nowhere to save Bran inS1E2. And with the same Dagger. Only by now it was a Stark Dagger, anointed in Catelyn’s (and the defeated Littlefinger’s) blood. I don’t think she was the PTWP–that’s still Jon because the entire War had been led by him in every respect. But Arya was doing her longtime duty–protecting her family. If she took a running jump onto a pile of wights and leapt down at the Nk…that makes sense too. I rewatched the scene on the large-screen telly yesterday and noticed that Theon seemed to be straining to see something as he died. Did he see her coming?
And in the Inside video, I understand (heard from the more informed) that Beinoff did take the time to say that we have seen the last of the Dothraki after they disappeared in Epi 3.
Yet they still reappaered later. You woul think he did not even know what was coming in his own show.
And no, they were not left to guard Dragonstone. Plus they continued increasing in number even during the time in KL.
Mango,
No, that’s not correct. The Dothraki at King’s Landing is a much smaller number than the Dothraki that rode against the dead at Winterfell or that attacked the Lannisters in season 7. Also, we see a lot of the Dothraki retreat after the initial charge against the dead, so there was definitely survivors.
Stark Raven’ Rad:
She leapt out of nowhere to save Bran, in exactly the way that Summer leapt out of nowhere to save Bran inS1E2.And with the same Dagger.Only by now it was a Stark Dagger, anointed in Catelyn’s (and the defeated Littlefinger’s) blood.I don’t think she was the PTWP–that’s still Jon because the entire War had been led by him in every respect.But Arya was doing her longtime duty–protecting her family.If she took a running jump onto a pile of wights and leapt down at the Nk…that makes sense too. I rewatched the scene on the large-screen telly yesterday and noticed that Theon seemed to be straining to see something as he died.Did he see her coming?
I remember Theon looking around right before he died. That’s an interesting thought that he could have seen her but I’ll have to rewatch to see the timing.
I don’t think anyone in the show exactly matches the Azar Ahai prophesy. I get what you’re saying about anointing the blade with the blood. I just don’t think it really matches up well. Yes Jon was the driving force to bring everyone together to defeat the AOTD so he could be seen as the savior prince that was promised but Arya was definitely and literally the one who brought the dawn!!. So if I had to choose I still say Arya was the PTWP. I do get that Jon had to make the ultimate sacrifice to bring down Dany. I will give you that it at least has some elements of the Nissa Nissa prophesy. But I still vote for Arya as the closest character who brings the dawn and she uses a Valyrian.steel dagger which at least has come magical elements.
Cumsprite says:
While bearing witness to the race between the books and the show toward resolution, the two things that will stand out many years from now is #1 the time I left a flaming bag of dogshit on Lulumom’s front porch and #2 that moment when George Martin totally ate my balls and asked for seconds. Seriously, that fella really likes eating balls.
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I remember the shield, amazing show. You like shows with great characters I see. Sons of Anarchy I would recommend. First couple of episodes are ok. But the further you are into the story the better it gets. The last 2 seasons were one of the best I ever saw on TV. And the ending was very Shield, GoT, BB like. Bittersweet.
Of course he knew. It’s as I said earlier, D&D are not good commentators. They don’t always express their meaning very well. It was the last we would see of the Dothraki in that episode.
How do you know there were no Dothraki left to guard Dragonstone? For me, it’s the kind of thing that goes without saying. Of course there would be a garrison left to defend it. We don’t need to be shown that. And you can’t assume that all we see is all there is.
Understand the concern, but doubt that one quick bit of petting or, indeed, a little more direwolf action in general (Nymeriaaaaaa, where tf were you…or any of the other characters I was waiting for who never turned up…) would’ve required abuse. xD
Until the script revealed that Arya had vaulted from a pile of dead wights, I was going with the tree-branch idea as the only explanation that held any water. Because I’m sorry, no matter how much wolf-spirit you’ve got, a short stack like her doesn’t get that kind of air from the ground. And it’d look downright ridiculous. Stealth is a good skill to be sure, but it’s not magical or unique to her. I wanted to see the bloody pile in a shot because you shouldn’t have to read the script. I want to know why the other Walkers were such worthless lookouts and why the NK didn’t simply snap Arya’s neck.
Re: the darkness of the third ep, yeah, I watched in the dark on a toppa-the-line telly and much of it was…murky to say the least. Sometimes intentionally so, but probably overall darker than it ought to have been, especially considering that not everyone would have the luxury of watching as I did. I rewatched on my own TV to catch some of what I might’ve missed. I never mess with settings and don’t expect to ever need to (which is why I never figured out how. xp) My brother effs with that stuff all the time…but mostly just to annoy us and waste time.
The ability of the Dothraki and Unsullied to respawn as needed has been duly noted time and again. O_o (The dramatic “effectively seeing the end of the Dothraki” commentary was plainly erroneous…)
I’m not going to look at Daenerys as “the ultimate villain” and Jon a hero for killing her; that was just a godawful tragedy, and she was a hero right up until the designated ending demanded a justification for her murder. Which she was forced to suddenly provide against all logic and established characterization. So, yeah. Jon or almost anyone else could have somehow become the NK-slayer; having to put Dany out of her mad misery was irrelevant to that. Of course I didn’t want it to be him– it would’ve just been too obvious and cliche. I definitely did want to see more of the NK and some actual dueling with him before he got cubed, which shouldn’t have been too much to ask. The “eye prophecy” was retconned to apply to him; “blue” would’ve come last had it originally been intended to relate to the endgame. Arya was destined to kill many people of all eye colors as well as many blue-eyed dead, yes. The prophecy didn’t need to pertain to the NK himself. When it was restated I was trying to think of which blue-eyed person Arya might need to kill for some reason, thought it was probably just restoring her spirit to go take out more wights or whatever…didn’t occur to me that she was going to just stab the NK, although that could’ve ended poorly. Fortunately it clicked that “Whoa, gotta go tell the God of Death ‘Not today!'” I just couldn’t have imagined that after all the hype and buildup, the entire final-season battle against the dead could be encompassed in one episode and location.
I’m also not comfortable thinking of either Arya or Jon as the Prince(ss) Who Was Promised. Neither feels just right. I’d actually be more inclined to go with Mel herself, who ironically was so fanatical in her pursuit of this individual and his/her prophecy fulfillment…but wound up helping to ensure the crucial union of ice & fire (Jon’s side, the gathering of necessary forces) and later sicced the NK’s killer on him (Arya’s side of it.)
Cumsprite,
So, you’re the one who’s responsible for TWOW being delayed? Perhaps seconds could be offered as a reward for finishing. I’m sure the WOTW community would appreciate your altruistic sacrifice in this troubled time.
Yes, I do remember. I was so disturbed that I paused the episode to come on here to complain and ended up having to fend off multi-pronged attack from a vicious horde of trolls.
The end of S6 was where the series really fell off a cliff for me. I was devastated. I had been like you guys before then (even more so) and I had just come over to WoTW from Westeros.org because it was so negative there and got tired of being in the dissenting minority. Then I came here and look what happened!
AnnOther,
This was right where the show went off a cliff for me, so part of it was I was pretty annoyed to begin with. But even going back and watching it, I still stand by my opinion. It just didn’t click for me, it felt wrong.
Yeah, Podeswa and others had really good moments in the much smaller scenes. Did Podeswa do the shot of Brienne and Pod looking over Moat Caitlin as Sansa and Little Finger crossed via horse carriage? Might have been Mark Mylod. “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” is much vilified (not by me) but the silhouette shot of the Sand Snakes as they left the tunnel was also very cool. Lot of the directors in the earlier scenes like Daniel Minehan (just directed the Deadwood movie), Tim Van Patten, Michelle MacClaren and so many others are just forgotten about. All I hear is Sapochnik this, Sapochnik that, blablablablabla.
Maybe in a feature, but not on a show where the composer has been there for 5 seasons already and is a mainstay. Really it’s on the show runners. Total blow hard move by Sapochnik and frankly he got lucky it turned out so well. You should see his musical direction in the TD S2 whore house montage where he tried to use the same trick and failed just as miserably.
Yes, I remember it all. That was a bizarre time in the annals of GoT discussion. You were here complaining all the time about the show and Jack Bauer was complaining all the time about there being no red carpet premiere date.
Now, it’s a couple of years later. You’re still here complaining, and Jack is still here posting the same thing almost every day, though at least it’s not about the red carpet premiere date anymore 🙂
It’s interesting how opinions can change so drastically from one person to another. I think you said recently that “The Broken Man” was actually one of your favorite GoT episodes, but you didn’t like season 6 as a whole. I have to say, that’s strange. For me, “The Broken Man” was ok, but was probably my least or second least favorite episode of that season. I do think that the show started to feel a bit more like a “blockbuster” during season 6, which I didn’t really like, but I found season 6 overall to be one of the most entertaining seasons they did.
Personally, I didn’t care for the way the show ended and it wasn’t because I had some set of personal expectations that weren’t met. I just thought the vast majority of the characters turned into complete morons in order for the necessary boxes to be checked off. Very little of it felt organic to me. Also ,as a show that prided itself of subverting expectations, I honestly thought the last episode was pretty dull and predictable. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t care for it either. I’ve made my peace with it.
I hated the Sopranos ending when it first aired too, but I’ve come to appreciate it now, and I don’t think the show could’ve ended any other way. We’ll see “in 10 years” how I feel about the GoT finale.
”Until the script revealed that Arya had vaulted from a pile of dead wights, I was going with the tree-branch idea as the only explanation that held any water. Because I’m sorry, no matter how much wolf-spirit you’ve got, a short stack like her doesn’t get that kind of air from the ground….”
I was going with the idea that Arya was beamed down from the Enterprise’s transporter room with the precise coordinates to materialize midair next to NK.
Seriously, I would’ve preferred the “elaborate” fight through the Godswood or at least the leap from the wight pile, to the surprise! appearance out of thin air.
Oh well. That was a directorial decision. Some fans liked the Arya ex machina. I didn’t think showing Arya leaping over rooftops, fighting her way through wights*, or stealthily creeping up on NK, would’ve been repetitious: Arya’s blink-and-you-missed-it fighting scenes (with her custom-made spear) lasted maybe a few seconds total.
* Sapochnik’s justification.
I thought one of the fundamental principles of effective directing is “You can never have enough ASNAWP.” 👸🏻🗡
Hey, thanks for these tips! I got a “pre-owned” new TV to replace the crappy old dinosaur in my room. I haven’t hooked up the new TV yet.* I’ll be sure to consult your checklist when I do.
* I have this fear that once I disconnect my old TV I’ll need a special cable or flux capacitor to hook up the new one. That’s what happens every time I get a new computer.
Also, we see a lot of the Dothraki retreat after the initial charge against the dead, so there was definitely survivors.
That chilling moment when all the flaming Dothraki swords in the distance flicker out makes it seem like their annihilation. But you are right that this is not the case – the impression is deceptive. For instance, Jorah rode out with the Dothraki in that first charge against the dead. But he reappears later to defend Dany.
Ghost also ran out with the Dothraki in that first charge against the dead (why, I cannot fathom…), and he reappeared later too. Minus an ear. (Poor boy!)
______ I was going with the idea that Arya was beamed down from the Enterprise’s transporter room with the precise coordinates to materialize midair next to NK.Seriously, I would’ve preferred the “elaborate” fight through the Godswood or at least the leap from the wight pile, to the surprise! appearance out of thin air.Oh well. That was a directorial decision. Some fans liked the Arya ex machina. I didn’t think showing Arya leaping over rooftops, fighting her way through wights*, or stealthily creeping up on NK,would’ve been repetitious: Arya’s blink-and-you-missed-it fighting scenes (with her custom-made spear) lasted maybe a few seconds total.
Lmao!! Yeah, tbh I wouldn’t have hated watching her make her way over there either. But the choice to make you forget about her for a while–okay, fine, not bad. But it’s baffling me that not one person working on the scene apparently pointed out, “Hey, we should probably show what she’s jumping off in the background, so you can go ‘Ohh, all right, that’s where she was coming from.'” Like…just…how?
Shelle: Lmao!! Yeah, tbh I wouldn’t have hated watching her make her way over there either. But the choice to make you forget about her for a while–okay, fine, not bad. But it’s baffling me that not one person working on the scene apparently pointed out, “Hey, we should probably show what she’s jumping off in the background, so you can go ‘Ohh, all right, that’s where she was coming from.’” Like…just…how?
Since that scene aired until now, I never once thought about where she came from. Couldn’t care less. That scene was brilliant and exhilarating the first time I watched it and just watching it a couple days ago, it’s still just as brilliant. Where she jumped or fell from really has no bearing and changes nothing. Imo of course. Brilliance is brilliance.
…Wow that was a hot one, tell me another…
I just can’t imagine watching so mindlessly as not to ponder what she sprang from, and what it was should have been clear. She didn’t materialize. Making it look as if somebody struck “out of nowhere” to dispatch your villain in seconds…”exhilarating brilliance?” Hardly the words I’m looking for.
Are you serious? You didn’t know where she came from? We see a wisp of hair of one of the White Walkers move as Arya ran by, so where she came from is rather obvious.
I didn’t see that till it was pointed out to me…just sayin
Perfectly put.
It’s connected to you’re PC? Is it a very old pc?
Maybe a tip. If you download series or movies. Use the program “Plex” Then you don’t need to connect the pc to your TV.
For me, your 4th paragraph describes how I felt about the last 2.5 seasons. They were in such a rush to finish that they just consolidated all the characters into one big group, robbing almost all of them of any conflict in their storylines. Sansa was far more interesting when she was struggling to survive. Arya lost her purpose and became a Marvel hero. Tyrion faded into the background. Some of the most epic relationships of the show (i.e. Jorah / Dany, Tyrion / Cersei , The Hound / Arya), which seemed destined to be resolved in the finale were snuffed out over time. It really felt like D & D just wanted to be over and done with the series so they could move on to greener pastures.
As for S6, I really hated the story in the north. The whole thing between Jon and Sansa felt so manufactured, and in the end it played out so predictably (re: your point on subverting expectations). Cersei blowing up the Sept wasn’t really well built to or surprising either.
I actually started to doze off at the very end of the finale. This was more a product of me being on very little sleep, but when I look back to the offseason between S3-4, when I was literally counting down the days till the season started to find out what would happen, hard to imagine that the series would fall off that much.
No ship, Sherlock. XD I wanted to see what she climbed and leapt off, why she appeared to be above the NK when attacking.
I feel you for sure, LDB, though it was honestly just the latter half of S8 that bothered me. The difference between my joyous excitement going into “The Long Night” vs. what came afterward was absolutely night and day. I could not believe it. Perhaps I’d been willfully ignoring some things earlier, but I hadn’t truly considered that the end could be a letdown.
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Miguel Sapochnik and Neil Marshall are two of my favourite directors from the GOT roster. While I realize that they directed the “action” episodes and are more commonly classified as the “battle directors”, I am still in awe and mightily impressed with what they managed to achieve with their episodes, in terms of sheer scale, scope, overall quality and technical achievements. They deserve every bit of success and I wish them well in the future.
I must say that I definitely would have liked to see Michelle McLaren return to GOT and direct at least one more episode. I also wish that Deborah Chow had been included as a director, because she is awesome as well.
If D&D get their “Star Wars” trilogy off the ground, they may well consider hiring Sapochnik or McLaren to direct!
PS Also two thumbs up for Jeremy Podeswa, soo glad he got to be involved on GOT!
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Grandmaester Flash: Of course he knew.It’s as I said earlier, D&D are not good commentators.They don’t always express their meaning very well.It was the last we would see of the Dothraki in that episode.
How do you know there were no Dothraki left to guard Dragonstone?For me, it’s the kind of thing that goes without saying.Of course there would be a garrison left to defend it.We don’t need to be shown that.And you can’t assume that all we see is all there is.
Nope. I am not making up GOT myself.
That is not what Benioff said. – he said we have seen the last of the Dothraki. Unless qualified, it means end forever. And in context, he was speaking that’s how it was taken.
I am not making up parts of GOT. There was no indication in what was shown/said that any Dothraki was left on Dragonstone. (If we are to think they left Dothraki there, I would need details on when that was said/seen on the TV.)
Deanerys said she was taking her army north – at no time did she say anything else. I do not recall any plan to leave Dothraki behind. I do not remember any scenes of Dothraki left behind on Dragonstone after Deanerys went north. While leaving North and heading South, I did not hear any military plans to have the Dothraki leave Dragstone and join the rest of the KL. We heard plans for one group by ship and one group overland with Jon, nothing about forces from Dragonstone. Sansa said the army was tired after fighting the dead, that was an opportunity to say we had fresh soldiers sitting on Dragonstone – there was no mention of that. There were no scenes of summoning any Dothraki from Dragonstone. There were no scenes of new teams of Dothraki getting on ships at Dragonstone or arriving at KL. No-one mentioned reinforcement coming in. (I am unsure where they washed up when Euron blew the ships out of the water but there were no Dothraki nearby helping poor Varys out of the water.)
Plus, they kept multiplying well AFTER Deanerys took KL.
Let us examine the possibility that men were left behind in Dragonstone: There was no strong reason for valuable fighting men to be left on Dragonstone to protect nothing – an empty rock. It is emotionally important to Deaneryrs, but from the numbers that regenerated in KL we would need to conclude that more than 50% of the Dothraki was left behind at Dragonstone. What would that indicate Deanerys commitment to help Jon?
Anyway, whatever you believe, it is a storytelling mess. If Daenerys left so MANY of the Dothraki behind, we needed to SEE or HEAR it for it be in the story. (I am not making it up myself) And if she did, it raises questions on her commitment to helping Jon fight the dead. Or she was OK dying with him in North by being unneccsarily underpowered.
Please yourself.
I don’t get why you set so much store in D&D’s comments. I say again, they are not the most articulate people and often express themselves poorly in those interviews or commentaries, whatever they are. They seem to ad lib instead of preparing a script, which leads to omissions and poor choices of words.
So sick of all the whining and griping on here. Same people, always whingeing.
Think I’ll join the rest of the people who loved GoT, and not come here any more.
Well-stated, Mango.
Oh, well that’s easy. Her leap at the Night King was symbolic of a wolf pouncing on its prey. It wasn’t practical.
As I stated previously, we see Dothraki retreat from the initial charge against the army of the dead, so there were survivors of that battle. You rely to much on those videos, especially since they seem to leave you more confused. I never once watched one of them and I managed to follow the show just fine. I have no idea where you’re getting that the Dothraki somehow multiplied. There were far, far less Dothraki at King’s Landing than there were at Winterfell and at the Loot Train Battle. There couldn’t be more than a thousand at Dany’s victory speech.
You’re right that she didn’t left any Dothraki on Dragonstone. Else Euron couldn’t attack. (Or else they would have died by Euron’s hand before Dany arived back)
But if you look at episode 3. You can see when the Dothraki attacked around 40% survived they were fleeing. Ghost and Jorah were 2 of them.
That still leaves a big amount of Dothraki left that survived. But if more or less survived then we saw in episode 5 and 6. I don’t know. I read that Dany took around 100.000 Dothraki north and 20.000 Unsullied. That means that around 40.000 survived the battle of Winterfell, Unsullied were also halved so that means 10.000 Unsullied. And then they fought in the battle of Kings Landing. Where not that much Dothraki and Unsullied died. Let’s say that still 10% died. That means that around 36.000 Dothraki suppose to be in episode 6 and around 9.000 Unsullied Meaning a Army of 45.000. Hmm to think about it that’s around the amount that we saw in episode 6.
I think the biggest problem was that we didn’t fell a sense how many there were in her army in episode 3. And that not everyone saw Dothraki survived when fleeing with Jorah.
But I still wonder why you stated that armies multiplied, when you saw in episode 7×07 how big her army was. And in episode 8×04 it was stated that her army was cut in half. In episode 5 not really people died So take what you saw in 7×07. Take a third/40% of it and that’s her army in 8×06.
About D&D stating their facts. They somethimes “lie” in their segments. They stated that Jon was dead and not coming back. They stated in season 3 that Dany was the hero, even when Emilia already got noted to act certain scenes different and much darker, they even knew there that Dany was going dark in the end. They stated Sandor died. Etc They tell the segments how we suppose to think after a certain episode so that we stay surprised when a new episode airs.
Just stay. Not everyone has the same opinion or view. That’s why we are here on this site. To talk about that. Everyone has the right to state their opinion, even if it’s positive or negative.
This Dothraki issue is not a major issue with me as far as the end of GOT goes. The declaration of D&D not even a major issue,esp since I am only quoting some-one else on what they said.
The unworkable narrative and character arc are a bigger issue.
The poster asserted that the Dothraki were at Dragonstone. Then directly addressed me and asked how I knew that they were not at Dragonstone. I responded that I had no evidence given to me in GOT. Simply laid it out. Politely.
Nothing much to see here.
Young Dragon: Tron79: Y
Please see this exchange on August 15, 2019 at 8;49am when both Tron and Grandmaster Flash seemed to be agreed that they thought Epi 3 was the end of the Dothraki. Flash then goes on to assert that the Dothraki increased in numbers because some Dothraki were on Dragonstone.
GM: In the moment I did too, but then it made sense that not all of them would have gone to Winterfell. Dragonstone would not have been left undefended….”
See. Keep up.
This is where the conversation at the moment! Well, until GM picked the toys and went home.
oierem:
Yes, the story’s end was that Deanerys was the “Big Bad”.
Well set up?? Just a few points;
(i)It required a late switcheroo. Too late a switch, not enough time to build tension. It was clear for Cersei as a “Bad” as this was well built. I wonder if this is why in the book there is no NK and the Others remain a more diffuse threat. So the writer can really convincingly build Deanerys as the final “Big Bad”. It also seems that Cersei will not be an endgame threat – Cersei is not as formidable in the book as she is in the GOT. The NK &WW was built as the Big Bad.
(ii) In GOT the NK and WW were built as the “Big Bad” for 71 hours. Deaneryrs was the Big Bad for 2 hours. It just did not have the weight it needed to have and the audience never had time to really feel it. It was a bad choice to be one of the big shocking moments. There is a scene at the post-war WF party that a distorted image of Deanerys face was shown. This distorted facial image or other such should seen as far back as Season 1.
(iii) The NK and WW were death and the supernatural combined. These two standard horrors/fear builders for human audiences. These are the biggest fears for the average person. It is a hard thing to write a convincing story that there is anything or anyone that can be a “bigger bad” than death and the supernatural. GOT tried this hard path – making a tiny blond and her puppies to be bigger baddie than Death itself.
(iv) made Jon look like Orson. Spent years yelling about a great threat that was killed with a little knife. Fell in love with the Big Bad.
So Arya killed Death itself. Jon killed a tiny pretty blond girl who he was kissing.
Mango: Yes, the story’s end was that Deanerys was the “Big Bad”.
Well set up??Just a few points;
(iii) The NK and WW were death and the supernatural combined. These two standard horrors/fear builders for human audiences.These are the biggest fears for the average person. It is a hard thing to write a convincing story that there is anything or anyone that can be a “bigger bad” than death and the supernatural. GOT tried this hard path – making a tiny blond and her puppies to be bigger baddie than Death itself.
No, not really. Seeds were planted from the beginning about Dany being mad. And regardless of that, it was really when she learned about the Aegon bombshell that really set things into motion. The Aegon reveal couldn’t have come much earlier and had to happen at the end. She thought finally amassing her armies and making it to Westeros was really the last hurdle in taking the throne and then it started to crash and burn when she realized AeJon was the true heir. There was also the fact that AeJon couldn’t reciprocate the same romantic love towards her after he learned the truth about his heritage that started to unravel her as well. Then you throw in the fact that the North and Westeros weren’t accepting of her even after she stalled her conquest of the IT to help them all the while losing Jorah and Missandei in doing so AND having Varys betray her. There was a lot there that unsettled and unraveled her and all of that was endgame stuff and couldn’t have happened 30 or 40 or whatever episodes ago. It had to be Season 8 stuff. But really it was the AeJon reveal like I said that set everything in motion, so her being the main villain and destroying KL was beautifully executed and in fact was not rushed. David and Dan wrote it exquisitely and it played out magically on screen.
Stepping for a minute to the remark by GRRM that “SciFi has conquered the world” with GOT. There is truth in this and of course GRRM is to be applauded for his monumental achievement in ASOIAF / GOT.
Is GOT SciFi? It’s a big medieval period drama with magical elements like dragons and a zombie apocalypse tagged on. Don’t get me wrong – it rules and I love it. But can we really call it SciFi?
Let’s say GOT is SciFi. If so, then it is a massive gift to the genre and might even rescue it from a very bad hole that SciFi was busy getting sucked down, mid-spiral. The bad hole is dystopian politics. Nearly all SciFi is dystopian anti-technology and Luddite.
https://ptolemy2.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/why-is-nearly-all-sci-fi-dystopian/
Think of Jurassic Park. This is the Michael Crighton template of 99% of SciFi. Technology arrives, technology goes evil, hero destroys technology. Whether it’s James Cameron, Steven Soderburg or the James Bond franchise SciFi is actually betrayed and co-opted as an anti-science anti-technology tract. Again and again. When SciFi was supposed to thrill and excite with the possibility of other worlds made accessible through science and discovery.
This is why GOT as SciFi is so refreshingly different. It’s not a tract. It doesn’t end with a homily inviting us to invite Greta Thunberg into our hearts. (I see that hand – hallelujah!) No – amazingly GOT is SciFi without the global warming homily, almost unimaginable. I guess only it’s massive commercial success has shielded it from criticism as insufficiently left-eco-political. For me that’s hugely refreshing, even exhilarating. Pure imaginative storytelling about the dire truth of human nature but with a hopeful silver lining. Not political but universal.
None of that has anything to do with my post. Yes, they, like you, thought all the Dothraki were defeated, but that in no way changes the fact the fact that you’re wrong. I’ll say it once more. After the initial charge, we see Dothraki retreating, meaning that the Dothraki weren’t completely defeated. Also, as I mentioned, there was a much smaller number of Dothraki at King’s Landing than there were at Winterfell, meaning they didn’t regenerate. Try to keep up.
I thought the Dothraki were handled great. They led the initial charge, but yes, they weren’t all defeated and were fewer in numbers in 805/806. They even mentioned it in the post Long Night/Pre KL war meeting.
I know. Sometimes, I don’t know what show people are watching, because it certainly isn’t GOT.
Jack Bauer 24: I thought the Dothraki were handled great. They led the initial charge, but yes, they weren’t all defeated and were fewer in numbers in 805/806. They even mentioned it in the post Long Night/Pre KL war meeting.
Let me respond to you both at once.
1) There was a charge of the Dothraki with lit weapons. All their lights went out. Jorah and a few Dothraki returned (on foot running) and a few horses as well. Everyone saw that. It was spectacular. It worked to communicate the overwhelming enemy and was one of the best scenes in GOT. I loved it. Huge impact. Beautifully done except that Jorah should have been lost then.
2) When this happens the camera then shows the impact of this event on the faces of the others. We saw them react with shocked faces. It was very well done. If there was another mass of Dothraki gathered for battle they did NOT show the reactions on their faces when such a large number of their brethren disappeared. This would be good storytelling, would it not?
3) Then the battle started. At no point further in the battle did we see Dothraki fighting. Are we to believe there were thousands of Dothraki fighting in the Battle of Winterfell yet there was no scene with them in battle. We saw lots of scenes on the Unsullied – actually GW did very well in the battle. We saw every other characters including even non-combatants like Sam and Tyrion. We saw Jorah defend Daeneyrs. Did the Dothraki fail to defend their Khal? Can you really believe many thousands of Dothraki were in the battle and we did not even get one scene with them our even see them in the background of frame with other fighting?
4) Also, at some point, a call was made to retreat into Winterfell….the Unsullied were asked to protect the retreat and shown doing that. You saw Pod, Jaime and Brienne herding fighters inside. Did you see any Dothraki fleeing inside the Castle or even helping to protect the retreat? I did not.
Anyway, this is not that big a deal as far as failures of the story go. If thousands of a particular group of fighters are not show on screen during a major battle then it is a story telling problem. If they are thousands present, then show them. It does not help when the storyteller says we have seen the last of them and that is exactly what was shown.
I see what I see.
Jack Bauer 24: No, not really. Seeds were planted from the beginning about Dany being mad. And regardless of that, it was really when she learned about the Aegon bombshell that really set things into motion. The Aegon reveal couldn’t have come much earlier and had to happen at the end. She thought finally amassing her armies and making it to Westeros was really the last hurdle in taking the throne and then it started to crash and burn when she realized AeJon was the true heir. There was also the fact that AeJon couldn’t reciprocate the same romantic love towards her after he learned the truth about his heritage that started to unravel her as well. Then you throw in the fact that the North and Westeros weren’t accepting of her even after she stalled her conquest of the IT to help them all the while losing Jorah and Missandei in doing so AND having Varys betray her. There was a lot there that unsettled and unraveled her and all of that was endgame stuff and couldn’t have happened 30 or 40 or whatever episodes ago. It had to be Season 8 stuff. But really it was the AeJon reveal like I said that set everything in motion, so her being the main villain and destroying KL was beautifully executed and in fact was not rushed. David and Dan wrote it exquisitely and it played out magically on screen.
1) Regardless of how well or badly Daenerys character was built over the Seasons is hard to make a human audience believe that a tiny pretty girl is more fearsome that Death itself. That is the main point I want to make. They had an uphill battle in making her the “Big Bad”.
2) The conversation on Deaneyrs’ character building I can go in circles. Personally I was not fond of Deanerys and considered her a major threat to Westeros and without a valid claim to the throne. I found her volatile and with meglomaniac tendencies. I had quite a few arguments on that with few posters before S8. However, I think many opportunities to clearly build her as the “Big Bad” were missed.
3) The TV critic from Globe and Mail (Canada’s big newspaper) wrote an article about the Daeneryrs and character building in story writing. If you have time, read it. The NYT critic also had some feedback about the difference between clues and characterization in why Daeneryrs’ storyline was a failure. Again if you have time….
3) The difference in the building of Cersei and Daeneyrs is also worth noting. You see clarity in building Cersei from a vulnerable person to some-one using her worse side by end of Season 7. For me, Daeneryrs’ building was too late and too short to work. If it worked for you then it worked for you.
The battle during the Long Night focused mostly on the main characters. That is who we were following. We witnessed Greyworm leading the Unsullied, Brienne, Jaime, Gendry, Beric, the Hound, Arya, etc. The problem is that there were no major Dothraki characters, so I didn’t find it the least bit odd that we weren’t following them. I much preferred that the episode paid more attention to characters that I was interested in than extras. Also, the last we saw of the Dothraki in The Long Night, quite a few escaped the initial charge alive and I had absolutely no reason to believe that there status had changed.
Mango: 1) Regardless of how well or badly Daenerys character was built over the Seasons is hard to make a human audience believe that a tiny pretty girl is more fearsome that Death itself.That is the main point I want to make. They had an uphill battle in making her the “Big Bad”.
But like you said, you already felt she was volatile and had megalomaniac tendencies. So couple that with everything crashing and burning so quickly for her in S8, her perceived quick heel turn should make sense. Even when you go back a few episodes to the end of S7, she lost Viserion, one of her children. Shortly after that she lost another child in Rhaegal, along with all of the other stuff.
But going back to your first point about Dany being a “tiny pretty girl” and shouldn’t have been more feared then Death itself. Well it doesn’t matter what her appearance was really. Like you said she was volatile. I would be terrified of a volatile person who controlled 3 massive fire breathing dragons and a massive army of Dothraki screamers and Unsullied soldiers who all had one unified goal. To take the IT. And she had Targaryen blood to boot and you know what they say about Targaryen’s…
The battle during the Long Night focused mostly on the main characters. That is who we were following. We witnessed Greyworm leading the Unsullied, Brienne, Jaime, Gendry, Beric, the Hound, Arya, etc. The problem is that there were no major Dothraki characters, so I didn’t find it the least bit odd that we weren’t following them. I much preferred that the episode paid more attention to characters that I was interested in than extras. Also, the last we saw of the Dothraki in The Long Night, quite a few escaped the initial charge aliveand I had absolutely no reason to believe that there status had changed.
Now you have just dissed Qhono. He get a name credit and is not an extra. Maybe he died?
We saw many many many extras in the battle. Lots of Unsullied were shown besides Grey Worm. Actually many many many Unsullied and north men that were extras were shown in Battle of Winterfell….no Dothraki. The Dothraki are fearsome fighters, even the very few that survived the”Great LightsOut” should have been shown in battle (again bad storytelling!), but if there were thousands and thousands and thousands as we saw later at KL, they definitely would have been seen in the WF war even in the background of shots.
But none, none……You can see that something went wrong with the story telling. It could simply be that they could not fit in any horsemen in the fight plan for filming. Or that they used the Dothraki as extras in the army of the dead. Or they decided that to be spectacular all the Dothraki had to disappear for one episode. I am just speculating at this point.
Mango: Now you have just dissed Qhono. He get a name credit and is not an extra. Maybe he died?
He did die. When NK raised the dead, Qhono was shown being turned into a wight along with Edd and Lyanna.
I just rewatched the war council scene in 804 and Grey Worm says “half are gone” and removes half of the Unsullied pieces from the map and Jon says “the Northmen as well” and proceeds to remove half of their pieces. Royce doesn’t say anything, but removes half of the Vale pieces and then a Dothraki removes some of their pieces, but not all of them.
Jack Bauer 24: I just rewatched the war council scene in 804 and Grey Worm says “half are gone” and removes half of the Unsullied pieces from the map and Jon says “the Northmen as well” and proceeds to remove half of their pieces. Royce doesn’t say anything, but removes half of the Vale pieces and then a Dothraki removes some of their pieces, but not all of them.
So they were regenerated/resurrected by one sentence said by Grey Worm. Just teasing!
Yes, I know the scene you are mentioning. Part of the reason that I was pretty sure that they were not joining from Dragonstone.
But their disappearance scene was striking and they were absent from rest of the WF battle. Then regenerated and kept doing so. Very odd storytelling, you can see the discontinuity.
And after GW’s declaration they continued to grow in number. Maybe GW is making them in the basement like Qyburn and Mountain.
Jorah also joined the initial charge with the Dothraki against the army of the dead, and he survived, appearing later to defend Dany (but then he did fall).
Nothing was regenerated. You saw at the beginning of episode 3 around 100.000 Dothraki screamers. You saw after their attack 50% retreat with jorah. That’s 50.000 Dothraki screamers. (yes 50.000 died in one blow). Meaning 50.000 are still alive. lets say another 10.000 died in the battle. That’s 40.000. Then we got episode 5 where not much died let’s say 10% died. Still remains 36.000 Dothraki screamers. The amount we saw in episode 6.
I am done here.
In earlier posts, I have pointed out that none of the Dothraki were seen fighting in WF in Episode 3 after the lights went off. Yes some returned on foot, we should have seen those fighting too. If you think 50,000 Dothraki were at WF battle and not a single scene with any…even when their Khal was in danger, not even when the Unsullied were protecting the retreat.
Oh, well that’s easy. Her leap at the Night King was symbolic of a wolf pouncing on its prey.
“Symbolic of a wolf pouncing on its prey” is fine, but I still shouldn’t have had to read the script to find out what she actually pounced from.
The Dothraki question is kind of bizarre. It looked like only a handful that returned with Jorah from that initial group, and then you never did see them again during the BoW, did you? Yeah, that’s whack.
And I’m just scrubbing the last two or three episodes from memory…^u^
Qhono is not a major character. Besides, he died in the initial charge so the point is moot. We see Greyworm leading the Unsullied where he is the focus. We see Brienne and Jaime leading the Knights of the Vale where they are the focus. We see people fighting in the background, but the focus is always on the characters we know. That is good storytelling, so nothing went wrong. Besides all that, my point still stands. We saw a lot of Dothraki retreat, and we didn’t see any of them die, so we had absolutely no reason to believe they didn’t survive.
Well, this wouldn’t be the first time a director/writer went with what’s “cool” than what was practical. Personally, I’m fine with it, so long as it’s not overdone.
When I was watching The Long Night, seeing all my favorite characters kicking ass despite impossible odds, dying to protect one another, “Where are the Dothraki?” didn’t once cross my mind. It simply was not important to me. We saw Dothraki retreat, we knew some had survived, and that was enough.
Their Khal died so there was no need to protect him. And seeing them flee is enough in my book. In the background when Jorah retreated you saw half of them escaping. And you do see them fighting later. Not all. But they were in the background.
And if you didn’t saw them fighting best to do is think what you saw last with them. 50% surviving. And go with that. And at the end of the battle (episode 4) we learned that around half of them survived. So we can subtract from that that not much died after we saw them last. (the beginning of episode 3).
For instance we didn’t saw Blackfish survive the Red Wedding, he somehow escaped. But we all believed it when Walder said they lost him. And we didn’t see him until season 6. Did we need to see his escape back then? or was the notion that we got from another character enough? If that was ok and brilliantly written and executed. So is Grey Worm telling half of them survived without showing it happen.
This. The main characters are more important. And if we want everything to be fleshed out in the the long night. The episode would have been longer then the time it need to be. And it would feel like Dragonball Z. Where 6 hours can be stretched to 12 hours of screentime.
Ok. Just to acknowledge.
Yeah, it’s okay to make it look “cool,” as long as the explanation is subtly visible in the background at some point…I had been going with “the tree” ’til I saw the script’s direction. Just can’t fathom why we didn’t see the pile (or that killing the NK was a simple run-up-and-stab-him, or how more named characters weren’t lost before he died…)
I didn’t think of the Dothraki during the battle either, because there were too many other characters to focus on, but now that I think about it I do have to wonder why we didn’t see the other/surviving ones again. At least, I thought we didn’t…? It was pretty darn dark. ;p And fast-paced. I did notice the remnants coming back with Jorah. And prior to that I hadn’t honestly thought, “Oh yep, that’s it, that’s the end of the Dothraki right there.” So it is weird not to have noticed them throughout the rest of the battle, since there were apparently significant numbers left.
The only think I agree on is that I felt D&D was in a rush with their Inside the episode part. Like they told it because they watch it 1 time instead of them having written it. They made statements that contradict what we saw, like the Dothraki statement. It was not well spoken.
Agree, but I think that MS just went with his own version. Pile in script, no pile in the execution. He changed a lot of things. So did Nutter. D&D wrote a cold opening with the attack on Last Hearth. Nutter changed it and we didn’t get one. And I think those changes were more the problem. I think what D&D envisioned and wrote got changed and that the problem lies there. Thinks were changed to be cool instead of consistent.
And I have to agree with that we could have been shown a second scene with the Dothraki. It could be simple as in the background when Dany and Jon are on dragon.
^ Yeah, could be…I wish he’d gone with what was written, but maybe he was thinking of the tree like me? Who knows… And sure, I can believe the Dothraki were in the mix fighting alongside everybody else; I just don’t remember seeing them after their opening scene, and could’ve done with just a few more clear shots giving a more accurate idea of how many survived the battle. There were definitely mistakes in the Inside the Episodes, yep.
I think what they want was too costly. LotR was big but only had 3 sides to it with the big battle in part 3. Gondor. Rohan and Aragorn and co. GoT episode 3 was much bigger. It had the Dothraki and Unsullied. It had the northern lords. It had Arya. (Already 3 parts that needed to be filled in). It had Dany and Jon. It had Bran and Theon. It had Sansa (already double of locations that needed to be filled in). And Jaime/Brienne etc. Many armies etc. I think they needed a budget that we got from episode 3 and 5 for just one big battle.
As great as I found season 8 and the story was great. I think D&D made it themselves to difficult. If they had given themselves 2 seasons of 5 a 6 episodes they could have double the budget (or maybe even 50% more) then they got. And I think all their wildest dreams could have been told. All that HBO said, there is no money for that could have been implemented. It would also have made sure there was no backlash. If they had for instance 3 episode build up to the WW winterfell battle with every episode 1 skirmish WW battle of max 5 minutes. 2 Episode battle (shorter episodes combined maybe 100/120 minutes) and one last episode that started off with the afterparty of episode 4 which I though was amazing part of episode 4. Then second part a big cliffhanger where Dany went to far and maybe Petra’s idea. Burn the Iron Islands. And have a big cliffhanger with Dark Dany conquoring the Iron Islands. People would have bought it because it made sense, and storywise we needed that stop halfway through Dany’s fall. Season 1 is Dany being admired at the end, season 2 shows her that she can use hard punishment. Season 3 shows her that she had strength in conquoring and that she goes all the way. Season 4 and shows her her first glimpses of ruling and that she make mistakes that she learn from. Season 6 going west with a feeling, she is going to destroy Cersei. Season 7 we get our doubts with the burning of the Tarly’s. Season 8 we could have been scared who she becomes. We feel she will be a bigger treat then the NK.
Then season 9 we could see a 5 a 6 episode season where wee see that conflict resolved. And more Cersei who pushes her further to that dark path (like she did in episode 4) and once the people of KL chooses Cersei over her and Varys betrays her, it would have made much more sense storywise. And I think it made also much more sense storywise if Jon’s parentage would be revealed after the WW would have been defeated.
9×01 Setting everything in motion going south. 9×02 Missandei death. 9×03 Preparing for battle. 9×04 Battle of KL (maybe even one like the show), 9×05 Dany being a ruler and being killed in the end of the episode. 9×06 What comes after.
^ That might well be. I think an outline such as that sample could have been a terrific idea and ultimately saved a lot of trouble. More room for things to breathe, for the details and conversations and interstitial scenes that would’ve made it feel more like the show we know and love so much, something that probably would’ve been unanimously acclaimed…that would’ve been worth striving for if at all possible.
(Although I still think Dany was pretty generous with the Tarlys. x-p 😉
wolfvv says:
D&D literally said this was the end of the Dothraki.
Look up the scene on youtube, barely anybody retreated, I saw only a couple of them fall back. And that was before the entire army of other groups outside and inside Winterfell was also destroyed.
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Where were 50000 Dothraki when the wights breached all the way to the entrance of the crpyts and killed all the soldiers there? When all the wights fell the entire courtyard was filled with bodies except for the main characters.
Jon Snowed says:
I still find it almost scandalous that Miguel did not get an Emmy for the Long Night given all that went into that and the sheer scale which we saw on our screens. The good news though is that he’s going to be involved and directing a brand new pilot GOT prequel!!
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I agree there was a lot of set-up for it with Bran giving Arya the dagger, her doing the same drop, spin and attack movement versus Brienne also, it was well set-up. Even Mel telling Arya she would close blue eyes back in S3.
Although you could argue there was far more ground laid for Jon to kill the Night king and I think this is why people criticise the long night so much.
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Flagrant Flashback: Mr Showmanship Shares His Sticky Buns In ‘Liberace Cooks’
What can one do to quell ever-frequent presidential assassination fantasies? One cozy, escapist idea is to dive headfirst into the vintage book Liberace Cooks!: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes For You from His Seven Dining Rooms as told to food critic Carol Truax. Gratitude to Carol, though Wikipedia states she joined the spirit world before co-author Mr. Showmanship bade us all adieu. Liberace Cooks! was published in 1970.
Someone’s in the kitchen with Lee! Liberace exploring the culinary arts with co-author Carol Truax.
The names of chapters teeter on the edge of tasteful and kitsch—“Do It Yourself and Eat It Yourself in the Kitchen,” “Seven Dinners in the Formal Dining Room,” and “Sauces, Sauces Everywhere.” However, in this tome, the actual recipes align with classic Continental cuisine, with tame, formal titles like Lobster Newburg (serves 8!), a few varieties of Chef’s Salad (one with tongue), and the pre-mad cow disease Brains in Black Butter. The 1970 ingredients—6 tablespoons of butter, 1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate, 1 pound Cheddar cheese grated or cut up—are definitely not for the health-conscious. Perhaps the most-telling recipe included here: Sticky Buns.
Although Liberace Cooks! was published nearly half a century ago, 2007 was blessed with Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen, a compilation of over 80 Mr. Showmanship recipes. Presumably authors Michael and Karan Feder borrowed extensively from Truax’s original book, though the dishes are re-christened with terms of gay connotation (Celery Victor/Victoria), as well as pop-culture slang commonplace in our new century, such as Angel Bling Cake Pie, corny but apropos of Liberace, a trailblazer in public displays of wealth and extravagant wardrobe, the last laugh reserved for hip-hop homophobes.
A feast fit for a king or queen. Liberace, his beloved mother and brother George sit for a family meal.
Although there is a treasure trove of Liberace footage on YouTube, surprisingly little of it features Mr. Showmanship’s culinary talents. Those cooking clips that do exist are a sight for sore eyes reddened from celebrity pie holes such as bloated bro Guy Fieri and notorious bad tipper Rachael Ray.
According to longtime lover Scott Thorson, Lee, as he was known to close friends, preferred to spend his free time cooking, decorating and playing with his dogs.
In 1986, one year before he succumbed to complications from AIDS, Liberace appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, to promote his first ever performance at Radio City Music Hall. An unusually restrained Letterman “assisted” the piano legend in demonstrating how to make the Liberace Individual Egg Casserole, a dish then served at Liberace’s gourmet restaurant in Vegas.
The very definition of WTF, Wladziu Valentino Liberace and friends Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali, Hulk Hogan and unidentified wrestler.
A much more comforting video is a tutorial with the entertainer in a more swashbuckling era, showing the eponymous Liberace Lasagna, taking place in a beautiful example of a 1972 kitchen. His first instruction is to “remove all diamond rings.” When he puts his jewels into his pocket, please notice the harlequin pants.
Lastly, treat yourself to a view of the trailer (or watch the entirety on Amazon Prime) for the 1954 television special Spend the Holidays with Liberace, which does involve food. In under two minutes, Mr. Showmanship fondles a wishbone over a plate of turkey, welcomes family (don’t miss brother George) for merriment round the Christmas tree, romantically serenades Santa Claus, and winks at us, his eternal TV audience.
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A Mostly True Story
by Glenn Campbell
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I WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS AT AREA 51!
A Book in Progress by Glenn Campbell
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If Samuel Clemens were alive today, he might be writing as Glenn Campbell, a Massachusetts Yankee with a wry wit who is now exploring the American West. In I was Abducted by Aliens at Area 51!, Campbell becomes involved in the hunt for UFOs at America's most popular secret base. With the help of a talented and quirky group of investigators, he tries to make sense of the claim that the government is testing alien flying saucers at a remote location in the Nevada desert. Although a skeptic at heart, Campbell finds the claims to be surprisingly deep, and he and his colleagues engage in an epic and sometimes quixotic quest to prove them true or false.
In 1993, Campbell drove his camper from Boston to Nevada and plugged it into an RV site in the tiny village of Rachel, population 100, which was the closest town to the unacknowledged Air Force base at Groom Lake. He appointed himself as the public relations officer for the base, since no one there would do it, and within a year he was the center of a media phenomenon. He entertained many visiting journalists from nearly every major media outlet, all of whom were asking, "What is really going on at Area 51?"
At the border of reality, Campbell encounters a fascinating array of human characters, each of whom feels touched by the aliens on some way. Some say they were cruelly abducted; others were more politely contacted; and some even believe that they are aliens themselves. Fantastic lights that appear almost nightly in the skies near the base are interpreted according to the observer's own wishes and needs. The longer he remains in Rachel, the more Campbell feels his own sanity slipping away. Has he been abducted, too, or is he a pawn in a nefarious government scheme?
Written a decade after the events in question, this story is a legendary account, filtered through the mists of memory, in which every character seems larger than life. Campbell swears that everything in his book is true, but like Mark Twain, he doesn't let mere facts stand in the way of a good story.
Other archives and documents by or about Glenn Campbell and Area 51....
Glenn Campbell's Home Page (www.aliensonearth.com)
Area 51 Archive - a huge collection of documents
The Groom Lake Desert Rat - newsletter with 38 issues from 1994-1997
Article in The New York Times, June 24,1994
Area 51 Mailing List - messages distributed in 1996 and 1997.
Ufomind Mailing List - 1997-1999
Area 15 Viewer's Guide - Self-published book available through Amazon.com
©2005-2008, Glenn Campbell - Glenn-Campbell.com - Email: familycourtguy (at) gmail.com
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Tag: HUMA BHABHA
HUMA BHABHA – The Company
Posted by Amalia / arte, installazione, scultura
There is so much physical destruction happening in different parts of the world, to the extent that many functioning cities look like archeological digs. One of the ways I like to approach the past is in a cinematic way, reimagining the past and projecting towards the future just as movies often do.
—Huma Bhabha
Gagosian is pleased to present The Company, new sculptures and drawings by Huma Bhabha. This is her first exhibition in Rome.
In expressive drawings on photographs as well as figurative sculptures carved from cork and Styrofoam, assembled from refuse and clay, or cast in bronze, Bhabha probes the tensions between time, memory, and displacement. References to science-fiction, archeological ruins, Roman antiquities, and postwar abstraction combine as she transforms the human figure into grimacing totems that are both unsettling and darkly humorous.
The Company is inspired in part by “The Lottery in Babylon” (1941), a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which a fictional society is taken over by a pervasive lottery system that doles out both rewards and punishments. The lottery is purportedly run by the Company, a secret, perhaps nonexistent body determining peoples’ fates. Bhabha’s procession of sculptures makes visible the power of this unseen Company. It comprises a pair of large, disembodied hands floating atop transparent plinths; a seated figure; and several standing figures of varying scale. Drawings on photographs echo these forms and characters, which could have come from a distant realm of the future just as easily as from a lost civilization. The standing figures are carved from stacks of dark cork—which emits an earthy, acrid odor—and its technical inverse, Styrofoam. These materials appear to be hard and dense, like eroded stone or freshly quarried marble, but they are lightweight and soft, allowing Bhabha to carve quickly and spontaneously without over-refining. The sculptural process thus becomes a sort of embodied stream of consciousness from which alien monsters, fertility goddesses, and Greek kouroi emerge.
The masklike visages of Bhabha’s sculptures are at once majestic and jarring. Painted in incongruous pastel tones—blue, mauve, pink, and green—they recall graffiti, where urban grime combines with interventions of glowing color. With their deranged, cartoonish features empowered by a foreboding bipedalism, Bhabha’s sculptures seem to both mock and warn as reflections of and witnesses to human pride and power, veneration and iconoclasm.
Pairing the scars of war, colonialism, and trauma with allusions to current events and popular media, Bhabha has long maintained that the world is an apocalypse, both man-made and natural; her ravaged sculptures appear to have witnessed some measure of catastrophe yet survived to tell the tale. Like an enthroned pharaoh or cyborg caught in a shower of shrapnel, a seated figure is assembled from sallow clay pressed into chicken wire, mottled fragments of Styrofoam, toy dog bones, and rusted chairs from Bhabha’s hometown of Karachi, caught in the crossfire of internecine and international conflict.
In Bhabha’s large drawings, human and nonhuman figures occupy the intersection of photography, collage, and painterly gesture—their composite faces and shadowy forms seeming to haunt landscapes, city streets, and architectural settings. In one, a blue and beige arch is imposed on Bhabha’s own photograph of an ancient dog statue in Rome’s Musei Capitolini, with two white kouroi looming in the background.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome will host a conversation between Bhabha and Cristiana Perrella, director of the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, on September 18 at 6pm. The event will be held in English and open to the public.
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Australian Button history
A history of button manufacturing in Australia
The Early Years: 1788 onwards. Convicts and Colonists
Stokes & Sons: 1856 – today
Other Pre-Federation Button Makers.
Federation to WW2
General Plastics (Beauclaire)
G. Herring (Beutron)
Beutron children’s and babies’ buttons
Coronet / Roger Berry
K.G. Luke Pty. Ltd.
Pearl shell button industry
Covered Buttons
Unbranded/generic/obscure: 1930s -1960s examples
Coles: 1914 onwards / Embassy brand: 1929-1994
Woolworths Limited: 1924 ongoing
Mysteries- please help!
WW2 and Onwards: including leather buttons and obscure companies
Maxart
Carr Fastener Co.
Rex C. Norris/Rex Agencies (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
Astor Buttons (Aust) Pty. Ltd.
Walkers (Delphi/Cygnet/E. Walker & Son Pty. Ltd.)
Travlon Pty. Ltd./Travlon Trimmings
Grant Featherston Design (GFD)/Darian
Distributers/Wholesalers/Importers
Australiana, Fauna and Flora buttons
Branded buttons
Branded buttons: tailors’ buttons (A-H)
Branded buttons: tailors’ buttons (I-P)
Branded buttons: Tailors’ buttons (Q-Z)
Branded buttons: manufacturers
Branded buttons: department store buttons
Buttons in the News
Collectors in the News
New Zealand Button History
Beauclaire
Beutron
Make Your Own, and other Fun Activities!
The outbreak of WW2 changed everything. Manufacturers went into overdrive to supply military needs. Civilian production changed as well. Materials such as casein and bakelite were in such demand that some became ‘declared commodities’ under government control. The plastic industry underwent rapid growth, which would forever change manufacturing. Whilst shortages created problems, there were also opportunities….
The Newcastle Sun (NSW), 10th November 1939.
Khaki wool pants made by H.R.Hayman in 1940: Australian War Memorial collection. The company was listed from 1937-2009.
Published in the Examiner (Launceston), 2nd December 1939.
Published in the News (Adelaide), 17th August 1940.
Published in The West Australian, 28th November 1940. How shocking. But wait, there’s further news ….
The Advertiser (Adelaide), 10th December 1940.
Crisis averted!
Published in The Henty Observer (NSW), 12th June 1942.
Brass is probably now in short supply, and who can polish buttons in the trenches? The West Australian, 28th March 1942.
WW2 saw an increased demand for casein for manufacture of uniform buttons, paint, adhesives and also in aircraft production. Therefore, it became a ‘declared commodity’ with the price under government control and the export of casein powder banned. In 1947 local producers were asking for this ban to be lifted. People working in a wide range of employment, including button manufacturing , were not free to change employment without a permit. The following article describes how the sudden demand created both problems and opportunities for many manufacturers.
Queensland Times (Ipswich), 30th November 1939.
Tweed Daily (NSW), 25th January 1940.
After the war, things did not simply go back to the way they were. Supply shortages still existed. For example …
Published in the Townsville Daily Bulletin, 18th December 1945.
Published 1st June 1945 in the Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (Sydney).
Commonwealth Government war factories were rented out to private enterprise. A newspaper article reported that in Hamilton, Victoria, E.W. Tilley were to produce plastic buttons in such a factory. (This company also operated from 123 Latrobe Street, Melbourne from 1942 onwards.) Confidence returned as the economy switched over to post war production.
In 1945 no thermo-setting ingredients were being made locally. By July 1950 C.S.R. Chemicals (Aust) Ltd. started local production of cellulose acetate. By 1953 Monsanto Chemicals (Aust) P/L started production of polystyrene in West Footscray. In 1959 local production also included phenol formaldehyde, melamine formaldehyde, urea formaldehyde and polyvinylchloride. In 1968 Nylex (formerly Moulded Products) started production of ABS plastic. These plastics were vital for many Australian manufacturing industries.
Tailors could make their own buttons.
‘Statement’ buttons were popular after WW2 to decorate the otherwise austere style of clothing in vogue at the time. One local maker of these was Grant Featherston with his beautiful glass buttons (see separate page). Another producer was Marie Gardner.
Ian F’s collection.
Marie Gardner pottery buttons.
