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UN and Africa: focus on DRC, South Sudan and Ebola
Malnutrition alert for 400,000 DRC Kasai children
Conflict in central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has put an additional 400,000 children at risk of severe acute malnutrition, the UN warned on Wednesday. According to UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, more than a third of health centres in Central Kasai province have closed amid an escalation in violence between government troops and opposition militia that erupted last August. The priority is now to reach these children urgently and overcome major access problems, UNICEF's Patrick Rose explained to Daniel Johnson.
Civilians in South Sudan. Photo: OCHA/Gemma Connell
“Human rights violations in Yei may amount to war crimes”: UN
Violations and abuses against civilians specifically in Yei, may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, a new report released by the human rights division of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says. The report documents the profound human suffering caused by the ongoing conflict and the exploitation of local and ethnic divisions for political ends. The conflict in Yei, in particular, highlights the startling level of impunity in South Sudan, which has fed successive cycles of violence across the country. Speaking to David Lukan, Eugene Nindorera, head of the Human Rights Division of UNMISS said the “culture of impunity was unacceptable”.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health in the DRC. Photo: WHO African Region
Experts race against clock to quell Ebola outbreak in remote DRC province
A race has begun to quell an outbreak of Ebola in a remote northern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the border with the Central African Republic, the World Health Organization has announced. Twenty cases of Ebola have been reported, two have been confirmed by laboratory tests and three people have died so far, the agency says. This is the eighth outbreak in the DRC since 1976. Jocelyne Sambira reports.
Presenter: Jocelyne Sambira
Production Assistant: Sandra Guy
Duration: 10'00″
Audio Duration:
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo health human rights humanitarian aid Law, crime South Africa Syndication UN and Africa Women, children, population DRC ebola Kasai province malnutrition outbreak UN Mission in South Sudan UNICEF UNMISS World Health Organization Yei
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Kosovo: UN official stresses broad international support for status proposal
The senior United Nations official in Kosovo, which the world body has administered since NATO forces responded to ethnic strife there in 1999, today stressed the broad international support enjoyed by a UN status proposal, saying it comes “at an ideal moment in history.”
UN Special Representative Joachim Rücker urged participants at a townhall meeting in Klinë/Klina municipality to remain open to proposals put forward by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy for the status process, Martti Ahtisaari.
“Even if some things don't feel ideal to you, I would appeal to you to have a positive attitude towards the status package,” Mr. Rücker said. “Now we have the green light also from the European Union for Mr. Ahtisaari to go ahead to the next step,” he added.
The Special Representative called on those wishing to express their opinion through demonstrations to do so peacefully. “At this point in time, we should not make any mistakes,” he said. “It would be very detrimental if developments in Kosovo would come in the way of the status process.”
Earlier this month, Mr. Ahtisaari presented a provisional plan under which Kosovo would have the right to govern itself and conclude international agreements, including membership in international bodies, with an international civilian and military presence supervising the new arrangements and helping to ensure peace and stability.
But the plan, which was presented to Serbia and to the ethnic Albanian Kosovo authorities, does not specifically mention independence for the province, which the UN has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid brutal ethnic fighting.
Serbia rejects independence, a goal sought by many of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, who outnumber Serbs and others by 9 to 1.
UN mission in Kosovo disappointed by media attacks on legal framework panel
Top UN official in Kosovo appeals for resources to fund return of Kosovo Serbs
Top UN official in Kosovo deplores killing of municipality president
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NIAGARA REC SPORTS CO-ED SOCCER RULES
Games are played rain or shine.
Shin pads must be warn by all players. If a player is not wearing shin pads he/ she will be asked by the referee to leave the field and the player may not return until shin pads are on.
Games will consist of 2- 35min halves with a brief rest between halves.
There are no offsides for coed soccer.
No Slide Tackles
No slide tackling by outfield players. Goalkeepers are not permitted to slide outside of their penalty area. A direct free kick will be awarded to the opposing team and potentially a foul awarded to the siding player (at the referees discretion).
A slide tackle in the box will be a direct free kick unless the referee deems it a foul at which time a penalty kick will be awarded.
Players can slide if there is no other player in the vicinity of the sliding player. He/ she may do his to score or stop a goal, to stop a ball from going out of bounds. If any other player is around it will be deemed a slide tackle, this call is 100% up to the referees discretion.
All players must be registered with NRS and sign the waiver form in order to be eligible to play in the league.
Team captains are responsible to ensure all team members (including themselves) are registered and eligible to play.
Teams will consist of 8 outfield players and a goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper can be Male or Female; the gender of the goalkeeper does not affect the make up of outfield players.
Pulling the goalie
– Any player can play the goalie position but there must always be a designated goalie wearing a different colour jersey/ shirt (different from their team and the opposing team) to indicate they are in fact the goalie. The goalie is permitted to play anywhere on the field but only when in their own goalie box are they granted goalie privileges (ie using their hands to play the ball).
– If a team wishes to “pull the goalie” there must still be one player wearing a different colour shirt signifying they are playing the goal position at all times.
– Substitutions of the goalie can be made on the fly or if there is a stoppage of play. Goalie Substitutions can be made from either the sideline or at the teams goal area.
A maximum of 5 outfield male players are allowed on the field
A minimum of 1 outfield female players shall be on the field at all times.
There is no maximum number of female players
A min of 6 players (including the goalie) are needed to play, one outfield player must be a female or the team will forfeit.
If a team fails to meet the minimum player requirements the game will be stopped by the referee, the opposing team will by given 3 points for a win and a score of 2-0 (if more goals were scored during the game that number will stand), the team failing to meet the min player requirements will be given 0 goals.
Players ejected by the referee must be replaced by a team substitute
Ejected players must not take any further part in the game and must leave the park so they are not seen or heard by anyone on or around the field they were ejected from.
Substitutions will be made at any time on the fly, the only time play will stop for a substitution will be for a goalkeeper change.
Substitutions will be made at the sideline at the center line.
Substitutions may not hinder play or give the substituting team any advantage in any way, offensively or defensively.
Teams is required to bring one game ball to play with each week.
Nets and flags are in boxes at each park, the referee will open the box for the teams to access the nets and flags before the start of the first game.
Teams playing the first game of the evening must put up their own net and set up the flags.
Teams playing the last game of the night will take down their own net and flags and place them neatly in the box at the parks.
Nets are to be taken down as soon as the game is over BEFORE players go to the bench to remove equipment etc. The referee will then lock the boxes.
Teams must wear same coloured and numbered uniforms.
Players shall not wear anything which endangers themselves or other players. The referee will make this decision.
Basic compulsory equipment shall consist of shorts, socks, shin guards, footwear, and a numbered shirt.
Goalkeepers must wear colors which are distinguishable from all outfield players and the referee.
It is referees discretion to allow the goal keeper to wear any headware or not. NRS recommends caps not be warn.
A player who is asked to leave the field of play because of defective or dangerous equipment may not re-enter the field of play until the referee is satisfied that the equipment is permissible.
Metal cleats are not allowed
Team Colours
Each Team is to bring an alternate Jersey to every game as there are some similar team colours in each division.
A team colour list can be found on the website, there are some teams that have similar or identical colours. Alternate shirts will be a must for these games.
The alternate shirts don’t have to have numbers on them but your regular set does.
If you are playing a team with the same or similar colour as make sure you have the alternate shirts as one team must switch.
If neither team wants to change, the first team listed on the schedule will have to change shirts to an alternate colour.
If that team does not want to change they will automatically loose the game 0 – 2.
Shirts must be warn at all times by all players on the field.
Colours that are close such as Navy Blue and Black the referee may make one team change as they are too similar, this will be the referees decision.
Team Roster – Player Eligibility
A roster list can be found on the website under the regular season schedule.
If your name is not on the team roster you are not eligible to play in the league.
To be eligible to play in the league each player must
Register online and complete all 3 steps (via a link given only to the team captain)
Completely fill out, sign the waiver a part of the registration process.
Final step is to pick your league and team.
If completed correctly you will see the players name on the team roster. If the player is not on the team roster they did not complete registration fully and will have to re-register.
Once players have completed the above they are added to the team roster on the team roster page and they are eligible to play in the league.
Anyone not on the team roster page is not eligible and playing illegally.
Teams caught playing with unregistered players. The player(s) will be removed form the field immediately and the team will automatically lose their current game and the next game on the schedule. (The teams can still play this game minus the illegal player(s) but it will be a loss on the schedule.)
If teams are short at the game they can borrow players from another team ONLY if the opposing team captain agrees to it BEFORE the game begins. Borrowed players must be registered with another team in the NRS league. Outside players are not allowed and must fully register with the team before playing
Process for challenging player eligibility
All players must carry some form of picture ID and be ready to show the referee or the opposing team captain if asked.
The team captain of the team challenging the eligibility of an opposing team’s player(s) must pull up the team rosters on the phone and approach the opposing team’s bench and speak to the team captain regarding the player in question with the roster.
If the team captain refuses to do so the team will get an automatic loss and the player in question will be removed from the field immediately.
The team captain (of the team in question) must verify the player in question is in fact on the roster and ID must be shown by the player to verify they are in fact the person listed on the roster on the website.
If the player is found not to be on the team roster and/ or does not show ID to prove they are who they say they are, notify the referee and they will be removed from the game and the offending team will take a loss for that game.
Teams have until the beginning of their game to register players. All registrations are time stamped in our back end.
Duration of the Game
The game shall be divided into two equal halves, the length of which shall be 35 minutes. The half-time interval shall be 5min max.
If for any reason, a game is terminated before full-time, the local organizers shall decide the outcome of the game.
If a game is cancelled due to lightening or any other reason the game shall be considered complete if 40min has been played.
Start of Play
At the beginning of the game, choice of halves and the kick-off shall be decided by the toss of a coin.The team which wins the toss shall decide which goal to attack in the first half. The other team will take the kick-off. At a kick-off, all players shall be in their own half of the field of play. All players opposing the team taking the kick-off shall be not
less than 6 yards (5.5M) from the ball until it is kicked-off. The game shall be started by
the referee giving a signal. The ball will be in play when it is kicked forward into the
opponent’s half of the field.
For any infringement of this rule, the kick-off shall be retaken.
Should the player taking the kick-off play or touch the ball a second time before it has
been played or touched by another player, a free-kick shall be awarded to the opposing
After a goal has been scored, the game shall be restarted by a kick-off, to be taken by
a player of the team against which the goal was scored
After the first half of play, the teams shall change halves and the kick-off shall be taken
by a player of the team opposing that which started the game.
For any stoppage not mentioned elsewhere in these rules, the referee shall restart the
game by dropping the ball at the place where it was when play was stopped, unless
play was stopped in the penalty-area. In this case, the ball shall be dropped on the
penalty-area line at the point nearest to where the ball was when play was stopped.
The ball shall be in play as soon as it touches the ground.
A goal may be scored directly from a kick-off.
Ball In and Out of Play
The ball is OUT of play:
When the whole of the ball has crossed the goal-line, or touch-line, whether on the
ground or in the air.
When the play has been stopped by the referee.
The ball is IN play:
At all other times including when it rebounds into play from a goal-post, a cross-bar, or
a corner flag post, or referee and remains in the field of play.
Method of Scoring
A goal is scored when the whole of the ball has crossed over the goal-line, between the
goal-posts and under the cross-bar, provided it has not been thrown, carried or
intentionally propelled by hand or arm, by a player of the attacking team, except by a
goalkeeper from within his own penalty-area.
The referee shall be the sole judge as to whether a goal has been scored.
During the course of play, should any outside agent prevent the ball from passing into
the goal or assist the ball into the goal, play shall be stopped. The referee shall restart
the game by dropping the ball.
Free-kick
NRS Soccer has both direct and indirect free kicks
Direct Free Kick
A direct kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following seven offences in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force:
Kicks or attempts to kick an opponent
Trips or attempts to trip an opponent
Jumps at an opponent
Charges an opponent
Strikes or attempts to strike an opponent
Pushes an opponent
Tackles an opponent
A direct kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following three offences:
Holds an opponent
Spits at an opponent
Handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his/her own penalty area)
Indirect Free Kick
An indirect kick is awarded to the opposing team if a goalkeeper, inside his own penalty area, commits any of the following offences:
Touches the ball again with his/her hands after he/she has released it from possession and before it has touched another player
Touches the ball with his/her hands after it has been deliberately kicked to him/her by a teammate
Touches the ball with his/her hands after he/she has received it directly from a throw-in by a teammate.
An indirect kick is also awarded to the opposing team if, in the opinion of the referee, a player:
Plays in a dangerous manner
Impedes the progress of an opponent
Prevents the goalkeeper from releasing the ball from his/her hands
Commits any other offence, not previously mentioned with the direct kick rule, for which play is stopped to caution or send off a player
For any infringement of the rules when the ball is in play, the referee may
award a free-kick to the non-offending team. The free-kick shall be taken from the
place where the infringement occurred, unless the free-kick is awarded to the attacking
team within its opponents’ penalty-area. In this case, the kick shall be taken from that
part of the penalty-area line which runs parallel to the goal-line, at the point nearest to
where the offence was committed.
At the taking of a free-kick, the ball shall be stationary and all opponents shall be not
less than 10 yards from the ball until it has been kicked. The ball shall be in play
when it is kicked and moved.
A player taking a free-kick within his own penalty-area shall kick the ball into play
beyond the penalty-area. The ball shall be in play when it has been kicked and moved
and has passed outside the penalty-area. All opponents shall be outside the penalty area
and not less than 10 yards from the ball until it has been kicked. For any
infringement of this rule, the free-kick shall be retaken.
A player taking a free-kick shall not play or touch the ball a second time until it has
been played or touched by another player. For any infringement of this rule, a free-kick
shall be awarded to the opposing team.
A goal may be scored directly from a free-kick
Penalty-kick
A penalty-kick shall be taken from the penalty-mark. All players, with the exception of
the defending goalkeeper and the player taking the kick, shall be outside the penalty area
but within the field of play, not less than 6 yards (5.5M) from the ball until it has
been kicked.
The goalkeeper shall remain on his own goal-line facing the kicker, and between the
goal-posts, until the ball has been kicked.
The player taking the penalty-kick must kick the ball forward. The ball shall be in play
when the ball is kicked and moves forward. The player shall not play or touch the ball a
second time until it has been played or touched by another player.
If necessary, the time of play shall be extended to allow a penalty-kick to be taken.
For any infringement of this rule:
By a member of the defending team, the kick shall be retaken if a goal has not been
scored.
By a member of the attacking team, if a goal is scored it shall be disallowed and a freekick
awarded to the defending team, to be taken from the place where the infringement
By a member of both teams, the kick shall be retaken whether a goal has been scored
If, after the kick has been taken, the ball or the goalkeeper is interfered with by an
outside agent, the kick shall be retaken.
Fouls and Misconduct
NO SLIDE TACKLES ALLOWED
A player who, in the opinion of the referee, intentionally commits any of the following
offenses (but not limited to), shall be penalized and a free-kick will be awarded to the opposing team:
Handles the ball deliberately, (except a goalkeeper from within his own penalty area)
Tackles an opponent to gain possession of the ball, making contact with the opponent
before touching the ball
Should a player commit one of the above offences within his own penalty-area, a penaltykick shall be awarded.
2-5min Penalties, Red & Yellow cards
If an offense is committed the referee has the option to do one of the 4 based on the severity of the offense (at the referees discretion).
1. Award a Free kick.
2. 2 or 5 minute penalty
3. Yellow Card
4. Red card
Players can be given both a yellow card and a 2 or 5 minute penalty.
If a goal is scored while playing short the team can go back to full strength but the player serving the penalty must stay off until the penalty is over.
A red card will result in a min 1 game suspension.
Continual red cards or any conduct that jeopardizes the safety or well being of another player, staff member or spectator, including foul language and/ or personal and/ or racial remarks/ threats will result in permanent suspension from the NRS soccer season and potentially any/ all future NRS events and leagues. No refund will be given NRS reserves the right to decide what type of conduct is worthy of suspension.
Yellow Card – Indicates a formal “caution” for any of the following 7 offenses:
“unsporting behavior” – this includes hard fouls; holding an opponent or deliberately handling the ball for the purpose of preventing an opponent from gaining possession of the ball; faking an injury; saying things that are designed to confuse or distract an opponent; harassment (such as jumping around, shouting or making gestures to intentionally distract an opponent; jumping in front of a corner kick, free kick or throw-in; worrying the goalkeeper or trying to prevent him from putting the ball into play; & adopting a threatening posture), gaining an unfair advantage by leaning on, climbing on the back of, or holding a teammate or the goal; blatant cases of holding and pulling an opposing player or his uniform; any action designed to deceive the Referee; and behavior which in the Referee’s judgment is unsporting or causes an unfair advantage,
dissent by word or actions,
persistently breaking the rules,
delaying the restart of play,
defenders failing to stay the proper distance away from the kicker on a corner kick, free kick or throw-in (see “Corner Kick” & “Free Kick”),
entering or re-entering the field without the referee’s permission
deliberately leaving the field without the referees permission.
A player who receives 2 Yellow Cards in one game is given a Red Card & ejected.
A player who receives 4 yellow cards throughout the season will be suspended for min one game. Repeat offenders will be dealt with accordingly including potential suspension from the league.
Red Card – A player must be shown a Red Card and “sent off” (i.e., made to leave the field) for the 7 offenses listed below. A player shown a “Red Card” & sent off may not be replaced during that game (i.e., his team must play a player “short” for the rest of the game; ). The 7 offenses for which a player must be shown a Red Card and sent off are:
serious foul play (includes any use of excessive force or brutality against an opponent when challenging for the ball. Examples include a dangerous slide tackle from behind, or an “over the top tackle” in which a player raises his foot so the cleats could hit a player, or a two footed tackle that takes down the opponent. FIFA has broadened this definition by saying that “Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force and endangering the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play. For current rules visit www.fifa.com, Laws of the Game. The above quote is from Questions and Answers, Additional Instructions for Referees). The rules now include “Decision 4”, which says: “A tackle, which endangers the safety of an opponent, must be sanctioned as serious foul play”.
violent conduct,
spitting at anyone,
deliberately touching the ball with a hand in order to prevent a goal or to deny an obvious goal scoring opportunity (such as to prevent a “Breakaway”…. this does not apply to the goalkeeper within his own Penalty Box)
fouling an opponent to prevent an obvious goal scoring opportunity (e.g., holding to stop a breakaway),
using offensive, insulting or threatening language and/or gestures,
or receiving a second yellow card in one game.
Anyone sent of the field or serving a suspension is not permitted to be in the park before, during or after the game is being played. Players sent off are to leave the park immediately.
Player suspensions are handled by Niagara Rec Sports and suspension duration is decided on a case by case basis. As Niagara Rec Sports is a recreational sports league we take red cards very seriously and suspension duration will reflect this.
Throw-in
When the whole of the ball has crossed the touch-line, either on the ground or in the
air, there shall be a throw in from the point where it left the field of play, by a member of the team opposing that who last touched the ball. The player taking the Throw-in shall face the field of play and throw the ball from on or behind the touch line. The ball will be in play immediately after it enters the field of play. If the player taking the throw-in plays or touches the ball a second time before it has been played or touched by another player, a free-kick shall be awarded to the opposing team.
Goal-kick
When the whole of the ball has crossed the goal-line, either on the ground or in the air,
excluding that portion between the goal-posts, having last been played or touched by a
member of the attacking team, a goal-kick shall be awarded to the defending team.
The ball shall be kicked into play from a point within that half of the penalty area
nearest to where the ball crossed the goal-line.
At the taking of a goal-kick, all opponents shall be outside the penalty-area until it has
been kicked into play. The ball shall be in play when it has traveled directly beyond the
penalty-area.
If the player taking the goal-kick plays or touches the ball a second time before it has
A goal may be scored directly from a goal-kick.
Corner-kick
When the whole of the ball has crossed the goal-line, either on the ground or in the air, excluding that portion between the goal-posts, having last been played or touched by a member of the defending team, a corner-kick shall be awarded to the attacking team.
The corner-kick shall be taken from within the corner-arc nearest to where the ball
crossed the goal-line.
The ball is in play when it is kicked and moves.
If the player taking the corner-kick plays or touches the ball a second time before it has been played or touched by another player, a free-kick shall be awarded to the opposing team
A goal may be scored directly from a corner kick
Off sides
There are no off sides
Overall Standings Tie Breakers
If there is a in the standings based on points the following will be used as a tie breaker.
Total Most Points (3 points for a win, 1 for a tie)
Head to Head (if applicable)
If everything is equal a coin toss
Playoff rules
There can be no ties in the playoffs, if the game is tied at the regulation teams will go directly into penalty shots immediately after the final whistle is blown.
Penalty Shots (Playoffs only)
Penalty shots will begin directly after the regular time expires.
Anyone on the bench or field can take a shot (teams don’t have to sub a player on the field just so they can take a penalty shot).
Best of 5 rounds will alternate Guy, Girl, (or girl guy) until there is a winner.
If still tied after 5 rounds penalty shots will continue one round at a time until there is a winner.
Everyone (of their specific gender) must shoot on the team before starting the order over goalies included.
This is the only time where goalies gender counts as a Male or Female and to follow the above penalty shot rules.
Yellow cards will carry over from here on until the last game of the Playoffs. This goes for all games including the friendly. 4 yellow cards total = min 1 game suspension. (2 yellows in one game = a red).
Team captains are responsible for bringing a first aid kit to each game.
Players must have played in at least 2 regular season games in order to be eligible to play in the playoffs.
Alcohol, Smoking and Drugs
There is to be no consumption of Alcohol or drugs including smoking cigarettes or marijuana at the parks and especially on the benches at the games. Any person breaking this rule will be asked to leave the park and the team can potentially forfeit the game.
Physical altercations are not allowed under any circumstances. Any player(s) involved in any physical altercation will be banned from the league at the discretion of Niagara Rec Sports.
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To Deliver or Not to Deliver: What Every Brand Needs to Consider
February 19, 2019 - Allison Deerr
Nowadays, you can have everything from groceries to yoga pants (thanks, Postmates!) delivered straight to your door within an hour––but as it stands, delivery doesn’t work for everything. Case in point: no one wants soggy fries served to them 30 min. after they have left the fryer.
Photo by Kai Pilger.
This presents a challenging and potentially lucrative opportunity for innovators who are hard at work figuring out solutions to the soggy fry dilemma in an attempt to keep up with the demands of Gen Z. Jamie Richardson, a spokesperson for White Castle, even went as far as to suggest to the Wall Street Journal that third-party delivery companies such as Grubhub may invent a deep fryer for the car. Customers “expect no barriers to get what they want when they want,” he said. While Richardson’s statement about cars equipped with fryers might sound outlandish to some, it’s no laughing matter to brands putting their reputation on the line when they open their doors to third-party delivery providers.
Have food, will travel
As Deb Dihel, Lamb Weston’s vice president of innovation described it to the New York Times, “If you put a French fry next to a shake, neither of them benefit.” Lamb Weston, the company behind the fries you’ll find at restaurants like McDonald’s and KFC, is trying to change the delivery game with a new French fry batter that keeps fries crispy for 12 minutes; however, that typically wouldn’t buy enough time for delivery drivers to make it from Point A to Point B.
With all of this talk of delivery innovation, it’s important to consider when and if the pendulum may swing away from the resurgence of the “cocooning” trend that Millennials brought back from the 1980s. After all, it can be argued that some food is worth venturing outside for. At least that’s what President Obama must have thought when he made the trip to Five Guys after they refused delivery to the White House and hung a giant banner on their Arlington store reading “Absolutely no deliveries.”
Five Guys founder Jerry Murrell didn’t mince words when he told QSR in 2011 that he believed delivery “cheapens the product”––going as far as to say that businesses with delivery signs in their windows “may be in trouble.” The hard-nosed stance on delivery at Five Guys reportedly caused sales at their Arlington location to go up by 20%, but as it stands today the brand’s products now appear to be available for delivery via third-party providers such as Grubhub and UberEats.
Sacrificing quality for technology
Five Guys reported sales went up at their Arlington location after refusing delivery. Photo by Marcel Heil.
Five Guys isn’t the only burger brand concerned about the impact of delivery on consumer perceptions. Shake Shack CFO Tara Comonte told investors at a conference in November 2018. “We do not want at any point in time to risk the quality of the experience we provide,” she said. “The delivery of our food does not necessarily fit with a great experience. Burgers and fries and shakes were not intended to be eaten a half-hour after they were cooked.”
While Shake Shack is working to figure out packaging that may help keep their product fresher during its delivery journey, some companies like Darden aren’t budging despite the demand. Their brand Olive Garden continues to limit out-of-restaurant service to takeout and catering on orders of over $100, pointing to the 20 to 30 percent cut that companies like Uber Eats take as a deterrent for using third-party delivery companies, in addition to having to hand over too much customer data.
With that said, does it make financial sense for every brand to hop on the delivery train? For certain segments, delivery is not a question. Foods like pizza are made to travel well, and even Blaze who up until recently only offered dine-in and take-out is now testing delivery with the help of Postmates. For everyone else, the question remains up in the air.
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Jadu Tona Expert
April 26, 2019 by panditkashiramsharma, posted in Uncategorized
Jadu Tona expert : The famous astrologer Pandit Ji is known astrologer and an expert Jadu Tona. He had to spend many years in research techniques astrology and now specializes in Vashikaran astrology. He has worked in the last 15 years in the same area. It belongs to the family of Brahma and to the right of childhood is the practice. Today, he is an experienced astrologer and offers an instant solution for all kinds of problems. His father and grandfather were also prominent in this area, and now Pandit Ji has expanded its range of expertise. He is now an expert in Vashikaran, astrology, gemology, numerology, Kala sorrow and misery tons.
Pandit Ji is not only known as an expert Jadu Tona, but it is also a specialist astrologer Kundli that he offers the love issue, problem solutions careers, love spell mantra and so on. He is also an expert on Vashikaran and experts in other fields of astrology, such as Palmistry, love spell mantras, numerology, astrology reading, Kala misery, Vastu Shastra and so on. Pandit Ji is known for his services. He has met many people in the world. Since ancient times, people believe in astrology and so it continued through such educated people.
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A Comparison Between Shelly's "Frankenstein" And Hopkins' Poetry
Jeremy Griffith: author of Free: The End of The Human Condition (1988), Beyond The Human Condition (1991), and, in 2003, the Australasian bestseller A Species In Denial...Philosopher, Albert Camus, said once. He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.Humans to this day have struggled to find answers to two questions, who is our creator and what role does he or she play, and if there is a creator why does evil exist, withing the world and why are men not divine. I'd like to start of by quoting my most recent book:"Philosophers assume a God exists, and that he or she created the human race. But then the greatest of all paradoxes must be ...view middle of the document...
." Hopkins uses Romantic language when talking about God and nature and this emphasizes his point. So we can see in Gods Grandeur, that Hopkins, is saying that God the creator is the source of beauty, and that he believes that God is manifested in nature.However as we track through Hopkins life, we see that he suffered from Depression and began to question his faith later in his life. These issues are raised in his later poetry, his depressive sonnets, the terrible sonnets. Looking at them we can see a fundamental change in the way Hopkins relates to the creator. Hopkins becomes more negative, and questioning. He states in No Worst there is none "comforter, where is your comforting/Mary mother of us, where is your relief" We see here a huge shift from what he states his earlier poems where God is the source of joy "with ah bright wings."Hopkins imagery is further testament to this change. He states "all life death does end and each day dies with sleep." We can see here very negative imagery. We still see some romantic language, but in a negative connotation, and we see creeping in Gothic phrases like "fury had shrieked" "wretch, under a ...whirlwind." Very different images and connotations to what we saw in his earlier sonnets. Hopkins poetry undergoes a fundamental shift, or a falling of man.Just as with Hopkins, Shelly's "Frankenstein" also marvels at natural creation. She writes, in the character of Victor when speaking of a mountain "of this glorious presence chamber of imperial nature," "these sublime and magnificent scenes...which afforded me," She writes in Romantic language, and vividly glorifies nature. However when Shellys describes Victor seeing his creation she writes "a breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." This contrast between what God creates and what man creates is highlighted by the Romantic language used by Shelly to describe nature, and the Gothic language used when speaking of the Monster. Looking from a Calvinistic viewpoint, Shelly provides some answer as to what creates evil here, by saying with the character of Victor, "how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier is the man who believes his native town to be the world than he who becomes greater than his nature will allow." She states that when man, Victor crosses the ethical divide and himself becomes a creator, or tries to imitate God, then chaos, in the form of the Monster towards the end of the novel,...
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Political Sun
— Phenomenal World
Marcel Broodthaers, Soleil Politique, 1972
UPWARD ACCOMODATION
The history of public housing provision
In recent decades, policy approaches to housing provision have focused on increasing the incomes of subsidy recipients and, due to declining federal investment, promoting tenant mobility both between subsidized housing units and out of the public housing system altogether. But the discourse on housing seems to be shifting. Rather than promoting ever increasing incomes, recent proposals aim instead to control housing costs—both through increasing public housing stock and pegging rent to inflation.
In a 2012 paper, Lawrence J. Vale and Yonah Freemark offer a history of public housing in the United States. Their narrative considers how changing approaches to housing provision reveal changes in the government's definition of “deserving” welfare recipients.
"Public housing is too often conceptualized as a single failed program that tragically concentrated deeply impoverished single-parent minority households in ill-designed and publicly mismanaged slums. Such a viewpoint does little justice to the evolution and contingencies that motivated the growth and directions of the multiphased and multifaceted history of federally supported public housing and public-private housing. Taking a longer view, the concentrated poverty welfare phase of public housing may actually be seen as an aberration, a relatively brief interlude between about 1960 and 1990. This phase, we argue, was out of step with the larger pattern of policy preferences for housing the poor, both before and since.
Seen this way, American public housing consists of a 25-year series of efforts to accommodate the upwardly mobile working class between 1935 and 1960, a 30-year consolidation of the poorest into welfare housing between 1960 and the mid 1980s, coupled by efforts to introduce direct private-sector involvement in public housing and other programs; and a series of programs and policies since the mid 1980s to return more of public housing to a less-poor constituency, while furthering growth in other kinds of both deep and shallow subsidy programs through mixed-finance projects and tax-code intervention. After 75 years of experimentation, much of the rest of public housing operations has become completely privatized. In many cities, housing authorities are regularly turning over their conventional housing stock to private managers and often own nothing more than the land beneath their redevelopment endeavors. In this context, even the basic definitional reason for calling some housing 'public housing' now comes into question."
Link to the article.
From November of last year, Jack Y. Favilukis, Pierre Mabille, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh find that "Housing affordability policies create large net welfare gains." Link. See also J. W. Mason's recent public testimony on rent control, which offers an overview of empirical findings and concludes that "there is no evidence that rent regulations reduce the overall supply of housing." Link.
A report by Peter Gowan and Ryan Cooper at 3P compares housing policy in US metropolitan areas with those of Vienna, Helsinki, and Stockholm. Link. At the Urban Institute, Emily Peiffer discusses the history of housing policy in New York City. Link.
"Housing Affordability in the U.S.: Trends by Geography, Tenure, and Household Income." By Andrew Dumont at the Federal Reserve. Link.
Data for Progress maps the diversity of America's public housing communities, accounting for rates of unemployment, poverty, and population density. Link. Another map looks at flood risk, police stops, and segregation in NYCHA buildings. Link.
‡ housing welfare history
New Researchers
Identity and the labor market
Columbia PhD candidate SUANNA OH studies how cultural and behavioral patterns impact labor markets. Her job market paper considers how caste identity shapes labor supply in rural India, drawing on a field experiment in which workers from different castes decide between a number of real job offers.
The findings:
"Workers’ average take-up rate of offers is 23 percentage points lower if offers involve working on tasks that are associated with castes other than their own. This gap increases to 47 pp if the castes associated with the relevant offers rank lower than workers’ own in the caste hierarchy. Responses to job offers are invariant to whether or not workers’ choices are publicized, suggesting that the role of identity itself—rather than social image—is paramount. Using a supplementary experiment, I show that 43% of workers refuse to spend ten minutes working on tasks associated with other castes, even when offered ten times their daily wage. This paper’s findings indicate that identity may be an important constraint on labor supply, contributing to misallocation of talent in the economy."
Link to the paper, link to Oh's website. h/t reader Julis R.
‡ culture labor_market new_researchers
Each week we highlight great work from a graduate student, postdoc, or early-career professor. Have you read any excellent research recently that you'd like to see shared here? Send it our way: editorial@jainfamilyinstitute.org.
New on the Phenomenal World: Alice Zhang on development-induced displacement. Link.
On December 6, Suresh Naidu will be in the JFI offices to lead a seminar on his recent research: "Terms of Service: Free and Unfree Labor From American Slavery to Amazon Mechanical Turk." Sign up for the session here.
"Of the United States’ 90,106 governments, 99.9% are local governments. Political scientists have been slow to take advantage of variation in institutional features, descriptive representation, and policy-making power because comprehensive data on local politics is extremely difficult to obtain. We show that crowdsourced data is both highly accurate and easy to use, demonstrating that nonexperts can be used to collect, validate, or update local data." By Jane Lawrence Sumner, Emily M. Farris, and Mirya R. Holman. Link.
Jeanna Smialek tests the impact of minimum wage laws on jobs by comparing the labor markets of New York and Pennsylvania: "Pay increases in NY did not consistently come alongside weaker hiring relative to Pennsylvania’s trend." Link. At Vox, Dylan Matthews gives an overview of recent minimum wage scholarship. Link.
A special issue of Politics & Society on "Democratizing Finance." Inside: public investment platforms, central bank independence, enterprise structures. Link.
In the Times, a logistics officer for the US Marine Corps writes on the lack of a right-to-repair in the military: "Although parts from the manufacturer aren’t available to repair the equipment, we aren’t allowed to make the parts ourselves 'due to specifications'." Link. A longer piece on the history of repair rights in the military. Link. See also: an edition of this newsletter from last year on these same themes.
Joseph Halevi on the postwar formation of the European Common Market. Link.
While climate policy tends to be politically polarizing, solar panels enjoy broad bi-partisan support, according to new research by Matto Mildenberger, Peter D. Howe and Chris Miljanich. Link.
In a new working paper, Gregor Semieniuk and Isabella Weber cast doubt on existing measures of global inequality in energy consumption: "At present, there is no way of objectively determining the distribution of energy consumption levels across countries. If mitigation policies are meant to correlate to current consumption levels, this means that we are lacking a reliable point of reference." Link.
Timothy Taylor on "the patent thicket." Link. (Tangentially related, JFI fellow Francis Tseng's project matter.farm, "an open database that continually generates and publishes novel molecular structures that are potential drug candidates.")
Florian R. Hertel and Olaf Groh-Samberg "study the relationship between inter-class inequality and intergenerational class mobility across 39 countries." Link. For the New York Fed, Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz analyze regional wage inequality in the United States. Link.
"Incorporating climate policy that restricts oil use and has an unknown arrival time in an otherwise standard climate-economic model generates a run on oil; firms dynamically accelerate extraction as climate change increases and oil reserves decrease due to the risk of future climate policy actions stranding oil reserves." By Michael Barnett. Link.
"Drawing on previously unused contemporary sources about management and supervisory board composition and stock returns, we find that one out of seven firms, and a large proportion of the biggest companies, had substantive links with the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Our data reveal that many more large firms had ties with the Nazis than suggested by earlier scholarship—to the extent that weighted by capitalization in 1932, more than half of listed firms on the Berlin stock exchange enjoyed close links with the Nazi movement. Affiliated firms outperformed the stock market by 5% to 8% and account for a large part of the market’s rise. Investors recognized value where they saw it and rewarded firms with preestablished ties handsomely." Link.
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Many companies have attempted to solve the cash problem in Cannabis, and they most certainly have all come to realize the complexities of navigating the financial and regulatory challenges in this constantly evolving industry. The Schedule 1 classification persists as the main deterrent to financial institutions providing its services to cannabis merchants. “We continue to attract key banking partners with our compliant and seamless solution as an industry leader in this innovative financial technology space,” said Mr. Kevin Curtis, MTrac Chief Strategy Officer. “These strategic updates to the MTrac platform are being done in order to further stabilize the platform and to continue serving our clients in this next growth phase we are embarking upon. The MTrac 3.0 launch is the culmination of key partnerships, significant market share, and our team’s focus on compliance, service, and stability.”
“As these new bank networks are being injected, MTrac is also downsizing the equipment needed to process transactions on the merchant side, which will reduce hardware costs and deployment time to the merchant to enable faster adoption, onboarding, and an improved checkout process for the customer.” Said David Flores EVP, “These updates will also provide unlimited processing bandwidth and more secure transactions with EMV chip and pin debit features, which will allow for overall enhanced merchant and consumer experience.”
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Since the Company’s inception in 2009, Global Payout, Inc. has been a leading provider of comprehensive and customized prepaid payment solutions. From 2014 to 2017 Global focused on identifying new state of the art technologies in a variety of industry sectors and successfully helped launch MoneyTrac Technology Inc. and other companies within the FinTech space. In 2018, Global completed a reverse triangular merger with MoneyTrac Technology Inc. resulting in Global retaining the wholly owned subsidiary, MTrac Tech Corporation. Global’s current focus is continuing to identify new business opportunities while it reorganizes its future business endeavors.
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MTrac Tech Corporation, a Nevada Corporation, is a privately held, wholly owned subsidiary of Global Payout, Inc. MTrac is a software technology, sales and marketing, and business development company focused on “high risk” and “high cost” industries. The Company’s flagship product is the MTrac payment platform offering a full-service solution with technology offerings including Payment Platform, Blockchain, Compliance, POS, E-Wallet, Mobile Application and Digital Payment Solutions. We are one network disrupting the status quo. It is MTrac’s creative vision through the use of its innovative technology solution to become the premier service provider offering the “Key to Cashless®.”
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Posted January 26, 2015 by Emily Fromm & filed under Disaster, Grants.
This dog was rescued by Central Oklahoma Humane Society with a fractured leg after a tornado struck that region in 2013.
This post, by Claire Sterling, originally appeared on the ASPCA Professional website. Read it here.
In the world of grantmaking, it’s common knowledge that applying for funding is hard work — and if you’re doing that work multiple times to reach a number of funders, all while scrambling to help animals who have been affected by a tornado, wildfire or severe flood, it can be downright overwhelming.
With this in mind, a group of funders have worked together to ease the burden of the grant application process for animal welfare organizations that either have been directly affected by a disaster or have been appointed by their local authorities to provide assistance to other organizations. The ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the Petfinder Foundation and (for major disasters affecting Colorado) the Animal Assistance Foundation have just teamed up to form a single application and collaborative review process to streamline funding during a disaster.
These funders will collectively consider requests for funding that are submitted via a centralized portal at animaldisasterfunding.org for specific major disasters. Particular disasters for which the application portal is available will be determined on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the individual organizations participating in this funding collaboration. Eligible disasters must be significant enough to warrant a state-of-emergency declaration.
Information regarding specific disasters for which funding will be available will be posted via a Request for Proposals (RFP) on the “Funding Opportunities” page on animaldisasterfunding.org. (Please note that while applications submitted through the centralized portal will be reviewed by a group of funders, each funder who provides support will make its own grant to the applying organization and will issue its own grant contract and reporting requirements.)
Since participating funders can opt in and out of the collaborative, the makeup of the review committee will shift depending on the circumstances and on the affected geographic region(s). Over time, we expect to grow the group of funders to include other animal welfare grantmakers and, ideally, also community and family foundations serving disaster-affected regions.
We will all be learning as we go; this is a relatively unprecedented development not only in animal welfare, but also in the broader field of philanthropy. The concept of collaborative funding is nothing new, but rarely is it directly tied to a joint review of grant requests submitted via a single application form representing the interests of multiple funders. In this case, shared concern for applicants’ limited time — particularly when responding to a disaster — is the primary driver of our collaborative effort.
In the spirit of preparing for the worst but hoping for the best, our greatest desire for this funding collaborative is that disasters calling for its use are few and far between. And in the spirit of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure, we strongly encourage organizations to do everything possible to make themselves and their facilities as disaster-proof as possible. As a starting point, please be sure to check out the ASPCA’s Disaster Response Resources page for further information.
With that, we wish you a healthy, happy, disaster-free 2015.
Guest blogger Claire Sterling is Director, Grant Strategies at the ASPCA. Having previously done foundation fundraising for six years at the Foundation Center, her personal blog, The Lion’s Share, provides philanthropy-related resources for organizations that better the lives of animals.
Helping Save 367 Dogs from Fighting Ring
Posted September 17, 2013 by Karen Hollish & filed under Law enforcement.
One of the 367 dogs rescued from a multistate dog-fighting ring (Photo: ASPCA)
When 367 dogs were rescued from a multistate dog-fighting ring last month, a Petfinder Foundation-funded truck and trailer helped the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA and other agencies save their lives.
“We couldn’t have done it without that equipment,” Shannon Walajtys, IFAW’s animal rescue program manager for disaster response, tells us.
The Petfinder Foundation granted the truck and trailer to IFAW in 2007, just after Hurricane Katrina struck.
IFAW Animal Rescue Officer Jennifer Gardner says the truck proved essential when HSUS asked IFAW to travel from Cape Cod, Mass., to Georgia to assist with the dog-fighting bust.
“The truck was one of three animal-rescue rigs that were integral in our support of HSUS,” Gardner says.
The rescued dogs had been subjected to extreme heat without fresh water or food. (Photo: ASPCA)
The truck and 36-foot trailer were loaded with field equipment and also offered a refuge for first responders. “It was that go-to vehicle that had the first-aid kits, the coolers with water and Gatorade, the fruits and vegetables we brought for responders. It was the place for people to take a five-minute break when they needed to after being on the crime scene,” Walajtys says.
Walajtys says the 367 seized dogs have been moved to temporary shelters and that IFAW will continue to assist HSUS and the ASPCA as needed on the case. Meanwhile, the Petfinder Foundation’s truck and trailer have moved on to their next assignment with IFAW.
“It’s been demobilized and sent to Mississippi,” Gardner says, “so it can be ready and staged during the hurricane season.”
The Petfinder Foundation truck is ready for its next lifesaving IFAW assignment. (Photo: IFAW)
A Big Thank You to the ASPCA
Posted May 7, 2013 by Toni Morgan & filed under Donations.
Throughout the year, the ASPCA recognizes employees’ exceptional contributions to the ASPCA and its mission. Each honoree receives a gift certificate redeemable for a grant to their favorite animal welfare organization from the ASPCA Grants Department. In 2012 the Petfinder Foundation was selected by an ASPCA employee to receive their honorary $500 grant for general operating purposes.
We are very grateful to the ASPCA for their support in furthering our mission to help ensure that no adoptable pet is euthanized for lack of a good home!
Puppy Mill Survivors Headed for Home at Last
Posted April 30, 2013 by Karen Hollish & filed under Grants.
After being rescued from a Rowan County, KY, puppy mill, this dog was checked by veterinarians.
After more than a year of healing care and thanks to financial support from the Petfinder Foundation, 118 small-breed puppy mill survivors rescued from horrific conditions in Rowan County, KY, are finally ready to join families.
“Enrichment supplies for dogs traumatized from living in a puppy mill are extremely important in training them to trust people and ready them for adoption,” Tim Rickey, vice president of the ASPCA’s Field Investigations and Response Team, said. “Without your generous support, we could not have provided much-needed socialization and positive reinforcement to the dogs we rescued.”
After the APSCA seized the dogs in October 2011, the Pefinder Foundation provided them with a $1,000 disaster-relief grant to help with the dogs’ rehabilitation and recovery. The rescued dogs included Chihuahua, Dachshund, papillon, miniature pinscher and poodle mixes. Several of the dogs were pregnant, and some were only a few weeks old. All were badly neglected: Many of them were covered in mold and matted fur, and they were suffering from infections, dental disease and other health problems. They were kept in cramped, filthy cages.
“We used the grant to pay for treats, toys and staff/responder time socializing the dogs,” Rickey said.
One of the rescued Rowan County puppies.
After the dogs spent more than a year in recovery, the owner of the puppy mill pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty and one kennel violation.
“Since the case has come to a close,” Rickey said, “we could finally make the dogs available for adoption.”
The dogs were all transferred to partner shelters, and Rickey reported their outcome couldn’t be better: “Most of the dogs were snapped up almost instantly and are now enjoying loving homes!”
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*NO* Final Fantasy 4 'Genesis of Destruction'
By OceansAndrew, September 1, 2009 in Judges Decisions
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SUBBED ON BEHALF OF JAY:
Alright...where to start. This track, Zeromus, was originally conceived by me and OA as the finale track to the FF4 project Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption. And later blew up to be something well beyond either of our control. It is a result of all the people around us in the project and actually came together rather haphazard. We never could have imagined a track like this from the start. We started only knowing we wanted it to be faster and more intense than the original and were already planning on having Justin (Nutritious) come in for the orchestra. I originally had the idea of just a bombastic instrumental but when Andrew (OA) started talking about using vocals is when it took off.
We first had the idea for just a female vocalist and came up with the concept to have the lead be the embodiment of the prayers from the storyline in the game. Naturally we now needed the voices of the prayers, and who better to enlist than all the members of the project as a collective choir. I went and tracked down every single person from the project to enlist. About 22 people were able to come through and I am proud to say I used every track given to me from all the singing (Larry the Liontamer included) to the spoken word section during the female entrance.
In a rough order of who supplied the most material the choir is made up of:
Children of the Monkey Machine, DragonAvenger, Vampire Hunter Dan, Moonlapse, audio fidelity, OA, The Prophet of Mephisto, bustatunez, Mazedude, Level 99, Liontamer, theultravisitor, Loka Lafevre, Nathan Rich, Long Dao, Wiesty, Rozovian, Hy Bound, AeroZ, Abadoss, Avaris, and Ramaniscence.
We were able to get my composition teacher’s wife actually who came though and did a fantastic job as the lead female. Marcin Bela, my teacher was a big help for the song who guided me with lots of feedback and was the one who suggested the key change. How the male lead came about was kinda by accident. He showed me these tracks where he was screaming his guts and I took note of that later coming to the realization that this track could use a real Zeromus antagonist to heighten the drama and intensity. And the track from there became the rock opera epic that it would become.
I ended up taking over the direction of the track and laying down a bare-bones template for OA and Nutritious to follow. They did a fantastic job really bringing everything out I hoped for for the track. Andrew (OA) helped out with a lot of the arrangement, did all of the guitar work, and together, he and I wrote the lyrics inspired from the game. I generally wrote the female and male leads, and Andrew wrote the background Zeromus narrative and choir parts. Connor (Cyril the Wolf) improv’d the breakdown section where he loses it and helped out with a line or two of the other parts. I wanted it to be fresh for him to do that improv so I actually begged him to wait months and months to not listen to the track and lose the feeling of it being a fresh take. Thanks Connor! I am also rather thankful for Justin not killing me with all the tempo changes and modulations that made his job a complete nightmare. You did an awesome job buddy.
The plot here is simple if you know the game. Cecil and crew do battle with the ultimate bad guy who is living on their moon, that is the most hateful son of a gun around - Zeromus. He actually is killed before their eyes but is brought back to life; which is where the lyrical narrative from Zeromus comes from in the whispers and background screaming parts. In the story, everyone is knocked down and it seems like all hope is lost but what ends up happening is everyone on Earth is wishing and praying that the group will defeat this evil. It is their words of encouragement that ultimately guide the group to victory and which is the premise for our arrangement. We have the lead female (embodiment of the prayers) enter accompanied by the choir’s words of inspiration to make the connection of who she is. From there we have the narrative being delivered by the choir and Zeromus who actually goes back in forth with the ones fighting for the future of the planet. We have a section where the two trade off with different levels of intensity with their backing arrangement signaling their contrast. The chorus comes in as an actual battleground section where the instruments enter together and fight for dominance. The first time around we find Zeromus quite powerful and unrelenting. Which gives way later to his own breakdown in our breakdown. We then take a moment to reflect with the choir almost losing the hope to go on. But find the strength and from there ramp back up for battle and in the 2nd chorus to find Zeromus losing control and ultimately the battle.
The original source is littered throughout every section of the mix. The Breakdown where Zeromus losing it being all based on expanding that awesome dissonant syncopated section from the source. The only original section comes in the chant which is actually a borrowed section from OA’s previous track ‘Eminence Gris’ uniting the two together but still keeping with the motif of the source bassline through the progression. The OCReMix edit sadly needed to be cut short for the sake of quality and lost this section but it is included on the final release.
The mix was quite complex with about 255 choir takes maxing out my logic session and another 100+ tracks counting busses in the final mix. I tried my best but was fortunate to be able to get some help from zircon in the final stages. I sent him all the tracks with my volume automation and he tweaked things and mastered the track to get things to where you hear it now. Thank you Andy.
Other people to thank are Gary Earl and Audix for their awesome feedback that helped the track and for their stabs at mastering the track which were all fantastic in my opinion.
I really think this is the only track in the world that is actually deserving of something this ambitious and it is again the result only because of the people around me. This track has been a wonderful testament to what the community can accomplish together and I am so thankful for everyone; it became ultimately what it wanted to be and was out of my hands.
I would also suggest checking out the ff4 website for some extra bonus tracks inspired by this mix. Justin (Nutritious) is doing an arrangement focusing on the orchestra and voices with him actually taking over the part of Zeromus in an operatic way. And I am putting together an atonal version where all the parts will be played with just grand pianos. CotMM is also putting together an extended version of his take on the source. Who knows what else may come up.
The entire list of people connected to this track are as follows:
audio fidelity, Nutritious, OA, lisabela, Cyril the Wolf, Children of the Monkey Machine, DragonAvenger, Vampire Hunter Dan, Moonlapse, The Prophet of Mephisto, bustatunez, Mazedude, Level 99, Liontamer, theultravisitor, Loka Lafevre, Nathan Rich, Long Dao, Wiesty, Rozovian, Hy Bound, AeroZ, Abadoss, Avaris, Ramaniscence, Marcin Bela, Gary Earl, Audix, and zircon
Breakdown of credits:
audio fidelity: arrangement, lyrics, drums, synths
Nutritious: orchestra
OA: guitar, arrangement, lyrics
lisabela: female lead (prayer), and supporting female parts
Cyril the Wolf: male lead (zeromus)
Zeromus Choir: Children of the Monkey Machine, DragonAvenger, Vampire Hunter Dan, Moonlapse, audio fidelity, OA, The Prophet of Mephisto, bustatunez, Mazedude, Level 99, Liontamer, theultravisitor, Loka Lafevre, Nathan Rich, Long Dao, Wiesty, Rozovian, Hy Bound, AeroZ, Abadoss, Avaris, and Ramaniscence.
special thanks: Marcin Bela, Gary Earl, Audix, and zircon
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Chrono (+3000)
Lions and Tamers and 11.3MB, oh MY!
vote please.
anosou
THE ANSWER Director, Kaleidoscope Composer
aaaaaand the prize for longest submission letter goes to...
I'll be honest, I don't think I want to vote on this until we get a version that's the proper file size. (We are still doing <6MB, right? I've noticed we've had several subs lately that go over).
There is a LOT of stuff in this mix, and I can't help but be a little skeptical that it can be squeezed under 6MB even using VBR, and not have obvious encoding issues. :-\
So can we get a proper file size version of this?
Community Manager, Judge, Sonic Augmentation Director
Removed the lyrics from the sub letter. Mine are more accurate anyway and embedded in the file. If we're bumping up to the 8MB limit, we may want to hold off on a 6MB version. IMO, let's just judge what's in front of us and then worry about the encoding. And I realize it's a more pertinent issue than usual, but let's keep it moving. I always post subs over 6MB because we need to judge the music.
I definitely see what you're saying and where you're coming from, but even then, I feel like this song is a unique case. Its length coupled with the fact that it's kind of a mess make me skeptical that if in the event that it's passed, we'll be able to get a small enough version without running into impassible encoding issues. It's a little easier to bump the encoding down on a softer track, but this thing is the epitome of a wall of sound. It's 20 oz of liquid packed into a 12 oz can.
Also, what's this about bumping the file limit up to 8 now?
file limit has been bumped, please vote. I'd vote on it if i could.
Bonus kun (+2900)
I feel like I'm trying to judge some sort of alien song based on Earth music conventions here. The mix of electronic drums + female vocals + orchestra + growl + choir is bizarre, to say the least. I guess let's start with the arrangement of the source. I definitely may have missed something so please feel free to set me straight, OA.
0:00-0:15, 0:16-0:24, 1:21-1:30, 2:21-3:04, 3:26-4:08, 4:13-4:25, 5:08-5:18, 6:23-7:06, 7:09-7:24, 7:25-7:35 = 207 / 468 = 44%
That's a close call, and I don't know what way I would go on it, so I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. I don't think it's a mistake to pass it on that level; it references the source nearly half of the time, if not more than that.
Next to the arrangement itself. This is definitely one of the most ambitious songs I've heard submitted, and though it's interesting to hear, it's not without its problems. I thought it was somewhat disjointed and some transitions were weak. The individual parts and writing were quite good, but at the busiest moments (2:42-3:04) it felt like there was too much going on. I liked it, but tough to say which side I fall on.
And finally, production, which is pretty good for a song with so much in it. However, I wasn't a fan of the way the drums were produced and they didn't seem to have much power to them, which hurt the whole piece. I also thought the soundscape was cramped - big surprise, right? But hell, it's certainly a better job than I would do with it.
I feel like this is borderline decision on three fronts, and I'm leaning towards NO because of that. The production is probably the thing which most leads me most in that direction, but if I was really behind the arrangement, I could probably overlook it. Any additional information someone can provide on source breakdown might cause me to take another look, but I think I'd probably still be a NO.
NO (resubmit?)
0:00-0:15, 0:16-0:24,
wouldn't it just be easier to say 0:00 - 0:24?
So I missed a section in my notes the first time through. Just vote on it, ya punk.
More than two months on panel with only my vote. Get on this one, people. It's not an impossible song to vote on.
Balance and Ruin Director, Voices of the Lifestream Director
I can't objectively vote on this since I spent a lot of time mastering it. What I will say is that the arrangement is definitely over 50% source.
That still leaves seven other judges who can vote on this. Don't make me break out the judges mailing list!
Once again, I'm simply trying to go in order. I'm almost to this one, but I'm trying to knock out these older ones first.
Some stuff you've missed and reasons why you suck:
All these passages has the "main theme" of Final Fantasy IV (also present in the source) as counterpoint to the vocals. That's roughly (not counting the 3 second pauses) 80 seconds of source.
5:32-5:37 - the Zeromus bass, 5 more seconds.
I'm still torn about this one so I'm gonna let it marinate a bit more but I thought this was relevant and would help the other voters. Long story short: SOURCE CHECKS OUT, KTHXBYE
bada-bump!
if there is any info I can convey to people to assist in their decision on here, feel free to ask. I'd vote on this but i can't.
Lyrics again, mostly for my own reference.
*Zeromus*
(Choir)
*Madness, shrouding the light
Opening wounds that have nothing inside,
Sealed within, eternal night,
Lunarian blood pulls like the tides*
(Ahhh! Zeromus!
Ahhh! Zeromus!)
*Cycling entropy, choking decay
Contagion rot as the mind melts away*
Take this moment,
Into reflection,
And remember your path
We believe in you,
Supporting your trials,
Please hear our distant prayers for you
*Spiraling in further towards me at last,
Destroying your future, erasing your past*
Together, we'll fight for our world,
And protect it from this fiend
(Fire from within)
We must prevail
*Let me teach you how to suffer,
My hate is supreme,
And you will not stop me!*
(Essence born of hate)
Never we will lay down to,
Your sick and twisted lunacy
(Cleansing bloodstained wings)
*Life will cease when all is destroyed,
I will bring the end,
So come and meet your fate!*
(Deep beyond Hell's gates)
We must bring this dawn,
A new hope must become
*There is no hope*
United we are strong,
Our prayers will overcome
*Haha, nothing can defeat me*
And with the havoc that you have wrought,
That's brought the dark that tested our hearts,
*There's no escape*
We won't let you bring eternal night,
Zeromus, we won't go without a fight!
*If you're so eager, then come and die!
Die! Die! Die! Die!*
Show your true self
*Everything is now for me,
I will make you beg and plead,
Hehe, everything is now for me!
Just die!
Just perish!
Haha, die!!!*
(Growing stillness in the heavens,
Darkness deeper than the night,
Forcing all to flee or perish,
No one leaves this place alive,
Come within now, desolation,
Mirror surface bathed in black,
Endless silence through the terror,
Perfect hope begins to crack
Ahhh! Zeromus!
Destroying your future erasing your past*
*There is no hope...*
*...nothing can defeat me...*
*There is no escape!*
*If you're so eager, then come and...GAH!!*
Yep, source checks out, my bad on that. I definitely hear the FFIV theme in there. I'm still going with NO for the problems with the arrangement and production that I listed.
I've been over this a lot now and I think I can finally put down my vote in words. This song suffers from a lot of issues you get from creating a track of such epic proportions. The arrangement (while mostly well written) is disjointed and doesn't sound cohesive. The parts sometimes just feels strangely glued together. The production is at times crowded and the blend of voices+real instruments+synths+samples is probably to blame. It's very hard to make out single elements in the mix for example. The growling, production of the female lead vocals and the drums were definitely weak points production-wise. The drums especially seems out of place and sound a bit flimsy. Some of the (many) highlights were the choir and guitar licks, well produced and musically pleasing.
While I certainly appreciate the try at an arrangement of this proportion you really have to make sure everything works together properly, it's easy to go overboard. This mix does a lot right. When it all comes down to it though, this track falls short in a few areas and ultimately ends up sounding too disjointed and messy. Sorry guys, I'm gonna have to vote
NO(borderline)
Alright, I've been listening to this for the past hour and talking about it in IRC, and I've spent many many many more listens over the past couple months.
As far as I can tell, the arrangement seems like it would check out. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that there's just too many other quirks. I'm not going to spend too much time here, mainly just listing my primary concerns, in no particular order.
-The length. Somewhere between 4-5 minutes, I was about ready for the mix to be winding down. When 5:08 came back in with a fury, I kept thinking "Haven't I heard this already?" And then realized I still had 3+ minutes left to go.
-The ending. Just doens't seem like a natural fit for the track. Not sure else how to put that.
-The lead vocals. I'm so sorry, I don't know how else to say this, they just did not sound good to me. The intonation seemed a little off and there was a lot of scooping. Furthermore, they seemed a bit dry/underprocessed and just generally didn't fit the song very well. I realize that last part is kind of iffy ground, since this song is hard to categorize anyway. But I suppose that brings me to my next point.
-The style. Talking with Vinnie on this, we both agree that we're typically inclined to be more sympathetic to songs that go against the norm and take a risk for the sake of presenting something new. Unfortunately, I think this track is just too ambitious for its own good. At the risk of sounding like a douche, the word "trainwreck" did in fact come up several times from various people (both judges and non-judges alike) when discussing the juxtaposition of styles and timbres here. Not much more I can offer on that, really
-The production. Don't mean this as a slight against Andy, I think he did as well as he could with what he had to work with, but honestly, I think there's just 10 feet worth of substance crammed into 1 foot, so to speak. I can make out the thumpy bass, and the screaming, and about half of the orchestration, but the rest tends to jumble together as almost a kind of pink noise during the really busy parts.
All in all, I do appreciate the efforts here, it's still a remarkably impressive remix in it's own rights. Sounds like there's lots of great performances/programming involved on numerous levels, but overall the mashup of so many styles and elements is not all that different from an epic song being played on the stereo, while another equally epic song is being played on the TV, and yet another is blasting over the computer.
Sorry guys
Not to sound like I'm making an excuse for such a late vote, but on top of trying to catch up on older submissions, I literally spent hours listening to this track over the past couple months, trying really hard to find every reasons to justify giving the track a YES, but I feel like I waited as long as I thought was fair.
Ryu Hayabusa (+2300)
This song sounds like a heart attack.
http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=ff4 - "The Final Battle" (ff4-43.spc)
Structurally, folks will be surprised to learn that this is basically laid out exactly like the source tune, which is about 2 1/2 minutes. The track was 7:46-long, so I needed more then 233 seconds of source usage for a YES on that level:
:00-:24, 1:30-2:30, 2:40-2:50, 3:04-3:10, 3:16-4:02 (loosely based on the bass pattern of 1:19-1:28 of the source), 4:02-4:08, 4:20.5-5:17, 5:32-5:37.5, 5:42.5-6:32, 6:42-6:52, 7:06-7:24, 7:26-7:34
253.5 seconds, not counting the loose bass connection or any other connections I might have missed. I didn't check vs. anyone else's figures, so I might have missed other areas, but this was a pretty straightforward call for me as far as the source being used enough.
The percussion was probably the major weak point of this for me, and there was so much going on that the soundscape was often too cluttered. I gotta give zircon some props for cleaning this up a lot. The original version was a mess.
I understand crits on the female lead, and I agreed to some extent, but nowhere near where BGC was coming from, which I think was over the top. There were a couple of nasally-sounding moments, but I liked lisabela's lead. We're a hobbyist community, and the delivery was more than strong enough, IMO.
I don't have an inherent problem with the growling Zeromus vocals, but I thought they were too indistinct and should have been more understandable. You can go with "artistic expression" that since Zeromus is evil, he's a bundle of unchained energy, hence his part sounded so unrestrained. Not how I would go with it personally, but the vocals were otherwise well-produced and I can let my personal take go.
I wish the choir stuff had been more prominent, me being in it notwithstanding. But the way those vocals were put together was really impressive; it's a shame they weren't a bit louder, but I can't imagine how tricky it must have been to mix those into the rest of the track.
5:17-onwards really should have been condensed. The Meatloaf-esque rock pera stuff at 7:07 seemed to come out of nowhere. Not an inherently bad idea, but it could have been more seamlessly incorporated into the piece. And this is coming from someone understanding the A-to-B connections to the structure of the original.
I hate to seem out of touch, but this doesn't seem like an easy NO. And I heard this WIP and it's many, many problems from the get-go, and bitched about it, so I'm not being easy on it. There was an ambitious, expansive and creative arrangement, the dense soundscape was reasonably handled about as good as you're gonna get it courtesy Andy, and the voice work was strong even if I disagreed with the tone of the Zeromus vocals. It gets some signficant stuff wrong in the execution; the percussion was weak, there was clutter, and the track was too long. So I think if Jay improves, he'll look back on this in a few years and have more perspective on it. But those are basically the major crits from me, and not enough in light of what did work (which was a lot) to drag it down to NO. Flaws and all...
http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=ff4 - "The Final Battle" (ff4-43.spc)I understand crits on the female lead, and I agreed to some extent, but nowhere near where BGC was coming from, which I think was over the top. There were a couple of nasally-sounding moments, but I liked lisabela's lead. We're a hobbyist community, and the delivery was more than strong enough, IMO.
I said so numerous times in IRC, perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my actual vote, but in my own slight defense, I did say that I thought the vocals would have been nice in practically any other style. I know we're a hobbyist community, and I don't expect Jill-quality vocals in every submission by any means. What I said so clearly in IRC that apparently wasn't clear in my vote is that the flaws of the vocals are amplified (to me) by the fact that they feel so out-of-place with the rest of the song. I realize the intent (artistic expression as you worded it) of having the lead singer vs. the growl singer to tell the story of the game in the song, but I also concluded that while I appreciate the intent, the outcome just seemed too jumbled and cluttered.
Think of it this way. If someone records a live, I dunno, french horn in their remix, and while it's not perfect, it's a pretty decent recording, that's great. However, if the remix is say, some trance song where a french horn is generally not going to fit anyway, and the horn is mixed very dry and forward, it's going to probably seem worse than it is. And a performance that would otherwise probably be acceptable is going to seem much more exposed and weak. That's where I'm coming from.
I'm sure that I am going to look like a huge jerk to lisabela if/when she reads my crits, but that is absolutely not my intent. I don't think she has a terrible voice by any means, I just don't think that the performance was spot on, plus they weren't processed or mixed well, and that they didn't seem a proper fit for the rest of the song anyway.
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100 Best Albums & EPs Of 2014 (Part Three) – Blueprint / Essa / Timeless Truth etc.
Check Part One and Part Two.
Blueprint – “Respect The Architect” (Weightless Recordings) – Responsible for releasing a steady stream of quality music over the last decade-plus, Ohio producer-on-the-mic Blueprint channeled his life experiences, both good and bad, into this emotionally-charged body of work. Capturing a variety of moods and thoughts, Blueprint moved seamlessly throughout this album, from moments of powerful reflection to striking artistic defiance. Genuine soul music.
Skanks – “The Shinigami Flowfessional” (Shinigamie Records) – Spreading love may well be the Brooklyn way as Biggie once said, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be delivered with a heavy dose of rawness, as evidenced by NY emcee Skanks’ impressive solo project. Backed by the rugged, thunder-clap production of France’s Kyo Itachi, the Bankai Fam member repped for both the streets of his Crooklyn stomping grounds and the culture of Hip-Hop with equal parts passion, aggression and determination. How about some hardcore?
Wu-Tang Clan – “A Better Tomorrow” (Warner Brothers) – At one point it looked like “A Better Tomorrow” wasn’t likely to see the light of day, with there being discord within the Clan regarding RZA’s creative direction for the project. Yet, the brothers from the slums of Shaolin managed to find some musical middle ground. For the most part, this 20th anniversary album effectively balanced the Abbot’s grand ideas with traditional Wu-Tang slang, showcasing the still-impressive verbal skills of each member and also including some poignant rhymes for our troubled times.
Dilated Peoples – “Directors Of Photography” (Rhymesayers Entertainment) – Viewing the world through a camera lens on their first group project since 2006, West Coast trio Evidence, Rakaa Iriscience and DJ Babu added more worthy sonic snapshots to their extensive musical photo album, which now spans almost two decades. With “Directors Of Photography”, the crew showcased their creative growth whilst remaining faithful to their underground Hip-Hop roots set in the 90s indie scene.
Giallo Point & SmooVth – “Portrait Of A Pimp” (Crate Divizion) – SmooVth by name, smooth by nature, the Strong Island lyricist plundered UK producer Giallo Point’s beat stash for this sublime, low-key lesson in minimalist magic. Weaving subtle-yet-vivid rhymes around exquisite beats that ranged from cool-breeze loops to 70s soundtrack-style drama, SmooVth used his calm-but-deadly delivery to draw the listener into a cinematic world of fine women, fast living and slick street tales.
Eff Yoo & Godilla – “They Came On Horseback” (Eff Yoo & Godilla) – Riding into town from the high plains of NYC and Pennsylvania respectively, mic-slingers Eff Yoo and Godilla stood as outlaws against Hip-Hop’s diluted mainstream, crafting an album for those who still appreciate genuine lyricism. Joined on their musical travels by the likes of Spit Gemz, Shabaam Sahdeeq and UG of the Cella Dwellas, this rough-and-ready posse made their way through the badlands of rap, inviting like-minded heads to ride alongside them. Saddle up!
Lord Finesse – “The SP1200 Project” (Slice-Of-Spice) – The Diggin’ In The Crates legend unleashed a mammoth selection of masterful, sample-based beats on this brilliant instrumental project. Capturing the timeless essence of classic golden-era Hip-Hop, Finesse demonstrated why his reputation as one of the game’s illest producers remains firmly intact to this day.
Essa – “The Misadventures Of A Middle Man” (First Word Records) – London’s Essa (formerly known as Yungun) is the perfect example of an emcee who has really kept it real over the years in the truest sense of the term. Having displayed consistent artistic growth, integrity and honesty since debuting in the early-2000s, this long-awaited album found Essa delivering expertly-written verses over a varied selection of musical flavours, from futuristic soul and afro-beat to traditional, drum-heavy Hip-Hop. Capturing Essa’s thoughts on topics such as his mixed-race heritage, religion and family, “The Misadventures…” offered insight into the world of an artist with a sharp mind and an equally sharp lyrical ability.
Diamond District – “March On Washington” (Mello Music Group) – Successfully achieving the delicate balancing act of pushing creative boundaries whilst still satisfying original fans, DMV trio Oddisee, yU and Uptown XO’s follow-up to their 2009 album “In The Ruff” demonstrated both musical growth and a deeper lyrical approach. Spring-boarding off of Oddisee’s ever-expanding production palette, the group crafted a now-school album with influences that could be traced back to 70s soul and 90s Hip-Hop.
K-9 – “The Re-Education Of King 9” (Rotton Products) – This self-produced album from London emcee K-9 is what KRS-One would no doubt describe as ‘edutainment’. Proudly displaying a strong reggae influence rooted in old-school sound-system culture, K-9 also drew heavily on his West Indian ancestry as he linked the social plight faced by many inner-city British Black Black youth to the experiences of older generations arriving in England in the late-40s and after. Tackling racism, injustice and colonialism, “The Re-Education Of…” is as much a history lesson as it is a snapshot of present-day Britain. Intelligent, entertaining and engaging. Overstand!
Golden Brown Sound – “The Great Man Theory” (GBS) – Claiming to be bringing ’88 back, “not the place and time, but the state of mind”, Boston duo NoDoz and DJ On & On succeeded in crafting an album that, like so many golden-era favourites of yesteryear, was recorded with the intention of being valued and embraced by the Hip-Hop Nation first and foremost. NoDoz’s passionate social commentary and life observations sat tightly over On & On’s pounding production, resulting in “The Great Man Theory” being a combustible mix of mental stimulation, energy and true skills.
Various Artists – “Jamla Is The Squad” (Jamla Records) – With Statik Selektah on the ones-and-twos, this mixtape-style compilation of Jamla artists and allies showcased just how much talent is affiliated with the 9th Wonder-helmed label. Featuring the likes of Big Remo, Rapsody and GQ delivering expert wordplay over the soul-drenched boom-bap of Khrysis, Eric G and 9th himself, this album proved, as Busta Rhymes mighty say, that Jamla really is the squid-aud!
Keith Science – “Hypothalamus” (Central Wax Records) – Following up 2012’s impressive “Vessels Of Thought Volume II”, New Jersey producer Keith Science unlocked his lab to present this collection of atmospheric instrumentals. Ranging from mesmerising, late-night-flavoured beats, to sparse, neck-snapping rhyme-ready tracks, with “Hypothalamus” Science proved himself to be a true master of the sampling arts.
Ray Vendetta & Greater Good – “Effortless” (GreaterGoodBeats.BandCamp.Com) – A member of talented UK collective Triple Darkness, London emcee Ray Vendetta stepped outside of crew ranks to drop this dope solo project. Combining life memories, positive sentiments and raw imagery with the hazy, head-nodding production of Greater Good, “Effortless” was a hypnotic, and at times haunting listening experience, which stayed with you long after the last track faded away.
Sonnyjim & Leaf Dog – “How To Tame Lions” (EatGood Records) – Collaborations between particular emcees and producers may look good on paper, but don’t always translate well once both parties are in the studio. When done right, however, the final results can be a match made in Hip-Hop heaven, like this EP from Birmingham emcee Sonnyjim and High Focus Records production wizard Leaf Dog. Meshing colourful wordplay and rewind-worthy punchlines with sublime beats, the pair displayed a natural chemistry throughout “How To Tame Lions” which, hopefully, will be heard again on future releases.
Von Poe VII – “Only Godz Relate” (Organized Threat) – An ambitious project of epic proportions, this thirty-track double-album from West Coast emcee Von Poe found the skilled artist unleashing intricate verses laced with socially conscious sentiments, street knowledge and a strong sense of cultural pride. Linking with equally talented wordsmiths such as Planet Asia and the UK’s Melanin 9, Poe also demonstrated a sharp ear for quality production, with “Only Godz Relate” possessing a strong sonic identity thanks to the ominous, piano-laced soundscapes of Saheed Sha, Endure and Faces. Peace to the Godz!
Creestal – “Difference” (Munchie Records) – French producer Creestal’s instrumental project “Difference” (a dedication to the “dark and rugged” aspects of America) offered listeners a captivating sonic journey which conjured up images of New York City project buildings, late-night street-corner drama and lost record collections rediscovered in dusty basements. Meticulously pieced together from a variety of random sample material, “Difference” was as unpredictable as it was enjoyable.
Timeless Truth – “Dominican Diner” (TimelessTruthNYC.Com) – Building on the strong foundations of their previous releases and continuing to carry on tradition, blood-related “Queens giants” Oprime39 and Superbad Solace repped proudly for their NY borough throughout “Dominican Diner”, accompanied by atmospheric production from the talented Fafu. Staying true to the golden-era codes and ethics of Rotten Apple Hip-Hop, Oprime and Solace respectfully paid homage to the NYC sound that raised them whilst making their own worthwhile contribution to the city’s rap legacy.
Supastition – “Honest Living” (Reform School Music) – Written during a period in when North Carolina-raised, ATL-based lyricist Supastition found himself unemployed and looking for a j-o-b in an unsteady US economy, “Honest Living” was working-class Hip-Hop capable of resonating with anyone struggling to make-ends-meet and provide for their family. Backed by the melodic boom-bap of German producer Croup, Supa provided the perfect soundtrack for everyone out there counting down to payday every month.
Jazz Spastiks – “The Product” (JazzPlastik) – UK production duo Coconut Delight and Mr. Manayana delivered a flawless album with “The Product”, a thoroughly-satisfying, head-nodding extravaganza which found the pair supplying the likes of Yesh, Apani B. Fly and Count Bass D with their classic brand of jazz-infused beats. Smooth horn samples, huge basslines and dreamy keys were the order of the day here, resulting in a warm, timeless listening experience.
Part Four coming soon.
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Bradie Tennell, Mariah Bell named to world championship team
By Rachel LutzJan 26, 2019, 9:01 AM EST
After finishing with silver and bronze medals at the U.S. Championships, respectively, Bradie Tennell and Mariah Bell are headed to the world championships in March, U.S. Figure Skating announced Saturday.
Worlds are March 18-24 in Saitama, Japan.
Tennell finished sixth at the 2018 Worlds, her only appearance at the event, and Bell finished 12th in both 2017 and 2018.
Newly-minted national champion Alysa Liu is too young for the junior world championships this year, let alone the world championships. ISU rules states that participants in ISU Championships Series events must be 15 by July 1, 2018. Liu, 13, was born Aug. 8, 2005.
Tennell and Bell will be joined by Ting Cui, who finished fifth at nationals, at the Four Continents Championships that begin Feb. 5 in Anaheim, Calif.
The pairs and dance world team announcements are expected Sunday morning and the men are scheduled to be named Sunday evening.
Nathan Chen has said his status regarding competing at Four Continents, should he be named to the team, is “TBD.” He won Four Continents in 2017.
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Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff set Australian Open duel
By OlympicTalkJan 21, 2020, 11:41 PM EST
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Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff will meet in the third round of a second straight Grand Slam, this time at the Australian Open on Friday.
Osaka, the defending champion and world No. 4, and Gauff, the 15-year-old American phenom, each won second-round matches in Melbourne to reach the final 32.
Osaka swept Chinese Zheng Saisai 6-2, 6-4 on a windy Wednesday afternoon. Later, Gauff followed her first-round win over Venus Williams by eliminating Romanian veteran Sorana Cirstea 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
“I know what to expect,” Gauff said. “I’m excited.”
Osaka beat Gauff 6-3, 6-0 in the U.S. Open third round on Aug. 31. In the most memorable moment of that night, Osaka urged Gauff to share the on-court victor’s interview at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“It’s better than going into the showers and crying,” Osaka told Gauff in front of a packed crowd. “Let these people know how you feel.”
Gauff obliged after at first declining.
“I’m not the type of person who wants to cry in front of everyone,” she said later. “I didn’t want to take that moment away from [Osaka], as well.”
Gauff, ranked No. 684 at this time last year, is now No. 67. She broke through by beating Williams in the Wimbledon first round, then reaching the round of 16.
Gauff won a lower-level WTA Tour event in October and now ranks fifth in U.S. Olympic singles qualifying. The top four after the French Open qualify for the Tokyo Games, though Gauff has fewer than half the points as No. 4 Alison Riske.
“It’s been really cool to watch her grow because it’s happened so fast,” Osaka said.
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John Isner leaning toward skipping Olympics again
By OlympicTalkJan 21, 2020, 9:24 PM EST
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John Isner, the highest-ranked U.S. male singles tennis player, is considering skipping the Olympics for a second straight time.
“I haven’t put a ton of thought into it, but as of right now, I think I’m leaning towards not playing,” the 19th-ranked player said at the Australian Open on Tuesday. “It’s about scheduling. I know the Olympics, it’s a fantastic honor. There’s no doubt about that. … Right now, at this stage in my career, it’s not a huge priority for me. So that’s probably the main reason I won’t be going. I certainly love playing in the summer in America, and I’m going to focus on that.”
The Tokyo Games take place the same week as a lower-level ATP Tour event in Atlanta that Isner, a former University of Georgia star, has won five times.
Other notable male players already said they will pass on Tokyo, including Sam Querrey, the top American in Olympic qualifying standings.
Austrian Dominic Thiem, a two-time French Open finalist, is prioritizing an ATP event in Kitzbühel the week of the Olympics. The U.S. doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan are not planning to play the Olympics in their final season before retirement, their manager said in November.
“The Olympics is very tough on the schedule … especially with Davis Cup,” Isner said in 2016, according to USA Today. “I think the fact that they have no [ATP ranking] points [at the Olympics], to be honest, was a pretty big factor as well. Obviously the Olympics is not about the money, but no points I think hindered me a bit.”
Isner, who turns 35 on April 26, is likely giving up his last chance to play Olympic singles. In his only Olympic participation, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 London Games, plus lost an opening-round doubles match there with Andy Roddick.
The top four U.S. men qualify for Tokyo, assuming they are among the top 60 overall qualifiers (maximum four per country) after this spring’s French Open.
Taylor Fritz, Reilly Opelka, Steve Johnson and Tommy Paul are the U.S. men currently in Olympic qualifying position if excluding Querrey and Isner.
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Cool People for Week of October 14-20th
Matt Smith, seen in his uniform as Supervisor on El Toro at Great Adventure.
Bob and Patty Bennett.
Devin Bruton.
Mike Blandina, Columbus Parade Chair.
Brian Hoffnagle
Anne Avignone.
Greg Kohr.
Lucille Kindangen.
Samantha Samarelli, Tommy Bright, Danielle Stanulis.
SPECIAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to MISS HEATHER CLARK, QUEEN OF WOLCOTT, CONNECTICUT, whose big day is October 14th!
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Big Drill at 202 Dupont Avenue…
Firefighters from Seaside Heights and Toms River are seen at the location of 202 Dupont Avenue for a fire drill. The building is being demolished to make way for another luxury condo development.
On the evening of Tuesday October 9, 2007, Station 44, The Seaside Heights Volunteer Fire Department hosted a drill at the location of 202 Dupont Avenue, which is being demolished to make way for even more luxury condos. The drill was planned by SHFD Battalion Chief Lou Urcinole. Invited to the drill were members of Station 28, The East Dover Fire Company, and Station 26 from Downtown Toms River. Over 70 firefighters descended on the property for the drill, which included roof operations, forced entry, search and rescue practices. After the drill, those present went back to Station 44’s firehouse where a spread of food had been placed out by the Station 44 Auxiliary members. Food was catered by Mario’s South, Sub Doctors, and Mia’s Pizza. Following the meal, the various Chiefs and other line officers involved in the drill conducted a critique of the event to review what had been learned. The building used for the drill was once the home of the the late John Ricotta, longtime Seaside Heights Building Inspector. Seen at the drill was Station 44 member John LaStella, who is the grandson of Mr. Ricotta.
Over 70 firefighters from Seaside Heights and Toms River attended the drill at 202 Dupont Avenue in Seaside Heights.
After the drill, hungry firefighters returned to Station 44’s firehouse for a catered meal.
One Ocean Boulevard soon to be reality..
Workers are seen on the site of the new “One Ocean Boulevard”, a luxury condominium project underway at Porter Avenue and the Boulevard in Seaside Heights.
Another new condo complex is being built in Seaside Heights at the corner of Porter Avenue and The Boulevard. This property is next to Surf Liquors, and is at the site of what many might remember as the old Dairy Queen building, which has also been other businesses over the years. The property’s address is #1 Boulevard, and the condos are being Christened, “One Ocean Boulevard”. According to inside sources, One Ocean Boulevard promises to be very swanky and exclusive indeed. Since about 2003, a condo building boom has been occurring in Seaside Heights, and every year since, more and more projects are getting underway.
Rest in Peace Mrs. Theresa “Mom-Mom” Loffredo (1911-2007)…
Theresa “Mom-Mom” Loffredo (1911-2007)
It is with the greatest sadness that we must announce the passing of Mrs. Theresa “Mom-Mom” Loffredo, namesake of Mom-Mom’s Special Pie, the house specialty at Luna Rosa Trattoria, owned by Carmine DiRosa and wife Stephanie, who is Mom-Mom’s granddaughter. Mom-Mom passed on October 1, 2007, just a week shy of her 96th birthday. Mom-Mom was the matriarch of a large family, and the above photo was taken in 2005, when Mom-Mom was still in good health, and still making personal appearances promoting her secret recipe that goes back generations to Naples, Italy. Mom-Mom was doing great until about last year, when she was diagnosed with cancer. Last month, we reported that the original Mom-Mom was retiring from her role as official Mom-Mom’s Special Pie spokeswoman due to health issues, and her daughter Catherine Giordano would be taking over duties for her mother. Mom-Mom remained in her home in Orange until the end, and the house where she died is the same house she was born in 1911. All of our condolences go out to the family of Mom-Mom, as we know what a great loss this is.
Diane Martinez now at Palm Villa Deli..
Diane Martinez is seen with husband John on the steps of the Palm Villa Deli, where she has recently accepted employment.
A friendly and familiar face can now be seen at the Palm Villa Deli, Fremont Avenue and The Boulevard in Seaside Heights. Mrs. Diane Martinez has taken a job working at the convenience store, which opened a full-time, year-round operation in April 2007 and is from the same owners as the Babe’s Corner Store. Diane doesn’t have much of a commute, as her home is right across the street from the deli. Diane will be working the 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift , so do stop by and say hello. In addition to her duties at the deli, Diane is the treasurer for the Auxiliary of the Seaside Heights Volunteer Fire Department.
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Same-sex wedding app launches in Australia
announced by 360PR 10 months , category: Advertising, Alcoholic Beverages, Babies, Baking, Beauty, Beer, Boys, Brides, Catering, Child Care, Children & Teenagers, Cooking, Cosmetics, Desserts, Dining, Direct Marketing, Family, Food & Beverages, Food Industry, Food Products, Fragrances, Girls, Gluten-free Food, Hair, Health & Fitness, Hospitality, Inflight Magazines, Lifestyle, Luxury, Market Research, Media, Media & Marketing, Men's Interest, Nails, Nutrition, Organic Food, Outdoor Living, Parenting, Pets, Public Relations, Recipes, Shopping, Skincare, Social Media, Spirits, Teens, Travel, Tweens, Upcoming events, Vegan Food, Vegetarian Food, Weddings, Wine, Women's Interest, Youth
Yess app Founder’s same-sex wedding using new app World’s first LGBTQIA wedding planning app launches in Australia Media Release - 8 April 2019 Introducing yess, the world’s first, innovative...
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Cults – “Go Outside” Music Video
Between airing borderline kiddie porn and raking in the dough with Jersey Shore, MTV found the time to produce a music video for one of 2010's best songs, Cults' "Go Outside." Their interesting new series, "Supervideos," pairs film directors and actors with songs like "Go Outside" (earlier, LCD Soundsystem's "Pow Pow"). The Cults video was directed by Patrick Hoelck (his sole directing credit is the entirely vapid and predictable Mercy) and stars a very good looking couple; James Franco's brother, Dave Franco and Julia Roberts' niece, Emma Roberts. The video's narrative is the same cheesy young adult melodrama that makes Cults' music so enjoyable (admit it).
Watch it below:
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Cults - "The Curse"
Cults - "High Road"
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Alshon Jeffery Lane Johnson Greg Ward Jr. Corey Ballentine Brandon Brooks Boston Scott Derek Barnett Eli Manning Carson Wentz Zach Ertz Jake Elliott Daniel Jones Pat Shurmur Evan Engram Kamu Grugier-Hill Nelson Agholor Ronald Darby Jordan Howard Aldrick Rosas Darius Slayton Sports NFL football Professional football Football Athlete injuries Athlete health
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Eagles rally past Manning, Giants 23-17 in OT
By ROB MAADDI - Dec. 10, 2019 01:13 AM EST
Philadelphia Eagles' Jay Ajayi (28) is tackled by New York Giants' Dalvin Tomlinson (94), Janoris Jenkins (20), Corey Ballentine (25) and Michael Thomas (31) during the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Giants, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carson Wentz relied on a bunch of guys off the practice squad and his go-to guy Zach Ertz to rally the Philadelphia Eagles.
After Eli Manning led the New York Giants to a 14-point lead, Wentz brought the injury-depleted Eagles back and tossed a 2-yard touchdown pass to Ertz in overtime to give Philadelphia a 23-17 win on Monday night.
The Eagles (6-7) snapped a three-game losing streak and moved into a tie with Dallas (6-7) for first place in the NFC East. Philadelphia takes the division title if it wins its final three games. The Eagles meet the Cowboys in Week 16.
“Guys stepped up and made plays,” Wentz said. “We had guys moving around and I had no choice but to trust these guys."
The Eagles were down to one healthy wide receiver by the end of the game and were using inexperienced guys and players out of position. Ertz, a Pro Bowl tight end, had to line up at wide receiver.
“We understood as a team that we had to find a way," Ertz said.
Manning, the two-time Super Bowl MVP, threw a pair of TD passes to Darius Slayton in his first game since Week 2. Filling in for injured rookie Daniel Jones, Manning was 15 of 30 for 203 yards. But he couldn't prevent New York (2-11) from losing its ninth straight game, tying a franchise record set in 1976, when the team opened 0-9.
“I've played a lot of football games," Manning said. “I know the offense and know what I'm supposed to do. I made some good throws and didn't make some plays that I needed to."
Wentz threw for 325 yards and a pair of TDs, including a 5-yard toss to Ertz to tie it at 17 with 1:53 left.
Already missing three starters on offense, the Eagles lost wide receiver Alshon Jeffery and right tackle Lane Johnson in the first half and were booed off the field trailing 17-3 at halftime.
They went three-and-out on five straight possessions before Boston Scott caught a 10-yard pass on third-and-5 in the third quarter. Scott then ran 4 yards to the 2 on third-and-3 and scored on the next play to cut it to 17-10.
Scott, one of the former practice squad players, provided a big spark. He had 59 yards rushing and 69 yards receiving.
“Just do my job. You never know when your opportunity might come," Scott said.
Wentz drove Philadelphia to the Giants 29 with just under 10 minutes left but Greg Ward dropped what should've been a 29-yard TD pass on third-and-11. Jake Elliott then missed a 47-yard field goal wide left.
But the defense held and Wentz drove the Eagles 85 yards and connected with Ertz to tie it.
The Eagles won the toss in overtime and went 75 yards.
Ertz had nine catches for 91 yards.
Manning connected with Slayton for a 35-yard TD on a third-and-13 to give the Giants a 7-0 lead on the first play of the second quarter. Ronald Darby missed a tackle that would've stopped Slayton short of a first down.
Manning hit Slayton for a 55-yard TD on third-and-8 with 27 seconds left in the first half to give the Giants a 17-3 lead.
“I thought he battled. He did a lot of good things," Giants coach Pat Shurmur said of Manning.
Down 7-0, the Eagles got going when Wentz connected with Ertz on consecutive passes of 24 and 30 yards. Wentz then hit Ward for a 9-yard TD that was negated by a holding call on Brandon Brooks. The Eagles settled for Elliott's 34-yard field goal.
Aldrick Rosas hit a 34-yarder to make it 10-3.
ELI'S FUTURE
Manning, who turns 39 next month, is a free agent after the season. It's uncertain when Jones will return, so it's possible Manning could make at least one more start at home.
COMEBACK KIDS
The Eagles had lost 19 straight games when trailing by 14 or more points in the second half before rallying against the Giants. They previously overcame a 20-6 deficit in a 30-27 win over Indianapolis in Week 2 of the 2014 season.
Giants: TE Evan Engram (foot) and CB Corey Ballentine (concussion) were among the key players inactive.
Eagles: Jeffery (foot) and Johnson (ankle) didn't return after exiting in the second quarter. ... Regular starters DE Derek Barnett (ankle), WR Nelson Agholor (knee), RB Jordan Howard (shoulder) and LB Kamu Grugier-Hill (concussion) were inactive.
Giants: Host Miami (3-10) next Sunday.
Eagles: Play at Washington (3-10) next Sunday.
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Cardinals place lineman Rodney Gunter on IR, re-sign Reid
- Dec. 10, 2019 05:28 PM EST
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have placed defensive lineman Rodney Gunter on injured reserve because of a toe injury he suffered in the team's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 6-foot-5, 305-pound Gunter has played in all 13 games for the Cardinals this season, making 31 tackles and three sacks. Arizona announced the move Tuesday.
The Cardinals also announced they re-signed defensive lineman Caraun Reid. The 6-foot-2, 292-pound Reid was released Saturday after originally signing with the team on Dec. 4. He's in his sixth NFL season and has played in 44 career games.
Arizona hosts the Cleveland Browns Sunday.
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MUSIC BRIEF: Jeff Tassin releases acoustic guitar CD
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Deborah Woolston — Apr 19th, 2001
Though Jeff Tassin is one of West Sound's best-known musician-composers, he's releasing his first recording of original solo acoustic guitar music. The 1970 graduate of Bremerton's West High School is selling "Emotional Science" through local Albertson's stores.
It features 14 cuts of jazz- and blues-oriented numbers played on five different guitars. The price is $16 at Albertson's and $15 through Tassin's Web site, www.jefftassin.com.
The recording started as a request from his wife, Patty, to record instrumentals.
"She kept giving them away and I had to keep pressing them," said Tassin, who has a recording studio called Workshop Label. "I finally realized that people really liked it, and it's generated more compliments than anything I've ever done."
Local musician/producer really just a kid who loves guitars
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Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel will give a holiday concert Saturday night at Island Center Hall on Bainbridge Island. ERIC TINGSTAD AND NANCY RUMBEL: Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m., Island Center Hall, Fletcher Bay Road, Bainbridge Island, $10-$12; (206) 842-2306 While Nancy Rumbel learned the oboe, ... [Read More...]
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* PETE TOMACK: June 27, 1 to 3 p.m., Pot Belly Deli, 724 Bay St., Port Orchard, free; (360) 895-1396. After more than 20 years building a reputation on the Puget Sound acoustic circuit for solid country swing, Pete Tomack has moved into new lyrical ground. The musician brings ... [Read More...]
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The Nooners, from left, Ralph Scheving, Tom Wilson and Keoki Siegmund, all grew up in Bremerton and work at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Staff photo by Steve Zugschwerdt Sarah Sikes, 17, of Grapeview, and David Olivas, 17, of Belfair perform Olivas' song, "Can I Have ... [Read More...]
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Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948
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Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948
An interdisciplinary, policy-focused symposium
New College, University of Oxford
In 1948, diverse health provisions in Britain were consolidated into a single, state-directed service. After almost seventy years of the NHS—the bedrock of modern welfare—there is great concern about any return to a mixed economy of healthcare. The proposed privatisation of health services is controversial because it threatens to destabilise the complex relationships of patients with medical professionals and the state. It calls into question the structure and accessibility of healthcare, as well as the rights of patients, both as medical consumers and sources of medical data. Yet these are questions that equally shaped the development of the NHS prior to its foundation. Historical perspectives on pre-NHS healthcare—perspectives that are increasingly informed by the experiences of patients—are fundamental to understanding not just the past but also the choices before us.
Social historians of medicine have responded in various ways to Roy Porter’s 1985 call for histories incorporating the patient view. But despite work across diverse fields, patient voices before 1948 are yet to be fully integrated into historical scholarship. This symposium brings together historians, medical ethicists and archivists with interdisciplinary expertise to explore questions relating to the accessibility and ethics of the study of patient voices in the specific context of pre-NHS provisions. Through research presentations, roundtable discussions and interactive sessions, participants will explore how patients, health professionals and the state dealt with inadequate healthcare provisions and/or destabilising infrastructural changes.
Following the symposium, participants will be invited to submit articles for a special issue.
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that address one or more of the following questions:
How should historians access and interpret the experiences of patients, particularly those with stigmatising conditions?
How can historians negotiate archival ‘silences’ when locating patient voices?
What can patient experiences tell historians about past, present and future interactions between healthcare consumers and providers?
How can the study of historical patient experiences inform the social, political and clinical dimensions of healthcare in the future?
What ethical considerations should inform the collection, maintenance and use of sensitive medical archives, including digitisation, data analytics and discourse analysis?
How can attention to these ethical considerations shape the study of healthcare and facilitate high-quality medical-humanities research?
Proposals should not exceed 300 words and should be accompanied by a short biography. Please submit them to Anne Hanley (University of Oxford) and Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds) at patientvoicesproject@gmail.com by 12 April 2017.
This symposium is supported by the Ludwig Humanities Research Fund.
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Catholic Priest By the Side of Congressman Scalise
June 21, 2017 Posted in News, Research & Stories
(via Clarion Herald)
Father Tim Hedrick, parochial vicar of St. Catherine of Siena Church in Metairie, was in Washington, D.C., continuing his canon law studies when a news alert came across his phone June 14 that Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise, the House Majority whip, had been shot.
“I immediately called and texted Jennifer (Scalise’s wife) to let her know that I was here (in D.C.) and would go and be with Steve,” Father Hedrick said.
Scalise, his wife Jennifer and two children Harrison and Madison are Catholic and are parishioners of St. Catherine.
Father Hedrick said Jennifer Scalise, who was back home with the children in Louisiana, called for a police detail to pick up the priest from The Catholic University of America to bring him to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where Scalise was being treated.
“He was already in surgery, and they brought me down to surgery and I actually got to watch the surgery,” Father Hedrick said, who learned that several members of the surgery team were Catholic.
“They felt very comforted to know I was there, and they asked me to pray for them,” Father Hedrick said. He was at the hospital for 12 hours that first day and was able to give the sacrament of the anointing of the sick to Scalise.
“Just being there as a familiar face” has been comforting to Jennifer Scalise, Father Hedrick said. “(I am) one who can pray with her and pray for Steve. … I prayed with him first.”
Father Hedrick said he has also taken on the role of Jennifer’s communicator of Scalise’s condition with St. Catherine parishioners.
“Whatever updates she asks me to give, I do,” Father Hedrick said. “She wants to thank everyone for their outpouring of support. She’s strong. She’s done great.”
Scalise, who represents Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District, had participated for several years in the congressional baseball fundraiser since being elected to office in 2008. While attending an early-morning Republican team practice in Alexandria, Virginia, fielding ground balls near second base, he was shot in the hip by a gunman. MedStar Washington Hospital Center said the bullet fractured bones, injured internal organs and caused severe bleeding. Four others, including Capitol police officers who were on Scalise’s protective detail, a congressional staffer and a lobbyist, also were injured. The shooter, now identified as James Hodgkinson, died at the scene.
Knows them from St. Catherine
The Scalises attend the Metairie parish where Father Hedrick has been parochial vicar since July 2014. “I know him in my role as a priest and fellow (Archbishop) Rummel (High) graduate. And they (the family) come to church,” he said. Father Hedrick said he’s been in Washington the past three summers studying canon law and has visited Scalise in his congressional office. Scalise gave him a tour and secured tickets for his wife Jennifer, Father Hedrick and Archbishop Gregory Aymond when Pope Francis spoke to a joint session of Congress in 2015. Since the shooting, Father Hedrick said has visited the Scalises every day. He was present when President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Scalise in the hospital and learned the president had called Jennifer immediately after the shooting. “The interesting thing about the Trump visit – it was his birthday,” Father Hedrick. “He left his birthday party with Melania to meet with Jennifer. When President Trump came in, he was so calm and caring and concerned about Jennifer and Steve. He promised to help them and support them.”
Locals band together
Residents of Scalise’s hometown of Metairie have shown their love and concern. On the evening of the shooting, St. Catherine of Siena held a short prayer service for the Scalise family and all those injured. Several groups also were rallying to schedule blood drives on Scalise’s behalf.
Archbishop Rummel High School, where Scalise graduated in 1983, will have a blood drive June 23 from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. in the Raider Room on campus, 1901 Severn Ave., Metairie. Father Hedrick said New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond called Jennifer the day of the shooting and offered his prayerful support. “That’s the kind of support they are getting,” Father Hedrick said. “It’s a great comfort for her to know that people are praying for her back home. The president, archbishop and all these people, in the midst of the tragedy, are supporting her and praying for her.”
Father Hedrick considers it providential that he was in Washington when Scalise was shot and in such close proximity to the hospital where he landed. “Of all the hospitals in Washington, he was sent to the hospital three blocks from Catholic University. I can see it from my bedroom window,” he said. “It is comforting for the (Scalise) family but also for St. Catherine family that someone from their community is taking care of one of their own.”
He said he also has gotten to know the Capitol police detail that was injured with Scalise on the baseball field due to them accompanying Scalise to Mass when he is in Metairie. Father Hedrick is glad he can be there for them as well and said they are doing OK after the shooting. Father Hedrick said Jennifer Scalise asked everyone to keep praying for her husband, the other who were injured, the medical staff and her family. Scalise’s critical condition after a third surgery June 15 was upgraded on June 16 by MedStar Dr. Jack Stava who was “encouraged by an improvement in his condition” over the past 36 hours.
Scalise will remain in the hospital for some time and faces rehabilitation. The MedStar staff said other surgeries are necessary to manage abdominal and bone injuries. “He’s got great care,” Father Hedrick said. “The doctors are taking care of him. It’s just going to take time.”
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Welcome to the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
Be the solution
Introducing the Watts College
Dean Jonathan Koppell
Dear friends, colleagues, students and supporters:
Today was a momentous day for our college.
During today’s Community Solutions Festival, ASU President Michael M. Crow joined me in announcing the historic renaming of our college, now known as the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions — capturing the legacy of longtime ASU supporters Cindy and Mike Watts, founders of Sunstate Equipment Co.
Working at the forefront of societal challenges and trends, the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions is uniquely positioned to advance Mike and Cindy Watts’ vision of communities transformed through a collaborative, hands-on approach to developing solutions. By creating new pathways for student success, we are creating the next generation of public service leaders who will guide that transformation.
Our record for getting things done preceded this investment. We demonstrate what a university can do by harnessing the power of our faculty and students. We can move the needle on pressing community problems, working with community partners every step of the way.
The Watts’ gift will embed students, faculty and staff in communities to tackle local challenges. Their $30 million investment — one of the largest in ASU’s history — demonstrates a continuation of their commitment to advancing the prosperity of Arizona neighborhoods, cities and the entire state.
So how will the gift be used? It will go towards furthering collaborative community solutions, increasing academic excellence and broadening student access and success.
Innovative new programs, including a key initiative to revitalize the Maryvale neighborhood where the Watts grew up
Five endowed professorships to attract established scholars focused on community development, public policy, criminal justice and child well-being
Supporting student-driven programs, including:
Community Solutions Co-op
Student Social Entrepreneurship Fund
Undergraduate Research Program
Flexible funding for tuition and transformative experiences such as study abroad and internships, prioritized for first-generation students
I am struck by the millions upon millions of young people who are motivated to serve, but the motivation to serve isn’t necessarily enough. You have to be given the tools to serve and the resources to understand how do you make a difference.
I invite you to learn more about the Watts, the gift and its impact.
On behalf of the college, I want to express my extraordinary gratitude to Cindy and Mike Watts for their commitment to public service and belief in our college as an effective vehicle to deliver positive change to our communities. And I want to thank all members of our college's community who earned the Watts' confidence through your record of performance and impact.
An investment in public service education is an investment in our shared future. The name Watts will now, and in the future, be synonymous with public service.
Dean Jonathan GS Koppell
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Joint opportunistic beam and spectrum selection schemes for spectrum sharing systems with limited feedback
Mostafa Sayed, Mohamed Abdallah, Khalid Qaraqe, Kamel Tourki, Mohamed Slim Alouini
Information and Computing Technology
Spectrum sharing systems have been introduced to alleviate the problem of spectrum scarcity by allowing an unlicensed secondary user (SU) to share the spectrum with a licensed primary user (PU) under acceptable interference levels to the primary receiver (PU-Rx). In this paper, we consider a secondary link composed of a secondary transmitter (SU-Tx) equipped with multiple antennas and a single-antenna secondary receiver (SU-Rx). The secondary link is allowed to share the spectrum with a primary network composed of multiple PUs communicating over distinct frequency spectra with a primary base station. We develop a transmission scheme where the SU-Tx initially broadcasts a set of random beams over all the available primary spectra for which the PU-Rx sends back the index of the spectrum with the minimum interference level, as well as information that describes the interference value, for each beam. Based on the feedback information on the PU-Rx, the SU-Tx adapts the transmitted beams and then resends the new beams over the best primary spectrum for each beam to the SU-Rx. The SU-Rx selects the beam that maximizes the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) to be used in transmission over the next frame. We consider three cases for the level of feedback information describing the interference level. In the first case, the interference level is described by both its magnitude and phase; in the second case, only the magnitude is considered; and in the third case, we focus on a q-bit description of its magnitude. In the latter case, we propose a technique to find the optimal quantizer thresholds in a mean-square-error sense. We also develop a statistical analysis for the SINR statistics and the capacity and bit error rate of the secondary link and present numerical results that study the impact of the different system parameters.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2014.2314302
Limited Feedback
Spectrum Sharing
Telecommunication links
Multiple Antennas
Frequency Spectrum
Error Rate
cognitive radio
multiantenna systems
Sayed, M., Abdallah, M., Qaraqe, K., Tourki, K., & Alouini, M. S. (2014). Joint opportunistic beam and spectrum selection schemes for spectrum sharing systems with limited feedback. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 63(9), 4408-4421. [6780639]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2014.2314302
Joint opportunistic beam and spectrum selection schemes for spectrum sharing systems with limited feedback. / Sayed, Mostafa; Abdallah, Mohamed; Qaraqe, Khalid; Tourki, Kamel; Alouini, Mohamed Slim.
In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 63, No. 9, 6780639, 01.11.2014, p. 4408-4421.
Sayed, M, Abdallah, M, Qaraqe, K, Tourki, K & Alouini, MS 2014, 'Joint opportunistic beam and spectrum selection schemes for spectrum sharing systems with limited feedback', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63, no. 9, 6780639, pp. 4408-4421. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2014.2314302
Sayed M, Abdallah M, Qaraqe K, Tourki K, Alouini MS. Joint opportunistic beam and spectrum selection schemes for spectrum sharing systems with limited feedback. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2014 Nov 1;63(9):4408-4421. 6780639. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2014.2314302
Sayed, Mostafa ; Abdallah, Mohamed ; Qaraqe, Khalid ; Tourki, Kamel ; Alouini, Mohamed Slim. / Joint opportunistic beam and spectrum selection schemes for spectrum sharing systems with limited feedback. In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2014 ; Vol. 63, No. 9. pp. 4408-4421.
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Gap Filler Project 03: Film in the Gap (37)
Mar 2011 - May 2011
Gap Filler (x)
Cinema (x)
Photograph of Gap Filler project 3 (105)
A musician's shadow projected onto the rear wall of Mitre 10 at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project.
6:59pm 10th April 2011
Gap Filler, Movie, Film, Cinema, Community
The opening credits of "Draquila - Italy Trembles" at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. "Draquila - Italy Trembles" is a documentary that examines the Berlusconi government's corruption and abuse of power during the aftermath of the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy. It was directed by Sabina Guzzanti.
7:22am 9th April 2011
Photograph of Gap Filler project 3 (93)
Members of the public watching the film 'Two Cars, One Night' by Taika Waititi at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. The film was projected onto the wall of Mitre 10 in Beckenham.
Lyttelton band, Runaround Sue, performing at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham.
Members of the public watching Lyttelton band, Runaround Sue, perform at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham. In the foreground is one end of a fence made of old metal bed heads and decorated with fairy lights.
The sun setting over Gap Filler's "Film the in Gap!" project in Beckenham.
Members of the audience at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham. Gap Filler has decorated the site with bunting, fairy lights and a fence made from old metal bed heads.
Members of the public listening to Lyttelton band, Runaround Sue, perform at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. Gap Filler has provided old beds and garden swing seats as seating.
Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham. Fairy lights have been used to decorate a fence made of old metal bed heads around the site.
Lyttelton band, Runaround Sue, setting up at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham.
The audience taking their seats at Gap Filler's "Film the in Gap!" project in Beckenham. Gap Filler have enclosed one side of the site with a fence made of old metal bed heads.
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The Macross Saga
Episode 3: Space Fold
Lieutenant Commander Fokker returns to bring Hunter and Minmei to the safety of the SDF-1. Captain Gloval tries to determine the Zentraedi strategy while Breetai puzzles over how to capture the SDF-1 with the least amount of damage. Exedore warns his commander that, once free of the planet’s gravity, the ship can execute a hyperspace fold that will carry them beyond the reach of Zentraedi weapons. Breetai reluctantly increases the laser bombardment.
On board the SDF-1, Fokker shows Rick that they have managed to salvage the young man’s flying circus aircraft. Rick is happy to give up the Veritech in exchange for his old familiar racer – a vehicle that doesn’t change shape or fire laser. His first taste of battle was more that enough; Rick has no desire to become a fighter pilot. Fokker returns to duty, leaving Rick and Minmei with the little plane. Minmei wants to return to her aunt and uncle in the evacuation shelter on Macross Island. Rick still wants to impress the girl and, although he has promised Fokker he won’t wander off, he decides to fly back to the island so that girl can rejoin her family.
In the interim, Captain Gloval has decided to make an emergency jump into hyperspace at an altitude of 2,000 feet above Macross Island. To the Zentraedi’s amazement, the SDF-1 executes a space fold maneuver that places them beyond reach of battle. In minutes, the besieged SDF-1 and her crew find themselves in the icy expanse of deep space, but they also discover that their proximity to Earth during the fold has caused Macross Island to be transported with them. Disaster piles on disaster as they find themselves orbiting the planet Pluto instead of the moon. Then, when they prepare to re-fold to get back to earth, they discover that the fold system has vanished into thin air.
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Read The Wall Online
Authors: William Sutcliffe
BOOK: The Wall
For Saul
We sprint for the ball
I’ve lived in Amarias
The cover over
I grip hard
‘I’ll try and help you,’
The sounds of the street
Hand knee hand knee. 42.
When I appear at the door
By the time Liev arrives
In the middle of the night
I take my usual route
A hand on my shoulder
I stop playing football
My bag is packed and ready.
With the cap pulled low
With its broken tiles
The ankle is easy enough
At midday
On Fridays
I climb straight into
I start going
I prepare the hole first
With my seedling in the ground
During July
High up on the peak
For the first half
Hot, dry air
The only part
‘Josh. It’s me
The house is strangely hushed
Squares of white ceiling tiles
A week or so later
It’s not just the doors
This is where I come to think
A Note on the Author
, shoulder to shoulder, our backpacks thumping from side to side. I get in front, but David grabs my schoolbag and pulls me back, like a rider stopping a horse.
‘Oi!’ I shout. ‘That’s a foul!’
‘There’s no such thing.’
‘Yes there is!’
‘Not when there’s no ref.’
David gets to the ball first and shields it with his body. ‘Watch this,’ he says, and jumps on the spot with a jerk of his heels, trying to flick the ball over his head. It dribbles out sideways and rolls into the gutter. David thinks he’s a good footballer, even though he’s so uncoordinated he only knows where his feet are when he’s looking at them.
I wedge the ball between my ankles and leap, with a sharp knee-bend, then swivel. The sphere of leather sits up in the air perfectly, as if it’s waiting for my foot, and I execute what can only be described as an incredible volley, right on the sweet spot. The ball flies away, faster and further than I could ever have hoped.
Life, as you probably know, is full of ups and downs. There is always a price to pay for perfection.
At exactly the moment my trainer whacks into the football, the empty road where we’re playing stops being empty. The security car comes round the corner, but my ball is already in the air, and there’s nothing I can do to get it back again.
The driver can’t be looking very carefully, because he only slams on the brakes after the ball thumps into his windscreen. David runs for it. I sprint for the ball, getting to it just as the security guard climbs out of his car.
‘Was that you?’ he shouts.
‘No,’ I say, as I’m picking up the ball.
‘Do you think I’m stupid?’
I’m very, very close to saying ‘yes’. If I did, I think it might be the funniest thing I’ve ever said, especially since he probably is a bit stupid. Imagine just driving round and round all day, patrolling streets where nothing ever happens. Even if you were clever when you started, your brain would eventually turn to mush. He’s got a gun, but you can’t shoot someone just for calling you stupid.
I keep my mouth shut and run off with the ball, to where David’s waiting for me, half hiding behind a parked car. I tell him what I almost said and he finds it so funny he punches me on the arm, which is actually quite annoying, so I punch him back, then he shoves me so I grab him round the waist and we begin to wrestle.
When the security car drives past us, David’s sitting on my head, and I see the driver tutting at us as if he thinks we’re idiots, but I know it’s him that’s the idiot.
We go back to football tricks after that, until David tries to copy my volley and the ball sails up, across the street, above the bus stop, and over the hoardings around a building site. This isn’t one of the normal building sites around the edge of town, either; this is the strange one opposite the medical centre, where nothing ever gets built, and you never see a single person go in or out.
‘I don’t believe it,’ he says, which is what I knew he was going to say.
‘That’s a new ball!’
‘It bobbled,’ he says. I knew he was going to say that, too.
He’s trying not to look at me, and I can see him thinking about walking away, so I step in front of him and block his path. ‘You’ll have to go over and get it,’ I say.
We look up at the hoarding. It’s more like a wall: solid wood, with nowhere to see in, and more than twice my height. It was originally painted blue, but over the years it’s faded to a dishwater grey, with the paint bubbling up in cracked oval blisters. This building site is pretty much the only place in Amarias that’s not spanking new. The rest of the town feels like it’s just been unwrapped from cellophane.
One section of the fence is a hinged opening, wide enough for a truck, but it’s locked shut with a thick chain which is rusted dark as chocolate. Thinking about my ball, lost over the hoarding, it occurs to me for the first time how strange it is that everyone calls this place a building site, when no one ever builds anything there.
‘You have to climb in and get it,’ I repeat.
‘We can’t go in there,’ he snaps.
‘I didn’t say we, I said you.’
‘There’s no way in.’
‘You’ll have to climb over. It’s a new ball. It was a present.’
‘There’s no way I’m going in there.’
‘So you’ll get me a new ball?’
‘I don’t know. I have to go.’
‘You have to get me a ball, or go in there and get that one back.’
David looks at me with heavy, reluctant eyes. I can see on his face that he’s given up on the ball, and now he just wants to get away from my nagging. ‘I’m late,’ he says. ‘My uncle’s visiting.’
‘You have to help me get the ball back.’
‘I’m late. It’s just a ball.’
‘It’s the only one I’ve got.’
‘No it isn’t.’
‘The only leather one.’
‘Don’t be such a baby.’
‘I’m not being a baby.’
‘Baby.’
being a baby.’
‘Saying “baby baby baby” over and over makes you a baby, not me,’ I say. I’m embarrassed to be even having this conversation, but with David there’s sometimes no way out. He drags people down to his level.
‘Then why can’t you stop whining about the ball?’
‘Because I want it back.’
Because I want it back
,’ he says, in a baby voice.
I’m not the kind of guy who hits people, but if I were, this is when I’d do it. Smack on the nose.
His backpack is dangling off one shoulder. If I grab his bag and toss it over the fence, he’ll have to climb in. I lunge for it, but he’s too quick. Not that David is ever quick, but I’m just too slow. He’s read my thoughts, and in a second he’s running away, laughing a fake laugh.
David is my best friend in Amarias, even though he’s extremely annoying. Amarias is a strange place. If I were living somewhere normal, I don’t think David would be my friend at all.
‘You owe me a ball!’ I shout after him.
You owe me a ball
’ he says, slowing to a walk, knowing he’s out of reach.
I watch him go. Even the way he walks is irritating, lolloping from leg to leg as if his shoes are made of lead. He thinks he’s going to be a fighter pilot; I think he’s too clumsy to control any machine more complicated than a bicycle pump.
The most frustrating thing of all is that I know in a day or two I’ll have to forget about the ball and make friends again. I used to have lots of people to choose from, but out here, there’s only David. The other boys in Amarias don’t like me, and I don’t like them. They think I’m a weirdo and I think they’re weirdos. In this town, weird is normal and normal is weird.
I look up at the fence. It’s unclimbable. I walk alongside it, blackening my fingertips against the rough wood, bursting a couple of paint blisters with my thumb, until I get to a corner and turn into an alley. I pause to examine the neat ovals of filth at the end of each finger, then place them back on the wooden surface and head down the narrow corridor of cool, shady air. Soon, I come up against a metal dumpster. It’s higher than my hand stretched above my head, but if I can climb on to its lid, it might work as a step that could get me over. If I want my ball back, this is the way.
I take off my schoolbag, hide it in the gap between the dumpster and the fence, then take a few steps back. A short run-up and a good leap is enough to get a decent grip on the hinge. With a swing and a kick, I hook a leg on to the lid, and after an awkward wriggle, which rubs more of me against the bin than I’d really like, I’m up. A tricky manoeuvre, perfectly executed. Climbing isn’t a proper sport, but if it were, it would be the sport I’m best at. I can’t explain why, but whenever I look at a high thing, I want to go up it.
There’s a man who climbs skyscrapers. He just turns up and does it, and by the time he’s off the ground, no one can stop him. When he gets to the top he always gets arrested, but he doesn’t care. I bet that even the policemen doing the arrest secretly wish they were his friend. Sometimes, when I’m bored, I look at things and figure out where the best handholds and footholds would be. The best climbers can lift their whole body weight with one finger.
I look around from the top of the dumpster. There isn’t anything to see – only the alley – but just viewing the world from double my normal height feels good. Sour, fishy wafts are coming up from under my feet. The lid sags under my weight, bending inwards with each step. If it breaks, I can picture how I’d look. I’ve seen it in cartoons a hundred times. The angry face smeared in red and brown goo, a fried egg on one shoulder, a fish skeleton on the other, spaghetti on top of the head. There’s always spaghetti. If you add in the stink and imagine it actually happening, it isn’t funny any more.
From the lid of the bin I can’t see over the fence, but I can now see that the site goes right up to The Wall. If this place does have a secret purpose, this position has to be the key. I pull myself up on to the splintery top of the fence, and with one leg dangling on either side, look down into the site for the first time. There is a house. Just a house and a garden, but I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.
The Bordeaux Betrayal by Ellen Crosby
The Third Macabre Megapack by Various Writers
B009YBU18W EBOK by Zamoyski, Adam
The Know by Martina Cole
Hooked for Life by Taft, J L
A Notorious Countess Confesses (PG7) by Julie Anne Long
On Raven's Wings by Isobel Lucas
Raw Desire by Kate Pearce
Coldwater Revival: A Novel by Nancy Jo Jenkins
The Yorkshire Pudding Club by Milly Johnson
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Moving forward in the new year
Good morning, studio fans! This is my belated new-year message for 2016. It usually takes a while to get my ʻōkole in gear after the holidays and the lovely celebrations for my birthday in early January. Yesterday I was most inspired by the Royal Hawaiian Band concert at the palace grounds, where I walked after lunching with a friend in downtown Honolulu.
ʻIolani Palace grounds during the Friday noontime performance by the Royal Hawaiian Band draws an appreciative audience.
The program featured the music of Liliʻuokalani in remembrance of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. My friend Malia is the Band’s soloist, and I was glad to hear her sing. She is a phenomenal vocalist. What a gift she has. The entire program was very uplifting. I awoke this morning with the tunes in my head and a vow to keep music in my life; learn or practice something new every day. Reminder number one!
Reminder number two: Take time to socialize with others and make friends, especially as I grow older, to keep my attitude and perspective in check. Besides, it’s fun! Becky, the friend I lunched with (she is like a sister to me) listened as I inventoried my current health issues (I go in for an annual physical around my birthday). I thought she was being sympathetic, but being younger, she said her interest was in learning what problems she might expect for herself in the future. Humph. We had a good laugh over that one!
Reminder number three plus: Be aware of teachable moments and be kind. In Hawaiʻi, Sovereignty Sunday (remembering the overthrow) coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Miss Marvelous, 6, is in first grade and reads now, lending to interesting conversations between grandparent and grandchild. For example, she reported that she is learning “mindfulness” in school. The other day she asked me, “Am I white?” to which I countered, “What do you mean?”
Big sigh. “You know, a long time ago, maybe the Russians and the Germans couldn’t marry. I’m talking about ancient history,” the child said. “And that King!” Clearly she wanted an answer, and I almost forgot the original question.
I’m drawn to her (my) confusion. King Kamehameha? King Kalākaua?
“Papa, help us out here.”
DH offers, “Martin Luther King?”
Ohhh… (lightbulb)…
“Well, Ayla, if you are asking about the color of your skin or descending from Caucasoids, then yes, you are White,” I said.
Judging the expression on her face, I detected it was a complicated issue in her mind, as she lost interest and ran off to play, as I hoped she would hear me say, “Peoples’ skins on the outside are different colors, but on the inside our hearts are the same.”
As I mused, if she is white, what am I: brown? yellow? beige?
(Copyright 2016 Rebekah Luke)
Tags: friend, Hawaiian, Hawaiian music, Honolulu, Iolani Barracks, Iolani Palace, Liliuokalani, Malia Kaai, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, music, new year's resolution, Royal Hawaiian Band, sovereignty
Categories : About me, Friends & Family, Hawaiian, Music, Travel
Thank you, Eric Whitacre and team!
I am one of eight singers from the Hawaiian Islands who joined Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 4 to perform his “Bliss.” The premier will be on July 13 in London. There are 5,797 voices on the map, and mine is one of them! 🙂
Tags: Bliss, Eric Whitacre, music, sing, Virtual Choir 4
Categories : About me, Music
The Hakuoh University Handbell Choir
Handbell choir members talk to audience on stage after the performance. Here are some of the bigger bells. The largest, a low C, weighs almost 15 pounds.
I skipped out early from my Windward Community College Tai Chi Class last night to hear the Handbell Choir from Hakuoh University (Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan) in a free public concert at Paliku Theatre on the same campus at 7. It was the choir’s 21st Goodwill Tour of Hawaii, but the first time I’d heard their music.
The beautiful full sound of another bell choir at a music festival in 1987 captivated Professor Hirotaka Arai so much that he was moved to start the all-female choir. Today’s choir can ring seven octaves of handbells with 100 to 120 separate pieces. Of the 11 numbers last evening, Music Director Arai arranged six of them.
Listening to handbells is a rare treat. Watching 19 young women ring them is very interesting. There is more than one way to play the bells. Grasping them by the handle and shaking them in the air, hitting them on the table, or laying them on their side and playing them with drum mallets. One at a time, or up to four at a time.
I closed my eyes occasionally, just to listen to the music without watching the performers or the director, and I found I could get lost in the sounds and songs of the bells. Especially during “Jupiter” by Gustav Holst and Leonard Bernstein. I got way out there!
The Hakuoh Handbell Choir sings and dances hula to “Pearly Shells” while waiting for official photography. Their sponsor in the back row with the light-colored lei is Dr. Joyce Tsunoda, past head of the University of Hawaii Community Colleges system (and my former boss. It was great to see her!).
Tags: Hakuoh University, Handbell, Handbell choir, music
Categories : About me, Friends & Family, Music, Travel
Hana hou: ukulele and family history
Excited and inspired this morning!
What with a fun day yesterday at the Waikiki Shell with DH and my friends. We went there to join hundreds of others in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the most number of ukulele players playing the same song together in the same venue. With none other than ukulele artist extraordinaire Jake Shimabukuro leading.
And connecting with my first cousin once removed J.H. Kim On Chong-Gossard to collaborate on a sequel to The Chong Family History.
Nope, we didn’t break the record. 😦 There were a little more than 1,050 ukulele players, and Hawaii needed a little more than 1,500. The Waikiki Shell has seats for 1,958. The current record? It’s held by Sweden! Even though we failed at the Guinness thing, the effort raised a lot of money for charity. I guess we’ll have to hana hou (do it again). http://www.gofordarecord.org informs all about the effort and the event.
We're waiting for the attempt to begin AND for people to fill up the seats behind us. These are my friends Colleen, Skyler, Pi‘ikea, cousin Nathan, and DH. It was in the heat of the day, and we waited until the last minute to take out our ukulele so the instruments wouldn't be damaged (so advised Nathan who is a luthier). Bottom line: we had fun!
Of course we were surprised that more people didn’t turn up for this, especially with the social media capability that we have now. I guess one can’t just post something on the internet. You have to tell people that you posted and how to find the information. And remember that not everyone “does” the internet.
Which brings me to my cousin. I call him Jim. Around the studio, behind his back but within earshot, we call him Teddy Bear Jim in honor of his vast collection of the stuffed toys. He calls himself K.O. for Kim On, that was his grandfather’s name, that he asked for and took legally. Jim is our family genealogist.
He’s on vacation from the University of Melbourne where he teaches, to crank out a book in time for our family reunion in August 2012, or at least do the research in a couple three of weeks time.
The first time he did this was 20 years ago, and The Chong Family History told about five generations, starting with my maternal grandparents who met at an orphanage in China. Jim would come here from America as a student on his spring and winter school breaks and interview our large family. My Chong Hee Books publishing company was born, and we held our first family reunion.
My maternal grandparents and 13 of their 15 children in Kohala. My mother, seated front row and center, was the baby of the family. Jim's grandfather is standing, far right. All of these ancestors have now passed. They comprised the first and second generations. Today, generation number six has shown up. We'll have a big reunion in 2012.
Publishing was not as computerized as it is today, so I am excited at the prospect of how more creative we can be with the sequel update, and perhaps even making it available as an ebook.
I can’t wait to see Jim in person on Tuesday. Meanwhile we are tossing ideas back and forth wirelessly. I am so proud of him. He got a new cell phone and joined Facebook—finally!
Tags: authoring, Facebook, genealogist, genealogy, internet, Kim On Chong-Gossard, music, publishing, ukulele, world record
Categories : About me, Chong Hee Books, Friends & Family, Memoir
Musical conducting from my dan tien
Thanks for visiting again! I’ve been away from the studio a bit, doing some cool stuff. It’s never too late to learn something new!
As my Facebook friends already know, I went to a choral conductors workshop one weekend and a food forum with farmers and chefs the next.
Back in the studio I’m preparing for a visit from the Easter bunny, a group art show, a trip to Kohala to scout for a family reunion in 2012, and summer drawing classes for the neighborhood kids. Today’s story is …
CONDUCTING FROM MY DAN TIEN
A last-minute private plea to attend a choral conductors workshop appeared in my e-mailbox, saying only five conductors and four singers had signed up.
What a shame, because a delightful gentleman named Rodney Eichenberger was in Honolulu to show and teach how a choir director’s posture and hand movements produced a corresponding sound from a group of singers. A conductor’s conductor, the professor was now in his 80s; and who knows when he would come to the Islands again. Would I consider attending?
With 30 dollars I registered as a singer for two days (Conductors need singers!), with meals included. To me, this was a good deal, to learn from the best! I enjoy choral singing: school choirs, church choir, pit chorus, Honolulu Chorale, lunchtime choir, glee club, neighborhood Christmas carolers. If the opportunity presents itself and it feels right in my heart, I’m there.
Before teaching us his bag of tricks, Rod Eichenberger shared his rules for conductors:
• No talking. Except to identify the title of the piece, line or measure. The time spent talking is put to better use singing.
• No playing of individual voice parts. Just start right in and sing the piece start-to-finish two times. This encourages sight-reading, he said. For those singers who have personal issues with the music, they will resolve the issue by the end of the second time through. We had just one exception to this rule when the accompanist pointed out that the melody line was not being sung correctly.
• Conduct from your energy power center, your dan tien, not any higher or lower. Dan tien is a Chinese tai chi term referring to the area of your body about the size of your fist, below your navel and toward the curve of your back. Described another way, when conducting keep your hand movements directly in front of you, about waist level and below while standing perfectly straight.
*Trust the singers. They are here to sing and will deliver.
Each conductor took a turn at conducting a new piece. Then Rod would explain and show how to make it better. A turn of the wrist here. A tiny pinch with the fingers there. He found something to improve in each conductor’s style. In a second rehearsal each conductor could review a challenging passage with the singers, and Professor Eichenberger would suggest further changes.
The workshop results were so remarkable, our teacher had all of us giggling! So easy, so much better, and so much fun! In the end, I recall, say, eight conductors each with just a few minutes of instruction, eight new pieces music, and three dozen singers learned remarkably simple and logical choral technique. With an amazing piano accompanist who was reading the music the first day for the first time herself, we performed a concert at 8 p.m. on the second day. We were good! I feel so lucky to be a part of this group experience.
Tags: choir, choral conductor, conducting, dan tien, music, Rodney Eichenberger
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The Pravo Ljudski Film Festival arose from the commitment to record, disclose, explain and question, but also to finally provoke thinking and inform through independent cinema and arts. What has started as educational documentary films screenings for the students of the European Regional MA in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe, since 2006 has developed into an international festival contributing to the promotion of creative documentary cinema and audio-visual arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.
The first festival, which took place in June, 2006 screened 17 films, and welcomed 7 guest filmmakers… Obviously, it was more then enough to create an inner sparkle, an inspiration for devoted work and commitment to the promotion of independent cinema and the art of film across Bosnia and Herzegovina… Not only in Sarajevo, and not only inside the cinemas.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Homeland Security Coast Guard Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Lake Pontchartrain, Near New Orleans, LA, 5040-5041 [2016-01729]
Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Lake Pontchartrain, Near New Orleans, LA, 5040-5041 [2016-01729]
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 20 (Monday, February 1, 2016)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 5040-5041]
33 CFR Part 117
[Docket No. USCG-2016-0038]
Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Lake Pontchartrain, Near New
Orleans, LA
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of deviation from drawbridge regulation.
SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the
operating schedule that governs the US 11 bascule bridge across Lake
Pontchartrain, mile 4.75, between New Orleans and Slidell, Orleans and
St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana. The deviation is necessary to
accommodate the Louisiana Paradise Bridge Run event. The deviation will
allow the draw of the bridge to remain in the closed-to-navigation
position during the event.
DATES: This deviation is effective from 6:45 a.m. through 8:45 a.m. on
February 20, 2016.
ADDRESSES: The docket for this deviation, [USCG-2016-0038] is available
at http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this
temporary deviation, call or email Jim Wetherington, Bridge
Administration Branch, Coast Guard, telephone (504)671-2128, email
james.r.wetherington@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Slidell Memorial Hospital Foundation,
through the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
(LDOTD), requested a temporary deviation from the operating schedule of
the US 11 bascule bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, mile 4.75, between
New Orleans and Slidell, Orleans and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana.
The deviation was requested to allow the draw of the bridge to remain
in the closed-to-navigation position during the Louisiana Paradise
Bridge Run event. The vertical clearance of the vertical lift span
bridge is 13 feet above mean high water in the closed-to-navigation
position and 61 feet in the open-to-navigation position. The bridge is
governed by 33 CFR 117.5.
This deviation is effective on February 20, 2016 from 6:45 a.m.
through 8:45 a.m. The deviation will allow the draw of the bridge to
remain in the closed-to-navigation position during the Bridge Run
Navigation on the waterway consists of small tugs with and without
tows, commercial vessels, and recreational craft, including sailboats.
Vessels able to pass through the bridge in the closed-to-navigation
position may do so at any time. The bridge will be able to open for
emergencies, and there is no immediate alternate route. The Coast Guard
will also inform the users of the waterways through our Local and
Broadcast Notices to Mariners of the change in operating schedule for
the bridge.
In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e), the drawbridge must return to
its regular operating schedule immediately at the end of the effective
period of this temporary deviation. This deviation from the operating
regulations is authorized under 33 CFR 117.35.
[[Page 5041]]
Dated: January 26, 2016.
David M. Frank,
Bridge Administrator, Eighth Coast Guard District.
[FR Doc. 2016-01729 Filed 1-29-16; 8:45 am]
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How to deal with a quiet player?
I have an ongoing game of Mage: the Ascension. While everything is going quite OK and I am pretty happy about what is going on around the table, I noticed that one of my players is a bit quiet and prefers to observe discussion and chip in when relevant.
The player is active when his PC is doing something or talking to an NPC, so it's not a problem of complete disengagement. However, especially if there is more players around, he would let others "drive" the game, while himself staying out of the limelight most of the time. I am not saying that other players completely overshadow him, but that he is not seizing opportunities to get more "face time" in the game.
The players is new to the genre and inexperienced in tabletop RPing in general. Since the game is quite heavy on in-game knowledge that the characters slowly explore, I understand that sometimes a feeling of inadequacy might creep from the PC to the player. I would like to see an answer, regarding these circumstances to the following question:
How to ensure the quieter player has equal amount of fun?
I tried to talk to him, but because of his personality he just says that he's fine and chill about it and the game is OK, going in the right direction. I'm not personally sure if that's the case, but ultimately I worry that he gets the short end of the stick, which is not fine to me.
social mage-the-ascension
eimyreimyr
\$\begingroup\$ Are you worried that the player isn't enjoying themselves and doesn't want to tell you? Because it sounds like the player is already having an equal amount of fun, which would mean there's no problem at all. \$\endgroup\$ – Erik Mar 30 '15 at 15:35
\$\begingroup\$ A very good read on what not to do ;) How to piss off an introvert. Link deals with traveling but the points are still the same. \$\endgroup\$ – DoubleDouble Mar 30 '15 at 19:53
\$\begingroup\$ @DoubleDouble Oh my goodness a thousand times yes. Thank you for the link, as a oft-misunderstood introvert myself! \$\endgroup\$ – SevenSidedDie Mar 31 '15 at 21:52
\$\begingroup\$ See also: Strategies for dealing with turtle or roach players? \$\endgroup\$ – Eric Apr 1 '15 at 12:08
You've already covered it, let him contribute the level he wants to, even if that's less than other players.
Different players want different things out of a game. Don't drive your player away by forcing him to RP if he isn't up for it in every scene. I myself love to roleplay, but this is not a constant from session to session and my energy and emotional investment can vary largely from scene to scene. I may take the limelight for a session while I try to lead the party with a plan I've come up with as a player, but I also frequently take a back seat if there's nothing pressing to my character and I am okay with the general progression of events and party decisions being made. Ultimately your player having a good time is something only they can gauge, if he/she says they are having fun and are okay with things then respect their self-knowledge and let things be.
Joshua Aslan SmithJoshua Aslan Smith
\$\begingroup\$ Yep. I have had a player like this for years. You can't force someone to be more outgoing that they are. \$\endgroup\$ – SevenSidedDie Mar 30 '15 at 16:07
\$\begingroup\$ This. I'd only see it as a problem if you(eimyr) have reasons to believe he's lying about it being fine, if the other players have problem with it or if the other players take the spotlight when his character (not the player) should have it. For example, if his character's personal storyline is diverted or if his character is the face of the party but isn't doing it. \$\endgroup\$ – 3C273 Mar 30 '15 at 17:10
\$\begingroup\$ Sometimes being quiet is role-playing. Role-playing is not only talking. \$\endgroup\$ – Robert Fisher Mar 30 '15 at 18:51
\$\begingroup\$ I have greatly annoyed a player by repeatedly trying to make sure he's enjoying the game. +1 to this answer; let the person find their own level of fun. Don't make it an issue. \$\endgroup\$ – Longspeak Mar 31 '15 at 1:47
\$\begingroup\$ Sometimes being in the theatre of the mind means thinking and not talking. \$\endgroup\$ – schroeder Mar 31 '15 at 23:00
I'm this kind of person quite often - A quiet, inexperienced RPer, who is happy to sit back and let the other players/characters 'drive the game' as you put it, while still interacting with NPCs and engaging with the story when necessary.
I believe I have just as much fun as everybody else at the table, in any case I have as much fun as I'd like to. I was a little worried recently when I was playing a bard with (necesarily) high charisma, but I gave them a really low wisdom score to explain their being 'absent minded' and therefore not trying to take the limelight all the time.
I've also been playing in a World of Darkness game (Vampire: the Masquerade) recently where perhaps the GM is trying to get me to behave less like this - by making my character a pretty huge part of the story of the game. I'm OK with that, I'm having just as much fun with it - but I don't feel like I'm having 'more fun' by 'doing more'. Just hanging out with my friends playing with our imaginations is what I find fun.
Given that you've asked your player if they're having fun and got a positive response, and they keep coming back for more, seems to me like they're very happy with the situation. Don't worry about it.
RichardJRichardJ
A friend of mine is the epitome of silence. It's absolutely normal for him to speak about 5 sentences in a whole evening. Wasting three perfect sentences on greetings, ordering pizza and goodbye; you barely notice him being around, if not for a very small group. Yet he's always around and seems to enjoy the company. For him roleplaying seems to be a lot more "social" than watching TV, simply by watching his friends and contributing as much as absolutely necessary.
If he's fine with it. Who are we to judge?
However I remember him going quite out of his usual way, when I had a crypto puzzle in one of my campaigns. While everyone else gave up on it (it wasn't intended to be solved by the players without further help) he got excited and focussed like I rarely seen him in all the years I know him. After the session he wanted to know how the code works and all. He didn't seem disappointed not being able to solve it (unlike the other players), but even more excited. In the end the players cheated the crypto puzzle by giving it to an NPC, which I accepted as cutting short the frustration of the other players.
So maybe you can find something that plays right into one of the interests of your quiet player. But in the end I think this is a solution in search for a problem.
NoAnswerNoAnswer
I'm an introvert, but not shy by any means.
My struggles in RPGing is when I DO want to say something, and I can't get a word in because the other players forget I'm there, or are just being their boisterous selves. Both of the guys who GM our games have noticed this.