Marie Gardner, 1899-1971, began studying pottery at Sydney Technical College in 1938. In 1947 she set up a small pottery studio in her backyard in Harbord, Sydney, and produced vases, lamps, wall pockets, cruets and other decorative pieces.
The Sunday Herald, 26th July 1953. A piece of Marie’s work was chosen for the Museum of Applied Science in Sydney.
The buttons were very successful after WW2, as European buttons could not be imported at that time. There were around 12 different moulds with many colour and finish variations.
Another producer was Austrian born Anna Louise Alma who had moved to Sydney. Her buttons were sold between 1947 to around 1957 when she managed the ANINA jewellery shop that was located at 21 Rowe Street, Sydney, from 1957 until her death in 1961.
The Sun, 20th October 1947. The ad below probably refers to her buttons.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 16th December 1947.
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 6th May 1948.
Herald (Melbourne) , 1st February 1949.
The Argus 11th June 1949.
The Age (Melbourne), 6th April 1950.
Courtesy of the Museum of Applied Arts. It is described as ” Three sets of plastic buttons bought from ALA between 1950-1957.” However, the top row at least appear to be ceramic, if not all.
Published in Weekly Times (Melbourne), 14th April 1948.
Published in The Age (Melbourne), 26th May 1949.
Stacha Halpern 1919-1969.
Other artists produced ceramic studio buttons (i.e. in small quantities for a short period as artistic items). One such artist was Stanislav (Stacha) Halpern. He was born in Poland and fled to Melbourne in 1939. He was a painter, potter, print maker and sculptor. The buttons below are courtesy of the Museum of Applied Arts.
Another artist was Gordon Andrews of Sydney.
Australian Women’s Weekly, 13th March 1948.
In the collection of the Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences.
Pearl shell buttons were declining in market share, while plastics were booming. In the 1950s there were at least 4 major Australian button manufacturers (possibly Beauclaire, Beutron, Leda, and Delphi) according to the following article…….
Published in The Sunday Herald (Sydney), 8th October 1950.
1950 saw the start of a concerted and long running campaign by local button firms to discourage the use of ‘inferior’ imported buttons. According to the local companies, Australian buttons were technologically advanced. They were boil proof, detergent proof, and dry-cleaning proof. They would not fade, melt or damage clothing. What’s more, the rotten Commies were making profits from selling us their glass buttons! It was claimed there were around 1000 employees of the button industry in 1950.
Two questions; Who were the Australian Button Industry Association, and did anyone really believe that buying glass button was funding the Communists?
Published in the Northern Star, 15th March 1952.
Part of a dry-cleaning feature published in The Argus, 8th June 1954.
For 4 years Dry-cleaners and Button firms were cross promoting. Published in The West Australian, 13th July 1954.
Published 24th June 1954 in The Argus.
According to this article from 1954, Australia was producing 90% of the button used in the country, and 99% of the billions of buttons produced world-wide were by now made from plastic. “Even those frivolous diamente-centred jet buttons, those round pearl ones, those crystal glitterers, those mother of pearl ones, and those shining gold and silver filagree fancies that come on your fashion-right frocks aren’t what they seem. They’re plastic.”
Plaited Leather Buttons: 1950’s onwards
While undoubtedly leather buttons were used before this time ( see below article from 1917), they seem to become more popular after WW2 (borrowing perhaps from military uniforms) particularly on sports/tweed coats and jackets. A local industry sprang up to meet the demand. Many European and Jewish immigrants set up in the ‘rag trade’ at this time. Some would use outworkers to hand plait strips of leather into buttons in their homes that would be collected, dyed, varnished and carded to be sold to shops and tailors.
Published 10th August 1907 in the Australasian (Melbourne).
Published in The Prahran Telegraph, 10th February 1917.
Published in the Advocate (Launceston), 5th August 1954. It appears Mr Grey started his business after WW1 (‘the last war’) and was quite successful. A bit of detective work has uncovered that (despite being reported as W.E. Grey) his name was actually William Maxwell Gray (so much for accuracy in journalism!) He was born near Kobe, Japan in 1889 and died in 1960 in Tasmania. His wife, demonstrating leather plaiting in the photo, was Helen Gray.
Advocate (Burnie) 1st May 1954.
An example of plaited leather (or ‘football’) buttons can be seen below.
“Pukkah-Sahib” meaning a perfect gentleman. How very colonial!
MORE MANUFACTURERS:
Badge A Minit, Adelaide:
This is a South Australian button and badge making and equipment company in Norwood, established around 1984.
The back of a school uniform button.
Barwon Button and Buckle Company Pty. Ltd:
In August 1939 this company commenced operating in Geelong. It was to “manufacture from Australian Casein articles which were previously made in Germany. A modern plant has been installed and is under the management of a skilled Continental technician. The establishment of the factory should be a benefit to the community…” By September they were making, and about to market “a large range of buttons, buckles and dress ornaments.” Forty machines had been installed. The company deregistered in July 1944.
Empire Die & Tool Works Pty. Ltd., Sydney:
This company was registered in 1940 as die makers, die sinkers, iron founders, and tool makers in Sydney, New South Wales. They operated from a garage and workshop in Cathedral Street, Woolloomooloo. Like many in manufacturing, they became involved in the war effort, producing uniform buttons. The company was wound up in 1950.
backmark: EMPIRE DIE & TOOL WORKS SYD
Sungravure building at 41-49 Forbes Street, used by Empire Die and Tool Works.
Advert for a more typical product in 1946.
G. N. Raymond
G. N. Raymond was a company producing casein sheets and prepared button blanks for button manufacturers in the 1950s.
The Age 31st May 1950.
J. G. Lloyd and Company Pty. Ltd:
On the back of these 2 button cards is printed “J.G.L. presentation”.
John George Lloyd, of Hungarian descent, fled from Austria to Australia in 1939 and established J. G. Lloyd and Company Pty. Ltd. the following year. The company operated at Goldie Place and Elizabeth Street, Melbourne in the 1940s, before moving to 94-106 Pelham Street, Carlton. They supplied buttons for the military from 1941-1957. They produced plastic buttons as well as vials, jars, toys, jewellery, hair ornaments, kitchenware, electrical fittings and hardware. The company was still around in 1965.
The site of J.G. Lloyd & Co. Pelham Street, Carlton.
The Argus, May 1946.
The Argus, 8th September 1953.
One of the company’s subsidiaries was Duranol Co. Pty. Ltd. (Lloyd was one of the directors). Buttons were produced under this name, as well as the plastic MacRobertson and Hoadley chocolate boxes you may find in vintage stores (see above). In 1965 Cope Allman (Australia) Ltd. acquired a majority share of Duranol Pty. Ltd., Modern Mouldings Pty. Ltd. and J. G. Lloyd Pty. Ltd.
John Bowden Plastic Button Pty Ltd:
Rothfield & Co, South Yarra, was a manufacturer of sewing cottons and threads started in 1934. In 1947 it became Rothfield &Co. Ltd to raise capital and extend business. It acquired or established several subsidiaries, including John Bowden Plastic Buttons Pty Ltd. In 1952 a fire destroyed £50,000 worth of cotton and £10,000 of machinery as well as a brick building occupied by the button subsidiary. In 1956 they supplied the military with khaki plastic buttons.
Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette, 13th September 1956.
The company merged with Peerless and changed its name to Peerless Holdings Limited in 1959. Rothfield’s Sewing Cottons (NSW) Pty. Ltd. was deregistered in 1968, and John Bowden Plastic Buttons in 1987.
Jacob Rothfield. Originally chairman in 1947.
News(Adelaide) 9th March 1953. Walter Norman Rothfield, chairman and managing director in 1953.
Published in The Argus (Melbourne), 16th October 1954
This is a reel of cotton produced by Rothfield, produced for military use during WW2. The mill closed ?1950s-60s.
Commonwealth Gazette, 21 December 1939.
Commonwealth Gazette, 13th September 1956.
Landico Pty. Ltd. (Coburg, Melbourne):
From 1949-1954 this “manufacturer of high class buttons” advertised for staff. They also sought salesmen in Gippsland, Western Victoria, Adelaide, Sydney and in Tasmania for their products. They registered designs for buttons (class 3) in 1955.
In 1951 they had a contract to supply brush holders to the military:
Commonwealth Gazette, 28th June 1951.
148-154 Sydney Road, Coburg. The Landico office would have been in the right half of the Aussie Home Loans site. This strip is part of a heritage precinct dating from the late 1880s.
Below: A Landico labelled button on the right and a similar button by an unknown maker.
Another Landico button. This design is replicated by Beutron.
The buttons are solid metal with a bit of weight to them. The backs are rough and the edges around the holes are sharp.
From Carol’s collection.
Meyer Manufacturing Company, Melbourne:
The directors of this manufacturing and engineering company were Norman Rothfield and Samuel Mark Goldbloom from around 1947. They were located at 30 Little Lonsdale street until 1951 when they moved to Burwood Road, Auburn.
Barrier Daily truth (broken Hill) 15th May 1951.
MODERNE ACCESSORIES (NSW) Pty. Ltd.
This company was registered in 1951 and deregistered in 1992. A former name was Datar Pty. Ltd. Under this name they were advertising for button blank machine operators in 1946.
Sydney Morning Herald, 8th January 1946.
Here’s a salesman sample card for Moderne Accessories.
Olson Badges (Adelaide):
This company has been operating near Adelaide from 1966 as Allan J. Olson Pty. Ltd. making badges, medallions, name bars and uniform buttons. Allan Olson started as an apprentice in 1936 with S. Schlank & Co., working with them until 1965 then starting his own business. In 1971 he bought the former Schlank plant, equipment (including many old dies) and their factory located in Forrestville, South Australia.
My husband’s swimming medallions by Olson badges.
see: http://www.olsonbadges.com.au/index.php/all-buttons
http://www.numismatics.org.au/pdfjournal/Vol25/Vol%2025%20Article%209.pdf
Ornacraft Pty Ltd:
In 1939 this business was formed from the previously named Ornacraft Company. They registered button designs in 1947. This company operated from at least 1940 to 1950 at 60 King St, Newton, Sydney, as plastic button manufacturers. The company possibly supplied clothing manufacturers rather than retail, as I have seen no cards of Ornacraft branded buttons.
This building still stands as a apartment/business/hotel complex. A photo of the building and some employment adverts follow, from The Sydney Morning Herald. The company was deregistered in 1966.
58-60 Kings St, Newtown.
Paladin Products Pty Ltd:
Dun’s Gazette for NSW, 1950.
This business was not successful, as it was being offered for sale by January 1952 by the liquidators. Matthew Felix Lipworth was a chemical engineer from South Africa. Mr Phillips may have been Frederick John Phillips, a salesman.
Mr Lipworth, 1950.
Precision Pressed Metal Company Ltd:
This company started in Gawler in 1939. During the war it was turning out Defence buttons, military hardware and steel helmets. In 1945 it was sold to James Robert Holden (of the famous Holden motor car family) and moved to 350 Port Road, Beverley. It was still going in 1954.
J. R. Holden
Bunyip, 25th May 1945.
From the National Archives, Canberra: Design application from 1948.
Raynors Pty. Ltd., NSW:
Commonwealth Gazette, 9th April 1953.
Raynors were engravers who expanded into die-casting and general metal engineering. They operated from at least 1932. The company was in liquidation in 1988.
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Real Lyrics -> Insincere -> Barry Manilow
These are lyrics by Barry Manilow that we think are kind of insincere.
Insincere Song Lyrics, Barry Manilow
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Barry Manilow's, "I Write The Songs"
The Insincere Lyrics:
I write the songs that make the young girls cry.
Why They're Insincere:
For those of you who obviously don't know any better. He knows he didn't write the song. He and former Pres. of Arista Clive Davis, disagreed about Barry recording this song, because of the obvious way people would take it. Clive had a vision it's one of his most popular songs. So I think he's over himself!!!
Submitted by: Amy
I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
In fact, the whole song
He didn't write it!. Bruce Johnstone of the Beach Boys wrote it!
Submitted by: Mike Clifton
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
Get over yourself!
Submitted by: John Logajan
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY
COACH KANIS
Personal History of Angelo Kanis:
Angelo Kanis was born June 5, 1961, the third child of four, in Bellwood, Illinois. Angelo attended Lincoln Elementary School in Bellwood.
Sports was the main interest of the Kanis family. Angelo started playing pee-wee baseball for the Cubs at the age of 8. The following year he played for the Mets and later for the Red Sox in Little League.
He began playing football at the age of 9 for the Packers of Bellwood and later played for the Proviso West HS Panthers of Hillside, IL until his graduation in June 1979.
Fall of 1979 Angelo attended Triton College in River Grove, IL where he recieved his Associates Degree in Business Administration.
In 1988 Angelo began a 13 year career in the Auto Finance industry working for Mercury Finance in Chicago. Moving west in 1993, he transfered to a new Mercury Finance branch in Las Vegas, NV until he left in 1995 to join Sunstar Acceptance as a Branch Manager. When Sunstar closed in 1997 he returned to Mercury Finance until 2002 when the company was sold and eventually closed.
October 2002 found Angelo beginning a new career with QC Financial as an area manager for the state of Wisconsin.
Back in Las Vegas he is enjoying his career returning to Auto finance.
The Kanis Family '78
Father: Angelo Kanis Sr.
Sisters: Kathy, Nancy
Brother: Bill
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How Marketers Can Improve Branded Content
Last week our consultants had a chance to connect with Rick Kupchella and Chris Lambert of BringMeTheNews - a unique digital news network that now engages 1.3 million unique monthly users. BringMeTheNews and its content are consumed by one-of-every-four Minnesota adults between the ages of 35 and 54 – just by way of this innovative digital platform. Rick founded BMTN after 20-plus years as a television anchor and investigative reporter in Minneapolis.
We sat down with Rick and Chris before our meeting and talked about BringMeTheNews, the changing landscape in content development, native advertising and the opportunities ahead for both brands and marketers.
What opportunities do you see for brands related to how they create content for specific audiences and platforms?
Rick: Never before have brands had so much opportunity to directly connect with their audience. The opportunity is for brands to literally "be the media".
Chris: Brands now have direct access to audiences and increasingly the opportunity to be considered experts on topics of consumer interest. Connecting with consumers in ways that are authentic and relevant to them is a huge opportunity. A lot of brands are chasing virality and instead should be after authentic connections that build trust with consumers.
How should marketers think about content in terms of ROI?
Rick: The focus on simply impressions and CPMs is out of control. What brands should be looking for is connection and relevancy. Stop screaming to consumers about your product and start advising and helping them.
Chris: Marketers should be thinking about how each piece of content performs on a granular level. Return on content rather than return on investment in a marketing program.
How do you define native advertising? What do marketers need to understand about native advertising in order to use it effectively?
Rick: One of the challenges in an emerging space is attempting to wrestle out a common language. We have seen many big corporations that have been sold “native” advertising, when in fact it is not. The key to native advertising is that it follows the form and function of the content, in the environment in which it is placed. The more integrated the ad is, in the host environment, the more “native” it is. This is the only way advertising has ever worked at BringMeTheNews. And, we have the results and data to prove it.
Do you follow BringMeTheNews? Check them out at www.bringmethenews.com.
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Public Meeting Against Military intervention in Central India
Report and Resolution
Forum against the war on people
Held in Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, on 21 May 2011
Egypt’s drift away from Western tutelage
Popular democratic movement thriving
Around May First a delegation of the Anti-imperialist Camp visited representatives of the political forces that make up the democratic movement which toppled Mubarak. Our intention was to understand the dynamics of the events, to express our solidarity and to forge ties of co-operation.
The revolt in Syria
Roots and prospects
by Hassan Khaled Chatila
The following is taken from interviews “A World to Win News Service” (AWTWNS) conducted with Hassan Khaled Chatila, a Syrian born in Damascus in 1944. He holds a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Paris, a city where he has lived as a refugee for many years. He is a member of the Syrian Communist Action Party founded in 1975. AWTWNS has condensed and somewhat edited this material while trying to faithfully represent his views, which are his own.
Action Alert against the unlawful and forceful land acquisition for POSCO
The callous and unaccountable Naveen government has shown it’s yet another dirty face today when the police force quietly entered Polang village in Jagatsingpur district of Odisha at wee hours to acquire land for handing over to the POSCO Company. Prior to this game-plan, the state government had informed to the media that there would be no acquision of land on 18th May 2011.
Haiti's foreign-orchestrated election
By Roger Annis and Kevin Edmonds
Haiti's foreign-orchestrated election hands power to neo-Duvalierist Michel Martelly
Military junta preventing Gaza march
Countering sectarian strife fuelled by pro-Saudi Salafis
The Egyptian army is trying to prevent the Gaza march, which had been planned by Egyptian grassroot organisations. The activistis were not allowed to cross the Suez channel. One day before is start the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior had called to cancel this action. As under Mubarak, the Ministry based its call on reasons of national security.
India: Stop War on People!
Operation Green Hunt
Forum against War on People
Operation Green Hunt is a multi-pronged attack on the people and their movements - 'Forum against War on People' appeals to the progressive and democratic sections of the society to raise a strong voice of protest and opposition to this genocidal war on people
15/5 March on Gaza to challenge Egypt’s military regime
Promise to open Rafah must be fulfilled immediately
The Egyptian “Co-ordinating committee to support the Palestinian Intifada”, a broad coalition emerging from the democratic movement, has called for a march into Gaza for May 15. The mobilisation is challenging the military regime’s announcement to open the Rafah crossing at least for passenger traffic. But so far some ten days have passed without any significant change in the border regime.
Urgent Appeal from POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS)
We appeal to one and all to strongly condemn the decision of the Minister of State for Environment and Forest, Govt. of India. Mr. Jaiaram Ramesh for giving final forest and environmental clearance to POSCO Company for use of 1253 hectare of forest land in our area.
Scottish First Minister supports sanctions against Israel
Salmond's positions in sharp contrast to the London Government, which attacked and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and endorsed every Israeli crime - supports BDS
Not on the cost of the Syrian people
An activist of Abnaa el Balad speaks on the impact of the Arab revolution
Sayed Rian is a mechanical engineer and militant of the anti-Zionist organisation within the territory occupied in 1948 which today forms Israel. We met him in Cairo to where he travelled like us to explore the Egyptian popular movement which brought down Mubarak.
Occupation Courts Extend Sa'adat Isolation Again After 775 Days
The Israeli occupation courts have, once again, extended the isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat. On May 3, 2011, at a hearing in Beersheba prison, the court issued an extended isolation order until November 3, 2011. Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian national leader, has been held in isolation since March 19, 2009 - for over two full years, over 775 days.
Run for Egypt’s presidency
A first glance on the candidates
Egypt remains in turmoil. The fall of Mubarak’s tyranny sounded the starting signal for a large and deep process of transformation. With the referendum of March 19, 2011, the military council with support of the Islamic forces has frozen the popular demand for a constituent assembly. Both the parliamentary elections of September as well as the presidential elections set for the turn of year will thus take place within a substantially unchanged constitutional framework. The new president will wield de facto dictatorial powers and will thus play a pre-eminent role.
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"We are living in a world of vested interests and women are Big Business."--Sherrill Sellman
“Get a midwife, have your baby at home, and avoid OB's and Pediatricians like the plague.'' [1996] Shulze Biser Heal Your Life videos (transcripts) Richard Shulze, N.D., M.H.
Breastfeeding & Bottle-feeding
Caesarean Drugs in pregnancy
Hysterectomy HRT
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (OB/GYN)
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See: Child Health Henry Makow Ph.D. Dr. Judith Reisman Sherrill Sellman Care system
[vid] How to stay healthy ...in spite of your doctor - Dr Robert Mendelsohn MD 2/2
Wifi, Microwaves and the Consequences to our Healt - Barrie Trower
"For over 300 years, beginning in the 13th century and continuing well into the 16th century, the Inquisition was a reign of terror for the vast majority of people living throughout Europe and Scandinavia. The political, economic and religious forces of that time joined together to consolidate their power by eliminating those whom they perceived as impeding their ultimate objectives.
The unfortunate target of their efforts were the keepers of the healing arts and the ancient spiritual and cultural wisdoms. Historians debate the exact toll of such a hellish time-whether it was several hundreds of thousands or as many as nine million people-but what is undebatable is that the vast majority of the victims were women. In fact, the Inquisition is now regarded as a period of genocide against women, which successfully divested women of their power, self-respect, wealth, healing arts, and prominence and influence in their communities.
The Inquisition guaranteed that the Church fathers were the indisputable spiritual authorities. It was also successful in enshrining medical knowledge securely in the realm of men, since the Inquisition decreed that only trained medical doctors could now practise the healing arts and, needless to say, medical schools were barred to women (for that matter, so was any form of education).
What a relief that such a violent and misogynous era ended long ago. Or did it? Unfortunately, it appears that some traditions linger on. Women of today are still prey to vast political and economic interests, with dire consequences to their health, financial independence and personal power. Perhaps the Inquisition didn't end at all but just took on a more subtle and devious form. HORMONE HERESY - Oestrogen's Deadly Truth -by Sherrill Sellman
It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches' knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the "father of modern medicine," burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he "had learned from the Sorceress all he knew."--Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses. Feminist Press, 1973. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bel/sorcier.htm#skull
What aspartame has done to the family is a crime. If someone does get pregnant Dr. Bowen points out that aspartame is an abortifacient and also a teratogen (causes birth defects). And if a live child is born he says aspartame may have heinously damaged DNA for generations to come. DNA damage was proven on the Trocho Study in l998, and also showed that the formaldehyde accumulates in the cells with most toxicity in the liver but substantial amounts in the kidneys, adipose tissue (reason for obesity -fat cells), retina and brain. Aspartame also ruins female response and trigger male sexual dysfunction....As Dr. Blaylock says in Excitotoxins, even if a child survives his mother using aspartame during pregnancy, by the time he reaches puberty you will probably see behavioral problems. Aspartame reduces IQ, triggers ADD, autism, ADHD and other horrors..GLOBAL RELEASE - ASPARTAME TOXICITY Forwarded by Diana Buckland by request of Dr. Betty Martini
In 2001, Cesarean section is still the most common OB/GYN surgical procedure. Approximately 4 million births occur annually, with a 24% C-Section rate, i.e., 960,000 operations. In the Netherlands only 8% of babies are delivered by Cesarean section. Assuming human babies are similar in the U.S. and in the Netherlands, we are performing 640,000 unnecessary C-Sections in the U.S. with its three to four times higher mortality and 20 times greater morbidity than vaginal delivery. The Cesarean section rate was only 4.5% in the U.S. in 1965. By 1986 it had climbed to 24.1%. The author states that obviously an “uncontrolled pandemic of medically unnecessary Cesarean births is occurring.”106 VanHam reported a Cesarean section postpartum hemorrhage rate of 7%, a hematoma formation rate of 3.5%, a urinary tract infection rate of 3%, and a combined postoperative morbidity rate of 35.7% in a high-risk population undergoing Cesarean section. Death by Medicine----Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, Martin Feldman, MD, Gary Null, PhD, Debora Rasio, MD (2003/4)
Results of the “Million Women Study” on HRT and breast cancer in the UK were published in medical journal The Lancet in August 2003. According to lead author Prof. Valerie Beral, director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit: "We estimate that over the past decade, use of HRT by UK women aged 50-64 has resulted in an extra 20,000 breast cancers, estrogen-progestagen (combination) therapy accounting for 15,000 of these.” We were unable to find statistics on breast cancer, stroke, uterine cancer, or heart disease caused by HRT used by American women. Because the US population is roughly six times that of the UK, it is possible that 120,000 cases of breast cancer have been caused by HRT in the past decade. Death by Medicine----Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, Martin Feldman, MD, Gary Null, PhD, Debora Rasio, MD (2003/4)
The Great Awakening--Menopause by: Dr. Loretta Lanphier ND, CN, HHP
Morning After Pill http://www.all.org/issues/index.htm
Sherill Sellman http://www.ssellman.com/
HORMONE HERESY - Oestrogen's Deadly Truth -by Sherrill Sellman
HormoneWise Digest - Vol. 2 - February 2002
Menopause & Beyond http://www.oxford.net/~tishy/beyond.html
Surgical Menopause http://members.tripod.com/%7Efiona_51/index.html
Shirley's Wellness Cafe http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1158/index.htm
megadose Vit C therapy in pregnancy
[June 2006] HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim The unheard voices of women damaged by HRT by Martin J Walker
Outrageous Practices---Leslie Laurence & Beth Weinhouse
The Hysterectomy Hoax: The Truth About Why Many Hysterectomies Are Unnecessary by Stanley West, Paula Dranov
No More Hysterectomies by Vicki G. Hufnagel, Susan K. Golant (Contributor)
Misinformed Consent: Women's Stories About Unnecessary Hysterectomy by Lise Cloutier-Steele
The Politics of Breastfeeding--Gabrielle Palmer
THE MENOPAUSE INDUSTRY How the Medical Establishment Exploits Women by Sandra Coney
Silent Knife: Caesarean Prevention & Vaginal Birth After Cesarian by Nancy Cohen & Lois Estner
Open Season: A Survival Guide for Natural Childbirth and VBAC (vaginal birth after Cesarean Section) in the 90's by Nancy Wainer Cohen
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Crying Soothing To Stress Management – Expert
Dr Victor Fayomi, a General Practitioner at a private hospital in Gwagwalada, FCT, says crying is therapeutic in managing emotional stress. Fayomi said this in an interview in Abuja. “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by letting off a little water. Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrow follow. ”Overtime, crying and shedding tears were considered bad and usually associated with ill health, grief and sorrow. However, this is not totally true. “Tears have also flowed as a result of good…
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Akwa Ibom REC Denies Manipulation Of Feb 23 Results
Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner REC Mike Igini Mr Mike Igini, the Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), has denied manipulating the Presidential and National Assembly election results in the state. Igini made this known in an interview in Uyo on Saturday. He said that the allegation was not true and that the election was not manipulated. Igini said that elections were won and lost at the polling units, saying the REC would not be at the polling units from the beginning to the close of the polls. “The allegations…
The Suspension Serves Okorocha Right– Imo APC Chieftains
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UK PM, Turkish Leader congratulate Buhari on Victory United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday joined other world leaders in congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory in the Feb. 23 presidential election. According to a statement by the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja, the Nigerian president received separate telephone calls from May and Erdogan, congratulating him on his re-election and wishing the Nigerian people progress and prosperity. President Buhari thanked the two leaders for their unflinching support to Nigeria and her…
Rights Coalition Exposes Massive Rigging Against PDP, Disparities INEC Results
A report detailing how the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was allegedly rigged out during the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections across the country, was on Firday released by a human rights coalition, the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights and Democracy Organisations (SBCHROs). In a statement made available to the media, the group issued its full report below: The Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Democracy Organisations (SBCHROs), a coalition of 22 rights and democracy organisations in Southeast Nigeria has continued her in-depth investigation behind…
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Amosun: suspended by APC NWC for anti-party activities It was the day of long knives as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) suspended governors Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun and Rochas Okorocha of Imo. The suspension of the governors was confirmed to the on Friday by a top party official, even as the NWC was still in session. Also suspended were Osita Okechukwu, the Director-Deneral of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) and Pastor Usani Usani, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. An APC source said the NWC…
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JAMB Has No Date For 2019 UTME Yet
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has registered over 1.8 million candidates for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Head, Media and Information of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in Lagos. Registration of candidates for the Computer Based Test commenced on February 10 and terminated on February 21. Benjamin said that the registration was a huge success, adding that there were no hitches at all across the various accredited registration centres nationwide. “We have concluded the registration and we recorded over 1.8 million candidates for the UTME…
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On the Time Value of Security Features in DNS
By Paul Vixie
There are some real problems in DNS, related to the general absence of Source Address Validation (SAV) on many networks connected to the Internet. The core of the Internet is aware of destinations but blind to sources. If an attacker on ISP A wants to forge the source IP address of someone at University B when transmitting a packet toward Company C, that packet is likely be delivered complete and intact, including its forged IP source address. Many otherwise sensible people spend a lot of time and airline miles trying to improve this situation — I want to shout out to Paul Ferguson and Daniel Senie for their excellent work on BCP38 about 15 years ago. My own modest contribution is SAC004, a pointy-haired-boss (PHB) description of the problem, which just had its ten year anniversary during which we all agreed — rather morbidly — that the problem had gotten nothing but worse in the ten years since publication.
The problems created for the Domain Name System (DNS) by the general lack of SAV are simply hellish. DNS is both fragile and dangerous because of the general lack of SAV — by which I mean that DNS can be injured easily and that it is easy to use DNS as a weapon to injure others. The main problems related to the general lack of SAV are:
1. Indirect packet-bombing. Since anyone can impersonate anyone else at the Internet's most fundamental packet-layer level, a DNS server who receives a stream of requests from some impersonated victim will answer those requests, therefore transmitting to the victim some response traffic they did not solicit and can neither avoid nor shut off. Given recent advances in DNS such as DNSSEC, responses are a lot larger than they used to be — so the responses received by the victim can currently be up to 70 times the size of the requests originally forged by the attacker. The ratio between the size of the forged request and the unsolicited response is called the "amplification factor". Solution: DNS Response Rate Limiting (RRL), created in 2012 by Vernon Schryver and Paul Vixie, allows a server to loosely keep track of repeated queries and avoid answering query flows that would not have come from a legitimate client. The decision criterion is that a legitimate client would have stopped asking when they got the answer we sent earlier. We still need universal SAV, but RRL gives us some breathing space.
2. Datagram related cache poisoning. Since anyone can impersonate anyone else at the Internet's most fundamental packet-layer level, a DNS questioner who receives a stream of almost-matching answers to one of their outstanding questions will quietly and efficiently sort through that stream, waiting for a response having the correct 16-bit transaction ID (TXID) as well as a correct 16-bit UDP source port. An attacker adds their responses to this stream, making guesses at the 16-bit TXID and 16-bit UDP port. In less time than we'd like, the law of averages gives the attacker their "in", and their poisonously wrong answer will have the right pair of 16-bit identifying marks. The questioner in this scenario is an ISP or university or company name server answering for a large local population, so, the poisonously wrong answer will be cached and shared with the local population. Solution: UDP Source Port Randomization (SPR), invented by Dan Bernstein and brought to bear on this problem by Dan Kaminsky. SPR expands the size of the random target from 1-in-65,000 to 1-in-7,000,000, and lengthens the average successful attack from "minutes at 100Mbit/sec" to "days at 100Mbit/sec". Note that SPR is only a band-aid — the real fix for all forms of cache poisoning is DNSSEC.
3. Fragmentation related cache poisoning. Modern DNS depends on large UDP datagrams that will not necessarily fit into a single packet on the wire. The Internet handles this by splitting the UDP datagram into multiple IP packets called "fragments", where the first fragment has the front of the datagram, the middle fragments if any have more of the datagram, and the last fragment has the end of the datagram. The security problem created by this is that the 16-bit DNS transaction ID (TXID) and 16-bit UDP source port are only present in the first fragment. The tie that binds all these fragments together so that they can be reassembled at the destination is a 16-bit IP ID. Our earlier experiences tell us that because SAV is not widely deployed, attackers can forge the IP source address of any packet, including faked middle and final fragments. And they only need to guess a 16-bit number in this case, which means their target is 1-in-65000 again, just like DNS itself was back before we deployed SPR. Solution: stop using fragmentation for DNS, unless the message is signed with DNSSEC or Transaction Signatures (TSIG). This is a nice neat solution, since the main reason we need large UDP datagrams in modern DNS is because of DNSSEC. Fragments are not a concern when data is crypto-authentically signed by DNSSEC or TSIG, because forging a middle or final fragment will result in a reassembled datagram with bad signatures.
DNS-based packet-bombing attacks are all the rage. They are often directed at web servers or IRC servers or gaming servers, but just as often at other DNS servers. Some of the attacks are motivated by anger or amusement, and others by ransom or protection demands. "Nice online gambling establishment you've got there… it'd be a real shame if something bad happened to it."
SAV, where deployed, stops DNS packet-bombing attacks, and also stops off-path DNS poisoning attacks. However, SAV has to be deployed on the attacker's network, and is therefore not a viable defense. Things could improve if a lot of operators all over the Internet decided to make common cause with each other and all do the right and necessary thing by deploying SAV locally even though the beneficiaries would only be users of other networks, and no one could catch them if they cheated. This outcome seems unlikely but several of us will keep on trying to get the word out about it.
DNSSEC, where deployed, stops all known DNS poisoning attacks, on-path or off-path. However, it has to be deployed both by a domain owner and by name server operators. There are tens of millions of old DNSSEC-incapable name servers out there, all outside the domain owner's influence. We are at the time of this writing sixteen years into the DNSSEC effort, and universal deployment does not seem near, but several of us will keep trying to get the word out about it.
These are real problems that your colleagues in the Internet engineering and operations worlds are wrestling with every week or so, if not every day. There are however weaker problems, less real, often spoken of, sometimes reported, but also disputed. A widely circulated vulnerability report in recent weeks has occasioned this article, and before we get to less well known wrong-headed beliefs about what's wrong with the DNS and how to fix them, let's get right at the headlines.
RRL Slip Frames
It's been observed, correctly, that DNS Response Rate Limiting (RRL) interacts poorly with UDP Source Port Randomization (SPR) as a fix for Kaminsky-style DNS cache poisoning. What happens is that each response which is deliberately dropped by RRL lengthens the time window during which an attacker can flood a questioner with possibly-matching answers to outstanding question. Simply put, under RRL, the lifetime of a question can be ~30 seconds, whereas without RRL, the lifetime is ~30 milliseconds. Because of the law of averages, this ~1000x increase in the length of the time window yields a corresponding improvement in attack effectiveness. The proposed solution with which RRL's creators do not agree is to make the default RRL "slip" value be 1 rather than 2. In this configuration there would be no dropped responses, only Slip frames (TC=1 responses) urging a questioner — if there is one — to retry with TCP.
This proposal causes more problems than it solves, and is in fact unnecessary, because the problem described is quite livable. Here are the details.
First let's consider the impact on the packet-bombing victim if a reflecting name server uses RRL with "slip=1" such that there are no dropped responses, only Slip frames. This victim will see a drop in bits per second but no drop in packets per second. This is because Slip frames are smaller than real answers, in fact Slip frames are identical in size to the question and so a "slip=1" proponent might validly call this configuration attenuative — the attack heard by the victim will have fewer bits in it thanks to RRL. We are however directly aware of a vast number of routers, switches, servers, name servers, firewalls, and other on-path devices whose principle bottleneck is packets not bits. That is, these devices might be able to receive or forward five hundred megabits per second (500 Mbit/sec) of large packets but only a fifty megabits bits per second (50 Mbit/sec) of small packets. This is weak engineering on their part but we don't get to judge the manufacturers or the operators of these weak devices — we must take them into account when planning our defense. The creators of DNS RRL did take account of these common limitations, and our conclusion was, RRL must be attenuative in packets per second, not just in bits per second, in order to serve its intended purpose. Real operational experience has shown that "slip=2" makes a server unattractive as a denial-of-service reflector, whereas not so "slip=1".
Second let's examine the real client who would like to make a real query during a packet-bombing attack in which their IP address is being forged in query storms sent to an interesting authority name server who has enabled RRL. This client (i.e., victim) is hearing whatever reflective debris results from the attack, like a large number of unsolicited responses. That debris may be enough to saturate the path from the reflecting server to the victim, but let's assume for a moment that there's enough capacity for the victim to ask a real question and get a real answer even in the midst of this storm. So the victim will not only hear the attack flow but will have its real and legitimate questions swept up in the resulting RRL dragnet. Where "slip=2" as the RRL designers recommend, the victim will see a mixture of dropped responses and Slip frames. When it sees a drop it will retry with UDP, whereas when it sees a Slip it will retry with TCP. This mix of retry type, roughly half UDP and half TCP, is the best case scenario, because the victim has a great chance of acquiring its real answer after which it will stop asking the attack-similar question. A pure TCP fallback strategy would be less reliable due to the fragility of TCP/DNS, about which, more will be said below. Since RRL's goals are to both avoid congestion and preserve content reachability, the default "slip=2" really is far better than "slip=1".
Finally let's look at detectability. It's been observed that an authority server who enables RRL with the default "slip=2" configuration will see its names more vulnerable to Kaminsky-style DNS poisoning attacks. The general increase is from "days of 100 Mbit/sec blast" to "hours of 100 Mbit/sec blast". This increase cannot be simply ignored, but on consideration of the attack surface, we find that a recursive name server that is unmonitored to the extent that a fat 100 Mbit/second blast can go unnoticed for many hours, is a recursive name server that has bigger problems of its own, and creates bigger problems for all of us than increased susceptibility to DNS poisoning. We urge the operators of such recursive servers to either close their server to public access, or to install a firewall between their server and and the rest of us, and in either case to please deploy DNSSEC validation. We do not believe that there are a lot of authority server operators lying awake nights right now worrying about the difference between "slip=2" and "slip=1" — because they are too busy lying awake nights thinking about the tens of millions of recursive name servers that are either open to the public Internet, or which have not been patched for SPR, or both. The "slip=2" problem, if any, is specific to certain names, and still requires many hours of uninterrupted 100 Mbit/sec blasting from the attacker to the victim in order to have a chance at success. This level of threat is beneath concern for Internet infrastructure operators.
Use of TCP
The designers, implementers, and operators of DNS infrastructure are often exhorted, "why don't we just use TCP?" The attraction of TCP is obvious — it is not susceptible to SAV attacks. A TCP packet whose IP source address is forged has no impact on anybody, since the attacker's inability to hear the victim's response prevents TCP from "starting up" and from consuming any server resources. However, the reasons not to use TCP are just as obvious. DNS uses UDP by default, and TCP as a fallback, and this design element was in no way accidental, and is not subject to change at this late date. Let's explore the reasons.
First there's total transaction time. DNS/UDP is a single round trip protocol, a question goes out, the answer comes back. Even if the answer is fragmented and therefore contains several packets, those packets will be minimum spaced, back to back, thus fitting into a single round trip time (RTT). TCP by comparison is a 3xRTT protocol, requiring a minimum of three round trips to exchange a question and an answer. The SYN goes out, the SYN+ACK comes back, an ACK+question goes out, then an ACK+response comes back, a FIN comes back, a FIN+ACK goes out, and finally a FIN comes back. With even moderate RTT's measured in the 50 millisecond to 100 millisecond range, DNS/TCP has far lower throughput than DNS/UDP simply because of the speed of light and the laws of physics and the number of round trips involved. It's reasonable to expect a small 1U Linux rack-mount server to handle 100 Kq/sec of pure DNS/UDP but only 5 Kq/sec or less when tested with pure DNS/TCP.
It's been argued that the extra round trips of using TCP for DNS can be amortized over many queries, thus if you leave the TCP sessions open you can send many queries and receive many answers at a rate closer to one transaction per RTT. This observation is not without merit, but it does not hold up. DNS servers especially older ones are typically limited to a few dozen open TCP sessions per server, whereas the number of high volume flows handled by a busy name server is in the thousands or tens of thousands. This is, at least, an orders-of-magnitude problem. But in addition, we have the problem of the DNS specification, which specifies that the initiator will close the TCP session when its work is complete and that a server shall not unilaterally close such sessions even for resource exhaustion reasons without first waiting about 30 seconds. This makes such servers vulnerable to trivial TCP exhaustion attacks, where any attacker can at very low cost acquire and hold all of a server's TCP resources. Since many attackers have denial of service as one of their goals, we as defenders know that any strategy which urges more transactions toward TCP dependency, is itself too fragile.
A new protocol could be designed that would not have these problems, or indeed a change could be published to the DNS specification which gave us a more robust session handling mechanism for DNS/TCP. If not for the tens of millions of existing servers who will behave in the old way, and the estimated two decades before a change like this could reach critical mass, the idea of fixing DNS/TCP would have some merit.
Query Type ANY
Many recent packet-bombing attacks have used query type ANY in order to incite a reflecting server to respond with a large (amplified) answer. Query type ANY was designed for diagnostic purposes and has no real operational use, and so, some inventive server operators have modified their name servers to drop queries of type ANY. This is short sighted in two ways. First, it is not necessary to use query type ANY to get a server to send a large answer — many other query types such as TXT or even MX are capable of generating large answers that provide excellent amplification. In addition, the advent of DNSSEC means that all answers are far larger than they used to be, especially for negative answers which are DNSSEC's largest kind.
Even more importantly, security is a matter of economics. Attackers and defenders are trying to drive their opponent's costs up while driving their own costs down — that's the game. This move, where a server operator modifies their name server to drop queries of type ANY, is exactly wrong. Any attacker who is in the least way inconvenienced by this change can simply change their attack to use a different query type, at which point the defense has no easy next step. Secure defense must be designed according to the attacker's resulting alternatives and the defender's resulting costs for each of those.
State Tension
There is a necessary tension between performance and safety. DNS is an incredibly large and busy global system involving hundreds of millions of agents and many billions of transactions every day. This system scales because it uses UDP, a stateless transport protocol that requires only one round trip per transaction and no inter-transaction state. As a result of DNS's primary dependency on UDP, and due to the lack of universal deployment of SAV, DNS's extreme performance comes along with extreme fragility and extreme danger. If we want less fragility and less danger then we're going to have to add state somewhere. RRL adds opportunistic light weight state to servers, allowing them to avoid serving as reflecting amplifiers in today's common packet-bombing attacks. TCP adds required heavy weight state, at a cost far higher than we can accept given DNS's massive size and transaction load. Other forms of state are possible, and Donald Eastlake proposed an opportunistic medium weight method in 2007 that's worth another look: DNS Cookies.
In Eastlake's DNS Cookie proposal, a requestor can include a large random number in the clear text of a request, and a responder can echo this back and append its own large random number in the clear text of a response. There is no privacy or secrecy offered. Once each side has proved to the other that they are adding these random numbers to their messages, each other-side can opportunistically drop any message lacking the correct random number for that endpoint. This is problematic due to NAT, where the nature of an endpoint is no longer simply "the IP address you and they both think they are using", but that's a detail. There are other details which also need work, but what's plain by now is that the conclusion reached in 2007 was wrong. The IETF DNS Extensions Working Group (DNSEXT) determined in 2007 that this proposal was too complex for its use case. What we know now that we did not know then is that the use case is every DNS server and every DNS transaction. Let's reconsider, noting that the roll-out can be incremental — there's no flag day and no fork lift.
Secure design isn't just preventing the problems you can think of or that you're having. It also doesn't mean preventing problems that you've heard anecdotally that other people have thought of or might be having. Security is about economics. One design is more secure than another if its risks and risk related costs are lower, which means some thought has to be given to the costs an attacker would have. Changing a design for security reasons requires careful cost analysis of the defender's alternatives, and careful benefit analysis of what the attacker's alternatives would be. Goodness in defense comes from reducing the defender's costs and possibly raising the attacker's costs.
More importantly, the Internet is 30 years old and yet just beginning. Our designs should take the past into account and should learn from present day experiences, but we must look primarily to the future. The largest part of the cost:benefit curve, and the greatest area under same, is in the future. When we push for solutions to today's problems we run the risk of re-fighting the previous war and also the risk of driving the defender's costs up for no good reason because we didn't change the attacker's costs enough.
A DNS authority server operator whose intent in deploying RRL is to make their servers less attractive as reflectors for packet-bombing attacks will want the default Slip value of "2" since this attenuates both bits and packets. Any change in the risk of that authority's names being poisoned as a result of RRL will be so small as to be of academic interest only.
DNS, Domain Name System: a universal, distributed, reliable, autonomous, hierarchical naming system used by the Internet.
DNSSEC, Secure DNS: a security layer for DNS data, which protects source data against modification by third parties.
PHB, Pointy Haired Boss: a Dilbert reference; a manager who needs everything boiled down to, or slightly beyond, the high level essentials.
RRL, Response Rate Limiting: a server side method of detecting and blunting some kinds of packet-bombing attacks.
RTT, Round Trip Time: the total transmission delays from the initiator to the responder and back again (depends on speed of light).
SAV, Source Address Validation: filtering of packets leaving edge (such as ISP, university, or commercial) networks whose IP source-address is not local.
SPR, Source Port Randomization: a deliberate fuzzing of the UDP port number, to avoid prediction by off-path attackers.
TSIG, Transaction Signatures: a security layer for DNS transactions, which protects messages against modification by third parties.
BCP38, “Network Ingress Filtering”, IETF RFC #2827 and BCP #38, Paul Ferguson and Daniel Senie, May 2000.
SAC004, “Securing the Edge”, ICANN SSAC Document #4, Paul Vixie, October 2002.
“Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies”, IETF DNSEXT I-D revision #2, Donald Eastlake, August 2007.
DNS RRL, “DNS Response Rate Limiting”, Paul Vixie and Vernon Schryver, April 2012.
“Fragmentation Considered Poisonous”, Amir Herzberg and Haya Shulman, May 2012.
“DNS amplification attacks and open DNS resolvers”, CERT.be, September 2013.
“Blocking DNS Messages is Dangerous”, Mr. Florian MAURY, DNS-OARC, October 2013,
NCSC-2013-0597, "Rate limiting of DNS responses caused vulnerability", NCSC.NL, September 2013.
By Paul Vixie, CEO, Farsight Security
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That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
As CU says, what a mess. Too weak to govern. Too strong to give up. And an opposition too weak to govern and too strong to not want to try.
Plus a preferred coalition partner that could cause more problems than they solve.
John Major made the point that the Belfast Agreement specifically states no single political party in Northern Ireland can receive favourable treatment from the UK government. Awkward.
Johnnie M might be an arch remainer, determined to scupper any Brexit, but even his wet Toryism doesn't want to see the Corbyn Comintern Co-operative Progressives raising the red flag over number ten.And he does know a thing or two about northern Irish politics and treaties and how very likely they are to unravel over a grievance.
So, a signed up agreement is probably a worse idea than not signing the DUP up.
Which means instability.
What are the realistic options?
Going for another election immediately, or even this year, would probably result in a no more favourable result and possibly a much worse one. Its also an option available anytime. When better alternatives have failed. Bottom of the pile for this idea.
What is actually needed is a stronger alliance. With people who share similar values. And won't be too demanding and excitable. Blairites would be ideal! But they are long gone.
The SNP would be destroyed forever by any association of any kind with their English Overlords. No matter how many airports Theresa promises, it won't be enough to convince any of the SNP to take the bribe. Forget them.
Which leaves the Liberals. 12 MPs. That, plus the implied support of the DUP, is good enough. Slightly better than it was before the election.
The problem is, the Tories invited the Liberals into coalition before. It didn't work out well for them.
And ended with a bloodbath of murdered Liberal MPS, struck down by their former friends,the treacherous Tories, that would make a good season finale for Game of Thrones.
The Yellow Wedding.
However, there is a faint, faint possibility that the Liberals could be tempted into a con-sup arrangement.
Firstly, the Liberals need to be made aware that most of their misfortunes following the coalition, were of their own making. The Conservatives never told them to put free tuition fees into their manifesto. When Cameron said "Sure..if you like," to the Liberal's key demand, referendum on proportional voting, that was their choice. Not Cameron's. They wanted the green energy ministry. They were welcome to it.
If they hadn't spent decades being duplicitous, hypocritical, two faced liars, it might have worked out better for them.
Unlikely as they are to want to join their former abusers, who not only took all their seats in 2015, but now also want to leave their beloved European Union, the Liberals just might, might, think again.
They have just dropped their ineffective and unpromising leader. They will have a better one in any of their four main favourites. Davey. Lamb. Swinson. Cable.
Their Remoaner strategy that we looked at here, has failed.
Failed badly. Its not the future.
Scottish unionism is a viable strategy. Soft brexit nonsense, is a fantasy that will play better than rejoin-remain did. It needs much more thought and detail and proper proposals. But it won't be dismissed now like it would have been two weeks ago, by a newly desperate Theresa May.
The Liberals could, for their support, on a limited time, limited offer basis, achieve two key aims. And could, with the right leader, recover much of the respect they have lost.
It does take great courage and vision. Not something normally associated with the Liberal Democrats.
The pitch is this.
1. A seat on Brexit negotiations. As part of the government's official team. A seat and a voice and a vote. This needs to be realistic. There can't be a veto of Brexit. But there could be a vote on yes/no/try again. Doesn't have to be viable. Just has to be able to look like it could be viable.
2. Free tuition fees.
Actual, delivered, free tuition fees for university students.
£36-40 billion is an estimate of what that would cost. In the fine print it can be taken lower. EU and foreign students pay more. The worst 20 universities must close. A certain number of made up Mickey-Mouse subjects can be excluded from the offer. Free school meals scrappage in the small print too. Very small. Right at the back.
The U-turn explanation is, the people clearly wanted it. And its already free in Germany.
And all the major and minor parties already agree.
The existing student debt will be sucked in to this too. And that may have to be written off too.
Austerity is over. Gordonomics is back. 'Investing isn't really spending. And investing in our natural resources, which is people, is the priority of government for a sustainable future .'.Yada yada yada.
But think of the headlines!
"Liberal Democrats, under new leader Jo Swxxxx, have already delivered the impossible. A free higher education for all. This isn't some Corbyn fantasy manifesto. Its a real commitment that will be debated on in 2018 and enacted in 2019. Enacted by the government in power.
Not by some possible future government but the real one. One that this time, the liberal democrats can remove themselves from at any time, if this proposed bill on free higher education is not delivered. A victory for every aspiring young person in the land."
Its the easiest possible sell in government.
Corbyn has already promised it. he can't back out. All the progressives want it and are already signed up. Scotland already has it. So no more one rule for us one for them. Students want it. The middle class, should-be, Tory voters,parents of middle class students want it also.
If the Tories don't do it now, next time Corbyn will say he will. And his tricky new problem of the youth won't have been addressed.
Say that £80 billion is coming out of the future sale of the banks - RBS and Bradford and Bingley. And the EU payments we won't be making. And by not paying the £100 bn EU divorce bill.
Beneficially this forces the Libbers to be more realistic about Brexit. Fixes some of the yoof issue for a while. And youth opposition to Brexit. You can be in the EU or have a free education - You choose.
Next election held during the summer holiday period is the other genie bottle stuffing plan for reducing this new, young demographic.
Anyway, as a result of just £50 billion in free stuff with an ongoing £25-£30 billion a year cost to education, TM will have got out of the hole she dug herself and will be marginally better off than before she jumped into it.
About the same as paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in total, for each coming year.
Or a 10% hike in VAT.
Or, as Jeremy himself proposes, stick it on the nation's Mastercard. Just pay the interest. And let someone else in the future say "This is another fine mess they got me into."
Posted by Bill Quango MP
Cheers BQ. Quick response as i'm err.. being dragged to the pub.
In my speculations as to how shit this is, i've reached a plateau of - well, it could be a damn sight worse. Considering manifestos are total cobblers both before, during and after elections and governments these days are well and truly into mission creep. I've come to the conclusion - fuck 'em, with knobs on.
So what if they do bugger all for the next few years (Brexit aside - which, let's face it, has always been strategically oriented around guesswork) then happy days.
It's similar to what the Mogg said, the British people have decided they don't want a majority government and I for one, have been thoroughly infuriated with them for years.
As soon as Cammo took over he fucked the Health Service a bit for no perceivable objective other than Lansley used to be his boss and thought he was smarter than he is. Nah, fuck 'em. I've got my house to do up and for the first time in my life, have grown rather bored of it all. A period of dignified hot air and bluster but without authority isn't really a bad thing I think.
Anywho - to the boozer for a deliciously chilled lager top with beads of icy cold condensation dripping down the side whilst lovely ladies frollick in their summer dresses! (Err..for the record - that ain;t gonna happen - the pint maybe, the frollicking most unlikely)
May will have to govern on a cross-party basis. Not anything like a Grand Coalition, but only introduce policies which are unopposeable. That probably means giving chairs to Labour, SNP and LibDems on the Brexit committee. It means throwing nearly all the manifesto committments in the bin. It probably means lots more spending, but it could mean some uncontroversial tax rises and reforms too: maybe a rise in the NI UEL and a commission on tax reforms or something. A cross-party working-group on social care and NHS reform.
If done right, this balanced Parliament could be a success. But May needs to learn how to be consensual FAST, and needs to learn the language of the Left FAST. And the red-blooded swivel-eyed Brexiters need to feel chastened.
Well I'm starting to think Whateverhisnameis might be right and the powers that be have penciled in a nice recession for the UK, to teach the plebs a lesson.
So an unstable Parliament with a nice dig dollop of uncertainty it is then.
Not a bad idea BQ - especially as most projections for student loan debt indicate quite a lot of it won't be getting paid back. That degree in History is worth less than the Nail Technician one, the latter will at least be working somewhere other a Tesco cheese counter for the foreseeable, and likely on more than the minimum wage, and I doubt either will end up paying anything close to the value of their loan before it is written off.
Whether the LibDems will go for it is another thing, they seem completely phobic to governing.
@Anon 4:16 - agree, May needs to learn to play nicely. Her sacking of David Jones indicates that hasn't quite sunk in yet.
The degree in history may not lead to a specific job, but those talking-and-writing subjects are cheap to run and subsidise the expensive subjects like engineering or industrial design.
And many employers don't care what the subject of a degree was, as they will have to train the ex-student anyway. What they see is somebody who can stick with a regular task for three years and come out with a completed project.
So it isn't so simple as "dump the silly degrees".
Hi all been away from here for a bit because most of you are as mad as a box of Eurofrogs, but it is nice to see - scanning through the comments - that I am apparently personally responsible for the houseprice "bubble", declining living standards, towerblock fires and Guy Verhofstadt.
I am not sure how this works as actually I am fairly low-leveraged, live modestly, save a huge proportion of my income and rarely eat avocados.
Anyway, I agree with anon above that May needs to lead an uncontroversial government. A colleague points out on Brexit that we took 40 years to get in, why should we expect to be fully out in two? What is wrong with what the media are calling a "reverse EFTA", where we stay in the single market for the moment, and drift away as we find we want to do things differently or not join new initiatives etc.?
David Allen Green had a very interesting article in the FT yesterday suggesting that perhaps we should have stopped integrating when Maastricht was on the table. If we'd stayed in the EEC at that stage and let the others roll on with political integration then all might have been happier. We could still achieve something like that with a bit of nous and sensible negotiation.
I still, a year on from the referendum, can't get excited about our net contributions to the EU budget. As a proportion of UK spending they are tiny. A bit of cash to grease the wheels is perfectly acceptable in my book.
In the longer term we need a new party of government. The Tory brand is now too tarnished. The LDs are a joke and the Labour party has been fully taken over. See Peter Mandelson for details. So we need a Centre Party, or a Consensus Party or a Moderate Party. I realise that such a party will not appeal to most of the readers here, so the nutters can go back away to UKIP.
A good start but what is needed is some way of fixing the unemployment stats once brexit has happened.
0 tuition fees helps the under 30s
You need something in there for adult education - reskilling the grownups so we can all become web designers and php programmers when those city jobs.
Age, sex, ethnicity, background, breathing - none of these should be a barrier to the opportunity to grow a stupid beard.
PS I would love to know how on Earth May et al. are supposed to have conspired to do just well enough to be the largest party but not enough to win a majority, in order to engineer some kind of Breverse. If you think about it for more than about four seconds you will realise how impossible such a conspiracy would be.
...most of you are as mad as a box of Eurofrogs ... So we need a Centre Party, or a Consensus Party or a Moderate Party
In other words a party that agrees with you and your liberal, London, muesli munching, metrosexual, ft fake-news reading point of view?
Face it Be, your boat has been called in, the crazy frog party(s) is taking over!
Not really, as I quite like free trade and free competition, and don't particularly like muesli or the FT. But I can be bothered to open my eyes and realise that nobody is ever going to win a majority espousing my point-of-view so I would much rather have pragmatic centrists in charge than unrealistic David Davis types or downright dangerous wolf-in-sheeps's clothing McDonells.
I am pretty worried about what might happen, and as amusing as it is to spout off on blogs what we could really use is people calming the hell down. On all sides.
I dunno BE.
It is a FACT that the Tories were complacent, they knew the manifesto would reduce their lead - THEY WANTED TO TRADE OFF SUPPORT FOR TOUGH POLICIES.
they all say this...but then they are saying, crap, oops, we thought we would lose 5% from 50% not 8% and cause a Labour surge. Bugger.
But in reality, they achieved their aim, they did indeed shed lots of support. So to me it is incontrovertible that they wanted a small majority.
From there one can start the hardcore conspiracy theorising down the pub...anyone up for that by the way?
Sandalista said...
Hate to burst your bubble but those pesky LimpDums won't be joining the party.
The calculations are correct - too weak to govern, too strong not to try. So it's going to be a long painful process until events suggest there is the chance for a dash for power.
In the meantime, the pain will be excruciating especially with the DUP in tow - or is it in control.
May wanted the poison chalice of being PM during Brexit. She forgot to see it was catering size.
Enjoy your time in charge.
PS What happened to that forecast that UKIP would have more votes than us?
CU the *same* people were saying *simultaneously* that a huge majority for May would enable her to "dilute" Brexit and that a small/no majority would enable her to dilute Brexit. The problem for many on here is that they are too self-unaware to realise how bizarre they seem to others.
I am up for the pub. The good thing about the pub is that none of the real weirdos can ever quite pluck up the courage to leave their houses and schlep into town.
Charlie said...
Pub is a good idea. It's sunny outside. A few nice cold ones in a beer garden (or, in London, on a pavement) would be larvely.
Brexit was thrown deliberately.
We got May - a Remainer - and were assured that this was because she was the only Tory capable of doing it.
"Don't worry. She's a safe pair of hands."
And I believe she was... if you like the EU, mass immigration, Yuman Rights act...
This is blindingly obvious except to those who refuse to see.
BE 5.10 (Great to see you back !)
The degree to which Brexit was thrown was incidental. I don't think May was aiming for Cult of Corbyn (CoC) to do so well. I think she was hoping for another Lib/Con coalition.
A fuck up - but the aim was never to achieve a Brexit mandate (which she already had !!!!)
Now we're having CoC waved in our faces.
This conspiracy theory still does not stack up. On a practical level how on Earth could it be organised? They would need the collusion of the polling companies, media, and so on. Unless you are saying they stuffed the ballot boxes? And then paid people to lie to the exit poll people? No.
Second, how could the likes of Davis, Boris, Fallon and others stand for it? How would the conspiracy be brought about without someone either leaking or whistle-blowing? No.
Holding the election made sense because the majority in the Commons was slim and getting things through might have been difficult. The Lords would not have felt the need to let things through because none of this was in anyone's 2015 manifesto and the LDs hold a lot of sway in the Lords.
Let us get this absolutely clear: the election was a perfectly good thing to do, but Team May totally screwed it up. They underestimated Team Corbyn, they didn't realise how fed up of "austerity" plenty of people are, they didn't realise that voters don't like to be taken for granted, they forgot that voters like to give governments kickings. A total screw up by people who should have known all of those things, but not some careful cynical plan to stop Brexit.
You would all serve yourselves a lot better if you stopped being so paranoid 24/7. Open the curtains and get some vitamin D for chrissake.
Thud said...
Pub!...the wheatsheaf Raby village...fucked if I'm going to that there London....I'll buy,even for you blues.
Confucius he say "man with thin skin ill-advised to abuse people with "nutters", "mad" etc"
CU - I thought we were all agreed that the "May threw it to derail Brexit" theory was unlikely, on the ground that it implied a level of competence for which no evidence exists?
Now that everything is up in the air and fiscal responsibility is old hat, my wild suggestion is that May does a deal with Corbyn to scrap student loans in exchange for Brexit support, which would leave the Blairite Remainers (still a majority of the PLP) in a difficult position. They'd probably demand another leadership contest, which he'd win with an even bigger majority,
Confucious also say blog commenter who says everything straightforward usually incredibly stupid or lying.
It didn't require a conspiracy. Who's talking about a conspiracy ?
To make a success of Brexit = Work very hard at Brexit.
To sabotage Brexit = simply don't work very hard at Brexit.
No conspiracy theory. Her heart is not in it and that's all it takes to fuck up Brexit - manifest in the fact that ... woops ! She's fucked up Brexit.
After her appointment she delayed and prevaricated on the letter giving Remain time to regroup and develop tactics.
When the Miller/High Court case failed (and we thought we were through) she sent the letter but dropped more Brexit risk and prevarication in the form of a completely unecessary General Election and then gave us the most laclustre campaign ever mounted in history and huge amounts of time for Remain to get their act together.
I expect her unspoken aim was to weaken her hard Brexit mandate a bit rather than try to strengthen it as claimed (I stated this many times) - I do think she's shocked at the energised Corbyn movement that she's achieved. Oversteer. Not conspiracy.
@BE - easy dude
@EK - nah, all European governments operate through coalitions. This is almost like proportional representation but without the bullshit - a wonderfully British fudge.
OT, but I hear on R4 this morning that among the victims of the Kensington fire was a young Italian couple who had been in the UK only three months. How does that work? Are my kids wasting their money on private London rentals? Are council flats so easy to get? Not the impression I've had at all.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grenfell-tower-fire-italian-couple-10625260
Your choice of venue is telling. A PUB in LONDON - a large PORT CITY
It is clear it was all a conspiracy between tim wetherspoon, the forsythes and the symingtons.
You might say the forsythes are mostly not based in LONDON but as any fule kno, that is just what they WANT you to think.
It could have an ex council flat that was let out privately
"OT, but I hear on R4 this morning that among the victims of the Kensington fire was a young Italian couple who had been in the UK only three months. How does that work? "
On topic
"Johnnie M might be an arch remainer"
Ironically his ERM debacle did more to help than anything else.
@"John Major made the point that the Belfast Agreement specifically states no single political party in Northern Ireland can receive favourable treatment from the UK government."
How would that work with Corbyn as PM?
Here is an example of a similar flat on the market
L Fairfax - This is the dream excuse they've been waiting for - a mass dispersal of council tenants from London free of the tag 'social cleansing.'
These homings cost the government a fortune.
dearieme said...
The Fenians might be fussing about the DUP because they're seeking an excuse to turn up and vote with the Terrorists' Friend.
You're doing the Fenians a disservice. They wore uniforms, bearing their weapons openly, and fought honourably unlike those murdering bastards in PIRA.
Returning to conspiracy theories...
My only conspiracy theory is this: In any organisation - if you desire a given outcome, all that is needed is to place people in senior positions who are of like mind. Thereafter their reaction and direction will default to your agenda.
Remain politicians assured Leave voters that they were only putting Leaver May in charge because of her competence.
Now it's mission accomplished we are being told "Oops. It's because she's incompetent." Pull the other one.
We may as well have had Leadsome, Johnson, Gove after all.
Uh-oh. We're back in 1981, 2011 with angry black "community spokesmen" threatening "serious anger on the streets". Is the best way to campaign for more sprinkler systems - to set buildings alight and loot mobile phone shops?
all that is needed is to place people in senior positions who are of like mind.
Exactly, a 'conspiracy' wouldn't need to go further than May and probably Hammond within the tory party. What could the rest of them have done? Said they didn't want an election and refused to cooperate with the PM? Launched a leadership challenge? Over-ruled the PM on her manifesto mid-election?
The globalists would have only needed to lean on one or two key people if that's what happened.
And I'm not sure spinklers are very effective when it comes to electrical fires that spread via a flammable outer cladding.
MySpeculativeName said...
This election has severely weakened Britain.
The EU are going to use the Irish question to break the UK govt.
Brexit negotiations are thus fatally compromised.
I expect a statement from the EU that the 'ideal' Irish arrangement is a United Ireland and this will be one of their negotiating 'red lines' or somesuch. Some bullshit about hard borders, territorial integrity etc...
This will split the UK govt because the Tories dont really give a shit, the DUP will have a fit and Labour are largely agnostic on the matter.
So massive leverage right at the heart of govt and therefore Brexit negotiations right there.
If the pragmatists agree to a UI even as part of a settlement, the Gov will need Labour support to push it through, leaving NI as part of the EU while UK leaves.
The Scots, of course will not accept this at all, so a second ref or a UDI will occur.
If the Scots declare Independence before a 'UI' Brexit is completed, they could legitimately claim similar status to NI and demand to remain in the EU.
That would be hard to ignore.
Personally, I think the situation with Russia will deteriorate before that and put Brexit in the shade. Of course this requires some pissing into the Russians tent as a provocation.... any world leader capable of that?
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Dudamel to Take Over from Salonen
December 1, 2008 6:10 PM | Permalink
Dudamel's baton entices a new wave of classical music lovers
By Roxana Popescu
The high-energy Gustavo Dudamel will replace Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic next year.
The hardest part about preparing for a 10-minute telephone interview with Gustavo Dudamel is figuring out what to do with all that energy.
Not with it, actually, but without it: What if his legendary pep didn't come across in a chat crammed between six other interviews? What if he was worn out, or distracted? Because if there's one thing that pops out from all of Dudamel's five-star YouTube clips ? the one attribute both fans and skeptics say defines him ? it's that indomitable energy.
The second hardest part was getting a hold of the man. At 27, Dudamel is arguably the greatest conductor of his generation, considered by many to represent the future of classical music and the hope for its reinvigoration. This fall, he's on a national tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which the La Jolla Music Society presents at the Civic Theatre tomorrow. Next spring, he'll take over as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Read more about this at the Union-Tribune website:
www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/nov/21/1c21israelm104347-no-headline/?zIndex=14907
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Cornwall Council opposes the Government plan to force all schools to become Academies
13:49 Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Andrew Wallis Academies, Government White Paper on Academies
Today, at Cornwall Council’s Full Council meeting, Councillors debated a Motion on the principle of the Government’s plan to force all schools to become academies by 2020. This motion was proposed by Tim Dwelly, seconded by myself, and supported by a group of cross-party Councillors which include Councillors Atherton, German, Kenny, Kirk, Long, Andrew Mitchell, Olivier, Hanna Toms, James and Frank.
The motion is as follows:
This Council disagrees with the Government’s plans to force all schools to become academies. It also notes widespread opposition to this proposal among parents and education professionals;
The Council welcomes the excellent work Cornwall’s schools in who are working co-operatively and believes some small schools will struggle to survive if such a system is imposed as proposed in the White Paper;
This Council believes that transferring supervision of all Cornish schools to Whitehall is centralisation and is at odds with the Cornwall Deal agreed with government;
This Council is also opposed with the proposal to remove the valuable role of parent governors from the schools governance structure;
The Council against the forced transfer of council-owned assets and land to Whitehall;
It resolves to ask the Secretary of State for Education to allow Cornwall’s schools and their parents to decide for themselves whether they wish to remain with the local education authority or become academies.
I seconded this motion on the principle of the Government forcing schools to convert is based on a seriously flawed White Paper. The government say changing the legal administrative status of a school will improve standards is not backed-up by evidence.
Furthermore, the White Paper allows Academy Trusts no longer be required to reserve placed for parent governors on their governor boards. These governors play a very important role (as do all governors) in a school structure. This is a retrograde step, and again has no evidence to back up the justification this role to be removed.
I also have a serious concern over the lack of accountability in the White Paper proposals. Accountability is an important part of the educational system. With LA schools, parent have a direct mans of raising issues after they have exhausted talking to the head teacher and governors. In the academy system, parents concerns are dealt via the Regional Schools Commissioner, and then the DFE. This was highlighted in the recent All Party Parliamentary Group report on the role of the Regional Schools Commissioner.
After a debate, the a staggering 95 Councillors voted in favour of the motion of opposing the Governments place to force schools to convert to academies, with three Councillors voting again and one abstaining.
To put the icing on the cake, both the Leader, Deputy Leader, Cornwall Council Chairman and vice, all the Council’s Cabinet voted in favour to oppose the Governments plans
This sends a clear message to the Government about its plan to force schools to convert, rather than leave it to parent and governors who know their school and what is best for the young people who attend.
Government’s Academy White Paper is flawed, lacks accountability and will not improve standards
10:32 Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Andrew Wallis Academies, Government White Paper on Academies
It has been a few weeks since the Conservative Government launched the White Paper which sets out its ‘vision’ for education in England. Basically the White Paper sets out the timeline for the end of the Local Education Authority.
In that time, I have read, re-read that document to understand the fundamental changes to England’s educational system if the White Paper gets adopted into legislation. I need to be clear the following words are my personal views, and NOT those of Cornwall Council.
If the Government gets its way – and that is far from certain– all non-academy schools will be required to start the process of converting to an Academy by 2020. This means that by 2022 all schools in England – both primary and secondary – will be academies (or Free Schools).
As a result the only responsibilities a local authority will be left with will be:
1. Ensuring every child has a school place, including making sure there are sufficient school, special school and AP places to meet local demand. Local authorities will also work with schools and parents in developing local school transport policies, giving schools the opportunity to provide these services where it makes sense locally.
2. Ensuring the needs of vulnerable learners are met by identifying and making provision for children with SEND or with looked after status. Local authorities will also promote school attendance, tackle persistent absences and lead on safeguarding responsibilities for all children excluded or otherwise unable to attend mainstream school e.g. those educated at home.
3. Acting as champions for all parents’ families by supporting them to navigate the system through a continued role in admissions.
However it is not only local authorities which are affected, other parts of the educational system will also be impacted by this change, including teachers and school governors.
Academy trusts will no longer be required to reserve places for elected parents on governing boards. Furthermore, schools in Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) are likely not to have individual governing boards. Instead there will be one governing board for the whole trust, with individual schools having ‘local advisory boards’ which will feed into the main governing MAT board.
The Government also plans to establish a database of everyone involved in governance; they intend to legislate so that “unsuitable individuals” can be barred from being governors of maintained schools. I am not sure what is defined as ‘unsuitable’.
The Government are also intending to implement plans to replace the current Qualified Teacher Status. This new accreditation will be based on a teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom, as judged by great schools. The Government will also reform the National College for Teaching and Leadership and will establish a College of Teaching.
As I said before, the Government is far from certain in getting its way over these reforms, as this White Paper is not legislation. The changes outlined in the paper will need Parliamentary legislation. That means MP’s will have to vote to support or oppose it. And, with the Tory Government having a majority of around 12, it doesn’t take a maths teacher to work out that the legislation may not get through – at least in its current form.
Before this White Paper, schools converted to an academy in two ways; – either by choice, or by DfE regulations as laid out in the statutory guidance.
In my three years as the Lead Member/Cabinet Member for Children’s Services I have not met a single teacher, or head-teacher who does not want the best for the children in their care. These professionals are from both LA and academy schools. As others have said, this White Paper is seriously flawed. Forcing all schools to convert because the Government says it will improve standards is utter-poppycock. There is no evidence to back up the claim that this will improve standards in schools. This is about ideology, not standards. To reinforce this even more strongly – in many recent Ofsted inspections, the LA has been praised for its help in improving a school.
I also have serious concerns over the lack of accountability in these proposals. Accountability is an important part of the educational system. With LA schools, parents have a direct means of raising issues after they have exhausted talking to the head and governors. In the academy system, parents concerns are dealt with via the Regional Schools Commissioner, and then the DfE. This was highlighted in the recent All Party Parliamentary Group report on the role of the Regional Schools Commissioner. I have often received correspondence from parents who are unhappy with what is happening the academy attended by their child. In these cases I can only respond by saying I am sorry, but there is little the LA can do because the school is an academy, please contact…
I am not saying the LA is perfect either. Some schools converted to an academy because they felt frustrated by the LA. However in the new world, parents will have to deal with an office that either based in Bristol, or London- not in Cornwall.
To be clear, I am not saying by being an academy is a bad thing. The Local Authority works with the DfE to ensure that whatever decisions are made by governing bodies, they are founded upon the need to ensure that they are always in the best interests of the children which they serve. Many schools have successfully converted to become academies because this was in the interest of the pupils. You cannot fault this. However these schools chose to convert. It is a huge difference from the Government’s aim of converting all schools to Academy status – potentially against the wishes of parents, governors and heads.
Parents and schools should have the choice about the governance arrangements in their school, it should not be about political party ideology. Education is about giving a child the best possible start in life, and as Lead Member, I will do all I can to make sure we achieve that goal
Independent Cornwall Councillor for Porthleven and Helston West.
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Super Melrose comeback floors Hawks – Greens off the bottom – Jed edge NL1 derby – Kelso top NL2 table
Melrose were 0-15 down at The Greenyards in the first quarter against Glasgow Hawks, who were coming off the back of two big wins recently against Gala and Hawick, but Melrose hit back sensationally with 35 unanswered points of their own to blow the visitors away with a remarkable display to do the double on one of the fancied teams in the BT Premiership this season and cement their narrow lead over Ayr at the top of the table.
Hawick got themselves off the foot of the table with an important win on the road at Myreside against Watsonians by 36-33, a vital five points for them and they close the gap on Gala who are just three points in front of them after the Maroons lost 24-49 at home to Currie at Netherdale.
In BT National 1 the big derby was at Philiphaugh where Jedforest looked to be running away with the game building up a 26-3 lead, but the fighting Souters staged a remarkable comeback to trail by just four points near the end, but they had to settle for two bonus points as Jed ran out winners 40-34. Highlights here.
Kelso are on top of the BT NL2 table after overcoming previous leaders Cartha Queens Park 24-7, and Peebles gained an important home win over Kirkcaldy to keep them in the hunt for promotion. Meanwhile St Boswells turned the tables on Highland in the long-awaited clash at Jenny Moore’s Ground. After being defeated heavily up north Bozzies took the game 15-10 to upset the league leaders and put them back in the mix for promotion once again.
In the East Leagues there were wins for Berwick and Hawick Harlequins in Division 1, and Hawick Linden in Division 2. Worth also noting that all five Hawick teams – Hawick, Hawick Quins, Hawick Linden, Hawick Wanderers and Hawick PSA – playing today won, something that hasn’t happened in a long time. Congratulations all round.
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Amazing Sights and Lights: Singapore’s Most Picturesque Destinations this Holiday Season
Gardens by the Bay Chrsitmas Wonderland
The glistening lights, the Christmas trees and all the other festive holiday decorations truly make Christmas one of the most enchanting and picturesque times of the year. But the real beauty of the season is in the moments it brings about—gift-giving, get-togethers, and getaways.
Singapore offers exciting possibilities with its Christmas attractions straight from your Christmas fantasies that are sure to provide you and your loved ones with beautiful, picture-perfect experiences that you would definitely want to capture.
Fireworks Photo by Wesley Loh, Courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Holiday marvels in the heart of the city
If you’re looking for a winter fairytale come to life, Gardens by the Bay has its enchanting Christmas Wonderland. One of Singapore’s main annual events, this attraction is sure to excite families and friends looking for some holiday cheer as they feast on delicious treats at the European-inspired festive market, play carnival games at the fun fairground and skate under the beautiful night sky at the open skating rink. But the star of the event has to be the stunning seven-storey luminary light, the Spalliera. During the event’s nightly Blizzard Time, visitors can capture a photo as marvelous as their Christmas Wonderland experience set against magical snowfall and the Spalliera’s lights.
The Star Flyer. Img courtesy of Prudential Marina Bay Carnival
A nearby attraction one can also check out is Poinsettia Wishes, a massive floral installation of poinsettias, amaryllis and Christmas trees at the Gardens by the Bay Flower Dome. Visitors can experience a truly Nordic winter cozying up under a Lavvu, a kind of tent used in Northern Scandinavia, while enjoying the northern lights projected on the dome’s screens. Those with an eye for landscapes are sure to delight in taking shots of the splendid set-up.
Another amazing sight to behold is Christmas on a Great Street. Every year, Singapore’s famous Orchard Road is lit up with fantastic light installations. This year, the event celebrates with the theme “Endless Wonder,” featuring its very own Christmas Village that is complete with pop-up shops and food bazaars. Be inspired to encapsulate your Singapore holiday and take a dreamy photo at the Walk of Wonder, a 20-meter-long tunnel of blue fairy lights covered in a silver reflective fabric blanketing.
Those looking for an adventure-filled yuletide getaway can head over to the Prudential Marina Bay Carnival. Admission to the carnival grounds is free and open for all, especially thrill-seekers who will surely enjoy more than 40 rides and games with impressive standouts like the Star Flyer, Cyclone Coaster, Booster Maxx, Log Flume, Das Fun Schiff (Pirate Ship). A carnival wouldn’t be complete without yummy food to munch on. Luckily, there is also a food bazaar with Michelin-starred gourmet food, classic carnival treats like popcorn, and many more. There are also a wide variety of performances from DJs, local independent artists, and caroling chorales that should not to be missed.
The Prudential Marina Bay Carnival, however, is just part of an even bigger celebration—the much-anticipated Marina Bay Countdown. Here, attendees are in for an extravagant night full of possibilities, from an awesome laser show and a bustling holiday bazaar, to a grand fireworks spectacle. During the year-end festivities, Singapore’s cityscape turns into the perfect backdrop of fantastic projection mapping displays. As part of the 2D mapping display, the big countdown, along with crowd-sourced New Year wishes, will be projected across the Fullerton Hotel, followed by magnificent fireworks that are sure to get spectators excited for the possibilities of a new year.
Experience Christmas on A Great Street and see Orchard Road light up with the amazing luminary installations
Christmas made special at Sentosa
For a completely unique holiday experience, try out an underwater Christmas with the Merry Fishmas at the S.E.A. Aquarium at Sentosa. Capture an interesting and fun photo with Scuba Santa and Underwater Elves inside a massive aquarium swimming with diverse and colorful fishes. As the S.E.A. Aquarium advocates protecting marine wildlife by reducing the waste in the seas and oceans, the Merry Fishmas attraction is complete with a plastic bottle Christmas tree and includes a Scrooge’s Recycling Workshop where guests can make special Christmas gifts from recycled materials.
Both kids and kids-at-heart can discover what it’s like to be an elf at the North Pole at A Universal Christmas at Universal Studios Sentosa. Santa’s Workshop is a fully-immersive attraction filled with different, fun challenges. Visitors can also catch Santa with his reindeers and elves at Santa’s Snowy Sleigh Ride, a fun parade around Universal Studios Sentosa. Complete your Universal Christmas by catching an amusing Christmas show with Oscar Grouchmas Live. Take wonderful shots at any corner of Universal Studios as it transforms into a delightful Christmas village.
Add a little luxury to your trip by going on a Christmas cruise unlike any other on board the Royal Albatross, a massive 4-mast and 22-sail Tall Ship. Sail from the shores of Sentosa and enjoy a Christmas feast on the open deck decorated with sleigh bells, mistletoe, and baubles as you soak in the stunning view of the sunset. With this spectacular background, taking an Instagram-worthy shot is a piece of cake.
Spend this holiday season in Singapore to see these wonderful sights and make meaningful memories that are sure to have the most beautiful pictures to match!
About the Singapore Tourism Board
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is the lead development agency for tourism, one of Singapore’s key economic sectors. Together with industry partners and the community, we shape a dynamic Singapore tourism landscape. We bring the Passion Made Possible brand to life by differentiating Singapore as a vibrant destination that inspires people to share and deepen their passions. For more information, visit www.stb.gov.sg or www.visitsingapore.com or follow us on Twitter @STB_sg (https://twitter.com/stb_sg)
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NOVUHAIR turns favor with Holiday bash promo
So you’ve got your festive outfit set and the fancy gift wrapped for your “monito” or “monita”. All that’s left undone is a party season-perfect hairstyle.
The fresh out of the shower look can be seductive yet temporary. Blame it to tropical climate, it can spoil your appearance, besides making you feel sweaty and stale. The heat and humidity brought about by extreme weather condition, likewise, dries out the locks easily and make it more fragile.
Adding damage to your delicate strands are the chemical contents of various products on hand. From shampoo to conditioner and hair treatment, down to styling goods to groom it to your liking, their harsh synthetic materials jeopardize the natural oil and luster of your mane.
Because you are what you eat, the fate of your crowning glory is in the plate. Your diet must have the correct balance of vitamins and minerals to supply hair with all that it needs to become shiny and strong. So don’t overindulge, especially this time of the year when gastronomic feasts are spread almost everywhere you go. Be careful on what you take in, thinking that it’s also what you feed your ‘do.
Even stress can wear off the beauty and health of the tress. And that’s exactly what you should avoid this Yuletide season. Never put pressure on yourself just to please everyone. Just take it easy, let your hair down and party all night long.
In this time of gratitude, NOVUHAIR makes everyday “a good hair day” for its valued patrons like you with its Christmas and Year-End Promo. Get an extra NOVUHAIR Herbal Shampoo 200 ml. worth P1,040 for FREE if you buy a NOVUHAIR 3-in-1 pack at participating WATSONS stores nationwide (DOH-FDA CCRR Permit No.: 967 s. 2017).
Packed with 19 natural ingredients—mostly standardized herbal extracts, essential oils and co-factor nutrients—NOVUHAIR Topical Scalp Lotion does not only help prevent the hair fall malady, but also aids in stimulating hair growth. NOVUHAIR helps prevent hair loss, improve overall appearance, promote nourishment and rejuvenation. It is clinically-tested and proven safe and effective.
Opt for the best with this Christmas and Year-End promo. Whether it’s a luxury gift for your loved ones, or a self-indulgent treat for you, NOVUHAIR has the perfect gift to inspire and keep you party-ready this Holiday season, while providing you with the ultimate styling result.
For inquiries, please call 413-6570 or 0922-8830575. You may also visit www.novuhair.com or Novuhair’s Facebook page – Novuhair Official.
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The Philippines’ top MMA prospects got a big boost in their bids to make it big with the launch of the Cage Gladiators initiative
A brainchild of former fighter and soldier-turned-businessman Laurence Canavan, Cage Gladiators is a non-profit organization aiming to “empower and help Filipino fighters who have the heart and courage to put themselves on the line for pride and8 glory.”
“Filipinos are natural-born fighters, born with indomitable spirit and a courageous heart and willing to work hard to achieve their dreams,” Canavan said.
Cage Gladiators, he added, is also open to “help all the brave but impoverished Filipino fighters climb out of underprivileged and humble beginnings and make a better life for themselves through sponsored training and basic education of the business side of MMA in order for them to have a better chance of a brighter future after their career.”
Initially, nine Pinoy warriors campaigning in major MMA organizations have been initially taken under the wings by Cage Gladiators, which will complement the program with a fearsome website designed to be the central hub of MMA here.
They are UFC campaigners CJ “Golden Boy” de Thomas, Jenel “Demolition Man” Lausa, and Rolando “The Incredible” Dy, ONE Championships’ Eric “the Natural” Kelly and Edward “The Ferocious” Kelly; URCC’s Drex Zamboanga and Rex de Lara; Boxing World’s Roman “the Hitman” Canto; and PXC’s Glenn Ranillo.
“We’re training with our own teams (right now) but (in the future) we can train together and build a strong team here in the Philippines,” said Eric Kelly. “In the States, they cross-train; everybody there meets at the gym. I wish Cage Gladiators will make one gym here in Manila or in Baguio so we can train together.
Present during the press conference of Cage Gladiators at the Cheers Sports Bar and Cafe in Makati are, from left, Eric Kelly, Roman Canto, Glen Ranillo, Jenel Lausa, Drex Zamboanga, Rolando Gabriel Dy, Edward Kelly, Rex De Lara and CJ de Tomas of Cage Gladiators.
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AMD eBlast: Apple launches its most powerful computer ever with new iMac Pro powered by Radeon Pro Vega graphics
Apple’s new iMac Pro hit shelves with a new graphics chip: AMD’s Radeon Pro Vega. As Apple notes on their website – ‘Vega graphics. The beast behind the beauty.’
With Radeon Pro Vega graphics, the iMac Pro delivers best-in-class workstation graphics to enhance workflows for today’s professionals and creators—from photographers and video editors to 3D animators and engineers—by using the latest in graphics technology to fuel modern creative efforts from anywhere inspiration strikes. Key advancements with Radeon Pro Vega include:
Revolutionary memory. With 16GB of High Bandwidth Memory, the iMac Pro delivers performance up to two times faster than any previous iMac GPU and up to three times faster than the Mac Pro GPU. This also translates to higher frame rates for VR, real-time 3D rendering and gameplay at max settings.
Updated GPU processing units. Single- and half-precision computing allow operations to be performed twice as fast when they don’t require a full 32 bits of precision. How fast is this? Up to 22 teraflops.
The reviews are already in from the experts – creators who’ve had the chance to test the new iMac Pro touted the major improvements to performance and their workflows with Radeon Pro Vega graphics, letting them bring their visions to life without barriers or compromise.
Craig Hunter, a mechanical and aerospace engineer, summarized the iMac Pro as a “graphics powerhouse — I continually marveled at how crisp and clean everything was rendered with no apparent overhead or impact on performance.”
Video editor Thomas Carter found, “I’ll repeat that once more. 8K. Color correction. Blur. No Rendering. No ‘1/4 quality’ BS. No frames dropped."
Vincent Laforet, a photographer and director, experienced a two to three times boost in speed in his workflows. He concluded, “In short – this is a KILLER machine for any serious photographer, filmmaker, or VR producer. Period.”
Mac and iOS app developer Cabel Sasser’s described testing FireWatch with the iMac Pro and the Retina 5K iMac, resulting in 62 FPS at 2560x1440. He also witnessed a 41 percent boost in compiling Xcode projects on the iMac Pro compared to a standard Mac Pro.
You can read more about Radeon Pro Vega in the brand new iMac Pro here
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Teachers board topnotchers from Mindanao support extension of Martial Law in region
Teachers board exam topnotchers from Mindanao recently expressed strong support for government’s one-year extension of martial law in their region for the sake of improving peace and order conditions, they expressed this view at the non-partisan Pandesal Forum brunch with media at Kamuning Bakery Café in Quezon City. The Mindanao-born teachers board topnotchers included the first legally-blind and Muslim teachers board exam topnotcher Abdulaziz Hajimin Dapilin of Lamitan, Basilan province; Darlene Z. Mula of General Santos City; Anielyn D. Ladica of General Santos City; Gerald Ryan O. Reburcio of General Santos City.
The topnotchers were accompanied to the Pandesal Forum by their review school’s owner and Quezon City Chamber of Commerce & Industry past president Dr. Carl Balita, who said these talented and idealistic young people overcame poverty and other hardships to attain their goals.
Declining good job offers in Metro Manila, Abdulaziz Hajimin Dapilin said at the Pandesal Forum with media that he plans to fly back to his native Basilan province in order to work there in helping improve education for special children or disabled kids, because he said he had difficulties in schooling because he was given no such education tailored for special kids. He lost total eyesight at age 9 and had to struggle to cope with academic studies. Dapilin said that extension of martial law is alright, as long as there are no abuses and as long as better security can be given their region. He appealed to media to present a more balanced picture of Mindanao region, that their place is not all about wars and conflicts, that there are many beautiful and peaceful places such as Basilan province and his hometown Lamitan. Dr. Carl Balita complained that during the teacher board exam, the examiners took away Dapilin’s talking calculator which a blind student like him needed, so there war no way for him to accurately figure out some complex math questions during the board exam but still he came out a topnotcher.
Nurse board exam topnotcher Maria Cecilia Campos from Lorma College in La Union province is another inspiring story presented at the non-partisan Pandesal Forum of Kamuning Bakery Café, because her father Maximino Campos is an ordinary carpenter and her mother Ernalin Campos is a housewife. Her parents couldn’t afford to send her to school, so it was her aunt Victoria Duculan who helped pay for her education. Maria Cecilia Campos said her inspiration to study hard and diligently is her family, their love and support for her despite their poverty. She said she shares the other topnotchers’ high hopes for a better future for their families and a better Philippine economy in 2018.
JobStreet Philippines’ Country Manager Bags 2017 IABC CEO Excel Award
After more than two decades of experience in various leadership positions, JobStreet Philippines Country Manager Philip Gioca was named one of the recipients of the 2017 CEO Excel Awards.
Under his tutelage, JobStreet Philippines has furthered its leadership position in the industry, presenting an average of 60,000 jobs posted monthly by as many as 24,000 employers across key industries and business sizes. To date, 7.6 million candidates have registered to the online portal. He has also overseen the rollout of several innovations such as richer job ads with inclusion of vital information such as salary data, Talent Search, Company Reviews, and the LiNA bot.
With his zeal for innovation and progress, Gioca has overseen the digitization of various traditional offline channels for job search and enablement. Government jobs, a growing labor market segment, has been added into JobStreet Philippines’ already vast number of job listings. Nearly 100 government agencies have posted as much as 3,500 jobs since July 2017, which are all housed on a one-stop microsite, making the process of applying to government jobs more transparent and accessible. He has also championed Overseas Filipino Workers by making the Pre-Employment Orientation Seminar (PEOS) online in cooperation with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, which is now mandatory to all intending to explore job opportunities abroad.
In the spirit of nation building, he establishes collaboration with government, NGOs as well as private institutions to increase the reach and access to available job opportunities in the country and help address job skills mismatch. Under his leadership, JobStreet recently partnered with the Office of the Vice President to further grassroots jobs generation and matching by supporting the Angat Buhay Program. JobStreet also partnered with Edukasyon.ph, a social enterprise that helps high school students make better informed career choices from education to employment.
The wealth of the company’s proprietary digital data has also been turned into empowering labor market insights. Philip has been a thought leader, acting as JobStreet’s spokesperson for job market insights and trends. He has presented JobStreet’s Job Happiness Report, Top Companies Report, Fresh Graduate Report, Job Outlook and Trends Report, and Bonuses Report in various industry, media, and campus events.
Through his truly exemplary leadership and his desire for nation-building, Gioca continues to transform JobStreet into a leader in the Philippine online job marketplace, and in the job market as a whole.
The IABC CEO Excel Awards recognize the leaders of organizations who make use of exemplary communication as part of their overall business strategy for achieving goals, building relationships, addressing problems, and maintaining the reputation of their companies.
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NBA ALL-STAR VOTING 2018 PRESENTED BY VERIZON TIPS OFF DEC. 21 WITH EARLY VOTING ON NBA APP AND NBA.COM
Voting via all other channels, including Amazon Alexa for the first time, will launch on Monday, Dec. 25 at 11 a.m. ET before five Christmas Day matchups across ESPN, ABC and TNT.
Additionally, new for this season, five “2-for-1 Days” will allow fans to have their votes count twice on Dec. 31, Jan. 4, Jan. 11, Jan. 12 and Jan. 15 when voting through the NBA App and NBA.com, along with Sina Weibo and Tencent in China. All “2-for-1 Days” will be designated 12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. ET.
TNT will reveal the All-Star Game starters, including the two captains, onThursday, Jan. 18 during TNT NBA Tip-Off presented by Autotrader at 6 p.m. ET, featuring Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith. The network will announce the reserves, as selected by NBA head coaches, on Tuesday, Jan. 23 during TNT NBA Tip-Off at 7 p.m. ET.
The team rosters for NBA All-Star Game 2018 in Los Angeles will be revealed on Thursday, Jan. 25 during a special one-hour edition of TNT NBA Tip-Off at 7 p.m. ET. The 67th All-Star Game will be played at Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on TNT.
Under a new All-Star Game format that replaces the traditional matchup between the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference, the team rosters will be chosen by two captains from the pool of players voted as starters and reserves. The captains, who will select the teams before TNT televises the results, will be the All-Star starter from each conference who receives the most fan votes in his conference.
For the second consecutive year, NBA players and basketball media will join fans in selecting the All-Star Game starters. Fans will account for 50 percent of the vote, while all current players and a media panel will account for 25 percent each.
Throughout the voting period, fans may submit one full ballot each day through the NBA App and NBA.com, post 10 total votes on Facebook, Google Search, Twitter and Amazon Alexa, as well as 10 total votes via Sina Weibo and Tencent. All current NBA players will be available for selection via all platforms.
Players and media will be able to complete one full ballot, featuring three frontcourt players and two guards each from both the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. Players may vote for their teammates or themselves.
Fan voting updates will be shared on Thursday, Jan. 4 and Thursday, Jan. 11. Voting will conclude on Monday, Jan. 15 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
How to vote:
NBA.com voting page at NBA.com/vote: Fill out one full ballot per day (per day is defined as once every 24 hours) on NBA.com/vote from a desktop or mobile browser. Fans can select up to two guards and three frontcourt players from each conference when choosing starters. During the five “2-for-1 Days,” votes through this channel will be counted twice.
NBA App: Access the ballot and vote through the app, which isavailable on Android and iOS. Fans can fill out one full ballot per day, and select up to two guards and three frontcourt players from each conference when choosing starters. During the five “2-for-1 Days,” votes through this channel will be counted twice.
Facebook: Post the player’s first and last name along with the hashtag #NBAVOTE on your personal Facebook account. Each post may include only one player’s name. Fans may post votes for 10 unique players per day from Dec. 25 – Jan. 15.
Twitter: Tweet, retweet or reply with an NBA player’s first and last name or Twitter handle, along with the hashtag #NBAVOTE. Each tweet may include only one player’s name or handle. Fans may vote for 10 unique players per day from Dec. 25 – Jan. 15.
Google Search: Search “NBA Vote All-Star” or “NBA Vote Team Name” (i.e., NBA Vote Warriors) and use respective voting cards to select teams and then players. Fans may submit votes for 10 unique players per day from Dec. 25 – Jan. 15.
Amazon Alexa: To vote via Amazon Alexa, the user must have an Alexa-enabled device, and enable the “NBA All-Star” skill. To submit a vote, the user can open the skill with, “Alexa, open NBA All-Star,” and then request to vote for his or her player of choice. Voters can submit a maximum of one player name per request to Alexa. Users can submit votes for 10 unique players per Amazon account each day from Dec. 25 – Jan. 15.
· Sina Weibo and Tencent: To vote on Sina Weibo (weibo.com), the user must have a Sina Weibo account. To vote via Sina Weibo, voters must visit China.NBA.com/vote, and select up to 10 players. To vote on Tencent NBA community, the user must have a QQ account. To vote via Tencent NBA community, voters must visit China.NBA.com/vote, and select up to 10 players.
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4 CBK Hardware Inc.
Co Ban Kiat Hardware Incorporated is one of the few pioneering hardware businesses in the Philippines which has withstood the test of time. It all started in the 1920 when the family patriarch Mr. Cobankiat opened a store in the heart of the Manila Chinatown under the name of Co Ban Kiat Hardware. Business resumed after World War II but it was not until after three years later, in 1948, that the company
recovered. The new CBK building was constructed on the very same spot where it stood before the war.
Co Ban Kiat Hradware Inc. (CBKHI), also known as the “House of Improvements”, has been the forefront of homebuilding supplies. From selling nails and iron wires as their main products, CBKHI has evolved and is now considered as one of the country’s leading suppliers of the top-of-the-line hardware materials.
Driven by excellence, CBKHI initiated the retail concept for hardware stores in the country by putting up the Hardware Workshop Store.
To cater to the growing demand of industrial and onstruction industries, CBKHI transformed itself by providing corporations with tangible solutions to address their primary concerns on safety and quality.
This also paved way to the birth of Coby’s Design Center in Edsa Shangri La in 1996. This specialty store offers a wide array of products that showcase versatility and Innovativeness to suit the discriminating tastes of the modern Filipino.
In 1997, Mr. Johnny Cobankiat took the advantage in bringing a franchise of Ace Hardware USA in the country with Cobankiat Hardware as one of its suppliers. In time, CBKHI expanded its distribution channel and is now considered as one of the leading suppliers in all major retail or home improvement stores in the country.
With its nearly a century’s excellence and guided by its vision to be the largest network supplier of the biggest brands in the world in the hardware industry, CBKHI resolve to work at sourcing the best products to supply its customers anytime and every time.
Some of Our Retail Partners Some of Our Completed Projects
Some of Our Clients in Industrial Sector.
To know more about our products and services, please visit our website www.cbkhardware.com or follow our Facebook account www.facebook.com/cbkhardware.
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AXN Embarks on an Epic Journey in New Travel Show “Adventure Your Way”
AXN has added a fresh new reality series to its roster of top-rated original productions: Adventure Your Way, a weekly 30-minute travel show that explores new adventures in exciting destinations in the Philippines.
Unlike any other travel show, Adventure Your Way invites Pinoy viewers to shape the travel experience of popular host Atom Araullo by sharing their bucket lists via social media on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (#AXNAdventureYourWay). From these crowdsourced ideas, Atom will embark on a one-of-a-kind mission around the country equipped with only his phone and social media to guide him. From sampling the local delicacies and meeting with the locals to discovering the most thrilling activities, Atom is completely in the hands of AXN fans.
Adventurous ideas for Atom, which could be crazy, cultural, epic or daring, can be submitted from today via AXN’s social platforms: AXN or Adventure Your Way Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.
Atom Araullo is an award-winning TV personality and is regarded as one of the top program hosts in the industry. His most notable work is the documentary Warmer (Climate Change), which won the Bronze Medal in the World’s Best TV and Films category of the 2017 New York Festivals. Today, Atom continues to pursue his interest in documentary filmmaking.
Adventure Your Way will premiere in February 2018 first and exclusively on AXN.
Adventure Your Way is co-presented by Vivo Smart Phone, BDO, and Cherifer; and co-sponsored by Petron, Chevrolet, and Cebu Pacific.
AXN is available on Cablelink Channel 38, Cignal Channel 121, Destiny Cable Channel 49, Dream Satellite TV Channel 20, G Sat Channel 51, and SKYCable Channel 49. AXN HD is available on SKYCable Channel 247.
About AXN
AXN is Asia’s leading general entertainment channel featuring exclusive top-rated drama series, blockbuster features, reality programs and ground-breaking original productions. The channel appeals to a discerning audience seeking content that is smart, intriguing and unexpected, all delivered close to U.S telecasts. From SEAL Team and MacGyver, to The Amazing Race Asia and Asia’s Got Talent, AXN is defined not by a genre, but by an attitude that truly redefines action.
Launched first in Asia in 1997, AXN is a global channel brand with a presence in Latin America, Africa and Europe. In Asia, the channel is enjoyed in 126 million households across 19 territories and is available in both SD and HD.
AXN Asia is wholly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and managed by Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia, which also operates leading channels including Animax, Sony Channel, ONE and GEM.
About Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Networks, Asia is a leading operator of ad-supported channels including English general entertainment powerhouses AXN and Sony Channel; and Asian content giants Animax, GEM and ONE. SPT Networks’ portfolio collectively features the biggest and best titles from Korea, Japan and the U.S that are first run, exclusive and aired close to the original telecast. Taking the content beyond the screen, SPT Networks immerses viewers in its premium entertainment via large-scale festivals, celebrity fan meets and social platform conversations. In Asia, SPT Networks’ portfolio is available across 19 territories and in over 42 million homes.
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UNDP and Citi Foundation Launch Regional Program to Accelerate Youth Entrepreneurship for Social ChangeUNDP and Citi Foundation Launch Regional Program to Accelerate Youth Entrepreneurship for Social Change
A regional program that targets social challenges and unemployment by harnessing youth leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation was launched by the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Citi Foundation.
The global youth unemployment rate is currently over 13 percent*, that is about 71 million young people, aged 15 to 24, are unemployed worldwide and about half of these live in Asia Pacific.
In addition, the Global Youth Survey 2017: Economic Prospects & Expectations study commissioned by Citi Foundation found that of the 7,000 respondents polled, 69% had dreams of starting their own business but only 44% were trying to do so, citing a lack of education and skills and concerns of failure.
The survey polled respondents across 45 cities worldwide. A majority of 78% also agreed that apprenticeships and internships were critical to future success but 60% did not feel that there were enough of such opportunities in their cities.
Targeted at helping young people overcome some of these challenges, the Youth Co:Lab program will convene a series of National Dialogues and Social Innovation Challenges across Asia-Pacific that will culminate in a Regional Summit to be held in Bangkok in March 2018.
The National Dialogues serve as platforms for young people to directly engage policy makers, private sector partners including incubators, youth-led organizations, NGOs and academia, on how to develop and accelerate youth-led entrepreneurship and social innovation.
Alongside the National Dialogues, the Social Innovation Challenges, akin to start-up
hackathons, enable participating youth to showcase their proposed ideas and solutions to tackle some of the world’s biggest social challenges.
Through these platforms, young entrepreneurs will connect with governments, mentors, incubators, and investors who will help equip them with entrepreneurial capabilities and skills. This includes mentoring and networking opportunities as well as support to start and accelerate their social enterprises.
UNDP and Citi Foundation launch their partnership during the Youth Co:Lab National
Dialogue: Inspiring Innovators, Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Actors for Development (i2 LEAD), held at Makati City. The two-day Dialogue brings together some 100 delegates including government officials, private sector participants, academia and youth representatives to identify challenges and solutions to improve the support and ecosystem for youth entrepreneurship in the Philippines.
Speaking at the launch, Jim McCue, Citi Shared Services Asia Pacific/Japan Head and Risk Shared Services Manila Head said, “We are proud to be partnering with UNDP to empower young people to take control of their future. Youth Co:Lab is part of Citi and the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress** initiative to prepare urban youth to thrive in today's economy. We are doing our part by collaborating with municipal and community leaders in cities around the world to tackle youth unemployment. In addition, I firmly believe that empowering young people to lead through entrepreneurship and social innovation is a critical part of the solution.”
Statistics show many Asia Pacific countries are experiencing a “youth bulge” with adolescents and young adults making up a third of the population. In the Philippines, the median age of its population is 24.2 years and 32% of the 103.5 million population is under 15. It has the third youngest population in the ASEAN after Laos and Cambodia.
“The youth of the Philippines’ not only have a stake in the country’s development trajectory but can also play a critical role in shaping that trajectory. The challenge is to harness the creativity and dynamism of the young and align these to tackling some of the country’s most significant development challenges. UNDP is delighted to work with Citi Foundation in providing a platform to enable youth-led social enterprises to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs in the Philippines,” UNDP Philippines Country Director Titon Mitra said
“We hope to catalyse youth innovations, provide young entrepreneurs with better access to market information and business skills, and with government, provide a better enabling environment for youth-led enterprises. With Citi Foundation, we hope to inspire young innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs to become influential and successful actors for development.”
UNDP and Citi Foundation, alongside local network partners, are pioneering the National Dialogue & Social Innovation Challenge in various countries in Asia Pacific. In its inaugural year, key countries including Thailand, Philippines and China are being piloted and plans are already underway to scale up the Youth Co:Lab program across the region next year.
For updates, follow #YouthCoLab on social media, and visit the Youth Co:Lab Facebook.
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Sony Xperia Z1 Compact: Awesome Android Might, Itty-Bitty Phone
January 6, 2014 by J.R. Nelson Reads (2,629)
Until recently, buying a high-end Android phone meant buying a huge-end Android phone. Phablets have become the name of the game, with models from most manufacturers getting the choicest hardware morsels. Smaller phones have suffered along with slow CPUs, less RAM, little storage and generally worse finishes.
There have been some exceptions, with recent Motorola models, for example, offering a bit of a reprieve, and phones like the HTC One Mini (which wasn’t that much smaller than the HTC One, and it did have slower specs – but it wasn’t a bad phone by any means).
Still, Sony is bucking the trend with its new Xperia Z1 Compact. The new Z1 iteration takes almost every single property from the original Z1 phone and cuts it down a couple of notches.
Inside the smaller – but still waterproof – device, with its 4.3-inch, 1280×720 screen (341ppi), you’ll find a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU at 2.2GHz, an Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM, along with 16GB of flash storage. A micro-SD slot expands that by up to another 64GB. There’s the same 20.7MP rear-facing camera with a Sony ‘G’ lens and optical image stabilization, as well as NFC, GPS/GLONASS, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and an FM radio.
The phone will ship with Android 4.3, with an update to Android 4.4 KitKat expected shortly after launch).
To make a comparison, the new Xperia Z1 Compact is roughly the same size as an Apple iPhone 5s, but a touch wider and a bit thicker, and it weighs about 19% more. In short, it’s a perfect option for users who choose an iPhone primarily based on device size and weight.
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Nepal leads the way in valuing nature
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The Nepalese Government has pledged that the country will lead the way in developing global standards to value ecosystem services; the processes supplied by healthy ecosystems that benefit humankind, such as clean drinking water and crop pollination. Nepal’s Joint-Secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Dr Annapurna Das, opened a national workshop on ecosystem services, which was held in Kathmandu. The workshop is part of a Darwin Initiative project, Understanding, assessing and monitoring ecosystem services for better biodiversity conservation, which is being implemented by the national BirdLife Partner, Bird Conservation Nepal, and BirdLife International. Dr Das said that efforts to reduce poverty would be undermined if Nepal’s biodiversity continues to be lost and the country’s ecosystem services degraded. “One way of tackling this is to demonstrate how sites of high biodiversity value – like Important Bird Areas and Protected Areas – can also provide ecosystem services that significantly help poor communities”, said Dr Hum Gurung, CEO of Bird Conservation Nepal. “We believe that this Darwin Project will have great impact in our country”, he added. The workshop was also attended by senior representatives of Department for National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Also in attendance were staff of national and international NGOs, IUCN Nepal, WWF Nepal Programme, and the United Nations Development Programme’s Small Grant Programme. Dr Das said Nepal was committed to the tough new Convention on Biological Diversity targets, agreed in Nagoya, Japan, in October, and recognised their contribution to reducing poverty and maintaining sustainable livelihoods. He stressed that most poor people in Nepal live in rural areas. “For these people, there is a high dependence on the services which are delivered to them by nature." The Darwin Initiative project has been running since April 2010 and will end in 2013. Participants were given the opportunity to learn about the progress that has been made in the past six months in developing a site-focused, robust and inexpensive methodology to assess and value ecosystem services at sites. There were also presentations on other projects in Nepal relating to ecosystem services – their measurement, routes to policy and establishing payments for services. The project team invited feedback and comment to further improve the methodology, so that it will be shaped in a way that provides the most useful information to end-users and policy planners. “We want to build on the efforts of other projects in Nepal, refine our approach and produce a really practical scientific tool for assessing ecosystem services that can be used widely in sites in Nepal and, indeed, by other BirdLife Partners in countries around the world”, said Alison Stattersfield, Head of Science at BirdLife International. “Today we have a workshop for an important new project”, Dr Das said. “I encourage you to contribute your ideas on what would make a practical toolkit, and to suggest ways in which we can collaborate to continue to learn together. I believe that your experience and enthusiasm will help develop a global standard approach, in which Nepal is proud to lead the way.” Following this workshop, the project team will visit the first of three pilot sites for testing the methodology. Shivapuri- Nagarjung National Park, one of 27 Important Bird Areas in Nepal, will be an important case study for demonstrating the value of ecosystem services to people, as it provides more than 40% of the water supply to the Kathmandu valley and its inhabitants. The two other pilot sites will be Koshi Tappu Ramsar site and Rara National Park.
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From Rome with Love
March Newsletter. Photo (c) Natalie Kennedy
By Angelo Caserta
This article is the editorial for the March edition of the BirdLife Europe & Central Asia Newsletter. To read our newsletter, click here.
Philosophers and psychologists say that there are only two things that no human being will ever be able to remember: no one remembers dying, no one remembers being born. As with any other human being, I do not remember being born. But I know it happened in a city that, after having dominated Europe (and parts of Africa and the Middle East) for centuries with the strength of its army, was given the chance to be associated for the coming centuries with a dream of peace, Our eyes (and my heart) turn to Rome this week to mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, when our grandparents and their parents laid the foundation stones of the European Union, a project that has kept us peaceful and prosperous for these many decades. Europe today means freedom – freedom to live the life one wishes, where one's rights are secured and protected – where people, goods and services move freely – where the very air we breathe, the water we drink and the land we toil are protected by the globe's most progressive laws, standards and practices across the continent we love.
Yet somehow these singular accomplishments are taken for granted, obscured by the anxieties some of our politicians try to exploit. These cynical forces deform by their blatantly false characterisations those achievements which we should gratefully celebrate. In a bit of cruel irony, it is the quintessentially English humourists Monty Python who hit the nail on the head in their classic film ‘The Life of Brian’ asking “What have the Romans ever done for us?” When someone asks, ‘What has the EU ever done for us?’, a quick look and a laugh at this video excerpt is a good place to start!
As people and citizens who spend our lives working to secure our natural heritage, and all the flora and fauna with whom we share it, we have a particular appreciation for what the EU, has done for us and for nature. Most of us know implicitly that, as John Donne's famous poem has it:
No man is an island, Entire of itself
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main
This is the very essence of the work we do. All is interconnected, birds and other species migrate across our self-important borders and cross continents and show us that only by treasuring and respecting this interconnectedness can we thrive.
The European Union is first and foremost about shared values. Joining this project means acknowledging and committing to them. These shared values have enabled the establishment of the Natura 2000 network, the largest coordinated set of protected areas in the world, 18% of our land and 6% of our seas. Environmental protection is at the heart of the European project and countries aspiring to join it must submit proposals for their own sites. For example, as Montenegro advances its EU candidacy it points to its protection of the iconic Ulcinj Salina salt pans as evidence of its acceptance of these shared principles. When Malta joined the EU, it was required to stop finch trapping as just one of the conditions of membership. These seemingly small, incremental but not inconsequential, steps together form a mosaic of the shared engagement we make in securing our sustainable future.
Pigeon over the Roman forum (c) Natalie Kennedy
Our Birds & Habitats Directives, those EU-wide laws which conserve natural habitats and wild flora and fauna, are some of the planet's most visionary tools to save the globe and ensure a sustainable future. And equally important to remember is that for many, the European Union is a beacon – an example of a way forward. Specifically in nature, the Natura 2000 network has inspired the creation of the Emerald Network. Under the auspices of the Bern Convention, launched in 1998, these protected areas of special conservation interest stretch across almost 60 countries with an impact far beyond the EU’s 28 member states.
Of course, as any project, the EU can always be improved, but that can only be done through the positive engagement of all those who, like us, work every day to create a better world for all living species. At BirdLife we criticize the EU for laws and policies that have a negative impact on our natural capital, true. The Common Agricultural Policy, for example, is one of our main targets as it has flaws and needs to be fixed. But we do it by engaging in the debate and in the European Commission’s consultation with our science, our policy proposals and our fantastic network of supporters. You can join this debate and help us through the Living Land platform.
We believe the shaping of the future of Europe (including also countries who are not part of the project) based on our values is definitely one of our responsibilities,
It is also in line with the essence of BirdLife. We too are a partnership, a group of diverse people and organizations, global in outlook, local in practice, who share common values. We believe in cooperation and dialogue. We believe that our planet and the natural resources upon it are a precious heritage which must be protected to ensure our children's and our civilisation’s future. These are the reasons why, while working across the entire European and Central Asian region, at BirdLife Europe we have accepted the challenge to dedicate additional time and energy to contribute to the further evolution of the project that some visionary leaders courageously and innovatively advanced sixty years ago in Rome.