GM 1 is less diplomatic about it - and sometimes I'm bothered by how he deals with it. If he notices me trying to get a word in unsuccessfully, he will cut someone off and turn all attention to me. While I appreciate being heard, that can be embarrassing for me (he does this when he's a PC too, which bothers me more).
GM 2 uses my preferred method - when he naturally has the group's attention, he will specifically ask me for my contribution/comments/questions (assuming he noticed I was trying to be heard). And if I have been quiet, he will sometimes just ask directly if I have anything to say, but he doesn't push me if I say no.
The other thing GM 2 does that I appreciate is he checks in with me from time to time, out of game, just to see if I'm having fun or if I am frustrated with anything. It's low key and he doesn't push me to have a problem, or act like he's concerned and worried about me. He just provides me with a safe forum to chat.
Introverts to socialize a little differently, but I think it actually helps with RPGing in the sense that they naturally fill the gaps. I've played in a number of different group dynamics thanks to Pathfinder Society games, and one thing that introverts do is we people watch. We observe those around us and usually figure out where we fit in the current group rather quickly. Sometimes I've played with people who can't make choices and end up stalling the story, so I step up and be the choice maker to push it forward. Sometimes I've played with a group that just charges ahead, so I play a little quieter and just go with the flow. One isn't better than the other, I still have fun in either setting. I've just determined what the dynamic is and adjusted my play to fit the need.
Ultimately, I guess it's important to trust the introverted player, and to give them safe forums to air concerns. If he says he's having fun - believe him!
FayeFaye
\$\begingroup\$ I like this GM 2 :) \$\endgroup\$ – Mauricio Pasquier Juan Mar 31 '15 at 22:27
\$\begingroup\$ I guess this only works when you're all at the table. Been participating in online sessions recently and there it's really hard to differentiate whether someone just feels like they don't have anything to contribute at the moment or if they just don't know how to jump into the conversation. \$\endgroup\$ – milgner Apr 2 '15 at 21:53
\$\begingroup\$ Yeah I can see that posing a significant barrier. \$\endgroup\$ – Faye Apr 6 '15 at 15:55
Get him to try and incorporate that into the character's personality. The first game I played, I had a character that was highly paranoid due to him secretly being a political refugee. He had a fake name and didn't talk a lot because he was afraid that people would ask too many questions about his origins.
I also set his alignment to true neutral so he couldn't be able to care less to what was going on in the story and gave him antisocial flaws and traits.
By adjusting the character to the player you can ensure that the player bonds a bit more to the character and gets more involved in the roleplaying.
Another thing that helps a lot is to add sidequests based on each character's backstories.
Jean-Luc Nacif CoelhoJean-Luc Nacif Coelho
\$\begingroup\$ Personally I also enjoy doing just the opposite: play someone very different from my real self and try filling the shoes of (e.g.) an extraverted person for a few hours. \$\endgroup\$ – milgner Apr 2 '15 at 21:57
\$\begingroup\$ It's kind of hard for new players to roleplay someone who is not an aspect of themselves. I know this from personal experience. \$\endgroup\$ – Jean-Luc Nacif Coelho Apr 2 '15 at 23:40
As the other answers said, he's probably getting what he wants out of the game, don't push too hard!
But also, if he's not sure how to join in, make there be opportunities. If there's anything he enjoys doing, make sure there's enough of it he gets some time to do his thing. Suggest players have some specific connections to people in the setting, establish NPCs as friends, and then if something happens and they care about it, he has something to roleplaying about.
Jack V.Jack V.
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Virginia Is For Queer Lovers, Too!
Eric Hause | October 4, 2019
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Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, is out now! In this article from the magazine, Outwire 757 co-founder Eric Hause gives us a guide to planning your all-day, all-gay getaway with Virginia Tourism’s LGBT Travel Program!
Fifty years ago, a $100-a-week advertising copywriter named Robin McLaughlin at Richmond’s Martin & Woltz Inc. came up with a new travel advertising concept for a client. The client was the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the concept became the slogan “Virginia is for Lovers.” That slogan is now so iconic that it was voted one of the top ten tourism marketing campaigns of all time by Forbes Magazine.
That sort of heady success, however, hasn’t diminished the power of its message of love over those 50 years, and in 2016, our purple-ish state stepped into the modern age by adding a new component to that message: “Virginia is for LGBT Lovers.”
That year, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s LGBT Tourism Task Force and the Virginia Tourism Corporation publicly acknowledged the economic impact of LGBTQ travelers, and welcomed us to experience the Commonwealth.
There was some kind of kismet at work here. After all, in 1969 — the same year that Robin Mclaughlin came up with the Virginia slogan — the Stonewall Riots launched the Gay Rights movement. Back in those days, the LGBTQ community was still on the fringes of society. While Virginia’s queer population could gather safely at a smattering of bars and other gay-owned businesses, the Commonwealth, to say the least, was not known as a welcoming destination.
Godfrey’s is a restaurant and nightclub in Richmond that features premiere drag shows. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
That’s all changed. Today’s queer road warriors can find hundreds of self-designated LGBTQ-friendly travel businesses and events in all corners of the Commonwealth. Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Director of Business Development, Wirt Confroy, is the man tasked with putting all the pieces together. He’s worked tirelessly with Tourism’s IT department, businesses, destinations, and event planners to catalogue and present them on the State’s tourism website.
When asked about what the program means to him, Confroy said, “It’s simple. LGBT visitors to Virginia now have access to queer-friendly places and experiences. They have a resource that helps them find the destinations, events, tractions and services that welcome them the most.”
So it is with the progressive efforts of many in mind that we present you with our Fall Queer Travel Guide to the Commonwealth. With Virginia Tourism’s help, we’ve carefully curated travel itineraries built around special events this autumn in three destinations: the Shenandoah Valley, the Eastern Shore, and Richmond. All you need do is gas up the automobile, get a few friends together, and hit the road for your big queer fall vacation in Virginia!
Shenandoah National Park is a beautiful, historic national treasure which includes the scenic 105-mile long Skyline Drive – a designated National Scenic Byway. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Head for the Hills: A Mountain Getaway
When you think of autumn travel in Virginia, one of the first destinations that comes to mind is Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah Valley. No doubt, leaf-peeping on a crystal clear brisk Blue Ridge day is a timeless exercise. As an extra bonus for queer folk, the Shenandoah is home to many friendly and exciting attractions, events, restaurants, and lodging.
Plan this year’s mountain getaway around the Page County Heritage Festival, the weekend of October 12- 13 in Luray. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Festival, and it’s a true slice of small-town farm life with a big-city progressive attitude. Highlights include live entertainment, Shenandoah Valley craftsmen and artisans, a delightful antique farm equipment show, and food. Oh, the food!
After the festival, head into the town of Luray for some exploring. Roadsnacks.com ranked the town as the 8th Gayest Place in Virginia for 2019 based on the percentage of same-sex households, so you’re bound to make some new friends.
The town itself is centered around a beautiful Historic District, but the famous Luray Caverns are the area’s top visitor attraction. This U.S. Natural Landmark holds the largest and most popular caverns in Eastern America. From well-lighted paved walkways, explore cathedral-sized rooms with ceilings 10 stories high, filled with towering stone columns and crystal-clear pools.
Luray Caverns, eastern America’s largest and most popular caverns. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
If you’re more of a car warrior, take a ride on the nearby Blue Ridge Whiskey Wine Loop, a compact wine-tasting route that winds through the Northern Shenandoah valley. Recommended by Wine Enthusiast Magazine, the Loop features seven wineries, a whiskey distillery, antiques, dining, and the gorgeous natural scenery of the Shenandoah National Park.
You can hop off the Loop and onto Skyline Drive at several spots, and it’s worth the detour. Mid-October is prime leaf season, and the parkway has many overlooks with as many eye-popping photo ops as you can stand along its 105-mile length.
Where to Stay: For LGBTQ-friendly lodging in Luray, check out Piney Hill Bed & Breakfast and Cottages. Comprised of two private cottages and three guest rooms in the main house (a renovated 1800s farm house), the B&B is gay-owned and operated since 2000. It is also consistently ranked as the top inn in Luray each year.
The nearby Shadow Mountain Escape is billed as a romantic couple’s escape, and features modern and authentic European timber cottages adjacent to the Shenandoah National Park. Shadow Mountain is recommended as a Best place To Stay by Wine Enthusiast Magazine, and both properties are located on the Blue Ridge Whiskey Wine Loop.
The Inn at Little Washington is one of America’s finest restaurants and country inns. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Where to Eat and Drink: While exploring Skyline Drive, satisfy your appetite at Skyland’s Pollock Dining Room. Located right off Skyline Drive near Luray, Pollock’s specializes in Blue Ridge specialties made with farm-to-fork ingredients and served with incredible views of the Shenandoah Valley.
In the mood for a true special-occasion dining experience? Make a reservation at the Inn at Little Washington. The 2019 Michelin Guide awarded The Inn three stars, the only restaurant in the Northern Virginia region to receive the honor.
Just a few miles away, you’ll find a completely different dining experience at The Edinburg Mill Restaurant. Located in an 1848 Virginia Historical Landmark, the establishment specializes in rustic American style cuisine. And if you’re lucky, you’ll catch them on a day when some kickass local live music is on the calendar.
Chincoteague. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Take a Shore Break: A Seaside Escape
If autumn by the sea is more your style, turn your attention east to Virginia’s Eastern Shore. It’s probably not the first destination that springs to mind when you think of LGBTQ-friendly travel, but Governor Northam’s home base is a surprisingly progressive place with a thriving queer population, and many LGBTQ-owned and allied businesses. Plus, you can drive the entire length of the Virginia Eastern Shore in about two hours. It’s perfect for a day trip or a weekend getaway with great dining, eclectic antiquing and shopping, and exhilarating activities.
For seafood (and all food) lovers, start your visit at Chincoteague’s 47th Annual Oyster Festival on October 12. Founded to mark the hallowed arrival of oyster season, the event draws visitors from all over the mid-Atlantic. You don’t have to be an oyster lover to find something good to eat! Come enjoy clam fritters, clam chowder, shrimp, hot dogs, hush puppies, Boardwalk fries, and a cold beer.
Get your hands dirty on a boat tour of the waters surrounding Chincoteague with Captain Barry’s Back Bay Cruises Expeditions. But be prepared to get wet. On this cruise, you’ll dig for clams, pull crab pots, and haul in a trawler net to see what delights King Neptune has to offer.
Wild ponies from Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island.
Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Run with the wild horses and take a tour with Assateague Explorer’s Pony Express nature tours. You’ll be assured at least a glimpse of the famous equestrian population — or choose to be the captain of your own ship, and drift away on one of Southeast Expeditions’ kayak tours.
If the ocean isn’t for you, you can also be the pilot of your own spacecraft with a visit to the NASA facility at Wallops Island. Check their website for a schedule of rocket launches, and time your visit for a truly unforgettable experience.
Shop ‘til you drop at the hundreds of unique retail opportunities on the Shore. You can spend an entire day exploring the small towns and antique stores, flea markets, farmer’s and fish markets, art galleries, and specialty boutiques located on or just off the main highway.
On April 17th, 2019, the NG-11 Antares rocket launched from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Where to Stay: The charming Garden and Sea Inn is just a few miles from Chincoteague. Transgender-owned and operated, the Inn is actually comprised of one modern home and two historic farmhouses that date back to the 1800s. The Inn is pet-friendly and sits on five gated acres of land, so there’s plenty of room to walk the dog.
If the sound of gentle waves luring you to sleep each night is your groove, Key West Cottages in Chincoteague is your spot. This charming row of modern pastel-hued cottages line the waterfront in the heart of downtown. Each cottage has a full kitchen and waterfront views, and all are within walking distance of the town’s restaurants, shopping, and attractions.
Where to Eat and Drink: When visiting the ocean, you want a taste of the ocean, and the Eastern Shore’s dining scene does not disappoint. The Island House Restaurant in Wachapreague has it all: fresh local seafood, award-winning Eastern Shore crab cakes, and a gorgeous view of Virginia’s barrier islands. Bring your boat! Slips and fuel are available.
Experience dockside dining a la the Keys at Mallards at the Wharf in Onancock. Johnny Mo, the musical chef, serves up his “all crab” crab cakes, famous jalapeño mussels, and mouthwatering filet mignon. You might even catch him strumming his guitar for guests!
Or head south to Cape Charles for a bayfront fine dining experience at Oyster Farm at Kings Creek, a casual oyster/raw bar and cocktail lounge. Flip flops and shorts allowed. Astounding sunsets are always on schedule.
Richmond’s Main Street Station (c 1901) is a historic railroad station, office building and Virginia Welcome Center. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Make it a Capital Affair: Fall Fun in Richmond
So the rural thing isn’t your cup of iced tea? Head to the Capital City for a totally urban experience. Richmond sometimes takes it on the chin for lacking in the diversity department, but we disagree. For example, in October 2019, two fantastic events celebrate the city’s distinct rainbow hue.
On October 5, come explore your inner Latin diva at the Viva RVA! Hispanic Music Festival. This exciting celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month honors Virginia’s Latinx LGBTQ community. Viva RVA! is a free family-friendly event at Diversity Richmond, and features authentic Hispanic music, food, dancing, and live music.
The Richmond Folk Festival on downtown Richmond’s waterfront is the following weekend, on October 11-13. The festival presents the very finest traditional musical artists from across the nation, with 25 performances ranging from bluegrass and Cajun to Indian and African music. Don’t forget to head over to the Festival Marketplace, and shop authentic crafts from over 20 international artisans.
Festivals aren’t the only way to taste the Richmond rainbow. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture does a great job of cataloguing America’s diverse past by interpreting the unparalleled story of Virginia. In fact, their signature exhibition The Story of Virginia recently added an LGBTQ chapter to the 16,000 years of Virginia history it covers.
With a collection of art that spans more than 5,000 years, plus a wide array of special exhibitions, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is recognized as one of the top comprehensive art museums in the United States. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
While we’re on the museum tour, a visit to the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a must. But be prepared: there’s a lot to see, and you’ll want to see it all. In fact, The Wall Street Journal recently declared the Museum a two-day affair. With over 5,000 years of art from around the world, take your time to explore exhibitions ranging from Fabergé and Russian Decorative Arts to their most recent addition, Edward Hopper and the American Hotel.
If you still have the strength, head over to Carytown for some of the most eclectic shopping and dining in RVA. The heart of Richmond’s gayborhood is only one street long, but you’ll be surprised at the variety of shops, boutiques, restaurants, and food stores in this nine-block shopping area. Don’t forget to check the schedule at the Byrd Theatre. In the past, the Byrd has presented LGBTQ programming with icons such as John Waters and their popular MonGays Movie Festival during Pride month.
Quirk Hotel is in an ideal location in the heart of downtown Richmond’s dynamic arts and design district, surrounded by small galleries, unique boutiques, inspiring architectures and an explosive culinary scene. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
Where To Stay: The Quirk Hotel in downtown Richmond lives up to its name. With its original artwork, eclectic design sensibility, and location in the middle of downtown Richmond’s Arts District, it is indeed out of the ordinary. Voted by US News and World Report as one of the country’s top hotels for 2019, Quirk is an experience that will please even the most jaded traveler.
For a more traditional Richmond experience, stay at the Linden Row Inn. This National Register hotel is comprised of seven row houses, built in the mid-1800s and meticulously restored. Guest rooms are furnished with antiques from the middle and late 1800s. Trivia alert: Edgar Allan Poe spent his childhood playing in the hotel’s garden courtyard.
Where To Eat and Drink: We have one word for you, and it’s French: L’Opossum. Chef David Shannon will tell you that his definition is “tongue-in-cheek faux French presented as delightful whimsy on the menu, but seriously delicious cuisine on the plate.” Gay-owned and operated, L’Opossum was named the Southern Living Magazine’s 2018 Best Restaurant. In the whole South.
If Southern home cooking makes your stomach growl, take a seat at Weezie’s Kitchen in Carytown. This is lip-smacking fare at its most fattening and delicious. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner, a meal at Weezie’s is a culinary experience of its own.
Scott’s Addition Foodie and Arts District is the newest and hippest food and drink destination in town, and this National Historic District has become the brewing center of Richmond. Within walking distance, you’ll find breweries and cideries interspersed with hip lofts and eclectic restaurants.
Virginia’s first urban cidery, Blue Bee Cider is located in the heart of Scott’s Addition in Richmond. Photo via Virginia Tourism Corporation
If you’re looking for a superb drag brunch, Godfrey’s is the queen. It’s home to Richmond’s most famous drag brunch, with two seatings on Saturday and Sunday. Godfrey’s also doubles as a mixed bar in the evenings and hosts special events most nights.
And if you’re craving a little socializing with your people, Babes of Carytown and Barcode are two of the best queer nightlife spots in town.
Visit Virginia.org/lgbt for a comprehensive list of Virginia’s LGBT-friendly travel destinations, businesses, and events.
Top Photo Courtesy of Virginia Tourism Corporation
First Friday RVA, June 2014: School’s Out, But It’s Not Quite Summer
Marilyn Drew Necci | June 5, 2014
Topics: 1708 Gallery, Amelia Blair Langford, Andrew Brehm, Art 180, Barcode, Books Bikes & Beyond, Chet Naylor, Diamond Hairbrush, ed trask, EDIT Gallery, Elizabeth Kendall, Functional Art Movement, gallery 5, Ghostprint Gallery, Glave Kocen Gallery, Harrison Haynes, Henry Street Gallery, Luke Harman, Mary Fleming, Nathan A King, Navi, New Normal Apparel, Nicholas Crider, Page Bond Gallery, PT Burnem, Quirk Gallery, Rachel Rader, Sam Shaban, Spencer Lee Erickson, The Mix Gallery, Turnstyle, Uptown Gallery, VCU Anderson Gallery, Willie Anne Wright
I don’t know about you, but I’d love for summer to take as long as possible before getting here this year.
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VA Shows You Must See This Week: January 2 – January 7
Marilyn Drew Necci | January 2, 2020
Topics: ADAR, Big Fundamental, Black Plastic, Bri Bevan, Brydge/Williams/Kartari, Carnival Bird, Cary Street Cafe, City Dogs, Cleophus James, Dexter Moses, Flipside Lounge, gallery 5, Gone, Good Grief, Hollywood Cemetery, Landon Elliott, Lil Jimmy & The Robinsons, Lounge Lizzard, Manzara, Marcus Tenney, Old Old, Opin, Plastic Nancy, Poor Boys, Route 29, shows you must see, smartmouth brewing, Stu Kindle, Sweet Potatoes Music, The Camel, The Dark Room, The Flavor Project, The Gilberts, The Pop-up Duo, True Body, Velocity 128, Watersdeep, You're Jovian, Zack Mexico
Saturday, January 4, 9 PM
Djanuary, feat. Stu Kindle, Sweet Potatoes Music, The Pop-Up Duo, Lil Jimmy & The Robinsons @ The Dark Room – $5
Well folks, it’s 2020. We made it through another holiday season — and another decade — alive, and it’s time to get our bearings and ease into yet another year here in Trump’s America. And what better way to get a non-stressful start on the 20’s (finally, a decade with an abbreviation that makes sense!) than with a week heavy with the wonderful sounds of jazz?
That’s what we’ve got for you this week, and at the top of the list is Djanuary, a year-beginning celebration of legendary Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt masterminded by local ukulele strummer Stu Kindle. Reinhardt was one of the first guitarists and first Europeans to exert a strong influence on jazz, a feat made that much more remarkable by the fact that he only had the use of three fingers on his left hand due to an injury he sustained in a fire at the beginning of his career. Reinhardt’s integration of Romani folk music, and focus on stringed instruments rather horns and woodwinds, helped kickstart an entire genre known as “gypsy jazz.”
You can hear a strong influence from Reinhardt’s approach on Stu Kindle’s own agile, speedy ukulele technique, which makes it eminently appropriate that he’s the Richmond musician spearheading this entire evening. He’ll be joined in this evening-long tribute to Django Reinhardt by a variety of local talents including jazz combo Sweet Potatoes Music, the acoustic jazz-folk of Pop-Up Duo, and swinging acoustic string band Lil Jimmy and the Robinsons (which also features Kindle on ukulele). It won’t be loud, it won’t be heavy, but rest assured, Djanuary at The Dark Room definitely will be hot.
Thursday, January 2, 7 PM
Plastic Nancy, Hollywood Cemetery, Big Fundamental, Cleophus James @ Poor Boys – $5
I can’t imagine anyone isn’t glad to see Poor Boys and PRSMCAT carrying on the banner of Locals Only in this post-Strange Matter era — and it’s even better when it results in a rock-solid bill like this one. Plastic Nancy top the bill with some pretty outstanding psych-pop alt-rock that hit a new high on recent single “Think Of Now.” I for one can’t wait to see what their next batch of tunes sounds like — and chances are we’ll get at least a little bit of a preview tonight!
Hollywood Cemetery are a newer group from right here in the river city, but they’ve certainly got their sound locked down tight if recent EP Sweet Dreams is any indication; I never would have thought the mixture of catchy emo pop and Interpol-style postpunk drama would be anywhere near this much fun, but I’m happy to stand corrected. Alt-rockers Big Fundamental and soulful postpunks Cleophus James (old-person points for you if you know the reference) round out a killer bill of talented Richmond groups you should be paying attention to in the new decade.
Friday, January 3, 7 PM
Opin (Photo by Joey Wharton), ADAR, Velocity 128, Bri Bevan @ Gallery 5 – Free!
Gallery 5 turns 15 this year (as does RVA Mag — watch this space), and they’re showing no signs of slowing down as they roll into 2020 with an awesome art show featuring custom-made toys. That alone should make turning up at their free First Friday event a no-brainer, but the musicians they’ll have on hand only make it that much more essential. Opin, the post-White Laces group featuring members of Magnus Lush, Night Idea, and Navi, among others, is currently gearing up to release the long-awaited follow-up to their 2017 self-titled debut.
New single “No. 3” finds Opin in powerful form, with driving rock rhythms, multi-layered synths, and an incredible vocal melody overtop of it all. Can’t wait for more where that came from. This show will also feature DC retro synthwave duo Velocity 128, turning the whole place into the dancefloor from an 80s crime movie, as well as a performance by Charlottesville jazz-soul-rock hybrid ADAR. Local singer-songwriter Bri Bevan rounds out an excellent bill you’re sure to enjoy — get there.
Saturday, January 4, 10 PM
The Gilberts, Black Plastic, Lounge Lizzard @ City Dogs – Free!
It’s rare for too many bands to be touring around the holiday times, so this early into a new year, you’ve got to expect a lot of locally-focused shows. Fortunately for us, Richmond has a wonderful music scene that in no way, shape, or form has any need of out-of-town bands to make for excellent live musical experiences. For example, this Saturday, we’ve got this outstanding three-band local bill happening at City Dogs, the Main Street hotspot that was, in the early days of the 21st century, home to one of the best live venues in the city — the glorious chaos that was Nara Sushi.
City Dogs may or may not get as wild on this Saturday night as Nara used to back in its prime, but the music is certainly worthy of excitement regardless of how crazy y’all get out there in the crowd. Local quintet The Gilberts dish out indie-pop tunes with a shambling punk spirit. Black Plastic raves up with some driving alternative rock tuneage. And then there’s Lounge Lizzard, whose vocalist, Sera Stavroula, will be celebrating a birthday this evening — they’ll rise to the occasion with a big dose of their raging metallic punk sound. It all adds up to an evening you’re sure to enjoy, especially in light of the lack of cover charge. Use your cash to grab some chili dogs instead! Just be sure you don’t take them into the pit — that’s always a sloppy proposition.
Sunday, January 5, 8 PM
Brydge/Williams/Kartari @ Cary Street Cafe – Free!
Get ready for the first full work week of the new year — and the first non-holiday week since back in the first half of December — with this evening of fine jazz sounds over at Cary Street Cafe. Bassist Chris Brydge has worked with a lot of local jazz talents around town, including JC Kuhl, Fred Hibbard, and quite a few others. He usually does so in the company of drummer Emre Kartari, his rhythm-section partner in crime. And this evening finds the two of them together once again, this time working with saxophonist Eddie Williams.
This same lineup has performed gigs under the name The Eddie Williams Trio as well, so will the equal billing for the three indicate a different instrumental priority in this performance? The improvisational nature of jazz as a musical style all but guarantees we won’t know until the three musicians take the stage, but regardless of how it all plays out, we can certainly expect some outstanding bebop sounds from this trio of instrumental talents. Just what we all need so we can face the boss on Monday, right?
Monday, January 6, 8 PM
Zack Mexico, Landon Elliott, The Flavor Project, Manzara @ The Camel – $7 in advance/$10 day of show (order tickets HERE)
North Carolina group Zack Mexico have an intriguing approach to the art of creating psychedelic indie music, and you can tell the second they start setting up their gear. Beginning as a quartet, the group has expanded significantly in their decade together, most prominently with the addition of a second drummer. Seeing two full kits up there onstage is always powerful, and this band’s laid-back, tuneful approach does indeed carry a lot of power, even as it is often wielded with a subtle grace.
This is part of why Richmond singer-songwriter Landon Elliott is such a good match for Zack Mexico, musically. Elliott’s recently-released LP, Domino, shows off strong songcraft, making judicious use of 80s-style production and instrumentation at times while always first and foremost serving the gorgeous, introspective pop songs Elliott creates with a natural ease. It will be a treat to see this multi-layered sound come to life on the Camel’s stage this Monday night. The Flavor Project and Manzara will round out this eclectic bill with injections of funky Latin hip hop and dark, heavy postpunk. It’s sure to be a good time.
Tuesday, January 7, 8 PM
Dexter Moses & Marcus Tenney @ The Dark Room – $5
This Tuesday brings more jazz to the Dark Room, in the form of a meeting between two talented local saxophonists. Dexter Moses is the younger of the two, a blazing jazz talent who is still too young to order a beer at the HofGarden bar (at least for a few more weeks), but has been making a name for himself around town since his high school days. His skills at sax are worthy of a player twice his age.
Marcus Tenney isn’t quite there yet — his 2019 LP Triple Trey was a celebration of his having reached 33 years of age — but anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to the local jazz, funk, and hip hop scenes is sure to know that he’s got a ton of talent in his own right, whether he’s showing it off in Butcher Brown, No BS! Brass Band, hip hop duo Tennison, or as the leader of his own jazz quartet. What sort of fireworks will ensue when the veteran comes together with the young gun in a fiery sax duo on the stage of the Dark Room? Something you’ll definitely want to see.
Elsewhere Around The State:
True Body, You’re Jovian, Gone, Carnival Bird @ Smartmouth Brewing (Norfolk) – Free!
Down Norfolk way, Smartmouth Brewing’s warehouse seems to be about the closest thing they’ve got to Richmond’s wonderful Hardywood — a place predominantly concerned with creating craft beer (which I know the kids all love), which also brings the area some excellent free musical performances on a somewhat regular basis (now this is what I’M here for). They’re kicking off the year with exactly that sort of thing this Saturday as they bring us all a live performance by Norfolk gothic-postpunk ensemble True Body.
True Body haven’t given us a new helping of their dark, dramatic, synth-driven sound since the 2017 “Over It”/”Tourists” single, and that was three years ago now, so catching them live has become a must. Plus, they’re joined on this bill by fellow Norfolkers You’re Jovian, whose shoegazey indie-rock sound is always a hazy delight. There’s also a band called Gone on this bill, and all I can tell you for sure is that they’re not the same Gone featuring ex-members of Black Flag. But we do have a bit more information about Virginia Beach’s Carnival Bird, an indie-electro-pop duo featuring members of Radflux and Berries who will return to the stage at this event for the first time in over a year. So yeah, all of this is definitely worth being present for — especially since it won’t cost you anything to get in.
Watersdeep, Route 29, Old Old, Good Grief @ Flipside Lounge (Fredericksburg) – $5
I freely admit that I don’t know as much about Fredericksburg’s music scene as I’d like to, but I’m always trying to learn, so I’m glad to have discovered a new F-burg venue to keep an eye on — Flipside Lounge, which is starting the new year off right by presenting this bill of catchy emo-punk groups from throughout the Old Dominion (should I be capitalizing those letters? Shrug). Watersdeep, at the top of the bill, are technically from DC, but close enough, right?
The Watersdeep boys refer to their sound as “sadboi pop-punk,” and if you enjoy bands like Saves The Day, Taking Back Sunday, and Knuckle Puck as much as I do, you’re sure to get a charge out of this band’s energetic, intense sound. Route 29, who coincidentally enough hail from my own hometown of Warrenton, have more of an indie feel, but still draw on emotional undercurrents that give their music a welcome resonance. Blacksburg’s Old Old are tough to google for, but reward the tenacious internet searcher with both a tough side and a sweet sensitivity. The entire evening kicks off with some fine power pop from Good Grief. Taken as a whole, it’s more than worth the hour’s drive up 95.
Top Photo: Django Reinhardt in 1946, by William P. Gottlieb, Public Domain, via Wikimedia/Library of Congress
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 2/7-2/13
Marilyn Drew Necci | February 7, 2018
Topics: Addy, Adult Mom, Amor Fizz, Big Baby, Big Brutus, Butch Parnell, Chris Farren, Cupid McCoy, Droopies, Everymen, gallery 5, Gamelan Raga Kusuma, Graham Stone, Gumming, Hardywood, Hot Reader, Imaginary Boys, Keep, Khadonna, Mangoux, Mc Chicken, Piranha Rama, Rumput, Sammi Lanzetta, shows you must see, Singles Nite, Soft Web, Sound Of Music Studios, strange matter, Strawberry Moon, The Camel, The Zeta, This Land Is Now Dead, Toxic Moxie, War On Women, World Inferno Friendship Society, You're Jovian
Friday, February 9, 7 PM
Rumput, Gamelan Raga Kusuma @ Sound Of Music Studios – $7
In this town, it can be easy to get focused on the local mainstays — indie rock, metal, punk, etc — and miss the weirder and more intriguing side avenues the incredibly fertile Richmond music scene has to offer. But it’s always worth keeping an eye out. In fact, sometimes it’s the people from the scenes most often in the limelight that will lead you down the most fascinating musical side streets. Such is the case with Rumput, an acoustic ensemble that features Hannah Marie Standiford (Cardinal Compass) and Natalie Quick (Paint Store) working with local folk musicians to combine American folk traditions with the music of the Indonesian region.
Rumput are serious about their musical project, too — in fact Standiford, Quick, and Edward Breitner of Rumput are all currently living in Java, on yearlong scholarships to study Indonesian folk music and art. It is these traditions Rumput infuses into their music and performances, mixing Indonesian shadow puppetry and American scrolling artwork for their visual presentations even as they integrate Indonesian string band music, known as keroncong, with American string band traditions drawn from old-time folk music. The result is pretty amazing, and you can get a taste of this by checking out their self-titled debut, released last summer before three of the band members departed for Java.
Things are definitely stepping up to a higher level in the new year, though, as Rumput is currently working with Indonesian master musician Danis Sugiyanto, who is currently a visiting artist/scholar at University of Richmond. Sugiyanto will be acting as artistic director for Rumput throughout 2018, leading the group on their upcoming tour of Indonesia in July. Their current project, Akar, focuses on trickster tales, a common tradition in both Indonesian and American folklore, and the Rumput performance at Sound Of Music this Friday night will act as a sneak preview, giving RVA residents a chance to see what will be presented to Indonesian audiences this summer. It’s going to be essential listening and viewing, so I encourage all of you, even the most dyed-in-the-wool metalheads currently reading, to broaden your horizons and see what Rumput has to offer you. You’ll thank me later.
Wednesday, February 7, 8 PM
World Inferno Friendship Society, Everymen, Toxic Moxie, Hot Reader @ The Camel – $15 (order tickets HERE)
One could be forgiven for thinking the World Inferno Friendship Society is a fringe group of diabolical carny circus people here to set the entire world on fire based on their goofy name and colorful presence online and in real life. The fact that they are actually just an extremely creative band, with origins in punk rock and influences pulled from a variety of musical traditions coming from all over the world, might calm you down a little bit. But really, both descriptions are true; the musical performances are just this group’s way of challenging expectations, inspiring a beaten-down populace, and waking up the world.
Right now, the band is working on a new album entitled All Borders Are Porous To Cats, based around an extensive tale starring “a cat in the hat who wants to come to your house and hide out,” according to frontman/only-constant-member Jack Terricloth. Points about immigration and trying to understand rather than condemn those who aren’t like you may be delivered more subtly, but as always with WIFS, they’re very much there. As is the musical conglomeration that shifts from bizarre Eastern European folk-swing to bouncy punk and back again at the drop of a hat, never giving you time to get bored or reason to stop dancing. Stick with this band, they’re going places. And they’ll certainly get you moving — and thinking — with their show at The Camel tonight. Show up; they’ll do the rest.
Thursday, February 8, 8 PM
The Zeta, Amor Fizz, Gumming, This Land Is Now Dead @ Soft Web – $5
It’s only Thursday night, but over at Soft Web it’s already jumping, as this evening sees some incredible international bands combining with excellent local talent to bring one of the coolest shows of the week to life on a weeknight! The Zeta (which basically means “the Z”) is a Venezuelan band who bring an atmospheric approach to a post-hardcore style in ways that remind me of bands like Envy, but with a melodic yet passionate feel that I could trace to more emotional bands like Moving Mountains. They are joined by Argentinians Amor Fizz on this outing, who have a more intense and frenetic approach than their tourmates, and definitely flirt with the whole “screamo” thing on their self-titled 2016 LP (though I’d be more likely to call it chaotic hardcore, to be honest).
The two local bands on this bill are bringing plenty of awesomeness on their own, and I’m just as excited about them as I am about the touring bands. Gumming are relatively new, seeing members of Whorecough and Pucker Up combining to bring the same sort of sloppy, noisy hardcore attack we’ve all enjoyed from their previous groups. And of course, This Land Is Now Dead have returned from long hibernation to destroy us all once again with a hard-hitting, complex, and emotionally-driven wallop of post-hardcore metallic angst. I don’t mind telling you that this band was my favorite local band a couple of years ago, and I’m delighted to see them performing once again for the first time in over a year. Don’t miss it.
Strawberry Moon, Cupid McCoy, Addy, Mangoux @ Gallery 5 – $5
I really dig the weird, delicate take on jangly indie rock that has become the stock in trade of a certain segment of the Richmond underground scene. It’s nice to hear people taking new approaches to sounds that could easily be getting stale by now. The latest example of that happening is Strawberry Moon, a local duo that mingles moody acoustic songs with glittering electric guitar leads that add texture and atmosphere without overpowering the music’s quiet heart. They’re just about to release a record on local label Crystal Pistol, one of the labels that’s done the most to bring this sort of music to a wider audience, and this gig will see the release of the first single from that release. If the group’s fascinatingly foreboding first EP is any indication, the new release is going to make a lot of waves locally and beyond. Being there this Friday night is a great way to find out for yourself.
Strawberry Moon is joined on this bill by Cupid McCoy, a band they’ve been linked with from the start that takes a colorful and fun approach to electronic-infused pop music with a sweet, sugary core. Their sound may be significantly different from that of Strawberry Moon, but their equally delicate and open approach shows why the two groups work together so much. They’re two sides of the same delightful coin. Addy, a local project that came out of nowhere not long ago to capture a great deal of local attention, will also be on the bill, as will Mangoux. Both of these projects bring a dream-pop sweetness that is the perfect garnish to this night of quiet yet intense musical beauty. You might just be able to leave your earplugs at home for this one, but that doesn’t mean it won’t still hit hard.
Saturday, February 10, 6 PM
Butch Parnell, Big Brutus, Piranha Rama @ Hardywood – Free!
Here’s a double bill that should be catnip for all you fans of acoustic folk music that can make you think without making your ears ring. Butch Parnell and Big Brutus are songwriters of Southern origin with thoughtful outlooks and strong melodic chops. Parnell was once the frontman for long-running alt-country group Runaway Dorothy, but has been out on his own for a few years now, and currently has several releases under his belt. Most recent EP The Fall retains the twangy feel of his previous music, but definitely shows a broad-ranging outlook with a heartfelt and sincere cover of the Beyonce hit “XO.” Parnell makes this R&B ballad his own; it blends seamlessly with his original compositions on the EP and puts forth emotion just as skillfully as the songs he wrote himself. He’ll charm you with this one, and really with all of his tunes, if you’ll only give him a chance.
Big Brutus is a project helmed by Atlanta songwriter Sean Bryant, and most recent LP America Circa finds Bryant commenting wryly on the inhuman aspects of modern capitalism over catchy tunes that fit perfectly with the lyrics’ substantive critique of post-Trump American society. It’s neither loud nor abrasive, but this album shows Bryant turning his strong voice outward to make a bold statement regardless of volume. Big Brutus are sure to make a big impression at Hardywood this Saturday. Openers Piranha Rama kick things off with what just might be the loudest set of the night — and that’s never a bad thing.
Sunday, February 11, 7 PM
War On Women, You’re Jovian, Droopies, Keep @ Gallery 5 – $6
Wow, here’s something I never would have predicted — an acoustic set from War On Women, the metallic punk band from Baltimore who have made feminist critique of our oppressive, patriarchal society their raison d’etre. Intense anti-rape anthem “Say It” and pro-choice screed “Pro-Life?” were highlights of their incredible 2015 self-titled debut, carrying on the rage and the message of classic feminist hardcore bands of eras past such as Bikini Kill and Spitboy with a sound updated for the 21st century and ready to take on all comers. How, one must wonder, will that translate acoustically? I’m sure I’m not the only one excited to find out. Gallery 5 this Sunday night is our chance! Let’s hit it.
And of course, we’re all gonna want to show up on time, as there are some more killer sounds on offer at this show than just War On Women’s acoustic set. You’re Jovian, a killer shoegaze band from the Hampton Roads area, has been playing out for quite a while, but just finally laid a full LP, They Were Selected And Divided, on us last year. It was long overdue, but the point now is that it’s finally here and we’ll all be able to enjoy its excellent tuneage when these guys pull into town Sunday night. Droopies and Keep are two excellent local bands in a similar vein who will add a great deal of value to this already overstuffed bill — nothing to complain about there!
Monday, February 12, 8 PM
Adult Mom, Chris Farren, Sammi Lanzetta, Big Baby @ Strange Matter – $10 in advance/$12 day of show (order tickets HERE)
It’s always nice to watch musical projects develop over the years. Last time I caught Adult Mom, they were playing house shows as a mostly-solo act; these days, they’re touring as a full band behind their second LP, Soft Spots, released last year. Their sound, a melancholy melodic pop vibe that demonstrates its punk influence mostly in its down-to-earth minimalism, is hard to resist. Adult Mom comes at you with catchy hooks aplenty and lyrics that are both vulnerable and cutting in their emotional honesty, and you’re sure to be won over.
They’re joined on this show and this tour by Chris Farren, a singer-songwriter better known as the frontman for popular groups like Fake Problems and Antartigo Vespucci. With his solo material, he’s taken his sound in a softer, more acoustically-based direction, as is often predictable when frontpeople go solo. That doesn’t mean it’s any less excellent, heartfelt, or memorable, though, as his debut solo full-length, Can’t Die, showed. Farren’s solo sound might be a touch more folk-punk than Fake Problems were, but that doesn’t mean fans of his previous work won’t find a lot to love here. Local rockers Sammi Lanzetta and Big Baby offer talented local support that’ll keep you dancing all night, so don’t miss a moment of this one.
Tuesday, February 13, 8 PM
Singles Nite #4, feat. MC Chicken, Graham Stone, Imaginary Boys, Khadonna @ The Camel – $5 in advance/$7 day of show/$15 for couples (order tickets HERE)
We all know how much of a bummer Valentine’s Day can be when you’re single and lonely. That’s no fun at all, and local promoters Slimehole know all about it. This show will be their fourth Singles Nite presented over the past five or so years, and as always, it’s a way to spend Valentine’s Day that for once makes it easier on those who aren’t coupled up. This event features the unique practice of charging couples an extra dollar for arriving together. And you can probably find a way to beat that by arriving separately and not hanging out until after you’re safely in the door… but you should probably just cough up the extra dollar, y’all. It’s only fair.
This year’s edition of Singles Nite sees jazz weirdo, viral video phenomenon, and overall goofball MC Chicken heading up the proceedings with a set of special sounds for the lovers and the lonely among us. Will it include “Richmond River Rat”? I can’t rule it out… Graham Stone will also be on hand to give his countrified rock n’ roll sounds a Valentine’s twist. There’ll also be some tribute sets from long-running Cure cover band Imaginary Boys, and from Khadonna, a new project from local electro-punk group Kuni that will see frontman Jonny Khalili living out his Madonna fantasies onstage at The Camel. It’s sure to touch all of our hearts.
Email me if you’ve got any tips for me about upcoming shows (that take place after the week this column covers–this week’s column has obviously already been written): [email protected] [yes, my email is through GayRVA, don’t get weird about it]
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Norfolk avant-garage group You’re Jovian drops second full-length album, catch them 4/16 at Gallery5
Greg Rosenberg | April 10, 2017
Topics: avant-grunge, Funny Not Funny Records, Gallery5, indie, You're Jovian
The Norfolk avant-garage outfit, You’re Jovian, creates a sonic dreamstate with the release of their full-length, They Were Selected and Divided. The eight tracks encompass dynamic fluctuations without abandoning the central sound of stormy euphoria.
Elliot Malvas has come quite a long way since writing the first tunes for first You’re Jovian in his mother’s home back in 2008. They released their first full-length Stereochronic in 2012 and with the exception of a few singles and an EP between, the group hasn’t put out a full record since. The wait seems to be worth the pay off, as these songs are the product of years of effort.
“A lot of these songs are pretty old,” said Malvas. “‘Revelations’ was written in 2008 and tracked in 2013. Even the newer ones are a year old now.”
Revelations by You’re Jovian
What has really developed since the last release is Malvas’ approach toward recording. “The only thing I’ll say is different is I’ve becoming more realistic while recording in the studio and a lot more comfortable,” he said. “I used to have demoitis. So tracking was always a pain and I was never satisfied with the tones compared to what was in my head on the demos.”
Production on this record hits the mark. Somehow in the fuzz and bluster of swollen guitar riffs and bass drives, lucidity and grace persist. Songs like “Downstream” embrace the pacific vocals naturally situated in the energetic instrumentation and humidity of reverb, calm yet charismatic – vibing with a late 90s Ben Gibbard.
“Revelations,” stands out as a sweet, arpeggiated-harpsichord tone ballad with an uptempo bouncy solo evocative of The Cure. This is some flat on your back cloud watching music, with just a hint of overcast.
Stereochronic by You’re Jovian
Much of Malvas’ songwriting comes from a place of nostalgia, but is more imagery inspired. “I have fond memories of biking down the oceanfront on my single speed,” said Malvas. “Breathing in the dense, salty, humid summer air feeling very alive. The concrete still radiating heat from the blistering late summer sun. All of the temperate climate trees are lush green. I love that shit. Highly influencing and caps off a certain period of my life.”
The beauty of the inspiration behind his writing is the relatability to a romanticized, nostalgic setting.
“If people who listen to my music can relate similar feelings through music then that’s amazing because I was influenced by certain tones back then that set the mood of my music,” said Malvas. “Everyone has a band, record, or song that sticks with them from a certain period of their life, right?”
They Were Selected and Divided, which was recorded and produced by Mark Padgett, is out now on Funny Not Funny Records. You can get it on cassette and Spotify.
Catch You’re Jovian on Easter sunday, April 16 at Gallery5 with Fat Spirit (read our interview with them here) and Basmati at 7pm. There is a suggested donation of $5-$10 and all proceeds go to ACLU.
RVA Staff | April 10, 2017
Topics: Norfolk, Norfolk avant-garage, Stereochronic, They Were Selected and Divided, You're Jovian
Words by Gren Rosenberg
Virginia Beach’s shoegaze four-piece You’re Jovian hits Strange Matter this Sunday
Amy David | September 27, 2016
Topics: Funny Not Funny Records, punk, shoegaze, strange matter, You're Jovian
We first introduced you to Virginia Beach’s You’re Jovian after catching their act at 2014’s MACRoCK Festival.
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Topics: Ash Borer, Bandito's, Battlemaster, Cat Be Damned, Coffin Dust, Colamo, Conditions, Cosby, Cross Eyed, Dave Watkins, Dead Fame, Devil's Hand, Dumb Waiter, Earth Girls, gallery 5, Hardywood, Hell, Hexer, Lions Lions, Mayfair, Mutilation Rites, Night Idea, On A Clear Day, Photosynthesizers, Puff Pieces, Radio B, shows you must see, Spraynard, strange matter, The Big Payback, The Cheats Movement, The National, Timeshares, Unsacred, Vorator, Whitman, You're Jovian
Saturday, July 12, 2 PM
Hardywood & The Cheats Movement present Virginia Blackberry Release with music by The Big Payback, Photosynthesizers, Radio B @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery – Free!
Summer’s here, and the time is right for chillin’ on patios enjoying your beverage of choice. For everyone who agrees (a category I hope includes all of you reading this), Hardywood Park Craft Brewery and The Cheats Movement have the perfect weekend event for you this Saturday.
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Man of the Woods: Is Justin Timberlake Still Worthy of Superstar Status?
by dowellkendall
2018: The year of new beginnings. Every year, we’re given a chance to start again… to create a new life for ourselves, if you will. On February 2, 2018, Justin Timberlake decided that was exactly what he was going to do. His classic hits like ‘SexyBack’ and ‘Cry me a River’ are no more; instead, the pop sensation is going back to his roots. Born and raised in Tennessee, he told The Hollywood Reporter that his new album, Man of the Woods, “sounds more like where [he’s] come from than any other music [he’s] ever made.” But many had trouble connecting his past (mainly composed of R&B and pop) to what he’s creating for the world today. Critics have questioned the direction that the artist, a family-oriented and a well-known guy, has decided to take. Some have gone as far as to question whether or not he’s eradicating his title as a modern music icon.
In a blistering review, the New York Times wrote:
“We are now approaching the 12th year of the national delusion that Justin Timberlake remains an essential pop star,”
USA Today noted Justin’s ability to master ‘sexy’ lyrics. But they question his penmanship in this new genre: “Gone is the former teenage heartthrob who convinced thousands of fans that he was bringing ‘sexy back.’ Now we’re getting lyrics like the song Sauce‘s, egregiously bad I like your pink, you love my purple,” Maeve McDermott noted in the newspaper. The attempt at evolution isn’t a huge hit with the fans and definitely doesn’t match up to lyrics the pop star used to include in almost every song of his.
Esquire’s review of the album doesn’t get much kinder to the singer as he says it’s “the most baffling” composition of music:
“It’s disappointing. It’s kind of embarrassing. I want to say it’s well-intentioned, but it comes across like Timberlake just didn’t read the room on this one.”
The reviews writer, Matt Miller, added: “Specifically, ‘Flannel’ is so poorly-timed that you can’t help but think it was intentional pandering to red states or worse. But isn’t that the most perfectly 2018 thing to happen to Justin Timberlake?” For the LA Times, the “faux-folksy” Man Of The Woods managed to reduce Justin to a “song-and-dance sham.”
Combining all these comments together, you can see the music critics are not pleased with the drop of Justin’s new album. One can appreciate him trying to reach out, touch back into his roots, and bring something new to his fans, but Man of the Woods was a crash and burn attempt. He’s being slammed with negative feedback and it’s obvious that he needs to take a step back and really look at the decisions he’s making with his music before he takes a leap
The cover of “Man of the Woods” album.
To continue with critic feedback, critics, such as the ones I mentioned above, believe he “might be in need of a new brand manager.” Vulture‘s Craig Jenkins, who found that Justin sounded “bored” on his own new album, also found the album to be a let-down, and wrote: “At its worst, Man of the Woods is like eavesdropping on conversations between the kinds of couples who go out in matching outfits.” It’s a fair argument that everyone’s making since it’s nothing like what the pop star is known for and really isn’t pleasing many of his fans. It’s also interesting since the first song he released was “Filthy”, and that seemed to be a hit with his listeners. The second song he put out was “Say Something” and again, that was a hit with the fans, even though it was different from his usual style.
Overall, the main message seems to be that you can definitely change up your music, but there are inherent risks to this. Evolution seems to be encouraged in this century, but with the limitations that the change isn’t too abrupt or too obvious and definitely stand to hold some of the target audience behind the movement. Being who you are in music is the way to make good music. Still, to lose sight of what’s wanted in today’s society is how you lose your job. I’m not a music critic, but I believe different music is always respected, it’s my personal favorite. Artists that give it their one hundred will always be respected. To many, however, it feels like Justin just threw this together. My advice to the heart-throb artist: Be who you are, but don’t abandon the beats and phrasing that brought you celebrity and mass appeal. It’s an important part of who you are. Don’t forget that.
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Bush Mobbed By Fans On Stage
Gavin Rossdale halted his performance after zealous fans stormed the stage during Bush concert in Atlantic City. - @MartyInYourEar on IG.
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Casper Man Pleads Not Guilty to Strangulation, Felony Domestic Battery
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A Casper man pleaded not guilty to strangulation of a household member and a felony count of domestic battery during his arraignment in Natrona County District Court on Friday.
Matthew Richard Williams, 33, entered the pleas before District Court Judge Kerri Johnson.
Williams originally was charged with one count of strangulation of a household member, a felony punishable by up to 10 years of imprisonment.
He also was charged with one misdemeanor count of domestic battery.
But Johnson said prosecutors amended the criminal information document, and now the domestic battery count is a felony because of previous domestic violence convictions. Conviction of felony domestic battery is punishable by up to 10 years of imprisonment.
Assistant District Attorney Mike Schafer objected to Williams' attorney request to lower his bond from $15,000.
Williams has a long criminal history with alcohol and substance abuse issues, driving under the influence, and other domestic violence offenses, Schafer said.
When officers responded to the call in this case, Schafer said Williams carried a machete and repeatedly yelled at them to shoot him in the head.
Johnson denied the request and Williams remains in custody.
The case started the night of Nov. 16, when three officers responded to a residence in the 1300 Block of South Fenway for a reported overdose.
The woman was evaluated, and the overdose claims were determined to be false. The woman was outside of the residence during her contact with officers, and most of her belongings had been thrown outside. She told police she had been living there with Williams for about a week.
He had locked the door and refused to let her back inside. The woman refused officers' offer for a ride to another location.
Officers left, but returned about 90 minutes later after receiving a report that the woman had been assaulted by Williams.
She said she went to a neighbor's house then returned to her residence where she went to sleep on a mattress.
The woman said Williams woke her up, screaming about a missing dog. He then allegedly grabbed her by the neck and squeezed, pulling her around the room. She said Williams shoved her and she fell backwards and hit her head on a refrigerator.
Police noted redness and early bruising on the woman's neck. Her shirt was reportedly torn and her face was flushed.
Officers then went to Williams's front door to speak with him about the incident. As they approached, they could hear Williams screaming nonsensically from within. One officer asked Williams to speak with them, and Williams reportedly started screaming about "getting shot," quickly advancing down the front hall toward the open front door.
Williams was allegedly carrying a large machete knife in one hand, repeatedly yelling at police and asking to be "shot in the head." One officer pulled the front door closed and held the handle, creating a barrier between Williams and the officers.
Another officer pointed his pistol at Williams and ordered him to drop the knife. Williams ultimately complied and gave himself up.
The alleged victim was treated by EMS and completed a domestic violence packet. Williams was arrested, and police helped the woman move out of the residence.
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Chapter III – Excerpt – “A Pattern in Love” – Romantic Work – 11/14/2019
November 14, 2019 By romanticindeed
Place a man at his lowest, and he knows to stare at the sun. He knows to stare at the brightest sight that burns away his own past, his own guilt to his actions. Place a man at his lowest, and he begs to be forgiven. He has offered a diamond, poured his monetary worth into it, to show that his heart is larger than when he stands.
To see of a man, his heart, then to know of a man, his mind, is the simple act of being attentive. To be ignorant, should be countered with that attentiveness. To a woman and her curiosity, mark a man among your mind as what you’ll forever desire to understand.
Love does not steady itself, though grasps the beloved with two strongest of hands, and keeps her grounded, with roots that will spread to keep an empire upright. It is only an Emperor to his negligence, who will cause that empire to crumble, because he had forgotten what was truly special within it. He should not make his Empress weep, out of failing to provide attention, for her cries will echo as thunder, and rip through the walls to turn was once gold into dust.
Love is the emotion that turns life into the lifetime, hurling even depression, the focus on a past, to its own grave, six feet below.
For love, from a man to a woman, finds sweetness in her, when there was only a hardness and a disbelief that it ever existed. “You are beautiful,” says a man of love to his beloved, and his woman agrees with his words. “You have every right in the world to weep,” says a woman of love to her beloved, and her man agrees with her words.
It is love, that challenges arrogance. It is arrogance, that is blind to love.
Like with what we see for Adrian, in this moment of blindness, to see what is fading.
Love stretches, indeed, it does; though, it also falls back to a home, to where it began, among places where people will sigh, both in grief and in pleasure.
Adrian now watches, in this moment, his Catherine, wandering away from his vision, perhaps to a shore where she may sing. His uncertainty is his error, his moments spent among doom and failure. To a man and his duty to decide, where is his leadership if not to decide for the undecided. And then, to a woman of his choice, for it is always a choice, what malady of weakness makes him still undecided for eternal marriage?
He says these words to himself:
“In the apocalypse of my mind, there is but a rose that I keep tending, so that what I see is never the entirety. Catherine is that rose, and I keep each petal upright, to see her hair falling low, as loose, though never wilting along with the rose. The rose will never die, will never wilt, because I tend it. But, the understanding of my mind being ill, is never a place of my full understanding.”
An illness to the mind; and it is a wonder he’s not much surrounded himself in the daylight of the outdoors. He’s enclosed himself, has adopted the pale complexion of a one without interest in seeing light. He played a piano with his eyes closed, and had forgotten what the weather was, out-of-doors.
It should be appropriate now to mention where our tale is set.
Among the wastes of a revolution, nearly months or perhaps nearly moments after we set paupers upon thrones, after we set pauper upon dethroning thrones, we have our world. It is where Adrian lives, in France, seemingly in an untouched building that shows no markings of gunfire, nor of cannonball blasts.
Where the remains of barricades still clog the streets with all the ruined part of buildings and carriages, here we have it.
Did Adrian hear the commotion?
He did hear it.
Did Adrian listen to it?
It was not the case, for his heart too much distracted him.
It is here noted, as it should as well be remembered, that the heart that flutters with love, will always be louder than the drums of revolution. Each thud of the heart is a heard one, though usually an ignored one. We are in fear of death, or we are excited to love. Though, we may find an ending to be exciting, or may find love terrifying.
Adrian heard his heartbeat, and he came running to it.
He once heard Catherine’s call, her body upon a bed, and went to kiss her hand and touch her cheek. He went to kiss her mouth, and soon withdraw himself when he smelled her fear, her state of exhaustion, when she said the words, “I do not want our love to fall apart, our hearts to break, because of your mind. Please, Adrian, do not feel your guilt when I say these words, if you love me.”
Another kiss, and she fell back asleep.
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Biopharmaceuticals FDA
News Release - June 4, 2008
Indevus Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on NEBIDO(R) NDA Status
Company Expects FDA to Request Additional Safety Study Prior to Approval
LEXINGTON, Mass., June 4 (HSMN NewsFeed) -- Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDEV ) today announced that based on a recent discussion with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the NDA filing for NEBIDO®, the Company expects the FDA to formally request that the Company provide additional safety data prior to approving NEBIDO. The Company currently believes that an additional study will be required in order to supply the necessary data. The Company expects to re-file for approval of NEBIDO in approximately 18 months followed by a 6 month FDA review. The Company will finalize the requirements and initiate the study following the receipt of formal communication from the FDA which the Company expects to receive by the original June 27, 2008 PDUFA date.
The Company believes the requirement for additional data relates to a reaction immediately following the injection and is a known rare complication of oil-based depot injections. The reaction is believed to be the result of a small amount of the oily solution immediately entering the vascular system from the injection site and may be due to improper injection technique. The phenomenon is characterized by short-term reactions involving an urge to cough, coughing episodes or a shortness of breath. In rare cases the reaction has been classified as serious or the patient experiences other symptoms such as dizziness, flushing or fainting.
The Company believes that the FDA's safety concern is derived from spontaneous post-marketing adverse event reports of the NEBIDO 1000 mg (4ml) dose. In the Indevus U.S. clinical trials, which included a total of approximately 500 patients, there was a single, non-serious, instance of this phenomenon with the 750 mg (3ml) dosage of NEBIDO. The patient did not require medical intervention and the event resolved without issue within 10 minutes. This patient has continued to receive regular injections without further incident. Because estimations of the true frequency of these events are difficult to determine from post-marketing reports on patients having received the 1000 mg (4ml) NEBIDO dose, FDA has asked for new data to more precisely calculate the incidence of the occurrence prospectively, as well as methods or procedures to mitigate the incidence with the 750 mg (3ml) dosage.
Glenn L. Cooper, M.D., chairman and chief executive officer of Indevus stated, "We are very surprised and disappointed by the position the FDA is taking regarding the safety profile of NEBIDO given the large European experience. Rare coughing reactions have been well-described in the European product labeling of NEBIDO. We believe the information available on these cases indicates these reactions resolved without consequences and that our proposed labeling for NEBIDO in the U.S. adequately addressed this issue. We intend to vigorously pursue the approval of NEBIDO and will allocate the resources necessary to conduct an additional study to satisfy the concerns of the FDA. From our verbal discussion with the FDA, we are not aware of any other approvability issues."
Dr. Cooper continued, "Despite this disappointment we remain committed to our strategic direction. VANTAS® and SUPPRELIN® LA are both growing franchises that we will devote additional effort to promoting and we intend to extend our SANCTURA XR(TM) sales force co-promotion agreement with Allergan by the full six months available to us. In addition, this summer we anticipate receiving approval to launch VALSTAR(TM) for bladder cancer and intend to initiate the Phase III clinical program for our octreotide implant with an anticipated 2010 launch date for acromegaly. We will also continue to aggressively pursue business development opportunities."
Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the acquisition, development and commercialization of products to treat conditions in urology and endocrinology. The Company's approved products include SANCTURA® and SANCTURA XR(TM) for overactive bladder, VANTAS® for advanced prostate cancer, SUPPRELIN® LA for central precocious puberty, and DELATESTRYL® to treat male hypogonadism. The Indevus development pipeline contains multiple compounds within the Company's core therapeutic areas in addition to several partnered or partnerable programs. The most advanced compounds in development include, VALSTAR(TM) for bladder cancer, NEBIDO® for male hypogonadism, PRO 2000 for the prevention of infection by HIV and other sexually-transmitted pathogens, the octreotide implant for acromegaly, and a biodegradable ureteral stent used in association with the adjunctive treatment of kidney stones.
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NEBIDO® is a long-acting depot preparation of testosterone undecanoate under development for the treatment of male hypogonadism. NEBIDO is expected to be the first long-acting testosterone preparation available in the U.S. in the growing market for testosterone replacement therapies. Indevus acquired U.S. rights to NEBIDO from Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany in July 2005.
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AMA-ICP elected body for year 2015
Peshawar: The Academic Managers Association (AMA-ICP) was elected its new cabinet for next term 2015, during its annual elections, held here on Wednesday.
According to press release issued here, stated that the annual general body held, to elect new cabinet for the next term, according to results, Amir Izhar, elected as president, Ifranullah Kamran Marwat, vice president, while general secretary Zakria Qasmi, and joint cum press secretary, Akbar Amin, finance secretary, Nasreen Ghaffar during the voting. Sikandar Khan, Arif ul Haq, Faisal Shah, and Nadir Nawaz elected as executive members of the cabinet.
The newly elected office bearers pledged to work for the betterment, improvement and prosperity of Islamia College Peshawar in collaboration with the Teaching Staff Association, Class-iii and Class-iv Associations and through extending full support to the incumbent administration.
The newly elected President Amir Izhar in his speech re-iterated that it is the need of time that we work in unison towards achieving our goals. He was appreciative of the sincere efforts being made by Mr. Ajmal Khan VC-ICP and Mr. Sareer Bacha-Registrar ICP to enhance the security measures. The meeting ended with a combined prayer for the improvement in the worst situation faced by the country.
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In Review: The Flash – Subject 9
Barry meets a powerful woman whose gifts may aid him in his battle with DeVoe.
by Ian Cullen February 28, 2018
Synopsis: Barry meets a powerful woman whose gifts may aid him in his battle with DeVoe. Meanwhile, after learning that DeVoe is targeting everyone who was on the bus. Harry offers to help Cecile.
Review: The team is continuing its mission to try and locate passengers from the bus and come across a country music singer and fiddler Izzy Bowen who has the power to manipulate and weaponize soundwaves. When she manages to hurt DeVoe. Barry and the team try to train her.
Making matters a little more complicated. Ralph falls in love with Izzy and becomes rather protective of her.
Elsewhere Harry winds up helping Cecile with a device that can prevent her from picking up on Joe’s dreams, which are keeping her awake thanks to the fact that she is able to read minds. As fate would have it Harry figures out that the device might help the team in their fight against DeVoe.
Miranda MacDougall puts in a nice performance as Izzy and the relationship that forms between Izzy and Ralph is kind of sweet and offered a bit of character growth for Ralph.
The battle sequences between the team and the Thinker who is after Izzy because he needs a new body to host his meta powers and incredible mind really goes to town with the team. You begin to doubt if the team will ever manage to defeat DeVoe, but they do figure out how to track DeVoe by the close of the episode.
Overall. This was a pretty strong episode for The Flash to return on. The goofy humor that has been so much a part of the early part of this season is played down a little now as we get to the proper meat and potatoes of the season arc. We get a nice call back to last years episode concerning Savitar, which is where we first learn of Harry’s device that they used on DeVoe. And the scenes with Harry trying to help Cecile are kind of fun.
With only three more metahumans from the bus to find. You have to wonder how many more DeVoe will get to before team Flash and just how will they manage to defeat him.
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Ian Cullen is the founder of scifipulse.net and has been a fan of science fiction and fantasy from birth. In the past few years he has written for 'Star Trek' Magazine as well as interviewed numerous comics writers, television producers and actors for the SFP-NOW podcast at: www.scifipulseradio.com When he is not writing for scifipulse.net Ian enjoys playing his guitar, studying music, watching movies and reading his comics. Ian is both the founder and owner of scifipulse.net You can contact ian at: ian@scifipulse.net
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Parents and disabled claimants ‘disproportionately affected’ by welfare reforms
Parents and people with disabilities are being hit hardest by the UK government’s programme of welfare reform according to new research commissioned by the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee.
The report, published today, represents the first time the impact of the UK government’s welfare reform agenda on different household types in Scotland has been quantified.
The research for the Committee was conducted by Professors Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University.
The new evidence shows that in Scotland, it is estimated that couples with dependent children will lose an average of more than £1,400 a year, and lone parents with dependent children stand to lose an average of around £1,800 a year from their income stream.
In all, families with children will lose an estimated £960m a year – approaching two-thirds of the overall financial loss in Scotland.
Disabled claimants and those with health problems have also been shown to be disproportionately affected. Reductions in incapacity benefits are estimated to average £2,000 a year, and some of the same people also face big losses in Disability Living Allowance and reductions in other benefits.
Committee convener Michael McMahon MSP (pictured) said: “The Welfare Reform Committee has amassed a growing volume of evidence documenting the impact of the welfare reform agenda on Scotland’s communities. This latest evidence shows that some of those most in need of support, namely parents and disabled people are being hardest hit. For us to be in this situation in 21st century Scotland is unacceptable.”
The report also shows that almost half the reduction in benefits might be expected to fall on in-work households.
Deputy convener, Clare Adamson MSP added: “The Scottish Government is to be commended for introducing measures to alleviate some of the worst effects of the welfare reform agenda. New powers over a range of benefits are due to be given to Holyrood in the coming years and this research will help direct those new powers to help those most in need of support.”
Until now, there has been no way to assess the impact across the various benefits on different types of households. Because of the cumulative impact of people being affected by several different benefit streams, the overall impact of welfare reforms has been hidden.
The statistics are expected to become an essential tool for government and local authorities in shaping targeted responses and service delivery.
The research follows two previous reports which measured the financial impact of welfare reform on Scotland as a whole and by local authority area, and the impact down to ward level.
The Committee expects to hear oral evidence on this report at its meeting on 10 March.
Professor Steve Fothergill, of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University, said: “The figures demonstrate that the welfare reforms impact very unevenly. The very big impact on families with children, in particular, has previously been under the radar because it is the cumulative result of several individual reforms. Coalition ministers have argued that ‘we’re all in it together’. The impacts of welfare reform, documented in our report, show this is far from being the case.”
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Unified Basketball On MHSAA TV
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2018
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The efforts of MHSAA member schools to promote participation opportunities with the Michigan Special Olympics will get live video coverage this week as part of more than 80 events on MHSAA.tv being produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program.
The Kensington Lakes Activities Association is in the midst of several weeks of events where a number of its member schools are conducting Unified Basketball games, including a Tuesday (Jan. 30) contest with Novi hosting Brighton at 5:30 p.m. in a game being covered by Pixellot.
Project Unified puts special education students on the court, participating in concert with their general education peers. Lineups must consist of three unified student athletes and two unified student partners on the floor at all times.
The Unified game is one of several basketball games between Novi and Brighton on Tuesday, beginning at 4 p.m., and culminating with the varsity contest about 7:30 p.m. To help promote the Unified event, all of the games on MHSAA.tv originating from Novi will be free.
The schedule over the upcoming week also features a potential battle of unbeatens in the Copper Mountain Conference. Next Tuesday (Feb. 6), Ewen-Trout Creek (15-0), the second-ranked team in Class D, will play at sixth-ranked Dollar Bay (10-0). E-TC leads the Porcupine Mountain division, and Dollar Bay sits atop the Copper division. On Saturday (Feb. 3), the KLAA Competitive Cheer Tournament will be streamed live from Novi High School.
Of the 83 games on this week’s schedule, 49 at the varsity level will be covered, with more to be added as the week progresses. Fifty-six of the games will be produced by schools using Pixellot, the NFHS Network’s automated coverage solution. Be sure to check Upcoming Events on the MHSAA.tv home page daily for last-minute additions.
In its ninth year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events, with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. Pixellot is used by schools wishing to live stream games, but lacking the ability to staff the events. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
JV Boys Basketball – Bessemer at Dollar Bay – 5:45 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Bessemer at Dollar Bay – 5:45 p.m.
Tuesday - January 30
JV Boys Basketball - Brighton at Novi - 4 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Cedar Springs at Fremont - 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Clawson at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Fruitport at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
Unified Coed Basketball - Brighton at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Copper Country Christian at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Clawson at Macomb Lutheran North - 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Stockbridge at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Brighton at Novi - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Fruitport at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Fowlerville at Stockbridge - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Tawas Area at Alpena - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Royal Oak at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Dearborn Divine Child at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 7:30 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Clare at Harrison - 4:30 p.m.
Wrestling - Reed City at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday - January 31
JV Boys Basketball - Clare at Harrison - 6 p.m.