Angelo Caserta is Director of BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
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Feeling Crabby
Did you know that crabs feel pain? Neither did I, but it's right there in the science journal of experimental boilology. It says "If you cook crabs they'll die screaming horrible deaths of utter agony." Or something like that. I mean, look at this article in the Globe and Mail, titled "That lobster you are going to boil feels pain: study".
Wait... are lobsters crabs? 'Cause I'm pretty sure they have different names for a reason. Also... what the hell! How do you know if crabs feel pain! Did they interview the crabs?
EXPERIMENTER: "Ok, now I'm going to give you a light shock. I'll move it up a little after each one and you tell me when you feel that it qualifies as pain."
CRAB: "Gotcha."
EXPERIMENTER: "How's that?"
CRAB: "Tingles a little, that's about it."
EXPERIMENTER: "What about now?"
CRAB: "It's a bit uncomfortable, but nothing I can't handle."
EXPERIMENTER: "And now?"
CRAB: "That's weird... my claw keeps snapping open and closed."
EXPERIMENTER: "Ok, I'm going up again."
CRAB: "Ow! Yeah, that hurts."
CRAB: "What the hell!? Yeah, I already said it hurts. Turn the damn thing off!"
EXPERIMENTER: "A little bit more..."
CRAB: "Aaaah! Stop it!"
EXPERIMENTER: "You smell so good right now."
CRAB: "What is wrong with you!!!! Owowowowow! Wait, what's that?"
EXPERIMENTER: "Oh this? Ummm.... Stage 2 of the experiment requires me to melt some butter on you. It's nothing to worry about."
Honestly though, how do you quantify pain in an animal? For people it's easy, you just ask them. So what did they use as a criteria for the crabs? Apparently, learning quickly to avoid a stimulus is enough. For example, here’s the crab experiment:
1. There's two caves.
2. Crab goes into one cave.
3. Crab may or may not get a shock.
4. End of trial one.
5. Crab goes into the cave a second time, crab gets a shock.
6. Crab says "eff this" and tries the other cave.
7. Ergo, the crab feels pain.
Whaaaa??? Why does that mean the crab was in pain? I mean sure, as people we can extrapolate and say "yeah, that probably hurt." But by that logic we'd also say anteaters hate their freaking lives because ants taste like ass, whereas in actuality anteaters probably think ants taste like tapioca pudding.
Let me put this another way. I'm going to show you the exact same experiment with a person, and you can tell me whether this behaviour can be explained as straight-up proof that crabs feel pain:
1. There's two elevators.
2. Paul goes into one elevator.
3. Paul may or may not smell fart.
5. Paul goes into the elevator a second time, Paul smells fart.
6. Paul says "eff this" and tries the other elevator.
7. Ergo, Paul feels pain.
See? Step 7 makes no sense. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't describe that scenario as a painful experience (that would be one helluva toot), yet by the crab experiment criteria it's "painful".
Just one more reason to be critical of everything you read.
COMPLETE TANGENT:
Ever heard of Gamma world? It's a roleplaying game like Dungeons & Dragons, made by the same people (Wizards of the Coast), and more or less using the same rules. The major difference is that it's futuristic sci-fi instead of fantasy.
This is the description of one of the powers for the character that controls electricity: "You zap your enemy with an arc of electricity, making your foe jerk and dance around like a spaz."
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? "Jerk and dance around like a spaz"??? Since when was the word "spaz" used by anyone a) older than 11, and b) not totally out of touch with derogatory terminology?
Now, some of you regular readers may be aware that I discovered I was epileptic about a year and a half ago, so obviously I'm going to be more sensitive about this. But this description could basically be written as "You zap your enemy with an arc of electricity, making your foe jerk and dance around like an epileptic.", or ""You zap your enemy with an arc of electricity, making your foe jerk and dance around like a retard."
Including that description in a game book validates its use as a non-offensive term, which it is not. Some people would say that it's part of the vernacular now and has lost its offensive tone, like the words "gypped" (gypsied) or "heepy-jeebies" (Hebrews and Jews). I disagree, because people still use the word spaz specifically in the derogatory manner, directed at the group it's derogatory towards.
At any rate, I wrote the letter below to Wizards of the Coast:
I have a simple request of you, which I hope you'll take seriously.
In the description of the Electrokinetic power "Electric Boogaloo" you say "You zap your enemy with an arc of electricity, making your foe jerk and dance around like a spaz." As an epileptic, the use of term "a spaz" makes me sick every time I see it. Maybe the person who wrote it didn't realize the term "a spaz" means "an epileptic", and was unaware of the painful association that terminology has for any person who experiences grand mal seizures, particularly those who experienced seizures when young. Regardless, could you change that description in future versions of the rulebook? I want to play gamma world, but I literally can't play an Electrokinetic character. Given that there's a thousand other ways to describe the power without using those words, I don't think this is an unreasonable request.
And this was their response:
Greetings Paul,
Thank you for contacting Wizards of the Coast Game Support, we appreciate you for providing feedback. This email is to inform you that we have received your comments, and while we cannot guarantee an additional response, we do appreciate that you took the time to bring your thoughts on the word choice for Gamma World.
Thanks again, and if you have any additional questions or comments for us, please contact us again. Have fun, and good gaming!
Translation: Yeah, whatever.
So hey, Wizards of the Coast; go screw yourselves.
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Games and Ammo
Note: I'm not completely insane, so please don't read this post under the belief that I'm somehow arguing in favour of anything other than rational thought.
Can we chat, just for a moment, about guns?
The recent shootings in the US have been brutal. Absolutely, unabashedly, brutal. When something like that happens it's a wake-up call for an entire culture... a chance to ask "Are we doing it right? How could we do it better?"
It's good to know they've come up with a solution:
I'm going to zoom in on that top left corner for clarity's sake:
Yes, that's right. Guns aren't the problem in these shootings. Video games are the problem.
What? How the hell does that work? Seriously, this was the front page of the NY Times for Sunday, January 13th. Apparently in the US, while people were racing out to buy automatic weapons in fear of laws that might happen, they were busy pointing the finger at video games because, hey, some of those shooters played video games (and yes, I'm going to quote extensively from that article).
Look, I know a lot of people want a scapegoat here. But in this instance I'm going with the tiny shards of metal travelling at the speed of sound over a bunch of images on a television. For crying out loud, there's a real opportunity here... who could possibly benefit from deflecting the argument away from guns?
"...public rhetoric has clearly shifted since the shootings, with politicians and even the National Rifle Association — normally a fan of shooting games — quick to blame video games and Hollywood movies for inuring children to violence."
Oh. So you're telling me that after a bunch of people get killed with guns the NRA is pointing the finger at video games? You think they don't have a horse in this race? Folks, that's like the liquor industry arguing that the most effective way to combat drunk driving is to regulate milk. A little critical thought would be nice.
One of the problems here is that lawmakers don't know their ass from a teakettle when it comes to games. They simply say "violent video games" without really understanding what that means. For instance:
"There have been reports that Mr. Blah Blah*, the Newtown gunman who killed himself after his rampage, liked World of Warcraft and other violent games, as do many young men."
Whoah, hold on... what the hell just happened there? What was the point of the "as do many young men" part of that sentence? Are you saying the guy is like many other young men, so don't blow the games thing out of context? Or are you intimating that there's a whole bunch of young men out there who are potential killers? Christ... you went to journalism school, didn't you? A little clarity would be nice.
Back to my original point, which was the part about how he "liked World of Warcraft and other violent games." Uhhh... anyone out there actually seen what WoW looks like?
Yeah, that's a regular murder simulator you're got there. If there's a way to sub-menu a person to death, this guy's primed to do it.
Come on. Please educate yourself on the issue.
"Studies on the impact of gaming violence offer conflicting evidence. But science aside..."
Sigh. This quote says so much. "You can have your science, but what you should really be listening to is my gut instinct..."
"Residents in Southington, Conn., 30 miles northeast of Newtown, went so far as to organize a rally to destroy violent games. (The event was canceled this week.)"
Well at least we didn't get all the way to book burning.
“I don’t let games like Call of Duty in my house,” Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said this week on MSNBC. “You cannot tell me that a kid sitting in a basement for hours playing Call of Duty and killing people over and over and over again does not desensitize that child to the real-life effects of violence.”
THAT'S WHY THERE'S A MATURE RATING ON THE BOX!!! WE'RE TELLING YOU NOT TO LET YOUR KID PLAY IT!!! Congratulations for being a parent who can read. No, really, bravo. By the way, you know who puts those ratings on the box? The games industry. And they did it on their own. You think that happened with films? FYI, the average age of a gamer is 35. It's not like they're shipping a free copy of Call of Duty and a package of Marlboro's with every Super Mario Brothers sale. Oh, and by the way:
"2009 research by the Federal Trade Commission [credited] game makers for going further than any other media group to shield children from inappropriate material. Major retailers like GameStop consistently refused to sell “mature” rated games to minors, the commission found, and game makers usually did not market them to children."
So yeah, there's that. We're deliberately trying not to put violent games in the hands of kids. The only thing that can get in our way is crappy parenting, but lord knows that's not going to be part of the argument. By the way... do any of you readers think the games industry has to do any of this? Actually, we don't:
"The industry’s biggest political asset may be the 2011 ruling by the Supreme Court that found restrictions on the sale of video games to be unconstitutional.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, wrote that evidence linking games to violence was unpersuasive and that games had the same legal protection as violent literary classics like Grimm’s Fairy Tales or “Snow White.”"
So here's the summary: There's no conclusive evidence that violent games preclude children towards violent acts, but the games industry regulates itself anyway, even though the US Supreme Court says it doesn't have to. There is evidence however, that when people get shot to death there is a gun involved.
Take this opportunity to fix a problem, America. Don't squander it on rehashing an argument that a) has no scientific basis, b) is already being addressed, and c) has no direct relationship to the problem.
Perhaps surprisingly, the most salient quote in the entire article came from a Texas Republican:
"Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, suggested that the focus on violent video games is misplaced. He called the games “a healthy form of education and entertainment for our family” and said ratings made it easy to keep inappropriate games from his children."
Hear hear.
*I don't think that splashing the media with the names of these mass murderers does anything to help the problem. In fact, I think it's partially why they do it; to gain a measure of fame in compensation for a life of anonymity. I'll be damned if I'm going to contribute by putting the guy's name in my blog.
Why is it that so many people don't remove the foil from packages of dip, cream cheese, sour cream, etc? They just kind of open it halfway and then leave the rest attached so that it stays there when they put the lid on, forcing them to laterally excavate dip from under the foil like a coal miner. Does that foil have some sort of magical properties I'm unaware of? Just remove the foil and enjoy unencumbered dip access!
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Drinking in Your Television
Why is it that people in film and television never finish a drink unless it's supposed to say something? Here's the ways people handle a drink on TV, and how the scene invariably ends:
The Angst Drinker
Holds their beer/highball loosely, never really takes a sip. Probably plays with the label/straw and talks straight down into the bar, only occasionally turning to look at the person they're talking to. Deep thinking moment.
EXIT STRATEGY: Takes one actual sip, places the drink emphatically on the bar, then grabs their coat and leaves. Note: This person ALWAYS has a coat hanging folded on the back of their chair.
The Brief Conversationalist
This guy just drops by and is greeted with a "can I buy/get you a drink?" They accept the drink, have a 12 second conversation, and never touch their beverage.
EXIT STRATEGY: They just walk away, leaving the person who got them the drink stuck with the bill for something they never even tried to have a sip of. Note: Unlike real life, this person rarely gets punched in the face for being a dink.
The Casual Gathering Folk
This is any scene where a bunch of people are drinking. The drink is there simply to say "Hey, I'm enjoying some time with my friends." At no point will anyone actually drink from their glass. (See: Mother, How I Met Your).
EXIT STRATEGY: The scene simply ends, the alcohol is just a prop. Note: Sometimes a character raises their glass to their lips... this is an indication the camera will cut soon, as we will never actually see that drink make it all the way to their face. EXCEPTION: People drank their faces off on CHEERS.
The Perfect Changer
There's at least one empty on the table at the start of the scene, and they probably order another one before it's done. It will be served with less than 10 seconds left in the scene and they will never touch it.
EXIT STRATEGY: The perfect changer somehow is always able to finish the scene by reaching into their wallet, pulling out two crisp bills, and walking away. This guy is either the most generous tipper on the planet or a massive jerk. Note: Nobody in the history of film has ever paid for a drink using a credit or debit card except in the following scenarios: a) They are absolutely cranked and angry that their card has been declined, or b) They got cranked last night and left their card at the bar, then they go to retrieve it and adventures ensue.
PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY FINISH THEIR DRINKS ON FILM:
The Non-Drinker
This person – generally a woman – "doesn't usually go out", but some stressful event (usually involving the workplace or an ex-lover) causes them to go out with their friends in an opening scene of the movie, wherein they finish their drinks. As a result they get way too drunk and make "a huge mistake", generally meaning they met the love of their life but don't realize it yet.
EXIT STRATEGY: Camera fades to black, immediately followed by them waking up with a raging hangover and not remembering what happened the night before. Note: Within 5 minutes their hangover will be a non-issue. This is forgivable, since otherwise the rest of the movie would be them shaking on their couch and wondering whether sticking their head into a cold bathtub would allow them to absorb the water straight into their brain.
Almost always a guy, he finishes his drink in every scene. Only alcoholics finish their drinks.
EXIT STRATEGY: Doesn't have one. Every scene ends with them having "another one", or with another character dragging them away against their will. Note: This person will either look like a hobo or a millionaire, there are no in-betweens. If they look like a regular person they'll have a drug problem, not an alcohol problem. EXCEPTION: Regular people can be recovering alcoholics, just not active alcoholics.
I actually don't care about the Canucks this year. Thanks NHL, for destroying 25 years of passion for my team.
Heeeeyyy... how you doing Whitecaps? You're looking mighty fine this evening...
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Five Big Changes to China’s VAT in 2019
by: Amber Liu, Asia Briefing, Dezan Shira & Associates
Posted: 24th April 2019 08:58
Following the announcements made in the annual Work Report delivered at the Two Sessions, the Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration, and General Administration of Customs have jointly issued a series of new policies on value-added tax (VAT).
The new polices, which took effect on April 1, 2019, aim to enhance economic activity in certain sectors by lowering VAT rates and increasing VAT credits.
The latest changes mark the final stages of China’s overhaul of its VAT system, and come as part of a larger RMB 2 trillion (US$298.3 billion) cost cutting package intended to boost China’s economy
Here, we highlight five major changes to the new VAT policies.
1. Reducing VAT rates
Beginning April 1, 2019, taxpayers who were originally subject to VAT rates of 16 percent and 10 percent imports or exports of goods and services, will now be subject to an adjusted 13 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
The 10 percent deduction rate on agricultural products purchased by taxpayers will be adjusted to 9 percent. For agricultural products purchased by taxpayers for production or commissioned processing, the input VAT will be calculated at a 10 percent deduction rate; previously, it was subject to VAT at 13 percent.
Moreover, for goods purchased by overseas visitors, the departure tax refund rate has now been adjusted to 11 percent and 8 percent from 13 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
Transitional rules
The tax position during the changeover period has been further clarified to ensure a smooth transition into the new VAT rates. Generally, if the VAT invoice was generated or issued prior to April 1, 2019, the old tax rate will apply – this point is illustrated and expanded upon in the examples below.
Example 1: If a VAT invoice has been issued prior to April 1, 2019, any corresponding negative VAT invoice issued – due to sales discount, sales return, sales cancellation, or inaccuracies in the original VAT invoice – will also be subject to the old tax rate.
Example 2: In situations where a general VAT taxpayer has not issued VAT invoices for taxable income generated before April 1, 2019 but needs to issue such invoices on or after April 1, 2019 – the VAT invoicing will be done at the old tax rate.
2. Changing the redemption of input VAT credit for real estate and projects under construction
From April 1, 2019, a business registered as a general VAT taxpayer can claim the full input VAT credit all at once for purchases of real estate and construction services.
Previously, the old rule stipulated that the input VAT credits for purchases of real estate and construction services are claimed over a two-year period.
3. Allowing input VAT credits for transportation services
Businesses registered as general VAT taxpayers can now claim input VAT credits for domestic passenger transport services and credit its input tax against its output tax.
However, the input VAT for transportation services will be calculated differently according to the documentation provided and mode of transportation taken.
For taxpayers who fail to obtain a special VAT invoice, but can obtain an electronic general VAT invoice, the input VAT credit is the amount indicated on the electronic general invoice.
Alternately, for taxpayers who can claim input VAT credits for domestic flights, rail, road, and waterway transportation services using supporting invoice or ticketing documentation and passenger ID information, the following formulas apply.
4. Allowing VAT additional deductions for certain industries
During the period between April 1, 2019 to December 31, 2021, taxpayers in the following service industries are eligible for a 10 percent additional VAT deduction based on deductible input VAT in the current period:
Postal and telecommunications services;
Research and development, technical services, information technology services;
Cultural, sports and creative services;
Logistics and ancillary services;
Certification, consulting, and business support services;
Accommodation and leasing services;
Education and healthcare; and
Travel and entertainment services.
Taxpayers shall set up separate accounts to track the movement of the additional deduction and its balance.
5. Allowing VAT refund for excess input VAT credits
In the past, when a company’s input VAT exceeds the output VAT, the excess VAT credits can be carried forward to offset the output VAT incurred in the next tax period.
Under the new policy, businesses are able to enjoy a refund on their excess input VAT (meaning added cash flow for the company), if they are able to meet the following criteria:
If the incremental overpaid VAT for each of the six consecutive months (two consecutive quarters if taxed quarterly) is a positive number, and the incremental overpaid VAT in the sixth month is not less than RMB 500,000 (US$74,561);
The taxation credit is rated as A or B;
There has been no VAT fraud in the last 36 months prior to claim;
There have been no penalties by tax authorities 36 months before its claim for VAT refund; and
They have not received refunds on their levy.
Preparing for the new changes
To prepare for these reforms, businesses are advised to reflect on how the new changes affect both their internal management systems and external business operations.
In doing so, businesses should carefully review their agreements and processes to ensure this is in line with the new VAT policies.
This includes reviewing the purchase and sales contract with suppliers and customers as well as internal software – such as their VAT invoicing and ERP system.
With regards to the ERP system, businesses should review the VAT rates under the purchase and sales modules, inform key users of such changes, and perform regular checks to make sure the rates are chosen correctly.
Enterprises are also advised to check whether they are eligible for the 10 percent additional VAT deduction as well as the refund for excess input VAT credits.
Finally, enterprises are advised to share the new policy of input VAT credits for transportation services with staff to make sure they get proper support for their travel.
If the company has an established ERP system, it is necessary to update the system to allow their staff to fill in input VAT amount (or calculate the input VAT automatically by the system) when the travel expenses reimbursement applications are filled in the system.
For travel expenses – enterprises are also advised to differentiate business-related travel from travel carried out for staff welfare purposes as the latter is not allowed for input VAT deduction.
This article was first published by China Briefing, which is produced by Dezan Shira & Associates.
The firm assists foreign investors throughout Asia from offices across the world, including inin China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, India,and Russia. Readers may write info@dezshira.com for more support.
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Deer Trail Curling Club (DTCC)
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Book Our Facilities
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Phone: 1 705-848-7301
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Sturling Rules for Teams with a Bye in Regular Play
Because only 7 teams have registered this year for Tuesday night, one team will have a bye each week from regular play. Sturling is available that night for this team. Many clubs have regular Sturling leagues. If it catches on, the DTCC could look into this possibility.
The team is divided into two teams of two players. This format allows players to hone their delivery skills in a quicker-paced format. The 6-end game usually lasts an hour and a half. There is less sweeping and more even participation and responsibility of players.
Try it out! See rules below. Rules will also be posted in the lounge and a set will be available to bring down to the "Sturling" sheet.
Our curling facility gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canadian Curling Association through its Curling Assistance Program.
In December 2014, our club President applied for a CAP grant from the CCA (now Curling Canada) in the Bricks and Mortar section. This April our club was one of 16 successful applicants (out of 75) to receive a grant of $8000.00. This plaque will be displayed in our club lounge. Thank you to the CCA (Curling Canada) for this much needed money, which will help defray many of the costs incurred with our pipe project and other club upgrades.
(click on the plaque to enlarge)
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site update: Metis 9
The (provisional) project page for Metis 9 is now live:
Metis 9 is a collection of improvisative tactics, and higher-level interactive macros for ensemble performance designed, designated and specified by Han-earl Park.
Metis 9 has ‘glorious noise’ or ‘frenzy’ at its root, yet it is not so much structuring the noise as it is a meta-layer of complexity that performers can introduce at will. Metis 9 does not tell the performer what to play, or provide all the details of how to interact, but it is an additional network protocol for interactive possibilities. Group improvisation is always the primary protocol; Metis 9 provides secondary or tertiary tactics that create an additional focused complexity. The decision for each bloop and bleep is still retained by the ensemble. These macros enable specific interactionist schemes to be expressed in an open improvisative context; it is improvisative play channeled by group consent.
Metis 9 builds on my experience teaching improvisation at University College Cork, and performing as part of large ensembles led by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker and Pauline Oliveros. Metis 9 includes tactics developed from performances and practices of Cecil Taylor, Tony Oxley, John Zorn and Anthony Braxton, in particular, and the form of its practice (training and instruction) is inspired by the ensemble improvisation-composition works of George E. Lewis among others.
[Metis 9 page…]
I am seeking opportunities to perform Metis 9 in small and large ensemble contexts with, at its core, the trio of Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora and Josh Sinton. In particular, I am seeking performance opportunities for Gargantius Effect +4 (Murray Campbell and Randy McKean with Gino Robair, Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora and Josh Sinton) in October 2013 in North America (contact me for other locations and dates). Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!
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Hassan II
"The throne of God was on water"
As if placed on the sea, Casablanca's Grand Mosque seems to embody this verse from the Koran. With its 200 m minaret, it is also the tallest religious building in the world, higher than the Pyramid of Cheops (146 m) and Saint Peter's in Rome (132 m).
To build it, 15 ha of land were reclaimed from the sea. Its sculpted arcades rise to 40 m and it has a 60 m high opening roof. 3,600 site workers worked 24 hours a day for 17 months to build the structure, while five years were required to complete all the work. Ornate capitals, coffered ceilings, ornamental cupolas, gigantic decorated doors, mashrabiyas, wrought iron with geometric motifs, and much more. The project was not just a technical challenge for BYMARO, as the structure itself is also an artistic masterpiece. The building can accommodate 35,000 worshipers within its walls and up to 80,000 on its gigantic marble square.
Commissioned in 1988 by King Hassan II of Morocco, also the Commander of the Faithful in his country, he was very personally involved in the construction. The structure was inaugurated by His Majesty on 30 August 1993.
Product line: Culture & Education
Main Contractor: BYMARO
Handover: 1993
Architect: Michel Pinseau
Client: le roi Hassan II
Key figures:
Size of 20 000 m²
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Uber FAQ
What Do Uber Drivers Make Per Hour?
January 21, 2017 January 29, 2017 by Chris
Outside of New York City, Uber drivers make $12-$15/hour. If you get more, you’re doing great. If you happen to get a tip, even better, but Uber discourages tips.
An transit bus in New York City displaying an Uber ad. Uber settled with the FTC over allegations of misstating driver income and lease arrangements.
And that’s gross before expenses, such as gas and car washes.
Uber’s lengthy history of deception regarding driver earnings
I’m sure you heard that Uber drivers make a lot more than that.
Uber has long claimed high earnings for its drivers. They use a practice called anchoring, introducing a concept or number that is clearly ridiculous. But the act of saying the number sinks it into your head, creating a reference point, against which other claims are judged.
These ads, promising a specific income, got Uber in trouble with the FTC
In 2014, Travis Kalanick, Uber’s Co-Founder and CEO, said:
“The net income for a driver in New York is $90,000 a year. The net income for a driver in S.F—the median—is $74,000 a year. At the end of the day the drivers are doing ok, they’re doing great.”
This was (and is) ludicrous. Gross income minus expenses leaves net income. So NY drivers grossed much more than $90K? Crazy.
And the second claim, the one about San Francisco, is even worse. Again, Kalanick claims SF drivers gross more than $74K/yr. But here they say that is the median income, meaning that half of their drivers make even more! Outlandish.
Although many have long-questioned Uber’s claims, including this September 2014 Washington Post article, the company, valued at $68 billion and the most valuable startup in history, only recently got officially penalized for the practice.
On January 19, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had reached a $20 million monetary judgment against Uber Technologies, Inc., resulting in part from its deceptive representation of driver income.
When it comes to reporting on the wages of its drivers, don’t trust Uber. I don’t trust self-reporting surveys, either. But I do trust Uber’s own statistics when revealed to government watchdogs.
Uber Technologies, Inc., as a private company, holds no responsibility to reveal income figures or other statistics. But courts can compel it to release such information in a suit or complaint.
What the FTC’s stats reveal about Uber driver’s income
The FTC takes on the same $90K/$74K claim mentioned above. They cite as the source a now-deleted website post dated May 2014.
“Notwithstanding these representations,” the FTC writes in is complaint, “for at least the year preceding the CEO’s statement (May 2013-May 2014), the median uberX Driver in New York City earned $29,000 less annually than Uber claimed and the median uberX Driver in San Francisco earned $21,000 less annually than Uber claimed in its website post when Driver’s hours are standardized to a 40-hour work week.”
The median NY driver made $61,000/yr. Not bad, you might think. But in New York, drivers have some of the highest expenses in the country, including commercial auto insurance.
Misleading Craigslist ads posted by Uber
Not exactly comforting to think that your Uber driver may have been recruited on Craigslist, but it appears to be a practice of the company to post ads there. The FTC made issue with Uber’s claims of specific income levels in ads dating from January 2015 to March 2015.
Here are the claims and the percentage of drivers who obtained the claimed amount in various US cities.
City Craigslist Advertisement
Quoted Hourly Fare
Percent of Drivers Averaging Quoted Hourly Fare
Minneapolis $18 < 10%
Boston $25 < 10%
Philadelphia $25 < 10%
Baltimore $16 < 20%
Denver $20 < 20%
Los Angeles $20 < 20%
Orange County $20 < 20%
San Diego $20 < 20%
Chicago $21 < 20%
Washington D.C. $21 < 20%
San Francisco $29 < 20%
Phoenix $20 < 30
Dallas $15 < 30%
Atlanta $16 < 30%
Houston $17 < 30%
Seattle $20 < 30%
New Jersey $21 < 30%
Miami $16 < 50%
Fewer than 10% of the drivers in Boston received $25/hour. In Minneapolis, fewer than 10% of the drivers make $16/hour!
Granted these figures are now about two years old, but I would not expect them to have changed much. Indeed, Uber cut rates in January 2016, so if anything, income could be lower. Uber always claimed that cutting rates increased income for drivers, but I did not find that to be the case. Lower prices lead to shorter trips, which pay Uber better. (but that’s another post).
The lesson from these statistics: reduce your income expectations going into Uber driving, and never trust anything Uber says.
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2 thoughts on “What Do Uber Drivers Make Per Hour?”
Stick Shift Lyft
Hey man, thanks for getting my attention on twitter.
Chicago market here, $17-$22 per hour.
I only work nights and weekend nights, there is rarely surge, in fact I avoid surges routinely. Mornings surge here, but traffic is a bid deterrent for me.
Also, I can’t figure out how to follow your blog. (Also just started my own blog)
CaliUberGirl
In Fresno, CA, I make less than minimum wage after (& often even before!) expenses. But I am really limited what I can do for work due to disability so I’m stuck.
Check these posts out!
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VICELAND’s Desus & Mero Rip into Uber and Its CEO
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Flaming Cabbage Productions
You dream it, we make it a reality.
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S&S Productions (1988, FCP) “Out of the realm of nonsense comes “S&S Productions”. He came back from Army, and he came back from a hard day working the grill at McDonald’s. Together they mounted an attack against SANITY!” Though this was pre-FCP, it was one of the steps that made what is now Flaming Cabbage Productions.
The Film (1990) “A group of young, impulsive film makers come together with the novel idea of reeking chaos and destruction while devising a sinister plan on their way toward total world domination! …But decided to do this film instead.” This film was the first full collaboration of Flaming Cabbage Productions. It took the course of 8 months to film. This film called “The Film”, was a series of film shorts and clips that were sparked ideas made on the go. Mark would say, “Hey, grab the camera and film me. Trust me!!!” And the rest is history.
The Film 2 (1992) “A group of creative, innovative and energetic people got together to film things that no one would ever dare!!……… Because there was nothing better to do.” This film had lots of additions. It was longer with more clips, we had more cast and crew members, and actually started editing the films. We sequenced all the clips together and added music & sound effects. And also tried scripting a little. All in all, it was the starting block for FCP. It shaped the future of the company. Now the rest is history.*
The Film 3 (2003) Offers all the same kicks that the first 2 Films had. But this film will have more structure and will highlight each clip. Contains unused clips from the first two films and never before seen clips.
Captain Lumpencrauch (1996) “The streets of Charlevoix are infested with thugs trying to be supervillians. These thugs and thieves, dressed in outrageous costumes, try and gain control of the city of Charlevoix. Only one man, with an even more outrageous costume, can stop these wrong-do’ers in there tracks.” Some guys wanted to film something, and we brian-stormed this in about 15 minutes. This was going to be an ongoing series of film shorts. But we lost two of the cast to college and other persuits.
Cops & Thugs (1995) “The Cops are looking for the Thugs, and the Thugs are hunting down the Cops. And a crooked Mayor is behind it all. But will there be a third party hunting down both the Cops & Thugs?” So far we’ve only filmed part 1 of this mini trilogy. We figure it will be a 3 part series.
Hot Water Bottle: The Band, The Story (1998) This was just an assortment of gigs and practices the band “Hot Water Bottle” did. Hot Water Bottle was a band that worked out of Charlevoix, Michigan. They only stayed together for a little over a year, but the bands aftershock is still felt by ex-members and the fans. An ex-Hot-Water-Bottle band member said, “I still to this day, get stopped on the street and get identified as the ‘Bassist for that band’.”
Reckoning (2004) “Joel wakes up to find that the world as it was before his nap, has chaged for the worst.”
The Coin (2004) Follow the day in the life of a special coin.
Die Soft: The Rise of Team McClean (2008) “Don McClean was the greatest American hero of all time … that is until he teamed up with his son, Donnie jr. All seemed well as the father/son team defended justice and the innocent with distinction and valor. That was until that fate-filled day when, during a routine bust, Donnie jr. was killed in a shootout. Where Don McClean is now, is anyone’s guess. But now a new threat threatens us in a threatening manner. Is there anyone who can save us like McClean has done so many times before? Where is Don McClean now?” Release Date: July 27, 2008 (Charlevoix, MI – USA)
Monsterhood (2009) “The neighbors of a rural 1950’s neighborhood find their lives turned upside down as they find that a long since abandoned house on their street has been purchased by … MONSTERS! Determined to rid themselves of this horrific menace to their sleepy, repressed little neighborhood, the residents band together in fear to plot the eradication of this ‘monstrous’ problem. But are the new homeowners really as big of a threat as they have jumped to conclude? Or is there a bigger threat waiting for them all, just around the next corner?” Release Date: July 25 & 26, 2009 (Charlevoix, MI – USA)
Quantum movie Leap (Pending Series) “Friends get transported into the TV universe and fight to get back to reality.”
FORGOTTEN (Pending) – “A man with no past, finds a present with no other people, and a future of Fear!”
The Trouble With Travelling in Time (Pending) – “A man travels back in time to warn himself … but gets more than he bargined for!”
The Amatuers (Pending) – “Two kids plan to hold up a convenience store … but get more than they barganed for.”
DJ: The Motion Picture (Pending) The day and night in the life of a radio DJ. It will follow a 24 hour period at a couple of different radio stations (AM, FM, and Online). Showing what happens to and with the DJ’s and Board Operators. (This script has been put on the backburner again. No word as to when it may be worked on again.)
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Addresses the perception and treatment of mental illness.
Based on the real case of judge Daniel Paul Schreber, a subject written about by Sigmund Freud, who wrote his own memoir of one of his periods of psychosis. The memoir, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness has been recently reissued by the New York Review of Books, and has sold over 6000 copies.
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The Beatles: Rock Band Announced
Posted by Alex Lifschitz Categories: Electronic Arts, Music, Party Games, Release Dates,
Well, ever since the folks at Harmonix got their hands on the Beatles catalogue, we all (and by that, I mean ‘I’) figured that this day was coming. Sure enough, Apple, MTV, and Harmonix have announced The Beatles: Rock Band for release on 9/9/09, and a website has been put up with nothing but an interior shot of (what I believe is) Abbey Road Studios (main recording studio for the Fab Four) and a ‘9.9.09’ plastered across the screen. The game will feature content by the Beatles (duh) and will be bundled with signature instrument replicas if you order the full shebang, and if that means I get to rock a little plastic Hofner, I’ll be there on day one. When reached for comment, Paul and Ringo both chased me off their property with vicious dogs. I tried to reach the other Beatles, but I unfortunately lent my shovel to the neighbors.
Hit the jump for the full press release.
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E3 2008: Nintendo Media Briefing photo gallery
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Action, Adventure, Features, Music, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Party Games, Portable/Mobile, Screenshots, Wii,
We are hard at work on getting our Nintendo video wrap-up posted, but in the meantime, we figured we’d hook you up with a massive image gallery featuring the highlights of the presentation. Within the images you will find shots of Animal Crossing: Town Folk, Call of Duty: World at War, Wii Sports Resort, and more. We’ve also got images of the Wii MotionPlus and WiiSpeak accessories. All in all, we’ve got over 70 images for you to check out and enjoy, so head on over to our Nintendo E3 2008 gallery.
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Wii Fit Box, More Screens Emerge
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Accessories, Party Games, Wii,
It’s been a while since we’ve heard about everyone’s favorite balance board, but with the Japanese release date just over a month away we knew that the info had to start trickling in. Above we have the (presumably final) box art for the board, which should retail around $75 when it hits the state. Click the jump to see more pictures of the software in action, including a new preview of a skiing simulation using the board! There’s also a link to a new movie of several minigames. So what’re you waiting for!
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E3 2007: Nintendo’s Press Conference Recap And Impressions
Posted by Chris Pereira Categories: Action, Adventure, CAPCOM, Casual, Corporate News, Driving, E3, Electronic Arts, First Person Shooters, Internet, Music, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Party Games, Puzzle, Release Dates, Retro, Sports, Trailers, Virtual Console, Wii,
As with the Microsoft conference before it, I was confined to my hotel Wi-Fi to take in Nintendo’s E3 press conference. But, unlike Microsoft’s, I’m walking away thoroughly and utterly disappointed. I’m going to go ahead and spoil part of the full story from after the break: there was no mention of Smash Bros. being online. Me = worried much.
Set your expectations low before you view the rest after the break.
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E3 2007: Microsoft’s Press Conference Recap And Impressions
Posted by Chris Pereira Categories: Accessories, Action, Activision, Adventure, Bungie, CAPCOM, Casual, Corporate News, Driving, E3, Electronic Arts, First Person Shooters, Hardware, Microsoft, Party Games, PC, Puzzle, Release Dates, Retro, Role Playing Games, SEGA, Simulation, Special Editions, Sports, Strategy, Survival Horror, Take2, Third Person Shooters, Trailers, Ubisoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace,
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend E3 this year – instead, I’m on vacation in Cape Cod, using awful hotel Wi-Fi to watch streamed press conferences. Not the most glamorous way to take it all in, but exciting announcements, great games and new details are welcome no matter how you hear about them.
Here’s my personal transcription (in very brief form) of all the announcements and showings, along with some reflection on what Microsoft had to show.
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Guitar Hero: Rock the 80’s Coming to PS2 and… Nothing Else Yet
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Activision, Music, Party Games, PlayStation 2, Xbox Live,
The official Guitar Hero: Rock the 80’s website has launched, and there’s a nasty surprise waiting for Xbox 360 owners. Currently, it looks like the game will only be released for the PS2. Still, given the money-printing nature of the GH franchise, I’m guessing the 80’s tunes will be made available to 360 owners one way or another. The big question, of course, is whether 80’s edition will ever be released in disc form for the 360, or whether the new characters, locales, and songs will just be released as downloadable content for the 360’s GHII, making it exclusive to Xbox 360 Premium and Elite systems.
We’ll keep you updated as we get more info about this title. For now, check out the tracklist and other info available at the official website. Guitar Hero Encore: 80’s edition will launch in summer ‘07.
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Ubisoft Milks Raving Rabbids, Steals Ad Ideas
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Nintendo DS, Party Games, Ubisoft, Wii,
So the real gaming news is that Ubisoft will be releasing Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2 for the Wii and DS. According to IGN.com, the game will focus much more on the Rabbids themselves, and much less on Rayman. Personally, this sounds to me like a great idea - the bunnies have enough charm to be a franchise all their own, so there’s no need to tie in a popular platformer character (especially when the game retains little of what the original Rayman series was all about). The game is expected to hit in Fall 2007, no exact date given yet.
OK, now with all that NEWS out of the way, isn’t it just a little odd how closely that graphic above resembles the advertisement for a certain other hyper-kinetic rabbity thing? I’m guessing Telltale Games will have a good sense of humor about Ubisoft using their idea, but maybe RRR2 should give Max a cameo as compensation…
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Pac-Man Vs. Heading to DS via Namco Museum
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Namco, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Gamecube, Party Games,
OK, OK, so Pac-Man Vs. may not have been Nintendo’s most stunning E3 announcement ever… in fact, it will probably live on in infamy as one of the most disappointing Nintendo surprises ever. That said, it was actually quite a fun party game if you happened to have a Gamecube, GBA, GBA-to-Gamecube link cable, and 3 other controllers.
Well, if you’ve never had a chance to play this gem, there’s good news - as part of the most recent Namco Museum cart for the DS, you’ll be able to enjoy the classic and (thanks to the DS) with nary a wire in sight. Pac-Man Vs. will be included with Namco Museum and for about $19.99, you’ll be able to enjoy the game wire-free (AND, with only one cartridge for up to 4-player gaming), coming this summer.
Click the jump for the full press release…
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Mercury Meltdown Revolution for Wii - A “Steel”?
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Hot Deals, Party Games, PSP, Puzzle, Wii,
Excuse the bad pun at the top, but if Amazon’s price listing is correct, Mercury Meltdown Revolution for the Wii may be a bargain… as the good folks over at GoNintendo noted, the currently listed price for the Wii game (which garnered an 8.5 for the PSP version at IGN) is $19.99. Add to that the fact that most hands-on reports of the game love the addition of tilt-controls, and it’s looking like you’ve got a new no-brainer buy for the Wii.
Mercury Meltdown Revolution is slated to launch around May 1st, and will feature some graphical and gameplay upgrades to the PS2/PSP version, including 480p/widescreen support and added levels.
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“Exciting Witch Trial” DS Japanese Website Up
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Corporate News, Nintendo DS, Party Games, Politics,
Add some more fuel to the ethics in video games fire… Remember those somewhat subversive DS advertisers in your local mall? The ones that consisted of cute girls wearing shirts proclaiming that “Touching is Good”? Well, the DS has just taken the pervyness to the next level, courtesy of SNK. In a new Japan-only game Doji Doji Majo Saiban (roughly translated as Exciting Witch Trial) you’re encouraged to find out whether or well-endowed nubile girls are witches or not. We’ll let you guess how you find out… or you could click this link(somewhat NSFW) and skip some of the guesswork.
We can only guess that this game is NEVER going to make it stateside… I think several public interest groups’ collective heads would explode. So all you folks interested in the “artistic style” and “dialog” in this game are going to be stuck importing and learning Japanese for now.
Read More | DokiMajo.com
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In order to deter burgulars, many households have lights on timer systems that randomly switch lights on and off during the evening. Others leave a radio on. But all these options have the disadvantage that they are simple, repetetive, and unconvincing.
However, with the advent of more sophisticated home computer/multimedia systems, the possibility exits for a whole new range of "deterrent" sound simulation.
Simply, when going on holiday, leave the multimedia PC on, connected to its speakers, and with the BorgCo HomeAlone software running.
The software has access to a very extensive library of sound effects, and can access more via the Internet. What is does is mimic the noises in an average house during and average day. For instance, the day might start with the sound of children fighting, the washing machine, and a radio playing, all at once. During the day there might be quiet periods interspersed with the sound of a vacuum cleaner or a dog barking, and the TV. Late afternoon, the noise of kids playing on a video game, more dog barks, a couple having a row, and plates breaking. Doors slam; one of the children is in tears. Upstairs, a stereo starts playing Heavy Metal music, far too loud; after more shouting, the music is turned down. The toilet flushes; a phone rings twice, cuts off part way through the third ring, and an animated conversation can be heard.
Later on, another argument about whether it's bedtime or not,more crying, and the finally the TV being turned off.
Of course, if you don't like your neighbours, you can just leave the thing on top volume and go away for three weeks ......
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Wellington Regional Land Transport Plan
Birchville Dam
http://www.gw.govt.nz/birchville-dam
Parks and recreation / Akatarawa Forest / Birchville Dam
Look after the forest
Motorised recreation
Updated 1 November 2018 12:56pm
Birchville Dam was once a functioning water-supply for the local community until it was retired in the 1950’s. People remember the water at the Birchville Dam being much higher, which it was. The water level at this historic dam is actively managed to protect local communities and residents.
We do regular safety inspections on all the historic dams in our region and these inspections are done to keep everyone safe.
Is the dam safe?
Yes under normal conditions, and it is expected to perform well in moderate earthquakes and floods. The dam is under an ongoing safety and surveillance programme. The water level is actively managed to protect local communities and residents, and retain its historical value. Strong earthquakes and flooding can pose risks to this dam which is why water levels are continuously monitored. There are procedures in place to manage safety risks and to close this area if the risk levels warrant it. This is a similar process to all dams across our regional parks.
What do I do if there is a major earthquake and I am at the dam?
In the case of a major earthquake you should head to higher ground. Remember if it is long, or strong, get gone
If you’re at or above the dam, stay on the track above the dam until it is safe to move. The track above the Dam heads up the hill towards Totara Park ( 3 1/2 hrs) and onto Bridge Rd carpark via Cannon Point Walkway (4 1/2 hr walk) - this is your safest route out.
If you are on the track below to the dam - move immediately to high ground. Be aware of potential for damage to bridges, landslips and rock falls. Exit immediately via the carpark on Bridge Road - the carpark is considered safe because it is above any potential deluge zone. Do not return to the dam until the area has been inspected and cleared by GWRC.
Should I visit the area during extreme rainfall and if local rivers are flooded?
No. Avoid visiting this area during these conditions. The track to the dam is vulnerable to flooding. Following these type of weather events you may find tracks will be closed until areas have been checked and cleared as safe by GWRC. Follow the advice on any signage posted in this area.
We want everyone to be safe so if anything changes around the dam we will inform the public on this website page, on site or on facebook. Please follow all safety instructions posted by GWRC or as advised by our staff or park rangers.
Key Native Ecosystem Plan for Akatarawa Forest
A Key Native Ecosystem plan sets out the management activities that will be carried out to address threats to biodiversity at sites managed by GWRC as part of the Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) Programme. The KNE Programme includes sites that represent a full range of native ecosystem types with significant biodiversity values across the region. Management activities at these sites aim to protect and restore these important remnants of our natural heritage.
Key Native Ecosystem site
Akatarawa Forest includes some large areas of high biodiversity value and these areas comprise one of GWRC’s Key Native Ecosystem sites. The Key Native Ecosystem Plan for Akatarawa Forest describes the values and threats for this site, as well as the management activities GWRC is planning to carry out.
The KNE site at Akatarawa Forest includes all of the native forested areas within the Park which is located in hill country at the southern end of the Tararua Ranges north of Upper Hutt. The KNE site’s large size, diversity of forest types and wetlands are some of the features that make this site so special. It also supports a range of threatened species including Kirk’s daisy, large-leaved milk tree, red and scarlet mistletoes, New Zealand falcon, red-crowned kākāriki, torrentfish and the rarely observed lamprey.
With weeds, pest animals and the adverse effects of human activities posing ongoing threats to the area, GWRC is undertaking a long-term commitment to ensure that this Key Native Ecosystem’s values are protected and restored.
You can download the Key Native Ecosystem Plan for Akatarawa Forest and find further information about the KNE programme on our website.
Key Native Ecosystem programme
Whakatikei Road - No ACCESS - Blocked with fallen tree
Tree down on the Pram Track this is blocking the Track and due to the weather this will not be able to be cleared until the week starting 18th May 2015
No recreational activities over the weekend 16/5/15and 17/5/15 due to water levels, slips and fallen trees. Will start accessing the main roads and tracks as of Monday the 18th May 2015
Devils Staircase - Closed to all motorised vehicles up to Labour weekend October 2015
Due to recent maintenance on this track the surface is extremely wet and needs to settle over winter. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
All enquires 027 248 1658
Woolshed Road in Valley View forest closed until further notice to all vehicles and users due to forestry operations involving tree felling, logging , road and skid construction.
Akatarawa Forest firewood collection scheme ends
The Akatarawa Forest firewood collection scheme has been disbanded, with immediate effect. The scheme, which operated for nearly 30 years, was suspended earlier this year pending an assessment of whether it met appropriate injury prevention standards.
Its closure reflects the forestry industry’s changing approach to injury prevention, which is now based on the tighter standards covered by the Health and Safety in Employment Act and the Approved Code of Practice for Safety and Health in Forest Operations.
The regional council must apply the law but does not have the resources to monitor scheme permit holders and cannot assess individual members of the public’s competency to use a chainsaw. Permits applied a range of health and safety conditions to permit holders but our rangers have observed 17 breaches of permit conditions since 2013, and it’s simply fortunate that no-one has been injured.
An alternative scheme was considered however, it was found the price that would have to be charged for the safe provision of firewood from a supervised location outside the forest park would be similar to normal market prices for firewood.
GWRC has written to recent users of the scheme to inform them of its closure. For more information on how we have reached our decision, please go to: http://www.gw.govt.nz/committee-meetings-calendar/detail/72
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Parish Newsletter 13 March 2011
posted 7 Jun 2011, 17:58 by A Clarke
First Sunday in Lent (11/11)
SUNDAYS OF LENT EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament this afternoon from 4.00 to 5.00 p.m.
Sung Evening Prayer and Benediction will follow at 5 o’clock. All welcome.
You shall be my Witnesses…” Parish preparation for Confirmation programme
This week the first of four of the young peoples’ sessions of the above Parish preparation for Confirmation programme takes place. It will be held in Scoil Mhuire at 7.30pm on Monday 14th March. The young people are divided into four groups and two adult volunteers lead each group. The leaders are Joe Caulfield, Joan Kelly, Anne McCarthy, Margaret Slattery and Joey Smith all parents of the Sixth class students and Aoife NicLughadha, Warick Sewell, Betty Sewell and Margaret Rickard all parishioners. They have all undergone an Archdiocesan training programme and we wish them all well as they prepare for the sessions. The first session deals with the Theme of Belonging. Together the leaders and young people explore what it means to belong to the Church. A question for each of us – How do I belong to my Church?
Valerie Darby and Kay Burke, Co-ordinators.
MASSES – SAINT PATRICK’S DAY - Thursday 17th March
Vigil Mass on Wednesday evening (16th March) at 7 o’clock. Morning Masses on Saint Patrick’s Day - 8.30; 10.30 (Family Mass) and 12.00 noon. There will also be an Evening Mass at
7 o’clock.
UPDATE ON HOWTH-SUTTON YOUTH FUNDRAISER WALK SATURDAY, 26 MARCH AT 3.30PM
As stated in last week’s Parish Newsletter, this walk is a youth initiative to draw together young people from the four Christian Churches on the Peninsula with the common purpose of raising funds for two needy causes- The Friends of the Orphans of Haiti and Barretstown Children’s Clinic. The initiative is to facilitate our youth in getting to know each other better, while at the same time exploring and expressing their Christian faith. The youth age group will range from 12 to 16 year olds.
The walk will commence with registration, welcome and introduction at Sutton Methodist Church Hall, Church Road at 3.30 p.m.
The route will be along Church Road to St. Fintan’s Church, turning left and proceeding over the hill to end at St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Deerpark, Howth at about 6.30pm. There, deregistration will take place to make sure the safe return of all our young participants.
All proceedings should conclude with a prayer of Thanksgiving at about 7.30pm.
Parental/ Guardian Consent Forms have now been prepared and will be made available to the 6th Class students in all the Primary/ National schools on the Peninsula for completed return.
Stewards will be on hand to monitor and guide our youth along the way, dedicated cars will patrol the route to assist any tired and weary and a doctor will be on call should the need arise.
Further details will follow in next week’s Parish Newsletter, including information on the distribution of sponsorship forms. Howth Parish Youth Group
Howth Parish Renewal and Reform Group
The Howth Parish Renewal and Reform Group have organised a series of three talks on the topic of 'The Birth of the Early Christian Church' as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles. The speaker will be Celine Mangan, OP. The first in the series of talks will take place tomorrow evening - Monday (14th March) at 8.00 pm in Saint Columbanus Hall. ALL WELCOME.
Scripture Readings for the First Week of Lent
Lev 19: 1-2, 11-18. Ps 18. Mt 25: 31-46
Is 55:10-11. Ps 33. Mt 6 7-15
Jon 3:1-10. Ps 50. Lk 11: 29-32
Thursday 17th March
Saint Patrick, Solemnity
Eccles (Sir) 39:6-10. Ps 115. 2 Tim 4: 1-8. Mt 13: 24-32
Ezek 18:21-28. Ps 129. Mt 5: 20-26
Saint Joseph Solemnity
2 Sam 7:4-5, 12-14, 16. Ps 88. Rom 4: 13, 16-18, 22. Mt 1: 16, 18-21, 24 or Lk 2: 41-51
Gen 12:1-4. Ps 32. 2 Tim 1: 8-10. Mt 17: 1-9
BRING BACK A SPARKLE TO YOUR MARRIAGE
You are married and love each other dearly but do you sometimes wonder if some of the sparkle and intimacy has become a bit dulled in your relationship? Marriage Encounter is a weekend with a difference that helps spouses rediscover their joy of communicating at a deeper level and thereby grow in mutual understanding and love. It benefits couples whether only a few or many years married. For dates, details and booking visit: www.marriageencounter.ie or telephone (01) 832 4429
SUTTON PARK SCHOOL
JUNIOR SCHOOL OPEN DAY
You are invited to Sutton Park Junior School Open day on Wednesday 16th March from 10.00 a.m. to 12 noon. For more information Tel. 839 9400.
SUTTON PARK SCHOOL MUSICAL
“The Little Shop of Horrors” 30th and 31st March and 1st April. Admission €15 and €10 Telephone 832 2940 for tickets.
SUICIDE AWARENESS - A Community Response
The Howth Parish Pastoral Council will host a 'SUICIDE AWARENESS' evening on Monday 21st March at 8.00 p.m. in Saint Columbanus Hall. Speakers from Console and One Life. All Welcome.
NOVENA OF GRACE
Thanks to all who came to the Novena of Grace. A special Thank you to those who joined us from Sutton, Baldoyle, Bayside and other parishes. Our gratitude to Father Bernard McGuckian, S.J. for his homilies and prayers. Thanks, too, to our organist Fionnuala Howard.
MASS INTENTIONS 13th – 19th March
Vigil (7.00 p.m. Sat. 12th March) Stephen Redmond
(20th Anniv.)
8.30 a.m. Maura and Joseph Caulfield
10.30 a.m. Kathleen Hudson (8th Anniv.)
12.00 noon Jimmy Rickard and Crew of the
Maasgusar
7.00 p.m. Ray Harford (6th Anniv.)
8.00 a.m.
10.00 a.m. Dorrie Flynn (Recently Deceased)
8.00 a.m. Bill Long (Recently Deceased)
10.00 a.m. Jim Dunne
10.00 a.m. Elizabeth Byrne
Thursday 17th March - Saint Patrick’s Day
Vigil (7.00 p.m. Weds. 16th March) Tom Gaynor
(7th Anniv.)
10.30 a.m. Gerry McLoughlin (11th Anniv.)
12.00 noon Terry Lawless (21st Anniv.)
7.00 p.m. Brigid Reid
10.00 a.m. Mary McKenna and John and
Andrew McKenna
10.00 a.m. Pat and Bridie Loftus
11.00 a.m. Desmond Rea O’Kelly (Month’s Mind)
PREPARING FOR THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
The preparation journey toward the Eucharistic Congress has been divided into four stages – GATHERING, WORD, EUCHARIST, MISSION - each reflecting on an aspect of Communion with Christ and one another as it is celebrated in the Eucharist and lived in our daily lives. This Wednesday, 16th March at 8.00 p.m. in the Parish Centre, Saint Fintan’s Church, Sutton. Gathering – We are a Forgiving People – using material provided by the Orlagh Retreat Centre. Anyone interested in deepening their understanding of how Christ gathers us as a Eucharistic Community, is welcome to attend. For more information contact James in Sutton Parish Office, Tel. 839 2001 or james.daly@dublindiocese.ie This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
MASSES FOR LENT
Week-day Masses for Lent at 8.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. Monday to Friday and 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m. on Saturdays.
Sunday Masses are as follows: Saturday Evening Vigil Mass at 7 o’clock; Sunday Morning 8.30; 10.30; and 12.00 noon. Sunday Evening Mass at 7 o’clock.
This year there will be no week-day evening Mass in the Church Monday to Friday inclusive.
Instead we hope to have some Evening House Masses in different areas of the Parish between now and Palm Sunday. Those who would like to have Mass celebrated in their homes are invited to contact the Parish Office at Tel. 839 7398 or any of the Priests of the Parish.
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Wind W 6 Kona
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Geological History
First Hawaiians
Western Contact
Hawai'i Today
Topics Discussed
Hawaiian Alphabet
Special Symbols
Ke and Ka
Learn Hawaiian
Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian
Ka Lei Ha'Aheo: Beginning Hawaiian
Let's Speak Hawaiian
Pidgin to Da Max
Pidgin to Da Max Hana Hou More Books
Instant Immersion Hawaiian How To Speak Hawaiian Like A Haole
Important Note: There is no way we can teach you either Hawaiian or Pidgin. We are not native Hawaiian speakers - and we did not grow up on the island with an infusion of daily Pidgin. What we can do, however, is give you the basics that makes reading and speaking Hawaiian easier.
We are certain our Hawaiian speaking friends are rolling their maka and laughing their lemu off at this page - hopefully once they are done they will help us make any corrections necessary.
The Hawaiian Islands are a huge melting pot of races. The recent 2000 US Census showed that over 20% of Hawai'i residents listed ancestors of more than one race, giving the state a much higher percentage of multiracial residents than anywhere else in America.
With 25% of the population considering themselves to have at least some Native Hawaiian ancestry and 58% of the population being at least part Asian and 39% having some white ancestry - you can imagine the impact on language within the islands.
Hawai'i is also the only American state to have two official languages, Hawaiian and English. However, a 3rd unofficial language is also widely spoken, Pidgin which is a slang combining words from many aspects of island life and culture.