Wrestling – Standish-Sterling at Freeland - 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Clare at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
Thursday - February 1
Freshman Boys Basketball - Burton Atherton at Otisville LakeVille - 4 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Northville at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Burton Atherton at Otisville LakeVille - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Grand Rapids West Catholic at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Gladwin at Harrison - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Northville at Novi - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 7 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Burton Atherton at Otisville LakeVille - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Gladwin at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
Friday - February 2
Ice Hockey – Houghton v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood @ MIHL Showcase - 4 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Big Rapids at Fremont - 4:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Chesaning at Freeland - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Fowlerville at Portland - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Grand Rapids West Catholic at Comstock Park - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Oscoda at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Reed City at Fremont - 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Oscoda at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Fowlerville at Portland - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Grand Rapids West Catholic at Comstock Park - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Reed City at Fremont - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday - February 3
Cheerleading – KLAA Conference Meet at Novi - 11 a.m.
Girls Basketball - Carson City-Crystal at Vestaburg - 1 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern-Eastern v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood @ MIHL Showcase - 3:10 p.m.
Monday - February 5
Freshman Boys Basketball - Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Alma at Freeland - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Hancock at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Lake Linden-Hubbell at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Alma at Freeland - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Lincoln Alcona at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Lincoln Alcona at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Lake Linden-Hubbell at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Hancock at Dollar Bay - 7:20 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Alma at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday - February 6
Freshman Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Saline at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Vassar at Otisville LakeVille - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Ann Arbor Pioneer at Fowlerville - 6:59 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Vassar at Otisville LakeVille - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Saline at Novi - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Rochester Adams at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 7:15 p.m. Negaunee #4
Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Ewen-Trout Creek at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Lake Linden Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Wednesday - February 7
Wrestling – Div. 3 District Team Tournament at Freeland - 6 p.m.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 a month. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on- demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. School Broadcast Program participants will also be selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
Highlights of games produced in the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members feature the following events:
Boys Basketball – East Lansing 56, Jackson 48
Ice Hockey – Kingsford 4, Marquette 3
Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
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At the Roundhouse, Red Clay celebrates 10 years of putting African diaspora stories first
"Art of Resilience, 2.0," photo courtesy of Red Clay Dance
May 18, 2019 | By Brianna Alexis Heath
This year marked several milestone anniversaries for some of the most important and influential voices, companies and organizations in Chicago’s dance community. Among them, Red Clay Dance—an Afro-contemporary dance company founded by dancer/choreographer Vershawn Sanders-Ward, celebrates 10 years of “creating, performing and teaching dances of the African Diaspora” on the South side of Chicago. The company’s 10th anniversary featured La Femme Festival—a biannual festival celebrating black female choreographers, curated by Sanders-Ward, Lela Aisha (FlyGround, Philadelphia) and Aaliyah Christina (Catalyst Mvmnt, Chicago)—and the premiere of “Art of Resilience 2.0,” a new work by the Chicago-native, Sanders-Ward, influenced by the 2017 “Art of Resilience.”
This second iteration activated the DuSable Museum Roundhouse, a former 19th century horse stable designed by Chicago-based architect Daniel Burnham. The Roundhouse is currently part of the DuSable Museum of African American History and Culture’s renovation project to transform and expand their current exhibition space. However, for the weekend, the domed building crowned with rainbow colored windows is a performance space complete with hand-made, wooden, sprung dance floors courtesy of the partnership between Sweetwater Foundation and Onye Ozuzu’s “Project Tool”.
As audience members arrive, they are invited to engage with the “Walking Museum”—a set of objects (and dancers themselves) roped off around the space honoring elders from Chicago’s South side, and accompanied with stories found in the online program. Dressed in denim overalls, white t-shirts, and Converse sneakers, the all-black woman ensemble (Leanna Allen, Chaniece Holmes, Marceia Scruggs, Destiny Young and Sara Ziglar) seems to be preparing for work as they warm up on the sides, post up against the beams and talk with folks—blurring the lines between performer/audience member.
Set to the melodic sounds of DJ Sadie Woods, there is no clear beginning to the work. One dancer begins a playful ritual sequence, as audience members continue to find their seats, and the lights dim to a calm lavender. The dancers’ spines undulate and twist, and their feet stomp in line with the wah-wah of Miles Davis’ trumpet, the doon, doon of the blues guitar, and the vibrato of Mahalia Jackson. They clap their hands, beat their bodies and invite the audience to join in this collective work to remember, reimagine, and heal. Avery R. Young’s powerful vocals paired with the rigorous choreography reflect a Southern, gospel storytelling tradition that gets us caught up/wrapped up in the ritual of remembering. Resilience lies in the process of remembering and our willingness to work it out in our bodies, and Red Clay places black women at the center of this work.
However, even with the stunning production and centering of African diasporic stories in the movement and music, the evening contained a lot of moving parts that seemed repetitive at times and bit underdeveloped. I remember thinking about the Roundhouse itself, and wondering about its place in the development of Chicago’s Black Belt and the artistic/political movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Being one of the first dance activations at the Roundhouse, I wondered about how the work could have further engaged with the history of the building. What stories and voices are lodged in its bricks and mortar? Who were the people that worked there? And what can we learn about resilience—the decision to thrive even in the face of erasure—in the stories of black women like Margaret T. Burroughs, who founded the DuSable in her home in 1961.
Even still, Red Clay’s 10th anniversary performance introduces the Roundhouse as a potential performance space, especially considering the limited spaces already available to artists living and working on the South side. The women of Red Clay remain as one of the most important companies led by black women, committed to telling the stories of the people of the African diaspora and connecting us all to a larger narrative of liberation. And, while there is still more work to be done, 10 years is an accomplishment, and so we take this time to celebrate.
Red Clay Dance presents “Art of Resilience 2.0” concludes tonight at the DuSable Museum Roundhouse, 740 E. 56th Place. Tickets are $100, available by clicking the event page below.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kpop
Published by Margaret at July 23, 2013
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If PSY was your first introduction to Korean Popular music (hereafter referred to only as KPop) then you, my friend, have opened a Pandora’s box of music. Kpop is one of the fastest growing music genres in the world. For the sake of this article, KPop does not refer to Korean Pop music, but Korean Popular music, i.e. the more popular music in Korea right now. To make this easier to digest, we’ve broken things down into subgenres, each with musician/group recommendations for your listening pleasure.
So lets begin our journey!
Idol Singers
The term “idol singer” does not mean someone who won a music contest show. In Korea, it means a singer who has trained under one of the massive talent agencies of Korea. The largest of these agencies are SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment. Idols are normally either a part of boy band, girl band, or a solo singer.
Idol Bands
Idol boy bands are the real money makers of the KPop industry. These are boy bands in the traditional 1990s America sense of boy bands (think N’Sync, Backstreet Boys). They are groups of anywhere from 2 to 12 guys all singing and dancing and looking perfect. Boy bands will typically adopt their own personas.
First, you have the cute boy bands represented by groups like B1A4, FT Island, and Boyfriend. Then there are the cute girl bands like Orange Caramel, APink, and Kara. These guys and gals are more wholesome and produce upbeat, dancey pop music. They’re known for wearing extremely bright clothes and pulling aegyo faces so often that it might give you cavities.
Then there’s the sexy boy bands ruled majestically by groups like Big Bang, 2PM, Infinite, and MBLAQ. These guys are fighting to be just a sizzlingly hot as their sexy girl band counterparts like 2NE1, 4Minute, Sistar, and Miss A. Their music tends to be more club-oriented, with more aggressive beats and darker, sexier concepts. These guys and girls are not above showing off their *a-hem* assets in the most drool-worthy ways.
Now, I know any people with knowledge of KPop are getting your comments prepared for not seeing Girl’s Generation yet, but that’s because I consider them part of the transitional idol bands group. Groups that began as cute groups, but are slowly, and inconsistently, transitioning into sexy groups as their memebers come of age. Similar groups include Be2st (aka Beast), Wonder Girls, After School, and SHINee.
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Margaret has been living and working in Seoul since 2011. Originally hailing from the United States (Maine and Tennessee, to be precise) she’s more than found a home amongst the wonders of Seoul. She eats more kimbap that could possibly be healthy for her and has a bad habit of bursting into KPop songs to which she does not know even 80% of the lyrics. Check out her blog at margarettriesbeing.com for more in-depth (that is to say, rambling) articles on Seoul How-To’s, Survival Tips, and excessive use of animated gifs.
PSY says:
SoShi was the first group I really listened to, back before their debut I watched GGTS when paying a visit to SK
mup says:
“Similar groups include Be2st (aka Beast), Wonder Girls, After School, and SHINee.”
it’s B2ST, not Be2st. lol
domo says:
thx I though only I realizes b2est bot be2st
Titi says:
Okay then, where’s Super Junior? 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 Where’s Shinhwa?! Anyway, thanks!
Spress says:
People wishing to explore more of Korean music might want to check out EatYourKimchi. It’s a Canadian couple who review music, culture and life in Korea. I was introduced to Kpop via Wonder Girls back in 2008, went and saw them live in San Francisco 2010, and 2012. They’re on hiatus now, but fans are hoping they’ll return soon!
Rora says:
I think CNBLUE deserves a mention! I normally only like select songs from various artists, but CNBLUE and FT ISLAND are the only two bands that I have all their songs on my playlist. 🙂
Thanks so much for the suggestions @Rora & @Titl. Since this was an attempt at a general overview I couldn’t include all of the great bands there are to enjoy. I love both Super Junior and CNBlue but was having a difficult time deciding which sub-genre they best fit into since they’re very unique groups.
Keep reading and keep commenting! Comments are what make our writing better!
farnaz says:
Your comment…woooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww 2pm is realllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy best
henny says:
i think u guys have to review about 1st generation of idol in korea too!^^ like H.O.T, Shinhwa, S.E.S. because i still heard them a lot when i was junior high school (even im not living in korean). and generally, kpop become famous because BoA and Rain’s hardwork. seems they have big contribution bout kpop. =]
Oh totally, Shinhwa did a lot to shape how KPop artists present themselves today and they’re still a pretty popular group (“Venus” from last year is still one of my top KPop songs). Rain and BoA then added to that with adding the importance to cross-promote yourself overseas. “Evolution of KPop” would make an interesting article!
P Smith says:
I lived in Seoul from 2001 to 2005. Kpop sucked then, and it still sucks now. It’s an entire country modeled on Stock Aitken Waterman “music” (see: Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue). Even worse is how it’s exported and taking over – and ruining – the once strong domestic scenes in other countries (e.g. Japan, Philippines, etc.).
The only good bands in Korea back in the early 2000s were the punk and alternative bands (e.g. Crying Nut, No Brain, Cherry Filter, et al) and they were the only groups writing and playing their own music. It’s no surprise that groups like those are the among the few that have had 10-15 year careers, still able to attract fans today. People want DIY and originality, but they’re not getting much of it from the Korean music industry.
GIM says:
For foreigners interested in learning the Korean language characteristic of K-Pop, you should include this site:
http://seemile.com/kpop/view.jsp?group_no=201&kpop_group_no=181
Seemile is a site out of Hangyan University in Seoul which specializes in language materials for several Asian languages, especially for Korean. Jenny Lee, who does a lot of the teaching is very pretty, and is a good and interesting teacher.
DavidXian says:
I recommend LeeSSang!
They started as a non-idol singers – without big agency but now I think they’re as popular as the idols. (I heard they’re already popular in Korea even before Gil joined Infinite Challenge and Gary joined Running Man though.)
:S Sujin :S says:
Why didn’t you leave EXO out??? D:
Is Dynamic Duo still considered underground? If I recall correctly, they performed on music shows like Music Bank when they were promoting their single BAAM BAAM BAAM.
Some confusing infortions here, han? I think we should be very careful when we label groups without researching enough .__.
Talos says:
Think you forgot Kasper lol
Baiyo says:
Don’t forget about EXO 😉
Mrs. Park says:
I love BTS, just saying 😀
I don’t get the whole jizz with Girls Generation. I know their stuff, yet I’m just not a fan. To me, they’re a bit overrated. Now, don’t pound me for it! I respect them, I’m not particularly crazy for them, though. That’s all. I DO love Kpop, though!!!
girl korean says:
i love korea so much korea y world and my heart ….. i’m really i want boyfriend she from korea
Skylar says:
i got to hear about a lot of band half of them i already knew but i didn’t hear one mention of The “SUPER JUNIOR”…which is like almost as famous as Girls Generation. and also i didn’t hear a thing about EXO and the BTS!!!
well that disspoints me a litttle
Bethany Reed says:
The first kpop group I ever listened to was back 10 years ago which was Big Bang. I think the industry to growing in a good way. I love BTS and their story.
It’s amazing how all this is relevant even till today and kpop is only still at the beginning stages of growth; I can’t wait to see what its going to be like in 10 years!
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Prisoners United of Silicon Valley thank each other and supporters for...
Greetings and solidarity to each other and all who participated in our initial hunger strike to end the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and inhumane treatment in Santa Clara County jails. We would like to extend our respect and appreciation to all who participated and sacrificed to provoke change. Although we came from diverse backgrounds – be it race, religion, color or creed – we set our differences aside and interlocked arms, forming a formidable force through civil disobedience in solidarity.
California prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane treatment...
We are the prisoner class representatives of what’s become known as the PBSP SHU Short Corridor Collective Human Rights Movement. Last month we marked the first anniversary of the end of our historic 60-day Hunger Strike. Oct. 10 we mark the two-year anniversary of the Agreement to End Hostilities. This is an update on where things stand with our struggle to achieve major reforms beneficial to prisoners, outside loved ones and society in general.
Lawyers Guild honors prison hunger strikers
On the evening of April 5, hundreds gathered in downtown Oakland for the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’s (NLGSF) annual fundraising dinner. This year, the NLGSF honored California prison hunger strikers and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) coalition of family members, activists and friends who supported the strikers. The assembled crowd was able to hear directly from those inside California prisons.
Hunger strikers denied right to read: Pelican Bay officials just don’t...
In retaliation for our peaceful protest, the security housing unit sergeant, B. Davis, drafted up a memorandum on July 8, 2013, saying that Pelican Bay State Prison will be following “regulations per DOM 54030.20.5 which allows book/ publications limit of five (5) books maximum.” This is what PBSP calls rehabilitation.
CDCR to prisoners: Submit to force-feeding to get demands met
Enough is enough. We are tired of CDCR officials, CCPOA, IGI, ISU and SSU continuing all this manipulation, deception with word games, lying to politicians to secure funding, lying to the media and the public in order to cover up the truth. The outcome of the two hunger strikes only exposed a little of their lies but enough to shock the world.
Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement presents counter-proposal opposing CDCR ‘Security Threat...
Top CDCR administrators admitted several times during our negotiations that the five core demands made by 12,000 hunger striking prisoners were reasonable and would all be addressed via meaningful, substantive changes. Our rejection of CDCR's March 1 proposal is based upon its failure to act in good faith. CDCR is asking lawmakers and taxpayers to allow it to continue to violate thousands of prisoners’ human rights, torturing us with impunity. Our counter-proposal will bring this illegal torture to an end.
Hunger strike analysis: Thinking outside the concrete box
If we can do a mass hunger strike, can we not gain support to pursue a mass boycott of the canteen for three-six months. What can prisoncrats do about a collective will to not buy canteen or have family and friends send money when the state takes over half of off the top anyway? What rule have we broken or what prison order has been disrupted?
Pelican Bay SHU representatives respond to CDCR’s proposed gang management strategy
The Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit Short Corridor representatives have read and carefully considered and hereby reject CDCR’s gang management proposal of March 2012. Prisoners designated Security Threat Group Members – including the majority of us – will not receive any meaningful change.
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2019 Endurance Year-End Award Recipients Announced
January 20, 2020 Equestrian Canada
Ottawa, ON, Jan. 20, 2020 – The Equestrian Canada (EC) Endurance Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Endurance Year-End Awards. These awards recognize individuals and equines that have put countless hours and tireless effort towards the...
British Columbia's Kaila Buchy Maintains Sights on Championship Pool Qualification
January 20, 2020 Curling Canada
A ruckus crowd armed with cheers, chants, bells, and yells descended upon the George Preston Recreation Centre in the Township of Langley on Sunday evening for Draw 6 action of the 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Championships. While many of...
Canadians Heat up Nakiska: First Career win for Howden
January 19, 2020 Alpine Canada
Calgary, AB (January 18, 2020) - After a week of frigid temperatures, race action got underway at Nakiska Ski Area in front of an enthusiastic home crowd. The Canadian Ski Cross team turned up the heat and capitalized on home...
Youthful Yukon finding alternative paths to success at 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Championships
The 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Championships takes on several different roles for each competing team. Some, aspiring for gold, will accept nothing short of a podium finish while others strive to improve by playing against the best competition that...
Northern Ontario's Jacob Horgan Celebrates 100th National Match
Members of the century club, in any facet, are few and far between but when Jacob Horgan, 19, donned a Northern Ontario jersey for the first time in 2014, he never envisioned playing 100 games at the national level. Horgan...
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January 19, 2020 Skate Canada
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Skate Canada names teams for 2020 ISU Championships
MISSISSAUGA, ON: After completion of the 2020 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Skate Canada has named the team for the upcoming ISU Championships. The week-long championships were held in Mississauga, ON at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre from January 13-19,...
Mark Arendz Wins Silver Medal in Biathlon Sprint at Para-Nordic World Cup in Germany
January 19, 2020 Nordiq Canada
ALTENBERG, Ger.— Mark Arendz put a silver lining around a week that saw Canada’s Para-Nordic squad rack up seven medals at the World Cup in Altenberg, Germany. Determined to bounce back after a disappointing effort in Friday’s race, the 29-year-old...
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Christine de Bruin and Kristen Bujnowski Edged Off Women’s Bobsleigh Podium in Fourth
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—Justin Kripps and Ben Coakwell slide to 12th in two-man event— IGLS, Aut.—Canada’s Christine de Bruin and Kristen Bujnowski were just .04 away from winning their second-straight World Cup medal on Saturday in Igls, Austria. The 2019 World Championship medallists...
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Neoliberal resource appropriations and productions of nature
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Participatory Mapping Practice
LLILAS Initiative on Participatory Mapping and the Struggle for Land and Resources
Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Bjørn Sletto, Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture
Community-based, participatory mapping has become an important tool for indigenous, Afro-descendant and other marginalized people in their struggles to secure their land and resource rights. However, participatory mapping need to be reconceptualized in light of emerging threats stemming from industrial agriculture, extractivism, climate change, and other pressures on land and resource rights. Indigenous people and community leaders are now forging new approaches to radical, participatory mapping for local development, resource management, and cultural conservation. This LLILAS initiative seeks to further conversation and research about these issues and to develop innovative strategies for participatory mapping practice. Participants include scholars, practitioners and indigenous and community leaders across the United States and Central and South America.
Participatory mapping in Vista Alegre, Pemon territory, Gran Sabana, Venezuela.
Elders’ mental map, Peraitepuy, Pemon territory, Gran Sabana, Venezuela.
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Turkish Airlines offers doctors miles to identify themselves in advance
Oliver Smith, The Daily Telegraph
- May 14, 2013 7:43 am
Giving out free miles to attract doctors on flights is ultimately cheaper than what it would cost for the airline to provide doctors, or the equivalent training for its own staff.
— Samantha Shankman
Turkish Airlines has become the latest carrier to reward doctors with free air miles if they identify themselves when booking a flight.
The scheme, already offered by Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, aims to make it easier to find medically-qualified passenger in the event of an emergency.
Although airline cabin crew do receive medical training, many prefer a GP or nurse to be present to administer drugs or conduct tests.
“We know where the medical doctors are sitting in advance, and the cabin attendants can call them to help us,” Dr Temel Kotil, chief executive of Turkish Airlines, told the Independent.
The most common in-flight emergencies are minor conditions such as dizziness and gastric problems, which are often aggravated by altitude, fatigue, or consumption of alcohol and sedatives.
But serious problems such as heart attacks will often require the plane to be diverted, which may cost an airline thousands of pounds. Airlines trying to keep costs down appear increasingly keen to avoid any inaccurate diagnosis.
The size of the incentive provided by Turkish Airlines, however – 5,000 frequent-flier points, which would not even cover an upgrade on a domestic flight – was described as “stingy” by a leading travel medicine specialist.
In-flight medical emergencies have become more common in recent years, due to the rising number of air travellers, the aging population of many developed countries, and the increasing mobility of people with chronic illnesses.
The introduction of planes with larger capacities, such as the Airbus A380 – which can carry in excess of 500 travellers – have also made problems more likely.
According to the British Medical Journal, in-flight emergencies occur at a rate of around one per 11,000 passengers. Around 70 per cent of incidents are handled by cabin crew.
The most frequent complaints include chest pain, fainting/collapse, asthma – the most common life threatening condition, head injuries caused by falling luggage, mental health problems such as anxiety, and gastric problems.
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Make That Eight Straight
By Kellie Canosa
Who else could we be talking about other than the Marc Marquez! The still undefeated, defending World Champion scored his eighth straight MotoGP™ victory of 2014 on Saturday, in front of 90,000 at the Dutch TT GP in Assen.
It marked the first time a rider won the first eight Grand Prix since the great Giacomo Agostini back in 1971. Marquez now has an almost unbelievable 72-point lead in the championship standings over Rossi and Pedrosa, who are now tied in second. That’s very nearly a three-race wins worth of a lead.
The start of the race was delayed due to extreme rain, causing chaos on the grid, each team attempted to make quick changes to their bikes to give riders the best advantage in the wet.
Marquez stretched his lead from Valentino Rossi in the standings; Andrea Dovizioso finish 6.714 seconds behind Marquez, it marked his best result of the season and second podium of 2014. Dani Pedrosa came in third after battling with pole winner Aleix Espargaro for much of the race.
Assen brought the elements and the intensity. According to cyclenews.com, “If any race looked a bit shaky for the series leader it was Assen.” Marquez crashed in the morning warm-up session. Parkes and Rossi started from pit lane after deciding to switch to wet race set-up. Danilo Petrucci had an issue with his bike and it died at the starting line.
“Before the race I was quite nervous because it’s a race that nobody want because it’s so dangerous and so complicated to know which is the best strategy,” Marquez explained, according to MotoGP.com. “We started on rain tires. We know in six or seven laps it would be dry, but it was too dangerous at the beginning to go with slicks. And then when we changed the bikes I had a small mistake, I go out (wide) and then I come back and Dovi was in front. But then it start rain again in the mid, with remain 10 laps I think and after that again I catch Andrea. I overtake him. I had a better rhythm like more race in the free practice form. After that it just was a little bit easier, but even like that it was quite complicated because even in this condition it was quite difficult.”
The icing on top of the race was when Marquez celebrated his victory by crossing the finish line in swimming motion and then climbing a TV platform, waving to the fans and then politely shaking hands with the cameraman.
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Facebook to air Spanish La Liga ,eyes English Premier League
By Austin Oduor , Kenya
La liga to go live on facebook in the Indian Sub Continent after mega deal
Spain’s top flight La Liga announced on Tuesday (Aug 14) a landmark deal with Facebook which will allow viewers in the Indian sub-continent to watch every game over the next three seasons free of charge on the social network.
A statement from La Liga said all 380 league matches for the new season, which begins on Friday, would be available to viewers in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
“We are really happy to be on a free to air service in such an important territory as the Indian sub continent,” Alfredo Bermejo, La Liga’s head of digital strategy, told Reuters ahead of the announcement.
“One of our goals for the last two years has been to offer content to the widest audience possible, so partnering with free platforms like Facebook, which has 270 million users in India, is key to us.”
Facebook and La Liga declined to give the price of the deal which sees the social network giant unseat Sony Pictures Network as the rights holder in the region.
Industry sources reveal that Facebook, which went almost up to 4000 crores for the IPL rights last year, is shelling out about $25 million (Rs 171 crores) for La Liga. But that is not all. Zuckerberg is targeting the rights of the English Premier League (EPL) too.
Sony paid a reported US$32 million for the right to broadcast La Liga between 2014 and 2018.
Additional reporting by Pune Media
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Bordeaux Futures 2017 — Montrose, La Dame de Montrose, Cantemerle, d’Aiguilhe
Amber LeBeau in Bordeaux, Shopping for Wine
For the last several postings in our series about the 2017 Bordeaux Futures campaign, we’ve been skipping around Bordeaux to focus on the offers from different communes.
Today we’re going to take a break from that to look at some individual offers from the St. Estephe 2nd Growth Ch. Montrose and its second wine, La Dame de Montrose. Then we are going to head out to the Haut-Medoc AOC to check in on the 5th Growth Ch. Cantemerle before ending on the offer from another Vignobles Comtes von Neipperg estate with Ch. d’Aiguilhe in the Côtes de Castillon region of the Right Bank.
If you are new to our Bordeaux Futures series, be sure to check out my post on Why I Buy Bordeaux Futures as well as the our first Bordeaux Futures 2017 post covering the offers of Palmer, Valandraud, Fombrauge and Haut-Batailley.
At the bottom of page are links to the offers of other estates that we’ve reviewed so far in this series.
Now onto the offers.
Ch. Montrose (St. Estephe)
Some Geekery:
The vivid pink color of heather flowers in bloom on the hill that would become Montrose could be scene by sailors on the Gironde.
Founded in 1815, Ch. Montrose was the youngest estate to be classified 40 years later in the 1855 classification. However, the history of the land dates back much longer when it was part of the historical Calon-Ségur estate that was once owned by the Marquis de Ségur–the “Prince of Vines” who also owned what would become the First Growths of Ch. Latour, Lafite and Mouton-Rothschild.
The descendants of the Marquis sold Calon-Ségur in 1778 to Etienne Théodore Dumoulin. His son, also named Etienne Théodore, took interest in an unplanted hill on the property near the Gironde known as La Lande de l’Escargeon that was covered in heather, stunted trees, gorse and bramble. Underneath this growth was a croupe of gravel soils that Dumoulin suspected would be ideal for grape growing.
Dumoulin cleared the hill and renamed it Montrose (hill of pink) with the name likely alluding to the pink (rosé) heather flowers that were visible to sailors on the Gironde when they were in bloom. While Dumoulin would later sell Calon-Ségur in 1824, Montrose would stay in his family until 1861 when it was sold to an Alsatian businessman, Mathieu Dollfus.
Clive Coates notes in Grand Vins that Dollfus was a very progressive employer for his time–building housing and a well for all his winery and vineyard workers, offering them free medical care and paid maternity leave as well as dividing 10% of the profits between them on top of their salaries.
When Dolffus passed away in 1887, the estate was sold to the Hostein family who owned Ch. Cos d’Estournel. In 1896, it was passed to Louis Victor Charmoule who was born at Ch. Figeac in St. Emilion and married into the Hostein family.
The Charmoule family would own Ch. Montrose for more than 100 years until 2006 when it was sold to the Bouygues brothers who made their fortune in the construction and telecom business.
A bottle of 2000 Montrose, one of the last few vintages of the Charmoule family.
Under the Bouygues ownership, Herve Berland–formerly of Ch. Mouton-Rothschild–was brought in to manage the estate and Jean Bernard Delmas, previously of Ch. Haut-Brion, was coaxed out of retirement to oversee the winemaking both at Montrose and at the Bouyques’ neighboring sister property of Ch. Tronquoy Lalande.
The 2017 vintage is a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot. Around 15,000 cases a year are produced.
Critic Scores:
96-99 Wine Advocate (WA), 96-97 James Suckling (JS), 94-96 Wine Enthusiast (WE), 94-96 Vinous Media (VM), 91-94 Wine Spectator (WS), 97-99 Jeff Leve (JL), 93-95 Jeb Dunnuck (JD)
Sample Review:
This has more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend this year, the highest level since 2006, because the Merlot didn’t quite make it through the September rains unscathed. The wine is correspondingly powerful with a robust accompanying acidity that promises a long life. The fruit character is savoury, succulent and extremely persistent, with fleshy blackberry alongside touches of redcurrant and a pulsating freshness that keeps on coming. Harvested 12-29 September with twelve days spent actually picking, compared to sixteen days over the last few years, with more hands on deck. They have never been affected by frost, as far as they can remember, and 2017 was no exception. The wind is always such a benefit here. (96 points) — Jane Anson, Decanter
Wine Searcher 2017 Average: $133
JJ Buckley: $132.94 + shipping (no shipping if picked up at Oakland location)
Vinfolio: $138 + shipping
Spectrum Wine Auctions: $839.94 for minimum 6 bottles + shipping (no shipping if picked up at Tustin, CA location)
Total Wine: $134.97 (no shipping with wines sent to local Total Wine store for pick up)
K&L: $129.99 + shipping (no shipping if picked up at 1 of 3 K & L locations in California)
Previous Vintages:
2016 Wine Searcher Ave: $197 Average Critic Score: 95 points
2015 Wine Searcher Ave: $177 Average Critic Score: 94
2013 Wine Searcher Ave: $98 Average Critic Score: 92
Buy or Pass?
Montrose is a stalwart in my cellar but even though I know the style has been changing to make the wines more approachable younger, I never want to touch a bottle until it has at least 15 years of age on it. A couple years ago, I opened up a 2005 with just a little over 10 years of age and it was heartbreaking how tight and not ready that wine was–especially since that was my only bottle and it is now fetching over $200. Lesson learned.
Needless to say that means that even though this will undoubtedly be a tasty bottle and a solid value with pricing under 2014 levels, Montrose’s style doesn’t fit with my personal objectives of finding early-drinking “cellar defenders” from this 2017 vintage. So while this will be good buy for other Bordeaux fans, it will be a Pass for me.
La Dame de Montrose (St. Estephe)
La Dame de Montrose is named after Yvonne Charmolue, mother of Jean Louis Charmolue who created the wine in the 1980s. In January 1944, more than a year before World War II would come to an end, Yvonne’s husband, Albe Charmolue, passed away leaving just Yvonne to care for the estate and her young son.
During this time, Montrose was still recovering from having the chateau and several of the winery’s buildings occupied by the Wehrmacht artillery with portions of the vineyards used as a rifle range by the German soldiers. The unit’s presence and its location near the Shell petrol refinery in neighboring Pauillac made the area a frequent target for Royal Air Force bombers with several bombs that overshot their targets hitting the vineyards and creating huge craters.
A bottle of 1953 Montrose–one of several post war vintages that the widow Yvonne Charmolue would oversee the production of.
With only the assistance of Marcel Borie, owner of the 5th Growth Ch. Batailley and mayor of Pauillac, Yvonne single-handedly managed Ch. Montrose for the next 16 years until Jean Louis was ready to take over in 1960.
In 1982, around 30,000 cases a year of the Grand Vin of Montrose was produced. With the introduction of La Dame de Montrose in 1984 as well as the reintroduction of a mostly restaurant-only third wine, Le Saint Estephe de Montrose, in the 2000s that number has been halved to around 15,000 cases a year of the Grand Vin being produced from the 95 ha (235 acre) estate.
Today a little more than half of the crop is declassified with La Dame de Montrose getting around 30% of the total crop and Le Saint Estephe de Montrose getting about 20%. The remaining fruit is sold off in bulk.
The 2017 is a blend of 49% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. Around 10,000 cases a year are produced.
91-92 JS, 89-91 WA, 88-90 VM, 90-92 JD, 89-91 JL
Deep crimson. Much more scented than the Tronquoy-Lalande, lovely dark fruit on the nose. But still with that savoury graphite quality of the grand vin. Fully ripe but not sweet. Even a touch floral. Silky texture, tannins are so supple. Lightish but juicy on the mid palate and with a good balance between fruit and freshness even in this lighter mode. (16.5 out of 20) — Julia Harding, JancisRobinson.com
Wine Searcher 2017 Average: $38
JJ Buckley: No offers yet.
Vinfolio: No offers yet.
Spectrum Wine Auctions: $221.94 for minimum 6 bottles + shipping
Total Wine: $39.97
K&L: No offers yet.
2016 Wine Searcher Ave: $41 Average Critic Score: 92 points
While I’m a huge fan of Montrose and I adore the story of La Dame, this is another second wine that has never really wowed me–even though it remains a decent value as the prices of other second wines keep jumping. There is nothing offensive about the wines but for the same $40-50 price point, I can find plenty of other Bordeaux wines that deliver more pleasure for my money.
I wouldn’t be opposed to purchasing this at a restaurant but even with pricing below 2014, there is nothing very compelling about this wine to entice me to buy for the cellar. Pass.
Ch. Cantemerle (Haut-Medoc)
Ch. Cantemerle is one of the oldest estates in the Haut-Medoc with a history dating back to the 11th century when the property belonged to the Lords of Cantemerle. Unlike the other vassals who were seigneurs of the powerful Lords of Blanquefort, Cantemerle were direct vassals of the king and had many privileges.
Ch. Cantemerle circa 1900-1920.
In 1575, the estate came into the hands of the Villeneuve family who would own Cantemerle for over 300 years and count Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, author of Beauty and the Beast, as an extended member.
In the 19th century, the wines of Cantemerle where held in high esteem and regularly ranked as 4th or 5th Growths. But its entire production was sold almost exclusively through Dutch merchants so when the local merchants and brokers of Bordeaux put together the original 1855 Classification, Cantemerle was omitted.
When the owner, Madame Caroline de Villeneuve-Durfort, heard about this slight, she barged down to the offices of the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce while the Paris Exposition unveiling the classification was still taking place. With over 40 years worth of receipts, she argued successfully to the head of the broker’s union that the wines of Cantemerle had a long track record of fetching prices on par with many of the wines that were included in the classification.
For her efforts, Cantemerle was added to the original document listing the estates of the 1855 classification, albeit clearly in a different handwriting than the other estates.
In the 20th century, the property came into the hands of the Dubois family who owned Cantemerle until 1981 when it was sold to the French insurance group SMABTP with the Cordier family (of Ch. Talbot and the notable negociant house fame) managing the vineyard and winemaking.
Today Cantemerle is still owned by SMABTP where it is part of a portfolio that includes the St. Emilion estates of Ch. Haut Corbin, Ch. Grand Corbin and Ch. Le Jurat. In 1993, Philippe Dambrine replaced the Cordiers as estate manager and is still responsible for production today.
The 2017 is a blend of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot. Around 25,000 cases a year are produced.
93-94 JS, 92-94 WE, 89-91 WA, 89-92 VM, 87-90 WS, 87-89 JD, 90-92
The 2017 Cantemerle is deep, fleshy and wonderfully expressive. Savory herb, tobacco, menthol, licorice, dark red cherry, smoke and incense run through this super-expressive, pliant Haut-Médoc Grand Cru Classé. All the elements simply meld together effortlessly. Rose petal, lavender and a host of floral notes add perfume to the finish. The 2017 should be one of the finer values of the year. Tasted two times. — Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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K&L: $29.99 + shipping
The inclusion of Cantemerle under Château Croizet-Bages in the original 1855 classification is noticeably smaller and in a different handwriting. Source
The history geek in me loves the story of Cantemerle and particularly the feisty Madame Villeneuve-Durfort who wouldn’t take no for an answer. When I look at photos showing the shaky and hastily added Cantemerle to the 1855 classification, I chuckle thinking of Madame Villeneuve-Durfort hovering over the shoulder of the scared broker and his pen.
However, despite that love and affection for the story, outside of the 2010 Cantemerle (WS Ave $55), I really haven’t found much in the glass to excite me. The pricing is certainly intriguing because there aren’t many classified growths being sold for less than $40–much less under $30–but I prefer to take a wait and see approach with Cantemerle. I may get a bottle when it hits the market (likely around the $35 price point then) and see if there is finally something there worth getting excited about. Till then I’ll Pass.
Ch. d’Aiguilhe (Côtes de Castillon)
While wine has been produced at the estate since the 1700s when it was owned by the Leberthon family, the modern history of Ch. d’Aiguilhe (meaning “needle”) began in 1989 when it was purchased by Stephan von Neipperg.
Von Neipperg, who also owns the St. Emillion Premier Grand Cru Classé ‘B’ estates La Mondotte and Ch. Canon-la-Gaffelière as well as Clos de l’Oratoire, Ch. Peyreau, Clos Marsalette in Pessac-Léognan, the Sauternes Premier Cru Ch. Guiraud, Capaia in South Africa and Bessa Valley in Bulgaria, brought in his longtime consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt and began renovating the estate and vineyards.
All the vineyards are farmed organically with many parcels biodynamic.
The 2017 vintage is a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. Around 20,000 cases a year are produced though with close 60% of the production being lost to frost in 2017, that number will be much lower this vintage.
90-93 WS, 89-90 JS, 88-90 WA, 85-87 VM, 91-93 JD, 90-92 JL
Brought up in 30% new barrels, the 2017 Château d’Aiguilhe offers a gorgeous perfume of framboise, blueberries, strawberries, and flowers. Possessing medium body, fine, silky tannin, impeccable balance and obvious minerality on the finish, it’s seriously good Côtes de Castillon that over-delivers. — Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com
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As I noted in my reviews of the 2017 offers for Canon-la-Gaffelière and Clos de l’Oratoire, I strongly equate the wines of von Neipperg and Derenoncourt with very New World-ish, Napa-like styles. While that is a style that I tend to avoid during more highly regarded Bordeaux vintages (where I’m looking for more classical and age-worthy Bordeaux), this more lush and fruit forward style fits perfectly into the mold of short-term consumption “cellar defenders” I aim for in vintages like 2017.
And the value is always there as well with it being very difficult to find sub-$30 Napa wines drinking to level of Château d’Aiguilhe. While I’m not going to spring for cases, this is an easy Buy for several bottles.
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Written by Amber LeBeau in Bordeaux, Shopping for Wine on Jul 15, 2018
Tagged 1855 Classification, Antonio Galloni, Beauty and the Beast, Bessa Valley, biodynamic, Bordeaux futures, Bouygues brothers, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calon Segur, Cantemerle, Capaia, Cellar defender, Ch. Batailley, Ch. Canon-La-Gaffeliere, Ch. d’Aiguilhe, Ch. Figeac, Ch. Grand Corbin, Ch. Guiraud, Ch. Haut Corbin, Ch. Le Jurat, Ch. Peyreau, Ch. Talbot, Charmoule family, Clive Coates, Clos de l’Oratoire, Clos Marsalette, Cordier family, Cos d'Estournel, Cotes de Castillon, Decanter, Dubois family, Etienne Théodore Dumoulin, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Grand Vins, Haut-Brion, Haut-Medoc, Herve Berland, Hostein family, James Suckling, Jancis Robinson, Jane Anson, Jean Bernard Delmas, Jean Louis Charmolue, Jeb Dunnuck, Jeff Leve, JJ Buckley, Julia Harding, K&L, La Dame de Montrose, La Mondotte, Leberthon family, Lords of Blanquefort, Lords of Cantemerle, Louis Victor Charmoule, Madame Caroline de Villeneuve-Durfort, Marcel Borie, Marquis de Ségur, Mathieu Dollfus, Merlot, Montrose, Mouton-Rothschild, Organic viticulture, Petit Verdot, Philippe Dambrine, SMABTP, Spectrum Wine Auctions, St. Estephe, Stephan von Neipperg, Stéphane Derenoncourt, Total Wine, Tronquoy Lalande, Vignobles Comtes von Neipperg, Villeneuve family, Vinfolio, Vinous, Wine Advocate, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Searcher, Wine Spectator, World War II, Yvonne Charmolue.
Bordeaux Futures 2017 — Cos d’Estournel, Les Pagodes des Cos, Phélan Ségur, Calon-Segur
We head to St. Estephe for the next installment in our series on the 2017 Bordeaux Futures campaign to look at offers for the 2nd Growth estate of Cos d’Estournel and its second wine, Les Pagodes des Cos, the cru bourgeois Ch. Phélan Ségur and the 3rd Growth Calon-Segur.
Be sure to check out previous posts in our series for more details about the 2017 vintage.
*Bordeaux Futures 2017 — Palmer, Valandraud, Fombrauge, Haut-Batailley
Ch. Cos d’Estournel (St. Estephe)
Since its founding in 1811 by Louis Gaspard d’Estournel, Cos d’Estournel has always been a little bit of a rule breaker. The chateau was also one of the first in Bordeaux to estate bottle and instead of selling wine through the traditional courtier and negociant system, Gaspard sold his wine directly to clients across the globe–with India being a key market.
Vineyards of Cos d’Estournel in St. Estephe
However, this early rebellious streak came to an end in 1852 at the death of Gaspard which was somewhat beneficial as by the time the fame 1855 Classification was drafted, the brokers and negociants who helped crafted the classification had some pricing records to know where to place Cos d’Estournel. With these records, Cos d’Estournel was able to take its place as a 2nd Growth along with Ch. Montrose in St. Estephe.
Compare this to the story of the Haut-Medoc 5th Growth Ch. Cantemerle whose owner bypassed the Bordelais system to sell directly to Dutch merchants. After initially being omitted from the original classification, it took almost a year of lobbying, producing sales and pricing records, by Mme. De Villeneuve-Durfort to convince the Bordeaux Brokers’ Union that Cantemerle merited inclusion.
For a time, Cos d’Estournel was owned by the Charmolue family who also owned neighboring Montrose but by 1917 it came under the care of Fernand Ginestet whose grandson, Bruno Prats, would usher in the modern-era of success for the estate. Eventually the Prats sold Cos d’Estournel to the Merlaut family (owners of Chasse-Spleen, Haut-Bages Libéral, Gruaud-Larose among many others) in 1998 who quickly sold it two years later to Michel Reybier.
To insure continuity, Reybier hired the son of Bruno Prats, Jean-Guillaume, to manage the estate which he did till 2012 when he left to join Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH). During his time, he completely renovated the winery by removing all pumps and making everything gravity fed. To minimize some of the harsh tannins associated with the cooler and more clay dominant soils of St. Estephe, Cos d’Estournel was also an early adopter of completely destemming clusters even during very ripe vintages like 2009. Prats’ replacement, Aymeric de Gironde, lasted 5 years until the 2017 when Reybier himself took over managing the estate.
The 2017 vintage is a blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc.
97-100 Wine Advocate (WA), 97-98 James Suckling (JS), 95-97 Wine Enthusiast (WE), 94-96 Vinous Media (VM), 94-96 Jeb Dunnuck (JD), 96-98 Jeff Leve (JL)
This is exceptional, if a touch below the intensity and harmony of 2016. I love the density that’s displayed in this wine, showcasing luxurious, well-enrobed tannins. The complexity steals up on you little by little, the dark cassis and plum fruit character deepening through the palate with flashes of sage, charcoal, cigar box, graphite and taut tannins. The colour difference is marked between the grand vin and second wine, with the Cos extremely deep damson in colour following a one-month maceration at 30 degrees and clever use of the press. Harvested 12- 30 September. 40% of production went into the grand vin. (94 points) Jane Anson, Decanter
Wine Searcher 2017 Average $148
Spectrum Wine Auctions: $899.94 for minimum 6 pack + shipping (no shipping if picked up at Tustin, CA location)
K & L: $144.99 + shipping (no shipping if picked up at 1 of 3 K & L locations in California)
2016 — Wine Searcher Ave. $192 Average Critic Score: 94 points
2015 — Wine Searcher Ave. $190 Average Critic Score: 95
As I’ve outlined several times in this series, I have no interest in paying 2015/2016 prices for a vintage that I would put more on par with 2014. I understand that with drastically reduced yields, there is going to be some pressure on prices due to limited supply but from everything I’ve read about this vintage, the quality just doesn’t seem to merit paying a premium.
To that extent, I find the pricing of the 2017 Cos d’Estournel at around $148 a bottle to be quite fair and tempting. My only hedge is the changing management style from Prats to de Gironde to now owner Michel Reybier taking a more hands on approach. While I’ve absolutely adored the 2005-2006 and 2008-2010 Cos d’Estournel of Prats, I was a little underwhelmed by the 2014 vintage but I didn’t want to judge too harshly on that vintage at such a young age. While I have no doubt that Reybier is driven by a stellar commitment to quality, I just don’t know if his style is going to match my personal tastes and when I’m looking at wines north of $100, I want to bank on more certainty than glowing critic scores.
So for me, the 2017 Cos d’Estournel is a Pass but it will certainly be a compelling buy for many Bordeaux lovers.
Les Pagodes des Cos (St. Estephe)
The second wine of Cos d’Estournel, Les Pagodes des Cos was first produced in 1994. Sourced from young vines and declassified lots, it originally replaced the role of the Prat’s family cru bourgeois estate Château de Marbuzet as a way of increasing the quality of the Grand Vin by being more selective in the vineyard and the winery.
Even though it still contains the fruit of younger vines, the average age of the vines that go into Les Pagodes des Cos is over 35 years. Reflective of the increasing acreage dedicated to Merlot at Cos d’Estournel, the percentage of Merlot in the final blend of Les Pagodes des Cos is usually notably high with some years (like 2015) even being Merlot-dominant.
While the Grand Vin of Cos d’Estournel will see anywhere from 60-80% new French oak, the second wine usually sees around 40%.
The 2017 vintage is a blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot.
92-94 WE, 92-93 JS, 90-92 WA, 90-92 VM
This is the second label of Cos d’Estournel, which accounted for about 55% of production in 2017. A blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Les Pagodes de Cos has a deep garnet-purple color and exuberant notes of crushed blackberries, red currants and cassis with touches of charcuterie, black soil and garrigue plus a waft of lavender. Medium-bodied and very fine-grained, it has great intensity and vibrancy with a good long, fruity finish. — Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate
Wine Searcher 2017 Average $41
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Spectrum Wine Auctions: $257.94 for minimum 6 pack + shipping
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2016 — Wine Searcher Ave. $47 Average Critic Score: 91 points
2015 — Wine Searcher Ave. $55 Average Critic Score: 91
2014 — Wine Searcher Ave. $47 Average Critic Score:91
The value of “second wines” is often hotly debated by Bordeaux fans with some folks feeling that they are overpriced for being “second best” while some feel they can offer exceptional bargains.
I tend to fall somewhere in the middle as I do think that Second Wines can offer terrific value and give the consumer a taste of the house-style of a great estate for a fraction of the price of the Grand Vin. However, I would never invest in cases of a second wine–especially if the Grand Vin of another estate is equivalent in value.
In my assessment of the offers for the 2017 Cos d’Estournel, I expressed my reservations on if the changing house style of the estate will still meet my tastes. While I’m not inclined to gamble at $150 a bottle (even if it is likely to be a 100 point wine that will increase in value), I’m perfectly willing to spend $45 a bottle on the second wine to get a window into Reybier’s style and what he did in this vintage. That makes the 2017 Les Pagodes a compelling Buy for me and worth taking a gamble on.
Ch. Phélan Ségur
In 1805, Bernard O’Phelan, an Irishman from Tipperary, began purchasing vineyards in St. Estephe–including parts that belonged to the historical Segur vineyard and Clos de Garramey–creating what would be the largest estate in St. Estephe at the time. Eventually his heirs sold the property and in it was acquired by Chaillou family in 1919.
In 1925, the estate was sold to Roger Delon, member of the notable family that now owns the 2nd Growth Léoville-Las-Cases, Château Nénin in Pomerol and the Medoc estate Ch. Potensac.
Postcard featuring Phélan Ségur in the early 1900s.
The Delons sold Phélan Ségur to Xavier Gardinier, the former head of the Champagne houses Pommery and Lanson, in 1985. When the 1983 vintage was released to poor reviews, Gardinier claimed the used of herbicides in the vineyards tainted the quality of the wine and he recalled all bottles from the marketplace.
The subsequent 1984 and 1985 vintages were likewise sold off in bulk and not released as Gardinier began a project of rehabilitation of the estate in the vineyard and winery. In 2002, he acquired Chateau Houissant next to the 2nd Growth estate Ch. Montrose, adding 25 hectares of prime vineyard land though 22 of those hectares would be eventually sold to Montrose in 2010. A few years later, in 2006, Michel Rolland was brought on as a consultant.
Phélan Ségur stayed in the Gardinier family, under the care of Thierry Gardinier, until 2017 when it was sold to Belgian businessman Philippe Van de Vyvere who formerly took over in January 2018.
The 2017 vintage is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc. Around 20,000 cases a year are produced.
92-93 WE, 92-93 JS, 90-93 VM, 89-92 Wine Spectator (WS), 89-92 JD
The deep, saturated purple-colored 2017 Phélan Ségur is a classic, well-made wine in the vintage that has notable depth and density as well as textbook Saint-Estèphe notes of ripe black fruits, leafy herbs/tobacco, and loamy earth. It shows the fresher, cooler-climate style of the vintage yet is far from austere and has loads to love. — Jeb Dunnuck
JJ Buckley: $43.94 + shipping
K & L: $42.99 + shipping
Phélan Ségur first landed on my radar with the surprisingly good 2013 and then the much better 2014 vintage. My experience with those two less-than-stellar vintages gave me ample confidence to purchase futures of the 2015 and 2016. But as reflective of my more cautious approach in 2017, I’m going to Pass on this year’s offering even though the $41 average price looks to be a solid value.
Change in the wine world is always inevitable–especially in Bordeaux–but when it comes to my wallet, I prefer to take a wait and see approach when it comes to changing ownership and winemakers. Besides, for a cru bourgeois like Phélan Ségur the risk of the retail price of the 2017 rising dramatically when it finally hits shelves in 2020 is fairly small. It might rise to the $45 average that the 2014 vintage is fetching now but it would probably require a major wine critic “re-evaluating” the bottle sample as a 94+ point wine for it to jump over $50 a bottle.
Ch. Calon-Ségur(St. Estephe)
While the Marquis de Ségur would own land that would become some of the most famous names in Bordeaux, the estate of Calon-Ségur was reportedly his favorite.
One of the oldest properties in the Medoc, the long history of Calon-Ségur can be traced to the 12th century when it belonged to the Monseigneur de Calon. The profile of the estate rose dramatically in the 18th century when it was owned by Nicolas Alexandre de Ségur, the Prince of Vines.
While the Marquis de Ségur would also go on to own an astonishing stable of estates, including 3 of the 5 First Growths–Lafite, Latour and Mouton–as well as land that is today part of Pontet-Canet, d’Armailhac and Montrose, it was said that his heart was always with his chateau at Calon in St. Estephe. That sentiment is reflected in the heart-shape logo of Calon-Ségur that still graces the label of the 3rd Growth today.
In 1894, the estate was purchased by negociant Charles Hanappier and Georges Gasqueton with Gasqueton’s descendants owning Calon-Ségur until 2012 when it was sold to a consortium that included the French insurance company Suravenir and Jean-Pierre Moueix, owner of Ch. Petrus. Flushed with capital, extensive renovations at the estate took place which included new tanks for parcel by parcel vinifications and the introduction of gravity-flow techniques. Vincent Millet, who previously was at Ch. Margaux, was kept as technical director.
In the vineyard, vine density was increased and under-performing parcels were uprooted with a goal of increasing the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the cépage. While today the vineyard is planted to around 53% Cabernet Sauvignon 38% Merlot 7% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, eventually the owners of Calon-Ségur would like to see the amount of Merlot account for only 20% of plantings.
95-97 WE, 94-95 JS, 92-94 WA, 92-94 VM, 91-94 WS, 92-94 JD, 94-96 JL
Inky core with black-cherry rim. Ripe, dark and with a fine mineral cast to the cassis fruit, which is ripe but not sweet. Paper-fine tannins in many layers. Great ageing potential but also accessible. Deceptively accessible, suggesting lack of ageing ability, but I don’t think that is the case. Cool, fresh, serious, fine cassis fruit. The finesse comes from the lack of sweetness but there’s no lack of fruit. Dry, firm and very St-Estèphe, with tannin structure. But the structure is filled molecule by molecule with the fruit. It’s so finely balanced. There’s more firmness than in Cos but there’s still excellent harmony. Opens to a hint of violets. Super-moreish and juicy even with the structure of the terroir. (17.5 out of 20) Julia Harding, JancisRobinson.com
Vinfolio: $88 + shipping
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I was very surprised to have the 2003 Calon Segur be one of my Top 10 wines from the 2017 Wine Spectator Grand Tour.
But even at nearly 14 years of age, this “heat wave” Bordeaux was showing beautifully.
I’ve adored numerous vintages of Calon-Ségur from the still lively 1996 (ave price $138), surprisingly complex 2003 (ave $128), undoubtedly excellent 2009 (ave $130) and the very promising 2012 (ave $105) and 2014.
While I’ve not yet purchased any futures from the estate, my experience particularly with the later two vintages has given me enough assurance in the stewardship of the new ownership team that this will likely continue being a style of wine that I enjoy. Plus with the value of Calon-Ségur rising north of $100 even in sub-par vintages like 2013, makes nabbing bottles of the 2017 at $85 an extremely compelling value and a definite Buy.
Bordeaux Futures 2017 — Malescot-St.-Exupéry, Prieuré-Lichine, Lascombes, Cantenac-Brown
*Bordeaux Futures 2017 — Montrose, La Dame de Montrose, Cantemerle, d’Aiguilhe
Written by Amber LeBeau in Bordeaux, Shopping for Wine on Jun 18, 2018
Tagged 1855 Classification, Aymeric de Gironde, Bordeaux futures, Bordeaux vintages, Bruno Prats, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calon Segur, Ch. Cantemerle, Ch. Margaux, Ch. Nénin, Ch. Potensac., Charles Hanappier, Charmolue family, Chasse-Spleen, Château de Marbuzet, Chateau Houissant, Chateau Meyney, Clos de Garramey, Cos d'Estournel, Cru Bourgeois, d’Armailhac, Decanter, Delon Family, Fernand Ginestet, Georges Gasqueton, Grand-Puy-Ducasse, Gruaud-Larose, Haut-Bages-Liberal, James Suckling, Jancis Robinson, Jane Anson, Jean-Guillaume Prats, Jean-Pierre Moueix, Jeb Dunnuck, Jeff Leve, JJ Buckley, Julia Harding, K & L, Lafite, Lanson, Latour, Léoville Las Cases, Les Pagodes des Cos, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Louis Gaspard d’Estournel, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, Merlaut family, Merlot, Michel Reybier, Michel Rolland, Mme. De Villeneuve-Durfort, Montrose, Mouton-Rothschild, Nicolas Alexandre de Ségur, Petit Verdot, Petrus, Phélan Ségur, Philippe Van de Vyvere, Pommery, Pontet-Canet, second wine, Spectrum Wine Auctions, St. Estephe, Thierry Gardinier, Total Wine, Vincent Millet, Vinfolio, Vinous Media, Wine Advocate, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Searcher, Wine Spectator, Wine Spectator Grand Tour, Xavier Gardinier.
Déjà Vu at the Wine Spectator Grand Tour
Amber LeBeau in Event reviews, Wine critics, Wine Tasting
Last month, I attended the Wine Spectator Grand Tour tasting at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
While I previously had a blast at the 2017 tasting (which I documented in my 3 part series that you can read here) I won’t be doing a series of articles on this year’s Grand Tour (apart from maybe a Top 10 post) because, frankly, I would be burning out the “cut and paste” keys on my laptop.
Out of the 244 wineries participating, an astonishing 184 of them (around 75%) were repeats from last year’s tastings.
Indeed, wineries like Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Haut-Brion, Penfolds, Casanova de Neri, Perrier-Jouët and K Vintners make a lot of great wines that are fun to try. It’s certainly okay to have some “big ticket names” regularly featured to attract attention.
But come on? 75% repeats?
That’s crazy when you consider that Wine Spectator reviews around 17,000 wines a year—several thousand of which get 90+ points. Using their Advanced Search option, I found over 1800 American, 1700 French, 300 Italian, 180 Spanish and 180 Australian wines from just the 2014 vintage alone with 90+ ratings.
Is it that difficult to find more than 100 new wineries each year to feature at their marquee tasting event?
Groundhog Day at the Mirage
While some of the repeat wineries did pour at least a different wine than they did the year before (like Albert Bichot’s Domaine du Clos Frantin pouring the 2013 Clos du Vougeot Grand Cru this year after pouring the 2013 Vosne-Romanee Les Malconsorts Premier Cru last year), 66 of the wineries poured only a different vintage of the same wines they featured in 2017.
Highlighting all the same wineries featured in 2017 and 2018.
Now, yes, I suppose you could argue that there is some interest in seeing vintage variation–but that is only helpful if you are tasting both vintages side by side or happen to have meticulous notes on hand of your previous tasting to compare. Otherwise, it pretty much feels like you are tasting the same damn wine you tasted last year.
The big exception, though, was when wineries took an opportunity to dive into back vintages to give you a unique library tasting experience. This was the case of Domaine de Chevalier and Chateau La Nerthe who brought out their 1998 and 2008 vintages to pour. Rather than feel like you’re tasting “last year’s wine,” this gave you a chance to try something very different and both wines ended up being some of my favorites of the night.
However, probably the most egregious sin of the event was the 25 wineries (around a tenth of all the wines at the event) who poured the exact same wine they poured in 2017. Granted, that number does include some NV wines that theoretically could be a “new batch,” but that still doesn’t discount the unoriginality and boredom of seeing the same wine featured.
Seeing a 3-liter bottle of Tawny Port is impressive in any context, though.
Even Champagne producer Lanson was able to mix things up with pouring their Black Label NV this year after featuring their NV Extra Age Brut last year. Likewise, the Port house Graham’s brought their NV 20 Year Tawny Port this year while last year they had their 2000 vintage Port available.
Same Bat-Wine, Same Bat-Channel
Wineries that poured the exact same wine at each event.
Alvear Pedro Ximenez Montilla-Moriles Solera 1927 NV
Ch. Brown Pessac-Leognan 2014
Chateau Ste. Michelle Artist Series 2013
Croft Vintage Port 2011
Domaine Carneros Cuvee de la Pompadour Brut Rose NV
Ernie Els Signature Stellenbosch 2012
Fattoria di Felsina Toscana Fontalloro 2013
Fuligni Brunello di Montalcino 2012
Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon Martha’s Vineyard 2005
Henriot Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne NV
Hess Collection Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Small Block Reserve 2013
Montecillo Rioja Gran Reserva 2009
Mumm Cordon Rouge Brut NV
Mumm Napa Blanc de Blancs NV
Orin Swift Abstract 2015
Patz & Hall Pinot noir Carneros Hyde Vineyard 2014
Famille Perrin Gigondas Clos des Tourelles 2013
Ramos-Pinto 30 year Tawny Port NV
Recanati Carignan Judean Hills Wild Reserve 2014
Marques de Riscal Rioja Reserva Baron de Chirel 2010
Louis Roederer Brut Champagne Premier NV
Taylor-Fladgate 20 year Tawny Port NV
Teso La Monja Toro Victorino 2013
Torres Priorat Salmos 2013
Trinchero Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Mario’s Vineyard 2013
Sneak Peak at the 2019 Wine Spectator Grand Tour pour list?
Trying a 5+ year aged Gruner was certainly interesting. I much prefer that to taste just the newer vintage of the same wine I had last year.
Below are the wineries that poured the same wine but a different vintage. The vintage they poured in 2017 is listed first followed by the wine featured at the 2018 event.
Castello di Albola Chianti Classico Riserva (2010/2013)
Alion Ribera del Duero (2012/2010)
Allegrini Amarone (2012/2013)
Almaviva Puente Alto (2013/2014)
Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino Poggio Alle Mura (2011/2012)
Barboursville Ocatagon (2012/2014)
Marchesi di Barolo Sarmassa Barolo (2012/2013)
Belle Glos Pinot noir Clark & Telephone (2014/2012)
Beringer Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (2013/2014)
Brane-Cantenac Margaux (2010/2011)
Caiarossa Toscana (2011/2012)
Calon Segur St. Estephe (2003/2005)
Caparazo Brunello di Montalcino La Casa (2011/2012)
Carpineto Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva (2011/2012)
Casa Ferreirinha Douro Quinta da Leda (2014/2011)
Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova (2011/2012)
Castellare di Castellina Toscano I Sodi di San Niccolo (2012/2013)
Caymus Special Select Cabernet Sauvignon (2009/2014)
Pio Cesare Barolo (2012/2013)
Chalk Hill Chardonnay Chalk Hill (2014/2015)
Cheval des Andes Mendoza (2012/2013)
Domaine de Chevalier Pessac-Leognan (2010/1998)
Still going….
Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona Brunello di Montalcino Pianrosso (2010/2012)
Col Solare (2013/2009)
Colome Malbec Salta (2013/2015)
Craggy Range Pinot noir Martinborough Te Muna Road Vineyard (2013/2015)
Cune Rioja Imperial Gran Reserva (2010/2011)
Damilano Barolo Cannubi (2012/2013)
Domaine Drouhin Pinot noir Dundee Hills Laurene (2013/2014)
Donnafugata Terre Siciliane Mille e Una Notte (2011/2012)
Elk Cove Pinot noir Yamhill-Carlton District Mount Richmond (2014/2015)
Ch. d’ Esclans Cotes de Provence Garrus rosé (2014/2015)
Livio Felluga Rosazzo Terre Alte (2013/2015)
Feudo Maccari Sicilia Saia (2013/2014)
Fonseca Vintage Port Guimaraens (2013/2015)
Fontodi Colli Della Toscana Centrale Flaccianello (2013/2014)
Frescobaldi Brunello di Montalcino Castelgiocondo (2011/2012)
But wait! There’ more….of the same
Ktima Gerovassiliou Malagousia Epanomi (2015/2016)
Kaiken Malbec Mendoza Mai (2012/2013)
Laurenz V. Gruner Veltliner Trocken Kamptal Charming Reserve (2014/2012)
Leeuwin Chardonnay Margaret River Art Series (2013/2014)
Luce Della Vite Toscana Luce (2013/2014)
Masciarelli Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Villa Gemma (2007/2011)
Masi Amarone Costasera (2011/2012)
Masut Pinot noir Eagle Peak Vineyard (2014/2015)
Mazzei Maremma Toscana Tenuta Belguardo (2011/2013)
Mollydooker Shiraz Carnival of Love McLaren Vale (2014/2016)
Ch. La Nerthe Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee des Cadettes (2013/2009)
El Nido Jumilla (2013/2014)
Siro Pacenti Brunello di Montalcino Vecchie Vigne (2012/2013)
Pacific Rim Riesling Yakima Valley Solstice Vineyard (2014/2015)
Pichon-Lalande Pauillac (2011/2009)
Protos Ribera del Duero Reserva (2011/2012)
Renato Ratti Barolo Marcenasco (2012/2013)
Rocca delle Macie Chianti Classico Riserva di Fizzano Gran Selezione (2012/2013)
Rust en Verde Stellenbosch (2013/2014)
Rutini Malbec Mendoza Apartado Gran (2010/2013)
Tenuta San Guido Toscana Guidalberto (2014/2015)
Vina Santa Rita Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley Casa Real (2012/2013)
Vina Sena Aconcagua Valley (2013/2015)
Tenuta Sette Ponti Toscana Oreno (2014/2015)
Sterling Chardonnay Napa Valley Reserve (2013/2014)
Ch. du Tertre Margaux (2011/2010)
Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino (2007/2010)
Quinta do Vale Meao Douro Meandro (2013/2014)
Walt Pinot noir Sta. Rita Hills Clos Pepe (2014/2015)
Moral of the Story?
Above all that, I haven’t even mentioned the clear spit buckets that were also featured on several tables.
Besides having around three-quarters of the wineries be the same, the crux for me was the nearly 40% of the wines being either actual or near repeats with different vintages. That’s not worth paying $225 to $325 a ticket (and up to $475 at the upcoming New York event in October). Then you add travel and hotel costs and it gets pretty ridiculous.
While I would still say that the value of the wines being tasted and the breadth of the tasting makes the Wine Spectator Grand Tour worth it for a first time visitor, the experience of having so many repeats of wineries and wines dampers my enthusiasm for making this a yearly priority to attend.
Consequently, I haven’t made up my mind about attending the 2019 or 2020 event. However, at this rate, I feel like I’d instead find another reason to go to Vegas to play the Somm Game.
Written by Amber LeBeau in Event reviews, Wine critics, Wine Tasting on Jun 02, 2018
Tagged Albert Bichot, Alion, Allegrini, Almaviva, Alvear, Barboursville, Belle Glos, Beringer, Brane Cantenac, Caiarossa, Calon Segur, Caparazo, Carpineto, Casa Ferreirinha, Casanova de Neri, Castellare di Castellina, Castello Banfi, Castello di Albola, Caymus, Ch. Brown, Ch. d' Esclans, Ch. du Tertre, Ch. Haut-Brion, Chalk Hill, Château la Nerthe, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cheval des Andes, Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona, Clos du Vougeot, Col Solare, Colome, Craggy Range, Croft, Cune, Damilano, Domaine Carneros, Domaine de Chevalier, Domaine Drouhin, Domaine du Clos Frantin, Donnafugata, El Nido, Elk Cove, Ernie Els, Famille Perrin, Fattoria di Felsina, Feudo Maccari, Fonseca, Fontodi, Frescobaldi, Fulglini, G.H. Mumm, Graham's, Heitz, Henriot, Hess Collection, K Vintners, Kaiken, Ktima Gerovassiliou, Lanson, Las Vegas, Laurenz V., Leeuwin, Les Malconsorts, Livio Felluga, Louis Roederer, Luce Della Vite, Marchesi di Barolo, Marques de Riscal, Masciarelli, Masi, Masut, Mazzei, Mollydooker, Montecillo, Mumm Napa, Orin Swift, Pacific Rim, Patz & Hall, Penfolds, Perrier-Jouet, Pichon Lalande, Pio Cesare, Protos, Quinta do Vale Meao, Ramos Pinto, Recanati, Renato Ratti, Rocca delle Macie, Rust en Verde, Rutini, Siro Pacenti, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Sterling Vineyards, Taylor Fladgate, Tenuta San Guido, Tenuta Sette Ponti, Teso, Torres, Trinchero Estates, Valdicava, Vina Santa Rita, Vina Sena, Vosne-Romanée, Walt Wines, Wine Spectator, Wine Spectator Grand Tour.
60 Second Wine Review — 2008 Potensac
Amber LeBeau in 60 Second Reviews, Bordeaux, Wine reviews
A few quick thoughts on the 2008 Chateau Potensac from the Médoc.
The Geekery
Chateau Potensac is owned by the Delon family who also own the 2nd Growth St. Julien estate Léoville Las Cases and Chateau Nénin in Pomerol. According to Stephen Brook in The Complete Bordeaux, the estate has been in the hands of the Delon family and their ancestors for over two centuries. The same viticulture and winemaking team at Léoville Las Cases takes care of the wines at Potensac.
The estate is located just 4 miles north of Chateau Calon Segur and the boundaries of St. Estephe. The soils contain a fair amount of clay and limestone that is not that dissimilar to the right bank region of St. Emilion which is why Merlot tends to dominate in plantings.
Since 2002, the estate has produced a second wine known as Chapelle de Potensac with around 40% of the estate’s Grand Vin being declassified down to this level.
The 2008 vintage of Potensac was a blend of 42% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and 18% Cabernet Franc. The wine is aged for 15 months in 30% new oak with around 320,000 bottles produced each vintage.
According to the very cool vintage chart on the Domaines Delon site (also available for Léoville Las Cases and Nenin), the 2008 is ready to drink now but can still be held for a few years.
This wine has a mix of both cured and green tobacco notes.
Medium intensity nose. Fresh cigar tobacco and cedar dominant. There is a little red fruit underneath–cherry and currant.
Those red fruits carry through to the palate but are quite muted with more earthy and green leafy notes emerging. Medium-plus acidity and firm medium-plus tannins hints that this wine definitely can age for longer. The tobacco notes also come through and linger for the moderate finish.
At around $30-35, this is a solid “old school” style Bordeaux with a firm structure and earthy notes. While I had this wine by itself, I suspect that it will really shine on the table with food.
Written by Amber LeBeau in 60 Second Reviews, Bordeaux, Wine reviews on Feb 08, 2018
Tagged Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calon Segur, Chateau Potensac, Delon Family, Léoville Las Cases, Medoc. St. Julien, Merlot, Nénin, Pomerol, second wine, St. Emilion, St. Estephe, Stephen Brook, The Complete Bordeaux.
Top Ten Wines from 2017 Wine Spectator Grand Tour
Amber LeBeau in Wine reviews, Wine Tasting
As we wrap up Spitbucket’s 3 part series on the 2017 Wine Spectator Grand Tour in Las Vegas, we come to our grand finale–my Top Ten Wines of the event. Of course this list is entirely limited and subjective. As I mentioned in the first part of this series, it is virtually impossible to try all 244 wines available in just 3 hours. While I thoroughly enjoyed the 68 wines that I did get to try, I undoubtedly missed out on several gems that may have found their way to this list.
Among the wines that I regrettably missed out on:
Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona Brunello di Montalcino Pianrosso 2010 (94 pts. Wine Searcher average price $75)
Graham’s Vintage Port 2000 (98 pts. Wine Searcher average price $98)
Marques de Grinon Domino de Valdepusa Petit Verdot 2011 (93 pts. Wine Spectator list price $40)
Perrier-Jouet Belle Epoque 2007 (93 pts. Wine Searcher average price $143)
Recanti Judean Hills Wild Carignan Reserve 2014 (91 pts. Wine Searcher average price $48)
Anthonij Rupert Cabernet Franc 2009 (92 pts. Wine Searcher average price $77)
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23 2012 (93 pts. Wine Searcher average price $227)
Now as for my Top 10 list, as frequent readers know I do have a bit of bias towards Bordeaux wines. While the geek in me seeks out tasty treats from across the globe, Bordeaux will always be my most enduring love in the world of wine. So it should not be a surprised that Bordeaux wines account for almost a third of this list with many of the other wines capturing my attention for their “Bordeaux-like” elegance and qualities. Again, this list is completely subjective.
My Top 10 wines of the night:
Adobe Road 2013 Beckstoffer Vineyard Georges III A1-Block Cabernet Sauvignon (94 points. Wine Spectator list price $175)
Still the undoubted wine of the event. Even glancing over my list of missed opportunities, I don’t think any of them would have knocked this 228 case limited release from Adobe Road off the pedestal.
My top wine at the 2017 Wine Spectator Grand Tasting was this Adobe Road Cabernet Sauvignon from the Beckstoffer Vineyard Georges III in Rutherford.
As I described in part 2, this wine was classic Napa but what set it far above its peers that I tasted was the fresh, lively acidity that gave sparks to tongue while the velvety soft and rich fruit was wrapping it up in a kiss. When you are “power-tasting” through a lot of great wine, you find that they start to meld together, making it hard to stand out. Especially in Napa where the check-list seems to be [x] Ripe dark fruit [x] Full-bodied [x] Soft but noticeable tannins and [x] Noticeable oak. It’s easy to check all those boxes and make a wine that will give immense pleasure when being enjoyed by itself.
But for a wine to stand out when it is being tasted along such illustrious wines as the 2009 Caymus Special Selection, 2012 Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow, 2013 Alpha Omega Era, 2013 Beringer Private Reserve, 2012 Chimney Rock Elevage, 2013 Vine Cliff 16 Rows Oakville, 2005 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard and 2013 Trinchero Mario’s Vineyard, it is going to be that freshness that hits you like a finger snap in front of your face, commanding your attention. None of the aforementioned wines were bad and, indeed, two of those wines also ended up making my Top 10 list. The 2013 Adobe Road Beckstoffer Vineyard Georges III A1-Block Cabernet Sauvignon was just better.
Altesino 2011 Brunello di Montalcino Montosoli (93 points. Wine Spectator list price $110)
Outside of Burgundy and the Mosel, we usually don’t talk about individual vineyards in Europe the same way we do with American wines. There are certainly legendary vineyards in Europe, and single bottlings from those vineyards, but the names don’t easily roll off our tongues quite like To Kalon, Ciel du Cheval, Shea, Monte Bello, Red Willow, Sangiacomo, etc. However, you can make a fair argument (as James Suckling does here [subscription]) that the Montosoli vineyard owned by Altesino is one of the top vineyards in all of Montalcino. In fact, it was the very first vineyard to be bottled as a single cru of Brunello di Montalcino.
Despite being a very young Brunello (even for a warm vintage), this wine lived up to its lofty pedigree with an intoxicating bouquet of tobacco spice, orange peel, black cherry and savory leather. It had me picturing myself drinking an old-fashioned at a Victorian Explorer’s Club gathering. The palate brought more richness to the cherry notes with enough acidity to keep it juicy without being “bitey”. The tannins are still quite firm, again confessing its youth, but a silkiness emerges as you roll the wine around your tongue that holds much promise.
Emilio Moro 2011 Malleolus de Valderramiro Ribera del Duero (90 points. Wine Searcher Average price $85)
I am still a bit dumbfounded how this wine only got a mere 90 points from Wine Spectator. (As I was with several wines like this that I reviewed in the first part of the series.) While I can appreciate the palates and scores of critics like Thomas Matthews, its always important to formulate our own opinions on wine. While I try to avoid using the 100 point scale myself, with pegging wines down to just a number, I will say that this delicious wine from Emilio Moro far surpassed many 93-94 rated wines.
Heitz 2005 Martha’s Vineyard Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (93 points. Wine Searcher average price $181)
Like the Adobe Road Beckstoffer Georges III, Martha’s Vineyard located in Oakville is a legendary site for Cabernet Sauvignon. My adoration of this wine will again reveal my “Bordeaux-bias” a it had, by far, the most Bordeaux-like nose of all the Napa Cabs. Lots of savory herbal elements of what I like to call the “Chicken herbs” used for roasting–sage, thyme and particularly rosemary. The classic Martha’s Vineyard eucalyptus was also there but I was surprised with how much St.-Julien like cedar box and tobacco spice was also present.
The mouthfeel though was tried and true Napa with rich, almost Port-like dark fruit and Belgium dark chocolate undertones. The medium-plus acidity added enough freshness to balance the weight. The tannins were mostly velvety but they had a firm grip along the edge which hinted at how much more time this already 12-year old wine could go. While some of the eucalyptus and tobacco spice carried through to the palate, most of the savory Bordeaux-like notes on the nose were gone. In many ways it felt like I was drinking two different wines and that kept my interest.
Ramos Pinto 30 year Tawny Port (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $85)
You can find my full review here. Again, simply a fabulous Port that is among the best I’ve ever had. If you can find it, its definitely worth grabbing and if you find it priced under a $100, grab two.
Ch. Pichon Longueville Lalande 2011 Pauillac (91 points. Wine Searcher average price $116)
You can’t sugar-coat over how rough of a vintage that 2011 was. Spring was too hot and fraught with drought while summer was too cold with rains happening at the most inopportune times (if they happened at at all). Still, the blessings of modern viticulture and winemaking knowledge means that even in the roughest of vintages, wineries still have the skills and the tools to produce delicious wine.
Does this 2011 Pichon Lalande stack up to the 2010, 2009 or even the absolutely scrumptious 2005 (one of my all-time favs among all wines)? No. But neither does the 2011’s price tag of around $116 stack up to the price tags of those vintages–Wine Searcher average of $229, $204 and $152, respectively. That is the landscape of Bordeaux with every bottle and every vintage needing to be evaluate both on a curve and within the big picture.
So judging this 2011 among its vintage-peers, I was exceedingly impressed with how well it was drinking this evening. With 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc, 8% Merlot and 2% Petite Verdot, this wine had far more Cab than typical Pichon Lalande and with the characteristics of the vintage, I was expecting something that needed far more time.
But this wine was ready to dance with a mix of black currant and red cherry fruit framed with the typical savory tobacco and cedar cigar box notes of a good Pauillac. The mouthfeel had a lot more noticeable vanilla oak notes than I would expect. Much as the vanilla works to coax early drinking approach-ability with New World wines, so here it was smoothing out the rough edges of youthful tannins. With a little dark chocolate and Christmas fruitcake spiciness on the finish, you end up with a delightful wine that has character and personality.
Marchesi Fumanelli 2009 Octavius Riserva Amarone (94 points. Wine Searcher average price $173)
Another wine that took me by surprised as I reviewed in part 2. This wine may be more difficult to find in the United States but it is well worth the hunt for any wine lover of bold, brooding reds with layers of complexity.
Diamond Creek 2012 Gravelly Meadow Cabernet Sauvignon (92 points. Wine Searcher average price $216)
This was only my second encounter with Diamond Creek after previously trying a 2009 Volcanic Hill. That one experience coupled with reading Cellar Tracker reviews of their wines helped form my expectation that this was going to be similar to other Diamond Mountain Cabernets that I’ve had in the past (Wallis Family, Lokoya, Martin Ray and Von Strasser)–powerful, rich but with a lot of structure and firm tannins that need time to mellow.
While this 2012 Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow certainly had the power and richness, I was taken back by how soft the tannins where. In a blind tasting, I would be completely fooled that this wasn’t something from Rutherford or Oakville. It was downright velvety with the opulent black fruit. On the nose there was some earthiness, like dusty crushed rocks with a tinge of smokiness, but it was no where near as herbal as I would have expected. This was another wine that I found myself excited at the thought of what enjoyment savoring a full bottle of this wine would bring.
Ch. Calon Segur 2003 (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $117)
As I wrote in part 2, it is easy for Bordeaux lovers to dismiss the 2003 “heat wave” vintage (especially on the Left Bank) but wines like the 2003 Calon Segur shows that there were still many great wines made that year.
Ch. Lascombes 2010 Margaux (91 points. Wine Searcher average price $118)
Oh you didn’t think I could get through this list without slipping in a 2010 Bordeaux, did you? Of course not. I especially couldn’t pass up tasting again and falling back in love with this wine from the 2nd Growth estate in Margaux. Since Dominique Befve took over in the early 2000s (after stints at l’Evangile in Pomerol and 10 years as Technical Director of Chateau Lafite), Chateau Lascombes has been going from strength to strength.
Lascombes is a little unique in that the fair amount of clay in the soils of their vineyards around the communes of Cantenac, Soussans and Margaux, allows them to grow more Merlot than you would expect for a highly classified Medoc estate. In 2010 that translated to a blend that was dominated by Merlot with 55% followed by 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. While many of its 2010 Cab-dominated Left Bank peers still need ample time in the cellar, this Lascombes is following the path of Angelus, Canon-La-Gaffelière, Pavie-Macquin and Le Dome in being one of the best drinking 2010s right now on the market.
The nose has swirls of black licorice spice with smokey espresso that give way to black currant and Turkish figs. The tannins on the mouthfeel are silky with the same black fruits on the nose being wrapped with even more smoke and now chocolate espresso flavors. The finish is long and lingering, giving ample pleasure but making you soon crave another sip. While most 2009/2010 prices are in the stratosphere, this is still an absolute steal for how much this wine over-delivers.
Written by Amber LeBeau in Wine reviews, Wine Tasting on May 18, 2017
Tagged Adobe Road, Alpha Omega, Altesino, Angelus, Anthonij Rupert, Beckstoffer Georges III, Beringer, Bordeaux, Brunello di Montalcino, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calon Segur, Canon-La-Gaffelière, Caymus, Chimney Rock, Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona, Diamond Creek, Dominique Befve, Emilio Moro, Graham's, Heitz, l’Evangile, Lafite Rothschild, Las Vegas, Lascombes, Le Dome, Lokoya, Marchesi Fumanelli, Marques de Grinon, Martha's Vineyard, Martin Ray, Montosoli, Napa Valley, Pavie-Macquin, Perrier-Jouet, Pichon Lalande, Pichon Longueville Lalande, Ramos Pinto, Recanti, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Thomas Matthews, Trinchero, Vine Cliff, Von Strasser, Wallis Family, Wine Spectator Grand Tour.
Wine Spectator Grand Tour Las Vegas (Part 2)
First things, if you haven’t checked out the first entry in Spitbucket’s 3 part series on the 2017 Wine Spectator Grand Tour Las Vegas, head there now. You will find a lot of a great wines that often get passed over as score hounds hunt for the wines with the blockbuster ratings.
While the wines featured in Part I were described as Ted Williams wines, the wines that I’m featuring now are more the Joe Dimaggios. They got the big scores and married Marilyn Monroe (or MaryAnn Worobiec) so of course they garnered the bulk of attendees’ attention. Out of the 244 wines, there were 25 wines that received scores 94+ available for tasting, headlined by two Vintage Ports–the 98 point rated Graham’s 2000 and 97 pt Croft 2011.
I got a chance to try several of them and while there were many delicious treats that made my Top Ten list, there were also a few that were just “meh”. It’s good to remember that while Joe did get Marilyn–so did Arthur Miller.
Adobe Road 2013 Beckstoffer Vineyard Georges III A1-Block Cabernet Sauvignon (94 points. Wine Spectator list price $175) Hands down, my wine of the night. Tiny production wine from a single block of Cabernet Sauvignon in the legendary Beckstoffer Georges III vineyard in Rutherford. The highly sought after fruit from this vineyard is prized by a “Who’s Who” of high-end California wineries like Caymus, Alpha Omega, Chateau Boswell, Duckhorn, Staglin, Hunnicutt, Myriad, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Provenance, Robert Craig, Sojurn and Schrader. This example from Adobe Road delivers in spades.
High intensity aromatics of black currant, blackberry with floral elements and a mixture of baking and Asian spices. I spent several minutes just smelling my glass before taking sip because the bouquet was so intoxicating alluring. The mouthfeel was classic Napa–silky smooth tannins that added weight and depth to the palate but wrapped around your tongue like kiss. But unlike a few of the other high scoring wines, this is not a fruit bomb. The acidity was still medium-plus to keep the fruit lively and fresh with the ability to age in the cellar for several more years. However, it is at such a fantastically delicious spot now, I don’t know if anyone lucky enough to get their hands on one of these bottles will want to wait. Just a perfect combination of power, balance and elegance.
Ch. Calon Segur 2003 Saint Estephe (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $117) Another wine that made my Top 10 list. The 2003 vintage often sends a shudder down the spines of European wine lovers because it was a “heat wave” vintage. Indeed, a staggering number of people died from the heat and, while nowhere near as tragic as the loss of human life, grapevines also suffered. But the axiom that “Good wine is made even in bad vintages” is still aptly true. You just have to be more selective and look for the gems that had the kismet of the right terroir and right winemaking touch for the vintage. The 2003 Calon Segur is a perfect case in point.
Located in St. Estephe, the Third Growth estate of Calon Segur is the most northern of the classified growth in the Medoc. While the soils have the typical Medocian mixture of gravel and sand, you also find a far amount of clay. This coupled with the overall coolness of its northernly location, gives you soils that were more apt to retain the limited, precious amount of water needed to weather the heat. Then you add a winemaking style of Calon Segur that (was then) focused on lower alcohol but brawny wines that prized acidity and structure, and you have a wine with a fighting chance to not only be good but maybe even great.
It was a long term bet but one that paid off exceptionally well for the 2003 Calon Segur. The wine had a floral, spicy nose with a delicate touch of fruit that almost smelled like a great red Burgundy. The palate, though, was very Bordeaux–almost full-bodied with velvety tannins that had no greeness or bite. The spice from the nose carried through as a mixture of tobacco and baking spices that complimented the juicy, ripe dark fruits which still had plenty of acidity and life. This wine easily has several more years that it could go on but it is at a great point right now and an absolute bargain at this price. I would put this toe to toe with Bordeaux from the more heralded 2005 vintage in the $170-200 range.
Croft 2011 Vintage Port (97 points. Wine Searcher average price $81) This was the highest rated wine that I got to try that night and it came from the highly acclaimed 2011 vintage. This is a vintage that is often compared to the great vintages of the 1970s as well as 1963 and 1945. However, the thing to keep in mind with vintage Port is that after a few brief years of youthful exuberance following release, these wines tend to “shut down” and enter their quiet phase or “awkward adolescence” that can last for several years or even a decade plus. The trade off is that when these wines re-emerge from that “dumb phase”, they are even more outstanding and mind-blowing. You need the patience of a grasshopper to reap the beauty of a butterfly.
I go through that tangent because, sadly, this Croft has entered that awkward adolescence. This is a fate rapidly befalling upon its 2011 peers with the Cockburn and Graham’s that I’ve tried in the last year likewise being a bit underwhelming despite their pedigrees and potential. What does a “quiet vintage Port” taste like? Well in the case of the Croft it was very muted on the nose, red fruit and that was about it. On the palate, instead of being focused or concentrated, it was a rather clumsy hodgepodge of undistinguished fruit flavors and sweetness. I have no doubt that the potential to live up to its lofty score is there but it is clear that this wine was tasting exponentially better 2-3 years ago when it was being reviewed and that its best years is still much further down the road.
Kistler 2013 Hudson Vineyard Carneros Chardonnay (94 points. Wine Spectator list price $80) Combine one of California’s top Chardonnay producer with a legendary Chardonnay vineyard and you are sure to have a winning combination. This wine was classic Cali Chard with tropical fruit aromas on the nose–papaya and ripe honeydew melon–followed by a creamy, rich mouthfeel. But what keeps this from being a butter bomb was the elegance with medium-plus acidity that held up the weight of the malo and a minerally streak that you’re often hard pressed to find in many California Chardonnays. No one would ever mistake this wine for a white Burgundy, but fans of the more weightier examples from Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet could appreciate this wine for being a well-made example of a California benchmark.
Antinori 2013 Guado Al Tasso (94 points. Wine Searcher average price $86) A Super Tuscan blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, this wine captures some of the savory herbalness of a nice Pauillac but with a lighter touch and riper tannins. It was a bit tight at this tasting and, like the 2014 Ornellaia noted in the previous blog entry, will need several years to show its stuffing.
Marchesi Fumanelli 2009 Octavius Riserva Amarone (94 points. Wine Searcher average price $173) This was another first-time find and it had me googling where in the US I could buy this wine. That’s always a good sign that something is heading towards my Top Ten list. This was a very spicy Amarone with some floral and earthy elements that smelled like you were hiking through a mint and clover field while carrying a bouquet of roses. The palate was very bold, almost decadent, with rich dark fruit flavors that tasted like a savory Christmas fruitcake. Every sip revealed something different with this wine unfurling on the tongue like chapters and verses of an exciting story. The balance between savory and rich was outstanding. Situated among tables next to a stunning list of top Amarone producers like Allegrini, Masi, Zenato and Bertani, Marchesi Fumanelli stood head over shoulders above them all.
Much like the Emilio Moro Ribera del Duero I talked about in Part I, I was left feeling that if this wine was this impressive based on a single taste, how much more pleasure could be discovered over the course of a whole bottle?
Mollydooker 2014 Carnival of Love McLaren Vale Shiraz (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $72) This winery has its legions of fans but much like smokey, peaty Islay Scotches, its a singular taste that either people love or find that its not really their cup of tea. Being a wine geek, I try to find the nuance of appeal in every wine and while the lush, over the top oak and fruity style of Mollydooker is usually not my cup of tea, I have found examples of their wines that I’ve been able to enjoy for their simple, hedonistic pleasures. But it is kind of like shooting with a bow and arrow at an apple that a circus clown is juggling. Sometimes you hit the apple and win the prize. Sometimes you miss and sometimes you impale the poor the clown.
This one was just a miss. It wasn’t horrible by any stretch of the imagination. It was just really, really, really, really oaky. In fact it was competing with the Orin Swift Abstract and Belle Glos Clarke & Telephone for most oaky wine at the tasting. Lots of sweet vanilla with more overt taste of toast instead of more subtle baking spice. Trying to get past the oak to venture for some fruit, I did feel a sense of richness and intense fruit on the palate but I was hard pressed to really identify what kind of fruit it was or pick up any other layer of complexity. While, in general, Mollydooker wines are often meant to be consumed young as their low acidity usually doesn’t bode well for cellaring, I find that giving them 4 to 5 years from vintage date allows the oak to temper itself a bit while letting some character show.
Ramos Pinto 30 year Tawny Port (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $85) Not too long ago, I did a tasting featuring the tawnys of Taylor-Fladgate where I absolutely adored the 30 year tawny. As phenomenal as that Taylor 30 was, I have to say that the Ramos Pinto ran laps around it. Wow, just wow. This may be one of the single best Tawny Ports that I’ve ever tasted and I would start putting it close to the 1970 Taylor and 1970 Fonseca vintage Ports as one of the best Ports, I’ve had. Period.
While I was extremely discipline in spitting throughout the evening, I swallowed and savored every drop of this wine. The nose was a beautiful blend of spice and hazelnuts. The palate introduced butterscotch and dried golden raisins. The mouthfeel was the star with a silkiness that seemed almost feather-light around the tip of the tongue but pulled you in with its richness and weight towards the mid-palate. The finish was the longest of the evening. Several minutes. In fact, I ended up savoring it for so long that I missed out on the 98 point rated Graham’s 2000 vintage port that was being emptied in glasses as I stood by the table still reveling in the Ramos Pinto 30. While I’m sure the Graham’s would have been wonderful, I think the sacrifice of being able to enjoy the Ramos longer was well worth it. Needless to say, this wine was one of my Top 10 of the night.
Rodney Strong 2012 Rockaway Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (94 points. Wine Searcher average price $74) If you mostly know of Rodney Strong for their low-end, chain-restaurant wines then this wine is an eye-opener. Much like Sbragia’s Monte Rosso I reviewed in the last post, it seems sinful to compare this Alexander Valley Cabernet to a Napa wine but I’d be damn if this wouldn’t fool me for a Silver Oak Napa (but still priced like their Alexander!). Though while the Silver Oak Napa usually needs 7 to 10 years to get to this level of complexity and drink-ability, this Rodney Strong Rockaway is already roaring on all cylinders.
The nose has a great mix of ripe black currant and plum with tobacco oak spice and cedar cigar box. The palate is powerful and fills up your entire mouth with seductive fruit but also has layers of savory meaty notes underneath. The oak is present but plays a supporting role while letting the fruit and power of the wine take center stage. This wine would be equally at ease paired with a juicy prime rib as it would be with an elegant lamb dish or just being savored by itself.
Torbreck 2013 Descendant Shiraz Barossa Valley (96 points. Wine Searcher average price $89) This wine was tussling with the Penfolds 2014 RWT, Two Hands 2014 Bella Garden and the Hickinbotham Clarendon 2013 Brooks Road for best Australian wine of the night. A co-ferment with 8% Viognier, this wine has an absolutely beautiful floral nose paired with vibrant berry fruit. Even though time is precious with just 3 hours to taste upwards of 244 wines, this was a wine that deliberately slows you down, encouraging you to spend several minutes just smelling and enjoying it.
When you finally do get to tasting it, the pay off is well worth it with it full-body but elegant mouthfeel that testifies to but also defies it 15.5% alcohol. Tasting blind, I would’ve peg it more around 14% because of how graceful it carries it heavy weight across the palate. Medium-plus acidity keeps the fruit fresh and invites your taste buds to water enough to pick up some of the black pepper and baking spices of cinnamon and nutmeg that wraps around the berry fruit. It’s a shame that Torbreck gets no where near the amount of attention that Penfolds or Mollydooker gets because this wine is certainly among Australia’s best.
K Vintners 2013 Royal City Syrah (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $129) Like Mollydooker, I find Charles Smith’s wines of K Vintners to be “hit or miss” for me with, thankfully, more hits than misses. But these are still wines that I will hardly ever buy “on faith” without tasting first because when they miss, they’re “impale the clown” kind of misses. Partly that’s because of K Vintner’s style which seems to favor high pH, very lush wines that can sometimes veer towards issues with volatile acidity and brettanomyces. I don’t mind a little brett because it can add complexity but VA is something that I’m personally hyper-sensitive about.
This 2013 Royal City had a smidgen of brett but was, thankfully, just in the gamey arena instead of the full-blown camping-in-the-horse-barn arena of brett. Also, thankfully, there was no overt signs of VA but the very dense and lush mouthfeel with medium-minus acidity doesn’t leave me optimistic that VA won’t make an appearance over time as the fruit fades with bottle age. The tannins are smooth, of course, and the fruit sweet and dark. It’s definitely a drink-now kind of wine that I’m sure will give many people much pleasure. It’s just not a wine that I would, personally, risk the clown for.
Well….maybe I’d risk that clown.
El Nido 2013 Jumilla (95 points. Wine Searcher average price $125) Much like Mollydooker and K Vintners, El Nido is about lush, decadence and lip smacking fruit. But while those wines were underwhelming, this wine was absolutely scrumptious. The nose gave off the siren song of rich, intensely concentrated dark fruit signaling a very fruity and full-bodied wine but the palate surprised with high, almost Bordeaux-like, acidity that added a splash of freshness to the fruit. It not only made your lips smack but your mouth water as well. It’s a big, big wine (probably the most full-bodied outside of the Amarones and Ports) but it had finesse to it that would open it up to more food-pairing possibilities than it lush co-horts. Of course, it was quite delicious still on its own.
Coming up next: My Top Ten Wines of the 2017 Wine Spectator Grand Tour
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May 25, 2013 by joecarro in Action (Movies), Adventure (Movies), Movie Reviews, Science Fiction (Movies) and tagged 2000's, 2009, 24th Century, Acting Captain, Action, Adventure, Alex Kurtzman, Alien, Alternate TImeline, Amanda Grayson, Ambassador Spock, Anton Yelchin, Average JOE, Bad Robot, Bar, Bar Fight, Beastie Boys, Ben Cross, Birth, Black Hole, Blog, Bones, Box Office Hit, Bra, Brash, Bruce Greenwood, Cadet, Captain, Captain Christopher Pike, Captain Kirk, Car, Cheating, Chekov, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine, Commander, Commendation, Damaged Starship, Death Of Wife, Earth, Enterprise, Eric Bana, Evacuation, Family, father, Father Misses The Birth Of His Child, Federation, Female Humanoid Alien, Fight, Film, Final Frontier, First Officer, Gaila, George Kirk, Half-Human, Handheld Phaser, Hikaru Sulu, Illogical, J. J. Abrams, James T. Kirk, Jennifer Morrison, JJ Abrams, John Cho, Joseph Carro, Karl Urban, Kirk, Last Stand, Legacy, Legs, Lens Flare, Leonard McCoy, Leonard Nimoy, Lieutenant, Live Long And Prosper, Marooned, Medal, Movie, Mysterious, Nebraska, Nero, Nickname, Nyota Uhura, Pavel Chekov, Phaser, Photon Torpedoes, Pike, Planet, Prime Directive, Rachel Nichols, Re Boot, Revenge, Review, Roberto Orci, Romulan, Sacrifice, Sarek, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, Scotty, Self Sacrifice, Sexy, Sexy Legs, Simon Pegg, space, Spock, Spock Prime, Star Trek, Starfleet, Starfleet Academy, Starship, Starship Debris, Stun, Sulu, Supernova, Time Travel, Trekkie, Troublemaker, Uhura, Unrequited Love, USS Enterprise, Vulcan, Vulcan Boy, Vulcan Man, Vulcan Woman, Winona Kirk, Winona Ryder, Wishing Someone Good Luck, Wormhole, Writer, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana | 1 Comment
Original Theatrical Release: May 08, 2009
Director: J. J. Abrams
James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine) is a hot-headed young man with a lot of potential. Under the tutelage of Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), he is expected to rise in rank although he sometimes goes against the grain and earns the ire of instructors such as Spock (Zachary Quinto). When the planet of Vulcan becomes endangered, the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise and her crew must come together to stop an evil Romulan named Nero (Eric Bana).
Let me start out by saying that I was never a massive Star Trek fan, so I’m not sure how my review would hold up against a true fan of the original series. I did watch a lot of the original, with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner as Spock and Kirk, but it was such a long time ago that I don’t remember a lot of it. I am more familiar with Star Trek: The Next Generation, and even then, I’m a little fuzzy on the Star Trek mythos.
With that said, I do have to say that I enjoyed this entry into the Star Trek franchise. Say what you will about JJ Abrams, but the man knows how to direct action. There were plenty of fight scenes to wet the palate, and there is even a Beastie Boys cameo (in the form of music – lest we forget, the Beastie Boys are huge Star Trek nerds) during a cool action scene.
In this first film, the characters (I think) were a little more true to their television counterparts than in the second film, Star Trek: Into Darkness. I actually liked the casting choices of Zoe Saldana as Uhura and Zachary Quinto as Spock. (And, of course we get to see Leonard Nimoy back as Spock as well. Shhhhh!) I think Chris Pine plays a great Kirk. He is arrogant, a womanizer and indeed looks “corn-fed”. You want to hate him but his charm wins out.
Bana was lackluster as Nero – screaming and full of rage. The Romulan ship was pretty neat. Not sure I was sold on the Uhura/Spock love entanglement, however.
All in all, this film might frustrate some hardcore Trekkies I know, but people must remember that it’s supposed to be an alternate timeline. Whether or not that helps, I’m not sure. As a non-Trekkie, I found this an easy introduction to the Star Trek characters, and I enjoyed the ride. It didn’t get too involved in the normal political mess (boring) of the television program and instead focused on the action and drama.
(Oh, and the weird thing is that you get to see Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk’s dad. Yup.)
JOE Rating: ★★★★
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A story that needs no introduction, DH Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover has been the subject of many film and TV adaptations but how does it work on the stage? … and do they get their kit off ? (come on, I know that’s what you’re wondering!)
This production from the ever reliable English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres is on at Brighton’s Theatre Royal until Saturday 19 Nov. It uses a modern minimalist staging which reminded me of the company’s treatment of Brideshead Revisited earlier in the year. Pieces of furniture and props rather than scenery evoke a sense of place. At the start they are liberated piece by piece from under dust sheets.
Some scenes, particularly at the beginning, are short and abrupt, mere snapshots cutting to black to set up the plot of the Lady Chatterley (Heydydd Dylan) and her husband (Eugene O’Hare), who has been invalided is the Great War and is no longer able to stand up… in any sense.
There’s a great use made of sound effects to contrast Lady Chatterley’s two worlds – the tense ticking clock and bashing of her husband’s typewriter inside her house and the bird calls of the woodland around the hut where she finds freedom in wild abandonment with the gamekeeper Mellors (Jonah Russell). There’s a pianist providing live accompaniment on stage for several scenes.
It should go without saying that Lady Chatterley is not something to see if you are easily offended. There are four letter words (amusingly these had to be read out at the obscenity trial over the book in the 1960s), there is also full frontal nudity, though it mostly occurs in scenes with touching moments of the emotional rather than physical kind. The longest kit off section is for a conversation between the protagonists while they’re sitting on a stage strewn with flowers.
I’ve noticed, having seen a few of their productions now, that the ETT likes to play with expectations, so the first time Lady Chatterley sheds her clothes it’s quite a shock, coming as it does in a scene of a medical rather than sexual nature. Another scene has a quirky staging of a rain shower with real water streams caught in buckets.
The acting is solid, keeping up accents (Mellors in particular) and bringing out both the tragedy and the humour of the story. There was real emotion at the end when Lady Chatterley returns from abroad to find an unexpected change of circumstances for each of the men in her life.
The World War One centenary and themes of class division and even feminism mean this story from 1928 still has resonance today and the simple staging helps make it feel ageless. There were whoops of appreciation from the audience at the curtain call.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover runs at the Theatre Royal daily Tues 15 – Sat 19 Nov at 7.45pm with additional matinees on Thurs and Sat at 2.30pm. Tickets cost from £16.90 Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, 0844 871 7650
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Hindi Literature (1415)
Having successfully finished 5482K2HI Hindi 4 or an equivalent level of language knowledge (Listening B1, Reading B2, Spoken Interaction B1, Spoken Production B1 and Writing B1). Please, contact the student advisor, Nicole A.N.M. van Os or A. Avtans, MPhil, if you are interested in taking this course, but do NOT fulfill the abovementioned requirement.
This course introduces students to modern Hindi literary texts using a thematic approach. The course will cover literary texts on major themes in contemporary Hindi literature namely ‘women’s discourse’, ‘subaltern discourse’, ‘mobility narratives’, ‘old age in literature’, and others. These themes cover wider socio-cultural and political contexts of post-independence modern India. Class discussion will mainly focus on textual, narratological, discourse and stylistic analysis of selected texts but will also extend to their analysis using secondary and theoretical readings. The teaching material consists of selected texts in Hindi (stories or chapters from novels) together with chosen secondary and theoretical readings.
By the end of the course:
• Students will be familiar with major themes in Hindi literature in post-independence India.
• Students will have close acquaintance with some of the most important authors and works of modern Hindi literature.
• Students will gain a better insight of using tools of textual and discourse analysis in order to understand the underlying socio-cultural and political fabric of modern Indian society.
Seminar (werkcollege).
Attendance and active participation are mandatory.
Seminar: 2 hours per week : 2 x 13 = 26 hours
Readings: 10 hours per week : 10 × 13 = 130 hours
Term Paper: 62 hours for each: 62 × 2 = 124 hours
Total Study load – 280 hours
Review of Hindi Literature consists of following components:
Attendance, class preparation and class participation: 20% of final grade
A mid-term paper (assessment of text and critical analyses prepared at home by student): 30%
A final paper (assessment of text and critical analyses prepared at home by student): 50%
The final paper is written in two stages: a first version which will be commented on and a final version. Students who do not meet the deadline for the first version will lose the right to get comments and will only be graded based on their final version.
In order to pass the course, students must obtain an an overall mark of 5.50 (=6) or higher.
The course is an integrated whole. The final examination and the assignments must be completed in the same academic year. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
Blackboard is used for information and other learning resources.
Primary Readings:
Rahi Masum Raza, Aadha Gaon, Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi, 1966 [English Translation Available]
Alka Sarawagi, Kalikatha Via Bypass, Aadhar Prakashn, Panchkula, 2000 [English Translation Available]
Kusum Viyogi, Charcit Dalit Kahaniyan, Lalit Prakashan, Delhi, 1997
Krishna Sobti, Samay Sargam, Rajkamal Prakshan, Delhi, 2000
Selected stories – will be discussed in the class
Secondary Readings:
Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1997
Patricia Uberoi, Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family, and Popular Culture in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006
Thomas Timberg, Marwaris: From Traders to Industrialists, Vikas, Delhi, 1977
Dipankar Gupta, Social Stratification, OUP, 1992
S C Dube, Indian Society, National Book Trust, 2005
Note: Reading list may include different literary texts and secondary readings as per requirement.
Students are required to register through uSis. To avoid mistakes and problems, students are strongly advised to register in uSis through the activity number which can be found in the timetable in the column under the heading “Act.nbr.”.
Interested students from the MA Asian Studies need to contact the secretariat by e-mail clearly giving the course code and their student ID number to get registered for this course.
A. Avtans, MPhil
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Asian Studies (60 EC): History, Arts and Culture of Asia Master
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Annou Pale – Health Care in St. Lucia
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Sheena Labadie:
It genuinely pains me to see the state of our health care system in St. Lucia. For something that should be an undoubted priority, it seems that it has taken a backseat as everyone has politics, national security, and the economy on the brain…not that these issues are not important, but in my opinion, health care should be at the top of that list because an unhealthy nation means an unhealthy economy and all the ills that are bound to ensue.
I’ve spent a lot of time in the islands’s main hospital, VH, and the way that this facility is run, beggars belief. When you tell me that a packed maternity ward is manned by one doctor and about six nurses at night, an emergency room is manned by one doctor and two on a good day and about five nurses as well, leaving patients to sit in a waiting room for well over six hours…something is seriously wrong.
To add to these issues, and mind you, I only pointed out two out of many examples, there are so many cases of people dying at the hospital inexplicably…mothers in labour, children with asthma, people coming in with easily treatable ailments just…gone and the families are left to grieve without closure as they never receive true or sufficient information about their loved ones’ passing. One would think that they might as well stay home and die as opposed to going to the hospital where you are in discomfort for hours, get poked and prodded by frustrated and tired nurses and are placed in substandard rooms with beds that are kept together with planks of wood (I know about the wood for a fact…my bed had it whilst I was there for months and I SUFFERED Big Time).
The Health Minister has the gail to tell people to make use of the health centres before running to the hospitals yet doctors only attend certain heath centres on certain days and if you arrive after their patient quota is filled for the day, you’re screwed. So tell me why should I take my sick self over there? And to add insult to injury, I mean health centers are for the sick right? Then why is the place set up like the people are there to be punished with substandard furniture and basic facilities? It’s appalling! And some might say, well there’s always Tapion, if you’re going to complain then go to Tapion, where you will get five star treatment…I work hard and pay enough money monthly to deserve better treatment from our health facilities than this. I am not an animal and I don’t appreciate being treated as a second class or even third class citizen in my own country…as if my health care is simply an afterthought. Tapion is a poor excuse for a hospital because they will not hesitate to turn you away if you don’t have the load of money that they are demanding upfront so NO, I will not go to Tapion. I am disappointed that the people with the power to effect change and get the ball rolling, continuously choose to waste the budgets elsewhere rather than pump it into an area that is in dire need of attention and fixing.
Sunne:
I believe that here in St. Lucia our Health Care System leaves much to be desired. We receive sub-par treatment because basic health care is subsidized by the Government. Whilst we are being over charged by the private institutions, most of our population cannot seem to afford the high costs associated with meeting their health care needs. With regards to emergencies, the system somehow believes that people don’t fall sick on weekends since all of the outer health facilities are closed leaving the main hospital struggling and scrambling to provide an effective and efficient service. I would like to suggest that our government look into the exorbitant fees associated with health care here, and also look into having some of the health facilities in the larger communities like Gros Islet for example remain open on a weekend to lessen the burden on the main hospital. There are many opportunities for improvement in our health system here, but I also do appreciate that everything will not happen at once, and it is still a work in progress.
M. Harvey:
In most countries when things are going wrong, the Minister holding that particular portfolio does the correct thing by tendering his/her resignation. The same should be happening here. The Minister of Health must admit to herself that she has been a failure and that under her watch, the health of the nation has deteriorated drastically. Really, our health services have never been so poor in St Lucia. It shows a lack of leadership and guidance. In the circumstances the Minister of Health must do what any self-respecting Minister would do: get out and let someone else take a try at it.
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July 11: The Ricky Williams Laurel Rosebud Golf Invitational
This should be a really cool event. See below:
The Ricky Williams Laurel Rosebud Golf Invitational will held on Monday, July 11, 2016 at the Omni Interlocken Golf Course in Broomfield, Colorado. Teams are encouraged to sign up immediately as space is limited. A dinner, awards ceremony, and auction will follow the action on the golf course.
Thel golf tournament will benefit the not-for-profit mission of The Laurel Rosebud Fund, a nonpartisan public policy organization dedicated to ensuring our cannabis laws reflect thoughtful and contemporary notions of economic growth and fairness, respect for individual rights, and social balance and wellbeing in communities throughout the United States.
Ricky Williams said of his decision to support Laurel Rosebud's mission, "As our understanding of the benefits and costs of cannabis use change, the laws that shape our relationship with it must also change. Join me and Laurel Rosebud in being a part of that change."
Additional information can be found at www.laurelrosebud.org. Don't miss a wonderful event benefiting a great cause. Reserve your spots today!
• Golf Invitational Details: Monday, July 11, 2016. Registration from 12:00 pm until 1:15 pm; 1:30 pm shotgun start, dinner, awards ceremony and auction to follow immediately after the Invitational.
• Location: The Omni Interlocken Golf Course, 500 Interlocken Blvd, Broomfield, Colorado 80021 [31 minutes from the Denver Airport]
• Pre-Invitational Players Cocktail Event and VIP Cocktail Event:Invited Guests Only. July 10, 2016 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm at The Omni Interlocken Resort.
About Ricky Williams: Ricky Williams is the 1998 Heisman Trophy Winner from the University of Texas and former NFL player for the New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins, and Baltimore Ravens. Mr. Williams voluntary retired and walked away from a $15 million contract, in part, because of the NFL's opposition to Williams' use of marijuana to treat his depression and social anxiety disorder. Williams is a passionate voice for regulation of cannabis and reform of cannabis policy in professional sports and throughout the United States.
About The Laurel Rosebud Fund: The Laurel Rosebud Fund is a not-for-profit corporation established, in part, to educate the public concerning the impact of controlled and regulated substance laws on the economy, public health, and the social structure of our communities. The Laurel Rosebud Fund encourages commonsense legislation, regulations and government programs to improve the impartiality of these laws, support familial structures, and strengthen and stimulate the economy.
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Thrown Stone is pleased to announce that we’ve been recognized on three different Best of 2019 Lists:
Curtain Call / The Ridgefield press
“A fine production of a fine play, featuring outstanding performances. How can you possibly pass this up?”
Cry It Out was named in Joanne Greco Rochman’s Top 10 Equity Shows of 2019.
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“It’s theatre so superb, the end result is truly electrifying.”
Both Cry It Out and Birds of North America were named in Jim Ruocco’s The Best Plays of 2019 (Equity).
Two On The Aisle
“Sensitively directed by Jason Peck who gets excellent performances from J. R. Sullivan and Mélisa Breiner-Sanders.”
Birds of North America was named in Karen Isaacs’ Best of 2019 – Connecticut and NYC.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the press for their time, energy, and thoughtful reviews. Criticism is an essential part of the theatrical conversation, and we urge our audience to explore the work of these intrepid journalists, who regularly attend five or more performances per week. An excellent resource for reviews is the Connecticut Critics Circle Website at ctcritics.org.
We’d also like to congratulate our peers and colleagues who were recognized on these lists. We are very lucky to live and work in a place with such a robust performing arts scene.
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Executive producers Steven Spielberg ( ‘Super 8’, ‘Falling Skies’), Peter Chernin ( “Rise of the Planet of the Apes ‘), Brannon Braga (‘ FlashForward ‘,’ 24 ‘), René Echevarria (‘ 4400 ‘,’ Medium ‘) and Aaron Kaplan (‘ Good Christian Belles’) comes’ Terra Nova ‘, a story in which you will travel 85 million years back in time. The series starring the Shannon, a family of the year 2149 traveling to prehistory as part of an expedition which aims rehabitar Earth. At the not too distant future, the world is fading. It has been overdeveloped, overpopulated and overexploited, apart from the intense problems related to pollution. Most plants and animals have become extinct and abuse of science has degenerated into the near destruction of the universe. Once seen no turning back, scientists conclude that there is only one solution to save the Earth: create a space-temporal hole pasado.Los experts working in particle accelerator discovered by surprise a temporary fracture which makes it possible to build a portal to prehistoric times. Few are chosen, but Shannon are among them. Specifically, part of the Tenth pilgrimage to Terra Nova, the first human colony is established in this beautiful, unspoilt and no less dangerous ground. Jim Shannon (Jason O’Mara, ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Men in Trees’, ‘Life on Mars’), a devoted father with a checkered past, is the unexpected guide your family in this world of mystery and terror which, of course, also inhabited by dinosaurs. His wife, Elisabeth (Shelley Conn, ‘Mistresses’, ‘Marchlands’), is a trauma surgeon and the latest medical signing of the colony. Josh (Landon Liboiron, ‘Life Unexpected’) is his 17 year old son, a troubled teenager who, despite traveling to regaádientes and give up all their luxuries, soon falls for the beautiful and antinormas Skye (Allison Miller, ‘ 17 again, ” Reyes ‘,’ Blood: the last vampire ‘) Maddy (Naomi Scott, “Life Bites’, ‘Lemonade Mouth’), so far the rarita daughter and unpopular Josh, hopes Terra Nova will provide a new opportunity to reinvent itself. Although you may not get it. Elisabeth hiring assures his family a place in the colony, but a mysterious secret related to his five year old daughter, Zoe (Alana Mansour), threatens his invitation to this utopia. When they arrive at Terra Nova, the Commander Nathaniel Shannon know Taylor (Stephen Lang, Avatar, ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’), a pioneer and leader of the settlement. Taylor and his right hand Guzman (Mido Hamada, ‘Nowhere Man’, ’24’) recognize them to Terra Nova Shannon is an environment fraught with opportunities, but neither hide them it is not as idyllic as it may seem. The sky is a clear blue, refreshing waterfalls carry water and vegetation could not be more exuberant. But there are dinosaurs whose diet includes human flesh and even a subset of renegades led by the fiery Mira (Christine Adams, ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Whole Truth’) against Taylor and his leadership. Something dark hovering over Terra Nova. Not all are intended to save humanity and Shannon have to find out who or who they are. the world may otherwise disappear before you even start.
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Community is at the very heart of our identity. Our students learn from their first day at TPS that we are integrated and integral to one another, both in the school, and in the broader communtity. To that end, we are passionate about giving back to the world around us, and we are privelaged to be able to make a difference in the lives of those served by the charities we support.
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The Parent Advisory Council (PAC) and the TPS Student Council in a cooperative initiative raised $4,659 for the Red Door FamilyShelter. The ...
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The Parent Advisory Council (PAC) and the TPS Student Council in a cooperative initiative raised $4,659 for the Red Door Family
Shelter. The Red Door Family Shelter helps families, refugees and women who are fleeing violence .
Since 1982, the Red Door has provided services for families and individuals who need safe and supportive emergency shelter. Back in
1982 there was only one other shelter operating in Toronto. The Woodgreen United Church responded to the growing need for more
shelters for homeless families and the Red Door was opened as a result.
Many people can find themselves in desperate need. These include women who have experienced violence at home, families who get
evicted, refugees, or young mothers who may have nowhere to go. The people who use our services are moms with children; followed
by intact families, and dads with children.
Wednesday, December 8th was Red Door Family Shelter Day at TPS with a wide range of activities intended to bolster our fund
raising.
From 9:00-10:00 AM muffins, bagels, donuts and drinks in the school cafeteria were sold; from 12:30-1:30 PM a pizza lunch combo
was made available, the holding of a "red" theme trivia contest (pay to participate) with a chance to win a gift basket filled with
chocolate, and at 1:00 PM a draw for an Apple iPad (students sold over 3100 raffle tickets for $1.00 each). Students were also asked
to wear an item of red on the day and if they are found to be without a red item in their wardrobe that day, they had to pay a fine of
$1.00. During lunch there were also a "guess how many red kisses are in the jar" and other candy contests (pay to participate).
The school was decorated with red ribbons and signs adorned the school hallways, highlighting the charity and its good work!
Everyone in the school came together for this very worthy cause, but special mention must go to the following:
• Suzy Rodness (PAC) and Robyn Maister - Student Council for organizing it and for working all day to make sure everything went off
without a hitch.
• Ashely Sanderson and her family for donating $500.00.
• The Cupcake Shoppe for donating 250 cupcakes.
• Gerald Maister for donating all the signs.
• PAC donated Tim Hortons breakfast and pizza lunch.
• Chaplick Family donated all the drinks
• Rodness Family donated candy prizes and decorations.
• TPS donated iPad with all features including 2 year extended warranty.
Candy Prize Winners - People had to guess the weight of the candy and the container. Lori Boudreau won most of the categories and
donated the candy back so the runner-ups could enjoy some holiday cheer. Other winners were: Ryan Mintz, Elissia Aycan, Michael
Borinsky, and Jeff Roebuck,
Winner of the ipad was Susan Yak, mother of Shane Rumack.
TPS Raises $20,000 for Cancer Research
Thank you so much for all your donations to the Terry Fox Charity. We are proud to announce that we surpassed our goal of $17,000. In total, ...
Thank you so much for all your donations to the Terry Fox Charity.
We are proud to announce that we surpassed our goal of $17,000. In total, we collected a whopping $20,000. A special thanks goes to Mr. Cowan’s first period class who raised $1395 and are the winners of a pizza lunch. Honourable mention goes to Mr. Pizzuto’s first period class who raised $1170 and to Mr. Pascos’s first period class who raised $1145. Also, a very special thanks to Mason Cohen who collected the most online donations with $800.
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The Himalayan Times > Nepal > Close ties between Nepal, B’desh stressed
Close ties between Nepal, B’desh stressed
Published: November 15, 2019 10:14 am On: Nepal
Rastriya Samachar Samiti
Nepal-Bangladesh Friendship Association has suggested strengthening other relations along with diplomatic ties with Bangladesh.
The association has expressed hope that there could be progress in the area of education, health, agriculture and trade of Nepal by consolidating diplomatic relations with Bangladesh. NBFA’s President Dindaya Rijal said, “Bangladesh wants to be close to Nepal and wants to first establish close relations with it. Nepal should also understand this spirit of Bangladesh.”
He stressed the need for opening the Fulbari transit road between Nepal, India and Bangladesh, which would facilitate Nepal’s access to sea. It takes around three-and-a-half hours on vehicle to reach Kakadvitta-Budhimari border with India from Bhadrapur. But, it takes only half an hour to reach Fulbari border with India from Bhadrapur.
Nepal could export fruits and goods like apple, orange, pear, peach, cardamom, broom grass, cinnamon, cement, sand and pebbles to meet increasing demand for these commodities in Bangladesh, he said. “Products of Bangladesh products like medicines and textiles are exported to almost all countries around the world. We, Nepalis, could learn skills from them to produce these goods,” he said. Rijal also demanded resumption of Dhaka-Kathmandu bus service, which came to a halt after operating just for one day.
Bangladeshi people love their culture and language and take interest in observing festivals and prefer using and wearing home-made products. Nepal could learn from the behaviour of Bangladeshi people, he said, adding there had to be exchange of literature, arts and culture between the two countries. “Bangladeshi people enjoy observing mountains and hills of Nepal. They have great love for Nepal and are impressed by its natural beauty. They regard Nepal as haven. So, Nepal’s government should launch special programmes to attract Bangladeshi people to Nepal.”
Bangladesh’s President Mohammad Abdul Hamid is here on his four-day visit to Nepal at the invitation of his Nepali counterpart Bidhya Devi Bhandari. He arrived in Nepal on November 12.
President Hamid visited and observed arts, culture and archaeological objects at Bhaktapur Durbar Square on November 12. Following his visits to Pokhara and Rupakot today he is scheduled to visit Chandragiri Hills in Kathmandu tomorrow.
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EDITORIAL: Subpar Housing Merits Compensation
October 26, 2018 by Editorial Board Leave a Comment
Faulty fire alarms. Disruptive, clamorous construction. Severe miscommunication from university officials to endangered student residents.
Georgetown has proven unwilling or unable to address a wide array of housing and maintenance problems, many of which detract from residents’ health and safety.
While these problems are not new to the Georgetown community, the degree to which they have interfered with the lives of students across campus merits not only an earnest effort to address the issues, but also compensation for affected students.
For nearly three hours late on the night of Oct. 9, over an hour on the night of Oct. 10 and during the afternoon of Oct. 16, residents of Nevils were evacuated when the residential hall’s fire alarms went off, disrupting residents and fostering frustration with the university. None of these alarms were scheduled and none were in response to an actual emergency.
Faulty fire alarms are hardly a new or surprising problem for Georgetown. In the Southwest Quad, five fire alarms were unnecessarily set off because of electrical issues between Jan. 19 and Feb. 16.
The university is fully aware that fire alarms have caused problems for students before but has evidently failed to eradicate faulty alert systems from campus.
The fire alarms in Nevils had substantial negative effects on residents.
“Aside from the safety concerns, the alarms that occurred over two consecutive nights were a huge disruption to many of us,” Nevils resident Charlotte Hine (MSB ’19) said. “I had a job interview the following day. Others had early classes, midterms and work commitments. One of my roommates had to attend her grandfather’s funeral later that morning.”
The university did not explain the faulty fire alarms to students until an Oct. 25 email sent to residents of East Campus, which blamed the problems on an “electronic circuit switch fail.” This kind of communication must be clear and immediate, but for two weeks, students had no indication that the problem was being addressed.
The university claims to have attempted sending an email to East Campus residents Oct. 11 and is “investigating why residents did not receive the initial message,” according to an email to The Hoya from university director of strategic communications Rachel Pugh.
Nevils residents, like all other students who live on campus, pay Georgetown in exchange for shelter. The university failed to hold up its end of the deal: One fire alarm would have been a frustration; repeated instances imply an undue delay in addressing a clear problem.
Georgetown should refund those students for the two nights of Oct. 9 and 10, when the fire alarms disrupted students’ sleep. These funds, which would amount to just over $100, could even be returned through Georgetown services, like money for printing and laundry or GOCard credit more generally.
Students in other residence halls have faced similar intrusive problems throughout the semester.
Residents of freshman residence Darnall Hall have battled late-night construction consistently since their August move-in, as explained by Elisa McCartin in her Oct. 25 op-ed.
In this case, Georgetown has again failed to supply students with the fundamental basics of housing: a place to sleep soundly. For the consistent harm done to their health — and the university’s apparent unwillingness to ensure its contractors respect the sleep schedules of students — McCartin’s request of better odds in the housing lottery for Darnall residents as they find their sophomore homes is certainly justified.
Just as Nevils residents deserve to see their housing payment equalized with the service they were provided, those living in Darnall can fairly expect a balance of their future housing with the poor conditions they were slotted into this year.
The consequences of inadequate housing carry beyond short-term health and safety: Conversations with students revealed many also lost trust in the university system supposedly designed to keep them safe.
“I’m scared that if there is ever a fire, people are going to die,” Marshall Webb (SFS ’20) said.
Georgetown failed Nevils residents by failing to check the efficacy of their fire alarms, and Darnall residents by failing to enforce restrictions on when construction can occur. These problems have put students health in danger, and both merit compensation from the university for the subpar housing accommodations offered to them this year.
The Hoya’s editorial board is composed of six students and is chaired by the Opinion Editor. Editorials reflect only the beliefs of a majority of the board and are not representative of The Hoya or any individual member of the board.
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Home Out of Home An incredibly big billboard
An incredibly big billboard
Posted By: TMO Reporteron: March 22, 2012 In: Out of Home
A massive 900m2 billboard has drivers in Johannesburg agog. Raised in honour of the launch of the new Audi A5, it has a 2.7km run up and is billed as the largest free-standing billboard in the southern hemisphere.
“It’s an incredibly big structure,” says Outdoor Exchange’s Maureen du Toit. “It weighs 22 tons and we poured 94m2 concrete. I must say the most challenging thing was working in high rainfall, lightening and wind and so the rigging of the sign was more challenging than anticipated,” says Du Toit, who worked closely with Van Till Outdoor to get the billboard up.
“The face weighs just a tad over 700kg and so it was a daunting task for 25 people just to pull the face to the top of the structure. The 27-hour flighting equalled four hours preparation work to fit the cables and pocket rods and the hoisting of the first back face on day one. Then the face needed to be fastened, which took another 13 hours. The front face took another 10 hours to prepare and fasten!”
The site of the Audi billboard is at the N3 Linksfield off-ramp. Du Toit says Outdoor Exchange has acquired the approval for two of these sites. “This is the first one. We certainly hope there will be many more approvals on sites such as impactful as this,” she says.
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Outdoor Exchange obtained the approval for the site? What a load of c&ck. That site has no approval is completely illegal. Just go ask Ekurhuleni Municipality who are currently taking action again Van Till for the illegal site.
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| Dec 15, 2017 at 5:15 am.
SPCA Hires Robots to Scare Away Homeless People, Call the Police
The robot is a snitch on wheels, using sensors and lasers to "monitor an area for criminal activity" and report to the police if it sees something.
Markab Algedi
The SPCA is an organization that is supposed to help animals. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has roots that date as far back as 1824, England, and as a front-and-center organization that serves a particular function in society, in this case operating shelters for animals, they are bound to not be of the best moral persuasion.
The San Francisco SPCA recently made headlines after hiring a “security robot” to scare away homeless people and prevent them from setting up tents near their building.
The robot is a snitch on wheels, using sensors and lasers to “monitor an area for criminal activity.” It alerts the police if it sees something.
Video of the robot in action recently went viral.
Here it is in action pic.twitter.com/nSBQUmKwk1
— Sam Dodge (@samueldodge) December 9, 2017
Is that noise being made by the machine? If so, it would seem as if they are trying to scare the mentally ill people who roam the street in particular.
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In a densely populated area like San Francisco, it isn’t easy for the homeless to find a decent place to sleep. The mentally ill and severely drug addicted roam the streets, as is the scene in many American cities.
Worse, autonomous state protecting robots are being deployed in other places around San Francisco. According to Business Insider, they “are used to patrol parking lots, sports arenas, and tech company campuses are now being deployed to keep away homeless people.”
Surprisingly the City of San Francisco didn’t take kindly to the robotic homeless scarecrows, as they demanded the SF SPCA to remove its robots from the streets or face a fine of up to $1,000 a day.
After that, they took the robots off the street.
A company called Knightscope actually rents out the robots for $7 an hour: less than the cost of hiring a security guard, of course. They serve over 19 clients across the US, including Microsoft, Uber, and Juniper Networks.
According to Business Insider:
“Preventing crime is part of the pitch that Knightscope makes to prospective customers. (Increased police presence can reduce crime, though this is not always the case.)
The K9 robot circling the SF SPCA has drawn mixed responses. Within the first week of the robot’s deployment, some people who were setting up a homeless encampment nearby allegedly “put a tarp over it, knocked it over, and put barbecue sauce on all the sensors,” according to Jennifer Scarlett, president of the SF SPCA. A Twitter user reported seeing faeces smeared on the robot.”
So corporate paid RoboSnitches are already on the street, and they look like this.
Business Insider/Knightscope.
How long until robotic law enforcement that looks like this is on the loose?
It seems 2017 will be remembered with a theme of crossing the threshold when it comes to new technology becoming commonplace. From taxi drones, to people genetically modifying themselves, the skies being sprayed with colorful toxic metals to genetically engineered mosquitoes being released all over America, we’re starting to really cross a line in history.
For some perspective on how advanced robotics have become, take a look at these videos.
Featured image: Business Insider/Knightscope.
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US and Israeli politicians hacked to promote ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency scams
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It appears scammers have hijacked yet another batch of verified Twitter accounts to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaway links (often under the disguise of Elon Musk).
A verified account belonging to the Australian branch of consulting giant Capgemini has been spotted running malicious giveaway links on Twitter. Posing as Musk, the malicious tweet encouraged users to send small amounts of cryptocurrency for a chance to participate in a 10,000 Bitcoin (nearly over $60 million) giveaway.
Prior to its removal, the tweet had accumulated thousands of likes and retweets. The wallet address associated with the malicious giveaway links has already received over $12,000 (a little over 2 BTC). However, it’s worth noting that attackers would often make a number of small transactions to themselves to make the giveaways seem more legit.
But more worryingly, it appears the hackers are getting more inventive with their approach to fooling victims into sending them funds.
Next to the malicious tweet from the Capgemini account, the attackers had also taken over a slew of other verified accounts in order to lend credibility to the original tweet. Among others, the hackers had gained access to the accounts of California state senator Ben Allen and Israeli politician Rachel Azaria.
“I sent 0.50 BTC and got back 5 Bitcoins,” a now-deleted tweet from Allen read. “+25 BTC, thank you,” read another one from Azaria.
Fortunately, it seems most of the affected profiles have since been able to reclaim control of their accounts.
While scammers have been hijacking verified accounts to spread fake giveaway links for months now, the trend seems to have intensified as of recently. Last week, a number of high profile accounts – including those the Indian national disaster management authority and Europe’s second biggest film company, Pathé – fell victim to the attackers.
Reports suggest the scammers have swindled over $170,000 from unsuspecting victims from last week’s incidents alone. Of course, there is no telling how much of all funds received was sent by the scammers themselves, as a strategy to make the scheme appear more legit.
Meanwhile, Twitter is still casually nonchalant about this whole affair.
Instant update: A moment after publishing, we noticed the official account of the Indian consulate in Germany, Frankfurt, had also been hacked to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaways:
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by Russ Nickel | December 5, 2011 · 9:20 pm
The Muppets Kidnap Our Hearts
When I walked into the theater, I immediately felt out of place. I was there with my two fraternity brothers, tough guys with a soft spot for The Muppets, but other than the three of us, not a single person looked to be between the ages of 12 and 35. Fearful that we’d made a bad decision we sat extremely close to the screen. Any farther back and our enormous, twenty-something bulks would’ve obscured the views of some innocent children. Necks craned into the ready position, we waited.
And soon found out that The Muppets was incredible! They made a serious marketing mistake by ignoring my demographic; the three of us laughed harder than anyone else in the theater. While the movie is light-hearted enough to appeal to children, it also spends a great deal of its time making fun of how ridiculously upstanding it is, all the while tossing in plenty of humor for adults. It’s the first movie I’ve ever seen in theaters where I walked out of there sure that only a monster could dislike such unadulterated greatness (my apologies to all you non-monstrous Muppet-dislikers out there. I’m sure you have good reasons).
The basic plot of this movie is genius. An oil Baron cleverly named Tex Richman is planning on buying the rights to The Muppets Studio, pretending that he wants to build a museum when really the studio sits on vast quantities of oil. He knows this because he “Can smell it. Also, the geological surveyors said there was.” Our hero and new addition to the Muppets cast, Walter, is the only one who overhears the evil madman, and it’s up to him to help get the Muppets back together for one last show so they can raise the ten million dollars necessary to buy back the studio and simultaneously prove that the Muppets still have what it takes in this ever-changing world.
The crew has to be tracked down, Animal must reacquire his inner rage in order to drum, Kermit and Ms. Piggy must reconcile their rocky relationship, a celebrity host must be secured, and Walter has to find a talent, all in two weeks!
One of the main reasons I got such a kick out of The Muppets is because it was relentlessly meta. I recently found out that this was a term unknown to my parental units, so for all you un-meta-educated out there, something is considered meta when it breaks the fourth wall. It describes that whole play-within-a-play routine where the characters are aware that they aren’t real and constantly acknowledge that it’s all just a show. In The Muppets, this manifests itself in a number of hilarious ways. For example, they’ll have a huge song and dance number, standard for a kids’ movie. But as soon as it ends, all the back-up dancers collapse in exhaustion, finally happy that the main characters are gone and their duties to the audience are over.
Even more amusing is when the two old guys (probably the funniest Muppets), read out the key details of the oil baron’s contract, stating that it’s fool-proof except for one minor detail. If the Muppets can manage to raise the money in time, they have first right of purchase. One old guy then says, “It sounds like you just explained an important plot point,” and the other responds, “I sure hope so! Otherwise I just bored the audience half-to-death for no reason!”
The movie falls into all the traps of an easy-to-follow children’s film, but it’s well-aware of it, and by pointing out its ridiculousness, The Muppets can have its cake and eat it too. The kids are happy with the simplistic plot, and the adults can crack up at the way that simple plot is parodied. In fact, the entire movie is one giant endeavor in meta-narrative. The film is about the Muppets being able to prove that they’re still relevant, that they can still make people laugh. They want to show the world that in a time when television and film are shifting toward either the unintelligent, irreverent comedy of things like Dinner of Schmucks, or the dark gritty edge of new superhero reboots, the wholesome and clever entertainment of the Muppets still has a place. Children are not as stupid as we think, and the Muppets believe they deserve well-written film with a positive message. In this case, that is the message, and The Muppets proves its point with every top-notch joke and clever spoof.
As you watch the film, you’re sure to enjoy it, and that very fact proves the film right. Realizing that will make you enjoy the film more, thus proving it right further. They’ve managed to create an endless feedback loop!
As always, Jason Segel is eminently lovable, and his man-child character is no different here. He plays Walter’s brother, and his conflict is that he cares too much about his furrier sibling, sometimes accidentally ignoring girlfriend Amy Adams. Chris Cooper’s Tex Richman is a fantastic villain, and his one song catches you totally off-guard, then proceeds to be hilarious. In fact, with the exception of one Ms. Piggy/Amy Adams duet that I found slightly off, the songs were fantastic.
Maniacal Laugh
Like I said, you will enjoy this movie, and the more of that childish joy you still have within yourself, the more you’ll like it. I would recommend this to everyone, and I’m doing so now (though if you’re extremely put-off by kids’ movies, you’ll probably just find it to be one of the more excellent examples of such, rather than anything that will knock your socks off). The film deftly balances genres, managing to be a perfect kids’ movie whilst simultaneously parodying dozens if not hundreds of movie conventions.
Alignment: Spectacular Fluff
This is the best thing Jack Black has done in so long. “Why are you cleaning me? You’re ruining my look!”
Even their posters are great parodies!
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5 responses to “The Muppets Kidnap Our Hearts”
CMrok93
Longtime Muppet fans will undoubtedly have more fun than young ones, but for the most part, it’s a witty, delightful romp, that shows you that you can still be funny, without ever being mean still in 2011. Good review.
I’m totally with ya! Something’s got to fill the good-natured movie void.
allenavw
Haha we just spoke about your review blog and then BAM, you’ve got a new post up. Oh, you’re quick alright. Your review makes me want to go see the movie!
And hell yes, the old men are the best Muppets.
Ok, finally here. I have seen the movie twice, and considering a third visit with my large teenager as he has also grown up with our beloved Fuzzy Friends. Emma knows most of the album by heart, nuff said. Enjoying your blog, you should be honored as I am not in the habit of reading anyone’s blog…ever. 😀
The music in the film is sublime – in particular the songs by Bret McKenzie, one half of Flight Of The Conchords. “Man Or Muppet” works brilliantly in particular, both touching and hilarious. But they also find time to fit in some classics – “Rainbow Connection” still sounds as good as it did back in the seventies, and the immortal sounds of “Mah Na Mah Na” pulse through the end credits.
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John Hannah on Issues of Calvinism at DTS and S. Lewis Johnson’s Departure
I am including this quote in order to let people read about Dr. Johnson's departure from Dallas Theological Seminary over the issue of the extent of the atonement. One can see the confusion that existed there at the time, and some of this confusion still remains, even in the language that Hannah himself uses to describe the different positions regarding the atonement ("effective extent of the atonement," for example, is misleading). Though Hannah is merely being descriptive with this Walvoordian language, I'll add that the difference was not in Johnson's embracing of so-called "Dordtian Calvinism" (since the moderate orthodox view was also present at the Synod of Dort), but in his adoption of the higher orthodox or strict position present at Dort, which taught a limited imputation of sin to Christ, or a limited substitution (i.e. Owenism).
The usefulness of this quote is not that it will help one to properly understand the categorical differences in the debate about the extent of the atonement, but rather that it will help one to understand the historical circumstances and issues surrounding Johnson's departure from DTS.