Of course, you do not need to speak Hawaiian (or Pidgin for that matter) to enjoy Hawai'i. English is everywhere. However, most of the names of towns, streets, places, and scenic sites are in Hawaiian. Learning a bit about the language can greatly improve your pronunciation and reading of Hawaiian words. This will also greatly improve your island navigation skills and ability to communicate with locals about the island.
The Hawaiian Alphabet
When Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, he also discovered that Hawaiians had a totally oral tradition. There was, up until western contact, no written version of the Hawaiian language. In 1820 western missionaries living in the islands first standardized a written version of the Hawaiian language.
The written Hawaiian language is based on English letters. There are 8 consonants and five vowels - much simplier than English! (Or so it appears at first glance.)
H As in English
K As in English
L As in English
M As in English
N As in English
P As in English
W After i and e pronounced v
After u and o pronounced like w
At the start of a word or after a pronounced like w or v
' 'Okina - a glottal stop (more on this below)
A Like the a in far
E Like the e in bet
I Like the y in city
O Like the o in sole
U Like the oo in moon
Source: Hawaiian Dictionary
Special Symbols - the 'Okina and Kahakō
Two symbols appear frequently in Hawaiian words... the 'Okina and the Kahakō. These two symbols change how words are pronounced.
The 'Okina is the apostrophe mark and is a glottal stop - or a brief break in the word. The break is very fast, and if you're not careful listening you may miss it. As an example, think of the English oh oh - the small break, or silence, between the first oh and the second oh is the same break you would make if an 'Okina appeared in the word (for example... oh'oh).
The 'Okina is an official consonant - just as any of the other consonants. An 'Okina will appear in front of a vowel, never before another consonant. Additionally, an 'Okina will never be the last letter in a word - but will always appear between letters or at the beginning of the word.
The Kahakō is a stress mark (macron) that can appear over vowels only and serve to make the vowel sound slightly longer. The vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū sound just like their non-stress Hawaiian vowels with the exception that the sound is held slightly longer.
Missing the 'Okina or Kahakō can greatly change not only the how a word sounds, but also its basic meaning. For example, the word kāne (kaa-nay) means male while the same word without the Kahakō, kane (ka-nay), means skin disease. Likewise the word moa (mo-ah) is a chicken while mo'a (mo ah) means cooked.
The sections above gave you some of the basics behind the language itself and how it appears and sounds. However, there are a couple of simple tricks to help you figure out Hawaiian words quickly and pronounce them properly:
Hawaiian words may start with any letter, vowel or consonant.
Hawaiian words will never end with a consonant.
Syllables in Hawaiian words are only one or two letters, never longer.
Syllables must end with a vowel, or can be a single vowel, but can never be a single consonant.
How do the above rules help us? Well, let's consider one of the longer words in Hawaiian (the word for our state fish):
humuhumunukunuku'āpua'a
If we remember our rules about syllables we can quickly, and visually, break it up into syllables like this:
hu-mu-hu-mu-nu-ku-nu-ku-'ā-pu-a-'a
Suddenly it becomes much easier to read. But how did we do that? Well, the humuhumunukunuku part is easy because (1) a consonant can not end a syllable and (2) syllables can be only one or two characters in length. But what abut the 'ā-pu-a-'a at the end? That was also easy because we have to remember that the 'Okina (') is a consonant (thus 'ā is a two character syllable), the pu then stands by itself as a syllable, and finally we have a'a which must be two syllables since there are three characters, and since the middle character is the 'Okina (a consonant) the first a must be its own syllable with the final 'a the last syllable in the word.
I personally find that the syllable rules are the number one thing that helps me pronounce complex or long Hawaiian words properly. Consider another word, this time a place name near Hilo:
Puainako
At first glance we might be tempted to sound this out and have it end up sounding Japanese - pu-a-i-na-ko (poo-ah-eh-nah-co). That certainly sounds Japanese, but not Hawaiian. For a long time I always thought it was a Japanese name, until I learned about the syllable rules. But if you look at the word, there would be no way to divide that word up into syllables and still pronounce it in a Japanese manner while adhering to the rules. Instead, if we break it up according to the rules we get pu-ai-na-ko - wow, that's completely different (poo-eye-na-co) and suddenly the word comes out sounding Hawaiian, not Japanese.
In general you will not find very many complete Hawaiian phrases on road signs - and thus you won't need to learn much more than what we have taught you here concerning how to speak and read basic words.
However, as you begin to pick up on words, and listen to local radio or read newspapers where Hawaiian phrases are used you will begin to pick out basic meanings to what is being said.
The ordering of words in Hawaiian phrases is reverse from what it is in English. Specifically, nouns precede adjectives. For example, in English we would say The big red car; in Hawaiian we would say Ke ka'a nui 'ula (The car big red).
All About Ke and Ka
As you see Hawaiian words and names used you will notice that a huge number of the words begin with either Ke or Ka. Both Ke and Ka are equivalent to the English word the. Words beginning with either Ke or Ka are often named after an item - for example, the female name Kalei means the flower wreath (the lei).
Of course, Ke and Ka can also appear as words in a sentence. Our example in the last section was Ke ka'a nui 'ula, or, The car big red (in English The big red car). The Ke at the beginning of the phrase is, again, The in English.
But when do we use Ke instead of Ka? The choice to use Ke versus Ka has to do with the word that immediately follows it. If the next word begins with K, E, A or O you would use Ke, otherwise you would use Ka (there are a couple of exceptions to this such as a few words that begin with an 'okina).
A simple trick that is taught in most Hawaiian language courses as well as used in various books on Hawaiian language is:
Ke ao
The Hawaiian phrase Ke ao means The cloud in English. It also uses all the letters that Ke should be used in front of, instead of Ka, and it also conforms to the rules.
Below we show a random Hawaiian word along with a clue on how to say it in English, the most important dictionary definition and in most cases, a WAV and MP3 audio version of the word being spoken. Again, we are not native Hawaiian speakers and thus, we may have made mistakes, but hopefully we are fairly close (I'm sure our Hawaiian readers will be more than happy to send us E-mail correcting any mistakes we might have made.
The English clue we show is not meant to be 'proper English' but more over the mid-western English sounds you would use to mimic the word in Hawaiian.
Mahiki - (ma-he-key)
To hop, jump or move up and down. (Another Word)
In Hawaiian, a single name may have many meanings (just look up the meaning for aloha if you want to see what we mean). The definition we list with the words is either the top dictionary definition or the most common used definition in every day language.
Finally - this is only the tip of the iceberg. We invite you to look at some of the books we offer in the sidebar at the left (the links take you to Amazon).
Mahalo Nui Loa
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The Florence Gospel Choir School
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Uncategorized — July 24, 2015 at 12:12 am
The Church becomes Art Gallery and the Pastor a curator…
by Nehemiah Brown
Published by Nehemiah H. Brown · July 16 at 12:06pm ·
The World as Art Gallery is metaphorically painted in the ageless protestant hymn, “ How Great Thou Art”, a Swedish melody with words by Carl Gustav Boberg. Translated, “ O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds, thy hands have made. I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder. Thy power throughout the universe displayed” In this hymn the Creator’s pastoral beauty is skillfully mastered and viewed after a thunderstorm.
In the churches of Florence, we are accustomed to viewing the religious art renderings of Brunelleschi, Giotto, Michelangelo and many other western art masters. However, for the first time in Florence the Church becomes literally the center, a Gallery for the Cultural and Artistic life of it’s community. Finally, one can enter and admire the classical alfresco on the ceiling integrated, on the walls, with the works of Pr. Adetomiwa A. Gbadebo, created during the Artist in Residence Project of African, African American and Art of the African Diaspora to sounds of Gospel music. This is A-FREE-CA, created in Florence by Architect, Artistic Director Eusebio De Cristofaro and Pastor of the Florence Gospel Fellowship International and Director of the Florence Gospel Choir School, Nehemiah H. Brown.
The paintings of Pr. Adetomiwa A. Gbedebo, the first painter for Project A-FREE-CA, were introduced at the standing room only, Artist in Residence Finale featuring the soulful music of The Celebration Gospel Choir in an Art Performance at The Methodist Church in via De’ Benci 9, on June 29. They have been exhibited exclusively there, allowing the public to dialogue and share with the creator in “ Artist Talks.”
Unlike most Western Art, where the divide between the sacred and secular is evident, the dividing line in African Art is seamless. In his art interview, painter, Pr. Adetomiwa A. Gbadebe shares his divine inspiration, his celestial balance and equilibrium of body, mind, music of the soul and spirit. During the interview, Professor and art critic Awam Amkpa, a specialist in Africana Studies, inquires of the painter, “ What music do you hear when you are painting?” He responds that his paintings are alive with color, symbols and splendor of his home in Nigeria. At least for the Finale, the music was by his request, Gospel, as the choir’s high praises inspired the painters’s final work in an “Amazing Grace Art Performance.”
Project A-FREE-CA is the continuation of a journey begun many years ago, thanks to the vision and work of the Artistic Director, Pastor of the Florence Gospel Fellowship International and Director of the Florence Gospel Choir School. FGCS is the only school of music and African American culture in Italy. It has brought artists and projects from various disciplines such as film, music, theater, painting and others from the performing and visual arts world to the city of Florence. FGCS has declared “carpe diem”,seizing this moment of awareness and interest in artists from the African, African American and African Diaspora to continue our journey toward the future connecting eastern and western cultures in the Florentine communit
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WHO’S IN IT?
Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike), Jennifer Morrison (Superfly), Nicola Peltz (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Chiara Aurelia (Gerald’s Game), Hala Finley (film debut), June Carryl (Sweet November), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Robert Longstreet (Sorry To Bother You), Jeff Pope (Black Snake Moan), Gavin Warren (First Man)
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Alex Pettyfer (film debut), director, producer; Adrian Lyne (film debut) and Tawni O’Dell (film debut), writers; Ashley Mansour (film debut), Michael Ohoven (Capote), Craig Robinson (film debut), Jake Seal (Born To Be Blue) and Dan Spilo (film debut), producers; John Hunter (Dead Awake), composer; Jarin Blaschke (The Witch), cinematographer; Kant Pan (The Crying Game), editor
After his mother (Lewis) is imprisoned for killing her abusive husband, Harley (Pettyfer) is left to raise his three younger sisters alone, working several dead-end jobs just to support them. When he begins an affair with Callie (Morrison), an older married woman who lives nearby, things take a dangerous turn as family secrets are also revealed…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Alex Pettyfer makes his directorial debut in this family drama that also sees him take on the lead role of a young man consumed by responsibilities.
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iPhone XR: Cheap or Creep
Apple is always known for producing premium phones. Every year they come up with a new flagship phone. This year Apple launched three new iPhones in it's event. But this is the second time Apple has launched a cheaper version of iPhone. First time was during the launch of iPhone 5S where they came out with a cheaper version of iPhone known as iPhone 5C. iPhone 5C was a plastic phone and was a big flop. And this year also the third iPhone is a cheaper version of iPhone. This is known as iPhone XR. So is this phone really worth considering or not? We are going to discuss this question in this article.
Apple iPhone XR has many of the features same as the other two premium devices of this year that are iPhone XS and XS Max. Like they all are powered by the same chip that is the all new A12 Bionic chip. So it means there is no compromise on the performance of the phone. The amount of RAM is also same, so RAM management will also be good. As it has the same chip all the things related to chip will be same such as GPU for better graphics, octa core neural engine and ISP for image processing.
As neural engine is same so iPhone XR will be able to handle all the AI tasks which iPhone XS can handle such as face ID, Augmented Reality, Animoji, Siri etc. Also it has the same notch which houses front camera, IR Blaster, Infrared Camera, ear piece, microphone, dot projector, ambient light sensor and proximity sensor. As it has all the sensors same as iPhone XS, it also has the same Face ID to unlock the phone. And this will be equally fast as iPhone XS.
Now let's talk about the design of the phone. This has a screen size of 6.1". This screen also has a notch at top as mentioned above. So the aspect ratio of the screen is also 19.5:9. But the display is not an OLED display, it's a LCD display and that too with less resolution that is 828*1792 pixels. The resolution is slightly higher than 720p still you can't even watch full HD videos on this screen. This is a little bit disappointing. But we know that the quality of Apple's LCD display is also very good still it won't be as good as iPhone XS's display. The back of the phone is made up of glass and the frame is made up of aluminum instead of stainless steel.
Also there is one more thing to consider in iPhone XR. The bezels of the phone are slightly bigger than other two phones. This is due to presence of LCD display which can't bend like OLED display on iPhone XS. Also the PPI of the phone is slightly low that is 326ppi. So this phone won't be your choice if your priority is display.
Now let's talk about camera. iPhone XR has the single camera setup at back unlike Apple iPhone XS and XS Max. But this single camera lens is same as the primary lens on other two iPhones that is 12MP, f/1.8, 28mm lens. The pixel size and aperture size is also same which is really good. But the telephoto lens is missing so there is no optical zoom. Still portrait mode is present on the phone and this is done by software. This can also record 2K videos and slomo videos. It has all the features also same like auto HDR and changing the background depth after capturing photos which is a good thing. Also the front camera is same that is 7MP,f/2.2, 32mm lens. So in short this camera can do all the tasks as the cameras of iPhone XS and XS Max except 2x optical zoom.
iPhone XR comes in six different colors just like iPhone 5C. These colors are Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, Coral and White. This reminds us of the iPhone 5C which also comes in multicolor but that one has plastic body. The aluminum frame on the sides also matches the color of the back which is good. The wireless charging is also present on this phone. This phone comes with IP67 rating while the other two devices come with IP68 rating which means that the other two phones are more protected by water and dust. The battery capacity of iPhone XR is still unknown but the phone supports fast charging which is good. And it is expected that the battery capacity of this phone will lie between iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max's battery.
Now comes the pricing of the device. iPhone XR is priced at $750 for the 64GB of version. Apple has gone right with this pricing of smartphone. So the main question is 'Should you upgrade to iPhone XR or not?'. Yes you can upgrade to this phone if you are an Apple fan boy and you want to taste the flavor of new A12 bionic chip and all it's new features you can definitely go for this. But keep in mind the bigger bezels, LCD screen, IP67 rating and no optical zoom/no telephoto lens. If you are using an iPhone 8/7/6 but want a smartphone more affordable than iPhone XS and XS Max, you can definitely go for this smartphone. The phone will be avialble in the market from next month.
iPhone XS and XS Max
So it's about 3-4 days since apple launched it's new phones that are iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. There is one more iPhone this year that is iPhone XR which is a cheaper version. In this article we are going to see that is there really any difference between iPhone X and new iPhone XS and XS Max. iPhone X was the first phone from the company which has end to end display with small bezels. Last year with the launch of iPhone X, Apple introduced an all new phone with new design, new camera, new chip and many other new features. It means there were a lot of changes in iPhone X from it's previous iPhones. But let's see whether this year apple has provided something new or not.
The initial impression of a smartphone comes from it's design. iPhone XS and XS Max comes with exactly same design as that of iPhone X, with same notch display and glass-stainless steel body. But iPhone XS has a screen size of 5.8" while iPhone XS Max comes with a massive screen size of 6.5". As iPhone XS comes with 5.8" display it looks identical to iPhone X. But there is only one thing which can differentiate it from iPhone X that is the new Gold color. Both the new iPhones come in three colors that are Space Grey, Silver and Gold. Yes Gold is the new color and it definitely looks better than other two colors. The display on both the phones are still OLED type with 19.5:9 aspect ratio. iPhone XS has display resolution of 1125*2436 pixels and that on iPhone XS Max is 1242*2688 pixels. Both the displays come with scratch resistant glass and oleophobic coating.
Also both the phones have notch at the top in front. The notch is also exactly same as iPhone X which houses an ear piece, front camera, IR camera, microphone, dot projector, ambient light sensor and proximity sesnor. These different sensors coordinate together to unlock the phone with face ID. Face ID is present on both of the iPhones and it will be faster than the previous generation. Both the iPhones now have IP68 rating. So we have arrived to a conclusion that there is no major difference in the design of new iPhones from iPhone X.
Now take a look at the major change in the phones that is the all new A12 Bionic chip. The new chip is manufactured on all new 7nm architecture which further increases the transistor density thus improving the performance of the device. This chipset is a hexacore chip with two powerful cores and four power efficient cores. This new 7nm architecture chip will increase the performance and improve the power efficiency.
Last year, Apple has a dual core neural engine in it's A11 chip. This year A12 Bionic chip has an octa core neural engine. This neural engine helps in machine learning and artificial intelligence of the phone. That means it assist in functions like face ID, Animoji, Augmented reality and many other things. As this year we have an octa core neural engine, all the AI functions of the phone will be much faster.
Now let's have a look at the camera of the phone. There is not much difference in the camera department in the hardware part. iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max both have same dual camera setup as that on iPhone X that is 12MP,f/1.8 + 12MP,f/2.4 where second lens is a telephoto lens. The only difference in the camera hardware is that now the primary lens has bigger pixel size of 1.4µm. The front camera is also same as 7MP,f/2.2 lens.
The back camera can record videos upto 2160p @60fps. It can also record 1080p slomo videos @240fps. It is a little bit disappointing that apple phones can only record slomo videos @240fps while other brands like Samsung and even Oneplus are giving 960fps and 480fps slomo video recording respectively. The front camera can record videos upto 1080p @60fps. The portrait mode is present on both front as well as back cameras. The telephoto lens helps in 2x optical zoom in the camera.
Though iPhone XS and XS max's camera don't have a lot of difference in the hardware part, there are differences in the software part. With the A12 chip there is all new ISP for cameras. It helps in producing better photographs by processing them properly. There is an all new HDR mode just like on pixel phones. So the image quality is going to increase with this phone. Also there is a mode in the phone where you can change the depth of feel in the shot even after capturing it. It helps in choosing us how much amount of blur we require in the background. All previous features like lightening photos are still present on the device.
iPhone XS and XS Max both comes with iOS 12 installed. We all know about the software experience of the apple which is really amazing. Apple pays a lot of attention in the software part. It does optimization between the software and the hardware so well that every iPhone of the year becomes the most fluid phone. Now the Sri has become more advanced. The gesture functionality is still there on both the iPhones. Both iPhones come in three memory specification 64/256/512 GB internal with 4GB of RAM. There is no slot for micro SD. Now new iPhones support e-SIM and there is one slot for physical SIM as well. So now technically they are dual SIM devices.
iPhone XS starts at $999 and iPhone XS Max at $1099 for 64GB version. Now the main question arises, should you upgrade? If you own an iPhone X and planning to buy iPhone XS or XS Max, stop there because you can see that only there is one major difference that is A12 Bionic chip. There is no other major change in the devices. But if you own a iPhone 8/7/6, you can definitely upgrade to these new devices because you will see a lot of differences.
iPhones 2018: All the Rumors
Apple is all setup to launch it's new iPhones of this year on September 12. We have heard of lot of rumors about the new iPhones till now. And we are going to discuss all those rumors today in this article whether be it's display, processor, name, design and the rest.
First thing which comes in mind is that how many phones will Apple launch this year as it launched three new iPhones last year in the event that are iPhone 8, iPhone 8 plus and iPhone X among which iPhone X is the special edition phone on Apple's iPhone 10th anniversary. This year also there will be three iPhones at the event among which two will be successor to iPhone X and one will be the cheaper one.
And now you must be thinking what will be their names, so the cheaper one will be known as iPhone 9 and the other two will be iPhone XS and iPhone XS Plus. But we have reports that Plus version will be named iPhone XS Max. So whatever be the names let's discuss the internals of the phone and their design. iPhone X will have a screen size of 5.8" while XS plus will have screen size of 6.5". The design of both the phones will be very similar to iPhone X which means that notch design.
Both the phones will be having OLED displays on the front. And this time the quality of the displays will be even better than iPhone X. The front screen will be same with very small bezels. The notch on top will be having all the sensors, camera and face ID technology which unlocks the phone by firing infrared waves on face. Also the back will be made up of glass and the placement of the rear camera will be same.
The design of iPhone 9 is unknown. It is expected that it will have a screen size of 6.1". It will also be having the bezeless screen on the front just like other two models. But we are doubtful that the company will provide the same notch on this iPhone or different. The screen of this phone will be a LCD display and that too with lower resolution than other two iPhones. We are still unsure about the back of the phone whether it will be glass or metal. This will be cheaper than other two phones so company has to do some cost cutting.
iPhones are always known for their fast performance. First of all their A series chips are really good and secondly the optimization between hardware and software is awesome which helps in improving the performance of the phone. This year iPhone XS and XS plus will be powered by the all new A-12 chip. This chipset will be based on 7nm architecture thus making the chip size small and comparatively faster. The performance will be really good by seeing the track record of Apple. Also there will be a all new GPU for the phone which will increase the performance by 20-25% as per the rumors say. iPhone 9 will also have the same processor as that of other two iPhones.
This year the iPhones will be available in multi colors but the frame will remain same on all the phones that is stainless steel in iPhone XS and XS Plus while iPhone 9 on the other hand will have an aluminum frame. Both iPhone XS and XS plus are rumored to come in dual SIM models which will be the first iPhones officially to have dual SIM.
This year camera is also rumored to be improved. iPhone XS is rumored to have dual rear camera setup, iPhone XS plus to have triple camera setup and iPhone 9 to have a single rear camera setup. If this news is true, iPhone XS plus will be the second phone in the market to have triple camera setup. Also there will be increment in battery capacity of the phones. iPhone XS Plus is rumored to have a massive battery of 3400 mah and iPhone XS to have a battery of 2700 mah.
And lastly, these are just rumors and leaks, nobody knows the real story. But there are not many days left for the real picture to be revealed. Apple is holding an event on September 12 in California, US where it will reveal all three new iPhones along with new Apple watch and new iPad. But I am most excited about the cheaper version of iPhone this year that is iPhone 9.
Xiaomi launched it's first Mi Wireless charger just at $10
Mi Wireless Charger
We all must have heard about the wireless charging which is getting really famous these days in phones to charge the battery. As the name implies, wireless charging means charging the device without any wires, directly connected to your phone. For this you just need a wireless charging pad and a phone which supports fast charging. We just have to put the phone on the pad and it will charge your phone's battery. This pad will get power from the electric mains via a charger. So basically this pad will be connected to the charger and phone will be placed on this pad. We won't go into deep how this actually works.
These days this wireless charging is mainly available only in flagship devices as there is some extra arrangement needed in the phone. This extra arrangement adds to the cost of the phone. So this is generally available in the flagship phones which can the bear the cost of this wireless charging. Phones like Samsung S series, Note series, iPhones, LG flagships and many more support this. There are a lot of wireless chargers available in the market but they are actually really costly. So keeping this in mind, Xiaomi came up with a cheap wireless charger known as Mi Wireless Charger.
Mi wireless charger is based on generally accepted Qi standard. So it will only charge your phone if your phone also supports Qi standard wireless charging. This charger can support charging upto 10W. The body of this pad is made up of aluminum with silicone layer at top. It is connected to charger via a USB Type-C port. If you will use a fast charger of 18W this pad will be able to charge the phone at 10W or 7.5W and if you will use a normal 10W charger the phone can be charged at 5W.
This pad also has an LED light to tell whether your phone is charging or not. Also it can charge the phone upto a distance of 4mm, so the phone can be charged even with a case applied. The wireless charger comes with a lot of protective features such as temperature protection, short circuit protection, overvoltage protection and power protection. These protective features will help in safe charging of your phone and in case of any emergency these will be helpful in protecting your phone or any other hazard. This charger can charge phones like iPhone X, iPhone 8/ 8plus at 7.5W and Samsung S9/ S9+ and Note 9 at a rate of 10W.
But this charger is only available in China till now. And there are no words of it's availability in other markets. But just at CNY 69 or $10 it is a great deal.
Smartphones are the devices which are meant for doing a lot of tasks in very less time and without any difficulty. One of those tasks is entertainment. Smartphone is a very good source of entertainment. You can play games here, listen to music, watch movies, videos and a lot of other things. But all of these entertainment tasks are of no use until there is no audio. Audio lets you listen to the sound and make all these tasks more entertaining. So audio is a really important component. For sound output there is a speaker in the smartphone which converts electrical signal to sound.
Instead of this speaker there is one more thing by which we can listen to sound and that is headphone jack. This is in the shape of a cylindrical hole in the phone and we connect a 3.5mm connector to it which is there in headphone or earphone. These headphones are really useful as listening to audio via headphones have a totally different fun. The sound will be really immersive, nobody will be able to know what you are listening to and there is also total noise cancellation, so there won't any noise interruption with your audio.
But these days smartphone companies are trying to vanish ports in the phone so many of the companies are ditching 3.5 mm headphone jack in their phones. But this creates one more problem of not listening to audio via headphone jack. The quality of sound via headphone jack is really good. But as this jack is vanishing we have to rely on some other alternatives such as wireless headsets. These wireless headsets connect via Bluetooth to your device. The sound via these Bluetooth connected headsets is not great as the wired headsets which connect with 3.5mm jack.
These Bluetooth connected headsets doesn't address latency issues which proves problematic while gaming and watching videos and it's an issue we don't get with the wired headsets. Also the sound quality is not as good as wired headsets. So Qualcomm noticed this issue carefully and came up with a really cool thing at IFA 2018.
At IFA 2018 Qualcomm announced a new version of aptX audio platform. With this aptX you will be able to listen really high resolution, robust and immersive audio through wireless technology, which means there won't be any requirement of 3.5 jack in the phone. And also it is not just focused on music listening, there are other things as well like gaming and watching videos. It dynamically adjusts audio performance without any manual control.
This is really cool step by QUALCOMM as many of the companies are ditching the headphone jack in their devices. Qualcomm is saying that it will come with it's latest flagship chip that is Snapdragon 855 which will be announced in December this year and the first device powering this chip will most probably be launched at MWC 2019. So the first device having this new Bluetooth technology will be available in 2019. The company is claiming that this new technology will definitely replace 3.5 mm jack from the phone but real picture will come out only when this will be tested in 2019.
Huawei unveiled first chipset built on 7nm architecture
SOC or System on chip is a really important component of a phone. It has many other small components like processing chip, ISP, memory, RAM and many more. So basically it is in the form of a small chip with all other components embedded on it. These SOCs are built on some architecture. This architecture basically means the transistor size. Each year the size of transistor is getting smaller like 20nm to 16nm, 16nm to 14nm and so on. With transistor size getting smaller the performance and battery consumption of chipset improves as electrons consumes less time and power to move in a smaller transistor. Now in the market we have chipsets like Qualcomm snapdragon 845 or Hisilicon Kirin 970 which are built on 10nm architecture.
But now it's time for the successor to Hisilicon Kirin 970 chipset that is Hisilicon Kirin 980 chip which is built on 7nm architecture. This is based on an octa core chipset with four cortex A-73 cores among which two are powerful cores and two less powerful cores for better power efficiency. Rest of the four cores are Cortex A-55 cores and these cores are less powerful than Cortex A-73 cores. Huawei also has something known as 'Flex Scheduling', which helps in powering right cores for the right tasks and thus result in better battery life.
For better graphics there is Mali G76-GPU which was announced in May. This GPU will help in high graphic intensive tasks and will also result in better gaming experience. This can also take advantage of clock-boosting technology which results in better performance when there is some high graphic intensive task is going on. This GPU is far better than it's predecessor that is Mali-G72.
Hisilicon Kirin 980 chipset is the first to support LPDDR4X memory. It also supports 1.4Gbps Cat 21 LTE modem and fast WiFi speeds. This is the first chip to come with dual NPU technology which means it has two NPU chips instead of just one in the previous version. This NPU results in better AI functions in the phone. It will make the phone more intelligent and thus results in better accuracy in AI tasks. It also improve the speed of AI tasks.
There is one more thing worth mentioning in Kirin 980 and that is it's good camera performance which is possible due to all new ISP. This is the fourth generation of Huawei's ISP. And it's really good due to features like multi camera support, HDR color reproduction, multi pass noise reduction, more data throughput and many more.
Now you must be thinking how does it perform against the blazing fast Qualcomm chip that is Snapdragon 845.This can't be answered right now. Huawei is claiming that it will be 20% faster than 10nm chips. But nobody has trust on claims, real picture will come out only when phone having Kirin 980 will be launched. First of the phones which will have Kirin 980 chip are Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 pro which will be launched in October. So the performance of the chips can be tested then only. But the performance of the chip is expected to be really good as Kirin 970 is also one of the fastest chips in the market.
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The company announced on Tuesday that Soltau will take over as its chief executive beginning on October 15. JCPenney has been leaderless since Marvin Ellison left in May to take the top job at Lowe’s.
Soltau, 51, will be the 25th woman currently leading a Fortune 500 company, according to Fortune magazine. She will become Penney’s fifth chief executive in the past decade.
She will make a base salary of $1.4 million, with a $6 million signing bonus and will be eligible for annual performance-based bonuses.
In a sign that Soltau has Wall Street’s approval to start, shares rose 10% in extended trading.
Soltau will face a daunting task: turning around JCPenney (JCP), a former retail heavyweight that has fallen more than 50% this year and slipped to close to $1.50 a share. Penney is currently without its chief financial officer. Jeffrey Davis resigned last week only 14 months after taking the job.
The challenges at JCPenney are enormous. It is more than $4 billion in debt and has posted a profit in only two quarters during the past four years. Penney lost $101 million in its most recent quarter.
JCPenney’s decline comes at a moment when rival department stores Nordstrom (JWN), Kohl’s (KSS) and Macy’s (M) have demonstrated an ability to reinvent their businesses for the digital shopping era.
Soltau will have to make tough decisions about Penney’s store footprint. The company has 860 stores and hundreds of them are in struggling malls. JCPenney also has a glut of clothing piling up at its warehouses and stores.
Penney has been searching for a leader with merchandising experience to help it make better decisions about which brands to sell in stores.
“We wanted someone with rich apparel and merchandising experience and found Jill to be an ideal fit,” board director Paul Brown said in a news release.
Soltau took over at Joann in 2015. She has also held positions at Shopko, Sears, and Kohl’s.
Penney selecting Soltau signals the company wants to break from Ellison’s strategy.
Ellison was a former Home Depot executive and led Penney into the appliance business. But his tenure had mixed results: Washers and dryers were not major draws for customers and its clothing assortment suffered.
Penney believes its core shoppers are middle-aged women. Earlier this month, Penney introduced Artesia, a new women’s chic brand for less than $30.
CNNMoney’s Julia Carpenter contributed to this story.
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As you might expect, Ruby Brown was very surprised when she got a bill from her hospital in Saginaw, Mich. for labor and delivery room service. "I just about flipped my lid," she says. "The hospital wanted to charge me $173 for a baby I never had." Ruby Brown, you see, is 89 and the youngest of her three children is 60. The hospital admitted a computer had mistakenly included the new baby charges with a statement of fees for physical therapy she completed earlier this year.
Rabin and Arafat Meet at Erez Crossing
By Art Chimes (Israel-Gaza Border)
Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat met in the Gaza Strip Wednesday. The summit was set up to discuss obstacles in the peace process but a news conference afterward was dominated by earlier controversial remarks by a senior PLO official.
The two leaders announced an accelerated schedule of meetings aimed at speeding up Palestinian self-rule. They promised to minimize their differences after their summit, which coincided with the release by Israel of eight Palestinian women held in Israeli jails.
Journalists focused on comments by the head of the PLO Political Department, Farouk Kaddoumi, who Tuesday made broadcast remarks widely interpreted as calling for the destruction of the State of Israel. Kaddoumi said no changes in the PNC Covenant will be changed until Israel signs a peace treaty with all the Arab countries.
Rabin warned that further such statements threaten to undermine the peace process, calling Kaddoumi's comments an obstacle in the ongoing negotiations. "Because if some high echelon person in the PLO could come up with such a statement ... It is a real problem and I do not want to deal with it publicly; but I said continuation of it will serve as obstacles on the road for what we are doing now."
Arafat said he is examining the controversial statement, which he emphasized represented Kaddoumi's own point of view. But when asked specifically whether Kaddoumi represents the PLO, Arafat declined to distance himself from the statement. "Not to forget, he is the foreign minister of the PLO."
Argentine Flip-Flopping Continues
By Roger Wilkison (Rio de Janeiro)
Argentine President Carlos Menem says Iran's ambassador in Buenos Aires should be either withdrawn or expelled. Menem made the remark after an Argentine judge concluded that four men he identified as Iranian diplomats were involved in the bombing last month of a Jewish community center.
Menem told a Buenos Aires radio station that he was speaking in what he called the heat of the moment. But he said a final decision on the fate of the Iranian ambassador rests with the Foreign Ministry.
Investigating Magistrate Juan Jose Galeano issued arrest warrants for the four Iranians he says were implicated in the July 18 bombing that killed at least 95 people. News media in Buenos Aires report that Judge Galeano based his case against the four on the testimony of an Iranian defector he questioned in Venezuela.
Iran has denied that it was involved in the bombing and has made an official protest to Argentina, calling the charges by the judge discourteous and baseless.
Argentine officials have said their country does not intend to break diplomatic relations with Iran because they fear retaliation by terrorists if they take such a step.
German Court Slaps Wrist of Holocaust Revisionist
By Dagmar Breitenbach (Bonn)
The German Government and Jewish community leaders are criticizing a German court for its handling of the case of a far-right party leader who denied the Holocaust ever took place.
A Mannheim regional court gave Guenter Deckert, head of the far-right National Democratic Party, a one-year suspended prison sentence, and the equivalent of a $6,000 fine after his conviction of incitement to racial hatred. The court excused deckert's denial of the Holocaust, saying he was defending his political conviction, which the court described as a "matter of the heart" for him.
The court said Deckert was strengthening the resistance of the German people to Jewish demands stemming from the Holocaust. The ruling prompted an uproar from government officials and the country's Jewish community.
Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis says the court's explanation has practically made anti-Semitism by neo-Nazis and extreme rightists socially acceptable. Justice Minster Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger called the justification a slap in the face for all victims of the Holocaust, and a shocking signal. What good are the most effective regulations to combat neo-Nazism, she said, if a German court calls the denial of the Holocaust a "matter of the heart."
The case arose from a 1991 lecture in Germany by US neo-Nazi activist Fred Leuchter. Leuchter insists Jews were never killed at death camps run by the Nazis. Deckert translated the lecture, and told the audience he agreed with Leuchter.
The regional court had previously convicted Deckert, and given him the same suspended sentence. But Germany's highest appeals court overturned the lower court verdict, saying the evidence presented at the time did not prove he was guilty of a crime. It instructed the regional court to reexamine the case to determine whether Deckert really subscribed to Nazi ideology. The court reached the conclusion that he did, and handed down the same sentence as before.
State prosecutors, which had called for a two-year prison sentence, say they will appeal the court's ruling.
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Fatmeh Birnawi, the first female terrorist jailed after the Six Day War and sentenced to two life sentences for the bombing of a Jerusalem movie theater, was recently returned to Jericho by Yasir Arafat to head the Palestinian policewomen.
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Greens call for review of whether tax breaks are delivering housing supply
The Greens’ spokesperson on Housing, Tourism and the North Coast, Jan Barham MLC, has called for a review of tax concessions for investment properties and whether they are in fact improving the availability of rental housing stock.
“As a North Coast resident I am concerned at the evidence of 900 homes in both the Byron and Tweed local government areas being used for tourism purposes,” said Ms Barham.
“It is possible that many of these properties are being claimed as investment properties and despite the use being unapproved at this time, there hasn’t been an examination of whether the Federal Government’s negative gearing and capital gains tax provisions are supporting a loss of housing stock and the erosion of community.”
For many years the Byron Shire community has raised concerns about the impact of holiday letting on the availability and affordability of housing in the shire. Recently the Tweed council staff presented a report to alert council to the use of dwellings in that shire for tourism rather than the approved permanent residential use.
“The Land and Environment Court decision in 2013 about a case in Gosford made it very clear that the use for tourism accommodation of approved dwellings in residential areas was prohibited. Now councils have to reconcile this decision with what is happening in each council area.
“The Federal Government’s tax discussion paper, which was released earlier this week, shows that the total tax deductions claimed for investment properties have grown and are now larger than the total rental income earned by Australian property owners.
“If this substantial tax break is being used on the North Coast for commercial gain by turning residential properties into tourist accommodation, it is actually working against the desired outcome of providing more rental housing stock.
“Some form of review and regulation is needed to ensure that generous bonus to property investors delivers some form of social benefit,” Ms Barham concluded.
For further comment, contact Jan Barham directly on 0447 853 891
Incoming Government must support a fairer and more caring society
Jan Barham, the Greens’ spokesperson for the North Coast, Aboriginal Affairs, Housing, Ageing, Disabilty and Community Services, has called on the re-elected Coalition Government to adopt a more caring and strategic approach with a priority focus on housing and community services for areas of high vulnerability and disadvantage such as the North Coast.
“The high levels of people who are unemployed, aged, have a disability and receiving income and parenting support payments is an indication of the disadvantage and vulnerability in our region. The risk is that if priorities don’t change with the next government we will see a continuation of vulnerability that can result in intergenerational disadvantage. Without changes there could be more people living in poverty and excluded from full participation in society,” said Ms Barham.
“There must be a focus on investing in communities to deliver fairness and improved opportunity to participate in all aspects of life. It’s time to look at the needs of this community and prepare for the future, with a more caring and compassionate approach.
“In this election campaign the Greens prioritised a boost in social housing with funding of $4.5 billion to build 20,000 homes over 4 years. With some of the longest waiting lists in NSW, there should be a significant increase on the north coast. The lack of affordable housing is threatening the health and wellbeing of the community and putting many at risk of homelessness, especially the young, the elderly and Aboriginal community members.
“Many older people living in caravan parks are facing unaffordable rent increases or eviction, with no other options available. NSW needs new legislation to provide the security and affordability required for our valued older citizens living in parks and villages.”
The Greens are also calling for secondary dwellings grants to assist property owners to build for the aged and disabled.
“We need to deliver appropriately designed and dedicated housing to allow people to stay living in community rather than being forced to move away from their neighbours and families. Funding support at a local level would grow the stock of housing needed and retain community cohesion,” said Ms Barham.
Ms Barham noted that with an ageing population, the NDIS, domestic violence, child protection concerns and a significant Aboriginal population, the region needs additional workers in the community services area to address and prevent risk for the most vulnerable in our community.
“Some of the disadvantage experienced in the region could be overcome with a greater investment in early intervention services and additional workers. The community service sector is in need of additional staff and the Greens are calling for a training financial assistance scheme to encourage and support more people entering the caring workforce. The need for increased Aboriginal specialist services is crucial and would create much needed employment opportunities as well as culturally appropriate services,” said Ms Barham.
Taxis are the main form of transport for some residents who have significant disabilities to allow them to access medical, health and work opportunities.
“The Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme has not been increased for 16 years and this is grossly unfair. An increase in this vital service would benefit inclusion for those who are otherwise disadvantaged, especially in the regions,” Ms Barham said.
Ms Barham also warned that recent funding cuts by the Federal Government to parent and youth services have shown a lack of foresight and investment in the future, which the NSW Government must work to rectify.
“The Greens call on the State Government to lobby against the Federal Government funding cuts to important programs that support young people at risk and that provide skills for the transition to adulthood and independent living, and to make up for any shortfall in federal funding as they have done for pensioner concessions. The funding cuts to important programs that support new parents are a dangerous move that puts child welfare at risk, and which will end up creating additional social harms and put pressure on state services in child protection, juvenile justice and other sectors,” said Ms Barham.
“It’s time to overcome the history of the major parties ignoring the needs of the regions. While North Coast seats were a major focus in this election and coal seam gas was an especially crucial issue, the wellbeing of North Coast communities has been off the radar for too long.
“Without a commitment to social infrastructure investment for the region, there will be continuing disadvantage. The true test of a progressive society is how well we care for those in need and plan for the future wellbeing of all of our residents.
“The Greens are committed to caring for the most vulnerable in our society. I will be focusing on these issues when Parliament resumes, hopefully with two new North Coast Greens members in the Legislative Assembly to echo the focus for the region’s communities,” Ms Barham concluded.
Planning for a more caring community
Investment in social housing – announced $4.5 billion to deliver 20,000 new homes in NSW over 4 years
Financial grants for the delivery of appropriately designed secondary dwellings for older and disabled people – $20,000 per property
Care Workforce Strategy – grants to assist people in training in the community sector – aged, disability and child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Residential Parks protection – legislation to secure the rights of people living in residential parks against high fees and eviction
Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme – increase funding that has been stagnant for 16 years
Youth programs – return funding to crucial youth programs that have been cut by federal government eg. Links to Learning, Youth Connections and REALskills – approx. $700,000 for region
Standing Up for the North Coast: Electorate Report 2011-2014
My electorate report has been distributed to households across the North Coast, with information about the work I’ve done alongside my Parliamentary colleagues over the past four years.
You can download the report here [2.2MB PDF].
Holiday letting eroding community
The Greens NSW Tourism spokesperson and Byron Shire resident, Jan Barham MLC, has warned that Byron Shire Council’s Draft Short Term Holiday Accommodation Strategy is a recipe for the erosion of community in Byron Shire.
“The changes to the planning process proposed by Byron Shire Council would allow holiday letting in all residential areas and diminish the already limited stock of available housing and change the character of Byron Shire,” said Ms Barham.
“The proposal makes a mockery of strategic planning and has had no Social Impact Assessment, which would be required for rezoning residential land for tourism. The council is already under pressure to deliver more residential housing and that was evident in the State Government’s recent approval of the West Byron development.
“The problem with the unapproved use of dwellings for tourism purposes has been an issue in Byron Shire for over a decade and has caused great concern in the community. Currently there are estimates of at least 900 houses approved as residential dwellings being used for tourism purposes. This unapproved use means that permanent residents are deprived access to housing and equates to about 2500 people unable to be housed.”
Ms Barham noted that the legal situation prohibiting holiday letting was clear and that the NSW Government needed to support councils to act in enforcing the law as it stands.
“A recent Land and Environment Court judgment relating to holiday letting in the Gosford area makes clear that the use of dwellings for short term tourism purposes in residential zoned areas is prohibited. Byron Shire Council has tried to deal with the problems with the unapproved use but has been thwarted by the state government in the regulation of the use or taking legal action.
“In the past when Byron council sought to take action it was requested to desist by the State Government with an assurance that they were addressing the issue. What eventuated was Government support for industry regulation. It is outrageous for the same Government that imposes unwanted development on communities to fail to support councils’ efforts to ensure existing housing is available for residential use.
“While tourism is an important economic benefit to the shire, it should not come at the erosion of the community that has protected and created this iconic destination. Council should be acting on the current legal situation rather than considering an approach that would contribute to the lack of affordability and availability of properties and change the character of the community,” Ms Barham concluded.
Motions put on record in the NSW Legislative Council by Jan Barham
Unapproved Tourism Use of Residential Dwellings, Notice given 19 November 2014
1. That this House notes that:
(a) legislation and court decisions define the distinction between the use of residential dwellings for the purpose of permanent occupation and short term tourism uses such as holiday let and serviced apartments, and
(b) court decisions have determined that the use of approved dwellings or dwelling houses for the purpose of tourism use is an unlawful purpose and contrary to the zone objectives and therefore prohibited.
2. That this House notes that many court cases have addressed the use of residential-zoned buildings and land for uses other than residential dwellings, including the following:
(a) in the judgement of Reynolds JA in South Sydney Council v James (1979) 35 LGRA 432 the critical element of reasoning was that some level of permanence is required in that a dwelling requires “at the very least, a significant degree of permanence or habitation or occupation”,
(b) in the Land and Environment Court case of the Sydney Council and the Waldorf Apartments in March 2008, Paine J’s judgment focussed on the question of whether the use of the rooms “is for the purpose of ‘residential accommodation’ or for other purpose, namely short term accommodation” and ruled that consent to use the building for serviced apartments had not been given,
(c) in the Waldorf Apartments case, Paine J noted the similarities with the case in North Sydney regarding the use of Blues Point Towers where, in the Court of Appeal, Mahoney JA (with the agreement of Handley JA and Priestly JA) held that the use of flats as serviced apartments was unauthorised on the grounds that they did not have “the necessary degree of permanence”,
(d) in the 2005 case relating to the York Apartments in York St Sydney, it was noted that the term ‘serviced apartments’ “was first introduced into the City of Sydney Local Environment Plan in 1996 and described inter alia as ‘used to provide short term accommodation’”, and that Lord J, ruling in the appeal to change usage of the York building to incorporate serviced apartments, found against the appeal on the grounds that “the description of a flat as a ‘dwelling’ or ‘domicile’ carried with it the notion of a degree of permanency of habitation or occupancy” and that the owner must comply with the original consent for use as a ‘residential flat building’,
(e) in the more recent case in the Land and Environment Court, Paine J ruled that a unit in Sutherland Shire had a 1960 development consent for use only as a ‘residential flat building’, and quoted the above Mahoney J Court of Appeal decision, noting that a dwelling or residence carries with it the notion of permanency and ruled that the unit in question was, on the balance of probabilities, being used for holiday letting, as indicated by its advertisement for such in the NRMA Open Road magazine,
(f) in a Byron Shire case in the Land and Environment Court involving the appeal against Council’s refusal to permit a proposed development to be re-categorised as ‘holiday cabins’, Lloyd J considered that by definition, a holiday cabin is a tourist facility and therefore is prohibited in that particular zone of the Council’s LEP, and
(g) in the Land and Environment Court in April/May 2013, hearing a matter involving Gosford City Council brought by the neighbours of a six bedroom holiday let with a history of late night parties, loud music and other disturbances, Pepper J found that holiday letting of this property was prohibited on the grounds that the use was not sufficiently “permanent to comprise a ‘dwelling house’ for the purposes of the relevant zoning” and further Pepper J noted that, unlike other Councils like Byron Shire, this Council had not amended its LEP to resolve any ambiguity regarding holiday letting.
3. That ths House notes that there is considerable confusion in the community regarding the rights of property owners to use buildings and land for short-term letting or tourism purposes when the original consent has been for residential use, and in particular that in the Gosford judgment Pepper J stated that, “Whether a building is a dwelling house is a question of fact and degree,” and further that Councils expecting the courts to rule on these matters “amounts to an effective abrogation by the council of its fundamental duties and responsibilities.”
4. That this House notes that while in April 2012 the then Minister for Planning and Infrastructure the Hon. Brad Hazzard MP announced a Code of Conduct for Holiday Letting, this amounted to the industry essentially regulating the industry and little recourse for either the councils or the residents who may be suffering the negative effects of holiday letting in their towns or suburbs.
(a) due to the legal interpretations of the permissible use of a dwelling house and the determinations that short term letting is a prohibited use, there are concerns regarding liability and insurance protection, and
(b) the use of dwellings for an unapproved use such as short term letting and tourism purposes results in a lack of safeguards for the occupants.
6. That this House notes that the current Standard Instrument LEP definition of a residential accommodation:
(a) means a building or place used predominantly as a place of residence, and includes any of the following:
(i) attached dwellings,
(ii) boarding houses,
(iii) dual occupancies,
(iv) dwelling houses,
(v) group homes,
(vi) hostels,
(vii) multi dwelling housing,
(viii) residential flat buildings,
(ix) rural workers’ dwellings,
(x) secondary dwellings,
(xi) semi-detached dwellings,
(xii) seniors housing,
(xiii) shop top housing, but
(b) does not include tourist and visitor accommodation or caravan parks, and therefore identifies that tourism use of a dwelling is a prohibited use.
7. That this House notes that the use of approved dwellings for short term letting and tourism purposes reduces the available permanent housing stock in a locality and can result in a housing supply shortage, and therefore places availability and affordability stresses on a locality and is contrary to strategic planning objectives to define the potential housing stock and meet permanent population targets.
8. That this House calls on the Government to clarify the legal and planning requirements relating to the use of dwellings for short term letting and tourism purposes and note the impacts and consequences.
Legal Issues Relating to Unapproved Tourism Booked via Websites, Notice given 11 November 2014
1. That this House calls on the Government to resolve the legal issues of properties that are used by tourists or visitors secured via internet sites such as Airbnb and Stayz, which constitute a non-compliant use with state planning and/or local council regulations, as considered by the Legislative Council Inquiry into Tourism in Local Communities, especially under Term of Reference 3.
(a) the use of internet sites such as Airbnb to locate properties for short term stays by tourists or visitors has been increasing since 2008 when such sites first began,
(b) the use of this form of booking via internet sites results in the true number of tourists or visitors to an area being under-estimated which can mean that government is unable to plan properly for service provision,
(c) most properties listed on such websites are not approved by local government for tourism purposes and are non-compliant with the standards set in the Building Code of Australia for tourist accommodation,
(d) due to the lack of approval these properties may not be covered by insurance while being used by tourists,
(e) fire, safety and other standards of these properties may be inadequate for temporary holiday accommodation,
(f) this type of tourist or visitor accommodation may have negative impacts on neighbours due to issues such as noise, rubbish, parking and anti-social behaviour, and
(g) properties secured via the internet and used by tourists or visitors for short term stays may be competing unfairly with legitimate, approved tourist or visitor accommodation due to lack of:
(i) application approvals and fees,
(ii) compliance with regulation,
(iii) higher cost of commercial property purchase and
(iv) payment of local government commercial rates,
(h) strata managers and strata committees are seeking clarification about the legal issues surrounding the use of residential properties for short term letting.
3. That this House notes that when residential zoned approved dwellings are used for commercial or tourism purposes it diminishes the supply and affordability of housing and therefore contributes to housing affordability pressures.
Petition: Stop the West Byron Mega-Development
The NSW Government is currently considering a massive, inappropriate proposed urban development in West Byron and our community is determined to stop this proposal.
You can help – our petition calls on the Government to defer its decision on the proposal until it has better information about the environmental and social impacts of the development on Byron Shire.
Print, Sign and Send this petition to my office and it will be presented in Parliament. If we can get to 10,000 signatures then there will be a debate in the Legislative Assembly.
Every signature counts, so print the petition, sign it yourself and get your friends and family to do the same, then get those signatures to me so they can all be tabled in Parliament.
Accommodation providers left out of pocket by Bentley back-down should be compensated
North Coast accommodation providers should be compensated for the damage caused by the NSW Government’s plan to send hundreds of police to break up the peaceful protect at Bentley, says Jan Barham, Greens MP and spokesperson for Tourism and the North Coast.
“Until the Government’s last minute suspension of Metgasco’s drilling approval, accommodation providers all over the Northern Rivers region had been booked for up to 800 police who were being brought in to break up the Bentley blockade,” Ms Barham said.
“These businesses, and our local communities, have missed opportunities to host tourists who were unable to book accommodation due to the planned police operation. The least the Government can do is to compensate those operators who were directly affected by the reckless plan to use police force on a peaceful protest.”
Ms Barham noted that the planned police operation to allow gas drilling at Bentley lacked community support.
“It’s especially unfair that the communities who have expressed such strong opposition to unconventional gas might bear the economic impact from a mining operation that lacked a social licence.
“The communities of the Northern Rivers have wanted to remain gasfield-free, and our region’s wellbeing relies on industries such as tourism, not mining.
“I’m relieved that the police operation at Bentley did not proceed as planned following a large amount of community pressure. But the Government must shoulder responsibility for the financial impact on the North Coast accommodation industry caused by their last minute back-down,” Ms Barham concluded.
Shock at further destruction of irreplaceable Old Growth Forest
North Coast Greens MP, Jan Barham, is shocked and saddened by the planned logging of a stand of Old Growth Forest in Koreelah State Forest.
“Having raised the matter in Parliament and met with the Minister’s staff, I had hoped to secure protection of this significant stand of ancient trees and a comprehensive review by Government, Ms Barham said.
“These trees are known to support many threatened species, including Albert’s Lyrebird, Sooty Owl, Marbled Frogmouth, Yellow-bellied Glider and Fleay’s Barred Frog, all of which will be adversely impacted by logging. I also doubt that many people have seen trees this large and marvelled at their majestic size. It is an unnecessary loss.”
“I understand Forestry Corporation’s regional manager advised yesterday of their intention to commence logging, and that the only protection would be for trees with a diameter of at least 1.8 metres. The Forestry Corporation’s own evidence from studies of Terania Creek in 1981 shows that trees this large could be as much as 1,500 years old.”
“The Government has also made it clear to NEFA representatives that unauthorised persons are not permitted on site. While the Government wants to avoid the public gaze, it has only been through the efforts of forest ecologists and activists that we have been made aware of the loss of these irreplaceable natural treasures,” Ms Barham concluded.
(Photograph provided by Dailan Pugh.)
Shocking evidence of Old Growth Forest destruction
North Coast Greens MP, Jan Barham, has called for the Government to act on photographs that show the logging of Old Growth Forest in Koreelah State Forest on the Far North Coast.
“During question time in Parliament today, I tabled photographs showing the devastation that has happened to six hectares of Koreelah’s Old Growth Forest. These trees are irreplaceable and their destruction is a travesty,” Ms Barham said.
(Photographs provided by David Milledge; Taken at compartment 27 of Kareelah State Forest.)
“I’ve asked whether the Environment Minister is aware that this logging has taken place, and that a further 17 hectares is at risk from planned operations. The Government must investigate and announce what action it will take to protect the biodiversity and heritage of our Old Growth Forests from any further planned destruction.”
The photographs, which were taken during a recent inspection by the North East Forest Alliance, show the aftermath of intensive logging that has felled trees approaching 2.5m in diameter. The forest provides habitat for threatened species and its destruction creates a risk of invasive species such as Lantana taking hold.
“I’m utterly shocked to see evidence that the destruction of Old Growth Forests is still happening. The public puts its trust in government to preserve and protect our natural environment. The loss of these great forests is like stealing from future generations,” Ms Barham said.
Progress on hospital planning welcome news for Byron Shire
North Coast Greens MP Jan Barham has welcomed the NSW Government’s progress in planning for the Byron Shire Central Hospital project.
Ms Barham has been involved in progressing the hospital since her election to Byron Shire Council in 1999 and was a member of the committee developing the services plan.
Today in the NSW Upper House, Ms Barham asked the Government for clarification about funding allocations for the project in this week’s NSW Budget.
“Last December the Government announced $500,000 to fund the next stage of planning, and I’m pleased that there has already been progress on this stage despite the Budget counting these funds toward the next financial year,” Ms Barham said.
“The community will welcome the news that Health Infrastructure opened tenders for architects and project managers this week and expects to award contracts by mid-July.
“I was informed that planning will be completed by the end of 2013, which will include Treasury review of the funding needed to implement the project.”
Feeling groovy: Parliament celebrates 40th anniversary of Aquarius Festival
North Coast Greens MP, Jan Barham, has welcomed NSW Upper House support for her motion recognising the 40th anniversary of the Aquarius Festival in Nimbin.
“The Aquarius Festival was not only an historic event; it was transformative for the Far North of New South Wales,” Ms Barham said.
“The Aquarius Festival brought new people and innovative thinking to the region and contributed to defining the area known to many as the Rainbow Region. Over the last 40 years, the North Coast has been at the forefront of many important issues such Aboriginal respect and reconciliation, biodiversity protection and sustainable architecture.”
“In a moment of harmony and youthful joy that we don’t often see on Macquarie Street, my colleagues in the Legislative Council congratulated the Aquarians and recognised the unique and vibrant culture of the North Coast,” Ms Barham said.