Hannah wrote:
The Issue of Calvinism. Clarification of doctrinal issues is usually a product of challenges and controversy. The institution historically described itself as within the Calvinistic tradition, and distanced itself from the Arminian tradition. Walvoord was willing to speak for the ailing Chafer, stating, "Arminianism is a departure from the faith."153 The creed of the seminary makes this clear by affirming such doctrines as the total corruption of all human faculties because of Adam's first sin in which the race was implicated; the priority of divine grace in salvation rooted in divine, unconditional election and predestination; the creature as the respondent to grace, not the cause of grace; and eternal security. The consistent designation for the kind of Calvinism expressed in the creed is most appropriately "moderate Calvinism." The moderation stemmed from two factors: first, the school consistently affirmed an unlimited purpose in the atonement of Christ. The position was rooted in a firm belief that this is taught in Scripture, and a limiting of the atonement would limit the Great Commission, leaving the relationship of the free offer of salvation to all and divine election as "a great mystery."154 Second, the dispensational premillenarian position of the seminary made it historically an uneasy fit in Calvinism.
Conflict emerged when a prominent teacher at the seminary embraced a more strident form of Calvinism, dubbed "extreme Calvinism," "strict Calvinism," or "Dordtian Calvinism." S. Lewis Johnson came to the seminary as a student in 1942, completing the ThM in 1946 and the doctorate in 1949. He eventually became the chair of the department of New Testament studies, replacing J. Dwight Pentecost, who would chair the department of Bible exposition. He began his teaching career at the seminary in 1946; it would span thirty years. As the years passed, however, Johnson became increasingly uncomfortable with the seminary's moderate Calvinism as well as the general academic direction of the institution. Writing from Europe, where he was on study leave, Johnson expressed concern that the curriculum revisions of 1973 weakened the academic strength of the institution (he perceived a weakening of language requirements and theological instruction). Further, he felt the faculty to be generally in need of strengthening at that instruction should be taught through a comprehensive worldview of life (which he considered to be completely lacking). "The change needed at Dallas is a change from emphasis upon one level to another deeper level of learning. Let us not abandon the practical emphasis which has been a winning thing for us, but let us deepen our approach to the Word of God. I am for beefing up our program at Dallas, not thinning it down."155
Walvoord's reply constituted a denial of Johnson's assertions (the institution was not weakened by the 1973 curriculum revision, the professional purpose of the institution was consistent with a greater emphasis on the practical, and the school does present a world and life view to the students, though he conceded that the faculty could be strengthened). At this point, Walvoord raised the issue of doctrinal deviation, based on hearsay, particularly Johnson's view of the extent of the atonement.156 Johnson made it clear that he had embraced the view he was accused of affirming and was willing to resign. However, Walvoord stated that Johnson's view was not contrary to the school's creed, if held in moderation. "Our traditional point of view has been unlimited atonement as you know, but I do not believe that our doctrinal statement prohibits the limited atonement view unless it is unduly pressed."157
Johnson must have taken Walvoord's comments as offering no hindrance to his return to the school, in spite of his more-than-moderate Calvinism. Walvoord's view was that Johnson was expressing theological issues that he was still in the process of resolving when he returned in 1973 (and later took a strident Calvinistic position); Johnson's view was that he had expressed himself clearly before returning to the school and he was accepted. Subsequent correspondence suggests that the charge that brought about Johnson's resignation was that he "pressed" his view inordinately to the detriment of the institution.158
The doctrinal issues were two: the effective extent of the atonement of Christ and the relation of divine regeneration to human faith. Johnson argued that placing faith before regeneration decays absolute human inability, resulting in a loss in the vitality of Christianity. Walvoord responded that such views were contrary to the doctrinal statement, adversely affecting the student body, and would prove a disruptive influence among the churches that trusted the seminary to supply pastors reflective of the seminary's doctrine. More importantly, "We believe that extreme Calvinism goes beyond what the Scriptures teach, affirming that Christ died only for the elect."159
Johnson was granted a leave of absence in the fall of 1977, and when his contract expired in December of that year, it was not renewed.160 The Board of Regents minutes states that the reason for the nonrenewal of his contract was the embrace of five-point Calvinism; in particular, it was noted, "He is in agreement with Dordtian Calvinism, and holds that Christ died for the elect and that regeneration precedes faith."161 The issue of the relationship between regeneration and accenting faith is more difficult to untangle. A phrase in the doctrinal statement ("When the unregenerate believes...") seemed to be a flashpoint. Johnson argued that it is impossible for the unregenerate to believe, because to do so would reduce the wonder of redemption to a bilateral contract, denying that grace is without condition.
There is evidence that the administration sought to accommodate Johnson on the first issue, but his position on the second was too much.162 This is interesting because Walvoord had expressed himself earlier to the effect that faith does not precede regeneration; the two occur simultaneously: "The Calvinist position is that regeneration is simultaneous with salvation."163 It is easy to gain the impression that the controversy was a battle of two friendly titans, one desiring to narrow the school's theological creed (perhaps sensing also a decline of a rigorous Calvinism on the part of faculty and boards) and the other seeking to preserve the school within "moderate Calvinism." The president had the tradition of the institution and the creed on his side. Though the parties may not have separated in the most amiable of circumstances, in 1987 Johnson was accorded the title of Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, Emeritus, in recognition of his contribution to the school.
153. Letter, John F. Walvoord to Arthur F. Williams, Dallas, Texas, 14 April 1948, ADTS. Later he wrote, "As our doctrinal statement indicates, we are in the Reformed tradition of theology" (Letter, John F. Walvoord to J. J. Barnhart, Dallas, Texas, 29 October 1949, ADTS).
154. Letter, John F. Walvoord to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Halston, Dallas, Texas, 5 April 1982, ADTS. Walvoord extended the same "mystery" to the relationship of evangelism to predestinarianism. It seems accurate to say that the practical missions concerns of the seminary's leaders were a paramount motive in maintaining these tensions.
155. Letter, S. Lewis Johnson to John F. Walvoord, Basel, Switzerland, 30 April 1973, John F. Walvoord Papers, ADTS.
156. Letter, John F. Walvoord to S. Lewis Johnson, Dallas, Texas, 10 May 1973, John F. Walvoord Papers, ADTS.
157. Ibid., 5.
158. Letter, S. Lewis Johnson to John F. Walvoord, Dallas, Texas, 2 October 1977. John F. Walvoord Papers, ADTS. Wrote Johnson, "I had expressed such views to you about four years earlier in a letter to you. It was your view that such a deviation from the doctrinal statement was not sufficient to prevent one from teaching at the institution, and I taught at the seminary for the intervening years under the impression that my deviation was not so serious as to preclude faculty service." See also Letter, S. Lewis Johnson to John F. Walvoord, 17 October 1977, John F. Walvoord Papers, ADTS ("I have taught for four years with the assurance that you stood behind your words to me in 1973").
159. Letter, John F. Walvoord to Terry Branscombe, Dallas, Texas, 3 October 1979, ADTS. See also Letter, John F. Walvoord to Alvin L. Baker, Dallas, Texas, 23 November 1981, ADTS; and Letter John F. Walvoord to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Salser, Dallas, Texas, 15 May 1979, ADTS. Further see Letter, S. Lewis Johnson to John F. Walvoord, Dallas, Texas, 14 January 1977, John F. Walvoord Papers, ADTS.
160. Minutes, Executive Board of Regents, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, 7 March 1977, 129; Minutes, Board of Regents, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, 13 October 1977, 137; and Minutes, Board of Incorporate Members, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, 14 October 1977, 117.
161. Minutes, Board of Regents, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, 13 October 1977, 137.
162. Ibid.
163. Letter, John F. Walvoord to Howard Gould, Dallas, Texas, 26 September 1947, ADTS. He wrote further, "Simultaneously the individual believer is regenerated, repents, is justified, adopted, and positionally sanctified. I do not believe that there is any possibility of working out satisfactorily the logical order of all these elements."
John D. Hannah, An Uncommon Union: Dallas Theological Seminary and American Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 174–176.
Labels: General Calvinism, The Atonement
Stephen Strehle on the Diversity and Compromise at the Synod of Dort on the Subject of the Atonement
Now since there was a heterogeneity of opinions concerning the second article, not simply between delegations, but also among them, a certain amount of compromise became imperative. The Golden Remains of John Hales, for example, gives indications of a serious split among the English constituency over this article.[1] Two of the delegates, John Davenant and Samuel Ward, held a strong unlimited position, similar to that of Martinius', and Davenant in particular would rather have "his right-hand cut off" than change his position.[2] The other delegates were essentially limited in their conception of the atonement, but not so vehemently and dramatically dogmatic.[1] Among the areas of conflict were the following: the received distinction that Christ has sufficiently died for all, non secundum proprietatem redemptionis,[2] the statement that Christ did pay actu a price for any except the elect,[3] and the meaning of the phrase "totius mundi" in both the Scriptures and The Thirty-Nine Articles.[4] Yet the need for compromise prevailed upon them,[5] and a mutually agreeable statement upon the subject was finally ascertained, with the result that both factions were pacified.
To carry this matter further, the English delegation not only achieved unanimity among themselves, but also cultivated the cause of compromise and moderation among the entire Synod.[1] This policy was in accordance with instructions from the homeland, to conform to the received distinction and restriction, yet to provide for as general a proposition as possible[2] The task was not insurmountable though, since expectations and desires for the success of the Synod were running high among almost all involved. Some, it is true, were not ashamed of displaying open hostility toward opponents--Gomarus in particular at one point challenging Martinius to a duel.[3] Nevertheless, through the work of such ecumenists as George Carleton[4] and the political clout of England,[5] the English were successful in their endeavors, and advanced this cause among the rest of the Synod.
1. Hales, Golden Remains, pp. 470, 577. cf. Harrison, Arminianism, pp. 336–37. The delegation of Bremen was so divided that, as was already seen, they submitted separate statements to the Synod.
2. Ibid., pp. 577–78, 581.
1. Ibid., pp. 471, 577–78.
2. Ibid., p. 476: "Primo, An retinenda sit illa distinctio quae receptissima est apud Reformatos Doctores, quemque Episcopus Sarisburiensis astruit, pag. 35. & sequentibus, mortuus est pro omnibus secundum sufficientiam seu magnitudinem pretii, non secundum proprietatem redemptionis, quidam putant non retinendum esse quia putant sic sufficienter dici posse mortuum pro Diabolis."
3. Ibid.: "Secundo, Contravertitur de hac propositione. Christus obtulit se pro omnibus, seu persolvit redemptionis pro omnibus: quidam putant sensum esse, persolvit pretium quod sufficit pro omnibus, non autem actu solvit pretium illud nisi pro redimendis electis: alii putant hanc expositionem, incommodam, quia putant commentarium hunc verba ipsa destruere. Ea etenim putant sequi Christum quidem habuisse pretium in numerate, quod persolutum sufficisset omnibus redimendis; verum Christum non persolvisse actu pretium illud, aut factum esse propitiationem pro peccatis totius mundi."
4. Ibid., p. 477: "Tertio, Contravertitur de sensu horum verborum, totius mundi quidam putant intelligi de singulis hominibus: alii de solis electis." cf. Ibid., pp. 471, 586, 588. The Thirty-Nine Articles XXXI: "The offering of Christ once made, is the perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole worlde, both originall and actuall."
5. Ibid., p. 578. The need for compromise is certainly a contributing factor to the inexplicitness of the pronouncements of many of the delegations.
1. Ibid., pp. 517, 522. Calder, Memoirs, p. 237.
2. Ibid., pp. 512–13: "Our Judgment in the second article, is already read in the Synod, so we must study to frame our selves to our directions from England, in making of the Canons: my Lord his Grace's Letter is to have us conform our selves to the received distinction and restriction, with which his Grace acquainted his Majesty and received approbation from him: but I must needs say, that the directions which your Lordship hath sent from Secretary Nanton do seem to will us to be as favourable to the general Propositions as may be, giving as little offence to the Lutherans as we can; which Counsel in my poor judgment we have in our Theses already followed." Davenant felt that if the Contra-Remonstrants could be tempered in this matter, the Lutherans could be more easily won over to the Augustinian doctrine of predestination (Ibid., p. 591) cf. Brandt, Reformation (1725), 2:499, 690–92.
3. Ibid., pp. 455–56. cf. Ibid., pp. 480, 486–87, Brandt, Reformation (1725), 2:478–80, 482, 497–98.
4. Ibid., p. 456.
5. Godfrey mentions three motivations for compromise: 1) the need for a unanimous decision at Dort, 2) the final form of the Canons was to be stated, and 3) the desire to placate the English delegation, since they were a strong ally of the United Provinces and the largest Reformed Church (Godfrey, "Tensions," pp. 254f).
Stephen Alan Strehle, The Extent of the Atonement Within the Theological Systems of the Sixteenth and Seventheenth Centuries (ThD diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1980), 236–238.
Labels: Confessions, John Davenant, Matthias Martinius, Samuel Ward, Synod of Dort
From the English Delegation's Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury (March 21, 1618) on the Extent of Redemption
The British delegation to the Synod of Dort identified their differences with the Remonstrants in this letter as follows:
In our avouching and declaring in this and other Articles, some fruits of Christ's death, not comprised in the Decree of Election, but afforded more generally, yet confined to the Visible Church (as viz. true and spiritual Graces accompanying the Gospel, and conferred upon some non-electi) we gain ground of the Remonstrants, and thereby easily repel, not only their Instances of Apostasie, but also their odious imputation of illusion in the general propounding of the Evangelical Promises, as we are ready more clearly to demonstrate. Nor do we with the Remonstrants leave at large the benefit of our Saviour's death, as only propounded loosely to all ex aequo, and to be applied by the arbitrary act of man's will; but we expressly avouch, for the behoof of the Elect, a special intention both in Christ's offering, and God the Father accepting, and from that intention a particular application of that Sacrifice, by conferring Faith and other Gifts infallibly bringing the Elect to Salvation. And that our care in advancing this Doctrine might be the more remarkable, we in these our Theses have set in the forefront our Propositions concerning God's special Intention.
John Hales, Golden Remains, of the ever memorable Mr. John Hales (London: Printed by T. B. for G. Pawlet at the sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane, 1688), 584–585. Quoted in Stephen Alan Strehle, The Extent of the Atonement Within the Theological Systems of the Sixteenth and Seventheenth Centuries (Th.D. Dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1980), 217n.2.
See also my post on "Godfrey on the Concerns of the Moderates at [the Synod of] Dort." He wrote:
This moderate concern focused on a particular doctrinal point: the importance of the universal offer of the Gospel. The Christian preacher must be able to declare the offer of salvation unreservedly to all who would believe. The moderates claimed that the sincere offer of the Gospel could only be undergirded by a broad statement on the sufficiency of Christ's death. Only such a statement, the moderates argued, would insure the continuity of the Reformed Church with the patristic and medieval history of the Church and guard against any charge of sectarianism.
Labels: Synod of Dort, The Atonement, The Gospel Offer
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) on Deut. 5:28–29 and God's True and Earnest Desire
3. God's approbation of their request. (1.) He commends what they said, v. 28. They spoke it to Moses, but God took notice of it; for there is not a word in our tongue but he knows it. He acknowledges, They have well said. Their owning the necessity of a mediator to deal between them and God was well said. Their desire to receive further directions from God by Moses, and their promise to observe what directions should be given them, were well said. And what is well said shall have its praise with God, and should have with us. What is good, as far as it goes, let it be commended. (2.) He wishes they were but sincere in it: O that there were such a heart in them! v. 29. [1.] Such a heart as they should have, a heart to fear God, and keep his commandments for ever. Note, The God of heaven is truly and earnestly desirous of the welfare and salvation of poor sinners. He has given abundant proof that he is so: he gives us time and space to repent, by his mercies invites us to repentance, and waits to be gracious; he has sent his Son to redeem us, published a general offer of pardon and life, promised his Spirit to those that pray for him, and has said and sworn that he has no pleasure in the ruin of sinners. [2.] Such a heart as they now had, or one would think they had. Note, It would be well with many if there were always such a heart in them as there seems to be sometimes, when they are under conviction of sin, or the rebukes of Providence, or when they come to look death in the face: How gracious will they be when these pangs come upon them! O that there were always such a heart in them! (3.) He appoints Moses to be his messenger to them, to receive the law from his mouth and to communicate it to them, v. 31. Here the matter was settled by consent of both parties that God should hence-forward speak to us by men like ourselves, by Moses and the prophets, by the apostles and the evangelists, and, if we believe not these, neither should we be persuaded though God should speak to us as he did to Israel at Mount Sinai, or send expresses from heaven or hell.
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson, 1991), 243.
HT: Bob Gonzales
Labels: Ezek. 18:23; 33:11, Matthew Henry, The Gospel Offer, The Will of God
Nathanael Vincent (1638–1697) on the Cords of God's Love and Romans 2:4
7. Not only his Word, and Ministers, and Spirit, but also his Providences call upon you to turn to God. Both his mercies and his judgements do press this exhortation to conversion. The streams of goodness that continually run towards you, and which sometimes swell and overflow abundantly, do signifie that 'tis your wisdom to forsake the broken cisterns, and come to the fountain of living waters. His mercies speak this language, that 'tis good to return into, and obtain an interest in the Father of them. Then these mercies will be in mercy. Cords of love are cast about you on purpose to draw you unto the God of love and peace. Oh that you would run to him! The riches of his goodness are unlocked and discovered, that hereby you may be led unto repentance, Rom. 2.4.
Nathanael Vincent, The Conversion of a Sinner Explained and Applied (London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Golden Bible on London-Bridge, under the Gate, 1669), 88.
Labels: Nathaniel Vincent, Rom. 2:4, The Goodness of God, The Love of God, The Will of God
John Trapp (1601–1669) on Christ Begging
For mine head is filled with dew] i.e. I have suffered much for thy sake, and waited by leisure a long while: and must I now go look my lodging? Dost though thus requite (repulse) thy Lord O thou foolish woman and unwise? Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Woe unto thee O Jerusalem: wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? [Jer. 13:27] It is the ingratitude that makes the Saints sins so heinous; which otherwise would be far less then other mens; fith [sic] his temptations are stronger, and his resistance is greater. Oh when God's grace shall come suing to us, nay kneeling to us; when Christ shall come with Hat in hand, and stand bare-headed as here, and that in foul weather too, begging acceptance, and beseeching us to be reconciled, and we will not, what an inexcusable fault is this!
John Trapp, Solomonis ΠΑΝΑΡΕΤΟS: Or, a Commentarie Upon the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs (London: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Bellamie, 1650), 3:271.
God's grace even kneels to us. [comment on 2 Cor. 5:20]
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the New Testament, 2nd. edition (London: Printed by R. W. and are to be sold by Nath. Ekins, at the Gun in Pauls Church-yard, 1656), 716.
Trapp is one among many sovereign grace advocates that I have documented who have used this begging metaphor. The other names include Augustine, Hugh Latimer, Samuel Rutherford [Westminster divine], Thomas Manton, Sydrach Simpson [Westminster divine], Robert Harris [Westminster divine], Theophilus Gale, Isaac Ambrose, Stephen Charnock, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, John Shower, William Gurnall, George Swinnock, Ralph Venning, Daniel Burgess, Samuel Willard, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Davies, Andrew Gray, Ralph Erskine, Charles Spurgeon, Thomas Chalmers, Walter Chantry, Erroll Hulse and John MacArthur.
Labels: God Begging, John Trapp
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Wednesday's letters: Make sure money turns into meals
Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Education, serves a school snack to students before a press conference announcing a 20-per-cent increase in funding for school nutrition programs at St. Jerome Catholic Elementary School in Edmonton, on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. Ian Kucerak / Postmedia
Re. “Province taps non-profits for nutrition program,” Nov. 29
I hope there will be an audit of what actually happens to these funds. I was peripherally involved in a non-profit back in the mid-1990s that was given a significant grant for AIDS education.
The non-profit was given the money, but there was overspending on items such as executive travel expenses and conferences, and then the AIDS money got rolled into general funds and nothing was ever said about it again. Another executive came on, documents were lost, et cetera. The debt was erased, and a significant amount of funding on AIDS education disappeared forever.
That’s how it’s done, folks. Let’s see how this actually rolls out.
M.J. Thill, Edmonton
What happened to Kenney’s promise?
Didn’t the premier give some sort of undertaking that front-line services wouldn’t be targeted? Promise made; promise broken.
John Wodak, Sherwood Park
CPP isn’t broken; Don’t fix it
Re. “Pension changes benefit members and taxpayers,” Opinion, Nov. 26
While reading Travis Toews’ editorial I kept wondering if the minister is trying to sell Albertans a bill of goods on the possibility of pulling out of the Canada Pension Plan.
The minister argues “Albertans make a disproportionate contribution to the CPP.” Presumably, this is based on the argument that Alberta has younger workers and pays more to the CPP than they receive in benefits. This argument is based on the fallacy that demographics are static.
If Alberta’s carbon-based economy does not recover, then thousands of the younger workforce could leave, resulting in an increasingly older population that over time may not be able to sustain an Alberta pension plan. Moreover, an Alberta pension plan could deter much needed labour from coming to Alberta.
The minister claims that “AIMCo has provided an annual return of 9.9 per cent” over the past 10 years. If the substantial loss in 2008-2009 is included, it is highly improbable.
What is needed from the minister is less salesmanship, more transparency and recognition of the possibility that less-than-rosy economic scenarios may be in the offing. The CPP is not broken. Please don’t fix it.
Jay Smith, Edmonton
Politicians’ work can change lives
The tragedy that occurred on the steps of the provincial legislature should be a very loud and mournful call to all politicians that the work they do does not take place in a political vacuum.
Their words, actions and legislations have real-world consequences. The stroke of a pen can have a ripple effect that can result in life-changing consequences. I offer whatever comfort my thoughts can to the family and suggest to all politicians to tone down the divisive rhetoric and make a more genuine effort to what is best for people over party. “May no one be less good for having come within my influence.”
Laurin Lamothe, Barrhead
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Tuesday's letters: Vision Zero campaign ineffectual
Your letters for Jan. 18
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Kundiman to offer first Fiction Intensive
To "create community between writers across genres," Kundiman is sponsoring its first weekend Fiction Intensive. The goals of this Intensive are to "create a space of generative writing and contemplation on craft for Asian American writers wishing to take their study of fiction to the next level."
You can visit the website at http://kundiman.org/fiction. The faculty this year are: Catherine Chung and Porochista Khakpour. Kundiman is a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American poetry.
Sone Vannathy: Muay Thai champion
Recently Unified Weapons Master debuted a new armor designed to be flexible, lightweight but effective in unarmed combat situations, or about as close as you can get to being Batman in real life. But more interestingly, one of the people they had to test this new armour system was Sone "The Arch Angel" Vannathy, a Lao Muay Thai fighter living in New Zealand. You can find a number of videos of his fights on youtube, and scattered around the web. I'll try to see if we can get an interview with him later for Little Laos on the Prairie.
[Poem] Swallowing the Moon
Some see an anonymous man or a thief of sheep.
Some a goddess like Hina-i-ka-malama or Chang’e.
Perhaps a princess of rabbits or a magician’s jealous head,
Her face painted with bells.
Cain.
A criminal from the Book of Numbers.
A cook. A witch. A home for the dead among those stones.
A zoo hungers
With bellies for cosmic lights:
Nak, lung, serpentine Bakunawa.
Wolves, frogs and old gods seeking a bite!
We chase with fireworks, bold arrows, bullets, hoots,
Our clamor of mortals who wish to journey to heaven
And return eternally
Mischievous ravens and spiders,
Master marksmen and demigods.
Defenders, uncontested, unsung.
Become more than lucky monkeys with fire and pens.
From DEMONSTRA (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013)
Labels: DEMONSTRA, Horror, Laos, Poem, Poetry, speculative poetry
CNN Travel: Black magic traditions of Thailand
A few years back, CNN did a quick overview of superstitions and beliefs regarding the supernatural in Thailand. While far from comprehensive, it may provide a good introduction for many who are just starting to understand the culture and who are looking for interesting ideas for horror stories set in the region.
Labels: ghost, Horror, speculative literature, superstition
Building a meaningful Lao youth education program
My article on building a meaning full Lao youth education program is up at the Twin Cities Daily Planet this week. In Minnesota there are at least five components that we've strived to fund each year to varying degrees of success. Sometimes only a few elements were able to be fully-funded or implemented but it's a model we felt had a strong possibility of success.
We'd love to hear what other approaches you think are important, and more importantly, successful for improving students academic performance in school. Be a part of the dialogue!
Haikus for Gambia: Celebrating 49 years of The Gambia independence.
Today is the 49th year of Gambian independence in Africa, and Lao Minnesotan poet, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay and I both had haikus featured at Haikus for Gambia as 49 Minnesotan poets joined in the international celebration.
The project was organized by Ibe Kaba, who has frequently collaborated with both of them on performances and other community building activities.
The Gambia is a West African nation surrounded by Senegal, except for a short strip of Atlantic coastline. The smallest country on mainland Africa. Farming, fishing and tourism are its main trades since declaring independence from on February 18th, 1965 from the United Kingdom. The Gambia was a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, from which it withdrew last year in October, 2013. About a 1/3rd live below the International Poverty Line. Four poets with roots in The Gambia include: Lenrie Peters, Tijan Sallah, Sally Singhateh and Phillis Wheatley.
This year marks the 230th year since the death of Wheatley,whose most famous book was Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (published 241 years ago 1773) Twenty years old at the time, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and, notably, only the second woman in America, to publish a book.Wheatley is know to have written only one poem regarding her journey as a slave and her roots, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" but many consider this a pivotal poem in the creation of African American literature.
In Wheatley's story, and the story of The Gambia, we can see a remarkable journey that's been, and yet will be.
[Poem] The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa, Part IV
Zombie Kabuki in Seattle.
It’s all the rage.
They love their coffee in this city,
But she recalls the snakes and bombies,
And dilapidated dinosaur museums of old Savannakhet
Whenever she idles through.
“How many battles did it take to write The Art of War?”
She debates with the foxy lady
Who’s secretly a black magic woman born to bewilder
Like a bard’s imperfect actor upon the stage
Or a stone-faced troll beneath a bridge
No gruff goat has ever known.
The world has its Wendigo, Shoggoths and Jabberwocky,
But winged Kinnaly remain aliens to a galaxy
Hammering a new apocalypse
For beautiful children who will grow up strangers
To the inked page,
To bricks, to mortar, to boundaries.
If she had kept the first camera obscura of Mozi,
Ms. Mannivongsa might have changed the cosmos,
But what is an attachment to memories
Or all of these shiny electric brains?
She prefers the dance of the mermaid and the monkey
Free from modernity.
Labels: DEMONSTRA, Horror, Poem, Poetry, speculative literature, speculative poetry
2014 Horror Writers Association Events of Note (In-Progress)
The Horror Writers Association recently noted the following events coming up in 2014 that will be of interest to its members, writers and others with an interest in horror and speculative literature.This list will be expanded as more event dates are confirmed and opportunities present themselves.
Toronto Comicon
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Monsterpalooza
Marriott Burbank Hotel and Convention Center
APRIL 12,13
LA Times Festival of Books
USC campus
DFW Writer's Conference 14'
World Horror Convention
(Bram Stoker Awards Banquet)
Scarefest 2014
The Stanley Hotel Writer's Retreat
Estes Valley Public Library
Should you wish to participate in any of these events please contact Angel Hiott at angelamhiott@gmail.com
[Poem] Her Body, My Monuments
Fierce as a thirsty Nak
In April
Nestled in a dress
The hue of sleepy That Dam
On Chantha Khoumane
Her lissome stride
Awakes dreamers
The colors of the world,
The children of rivers,
Our sandalwood city
Where talaats greet the moon,
Phi dance with dreams
And the future begins to stir
Not with a yawn, but her laugh,
A gaze
That has known stars the way
Others know flowers.
From On The Other Side Of The Eye, 2007
Labels: Laos, Poem, Poetry, speculative poetry
[Poem] The Needs of Romance
There‟s a Lao boy who needs poems
To win over the lovely sao Lao down
His street before the sun
And night changes her outfit
To the shade of a slinky summer moon.
The bookstores there can feed him
The old standbys,
But she knows
The warbling of the dead
When she hears it,
So that‟s not going to get anyone
Any further
Than a closed door the color of lonely.
He needs words to tell her:
Every road in his life leads only to her.
Every hair on her head is a monument
To a beautiful nation, and every inch
Of her perfect skin is a song that ends in love.
He needs ways to praise the marvels that are
Her hands, her arms, her every limb
That beckons him: Explore
The great jewel of her bright life,
A fierce dancing fire alive to his touch.
He wants to feel his breath with hers near
The nocturnal edge of eternity and its vast oceans,
So pure and feminine against his continents of hope.
Slipping rhythmically between the great arcs and curves of
Her magnificent Laotian body, he needs words
Profound, deep, relentless as the memory of old countries
Where this must have been so much easier to say
Than today.
But where is he going to find these words,
If no one will write them?
From Tanon Sai Jai, 2009
Labels: Laos, Poem, Poetry
Upcoming Doing Literature Discussion: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
On Saturday, March 8th, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, the ongoing "Doing Literature" discussion group will meet at the Hemet Public Library at 300 East Latham Avenue to discuss the novel Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson.
First published in 1980, Housekeeping was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. Time magazine listed the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
The tale revolves around three generations of women and a meditation on literal and figurative housekeeping. The discussion is free, and while it is helpful to have read the novel, it is not necessary to participate. Interested participants can also visit the website at http://hemetliterature.tumblr.com and on twitter @hemetliterature if you want to get additional updates and posts.
"Five Flavors" nominated for a Rhysling Award
My poem, "Five Flavors," which first appeared in Expanded Horizons in December, 2013, has been nominated for a Rhysling Award (Long form). I want to express my deep thanks to those who nominated me for consideration.
"Five Flavors" was inspired by the Sabaidee Thai Grille in Sacramento. If you get a chance, you should stop by. This poem is also featured in DEMONSTRA, from Innsmouth Free Press.
As a little background about the awards: Nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: “Best Long Poem” and “Best Short Poem”. All nominated works must have been published during the preceding calendar year of the awards year.
The Rhysling Awards are put to a final vote by the membership of the SFPA selection from all nominated works, presented in the Rhysling Anthology. The winning works are regularly reprinted in the Nebula Awards Anthology from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., and are considered in the SF/F/H/Spec. field to be the equivalent in poetry of the awards given for "prose" work— achievement awards given to poets by the writing peers of their own field of literature.
Labels: Poetry, sfpa, speculative poetry
Saymoukda Vongsay featured in 1-Minute Theater Festival
Lao American writer Saymoukda Vongsay announced that her work is among 50 playwrights who will be presenting during the 2nd Annual One Minute Play Festival in Minneapolis being presented by presented by Walking Shadow Theatre Company & Mixed Blood Theatre.
It will take place from February 15 – 16, 2014, with performances starting at 8:00 P.M. at Mixed Blood Theatre (Located at 1501 South 4th Street.)
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is America’s largest and longest running short form theatre company in the country, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea."
The organizers explain:
"#1MPF is barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities through dialogue and consensus building sessions and a performance of many moments. #1MPF works in partnership with theatres sharing playwright or community-specific missions across the country. #1MPF creates locally sourced playwright-focused community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion by representing local cultures of playwrights of different age, gender, race, cultures, and points of career. The work attempts to reflect the theatrical landscape of local artistic communities by creating a dialogue between the collective conscious and the individual voice."
Tickets are $15.
Vongsay has not indicated what her play will be about, but Twin Cities residents most recently packed the house for her acclaimed play "Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals."
Saymoukda Vongsay is a Lao American poet and playwright whose passion is arts advocacy. Her work has been published by Altra Magazine, The Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, St. Paul Almanac, Lao American Magazine, and Bakka Literary Journal, to name a few. Vongsay writes the series Pushing the Pen, published weekly in the Asian American Press, interviewing literary artists from across the nation.
She has taught and performed spoken word poetry from the Midwest to the East and West coasts, as well as in Italy and Japan. Saymoukda is a co-founding member of the Unit Collective of Emerging Playwrights of Color and an active participant with Pillsbury House Theater’s Chicago Avenue Project. She is a 2011 Jerome Foundation/Mu Performing Arts' New Eyes Theater Fellow, winner of the 2010 Alfred C. Carey Prize in Spoken Word Poetry (NY), and an advisory board member of the 2010 MPLS Asian Film Festival. She recently presented the full-length play, Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals, a commission by Mu Performing Arts. Saymoukda is pursuing an interdisciplinary Masters degree in Public Policy, Social Work, and Creative Writing at the U of MN.
Labels: speculative theater, Theater
She Walks in Shadows: All-woman anthology inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
I had the distinct honor of being the first person to donate this exceptional crowdfunding campaign for an all-new anthology of stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, She Walks In Shadows. This anthology will be produced by Innsmouth Free Press, maker of bizarre books, (including my latest book DEMONSTRA) and delivered in the fall of 2015.
As the editors explain: "Do girls just not like to play with squids? That's the question an editor asked on Facebook. What followed was a long discussion on Lovecraftian fiction and women. And the need for an answer.
The answer: Women do write Lovecraftian fiction. We aim to prove it with your support. More than a dozen female authors have gathered to write original Lovecraftiana and place it in a single volume under the title She Walks In Shadows."
Already, they've secured some amazing women writers for the project who will be writing stories based on various women established within the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and many writers since. They also have a number of wondrous perks and rewards for those who back the project at higher levels, such as a custom ukulele from the talented Karina Melendez:
But long story short: This is a great project that will break some amazing ground by the time it's all done and over, but they need to raise $8K to really do it right. If we can throw over $200,000 for a board game based on the Cthulhu Mythos, $8K really shouldn't be impossible to clear.
Let's make it happen for them! They have until March 13th to raise the funds.
Labels: cthulhu, Horror, Innsmouth Free Press, lovecraft, speculative literature
[DEMONSTRA] Idle Fears
In the shade of a Cali wat Lao I debate with Ajahn Anan
What the secret Rakshasa Sutra must really look like.
In Lao we call them Nyak or Yuk or Yak. It depends.
When they’re hungry, what do names matter?
I ask: “Does a zombie have Buddha nature?”
He informs me the mindless craving for brains
Complicates things.
He suspects Frankenstein’s Monster is closer to Nibbana
But don’t quote him on that.
An American werewolf in Luang Prabang
Would stand no chance against a real Lao weretiger.
Both should still try to observe the five precepts as best they can.
If he was going to make a special wat for robots
He might name it Wat Lao Robobuddharam
But they would surely have to learn
To get beyond artificial binary worldviews.
“You aren’t going to turn this into a poem, are you?”
He asks.
“That’s nothing to be afraid of,” I assure him.
You can get a copy of DEMONSTRA through Innsmouth Free Press.
Labels: DEMONSTRA, Horror, speculative poetry
New poem to be part of Haikus for Gambia
Recently, my good friend Ibe Kaba invited 49 local Twin Cities writers to write a haiku each for Gambia, and on her 49th independence anniversary, February 18, 2014. My work is among those featured.
According to Ibe, we'll metaphorically "throw the poems in the air and have them land everywhere! On billboards, the radio, in newspapers, the Internet...everywhere! It’s as simple as one haiku, as big as 49 of them! As simple as one small country wrapped around the Gambian River, as big as changing the African narrative!"
Saymoukda Vongsay, Guante, Carolyn Holbrook and Rodrigo Sanchez Chavarria are among those represented.
The main website is located at: http://www.haikusforgambia.com
Lao Poet's "Light" wins National Canadian Literary Award
Dr. Ketmani Kouanchao just finished a write-up of Souvankham Thammavongsa's big win of the 2014 Canadian Broadcasting Company's Bookie Award for Best Book of Canadian Poetry in 2013. Thammavongsa's 3rd book, Light, (Pedlar Press, 2013) received over 40% of the final vote from over 1,000 voters internationally.
Ripping Time, Rocking Space: An interview with Ross E. Lockhart
Last year during the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Los Angeles I had the good fortune to meet author, anthologist and editor Ross E. Lockhart at the famous Whale & Ale.
I was quite familiar with his 2011 anthology, The Book of Cthulhu and its 2012 follow-up, The Book of Cthulhu II, both from Night Shade Press (alas, now defunct). In 2013, his anthology Tales of Jack the Ripper came out from Word Horde Press (and is currently under consideration for the final ballot of the Stokers this month). Lazy Fascist Press also put out his rock-and-roll novel Chick Bassist. Ross has been a very busy, very, very naughty boy.
If it's weird and unusual, Ross Lockhart probably knows about it. He holds degrees in English from Sonoma State University (BA) and SFSU (MA) with an extensive background in horror, fantasy and science fiction editing for small presses. As we get ready for the next H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, I had a chance to interview him about his work.
Tell us a little about yourself. How did you get started on all of this? What was one of the hardest things for you to learn?
I mention in my introduction to The Book of Cthulhu that I stumbled into discovering Lovecraft through Erol Otus's artwork in the AD&D book Deities and Demigods, and even though I'm no longer a gamer (I simply don't have the sort of attention span that handles hours'-long gaming sessions well), I do continue to draw inspiration from gaming circles as well as literary ones. As for hard lessons: Get it in writing! Always!
It varies a bit, but "The Festival" and "The Cats of Ulthar" are perennial favorites, and I never seem to tire of the intricate puzzle box that is "The Call of Cthulhu."
What's your newest book about?
My last book was Tales of Jack the Ripper, an anthology examining the weird fictional legacy of arguably the world's best-known serial murderer. Next up will be Children of Old Leech, which I am co-editing with Justin Steele. Coming this summer, CoOL is a tribute to Laird Barron's carnivorous cosmos, with a lineup which should excite and enthrall most serious seekers after horror.
What's your advice for beginning writers who want to write a story set in the Cthulhu Mythos that's really true to Lovecraft's vision?
Dig deeper than Lovecraft. His essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" makes for an outstanding reading list, and don't neglect the works of recent post-Lovecraftian Mythos authors, many of whom you will find in my own anthologies The Book of Cthulhu I and II.
What's a project you really hope to take on in the next few years? I'll be continuing to grow my publishing company Word Horde and releasing killer, must-have books and stories by the best storytellers in the business. And some things I've got cooking are dream projects, so stay tuned!
Where else can we find you throughout the year? I live in Petaluma, CA, a city that still holds on to its small-town charm and has a lot of parades. Typically, I'm in the park with my dog or at the local bookstore. I hit what West Coast conventions I can, and any excuse to visit Portland is a good one.
What's your favorite music to listen to as you write your books? I listen to a lot of older jazz and swing when I'm working, particularly Monk and Mingus, and I'm convinced Blossom Dearie's "Rhode Island is Famous for You" is secretly about HPL. If I'm cooking, Black Sabbath is my go-to kitchen music. If I'm driving, I listen to a far more eclectic playlist: Recent favorites have included Dreams in the Witch House, Djinn and Miskatonic, Ghost, Grimes, Nacho Picasso and Blue Sky Black Death, The Slow Poisoner, Ol Time Moonshine, and The Ziggurat.
Be sure to visit Ross E. Lockhart at his website: http://www.haresrocklots.com
Labels: Horror, HPLFF, speculative literature
Thao Worra Day 2014!
Continuing our annual tradition since 2007:
We're rapidly approaching February 14th, and some of you don't like the Romantic Candy-Card Industrial Complex. So, as always, I present the annual reminders of your options for alternate February 14th occasions to observe.
You can always celebrate these anniversaries:
1929: The St Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago.
1950: USSR and China sign peace treaty.
1963: First successful kidney transplant.
February 14th is also the birthday of:
1766: Thomas Malthus, the misanthropic British philosopher.
1817: Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist.
1819: Christopher Sholes, American inventor of the typewriter.
Once again, should none of these strike your fancy, I hereby endorse the continued celebration of Thao Worra Day.Much as in the spirit of Festivus, the festival for the rest of us, you too may engage in the following activities to mark Thao Worra Day in good spirits and much amusement:
Send a nice note to someone you have just met or haven't talked to in a while.
Declare yourself Emperor of the World (or Empress) and see if anyone notices. But you have to give back everyone's stuff by the end of the day. Or before the cops come.
Treat yourself to a nice meal with someone you genuinely like, but in a completely non-romantic way. I totally approve.
Make sure all your electronic equipment is fully recharged, that it may go well for you.
Read a short poem out loud, even if no one is looking. No, it doesn't have to be one of mine.
Leave two chairs for my and a guest at your desk or table. For we may come by. But don't hold it against us if we don't. We do have a busy schedule, you know.
Though Thao Worra Day is not for everyone, it is free for all to choose and participate in. If you do so choose to mark it, let me know how it goes!
[Poem] Pastimes
Unamerican football is the national sport of Laos.
But they’re open to other games, too,
From top wars on the smoking peaks near Saisombun
To volleyball sets in Tai Dam villas.
The hopeful children know
Their own version of roshambo
And sepaktakraw,
Their limbs wild arcs and fire,
Tiny tornadoes upon the green.
But it’s difficult to get a satisfying game
Of chess or dominoes out here anymore.
Golf will never catch on in riddled Phonsavan,
And cross-country track and field games are
Ill-advised. Especially with cleats.
Crosswords can be resolved but are rarely seen,
While cryptograms fuel grave suspicions,
No matter how benign their modern code.
Hide and Seek seems particularly pointless
In the blasted zones of disjoint and hole.
A novice monk named Boun Lom
Is playing tic-tac-toe with me
In the shade of his struggling wat,
Trying to get the upper hand,
His humble zero in the center ever thwarted
In a game he doesn’t suspect he can’t win.
~The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: Our Dinner With Cluster Bombs, 2003
[Exhibit] Arena 1: Ghosts
If you're in the Santa Monica area this month, be sure to catch the ARENA 1 Gallery presentation of GHOSTS – a group exhibition, curated by Michael EB Detto and Sayon Syprasoeuth, which gathers new work from six artists exploring the aftermath of the catastrophe, the genocide, or the war. It will run until March 1st at 3026 Airport Avenue in Santa Monica, California.
ARENA 1 is an exhibition space founded by Santa Monica Art Studios directors Yossi Govrin and Sherry Frumkin. Based in an historic hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, ARENA 1 invites internationally known as well as newly established curators to develop innovative and compelling exhibitions.
For this exhibition, the curators ask:
"How should we treat the Ghosts each of these leaves behind – in real life, as metaphor, as a tool? The very own substantiality each one thing in itself exhibits, its innate properties, its relation to subject, time space, and language are altogether qualities which suddenly start to dissipate when we have to deal with ghosts. It is hard even to agree on one word for them: there are specters, phantoms and wreath, genie and spirit, the apparition and many other denominations to describe a phenomenon that tends to blur the demarcation line between subject and object, past and presence, here and there."
Initiated by Michael Detto’s project “Cambodian Ghosts”, Sayon Syprasoeuth and Michael Detto invite artists to a dialogue about their art and the ghosts of the past, and to present their work in this context. There will be an exhibition walkthrough and conversation with the artists discussing the themes (amongst others) ethics and art, beauty, style and the challenges of an aesthetics of evil, and about the ghost in art. Be sure to see it, if you can.
Labels: art, Cambodia, exhibition, ghost, Horror, Laos, speculative art, visual art
A Mysterious Dragon Boat of Indochina, 1930
While conducting some research for a number of Steampunk projects coming up, this unusual image was spotted on auction in Ebay in France, a dragon boat design in Indochina, from ca. 1930. This one has a significant bit of curiosity to it because there's so little known about it.
It's such a distinctive design, but so far there appear to be no other photos or references to it in the usual sources, other than this one image. This is surprising, but hopefully we'll find out more about its history and ultimate fate during those turbulent years. For now, we must content ourselves with its beauty and the joy of its mystery.
Labels: indochina, Laos, Steampunk, vietnam
Ask a Poet: 2/2-8/14
So, this week I had a few interesting questions from writers and poets from as far away as Kenya to around the corner. I thought it might be interesting to share a few of them with you, and a brief version of my responses, to spare all of you the more long-winded version the original questioner endured.
One thought that I've particularly been mulling over was the realization: I'm not as concerned about a poet's verse following the rules as I am about their verse following their souls.
But on to the questions:
I've been sending my work out, but I'm getting so many rejection letters, it's depressing. Do you ever get those? How do you handle it?
I've gotten them. I still get them. In fact, I got a very snippy rejection this week, from a journal who shall remain nameless. But you develop a thick skin about this sort of thing. You often should bear in mind that the poem may not be the problem, it's whether it fits with the journal in question.
Over the long-term I always expected that a poet's career naturally includes getting enough rejections to wallpaper a room. Or what kind of poet are you? The Michael Jordan quote applies here: "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
I'd feel suspicious if I always got accepted, because that would tell me I'm not taking any risks. Of course, I'd also feel suspicious if I ALWAYS got rejected because there may be something I need to look at about that poem or my process, because even for the worst poets, CONSTANT rejection is pretty rare. I don't want to suggest there's a journal for EVERY poem, but there are homes for a great many of them. One's job as a poet is to find a good home for as many good poems as you can.
Do they appreciate poetry in your country? In mine, it's seen at best as a hobby, certainly not a profession.
Well, in the old days in Laos, poets were considered "The Eyes of the City." Lately, in communities around the world, it can certainly feel like we're keeping a lot of them shut.
But for me, I don't see poetry as either a hobby or a profession, but a state of being.
The self is such an onion. Peel away all of these layers we have. At my core, if you take away my language, age, name, nationality, so many different markers of being, and I'm fairly certain, poet would be one of the last things that's left.
You've been published around the world. When did you first feel you were ready to be published abroad?
I often tell emerging writers, don't be afraid to seek an international readership. For me, it actually came up because I was having so many difficulties being printed in the US, even by journals that were supposedly seeking poems and writing from Asian Americans or from local residents. I got fed up, and decided to send some poems to several journals abroad and got accepted there.
London Ghetto Poets, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Poetry Niederngasse in Switzerland were among the first foreign journals to print my work, and I think that's an even more validating experience than publication in many US journals, because your work has touched someone whose cultural frame is potentially so much more different than yours.
So I say: Submit to journals abroad. You learn a lot that can improve your writing back home. There's some people who think you have to build up your writing domestically first, and that has worked for some writers. But I don't believe in that approach, myself.
And finally, a Lovecraftian question:
Why are so many people attracted to H.P. Lovecraft's stories where humans are a tiny, insignificant mistake?
I find that these stories resonate most with Americans as a really mind-blowing proposition. It's a very big contrast to their literary traditions that position them as the center of the Universe. Others suggest that Lovecraft was a nihilist. But for me, I've found the work interesting because it dovetails with a more realistic assessment of humanity's place within the great chain of being. This is a mindset that you can also often find within certain philosophies and artistic movements in Asia. Although some believe we're apex entities compared to some forms of grass, bacteria, and now, apparently, immortal jellyfish, well, when the stars are right, you tend to see things in perspective.
Labels: Horror, Poetry, speculative poetry, writing
Discussing Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" in Hemet
On Saturday, February 8th, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, the ongoing "Doing Literature" discussion group will meet at the Hemet Public Library at 300 East Latham Avenue to discuss Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Join us to consider why this has remained such an enduring work of 20th century literature! The discussion is free, and while it is helpful to have read the novel, it is not necessary to participate. Also as a reminder: We have a microblog up at http://hemetliterature.tumblr.com and on twitter @hemetliterature if you want to get additional updates and posts.
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Igbo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.
Born in 1930, Achebe aimed to depict his culture as it had existed before colonization. In its own words, on its own terms. This includes the oral traditions and customs, the sense of guardian spirits and other beliefs. When it was originally written, this was a very radical suggestion and one hailed as innovative.
Things Fall Apart was unflinching in showing the uneasy balance between things within the traditional culture that needed change even as the novel critiqued colonization. It did not romanticize either the pre-colonial or the colonial era. For writers in many cultures, this demonstrated an approach that many have since sought to emulate in whole or in part to create a vibrant body of literary work that can stand the test of time.
Throughout the remainder of his literary career, Achebe's novels would focus on various traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christianity and the West, as well as examining African values. Achebe's style draws upon the oral traditions of his people. This can be seen in the straightforward narration and incorporation of Igbo folk stories, proverbs, and oratory methods. Achebe's body of work also includes short stories, children's books, and essays. From 2009 until his death in 2013 at the age of 82, he served as a professor at Brown University in the United States.
Best American Poetry: Reading Tarot for Writing
This week, writer Benebell Wen has been holding forth on the intersections between Tarot and literary practice. This Friday is her final entry and she's done a very nice job all week of showing different ways you can understand the connections and the possibilities between the Tarot and creative writing.
Of particular note is that one of my poems, "Leuk Lao" gets a nice nod here. Be sure to check it out!
Over the years I've written more than a few poems regarding different elements of the Tarot and other methods of divination, including a few that show up in my latest book DEMONSTRA, notably "The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa." Benebell Wen definitely took an interesting approach in examining why poets may want to consider adding the Tarot to their repertoire of creative techniques from time to time.
Lao typically used other forms of divination, soothsaying and divination than the Tarot, but I wonder what a Lao version of such a deck would look like. Would we swap out the major arcana, how would we interpret other symbols more common to Europe than Asia, etc. Perhaps that will be a side project for the coming year. If there can be Tarot decks for Hello, Kitty, the Cthulhu Mythos, and Steampunk, let alone any other number of topics, I would certainly suggest Lao culture could be represented within a traditional deck.
Benebell Wen is the pseudonym for a certain literary journal editor, writer, corporate lawyer, and fashion designer. Benebell is also a professional tarot reader and has been a practitioner for over 15 years. Her book, Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Tarot for Personal Growth will be coming out Fall, 2014 from North Atlantic Books. She is a mentor and senior reader with the American Tarot Association. Read more about her work at www.benebellwen.com. When she is not practicing tarot or dabbling in any of the other areas of interest, she is a feng shui practitioner and student of the I Ching. She resides in Oakland, California.
Meanwhile, I suppose I really should see about getting one of my poems in their main anthology one of these days.
Call for submissions: THE SEA IS OURS: TALES OF STEAMPUNK SOUTHEAST ASIA
Rosarium Publishing has announced an exciting new venture, an anthology of Southeast Asian steampunk stories set in the retro-future that never was:
"THE SEA IS OURS is an anthology of Southeast Asian steampunk. We are looking for steampunk stories that are set in Southeast Asia (SEA), or secondary worlds that evoke Southeast Asia, with Southeast Asian protagonists, in any of the countries that make up the region: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. We are seeking historically and technologically-innovative stories.
Steampunk, for the purposes of this anthology, is defined as an aesthetic that combines technofantasy, anachronism, retro-futurism, an alternate history/world, and the evocation of an incipient industrial revolution. How does the steampunk aesthetic look, feel, sound, smell, or taste like in these regions? What kind of technologies would grow in resource-rich SEAsia? What do our historical figures, our Parameswaras, Trung sisters, Lapu-Lapus, do in such a world?
Submissions are encouraged to explore various levels and kinds of technologies, not just steam technology. Locals myths can also find their way into these stories; what does the mix of technology and fantasy look like in such worlds? We welcome exploration of all kinds of stories: from the extraordinary to the everyday. What changes does accelerated technology create for the local landscape and societies? If historical events are given a steampunk twist, how do their outcomes change, or stay the same?"
You can view the full guidelines for the anthology here: http://rosariumpublishing.com/rosarium-the-sea-is-ours.html. Stories are due June 30th, which will be coming up fast!
Labels: Steampunk
Vintage poster: Exposition Coloniale, Marseille, 1922
An interesting promotional poster for the Exposition Coloniale in Marseille, 1922. In this particular case, illustrating the replica they made of Angkor Wat and a traditional dancer from Indochine. This of course, could be one reason why the Lao poet is traveling in Europe during the timeline of the upcoming re-release of Chaosium's Horror on the Orient Express.
Here we have another example of the Exposition Coloniale promotional poster that was also used in 1922. This one features a Lao woman, and if you look closely, a traditional Lao-style Buddha with his arms in the distinctive "Calling for Rain" position that is found almost exclusively in the region.
Here, we have an example of the front page coverage of the Exposition Coloniale in 1922 by Le Petit Journal Illustre, which was particularly enamored with the Cambodian exhibit.
Labels: art, Call of Cthulhu, Cambodia, history, Laos, speculative literature, Steampunk
DEMONSTRA reviewed at Martian Migraine Press
A big thanks goes to Scott R. Jones who recently gave DEMONSTRA (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013) a glowing review at Martian Migraine Press in "Bending, Curving, Humming Cosmic: Bryan Thao Worra’s Sublime DEMONSTRA"
Among the highlights of his review:
"DEMONSTRA is clever, insightful, compassionate, often funny, sublime. Worra brings a very human eye to the world he sees, and that world is filled with, yes, Lovecraftian critters and deities, rampaging kai-ju, giant robots, and the occasional zombie, but also the cultural warping of the Lao diaspora, the god-forms and spirit beings of Laotian belief systems, wrestling sages, surreal road trips, and the meathook realities of wars public, secret, and internal."
Thanks again, Scott! I appreciate it when a reviewer really gets it, especially when it comes to poetry.
Scott R. Jones' fiction and poetry has been published in Broken City Mag, Innsmouth Magazine, and Cthulhu Haiku 2. He is the author of the short horror story collection SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD and THE ECDYSIASTS, a book of literary flash fiction. He’s currently polishing up a book of essays that detail an auto-ethnographical approach to R’lyehian spirituality, When The Stars Are Right, due out in early 2014 from Martian Migraine Press. You can follow him on twitter at: @PimpMyShoggoth
And remember: You can get a copy of DEMONSTRA by visiting Innsmouth Free Press.
The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy
In 1990, H. Bruce Franklin wrote an interesting paper, "The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" which appeared in Science Fiction Studies #52, Volume 17, Part 3. It won the Pioneer Award in 1991. I think there are very interesting points made within it that any of us who are composing Lao American science fiction can and should take into consideration. Franklin argues there was an "overt interplay between SF and the war. For American SF very explicitly defined the war, which unalterably redefined American SF."
As a little background, H. Bruce Franklin has written over 19 books. He is a pioneering figure in the serious academic study of science fiction, particularly his texts Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century, and War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. Franklin also has books addressing the Vietnam war: M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, Vietnam and America: A Documented History as well as Vietnam and Other American Fantasies may be of interest. An interesting connection to Laos exists with Franklin. He was fired while a tenured professor by Stanford in 1972, for his role in a student occupation of their computer center in protest against the Lao invasion the university's connections to the Vietnam War. He later went on to teach as a tenured professor at Rutgers.
One of the interesting footnotes in Franklin's work reads:
"In British SF, the Vietnam War has generated similar images of American troops as alien invaders, dating at least from J.G. Ballard's 1966 "The Killing Ground'' through Brian Aldiss's 1987 "My Country 'Tis Not Only of Thee,'' each of which imagines England as another Vietnam. Ballard's story is told from the point of view of an officer of the British National Liberation Army, whose ragged half-starved guerrilla band, "living for months in holes in the ground,'' desperately resists an overwhelming army of American invaders, armed with a technology "so sophisticated that even the wrist-watches stripped off dead prisoners were too complicated to read'' (pp. 140, 142). Despite a US "puppet regime in London,'' the British insurgents can maintain their struggle because "thirty years after the original conflict in south-east Asia, the globe was now a huge insurrectionary torch, a world Vietnam'' in which England is merely a "remote backwater'' for the Americans' "global war against dozens of national liberation armies'' (pp. 139-40). Aldiss's story projects a British civil war between a communist north and a capitalist south, which US intervention degrades to a puppet nation of "slimeys,'' the GIs' equivalent of "gooks.''
There's a lot to go through that I'm still processing, but I consider it an interesting find and one I want to keep in mind as our other Lao writers and I continue exploring the limits and possibilities within speculative literature.
What are some other interesting essays and ideas you've found?
New poem accepted: "Discussing Principles of Art with Laotians"
In good news for the day, my poem, "Discussing Principles of Art with Laotians" has been accepted by the Hong Kong-based literary journal, Cha! It will appear in the March issue this year!
This will be their 6th anniversary issue! I appeared in their premiere issue, so it's an honor to be featured there again. Where does the time go?
In the meantime, be sure to check out their other issues at: http://asiancha.com
Souvankham Thammavongsa's "Light" a candidate for Canadian Book of the Year (Poetry)
Lao Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa's book of poetry "Light" is a candidate for Best Book of the 2013 (poetry) in the CBC Bookie Awards. True to Lao form, apparently, she didn't tell us we had the opportunity to vote for it, and voting ends at midnight. If you like her work, consider voting for this collection.
I guess this is going to be a big year for Lao literature!
Souvankham Thammavongsa’s third book of poetry, Light, "examines the word that gives the collection its name. There are poems about a sparkle, about how to say light, about a scarecrow, a dung beetle, a fish without eyes. Known for her precision and elegance, for her small clear voice, for distilling meaning from details, for not wasting words, Thammavongsa confirms her gifts with these new poems. Light is a work that shines with rigour, humour, courage and grit."
A new copy sells for about $17 in the US.
Call for submissions: Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement 2014!
Looking for creative submissions for the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, preferably by March 15th before we reach the Year of the Horse. As usual, I'm particularly looking for interesting pieces from Khmu, Tai Dam, Lue, Iu Mien, Hmong, Lao, Vietnamese, Karen, Khmer, Rhade / E De, Bru, Nung, Deng, and Akha writers.
You can send work to them here: http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions or contact me and I will see that it gets to the right editors.
The Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (ISSN 2153-8999) is an on-line and freely accessible interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for scholars and writers from diverse fields who share a common interest in Southeast Asian (SEA) Americans and their communities.
JSAAEA is an official publication of The National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA), with support from the department of Bicultural-Bilingual studies and the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
Wolves and Wonders: An Interview with J.Damask
I recently finished interviewing J. Damask, a Singaporean speculative fiction writer. The interview is now up at Asian American Press. We discuss werewolves, young adult fiction, her research process and more.
Because of space considerations for the paper, it's brief, but I hope it sparks an interest in how Asian writers besides those in Japan and China are writing in English and addressing issues such as lycanthropy in their horror and urban fantasy fiction. Be sure to check her work out at: http://awolfstale.wordpress.com
Labels: asia, Horror, singapore, speculative literature
[Theater] The Brothers Paranormal reading at La Jolla Playhouse, Feb. 24th
A reading of THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL a play by Prince Gomolvilas is coming to La Jolla, California on Monday, February 24th.
Directed by Jeff Liu, the tale revolves around two Thai-American brothers who "launch a ghost-hunting business in order to capitalize on the nationwide increase in sightings of Asian-looking ghosts. When the siblings end up investigating the home of a couple that claims to be haunted by one very terrifying spirit, everyone’s notions of reality, fantasy, and sanity clash against the shocking truth."
It's free admission and starts at 7:30PM. Reservations are required. Space is limited with only 70 seats at La Jolla Playhouse 2910, La Jolla Village Drive La Jolla, California 92037.
http://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/the-season/2013-2014-season/dna-2014
Labels: Asian American, ghost, Horror, phi, speculative theater, Theater
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T-Rex: No Further Questions Needed on Russia Sanctions Being Lifted,… EVER !
Posted on April 23, 2017 by sundance
Funny call readout from Secretary Tillerson’s office today. The last paragraph is extraordinarily blunt (emphasis mine):
[Dept. of State] Secretary Tillerson phoned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today to discuss his recent trip to Moscow and his message to the Russian leadership that, although the United States is interested in improving relations with Russia, Russia’s actions in eastern Ukraine remain an obstacle. The Secretary emphasized the importance of Ukraine’s continued progress on reform and combating corruption.
The Secretary accepted condolences from President Poroshenko on the death today of a U.S. member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM). The leaders agreed that the OSCE SMM has played a vital role in its role of monitoring the Minsk agreements designed to bring peace to eastern Ukraine, and that this tragic incident makes clear the need for all sides- and particularly the Russian-led separatist forces-to implement their commitments under the Minsk Agreements immediately.
Secretary Tillerson reiterated the United States’ firm commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and confirmed that sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine and fully implements its commitments in the Minsk agreements. (link)
Oh well, I guess that’s that then.
No need to ever wonder about those pesky sanctions ever being lifted.
Horse = Dead.
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236 Responses to T-Rex: No Further Questions Needed on Russia Sanctions Being Lifted,… EVER !
Sedanka says:
It’s so good to have actual businesspersons running the show, FINALLY.
Somewhere in Dixie says:
I agree. The media still have no idea how they operate and how different they are from the regular politicians.
Bill in Lexington,NC says:
Which is an important head start.
drdeb says:
Amen to that post!
the blacksmith says:
and an actual American was well….. you, know, one of our own culture.
SSI01 says:
I’ve read somewhere an eyeball that allows the full circumference of the iris to be seen – that is, sclera (white of the eyeball) visible on all sides of the iris – is an indication the owner of that eyeball – or pair of eyeballs – has a mental or neurological disorder that needs looking into. I wish I could remember the name of the condition.
wheatietoo says:
I think that condition is call Barking Moonbat-itis.
Orygun says:
Hahaha! That really did make me laugh and it seems to be a virulent form common to the DC area.
Sandra White says:
Truly feel great again. Laughing so hard at Boris & Natasha poster. Priceless.
Contagious, then.
Louisiana Steve says:
Psychopelosi disorder.
Benson II says:
Darn! Ya beat me to it. ha ha
jwingermany says:
I’m so glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that! LOL!
It’s called Sanpaku eyes
Screwtape says:
It could also be caused by hyperthyroidism.
trapper says:
Sanpaku
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku
deanbrh says:
Wow, how interesting. and here I just thought it was a play on words; Sand pack you!
karmytrumpateer says:
Quite fascinating! ” it is believed that these people attract accidents and violence.” When you look at the list of famous people with this affliction many were murderers or were murdered or had a tragic death: Osama bin Laden, Hitler, Ted Bundy, Omar Mateen, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Sal Mineo, Abe Lincoln, Natalie Wood, Jill Dando.
Charlie Manson
Bert Darrell says:
Thanks, trapper. I had to visit the TCHT comments section to learn that Obama had the Sanpaku condition. So unlucky! As if being a traitor were not enough for the lying leech.
rumpole2 says:
It’s the same look you see in a cat’s eyes when the vet takes it’s temperature… just sayin’😎
Fe says:
Omg I’m dying here, sooo funny. 😂
Dekester says:
It is 0200 here in Southern B.C. and I just woke my dog with a belly laugh.
The one consistent with so many TCTH supporters, is their collective sense of humour.
We understand the seriousness of what’s going on, but can still laugh.
Leftists cannot do that. Unless they are causing someone pain.
Sanpaku. Who knew.
Deep Blue C says:
Cue Jeff Sessions who supposedly (according to the media liars) “insulted the entire state of Hawaii.” Jeff was mostly right when he said nobody has a sense of humor anymore! (Lefties don’t; we do!)
buzzybee says:
Yup. Years ago I heard a constitutional attorney say that liberals have no sense of humor. Wish now I could remember the joke he told during his talk. I do remember we all laughed.
Hey … how’d you get this picture of my cat, Blue?
It’s called TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome, SSI01. What’s remarkable is that this syndrome was identified years before Trump was elected to the Presidency. Even more remarkable is how it has spread so rapidly after President Trump won the election.
The good news is that it seems to be contained within the leftist and YSM members of the general population. Better news yet, TDS can be cured by jumping on board the Trump Train, which has shown to provide 100% remission from TDS.
margarite1 says:
Aren’t there some photos indicating Hillary is an example of this?
hugofitch1 says:
Other than when balloons are released?
olderwiser21 says:
My, God – she is a hideous looking woman…you can see all the evil in her – really!!!
freeperjim says:
She ALWAYS has those big, bulging eyes and a huge, wide open mouth.
Phony beard marriage with a rapist.
Evil communist traitor & sympathizer of islamic terrorism.
She’s from the same era as Charles Manson, Bill Ayres, The Weatherman Underground, etc. She just went inside government to do her dirty work while they took to the streets of crime.
…and don’t forget Angela Davis, the leftwing communist/terrorist who later became a professor at UCLA.
They went to teach in colleges.
Glad I just finished my coffee before looking at this.
ZC says:
It is sanpaku, which means “3 whites”. Normally only 2 whites are visible either side. If the lower is also visible, it is called yin sanpaku… many who have this have emotional and drug/ alcohol problems, are also prone to be victims of violence. (Michael Jackson, Marilynn Monroe, Betty David, JFK are famous examples). Often this is viewed as “beautiful” (vulnerable), and is imitated with makeup.
When the white is visible above the eye, this is ysng sanpaku and shows a person prone to external violent temper, one can easily feel it from them. (Charles Manson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi are good examples.). If all whites are visible ones instincts would tell one immediately unless one is brain dead that this is a totally psychotic person.
I once worked construction with a guy who had that “All Around” look. It was very unsettling to catch him looking my way, so I totally avoided him. For all I knew, he might have been a saint among men but I wasn’t going to find out. It STILL gives me the willies just thinking about it. And that was more than 30 years ago.
Interesting comment…now go back and look at Hilliar’s photos. Darn, guess now I’ll be looking for the “white” above everyone’s eyes! LOL
jonvil says:
All this stuff about the eyes made me nervous and had to check myself out in a mirror, no white above or below, WHEW!!!
Me too. But I had to squint. 😉
US says:
Exophthalmia.
Dopidad says:
Sanpaku, a Japanese book came out during the hippie era warning about people who displayed sanpaku. It has to do with macrobiotics and yin-yang.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/hillary-had-yang-sanpaku-eyes-very-dangerous/
Jenny R. says:
So in other words a bunch of new age hippie fiddle faddle?
vidlbis says:
Yep. However, just like all hippie-dippie nonsense, the original info has gravitas that goes back – like ancient. The hippies ruined pertymuch everything they touched. IMHO
Insofar as bulging eyes is often a sign of thyroid troubles — in which case the charitable thing to do is to suggest said person get to a doctor and check it out — then yes “wisdom of the ancients”.
However, I am not going to give some poor soul the side eye just because the whites of their eyes show — this is called the “joys of progression in knowledge”, I also don’t cut open animals to look at spots on their livers in order to tell the future.
And I certainly didn’t need to look at Hillary’s eyeballs (I prefer to not gaze at her whatsoever) to know she was a corrupt megalomaniac…I just needed to observe her words and deeds to do that.
Yep – got me there **)
bofh says:
it’s called proptosis or exophthalmos, often seen in over active thyroid conditions
Graves’ ophthalmopathy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves%27_ophthalmopathy
Often a sign of hyperthyroidism.
Also called Exophthalmos
boojum says:
I don’t know if it’s the term you’re looking for, but I long ago heard it referred to as Sankapu.
Ah, I see Dopidad beat me to the punch and has it spelled correctly.
Like your spelling – add a t and you got sankaput – meaning outta whack.
“sankaput”, sounds like something a golfer would say…
Nah … means out of freeze-dried coffee. 😉
exophthalmos frequently subsequent to Grave’s Disease, or has to go potty really badly.
Old Codger says:
Its a thyroid condition; poor woman really is sick—not mention her mental disease known as “Liberalism.
It’s a feature often seen in people with psychotic disorders. In this case, though, I think it’s just a case of a desperate weasel trying to lie her way out of a tight spot. Her eyes are popping out because she feels the squeeeeeze!
RadioMattM says:
Too many cups of coffee?
I thought that corrupt people could have any kind of thyroid — high, low, normal, or whatever. The problem seems to lie in being morally crippled.
I saw a report that said when the color part of the eyeball does not rest on the upper and lower part of the eye or one side is ” lifted” it is some kind of a shift in the brain and tends to belong to the criminally insane individual…..
And T-Rex’s State Dept specifically turned down Exon’s request for a Waiver to drill in Russia.
That is the company he just left!
Squeaky clean, our T-Rex is.
mireilleg says:
I love this guy!
T-Rex dropped the hammer again. He’s as Fed up with the Russian narrative as we are.
Aqua says:
T. Rex conversations have become “don’t miss” events…
I’d love to be a part of a Trump/Tillerson dinner discussion. Real news.
Kroesus says:
It is questionable whether the Ukraine actually ever “owned”: the Crimean Peninsula…..Khrushchev in a drunken stupor (often for him) transferred its ownership…..the area had traditionally been Russian territory and its people are by a vast majority Russian heritage and lean towards Russian governance……I think we have no business trying to dictate on this matter
They had a vote in Crimea. The people – mostly Russian speaking – voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia. American neocons protested that the election didn’t meet American standards. If it had, the “rejoin Russia” side would have won by only 85% instead of 90%. I’m sure John McCain will be overjoyed by this. It’ll also help Putin maintain overwhelming popularity against his American foil. He’ll probably also cooperate more with Iran, since the US is again proving its inclination to meddle throughout the world.
Kaco says:
Yes, and I thought I had read they have a military base there.
I remember when we all heard Nikki Haley’s first speech at the U.N. She said basically the same thing. It was poo-poohed here as she’s just rattling off, it isn’t what Pres. Trump thinks. Apparently, we should start taking what they all say seriously, including Pompeo about Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
I find it a shame that there can’t be a cordial, practical, relationship with Russia. Destroying the Left’s Russian hysteria is not much consolation, and they will continue the accusation anyway.
I am never sure why you can’t have a sovereign country that speaks Russian and is friendly to Russia without having to become a part of Russia. Am I missing something here?
Derek Hagen says:
No, but now that you bring it up we are all not missing something. Thanks. Let’s pass this question around.
You’re missing that they had a plebiscite. If the people of Crimea want to revert to being part of Russia why should Kiev be allowed to disallow it? More importantly, wtf business is it of ours? It’d be like if Russia slapped sanctions on the US until we handed Arizona back to Mexico. I get Sundance’s point (below) that the sanctions aren’t really hurting Russia (don’t throw me in the briar patch), but the mind-numbing sanctimoniousness of Americans weighing in on this matter at all is beyond belief. What’s next – we start dictating to Myanmar how they deal with the terrorist Rohinga? It’s none of our f’ing business!!!!
alegenoa says:
I hear that many European businesses suffer from this EU sanction, losing the Russian market. It doesn’t make sense.
It seems the Trump administration is just protecting its reputation from those “Russiagate” accusations, but this in turn means there are unwanted consequences for the world.
Always Faithful says:
It’s all fake outrage.
Very few Americans could locate Crimea, the Ukraine, or even Russia on a map.
Even our representatives don’t know the difference between Crimea and Korea.
The same could have been said of Serbia, but that didn’t stop us from bombing them to aid the Muslims.
No briar patch for you. I agree with everything you said.
It’s a very complicated situation, going back well, well before WWII (or even WWI), and neither side is completely the innocent victim. It also involves far more than politics (religion, ethnicity, et al. have been twisted to conform to political justification). There could potentially be some peaceful, pragmatic way to reconcile this thing to the mutual benefit of all concerned, but it would involve compromise and putting old grievances and entitlements to bed once and for all — so it won’t happen because all parties concerned nurse those like a starving infant at a bottle.
The Middle East and Eastern Europe: the places where diplomacy goes to die.
This is what I have been thinking for awhile. At some point there was a separation.
Normally, the US would make a deal to operate a base in a separate strategic area. Why can’t the Russians do the same unless all decide to rejoin under one umbrella? However, the US still should not be involved.
because it’s in an area of the world where diplomacy goes to die 😉
aka. Bismarck was a bastige, but correct (although he should have expanded it beyond the Balkans)
The Russians and Ukrainians (although genetically and culturally quite close — Kievan Rus anyone?) have a tendency to hate each other’s guts (and both sides are guilty of causing that). And the leadership on both sides is infected with a disability to think outside the box — which will likely cause them and others grief in the future.
Don’t get me wrong, I would have liked to see a U.S./Russia alliance and at least better working relations…but I’m not so lacking in clear-sightedness as to get on the Russia Rah-Rah Brigade. That country has some very troubling problems at the moment…we will have to be as ready as possible for the outcomes of those…imhao of course.
Old tribes have sand box issues, no doubt.
smartyjones1 says:
See Robert Conquest’s “Harvest of Sorrow” for why there’s more than a little unhappiness between the people of Ukraine and the Russian government, direct descendants of the Terror Famine. https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Sorrow-Soviet-Collectivization-Terror-Famine/dp/0195051807
Putin’s Little Green Men now have successfully killed thousands and took down a civilian airliner over eastern Ukraine.
The bear does not want independent thinking people at their doorstep. It could spread like a contagion into Russia itself. That’s not how a dictator stays in power year after year.
In the end, who will be the longest reigning dictator in our lifetimes, Putin or Castro?
That my friends is the question.
Well framed!
It seems they were doing fine until Putin decided they needed to come back into the fold and started agitating with some of the populace to get them to side with him. If Putin had left well enough alone would those who now side with him have decided they wanted to rejoin Russia, on their own. I doubt it.
SteveInCO says:
The fact of the matter is, when the USSR broke up in 1991, the then-present borders of the SSRs were recognized as the new borders of the independent countries.
Russia simply decided to take away something they had previously recognized as belonging to Ukraine. In other words, they simply took it away, with the same excuses the Nazis used to take the Sudetenland.
And yes I know it was ethnically Russian. Again: Sudetenland.
Must be very dense here….I thought Trump wanted an opportunity to make friends with Putin and enlist his help in getting rid of Isis. What’s changed? And what of those 75 diplomats Obama sent back to Russsia? Were those the only “sanctions”? What about our diplomats in Russia? We leave them?
I don’t think Trump has changed w/ respect to working with Russia against ISIS.
He just negotiates from a position of strength, not weakness and sucking up.
Southern Son says:
It’s a Complicated
Business Folks.
Complicated Business..
It is ethnically Roosky, b/c Stalin or his predecessors murdered or forcibly rellocated the Ukrainians (maybe Tartars? Can’t remember their ethnicity right now) and replaced them with ethnic Rooskies, who remain the majority in Crimea as a result. I’m still looking for a deal to be struck where RUS essentially resumes supervision of Ukraine, keeps its naval base, but has to invest some serious economic development and law enforcement $ (rubles anyway) to get sanctions lifted. Seems like 3x win to me.
We don’t want to “own” everything, When a smart developer sees a neighboring property in distress, if he doesn’t want to fix it himself, his best option is to get someone else to.
As I recall, it was ethnically Russian primarily because the Russian empire under Catherine the Great in the 1770s conquered it and moved Russians in to settle what was, before that time, pastoral (nomadic) land.
val76 says:
Both are true.
Yes! Thank you! The local and indigenous Ukrainians were killed and Russians were moved in! It’s why eastern Ukraine too is mostly Russian speaking and have Russian loyalists.
And while we’re re-litigating the history of Crimea, let’s weigh in on whether lands taken by the Kingdom of Ghana should be returned to the f’ing Bantus!
i'm just sayin'.. says:
You had to open that one up didn’t you?
There are disputed lands everywhere. Not our problem. Not our business.
Just because they’re not our “problem”, doesn’t mean TRUMP can’t take advantage of a little chaos to kill off the lingering “Muh Russia” issue AND go a leg up on Putin!
I know its Monday and you got out of bed on the “left side”, but try thinking ahead, just a little bit, eh?
Sounds like an ancient Islamic tactic.
There have never been any “indigenous Ukrainians” in Crimea. It was populated by Tatars before Stalin “relocated” them to Siberia for collaboration with Hitler, and ethnic Russians. Crimea was Russian before Chruschev decided to redraw the map and “give” it to Ukraine.
Let’s be realistic: the local population voted to re-join Russia. They are not going back. And Russia will never abandon Crimea because of Sevastopol. Not gonna happen. Tillerson can issue as many political statements as he wants.
Jenny R says:
Not just Tatars — Poles, Germans, Russians,Ruthenians, Greeks, Jews, a bit of everything from the region (it is sitting on a crossroads of Eurasia, a key hub). And the relocations weren’t just under Stalin — the tsars were not so innocent themselves. In this regard Russia acted like just about every other imperial power at the time (and they weren’t the only ones who did the imperial shuffle in that part of the world)…but it is well to remember: usually the natives don’t remember being pushed hither and whither that fondly (parts of my husband’s family still feel like they were lied to and tricked by all sides of the Schleswig Holstein Wars — the Old World’s memory is far too long, and ours is far too short, or at least our knowledge of how long the Old World can carry a grudge is).
And the Holomodor and forced relocations under Stalin didn’t endear Russians to Ukrainians (who in turn usually acted on any opportunity to get revenge, which didn’t endear them with the Russians).
this territory LOOONG predates Stalin……it goes back to at least Catherine the Great (1700’s) and had a war that occurred BEFORE our Civil War…..Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire xs Imperial Russia….you may have heard of it as it was called the CRIMEAN War……Lord Tennyson actually wrote a somewhat famous poem about the fog of war and mistakes that happen called “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (look it up)
Russia fought the Ottoman Turks for the Crimea, won in 1776 and signed a peace treaty with the Porte shortly thereafter. Russia’s claim to the Crimea is of longer duration than ours to the original 13 colonies, not to mention our later acquisition of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Sundance reminds us that President Trump is presently fighting rabid leftists ( 35% of the electorate ) milk-toast Republicans (15% of the electorate) as well as the US Chamber of Commerce & Business Roundtable wielding mega-millions come elections.
Should we lose the White House in 2020 or 2024, we might well return to the chaotic immigration and unfair trade patterns of the last 30 years, as we grow ever poorer. What happens if Mexico demands both the return of those south-western states in 2040 and can count on local populations voting to rejoin Mexico in state referendums? And what would we do if the United Nations — citing sanctions on Russia over Crimea as a precedent — imposes sanctions on us, pending the return of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to Mexico?
For that matter, come 2040, how might Russia vote in the UN Security Council about sanctioning us?
Linden Markham says:
The Mexicans will turn those areas into replicas of the shit holes they left, just as the Palestinians turned the thriving Gaza into a shit hole. Nothing changes.
I say we return California to Mexico! A whole lotta problems solved! Let those lefty Silicon Valley and Hollywood panty-waists deal directly with the Cartels. Barrels of popcorn needed for that!
(And don’t give me the “but, Cali has a GDP equal to the 5th largest…” BS!
Cali’s been losing businesses for years and there would be an absolute mad rush for NV and AZ, if it was returned to México!)
“Russia’s claim to the Crimea is of longer duration than ours to the original 13 colonies, not to mention our later acquisition of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.”
Let’s not forget Alaska, Louisiana Purchase.
Hey Coon, I was going to write that France and Russia sold us Louisiana and Alaska fair-and-square, but realized that — given the oil reserves — these nations might now claim that Napoleon had no right to betray the ‘Acadian refugees’ and that the Russia Czar was clearly insane to sell us so much oil for a pittance. In short, the deals for Louisiana and Alaska are invalid.
Sanction those sanctimonious Americans till they return Louisiana and Alaska !
You’ve nailed it!
The problem with this is that Russia owned Ukraine back then too.
Ukraine, INCLUDING CRIMEA, became independent from the Soviet Union as the USSR fell apart and modern day Russia (also becoming independent) recognized that fact, and recognized its borders.
Russia is now coming back and playing what would be, in a more politically incorrect age, “indian giver” and demanding–forcibly seizing, in fact–something they had previously given up.
The parallels to Nazi Germany and the Sudetenland are staggering and I am absolutely appalled that good Americans make excuses for it. One can argue about whether we should get involved, but argue that Russia is in the right here? No fricking way.
There’s lots of apologists popping up. You would think Putin is George Washington not a former KGB officer who was stationed in East Germany helping prop up that totalitarian system/government.
There’s a lot of Russians who don’t have a problem with empire. Hey, just look at the land mass of Russia alone. You think it got that way by accident?
Not by accident, but they did catch a couple of lucky breaks. Once they punched through the Siberian Khanate during Ivan IV’s reign (Ivan the Terrible) they basically had very little between them and the Pacific Ocean.
But yes, they’ve always been expansionist.
Are we keeping the UN?
Buckeye Heathen says:
and if so;why ?
If we get rid of the UN, we get rid of the boot on our neck. Problem solved.
Crimea is historically Russian and the warm water port for the Russian Navy. If we want friendly relations with the Russian Christian Nation they will have to keep Crimea and Latakia base in Syria. I hope and pray that this is only a negotiation position to make a good deal, otherwise we will never have a peaceful relationship. Ukraine is within the Russian sphere of influence. If they evacuate the Donbas we should leave Ukraine alone and never, ever have Ukraine in NATO or the EU.
“Negotiation position”??? As Bugs Bunny would say, “Do tell!”
JoAnn Leichliter says:
Frankly, I agree, Kroesus.
“Secretary Tillerson reiterated the United States’ firm commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and confirmed that sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine and fully implements its commitments in the Minsk agreements. ”
And we should return Texas and California to Mexico. /s
Neocons are loving Tillerson’s position. Soros must love Tillerson. Ukraine government was overthrown by a CIA operation, so again we meddle for the Globalists and then put a White Hat on top of a Black Hat and put a ribbon on our chest. Bravo! /s
I am not celebrating the continued hostility towards Russia, but until we get our domestic problems addressed and Neocons are gone I can’t see a political resolution.
Cali = YES;
Texas = NO! Texas won its freedom from Mexico in a shooting war = Remember the Alamo!!! Texas joined the US as a separate, independent republic.
SEJMON says:
Crimeans are happy they do not have to live under worst government in Europe since may 1945….remember Vicky Nuland give away cookies in KYIEVi feb.2014….
Weeper says:
I just love it when a plan comes together.
I feel like I’m reading a political thriller where the “good guys” are smart, intelligent humans, and the enemies are a bunch of stupid cartoon characters. Next chapter please!!! 😉
Which ones are we?
Depends. Could be either I guess. I’m a human, but I’m also quite fond of Minions!
mopar2016 says:
The enemies ARE cartoon characters.
And most of them are in Senate and the House.
LOL!!! Thanks mopar2016. I can’t do pics 😀
Yet, Rachael Madcow will probably be on her next show saying “What if….this is a ploy….by the Trump administration…..to apppeaar tough.” o_o
coveyouthband says:
All those tired of winning please raise your hand………………..
KevinH says:
This is one of the few times I differ with the opinion here. At the fall of the Soviet Union, at that moment, the US began dumping billions of dollars into ripping Ukraine out of Russia’s sphere of influence, over 10 billion dollars in fact, according to Victoria Nuland.
You can argue that that was a good idea, or a bad idea. That doesn’t change the fact there would be tens of thousands killed in Crimea if Russia didn’t accept them (half accept, half annex), whatever you want to call it — the people of Crimea are happy for Russia’s intervention.
Your point is not mutually exclusive to the position of T-Rex (and/or Trump).
These sanctions are a nothing-burger, mere annoyances, to both administrations in the larger scale of things.
“Please don’t throw me into the briar patch”.. (the basic concept here).
BlackKnightRides says:
Our T-Rex just cuffed Russia, with more to come…
What did those fools expect we’d do after their bomber-jabs at Alaska’s coastline!
Trialbytruth says:
Good point BK a little tit for tat. However, as straight forward as Secretary Tillerson was, the left will remind us he didn’t say never EVER nor did he pinky swear.
It is nice having adults in charge who are clear in intent. Unlike our previous cabal of liars and cheats when you want to know what this administration means by what it says all you have too do is look at the words.
I tried to explain this to my daughter in law (one year of undergrad law and a constitutional expert) we are no longer face book friends. I only had 7 so now i’m down to the 6 smart ones in the family. Every so often the zack herd must be thinned LOL
Are you now ending each posted Trump Win with the “… don’t tell xyz 😉”?
Excellent point. And it could also be Trump positioning himself at the farthest extreme for free, to leverage in negotiations with Russia about Syria and other topics.
Your sentiment is spot on, though I doubt any significant impact on Syria. It’s about Ukraine. There’s a deal to be crafted that will help everyone.
The world is real estate. so who knows how to make those kinds of deals?
If Trump had been in the garden of eden, he’d have built a wall around the forbidden tree and we’d still be living under God’s original Grace. He’s got a lot of fixing up to do.
” It’s about Ukraine. There’s a deal to be crafted that will help everyone”
If it has anything to do with allowing and paying for many more Ukrianian women into the US as “refugees”, I’m all in! Beautiful, long legged blondes…..mmmm!
Sundance, exactly what I was thinking!
This is all big-picture leverage stuff here that operates on a 4-D chess board.
Most of us can barely see the board, much less the pieces.
Sundance,
Thank you for that clarification. Trump is working in the world of politics now out of necessity. This is the real world, politics is part of it. The problem with politics is that it is the swamp.
xyzlatin says:
There was a free vote in Crimea which approved of the annexation. Russia needs an all weather port for it’s navy. Russia cannot give in and will not. Ukraine also had a properly elected president who was ousted by CIA stirring up marches and the killing of protesters therein, and an unelected oligarch installed. The US, and the EU bureaucracy greedy nation building is to blame for this situation. Ukraine was to remain neutral and out of the EU. Russia was betrayed. This will remain a stalemate and a festering sore. No win here.
However, I can see that Tillerson had to make a show of independence from Russia, given his former life. Also because of the stupidity of the accusations against Trump and bogus Russian interference in the election, Trump also has to make a show of not supporting Russia.
This is part of the huge mess that Pres Trump has inherited.
And yeah, the political optics would be bad if he were to lift sanctions right now.
Even though he might want to.
Putin is smart, so hopefully he understands this.
It will take time to rectify the misdeeds of the past.
Putin will have to EARN any change in America’s position.
If China comes through on the NORKS, Putin will have to contribute mightily to reset relations.
Like perhaps…helping us with Syria and Iran?
Helping us do what in Syria – replace Assad with Salafis?
Maybe he could give back the American Uranium that Hillary and the Clinton Crime Family Foundation sold him?
Or maybe President Trump “freezes Russia’s American uranium assets”.
Tonawanda says:
Plus, Trump and Tillerson may have already acknowledged to Putin the historical fairness of Russia’s claims + the unfairness in Ukraine, and explicitly told Putin that a mutually favorable solution could and would be worked out.
BO’s bogus sanctions might have been a huge gift to Trump.
The CIA seems to stir up trouble everywhere and answer to no one. A country of their own.
Best explanation ever – thank you……
Glad you mentioned the port…I thought it was one of the primary reasons for Putin’s action in Ukraine, but when no posters brought it up I was beginning to doubt my memory,
That, BTW, irregardless of the tongue-in-cheek comments about Ca. is why it’s still important to the rest of the country…the coastline and all it brings.
Well, I note there’s been elections in Ukraine and some have been free and fair.
Others have been questionable but then again, when oligarch tyrant fled in the dead of night off to hide himself in Russia.
All the tears spilling for the oligarch coward here. Fascinating.
Putin wants the Crimean deep water port thats it that’s all
elena19501deplorable says:
No, Putin wants whole Ukraine back…Ukraine never been independent country, it was always split between Russia and Poland…and was always fighting Russia for Independence…
Paula Kinziger says:
That’s correct elena19501deplorable. Watched many docs on the Ukraine/Russia and the Ukraine people want to stay independent.
Then they should avoid getting in bed with the hegemon.
agree-if they wanted be truly independent as SWITZERLAND they would not welcome NULAND/MCCAIN and eat theirs cookies…
I was born in USSR and know very well Russian and USSR’s imperial history.
Timmy-the-Ute says:
Then Russia can compensate the Ukraine for Crimea. Stop paying for a war between the two countries and compensate Ukraine. Enough trillions of Rubles will make the Ukraine happy and navigation right out of the Sea of Avoz (Kerch Strait). Ukraine is not going to invade Russia’s western border. Putin, pull back your tanks and troops.
Yes Alex Jones says the Ukrainians are a bunch of Nazis. But the Russians make a treaty with them. If Russian wants there nationals back them ask them to emigrate back. Russia is not a natural country. It was a empire or a collection of countries. It’s ability to maintain that empire will vary. The empire under the USSR was a high point. Now it is at a smaller level.
Well, if he would be practical, then he would negotiate a deal with Ukraine and get/keep his warm water port — and maybe some other nice bennies as well. A potential win-win situation for at least most people (and thus, in the interests of stability and future working relations, I believe this is what the U.S. should be angling for). There are still some people in the Russian leadership that might be up to convincing him of this.
But if he decides to go with the revanchist elements camp in his government — and it is present and does fit just about every bad stereotype of the Russians available — then he’ll not be happy with just that, will try to reclaim control of all the former Soviet bloc nations, will extend further into Europe and Asia…and will likely have things backfire horribly…causing consequences of an unsavory nature for everybody.
Personally, if the Russians aren’t careful they’re going to cause their country to go POP again (and it will happen suddenly and thus rather shockingly for everyone) — just imao.
Love the Wanted Poster, Sundance!!
Louise Mensch could’ve starred as “Bore Us” also!! 🙂
nothing menschlichkeit about her!
“Menschć is a Yiddish word from the German for” man”. In Yiddish/Jewish parlance it means an excellent or Godly person. I’ve met 1, maybe up to 3 mensches in 60 years. She ain’t one. PDJT might prove to be a real mensch. We’ll see. In the meantime, he’s a heck uva POTUS!
Sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of Crimean peninsula to Ukraine, implements its commitments in Minsk agreements.
— Department of State (@StateDept) April 24, 2017
paris23 says:
It’s all a funny game, isn’t it? The State Dept. must know that is never going to happen. I guess it’s all about posturing for political reasons.
You can call it politics or humanitarian – – moxnix. Fact is RUS is best situated to provide economic development and security to Ukraine. Don’t see Poland, Germany, or any other neighbor stepping up. Key is making a deal that benefits USA, given those realities. PDJT & T-Rex appear to be on the right track, though since they haven’t hired me yet at a yuge salary, there remains room for improvement.
I wouldn’t be so certain of that. As I have grown to see things as bargaining positions, I see this as leverage to do any number of things in the future. To say that’s never going to happen? Let’s say, for example, Russia were convinced serve US interests in some significant and highly visible way. Well? Perhaps that deserves reducing sanctions or some other reward for good behavior. That President Trump was not responsible for the sanctions still makes him “the good guy.”
I begin to see things more and more as potentially useful positions from which to operate rather than staunch positions based on ideology. Operating on an ideological level is essentially operating from an emotional level. And that becomes a big problem as emotions replace intellect in the brain.
Sometimes a hegemon is just a hegemon.
Don’t think for one minute that the other side is against the idea for themselves and wouldn’t ever do it — countries and their inhabitants are never angels and seldom saints.
Which one has its military in over 70 countries?
You did not address the second half of my statement, which if a qualification of the (rather rhetorical) question.
sentien…..with a emotion/ideology and no intellect/brain ????? we do no want that next 8 yrs…
It won’t happen. Ever.
They must honor their agreements.
People may not take seriously Russia’s scientists’ research involving climate change. Their leading scientists predict massive COOLING which means Russia will be affected by having its northern seaports frozen. (Dec 4, 2013 – A new paper by solar physicist by Habibullo Abdussamatov predicts the current lull in solar activity will continue and lead to a new Little Ice Age ). Russia began building massive nuclear driven ice breakers because of this forecast. Russia needs a secure southern seaport for its navy. It is a matter of life and death for the Russians and they will not give in.
The only important part of their Navy are Submarines. Warm water ports are not that important to their Subs. When you only have one Aircraft Carrier you really have one too many. Russia’s navy isn’t used to keep open international shipping lanes like the US Navy does.
So why would Russia close down its options for ever more because at the present time it may have subs as its most important part of its navy? It still has some ships it needs to get out. It would be a foolish nation indeed who gave up a warm water port for ever closing its options down simply because neocons in the EU, Nato and the US (like McCain) want them to behave and toe their line? Unlike the US, Russians have suffered over the centuries from invasion and backstabbing.
Oh, I think the U.S. has suffered its fair share of backstabbing.
Let’s be honest: it is incredibly hard (but not impossible) for the Russians to maneuver a peaceful and lucrative deal due to past associations with its neighbors — a lot of this they have brought upon themselves, and while it isn’t fair to judge a country by its past actions nevertheless the memory of those actions is still there; however, the question should be brought to them: is it better to try something different and thus improve those associations? Or go with the old-fashioned method?
At this point I’m not so sure it shouldn’t be presented to them as :”what have you got to lose?” The Ukraine is becoming a mess for them(and influencing the rest of E. Europe — even Serbia and Belarus have in recent years stepped away from Russia on occasion, and the situation in Central Asia is not looking too rosy, domestically it isn’t either, and I don’t think the Trump administration is going to respond in the same fashion as previous administrations. So at this point maybe they need to try something else because what they are doing is at the point of a zero sum game.
are you crazy?…..ever hear of a thing called the “continental shelf”…..modern subs typical operate in the 1000-2000 foot depths and cannot do this until they reach deep ocean…..since most attack subs vary from 55-65 feet in height you can see the typical 100-200 foot coastal depths give very little water under the keel…in fact even with todays Black and Baltic sea ports in use by the Russian Navy we monitor their movements for HUNDREDS of miles after departure and they must surface to pass through many chokepoints (Dardanelles Bosporus and Juteland Straits)
SharonKinDC says:
In the geo-political chess game, this is the effective statement to make. What the end result will be may differ.
BG2 says:
For whose benefit are these ineffective sanctions? Shadow puppetry, a form of words.
Russia will never give up its warm water ports in the Crimea.
The naive Ukrainians are a perfect case study of why you don’t give up your nuclear weapons in return for hilarious Western promises about your territorial integrity.
You can’t trust a democracy. Look who we elected for 8 years, BHO.
That is the problem of years of public indoctrination, teaching them — incorrectly — that we are a democracy.
We are not supposed to be anything of the sort.
Because our founders knew you could not trust a democracy.
In Az says:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master
Interesting information on George Soros and his evil works in the Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/228379-obama-power-transition-ukraine/
CNN interview with Obama, Obama admitting he “brokered” Ukraine power change.
Of course it is BS. It was a government overthrow, a coup, with the help of George Soros.
The Ukraine President that was overthrown was not a fan the of the EU. He had to go……enter Soros and Obama doing the dirty work for the EU.
By any means Soros needs to be dealt with. He is not the only one causing wars, murder, the downfall of Western civilization. He has help, but he is the face, and he is doing the majority of the evil and vile. work to destroy the world for the Communists Globalists benefit.
As usual, what’s in the USA ‘s interest and in the interest of the people affected is in direct opposition to Soros. Time is overdue when he can be turned over to those he has harmed for trial and sentencing.
Jonathan Hughes says:
Muslims are in the Ukraine. There are many names for Muslims. Ukraine was home to 248,193 Crimean Tatars, 73,304 Volga Tatars, 45,176 Azeris, 12,353 Uzbeks, 8,844 Turks, 6,575 Arabs and 5,526 Kazakhs. That number is growing. ,Muslims are doing there what Muslims are doing here making Liberals to be violent. Leave Russia alone.
Muslims are bad actors wherever they immigrate. Islam is as Islam does.
They play good cop/ bad cop and pretend victim until their numbers increase, then they are dangerous and tyrannical.
They have played the same game and committed the same barbaric bloodshed, committed slavery and oppression since Mohammed was alive.
Here is Islam’s reign of hell on earth just in 2017:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2017
IF Ukraine doesn’t stop the Muslim invasion, it will be Ukrainistan in 20 years or less.
No doubt Erdogan is pushing Muslims to immigrate there.
Kiev and its sponsor have not implemented Minsk. The Donbass and its sponsor have. The Russian Federation has assumed that sanctions will not be lifted. The bridge to Crimea will soon be finished. Now that the neocon Ukraine gambit has resulted in the impoverishment of the Ukraine it will get even more unpleasant. Keeping The Ukraine together will cost us more than the sanctions will cost Russia, so we probably will let it disintegrate. And Kiev might just attack the Donbass again.
chojun says:
I have a former co-worker who is ethnic Russian from Crimea. The big problem is that they wanted to return to the Russian federation.
I’m not questioning the wisdom of this foreign policy objective but I will say that it will remain a stumbling block for improving relations. But the sanctions do create a significant amount of leverage for the US.
Which means that at some point in the future sanctions and Crimea policy will likely be reversed in exchange for some *big* concessions from Russia on strategic issues.
I hope Chopin is right, we cannot have endless war.
Chojun, spellchecker went off prematurely
chojun-CRIMEA is already(april 2014)part of Russia and happy with that.
So is this suppose to be another Trump foreign policy “success” we should celebrate? Another example of 3D chess? Anybody who knows anything about the history of Crimea (and I bet most on here are well versed) knows that Russia is never going to give up Crimea nor should it! Crimea has been Russian for hundreds of years! So we should just forget about ever achieving good relations between the U.S. and Russia?
We all know what happened in the Ukraine under Obama. The neocons (Nuland) spent billions to overthrow a democratically president of the Ukraine. Thousands of innocents died horrible deaths as a result of U.S. intervention. But for the illegal U.S. actions in the Ukraine Russia would never have had to annex Crimea.
Trump campaigned on better relations with Russia and seemed open to recognizing Crimea as Russian. Unfortunately it appears the unrelenting campaign to paint Trump as a “puppet of Putin” has worked and Trump has caved into the pressure by adopting a belligerent stance towards Russia – not only in the Ukraine but in Syria (to the delight of ISIS and Al Qaeda).
This neocon foreign policy stance will just lead to more bloodshed in the Ukraine. It didn’t have to be this way.
I’m with Secretary Tillerson. The grievance collectors (aka Putin apologists) and false narrative promoters can pound sand.
SteveFrench says:
It basically comes down to them (the grievance collectors) underestimating PDJT. Look, admittedly with any other candidate I would be likely to be on their side with regards to the situation with Assad and now Ukraine. And that side is something like: “This is what the Neocons have been campaigning for, so this is bad.”
But just HOW can you now operate under the assumption that that Trump doesn’t know something that is obvious to you? Memes about Trump having a time machine were popular because the guy has had such solid intel ffs. I just can’t wait until something so big and successful happens, maybe with NK or negotiation in the ME, so that most everyone will be forced to admit that we are dealing with an individual that operates on another level here.
I do not operate under any assumptions, just the facts on the ground. The so-called Russian grievance collectors are disinfo agents or morons who do not pay attention to actual events.
The rest of your post is garbled. The President=Sec Tillerson. Got that. No time machine, no memes. The memes are yours.
What is your argument?
The President, and the SoS are not ‘operating on ‘another level’. They are operating on hard evidence.
Deal with it.
We are in agreement, I think you misunderstood my post.
Steve seemed to be agreeing with your comment about “grievance collectors” (whatever that is) and you turn around and insult him! Not very nice!
Thank you Mr. Kagan.
These statements by SOS Tillerson may be a wee bit more than first meets the eye.
In 1994 Bill Clinton signed the Budapest Agreement, agreeing to protect Ukraine, and Ukraine gave up Ukraine’s nuclear weapons. Putin broke that 1994 agreement.
“Is it fair to speculate that the Kremlin is also interested in the Clinton Foundation?”
“(will) New York’s attorney general will investigate”? Recall, Obama/Clinton guy Preet Bhara was fired.
http://observer.com/2016/06/vladimir-putin-has-everything-he-needs-to-blackmail-hillary-clinton/
Obama/Clinton also broke the 1994 Budapest agreement. Meanwhile, Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk became one of the largest Clinton Foundation donors, and atttempted to influence Bill Clinton to become anti-Putin. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/19/wikileaks-ukraine/
Have any of the 13 steps included in the Minsk II agreement been accomplished, or even attempted? It would seem not. Minsk I was never even begun. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains-7
One may become entangled in all the weeds, but imo these statements by SOS Tillerson are more than just what appears on the surface, even a potential bargaining chip. Perhaps Putin knows this as well.
If one may be permitted, plagerizing Sharon,
“I’m wondering if The Donald already knows a lot more than he’s letting on to, but is willing to pursue the public dance because he already actually knows how it ends??? I can’t imagine him risking doing what he’s doing based on hunches…even to a greater extent than he’s already made reference to. We don’t have to worry about The Donald’s loyalties, I don’t believe.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2011/04/07/the-donald-has-gone-nuclear-too-trump-i-have-investigators-in-hawaii-they-cannot-believe-what-theyre-finding/comment-page-1/#comment-11442
Wow, kudos to you jeans2nd for your in depth reading of previous CTH articles and posts….that goes w-a-y back.
WOW! That was a fun interview! And since it covered some of what T-Rex is saying, I just had to share PDJT’s closing remarks to Meridith…
“I know this. I will be better than anybody. I will do the best job. If I decide to run, I will do the best job. I will be best for this country. And, you may say, “Oh, gee, that doesn’t sound like George Washington.” Well, guess what? Before George Washington ran, he didn’t sound like George Washington either. I will be and do a great job, if I run and if I win.”
If the Budapest Memorandum had been a treaty, it would have had to be voted on by the senate. It wasn’t and it’s not. Bush the Elder also assured Gorbachev that we wouldn’t enroll former Soviet republics into NATO. We lied.
Best solution to Crimea – let it be independent and lease their port to Russia if they wish.
Best solution to Ukraine (after neutralizing $0r0$) is a massive MRP (Muslim Repatriation Program) to return Muslims to Saudi Arabia (Sunni) or Iran (Shiite). Really, Saudi Arabia should have to take them all. That is where the evil ideology was formed and that is where it should return.
As for the Africa – muslims have been an evil plague there for way too long. It’s heart-wrenching how many deaths, slavery, oppression Africa has suffered at the hands and swords of Islamists.
The whole world desperately needs MRP to be enacted globally.
Answer to the entire world not blowing up! Thanks, georgiafl! Put a wall around it. Or offer complete annihilation to relieve the Royal family from their misery and demise.
georgiafl, would you trust your security to a lease?
There are 100 year leases – just like the USA leases sites for our bases, etc.
ALSO – didn’t Crimea have a majority vote to return to alliance with Russia?
Ukraine has had major problems with corruption and will have more serious problems with $0r0$ and Islam influencing the country. $0r0$ is still Nazi at heart. Islamism and Nazism are twin ideologies – equally tyrannical and barbaric.
Good. Russia is a rapidly dying country. The fact they are squandering precious resources on conflicts that are nothing more then a replay of Cold War is obvious…Look at the leaders of Russia since end of Cold War and that answers many questions…
We owe Russia nothing and they are not our friends in any way…..We can try to work together and that’s fine, but you don’t concede anything to a thug like Putin….I feel the same way about most of Europe…Pay up and fix yourselves….They all have much bigger bark then bite…
Set the ground rules and walk away…
At least Russia (like Poland and Hungary) has resisted the encroachment and demon hordes ofl Islam.
Russia has a large and growing muslim population:
https://www.stratfor.com/image/russias-growing-muslim-population
I believe the only country on the Eurasian continent that is nominally Christian to have higher numbers is France.
And many converts:
https://globalecco.org/en_GB/ctx-v1n1/violent-converts-to-islam
Go down to the section about other countries — Russia is having a problem with ethnic Russians, who one would suppose are at least nominally ROC in origin, converting to islam, and worse becoming jihadists.
Oh – I had read Russia had cracked down and rejected Islamist invasion after the Beslan School massacre.
Thanks for the correction. Anywhere Islam spreads is plagued and in for a lot of suffering.
Re-correction for you, georgiafl. The Russians have a very aggressive anti-Wahhabi Islam security program in the Caucuses (Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia). These are Muslim republics in the RF, and the ISIS and AQ sponsors in Saudi Arabia have for 35 years sent radicals into these areas to fight the government forces.
The FSB intercepts and kills many bombers and assailants all the time. There are special units dedicated to these regions and to the big cities of Russia.
The St. Petersburg bomber and his cell (he was not a lone wolf, but a directed agent) have been uncovered, the leaders captured. So, more links will be uncovered.
The Russians are very effective internally and internationally at fighting Islamic terror.
Egypt is desperate to get Russia to come help them fight the MB/ISIS. Turkey depends on Russian Intel services to help them against terrorists. And the Central Asian ‘stans all depend on Russian security against Islamic radicals.
https://www.rt.com/news/385307-suspect-petersburg-blast-detained/
Russia also has Siberia where they can store terrorists indefinitely….longterm cold storage.
You’re welcome. It isn’t well known because it is not well reported. It is nonetheless significant, I think. I won’t lie: it troubles me greatly; I am afraid it will have serious future repercussions that may be coming into play now.
The bigger crime is letting Obama, $0r0$ and Islam have their way in Ukraine.
Alex…and you know about VVP & RUSSIA only from NYT & WAPO sir that is not eunogh.
Agree, sanctions a nothingburger…
Importantly, at home, this stance mutes the blathering of war hungry Punch and Judy (McCain & Graham) and their ilk. Pres. Trump has dinner with them (P&J) this week probably for a come to Jesus moment.
Also, accentuates leverage in Europe pre-G7 meeting and anticipating opening, on a country by country basis, bilateral trade discussions. An ancillary benefit is the EU’s continuing to be exposed as an over bloated gas bag.
Oh yeah, more leverage to get NATO “allies” to pay up
This belligerent stance towards Russia will not mute McCain and Graham it simply rewards them them for their past attacks on Trump’s previous foreign policies (that he campaigned on). In an interview last week Graham said he was the happiest man in D.C. after Trump’s 180 degree turn on Russia.
This just came in to my account:
10:00AM: President Trump has a video conference with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station – Watch LIVE
11:30AM: **President Trump has a working lunch with ambassadors of countries on the United Nations Security Council**
2:30PM: President Trump signs a proclamation on Holocaust Remembrance
3:00PM: President Trump hosts a credential ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to Washington, D.C.
4:30PM: President Trump meets with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford
5:30PM: **President Trump participates in a reception with conservative media**
6:30PM: **President Trump has dinner with Senator John McCain, Mrs. Cindy McCain, and Senator Lindsey Graham**
Bet President T is rrrrreally looking forward to this evening.
Ha! Ha! I wonder what will be on the menu?!
Sandra-VA says:
Meatloaf, of course!
crows- for Graham & McCain.
Ha! Forgot about that!
artichoke says:
I support Trump in almost everything, but this seems like a contradiction of his campaign rhetoric that a lot of us liked. Why are we still fighting the cold war? Why are we trying to uphold General Secretary Khrushchev’s maneuver to transfer Crimea from the Russian SSR to the Ukrainian SSR? Why are we backing the side with neo-Nazi associations?
Nose holding, stinky, swamp politics is reality. Trump has waded into the Neocon muck to get our domestic agenda passed in the legislature. Thank God for Teflon, soap and water.
dododo says:
I remember reading that Ukraine has a weak, corrupt govt and is a hotbed of islamic terrorism.
C. Lowell says:
T-Rex is no John Kerry, that’s for sure,
And I’m sure this is code for DJT/Putin collusion, but I’ll leave it to the MSM to analyze that…
Linked is an article which gives basic information about Crimea, its history, relevancy and which US state(s) it is most like.
http://theweek.com/articles/449175/which-american-state-most-like-crimea
This gives a very good overview of Crimea:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Crimea
Also includes the history.
But I thought DJT was colluding with Russia —
These comments don’t seem like collusion… Or maybe the Democrats and MSM are lying?
saintoil says:
I drop in here every now and then since the Tomahawk betrayal to the base to see if your current reactions. So your cheering Trump and Tillerson on now with the hyper Neo Con Job???? So are you guys ready to go to war for the Ukraine neo nazi’s that WE installed????? I don’t hardly recognize my formerly beloved CTH.
You clearly have not read the comments.
Hillary and McCain are surely proud of the slow learner Trump turned neo.
Are you guys aware that Crimea is mostly Russian speaking and overwhelmingly voted to align with Russia?
If you had read all the previous comments in this thread you would have noted that this has been pointed out several times. In fact, I have seen this espoused many times in other threads over the months, so I do think most here are educated on the facts regarding Crimea.
This is a very troll like post that fits nicely into the current leftist talking points.
‘I don’t think it’s troll like… but…..by taking pro isis rebel, pro EU, pro globalist “GESTURES” he might be stabbing us in the back…….IF he doesn’t stop it ? What makes you think he is going to stop it? Give me one thing that has happened that gives you hope? And do NOT site 4 or 8 D chess. It’s folly, it’s all consistent since the great betrayal took place because Evanka cried and he had a neo conversion from evidence presented from his ENEMIES in the deep state. I am no troll, I was one of his biggest fans before the BETRAYAL. I went to many rallies and gave money. And loved every minute of it. Something happened folks. I voted for America first. There just doesn’t seem to be any debate here about the circumstances of what happened. Just glossing over and hope and wish that it’s some 7 D chess and that he will snap back or say he was hoodwinked by the black hats. I suppose this does fit into leftist talking points and that is the problem. Doing what he did is inconsistent with his promises. I don’t like lefties and Marxist filth but I cannot defend his globalist conversion to their perpetual war and Russiaphobia.
“Obama’s hidden Iran deal giveaway”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/obama-iran-nuclear-deal-prisoner-release-236966
“Obama Lied, Americans Died: Released Iranians Tied to Terror, Nuclear Proliferation”.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/24/obama-lied-hidden-iran-deal-released-national-security-threats-destroyed-counter-proliferation-efforts/
BitchyPants on Day One – Senate Impeach…
Dutchman on Day One – Senate Impeach…
Bill Durham on Day One – Senate Impeach…
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15 Delicious Dishes Worth a Trip to Guatemala For
Empanadas, Antigua Guatemala © Selene Nelson
Guatemala is known for many things – volcanoes, colonial towns, Mayan ruins – but food isn’t necessarily one of them. Yet, this Central American country has a delicious, flavoursome and complex cuisine that’s the perfect amalgamation of Spanish culture and Maya traditions. Popular cities like Antigua are packed with excellent restaurants and cool cafes – the only problem will be deciding what to eat. Here are 15 delicious dishes worth a trip to Guatemala for.
Pupusas
Pupusas are everywhere in Guatemala and are a great way for tourists on a budget to fill up. Thick corn tortillas are stuffed with a variety of fillings – usually refried beans, cheese and/or pork – and then fried until the surface is crisp and the inside soft. They traditionally come with a helping of salsa and cabbage to keep it fresh.
Pupusas © Jennifer Woodard Madera / Flickr
Tres Leches Cake is a traditional dessert in Guatemala. Usually eaten cold, it’s essentially a cake soaked in three kinds of milk, including evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and cream.
Elotes can be found at street carts throughout Guatemala. Barbecued corn on the cob are piled high with ketchup, mayonnaise, and cheese – the perfect afternoon pick-me up!
Grilled Corn, Ecuador ©Vetatur Fumare /Flickr
Chicken Pepian
Guatemala doesn’t really have a national dish, but chicken pepian is probably the closest thing to one. This spicy stew is one of the oldest dishes in Guatemala. It’s made with chicken, beef or pork, contains both fruit and vegetables (usually pear, squash, carrot, potato and corn) and is cooked with a rich mix of spices. It’s traditionally served with rice and tortillas.
Kak’ik
Kak’ik is the other contender for Guatemala’s national dish. This traditional Mayan turkey soup is packed with spices, including coriander, achiote and chilies, and is an important part of Mayan cultural heritage. Its roots go back to the Q’eqchi’ ethnic group who still prepare the dish in the same way that they did hundreds of years ago.
Empanadas are crispy, buttery pastries that are perfect for lunch on the go. Throughout Central America, these usually have a meat filling, but in Guatemala, most are filled with potato and spinach and covered with toppings such as guacamole, tomatoes, onion and cilantro.
Patio de las Empanadas © travelwayoflife/Flickr
Chile rellenos are pimiento peppers stuffed with a variety of fillings, usually rice, cheese, minced meat, spices and vegetables. They’re traditionally coated in an egg batter and fried, then smothered in tomato sauce and served with fresh corn tortillas.
Tamalitos
Tamalitos are made from cooked corn dough wrapped in fresh green maize leaves, and sometimes are stuffed with other ingredients like refried beans. They’re sometimes served in place of tortillas.
Tamales are served in bread in Mexico City © Enrique Vázquez/Flickr
Hilachas
The word hilachas means ‘rags’, which seems like a weird name for a dish until you see what it looks like. It’s made with a type of meat that shreds easily and is simmered in a mildly spicy tomato sauce and cooked with potatoes, squash and/or carrots. For a more filling meal, it’s served with rice and fresh corn tortillas.
Noodle tostadas
Tostadas – crispy, hard shell tacos – are a popular street food, and most are topped with guacamole, tomato salsa, radishes, onions and sometimes a large dollop of noodles. You may think the idea of noodle tacos is odd, but with so many different textures and tastes, it’s a pleasure to eat.
Desayuno tradicional
The local Guatemalan breakfast is absolutely delicious. The desayuno tradicional usually features scrambled eggs with onion and tomato, avocado slices, mashed piloy beans, stewed plantains and tortillas; it makes for a perfect start to the day.
Samsara breakfasts, Antigua Guatemala © Selene Nelson
Rellenitos
For those with a sweet tooth, make sure you try some rellenitos. Essentially Guatemalan donuts, rellenitos are made up of cooked plantains mashed with refried bean paste, sugar and cinnamon, and then they are deep-fried. When mixed with sugar, the beans’ taste and texture are similar to chocolate.
Frijoles Volteados
Frijoles Volteados is the Guatemalan version of refried beans, and it’s more rich and flavoursome. Refried black beans are mashed into a thick paste and are usually served for breakfast.
Coffee might not be a dish in itself, but it’s hard to discuss Guatemala’s culinary offerings without mentioning it. The mountain basin that surrounds Antigua produces some of the best highland coffee in the world, and even the most simple cup of local brew will delight.
Coffee © StockSnap / Pixabay
Considered the birthplace of chocolate, cacao played an enormous part in Guatemalan history. It was traditionally served as a drink instead of being eaten, and even now locals prefer to sip on it rather than bite into a bar. Either way tastes pretty good.
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Doomtown: Reloaded Review - Complex Cowboy Cardplay
Jonathan Bolding | 30 Sep 2014 11:30
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Designed by Mark Wootton. Original design by David Williams. Additional development by Eric Jome, Konstantinos Thoukydidis, and Steven Martino. Published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). Released in 2014. For 2+ players ages 14+. Plays in 25-30 minutes. Copy provided for review by AEG.
The 90s Collectible Card Game craze saw the rise and fall of some pretty obscure games, and with rare exception only a select few survived more than a year. Doomtown, based on the late 90s weird western roleplaying game Deadlands, survived for a few years - and many have fond memories of it. Now comes Doomtown: Reloaded, a reissue of the original game by AEG in their expandable card game format, where expansions and sets include a full playable set of each card included - so there's no element of randomization to collecting and playing the decks you want.
At its heart, Doomtown is a game of positioning and control. Over the course of the game, players build a town and maneuver their gang of cowboys around that town in an attempt to establish control over it. Unlike games such as Magic: The Gathering, and more like Android: Netrunner, the positional element of Doomtown really twists how players think about and play the game. It's a harrowing experience that begs players to push their luck, attempt interesting plays, coming back to the game again and again. It scales remarkably well into three or four player multiplayer game experiences. Add to that the interesting battle mechanics involving poker hands, and the formula for a unique and fun game quickly emerges. Sadly, Doomtown's complexity and the steep learning curve before playing against another player becomes fun works against both new players wanting to pick it up and experienced players who want to get deeper into the game.
The world of Deadlands, which Doomtown in habits, is a weird western setting where cowboys and mad scientists exist alongside summoned demons, zombies, and magical coal called Ghost Rock that shrieks with the howls of the damned when burned. There are four factions in the core set of Doomtown, each representing a powerful group within Gomorra, the frontier boomtown where the game is set. The Law Dogs are the loyal and upright citizens, the sheriff, and his deputies, whose deck focuses on picking strategic battles and punishing opponents for cheating. The Sloane Gang are outlaws led by the the deadeye Sloane; Her gang of ruffians focus on outshooting and overwhelming their opponents. The Morgan Cattle Company are a crew of mad scientists who're richer than their opponents, surprising them with fast horses, steam-powered gatling pistols, and flamethrowers. Finally there's The Fourth Ring, a circus crew who dabble in evil magic and demon summoning, destroying their enemies with potent combinations of weird spells, unkillable undead, and clowns.
Every card has a few values - five or six in the case of the Dudes who represent your crew. The graphic design and layout is pretty good, though the plethora of values will often confuse new players. The art is lovingly painted or rendered, and there are very few pieces that are bad or utterly lacking in charm. Likewise, the tokens that represent game values like your available Ghost Rock supply and bonuses are made of a sturdy cardboard stock. The other key feature of every card is that it has a traditional playing card value in the upper corner, allowing any given draw from your deck to serve as a poker hand to resolve various events in the game - from shootouts to spellcasting.
In any given round of Doomtown you'll ante up some Ghost Rock, then draw a hand of lowball poker, to establish which player goes first - and thereby gets the extra income - that round. Afterwards, the game goes into turns, where each player takes a single action with either their dudes already in town or by playing a new card from their hand, often Booting those dudes and making them ineligible for more actions. As players pay to place new locations - called Deeds - from their hands they gain control over those deeds, which usually have an income value for their controller and give a number of Control Points. Those deeds don't exclusively belong to that player, though, and if another player has dudes with a higher Influence value on the location they take control of it.
Players' dudes maneuver around the town using a system of movement rules, allowing them to move from their home base to the open town square and to their own player and other players' properties. Dudes can also kick off Shootouts with groups of other players' dudes, resolving them with poker hands depending on the number and kinds of dudes involved. The number of dudes knocked out in a shootout depends on the difference in hand rank between two players, and casualties have to be paid for by either putting a dude in your discard to cover a single casualty or Acing them into Boot Hill to cover two casualties. When a dude goes into boot hill, the player can't play any cards with that name for the rest of the game - the dude is well and truly dead. Players continue to take actions until everyone passes consecutively, then the game enters a Sundown phase where everyone draws more cards and goes into an upkeep phase for the next round.
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Doomtown: Reloaded This game of cowpokes and charlatans, sorcerers and shootouts, will be too much for some while others will be absolutely enthralled. 4
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1950s Lantern Pendant Lamp
Materials: Black and silver painted forged iron and iron. Brass decorative parts and ornamental screws. White opal conical glass. Iron white painted perforated mesh on top of the glass. Black and white painted square lampshade, brass chain. Bakelite socket.
Chain Length: 80 cm / 31.49’’
Height: 31 cm / 12.20”
Width: 21 cm / 8.26”
Any type of light bulb can be used. But a white, opaque or frosted one is preferred; it gives the best result with this light.
Period: 1950s, 1960s.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer: Massive, Mortsel, Kontich and Wommelgem, Belgium. (attributed)
Other version: This 1950s lantern pendant lamp was probably also made with clear glass.
These type of pendant lamps were made for many years. The origin is vague, but they were presumably first made in France and Italy. Of course the design is based on the typical candlestick lanterns, but there was a revival of this design in the 50s and 60s.
Massive was in origin a bronze foundry and they produced mainly candlesticks, crucifixes and chandeliers in Wilrijk near Antwerp, Belgium. The company was founded in 1926 by Pieter-Jozef De Jaeck. His son Eddy De Jaeck was responsible for the huge expansion of the company in the 1970s. But it were his sons, Piet and Jan De Jaeck who made Massive a true multinational. Thus, they moved production to Eastern Europe and China.
In the 1980s Massive became the leading brand in Europe. In 2002, the brothers left the company to the investment fund CVC Capital Partners, for allegedly more than 250 million euros. Since 2008 the company is owned by Philips and the name of the shops is changed into Light Gallery.
When the takeover by Philips was announced in November 2006 Massive commercialised more than 10.000 lighting products under brand names such as Massive, TRIO and Lirio. The group had about 5.000 employees worldwide and was active in 70 countries.
Massive sold many lamps made by others. Peill + Putzler from Germany and Yamada Shomei from Japan produced lamps for Massive, to name a few. Many other lighting companies did.
All the electric parts were made by VLM Components. VLM Components was founded in 1945 in Buccinasco, a small village near Milan, Italy. VLM Components is part of the Relco Group, founded in 1967. Today they are the owners of the brands Relco, Leuci, Relco Lighting, VLM Components and Segno. VLM Components became famous for the switches they produce which were designed by Achille Castiglioni in 1968.
Massive – Wikipedia (in Dutch)
The complete history of the Philips company
Philips – Wikipedia
Other Massive lamps
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Virginia Glee Club Wiki
From Rugby Road to Vinegar Hill
Gustave A. Breaux, Jr.
Virginia Women's Chorus
Virginia Glee Club Live!
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Louis Alvin Smith (January 7, 1924 – June 9, 1945)[1] was a member of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1941-1942 season. He was a first year student during the season.[2]
Smith was a casualty of World War II and is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.[1]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Jeff Hall (2013-06-01). "PFC Louis Alvin Smith (1924-1945)". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111681974. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
↑ Corks and Curls. 1942. p. 56. http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B065525-00028/243147381?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=40392_B065525-00057.
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Why do men avoid vegetarian options?
Why are men generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products? According to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers are influenced by a strong association of meat with masculinity.
“We examined whether people in Western cultures have a metaphoric link between meat and men,” write authors Paul Rozin (University of Pennsylvania), Julia M. Hormes (Louisiana State University), Myles S. Faith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Brian Wansink (Cornell University). The answer, they found, was a strong connection between eating meat—especially muscle meat, like steak—and masculinity.
In a number of experiments that looked at metaphors and certain foods, like meat and milk, the authors found that people rated meat as more masculine than vegetables. They also found that meat generated more masculine words when people discussed it, and that people viewed male meat eaters as being more masculine than non-meat eaters.
Most of the studies took place in the United States and Britain, but the authors also analyzed 23 languages that use gendered pronouns. They discovered that across most languages, meat was related to the male gender.
“To the strong, traditional, macho, bicep-flexing, All-American male, red meat is a strong, traditional, macho, bicep-flexing, All-American food,” the authors write. “Soy is not. To eat it, they would have to give up a food they saw as strong and powerful like themselves for a food they saw as weak and wimpy.”
If marketers or health advocates want to counteract such powerful associations, they need to address the metaphors that shape consumer attitudes, the authors explain. For example, an education campaign that urges people to eat more soy or vegetables would be a tough sell, but reshaping soy burgers to make them resemble beef or giving them grill marks might help cautious men make the transition.
“In marketing, understanding the metaphor a consumer might have for a brand could move the art of positioning toward more of a science,” the authors conclude.
Paul Rozin, Julia M. Hormes, Myles S. Faith, and Brian Wansink. “Is Meat Male? A Quantitative Multi-Method Framework to Establish Metaphoric Relationships.” Journal of Consumer Research: October 2012.
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One comment on “Journal of Consumer Research: Meat-eaters Are Macho; Vegans are Wimps?”
Carole Brooks Platt
I think there is definitely something to the masculine connection to meat, but the word is feminine in French: la viande.
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Sharad Pawar
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As of 29 October, 2010
Sharad Govindrao Pawar (born 12 December 1940),[1] is an Indian politician from Maharashtra with over 50 years of public service. He holds a position of prominence in politics of India as well as the regional politics of Maharashtra. During his long career, Pawar has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three occasions and held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India. He is president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He leads the NCP delegation in the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of Indian parliament. He is one of the founders of MVA, a post-poll alliance in Maharashtra between Shivsena, NCP, and INC.
Pawar comes from the town of Baramati in the Pune district of Maharashtra. He is the patriarch of a political family that includes his daughter as well his nephew and other members of his extended family.[2]
Outside of politics, Pawar served as the Chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI from 2005 to 2008 and as the president of the International Cricket Council from 2010 to 2012.[3] On 17 June 2015, he was re-elected as president of the Mumbai Cricket Association, a position he held from 2001 to 2010 and in 2012.[4] On 17 December 2016, he stepped down as the President of Mumbai Cricket Association.[5]
In 2017, the Indian government under his political opponent, prime minister Narendra Modi, conferred upon him Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour of India.
1 Early life and family
2 Political career
2.1 Early career
2.2 1967–1978
2.3 1978-1987
2.5 Early 1990s
2.6 Mid 1990s
2.7 Political career since 1997
2.8 Formation of Nationalist Congress Party
2.9 Minister of agriculture in UPA government
2.9.1 Wheat imports
2.9.2 Agricultural produce prices
2.9.3 Farmer suicides
2.9.4 Promotion of endosulfan
3 Career since 2014
4 Sports administration
5 Educational Institutions
6 Controversies
6.1 Criminal links
6.2 Stamp-paper scam
6.3 Land allotment
6.4 IPL exemption from tax controversy
6.5 Asset declaration
6.6 Nira Radia's allegations
6.7 Lavasa
6.8 Comments on the 2010 Pune bombing
6.9 Slapping incident
6.10 Turban controversy
7 Awards and honours
8 See also
10 Further reading
11 External links
Early life and family
Sharad Pawar is one of eleven children born to Govindrao Pawar, and his wife, Shardabai Pawar. The ancestors of Govindrao had moved to Baramati from the nearby Satara district. Govindrao had a long career in Baramati Farmers' Cooperative (Sahakari Kharedi Vikri Sangh). He also managed a students hostel in the 1940s. In 1950s he was instrumental in setting up cooperative sugar mills in the Baramati region. Shardabai Pawar was also elected to the district local board three times between 1937 and 1952,[6] and also looked after the family farm at Katewadi, ten kilometres from Baramati.
The elder Pawars were keen supporters of education for their children. For his higher education, young Sharad Pawar went to Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) in Pune. He was an average student but active in student politics. Most of Sharad's brothers and sisters were well educated and successful in their respective professions.[7]
Vasantrao, the eldest brother of Pawar and a lawyer, was murdered over a land deal by a man who was suspected to be a hired assassin. Pratap Pawar, Sharad Pawar's younger brother, runs the Marathi daily newspaper Sakal. Pawar's nephew, Ajit Pawar, is also a politician and served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.[7] His grandnephew Rohit Rajendra Pawar is also a politician. Rohit started his career by serving on Pune Zila Parishad. In October 2019, he was elected to the Maharashtra Vidhansabha from the Karjat constituency.[8]
Pawar is married to Pratibha (née Shinde), daughter of the test cricketer Sadashiv Shinde. They have one daughter, Supriya Sule, who is married to Sadanand Sule. Supriya currently represents the Baramati constituency in the 17th Lok Sabha.
Pawar's first political act was when as a schoolboy, he organized a protest march for Goan Independence in Pravaranagar in 1956. At college he was active in student politics. Although his older lawyer brother belonged to Peasant and Worker's Party, young Pawar preferred the Congress party and joined Youth Congress in 1958. He rose to become the president of Poona district youth Congress in 1962. By 1964, he was one of the two secretaries of Maharashtra youth congress and in regular contact with bigwigs of the party.
Early in his career, Pawar was regarded as a protege of Yashwantrao Chavan, the most influential politician from Maharashtra at that time.[9][10] At a young age of 27 in 1967, Pawar was nominated as the candidate for the Baramati constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly over more established members by the undivided Congress Party. He won the election and represented the constituency on and off for decades. In 1969 joined the Congress(R) faction of prime minister Indira Gandhi along with his mentor Yashwantrao Chavan. As the MLA of Baramati in the early 1970s, he was instrumental in building percolation tanks during a severe drought in Maharashtra. Like most Congress party politicians from rural western Maharashtra, he was also heavily involved in the politics of the local cooperative sugar mills and other member run cooperatives societies. In early 1970s, the then chief minister Vasantrao Naik had been power for a long time and there was jockeying for succession among different factions of the state Congress party. At that time, looking to the future leadership of the party, Yashwantrao Chavan persuaded Naik to bring Sharad Pawar into his cabinet as state home affairs minister.[11] Pawar continued as home affairs minister in the 1975-77 government of Shankarrao Chavan, who succeeded Naik as the chief minister.
In the 1977 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party, under Indira Gandhi, lost power to the Janata Alliance. Taking responsibility for the loss of large number of seats in Maharashtra, chief minister Shankarrao Chavan resigned shortly afterwards and was replaced by Vasantdada Patil. Later in the year, the Congress party split, with Pawar's mentor, Yashwantrao Chavan joining one faction, Congress (U), and Indira Gandhi leading her own faction, Congress (I). Pawar himself joined Congress (U). In the state assembly elections held early in 1978, the two Congress parties ran separately but then formed an alliance to keep power under Vasantdada Patil and deny it to Janata Party which emerged as the biggest single party after the election, but without a majority. Pawar served as Minister of Industry and Labour in the Patil government.[12]
In July 1978, Pawar broke away from the Congress (U) party to form a coalition government with the Janata Party. In the process, at the age of 38, he became the youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra.[13][14][15] This Progressive Democratic Front government was dismissed in February 1980, following Indira Gandhi's return to power.
In the 1980 elections Congress (I) won the majority in the state assembly, and A.R. Antulay took over as chief minister. Pawar took over the Presidency of his Indian National Congress (Socialist) (Congress(S)) party in 1983. For the first time, he won the Lok Sabha election from the Baramati parliamentary constituency in 1984. He also won the state assembly election of March 1985 for Baramati and preferred to return to state politics, and resigned his Lok Sabha seat. Congress (S), won 54 seats out of 288 in the state assembly, and Pawar became the leader of the opposition of PDF coalition which included the BJP, PWP, and the Janata party.[16]
His return to Congress (I) in 1987 has been cited as a reason for the rise of the Shiv Sena at that time.[17] Pawar had stated at the time, "the need to save the Congress Culture in Maharashtra", as his reason for returning to Congress. In June 1988, Prime Minister of India and Congress President Rajiv Gandhi decided to induct then Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan into his Union Cabinet as Finance Minister and Sharad Pawar was chosen to replace Chavan as chief minister. Sharad Pawar had the task of checking the rise of the Shiv Sena in state politics, which was a potential challenge to the dominance of Congress in the state.[citation needed] In the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, Congress won 28 seats out of 48 in Maharashtra. In the state assembly elections of February 1990, the alliance between the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party posed a stiff challenge to Congress. Congress fell short of an absolute majority in the state assembly, winning 141 seats out of 288. Sharad Pawar was sworn in as chief minister again on 4 March 1990 with the support of 12 independent or unaffiliated members of the legislative assembly (MLAs).
During the course of the 1991 election campaign, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. There were reports in the media that Pawar's name was being considered for the prime minister's post, along with those of P.V. Narasimha Rao and N.D. Tiwari, in the event of a Congress victory.[18][19][20][21] However the Congress Parliamentary Party (party MPs) elected P.V. Narasimha Rao as their leader, and he was sworn in as prime minister on 21 June 1991. Rao named Pawar as defence minister. On 26 June 1991, Pawar took over that portfolio, and held it until March 1993. After Pawar's successor in Maharashtra, Sudhakarrao Naik, stepped down after the disastrous handling of the Bombay riots, Rao asked Pawar to serve again as chief minister of the state. Pawar was sworn in as chief minister for his fourth term on 6 March 1993. Almost immediately, Mumbai was rocked by a series of bomb blasts, on 12 March 1993. Pawar's response to the blasts attracted controversy. More than a decade later, Pawar admitted that he had "deliberately misled" people following the bombings, by saying that there were "13 and not 12" explosions, and had added the name of a Muslim-dominated locality to show that people from both communities had been affected.[22] He attempted to justify this deception by claiming that it was a move to prevent communal riots, by falsely portraying that both Hindu and Muslim communities in the city had been affected adversely. He also admitted to lying about evidence recovered and misleading people into believing that it pointed to the Tamil Tigers as possible suspects.[22]
Mid 1990s
In 1993, the Deputy Commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, G. R. Khairnar made a series of accusations against Pawar for being involved in corruption and protecting criminals.[23][24] Though Khairnar could not produce any evidence in support of his claims, it inevitably affected Pawar's popularity. Notable social worker Anna Hazare started a fast-unto-death to demand the expulsion of 12 officers of the Maharashtra state forest department who had been accused of corruption. The opposition parties accused Pawar's government of trying to shield the corrupt officers.
The 1994 Gowari stampede occurred at Nagpur, during the winter session of the state assembly, and killed 114 people. Nagpur Police were trying to disperse almost 50,000 Gowari and Vanjari protesters using baton charges but the police created panic and triggered a stampede amongst protesters.[25] Allegations were made that the mishap occurred because welfare minister Madhukarrao Pichad did not meet with the delegation of the Vanjari people in time. Though Pichad, accepting moral responsibility for the mishap, stepped down, this incident was another setback to Sharad Pawar's government.
After 16 years of protest by the Namantar Andolan (Name-change Movement), the state government finally renamed Marathwada University as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University on 14 January 1994, the compromise new name being an expansion of the old name (Namvistar) rather than a complete change of name (Namanatar). As chief minister Mr Sharad Pawar announced few developments in university departments.[clarification needed][26]
New elections to the Vidhan Sabha were held in 1995. The Shiv Sena-BJP coalition was leading Congress in the polls, and there was widespread rebellion in the Congress party. Shiv Sena-BJP won 138 seats while Congress retained only 80 seats in the state assembly. Sharad Pawar had to step down and Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi took over as chief minister on 14 March 1995. Until the Lok Sabha elections of 1996, Sharad Pawar served as the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly. In the 1996 General elections, Pawar won the Baramati seat in the Lok Sabha and left the state assembly.
Political career since 1997
In June 1997, Sharad Pawar unsuccessfully challenged Sitaram Kesri for the post of President of the Indian National Congress. In the mid-term parliamentary elections of 1998, Pawar not only won his constituency, Baramati, but also led Congress to a win by a large majority[clarification needed] of Maharashtra Lok Sabha constituencies. Congress was aligned with the Republican Party of India (Athvale) and Samajwadi Party for the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. The Congress party won 33 Lok Sabha seats outright, and the allied Republican Party of India won 4 more, for a total of 37 out of 48 in the state. Sharad Pawar served as Leader of Opposition in the 12th Lok Sabha.
Formation of Nationalist Congress Party
In 1999, after the 12th Lok Sabha was dissolved and elections to the 13th Lok Sabha were called, Pawar, P. A. Sangma, and Tariq Anwar demanded, in the Congress party working committee (CWC) meeting, that the party needed to propose someone native-born as the prime ministerial candidate and not the Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, who had entered party politics and replaced Kesri as Congress president.[27] The three leaders left the party and as a response in June 1999, Pawar and Sangma founded the Nationalist Congress Party. This new party aligned with the Congress party to form a coalition government in Maharashtra after the 1999 state assembly elections to prevent the Shiv Sena-BJP combine from returning to power.[28] Pawar, however, did not return to state politics and Vilasrao Deshmukh of Congress was chosen as chief minister, with Chagan Bhujbal representing the NCP as his deputy.
Minister of agriculture in UPA government
Sharad Pawar assumes the charge of Union Minister for Agriculture, Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution in New Delhi on 24 May 2004
After the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Pawar joined the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the Minister of Agriculture. He retained his portfolio when the UPA coalition government was reelected in 2009. He faced several crisis and controversies during his tenure as Agriculture minister.