Motion on Aquarius Festival, passed by NSW Legislative Council 22nd May 2013:
1. That this House notes that:
(a) May 12 – 23 marks the 40th anniversary of the Aquarius Festival in Nimbin NSW,
(b) the festival’s organisers planned more than just the fourth Australian Union of Students music festival – they planned a festival of alternative thinking and sustainable living, in a valley where festival goers could stay on and live out their ideals and aspirations,
(c) the Bundjalung Elders gave their permission and support to holding the festival on their lands, building a respectful connection with traditional owners that has continued to this day,
(d) the Nimbin Valley and surrounding areas welcomed the boost that the festival offered the region, with traditional industries in a state of decline,
(e) soon after the Aquarius Festival, Nimbin became identified as a centre for counter-culture and the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movement in Australia,
(f) the new settlers in the Nimbin community experienced adversities and learned about living on the land with support from local farmers and existing residents,
(g) from Nimbin the counter-culture revolution reached out locally so that the Far Northern regions of NSW have become known for their innovative and sustainable technologies, ideas and models of community living, and
(h) the Aquarians and those who were inspired to the area have made diverse contributions including:
(i) initiating ecological protection of old growth forests and North Coast biodiversity,
(ii) developing alternative energy systems,
(iii) establishing sustainable food production practices and promoting healthy lifestyles,
(iv) promoting innovative architecture in intentional communities,
(v) encouraging cultural diversity including music, craft and arts,
(vi) engaging in political activism, and the production of community media including newspapers and radio,
(vii) supporting alternative economic models, including Local Economic Trading Systems (LETS) and community markets.
2. That this House congratulates the Aquarians and those who have contributed to and maintained a unique and vibrant cultural community in northern NSW for the past 40 years.
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Second three-book world rights deal for urban fantasy writer Suzanne McLeod
Jo Fletcher, Gollancz’s Associate Publisher, has acquired World Rights in three more supernatural thrillers by Suzanne McLeod, for a decent five-figure sum in UK pounds. The agent was John Jarrold.
These books continue the Spellcrackers.com series set in London and star Genevieve Taylor, a Sidhe who runs into supernatural crime, dark romance and trouble at every turn. The provisional titles are The Shifting Price of Prey, The Hidden Rune of Iron and The Sharp Bite of Ritual.
Suzanne’s first two books have been sold to Germany and the US, and have received praise from the mainstream and genre press, as well as authors including international bestseller Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels now produced for TV as True Blood. Suzanne lives on the South Coast of England, with her husband and dogs.
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2k8: this year in east county
2008 will be remembered as an epic year for our nation, with an economic meltdown and the election of our first black president merely the icing on the cake. It's been an epic year for East County as well, with the tragic loss of a County Councilmember and the beginning of construction on the ICC - two things that many people wouldn't have predicted even last year. Here's a look at some of the big stories we've reported on over the past twelve months:
- Washington Adventist Hospital unveils its plans to build a new facility in Calverton, which will bring over two thousand jobs to East County according to president Jere Stocks.
- Montgomery County signed a lease with concert promoter Live Nation to build a Fillmore music hall in the former J.C. Penney building on Colesville Road, making the controversial nightclub more or less a done deal. It should open in 2010.
- Four-term Councilmember Marilyn Praisner, a resident of Calverton for forty years, and Planning Board commissioner Gene Lynch, who was instrumental in the revitalization of Downtown Silver Spring, pass away on the same day.
- A fire breaks out at El Pollo Rico, the popular Peruvian restaurant in Wheaton, damaging several other neighboring businesses.
- The campaign to fill Marilyn Praisner's former County Council seat is on, with four Democrats and four Republicans vying for the position. Many elected officials throw their support behind Praisner's widower, Don, though he faces stiff competition from School Board president Nancy Navarro.
- After his defeat in the Democratic primary to Donna Edwards, Congressman Al Wynn (D-Dist. 4) steps down to take a position at a law firm with less than a year left in his term.
- The Dutch Country Farmers' Market, an institution in Burtonsville, signs a twenty-five-year lease for a space in Laurel after being evicted from their current location by Chris Jones, who planned to redevelop the shopping center it was located in.
- In the primary election to fill the recently-departed Marilyn Praisner's County Council seat, the Democratic nomination goes to her widower Don. Aided by political gadfly Robin Ficker, Mark Fennel wins the Republican nomination.
- The Planning Board adopts the Silver Spring CBD Green Space Plan, which seeks to create new, higher-quality parks and squares throughout the business district.
- Don Praisner wins the County Council District 4 election, replacing his wife Marilyn. In keeping with one of her favorite traditions, Don throws an ice cream social at Seibel's Restaurant in Burtonsville.
- The Planning Board approves the Ashton Meeting Place, a proposed mixed-use shopping center in Ashton, the result of a compromise between the developer and residents of the three-hundred-year-old village, who were concerned about the project's scale and context.
- South Silver Spring holds its second-annual Block Party, attempting to re-cast the former industrial neighborhood as a place for arts, music and great food.
- The Fairland Recreation Center and Fairland Library are re-named after former Councilmember Marilyn Praisner, who fought to have both facilities funded and built in the 1990's.
- Burtonsville residents debate traffic, "undesirables" and the future of their community at a charrette for the Community Legacy Plan, which will use state funding to revitalize the beleaguered Burtonsville business district.
- International Downtown Associates, a worldwide network of urban planners and designers, propose building a library and town square to revitalize Wheaton's business district, while the Planning Department begins revising the twenty-year-old Wheaton CBD sector plan.
- WMATA proposes expanding their MetroExtra network of rapid buses with a series of new routes throughout the region, including lines along Route 29, Georgia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, University Boulevard and East-West Highway. The East County routes could be up and running as early as 2012.
- Montgomery County throws a "farewell party" for "the Turf," the popular fake-grass hangout at Fenton and Ellsworth in Downtown Silver Spring. Over the next two years, it will be transformed into Veterans' Plaza, a paved square featuring a new civic center and ice rink.
- Construction of the InterCounty Connector begins in earnest as trees come down along Route 29 in preparation for a new interchange. Dogwood Drive in Briggs Chaney is closed to accomodate the toll road, which is set to be completed by 2012.
- Despite making plans to move to Laurel, the Dutch Country Farmers' Market says it will remain in Burtonsville for the time being - which it later revises to "indefinitely." Chris Jones, who plans to redevelop the shopping center the market is located in, is reportedly unable to get the necessary building permits.
- The kids who used to congregate on "the Turf" instead move to the adjacent block of Ellsworth Drive, while landscape architects wonder if the unexpectedly-popular expanse of fake grass could cost them their jobs.
- The Planning Board decides not to landmark Falkland Chase, instead approving plans to redevelop a third of the New Deal-era apartment complex.
- County Executive Ike Leggett's "Pedestrian Safety Week" gets off to a rough start as he stumbles upon the crime scene for a pedestrian killed on Fairland Road. In response, the county Department of Transportation launches an in-depth examination of pedestrian safety along the road.
- East County residents flock to the eighteenth-annual Burtonsville Days festival, featuring a parade, a food court, local vendors and the first-ever Burtonsville Fashion Show.
- Following last June's charrette, consultants propose new landscaping, reconfigured parking lots and minor aesthetic improvements for Burtonsville's struggling village center in the Community Legacy Plan, which can be used to apply for State funding.
- The County Council approves a raft of new amendments that give developers increased leeway in exchange for building the Fillmore music hall and similar amenities in the downtowns of Silver Spring, Bethesda and Wheaton.
- Silver Spring, Singular and Thayer Avenue host Silver Spring's first Zombie Walk, drawing hundreds to Ellsworth Drive and landing a feature in the Gazette.
- Fourteen-year-old Tai Lam, a student at Blair High School, is murdered on a Ride-On bus while coming home from Downtown Silver Spring. While the neighborhood listservs light up with fears that the Purple Line and development will contribute to a rising crime rate, friends and well-wishers set up a memorial to Lam on Ellsworth Drive.
- A bank robbery in Clarksville leads to a police chase across the river into East County, resulting in roadblocks, schools under lockdown and a violent shootout in the Greencastle Lakes neighborhood of Burtonsville.
- Elected officials and local residents alike make themselves heard at Montgomery College for the last of four public hearings on the Purple Line's Alternatives Analysis/Draft Environmental Impact Study.
- Over Thanksgiving weekend, a middle-aged woman vandalizes the exterior of City Place Mall, breaking the windows of the Ruby Tuesday restaurant on Colesville Road with a baseball bat.
- JUTP does a series profiling Paul Stregevsky, writer of Tracks, the world's first musical about the Purple Line.
- Ten months after its original location on Ennalls Avenue in Wheaton burned down, Peruvian chicken eatery El Pollo Rico re-opens a block away on University Boulevard, though I still have yet to eat there.
- Councilmember Marc Elrich unveils his plan for a 100-mile Bus Rapid Transit system in Montgomery County, which would create a reserved, reversible lane for buses on major roads like Georgia Avenue, Route 29 and Randolph Road.
- The County's Office of Legislative Oversight says that the Northeast and Downcounty consortia, which offer East County students a choice of "signature programs" at one of eight different high schools, has failed its originally stated goal of racial integration.
- Two months after it opens, the Montgomery Cinema 'N' Drafthouse in Wheaton closes, citing financial difficulties, a lack of help from Montgomery County, and very unrealistic expectations from their landlord, the Westfield Group.
- The Planning Board endorses light-rail as their preferred mode for the Purple Line, and suggests using both the Georgetown Branch Trail in Chevy Chase and Wayne Avenue in East Silver Spring for the route.
- A man is shot outside of Wheaton Plaza two days before Christmas, marking the fourth serious crime that has happened at the mall since its multi-million-dollar renovation in 2005.
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January 2009: The Washington Post admits in print that half of Montgomery's murders of citizens were by unlawfully present foreigners. Chief Manger and top staffers admit publicly that they realize fully that the old policies must be changed, because they allowed the murder rate to be double what it would have been if they'd checked immigration status of people already in custody on charges of violence or weapons or felonious theft or sex crimes.
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January 14, 2020 January 13, 2020 by Lev Raphael
Garth Greenwell has a new book out and when he published his debut a few years ago, the response from critics reminded me of my years reviewing for the Detroit Free Press, the Washington Post and other publications. Back then my colleagues sometimes struck me like a pack of wolves. One would start howling praise for a book and soon the cries would echo everywhere. The raves often triggered the contrarian in me: was the book really earth-shattering?
The panegyrics about What Belongs to You when it came out had put me off, but a creative writing student of mine told me he found it interesting, so I decided to read it.
The narrator was a gay American teacher in Bulgaria who got involved with an increasingly demanding hustler he met in a public toilet. One British reviewer said this novel actually made her tremble, while another hailed it as “incandescent.” That’s apparently the official word of choice for Greenwell’s work since it’s been applied to his latest book, too.
A New York Times reviewer called that debut an “instant classic” and compared the book to a Jackson Pollack painting, which seemed wildly inappropriate given its overall lack of energy.
Aside from listless prose, the major problem I had was with the obnoxious, dishonest grifter. We were supposed to believe in the narrator’s intense attraction to this Mitko, yet his most distinguishing features were a chipped tooth and a big cock. The sex scenes were minimal and boring, which was problematic since the narrator’s sexual obsession seemed design to drive the book forward. They didn’t. It crawled.
While the novel’s framing sections were way too languid, the middle section worked best because the prose was more direct and compelling, less writerly. In those pages we experienced the narrator’s shameful memories of growing up with a brutal father and a treacherous, manipulative best friend.
I didn’t quiver reading that part of the book and my iPad screen didn’t glow, but I felt the author was far more deeply engaged. He spoiled it, though, when the narrator found a horse in a Bulgarian monastery at the end of that section. “It was tied up, I saw, it could have wandered off anytime it chose; but there was nowhere for it to go, of course, and the cart I supposed was heavy and there was something meager to be had there where it stood.”
Yes, dude. We totally got it. The narrator was trapped. Thanks for clarifying that. The sequence was like one of those corny songs at the end of a movie filled with lyrics explaining what you just saw in case you were too dimwitted to get it.
Nobody recommended the new book Cleanness to me, but I started it anyway out of morbid curiosity. I found the same overlong, airless, flat sentences that weighed down his What Belongs to You and had to give up. Greenwell is hysterically being compared to Proust, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Henry James, Thomas Mann, and D.H. Lawrence. Calls for a Nobel Prize are probably next.
Lev Raphael is the author of 26 books in genres from memoir to mystery and teaches creative writing workshops at writewithoutborders.com.
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The secret of a Thai-condiment set (ชุดเครื่องพวง) and the four popular Thai dipping sauce (น้ำจิ้ม)
Have you ever noticed the four glasses set up on dining table at restaurants in Thailand? These glasses form a set of must-have condiments which consist of sugar, fish sauce, chili flakes and vinegar with sliced or crushed chilies. Those condiments are similar to salt and pepper in western culture. You can also find extra containers of pepper or crushed peanut to add a bit of texture to the noodle soup or a must-loved Pad Thai. In Thai culture, condiments are crucial in order to alter the flavour profile and enhance the dishes.
It’s common to see Thai people add condiments to personalise the flavour to their own taste. The secret of Thai deliciousness is to balance the key elements which are sweetness, saltiness, sourness and spiciness. This concept also applies to Thai dipping sauce (Thai: น้ำจิ้ม) which is traditionally pounded in a mortar and pestle. The texture and consistency of Thai dipping sauces are more watery and thin compared to Thai pastes (Thai: น้ำพริก). There are various dipping sauces used in Thai cuisine however four of the more popular sauces will be introduced below.
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Prik Nam Pla (Thai: พริกน้ำปลา), usually mixed with lime juice and slices of chillies, is a popular sauce that you will find at most restaurants in Thailand from cook-to-order shops up to five-star hotels. You can even ask for Prik Nam Pla at any Thai restaurant around the world. I can guarantee you that they won’t roll their eyes at you if you ask for it. On the other hand, they would have guessed that you are definitely familiar with Thai food. Prik Nam Pla is best matched with fried rice, Basil stir-fried or garlic stir-fried with any meat, fried fish or easy side dishes like boiled egg or fried egg.
If you don’t have much time, I’d love to recommend a cheeky and yummy sauce to perfect your dishes. This Umami seasoning sauce from Megachef has a great balance of flavour and it is now a stable condiment in my pantry. You can also add some fresh elements like slices of bird-eye chili, red onion and garlic to this all-in-one sauce to change its flavour profile. A small drizzle of this sauce is enough to lift up a bland dish.
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Seafood sauce (Thai: น้ำจิ้มทะเล) is a great partner with grilled or steamed seafood such as prawns, squid, crabs and mussel. It gives the seafood dishes a freshness, mouth-watering flavour and help to get rid of the fishy smell from seafood. The sauce ingredients include garlic, chilies, lime juice, fish sauce, palm sugar, coriander roots and a pinch of salt. If you love a spicy and sour taste, this sauce is one you shouldn’t miss.
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Sweet Chili Sauce (Thai: น้ำจิ้มไก่) is not only best with grilled chicken, it’s also an ideal match with crispy fried chicken and other Thai entrée like spring rolls, money bags and fish cakes. Two of the key ingredients in sweet chili sauces is vinegar, which gives acidity that cuts through oiliness and pickled garlic which add a smooth sweetness to the sauce. This sauce became widely popular as its not spicy and a beautiful accompaniment with any deep-fried dish. You can find this sauce at the supermarket nearby; Maeploy Sweet Chilli Sauce or gluten-free Megachef Sweet Chilli sauce are great to try.
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Thai-Isan Chili Sauce (Thai: น้ำจิ้มแจ่ว) is well-known for its distinctive flavour and the ability to go well with grilled meat. If we make Thai barbecue such as grilled pork neck, crying tiger – grilled beef tenderloin or chicken then Thai-Isan dipping sauce is a must. The core ingredients includes tamarind puree for bitterness, lime juice for sourness sauce, palm sugar for sweetness, fish sauce for saltiness and chili flakes for that spicy kick. Sprinkle some crushed grilled glutinous rice (ข้าวคั่ว) for an aromatic touch and texture.
In Thai culture, น้ำจิ้ม dipping sauce is always an important addition to cherish and embrace the dish. Once you get to know how to balance all four condiments, it will take you one step closer to perfect your next Thai dish and the more you learn to harmonise all these favours, the better you can cook an authentic Thai dish. Don’t forget that choosing high-quality ingredients and condiments are the key to all tasty dishes. Enjoy dipping!!!
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Three black police officers, two men and a woman, are sent to Biotope, an ecologically protected planet, to investigate a murder. When they arrive at the base, they are greeted by a particularly uncooperative group of scientists, who forbid them to go outside for fear of unbalancing the ecosystem. It’s the beginning of a difficult investigation in a hostile environment. Biotope is a police story told with dry wit and in a highly unorthodox fashion. The science-fiction setting is no more than an excuse to show what happens when individuals enter an entirely self-contained world, disrupting a closed system. Funny, unsettling, and treated with a superb and innovative graphic style, Biotope is a brilliant example of what the Poisson Pilote collection is all about.
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Machel, Swappi, Shal to perform at Digicel roadshow
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Soca stars Machel Montano, Swappi, Shal Marshall and Nessa Preppy are just some of the artistes scheduled to perform at the culmination of Digicel's Carnival roadshow on February 22, 2019.
In a statement issued Thursday, Digicel said the all-day roadshow will take carnival festivities to the next level.
The company said the Digicel team will hit the road from 7:00 am to evening with a 'pimped out 40ft music truck, the Digi Girls, flag wavers, explosive performances by local soca artists and giveaways throughout the day'.
"The public is invited to join in the non-stop revelry as the roving roadshow tours the country," the company said.
The roadshow will kick things off at 7:00 am with a breakfast party in the vicinity of the Arima Dial.
The Digicel crew will then head down to High Street in San Fernando for a live midday performance by Lil Natty and Thunda.
Fans in Chaguanas (Mid Centre Mall and Price Plaza) as well as City Gate, Port of Spain, can catch the crew as they stop off to hand out giveaways and special promotional offers.
The company said the roadshow will culminate on Maraval Road, Port-of-Spain at 5:30 pm with 'electrifying performances by Machel Montano, Nessa Preppy, Swappi, Shal and more of T&T’s biggest socca artistes'.
The company added that as part of Digicel’s ongoing carnival promotional activities, the public has a chance to win a Nissan Frontier vehicle which will be on display for close-up viewing in the roadshow.
For more information visit Digicel on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DigicelTT or Instagram at www.instagram.com/digiceltt
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Master Builders Victoria 2019 Awards
HBS Group recognised for work on Princess Theatre
AUGUST 2019 | MELBOURNE, VICTORIA | AUSTRALIA
Congratulations to HBS Group Pty Ltd, recognised in this year’s Master Builders Victoria awards for Excellence in Consulting — Best Specialist Contractor — for their fantastic work on the exterior conservation of Princess Theatre, Spring Street, Melbourne.
Nicholas Simpson, CEO of HBS Group, was joined at the award ceremony by Jason Marriner, CEO of Marriner Group (theatre owner and operator) and Lovell Chen project leader and senior associate, Christophe Loustau. Congratulations to the whole team.
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The exterior conservation works at the Princess Theatre were completed late last year. The Princess is the oldest theatre in the city, and was designed by architect William Pitt. We have undertaken a number of conservation and restoration projects on various parts of its fabric, inside and out.
This is the second year running that HBS Group has been recognised for its work on a Lovell Chen project. Last year they won the same award for the restoration of Alexandra Fountain in central Bendigo.
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Jay’s credentials go back to 1962, when he played surf guitar on a ’57 Fender Stratocaster with his first band, The Nomads. They recorded two singles between ’62- ’64. Soon, Jay moved on to a ’63 Fender Jazz bass and has been a dedicated bassist ever since.
In the late ‘60s, Jay compiled an impressive rock ‘n roll résumé playing with bands that figured prominently in the music scene. He formed a band, Spirit of Creation with friend John Mehler, and they opened for major acts such as The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Iron Butterfly. Jay became restless and decided to move to Hawaii in hopes of finding “paradise.” Disappointed, he returned realizing that something was lacking in his life. In search of that “something”, Jay found himself living with Chuck Girard, Fred Field and Tommy Coomes. He later co-founded the Christian rock band, Love Song. They recorded three albums and toured the US and the Philippines. Love Song was one of the first bands of the contemporary Christian genre and the chief model for others that followed.
In 1977 Jay, along with John Mehler, Tom Stipe and Richie Furay were privileged to be the Richie Furay Band with the release of “I’ve Got A Reason” on Asylum Records.In the ‘80s, famous artist Rick Griffin invited Jay to get into surf music by playing with Paul Johnson in the Packard’s. In 1983 Jay joined the Surfaris (Wipeout), and still tours with bands like Jan and Dean, the Kingsmen and the Beach Boys.
Paralleling his music career, Jay has worked with a Christian architect, David E. Miller, AIA, designing churches and schools from ’1970 to the present. Jay is single with four grown children, two grand children and currently lives on Balboa Island in Newport Beach, CA.
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Road To Invicta Fighting Championships 6: Mizuki Inoue
By Robert Sargent, Dean Marchand & Cynthia Vance on June 27, 2013
At age 16, Mizuki Inoue made her professional MMA debut in October 2010 for the Jewels promotion in Japan. Two months later, the karateka became one of the youngest tournament champions in mixed martial arts history by winning the 56-kilogram division of the Jewels Rough Stone Grand Prix.
Now 18, Inoue is Japan’s top female prospect. She is set to make her North American debut against Bec Hyatt at Invicta Fighting Championships 6 on July 13th in Kansas City, Missouri, and the talented young fighter is eager to put on a strong performance for the many fans watching around the world.
Inoue sports identical 5-1 records in MMA, kickboxing and shoot boxing. This past August, she became the first Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup 53.5kg Champion by defeating Ai Takahashi for the second time. Inoue has since earned a pair of submission wins for Jewels, but the promotion has struggled to find her quality opponents. Feeling that the best challenges were abroad, Inoue signed with Invicta FC this year.
On July 13th, Inoue is set to face one of her toughest opponents to date. Hyatt has already fought twice for Invicta and she most recently scored a dominant first-round win over Jasminka Cive in April. Inoue holds a submission victory over one top-ranked Australian, Alex Chambers, and she hopes to make it two-for-two against Aussie opposition next month. She recently spoke with MMARising.com about her career to date and her upcoming Invicta Fighting Championships debut.
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Betting the FarmVille: the rise and fall of Zynga
This news will tell Players why the Zynga made the decision to fire 18% of its workforce and what they mean for its future:
Those annoying Facebook notes asking you to help harvest Grandma’s virtual turnips may be coming to an end -- and that might be a good thing.
Gaming developer Zynga, known for its immensely popular social network games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, recently laid off 18 percent of its workforce, or 520 workers -- another sign of decline for the once unstoppable Goliath of the casual gaming industry, according to Michael Fahey, social and mobile gaming editor for Kotaku.
Looking for a comeback, Zynga embraces austerity and FarmVille
In the past twelve months, Zynga Inc has struggled with a contracting player base, a deflated stock price and waves of layoffs. Now it is coming to terms with downsized ambitions.
As Chief Executive Mark Pincus, 47, leads the online games developer he founded in 2007 through perhaps the most crucial year of his tenure, he is pushing to restore revenues by doubling down on "FarmVille," the franchise that took Facebook users by storm four years ago and launched Zynga to stardom.
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Mogok Burma
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Explore a country of Mogok treasure Mogok, the mythic town 200 km from Mandalay, has aroused many fantasies since the 1955 novel Mogok, the Valley of Rubies, by Joseph Kessel, the famous author and traveler. Sunrise Ruby was oversubscribed for a $30 global price. The company also won 33 million at an auctions in Geneva, which proves that the gemstone markets are still on the up. Today a trip to Mogok is a fascinating adventure in a still largely undiscovered area. Mogok whose jewels are both quantitatively and qualitatively unusual is initially the outcome of an unusual worldwide gemological phenomenon in which the collisions of volcanic slabs have released important compounds for the production of jewels, especially chrome.
The twelve towns of the town, which consist of one-storey timber buildings and stores around a former ruby mine are also a delightful excursion destination in a moderate climate all year round. Most of the inhabitants of Mogok, which according to the 2014 survey will have about 166,000 inhabitants, depend on the rubyindustries.
"Mine workers make an estimated $100 to $200 a month, plus commissions if they are fortunate enough to find the best gems," said Jordan, a native coal worker whose daddy also worked at the Mine. However, rising royalties, tax and operating costs - especially the cost of fuel - are cutting wages, compelling many young men and women to abandon Mogok in quest of better work.
Everyday, merchants storm the bustling gems fair in the city. Until recently a self-contained globe, the markets still function as they have for hundreds of years. Of course, the highest grade gems do not come onto the markets, but are sent directly to Bangkok or Hong Kong.
Today untreated and untreated jewels, the Myanmar gem, are among the most rare and thus most precious of all of them. A few jewels can be better than a diamond. Sure, their shortage gives them a higher value. They are more than just a buy, they are a solid asset, just like bullion and argent.
However, Ruby is not the only gem that can be found in Mogok: Sapphire, spinel, peridot, lauzuli, moonstone, raspberry and amethyst, to name but a few, round off the variety of gemstones and semi-precious gemstones that enrich the area - with the exclusion of green.
Britons, aware of French interest in Mogok and Upper Burma, were afraid that their traditional rival would take over the area, controlling China. Supported by a syndicate of London gemstone traders, they successfully plotted an attack in Burma, with one of their primary goals being to take full command of Mogok and its ruby landmines.
Founded in London in 1889, Burma Ruby Mines Company was the sole operating company of the ruby business in Mogok for four centuries, until 1931, after three Anglo-Burmese battles (1824-1886). Mogok' s reputation today is partially explained by this fact. But the relations between the Brits and the Myanmar people in Mogok mirrored the contemporary collonial context:
A new gemstone law passed in 1995 enabled domestic and foreign businesses to mine, manufacture, move and market precious stones and jewelry in Myanmar, and since 2000 the federal administration has entered into collaborative agreements with privately owned gem quarrying firms on a profit-sharing initiative. Myanmar's thriving rubber industries now supply over 80 pieces of the world's population.
India, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Greenland, Tajikistan, Madagascar and Tanzania are also known for their delicate ruby, although none of the ruby mining in these lands has been able to compete with the matchless color of Mogok ruby, which has a bright reddish hue, often with magenta. Color is first in the market:
The unparalleled high price levels of the big auctions at the beginning of this year reflect a shift in the tastes of colored gemstone among foreign purchasers. That is why Myanmar - known throughout the globe as "Rubinland" - will remain the most dependable source of incomparable Ruby qualities in the coming years.
It is said that the ruby depositions in Mogok have become thinner and the number of finer gemstones, which were once plentiful, has decreased. However, the untapped natural resources of the Mogok River basin remain huge, despite increasing concern about its impact on the environment. Mogok' s greatest challenges in the years to come will be that the ruby sector will provide a viable livelihood for the local population, as China's impact in the area will become much strong.
Formerly banned for non-nationals, Mogok was opened to tourists at the end of 2013. A non-renewable permission from the local authorities - which lasts about three months (and can be denied for any reason) -, a certified tour leader and a reservation at a local tourist office are required to enter the area.
Anyone in Yangon can help organize the trip to Mogok (www.anandatravel.com). The Mogok is a picturesque five to seven hours ride from Mandalay by coach or sharing cab. Mogok Hotel, a charming state hotel dating from the 1990', is licensed for foreign visitors. A further possibility is the Golden Butterfly Hotel, which provides a comfortable view over the whole area.
Amazonury Lorin (PhD: Sciences Po, Paris) is a former research fellow at the School of Asian Studies and a former member of the team. She lives in Yangon.
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A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) Jacques Demy
Labels : 70's , Comedy , France , Jacques Demy , 2 com
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
aka L'événement le plus important depuis
que l'homme a marché sur la lune
Country: France | Italy | Director: Jacques Demy
Language: French | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Dvdrip H264 Mkv - 1067x636 - 29.970fps - 1.06gb
A male Parisian driving school owner who goes to see his doctor and complains of feeling run down is pronounced four months pregnant. When the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist, the result is an international media frenzy.
https://nitroflare.com/view/F7F89F7D0ABC551/ASlPrMa73.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D7746EA74CDB1B9/ASlPrMa73.part2.rar
2 Response to "A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) Jacques Demy"
jaguar_ride says:
Hey, looking for Calde Labbra with Leonora Fani: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074265/
There's apparently both softcore and hardcore versions. There was an Italian DVD with both that got released, but I can't find it on any English websites for sale. Thanks!
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The Napa Wine Project
Priority Wine Pass
Tours/Concierge
The Mascot Wine
Review by Dave 2 Comments
Mascot Wine. Proprietor, Will Harlan grew up in the Napa Valley – surrounded by an excellent pedigree of family owned vineyards and wineries – perhaps it is no surprise that inevitably he would begin his own wine brand. His father Bill Harlan, founded Harlan Estate, BOND and later Promontory. While co-founding an online shopping site based in the Silicon Valley that focused on selling outdoor gear, Will also gained winemaking experience through working in the cellar at BOND.
During his time working at his startup he would often bring wine from one of his father’s cellars to share with friends. However these were not finished Harlan Estate or BOND wines, rather they were wines from the wine making team from blends that for whatever reason were not used in the finished wines. But these were still exceptional wines – from Harlan Estate and BOND sourced vineyards, overseen by the talented wine making teams at both wineries.
Combining his continued interest in wine, with his friends encouragement to bottle a wine commercially and his own interest in sharing these wines with more people then friends and family, Will bottled the wine as The Mascot beginning with the 2008 vintage (the inaugural release). Besides overseeing the Mascot wine, Will is also the Managing Director at Promontory (his family’s newest winery).
General manager Nikita Stone has been with the company since their early days, when she helped launch the brand. Today she oversees the growing brand and helps promote the wines across the country. And as she noted, other then Will, the team is entirely female based.
As compared to the Harlan Estate, BOND or Promontory, the focus of the Mascot wines is less on specific terroir and site driven wines. Rather the wines are created from fruit harvested from younger vines sourced from multiple Harlan owned properties (these vines are typically between 6 and 12 years old). This is fruit from vines that most likely will eventually be used in the Harlan Estate, BOND or Promontory wines (once the vines reach a certain age). With such a large vineyard portfolio under the Harlan family umbrella, a certain number of vineyards continue to be replanted, always ensuring the Mascot will have plenty of fruit to work with.
The wines are kept separate at each respective winery before the final Mascot blend is created. The Mascot wine is generally more approachable then the iconic wines from Harlan Estate and BOND but still carries the same Harlan family pedigree. The wine is aged 5 years before being released (a rarity in the world of Napa wines). And unlike the other Harlan family owned wineries which produce several wines each year, the focus of The Mascot wine is on only one wine each year, always a Cabernet Sauvignon with smaller amounts of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot as part of the blend.
The 2013 Mascot is dark crimson in the glass – pretty aromatics that are well layered with darker fruit overtones of blackberry and plum along with black licorice. Slightly savory, more so as the bouquet breathes. Complemented nicely by white pepper, subtle notes of cedar plank and mocha. Let this beauty breathe – it continues to evolve. Rounded on the entry, immediately noticeable is the intensity of fruit without the heaviness of structure or oak. Nonetheless, five years after vintage, still shows a firm grip but with tannins that are more fine grained rather then coarse. Balanced across the palate, lingers with plenty of fruit but also good acidity. 2013 is the ideal vintage to showcase a release program dictating 5 years of both barrel and bottle age. This wine is drinking as well as any Napa Valley 2013 vintages we have recently tried.
The label is visually captivating (who doesn’t love a label with a dog as the mascot) and involves an intriguing story. In the late 1800’s a show dog was bred with a street dog in Pittsburgh. The resulting offspring was an English bull-terrier. The owner kept the dog (“Prince”) and would bring him on his errands including a stop at a branch of Farmers Deposit National Bank of Pittsburgh. The janitor at the bank loved this dog so the owner ended up gifting the animal to the bank where Prince then lived on site and became part of the banks’ lexicon and lore, eventually earning a statue outside in front of the entrance. The bank and the statue are long gone, but the tribute to the dog lives on in memory and now on every bottle of The Mascot.
The engraving of “Prince” was commissioned by the president of Farmers Deposit National Bank of Pittsburgh at the time, for the bank’s stock certificates.
Like the other Harlan owned labels, the Mascot was overseen by a retired U.S. Treasury engraver; it is printed by Pate International – a San Francisco based graphics and design company that over the years has produced a number of legendary labels including Opus One and has done work for Domain Chandon, The PlumpJack Group, SKYY Vodka, Diageo and Jackson Family Wines among many others. The importance of their work in developing some of these storied brands is in part mentioned in the book, The House of Mondavi.
The first vintage in 2008 was such a limited production wine (500 cases) that they soon sold out due to demand. Production has grown significantly since then – total production is around 3,200 cases a year – with eventual plans to grow this to around 5,000 cases. The wines are selectively distributed in a number of markets across the country, mostly in restaurants and wine shops. There is also some distribution abroad including the UK, Switzerland and Hong Kong. The wines are offered to their membership list only once a year, in September – where the window to purchase direct from the winery is only about 2 weeks.
And unlike wines from the other Harlan owned wineries, the Mascot is relatively accessible based on both its distribution model and its price point. The Mascot sees excellent restaurant distribution in the Napa Valley and is available at a number of retail outlets including ACME Wine Shop, Bounty Hunter and V Wine Cellars. Those wanting to taste select vintages of The Mascot can do so at the RH Wine Vault in Yountville. For more information and or to join the mailing list, visit: www.mascotwine.com
CARL DE CESARE says
I HAVE A CASE OF THE 2013 MASCOT. GOOD JUICE FOR THE MONEY. I AM A COLLECTOR OF NAPA WINES.
WHO WOULD I GET IN TOUCH WITH TO PURCHASE A COUPLE OF CASES PER VINTAGE.
CARL DE CESARE
Carl – I’ve passed on your request to my contact at The Mascot.
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Law & Order: Hilariously Earnest Unit
When A&E first began airing syndicated Law & Order reruns years ago, I used to watch them every night at ten p.m., with the sound turned down, while talking on the phone to a girl I knew. There would be long pauses in our conversations during which I'd be able to catch the verbal plot twists; the rest I could infer. To this day, those first four seasons are inextricably tied to my memory of the girl who always slouched a little, who had sleepy eyes and lashes like vaudeville hooks.
Other people think back on high school crushes and recall the songs popular then, the places they hung out. I think of Mike Logan, Ben Stone and Lenny Briscoe.
For partly that sense of emotional familiarity, I spent the ensuing years almost gravitating toward Law & Order when it was on, but I'd be lying if I didn't say the show's format probably played a bigger role. Like pizza, sex and Carl Hiaasen novels, even bad Law & Order is still pretty good. Its instantly disposable format — almost no story arcs, personal drama or characters extraneous to the procedural structure — makes watching it instantly familiar, instantly rewarding and almost instantly standardized in quality. You can give each episode total attention or almost none at all and find both satisfying. If you're home sick and too nauseated to sleep or read and notice TNT is running an afternoon marathon of Law & Order (and when aren't they?), your afternoon is made.
The rigid adherence to the procedural aspect lent itself easily to all manner of spinoffs, and I greeted the arrival of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as an opportunity to watch something completely familiar, yet different — a pleasant More of the Same without the aggravation of having to ask myself, before each episode, whether I'd seen it twice, three times or too many to count. SVU's start was both fresh and auspicious. The first few seasons brought a semi-familiar format and also a welcome departure into different areas of crime and the law. The last few seasons, however, have been almost uniformly ridiculous.
Like new episodes of The Simpsons, which take until the second act to even have a semblance of plot, almost every SVU episode twists, turns and doubles back on itself to reach a conventional finale. ("There's a kid being raped? Oh, shit, but he lives in a hasidic community subject to arcane Jewish law! How can we get him out of this? Well, we can use the Patriot Act because it turns out they're ironically not trading diamonds on the market but actually smuggling guns for neo-Nazis! Cool, we rescued the kid, but it turned out his dad wasn't raping him; it was Santa.") All quirky characterization has been stamped out. The primacy of both The Law and Keeping Order have been eroded by family-drama subplots, Has This Good Cop Gone Bad? cliché and whole in-episode acts with little more substance than can be found in the breathy dramatic voicovers in the show's promos: "And finally, someone gets hurt... one of their own...."
It's actually possible to chart the intelligence/inanity levels of any episode of SVU just by looking at something you might call the Munch-Makeup Scale. Despite starring on — and, depending on the episode, sometimes carrying — the unequivocally excellent Homicide: Life on the Street for seven seasons, Richard Belzer's John Munch character has pretty much become totally marginal in SVU episodes. His exile to the periphery of storylines typifies the narrowing of the show's focus and the misuse of all but two characters. The less you see of him, chances are the worse the episode and the later (read: worse) the season.
In early seasons, almost every character got a few episodes dedicated to them, and the non-"character" episodes were almost equally shared by the ensemble. In the last three years, I can remember maybe one or two Munch episodes at most, while the ensemble aspect to the show has all but disappeared. The smart former sixties radical who distrusted his government and who could be incredibly entertaining just kvetching in the Homicide station house now spends his full two minutes per episode as Sgt. Exposition, walking into scenes bearing pieces of paper and the words, "I just ran those prints you found. Turns out they match a Nazi Santa from Binghamton."
As said, the other easy clue is the makeup. In earlier seasons, Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) wore off-the-rack women's suits, had her hair down, wore lipstick and brushed a bit of color on her cheeks. While she was obviously much better-looking than the stereotype of the average woman cop, she at least still seemed practically sexy: the kind of sexy that stays within the budget and can get out the door in under an hour each morning. She was always going to have to start at television's idea of minimum-acceptable attractiveness, but there was an underlying practicality to what props and makeup did to her.
As seasons wore on, the cosmetics increased, as the clothes switched to impractically tight designer jeans and v-neck shirts and the hair went up into a short styling waxed display of effort. Now she wears a rotisserie of stylish clothes, feathered hair, silly highlights and enough liquid eyeliner, foundation and powder to play a transvestite in a John Waters film. Surely part of this is the producers remaining predictably terrified of a woman aging on film, but the compensatory measures jettisoned any realism to the character. While no one expected her to look ugly or even "TV Ugly," the character who pushes herself 20 hours at a time on the job — who can't let go sometimes — wanders into every scene looking like she spends her four sleeping hours being dressed and lacquered by a team of makeup contractors.
In many ways, the Benson character — and that of her parter, Detective Elliot Stabler (the amazing-in-almost-anything-else Christopher Meloni) — is a hallmark of how terrible a given season is and how terrible the show has become overall. As ensemble stories diminished, needlessly melodramatic private-life-oriented shows increased, making SVU the "Benson and Stabler Personal Demons Hour."
Take a late-season episode from last year for example. Seemingly convinced that a plot about investigating a series of male-guard-on-female-inmate prison rapes couldn't keep the audience jacked in, the writers had Benson go undercover at the prison and spend five minutes running through underground service corridors and piping and steam blasts before being pinned and nearly raped by a monstrous guard. The whole thing was such shallow, cartoonish exploitive garbage — like watching Pepe le Pew star as the lead rapist from I Spit on Your Grave.
The writers departed from the little-backstory Law & Order procedural format in a confused and inconsistent mish-mash of overwrought camp and cliché. Benson spent the first few episodes of this season obviously haunted and broken down by her near-rape experience. By episode four, it was almost entirely forgotten, and she's since spent at least two episodes breezily posing as drunken rapebait and tarted up in ratings-grabbing prostitute garb. Tune in any episode of the last four years, and you stand at least a 50% chance of seeing a spontaneous rule-breaking undercover mission, police brutality, civil rights infringement, a giant ethics violation, or someone saying — with almost hilarious sincerity — some riff on the line, "You're too close to this case!" Tune in a week later, and not a single one of those things will have had any consequences.
Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than a breakdown of Benson & Stabler highlights:
• Is the product of a rape.
• Alcoholic mother dies in a booze-fueled accident before they can reconcile.
• Kills two suspects.
• Slept with coworker.
• Has her throat cut by a rapist.
• Left partner Elliot Stabler.
• Returned to partner with Elliot Stabler.
• For no logical reason whatsoever is asked to leave New York and go halfway across the country in an FBI sting, posing as an eco-terrorist.
• Finds out she has a brother.
• Finds out her brother is a rapist.
• Helps her brother evade the FBI.
• Reconsiders and helps track down her brother.
• Finds out her brother isn't a rapist and that an FBI agent is crooked.
• Nearly sleeps with an astronaut.
• Nearly forced to perform oral sex on a rapist prison guard.
• Has been taken off a case something like a dozen times — each time ignored orders and continued working the case.
• Has been investigated by internal affairs, like, a billion fucking times.
• Sees herself in every woman raped/molested.
• Wants to see women victims get vengeance on their attackers.
• Has been on the edge of a breakdown for nine years.
Stabler
• Mom is bipolar.
• Daughter is bipolar.
• Wife is jealous of his relationship with Benson.
• Has a sexually tense and emotionally intimate partnership with temporary partner Dani Beck.
• Is accused and then cleared of beating a suspect to death.
• Daughter gets a DUI.
• Covers up DUI.
• Daughter gets another DUI.
• Burns daughter's driver's licence.
• Daughter's DUI and his coverup — and his numerous ethics violations — get brought up every time he testifies in court; somehow doesn't impeach his credibility at all, and he's neither removed from investigations nor witness lists.
• Separates from his wife.
• Knocks up his wife for something like the fifth time.
• Signs divorce papers for his wife.
• Gets back together with his wife.
• Has family nearly attacked by a stalker who takes his wife hostage with a knife.
• Wife nearly dies in a car accident with Olivia.
• Wife survives to make it to the hospital.
• Wife nearly dies in the hospital in childbirth.
• Daughter steals his credit card and maxes it out with her boyfriend while buying tattoos and "slutty" garbage.
• A pedophile suspect uploads a photo of one of his other daughters to a pedophile "clothed erotica" website.
• Nearly beats pedophile to death.
• Is shot by a white supremacist.
• Is held hostage at gunpoint.
• Is held hostage at gunpoint again, only this time the perp gets shot by the big-haired medical examiner.
• Beats another suspect.
• Gets injured in an explosion.
• Gets stabbed in the chest with a pen.
• Has shot and killed two suspects.
• Gets thrown through a window by Bill Goldberg.
• Gets thrown onto a car window and goes temporarily blind.
• Gets shot twice in the chest by a Russian smuggler.
• Sees his kids in every child raped/molested.
• Wants to seek vengeance on male attackers.
Almost none of those things on the list would pose much of a problem if the show presented itself as a shoot-'em-up cops-'n'-rapists show with car chases, beatings and pimps with great hats who would always give you a hot tip. But within the show's context, they all seem so dissonant and overdone because of the show's biggest underlying problem: its contrived and comprehensive earnestness. It's bad enough that the medical examiner — the medical examiner??? — goes around shooting gunmen, but it's worse when ridiculous scenes like that are counterbalanced by her needlessly showing up in the station house every episode, proudly bearing the latest deus-ex-machina lab report and a lecture on some social phenomenon.
Invariably, her dialogue seems not only ripped from the headlines, but ripped from the headlines from some Sunday New York Times feature a show writer obviously thoughtfully munched toast over before saying, "Now, there's an episode idea." Stupid and rollicking and violent and adventuresome is no problem. Stupid accompanied by her saying (to take last night as a paraphrased example), "Animal smuggling is bigger than you think. In fact, animal smuggling is the third most lucrative form of smuggling and often sees endangered species taken from underdeveloped nations" tests the audience's patience. These are circumstances crying out for one-liners, spoofing replies, anything that indicates a vibrant, cooperative humanity with variant opinions and degrees of investment in them. But plurality of ideas and attitudes can't be found. Nothing of the monolithic seriousness can be distilled with anything like levity. Instead, the jokes further exposition. Even the comedy is grimly purposeful.
It's the earnestness that rankles when, for the sake of convenience, the writers remember that Stabler is Catholic and suddenly have him oppose some liberal measure based on the conviction of his faith — then, in the next episode, have him scream at some religious whacko for not giving gay people equal rights. It's the earnestness that makes their stumbling across militia groups, separatist groups and cults insufferable, because they don't want to keep the cases out of selfishness or job ambition but because they've got the most heart and won't forget that one kid who's getting abused within a group of 78 people armed with an arsenal of nuclear dishwasher detergent bottles. It's not, "Give us the case because we fucking found it, and your task force didn't, asshole!"; it's, "Give us the case because Sex Crimes is the division that cares the most."
The show started out with some grit and ugliness to it, but its unrealistically über-liberal and sensitive detectives now regularly verge on acting out Disney's Wonderful World of Sexual Abuses every week. In the first few seasons, sometimes victims were awful people, and the job was just the shit that had to get done when you were at work. Nine seasons later, the two lead characters have spent a combined 18 years "on the edge," and every case was one they got too close to, in between their personal lives being determined by someone opening up a book of 101 Easy Plot Devices and picking whichever one his finger landed on.
And just as you start to resign yourself to this stuff — to accept that, no, this show is now pretty much terminally silly; just as you accept that, yeah, it's Law & Order, so I'm just going to grab the remote, fire-n-forget, put it on NBC and just see what the fuck happens for the next hour while I do this crossword or write an email to family or dust some shelves; just as you're resigned to a lowered level of quality, a higher level of histrionics and your own baseline of what's acceptable entertainment, something unbearably ludicrous happens.
Maybe it's Miranda from Sex and the City threatening Stabler's wife with the knife. Maybe it's the lady who does autopsies establishing cause of death by squeezing off a couple of hot slugs to the chest of some lousy perp. Or maybe (and I swear I'm not making this up) it's Benson spending the entire episode on the phone with a little abused girl with a twee voice and then racing against time to dig her up from the grave in which she's been buried alive and then — despite the girl having run out of oxygen for ten minutes — reviving her, without negative effects, with mouth-to-mouth. Yes, Detective Benson's breath resurrects telegenic children whose brains have gone without oxygenated blood for at least five minutes.
At that point, it's too much.
The show means well and it entertains fairly regularly, but once you hit a moment like that, no episode can pass a laugh test anymore. What was once passively ridiculous — too sincere, too convenient, too clichéd — becomes actively so. Any show that's been on the air for nine years will have long since stretched truth, plausibility and the main characters' backstories to the breaking point. But it takes rare effort to go from good, to amusingly mediocre to sublimely ridiculous. The show takes itself very seriously and once presented its subject matter in a way that was sobering. Now not an episode passes without a moment, a line, or a glance that's hysterically, unintentionally funny.
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IAN HOMINICK
Solo Piano Music
Muzio Clementi, Carl Czerny, George Gershwin, Benjamin Godard, Fritz Kreisler, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Medtner, Ignaz Moscheles, Jean Sibelius, Sigismund Thalberg
IAN HOMINICK, piano
Benjamin Godard: Au matin
“Cutting across all eras of music, Ian Hominick has forged an unusual identity by moving beyond the familiar borders of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert. Hominick’s magic at the keys sets these forgotten jewels in grand light. We only hope this is the beginning of something bigger and better to come.”
Christie Grimstad, ConcertoNet – October 2012
"Ian Hominick... plays impetuously and attractively... The repertory recommends itself as off-the-beaten-path, and a lot of times it rewards you for your willingness to take the road less traveled. Recommended for those times when Parsifal is just too much"
Steve Schwartz, ClassicalNet - April 2012
"Canada seems to have many pianistic treasures in their fold, one of whom is Ian Hominick... Mr. Hominick has gone on to establish a solid reputation as a first-rate pianist and one of today's most popular artists... But pianists the caliber of Ian Hominick are rare, indeed. The man has an incredible command of the piano having the complete musical package of infallible technique, rich and singing piano tone, and an innate natural musicality that makes one's ears immediately take notice... This MSR Classics release is a gem... One of Hominick's joys is to seek out and play piano rarities that one cannot generally find on concert programs. He succeeds with contagious enthusiasm... This recital whets one's appetite for more. Hopefully, Mr. Hominick will give us some sequels to this MSR release... Hominick uses a wonderful piano (sounding like a great Steinway)."
Lance Hill, The Classical Music Forum - December 2010
"The the Sonata Op. 24:2 by Clementi...is a rather virtuosic piece with affinity to Mozart and Haydn, and Ian Hominick plays it with humor and fantasy, also taking the freedom to insert cadenzas in appropriate places... Two pieces by Godard bring us into a different realm—the romantic character piece—[and] are played with charm... [In the Thalberg], Hominick’s flexibility and his familiarity with the performance practice adds some spontaneity... Moscheles’s Rondeau La Petite Babillarde is for me the high point of the program—and the best interpretation. Hominick’s playing is clear and well measured... and he manages to show the characters of the different parts of the rondo. Fritz Kreisler’s Rondino On A Theme of Beethoven in the transcription by Leopold Godowsky is played with accuracy... Die Lorelei is a virtuosic elaboration on the song, and is played persuasively and with much passion. The “singing” of the Lorelei sounds marvelous in tone color and voicing. Hominick identifies most closely with the Op. 25:1 Sonata by Medtner. The expressive rubato and passionate crescendos come across most organically, and he shows a great dynamic range as well as flexibility... The rest of the program...shows a pianist who is not afraid of choosing less known repertoire in order to let us take a glance at the hidden niches and corners of music history; and although we turn back and return to the established masters for our everyday musical elevation, we are reminded that these pieces delighted the audience at the time of their creation, and thanks to Hominick we can share this delight again."
Muhlbock, American Record Guide - July/August 2010
"...inspired programme-building... warm sonority and singing phrasing totally befits [the] Sibelius and Czerny..."
Jed Distler, Gramophone - October 2010
"There’s some pleasant, appealing music here, and Hominick responds to much of it with understanding and fine playing... Hominick gives a smiling, exuberant performance of Moscheles’ La Petite Babillarde, which is sheer fun. Like the Moscheles, the Gershwin pieces are new to me, and I’m glad to make their acquaintance... this is a nice program."
Audiophile Audition - July 2010
"...the music is consistently compelling, thanks in no small way to the joy and dexterity of Ian Hominick’s playing. This Nova Scotia native is a new name to me, but I will look for his work in the future. It isn’t surprising to learn, given his easy technique and interest in obscure repertoire, that he was a student of Earl Wild, and later served as his assistant... do buy this delightful collection for a highly entertaining and superbly rendered side trip from your everyday listening."
Peter Burwasser, Fanfare - July / August 2010
"This is a charming disc. On it Canadian pianist Ian Hominick has included nearly a dozen lesser-known pieces. These are neglected works which he slips into his recital programmes. An obvious problem is that in a recital listeners get to hear one or two pieces placed carefully in contrast with better known repertoire, whereas here we have an entire disc of rarities. But Hominick has cast his net widely, creating a sequence which has a nice variety of names and styles. A linking theme between many of the pieces is that their composers were often piano virtuosi themselves... Ian Hominick shows himself adept at all the different styles that the programme requires... he plays with a secure and enviable technique."
Robert Hugill, MusicWeb International - July 2010
"...a solid and outstanding disc made up of keyboard repertoire generally considered outside the mainstream... Off the Beaten Path is the first new recording of Hominick to appear since [1994] and it is certainly welcome... Hominick is an expressive player with a great sense of flexibility of tempo and an innate sense of how to project the relative volume of a passage in a way that elucidates the musical text. He's very much at home in this mostly romantic literature, effectively thundering and rolling away in the loud passages of Liszt's solo transcription of his own song Die Lorelei, and a great part of the thrill in listening to Off the Beaten Path is just following the generous and warm thread of the music as it unfolds. It is not unlike listening to Earl Wild, who also favored the "Die Lorelei" transcription and would have enjoyed this MSR Classics recording a great deal, based on both its program and the fine quality of the playing. It is heartening to know that even though Wild has joined the past that his traditions -- an investigative approach to repertoire, firm yet glowing pianism and a genuine desire to entertain -- are being carried on by pianists like Hominick; indeed, these pieces seem designed to entrap and engage the interest of the toughest of all audiences, the student pianist. Off the Beaten Path seems the perfect vehicle for a student pianist as something to stretch their minds in addition to their fingers; others fond of the piano should find this well entertaining also. MSR Classics' sound...is big, grand and opulent."
Uncle Dave Lewis, All Music Guide - March 2010
Despite the marvelous wealth of classical “standards” available to pianists, I often include some more rarely heard repertoire on my recital programs. Audiences find it refreshing to experience music that is less often performed. The selections included on this recording represent either a sampling of music from various neglected composers or seldom played works by more familiar composers. I hope you enjoy listening! – Ian Hominick, October 2009
Canadian pianist Ian Hominick began studying piano in his native Nova Scotia, attending Mt. Allison University where he was a student of Jamie Syer and Patricia Elliot. Continuing his studies in the United States under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed pianists, Jerome Rose and Earl Wild, Mr. Hominick earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1991 where he served as assistant to pianists, Earl Wild and fellow Canadian André Laplante.
An active soloist, accompanist, adjudicator and teacher, Mr. Hominick has performed and conducted piano master classes across the United States and Canada and in Italy. He has appeared as soloist on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, the Chicago-Chautauqua Series and has been a featured guest for Saskatchewan’s Rites of Spring Festival, the Hornby Festival Society in British Columbia and the American Liszt Society Festival.
His performances have been broadcast both regionally and nationally on CBC Radio, Radio-Canada and National Public Radio in the United States. He is also a frequent guest for Chicago’s WFMT Radio program “Live from WFMT.” Mr. Hominick’s premiere solo recording of the works of the legendary romantic pianist, Sigismund Thalberg, was released by Titanic Records in 1995 to glowing reviews from the critics and a nomination for “Best Classical Recording” in Canada’s East Coast Music Awards.
A dedicated teacher, Ian Hominick has been Visiting Artist at the University of Newfoundland and has taught on the faculties of Otterbein College, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, De Paul University, and Lake Forest College. Mr. Hominick has also served on the national piano jury for Canadian Music Competitions. He joined the piano faculty at the University of Mississippi in 1999 and is director of The Piano Discoveries Summer Camp.
www.ianhominick.com
MUZIO CLEMENTI (1752-1832)
SONATA IN B-FLAT “MAGIC FLUTE”, OP.24/2
BENJAMIN GODARD (1849-1895)
AU MATIN, OP.83
SECOND VALSE (arr. Rabinof)
SIGISMUND THALBERG (1810-1871)
NOCTURNE IN B MAJOR, OP.51 BIS
IGNAZ MOSCHELES (1794-1870)
LA PETITE BABILLARDE, OP.66
FRITZ KREISLER (1875-1962)
RONDINO ON A THEME OF BEETHOVEN
(tr. Godowsky)
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
DIE LORELEI
CARL CZERNY (1791-1857)
ETUDE MELODIEUSE, OP.795, NO.3
NICOLAI MEDTNER (1880-1951)
PIANO SONATA IN C MINOR “FAIRY TALE”, OP.25/1
ROMANCE, OP.24, NO.9
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
NOVELETTE IN FOURTHS (arr. A. Zizzo)
MELODY NO.40 (arr. S. Rabinof)
CLEMENTI PIANO SONATAS
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PRS Foundation Diplomas are awarded to music services in which a passion for new music is embedded across all activity. Fresh ideas, new initiatives, regular performance opportunities and a focus on composition are all of paramount importance.
Bolton Music Service impressed the Foundation with its commitment to creative new music. In addition to a new ICT facility at the Music Centre, the service has purchased portable recording equipment for staff in order to support pupil assessment. This year, pupils have enjoyed a Music Technology After-School club, hip-hop workshops and participation in a children’s opera written by John Barber. Music staff benefited from an INSET course on Music Technology in Primary Schools and there were several exciting collaborations with the Halle Orchestra.
Devon Music Service won plaudits for its varied activity through the year. Projects included video conferencing with the London Symphony Orchestra, song cycle compositions and sound design projects combining laptop computers and acoustic instruments. The service retains strong links with local composers with whom children are able to work on new pieces.
East Lothian continues to impress with its wide range of activity. Students are able to use a wide range of music software thanks to the service’s clear focus on digital opportunities. Creative music making remains a high priority for East Lothian, with workshops on podcasting, songwriting and African music all offered over the past year. Pupils also enjoyed working on an intriguing project with Scottish Opera.
Alongside a purpose-built recording room and live performance area, students are able to use a wide range of software packages with which to create new music. Redbridge Music Service also impressed the panel with its large scale Operahouse project, involving BAFTA award-winning writer Roy Apps and composer John Webb, all within the beautiful surroundings of Epping Forest.
Creativity is embedded across all of Southwark Music Service’s work, with both tutors and students regularly creating new music. Alongside spontaneous breaktime performances (always to be encouraged!), pupils have also been writing new pieces for the service’s Gamelan Fusion Band. Pupils also benefit from the Creative Music Ensemble, through which they are given stimuli and ideas with which to seek inspiration for their own music.
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3 Examples of Queen Anne Style Architecture in America
Amy Hayden
Despite numerous variations, American Queen Anne style houses share characteristics that should be preserved, if possible. These include bay windows, turrets, wrap-around porches, classic columns, spindle work, and slate roofs. But each American style also includes specific design characteristics that are important to consider before starting any sort of restoration project, particularly on turrets and bay windows (both of which may be integral to the design). The three main American styles are Stick, Eastlake, and Shingle.
Stick-Style Queen Anne Homes
True to their name, Stick-Style Queen Anne homes are characterized by simple design details, leaving behind such ornate features as rounded turrets or towers and gingerbread trim. Typical Queen Anne details in a Stick home include bold paneled brick chimneys, octagonal turrets with conical roofs, wrap-around porches, spindle details, and interpenetrating roof planes. Specific features of the Stick Style include:
Angularity, verticality, and asymmetry
Purely decorative vertical, horizontal, diagonal and crisscross boards applied over horizontal clapboards most often found on gable ends and upper stories
Steeply pitched gable roof, cross gables
Projecting or trussed gables, often with sunbursts
Overhanging eaves
Square or geometrical turrets
Pointed dormers
Large porches, often decorated with simple diagonal braces
Bright, contrasting paint colors
Colored shingles
Queen Anne, Eastlake-Style
The Eastlake style of Queen Anne architecture was named after Charles Eastlake, an English author whose ideas about design influenced American home builders. Eastlake Queen Anne homes are generally smaller in size than Stick or Shingle Queen Annes, and they traditionally have more ornamentation and detail, specifically:
Porch posts, railings, braces, and pendants characterized by massive, oversized, and robust lathe-shaped wooden forms
Large curved brackets, scrolls, and other stylized elements placed at corners, turns, and projections along the home's facade
Perforated gables and pediments
Beaded spindles
Lattice work along porches
In the Eastlake style, turrets and bay windows may be simple and angular (as in the Stick style) or more ornate and curved, as in more traditional Queen Anne styles, such as the Shingle.
The Shingle-Style Queen Anne
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the Shingle Style of Queen Anne homes are, of course, the shingles covering the home. In fact, this style is the same as the other Queen Annes, except for the shingle wrapping. As with the other two styles, Shingle homes have wide porches, asymmetrical forms, turrets, and bay windows, but also possess unique design characteristics:
Low to the ground with a heavy stone foundation
Typically between two and three stories tall
Dark and rough masonry
Indian red, olive green, and deep yellow shingles
Entryways with typically low arches and short, stubby columns
Rounded turrets
Bay windows are generally smaller, made up of groups of two to three windows
Regardless of which Queen Anne style you own or are looking to restore, it is important to know their differences and to choose your materials accordingly to maintain the historical integrity of the home.
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WoRMS name details
Podopsis J.V. Thompson, 1828
Peracarida (Superorder)
Mysida (Order)
Mysidae (Family)
Mysinae (Subfamily)
Podopsis (Genus)
Mesopodopsis Czerniavsky, 1882
Mysinae Haworth, 1825
Species Podopsis cornuta (Czerniavsky, 1882) accepted as Mesopodopsis slabberi (Van Beneden, 1861) (Synonym)
Species Podopsis goësi (Czerniavsky, 1882) accepted as Mesopodopsis slabberi (Van Beneden, 1861) (Synonym)
Species Podopsis slabberi Van Beneden, 1861 accepted as Mesopodopsis slabberi (Van Beneden, 1861)
Thompson, J.V. (1828-1834). Zoological Researches, and illustrations; or, natural history of nondescript or imperfectly known animals, in a series of memoirs, illustrated by numerous figures. Vol. I. Part I. Printed for King and Ridings: Cork. 110 + VI, XI, III, VI plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Mees, J.; Meland, K. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Podopsis J.V. Thompson, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119895 on 2020-01-21
van der Land, Jacob
Mees, Jan
original description Thompson, J.V. (1828-1834). Zoological Researches, and illustrations; or, natural history of nondescript or imperfectly known animals, in a series of memoirs, illustrated by numerous figures. Vol. I. Part I. Printed for King and Ridings: Cork. 110 + VI, XI, III, VI plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 293-295 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Beneden, P.J. van. (1861). Recherches sur les Crustacés du littoral de Belgique. <em>Mém. Acad. r. Sci. Lett. Belg.</em> 33:1-180, pls. 1-31. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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My Watch (1870).
AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE
MY beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without break- ing any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to depart. Next day I stepped into the chief jeweler's to set it by the exact time, and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me. Then he said, "She is four min- utes slow -- regulator wants pushing up." I tried to stop him -- tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow, and the regulator MUST be pushed up a little; and so, while I danced around him in anguish, and implored him to let the watch alone, he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed. My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within the week it sickened to a raging fever, and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade. At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear, and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac. It was away into November enjoying the snow, while the October leaves were still turn- ing. It hurried up house rent, bills payable, and such things, in such a ruinous way that I could not abide it. I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated. He asked me if I had ever had it repaired. I said no, it had never needed any repairing. He looked a look of vicious happiness and eagerly pried the watch open, and then put a small dice box into his eye and peered into its machinery. He said it wanted cleaning and oiling, besides regulating -- come in a week. After being cleaned and oiled, and regulated, my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked like a tolling bell. I began to be left by trains, I failed all appointments, I got to missing my dinner; my watch strung out three days' grace to four and let me go to protest; I gradually drifted back into yesterday, then day before, then into last week, and by and by the comprehension came upon me that all solitary and alone I was lingering along in week before last, and the world was out of sight. I seemed to detect in myself a sort of sneaking fellow-feeling for the mummy in the museum, and desire to swap news with him. I went to a watch maker again. He took the watch all to pieces while I waited, and then said the barrel was "swelled." He said he could reduce it in three days. After this the watch AVERAGED well, but nothing more. For half a day it would go like the very mischief, and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting, that I could not hear myself think for the disturbance; and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it. But the rest of the day it would keep on slowing down and fooling along until all the clocks it had left behind caught up again. So at last, at the end of twenty-four hours, it would trot up to the judges' stand all right and just in time. It would show a fair and square average, and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty. But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch, and I took this instrument to another watchmaker. He said the kingbolt was broken. I said I was glad it was nothing more serious. To tell the plain truth, I had no idea what the kingbolt was, but I did not choose to appear ignorant to a stranger. He repaired the kingbolt, but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another. It would run awhile and then stop awhile, and then run awhile again, and so on, using its own discretion about the intervals. And every time it went off it kicked back like a musket. I padded my breast for a few days, but finally took the watch to another watchmaker. He picked it all to pieces, and turned the ruin over and over under his glass; and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair- trigger. He fixed it, and gave it a fresh start. It did well now, except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors, and from that time forth they would travel together. The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch, and so I went again to have the thing re- paired. This person said that the crystal had got bent, and that the mainspring was not straight. He also remarked that part of the works needed half- soling. He made these things all right, and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably, save that now and then, after working along quietly for nearly eight hours, everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee, and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely, and they simply seemed a delicate spider's web over the face of the watch. She would reel off the next twenty-four hours in six or seven minutes, and then stop with a bang. I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker, and looked on while he took her to pieces. Then I prepared to cross-question him rigidly, for this thing was getting serious. The watch had cost two hundred dollars originally, and I seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs. While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance -- a steamboat engineer of other days, and not a good engineer, either. He examined all the parts carefully, just as the other watchmakers had done, and then delivered his verdict with the same con- fidence of manner.
"She makes too much steam -- you want to hang the monkey-wrench on the safety-valve!"
I brained him on the spot, and had him buried at my own expense.
My uncle William (now deceased, alas!) used to say that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once, and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance at it. And he used to wonder what became of all the unsuccessful tinkers, and gunsmiths, and shoemakers, and engin- eers, and blacksmiths; but nobody could ever tell him.
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Review: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Earns Love, Draws Ire
TRASH IN MY EYE No. 3 (of 2018) by Leroy Douresseaux
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
Running time: 152 minutes (2 hours, 32 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for extended sequences of sci-fi action and violence
WRITER: Rian Johnson (based on characters created by George Lucas)
PRODUCERS: Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Steve Yedlin (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Bob Ducsay
COMPOSER: John Williams
Academy Award nominee
SCI-FI/FANTASY/ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA
Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, Benicio del Toro, Frank Oz (voice), Billie Lourd, Joonas Suotamo, Amanda Lawrence, Jimmy Vee, and Justin Theroux
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a 2017 science fiction-fantasy action film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is the ninth movie in the Star Wars film franchise, which began with the 1977 Oscar-winning film, Star Wars, created by George Lucas. The Last Jedi is also a direct sequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and the eighth Star Wars “episode” film. The Last Jedi focuses on a young woman who takes her first steps into the world of the Jedi and tries to unlock the mysteries of The Force and the secrets of the past.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi finds the wannabe galactic rulers, the First Order, and its Supreme Commander Snoke (Andy Serkis), ascendant. The First Order moves to destroy the main base of its enemy, the Resistance. General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) struggles to keep the Resistance one step ahead of the First Order. Heroic Resistance pilot, Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), leads the charge that gives the Resistance vessels the time they need to jump into hyperspace to escape the First Order. However, escaping the First Order will not be so easy, and now stormtropper turned Resistance fighter, Finn (John Boyega), and mechanic, Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), must execute a dangerous mission to allow the Resistance to really escape the First Order.
Meanwhile, budding Jedi, Rey (Daisy Ridley), is on the planet, Ahch-To, where she has found the long-missing Jedi Knight legend, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). However, Luke refuses to initiate Rey into the ways of the Force and also declares that the Jedi Order must end with him. Frustrated, Rey also discovers that she has some kind of psychic connection to Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Luke's former student who turned to the Dark Side and now serves Snoke and the Resistance.
I found Star Wars: The Last Jedi to be as entertaining and as well-made as Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It is quite thrilling at times and kept my on the proverbial edge of my seat hoping our heroes could survive the overwhelming First Order odds against them. The Last Jedi is not exactly a “non-stop thrill machine,” but it is thrilling. But neither The Last Jedi nor The Force Awakens are as good as 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars film.
I thought about why I feel that way. I thought about it, and I think that The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi both suffer because Star Wars creator George Lucas did not have direct hand in making them.
For all the criticism leveled against Lucas by critics and fans over the decades, especially because of the Lucas directed “prequel” films, (Star Wars: Episodes I to III), Lucas is a wildly imaginative and inventive filmmaker and storyteller. Each prequel film had enough subplots, characters, settings, worlds, ideas, and creatures to power its own film trilogy. Lucas' weakness (relatively speaking) seems to be in the execution of telling a film story via screenplay and directing (especially in directing actors). Visually, Lucas' films seem almost too big for even the biggest movie screens, but that size and scale comes at the cost of the narrative.
The Force Awakens (Episode VII) and The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) are disciplined and narrow in focus, in terms of plot. The Last Jedi focuses on (1) the struggle of the Resistance to escape destruction at the hands of the First Order and (2) Rey's quest to discover the secrets of the Jedi and the Force. The Last Jedi is so focused that it looses the sense of wonder that permeates the original Star Wars films. Instead, The Last Jedi references and remakes scenes from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983). Some people complained that The Force Awakens was a kind of remake and reboot of the original Star Wars film, but The Last Jedi does not do that as much. [Strangely, I find that Rogue One, which is a side story connected to Star Wars 1977, comes across as a fresh, new take on Star Wars, while being true to the work of George Lucas.]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a Star Wars movie, and I will likely always love all Star Wars movies, to one extent or another. [Every time one is on TV, I try to watch at least some of it.] So I love The Last Jedi and will give it a high grade. However, this final trilogy (Episodes VII to IX) is starting to seem like fan fiction, created by writers and directors who cherry pick ideas from their childhood Star Wars favorite moments. Maybe the current owner of Star Wars, The Walt Disney Company, and the filmmakers it hires to continue the “Star Wars saga” are really afraid of new ideas or too many new ideas. Maybe, Disney got the message; the prequel trilogy looked too different from the original trilogy and audiences, at least the vocal part of it, were pissed. Well, the Disney-produced Star Wars films will suffer for playing it safe.
Let me summarize my thoughts and feelings this way. If Disney replaced the title, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with something else, say Alien or Predator, I would give this film a rating of 5 or 6 out of 10 at most. This 8 out of 10 is the kind of love you show family.
Edited: Thursday, March 15, 2018
2018 Academy Awards, USA: 4 nominations: “Best Achievement in Visual Effects” (Ben Morris, Michael Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould), “Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures-Original Score” (John Williams), “Best Achievement in Sound Editing” (Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce), and” Best Achievement in Sound Mixing” (Michael Semanick, David Parker, Stuart Wilson, and Ren Klyce)
2018 BAFTA Awards: 2 nominations: “Best Sound” (Ren Klyce, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood, David Parker, and Stuart Wilson) and “Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects”
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Year : 2018 | Volume : 66 | Issue : 4 | Page : 1185--1187
Chronic pachymenigitis with dural venous sinus thrombosis: An unusual presentation of cranial melioidosis
Raghavendra Nayak1, Bimal Patel2, Krishnaprabhu Raju1,
1 Department of Neurological Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Pathology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr. Krishnaprabhu Raju
Department of Neurological Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore - 632 004, Tamil Nadu
Nayak R, Patel B, Raju K. Chronic pachymenigitis with dural venous sinus thrombosis: An unusual presentation of cranial melioidosis.Neurol India 2018;66:1185-1187
Nayak R, Patel B, Raju K. Chronic pachymenigitis with dural venous sinus thrombosis: An unusual presentation of cranial melioidosis. Neurol India [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 22 ];66:1185-1187
Available from: http://www.neurologyindia.com/text.asp?2018/66/4/1185/237015
A 23-year old student presented with a 9-month history of progressive diplopia on looking towards the left and a 6-month history of decreased hearing in the left ear. He was initially evaluated for the above complaints at another center where he was diagnosed to be having left sigmoid and transverse sinus thrombosis with left mastoiditis and was treated with antituberculous therapy, steroids, and anticoagulants; however, there was no improvement in the symptoms.
Examination showed the left third cranial nerve (CN) palsy and paresis of the left seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth CNs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain with contrast showed pachymeningeal thickening and abnormal enhancement along the left temporal region, the petrous apex, and within the left mastoid air cells [Figure 1]. Magnetic resonance venogram (MRV) showed chronic partial thrombosis of the left transverse-sigmoid sinus and left jugular vein. Differential diagnosis of infective etiologies such as fungal and mycobacterial tuberculosis, inflammatory diseases such as sarcoidosis and immunoglobulin G4 disease, and malignant conditions such as lymphomas were considered. As the patient showed gradual deterioration on steroids, antituberculous, and anticoagulant medications, a surgical biopsy was undertaken, which was suggestive of chronic meningitis [Figure 2]. Cultures from the biopsy grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. He was treated with 2 g intravenous ceftazidime every 6 hours for 6 weeks, followed by an oral cotrimoxazole regimen for 6 months. At the 6-month follow-up, there was a dramatic improvement in the symptoms, and MRI brain showed complete disappearance of meningeal enhancement and clearance of the left mastoid enhancement [Figure 3].{Figure 1}{Figure 2}{Figure 3}
Melioidosis is a systemic disease associated with abscesses in multiple organs caused by B. pseudomallei,[1] which is a Gram-negative soil-dwelling organism. Although it is endemic in the southeast Asian countries and northern Australia, neurologic involvement is accounted for in only 3% of all the cases.[2]
Cranial manifestations of melioidosis also include scalp abscesses, osteomyelitis, meningitis, subdural empyema, encephalitis, brain abscesses, and meningeal irritation.[3] [Table 1] shows the recently reported cases of melioidosis presenting as mass lesions and osteomyelitis.[4],[5],[6],[7],[8]{Table 1}
Dural sinus thrombosis complicating septic melioidosis was first reported from Thailand where dural venous sinus thrombosis was attributed to the hypercoagulable state secondary to septicemia.[9]
The uniqueness of our case lies in the absence of a mass lesion, osteomyelitis, or septic melioidosis. It is the first reported case, to the best of our knowledge, where melioidosis is presented with only pachymeningitis and dural venous sinus thrombosis.
Treatment of neurological melioidosis includes an initial intensive therapy by parenteral ceftazidime (50 mg/kg up to 2 g intravenously every 6 hours or meropenem (25 mg/kg up to 1 g intravenously every 8 hours) for a period of 6–8 weeks, followed by the eradication therapy by oral cotrimoxazole (trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole) at a dose of 40/8 mg/kg (up to 1,600/320 mg) every 12 hours, and doxycycline 2 mg/kg, (up to 100 mg) every 12 hours for 6 months.[3],[8],[9],[10]
Melioidosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of chronic pachymeningitis, even in the absence of brain abscess and predisposing factors, especially when the patient is not responding to steroids and empirical antituberculous drugs. This ensures an early diagnosis and treatment and prevents mortality and morbidity.
Declaration of patient consent
The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form the patient(s) has/have given his/her/their consent for his/her/their images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patients understand that their names and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal their identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
1 Howe C, Sampath A, Spotnitz M: The pseudomallei group: A review. J Infect Dis 1971;124:598-606.
2 Currie BJ, Ward L, Cheng AC. The epidemiology and clinical spectrum of melioidosis: 540 cases from the 20 year Darwin prospective study. Trop Dis 2010;4:900.
3 Kumar GS, Raj PM, Chacko G, Lalitha MK, Chacko AG, Rajshekhar V. Cranial melioidosis presenting as a mass lesion or osteomyelitis. J Neurosurg 2008;108:243-7.
4 Chadwick DR, Ang B, Sitoh YY, Lee CC. Cerebral melioidosis in Singapore: A review of five cases. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2002;96:72-6.
5 Bergin P, Boyes L, Sage M. Cerebral melioidosis. Australas Radiol 2005;49:79-83.
6 Kuan YC, How SH, Ng TH, Fauzi AR. The man with the boggy head: Cranial melioidosis. Singapore Med J 2010;51:e43-5.
7 Naha K, Dasari S, Kusugodlu R, Prabhu M. Cranial melioidosis with extradural extension after a fall in the bathroom. Australasian Med J 2012;5:455.
8 Saravu K, Kadavigere R, Shastry AB, Pai R, Mukhopadhyay C. Neurologic melioidosis presented as encephalomyelitis and subdural collection in two male labourers in India. J Infect Dev Ctries 2015;9:1289-93.
9 Niyasom S, Sithinamsuwan P, Udommongkol C, Suwantamee J. Dural sinus thrombosis in melioidosis: The first case report. J Med Assoc Thai 2006;89:242-7.
10 Currie BJ, Fisher DA, Howard DM, Burrow JN, Lo D, Selva-nayagam S, et al. Endemic melioidosis in tropical northern Australia: A 10-year prospective study and review of the literature. Clin Infect Dis 2000;31:981-6.
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Over the weekend, 21 fishermen learned how to conduct federally mandated onboard drills to practice what to do when someone falls overboard, if there is a fire on the boat, and how to control flooding and abandon ship. Training occurred in the Coast Guard Base pool and in one of Kodiak Air Station’s hangars.
According to Schultz, fishing crews are required to conduct drills every month.
While AMSEA has classes all over the country’s coasts, Kodiak’s classes are unique because of the participation of rescue swimmers, he said.
“The experience of having a rescue swimmer in the pool and being able to visit the helicopter and being trained in hoisting procedures is an exclusively Kodiak thing,” Schultz said. “ A lot of people that have taken the classes somewhere else are blown away with what (they) learn.”
Rescue swimmers Petty Officer 3rd Class Jesse Cipolla and Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Stover helped trainees learn how to ride and enter a life raft, and how to group in the water if they are unable to reach their rafts.
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Kodiak is also one of the only places where trainees receive hands-on experience with dewatering pumps, Schultz said.
“Everybody in the class runs a dewatering pump. That’s crucial because the Coast Guard often drops dewatering pumps,” he said, of real life search and rescue situations.
After the course, all participants were certified to lead drills on their boats.
During the winter classes, participants usually include pot fishing vessels and dragger vessels, while in the summer months Schultz primarily trains salmon fishermen, he said.
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Newton teams tumble at Indianola; Area Prep Basketball Roundup
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Newton High senior Peyton Maher (44) defends a shot by Indianola’s Kinsey Johnston (34) in the team’s earlier season game at Newton. On Friday, the Cardinal girls lost 54-41 to host Indianola in Little Hawkeye Conference play. Newton’s boys dropped a 76-47 decision to the Indian boys in Indianola.
With the regular season winding down, there were only four games on the area basketball schedule on Friday night. Newton played a Little Hawkeye Conference road doubleheader. In a Jasper County non-conference boys' contest, Baxter was at Lynnville-Sully. Prairie City-Monroe's boys play at Saydel in a Heart of Iowa Conference game.
Indianola girls 54, Newton girls 41
INDIANOLA — It was a game of two halves on Friday. Newton High’s Cardinal girls controlled the first half but the hosting Indianola Indians used a 21-7 run in the third quarter to claim a 54-41 win over the Cardinals in Little Hawkeye Conference play.
‘We played as good as we have all year in the first half, especially defensively,” Newton head coach Jason Carter said. “Indianola came out with more intensity in the third quarter and we turned the ball over. Most of our turnovers in the game came in that quarter.”
Newton shot out to a 12-7 lead by the end of the first quarter and was up 22-15 at halftime. Indianola came out ramping up the defensive pressure and took advantage of Cardinal turnovers.
The Indians pushed out to a 36-29 advantage in the third quarter. The Cardinals battled back to make it 38-35 with 5:45 left in the game. They got no closer as Indianola stayed on top for the win.
Peyton Maher led the Cardinals with 12 points, Aurora Nehring and Mackensie Brown each had nine points. Chassidy Henwood had six points, Rachel Rhoads tossed in four and Mackenzie Baker had one point.
Newton is 2-11 in LHC play and 3-16 overall. The Cardinals play a rescheduled LHC game on Saturday at Class 4A No. 4 Grinnell (11-0, 15-2) to concluded their regular season.
Indianola boys 76, Newton boys 47
INDIANOLA — Newton High’s Cardinal boys broke out to a 4-1 lead against host Indianola. The Indians proved too much in the long run as the Cardinals lost 76-47 on Friday night.
The loss dropped the Cardinals to 0-12 in Little Hawkeye Conference and 0-16 overall. Newton plays at Chariton on Saturday and at Winterset on Monday. The Cardinals have two rescheduled LHC games next week — home on Tuesday against Oskaloosa and at Grinnell on Friday.
Indianola, which is 13-3 overall now and 8-3 in the conference, broke open a back-and-forth game to lead 19-8 at the end of the first quarter. The Indians outscored the Cardinals 18-12 in the second period to lead 37-20 at the break.
The Indians rolled on a 27-10 scoring surge in the third quarter for a 64-30 lead. The Cardinals finished off the game on a 17-12 run but the damage had been done.
Newton was also on the short end of the rebounding battle, 35-19. Kaleb Dydell had four rebounds and one steal for the Cardinals. Noah Allen had three assists.
Adam Mattes fired in 17 points for the Cardinals. Allen had eight points and Dydell had seven points.
Indianola got 27 points from Evan Gauger, and 14 points each from Quinn Vesey and Tyce Johnson. Matt Deike added 10 points.
Baxter boys 61, Lynnville-Sully boys 52
SULLY — Deadlocked 40-40 at halftime the visiting Baxter Bolts and the Lynnville-Sully Hawk boys staged a great Jasper County showdown Friday night. They were tied a 52-all with less than four minutes to go in the non-conference game.
Baxter nailed down a big road win by holding the Hawks scoreless the rest of the way and the Bolts pouring in 11 points. The Bolts improved 9-9 overall with a 61-52 win. The Hawks fell to 14-5.
The Bolts had the hot hand, shooting 50 percent overall, 23-of-46. They netted 11-of-22 3-pointers and were 12-of-24 from 2-point range. They sank 4-of-9 from the free-throw line.
“I thought we did a lot of good things tonight. Unfortunately we ran into a Baxter team that really shot it,” Lynnville-Sully head coach Nick Harthoorn said. “We have to find a way to be more consistent from half to half.”
Will Clapper had a double-double for the Bolts with 22 points and 12 rebounds. Carter Nelson dropped in 13 points and Kael Johnston had 12 points. Johnston had two steals and Cole Damman dished out three assists.
Lynnville-Sully shot 34 percent, 19-of-56, from the field, hitting 10-of-29 3-point attempts. The Hawks were 4-of-6 from the free-throw line. Baxter had a 30-25 rebounding edge.
Lynnville-Sully’s Rylan James produced a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Tyson Vander Linden fired in 10 points and had eight assists. Bray Noun Harder had 10 points and Blaize Kuhlmann made three steals.
Baxter plays at Colo-NESCO on Saturday to conclude the regular season. Lynnville-Sully hosts BGM on Monday in South Iowa Cedar League finale.
Lynnville-Sully and Baxter enter Class 1A District 9 play on Thursday.
PCM boys 76, Saydel 48
DES MOINES — Andrew Van Ryswyk led a balanced offensive attack, and Prairie City-Monroe's boys' basketball team blew out Saydel on the road during a Heart of Iowa Conference play on Friday night.
The Mustangs led 25-12 after one quarter, outscored the Eagles 38-23 in the second half and defeated Saydel 76-48.
Van Ryswyk had 17 points and 11 rebounds, Reed Worth chipped in 14 points and three assists and Isaac Telfer added nine points and three assists.
Derek Brown finished with nine points, four rebounds and four assists, Jason Stafford tallied eight points, six rebounds and four assists and Gatlin Boell collected eight points and six boards.
The Mustangs (11-7 overall, 10-3 in HOIC play) hit 14 3-pointers, led by four from Worth and three each from Van Ryswyk and Brown.
Saydel (5-15, 1-11) buried seven 3-pointers.
PCM hosts South Hardin in a make-up game at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Monroe.
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Jupiter/Saturn and a Challenging Spring Ahead
The Moon is in Aries this morning, not making any aspects until tomorrow.
Today is a good day to revisit the Jupiter/Saturn square, which is coming back this Spring for the first time since August.
A few things to point out. Right as Jupiter makes his square to Saturn, via retrograde, Saturn will be slowing down to station and turn retrograde himself, in late March, just after the Equinox. Mars will be right behind Saturn and slowing to station shortly after for his own retrograde. This means that we will have a debilitated version of the Jupiter/Saturn square along with a debilitated Mars in the mix.
The great renaissance astrologer, William Lily, pointed out the following manners and actions when these planets were ill placed or debilitated:
* Hypocritically religious, maintaining false tenets in religion, ignorant, nothing delightful in the love of his friends, schismatical, abasing himself in all companies, crouching and stooping where no necessity is (Jupiter debilitated)
* Envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, malicious, a close liar, stubborn, outwardly dissembling, timorous, sordid, never contented and murmuring (Saturn debilitated)
* A prattler without modesty or honesty, a lover of slaughter and quarrels, murder, thievery, a promoter of sedition, of turbulent spirit, inhumane, oppressors, violent, neither fearing God nor man, rash, obscene (Mars debilitated)
Saturn and Jupiter and Mars combining this spring, all in debilitated condition (Jupiter in detriment and retrograde, Mars retrograde, and Saturn retrograde) will likely bring these more challenging qualities to the forefront of the following archetypal themes:
* The youth versus the establishment (Jupiter/Saturn)
* The old versus the new (Jupiter/Saturn)
* The future versus the past (Jupiter/Saturn)
* Political turmoil and generational politics (Jupiter/Saturn)
* Outsiders and the status quo (Jupiter Saturn)
* Radical philosophies, attitudes, or beliefs implemented through violence or contention and self righteousness (Jupiter/Saturn)
* Issues surrounding paternity or the paternal generally (Jupiter/Saturn)
* Radical beliefs on opposite sides sharing more sameness than difference (Jupiter/Saturn with Saturn in Jupiter's sign)
* Big change preaching and militant idealism coupled with ignorance and dogmatism (Jupiter Saturn with Saturn in Jupiter's sign)
These are typical Jupiter/Saturn themes but they are made somewhat treacherous by the retrogrades, and the overpowering square from Jupiter to Saturn while Jupiter is in a debilitated condition along with Saturn. Zealousness and political, social, religious, cultural extremism are growing, and it's especially challenging when these themes are noticeable on both sides of the transit. Both those things that appear to be more liberal or expansive or generous or "open minded" are also, as Lily says, becoming "schismatical, ignorant, and hypocritically religious." While the presence of Mars and Saturn combine to add inhumane, rash, obscene, stubborn, malicious, and violent qualities.
Remembering that traditionally Jupiter/Saturn combinations were known to signify great political upheavals or periods of marked change in governments, this square is nothing new. These periods come and go. For example, during the Summer of 2010 when the two planets were in an opposition with each other Wikileaks released over 90,000 classified documents, and in the spring of 2011 the Arab spring took place and Bin Laden was assassinated. Later in 2011 Occupy Wall Street began after calls from a group of activists to create our own American "Tahrir moment." (referring to the Egyptian revolution that was part of the Arab Spring). However, back then, Saturn was in the sign of his exaltation, and Jupiter was not debilitated by sign.
This square as a much more contentious and ignorant feeling to it which we should be mindful of as the political and social/cultural climate reaches a fever pitch this spring.
I myself am being mindful of the following tendencies:
* To become self righteous about things I am passionate about
* To not walk my talk while talking louder than I should
* To get overly involved with debates, fights, and contentiousness without actually participating in the creation of the world I think is the better world
* To provoke people with ideas I believe are better
* To call names, to insult, or to tear down those I disagree with
* To become overly polarized by generational, political, or cultural debates or disagreements
* To spend too much time with my head in the media
* To feel overly threatened and polarized by that which is different from myself
* To use the word "outsider" like a weapon, or to remain willfully ignorant of those who are truly suffering from marginalization or oppression or from issues of major importance politically or socially
In a day and age where moderation is shunned politically, where moderation has become a dirty word, and perhaps for good reasons, the word "moderate" so commonly refers to willful ignorance or persistence in things that no longer work or that don't serve the common good, this spring's Jupiter/Saturn transit will naturally bring up for us questions about what progressive or expansive humility looks and feels like. How do we carry a radical vision of the future with a humble spirit? I have a feeling we will all be learning more about this in the months to come.
Prayer: Direct the fires of our faith and convictions. Make us servants, and teach us how to make a better world without hurting each other and without losing our humility
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Black Eyed Peas :: Renegotiations
Steve 'Flash' Juon April 4, 2006
CompilationReview
“Monkey Business” is not my favorite Black Eyed Peas record, and never will be. Even though I had no problem with the musical backdrop of the tracks (perhaps the one thing BEP has consistantly done right) the lyrical content was awful bordering on downright stupid. My opinion is obviously at odds with the mainstream though, as the inane “My Humps” has caught a whole new wave of popularity thanks to cell phone commercials and an endless wave of parody videos on YouTube. To quote one of my favorite writers though, Mr. Hua Hsu, this song’s popularity is “proof that a song can be so bad as to veer toward evil.” Say word? True indeed. “My Humps” may actually inspire a whole new generation of rap artists to write songs as dumb as this one in the hopes of becoming the next big thing, just as Ebony Eyez inspired a whole generation of females to act like retarded sluts with “In Ya Face.” I long for the days when Queen Latifah and Yo-Yo believed in the power of strong intelligent black women. Let’s face it, even a gangsta bitch like Bo$$ or The Lady of Rage was a better role model than Ebony Eyez or the abyssmal Fergie, who just wants to get you drunk off her hump – her hump, her hump, her hump.
That being said I have no problem with “Renegotiations,” a short and relatively inoffensive EP of remixes from “Monkey Business.” You could hardly make songs with lyrics as stupid as their last LP’s any dumber, and in several cases the new versions offer vast improvement thanks to the fly new beats. “Like That” is a notable exception but not for the wrong reasons – it’s exactly the same as the original release and was one of the few intelligent songs on that release, thanks largely to raps by Q-Tip and Talib Kweli. Making it the first track on this EP was a good step in the right direction. Erick Sermon does a fine job with “Ba Bump,” DJ Premier proves he can rework any track into hot hip-hop with his revision of “My Style,” and even Pete Rock gets in on the action by revising “They Don’t Want Music.” BEP doesn’t help matters by ripping off old school rap lines and routines (most notably Greg Nice) but any track which could on both original and new versions be labelled “featuring James Brown” by virtue of his samples is going to remain funky no matter how bad the rap.
To say that the Black Eyed Peas have achieved anything groundbreaking or revolutionary on “Renegotiations,” a short EP that includes five new remixes and two album tracks from “Monkey Business” that were tolerable would be a straight up lie. To say that the Black Eyed Peas made a mistake by having Jazzy Jeff make a fresh and soulful remix of “Feel It” or that Large Pro didn’t bring the funk on his revision of “Disco Club” would also be a lie. For what it’s worth, and they listed this EP for a bargain price at Best Buy (it appears to be a chain exclusive), you really can’t go wrong here. This EP doesn’t redeem the awful lyrics of “Monkey Business,” but it is a statement that they at least value the opinion of hip-hop enough to let some of it’s all time great producers remake their tracks. Now if they could work on making the rhymes as good as the beats, we wouldn’t have to worry about their evil influence any more.
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Grandparents Report Improved Mental Health after Spending Time with their Grandkids
by Dr James Brown and Parkdean Resorts(more info)
listed in retreats and travel, originally published in issue 258 - November 2019
New research has revealed that 56 percent of grandparents believe their mental health improves after spending time with their grandkids.
The study of 2,000 grandparents, commissioned by Parkdean Resorts in conjunction with Biogerontologist, Dr James Brown, Director of the Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing (ARCHA) and from Channel 4’s Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, revealed how spending time with the grandkids could be the answer to a happier and healthier life:
James explains: “Spending time with the grandchildren can kick start the process of improving mood, enhancing memory, bettering physical function and reducing loneliness in older adults. All of these benefits can help to slow down elements of age-related decline.”
Courtesy: Lucinda Barton
Case Study: Lucinda Barton
Lucinda Barton lives with her husband and two young boys in Pulborough, and they enjoy going on a four-generation holiday every year. Lucinda’s 65-year-old mother, and her 91-year-old grandmother, join the annual family getaway on the UK coastline; it’s a time the whole family looks forward to.
Lucinda’s grandmother says: “I always feel much younger after holidaying with the children. They challenge me to do a lot more physically, which keeps my brain active.
“Just because you’re older, it doesn’t mean that mentally you’re old, I still feel like a 21-year-old at heart.”
Lucinda, who is a blogger (Bakes, Books & My Boys), takes her four-generation family to the stunning regions of Dorset and Cornwall; two areas that are perfect for a multigenerational getaway. From rock-pooling and walks on the beach, to trips to museums and historic houses, the whole family enjoy a range of activities whilst there.
And it’s not just physical activities that Lucinda’s 91-year old grandmother enjoys. Lucinda says: “The boys and my grandma teach each other so many new things. For example, my son has a kindle and a smartphone, and now she wants one too! The kids help her understand the world as it is today, and without them, I think she wouldn’t know about the technology available. I think an older person’s world can become a lot more limited when they’re not around children.”
A holiday can also spark a wide range of conversations between the older generation and young people, which comes as no surprise to Lucinda. She says: “My grandma and my sons get into the most incredible conversations about the world and politics, and because they have such different views due to their ages and their experiences in life, it’s fascinating to listen to.”
Making time for a four-generation holiday is so important to Lucinda, as she and her children live over an hour away from her grandmother, making spending quality time together difficult.
Lucinda adds: “When you’re older, an hour’s drive can feel much longer than it does for us, meaning my grandma only gets to spend an hour or two a week with my children during term time. That’s why we enjoy going on a four-generation holiday every year, as it gives my grandma something to look forward to and stops her feeling lonely. A holiday allows her to spend quality time with the grandkids and also to meet new people when we’re out and about, which gives her a lot more confidence in herself. I think you can lose confidence as you get older, especially if you are quite isolated.”
Sadly though, 51 percent of grandparents simply don’t get to see their grandchildren anywhere near as much as they’d like, with a further 14 percent confessing to hardly seeing them at all.
With an ageing population in the UK, improving the health and happiness of our grandparents and great-grandparents is vital. According to Age UK, more than 2 million people in England over the age of 75 now live alone, with over 1 million older adults going for over a month without speaking to a friend, neighbour or family member.
Unfortunately, in many cases, families live further apart than ever before, and with busy lives it can be difficult for generations to connect. In fact, 40 percent of grandparents said they live too far away to see their grandkids, whilst 23 percent believe their family are too busy to spend time with them.
Going on a family holiday is one way to spend more quality time together. In fact, a getaway can give older adults something to look forward to, which Dr James Brown believes is crucial:
“We know that psychology drives a lot of biology, and in older adults, without that sense of purpose or something to look forward to, biological systems can start to shut down and you can literally die of a broken heart.”
A holiday can also prompt nostalgic memories for older adults too, which is fundamental to keeping the brain young and improving memory function. James explains: “Autobiographical memory contains the information you have about yourself, and for most grandparents, a UK holiday will trigger nostalgic thoughts like ‘I can remember coming here when I was younger’ or ‘I can remember caravan holidays like this when I was a child.’”
And it’s not just mental and cognitive health that appears to improve after spending time with young children. Over 35 percent of grandparents believe their physical health significantly improves too.
James adds: “Children encourage their grandparents to be more active and forget about their physical capabilities. It’s so easy for older adults to define themselves by their inabilities and disabilities, but a family holiday is the perfect opportunity for grandparents to remember just how much they can physically do.”
John Waterworth, Chief Executive of Parkdean Resorts, says: “A family holiday is the perfect opportunity to spend quality time together, away from the stresses of everyday life. It can remind older adults of the good old days, as many of them will have enjoyed UK holidays when they were younger, triggering a comforting sense of nostalgia.”
With more than 60 percent of grandparents reportedly not planning a family holiday in 2019, Dr James Brown has collaborated with Parkdean Resorts to share some of the health benefits of a multigenerational getaway.
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Parkdean Resorts the UK’s largest holiday park operator in conjunction with Dr James Brown, Director of the Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing (ARCHA), commissioned a study of 2,000 grandparents which revealed how spending time with the grandkids could be the answer to a happier and healthier life.
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on Friday, February 20, 2015 Solitude
BOMBASTIC PLAYERS TAKE A LOOK
HASHIM AMLA
Hashim Amla loves bowling, in any format. The right-hander is way above the others. His record against India is excellent, both home and away. He is adept at playing spin and pace and scores at a fast rate. He is also very good in finding the gaps into the fields. Indian bowlers would love to see his back as soon as possible.
His record Vs India
Match 12, Runs 632, Avg 57.45, Strike Rate 90.67, 100s 2, 50s 5.
AB de Villiers is without doubt among the best batsmen in the world cup right now. With a wide range of strokes, he is very difficult to contain once he gets going. The right-hander has the ability to take the game away single handedly. Of late, he has done well against India. He is expected to shepherd the south African middle order and set the pace during death overs.
Match 22, Runs 891, Avg 46.89, SR 105.31, 100s 3, 50s 5.
DALE STYEN
The speedster Dale Styen likes to feast on Indian batting. His average, strike rate and economy against India are better than his overall career statistics. Barring Virat Kohli, none of the Indian batsmen have handled Styen well. Who can forget his match-winning spell against India in the 2011 WC, when he brought Proteas back in the game with a fiery spell?
Match 3, Wkts 23, Avg 19.17, Econ 4.54, SR 25.3.
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M 3, Wkts 9, Avg 20.55, Econ 6.60, SR 18.6.
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M 13, Runs 344, Avg 34.4o, 50s 3, SR 77.47.
He was selected despite injury worries, which clearly underlines his importance. The all-rounder provides much-needed balance and has the ability to hold the lower order. It was his aggressive 29 ball 47 in the Champions Trophy in England, which took the game away from South Africa. How he bowls against De Villiers & Co in the middle overs will decide the fate of the game.
M 7, Wkts 8, Avg 36.62, Runs 160, Best 47*, Avg 40.
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Norway's one of the most expensive countries in the world, and house prices have remained at a record high this September, which is why the same article gives a list of fourteen places with the cheapest house prices in Norway. No information is given on how interesting they are to live in though, so we'll have to turn to other sources for that.
The average price nationwide is 24,900 kroner per square metre (one square metre is about ten square feet), or $4300 USD, and the most expensive part of the country is Oslo and Bærum with average prices at 33,800 and 33,000 kroner ($5825 and $5690). Outside of Oslo the most expensive locations are Stavanger and Sandnes with 30,600 ($5275) and 27,000 ($4655).
And now for the fourteen cheapest parts of the country.
#14: Sandefjord - average price 19,900 kroner ($3430 USD) per square metre
Population 42,333 and seems to be famous for having Viking ships, spas, and whaling. There is also a brewery and a chocolate factory here.
#13: Møre og Romsdal - average price 19,400 kroner ($3345 USD) per square metre
The largest city in this region is Ålesund with a population of 41,385, and is famous for its large concentration of Jugendstil architecture. The region uses Nynorsk as its official linguistic standard (as opposed to Bokmål, which is what most people learning Norwegian learn).
#12: Agder outside Kristiansand - average price 19,400 kroner ($3345 USD) per square metre
That's Vest-Agder - Kristiansand is the capital of this region, so everywhere but that. Vest-Agder has a population of 166,976 and Kristiansand is about half that. Besides that the largest settlement seems to be about 13,000 people or so.
Next to it is another region with Agder in the name called Aust-Augder - total population is 106,842 of which 41,241 is in the capital called Arendal, which looks like this.
Arendal is a port town with a large jazz festival and some other yearly music festivals. Seems to have a large number of churches too.
#11: Buskerud outside Drammen - average price 19,100 kroner ($3290 USD) per square metre
Buskerud has a population of 253,006 of which 60,145 live in Drammen.
This is the town of Hurum along the coast, with a population of 9,011. Kongsberg is another town in the region with a population of 23,997.
#10: Rural Vestfold - average price 19,000 kroner ($3275 USD) per square metre
Vestfold is located fairly close to Oslo with a road leading directly into Oslo and thus real estate in the cities there would be expensive, but apparently the areas outside the cities aren't that bad. The picture above is of Holmestrand, population 9,949 and thus probably one of the places to which the list is referring.
#9: Fredrikstad - average price 18,900 kroner ($3260 USD) per square metre
Fredrikstad is a relatively large city (by Norwegian standards) with a population of 72,935 and located to the southeast of Oslo, pretty close to the Swedish border. It has an old town which is Northern Europe's best preserved old town. A blog post here seems quite impressed with Fredrikstad. Fredrikstad is right next to Sarpsborg (#5 on the list).
#8: Larvik - average price 18,400 kroner ($3,170 USD) per square metre
Larvik is located within Vestfold, right along the southwestern edge. It's a ways out of Oslo but it still lies on the road leading directly into the city. Bottled water is produced here.
#7: Northern Norway outside Tromsø - average price 18,300 kroner ($3,155 USD) per square metre
This is Bodø, population 46,049. It lies just north of the Arctic Circle so you can see the sun 24 hours a day during the summer, and 24 hours of darkness during the darkest part of the winter, each for about a month at a time. It's also a very windy city.
#6: Trøndelag outside of Trondheim: average price 18,000 kroner ($3,105 USD) per square metre
Trøndelag is where you start to get into the northern part of the country and has a total population of 418,453 of which 168,257 live in Trondheim. Outside of Trondheim the largest city is called Stjørdal:
with a population of 20,616. Stjørdal is quite close (35 km) to Trondheim which gives it a growing population as a satellite city, and it has a lot of birds and an interesting castle.
#5: Sarpsborg - average price 17,300 kroner ($2,985 USD) per square metre
Remember Fredrikstad (#9)? This city is in the same region, and located even closer to the main road that goes northwest to Oslo and southeast into Sweden (eventually to Gothenburg/Götenborg). Sarpsborg has a population of 51,813 and together with Fredrikstad they form the fifth largest urban area in Norway. Sarpsborg is the home of the brewery Borg Bryggerier, which produces these beers. Bethlehem (yes, the Bethlehem) is one of its sister cities.
#4: Rural Østfold - average price 16,300 kroner ($2,810 USD) per square metre
Østfold is where Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg are located, and you can see how prices fall even further when getting out of the cities altogether.
That's Rakkestad, population 7,232. It's basically located in the same area as the other two cities mentioned but smaller and a bit more out of the way, as it's off the main road that leads into Oslo to the northwest and Gothenburg to the southeast in Sweden. Rakkestad has a lot of farming and forestry. Though not related to Rakkestad in particular, the Wikipedia page on the community has the following: "Everyone in Norway has a right of access to and passage through uncultivated land in the countryside, regardless of who owns it...You may also put up a tent for the night, but you must keep at least 150 metres (492.1 ft) away from the nearest house or cabin. If you want to stay for more than two nights in the same place, you must ask the landowner's permission."
#3: Oppland outside of Lillehammer - average price 16,300 kroner ($2,810 USD) per square metre
Oppland has a population of 183,851 of which only 25,070 live in Lillehammer, but Lillehammer was the site of the 1994 Olympics.
Just next to Lillehammer though is Gjøvik, which actually has a larger population (28,627).
It's also located alongside the same lake and is further south so less out of the way than Lillehammer and closer to Oslo.
#2: Telemark - average price 15,800 kroner ($2,725 USD) per square metre
This is Skien, the largest city in Telemark with a population of 50,595. It's fairly close to Larvik (that's #8) but is a bit farther away from Oslo. The page on Skien on the Norwegian Wikipedia is more detailed than most other cities its size, with quite a few pictures.
And now we get to the cheapest part of Norway:
#1: Hedmark outside of Hamar - average price 15,300 kroner ($2,640 USD) per square metre
Hedmark is located northeast of Oslo, and just east of Oppland where Lillehammer is located. Total population is 189,586 of which 27,593 live in Hamar.
This is Elverum, the next largest city with a population of 19,665. There is a forest museum here. Elverum also happens to be extremely close to Hamar, which looks like this.
So there you have it, the fourteen cheapest places in Norway in terms of real estate. When living abroad it's important to choose a location that balances cost of living with opportunity, so simply finding the cheapest place to live is no help if opportunities to work are severely restricted. Norway also has a lot of linguistic variation, so keep in mind that people living in places off the beaten track will likely be incomprehensible at first, even if you've put in the time to learn a lot of Bokmål before going.
Personally my favourite from looking at the list alone would probably be #9, Fredrikstad. Seems to have a nice old town, is fairly close to Oslo, also next to Sarpsborg, Sweden is easily accessible too. Ålesund also seems to be quite interesting for those that are interested in Nynorsk and/or architecture and enjoy the cool weather. Here's another nice image of Ålesund either at dawn or dusk.
Posted by 데이빛 / Mithridates at 11:22 AM
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lyzazel said...
I don't know if you wrote it for specifically that reason but Norway is, again, on the top of the list in the human development index released by the United Nations today:
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
which suggests that it is the #1 best place to live.
Hey, Mithridates, you're kind of hard to get in touch with... I wanted to share a couple Norwegian links I stumbled across that you might be interested in.
Basically, it's a short short story, read over and over again in a bunch of different Norwegian dialects:
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos_ny/
The website seems a little broken, but the story is here:
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos_ny/kilde.php
and the .mp3 files are here...
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos_files/mp3/
Hope this is useful... and hope you haven't already covered this! I checked your archives and didn't see it.
sarahannalien
http://twitter.com/sarahannalien
Well Fredrikstad's a great place to live. I live in the Old Town (Gamlebyen) and I love it here :-) Check out this link to find out what to see and do in the area... www.elusivemoose.eu
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Summer Bird Blue
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman (373 pages)
Overview: Rumi lost her sister, and then grief drew a canyon between her and her mom. And then it was an ocean as she was whisked away from Washington to live with her aunt in Hawaii for the summer. Rumi has to learn how to confront her grief, her fears, and her anxieties to reclaim her life and heal. Overall: 4
Characters: 4 Rumi is angry. She's always been a bit grumpy, but after landing in Hawaii, she's just an explosion of rage. What started as a coping mechanism for her anxiety turned into armor against her sadness and grief. She shoves everyone out of her life, only to slowly allow them to return.
The mother daughter relationship in the story perfectly represents Rumi, torn between love and animosity. She's always loved her mother, but, as the oldest child of a single parent who worked constantly, Rumi was like a second mom to Lea, her younger sister. Rumi felt like all of her mother's love went into Lea, so not having her mother around when Lea is gone becomes all the more crushing. Deep love and deep anger mar their connection.
Rumi actually has a lot of great relationships with the adults around her. Her crotchety, old neighbor proves to be an amazing friend and mentor, as well as her key to finding music again. Aunty Ani never gives up on Rumi even as she's the usual object of her attacks.
Plot: 4 The story doesn't really start for about a hundred pages. That's the point where Rumi begins to separate herself from her grief enough to explore other relationships and activities in Hawaii. While watching her grieve her sister and replay the same feelings and moments is very honest to the grieving process, it might cause some readers to check out. While I found it interesting, it sometimes dragged on too long, reflecting on ideas that had been explored time and time again. If you're a reader that needs a strong plot to keep you going, I'd say this probably isn't the book for you.
Writing: 4 Bowman crafts an interesting story when the plot is moving. As Rumi begins to heal, Bowman explores other parts of Rumi like her music and possible asexuality as she tries to figure out her feelings for her neighbor, Kai. The situations she finds herself in when she goes out are always so entertaining, it made me wish for more of them. There are some beautiful passages, though, when she is trapped in her own thoughts. I just wish they'd been balanced more.
Finally, I love how much she immerses readers in the Hawaiian setting. She writes certain characters dialogue in the dialect used by some there which really adds to the atmosphere of the story.
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Breaking dormancy in yellow serradella seed
P. J. Pieterse
Department of Agronomy and Pastures, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa.
The breaking of dormancy in yellow serradella seed was investigated by treating pod segments with combinations of boiling water and dehulling treatments. Results indicated that dormancy in yellow serradella seed could possibly be attributed to a combination of water-impermeability of the seed and the presence of a germination inhibitor in the pod walls. A simple treatment of immersing the pod segments in boiling water for one minute appears to be an effective treatment to overcome the dormancy in yellow serradella seed.
Dormancy, seed germination, yellow serradella.
Yellow serradella (Ornithopus compressus L.) is an annual pasture legume suited for growing in sandy, neutral to acidic soil (2). Germination percentages of commercial seed have often been as low as 2 – 10% (5). This is due to hard seeds and possibly the presence of a water-soluble germination inhibitor in pod walls (1). However, it was found that over 95% of hard seeds of O. compressus cv. Madeira softened during the first year of burial (3). Dehulling of serradella seeds by means of a dehuller gave good results (4), but such equipment is not always available. In this experiment, the breaking of dormancy in O. compressus cv. Madeira seed were investigated by making use of dehulling and hot water treatments.
Five replicates of 20 seeds of O. compressus cv. Madeira were subjected to the following treatments:
1. Control treatment where seeds were left in the pod segments without any treatment
2. Pod segments were scarified by opening one end with a sharp blade
3. Seeds were removed completely from the pod segments
4. Seeds were removed from the pod segments and immersed in boiling water for one minute
5. As in 4, but seeds were re-inserted into the pod segments after boiling
6. As in 5, but pod segments were also boiled for one minute before seeds were re-inserted
7. Untreated pod segments containing seeds were immersed into boiling water for one minute
8. Untreated pod segments containing seeds were immersed into boiling water for one minute and the seeds were then removed from the pod segments
Following these treatments, seeds alone (treatments 3, 4 and 8) or seeds in the pod segments (treatments 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7) were germinated in plastic petri-dishes containing two filter papers and 5 ml of a solution containing a mixture of captab and benomyl (0,055% and 0,022% m/v a.i. respectively). The petri-dishes were inserted into clear poly-ethylene bags and these were put into an incubator at a constant temperature of 15 °C under light conditions. The petri-dishes were inspected daily and all germinated or rotten seeds were recorded and removed from the petri-dishes. When the germination rate slowed, the remaining hard seeds were chipped with a sharp blade and incubated for a further five days. Germinated seeds were again recorded and removed. The remaining swollen seeds were tested for viability using the tetrazolium chloride viability test. From these data the total percentage of germination (before chipping), total percentage of live seeds and total percentage of dead seeds could be calculated. Treatment means were calculated using the MEANS statement of PROC GLM and comparisons between treatments were made using the LSD statement of PROC GLM of the SAS statistical program.
Three treatments viz. Treatments 4, 7 and 8 resulted in the best germination percentages compared to the control (Figure 1). All three treatments involved boiling of the seeds. That can be attributed to the hard seed coats of the seeds. The significant difference between Treatments 2 and 3 is indicative of the presence of a germination inhibitor in the pod walls as was proposed by Barret-Lennard and Gladstones (1). The absence of a significant difference between Treatments 7 and 8 (as opposed to differences between Treatments 2 and 3) indicate that the boiling water treatment could have washed out some of the inhibiting substance or altered the chemical structure thereof. Two of the treatments viz. Treatments 5 and 6 resulted in a relatively high mortality rate compared to the other treatments (Figure 1). In both these treatments seeds were re-inserted into the pod segments after boiling. The handling of the small seeds by means of metal tweezers could possibly have damaged the embryo. It thus appears as if the dormancy mechanism of yellow serradella seed is a combination of water-impermeable seed and the presence of a germination inhibitor in pod walls. Dehulling the seeds by means of a mechanical dehulling machine (4) will greatly enhance the germination percentage of the seed. Where such technology is not available, boiling of pod segments appear to be an effective way of improving germination percentage.
Figure 1. The effect of different treatments on germination, water-permeability and mortality of yellow serradella seed (Different letters of the same colour indicate significant differences at the 5% level between treatments in terms of that specific parameter).