Wheat imports
In 2007, the BJP asked for Pawar's resignation after alleging he was involved in a multi-crore Indian rupee (INR) scam involving wheat imports. In May 2007, a tender floated by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for procurement of wheat was cancelled when the lowest bid received was for 263 USD/ton. The government subsequently allowed private traders to purchase wheat directly from farmers that year resulting in a paucity of wheat to stock FCI granaries. By July 2007 the shortage at FCI was large enough to require import of wheat at a much higher price of 320–360 USD/ton. Taking advantage of this, traders who had domestically purchased wheat at 900 INR/ton earlier, were now offering the same to FCI at 1,300 INR/ton.[29][30]
Agricultural produce prices
As the Minister of Agriculture, Pawar was consistently accused of colluding in the extreme hike in prices of agricultural produce:
Wheat import in 2007 – The Bombay High Court issued notices to Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, questioning the decision to import defective red wheat, and asking for a directive to submit details of procurement of the crop from different states and the exact process of importing it.[31][32]
Sugar prices in 2009 – Opposition parties, including the BJP and the CPI(M) accused Sharad Pawar of engineering a steep rise in the price of sugar to the advantage of hoarders and importers.[33]
Wheat, Sugar, Rice, and Bean prices in 2009–2010 – The opposition accused Pawar to be responsible on the issue of spiraling prices.[34]
Farmer suicides
During his tenure as Minister of Agriculture, there have been farmer suicides in excess of 10,000 per year, totalling over 200,000 since 1997.[35][citation needed] Sharad Pawar has stated on record that he believes that the rate of farmer suicide in India is a 'normal thing'. However,he claimed at that time that his department was taking the necessary steps to reduce the numbers.[36][citation needed]
Promotion of endosulfan
Even though the pesticide endosulfan has been banned, India is slow to phase it out. In spite of its known negative health effects, Pawar made a remark that endosulfan is not yet proved dangerous. This remark prompted activist Vandana Shiva to call him a corrupt minister.[37][38][39]
In January 2012, Pawar announced that he would not contest the 2014 Lok Sabha election, in order to make way for younger leadership.[40] Also in 2012, Pawar gave up the chairmanship of the Empowered Group of Ministers investigating the 2G spectrum case, days after his appointment by the prime minister, fearing that his association with the decision-making process would drag him into the 2G Spectrum controversy.[41]
Career since 2014
Pawar's NCP lost power in Maharashtra after the 2014 assembly elections. The BJP had won a plurality of seats in the new assembly and formed a BJP-led state government in coalition with the Shivsena.[42] In May 2017, Pawar ruled out being a candidate for the June 2017 Indian presidential election.[43]
Pawar has interests in cricket, kabbadi, kho kho, wrestling and football. He has served as the head of various sports organisations, including
Mumbai Cricket Association[44]
Maharashtra Wrestling Association
Maharashtra Kabbadi Association
Maharashtra Kho Kho Association
Maharashtra Olympics Association
Board of Control for Cricket in India President 2005–2008
International Cricket Council Vice President[45]
International Cricket Council President[46]
Pawar served as the president of Pune International Marathon Trust, which has hosted Pune International Marathon for last 22 years.[citation needed]
Pawar founded the Vidya pratishthan early in his career in 1972 for serving the educational needs of the rural poor. The organization now runs number schools at all levels and colleges specializing in subjects such as information technology and Biotechnology.in Baramati and many other locations.[47] Pawar is associated with the Hon. Sharad Pawar Public School,[48] under the Shree Gurudatta Education Society;[citation needed] the Sharad Pawar International School, Pune; and the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy, near Mumbai.
Criminal links
In 1992–93, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Sudhakarrao Naik made a statement that the state leader of Indian National Congress party and erstwhile-Chief Minister Pawar, had asked him to "go easy on Pappu Kalani", a well known criminal-turned-politician.[49] Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray, later concurred with these allegations.[50] Further, Chief Minister Naik also alleged that it was possible that Kalani and Hitendra Thakur, another criminal-turned-politician from Virar, had been given tickets to contest election for the Maharashtra State Legislature at the behest of Pawar, who also put in a word for Naik with the police when the latter was arrested for his role in post-Demolition of the Babri Masjid riots in Mumbai.[51]
Pawar is also alleged to have close links with the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim[52] through Ibrahim's henchman Lakhan Singh based in the Middle East and close relationship with Shahid Balwa, also a suspect in the 2G spectrum case. These allegations were strengthened by the revelation about the involvement of Vinod Goenka, Balwa's business partner, in a controversial commercial project in Yerwada, Pune, which was being constructed under the same survey number as Pawar's family friend, Atul Chordia, had constructed the Panchshil Tech Park. BJP leader Eknath Khadse alleged that it was Balwa who had applied for environmental clearance for the two projects, a charge that Chordia refuted. Coincidentally, Chordia's Panchshil Pvt. Ltd. has Pawar's daughter, Supriya Sule, and her husband Sadanand as investors.[53] The state government's decision to hand over a 3-acre plot of the Yerwada police station for "re-development" to Balwa was retracted following Balwa's arrest.
Stamp-paper scam
Pawar was also named as a beneficiary in a stamp paper scam by a convicted Indian criminal, Abdul Karim Telgi, during a narcoanalysis test, filmed by various Indian news channels, wherein he also mentioned Chhagan Bhujbal.[54]
Land allotment
On 27 October 2007, the Bombay High Court served notices to institutions headed by Pawar, Ajit Pawar, and Sadanand Sule (Sharad Pawar's son-in-law), along with a corresponding notice served to the Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation (MKVDC) on why special privileges were given to Pawar and his family. This was done in consideration of Public Interest Litigation No. 148 of 2006, filed by Shamsunder Potare alleging that the said 2002 land allocations in Pune were illegal. The institutions and properties mentioned include:
Two 141.15-acre (57.12 ha) plots given allotted to Vidya Pratishthan, an educational society headed by Sharad Pawar
A 2-acre (0.81 ha) plot allotted to Anant Smriti Pratishthan, headed by Ajit Pawar, the Maharashtra state minister for irrigation and Sharad Pawar's nephew
A 32.12-acre (13.00 ha) plot allotted to Lavasa Corporation, owned by Sule. Sule handed over his share in 2006.[clarification needed][citation needed]
A 1-acre (0.40 ha) plot allotted to Shivajinagar Agriculture College
A 3-acre (1.2 ha) plot allotted to Sharadchandraji Scout and Guide Training Institute.
These allocations were allegedly made by NCP leader and minister Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar who was in charge of MKVDC at the time.[55][56] Sharad Pawar was served a contempt of court notice on 1 May 2008 in connection with this case for issuing statements to the press even though the matter was subjudice at the time. Also in connection with the case, the respondents were directed not to create third-party interests in the property under dispute and to undertake any developments at their own risk.[57][58]
IPL exemption from tax controversy
In 2010, in the case of tax exemptions of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Shiv Sena MLA Subhash Desai alleged that the state cabinet decided in January to impose the tax, before the year's IPL season started, but the decision was not implemented because of NCP chief Pawar's association with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).[59] Bombay High Court on August 2010 said there was "nothing on record" to show that the Union Minister influenced the Maharashtra government's decision to exempt Indian Premier League matches from entertainment tax.[60]
In 2011, Sharad Pawar declared his assets to be worth ₹120 million (equivalent to ₹180 million or US$2.6 million in 2018) as part of a mandatory disclosure, but his critics claimed that his wealth far exceeded the stated amount.[61][62] In 2010, it was alleged that the Pawar family indirectly held a 16% stake in the City Corporation, which had bid ₹11.76 billion (equivalent to ₹20 billion or US$280 million in 2018) for the Pune franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Pawar and his family denied the allegations, but the bidders board of the IPL contradicted their claims.[63][64][65]
Nira Radia's allegations
In 2011, under investigation of the 2G spectrum case Nira Radia told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that agriculture minister Pawar may be controlling the controversial DB Realty. According to the reports, she also told the investigative agency that Pawar may have spoken with former telecom minister A. Raja about the allocation of spectrum and licence to Swan Telecom. Radia also said that she had no documentary proof to back up her allegations.[66] Pawar has denied any link with former DB managing director Shahid Balwa who is now in CBI custody.
Lavasa
Sharad Pawar is alleged to have demanded compensation for allowing the planned-city Lavasa to be constructed. When Lavasa Corporation was receiving necessary clearances from the government of Maharashtra, relatives of Pawar had part-ownership of the company developing the project.[67] Pawar's daughter and son-in-law had more than 20% ownership between 2002 and 2004, and they later sold their stakes.[68] A nephew of his was chairman of Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation (MKVDC) when the MKVDC signed off on lease agreements for Lavasa and allowed it to store water and build dams.[67][69][70]
Comments on the 2010 Pune bombing
After the 2010 Pune bombing of German Bakery, Sharad Pawar appeared to take the incident lightly. He said to the reporters, "It is not alright to arrive at a conclusion that the entire Pune city has been targeted. The place where the blast took place is an isolated area", adding "when I was Chief Minister, Mumbai saw 11 simultaneous blasts but everything returned to normal soon."[71]
Slapping incident
Pawar was slapped by a youth named Harvinder Singh at the New Delhi Municipal Corporation centre while leaving the premises after attending a literary function on 24 November 2011.[72] The attacker, who previously is said to have assaulted former telecom minister Sukh Ram, was later arrested.
Turban controversy
In 2018, Pawar asked party members to felicitate him with the pagadi (turban) of social reformer Mahatma Phule, instead of the usual Puneri Pagadi worn by peshwas (prime ministers) of the Maratha Empire. In response to criticism that he was trying to stir up anti-Brahmin sentiment and appeal to Dalits, Pawar said that he wasn't rejecting any section of society but honoring his idols Phule, Babasaheb Ambedkar, and Shahu Maharaj.[73][74][75]
Padma Vibhushan (2017) – In 2017, Pawar was honored with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, on the recommendation of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government.[76] The timing of the award was questioned by observers and some attributed it to political motivations of the BJP.[77]
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WRAPmail’s CEO, Rolv E. Heggenhougen, has been issued patent number 8572275 on October 29, 2013. The Patent has been assigned to WRAPmail, Inc.
“I am delighted that, after 8 years since the first application, the patent has been granted” says Mr. Heggenhougen who continues “this certifies that what we have developed has a very unique value and something we should be able to capitalize on in many ways”.
Click here for link to the patent
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WRAPmail helps search for missing children with every email sent by free users by incorporating an RSS feed from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children – see Huffington Post article by clicking here.
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WRAPmail’s revenue models are Advertising Revenue through our own Ad Network where users can advertise in other user’s emails (predominantly in the free user’s emails), license fees from ad-free and Enterprise clients and Premium licensed Sports Team and Celebrity WRAP Sales to Fans.
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Calendar Jazz
Connie Han Trio
Jul 23 | Tue | 7PM - 9:30 pm | Event is Over
"There was always something inside me that craved creating something from nothing," says Connie Han. "With jazz you're creating something—from you—out of nothing." With the release of her incendiary Mack Avenue debut Crime Zone, this 22–year–old West Coast pianist and composer has created an edgy blend of modern and traditional jazz – and earned plaudits from the New York Times, Jazziz, Downbeat, and more. Moving with ease between acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes, Han pays tribute to McCoy Tyner, Mulgrew Miller, and Kenny Kirkland with her own distinctive edge and blue flame. She is (to quote the NYT) "the rare musician with fearsome technical chops, a breadth of historical knowledge and enough originality to write tunes that absorb your ear easily." "Even though jazz is meant to be fearless in its creative limits, I strongly believe in preserving the musical foundation. I want to show that it is possible to create infinite fresh ideas without having to deconstruct the building blocks of the jazz language. To me, that language is universal." (Connie Han) Connie Han – piano Ivan Taylor – bass Bill Wysaske – drums
Venue: Jazz Standard
116 E 27th St Map
Moon Hooch at The Bowery Ballroom
Age Limit: 18 and Over In just a few short years, the explosive horn-and-percussion trio Moon Hooch—Mike Wilbur (horns), Wenzl McGowen (horns), and James Muschler (drums)—has taken their exhilarating...
The Music of Nina Simone & First Ladies of Jazz & Blues at Club Bonafide
First Ladies of Jazz & Blues: The Music of Etta James, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone & More feat. Emilie Surtees Jazz has not one queen but three, and impassioned vocalist Emilie Surtees will pay homag...
Jacques Brel Chansons in French with the Story of Brel Feat. Alfredo Merat at Club Bonafide
Thu | 5:30pm
Alfredo Merat interprets "Chansons" Of the Belgium/French Giant Jacques Brel, gone to soon. After his discovery of "Jacques Brel is Alive & Well in Paris", Alfredo decided to set the record straight…....
Upcoming Events at Jazz Standard
Mingus Orchestra - 02/17/20
Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith - 02/18/20
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Trio 3 with Special Guest Vijay Iyer - 02/20/20
Mingus Big Band - 02/24/20
Miho Hazama and m_unit - 02/25/20
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Middlebury Special Collections
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Shades of Kern County, Taft - Oildorado Day
Pyramid Oil Co. crew, world champion pullers, Oildorado Day, Taft, California, October 22, 1965. Billy Hillburn, Wally Bingham, Mat Bingham receive their trophy from Gena Fru. Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Taft, Kern County,...
Foster Monument and chapel, Montpelier, Vt.
Postmarked Jan. 17, 1946 and sent to Mrs. A. C. Stebbins, 915 Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. Foster monument at Green Mount cemetery in Montpelier, Vermont, with chapel in the background. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Cemeteries, Montpelier (Vt.), Postcards
Ontario City Library, Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room
"A Chaffey Song"
Description : This is a scanned copy of a glass plate negative with the text of a song sung by Chaffey College or Chaffey High School students, called "A Chaffey Song." The song was likely published in an early annual for either the college or the later high school. Source : 1 Page of 1: Photograph (3.4 x 4 in.) Call Number : gpn_041 Files were created by Ontario City Library and preserved by the California Preservation Program .
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"Alis Et Animo" seal
Description : Translates to "with speed and courage" Source : 1 Page of 1: Photograph Digitized by California Revealed .
Student Sex Counseling Service
Students discussing sexual matters at the Student Sex Counselling Service
Topics: Faculty & students, Counselling, Academics
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives: a10pfmcnb03-05-196x-02np
Painter Hall
Painter Hall from the east This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: College buildings, Painter Hall, College campus
Source: a12pf.painter.1906.01
[Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive second No. 177]
Central Pacific Railroad 4-6-0 steam locomotive second No. 177 on the turntable at the Sacramento Shops. This locomotive was built at the Sacramento Shops and placed into service August 7, 1886. It was renumbered 1764 in 1891 and 2193 in 1901, and scrapped November 20, 1916.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1880-1889
[Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotives]
Three Southern Pacific steam locomotives posed in front of the roundhouse at the Sacramento Shops. These three 4-4-0 steam locomotives, Nos. 219, 220, and 221, were built at the Sacramento Shops. This image may date close to September 1887 when they were completed.
["The Driving of the Last Spike" painted by Thomas Hill]
Thomas Hill's large oil painting (157-1/4 x 85-1/4 in.) of "The Driving of the Last Spike" is on display at the California State Railroad Museum. It is an imagined recreation of the ceremony held May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, to celebrate the completion of the transcontinental railroad, when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad tracks were joined. Hill began the painting in 1877 at the request of Leland Stanford, who later refused to pay for the commission.
Shades of Sacramento - Capital City Wheelmen Racing Team
by Hodso, Burto
Capital City Wheelmen Racing Team, 1903-1904 State Champions, Sacramento, CA, ca. 1904. Shown: Bill Hubert, Captain, standing, 2nd from left; Harley Noyes, standing, center; Harry Chas. Ventner, seated, far right; George Gorman, seated, far left.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Capital City Wheelmen Racing Team,...
Diagram and data, steam locomotive C. P. Huntington
Side elevation of Southern Pacific steam locomotive No. 1 "C. P. Huntington." The drawing was first prepared November 11, 1936 by David L. Joslyn. This example is the second revision dated April 30, 1951. The "C. P. Huntington" is on display at the California State Railroad Museum.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads
Middlebury College students playing chess, while others look on. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Student activities, Chess, Tournaments
Source: s6pf.chessmatches.1941.01
[Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive and tender No. 1555 with crew and caboose]
Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive 4-6-0 No. 1555 was outshopped in May of 1875 by the Schnectady Locomotive Works (construction number 982) and numbered CP No. 190. In 1891 it was renumbered 1555. In 1899 the locomotive was rebuilt and renumbered 1068. The locomotive was sold to Union Rock Company October 20, 1927. Here the crew poses with the locomotive, tender and a wood caboose. The caboose is one of a large group built by the Central Pacific Shops in the late 1870s using...
Railroad station in St. Albans, Vermont
Rutland Railroad steam locomotive 232 is belching smoke and steam in front of the railroad station at St. Alban's, Vermont, as two men stand on the adjacent sidewalk. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Railroad stations, Saint Albans, Postcards
Clarendon, former road now brook
Text on verso: This is between the covered bridge and Mrs. Goulds. The cider mill is all gone, not even a board left. You see the river has changed its course. Damage from the flood of 1927 changes a road to a brook in Cavendish. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Flood damage, Cavendish (Vt.), Postcards
Students on a Hayride
Students sit on a hay wagon, presumably as part of a Kappa Delta Rho function. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Student activities, Greek letter societies, Kappa Delta Rho
Source: s3pf.kappadeltarho.1942.01
Lettering & numbering, steam locomotive C. P. Huntington
Lettering and numbering details for Southern Pacific steam locomotive No. 1 "C. P. Huntington." This drawing was executed by David L. Joslyn on December 23, 1936. The "C.P. Huntington" is on display at the California State Railroad Museum.
Shades of Long Beach - Miss Mexico
Miss Mexico, 1953; Anaberta Lepe, 3rd runner-up to Miss Universe, Long Beach, California. Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Long Beach, Beauty...
WMATA Construction C-5
These images were taken by WMATA photographer Larry Levine and relate to to the construction and planning of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system.
Topics: ms2374, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) records
[Southern Pacific Railroad stock car 76701]
Exterior side view of Southern Pacific of Mexico stock car 76701 photographed in Los Angeles. The car was built by the American Car & Foundry Company, outshopped in May of 1900. SPNM merged into SP in 1902. Stock cars were used for the transportation of livestock, equipped with a roof, slatted sides and side doors, single or double deck, and frequently with feed and water troughs.
Camp Norway, Fairlee Lake, Vermont
Birdseye aerial view of Camp Norway, over Fairlee Lake, Fairlee, Vermont. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Camps, Fairlee (Vt.), Postcards
R. R., St. Albans, Vermont
Mailed to Mrs. Alma Notemyer in Jeffersonville, Vermont. Postmarked Oct. 4, 1908. Railroad station in St. Albans, Vermont, with two steam locomotives and a passenger car in front This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
WMATA Construction B-2, November 1970 - May 1973
These images were taken by WMATA photographer Larry Levine and relate to to the construction and planning of the The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system.
Shades of Kern County, Taft - Picnic
Picnic at Maricopa flats, Taft, California, ca. 1935. L-r: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Panusis, Fred and Charles Panusis, Margaret Gianopulos, Vasiliki Gianopulos, George and Pete Gianopulos Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Shades of Folsom - Rumsey's Delivery Truck
Rumsey's Store delivery truck, ca. 1916 Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Folsom, Trucks
Shades of Long Beach - Truck
Truck with pneumatic tires custom-built for Fred Bixby by driver, Harry A. Halliday, Long Beach, California, ca. 1925. Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Long Beach, Trucks
Shades of Humboldt - Oregon and Eureka Railroad
Oregon and Eureka Railroad engine, Eureka, (?) California, ca. 1915. Far left, Brick Baker; far right: W. W. Pede, logging superintendent. Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice
WMATA Architecture: N - P
Shades of Yolo - Esparto School
Esparto School, Esparto, CA, May 27. 1927
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Schools -- Esparto, CA, Esparto School,...
Vermont Marble Co., Store, Proctor, Vermont.
Message on verso is in French and card was addressed to Lucille Roberge, 148 North St., Burlington, VT. Two-story brick store of the Vermont Marble Company in Proctor, Vermont, with fire escape on the left. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Proctor (Vt.), Buildings, structures, etc., Postcards
Mountain View fire truck, 1963
Description : P. 29 in Anaham's book: 90 Years of Mountain View Fire Department History, California. Source : 1 Page of 1: Photograph (9 x 9 cm.) Call Number : PHA F9 3 Digitized by California Revealed .
George Martin unloading Royal Crown Cola truck
Series Title : Shades of Fresno Collection Description : George Martin (l) unloading Royal Crown Cola truck for Rex Market, downtown Fresno. Source : 1 Page of 1: Photograph(5.5 x 7 cm.) Call Number : 98-02-024 Digitized by California Revealed .
Topics: californialightandsound, Fresno (Calif.), californiarevealed
LA County Library
Carlos Hetzler, Sr. and Martha Hetzler, Boyle Heights, California
Carlos Hetzler, Sr. holding Martha O. Hetzler, sitting in front of their home, which was once a Japanese owned business. The sign in the window reads "Harry R. Otsubo, Notary Public and Real Estate Broker." The sign was left when the Japanese American owners were evacuated and the building became apartments. 1954. This image was provided by Victor Duran for inclusion in the Foto East LA collection.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Hetzler, Carlos, Sr., Hetzler, Martha O.,...
Shades of Anaheim - Japanese Internment Camp
Frank Hirahara at Japanese internment camp, Heart Mountain, Wyoming, ca. 1942 Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Anaheim, Japanese...
[Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive second No. 19
Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive second No. 19 on turntable in front of Sacarmento roundhouse, with crew. This locomotive was built in the Sacramento Shops and placed into service August 27, 1884. It was designed by Andrew J. Stevens and served as a prototype design for subsequent production. Rebuilt in the 1890s, it was finally scrapped in February 1923 in Oregon.
[Pacific Fruit Express refrigerator car 744]
Exterior view of PFE refrigerator car No. 744 (built 1906-1907 by American Car and Foundry), Class R 30 1, part of PFE's first lot of refrigerator cars. This wood-sheathed, ice-cooled car was used in express passenger service. Shippers paid a premium to assure fast delivery on a regularly scheduled passenger train.
California College of the Arts Libraries
FEB78P1-11: Peterbilt truck sculpture
by Sommer, Robert
Description: Photograph by Robert Sommer. The Mudflats Sculptures were a series of large-scale driftwood installations created in the Emeryville mudflats from the 1960s through the 1980s. These works reflected a time of radical change in the Bay Area and provided a forum for community-driven public art in California. UC Davis Professor Robert Sommer photographed these works, providing a comprehensive visual documentation that spans decades. Call Number: 325 Digitized by California Revealed .
Topic: californiarevealed
Source: Photograph: 1 Page of 1:5 x 5 cm.
[Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 77 and crew]
CP No. 77, Confucius, was out-shopped April 1868, rebuilt in the late 1880s with an Andrew J. Stevens-designed boiler, renumbered to 1202 in 1891, and scrapped January 13, 1897 in Sacramento. Inscription on back of print reads: Running from Wadsworth to Winnemucca, Truckee Division, 1888.
Map of the Great Transcontinental Railroad
This map shows the route of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast.
[Ink-on-linen drawing of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway refrigerator car]
AT&SF ink-on-linen drawing 2 17 C 601, dated November 6, 1908, with modifications to 1916, provides a side elevation, end view and lettering for a Class Rr H refrigerator car. Search for additional AT&SF drawings at the Library's online catalogs, available at www.californiastaterailroadmuseum.org
Train wreck near Northfield, Vermont
Title supplied by cataloger Train wreck on October 8, 1910 near Northfield, Vermont, showing Central Vermont locomotive and a Boston & Maine freight car #772 This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Railroad accidents, Northfield, Postcards
WMATA Construction B-3 1, June 1972 - April 1974
7 x 10.5 cm b&w negative transparency; 7 x 10.5 cm b&w photograph I.5, Box 4, Folder 14-343 Photograph of some of the toys of Jim Flanders This is a scanned version of the original image in the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Toys, Unknown location, Photographs
Exterior side and end view of a SP standard stock car (Class S 40 9), outshopped May 1924. Stock cars were used for the transportation of livestock, equipped with a roof, slatted sides and side doors, single or double deck, and frequently with feed and water troughs.
Powers Hill : Proctor, Vt. Nov. 4, 1927
Soil erosion and damaged houses on Powers Hill in Proctor, Vt., Flood of Nov. 4, 1927. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Proctor (Vt.), Flood, 1927, Postcards
Shades of Long Beach - Day's Catch
Sid Schilling and William Schilling with 362-pound catch, Long Beach, California, ca. 1900. Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Long Beach, Fishing
WMATA Construction B-1, May 1974 - May 1975
[Western Fruit Express Company express refrigerator car 103]
Side view of a wood express refrigerator car.
WMATA Construction A-16, 1982 - 1983
Shades of Yuba - Hanging of Ah Ben
Hanging of Ah Ben, Marysville, CA, March 14, 1879. He murdered John McDaniel, owner of Marysville Race Track on Nov. 30, 1878. Sheriff Hank L. McCoy stands to Ah Ben's left, Deputy Ike N. Aldrich to his right.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Executions - Marysville, CA
Folder: Women's rifle team photographs
This folder in box 34 contains photographs of the women's rifle team from 1928. Formerly Acc#625.
Topics: RG0031, University Historical Materials collection
[Female employees of Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops]
Female employees of the Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops ride a float on July 4, 1918, in support of World War I soldiers.
Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana
Aerial Photos of Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN
Topics: SJC, Saint Joseph's College, Saint Joe, Saint Joe's, Rensselaer (Ind.), Rensselaer IN, Rensselaer,...
Mrs. Windon's class at City Terrace Elementary School, East Los Angeles, California
Mrs. Windon's class at City Terrace Elementary School Grade B1, on the quarter system. The photograph donor, Al Carlos, is the 3rd from the left in the 2nd row, 1957. This image was provided by Ofelia Esparza for inclusion in the Foto East LA collection.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Children--California--East Los Angeles,...
Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 237
Central Pacific steam locomotive No. 237 on turntable at the Sacramento Shops. No. 237, El Gobernador, was built in Sacramento, completed in February 1883 and placed into service March of 1884. The locomotive was dismantled July 15, 1894. View is looking east. The northwest corner of the Car Shop is visible at rear right. The north wall of the Machine Shop is to right. The Roundhouse is at left.
Dance-Drama
Three actors of the dance-drama play posing for a photograph - Drama Department
Topics: Faculty & students, Drama, Academics
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives: a10pfmcnb03-06-1962-02np
[Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 5004 and crew]
The No. 5004 was placed into service July 10, 1925 and scrapped February 18, 1953. It was a 3 cylinder 4-10-2 freight locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company.
[Huntington, Hopkins & Company Hardware Store, Sacramento]
Facade of the Huntington, Hopkins & Company hardware store at 54 K Street. In 1855 Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins had joined to form the Huntington & Hopkins Company, importers and dealers in hardware. It was in 1861 when four young ambitious men, later known as the Big Four, gathered on the second floor of this building to conceive a plan for the greatest railroading feat of the 19th century, construction of a link between the East Coast and the West, the Central Pacific...
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Buildings, 1870-1879
[Southern Pacific Railroad fire train]
Southern Pacific locomotive 2067 (outshopped 1882; scrapped 1918)and fire train. To protect the extensive system of wood snowsheds over the Sierra, the SP developed a system for fire protection and control. Special fire trains, assigned to Sierra locations, were equipped with fire pumps to spray water on the conflagration. A lookout on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, known a Signal Peak or Red Mountain called the fire trains into action. Augmenting this arrangement were a series of...
Middlebury College Map Collection
City of Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont
by H. W. Burgett & Company
21 x 20 cm color map of Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont
Topics: Vergennes (Vt.), maps
Shades of Yuba - Southern Pacific Train Wreck
Southern Pacific Train Wreck, Marysville, CA, November 10, 1906
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads - Wrecks, Marysville, CA - Train...
Shades of Anaheim - Thanksgiving
Wai Lee and family at Thanksgiving, ca. 1970 Preserved by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Shades of California -- Anaheim,...
WMATA Construction B-1 3, 1972 - 1974
Acapella Choir
25 x 20 cm b&w photograph I.5, Box 4, Folder 06-225 Sister M. Anselm (at far right), convent of Mercy (Burlington, Vt) with students members of the acapella choir, the only student chapter of the National Catholic Music Educators in the state of Vermont. Seen with their project "Music and Musicians of Vermont" exhibited at the CME National Convention in Milwaukee, WI, May 1961. One section of the project was devoted to work with Helen Hartness Flanders. This is a scanned version...
Topics: Group photos, Burlington (Vt.), Photographs
[Pacific Fruit Express Company ventilated refrigerator car 81]
Exterior view of PFE refrigerator car No. 81, Class R 30 1, built in 1906 and 1907 by the American Car and Foundry Company. This car is among the earliest PFE wood-sheathed ice-cooled refrigerator cars. These cars were painted dark olive for express service on passenger trains.
Butte County Library
The beginning of Oroville Dam
by Talbitzer
Description: The beginning of Oroville Dam. Source : 1 Page of 1 : Photograph ( 8 x 10 in. ) Collection Title : Talbitzer Collection Call Number : 0000-000-1464 Digitized by California Revealed .
Topics: californialightandsound, Buildings and structures--Dams--Oroville Dam, californiarevealed
[Western Pacific Railroad freight repair shop yards, Sacramento]
Print is dated in ink, June 13, 1928. Mount is stamped "Hagginwood Studio."
[Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 4 ]
Central Pacific Railroad No. 4 "T. D. Judah" was built by Danforth, Cooke & Company and placed into service April 9, 1864. This locomotive may have been sold in 1889 to a company in British Columbia, and scrapped in 1912.
[Central Pacific Railroad freight train]
A freight train at McConnels, near Elk Grove. The steam locomotive, possibly Central Pacific 135, heads up a mixed train with 4 freight cars and a caboose, used for passengers. The first car behind the locomotive is a box car to which ventilation has been added for the transport of livestock.
6 x 9.5 cm b&w negative transparency; 12.5 x 18 cm b&w photograph I.5, Box 4, Folder 07-240 Charles Finnemore and Hanford Hayes This is a scanned version of the original image in the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Finnemore, Charles, Maine, Photographs
[Southern Pacific recipe booklet]
Southern Pacific Railroad recipe booklet "Our Dining Car Recipes."
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Food
[Wells, Fargo & Company express car]
Wells, Fargo & Company express car was built by American Car and Foundry (Lot 2289).
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Other Voices Ballina put back to spring 2020 | Western People
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Other Voices Ballina put back to spring 2020
Swinford musician, Seamus Fogarty, and band are recorded in performance by the Other Voices crew at Belleek Castle during Other Voices Ballina in September 2019.
Spring 2020 has been confirmed as the revised target date for the staging of the internationally renowned televised Other Voices music television series and arts festival in Ballina for the second time, the Western People has learned.
The inaugural Other Voices Ballina took place over the weekend of September 28 and 29 last.
The event was expected to return to the Salmon Capital around the same time again this year but has now been put back to early next year.
It’s the second festival to be postponed in Ballina this year.
The town’s signature annual Salmon Festival which is normally staged in mid July was postponed earlier this year to July, 2020 due to increased costs but was replaced by a new event, Ballina Street Festival, thanks to the intervention of Ballina Chamber of Commerce.
Securing the staging of the Other Voices event was a real coup for the north Mayo capital which is the second town in the Republic of Ireland to ever host the signature event that originated in Dingle, Co Kerry but has travelled all over the world in the interim, attracting such leading musical artists as Amy Winehouse, Elbow, Ellie Goulding, Florence and the Machine and many more.
The inaugural Other Voice Ballina coincided with the staging of the town’s annual Food Fleadh and, combined, the two events attracted over 40,000 visitors and netted invaluable exposure for the north Mayo area through visiting media and the Other Voices television series which was broadcast earlier this year.
The success of the 2018 event left the Other Voices production company, South Wind Blows, and local partners including Mayo Co Council and Ballina Chamber of Commerce resolved to bring it back to Ballina in September 2019 and a formal announcement to that effect has been awaited ever since.
The Western People understands that a meeting of partners took place in Ballina yesterday, July 30 where it was agreed, due to logistical reason, to reschedule Other Voices Ballina to Spring, 2020.
The move is being touted as a very positive one as one of the logistical challenges to hosting the event this September was said to be a dearth of available accommodation.
Local partners are said to be pleased with the decision too as it will kick start the 2020 tourism season early during a period that is traditionally very quiet.
It will also allow more time to secure funding/sponsorship for the staging of the prestigious event.
Filed under: Ballina, Entertainment, festivals, music, North Mayo
By Orla Hearns
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Fast-neutron reactor
Neutron temperature
A fast neutron reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained by fast neutrons. Such a reactor needs no neutron moderator, but must use fuel that is relatively rich in fissile material when compared to that required for a thermal reactor.
Basic fission concepts
In order to sustain a fission chain reaction, the neutrons released in fission events have to react with other atoms in the fuel. The chance of this occurring depends on the energy of the neutron; most atoms will only undergo induced fission with high energy neutrons, although a smaller number prefer much lower energies.
Natural uranium consists mostly of three isotopes, U-238, U-235, and trace quantities of U-234, a decay product of U-238. U-238 accounts for roughly 99.3% of natural uranium and undergoes fission only by neutrons with energies of 5 MeV or greater, the so-called fast neutrons. About 0.7% of natural uranium is U-235, which undergoes fission by neutrons of any energy, but particularly by lower energy neutrons. When either of these isotopes undergoes fission they release neutrons around 1 to 2 MeV, too low to cause fission in U-238, and too high to do so easily in U-235.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Fast-neutron_reactor
The neutron detection temperature, also called the neutron energy, indicates a free neutron's kinetic energy, usually given in electron volts. The term temperature is used, since hot, thermal and cold neutrons are moderated in a medium with a certain temperature. The neutron energy distribution is then adopted to the Maxwellian distribution known for thermal motion. Qualitatively, the higher the temperature, the higher the kinetic energy is of the free neutron. Kinetic energy, speed and wavelength of the neutron are related through the De Broglie relation.
Neutron energy distribution ranges
But different ranges with different names are observed in other sources. For example,
than thermal neutrons.
H. Tomita, C. Shoda, J. Kawarabayashi, T. Matsumoto, J. Hori, S. Uno, M. Shoji, T. Uchida, N. Fukumotoa and T. Iguchia-"Development of epithermal neutron camera based on resonance-energy-filtered imaging with GEM" (2012)
The following is a detailed classification:
A thermal neutron is a free neutron with a kinetic energy of about 0.025 eV (about 4.0×10−21J or 2.4 MJ/kg, hence a speed of 2.2 km/s), which is the energy corresponding to the most probable velocity at a temperature of 290 K (17 °C or 62 °F), the mode of the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution for this temperature.
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Meet the WoodSolutions Advisory Team
Home » Meet the WoodSolutions Advisory Team
New mid-rise advisory service offers FREE professional advice on any aspect of mid-rise timber buildings
Building design and construction professionals and property developers in Melbourne and Brisbane now have easier access to the benefits of timber framing and massive timber building systems in mid-rise residential projects, through the new WoodSolutions Technical Field Force pilot program.
Go to the mid-rise timber resources page
See the companies sponsoring the program
View and download mid-rise-related Design Guides
Following the recent changes to the National Construction Code, that make it easier to use lightweight and massive timber building systems in mid-rise construction, a pilot advisory program comprising a team of design, engineering, construction and property specialists has been launched by WoodSolutions in Melbourne, complemented by a smaller-scale activity in Brisbane.
With extensive experience in property development, construction, timber engineering and architecture, the WoodSolutions team of Program Development Managers are ideally placed to liaise with development, design and construction professionals, providing generic information and advice on making the most of the cost, time, environmental and other advantages of timber building systems.
Please note: Advice is provided subject to the terms of our Disclaimer
Read on to meet the team....
Gerard Neylan
Lead Program Development Manager
Mid-rise Construction
With more than 35 years’ experience in Melbourne in construction, planning and architecture, Gerry is well known in the Victorian design, construction and property markets.
A qualified town planner, his roles have included identifying new business opportunities, developing and maintaining client relationships, advice and consultation, and coordinating the planning, funding and delivery of many major building and infrastructure projects in both the private and public sectors.
Experience in managing and directing highly regarded architectural firms, senior roles in advisory and management companies, supported by business development roles for national construction companies, enables Gerry to bring a wealth of practical knowledge to every project.
As a member of the WoodSolutions team, Gerry says he is looking forward to “the opportunity to engage with the marketplace on issues such as social responsibility and sustainability and constructing new projects more economically, quickly, quietly and safely.”
You can contact Gerry at Gerard.Neylan@woodsolutions.com.au
Paolo Lavisci
Program Development Manager
Paolo’s extensive experience in developing and using wood and wood products encompasses advisory and hands-on roles in the design and construction of timber structures, project management, research and product development, teaching and training.
With a Forestry degree in Florence (Italy) and a PhD in Industrial Technologies, Wood at ENSTIB/Université de Nancy (France), Paolo worked in the industry for 7 years before starting an independent timber consulting and design practice. Among the many projects with which he has been involved are the design and specification of multi-storey timber buildings (5, 7, 9 and 12 storeys), developing new models for prefabricated homes and transportable units and the design for cross laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plants. He also authored a widely-used book on engineering timber structures and funded the development of specific engineering software.
As part of the WoodSolutions team, Paolo sees his biggest challenge to be “changing some mindsets in the mid-rise construction market and helping those with a little pioneering spirit to take advantage of the demonstrated efficiencies and cost savings that timber can provide.”
You can contact Paolo at Paolo.Lavisci@woodsolutions.com.au
Laurence Ritchie
Cost and Program Estimator
With a Master’s degree in Construction Management (Cost Management major), experience in tier 1 construction, and over a decade working in the property sector, Laurence brings further inter-disciplinary knowledge to the Mid-rise Advisory Program team. Drawing on this wholistic understanding Laurence engages in project evaluation and design optimisation services, ultimately requiring the estimation of construction programs and costs. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for innovation in construction, Laurence sees opportunity for timber systems to change the way we build for the better.
A member of the Mid-rise Advisory Team since 2017, Laurence has developed an in depth understanding of the possibilities and strengths of timber in construction. He is excited to be involved in the exponential growth of Australian timber construction, and is enthusiastic to support project team in their realisation of their next timber building.
You can contact Laurence at Laurence.Ritchie@woodsolutions.com.au
Engineering Advisor
Adam completed his civil engineering degree with honours at Monash University in 2015 and started his career at WSP Global, then joined
TPC Solutions specialising in Engineered Wood building design and assisting the implementation of the TimberTech structural engineering software.
Named the GBCA Future Green Leader of the Year for 2019, Adam is very passionate about the structural engineers’ role to play in reducing embodied energy emissions of buildings. He has pursued this passion with an entrepreneurial spirit, creating the podcasts Future of Structures, Timber Talks and the online course Smart Embodied Energy Solutions. He was previously the lead researcher for the ‘Rethinking Cement’ report with Beyond Zero Emissions.
Within the WoodSolutions team, Adam is looking forward to every opportunity of getting efficient designs to demonstrate the benefits of specifying timber building systems in mid-rise development projects.
You can contact Adam at Jones@woodsolutions.com.au
Dean Ashton
Dean has over 30 year’s experience in the timber industry. He completed his Civil Engineering degree at Queensland Institute of Technology in 1986 before joining Gang-Nail (MiTek) in the prefabricated timber truss and frame industry. During that time he gained experience in timber engineering design, manufacture and installation of trusses and frames, software support, as well as training and development. More recently he spent 2 years with Simpson Strong-Tie providing technical support for timber connectors and fasteners, as well as assisting with new product implementation into the Australian market. He has also been a member of the technical committee for AEFAC (Australian Engineered Fastener and Anchor Council) as well as the Victorian Structural Branch for Engineers Australia. As a member of the WoodSolutions team, Dean is looking forward to developing lightweight timber framing opportunities to compliment massive timber to provide optimised timber solutions for mid-rise structures.
You can contact Dean at dean.ashton@woodsolutions.com.au
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Fri. 11am-5pm | Sat. 11am-5pm | Sun 11am-4pm
Abilities Expo > Chicago >
Chicago Events and Activities
Activities and demos make the total Abilities experience
Add some exciting new activities to your life? Abilities Expo showcases a wide range of events that not only entertain, they also give you the opportunity to try new things, expand your interests and discover ways to be more involved in the local Chicago area.
Try a variety of adaptive sports
Transform your face at the face painters
Learn how to work with assistance dogs
Break out your dancing wheels
Find out how horses can help people with disabilities
There’s a lot going on at Abilities Expo! Be sure to also check out the Free Workshops
* Please note dates and times of events are subject to change without notice. Please check the schedule at the show for final times and events. Abilities Expo is not responsible for the materials or opinions of the speakers.
Here's what we did in 2019.
Check back 3 months out to find out what's in store for 2020.
Adaptive Climbing Wall
Presented by: Mark Wellman, Adventure Athlete, Paralympian, No Limits Tahoe
Sponsored by: Liberator Medical Supply, Inc.
Location: Booth #819
Adaptive climbing is a sport that is open to people of all abilities! It's not just for experienced athletes. There is no better person to learn adaptive climbing from than Mark Wellman of No Limits. Mark has SCI and is an adventure athlete, speaker and author. Come climb the wall using Mark's innovative adaptive climbing techniques and adaptive sports gear! Climbing has tremendous benefits - building confidence, developing goal-setting skills, increasing strength, and improving flexibility. And it's fun! Mark is a former Paralympian and Park Ranger, and he is the first paraplegic to summit El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. He dedicates his time to improving the quality of life for adults and children with disabilities including disabled war veterans.
Learn more: www.nolimitstahoe.com
Artist Market
Presented by: Artfully Gifted
Location: Booth #1013
Meet the region's artists with disabilities and shop their eclectic mix of original, unforgettable artistry. From photographs and paintings to graphic design, their amazing works will be available for appreciation and purchase. Artist Market sponsor Artfully Gifted Foundation was founded in 2013 for the purpose of supporting young entrepreneurs with disabilities. With both a retail site and now an e-commerce website, they strive to provide a platform for these entrepreneurs to present their products to a wide audience. Working with the Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education – Roosevelt (ICRE-R) they provide a training site for students interested in retail, as well as a means for their students to test-market their works of art and products made in their vocational training classes.
Learn more: www.artfullygifted.org
Assistive Technology Showcase
Sponsored by: Easterseals DuPage & Fox Valley
Explore how assistive technology (AT) can help you or your loved ones bridge the gap between ability and disability! Discover an array of AT for people of all disabilities to experience hands-on. Staff will be available to offer suggestions and share their extensive knowledge to help determine the most appropriate technology match for your abilities and situations. The mission of Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley is to enable infants, children, and adults with disabilities to achieve their maximum independence, and to provide support for the families who love and care for them. Their vision is that all children receive the developmental services they need to live their best life. Assistive Technology (AT) at Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley improves the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities through implementation strategies and technology software/products. Their primary focus is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for individuals with complex communication needs.
Learn more: www.easterseals.com/dfv/
Chess: One-on-One Instruction and Play
Presented by Illinois Chess Vets
Discover chess, a game that is accessible to nearly everyone and enjoyable. Numerous studies have examined the benefits of chess. Chess helps your brain to grow and people who play are less likely to develop dementia. Meet and learn from passionate players who also happen to have different types of disabilities. Challenge boards will be set up for attendees to learn chess basics and get to try the game. Also! Visit our booth to meet the ICV social robot, JIBO. He will take your photo that will also be uploaded onto the Illinois Chess Vets Facebook page. He can also dance for you, tell a joke or even quiz your vocabulary prowess.
Learn more: www.ilchessvets.org
Zot Artz Experience!
Presented by Zot Artz
Locations: Booth #122
Come paint with Zot Artz in booth 122!
Kids love making art and so do we! Everyone can stamp and print to make their mark. Each participant will take home an original work of art and a joyful moment. Please plan 5-15 minutes for the painting activity. See photos and learn more at www.zotartz.com
Service Dogs 101
Presented by: Jack Giambrone, Barking Angels Service Dogs Foundation
Location: Events Arena
Discover how service dogs are meeting the needs of people with many different disabilities. Several service dogs will be on hand to demonstrate the how they work to achieve independence in various areas of people's lives. Find out how these dogs can help with many different types of disability, including vision and hearing loss, mobility, autism and seizure/allergy alert. Learn how funding works to acquire a dog and what to expect from your service dog provider organization. Bring your questions!
Learn more: www.barkingangels.org
The Rollettes Los Angeles Presents!
Presented by: The Rollettes
Join us for a high-energy, live performance by The Rollettes Los Angeles, an incredible wheelchair dance team. The dance team performs unique and captivating routines across the country as well as sharing their stories of adversity and how through determination and high spirits they've gone on with their lives to fulfill their dreams to dance. Following the performance, it's your turn! Everyone will have a chance to get out on the dance floor and learn some moves.
Learn more: www.rollettesdance.com
Miniature Therapy Horse Demonstration
Presented by Jodie Diegel, RN, MBA, SOUL Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program
Curious about how horses can help people with disabilities? Bring your questions! Miniature horses have been gaining attention for their strengths as therapy animals. This is your chance to meet some "mini's"! Learn why they are called horses (and not ponies) as well as the types of tasks they can perform as service and therapy animals. Time is included to meet the equine staff who will be visiting with their human counterparts. See a video about our horses on ABC7.
Learn more: www.soulharbourranch.com
Accessible/Adaptive Chair Yoga Class
For all ages and abilities including parents, care providers, and social workers
Presented by: Jackie Gadd, BYOMYOGA
Yoga IS for Every Body - no experience needed. Bring your body (and whatever you need to support). You are invited to attend a playful 45-minute session to experience how yoga can be accessible and beneficial for everyone. This inclusive and accessible program includes breathwork to illustrate the energizing and calming effects yoga can have on the body and mind, and to prepare the body for movement flow. The program is softer, slower, well-supported, and nurturing. Appropriate yoga poses with props (like blankets, blocks, and straps) and modifications will be coached from standing, seated, and ground positions to accommodate as many abilities levels as possible. The gentle flow encourages and helps pair the body neurologically with range-of-motion, balance, and strength-improving movements. Minor hands-on adjustments and mobility assists will be available (with student agreement and acceptance) to help everyone be safe in their poses, and most importantly feel welcome into the space.
Presented by: Chicago Bears Wheelchair Rugby Team
Invented by individuals with quadriplegia in the 1970s, Wheelchair rugby is a full-contact co-ed Paralympic sport. It combines elements of rugby, basketball and handball. Players compete in teams of four to carry the ball across the opposing team's goal line. Contact between wheelchairs is permitted and is in fact an integral part of the sport as players use their chairs to block and hold opponents. Currently there are 43 active rostered teams within the United States Quad Rugby Assocation (USQRA). Come meet athletes from the Chicago Bears and the Oscar Mike Militia teams in a mini-scrimmage, try out our chairs, and learn something new!
Learn more: https://chiquadrugby.wordpress.com
Presented by: We Adorn You
Location: Next to Events Arena
Face, arm, and hand painting are great ways for children to dress up - no costume required! Kids delight in this opportunity to transform their appearance! Painting is complimentary, and paints are approved professional face paints that will wash off with soap and water. Based on availability – face painting is a popular activity and we recommend you arrive early to ensure a spot. Please note the line for face painting closes 30 minutes prior to the close of face painting for each day.
Learn more: www.facepaintinglosangeles.net
The Dancing Wheels Company's Quest for Equality
Presented by: The Dancing Wheels Company
Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Mary Verdi-Fletcher, The Dancing Wheels Company is recognized as the first and foremost professional physically integrated dance company in America uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities. Since its inception in 1980, the highly skilled ensemble of stand-up and sit-down (wheelchair) dancers has reached over five million people worldwide with innovative mainstage performances, school assembly programs, guest appearances, masterclasses and numerous outreach activities. Seeing a need for accessibility to the arts and dance, The School of Dancing Wheels opened in 1990 and became a world-class training center for dancers, choreographers, and educators. The Dancing Wheels Company & School is proudly hailed as the World Center for Integrated Dance & Arts Access.
Learn more: www.dancingwheels.org.
ParaCheer
Presented by: ParaCheer Midwest representing USA Cheer
Discover the new sport of ParaCheer, only in its second year! ParaCheer brings two kinds of athletes together: those with disabilities — or "with limitations," according to Team USA — and those without. Cheerleading, by nature, pushes boundaries and questions limitations, and these athletes are doing just that, modifying stunts and adjusting routines to create something new. ParaCheer Midwest will showcase their skills with a demonstration. Then you are invited to try it for yourselves! Bring your cheer!
Learn more: www.usacheer.org
http://cheerunion.org/disciplines/sach/
www.facebook.com/ParaCheerMidwestUS/
Join us for a high-energy, live performance by The Rollettes Los Angeles, an incredible wheelchair dance team. The dance team performs unique and captivating routines across the country as well as sharing their stories of adversity and how through determination and high spirits they've gone on with their lives to fuldll their dreams to dance. Following the performance it's your turn! Everyone will have a chance to get out on the dance eoor and learn some moves.
All About Service Dogs
Presented by: Mallory Anderson, Canines for Disabled Kids
Discover how service dogs are meeting the needs of people with many different disabilities. Find out the many ways service dogs can help achieve independence in people's lives – from picking up a cell phone to providing physical stability, even counting money! Service dogs are available for many different types of disability, including vision and hearing loss, mobility, autism and seizure/allergy alert. Learn about funding support, the process to acquire a dog, and what to expect from your service dog provider organization.
Learn more: www.caninesforkids.org
Presented by: L-Theory Collective
Modern dance performance with Lamaiya Lancaster!
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HomeAbout ACPChapters & RegionsU.S. Armed ForcesU. S. NavyGovernor's Desk August 2013
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August 2013 CAPT Mark L. Dick, MD, FACP
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Save the Date --2013 Navy Chapter Meeting October 25, 2013
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Hope everyone is surviving the summer heat. As usual this summer, a lot of us are in transition.
Just a brief newsletter to touch base about some of the College's happenings. Internal Medicine 2013 in San Francisco was a highly successful meeting, however the uniformed attendance was way down with Navy Chapter attendees down by a quarter to a third. Those in uniform continue to struggle with conference authorization and limited TAD budgets. Many of us are hoping for more predictability and stability in future fiscal years. Our typical associate presence was nearly non-existent except for the services Doctor's Dilemma team. The Navy team was well-represented by Walter Reed National Navy Medical Center. Unfortunately they were eliminated in the 2nd round. The Navy Chapter was recognized with the Chapter Excellence Award and Evergreen All-Star award. The Evergreen All-Star award recognized those few chapters who demonstrated repeated excellence over the past 20 years of the Evergreen Award. The Navy Chapter was the only military chapter recognized.
Congratulations to RDML Colin Chinn on his selection to RADM. Congratulations to the CDRs Steve Escobar, Harold Groff, and Joseph Sposato on their selection to Captain.
Congratulations to the following LCDR internists on their selection to Commander: Ryan Bell, Bill Bennett, Kimberly Broom, Jennifer Curry, Jason Daily, Mark Damiano, Sam Gao, Nelle Linz, Vinh Mai, Sean McKay, Matthew Needleman, Brett Partridge, Suneil Ramchandani, Michael Tripp, Heather Ventura, and Dylan Wessman
Congratulations to Daniel Seidensticker on his selection as Internal Medicine Specialty Leader as CAPT Mike McGinnis became the Executive Officer of US Naval Hospital Guam.
Globally the College continues to grow. This year, the ACP will establish a Southeast Asian Chapter. Earlier this year, the college announced plans to initiate educational programs in India starting in 2013.
Finally, the Surgeon General of the Navy has selected CDR Michael Keith as the next Navy Liaison to the American College of Physicians and our next chapter Governor. We will start our yearlong turn over next April with his four year term starting in April 2015. Over the next several months, the chapter will be looking for a new Chapter Treasurer.
Due to this past years difficulty with TAD funding and meeting authorization, the Governor's Council has decided to hold this year's meeting as a video teleconference meeting instead of a traditional face to face meeting as has been done previously. This years meeting is being coordinated by Drs. A. Brooke Hooper and Kristina Kratovil at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth with representatives from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Naval Medical Center San Diego. The starting time for the video conference on October 25th will be 1100 EST/0800 PST.
Hopefully each of the participating MTF will use this opportunity to highlight Internal Medicine at their commands. With this format change, it is also hoped that more of the smaller commands and junior internists will participate.
Prior to the meeting, each of the medical centers will hold poster presentation/judging with 3 clinical vignettes and 1 research poster selected for presentation at the ACP meeting. Each site will conduct a local jeopardy competition with 1 resident selected from each site to comprise an all-star Navy team for National ACP meeting. The sites will locally coordinate the CME credits.
At the video conference, there will be at least 1 standard lecture with comments by the Internal Medicine Specialty Leader and myself. Video presentation of (9) clinical vignette posters and the (3) research podium presentations will be competitively judged. The organizers have a goal of including PDF of the posters in our Meeting Program.
More details to be emailed out closer to the meeting date.
With the upcoming chapter meeting, it is now the time to consider nominations for the 2012 Navy Chapter ACP Sparks Award and the Navy Chapter ACP Volunteerism Award. Award descriptions/criteria are described below:
Navy Chapter ACP Sparks Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine - This award is bestowed upon a staff Internist at a non-Internal Medicine teaching hospital or other Navy Military Treatment Facility (MTF) in recognition of outstanding achievement including, but not limited to the following attributes: teaching prowess and academic acumen, displaying exemplary characteristics of care and concern for individual patients, professionalism, and serving as a role model and mentor. Nominees will be submitted by the Department Head or his/her designee. Prior awardees are not eligible.
Navy Chapter ACP Volunteerism Award - This award is bestowed upon a staff Internist recognition of consistent and extraordinary volunteerism outside of the military setting. Additional attributes for consideration include, but are not limited to the following: displaying exemplary characteristics of care and concern for individual patients, professionalism, and serving as a role model and mentor. Nominations can be submitted by all members. Additionally, one can nominate more than one physician. The recommended number of awardees per year for the Navy Chapter ACP is one Volunteerism Award per year. Prior awardees are not eligible.
Nominations with an accompanying nominating letter are due to me by Friday, August 30th. The Navy ACP Awards Committee will review all nominees and select an award recipient for each award. Nominations can be submitted to me via email.
From Naval Medical Center San Diego
Another graduation brings with it exciting new adventures and challenges for our graduates. LCDR Thomas Baldwin will be moving Northeast to Twentynine Palms, CA to work as an internist. LT Sarah Rice will make her way to the East Coast to work as an internist in Jacksonville, NC. As for the remaining seven graduating residents, they will be staying at NMCSD. With the exception of LT Daniel Dean, who will be the Chief of Residents, they will be first year fellows here in San Diego. LT Michael Scully and LT Luke Oakley will be dedicating their lives to the heart. LT Michael Powers and LT Alexandra Perry decided on the lungs. LT Brett Chamberlin will pursue GI and LT Berjohn will fight infections. They were an exceptional group of residents.
NMCSD has experienced many exciting changes over the past year. One of these changes was the addition of medical students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in our program. NMCSD now serves as an official rotation site for USUHS medical students. This has provided numerous opportunities for staff and residents to teach and mentor future physicians.
Another exciting change was the renovation of the Internal Medicine clinic. This project has led to a more appealing and comfortable environment in which to care for patients.
From Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
The 2012-2013 academic year has come and gone, yet more than memories remain. It is that time where we say farewell to our graduating residents, while welcoming our eager new capable interns into their home in Navy medicine.
On June 20, we graduated our third year residents, and in accordance to Portsmouth tradition presented them with Jefferson Cups and Certificates of Residency. CDR Joseph Sposato, Program Director, began the ceremony summarizing the diverse background of the graduating class, and CAPT (ret) Michael Hopkins provided the graduation address highlighting the diversity of opportunities available in the Navy, and the excellent adjunct they provide for this lifetime career of medicine. With regards to our graduating residents, LT Nikunj Bhatt will be continuing on to a pulmonary/critical care fellowship at WRNNMC; LT Alejandro Garcia Salas will be joining Naval Hospital Beaufort, SC; LT Jisun Hahn is joining Naval Hospital Pensacola, FL; LT Ola Oladipo is relieving fellow alum LT Patrick Daly at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba; LT Jonathan Sardina joins Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, NC; LCDR Tom Stickle is remaining at Portsmouth as chief of residents; and last but not least, LCDR Van Willis joins the combined USN/VA staff at Naval Hospital Great Lakes, IL. May we wish them fair winds and following seas.
Our annual senior resident Dining Out was held again this year in May. CAPT Mike Wagner (Neurology) was presented with our departmental Teacher of the Year award. He has been the consummate professional, providing exceptional teaching in neurologic topics to all levels of learners, from medical students to staff and is an invaluable resource. LT Bhatt received the Aequanimitas Award for the graduating senior who embodies the ideal physician. His zeal for teaching and academic curiosity will only continue the finest traditions of WRNNMC. Intern of the Year was presented to LT Amie Harvey who we are fortunate enough to continue to train through her Internal Medicine residency here.
We are extremely excited about the new additions to our housestaff, as well as all the new faculty we have joining the program over the next several months. We look forward to hosting everyone this fall in our annual ACP chapter meeting, whether it be virtually or in person. If you able to make the trip and enjoy our fine fall colors, I highly recommend it and we will see you here.
In 1993, the Evergreen Awards Program was started as a way to recognize outstanding chapter efforts and innovation. As a way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program, the Chapters Subcommittee and staff looked for a way to recognize chapters who have demonstrated a long-term engagement with the program. The criteria included that a chapter must have submitted at least 5 nominations, had at least 2 winners, and had a nominated program running for at least 3 years. The U.S. Navy Chapter has contributed to the growth of all chapters through their commitment to sharing successful best practices through the Evergreen program and has been recognized as an Evergreen All-Star for their achievements.
ACP has launched Physician & Practice Timeline: Professional Requirements & Opportunities, a valuable online tool to help physicians stay on top of important dates and track deadlines for a variety of regulatory, payment, educational, and delivery system changes, requirements, and opportunities. The Physician & Practice Timeline allows you to track and find useful resources for everything from eRx and PQRS data collection periods to ICD-10 preparation and Meaningful Use reporting periods. The Timeline also provides information on new opportunities that physicians in practice can take advantage of, such as Transitional Care Management (TCM) codes.
The Timeline will be continually updated to reflect all new or revised target dates, deadlines, and incentives.
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Ep. 387: Full Length Life Outside the Box Series Example - Life on the Road Travelling from Chile to Alaska in a VW Bus - Ben Jamin
This was our first episode of the Life Outside of the Box series available only to Patrons. We are playing this fill length interview so you know what you'll be getting when you sign up as an ASP Patron. These exclusive Patron-Only shows air on Friday each week. Becoming an Adventure Sports Podcast Patron only costs $5 a month and gets you exclusive shows like this, chances to win cool product giveaways, opportunities to be a guest host of future episodes and the ability to submit questions for future show guests! Get signed up now at www.patreon.com/adventuresportspodcast
Now for the show..... Ben Jamin (yep, real name!) joins us in this inaugural LOTB show to share with us his transformation from corporate from the 9-5 grind to a life on the road driving a Kombi (VW Bus) from Chile to Alaska. His trip took him 6 years! His plan was to pick up riders along the way who needed transportation and who were willing to help with the costs for food and fuel. Ben discovered that he could earn a living while on the road and is now planning to continue around the world. Check it out! It's a great story to get the LOTB inspiration flowing!
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Sandia test demonstrates explosives alternative
By Anthony James on 6th September 2017 Defense, Weapons Testing
Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight.
The new method—called the alternative pyroshock test—used a nitrogen-powered gas gun to shoot a 100lb steel projectile into a steel resonant beam, which then transfers energy through a resonant cone attached to the part being tested. The resulting energy transfer mimics the conditions of stage separation in space. The first test of this type using the flight hardware was completed this spring.
Until now, pyroshock tests to ensure aerospace parts were ready for the rigors of flight had used explosives encased in lead to provide the impacts to parts needed for such experiments, said mechanical engineer Mark Pilcher. The lead and explosives were environmental hazards, so cleanup was costly and time-consuming. The Sandia Labs team wanted a better approach.
“We recognized early in the program that we need to seek out alternative test methods in order to reduce our hazardous work exposure, minimize environmental waste and develop a controlled and repeatable test capability,” Pilcher said.
“Investigating a large-scale nonexplosive gas gun test became a reality when we partnered with Sandia’s large-scale mechanical test facilities. The combined team worked hard to get to this test.”
Hopkinson bar technology proved a more controllable alternative to explosives
Asked to research whether an alternative means of testing was possible using a gas gun, Sandia mechanical engineer Bo Song turned to a 1in-diameter Hopkinson bar. The Hopkinson bar was first suggested in 1914 by Bertram Hopkinson, a British patent lawyer and Cambridge University professor of mechanism and applied mechanics, as a way to measure the pressure produced by explosives. It was further modified in 1949 for dynamic stress-strain measurements of materials.
In Sandia’s Experimental Impact Mechanics Laboratory, Song and his team conducted small-scale testing with a metal rod about 20 times smaller than that used in the full-scale test. They discovered the Hopkinson bar technology could provide the frequency levels and the mechanical energy needed in the large-scale test to recreate conditions found during flight.
Song’s team conducted more than 50 tests. They looked at what types of projectiles to use, how fast the gas gun needed to shoot, how to design a Hopkinson bar-type apparatus called a resonant bar at a larger scale, how to design a steel resonant cone to transfer the energy to the object being tested, and how to manipulate the pulse of energy using small copper ‘coins’ called programmers or pulse shapers, which were placed on the surface of the resonant bar.
“The most difficult part was designing the programmers, or pulse shapers, because we had to select the right material, geometry and dimensions,” Song said. “We got a lot of experience through this kind of testing for the future large-scale testing. The same concept can be used for a variety of defense and space applications. This provides a new path for pyroshock testing, but very clean and more controllable, and will save a lot of costs.”
The next phase of the alternative pyroshock test applied the Hopkinson bar technology to a pneumatically driven gas gun.
For this test, the gas gun was not required to reach its maximum capacities. The 60ft-long gas gun used compressed nitrogen gas to shoot metal projectiles into a resonant beam coupled with a resonant cone to expand the final diameter to interface with the rocket part, essentially a hybrid version of a large-scale Hopkinson bar.
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Employment Law Trending Now - What Is the Future of the Obama Administration’s Overtime Rule?
Amy M. Gibson
The Obama Administration’s Overtime Rule
Late in its last term, the Obama administration revised the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) executive, administrative and professional exemption, often referred to as the “white collar” exemption. The intent of the revisions was to make more than four million Americans eligible for overtime pay and to restore the protections intended by the FLSA. The revised rule (the “OT Rule”) increased the 2004 rule’s salary level threshold for white collar employees by more than double.
2004 Threshold
(or $23,660 per year) $913 per week
(or $47,476 per year)
The OT Rule was slated to become effective on December 1, 2016.
The Court’s Invalidation of the OT Rule and the New Trump Administration
Just prior to the OT Rule’s effective date, several states and business groups filed lawsuits seeking to enjoin the OT Rule. A district judge in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted the injunction. The Obama Department of Labor (“DOL”) filed an appeal to the Fifth Circuit. Briefing in the appeal was delayed due to the election of Trump. Trump’s DOL filed a brief advising the Fifth Circuit that it would not seek to reinstate the OT Rule.
On August 31, 2017, the district judge invalidated the OT Rule. In making this ruling, the court determined that the DOL exceeded its authority by setting a salary level test that in effect eliminated the need to consider whether employees performed duties in a “bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity.” Notably, however, the court did not rule on the general lawfulness of a salary level test or whether the DOL has authority to set any salary level for the white collar exemption.
The Future of the OT Rule
The future of the OT Rule is unknown, but there are some indications as to where the rule might be heading. Alexander Acosta (“Acosta”), Trump’s appointee as Labor Secretary of the DOL, told congressional lawmakers on several occasions that the DOL would be seeking to revise the OT Rule, setting the salary threshold somewhere between the 2004 and proposed 2016 level. Acosta criticized the Obama administration’s proposed salary level as being too burdensome on employers.
The DOL subsequently issued a request for information seeking public feedback on ways to revise the OT Rule. The comment period on the request for information recently closed on September 25, 2017. The majority of the comments suggested maintaining the salary test, but increasing it by a much more modest amount than the 2016 rule. However the DOL chooses to proceed with the information received through its request for information, it is expected that a revised OT Rule would not come out until late 2018, at the earliest.
What Employers Should Know
Given the court’s finding that the OT Rule is invalid, the DOL’s 2004 rule and the salary threshold it implemented remains in effect.
In light of the uncertainty of the future of the OT Rule, employers should wait to make any specific changes to their overtime policies and practices until the future of the OT Rule becomes more clear
If the salary threshold is ultimately increased, employers may want to consider the following to minimize the expense of complying with the new OT Rule:
Capping employees hours to ensure that they do not work more than 40 hours in any given week; and
Increasing certain employees’ salaries so that they exceed the salary threshold and the employees will not be entitled to overtime.
If employers reclassified employees or made other changes to their overtime policies or to employees’ salaries in anticipation of the OT Rule becoming effective, the employers may revert back to their prior policies, procedures, classifications and salary levels. However, employers may not want to change course at this time given that an increase in the salary level threshold is expected (not to mention the fact that a reversal may not be good for employee morale). If there is an increase to the salary threshold, it is possible that these employers will not have to do much to comply with the new OT Rule.
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Bilevel optimization for calibrating point spread functions in blind deconvolution
November 2015, 9(4): 1171-1191. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2015.9.1171
Iterative choice of the optimal regularization parameter in TV image restoration
Alina Toma 1, , Bruno Sixou 1, and Françoise Peyrin 1,
CREATIS, CNRS UMR 5220; INSERM U1044; INSA de Lyon; Université de Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, France, France
Received June 2014 Revised April 2015 Published October 2015
We present iterative methods for choosing the optimal regularization parameter for linear inverse problems with Total Variation regularization. This approach is based on the Morozov discrepancy principle or on a damped version of this principle and on an approximating model function for the data term. The theoretical convergence of the method of choice of the regularization parameter is demonstrated. The choice of the optimal parameter is refined with a Newton method. The efficiency of the method is illustrated on deconvolution and super-resolution experiments on different types of images. Results are provided for different levels of blur, noise and loss of spatial resolution. The damped Morozov discrepancy principle often outerperforms the approaches based on the classical Morozov principle and on the Unbiased Predictive Risk Estimator. Moreover, the proposed methods are fast schemes to select the best parameter for TV regularization.
Keywords: regularization parameter, Morozov principle, total variation regularization, Linear inverse problems, UPRE..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 65J22, 65J20, 65K10; Secondary: 52A4.
Citation: Alina Toma, Bruno Sixou, Françoise Peyrin. Iterative choice of the optimal regularization parameter in TV image restoration. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2015, 9 (4) : 1171-1191. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2015.9.1171
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