It is clear that boiling of pod segments is an effective way of improving germination percentage of intact yellow serradella seed. The pod segments appear to play a role in inhibiting germination (compare treatments 2 and 3). However, the mechanism of inhibition and the effect of boiling water thereupon are still unclear and should be further investigated.
1. Barret-Lennard, R.A. and Gladstones, J.S. 1964. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 15, 895-904.
2. Fu, S.M., Hampton, J.G. and Hill, M.J. 1994. Plant Var. & Seeds 7, 127-133.
3. Revell, C.K., Taylor, G.B. and Cocks, P.S. 1998. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 49, 673-685.
4. Sanders, K.F. 1996. J. Agric. Eng. Res. 63, 1-8.
5. Weeldenburg, J.R. and Smith, R.W. 1969. J. Agric. West. Aust. 10, 230-231.
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Red Ice Radio: Jay Weidner – The Imminent Fall of the West
October 30, 2015 renegade 0 Comments
From Red Ice Creations:
Jay Weidner is a filmmaker, author and scholar who is known for his ongoing worldwide quests to find clues to mankind’s spiritual destiny via ancient societies and artifacts. He has directed, written and/or produced several documentaries, including Kubrick’s Odyssey, and has been featured on the History Channel. Weidner is the co-author of “The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time” and “A Monument to the End of Time.” In 2000, he founded Sacred Mysteries together with his wife, Sharron Rose, and has since directed thirteen films, including the recently released, The Last Avatar. Jay is also Director of Original Programming at Gaiam TV.
Jay returns to Red Ice to pick up on the conversation begun over a year ago, when we spoke about the coming collapse of the West and the destruction of Europe. Jay links this cataclysmic insanity to the Shemita, a 7 year recurring cycle that crescendoed with the defeat of Germany in 1945 and is now climaxing again in a final jubilee with the 2015 invasion. He contends that this numerological working is tied to the Kabbalah, the Freemasons’ conversion to Islam back in the Templar days, and the methodical destruction of Christianity. Jay highlights a few of the suspicious tragic events of the past 70 years, which he says are part of a deadly theatre designed and enacted by the NWO to bring chaos and ruin to Western civilization. We look at signals being sent out by Donald Trump and the technocracy indicating that we’re in endgame territory. Then, Jay talks about The Last Avatar and using propaganda to aid in our spiritual awakening.
In the second hour, we continue our appraisal of the Hollywood machine and how its momentum and power can be directed towards ripping the lid off of the world’s evil influences. Jay illustrates what the modern art movement has done to destroy consciousness and create a degenerate and soulless culture of critique that we can now see in its death throes. He brings the story of Walt Disney into focus and explains why the brilliant man who created art in celebration of European culture was utterly hated and demonized by Hollywood’s elite. We also dig into the dirty underbelly of the entertainment industry, where layers of pedophilia, sexual abuse, and drug addiction are part of the recipe for producing movies with disturbing undertones aimed at perverting the minds of young children. Further, we look at the starring characters of Caitlyn Jenner and the Kardashian women in the agenda to destroy masculinity and gender roles, while simultaneously lending to the obliteration of genuine art and creativity. In conclusion, we discuss raising up the human spirit and honoring nature with traditional forms of art and storytelling in true rebel fashion.
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Tag: Hebridean sheep
Listening to Wool – HÛRD – A May Sound Diaries project
May 1st, 2012 · admin · Announcements, Hûrd One comment - Tags: agriculture, Cumbria, Estonia, Hebridean sheep, sheep, wool
At the start of 2012, Felicity Ford produced a work entitled Hûrd – A KNITSONIK™ PRODUKTION. The title comes from the pronunciation spelling for both “herd” as in a herd of sheep and “heard” as in “I heard a sound”. The piece was commissioned by the British Wool Marketing Board and Rheged for the Wonder of Wool exhibition, and was described by Bridget Kelly from the Wool Marketing Board as being “like listening to wool”.
In HÛRD, the voices of the producers of wool, the atmospheres and weather of the places where wool is grown, and the specific sonic texture of British sheep, are physically embedded within woollen, knitted fabric. This is achieved by covering 32 miniature speakers with 100% wool, British, hand-knitted yarn, and then playing field-recordings related to that wool through those speakers. Through sounds and materials, the work unites sheep farms and shepherds with a finished woollen product. Listeners are invited to touch the wool-clad speakers and to experience its materiality, while listening to sound recordings created at the source.
Hand-knitted speaker, including wool from Swaledale sheep and the Hebridean sheep which can be seen and heard below.
In order to produce the work, Felicity travelled around Cumbria in her KNITSONIK mobile, armed with suitable outdoor clothing and recording equipment. She visited many farms and shepherds and collected sounds and wool – some of which she handspun and knitted up into speaker cosies. The rest of the wool used to produce the speakers came from traceable sources, such as spinning mills in the UK where Felicity has previously created recordings.
Wherever possible, the wool from an individual farm was used to cover some speakers, with interviews from that same farm being included in the montage of recordings comprising the sonic component of the work.
Felicity is in Estonia for the month of May, extending her interest in the connections between knitting wool and its origins in specific landscapes to the context of the Estonian Wool Trade. She will be presenting her field-recordings from Cumbria in an informal presentation called Counting Sheep at Ptarmigan during an all-night event, and documenting aspects of the Estonian Wool Trade during her time in the rural parish of Mooste, at MoKS.
Her trip is supported by MoKS and the British Council, Estonia, and throughout the month she will present small snippets of this sonic exploration into the world of wool here. In keeping with the wool-exchange theme of her residency, some of the sounds will originate in the British Wool Trade, while others will be collected from the Estonian Wool Trade.
Today’s recording is of the small black Hebridean sheep that graze beside lake Windermere at Rayrigg. The Hebridean sheep are a primitive breed, which means that they have had less intentional breeding and human contact than other breeds which are more intensively farmed and therefore more used to people. Consequently, they are very shy and suspicious of human beings. The black sheep of Windermere originate from the Island of St Kilda, where they were kept for meat and wool by the islanders while it was still inhabited. Coming from such a place, they are adept at navigating windswept, rocky landscapes and fending for themselves on poor soil and in terrible weather. This sheep breed was first imported from St Kilda to The Lake District so that people with exquisitely landscaped gardens would have something exotic to look at.
Hebridean sheep are rough, hardy creatures, difficult to tame or enclose, swift of foot, and stubbornly independent (according to their shepherds). The best way to record them was to simply leave a small recording device in their feeding trough, and then leave well alone.
This recording features a small band of tups – better known as rams – and the clanging sound you can hear in this recording was produced by their ornate horns banging against the metal sides of the trough as they ate their hay. You can hear the road nearby, and something of the quality of the animals’ physicality, both in the timbre of their horns, and in the texture of their munching.
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Manuscrito vol.42 no.4 Campinas out./dez. 2019 Epub 07-Nov-2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2019.v42n4.bz
AVOIDING INFINITE REGRESS: POSTERIOR ANALYTICS I 22*
BRENO ZUPPOLINI1
1Federal University of São Paulo Department of Philosophy Guarulhos, São Paulo Brazil breno.zuppolini@unifesp.br
This article offers a reconstruction of an argument against infinite regress formulated by Aristotle in Posterior Analytics I 22. I argue against the traditional interpretation of the chapter, according to which singular terms and summa genera, in virtue of having restrict logical roles, provide limits for predicative chains, preventing them from proceeding ad infinitum. As I intend to show, this traditional reading is at odds with some important aspects of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration. More importantly, it fails to explain how his proof is connected to a defence of the existence of ultimate explanations, a connection that must be the case if I 19-22 is advancing a foundationalist way-out to a sceptical challenge raised in I 3.
Keywords: Aristotle; Predication; Infinite Regress; Essence
Even though the Posterior Analytics (hereafter, APo) is concerned with ἐπιστήμη, commonly translated as ‘knowledge’, its doctrine can hardly be classified as an epistemology stricto sensu. The main object of the treatise is ἐπιστήμη ἅπλῶς, as defined in APo I 2, 71b9-12, a distinguished kind of knowledge peculiar to expert scientists. Aristotle does not present a systematic account of a broader concept of knowledge, nor is he interested in convincing sceptical readers of the possibility of knowledge in general.1 Nevertheless, he does recognize the need to face a particular sceptical challenge in APo I 3. The challenge attacks the notion of demonstration (ἀπόδειξις), which has been defined as “συλλογισμὸν ἐπιστημονικόν” (71b18), i.e. a deductive argument that produces scientific knowledge, which means that its premises must reveal the causal explanation of the conclusion (APo I 2, 71b9-19). Now, suppose that the categorical premises from which a given truth is explained require a causal explanation as well. If so, our scientific understanding of the conclusion would remain inaccurate or incomplete unless the demonstration takes the form of a complex argument in which the premises are themselves properly explained.2 Let us say that the ordered pair 〈Π,c〉 is a complete demonstration in this sense, where Π is a set of premises p 1 , p 2 , … , p n and c is the conclusion the scientist intends to explain. Now, if each p i is itself demonstrable, there must be, for each p i , a subset of Π, Φ, such that 〈Φ,pi〉 would be the complete demonstration of pi. If p i is not a member of Φ (the set from which it is demonstrated), every scientific truth would be demonstrated from different and more basic premises, which makes Π infinite and impossible to survey with thought (APo I 3, 72b10-11).
In APo I 3, Aristotle rejects a potential solution to this challenge, according to which demonstrations would proceed “in a circle and reciprocally” (APo I 3, 72b17-18). In that case, however, if 〈Π,c〉 were the complete demonstration of c (in the sense we have just defined), c itself would be a member of Π, which is unacceptable for Aristotle (see APo I 2, 72b32-73a6). The philosopher prefers to deny the common assumption, held both by the sceptics and by the proponents of circular demonstration, that all scientific truths are demonstrable. If 〈Π,c〉 is the complete demonstration of c, the set Π is finite because there is a subset of Π that contains only indemonstrable truths, from which the other premises in Π and, consequently, c are demonstrated. In APo I 3, Aristotle states this foundationalist solution without presenting an argument in its favour. A proper proof is offered only in APo I 19-22.3 The reason for such a delay is simple. This proof is not intended to provide a way out to the problem of infinite regress as it is usually conceived, i.e. as a typical epistemological problem concerning the possibility of knowledge in general. After introducing a concept of scientific knowledge and demonstration in APo I 1-3, Aristotle presents us with an abstract model of demonstrative science, which adopts a specific ontological framework, a given set of semantic principles, and, of course, a underlying logic: the Syllogistic.4 What Aristotle actually does in APo I 19-22 is to prove that his model is protected against the threat of infinite regress, which certainly disappoints any reader with generic sceptical concerns.
The proof follows a relatively clear strategy. First, in APo I 19-21, Aristotle argues that a syllogistically structured demonstration involving infinitely many steps would contain an infinite chain of universal affirmative predications. Second, in APo I 22, the philosopher argues that such predicative chains are impossible. My aim in this paper is to provide a reconstruction of the first of the three arguments formulated in I 22, the longest and most complex of them. More particularly, I shall argue against what I call the ‘Traditional Interpretation’ of APo I 22, according to which singular terms and summa genera, in virtue of having restrict logical roles, provide limits for predicative chains, preventing them from proceeding ad infinitum. As I intend to show, the Traditional Interpretation is at odds with some important aspects of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration. More importantly, it fails to explain how his proof against infinite regress is connected to a defence of the existence of ultimate explanations, a connection that must be the case if APo I 19-22 is advancing a foundationalist way-out to the sceptical challenge raised in APo I 3. Section 2 contains a brief characterization of the strategy adopted by Aristotle in his proof. In Section 3, I present the Traditional Interpretation and, in Section 4, formulate a set of objections against it. In Section 5, I offer an alternative construal, which is protected from the criticisms raised against the Traditional Interpretation. Section 6 closes the discussion.
2. ARISTOTLE’S STRATEGY
Let us begin with a brief characterization of the structure of the proof presented in APo I 19-22. Aristotle begins by questioning whether predicative chains can be extended ad infinitum. These chains can be of two kinds, the first of which is specified as follows:
T1 Then let C be such that it itself no longer holds of anything else and B holds of it primitively (i.e. there is nothing else between them). Again, let E hold of F in the same way, and F of B. Now must this come to a stop, or is it possible for it to go on ad infinitum? [APo I 19, 81b30-33; transl. by Barnes 1993]
Later on, in 81b39-40, the philosopher refers to this series as going ‘upwards’ (ἐπὶ τὸ ἄνω)-and hence I shall call it ‘U-series’: it begins with a ‘fixed’ subject and the predicate of each categorical sentence occurs as subject in the next predication:
U-series: M1aS, M2aM1, M3aM2, ... , such that ∀n(Mn+1aMn) 5
Aristotle goes on to describe the other kind of predicative chain:
T2 Again, if nothing is predicated of A in itself and A holds of H primitively and of nothing prior in between, and H holds of G and this of B, must this come to a stop, or is it possible for this to go on ad infinitum? [APo I 19, 81b33-37; transl. by Barnes 1993]
This second series goes the opposite direction: it starts from a given predicate and the subject of each predication becomes the predicate in the next sentence. In 82a1-2, Aristotle refers to this sequence of predications as going ‘downwards’ (ἐπὶ τὸ κάτω)-thus, I shall call it ‘D-series’:
D-series: PaM1, M1a M2, M2aM3, ... , such that ∀n(MnaMn+1)
As it becomes clear as the discussion proceeds, Aristotle is not interested in knowing whether there can be an infinite set of true sentences with the logical structure of a U- or a D-series.6 Actually, his point is whether or not U- and D-series can occur in Aristotelian demonstrations, i.e. syllogistically structured proofs putting together essence-based explanations and following a specific set of semantic rules (APo I 22, 83a18-21).7 If so, T1 and T2 can be read as raising the following two questions, respectively:
Frm01 〈Π,c〉
Frm02 Φ⊆Π
Frm04 Ψ⊆Π
Q1 If frm01 is an Aristotelian demonstration, can there be a U-series Φ such that frm02?
Q2 If frm03 is an Aristotelian demonstration, can there be a D-series Ψ such that frm04?
It is not clear, at first sight, how these questions are related to the problem of infinite regress. Nevertheless, Aristotle moves on, quite abruptly, to a third question, apparently connected to the sceptical challenge raised in APo I 3:
T3 Again, is it possible for the terms in between to be infinite if the extremes are determined? I mean e.g. if the A holds of C, and B is a middle term for them, and for B and A there are different middle terms, and for these others, is it possible or impossible for these to go on ad infinitum? This is the same as to inquire whether demonstrations can proceed ad infinitum and whether there can be demonstrations of everything, or whether terms are bounded by one another [APo I 19, 82a2-8; transl. by Barnes 1993].
Aristotle describes the risk of infinite regress as the possibility of all scientific truths being demonstrable. Asking whether it is possible to demonstrate everything is the same as inquiring whether we need infinitely many middle terms in other to explain the connection between two ‘extreme’ terms (i.e. the bottom major and minor terms, subject and predicate of the conclusion). Thus, the question raised in T3 can be reformulated as follows:
Q3 If frm01 is an Aristotelian demonstration, can frm02 contain infinitely many inferential steps?
Showing how Q3 is connected to Q1 and Q2 is a task Aristotle takes on in the following chapters, APo I 20-21. In fact, it can be proved that, if at least one of the branches of a demonstration-structured in any combination of syllogistic moods-contains infinitely many steps, an infinite chain of universal affirmative sentences will be generated, either a U-series or a D-series. It is a matter of dispute whether Aristotle actually established this proof-theoretic result-a dispute that, given our present concerns, we can set aside.8 What seems undisputable, given how the whole proof is structured, is that Aristotle is relying on the following fact: if the answer to Q3 is affirmative for a given demonstration 〈Π,c〉 , then, for the same 〈Π,c〉 , an affirmative answer must be given to either Q1 or Q2. Therefore, a proof showing that the answers to Q1 and Q2 must be negative also establishes a negative answer to Q3. It is precisely a proof of this kind that Aristotle tries to formulate in APo I 22.
3. THE TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATION
In his attempt to justify negative answers to Q1 and Q2, Aristotle seems to endorse, in APo I 22, some theses about the relation between language and reality that look familiar to the reader of the Categories. In fact, the doctrine of ontological categories is mentioned in more than one passage in the chapter (APo I 22, 83a21-23; 83b1-17). One could ask why Aristotle would rely on metaphysical claims if he intends to deny the occurrence of infinite sequences of predicative sentences, a purpose that is better described as having a linguistic character. Here it might be helpful to make a distinction between ‘linguistic’ and ‘metaphysical’ predications.9 A ‘linguistic’ predication, as it is usually called, is a sentence of the form ‘S is P’ (or equivalent), where ‘S’ and ‘P’ are called ‘subject’ and ‘predicate’ in virtue of their grammatical roles. A ‘metaphysical’ predication, on the other hand, is a relation between entities that determines the truth-value of linguistic predications. The subject of a metaphysical predication S (and not ‘S’) is not a term, but an entity to which a given attribute P (and not ‘P’) belongs. In the following, I shall refer to subjects and predicates of linguistic predications as ‘linguistic subjects’ and ‘linguistic predicates’, while the subjects and predicates of metaphysical predications will be called ‘metaphysical subjects’ and ‘metaphysical predicates’.
At the very beginning of APo I 22, Aristotle discusses essence-specifying sentences, in which there is a definitional connection between the (linguistic) subject and the (linguistic) predicate (see APo I 22, 83b5-8). Since the definition and the essence of things can be known, he argues, there cannot be infinite series of predications of this kind:
T4 For items predicated in what something is, the case is plain: if it is possible to define anything, or if what it is to be something can be known, and if you cannot survey infinitely many items, then the items predicated in what something is must be finite [APo I 22, 82b37-83a1; transl. by Barnes 1993].
After these brief words, Aristotle examines sentences in which the linguistic predicate is not mentioned in the definition of its linguistic subject; the corresponding metaphysical predicate, in turn, is not part of the essence of the respective metaphysical subject:10
T5 You can say truly that the white thing is walking, and that that large thing is a log, and again that the log is large and the man is walking. When you speak in these two ways you make different sorts of statement. When I assert that the white thing is a log, I say that something which is incidentally white is a log, and not that the white thing is the underlying subject for the log. For it is not the case that, being white or just what is some particular white, it came to be a log-hence it is not a log except incidentally. But when I say that the log is white, I do not say that something different is white and that that is incidentally a log, as when I say that the musical thing is white (I am then saying that the man, who is incidentally musical, is white). Rather, the log is the underlying subject which came to be white not in virtue of being something different from what is a log or a particular log [APo I 22, 83a1-14; transl. by Barnes 1993, with changes].
Here, Aristotle draws a distinction between-as it is usually phrased since ancient commentators-‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’ predications.11 A natural (linguistic) predication like ‘the log is white’ and ‘the man is walking’ is such that the linguistic subject denotes the metaphysical subject of the associated metaphysical predication appropriately. In the sentence ‘the log is white’, the linguistic subject ‘(the) log’ is appropriate because the corresponding metaphysical subject is white ‘without being something different from just what is a log or a particular log’ (οὐχ ἕτερόν τι ὂν ἢ ὅπερ ξύλον ἢ ξύλον τί, APo I 22, 83a13-14). Unnatural (linguistic) predications such as ‘the white thing is walking’ and ‘that large thing is a log’ have as their linguistic subjects terms that fail to refer to the corresponding metaphysical subjects in this way. When we say, for instance, that “the musical thing is white”, what we actually mean is that “the man, who is incidentally musical, is white” (83a10-12). Unnatural predications do not affirm “one thing of one thing” (83b17): the connection between the linguistic subject and the linguistic predicate do not mirror the connection between the actual metaphysical subject and one distinguished metaphysical predicate, signifying instead a complex state of affairs in which two attributes happen to be in the same underlying (and not properly specified) subject. For Aristotle, scientific discourse should avoid predications of this kind (see APo I 22, 83a20-21).
Terms that capture just what a given metaphysical subject is (ὅπερ ἔστι) are said to “signify substance” (οὐσίαν σημαίνει, APo I 22, 83a24-25). This is congenial to the well-known thesis, defended in the Categories, that substances are the metaphysical subjects par excellence, which makes them the primary realities on which everything else ontologically depends. Thus, it seems natural to understand T5 as claiming that scientific propositions are supposed to describe and explain the world as it is, which involves referring to the basic metaphysical subjects as what they are, namely, substances. In fact, the whole discussion at the beginning of APo I 22 seems reminiscent of the Categories. The distinction between essential and non-essential predications is explored, with a peculiar vocabulary, in Cat. 2, 1a20-b9. A predicate P is said of a subject S (καθ᾽ ὑποκειμένου λέγεσθαι) when P belongs essentially to S (e.g. man is said of Socrates), while P is in the subject S (ἐν ὑποκειμένῳ εἶναι) when P belongs non-essentially or ‘accidentally’ to S (e.g. whiteness is in Socrates).12 Aristotle seems committed to two claims concerning these predicative connections: (i) if P is said of the subject S, then S and P belong in the same category; (ii) if P is in the subject S, S and P belong in different categories and S is a substance.13 Someone could take these claims as the motivation for the semantic rule prescribed in T5. That is to say, T5 would be arguing that, since S must be a substance if P is a non-essential attribute of S, the corresponding (linguistic) predication must have as (linguistic) subject a term that denotes an entity in the category of substance.14
Given all that, it is not completely implausible to think that Aristotle found in the Categories a metaphysical framework that could justify negative answers to Q1 and Q2. According to a common construal of this framework, all entities in a porphyrian tree can occur as subject or predicate in (metaphysical) predications with two exceptions: (i) particular substances, such as Socrates or Secretariat (which can only occur as subjects), and (ii) summa genera, such as substance or quality (which can occur only as predicates).15 Thus, several interpreters claim that, in APo I 22, Aristotle argues that terms naming particular substances and summa genera could play the role of limits in predicative chains, preventing them from advancing ad infinitum. For instance, a sequence of the form {PaM0, M0a M1, M1aM2, ... } would be interrupted by a sentence ‘MiaS’ in which ‘S’ names a particular substance, which would preclude the occurrence of a D-series. A sequence {M0aS, M1aM0, M2aM1, ... }, in turn, would end up, at some point, with a sentence ‘PaMi’ in which ‘P’ signifies a summum genus (substance, quality, quantity etc.), which would prevent the predicative chain from becoming a U-series. I shall refer to this reading as the ‘Traditional Interpretation’, given that a significant number of authors have analysed the argument in APo I 22 along these lines.16
We must also note that the Traditional Interpretation seems in accordance with what Aristotle says in Prior Analytics (hereafter, APr) I 27:
T6 Now of all the things there are, some are such that they cannot be predicated truly and universally of anything else (for instance, Cleon or Calllias, that is, what is individual and perceptible), but other things may be predicated of them (for each of these is both a man and an animal). Some things are themselves predicated of others, but nothing else is prior and predicated of them. And some things are both predicated themselves of others and others of them, as man is predicated of Callias and animal of man [APr I 27, 43a25-32; transl. by Striker 2009].
In T6, Aristotle divides entities into three groups: (i) those that are not predicated of anything else, but of which some things can be predicated; (ii) those that are predicated of other things but of which nothing can be predicated; and (iii) those that can be both predicated of other things and other things of them. The first class is exemplified by individual and perceptible substances (43a32-36), while the third class covers intermediary items such as man, which are predicated of things like Callias and of which things like animal are predicated. Aristotle does not give an example of the second class, but just announces that he will argue “later” (πάλιν ἐροῦμεν) that “one also comes to a halt if one goes upwards” (43a36-37). The occurrence of the phrase “ἐπὶ τὸ ἄνω” here does suggest that T6 refers to APo I 19-22 and it is easy to see why anyone advocating the Traditional Interpretation would like to take the summa genera as examples of the second class listed in T6.17
4. OBJECTIONS TO THE TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATION
Let me now raise some difficulties for the Traditional Interpretation. (1) We know Aristotle endorses the thesis that particular substances are the ultimate metaphysical subjects. However, how does this fact prevent the occurrence of a D-series, i.e. an infinite chain of linguistic predications? One might claim that if particular substances are the bottom limits of metaphysical predications, their names and descriptions also interrupt all descending sequences of linguistic predications. Well, Q1 and Q2 concern the occurrence of U-series and D-series in Aristotelian demonstrations. If so, Aristotle would be committed to the view that, in his model of demonstrative science, language and reality are perfectly isomorphic, i.e. there would be a one-to-one correspondence between the chains of metaphysical predications reality is made of, one the one hand, and the chains of linguistic predications that make up scientific demonstrations, on the other. However, the philosopher is hostile to the presence of singular terms in demonstrative sciences. Scientific discourse should not refer to particular subjects individually, since demonstrations concern their common attributes, which belong to them universally, as members of one kind or another. The knowledge that the triangle has the sum its internal angles equal to two right angles (hereafter, 2R) is in some way prior to the knowledge that a given figure in a semi-circle (APo I 1, 71a19-21) or the isosceles (APo I 4, 73a28-34) have the same property. After all, 2R belongs to them as triangles.18 Particular objects x, y, z (…) have the demonstrable properties they have qua members of a universal kind K, i.e. in virtue of being Ks.19 In pursuing a demonstration, the scientist must identify the relevant kind on whose nature the occurrence of the demonstrable attribute is grounded. For that reason, these explanatorily relevant kind-terms will be the (linguistic) subjects in demonstrative sciences, not names and descriptions of particular substances, which are irrelevant for scientific purposes.20
(2) A similar objection concerns terms signifying summa genera, which are supposed to prevent U-series from occurring in demonstrations, according to the Traditional Interpretation. Being a substance, a quality or a quantity does not seem to be the kind of feature Aristotle would take as a demonstrable attribute, which is peculiar to a given subject-kind and belongs to it in virtue of this kind being precisely what it is-as the triangle has 2R in virtue of being a plane three-sided rectilinear figure etc. This could hardly be the case of highly abstract predicates such as the summa genera. Although they are relevant to metaphysical speculation, it is hard to see how a scientist could tell a clear-cut causal story explaining why they are connected to a specific subject and not another-as a geometer, for instance, is able to explain why 2R belongs to the triangle and no other figure. If there is a causal story to be told, it is certainly not the kind of explanation departmental sciences are supposed to set out.
(3) Another obvious difficulty for the Traditional Interpretation is the status of mathematical sciences in the face of T5. If the terms allowed to occur as (linguistic) subject in natural (accidental) predications must “signify substance” (οὐσίαν σημαίνειν), it is tempting to postulate that, when ‘PaS’ express an accidental relation between S and P (in which case P is in S, as opposed to being said of S), the linguistic subject ‘S’ must be a substance-term such as ‘man’, ‘horse’ or ‘animal’-a substance-term being a term that denotes exclusively entities in the category of substance. However, for Aristotle, the metaphysical subjects studied by mathematical sciences (number, point, figure, triangle etc.) are not substances, and the corresponding linguistic subjects (‘number’, ‘point’, ‘figure’, ‘triangle’ etc.) are not substance-terms in this sense. As a result, non-definitional mathematical statements would be all unnatural predications. Since mathematical sciences are clearly demonstrative-and arguably the paradigms of demonstrative science-, it seems highly implausible that Aristotle would exclude them from his proof against infinite regress. Therefore, we should try to avoid reading T5 as determining that only substance-terms such as ‘man’ or ‘horse’ can be subjects of non-definitional propositions.21
(4) Apart from all this, the greatest weakness of the Traditional Interpretation, I believe, is the fragile connection it establishes between Q1/Q2 and Q3. Even if ‘S’ and ‘P’ signify a particular substance and a summum genus respectively, a series of the form {PaMi, … , MjaS} could be infinite ‘by division’, i.e. infinitely many intermediate terms could be inserted between ‘S’ and ‘P’.22 If so, a negative answer to Q3 would not be secured. In fact, the logical properties of terms denoting individuals and ontological categories do not seem relevant to establishing a foundationalist solution to the problem of infinite regress. Alternatively, the connection between Q1/Q2 and Q3 can be better illustrated as follows. Let us explore the scenario discussed in T1 and suppose the following sequence of inferences in Barbara, in which the minor premises are immediate, while the major premises are always demonstrated from prior premises:
PaMn+1Mn+1aMnPaMn(…)PaM3M3aM2PaM2M2aM1PaM1M1aSPaS
In this case, it is easy to see how Q1 would be related to Q3. Asking whether a U-series is generated from ‘S’ is the same as asking whether there is a middle term ‘Mi’ which is ‘immediately’ or ‘indemonstrably’ connected to ‘P’. In this case, Q3 is equivalent to the following question (cf. Lear 1980, 22):
Frm01 ∀i∃j((PaMj,MjaMi├PaMi)& Mjexplains why PaMi)
Q3.1 Is it the case that frm01?
Following the situation described in T2, suppose now a sequence of syllogisms in Barbara in which the minor premises are demonstrable, while the major premises are immediate:
MnaMn+1Mn+1aSMnaS(…)PaM1M1aM2M2aM3M3aSM2aSM1aSPaS
Again, in this scenario, the connection between Q2 and Q3 is pretty straightforward. Asking whether this demonstration involves infinitely many steps is the same as asking whether a D-series could emerge from the major term P, which is equivalent to asking whether there is no middle term Mi to which the bottom minor term S is ‘immediately’ connected:
Frm01 ∀i∃j((MiaMj,MjaS├MiaS)& Mjexplains why MiaS)
As we can see, ‘P’ signifying a summum genus is irrelevant to establishing a negative answer to Q3.1, in the same way as ‘S’ naming a particular substance does not secure a negative answer to Q3.2. If the aim of demonstrative arguments is to provide causal explanations of their respective conclusions, we expect Aristotle’s defence of his foundationalism to be related to the recognition of ultimate explanations. Therefore, it would be preferable to pursue an interpretation of APo I 22 that explains the sense in which denying U- and D-series in demonstrations is a way of affirming the existence of indemonstrable premises in science.
5. AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION
Before I present my interpretation of APo I 22, I must recognize that the text is extremely difficult and the structure of the argument is far from clear. Identifying the premises involved is not an easy task, since Aristotle does not combine them in a clear step-by-step reasoning. It is not without reason that some of the comments on it are notably discouraging.23 We, as interpreters, are left with one possible strategy: investigate whether the text contains premises that, once identified and articulated, can be used to establish that U- and D-series cannot occur in Aristotelian demonstrations. If we are lucky, the resulting interpretation will not be liable to the same objections raised against the Traditional Interpretation.
Let me begin by arguing that T5 does not need to be read as stating that only substance-terms such as ‘man’ or ‘animal’ can be subjects of natural predications. From now on, I shall use the term ‘E-sentence’ to refer to statements of the form ‘PaS’ in which ‘P’ signifies a (metaphysical) predicate P that is essential to S. The term ‘A-sentence’, in turn, will be used when P is an ‘accidental’ or non-essential attribute of S.24 In fact, nothing in T5 suggests that only typical substance-terms can be (linguistic) subjects in A-sentences. All the passage implies is that an A-sentence ‘PaS’ is a natural predication iff. ‘S’ refers to the objects it denotes s1, s2, … , sn by signifying just what s1, s2, … , sn are (ὅπερ ἐστιν).25 If we use a more contemporary vocabulary, we would say that ‘S’ is a sortal or individuative term, distinguished by what Quine (1960, 90-95) calls ‘divided reference.’ By specifying what the denoted objects essentially are, such terms give us a criterion for counting these objects as discrete entities, which makes them suitable for quantificational expressions such as ‘every S’ or ‘some S’. It is true that, according to Aristotle, terms that behave in this way ‘signify substance’ (οὐσίαν σημαίνειν), as we have seen. However, the semantical feature of ‘signifying substance’ is not defined as ‘denoting exclusively entities in the category of substance’. Rather, to ‘signify substance’ is to signify an attribute that is essentially predicated of everything of which it is predicated (APo I 22, 83a24-32). A term such as ‘white’ signifies an attribute (whiteness) that is predicated non-essentially of some of the things to which it belongs-for instance, a white man or a white horse (although we might say that a particular shade of white is essentially white).26 In contrast, a term like ‘man’ signifies an attribute that belongs essentially to any object to which it belongs.27 This feature is common to the subject-terms in mathematical sciences. Even though triangles are not substances, the term ‘triangle’ signifies an attribute that is essential to all triangles, which cannot exist as the objects they are independently of being triangles.28
If demonstrations must not involve unnatural predications, T5 imposes two constraints on scientific discourse: (i) terms that ‘signify substance’ cannot be predicates in A-sentences; (ii) only terms that ‘signify substance’ can be subjects in A-sentences. As I will try to show, these two constraints correspond to two premises in Aristotle’s argument. Assuming that ‘AaB’ is a scientific predication iff. ‘AaB’ is true & ‘AaB’ is not an unnatural predication, we have:
P1 If ‘AaB’ is an A-sentence & ‘BaC’ is a scientific predication, ‘BaC’ is an E-sentence.
P2 If ‘AaB’ is an A-sentence & ‘CaA’ is a scientific predication, ‘CaA’ is an E-sentence.
A third premise can be identified if we take a closer look at APo I 22, 83a24-30, the passage in which Aristotle introduces the expression ‘signify substance.’
T7 Again, items that signify substance signify, of what they are predicated of, just what that item is or just what a particular sort of it is. Items that do not signify substance, but are said of some other underlying subject which is neither just what that item is nor just what a particular sort of it is, are incidental. E.g. white of a man: a man is neither just what is white nor just what is some particular white-rather, presumably, animal: a man is just what an animal is [APo I 22, 83a24-30; transl. by Barnes 1993, with changes].
Here Aristotle discusses a feature of terms that ‘signify substance’: if ‘P’ signifies substance and P belongs to S, then P belongs essentially to S, which means that whatever belongs essentially to P belongs essentially to S as well. T7 contains a sort of test to determine whether a word signifies substance or not: the transitivity of essential predication, a principle Aristotle also defends elsewhere (see Cat. 3, 1b10-16). A term such as ‘white’ does not ‘signify substance’ insofar as it fails to specify what (e.g.) a white man essentially is (ὅπερ ἔστι). If ‘white’ signified substance, a white man, for instance, would be just what white is (ὅπερ λευκὸν ἐστιν), i.e. a colour of a certain kind. Since this is not the case, ‘white’ does not signify substance. ‘Animal’, however, signifies substance insofar as every animal, man included, is just what animal is (ὅπερ ζῷον ἐστιν), i.e. a sentient being etc.29 If this is correct, more than just specifying a feature of terms that ‘signify substance’, T7 gives us another premise in Aristotle’s argument:
P3 If ‘AaB’ is an E-sentence & ‘BaC’ is an E-sentence, then ‘AaC’ is an E-sentence.
A fourth (and crucial) premise in the argument can be extracted from T4 and three other passages in I 22 (83b8; 13-15; 26-27), where the same view is restated. T4 contains a simple reasoning: (i) essences are knowable; (ii) if a subject had infinitely many essential predicates, its essence would be unknowable (which means this subject could not be defined); therefore, (iii) one single (metaphysical) subject cannot have an infinite number of essential (metaphysical) predicates. One could object that the inference (i),(ii)/(iii) is valid, but philosophically vicious, since it uses an epistemological assumption ((i) = essences are knowable) to justify a claim about how reality is metaphysically structured ((iii) = one subject cannot have infinitely many essential attributes), while a good philosophical justification would proceed the other way around. However, since this is clearly the inference made in T4, this criticism has to be taken as an objection to Aristotle, not to interpretations of Aristotle’s text. For better or worse, the final premise needed in the argument is precisely the linguistic counterpart of (iii):
P4 There cannot be infinitely many (true) E-sentences ‘A1aB’, ‘A2aB’, … , ‘AnaB.’
Now we are in a position to show how P1-P4 can be used to prove that the answers to Q1 and Q2 must be negative. Let us first analyse the following predicative chain, going ‘upwards’ from a subject S:
Φ={M1aS,M2aM1,M3aM2,…}
The first predication of the chain, ‘M1aS’, is either an E-sentence or an A-sentence, i.e. either M1 is part of the essence of S or not. I shall now analyse each one of these two alternatives.
Suppose first that ‘M1aS’ is an E-sentence (Hypothesis 1; H1, for short). Now, we have to ask whether the other predications in Φ are also E-sentences (H1.1) or whether an A-sentence comes up at some point (H1.2). Let us follow H1.1 and assume that all the other predications in Φ are E-sentences as well. If ‘M1aS’ and ‘M2aM1’ are E-sentences, ‘M2aS’ (which follows in Barbara from ‘M1aS’ and ‘M2aM1) is also an E-sentence (given P3). For the same reason, if ‘M2aS’ and ‘M3aM2’ are E-sentences, ‘M3aS’ is also an E-sentence, the same being true for every Mi in Φ. Thus, if the series Φ were infinite, there would be infinitely many E-sentences, each of which attributes a different essential predicate to S.
According to P4, this result is impossible, which means Φ could not be infinite under H1.1. Therefore, Φ must contain at least one A-sentence. Let us then explore H1.2 and assume that the first A-sentence in Φ is ‘M2aM1’. In that case, the next sentence ‘M3aM2’ would have to be an E-sentence, since a predicate in an A-sentence (such as ‘M2’ in ‘M2aM1’) does not ‘signify substance’ and therefore cannot be itself the subject of another A-sentence (given P2). Now, if ‘M2’ does not signify the substance of the objects in the domain, but one of their accidents, neither could the essential predicates of ‘M2’ (like ‘M3’) signify their substance.30 If ‘M3aM2’ is an E-sentence, ‘M4aM3’ would also be an E-sentence, since ‘M3’, as an essential predicate of ‘M2’, does not signify substance either, and hence cannot be subject in an A-sentence (again, P2). Thus, if Φ were infinite, there would be infinitely many E-sentences starting from ‘M3aM2’, from which infinitely many E-sentences with ‘M2’ as subject would follow (given P3). Since this result is impossible (given P4), we must conclude again that Φ is finite under H1.2. Since H1.1 and H1.2 are exhaustive alternatives, Φ cannot be infinite under H1, i.e. under the assumption that ‘M1aS’ is an E-sentence.
Alternatively, let us assume that ‘M1aS’ is an A-sentence (H2). Here, we can follow the same reasoning we applied to H1.2. If ‘M1aS’ is an A-sentence, the next sentence in the series, ‘M2aM1’, would have to be an E-sentence (given P2). In that case, however, the next proposition ‘M3aM2’ and all the other predications in Φ will be E-sentences as well, since none of the Mis would signify substance. If so, there would be infinitely many E-sentences with ‘M1’ as the subject-term (given P3), which cannot be the case (given P4). Since H1 and H2 are exhaustive (the first predication in Φ is either an E-sentence or an A-sentence), it follows that U-series cannot occur in syllogistic demonstrations, which means that the answer to Q1 is negative.
I shall now address Q2, which concerns predicative chains going ‘downwards’ from a predicate P:
Ψ={PaM1,M1aM2,M2aM3,...}
The first predication of the series, ‘PaM1’, will be either an E-sentence or an A-sentence. Again, I shall explore each one of these two options.
Let us assume first that ‘PaM1’ is an E-sentence (H3). Suppose, in addition, that all the other predications in Ψ are also E-sentences (H3.1). Under this supposition, one could think that it is possible to argue as we did in the case of U-series, and use P3 to show that, if Ψ were infinite, there would be infinitely many E-sentences with one of the terms in Ψ as subject (which would be impossible according to P4). However, this line of reasoning does not work for D-series: for any Mi in Ψ there will be finitely many sentences from ‘Mi-1aMi’ back to ‘PaM1’, as we can see in the following diagram:31
Nevertheless, it can be shown that, if Ψ were infinite, there would be infinitely many essential predicates belonging to the same particular subject (one of the particulars in the domain), even if this subject is not mentioned in Ψ. Still under the assumption that Ψ contains only E-sentences (H3.1), let us say that none of the terms in Ψ signifies substance, e.g. ‘sensible quality’, ‘colour’, ‘white’ etc. If Ψ were infinite, it would be possible to derive infinitely many E-sentences with (e.g.) ‘seashell white’ as subject-term (even if ‘seashell white’ does not occur in Ψ): ‘sensible quality holds of seashell white’, ‘colour holds of seashell white’, ‘white holds of seashell white’ etc.32 Similarly, if all terms in Ψ signify substance-e.g. ‘living being’, ‘animal’, ‘man’ etc.-, each of them would be predicated of a particular object in the domain (in this case, a particular man). Therefore, infinitely many E-sentences with (e.g.) ‘Socrates’ as subject-term would follow from Ψ (even if ‘Socrates’ does not occur in Ψ): ‘living being holds of Socrates’, ‘animal holds of Socrates’, ‘man holds of Socrates’ etc. None of these results is possible (given P4), so Ψ does not proceed ad infinitum under H3.1.
Still assuming that ‘PaM1’ is an E-sentence (H3), suppose in addition that an A-sentence comes up at some point (H3.2)-let it be ‘M1aM2’. In this case, the next predication ‘M2aM3’ is necessarily an E-sentence: as the subject of an A-sentence, ‘M2’ signifies substance and therefore can be predicate only in E-sentences (given P1). In fact, the same is true for any ‘Mi’ in Ψ provided that i≥2 , since all of them would signify substance. Again, if it were infinite, Ψ would contain infinitely many predicates-e.g. ‘living being’, ‘animal’, ‘man’ etc.-, from which infinitely many E-sentences about any particular subject in the domain could be obtained: ‘living being holds of Socrates’, ‘animal holds of Socrates’, ‘man holds of Socrates’ etc. (again, this holds good even if ‘Socrates’ does not occur in Ψ). Since H3.1 and H3.2 are exhaustive alternatives, Ψ must be finite under H3.
For similar reasons, the same result follows from the assumption that ‘PaM1’ is an A-sentence (H4). In that case, the next predication ‘M1aM2’ is necessarily an E-sentence (given P1). In fact, if Ψ begins with an A-sentence, every ‘Mi’ in Ψ, starting with ‘M1’, would signify substance. Once again, Ψ would contain infinitely many terms signifying substance, all of which would be predicated of any particular object in the domain-even if none of them is individually mentioned in Ψ. Well, H3 and H4 are exhaustive (‘PaM1’ is either an A-sentence or an E-sentence), which means that Ψ must terminate at some point. In other words, a D-series cannot occur in Aristotelian demonstrations, and the answer to Q2 is also negative.
Let me now close our discussion by noting that, in his summary of the argument (APo I 22, 83b17-31), Aristotle reaffirms P1, P2 and P4, which is further evidence in favour of my reconstruction:
T8 We have supposed that one thing is predicated of one thing, and that items which do not signify what something is are not predicated of themselves. For these are all incidental (though some hold of things in themselves and some in another way), and we say that all of them are predicated of an underlying subject, and that what is incidental is not an underlying subject [APo I 22, 83b17-22; transl. by Barnes 1993, with changes].
T9 The incidentals are said of items in the substance of each thing, and these latter are not infinite [APo I 22, 83b26-27; transl. by Barnes 1993, with changes].
In T8, Aristotle seems to subscribe to P2 once again. Predicates of a given subject (e.g. Socrates) that do not signify what that subject is (e.g. white and musical) cannot be predicated of each other (i.e. white cannot be predicated of musical). In other words, an accident cannot be predicated of another accident.33 In T9, the philosopher restates P1 (καθ᾽ ὧν μὲν γὰρ λέγεται τὰ συμβεβηκότα, ὅσα ἐν τῇ οὐσίᾳ ἑκάστου) and P4 (ταῦτα [= ὅσα ἐν τῇ οὐσίᾳ ἑκάστου] δὲ οὐκ ἄπειρα). Probably assuming P3 (already explored in T7), Aristotle then concludes his argument and denies that U- and D-series can occur in demonstrations (83b24-25; 27-28).
Our reading also has significant advantages in comparison to the Traditional Interpretation. First, the philosopher establishes negative answers to Q1 and Q2 without including singular terms and summa genera in scientific discourse (see objections (1) and (2) in Section 4).34 Second, the linguistic subjects in natural predications are not restricted to substance-terms-i.e. terms signifying exclusively entities in the category of substance-, so the argument against infinite regress also applies to mathematical sciences (see objection (3)). Finally, our reading makes it easier to understand how APo I 19-22 can be taken as a defence of Aristotle’s foundationalist project (see objection (4)). As we have seen, the argument relies heavily on the claim that no subject has infinitely many essential predicates. Well, essences are the primary causes studied by demonstrative sciences, with the corresponding definitions playing the role of indemonstrable principles. Thus, it is not surprising that the claim that every demonstration contains a finite number of steps is ultimately grounded in the belief that essences are knowable. If so, a more substantial defence of Aristotle’s foundationalism depends on specifying how exactly the scientist gets to know essences and definitions, and this is precisely the gap APo II attempts to fill in. Therefore, to a certain degree, Aristotle succeeds in protecting his model of demonstrative science (with its peculiar doctrine of predication and underlying logic) from the threat of infinite regress. Whether or not the more sceptical reader is satisfied is a different matter, especially if she doubts that essences can be known. Aristotle does not seem to bother.
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1See Burnyeat (1981); Taylor (1990, 116); Ferejohn (1991, 2-3).
2See APo I 24, 86a14-19. See my See my Zuppolini (forthcoming).
3 Lear (1980, 15-34) describes this argument as a “compactness proof”. For a criticism of Lear’s position, see Scanlan (1983). On this, see also Crager (2015, 93-95).
4On this, see Ferejohn (1991) and Ferejohn (2013, 65; 81).
5Here and throughout the present paper ‘AaB’ stands for ‘A belongs to all B’.
6See “ἔστι γὰρ εἰπεῖν ἀληθῶς” in APo I 22, 83a1-3. If the semantical rules Aristotle formulates in 83a1-23 are not followed, nothing prevents a predicative chain of true propositions from advancing ad infinitum (unless additional and unstated assumptions are made).
7It is not without reason that APo I 19 begins with a brief discussion about syllogistic reasoning and an anticipation of the semantic concerns explored in APo I 22, 83a1-23 (see APo I 19, 81b10-29).
8 Lear (1980, 25-30) claims that, although a sound proof can be offered, Aristotle’s argument is invalid. Smith (1982; 1986) argues that APo I 19-22 relies on a proto-syllogistic that contains only the universal moods Barbara, Celarent, Camestres, and Cesare. For a brilliant discussion of this issue, see Crager (2015, 100-124), who convincingly argues that Aristotle came up with a sound strategy of his own, which applies to any combination of syllogistic moods.
9See Bogen & McGuire (1985, 1-2); Code (1985); Lewis (1985; 1991); Crager (2015, 129-132); Zuppolini (2018, 121-122). See also Owen Goldin’s contribution to the present volume.
10For a similar division of the chapter, see Philoponus (235.10-236.23); Barnes (1993, 175); Angioni (2007, 108-109).
11See Philoponus (235.17-23); cf. Barnes (1993, 114).
12As has been noted, Aristotle’s vocabulary is misleading, since ‘said-of’ connections are metaphysical (and not linguistic) predications (see “τῶν ὄντων” in 1a20). On this, see Ackrill (1963, 75).
13See Furth (1988, 14); Ferejohn (1991, 82).
14As I shall argue in Sections 4 and 5, this is an incorrect interpretation of T5.
15This is true if we exclude transcategorical attributes, such as being and one.
16 Philoponus (233.26-29, 244.28-31, 247.17-22; 250.20-251.7); Aquinas (in An. Post. lib. 1, l.34, n.5); Demos (1944, 257-259); Ross (1949, 578-579); Hamlyn (1961, 119-120); Loux (1991, 42).
17For a detailed discussion of T6 and the occurrence of singular terms and summa genera in the syllogistic, see Almeida (2013).
18See also APo I 5, 74a16-b4; I 24, 85b4-15; b23-27; 85b38-86a3; II 17, 99a30-b7; 73b25; APo I 24, 85b5-7 APo I 9, 76a4-9.
19See Lennox (1987, 91); Kosman (1973, 375); Angioni (2014, 97-98; 2016, 97-100); Zuppolini (2014, 15-17; 2018, 130-132).
20I am not saying that in the APo Aristotle abandons his view that particular substances somehow ground the existence of universal substances and non-substantial beings. My point is just that, if we make the argument in APo I 22 dependent on the occurrence of singular terms in demonstrations, that argument would be in conflict with Aristotle’s contention that scientific propositions should not refer to the particulars in its domain individually, but as members of a kind in virtue of which they have certain demonstrable attributes. I am grateful to David Bronstein for pressing me on this issue.
21For similar objections, see Crager (2015, 133) and David Bronstein’s contribution to this volume.
22See Demos (1944, 257) who advocates a version of the Traditional Interpretation, but takes T3 as considering the possibility of a predicative series being infinite by division.
23 Barnes (1993, 181) concludes his commentary on APo I 22 with the following words: “None of the arguments is successful; and they cannot be reformulated in such a way as to furnish proof of Aristotle’s contention”.
24Since we are discussing predicative sentences in demonstrations, the relevant ‘accidental’ attributes here will be, of course, demonstrable attributes, also known as per se accidents—attributes that belong to a subject per se but not as a part of its essence (see Met. V 30, 1025a30-34). For reasons of exposition, however, I shall follow Aristotle in T5 and use non-demonstrable attributes as examples, e.g. white predicated of human beings.
25See Angioni (2006, 114-117); Angioni (2007).
26There is no textual evidence in APo I 22 indicating that if ‘S is P’ is an E-sentence, then S must be essential to everything of which it is predicated; and, as I will try to show, Aristotle’s argument does not depend on that. If so, either (1) the distinction between natural and unnatural predications applies exclusively to A-sentences or (2) S being essential to everything to which it belongs is not a necessary condition for an E-sentence ‘S is P’ being natural. For a defence of option (2), see Philoponus (235.30-236.8). I intend my reconstruction of the argument to be neutral between (1) and (2). What is common to (1) and (2) is that, even if (e.g.) whiteness is not essential to everything to which it belongs (for instance, whiteness is a non-essential attribute of Socrates), ‘white is a colour’ should not be taken as unnatural, either because it is natural (option 2) or because the distinction natural/unnatural does not apply to E-sentences (option 1). For a different view, see Malink (2013, 163-165)—especially his claim that all natural predications (including E-sentences) must have as linguistic subjects what he calls ‘essence-terms’.
27In his contribution to this volume, Bronstein raises an interesting objection to the view that all subjects in natural predications must signify an attribute that is essential to everything to which it belongs. Take for instance the major premise in the syllogism about thunder in II 8: ‘thunder belongs to extinction of fire’. Of course, ‘extinction of fire’ does not signify substance (i.e. extinction of fire is not essential to everything to which it belongs), and therefore this predication would be unnatural despite being a premise in a demonstration. I do not think that this statement express a typical accidental predication, in which the subject is the substratum in which the attribute inheres—and this, I believe, must the case even for per se 2 predications (as defined in APo I 4, 73a37-b3), pace Bronstein (see Met. V 18, 1022a29-31; Zuppolini 2018). If so, even in my view, ‘extinction of fire’ does not need to signify substance (which means extinction of fire does not need to be essential to everything to which it belongs). Rather, the major premise in the thunder syllogism—and similar cases, such as eclipse (II 8), or leaf-shedding (II 17)—is a converted definition, where the definiendum is predicated of the causal part of its definiens, not an A-sentence. Anyway, I cannot see how Aristotle’s argument would work without P1 (see below). I am grateful to Bronstein for calling my attention to this problem.
28We could say that, in the expression ‘οὐσίαν σημαίνειν’, ‘οὐσίαν’ refers not to the ontological category comprising the concrete individuals of the common sense (like Socrates and Secretariat), but rather to the relational notion of ‘substance of’, i.e. ‘the substance of’ Socrates understood as the factor that grounds the being of Socrates, in the sense of making Socrates what Socrates is. For similar views, see Ross (1949, 577); Angioni (2006, 124-126); Peramatzis (2010, 162-163).
29Some interpreters seem to read 83a24-25 as if τὰ οὐσίαν σημαίνοντα (83a24) refers to “essential” or “substantial predicates”, while οὗ in καθ᾽ οὗ κατηγορεῖται refers back to ἐκεῖνο or ἐκεῖνό τι, which stand for the corresponding subject. See Ross (1949, 577-578); Barnes (1993, 177); Peramatzis (2010, 163). In this reading, Aristotle would be making a trivial statement, namely, that predicates signifying substance are essential attributes of their subjects. But T7 seems to be saying something more. First, the Greek allows the antecedent of οὗ to be omitted from the text, καθ᾽ οὗ κατηγορεῖται meaning “the thing of which [items signifying substance] are predicated”. Second, in 83a28-30, λευκὸν and ζῷον are being compared as predicates of ἄνθρωπος, and ἐκεῖνο in the general formula of 83a24-25 is replaced by λευκὸν and ζῷον, not ἄνθρωπος. If so, in 83a24-25, ἐκεῖνο should be taken as referring back to the predicates (τὰ οὐσίαν σημαίνοντα), not to the subject, and ὅπερ ἐκεῖνο stands for the essence of the predicate—I do not think the shift from plural (τὰ οὐσίαν σημαίνοντα) to singular (ἐκεῖνο) is problematic, given that the plural is clearly distributive. For a detailed defence of this reading, see Angioni (2006, 124-125). See also Philoponus (240.14-24). Additionally, in this interpretation, T7 gives us another premise in the argument, as I am about to show.
30Otherwise M3 would be essential not only to M2, but also to items of which M2 is accidentally predicated (like M1 and S), since there is nothing to which terms signifying substance belong accidentally. For an illustration of this step, replace ‘S’ by ‘man’, ‘M1’ by ‘animal’, ‘M2’ by ‘white’, and ‘M3’ by ‘color’.
31 Barnes (1993, 180) makes a similar point about 84a7-28.
32Assuming, of course, that seashell white is a particular among shades of white, i.e. something that cannot be predicated essentially of a more specific shade of white.
33Unless, of course, one is part of the essence of the other (as colour is predicated of white). I am also assuming that, given the “γὰρ” in 83b19, the referent of “πάντα” in the same line is the same as the referent of “αὐτὰ” in 83a18. Nevertheless, T8 would be extra (and perhaps dispensable) textual evidence in favour of P2, if one prefers to pursue another reading of these lines.
34In T6, Aristotle is concerned with the restricted roles that certain terms assume in syllogistic inferences. Even if 43a36-37 refer prospectively to APo I 22 (as providing reasons for rejecting U-series), nothing in APr I 27 indicates that Aristotle’s argument in APo I 22 relies on the occurrence of singular terms and summa genera in demonstrations.
*This paper is a substantially modified version of Chapter 3 of my PhD dissertation (see Zuppolini 2017). I am deeply thankful to my supervisor, Lucas Angioni, and the examiners, Raphael Zillig, Michail Peramatzis, David Bronstein and Manuel Berrón, for their objections and remarks. I presented a draft of this article at the Workshop on Aristotelian Substances and their Substantiality, at UFRGS. I am grateful to the organisers, Raphael Zillig and Wolfgang Sattler, and the other participants, Mary Louise Gill, Marco Zingano, Wellington de Almeida, Jorge Mittelmann, Fabian Mié, and Paulo Ferreira. I also benefited from comments by David Bronstein and Lucas Angioni on the final draft of this article.
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